cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Campus Belonging: Exploring Accessible Education in Canadian Postsecondary Environments
Creators: Brown, Heather
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

SSHRC IG awarded 2023: This project will co-design targeted supports, enhanced strategies, and practice-based policies to enhance autistic postsecondary (PS) students' sense of belonging within Canadian institutions. Accessing and navigating campus life and attaining credentials is difficult for many autistic people despite their many contributions to PS campuses (Nachman[1]). It has been estimated that up to 80% of autistic PS students do not graduate. Yet, we lack information to understand what supports are most needed for Canadian autistic PS students. From design to interpretation, research in this area tends to miss opportunities to explore the mismatch between the needs of autistic PS students and the PS environment and its impact on learning. To achieve breadth and depth of understanding, and to connect this work with a clear course of action, we propose a multi-phase, multi-method study. Our work is informed by critical autism studies and the neurodiversity movement, which challenge deficit-focused, pathologizing discourses and seek to change ableist attitudes that so often lead to social exclusion and systemic barriers (PDy[4]). Aligned with calls from the autistic community, autistic adults will be partners and co-researchers through our participatory, experience-based co-design approach, which includes two overall phases: (1) exploratory and (2) co-design.
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0413
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0413, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0413, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Update on Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment of HBV
Creators: name: Mustafa, Prof. Dr. Hesham N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: 310706
subject: Virology
classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Update on Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment of HBV (Thesis)
Cryptanalysis of an Encryption Scheme Based on Blind Source Separation
Creators: name: Li, Shujun
name: Li, Chengqing
name: Lo, Kwok-Tung
name: Chen, Guanrong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently Lin et al. proposed a method of using the underdetermined BSS (blind source separation) problem to realize image and speech encryption. In this paper, we give a cryptanalysis of this BSS-based encryption and point out that it is not secure against known/chosen-plaintext attack and chosen-ciphertext attack. In addition, there exist some other security defects: low sensitivity to part of the key and the plaintext, a ciphertext-only differential attack, divide-and-conquer (DAC) attack on part of the key. We also discuss the role of BSS in Lin et al.'s efforts towards cryptographically secure ciphers.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, IEEE format
Mapping the Development of Self­-Regulation: A Multi­Factorial, Multi­Method
Approach
Creators: Kotelnikova, Yuliya
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Youth, and in particular boys, who struggle with developing skills to regulate their emotions and behavior are frequently viewed as “problematic,” “lazy,” “disruptive,” and “all over the place” in classrooms, on playgrounds, and at family dinners. Indeed, youth who struggle with self­regulation are at increased risk for short­ and long­term educational, professional, and interpersonal challenges. Further, our understanding of development of self­regulation is complicated by the lack of integration of two disparate yet equally relevant research literatures that have existed mainly independently in the fields of developmental psychology and cognitive europsychology. We aim to integrate these two research traditions to develop a unified, developmentally informed model of self­regulation to characterize its childhood development. Findings will contribute to developmental psychology, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and pedagogy by yielding a better understanding of developmental trajectories of self­regulation, which may further inform expectation setting in educational environments and training for psychologists and educators.
Vulnerability, coping and adaptation within the context of climate change and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Investigating strategies to strengthen livelihoods and food security and build resilience
Creators: Lukert, Martin
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2010

IDRC awarded 2010: The general aim of the project is to gain a more nuanced understanding of how multiple interacting shocks and risks, including cimate viability and HIV AIDS influence capital stocks and local livelihoods choices, and consequently, vulnerability and food security, and use this knowledge to inform and support community and municipal adaptation pratices, development efforts and regional/national policies. Through a series of multi-disciplinary studies, the project team anticipate that this project wil have a number of outcomes and outputs at various scales.
