cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pseudosquilla ciliata Fabricius 1787
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Stomatopoda
Pseudosquillidae
Pseudosquilla
Pseudosquilla ciliata

description: Pseudosquilla ciliata (Fabricius, 1787)
Material examined (N=3). 1m, 07/VIII/2005, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #643).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – from Massachusetts to southern Florida, Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas, Antilles, Central America, northern South America, and Brazil (from Amapá to São Paulo). Central Atlantic - Ascension Island and Santa Helena. Eastern Atlantic – West Africa (Sierra Leone). Indo –Pacific - from South Africa to Japan, and Hawaii (Manning 1969; Gomes Corrêa 1986).
Ecological notes. From shallow waters to 110 m (Manning 1969).
Previous records in Bahia. Calman (1917), Coelho & Koening (1972), Gomes Corrêa (1986), Rodrigues & Young (2005).
Remarks. Calman (1917) analyzed immature individuals of P. c i l i a t a collected at Abrolhos during the “British Terra Nova Expedition” (1913).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
First-principles Analysis of Photo-current in Graphene PN Junctions
Creators: name: Chen, Jingzhe
name: Hu, Yibin
name: Guo, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a first principles investigation of photocurrent generation by graphene PN junctions. The junctions are formed by either chemically doping with nitrogen and boron atoms, or by controlling gate voltages. Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism combined with density functional theory (DFT) is applied to calculate the photo-response function. The graphene PN junctions show a broad band photo-response including the terahertz range. The dependence of the response on the angle between the light polarization vector and the PN interface is determined. Its variation against photon energy $E_{ph}$ is calculated in the visible range. The essential properties of chemically doped and gate-controlled PN junctions are similar, but the former shows fingerprints of dopant distribution.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Characterizing Readiness for Advance Care Planning: An Interpretive Descriptive Study in Supportive Living
Creators: name: Shaw, Marta
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Public Health
subject: Advance Care Planning
subject: End of Life Care
subject: Health Services Research

description: Currently, patient wishes for healthcare at EOL are not readily followed due to a lack of effective communication as well as discordance between patients’ preferences and medical orders. Advance Care Planning involves reflection on and communication of a person’s future healthcare preferences. In Supportive Living, residents are at risk of cognitive decline and frailty, requiring healthcare decisions. ACP is recommended but readiness to engage is not known. The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of readiness, factors influencing readiness and strategies to improve ACP interventions of SL residents, their families/decision-makers and clinicians. This qualitative study utilized an Interpretive Descriptive approach. For SL residents, ACP is related to making the transition to SL. Families of SL residents draw on experience as a prior decision-maker. Clinicians vary in their comfort with ACP engagement. Themes across the groups include: variable definition of ACP, roles in ACP, readiness for engagement and barriers/facilitators. These findings can be used to contribute to the understanding of ACP engagement, inform the clinical approach and provide future direction for ACP research.
Infants' Acquisition of Category-Property Links: Exploring 7- to 11-month-olds' Abilities
Creators: name: Vukatana, Ena
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Psychology--Developmental
subject: categorization
subject: generalization
subject: multiple exemplars
subject: variability

description: Category-based induction is a critical aspect of human reasoning, allowing individuals to generalize beyond what is known to new instances. In this dissertation, I investigated the developmental emergence of this ability by examining infants’ ability to establish category-property links in the first year of life. Specifically, I examined 7-, 9-, and 11-month-olds’ ability to form one-to-one mappings between an animal and a sound, and to generalize the sound properties to new category members in the context of cat and dog categories. In Chapter 2, I investigated 9- and 11-month-olds’ acquisition and generalization of sound properties. After establishing that infants did not spontaneously match meowing and barking to their respective categories, I manipulated the amount of shared perceptual variability between familiarization and test exemplars (i.e., same vs. different breed of animals), and the number of exemplars presented during familiarization (i.e., single vs. multiple exemplars). Nine- and 11-month-olds formed one-to-one animal-sound mappings under all learning conditions. With respect to property extensions, 11-month-olds generalized the sound to new category members of the same and of a different breed after familiarization with a single exemplar. Nine-month-olds also generalized the sound to new category members of the same breed when familiarized with a single exemplar, but required the presentation of multiple exemplars to extend to members of a different breed. In Chapter 3, I tested 7-month-olds to assess the developmental emergence of the ability to establish category-property links. I manipulated the number of exemplars presented during familiarization (i.e., single vs. multiple exemplars) and the manner in which the stimuli were presented (i.e., sequentially vs. in pairs). Seven-month-olds learnt the animal-sound mapping when familiarized to a single category exemplar, but not when familiarized with multiple exemplars presented sequentially or in pairs. Seven-month-olds did not extend the sound property under any of the learning conditions. The results highlight (1) developmental differences in the ability to establish category-property and (2) the conditions that promote property generalizations in the first year of life. The findings provide further evidence that categorization and the ability to make property generalizations are highly dynamic processes, and will be discussed within a process-oriented framework.
Second-Generation Antipsychotics and Metabolic Side Effects in the Canadian Population
Creators: name: Hirsch, Lauren Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Mental Health
subject: Public Health
subject: second-generation antipsychotics
subject: adverse events
subject: metabolic syndrome

