cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring Indigenous Community-Based Monitoring Programs in Alberta: Key Factors in Advancing Community Capacity-Building and Sovereignty
Creators: Gorzitza, Carter
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Indigenous community-based monitoring (ICBM) has the potential to act as a vehicle for building capacity in the community - particularly amongst youth, creating culturally oriented jobs to strengthen intergenerational learning, and contributing information to environmental governance and decision-making processes. Despite the potential benefits, ICBM programs face many challenges to their sustainable and long-term conduct. This study explores the challenges and potential of Indigenous Community-Based Monitoring (ICBM) in Alberta, focusing on its role in developing local capacity and advancing Indigenous sovereignty. Using a modified expert elicitation methodology and thematic analysis, this research engaged fifteen expert practitioners involved in ICBM or closely related work through qualitative interviews to assess key obstacles and opportunities influencing the success of these initiatives. Thematic analysis reveals that enduring inequities, resulting from colonial legacies and reinforced by modern structural constraints, substantially affect the effectiveness of ICBM. The sustainability of funding, regulatory frameworks, and the role of the private sector were all identified as key factors influencing the success of these programs. The results of this research can be used to further explore how these challenges can be overcome in the future, advancing ICBM initiatives and related community benefits.
Fabrication and Characterization of an Organogel Composite Shield with Auxetic Properties for Efficient Ice Removal by Applying Strain Cycles
Creators: Liu, David
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Ice formation on autonomous vehicles sensors is a serious concern in colder climates. These vehicles rely on their sensors to detect obstacles, which can be blocked by ice and slush. Current anti-icing surfaces and technologies such as superhydrophobic surfaces and sprays have room for improvement due to concerns about wear and reusability. This thesis describes the fabrication and characterization of a novel organogel-based composite embedded with an auxetic skeletal structure to serve as a transparent protective shield on their optical sensors. When stretched, the negative Poisson’s ratio of the composite will result in an increase in the net surface area of the shield while the deposited ice cannot expand, resulting in shedding the ice from the structure. The organogel matrix was fabricated by mixing a commercial silicone elastomer precursor with silicone oil to form an organogel. Sylgard 184, Ecoflex, Solaris, and their mixtures were used as the matrix for the organogel-based composites. For the composites to have auxetic properties, stiff yet elastomeric skeletal structures with re-entrant honeycomb shapes were made by mixing Sylgard 184 with fumed silica. The auxetic properties of the composites were quantified by image analysis technique with tracers; a staggering Poisson’s ratio of -0.52 in 2D was observed in the composite with the Ecoflex organogel matrix, which has the lowest stiffness of all matrix materials. As a comparison, neat silicones show the expected value of 0.5. A digital image correlation analysis provided further insights to the deformation of the composites at a unit cell level of the re-entrant honeycomb. In order to quantify the adhesion ice on the shield, home-built testing equipment was devised to quantify the anti-icing capabilities of the organogel-based composites, as well as the effectiveness of the auxetic structures in shedding ice. Among all materials used for the comparison, the organogels had the lowest ice adhesion values, when compared to steel, glass,

acrylic, and PTFE. In ice shedding experiments with releasing cycles, the organogel-based composites were the most effective. In summary, our organogel-based composites possessed a negative Poisson’s ratio, and the auxetic property is proven to provide an excellent anti-icing property. Our results suggest that the organogel based composite could be used as a shield for a variety of purposes, ranging from camera sensor shields for autonomous vehicles, anti-icing plane wings, anti-biofouling marine ship hulls and more.
Joint Detection and Pose Estimation Based on Images
Creators: Wen, Shuchun
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Pose estimation is widely used in our daily lives and there exist many algorithms that are applied for bringing convenience and improving efficiency in various fields. While images are the most common input for feature detection and matching, it is necessary to study their knowledge background and mathematical representations for conducting implementations. Techniques of joint extraction and classification have been introduced in detail with conducted simulations for each algorithm and they are applied together for joint detection and classification of a robotic arm.

