cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating immunotoxicity of oil sands process-affected waters using the RAW 264.7 macrophage cell line
Creators: Woodall, Kendra M.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Alberta’s wide-ranging oil sands deposits are recovered via oil sands processes such as surface mining and in situ approaches.  Oil sands processes use substantial volumes of water known as oil sands process-affected waters (OSPW) and as per a zero-discharge policy, this water needs to be stored on location.  Tailings ponds have resulted as a temporary storage solution, and remediation strategies are being developed to treat and target contaminants.  Naphthenic acids (NAs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, metals, and ions are all contaminants found in OSPW.  OSPW toxicity is mainly attributed to NAs and exposure has resulted in deformities, reduction in growth, and impaired development in aquatic and terrestrial species as well as immunotoxicity in macrophages.  Advanced oxidation processes degrade NAs, and treated OSPW must be evaluated to determine efficacy in reducing toxicity.  I propose using RAW 264.7 macrophages in a cell-based in vitro biosensor system to evaluate immunotoxicity in untreated and treated waters.  Taking this further, pharmacological inhibitors can be used to understand the activation of macrophage cells by OSPW and identify OSPW-mediated receptors and receptor pathways.  Macrophages use numerous receptors, like Toll-like receptors (TLRs), to detect and rapidly respond to stimuli, like bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS).  I found that OSPW upregulates pro-inflammatory genes and advanced oxidation treatments, like electrooxidation and solar oxidation, reduces this expression.  I then explored how OSPW exposure results in immunotoxicity.  I found that OSPW triggers pro-inflammatory responses comparable to activation by endotoxic stimuli such as LPS.  Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and intracellular signaling proteins associated with TLR signaling, such as NF-κB and IRAK1/4, are implicated in both LPS- and OSPW-mediated signaling.  These similarities between LPS- and OSPW-activated signaling indicate a potential role for TLR4 in detecting the immunotoxic constituent(s) of OSPW.  This research enhances our understanding of how OSPW is perceived by mammalian cells and the immunotoxicity incited by OSPW.  In addition, this research illustrates how RAW 264.7 macrophage cells successfully outline immunotoxicity resulting from exposure to contaminated waters and in the future, may be used to evaluate potential water treatments.
JCM884729 Supplemental Material3 - Supplemental material for Effects of ceramic particle size on cell attachment and viability in polyurethane-based bone adhesive composites
Creators: name: Erken, Meryem
name: Tevlek, Atakan
name: Pezhman Hosseinian
name: Topuz, Bengisu
name: Aydin, Halil Murat
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, JCM884729 Supplemental Material3 for Effects of ceramic particle size on cell attachment and viability in polyurethane-based bone adhesive composites by Meryem Erken, Atakan Tevlek, Pezhman Hosseinian, Bengisu Topuz and Halil Murat Aydin in Journal of Composite Materials
The Quasi-Steady-State Approximation for Computational Acceleration of Single Particle Modeling in Polyolefin Processes
Creators: Al-Khayyat, Mohammed
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

In the field of polymer reactor engineering, accurately modeling the complex kinetics and mass transfer mechanics of a supported-catalyst reaction is essential for designing efficient and scalable polymerization processes. However, mesoscale modeling, which involves detailed single-particle models, is often overlooked due to its mathematical complexity, where the dynamic numerical solution of the partial differential equations that describe the intraparticle reaction-diffusion phe- nomena are computationally demanding. The quasi-steady-state approximation (QSSA) presented in this thesis provides an alternative computationally efficient approach to solving the polymer flow model, which is an established numerical model for understanding the dynamics of polymer particle growth. In both homopolymerization and copolymerization setups, the developed QSSA model is compared with the corresponding dynamic solutions assuming both uniform and nonuniform radial distribution of active sites in the growing particle. The simulations demonstrate that, after a very short initial period, the QSSA provides a perfect match with the dynamic solution when active sites are uniformly distributed within the particle. However, if the dynamic solution accounts for the local dilution of catalyst fragments in the produced polymer, resulting in a non-uniform dis- tribution of active sites decreasing with radial position, the QSSA shows promising performance only at low to medium Thiele moduli. As the Thiele modulus increases, the QSSA solution starts to deviate more from the dynamic solution due to the pronounced concentration gradient of active sites. These high Thiele modulus values correspond to high levels of mass transfer limitations, which are undesirable and often avoided in real processes.
The Rewards of Caring: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Experiences of  Compassion Satisfaction in Psychologists Working with Justice-Involved Youth
Creators: Haldane, Chayse Marie
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Psychologists who work with justice-involved youth face numerous workplace stressors, which can negatively impact the psychologists’ well-being and the care they provide to their clients. Identified as a potential protective factor against adverse reactions to helping work, compassion satisfaction is the pleasure gained from helping others in the course of one’s work. Although there is growing evidence of the positive effects of compassion satisfaction, the majority of research on compassion satisfaction is quantitative and does not adequately represent helpers across all areas of helping. In particular, there has been a lack of research on psychologists’ experiences of compassion satisfaction in counselling justice-involved youth. Such research may contribute to psychologists’ well-being and success in this challenging area of practice.

