cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto": Loro nell'obiettivo di Paolo Sorrentino
Creators: name: Idini, Marta
Publisher: name: Lingue e culture dei media
Year: 2019

description: Attraverso l’analisi linguistica dell’ultimo film del regista premio Oscar Paolo Sorrentino, pellicola tra le più attese e le più discusse del periodo recente, ciò che il contributo si propone di indagare è se sia possibile e in quale misura applicare le elaborazioni teoriche di Brioschi e Spinazzola alla parola filmata.

Travisandone vistosamente il titolo e pubblicizzato dunque come un film su Silvio Berlusconi, "Loro" sa invece restituire qualcosa di completamente diverso, aprendo la proficua possibilità di interrogarsi sul comportamento estetico del soggetto/spettatore e su come la sua esperienza sia inclusa nei momenti di creazione e fruizione, in un rapporto stringente tra conoscenza, edificazione e piacere. La consapevolezza del mutato “orizzonte d’attesa”, sempre più sbilanciato nei termini della massa e della globalità, vorrà inoltre tentare una valutazione delle caratteristiche del pubblico contemporaneo e il modo in cui riflette e si riflette nella cultura; quanto interagisca ancora il binomio competenza/gusto e se questo sia sbilanciato sull’una o l’altra delle componenti. Quanto, infine, il concetto di ri-uso possa essere attuale in un universo di comportamenti sociali profondamente diversi, in quel filo sempre doppio che è l’interpretazione dell’opera nei termini del mondo e del mondo nei termini dell’opera.
description: Lingue e culture dei media, V. 2, N. 2 (2018)
Biomass and Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Pyrolysis in a Bench-scale Drop Tube Reactor
Creators: name: He, Congxiao
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pyrolysis
subject: Municipal solid waste
subject: bio-oil
subject: biofuel
subject: renewable energy
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: Biomass pyrolysis has been recognized as a promising solution to address the challenges of energy demand and solid waste treatment in a renewable manner. However, the complexity of the process has limited the understanding of the link between theoretical modeling and engineering data, and commercial reactors are not yet available in the market. This thesis investigates the effect of biomass pyrolysis controlling parameters on a bench-scale drop tube reactor (DTR) and analyzes the behavior of a biomass-MSW mixture in TGA and DTR. The study aims to achieve three main objectives: (1) to modify the bench-scale DTR to enhance its efficiency, (2) to investigate the effects of temperature, carrier gas (N2) flow rate, and feedstock particle sizes on product yield and composition, and (3) to analyze the behavior of a biomass-MSW mixture in TGA and DTR reactions. To achieve these objectives, a series of experiments were conducted, and the products were analyzed for properties such as heating value, moisture, chemical composition, and yield. The results indicate that poor heat transfer limits the efficiency of the reaction, resulting in low liquid yields of 10-25%. The optimal reaction temperature is found to be around 500°C, as temperatures below this value result in unreacted biomass, while temperatures higher than 600°C led to gasification and the production of more syngas than bio-oil. An increase in nitrogen flowrate can improve heat transfer, but it also reduces the time for product condensation and collection. Smaller feedstock particles (<125 μms) are less affected by heat transfer issues, but they tend to agglomerate, which reduces bio-oil yield. The study also found that a temperature higher than 500°C is required to fully convert MSW mixtures. The study proposes several recommendations to address the heat transfer issue, including decreasing the reactor diameter, increasing the reactor length, and preheating the nitrogen flow to 400-500°C before it enters the reactor. Overall, the findings of this study have significant implications for the development of biomass pyrolysis technology and provide insights into the design and optimization of pyrolysis reactors for efficient and sustainable energy production and waste management.
