cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Switching from active to passive travel—What is the potential among adolescents?
Creators: name: Loh, Venurs
name: Sahlqvist, Shannon
name: Veitch, Jenny
name: Carver, Alison
name: Contardo Ayala, Ana María
name: Cole, Rachel
name: Timperio, Anna
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Few Australian adolescents are sufficiently active. Replacing short ‘passive’ travel (i.e. car, public transport) with active travel (i.e. walking or cycling) could be an important potential strategy to increase physical activity. Purpose: To characterise adolescents’ travel patterns to various destinations, identify short passive trips that could be feasibly replaced by active travel, and identify the characteristics associated with those trips. Methods: Data were from 2,192 Victorian secondary school students (12-17 years; 51% males) with 24-h travel diary data in the Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel Activity 2012–2016. Feasible distance thresholds for walking and cycling were determined at the 80th percentile of distance of reported walking and cycling trips, respectively, in the sample. Comparison tests were conducted to assess whether travel patterns differed by sociodemographic characteristics. Multilevel logistic regression identified characteristics of passive trips that could be replaced by active travel. Results: A total of 6,428 trips comprising 8,986 trip legs (segments) were recorded. About 11% of adolescents could feasibly replace ≥1 short passive trip with walking and 48% could feasibly replace ≥1 short passive trip with cycling. Of the passive trips recorded, 7% could be replaced with walking and 40% could be replaced with cycling. Trips that commenced within daylight hours, and trips made for shopping and social reasons had higher odds of being replaceable by active travel. Conclusion: Increasing cycling for transport, especially for discretionary trips made during daylight hours, could potentially have a significant impact on overall physical activity levels. Funding: VL is supported by an Executive Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. JV is supported by an Australian National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (ID 101928). AMCA was previously supported by, and AT was a recipient of, a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence (APP1057608) during the conduct of this study.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
CROP-WATER PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS: ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS FOR COLORADO
Creators: name: Hoyt, Paul G.
name: Hoyt, Paul G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Crop response
subject: irrigation economics
subject: Colorado
subject: soil-water-plant relationships

description: Crop-water production functions are estimated for corn, soybeans, and sugar beets grown in Colorado with two irrigation efficiency levels. Farmers with high-cost water can conserve water and increase profits by applying profit- rather than yield-maximizing water quantities if crop prices are low. Application efficiencies. have a greater effect on profits at high water costs, but a greater effect on water use at low water costs.. Water supply restrictionsof 10 percent or less have a small effect on farm profits. Farmers should .maintain full Acreage in production and reduce water, applications per acre.for maximum profits under water supply restrictions of 20 percent or less.
Impacts of climate change on humanity: it is worse than you think, but still fixable.
Creators: name: Mora, Camilo
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Summary of Keynote Address: Dr. Camilo Mora’s keynote address was designed to address the impacts of climate change on humanity and the solutions that his team has created. Dr. Mora emphasized how through approximately 20 years of research on these different topics he has discovered the enormous and alarming impact(s) of climate change on nature and humanity. He also articulated his concerns about our ability to deal with climate change. He highlighted the diverse (at least 27) ways that you can die from during a heatwave. He equated how this was like a horror movie with 27 endings to choose from. Dr. Mora discussed how the evaluation of 12,000 papers revealed that there are more than 400 ways that climate change can harm humanity. He argued how there will be no place to hide from climate change and it is likely to get worse. Dr. Mora’s daughter, Asryelle,​ then discussed potential solutions that they have explored to address the impacts of climate change, such as the Carbon​ Neutrality​ Challenge (www.GoCarbonNeutral.org). The premise is to calculate how much carbon dioxide each person generates, estimate the number of trees necessary to sequester those emissions, plant the trees, and then climate change solve. At any moment, a person will know how many trees to plant and/or how much they would have to reduce consumption to reach neutrality. Asryelle discussed the various community-based approaches to addressing climate change including an initiative wherein 20 teams were able to plant 1,100 trees in two hours. Asryelle also highlighted how they created a webpage called “The Planting World Records” to incentivize this project, which allowed teams of no more than 20 people to compete in planting the most trees in six hours. Asryelle emphasized the various opportunities and challenges associated with addressing climate change. She stressed how the average person would need to plant 130 trees to be carbon neutral across the lifespan, which equates to one trillion trees across the world. Asryelle concluded by emphasizing that we know the problem and the solution and therefore there is no excuse for not addressing climate change.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL AND JOB CHARACTERISTICS ON JOB SATISFACTION OF SUPPLEMENTARY AND HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS' HEBREW TEACHERS
Creators: name: Ravin, Noach
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Two broad classifications of problem areas have persistently concerned Hebrew day and supplementary Hebrew schools' leadership. They are as follows: (a) a shortage of Hebrew teachers entering the Hebrew teaching profession, and (b) the high rate of turnover of Hebrew teachers. The research po.