The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of compassion satisfaction from the perspectives of psychologists counselling youth in the justice system. With this purpose in mind, I used interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) methods (Smith et al., 2022) and conducted in-depth interviews with five registered psychologists from across Western Canada. In keeping with the idiographic emphasis of IPA studies, I analyzed each individual case first and wrote a vignette that described the unique context and ideographic themes of each participant. Next, I completed a cross-case analysis, which produced six group experiential themes: relationship building and client engagement; witnessing client success; self-efficacy in promoting client change; sense of meaning and purpose; interconnectedness between personal and professional lives; and impact of workplace factors. Based on the findings from this study, compassion satisfaction may play an important role in helping psychologists working in the youth justice system to persist in their work and maintain their mental wellness, despite the many challenges they face. Implications for ways to support psychologists working in this area are discussed, in addition to a discussion of the present study’s limitations and directions for future research.
Supplementary document for Cross-phase modulation in two-dimensional spectroscopy - 6577545.pdf
Creators: name: Cai, Maorui
name: Zhang, Xue
name: Cheng, Zi-Qian
name: Yan, Teng-Fei
name: Dong, Hui
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
12._SupplementaryMaterial – Supplemental material for Modernizing Storage Conditions for Fresh Osteochondral Allografts by Optimizing Viability at Physiologic Temperatures and Conditions
Creators: name: Denbeigh, Janet M.
name: Hevesi, Mario
name: Paggi, Carlo A.
name: Resch, Zachary T.
name: Bagheri, Leila
name: Mara, Kristin
name: Arani, Arvin
name: Chenghao Zhang
name: A. Noelle Larson
name: Saris, Daniel B.F.
name: Krych, Aaron J.
name: Wijnen, Andre J. Van
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, 12._SupplementaryMaterial for Modernizing Storage Conditions for Fresh Osteochondral Allografts by Optimizing Viability at Physiologic Temperatures and Conditions by Janet M. Denbeigh, Mario Hevesi, Carlo A. Paggi, Zachary T. Resch, Leila Bagheri, Kristin Mara, Arvin Arani, Chenghao Zhang, A. Noelle Larson, Daniel B.F. Saris, Aaron J. Krych and Andre J. van Wijnen in CARTILAGE
Supplementary document for Ultrafast Yb:YAG laser oscillator with gigahertz repetition rate - 6577590.pdf
Creators: name: Seidel, Moritz
name: Pilat, Jérémie
name: Lang, Lukas
name: Phillips, Christopher
name: Keller, Ursula
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Overview of gigahertz solid-state lasers
Explaining and Improving Formula-Represented Heuristic Functions in Grid Pathfinding
Creators: Wang, Shuwei
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Heuristic functions substantially influence heuristic search performance. Recent work used program synthesis to produce high-performance formula-based heuristics, offering a promise of human explanability. In this thesis we investigate the promise and present a tool to improve a given heuristic function while visualizing how each subformula computes heuristic values on video-game-style maps. The visualization algorithm decomposes a heuristic formula into subformulae and associates each with a region of the map, aiding a human expert to modify the heuristic formula to improve search performance.

We introduce our approach by applying it in three simple problem instances. To expand upon them, we study the approach in two adversarial settings. First, a video-game map is fixed but once the heuristic formula is improved by a human user for a given pathfinding problem, another problem is selected so that the just improved heuristic provides poor guidance on it. The cycle repeats, improving a heuristic for various pathfinding problems on the given map. The second setting generalizes the cycle across video-game maps by selecting a new map on which the user-improved heuristic provides poor guidance. The cycle repeats, improving a heuristic for several maps. We demonstrate from the adversarial case studies that this approach can improve existing heuristics with respect to both guiding performance and explanability for actual video-game maps. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our approach is able to generate an explainable heuristic formula that works well in general across several actual video-game maps in the adversarial setting.

Note that our visualization is more effective when subformulae are short, since the user is more likely to readily understand behavior of formulae with shorter subformulae. Thus we make another contribution by modifying an existing algorithm for heuristic synthesis to generate formulae with short subformulae. We empirically show that imposing an upper bound on subformula size does not degrade search performance of synthesized heuristics.

