cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The huddle: combining ai methods to improve handling a group of characters by a human game player
Creators: name: Davison, Timothy
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 97-101
description: Most pages are in colour.
description: The huddle is a concept for extending computer games in which the player controls more than one character. It combines several AI methods to allow the player to create a cooperative strategy for his team of characters. It takes away the need for the player to frantically switch his control from character to character to carry out the strategy that he has in mind. The player enters the huddle from a saved game state where he provides the key ideas of a strategy in the form of situations that his characters can be in and actions for those situations (SAPs). Based upon these ideas, a learner fills in the missing details by adding additional SAPs to create a complete strategy that can be used in the real game. The learning component uses a simulation of the real game, with models of the non­player characters created from the observed behaviours of those characters, in order to evaluate candidate solutions. When a solution is found, the player is given the opportu­nity to take it to the real game and have the behaviour of his characters replaced by the combined strategy created by himself and the huddle. The huddle was evaluated with a fantasy-themed role playing game. It was shown that the huddle allowed the player to focus on developing a strategy without taking away the requirement for him to create the key ideas for that strategy.
The peculiar 2011 outburst of the black hole candidate IGR J17091-3624, a GRS 1915+105 like source?
Creators: name: Capitanio, Fiamma
name: Del Santo, Melania
name: Bozzo, Enrico
name: Ferrigno, Carlo
name: De Cesare, Giovanni
name: Paizis, Adamantia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the long-term monitoring campaign of the black hole candidate IGR J17091-3624 performed with INTEGRAL and Swift during the peculiar outburst started on January 2011. We have studied the two month spectral evolution of the source in detail. Unlike the previous outbursts, the initial transition from the hard to the soft state in 2011 was not followed by the standard spectral evolution expected for a transient black hole binary. IGR J17091-3624 showed pseudo periodic flare-like events in the light curve, closely resembling those observed from GRS 1915+105. We find evidence that these phenomena are due to the same physical instability process ascribed to GRS 1915+105. Finally we speculate that the faintness of IGR J17091-3624 could be not only due to the high distance of the source but to the high inclination angle of the system as well.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS on 2012 February 28. Received in original form 2011 October 19
Proposal for a new scheme for producing a two-photon, high dimensional hyperentangled state
Creators: name: Xu, Hong-Bo
name: Du, Kun
name: Qiao, Cong-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an experimentally feasible scheme for generating a two $2\times4\times4$ dimensional photons hyperentangled state, entangled in polarization, frequency and spatial mode. This scheme is mainly based on a parametric down-conversion source and cross-Kerr nonlinearities, which avoids the complicated uncertain post-selection. Our method can be easily expanded to the production of hyperentangled states with more photons in multidimensions. Hence the expectation for vast quantities of information in quantum information processing will possibly come true. Finally, we put forward a realizable quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol based on the high dimensional hyperentangled state.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, to appear in J.Mod Optics
Executive level capital project decision making: rational or rationale?
Creators: name: Chenger, Denise T.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 211-219
description: The Project Management Institute estimates the current annual global investment in all capital projects and infrastructure is $12 trillion US, yet we have very little information on how and who initiated these investment decisions. Further, despite the creation of numerous programs and processes aimed at improving project success, completing projects on time and within budget still seems to elude project participants. Interviews were conducted with 21 executives in the upstream oil and gas industry to provide insight into how high profile capital project decisions were made. While capital projects were thought to be initiated by managers and follow a stage-gate process or are an output of the strategic planning process, a key finding is that these major projects were independently and intuitively conceived either by the CEO alone or by the CEO and other executives or board members. Four decision-making paths were modelled based on the type of opportunity: planned, opportunistic, combined, and one followed a rational decision-making process. Formal risk processes were not used in the decision-making process, nor were other resources such as consultants. These findings have implications for existing project management practices, including aligning risk perspectives and how risk is managed, the role of a stage-gate model, how projects are conceived and moved into the planning phase, and how projects are communicated within the executive team and organization. The findings also raise questions regarding broader external implications. If major decisions are made independently by CEOs, how are companies ensuring our corporate leaders are trained to make good decisions, as major projects not only impact the organization but also affect the communities in which the company operates? This research provides some valuable insight into how executives perceive risk, equity markets, organizational readiness, project opportunities, and their perceived role in projects. This helps to prepare the expectations of project managers and others in organizations who are craving for more face time and insight into the strategic process as well as project planning and execution.
