cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pseudopomatias caligosus Pall-Gergely & Hunyadi 2018
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Grego, Jozef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Architaenioglossa
Pupinidae
Pseudopomatias
Pseudopomatias caligosus

description: Pseudopomatias caligosus Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2018 (Fig. 2A–H) Pseudopomatias caligosus Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2018: 64, fig. 3. Material examined. One adult and a juvenile shell, JG/1, Myanmar, Kayah State, Demoso, 36 km west towards Taungoo, 169.5 km milestone, 19°34.660′N, 96°59.845′E, coll. Jozef Grego, 17 May 2019. Remarks. This species was described from Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province, which is situated ca. 125 km from the new locality. The only notable difference between the adult shell from Myanmar and the type series is that the latter ones have a more reflected outer peristome, and a paler colour. More specimens would be necessary to see whether the differences are stable between the two known populations. However, at the moment, due to general similarity in shell shape, size and sculpture and aperture shape, we consider the specimens from Myanmar conspecific with the Thai P. caligosus.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna & Grego, Jozef, 2019, Notes on Pseudopomatias Möllendorff, 1885 and Vargapupa Páll- Gergely, 2015 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Pupinidae), pp. 586-594 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 588, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0044, http://zenodo.org/record/5343685
description: {"references": ["Pall-Gergely B & Hunyadi A (2018) Four new cyclophoroid species from Thailand and Laos (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Alycaeidae, Diplommatinidae, Pupinidae). Zoosystema, 40 (4): 59 - 66."]}
The Impact of Bedding Plane on Geotechnical Properties and Fractures Geometry of Montney Equivalent Outcrop Rocks
Creators: name: Tabatabaei Poudeh, Seyed Hossein
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bedding plane
subject: Tensile strength
subject: Fracture geometry
subject: Brazilian test
subject: Montney Outcrop
subject: Hydraulic fracturing
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Geotechnology

description: Hydraulic fracturing (HF) or fracking is extensively used to increase the permeability of unconventional source rocks, such as the Montney Formation which is a prolific producer of oil and gas in Western Canada. Optimizing the economic recovery of hydrocarbons in these reservoirs is dependent on understanding how the rocks fail. During HF, it is generally assumed that vertical fractures in the rock occur, since fracture propagate perpendicular to direction of minimum stress, which in the subsurface is typically in the horizontal direction. However, recent studies have shown that horizontal fractures are also formed as a part of the hydraulic fracture network (HFN), which is assumed to be related to weak bedding planes. To investigate the potential influence of weak bedding planes, a series of Brazilian tests were conducted on Montney equivalent outcrop rock samples. In these tests axial load is applied at different orientations to the bedding plane of the rock samples to evaluate the influence of bedding plane orientation on fracture behaviour, including Brazilian tensile strength, elastic properties and fracture propagation in micro and macro scale. The results of this study can lead to better understanding of the fracture behaviour of Montney siltstone and may help better predict HF fracture propagation and enhance hydrocarbon recovery.
Distinguishing among dark matter annihilation channels with neutrino telescopes
Creators: name: Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
name: Richardson, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the prospects for distinguishing dark matter annihilation channels using the neutrino flux from gravitationally captured dark matter particles annihilating inside the sun. We show that, even with experimental error in energy reconstruction taken into account, the spectrum of contained muon tracks may be used to discriminate neutrino final states from the gauge boson/charged lepton final states and to determine their corresponding branching ratios. We also discuss the effect of $ν_τ$ regeneration inside the sun as a novel method to distinguish the flavor of final state neutrinos. This effect as evidenced in the muon spectrum becomes important for dark matter masses above 300 GeV. Distinguishing primary neutrinos and their flavor may be achieved using multi-year data from a detector with the same capability and effective volume as the IceCube/DeepCore array.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures. v2 matches the published version, with revised figures and added references for improved clarity; results unchanged
Multi-granular Software Annotation using File-level Weak Labelling
Creators: name: Sas, Cezar
name: Capiluppi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the most time-consuming tasks for developers is the comprehension of new code bases. An effective approach to aid this process is to label source code files with meaningful annotations, which can help developers understand the content and functionality of a code base quicker. However, most existing solutions for code annotation focus on project-level classification: manually labelling individual files is time-consuming, error-prone and hard to scale. The work presented in this paper aims to automate the annotation of files by leveraging project-level labels; and using the file-level annotations to annotate items at larger levels of granularity, for example, packages and a whole project. We propose a novel approach to annotate source code files using a weak labelling approach and a subsequent hierarchical aggregation. We investigate whether this approach is effective in achieving multi-granular annotations of software projects, which can aid developers in understanding the content and functionalities of a code base more quickly. Our evaluation uses a combination of human assessment and automated metrics to evaluate the annotations' quality. Our approach correctly annotated 50% of files and more than 50\% of packages. Moreover, the information captured at the file-level allowed us to identify, on average, three new relevant labels for any given project. We can conclude that the proposed approach is a convenient and promising way to generate noisy (not precise) annotations for files. Furthermore, hierarchical aggregation effectively preserves the information captured at file-level, and it can be propagated to packages and the overall project itself.
description: Accepted at the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering
Ultra-low-phase-noise cryocooled microwave dielectric-sapphire-resonator oscillators with 1 x 10^-16 frequency instability
Creators: name: Hartnett, John G.
name: Nand, Nitin R.
name: Lu, Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two nominally identical ultra-stable cryogenic microwave oscillators are compared. Each incorporates a dielectric-sapphire resonator cooled to near 6 K in an ultra-low vibration cryostat using a low-vibration pulse-tube cryocooler. The phase noise for a single oscillator is measured at -105 dBc/Hz at 1 Hz offset on the 11.2 GHz carrier. The oscillator fractional frequency stability is characterized in terms of Allan deviation by 5.3 x 10^-16 tau^-1/2 + 9 x 10^-17 for integration times 0.1 s < tau < 1000 s and is limited by a flicker frequency noise floor below 1 x 10^-16. This result is better than any other microwave source even those generated from an optical comb phase-locked to a room temperature ultra-stable optical cavity.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 8: of Genomic analyses based on pulmonary adenocarcinoma in situ reveal early lung cancer signature
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Yang, William
name: Zhang, Yifan
name: Yang, Jack
name: Guan, Renchu
name: Xu, Dong
name: Yang, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S5. Consistency comparison between the two differential expression analysis methods. (PDF 452 kb)
Hydrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions with gravitational anomalies
Creators: name: Valle, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The constraints imposed on hydrodynamics by the structure of gauge and gravitational anomalies are studied in two dimensions. By explicit integration of the consistent gravitational anomaly, we derive the equilibrium partition function at second derivative order. This partition function is then used to compute the parity-violating part of the covariant energy-momentum tensor and the transport coefficients.
description: 9 pages, JHEP format.v2; added comments and references, matching published version
Examining the Role of Inequality in Security Consumption
Creators: name: Novakowski, Dallas
Publisher: name: Haskayne School of Business
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Inequality
subject: security products
subject: precautionary behaviours
subject: fear of crime
subject: distrust
subject: risk-taking
subject: risk avoidance
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychology--Social