To wrap up, we propose a visualization tool to explain synthesized heuristic formulae on video-game maps. We show examples of applying the tool to improve existing heuristic formulae. Furthermore, we show empirical results of synthesizing heuristic formulae with constrained subformula sizes and show that the constraints impose less effect on average for problems with varying goal locations than for problems with a shared goal location, and in general such constraints do not hurt heuristic's guiding performance while improving their explanability.
supplemental_online_material_TR_edits – Supplemental material for Dependability of Direct Behavior Rating Single- and Multi-Item Scales Across Raters and Occasions in Two School Subjects
Creators: name: Casale, Gino
name: Volpe, Robert J.
name: Briesch, Amy M.
name: Hennemann, Thomas
name: Grosche, Michael
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, supplemental_online_material_TR_edits for Dependability of Direct Behavior Rating Single- and Multi-Item Scales Across Raters and Occasions in Two School Subjects by Gino Casale, Robert J. Volpe, Amy M. Briesch, Thomas Hennemann and Michael Grosche in Assessment for Effective Intervention
Supplementary document for Active Matrix Driven Electrophoretic Display with In-Plane Switching Layout and Driving Waveform for Reflective and Transparent Modes - 6577813.pdf
Creators: name: Yang, Bo-Ru
name: Yunhe, Liu
name: Fan, Qitian
name: Guangyou, Liu
name: Zhuohang, Li
name: Jie, Liu
name: Yang, Jinglan
name: Tao, Zhou
name: Zeng, Zheng
name: Qin, Zong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Structural Engineering
Engineering Systems Design
Engineering Design Methods
Engineering Practice

description: The supplementary document supplements and explains the experimental methods, device fabrication process, simulation details and prototype display performance discussed in the paper.
Exploring the Transition to Post-Secondary Settings Among Refugee Girls and Women
Creators: Nathoo, Jasmine A.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

For young refugee women, attaining a post-secondary education appears to be a personally important goal and has positive implications for their integration, with economic and social benefits. However, young refugee women face significant barriers that can make post-secondary attainment challenging. This study was informed by a transnational feminist lens, and addresses the question: What are the strengths, challenges, and needs of refugee women and girls as they transition into post-secondary settings in Canada? Using the Photovoice method and guided by a participatory research framework, this question was explored with six refugee women who are navigating the transition to post-secondary settings. Results provide an in-depth picture of the challenges faced by these young women on an individual, social, and systemic level, along with their self-identified strengths and needs. Results highlight the capacity of this group to develop agency and the ability to become a self-advocate and maintain hope in the face of challenges. Further, they articulated a need for more relational supports in the education system to help them in this transition. Implications for educational and counselling settings are provided along with limitations and directions for future research.
Appendix_PDF – Supplemental material for Testing the Local Independence Assumption of the Rasch Model With Q3-Based Nonparametric Model Tests
Creators: name: Debelak, Rudolf
name: Koller, Ingrid
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_PDF for Testing the Local Independence Assumption of the Rasch Model With Q3-Based Nonparametric Model Tests by Rudolf Debelak and Ingrid Koller in Applied Psychological Measurement
Supplementary document for Possible depth-resolved reconstruction of shear moduli in the cornea following collagen crosslinking (CXL) with optical coherence tomography and elastography. - 6578422.pdf
Creators: name: Regnault, Gabriel
name: Kirby, Mitchell
name: Wang, Ruikang
name: Shen, Tueng
name: O'Donnell, Matthew
name: Pelivanov, Ivan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Figures S1 - S9
Supplementary document for Metamaterial graphene terahertz sensors for the detection of two food additives - 6578722.pdf
Creators: name: wu, guifang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhang, Rui
name: Yan, Fengping
name: Liang, Lanju
name: Yan, Xin
name: Yao, Haiyun
name: wang, ziqun
name: Li, Zhenhua
name: Xu, Liang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: fig. S1-S3
Case Study of Road Weather Information Systems: Vehicle Sensor Integration for Accurate Winter Road Condition Estimation
Creators: Zhang, Jiarui
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

