cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Testing the transition layer model of quasi-periodic oscillations in neutron star X-ray binarie
Creators: name: Wu, Xue-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the theoretical predictions of the transition layer model with some observational features of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in neutron star X-ray binaries. We found that the correlation between horizontal branch oscillation (HBO) frequencies and kilohertz (kHz) QPO frequencies, the difference between the low-frequency QPOs in atoll sources and HBOs in Z sources, and the correlation between the frequencies of low-frequency QPOs and break frequencies can be well explained by the transition layer model, provided the neutron star mass is around 1.4 solar mass and the angle between magnetosphere equator and accretion disk plane is around 6 degree. The observed decrease of peak separation between two kHz QPO frequencies with the increase of kHz QPO frequencies and the increase of QPO frequencies with the increase of inferred mass accretion rate are also consistent with the theoretical predictions of transition layer model. In addition, we derive a simple equation that can be adopted to estimate the angle ($δ$) between magnetosphere equator and accretion disk plane by use of the simultaneously observed QPO frequency data. We estimate these angles, in the range of 4 to 8 degrees, for five Z sources and two atoll sources. The nearly constant $δ$ value for each source, derived from the different sets of simultaneously observed QPO frequency data, provides a strong test of the theoretical model. Finally, we suggest that the similar transition layer oscillations may be also responsible for the observed QPOs in accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar and Galactic black hole candidates.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in ApJ, Vol. 552
Promoting an integrated approach in immersion teacher education: A pilot study
Creators: Cammarata, Laurent
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024:The integration of language, literacy, and content teaching is a complex task that demands specific knowledge and skills. Therefore, it requires well-adapted preparation as early as possible in teachers' professional development. The proposed project aims to provide pre-service teachers (i.e., student teachers) with the skills to plan lessons using an integrated approach to facilitate the concurrent teaching of language skills and content knowledge. Teacher educators specialized in a given school subject, will work together to revisit their didactic courses to help the student teachers 1) understand the importance of language and literacy in the specific disciplinary context, and 2) plan well-integrated lessons where concepts are taught along with the language and literacy skills needed to complete associated activities. More specifically, this project will attempt to answer the following questions: - To what extent has the instruction they received enabled the student teachers to deepen their understanding of the key concepts at the heart of the integrated approach? - To what extent has the instruction they received enabled the student teachers to implement the integrated approach while planning lessons in different subjects?
Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) mollissima
Creators: name: Bamber, Roger N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pycnogonida
Pantopoda
Pallenopsidae
Pallenopsis
Pallenopsis mollissima

description: Pallenopsis (Bathypallenopsis) mollissima (Hoek, 1881)
Bamber and Thurston, 1995: 140; ®gure 7B.
 Material. One subadult, sample 7711#1, 1000± 500 m.
A rarely recorded species, this record from the Rockall Trough is not far from that of the specimen recorded by Bamber (1985).
description: Published as part of Bamber, Roger N., 2002, Bathypelagic pycnogonids (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from the Discovery deep-sea cruises, pp. 715-727 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 718, DOI: 10.1080/00222930010025932, http://zenodo.org/record/5300023
A Radiation-Hydrodynamical Model for Supermassive Black Hole-to-Bulge Mass Relation and Quasar Formation
Creators: name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a potential mechanism to build up supermassive black holes (BHs) in a spheroidal system, we consider the radiation drag effect by bulge stars, which extracts angular momentum from interstellar gas and thus allows the gas to accrete onto the galactic center. With incorporating radiation hydrodynamical equation with simple stellar evolution, it is shown that the BH-to-bulge mass ratio, $f_{BH}$, is basically determined by a fundamental constant, that is, the energy conversion efficiency for nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium, $ε=0.007$. More specifically, $f_{BH}$ is predicted to be $0.3ε-0.5ε$. Based on the present model for BH growth, a scenario for quasar formation is addressed in relation to ultraluminous infrared galaxies.
description: To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Edelstein and inverse Edelstein effects caused by the pristine surface states of topological insulators
Creators: name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Edelstein effect caused by the pristine surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is investigated by means of a semiclassical approach. The combined effect of random impurity scattering and the spin-momentum locking of the gapless Dirac cone yields a current-induced surface spin accumulation independent from chemical potential and temperature. Through combing the semiclassical approach with the Bloch equation, the inverse Edelstein effect that converts the spin pumping spin current into a charge current is well explained. Consistency of these results with various experiments will be elaborated in detail.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1901.06953
Quantum Theory for the Binomial Model in Finance Theory
Creators: name: Chen, Zeqian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a quantum model for the binomial market in finance is proposed. We show that its risk-neutral world exhibits an intriguing structure as a disk in the unit ball of ${\bf R}^3,$ whose radius is a function of the risk-free interest rate with two thresholds which prevent arbitrage opportunities from this quantum market. Furthermore, from the quantum mechanical point of view we re-deduce the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein binomial option pricing formula by considering Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics of the system of $N$ distinguishable particles.
description: Latex, 8 pages,1 figure, revised version,submitted
Sakaija Ng & Forges 2015, n. gen.
