cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radio frequency charge sensing in InAs nanowire double quantum dots
Creators: name: Jung, M.
name: Schroer, M. D.
name: Petersson, K. D.
name: Petta, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate charge sensing of an InAs nanowire double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a radio frequency (rf) circuit. We measure the rf signal reflected by the resonator using homodyne detection. Clear single dot and DQD behavior are observed in the resonator response. rf-reflectometry allows measurements of the DQD charge stability diagram in the few-electron regime even when the dc current through the device is too small to be measured. For a signal-to-noise ratio of one, we estimate a minimum charge detection time of 350 microseconds at interdot charge transitions and 9 microseconds for charge transitions with the leads.
description: Related papers at http://pettagroup.princeton.edu
РОЛЬ ИНТЕРНЕТ-СЛЕНГА В СИСТЕМЕ ЯЗЫКА, ЕГО ХАРАКТЕРНЫЕ ОТЛИЧИЯ И СПОСОБЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
Creators: name: Исраилов, Хамид
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Интернет-коммуникация относится к числу относительно новых и бурно развивающихся речевых формаций. Она отличается коммуникативным многообразием, поли функциональностью, динамизмом и по степени своего влияния на другие сферы общения в настоящее время, пожалуй, не имеет себе равных. Поэтому без описания специфики интернет-коммуникации и компьютерно-опосредованного дискурса исчерпывающая характеристика особенностей современного языкового существования попросту невозможна.
Contribution à la mise en place d'un système de management environnemental au sein de l'Unité Spécialisée de Briques Cuites de Nkolbisson dans la Région du Centre au Cameroun
Creators: name: Nopogwo Z.V.C.
name: Foudjet, A.E.
name: Ondoua A.E.Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Système de management environnemental
performance environnementale
aspect environnemental
plan de management environnemental
briques de terre cuite

description: 1. Objectif Général (OG) Contribuer à la mise en place d’un Système de Management Environnemental (SME) au sein de l’Unité Spécialisée de Briques Cuites de Nkolbisson (USBC) en vue d’une amélioration de ses performances environnementales. 2. Objectifs spécifiques (OS) OS1 : Faire un état des lieux de l’USBC de Nkolbisson; OS2 : Hiérarchiser les Aspects Environnementaux (AE) de l’USBC et les risques qu’ils génèrent ; OS3 : Proposer un Plan de Management Environnemental (PME) de l’USBC. 3. Hypothèse Générale La mise en place d’un SME au sein de l’USBC de Nkolbisson permet une gestion efficace des aspects environnementaux ainsi qu’une réduction significative des impacts liés à ses activités courantes. 4. Hypothèses Spécifiques H1 : Les impacts des activités de l’usine sur l’environnement ne sont pas entièrement pris en compte par l’USBC ; H2 : Le plan de management environnemental permet une bonne gestion des aspects environnementaux et une amélioration de la performance environnementale de l’USBC ; H3 : L’USBC présente des non-conformités.
The changing roles of librarians: Managing emerging technologies in libraries
Creators: name: Madhusudhan, Margam
name: Lamba, Manika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Academic libraries
Academic liaison librarians
Liaison librarians
Subject specialists
Emerging technologies

description: This chapter presents an overview of the changing roles of an academic liaison librarian who is also popularly known as liaison librarian or subject librarian or subject specialist. The major activities which are being performed by a liaison librarian have been categorized. Further, the skills and competencies required by a liaison librarian to perform the activities have been summarized.
Majorana Neutrinos in Same-Sign $W^\pm W^\pm$ Scattering at the LHC: Breaking the TeV Barrier
Creators: name: Fuks, Benjamin
name: Neundorf, Jonas
name: Peters, Krisztian
name: Ruiz, Richard
name: Saimpert, Matthias
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: neutrino: Majorana
neutrino: mass
neutrino: mixing
seesaw model: Type I
parton: showers
higher-order: 1
TeV
CERN LHC Coll
sensitivity
W W: scattering
same sign
quantum chromodynamics
perturbation theory
benchmark
luminosity: upgrade
p p: scattering

description: We revisit the sensitivity to non-resonant, heavy Majorana neutrinos $N$ in same-sign $W^\pm W^\pm$ scattering at the $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV LHC and its high-luminosity upgrade. As a benchmark scenario, we work in the context of the Phenomenological Type I Seesaw model, relying on a simulation up to next-to-leading order in QCD with parton shower matching. After extensively studying the phenomenology of the $pp\to\mu^\pm\mu^\pm j j$ process at the amplitude and differential levels, we design a simple collider analysis with remarkable signal-background separation power. At 95\% confidence level, we find that the squared muon-heavy neutrino mixing element $\vert V_{\mu N} \vert^{2}$ can be probed down to $0.1-0.5 ~ (0.05-0.1)$ for $m_N = 1-10~{\rm TeV}$ with $\mathcal{L}=300$ fb$^{-1}~(3$ ab$^{-1})$. For heavier masses of $m_N = 20~{\rm TeV}$, we report sensitivity for $\vert V_{\mu N} \vert^{2}\gtrsim 0.8~(0.4)$. The $W^\pm W^\pm$ scattering channel can greatly extend the mass range covered by current LHC searches for heavy Majorana neutrinos and particularly adds invaluable sensitivity above a few hundred GeV. We comment on areas where the analysis can be improved as well as on the applicability to other tests of neutrino mass models.
Informational Imperfections in the Capital Market and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Greenwald, Bruce C.
name: Weiss, Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1984
Subjects: Economics

description: Traditional neoclassical theory has one clear, unambiguous, and verifiable prediction. All factors which have a positive price are fully utilized. In recent years, there have been several responses to the apparent inconsistency between the predictions of neoclassical theory and what has in fact been observed. The first is to deny the empirical observations. The 25 percent of the population that were unemployed in the Great Depression, let alone the 10 percent of the population that were unemployed in the Reagan recession, were not involuntarily unemployed. This seems to the authors, at best, semantic quibbling. The second is to argue, without much justification, that there are two regimes. Traditional neoclassical theory applies in "normal times." It seems more plausible to us that the market failures represented by the Great Depression are always present in the economy, but difficult to detect; it is only when they reach the proportions that they do periodically that we can no longer ignore them. A third approach is to modify the standard theory, to assume that wages and prices are fixed.
Working together: key success criteria for collaborative initiatives between aboriginal communities and natural resource companies
Creators: name: Harding, Anne Kathleen
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 225-234
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: As resource development increasingly encroaches on the traditional lands of Aboriginal peoples, significant benefits can be gained by Aboriginal communities and resource companies working together. This thesis explores how success may be found in Aboriginal-corporate collaborative initiatives. A literature review of Aboriginal community economic development, social license to operate, and cross-sector partnerships shows the unique context in which these partners collaborate and results in five key success criteria for Aboriginal-corporate collaborative initiatives: community­defined goals; transparent corporate motivation; mutual trust, joint accountability and continuous communication; cross-cultural bridging mechanisms; and a common goal with sustainable mutual benefits. These criteria are applied to a case study of three Suncor Energy initiatives: Chip Manufacturing, Mikisew Industrial Supply, and the Fort McKay Business Incubator. Analysis of these initiatives reveals an evolution over time toward an increasingly collaborative approach, culminating in the "walking together" model, an analytical and prescriptive framework for success in Aboriginal-corporate collaborative initiatives.
Information, Competition, and Markets
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Nalebuff, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: Economics

description: Not only can competition provide a basis of comparison, which enables the design of reward structures that can simultaneously provide a high level of incentives with relatively low level risk; but compensation schemes based on relative performance have the further advantage of automatically adjusting incentives to changes in the economic environment.
In ways they can be heard : teaching story, social responsibility, and the First Peoples principles of learning in the English classroom
Creators: name: Nyeste, Chelsea Alana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis explores the connection between using the First Peoples Principles of Learning and the inclusion of authentic First Peoples texts in a mainstream English Language Arts class on student expression of social responsibility, specifically valuing diversity and respecting human rights. Using action research and the data collected from student journal entries and the researcher‘s own reflective journal, the results show that the application of the First Peoples Principles of Learning pedagogy and the inclusion of First Peoples texts does indeed have a positive effect on student expression of valuing diversity and defending human rights. The critical review of the literature covers a broad base of research as a background to the study. The fields of Indigenous pedagogy and critical pedagogy are explicated, and a link between the two fields is established. In addition, there is a clear research base in the area of teaching for social justice using young adult literature; the research shows that teaching about human rights through story makes the lessons easier for students to learn. In this study, the researcher designs a unit of instruction that is inspired by the First Peoples Principles of Learning and uses authentic First Peoples texts and teaches this unit to her subjects; over the course of the unit, student journal entries are measured against the British Columbia Ministry of Education Performance Standards for Social Responsibility. Based on the results, the researcher concludes that student expression of valuing diversity and defending human rights does improve after the application of the unit, but student ability to internalize the lessons is dependent on previous life experience, skill at reading, capability of the students to synthesize information from the young adult literature with their own lives, and knowledge of vocabulary to discuss diversity and human rights.
Money, Credit Constraints, and Economic Activity
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Blinder, Alan S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: Economics

description: The article discusses about the effects of monetary policy on real variables like output and employment. In classical monetary theory, prices are fully flexible and the future tax liabilities implied by government bonds are fully discounted. In such a world, government wending has identical effects whether it is financed by bonds or by current taxation, and an open-market purchase of bonds is equivalent to a money rain. If an explicitly dynamic, general equilibrium model in which people form rational expectations about the uncertain future is constructed, a number of irrelevance theorems about government financial policy can be established, provided that financial changes do not redistribute the tax burden. A change in the rate of inflation that is matched by a change in the nominal interest paid on government debt does not disturb equilibrium in any market. A change in the maturity structure of the government debt will require a change in the term structure of interest rates to equilibrate the demands and supplies of different types of bonds.
title: Pictorial review: Depicting the superiority of Contrast enhanced FLAIR sequence in detecting the meningeal enhancement in pediatric patients with meningitis
Creators: name: KALE, SUDHIR
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Infection
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Learning objective – 1) To know the normal appearance of FLAIR sequence. 2) To know the abnormal meningeal enhancement in post contrast FLAIR images. 3) To demonstrate benefits of contrast enhanced FLAIR in childrens suspected to have...
Effective field theory and tunneling currents in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Creators: name: Bieri, Samuel
name: Froehlich, Juerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the construction of a low-energy effective field theory and its state space for "abelian" quantum Hall fluids. The scaling limit of the incompressible fluid is described by a Chern-Simons theory in 2+1 dimensions on a manifold with boundary. In such a field theory, gauge invariance implies the presence of anomalous chiral modes localized on the edge of the sample. We assume a simple boundary structure, i.e., the absence of a reconstructed edge. For the bulk, we consider a multiply connected planar geometry. We study tunneling processes between two boundary components of the fluid and calculate the tunneling current to lowest order in perturbation theory as a function of dc bias voltage. Particular attention is paid to the special cases when the edge modes propagate at the same speed, and when they exhibit two significantly distinct propagation speeds. We distinguish between two "geometries" of interference contours corresponding to the (electronic) Fabry-Perot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers, respectively. We find that the interference term in the current is absent when exactly one hole in the fluid corresponding to one of the two edge components involved in the tunneling processes lies inside the interference contour (i.e., in the case of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer). We analyze the dependence of the tunneling current on the state of the quantum Hall fluid and on the external magnetic flux through the sample.
description: 49 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected - replaced with published version; Annals of Physics (NY), (2011)
Novice elementary teachers' perspectives teaching mainstreamed special needs students: implications for leadership, preservice education, and professional development
Creators: name: Fournier, Elaine
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 195-208
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Many novice elementary teachers feel challenged by the demands placed upon them to effectively teach mainstreamed special needs students. This study explored the relationship between teachers' preservice education and their experiences with special needs students. Four conceptual areas (self-efficacy, teacher preparation, teacher socialization, and leadership implications) were deemed to potentially influence the novice teachers' experiences. The literature offered many insights into these four areas (Darling-Hammond, 2005; Feiman-Nemser, 2003; Fullan, 2007). The four areas were interrelated to one another as well as to the novice teachers' belief systems. The construct of self-efficacy put forth by Bandura ( 1997) served as the theoretical underpinning for this study and was examined alongside and in relation to the role of the preservice programme. This study employed a mixed methods approach and was based on Creswell's (2009) Concurrent Embedded Design which is characterized by one data collection phase where both qualitative and quantitative data are collected simultaneously. There were two main clusters of participants, novice teachers, and faculty who held responsibility for preservice programming. Findings indicated Bandura's (1997) assertion that mastery experiences are the most powerful indicators of self-efficacy held true within this study. Novice teachers at the top end (7-9) of the self-efficacy scale described how prior experiences with special needs individuals played an important role in their perceived self-efficacy. An equally important role was played by the support system these novice teachers experienced. The findings from the teachers were compared with those from the faculty members. Findings suggest that each participant group valued one aspect of programming over another. The novice teachers highly valued the practical aspects while the faculty members consistently described the need to prepare the next generation of teachers to be deeply analytical, critical thinkers. A new model, The Fulcrum of Support, was conceptualized from the findings. This model emerged as a possible means to address the needs of a novice teacher with regard to creating balance between their challenging and rewarding experiences. Each aspect of the model has the potential to play an important role in a novice teacher's initial and ongoing support systems.
New results on q-positivity
Creators: name: Ramos, Y. García
name: Martínez-Legaz, J. E.
name: Simons, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47H05, 47N10, 46N10

description: In this paper we discuss symmetrically self-dual spaces, which are simply real vector spaces with a symmetric bilinear form. Certain subsets of the space will be called q-positive, where q is the quadratic form induced by the original bilinear form. The notion of q-positivity generalizes the classical notion of the monotonicity of a subset of a product of a Banach space and its dual. Maximal q-positivity then generalizes maximal monotonicity. We discuss concepts generalizing the representations of monotone sets by convex functions, as well as the number of maximally q-positive extensions of a q-positive set. We also discuss symmetrically self-dual Banach spaces, in which we add a Banach space structure, giving new characterizations of maximal q-positivity. The paper finishes with two new examples.
description: 18 pages
Chalybion heinii
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Sphecidae
Chalybion
Chalybion heinii

description: Chalybion heinii (KOHL, 1906)
Chalybion heinii (KOHL, 1906): HENSEN 1988: 36 (key), 37 (tax., Djibouti), 38 (figs 84-89).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Djibouti.
Chalybion heinii is known from the Afrotropical (Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Somalia) and Palaearctic (Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 943, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Equation of motion method for Full Counting Statistics: Steady state superradiance
Creators: name: Vogl, Malte
name: Schaller, Gernot
name: Schöll, Eckehard
name: Brandes, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the multi-mode Dicke model in a transport setting that exhibits collective boson transmissions, we construct the equation of motion for the cumulant generating function. Approximating the exact system of equations at the level of cumulant generating function and system operators at lowest order, allows us to recover master equation results of the Full Counting Statistics for certain parameter regimes at very low cost of computation. The thermodynamic limit, that is not accessible with the master equation approach, can be derived analytically for different approximations.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, revised version, accepted by PRA
Modelling of partially coherent radiation based on the coherent mode decomposition
Creators: name: Singer, Andrej
name: Vartanyants, Ivan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for the propagation of partially coherent radiation using coherent mode decomposition and wavefront propagation. The radiation field is decomposed into a sum of independent coherent modes. Each mode is then propagated separately using conventional wavefront propagation techniques. The summation of these modes in the plane of observation gives the coherence properties of the propagated radiation. As an example, we analyze propagation of partially coherent radiation transmitted through a single circular aperture.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of SPIE Conference "Advances in Computational Methods for X-ray Optics II", San Diego, August 2011
title: Method to estimate Buna River discharge, Albania
title: Hydrology days 2009
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2009
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Pano, Niko
name: Avdyli, Bardhyl
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009

description: 2009 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2009.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Buna is one of the biggest and most important rivers of the Mediterranean basin. Outflowing from Scutary Lake this river joins Drini River so forming a complicated and particular hydrographical system. In these conditions it is impossible to calculate Buna River discharge when it flows out of Scutary Lake by the dependence Q2 = ƒ(H2) because Buna discharge – Q2, in its outflowing from the lake depends not only on the water levels – H2, but also on the water levels – H2 and Drini discharge – Q4. Many particular hydrometeorological studies are made of Scutary hydrographical complex (Pano N., Saraçi R.1963; PanoN., Abdyli B,1984, 2002). A particular way to calculate Buna discharge in its outflowing from Scutary Lake is presented in this paper. This particular way considers specific hydraulic conditions of this river. Multi-annual cycle discharge is calculated by this way.
Some Aspects of the Taxation of Capital Gains
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: Economics

description: The analysis of the effects of capital gains taxation requires a careful modelling both of the details of the tax code and the imperfections in the capital market. Under the standard assumptions concerning perfect capital markets and under the standard idealizations of the tax code, there are several strategies by which rational investors can avoid note only all taxes on their capital income, but also all taxes on their wage income; these strategies leave individuals' consumption and bequests in each state of nature and at each date unchanged from what they would have been in the absence of taxes. Although certain detailed provisions of the tax code may limit the extent to which rational investors can avail themselves of these tax avoidance activities, there are ways, in a perfect capital market, by which the effects of these restrictions can be ameliorated. Accordingly, any analysis of the effects of capital taxation must focus on imperfect capital markets.
Absence of arsenate in DNA from arsenate-grown GFAJ-1 cells
Creators: name: Reaves, M. L.
name: Sinha, S.
name: Rabinowitz, J. D.
name: Kruglyak, L.
name: Redfield, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A strain of Halomonas bacteria, GFAJ-1, has been reported to be able to use arsenate as a nutrient when phosphate is limiting, and to specifically incorporate arsenic into its DNA in place of phosphorus. However, we have found that arsenate does not contribute to growth of GFAJ-1 when phosphate is limiting and that DNA purified from cells grown with limiting phosphate and abundant arsenate does not exhibit the spontaneous hydrolysis expected of arsenate ester bonds. Furthermore, mass spectrometry showed that this DNA contains only trace amounts of free arsenate and no detectable covalently bound arsenate.
description: Originally submitted to Science January 30 2012. This is the revised version, resubmitted on April 13 2012. It has not been officially accepted
SCIENTIFIC TRAVELERS IN DIFFERENT WORLDS
Creators: name: KINET, Guido
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: epistemological research

description: There is a superficial conflict but a deep similarity between science and non-theistic religions, but a superficial similarity and a deep conflict between science and theistic religion. The real "war" that is splitting this world is contained in two small sentences, and shows how tremendous forces are still struggling for world domination.
Investigating teachers' conceptions of intelligence
Creators: name: Carlgren, David A.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 64-72
description: Includes copy of ethics approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Using the history and development of intelligence theories and research into conceptions of intelligence, a study is undertaken to compare pre-service and in-service teachers' conceptions of intelligence. Inquiry focuses on answering whether teacher conceptions develop over the course of a teaching career, whether these conceptions initiate in pre­service courses, whether there is a difference between pre-service and in-service teachers' conceptions of intelligence and whether either group demonstrates a particular affiliation to one of the four major theories of intelligence. Groups of in-service and pre-service teachers were found and a 100-item questionnaire was given. Through use of the Mann­Whitney and scrutinizing of differences between means, no significant difference between the two groups was discovered. Areas for future investigation may include further research into the origination of implicit conceptions of intelligence and subject­related differences between teacher conceptions.
On the anomalous afterglow seen in a chameleon afterglow search
Creators: name: Steffen, Jason H.
name: Upadhye, Amol
name: Baumbaugh, Alan
name: Chou, Aaron S.
name: Tomlin, Ray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present data from our investigation of the anomalous orange-colored afterglow that was seen in the GammeV Chameleon Afterglow Search (CHASE). These data includes information about the broad band color of the observed glow, the relationship between the glow and the temperature of the apparatus, and other data taken prior to and during the science operations of CHASE. While differing in several details, the generic properties of the afterglow from CHASE are similar to luminescence seen in some vacuum compounds. Contamination from this, or similar, luminescent signatures will likely impact the design of implementation of future experiments involving single photon detectors and high intensity light sources in a cryogenic environment.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRX
Preemption, Leapfrogging, and Competition in Patent Races
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Fudenberg, Drew
name: Gilbert, Richard J.
name: Tirole, Jean
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper investigates when patent races will be characterized by vigorous competition and when they will degenerate into a monopoly. Under some conditions, a firm with an arbitrarily small headstart can preempt its rivals. Such 'e-preemption' is shown to depend on whether a firm that is behind in the patent race, as measured by the expected time remaining until discovery, can't 'leapfrog' the competition and become the new leader. An example of an R and D game with random discovery illustrates how e-preemption can occur when leapfrogging is impossible. A multi-stage R and D process allows leapfrogging and thus permits competition. A similar conclusion emerges in a model of a deterministic patent race with imperfect monitoring of rival firms' R and D investment activities.
Pre-registration of analysis plan for "Reliability of functional localization and activation profiles of category-specific regions using fMRI"
Creators: name: Haiyang Jin
name: Garrido, Lúcia
name: Cheung, Olivia S.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Category-specific regions
subject: ROI
subject: Reliability
subject: fMRI

description: In the previous pre-registration (https://osf.io/ckz9t), we registered the data collection and pre-processing procedure. With the pre-registered methods, we collected completed data of two sessions from 30 participants. In this additional file, we will register the analysis plan after pre-processing. No analysis has been conducted on the data from those 30 participants, except for pre-processing.
Utilitarianism and Horizontal Equity: The Case for Random Taxation
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Economics

description: Examines the relationship between utilitarianism and horizontal equity through analysis of random taxation. Concept of horizontal equity; Inconsistency of horizontal equity with Pareto optimality; Impact of horizontal equity on optimal tax structures and pricing policies for monopolists.
Resonances in Mie scattering by an inhomogeneous atomic cloud
Creators: name: Bachelard, Romain
name: Courteille, Philippe
name: Kaiser, Robin
name: Piovella, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the quantum nature of the process, collective scattering by dense cold samples of two-level atoms can be interpreted classically describing the sample as a macroscopic object with a complex refractive index. We demonstrate that resonances in Mie theory can be easily observable in the cooperative scattering by tuning the frequency of the incident laser field or the atomic number. The solution of the scattering problem is obtained for spherical atomic clouds who have the parabolic density characteristic of BECs, and the cooperative radiation pressure force calculated exhibits resonances in the cloud displacement for dense clouds. At odds from uniform clouds which show a complex structure including narrow peaks, these densities show resonances, yet only under the form of quite regular and contrasted oscillations.
The Inefficiency of the Stock Market Equilibrium
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper establishes that when there is not a complete set of markets but more than one commodity the stock market equilibrium will not in general be a constrained Pareto optimum. The economy will lack both the property of exchange and production efficiency. Necessary conditions which must be satisfied if the economy is to be a constrained Pareto optimum for all technologies are derived; if all individuals have identical, homothetic indifference maps, then either there must be unitary price elasticities (so there is no effective risk) or all individuals must have the same degree of risk aversion (so there is no trade on the stock market).
Being there: task complexity influence on presence in 3d virtual environments
Creators: name: Alamri, Jamilah Mohammed
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 211-228
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: This two-phased, mixed methods study investigated the effect of levels of task complexity on presence in a virtual environment. Building on Wood's model of task complexity and on Kopp's contextual factors, three levels of objective complexity were systematically developed for job interview tasks. After phase 1, Education students were randomly assigned to complete one interview task at one complexity level. They were videotaped, and surveyed about their sense of presence. While ANOV A showed there were no significant differences in presence across the three groups, regression showed that age and complexity predicted presence. The qualitative themes such as involvement, suspension of disbelief, navigation, and task complexity shed light on the contributing factors that influenced participants' presence. Participants identified involvement, presence, and interaction as essential characteristics to perform a learning task in a VE. The results of this study contributed to understand presence and it's influence on learning in 3D VEs.
Strategic Considerations in Invention and Innovation: The Case of Natural Resources
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Dasgupta, Partha
name: Gilbert, Richard J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: Economics

description: Strategic considerations may induce a resource importing country to invent a substitute earlier than it intends to put it to use. There are also circumstances in which it would wish to delay an invention date even if it could obtain it at an earlier date at no extra cost. Similar paradoxical results obtain if resource cartels behave strategically. Setting prices high may be a way of deterring invention. If those engaged in R and D are not resource users, and the cartel has access to similar R and D technology, it will pre-empt rivals. This may not be the case if resource users can also engage in R and D.
The effects of historical trauma, community capacity and place of residence on the self-reported health of Canada's indigenous population
Creators: name: Ahenakew, Cash Richard
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 262-279
description: This research examines social determinants of health of indigenous peoples in Canada. The focus of the analysis is to examine the contextual effects of historical trauma, community capacity and place of residence on indigenous self-reported health. In order to do this I developed a multilevel modelling strategy and contextual level measurement related to historical trauma, residential schooling, social capital, cultural continuity and self-reported health among indigenous peoples in Canada. The individual level independent variables in the multilevel analysis are: age, gender, aboriginal identity, educational attainment, total income, and cultural participation. An additional analysis examined the contextual effects of income inequality and community capacity on self-reported health. This research utilizes data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey confidential file. The sample size was 112,940 individuals (Level 1) nested within 206 communities (Level 2). The critical indigenous paradigm developed in this study supported the revitalization of indigenous culture and reintroduced traditional Indian medicine and disease causality into the analysis of social health. This provided a basis for the development of a culturally responsive and relevant research design for research with indigenous populations. Drawing on a combination of theoretical approaches, this research compares quantitative results from various theoretical lenses, including indigenous and decolonizing theories, post­positivism, social epidemiology, post-colonialism and post-structuralism. Results show a significant contextual level effect for the community capacity scale on self-reported health. It also shows that there is no significant contextual level effect for the historical trauma scale, but there are significant individual level effects for the historical trauma variables on self-reported health. A series of descriptive, bivariate and multilevel results are presented and discussed through the multi-epistemic lens. The research supports the need to connect individual health to their geographic and social context.
Phase transition towards strange matter
Creators: name: Gulminelli, F.
name: Raduta, Ad. R.
name: Oertel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase diagram of a system constituted of neutrons and $Λ$-hyperons in thermal equilibrium is evaluated in the mean-field approximation. It is shown that this simple system exhibits a complex phase diagram with first and second order phase transitions. Due to the generic presence of attractive and repulsive couplings, the existence of phase transitions involving strangeness appears independent of the specific interaction model. In addition we will show under which conditions a phase transition towards strange matter at high density exists, which is expected to persist even within a complete treatment including all the different strange and non- strange baryon states. The impact of this transition on the composition of matter in the inner core of neutron stars is discussed.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Molecular ecology and conservation of caribou (rangifer tarandus) in western North America
Creators: name: Weckworth, Byron Vance
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 122-139
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: As the scale and intensity of human-mediated impacts on the planet reaches unprecedented levels, there is a need for evaluating and describing the repercussions of these changes on the planet's flora and fauna. Woodland caribou are a threatened species that exemplify the challenge of protecting widespread, large species with expansive habitat requirements. Woodland caribou declines relate to habitat destruction and the consequent changes in predator-prey dynamics. Hindering conservation and management efforts is a lack of understanding the distribution of caribou diversity and the relationship of changes in habitat and environmental variables on caribou movements. Here I use a multiple methods, emphasizing molecular tools, to evaluate these knowledge gaps. First, I reconstruct the evolutionary history of caribou in Western North America, clarifying phylogeographic and broad patterns of diversity that inform delineation of conservation units. Next, I focus on west-central Alberta to evaluate landscape genetics perspectives on environmental and demographic variables that influence caribou population dynamics. Finally, I review current federal conservation policy and actions in the context of genetic variability, with a closing chapter emphasizing conservation challenges posed with ongoing climate change. Phylogenetic results demonstrate a new understanding of caribou evolution requiring the restructuring of the taxonomic identities of caribou ecotypes, a more widespread region of post-glacial "hybrid swarm," and clearer delineation of meta-populations of threatened Mountain and Boreal ecotypes. Landscape genetics show that preferred habitat and effective population size are the best predictors of genetic relationships of west-central populations, and that effective population sizes are at alarmingly low levels, emphasizing the need for management to focus on bolstering population numbers and maintaining habitat connectivity. The newly defined Designatable Units represent another version of Evolutionary Significant Units with similar limitations, particularly on the description of Boreal caribou. The proposed management recovery strategy for Boreal populations is fraught with seeming subjective criteria and emphasizes a scale of conservation unit (local population) that fails to ensure the protection of Boreal evolutionary and ecological integrity. Incorporation of the new genetic and population results detailed here offer information that can improve management and conservation objectives and promote a scientifically rigorous catalyst for policy change.
Systemic threats to research integrity require systemic responses
Creators: name: Martinson, Brian C.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016
Subjects: research integrity
empirical research
misconduct
misbehavior
intentional deceit
systemic factors

description: Presented at the Retractions conference: keeping the pool clean: prevention and management of misconduct related retractions held on July 20-21, 2016 at Hilton Fort Collins in Fort Collins, Colorado.
description: Brian is currently PI of a two year project in the VA (in a no-cost extension year, FY2016), with funding from VA HSR&D (I01-HX001120), conducting a randomized controlled trial using the SOuRCe tool to testing the efficacy of a reporting and feedback intervention to improve research integrity climates in VA research settings. Under a Professional Services Contract to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in further collaboration with Dr. Carol Thrush, he is also currently involved in the development of Asian language versions of the SOuRCe tool. In 2009-10, Brian served on an invited expert panel on research integrity, convened by the Council of Canadian Academies at the request of Industry Canada, leading to the report, "Honesty, Accountability and Trust: Fostering Research Integrity in Canada." He is currently serving as a member of a U.S. National Research Council panel charged with drafting a report on responsible science, publication of which is expected in 2016.
description: PowerPoint presentation given on Day 2: Thursday, July 21st, 2016.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
ПРОГРЕССИРУЮЩАЯ СЕРДЕЧНАЯ НЕДОСТАТОЧНОСТЬ У ВЗРОСЛЫХ С ВРОЖДЕННЫМ ПОРОКОМ СЕРДЦА
Creators: name: Игамбердиев Вейис Аширович  студент Ташкентский государственный стоматологический  институт (ТГСИ) Министерство здравоохранения Республики Узбекистан г.Ташкент
name: Научный руководитель:Хайдарова Барно Исраилжановна Старший преподаватель кафедры анатомии Ташкентский государственный стоматологический институт (ТГСИ) Министерство здравоохранения республики Узбекистан г.Ташкент
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description:  
Благодаря качеству медицинской помощи и современным методам лечения врожденных пороков сердца у взрослых (ВПС) 87% детей, родившихся с ВПС (врожденными пороками сердца), доживают до "зрелого возраста". Для этих взрослых сердечная недостаточность (СН) является основной причиной смерти. Успехи в распознавании и лечении таких пациентов продолжают улучшаться. В частности, взрослые пациенты с ВПС являются кандидатами как на трансплантацию сердца, так и на механическую помощь кровообращению. Однако остаются проблемы, требующие проведения исследований для улучшения прогноза.
Understanding Compact Object Formation and Natal Kicks. III. The case of Cygnus X-1
Creators: name: Wong, Tsing-Wai
name: Valsecchi, Francesca
name: Fragos, Tassos
name: Kalogera, Vassiliki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, accurate observational constraints become available for an increasing number of Galactic X-ray binaries. Together with proper motion measurements, we could reconstruct the full evolutionary history of X-ray binaries back to the time of compact object formation. In this paper, we present the first study of the persistent X-ray source Cygnus\;X-1 that takes into account of all available observational constraints. Our analysis accounts for three evolutionary phases: orbital evolution and motion through the Galactic potential after the formation of black hole (BH), and binary orbital dynamics at the time of core collapse. We find that the mass of the BH immediate progenitor is $15.0 - 20.0$ M$_\sun$, and at the time of core collapse, the BH has potentially received a small kick velocity of $\le 77$ km s$^{-1}$ at 95% confidence. If the BH progenitor mass is less than $\sim 17$ M$_\sun$, a non zero natal kick velocity is required to explain the currently observed properties of Cygnus\;X-1. Since the BH has only accreted mass from its companion's stellar wind, the negligible amount of accreted mass is impossible to explain the observationally inferred BH spin of $a_* > 0.95$, and the origin of this extreme BH spin must be connected to the BH formation itself. Right after the BH formation, we find that the BH companion is a $19.8 - 22.6$ M$_\sun$ main sequence star, orbiting the BH at a period of $4.7 - 5.2$ days. Furthermore, recent observations show that the BH companion is currently super-synchronized. This super-synchronism indicates that the strength of tides exerted on the BH companion should be weaker by a factor of at least two compared to the usually adopted strength.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ
National minorities and their representation in Swiss surveys (II): Which practices make a difference?
Creators: name: Elcheroth, Guy
name: Kleiner, Brian
name: Penic, Sandra
name: Fasel, Nicole
name: Laganà, Francesco
Publisher: name: Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS
Year: 2011

description: FORS Working Paper Series, N° 2011-03
Development of a tour-based urban commercial vehicle movement model
Creators: name: Stefan, Kevin John
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 128-134
description: Urban commercial vehicle movements are increasingly of concern to policy makers, for reasons of both equity and efficiency. This thesis presents a system for modelling commercial movements based on data from Calgary, Canada. The resulting system of models includes a novel agent-based microsimulation framework, using a tour-based approach and emphasizing important elements of urban commercial movement, including the role of service delivery, light commercial vehicles and trip chaining. The microsimulation uses Monte Carlo techniques to assign tour purpose, vehicle type, next stop purpose, next stop location, and next stop duration. Tours are 'grown' using a return-to-establishment alternative within the next stop purpose allocation, which is consistent with the nature of tour making in urban commercial movements. The Monte Carlo probabilities are established using primarily a series of logit models, with coefficients estimated based on the observed behaviour of different segments of commercial movements.
Partners in the global community: global citizens and the best of intentions
Creators: name: Ryan, Sandra Ellen
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 238-251
description: As Alberta students engage in school global projects addressing the human rights and well-being of people in developing countries, they are forming perceptions of developing countries and what constitutes responsible action with respect to these places. This narrative study was undertaken to explore these perceptions as they exist for 10 grade six students from 2 Alberta schools who are or have been engaged in such projects. Students in this study, regardless of project context, perceived developing countries to be all very much the same: Places in need, lacking education and technology, and dependent upon the developed world to progress. Action with respect to these countries was understood as desirable and essential, should be well-informed, is unidirectional assistance provided/or the other, and depends a great deal on money. Through this work, students feel they have developed an increased awareness of issues and believe they can act as agents of change.