The evaluation of winter road weather conditions poses a considerable difficulty for nations situated in high latitude areas, leading researchers to devise approaches aimed at enhancing the recognition of road conditions, enhancing travel safety, and minimizing winter road maintenance expenses. The successful combination of sensor data and advanced data processing techniques has been observed to effectively classify road conditions, specifically when using stationary Road Weather Information System (RWIS) stations. This approach is further enhanced by incorporating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for interstation data interpolation. Consequently, a comprehensive framework is established for the continuous detection of winter road

surface conditions. While the system generally proves effective, it faces limitations due to geographic constraints and the availability of RWIS stations. This thesis aims

to explore potential solutions to address these challenges. The study proposes the use of dashcam images and the integration of On-Board Diagnostics II (OBDII) data to

estimate winter road conditions. Additionally, it introduces a dynamic segmentation method to identify road segments with a high risk of hazards. To ensure the reliability of the findings, testing and validation are performed using real-world data from the Mobile Road Weather Information System (MRWIS) collected during the winter

season of 2023. The culmination of this thesis involves performing a performance evaluation of our methodologies compared to the traditional stationary RWIS + GIS

approach. This evaluation serves as a significant contribution to the advancement of winter road weather assessment. By overcoming existing limitations through the use of innovative technology and empirical analysis, our research has the potential to greatly enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of evaluating winter road conditions. Ultimately, this can lead to safer travel, especially in cold climate regions.
Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: Exploration and Understanding of Perceptions and Practice of Workplace Job Control, Flexibility and Mental Health in COVID-19
Creators: Hunter, Megan K
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore and understand perceptions of workplace flexibility and job control/ autonomy policy in practice as related to mental health and psychological health & safety in the workplace within the context of COVID-19 Pandemic (1-15). This thesis explored: (i) how employees perceive workplace practices related to job control/ autonomy and (ii) better understand the effects of job control/ autonomy and flexibility in the workplace.

Methods: This qualitative research project was guided by focused ethnography methodology grounded in constructivism and subjectivism theories (16-19). One large Organization in Alberta with psychological health & safety practices and flexible working options was recruited and invited their employees to participate in the study (20). 14 self-selected participants from various job functions and authority, confidentially volunteered to participate in a 60-minute semi-structured interview. Data was co-created through participant interviews using a semi-structured interview guide (21). Analysis was guided by the work of Srivastava and Hopwood, 2009 (22).

Results: Three main themes, each with three sub-themes, emerged from the data to capture the employee perception of working at PO through the context of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and the transition to normalcy post March 2023. The themes and subthemes included 1. Leadership Response, subthemes; Benefits & Mental Health Resources, Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Response Action, Flexible Working Policy. 2. Context, subthemes; Company Culture, The COVID-19 Pandemic, and Personal Context. 3. Equity, Job Role and Function, Workplace Flexibility, and Experience of Job Control/Autonomy.

Conclusion: Perceptions of workplace job control/autonomy and flexibility are influenced by many factors in the workplace. Participants in this study supported the identification of key actions that either supported or hindered their experience of these factors. Clear communication, modern leadership skill sets, and an ability to balance employee needs, organizational function, and company ideals such as vision, mission, and goals played a crucial role in developing employee perception of job control/autonomy and flexibility. Therefore, impacting productivity, employee satisfaction, and company culture.

Key words: Psychological Health & Safety, Workplace Mental Health, Job Control, Workplace Flexibility, Post-Pandemic Workplace Mental Health Practices, Workplace Mental Health Promotion
Supplemental Material, 19037-e-CJP-2019-134-OR.R1-__Abstract_for_translation-134 - Physical Activity as a Predictor of Clinical Trial Outcomes in Bipolar Depression: A Subanalysis of a Mitochondrial-Enhancing Nutraceutical Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Ashton, Melanie M.
name: Mohebbi, Mohammadreza
name: Turner, Alyna
name: Marx, Wolfgang
name: Berk, Michael
name: Malhi, Gin S.
name: Ng, Chee H.
name: Cotton, Sue M.
name: Dodd, Seetal
name: Sarris, Jerome
name: Hopwood, Malcolm
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Dean, Olivia M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified
Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)

description: Supplemental Material, 19037-e-CJP-2019-134-OR.R1-__Abstract_for_translation-134 for Physical Activity as a Predictor of Clinical Trial Outcomes in Bipolar Depression: A Subanalysis of a Mitochondrial-Enhancing Nutraceutical Randomized Controlled Trial by Melanie M. Ashton, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Alyna Turner, Wolfgang Marx, Michael Berk, Gin S. Malhi, Chee H. Ng, Sue M. Cotton, Seetal Dodd, Jerome Sarris, Malcolm Hopwood, Brendon Stubbs and Olivia M. Dean in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
supplement_material - Does resource-based view explain outsourcing intention: Revenue management perspective
Creators: name: Altin, Mehmet
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: supplement_material for Does resource-based view explain outsourcing intention: Revenue management perspective by Mehmet Altin in Tourism Economics
Supplemental_appendix – Supplemental material for Emotions and Affective Polarization: How Enthusiasm and Anxiety About Presidential Candidates Affect Interparty Attitudes
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Bryan
name: Holland, Derrick
name: Thompson, Bailey A.
name: Koenig, Abby
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_appendix for Emotions and Affective Polarization: How Enthusiasm and Anxiety About Presidential Candidates Affect Interparty Attitudes by Bryan McLaughlin, Derrick Holland, Bailey A. Thompson and Abby Koenig in American Politics Research
Exploring The Role and Experience of Academic Administrators in the Delivery of Experiential Education Programs in Undergraduate Professional Faculties
Creators: Dance, Torrey G B
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

