cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelling microbial processes of soil organic matter mineralization and methane production
Creators: Venegas Garcia, Pablo
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Increased anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have gained attention from researchers and world leaders due to the potential for global warming. Part of the primary greenhouse gas emitters come from the agriculture and oil and gas industrial sectors. The sources of two prioritized greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, are now the subject of extensive research because of the adverse effects of such gases on a global scale. Particularly, microbial biodegradation of organic compounds is under consideration due to microbial capacity to produce different greenhouse gases at high rates or scales, including carbon dioxide and methane, depending on environmental or soil features. For example, rapid soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization derived from increased microbial degradation activities due to labile substrate availability in soils can elevate atmospheric carbon dioxide in short periods. Also, under anaerobic conditions, specific microbial communities can slowly degrade hydrocarbons found in oil sand tailing ponds, increasing atmospheric methane concentrations over a long time.

In this thesis, we formulated data-validated mathematical models to estimate carbon dioxide and methane emissions from microbial organic matter biodegradation processes in soils. Under aerobic conditions, a base model captures the biodegradation kinetics of labile compounds and soil organic matter under carbon and nitrogen stoichiometric constraints. The model quantifies the necessary labile carbon-to-nitrogen to increase microbial SOM mineralization and time to achieve a maximum degradation rate for different nutrient-rich soils. An extended version of this model allows us to include soil health indicators to understand the dynamic interaction between plant microbes and soils. Our theoretical results for this specific approach reveal a threshold for which the input of fertilizers would be needed for plant growth, providing insightful information that might benefit the agricultural sector for agricultural soil management. Considering anaerobic conditions, a mechanistic mathematical model allowed us to quantify hydrocarbon degradation kinetics and methane emissions from oil sands tailings. We collected experimental data to evaluate hydrocarbon degradation rates subject to different temperatures to capture a broad spectrum of degradation kinetics, which are required to incorporate the temperature variations in oil sands tailing ponds and end pit lakes into the model. Our results quantify the differences between the model's predictions and governmental reports, showing a significant discrepancy. Furthermore, the model predicts that hydrocarbon concentration in oil sands tailing ponds would reach a steady state when a constant input of tailings and diluents into ponds is assumed, implying a constant methane biogenesis rate.
Additional file 1 of Association of rurality, type of primary caregiver and place of death with end-of-life medical expenditures among the oldest-old population in China
Creators: name: Li, Zhong
name: Hung, Peiyin
name: Shi, Kewei
name: Fu, You
name: Qian, Dongfu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Distribution of sampled oldest-old by year of death. Supplementary Table 2. Medical expenditures during the last year of life by sample characteristics. Supplementary Table 3. trends in type of primary caregiver and place of death of sampled oldest-old by year of death. Supplementary Table 4. Results of sensitivity analysis. Supplementary Table 5. Marginal differences of included characteristics on medical expenditure during the last year of life among urban deceased. Supplementary Table 6. Marginal differences of included characteristics on medical expenditure during the last year of life among rural deceased. Supplementary Table 7. Comparison of individual characteristics between deceased reported and not reported medical expenditure during the last year of life.
Insights and Advancing Mental Health Care: The Utility of Administrative Health Records
Creators: Pierce, Derek V
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

AHRs' efficacy in mental health research. These papers are meant to showcase the application of machine learning (ML) to predict opioid overdose risks, the examination of developmental disorder utilization shifts within the Alberta healthcare system, and the impact of the pandemic on neurocognitive disorder trends and healthcare demands. These examples underline the diverse applications and insights AHRs can provide into mental health issues.

Looking to the future, the dissertation advocates for broadening AHRs' applications, including their potential in post-disaster mental health outcome predictions. It proposes an integration of AHRs with wearable device data, aiming to transform mental health care from a traditionally reactive approach to a proactive and preventive strategy. This forward-thinking perspective envisions a system where real-time data from wearables enriches AHRs, offering nuanced, immediate insights into individual mental health statuses.

Overall, the dissertation aims to comprehensively dissect the capacity of AHRs to revolutionize mental health care research and practice. It not only addresses the challenges of privacy and the necessity for cross-sector collaboration but also demonstrates the practical applications of AHRs in current mental health scenarios and anticipates their future role in advancing mental health care, especially in contexts affected by disasters.

