cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A biometrics system based on haptics for user authentication in virtual environments
Creators: name: Orozco Trujillo, Mauricio
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Haptics is the discipline that deals with the study of the complex sense of touch as an interface between human beings and machines. Consequently, haptic technology facilitates the exploration of and the interaction with the virtual world through touch. This can be done by utilizing special electro-mechanical interface devices equipped with specialized sensors. Haptic technology is being applied in many fields, such as scientific visualization, surgical procedures, education and arts. This research investigates the issues related to the usage of haptics as a mechanism to extract behavioral features that characterize a biometric identifier system. In order to test this possibility, we designed a haptic-biometric system in which, position, velocity, force, angular orientation of the end-effector and torque data, among other attributes extracted from given haptic interfaces, are continuously measured and stored as users perform a specific task. We first proved the applicability of the haptic technology to analyze the characteristics of human hand movement patterns while users are interacting with a particular haptic device. Then, we analyzed the information content of the haptic data generated directly from the haptic interface in order to select those of the greatest user-classificatory worth. For example, the physical attributes, such as force, angular orientation of the end-effector as well as torque are presumed to provide valuable information content pertaining to a user's unique behavior when he/she interacts with haptics in a Virtual Environment (VE). To analyze the information content, a new concept called entropic signature has been introduced, which characterizes both the way in which an individual is unique, and the magnitude of that uniqueness when using haptics in VE. Consequently, through a series of experimental works, which were based on the entropic signature approach, it was shown the suitability of haptics for authentication based on behavioral haptic biometrics. Moreover, we provided evidence that our proposed haptic-based biometric system is best suited in biometrics' verification mode rather than in biometric identification. In addition, we conducted further testing in order to discover individual's abilities and to evaluate their psychomotor patterns through selected tasks under different conditions such as stress, repeatability and concentration. Finally, an important and novel advantage of this research versus current authentication modes (biometrics and non-biometrics) is the fact that the authentication mode can be carried out at any given moment during the multimodal human-computer interaction process.
D5.2 – Techniques for early risk identification, predictions and assessment II
Creators: name: Thanos Kalligeris
name: Konstantina Liagkou
name: Giorgos Giotis
name: Maritini Kalogerini
name: Spyros Papafragkos
name: Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Early Risk Identification
Pancreatic Cancer
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Health Predictions
Clinical Data

description: This report summarizes the actions performed under T5.1 - “Techniques for early risk identification, predictions and assessment” in this phase of the project and more specifically provides details of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and implementation techniques that are being used to perform early identification as well as predictions of Pancreatic Cancer (PC) risks in individuals. The previous version of this series of deliverables, i.e., D5.1 - “Techniques for early risk identification, predictions and assessment I”, synthesized several AI/ML techniques that are expected to be able to identify hidden patterns and trends in given secondary clinical and streaming data. When all the data (mainly deriving from the patients e.g., questionnaires) become available in the last phase (3rd year) of the project, these techniques will be used for performing assessment of identified risks and subsequently for making predictions. In this second version of T5.1 - “Techniques for early risk identification, predictions and assessment” deliverables series, i.e., D5.2 - “Techniques for early risk identification, predictions and assessment II”, work has been carried out to further explore the synthetic data on Section 6 which simulate the real data that will be provided later in the project. Finally, in Section 7 the initial architecture and approach of the AI models is provided a) having as a guide the synthetic data that simulate the streaming data (life habit, symptoms questionnaires and data collected from wearable devices) and b) taking into account also the prospective clinical data.
Crateroscelis robusta subsp. peninsularis Hartert 1930
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Crateroscelis
Crateroscelis robusta
Crateroscelis robusta peninsularis hartert