description: A growing body of evidence suggests that economic inequality causes humans to take more risks and engage in aggressive behaviours. In a ‘winner-takes-all’ environment, risky activities such as gambling, lying, and crime can be a person’s only means of keeping up with competitors and accessing contested resources. There is comparatively little research investigating whether people anticipate risk-taking and conflict from their neighbors in unequal environments. An informative context for examining the distrust-inducing effects of inequality is the security market, which offers goods that protect customers from the actions of malicious agents. For instance, barred windows are purchased because they (supposedly) protect consumers from break-ins. Given the costly nature of these security products, security consumption is generally only worthwhile if a consumer expects that other people have harmful intentions. This project provides evidence that economic inequality increases consumers’ willingness to purchase security products through three studies: 1) experimental manipulations of inequality in an economic game context, 2) experimental manipulations of distributional fairness and income visibility, and 3) multilevel analyses of the effects of nation-level inequality (k = 32) on individuals’ consumption of security goods (n = 79,776).
Improving the tunings of the MSSM by adding triplets and singlet
Creators: name: Agashe, Kaustubh
name: Azatov, Aleksandr
name: Katz, Andrey
name: Kim, Doojin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an extension of the MSSM which includes both new SU(2) triplets with hypercharge $\pm 1$ and a SM gauge singlet (a la NMSSM) which are coupled to each other. We are motivated by the little hierarchy problem, as well as by the $μ$ problem of the MSSM. We show that the NMSSM and the triplet-extended MSSM can successfully solve problems of one another: while triplets are responsible for large correction to the lightest physical Higgs mass, the singlet's VEV explains why the $μ$ terms (for the Higgs doublets and the new triplets) are naturally of order the electroweak (EW) scale. We also show that singlet-triplet coupling significantly changes the RG evolution of the singlet mass squared, helping to render this mass squared negative, as required for the singlet to acquire a VEV. We analyze constrains on this scenario from EW precision measurements and find that a relatively large region of the parameter space of this model is viable, especially with the triplet fermions (including doubly-charged) being light.
description: 31 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. V2: minor corrections and references added
Ngirhaphium murphyi Evenhuis & Grootaert 2002
Creators: name: Samoh, Abdulloh
name: Satasook, Chutamas
name: Grootaert, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Ngirhaphium
Ngirhaphium murphyi