While experiential learning is broadly emphasized and implemented in the university setting, there is a scholarship gap regarding the organizational dynamics that impact the academic leaders who are responsible for these programs’ implementation and ongoing support, as well as in how academic leaders see their role in the delivery of these programs.

The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of academic administrators responsible for the delivery of experiential education programs in undergraduate professional programs, including the perceived or expressed reasons why these academic administrators support experiential education, how these administrators see their specific role in supporting these opportunities, and the challenges these leaders see in the administration and delivery of these programs. Academic leaders, such as associate deans, occupy a unique position within higher education institutions, one in which they are required to blend administration, leadership, and scholarship while also existing in an ‘interstitial space’ between faculty and institutional leaders and their experiences are worthy of study.

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four administrators from professional faculties at a large research-intensive university in Alberta, Canada, the University of Alberta. Thematic analysis of the transcripts was then used as the primary form of analysis to capture patterns and meanings within data, and an additional document scan was conducted on publicly available faculty and program information to inform data analysis and conclusions. This study is a step towards better understanding the experiences of academic administrators who support experiential education programs in the face of factors such as funding limitations, operational challenges, student and employer expectations, institutional politics, or government intervention.
Analysis of Referral Pathways, Diagnosis, and Treatment Patterns in a University -Based Orofacial Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic
Creators: Badri, Parvaneh
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Background- The prevalence of multifactorial chronic diseases is increasing globally. The objective of this study was to examine associations between chronic orofacial pain complaints and psychological distress in patients assessed at a multidisciplinary clinic inspired by the biopsychosocial model.

Methods- A retrospective study design was employed to analyse data collected from patient charts recorded at the University of Alberta Multidisciplinary Orofacial Pain Clinic between 2018-2023. The team comprises a pharmacist, dietitian, family physician, oral and maxillofacial surgeon, psychologist, orofacial pain and oral medicine specialist, along with the oral medicine residents.  Demographic, clinical variables, psychological were retrieved. The psychological variables included the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) scale, Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), and Injustice Experience Questionnaire (IEQ). To evaluate the associations between the severity of TMJ pain and headaches and psychological variable scores, Pearson’s chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, and binomial logistic regression were performed.

Results- The study analysed 288 charts of patients ranging in age from 13 to 93 years (mean age 46.69, SD 16.5). Most patients were female (82.6%) and resided primarily in Alberta (94.4%), with some also from Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Self-reported behaviors included tobacco smoking (15.5%), alcohol consumption (59.4%), and recreational drug use (15.5% current, 8.5% past). This study confirmed significant associations in patients with a moderate or severe risk of PCS. Among these, patients had 3.7 and 3.9 times higher odds of experiencing moderate to severe TMJ pain and headaches, respectively, compared to those with a low PCS risk. Additionally, patients with a high risk of IEQ had 2.8 times higher odds of experiencing moderate to severe headaches compared to those with a low IEQ risk. About 14.8% of patients did not answer the ACE, PCS, or IEQ variables and were thus excluded from analysis.

Conclusion- Pain severity in chronic orofacial symptoms (TMJ pain and headaches) was associated with higher PCS scores. Similarly, higher IEQ scores correlated with increased headache severity. The significant number of patients who declined to answer the psychological assessments suggests underlying psychological factors.
Cowan_Supplemental_Material_rev – Supplemental material for Can a Good Life Be Unsatisfying? Within-Person Dynamics of Life Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being in Late Midlife
Creators: name: Cowan, Henry R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, Cowan_Supplemental_Material_rev for Can a Good Life Be Unsatisfying? Within-Person Dynamics of Life Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being in Late Midlife by Henry R. Cowan in Psychological Science
Accelerated genomic-assisted breeding for safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)
Creators: name: Zhao, Huanhuan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3001
subject: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production
classificationCode: 300406
subject: Crop and pasture improvement (incl. selection and breeding)
classificationCode: 310114
subject: Systems biology