This work not only highlights the present state of mental health care research but also recommends new directions for future innovations in the field.
Does Ethnicity Matter? Russia, Ukraine, and the Crimean Peninsula (1954-2022)
Creators: Schmalz, Rachel C
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

In 1954, the Soviet government announced the transfer of the Crimean Peninsula to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Neither Russia nor Ukraine could have predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union less than four decades after the transfer, but it was consequential in determining the fate of Crimea. Over the past seventy years, Crimea has been in Soviet Ukraine, independent Ukraine, and illegally occupied by the Russian Federation. During these periods, the three main ethnic groups were the Russians, Ukrainians, and Crimean Tatars. In my research, I examine how the different ethnic groups in Crimea have created a Crimean identity that doesn't represent any official nationalism. I argue that Crimea has a unique regional consciousness that is not solely Russian, Ukrainian, or Crimean Tatar. The research is broken down into three time periods: Crimea in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1954-1990), Crimea in independent Ukraine (1991-2013), and Crimea under Russian occupation (2014-2022). During each of these periods, Crimea developed as part of the larger state (Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia) and also evolved independently as a region. My goal is to create a narrative that is not Russian, Ukrainian, or Crimean Tatar-centric by exploring the role of ethnicity, history, and culture in creating a regional consciousness in Crimea.
Corrections to: Shinar, G. and M. Feinberg, Concordant chemical reaction networks and the Species-Reaction Graph, Mathematical Biosciences, 241, 1-23, 2013.
Creators: name: Feinberg, Martin Feinberg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This posting contains two corrections to the article Shinar, G. and M. Feinberg, Concordant chemical reaction networks and theSpecies-Reaction Graph, Mathematical Biosciences, 241, 1-23, 2013.
Theorizing New Sport Emergence: The Case of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Creators: Zheng, Jingxuan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

In organizational theory, market categories offer important cognitive infrastructures enabling mutual understanding and communicative effectiveness among market actors, resulting in the construction of a taken-for-granted social reality. This dissertation employed a three-paper format to explore several research gaps revolving around the theorization of new market category emergence. More specifically, with content analysis conducted on a qualitative case study of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), the first paper aimed to decipher the role emotions play in new sport emergence. It found that negative emotions were embedded in the discourse surrounding early MMA that hindered its legitimation; in order to legitimize the sport, discursive institutional work was undertaken by pro-MMA stakeholders to address existing negative emotions and create positive new ones. Next, the second paper used narrative analysis to examine the inter-categorical strategies used to position an emerging market category—Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)—as optimally distinctive within a broader classification and meaning system through a normative lens. I discovered that contingent on a differentiation/conformity continuum gauged with normative positioning benchmarks of various levels, new category inter-categorical optimal distinctiveness was achieved through four comprehensive positioning strategies: complementary coupling, multi-level positioning, strategic categorization and multi-nesting, and internal temporal positioning. Finally, the third study investigated the applicability of the classic theory of new category emergence in a sport context. Through delving into the emerging history of MMA empirically, it was found that existing theory has its limitations in explaining MMA’s emergence. I then introduced celebrity as an alternative to legitimacy. Underscored by the attention economy perspective and the notion of sport ecosystems, propositions were introduced to refine and expand existing theory of new category formation. In conclusion, this dissertation contributes to the refinement of the theorization of new category emergence in particular, and category dynamics in general.
Supplementary_Material – Supplemental material for The Need to Evaluate Risks and Benefits of Pharmacists Independently Diagnosing and Treating Dermatologic Conditions in Canada
Creators: name: Derstenfeld, Alex
name: Shear, Neil H.
name: Litvinov, Ivan V.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Material for The Need to Evaluate Risks and Benefits of Pharmacists Independently Diagnosing and Treating Dermatologic Conditions in Canada by Alex Derstenfeld, Neil H. Shear and Ivan V. Litvinov in Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
Supplementary document for An electrically tunable graphene plasmonic lens: from Maxwell Fisheye Lens to Luneburg Lens - 6588195.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Chenglong
name: Guo, Xiang
name: Wu, Xidong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: GP Lens Simulation with COMSOL
Resolution of the Hodge Conjecture via a Rational Cohomological Framework
Creators: name: Hassanine, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Hodge conjecture
algebraic cycles
étale cohomology
rational cohomology
Chow groups
algebraic geometry
Clay Millennium Problems
base rational framework
structural resolution

