cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Galantamine prevents and reverses neuroimmune induction and loss of adult hippocampal neurogenesis following adolescent alcohol exposure
Creators: name: Macht, Victoria
name: Vetreno, Ryan
name: Elchert, Natalie
name: Crews, Fulton
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Summary of ANOVA Results and Post-hoc Comparisons.
A Grand Rotation Curve and Dark Matter Halo in the Milky Way Galaxy
Creators: name: Sofue, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A grand rotation curve of the Milky Way Galaxy is constructed, which covers a wide range of radius from the Galactic Center to ~1 Mpc, and is deconvolved into bulge, disk and halo components by least-squares fitting. We determined the scale radii and masses of the bulge and disk to be M_b=(1.652 +/-0.083)x10^10 Msun, a_b=(0.522 +/- 0.037) kpc, M_d=(3.41 +/- 0.41)x10^10 Msun and a_d=(3.19 +/- 0.3) kpc. The dark halo was fitted by the Navaro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profile, rho=rho_0/[(R/h) (1+R/h)^2], and the fit yielded h=12.5 +/- 0.9 kpc and rho_0=(1.06 +/- 0.14)x10^-2 Msun pc^-3. The local dark matter density near the Sun at R_0=8 kpc is estimated to be rho_0_sun=(6.12 +/-0.80)x10^-3 Msun pc^-3 = 0.235 +/- 0.030 GeV cm^-3. The total mass inside the gravitational boundary of the Galaxy at R~ 385 kpc, a half distance to M31, is estimated to be M_h ~ (7.03 +/- 1.01)x10^11 Msun. This leads to the stellar baryon fraction of (M_b+M_d)/(M_b+M_d+M_h)=0.072 +/-0.018. Considering expected baryon fraction in the Local Group, we suggest that baryons in the form of hot gas are filling the dark halo with temperature of ~ 10^6 K and emission measure ~ 10^-5 pc cm^-6. Such hot halo gas may share a small fraction of the observed X-ray background emission.
description: PASJ 2012, Vol 64, No. 2, Preprint with full figures available at http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sofue/htdocs/2012DarkHalo/
The Kato square root problem on vector bundles with generalised bounded geometry
Creators: name: Bandara, Lashi
name: McIntosh, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J05, 47F05, 47B44, 47A60

description: We consider smooth, complete Riemannian manifolds which are exponentially locally doubling. Under a uniform Ricci curvature bound and a uniform lower bound on injectivity radius, we prove a Kato square root estimate for certain coercive operators over the bundle of finite rank tensors. These results are obtained as a special case of similar estimates on smooth vector bundles satisfying a criterion which we call generalised bounded geometry. We prove this by establishing quadratic estimates for perturbations of Dirac type operators on such bundles under an appropriate set of assumptions.
description: Slight technical modification of the notion of "GBG constant section" on page 7, and a few technical modifications to Proposition 8.4, 8.6, 8.9
Should Alberta Adopt a Land Transfer Tax?
Creators: name: Dahlby, Bev
name: Larson, Braeden
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2019

description: This paper provides background information that the public can use to assess the merits and consequences of introducing a land transfer tax in Alberta. Land transfer taxes are levied when real property is transferred from one owner to another.  Five provincial governments levy land transfer taxes and in Ontario and British Columbia, they raise substantial amounts of revenue for the provincial governments.  What is also clear is that land transfer taxes are very volatile sources of tax revenue that increase rapidly during housing market booms, but then decline sharply when housing markets crash.  The econometric evidence on the impact of land transfer taxes on housing prices and sales volumes, based on the experiences in different countries, is somewhat mixed, but most studies indicate that a substantial share of the burden is borne by current homeowners through reductions in housing sales prices and many studies find that land transfer taxes significantly reduce the volume of residential real estate transactions.  The authors of many of the studies that we review conclude that residential property tax is a better source tax revenue than a land transfer tax because it causes few distortions in the housing market. We estimate that a one per cent land transfer tax in Alberta would have yielded between $480 and $500 million in 2017.  The value land transfers in Alberta can vary substantially from year to year, making a land transfer tax in Alberta would be a highly volatile source of tax revenue. A land transfer tax would likely exacerbate the volatility of total provincial revenues, making budgeting and fiscal decisions even more difficult than currently.  A one percent land transfer tax on an average land transfer in 2015 would represent six to seven percent of median household income in Edmonton and Calgary.  This would be significantly higher than the four to five percent land transfer tax burden on the residents of other Alberta cities because of the higher housing prices in Alberta’s two largest cities.  We conclude that a land transfer tax is an inferior source of tax revenue and we are not in favour of the introduction of a land transfer tax in Alberta.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 12 (2019)
Race states of concern : juridical publics and the localization of race in Vancouver and Chicago
