cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigations of the dynamical evolution of lunar ejecta
Creators: name: Fladeland, Logan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Humanity is on course to return to the surface of the Moon within the next decade, with plans and aspirations of permanently crewed stations that could eventually become self-sustained through advancements of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). During NASA’s Apollo era, which saw the first and only humans step foot on the Moon, the issue of lunar dust rose to prominence as it was found to be quite abrasive and became coated on practically every type of material. Natural mechanisms have been discovered that can levitate lunar dust and soil above the surface, at times creating a faint haze around the Moon. Increasing lunar surface activity, including potential construction and mining operations, as well as a significant increase in landings and departures, could see large amounts of material artificially jettisoned, if proper mitigation techniques are not introduced. N-body simulations of 10,000 particles ejected from the Moon are performed using REBOUND to examine some of the different dynamical pathways available to material escaping the low lunar gravity. Particles that do not collide with the Moon or the Earth generally end up in orbit around the Earth or escape onto heliocentric orbits, with very few left orbiting the Moon after one year. A constant delivery of particles to the L1 and L2 Earth- Moon Lagrange points is seen, with sporadic activity at the three other Lagrange points. Moreover, the possibility of long-lived dust in the cis-lunar environment raises questions about how lunar activities will impact the night sky. To that end, the particles are projected onto the sky for an observer on Earth and the associated brightness is calculated.
Nomination of William L. Keaton for an Honorary Doctorate
Creators: name: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1980

description: Copy of the full packet submitted as nomination of William L. Keaton for an Honorary Doctorate to the Committee on Honorary Degrees and Memorials, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, by the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the N.C.C.U Alumni Association, Inc. (title was not awarded). Includes biographical data, details of professional development, such as documents, certificates, and newspaper clippings, pictures of himselsf and groups he was involved with, documentation and press about his teaching, counseling, and outpatient alcohol recovery educational activities, the leadership role he assumed at the Hurley Medical Center and Insight, Inc., his publications and exhibits, awards and other proofs of recognition of his work as one of the first African American alcohol therapists and educators. Donated by his wife, Gail Mazaraki Keaton.
Child development among Ecuadorian children aged three to five born from intended and unintended pregnancies : a health equity analysis
Creators: name: Delgado, Jorge Andrés
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is focused on characterizing differences in developmental outcomes among children born from intended and unintended pregnancies aged three to five. The Sustainable Development Goals have a specific target to “ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development” by 2030. There is sparse literature regarding the impact of pregnancy intention (wantedness and timing) or planning on child development, and less so about differential impacts by ethnicity, income, or sex at birth. The research chapters of this thesis consist of two studies: First, we conducted a scoping review to summarize the evidence comparing the developmental outcomes of children from unwanted, unplanned, or mistimed (‘it happened too soon’ or ‘too late’) pregnancies to those of children from wanted or planned pregnancies. We identified 8 “cohorts” with information on approximately 39,000 children born mostly in developed countries. Overall, unwanted/unplanned pregnancies were associated with poorer child development when compared with wanted/planned pregnancies. Mistimed (sometimes classified as delayed) pregnancies correlated with weaker effects in the same direction. Second, we estimated the effect of unintended pregnancy on early childhood development in Ecuadorian children aged three to five, participating in the latest National Health and Nutrition Survey (2018) using a design-based regression model, stratified by ethnicity, sex at birth, and socioeconomic status. We also estimated to what extent eliminating unintended pregnancy would close the gap among the most privileged (i.e., high-income, white/mestizo, males) and other groups of each stratum. Among 6,687 observations representing 620,625 Ecuadorian children, unintended pregnancy was associated with 33% higher risk of inadequate development (RR: 1.33; 95% CI: 1.06; 1.64) after adjusting for available confounders. Black/montubio children were the most affected (RR: 2.78; 95% CI: 1.72; 3.85). These results suggest that these ethnic groups, along with low-income households, might benefit the most from interventions that support intended pregnancy. Together, the studies in this thesis underline the importance of policies that create environments supportive of wanted conception and access to safe abortion to reach the target for sustainable development goal 4, related to child development. In Ecuador, these interventions are particularly important for black/montubio and low-income populations.
