cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Um Laboratório Comum - Dois Centros em Rede
Creators: name: Borges, Rita
name: Veiga-Pires, Cristina
name: Reis, Emanuel
name: Moura, Ana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Centros de Ciência

description: Integrados numa rede nacional de Centros para a promoção da cultura Ciêntifica, os Centros Ciência Viva de Tavira e do Algarve têm uma localização única dada a sua proximidade com a Ria Formosa. Sendo Centros de reduzidas dimensões, âmbos têm enorme potencial para a diversificação das actividades fora dos Centros. tirando partido do Laboratório Natural que é este ecossistema Único. As estratégias destes centros têm passado por não se limitarem a uma exploração das respectivas exposições interactivas, mas por uma crescente dinamização de iniciativas fora de portas, em que o trabalho de campo na Ria Formosa é considerado como uma ferramenta essencial para incentivar diferentes tipologias de público-alvo para a importância deste ecossistema.Assim, os dois centros têm concertado estratégias e abordagens de modo a melhor integrarem as iniciativas desenvolvidas no âmbito de alguns programas comuns. A recém criada "semana da Ria Formosa" é um excelente exemplo de colaboração entre os centros e também outras instituições; são apresentadas algumas das iniciativas que foram desenhadas numa base comum e colaborativa entre estas entidades. Esta estratégia comum permite realçar a missão geral dos centros Ciência Viva e ao mesmo revelar a complementaridade das duas instituições numa ótica de partilha de conhecimentos e de parceria.
Incremental dimension reduction of tensors with random index
Creators: name: Sandin, Fredrik
name: Emruli, Blerim
name: Sahlgren, Magnus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an incremental, scalable and efficient dimension reduction technique for tensors that is based on sparse random linear coding. Data is stored in a compactified representation with fixed size, which makes memory requirements low and predictable. Component encoding and decoding are performed on-line without computationally expensive re-analysis of the data set. The range of tensor indices can be extended dynamically without modifying the component representation. This idea originates from a mathematical model of semantic memory and a method known as random indexing in natural language processing. We generalize the random-indexing algorithm to tensors and present signal-to-noise-ratio simulations for representations of vectors and matrices. We present also a mathematical analysis of the approximate orthogonality of high-dimensional ternary vectors, which is a property that underpins this and other similar random-coding approaches to dimension reduction. To further demonstrate the properties of random indexing we present results of a synonym identification task. The method presented here has some similarities with random projection and Tucker decomposition, but it performs well at high dimensionality only (n>10^3). Random indexing is useful for a range of complex practical problems, e.g., in natural language processing, data mining, pattern recognition, event detection, graph searching and search engines. Prototype software is provided. It supports encoding and decoding of tensors of order >= 1 in a unified framework, i.e., vectors, matrices and higher order tensors.
description: 36 pages, 9 figures
Cuckoo Trie: Exploiting Memory-Level Parallelism for Efficient DRAM Indexing
Creators: name: Zeitak, Adar
name: Morrison, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the Cuckoo Trie, a fast, memory-efficient ordered index structure. The Cuckoo Trie is designed to have memory-level parallelism -- which a modern out-of-order processor can exploit to execute DRAM accesses in parallel -- without sacrificing memory efficiency. The Cuckoo Trie thus breaks a fundamental performance barrier faced by current indexes, whose bottleneck is a series of dependent pointer-chasing DRAM accesses -- e.g., traversing a search tree path -- which the processor cannot parallelize. Our evaluation shows that the Cuckoo Trie outperforms state-of-the-art-indexes by up to 20%--360% on a variety of datasets and workloads, typically with a smaller or comparable memory footprint.