Chiral Quantization of the WZW $SU(n)$ Model
Creators: name: Caneschi, L.
name: Lysiansky, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We quantize the $SU(n)$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model in terms of left and right chiral variables choosing an appropriate gauge and we compare our results with the results that have been previously obtained in the algebraic treatment of the problem. The algebra of the chiral vertex operators in the fundamental representation is verified by solving appropriate Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations.
description: 35 pages, latex, no figures, corrections in the chiral decomposition of the vertex operators in the WZW model are introduced
No sign of strong molecular gas outflow in an infrared-bright dust-obscured galaxy with strong ionized-gas outflow
Creators: name: Toba, Yoshiki
name: Komugi, Shinya
name: Nagao, Tohru
name: Yamashita, Takuji
name: Wang, Wei-Hao
name: Imanishi, Masatoshi
name: Sun, Ai-Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of an infrared (IR)-bright dust-obscured galaxy (DOG) that shows a strong ionized-gas outflow but no significant molecular gas outflow. Based on detail analysis of their optical spectra, we found some peculiar IR-bright DOGs that show strong ionized-gas outflow ([OIII]$λ$5007) from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN). For one of these DOGs (WISE J102905.90+050132.4) at $z_{\rm spec} = 0.493$, we performed follow-up observations using ALMA to investigate their CO molecular gas properties. As a result, we successfully detected $^{12}$CO($J$=2-1) and $^{12}$CO($J$=4-3) lines, and the continuum of this DOG. The intensity-weighted velocity map of both lines shows a gradient, and the line profile of those CO lines is well-fitted by a single narrow Gaussian, meaning that this DOG has no sign of strong molecular gas outflow. The IR luminosity of this object is $\log\,(L_{\rm IR}/L_{\odot})$ = 12.40 that is classified as ultraluminous IR galaxy (ULIRG). We found that (i) the stellar mass and star-formation rate relation and (ii) the CO luminosity and far-IR luminosity relation are consistent with those of typical ULIRGs at similar redshifts. These results indicate that the molecular gas properties of this DOG are normal despite that its optical spectrum showing a powerful AGN outflow. We conclude that a powerful ionized-gas outflow caused by the AGN does not necessarily affect the cold interstellar medium in the host galaxy at least for this DOG.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, and 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ
Relativistic deflection of background starlight measures the mass of a nearby white dwarf star
Creators: name: Sahu, Kailash C.
name: Anderson, Jay
name: Casertano, Stefano
name: Bond, Howard E.
name: Bergeron, Pierre
name: Nelan, Edmund P.
name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Brown, Thomas M.
name: Bellini, Andrea
name: Levay, Zoltan G.
name: Sokol, Joshua
name: Dominik, Martin
name: Calamida, Annalisa
name: Kains, Noé
name: Livio, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational deflection of starlight around the Sun during the 1919 total solar eclipse provided measurements that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. We have used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the analogous process of astrometric microlensing caused by a nearby star, the white dwarf Stein 2051 B. As Stein 2051 B passed closely in front of a background star, the background star's position was deflected. Measurement of this deflection at multiple epochs allowed us to determine the mass of Stein 2051 B -- the sixth nearest white dwarf to the Sun -- as 0.675 +/- 0.051 solar masses. This mass determination provides confirmation of the physics of degenerate matter and lends support to white dwarf evolutionary theory.
description: Main Article (15 pages, 5 Figures), plus Supplementary Material (19 pages, 10 figures)
Silicon based core @shell nanoparticles: synthesis and assembly into metamaterials for unprecedented optical properties
Creators: Veinot, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Embassy of France FCRF awarded 2022: This project aims to we aim to synthesise, via bottom-up approaches, silicon-based core@shell particles containing gold. Here the intense electric dipole scattering from the plasmonic resonance will be overlapped with the magnetic dipolar resonance stemming from the silicon. Combining crystalline silicon with plasmonic materials in a core-shell particle structure is expected to generate singular optical properties. Feng et al. (14) introduced in a theoretical study the concept of ideal magnetic dipole scattering for Au@Si nanoparticles. The same team also previously predicted significant modulation of the electric and magnetic dipole of silicon nanoparticles coated with an ultrathin layer of gold (15). Another theoretical study demonstrated the non-linear optical properties of  Au@Si nanoparticles (16). However, the experimental synthesis of such systems is only reported in few papers and remains challenging. A  recent study reported the colloidal preparation of Si@Au core-shell nanoparticles using milling to produce the Si core (17). While this study overcame the challenge of attaching gold to the silicon nanoparticle surface by chemical means, the core@shell structures present suboptimal optical scattering. This resulted from the Si cores being irregular in shape, and the shell of gold being discontinuous and inhomogeneous. Improving the chemical routes toward preparation of such core shell systems would produce materials with the desired optical properties.
