cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Assessment of the Impact of Familial Resemblance and Other Factors on Bone Health Parameters in Daughter-Mother Pairs
Creators: name: Boisvert, Nicole Marie Jeanne
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bone
subject: DXA
subject: Dual X-ray Absorptiometry
subject: HR-pQCT
subject: High Resolution Peripheral Computed Tomography
subject: Mother
subject: Daughter
subject: Heritability
subject: Familial Resemblance
subject: Bone Density
subject: Bone Microarchitecture
subject: Female Health
subject: Women's Health
subject: Radiology
subject: Human Development
subject: Health Sciences

description: Older females face a higher prevalence of osteoporosis and incidence of fragility fracture than older males. Evidence suggests that the groundwork that contributes to these conditions is laid in adolescence or young adulthood. In addition to the effects of lifestyle on bone health, there is also a high degree of heritability. Previous research has investigated and accounted for this by using mother-daughter study designs. This thesis aimed to determine the impact of heritability versus various factors (i.e., lifestyle, health, and reproductive history) on bone density, area and microarchitecture. Mother-daughter studies were compiled in a scoping review to determine trends in methodologies and findings. The results from the review showed that, regardless of age or reproductive developmental stage, bone density largely demonstrates familial resemblance and heritability. This scoping review informed the analysis of a pre-existing cohort of 39 paired youngadult daughters and menopause-aged mothers. The cohort data included health and reproductive history, current calcium intake, physical activity level, body composition, areal bone mineral density (aBMD) at the lumbar spine (LS), femoral neck (FN), total hip (TH), whole body (WB) from dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and bone microarchitecture, cross-sectional area (CSA) and volumetric BMD (vBMD) at the radius and tibia from high-resolution quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT). No heritability was seen for DXA-derived aBMD or HR-pQCT-derived total vBMD, but there was for radial and tibial CSA and microarchitecture, and tibial vBMD. Tibial parameters were more heritable than radial, and CSA was more heritable than density or microarchitecture. The percentage of variance accounted for by lifestyle and heritability for aBMD was 10% to 45%, for radial parameters was 11% to 70% and for tibial parameters was 29% to 66%. Therefore, there is familial resemblance in bone health parameters between menopause-aged mothers and young-adult daughters.
Neoperla pusilla Zwick & Zwick 2023, n. sp.
Creators: name: Zwick, Peter
name: Zwick, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Neoperla
Neoperla pusilla

description: 35. Neoperla pusilla n. sp.
(Figs. 193–196)
 Type material. Holotype J: Republic of Sierra Leone, Pampana près de Magburaka [8.67°N, 11.96°W], 5.2.89 (SMNS, gift Élouard; penis slide Z16.82, NEOP247).
 Habitus. WL 7.2mm, two free branches of Rs. Yellow, flagellum distally slightly infuscate. Ocellar rings connected by a brown bridge which is narrower than an ocellus. Hind tibiae wide.
 Male (Figs. 193–196). T7 caudal process long and narrow, extending over all of T8, the downcurved tip almost meeting the humps on T9 (Figs. 193–194). Base of triangular sclerite on T8 wider than process of T7, narrow rear end forming a small erect pimple. T9 unmodified, a pale furrow between pilose humps with SB. Medio-basal callus of HT10 rounded, plump. Process of HT10 short, stout, straight, resting on T9, barely visible in side view. Sternites unmodified.
Penis tubular, slender, bent dorsad in basal third; some external spines ventrally at tip. Endophallus short, hardly attaining half tube length. Base of endophallus dorsally with four dense regular series of stout spines distally decreasing in size. Ventral side with three rows of more slender spines, distal spines thinner and longer than basal ones (Figs. 195–196).
 Female. Unknown.
 DNA (Figs. 492, 496). Only the male holotype from Sierra Leone was sequenced for the COX1 DNA barcode fragment. These DNA sequence data are insufficient to resolve the phylogenetic relationships of this species. The codon model analysis places this species without significant statistical support (60.7/84/75) as sister to the N. orthonema -complex + N. spio -complex. However, the species is placed in the very strongly supported cluster defined by node C (99.7/98/99), rather than in the morphologically defined N. pilulifera -complex.
 Etymology. The name is the Latin adjective pusillus, minute, in the female gender.
description: Published as part of Zwick, Peter & Zwick, Andreas, 2023, Revision of the African Neoperla Needham, 1905 (Plecoptera: Perlidae: Perlinae) based on morphological and molecular data, pp. 1-194 in Zootaxa 5316 (1) on pages 83-85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5316.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8154005
Deliverable 8.5 Evaluation of Cos4Cloud project impact
Creators: name: Liñán, Sonia
name: Woods, Sasha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Citizen Science, Citizen Engagement, Science Communication, Participatory Science, Cos4Cloud, research impact

