cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lebbeus yaldwyni Kensley, Tranter & Griffin 1987
Creators: name: Poore, Gary C. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Hippolytidae
Lebbeus
Lebbeus yaldwyni

description: Lebbeus yaldwyni Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987 (Fig. 1D) Lebbeus yaldwyni Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987: 304−309, figs. 15−17, frontispiece B (colour photo). Material examined. Holotype: NSW, east of Sydney, 33°43'S, 151°51–53'E, 450 m, AM P26561 (ov. female). Paratypes: NSW, same data as holotype, AM P33109 (1 female); east of Sydney, 33°51'S, 151°45’E – 33°47'S, 151°48'E, 470 m, AM P21825 (1 female). Distribution. Off New South Wales, Australia, continental slope, 33– 36°S, 190– 470 m. Remarks. Lebbeus yaldwyni was distinguished from the Japanese L. compressus by the absence of an epipod on pereopod 2 and differences in rostral tip shape (Kensley et al. 1987). Hayashi (1992), however, noted both species have epipods on pereopod 2 and listed additional distinguishing characters (summarised in Table 1).
description: Published as part of Poore, Gary C. B., 2010, Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia *, pp. 126-137 in Zootaxa 2372 on page 135
description: {"references": ["Kensley, B., Tranter, H. A. & Griffin, D. J. G. (1987) Deepwater decapod Crustacea from eastern Australia (Penaeidea and Caridea). Records of the Australian Museum, 39, 263 - 331.", "Hayashi, K. - I. (1992) Studies on the hippolytid shrimps from Japan: VIII. The genus Lebbeus White. Journal of Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, 40, 107 - 138."]}
ANALYZING ADVERTISING IMPACT: THE ROLE OF TEXT AND IMAGE POSITIONING
Creators: name: Mei Ling Zhang
Publisher: name: SADI journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Advertising
Attention
Eye tracking
horizontal positioning
Consumer behavior

description: This study delves into the realm of advertising, tracing its evolution from verbal peddling to modern multimedia formats. While advertising has evolved significantly over time, its core objective remains constant: to capture consumer attention and drive product sales. Past research has scrutinized various aspects of advertising, including text and images, albeit separately. In contrast, this study adopts a holistic approach by considering both text and images simultaneously, aiming to explore the impact of horizontal positioning on consumers' attention in advertisements. Unlike previous studies relying on subjective self-assessment questionnaires and recall recognition methods, this research employs eye-tracking technology to objectively measure participants' gaze and attention. Leveraging eye-tracking parameters, the study quantifies attention allocation, offering more precise insights.
Sicyonia laevigata Stimpson 1871
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Sicyonia
Sicyonia laevigata

description: Sicyonia laevigata Stimpson, 1871
Material examined (N=22). 1f, 19/IX/2000, 13°57’05”S / 38°59’68”W (MZUESC #49); 4f, 07/VIII/2005, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #646).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – from North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Central America, Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (from Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul). Eastern Pacific – Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama (D’Incao 1995b).
Ecological notes. Rocky, sandy, shell, and algae or seagrass bottoms, rarely on muddy bottoms. Oceanic, demersal species, occurring from shallow waters to 100 m. Most frequently found around 50 m deep (D’Incao 1995b).
Previous records in Bahia. Almeida et al. (2003).
Remarks. This species was first recorded from Bahia and Camamu Bay by Almeida et al. (2003).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
EKSPLORASI SAMPAH PLASTIK DI PESISIR TERHADAP AKTIVITAS MASYARAKAT KAMPUNG BUGIS, TANJUNGPINANG
Creators: name: , Jeriyan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: wos, web of science, clarivate, clarivate analytics,esci wos, esci wos indexed journal, esci wos indonsia

description: EKSPLORASI SAMPAH PLASTIK DI PESISIR TERHADAP AKTIVITAS MASYARAKAT KAMPUNG BUGIS, TANJUNGPINANG
Observable to explore high density behaviour of symmetry energy
Creators: name: Sood, Aman D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to see the sensitivity of collective transverse in-plane flow to symmetry energy at low as well as high densities and also to see the effect of different density dependencies of symmetry energy on the same.
description: 3 pages, 2 figs, DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics Dec 26-30, (2011), Visakhapatnam A.P. INDIA
The Role of THF Hydrate Veins on the Geomechanical Behaviour of Hydrate-Bearing Fine Grained Soils
Creators: name: Wu, Jiechun
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Engineering--Civil