description: The use of second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) has increased substantially in Canada over the last decade. Though an association has been found between SGAs and metabolic dysfunction in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), this information might not be generalizable to all SGA users. Furthermore, SGA use has been inadequately characterized in the population. This thesis aimed to quantify trends in SGA use and the effect of SGAs on indicators of metabolic dysfunction in the Canadian population through two studies: i) a systematic review the literature on population-based studies of SGA use and their associated metabolic harms, and ii) a cross-sectional analysis of SGA use using the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). The results of this thesis showed SGA use has tripled in Canada between 2007 and 2013 and confirmed the presence of metabolic dysfunction and poor health in SGA users in the general household population.
Social Workers' Perspectives on Sexuality in Social Work Practice
Creators: name: Berry, Jane
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Sexual Health
subject: Sexuality
subject: Social Work
subject: Heteronormativity
subject: Gender
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Anti-oppressive practice
subject: Sex
subject: Feminism
subject: Feminist theory

description: Sexuality has been underexplored by social work scholars. To help address gaps in this area, I studied social workers’ perspectives on various aspects of sexuality in my thesis research. I used qualitative, feminist methodology because of the fit with the topic area and research questions. The sample of 14 social workers participated in semistructured interviews. Thematic Analysis indicated that the participants were predominantly comfortable with sexuality-related topics. Generally, they disclosed acceptance of their own sexuality and had sought additional related education. The participants agreed that social work educators should increase curriculum on sexuality but recognized some of the constraints involved. Overall, the participants considered capacity to address sexuality-related topics in therapeutic conversations a key aspect of competent practice and identified several tools for that purpose. These findings have implications for social work generally, and for aspects of practice, education and research specifically.
Age of Soils: A Measure of Creep History
Creators: name: Guo, Junwei
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Geotechnology
subject: Time-dependent behaviors
subject: stress-strain-time relationship
subject: creep history
subject: iso-creep rate lines
subject: age contours
subject: Creep Balanced State equation

description: Time-dependent behaviors of soils are critical for engineering design. Results of one-dimensional (1-D) constant rate of strain (CRS) tests on clays show that there is an existence of unique relationship between current stress and strain state for a given constant strain rate, irrespective to previous stress-strain-time history. In the present study, this relationship is employed to estimate the creep rate during the CRS test. It is found that the creep rate is consistently related to distance from current stress-strain state to the instant compression line, which is the creep void ratio or creep history, termed age of soils. Based on the creep rate as a function of creep strain or age of soils, the stress relaxation rate function is derived through the correspondence principle. Age contours are iso-creep rate lines defining the creep rate field in stress-strain space. Creep Balanced State equation states that CRS path will converge to a iso-creep rate line. This equation is used to determine the CRS path and quantify the rate effect on preconsolidation pressure. Age- and pressure-dependent secondary compression coefficients are incorporated in the above framework.
The Basics of the Research Data Management (BRDM) Course: Course Structure and Learning Objectives 2019-22
Creators: name: Rantasaari, Jukka
name: Löyttyniemi, Eliisa
name: Cooper, Helen
name: Henriksson, Blanka
name: Huttunen, Sari
name: Kaarakainen, Meri-Tuulia
name: Kanerva, Päivi
name: Kaurahalme, Olli-Pekka
name: Lauren, Susanna
name: Linna, Anna-Kaarina
name: Neuman, Yrsa
name: Strandell-Laine, Camilla
name: Ryödi, Eeva
name: Sarpila, Outi
name: Snåre, Martina
name: Steudle, Onerva
name: Susi, Petri
name: Tonttila, Leena
name: Tuominen, Eino
name: Wilson, Ia
name: Naskali, Juhani
name: Fredriksson, Malin
name: Shahrokh, Nikou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Data Management
RDM
Doctoral Students
Researchers
Graduate Students
Learning Objectives
Data Literacy
Interview Study
Curriculum
DMP
Data management plan

