cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DESIGN OF AN ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION OF A STOREY BUILDING
Creators: name: Adelakun, Najeem Olawale
name: Banji A. Olanipekun
name: Asogba, Samuel O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90701 Environmental Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Electricity exists in a form that is useful to exploit, however, it will also be important to install electricity as efficiently as possible, and design of the power distribution system should be convenient so as to minimize power losses. This paper analyses the electrical service design of a Storey building using the lumen method for the lighting calculations. The purpose of this work is to present a suitable approach to electrical services design based on the provision of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (lEE) Regulations, which includes lighting, power, distribution boards schematics. The results of the whole analysis and design was illustrated with AutoCAD application. This work gives a direct approach from design of the electrical services to the installation stage. The results of the calculations in the design helps the designer to make vital decisions such as types of luminaries, sizes of cables and nominal ratings of protective devices required by each circuit and by the entire installation in line with appropriate standards and regulations.
Additional file 1 of Cost effectiveness of a controlled lifestyle intervention for pregnant women with obesity
Creators: name: Gyllensten, Hanna
name: Haby, Karin
name: Berg, Marie
name: Premberg, Åsa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1: Study flow chart. Table S1. Descriptive statistics for the ITT and PP study populations. Table S2. Average cost (SEK) and gestational weight gain (kg) from ITT and PP analysis, and differences by population groups. Figure S2: Distribution of self-reported health status during enrolment and postpartum visit among women participating in the Mighty Mums intervention and controls. Question in the Mighty Mums project relevant for this study.
Migration of protoplanets with surfaces through discs with steep temperature gradients
Creators: name: Ayliffe, Ben A.
name: Bate, Matthew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform three-dimensional self-gravitating radiative transfer simulations of protoplanet migration in circumstellar discs to explore the impact upon migration of the radial temperature profiles in these discs. We model protoplanets with masses ranging between 10-100 M\bigoplus, in discs with surface density profiles of Σ \varpropto r^-1/2, and temperature profiles of the form T \varpropto r^-β, where β ranges 0-2. We find that steep (β > 1) temperature profiles lead to outward migration of low mass protoplanets in interstellar grain opacity discs, but in more optically thin discs the migration is always inwards. The trend in migration rates with changing β obtained from our models shows good agreement with those obtained using recent analytic descriptions which include consideration of the co-orbital torques and their saturation. We find that switching between two models of the protoplanet, one in which accretion acts by evacuating gas and one in which gas piles up on a surface to form an atmosphere, leads to a small shift in the migration rates. If comparing these models in discs with conditions which lead to a marginally inward migration, the small shift can lead to outward migration. However, the direction and speed of migration is dominated by disc conditions rather than by the specific prescription used to model the flow near the protoplanet.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Leave it to the amateurs : a career development explanation of political experience among Members of the Canadian Parliament
Creators: name: Pow, James Timothy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In many advanced democracies, political scientists have lamented the rise of professional politicians as a challenge to the effective representation of diverse electorates. In contrast, their relative absence from Canadian federal politics gives rise to concerns over high levels of political amateurism among Canadian MPs. This study, thus, seeks to account for the numerical weakness of individuals with an occupational background in politics in the Canadian Parliament. It utilizes both individual-level quantitative data on MPs serving between the 35th and 41st Parliaments, inclusive, as well as material from qualitative interviews with over seventy former MPs. Conceptualizing the field of politics as a career in itself, and drawing on career development theory, the study finds that at the key stages of establishing, maintaining, and disengaging from a federal political career, there are specific challenges that are not significantly ameliorated by the possession of professional experience in politics itself. Professional politicians, therefore, have no major advantage over those with non-political occupational backgrounds in their career development. Furthermore, by acknowledging the existence of different types of professional politician, it finds that those whose primary occupational background was in politics itself to be in a distinct minority, but the extent of political amateurism is challenged by a much larger minority of MPs whose primary occupation was non-political but who still possess some secondary or electoral experience prior to entering Parliament.