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Forges, Bertrand Richer De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Majidae
Sakaija

description: Key to species of Sakaija n. gen.
 1. Pseudorostral spines very long; posterior carapace margin with 2 spines and long intestinal spine (Fig. 29); G1 gently curved, distal part with long setae, with low subdistal swelling (Fig. 33N–R); Western Indian Ocean............................................................................. Sakaija africana (Griffin & Tranter, 1986)
– Pseudorostral spines not elongate; posterior carapace margin with 2 short spines, sometimes not discernible, intestinal spine short or not visible (Figs. 28, 30, 32); G1 otherwise............2
 2. Carapace with very long lateral, branchial and intestinal spines (Fig. 32A, B); Eastern Indian Ocean.................................................................................................. Sakaija longispina n. sp.
– Carapace with relatively short lateral, branchial and intestinal spines (Figs. 28, 30, 32C, D)..................................................3
 3. Carapace with 2 subhepatic spines, one of which is small (Fig. 32C, D); G1 sinuous, distal part turned backwards towards median line of sternum, with very long setae (Fig. 33S–U); Vanuatu and New Caledonia.................... Sakaija santo n. sp.
– Carapace with single visible hepatic spine (Figs. 28, 30); G1 otherwise..................................................................................4
 4. Carapace with posterior part rounded, prominently swollen; lateral spines low; ambulatory legs relatively short, stout (Figs. 28A–C, 31A–C); G1 distinctly curved, distal part long, tapering with very long setae (Fig. 33A–G); Japan and Taiwan....................................................... Sakaija japonica (Rathbun, 1932)
– Carapace more evenly ovate in appearance; lateral spines short but distinct; ambulatory legs slender, more elongate (Figs. 28 D-G, 30); G1 otherwise......................................................5
 5. Cardiac spine long, intestinal spine distinct (Fig. 28D, E, G); G1 gently curved, distal part relatively short, subspatuliform, lined with long setae (Fig. 33H–J); Japan................................................................ Sakaija sakaii (Takeda & Miyake, 1969)
 – Cardiac and intestinal spines very low, almost undiscernible (Figs. 30, 31D, E); G1 gently curved, distal part long, tapering with very long setae (Fig. 33K–M); Philippines, New Britain and Papua New Guinea.......................... Sakaija serenei n. sp.
description: Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L. & Forges, Bertrand Richer De, 2015, Revision of the spider crab genus Maja Lamarck, 1801 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae), with descriptions of seven new genera and 17 new species from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific, pp. 110-225 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63 on page 168, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5384590
Bridging worldviews: on the question of who can be an African philosopher
Creators: Omoge, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: There is a widespread belief that African philosophy is deeply rooted in African languages and cultures, such that Westerners cannot be African philosophers, strictly speaking. This project challenges this expertise exclusivism, thereby bridging the gap between the African and Western worldviews. In order to accomplish this task, the project will explore three central issues: the complex interrelationship between culture and worldview, the malleability of worldviews and the conditions for such a malleability, and the politico-academic impact of bridging the African and Western worldviews vis-à-vis African philosophy. The focus of this study will be to develop a careful analysis of strong expert exclusivism and suggest a solution. More specifically, I will offer a perceptual analysis of the issue, which explains away the racial criterion for being an African philosopher, replacing it with a perceptual one, according to which sufficiently immersing oneself into a culture changes one’s worldview. Drawing from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to African arts, African linguistics, and African history, this comparative project will clarify the conditions for the relevant sort of culture immersion. I will focus on bridging the worldviews between African and Western philosophical traditions, but given the fact Africa is exceedingly multicultural, I will focus on Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. In this way, this ground-breaking research will form the foundation for a larger monograph that will be the first systematic analysis of a perceptual worldview that encompasses the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. The knowledge mobilization plan includes a departmental colloquium, a lunch and learn series, two conference presentations, 2 journal articles, and the development of a senior-level seminar course.