description: Research impact is the effect that research has on society and the economy. It can take many forms, including advancements in knowledge, new technologies, policy changes, and public health and well-being improvements. Measuring research impact is important for several reasons, including assessing the return on investment for research funding, identifying areas for future research, and demonstrating the value of research to the public. This deliverable evaluates the impact of the Cos4Cloud project considering societal, political, economic, environmental and scientific dimensions.
Dynamics of three-form dark energy with dark matter couplings
Creators: name: Ngampitipan, T.
name: Wongjun, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-form field can give rise to viable cosmological scenarios of dark energy with potentially observable signatures distinct from standard single scalar field models. In this study, the background dynamics of three-form cosmology are investigated. Our analysis suggests that the potential of three-form field should be runaway. We also investigate the possibility to solve the coincidence problem by using the coupling of three-form field to dark matter. Four types of coupling form are examined and we find that the coupling of the form $Q = \sqrt{6}Γ(\dot{X} + 3HX)/κ$ provides the possibility to solve the coincidence problem.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, added references and comments, added new information
Stimulation and production of 11-deoxycortisol in the stress response of lamprey
Creators: name: Roberts, Brent Warren William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This study is the first to provide direct physiological evidence that lamprey have a hypothalamus-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis that functions in a manner similar to that of more derived vertebrates. In teleost fishes, the hypothalamus produces corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), which stimulates the anterior pituitary to produce adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which in turn stimulates production of cortisol (F) from the interrenal cells of the head kidney. Although it has recently been shown that 11-deoxycortisol (S) is the functional corticosteroid in lamprey, no studies have yet determined its mechanism of regulation or site of production. This study demonstrated that 1) exposure to acute stress by air-exposure caused plasma S concentrations to increase, supporting its role as a stress hormone; 2) intraperitoneal injections of lamprey-CRH (0.1, 50, and 100 µg/kg) stimulated an increase in plasma S concentrations that was sensitive to dose, 3) intraperitoneal injection of four isoforms of lamprey-ACTH (each at 1.0 and 10 µg/kg) increased plasma S concentrations, although rates of production were low and varied by isoform between male and female subjects. Confirmation of the identity of 11-deoxycortisol was obtained by demonstrating that plasma extracts fractionated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) had peaks of immunoreactive S that co-eluted with standard S using RIA. Finally, this study demonstrated that 4) lamprey mesonephric kidneys produced S in vitro when incubated in the presence of tritiated 17α-hydroxyprogesterone (17αP), as well as in the absence of any precursor hormones. The identity of the tritiated S produced in vitro was determined by co-elution with standard S on HPLC, and confirmed by co-migration with standard and acetylated S on thin-layer chromatography (TLC) after purification by HPLC. Together, these results provide supporting evidence that the stress response of lamprey, one of the oldest extant vertebrates, may be controlled through an axis similar to the hypothalamus-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis of teleost fishes, although additional studies in this area will be required for further confirmation.
Transport Properties of Strong-Interaction Matter
Creators: name: Wambach, J.
name: Heckmann, K.
name: Buballa, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of strong-interaction matter are probed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In the context of measurements of the elliptic flow at RHIC and the LHC the shear viscosity is of particular interest. In this presentation we discuss recent results for eta/s in hadronic matter at vanishing baryo-chemical potential within kinetic theory. Using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, special attention is paid to effects arising from the restoration of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry with increasing temperature.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, presented at the HIC for FAIR Workshop and XXVIII Max Born Symposium "Three days on Quarkyonic Island", Wroclaw, May 19-21, 2011; v2: conversion to Pa in fig. 2 corrected
Seeing in Colour: A Black Housing Equity Framework to Address Anti-Black Racism in Housing and Homelessness
Creators: name: Kotyk, Marie Cecile Esclanda Mbadugha
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Black Canadians
subject: Black Communities
subject: Anti-Black Racism
subject: Systemic Anti-Black Racism
subject: Equity Framework
subject: Housing
subject: Homelessness
subject: Urban Planning
subject: Black History
subject: Black Housing Equity Framework
subject: Housing Policies
subject: Housing Practices
subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Literature--African
subject: History--Black