Additional file 1 of COVID-19 vaccination program in the mainland of China: a subnational descriptive analysis on target population size and current progress
Creators: name: Zheng, Wen
name: Yan, Xuemei
name: Zhao, Zeyao
name: Yang, Juan
name: Yu, Hongjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Method 1. Three geographic regions of the mainland of China. 2. The process of removing overlaps of the target population groups. Table S1. Definitions of priority target groups for the COVID-19 vaccination program. Table S2. List of conditions in GBD 2019 with potential to increase the risk of severe COVID-19 illness in China. Table S3. The production capacity of the COVID-19 vaccines in China. Table S4. The size of each target population for the COVID-19 vaccination program in PLADs. Table S5. The size of the target population for the COVID-19 vaccination program by vaccination goals. Figure S1. The size of ten priority groups for the COVID-19 vaccination program in PLADs, decreased by the total population. Figure S2. Service capacity gaps to vaccinate 80% of the target population by the end of 2021 based on the average capacity by June 2021. Figure S3. Service capacity gaps to vaccinate 90% of the target population by the end of 2021.
A metagenomic approach to study flavin mediated public good dynamics in hydrocarbon resource environments
Creators: name: Ievdokymenko, Kateryna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Emerging lines of evidence indicate that microbes form distributed networks of metabolite exchange based in part on public goods. These networks have the potential to drive the evolution of microbial lineages, and contribute to essential functions and services in natural and engineered ecosystems. However, experimental systems in which to evolve and perturb public good dynamics remain poorly constrained. Here, a functional metagenomic screening approach was used to recover abundant biosynthetic gene clusters with the potential to mediate microbial interactions in the environment. Specifically, 29 gene clusters involved in the production of riboflavin sourced from diverse microbial donor genotypes were recovered by functional screening from two fosmid libraries constructed from methanogenic communities enriched on hydrocarbons. Active clones were sequenced and riboflavin encoding gene cassettes were verified using cluster subcloning. Focusing on observed relationships between mobile genetic elements, metabolite secretion patterns and gene frequency distributions, a role for riboflavin as a public good in hydrocarbon-enriched environments was posited. Overall, this work suggests that secreted riboflavin may have versatile and unrecognized roles in microbial hydrocarbon transformation with potential to modulate microbial community dynamics in hydrocarbon resource environments
On Born-Infeld Gravity in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Alishahiha, Mohsen
name: Naseh, Ali
name: Soltanpanahi, Hesam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we explore different aspects of three dimensional Born-Infeld as well as Born-Infeld-Chern-Simons gravity. We show that the models have AdS and AdS-wave vacuum solutions. Moreover we observe that although Born-Infeld-Chern-Simons gravity admits a logarithmic solution, Born-Infeld gravity does not, though it has a limiting logarithmic solution as we approach the critical point.
description: 12 pages
Influence of electronic correlations on orbital polarizations in the parent and doped iron pnictides
Creators: name: Quan, Ya-Min
name: Zou, Liang-Jian
name: Liu, Da-Yong
name: Lin, Hai-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Orbital polarization and electronic correlation are two essential aspects in understanding the normal state and superconducting properties of multiorbital FeAs-based superconductors. In this Letter, we present a systematical study on the orbital polarization of iron pnictides from weak to strong Coulomb correlations within the KRSB approach. The magnetic phase diagram of the two-orbital model for LaFeAsO clearly shows that the striped antiferromagnetic metallic phase with considerable orbital polarization exists over a wide doping range. The reversal of the orbital polarization occurs in the intermediate correlation regime.A small crystal field splitting enhances the orbital density wave order.
Goodness-of-fit tests for Laplace, Gaussian and exponential power distributions based on λ-th power skewness and kurtosis
Creators: name: Desgagné, Alain
name: de Micheaux, Pierre Lafaye
name: Ouimet, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Temperature data, like many other measurements in quantitative fields, are usually modelled using a normal distribution. However, some distributions can offer a better fit while avoiding underestimation of tail event probabilities. To this point, we extend Pearson's notions of skewness and kurtosis to build a powerful family of goodness-of-fit tests based on Rao's score for the exponential power distribution EPDλ(μ,σ), including tests for normality and Laplacity when λ is set to 1 or 2. We find the asymptotic distribution of our test statistic, which is the sum of the squares of two Z-scores, under the null and under local alternatives. We also develop an innovative regression strategy to obtain Z-scores that are nearly independent and distributed as standard Gaussians, resulting in a χ22 distribution valid for any sample size (up to very high precision for n≥20). The case λ=1 leads to a powerful test of fit for the Laplace(μ,σ) distribution, whose empirical power is superior to all 39 competitors in the literature, over a wide range of 400 alternatives. Theoretical proofs in this case are particularly challenging and substantial. We applied our tests to three temperature datasets. The new tests are implemented in the R package PoweR.