Creators: name: Buffam, Hamish Victor Bonar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: In post-industrial cities, race mediates the administration of law, shaping how certain behaviors, places, and populations are regulated by state and public actors. Yet, race does not have a single juridical guise across these cities, having acquired multiple forms across urban spaces in different regional and national contexts. This dissertation examines how racial relations of power are recreated through localized discourses of crime that govern minority groups in two urban centres: African American populations in Chicago and South Asian populations in Vancouver. Through a comparative analysis of legal and media texts published on each of these populations, I illuminate the disparate racial logics, sentiments and practices that mutate through these cities’ divergent histories of urbanization, industrialization, and empire. The historical, social and political differences between Chicago and Vancouver pose methodological problems for comparisons intent on causal explanation. To consider the mutability of race across geography and population, I formulate an “awkward” mode of comparison that offers new insights into how race is materialized through the unique socio-historical conditions of urban centres. This awkward comparison reveals how racial knowledges of blackness travel across regional and national contexts, shaping how African American and South Asian populations are intelligible to legal and public actors. By examining how the homes of these populations are subject to racial practices of scrutiny and surveillance, this dissertation also highlights the gendered configurations of the family that warrant the racial exercise of law. Finally, this dissertation considers the public inquiries into police torture in Chicago and the Air India Bombing in Vancouver to illustrate how the inaction of state officials can manifest racial conditions of violence. Through each aspect of this comparison, this dissertation demonstrates how public concerns about crime can extend and intensify the racial force of law.
Negotiating the education and practice disjuncture in nursing clinical placements : nursing faculty’s perspectives
Creators: name: Fukuyama, Katherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This qualitative research project is an exploration of how nursing faculty make meaning of their experiences in the disjuncture between what is taught about best practice and what is found in many clinical practice sites. Nursing faculty members teach best practices, but when they take students into practice arenas, the students do not necessarily see those best practices. Instead, they may see caregivers substituting “supposed efficiencies” for best practice. As guests in a hospital, faculty members have no clear-cut entry point to make changes. As both nurses and educators, they face quandaries in places where practice is inadequate; they may want to remove their students but because they are nurses, feel ethically obligated to stay and to attempt to change practice. As educators, they must role model competent nursing care yet may be in a setting where structural conditions create a situation in which nurses are unable to provide best practice. The nursing faculty’s role creates a unique liminal place at the practice-education interface that is challenging and uncomfortable. Constructivism/interpretivism and critical theory inform this study. The main theorist is Dorothy Smith (1992, 2005, 2006). Smith’s critical theory perspective brings into view power relations that organize, but are often invisible to, the everyday activities of nurse faculty in clinical settings. Twenty-four clinical nurse faculty members from post-secondary institutions were interviewed. The main themes arising from these interviews were conflicts, dual consciousness, being a guest and maintaining placements. Analysis of these themes found that faculty members engage in a complex set of negotiations to address disjunctures as they seek to meet the needs of students, patients and staff. The complexity of the navigation is reflective of how faculty and staff nurses are embedded in a nest of social relations with other caregivers, administrators, patients and their families under conditions of neoliberalism. A neoliberal corporate ideology that has infused the health care system has made it difficult for nurses to provide care as they are taught. These uncomfortable moments can become teachable moments not only about “good practice” but also about advocacy for change in structural conditions that constrain “good practice.”
Nonlocal free energy of a spatially inhomogeneous superconductor
Creators: name: Grigorishin, K. V.
name: Lev, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microscopic approach was developed for obtaining of the free energy of a superconductor with help direct calculation of the vacuum amplitude. The functional of free energy of the spatially inhomogeneous superconductor in a magnetic field was obtained with help the developed approach. The obtained functional is generalization of Ginzburg-Landau functionals for any temperature, for arbitrary spatial variations of the order parameter and for the nonlocality of the order parameter and the magnetic response. Moreover the nonlocality of the magnetic response is the consequence of the order parameter's nonlocality. The extremals of this functional are considered in the explicit form in the low-temperature limit and in the high-temperature limit at the condition of slowness of spatial variations of the order parameter.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1109.3677
Additional file 4 of Galantamine prevents and reverses neuroimmune induction and loss of adult hippocampal neurogenesis following adolescent alcohol exposure
Creators: name: Macht, Victoria
name: Vetreno, Ryan
name: Elchert, Natalie
name: Crews, Fulton
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplemental Figure 3. Example co-immunofluorescence of CCL2 with NeuN and GFAP in controls. The chemokine CCL2 is robustly expressed throughout the hilus. To further characterize which cell types immunostaining of CCL2 is implicated in, we performed co-label immunofluorescence for CCL2 with both NeuN and GFAP in control tissue. Scale bars (white) represent 100 μM. (a) Photomicrograph of co-label immunofluorescence with CCL2 (green) and NeuN (red). (b) Closer imaging of highlighted box in 1A reveals that CCL2 is clustered along the periphery of the soma in neurons, labeled by NeUN. (c) Photomicrograph of co-label immunofluorescence with CCL2 (green) and GFAP (red). (d) Closer imaging of the highlighted box in 1C reveals that although there is some small overlap between CCL2 and GFAP, the vast majority of hilar CCL2 is neuronal, which reflects the large cell bodies evidenced in between the astrocyte labeling. The pattern of CCL2 immunofluorescence co-localization with NeUN and GFAP highlights that the large cell bodies quantified for IHC which demonstrated an increase in CCL2+IR after AIE likely reflect neuronal induction.
