cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Private Motor Carriers of Exempt Agricultural Commodities: Number, Length of Time in Business, Types, and Capacity of Vehicles
Creators: name: Hutchinson, T. Q.
name: Hutchinson, T. Q.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: This report presents the findings of a study made to determine the importance of private motor carriers in the marketing of agricultural commodities. These carriers are the motor transport segment of a nontransportation business. They exist primarily to haul the supplies and products of the business but may also haul certain unmanufactured agricultural commodities for hire. Some of them in the study are farmers, others are wholesale fruit and vegetable or grain dealers, still others are manufacturers. The exemptions contained in the Interstate Commerce Act (6) 203 (b) (4a) and 203 (b) (6) permit these carriers to haul their own goods and the agricultural and fisheries commodities listed in the Appendix. While hauling these commodities they are not subject to the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulations concerning rates charged, routes traveled, and entry into or exit from business. They are, however, subject to the safety regulations established by the Commission for all interstate motor carriers. They may also be subject to both safety and economic regulation by the States in which they operate.
Understanding Exercise Preferences, Barriers, and Facilitators for LGBTQIA2S+ Individuals Living with and Beyond Cancer
Creators: name: Rana, Benny
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Exercise Oncology
subject: LGBTQIA2S+
subject: Barriers
subject: Facilitators
subject: Preferences
subject: Oncology

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand overall physical activity (PA) experiences and to identify the preferences, barriers, and facilitators for exercise among LGBTQIA2S+ individuals living with and beyond cancer. Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was employed for this study. Efforts were made to recruit individuals representing a diverse range across the target population in terms of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as cancer diagnosis. Convenience and snowball sampling methods were used for recruitment, including outreach to cancer and LGBTQIA2S+ support groups, social media posts, and participants in current exercise oncology studies. Inclusion criteria encompassed individuals who identify as LGBTQIA2S+, have been diagnosed with any form of cancer, are on or off treatment or any stage of cancer survivorship, are over 18 years old, and have proficiency in English. Data collection involved the use of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was grounded in an Interpretive Description (ID) approach, wherein the interview data was analyzed and conceptualized using thematic description. Results: Through outreach to 49 organizations, 11 participants were recruited. The interviews with the participants yielded three main themes: 1) value of exercise in the cancer care journey, 2) perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, and perceptions of body image, and 3) LGBTQIA2S+ exercise oncology programming. These themes shed light on the participants’ experiences with exercise oncology programming and PA preferences, barriers, and facilitators. Conclusion: This study contributed to our understanding of PA and exercise oncology experiences of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals living with and beyond cancer. The findings can inform the development of future PA and exercise oncology resources, such as educational materials and programming, to address current participation barriers and foster inclusivity within this population.
Fast First-Order Algorithm for Large-Scale Max-Min Fair Multi-Group Multicast Beamforming
Creators: name: Zhang, Chong
name: Dong, Min
name: Liang, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a first-order fast algorithm for the weighted max-min fair (MMF) multi-group multicast beamforming problem in large-scale systems. Utilizing the optimal multicast beamforming structure obtained recently, we convert the nonconvex MMF problem into a min-max weight minimization problem and show that it is a weakly convex problem. We propose using the projected subgradient algorithm (PSA) to solve the problem directly, instead of the conventional method that requires iteratively solving its inverse problem. We show that PSA for our problem has closed-form updates and thus is computationally cheap. Furthermore, PSA converges to a near-stationary point of our problem within finite time. Simulation results show that our PSA-based algorithm offers near-optimal performance with considerably lower computational complexity than existing methods for large-scale systems.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2022
A Modulation Layer to Increase Neural Network Robustness Against Data Quality Issues
Creators: name: Abdelhack, Mohamed
name: Zhang, Jiaming
name: Tripathi, Sandhya
name: Fritz, Bradley A
name: Felsky, Daniel
name: Avidan, Michael S
name: Chen, Yixin
name: King, Christopher R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data missingness and quality are common problems in machine learning, especially for high-stakes applications such as healthcare. Developers often train machine learning models on carefully curated datasets using only high quality data; however, this reduces the utility of such models in production environments. We propose a novel neural network modification to mitigate the impacts of low quality and missing data which involves replacing the fixed weights of a fully-connected layer with a function of an additional input. This is inspired from neuromodulation in biological neural networks where the cortex can up- and down-regulate inputs based on their reliability and the presence of other data. In testing, with reliability scores as a modulating signal, models with modulating layers were found to be more robust against degradation of data quality, including additional missingness. These models are superior to imputation as they save on training time by completely skipping the imputation process and further allow the introduction of other data quality measures that imputation cannot handle. Our results suggest that explicitly accounting for reduced information quality with a modulating fully connected layer can enable the deployment of artificial intelligence systems in real-time applications.