description: The Black population in Canada is notably diverse, encompassing a broad spectrum of ethnicities, backgrounds, circumstances, and experiences. This doctoral study is dedicated to shedding light on the fundamental role that systemic anti-Black racism plays in fostering housing instability for Black Canadians, and aims to establish a framework for addressing anti-Black racism within the housing and homelessness sector. Acknowledging the influence of White supremacy and anti-Black racism, this research adopts Critical Race Theory (CRT) as the guiding theoretical framework. Employing a multifaceted methodology that integrates design science, Afrocentric, and autoethnographic research approaches, the study conducts thorough semi-structured interviews with eight Black individuals with lived and living experiences (BPWLE) in Calgary, along with nine Black key informants across Canada, to gain deeper insights into the impacts of systemic anti-Black racism. The results of the interviews with BPWLE underscore the link between systemic racism and housing insecurity, while the key informant interviews reveal the pervasive nature of anti-Black racism in the workforce, influencing policies and practices negatively. Research contributors collectively recognize the widespread existence of anti-Black racism across various sectors and the need for policies and practices to be rooted in equity and anti-oppression. The discourse underscores the importance of centering the perspectives of Black individuals and communities when shaping housing policies and practices. It emphasizes the inadequacy of a colour-blind, one-size-fits-all approach in eradicating systemic anti-Black racism and advocates for an intersectional perspective. Subsequently, a transformative Black Housing Equity Framework (BHEF) emerged from these interviews. This framework encapsulates guiding principles aligned with the values of Black communities alongside operational questions designed to guide policymakers, housing practitioners, and other partners in formulating equitable policies and practices. The BHEF represents a pivotal stride towards acknowledging the systemic anti-Black racism and discrimination confronted by Black communities in their endeavours to secure and maintain housing, offering a beacon of hope for a more equitable future.
#LetHerSpeak: Victims as Catalysts for Law Reform in Sexual Assault Trials
Creators: name: Horan, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Criminal law
Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified

description: Despite significant attempts at reforming sexual assault prosecutions in jurisdictions around the world, victims remain reticent to access their justice systems. This article seeks to understand why recent law reform has not been more successful in encouraging sexual assault victims to come forward. The author argues that a traditional approach to reforming the criminal justice system is maladroit. Rather than face a process that systematically traumatises them again, victims are choosing to congregate online to obtain some sense of justice. The author highlights the advantages for law reformers in engaging with the advocates of these highly organised groups of online sexual assault victims. These online advocates’ novel approach to law reform has resulted in Australian law reformers taking meaningful action to improve sexual assault prosecutions. This new approach promises to produce genuine progress in improving access to justice for victims of sexual assault.
QUESTIONNAIRE ON HYGIENIC KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF MILK VENDING MACHINE HANDLERS IN THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF NAIROBI KENYA
Creators: name: Kevin, Holi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Milk handlers, Knowledge, Practices, Milk Vending Machines, Hygiene

description: Questionnaire used in data collection for research development on hygienic knowledge and practices of handlers in the informal settlements of Nairobi
Towards precise measurement of oscillatory domain wall by ferromagnetic Josephson junction
Creators: name: Hikino, Shin-ichi
name: Mori, Michiyasu
name: Koshibae, Wataru
name: Maekawa, Sadamichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically propose a principle for precise measurement of oscillatory domain wall (DW) by a ferromagnetic Josephson junction, which is composed of a ferromagnetic wire with DW and two superconducting electrodes. The current-voltage curve exhibits stepwise structures, only when DW oscillates in the ferromagnetic wire. The voltage step appears at V = n(\hbar/2e)ω_DW with the fundamental constant \hbar/e, integer number n, and the DW frequency ω_DW. Since V can be determined in the order of 10^9 accuracy, the oscillatory DW will be measured more precisely than present status by conventional method.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Circular orbits and acceleration of particles by near-extremal dirty rotating black holes: general approach
Creators: name: Zaslavskii, O. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of ultra-high energy particles collisions near the black hole horizon (BSW effect) for two scenarios: when one of particle either (i) moves on a circular orbit or (ii) plunges from it towards the horizon. It is shown that such circular near-horizon orbits can exist for near-extremal black holes only. This includes the innermost stable orbit (ISCO), marginally bound orbit (MBO) and photon one (PhO). We consider generic "dirty" rotating black holes not specifying the metric and show that the energy in the centre of mass frame has the universal scaling dependence on the surface gravity $κ$. Namely, $E_{c.m.}\sim κ^{-n}$ where for the ISCO $n=1/3$ in case (i) or $n=1/2$ in case (ii). For the MBO and PhCO $n=1/2$ in both scenarios that agrees with recent calculations of Harada and Kimura for the Kerr metric. We also generalize the Grib and Pavlov's observations made for the Kerr metric. The magnitude of the BSW effect on the location of collision has a somewhat paradoxical character: it is decreasing when approaching the horizon.
description: 20 pages. Confusion between notations in Sec. 7 corrected. Version to appear in CQG
title: Impact of the Initial Flow Conditions on the Wetting Efficiency on a Flat Inclined Surface
Creators: name: Asendrych, D.
Publisher: name: Otto von Guericke University Library, Magdeburg, Germany
Year: 2019