Temperature-doping phase diagrams for Ba(Fe1-xTMx)2As2(TM=Ni, Cu, Cu / Co) single crystals
Creators: name: Ni, N.
name: Thaler, A.
name: Yan, J. Q.
name: Kracher, A.
name: Colombier, E.
name: Bud'ko, S. L.
name: Canfield, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microscopic, structural, transport and thermodynamic measurements of single crystalline Ba(Fe1-xTMx)2As2 (TM = Ni and Cu) series, as well as two mixed TM = Cu / Co series, are reported. All the transport and thermodynamic measurements indicate that the structural and magnetic phase transitions at 134 K in pure BaFe2As2 are monotonically suppressed and increasingly separated in a similar manner by these dopants. In the Ba(Fe1-xNix)2As2 (x =< 0.072), superconductivity, with Tc up to 19 K, is stabilized for 0.024 =< x =< 0.072. In the Ba(Fe1-xCux)2As2 (x =< 0.356) series, although the structural and magnetic transitions are suppressed, there is only a very limited region of superconductivity: a sharp drop of the resistivity to zero near 2.1 K is found only for the x = 0.044 samples. In the Ba(Fe1-x-yCoxCuy)2As2 series, superconductivity, with Tc values up to 12 K (x ~ 0.022 series) and 20 K (x ~ 0.047 series), is stabilized. Quantitative analysis of the detailed temperature-dopant concentration (T-x) and temperature-extra electrons (T-e) phase diagrams of these series shows that there exists a limited range of the number of extra electrons added, inside which the superconductivity can be stabilized if the structural and magnetic phase transitions are suppressed enough. Moreover, comparison with pressure-temperature phase diagram data, for samples spanning the whole doping range, further reenforces the conclusion that suppression of the structural / magnetic phase transition temperature enhances Tc on the underdoped side, but for the overdoped side Tcmax is determined by e. Therefore, by choosing the combination of dopants that are used, we can adjust the relative positions of the upper phase lines (structural and magnetic phase transitions) and the superconducting dome to control the occurrence and disappearance of the superconductivity in transition metal, electron-doped BaFe2As2.
description: 42 pages, 27 figures, 5 tables
Outage Analysis and System Disturbances on 330 kV and 132 kV Transmission System in Nigeria
Creators: name: Adelakun, Najeem Olawale
name: Banji A. Olanipekun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91305 Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The Persistent power outage in the country due to faults has become alarming to the government and the body responsible for electricity generation in the country. It also creates a major problem for electricity consumers in Nigeria, there must be an improvement in the reliability of the transmission system in Nigeria. This research work is predominantly concerned with the analysis of outages on 330kV and 132kV transmission system, and system disturbances on generation and transmission system for five (5) years. The result shows that the forced outages are the most occurred outages on the 330 kV line, while on 132 kV line, emergency outages have the highest number of outages in 2014 but decreases rapidly over the years, similarly, twenty-seven (27) major system disturbances occurred in 2016 with 31% against ten (10) with 11% disturbances in 2015, while 2014 and 2018 with the same number of system disturbances of thirteen (13) with 15%, it is apparent that more disturbances occur on the transmission system, and there should be a proper protection scheme to maintain stable grid network. Consequently, Mini-grid and off-grid solutions will prominently address the issue of power supply shortage and instability in Nigeria.
DrSMC : a sequential Monte Carlo sampler for deterministic relationships on continuous random variables
Creators: name: Spencer, Neil
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Computing posterior distributions over variables linked by deterministic constraints is a recurrent problem in Bayesian analysis. Such problems can arise due to censoring, identifiability issues, or other considerations. It is well-known that standard implementations of Monte Carlo inference strategies break down in the presence of these deterministic relationships. Although several alternative Monte Carlo approaches have been recently developed, few are applicable to deterministic relationships on continuous random variables. In this thesis, I propose Deterministic relationship Sequential Monte Carlo (DrSMC), a new Monte Carlo method for continuous variables possessing deterministic constraints. My exposition focuses on developing a DrSMC algorithm for computing the posterior distribution of a continuous random vector given its sum. I derive optimal settings for this algorithm and compare its performance to that of alternative approaches in the literature.
Análise histológica da distribuição das lesões gástricas induzidas de aceclofenaco em ratos. Souza-Jr, OG; Tabosa, TP; Lourenço, AS; Miranda, JS.pdf
Creators: name: Souza-Júnior, Octávio Gomes De
name: Lourenço, Adriana Sobral
name: Taiane Ponte Tabosa
name: Jocielle Santos De Miranda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Experimental research in rats comparing administration of aceclofenac with sham groups with special interest about the stomach histology changes in gastric mucosa.