Mapping connections: Investigating experience in Community Design Education
Creators: Oak, Arlene
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: This IDG proposal is for a study of Community Design Education (CDE). Also known asDesign/Build or Live projects Education, in CDE, educators and students work with local clients to design and construct community centres, urban gardens, park benches, and other items. University programs of CDE are usually popular with students and members of nonprofit organizations, with hundreds of CDE courses—particularly in architecture now taught around the globe. However, despite CDE’s important contributions to the built and social environments, CDE’s complex activities have not been thoroughly studied. This project begins to address this gap by investigating, outlining, and developing ways to map the practices of CDE in architecture. To carry out our exploration of CDE, the team will collect data of the experiences of CDE educators who teach in established programs that follow community centred, public interest approaches. Through interviews, workshops, visits to sites, and analyses of documents and photos we will build a comprehensive understanding of the ways that CDE engages with wider contexts. Along with directing attention to the actions of our research subjects, we will also engage with the questions, methods, and interpretive tools of wider scholarship. Through our awareness of both the processes of CDE and selected social theories, we will develop findings that are relevant to the participants of CDE and to those who reflect on the socio material locational contexts through which CDE is practiced.
Luminosity function of clusters of galaxies
Creators: name: Paolillo, M.
name: Andreon, S.
name: Longo, G.
name: Puddu, E.
name: Gal, R. R.
name: Scaramella, R.
name: Djorgovski, S. G.
name: de Carvalho, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The composite galaxy luminosity function (hereafter LF) of 39 Abell clusters of galaxies is derived by computing the statistical excess of galaxy counts in the cluster direction with respect to control fields. Due to the wide field coverage of the digitised POSS-II plates, we can measure field counts around each cluster in a fully homogeneous way. Furthermore, the availability of virtually unlimited sky coverage allows us to directly compute the LF errors without having to rely on the estimated variance of the background. The wide field coverage also allows us to derive the LF of the whole cluster, including galaxies located in the cluster outskirts. The global composite LF has a slope alpha ~ -1.1+/-0.2 with minor variations from blue to red filters, and M* ~ -21.7,-22.2,-22.4 mag (H_0=50 km/s/Mpc) in g, r and i filters, respectively. These results are in quite good agreement with several previous determinations and in particular with the LF determined for the inner region of a largely overlapping set of clusters, but derived making use of a completely different method for background subtraction. The similarity of the two LFs suggests the existence of minor differences between the LF in the cluster outskirts and in the central region, or a negligible contribution of galaxies in the cluster outskirts to the global LF.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables; uses subfigure.sty; accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The effects of retardation on the topological plasmonic chain: plasmonic edge states beyond the quasistatic limit
Creators: name: Pocock, Simon R.
name: Huidobro, Paloma A.
name: Giannini, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a one-dimensional plasmonic system with non-trivial topology: a chain of metallic nanoparticles with alternating spacing, which is the plasmonic analogue to the Su-Schreiffer-Heeger model. We extend previous efforts by including long range hopping with retardation and radiative damping, which leads to a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with frequency dependence. We calculate band structures numerically and show that topological features such as quantised Zak phase persist due to chiral symmetry. This predicts parameters leading to topologically protected edge modes, which allows for positioning of disorder-robust hotspots at topological interfaces, opening up novel nanophotonics applications.
Re-Engineering Lumbar Microdiscectomy: From the Bench to the Bedside
Creators: name: CHRISTOPHER DENIS DALY
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 100404 Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Stem Cells
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: Medicine

description: This thesis explores ways to re-engineer lumbar discectomy surgery, the most commonly performed spine surgery in the word, via pre-clinical and clinical investigation. The preclinical investigation consists of developing a large animal model of the post lumbar discectomy intervertebral disc and developing a new therapy for disc degeneration using mesenchymal progenitor cells, a type of adult stem cell, pre-treated with the drug pentosan polysulfate. The clinical investigation consists of a survey of Australasian neurosurgeons characterising their lumbar discectomy practices and the protocol for a clinical trial investigating the role, if any, of activity restrictions following lumbar discectomy.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Fontenay, premier fragment (XIIIe siècle), Cart. 201 (15 H 9), 175 folios, f. 029r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Fontenay, premier fragment (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 201 (15 H 9), 175 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Fontenay, premier fragment (XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 201 (15 H 9), 175 folios, f. 029r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119679755
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/7874015
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/027691802/id
description: Provenance: abbaye de Fontenay
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q464918
Collective versus local measurements on two parallel or antiparallel spins
Creators: name: Massar, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a complete analysis of covariant measurements on two spins. We consider the cases of two parallel and two antiparallel spins, and we consider both collective measurements on the two spins, and measurements which require only Local Quantum Operations and Classical Communication (LOCC). In all cases we obtain the optimal measurements for arbitrary fidelities. In particular we show that if the aim is determine as well as possible the direction in which the spins are pointing, it is best to carry out measurements on antiparallel spins (as already shown by Gisin and Popescu), second best to carry out measurements on parallel spins and worst to be restricted to LOCC measurements. If the the aim is to determine as well as possible a direction orthogonal to that in which the spins are pointing, it is best to carry out measurements on parallel spins, whereas measurements on antiparallel spins and LOCC measurements are both less good but equivalent.