description: Crateroscelis robusta peninsularis Hartert
 Crateroscelis robusta peninsularis Hartert, 1930b: 82 (Lehuma, Arfak Mountains).
 Now Crateroscelis robusta peninsularis Hartert, 1930. See Dickinson, 2003: 445.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 293883, adult male, collected on Mount Lehuma, 01.30S, 133.55E (USBGN, 1943), Arfak Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 8 June 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1065).
COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description, and noted that nine specimens of both sexes (in addition to the holotype) were collected at Lehuma and in the mountains above Ditschi; Mayr (1930a: 22) described both of these localities. The collection was originally divided between AMNH and the Rothschild Collection, with half of the types going to each (Hartert, 1930a: 19) and with a ‘‘third set’’ going to MZB. In this case, all of the paratypes are now in AMNH. Paratypes sent to AMNH and bearing Sanford’s stamp are AMNH 293880–293882, 293884, and 293885; those bearing a Rothschild Museum label are now AMNH 589361–589364.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Investigation of repeatability of sol-gel iridium oxide pH sensor on flexible substrate
Creators: name: Huang, Wen-Ding
name: Hsu, Lun-Chen
name: Wang, Jianqun
name: Ativanichayaphong, Thermpon
name: Deb, Sanchali
name: Chiao, Mu
name: Chiao, J. C.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Year: 2011

description: In this paper, we presented the fabrication process of miniature pH sensor arrays on flexible polymer substrates. The repeatability of the sensors based on sol-gel fabrication processes was investigated. The sensor repeatability was characterized with linearity, decay time, environmental parameter control and potential stability. Similar linear responses were found in different batches of sensor arrays. Near super- Nernstian responses were measured on each sensor with slope ranges from -71.6 to -110 mV/pH within a pH range between 2 and 12. The response times were compared in different batches. Six to twenty five seconds of average decay time were shown in each sample repeatedly. Three sensors showed the close potential response in different volumes of pH buffer solution. The sensor showed good stability in each step of the titration process between pH values of 1.8 and 11.9. The peak and saturated potential values presented high correlation with pH values with minor noises. The results showed good sensitivity, stability and repeatability using the sol-gel processes for iridium-oxide pH sensors on flexible substrates. Copyright 2009 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. Copyright 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Crateroscelis sanfordi Hartert
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Crateroscelis
Crateroscelis sanfordi

description: Crateroscelis sanfordi Hartert
 Crateroscelis sanfordi Hartert, 1930b: 81 (Wondiwoi).
 Now Crateroscelis robusta sanfordi Hartert, 1930. See Dickinson, 2003: 445.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 293893, adult male, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains, 02.45S, 134.35E (USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 14 July 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1521).
COMMENTS: Hartert included Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description; he listed three males, one female, and two sex?, apparently including the type, although possibly a specimen was sent to MZB. The division of the collection was as for the previous form. There are five paratypes at AMNH: AMNH 293892, male; AMNH 293894, sex?; AMNH 589365, male; AMNH 589366, male?; and AMNH 589367, female.
The Wondiwoi Mountains are on the peninsula east of Wandammen Bay, and Mayr (1930a: 24) entered them from Wasior, 02.38S, 134.27E (Times Atlas).
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Crateroscelis robusta subsp. bastille Diamond 1969
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Crateroscelis
Crateroscelis robusta
Crateroscelis robusta bastille diamond

description: Crateroscelis robusta bastille Diamond
 Crateroscelis robusta bastille Diamond, 1969: 18 (Mt. Nibo, Torricelli Mountains, Sepik District, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).
 Now Crateroscelis robusta bastille Diamond, 1969. See Coates, 1990: 103, and Dickinson, 2003: 445.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 789762, adult male, collected on Mount Nibo, 4800 ft, Torricelli Mountains, 03.25S, 142.12E (Papua New Guinea, 1984), West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, on 14 July 1966, by Jared M. Diamond (no. 431).
COMMENTS: Diamond cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are AMNH 829325– 829333 from Mt. Nibo and Mt. Menawa, Torricelli Mountains.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Quantitative Identification of Breakthrough Inventions Targeting Non-novel Technical Issues
Creators: name: Ye, Dongmei
name: Yuan, Jia
name: Xi, Chongjun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: It is of great theoretical and practical significance to explore technological breakthroughs especially in fostering innovation and advancing technological progress.  Existing technological breakthrough research focuses on the novelty and impact assessment of technologies, while generally ignoring the potential breakthrough progress that can arise from the upgrading of technologies that are not novel. Technological improvements toward non-novel technical issues will largely involve longstanding technical challenges and are therefore a daunting task. Overcoming these challenges is, in essence, a process of technological breakthrough, as is the creation of something new. This study first advocates that technological inventions aiming to overcome longstanding technical challenges should be recognized as technological breakthroughs if they have generated widespread attention within the domain and spurred a series of technical endeavors. This expands the conventional understanding of technological breakthrough, which focused on “novelty” or “impact”, or a comprehensive consideration of both. In addition, we propose an operational methodology and process for identifying these breakthrough inventions, which can further enable us to recognize technology opportunities and proactively manage technological innovation.