Several common object tracking algorithms have been introduced and implemented, including their mandatory background and mathematical representations. Multiple filter-based algorithms are simulated and discussed for object tracking purposes, including the Kalman Filter (KF), Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), and Particle Filter. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been implemented together with EKF working towards a trajectory tracking and motion planning problem for robotic arm

accomplishing a pick-and-place task. Enhanced methods are tested in the thesis.
Toward Interdisciplinary Investigations of Flow in Performance Studies
Creators: Nemecek, Seairra K.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

To be in flow is typically described as a state where one becomes enmeshed with the performance of a task. Flow has been extensively investigated and pioneered by the late Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi in the field of positive psychology to optimize focus, presence, and pleasure. Explorations of flow extend far beyond Csikszentmihalyi’s work and across various fields of clinical and sport psychology, dance studies, sociocultural kinesiology, sociology, as well as theatre and performance studies. In this study, ten professionals across various disciplines that connect to the phenomenon of flow or flow states were contacted to participate in short 20-minute interviews. The semi-structured interviews investigate the central question of how different disciplines conceptualize flow and seek to understand some of the underlying value assumptions embedded in how different fields evaluate the phenomenon. The qualitative interviews were then inductively coded to identify themes and critically investigate discipline-specific assumptions and values placed onto flow and how one enters a flow state in a variety of performance contexts. Disciplinary values are brought into conversation with Pierre Bourdieu's habitus, Judith Butler's performativity, René Girard's notion of desire, Bruno Latour's actor-network-theory, as well as the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Following a nuanced interpretation of each interview, I evaluate the potential benefits and limitations of understanding interdisciplinary conceptualizations of flow from the lens of performance studies and a social constructivist paradigm.
Additional file 2 of Safer cycling in older age (SiFAr): effects of a multi-component cycle training. a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Keppner, Veronika
name: Krumpoch, Sebastian
name: Kob, Robert
name: Rappl, Anja
name: Sieber, Cornel C.
name: Freiberger, Ellen
name: Siebentritt, Hanna Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2. MEPC program
Pimelodus undefined-2
Creators: name: Escobar-Camacho, Daniel
name: Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan
name: Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina
name: Argüello, Pablo
name: Swing, Kelly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Siluriformes
Pimelodidae
Pimelodus
Pimelodus undefined-2

description: Pimelodus sp. 2
Distribution
Napo River, Anangucocha Lagoon.
description: Published as part of Escobar-Camacho, Daniel, Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina, Argüello, Pablo & Swing, Kelly, 2025, Exceptional concentration of fish diversity in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador (Napo River Basin), pp. e 136476 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e136476, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e136476
Additional file 1 of Safer cycling in older age (SiFAr): effects of a multi-component cycle training. a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Keppner, Veronika
name: Krumpoch, Sebastian
name: Kob, Robert
name: Rappl, Anja
name: Sieber, Cornel C.
name: Freiberger, Ellen
name: Siebentritt, Hanna Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1. Cycle course tasks
Monitoring respiratory function during neonatal resuscitation
Creators: name: Schmölzer, Georg Marcus
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The studies presented in this thesis show that a RFM can be used during mannequin based neonatal training program to: 1) teach correct mask hold and positioning techniques to diminish leak; 2) teach assessment of PIP and PEEP; 3) teach assessment of tidal volumes and adjustment of PIP to deliver an appropriate tidal volume. During neonatal resuscitation a RFM can provide continuous information about: 1) tidal volume 2) mask or ETT leak, 3) tube placement after endotracheal intubation, 5) the PIP and PEEP being delivered. In addition, I believe it provides valuable information about 1) ventilation rate, 2) inflation and expiration times, 3) the spontaneous breathing patterns, tidal volume and interaction with the inflations. Awards: Winner of the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Excellence, Faculty of  Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, 2011.
Locating and Extracting Relational Concepts in Large Language Models
Creators: name: Wang, Zijian
name: White, Britney
name: Xu, Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Relational concepts are indeed foundational to the structure of knowledge representation, as they facilitate the association between various entity concepts, allowing us to express and comprehend complex world knowledge. By expressing relational concepts in natural language prompts, people can effortlessly interact with large language models (LLMs) and recall desired factual knowledge. However, the process of knowledge recall lacks interpretability, and representations of relational concepts within LLMs remain unknown to us. In this paper, we identify hidden states that can express entity and relational concepts through causal mediation analysis in fact recall processes. Our finding reveals that at the last token position of the input prompt, there are hidden states that solely express the causal effects of relational concepts. Based on this finding, we assume that these hidden states can be treated as relational representations and we can successfully extract them from LLMs. The experimental results demonstrate high credibility of the relational representations: they can be flexibly transplanted into other fact recall processes, and can also be used as robust entity connectors. Moreover, we also show that the relational representations exhibit significant potential for controllable fact recall through relation rewriting.
The role of forage quantity and quality in the migration and diet of a northern ungulate during their neonatal period
Creators: Buitrago Gutierrez, Sebastian
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Migration has evolved as a strategy to maximize survival and reproductive success, driven by the search for better resources and predator avoidance. For ungulates at high latitudes, the search for higher quality and more abundant forage has been proposed as one of the best explanations of seasonal migrations. However, responses vary among populations, species and ecosystems. In this study we focus on the Ronald Lake wood bison herd (RLBH) in northeastern Alberta that annually migrates outside of its core range to an upland meadow complex at the base of the Birch Mountains. Reasons for this migration are unknown, however, the timing of the migration corresponds to the neonatal period in late spring during green up when females have a higher nutritional demand imposed by gestation and maternal care of neonates. Our goal was to understand how forage quantity (i.e., biomass) and quality (i.e., crude protein and metabolizable energy, ME) influence the migration and diet of this herd by comparing forage characteristics between their core and neonatal ranges. We found seasonal changes in the herd’s diet, with a more graminoid-dominated diet during winter in the core range and a shrub and forb-dominated diet in the neonatal range and core ranges in late spring and through the summer respectively. Our findings also revealed that the neonatal range had significantly higher biomass (p <0.001) of shrubs and forbs compared to the core range, being 1.7 and 3.8 times higher, respectively. The neonatal range also had more crude protein and ME (p< 0.001), being up to 3.0 and 3.7 times higher than the core range for shrubs and forbs respectively. Conversely, the core range had the highest biomass, crude protein, and ME (p < 0.001) for graminoids, although this forage group is not particularly important in their diet during their migration period. With the higher energy demands imposed on females during gestation and post-parturition, our results suggest that the herd’s migration to the meadow complex with its higher quantity and quality of forage is important for female wood bison in the Ronald Lake range during this critical neonatal period.
Aequidens diadema
Creators: name: Escobar-Camacho, Daniel
name: Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan
name: Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina
name: Argüello, Pablo
name: Swing, Kelly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Aequidens
Aequidens diadema