description: Technische Mechanik; 39; 1; 138-148; ISSN 2199-9244
description: The paper presents a numerical study of a liquid flow on a flat inclined surface using a 3-dimensional unsteady Eulerian  multiphase  model.  Application  of  a  VOF  (Volume  of  Fluid)  technique,  a  surface  tracking  method,  allowed  to  reconstruct  a  flow  structure  and  determine  surface  wettability  revealing  their  dependence  on  the  liquid flow rate. The critical Reynolds number value corresponding to the transition from the rivulet flow to the fully  wetted  surface  was  found  to  agree  quite  well  with  the  reference  literature  data.  Detailed  calculations  showed that the solution is sensitive to the initial conditions, i.e. it may change when the dry plate is replaced by a  surface  covered  with  a  liquid  film.  Such  a  behaviour  results  from  variation  of  the dynamic  contact  angle  between the receding and the advancing contact angles corresponding to the dewetting and wetting conditions, respectively.
“Sing About Me”: Social Media Memorial and Inventory Form
Creators: name: Redmond, Shana L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Social media
Communication in music
Protest movements
Memorial music

description: Music is oftentimes where and how people live. It’s a dynamic experience of performance and reception that requires vigor, from the breath and muscle twitch of the singers and/or musicians to the hearing and processing of those melodies by the receiver. Music, then, is the perfect technology through which blackness is animated, even that of those presumed dead and gone. Songs of tribute for the deceased, including Nina Simone’s “Why? (The King of Love is Dead)” and, more recently, “Trayvon” by Pittsburgh emcee Jasiri X, are sonic memorials intended as life support for the memories and visions of loved ones as well as hopes of and for communities who face ongoing structural and physical brutalities. Some of the latest incarnations of this musical strategy are directly influenced by contemporary protest technologies. Musicians have picked up on and expanded upon the labors of social media, which have turned the changing same of state violence into rallying cries delivered in 140 characters or less, hashtags, and memes. Music as a method of communication, organization, and vision is meeting the call again from insurgent communities for new narratives and representations of the many people gone.

In the transition from personal phone to globally-accessible social media, these events are amplified, drawing attention, gasps, outrage, studies, and curricula through the hashtags that organize them in public consciousness. Through the multisensory liveness of video, with its dramatic scenes and sounds, we might begin to hear another metamorphosis from the event to the video to the hashtag and back into an alternative sonic experience. The epistemo-archival impulse that energizes Black Twitter—the urgent need to reveal, to document, to record—has continued offline in an effort to collate and reanimate the women and men condensed in social media by technological necessity. Unbound by word count, contemporary Black musicians translate IP addresses into time signatures in order to organize the “noise” of the Twitterverse into a unique repertoire of continued debate and rebellion.
Radio AGN in galaxy clusters: heating hot atmospheres and driving supermassive black hole growth over cosmic time
Creators: name: Ma, C. -J.
name: McNamara, B. R.
name: Nulsen, P. E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the average radio-AGN (mechanical) power deposited into the hot atmospheres of galaxy clusters over more than three quarters of the age of the Universe. Our sample was drawn from eight major X-ray cluster surveys, and includes 685 clusters in the redshift range 0.1 < z < 0.6 that overlap the area covered by the NVSS. The radio AGN mechanical power was estimated from the radio luminosity of central NVSS sources, using the relation of Cavagnolo et al. 2010 that is based on mechanical powers determined from the enthalpies of X-ray cavities. We find only a weak correlation between radio luminosity and cluster X-ray luminosity, although the most powerful radio sources resides in luminous clusters. The average AGN mechanical power of 3x10^{44} erg/s exceeds the X-ray luminosity of 44% of the clusters, indicating that the accumulation of radio-AGN energy is significant in these clusters. Integrating the AGN mechanical power to redshift z=2, using simple models for its evolution and disregarding the hierarchical growth of clusters, we find that the AGN energy accumulated per particle in low luminosity X-ray clusters exceeds 1 keV per particle. This result represents a conservative lower limit to the accumulated thermal energy. The estimate is comparable to the level of energy needed to "preheat" clusters, indicating that continual outbursts from radio-AGN are a significant source of gas energy in hot atmospheres. Assuming an average mass conversion efficiency of $η=0.1$, our result implies that the supermassive black holes that released this energy did so by accreting an average of ~10^9 M_{sun} over time, which is comparable to the level of growth expected during the quasar era.
description: accepted by ApJ; An updated version after peer review of ApJ
Unified Dark Fluid with Constant Adiabatic Sound Speed and Cosmic Constraints
Creators: name: Xu, Lixin
name: Wang, Yuting
name: Noh, Hyerim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As is known above 90% of the energy content in Universe is made of unknown dark component. Usually this dark fluid is separated into two parts: dark matter and dark energy. However, it may be a mixture of these two energy components, or just one exotic unknown fluid. This property is dubbed as dark degeneracy. With this motivation, in this paper, a unified dark fluid having constant adiabatic sound speed $c_s^2=α$, which is in the range $[0,1]$, is studied. At first, via the energy conservation equation, its energy density, $ρ_d/ρ_{d0}=(1-B_s)+B_s a^{-3(1+α)}$ where $B_s$ is related to integration constant from energy conservation equation as another model parameter, is presented. Then by using Markov Chain Monte Carlo method with currently available cosmic observational data sets which include type Ia supernova Union 2, baryon acoustic oscillation and WMAP 7-year data of cosmic background radiation, we show that small values of $α$ are favored in this unified dark fluid model. Furthermore, we show that smaller values of $α<10^{-5}$ are required to match matter (baryon) power spectrum from SDSS DR7.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Regulation of K+ -dependent Na+/Ca2+ -exchanger subtype 4, NCKX4, by palmitoylation
Creators: name: Al-Khannaq, Maryam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Calcium
subject: ion exchangers
subject: NCKX
subject: protein regulation
subject: palmitoylation
subject: lipidation
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biology--Molecular