description: Natural gas hydrate, which can form complex vein structures within fine-grained sediments, pose a significant geohazard if the hydrate were to dissociate. Therefore, understanding the role of hydrate veins on the geomechanical behavior of hydrate-bearing fine-grained sediments is essential for sediment stability assessment. This thesis presents the results of a laboratory study conducted to further understand the fine-grained soil behaviour with simplified cylindrical tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrate veins within the soil. Compression tests were conducted on standalone THF hydrate veins of different diameters to determine their strength and stiffness. Subsequent consolidated undrained (CU) triaxial tests were conducted to determine the behaviour of fine-grained soils containing the same-size hydrate veins. Factors such as vein size and effective stress were considered to develop relationships between vein size and strength/stiffness of the hydrate-bearing soil. The results are used to consider the role that hydrates veins may have on natural sediments formed at different depths.
Gravitational pressure on event horizons and thermodynamics in the teleparallel framework
Creators: name: Maluf, J. W.
name: Ulhoa, S. C.
name: da Rocha-Neto, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of gravitational pressure is naturally defined in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity. Together with the definition of gravitational energy, we investigate the thermodynamics of rotating black holes in the teleparallel framework. We obtain the value of the gravitational pressure over the external event horizon of the Kerr black hole, and write an expression for the thermodynamic relation $TdS =dE + pdV$, where the variations refer to the Penrose process for the Kerr black hole. We employ only the notions of gravitational energy and pressure that arise in teleparallel gravity, and do not make any consideration of the area or the variation of the area of the event horizon. However, our results are qualitatively similar to the standard expression of the literature.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Kernel Density Feature Points Estimator for Content-Based Image Retrieval
Creators: name: Zuva, Tranos
name: Olugbara, Oludayo O.
name: Ojo, Sunday O.
name: Ngwira, Seleman M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research is taking place to find effective algorithms for content-based image representation and description. There is a substantial amount of algorithms available that use visual features (color, shape, texture). Shape feature has attracted much attention from researchers that there are many shape representation and description algorithms in literature. These shape image representation and description algorithms are usually not application independent or robust, making them undesirable for generic shape description. This paper presents an object shape representation using Kernel Density Feature Points Estimator (KDFPE). In this method, the density of feature points within defined rings around the centroid of the image is obtained. The KDFPE is then applied to the vector of the image. KDFPE is invariant to translation, scale and rotation. This method of image representation shows improved retrieval rate when compared to Density Histogram Feature Points (DHFP) method. Analytic analysis is done to justify our method, which was compared with the DHFP to prove its robustness.
description: ISSN 0975-5578 (Online) 0975-5934 (Print)
Change-point model on nonhomogeneous Poisson processes with application in copy number profiling by next-generation DNA sequencing
Creators: name: Shen, Jeremy J.
name: Zhang, Nancy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a flexible change-point model for inhomogeneous Poisson Processes, which arise naturally from next-generation DNA sequencing, and derive score and generalized likelihood statistics for shifts in intensity functions. We construct a modified Bayesian information criterion (mBIC) to guide model selection, and point-wise approximate Bayesian confidence intervals for assessing the confidence in the segmentation. The model is applied to DNA Copy Number profiling with sequencing data and evaluated on simulated spike-in and real data sets.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS517 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Economic Challenges and Prospects Associated with the Utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Library Services in Universities in Cross River State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ntui, Aniebiet Inyang
name: Blessing Etukudo Robert
name: Isu Eyong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Information and Communication Technology
Library Services