Coherent transfer of optical orbital angular momentum in multi-order Raman sideband generation
Creators: name: Strohaber, J.
name: Zhi, M.
name: Sokolov, A. V.
name: Kolomenskii, A. A.
name: Paulus, G. G.
name: Schuessler, H. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental results from the generation of Raman sidebands using optical vortices are presented. By generating two sets of sidebands originating from different locations in a Raman active crystal, one set containing optical orbital angular momentum and the other serving as a reference, a Young's double slit experiment was simultaneously realized for each sideband. The interference between the two sets of sidebands was used to determine the helicity and topological charge in each order. Topological charges in all orders were found to be discrete and follow selection rules predicted by a cascaded Raman process.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Appropriateness of usage of computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) investigation of suspected pulmonary embolism – findings from a district general hospital in England.
Creators: name: Mirajkar, Nikhil
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Audit and standards
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Emergency
subject: Emergency Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: This audit performed at a single centre in a district general hospital in the UK aims to assess: Whether CTPA scans are being used appropriately. The diagnostic yield of CTPA scans. How appropriate are clinical requests? Has risk...
Nonlinear gravitational self-force. I. Field outside a small body
Creators: name: Pound, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A small extended body moving through an external spacetime $g_{αβ}$ creates a metric perturbation $h_{αβ}$, which forces the body away from geodesic motion in $g_{αβ}$. The foundations of this effect, called the gravitational self-force, are now well established, but concrete results have mostly been limited to linear order. Accurately modeling the dynamics of compact binaries requires proceeding to nonlinear orders. To that end, I show how to obtain the metric perturbation outside the body at all orders in a class of generalized wave gauges. In a small buffer region surrounding the body, the form of the perturbation can be found analytically as an expansion for small distances $r$ from a representative worldline. Given only a specification of the body's multipole moments, the field obtained in the buffer region suffices to find the metric everywhere outside the body via a numerical puncture scheme. Following this procedure at first and second order, I calculate the field in the buffer region around an arbitrarily structured compact body at sufficiently high order in $r$ to numerically implement a second-order puncture scheme, including effects of the body's spin. I also define $n$th-order (local) generalizations of the Detweiler-Whiting singular and regular fields and show that in a certain sense, the body can be viewed as a skeleton of multipole moments.
description: 29 pages, typos corrected, second-order field made available at http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/ap8e11/second-order-fields.html
title: LandHelp.info II: providing collaborative Web services to the world through a modern interactive format for private and public uses
title: Providing collaborative Web services to the world
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schrupp, Donald L.
name: Halseide, Peder
name: Benson, Delwin E.
name: Calderazzo, John
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Video presenter: Don Schrupp.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: LandHelp (www.LandHelp.info) was developed and used over two decades by professionals and consumers to easily store and retrieve web-based links to manage land, wildlife and people under a common brand name. LandHelp was developed as a first-stop-shop to evaluate, organize and provide access to existing useful information from credible sources that might otherwise go unnoticed, not accessed, or not heeded. LandHelp started when a network of organization professionals were seeking management information for landowners and found that significant written information existed, from a variety of sources and formats, but it often was pulled from print without notice. The web emerged as a commonly-used, dynamic and editable, information resource; consequently LandHelp was created for outreach. A recent evaluation, resulted in an improved, second generation content management system including the original > 5000 web-based links and/or PDF documents and it now uses a dynamic, data-based approach providing for more opportunities to collaborate in its development from the conservation communities that include natural resources professionals, agriculturalists, and resource users. Regular visitors to the site can become registered users, which allows them to provide interactive feedback on LandHelp content, and if so inspired, to submit content themselves for monitored posting at the site. We will present an overview of LandHelp's layout and capabilities. We encourage Wildlife Congress participants to visit LandHelp and take it for a test drive. The ideal outcome is for all states, provinces, and countries to have approved contributors to LandHelp; then, your inputs can be accessed and shared with others.
title: Unravelling the mystery of Malarial Radiology!
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Abdomen
subject: CNS
subject: Respiratory system
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Infection
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To enumerate and discuss systematically imaging findings seen in patients with...
The Financial Accelerator in an Evolving Credit Network
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Greenwald, Bruce C.
name: Delli Gatti, Domenico
name: Gallegati, Mauro
name: Russo, Alberto
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economics

description: We model a credit network characterized by credit relationships connecting (i) downstream (D) and upstream (U) firms and (ii) firms and banks. The net worth of D firms is the driver of fluctuations. The production of D firms and of their suppliers (U firms) in fact, is constrained by the availability of internal finance--proxied by net worth--to the D firms. The structure of credit interlinkages changes over time due to an endogeneous process of partner selection, which leads to the polarization of the network. At the aggregate level, the distribution of growth rates exhibits negative skewness and excess kurtosis. When a shock hits the macroeconomy or a significant group of agents in the credit network a bankruptcy avalanche can follow if agents' leverage is critically high. In a nutshell we want to explore the properties of a network-based financial accelerator.
Ontario teacher unions' confidence in postmodern society: a multiple case study
Creators: name: Burton Spohn, Rosemarie Therese
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 248-287
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: We live in a postmodern world, characterized by rapid dissemination of information through technology, the decline of the factory system, decentralized decision-making, and workplace intensification (Hargreaves, 1994). In such a context, so different from the modern industrial world, some question the relevance of unions (Verma & Kochan, 2004). In this thesis, I argue that unions-and teacher unions in particular-are not only relevant in this postmodern world, but crucial. As the world adapts to shifts in global power, immigration, work, and resource allocation (Canton, 2006; Friedman, 2007; Gratton, 2011; OECD, 2008; Quinlan, 2011), and as those shifts influence education (Toole & Seashore Louis, 2002), teacher unions are needed to meet both the traditional industrial and professional interests of their membership and also to address broader democratic and social justice issues affecting those within and beyond their membership. However, to meet those demands and to be viable organizations in today's postmodern world, teacher unions must be confident. This exploratory multiple case study, conducted in the Interpretive tradition, is based on Rosabeth Moss Kanter' s (2006) Theory of Confidence, which asserts that confident or winning organizations exhibit or promote accountability, collaboration, and initiative. The study sought to determine the extent to which the members of one teacher union in Ontario, Canada-the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA)-perceived their union as confident. Data were collected through observations; an examination of the documents on OECTA's website; and interviews with thirty OECTA members, including provincial executives, local executives, staff representatives, and rank-and-file members. The results of the study indicated that OECT A generally demonstrates accountability, collaboration, and initiative, and thus is a confident organization; however, like many organizations, it can improve in these areas in the short, mid, and long term.
First-principles structural optimization and electronic structure of the superconductor picene for various potassium doping levels
Creators: name: Kosugi, Taichi
name: Miyake, Takashi
name: Ishibashi, Shoji
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Aoki, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically explore the crystal structures of K$_x$picene, for which a new aromatic superconductivity has recently been discovered for $x=3$, by systematically performing first-principles full structural optimization covering the concentration range $x=1$-4. The crystal symmetry (space group) of the pristine picene is shown to be preserved in all the optimized structures despite significant deformations of each picene molecule and vast rearrangements of herringbone array of molecules. For K$_x$picene ($x=1$-4) optimization indicates that (i) multiple structures exist in some cases, and (ii) dopants can enter not only in the interlayer region between the stack of herringbone structures, but also in the intralayer region. In the electronic structure obtained with the local density approximation for the optimized structures, the dopants are shown to affect the electronic properties not only through the rearrangement and distortion of molecules, but also molecule-metal atom hybridization. In other words, the rigid-band approximation is invalidated for multifold reasons. As a consequence the resultant Fermi surface exhibits a variety of multiband structures which take diverse topology for K$_1$picene and K$_3$picene.
description: 7 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
Recruitment of Minority Women and Their Main Sexual Partners in an HIV/STI Prevention Trial
Creators: name: Witte, Susan S.