description: Course structure and learning objectives for the 3 ECTS Research Data Management (BRDM) course at the University of Turku and at the Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland in Spring of 2019-22.
Sensing Rhythm: Synchronizing Auditory Feedback and Movement
Creators: name: Godbout, Andrew Joseph
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: sonification
subject: Computer Vision
subject: sensing

description: This thesis explores auditory feedback, designed around the ability of people to entrain their movements with a rhythm. Phase denotes the progression through a movement and thus tracking phase tracks progression through a movement. We show how to track phase using sensors and develop a novel visual synchronization system that works with RGB-depth cameras. We use phase tracking to produce auditory feedback that is synchronized with a user. Applications to walking, running, cycling and speed skating demonstrate the methods and thirteen speed skating athletes test the robustness and provide qualitative feedback of two of our synchronous auditory feedback systems.
Logarithmic temperature profiles in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Creators: name: Ahlers, Guenter
name: Bodenschatz, Eberhard
name: Funfschilling, Denis
name: Grossmann, Siegfried
name: He, Xiaozhou
name: Lohse, Detlef
name: Stevens, Richard J. A. M.
name: Verzicco, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results for the temperature profiles of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in the interior of a cylindrical sample of aspect ratio $Γ\equiv D/L = 0.50$ ($D$ and $L$ are the diameter and height respectively). Results from experiment over the Rayleigh number range $4\times 10^{12} \alt Ra \alt 10^{15}$ for a Prandtl number $\Pra \simeq 0.8$ and from direct numerical simulation (DNS) at $Ra = 2 \times 10^{12}$ for $\Pra = 0.7$ are presented. We find that the temperature varies as $A*ln(z/L) + B$ where $z$ is the distance from the bottom or top plate. This is the case in the classical as well as in the ultimate state of RBC. From DNS we find that $A$ in the classical state decreases in the radial direction as the distance from the side wall increases and becomes small near the sample center.
Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives
Creators: name: Véras, Bruno R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The “Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives” is a project which aims to bring together international scholarship regarding the Historical African Diasporas, with creative art production initiatives from Global Africa. The focus is biographical. The concept of the project is based on creating experimental ways of visually representing the lives of individuals who endured slavery as part of their existence between the 15th and the 19th century. African men, women and children chained in slave ships and taken to different parts of the world left accounts, biographical sketches and testimonies. Historians and scholars around the globe have been working on life trajectories of these individuals, tracking their movements, shifting and creating new identities, cultures, writings or having their name written on papers in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The project is part of the SHADD_hub where many of the historical sources are stored and displayed in an online database. The “Fragments of Memory” project is also part of the artistic initiative from the UNESCO Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage.
description: http://www.fragmentosdamemoria.org/
Low Order Representations in the Turbulent Wake of a Normal Flat Plate
Creators: name: Jochaud Du Plessix, Phillip Alexandre
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Aerospace
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Turbulence
subject: Bluff-Body Aerodynamics
subject: Wakes
subject: Low-order modelling
subject: Proper orthogonal decomposition
subject: Mean field theory

description: The turbulent wake of a normal flat plate, characterized by quasi-periodic vortex-shedding dynamics, is investigated in the context of low-order modeling, non-linear dynamics and kinetic energy transfer. The flow is characterized, coherent-structures are educed through the implementation of three models, and the transfer of kinetic energy between the most energetic structures and to the unresolved scales of motion is investigated. A low-order kinematic model (LOM) is constructed via the truncation of a Galerkin expansion using the energetically-optimal proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The harmonic and shift modes of the LOM are coupled via the mean-field paraboloid in phase space, enabling the construction of a generalized phase-average (GPA). The GPA is shown to capture key flow behaviour and physics that traditional phase-averaging (TPA) cannot, including variation in the base flow and modulation of the vortex-shedding amplitude. A clearer understanding of energy transfer is made possible through the simplified representations of the models.
Impact of an Early Life Immune Challenge on Outcomes in a Rat Model of Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Candy, Sydney Alexandra
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Inflammation
subject: Concussion

