cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Role of CIC in Neural Progenitors.
Creators: name: Rogers, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroscience
Oncology

description: Oligodendrogliomas (ODG) are brain tumours with distinct genetic hallmarks, including 1p/19q chromosomal co-deletion and IDH1/2 mutation. The gene encoding Capicua (CIC), on chr19q13.2, has been identified as mutated in ODGs with 1p/19q loss and IDH1/2 mutation, a rare genetic signature. Mutation of the retained 19q CIC allele is likely functionally important, but its contribution to ODG biology is unknown. To characterize the temporal and spatial expression of CIC in the normal mouse cerebrum, I examined CIC expression throughout development. CIC is expressed at a time and place in development in which it may influence cortical progenitors. To determine if CIC loss affects proliferation or differentiation of neural progenitors, CIC biologic functions were examined using loss-of-function approaches in vitro and in vivo. CIC loss was increased proliferation and cell growth, and effected progenitor differentiation and migration. Thus, my data supports a role for CIC in regulating processes in neural progenitors that are relevant to cancer.
Morality in War: A Comparison Between Bhīma from the Mahābhārata and Achilles from the Iliad
Creators: name: Minions, Genevieve
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Literature--Classical
subject: Literature--Comparative
subject: Literature--Asian
subject: Religion
subject: Morality
subject: Bhima
subject: Achilles
subject: Iliad
subject: Mahabharata

description: This thesis is an analysis of morality in war in the Mahābhārata and the Iliad by a comparison of the main warriors, Bhīma and Achilles, in their respective Indo-European epics. Specifically, this thesis shows how outside influences (mortal or immortal) placed upon each warrior ultimately determine the warriors' actions, especially those towards their enemies. As the treatment of these warriors in their respective epics remains unbalanced, this analysis will account for how Achilles is able to get away so much more than Bhīma, yet not be criticized similarly. Overall, the assessment of these two warriors provides an overarching understanding of the view of morality within war from the perspective of these epics.
Revisiting the census of low-luminosity AGN
Creators: name: Capetti, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to revisit critically the current census of AGN as derived from optical spectroscopy. We considered the spectra of nearby (z<0.1) galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The equivalent width (EW) distribution of the [O III]5007 emission line is strongly clustered around ~0.6 A, extending the validity of the results we obtained for red giant ellipticals. The close connection between emission lines and stellar continuum points to stellar processes as the most likely source of the bulk of the ionizing photons in these galaxies although their emission line ratios are similar to those of active nuclei. Genuine AGN might be sought mainly among the minority (~5-10%) of outliers, i.e., galaxies with EW>~2 A. The galaxies located in the AGN region of the spectroscopic diagnostic diagrams outnumber outliers by a factor 5-10 which casts doubts on the accuracy of the current identification of active galaxies, particularly those of LINERs of low line luminosity,
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Un régimen contra Dios: El ateísmo de estado y la política antirreligiosa en la Albania de Enver Hoxha (1944-1985)
Creators: name: Baró Queralt, Xavier
Publisher: name: Revista Catalana de Teologia
Year: 2023

description: Revista Catalana de Teologia, Vol. 47, Núm. 1 (2022): Revista Catalana de Teologia
Towards Probing Structure and Function Relationships of Proteins in Complex Sample Types Using HX-MS
Creators: name: Sheff, Joey
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Analytical
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Bioanalytical
subject: Chemistry
subject: HX-MS
subject: Protein

description: The functional protein state is a dynamic one, and this behaviour should be accurately reported by our biophysical toolset. Hydrogen-exchange mass spectrometry (HX-MS) is a powerful means of probing changes in the conformational ensemble of interacting proteins, and helps shape our understanding of structure and function relationships. This dissertation describes the development of novel tools for HX-MS, geared towards interacting with biologically relevant systems that are prohibitively large and complex for current structural approaches. First, we introduced a set of standards to correct for dispensing during sample workup. This improved both systematic and random error, and increased the statistical power in differential experiments. Next, we scaled HX-compatible digestion strategies to determine how the analysis of complexes is limited. Digestion with traditional proteases was efficient, with modest coverage of a > 500 kDa sample. Our results suggested that the remaining limiting factors in the analysis of larger systems were related to chromatographic performance. We demonstrated the potential of specific prolyl-endoproteases to mitigate sample complexity. However, we discovered that peptide mapping was inadequate in all proteolytic approaches, and should be resolved if complete HX-MS datasets are desired. A proteomics-inspired nanoHX-MS system was next described. Resolution was improved by eliminating post-column band-broadening with our in-source configuration and a 50-fold improvement in sensitivity was achieved. We then investigated the validity of using overlapping peptides to increase structural resolution. Induction of secondary structure, and charge effects upon interaction with the chromatographic stationary phase perturbed exchange behaviour. Therefore, the fundamental assumption that residue exchange rates are independent of their parent peptide is invalid. These effects must be accounted for to obtain accurate modelling of site-resolved exchange with any high-resolution strategy. Finally, a multivariate strategy was tailored for large scale HX-MS screens. HX-MS readings were complemented by functional data (IC50) and used to characterize a panel of 18 compounds against Eg5, a mitotic kinesin. Canonical mechanisms were confirmed and roughly classified based on inhibitory strength. A modified binding mode and novel allosteric mechanism was discovered for Terpendole E, an inhibitor with activity in clinically relevant resistant Eg5 mutants.
The Impact of Mock Juvenile Probation Officer Emotion and Justice-Involved Juvenile Race on Mock Juvenile Probation Officer Decision Making
Creators: name: Cangialosi, Brittany
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Other Psychology
subject: justice
subject: law
subject: officer
subject: probation
subject: juvenile
subject: emotion
subject: moderated serial mediation
subject: psychology