COST AND YIELD EFFECTS OF REDUCED TILLAGE SYSTEMS USED IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS
Creators: name: Reed, Krista S.
name: Wrickson, Merlin W.
name: Reed, Krista S.
name: Wrickson, Merlin W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Conventional tillage
subject: conservation tillage
subject: reduced tillage
subject: no—till
subject: production costs
subject: yields
subject: gross returns
subject: net returns

description: Growing concern about increased production costs has accelerated the search for alternative crop tillage methods. Depletion of soil resources further enhances interest in moderating land surface disturbance by reducing tillage intensity. This report brings together conclusions from research trials and farmer experiences regarding use of reduced tillage methods in the northern and central Great Plains. Results are not reported uniformly; however, production costs, crop yields and rotations, chemical use, machine use, weed control, and gross and net returns are compared. The importance of good management is emphasized especially while switching from one tillage method to another.
Physical activity promotion in Latin American populations: A tale of magic realism
Creators: name: Sarmiento, Olga
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Summary of Keynote Address: Dr. Sarmiento presented the evaluation of community programs that emerged from the land of Magic Realism, Latin America. She emphasized how magic realism paints a realistic view of the modern world while also adding magical elements. She highlighted how the programs presented all had a part of magic realism from a region full of colour, innovation, contrasts, inequality, and resilience. Dr. Sarmiento discussed how Latin America is a region under rapid urbanization (with 80% living in cities) with great contrasts and challenges with respect to social equality/inequality gaps. Latin America is dense, diverse, and fragmented with a high prevalence of insufficient physical activity. She demonstrated how the IPEN study conducted in Bogota, Cuernavaca, and Uritiba showed that Latin Americans are more active in the streets and parks. In this land of magic realism, Dr. Sarmiento highlighted how there are novel programs that can promote physical activity within parks and on the streets. These programs go beyond traditional systems including the the Ciclovias, Recreativas, or open street programs, cycling infrastructure, community programs in parks to promote PA through dancing, and cable cars integrated to mass transit for transport. All of these programs are aligned with the Global action plan on physical activity 2018–2030 of more active people for a healthier world from WHO. She revealed that these out of the health sector programs have the potential to promote physical activity and impact the well-being of people (women, children, and older adults) and their urban settings. She also discussed how practice-based evidence accelerates more quickly than evidence-based practice. She also argued how evaluation requires mixed methods, and an interdisciplinary research approach, with engagement of citizens (citizen science by the people) and policy actors throughout the design and evaluation process. She highlighted how policy makers have recognized the potential impact of recreation and transport and urban interventions on livability and health​. Dr. Sarmiento emphasized how these studies required national and international networks and multidisciplinary groups with true partnerships between researchers, end users, and community.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Propagation of optically tunable coherent radiation in a gas of polar molecules
Creators: name: Gładysz, Piotr
name: Wcisło, Piotr
name: Słowik, Karolina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent, optically dressed media composed of two-level molecular systems without inversion symmetry are considered as all-optically tunable sources of coherent radiation in the microwave domain. A theoretical model and a numerical toolbox are developed to confirm the main finding: the generation of a low-frequency radiation, and the buildup and propagation dynamics of such low-frequency signals in a medium of polar molecules in a gas phase. The physical mechanism of the signal generation relies on the permanent dipole moment characterizing systems without inversion symmetry. The molecules are polarized with a DC electric field yielding a permanent electric dipole moment in the laboratory frame; the direction and magnitude of the moment depend on the molecular state. As the system is resonantly driven, the dipole moment oscillates at the Rabi frequency and, hence, generates microwave radiation. We demonstrate the tuning capability of the output signal frequency with the drive amplitude and detuning. We find that even though decoherence mechanisms such as spontaneous emission may damp the output field, a scenario based on pulsed illumination yields a coherent, pulsed output of tunable temporal width. Finally, we discuss experimental scenarios exploiting rotational levels of gaseous ensembles of heteronuclear diatomic molecules.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
GROWTH IN THE HEALTH AND NATURAL FOODS INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Price, Charlene C.