description: Aequidens cf. diadema
Distribution
Amazon, Orinoco, Negro.
Notes
Galacatos et al. (2004).
description: Published as part of Escobar-Camacho, Daniel, Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina, Argüello, Pablo & Swing, Kelly, 2025, Exceptional concentration of fish diversity in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador (Napo River Basin), pp. e 136476 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e136476, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e136476
Building Back Better: Development of Health System Resilience in Liberia During and After the Ebola Virus Disease and COVID-19 Outbreaks
Creators: Villarroel Ocando, Hector Alonso
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

It is widely accepted that fostering resilience in health systems is a crucial measure to increase

preparedness to public health emergencies, preserve the health system’s functions, and protect

population health. International organisations and individual global health actors have long

endorsed efforts to understand the determinants of health system resilience in hopes of

developing operational guidelines. However, much of the scientific work has so far focused on

establishing conceptual approaches to frame resilience in health systems, and in measuring

resilience as a set of cross-sectional indicators that cursorily assess the system’s aptitudes.

Through a descriptive case study, this paper looks at the transformative dimension of health

system resilience in Liberia (understood as functional and structural changes to the system’s

institutions to improve resilience) to identify drivers and determinants organised under an

operational framework and guided by the health system’s main functions. A literature review

is used to develop a theory, and primary data collection through key informant interviews and

technical document reviews explore evidence to refine the theory and draw conclusions.

This study finds that, in operationalising transformative resilience, the Liberian health system

fostered institutional evolution in nine areas (leadership and governance, health financing,

health workforce, health service delivery, health infrastructure, health information systems,

medical products and technologies, community trust and ownership, and interinstitutional

collaboration). The study also concludes that policy mechanisms to enable resilience must be

embedded into health system planning to successfully undertake transformative change in the

system’s institutions and improve their performance during public health emergencies.
Apistogramma undefined-1
Creators: name: Escobar-Camacho, Daniel
name: Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan
name: Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina
name: Argüello, Pablo
name: Swing, Kelly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Apistogramma
Apistogramma undefined-1