Interplay of the Kondo Effect and Spin-Polarized Transport in Magnetic Molecules, Adatoms and Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Misiorny, Maciej
name: Weymann, Ireneusz
name: Barnas, Jozef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interplay of the Kondo effect and spin-polarized tunneling in a class of systems exhibiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, such as magnetic molecules, magnetic adatoms, or quantum dots coupled to a single localized magnetic moment. Using the numerical renormalization group method we calculate the spectral functions and linear conductance in the Kondo regime. We show that the exchange coupling between conducting electrons and localized magnetic core generally leads to suppression of the Kondo effect. We also predict a nontrivial dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance on the strength of exchange coupling and on the anisotropy constant.
description: 4 pages with 4 EPS figures (version as accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters)
Single fathers sacrifice their broods and re-mate quickly in a socially monogamous cichlid
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Holger
name: Sefc, Kristina M.
name: Bose, Aneesh P. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Re-mating
infanticide
Paternal Care
pair-bonding
partner loss
Variabilichromis moorii

description: When one of two parents disappears in the midst of caring for offspring, the remaining parent is left with several options. They can either i) desert the brood, ii) continue caring on their own and reject propositions from new potential partners, or iii) continue caring but remain receptive to re-mating opportunities. The presence of a brood may increase re-mating success of single parents, either because brood care is perceived as a signal of partner quality, or because prospective mates perceive the brood as a potential energy source. In this field experiment, we used the socially monogamous, biparental cichlid fish Variabilichromis moorii to examine the re-mating strategy of males with or without dependent offspring after the loss of their female partner. Partner vacancies were filled quickly by new females, and these females engaged in high levels of affiliative behavior with the males. The new females engaged in territorial defense but focused primarily against intruding conspecifics, likely as a means to repel rivals. The males, in turn, took over the majority of territorial defense against intruding heterospecifics. Interestingly, males that still had offspring from their previous partnerships did not show aggression towards their new female partners, even when those females were infanticidal and cannibalizing the males' previous offspring. Overall, our experiment shows that single fathers of a biparental species will re-mate quickly even at the detriment of their current offspring.
description: Word, Excel, RFunding provided by: Austrian Science Fund
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002428
Award Number: P 27605‐B25Funding provided by: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004360
Award Number:
Coexistence and critical behaviour in a lattice model of competing species
Creators: name: Wendykier, Jacek
name: Lipowski, Adam
name: Ferreira, Antonio Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper we study a lattice model of two species competing for the same resources. Monte Carlo simulations for d=1, 2, and 3 show that when resources are easily available both species coexist. However, when the supply of resources is on an intermediate level, the species with slower metabolism becomes extinct. On the other hand, when resources are scarce it is the species with faster metabolism that becomes extinct. The range of coexistence of the two species increases with dimension. We suggest that our model might describe some aspects of the competition between normal and tumor cells. With such an interpretation, examples of tumor remission, recurrence and of different morphologies are presented. In the d=1 and d=2 models, we analyse the nature of phase transitions: they are either discontinuous or belong to the directed-percolation universality class, and in some cases they have an active subcritical phase. In the d=2 case, one of the transitions seems to be characterized by critical exponents different than directed-percolation ones, but this transition could be also weakly discontinuous. In the d=3 version, Monte Carlo simulations are in a good agreement with the solution of the mean-field approximation. This approximation predicts that oscillatory behaviour occurs in the present model, but only for d>2. For d>=2, a steady state depends on the initial configuration in some cases.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures
The group of homeomorphisms of the Cantor set has ample generics
Creators: name: Kwiatkowska, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the group of homeomorphisms of the Cantor set $H(K)$ has ample generics, that is, for every $m$ the diagonal conjugacy action $g\cdot(h_1,h_2,..., h_m)=(gh_1g^{-1},gh_2g^{-1},..., gh_mg^{-1})$ of $H(K)$ on $H(K)^m$ has a comeager orbit. This answers a question of Kechris and Rosendal. We show that the generic tuple in $H(K)^m$ can be taken to be the limit of a certain projective Fraisse family. We also present a proof of the existence of the generic homeomorphism of the Cantor set in the context of the projective Fraisse theory.
description: final version, to appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Transit User Behaviour in Response to Service Disruption: State of Knowledge
Creators: name: Lin, Teddy
name: Shalaby, Amer
name: Miller, Eric
name: Lin, Teddy
name: Shalaby, Amer
name: Miller, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
No Evidence for Orbital Clustering in the Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects
Creators: name: Napier, K. J.
name: Gerdes, D. W.
name: Lin, Hsing Wen
name: Hamilton, S. J.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bernardinelli, P. H.
name: Abbott, T. M. C.