description: The study was conducted to identify the various economic challenges and prospects that are associated with utilization of information and communication Technology (ICT) for Library services in University libraries in Cross River State Nigeria. Design/Methodology/Approach: Survey research design was utilized to carry out the study. A well-structured and validated questionnaire was used to collect information (data) from librarians in Universities in the state. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study. Frequency, tables, and percentages were used to analyze the data collected from the subjects of the study. Findings: The study among others revealed that paucity of funds is a major challenge towards the utilization of ICT for library services. Other challenges identified include poor judicious use of resources and the high cost of maintenance. Practical implication: Among the prospects that are associated with the utilization of ICT for library Services identified by the study include: cost saving and cost effectiveness; easy accessibility of current resources, and resource sharing. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that additional and alternative sources of funding should be explored and adopted, while software that will enhance the services and attract more patronage should be utilized by the libraries. Originality/value: The study had made available information on the economic challenges and prospects associated with the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) for library services in universities in Cross River State, Nigeria.
The excitation spectrum for weakly interacting bosons in a trap
Creators: name: Grech, Philip
name: Seiringer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the low-energy excitation spectrum of a Bose gas confined in a trap, with weak long-range repulsive interactions. In particular, we prove that the spectrum can be described in terms of the eigenvalues of an effective one-particle operator, as predicted by the Bogoliubov approximation.
description: LaTeX, 32 pages
Neutrino Physics
Creators: name: Romanino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lectures aim at providing a pedagogical overview of neutrino physics. We will mostly deal with standard neutrinos, the ones that are part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and with their standard dynamics, which is enough to understand in a coherent picture most of the rich data available. After introducing the basic theoretical framework, we will illustrate the experimental determination of the neutrino parameters and their theoretical implications, in particular for the origin of neutrino masses.
description: 30 pages, contribution to the 2010 European School of High-Energy Physics; 20 June - 3 July 2010, Raseborg, Finland
COMPETENCY OF STANDARD PRECAUTION AMONG REGISTERED NURSES AT MEDICAL, SURGICAL AND ORTHOPEDIC DEPARTMENT IN HOSPITAL PAKAR SULTANAH FATIMAH
Creators: name: Noraishah H
name: Azlina A
name: Noraziah M
name: Maznah W
name: Haliza S
name: Azrinah A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Healthcare; standard precaution (SP)

description: Introduction: Health care providers especially nurse should have awareness and strictly adhere to standard precaution (SP) to prevention of infection. This study aims to evaluated the level knowledge and practice regarding of the SP in Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah. Methodology: A prospective cross sectional study, a self-administered questionnaire was used and selected universal sampling method, involved the registered nurses worked at Medical, Surgical and Orthopedic department in HPSF, Muar, Johor. SPSS version 22 was used for data analysis. Results and Discussion: Overall the nurses were aged with a mean of 31 years, 6(4.3%) have a degree also 133(95.7%) post basic course. They demonstrated have a better knowledge of the standard precautions. The two lower items of the level knowledge included "hand washing with betadine solution after contact with bloody fluid or infectious" 136(97.8%) and "wear protective mask during aerosolized procedure and handling patients in isolation" 137(98.7%).The three highest practice standard precautions are never recap needles after used before dispose, very often hand hygiene when contact with patient bloody fluids, secretion and decontamination and sweeper should be wear gloves and gown. There was a low and positive or direct correlation between level education and experience years as nurse (P<0.005, r=0.238). Conclusion: Education of the SP guidelines by nurses, it’s important to highlight and way of preventing occupational infection, protecting patients and healthcare workers. Although registered nurses have high level education and long experiences as nurse, they need to continuous life long learning and good practices regarding of the SPs. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
title: Non-neuronal Role of Acetylcholinesterase in Bone Development and Degeneration
Creators: name: Luo, Xiaohe
name: Lauwers, Marianne
name: Layer, Paul G.
name: Wen, Chunyi
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: Acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme catalyzing the degradation of acetylcholine, plays an important suppressive role in the cholinergic regulation by terminating the action of acetylcholine. The expression of acetylcholinesterase and other cholinergic components is not restricted to only brain and nerve tissues but can also be found in non-neuronal tissues like the immune system and bone tissue. Primary identification of these components has been achieved. However, the information about their specific functions and underlying molecular mechanisms in bone remains scattered. Here, the physiological process of bone development, homeostasis, and degeneration are introduced. Next, the cholinergic system and its expression in bone tissue is documented. Among them, special attention goes to AChE, as the structure of this enzyme suggests diverse binding affinities, enabled by a peripheral site and a catalytic site. The peripheral site supports the non-enzymatic function of AChE in non-neuronal systems. Based on recent studies, the non-neuronal roles of acetylcholinesterase, both enzymatically and non-enzymatically, in bone development, homeostasis and degeneration are summarized briefly together with potential mechanisms to support these functions. We conclude that AChE may be a potential therapeutic target for bone diseases like osteoporosis.
Tectonothermal Evolution of the Southern Omineca Belt, Southeastern British Columbia
Creators: name: Webster, Ewan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology
subject: Mineralogy
subject: metamorphic
subject: Petrology
subject: omineca
subject: Geochronology
subject: Tectonics