name: Brown, Judy
name: Price, Charlene C.
name: Brown, Judy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health and natural foods industry
subject: health food stores
subject: natural food stares
subject: organic
subject: natural

description: The health and natural foods industry has changed in the past decade from a few small stores selling primarily vitamins and other food supplements to larger stores selling various food products, health and beauty aids, books, and appliances. A few stores have even grown to supermarket size (over 10,000 sq. ft.). The growth of the health and natural foods industry has had an impact on the traditional food market as many supermarkets have added nutrition centers which stock health and natural food items. Though the industry is experiencing some difficulty with definitions of the terms natural and organic, it is possible that Federal regulatory policy would begin to alleviate misconceptions and definition problems.
It’s a sign : The impact of signage on water fountain usage at UBC
Creators: name: De La Cruz, Pauline (Grace)
name: Golovko, Maria
name: Lee, Rachel
name: Leung, Calista
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: In collaboration with the SEEDS (Social Ecological Economic Development Studies) program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), this research project investigated whether water fountain signage installed by UBC SEEDs would generate a significant increased rate of water fountain usage in the Life Building at UBC. Two studies were conducted where study 1 consisted of a total of 985 observed patrons using the water fountains in the Life Building (LIFE) and Irving K. Barber Learning Center (IKB) and study 2 had a total of 50 participants complete an opinion survey. Study 1 consisted of four conditions in a between-subjects pretest-post-test design and Study 2 consisted of surveying individuals in regard to how the signage could further be improved. After signage installation and conclusion of data collecting, the multiple statistical analyses revealed that water fountain usage had not increased significantly. According to the feedback from the surveys, 48% of participants suggested to make the sign larger, 32% suggested to make it more colourful, 14% suggested to change the location and 6% suggested to add more signs. The practical implications of our findings stem from the need to improve signage and provides a review of signage design and placement. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Limitations of weak labels for embedding and tagging
Creators: name: Turpault, Nicolas
name: Serizel, Romain
name: Vincent, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many datasets and approaches in ambient sound analysis use weakly labeled data.Weak labels are employed because annotating every data sample with a strong label is too expensive.Yet, their impact on the performance in comparison to strong labels remains unclear.Indeed, weak labels must often be dealt with at the same time as other challenges, namely multiple labels per sample, unbalanced classes and/or overlapping events.In this paper, we formulate a supervised learning problem which involves weak labels.We create a dataset that focuses on the difference between strong and weak labels as opposed to other challenges. We investigate the impact of weak labels when training an embedding or an end-to-end classifier.Different experimental scenarios are discussed to provide insights into which applications are most sensitive to weakly labeled data.