description: 4 pages; minor revisions
Polarimetry of 600 pulsars from observations at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes radio telescope
Creators: name: Johnston, Simon
name: Kerr, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the past 13 years, the Parkes radio telescope has observed a large number of pulsars using digital filterbank backends with high time and frequency resolution and the capability for Stokes recording. Here we use archival data to present polarimetry data at an observing frequency of 1.4 GHz for 600 pulsars with spin-periods ranging from 0.036 to 8.5 s. We comment briefly on some of the statistical implications from the data and highlight the differences between pulsars with high and low spin-down energy. The dataset, images and table of properties for all 600 pulsars are made available in a public data archive maintained by the CSIRO.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Fatigue performance of composite materials, adhesives and coatings for wind turbine blades
Creators: name: Antoniou, Alexandros
name: Buchholz, Benjamin
name: Sayer, Florian
name: Lester, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Research on the fatigue damage of bond lines and coatings of wind turbine rotor blades. The presentation is summarizing the full scale blade test observations of 9 blades concerning tunneling crack iniatiation and the first experimental results through the rain erosion test rig respectively.
Optical Proximity Sensor and Eye Tracker
Creators: name: Teymourzadeh, Rozita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90605 Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
subject: 90609 Signal Processing
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A user interface system, including a display surface displaying thereon a plurality of controls representing different applications, a multi-faceted housing situated along a single edge of the display surface, including an eye-tracker mounted in a first facet of the housing, the first facet being distal from the display surface, the eye-tracker identifying a control on the display surface at which a user's eyes are directed, and a proximity sensor mounted in a second facet of the housing, the second facet being between the first facet and the display, the proximity sensor detecting a gesture performed by an object opposite the second facet, and a processor running the different applications, connected to the proximity sensor and to the eye-tracker, causing the application represented by the control identified by the eye-tracker to receive as input the gesture detected by the proximity sensor.
Spatial justice in urban forest tree enhancement in Edmonton: Linkages to perceived opportunities for outdoor recreation
Creators: Godwyll, Josephine
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

SSHRC PEG awarded 2024: Our partnership goal is to support 'The City of Edmonton's' efforts to facilitate equitable opportunities for outdoor recreation, through tree planting efforts in 'Greener As We Grow'. We intend to do this by complementing the green infrastructure mapping tool with qualitative insights that facilitate equitable opportunities for BPoC groups living in poverty. Our study advances knowledge in this area through a spatial justice lens. This lens will help us focus on how opportunities for outdoor recreation are perceived to be linked to fairness in the distribution of trees, and related management (e.g., stewardship) and socio-cultural considerations (e.g., meaningful relationships). The target populations for this inquiry will include BPoC groups (e.g., visible minority: residents, refugees, recent immigrants) in Edmonton, living in poverty. Our research design has been co-created by the research team and 'The City of Edmonton' staff. This design will entail participatory mapping and focus group engagements with the highlighted population (N=100). Participants will be recruited through organizations in Edmonton that work with our target population (e.g., Action for Healthy Communities (AHC), Edmonton Social Planning Council, and Center for Race and Culture). Results from participatory mapping and focus groups will be thematically analyzed. "The City of Edmonton" staff will provide support during data collection, analysis, and knowledge mobiliz socio-cultural considerations (e.g., meaningful relationships). The target populations for this inquiry will include BPoC groups (e.g., visible minority: residents, refugees, recent immigrants) in Edmonton, living in poverty. Our research design has been co-created by the research team and 'The City of Edmonton' staff. This design will entail participatory mapping and focus group engagements with the highlighted population (N=100). Participants will be recruited through organizations in Edmonton that work with our target population (e.g., Action for Healthy Communities (AHC), Edmonton Social Planning Council, and Center for Race and Culture). Results from participatory mapping and focus groups will be thematically analyzed. "The City of Edmonton" staff will provide support during data collection, analysis, and knowledge mobilization.