name: Aguena, M.
name: Annis, J.
name: Avila, S.
name: Bacon, D.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Carnero Rosell, A.
name: Carrasco Kind, M.
name: Carretero, J.
name: Costanzi, M.
name: Da Costa, L. N.
name: De Vicente, J.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Doel, P.
name: Everett, S.
name: Ferrero, I.
name: Fosalba, P.
name: García-Bellido, J.
name: Gruen, D.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Gutierrez, G.
name: Hollowood, D. L.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: Hoyle, B.
name: James, D. J.
name: Kent, S.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Maia, M. A. G.
name: Menanteau, F.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Morgan, R.
name: Palmese, A.
name: Paz-Chinchón, F.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Scarpine, V.
name: Serrano, S.
name: Sevilla-Noarbe, I.
name: Smith, M.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Swanson, M. E. C.
name: To, C.
name: Walker, A. R.
name: Wilkinson, R. D.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: 500
Planetary Science

description: Abstract: The apparent clustering in longitude of perihelion ϖ and ascending node Ω of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) has been attributed to the gravitational effects of an unseen 5–10 Earth-mass planet in the outer solar system. To investigate how selection bias may contribute to this clustering, we consider 14 ETNOs discovered by the Dark Energy Survey, the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, and the survey of Sheppard and Trujillo. Using each survey's published pointing history, depth, and TNO tracking selections, we calculate the joint probability that these objects are consistent with an underlying parent population with uniform distributions in ϖ and Ω. We find that the mean scaled longitude of perihelion and orbital poles of the detected ETNOs are consistent with a uniform population at a level between 17% and 94% and thus conclude that this sample provides no evidence for angular clustering.
A New Modal Classification System for Public Transportation
Creators: name: Guzzetti, Arthur
name: Neff, John W.
name: Guzzetti, Arthur
name: Neff, John W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Investigating different strategies for within day bus parking using a agent-based traffic simulation - A Case Study of Berlin
Creators: name: Ewert, Ricardo
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr::380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: parking
subject: parking search
subject: transport simulation
subject: MATSim
subject: parking behavior

description: The tour bus is, from the perspective of CO2 emissions per passenger-kilometer, an environmentally friendly mode of transportation. However, idling engines and long search times for parking negatively impact the otherwise eco-friendly profile of this mode of transport. In the absence of a coordinated tour bus strategy, such as assigning parking spaces and specify- ing routes for tour buses, uncoordinated tour bus traffic in the city center of Berlin leads to pollution, noise, and space congestion. This, in turn, results in conflicts among commuters, residents, and bus tourists. Therefore, this work aims to develop a unified tour bus concept to reduce pollution, noise, and congestion caused by tour bus traffic and prevent conflicts among various stakeholders, including commuters, residents, and tourists. Throughout the work, a simulation will be used to model various forms of organizing tour bus traffic in Berlin. Based on this simulation, the reduction in CO2 emissions and particulate matter emissions, as well as the more efficient transportation of tourists, can be determined for bus operators. It will also identify suitable routes, parking areas, and drop-off points. The focus of this work is not solely on tour bus traffic itself, but rather on inefficient operational structures, such as unnecessary trips during the search for parking and ways to avoid them.
Next Direction Route Choice Model for Cyclist Using Panel Data
Creators: name: Wong, Melvin
name: Farooq, Bilal
name: Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre
name: Wong, Melvin
name: Farooq, Bilal
name: Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Supplementary Tables to Brüwer et al. in review
Creators: name: Brüwer, Jan
name: Orellana, Luis H.
name: Sidhu, Chandni
name: Klip, Helena
name: L. Meunier, Cédric
name: Boersma, Maarten
name: Wiltshire, Karen Helen
name: Amann, Rudolf I
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Suplementary Tables to "In situ cell division and mortality rates of SAR11, SAR86, Bacteroidetes, and Aurantivirga during phytoplankton blooms reveal differences in population controls" by Brüwer et al. 2023, mSystems
Unbundling the Hedonic Price Effects of Rapid Transit and Transit-Oriented Development in Toronto
Creators: name: Higgins, Christopher D.
name: Kanaroglou, Pavlos S.
name: Higgins, Christopher D.