description: The focus of this thesis was to determine if neonatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on postnatal day (P) 10 would affect the behavioural and molecular outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on P30. It appears that female LPS + mTBI rats show alterations in measures of anxiety, working memory and depressive-like behaviour - different from those not previously exposed to LPS. In addition to behavioural changes, the mRNA expression profiles of LPS + mTBI rats showed a differential cytokine response at P45 in comparison to rats that received LPS, mTBI, or saline injury controls (SAL + mTBI). Cytokine mRNA levels were followed up by analyzing two microglia/macrophage phenotype markers; the markers also showed an altered profile for LPS + mTBI animals. The findings of the work highlight the importance of sex differences and suggest that an early life immune challenge could confer selective susceptibility to outcomes after mTBI.
The conservative cascade of kinetic energy in compressible turbulence
Creators: name: Aluie, Hussein
name: Li, Shengtai
name: Li, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical nature of compressible turbulence is of fundamental importance in a variety of astrophysical settings. We present the first direct evidence that mean kinetic energy cascades conservatively beyond a transitional "conversion" scale-range despite not being an invariant of the compressible flow dynamics. We use high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of compressible hydrodynamic turbulence on $512^3$ and $1024^3$ grids. We probe regimes of forced steady-state isothermal flows and of unforced decaying ideal gas flows. The key quantity we measure is pressure dilatation cospectrum, $E^{PD}(k)$, where we provide the first numerical evidence that it decays at a rate faster than $k^{-1}$ as a function of wavenumber. This is sufficient to imply that mean pressure dilatation acts primarily at large-scales and that kinetic and internal energy budgets statistically decouple beyond a transitional scale-range. Our results suggest that an extension of Kolmogorov's inertial-range theory to compressible turbulence is possible.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
The use of small molecules to illuminate vascular development
Creators: name: Goi, Michela
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: vascular development
subject: angiogenesis
subject: Zebrafish
subject: small molecules
subject: sub-intestinal vein
subject: Nkx3.2

description: Development of the vascular system is a multifactorial process. Its proper establishment has a big impact on life. Not only is this process essential for organismal growth but abnormal blood vessel formation leads to several pathologies. In some cases the disease itself triggers changes to the vascular system. I have worked on three aspects regarding the development of the vascular system: drugs inhibiting the formation of new sprouting vessels (angiogenic vessels), vascular patterning, and its stability. I have used small molecules to probe these processes. First, I showed the advantage of using zebrafish as a model system for efficiently screening anti-angiogenic small molecule compounds designed for cancer therapy. Treating cancer by inhibiting its recruitment of new blood vessels prevents nutrients from reaching the growing tumor. Of 11 novel potential compounds tested, I identified 5 with anti-angiogenic properties, all likely inhibiting the Vascular endothelial growth factor (Vegf) pathway, and showed that these compounds have different effects and efficacies. However, blood vessel patterning cues and mechanisms differ in different organs. In order to design more effective therapies, I next investigated the development of the intestinal vasculature, a poorly characterized vascular bed. By using small molecule inhibitors, I found that both Vegf and Bone morphogenetic protein (Bmp) signaling drive the growth and patterning of this plexus. A genetic mutant with overgrowth of the intestinal vasculature follows similar growth cues, but development is faster and unrestricted. Finally, I have investigated a later aspect of blood vessel development: vascular stability. By interacting with mural cells, endothelial cells mature into a functional apparatus that delivers nutrients, collects waste, responds to inflammation, and regulates blood pressure. The nkx3.2 transcription factor was downregulated in two models of vascular instability. I found that Nkx3.2 contributes to vascular stability as its knockout reduces the number of mural cells, and that mutant embryos are more likely to hemorrhage after treatment with a drug affecting mural-endothelial cell contact. Through this work I have increased our knowledge of vascular development and stabilization through detailed understanding of early vessel formation and the use of small molecules.
Design and Testing of a Wristband with Piezoelectric Sensors for Finger Gesture Recognition
Creators: name: Booth, Riley
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Piezo-electric
subject: Human Computer Interface
subject: Wearables
subject: Gesture Recognition
subject: Mechanomyography