Theory of Spin Relaxation in Two-Electron Lateral Coupled Si/SiGe Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Raith, Martin
name: Stano, Peter
name: Fabian, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation, enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of $^{29}$Si (natural or purified abundance), are investigated for experimentally relevant parameters, the interdot coupling, the magnetic field magnitude and orientation, and the detuning. We calculate relaxation rates for zero and finite temperatures (100 mK), concluding that our findings for zero temperature remain qualitatively valid also for 100 mK. We confirm the same anisotropic switch of the axis of prolonged spin lifetime with varying detuning as recently predicted in GaAs. Conditions for possibly hyperfine-dominated relaxation are much more stringent in Si than in GaAs. For experimentally relevant regimes, the spin-orbit coupling, although weak, is the dominant contribution, yielding anisotropic relaxation rates of at least two order of magnitude lower than in GaAs.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Safety Analysis of a Historical Structure: Turner Valley Gas Plant - Absorption Building
Creators: name: Burzic, Emina
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Structural Analysis
subject: Historical Structures
subject: Finite Element Modelling
subject: Heritage Conservation
subject: Non-destructive Testing
subject: Minor destructive Testing
subject: Canadian oil & gas history
subject: Safety Analysis
subject: Laser Scanning
subject: National Building Code of Canada
subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Materials Science
subject: History of Science

description: Canada is beginning to shift towards the reuse of existing structures to reduce environmental impacts [5]. This shift has created a new culture of structural conservation and the need for engineers to understand the procedure of structural assessment of existing buildings. Historical structures are a specific niche of existing structures that require a closer assessment. Many historic structures in Canada are deemed unsafe and are closed or of limited access to the public. An “unsafe” steel and concrete heritage building rebuilt between 1929 and 1933, known as the absorption building, has been analysed structurally with respect to the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC) and the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places (SGCHP) [7] [4]. The building is located at the Turner Valley Gas Plant (TVGP) National Historic site [8]. The TVGP was Alberta’s first natural gas plant built and thus the birthplace of the energy sector in Western Canada [8]. Throughout the building lifespan the structural skeleton has been adapted to accommodate changes in the oil and gas processing. The load path, effects of modified and missing members, and capacity of elements were assessed. Due to a lack of historical records and the building designation, Non-destructive and Minor destructive testing methods were used to determine building geometric and material properties. Five finite element models were developed to conduct a linear-elastic analysis of the buildings structural integrity. A load test was performed to validate the models. Results confirmed the load path and the effects of modifying members as an initial assessment towards a complete safety analysis. Based on the NBCC if the past performance of the structure is considered insufficient and a structural analysis is conducted the results show plastic hinges will begin to form in the roof of the structure due to the applied loads. The research exposed gaps within current NBCC and SGCHP guidelines. Technical testing and clarification on the potential interpretations of the NBCC and SGCHP are recommended additions based on the research conducted. As standards are developed the research provided can guide future engineers on conducting a structural safety analysis of heritage structures.
Opening the Rome-Southampton window for operator mixing matrices
Creators: name: Arthur, R.
name: Boyle, P. A.
name: Garron, N.
name: Kelly, C.
name: Lytle, A. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the running of operators which mix under renormalization can be computed fully non-perturbatively as a product of continuum step scaling matrices. These step scaling matrices are obtained by taking the "ratio" of Z matrices computed at different energies in an RI-MOM type scheme for which twisted boundary conditions are an essential ingredient. Our method allows us to relax the bounds of the Rome-Southampton window. We also explain why such a method is important in view of the light quark physics program of the RBC-UKQCD collaborations. To illustrate our method, using n_f=2+1 domain-wall fermions, we compute the non-perturbative running matrix of four-quark operators needed in K->pipi decay and neutral kaon mixing. Our results are then compared to perturbation theory.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures. v2: PRD version, minor changes and few references added
Change of Direction Movement Evaluation in Soccer-Specific Environment with Inertial Measurement Units: Guiding Practice and Test Tasks in Youth Soccer
Creators: name: Alanen, Aki-Matti
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Change of direction movement
subject: Youth soccer
subject: Wearable technology
subject: Injury prevention
subject: Education--Health
subject: Education--Technology

description: Soccer players perform a multitude of change of direction (COD) movements while playing. This multiplanar movement has been related to both performance and injury-risk in previous studies. However, traditional testing of COD ability has been done with preplanned protocols that lack the aspect of perception and reaction and commonly use only running time as the main variable. Therefore, the main objectives of this thesis were to explore novel methods of COD testing with the use of inertial measurement units (IMUs) in both preplanned soccer-specific tests and during game-play. The results of Chapter Three suggest that neither peak resultant acceleration (PRA) nor peak angular velocity (PAV) is a reliable metric in final foot contact (FFC) analysis of 180° pivot turns. The intra-class correlations (ICC) for pivot turns on both sides were unacceptable. However, when separating females and males it was found that the reliability in female participants was significantly better. In Chapter Four, the in-season variability of PRA was found to be different between previously injured players and injury free players, specifically during the FFC of 180° pivot turns. Chapter Five expanded upon the game-specific demands on COD movements based on playing positions. Significant differences in volume and types of CODs by playing position were found, which raises the question if youth soccer player testing for multiplanar movement abilities, should consider specific playing position related demands better in the future. Chapter Six complemented the studies by providing results of measurements obtained with IMUs in relation to situational patterns during game-play. The findings indicated that running speed, COD angle, pressure from opposing player, and contact with another player prior or during the cut would increase the acceleration during the COD, thus increasing the demands of the neuromuscular system. In conclusion, following one or two specific metrics at single timepoints to analyze COD ability is not recommended. Future research should search for methods involving perception-reaction while performing COD and these could be complemented with wearable technology measures. The combinations of multiple variables could be used to follow-up fluctuations of player performance through a longer follow-up period.
Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter at BABAR
Creators: name: Echenard, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This review briefly describes light dark matter searches performed by the BABAR experiment. Although dark matter candidates have traditionally been associated with heavy particles appearing in extensions of the Standard Model, a lighter component remains a well motivated alternative, and many scenarios of light dark matter have been recently proposed. Thanks to their large luminosities, B factories offer an ideal environment to probe these possibilities, complementing searches from direct detection and satellite experiments.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Geraldius galapagoensis Cid
Creators: name: Rusconi, José Matías
name: García, Renato
name: Salas, Augusto
name: Balcazar, Darío
name: Shimabukuro, Marina Ibáñez
name: Achinelly, María Fernanda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Rhabditida
Chambersiellidae
Geraldius
Geraldius galapagoensis

description: Geraldius galapagoensis Cid del Prado, 2012 (Fig. 1D)
 Material examined: 2 males, 1 juvenile. Collected by Renato García and deposited in the Colección Helmintológica de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata with the accession number MLP-He 8063.
description: Published as part of Rusconi, José Matías, García, Renato, Salas, Augusto, Balcazar, Darío, Shimabukuro, Marina Ibáñez & Achinelly, María Fernanda, 2023, Morphological and molecular characterization of Geraldius galapagoensis (Nematoda: Chambersiellidae) associated with lichens in Argentina, pp. 1-6 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 3, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.042, http://zenodo.org/record/10270431
Urban design and cardio-metabolic risk factors
Creators: name: Koohsari, Mohammad Javad
name: Oka, Koichiro
name: Nakaya, Tomoki
name: Vena, Jennifer
name: Williamson, Tyler
name: Quan, Hude
name: McCormack, Gavin R.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: In Press, Journal Pre-proof version of manuscript (Preventive Medicine).
description: Accumulating evidence suggests that the built environment may be associated with cardiovascular disease via its influence on health behaviours. The aim of this study was to estimate the associations between traditional and novel neighbourhood built environment metrics and clinically assessed cardio-metabolic risk factors among a sample of adults in Canada. A total of 7,171 participants from Alberta’s Tomorrow Project living in Alberta, Canada, were included. Cardio-metabolic risk factors were clinically measured. Two composite built environment metrics of traditional walkability and space syntax walkability were calculated. Among men, space syntax walkability was negatively associated with systolic and diastolic blood pressure (b=-0.87, 95% CI - 1.43, -0.31 and b=-0.45, 95% CI -0.86, -0.04, respectively). Space syntax walkability was also associated with lower odds of overweight/obese among women and men (OR=0.93, 95% CI 0.87, 0.99 and OR=0.88, 95% CI 0.79, 0.97, respectively). No significant associations were observed between traditional walkability and cardiometabolic outcomes. This study showed that the novel built environment metric based on the space syntax theory was associated with some cardio-metabolic risk factors.
Automatized marine vessel monitoring from sentinel-1 data using convolution neural network
Creators: name: Tiwari, Surya Prakash
name: Chaturvedi, Sudhir Kumar
name: Adhikary, Subhrangshu
name: Banerjee, Saikat
name: Basu, Sourav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The advancement of multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is considered as an upgraded technology for surveillance activities. SAR sensors onboard provide data for coastal ocean surveillance and a view of the oceanic surface features. Vessel monitoring has earlier been performed using Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) algorithm which is not a smart technique as it lacks decision-making capabilities, therefore we introduce wavelet transformation-based Convolution Neural Network approach to recognize objects from SAR images during the heavy naval traffic, which corresponds to the numerous object detection. The utilized information comprises Sentinel-1 SAR-C dual-polarization data acquisitions over the western coastal zones of India and with help of the proposed technique we have obtained 95.46% detection accuracy. Utilizing this model can automatize the monitoring of naval objects and recognition of foreign maritime intruders.
description: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS
Images Within Images? A Multi-image Paradigm with Novel Key-Value Graph Oriented Steganography
Creators: name: Adhikary, Subhrangshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Steganographic methods have been in the limelight of research and development for concealing secret data within a cover media without being noticed through general visualization. The Least Significant Bits (LSBs) of 8-bit color code for the RGB image arises the possibility of replacing the last two bits with the bits of the encrypted message. Several procedures have been developed to hide an image within another image however in most cases the payload image has to be within the accommodatable range of the cover image and very little literature have shown methods to hide multiple images within multiple images. This paper presents a novel approach to split the image into JSON styled dictionary of key-value pairs and using a metadata graph to locate different parts and positions of the payload images in the entire cluster of cover images. The model could be easily used in the real world scenario for privately sharing secret data over public communication channels without being noticed.