Supernovae and the Nature of the Dark Energy
Creators: name: Goliath, M.
name: Amanullah, R.
name: Astier, P.
name: Goobar, A.
name: Pain, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of Type Ia supernovae as calibrated standard candles is one of the most powerful tools to study the expansion history of the universe and thereby its energy components. While the analysis of some ~50 supernovae at redshifts around z~0.5 have provided strong evidence for an energy component with negative pressure, ``dark energy'', more data is needed to enable an accurate estimate of the amount and nature of this energy. This might be accomplished by a dedicated space telescope, the SuperNova / Acceleration Probe (2000; SNAP), which aims at collecting a large number of supernovae with z<2. In this paper we assess the ability of the SNAP mission to determine various properties of the ``dark energy.'' To exemplify, we expect SNAP, if operated for three years to study Type Ia supernovae, to be able to determine the parameters in a linear equation of state w(z)=w0 + w1 z to within a statistical uncertainty of +-0.04 for w0 and +0.15,-0.17 for w1 assuming that the universe is known to be flat and an independent high precision (sigma_{Omega_m}=0.015) measurement of the mass density Omega_m, is used to constrain the fit. An additional improvement can be obtained if a large number of low-z, as well as high-z, supernovae are included in the sample.
description: 13 pages, submitted to A&A
Inferential comprehension difficulties in young children, making the invisible visible
Creators: Filiatrault-Veilleux, Pamela
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: Inferential comprehension difficulties of young children are often invisible, may significantly impact children’s ability to engage with others or with learning content, and/or be misinterpreted as behavioral issues. This research project aims to (1) explore WHY young children with Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) and on the autism spectrum show inferential comprehension difficulties, drawing from a theoretical model (including linguistic and cognitive predictors), and (2) investigate HOW these difficulties impact their daily life functioning, in order to make the invisible visible and provide the opportunity for vital support for this essential skill. Knowledge mobilization activities will include 2 peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, an article in The Conversation, participation in podcasts, the creation of YouTube videos, and updating of a one-day training program on language comprehension assessment and intervention.
Pricing Bond Future Option
Creators: name: Xiao, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bond future option, bond future, conversion factor, cheap to delivery, forward bond price, Black Scholes, binomial tree.

description: A bond future option is an option contract that gives the holder the right but not the obligation to buy or sell a bond future at a predetermined price. The writer/seller receives a premium from the buyer for undertaking this obligation. Options are leveraged instruments that allow the owner to control a large amount of the underlying asset with a smaller amount of money. Bond future options offer significant advantages for reducing costs, enhancing returns and managing risk. They could be European style or American style. This presentation provides an overview of bond future option product and valuation.
description: https://ia601502.us.archive.org/19/items/fi-bond-future-option-12/FiBondFutureOption-12.pdf
title: Innovation
title: Von kreativen Variationen über multikontextuelle Innovationen zu wertkonfliktären gesellschaftlichen Transformationen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rammert, Werner
Publisher: name: Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
Soziale Innovation
Klimaneutrale Stadt
Transformation

description: Innovieren scheint heute zum Imperativ geworden zu sein. Die kreative Suche nach Neuem und das systematische Durchsetzen neuer Praktiken und Produkte verbreiten sich auf allen Feldern der Gesellschaft, nicht nur im wirtschaftlichen Kontext. Um diese Ausweitung der Innovationszone im Alltag wie auch in Politik, Wissenschaft und Kultur besser verstehen zu können, vermittelt dieser Beitrag ein umfassenderes Konzept des Innovierens, das sich nicht allein an ökonomischem Erfolg oder technischer Neuartigkeit orientiert. Im ersten Abschnitt dieses Beitrags werden die zeitlichen, sachlichen und sozialen Relationen des Innovierens näher angesehen, um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zum kreativen Handeln herauszuarbeiten. Im zweiten Abschnitt wird die Koproduktion von primär technisch und primär sozial induzierten Innovationen begründet und die Vielfalt der Wertreferenzen auf den verschiedenen Feldern aufgefächert. Der dritte Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie es im Rahmen dieser Komplexität der selektiven Ebenen und im Konflikt um die widersprüchlichen Werte zu gesellschaftlichen Transformationen kommen kann.