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Chang, Mingway P.
name: Steinglass, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Social psychology
Public health

description: Recruiting heterosexual couples into randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to test the efficacy of HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention interventions is a challenge that requires innovative strategies and consideration of ethical issues, including participant safety and confidentiality. Methods: This paper provides a brief review of the literature on minority and couple RCT recruitment and describes the development (preparation phase and protocol development) and implementation (strategies employed and barriers) of a recruitment protocol that safely enrolled 217 predominantly African American and Latino heterosexual couples into a relationship- based, HIV/STI prevention study. Results: The success of this recruitment protocol with no reported adverse events demonstrates the feasibility of engaging urban minority women and men in RCTs. This study builds on a small literature base articulating specific couple recruitment strategies. Conclusion: More research delineating and testing specific strategies for recruiting defined populations into clinical trials is needed to advance the science of study recruitment and improve generalizability of research findings.
title: Abdominal Lymphoma: Beyond adenopathies
Creators: name: Delgado Fernandez, Laura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Education
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Haematologic
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The radiologist must know the wide spectrum of radiological manifestations of lymphoma (diffuse infiltration, nodules, masses and organomegalies) and include it systematically in the differential diagnosis of abdominal pathology, in order to perform...
Interpreting Silence: A Response to Miikka Ruokanen
Creators: name: Knitter, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Religion

description: With Miikka Ruokanen, I admit that the documents of the Second Vatican Council are silent about the issue of whether other religious traditions can be viae salutis or ways of salvation But to interpret this silence, as he does, to mean that the council fathers implicitly denied that there can be authentic revelation and salvation through other religious paths is even less warranted than to conclude that they implicitly affirmed such salvine value It seems to me that Ruokanen's analysis moves beyond the evidence of the texts themselves and contrary to the broader Roman Catholic theological context in which these texts were fashioned Within this broader context of Catholic experience and tradition, there are, I suggest, even clearer and more persuasive reasons to interpret the council's silence in a positive sense and to conclude, with the majority (not just "many") of contemporary Roman Catholic theologians that Vatican II implicitly affirms the salvine potential of other religions.
In vivo detection of G-quadruplex nucleic acids using monoclonal antibodies
Creators: name: Henderson, Alexander Harper Hewitt
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: G-quadruplex nucleic acids are a group of nucleic acids formed from the non-Watson-Crick base pairing of guanine nucleic acids. They can readily form at physiological pH and physiological temperatures within sufficiently long stretches of guanine-rich oligonucleotides. Although, the existence of the G-quartet (the fundamental unit of a G-quadruplex) in a Petri dish has been recognized since the early 60’s, the existence of G-quadruplex nucleic acids in mammalian cells remains unclear. Yet while unequivocal evidence of the existence of G-quadruplex nucleic acids in live cells remains unclear, interest in these potentially important biological structures continues to intensify. G-quadruplex nucleic acids have been suggested to play key roles in essential human molecular pathways including telomere biology, transcriptional regulation and disease development. One of the major obstacles in G-quadruplex nucleic acid research is a lack of tools for the in vivo detection of these structures. In our work, we have harnessed hybridoma technology to produce the first monoclonal antibodies to these unique nucleic acid structures. To our knowledge, these are the first hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies obtained through the immunization of mice with purified and validated G-quadruplex structures. Monoclonal antibodies have been approved for use in diagnostic tests and for therapeutic treatments in both cancer and autoimmune diseases, and continue to be very effective laboratory research tools. Using monoclonal antibodies to different G-quadruplex nucleic acids we have explored the existence of G-quadruplex nucleic acids in mammalian cells. One of our antibodies, termed 1H6, forms discrete nuclear foci in human and murine cells and strong nuclear staining in most cells of human tissues. Based on the specificity of the antibodies for defined G-quadruplex structures in vitro, these foci could represent the detection of G-quadruplex nucleic acid structures in mammalian cells. If so, the work presented here provides the first direct evidence for the existence of G-quadruplex nucleic acid structures in human cells.
title: Evaluation of left atrium and pulmonary veins with 64-slice ECG-guided MDCТ for planning radiofrequency catheter ablation.
Creators: name: Partenova, Aneliya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this paper is to describe the normal anatomy and anatomical variations of the left atrium and pulmonary veins, providing sufficient information required for successful RFCA. We will draw our attention to some specific pathology and...
NMSSM in gauge-mediated SUSY breaking without domain wall problem
Creators: name: Hamaguchi, Koichi
name: Nakayama, Kazunori
name: Yokozaki, Norimi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A problem of the gauge-mediated SUSY breaking model is its difficulty to generate a natural value of mu/Bmu, while the NMSSM is a natural framework to solve the mu/Bmu problem. The NMSSM in gauge-mediated SUSY breaking in its original form does not work well since the singlet field cannot develop a desired vacuum expectation value. It also suffers from the cosmological domain wall problem. We study an extension of the model to include additional vector-like matter, which is charged under the hidden QCD. It is shown that this simple extension solves both the problems. We study phenomenological and cosmological implications of this extended models. The lightest Higgs mass can be as large as 130-140 GeV for some model points.
description: 15 pages; the version to be published in PLB
AVALIAÇÃO DO PROGRAMA SAÚDE NA ESCOLA - PSE: UMA REVISÃO DE ESCOPO.
Creators: name: De Lorena Sobrinho, José Eudes
name: Cardoso, Mirian Domingos
name: Iraneide Nascimento Dos Santos
name: ANDRADE, PRISCILA MARIA DA CRUZ
name: Da Silva Dantas Ribeiro, Caio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Health Policy

description: Trata-se de uma revisão de escopo que visa mapear os estudos de avaliação e análise sobre o Programa Saúde na Escola - PSE.
title: An arm or a leg: prostate artery embolisation via a transradial approach
Creators: name: Russell, James
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Cancer
subject: Embolisation
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Interventional Radiology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this educational poster is to demonstrate the feasibility of prostate artery embolisation (PAE) via a transradial approach using illustrative examples from our...
A Pediatrics-Based Instrument for Assessing Resident Education in Evidence-Based Practice
Creators: name: Pusic, Martin
name: Chernick, Lauren
name: Liu, Heather
name: Vazquez, Hector
name: Kwok, Maria
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Health education
Medicine

description: Objective:The principles of evidence-based practice (EBP) are a mandated component of the pediatric residency curriculum; however, a pediatrics-based assessment tool validated with pediatric residents does not exist. Methods: We designed an assessment instrument composed of items in 4 categories: 1) demographics; 2) comfort level; 3) self-reported practice of EBP; and 4) EBP knowledge. This last section required participants to identify best evidence and most appropriate study design by using pediatric-based scenarios, develop searchable questions, and use existing published research to address diagnostic and treatment issues. Four groups completed the instrument: preclinical medical students (MS-2), incoming pediatric interns (PGY-1), incoming second- and third-year pediatric residents (PGY2-3), and expert tutors (expert). We determined internal consistency, interrater reliability, content validity, item difficulty, and construct validity. Results: Fifty-six subjects completed tests (MS-2, n = 13; PGY-1, n = 13; PGY2-3, n = 22; expert, n = 8). Internal reliability was good, with Cronbach's alpha = .80. Interrater reliability was high (kappa = 0.94). Items were free of floor or ceiling effects. Comfort level and self-reported practice of EBP increased with expertise level and prior EBP experience (P < .01). Scores on the knowledge section (out of 50 +/- SD) rose with training level (MS-2: 14.8 +/- 5.7; PGY-1: 22.2 +/- 3.4; PGY2-3: 31.7 +/- 6.1; experts: 43 +/- 4.0; P < .01). Scores also correlated with prior EBP education. Conclusions: We have developed a reliable and valid instrument to assess knowledge and skill in EBP taught to pediatric residents. This instrument can aid pediatric educators in monitoring the impact of the EBP curriculum.