description: Mammalian K+-dependent Na+/Ca2+-exchangers (NCKX), encoded by the SLC24 gene family, are Ca2+ extrusion proteins crucial for Ca2+ homeostasis. NCKX4 is widely expressed, particularly in the brain, and is significant in visual and olfactory sensory neurons, neuronal satiety pathways, and dental enamel formation. The regulation of NCKX4 remains largely unexplored. Investigating dynamic regulation of NCKX4 will further our understanding of Ca2+ homeostasis in biological functions and may identify therapeutic targets for eating disorders. Palmitoylation is a post-translational modification that regulates many features of membrane proteins. This study investigates NCKX4 regulation by palmitoylation and examines its effects on NCKX4 cellular localization and function. Understanding NCXK4 palmitoylation is of fundamental importance for advancing our knowledge of transporter regulation and function. Using Acyl-RAC and palmitate-based click-chemistry methods, it was found that approximately 14% of NCKX4 is palmitoylated in both endogenous and transfected systems. This level of palmitoylation was dynamically regulated and could be decreased and increased by inhibitors of palmitoylation (2-bromopalmitate; 2BP) and depalmitoylation (palmostatin B; palmB), respectively. Palmitoylation sites were determined using site-directed mutagenesis of six cysteines, two of which (C118S and C425S) significantly reduced the level of NCKX4 palmitoylation. However, the C118S/C425S double mutant did not eliminate all palmitoylation, indicating the presence of additional palmitoylation sites in NCKX4. The cellular localization of palmitoylated NCKX4 was examined using palmitate-based click-chemistry combined with proximity ligation. Palmitoylated NCKX4 is distributed across multiple cellular membrane compartments. The effect of palmitoylation on NCKX4 cellular localization was examined using 2BP and PalmB with Na+/K+ -ATPase as a plasma membrane marker. The data show a significantly higher fraction of NCKX4 is found in the plasma membrane when palmitoylation is inhibited with 2BP. The effect of palmitoylation on NCKX4 activity was investigated using a Ca2+ imaging assay in HEK293T and MEB4 cells treated with 2BP and PalmB. No significant difference was found in the activity NCKX4 under these different conditions. In conclusion, NCKX4 is palmitoylated at several sites on the protein. The extent of palmitoylation is dynamically regulated, and palmitoylation affects NCKX4 cellular distribution, while it has no measurable effect on aggregate NCKX4 Ca2+ transport activity.
mHEALTH-INNOVATE: WORK PACKAGE 3: Understanding the implications of informal mobile phone use for policy and health systems governance
Creators: name: Bavuma, Rehema
name: Gopinathan, Unni
name: Glenton, Claire
name: Kyaddondo, David
name: Sewankambo, Nelson
name: Lewin, Simon
name: Neumark, Tom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mHealth
Mobile Health
Mobile Phones
Informal use
Healthcare Workers
Policy Making
Policy Makers
Stakeholders
Health Systems
Governance
Uganda
Qualitative research