description: Published in SOSP 2021
title: Laboratory miniature dispenser-bioassay to evaluate the compatibility of powder compounds in the entomovectoring with Bombus terrestris
Creators: name: Mommaerts, Veerle
name: Put, Kurt
name: Vandeven, Jessica
name: Smagghe, Guy
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 188
The effect of plant-based homestead food production with and without small-scale aquaculture on dietary intake of women farmers and their children in Prey Veng, Cambodia
Creators: name: Verbowski, Vashti Carmell
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In 2011-2013, 15.4% of the Cambodian population was undernourished, compared to <5% in Canada. The Cambodian diet is rice-based and low in nutrient-dense animal-source foods. Homestead food production (HFP) and aquaculture are potential interventions to improve dietary intake. However, we lack comprehensive evidence that these interventions improve intake. Using a cluster randomized control trial, I aimed to determine whether women and children receiving HFP with or without aquaculture have higher intakes or lower prevalence of inadequate intakes of select nutrients, compared to controls in Prey Veng, Cambodia. Ninety villages of ten households each (n=900) were randomized to: HFP, HFP plus aquaculture, or control. After 22-months of intervention, interviewers collected 24-hour dietary recalls (24HRs) from women 18-50 y (n=429) and children 6 m-7 y (n=421). Repeat 24HRs were collected (n=139) to allow for adjustment of within-person variation in intake (using PC-SIDE software). Mean nutrient intakes were compared using generalized estimating equations (GEE) models. Prevalence of nutrient inadequacy was compared by applying the Estimated Average Requirement cut-point method or probability approach and using GEE models. After intervention, women in the HFP group had higher mean intakes of zinc (+1.0 mg) and vitamin A (+139 Retinol Activity Equivalent (RAE)), compared to controls (p<0.05). Women in the HFP plus aquaculture group had higher mean intakes of vitamin A (+191 RAE) and iron (+2.7 mg), and lower prevalence of inadequate vitamin A intake (-19%) and iron intake at 10% bioavailability (-7%) and 5% bioavailability (-2%) levels, compared to controls (p<0.05). Among groups of children and between the HFP and HFP plus aquaculture groups for both women and children, there were no significant differences in nutrient intakes or prevalence of nutrient inadequacy. This research provides evidence that intervention with HFP in Cambodia results in higher zinc and vitamin A intakes, and intervention with HFP plus aquaculture results in higher vitamin A and iron intakes and reduced prevalence of inadequate vitamin A and iron intakes among women, compared to controls. Future research should assess the impact of these changes on clinical outcomes, the effect of seasonal changes on intake, and the feeding relationship between women and children.
Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Clay County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Davidson, Oscar B.
name: Carey, Daniel I.
name: Storm, John
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006

description: Abstract:
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
Preparation of EM-grids containing a representative sample of a dispersed NM
Creators: name: Mast, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: This procedure aims to prepare a TEM specimen suitable for qualitative and quantitative analysis from a dispersed NM. To be suitable for TEM imaging and analysis of NM, the NM should be evenly distributed over the grids, while the fraction of the attached NPs represents the dispersed NM optimally.
Conferência Internacional “José Capela e a história de Moçambique: 45 anos depois de O Vinho para o Preto”, 29 e 30 de maio de 2017
Creators: name: Almeida, João Miguel
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
O progresso da psiquiatria no dealbar do séc. XIX: os novos modelos assistenciais na conjuntura Ibérica, Porto, 4 a 7 de maio de 2016
Creators: name: Necho, Ana Catarina
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
A cooperative magnetic inversion method with Lp-norm regularization
Creators: name: Fournier, Dominique
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In this master's thesis, I implement a Cooperative Magnetic Inversion (CMI) algorithm for the 3-D modeling of magnetic rocks at depth. While in most cases it is assumed that the magnetic response is purely induced, certain rocks have the ability to retain a permanent magnetic moment in any orientations, also known as remanent magnetization. The effect of remanence has long been recognized as an obstacle for the geological interpretation and modeling of magnetic data. My objective is to improve current magnetic inversion methods to recover simpler and better defined magnetization models. The CMI algorithm brings together three inversion techniques previously introduced in the literature. First, magnetic data are inverted for an equivalent-source layer, which is used to derive magnetic amplitude data. Next, amplitude data are inverted for an effective susceptibility model, providing information about the geometry and distribution of magnetized objects. Finally, the effective susceptibility model is used to constrain the Magnetic Vector Inversion (MVI), recovering the orientation and magnitude of magnetization. All three algorithms are formulated as regularized least-squares problems solved by the Gauss-Newton method. I further constrain the solution by imposing sparsity constraints on the model and model gradients via an approximated lp-norm penalty function. I elaborate a Scaled Iterative Re-weighted Least-Squares (S-IRLS) method, allowing for a stable and robust convergence of the algorithm while combining different lp-norms on the range 0 ≤ p ≤ 2. The goal is to reduce the complexity of magnetization models while also imposing geometrical constraints on the solution. As a final test, I implement the CMI algorithm on an airborne magnetic survey over the Ekaty Property, Northwest Territories. I formulate a tiled inversion scheme in order to reduce the computational cost and increase the level of parallelization. The final merged magnetization model provides insights into the distribution of dyke swarms and kimberlite pipes. Following the regional inversion, I focus my analysis on sixteen known kimberlite pipes. Magnetization vector inclinations are compared to the expected polarity of rocks inferred from radiometric dating.
Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System
Creators: name: Beugin, Yohan
name: Burke, Quinn
name: Hoak, Blaine
name: Sheatsley, Ryan
name: Pauley, Eric
name: Tan, Gang
name: Hussain, Syed Rafiul
name: McDaniel, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Millions of consumers depend on smart camera systems to remotely monitor their homes and businesses. However, the architecture and design of popular commercial systems require users to relinquish control of their data to untrusted third parties, such as service providers (e.g., the cloud). Third parties therefore can (and in some instances have) access the video footage without the users' knowledge or consent -- violating the core tenet of user privacy. In this paper, we present CaCTUs, a privacy-preserving smart Camera system Controlled Totally by Users. CaCTUs returns control to the user; the root of trust begins with the user and is maintained through a series of cryptographic protocols, designed to support popular features, such as sharing, deleting, and viewing videos live. We show that the system can support live streaming with a latency of 2s at a frame rate of 10fps and a resolution of 480p. In so doing, we demonstrate that it is feasible to implement a performant smart-camera system that leverages the convenience of a cloud-based model while retaining the ability to control access to (private) data.
description: Accepted to PETS (Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium) 2022
Effective tensor forces and neutron rich nuclei
Creators: name: Co', G.
name: De Donno, V.
name: Anguiano, M.
name: Lallena, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of the tensor term of the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction on nuclear excited states. Our investigation has been conducted by using a self-consistent Random Phase Approximation approach. We investigate various nuclei in different regions of the isotopes chart. Results for a set of calcium isotopes are shown.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table Proc. 10th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics New Quests in Nuclear Structure, Vietri Sul Mare, May 21-25, 2010
Pragmatic skills of bilingual and monolingual children with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Lam, Tracy Cheuk Sze
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Although the pragmatic aspect of language is a major deficit in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there is limited research on the effects of bilingualism on social communication in this population. This study aimed to investigate the influence of bilingualism on pragmatic skills in children with ASD by comparing the pragmatic skills of 8.5 – 9 year old monolingual and bilingual children with autism. The two groups were compared on scores from the Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC-2; Bishop, 2006), scores from the Expression, Reception and Recall of Narrative Instrument protocol (ERRNI; Bishop, 2004), and scores from the ERRNI storytelling narrative transcript. No significant differences were found between the monolingual and bilingual children with ASD on any of the measures of pragmatic skills. Specifically, the two groups performed similarly on the ERRNI protocol, which examined the children’s ability to convey main ideas in a storytelling task and to answer comprehension questions. They also had comparable ERRNI transcript scores, which measured the length of the transcript; lexical and grammatical errors in the transcript; and the children’s ability to use causal statements, clear references and evaluative devices. The comparable performance on all measures of pragmatic skills between the two groups suggests that bilingualism may not impede the development of pragmatic skills in children with ASD.
Vibrational level population of H$_2$ and H$_2^+$ in the early Universe
Creators: name: Coppola, Carla M.
name: Longo, Savino
name: Capitelli, Mario
name: Palla, Francesco
name: Galli, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a vibrationally resolved kinetics for molecular hydrogen and its cation in the primordial Universe chemistry. Formation, destruction and relaxation processes for each vibrational level are studied and included as chemical pathways of the present model. The fractional abundance of each vibrational level as a function of the redshift is given: a strong deviation from the Boltzmann distribution is found at low $z$. A discussion of the results is provided, also evaluating the effects of relaxation processes on the level populations. Analytical fits for some LTE rate coefficients are given in the Appendix.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables; published on ApJS 2011, 193, 7
Colóquio internacional “O Deserto na Cidade: experiências religiosas femininas nos finais da Idade Média”,Lisboa, 10-11 de março de 2016
Creators: name: Pereira, Maria Teresa Lopes
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Light meson decay in the c3p0 model
Creators: name: De Quadros, J. N.
name: Da Silva, D. T.
name: Da Silva, M. L. L.
name: Hadjimichef, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Having its origin in a successful mapping technique, the Fock-Tani formalism, the corrected 3P0 model (C3P0) retains the basic aspects of the 3P0 predictions with the inclusion of bound-state corrections. Evaluation of the decay amplitudes has be performed for open-flavor strong decays in the light meson sector. The bound-state corrections introduce a fine-tuning for the former 3P0 model, in particular, the adjustment of the D/S ratios in $b_{1}\toωπ$, $a_{1}\toρπ$ and $h_1\toρπ$ decays.