Intertextualite et exorcisme dans 'Solo d'unrevenant' et 'L'Ombre des choses' a venir de Kossi Efoui
Creators: name: Stanford, Marie-Laure
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 109-112
description: Dans ses deux demiers romans, Solo d'un revenant (2008) et L 'Ombre des choses a venir (2011 ), Kossi Efoui revient sur une des strategies narratives qui a joue un role important dans ses premiers romans (La Polka et La Fabrique de ceremonies): l'intertextualite. En effet, }'auteur, ainsi que chacun des protagonistes engages dans le recit, et meme le lecteur, recourent, de fa9on implicite ou explicite, a la memoire de leurs lectures comme voie de fusion, de reconfort et de solidarite pour affronter un passe qui peut encore hanter le present. Ce memoire se propose done de developper cette problematique de l'intertextualite dans la fiction de Solo d'un revenant et L 'Ombre des choses a venir, comme un mode specifique d'exorcisme pour faire passer la douleur du passe et la solitude du present, et postuler ainsi que l'intertextualite, dans la demarche de Kossi Efoui, fonctionne comme un exercice cathartique ou, se refugiant dans sa memoire et ses lectures, le sujet angoisse peut affronter ce qui le blesse dans le passe ainsi que dans le present. En effet, a travers le texte et ses dialogues intertextuels, telles les traces litteraires, bibliques et musicales, ainsi que l'auto-plagiat, puis par le narrateur et ses memoires et finalement chez le lecteur et ses savoirs, l'intertextualite devient un univers dans lequel lecteur, narrateur, voire protagonistes renouent avec une autre dimension d'eux-memes et participent volontiers a leur propre exorcisme.
Training wildlife biologists for work on private lands
Creators: name: Brown, Mary Bomberger
name: Smith, Jennifer A.
name: Powell, Larkin A.
name: Calderazzo, John
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: John Calderazzo.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Video presenter: Jennifer Smith.
description: Conservation and management of wildlife on private lands in the United States is a critical component of the wildlife profession, although university curricula focus on public lands management. Wildlife biologists working on private lands are faced with a mutable landscape and pressures of alternative land uses that shift with changes in economics, regulatory regimes, and societal or cultural values. Loss of biodiversity can be lessened if wildlife biologists are better prepared to work in this challenging landscape. Colleges and universities are faced with training wildlife biologists to work on both public and private lands. Unfortunately, however, wildlife training programs often fail to integrate the management techniques, policy, economics, human dimensions, problem solving, and communication skills required by private lands professionals. Of 14 leading undergraduate wildlife programs that we identified, 36% required a policy class, 36% required a human dimensions class and 7% required an economics class; although most universities did offer interdisciplinary courses, participation was seldom mandatory. We suggest that students and current professionals need to be trained in the skills necessary to protect wildlife when working on privately owned lands. We highlight tools needed for effective private lands conservation such as economic incentives, education, and outreach, and we suggest ways in which they can be taught through modifications to current curriculum, short-courses, continuing education credits, certificate programs, internships, externships, and involvement of agency personnel in the classroom.
Recent PHENIX Results on Open Heavy Flavor
Creators: name: Durham, J. Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Throughout the history of the RHIC physics program, questions concerning the dynamics of heavy quarks have generated much experimental and theoretical investigation. A major focus of the PHENIX experiment is the measurement of these quarks through their semi-leptonic decay channels at mid and forward rapidity. Heavy quark measurements in $p+p$ collisions give information on the production of heavy flavor, without complications from medium effects. New measurements in $d+$Au and Cu+Cu indicate surprising cold nuclear matter effects on these quarks at midrapidity, and provide a new baseline for interpretation of the observed suppression in Au+Au collisions. When considered all together, these measurements present a detailed study of nuclear matter across a wide range of system size and temperature. Here we present preliminary PHENIX measurements of non-photonic electron spectra and their centrality dependence in $d$+Au and Cu+Cu, and discuss their implications on the current understanding of parton energy loss in the nuclear medium.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Quark Matter 2011
Recovery Research, Katrina's Fifth Anniversary, and Lessons Relearned
Creators: name: Redlener, Irwin E.
name: Abramson, David M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Emergency management--Planning
Emergency management--Research
Disaster relief--Planning
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: What may be called “disaster science” is a broad field that begins with  understanding hazards, risks, and population vulnerabilities and moves on to establishing best-practice models of response, mitigation, and recovery. Gaps abound in our collective knowledge in all of these areas, and it is fair to suggest that we have only begun to scratch the surface in terms of what we need to know. The goal continues to be to learn how to prevent disasters whenever possible and, when prevention is not possible, to at least optimize survival, preserve vital infrastructure, and return rapidly to a state of normalcy.
Participatory video as radical incrementalism: exploring the right to love among adults with developmental disabilities
Creators: name: Sitter, Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 233-263
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: This research project involved working collaboratively with a disability advocacy group on an action research project aimed at exploring participatory video as a form of radical incrementalism through three interrelated areas: method, voice, and advocacy. The research involved 12 participants (co-filmmakers) co-creating a series of films about the dimensions of sexual rights as experienced and understood by people with developmental disabilities. The participants subsequently uploaded their videos onto digital platforms, and took on the roles of community educators and incorporated their videos into their larger advocacy campaign. The impact of the research process was documented with multiple data that were analyzed using an approach that drew on critical disability theory and Freirean pedagogy. Through this collaborative method evolved seven stages of production that integrated distribution as core phase of the research process. Findings suggested that a complex interplay between barriers and supports play a critical role in sexual rights, sexual health, and healthy sexuality. In the area of self-advocacy, themes suggested that the process also contributed to: a) disability pride, b) building community bridges, and c) collaborative social action. These findings were critically examined with respect to participatory video as a form of radical incrementalism. Findings suggested that the integration of distribution afforded a more comprehensive understanding of potential strengths, tensions, and ethical considerations of multi-media technologies in advocacy efforts in the context of community development and adult learning practices. Further, it provided insight into the dimensions of disability and sexual rights from the perspective of persons with developmental disabilities living in Western Canada. Suggestions for future research include attention to the authorship/ownership issues in participatory video projects, and exploring meaningful ways of addressing potential tensions of distribution in research contexts.
title: Hyperintense liver lesions on hepatobiliary phase MR imaging in different clinical settings
Creators: name: Gagliano, Domenico Salvatore
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Liver
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate various focal hepatic lesions that may show hyperintensity on hepatobiliary phase (HBP) MRI in healthy, cirrhotic and oncologic...
Production of gamma rays by pulsed laser beam Compton scattering off GeV-electrons using a non-planar four-mirror optical cavity
Creators: name: Akagi, T.
name: Araki, S.
name: Bonis, J.
name: Chaikovska, I.
name: Chiche, R.
name: Cizeron, R.
name: Cohen, M.
name: Cormier, E.
name: Cornebise, P.
name: Delerue, N.
name: Flaminio, R.
name: Funahashi, S.
name: Jehanno, D.
name: Honda, Y.
name: Labaye, F.
name: Lacroix, M.
name: Marie, R.
name: Michel, C.
name: Miyoshi, S.
name: Nagata, S.
name: Omori, T.
name: Peinaud, Y.
name: Pinard, L.
name: Shimizu, H.
name: Soskov, V.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Tanaka, R.
name: Terunuma, T.
name: Urakawa, J.
name: Variola, A.
name: Zomer, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of the positron source R&D for future $e^+-e^-$ colliders and Compton based compact light sources, a high finesse non-planar four-mirror Fabry-Perot cavity has recently been installed at the ATF (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan). The first measurements of the gamma ray flux produced with a such cavity using a pulsed laser is presented here. We demonstrate the production of a flux of 2.7 $\pm$ 0.2 gamma rays per bunch crossing ($\sim3\times10^6$ gammas per second) during the commissioning.
title: Imaging Approach to the Assessment of Post Repair Tetralogy Of Fallot.
Creators: name: Gaduputi, Jahnavi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: ·1. To familiarize the reader with common post repair complications encountered at follow-up imaging. ·2. To discuss various decision making criteria and their assessment on cardiac...
Constraining an Expanding Locally Anisotropic metric from the Pioneer anomaly
Creators: name: Ferreira, P. Castelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is discussed the possibility of a fine-tuneable contribution to the two way Doppler acceleration either towards, either outwards the Sun for heliocentric distances above 20 AU by considering a background described by an Expanding Locally Anisotropic (ELA) metric. This metric encodes both the standard local Schwarzschild gravitational effects and the cosmological Universe expansion effects allowing simultaneously to fine-tune other gravitational effects at intermediate scales, which may be tentatively interpreted as a covariant parameterization of either cold dark matter either gravitational interaction corrections. Are derived bounds for the ELA metric functional parameter by considering the bounds on the deviation from standard General Relativity imposed by the current updated limits for the Pioneer anomaly, taking in consideration both the natural outgassing and on-board radiation pressure, resulting in an average Doppler acceleration outwards the Sun of a_p = +0.4^{+2.1}_{-2.0} x 10^{-10} (m/s^2). It is also computed the mass-energy density for the ELA metric within the bounds obtained and are discussed the respective contributions to the cosmological mass-energy density which, for compatibility with the Lambda-CDM model, are included in Omega_{CDM}.
