cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Place attachment and visitation of Fern Tree Park and Bower
Creators: name: Andrusko, K
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Fern Tree Park and Bower (FTPB), Tasmania was chosen to study the relationship between Mount Wellington and its visitors. The study of visitor's sense of place for FTPB was incorporated into a use and values survey. The use and values survey was undertaken to provide information for the development of a master plan for FTPB. Natural resource management and cultural heritage management literature supports the inclusion of sense of place in planning and management of natural-setting recreation and cultural heritage sites. This research included measures of place attachment and motivations for visiting, and assessed the important attributes of FTPB sense of place using multiple methods. The research was conducted using questionnaires, interviews and content analyses. The results showed local residents were more attachment to FTPB then non-locals. Other factors affecting place attachment levels were concern for management issues, the motivations of 'nature' and 'solitude' for visiting, and appreciation of restorative qualities of the site. Local residents preferred to visit for solitude, whereas non-locals preferred to visit the site to be with others. This pattern was not found in the literature. Local residents valued historical aspects of the site, whereas non-locals preferred visual aesthetics. Recreation, vegetation and psychologically-restorative attributes were the favourite qualities of FTPB. During the early period of FTPB site from the 1870s to early 1900s the Bower was used as a picnic and beauty spot, and fern trees and picnic shelters were the most valued features. Results showed use at the site is increasing. Walking was by far the most popular recreational activity. Water catchment infrastructure at Silver Falls, dog-walking, mountain biking and parking were the most frequently raised management issues. 'Keep as is' was the most frequent recommendation for the site. One interviewee suggested FTPB is for 'nature lovers' rather than users desiring high-quality facilities and the results supported this claim. To further summarise sense of place for the site a second round of research was recommended. Taking statements thought to characterise sense of place from the survey responses and having FTPB users rate how much they agree with the statements was recommended to provide succinct expressions that characterise people-place relationships at FTPB. Recommendations were given for the development of a site master plan including prioritising important values of the natural environment over provision of facilities, and curbing peak usage periods to reduce site pressures.
Table S1 PRISMA Checklist
Creators: name: ISMAIL, NUR HILWANI
name: OSMAN, KHAIRUL
name: JAFFAR, FARAH HANAN FATHIHAH
name: MOKHTAR, MOHD HELMY
name: CHIN, KOK YONG
name: IBRAHIM, SITI FATIMAH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: supplementary table; PRISMA Checklist

description: Supplementary table for publication entitled Augmentation of the female reproductive system using honey: A mini systematic review
Weak lensing forecasts for dark energy, neutrinos and initial conditions
Creators: name: Debono, Ivan
name: Rassat, Anais
name: Refregier, Alexandre
name: Amara, Adam
name: Kitching, Thomas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak gravitational lensing provides a sensitive probe of cosmology by measuring the mass distribution and the geometry of the low redshift universe. We show how an all-sky weak lensing tomographic survey can jointly constrain different sets of cosmological parameters describing dark energy, massive neutrinos (hot dark matter), and the primordial power spectrum. In order to put all sectors on an equal footing, we introduce a new parameter $β$, the second order running spectral index. Using the Fisher matrix formalism with and without CMB priors, we examine how the constraints vary as the parameter set is enlarged. We find that weak lensing with CMB priors provides robust constraints on dark energy parameters and can simultaneously provide strong constraints on all three sectors. We find that the dark energy sector is largely insensitive to the inclusion of the other cosmological sectors. Implications for the planning of future surveys are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, to be published in MNRAS
Persistent Cohomology and Circular Coordinates
Creators: name: de Silva, Vin
name: Vejdemo-Johansson, Mikael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 55-04; 62H25

description: Nonlinear dimensionality reduction (NLDR) algorithms such as Isomap, LLE and Laplacian Eigenmaps address the problem of representing high-dimensional nonlinear data in terms of low-dimensional coordinates which represent the intrinsic structure of the data. This paradigm incorporates the assumption that real-valued coordinates provide a rich enough class of functions to represent the data faithfully and efficiently. On the other hand, there are simple structures which challenge this assumption: the circle, for example, is one-dimensional but its faithful representation requires two real coordinates. In this work, we present a strategy for constructing circle-valued functions on a statistical data set. We develop a machinery of persistent cohomology to identify candidates for significant circle-structures in the data, and we use harmonic smoothing and integration to obtain the circle-valued coordinate functions themselves. We suggest that this enriched class of coordinate functions permits a precise NLDR analysis of a broader range of realistic data sets.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry 2009
Additional file 2: of De novo transcriptome and phytochemical analyses reveal differentially expressed genes and characteristic secondary metabolites in the original oolong tea (Camellia sinensis) cultivar ‘Tieguanyin’ compared with cultivar ‘Benshan’
Creators: name: Guo, Yuqiong
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Zhao, Shanshan
name: Zhang, Shuting
name: Wang, Wenjian
name: Fu, Haifeng
name: Li, Xiaozhen
name: Zhou, Chengzhe
name: Chen, Lan
name: Lin, Yuling
name: Lai, Zhongxiong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. Primers used for qRT-PCR analyses. (DOC 66 kb)
Coles Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula
Creators: name: Patterson, CJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Coles Bay is a small coastal community adjacent to Freycinet Peninsula on the east coast of Tasmania, Australia, where community and environment together form a geographical and social entity within distinct natural boundaries. To explore the relationships between community, economy and ecology at this site a theory of cultural-economic relations is tested. Hence, the research is motivated by a set of assumptions and understandings about the depth of people's entangled relationships to place which are too complex to reduce to a hypothetical research question. Using the structure of a case study, the project is informed by Pierre Bourdieu's conceptualisation of cultural capital, and is guided by his postulation of the character of the 'field' in social research. It is grounded in socia-cultural studies of place and community, ecological economics and environmental theory, and is framed in terms of the types of capital deemed most apposite for this study - cultural, economic and natural. Three populations compromising the communities associated with this place - long term residents, repeat holiday visitors and single visit tourists - are identified and examined. In the study site, the complexity of the relationships of people to place is revealed, and Coles Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula are confirmed as a field of competition between cultural capital and economic capital over the use of natural capital. The results show the relationships between cultural, economic and natural capital are also seen to operate outside the study site within communities of interest, in structures of governance and in private enterprise. Although the dynamics of the social, economic and environmental realities of Coles Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula are complex and interlinked, their viable management constitutes a strategic model for any small community of similar character and location facing similar challenges into the future.
Animal and Human Brucellosis in Pakistan
Creators: name: Jamil, Tariq
name: Khan, Aman Ullah
name: Saqib, Muhammad
name: Hussain, Muhammad Hammad
name: Melzer, Falk
name: Rehman, Abdul
name: Shabbir, Muhammad Zubair
name: Khan, Mumtaz Ali
name: Ali, Shahzad
name: Shahzad, Asim
name: Khan, Iahtasham
name: Iqbal, Mudassar
name: Ullah, Qudrat
name: Ahmad, Waqas
name: Mansoor, Muhammad Khalid
name: Neubauer, Heinrich
name: Schwarz, Stefan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Brucellosis
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Pathobiology
subject: symptomology
subject: diagnosis
subject: prevention
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::579 Mikroorganismen, Pilze, Algen

description: Brucellosis is a bacterial zoonotic disease that affects different animal species and can be spread to humans via direct contact as well as via the food chain. Although brucellosis is a serious health hazard, its significance has largely been neglected in many countries. However, brucellosis has been the subject of interest in developing countries, especially in Pakistan where this disease is endemic. Brucellosis is a puzzling disease in terms of taxonomy and typing, clinical signs, pathobiology, diagnosis, vaccination and treatment. Practical eradication programs include test and slaughter policies and vaccination as preventive measures in animals. The purpose of this review was to provide an updated and comprehensive insight into brucellosis in Pakistan with particular emphasis on its occurrence in humans and various animal species, the diagnostic tests applied as well as prevention, treatment and eradication aspects.
A study of the daily price changes of selected stocks listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Creators: name: Hill, S. R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the underlying process generating stock prices in the Canadian stock market. The hypothesis that daily price changes of stocks listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange are independent could not be rejected. The distribution of daily stock price changes were found to be significantly non-normal. These results led to the conclusion that the price-generating process in the Canadian stock market can be represented, in the short-run, by a random walk model in which price changes are independently drawn from a non-normal distribution which is possibly a stable Paretian.
Theory of orbital magnetoelectric response
Creators: name: Malashevich, Andrei
name: Souza, Ivo
name: Coh, Sinisa
name: Vanderbilt, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the recently-developed theory of bulk orbital magnetization to finite electric fields, and use it to calculate the orbital magnetoelectric response of periodic insulators. Working in the independent-particle framework, we find that the finite-field orbital magnetization can be written as a sum of three gauge-invariant contributions, one of which has no counterpart at zero field. The extra contribution is collinear with and explicitly dependent on the electric field. The expression for the orbital magnetization is suitable for first-principles implementations, allowing to calculate the magnetoelectric response coefficients by numerical differentiation. Alternatively, perturbation-theory techniques may be used, and for that purpose we derive an expression directly for the linear magnetoelectric tensor by taking the first field-derivative analytically. Two types of terms are obtained. One, the `Chern-Simons' term, depends only on the unperturbed occupied orbitals and is purely isotropic. The other, `Kubo' term, involves the first-order change in the orbitals and gives isotropic as well as anisotropic contributions to the response. In ordinary magnetoelectric insulators both terms are generally present, while in strong Z2 topological insulators only the former type is allowed, and is quantized. In order to validate the theory we have calculated under periodic boundary conditions the linear magnetoelectric coupling for a 3-D tight-binding model of an ordinary magnetoelectric insulator, using both the finite-field and perturbation-theory expressions. The results are in excellent agreement with calculations on bounded samples.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures
Hydrogen production from formic acid catalyzed by a phosphine free manganese complex: Investigation and mechanistic insights
Creators: name: Léval, Alexander
name: Agapova, Anastasiya
name: Steinlechner, Christoph
name: Alberico, Elisabetta
name: Junge, Henrik
name: Beller, Matthias
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Hydrogen production
subject: formic acid
subject: phosphine free manganese complex
subject: Formic acid dehydrogenation (FAD)
subject: 540

description: Formic acid dehydrogenation (FAD) is considered as a promising process in the context of hydrogen storage. Its low toxicity, availability and convenient handling make FA attractive as a potential hydrogen carrier. To date, most promising catalysts have been based on noble metals, such as ruthenium and iridium. Efficient non-noble metal systems like iron were designed but manganese remains relatively unexplored for this transformation. In this work, we present a panel of phosphine free manganese catalysts which showed activity and stability in formic acid dehydrogenation. The most promising results were obtained with Mn(pyridine-imidazoline)(CO)3Br yielding >14 l of the H2/CO2 mixture and proved to be stable for more than 3 days. Additionally, this study provides insights into the mechanism of formic acid dehydrogenation. Kinetic experiments, Kinetic Isotopic Effect (KIE), in situ observations, NMR labeling experiments and pH monitoring allow us to propose a catalytic cycle for this transformation.
Investigation of artificial intelligence-based HSE with the approach of intelligent technology capacities in the sustainable development of free trade-industrial zones
Creators: name: Abbasi, Meysam
name: Ghaderi, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 180117 International Trade Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 140209 Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered as one of the transformational technologies that due to features such as high accuracy and speed, reduction time period and process optimization in various fields from industries and economic sectors to service sectors and even health care is located. Among these, one of the newest applications of AI can be considered in the field of HSE.The purpose of this article is to review some basic concepts in the field of new generation industries and intelligent management and to express the applications of AI in 3 different commercial and industrial fields with a focus on the prospect of using AI in HSE and in the following 2 cases of using the AI-based HSE assistant are being investigated in sensitive industries.Information processing, process management, operations improvement and assistance Identifying risks in industries appropriate to the definition of new needs can be included in the application of artificial intelligence in HSE with optimal priority concepts related to safety control and management and protection of the environment and personnel.The second part of this article is a look at the capacities Utilization of intelligent solutions and technologies and potentials of using artificial intelligence in free trade-industrial zones.Due to their benefits and goals, free zones have the greatest potential in attracting and using new technologies and implementing concepts such as intelligent management tools and methods.Today, HSE can be considered one of the most important aspects of any modern economic or industrial project and AI based HSE as one of the intelligent management tools can play a key role in helping to Implementation sustainable development plans and create a competitive advantage in free trade-industrial zones.
Synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs from cardanol derived from cashew nut shell liquid
Creators: name: Shi, Yiping
name: Kamer, Paul C.J.
name: Cole-Hamilton, David J.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: pharmaceutical drugs
subject: cardanol
subject: cashew nut shell liquid
subject: norfenefrine
subject: rac-phenylephrine
subject: etilefrine
subject: fenoprofene
subject: 3-Vinylphenol
subject: 540

description: Cardanol from cashew nut shell liquid extracted from cashew nut shells was successfully converted into various useful pharmaceutical drugs, such as norfenefrine, rac-phenylephrine, etilefrine and fenoprofene. 3-Vinylphenol, the key intermediate for the synthesis of these drugs, was synthesised from cardanol by ethenolysis to 3-non-8-enylphenol followed by isomerising ethenolysis. The metathesis reaction worked very well using DCM, but the greener solvent, 2-methyl tetrahydrofuran, also gave very similar results. Hydroxyamination of 3-vinylphenol with an iron porphyrin catalyst afforded norfenefrine in over 70% yield. Methylation and ethylation of norfenefrine afforded rac-phenylephrine and etilefrine respectively. A sequence of C-O coupling, isomerising metathesis and selective methoxycarbonylation afforded fenoprofene in good yield. A comparison of the routes described in this paper with some standard literature syntheses of 3-vinylphenol and of the drug molecules shows significant environmental advantages in terms of precursors, yields, number of steps, conditions and the use of catalysts. The Atom Economy of our processes is generally similar or significantly superior to those of the literature processes mainly because the side products produced during synthesis of 3-vinylphenol (1-octeme, 1,4-cyclohexadiene and propene) are easily separable and of commercial value, especially as they are bio-derived. The E Factor for the production of 2-vinylphenol by our process is also very low compared with those of previously reported syntheses. © 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Finding recurrence networks' threshold adaptively for a specific time series
Creators: name: Eroglu, D.
name: Marwan, N.
name: Prasad, S.
name: Kurths, J.
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: climate change
subject: lacustrine deposit
subject: modeling
subject: time series
subject: 530

description: Recurrence-plot-based recurrence networks are an approach used to analyze time series using a complex networks theory. In both approaches-recurrence plots and recurrence networks-, a threshold to identify recurrent states is required. The selection of the threshold is important in order to avoid bias of the recurrence network results. In this paper, we propose a novel method to choose a recurrence threshold adaptively. We show a comparison between the constant threshold and adaptive threshold cases to study period-chaos and even period-period transitions in the dynamics of a prototypical model system. This novel method is then used to identify climate transitions from a lake sediment record.
Monodisperse nickel-nanoparticles for stereo- and chemoselective hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes
Creators: name: Murugesan, Kathiravan
name: Alshammari, Ahmad S.
name: Sohail, Manzar
name: Beller, Matthias
name: Jagadeesh, Rajenahally V.
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Alkenes
subject: Alkynes
subject: Hydrogenation
subject: Monosaccharides
subject: Ni-nanoparticles
subject: 540

description: Here, we report the use of monosaccharides for the preparation of novel nickel nanoparticles (NP), which constitute selective hydrogenation catalysts. For example, immobilization of fructose and Ni(OAc)2 on silica and subsequent pyrolysis under inert atmosphere produced graphitic shells encapsulated Ni-NP with uniform size and distribution. Interestingly, fructose acts as structure controlling compound to generate specific graphitic layers and the formation of monodisperse NP. The resulting stable and reusable catalysts allow for stereo- and chemoselective semihydrogenation of functionalized and structurally diverse alkynes in high yields and selectivity. © 2019 The Author(s)
For the love of money moral orientations toward money in the 'good life'
Creators: name: Verdouw, Julia
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Is money 'good'? The pursuit of personal wealth as a primary life 'good' lies at the heart of Australian society and culture. Yet in western culture, the traditional legacies of money understandings endure: as a value-neutral tool of the economy, free from moral considerations. This thesis provides a sociological analysis about how people are morally oriented towards money. The thesis addresses money meanings from an interpretative framework, in the context of in-depth interviews with forty-one young Tasmanian adults about what they understand is a 'good life'. A sociological analysis of orientations towards what is 'good' in life provides a framework for thinking about morality along similar lines to Emile Durkheim, or later, Charles Taylor, as related to common, social and individual dispositions towards the 'good'. Drawn from three different income contexts - middle-income earners, low-income earners and downshifters (those who have voluntary shifted to a lower-income) - this thesis explores contrasting money narratives that highlight alternative money meanings amongst participants. In particular, the dominant money narrative points to a shared and culturally preferred way of understanding money: as good and worthwhile pursuing for a 'good life'. Meanings that underlie this narrative are shown to have consequences for the motivations, identities, actions and future directions of all participants in the study. These narratives are analysed drawing on a number of theoretical discussions both within the sociology of money and sociology of morality, including whether moral orientations towards money found in this culture are in fact 'good'. For example, can such forms of social morality be 'moralitysilencing' (Bauman 1989: 174) rather than something that generates individual moral responsibility?
Additional file 1 of Renal‑rotation techniques in retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy for giant pheochromocytomas: a clinical intervention study with historical controls
Creators: name: Xue, Ruizhi
name: Hu, Caoyang
name: Zheng, Zhongyi
name: Wei, Liang
name: Yuan, Xiaobin
name: Lyu, Xiao
name: Shen, Pengliang
name: Li, Jun
name: Cao, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1: Tables of perioperative and follow-up data
Two new ent-kaurane-type diterpene diastereomers isolated from Coffea canephora
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thi Anh Tuyet
name: Hoang, Minh Hao
name: Luc, Thi Tuyen
name: Dang, Thi Kim Ngan
name: Nguyen, Thi My Tang
name: Vo, Thi Nga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Phytochemical investigation of the trunks of Coffea canephora yielded two new ent-kaurane diterpene diastereomers, which have been named coffecanepholide A, ent-3β,16β,17-trihydroxykauran-18-al (1) and coffecanepholide B, ent-3β,16β,17-trihydroxykauran-19-al (2). Structural elucidation and configurational assignment were deduced from extensive spectroscopic NMR/HRESIMS analysis and by comparison with the spectral data of the literature relevant structures. The isolated compounds were assayed for in vitro inhibitory activities against α-glucosidase. Structure 2 showed the α-glucosidase inhibitory activity with an IC50 value of 294.7 ± 0.9 μM, while compound 1 exhibited inactivity. In addition, the docking results revealed that structure 2 can form more interactions with amino acid residues at the active site of α-glucosidase, which gave a more negative binding energy (−9.56 kcal/mol) compared with 1 (−8.60 kcal/mol). This observation might be responsible for a better activity of 2 against α-glucosidase.
Taieri Land Use Diversification Opportunities
Creators: name: Smith, Becks
name: Dooley, Elizabeth
name: McCarthy, Iona
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management

description: This website shares a variety of resources produced by a project working with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group (Ranfurly, Central Otago) to identify alternative land uses for diversification that fit within their current farming system.

a six-episode podcast mini-series
seven recorded workshop presentations with supporting slide decks
a multi-criteria decision support tool (with in-depth instructions on how to use it)
an extensive list of resources for a wide range of diversification options identified by the farmer cohort

The project involved locally generated ideas and face-to-face farmer workshops with the implementation of a decision-making support tool to ensure valuable and relevant information was provided. Facilitated by The Whole Story with funding from the Department of Conservation Ngā Awa Project and Our Land and Water
A Picometer-Diameter Pore in an Inorganic Membrane for Sequencing Protein
Creators: name: Kennedy, Eamonn
name: Timp, Gregory
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: Disclosed are then inorganic membranes having a defined topography that includes pores having a defined diameter of nanometer and sub-nanometer diameter. The thin membranes are resistant to protein denaturing agents, and may be employed in analytical and clinical methods for identifying single amino acid residues within the sequence of a protein and the pores are other than NspA pores. Methods for making a thin inorganic membrane with nanopore and sub-nanopore topography and conical cone structure are also disclosed. The thin inorganic membrane may be comprised of any denaturant-resistant materials, such as silicon nitride. A method for manufaacturing the thin inorganic membrane with nanopores is also provided, and provides a thin surface with a defined conical topography, the nanopores being provided on the membrane surface with an electron beam sputinger technique.
Networks and mobility - A case for complementary pathways
Creators: name: Wagner, Martin
name: Katsiaficas, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: refugees
migration
mobility
European Union
refugee regime
social networks
complementary pathways,
durable solutions
Global Compact on Refugees
active refugee admission
labour market access,
human capital

description: Complementary pathways have gained much prominence in recent global and European policy discussions as an innovative and new tool to broaden and scale up third-country solutions for refugees. Indeed, the need for ramping up access to durable solutions for refugees is pressing in the face of ever longer-lasting conflicts and far too low resettlement numbers. While complementary pathways are commonly considered as new legal pathways that need to be developed for refugees, thereby perpetuating the narrative of refugees needing support while neglecting their human and social capital, various examples show that refugees do possess and use existing pathways and seek individual solutions outside of the refugee regime—if their resources and networks allow them to do so. Based on various examples, this policy brief, therefore, argues that facilitating movement for forced migrants based on their human and social capital could become the key added value of complementary pathways.
description: TRAFIG Policy Brief No. 3
The problem of measuring a fair rate of return in regulated industry with special reference to the motor carrier industry
Creators: name: Little, Paul Frederick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The motor carrier industry of North America is subject to regulatory controls over its rate setting practices. In the United States and in Canada, public commissions must develop certain tools for measuring when an individual rate or an entire rate structure is either exploitive to the shipping public or confiscatory to the carrier. The tool that has been applied historically is the operating ratio, simply the relationship of total revenues to total expenses of the carrier. The operating ratio is not as reliable an instrument as the rate of return principle employed by regulators of other regulated industries. In the United States, where the operating ratio is more highly refined, it is greatly criticized. In Canada, students of the motor carrier industry are still faced with the problem of deciding what cost data must be compiled before the operating ratio can be used with any confidence by regulators . This thesis attempts to study the problems involved in making a judicial measurement of the financial effect a rate may be having on the carrier and the shipper. As a result, the operating ratio is examined at some length. In addition, the thesis confronts the problem, more pressing to Canadian regulators, that of what cost data must be collected and how to collect it before the operating ratio be developed. To study this problem, the thesis has brought together economic analyses of the motor carrier industry as contrasted to other regulated fields with certain research into the development of commission and judicial thought on the manner of how rate regulation should be effected. A pioneering effort was made to collect a set of costs for British Columbia motor carriers to supplement what is otherwise a mainly theoretical piece of writing. Clearly, this thesis has not been designed so that any concrete conclusions could be drawn about how effective or ineffective motor carrier rate controls are at present nor about precisely what data Canadian regulators should set about collecting. It is felt, however, that some needed focus has been brought onto an area of public regulation that is presently, at its best, badly neglected.
Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) for Land Use Diversification tool
Creators: name: Dooley, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management

description: This Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool was tested in a project with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group, which identified alternative land uses for diversification (not just limited to agriculture) that fit within their current farming system. MCDM is becoming increasingly popular in exploring land-use options, taking into consideration multiple criteria. Most MCDM tools available are either research models or licensed software which can be time-consuming to use. This MCDM spreadsheet tool is a relatively quick and simple process to work with farmers to explore land use alternatives. This has been found to be popular with farmers.
MCDM is a structured, objective process, supported with a software tool, to help:

identify the 'best' ranked alternative(s)
explore and learn about a decision
understand own and others' viewpoints
make a decision transparent
communicate a decision

This spreadsheet-based tool can be used for decisions with multiple, conflicting criteria which are measured in different units.
For Windows users:

MCDM blank (Windows .xlsx) - this file also linked above and below
MCDM example (Windows .xlsx)

For Mac users:

MCDM blank (IOS .xlsx)
MCDM example (IOS .xlsx)

Instructions:
For instructions, watch this video to see the tool in action and find PDF instructions here.
Click here for advice on which file to use.
If you have any questions please contact Liz Dooley.
Übersichtsdarstellung zu Qualifizierungs- und Sensibilisierungsinitiativen im Bereich Dialogdolmetschen in Österreich (2001-2021)
Creators: name: Pöllabauer, Sonja
name: Stachl-Peier, Ursula
name: Bahadır-Berzig, Şebnem
name: Sourdille, Anna
name: Grießner, Florika
name: Annika, Bergunde
name: Redl, Katharina
name: Oberhofer, Maria
name: Kadrić, Mira
name: Hagenlocher, Lilian
name: Grbić, Nadja
name: Feyrer, Cornelia
name: Bodo, Ana-Maria
name: Behr, Martina
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dialogdolmetschen, Qualifizierung

description: Erstellt von Mitgliedern der überinstitutionellen Plattform Dialogdolmetschen www.dialogdolmetschen.at
The sacred tree : a visual investigation into the tree as a symbol of life, death and regeneration.
Creators: name: Delrue, C
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This research project is a visual investigation of 'the sacredness of nature' utilising the tree as a metaphor for the mystery of life, death and regeneration. The project developed into a journey through history, exploring ecological and spiritual concerns as well as personal issues of migration and adoption of a new country. The project aims to create a contemplative experience through the use of a symbolic visual language. Combining an installation approach with drawing, I look at ways of expressing my relationship with my adopted country without losing my rich European cultural background. Drawing represents one of the earliest forms of image making and connects us in an unbroken line with the first human who drew in the dirt or on a wall in a cave. In the work, I explore a variety of visual languages: figurative/narrative, referring to a traditional European perception of nature and the spiritual, combined with an abstract as well as a process-orientated language where the material is the signifier. Within this context, the research examines the long tradition of artists using nature, the tree and the forest to express connection with the sacred. For many of these artists drawing has been of great importance to their practice. Precursors include, amongst many others, Caspar David Friedrich, John Glover, Anselm Kiefer, Wolfgang Laib, John Wolseley, Peter Booth and Kiki Smith. Contemporary theories relating to the subject underpin the project. Foremost have been: David Suzuki, Simon Schama, Robert Harrison-Pogue, David Tacey and Mircea Eliade. The visual outcome of the project is a series of symbolic works which have been produced using materials from the trees: charcoal for drawings and installation work; dyes distilled from leaves; flowers and bark from trees to create works on paper and to dye wool. These works are installed in rooms and form connections with each other and with the space, evoking an atmosphere of contemplation. They reflect the diversity of life and its celebration as well as meditations upon death and regeneration
On the aether-like Lorentz-breaking actions
Creators: name: Gomes, M.
name: Nascimento, J. R.
name: Petrov, A. Yu.
name: da Silva, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the generation of the CPT-even, aether-like Lorentz-breaking actions for the scalar and electromagnetic fields via their appropriate Lorentz-breaking coupling to spinor fields in three, four and five space-time dimensions. Besides, we show that the aether-like terms for the spinor field also can be generated as a consequence of the same couplings. Also we discuss the dispersion relations in the theories with aether-like Lorentz-breaking terms and find the tree-level effective (Breit) potential for fermion scattering and the one-loop effective potential corresponding to the action of the scalar field.
description: 18 pages, version accepted to Physical Review D
High strength nanostructured Al-based alloys through optimized processing of rapidly quenched amorphous precursors
Creators: name: Kim, S.-Y.
name: Lee, G.-Y.
name: Park, G.-H.
name: Kim, H.-A.
name: Lee, A.-Y.
name: Scudino, S.
name: Prashanth, K.G.
name: Kim, D.-H.
name: Eckert, J.
name: Lee, M.-H.
Publisher: name: London : Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: aluminum alloys
subject: amorphous precursor
subject: spark-plasma sintering (SPS)
subject: 530

description: We report the methods increasing both strength and ductility of aluminum alloys transformed from amorphous precursor. The mechanical properties of bulk samples produced by spark-plasma sintering (SPS) of amorphous Al-Ni-Co-Dy powders at temperatures above 673 K are significantly enhanced by in-situ crystallization of nano-scale intermetallic compounds during the SPS process. The spark plasma sintered Al84Ni7Co3Dy6 bulk specimens exhibit 1433 MPa compressive yield strength and 1773 MPa maximum strength together with 5.6% plastic strain, respectively. The addition of Dy enhances the thermal stability of primary fcc Al in the amorphous Al-TM -RE alloy. The precipitation of intermetallic phases by crystallization of the remaining amorphous matrix plays important role to restrict the growth of the fcc Al phase and contributes to the improvement of the mechanical properties. Such fully crystalline nano- or ultrafine-scale Al-Ni-Co-Dy systems are considered promising for industrial application because their superior mechanical properties in terms of a combination of very high room temperature strength combined with good ductility.
Separation of Relatively Quasiconvex Subgroups
Creators: name: Manning, Jason Fox
name: Martinez-Pedroza, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20F67, 20E26

description: Suppose that all hyperbolic groups are residually finite. The following statements follow: In relatively hyperbolic groups with peripheral structures consisting of finitely generated nilpotent subgroups, quasiconvex subgroups are separable; Geometrically finite subgroups of non-uniform lattices in rank one symmetric spaces are separable; Kleinian groups are subgroup separable. We also show that LERF for finite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds would follow from LERF for closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The method is to reduce, via combination and filling theorems, the separability of a quasiconvex subgroup of a relatively hyperbolic group G to the separability of a quasiconvex subgroup of a hyperbolic quotient G/N. A result of Agol, Groves, and Manning is then applied.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures. New version has numbering matching with the published version in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 244 no. 2 (2010) 309--334.
Interviews and psychological tests
Creators: name: McGuire, Brian G. M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: My sincerest appreciation must be expressed to the people who provided support and encouragement while this paper was being prepared. J. A. W. (Warner) Woodley, Industrial Relations Manager of Allan Potash Mines was more than generous with his time and intellectual capacity. Doctors, N. A. Hall and V. F. Mitchell of the faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, gave up much of their valuable time for consultations. To these people as well as the participating owners of Allan Potash Mines, my sincerest thanks.
2021 Annual Report - Center for Engineering Concepts Development
Creators: name: Anand, Davinder
name: Hazelwood, Dylan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2021
Subjects: cecd
energetics
engineering for social change
ESC
symposium
20th anniversary

description: The 2021 Annual report for the Center for Engineering Concepts Development (CECD), a platform for experimenting with new ideas in engineering research and education with special attention to the impact of engineering on society.
description: CECD is twenty-one years old and continues to be a platform for experimenting with new ideas in engineering research and education with special attention to the impact of engineering on society. I’m pleased to report that we continue to be supported by ARL, NSWC-IHEODTD, the State of Maryland, and the Neilom Foundation. One hundred guests helped us celebrate our twenty years of activities highlighting innovative activities of contemporary interest that benefit the economic welfare of the State of Maryland and the Nation. This report provides a brief overview of those accomplishments as well as ongoing activities that bring great credit to our faculty and students that comprise CECD.
Quasi-periodic oscillations under wavelet microscope: the application of Matching Pursuit algorithm
Creators: name: Lachowicz, Pawel
name: Done, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We zoom in on the internal structure of the low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (LF QPO) often observed in black hole binary systems to investigate the physical nature of the lack of coherence in this feature. We show the limitations of standard Fourier power spectral analysis for following the evolution of the QPO with time and instead use wavelet analysis and a new time-frequency technique -Matching Pursuit algorithm- to maximise the resolution with which we can follow the QPO behaviour. We use the LF QPO seen in a very high state of XTE J1550-564 to illustrate these techniques and show that the best description of the QPO is that it is composed of multiple independent oscillations with a distribution of lifetimes but with constant frequency over this duration. This rules out models where there is continual frequency modulation, such as multiple blobs spiralling inwards. Instead it favours models where the QPO is excited by random turbulence in the flow.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures (9 in color), accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Flux-free conductance modulation in a helical Aharonov-Bohm interferometer
Creators: name: Taira, Hisao
name: Shima, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel conductance oscillation in a twisted quantum ring composed of a helical atomic configuration is theoretically predicted. Internal torsion of the ring is found to cause a quantum phase shift in the wavefunction that describes the electron's motion along the ring. The resulting conductance oscillation is free from magnetic flux penetrating inside the ring, which is in complete contrast with the ordinary Aharonov-Bohm effect observed in untwisted quantum rings.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Covalency-Driven Preservation of Local Charge Densities in a Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited Iron Photosensitizer
Creators: name: Jay, Raphael M.
name: Eckert, Sebastian
name: Vaz Da Cruz, Vinicius
name: Fondell, Mattis
name: Mitzner, Rolf
name: Föhlisch, Alexander
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: charge-transfer
subject: density functional calculations
subject: iron
subject: photochemistry
subject: X-ray absorption spectroscopy
subject: 540

description: Covalency is found to even out charge separation after photo-oxidation of the metal center in the metal-to-ligand charge-transfer state of an iron photosensitizer. The σ-donation ability of the ligands compensates for the loss of iron 3d electronic charge, thereby upholding the initial metal charge density and preserving the local noble-gas configuration. These findings are enabled through element-specific and orbital-selective time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the iron L-edge. Thus, valence orbital populations around the central metal are directly accessible. In conjunction with density functional theory we conclude that the picture of a localized charge-separation is inadequate. However, the unpaired spin density provides a suitable representation of the electron–hole pair associated with the electron-transfer process. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
Charged Lepton Flavour Violating Radiative Decays $\ell_i \to \ell_j + γ$ in See-Saw Models with $A_4$ Symmetry
Creators: name: Hagedorn, C.
name: Molinaro, E.
name: Petcov, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charged lepton flavour violating (LFV) radiative decays, $μ\to e+γ$, $τ\to μ+γ$ and $τ\to e +γ$ are investigated in a class of supersymmetric $A_4$ models with three heavy right-handed (RH) Majorana neutrinos, in which the lepton (neutrino) mixing is predicted to leading order (LO) to be tri-bimaximal. The light neutrino masses are generated via the type I see-saw mechanism. The analysis is done within the framework of the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) scenario, which provides flavour universal boundary conditions at the scale of grand unification $M_X \approx 2 \times 10^{16}$ GeV. Detailed predictions for the rates of the three LFV decays are obtained in two explicit realisations of the $A_4$ models due to Altarelli and Feruglio and Altarelli and Meloni, respectively.
description: Results unchanged, minor improvements made; version accepted for publication in JHEP