description: Accepted in Mod. Phys. Lett A
Exposição “A Seara dos Pobres na Casa das Sementes”, Fátima, de 16 de janeiro a 28 de fevereiro de 2016
Creators: name: Rézio, Margarida
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
title: ICPBR-Working Group Risks posed by dusts: overview of the area and recommendations
Creators: name: Forster, Rolf
name: Giffard, Hervé
name: Heimbach, Udo
name: Laporte, Jean-Michel
name: Lückmann, Johannes
name: Nikolakis, Alexander
name: Pistorius, Jens
name: Vergnet, Christine
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012
Subjects: honeybee
poisoning
risk
seed treatment
dust
drift

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 191-198
Primeiras Jornadas de História “Os Dominicanos em Portugal (1216-2016)”. Aveiro, Museu Municipal, 29-30 de janeiro de 2016
Creators: name: Pereira, Maria Teresa Lopes
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Nonstrange baryonia
Creators: name: Gerasyuta, S. M.
name: Matskevich, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relativistic six-quark equations including the $u$, $d$ quarks and antiquarks are found. The nonstrange baryonia $B \bar B$ are constructed without the mixing of the quarks and antiquarks. The relativistic six-quark amplitudes of the baryonia are calculated. The poles of these amplitudes determine the masses of baryonia. 15 masses of baryonia are predicted. The mass of baryonium with the spin-parity $J^P=0^-$ $M=1835\, MeV$ is used as a fit.
description: 28 pages, latex
Pluralist moral theory in the philosophy of property and the legal form of the condominium
Creators: name: Leslie, Jason
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis outlines three major moral theories in philosophy – utilitarian, deontological, and pluralist or neo-Aristotelean – and examines their application to the law of condominium. The thesis uses a combination of moral analytic theory and a study of legislation and case law. The thesis begins with a discussion of theoretical methods in legal philosophy, adopting and defending an approach based on general pragmatism and legal realism. It then canvasses the application of moral approaches to property law, with an emphasis on explaining and further developing the application of pluralist moral theory to property. The thesis then considers how each of the three schools of philosophy analyzes the structure of condominium and makes predictions about how condominium issues would be resolved by each approach. In particular, this analysis focuses on how condominium presents a challenge to traditional views of property and highlights the connection between property and sovereign power by incorporating concepts of democratic governance. Afterward, the thesis engages a detailed review of statutes and case law that apply to condominium disputes in British Columbia and Ontario. The thesis concludes that courts and legislatures have been alternating between deontological approaches and pluralist approaches to condominium, with a general trend in recent developments away from the deontological approaches and towards pluralist approaches. The thesis tentatively suggests that on the whole, pluralist approaches lead to more just and equitable results in condominium, and suggests further avenues for study.
Cinco anos de reflexão sobre estudos inquisitoriais
Creators: name: Lourenço, Miguel Rodrigues
name: Mateus, Susana Bastos
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Analytical and numerical studies of creation probabilities of hierarchical trees
Creators: name: Olemskoi, A. I.
name: Borysov, S. S.
name: Shuda, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the creation conditions of diverse hierarchical trees both analytically and numerically. A connection between the probabilities to create hierarchical levels and the probability to associate these levels into a united structure is studied. We argue that a consistent probabilistic picture requires the use of deformed algebra. Our consideration is based on the study of the main types of hierarchical trees, among which both regular and degenerate ones are studied analytically, while the creation probabilities of Fibonacci, scale-free and arbitrary trees are determined numerically.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
The Six Books Apocryphon : towards a ritual analysis
Creators: name: Golland, Ana H.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The dormition narratives, concerned with relating the last days of Mary, seem to have emerged in the late fourth century. This thesis will focus on one example of the dormition narratives, the Syriac Six Books Apocryphon. By comparing The Six Books Apocryphon with other dormition narratives, and through analysis of the text within a ritual theoretical framework, this thesis will aim to discuss its significance and relevance as an example of marginal Christian groups, syncretism, and the diversity of Christian groups in the third to fifth centuries. It will also demonstrate the value of ritual theories for the study of religious texts. Dormition narratives are important because of what we are able to glean from them regarding the history of Christianity prior to the triumph of orthodoxy as we know it today. I find The Six Books Apocryphon particularly interesting as an example of the wide range of popular groups and beliefs in late antiquity considered heretical in nature by figures such as Epiphanius of Salamis, as well as for exploring the reasons why texts such as this and the groups that produced them remained marginal. Furthermore, this text exemplifies the syncretism that has characterized Christianity since Antiquity. For the purposes of this thesis paper, my main focus is Wright’s version of the Syriac Six Books Apocryphon, the features that render this text different from all the other dormition narratives, and what those differences can tell us about the communities in which the text was produced and used.