description: Intelligent Computing & Optimization. ICO 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 371. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93247-3_83
LogicRec: Recommendation with Users' Logical Requirements
Creators: name: Tang, Zhenwei
name: Floto, Griffin
name: Toroghi, Armin
name: Pei, Shichao
name: Zhang, Xiangliang
name: Sanner, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Users may demand recommendations with highly personalized requirements involving logical operations, e.g., the intersection of two requirements, where such requirements naturally form structured logical queries on knowledge graphs (KGs). To date, existing recommender systems lack the capability to tackle users' complex logical requirements. In this work, we formulate the problem of recommendation with users' logical requirements (LogicRec) and construct benchmark datasets for LogicRec. Furthermore, we propose an initial solution for LogicRec based on logical requirement retrieval and user preference retrieval, where we face two challenges. First, KGs are incomplete in nature. Therefore, there are always missing true facts, which entails that the answers to logical requirements can not be completely found in KGs. In this case, item selection based on the answers to logical queries is not applicable. We thus resort to logical query embedding (LQE) to jointly infer missing facts and retrieve items based on logical requirements. Second, answer sets are under-exploited. Existing LQE methods can only deal with query-answer pairs, where queries in our case are the intersected user preferences and logical requirements. However, the logical requirements and user preferences have different answer sets, offering us richer knowledge about the requirements and preferences by providing requirement-item and preference-item pairs. Thus, we design a multi-task knowledge-sharing mechanism to exploit these answer sets collectively. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the significance of the LogicRec task and the effectiveness of our proposed method.
description: SIGIR 2023
Thinking Forward: Transformative Concepts and Social Change
Creators: name: Genova, Maria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: transformative concepts
subject: social epistemology
subject: conceptual engineering
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: As a project within conceptual engineering, this thesis is primarily concerned with the relationship between our concepts and our social reality. Following L.A. Paul’s theory of transformative experiences, I construct a theory of transformative concepts as a certain kind of concept capable of conferring significant epistemic positions. My account of these concepts holds them to be important mechanisms for engaging with different social milieus and epistemic frameworks. As such, this account dovetails with accounts that argue that our social reality is constructed, which I introduce as an important approach for understanding the ways in which transformative concepts are capable of engendering larger social changes. My project intersects with the work of Sally Haslanger and others working on accounts of this social construction to argue for the impact of transformative concepts. Having provided an overview of what I take transformative concepts to be, I then demonstrate their importance in addressing issues within social epistemology and epistemic injustice. I engage primarily with the work of Miranda Fricker and José Medina to consider the impact of our conceptual resources on both individuals and groups, as well as the larger consideration of how these resources inform important issues of epistemic injustice. I argue for transformative concepts as essential factors within these resources, emphasizing their particular role within the social imaginary. I also argue that transformative concepts will be important tools for mitigating epistemic injustices, as they allow for increased intelligibility of certain experiences and social understandings. Finally, I engage with some potential contexts out of which transformative concepts can arise, describing some of the characteristic features of these hotspots for generation.
Monopole operators, moduli spaces and dualities
Creators: name: Berenstein, David
name: Romo, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop semiclassical methods to analyze the spectrum of BPS monopole operators for superconformal field theories in three dimensions with N=2 supersymmetry. We show that the chiral ring of the theory results from the semiclassical holomorphic quantization of the solution of classical BPS equations of motion on the cylinder. We apply this formalism to various theories. We also use these techniques to compare the chiral rings of theories that might be related to each other via Seiberg dualities in four dimensions. We find that the change of basis transformations that generate dualities in four dimensions (homological operations) generically do not work in three dimensions in the presence of Chern-Simons terms. Instead, new theories generally arise this way. When dualities are possible, the Chern-Simons couplings need to satisfy certain arithmetic congruences. We also determine the spectrum of R-charges of the chiral ring operators by assembling them on a Hilbert series and by minimizing the coefficient of the maximum pole relative to the trial R-charge. This is related to volume minimization in theories with dual supergravity setups.
