cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating Multi-Attribute Performance of Decarbonization Strategies in Alberta’s Road Passenger-Transportation Sector
Creators: name: Lovato, Diego Antonio
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Transportation
subject: Energy systems
subject: Life cycle assessment
subject: Life cycle costing
subject: Energy modeling
subject: GHG emissions
subject: Electrification
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: This thesis employs a comprehensive approach to assess the impact of Government of Canada mandates on the road passenger-transportation sector's performance, with a focus on achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Uncertain factors such as consumer behavior, policy deployment, and future prices are incorporated into the analysis. The methodology combines energy system modeling and Life Cycle Assessment, utilizing the ASIF framework to quantify the sector's performance in terms of fuel consumption, GHG emissions, and costs. This approach is used to explore evolving interactions and multi-attribute strategies that determine the sector's performance. The research is applied to the road passenger-transportation sector in Alberta, a region with important emissions reduction potential. The analysis demonstrates that compliance with existing mandates can lead to substantial improvements, with projected reductions in fuel consumption, GHG emissions, and light-duty vehicle costs by 2050—45%, 78%, and 13%, respectively. Moreover, implementing additional strategies to phase out the use of PHEVs and diesel buses by 2050 holds the potential to minimize emissions offsets required for achieving net-zero emissions. It is essential to note that deviations from current targets in electricity decarbonization and low-carbon fuel deployment could amplify cumulative emissions by 16% between 2020 and 2050, highlighting their critical role in influencing GHG emissions. In terms of academic contributions, the passenger-transportation sector in Alberta is quantitatively assessed, emphasizing its current policy landscape and opportunities for enhancement. By incorporating uncertain future conditions, including policy deployment, consumer behavior, and price variations, valuable insights into the multifaceted factors affecting the sector's performance are provided. These findings offer a basis for informed policy decisions at both national and international levels, enabling the development and implementation of strategies that prioritize emissions reduction and sustainable transportation practices.
Gravitational dynamics for all tensorial spacetimes carrying predictive, interpretable and quantizable matter
Creators: name: Giesel, Kristina
name: Schuller, Frederic P.
name: Witte, Christof
name: Wohlfarth, Mattias N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Only a severely restricted class of tensor fields can provide classical spacetime geometries, namely those that can carry matter field equations that are predictive, interpretable and quantizable. These three conditions on matter translate into three corresponding algebraic conditions on the underlying tensorial geometry, namely to be hyperbolic, time-orientable and energy-distinguishing. Lorentzian metrics, on which general relativity and the standard model of particle physics are built, present just the simplest tensorial spacetime geometry satisfying these conditions. The problem of finding gravitational dynamics---for the general tensorial spacetime geometries satisfying the above minimum requirements---is reformulated in this paper as a system of linear partial differential equations, in the sense that their solutions yield the actions governing the corresponding spacetime geometry. Thus the search for modified gravitational dynamics is reduced to a clear mathematical task.
description: 47 pages, no figures, minor updates
A Phonemic Statement of the Olo Language
Creators: name: McGregor, D.E. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1982

description: A PHONEMIC STATEMENT OF THE OLO LANGUAGE. 1Description of Contrastive Features of the Phonemes 2Formational Statement of the Phonemes 2Non-Segmental Phonemes 10Consonant Vowel Patterning in Relation to the Syllable 11Distributional Statement of the Phonemes 12List of Phonemes 13
Efficacy of wearable devices for describing fatigue-related movement patterns in running and neurological disease
Creators: name: Dimmick, Hannah Lee
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: wearable technology
subject: individualized modeling
subject: running
subject: biomechanics
subject: neurological disease
subject: Health Sciences