name: Kanaroglou, Pavlos S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Self-efficacy in the use of ICT amongst mature students
Creators: name: Padilla-Carmona, Teresa
name: Gil Flores, Javier
name: Rísquez, Angelica
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: Self-efficacy in the use of ICT is a key predictive variable of success for students in higher education. This study explores a range of variables related to the use of ICT by mature students – gender, age, user experience, previous training and attitude to ICT -, as well analysing the relationship between these variables and perceived self-efficacy. For this purpose, a survey was administered to 382 students who were getting prepared to enter University of Seville through one of the specific routes reserved for students over 25, 40 and 45 years. Data were scrutinised through descriptive and multiple regression analysis. Factor analysis revealed the existence of two dimensions: self-efficacy in information processing software, and Internet self-efficacy, both of them considered as dependent variables. The results showed that these two dimensions of self-efficacy are associated respectively with the use of information processing software and the Internet. Older student groups tend to feel less competent in the use of ICT, especially in relation to Internet self-efficacy. Training appears to be a relevant precursor of a student’s competence in using basic information processing software, but not for using the Internet. For mature students, competence in the use of the Internet seems to be an attitudinal issue, so a positive attitude towards ICT facilitates developing their own confidence with using the Internet. The paper concludes by stressing the need for higher education institutions to be aware of and pay special attention to the "digital divide", and to the peculiarities that older university students may present.
Normal form backward induction for decision trees with coherent lower previsions
Creators: name: Huntley, Nathan
name: Troffaes, Matthias C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3
subject: 91B02, 90B99, 62A01, 62C05, 62C20, 62C86, 91B14

description: We examine normal form solutions of decision trees under typical choice functions induced by lower previsions. For large trees, finding such solutions is hard as very many strategies must be considered. In an earlier paper, we extended backward induction to arbitrary choice functions, yielding far more efficient solutions, and we identified simple necessary and sufficient conditions for this to work. In this paper, we show that backward induction works for maximality and E-admissibility, but not for interval dominance and Gamma-maximin. We also show that, in some situations, a computationally cheap approximation of a choice function can be used, even if the approximation violates the conditions for backward induction; for instance, interval dominance with backward induction will yield at least all maximal normal form solutions.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures; v1: added doi and arxiv links
Does the Income Level of a Neighborhood Affect the Price Elasticity of Demand for Transit?
Creators: name: Miller, Caroline
name: Savage, Ian
name: Miller, Caroline
name: Savage, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
title: Exploring the ability of individuals with an intellectual disability to generate and use a compassionate image
Creators: name: Brougham, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Intellectual disability, compassionate focused therapy, mental health, psychological therapies.

description: Background: 
There is a growing interest in adapting 3rd wave therapies such as Mindfulness for use with people who have Intellectual Disabilities. This study will consider the adaptation of Compassion Focused Therapy and aim to explore the ability of individuals with an intellectual disability to generate and use a compassionate image. 

Method: 
The cohort for this exploratory study consisted of nineteen people with an intellectual disability and twenty people without. Participants were recruited from colleges of further education. A technique from Compassion Focused Therapy was specifically adapted for this study to assess if individuals with intellectual disabilities could generate a compassionate image. A vignette based approach was used to help participants imagine that they were in a distressing situation, then they were encouraged to use their compassionate image to generate compassionate self-talk. 

Results: 
Participants with intellectual disabilities were able to generate their own compassionate image through the use of prompts. Furthermore, when they were asked to imagine themselves in a distressing situation they could use this image to generate compassionate self-talk as a means of self-soothing. 

Conclusions: 
This study found that individuals with intellectual disabilities were able to understand the rationale of this task and engaged meaningfully. The result warrants further studies to explore the use of Compassion Focused Therapy with this client group.
Journey-To-Work By Public Transit: Recent Evidence from the Four Largest Urban Centres in Canada
Creators: name: Husein, Rahaf
name: Maoh, Hanna
name: Husein, Rahaf
name: Maoh, Hanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Thermal evolution and structure models of the transiting super-Earth GJ 1214b
Creators: name: Nettelmann, N.
name: Fortney, J. J.
name: Kramm, U.