1. Identifying the invention targeting non-novelty technical issues. 

This study argues that if a technological innovation activity references a set of prior technical patents concentrated in an earlier period, then this technological innovation activity is likely to address a longstanding, persistent technical issue (non-novelty technical issue).

2. Measuring the breakthrough nature of invention.

This study examines three aspects: technological difficulty, technological impact, and technological communicability. 1) The higher the technological difficulty, the greater the breakthrough significance of the patent technology activity. 2) The greater the impact of the technology, the more substantial the technological progress achieved by the patent technology activity. 3) The better the communicability of the technology, the more substantial the contribution and inspiration of the patent technology to the development of the field.

3. Analysing and validating breakthrough inventions.

For verifying the identified breakthrough invention results, firstly, a comprehensive comparison of the results of relevant studies was conducted. Second, the opinions and assessments of experts in the field were sought. Their expertise can provide valuable insights and validation to further ensure the reliability of the present methodology.
Development of an IrOx micro pH sensor array on flexible polymer substrate
Creators: name: Huang, Wen-Ding
name: Wang, Jianqun
name: Ativanichayaphong, Thermpon
name: Chiao, Mu
name: Chiao, J. C.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Year: 2011

description: pH sensor is an essential component used in many chemical, food, and bio-material industries. Conventional glass electrodes have been used to construct pH sensors, however, have some disadvantages in specific applications. It is difficult to use glass electrodes for in vivo biomedical or food monitoring applications due to size limitation and no deformability. In this paper, we present design and fabrication processes of a miniature iridium oxide thin film pH sensor array on flexible polymer substrates. The amorphous iridium oxide thin film was used as the sensing material. A sol-gel dip-coating process of iridium oxide film was demonstrated in this paper. A super-Nernstian response has been measured on individual sensors of the array with a slope of -71.6±3 mV/pH at 25°C within the pH range between 2.83 and 11.04. Copyright 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Sericornis maculatus subsp. hartogi Carter
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Sericornis
Sericornis maculatus
Sericornis maculatus hartogi carter