description: Wearable technology allows for research to take place in more applied settings and generate more data than ever before, giving researchers the opportunity to collect enough data to construct individualized models in a variety of settings. These techniques can help tie subjective feelings of fatigue to objective physiological and biomechanical observations, driving better understanding into this psychosomatic connection. In Chapter 3, good-to-excellent reliability was shown for a variety of statistical features derived from the acceleration waveform of a low-back IMU worn while running during both non-fatigued and fatigued conditions. However, this utilized a group-based analysis and did not include reliability metrics for individuals or quantify within-subject variability and was performed on a treadmill, limiting generalizability. Due to these limitations, Chapter 4 aimed to classify group and individual changes in biomechanics with fatigue in both laboratory and overground environments, finding that classification accuracy was lower for the group-based models (57.0 – 61.5%) than the individualized models (68.2 – 68.9%), and variable importance rankings differed between models and participants. We concluded that using an individualized approach to measure fatigue-related biomechanics in running could lead to better understanding of how these may impact performance or injury. Furthermore, we hypothesized that this approach could similarly be used to investigate fatigue in other sports science and clinical applications, such as neurological disease. Thus, in Chapter 5, we reviewed the evidence for the relationship between gait and fatigue in neurological disease and found no obvious transdiagnostic relationships between gait/mobility and fatigue in neurological diseases, and instead indicated that these relationships were more likely to be condition- and subject-specific. Based on these conclusions, Chapter 6 investigated the association between activity/sleep metrics and fatigue/symptom severity in myasthenia gravis, employing similar methods to Chapter 4. When analyzing the individual models, it was clear that there are often individual-level associations between movement and fatigue/symptom severity, highlighting the importance of analyzing within individuals to determine potentially relevant outcomes to the patient. Overall, these investigations demonstrate how individualized approaches may be superior to group-based analyses when made possible using wearable devices and big data approaches, with implications for injury prevention, performance enhancement, and improving patient care.
First and second order optimality conditions for optimal control problems of state constrained integral equations
Creators: name: Bonnans, J. Frédéric
name: De La Vega, Constanza
name: Dupuis, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with optimal control problems of integral equations, with initial-final and running state constraints. The order of a running state constraint is defined in the setting of integral dynamics, and we work here with constraints of arbitrary high orders. First and second-order necessary conditions of optimality are obtained, as well as second-order sufficient conditions.
Speocera huisun Li & Li 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Fengyuan
name: Song, Yang
name: Chen, Haifeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Speocera
Speocera huisun

description: Speocera huisun Li & Li sp. nov. (Figs 28, 58H) Material examined. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS), China, Taiwan Province, Nantou County, Huisun Forest Farm (24º5.279′N, 121º2.078′E), elev. 788 m, 30.VI.2013, leg. S. Li. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun. Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. suea Li & Li sp. nov. but can be distinguished by the oval spermathecae and long afferent spermathecae (cf. Figs 28A–B and Figs 41A–B). Description. Female. Total length 1.27; carapace length 0.52; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.71; abdomen width 0.53. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 28C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide (Fig. 28D). Endites light yellow with serrula; labium light yellow. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 58H). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME and ALE subequal, PLE largest (Fig. 28C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish (Fig. 28D). Legs missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae long, extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 28B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 28A). Male. Unknown. Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-75 in Zoological Systematics 44 (1) on pages 33-38, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923
Quantum read-out and fast initialization of nuclear spin qubits with electric currents
Creators: name: Stemeroff, Noah
name: de Sousa, Rogerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear spin qubits have the longest coherence times in the solid state, but their quantum read-out and initialization is a great challenge. We present a theory for the interaction of an electric current with the nuclear spins of donor impurities in semiconductors. The theory yields a sensitivity criterion for quantum detection of nuclear spin states using electrically detected magnetic resonance, as well as an all electrical method for fast nuclear spin qubit initialization.
description: Final version to be published in PRL
Nudobius yele Bordoni, 2013, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Bordoni, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nudobius
Nudobius yele

description: Nudobius yele nov.sp.
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Holotype: Sichuan, Yele, Mianning Coun., 3400 m, Yi Ming 8.VIII.2004 (SNUC); paratypes: same data, 2 (cB); same data, 3200 m, Yi Ming 9.VIII.2004, 1 (cB); same data, 10.VIII.2004, 2 (SNUC).
D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body about 9 mm; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 5 mm. Body flat, brown black dark, with head black and elytra brown reddish but not red; antennae and legs brown. Head sub-quadrangular, very scarcely narrow anteriorly, with sub-rectilinear sides. Eyes small and a little protruding. Surface of head with fine and dense, transverse micro-striation and well visible, not deep and very dense puncturation. Pronotum a little longer and narrower than head, anteriorly dilated, with oblique anterior margins, marked anterior angles, and very sinuate sides. Surface with transverse micro-striation, dorsal series of 7 punctures and lateral series of 5-6 irregular punctures. Elytra large, posteriad dilated, longer and wider than pronotum, with marked humeral angles. Surface shiny, with fine puncturation, arranged in numerous series. Abdomen with transverse micro-striation and fine and sparse puncturation on the sides.
Male unknown.
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the type locality, as a noun in apposition.
G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known only from the type locality, in Sichuan.
 N o t e The Nudobius THOMSON 1860 known from China are the following: N. leminiscatus BORDONI 2005 (Gansu), N. linanensis BORDONI 2009c (Zhejiang), N. mirificus BORDONI 2003b (Shaanxi-Sichuan), N. nigriventris ZHENG 1994 (Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan), N. puetzi ASSING 2007 (Sichuan), and N. shan BORDONI 2002 (Yunnan, Zhejiang) (BORDONI 2010). The new species differs from all these taxa by the simultaneous presence of particular size, colouration, puncturation of head and pronotum.
description: Published as part of Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, pp. 1745-1797 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on pages 1747-1748, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273196
Coyote (Canis latrans) Family Activity in a Landscape of Fear
Creators: name: Mitchell, Robert
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Coyote
subject: Landscape of fear
subject: Ethology
subject: Vigilance
subject: Pup-rearing
subject: Urban wildlife management
subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Geography
subject: Ecology