description: This will be a qualitative study involving review of policy documents and other related resources on the informal use of mobile phones among health workers; and individual semi structured interviews with relevant stakeholders, including officials from ministry of health, ministry of ICT, civil society organizations and professional bodies.
#LetHerSpeak: Victims as Catalysts for Law Reform in Sexual Assault Trials
Creators: name: Horan, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Criminal law
Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified

description: Despite significant attempts at reforming sexual assault prosecutions in jurisdictions around the world, victims remain reticent to access their justice systems. This article seeks to understand why recent law reform has not been more successful in encouraging sexual assault victims to come forward. The author argues that a traditional approach to reforming the criminal justice system is maladroit. Rather than face a process that systematically traumatises them again, victims are choosing to congregate online to obtain some sense of justice. The author highlights the advantages for law reformers in engaging with the advocates of these highly organised groups of online sexual assault victims. These online advocates’ novel approach to law reform has resulted in Australian law reformers taking meaningful action to improve sexual assault prosecutions. This new approach promises to produce genuine progress in improving access to justice for victims of sexual assault.
Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 8
Creators: name: Sharpe, M. (Ed.)
name: Jagst, L. (Ed.)
name: Birk, D. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1975

description: A-39
description: Contents iii{M.C. Sharpe} 1NOTES ON THE "PIDGIN ENGLISH" CREOLE OF ROPER RIVER. PROBLEMS IN STUDYING PE 3 PHONOLOGY 5 Technical Orthography 6 Adaptation of English Words 6 Intonation 7 Practical Orthography 8 GRAMMAR 8 Pronouns 8 Possession 8 Reflexive Pronoun 8 Adjectives and Numerals 9 Pluralising of Nouns 10 Verbs Transitive and Intransitive 10 Prepositions 10 Tense, Aspect and Mood of Verbs 11 Adjective-like Verbs 12 Negative Commands 12 Miscellaneous Word Types 12 TEXT EXAMPLES 14 Notes 17 Bibliography 19{Lothar Jagst} 21NGARDILPA (WARLPIRI) PHONOLOGY. 0. INTRODUCTION 21 1. PHONEME INVENTORY 21 1.1. Consonantal Phonemes 21 1.1.1. Stops 22 1.1.2. Prenasalised Stops 23 1.1.3. Nasals 24 1.1.4. Laterals 25 1.1.5. Neutralisation between Apico-alveolar and Apico-domal Series 26 1.1.6. Vibrants, Trills, and Apico-domals 27 1.1.7. Contrasts between Phonetically-similar Consonantal Segments 28 1.1.8. Semo-consonants 29 1.2. Vowel Phonemes 30 1.2.1. Vowel Contrasts 31 1.2.2. Vowel Allophones 31 2. PHONEME DISTRIBUTION 33 2.1. Consonant Distribution within the Phonological Word 33 2.1.1. Category A, Consonant Clusters within Morphemes 33 2.1.2. Category B, Consonant Clusters within Compound Verbs at Root Boundaries 35 2.1.3. Category C, Consonant Clusters within Reduplicated Constructions 36 2.1.4. Observations Concerning Consonant Clusters 38 2.2. Vowel Distribution within the Phonological Word 39 3. SYLLABLES 40 4. WORD STRESS 41 5. INTONATION 44 6. MORPHOPHONEMICS 45 Appendix 47 Notes 53 Bibliography 56{David B.W. Birk} 59THE PHONOLOGY OF MALAKMALAK. 0.1. INTRODUCTION 59 1.1. CONSONANTS 59 1.2. VOWELS 63 1.3. THE INTERPRETATION OF GLIDES 66 1.4. SANDHI 67 1.5. SYLLABLE PATTERNS 68 1.6. THE PHONOLOGICAL WORD 68 1.7. THE PHONOLOGICAL PHRASE 76Notes 77Bibliography 78
Breaking the ice in Parasport: Are youth meeting the 24-hour movement guidelines and are they safe?
Creators: name: Dennett, Brooke
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: disability
subject: para ice hockey
subject: physical activity
subject: sedentary
subject: video analysis
subject: athletic injury
subject: Education--Health
subject: Education--Early Childhood