description: This study documents the geological structure, metamorphism, U-Pb geochronology, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and tectonic evolution of the Omineca belt of southeastern British Columbia. In this area, three tectonic domains with different tectono-metamorphic histories spatially overlap. In the southwest of the study area, Early Jurassic deformation and greenschist facies metamorphism (D1M1) is crosscut by Middle Jurassic intrusions of the Nelson suite (174-161Ma) that were emplaced at approximately 9-15km depth. A subdomain of Jurassic 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages is centered over these intrusions, suggesting rapid cooling and exhumation to upper crustal levels, where they have remained. The Jurassic structures are progressively overprinted northwards by Early Cretaceous deformation and Barrovian metamorphism (D2M2) in a domain that is abruptly terminated to the west by the Eocene Midge Creek fault (MCF) and to the east by the Purcell Trench faults (PTF). Peak sillimanite zone metamorphism occurred at 6-7kbar and 650-700ºC. The D2M2 domain is the southerly continuation of a 144-134Ma domain of regional deformation and metamorphism to the north of the study area. Metamorphic isograds associated with M2 metamorphism are transected by intrusions of the mid-Cretaceous Bayonne suite (118-90Ma). Microstructures and cross-cutting relations reveal that D2 deformation outlasted M2 metamorphism, was ongoing as late as 118Ma, but ceased by 111Ma. South of the Barrovian metamorphic belt and in the hangingwall of the PTF and MCF, 40Ar/39Ar ages record a regional, mid-Cretaceous thermal event. The Early Cretaceous D2M2 makes a southerly transition into a domain of Late Cretaceous (ca. 80-70Ma) regional Barrovian metamorphism and deformation (D3M3) bounded by the PTF and Blazed Creek-Next Creek fault. 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages are indistinguishable from monazite U-Pb ages of peak metamorphism (ca. 70Ma), implying rapid exhumation of these rocks during the Late Cretaceous. This narrow domain of cooling ages extends across the cryptic interface between the Early and Late Cretaceous Barrovian metamorphic belts, suggesting exhumation as one continuous block. 53-45Ma 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages in the immediate footwall of the PTF suggest extension did not commence until ~53Ma. Therefore, exhumation occurs via a two-stage process: 1) rapid decompression in the Late Cretaceous (70-60Ma); 2) exhumation in the footwall of Eocene extensional structures (53-45Ma).
WORLD WAR I IN THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF FSIN CADETS (EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE)
Creators: name: Rashidovich Berenov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430307
subject: Environmental history

description: The subject of the author's research is the historical memory of FSIN cadets about the First World War. The aim of the study is to identify the knowledge of the key moments of the First World War among future FSIN officers. The empirical base of the article is an array of sociological data obtained as a result of questionnaire survey of cadets from 17 to 21 years old. The method of quota sampling was applied in the study.
Granular physics in low-gravity environments using DEM
Creators: name: Tancredi, G.
name: Maciel, A.
name: Heredia, L.
name: Richeri, P.
name: Nesmachnow, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Granular materials of different sizes are present on the surface of several atmosphere-less Solar System bodies. The phenomena related to granular materials have been studied in the framework of the discipline called Granular Physics; that has been studied experimentally in the laboratory and, in the last decades, by performing numerical simulations. The Discrete Element Method simulates the mechanical behavior of a media formed by a set of particles which interact through their contact points. The difficulty in reproducing vacuum and low-gravity environments makes numerical simulations the most promising technique in the study of granular media under these conditions. In this work, relevant processes in minor bodies of the Solar System are studied using the Discrete Element Method. Results of simulations of size segregation in low-gravity environments in the cases of the asteroids Eros and Itokawa are presented. The segregation of particles with different densities was analysed, in particular, the case of comet P/Hartley 2. The surface shaking in these different gravity environments could produce the ejection of particles from the surface at very low relative velocities. The shaking causing the above processes is due to: impacts, explosions like the release of energy by the liberation of internal stresses or the re accommodation of material. Simulations of the passage of impact-induced seismic waves through a granular medium were also performed. We present several applications of the Discrete Element Methods for the study of the physical evolution of agglomerates of rocks under low-gravity environments.
description: Accepted in MNRAS
Supporting Information.pdf
Creators: name: Krizaj, David
name: Lakk, Monika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Diseases
subject: 111301 Ophthalmology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111303 Vision Science

description: Supplementary files for AJP
We Don't Need Another Hero: Hollywood representations of captains in team sport
Creators: name: Keats, Tracy D.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General
subject: Physical
subject: Secondary
subject: captain
subject: sport
subject: Leadership
subject: Youth
subject: team
subject: social justice
subject: critical education
subject: bricolage
subject: democratic captaining