Instability of an accretion disk with a magnetically driven wind
Creators: name: Cao, Xinwu
name: Spruit, H. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a linear analysis of the stability of accretion disks in which angular momentum is removed by the magnetic torque exerted by a centrifugally driven wind. The effects of the dependence of the wind torque on field strength and inclination, the sub-Keplerian rotation due to magnetic forces, and the compression of the disk by the field are included. A WKB dispersion relation is derived for the stability problem. We find that the disk is always unstable if the wind torque is strong. At lower wind torques instability also occurs provided the rotation is close to Keplerian. The growth time scale of the instability can be as short as the orbital time scale. The instability is mainly the result of the sensitivity of the mass flux to changes in the inclination of the field at the disk surface. Magnetic diffusion in the disk stabilizes if the wind torque is small.
description: Submitted to A&A
An exploration of Canada's electoral system as a contributor to social inequities and the impact on population health and health equity
Creators: Pabayo, Roman A.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

SSHRC IG awarded 2024: In this project we examine social inequity in voting in Canada and its impact on health. Our three research objectives are to 1) contextualze perceived barriers to voting, 2) identify the relationship between voter turnout within residential areas and health and determine if any observed associations are heterogeneous across race/ethnicity, immigrant status, and socioeconomic status, and 3) simulate the impact of having a more equitable electoral system by looking at results from previous Federal and Provincial elections and simulating what policies would have been enacted and the population health impacts that could have been observed had there been an electoral system that distributes power more equitably. We will conduct focus groups with citizens from Edmonton, Alberta, and Toronto, Ontario to explore the experience and perceptions of voters, who are most likely to experience hindrances to voting, which include young, low socioeconomic, immigrants who are now citizens, and people of colour. We will conduct a population-based longitudinal study of Canadians using data from the Canadian Census Health Environment Cohorts (CanCHEC) and employ multilevel survival analysis models to quantify the association between voter turnout % in the most recent federal and provincial elections, prior to 2006, and time to death. We will also test voter turnout % and education, household income, race/ethnicity, and immigration status interaction terms to determine whether observed associations were heterogeneous across sociodemographic groups. Simulation modeling will be used to simulate how a more equitable electoral system, such as proportional representation, enacts social and health policies, such as affordable housing, universal basic income, and raises in minimum wage, and their subsequent effect on population health and health equity. Knowledge mobilization activities include journal articles, policy briefs or commentaries, conference presentations, infographics, and posters.
Etiology of Bacteremic Syndromes and Bacterial Susceptibility of Blood Culture Isolates in a Romanian County Hospital
Creators: name: MUNTEAN, PETRU EMIL
name: Man, Adrian
name: Mare, Anca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine

description: Aim: To present the etiology of bacteremic syndromes and antibiotic susceptibility of blood culture isolates from a Romanian county hospital,
as well as their distribution within different wards.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the blood culture data collected from patients hospitalized in the County Emergency Clinical Hospital
of Tirgu Mures over a period of two years. We followed aspects regarding the identifi ed bacterial species, their distribution by sex, age groups
and wards, the spectrum of resistance to antibiotics and main resistance phenotypes.
Results: Most positive samples came from ICU, nephrology and urology. The most isolated bacteria were coagulase-negative staphylococci,
Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus. All isolates showed a high resistance to most classes of antibiotics, staphylococci being susceptible
to glycopeptides, oxazolidinones and glycylcyclines, and the enterobacteria to aminoglycosides and carbapenems. The resistance
in non-fermentative bacilli exceeded 80% to most classes of antibiotics. The methicillin-resistance was 36% for coagulase-negative staphylococci
and 82% for Staphylococcus aureus; the percentage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing strains was 30%.
Conclusions: The etiology of bacteremic syndromes is specifi c to the ward profi le, the Staphylococcus spp. being primarily isolated from
wards where invasive procedures are frequently performed, while the enterobacteria from urology and nephrology wards. The level of antibiotic
resistance is higher in surgery and ICU wards, with also higher percentage of resistance phenotypes than in medical wards.
Dynamical Interpretation of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction and Exchange Currents in the Large $N_C$ Limit
Creators: name: Riska, D. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Expression of the nucleon-nucleon Interaction to order $1/N_C$ in terms of Fermi Invariants allows a dynamical interpretation of the interaction and leads to a consistent construction of the associated interaction currents to order $1/N_C$. The numerically significant components of 4 different modern realistic phenomenological interaction models are shown to admit very similar meson exchange interpretations in the large $N_C$ limit. Moreover the ratio of the volume integrals of the leading, next-to-leading and next-to-next leading order terms in these interaction models is roughly 300:5-10:0.1, which corresponds fairly well to the ratios of $1/N_C^2$ between the terms that would be suggested by the $1/N_C$ expansion if $N_C=3$. The $N_C$ dependence of the electromagnetic and axial interaction currents that are associated with these interaction components is derived and compared to that of the corresponding single nucleon currents.