title: 03_0104
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Piromis Kinberg 1867
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Terebellida
Flabelligeridae
Piromis

description: Piromis Kinberg, 1867 (key: Salazar-Vallejo 2011a) suni Salazar-Vallejo, 2011: Sanya Bay Shandong Sheng, China. SMF 15348
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
THE EFFECT OF ENCOURAGING PARENTS OF LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN WITH READING DIFFICULTIES TO IMPROVE THE HOME READING ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Suib, Mary Blake
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a training program to encourage the parents of intermediate school learning disabled students to make changes in the home reading environment that would assist their children in reading development. Twenty seven families volunteered to participate in the study, eighteen as participants who attended three meetings and nine as controls. At the meetings the importance of reading in the home, the selection of current books popular with adolescents and behavioral management techniques were discussed. These topics represent three broad areas of reading development in which home factors appear to influence. The study was designed as pre-experimental in the natural setting. The data was collected through questionnaires and reading exercises administered to the children--by their parents at the beginning of the study and sixteen weeks later. The data was analyzed by means of the t-test. Given the voluntary nature of the participation and the use of non-standardized instruments and procedures for data collection the results of this study must be interpreted with extreme caution. The results indicate that parents were willing to make changes in the home reading environment to assist their children in developing reading skills. However, the results of the children's performance on reading exercises indicated that the children of the participants did not increase their reading ability significantly more than the children of the controls during the sixteen week period.
Successful Clinical Management of Dystocia in A Goat - A Case Report
Creators: name: D. Keerthana1, Dr. B. Priyanka2
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: A one-year-old full term pregnant goat presented to the veterinary clinical complex, C. V. Sc, Korutla with a history of straining for 24 hours but unable to deliver the fetus. Clinical and Per-vaginal examination revealed dystocia due to downward deviation of the head and bilateral shoulder flexion of the fetus. The goat was treated with Inj. Epidosin-20 mg i/m and given epidural anesthesia with Inj. Lignocaine-2 ml at sacro-coccygeal space and the mal posture of the fetus was corrected by mutational operations and dystocia was relieved by manual traction. The goat was treated with Inj. Ceftriaxone- 500mg I/M, Inj. Meloxicam-2ml I/M, Inj. Chlorpheniramine maleate-2 ml I/M, Inj. Tribivet-1 ml I/M and the treatment was continued for next 5 days and animal recovered uneventfully.
Air Quality in First Nations Communities and the Policy Implications for Community-Based Physical Activity Programming
Creators: name: Miles, Rosalin M.
name: Chan, Delon D. L.
name: Chan, Ryan G.
name: Kaufman, Kai L.
name: Bredin, Shannon S. D.
name: Warburton, Darren E. R.
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: The health benefits of routine physical activity and exercise are clear; however, increased physical activity can lead to elevated exposure to air pollution that increases the risks for adverse events. Within most Indigenous or rural communities in Canada there is limited monitoring of air quality so community members may unknowingly be at an increased health risk for adverse events while being active. Policy Components: An air quality monitor was placed outdoors in Lytton, BC, a rural First Nations community, from April 2019 – June 2021 and particular matter (PM1.0, PM2.5, PM10.0), inorganic matter (CO2, O3), temperature, pressure, and humidity were recorded during the two-year span. Evaluation: There were significant increases in particular matter (PM1.0, PM10.0) over the two-year sample period (p≤ 0.05). There were significant relationships between the different particular matter sizes (i.e., PM1.0/2.5 (0.976), PM2.5/10.0 (0.999), and PM1.0/10.0 (0.965), respectively (p<0.001)) and also between PM 1.0/O3 (0.200, p<0.05). At the highest PM levels, Environment and Climate Change Canada would recommend the reduction or rescheduling of physical activity/exercise. Conclusions: In a rural and First Nations community in BC, Canada, there were marked levels of air pollution that would affect the ability to safely participate in physical activity. These findings have important policy implications highlighting the need for monitoring of air quality within Indigenous or rural communities, and to consider the effects of air pollution when engaging in physical activity/exercise. Funding: This study was funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Metal-nanoparticle single-electron transistors fabricated using electromigration
Creators: name: Bolotin, K. I.
name: Kuemmeth, F.
name: Pasupathy, A. N.