name: Redmer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The planet GJ 1214b is the second known super-Earth with a measured mass and radius. Orbiting a quiet M-star, it receives considerably less mass-loss driving X-ray and UV radiation than CoRoT-7b, so that the interior may be quite dissimilar in composition, including the possibility of a large fraction of water. We model the interior of GJ 1214b assuming a two-layer (envelope+rock core) structure where the envelope material is either H/He, pure water, or a mixture of H/He and H2O. Within this framework we perform models of the thermal evolution and contraction of the planet. We discuss possible compositions that are consistent with Mp=6.55 ME, Rp=2.678 RE, an age tau=3-10 Gyr, and the irradiation level of the atmosphere. These conditions require that if water exists in the interior, it must remain in a fluid state, with important consequences for magnetic field generation. These conditions also require the atmosphere to have a deep isothermal region extending down to 80-800 bar, depending on composition. Our results bolster the suggestion of a metal-enriched H/He atmosphere for the planet, as we find water-world models that lack an H/He atmosphere to require an implausibly large water-to-rock ratio of more than 6:1. We instead favor a H/He/H2O envelope with high water mass fraction (~0.5-0.85), similar to recent models of the deep envelope of Uranus and Neptune. Even with these high water mass fractions in the H/He envelope, generally the bulk composition of the planet can have subsolar water:rock ratios. Dry, water-enriched, and pure water envelope models differ to an observationally significant level in their tidal Love numbers k2 of respectively ~0.018, 0.15, and 0.7.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ
Development and validation of dry electrodes for mobile EEG measurements
Creators: name: Luu, Cidnee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Electroencephalography (EEG) is a common neuroimaging technique used in clinical, research, and consumer technology due to its non-invasiveness, high time resolution, and sensitivity. Traditional EEG systems consist of wet electrodes and a desktop amplifier for measuring brain activity. While this system provides high signal quality in lab settings, it limits real-world EEG use, such as for ambulatory EEG monitoring, or EEG measurements during exercise. This is due to the training and set up time required for wet electrode application and the bulky, wired traditional amplifier. While some wearable EEG devices exist on the market, EEG measurements during motion requires further signal quality validation to confirm clinical or research utility due to motion artifacts. The objectives of this thesis are to develop custom dry flexible electrodes with improved usability for wearable systems and to compare signal quality of the custom dry electrodes with traditional wet electrodes in mobile measurements. We have developed comb-shaped, dry electrodes for measuring scalp EEG. This electrode incorporates embedded silver thread for a novel yet simple to fabricate design, which allows for a flexible electrode providing impedances similar or lower to those in literature. Participants were instrumented with an EEG cap containing gold cup, gel, and dry electrodes for brain activity measurement as well as an inertial measurement unit (IMU) mouthguard for head kinematics measurements. Data were collected from 8 participants, and during nearly all trials, dry electrodes showed worse signal correlation with gold cup electrodes compared with gel electrodes. For motion artifact characterization, EEG-IMU coherence was found to be higher for dry electrodes in low motion scenarios (e.g., walking), but similar between the 3 electrode types for high motion scenarios (e.g., jumping). This indicates that dry electrodes may be more prone to motion artifacts at lower levels of activity, but with large enough activity all 3 types of electrodes could be equally affected. In summary, we developed custom flexible dry electrodes with improved usability for wearable systems. However, we showed that dry electrode signal quality may be substantially affected by motion artifacts, and wet electrodes may be more suitable for measurements during motion.
Evaluating Impacts of TDM Policies Through Before-After Travel Survey: Application of Data Fusion for Discrete Choice Modelling
Creators: name: Hasnine, Md Sami
name: Lin, Tian Yang
name: Weiss, Adam
name: Habib, Khandker Nurul
name: Hasnine, Md Sami
name: Lin, Tian Yang
name: Weiss, Adam
name: Habib, Khandker Nurul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Majorana surface states of superfluid 3He A- and B-phases in a slab
Creators: name: Tsutsumi, Y.
name: Ichioka, M.
name: Machida, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by experiments on the superfluid 3He confined in a thin slab, we design a concrete experimental setup for observing the Majorana surface states. We solve the quasi-classical Eilenberger equation, which is quantitatively reliable, to evaluate several quantities, such as local density of states (LDOS), mass current for the A-phase, and spin current for the B-phase. In connection with realistic slab samples, we consider the upper and lower surfaces and the side edges including the corners with several thicknesses. Consequently the influence on the Majorana zero modes from the spatial variation of l-vector for the A-phase in thick slabs and the energy splitting of the zero-energy quasi-particles for the B-phase confined in thin slabs are demonstrated. The corner of slabs in the B-phase is accompanied by the unique zero-energy LDOS of corner modes. On the basis of the quantitative calculation, we propose several feasible and verifiable experiments to check the existence of the Majorana surface states, such as the measurement of specific heat, edge current, and anisotropic spin susceptibility.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, published version
Quantum Optomechanics in the Bistable Regime
Creators: name: Ghobadi, R.