Electrostatic Patch Effect in Cylindrical Geometry. I. Potential and Energy between Slightly Non-Coaxial Cylinders
Creators: name: Ferroni, Valerio
name: Silbergleit, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of any uneven voltage distribution on two close cylindrical conductors with parallel axes that are slightly shifted in the radial and by any length in the axial direction. The investigation is especially motivated by certain precision measurements, such as the Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP). By energy conservation, the force can be found as the energy gradient in the vector of the shift, which requires determining potential distribution and energy in the gap. The boundary value problem for the potential is solved, and energy is thus found to the second order in the small transverse shift, and to lowest order in the gap to cylinder radius ratio. The energy consists of three parts: the usual capacitor part due to the uniform potential difference, the one coming from the interaction between the voltage patches and the uniform voltage difference, and the energy of patch interaction, entirely independent of the uniform voltage. Patch effect forces and torques in the cylindrical configuration are derived and analyzed in the next two parts of this work.
description: 26 pages, 1 Figure. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Creating inclusive EAL classrooms : how LINC instructors understand and mitigate barriers, for students who have experienced trauma.
Creators: name: Wilbur, Amea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This study explores the assumptions and understandings that English as an Additional Language (EAL) teachers bring to teaching students who they believe have experienced trauma. The instructors in this study teach in a Canadian federally funded program called Language Instruction Program for Newcomers (LINC). The research is informed by the critical literacy work of Paulo Freire, particularly his critique of the banking model of education and his work on dialogue and praxis. The work of Freire is considered in relation to larger conversations about social justice. The research draws on participatory action research. The study illustrates the complex and contradictory understanding that instructors have about trauma and the dilemmas they face in supporting students affected by trauma in a government-funded EAL program for newcomers. First, this project describes the multiple barriers students and instructors face in trying to create inclusive classrooms. Second, it demonstrates that instructors bring a variety of experiences, techniques and processes to support students who have experienced trauma. Third, it shows that for EAL programs to be responsive to the whole student requires a shift away from neo-liberal policy and practice. What is needed is a rethinking of current Professional Development (PD) practices, and active engagement through communities of practice are needed to enable EAL instructors to create more inclusive EAL education, particularly for students who have experienced trauma. This research contributes to the discussion on trauma and learning within government-funded EAL programs, specifically in relation to adult immigrants.
AI-Assisted Chemical Probe Discovery for the Understudied Calcium-Calmodulin Dependent Kinase, PNCK
Creators: name: Essegian, Derek J.
name: Chavez, Valery
name: Khurshid, Rabia
name: Merchan, Jaime R.
name: Schürer, Stephan C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Schrödinger Prime PNCK homology models in .PDB format. Prime models after MD simulation: 4FG7_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG8_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG9_PrimeModel.pdb Prime models with bound ATP ligand after MD simulation: 4FG7_ATP_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG8_ATP_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG9_ATP_PrimeModel.pdb
Proceedings 15th International Refinement Workshop
Creators: name: Derrick, John
name: Boiten, Eerke
name: Reeves, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Refinement is one of the cornerstones of a formal approach to software engineering: the process of developing a more detailed design or implementation from an abstract specification through a sequence of mathematically-based steps that maintain correctness with respect to the original specification. The aim of this BCS FACS Refinement Workshop, is to bring together people who are interested in the development of more concrete designs or executable programs from abstract specifications using formal notations, tool support for formal software development, and practical experience with formal refinement methodologies. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, and discussion of common ground and key differences. This 15th workshop continued a 20 year tradition in refinement workshops run under the auspices of the British Computer Society (BCS) FACS special interest group. After the first seven editions had been held in the UK, in 1998 it was combined with the Australasian Refinement Workshop to form the International Refinement Workshop, hosted at The Australian National University. Six more editions have followed in a variety of locations, all with electronic published proceedings and associated journal special issues.