Parallel implementation of fast randomized algorithms for the decomposition of low rank matrices
Creators: name: Lucas, Andrew
name: Stalzer, Mark
name: Feo, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We analyze the parallel performance of randomized interpolative decomposition by decomposing low rank complex-valued Gaussian random matrices up to 64 GB. We chose a Cray XMT supercomputer as it provides an almost ideal PRAM model permitting quick investigation of parallel algorithms without obfuscation from hardware idiosyncrasies. We obtain that on non-square matrices performance becomes very good, with overall runtime over 70 times faster on 128 processors. We also verify that numerically discovered error bounds still hold on matrices nearly two orders of magnitude larger than those previously tested.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables. v2: extended version. this is a preprint of a published paper - see published version for definitive version
Additional file 1 of Assessing direct healthcare costs when restricted to self-reported data: a scoping review
Creators: name: Jabakhanji, Samira B.
name: Sorensen, Jan
name: Valentelyte, Gintare
name: Burke, Lee Ann
name: McElroy, Brendan
name: Murphy, Aileen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Literature search terms and result. Figure S1. Flow chart of search process and results.
Black hole solutions to the $F_4$-model and their orbits (I)
Creators: name: Chemissany, W.
name: Giaccone, P.
name: Ruggeri, D.
name: Trigiante, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we continue the program of the classification of nilpotent orbits using the approach developed in arXiv:1107.5986, within the study of black hole solutions in D=4 supergravities. Our goal in this work is to classify static, single center black hole solutions to a specific N=2 four dimensional "magic" model, with special Kähler scalar manifold ${\rm Sp}(6,\mathbb{R})/{\rm U}(3)$, as orbits of geodesics on the pseudo-quaternionic manifold ${\rm F}_{4(4)}/[{\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\times {\rm Sp}(6,\mathbb{R})]$ with respect to the action of the isometry group ${\rm F}_{4(4)}$. Our analysis amounts to the classification of the orbits of the geodesic "velocity" vector with respect to the isotropy group $H^*={\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\times {\rm Sp}(6,\mathbb{R})$, which include a thorough classification of the \emph{nilpotent orbits} associated with extremal solutions and reveals a richer structure than the one predicted by the $β-γ$ labels alone, based on the Kostant Sekiguchi approach. We provide a general proof of the conjecture made in arXiv:0908.1742 which states that regular single center solutions belong to orbits with coinciding $β-γ$ labels. We also prove that the reverse is not true by finding distinct orbits with the same $β-γ$ labels, which are distinguished by suitably devised tensor classifiers. Only one of these is generated by regular solutions. Since regular static solutions only occur with nilpotent degree not exceeding 3, we only discuss representatives of these orbits in terms of black hole solutions. We prove that these representatives can be found in the form of a purely dilatonic four-charge solution (the generating solution in D=3) and this allows us to identify the orbit corresponding to the regular four-dimensional metrics.
description: 81 pages, 24 tables, new section 4.4 about the fake superpotential added, typos corrected, references added, accepted in Nuclear Physics B."