name: Bahrampour, A. R.
name: Simon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the simplest optomechanical system with a focus on the bistable regime. The covariance matrix formalism allows us to study both cooling and entanglement in a unified framework. We identify two key factors governing entanglement, namely the bistability parameter, i.e. the distance from the end of a stable branch in the bistable regime, and the effective detuning, and we describe the optimum regime where entanglement is greatest. We also show that in general entanglement is a non-monotonic function of optomechanical coupling. This is especially important in understanding the optomechanical entanglement of the second stable branch.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Supplementary Tables to Brüwer et al. 2023, mSystems
Creators: name: Brüwer, Jan
name: Orellana, Luis H.
name: Sidhu, Chandni
name: Klip, Helena
name: L. Meunier, Cédric
name: Boersma, Maarten
name: Wiltshire, Karen Helen
name: Amann, Rudolf I
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Suplementary Tables to "In situ cell division and mortality rates of SAR11, SAR86, Bacteroidetes, and Aurantivirga during phytoplankton blooms reveal differences in population controls" by Brüwer et al. 2023, mSystems
A Latent Segmentation Multinomial Logit Approach to Examine Bicycle Sharing System Users' Destination Preferences
Creators: name: Faghih-Imani, Ahmadreza
name: Eluru, Naveen
name: Faghih-Imani, Ahmadreza
name: Eluru, Naveen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Enabling and Measuring Success Among New Brunswick Volunteer Driver Programs in an Era of Demographic Change: Towards a Common Data Collection Standard
Creators: name: Hanson, Trevor
name: Caissie, Denis
name: Hanson, Trevor
name: Caissie, Denis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Identification of BRT-Advantaged Age-group and Income Level Group by Examing Various BRT Cities
Creators: name: Dutta, Utpal
name: Dutta, Sawan
name: Dutta, Utpal
name: Dutta, Sawan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Detecting Full N-Particle Entanglement in Arbitrarily High-Dimensional Systems with Bell-Type Inequality
Creators: name: Chen, Jing-Ling
name: Deng, Dong-Ling
name: Su, Hong-Yi
name: Wu, Chunfeng
name: Oh, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a set of Bell-type inequalities for arbitrarily high-dimensional systems, based on the assumption of partial separability in the hybrid local-nonlocal hidden variable model. Partially entangled states would not violate the inequalities, and thus upon violation, these Bell-type inequalities are sufficient conditions to detect the full $N$-particle entanglement and validity of the hybrid local-nonlocal hidden variable description.
description: 6 pages
Unite! handbook of best practices for effective mainstreaming of open science and innovation at Universities
Creators: name: Vicente-Saez, Ruben
name: Windeck, Jürgen
name: Ribeiro, Maria H.L
name: Rousi, Antti
name: Rovira Fernandez, Anna
name: Legrand, Arnaud
name: Rodrigues, Cecilia
name: Halverson, Kristin
name: Cappelluti, Federica
Publisher: name: Unite! Alliance Publications
Year: 2023
Subjects: open science
open science management
university governance
open innovation
science and innovation policy
open exploration
european universities alliances

description: This handbook is a practical guide for facilitating researchers, R&I support services, and university managers to transition from modern science to open science. Based on a comparative case study of 70 research teams across 7 European universities in the Unite! Alliance, this handbook reveals a high-impact understanding of the best open science and innovation practices on Unite! research teams and exposes guidelines for the adoption of these practices. This handbook shapes a new governance model for the management of open science and innovation in universities in the digital era.
Predicting large-scale spatial patterns of marine meiofauna: implications for environmental monitoring - Supplementary material
Creators: name: Gallucci, Fabiane
name: Fonseca, Gustavo
name: Vieira, Danilo C
name: Yaginuma, Luciana Erika
name: Gheller, Paula Foltran
name: Brito, Simone
name: Corbisier, Thais Navajas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: MEIOBENTHOS, ECOLOGY, RANDOM FOREST, SANTOS BASIN, ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

description: Supplementary material of the article "Predicting large-scale spatial patterns of marine meiofauna: implications for environmental monitoring".