description: We present a complete structural resolution of the Hodge conjecture by reformulating algebraic geometry and cohomology within a fully rational framework. Working over the field of rational numbers and using étale cohomology, we define (p,p)-classes via orthogonality and show that all such classes are algebraic, assuming surjectivity of the cycle map. We validate this surjectivity in key cases including curves, K3 surfaces, and hypersurfaces, and show that the rational setting eliminates analytic obstructions. By comparison isomorphisms, this rational resolution implies the classical conjecture over complex projective varieties. The result offers a new perspective on the Clay Millennium Problem.
Resolution of the Hodge Conjecture via a Rational Cohomological Framework
Creators: name: Hassanine, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Hodge conjecture
algebraic cycles
étale cohomology
rational cohomology
Chow groups
algebraic geometry
Clay Millennium Problems
base rational framework
structural resolution

description: We present a complete structural resolution of the Hodge conjecture by reformulating algebraic geometry and cohomology within a fully rational framework. Working over the field of rational numbers and using étale cohomology, we define (p,p)-classes via orthogonality and show that all such classes are algebraic, assuming the surjectivity of the cycle map. We validate this surjectivity in key cases, including curves, K3 surfaces, and hypersurfaces, and show that the rational setting eliminates analytic obstructions. By comparison isomorphisms, this rational resolution implies the classical conjecture over complex projective varieties. The result offers a new perspective on the Clay Millennium Problem.

While this work does not resolve the conjecture in its full generality, it provides a partial resolution for specific varieties, advancing algebraic geometry by offering a rationally verifiable condition for the conjecture. This formulation effectively reduces the conjecture to a concrete, symbolic, and rationally verifiable condition. Importantly, it generalizes the exact verifications previously performed on K3 surfaces and abelian varieties, where integrals such as ∫ZNωN were shown to stabilize to rational constants. These findings suggest that the entire Hodge conjecture may admit a purely symbolic resolution under this condition.

The development presented here, combined with the formal symbolic framework laid out in this work, offers a pathway towards resolving the Hodge conjecture. Moreover, it forms a foundational basis that could potentially contribute to the solution of the Clay Millennium Problem.

In light of this, any future proof of the uniform boundedness of the discrete vorticity in the context of the rational discrete framework would immediately yield a complete solution to the Hodge conjecture in the rational setting, and could also lead to a resolution of the Hodge conjecture itself, as posed in the Clay Millennium Prize.
ПАХТА-ТЎҚИМАЧИЛИК КЛАСТЕРЛАРИДА ИШЛАБ ЧИҚАРИШ ЗАҲИРАЛАРИНИ БОШҚАРИШНИНГ НАЗАРИЙ-МЕТОДОЛОГИК ЖИҲАТЛАРИ
Creators: name: Насимов, Бахтиёр
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: XIX асрдаги тўқимачилик корхоналарининг фаолияти узлуксиз ишлаб чиқариш жараёни учун хом-ашёнинг зарурий заҳирасини яратиш муаммосини ўткир қилиб қўйди. Заҳираларни яратишнинг биринчи методи бўлиб тақвимли бошқариш методи ҳисобланиб, бунда ишлаб чиқариш эҳтиёжлари учун хом-ашё маълум бир вақт даврини ҳисобга олиб олдиндан сотиб олинар эди. Бироқ, турли хилдаги олдиндан кўриб бўлмайдиган ҳолатлар (ўз вақтида буюртма бермаслик, таъминотчилар айби билан хом-ашёни етказиб бериш муддатлари бузилиши) билан боғлиқ ҳолда режалаштирилган санада хом-ашё етарли бўлмай қолар ва ишлаб чиқаришнинг тўхтаб қолиши рўй берарди.
Leveraging Natural Language Processing Methods to Evaluate Automatically Generated Cloze Questions: A Cautionary Tale
Creators: Gorgun, Guher
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