title: Assessment of risks to honey bees posed by guttation
Creators: name: Pistorius, Jens
name: Brobyn, Tricia
name: Campbell, Peter
name: Forster, Rolf
name: Lortsch, Jose-Anne
name: Marolleau, Franck
name: Maus, Christian
name: Lückmann, Johannes
name: Suzuki, Hiroyuki
name: Wallner, Klaus
name: Becker, Roland
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012
Subjects: guttation
risk assessment
pesticides
honey bees

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 199-208
title: Cheope, la sua Piramide ed il Trono di Ferro
title: Khufu, his Pyramid and the Iron Throne
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Khufu
Cheope
Old kingdon
Pyramids
Void in Khufu pyramid
Scan Pyramids Project
Trono di ferro
Iron Throne
Testi delle Piramidi

description: Un articolo di un egittologo, 2019, ci illustra il contenuto di una puntata del programma televisivo Freedom. Camere segrete, troni di ferro e proto-geroglifici, sono i ‘misteri’ della Piramide di Cheope secondo tal puntata di Freedom. Siccome dal 2022 mi sono occupata dell’uso del ferro meteorico da parte delle antiche civiltà d’Egitto e Cina, è per me doveroso riportare alcune osservazioni dall’articolo dell’egittologo Mattia Mancini.
description: An article by an egyptologist, 2019, illustrates the content of an episode of the television program Freedom. Secret chambers, iron thrones and proto hieroglyphics, are the 'mysteries' of the Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) according to this episode of Freedom. Since from 2022 I am dealing with the use of meteoric iron by the ancient civilizations of Egypt and China, it is only right for me to report some observations from the article by egyptologist Mattia Mancini.
Yellow Earth and Future Generation : correlations in British East Asian and Asian Canadian drama
Creators: name: Leung, Parie Pui Yee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Since 1995 and 2002, London’s Yellow Earth Theatre (YET) and Toronto’s fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company have been producing work under the identity labels of “British East Asian theatre” and “Asian Canadian theatre” respectively. Emerging out of different socio-cultural contexts, the companies have nonetheless produced plays that address similar themes around mixed-race identities, immigration, and the experiences of first- and second-generation East Asians living in Britain and Canada. Despite burgeoning research on Asian Canadian theatre and British Chinese culture—developments that echo the pioneering directions of Asian American theatre scholarship—studies have tended to focus exclusively on cultural work produced by East Asian artists within the national boundaries of America, Canada and Australia. Inspired by two emotionally charged events that I attended in Toronto and in London that drew attention to the parallels between ethno-national theatre produced in different western cultures, this thesis investigates the background, mandates, and key works of two leading theatre companies in order to compare their dramatic strategies. Using data from published and unpublished scripts, published reviews and interviews, archival video where available, and the companies’ press and public material through their websites, this thesis argues that comparing theatre companies across ethno-national contexts can reveal insights about how familiar dramatic strategies such as the absurd, fantastical, spectral, and audience interaction, have additional import in identity-centred work.
Quantum dynamics by the constrained adiabatic trajectory method
Creators: name: Leclerc, A.
name: Guérin, S.
name: Jolicard, G.
name: Killingbeck, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the constrained adiabatic trajectory method (CATM) which allows one to solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation constraining the dynamics to a single Floquet eigenstate, as if it were adiabatic. This constrained Floquet state (CFS) is determined from the Hamiltonian modified by an artificial time-dependent absorbing potential whose forms are derived according to the initial conditions. The main advantage of this technique for practical implementation is that the CFS is easy to determine even for large systems since its corresponding eigenvalue is well isolated from the others through its imaginary part. The properties and limitations of the CATM are explored through simple examples.
description: 12 pages
It's powerful to gather : a community-driven study of drug users' and illicit drinkers' priorities for harm reduction and health promotion in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Crabtree, Alexis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: It is essential that the autonomy and dignity of people who use illicit substances be respected by meaningfully involving them in research into their needs and priorities. This dissertation reports on two projects in which substance users were involved in planning and conducting qualitative research in British Columbia, Canada. In the first phase of the research, a province-wide series of 17 workshops, facilitated by drug users, was held to identify health and harm reduction priorities for this population. I found that drug users in British Columbia identified clear priorities to improve their well-being: improving interactions with health professionals, promoting access to a range of housing options, improving treatment by police, ensuring harm reduction best practices are followed everywhere, improving social assistance, supporting drug users' organizations, and engaging new and existing allies. These were based on the values of collectivity, activity, freedom from surveillance, and accountability. An unexpected finding of this research was identifying a need and opportunity for drug users to collaborate with illicit drinkers (defined as people who consume non-beverage alcohol (e.g. mouthwash) and people who consume beverage alcohol in highly criminalized ways (e.g. homeless drinkers)) based on their shared priorities, values, and polysubstance use. In response to this conclusion, the second phase of this research involved a series of 14 town hall meetings with illicit drinkers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to research their perceptions of the harms they face from illicit drinking, the strategies they currently use to reduce these harms, and their ideas for additional harm reduction initiatives. These meetings were planned and facilitated with a steering committee of drug users and illicit drinkers. I found that the harms illicit drinkers experience and some of the strategies they suggest (particularly safe spaces and managed alcohol programs) can usefully be interpreted as examples of structural, everyday, and symbolic violence. This work has led to several positive outcomes for drug users and illicit drinkers, including deeper involvement of substance users in planning provincial harm reduction services and the formation of an activist group for illicit drinkers.