description: At a global scale, rapid urban expansion is spilling human development over the boundaries that divide urban and rural. This overlap creates conflict as some wildlife species are forced to adjust to urban areas alongside human residents. One such species that has readily adapted to this urban life is the coyote (Canis latrans). Unfortunately for the coyote, being a medium-sized carnivore, human residents may feel threatened by this predatory neighbour. To address this fear, managers often turn toward aggressive management strategies. These strategies aim to induce fear in the coyotes, making them leave or avoid humans. For coyotes that have long resided in cities or have nowhere else to go, this management could arguably cause suffering or reduced fitness. To explore the latter, I used camera traps spanning an urban-to-rural gradient in and around Calgary, Alberta. I captured images from the homesites of these coyotes to better understand how fear might manifest behavioural differences and what effect this might have on fitness-related behaviours. Urban coyotes displayed significantly higher levels of fear-related behaviours like vigilance and den guarding but lower levels of exploration. The trade-off these coyotes make in committing more time to being on alert and guarding pups could make for less time for necessary fitness-related behaviours, like effective hunting and receiving signals from their environment. Given coyotes are a vital top carnivore in urban areas, one consequence of the previous might be less effective control of prey populations. Fearful coyotes may also seek easier anthropogenic food sources that can lead them to further conflict with humans. With conflict incidents with coyotes frequently appearing in the media across Canada, I explore how my findings support a peaceful, non-harassment coexistence approach, where people work with the coyotes instead of against them.
Customers’ self-disclosures to online virtual advisors
Creators: name: Al-Natour, Sameh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Business-to-consumer e-commerce has experienced unparalleled growth since its inception a decade and a half ago. Yet, customers’ concerns about providing personal information to online vendors, and their discomfort when having to do so, continue to be the chief obstacles to further growth over the same period of time. The research described in this dissertation is motivated by a simple question: What are the factors that encourage or inhibit customers to self-disclose personal information to online IT artifacts? To answer this question, we conducted an exhaustive literature review of self-disclosure, and developed a number of theoretical models of its determinants. A series of empirical studies were conducted to test the proposed models of self-disclosure determinants in the context of interacting with an online virtual advisor that assists customer in finding a suitable skin care solution. The results highlight that self-disclosure is not only the result of a rational cognitive process, where the benefits to be gained from self-disclosing are compared to the costs. Rather, self-disclosure is also an interpersonal situated practice, where the customer’s experience and his/her perceptions of the advisor during the interaction with it significantly affect his/her intentions to self-disclose to the advisor and provide accurate information. Unlike most of the past studies on self-disclosure in consumer contexts, the research described in this thesis adopts a broader approach to conceptualizing self-disclosure. Combined, the three studies described in this thesis present a complete picture of the different types of antecedents that affect customers’ willingness to self-disclosure to online IT artifacts, and specifically virtual advisors. The research described in this thesis makes a number of contributions to theory and practice. In terms of theory, this research offers a comprehensive view of the different factors that affect self-disclosure, and highlight the important role of the interaction experience and contextual factors. In terms of practice, this research highlights the need to design online virtual advisors so interactions with them are clear and enjoyable.
The role of large-scale magnetic fields in galaxy NGC 891. Can magnetic fields help to reduce the local mass-to-light ratio in the galactic outskirts?
Creators: name: Jałocha, Joanna
name: Bratek, Łukasz
name: Pȩkala, Jan
name: Kutschera, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of the influence of large-scale magnetic fields on galactic rotation for the example of the spiral galaxy NGC 891. Based on its rotation curve and the surface density of HI we determine, in the framework of the global disc model, the surface density of matter. Then, based on the surface brightness, we determine the corresponding profile of the local mass-to-light ratio. We also model the vertical gradient of azimuthal velocity in the quasi-circular-orbit approximation, and compare it with measurements. We discuss what factors may influence the rotation of matter in NGC 891 and how this can translate to changes in the profile of the local mass-to-light ratio. In particular, we discuss the possible effect of magnetic fields on the motion of ionized gas, and, consequently, on the determination of the profile of the local mass-to-light ratio. Finally, we put forward the hypothesis that the asymmetry in magnetic fields observed in NGC 891 might be responsible for the observed anomalous behaviour of the vertical gradient.