Co-Creation of a culturally-relevant approach to examining movement through story and storytelling in Indigenous communities
Creators: name: Anderson, Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Background: Within motor learning, there is limited literature from the perspective of Indigenous peoples. Culturally relevant ways to realize the capacity for learning through story are important areas of research within Indigenous communities. Connecting story to movement may expand Indigenous knowledge in the area of motor behaviour, and may also be a culturally safe approach. Purpose: To examine story and storytelling in movement-related learning through a community-based and Indigenous-led research effort using culturally relevant approaches. Methods: Three sharing circles were conducted with Indigenous community members (n=5). In the first sharing circle, participants discussed topics related to sharing story through movement. In the second sharing circle, participants focused their conversation on expression and the storyteller story-listener relationship. In the third sharing circle, participants verified the synthesis and interpretation of the data. Sharing circle data were analyzed using a modified approach to Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis methodology. Results: Data analysis identified a four component cyclical process that included movement to tell stories, storytelling, stories about movement, and storytelling strategies. Five movement learning themes emerged for Storytelling Strategies, including: expression, retention through movement, feedback, retention through reflection/relationship, and story and movement. Teachings, lived experience, Creation, and Ancestors were also identified as integral to the process. From these findings a Storytelling and Movement model was proposed. Discussion: The findings demonstrate a unique process for movement learning that is based on story and storytelling. The storyteller moves to tell a story, and through the story, the story-listener learns about movement. Five storytelling strategies emerged that dynamically interact with this process. The importance of the relationship between the storyteller and the story-listener was emphasized, as well as age, lived experiences, and community culture and traditions. Conclusion: The Storytelling and Movement Model represents an approach that includes both story and storytelling traditions for learning movement. The model includes elements that are shared between Western and Indigenous traditions as well as ideas specific to Indigenous knowledge systems. The proposed model is unique to the literature and provides an opportunity to further examine Indigenous Ways of Knowing through the storytelling tradition in motor learning.
MUBs inequivalence and affine planes
Creators: name: Kantor, W. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are fairly large families of unitarily inequivalent complete sets of N+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in C^N for various prime powers N. The number of such sets is not bounded above by any polynomial as a function of N. While it is standard that there is a superficial similarity between complete sets of MUBs and finite affine planes, there is an intimate relationship between these large families and affine planes. This note briefly summarizes "old" results that do not appear to be well-known concerning known families of complete sets of MUBs and their associated planes.
description: This is the version of this paper appearing in J. Mathematical Physics 53, 032204 (2012) except for format changes due to the journal's style policies
The Production of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays during the Early Epochs of Radio-loud AGN
Creators: name: Takami, Hajime
name: Horiuchi, Shunsaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Powerful radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) with large Mpc-scale jets have been theoretically motivated as emitters of high-energy cosmic rays. Recent radio observations have established a populous class of young radio-loud galaxies with compact ($< 1$ kpc) symmetric jets that are morphologically similar to large-scale AGNs. We show that these compact AGNs, so-called compact symmetric objects (CSOs), can accelerate protons up to $10^{20}$ eV at their hot spots via a Fermi type mechanism on the assumption of efficient acceleration. The required magnetic field strengths are comparable to those derived from the minimum energy condition. We further show that the accelerated protons can escape through the photon fields of the cocoon without significant energy loss. However, the local number density of powerful CSOs is insufficient for CSOs to power the entire observed flux of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, providing maximally only a few percent. A heavy composition of UHECRs allows more CSOs to accelerate particles to UHECR energies, but escaping the cocoon is difficult. We comment on a method that may test CSOs as UHECR sources.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Optimal Transit Pricing with Crowding and Traffic Congestion: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis
Creators: name: Palma, Andre De
name: Lindsey, Robin
name: Monchambert, Guillaume
name: Palma, Andre De
name: Lindsey, Robin
name: Monchambert, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Square root voting system, optimal threshold and π
Creators: name: Zyczkowski, Karol
name: Slomczynski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of designing an optimal weighted voting system for the two-tier voting, applicable in the case of the Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU), is investigated. Various arguments in favour of the square root voting system, where the voting weights of member states are proportional to the square root of their population are discussed and a link between this solution and the random walk in the one-dimensional lattice is established. It is known that the voting power of every member state is approximately equal to its voting weight, if the threshold q for the qualified majority in the voting body is optimally chosen. We analyze the square root voting system for a generic 'union' of M states and derive in this case an explicit approximate formula for the level of the optimal threshold: q \simeq 1/2+1/\sqrt{π M}. The prefactor 1/\sqrt{π} appears here as a result of averaging over the ensemble of unions with random populations.