IR-MetaOCaml : (re)implementing MetaOCaml
Creators: name: Roubinchtein, Evgeny
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Multi-stage programming is a form of metaprogramming that is an extension of ideas and techniques of partial evaluation. This thesis discusses a (re)implementation of a multi-stage programming system MetaOCaml. The system presented here differs from the OCaml implementation by Taha et al in that it is implemented on top of a modern OCaml compiler. It differs from BER MetaOCaml in that it supports generation of native code in a turn-key fashion. It differs from both systems in that it uses the OCaml intermediate representation to represent the notion of code (to the best of my knowledge, existing system use abstract syntax trees instead.)
Periodic solutions and refractory periods in the soliton theory for nerves and the locust femoral nerve
Creators: name: Vargas, Edgar Villagran
name: Ludu, Andrei
name: Hustert, Reinhold
name: Gumrich, Peter
name: Jackson, Andrew D.
name: Heimburg, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Close to melting transitions it is possible to propagate solitary electromechanical pulses which reflect many of the experimental features of the nerve pulse including mechanical dislocations and reversible heat production. Here we show that one also obtains the possibility of periodic pulse generation when the boundary condition for the nerve is the conservation of the overall length of the nerve. This condition generates an undershoot beneath the baseline (`hyperpolarization') and a `refractory period', i.e., a minimum distance between pulses. In this paper, we outline the theory for periodic solutions to the wave equation and compare these results to action potentials from the femoral nerve of the locust (locusta migratoria). In particular, we describe the frequently occurring minimum-distance doublet pulses seen in these neurons and compare them to the periodic pulse solutions.
description: 10 pages, 6 Figures
8. Bremer eBook-Tag
Creators: name: Krug, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: E-Book
subject: e-Lehrbuch
subject: Metadatenmanagement
subject: Tagungsbericht
subject: 020
subject: Kongressbericht
subject: Elektronisches Buch
subject: Metadaten
subject: Management

description: 8. Bremer eBook-Tag, 28.-29. April 2016
Success in early and late French immersion : a study on language aptitude and motivation
Creators: name: Kwan, Katrina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: French immersion programs have continued to increase in popularity in British Columbia over the past ten years. The expected French language outcomes are the same for both Early French immersion (EFI) and Late French immersion (LFI) programs, yet it is commonly believed that an early start to language learning will lead to a greater level of second language proficiency. Research in the context of French immersion programs has not always supported this view. A variety of factors have the potential to influence second language learning and outcomes; however, foreign language aptitude and motivation have been found to be the most consistent predictors of second language success. This study investigated the relationship between the components of language aptitude and motivation, and second language outcomes of grade 11 students from EFI versus LFI programs in Western Canada. Results showed that overall the two groups had similar levels of language aptitude; however, the LFI students demonstrated stronger language analysis abilities. Similarly, the groups did not differ in their attitudes toward or motivation for learning French. Language aptitude was shown to be related to French vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension skills for both EFI and LFI students, while motivation was associated with pronunciation (i.e., French accent) more for LFI than EFI students. Findings suggest that language aptitude relates to French language outcomes regardless of age of onset and is perhaps a better predictor of foreign language outcomes than age or amount of time spent learning a language.
title: Review of Flux Interaction of Differently Aligned Magnetic Fields in Inductors and Transformers
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Jonas
name: Küster, Pierre
name: Friebe, Jens
name: Zacharias, Peter
name: Schulz, Ilka Elisa Marie
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: controllable magnetics
subject: inductor
subject: magnetic fields
subject: flux interaction
subject: transformer
subject: 620
subject: Elektromagnet
subject: Dauermagnet
subject: Magnetfeld
subject: Magnetischer Fluss
subject: Transformator
subject: Induktor

description: The authors thank the SUMIDA Components and Modules GmbH in Obernzell, Germany, for manufacturing or machining most of the ferrite cores which were used to generate the presented measurement results
description: This work was supported in part by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the BMBF Project under Grant 16EMO0234, in part by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, in part by the Volkswagen Foundation, and in part by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universtität Hannover through the Open Access Publishing Fund.