description: Apistogramma sp. 1
Distribution
Eastern Ecuador, Jatuncocha Lake.
description: Published as part of Escobar-Camacho, Daniel, Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina, Argüello, Pablo & Swing, Kelly, 2025, Exceptional concentration of fish diversity in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador (Napo River Basin), pp. e 136476 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e136476, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e136476
TO'LIQ VA TO'LIQSIZ OILALARDA BOLA SHAXSI RIVOJLANISHI PSIXOLOGIK  O'RGANISHNING USUL VA VOSITALARI
Creators: name: Kamolova, Shirinoy
name: Abralov, Shokir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Maqolada To‘liq va to‘liqsiz oilalarda bola shaxsi rivojlanishi psixologik  o‘rganishning usul va vositalarini o ‘rganishga bag‘ishlangan  bo‘lib, oilaviy nizolar va son-sanoqsiz mojarolar oilaviy muammolarning psixologik  jihatlari yoritilgan.
Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Fairtrade and Workers’ Welfare: A Case Study of the Soccer Industry in Pakistan
Creators: name: Javeria Younas Abbasi
name: Musleh Ud Din
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_material for Fairtrade and Workers’ Welfare: A Case Study of the Soccer Industry in Pakistan by Javeria Younas Abbasi and Musleh Ud Din in Journal of Asian and African Studies
Reviewer_1_v.2 – Supplemental material for Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: what are its links to COPD?
Creators: name: McGrath-Morrow, Sharon A.
name: Collaco, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Reviewer_1_v.2 for Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: what are its links to COPD? by Sharon A. McGrath-Morrow and Joseph M. Collaco in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Supplementary_Table_1 - Adolescent Mental Health Following Exposure to Positive and Harsh Parenting in Childhood: Santé mentale des adolescents suivant une exposition à une parentalité positive et sévère dans l’enfance
Creators: name: Kingsbury, Mila
name: Sucha, Ewa
name: Manion, Ian
name: Gilman, Stephen E.
name: Colman, Ian
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary_Table_1 for Adolescent Mental Health Following Exposure to Positive and Harsh Parenting in Childhood: Santé mentale des adolescents suivant une exposition à une parentalité positive et sévère dans l’enfance by Mila Kingsbury, Ewa Sucha, Ian Manion, Stephen E. Gilman and Ian Colman in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of under-testing and under-diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis in Germany
Creators: name: Schley, Katharina
name: Friedrich, Josephine
name: Pilz, Andreas
name: Huang, Liping
name: Balkaran, Bridget L.
name: Maculaitis, Martine C.
name: Malerczyk, Claudius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Physicians Per Federal State: Observed Data Relative to the Population; the table shows the percentage of patients and the ratio of physicians per federal state observed in the current study to physicians per federal state in 2019 German population data for each of 16 federal states.
Column Type Annotation Using Large Language Models
Creators: Babamahmoudi, Amir
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

A vast amount of information on the web is stored in tabular format, making accurate table interpretation crucial for data analysis and knowledge extraction. Column Type Annotation (CTA), the process of assigning semantic types to table columns, is essential for effective table querying and understanding.

This thesis investigates the CTA task in two parts. First, we conduct a critical evaluation of established CTA benchmarks, identifying major issues that

impact the performance of the models on these benchmarks. Our findings reveal that addressing these benchmark issues can lead to substantial performance reductions of up to 30\% compared to previously reported results.

Second, we harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the CTA task. By employing techniques such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and using models reasoning capabilities, we demonstrate how LLMs can achieve state-of-the-art performance on CTA tasks. Our approach leads to a 10\% improvement over simple prompting methods, making LLMs competitive with, and in some cases surpassing, current leading pre-trained models designed specifically for CTA.
Supplemental Material, figure_S2_(1) - Budesonide for Protein Losing Enteropathy in Patients with Fontan Circulation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Jakrin Kewcharoen
name: Poemlarp Mekraksakit
name: Nath Limpruttidham
name: Chanavuth Kanitsoraphan
name: Nattawat Charoenpoonsiri
name: Kittika Poonsombudlert
name: Pattison, Robert J.
name: Pattara Rattanawong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material, figure_S2_(1) for Budesonide for Protein Losing Enteropathy in Patients with Fontan Circulation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jakrin Kewcharoen, Poemlarp Mekraksakit, Nath Limpruttidham, Chanavuth Kanitsoraphan, Nattawat Charoenpoonsiri, Kittika Poonsombudlert, Robert J. Pattison and Pattara Rattanawong in World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of under-testing and under-diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis in Germany
Creators: name: Schley, Katharina
name: Friedrich, Josephine
name: Pilz, Andreas
name: Huang, Liping
name: Balkaran, Bridget L.
name: Maculaitis, Martine C.
name: Malerczyk, Claudius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: TBE Under-Testing and Under-Diagnosis by Seasonality; the table shows frequencies and percentages of patients tested for TBE, not tested for TBE, and TBE positive for the total sample and symptom types stratified by admitted during TBE season and not admitted during TBE season.
Time Correlation Study in DEAP-3600 Dataset
Creators: Papi, Danial
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