description: 29 pages, LateX, 11 figures
Tailored ensembles of neural networks optimize sensitivity to stimulus statistics
Creators: name: Zierenberg, Johannes
name: Wilting, Jens
name: Priesemann, Viola
name: Levina, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The dynamic range of stimulus processing in living organisms is much larger than a single neural network can explain. For a generic, tunable spiking network we derive that while the dynamic range is maximal at criticality, the interval of discriminable intensities is very similar for any network tuning due to coalescence. Compensating coalescence enables adaptation of discriminable intervals. Thus, we can tailor an ensemble of networks optimized to the distribution of stimulus intensities, e.g., extending the dynamic range arbitrarily. We discuss potential applications in machine learning.
description: 6 pages plus supplemental material
Religious group membership and conspiracy beliefs influence vaccine uptake: Insights from 20 European countries
Creators: name: Foran, Aoife Marie
name: Jetten, Jolanda
name: Muldoon, Orla
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Reports of lower vaccine uptake within religious communities pose a significant public health challenge. While religious group membership is often associated with health benefits, recent research has revealed a paradox: it may also be linked to vaccine hesitancy. This study investigates how religious group membership may reduce COVID-19 vaccine uptake by exploring the role of enhanced conspiracy beliefs. In doing so, we examine these dynamics across individual and national contexts. Using data from 20 European countries (N = 31,681) collected during the 10th round of the European Social Survey (ESS10), multilevel structural equation modelling was employed to examine whether conspiracy beliefs mediated the link between religious group membership and COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Religious group membership was found to indirectly impact COVID-19 vaccine uptake through conspiracy beliefs. At the national level, countries with higher average levels of religious group membership exhibited greater conspiracy beliefs, which were associated with lower vaccine uptake. At the individual level, people who belonged to a religion were more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs, which negatively predicted vaccine uptake. Our findings underscore the need to address conspiracy beliefs as a critical pathway linking religious group membership to COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Public health strategies should engage with religious leaders to foster trust and dispel misinformation, while promoting transparent and inclusive health communication. Such efforts can help bridge the gap between religious communities and public health initiatives ultimately improving vaccine uptake.
Copyright Infringement in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Law and Policy Analysis
Creators: Majekolagbe, Faith
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: The proposed research project seeks to answer two questions using a two-part study to combine a legal study with a deeper policy analysis. I seek to: 1) determine whether, as a matter of current law, the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in the development of generative AI tools constitutes copyright infringement in Canada, and 2) identify, elucidate and weigh the policy reasons that should guide how to address the use of copyrighted works in the training of generative AI tools. Uncertainty about the present law on the use of copyrighted works and the financial implications of a finding of copyright infringement for innovators provides a pressing need for Part 1. Legal research is needed to help AI innovators understand their current responsibilities and rights within the Canadian copyright legal system; and creators manage their expectations and understand the scope of their copyrights in the generative AI context. Law, however, cannot be effective if considered in isolation from its societal implications, prompting a pressing need for Part 2. It is imperative to consider from a policy perspective whether the use of copyrighted works in the training of generative AI tools should constitute copyright infringement. The research outcome of a combined law and policy analysis will assist policymakers in Canada, and abroad, as they develop responses to the lack of copyright respect in an age of generative AI.
Community-based participatory evaluation of a First Nation school-based gardening initiative
Creators: Gillies, Christina
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC PEG awarded 2024: This project supports research by, with, and for Cree First Nations people and prioritizes Indigenous guidance, leadership, and participation during every step of the research process. AFNE partners were involved in the decision to apply for this SSHRC PEG and contributed to and approved the final application. The goal, objectives, and methods -- including hiring an Indigenous research assistant -- have all been determined through mutual agreement with partners. AFNE will inform and participate in data collection, analysis, and interpretation to ensure that activities are grounded in and reinforce community knowledge. Partners will also take part in knowledge mobilization activities, including co-writing a publication and co-presenting at a conference, to build upon and strengthen capacity. In addition to meeting the immediate needs of AFNE, this project supports Indigenous sovereignty in research and evaluation. In doing so, it will provide a strong example of how a SBGI can be co-evaluated through decolonizing practice, trusted partnership, and mutual learning.