description: 49 pages, 8 figures, JHEP format. v2: References added. A new subsection with quantum corrections to monopole operators is included. These quantum corrections restore some of the Seiberg dualities that did not match with the classical computation alone. Minor fix on one figure
Additional file 1 of Expanding general practice with interprofessional teams: a mixed-methods patient perspective study
Creators: name: Abelsen, Birgit
name: Pedersen, Kine
name: Løyland, Hanna Isabel
name: Aandahl, Emilie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
Beyond Role Transition: Specialty Nurses’ Narratives of Learning to Teach
Creators: name: House-Kokan, Michelle Anne Marie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: nursing education
subject: specialty nursing education
subject: specialty nursing
subject: learning to teach
subject: narrative inquiry
subject: faculty development
subject: Education--Adult and Continuing
subject: Education--Health
subject: Education--Higher
subject: Education
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In Canada, specialty nurse educators are typically hired for their clinical expertise and are not required to have training in pedagogical methodology or have past experience as educators (Bagley et al., 2018; Hoffman, 2019; Shapiro, 2018). Currently, little is known about how expert specialty nurses learn to teach post-licensure specialty education. Today, there is a critical shortfall of Registered Nurses in Canada (Ariste et al., 2019; Canadian Nurses Association, 2023). At the same time, an increase in patient acuity and complexity has highlighted the need for specialized nursing care and thus specialized post-licensure education (British Columbia Government, 2020; Lavoie-Tremblay et al., 2019). Despite the rising demand for specialty nurses, there is a parallel critical shortage of nurse educators at all levels of nursing education, including at the post-licensure specialty level (British Columbia Institute of Technology, 2021; Boamah, 2021). A deeper understanding of how post-licensure specialty nurse educators learn to teach is crucial to preparing and supporting both new and current specialty nurse educators. This qualitative inquiry arises from my experience as a post-licensure specialty nurse educator and faculty development lead. With this inquiry, I expand the limited scholarship in this area. Employing a narrative inquiry methodology, and a conceptual framework derived from the nursing, teacher, and higher education literature and informed by adult learning theory, I explore and describe specialty nurse educators’ process of learning to teach, along with factors that help or hinder this process. Key findings from this study include the holistic nature of the journey of learning to teach specialty nursing, learning to teach through caring, and learning to teach as a relational process.
Optimal random access protocols for wireless networks
Creators: name: Cheung, Man Hon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In this thesis, we present several random access algorithms for medium access control in wireless networks. Optimization theory, game theory, and dynamic programming are applied in the analysis and the design of these algorithms. First, we study the problem of multi-channel random access using the signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) model in cognitive radio networks. We formulate it as a network utility maximization (NUM) problem, and propose a distributed algorithm that converges to a near-optimal solution. Moreover, we apply coalitional game theory to study the incentive issues of rational user cooperation in a given channel under the SINR model. Next, we consider a wireless local area network (WLAN) with rational users, who may strategically declare their access categories (ACs) not intended for their applications in order to gain some unfair shares of the network resources. We propose to use the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism to motivate each user to declare truthfully its actual AC to the access point (AP). In order to implement the VCG mechanism with concave, step, and quasi-concave utility functions, we propose an enumeration algorithm to obtain the global optimal solution of the formulated non-convex NUM problem. To extend the aforementioned work on single-channel random access in WLANs, we focus on sigmoidal utility functions. We propose a subgradient algorithm to solve the formulated NUM problem using the dual decomposition method. If the sufficient conditions on link capacities are satisfied, the algorithm obtains the optimal solution. Finally, we consider the vehicular ad hoc networks. We study the problem of random access in a drive-thru scenario, where roadside APs are installed on a highway to provide temporary Internet access for vehicles. We first consider the single-AP scenario with random vehicular traffic, and propose a dynamic optimal random access (DORA) algorithm that aims to minimize the total transmission cost of a vehicle. We determine the conditions under which the optimal transmission policy has a threshold structure, and propose an algorithm with a lower computational complexity. Then, we consider the multiple-AP scenario with deterministic vehicular traffic arrival due to traffic estimation. A joint DORA is proposed to obtain the optimal transmission policy.