description: 6 pages, 12 figures
Anisotropy and non-universality in scaling laws of the large scale energy spectrum in rotating turbulence
Creators: name: Sen, Amrik
name: Mininni, Pablo D.
name: Rosenberg, Duane
name: pouquet, Annick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapidly rotating turbulent flow is characterized by the emergence of columnar structures that are representative of quasi-two dimensional behavior of the flow. It is known that when energy is injected into the fluid at an intermediate scale $L_f$, it cascades towards smaller as well as larger scales. In this paper we analyze the flow in the \textit{inverse cascade} range at a small but fixed Rossby number, {$\mathcal{R}o_f \approx 0.05$}. Several {numerical simulations with} helical and non-helical forcing functions are considered in periodic boxes with unit aspect ratio. In order to resolve the inverse cascade range with {reasonably} large Reynolds number, the analysis is based on large eddy simulations which include the effect of helicity on eddy viscosity and eddy noise. Thus, we model the small scales and resolve explicitly the large scales. We show that the large-scale energy spectrum has at least two solutions: one that is consistent with Kolmogorov-Kraichnan-Batchelor-Leith phenomenology for the inverse cascade of energy in two-dimensional (2D) turbulence with a {$\sim k_{\perp}^{-5/3}$} scaling, and the other that corresponds to a steeper {$\sim k_{\perp}^{-3}$} spectrum in which the three-dimensional (3D) modes release a substantial fraction of their energy per unit time to 2D modes. {The spectrum that} emerges {depends on} the anisotropy of the forcing function{,} the former solution prevailing for forcings in which more energy is injected into 2D modes while the latter prevails for isotropic forcing. {In the case of anisotropic forcing, whence the energy} goes from the 2D to the 3D modes at low wavenumbers, large-scale shear is created resulting in another time scale $τ_{sh}$, associated with shear, {thereby producing} a $\sim k^{-1}$ spectrum for the {total energy} with the 2D modes still following a {$\sim k_{\perp}^{-5/3}$} scaling.
Na2IrO3 as a spin-orbit-assisted antiferromagnetic insulator with a 340 meV gap
Creators: name: Comin, R.
name: Levy, G.
name: Ludbrook, B.
name: Zhu, Z. -H.
name: Veenstra, C. N.
name: Rosen, J. A.
name: Singh, Yogesh
name: Gegenwart, P.
name: Stricker, D.
name: Hancock, J. N.
name: van der Marel, D.
name: Elfimov, I. S.
name: Damascelli, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Na2IrO3 by ARPES, optics, and band structure calculations in the local-density approximation (LDA). The weak dispersion of the Ir 5d-t2g manifold highlights the importance of structural distortions and spin-orbit coupling (SO) in driving the system closer to a Mott transition. We detect an insulating gap Δ_gap = 340 meV which, at variance with a Slater-type description, is already open at 300 K and does not show significant temperature dependence even across T_N ~ 15 K. An LDA analysis with the inclusion of SO and Coulomb repulsion U reveals that, while the prodromes of an underlying insulating state are already found in LDA+SO, the correct gap magnitude can only be reproduced by LDA+SO+U, with U = 3 eV. This establishes Na2IrO3 as a novel type of Mott-like correlated insulator in which Coulomb and relativistic effects have to be treated on an equal footing.
description: Accepted in Physical Review Letters. Auxiliary and related material can be found at: http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~quantmat/ARPES/PUBLICATIONS/articles.html
Khronon inflation
Creators: name: Creminelli, Paolo
name: Noreña, Jorge
name: Peña, Manuel
name: Simonović, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possibility that the approximate time shift symmetry during inflation is promoted to the full invariance under time reparametrization t \to \tilde t(t), or equivalently under field redefinition of the inflaton ϕ\to \tildeϕ(ϕ). The symmetry allows only two operators at leading order in derivatives, so that all n-point functions of scalar perturbations are fixed in terms of the power spectrum normalization and the speed of sound. During inflation the decaying mode only decays as 1/a and this opens up the possibility to violate some of the consistency relations in the squeezed limit, although this violation is suppressed by the (small) breaking of the field reparametrization symmetry. In particular one can get terms in the 3-point function that are only suppressed by 1/k_L in the squeezed limit k_L \to 0 compared to the local shape.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure, v2. changes regarding the violation of the consistency relation. JCAP published version
Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in Higher Education: Investigating the Role of Formal and Informal Factors
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: Ostrow Michel, Jessica
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Education, Higher
Environmental education
Environmental education--Study and teaching (Higher)
College students--Attitudes