Feasibility of optical gyroscopic sensors in silicon-on-insulator technology
Creators: name: Guillén-Torres, Miguel Ángel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the last decade, silicon photonics has become a strategic technology for the development of telecommunications and sensors. Due to its compatibility with well-developed complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication processes, silicon on insulator (SOI) wafers can be processed to create thousands of devices per die in a fast and inexpensive way. Being solid state devices with no movable parts, optical gyroscopes have longer life expectancies and shock resistance compared to micro-electro-mechanical gyroscopes. Thus, the implementation of SOI-based gyroscopes is desirable for large-scale, low-cost production. This thesis presents a study of the feasibility of implementing optical gyroscopes in SOI technology. A comprehensive theoretical study has been carried out to develop a device-level optimization and robustness analysis, showing that the most crucial resonator parameter is the propagation loss, followed by length and coupling. For a given propagation loss, there is an optimal resonator size, beyond which the angular speed resolution is severely degraded. On the system level, the impact of signal-to-noise ratio and insertion loss on the resolution are described. Given that the propagation loss is the most important parameter, strategies were proposed to reduce it as much as possible while still using CMOS-compatible processes. The quality factor, Q was chosen as the figure of merit to be maximized during the design iterations. As a result, the largest Q factors reported to date on SOI, using standard CMOS-compatible processes, were achieved. These Q factors are comparable to, or exceed, those of optical resonators intended for gyroscopic applications that are fabricated in materials such as indium phosphide (InP). Innovative approaches to compensate for fabrication variations are proposed, such as thermally-tuneable coupling and reference rings for differential measurements. Complex mechano-opto-electrical measurement setups were designed and implemented to characterize SOI gyroscopes, both at rest and under rotation. As a result, the Microsystem Integration Platform for Silicon-Photonics (Si-P MIP) was created. This characterization platform is now being commercialized by CMC Microsystems for academic and industrial applications. The main practical and theoretical challenges regarding the implementation of optical ring gyroscopes on SOI have been identified. Schemes to address them and suggestions for future work are proposed.
AI-Assisted Chemical Probe Discovery for the Understudied Calcium-Calmodulin Dependent Kinase, PNCK
Creators: name: Essegian, Derek J.
name: Chavez, Valery
name: Khurshid, Rabia
name: Merchan, Jaime R.
name: Schürer, Stephan C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Schrödinger Prime PNCK homology models in .PDB format. Prime models after MD simulation: 4FG7_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG8_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG9_PrimeModel.pdb Prime models with bound ATP ligand after MD simulation: 4FG7_ATP_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG8_ATP_PrimeModel.pdb 4FG9_ATP_PrimeModel.pdb AlphaFold model with bound ATP ligand after MD simulation: PNCK_Q6P2M8_AlphaFoldModel_ATP.pdb
Practices of collaboration : exploring institutional culture at the Laboratory of Archaeology
Creators: name: Roth, Kate Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Collaboration is an important process for achieving partnerships between Indigenous groups and researchers working in the fields of archaeology and museum anthropology. Julia Harrison (2005) suggests that the unique culture of an institution should be considered a critical factor in developing successful collaborations between museums and communities. This thesis explores the idea of institutional culture further through a case study of the Laboratory of Archaeology at UBC (LOA). The purpose of this research is to examine the ways an archaeological repository can engage in collaborative work and to explore how institutional culture develops over time. This paper draws on interviews, archival research and my own experience working at LOA. I first look at LOA’s institutional history to examine how its culture has developed. Instead of exploring one collaborative project, I discuss key events as part of a larger on-going collaborative process. This provides important context for LOA’s current approaches to working with communities. I explore a number of LOA’s practices and policies, analyzing how they address power asymmetry and facilitate sharing knowledge between communities and archaeologists. Finally, I examine how these approaches have become a part of LOA’s institutional culture through both practice and written policy.
Additional file 1 of Single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing reveals the dynamics of intra-tumor heterogeneity in a colorectal cancer model
Creators: name: Ono, Hanako
name: Arai, Yasuhito
name: Furukawa, Eisaku
name: Narushima, Daichi
name: Matsuura, Tetsuya
name: Nakamura, Hiromi
name: Shiokawa, Daisuke
name: Nagai, Momoko
name: Imai, Toshio
name: Mimori, Koshi
name: Okamoto, Koji
name: Hippo, Yoshitaka
name: Shibata, Tatsuhiro
name: Kato, Mamoru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Aberrations in known cancer-related genes. Figure S2. Quality control check of single-cell transcriptome sequencing data. Figure S3. cCV and highly variable genes. Figure S4. Determination of gene and cell groups in single-cell RNA sequencing. Figure S5. Violin plots of the expression levels of the marker genes. Figure S6. Quality control check of single-cell exome sequencing data. Figure S7. Association with hypermutation type based on human cancer counterpart to our mouse model. Figure S8. Associations with histological type and microsatellite instability based on human cancer counterpart to our mouse model. Figure S9. Schematic representation of the culture experiment. Figure S10. Procedure for calculating expression levels and for calling SNVs in single-cell sequencing.
Convexity of trace functionals and Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Kaiser, Hans-Christoph
name: Neidhardt, Hagen
name: Rehberg, Joachim
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: trace functionals
subject: convexity
subject: monotonicity
subject: double Stieltjes operator integrals
subject: spectral asymptotics
subject: generalized Fermi level
subject: density-functional theory
subject: 47H05
subject: 46T20
subject: 47B10
subject: 47F05
subject: 31.15.Ew
subject: 31.15.Md
subject: 05.30.-d

description: Let 퐻 be a semi-bounded self-adjoint operator in a separable Hilbert space. For a certain class of positive, continuous, decreasing, and convex functions F we show the convexity of trace functionals tr(퐹(퐻+푈 - ε (푈))) - ε (푈), where 푈 is a bounded self-adjoint operator on 퐻 and ε (푈) is a normalizing real function－the Fermi level－which may be identical zero. If additionally 퐹 is continuously differentiable, then the corresponding trace functional is Frechet differentiable and there is an expression of its gradient in terms of the derivative of 퐹. The proof of the differentiability of the trace functional is based upon Birman and Solomyak's theory of double Stieltjes operator integrals. If, in particular, 퐻 is a Schrödinger-type operator and 푈 a real-valued function, then the gradient of the trace functional is the quantum mechanical expression of the particle density with respect to an equilibrium distribution function ƒ = -퐹'. Thus, the monotonicity of the particle density in its dependence on the potential 푈 of Schrödinger's operator－which has been understood since the late 1980s－follows as a special case.
The Statistics and Environments of Hostless Supernovae
Creators: name: Qin, Yu-Jing
name: Zabludoff, Ann
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Smith, Nathan
name: Faerman, Yakov
name: Maoz, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transient surveys routinely detect supernovae (SNe) without obvious host galaxies. To understand the demographics of these "hostless" SNe and to constrain the possible host properties, we identify 161 SNe reported to the Transient Name Server since 2016 that do not have hosts cataloged from pre-explosion wide-field galaxy surveys. Using forced aperture photometry, we detect excess flux around only 56 of these SNe. Both thermonuclear and core-collapse (CC) SNe are present in our sample. Compared to flux-limited SNe samples with known hosts, superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), particularly hydrogen-deficient SLSNe, are over-represented here relative to all other SNe types; among CC SNe, there is also a higher fraction of interacting SNe than non-interacting. On the low-luminosity side, seven SNe have host absolute magnitude upper limits fainter than M_g=-12, about 1 per cent of the Small Magellanic Cloud's luminosity; the faintest limits are close to the luminosity of globular clusters or ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (M_g~-8). Fitting multi-band forced photometry, 11 SNe have host stellar masses <10^6 Msun assuming quiescent hosts, and 13 SNe have host stellar masses <10^5 Msun assuming star-forming hosts. The spatial distribution of hostless SNe indicates that the majority are not associated with known galaxy groups and clusters, ruling out intracluster stellar light as the primary contributor of such SNe. Hostless Type Ia SNe tend to be more luminous and slow-fading than SNe Ia with known host galaxies, implying a hidden population of low-mass and star-forming hosts. We conclude that any undetected host galaxies are likely star-forming dwarfs in the field.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Electrostatic Patch Effect in Cylindrical Geometry. II. Forces
Creators: name: Ferroni, Valerio
name: Silbergleit, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our study of patch effect (PE) for two close cylindrical conductors with parallel axes, slightly shifted against each other in the radial and by any length in the axial direction, started in [1], where the potential and energy in the gap were calculated to the second order in the small transverse shift, and to lowest order in the gap to cylinder radius ratio. Based on these results, here we derive and analyze PE force. It consists of three parts: the usual capacitor force due to the uniform potential difference, the one from the interaction between the voltage patches and the uniform voltage difference, and the force due to patch interaction, entirely independent of the uniform voltage. General formulas for these forces are found, and their general properties are described. A convenient model of a localized patch is then suggested that allows us to calculate all the forces in a closed elementary form. Using this, a detailed analysis of the patch interaction for one pair of patches is carried out, and the dependence of forces on the patch parameters (width and strength) and their mutual position is examined. We also give various estimates of the axial patch effect force important for the Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP), and recommend intensive pre-flight simulations employing our results.
description: 32 pages, 10 Figures. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Exploiting psycholinguistic predictors to develop the vocabulary overclaiming in English (VOCE) measure
Creators: name: Dubois, Patrick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The overclaiming technique (OCT) measures both knowledge and the tendency to exaggerate knowledge. While proven useful in several domains, deeper understanding of the nature of overclaiming, especially the role of foils, is hampered by lack of standardization and volatility of items. Here I present three studies using English vocabulary as a proxy for general knowledge. Studies 1 and 2 focused on item selection for a 50-item instrument dubbed Vocabulary Overclaiming in English (VOCE). Study 3 confirmed test-retest and concurrent validity. Finally, we examined the pooled item set to search for systematic patterns of linguistic predictors of item performance. In sum, the use of psycholinguistic predictors helped systematize item selection in developing the VOCE, a general measure of overclaiming with commendable psychometric properties.
Approximating Probability Densities by Iterated Laplace Approximations
Creators: name: Bornkamp, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Laplace approximation is an old, but frequently used method to approximate integrals for Bayesian calculations. In this paper we develop an extension of the Laplace approximation, by applying it iteratively to the residual, i.e., the difference between the current approximation and the true function. The final approximation is thus a linear combination of multivariate normal densities, where the coefficients are chosen to achieve a good fit to the target distribution. We illustrate on real and artificial examples that the proposed procedure is a computationally efficient alternative to current approaches for approximation of multivariate probability densities. The R-package iterLap implementing the methods described in this article is available from the CRAN servers.
description: to appear in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, http://pubs.amstat.org/loi/jcgs
In hot water : explaining Vancouver and San Francisco's responses to the impacts of climate change
Creators: name: Robertson, Alexandra Hergaarden
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the past decade the scientific literature on climate change has increasingly focused on adaptation to climate change-related hazards and vulnerability. Most of the climate change policies designed thus far in North America have been at the municipal level. One of the most visible impacts of climate change will be an increase in frequency and severity of natural disasters like coastal flooding, heat waves, and drought. Although scholars emphasize the importance of community resilience in responding and recovering from disaster, the majority of these municipal climate change adaptation policies have sought to increase physical, not social, resilience. Vancouver and San Francisco are two cities that have recently begun planning for the impacts of climate change, and both are leaders in mitigation and adaptation planning among North American municipalities. While Vancouver has adopted policies to increase the resilience of physical infrastructure, San Francisco has addressed both the resilience of social and physical infrastructure in its climate change adaptation planning. My thesis will explain this divergence in response to the effects of climate change at the municipal level in Vancouver and San Francisco. I find that differing critical events and policy legacies in the area of disaster management in the past have resulted in Vancouver and San Francisco’s divergent responses to the impacts of climate change today.
Additional file 1 of Should the physiotherapy outcomes airway clearance, physical activity and fitness be recorded on the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry? A consensus approach
Creators: name: Potter, Angela
name: Pancholi, Bhavita
name: Smith, Lahni
name: Maher, Carol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: The Delphi surveys.
The nomadic wanderings of a bag-lady and her space chums : re-storying environmental education with feral figurations
Creators: name: Adsit-Morris, Chessa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis is a semi-autobiographical narrative, a serious fiction, in which I hold together the contradictions I have inherited and gathered (specifically in relation to the Western educational system) and learn to encounter the “Other” (real and imaginary others), including the other that is my constantly shifting/growing “self,” and attempt to find/foster nourishing alliances for transforming Environmental Education. I situated myself with new materialist theorists, specifically Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Karen Barad, who attempt to think “through the co-constitutive materiality of human corporeality and nonhuman natures” (Alaimo & Hekman, 2008, p. 9) and provide useful tools (figurations, metaphors, and/or stories) for finding creative theoretical alternatives to the reductionist, representationalist and dualistic practices of the Western (Euro-American) metaphysics. Instead, shifting towards ecological, rhizomatic thinking and a nomadic subjectivity, I take up bag-lady storytelling, a performative new materialist methodology, a creative (re)twist of Ursula Le Guin’s (1989) “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” a nomadic practice of wandering and gathering. Such wandering and gathering requires a different logic, an attunement and attentiveness to processes and practices of ongoingness (not simply endings). Sharing the stories and figures I gathered doing and thinking a performative Environmental Educational inquiry during a yearlong place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a Grade 4/5/6 class around the lost streams of Vancouver, I focus on the patterns created and the traces left by the multiple complex figurative entities encountered who wander throughout spacetime. I focus on the types of stories created and told from these traces, searching for stories of our shared vital vulnerability, stories that just might draw us together, gathering and holding all of our heteronymous ideas, beliefs, and theories. My goal was to draw attention to ways of being, ways of knowing, and ways of living (getting on) together, that disrupt, alter, revitalize, and might just lead to the practices of collective recuperation needed to sustain a vibrant lively future.
Digitaler Wandel als strategischer Transformationsprozess – Zum allgemeinen und hochschulspezifischen Verständnis der Digitalisierung
Creators: name: Graf-Schlattmann, Marcel
name: Wilde, Melanie
name: Meister, Dorothee M.
name: Oevel, Gudrun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Change Management
Hochschulentwicklung
Digitalisierung
disruptiv
graduell
Digitalisierungsstrategie
Transformation
digitaler Wandel
Veränderungsprozesse
Digitazation
Hochschulforschung

description: Ein zentrales Thema des Forschungsprojekts QuaSiD ist der Begriff der Digitalisierungsstrategie. In dem zweiten vom Projekt erarbeiteten Arbeitspapier soll der Begriff der Digitalisierung im Hochschulkontext ausgearbeitet werden. Zum Begriff der Strategie siehe Graf-Schlattmann, M., Meister D. M., Oevel, G. und Wilde, M. (2018): „Hochschulstrategie als Prozess – Zum allgemeinen und hochschulspezifischen Begriff der Strategie“, online verfügbar unter: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1293797.

Wir verstehen Digitalisierung in Anlehnung an Tilson et al. (2010) als einen Veränderungsprozess im Sinne eines digitalen Wandels. Im Verlauf der Argumentation wird zunächst das Verständnis von Digitalisierung erläutert, differenziert und auf den Fall der Hochschule angewendet. Das vorliegende Arbeitspapier berücksichtigt dabei die Auswirkungen der organisationalen Besonderheiten von Hochschulen auf den digitalen Veränderungsprozess an Hochschulen und stellt heraus, wie die Transformation in der Hochschullehre erfolgt, welche Art von Veränderung zu beobachten ist und wie strategisch Einfluss auf den Prozess genommen werden kann bzw. an welchen Stellen steuernd eingegriffen werden.

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A central topic of the QuaSiD Research Project is the concept of digitalization strategies. In the second working paper of the project, the concept of digitization in the university context will be elaborated. For the concept of the strategy see Graf-Schlattmann, M., Meister D. M., Oevel, G. and Wilde, M. (2018): "Hochschulstrategie als Prozess - Zum allgemeinen und hochschulspezifischen Begriff der Strategie", available online: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1293797.

Digitalization is understood in terms of Tilson et al. (2010) as a process of change in the sense of digital change. In this argumentation, the understanding of digitalization is first explained, differentiated and applied to the case of the university. The present working paper takes into account the effects of the organizational characteristics of universities on the digital change process at universities and emphasises how the transformation in higher education teaching takes place, what kind of change can be observed and how strategic influence can be exerted on the process and at what points steering measures can be taken.
Electrostatic Patch Effect in Cylindrical Geometry. III. Torques
Creators: name: Ferroni, Valerio
name: Silbergleit, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue to study the effect of uneven voltage distribution on two close cylindrical conductors with parallel axes started in our papers [1] and [2], now to find the electrostatic torques. We calculate the electrostatic potential and energy to lowest order in the gap to cylinder radius ratio for an arbitrary relative rotation of the cylinders about their symmetry axis. By energy conservation, the axial torque, independent of the uniform voltage difference, is found as a derivative of the energy in the rotation angle. We also derive both the axial and slanting torques by the surface integration method: the torque vector is the integral over the cylinder surface of the cross product of the electrostatic force on a surface element and its position vector. The slanting torque consists of two parts: one coming from the interaction between the patch and the uniform voltages, and the other due to the patch interaction. General properties of the torques are described. A convenient model of a localized patch suggested in [2] is used to calculate the torques explicitly in terms of elementary functions. Based on this, we analyze in detail patch interaction for one pair of patches, namely, the torque dependence on the patch parameters (width and strength) and their mutual positions. The effect of the axial torque is then studied for the experimental conditions of the STEP mission.
description: 28 pages, 6 Figures. Submitted to Classical Quantum Gravity