description: Ngirhaphium murphyi Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002 (Figs. 10, 12B) Ngirhaphium murphyi Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002: 310. Type locality: SINGAPORE: Kranji mangrove. N. murphyi Grootaert & Puniamoorthy, 2014: 147 (figs. 1–3, 4, 5, 18). Diagnosis. A medium to large species (5.7–7.3 mm), generally with clear wings. Mesonotum and tergites metallic green. Apical aristal segment quite thick and short, only half as long as basal aristal segment. Male with cerci longer than surstyli and thus the tips are visible outside the surstyli. Material examined. THAILAND: 1 ♂, 4 ♀, Satun province, Tarutao Island, Talo Wao bay (6°36′58.7″N 99°40′43.1″E), 11.viii.2014 (collected A. Samoh) (PSUNHM). Krabi province: 1 male, 3 females, Ko Lanta, Ko Lanta Yai (7°38′40.9″N 99°02′42.3″E), Samoh A, sweep netting, 1 April 2018; Phang Nga province: 5 males, 1 female, Khuraburi, Phra Thong Island (9°03′04.8″N 98°15′56.8″E), Samoh A, sweep netting, 23 April 2018 (PSUNHM); 1 male, Takua Thung, Kalai, Ban Khuan Kalai (8°19′12.8″N 98°25′46.2″E); Samoh A, sweep netting, 14 July 2018 (PSUNHM); 1 male, Thappud, Ban Khuan Bosane pier (8°26′43.8″N 98°35′40.6″E); Samoh A, sweep netting, 15 July 2018 (PSUNHM). Singapore: 37 specimens recorded from Mandai, Sungei Buloh and Pulau Ubin (35 barcoded; LKCNHM). Remarks. The pedicel is yellowish-brown in females and black in males in southern Thailand. The pedicel is always black in both sexes in Singapore populations (Grootaert & Puniamoorthy, 2014). Distribution. Singapore and South Thailand, Andaman Sea. Haplotype network. Number of sequences used: 35 Selected region: 1–313 Number of sites: 313 Number of haplotypes, h: 11.
description: Published as part of Samoh, Abdulloh, Satasook, Chutamas & Grootaert, Patrick, 2019, NGS-barcodes, haplotype networks combined to external morphology help to identify new species in the mangrove genus Ngirhaphium Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Rhaphiinae) in Southeast Asia, pp. 640-659 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 651, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0046, http://zenodo.org/record/5343729
description: {"references": ["Evenhuis N & Grootaert P (2002) Annotated checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Singapore, with new records and descriptions of new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50: 301 - 316.", "Grootaert P & Puniamoorthy J (2014) Revision of Ngirhaphium (Insecta: Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with the description of two new species from Singapore's mangroves. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 62: 146 - 160."]}
The asymmetric sandwich theorem
Creators: name: Simons, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46A22, 46A04, 46A16, 46A55, 47N10

description: We discuss the asymmetric sandwich theorem, a generalization of the Hahn-Banach theorem. As applications, we derive various results on the existence of linear functionals that include bivariate, trivariate and quadrivariate generalizations of the Fenchel duality theorem. Most of the results are about affine functions defined on convex subsets of vector spaces, rather than linear functions defined on vector spaces. We consider both results that use a simple boundedness hypothesis (as in Rockafellar's version of the Fenchel duality theorem) and also results that use Baire's theorem (as in the Robinson-Attouch-Brezis version of the Fenchel duality theorem). This paper also contains some new results about metrizable topological vector spaces that are not necessarily locally convex.
description: 17 pages
Organiza tu análisis de datos; utiliza una plantilla de proyecto
Creators: name: Ruíz, Fernanda Aguirre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: data
project template
cookiecutter

description: Cada vez que iniciamos un proyecto basado en datos, invertimos parte de nuestro tiempo en crear y configurar ese proyecto nuevo. Sin embargo, con ayuda de Cookiecutter basta con ejecutar un comando para tener todo el procedimiento resuelto mediante una plantilla de proyecto. Cuando trabajamos con datos, manejamos diferentes versiones de nuestras bases de datos, gráficos y archivos con código. Esto puede dar lugar a proyectos desorganizados y de difícil acceso, por lo que cuando utilizamos plantillas de proyectos podemos automatizar este trabajo repetitivo creando archivos y carpetas estructurados de una manera determinada que nos ayuden a localizar fácilmente las diferentes secciones y a estandarizar nuestros proyectos. Al mismo tiempo también podemos automatizar procedimientos más complejos que hayamos incorporado a nuestros flujos de trabajo, tales como instalar ciertas librerías, iniciar repositorios de git, crear entornos virtuales, entre muchas otras posibilidades.
description: https://csvconf.surge.sh/
Postictal Hypoxia as a Mechanism of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
Creators: name: George, Antis Genojan
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biophysics--Medical

description: Epilepsy can be a fatal disease. People with epilepsy face significantly increased incidence of premature death. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading epilepsy-related cause of mortality in people with refractory epilepsy. The incidence of SUDEP is 27 times higher than sudden death in the general population. The mechanism underlying SUDEP is largely unknown but breathing failure after a seizure led to terminal apnea which preceded death in the largest retrospective review of SUDEP cases. Following a seizure, vasoconstriction-induced hypoperfusion and hypoxia occurs in local brain regions involved in a seizure. I propose that forebrain seizures propagate to the brainstem and cause hypoxia in breathing centres. In this thesis I tested the novel neurovascular-based hypothesis of SUDEP in awake, non-anesthetized mice by using two animal models of seizure-induced death: acute intrahippocampal kainic acid model of temporal lobe epilepsy and chronic Kcna1-/- mice. I pharmacologically prevented seizure-induced vasoconstriction with cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) or an L-type calcium channel (LTCC) blocker. The COX-2 inhibitor, ibuprofen, and the LTCC blocker, nicardipine, ameliorated postictal hypoxia through fundamentally different mechanisms and extended life in both models. I also examined the potential role of spreading depolarization in the acute model of seizure-induced premature mortality. The data within this thesis provide a proof-of-principle for the neurovascular hypothesis of SUDEP rather than spreading depolarization and the use of currently available treatments to prevent it. Having validated both models of seizure-induced death, I then sought to examine the relationship between adenosine signaling and SUDEP. Here we investigated the effects of caffeine and 2 adenosine receptors. I found that the administration of the non-selective A1/A2A antagonist caffeine or selective A1 agonist N6 reveals a facilitation of postictal hypoxia providing support for caffeine modulating cerebral vasculature leading to brainstem hypoxia and cessation of breathing. Conversely, we found a protective effect of the A2A agonist CGS-21680. The findings contained in this thesis can hopefully serve as a benchmark for future clinical trials in the prevention or reduction of SUDEP risk.
Candidate gene and high throughput genetic analysis of habituation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Giles, Andrew Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The goal of my dissertation was to identify genes that are important for habituation (a decrease in response to a repeated stimulus) with the hope of bringing us closer to understanding the cellular and molecular mechanism that mediates this basic form of learning. To accomplish this I studied habituation of the tap withdrawal response in Caenorhabditis elegans; an organism with a tractable nervous system, well characterized habituation and availability of genetic tools and resources that make it easy to investigate the mechanisms of behaviour. Two approaches were taken. The first was a candidate gene approach where I investigated mutations in genes important for dopamine neurotransmission. A previous study showed that dopamine deficient and dopamine receptor mutants have abnormal habituation and the dopamine receptor is expressed within the tap sensory neurons. Investigating this effect more closely, I found that short-term tap habituation in C. elegans was dependent on the presence of E. coli (their food) and that this food-dependent modulation of habituation was dopamine dependent. The second approach involved characterizing habituation of a large set of C. elegans strains with known mutations in genes predicted to function in the nervous system. Many of these mutants had not previously been characterized. To accomplish this task, it was necessary to improve the speed and detail with which habituation can be assayed. In collaboration with the Kerr Lab at Janelia Farm Research Campus, we developed a high throughput C. elegans behavioural tracking system called the Multi-Worm Tracker. Using this tracking system, I examined many mutants and discovered hundreds of novel phenotypic variants for habituation in C. elegans. The genes affected by these mutations can now be investigated in more detail in order to identify the role that they play in the molecular and cellular mechanism of habituation.
A Deep-learning Real-time Bias Correction Method for Significant Wave Height Forecasts in the Western North Pacific
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Sun, Yu
name: Wu, Yapeng
name: Dong, Junyu
name: Song, Xiaojiang
name: Gao, Zhiyi
name: Pang, Renbo
name: Guoan, Boyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Significant wave height is one of the most important parameters characterizing ocean waves, and accurate numerical ocean wave forecasting is crucial for coastal protection and shipping. However, due to the randomness and nonlinearity of the wind fields that generate ocean waves and the complex interaction between wave and wind fields, current forecasts of numerical ocean waves have biases. In this study, a spatiotemporal deep-learning method was employed to correct gridded SWH forecasts from the ECMWF-IFS. This method was built on the trajectory gated recurrent unit deep neural network,and it conducts real-time rolling correction for the 0-240h SWH forecasts from ECMWF-IFS. The correction model is co-driven by wave and wind fields, providing better results than those based on wave fields alone. A novel pixel-switch loss function was developed. The pixel-switch loss function can dynamically fine-tune the pre-trained correction model, focusing on pixels with large biases in SWH forecasts. According to the seasonal characteristics of SWH, four correction models were constructed separately, for spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The experimental results show that, compared with the original ECMWF SWH predictions, the correction was most effective in spring, when the mean absolute error decreased by 12.972~46.237%. Although winter had the worst performance, the mean absolute error decreased by 13.794~38.953%. The corrected results improved the original ECMWF SWH forecasts under both normal and extreme weather conditions, indicating that our SWH correction model is robust and generalizable.
description: 21 pages
Nonclassicality and decoherence of photon-added squeezed thermal state in thermal environment
Creators: name: Hu, Li-Yun
name: Zhang, Zhi-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical analysis is given of nonclassicality and decoherence of the field states generated by adding any number of photons to the squeezed thermal state (STS). Based on the fact that the squeezed number state can be considered as a single-variable Hermite polynomial excited state, the compact expression of the normalization factor is derived, a Legendre polynomial. The nonclassicality is investigated by exploring the sub-Poissonian and negative Wigner function (WF). The results show that the WF of single photon-added STS (PASTS) always has negative values at the phase space center. The decoherence effect on PASTS is examined by the analytical expression of WF. It is found that a longer threshold value of decay time is included in single PASTS than in single-photon subtraction STS.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
The Effects of a High-Fat Diet on Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Physiology and Behaviours
Creators: name: Seabrook, Lauren Taylor
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience

description: Complex interactions of internal and external factors drive overeating which leads to increased body weight and obesity. In our modern food environment, energy dense foods are typically overconsumed because they are easily accessible and highly palatable. Preclinical models of obesity have begun to examine how diet induced obesity impacts synaptic plasticity in brain regions that guide decision making and motivated feeding behavior. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) can influence food intake decisions as it integrates sensory information with limbic, prelimbic, and basal ganglia regions. Rats with OFC lesions consume food regardless of the updated sensory features and motivational value of the outcome, in a habit-like fashion. Given that habit-like eating is associated with obesity, it is possible that access to an obesogenic diet can influence OFC synaptic function. The lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) consists of pyramidal output neurons arranged in layers along with inhibitory GABAergic interneurons and astrocytes. Diet induced obesity alters inhibitory signaling, along with morphological changes in pyramidal neurons and astrocytes. However how pyramidal neuron disinhibition influences lOFC neuronal activity and behavior is unknown. Furthermore, how pyramidal neurons in the lOFC respond acutely to high-fat caloric dense food leading to the etiology of diet induced obesity has yet to be elucidated. Chapter 1 critically evaluates and reviews literature describing the functionality of the OFC, and the neurobiology and corresponding behaviours on the effects of a high-fat diet leading to obesity. Chapter 2 examines how diet-induced obesity disinhibits pyramidal neurons in the lOFC and biases decision making. In Chapter 3 how lOFC pyramidal neurons respond to energy status is examined, our results indicate that short- and long- term high-fat diet exposure differentially alters GABAergic signalling in the lOFC. This thesis provides insight on how consumption of a high-fat diet alters the lOFC; a brain region involved in the self-regulation of food intake. This has implications in present society as palatable caloric-dense foods are abundantly available and chronic consumption can lead to weight gain, diet induced obesity and comorbid health conditions.
Anti-Freeze: High-Quality Adaptive Live Streaming with Real-time Transcoder
Creators: name: Mehmuda, Asif Ali
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: streaming
subject: transcoding
subject: HEVC
subject: containers
subject: Computer Science

description: Video streaming constitutes more than 80% of Internet traffic [1], and the demand continues to rise as interactive video applications like virtual conferencing/collaboration as well as augmented/mixed reality emerge. Such interactive video applications pose a challenge for real-time video transcoding and streaming. Transcoding is a computationally intense process and if not performed efficiently it can result in unwanted delays, which further limit the Quality-of-Service (QoS) delivered by the streaming protocol. In this thesis, we aim to address the real-time challenge and propose Antifreeze, a complete end-to-end solution for real-time transcoding and streaming. We propose a machine-learning solution to estimate the transcoding time and resource requirement, which is used to direct our real-time transcoder to transcode video segments at the rate matching their frame rate. We complete the Antifreeze design with a novel quality adaptation algorithm that not only considers visual quality and bandwidth dynamics, but also transcoding time and necessary computing resource allocation. Our results show that Antifreeze significantly reduces the playback stalls and substantially improves the visual quality in interactive video streaming sessions under various bandwidth profiles.
First observation of excited states in 173Hg
Creators: name: O'Donnell, D.
name: Page, R. D.
name: Scholey, C.
name: Bianco, L.
name: Capponi, L.
name: Carroll, R. J.
name: Darby, I. G.
name: Donosa, L.
name: Drummond, M.
name: Ertugral, F.
name: Greenlees, P. T.
name: Grahn, T.
name: Hauschild, K.
name: Herzan, A.
name: Jakobsson, U.
name: Jones, P.
name: Joss, D. T.
name: Julin, R.
name: Juutinen, S.
name: Ketelhut, S.
name: Labiche, M.
name: Leino, M.
name: Lopez-Martens, A.
name: Mullholland, K.
name: Nieminen, P.
name: Peura, P.
name: Rahkila, P.
name: Rinta-Antila, S.
name: Ruotsalainen, P.
name: Sandzelius, M.
name: Saren, J.
name: Saygi, B.
name: Simpson, J.
name: Sorri, J.
name: Thornthwaite, A.
name: Uusitalo, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron-deficient nucleus 173Hg has been studied following fusion-evaporation reactions. The observation of gamma rays decaying from excited states are reported for the first time and a tentative level scheme is proposed. The proposed level scheme is discussed within the context of the systematics of neighbouring neutron-deficient Hg nuclei. In addition to the gamma-ray spectroscopy, the alpha decay of this nucleus has been measured yielding superior precision to earlier measurements.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Extending Catalytic Oxidative Desulfurization to All Types of Fuels Via Oxidative Desulfurization - Steam Assisted (ODESSA) Process
Creators: name: Isufaj, Florian
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Desulfurization
subject: Oil Refining
subject: Oxidative Desulfurization
subject: Diesel
subject: Naphtha
subject: Heavy Fuel Oil
subject: Marine Fuels
subject: ODESSA
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Automotive
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Psychology--Experimental
subject: Psychology--Industrial

description: This dissertation attempts to extend the novel concept of Oxidative Desulfurization, invented during the late 90s, to fuels heavier than light naphtha, which was the initial most promising application. As a result, herein it is presented a novel process for desulfurization of hydrocarbon fuels in general, including heavier fuels such as Diesel and Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO). In general, the process consists of two steps: first, the hydrocarbon is submitted to an oxidation reactor, most commonly consisting of an ultrasonic chamber, where sulfur compounds are oxidized to sulfones; then, the sulfone-rich hydrocarbon is submitted to a catalytic steam cracking process, Aquaprocessing (AQP), where the sulfones are decomposed, and the desulfurized oil is produced. Three industrial Heavy Fuel Oil feedstocks and three industrial Diesel feedstocks were processed in this study. The investigation of the oxidation part of the process was more comprehensibly carried out during the processing of HFOs. Parameters such as Oxidant/sulfur molar ratio, residence time, ultrasound irradiation energy and reaction temperature were studied. The AQP part of the process was studied more comprehensibly during the processing of the Diesel feedstocks, including the reaction temperature and the testing of different catalysts. Under the conditions tested in the integrated process, one HFO feedstock, RMG-380, was desulfurized to close to 0.5% wt. sulfur (60% desulfurization), while the two others were more refractory, and were not able to be desulfurized to less than 1.3% wt. sulfur. On the other hand, all the three Diesel feedstocks were desulfurized to less than 500 ppmw. This study demonstrates and highlights the potential of this novel approach for desulfurization of all types of fossil fuels.
Velocity-dependent energy gaps and dynamics of superfluid neutron stars
Creators: name: Gusakov, M. E.
name: Kantor, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that suppression of the baryon energy gaps, caused by the relative motion of superfluid and normal liquid components, can substantially influence dynamical properties and evolution of neutron stars. This effect has been previously ignored in the neutron-star literature.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS Lett
Supplementary document for Tunable mode-locked fiber laser based on nonlinear multimode interference with double offset-splicing step-index few-mode fiber - 5795627.pdf
Creators: name: Xie, Shangzhi
name: Jin, Liang
name: Ma, Xiaohui
name: Zhang, He
name: Xu, Yingtian
name: Zhang, Xiaochen
name: Li, Xiaohui
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Lasers and Quantum Electronics

description: The simulation of intensity distribution in SMS
Magnetic excitations in the spin-1 anisotropic antiferromagnet $NiCl_2-4SC(NH_2)_2$
Creators: name: Psaroudaki, C.
name: Zvyagin, S. A.
name: Krzystek, J.
name: Paduan-Filho, A.
name: Zotos, X.
name: Papanicolaou, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin-1 anisotropic antiferromagnet NiCl_2-4SC(NH2)_2 exhibits a field-induced quantum phase transition that is formally analogous to Bose-Einstein condensation. Here we present results of systematic high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) experimental and theoretical studies of this compound with a special emphasis on single-ion two-magnon bound states. In order to clarify some remaining discrepancies between theory and experiment, the frequency-field dependence of magnetic excitations in this material is reanalyzed. In particular, a more comprehensive interpretation of the experimental signature of single-ion two-magnon bound states is shown to be fully consistent with theoretical results. We also clarify the structure of the ESR spectrum in the so-called intermediate phase.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Mathematics for High School Teachers: An Advanced Perspective
Creators: name: Usiskin, Zalman
name: Peressini, Anthony
name: Marchisotto, Elena Anne
name: Stanley, Dick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003

description: Mathematics for High School Teachers: An Advanced Perspective is intended as a text for mathematics courses for prospective or experienced secondary school mathematics teachers and all others who wish to examine high school mathematics from a higher point of view.
Pulled from the Shoreline in Search of Spacious Spirituality: The Journeys of Women of Evangelical Christian Backgrounds
Creators: name: De Vynck, Emma A.
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: religion
subject: spirituality
subject: evangelical Christianity
subject: interpretative phenomenological analysis
subject: spiritual distress
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study explored the lived experience of spiritual distress (SD) from the perspective of four women aged 25-35 years from evangelical Christian (EC) backgrounds in Western Canada. Using a qualitative design, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and semi-structured interviews, this exploratory study revealed SD to be a dynamic, tension-filled, ongoing journey. The journey is metaphorically characterized by four ocean-themed, non-linear phases: 1) inhabiting the familiar yet limiting shoreline of EC; 2) being pulled out to the expansive, unknown sea; 3) navigating the storm and contending with existential uncertainty, relational wounding, and traumatic experiences within EC; and 4) floating in an unfinished, yet more tenable and spacious spirituality. Importantly, all four phases were affected by two undercurrents: 1) ongoing tensions, and 2) isolation and loss. These findings illuminate an SD journey that pulled participants from the containment of EC to a more nourishing, spacious spirituality more aligned with their values and burgeoning self-authorship. This thesis hopes to honor oft-silenced stories of SD and encourage deeper awareness and understanding regarding SD in social work research, policy, practice, and education.
MOESM4 of The putative β-glucosidase BGL3I regulates cellulase induction in Trichoderma reesei
Creators: name: Zou, Gen
name: Jiang, Yanping
name: Liu, Rui
name: Zhu, Zhihua
name: Zhou, Zhihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4. Transcriptional levels of the major cellulase genes response to Avicel. (A) cbh1, (B) egl1, (C) bgl1. Cellulase genes were detected 4 h, 16 h and 24 h after the beginning of the induction on 1% Avicel in WT and Δbgl3i mutant. Transcripts were normalized to the housekeeping gene actin. Vertical bars indicate SD and each reaction was done in triplicate.
Improving the Robustness of Transformer-based Large Language Models with Dynamic Attention
Creators: name: Shen, Lujia
name: Pu, Yuwen
name: Ji, Shouling
name: Li, Changjiang
name: Zhang, Xuhong
name: Ge, Chunpeng
name: Wang, Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transformer-based models, such as BERT and GPT, have been widely adopted in natural language processing (NLP) due to their exceptional performance. However, recent studies show their vulnerability to textual adversarial attacks where the model's output can be misled by intentionally manipulating the text inputs. Despite various methods that have been proposed to enhance the model's robustness and mitigate this vulnerability, many require heavy consumption resources (e.g., adversarial training) or only provide limited protection (e.g., defensive dropout). In this paper, we propose a novel method called dynamic attention, tailored for the transformer architecture, to enhance the inherent robustness of the model itself against various adversarial attacks. Our method requires no downstream task knowledge and does not incur additional costs. The proposed dynamic attention consists of two modules: (I) attention rectification, which masks or weakens the attention value of the chosen tokens, and (ii) dynamic modeling, which dynamically builds the set of candidate tokens. Extensive experiments demonstrate that dynamic attention significantly mitigates the impact of adversarial attacks, improving up to 33\% better performance than previous methods against widely-used adversarial attacks. The model-level design of dynamic attention enables it to be easily combined with other defense methods (e.g., adversarial training) to further enhance the model's robustness. Furthermore, we demonstrate that dynamic attention preserves the state-of-the-art robustness space of the original model compared to other dynamic modeling methods.
title: Just a number?: Aging demographics and the development review process
Creators: name: McLean, Alicia Lareina
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: City planning
subject: Older people

description: With every year the demographic profile of Canada grows older and, with this, our approach to planning age-friendly communities must grow wiser. Planning initiatives exist for improving communities to serve the needs of older adults, particularly persons 65+. While older adults are much like any other citizen, differences exist in the areas of disability, health, independence, diversity, inequality, mobility and economics. Many of these considerations become especially pressing over 85. By 2050, Canada is projected to experience a tripling of persons 85+, the cohort with the most specific housing and health needs. The scope of this research is the planning processes of small (<15,000 population) incorporated municipalities in British Columbia (BC), governed by the Local Government Act (LGA). In the context of the housing crisis and changing legislation, this thesis recommends strategies for incorporating age-friendly goals into community building through the development review process (DRP) to maximize implementation.
Transport in time-dependent random potentials
Creators: name: Krivolapov, Yevgeny
name: Fishman, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical dynamics in stationary potentials that are random both in space and time is studied. It can be intuitively understood with the help of Chirikov resonances that are central in the theory of Chaos, and explored quantitatively in the framework of the Fokker-Planck equation. In particular, a simple expression for the diffusion coefficient was obtained in terms of the average power density of the potential. The resulting anomalous diffusion in velocity is classified into universality classes. The general theory was applied and numerically tested for specific examples relevant for optics and atom optics.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
Exploring Place in the French of Italy, 1st Edition
Creators: name: Laura Morreale, PhD.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The goal of the site is to map all of the place names mentioned in a selection of medieval French-language works created or copied on the Italian peninsula from roughly 1250 to 1500 and featured on Fordham's French of Italy website.

Mapping place names provides a view of these texts that varies from more traditional approaches, which often focus on close reading or the examination of one particular textual tradition over time. Exploring these texts from a more distant vantage point is a valuable exercise for both literary and historical interpretation – the maps you see displayed here suggest patterns which call out for explanation, either through a study of the texts themselves or the context of their production. This approach is especially appropriate for the French of Italy corpus, where the choice of a non-native language -- that is French instead of Latin or a local Italian dialect -- invites these sorts of textual and contextual explanations. For readers interested in the Middle Ages more broadly, these maps provide a way of understanding the places medieval Italians described and imagined when they chose to write in French.

This site contains maps of all the identifiable place names for sixteen individual French language texts written in Italy, as well as a composite map that plots all of the place-names mentioned in our chosen corpus (the simple map view plots all of these points only once). Users may also see how frequently particular sites are mentioned, both for individual works and for the corpus as a whole (the weighted map view provides this data). The essays that accompany this collection of maps explain the value of a geographic approach and detail the technical process of developing the project. The micro-essays page highlights questions that came to us as we created the maps, and invites users to think through these visualizations in similarly innovative ways. To this end, the accumulated data underlying these maps can be examined, downloaded, and re-purposed by our site users.
q-hypergeometric double sums as mock theta functions
Creators: name: Lovejoy, Jeremy
name: Osburn, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D15 (Primary) 05A30, 11F03, 11F37 (Secondary)

description: Recently, Bringmann and Kane established two new Bailey pairs and used them to relate certain q-hypergeometric series to real quadratic fields. We show how these pairs give rise to new mock theta functions in the form of q-hypergeometric double sums. Additionally, we prove an identity between one of these sums and two classical mock theta functions introduced by Gordon and McIntosh.
description: 12 pages, to appear in Pacific J. Math
Hookman: Finding Meaning in the Fragments
Creators: name: Minnes, Gal
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Scenic Design
subject: Lighting Design
subject: Design and Decorative Arts
subject: Theater

description: This artist statement is meant to demonstrate competence and fluency in theatrical scenic and lighting design. The design elements explored in this thesis were created for a production of Lauren Yee’s play Hookman, directed by Jenna Rodgers and presented in the Reeve Theatre at the University of Calgary from October 21st – October 29th, 2022. This is an exploration of the artistic collaborative processes used on Hookman from the initial conceptual design phase to the fully realized production using iterative design processes and collaborative frameworks with a focus on storytelling through scenic and lighting design. Further, this is a reflection on the specific lessons learned throughout this process with an eye towards future research inspiration, developing questions for further reflection.
DEP Bulletin:Volume 38 Issue 3
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.