Targeting delivery of simvastatin using ICAM-1 antibody-conjugated nanostructured lipid carriers for acute lung injury therapy
Creators: name: Li, Shu-Juan
name: Wang, Xiao-Juan
name: Hu, Jing-Bo
name: Kang, Xu-Qi
name: Chen, Li
name: Xu, Xiao-Ling
name: Ying, Xiao-Ying
name: Jiang, Sai-Ping
name: Du, Yong-Zhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Acute lung injury (ALI) is a critical illness without effective therapeutic modalities currently. Recent studies indicated potential efficacy of statins for ALI, while high-dose statins was suggested to be significant for attenuating inflammation in vivo. Therefore, a lung-targeted drug delivery system (DDS) delivering simvastatin (SV) for ALI therapy was developed, attempting to improve the disease with a decreased dose and minimize potential adverse effects. SV-loaded nanostructured lipid carriers (SV/NLCs) with different size were prepared primarily. With particle size increasing from 143.7 nm to 337.8 nm, SV/NLCs showed increasing drug-encapsulated efficiency from 66.70% to 91.04%. Although larger SV/NLCs exhibited slower in vitro cellular uptake by human vascular endothelial cell line EAhy926 at initial stage, while in vivo distribution demonstrated higher pulmonary accumulation of the larger ones. Thus, the largest size SV/NLCs (337.8 nm) were conjugated with intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) antibody (anti-ICAM/SV/NLCs) for lung-targeted study. The anti-ICAM/SV/NLCs exhibited ideal lung-targeted characteristic in lipopolysaccharide-induced ALI mice. In vivo i.v. administration of anti-ICAM/SV/NLCs attenuated TNF-α, IL-6 and inflammatory cells infiltration more effectively than free SV or non-targeted SV/NLCs after 48-h administration. Significant histological improvements by anti-ICAM/SV/NLCs were further revealed by H&E stain. Therefore, ICAM-1 antibody-conjugated NLCs may represent a potential lung-targeted DDS contributing to ALI therapy by statins.
Touch Sensitive Curved and Flexible Displays
Creators: name: Teymourzadeh, Rozita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90606 Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
subject: 90609 Signal Processing
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A flexible touch surface, emitters projecting light beams across the surface such that the beams are incident upon and reflected by the surface when crossing the surface, detectors detecting reflections, by an object on the surface, of projected beams, lenses oriented such that there is a particular angle of entry at which each detector receives a maximal light intensity when beams enter a lens corresponding to the detector at the angle of entry, and such that there are target positions on the surface whereby for each emitter-detector pair, when the object is located at a target position associated with the pair, then light beams emitted by the emitter of the pair are reflected by the object into the lens corresponding to the detector of the pair at the angle of entry, and a processor synchronously co-activating emitter-detector pairs and calculating a location of the object on the surface.
Impacts of Urbanization on select wetlands of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Creators: name: KA, Nishadh
name: MV, Usha Rani
name: PA, Azeez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Benthic macro invertebrates
Coimbatore
Landsat
Urbanization Impact
Wetlands

description: Urbanization has the profound and long-lasting impact on wetlands, leading to the total deterioration of the whole ecosystem. This complex and dynamic problem need in depth understanding to foster conservation and management measures. We investigated the effect of urbanization along a typical rural to urban gradient wetlands of Coimbatore, using physico chemical, biological assessment
 and spatial analysis methods to deduce current status and pattern of urbanization impacts. Physico-chemical analyses of wetland water revealed increased degradation in water quality in those wetlands which were in close proximity to urban centres. The littoral benthic fauna communities of these wetlands were similar between the wetlands but showed significant variation in community composition and abundance along the urbanization gradient. Land cover change and spatial analysis indicate that there
 were an unprecedented expansion in urban area around these wetlands, and it was higher around the more degraded wetlands. Hence urbanization can be linked to the current status of these wetlands. The results indicate the negative effect of urbanization on wetlands.