description: This thesis contains two projects, one that explored PA levels amongst children and adolescents with disability participating in camps or weekly programs and the second evaluating safety in Para ice hockey (PIH) using video analysis methodology. The first study aimed to determine the 6-month difference in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) from baseline to 6-months following commencement of program (and proportion of individuals meeting PA guidelines) in children and adolescent (ages 6-17) PIH players (and participants in other weekly adapted PA programs) compared to those participating in a 5-day adapted sport and recreation (S&R) camp. The main results demonstrated no difference the change in MVPA from baseline to 6-months or any difference in MVPA between groups at the 6-month time-point. In terms of adherence to the combined 24-hour movement guidelines (light physical activity, sleep, and MVPA), 0% (0/14) of participants in the PIH and weekly programs cohort and 0% (0/23) of participants in the S&R camp cohort met the combined guidelines for PA at the 6-month time-point, despite engagement in either program. The second study sought to explore player safety in PIH by comparing the physical contact, head contact, and suspected injury (SI) incidence rates (IR) during tournament play across three grassroots PIH levels [Junior (< 16 years), Intermediate (≥16 years; Levels B and C)]. The main results demonstrated higher rates of physical contacts in Intermediate B (IB) compared to Intermediate C (IC). The results suggested that IB also had a higher rate of angled sled contacts, and indirect head contacts compared to IC. Amongst all three levels of play analyzed, there were a low proportion of penalized t-boning, direct head contacts (HC1), and body checking (at the junior division) contacts. Future investigations should target programming to increase PA levels in children and adolescents with disabilities, through attraction to PA and while reducing barriers such as injury, to ultimately create a safer space to play individuals of all abilities.
Thermal modification of bottomonium spectra from QCD sum rules with the maximum entropy method
Creators: name: Suzuki, Kei
name: Gubler, Philipp
name: Morita, Kenji
name: Oka, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bottomonium spectral functions at finite temperature are analyzed by employing QCD sum rules with the maximum entropy method. This approach enables us to extract the spectral functions without any phenomenological parametrization, and thus to visualize deformation of the spectral functions due to temperature effects estimated from quenched lattice QCD data. As a result, it is found that Υand η_b survive in hot matter of temperature up to at least 2.3T_c and 2.1T_c, respectively, while χ_{b0} and χ_{b1} will disappear at T<2.5T_c. Furthermore, a detailed analysis of the vector channel shows that the spectral function in the region of the lowest peak at T=0 contains contributions from the excited states, Υ(2S) and Υ(3S), as well as the ground states Υ(1S). Our results at finite T are consistent with the picture that the excited states of bottomonia dissociate at lower temperature than that of the ground state. Assuming this picture, we find that Υ(2S) and Υ(3S) disappear at T=1.5-2.0T_c.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, v2: Table 3 and Figure 4 updated, references added, several typos corrected, published version
Covariant Renormalizable Anisotropic Theories and Off-Diagonal Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs Solutions
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C45, 83D05, 83C15, 81T10

description: We use an important decoupling property of gravitational field equations in the general relativity theory and modifications, written with respect to nonholonomic frames with 2+2 spacetime decomposition. This allows us to integrate the Einstein equations (eqs) in very general forms with generic off--diagonal metrics depending on all spacetime coordinates via generating and integration functions containing (un--)broken symmetry parameters. We associate families of off-diagonal Einstein manifolds to certain classes of covariant gravity theories which have a nice ultraviolet behavior and seem to be (super) renormalizable in a sense of covariant modifications of Horava-Lifshits gravity. The apparent breaking of Lorentz invariance is present in some "partner" anisotropically induced theories due to nonlinear coupling with effective parametric interactions determined by nonholonomic constraints and generic off-diagonal gravitational and matter fields configurations. Finally, we show how the constructions can be extended to include exact solutions for conjectured covariant reonormalizable models with Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.
description: latex2e, 11pt, 6 pages, 2 columns, epl style, accept to Europhys. Lett
Women’s bodies as sites of signification and contestation : an analysis of Deepa Mehta’s critique of narratives of home, nation and belonging in the elemental trilogy
Creators: name: Madhuri, Snigdha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis examines Deepa Mehta’s trilogy—Water, Earth, Fire—and the trilogy’s exploration and contestation of colonial, anti-colonial nationalist, and religious ideologies as intersecting with patriarchal norms to enact symbolic and actual violence on the bodies of women. I argue that Mehta’s trilogy foregrounds the ways in which patriarchal nationalism legitimizes violence against women’s bodies and sexualities through different social and cultural practices and discourses which are interconnected. To explain the historical and contemporary contexts of Indian women’s domination and the ways they resist this domination, Mehta’s films unveil the underlying power relations among social forces such as colonialism, anti-colonial reform movements, post-colonial nationalism, religious and patriarchal heteronormative discourses which make women’s domination an acceptable cultural norm. Through an analysis of the experiences of women portrayed in Mehta’s films, I posit that the constructions of the Indian nation, in terms of national culture, tradition and identity, are gendered in specific ways that construct the Indian woman, both symbolically and physically, as a site where nationalist ideology provokes their political liberation, self-representation and agency. Mehta’s films disrupt these historical and contemporary practices, discourses and norms through the depictions of women’s multiple identities, experiences and sexualities. Her works demonstrate the ways in which women constantly resist, contest and negotiate with this domination and violence through their daily activities and narratives.
Resources for Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Iyengar, Radhika
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sustainability
Sustainable development
Economics
Peace