Implications of a 125 GeV Higgs for supersymmetric models
Creators: name: Arbey, A.
name: Battaglia, M.
name: Djouadi, A.
name: Mahmoudi, F.
name: Quevillon, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Preliminary results of the search for a Standard Model like Higgs boson at the LHC with 5 fb-1 data have just been presented by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations and an excess of events at a mass of ~125 GeV has been reported. If this excess of events is confirmed by further searches with more data, it will have extremely important consequences in the context of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model and, in particular the minimal one, the MSSM. We show that for a standard-like Higgs boson with a mass 123 < M_h < 127 GeV, several unconstrained or constrained (i.e. with soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters unified at the high scale) MSSM scenarios would be excluded, while the parameters of some other scenarios would be severely restricted. Examples of constrained MSSM scenarios which would be disfavoured as they predict a too light Higgs particle are the minimal anomaly and gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking models. The gravity mediated constrained MSSM would still be viable, provided the scalar top quarks are heavy and their trilinear coupling large. Significant areas of the parameter space of models with heavy supersymmetric particles, such as split or high-scale supersymmetry, could also be excluded as, in turn, they generally predict a too heavy Higgs particle.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures. v2: references added, a few typos corrected. v3: additional discussions on non decoupling limit and minor improvements
Hyperland
Creators: name: Verner, Andrei
name: Nisson, Joel
name: Blohowiak, Ben B.
name: Humphreys, Paul
name: McIntosh, John
name: Blacklock, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: four dimensions
subject: programming
subject: hyperland
subject: epistemology
subject: psychology
subject: 3D
subject: visual perception
subject: coding
subject: Poincaré homology sphere
subject: simulation technology
subject: physics
subject: 3-sphere
subject: a priori
subject: 4D
subject: five-dimensional spacetime
subject: tesseract
subject: technology
subject: fourth spatial dimension
subject: polychoron
subject: fourth dimension
subject: five dimensions
subject: molecular chemistry
subject: "fourth dimension"
subject: Kant
subject: four-dimensional space
subject: a priori knowledge
subject: five-dimensional space-time
subject: hypercube
subject: simulation
subject: cosmology
subject: perception
subject: four spatial dimensions
subject: philosophy

description: "Tent-pole" project for the development of open source physics and user interface engines for simulations with four spatial dimensions.
Hindrance in heavy-ion fusion for lighter systems of astrophysical interest
Creators: name: Singh, Vinay
name: Lahiri, Joydev
name: Chowdhury, Partha Roy
name: Basu, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hindrance in fusion of heavy-ion reactions crops up in the region of extreme sub-barrier energies. This phenomenon can be effectively analyzed using a simple diffused barrier formula derived assuming a Gaussian distribution of fusion barrier heights. Folding the Gaussian barrier distribution with the classical expression for the fusion cross section for a fixed barrier, the fusion cross section is obtained. The energy dependence of the fusion cross section provides good description to the existing data on sub-barrier heavy-ion fusion for lighter systems of astrophysical interest. Using this simple formula, an analysis has been presented from $^{16}$O + $^{18}$O to $^{12}$C + $^{198}$Pt, all of which were measured down to $<$ 10 $μ$b. The agreement of the present analysis with the measured values is better than those calculated even from the sophisticated coupled channels calculations. The relatively smooth variation of the three parameters of this formula implies that it may be exploited to estimate the excitation function or to extrapolate cross sections for pairs of interacting nuclei which are yet to be measured. Possible extensions of the present methodology and its limitations have also been discussed.
description: 6 pages including 7 figures and 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1402.5330
The predictability of conspirituality in Latvian modernity at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries (In Latvian).
Creators: name: Kiope, Mara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: religious philosophical ideas
history of ideas
religious studies
history of New Age movement
history of esotericism

description: This is a presentation at the 82nd international scientific conference of the University of Latvia. The purpose of the presentation was to show the prerequisites for developing conspirituality in Latvia.