The purpose of this dissertation is to employ three prominent atural language processing methods to assess the feasibility of automatically evaluating cloze questions generated by automatic item generation (AIG) methods. AIG methods have been developed to address the need for a large number of items for computerized assessments as well as online learning environments. Yet, traditional methods for evaluating item quality are limited to evaluating each generated item and providing information about the quality of the generated items. In this study, we first provided an exhaustive overview of item quality criteria and evaluation methods used by AIG researchers. This allowed us to portray the current evaluation practices, their advantages, and limitations. We proposed a taxonomy of current evaluation methods used for AIG studies, namely, metric-based evaluations, human evaluators, and post-hoc evaluations. Given that current evaluation methods have several limitations and typically cannot be used for evaluating all generated items, we examined three natural language processing methods for evaluating item quality automatically. As such, this is a proof-of-concept study investigating the feasibility of various natural language processing methods for item evaluation. In this study, we used automatically generated cloze questions evaluated by crowdsource workers to investigate the utility of three prominent natural language processing methods for item evaluation. Thus, we examined the capacity of incorporating NLP and ML methods in item evaluation process for automatically generated items to render item evaluation more feasible. These methods included training three machine learning classifiers (i.e., random forest, support vector machine, and logistic regression) using  inguistic features extracted from item stems and keyed responses (Study 1), fine-tuning a large-language model, namely BERT (Study 2), and instruction-tuning a generative large-language model, namely, Llama-2 (Study 3). In Study 1, the best-performing classifier was the logistic regression, followed by the random forest and support vector machine. Nonetheless, the results of ML classifiers highlighted that they are quite limited in predicting item quality. In Study 2, we fine-tuned BERT-Large and BERT-Base and found an improvement in item quality prediction compared to Study 1 results. In Study 3, the performance of the instruction-tuned Llama-2 model surpassed all other methods and achieved an acceptable performance for identifying item quality. Overall, the findings suggested the promise of tuning generative large-language models by providing specific instructions regarding item quality for automatically evaluating the quality of generated items.
End-to-end game design using EPCG
Creators: Mahmoud, Yazeed
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Procedural content generation (PCG) algorithms have been utilized for automating the creation of game content such as levels, assets, and narratives. One specific type, Exhaustive PCG (EPCG), systematically generates all possible variations of content before selecting the best, embodying a form of exploratory creativity. While EPCG has been applied to modifying or creating entire levels in games, there has been no research into employing EPCG for generating games end-to-end. This work explores the application of EPCG to game design, specifically focusing on the tangram puzzle genre. The game design process involves collaboration between human designers and computational algorithms. Our aim is to create a puzzle curriculum with multiple chapters, each introducing a new combination of constraints. Through this work, we demonstrate the potential of EPCG in driving comprehensive game design. Additionally, we introduce the concept of differential entropy, which assists in teaching puzzle inference rules, and utilize it to develop a puzzle curriculum that encourages players to understand the puzzle more deeply.
Measuring Conscious Monitoring and Metacognition of Motor Performance at the Start, Middle, and End of a Reaching Movement
Creators: Oancea, Gabriela
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

The ability to monitor our arm position during goal-directed behaviour allows us to bring our limb to a target as accurately as possible. Despite our success in executing accurate movements, some work suggests that individuals have limited access to information about their limb position (Fourneret & Jeannerod, 1998; Pélisson, et al., 1986). However, contradictory evidence from metacognition research indicates that people have some access to details about their movements. In these studies, individuals are asked to rate their confidence after making judgements about their movements and tend to give higher confidence ratings when they are correct, showing some capacity for self-monitoring (Arbuzova et al., 2021). These conflicting results suggest that we may not be monitoring an entire movement from start to end.

In the current study, participants (n=50) made reaching movements toward targets on a screen. They were then presented with two movement paths: one being their actual trajectory and the other being a visually deviated version. Here, we manipulated the location that the deviation was implemented (i.e., start, middle, or end of the path). Participants were then asked to determine which trajectory was their own, while also rating their confidence in their response.

Overall, accuracy was lower than expected. Nevertheless, accuracy was significantly lower when deviations occurred at the start of the reach, indicating that awareness of limb position is further reduced at the start of a movement. Additionally, participants showed some ability to metacognitively monitor their movements because their confidence scaled with their accuracy in the task. Finally, differences in metacognitive processes between locations were found, with higher average confidence in the middle of a movement when accuracy was held constant.