description: Images of team captains often define the notion of leadership in sport, and Hollywood films frequently serve to reinforce athletic leadership stereotypes, roles, and behaviours. In this critical research bricolage, I seek to reveal possible injustices surrounding peer leadership in terms of the power dynamics that exist between captains and non-captains. I explore what messages are conveyed through captaining as a sport leadership practice and how dominant ideology is maintained through popular film representations of captains.
Spin-Polarization in Magneto-Optical Conductivity of Dirac Electrons
Creators: name: Fuseya, Yuki
name: Ogata, Masao
name: Fukuyama, Hidetoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A mechanism is proposed based on the Kubo formula to generate a spin-polarized magneto-optical current of Dirac electrons in solids which have strong spin-orbit interactions such as bismuth. The ac current response functions are calculated in the isotropic Wolff model under an external magnetic field, and the selection rules for Dirac electrons are obtained. By using the circularly polarized light and tuning its frequency, one can excite electrons concentrated in the spin-polarized lowest Landau level when the chemical potential locates in the band gap, so that spin-polarization in the magneto-optical current can be achieved.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Witnessing others : ethical responsibility in relational life writing
Creators: name: Stumm, Bettina Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this dissertation I examine the nature and significance of ethical responsibility for witnessing others in life writing, especially vulnerable subjects who have suffered racial oppression and/or personal crises. Drawing on the philosophical ethics of Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, I argue that witnessing others is not simply a matter of testifying to truths about their lives but of responding to them as people beyond what can be seen or known about them. For Levinas and Ricoeur, the most ethical witness of others comes in responding, “here I am” to their humanity and alterity. This response begins in one’s reception to infinite alterity experienced as a trace in the faces of others or as a sense of otherness within oneself. Facing alterity, witnesses cannot remain self-directed in their responses, constitute themselves and others solely in terms of their identity markers, or narrate a monologue of another’s life. Instead, ethical witnessing is a responsive way of being with and for others that challenges one’s being for oneself and informs how one sees and tells the lives of others: in openness, existential generosity, and mutual responsibility. With this framework in mind, I explore the life narratives of three twentieth-century writers who bear witness to alterity and attempt, in their own ways, a “here I am” response to the suffering of others. In An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork, Etty Hillesum witnesses her life and responds to her Jewish community in Nazi-occupied Holland by encouraging a vision beyond victimization. In Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin struggles to witness his own otherness in passing for black as a response to racial oppression in the Deep South. And in Stolen Life, Rudy Wiebe witnesses Yvonne Johnson’s story of abuse and incarceration in Canada in the vexed space of narrative collaboration. In life writing, a “here I am” response takes on various forms and proves a complicated practice: these writers must constantly negotiate their self-interest, guilt, and positions of power with vulnerability and generosity. I trace how they grapple with the necessity and difficulty of witnessing others in such an existentially ethical way.
MHD simulations of the solar photosphere
Creators: name: Rieutord, M.
name: Rincon, F.
name: Roudier, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly review the observations of the solar photosphere and pinpoint some open questions related to the magnetohydrodynamics of this layer of the Sun. We then discuss the current modelling efforts, addressing among other problems, that of the origin of supergranulation.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; 4th French-Chinese Meeting on Solar Physics Understanding Solar Activity: Advances and Challenges, 4th French-Chinese, Nice, France
A Below-Rooftop Dense Urban Wireless Channel Model Based on Empirical Measurements
Creators: name: Wasson, Michael William
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Wireless
subject: Propagation
subject: Channel Measurements
subject: MISO
subject: Dense Urban

description: This thesis presents a wireless propagation channel model for the below-rooftop dense urban environment based on empirical measurements conducted in the downtown core of Calgary, Alberta. The measurements characterize a 2x1 multiple input single output channel in the 2.47 GHz band. Two communication scenarios were examined: a picocell mobile scenario consisting of a stationary base station and mobile handsets, and a point-to-point fixed-position wireless communication system consisting of two immobile wireless nodes mounted on utility poles above pedestrian traffic. Measurements were conducted with two antenna types: an omnidirectional dipole, and a polarized directional antenna. Low path-loss values measured with both omnidirectional and directional antennas suggest that buildings lining the downtown streets behave like a waveguide. Directional antennas experience substantially less small scale fading, but are more susceptible to shadowing obstructions. Directional antenna rejection measurements suggest that systems employing space-division multiplexing will experience little interference.
An Examination of Executive Control Biases and Rumination in Currently, Remitted and Never Depressed Individuals
Creators: name: Quigley, Leanne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Depression
subject: Executive control
subject: Rumination
subject: Remitted depression
subject: Cognitive biases