Callable Bond and Valuation Introduction
Creators: name: Xiao, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: bond, callable bond, puttable bond, bond option, callable bond pricing

description: A callable bond is a bond in which the issuer has the right to call the bond at specified times from the investor for a specified price. At each callable date prior to the bond maturity, the issuer may recall the bond from its investor by returning the investor’s money. The underlying bonds can be fixed rate bonds or floating rate bonds. A callable bond can therefore be considered a vanilla underlying bond with an embedded Bermudan style option. Callable bonds protect issuers. Therefore, a callable bond normally pays the investor a higher coupon than a non-callable bond. For issuers, callable bonds allow them to reduce interest costs at a future date should rate decrease. For investors, callable bonds allow them to earn a higher interest rate of return until the bonds are called off. If interest rates have declined since the issuer first issues the bond, the issuer is like to call its current bond and reissues it at a lower coupon. Callable bonds protect issuers. Therefore, a callable bond normally pays investors a higher coupon than a non-callable bond. This presentation gives an overview of callable bond and valuation model.
description: https://ia601400.us.archive.org/24/items/fi-callable-bond-13/FiCallableBond-13.pdf
Community driven tools to support ethnolinguistic parents in advocating for their children's needs in Early Learning and Child Care Settings
Creators: MacLeod, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC PEG awarded 2024: The proposed research aims to co-design solutions to bring newcomer parents' knowledge and aspirations into the ELCC sector. In preliminary discussions within our partnership, we have identified two solutions to provide culturally and linguistically sustaining practices within the ELCC context. Once these solutions have been refined, our collaboration aims to mobilize this knowledge to build capacity within the community to enable parents to advocate for their culture and language. To this end, we aim to: 1.Co-design the Parent Manifesto with community partners and understand how parents and community members respond to the Parent Manifesto, which will be a framework that parents and community groups can use to advocate for their child(ren)'s languages and cultural integration in the school setting; 2.Co-design the Language-Sustaining Parent-Child Groups and understand translanguaging practices and attitudes toward multilingualism among community members, parents and children.
Association study of high-frequency variants of MTHFR gene with retinal vein occlusion in a Spanish population
Creators: name: Fernández-Vega, Beatriz
name: Álvarez, Lydia
name: García, Montserrat
name: Enol Artime
name: Fernández, Adrián González
name: Fernández-Vega, Carlos
name: Nicieza, Javier
name: Vega, José A.
name: González-Iglesias, Héctor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Background: To study the association of the most common methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) genetic polymorphisms C677T and A1298C with retinal vein occlusion (RVO) in a Spanish population. Methods: Case–control study involving 359 subjects, 183 unrelated native Spanish patients diagnosed with RVO, distributed in central or branch RVO, and 176 healthy controls. Two SNPs located in the gene MTHFR, C677T (rs1801133) and A1298C (rs1801131) were analyzed by DNA sequencing and TaqMan assays. Results: A high prevalence of the MTHFR variants T and C of the SNP C677T and A1298C, respectively, was observed in our population. Specifically, 88.07% of controls and 85.25% of RVO patients have at least one of these variants. However, the prevalence of these variants was not significantly different when comparing RVO patients and controls. The variant T of C677T was identified in 60.65% of RVO patients and 59.10% of control subjects, while the variant C of A1298C was present in 46.45% of RVO patients and 51.14% of controls. No association of dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, glaucoma, thyroid disease and renal disease with RVO was observed, while hypertension was significantly higher in the RVO patients (p < .0001). Conclusions: The MTHFR variants, T of C677T and C of A1298C, did not significantly increase the risk of suffering RVO in a Spanish population and therefore additional risk factors are contributing to the onset of the disease.
Description of spreading dynamics by microscopic network models and macroscopic branching processes can differ due to coalescence
Creators: name: Zierenberg, Johannes
name: Wilting, Jens
name: Priesemann, Viola
name: Levina, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spreading processes are conventionally monitored on a macroscopic level by counting the number of incidences over time. The spreading process can then be modeled either on the microscopic level, assuming an underlying interaction network, or directly on the macroscopic level, assuming that microscopic contributions are negligible. The macroscopic characteristics of both descriptions are commonly assumed to be identical. In this work, we show that these characteristics of microscopic and macroscopic descriptions can be different due to coalescence, i.e., a node being activated at the same time by multiple sources. In particular, we consider a (microscopic) branching network (probabilistic cellular automaton) with annealed connectivity disorder, record the macroscopic activity, and then approximate this activity by a (macroscopic) branching process. In this framework, we analytically calculate the effect of coalescence on the collective dynamics. We show that coalescence leads to a universal non-linear scaling function for the conditional expectation value of successive network activity. This allows us to quantify the difference between the microscopic model parameter and established macroscopic estimates. To overcome this difference, we propose a non-linear estimator that correctly infers the model branching parameter for all system sizes.
description: 13 pages
Colossendeis gardineri Carpenter 1907
Creators: name: Bamber, Roger N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pycnogonida
Pantopoda
Colossendeidae
Colossendeis
Colossendeis gardineri

description: Colossendeis gardineri Carpenter, 1907
Carpenter, 1907: 98 ±99, pl. 13, ®gures 20±24; Stock, 1986: 417, ®gure 5a±c.