DEAP-3600 is a single-phase dark matter experiment that utilizes 3.3 tonnes of liquid argon as a scintillation target to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).  Two significant challenges in the DEAP-3600 experiment are alpha particles produced in the acrylic vessel neck and dust, which can mimic a WIMP signal. In this thesis, the 214Bi-214Po decay chain was identified in the three-year dataset based on the time correlation. The study demonstrated that degraded alphas originated in dust. A comparison of the time distribution from dust and TPB-coated surface alpha particles showed differences, demonstrating that most dust is not TPB-coated. Time correlation allows us to identify the 220Rn-216Po decay chain. Comparing surface alphas from 214Bi-214Po and 220Rn-216Po revealed differences in their energy distribution, indicating that the alphas from 220Rn-216Po may have originated in the acrylic. A toy Monte Carlo simulation was used to investigate the differences observed in the alpha energy distributions. Although this model could account for some characteristics of the energy distribution, it could not fully explain it.
Supplemental Material, Selfridge_RDS_2019_SUPPLEMENTAL_TABLES_Oct_7th_2019 - Respondent-Driven Sampling With Youth Who Use Drugs: A Mixed Methods Assessment
Creators: name: Selfridge, Marion
name: Kiffer G. Card
name: Greer, Alissa
name: Ferencz, Sarah
name: Lachowsky, Nathan
name: Macdonald, Scott
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Economics

description: Supplemental Material, Selfridge_RDS_2019_SUPPLEMENTAL_TABLES_Oct_7th_2019 for Respondent-Driven Sampling With Youth Who Use Drugs: A Mixed Methods Assessment by Marion Selfridge, Kiffer G. Card, Alissa Greer, Sarah Ferencz, Nathan Lachowsky and Scott Macdonald in Contemporary Drug Problems
Supplementary_Table_A_Lary_et_al_revised_1 – Supplemental material for Improving children’s and their visitors’ hand hygiene compliance
Creators: name: Lary, Dina
name: Calvert, Aaron
name: Nerlich, Brigitte
name: Segal, Joel
name: Vaughan, Natalie
name: Randle, Jacqueline
name: Hardie, Kim R
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Table_A_Lary_et_al_revised_1 for Improving children’s and their visitors’ hand hygiene compliance by Dina Lary, Aaron Calvert, Brigitte Nerlich, Joel Segal, Natalie Vaughan, Jacqueline Randle and Kim R Hardie in Journal of Infection Prevention
Sup_figure_B_Lary_et_al_revised_1 – Supplemental material for Improving children’s and their visitors’ hand hygiene compliance
Creators: name: Lary, Dina
name: Calvert, Aaron
name: Nerlich, Brigitte
name: Segal, Joel
name: Vaughan, Natalie
name: Randle, Jacqueline
name: Hardie, Kim R
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Sup_figure_B_Lary_et_al_revised_1 for Improving children’s and their visitors’ hand hygiene compliance by Dina Lary, Aaron Calvert, Brigitte Nerlich, Joel Segal, Natalie Vaughan, Jacqueline Randle and Kim R Hardie in Journal of Infection Prevention
NEW893388 Supplemental Material4 - Supplemental material for A Systematic Review of Workplace Violence Against Emergency Medical Services Responders
Creators: name: Murray, Regan M.
name: Davis, Andrea L.
name: Shepler, Lauren J.
name: Moore-Merrell, Lori
name: Troup, William J.
name: Allen, Joseph A.
name: Taylor, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, NEW893388 Supplemental Material4 for A Systematic Review of Workplace Violence Against Emergency Medical Services Responders by Regan M. Murray, Andrea L. Davis, Lauren J. Shepler, Lori Moore-Merrell, William J. Troup, Joseph A. Allen and Jennifer A. Taylor in NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
PIL893387 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Phase, microstructure, and wear behavior of Al2O3-reinforced Fe–Si alloy-based metal matrix nanocomposites
Creators: name: Saxena, Akash
name: Singh, Neera
name: Bhupendra Singh
name: Kumar, Devendra
name: Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni
name: Pallav Gupta
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, PIL893387 Supplemental Material for Phase, microstructure, and wear behavior of Al2O3-reinforced Fe–Si alloy-based metal matrix nanocomposites by Akash Saxena, Neera Singh, Bhupendra Singh, Devendra Kumar, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni and Pallav Gupta in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
Supplemental Material, fake_news_coronavirus_supplement_revised_to_resubmit_v2 - Political Ideology Predicts Perceptions of the Threat of COVID-19 (and Susceptibility to Fake News About It)
Creators: name: Calvillo, Dustin P.
name: Ross, Bryan J.
name: Garcia, Ryan J. B.
name: Smelter, Thomas J.
name: Rutchick, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, fake_news_coronavirus_supplement_revised_to_resubmit_v2 for Political Ideology Predicts Perceptions of the Threat of COVID-19 (and Susceptibility to Fake News About It) by Dustin P. Calvillo, Bryan J. Ross, Ryan J. B. Garcia, Thomas J. Smelter and Abraham M. Rutchick in Social Psychological and Personality Science
Development of Regioselective Transformations of Electron-Deficient 1,3-Dienes Facilitated by Homogeneous Redox-Neutral Rh(I)-Catalysis
Creators: McNutt, Wesley M.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Controlling regioselective transformations in extended conjugated systems is achallenge due to inherent electronic (and, or, steric) similarity between reactive sites.Despite this challenge, our group has found Rh(I) hydride catalysts to be highly selective for a,d-selective semi-reductive transformations generating (Z)-alkene products. This thesis describes several projects focused on related homogeneous Rh(I) catalysis wherein high selectivity is obtained for the regioselective transformation of acyclic 1,3-dienes via a,b-reduction (Chapter 4), or enantioselective C–C bond formation (Chapter 2 & 3) based largely on the Hayashi-Miyaura hydroarylation reaction manifold. Chapter 2 specifically describes a published three-component coupling reaction that is initiated by a d-selective arylation of an (E,E)-1,3-diene presumably generating a [Rh-allyl] intermediate which can trap an exogeneous aldehyde electrophile. Chapter 3 is yet unpublished and describes a b-selective arylation of similar (E,Z)-1,3-diene substrates that seems to be controlled by alkene geometry. Hypotheses formed during these latter two works informed the cursory transposition of similar reactivity onto cyclic 1,3-diene systems (introduced briefly in Chapter 5).
Borgatti_et_al_2018__TABLES – Supplemental material for Evidence of late-Holocene mud-volcanic eruptions in the Modena foothills (northern Italy)
Creators: name: Borgatti, Lisa
name: Bosi Giovanna
name: Bracci Antonio Edoardo
name: Cremonini Stefano
name: Falsone Gloria
name: Guandalini Francesca
name: Labate Donato
name: Mainardi Giuseppe
name: Martinelli Giovanni
name: Montecchi Maria Chiara
name: Pieraccini Diego
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Geography
History