description: Scholars have documented the growing presence of environmental and sustainability education in higher education institutions around the world. However, we know little about how colleges and universities mobilize students to adopt pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. Drawing on the whole student framework, this study examines the extent to which curricular and co-curricular factors are associated with students’ engagement with environmentalism. Using survey data from 539 students at Indiana University and multivariate analysis, we demonstrate that (a) hearing about environmentalism and sustainability in class and (b) membership in campus-based environmental groups have positive and significant effects. These factors are associated with increased levels of care for the environment and increased levels of private and public pro-environmental behaviors. We discuss the implications of these findings in relation to the role of higher education institutions as incubators for the development of competent social actors.
The Effects of Force-Velocity Test Specificity on On-Ice Acceleration Performance Prediction in Elite Speed Skaters
Creators: name: Zukowski, Matthew
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: neuromuscular
subject: strength
subject: force-velocity
subject: profiling
subject: speed skating
subject: Education--Sciences

description: This primary purpose of this thesis was to investigate the influence of off-ice force-velocity test specificity on the prediction of on-ice acceleration performance in elite long track speed skaters. We assessed a functional force-velocity relationship using three loaded jump protocols. In the first study, we established the intra-day reliability of two novel unilateral loaded jump protocols, the single leg horizontal (JumpHorz) and lateral (JumpLat) jumps. These protocols were shown to be reliable, displaying significant interrelationships with on-ice sprint race split times at distances of 100 m, 400 m, and 500 m. The second study validated an exponential function model to evaluate velocity changes during an on-ice sprint start that provided a more detailed assessment of on-ice acceleration capacity compared to the convention of split times. The exponential model allowed for the calculation of performance parameters, which demonstrated strong reliability, and differentiation between elite and sub-elite athletes. In the final study, we compared the JumpLat, JumpHorz and CMJ loaded jump tests for the prediction of on-ice acceleration performance obtained from our exponential model. Using a regularized regression model, we found that the loading condition is more significant than movement specificity for predicting on-ice acceleration performance. In summary, these studies provide practitioners in skating sports with novel off and on-ice testing methodology that may be used to better monitor performance during the running and gliding phases on-ice, and to inform individualized training prescription.
It Takes a Village: Americans' Views of Community Schools
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: Pallas, Aaron M.
name: Streim, Nancy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Americans
Community schools
Schools--Public opinion
Educational evaluation
Educational surveys

description: Citizen preferences play a key role in a democracy, and there is a substantial body of work that tries to understand the role that public preferences play in the policy process. Despite the important role public opinion plays, there are only limited efforts to document public opinion about education, psychology, and health. The Public Mind project seeks to address this gap by providing reliable, valid public opinion data to inform public debate. The Project includes a series of public opinion surveys on a variety of issues related to governance, policies, and practice that have the potential to affect human development. This new survey indicates that the appetite for community schools is strong. The national survey of about 3,000 adults, released August 9th, 2018 shows that a majority of Americans approve of schools that offer integrated educational, social, health and community services to students and families.
Wire network behavior in superconducting Nb films with diluted triangular arrays of holes
Creators: name: He, S. K.
name: Zhang, W. J.
name: Liu, H. F.
name: Xue, G. M.
name: Li, B. H.
name: Xiao, H.
name: Wen, Z. C.
name: Han, X. F.
name: Zhao, S. P.
name: Gu, C. Z.
name: Qiu, X. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present transport measurement results on superconducting Nb films with diluted triangular arrays (honeycomb and kagomé) of holes. The patterned films have large disk-shaped interstitial regions even when the edge-to-edge separations between nearest neighboring holes are comparable to the coherence length. Changes in the field interval of two consecutive minima in the field dependent resistance $R(H)$ curves are observed. In the low field region, fine structures in the $R(H)$ and $T_c(H)$ curves are identified in both arrays. Comparison of experimental data with calculation results shows that these structures observed in honeycomb and kagomé hole arrays resemble those in wire networks with triangular and $T_3$ symmetries, respectively. Our findings suggest that even in these specified periodic hole arrays with very large interstitial regions, the low field fine structures are determined by the connectivity of the arrays
Gauropterus annamensis BORDONI 2002
Creators: name: Bordoni, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gauropterus
Gauropterus annamensis