description: In Aquatic Environment and Toxicology, Edited by PK Bharti, Discovery Publishing, New Delhi, pp:133- 146. ISBN: 978-93-5056-236-9
Justice First: Community-Embedded Energy Transition Planning for Climate Resilience
Creators: Davidson, Debra
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

NFRF-I awarded 2024: This project focuses on enhancing energy transition planning, recognizing that such plans must: integrate mitigation and adaptation; embrace a justice framework; and be socio culturally embedded within local geographies. This demands direct engagement with the diverse peoples living and working in those spaces, with special attention to vulnerable groups, such as Indigenous and marginalized communities. Our primary objectives are to 1) co-produce directly applicable knowledge to facilitate local climate adaptation planning that prioritizes justice and wellbeing; 2) generate scalable knowledge to support capacity-building, enabled by a comparative approach. We will pursue these objectives with a mixed methods comparative analysis of local capacity to respond to key climate-attributed risks, such as critical infrastructure; living standards; and peace and human mobility, across an internationally diverse set of communities, specifically in Canada, US, Norway, Germany, Mexico, and Ghana.
Far Ultraviolet Spectra of B Stars near the Ecliptic
Creators: name: Morales, C.
name: Orozco, V.
name: Gomez, J. F.
name: Trapero, J.
name: Talavera, A.
name: Bowyer, S.
name: Edelstein, J.
name: Korpela, E.
name: Lampton, M.
name: Drake, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectra of B stars in the wavelength range of 911-1100 A have been obtained with the EURD spectrograph onboard the Spanish satellite MINISAT-01 with ~5 A spectral resolution. IUE spectra of the same stars have been used to normalize Kurucz models to the distance, reddening and spectral type of the corresponding star. The comparison of 8 main-sequence stars studied in detail (alpha Vir, epsilon Tau, lambda Tau, tau Tau, alpha Leo, zeta Lib, theta Oph, and sigma Sgr) shows agreement with Kurucz models, but observed fluxes are 10-40% higher than the models in most cases. The difference in flux between observations and models is higher in the wavelength range between Lyman alpha and Lyman beta. We suggest that Kurucz models underestimate the FUV flux of main-sequence B stars between these two Lyman lines. Computation of flux distributions of line-blanketed model atmospheres including non-LTE effects suggests that this flux underestimate could be due to departures from LTE, although other causes cannot be ruled out. We found the common assumption of solar metallicity for young disk stars should be made with care, since small deviations can have a significant impact on FUV model fluxes. Two peculiar stars (rho Leo and epsilon Aqr), and two emission line stars (epsilon Cap and pi Aqr) were also studied. Of these, only epsilon Aqr has a flux in agreement with the models. The rest have strong variability in the IUE range and/or uncertain reddening, which makes the comparison with models difficult.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal
Test of the diffusing-diffusivity mechanism using near-wall colloidal dynamics
Creators: name: Matse, Mpumelelo
name: Chubynsky, Mykyta V.
name: Bechhoefer, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of diffusing diffusivity predicts that, in environments where the diffusivity changes gradually, the displacement distribution becomes non-Gaussian, even though the mean-squared displacement (MSD) grows linearly with time. Here, we report single-particle tracking measurements of the diffusion of colloidal spheres near a planar substrate. Because the local effective diffusivity is known, we have been able to carry out the first direct test of this mechanism for diffusion in inhomogeneous media.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures (including supplement. Portions of this work previously appeared as arXiv:1602.07644, which was subsequently withdrawn. This version adds a new author and presents new data and analysis. Main conclusions in both papers are the same
Dialog on International Food Security and General Write Shop (CIFSRF)
Creators: Swallow, Brent
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2013

IDRC awarded 2013: The objectives of the dialog are to showcase and promote CIFSRF projects in Canada; communicate CIFSRF results to researchers, development agencies, government and industry groups as well as policy makers particularly in Western Canada; provide a platform for learning exchange between CIFSRF and related projects in Canada. An opportunity to promote cross-institution and project learning, and provide a forum for networking and sharing; and explore the challenges of linking knowledge with action. Discuss the ways in which research can lead to action, through various types of interaction with rural residents and development organizations from India, Africa and Canada.