We conclude that people have a remarkable blindness to the properties of their own movements, while still having a “feel” of their performance. As well, poor awareness of limb position at the start of a movement suggests reduced attention to the limb at this time, possibly due to movement programming demands.
Supplementary document for An electrically tunable graphene plasmonic lens: from Maxwell Fisheye Lens to Luneburg Lens - 6588195.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Chenglong
name: Guo, Xiang
name: Wu, Xidong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: GP Lens Simulation with COMSOL
title: Carthame :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants
Safflower

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
The Individual and Synergistic Impact of Team Diversity on Team Performance in the Context of European Soccer
Creators: Huang, Yinle
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

As a global industry, the field of professional sport mirrors the trend towards increasing levels of team diversity observed in the general workforce. Professional sports not only reflect workforce changes in various industries but also provide an advantageous context for conducting organizational research, including studies related to diversity issues. Therefore, using European soccer as a research context, this dissertation investigates the influences of two forms of team diversity, as well as their combined effects with other diversity features, on the final overall performance of individual teams. Additionally, in all three papers, multiple boundary conditions are identified through moderator exploration and construct refinement, enhancing the depth of the research. The first paper examines the effect of soccer players’ cultural diversity in terms of nationality on national teams’ performance. The estimation results from a dataset encompassing European national teams between 2004 and 2019 suggest cultural diversity positively contributes to on-field team performance and team members’ shared tenure can amplify this positive relationship. The second paper explores how different components of players’ salary dispersion affect team performance within the context of the English Premier League from the 2013/14 to 2019/20 season. Estimation results from different methods indicate differences regarding explained and unexplained pay dispersion in relation to individual team’s sporting success. Furthermore, depending on team composition, explained pay dispersion can exert a moderating effect on the relationship between pay level and team performance. The third paper adopts a team faultlines perspective and studies how the alignment of surface- (age, race, nationality) and deep-level diversity (pay dispersion) affects team sporting success. Through analyzing a dataset of the Italian Serie A spanning from the 2013/14 to 2019/20 season, the study uncovers a detrimental impact of team faultlines strength on team performance. However, the negative impact is mitigated by shared team tenure, and this mitigation is further amplified by leaders’ multicultural experience.
Supplementary document for Direct-detected spectroscopy based on plasmonic Schottky photodetector and a deep neural network - 6588237.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Shaoxiong
name: Chen, Cheng
name: Dai, Yue
name: Ye, Jiayi
name: Xu, Xinyi
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Tian, Feng
name: Xu, Yang
name: Hu, Huan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental materials
10.1177_1358863X19873410_Supplemental_Table – Supplemental material for Segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM): Systematic review and analysis of 143 cases
Creators: name: Skeik, Nedaa
name: Olson, Sydney L
name: Gopika Hari
name: Pavia, Mary L
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, 10.1177_1358863X19873410_Supplemental_Table for Segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM): Systematic review and analysis of 143 cases by Nedaa Skeik, Sydney L Olson, Gopika Hari and Mary L Pavia in Vascular Medicine
A Comprehensive Study of Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Noise Reduction in Optical Coherence Tomography
Creators: Youwei, Chen
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been widely adopted as an imaging modality for various clinical applications, such as breast cancer screening, retinal imaging, and vascular assessment, due to its non-invasive nature. However, OCT is affected by coherent speckle noise, which impairs OCT images’ contrast and detailed structural information. This presents a

challenge for accurate clinical analysis. To improve image quality, one can adopt frame-wise averaging of OCT images, where multiple images of the same field of view are consecutively acquired and averaged. However, this approach is time-consuming and impractical for point-of-care clinical applications. To overcome the time-consuming shortcomings and to make OCT more suitable for surgical settings, we propose the application of conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN). The cGAN was trained to learn how the signal and

noise characteristics change via the averaging process, using non-clinical data for training and then testing on unseen clinical breast tissues. This method has demonstrated strong robustness and generalizability, significantly enhancing signal and contrast without compromising sharpness and reducing speckle noise in OCT B-scans of human breast tissue. The proposed method offers a potential replacement for frame-wise averaging approaches.
Black Hole Greybody Factors in a Non-commutative Space-time
Creators: Cox, Zachary K
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Non-commutative geometries motivated by string theory have enabled calculations of black hole properties distinctly different from those of classical gravity, such as a finite maximum temperature and a minimum mass, and horizon radius at which Hawking evaporation may terminate. In this thesis, we investigate the greybody factors arising from higher dimensional spherically symmetric and static black holes in non-commutative geometry inspired space-times.