‘Long Cold War’? Intelligence and the precarious Anglo-Soviet wartime alliance
Creators: name: Cabel, Patrick Michael Beckloff
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Communications Intelligence
subject: Diplomacy
subject: Alliances
subject: History--European
subject: History--Military
subject: History--Russian and Soviet

description: During the interwar period (1919-1939), British politicians were unwilling to treat the revolutionary Soviet state as a serious factor in European politics. From the British side, the relationship was marked by frustration, mistrust, and animosity. This was an early, ideologically-driven Cold War. As Europe’s clouds darkened in the 1930s and a new war seemed increasingly possible, a British-Soviet partnership was a possibility, but both opted to deal instead with Adolf Hitler in the desperate hopes of avoiding war. Hitler would eventually bring Britain and the USSR together when he launched Barbarossa in June 1941. The Second World War forced the Anglo-Soviet relationship to change. Once the USSR survived the German attack, it became increasingly clear the Red Army would destroy Nazi Germany and dominate the European political picture. Although the wartime Anglo-Soviet partnership, embodied in the ‘Grand Alliance’ that included the United States, was often on shaky ground, Britain, knowing it needed the USSR after the war, sought to determine if it would be a cooperative or hostile power. This process, begun in 1943, used a new source of intelligence: intercepted diplomatic communications from various European capitals. Diplomats closely watched the Grand Alliance both as a war-fighting entity, and that which would determine the peace settlement after victory. These well-positioned and perceptive diplomats understood the European political map faced an upheaval, and they sought to assess the danger presented by the USSR. Their observations offered British politicians valuable insight into Soviet intentions, which, increasingly, portended a confrontational postwar relationship as Moscow, relentlessly pursuing the security of its borders, sought to expand its influence into states like Poland and Turkey. These communications have been little used by historians, and never for the purpose of contextualizing how British leaders grappled with their position as a power in eclipse, their relationship with the ascendant United States, and whether the USSR would support or subvert a postwar settlement.
Phaonantho Albuquerque 1957
Creators: name: Gomes, Lucas Roberto Pereira
name: Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Anthomyiidae
Phaonantho

description: Phaonantho Albuquerque, 1957
 Type species: Phaonantho devia Albuquerque, 1957.
 Diagnosis: Male holoptic (Figs. 1A, 2A, 3A) and female dichoptic (Figs. 1D, 2D, 3D). Male frons at the narrowest point with contiguous fronto-orbital plates (Figs. 1A, 2A, 3A). Two pairs of frontal setae. Gena, proboscis, and antennae are light to dark brown. Arista plumose.Palpi filiform. Females with a pair of interfrontal setae,two pairs of proclinate orbital setae (the upper one being very short), and one pair of reclinate orbital setae (Figs. 1D, 2D, 3D). One to two anterior anepisternal setae.The prealar seta shorter than the posterior notopleural seta. The apex of the scutellum is setulose ventrally. Prosternum bare. Dorsocentral setae 2+3. Katepisternal setae 1+2, lower and upper katepisternal setae, similar in length in males. Wings hyaline or brownish without spots.Veins bare, except for the presence of microtrichia, also present on the wing membrane. Vein A₁ short, not reaching the wing margin (Figs.1C, F). Lower calypter twice as long as the upper calypter. Male fore tibia with a median seta on the posteroventral surface. Female fore tibia with a median seta on the anterodorsal and posteroventral surfaces. Hind tibia with a submedian anteroventral seta, three anterodorsal setae, and a median posterodorsal seta (calcar) twice the tibial width. Fore and hind basitarsi, with a conspicuous ventrobasal seta. Abdomen light brown, basally yellowish. Tergites with marginal setae developed, the laterals longer. Sternite one setulose. Male terminalia: surstyli bifurcated, shorter than cerci; cerci wide and rounded, length equal to that of the epandrium width in lateral view; pregonite covered by long setae.
description: Published as part of Gomes, Lucas Roberto Pereira & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros de, 2023, New records of the Neotropical genus Phaonantho Albuquerque (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), pp. 1-9 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 2, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.041, http://zenodo.org/record/10270451
Additional file 1 of Defining matrix Gla protein expression in the Dunkin-Hartley guinea pig model of spontaneous osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Ma, Xun
name: Zhang, Zhan
name: Kang, Xinyuan
name: Deng, Chunbo
name: Sun, Yingwei
name: Li, Yanjun
name: Huang, Desheng
name: Liu, Xueyong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Refinery GHG Emissions of US, Canada and EU from 2019 to 2050: An Exploration of Decarbonization Scenarios
Creators: name: Kim, Hyunsoo
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: greenhous gas
subject: decarbonization
subject: refinery
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: This thesis evaluates how refinery operations and resulting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are affected by economy-wide decarbonization scenarios and emissions mitigation measures in the United States (US), Canada and the European Union (EU) out to 2050. This study characterizes scenarios of potential future refinery transformations and resulting emissions for achieving net zero goals. Refinery emissions are estimated for each region using the open-source modelling tool called Petroleum Refining Life Cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). Multilinear regression modelling and optimization techniques are applied to regional historic refinery data as an initial estimate of potential future operational changes in refineries and resulting emissions. Decarbonization scenarios with GHG reduction targets are compared to the estimates of future refinery changes including shifting refinery product demand (e.g., due to an increase in electric vehicle penetration that will decrease demand for conventional transportation fuels), crude quality, and refining configuration. While economy-wide decarbonization scenarios are characterized reasonably well for the transportation sector, future refinery operations are not adequately considered. This thesis helps to identify the potential changes could take place in future refineries and how they react to decarbonization pressures. The total possible GHG emissions from regional refineries in 2030 and 2050 are estimated and compared with 2019 emission results. By adjusting refinery output to match product demand projections in the most ambitious 2050 decarbonization scenarios as well as potential shifts in crude quality and refinery utilization, the refining emissions in the US, Canada, and the EU can be reduced by 84%, 68% and 97% compared to 2019 emission results without mitigation measures, respectively. Additionally, emissions based on implementing GHG mitigation measures in refineries such as advanced energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and alternate energy input can reduce emissions by 97%, 95% and 99% with energy input technologies which has the largest impacts compared to 2019 in the US, Canada, and the EU respectively. The outcome of this research could enable oil companies and government policymakers to understand the impacts of different operational changes in refineries and conduct future decarbonization assessments as needed to achieve general insights associated with GHG emissions.