description: Gauropterus annamensis BORDONI 2002
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Yunnan, Wangtian village, Mengla coun., Shi Hong-Liang 15- 18.I.2005, 1 ex. (SNUC), 1 ex. (xB).
G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Vietnam (BORDONI 2002) and China: Yunnan (BORDONI 2012b).
description: Published as part of Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, pp. 1745-1797 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 1748, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273196
Additional file 3 of Exosomal lncRNA SNHG10 derived from colorectal cancer cells suppresses natural killer cell cytotoxicity by upregulating INHBC
Creators: name: Huang, Yiwen
name: Luo, Yanbo
name: Ou, Wentao
name: Wang, Yuanyuan
name: Dong, Dong
name: Peng, Xiaowen
name: Luo, Yuqi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Information of the primers used in this study.
An Ethnographic Study of Interprofessional Collaboration in Palliative Care
Creators: name: Forsyth, Erin Christine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: palliative
subject: palliative care
subject: interprofessional
subject: interdisciplinary
subject: multidisciplinary
subject: collaboration
subject: team
subject: teamwork
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health Sciences

description: Background: The concept of the modern palliative care movement was initially developed by Cecily Saunders. She believed that the complex emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of dying patients and their families were best met by a team of professionals working together rather than a sole practitioner. Today local, national, and international definitions of palliative care remain grounded in the philosophy established by Saunders, where care is most effectively delivered by an interprofessional team working in a collaborative manner to support patient and family centred goals. Research Aim: The purpose of this study was to better understand the differences in interprofessional collaboration between palliative care teams in different clinical settings. The research questions were: 1) Do palliative care providers believe interprofessional collaboration is important? and 2) What are the contextual factors that act as either facilitators or barriers to the implementation of interprofessional collaboration in practice? Methods: A qualitative ethnographic methodology was used to understand the factors impacting interprofessional collaboration in three separate teams providing palliative care in different settings in a city in Western Canada. Data were collected and analyzed using Carspecken’s five step process for ethnographic research. Participant observation and focus groups were conducted with interprofessional team members responsible for providing direct care for palliative care patients/families. Findings: Five themes emerged from the data: Interprofessional Collaboration: A Central Tenet of Palliative Care; Interprofessional Communication: The Single Most Important Ingredient for Effective Interprofessional Collaboration; Professional Hierarchy Impacts Interprofessional Collaboration; Role Understanding and Valuing Others; and Facilitators and Barriers to Team Function. Discussion: Findings from this study can be used to better understand how individual, professional, and organizational culture impacts teamwork in the delivery of palliative care and supports opportunities for understanding and mitigating the barriers to interprofessional collaboration in palliative care settings. The structure and values of the team impact interprofessional collaboration: how communication is enacted; how the hierarchy of the team influences who is viewed as having the ultimate authority over care; and how role understanding and valuing others drives interactions with other members of the team.
Blogging for intercultural communicative competence in study abroad programs: All breadth, no depth?
Creators: name: Dressler, Roswita
name: Crossman, Katherine (Katie)
name: Kawalillak, Colleen
Publisher: name: John Benjamins
Year: 2022

description: Participants in study abroad (SA) programs (sojourners) are often encouraged to blog as a form of reflective writing, yet little is known about this practice. Generally, reflection facilitates sojourners’ engagement in their personal and professional growth. Drawing from two different but complementary frameworks, we analyzed blogs from 51 sojourners in short-term SA volunteer teaching placements to examine the reflection that occurred through their writing. The two frameworks revealed different aspects of blogging practices: types of reflection (Maarof, 2007) were primarily descriptive, but Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) Learning (Elola & Oskoz, 2008) examples were more numerous and varied, documenting sojourners’ navigation of culture in SA. Sojourners did not typically use their blogs for dialogic or critical reflection, instead chronicling experiences or representing reflection as completed actions. Although blogging can be useful for reflection in SA, the results from this study suggest that careful scaffolding may be necessary to encourage critical reflection.
XVI Международная научно-практическая конференция «РАЗВИТИЕ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ НАУКИ И ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В УСЛОВИЯХ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ПРОЦЕССОВ»
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2024