description: Supplemental material, Borgatti_et_al_2018__TABLES for Evidence of late-Holocene mud-volcanic eruptions in the Modena foothills (northern Italy) by Lisa Borgatti, Bosi Giovanna, Bracci Antonio Edoardo, Cremonini Stefano, Falsone Gloria, Guandalini Francesca, Labate Donato, Mainardi Giuseppe, Martinelli Giovanni, Montecchi Maria Chiara and Pieraccini Diego in The Holocene
Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalyzed Transformation of Olefins
Creators: Qiqige, Qiqige
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Transition metal-catalyzed olefin transformations have emerged as a cornerstone of modern synthetic chemistry, offering unparalleled versatility and efficiency in the construction of complex molecular building blocks. These catalytic processes, encompassing a range of reactions, such as hydrogenation, isomerization, conjugate addition, and allylic alkylation, have revolutionized the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials. The ability to activate and manipulate olefinic bonds selectively under mild conditions has not only streamlined synthetic routes but also enabled the development of novel compounds with enhanced functional properties. This thesis will focus on some specific transformations of olefins. Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 describe the selective hydrogenation of polyunsaturated compounds. Chapter 3 discusses the isomerization of enals. Chapter 4 illustrates a stereodivergent cooperative Rh/Ir catalyzed tandem conjugate addition and allylic alkylation reaction of enones. As research continues to advance, the refinement of catalyst design and reaction conditions would be able to expand the scope and applicability of these transformations, further strengthening their critical role in the advancement of chemical synthesis and industrial applications.
Constructing Knowledge Graphs with Language Models and Learning Hierarchies from Graphs using Probabilistic Topic Modeling
Creators: Zhang, Yujia
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Knowledge graphs leverage a data model structured as a graph or topology to represent and manipulate data. Knowledge graphs, abbreviated as KGs, consist of interconnected factual statements, conceptualized as distinct entities referred to as the {\em subject} and {\em object}, linked by a specified relation known as the {\em predicate}. These graphs find applications in recommendation systems, logical reasoning, and question-answering mechanisms. They empower machines to comprehend the relationships between different entities and draw conclusions based on the structured information they encompass. Constructing, revising, and augmenting such KGs warrants particular scholarly attention.

KG construction is fundamental to organizing and representing structured knowledge from unstructured text data. The KGs can be constructed more effectively with advanced language models with substantial computational capabilities. The models' effectiveness lies in understanding textual data, extracting facts, and synthesizing the content. Our study focuses on evaluating the capacity of these models to identify entities and relationships that contain contextual semantics. Through the utilization of these capabilities, the quality and comprehensiveness of KGs can be improved. Moreover, incorporating sophisticated methods such as transformers and their fine-tuning enables these models to adapt to specific domains, consequently enhancing the relevance and accuracy of the extracted knowledge.