Additional file 1 of How initial policy responses to COVID-19 contributed to shaping dying at home preferences and care provision: key informant perspectives from Canada
Creators: name: Cherba, Maria
name: Funk, Laura
name: Scott, Erin
name: Salman, Bora
name: Rounce, Andrea
name: Mackenzie, Corey
name: Stajduhar, Kelli
name: Dujela, Carren
name: Krawczyk, Marian
name: Cohen, S. Robin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1: The file contains the interview questions for this study.
Phase-shift inversion in oscillator systems with periodically switching couplings
Creators: name: Lee, Sang Hoon
name: Lee, Sungmin
name: Son, Seung-Woo
name: Holme, Petter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system's response to external periodic changes can provide crucial information about its dynamical properties. We investigate the synchronization transition, an archetypical example of a dynamic phase transition, in the framework of such a temporal response. The Kuramoto model under periodically switching interactions has the same type of phase transition as the original mean-field model. Furthermore, we see that the signature of the synchronization transition appears in the relative delay of the order parameter with respect to the phase of oscillating interactions as well. Specifically, the phase shift becomes significantly larger as the system gets closer to the phase transition so that the order parameter at the minimum interaction density can even be larger than that at the maximum interaction density, counterintuitively. We argue that this phase-shift inversion is caused by the diverging relaxation time, in a similar way to the resonance near the critical point in the kinetic Ising model. Our result, based on exhaustive simulations on globally coupled systems as well as scale-free networks, shows that an oscillator system's phase transition can be manifested in the temporal response to the topological dynamics of the underlying connection structure.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
On Indefinite Singular Generics
Creators: name: Goddard, Quinn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: generics
subject: indefinite singular generics
subject: samples
subject: semantics
subject: pragmatics
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Consider a simple statement like 'A dog has four legs', which, under a generic reading, is an example of an Indefinite Singular (IS) generic. Different varieties of generics are differentiated by their subject nominal type; for instance, English has both the indefinite singular and bare plural (BP) generic (e.g. 'Dogs have four legs'). Crucially, IS generics have a more limited distribution than their BP counterparts. A myriad of theories have been posited to explain this, characterizing IS generics as expressing, inter alia, “rules and regulations” (Cohen, 2001), or “in-virtue-of” (Greenberg, 2003), “non-accidental” (Lawler, 1973) or “definitional” (Krifka, 2013) properties. However, no existing account captures the full variety of data. I introduce the idea that IS generics discuss samples (Elgin, 1983; Goodman, 1976) (objects which exemplify one or more properties in a given context), or more specifically abstract samples, which are mental entities. Uttering an IS generic is argued to constitute a speech act that contributes an abstract sample to the discourse, one which is deemed felicitous if it is judged to be a “good sample”, that is, one which is reflective of the kind so as to not seem like “false advertising”. Speaker intent selects the exemplified properties, as well enforces that they are characteristic of the kind (at least according to the speaker’s point of view). This degree of speaker commitment to the generalization is precisely what distinguishes IS generics from their BP counterparts. I additionally argue that characterizations of truth evaluation for IS generics in terms of being “accepted by the language community” (Cohen, 2001, p. 199) are far too broad, and that instead acceptability should be judged on a much smaller (e.g. speaker-specific) scale, meaning the use and evaluation of an IS generic is relativized to individual perspective (cf. Mari, 2008).
Longitudinal Analysis of the Behavioral and Occupational Factors Present in Individuals Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Calgary, Alberta
Creators: name: Caplan, Léa Natacha
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology

description: The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus resulted in a public health emergency. Routine behaviours such as shopping were considered high-risk during the pandemic. Research on how people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) altered their behaviour during the pandemic is lacking. Therefore, we aimed to understand how the behaviours of persons with IBD were altered during the pandemic, and whether behavioural exposures were associated with COVID-19 disease. At recruitment, 556 participants with a confirmed diagnosis of IBD were administered a self-report, online questionnaire. The primary baseline questionnaire captured demographic and occupational factors as well as the frequency of social behaviours at two time periods: 1. January–March 2020 (i.e., prior to pandemic lockdown), and 2. January–September 2021 (i.e., restriction period). A follow-up questionnaire investigating the same exposures from January–March 2022 (Omicron era) was completed by a subset of 223 participants between September 1st, 2022, and October 20th, 2022. Proportions for high frequency behaviours (daily to once per week) across the three time periods were reported. Multivariable logistic regression was used to analyze behaviours and Omicron-era COVID-19 cases. Behavioural changes were observed across all three time periods. The proportion of highly frequent behaviours dropped for almost all behaviour measures (except for outdoor exercise and online groceries) between January–March 2020 and January–September 2021. The proportion of most behaviours increased between January–September 2021 and January–March 2022 but did not match pre-pandemic levels (except online groceries, outdoor fitness, and travelling). Participants who visited restaurants frequently (i.e., daily to once per week) had 3.24 times the odds of getting COVID-19 compared with those who visited a restaurant infrequently (i.e., less than once per week). Over a two-year period, those with IBD changed their behaviours and lifestyle, perhaps in response to policy and restriction changes in Alberta. Individuals with IBD resorted to lower risk behaviours such as outdoor exercise, and activities with higher risk of exposure (e.g., indoor fitness) did not return to pre-pandemic levels.
Magnetic and electric AdS solutions in string- and M-theory
Creators: name: Donos, Aristomenis
name: Gauntlett, Jerome P.
name: Pantelidou, Christiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability properties of a family of magnetic $AdS_{3}\times \mathbb{R}^{2}$ solutions of D=5, SO(6) gauged SUGRA are investigated in more detail. We construct an analogous family of magnetic $AdS_{2}\times \mathbb{R}^{2}$ solutions of D=4, SO(8) gauged SUGRA, including a family of supersymmetric solutions, and also investigate their stability. We construct supersymmetric domain walls that interpolate between AdS_5 and an $AdS_3\times\mathbb{R}^2$ solution and also between AdS_4 and an $AdS_2\times\mathbb{R}^2$ solution which provide stable zero temperature ground states for the corresponding dual CFTs. We also construct new families of electric $AdS_{2}\times \mathbb{R}^{3}$ and $AdS_{2}\times \mathbb{R}^{2}$ solutions.
description: 38 pages, 7 figures. References added, typos fixed. Additional mode analysed with no new instabiltiy found
Additional file 1 of A transfer learning nomogram for predicting prostate cancer and benign conditions on MRI
Creators: name: Chen, Junhao
name: Feng, Bao
name: Hu, Maoqing
name: Huang, Feidong
name: Chen, Yehang
name: Ma, Xilun
name: Long, Wansheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Semiclassical approximations for Hamiltonians with operator-valued symbols
Creators: name: Stiepan, Hans-Michael
name: Teufel, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q70, 81Q20, 81S30

description: We consider the semiclassical limit of quantum systems with a Hamiltonian given by the Weyl quantization of an operator valued symbol. Systems composed of slow and fast degrees of freedom are of this form. Typically a small dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon\ll 1$ controls the separation of time scales and the limit $\varepsilon\to 0$ corresponds to an adiabatic limit, in which the slow and fast degrees of freedom decouple. At the same time $\varepsilon\to 0$ is the semiclassical limit for the slow degrees of freedom. In this paper we show that the $\varepsilon$-dependent classical flow for the slow degrees of freedom first discovered by Littlejohn and Flynn, coming from an $\epsi$-dependent classical Hamilton function and an $\varepsilon$-dependent symplectic form, has a concrete mathematical and physical meaning: Based on this flow we prove a formula for equilibrium expectations, an Egorov theorem and transport of Wigner functions, thereby approximating properties of the quantum system up to errors of order $\varepsilon^2$. In the context of Bloch electrons formal use of this classical system has triggered considerable progress in solid state physics. Hence we discuss in some detail the application of the general results to the Hofstadter model, which describes a two-dimensional gas of non-interacting electrons in a constant magnetic field in the tight-binding approximation.
description: Final version to appear in Commun. Math. Phys. Results have been strengthened with only minor changes to the proofs. A section on the Hofstadter model as an application of the general theory was added and the previous section on other applications was removed