description: XVI Международная научно-практическая конференция «РАЗВИТИЕ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ НАУКИ И ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В УСЛОВИЯХ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ПРОЦЕССОВ»
Getting Better in Greening the Big Apple: Sustainability Education in New York City
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sustainability
Sustainable development--Study and teaching
School management and organization

description: Similar to other large cities in the United States, New York City (NYC) has initiated a groundbreaking effort to address the City’s long-term challenges of climate change. The new initiative, which is titled PlaNYC 2030 and was released in 2007, has focused on issues of urban development such as rapid population growth, affordable housing, and transportation. Under this initiative all City agencies must make progress on twenty-nine sustainability indicators by 2030, including recycling, waste diversion, greenhouse emissions, water conservation, and energy efficiency. With regard to the education sector, this initiative is affecting schools in various ways, including the creation of the Office of Sustainability, Division of School Facilities in 2009. The main responsibility of the Office of Sustainability is to oversee the NYC Department of Education’s recycling, energy conservation, and green curriculum initiatives. Specifically, Chancellor’s Regulation A-850 on sustainability requires all facilities and schools under the DOE’s jurisdiction, including charter schools located in DOE buildings, to appoint Sustainability Coordinators, and to develop and monitor a site-specific sustainability plan. Data for this presentation come from a research partnership between the New York City Department Of education Office of Sustainability and Teachers College, Columbia University. The partnership was created in 2015 after the publication of the revised Chancellor’s Regulation A-850 on sustainability. Scholars at Teachers College joined with the leadership of the Office of Sustainability to form a research partnership with the imperative to study schools’ engagement with sustainability and the organizational factors that shape this work. Most importantly, the partnership seeks to support the continuing improvement of sustainability education in New York City by informing both policy and programing. The presentation was delivered the biannual meeting of the Office of Sustainability’s partners, July 19, 2018. A full report will be published in Fall 2018.
Topological phases and multiqubit entanglement
Creators: name: Johansson, Markus
name: Ericsson, Marie
name: Singh, Kuldip
name: Sjöqvist, Erik
name: Williamson, Mark S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Global phase factors of topological origin, resulting from cyclic local $\rm{SU}$ evolution, called topological phases, were first described in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 90}, 230403 (2003)], in the case of entangled qubit pairs. In this paper we investigate topological phases in multi-qubit systems as the result of cyclic local $\rm{SU(2)}$ evolution. These phases originate from the topological structure of the local $\rm{SU(2)}$-orbits and are an attribute of most entangled multi-qubit systems. We discuss the relation between topological phases and SLOCC-invariant polynomials and give examples where topological phases appear. A general method to find the values of the topological phases in an $n$-qubit system is described and a complete list of these phases for up to seven qubits is given.
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Open or Closed? Measurement Performance of Open- and Closed-Path Methane Sensors for Mobile Emissions Screening
Creators: name: Billinghurst, Chandler Duran
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Methane
subject: Emissions
subject: Oil and gas
subject: Emissions measurement
subject: PoMELO
subject: Methane sensing
subject: Gaussian dispersion model
subject: Closed-path methane sensor
subject: Open-path methane sensor
subject: Environmental Sciences

description: Ground-based vehicle systems are being increasingly used by industry, regulators, and service providers in the upstream oil and gas sector to measure methane emissions. However, the suite of methane sensors affixed to these systems is non-standardized and existing literature displays a scarcity of direct comparisons regarding their measurement performance. Gaussian dispersion models are often used to supplement measured data and derive estimates of emission intensity in screening applications based on data measured by these sensors. Existing literature indicates these models perform with considerable uncertainty. As such, equivalence of performance between existing vehicle-based emission screening systems is difficult to assess. To address this issue, field-based controlled release experiments were conducted to compare concentration data from an open- and closed-path sensor deployed in tandem onboard a vehicle. Performance of a forward Gaussian dispersion model was assessed relative to measured data from both sensors. 801 transects were driven through methane plumes dispersed downwind of a controlled emission source at various measurement distances and driving speeds, as well as a range of atmospheric conditions. Measurement performance was predicated on three primary descriptors of concentration data: the maximum concentration within each plume (maximum enhancement), plume width, and plume area (total methane sampled within the plume). Results showed that the measurement performances of both sensors were not equivalent. Relative to the open-path sensor, the closed-path sensor reported maximum enhancements that were ~40% smaller on average and plume widths that were ~42% larger on average, while measures of plume area displayed near 1:1 parity. Measurement discrepancies are largely explained by differences in sensor measurement frequency and intrinsic sampling mechanisms. Forward Gaussian dispersion model performance displayed uncertainties ranging from 12.3% to 1207.0%. The origin of this uncertainty is largely determined by generalizations of atmospheric stability and simplistic representations of downwind plume migration within the model.
Learning and teaching about scholarly communication: Findings from graduate students and mentors
Creators: name: Hurrell, Christie
name: Beatty, Susan
name: Murphy, James E.
name: Cramer, Dana
name: Lee, Jennifer
name: McClurg, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2024
Subjects: Teaching
Scholarly communication
Graduate students
Mentors