Relativistic Entanglement from Relativistic Quantum Mechanics in the Rest-Frame Instant Form of Dynamics
Creators: name: Lusanna, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a review of the problems induced by the Lorentz signature of Minkowski space-time, like the need of a clock synchronization convention for the definition of 3-space and the complexity of the notion of relativistic center of mass, there is the introduction of a new formulation of relativistic quantum mechanics compatible with the theory of relativistic bound states. In it the zeroth postulate of non-relativistic quantum mechanics is not valid and the physics is described in the rest frame by a Hilbert space containing only relative variables. The non-locality of the Poincare' generators imply a kinematical non-locality and non-separability influencing the theory of relativistic entanglement and not connected with the standard quantum non-locality.
description: Talk at the {\it Fifth Int. Workshop DICE2010 Space-Time-Matter}, Castiglioncello, September 13-17, 2010, 11 pages
Numerical simulation of foam-assisted immiscible gas injection for enhanced oil recovery
Creators: name: Khongdi, Phattharaporn
name: 0000-0002-7864-2447
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Foam
Simulation
Foam parameters
History matching

description: The efficiency of foam displacement in gas enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in low-permeability (1-10 mD), heterogeneous carbonate formations depends on the stability of the foam in the presence of oil. This study presents a new approach to determine foam model parameters using the Computer Modelling Group (CMG) GEM™ Foam simulator and foam core-flood experiments in the absence and presence of oil. Laboratory data was obtained from coreflood experiments including water flooding and co-injection of alkyl polyglucoside (APG) surfactant solution and hydrocarbon gas at different rates to generate foam in-situ in carbonate rocks. A series of numerical simulations was conducted to construct the relative permeability functions for gas, formation brine, and crude oil in oil-water carbonate cores. These functions were obtained by history matching water flooding data including the measured pressure drop and oil recovery using the CMG CMOST™. Next, these relative permeability functions were used to simulate foam propagation in carbonate cores using an empirical foam model implemented in CMG-GEM. The main focus of this simulation work is to develop a method for determining foam model parameters based on foam core flooding experiments. Then, the obtained endpoint relative permeabilities were used to construct relative permeability models. Second, pressure drop measured during foam flooding in a water-wet core at different surfactant concentrations was used to determine part of the foam model parameters that represent surfactant effect on foam behavior. These parameters were then used to history-match pressure drops at different injection rates and foam qualities from the same core to identify other foam model parameters that represents the effect of foam dry-out, mobility reduction, and capillary pressure. Finally, the foam model parameters representing the effect of oil on foam propagation were determined by history matching pressure drops obtained from foam corefloods in an oil-wet core. An excellent agreement between the foam simulations and experiments was obtained. The study indicated that in order to obtain the foam parameters that can be used for the field development plan, it is beneficial to designated experimental data into stages which can reduce the requirement for extensive simulations to select parameters for foam- assisted enhanced oil recovery. Additionally, rather than concurrent matching, when parameters from previous simulations were kept constant while parameters in subsequent simulations were modified, history-matching quality improved.
NEW BIO-PRODUCTS AND INNOVATIVE VALUE CHAIN FROM OLIVE PROCESSING - BIOPRODUTOS E CADEIA DE VALOR INOVADORA DA FILEIRA DO AZEITE
Creators: name: ANDREA PISANELLI
name: GIUSEPPE RUSSO
name: CLAUDIA CONSALVO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bio-economy
olives
residues
bio-products
bioeconomia; azeitona; resíduos; bio-produtos; economia circular.

description: Factsheet do projeto AFINET - Os pomares tradicionais são responsáveis por grande parte da área ocupada pela espécie oliveira na União Europeia, sobretudo em zonas agrícolas marginais. Para manter esta área é necessário reconhecer o seu papel multifuncional e melhorar o rendimento do agricultor que se dedica ao seu cultivo. A Itália é o segundo maior produtor de azeite da União Europeia, sendo a região da Umbria uma das regiões mais relevantes, dada a elevada qualidade do produto obtido (azeite extra virgem) e a sua ligação estreita ao conhecimento tradicional e local. A cadeia de valor regional do azeite envolve cerca de 30,000 explorações num total de 27,000 ha, incluindo 270 lagares onde é feita a extração do azeite e dos seus subprodutos (água ruça, bagaço e caroços). A gestão, aproveitamento e valorização destes subprodutos é muito importante, uma vez que os resíduos do lagar têm um grande impacto no solo e na água, devido à sua elevada fitotoxicidade (fenol, lípidos e ácidos gordos).  - Factsheet of the AFINET project - Traditional olive orchards account for a large share of the area under olives in the EU, particularly in marginal areas. Traditional olive growing can survive only by improving olive farmer incomes and recognizing its multifunctional role. Italy is the second largest olive oil producer of the European Union, and Umbria can be considered as one of the most interesting regions because of the high quality production of extra virgin olive oil and a close connection with traditional knowledge and the local environment. The regional olive oil chain involves about 30,000 farms growing olive trees covering about 27,000 ha and including 270 oil mills. The olive oil production phase comprises the extraction of the oil and additional by-products (water, pomace and husk).  By-product management is very important; the olive oil mill wastes have a great impact on soil and water environments because of high phyto-toxicity (phenol, lipid and organic acids). On the other hand, such wastes may be potentially valuable.
Schlieren imaging : visualization of airflow in speech
Creators: name: Rowell, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Schlieren imaging is a non-invasive research tool that enables real-time visualization of airflow through refraction of light. Used predominantly in aerospace and ballistics research, its suitability for observing airflow in speech was proposed nearly 40 years ago. To date, this potential has been virtually unexplored. The following proof-of-concept study investigates the visual correlates of nasal versus non-nasal airflow to provide a preliminary demonstration of the tool’s ability to visualize aerodynamic events in speech. Simultaneous schlieren and audio recordings were made of three French nasal/non-nasal minimal pairs spoken by eight native-French speakers. These stimuli were presented to 10 raters in Video-only, Audio-only and Combined Audio-Visual formats. The raters coded each stimulus as either “nasal” or “not nasal”. Accurate designation of Video-only stimuli was significantly above chance response (p < .05), indicating that the difference between airflow for nasal and non-nasal sounds can be visualized and perceived through schlieren imaging alone. Non-significant improvements were observed over time in the Video-only condition. Differences between Combined Audio-Visual and Audio-only stimuli were non-significant and likely influenced by a ceiling effect for the auditory information presented in both conditions. Further research is needed with more difficult auditory-perceptual tasks to explore potential supplementary advantages of schlieren visual feedback alongside auditory ratings of resonance. Future research may also benefit from improved training procedures for schlieren imaging. Nonetheless, schlieren imaging has promising potential for future implementation in both speech research and clinical applications, particularly for speech resonance disorders.
Association between LRH-1 single nucleotide polymorphisms and unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion in Chinese Han couples
Creators: name: Xu, Zhiyan
name: Qu, Changhua
name: Li, Hong
name: Yao, Lisha
name: Zhou, Yanhua
name: Liu, Ling
name: Xu, Mingcai
name: Qin, Yujing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: To explore the genetic relationships between LRH-1 (rs2816948), CYP19 (rs727479 and rs700518), and P450scc (rs4077582) as a potential mechanism behind unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortions in a Chinese Han population. A case-control study was used and featured two groups: Patients with unexplained recurrent miscarriage (n = 82, abortion group) and those who voluntary surrendered of a normal early pregnancy (n = 97, control group). Abortion villi samples were obtained from all patients. Genomic DNA was later extracted and sequenced, after which statistical analyses performed to assess the relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms and unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortions. There were significant differences in the genotypic and allelic distribution (p < .05) for CYP19 (rs727479) between the abortion and the control groups. There were no significant differences in the genotypic or allelic distributions (p > .05) for either the LRH-1 (rs2816948) or CYP19 (rs700518). There were also significant genotypic differences (p < .05) for P450scc (rs4077582), but no significant differences for its allelic distribution (p > .05). There was a significant correlation between the occurrence of unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion and CYP19 (rs727479) single nucleotide polymorphisms. 本研究将探讨LRH-1（rs2816948）, CYP19（rs727479和rs700518）和P450scc（rs4077582）作为中国汉族人群原因不明的复发性自然流产的潜在机制之间的遗传关系。采用病例对照研究, 分为两组：原因不明的复发性流产患者（n = 82, 流产组）和自愿放弃正常早孕的患者（n = 97, 对照组）。从所有患者获得流产绒毛样品, 随后提取基因组DNA并测序, 之后进行统计分析以评估单核苷酸多态性与不明原因的复发性自然流产之间的关系。在流产和对照组之间, CYP19（rs727479）的基因型和等位基因分布（p <.05）存在显著差异。对于LRH-1（rs2816948）或CYP19（rs700518）, 基因型或等位基因分布（p> .05）没有显著差异。 P450scc（rs4077582）也存在显著的基因型差异（p <.05）, 但其等位基因分布没有显著差异（p> .05）。 不明原因复发性自然流产的发生与CYP19（rs727479）单核苷酸多态性之间存在显著相关性。