description: This thesis investigates using piezoelectric pressure sensors in a novel wrist-worn device that recognizes finger gestures using signals recorded at the wrist. The device measures tendon shape changes and vibration signals, which pass through an analog signal conditioning circuit connected to a microcontroller. We designed gesture recognition software that uses a sliding window function to detect the timing of a gesture. Our recognition software investigated three machine learning classifiers—nearest-neighbour, decision tree, and support vector machine—trained on features of the piezoelectric signal. We designed an experiment to test the recognition system on three types of individual finger tap gestures. The highest mean gesture detection accuracy was 93% across all ten participants. For classifiers trained per participant, the highest mean accuracies for finger and gesture type classification were 93% and 98%, respectively. The device shows promise as a wearable computer interface, which could enable mobile text input via air typing.
Far-IR/Submillimeter Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys: Predictions of Infrared Line Luminosity Functions for z<4 Galaxies
Creators: name: Spinoglio, Luigi
name: Dasyra, Kalliopi M.
name: Franceschini, Alberto
name: Gruppioni, Carlotta
name: Valiante, Elisabetta
name: Isaak, Kate
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation and accretion onto supermassive black holes in the nuclei of galaxies are the two most energetic processes in the Universe, producing the bulk of the observed emission throughout its history. We simulated the luminosity functions of star-forming and active galaxies for spectral lines that are thought to be good spectroscopic tracers of either phenomenon, as a function of redshift. We focused on the infrared (IR) and sub-millimeter domains, where the effects of dust obscuration are minimal. Using three different and independent theoretical models for galaxy formation and evolution, constrained by multi-wavelength luminosity functions, we computed the number of star-forming and active galaxies per IR luminosity and redshift bin. We converted the continuum luminosity counts into spectral line counts using relationships that we calibrated on mid- and far-IR spectroscopic surveys of galaxies in the local universe. Our results demonstrate that future facilities optimized for survey-mode observations, i.e., the Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) and the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT), will be able to observe thousands of z>1 galaxies in key fine-structure lines, e.g., [SiII], [OI], [OIII], [CII], in a half-square-degree survey, with one hour integration time per field of view. Fainter lines such as [OIV], [NeV] and H_2 (0-0)S1 will be observed in several tens of bright galaxies at 1
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal on 20/10/2011, 17 pages, 13 figures
title: cyclic AMP Regulation and Its Command in the Pacemaker Channel HCN4
Creators: name: Porro, Alessandro
name: Thiel, Gerhard
name: Moroni, Anna
name: Saponaro, Andrea
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: Direct regulation of the pacemaker "funny" current (If) by cyclic AMP (cAMP) underlies heart rate modulation by the autonomic nervous system. At the molecular level, cAMP activates hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels that drive If in sinoatrial node (SAN) myocytes. Even though HCN channel genes were identified more than 20 years ago, the understanding of how cAMP regulates their gating is still fragmented. Here we summarize present understanding on how the cAMP signal is transmitted from the cytosolic to the transmembrane (TM) domain in HCN4. We further discuss how detailed structural knowledge prompted the development of pharmacological/genetic tools for the control of cAMP regulation in these channels.
Duality properties of indicatrices of knots
Creators: name: Adams, Colin
name: Collins, Dan
name: Hawkins, Katherine
name: Sia, Charmaine
name: Silversmith, Robert
name: Tshishiku, Bena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: The bridge index and superbridge index of a knot are important invariants in knot theory. We define the bridge map of a knot conformation, which is closely related to these two invariants, and interpret it in terms of the tangent indicatrix of the knot conformation. Using the concepts of dual and derivative curves of spherical curves as introduced by Arnold, we show that the graph of the bridge map is the union of the binormal indicatrix, its antipodal curve, and some number of great circles. Similarly, we define the inflection map of a knot conformation, interpret it in terms of the binormal indicatrix, and express its graph in terms of the tangent indicatrix. This duality relationship is also studied for another dual pair of curves, the normal and Darboux indicatrices of a knot conformation. The analogous concepts are defined and results are derived for stick knots.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Balancing the other 'scale' of justice : nurturing work-life balance in the legal profession
Creators: name: Mohan, Arun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The pursuit of work-life balance (WLB) is a prominent topic in academic research and media reports, with many scholars and commentators describing the challenges faced by members of the labour market in balancing their employment duties with their personal responsibilities/desires. The crisis is very pronounced in the legal profession, with its institutional culture that places employment interests above family obligations and personal desires. Vanquishing this crisis is imperative not only because of its negative effect on lawyer health, but also because the number of women practicing law in British Columbia is declining, even though there are more females than males in Canadian law schools. This thesis determines that nurturing WLB within the legal profession requires the following: (1) Law schools must not only "teach law," but also "teach how to practice law" by initiating courses, workshops, and legal clinics that help students be more prepared for the rigours of the profession; (2) Alternative billing options to the billable hour system--which compensates lawyers and determines whether they are "partnership material" in firms--must be found because of its entrenchment of work-life conflict in the profession; (3) Legal employers must learn from the best practices of organizations that are adopting innovative initiatives and successfully promoting WLB among their workers. Furthermore, they must encourage, rather than stigmatize, the use of these strategies, including flexible work arrangements (FWAs), part-time arrangements, compressed work-weeks, flex-time (i.e., time off for the provision of family care), tele-commuting (i.e., working from home), and job sharing; (4) Lawyers must create, administer, and utilize the various workplace initiatives aimed at WLB--such as workshops, wellness initiatives, flexible work arrangements, etc.; and, (5) Professional organizations (such as bar associations and provincial law societies) must aid legal professionals in their pursuit of WLB by encouraging the use of FWAs, alternative billing options, and technological advances that promote employment flexibility. While a cultural revolution will not occur overnight, the insights in this thesis will facilitate the legal profession's cultural transformation into a pro-WLB institution that helps its members successfully fulfill the many demands--professional and personal--they face in society.
Solubility Trapping of Carbon Dioxide in Deep Saline Aquifers
Creators: name: Emami-Meybodi, Hamid
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: CO2 Dissolution
subject: Convective Mixing
subject: Natural Convection
subject: Solubility Trapping
subject: Saline Aquifer
subject: CO2 Sequestration