description: Cognitive theories of depression propose that biases in executive control may be involved in the development, maintenance, and/or recurrence of depression. One suggested mechanism is that executive control biases may contribute to depressive rumination. The primary purpose of this study was to comprehensively evaluate depression-related biases in three components of executive control, namely inhibition, working memory updating, and set shifting. The secondary purpose was to evaluate relationships among biases in executive control and rumination. Currently depressed (n = 53), remitted depressed (n = 55), and non-clinical control (n = 51) participants were tested on separate computer-based paradigms designed to measure inhibition, working memory updating, and set shifting, respectively, involving emotional stimuli. As hypothesized, currently depressed participants exhibited biases in each of the executive control components. Specifically, currently depressed participants showed a reduced ability to inhibit the processing of negative distracting stimuli and to update working memory with emotional information, relative to control participants. Currently depressed participants also had greater difficulty shifting away from an emotion-relevant task set than from an emotion-irrelevant task set, whereas control participants did not show this bias. Remitted depressed participants did not demonstrate similar biases to currently depressed participants. Hypotheses regarding the relationships among executive control biases and rumination were largely unsupported; possible explanations for these findings are considered. This study is the most comprehensive evaluation of executive control biases in clinical depression to date, and provides novel insight into the nature of depression-related biases. The theoretical and clinical relevance of the findings, the limitations of the study, and directions for future research are discussed.
Ice Crushing Forces on Offshore Structures: Interaction Parameters and Global Effective Pressures
Creators: name: Paquette, Erin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Ice-Structure Interaction
subject: Ice Engineering
subject: offshore
subject: Sea Ice

description: Structural failures of offshore structures in ice covered waters can carry high consequences with respect to the environment, personnel safety, and the economy. A governing load condition is often produced by the crushing of level ice sheets against vertical or near vertical faced structures. This study combines an exploration of ice crushing theory and data in order to analyze relationships between global effective pressures and ice-structure interaction parameters. An analysis of the data finds support for many relationships indicated in the literature. This study reveals conditions that, when satisfied, improve the validity of these relationships. The current design equation in ISO 19906 is also demonstrated to address many of the effects that parameters have on ice crushing pressures. However, some weaknesses are illustrated in its ability to comprehensively address the full range of ice conditions and interaction geometries expected for offshore structures.
PERCEPTION, ATTITUDES, AND BELIEFS TOWARDS SOY AMONG HEALTHY ASIAN WOMEN PARTICIPATING IN A SOY INTERVENTION TRIAL
Creators: name: Yap, Beverley
name: Rajaram, Nadia
name: Kee, Ho Weang
name: Khor Geok Lin
name: Hwang, Teo Soo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Soy-breast cancer risk; theory-based approach

description: Introduction: The soy-breast cancer risk relationship has remained controversial due to limited and inconsistent research findings. This is exacerbated by difficulties in recruiting and retaining participants in dietary intervention trials. Perception is known to influence recruitment and retention. Yet, little is known about the public’s perception towards soy, most especially within the Asian population. Here, we describe the perception, attitudes and beliefs towards soy in a cohort of healthy, Asian post-menopausal women and how this influences participation in a soy intervention trial. Materials and Method: A close -ended survey on perception, attitudes and beliefs on soy was administered at baseline to 131 women enrolled into The Malaysian Soy and Mammographic Density (MiSo) Study. Fisher’s test was used to measure differences in perception between retained (“active”) participants and discontinued/lost to follow up (“withdrawn”) participants. Motivators and barriers to regular soy consumption were deductively mapped to the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behaviour (COM-B) Model and the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Results: Out of 131 enrolled women, 86 (65.5%) are active and 45 (34.4%) are withdrawn. Our cohort mostly consists of Chinese women (77.9%) ranging between the ages of 45 – 65. A total of 114 (87.0%) women are post-menopausal and 17 (13.0%) are peri-menopausal.
 Most women enter the study with a positive perception towards soy. However, compared to active participants, withdrawn participants were less likely to have heard anything about soy, though this was not significant. Using the COM-B Model, we noted that one’s social environment plays an underlying large role in consuming soy regularly. Additionally, active participants were more motivated by their social environment, while withdrawn participants had more personal motivations, though this was not statistically significant. Conversely, the main barrier to regular soy consumption was in the knowledge domain, such as GMO soybeans and high sugar content in soy milk. Discussion/Conclusion: Post-menopausal Asian women generally have a positive perception of soy, which appears to be driven by their social environment. This study suggests that improving the quality of information about the benefits and risks of consuming soy may encourage more Asian women to incorporate regular soy intake into their diet. Furthermore, it underscores the importance of using a theorybased approach in the design of dietary intervention studies to improve participant recruitment and retention.