name: Ralph, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have fabricated single-electron transistors from individual metal nanoparticles using a geometry that provides improved coupling between the particle and the gate electrode. This is accomplished by incorporating a nanoparticle into a gap created between two electrodes using electromigration, all on top of an oxidized aluminum gate. We achieve sufficient gate coupling to access more than ten charge states of individual gold nanoparticles (5-15 nm in diameter). The devices are sufficiently stable to permit spectroscopic studies of the electron-in-a-box level spectra within the nanoparticle as its charge state is varied.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to APL
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF U.S. AGRICULTURAL LAND THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1983: COUNTY LEVEL DATA
Creators: name: Majchrowicz, T. Alexander
name: DeBraal, J. Peter
name: Majchrowicz, T. Alexander
name: DeBraal, J. Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agricultural land
subject: foreign investment
subject: foreign landownership
subject: county data

description: Foreign investment in.U.S. agricultural land has been reported in 1,831 of the 3,041 counties in the United States. Data are presented for each county to show the number of acres and parcels, value, country of origin, and use of foreignowned agricultural land. Aggregation of the data at the county level supplements "Foreign Ownership of U.S. Agricultural Land Through December 31, 1983," ERS Staff Report AGES840328.
THE EFFECT OF ENCOURAGING PARENTS OF LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN WITH READING DIFFICULTIES TO IMPROVE THE HOME READING ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Suib, Mary Blake
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a training program to encourage the parents of intermediate school learning disabled students to make changes in the home reading environment that would assist their children in reading development. Twenty seven families volunteered to participate in the study, eighteen as participants who attended three meetings and nine as controls. At the meetings the importance of reading in the home, the selection of current books popular with adolescents and behavioral management techniques were discussed. These topics represent three broad areas of reading development in which home factors appear to influence. The study was designed as pre-experimental in the natural setting. The data was collected through questionnaires and reading exercises administered to the children--by their parents at the beginning of the study and sixteen weeks later. The data was analyzed by means of the t-test. Given the voluntary nature of the participation and the use of non-standardized instruments and procedures for data collection the results of this study must be interpreted with extreme caution. The results indicate that parents were willing to make changes in the home reading environment to assist their children in developing reading skills. However, the results of the children's performance on reading exercises indicated that the children of the participants did not increase their reading ability significantly more than the children of the controls during the sixteen week period.
20 years of sedentary behaviour research: Revolution, evolution, or repackaging?
Creators: name: Stamatakis, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Summary of Keynote Address: The idea that too much sedentary behaviour (sitting) poses distinct health risks, over and above the risks posed by the absence of sufficient physical activity, rapidly gained popularity in the first decade of this century, followed by a steady growth over the second decade. Hyperbolic messaging such as “sitting is the new smoking” were intensely promoted in popular media and scientific circles until recently. Starting from UK in 2011, many national public health guidelines have included sedentary behaviour-related recommendations of various degrees of specificity and depth. As a nascent field of research, both scientific evidence and opinion on the importance of sedentary behaviour has varied broadly over the last 20 years. Views have ranged from sedentary behaviour being simply the flipside of physical activity, to sedentary behaviour being a unique risk factor that is physiologically and behaviourally independent. This keynote provided a critical overview of sedentary behaviour as a research field over the 1999 – 2000 period, starting from the Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis hypothesis and followed by landmark publications on concepts such as “sedentary breaks” and “inactivity physiology”, all the way to the most recent WHO sedentary behaviour guidelines. The main conclusions were that sedentary behaviour played a critical catalytic role in the evolution of the broader physical activity field; but sedentary behaviour messages were often repackaged and re-marketed physical activity content. The keynote also provided a number of recommendations for future research and public health practice towards better integrating sedentary behaviour into the ever expanding research paradigm of movement and health.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
On the stability of thermonuclear shell sources in stars
Creators: name: Yoon, S. -C.
name: Langer, N.