 Material. Two specimens, sample 6414 (0±1400 m) (Registration No. NHM.2000.2257-225 8).
 Colossendeis gardineri has previously only been recorded from two specimens, Carpenter’s type from 823 m depth between the Seychelles and Rodriques in the Indian Ocean, and Stock’s (1986) specimen from 576 to 842 m, oOE St Vincent, West Indies.
description: Published as part of Bamber, Roger N., 2002, Bathypelagic pycnogonids (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from the Discovery deep-sea cruises, pp. 715-727 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 723, DOI: 10.1080/00222930010025932, http://zenodo.org/record/5300023
Prospects of strongly lensed repeating fast radio bursts: complementary constraints on dark energy evolution
Creators: name: Liu, Bin
name: Li, Zhengxiang
name: Gao, He
name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed and probably extragalactic radio flashes with millisecond-duration. Recently, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (using the CHIME/FRB instrument) has reported detections of 13 FRBs during a pre-commissioning phase. It is more exciting that one of the 13 FRBs is a second source of repeaters which suggests that CHIME/FRB and other wide-field sensitive radio telescopes will find a substantial population of repeating FRBs. We have proposed strongly lensed repeating FRBs as a precision cosmological probe, e.g. constraining the Hubble constant and model-independently estimating the cosmic curvature. Here, we study complementary constraints on the equation of state of dark energy from strongly lensed FRBs to currently available popular probes. It is found that, in the framework of Chevalier-Polarski-Linder parametrization, adding time delay measurement of 30 strongly lensed FRB systems to cosmic microwave background radiation and type Ia supernovae can improve the dark energy figure of merit by a factor 2. In the precision cosmology era, this improvement is of great significance for studying the nature of dark energy.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1904.11751
Understanding presentism in history education
Creators: Miles, James
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: This research proposal argues that educational researchers need to better understand how presentism shapes history teaching, learning, and understanding. History educators are well-positioned to support students and teachers navigatethis problem but further research is needed on presentism’s role in historical thinking. Most history education scholars now believe that historical thinking is a powerful, effective, and evidence-based approach for teaching and learning history supported by over 30 years of empirical research. In this approach, presentism is commonly presented as a major obstacle for developing students’ competence in thinking historically. Scholars have argued that presentism is an undisciplined or unsophisticated way of thinking that projects contemporary ideas, values and beliefs onto the past. This research will challenge this conception of presentism in historical thinking. As a result of my proposed study, education scholars will understand how historians, teachers, and students use different types of presentism when navigating a historical debate. Further researching how historians, teachers, and students think about and with presentism will offer scholars new information that might challenge or complicate assumptions about presentism as a distorting force in the history classroom. Furthermore, findings from this study may be used to develop new thinking concepts, teaching strategies, and resources that could deepen students’ historical thinking and potentially make history education more relevant, justice-oriented and capable of negotiating the complex ways the past is used and abused in the present.
A Functional Network of Gastric-Cancer-Associated Splicing Events Controlled by Dysregulated Splicing Factors- Supplemetary figures
Creators: name: Shanshan Cheng
name: Debleena Ray
name: Epstein, David M
name: Rozen, Steven G
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Supplemetary figures S1-S4- Sasimi plot showing 118 TA ASEs, examples of excluded TA ASEs due to complex structure and multiple transcripts- Related to our manuscript :A Functional Network of Gastric-Cancer-Associated Splicing Events Controlled by Dysregulated Splicing Factors
Do stars matter? A comparison of operating ratios and indicators among hotels.