description: A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
online_supplememt_2_cause_of_variability – Supplemental material for Impact of Cine Frame Selection on Quantitative Coronary Angiography Results
Creators: name: Ito, Shigenori
name: Kinoshita, Kanako
name: Endo, Akiko
name: Nakamura, Masato
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, online_supplememt_2_cause_of_variability for Impact of Cine Frame Selection on Quantitative Coronary Angiography Results by Shigenori Ito, Kanako Kinoshita, Akiko Endo and Masato Nakamura in Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology
Improving API Documentation Quality Through Identifying Missing Code Examples
Creators: Sarah, Afiya Fahmida
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Software libraries often provide documentation to describe the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) they offer. Such API documentation helps potential users understand how to use the library. Studies have shown that having code examples is one of the key criteria of good software documentation quality and that lack of examples is one of the reasons why API documentation becomes difficult to understand for library users. Thus, in this thesis, our goal is to improve API documentation quality by identifying missed opportunities for code examples.

Specifically, we propose a methodology to identify APIs from library API documentation websites that require code examples for improving documentation quality. We use web scraping and heuristics to identify APIs with missing code examples (APIsnoeg) from a library’s documentation website. We then look for Stack Overflow questions about the APIsnoeg. Next, we use a large language model (LLM) to determine if the post discusses the author’s struggle with using those APIsnoeg. If it does, then we mark that apinoeg as a potential API that may need a code example. Finally, we identify a list of APIs, for which, adding code examples can improve the documentation quality. We can then encourage library authors to add code examples for the APIs in this list.

Based on our methodology, we create a prototype tool. We evaluate the intermediate steps of our tool for the API documentation of 3 libraries and then analyze the API documentation of 12 libraries using the tool. We find that although there are Stack Overflow posts where authors discuss an apinoeg, it is not always an indicator that having code examples would resolve the authors’ issues.
Supplementary document for Informing ocean color inversion products by seeding with ancillary observations - 6579208.pdf
Creators: name: Bisson, Kelsey
name: Werdell, Paul Jeremy
name: Chase, Alison
name: Kramer, Sasha
name: Cael, B. B.
name: Boss, Emmanuel
name: McKinna, Lachlan
name: Behrenfeld, Michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Content
Natural Language Processing for Language of Life (mRNA vaccine design)
Creators: Pathak, Shashank
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA vaccines, yet iden- tifying the optimal mRNA sequence for human use, particularly for the SARS-CoV- 2 spike protein, remains challenging. This thesis focuses on optimizing the open reading frame (ORF), a crucial mRNA component composed of codons—triplets of nucleotides coding for amino acids. We introduce a novel ‘valid-codon’ masking strat- egy to streamline codon-to-amino acid mapping within the target protein sequence. This approach was competitive to the ‘codon-box’ method, which groups codons with identical nucleotide compositions. Our findings show that ‘valid-codon’ per- forms comparably to ‘codon-box’ in optimizing ORF sequences for gene expression. By integrating the masking strategy into a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) process us- ing the pre-trained ProtBert model, we further optimize the ORF for humans for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Results indicate that our fine-tuned models surpass the ORF sequences used in Moderna and Pfizer vaccines in terms of gene expression and stability.
Cognitive Reflection Drives Utilitarian Judgment in Self-Sacrificial and Other-Sacrificial Dilemmas: Applying Process Dissociation and Behavioral Validation to Moral Dilemmas in Multiple Relational Contexts
Creators: Simpson, David
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

There is considerable evidence linking cognitive reflection with utilitarian judgments in dilemmas that involve sacrificing someone else for the greater good. However, the evidence is mixed on the question of whether cognitive reflection is associated with utilitarian judgments in self-sacrificial dilemmas. We employed process dissociation to extract a self-sacrificial utilitarian (SU) parameter, an altruism (A) parameter, an other-sacrificial (OU) utilitarian parameter, and a deontology (D) parameter. In Study 1, the cognitive reflection test (CRT) positively correlated with both SU and OU (replicated in Studies 2 and 4, pre-registered). In Study 2, we found that instructing participants to rely on reason increased SU and OU (replicated in Study 4, pre-registered). In Study 3, we found that SU and OU positively correlated with giving in the single-game version of the public goods game (replicated in Study 4, pre-registered), which provides behavioral validation that they are genuine moral tendencies. We then pooled the samples from Studies 1-4 together (N = 1,418) and performed a principal component analysis, which broke SU and OU each into two components. Each component was positively correlated with the CRT. Additionally, we identified three clusters of participants by applying k-means cluster analysis to the moral dilemmas. The cluster with significantly higher SU and OU scores than the other clusters also had significantly higher CRT scores. In Study 5, we found that SU was less influenced by relationship context than A. Together, these studies constitute strong cumulative evidence that SU and OU are both valid measures that are associated with reliance on cognitive reflection.
Additional file 4 of Factors associated with inadequate receipt of components and non-use of antenatal care services in India: a regional analysis
Creators: name: Nagdev, Nilu
name: Ogbo, Felix Akpojene
name: Dhami, Mansi Vijaybhai
name: Diallo, Thierno
name: Lim, David
name: Agho, Kingsley E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 4. Prevalence of receipt of ANC by States and Union territories in India, 2019-21.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 866 : Copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Creators: name: Ovidius Naso, Publius
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: A much-used school manuscript containing the 15 books of the Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso with many interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin. The parchment shows signs of heavy use as well as dirt, and it is sewn in various places. Before the first pagination of the manuscript by the assistant librarian Ildefons von Arx around 1780, the text from Book 8, V. 564, to Book 10, V. 429, was missing, as noted on p. 62. At the end of the manuscript, there are pen trials, some of them of historical content, such as the mention of an earthquake on September 4, 1298 on p. 112 or the mention of a scribe by the name of Johannes (Qui me scribebat Iohannes nomen habebat).
description: Online Since: 2014-06-23
HEJ-19-0089_supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Pharmacy students’ beliefs in popular myths about health and therapy
Creators: name: Jasińska-Stroschein, Magdalena
name: Kurczewska, Urszula
name: Orszulak-Michalak, Daria
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Education

description: Supplemental material, HEJ-19-0089_supplementary_material for Pharmacy students’ beliefs in popular myths about health and therapy by Magdalena Jasińska-Stroschein, Urszula Kurczewska and Daria Orszulak-Michalak in Health Education Journal
Supplemental Material, MITO-NAC_Physical_activity_Supplementary_Material - Physical Activity as a Predictor of Clinical Trial Outcomes in Bipolar Depression: A Subanalysis of a Mitochondrial-Enhancing Nutraceutical Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Ashton, Melanie M.
name: Mohebbi, Mohammadreza
name: Turner, Alyna
name: Marx, Wolfgang
name: Berk, Michael
name: Malhi, Gin S.
name: Ng, Chee H.
name: Cotton, Sue M.
name: Dodd, Seetal
name: Sarris, Jerome
name: Hopwood, Malcolm
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Dean, Olivia M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified
Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)

description: Supplemental Material, MITO-NAC_Physical_activity_Supplementary_Material for Physical Activity as a Predictor of Clinical Trial Outcomes in Bipolar Depression: A Subanalysis of a Mitochondrial-Enhancing Nutraceutical Randomized Controlled Trial by Melanie M. Ashton, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Alyna Turner, Wolfgang Marx, Michael Berk, Gin S. Malhi, Chee H. Ng, Sue M. Cotton, Seetal Dodd, Jerome Sarris, Malcolm Hopwood, Brendon Stubbs and Olivia M. Dean in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
IMR883752 Supplemental Material1 - Supplemental material for The coexistence of ROS1-rearranged lung adenocarcinoma and pulmonary tuberculosis in a critical ill young patient
Creators: name: Zhu, Hui
name: Wang, Xiao-Qin
name: Lu, Hai-Yan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
subject: Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Sports Medicine
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: Surgery

description: Supplemental material, IMR883752 Supplemental Material1 for The coexistence of ROS1-rearranged lung adenocarcinoma and pulmonary tuberculosis in a critical ill young patient by Hui Zhu, Xiao-Qin Wang and Hai-Yan Lu in Journal of International Medical Research
Numéraire and log-optimal portfolios for model with regime switching
Creators: Yin, Xunbai
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

This thesis analyses the numéraire and log-optimal portfolios for regime switching models. The main contributions of this thesis are comprised of three parts. First of all, we consider a general switching model which incorporates all existing switching models in the continuous-time semimartingale

setting. The statistical parametrisation, known by the predictable characteristics, is well derived for this general model. Second, we also develop results about the existence, characterisation and other properties of the numéraire

and log-optimal portfolios. The relationship between the non-switching markets and their generated switching market is well studied and highlighted. These theoretical results serve as a foundational ground for almost every important problem in financial economics using regime switching models. The

last main contribution lies in evaluating the impact of the switching feature on the optimal portfolio. The switching impact is properly decomposed in detail. Across these three aspects above, deeper insights are obtained in the so-called Markov-modulated market. And computable examples are presented to validate the model’s applicability.
Biopolityka jako szczególna forma terroru w XX-wiecznych reżimach totalitarnych – III Rzesza, ZSRR i ChRL
Creators: name: Chustecki, Jakub
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440811
subject: Political theory and political philosophy
classificationCode: 441099
subject: Sociology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500321
subject: Social and political philosophy

description: (Pl.) Totalitarne reżimy jako podstawę swoich działań uczyniły praktyki biopolityczne. Splot nauk przyrodniczych z polityką oraz podporządkowanie nauki ideologii doprowadziły do największej w historii świata katastrofy humanitarnej. Szacuje się, że w XX wieku w wyniku działań władz totalitarnych życie straciło ponad 100 milionów ludzi. Stworzenie z człowieka "nagiego życia" było idealnym usprawiedliwieniem dla tego rodzaju działań. Artykuł podejmuje problem zagrożeń wynikających z procesu upolitycznienia życia, poprzez analizę działalności III Rzeszy, Związku Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich oraz Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej pod rządami Mao Zedonga. Celem jest zestawienie biopolitycznych działań owych reżimów oraz ukazanie ich punktów wspólnych. Analiza tego rodzaju niebezpiecznych procesów pozwala na skuteczną refleksję nad metodami ich zapobiegania.(Eng.) Totalitarian regimes based their actions on biopolitical practices. The merging of natural sciences with politics and its allocation to ideology lead to the biggest humanitarian catastrophe in history. It is esti-mated that in the 20th century because of totalitarian regimes, over 100 million people lost their lives. The transformation of man to “bare life” was an ideal justification for that type of practice. The article tackles the problem of dangers arising from the process of politicization of life through the analysis of actions cultivated in the Third Reich, USSR and PRC under Mao Zedong. The goal of this article is to compare the biopolitical activities of those regimes and show their similarities. Analyzing those danger-ous processes makes it possible to effectively reflect on prevention methods.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Si-GaAs photonic crystal cavity for lasing and bistability - 6579214.pdf
Creators: name: Rahaman, Mohammad Habibur
name: Lee, Changmin
name: Buyukkaya, Mustafa Atabey
name: Zhao, Yuqi
name: Waks, Edo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary documents
Additional file 1 of General toxicity and genotoxicity studies of a new scale inhibitor for seawater desalination
Creators: name: Duan, Lian
name: Li, Yimin
name: Gu, Wen
name: Wang, Chao
name: Shi, Ying
name: Yang, Hongbin
name: Wang, Mengmeng
name: Long, Yuehan
name: Tang, Song
name: Kong, Jian
name: Zhang, Shaoping
name: Zhang, Lixia
name: Wei, Lei
name: Wang, Chong
name: Lu, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Rat deaths in the maleic acid polymer scale inhibitor oral acute toxicity test after single oral gavage. Table S2. Body weight changes of rats exposed to different doses of maleic acid polymer scale inhibitor for 90 days. Table S3. Biochemical changes in the blood of rats exposed to different doses of maleic acid polymer scale inhibitor for 90 days. Table S4. Hematologic changes in the blood of rats exposed to different doses of maleic acid polymer scale inhibitor for 90 days. Figure S1. Typical pathology of important organs in the histopathology.
Supplemental material for Outcome after intravenous thrombolysis in patients with acute lacunar stroke: An observational study based on SITS international registry and a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Matusevicius, Marius
name: Paciaroni, Maurizio
name: Caso, Valeria
name: Bottai, Matteo
name: Dheeraj Khurana
name: Bastos, Mario De
name: Martins, Sheila CO
name: Krespi, Yakup
name: Charith Cooray
name: Toni, Danilo
name: Niaz Ahmed
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material for Outcome after intravenous thrombolysis in patients with acute lacunar stroke: An observational study based on SITS international registry and a meta-analysis by Marius Matusevicius, Maurizio Paciaroni, Valeria Caso, Matteo Bottai, Dheeraj Khurana, Mario de Bastos, Sheila CO Martins, Yakup Krespi, Charith Cooray, Danilo Toni and Niaz Ahmed in International Journal of Stroke
Supplementary document for Wave-Scattering processes: path-integrals designed for the numerical handling of complex geometries - 6579413.pdf
Creators: name: DAUCHET, Jeremi
name: Charon, Julien
name: Brunel, Laurent
name: coustet, Christophe
name: blanco, stéphane
name: Cornet, Jean-françois
name: hafi, mouna el
name: eymet, vincent
name: forest, Vincent
name: fournier, richard
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental Document