A Toy Model of Renormalization and Reformulation
Creators: name: Kalitvianski, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I consider a specially designed simple mechanical problem where "particle acceleration" due to an external force creates sound waves. Theoretical description of this phenomenon should provide the total energy conservation. To introduce "small radiative losses" into the phenomenological mechanical equation, I advance first an "interaction Lagrangian" similar to that of the Classical Electrodynamics (kind of a self-action ansatz). New, "better-coupled" mechanical and wave equations manifest unexpectedly wrong dynamics due to changes of their coefficients (masses); thus this ansatz fails. I show how we make a mathematical error with advancing a self-interaction Lagrangian. I show, however, that renormalization of the fundamental constants in the wrong equations works - the original inertial properties of solutions are restored. The exactly renormalized equations contain only physical fundamental constants, describe well the experimental data, and reveal a deeper physics - that of permanently coupled constituents. The perturbation theory is then just a routine calculation giving small and physical corrections. I demonstrate that renormalization is just illegitimately discarding harmful corrections compensating this error, that the exactly renormalized equations may sometimes accidentally coincide with the correct equations (a fluke), and that the right theoretical formulation of permanently coupled constituents can be fulfilled directly, if realized.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, updated text, accepted in International Journal of Physics (see http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijp/1/4/2/index.html, DOI: 10.12691/ijp-1-4-2)
Fallback and Substructure in a Highly-Inclined Ram Pressure Interaction
Creators: name: Souchereau, Harrison
name: Kenney, Jeffrey
name: Sun, Ming
name: Jachym, Pavel
name: Cramer, William
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Galaxies
Interstellar Medium
Ram Pressure Stripping

description: Galaxies orbiting a galaxy cluster can experience ram pressure winds while moving through the intracluster medium, which can dramatically rearrange and strip away gas and dust from the galaxy disk. The geometry of the interaction can significantly modify its effects, including the overall stripping efficiency, and the morphology of the stripped tail.Leveraging sub-arcsecond CO(2-1) data of the Coma galaxy NGC 4858 from the ALMA-JELLY large program, with complimentary multi-wavelength data from HST and Subaru, we observe and analyze a wealth of features indicative of a galaxy experiencing a highly inclined ram pressure wind. Using a novel "quadrant" approach, we characterize the interplay between rotation and ram pressure, as well as asymmetric effects on the leading and trailing sides of the galaxy. We find that the inner tail is highly asymmetric, agreeing with predictions from galaxy "wind tunnel" simulations of highly inclined ram pressure.
Fast computation of isomorphisms of hyperelliptic curves and explicit Galois descent
Creators: name: Lercier, Reynald
name: Ritzenthaler, Christophe
name: Sijsling, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show how to speed up the computation of isomorphisms of hyperelliptic curves by using covariants. We also obtain new theoretical and practical results concerning models of these curves over their field of moduli.
The cardiovascular, respiratory, systemic, and autonomic responses to exercise in diesel exhaust
Creators: name: Giles, Luisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Purpose: To determine the cardiovascular, respiratory, systemic inflammatory, and autonomic nervous system responses to varying exercise intensities during exposure to diesel exhaust (DE), and to determine how DE exposure before exercise affects the cardio-respiratory system and subsequent exercise performance. Methods: Eighteen males performed six 30-minute trials, which included rest, low-intensity, and high-intensity cycling. Each trial was performed twice, once breathing filtered air (FA) and once breathing DE (300ug/m³ of PM₂.₅) with seven days between trials. Before, and following exercise, exhaled nitric oxide, pulmonary function, heart rate variability, flow-mediated dilation (FMD), complete blood count, endothelin-¹ , and plasma nitrite/nitrate (NOx) were measured. During exercise, minute ventilation (VE), oxygen consumption (VO₂), CO₂ production (VCO₂), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) for lungs and legs were measured. In a second experiment, eight males were exposed to DE (300ug/m³ of PM₂.₅) or FA for 60-minutes, followed by an indoor 20-km cycling time trial. Pulmonary function was assessed before and after exposure and after exercise. Heart rate was measured during exposure and exercise performance was measured as mean power output during exercise. Results: In the first experiment, RER was significantly lower (0.94 vs. 0.96), and RPE significantly greater, in DE compared to FA (p<0.05). During low-intensity exercise, VE (44.5 vs. 40.5 L•min-¹ ), VO₂ (27.9 vs. 24.9 ml*kg*min-¹) and VCO₂ (25.9 vs. 23.6 ml*kg*min-¹) were significantly greater during DE (p<0.05). Following exercise in DE, plasma NOx significantly increased (p<0.05). On low-intensity exercise days, FMD/shear rate area under the curve (SRAUC) was significantly lower in DE compared to FA (9.7 x 10-⁵ vs. 11.7x10-⁵; p<0.05). In the second experiment, we found that pre-exercise exposure to DE did not impair exercise performance but attenuated exercise-induced bronchodilation and increased exercise heart rate (163.9 vs. 157.3bpm; p<0.05). Conclusion: Metabolic and endothelial responses to low- but not high-intensity cycling in DE differ from those in FA. Therefore, reducing exercise intensity during bouts of air pollution may have no benefit. Exposure to DE prior to exercise increased exercise heart rate and decreased exercise-induced bronchodilation. Consequently, encouraging individuals to minimize exposure to air pollution prior to exercise could be beneficial.