Enhancing the kinetics of pyrite catalyzed leaching of chalcopyrite
Creators: name: Taghi Nazari, Ghazaleh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: An investigation has been conducted into the kinetics of chalcopyrite leaching in acidic ferric/ferrous sulfate media at atmospheric pressure and low temperature in the presence of pyrite. It has been found that pyrite samples from different sources affect the rate of chalcopyrite leaching differently. Some pyrite samples accelerate the rate significantly while others have little or no influence. The effectiveness of pyrite has a strong correlation with the level of silver occurring in the pyrite. In this study, the use of silver-enhanced pyrite in the Galvanox™ process to improve the extraction of copper from chalcopyrite was investigated. The catalytic properties of pyrite have been improved such that all pyrite samples accelerate the rate of copper extraction regardless of their sources. Under appropriate conditions, complete copper extraction can be obtained in the presence of silver-enhanced pyrite in 10 to 15 hours. Silver-enhanced pyrite can also be effectively recycled with minimal loss of effectiveness. A comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms involved in the process of chalcopyrite leaching in the presence of silver-enhanced pyrite was developed. It has been found that the acceleration of the rate of chalcopyrite leaching is due to the galvanic interaction between pyrite and chalcopyrite particles. An important factor in any galvanic process is maintaining electrical contact between two minerals to ensure the transport of electrons from the anode to the cathode. As chalcopyrite leaching proceeds, layers of extremely high electrical resistivity form around chalcopyrite particles, which limit the transport of electrons from chalcopyrite to pyrite and inhibit the galvanic interaction between these two minerals. However, in this study, it has been shown that, in the presence of silver-enhanced pyrite, around 10% of the added silver gradually leaves pyrite during leaching and reacts with the elemental sulfur layer on chalcopyrite to form silver sulfide. Although the amount of silver sulfide is very low and the sulfur layer does not become very conductive, it does become conductive enough to allow the transport of electrons at a rate sufficient to support the leaching reactions at rates observed in the process. With a conductive path between pyrite and chalcopyrite, the galvanic interaction between these two minerals can now occur.
Additional file 1: of Co-circulation of Aedes flavivirus, Culex flavivirus, and Quang Binh virus in Shanghai, China
Creators: name: Fang, Yuan
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Zhou, Zheng-Bin
name: Shi, Wen-Qi
name: Xia, Shang
name: Li, Yuan-Yuan
name: Wu, Jia-Tong
name: Liu, Qin
name: Lin, Guang-Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations. (PDF 271 kb)
Separability and entanglement in superpositions of quantum states
Creators: name: Halder, Saronath
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that probabilistically mixing an arbitrary pair of pure quantum states, one of which is entangled and the other product, in any bipartite quantum system, one always obtains an entangled state, provided the entangled state of the pair appears with a nonzero probability. On the other hand, if we consider any superposition of the same pair, with a nonzero amplitude for the entangled state of the pair, the output state may not always be entangled. Motivated by this fact, in this work, we study the superpositions of a pure entangled state and a pure product state, when the amplitudes corresponding to the states appearing in any superposition are nonzero. We show, in particular, that all such superpositions produce only entangled states if the initial entangled state has Schmidt rank three or higher. Again, superposing a pure entangled state and a product state cannot lead to product states only, in any bipartite quantum system. These lead us to define conditional and unconditional inseparabilities of superpositions. These concepts in turn are useful in quantum communication protocols. We find that conditional inseparability of superpositions help in identifying strategies for conclusive local discrimination of shared quantum ensembles. We also find that the unconditional variety leads to systematic methods for spotting ensembles exhibiting the phenomenon of more nonlocality with less entanglement and two-element ensembles of conclusively and locally indistinguishable shared quantum states.
description: Close to published version
Normalisation and Subformula Property for a System of Classical Logic with Tarski's Rule, and a Correction
Creators: name: Kürbis, Nils
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper considers a formalisation of classical logic using general introduction rules and general elimination rules. It proposes a definition of `maximal formula', `segment' and `maximal segment' suitable to the system, and gives reduction procedures for them. It is then shown that deductions in the system convert into normal form, i.e. deductions that contain neither maximal formulas nor maximal segments, and that deductions in normal form satisfy the subformula property. Tarski's Rule is treated as a general introduction rule for implication. The general introduction rule for negation has a similar form. Maximal formulas with implication or negation as main operator require reduction procedures of a more intricate kind not present in normalisation for intuitionist logic. The Correction added to the end of the paper corrects an error: Theorem 2 is mistaken, and so is a corollary drawn from it as well as a corollary that was concluded by the same mistake. Luckily this does not affect the main result of the paper.