Causality in Dense Matter
Creators: name: Keister, B. D.
name: Polyzou, W. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of non-causal signal propagation is examined for various theories of dense matter. This investigation requires a discussion of definitions of causality, together with interpretations of spacetime position. Specific examples are used to illustrate the satisfaction or violation of causality in realistic calculations.
description: 24 pages; 1 PostScript figure; uses revtex
Morphological Study of the Muscle-Bone Interface in Man
Creators: name: Mustafa, Prof. Dr. Hesham N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: 310199
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310911
subject: Animal structure and function

description: MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE MUSCLE-BONE INTERFACE IN MAN
"Violating'' Clauser-Horne inequalities within classical mechanics
Creators: name: Antoci, S.
name: Mihich, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some authors have raised the question whether the probabilities stemming from a quantum mechanical computation are entitled to enter the Bell and the Clauser-Horne inequalities. They have remarked that if the quantum probabilities are given the status of conditional ones and the statistics for the various settings of the detectors in a given experiment is properly kept into account, the inequalities happen to be no longer violated. In the present paper a classical simile modeled after the quantum mechanical instances is closely scrutinised. It is shown that the neglect of the conditional character of the probabilities in the classical model leads not only to ``violate'' the Clauser-Horne inequalities, but also to contradict the very axioms of classical probability theory.
description: 7 pages, 2 eps figures
Condensates in rotating turbulent flows
Creators: name: Seshasayanan, Kannabiran
name: Alexakis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a large number of numerical simulations we examine the steady state of rotating turbulent flows in triple periodic domains, varying the Rossby number $Ro$ (that measures the inverse rotation rate) and the Reynolds number $Re$ (that measures the strength of turbulence). The examined flows are sustained by either a helical or a non-helical Roberts force, that is invariant along the axis of rotation. The forcing acts at a wavenumber $k_f$ such that $k_fL=4$, where $2πL$ is the size of the domain. Different flow behaviours were obtained as the parameters are varied. Above a critical rotation rate the flow becomes quasi two dimensional and transfers energy to the largest scales of the system forming large coherent structures known as condensates. We examine the behaviour of these condensates and their scaling properties close and away from this critical rotation rate. Close to the the critical rotation rate the system transitions super-critically to the condensate state displaying a bimodal behaviour oscillating randomly between an incoherent-turbulent state and a condensate state. Away from the critical rotation rate, it is shown that two distinct mechanisms can saturate the growth of the large scale energy. The first mechanism is due to viscous forces and is similar to the saturation mechanism observed for the inverse cascade in two-dimensional flows. The second mechanism is independent of viscosity and relies on the breaking of the two-dimensionalization condition of the rotating flow. The two mechanisms predict different scaling with respect to the control parameters of the system (Rossby and Reynolds), which are tested with the present results of the numerical simulations. A phase space diagram in the $Re,Ro$ parameter plane is sketched.
Curves of Marginal Stability and Weak and Strong-Coupling BPS Spectra in $N=2$ Supersymmetric QCD
Creators: name: Bilal, Adel
name: Ferrari, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly determine the global structure of the $SL(2,Z)$ bundle over the Coulomb branch of the moduli space of asymptotically free $N=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge group $SU(2)$ when massless hypermultiplets are present. For each relevant number of flavours, we show that there is a curve of marginal stability on the Coulomb branch, diffeomorphic to a circle, across which the BPS spectrum is discontinuous. We determine rigorously and completely the BPS spectra inside and outside the curve. In all cases, the spectrum inside the curve consists of only those BPS states that are responsible for the singularities of the low energy effective action (in addition to the massless abelian gauge multiplet which is always present). The predicted decay patterns across the curve of marginal stability are perfectly consistent with all quantum numbers carried by the BPS states. As a byproduct, we also show that the electric and magnetic quantum numbers of the massless states at the singularities proposed by Seiberg and Witten are the only possible ones.
description: 39 pages, uses PHYZZX, 10 figures, minor changes: version published in Nuclear Physics B480
Update on Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment of HBV
Creators: name: Mustafa, Prof. Dr. Hesham N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420299
subject: Epidemiology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration

description: Update on Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment of HBV
Improving the Fatigue Response of Steels through Architecture
Creators: name: SHENGCHAO YANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 91207 Metals and Alloy Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: In this project, the basic idea is to use carbon diffusion to make a controlled non-monotonic carbon profile in steel, to form a multilayer structure in steel to simultaneously minimize crack initiation and growth. This will be performed by exploiting cycles of decarburization, carburization and the phase transformations that occur from austenite during cooling. This project contains both fundamental understanding of phase transformations and fatigue performance of steels, but also in the context of the applied problem of improving the fatigue properties of steel. This project is concerned with the processing, characterizing, fatigue testing and analyzing of the “tooth” steels with architecturally designed structure.