The hierarchical analysis of knowledge graphs (KGs) is instrumental in uncovering the latent structures inherent in knowledge base data. Drawing inspiration from probabilistic topic modeling, which analyzes text corpora by identifying latent topics that represent the underlying themes and content patterns in documents, our research aims to adapt and extend these analytical frameworks for the hierarchical exploration of KGs. Specifically, models are introduced within a nonparametric and probabilistic context, offering adaptability in comprehending the arrangement of the hierarchy. We have adapted the Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm and the Nested Hierarchical Dirichlet Process to construct the models.

We evaluate these models quantitatively and qualitatively by analyzing the topics and distributions of words that define the hierarchical structure of complex KGs. By doing so, we aim to enhance our understanding of the intricate connections and dependencies within KGs, facilitating more robust and scalable knowledge representation. Furthermore, our research seeks to identify potential improvements in the algorithms used for hierarchical analysis, ultimately contributing to more efficient methods for managing and utilizing large-scale knowledge bases. This approach provides deeper insight into the structural dynamics of KGs and paves the way for semantic search, ontology development, and automated reasoning.
The Effect of Content Consumption Format on Reconsumption
Creators: Safarpour, Niusha
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

consumption (e.g., watching a television show, reading a book) is a prevalent behaviour among consumers. This dissertation focuses on the consumption of digital video content (e.g., YouTube videos, television shows), and examines two common behaviours in this context: content consumption format (i.e., bingeing: watching two or more episodes at a time; or not bingeing: watching a single episode at a time) and reconsumption (i.e., watching the same content again). Prior work does not provide a comprehensive examination of these two behaviours, nor does it investigate how and why content consumption format might influence reconsumption. This research examines the underresearched area of content consumption in marketing and develops a conceptual framework for investigating the relationship between these two behaviours. First, I offer a thorough review of the literature on content consumption format and reconsumption and identify gaps in the literature. Second, I develop a conceptual framework and present propositions about how and why content consumption format (bingeing vs. non-bingeing) might impact reconsumption. Third, in a series of controlled experiments, I investigate the effect of content consumption format on the desire to reconsume. The experiments reveal that non-binge content consumption (vs. binge content consumption) increases anticipation. In turn, this enhances enjoyment and ultimately leads to a higher desire to reconsume. Fourth, I analyze two secondary datasets from Netflix to draw parallels between the experimental paradigm and real-world behaviour, further providing evidence for the propositions of this research.
Ecological Dynamics of Microbiomes in Food Processing Facilities: Pathways to Improved Sanitation
Creators: Xu, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Food processing environments serve as complex niches for bacterial colonization, adaption,

persistence and dispersal, which subsequently shapes the microbial composition and diversity.

This Ph.D. dissertation investigated the impact of biofilm formation, bacterial communication and

cooperation on microbial community assembly, providing insights into the novel and specific

intervention strategy.

The presence of microbes in food products depends on contamination from the raw materials or

microbial communities in food processing facilities. By re-analysing data from 39 published

studies, we found that while each food commodity possesses its own accessory microbiome, a core

surface-associated microbiome exists across all commodities. Nutrient levels on food environment

surfaces significantly impact biofilm community composition more than environmental processing

surfaces. The longitudinal study in a pork processing facility revealed a high diversity of microbes,

with addition of 74 novel species. Repeated isolation of the same meat-spoilage-associated strain

across different sites and times displayed their transmission patterns and persistence over six

months, pinpointing processing environments as the primary sources of microbes and identified

specific sites for further interventions.

The presence of transmissible locus of stress tolerance (tLST) among gamma-proteobacteria

enhances their microbial resistance to sanitation chemicals in planktonic state cells. Biofilms, the

natural state of cells in food processing facilities, further reduce sanitation efficacy and facilitate

microbial dispersal and persistence. Our investigations on the link of tLST to biofilm formation

and disinfectant resistance showed that the presence of tLST in E. coli yielded higher biofilm

biomass and enhanced their resistance to chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, and peroxyacetic acid in

biofilm-embedded cells. The phenotypic switch from floating biofilms (pellicle) to surface-iii

associated biofilms is regulated more by bacterial communication and cooperation (quorum

sensing) than unique gene presence/absence.