Additional file 1 of Prevention of radiotherapy induced enteropathy by probiotics (PREP): protocol for a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Kim, Yeon Joo
name: Yu, Jesang
name: Park, Sung Pyo
name: Lee, Seung Hae
name: Kim, Young Seok
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Binary Icosahedral Flavor Symmetry for Four Generations of Quarks and Leptons
Creators: name: Chen, Chian-Shu
name: Kephart, Thomas W.
name: Yuan, Tzu-Chiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To include the quark sector, the $A_{5}\equiv I$ (icosahedron) four generation lepton model is extended to a binary icosahedral symmetry $I'$ flavor model. We find the masses of fermions, including the heavy sectors, can be accommodated. At leading order the CKM matrix is the identity and the PMNS matrix, resulting from same set of vacua, corresponds to tribimaximal mixings.
description: 13 pages, 4 tables and one figure. References added, version published in PTEP
Reporting and filing to High Court of Australia for court hearing & court writ of life-threatening conspiracy to kill PhD researcher and artificial killing conspiracy of PhD dream of a PhD scholar in a prestigious platform of PhD schooling at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Creators: name: Md. Anowar, Hossain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Key note of case letter to High Court of Australia
A written copy of court hearing for life-threatening conspiracy in high court of Australia. Plaintiff seeks removal of PhD suspension, PhD scholarship and legal compensation of PhD harassment in an official platform of PhD schooling at School of Fashion & Textiles, RMIT University. Plaintiff is asking for punishment of defendants through Australian criminal act 1995. This letter is submitted to The Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice, High Court of Australia. This letter is forwarded by the victim, full name: Md. Anowar Hossain, PhD candidate, PhD ID: 3820066, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University, 25 Dawson Street, Brunswick, Melbourne, VIC 3056, Australia, e-mail: engr.anowar@yahoo.com
Displacement demands for performance based design of skewed bridges with seat type abutments
Creators: name: Catacoli, Seku Samory Mosquera
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Skewed bridges are irregular structures due to the geometry of the deck and bents. Past earthquakes indicate that skewed bridges with seat type abutments exhibit greater damage than their non-skewed pairs. The damage has been attributed to in-plane rotations caused by pounding between the skewed deck and its abutments during strong ground shaking. This thesis combines experimental and analytical approaches to understanding the displacement demands on skewed bridges. As part of the experimental studies, results from ambient vibrations tests help to better understand the importance of directionality in the lateral response of skewed bridges. The predominant direction of the transverse response occurs in the direction of the skew bents; whereas the predominant direction of the longitudinal response is perpendicular to the skew. In addition, the analysis of records from an instrumented skewed bridge confirmed accelerations that could produce in-plane rotations of the deck. A comprehensive parametric study based on nonlinear dynamic analyses was performed to evaluate the effects of different skew angles, abutments types, and soil-foundation-structure interaction. The results demonstrated that elastic methods recommended by current seismic design provisions, and commonly used in standard practice, do not properly capture the in-plane rotations of the deck due to pounding. To overcome this shortcoming, a simple and effective method is proposed here to evaluate the displacement demands of skewed piers accounting for in-plane deck rotations. The proposed method uses validated simplified nonlinear models to generate torsional sensitivity charts for specific bridge prototypes. The charts provide peak in-plane deck rotation estimates as a function of bridge skew angle and the in-plane rotational period. An advantage of this approach is that it requires the designer to only conduct a linear dynamic analysis of the bridge. Nonlinear analysis required to assess the in-plane deck rotation is replaced here by torsional sensitivity charts. The proposed approach is able to predict the displacement response for a comprehensive range of skewed bridge prototypes by capturing the effects of the main parameters controlling the response. The information presented in this thesis will help improve the existing recommendations for performance based design of skewed bridges.
Ion beam lithography for Fresnel zone plates in X-ray microscopy
Creators: name: Keskinbora, Kahraman
name: Grévent, Corinne
name: Bechtel, Michael
name: Weigand, Markus
name: Goering, Eberhard
name: Nadzeyka, Achim
name: Peto, Lloyd
name: Rehbein, Stefan
name: Schneider, Gerd
name: Follath, Rolf
name: Vila-Comamala, Joan
name: Yan, Hanfei
name: Schütz, Gisela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fresnel Zone Plates (FZP) are to date very successful focusing optics for X-rays. Established methods of fabrication are rather complex and based on electron beam lithography (EBL). Here, we show that ion beam lithography (IBL) may advantageously simplify their preparation. A FZP operable from the extreme UV to the limit of the hard X-ray was prepared and tested from 450 eV to 1500 eV. The trapezoidal profile of the FZP favorably activates its 2nd order focus. The FZP with an outermost zone width of 100 nm allows the visualization of features down to 61, 31 and 21 nm in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd order focus respectively. Measured efficiencies in the 1st and 2nd order of diffraction reach the theoretical predictions.