Creators: name: Santos, Luís Lima
name: Malheiros, Cátia
name: Gomes, Conceição
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150105 Management Accounting

description: Hotels use operating ratios and indicators for their performance evaluation. In many countries, including Portugal, there is an official classification of stars for hotels. The rating ranges from 1 star to 5 stars. This rating depends of features of facilities and equipment, reception and concierge service, cleaning and laundry service, food and beverage service and complementary services. Does this classification influence the use of operating ratios and indicators? The Uniform System of Accounts on Lodging Industry (USALI), in its Part III, presents ratios and indicators for all hotel departments. On the other hand, these ratios and indicators could be used to make comparisons among hotels, and there is the possibility of USALI adaptation to all kinds of hotels. This study investigates the relationship between the hotel rating and the use of operating ratios and indicators, as well as their importance. To accomplish the aim and objectives, the Portuguese case was analyzed by conducting a survey to obtain data, which has then been submitted to a statistical analysis. The questionnaire was applied to hotels in Leiria region (87 hotels presented in SIGTUR platform), where was determined a sample of 70 hotels. It was concluded that, concerning operating indicators and ratios, the most frequently used are: room occupancy percentage, average daily rate (ADR), revenue per available room (RevPAR). For these ratios there is not any difference of use among hotels, except for RevPAR. Nevertheless, it was found out a relationship between hotel rating and the use of operating ratios and indicators regarding some food and beverage ratios.
Asymptotically Non-Static Kerr-deSitter Spacetime With No Event Horizon
Creators: name: Abbassi, Amir H.
name: Khosravi, Sh.
name: Abbassi, Amir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our derivations for Kerr-deSitter metric in a proper comoving coordinate system.It asymptotically approaches to the deSitter metric in Robertson-walker form.This has been done by considring the stationary axially-symmetric spacetime in which motion of particle is integrable.That is the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations are separable.In this form it is asymptotically consistent with comoving frame.
description: Title changed,revised arguments,results unchanged.
Colossendeis macerrima Wilson 1881
Creators: name: Bamber, Roger N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pycnogonida
Pantopoda
Colossendeidae
Colossendeis
Colossendeis macerrima

description: Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881
Bamber and Thurston, 1995: 148; ®gure 9D.
 Material. One specimen, sample 9755#3; one specimen, sample 9781#1; one specimen, sample 10378#25; one specimen, sample 10378#26. Depth range (trawl depths) of this material, (1000)± 1525 m.
This species is commonly recorded in benthic samples (see Bamber and Thurston, 1995), although Mauchline (1984) recorded a single, damaged specimen from a bathypelagic sample in the Rockall Trough. The present material is all of small individuals (but apparently with fully developed ovigers), which have proboscides upturned.
The depth range of benthic material in the north-eastern Atlantic is 700±2000 m. The present ®nding of bathypelagic individuals, from the Porcupine Sea Bight and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, helps account for the wide distribution of this species, known from the north and south Atlantic, Paci®c, Indian and Antarctic Oceans.
description: Published as part of Bamber, Roger N., 2002, Bathypelagic pycnogonids (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) from the Discovery deep-sea cruises, pp. 715-727 in Journal of Natural History 36 (6) on page 723, DOI: 10.1080/00222930010025932, http://zenodo.org/record/5300023
Investigating the Reception of Communications about the Ethics of Plant-Forward Nudging in Heathcare Settings
Creators: Nye, Howard
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: In this project, we seek to understand how communications about the ethical considerations in favour of adopting policies that enourage people to eat more plant-based food in healthcare settings are received by policymakers, and how these communications can most effectively overcome barriers to appreciating the cogency of these ethical considerations. Our  focus will be on what we call "plant-forward nudge policies" which encourage people to choose plant-based foods by increasing their visibility and making their advantages more salient, rather than by changing what options are available or the financial incentives behind the options.
Critical Indigenous theory in the study of religion network
Creators: Gareau, Paul
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Building a Critical Indigenous Theory in the Study of Religion Network (CITSR) is a five day event activity that will develop a network for North American scholars who work at the intersection of religion and Indigenous studies. The aim is to build an international community (i.e., intellectual kinship) among academics working to decolonize and indigenize the study of religion. CITSR will lay the foundation for promoting knowledge about religion that is especially significant for Indigenous nations/peoples and grow the study of religion in the academy. 14 scholars (Indigenous and non Indigenous) from Canada and USA along with 4 undergraduate and 2 graduate students will participate in this event. Event activities include training sessions for students, a pre-workshop session where we will outline disciplinary and scholarly objectives and major issues in our academic work covering questions of positionality and intersectionality, relationality, onto-epistemologies and storied places, Indigenous density, and nationhood/peoplehood relations, and a 2-day workshop on the role of Indigenous knowledges in the academy. Outputs from the event include: a digital repository of scholarly resources through a website, a listserv for the network; articles for a special issue in a scholarly journal co-edited by two members of the network; and panels on critical Indigenous theory in the study of religion at professional associations. We will also promote the network and scholarship through podcasts. The goal after our event activity is to provide a platform for the community of scholars to keep in touch, support critical Indigenous Studies, share resources, and generate collaborations linking different scholars and students.