name: van der Sluys, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative criterion for the thermal stability of thermonuclear shell sources. We find the thermal stability of shell sources to depend on exactly three factors: they are more stable when they are geometrically thicker, less degenerate and hotter. This confirms and unifies previously obtained results in terms of the geometry, temperature and density of the shell source, by a simplified but quantitative approach to the physics of shell nuclear burning. We present instability diagrams in the temperature-density plane for hydrogen and helium shell burning, which allow a simple evaluation of the stability conditions of such shell sources in stellar models. The performance of our stability criterion is demonstrated in various numerical models: in a 3 Msun AGB star, in helium accreting CO white dwarfs, in a helium white dwarf which is covered by a thin hydrogen envelope, and in a 1.0 Msun giant.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, to appear in A&A
Acção de reconhecimento da existência de contrato de trabalho. Breves reflexões (e algumas perplexidades)
Creators: name: Camanho, Paula Ponces
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 3 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Quantum Teleportation with Atoms Trapped in Cavities
Creators: name: Cho, Jaeyoon
name: Lee, Hai-Woong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to implement the quantum teleportation protocol with single atoms trapped in cavities. The scheme is based on the adiabatic passage and the polarization measurement. We show that it is possible to teleport the internal state of an atom trapped in a cavity to an atom trapped in another cavity with the success probability of 1/2 and the fidelity of 1. The scheme is resistant to a number of considerable imperfections such as the violation of the Lamb-Dicke condition, weak atom-cavity coupling, spontaneous emission, and detection inefficiency.
O casamento do Infante D. Pedro com Isabel de Urgel (c. fins de 1428 - inícios de 1429)
Creators: name: Silva, Nuno Espinosa Gomes Da
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 3 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Questions concerning matrix algebras and invariance of spectrum
Creators: name: Barnes, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $A$ and $B$ be unital Banach algebras with $A$ a subalgebra of $B$. Denote the algebra of all $n\times n$ matrices with entries from $A$ by $M_{n}(A)$. In this paper we prove some results concerning the open question: If $A$ is inverse closed in $B$, then is $M_{n}(A)$ inverse closed in $M_{n}(B)$? We also study related questions in the setting where $A$ is a symmetric Banach *-algebra.
description: 6 pages, no figures, no tables
EMPLOYMENT, INGENUITY, AND FAMILY LIFE: RAJASTHANI WOMEN IN DELHI, INDIA
Creators: name: Per-Lee, Dianne Ashley
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study is concerned with how Rajasthani, migrant women living in Delhi maintain their respectability while improving their families' standards of living through generating income. Before this problem could be studied other related questions had to be answered. What makes a woman respected in her community? How do women who go out for work adapt their behavior to meet the North Indian requirements for female isolation? How strong is the stigma against women seeking employment? Are there times in a woman's life or the development of the households she belongs to that family responsibilities take precedence over making money?; This research is also concerned with relationships within the family and how they change over time. Relatives affect all the decisions that a woman makes, and seeking employment is no exception. The methods used for this research were a pre-study, an interview schedule, and participant observation. A Delhi resettlement community of Rajasthani migrants was selected and the pre-study, discussions and interviews were carried out to test the relevance of the questions. The research entered a new phase when a standardized interview schedule was composed and administered to a random sample of households. Participant observation was used throughout the year's field work. A survey of all households in one resettlement block was taken for a general view of the area. Several conclusions can be drawn as a result of this research. Women who need income for the basic needs of their families will go out to work and other women will work to improve conditions for their children. But whatever the motivation for employment, the women will abide by the community's standards and customs for female behavior. While a woman's children are young she will stay home and find income producing activities that can be done along with childcare. One group of women was encouraged to work: widows. These women were often the head of a household that included grown sons and their wives. The strength and ingenuity of Rajasthani migrant women is an untapped source in this community.
Concept Whitening for Interpretable Image Recognition
Creators: name: Chen, Zhi
name: Bei, Yijie
name: Rudin, Cynthia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: What does a neural network encode about a concept as we traverse through the layers? Interpretability in machine learning is undoubtedly important, but the calculations of neural networks are very challenging to understand. Attempts to see inside their hidden layers can either be misleading, unusable, or rely on the latent space to possess properties that it may not have. In this work, rather than attempting to analyze a neural network posthoc, we introduce a mechanism, called concept whitening (CW), to alter a given layer of the network to allow us to better understand the computation leading up to that layer. When a concept whitening module is added to a CNN, the axes of the latent space are aligned with known concepts of interest. By experiment, we show that CW can provide us a much clearer understanding for how the network gradually learns concepts over layers. CW is an alternative to a batch normalization layer in that it normalizes, and also decorrelates (whitens) the latent space. CW can be used in any layer of the network without hurting predictive performance.