Additional file 1 of Case report: change of dominant strain during dual SARS-CoV-2 infection
Creators: name: Samoilov, Andrei E.
name: Kaptelova, Valeriia V.
name: Bukharina, Anna Y.
name: Shipulina, Olga Y.
name: Korneenko, Elena V.
name: Saenko, Stepan S.
name: Lukyanov, Alexander V.
name: Grishaeva, Antonina A.
name: Ploskireva, Antonina A.
name: Speranskaya, Anna S.
name: Akimkin, Vasiliy G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Description of methods used for SARS-CoV-2 full genome sequencing and data analysis.
Community Revitalization Levy as a Municipal Financing Mechanism in Alberta
Creators: name: Spahlinger, Marina
name: Wayne, Nancy
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2019

description: What do Edmonton’s glittering new Arena District and Calgary’s complete overhaul of its Rivers District have in common? Both cities pulled their projects off using a novel method of financing: the community revitalization levy (CRL). Because CRLs can cause economic harm when they are used incorrectly, there are general principles that cities should follow when using them. Unfortunately, these principles are not fully in place in Alberta. The result could be that, for all their charm, Calgary’s Rivers District and Edmonton’s Capital City Downtown Plan may not have lived up to be quite the deal citizens might have expected. A CRL should only be used if it is in fact the best financial tool available for the project. It must past certain tests. In the case of Calgary’s River District, it appears that those tests were not properly met, and so it is unclear whether the CRL really was the best financial tool available for the city to use in its effort to improve the area. While the property tax base in the Rivers District has grown more quickly than in the rest of the city, it is impossible to know how much more quickly it would have grown without the use of the CRL as a tool. There also seems to be a lack of clarity of whether new projects funded by the CRL will be in the public’s best interest or if the money would be better used if returned to the tax base. Edmonton, meanwhile, did not pre-define the scope and the cost of all the projects it expects for its Capital City Downtown Plan. While that provides flexibility to develop new project ideas as more revenue materializes, it also allows for scope creep, and the risk that revenues will continue to be spent, even beyond their need, rather than being returned to the tax base. It is also unclear whether the Edmonton plan has actually succeeded in inducing economic growth. It may be that it has only shifted where people spend their money away from other parts of the city and into the downtown district, potentially harming some residents and businesses. 1 CRLs are powerful tools, but they come with risks. They can lead to poor outcomes for taxpayers or businesses and residents in other areas, and they can divert tax revenues away from necessary infrastructure into subsidizing private infrastructure, as may be the case with the Edmonton arena. It is unclear whether the CRL plans in Calgary and Edmonton have turned out to be the best approach for revitalizing parts of the two cities’ downtowns. The province, and the two cities, should look at implementing new measures to better protect taxpayers, and ensure CRLs are being used correctly.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 12 (2019)
$C^*$-algebras of labelled graphs III - $K$-theory computations
Creators: name: Bates, Teresa
name: Carlsen, Toke Meier
name: Pask, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L05 (Primary), 46L55, 46L80, 37B10, 19K99 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we give a formula for the $K$-theory of the $C^*$-algebra of a weakly left-resolving labelled space. This is done by realising the $C^*$-algebra of a weakly left-resolving labelled space as the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra of a $C^*$-correspondence. As a corollary we get a gauge invariant uniqueness theorem for the $C^*$-algebra of any weakly left-resolving labelled space. In order to achieve this we must modify the definition of the $C^*$-algebra of a weakly left-resolving labelled space. We also establish strong connections between the various classes of $C^*$-algebras which are associated with shift spaces and labelled graph algebras. Hence, by computing the $K$-theory of a labelled graph algebra we are providing a common framework for computing the $K$-theory of graph algebras, ultragraph algebras, Exel-Laca algebras, Matsumoto algebras and the $C^*$-algebras of Carlsen. We provide an inductive limit approach for computing the $K$-groups of an important class of labelled graph algebras, and give examples.