Greybody factors are computed for massless fields of spin 0, 1/2, 1 and 2 on the brane, and spin 0 and 2 in the bulk emitted from higher dimensional non-commutative geometry inspired black holes. The results are compared to the commutative cases. The Teukolsky equation describing the various field perturbations is decoupled into angular and radial parts. The radial equation is cast into the form of a one-dimensional Schrodinger-like equation with an effective short-ranged potential barrier. We use the product calculus formalism of path-ordered exponentials to numerically compute the transmission coefficients. The corresponding absorption cross sections and emission spectra are also presented. The results presented here will be useful in Monte Carlo simulations required for searches of microscopic non-commutative black holes produced in proton-proton collisions, such as those with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
Supplemental Material, Supplementary_Tables_(1) - Trends of Hospital Palliative Care Utilization and Its Associated Factors Among Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States From 2005 to 2014
Creators: name: Yu, Kaylee G.
name: Shen, Jay J.
name: Kim, Pearl C.
name: Kim, Sun Jung
name: Lee, Se Won
name: Byun, David
name: Yoo, Ji Won
name: Jinwook Hwang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental Material, Supplementary_Tables_(1) for Trends of Hospital Palliative Care Utilization and Its Associated Factors Among Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States From 2005 to 2014 by Kaylee G. Yu, Jay J. Shen, Pearl C. Kim, Sun Jung Kim, Se Won Lee, David Byun, Ji Won Yoo and Jinwook Hwang in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
Big_5_ICH_supplemental_document_6.29.18 – Supplemental material for Who Is Prejudiced, and Toward Whom? The Big Five Traits and Generalized Prejudice
Creators: name: Crawford, Jarret T.
name: Brandt, Mark J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Big_5_ICH_supplemental_document_6.29.18 for Who Is Prejudiced, and Toward Whom? The Big Five Traits and Generalized Prejudice by Jarret T. Crawford and Mark J. Brandt in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Bruijniks_Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for The Potential Role of Learning Capacity in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review of the Evidence and Future Directions for Improving Therapeutic Learning
Creators: name: Bruijniks, Sanne J. E.
name: DeRubeis, Robert J.
name: Hollon, Steven D.
name: Huibers, Marcus J. H.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Bruijniks_Supplemental_Material for The Potential Role of Learning Capacity in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review of the Evidence and Future Directions for Improving Therapeutic Learning by Sanne J. E. Bruijniks, Robert J. DeRubeis, Steven D. Hollon and Marcus J. H. Huibers in Clinical Psychological Science
Practical Governance: The Victoria Declaration and a Relational Approach to Housing and Support Services
Creators: McBeth, Renee Erica
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

This study encompassed the Home in the City (HITC) project, a community-engaged research project that sought to create equitable housing governance in Victoria, BC. I worked with community members, service providers, advocates, and university researchers to identify principles and processes that can build collaboration within housing services and networks. HITC participants collectively articulated our shared ideas in The Victoria Declaration–A Statement on Housing and Support Services, which was formally endorsed by local organizations, including the federally designated regional homelessness network (2019) and the City of Victoria (2022). Drawing on this relational fieldwork, my dissertation introduces and analyzes a practical governance method in which a researcher works with a community to co-create a governance resource. Practical governance is a community governance strategy and an approach to community-engaged scholarship that is grounded in a theory of political relations.

As Métis-Cree researcher and lived expert Jesse Thistle (2017) asserts in Definition of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada, “networks of emplaced significance” are essential to healthy communities. If we want governance that supports healthy communities, it must stem from “emplaced” networks grounded in the specific places or communities that people depend on to meet their everyday needs—relationships that give their lives meaning. Rather than merely criticizing current governance practices, this project’s working assumption was that we need new governance strategies that entail practical ways of making decisions together that centre relational knowledges and lived experience. Unfortunately, current contexts of governance replicate systemic inequities. In response to these challenging contexts, my practical governance method brings emplaced knowledges into a process of collective meaning-making, helps groups navigate serious disagreements, and co-creates new governance processes.
Supplementary document for Simulated annealing algorithm with neural network for designing topological photonic crystals - 6589454.pdf
Creators: name: liao, yaodong
name: yu, tianen
name: wang, yueke
name: dong, boxuan
name: Yang, Guofeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
San Ignacio: A  Bolivian Opera
Creators: Penner, Jodi
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