description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Twisted Conjugacy Classes in Abelian Extensions of Certain Linear Groups
Creators: name: Mubeena, T.
name: Sankaran, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given an automorphism $ϕ:Γ\to Γ$, one has an action of $Γ$ on itself by $ϕ$-twisted conjugacy, namely, $g.x=gxϕ(g^{-1})$. The orbits of this action are called $ϕ$-twisted conjugacy classes. One says that $Γ$ has the $R_\infty$-property if there are infinitely many $ϕ$-twisted conjugacy classes for every automorphism $ϕ$ of $Γ$. In this paper we show that SL$(n,\mathbb{Z})$ and its congruence subgroups have the $R_\infty$-property. Further we show that any (countable) abelian extension of $Γ$ has the $R_\infty$-property where $Γ$ is a torsion free non-elementary hyperbolic group, or SL$(n,\mathbb{Z})$, Sp$(2n,\mathbb{Z})$ or a principal congruence subgroup of SL$(n,\mathbb{Z})$ or the fundamental group of a complete Riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature.
Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 : Experience from the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19 in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Creators: name: Ng, David CE
name: KK Tan
name: C Ling
name: T Vijayakulasingam
name: X Cheng
name: ML Lee
name: EJY Khoo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19; household transmission

description: Introduction: Households are a significant venue for the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We conducted a study to characterize the transmission dynamics and identify risk factors for household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.  Methods: This retrospective observational study included 185 families of pediatric COVID-19 cases from 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2020. We identified their household contacts and the index case for each household. The sociodemographic characteristics, epidemiological investigation results, and risk factors for household transmission were extracted from medical records. We assessed household transmission by calculating the secondary attack rate (SAR) for household contacts. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to determine risk factors associated with secondary household transmission of SARS-CoV-2.  Results: 466 of the 848 household contacts acquired secondary infections, resulting in a SAR of 55% (95% CI: 51.5 - 58.2%). The SAR when the household index was a child below 12 years old was only 13.4% (95% CI 7.9 - 18.9%). Higher secondary attack rates were seen when the index case was a male, above 18 years old, and symptomatic. Household contacts who slept in the same room or shared a meal with the index case were significantly associated with an increased risk for secondary infection.  Conclusions: High rates of household transmission of COVID-19 were found, indicating households were a major setting of transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Children did not play a leading role in household transmission. Our data provide insight into the risk factors for household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Malaysia. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Persistent energy flow for a stochastic wave equation model in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Creators: name: Thomas, Lawrence E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C05, 82C31

description: We consider a one-dimensional partial differential equation system modeling heat flow around a ring. The system includes a Klein-Gordon wave equation for a field satisfying spatial periodic boundary conditions, as well as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic differential equations with finite rank dissipation and stochastic driving terms modeling heat baths. There is an energy flow around the ring. In the case of a linear field with different (fixed) bath temperatures, the energy flow can persist even when the interaction with the baths is turned off. A simple example is given.
description: In honor of Elliott Lieb's 80th birthday
Pressure-Field Extraction Using Unstructured Flow Data
Creators: name: Neeteson, Nathan John
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Lagrangian Data
subject: Pressure Extraction

description: The Eulerian-frame extraction of pressure fields from particle image velocimetry and particle tracking velocimetry has been thoroughly investigated in the literature. In this thesis, a novel pressure-extraction technique is developed for the extraction of pressure fields in the Lagrangian frame, in which the data is distributed randomly throughout the domain. This technique uses a Poisson solver to extract the pressure field on a network of particles that is constructed using the Delaunay triangulation and the Voronoi tessellation. Using synthetic data, the Lagrangian technique was shown to out-perform the Eulerian technique with the Dirichlet boundary condition. An experimental validation of the technique was performed by extracting the pressure field on the surface of a sphere in free-fall. Comparing the extracted surface-pressure distribution to reference data yielded a good agreement. It is concluded that operating in a purely-Lagrangian frame is advantageous compared to interpolating Lagrangian data to a structured grid.
Effect of isospin dependence of cross section on symmetric and neutron rich systems
Creators: name: Sood, Aman D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to explore the effect of isospin dependence of cross section on symmetric and neutron rich system. We also aim to explore whether the analysis is affacted if one discusses in terms of "$E_{bal}$ as a function of N/Z or N/A" of the system.
description: 3 pages, 1 figs, DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics Dec 26-30, (2011), Visakhapatnam A.P. INDIA
Hunting for Food Citizenship: Food, Politics, and Discourses of the Wild
Creators: name: Carruthers Den Hoed, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rhetoric and Composition
subject: discourse
subject: food
subject: citizenship
subject: hunting
subject: wild
subject: agrarian

description: In the words of food hunting advocate Tovar Cerulli (2012a), hunting is taking a seat at the table of food “citizenship”: it is increasingly positioned as a way for people to engage with questions about how food and people ought to be governed. While a burgeoning literature on food citizenship exists, it focuses on agrarian citizenship projects and overlooks wilder food practices, like hunting. Given that several prominent food activists are now advocating the practice, food hunting warrants careful examination as a model of food citizenship. This study uses a Foucauldian view of discourse to explore the food citizenships mobilized in food hunting lifestyle manuals. It finds that models of food citizenship mobilized by these food hunting texts echo elements of agrarian food citizenships, but also diverge from them in startling ways—rendering hunting-based food citizenships nigh unrecognizable as expressions of food citizenship, at least by agrarian standards. Rather than champion reconfigurations of agrarian-industrial food networks to foster close-knit communities and relations of care, food hunting citizenships aim to reconfigure human-nature relations so that humans are compelled—via appeals to biological and genetic destiny—to govern themselves in ways suited to the Anthropocene, the current ‘age of humanity,’ in which humans must contend with (and check) their power to threaten nature, and endure the power of nature to threaten humans (Davoudi, 2014, p. 360). As of and for the Anthropocene, hunting-based food citizenships are rather grim and defeatist: prudent hunters exercise vigilance and self-control in the wild, minimizing human-wrought destruction threatening human and food security; whereas resilient hunters cultivate the readiness and resourcefulness required to endure disruptive changes wrought by wild-nature and the perpetual vulnerability of humans in wild food systems. Hunting-based food citizenships, however, open up space to consider the role of sentient animals—as autonomous, self-governing actors—within models of food citizenship. They also render visible wild species, wild lands, and wild discourses as integral to debates about food policy.
Sensitivity analysis of polar orbiter motion to lunar viscoelastic tidal deformation
Creators: name: Hu, Xuanyu
name: Stark, Alexander
name: Dirkx, Dominic
name: Hussmann, Hauke
name: Fienga, Agnès
name: Briaud, Arthur
name: Mémin, Anthony
name: Melini, Daniele
name: Fayolle, Marie
name: Rambaux, Nicolas
name: Baguet, Daniel
name: Oberst, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: Moon
subject: tidal deformation
subject: viscoelasticity
subject: lunar orbiter
subject: sensitivity

description: We investigate the impact of viscoelastic tidal deformation of the Moon on the motion of a polar orbiter. The dissipative effects in the Moon’s interior, i.e., tidal phase lags, are modeled as Fourier series sampled at given frequencies associated with linear combinations of Delaunay arguments, the fundamental parameters describing the lunar motion around the Earth and the Sun. We implement the tidal model to evaluate the temporal lunar gravity field and the induced perturbation on the orbiter. We validate the numerical scheme via a frequency analysis of the perturbed orbital motion. We show that, in the case of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at a low altitude of less than 200 km, the main lunar tides and hence the potential Love numbers around the monthly and some multiple frequencies are dynamically separable. The omission of those effects in practice introduces a position error at the level of a few decimeters within 10 days.
Companion Forms in Parallel Weight One
Creators: name: Gee, Toby
name: Kassaei, Payman L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F33

description: Let $p>2$ be prime, and let $F$ be a totally real field in which $p$ is unramified. We give a sufficient criterion for a mod $p$ Galois representation to arise from a mod $p$ Hilbert modular form of parallel weight one, by proving a "companion forms" theorem in this case. The techniques used are a mixture of modularity lifting theorems and geometric methods. As an application, we show that Serre's conjecture for $F$ implies Artin's conjecture for totally odd two-dimensional representations over $F$.
description: 12 pages