description: Copyright © 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 24, Issue 1, January, 2024, pages 83-104. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press
description: Graduate students are increasingly expected to publish peer-reviewed scholarship during the course of their studies, yet predictable mentoring and education on academic publishing is not available to all graduate students. Although academic librarians are well positioned to offer such instruction, their efforts are not always informed by comprehensive investigations of what, and how, graduate students need to learn. This study used focus groups with graduate students and faculty mentors to explore strengths and gaps in current mentoring and learning practices, while also discovering and uncovering suggestions and opportunities for further development in education about scholarly publishing. Thematic analysis of the data revealed that current training and mentorship meet some, but not all, of students' needs and preferences. Future library instruction should employ a blended and compassionate approach to teaching about this complex topic, and this study offers a way forward as librarians-as-partners in scholarly communication.
Mapping Kaay Llnagaay : Indigenous cultural visuality in Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Creators: name: Smith, Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis maps out the wide range of knowledge and practices that form the field of Haida cultural visuality. Writing from an Indigenous space, which is interdisciplinary and relational, this thesis shows that culture encapsulates the relationships, responsibilities, practices and values made manifest through the actions and materialism of a people. Indigenous culture is a living experience that is informed by a wide range of relations including the use of tools and mediums of Western institutions. This thesis aims to illuminate the inalienable relationships between the past practices of Western anthropological institutions and the current movements within Indigenous owned and operated cultural centres, with a specific emphasis on research conducted at the Haida Heritage Centre at Kaay Llnagaay, in Haida Gwaii, B.C. Canada. Through the lens of cultural pedagogy, I illustrate how the Haida Nation is using education and representation as a tool to heal from cultural genocide. Within this context, I examine a wide range of international discourse and map out how, using a range of responses, the Haida have formed this emerging terrain. How have Indigenous people, caught between a European cultural system and their own traditional knowledge bases responded to appropriation, representation and pedagogy? How have they resisted and how do they continue to resist colonial cultural oppression? What are the cultural values and responsibilities that motivate Indigenous people to build their own cultural centres? How do they use these centres as pedagogical sites towards cultural regeneration? How do these sites further agendas of self-representation, cultural protection and self-representation? This thesis will show how the Skidegate Haida community has responded creatively to these issues and has created a pedagogy that continues to reiterate their relationships, protect and construct knowledge and is active within the Haida Heritage Centre at Kaay Llnagaay.
Thyreocephalus honkongensis
Creators: name: Bordoni, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Thyreocephalus
Thyreocephalus honkongensis

description: Thyreocephalus honkongensis (REDTENBACHER 1867)
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Shanghai, Shtu, Hu & Tang 23.XI.2002, 1 ex. (SNUC).
G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known from Burma to China (Guangxi, Hong Kong), Java and Bali (BORDONI 2002). In China it is known also from Hainan (BORDONI 2003, 2006), and Hubei (BORDONI 2007). New record for Shanghai.
description: Published as part of Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, pp. 1745-1797 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 1748, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273196
Flavor of quiver-like realizations of effective supersymmetry
Creators: name: Auzzi, Roberto
name: Giveon, Amit
name: Gudnason, Sven Bjarke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a class of supersymmetric models which address the flavor puzzle and have an inverted hierarchy of sfermions. Their construction involves quiver-like models with link fields in generic representations. The magnitude of Standard-Model parameters is obtained naturally and a relatively heavy Higgs boson is allowed without fine tuning. Collider signatures of such models are possibly within the reach of LHC in the near future.
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