description: revised version, 21 pages in latex
Let's Twist Again: N=2 Super Yang Mills Theory Coupled To Matter
Creators: name: Maggiore, Nicola
name: Picollo, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give the twisted version of N=2 Super Yang Mills theory coupled to matter, including quantum fields, supersymmetry transformations, action and algebraic structure. We show that the whole action, coupled to matter, can be written as the variation of a nilpotent operator, modulo field equations. An extended Slavnov-Taylor identity, collecting gauge symmetry and supersymmetry, is written, which allows to define the web of algebraic constraints, in view of the algebraic renormalization and of the extension of the non-renormalization theorems holding for N=2 SYM theory without matter.
description: 28 pages, final version to be published on CQG
Hard probes of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations
Creators: name: Arrington, J.
name: Higinbotham, D. W.
name: Rosner, G.
name: Sargsian, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the primary goals of nuclear physics is providing a complete description of the structure of atomic nuclei. While mean-field calculations provide detailed information on the nuclear shell structure for a wide range of nuclei, they do not capture the complete structure of nuclei, in particular the impact of small, dense structures in nuclei. The strong, short-range component of the nucleon-nucleon potential yields hard interactions between nucleons which are close together, generating a high-momentum tail to the nucleon momentum distribution, with momenta well in excess of the Fermi momentum. This high-momentum component of the nuclear wave-function is one of the most poorly understood parts of nuclear structure. Utilizing high-energy probes, we can isolate scattering from high-momentum nucleons, and use these measurements to examine the structure and impact of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations. Over the last decade we have moved from looking for evidence of such short-range structures to mapping out their strength in nuclei and examining their isospin structure. This has been made possible by high-luminosity and high-energy accelerators, coupled with an improved understanding of the reaction mechanism issues involved in studying these structures. We review the general issues related to short-range correlations, survey recent experiments aimed at probing these short-range structures, and lay out future possibilities to further these studies.
description: Review article to appear in Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 77 pages, 33 figures
Canada's Shifting Sands: Oil Production and Distribution, 2005-2014
Creators: name: McKeown, Lawrence
name: Caouette, Anthony
name: McKeown, Lawrence
name: Caouette, Anthony
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Waterfall field in hybrid inflation and curvature perturbation
Creators: name: Gong, Jinn-Ouk
name: Sasaki, Misao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study carefully the contribution of the waterfall field to the curvature perturbation at the end of hybrid inflation. In particular we clarify the parameter dependence analytically under reasonable assumptions on the model parameters. After calculating the mode function of the waterfall field, we use the delta N formalism and confirm the previously obtained result that the power spectrum is very blue with the index 4 and is absolutely negligible on large scales. However, we also find that the resulting curvature perturbation is highly non-Gaussian and hence we calculate the bispectrum. We find that the bispectrum is at leading order independent of momentum and exhibits its peak at the equilateral limit, though it is unobservably small on large scales. We also present the one-point probability distribution function of the curvature perturbation.
description: (v1) 23 pages, 1 figure; (v2) 26 pages, discussions expanded including a new appendix section and references added; (v3) minor updates, to appear in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Community Data Needs on Dangerous Goods Movement by Rail: Perspectives of Select New Brunswick Emergency Planning Officials
Creators: name: Hanson, Trevor
name: McPhee, Brendan
name: Hanson, Trevor
name: McPhee, Brendan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Evaluation of Rear-End Collision Risk in Car-Heavy Vehicle Mixed Traffic Flow on Freeways Using Surrogate Safety Measures
Creators: name: Zhao, Peibo
name: Lee, Chris
name: Zhao, Peibo
name: Lee, Chris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Investigating Safety Impact of Backlit Pedestrian Crossing Sign Using Driver Behavior Analysis
Creators: name: Matin, Foomani
name: Alecsandru, Ciprian
name: Lauziere, Patrick
name: Matin, Foomani
name: Alecsandru, Ciprian
name: Lauziere, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
A Safety Perception Indicator for Vulnerable Road Users in Urban Environments (ASPIRE)
Creators: name: Christie, Nicola
name: Regan, Amelia
name: Christie, Nicola
name: Regan, Amelia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario
Simulating Roadside Safety Inspection Benefits Enabled by Alternative V21 Prescreening Technologies
Creators: name: Chow, Garland
name: Kakkar, Geetansh
name: Chow, Garland
name: Kakkar, Geetansh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 51st CTRF (57th TRF) Joint Conference, May 1-4, 2016, Toronto, Ontario