description: Sericornis maculatus hartogi Carter
 Sericornis maculatus hartogi Carter, 1916: 6 (Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia).
 Now Sericornis frontalis balstoni Ogilvie-Grant, 1909. See Mayr, 1986b: 416, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 601350, adult male, collected on Dirk Hartog Island, 25.50S, 113.03E (Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 506), Western Australia, Australia, on 1 May 1916, by Tom Carter. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
 COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was designated as: ‘‘Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia. In the Austral Avian Museum, Fairoak, Hants’’ (5 Mathews Collection). There are four specimens in AMNH collected by Carter on Dirk Hartog Island in 1916. AMNH 601350 bears a Carter field label marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews, a Rothschild Collection label, and a Rothschild type label with the name and reference to the description, but not in Hartert’s hand. Carter and Mathews (1917: 589) added no further information on the identification of the type. Because AMNH 601350 has been included in the type collection at AMNH and is indicated as type by Mathews, who presented Carter’s description to the British Ornithologists’ Club (see title of Carter, 1916), I hereby designate AMNH 601350 the lectotype of Sericornis maculatus hartogi. The other three specimens, AMNH 601351, male, 12 May 1916, AMNH 601352, female, 23 May 1916, and AMNH 601353, female, 1(?) October 1916, are paralectotypes.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
title: Universality in Systems of up to Four Particles — From Nuclei to Ultracold Atoms
Creators: name: Schmickler, Christiane
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: Universal physics manifests in low-energy phenomena over a large array of different systems from nuclear to atomic physics. Here, two interesting aspects of universality are studied using the Gaussian Expansion Method (GEM). This is a variational method that uses products of Gaussians as basis functions. Gaussian potentials are used as a short-range potential. The first aspect is the behaviour close to the dimer + atom breakup threshold of Efimov states and associated universal tetramers in ultra-cold mixtures of alkali atoms. These can be treated as bosons here. It is shown that trimer and tetramer vanish into the threshold at almost the same point. The predictions of effective Efimov states in the vicinity of the dimer + atom breakup threshold are addressed, but the results are inconclusive. The second aspect is the interplay between universal states of up to four bosons and the Coulomb interaction. This is interesting because it opens up nuclear physics to the investigation. First, the effect of the Coulomb interaction on universal states is studied in natural units. This introduces a scale for the Coulomb potential's strength relative to the strength of the short-range Gaussian potential. A generalised Efimov plot of the binding energies of states of charged bosons versus the Coulomb-modified scattering length is shown. This plot illustrates the impact of different relative strengths of the Coulomb potential on universal states. To complement this analysis, the structure is also calculated via root mean square (rms) radius calculations and contour plots. The results are then applied to the excited state of 17 F, which has a proton halo. The binding energy of this state can be reproduced after fixing the effective range of the potential to the physical value. The N α system proved more problematic. It was found that the ground state of 12 C was too deep to be described within the framework used and the highest excited state of 16 O below the 4α breakup threshold proved difficult to describe. I discuss possible reasons for this. In the last part I studied the zero-range limit in the presence of the Coulomb interaction. I show that my results for the dimer and trimer can be rescaled to coincide with the zero-range result. An extrapolation towards the zero-range limit for the tetramer ground state is also presented.
Sexual selection and novel mutations: Empirical tests for good genes indirect benefits and variable search effort
Creators: name: MacLellan, Kelsie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Genetics.
subject: Biology, Evolution and Development.

description: In this thesis, I use 10 populations of Drosophila melanogaster, each fixed for a different visible recessive mutation to investigate two outstanding issues in sexual selection research. First, to quantifty indirect benefits of female mate choice and explore the nature of genotype x environment interactions for different fitness components, I estimated the effects of these mutations on male sexual fitness and productivity in the population's ancestral laboratory environment, as well as a novel food environment. Indirect benefits in the ancestral environment were lacking, suggesting that a good genes process is not acting. Cross-environment correlations were not conducive to indirect benefits following colonization of a novel environment. Second, to investigate the contribution of variable search effort to variance among males in mating success, I conducted mate choice trials to compare the relative mating success of mutant males in small vs. large arenas. Sexual selection against mutant males was stronger when search effort was included than when it was excluded, indicating that varying ability to find mates may increase the strength of selection against deleterious alleles.
Sericornis maculata subsp. ashbyi Mathews 1912
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Sericornis
Sericornis maculata
Sericornis maculata ashbyi mathews