description: Prior research demonstrates that minority youth are often punished more harshly than their White counterparts (Pickett & Chiricos, 2012) and that emotions impact juror and jury decision-making (Bright & Goodman, 2006), but no known research has examined whether negative affect (e.g., anger and sadness) exacerbates the influence of racial biases, and in turn, punitiveness in juvenile probation officers. Thus, the present study investigated the impact of elicited anger and sadness and justice-involved youth race on mock juvenile probation officer decision- making utilizing a moderated serial mediation model.
Josefa Contijoch. Les raons d'una obra literària
Creators: name: Codina, Maria Carme
Publisher: name: Ausa
Year: 2023

description: Josefa Contijoch és una escriptora manlleuenca d’extensa carrera literària que començà amb la poesia, continuà amb la novel·la i en els darrers anys ha cultivat l’assaig i la traducció. L’article repassa tota aquesta activitat literària, des dels inicis de la seva obra poètica, amb poemaris com Congesta i Baix continu, continuant per l’obra narrativa amb un total de vuit novel·les, una de les quals, Sense alè, és considerada la més representativa. Més endavant, i a l’empara del PEN CLUB català i amb el primer comitè de dones escriptores comença la seva aportació a l’assaig i la traducció. L’article realitza una aproximació als trets definitoris de tota l’obra de Contijoch, marcada per la reflexió sobre el propi jo en el curs del temps en la poesia i per una personal perspectiva feminista i biogràfica en la novel·la. Finalment, en l’assaig i la traducció visibilitza i reivindica la literatura escrita per dones.
description: Ausa, Vol. 30, Núm. 189 (2022)
Hydrogen in Low Carbon Steel: Diffusion, Effect on Tensile Properties, and an Examination of Hydrogen’s Role in the Initiation of Stress Corrosion Cracking in a Failed Pipeline
Creators: name: Eggum, Troy Justin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science
subject: Hydrogen
subject: Diffusion
subject: Pipeline
subject: Stress Corrosion Cracking
subject: Fick's Law
subject: Tensile Test
subject: Corrosion

description: This thesis covers three topic areas: hydrogen diffusion in steel, hydrogen effects on steel’s mechanical properties, and examination of a pipeline that fractured due to stress corrosion cracking (SCC). A hydrogen diffusion experiment using low carbon steel, passive hydrogen charging (5% NaCl, 1.1 pH, N2 deaeration), and mercury eudiometry for hydrogen measurement was used to develop a concentration profile in a specimen. This profile was compared to an analytical solution to Fick’s Law of Diffusion. The experimental concentration profile follows Fick’s prediction and allows determination of hydrogen’s effective diffusion coefficient and surface and bulk concentrations. The effective diffusion coefficient and surface concentration were found to increase with aggressiveness of the charging solution. Tensile tests were performed on low carbon steel from a mobile solute in solid solution perspective. Different combinations of values of strain rate and hydrogen concentration were used to determine the effect of hydrogen concentration and to find interactions between hydrogen diffusion rate and strain rate. Increasing the strain rate increased the flow stresses (yield, ultimate, and fracture), uniform plastic strain, and strain hardening exponent. Increasing the hydrogen concentration decreased necking strain, elongation at fracture, and increased fracture stress. This led to a natural division of the tensile response of the steel into two areas: prior to the ultimate changes to the strain rate dominate the material’s behaviour and post-ultimate where changes in hydrogen concentration dominate the material’s behaviour. It was shown that hydrogen had a hardening effect near the yield point and softening effect near the ultimate, indicating that these techniques can detect changes in the competing embrittling and plasticizing processes of solute hydrogen in steel. Crack morphology was examined on a SCC fractured pipeline both from axial and radial directions to observe relationships between corrosion pits and the crack field. The pitting and cracking processes were observed to be separate events. It is likely that pitting occurred first, generating hydrogen, which then moved into the steel. When sufficient hydrogen was present, the steel became sensitized to the applied hoop stress and oriented crack fields developed which eventually led to a large fracture.
Between inertia and decision: a computational approach of cognitive inflexibility in ASD.
Creators: name: Scholl, Jacqueline
name: AUGER, Raphaëlle LEROUX
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: ASD

description: Circumscribed interests and restrictive repetitive behavior (RRB) in autism are associated with clinical distress and behavioral problems. In the adult population without intellectual disability, cognitive flexibility is frequent and is suspected to be related to RRB. Pathophysiological bases of cognitive inflexibility and consequences in decision-making remain yet unclear. In this study, we will include ASD patients and healthy controls, and use a validated sequential foraging task to correlate ASD diagnosis, RRB and Cognitive Inflexibility and sequential decision making. This task explores how subjects plan a series of decisions and then carry them out while monitoring their appropriateness. Such sequential decision-making paradigms are more ecological than single-event decision tasks, better fitting decision-making problems humans encounter. We will use a computational model to capture how well, after planning a sequence of searches, participants carry out this sequence, and how adaptable individuals are in changing the pre-planned behaviors ‘on the fly’ as well as how they fail to adjust in the face of decision bias. Indeed, participants can have decision inertia, which is defined as inflexibility and repetitiveness. To further asses RRB and cognitive flexibility, we will perform a neuropsychological assessment of ASD patients. We will measure the intensity of RRB with the dedicated subscore from ADI-R (Autism Diagnosis Interview Revised) and ADOS (autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic) scales, and Cognitive Inflexibility with the “Switching” subscore of BRIEF-A (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function for Adults).
Breath Figures: Nucleation, Growth, Coalescence, and the Size Distribution of Droplets
Creators: name: Blaschke, Johannes
name: Lapp, Tobias
name: Hof, Björn
name: Vollmer, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of the size distribution of droplets condensing on a substrate (breath figures) is a test ground for scaling theories. Here, we show that a faithful description of these distributions must explicitly deal with the growth mechanisms of the droplets. This finding establishes a gateway connecting nucleation and growth of the smallest droplets on surfaces to gross features of the evolution of the droplet size distribution.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; see also supplementary material including 2 video files
On the characterization of the cavity like flow upstream of the very low head water turbine
Creators: name: Fernando, John N
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid and Plasma
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Very low head water turbine
subject: Cavity flow
subject: Backward-facing step

description: This thesis presents an experimental investigation into the influence of an upstream obstacle - a backward-facing step - on the performance of the very low head water turbine. Power measurements were used to compare the efficiencies of three different obstacle-turbine configurations. Particle image velocimetry was then used to measure the velocity field directly upstream of the turbine to characterize the loss in efficiency for the smallest obstacle-turbine case. It was found that the velocity profile is highly non-uniform when the obstacle is in close proximity to the turbine, resulting in an uneven and unsteady loading on the blades within the turbine. A second study focused on particle image velocimetry measurements coupled with common-base proper orthogonal decomposition to quantify the flowfield in an idealized cavity-like geometry representative of the obstacle-turbine interaction. These results revealed varying spatio-temporal flow character for increasing cavity aspect ratios.
Broadband RF Power Amplifier Design Methodology Using Sequential Harmonic Characterization
Creators: name: Taghavi, Hosein
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: RF Power Amplifier
subject: GaN HEMT
subject: Multi Octave
subject: In-band Harmonics
subject: Sequential Harmonic Characterization
subject: Software Defined Radio

description: Radio Frequency Power Amplifier (RFPA) amplifies the communication signals to the required power level for transmission. It is the most power consuming stage in a transceiver chain; consequently, any improvement in terms of dissipated power and efficiency of the power amplifier affects the overall power budget of the transmitter. Also, efficient performance of the RF power amplifier over extended ranges of frequency is one of the most challenging areas in implementing multi-band transmitter systems. In this thesis, a design methodology for multi-octave RF power amplifiers is presented based on the proposed sequential harmonic characterization. Compared to the conventional method, a more optimal performance is achieved using the proposed technique. To validate the proposed method, a broadband multi-octave power amplifier prototype was designed and fabricated using a Cree GaN HEMT device that exhibits drain efficiency of 53% - 64% across 0.7 – 4.0 GHz corresponding to the fractional bandwidth of 140%.
Medicine and Obedience: Canadian Army Morale, Discipline and Surveillance in the Second World War, 1939-1945.
Creators: name: Pratt, William
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History--Canadian
subject: History--Military
subject: Military Studies
subject: History
subject: Military History
subject: canadian history
subject: Second World War
subject: Canadian Army
subject: medical history
subject: History of Medicine

description: In the Second World War Canadian Army, medicine and discipline were inherently linked in a system of morale surveillance. The Army used a wide range of tools to monitor morale on medical lines. A basic function of Canadian medical officers was to keep units and formations up to strength, not only by attending to their basic health, but also by scrutinizing ailments under suspicion of malingering. Mental health was a broad category linked to morale surveillance where experts of psychiatry and psychology consulted in aid of the Canadian Army in its disciplinary regime. Mental ability and stability became key ways to classify and categorize men in relation to their utility to the Army. Psychiatrists participated to various degrees in the screening process during the war, and treated those who were suffering from combat stress reaction, or as it was known during the war, “battle exhaustion”, considered a medical indicator of poor morale interrelated with discipline. Venereal disease was another medical factor monitored out of concern for its detrimental effect on manpower, morale and motivation. Treatment could take men out of the line for weeks, and contracting sexually transmitted infections proved disobedience of Army regulations which extended to the most intimate moments of a soldier’s leave. Provost and venereal disease control officers alike extended venereal disease surveillance from Canadian soldiers to their sexual contacts in Europe. The study of the morale monitoring system exposes a great deal about the Army and how it interacted with the medical profession and soldiers’ health. Using bureaucratic means to codify and quantify soldiers and their behaviour, the Army used a wide range of surveillance techniques to gather data on personnel. It is clear that as the Canadian Army was professionalized, enhancing its powers of observation, that the medicalization of morale was a key aspect of this process.
A twisted integrable hierarchy with $\mathbb D_2$ symmetry
Creators: name: Wu, Derchyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A loop algebra approach to the Gerdjikov-Mikhailov-Valchev (GMV) equation is provided to exploit the associated twisted integrable structure and a new twisted integrable hierarchy is discovered. Using the twisted loop algebra structure, we obtain a transparent treatment of the associated scattering and inverse scattering theory and solve the initial value problem for the GMV equation.
Designed words for a designed world : the international concrete poetry movement, 1955-71
Creators: name: Hilder, Jamie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation positions the International Concrete Poetry movement within its historical moment and links it to the emergence of a new global imaginary around the middle of the 20th century. It makes the argument that contemporaneous social and technological shifts directly influenced the compositional strategies of a group of poets who aimed to transform poetry’s communicative power in a rapidly shifting media environment. By positioning primary materials – poems, manifestos, and statements by the poets themselves – against contemporaneous cultural phenomena across various disciplines, I perform a critical examination that allows for new strategies for engaging work that has historically frustrated readers. I identify in a series of permutational poems the influence of rudimentary computer technology and the implications that technology has for poetic subjectivity. I locate the international character of the movement in modernization projects such as Brasília, and in technologies that held significance for the entire globe, such as reinforced concrete, satellite photography, and nuclear weapons. As concrete poetry takes shape in both books and galleries, I investigate the spatial implications of the work in its various forms, and analyse its often fraught relationship with Conceptual Art, which also presented language in innovative ways though in pursuit of different purposes. Across this terrain my methodological approach oscillates between art history and literary and cultural studies, paying close attention to how the poetry circulated within and imagined global spaces at a time that predated but in some ways initiated the trends we now see more fully developed in current concepts of globalization.
title: Sensitivity analysis of convolutional neural networks: a ranking of hyper-parameter influence and its practical application
Creators: name: Taylor, Rhian
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this work is to better understand and quantify the influence of training
hyper-parameters on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) test accuracy using Sensitivity Analysis (SA). The results of the SA will produce a general ranking of influence that will
be able to inform the reduction of the parameter search space during Hyper-Parameter
Optimisation (HPO) in an effort to increase the efficiency of the process without compromising model performance. Additionally, a novel metric, Accuracy Gain, was developed
to better estimate tuning efficiency and facilitate the comparison of parameter group performance.
The methodology of this research can be summarised in three parts. Firstly, the creation of a framework for SA of Deep Learning (DL) models, SADL, which perform two state
of the art SA methods, Sobol Indices and Morris Method, on CNN hyper-parameters. The
resulting sensitivity measures indicating hyper-parameter influence produce a ranking
that informs which parameters should be targeted during HPO. Bayesian Optimisation
was performed for parameter groups of various influence, and the accuracy gain metric
calculated for each to quantify tuning efficiency. Finally, these results were applied to a
real world scenario in a case study on the classification of colo-rectal cancer images.
They key findings of this work were the development of a robust framework of SA applied to DL and that it is possible to provide empirically based guidance on which parameters to optimise. The SA highlighted batch size, learning rate decay and learning rate decay step as most influential, where batch size was significantly more influential than other
hyper-parameters. Conversely, learning rate did not achieve the influence rank expected
based on the literature. Tuning a subset of influential parameters was more efficient than
tuning all parameters, which was confirmed in the case study where tuning the top three
parameters was quicker and achieved higher accuracy than not only all training parameters but was also a significant improvement on the parameters explored in the original
work.
The implications of this work for practitioners are that they can use this information to
guide hyper-parameter tuning efforts, reducing the parameter search space to work within
time and resource constraints without compromising model accuracy. Ultimately, these
results facilitate the efficient development of optimal DL models. Furthermore, this work
provides a framework and clear methodology that future work in this area can follow. Future directions of this work would focus on expanding the scope with additional model
architectures, training datasets, hyper-parameters and performance metrics.
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Shoreline Deposits of the Cardium Formation at West Pembina, Alberta
Creators: name: Fraser, John Adam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Petroleum Geology
subject: Sedimentology
subject: Sequence Stratigraphy

description: A sequence stratigraphic framework was established to map the distribution of the type offshore to lower shoreface Cardium reservoirs of the developing halo play fairway west of the Pembina Pool. Cross-sections and maps reveal a series of fifth order sequences imbricated westward towards and within the Pembina Pool, which form part of a third order highstand to falling stage systems tract. Reservoir facies within the halo-play include; moderately bioturbated muddy sandstones, interbedded sandstones and mudstones, and hummocky cross stratified sandstones. Routine core analysis was complemented by full diameter core CT scanning, MICP pore throat characterization, thin sections to characterize these unconventional type light oil reservoirs. Cross-plots and maps show that the best reservoir fairway occurs just west of the historic western boundary of the Pembina Pool.
Extra Dimensional Curvature Supression of the Effective Four Dimensional Vacuum Energy Density
Creators: name: Guendelman, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering a very large number of extra dimensions, $N\rightarrow \infty$, we show that in the effective four dimensional picture, to leading order in $N$, both the cosmological constant in $N+4$ dimensions and the curvature of the extra dimensions (curved as spheres) give the same type of contributions. Furthermore in this limit, the extra dimensional curvature naturally supress the effect of a positive Cosmological Constant, so that the resulting effective potential governing the vacuum energy in the effective $4-D$ picture has a leading 1/N dependence (i.e. vanishing in the large $N$ limit). We can understand qualitatively this effect in a heuristic picture, by thinking that all dimensions, both visible and extra have an equal sharing of the curvature caused by $Λ$, in this case when increasing the overall number of dimensions by adding $N$ extra dimensions, then if $N$ is large, the visible dimensions do not have to curve too much, hence a small four dimensional vacuum energy follows. In the large $N$ picture the potential can be also stabilized by a small (i.e. vanishing at large $N$) expectaction value of a four index field strength.
description: 8 pages
Panulirus argus Latreille 1804
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palinuridae
Panulirus
Panulirus argus

description: Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804)
Material examined (N=5). 2m, 3f, 12/VII/2003, St. 0 4 (CrUESB#335).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Bermuda, from North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Central America, Antilles, northern South America, and Brazil (Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, and from Pará to São Paulo) (Melo 1999). Eastern Atlantic – Cape Verde (Freitas & Castro 2005).
Ecological notes. On reefs, among rocks, in sponges and other environments that provide shelter. It can also be found in sand and gravel bottoms. From shallow waters to 90 m (Melo 1999).
Previous records in Bahia. White (1847), Gomes Corrêa (1972), Almeida et al. (2007).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Pseudonicsara (Pseudonicsara) april Ingrisch 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Pseudonicsara
Pseudonicsara april

description: Pseudonicsara (P.) april sp. n. Figs. 21, 441, 492, 514, 542, map 3. Holotype (female): Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Prov.: D. N. Guinea, Kaiserin Augustafl. Exp. 228, Standlager am Aprilfluss [April River, 4° 29' S, 142° 29' E], 21.XII.1912, Bürgers, depository: Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZMB). Diagnosis. The new species differs from all other Pseudonicsara species so far known by the female subgenital plate that is not bilobate at apex but has the apical margin entire and rounded (Fig. 441; see key). Description. Fastigium verticis in front of eyes 0.8 mm, from base 1.1 mm; dorsal eye length 1.3 mm; greatest diameter of eye 1.3 mm; index fastigium verticis from base: eye length 0.9. Face subsmooth in middle, a little rugose towards genae. Slightly brachypterous; tegmen covering abdomen but not reaching hind knees. Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 7–8 external, 6–7 internal; mid femur 6 external, 3 internal near base; hind femur 9–10 external, 6–7 small internal in basal area. Male unknown. Female. Tenth abdominal tergite transverse, furrowed and apex triangularly excised in middle. Subgenital plate roughly triangular in general outline with broad, rounded apex (slightly sinuate when looked in detail); with a pair of strong carinae separating a central disc that is deeply depressed between the carinae from lateral ascending areas (Figs. 441, 492, 514). Ovipositor rather robust, distinctly curved (Fig. 542). Coloration. Yellowish brown. Face with a blackish-brown median band from fastigium to clypeus, slightly widening ventrad and with ventral margin sinuate; antennal scrobae and ventral side of scapus also blackish-brown (Fig. 21). Tegmen dark brown with a little conspicuous network of pale green veins and veinlets. Fore tibia with dorsal area infumate; in tympanal area with three distinct black spots separated by two light areas. Measurements of female: body 26; pronotum 7.3; tegmen 19; hind femur 16.5; antenna 90; ovipositor 16.5 mm. Etymology. Named after the type locality; noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 2185 on page 20
Does Injury Definition Matter? The Influence of Different Definitions on Interpretations of Injury Risk among Pre-Professional Ballet and Contemporary Dancers
Creators: name: Kenny, Sarah
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dance
subject: Epidemiology
subject: injury prevention
subject: risk factors
subject: Pre-professional Dancers
subject: Ballet
subject: Injury Surveillance

description: Background: Dance is a physical discipline that requires artistic expression combined with athletic capacity. The blend of artist and athlete can only be achieved through rigorous training, which increases a dancer’s susceptibility to musculoskeletal (MSK) injury. Research aimed at preventing dance injuries is warranted in order to ensure long-term dance participation and associated health benefits. Although there has been an extensive amount of study in the field of dance-related injury prevention, knowledge gaps remain due to a paucity of rigorous research. Foundational to dance-related injury prevention research is the definition of injury. Objectives: The primary objective of this doctoral research is to assess the influence of injury definition on interpretations of injury risk among pre-professional ballet and contemporary dancers. Methods: Full-time pre-professional ballet and contemporary dancers underwent an evidence-informed, psychometrically sound, pre-participation evaluation. Prospective injury surveillance was implemented during one academic year to identify three definitions of dance-related injury (i.e., time-loss, medical attention, all MSK complaints) utilizing two injury registration methodologies (i.e., therapist-report, self-report). Potential injury risk factors were identified using classification and regression tree analysis followed by multivariable linear regression. Results: Injury prevalence, incidence and severity of injuries impacting pre-professional dancers varies depending on the definition of injury, injury reporting methodology, and style of dance. Injuries resulting in time-loss and medical attention underestimate the burden of injury, while the prevalence of MSK complaints amongst pre-professional ballet and contemporary dancers is high. Self-reported one-year injury history is a significant risk factor for dance-related MSK complaints, and age, psychological coping skills, ankle range of motion, and dynamic balance may influence the injury risk profile of this population. Conclusions: To understand the full impact of injury in dance, it is imperative that injury surveillance systems employ injury definitions that are sensitive enough to capture all injuries. It is recommended that future epidemiological studies examining risk factors for dance injury look beyond the linear interaction of isolated potential risk factors and employ methodological strategies that incorporate analyses examining risk patterns (i.e., interactions among multiple risk factors) to better understand the complex nature of dance injury etiology.
Mathematical Modeling of Finite Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Kornyak, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the problem of quantum behavior in the finite background. Introduction of continuum or other infinities into physics leads only to technical complications without any need for them in description of empirical observations. The finite approach makes the problem constructive and more tractable. We argue that quantum behavior is a natural consequence of symmetries of dynamical systems. It is a result of fundamental impossibility to trace identity of indistinguishable objects in their evolution - only information about invariant combinations of such objects is available. We demonstrate that any quantum dynamics can be embedded into a simple permutation dynamics. Quantum phenomena, such as interferences, arise in invariant subspaces of permutation representations of the symmetry group of a system. Observable quantities can be expressed in terms of the permutation invariants.
description: 15 pages, talk at the conference "Mathematical Modeling and Computational Physics" Stara Lesna, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, July 4 - 8, 2011; v.2, some refinements of text
Integrated Non-communicable diseases and Infectious diseases control efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Creators: name: Henok Gulilat
name: Hailu Merga
name: Kedir Abdella
name: Desalew Tilahun
name: Ibro, Shemsedin Amme
name: Abamecha, Abdulhakim
name: Addisalem Gwbresilassie
name: Abamecha, Fira
name: Ahemd Zeynudin
name: Ahmed, Ismael
name: Suleman, Sultan
name: Matiwos Soboka
name: Sheka Shemsi
name: Tesfaye, Selam
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Integrated care
subject: Low-Resource Settings
subject: Implementation study
subject: Non-infectious diseases
subject: Modell Development
subject: Chronic kidney disease
subject: Integrated care approach
subject: Chronic hepatitis
subject: Delivery of Health Care
subject: Double diseases burden
subject: Epilepsy
subject: Integrated management
subject: Hypertension
subject: Noncommunicable diseases
subject: Health Care Systems
subject: Mental disorders
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Integrated care model
subject: Comorbidity
subject: Systematic review
subject: Infectious diseases
subject: Double burden
subject: Scoping review
subject: Chronic diseases
subject: Diabetes Mellitus
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: Multimorbidity
subject: Cancer
subject: Tuberculosis
subject: Integrated model
subject: Communicable Diseases
subject: HIV

description: This project is a scoping review that explores the literature on integrated care models for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases (IDs) in low-resource settings of Sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to provide an overview of the types, components, effects, and challenges of such models and identify gaps and opportunities for future research and practice. Therefore, the finding from this review will be used as input to guide the future review and research on the development and implementation of the integrated care models for NCDs and IDs in Ethiopia.
Pseudonicsara (Pseudonicsara) arcuata Ingrisch 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Pseudonicsara
Pseudonicsara arcuata

description: Pseudonicsara (P.) arcuata sp. n. Figs. 432, 476, 525, map 3. Holotype (female) Indonesia, Papua: New Guinea, NE., Swart Valley, Karubaka, 1450 m, [3° 35' S, 138° 30' E], 17.XI.1958, J.L. Gressitt, depository: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM). Paratype: 1 female, same locality, 1500 m, 20.XI.1958, J.L. Gressitt (BPBM). Diagnosis. The new species is unique for the peculiar shape of the female subgenital plate with a pair of transverse basal furrows followed by transverse folds and with long and strongly curved apical lobes (Figs. 432, 525). The coloration of the pronotum is also conspicuous but might be variable. Differences to other species are outlined in the key. Description. Fastigium verticis in front of eyes 1.5 mm, from base 1.8 mm; dorsal eye length 1.4 mm; greatest diameter of eye 1.6; mm; index fastigium verticis from base: eye length 1.3. Face rugose but shining. Tegmen reaching apices of hind femora; gradually narrowed behind basal widening; apex narrowly rounded. Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 6–7 external, 6 internal; mid femur 6 external, 2–3 internal near base; hind femur 9–10 external, 0 internal. Male unknown. Female. Tenth abdominal tergite furrowed in midline. Epiproct triangular with obtuse apex; surface almost flat. Subgenital plate divided in midline by a triangular membranous area; with a large transverse furrow at each side; lateral margins with obtuse swelling; apical half divided into two acute horns curved dorsad (Figs. 432, 476, 525). Coloration. Medium brown. Face with black band between eyes and with black vertical band widening ventrad. Pronotum with disc dark brown along fore and hind margins, that along fore margin widening in middle and including two oval yellow spots. Tegmen with dark cells and light veinlets. Measurements (2 females): body 27–28; pronotum 7.0–7.2; tegmen 21–22; hind femur 16.5–18.0; ovipositor 18–19 mm. Etymology. Named for the strongly curved lobes of the female subgenital plate.
description: Published as part of Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 2185 on pages 20-21
Additive versus abelian 2-representations of fiat 2-categories
Creators: name: Mazorchuk, Volodymyr
name: Miemietz, Vanessa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study connections between additive and abelian 2-representations of fiat 2-categories, describe combinatorics of 2-categories in terms of multisemigroups and determine the annihilator of a cell 2-representation. We also describe, in detail, examples of fiat 2-categories associated to $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-categorification in the sense of Chuang and Rouquier, and 2-categorical analogues of Schur algebras.
description: 20 pages
Biomarker Profiling of Appendicitis in Pediatric Patients by Metabolomics, Metallomics and Inflammatory Mediator Profiling
Creators: name: Shommu, Nusrat
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biochemistry

description: Appendicitis is the most common non-traumatic surgical presentation in Pediatric Emergency Departments. The diagnosis of appendicitis is quite challenging in children due to multifactorial barriers resulting in delayed or missed diagnosis, which may either lead to severe complications requiring advanced management and prolonged hospital stay or unnecessary appendectomy. The health care cost related to appendicitis exceeds $680 million per year in the United States alone; in addition, it has the second highest lawsuit rate in pediatric emergency medicine. While there are many studies related to pediatric appendicitis diagnostic strategies including clinical scoring systems, laboratory tests of infection and inflammation and imaging studies, there are gaps in our ability to accurately diagnose appendicitis, and predict disease progression. In the present study we applied multiplexed metabolomics and inflammatory mediator profiling approaches to develop biomarker patterns and explore the potential to aid the diagnosis and prognosis of pediatric appendicitis. At first we aimed to identify appendicitis in pediatric patients using the biomarker profiling approach by comparing them with pediatric control patients showing no signs of inflammation or infection. After obtaining promising results from the initial pilot study, we applied a similar approach to aid in triaging children presenting with suspected appendicitis in the emergency department. For this purpose comparisons were made between children with appendicitis vs. those without appendicitis but presenting with similar abdominal pain, and between children with perforated vs. nonperforated appendicitis; the obtained separations were statistically significant. We next applied the profiling approach to better understand the disease prognosis by exploring the biochemical profile of the children who developed severe complications after surgical removal of the perforated appendix compared with the ones who did not. In addition to the metabolomics and inflammatory mediator based biomarker profiling, we also applied a novel metallomics approach to explore the potential of biometal profiles to detect appendicitis in children presenting with suspected appendicitis. The results obtained from different phases of the study provide an important first step towards developing a potential aid for improving appendicitis diagnosis and prognosis.
Fast, Linear Time, m-Adic Hierarchical Clustering for Search and Retrieval using the Baire Metric, with linkages to Generalized Ultrametrics, Hashing, Formal Concept Analysis, and Precision of Data Measurement
Creators: name: Murtagh, Fionn
name: Contreras, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3; E.2
subject: 11Z05

description: We describe many vantage points on the Baire metric and its use in clustering data, or its use in preprocessing and structuring data in order to support search and retrieval operations. In some cases, we proceed directly to clusters and do not directly determine the distances. We show how a hierarchical clustering can be read directly from one pass through the data. We offer insights also on practical implications of precision of data measurement. As a mechanism for treating multidimensional data, including very high dimensional data, we use random projections.
description: 17 pages, 45 citations, 2 figures
AS REDES SOCIAIS E A APRENDIZAGEM INICIAL DE GRADUANDOS EM CIÊNCIAS CONTÁBEIS
Creators: name: Douglas Colares da Silveira1 Débora Gomes de Gomes2 Alexandre Costa Quintana3 Rodrigo Nobre Fernandez4
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este estudo analisou quais os efeitos do uso das redes sociais na aprendizagem de estudantes, tendo o nível inicial de aprendizagem como contexto de análise desses efeitos e o desempenho acadêmico como indicador, com base nos estudos de Wakefield e Frawley (2020). A coleta de dados foi operacionalizada por meio documental e de uma survey com 67 graduandos de Ciências Contábeis, de uma Universidade Federal do Sul do Brasil. Os resultados indicam que, perante a amostra da pesquisa, não se pode comprovar efeitos do número de horas de uso das redes sociais, gênero, idade e condição profissional no desempenho acadêmico medido e, consequentemente, na aprendizagem inicial dos alunos. Entretanto, pode se concluir que utilizar as redes sociais com finalidade específica relacionada ao ambiente acadêmico possui relação inversamente proporcional com o desempenho acadêmico, no nível inicial de aprendizagem inicial. Destaca-se também que o uso das redes sociais implica na educação com pontos positivos e negativos e que informações de todo o tipo e gênero de conteúdo disputam espaço com a palavra do professor, resultando em distrações para os alunos e substituição do tempo dedicado ao ensino para outras tarefas.
Momentum-space finite-size corrections for Quantum-Monte-Carlo calculations
Creators: name: Gaudoin, R.
name: Gurtubay, I. G.
name: Pitarke, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extended solids are frequently simulated as finite systems with periodic boundary conditions, which due to the long-range nature of the Coulomb interaction may lead to slowly decaying finite- size errors. In the case of Quantum-Monte-Carlo simulations, which are based on real space, both real-space and momentum-space solutions to this problem exist. Here, we describe a hybrid method which using real-space data models the spherically averaged structure factor in momentum space. We show that (i) by integration our hybrid method exactly maps onto the real-space model periodic Coulomb-interaction (MPC) method and (ii) therefore our method combines the best of both worlds (real-space and momentum-space). One can use known momentum-resolved behavior to improve convergence where MPC fails (e.g., at surface-like systems). In contrast to pure momentum-space methods, our method only deals with a simple single-valued function and, hence, better lends itself to interpolation with exact small-momentum data as no directional information is needed. By virtue of integration, the resulting finite-size corrections can be written as an addition to MPC.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B