description: These are references to understand the various dimensions of Sustainable Development. The four pillars of Sustainable Development form the foundation of the literature review. These four pillars are-Economic development, social development, peace and security and environment. The references have been updated till 2016.
Continuous and Discrete Data-Processing on Non-Cartesian Lattices
Creators: name: Horacsek, Joshua
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Science
subject: Education--Mathematics

description: This thesis focuses on the challenges and practical considerations involved in approximating natural phenomena on regular, yet non-square (non-Cartesian) grids. At a high level, the most simple illustrative example is the move away from square pixels, to say, hexagonal pixels, which have much nicer symmetry compared to square pixels. The focus of this work is geared towards pragmatic solutions, building theory when needed, but with careful consideration to the practical aspects of data processing found in many sub-domains of computer science. The key sub-domains we explore are primarily scientific visualization and machine learning; but the techniques within this thesis extend much further into the numerical sciences. Central to our exploration is the development of the lattice tensor. This data structure is de- signed to encapsulate the complexities inherent in handling non-Cartesian grids. The lattice tensor is simple enough in its formulation so as to be integrated within an (auto)-differentiable com- putational framework. This immediately opens machine learning to the world of non-Cartesian methods. In addition to introducing the lattice tensor, this thesis proposes and evaluates various practical methods for processing and interpolating data within this framework. These methods have been created with a focus on practicality. The culmination of this work is showcased in the final chapter, where we venture into the realm of machine learning. Here, we explore the potential applications and implications of lattice ten- sors in machine learning research, underscoring their utility and effectiveness. This exploration not only demonstrates the practical applicability of our proposed methods but also opens new av- enues for research in machine learning, offering fresh perspectives and tools for tackling complex computational problems. In essence, this thesis presents a comprehensive study that bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and practical applications in the approximation of natural phenomena on non-Cartesian grids. Through the introduction of the lattice tensor and associated methodologies, this work con- tributes significantly to the field, providing a robust foundation for future research and development in both computational science and machine learning.
Unifying the Zoo of Jet-Driven Stellar Explosions
Creators: name: Lazzati, Davide
name: Morsony, Brian J.
name: Blackwell, Christopher H.
name: Begelman, Micthell C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a set of numerical simulations of stellar explosions induced by relativistic jets emanating from a central engine sitting at the center of compact, dying stars. We explore a wide range of durations of the central engine activity, two candidate stellar progenitors, and two possible values of the total energy release. We find that even if the jets are narrowly collimated, their interaction with the star unbinds the stellar material, producing a stellar explosion. We also find that the outcome of the explosion can be very different depending on the duration of the engine activity. Only the longest-lasting engines result in successful gamma-ray bursts. Engines that power jets only for a short time result in relativistic supernova explosions, akin to observed engine-driven SNe such as SN2009bb. Engines with intermediate durations produce weak gamma-ray bursts, with properties similar to nearby bursts such as GRB 980425. Finally, we find that the engines with the shortest durations, if they exist in nature, produce stellar explosions that lack sizable amounts of relativistic ejecta and are therefore dynamically indistinguishable from ordinary core-collapse supernovae.
description: Modified according to referee suggestions. 7 figures, ApJ in press
Random fields on model sets with localized dependency and their diffraction
Creators: name: Akama, Yohji
name: Iizuka, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C23 (Primary) 37B50 (Secondary)

description: For a random field on a general discrete set, we introduce a condition that the range of the correlation from each site is within a predefined compact set D. For such a random field omega defined on the model set Lambda that satisfies a natural geometric condition, we develop a method to calculate the diffraction measure of the random field. The method partitions the random field into a finite number of random fields, each being independent and admitting the law of large numbers. The diffraction measure of omega consists almost surely of a pure-point component and an absolutely continuous component. The former is the diffraction measure of the expectation E[omega], while the inverse Fourier transform of the absolutely continuous component of omega turns out to be a weighted Dirac comb which satisfies a simple formula. Moreover, the pure-point component will be understood quantitatively in a simple exact formula if the weights are continuous over the internal space of Lambda Then we provide a sufficient condition that the diffraction measure of a random field on a model set is still pure-point.
description: 21 pages
Hokum!: The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
Creators: name: King, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Comedy films
Comedians
Motion picture audiences
History

description: Hokum!, the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era, challenges the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition. Author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood’s youth.