description: 27 pages. We have made substantial changes in version 2 in order to avoid been affected by a mistake in the paper "$C^*$-algebras of labelled graphs I"
Quantum Circuit Design for Solving Linear Systems of Equations
Creators: name: Cao, Yudong
name: Daskin, Anmer
name: Frankel, Steven
name: Kais, Sabre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it is shown that quantum computers can be used for obtaining certain information about the solution of a linear system Ax=b exponentially faster than what is possible with classical computation. Here we first review some key aspects of the algorithm from the standpoint of finding its efficient quantum circuit implementation using only elementary quantum operations, which is important for determining the potential usefulness of the algorithm in practical settings. Then we present a small-scale quantum circuit that solves a 2x2 linear system. The quantum circuit uses only 4 qubits, implying a tempting possibility for experimental realization. Furthermore, the circuit is numerically simulated and its performance under different circuit parameter settings is demonstrated.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. The errors are corrected. For the general case, discussions are added to account for recent results. The 4x4 example is replaced by a 2x2 one due to recent experimental efforts. The 2x2 example was devised at the time of writing v1 but not included in v1 for brevity
Additional file 1 of Identifying effective intervention strategies to reduce children’s screen time: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jones, Alexis
name: Armstrong, Bridget
name: Weaver, R. Glenn
name: Parker, Hannah
name: von Klinggraeff, Lauren
name: Beets, M. W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search Strategy.
Moments and central limit theorems for some multivariate Poisson functionals
Creators: name: Last, Guenter
name: Penrose, Mathew D.
name: Schulte, Matthias
name: Thaele, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60D05, 60H07 (Primary) 60F05, 60G55 (Secondary)

description: This paper deals with Poisson processes on an arbitrary measurable space. Using a direct approach, we derive formulae for moments and cumulants of a vector of multiple Wiener-Itô integrals with respect to the compensated Poisson process. Second, a multivariate central limit theorem is shown for a vector whose components admit a finite chaos expansion of the type of a Poisson U-statistic. The approach is based on recent results of Peccati et al.\ combining Malliavin calculus and Stein's method, and also yields Berry-Esseen type bounds. As applications, moment formulae and central limit theorems for general geometric functionals of intersection processes associated with a stationary Poisson process of $k$-dimensional flats in $\R^d$ are discussed.
Parental perceptions of an arts-integrated focus school : a case study of a public fine arts elementary school in British Columbia
Creators: name: Windsor-Liscombe, Suzanne Gloria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: In the current educational marketplace, the range of school options has made parents key players in their children's school education. Unlike previous decades, where students typically attended their neighbourhood schools, today's parents are more likely to transport their children greater distances to their school of choice. This case study tells the story of one British Columbia public elementary school that transitioned into an arts-integrated school--usually referred as a fine arts school. The arts-integrated curriculum attracted a growing number of families who resided outside of the school's catchment area. As a teacher at the school before and after its transition, I began to notice trends in students enrolling from outside of the school catchment area. Those trends included issues pertaining to behaviour, social interactions and academic challenges. Thus, my research investigates parental perceptions of arts-integrated (fine arts) focus schools. Data collected through interviews with both parents and educators detail: (a) parents' expectations and understandings of such schools, and the complex reasons why they enrol their children; and (b) the difficulties in implementing an arts-integrated curriculum. Interview data also became the impetus for the self-study which runs in tandem throughout the research chapters. The self-study speaks to my own childhood and teaching experiences: to an extent corresponding with the way in which students in dance classes are taught to negotiate self within defined and discrete spatial areas. Because the study is situated temporally in what is commonly termed a neo-liberal era, I include discussion of the wider political environment, particularly with respect to parental choice. My case study demonstrates that arts-integrated (focus) schools are accessed chiefly by middle-class families seeking advantage for their children. The study reveals that the main value of fine arts schools may be as enablers of student success in behaviour, socialization and academic terms. Finally, I argue that arts-integrated schools can also be spaces of fulfillment for parents who, through choice of school and active participation there, feel that they have played a more profound role in their child's education.
Additional file 2 of Identifying effective intervention strategies to reduce children’s screen time: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jones, Alexis
name: Armstrong, Bridget
name: Weaver, R. Glenn
name: Parker, Hannah
name: von Klinggraeff, Lauren
name: Beets, M. W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Inclusion Criteria and Exclusion Criteria.