The application of ozone nanobubble on meat products in situ and in vitro showed that it displayed

comparable bactericidal effect to peracetic acid and altered microbial composition, particularly

eliminating the more undesirable microbes. Taking together, these findings contribute to a better

understanding of the microbial ecology of food processing environments, facilitate the

implementation of novel and site-specific interventions and potentially reduce food waste and

outbreaks, promoting the development of a more sustainable food systems.
Cichlasoma amazonarum Kullander 1983
Creators: name: Escobar-Camacho, Daniel
name: Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan
name: Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina
name: Argüello, Pablo
name: Swing, Kelly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Cichlasoma
Cichlasoma amazonarum

description: Cichlasoma cf. amazonarum
Distribution
Western Amazonia, plus northern drainages.
Notes
Barriga (2011).
description: Published as part of Escobar-Camacho, Daniel, Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina, Argüello, Pablo & Swing, Kelly, 2025, Exceptional concentration of fish diversity in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador (Napo River Basin), pp. e 136476 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e136476, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e136476
Fabrication and Optimization of Magnetomotive Gravimetric MEMs Sensors
Creators: Cherkawski, Breanna D
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Reducing device size in sensing technology allows for greater measurable responses, and easier integration into smaller testing environments. This work details the fabrication of high sensitivity magnetomotive gravimetric MEMS cantilevers for eventual use in gas detection. The devices are doubly clamped

beams, and “U”-shaped variations of singly clamped resonant beams. When placed in a magnetic field, the current flowing through the devices generates a Lorentz force, driving the cantilevers into resonance. As analyte adsorbs to the surface of the device, the added mass will lead to a detectable shift in resonant frequency. Higher quality factor devices can be scaled down to the sub-micron scale. The dimension of the cantilever determines the resonant frequency, and cantilevers have been fabricated that range from 2.5 μm to 6.5 μm in length, but only 500 nm wide, and 174 nm thick. As size of the sensor decreases, the greater the effect adsorbed mass will have on the resonant frequency. Optimization of the fabrication process flow led to a substantial increase in yield of

functional devices. Developments in vapour-phase HF etching to remove the sacrificial layer of the devices has eliminated stiction and also increased the yield. First measurements of these devices have shown resonant frequencies in expected ranges, agreeing reasonably well with mathematical modelling of both shapes of cantilever devices. This work also serves to prove the efficacy of the low-cost easy-to-use magnetomotive apparatus and balancing circuit developed by the Engineered Nanomaterials Laboratory. The configuration of these sensors, and ease of fabrication open the possibility for further functionalization by other groups by using the low-cost apparatus demonstrated in this work.
supporting-Information_revised – Supplemental material for Early-Holocene monsoon instability and climatic optimum recorded by Chinese stalagmites
Creators: name: Yang, Xunlin
name: Yang, Hong
name: Wang, Baoyan
name: Huang, Li-Jung
name: Shen, Chuan-Chou
name: Edwards, R Lawrence
name: Cheng, Hai
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Geography
History

description: Supplemental material, supporting-Information_revised for Early-Holocene monsoon instability and climatic optimum recorded by Chinese stalagmites by Xunlin Yang, Hong Yang, Baoyan Wang, Li-Jung Huang, Chuan-Chou Shen, R Lawrence Edwards and Hai Cheng in The Holocene
Additional file 2 of Can a novel constructivist theory-informed feedback intervention reduce prescribing errors ? A pre-post study
Creators: name: Coombes, Ian
name: Donovan, Peter
name: Bullock, Brooke
name: Mitchell, Charles
name: Noble, Christy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Perspectives and Learning Needs Assessment of Pediatric Residents Across Medical Schools in Canada: A Qualitative Study of Autism Care and Education
Creators: Piroddi, Nicholas AJ
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social communication differences and the presence of restricted, repetitive interests and patterns of behaviour. Despite its 2% prevalence rate in Canada, many pediatricians miss cases of autism due to a lack of knowledge of screening tools. Knowledge about resources and approaches to the management of co-occurring conditions is also variable. Currently, there is no literature on the evaluation of autism in the medical education system in both medical school and in pediatric residency in Canada. The overarching objectives were to assess the perceived needs and opportunities for improvement related to Canadian pediatric residents’ educational experiences with regards to autism care, and to determine residents’ perspectives on providing best practice care for autistic patients. Pediatric residents (n=12) from medical schools in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada participated in interviews, which focused on two main areas: best practice care and learning needs regarding autism. The interviews were conducted using Thorne’s Interpretive Description phenomenological methodology, and analysis was conducted using a reflexive thematic approach to encapsulate best practice perspectives and a summative content approach to determine barriers to providing best practice care and gaps to mitigate the gaps. This qualitative study provides insight on the critical issues surrounding residency education regarding care for autism. Addressing learning needs and areas of improvement identified by pediatric residents could lead to better outcomes for autistic individuals and their families. By providing pediatric residents with more comprehensive training and resources, we can work towards reducing missed cases of autism and enhancing the quality of care for autistic patients.