Guilt About Smartphone (Non-)Use, Recovery, and Accomplishment Experiences Among Mothers
Creators: name: Wolfers, Lara
name: Halfmann, Annabell
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2020

description: Balancing everyday tasks with the expectations of others regarding one’s availability via smartphone is a challenge, especially for mothers. This research replicated and further developed studies by Halfmann et al. (2021, 2023) that yielded contradictory results regarding the conditions of feelings of guilt about (not) using the smartphone. More specifically, we investigated how smartphone-related goal conflict, the availability norm, and the parental phone use norm are related to mothers’ feelings of guilt when completing non-stressful everyday tasks. In addition, we researched how smartphone-related goal conflict and guilt are linked with experiences of recovery and task accomplishment. Results from a preregistered experience sampling study among 227 mothers of young children were largely in line with our hypotheses. They revealed, among others, that frequent smartphone use was more strongly linked with guilt when mothers perceived high goal conflict. If the availability norm was salient, little smartphone use was associated with more guilt. The results also indicated that the availability norm partly legitimized frequent smartphone use despite goal conflict. Nevertheless, overall, the findings suggest that mothers tend to experience low levels of guilt about their smartphone usage behavior and that these feelings do not impair the recovery from tasks.

This OSF folder contains additional documents for the paper including the data, the R output, the questionnaires in German, and an overview over all measures used in the study.
Additional file 1 of Combined effects of progesterone and SOCS3 DNA methylation on T2DM: a case–control study
Creators: name: Wang, Lulu
name: Mao, Zhenxing
name: Liu, Xiaotian
name: Wei, Dandan
name: Liu, Pengling
name: Nie, Luting
name: Fan, Keliang
name: Kang, Ning
name: Song, Yu
name: Xu, Qingqing
name: Wang, Juan
name: Wang, Mian
name: Liao, Wei
name: Jing, Tao
name: Li, Wenjie
name: Wang, Chongjian
name: Huo, Wenqian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Associations of progesterone and methylation level of SOCS3 with T2DM in postmenopausal women without taking hormone replacement therapy. Table S2. The combined effects of progesterone and SOCS3 methylation (Chr17:76356190 and Chr17:76356199) on T2DM in postmenopausal women without taking hormone replacement therapy. Table S3. Associations of progesterone and methylation levels of Chr17:76356190 and Chr17:76356199 with T2DM in participants without taking anti-diabetic medication. Table S4. The β cofficients (95% CIs) in markers of glucose metabolism associated with serum progesterone concentrations and methylation level of SOCS3 (Chr17:76356190 and Chr17:76356199) in participants without taking anti-diabetic medication.
Optical proximity sensor and associated user interface
Creators: name: Teymourzadeh, Rozita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90605 Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
subject: 90609 Signal Processing
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A proximity sensor including a housing, light emitters mounted in the housing for projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, light detectors mounted in the housing for detecting amounts of light entering the housing along the detection plane, whereby for each emitter-detector pair (E, D), when an object is located at a target position p(E, D) in the detection plane, corresponding to the pair (E, D), then the light emitted by emitter E is scattered by the object and is expected to be maximally detected by detector D, and a processor to synchronously activate emitter-detector pairs, to read the detected amounts of light from the detectors, and to calculate a location of the object in the detection plane from the detected amounts of light, in accordance with a detection-location relationship that relates detections from emitter-detector pairs to object locations between neighboring target positions in the detection plane.
Additional file 1 of The blood pressure and use of tourniquet are related to local recurrence after intralesional curettage of primary benign bone tumors: a retrospective and hypothesis-generating study
Creators: name: Zhou, Lenian
name: Lin, Shanyi
name: Zhu, Hongyi
name: Dong, Yang
name: Yang, Qingcheng
name: Yuan, Ting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1.