description: Authors' pre-publication version of a 2020 Nature Machine Intelligence article
THE EFFECT OF METROPOLITAN RECLASSIFICATION ON ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR METRO AND NONMETRO AREAS
Creators: name: Bluestone, Herman
name: Bluestone, Herman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Metropolitan
subject: nonmetropolitan
subject: Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas
subject: growth
subject: socioeconomic well-being
subject: economic structure

description: Comparisons of socioeconomic conditions in metro and nonmetro counties can be affected by the particular metro/nonmetro classification used. More recent classifications (those with more metro and fewer nonmetro counties), when compared with older ones, tend to indicate slower economic growth in nonmetro counties and faster growth in metro areas. Reclassification affects metro/nonmetro comparisons of economic structure and material well-being much less. It affects nonmetro indicators more than metro indicators because the transition counties (nonmetro counties reclassified as metro counties) make up a larger part of the originating group of nonmetro counties than the receiving group of metro counties.
Resolving Spurious Correlations in Causal Models of Environments via Interventions
Creators: name: Volodin, Sergei
name: Wichers, Nevan
name: Nixon, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Causal models bring many benefits to decision-making systems (or agents) by making them interpretable, sample-efficient, and robust to changes in the input distribution. However, spurious correlations can lead to wrong causal models and predictions. We consider the problem of inferring a causal model of a reinforcement learning environment and we propose a method to deal with spurious correlations. Specifically, our method designs a reward function that incentivizes an agent to do an intervention to find errors in the causal model. The data obtained from doing the intervention is used to improve the causal model. We propose several intervention design methods and compare them. The experimental results in a grid-world environment show that our approach leads to better causal models compared to baselines: learning the model on data from a random policy or a policy trained on the environment's reward. The main contribution consists of methods to design interventions to resolve spurious correlations.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, 3 pages supplementary material
title: Measurement of LDL Receptor Activity in HepG2 Cells Grown on Microcarrier Beads
Creators: name: Dovey, Lynda Ann
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: Atherosclerosis- related conditions, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and peripheral arterial occlusions are the most important cause of death and invalidism in the Western world. A high plasma cholesterol level is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. One of the main determinants of the plasma cholesterol level is the efficiency with which low density lipoprotein (LDL) is removed from the plasma via the hepatic LDL receptor. It is therefore important to study the factors controlling the expression of the receptor. In the past, human hepatocytes have been grown in vitro as a monolayer culture in tissue culture dishes. This system permits the identification of substances that regulate the receptor activity but is limited as a research tool because substances secreted by the cells, such as bile acids and LDL itself, may cause feedback regulation of the pathway. This thesis describes an alternative approach, in which HepG2 cells are grown on microcarrier beads which can then be packed into a column so that substances secreted by the cells can be removed by perfusion. The study consists of four main sections:- i) Optimising conditions for establishing HepG2 cells on Cytodex microcarrier beads (discussed in Chapter 3); ii) Development of a column system for perfusion, either constant fresh medium (single pass) or by medium being constantly recycled (reperfusion) (discussed in Chapter 4); iii) Investigation of ligands which were available for the measurement of the LDL receptor to find the most suitable for use in this system (discussed in Chapter 5); iv) Perfusion column system,where some of the effects of single pass perfusion and re-perfusion were observed (discussed in Chapter 6). HepG2 cells grown on Cytodex 2 microcarrier beads and perfused over various time periods were found to express lower LDL receptor activity when fed by re-perfusion compared to single pass perfusion. This did not appear to be due to depletion of essential nutrients, but to substances secreted by cells. 25 hydroxycholesterol used in this system was shown to regulate the LDL receptor. However, the extent of regulation was found to alter depending on whether the cells were fed by single pass perfusion or re-perfusion.