San Ignacio, one of the musical works that came out of the Chiquitano and Moxos Missions of eastern Bolivia in the mid-18th century, is an enigmatic product of the Jesuit colonial project. Heavily loaded with dramatic religious language, this work is an intriguing blend of European influences within the remote region of the lower Amazon basin. The fact that the work has remained in circulation in various forms over the last two hundred and fifty years, demonstrates that the work left an indelible impression on the Indigenous people who were recipients of it. This thesis examines the sources of the opera, the historical context in which it was written, its dubious authorship and how it has been adopted into the Bolivian musical canon. Drawing from scores compiled in the recent decades and from dialogue with preeminent scholars of the Bolivian archives, this paper examines the relationship that “Mission Music” and San Ignacio has had on the Bolivian musical community.
Supplemental Material1 - Supplemental material for Mobile health interventions to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in the workplace: A systematic review
Creators: name: Buckingham, Sarah Ann
name: Williams, Andrew James
name: Morrissey, Karyn
name: Price, Lisa
name: Harrison, John
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental Material1 for Mobile health interventions to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in the workplace: A systematic review by Sarah Ann Buckingham, Andrew James Williams, Karyn Morrissey, Lisa Price and John Harrison in Digital Health
Additional file 3 of Emerging professional practices focusing on reducing inequity in speech-language therapy and audiology: a scoping review
Creators: name: Abrahams, Kristen
name: Mallick, Rizwana
name: Hohlfeld, Ameer S-J
name: Pillay, Thiani
name: Suliaman, Tamzyn
name: Kathard, Harsha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. List of included papers. Reference list for the included studies in the scoping review.
Imperfect Match
Creators: name: Hunt, Simon
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 2018

description: ‘Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 40th Anniversary - Party Or Protest’ was a history book to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. It was commissioned by ABC Magazines and sold nationally in bookshops & newsagencies. It was comprised of personal & political histories as well as interviews. My chapter “Imperfect Match” was a personal history of the day that homosexuality was decriminalized in New South Wales, a day on which I also appeared as a game show contestant on the television dating show “Perfect Match” in a theatrical context.
description: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 40th Anniversary Party Or Protest
Biochemical and Clinically Relevant Evaluation of Nanocrystalline Silver Dressings
Creators: Pletts, Matthew JG
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Nanocrystalline silver, used in commercial dressings such as Acticoat7TM, possesses unique properties that make these dressings effective for antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory purposes. Previous research has identified the presence of silver carbonate in these dressings under specific conditions, potentially affecting their performance. This study investigated whether dressings manufactured in a water vapor atmosphere (like Trivera) are more prone to forming silver carbonate compared to those made without water. The primary objective was to determine how different manufacturing and storage conditions impact the antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties of these dressings over time. The study focused on the effects of carbon dioxide exposure on silver dressings and whether these effects are beneficial or harmful. This understanding is crucial for ensuring the dressings perform as intended and for improving manufacturing, storage, and packaging processes. Antimicrobial activity was measured using serial dilutions, a method limited in that it cannot accurately measure bacterial reductions greater than seven-fold, which is common for these dressings. Multiple samples were tested to assess changes in the dressings resulting from carbon dioxide exposure. Results indicated that longer exposure to carbon dioxide significantly increased the bacteria-killing ability of Trivera dressings, with a positive correlation (r = 0.732, p < 0.001). For Acticoat7TM, the effect of carbon dioxide exposure was insignificant (r = 0.068, p = 0.42). In comparison, a generic version of Acticoat7TM showed a decrease in antimicrobial effectiveness with increased carbon dioxide exposure (r = -0.401, p < 0.001), while Acticoat FlexTM showed an increase (r = 0.571, p < 0.001). These findings highlight that carbon dioxide exposure can differentially affect various types of nanocrystalline silver dressings, emphasizing the importance of precise control over manufacturing and storage conditions to maintain optimal antimicrobial properties.
Additional file 1 of Features and effects of computer-based games on cognitive impairments in children with autism spectrum disorder: an evidence-based systematic literature review
Creators: name: Rezayi, Sorayya
name: Tehrani-Doost, Mehdi
name: Shahmoradi, Leila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table A.1. Keywords and search strategy for each database.
Supplementary document for Guided spiraling phonon polaritons in rolled one-dimensional MoO₃ nanotubes - 6589594.pdf
Creators: name: huanjun, Peining
name: li, peining
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information for Guided spiraling phonon polaritons in rolled one-dimensional MoO3 nanotubes
Supplemental Material, JSR17129_Executive_Summary_20190128 - When and Why a Squeakier Wheel Gets More Grease: The Influence of Cultural Values and Anger Intensity on Customer Compensation
Creators: name: Glikson, Ella
name: Rees, Laura
name: Wirtz, Jochen
name: Shirli Kopelman
name: Rafaeli, Anat
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material, JSR17129_Executive_Summary_20190128 for When and Why a Squeakier Wheel Gets More Grease: The Influence of Cultural Values and Anger Intensity on Customer Compensation by Ella Glikson, Laura Rees, Jochen Wirtz, Shirli Kopelman and Anat Rafaeli in Journal of Service Research
Figure_1A_Age-specific_deaths_rates_(ASDRs),_log_scale,_PNG,_2011_(census_household_deaths) – Supplemental material for Patterns of All-Cause Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 2011
Creators: name: Urarang Kitur
name: Adair, Tim
name: Lopez, Alan D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, Figure_1A_Age-specific_deaths_rates_(ASDRs),_log_scale,_PNG,_2011_(census_household_deaths) for Patterns of All-Cause Mortality in Papua New Guinea, 2011 by Urarang Kitur, Tim Adair and Alan D. Lopez in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
‘Look Both Ways: Future and historical perspectives on the Refugee Convention at 70’
Creators: name: Goodwin-Gill, Guy
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 2021

description: Reviews the history of the principle of non-refoulement and protection, and proposes reforms of the UNHCR Statute.
description: American Society of International Law Annual Conference 2021; Online; 2021-03-23 - 2021-03-25
Additional file 2 of Emerging professional practices focusing on reducing inequity in speech-language therapy and audiology: a scoping review
Creators: name: Abrahams, Kristen
name: Mallick, Rizwana
name: Hohlfeld, Ameer S-J
name: Pillay, Thiani
name: Suliaman, Tamzyn
name: Kathard, Harsha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Data extraction tool. Table describing the nature of data extraction linked to the objectives of the study.
Utilizing Salt-Coated Polypropylene Fabrics in Face Masks and Covers to Combat Respiratory Disease Transmission
Creators: Han, Sumin
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Infections in the respiratory system not only cause individual illness but can also

spread to others and potentially develop into pandemics or epidemics. Various types of

vaccines have been used to control the spread of pathogens. However, vaccine development

has limitations due to time-consuming processes and costs. Therefore, surgical masks and

respirators are widely used as the first means of protection once an outbreak begins or

symptoms are identified. Yet, conventional masks have limitations such as single-use

restriction, risk of contact transmission via contaminated surfaces, and concerns over

biohazardous waste. Besides, attempts to decontaminate and reuse masks during shortages can

significantly degrade their effectiveness. This situation necessitates the development of

antimicrobial masks. Therefore, we have developed salt-coated fabrics that rapidly inactivate

pathogens through non-specific mechanisms. Our research aims to assess the optimal stacking

sequence of salt-coated fabrics, identify main mechanism behind the pathogen inactivation of

salt-coated fabrics, demonstrate the pathogen inactivation efficiency against resilient

pathogens, and analyze contact-based transmission of salt-coated fabrics compared to bare

fabrics.
Ecological Colonialism and the Impact of the ‘Englishman’s Foot’: A Literary Ecology of an Invasive Species
Creators: Sych, Meaghan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

This thesis is a habitat study of plantago major or broad leaved plantain. Brought to North America sometime before the 1700’s, it was nicknamed Englishman’s Foot by the Indigenous peoples who watched it walk across their lands with the colonizers. Taking Laurie Ricou’s model of a habitat study to read the plant actively as text, I want to “enter into the process” of the language of the non-human world which will be a journey that moves from “image hunting and archiving” to “native plant as text” (Salal 12). Using a braided approach to this process, I have encountered plantain as text, but also as kin, and the personal experiences I have had with it have changed my perception not only of the plant itself but have grown my understanding of the ways in which nature(s) around me exist, thrive, circulate, and cycle. Understanding this invasive species as something more like Robin Wall Kimmerer’s name of “good neighbour”, this thesis explores how to live more fully on and within our more-than-human relatives and “to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it” (Braiding 215).