description: This study presents some theoretical results on the effects of capillary transition zone and aquifer background flow on the mass transfer of carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stationary plume of CO2 into formation brine and also provides a perspective on the progress in modeling and experimental observations of physical aspects of CO2 dissolution in deep saline aquifers. One of the main focuses of this study is to mathematically analyze the behavior of CO2 convective dissolution in the absence and presence of a capillary transition zone and to investigate its impact on the onset of natural convection and subsequent convective mixing. Through performing a linear stability analysis, suitable criteria are developed that predict the onset of convection and initial wavelength of the instabilities as a function of system parameters. The instability problem is characterized by capillary-dominant and buoyancydominant regimes with a transition in between. It is shown that capillarity plays a strong role in destabilizing the diffusive boundary layer in the capillary-dominant regime, while it is negligible in the buoyancy-dominant regime. Using direct numerical simulations, key features of the two-phase convective mixing are described and several global quantities, such as the total CO2 dissolution, Sherwood number, swelling factor, and interface velocity are measured. The significant effect of the capillary transition zone on the dissolution of CO2 under a buoyant plume in saline aquifers is explained; and, the link between the capillary transition zone and the volume change, due to CO2 dissolution and the interface velocity over the mixing process, is demonstrated. Another focus of this study is to develop mathematical models that capture the evolution of the CO2 dissolution in aquifers subject to background flows in the absence and presence of natural convection. Using the semi-analytical solution and direct numerical simulations, detailed behavior of background flow on the dissolution and transport of CO2 during its geostorage in saline aquifers, which include the processes of diffusion, advection, and free convection. The findings of this study provide further insight into the understanding of solubility trapping physical features and the long-term fate of the injected CO2 in deep saline aquifers.
Group Conformity in Interprofessional Teams
Creators: name: Kaba, Alyshah
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Group conformity
subject: Interprofessional Collaboration
subject: interprofessional education
subject: Medical Education
subject: medical students
subject: nursing students
subject: peer pressure
subject: Simulation

description: Within the multidisciplinary team environment, professionals bring varying levels of experience, authority, and responsibility: examining how team members interact is critical to ensure the highest standard of patient care. One type of influence in this environment is peer pressure, whereby an individual changes his or her own behavior to match the responses of others in a group. Known as conformity, this body of research, which spans 60 years since Asch’s (1951) seminal work, has only recently been examined in medical education (Beran et al., 2012). When the individual conforms to an incorrect diagnosis or plan for treatment, the safety of the patient may be compromised, contributing to the burden of adverse events. Given the ubiquity of collaborative practice in healthcare, the research presented in this dissertation is about succumbing to peer pressure - and the greater pressures experienced by nursing as compared to medical students to conform to a procedural task. This thesis is divided into four papers. The first paper is a narrative review, the second paper is a methods paper, the third paper compares the difference between medical and nursing students’ rate of conformity on a vital sign skill task, and the fourth paper examines whether conforming on the vital signs task is related to their clinical interpretations. The study is an adaption of the original Asch design to recreate conformity within an interprofessional simulated environment. The findings from the four papers presented in this dissertation, suggest that social pressure may prevent nursing and medical students from questioning incorrect information within interprofessional environments. If health professional students are making clinical decisions based on the consensus of the group, this is a critical issue for patient safety, as we cannot negate the fact that these students will one day be future doctors and nurses and will be working with real patients. To improve teamwork and collaboration amongst medicine and nursing in practice, Interprofessional Education (IPE) curriculum needs to teach students how to overcome barriers within the medical hierarchy, by encouraging students to question and politely challenge what seems to be incorrect information.
Large Nc QCD and Harmonic Sums
Creators: name: de Rafael, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Large-Nc limit of QCD, two--point functions of local operators become Harmonic Sums. I review some properties which follow from this fact and which are relevant for phenomenological applications. This has led us to consider a class of Analytic Number Theory Functions as toy models of Large-Nc QCD which I also discuss.
description: Based on my talk at "Raymond Stora's 80th Birthday Party", LAPP, July 11th 2011
Planar and Linear Feature-Based Registration of Terrestrial Laser Scans with Minimum Overlap Using Photogrammetric Data
Creators: name: Canaz, Sibel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Registration
subject: Terrestrial Laser Scanning
subject: Close Range Photogrammetry

description: Three-dimensional (3D) modeling is crucial for studying, analyzing, reconstructing, and documenting our environment, in general, and man-made structures, in particular. 3D data for a surveyed structure can be directly collected by a Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS). However, several TLS scans are necessary to obtain a complete coverage of the surveyed structures. Transformation of the collected scans into a common coordinate system with a registration procedure is necessary in order to acquire a meaningful 3D model of the structure in question. The registration process requires a large overlap area among the TLS scans for reliable results. In this research, this large overlap area requirement between the TLS scans is reduced using a photogrammetric model as additional information for the registration process. Planar and linear features, which can be easily identified in photogrammetric data and TLS scans, were chosen as the registration primitives. Quantitative quality analysis is proposed in this research by calculating the point-to-plane normal distances between the registered surfaces. The experimental results from real datasets show the ability of the proposed technique, where less than 10 cm point-to-plane normal distances between the registered surfaces were observed, which confirmed the reliability of the registration results.
Assessing social-emotional learning: A guide for the perplexed
Creators: name: Nordengren, Chase
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: social-emotional learning
assessment

description: A growing movement among educators, policymakers, and researchers seeks to better understand social-emotional learning (SEL): the inter- and intra-personal skills, mindsets, and dispositions that influence how students learn. NWEA has pioneered unique research in this space, including an assessment measuring how students' relationships and mindsets support their learning. This session will discuss what NWEA has learned through use of this instrument , how teachers and administrators use SEL data, and what is coming next in SEL assessment. You’ll leave the session with a clear understanding of where the field is headed, and how to best work with students now to improve their attitudes toward learning.
The Basics of the Research Data Management (BRDM) Course: Course Structure and Learning Objectives 2019-22
Creators: name: Rantasaari, Jukka
name: Löyttyniemi, Eliisa
name: Cooper, Helen
name: Fredriksson, Malin
name: Henriksson, Blanka
name: Huttunen, Sari
name: Kaarakainen, Meri-Tuulia
name: Kanerva, Päivi
name: Kaurahalme, Olli-Pekka
name: Lauren, Susanna
name: Leinonen, Jouni
name: Linna, Anna-Kaarina
name: Naskali, Juhani
name: Neuman, Yrsa
name: Nikou, Shahrokh
name: Ryödi, Eeva
name: Salovaara, Tuulia
name: Sarpila, Outi
name: Snåre, Martina
name: Steudle, Onerva
name: Strandell-Laine, Camilla
name: Susi, Petri
name: Tonttila, Leena
name: Tuominen, Eino
name: Wilson, Ia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Data Management
RDM
Doctoral Students
Researchers
Graduate Students
Learning Objectives
Data Literacy
Interview Study
Curriculum
DMP
Data management plan

description: Course structure and learning objectives for the 3 ECTS Research Data Management (BRDM) course at the University of Turku and at the Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland in Spring of 2019-22.
Making it work: Formative assessment in virtual instruction
Creators: name: Nordengren, Chase
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: formative assessment
COVID-19
learning loss
virtual instruction

description: If teaching is an art, then formative assessment—the planned, ongoing processes used to elicit and use evidence of student learning—is one of its fundamentals. During this singular moment in the lives of students, it has never been more important to understand student learning in the moment and use that understanding to drive instruction. As our research has shown, the learning gaps between students that will emerge during this period will likely be substantial. What we don’t know is how this crisis will affect those students individually: where specifically students may fall behind and the specific content they will need to catch up. Formative assessment can help bridge the gaps in our understanding by going deep into what students know and can do, and providing students the opportunity to collaborate on the next steps in completing their unfinished learning.
El funcionamiento psicológico de la experiencia espiritual: desposesión y transformación
Creators: name: Grané, Francesc
Publisher: name: Horitzó. Revista de Ciències de la Religió
Year: 2022

description: RESUMEN: Algunas psicologías se abren hoy al ámbito de lo espiritual e intentan descifrar ámbitos que hasta hoy eran ámbitos de la fenomenología de la religión o, incluso, de la teología. Este artículo pretende situar la función de la psicología de la religión. La psicología no responde a la pregunta sobre Dios, sino a la experiencia de la persona humana en su anhelo de infinito. Sin embargo, psicología y espiritualidad pueden entenderse como ámbitos concomitantes aunque con objetivos distintos. Abordamos aquí los mecanismos de protección/defensa, la centralidad del duelo, sujeto o objeto de transformación y la comprensión del proceso de transformación como un proceso de trascendencia en la inmanencia.
description: Horitzó. Revista de Ciències de la Religió, Vol. 1, Núm. 4 (2022): Horitzó revista de ciències de la religió.
Discrete Flavour Symmetries in Light of T2K
Creators: name: Toorop, Reinier de Adelhart
name: Feruglio, Ferruccio
name: Hagedorn, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a non-vanishing angle theta_13 of order 0.1 can be predicted in the framework of discrete flavour symmetries. We assume that left-handed leptons transform as triplets under a group G_f which is broken in such a way that neutrino and charged lepton sectors remain invariant under the subgroups G_nu and G_e of G_f, respectively. In this limit mixing angles and the Dirac CP violating phase delta_CP are determined. By choosing G_f=Delta(6 n^2) (n=4,8), G_nu=Z_2 x Z_2 and G_e=Z_3 we find sin^2 theta_13=0.045(0.011) for n=4(8). At the same time theta_23 and theta_12 remain close to their experimental best fit values, particularly in the case n=8, where sin^2 theta_23 = 0.424 and sin^2 theta_12 = 0.337. delta_CP is predicted to be 0 or pi so that CP is conserved in our examples.
description: 1+11 pages, 1 figure; v2: matches journal version
The biopolitics of normative monogamy : a critical discourse analysis of the polygamy debate and Bountiful, British Columbia
Creators: name: Carmichael, Adam Burke
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The issue of polygamy has become a political problem in the last twenty years in Canada, and in British Columbia specifically, because of legal ambiguity regarding the constitutionality of Canada's anti-polygamy law. This problem has been approached by academics primarily through a legal negotiation of women's rights versus religious minority rights. Popular polygamy discourse, however, is largely informed by a debate within the print media over core Canadian values regarding sexuality. This thesis examines the unequal power dynamics that serve as the preconditions for this debate and that are reinforced through the discourse. These dynamics form a complex web between various groups such as GLBTQ communities, social conservatives, secular feminists and those practising polygamy. I rely on a genealogical discourse analysis that traces the development of polygamy discourse in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, and the continuity of this discourse in the contemporary debate in Canada. Drawing on a critical analysis of Canadian print media, I argue that the contemporary polygamy debate reinforces a biopolitics of normalization in which a hetero-normative, monogamous and economically productive family unit is privileged at the expense of marginalized sexual-family structures that are characterized as a threat to the national population. I conclude that feminists concerned with equality within polygamous communities should take into account this exclusionary normalization while working against patriarchal forms of polygamy.
Measuring Observer Agreement on Categorical Data
Creators: name: Soo, Andrea
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biostatistics
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Agreement
subject: Reliability
subject: Kappa

description: In order for a patient to receive proper and appropriate health care, one requires error-free assessment of clinical measurements. For example, a diagnostic test that assesses whether an individual will be classified as having the disease or not having the disease needs to produce accurate and reliable results in order to ensure that an individual who needs treatment receives the correct therapy. Agreement and reliability studies aim to evaluate the accuracy and consistency of diagnostic tests or measurement tools. A model developed by Shoukri and Donner allows for the concurrent assessment of inter-rater (between rater) agreement and intra-rater (within rater) reliability, by incorporating two measurements per rater per subject. The main purpose of this research was to develop methods for the maximum likelihood (ML) approach using the Shoukri-Donner model and compare those methods to the method of moments (MM) approach using Monte Carlo computer simulation studies. Little differences between ML and MM were observed in point estimation. In general, the MM Wald test and MM confidence interval (CI) performed better than any of the other methods. In fact, the goodness of fit (GOF) test and GOF CI (for both ML and MM) were shown to have high empirical type I errors and low coverage levels, respectively, for the inter-rater agreement parameter in some parameter combinations for the 3 parameter case and all considered parameter combinations in the 4 parameter case. Further investigation as to why there is poor performance with the GOF approach needs to be done before one could recommend this approach as a better alternative to the MM approach. Also, it does not appear that the ML approach is necessarily better than the MM approach. Lastly, extending this research to a more general 5 parameter model requires the resolution of several issues before it can be evaluated in point estimation, hypothesis testing, and CI construction.