Util::Lookup: Exploiting key decoding in cryptographic libraries
Creators: name: Sieck, Florian
name: Berndt, Sebastian
name: Wichelmann, Jan
name: Eisenbarth, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Implementations of cryptographic libraries have been scrutinized for secret-dependent execution behavior exploitable by microarchitectural side-channel attacks. To prevent unintended leakages, most libraries moved to constant-time implementations of cryptographic primitives. There have also been efforts to certify libraries for use in sensitive areas, like Microsoft CNG and Botan, with specific attention to leakage behavior. In this work, we show that a common oversight in these libraries is the existence of \emph{utility functions}, which handle and thus possibly leak confidential information. We analyze the exploitability of base64 decoding functions across several widely used cryptographic libraries. Base64 decoding is used when loading keys stored in PEM format. We show that these functions by themselves leak sufficient information even if libraries are executed in trusted execution environments. In fact, we show that recent countermeasures to transient execution attacks such as LVI \emph{ease} the exploitability of the observed faint leakages, allowing us to robustly infer sufficient information about RSA private keys \emph{with a single trace}. We present a complete attack, including a broad library analysis, a high-resolution last level cache attack on SGX enclaves, and a fully parallelized implementation of the extend-and-prune approach that allows a complete key recovery at medium costs.
PAIR: Leveraging Passage-Centric Similarity Relation for Improving Dense Passage Retrieval
Creators: name: Ren, Ruiyang
name: Lv, Shangwen
name: Qu, Yingqi
name: Liu, Jing
name: Zhao, Wayne Xin
name: She, QiaoQiao
name: Wu, Hua
name: Wang, Haifeng
name: Wen, Ji-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, dense passage retrieval has become a mainstream approach to finding relevant information in various natural language processing tasks. A number of studies have been devoted to improving the widely adopted dual-encoder architecture. However, most of the previous studies only consider query-centric similarity relation when learning the dual-encoder retriever. In order to capture more comprehensive similarity relations, we propose a novel approach that leverages both query-centric and PAssage-centric sImilarity Relations (called PAIR) for dense passage retrieval. To implement our approach, we make three major technical contributions by introducing formal formulations of the two kinds of similarity relations, generating high-quality pseudo labeled data via knowledge distillation, and designing an effective two-stage training procedure that incorporates passage-centric similarity relation constraint. Extensive experiments show that our approach significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on both MSMARCO and Natural Questions datasets.
description: ACL 2021
Pollicott-Ruelle resolvent and Sobolev regularity
Creators: name: Dyatlov, Semyon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note we compute the threshold regularity for meromorphic continuation of the Pollicott--Ruelle resolvent of an Anosov flow as an operator on anisotropic Sobolev spaces, in the setting of lifts to general vector bundles. These thresholds are related to the Sobolev regularity needed for the decay of correlations.
description: 30 pages; minor revisions following the referee's suggestions. To appear in the special issue of PAFA in honor of Louis Nirenberg
Branching ratios of mesonic and nonmesonic antikaon absorptions in nuclear medium
Creators: name: Sekihara, Takayasu
name: Yamagata-Sekihara, Junko
name: Jido, Daisuke
name: Kanada-En'yo, Yoshiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The branching ratios of K^- absorption at rest in nuclear matter are theoretically investigated in order to understand the mechanism of K^- absorption into nuclei. For this purpose mesonic and nonmesonic absorption potentials are evaluated as functions of nuclear density, the kaon momentum and energy from one- and two-body K^- self-energy, respectively. By using a chiral unitary approach for the s-wave Kbar N amplitude we find that both the mesonic and nonmesonic absorption potentials are dominated by the Lambda(1405) contributions. The fraction of the mesonic and nonmesonic absorptions are evaluated to be respectively about 70% and 30% at the saturation density almost independently on the kaon momentum. We also observe different behavior of the branching ratios to pi ^+ Sigma^- and pi^- Sigma^+ channels in mesonic absorption due to the interference between Lambda(1405) and the I=1 nonresonant background, which is consistent with experimental results. The nonmesonic absorption ratios [Lambda p]/[Sigma^0 p] and [Lambda n]/[Sigma^0 n] are about unity while [Sigma^+ n]/[Sigma^0 p] and [Sigma^- p]/[Sigma^0 n] are about two due to the Lambda(1405) dominance in absorption. Taking into account the kaon momenta and energies, the absorption potentials become weaker due to the downward shift of the initial K^-N two-body energy, but this does not drastirally change the nonmesonic fraction. The Sigma(1385) contribution in the p-wave Kbar N amplitude is examined and found to be very small compared to the Lambda(1405) contribution in slow K^- absorption.
description: 18 pages, 22 figures
hEARt: Motion-resilient Heart Rate Monitoring with In-ear Microphones
Creators: name: Butkow, Kayla-Jade
name: Dang, Ting
name: Ferlini, Andrea
name: Ma, Dong
name: Mascolo, Cecilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the soaring adoption of in-ear wearables, the research community has started investigating suitable in-ear heart rate (HR) detection systems. HR is a key physiological marker of cardiovascular health and physical fitness. Continuous and reliable HR monitoring with wearable devices has therefore gained increasing attention in recent years. Existing HR detection systems in wearables mainly rely on photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors, however, these are notorious for poor performance in the presence of human motion. In this work, leveraging the occlusion effect that enhances low-frequency bone-conducted sounds in the ear canal, we investigate for the first time \textit{in-ear audio-based motion-resilient} HR monitoring. We first collected HR-induced sounds in the ear canal leveraging an in-ear microphone under stationary and three different activities (i.e., walking, running, and speaking). Then, we devised a novel deep learning based motion artefact (MA) mitigation framework to denoise the in-ear audio signals, followed by an HR estimation algorithm to extract HR. With data collected from 20 subjects over four activities, we demonstrate that hEARt, our end-to-end approach, achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 3.02 $\pm$ 2.97~BPM, 8.12 $\pm$ 6.74~BPM, 11.23 $\pm$ 9.20~BPM and 9.39 $\pm$ 6.97~BPM for stationary, walking, running and speaking, respectively, opening the door to a new non-invasive and affordable HR monitoring with usable performance for daily activities. Not only does hEARt outperform previous in-ear HR monitoring work, but it outperforms reported in-ear PPG performance.
4.2 WP4 Demonstrators - D2 Sensitive - Technical Report
Creators: name: Samarage, Chaminda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the Technical Solution for Work Package 4, Part 2 of the Integrated Research Infrastructure for Social Science (IRISS) project as funded by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). This section in the work package relates to assessing the suitability of outputs of IRISS for use in sensitive data environments.
title: NOAA procedure for scientific records appraisal and archive approval : guide for data managers
Creators: name: NOAA Environmental Data Management Committee 
Publisher: name: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02z5nhe81
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: This document defines the procedure that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will use to identify, appraise, and decide what scientific records are preserved in a NOAA archive. The procedure applies to accepting or rejecting newly acquired scientific records for a NOAA archive and also to retaining or disposing of existing records already held in a NOAA archive.
Multi-faceted Approach for Engineering Novel Herbicide Resistance in Canola
Creators: name: Scott, Robert Joseph
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Herbicide tolerance
subject: Mutagenesis
subject: Canola
subject: Herbicide resistance
subject: CRISPR/Cas9-deaminase
subject: Cellulose Synthase
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Botany

description: Canola, Brassica napus, is a plant species of vital importance to both the Canadian economy and cultural history. For canola to remain the powerhouse commodity crop that it is, effective herbicide resistance technologies will need to be advanced in order to combat the growing threat of herbicide resistant weeds. In order to control weed populations with effective herbicides without causing harm to the planted crop, growers often utilize herbicide resistant cultivars. While resistant cultivars of canola already exist that are tolerant to highly effective herbicides such as Roundup and Liberty, overuse of few herbicides will only lead to greater likelihood of resistant weed populations developing. Cellulose Biosynthesis Inhibitors (CBIs) are known pre-emergent herbicides with no known field resistance but have currently had very limited application in commodity farming. These herbicides directly interfere with a plant’s ability to produce cellulose, necessary for their cell walls as a vital structural component. Current literature agrees that CBIs likely interfere directly with CELLULOSE SYNTHASE (CESA), an enzyme known to play a vital role in cellulose biosynthesis. If canola cultivars were to be developed with resistance, either GMO or non-GMO, to CBI herbicides such as isoxaben or flupoxam, it could represent a major economic boon for canola growers. In the present work, I utilize Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutagenized B. napus seed to screen for novel alleles conferring isoxaben resistance. By Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) candidate resistant seedlings, I was able to find three potentially causal mutations in BnCESA3 that may independently confer isoxaben resistance. Transgenic lines of B. napus were also developed containing a synthetic version of BnCESA1 containing three previously characterized flupoxam-resistant alleles on a single transgene. Pot screening of these transgenic lines revealed moderate level of tolerance to flupoxam. Lastly, CRISPR/Cas9-deaminase lines of B. napus were also developed to base edit BnCESA1 and BnCESA3 to generate novel alleles that could confer tolerance to CBI herbicides.
Semiclassical measures for higher dimensional quantum cat maps
Creators: name: Dyatlov, Semyon
name: Jézéquel, Malo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Consider a quantum cat map $M$ associated to a matrix $A\in\mathop{\mathrm{Sp}}(2n,\mathbb Z)$, which is a common toy model in quantum chaos. We show that the mass of eigenfunctions of $M$ on any nonempty open set in the position-frequency space satisfies a lower bound which is uniform in the semiclassical limit, under two assumptions: (1) there is a unique simple eigenvalue of $A$ of largest absolute value and (2) the characteristic polynomial of $A$ is irreducible over the rationals. This is similar to previous work [arXiv:1705.05019], [arXiv:1906.08923] on negatively curved surfaces and [arXiv:2103.06633] on quantum cat maps with $n=1$, but this paper gives the first results of this type which apply in any dimension. When condition (2) fails we provide a weaker version of the result and discuss relations to existing counterexamples. We also obtain corresponding statements regarding semiclassical measures and damped quantum cat maps.
description: 63 pages, 4 figures. Various revisions following the referee comments. Electronic copy of final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in Annales Henri Poincar\'e
A Body of Longing: The Erotic and Decolonial Power of the Biotext
Creators: name: Fernando, Tarini Nandita
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: biotext
subject: literary deconstruction
subject: erotic
subject: concrete poetry
subject: contemporary Canadian literatures
subject: contemporary Indigenous Literatures
subject: BIPOC
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: postcolonial
subject: hybridity
subject: diaspora
subject: affect theory
subject: apocalypse
subject: poetry
subject: visual poetry
subject: diasporic Canadian literatures
subject: form and genre
subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)

description: A Body of Longing: The Erotic and Decolonial Power of the Biotext is a creative thesis that explores the radical potential of the biotext as a genre that defies formal and generic restrictions, especially the expectations of autobiography. Using postcolonial, affective, and literary deconstructionist theories, I explore questions such as, how does the biotext challenge formal and generic categorization? What decolonial and feminist potentials lie in the rejection of literary categories by Black, Indigenous, and writers of colour in a settler-colonial state? I investigate these questions through close analyses of experimental biotextual writings in contemporary Canadian and Indigenous English-language literatures, such as Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill, Jordan Abel’s NISHGA, and, of course, my own biotextual poetry. Through my analyses, I find that the biotext, through its lack of strict generic and formal expectations, inherently encourages experimentation and the blurring of literary categories. This rejection of categorization is what allows BIPOC authors to resist readability by the Canadian state, which seeks to fetishize and restrict their stories within the colonial borders of the nation-state. In investigating the work of authors like Wah, I also theorize that one reason diasporic Asian-Canadian writers have been so foundational to the history of the biotext is that they are particularly well-positioned to use formal and generic experimentation to challenge constructions of home and identity. I also argue that visual experimentation is a key tool that heightens the decolonial breaking of generic and formal boundaries that I attempt in my poetry. Drawing strongly from Audre Lorde’s theory of the power of the erotic, my poetry collection takes up the genre of biotext and articulates my own vision for erotic, decolonial, Sri Lankan, feminist futures. Inspired by Abel’s oeuvre, M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, and Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal Indigiqueer, my poetry makes intentional use of visual experimentation to challenge both the reader and state’s consumption of the text. Ultimately, I wish to contribute to the traditions created by writers like Wah and Abel, who boldly defy the colonial restrictions of genre and form, and push the biotext to ever-changing dimensions.
Body Perception and Body Dissatisfaction: A Longitudinal Examination of Body Image and Disordered Eating Symptoms
Creators: name: Magel, Chantelle A.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: body perception
subject: body image
subject: disordered eating
subject: development
subject: longitudinal
subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Psychology--Developmental

description: Introduction: Body size perception and attitudes towards the body (e.g., body dissatisfaction) are two distinct but interconnected components of body image. The relationship between body perceptions and disordered eating is poorly understood. The objective of this project was to examine body size perception and elucidate how it changes and relates to disordered eating behaviours and attitudes across development when compared to body dissatisfaction. Method: In three studies, we analyzed data from the Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS), a population-based, prospective study of 1,359 predominantly (95%) White, reared-together female twins ranging from age 10 to 33, in which participants completed assessments approximately every three to five years. Study 1 examined the psychometric properties of a scale used to measure body size perception (Body Rating Scales (BRS); Chapter 2); Study 2 investigated the developmental trajectories of body mass index (BMI) and BRS body size perception scores across the study period (Chapter 3); and Study 3 compared the degree to which BMI, BRS body size perception scores, and body dissatisfaction impacted disordered eating behaviours and attitudes over time (Chapter 4). Results: In Study 1, the psychometric properties of the BRS support its validity as a measure of body size perception in girls and women. In Study 2, participants generally selected increasingly large perceived actual body sizes and increasingly small ideal body sizes across time and development, resulting in widening discrepancies between actual and ideal body size ratings until approximately age 30. In Study 3, body perception variables (i.e., larger actual body size ratings, smaller ideal body size, and greater actual-ideal discrepancies) predicted subsequent elevated disordered eating behaviours and attitudes across time more strongly than did body dissatisfaction as measured by self-report questionnaire ratings. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the BRS is a psychometrically-sound tool that may be used to evaluate body perception quickly and easily. Further, this research advances understanding of how body perceptions and ideals change across development, and highlights their relationship with subsequent disordered eating.
Temperedness criterion of the tensor product of parabolic induction for $GL_n$
Creators: name: Benoist, Yves
name: Inoue, Yui
name: Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E46

description: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a pair of parabolic subgroups $P$ and $Q$ of $G=GL_n(\mathbb{R})$ such that the tensor product of any two unitarily induced representations from $P$ and $Q$ are tempered. We also give an $L^p$-estimate of matrix coefficients of the regular representations on $L^2(G/L)$ when $L$ is a Levi subgroup of $G$.
description: Final version, to appear in Journal of Algebra
Quantum electrodynamics of a free particle near dispersive dielectric or conducting boundaries
Creators: name: Bennett, Robert
name: Eberlein, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum electrodynamics near a boundary is investigated by considering the inertial mass shift of an electron near a dielectric or conducting surface. We show that in all tractable cases the shift can be written in terms of integrals over the TE and TM reflection coefficients associated with the surface, in analogy to the Lifshitz formula for the Casimir effect. We discuss the applications and potential limitations of this formula, and provide exact results for several models of the surface.
Improving Forensic Clinical Practice: Leveraging Concepts from Counselling and Counselling Psychology
Creators: name: Pasyk, Victoria Summer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this research is to improve the practices of mental health professionals engaged in forensic practice by leveraging ideas and perspectives from counselling and counselling psychology. Counselling and counselling psychology are defined by their holistic, strength-based, and multiculturally competent ways of addressing mental health concerns and facilitating change. Despite both professions offering unique benefits for a variety of populations and needs, clinicians from these areas of practice are under-represented in a number of mental health work settings, one, in particular, being forensic. Additionally, there is also very limited research on how the practice of counselling and counselling psychology can benefit or enhance the area of forensic psychology. This knowledge gap is particularly evident in the areas of supervision, assessment, and psychotherapy. In this dissertation, I close some of these gaps by contributing three manuscripts that leverage ideas and perspectives from these related disciplines. Specifically, Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the potential benefits that counselling and counselling psychology could offer to the field of forensic mental health practice. Chapter 2/Manuscript 1 examines readiness to change as a key component to the working alliance with clients who have offended. The working alliance is a construct elaborated on by a counselling psychologist and is related to successful outcomes for both community and correctional populations. Chapter 3/Manuscript 2 draws upon existing literature from the field to provide recommendations to improve clinical supervision in forensic practice. Chapter 4/Manuscript 3 is a data-based research project that examines the application of a counselling perspective to forensic practice. Chapter 5 integrates themes across the three manuscripts and provides suggestions for forensic clinical practice. This chapter also considers the state of current forensic practice in Canada and its implications for counselling psychologists.
Ripening and Storage of Florida Avocados
Creators: name: Hatton, T. T.
name: Reeder, Wm. F.
name: Campbell, C. W.
name: Hatton, T. T.
name: Reeder, Wm. F.
name: Campbell, C. W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: The primary objectives of this investigation were to obtain additional information on the behavior of Florida avocados during ripening and storage and to more clearly define the effects of temperature and duration of storage on several Florida-grown varieties. Storage and ripening studies of avocados were conducted during a 7-year period—from the 1957-58 crop year through the 1963-64 crop year. Over 7,000 individual fruits from more than 30 groves were tested.
Restrained condition on double Roman dominating functions
Creators: name: Samadi, Babak
name: Soltankhah, Nasrin
name: Ahangar, H. Abdollahzadeh
name: Chellali, M.
name: Mojdeh, Doost Ali
name: Sheikholeslami, S. M.
name: Valenzuela-Tripodoro, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69

description: We continue the study of restrained double Roman domination in graphs. For a graph $G=\big{(}V(G),E(G)\big{)}$, a double Roman dominating function $f$ is called a restrained double Roman dominating function (RDRD function) if the subgraph induced by $\{v\in V(G)\mid f(v)=0\}$ has no isolated vertices. The restrained double Roman domination number (RDRD number) $γ_{rdR}(G)$ is the minimum weight $\sum_{v\in V(G)}f(v)$ taken over all RDRD functions of $G$. We first prove that the problem of computing $γ_{rdR}$ is NP-hard even for planar graphs, but it is solvable in linear time when restricted to bounded clique-width graphs such as trees, cographs and distance-hereditary graphs. Relationships between $γ_{rdR}$ and some well-known parameters such as restrained domination number $γ_{r}$, domination number $γ$ and restrained Roman domination number $γ_{rR}$ are investigated in this paper by bounding $γ_{rdR}$ from below and above involving $γ_{r}$, $γ$ and $γ_{rR}$ for general graphs, respectively. We prove that $γ_{rdR}(T)\geq n+2$ for any tree $T\neq K_{1,n-1}$ of order $n\geq2$ and characterize the family of all trees attaining the lower bound. The characterization of graphs with small RDRD numbers is given in this paper.
Additional file 1 of Circular RNA hsa_circ_0002483 promotes growth and invasion of lung adenocarcinoma by sponging miR-125a-3p
Creators: name: Wan, Jun
name: Ding, Guanggui
name: Zhou, Min
name: Ling, Xiean
name: Rao, Zhanpeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The list of primer sequences. Table S2. Cox regression analysis of circ_0002483 expressionas a survival predictor in LUAC. Table S3. The association of miR-125a-3pexpression with clinicopathological characteristics in patients with LUAC. Table S4. The association ofCCL4 expression with clinicopathological characteristics in patients with LUAC
Democracy is a type of government in which citizens own sovereignty and elect rulers who make laws. Citizens may exercise their powers themselves or through representatives elected to exercise power on their behalf. Deciding who is a citizen and how power is shared among citizens changes over time and each country changes at different rates. In addition to the election The fundamental idea of democracy is freedom of assembly and speech. Inclusion and equality, civil rights, consent, right to life, and minority rights. Democracy also makes all parties aware of their interests and delegates power from the people to a set of rules instead.
Creators: name: Sompop Rangubtook
Publisher: name: DR.KET Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2023
Subjects: Politics
Government
Democracy

description: Modern Academic Development and Promotion Journal, 1, 3, 35-46
Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Stochastic Approximation Algorithms for Streaming Data
Creators: name: Godichon-Baggioni, Antoine
name: Werge, Nicklas
name: Wintenberger, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a streaming framework for analyzing stochastic approximation/optimization problems. This streaming framework is analogous to solving optimization problems using time-varying mini-batches that arrive sequentially. We provide non-asymptotic convergence rates of various gradient-based algorithms; this includes the famous Stochastic Gradient (SG) descent (a.k.a. Robbins-Monro algorithm), mini-batch SG and time-varying mini-batch SG algorithms, as well as their iterated averages (a.k.a. Polyak-Ruppert averaging). We show i) how to accelerate convergence by choosing the learning rate according to the time-varying mini-batches, ii) that Polyak-Ruppert averaging achieves optimal convergence in terms of attaining the Cramer-Rao lower bound, and iii) how time-varying mini-batches together with Polyak-Ruppert averaging can provide variance reduction and accelerate convergence simultaneously, which is advantageous for many learning problems, such as online, sequential, and large-scale learning. We further demonstrate these favorable effects for various time-varying mini-batches.