description: Sericornis maculata ashbyi Mathews
 Sericornis maculata ashbyi Mathews, 1912a: 356 (Kangaroo Island).
 Now Sericornis frontalis ashbyi Mathews, 1912. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601258, adult male, collected at Kingscote, 35.40S, 137.38E (USBGN, 1957b), Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, on 27 March 1905, by Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2253) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. There is one paratype in AMNH: AMNH 601259 (Mathews no. 2252), a female collected on the same day as the holotype.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
An augmented Anderson–Hsiao estimator for dynamic short-T panels†
Creators: name: Chudik, Alexander
name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This article introduces the idea of self-instrumenting endogenous regressors in settings when the correlation between these regressors and the errors can be derived and used to bias-correct the moment conditions. The resulting bias-corrected moment conditions are less likely to be subject to the weak instrument problem and can be used on their own or in conjunction with other available moment conditions to obtain more efficient estimators. This approach can be applied to estimation of a variety of models such as spatial and dynamic panel data models. This article focuses on the latter, and proposes a new estimator for short T dynamic panels by augmenting Anderson and Hsiao (AAH) estimator with bias-corrected quadratic moment conditions in first differences which substantially improve the small sample performance of the AH estimator without sacrificing the generality of its underlying assumptions regarding the fixed effects, initial values, and heteroskedasticity of error terms. Using Monte-Carlo experiments it is shown that AAH estimator represents a substantial improvement over the AH estimator and more importantly it performs well even when compared to Arellano and Bond and Blundell and Bond (BB) estimators that are based on more restrictive assumptions, and continues to have satisfactory performance in cases where the standard GMM estimators are inconsistent. Finally, to decide between AAH and BB estimators we also propose a Hausman type test which is shown to work well when T is small and n sufficiently large.
Semiparametric transition models
Creators: name: Čížek, Pavel
name: Koo, Chao Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: A new semiparametric time series model is introduced – the semiparametric transition (SETR) model – that generalizes the threshold and smooth transition models by letting the transition function to be of an unknown form. Estimation is based on a combination of the (local) least squares estimations of the transition function and regression parameters. The asymptotic behavior for the regression coefficient estimator of the SETR model is established, including its oracle property. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that the proposed estimator is more robust to the form of the transition function than parametric threshold and smooth transition methods and more precise than varying coefficient estimators.
Control variables approach to estimate semiparametric models of mismeasured endogenous regressors with an application to U.K. twin data
Creators: name: Kim, Kyoo il
name: Song, Suyong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the identification and estimation of semiparametric models with mismeasured endogenous regressors using control variables that ensure the conditional covariance restriction on endogenous regressors and unobserved causes. We provide a set of sufficient conditions for identification, which control for both endogeneity and measurement error. We propose a sieve-based estimator and derive its asymptotic properties. Given the sieve approximation, our proposed estimator is easy to implement as weighted least squares. Monte Carlo simulations illustrate that our proposed estimator performs well in the finite samples. In an empirical application, we estimate the return to education on earnings using U.K. twin data, in which self-reported education is potentially measured with error and is also correlated with unobserved factors. Our approach utilizes the twin’s reported education as a control variable to obtain consistent estimates. We find that a one-year increase in education leads to an 11% increase in hourly wage. The estimate is significantly higher than those from OLS and IV approaches which are potentially biased. The application underscores that our proposed estimator is useful to correct for both endogeneity and measurement error in estimating returns to education.
Foucault’s Kantian Critique: Philosophy and the Present
Creators: name: Hendricks, Christina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: In several lectures, interviews and essays from the early 1980s, Michel Foucault startlingly argues that he is engaged in a kind of critical work that is similar to that of Immanuel Kant. Given Foucault’s criticisms of Kantian and Enlightenment emphases on universal truths and values, his declaration that his work is Kantian seems paradoxical. I agree with some commentators who argue that this is a way for Foucault to publicly acknowledge to his critics that he is not, as some of them charge, attempting a total critique of Enlightenment beliefs and values, but is instead attempting to transform them from within. I argue further that Foucault’s self-professed Kantianism can also productively be read as a means of encouraging change in his intellectual audience, a call to courage to take up the thread of Enlightenment thought that Foucault finds in Kant’s essay, “What is Enlightenment?”: that of directing one’s philosophical efforts towards questioning and transforming one’s own present in its historical specificity, for the sake of promoting the values of freedom and autonomy therein. Though much of Kant’s philosophical work is focused on that which lies outside of history, Foucault locates in some of it a concern for what is happening here and now that, I argue, he encourages his audience to take up for themselves through tracing his own intellectual lineage to Kant. In so doing, he encourages contemporary philosophers to consider the value and effects of their work on the present social and political contexts in which they live.
Spatial and temporal analysis of landfill leachate characteristics at Trail Road Landfill site
Creators: name: Rahman, Mohammad Hafizur
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.
subject: Engineering, Environmental.

description: This study is conducted at the Trail Road Landfill, located in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. The objective is to investigate the leachate characteristics of changing spatial-temporal patterns in a landfill groundwater environment by comprehensive analyses of annual spatial data. Exploratory statistical data analysis identified the association of B (boron) with K, NH3 and TKN. Raster layers (maps) are created based on the concentrations of required variables in each time interval (year). In this study, it is notable that the raster data layers are used instead of discrete well data. Several change detection methods are applied to determine the spatial and temporal changes of B and its associated variables and to identify the well locations where the changes occurred. These included post-classification visualization, principal component analysis, standard deviation and unsupervised classification (clustering) methods. The suitability of these methods is also discussed. The results determined that during the 1993-95 time period the concentrations of B and its associates was initially increasing, and then decreased substantially. In summary, the study analysed characteristics of pollutants in landfill site groundwater environmental monitoring by using raster data in different change detection methods, and discussed the suitability of the applied methods. The same methodology and analysis techniques can be applied to other variables in similar environmental monitoring studies.
Sericornis parvula subsp. rosinae Mathews
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Sericornis
Sericornis parvula
Sericornis parvula rosinae mathews

description: Sericornis parvula rosinae Mathews
 Sericornis parvula rosinae Mathews, 1912a: 354 (Mount Lofty, South Australia).
 Now Sericornis frontalis rosinae Mathews, 1912. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 601412, adult female, collected in Fern Gully, Mount Lofty Ranges, 35.00S, 138.50E (USBGN, 1957b), South Australia, Australia, on 22 September 1911, by S.A. White (no. 37). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9622) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. There are three paratypes in AMNH: AMNH 601409 and 601410, males, collected in the Mt. Lofty Ranges on 19 October 1911 (Mathews nos. 9945 and 9946); and AMNH 601411, male, collected in Fern Gully on the same day as the holotype, but not found in Mathews’ catalog. Two additional paratypes are in SAMA (P. Horton and B. Blaylock, personal commun.).
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 130, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Sericornis maculatus subsp. gouldianus Mathews
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Sericornis
Sericornis maculatus
Sericornis maculatus gouldianus mathews

description: [Sericornis maculatus gouldianus Mathews]
 Sericornis maculatus gouldianus Mathews, 1922e: 28 (Mt. Gambier, South Australia).
 Now Sericornis frontalis frontalis (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.
 Mathews (1922e: 28) named gouldianus based on Gould material from Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, in BMNH. No type material under this name was listed by Warren and Harrison (1971).
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 130, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TONI MORRISON'S "GOD HELP THE CHILD" AND ABDULLA QAHHOR'S "SAROB" NOVELS: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Creators: name: Aktamxonova, Nozimabonu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This research paper presents a comparative analysis of Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child” and Abdulla Qahhor’s “Sarob”, two novels written in different cultural contexts but showing certain thematic and psychological parallels. The aim of this study is to explore the similarities and differences in how both novels tackle the impacts of childhood trauma, the inner struggles of their characters, and the societal pressures that shape their journeys. Through a detailed examination of the themes, writing styles, and character development in each novel, this article demonstrates how Morrison and A. Qahhor both address the complexities of human experiences, while also highlighting the distinct cultural frameworks that shape their narratives.
Studies toward the total synthesis of vinigrol
Creators: name: Morency, Louis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: This thesis presents the work done toward the total synthesis of vinigrol. The studies described here are divided into three main approaches. First, the oxy-Cope/Claisen/ene and the oxy-Cope/ene reactions have been developed to provide cis-decalin systems. These methodologies have been applied for the synthesis of the core of vinigrol. Second, a synthetic route that includes the exploitation of the hydroxy-directed Diels-Alder reaction to construct the vinigrol cis-decalin was developed. Two different strategies were developed to close the remaining eight-membered ring: a ring closing metathesis and a Claisen rearrangement. Finally, the sequential hydroxy-directed Diels-Alder/Claisen reaction was adapted for the synthesis of the six- and eight-membered rings of vinigrol.
Project Security Information Policies in E-commerce Industry
Creators: name: Shirley Eje Maranan, Jeffrey P. Maranan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Project security information policy protects confidential information is a business requirement. Forthose projects that information security exists, risk assessments can be thought through and applied moresteadily. This research study evaluated the implementation of project security information policy in ecommerce industry in the Philippines as perceived by employees and managers in terms of informationsecurity policy; security organization; security functions; and security coordination. Moreover, thedescriptive approach of research using a survey questionnaire was utilized. On the status of project securityinformation policies, the respondents agree on information security, security organization, security function,and security coordination as practiced in e-commerce industry. In terms of the level of awareness on theextent of implementation of project security information policies, the managers perceived that they arehighly aware of information security, security organization, security function, and security coordination.Moreover, there is a significant difference in the perception of the respondents on the status of the projectsecurity information policies in e-commerce industry. Finally, there is a significant difference in theperception of the respondents on the level of awareness on the extent of implementation of project securityinformation policies in e-commerce industry in the Philippines as perceived by employees and manager.
A Review Paper on Stub Axle for EV Go-kart
Creators: name: Dr.P.Venkaiah, A.Charan Kumar, J.Ashok, N.Sai Koushik, R.Mahendar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This project focuses on the design and fabrication of a stub axle specifically optimized for anElectric Go-Kart Vehicle (EGKV). The stub axle is a vital component that connects the wheel to thesuspension system, ensuring torque transmission and precise wheel alignment. Emphasis is placed onselecting lightweight, high-strength materials like alloy steel to withstand mechanical stresses anddynamic forces. The aim is to enhance performance while ensuring durability and reliability under racingconditions. 4o
Sericornis gularis Legge
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Sericornis
Sericornis gularis

description: Sericornis gularis Legge
 Sericornis gularis Legge, 1896: 84 (Kent Group).
 Now Sericornis frontalis frontalis (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) X S. frontalis flindersi S.A. White and Mellor, 1913. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 165–171.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 601399, adult male, collected in the Kent Group, 39.27S, 147.20E (USBGN, 1957b), Bass Strait Islands, Tasmania, Australia, in November 1890, by A.J. Campbell (no. 495). From the Mathews Collection (no. 18439) via the Rothschild Collection.
 COMMENTS: Legge’s description of gularis was based on ‘‘several specimens’’ collected in the Kent Group by members of the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria in November 1890 and sent to Legge by A.J. Campbell for identification. No type was designated in the original description, and all of the original series are syntypes. Three syntypes are in MV (W. Longmore, personal commun.).
 Mathews (1922e: 37) noted: ‘‘The next year [1914] Mr. A.J. Campbell gave me the type of S. gularis Legge and I was enabled to recognise that it was a form of humilis …’’. Mathews cataloged this specimen as his number 18439 in May 1914; the date ‘‘17.3.14’’ that appears on Campbell’s label evidently refers to the date he sent the specimen to Mathews so that he could figure it in The Birds of Australia.
 In addition to the field label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, this specimen bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was figured in Mathews (1922e: pl. 457, middle right fig., opp. p. 31, text p. 32). There, Mathews, at the end of the description of the third adult male, noted ‘‘Figured. Collected on the Kent Group, in November 1890, and is the type of T. h. gularis (Legge) ’’, thereby designating it the lectotype.
 Schodde and Mason (1999: 169–171) considered the population of the Kent Group a stabilized intergradient between S. frontalis frontalis and S. frontalis flindersi but mentioned the possibility that the paler, grayer coloration of Kent birds could be an ecophenotypic response to their scrubby environment. In del Hoyo et al. (2007: 582), the population from the Kent Group is included in S. frontalis flindersi.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on pages 130-131, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Project Security Information Policies in E-commerce Industry
Creators: name: Dr.P.Venkaiah, A.Charan Kumar, J.Ashok, N.Sai Koushik, R.Mahendar
name: Shirley Eje Maranan, Jeffrey P. Maranan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Project security information policy protects confidential information is a business requirement. Forthose projects that information security exists, risk assessments can be thought through and applied moresteadily. This research study evaluated the implementation of project security information policy in ecommerce industry in the Philippines as perceived by employees and managers in terms of informationsecurity policy; security organization; security functions; and security coordination. Moreover, thedescriptive approach of research using a survey questionnaire was utilized. On the status of project securityinformation policies, the respondents agree on information security, security organization, security function,and security coordination as practiced in e-commerce industry. In terms of the level of awareness on theextent of implementation of project security information policies, the managers perceived that they arehighly aware of information security, security organization, security function, and security coordination.Moreover, there is a significant difference in the perception of the respondents on the status of the projectsecurity information policies in e-commerce industry. Finally, there is a significant difference in theperception of the respondents on the level of awareness on the extent of implementation of project securityinformation policies in e-commerce industry in the Philippines as perceived by employees and manager.
Couples and smoking: What you need to know when you are pregnant
Creators: name: Bottorff, J. L. (Joan L.), 1950-
name: Carey, J
name: Poole, N.
name: Greaves, L.
name: Urquhart, C.
Publisher: name: British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, University of British Columbia Okanagan, and NEXUS, University of British Columbia Vancouver
Year: 2011

description: This is a self-help booklet for pregnant women who smoke. In this booklet you will learn how routines, habits, and ways of interacting with your partner influence smoking. Understanding how smoking is influenced by others and everyday routines is an important first step in changing smoking behaviours. If you decide to reduce or stop smoking, you can use this booklet along with other resources to support you in reaching your goals.
The interaction of a wing-tip vortex and free-stream turbulence
Creators: name: Bailey, Sean C. C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Aerospace.

description: The formation and development of a vortex generated by a wing with a NACA0012 airfoil section in the presence of grid-generated turbulence was studied at Reynolds numbers 29000 in a water tunnel and 240000 in a wind tunnel. Flow visualization indicated that the free-stream turbulence did not significantly affect the large-scale features of the vortex during its formation, however, it resulted in an increase in the turbulence within the vortex as well as an increase in the wandering motion of the vortex. Extensive single-point and two-point, three-component hot-wire anemometry.measurements were conducted for the no-grid case and four cases using two different grids. Time-averaged statistics were found to be significantly influenced by wandering of the vortex position. Quantitative analysis of vortex wandering showed a significant increase in its amplitude with increasing free-stream turbulence. The radial profile of the circumferential velocity with respect to the wandering vortex axis was reconstructed using two-point measurements. The rate of decay of the peak circumferential velocity was found to increase with increasing free-stream turbulence, but the radial location at which it occurred did not change significantly. Analysis of the velocity signals indicated that the turbulent eddies from the wing's wake and the grid turbulence tend to wrap around the vortex core.
CHRISTOPHER HOOLEY - BIBLIOGRAPHY from CHRISTOPHER HOOLEY. 7 August 1928—;13 December 2018
Creators: name: D. R. Heath-Brown
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10199 Pure Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Christopher Hooley was one of the leading analytic number theorists of his day, world-wide. His early work on Artin's conjecture for primitive roots remains the definitive investigation in the area. His greatest contribution, however, was the introduction of exponential sums into every corner of analytic number theory, bringing the power of Deligne's ‘Riemann hypothesis’ for varieties over finite fields to bear throughout the subject. For many he was a figure who bridged the classical period of Hardy and Littlewood with the modern era. This biographical sketch describes how he succeeded in applying the latest tools to famous old problems.
The role of internal stresses on the plastic deformation of the Al–Mg–Si–Cu alloy AA6111
Creators: name: Poole, W. J. (Warren J.)
name: Proudhon, H.
name: Wang, X.
name: Brechet, Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2016

description: In this work, we have investigated the internal stress contribution to the flow stress for a commercial 6xxx aluminium alloy (AA6111). In contrast to stresses from forest and precipitation hardening, the internal stress cannot be assessed properly with a uniaxial tensile test. Instead, tension-compression tests have been used to measure the Bauschinger stress and produce a comprehensive study which examines its evolution with i) the precipitation structure and ii) a wide range of applied strain. A large set of ageing conditions was investigated to explore the effect of the precipitation state on the development of internal stress within the material. It is shown that the Bauschinger stress generally increases with the applied strain and critically depends on the precipitate average radius and is thus linked to the shearable/non shearable transition. Further work in the case of non-shearable particles shows that higher strain eventually lead to particle fracture and the Bauschinger stress then rapidly decreases. Following the seminal work of Brown et al, a physically based approach including plastic relaxation and particle fracture is developed to predict the evolution of the internal stress as a function of the applied strain. Knowing the precipitation structure main characteristics –such as the average precipitate radius, length and volume fraction– allows one to estimate accurately the internal stress contribution to the flow stress with this model.