description: 22 pages; 6 figures; based on arXiv:1102.2061 with updated estimative for Pioneer anomaly
title: Iodinated contrast-induced encephalopathy: imaging findings, clinical correlation and differential diagnosis the radiologist needs to know.
Creators: name: Bartolo, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Embolisation
subject: Acute
subject: Toxicity
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To provide a pictorial review of typical imaging findings in iodinated contrast-induced encephalopathy after neurovascular interventional procedures, with special focus on the role of CT and MR. To evaluate its recurrence and clinical...
Funding America’s Nonprofits: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex’s Hold on Social Justice
Creators: name: Samimi, Jennifer Ceema
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Social service

description: Private nonprofits are increasingly relied upon to provide social services in the United States. As these nonprofits professionalize and look to the government and foundations to fund their work, communities may be deprived of services they need in order for the agendas of funders to be carried out. By examining the rise of the nonprofit as an institution in the United States, this article examines how social justice has been separated from social service provision by the system that has come to be known as the Nonprofit Industrial Complex..
title: Chest HRCT findings beyond Interstitial Lung Disease in patients with Connective Tissue Disease
Creators: name: De Serio, Isabella
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Complications
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Thorax
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: Chest

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review chest High-resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) pulmonary and extra-pulmonary findings other than Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in patients with connective tissue diseases (CTD). To describe HRCT appearance of different CTD conditions,...
Creep behaviour of wood-plastic composites
Creators: name: Chang, Feng-Cheng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In this research, a series of experiments have been conducted, including mountain pine beetle attacked wood/plastic composite (MPB-WPC) prototype product development, dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), short-term creep tests for master curve construction based on the time-temperature-stress superposition principle (TTSSP), and a long-term creep test. Moreover, a newly established stress-temperature incorporated creep (STIC) model, a modified Williams-Landel-Ferry (WLF) equation that incorporates the variables of temperature and stress, and a newly developed temperature-induced strain superposition (TISS) method were introduced. The MPB-WPC products showed definite potential as a value-added product option for MPB-attacked wood. The formulation affected the MPB-WPC products’ properties. The capacity of the products without a coupling agent was considerably inferior to the product formulations that included a coupling agent. The surface condition of the product was also influenced by the formulation. The dynamic mechanical properties were studied. The mechanical and viscoelastic behaviours of the MPB-WPC products were considerably influenced by the formulation of wood and plastic and the presence of a coupling agent, which can be attributed to modification of the interface property and the internal structure. The new STIC model smoothly introduced the effect of temperature into a conventional power law creep equation, and the model can be applied to predict the creep strain in which the effect of temperature is involved. Moreover, the temperature-stress hybrid shift factor and a modified WLF equation were studied; and, the parameters were successfully calibrated. Temperature-induced strain was observed in the results of the 220-day creep test. For a temperature-sensitive material like WPCs, the information obtained from conventional creep studies is not sufficient to predict long-term performance. The comparison between the long-term creep data and the master curves showed that master curves tended to overestimate the creep strain. Generally, the master curves constructed based on TTSSP cannot precisely predict the long-term creep strain, but can provide conservative estimations. To deal with the effect of fluctuating temperatures on the creep strain, the STIC model and the proposed temperature-induced strain superposition (TISS) method were established and employed. The additional temperature-induced creep strain and overall behaviour were successfully simulated.
Distant Neighbors
Creators: name: Knitter, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Religion

description: I have often found that interreligious dialogue becomes most interesting when it gets stuck, and that was my experience in Korea last month. I was in the country at the invitation of Zen Master Jinje and the Chogye Order of Korean Zen Buddhists. (Christian scholars, please note: Here was a call to dialogue that came from the Buddhist side!) But our conversations did not get stuck where we thought they might.