Polynomials with constant Hessian determinants in dimension three
Creators: name: de Bondt, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F20, 14R15, 15A63

description: In this paper, we show that the Jacobian conjecture holds for gradient maps in dimension n <= 3 over a field K of characteristic zero. We do this by extending the following result for n <= 2 by F. Dillen to n <= 3: if f is a polynomial of degree larger than two in n <= 3 variables such that the Hessian determinant of f is constant, then after a suitable linear transformation (replacing f by f(Tx) for some T in GL_n(K)), the Hessian matrix of f becomes zero below the anti-diagonal. The result does not hold for larger n. The proof of the case det Hf in K* is based on the following result, which in turn is based on the already known case det Hf = 0: if f is a polynomial in n <= 3 variables such that det Hf <> 0, then after a suitable linear transformation, there exists a positive weight function w on the variables such that the Hessian determinant of the w-leading part of f is nonzero. This result does not hold for larger n either (even if we replace `positive' by `nontrivial' above). In the last section, we show that the Jacobian conjecture holds for gradient maps over the reals whose linear part is the identity map, by proving that such gradient maps are translations (i.e. have degree 1) if they satisfy the Keller condition. We do this by showing that this problem is the polynomial case of the main result of [Pog]. For polynomials in dimension n <= 3, we generalize this result to arbitrary fields of characteristic zero.
description: 16 pages, refereed for JPAA, stripped w.r.t. previous version in favor of a wider audience
Additional file 3 of Identifying effective intervention strategies to reduce children’s screen time: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jones, Alexis
name: Armstrong, Bridget
name: Weaver, R. Glenn
name: Parker, Hannah
name: von Klinggraeff, Lauren
name: Beets, M. W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Codebook for Meta-Regression Analyses.
Additional file 4 of Identifying effective intervention strategies to reduce children’s screen time: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jones, Alexis
name: Armstrong, Bridget
name: Weaver, R. Glenn
name: Parker, Hannah
name: von Klinggraeff, Lauren
name: Beets, M. W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Table of Included Studies.
title: General Headquarters (Great Britain)
title: General Headquarters (Great Britain)
Creators: name: Gardner, Nikolas
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Großbritannien / Army
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain
subject: Great Britain. Army

description: General Headquarters (GHQ) was the organization that commanded all British and Indian forces in a particular theater of the First World War. The most prominent of these organizations was the GHQ of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
On the monotone properties of general affine surface areas under the Steiner symmetrization
Creators: name: Ye, Deping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A20, 53A15

description: In this paper, we prove that, if functions (concave) $ϕ$ and (convex) $ψ$ satisfy certain conditions, the $L_ϕ$ affine surface area is monotone increasing, while the $L_ψ$ affine surface area is monotone decreasing under the Steiner symmetrization. Consequently, we can prove related affine isoperimetric inequalities, under certain conditions on $ϕ$ and $ψ$, without assuming that the convex body involved has centroid (or the Santaló point) at the origin.
Additional file 5 of Identifying effective intervention strategies to reduce children’s screen time: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jones, Alexis
name: Armstrong, Bridget
name: Weaver, R. Glenn
name: Parker, Hannah
name: von Klinggraeff, Lauren
name: Beets, M. W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Summary Forest Plots.
Additional file 2: of The placental transcriptome of the first-trimester placenta is affected by in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer
Creators: name: Zhao, Liang
name: Zheng, Xiuli
name: Liu, Jingfang
name: Zheng, Rong
name: Yang, Rui
name: Wang, Ying
name: Sun, Lifang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S2. The biological processes of up regulated genes in placental subjected to IVF-ET (DOC 68 kb)
Additional file 1 of ISOlation Procedure vs. conventional procedure during Distal Pancreatectomy (ISOP-DP trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Okada, Ken-ichi
name: Kawai, Manabu
name: Hirono, Seiko
name: Sho, Masayuki
name: Tani, Masaji
name: Matsumoto, Ippei
name: Yamada, Suguru
name: Amano, Ryosuke
name: Toyama, Hirochika
name: Yamashita, Yo-ichi
name: Gocho, Takeshi
name: Shibuya, Kazuto
name: Nagai, Minako
name: Maehira, Hiromitsu
name: Kamei, Keiko
name: Ohira, Go
name: Shirai, Yoshihiro
name: Takami, Hideki
name: Kimura, Nana
name: Fukumoto, Takumi
name: Baba, Hideo
name: Kodera, Yasuhiro
name: Nakao, Akimasa
name: Shimokawa, Toshio
name: Katsuda, Masahiro
name: Yamaue, Hiroki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Institution list
On semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension $2q^3$
Creators: name: Dong, Jingcheng
name: Wang, Shuanhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W30

description: Let $q$ be a prime number, $k$ an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and $H$ a semisimple Hopf algebra of dimension $2q^3$. This paper proves that $H$ is always semisolvable. That is, such Hopf algebras can be obtained by (a number of) extensions from group algebras or duals of group algebras.
description: The title has been changed, and some minor typos have been corrected. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.4398; and text overlap with arXiv:math/0305038 by other authors