A questão da verdade do direito: entre o “direito” e o “torto” (testemunho de um itinerário pessoal)
Creators: name: Chorão, Mário Bigotte
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 2 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Stochastic Growth in One Dimension and Gaussian Multi-Matrix Models
Creators: name: Ferrari, Patrik L.
name: Praehofer, Michael
name: Spohn, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the space-time determinantal random field which arises for the PNG model in one dimension and resembles the one for Dyson's Brownian motion. The information of interest for growth processes is carried by the edge statistics of the random field and therefore their universal scaling is related to the edge properties of Gaussian multi-matrix models.
description: Proceeding of ICMP 2003
Parental Perceptions of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Interruption of Youth Sport
Creators: name: Rice, Mark
name: Warburton, Darren E. R.
name: Baker, Joseph
name: Petherick, LeAnne
name: Bredin, Shannon S. D.
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: The global COVID-19 health crisis resulted in a cessation of youth sport. While COVID-related restrictions were necessary to limit spread, the impact of interruptions to sport participation on children and youth during critical periods of development is unclear. Purpose: To examine parental perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on their child’s sport participation. Methods: Parents and/or guardians of children/youth (between 6 and 18 years) registered in at least one organized sport in British Columbia, Canada completed an online survey. Questions asked parents about the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on their child’s sport development via 10-point Likert scales and open-ended responses. A descriptive analysis of the data was conducted and inductive thematic analysis was used to examined parental statements. Results: A total of 63 parents completed the survey, representing athletes ranging in age from 7 to 18 years (mean = 13.7, SD = 2.8) across 33 unique sports. Overall, parents perceived COVID had a major impact on sport participation and major emerging themes included concerns around lost opportunities for competition, decreased access to training and facilities, and a negative impact on mental health. Conclusions: The childhood and adolescent years are critical years for promoting sport engagement and establishing healthy physical activity behaviours. This data highlights parental concerns on their child’s physical and mental health in relation to COVID-19 restrictions on sport participation. A major question that emerges from this work is “to what extent will cessation of sport impact youth sport participation and physical activity behaviours post-pandemic?” Funding: No funding was provided.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
SWINE FARM SIMULATION: AN EFFECTIVE EXTENSION MODEL
Creators: name: Lines, Allan Eugene
name: Lines, Allan Eugene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The paper presents a unique model that simulates present, selected, and nearoptional growth and organization strategies for the swine farm over a fiveyear planning horizon. Decisions made by the user on the model include product, size, growth, management system, scheduling, and building type.
Rf-induced transport of Cooper pairs in superconducting single electron transistors in a dissipative environment
Creators: name: Lotkhov, S. V.
name: Bogoslovsky, S. A.
name: Zorin, A. B.
name: Niemeyer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate low-temperature and low-voltage-bias charge transport in a superconducting Al single electron transistor in a dissipating environment, realized as on-chip high-ohmic Cr microstrips. In our samples with relatively large charging energy values Ec > EJ, where EJ is the energy of the Josephson coupling, two transport mechanisms were found to be dominating, both based on discrete tunneling of individual Cooper pairs: Depending on the gate voltage Vg, either sequential tunneling of pairs via the transistor island (in the open state of the transistor around the points Qg = CgVg = e mod(2e), where Cg is the gate capacitance) or their cotunneling through the transistor (for Qg away of these points) was found to prevail in the net current. As the open states of our transistors had been found to be unstable with respect to quasiparticle poisoning, high-frequency gate cycling (at f ~ 1 MHz) was applied to study the sequential tunneling mechanism. A simple model based on the master equation was found to be in a good agreement with the experimental data.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Proceedings of the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Creators: name: Warburton, Darren
name: Bredin, Shannon
name: Kaufman, Kai
name: Katzmarzyk, Peter
name: Draper, Catherine
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2021
Subjects: Conference
Congress
Proceedings
Physical Activity
Wellness
Indigenous
Lower Income Regions
Sedentary Behaviour
Lifestyle Behaviour
Health
Sports
Participation
Built Environment
Youth
Adolescents
Children
Well-Being

description: On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee Global Leadership group, we are proud to present this special issue containing the Official Proceedings of the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress streamed virtually from traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples in Vancouver, BC, Canada on October 12-14, 2021.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress