cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Image-based guidance for prostate interventions
Creators: name: Khallaghi, Siavash
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Prostate biopsy is the gold standard for cancer diagnosis. This procedure is guided using a 2D transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) probe. Unfortunately, early stage tumors are not visible in ultrasound and prostate motion/deformations make targeting challenging. This results in a high number of false negatives and patients are often required to repeat the procedure. Fusion of magnetic resonance images (MRI) into the workspace of a prostate biopsy has the potential to detect tumors invisible in TRUS. This allows the radiologist to better target early stage cancerous lesions. However, due to different body positions and imaging settings, the prostate undergoes motion and deformation between the biopsy coordinate system and the MRI. Furthermore, due to variable probe pressure, the prostate moves and deforms during biopsy as well. This introduces additional targeting errors. A biopsy system that compensates for these sources of error has the potential to improve the targeting accuracy and maintain a 3D record of biopsy locations. The goal of this thesis is to provide the necessary tools to perform freehand MR-TRUS fusion for prostate biopsy using a 3D guidance system. To this end, we have developed two novel surface-based registration methods for incorporating the MRI into the biopsy workspace. The proposed methods are the first methods that are robust to missing surface regions for MR-TRUS fusion (up to 30% missing surface points). We have validated these fusion techniques on 19 biopsy, 10 prostatectomy and 11 brachytherapy patients. In this thesis, we have also developed methods that combine intensitybased information with biomechanical constraints to compensate for prostate motion and deformations during the biopsy. To this end, we have developed a novel 2D-3D registration framework, which was validated on an additional 10 biopsy patients. Our results suggest that accurate 2D-3D registration for freehand biopsy is feasible. The results presented suggest that accurate registration of MR and TRUS data in the presence of partially missing data is feasible. Moreover, we demonstrate that in the presence of variable probe pressure during freehand biopsy, a combination of intensity-based and biomechanically constrained 2D-3D registration can enable accurate alignment of pre-procedure TRUS with 2D real time TRUS images.
Near-field thermal imaging of nanostructured surfaces
Creators: name: Kittel, Achim
name: Wischnath, Uli
name: Welker, Joachim
name: Huth, Oliver
name: Rüting, Felix
name: Biehs, Svend-Age
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a near-field scanning thermal microscope, which essentially detects the local density of states of the thermally excited electromagnetic modes at nanometer distances from some material, can be employed for nanoscale imaging of structures on that material's surface. This finding is explained theoretically by an approach which treats the surface structure perturbatively.
title: Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum
Creators: name: dos Santos, Filipa Marques
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular
subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: An 86-year-old female, non-smoker, with cardiovascular risk factors, namely obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia was admitted for chest Computed Tomography (CT)  following an episode of pneumonia. She was asymptomatic, with no previous history of cardiac events. 

description: 86 years, female
Additional file 1 of Retrospective file review shows limited genetic services fails most patients – an argument for the implementation of exome sequencing as a first-tier test in resource-constraint settings
Creators: name: Wiener, Emma K.
name: Buchanan, James
name: Krause, Amanda
name: Lombard, Zané
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. This file contains all supplementary figures.
Optimal streaks in a Falkner-Skan boundary layer
Creators: name: Sanchez-Alvarez, Jose J.
name: Higuera, Maria
name: Vega, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper deals with the optimal streaky perturbations (which maximize the perturbed energy growth) in a wedge flow boundary layer. These three dimensional perturbations are governed by a system of linearized boundary layer equations around the Falkner-Skan base flow. Based on an asymptotic analysis of this system near the free stream and the leading edge singularity, we show that for acute wedge semi-angle, all solutions converge after a streamwise transient to a single streamwise-growing solution of the linearized equations, whose initial condition near the leading edge is given by an eigenvalue problem first formulated in this context by Tumin (2001). Such a solution may be regarded as a streamwise evolving most unstable streaky mode, in analogy with the usual eigenmodes in strictly parallel flows, and shows an approximate self-similarity, which was partially known and is completed in this paper. An important consequence of this result is that the optimization procedure based on the adjoint equations heretofore used to define optimal streaks is not necessary. Instead, a simple low-dimensional optimization process is proposed and used to obtain optimal streaks. Comparison with previous results by Tumin and Ashpis (2003) shows an excellent agreement. The unstable streaky mode exhibits transient growth if the wedge semi-angle is smaller than a critical value that is slightly larger than $π/6$, and decays otherwise. Thus the cases of right and obtuse wedge semi-angles exhibit less practical interest, but they show a qualitatively different behavior, which is briefly described to complete the analysis.
Impact of repeated invasive procedures during neonatal intensive care on brain microstructure, growth, neurodevelopment and behavior in children born very preterm
Creators: name: Vinall, Jillian Frances
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: As part of their lifesaving care in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), infants born very preterm (between 24 and 32 weeks gestation), undergo frequent invasive procedures that induce pain and stress, during a period of rapid brain development. We examined whether repeated exposure to invasive procedures was associated with altered brain development, and thereby poorer neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcome in children born very preterm. We also explored whether parent interaction moderates long-term effects of invasive procedures on child behavior. Data were collected from two prospective cohorts of infants born ≤32 weeks gestation between February 2001–July 2004 and March 2006–January 2009. Neonatal data were recorded from birth to term-equivalent age. Infants in the 2006–2009 cohort were scanned sequentially, once near birth and again at term-equivalent age. Infants in the 2001–2004 cohort were followed-up at 18 months corrected age (CA), and again at 7.5 years of age, when they underwent an MRI. At 18 months CA, parents of the 2001–2004 cohort completed questionnaires and participated in a recorded play session with their child, from which the parent-child interaction was later coded. All statistical analyses were adjusted for known neonatal and clinical confounders. In a series of 4 studies, greater exposure to invasive procedures in the NICU was associated with slower postnatal body and head growth, and slower growth was associated with delayed cerebral cortical maturation. Among the preterm children exposed to a higher number of invasive procedures, more positive parental interaction was associated with fewer anxious/depressive behaviors reported at 18 months CA. Furthermore, greater exposure to invasive procedures was related to poorer white matter maturation at 7.5 years, and together these factors predicted lower IQ. Greater exposure to invasive procedures was associated with slower body and head growth, altered brain maturation and poorer outcomes, after adjustment for clinical confounders. It is necessary that pain management strategies be evaluated for the extent that they are brain protective, in order to minimize the long-term impact of ongoing pain/stress in the NICU. Furthermore, interventions should address the parent-child relationship in order to improve later outcomes.
XRF analysis of silica in liquid form with the Zetium instrument
Creators: name: Stolpe, Björn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Silica products in liquid form can be analyzed with the Wroxi_liquid application. Powdered flux is used, instead of the pre-fused flux that was used in the calibration of the method. The method is suitable for samples in oxide form, in the concentration range shown in Table 1.
Additional file 1 of Positive regulation of Type III secretion effectors and virulence by RyhB paralogs in Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis
Creators: name: Chen, Binjie
name: Meng, Xianchen
name: Ni, Jie
name: He, Mengping
name: Chen, Yanfei
name: Xia, Pengpeng
name: Wang, Heng
name: Liu, Siguo
name: Zhu, Guoqiang
name: Meng, Xia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Primers used for mutant construction in this study.
Compact stars in Eddington inspired gravity
Creators: name: Pani, Paolo
name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: Delsate, Terence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new, Eddington inspired theory of gravity was recently proposed by Banados and Ferreira. It is equivalent to General Relativity in vacuum, but differs from it inside matter. This viable, one parameter theory was shown to avoid cosmological singularities and turns out to lead to many other exciting new features that we report here. First, for a positive coupling parameter, the field equations have a dramatic impact on the collapse of dust, and do not lead to singularities. We further find that the theory supports stable, compact pressureless stars made of perfect fluid, which provide interesting models of self-gravitating dark matter. Finally, we show that the mere existence of relativistic stars imposes a strong, near optimal constraint on the coupling parameter, which can even be improved by observations of the moment of inertia of the double pulsar.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
LAMEIRO, Francisco, LOUREIRO, José João, VECHINA, Fr. José Carlos – Retábulos da Ordem dos Carmelitas Descalços. Faro: Departamento de Artes e Humanidades, Universidade do Algarve, 2015. 232 p.
Creators: name: Pacheco, Ana Assis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira – Estudos de iconografia cristã. Vila Nova de Gaia: Fundação Manuel Leão, 2016, 328 p. ISBN 9789-89-8151-40-7
Creators: name: Gouveia, António Camões
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
SÁNCHEZ-BAYÓN, Antonio – Religión civil estadounidense: auge de un pueblo elegido y su crisis actual. Madrid: CEDEU, 2016. 270 p. ISBN 978-84-16262-28-1
Creators: name: Sánchez Rodríguez, Eva María
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
DOGA SCHOOLS WP6
Creators: name: Yilmaz Dogan, Z.
name: Arati, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: WYRED; H2020; Digital Society; Youth

description: The WYRED (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) project has celebrated its sixth face-to-face meeting in Belfast (North Ireland) from March 11th – 13th. This represents the work done in WYRED by DOGA from the previous meeting held in Istanbul last November 2018.
PRADA, Antonio Moliner - Episcopado y secularización en la España del siglo XIX. Bellatera: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. 212 p. ISBN 978-84-490-2766-6
Creators: name: Almeida, João Miguel
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
title: Determination of fipronil LD₅₀ for the brazilian bee Melipona scutellaris
Creators: name: Lourenço, Clara T.
name: Carvalho, Stephan M.
name: Malaspina, Osmar
name: Nocelli, Roberta C. F.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012
Subjects: stingless bees
pesticides
phenylpyrazole
toxicity
LD50

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 174-178
Three-dimensional structure from single two-dimensional diffraction intensity measurement
Creators: name: Latychevskaia, Tatiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional three-dimensional (3D) imaging methods require multiple measurements of the sample in different orientation or scanning. When the sample is probed with coherent waves, a single two-dimensional (2D) intensity measurement is sufficient as it contains all the information of the 3D sample distribution. We show a method that allows reconstruction of 3D sample distribution from a single 2D intensity measurement, at the z-resolution exceeding the classical limit. The method can be practical for radiation-sensitive materials, or where the experimental setup allows only one intensity measurement.
Water variability, livelihoods, and adaptation : a case study from the Angat River Basin (Philippines)
Creators: name: Shah, Sameer H.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the Global South, agrarian households face stressors to smallholder agriculture – a primary livelihood for many. One stressor increasingly documented is the re-allocation of surface irrigation for domestic and industrial uses. This is concerning because the timely, adequate, and predictable provision of irrigation was designed to enhance crop production and protect smallholders from hydro-climatic variation. Chapter 2 of this thesis examines a case from the Angat River Basin (Philippines) where a systematic set of rules have restructured reservoir governance to privilege domestic water use in Metro Manila over irrigation for regional rice-farming. A review of multiple secondary datasets and an analysis of household surveys (n = 124) and interviews (n = 70) in a rice-farming municipality (Bustos) reveals that restructured reservoir governance arrangements now interact with existing effects of climatic variation to undermine the intended benefits of irrigation. Based on the nature of irrigation service change, Chapter 3 argues that on- and off-farm efficiency measures alone are insufficient to protect households from risks of irrigation insecurity. Moreover, access to water alternatives is limited and increasingly uncertain. This suggests complementary and alternative (CA) livelihood activities are increasingly important as risk mitigation measures given irrigation service change and broader social-ecological stressors. All too often however, standardized livelihood activities promoted by governments encounter resistance, rejection, or are rendered irrelevant. One reason why proposed activities fail is because they do not align or overlap with certain CA activities that households are able and willing to engage in (termed here as “decision spaces”). Chapter 3 provides an integrative framework that allows policy-makers to better understand how contextual factors – from land-use regulations to cultural aspirations – constrain or widen household “decision spaces.” The framework is applied to Bustos providing direction for adaptation policy to i) promote CA livelihood activities that are both relevant and palatable to households; and to ii) challenge certain constraints to enlarge the set of activities household could engage in. Overall, this thesis represents an analysis of irrigation re-allocation as one facet of social-ecological change in the Angat River Basin and provides measures for accommodating change effects through substantive recommendations for adaptation policy.
Phase separation and surface segregation in ceria-zirconia solid solutions
Creators: name: Grau-Crespo, Ricardo
name: de Leeuw, Nora H.
name: Hamad, Said
name: Waghmare, Umesh V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a combination of density functional theory calculations and statistical mechanics, we show that a wide range of intermediate compositions of ceria - zirconia solid solutions are thermodynamically metastable with respect to phase separation into Ce-rich and Zr-rich oxides. We estimate that the maximum equilibrium concentration of Zr in CeO2 at 1373 K is ~2%, and therefore equilibrated samples with higher Zr content are expected to exhibit heterogeneity at the atomic scale. We also demonstrate that in the vicinity of the (111) surface, cation redistribution at high temperatures will occur with significant Ce enrichment of the surface, which we attribute to the more covalent character of Zr-O bonds compared to Ce-O bonds. Although the kinetic barriers for cation diffusion normally prevent the decomposition/segregation of ceria-zirconia solid solutions in typical catalytic applications, the separation behaviour described here can be expected to occur in modern three-way catalytic converters, where very high temperatures are reached.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. To appear in Proceedings of the Royal Society A
NESTOLA, Paola – San Giuseppe da Copertino: dall’estrema Puglia al Portogallo (sec. XVII-XIX). Lecce: Edizioni Grifo (col. Medit Europa, 14), 2016. 286 p. ISBN 978-886-9940-43-9
Creators: name: Fernandes, Maria De Lurdes Correia
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
FONSECA, Jorge – Religião e Liberdade: Os negros nas irmandades e confrarias portuguesas (séculos XV a XIX). V. N. de Famalicão: Edições Húmus, 2016. 132 p. ISBN 978-989-755-208-3
Creators: name: Jana, Ernesto Alves
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
title: Is the European honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera) a good representative for other pollinator species?
Creators: name: Van Der Steen, Jozef
name: Roessink, Ivo
name: Kasina, Muo
name: Gikungu, Mary
name: Nocelli, Roberta C. F.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 179
ARAÚJO, Maria Marta Lobo de (coord.) – As Confrarias de Braga na Época Barroca. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Edições Húmus, 2016. 156 p. ISBN 978-989-755-200-7
Creators: name: Jana, Ernesto Alves
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Superconducting junctions from non-superconducting doped CuO$_2$ layers
Creators: name: Loktev, V. M.
name: Pogorelov, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theoretical approach proposed recently for description of redistribution of electronic charge in multilayered selectively doped systems is modified for a system with finite number of layers. A special attention is payed to the case of a finite heterostructure made of copper-oxide layers which are all non-superconducting (including non-conducting) because of doping levels being beyond the well-known characteristic interval for superconductivity. Specific finite structures and doping configurations are proposed to obtain atomically thin superconducting heterojunctions of different compositions.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, two bibliography references were updated
One weird trick for advertising outcomes : an exploration of the multi-armed bandit for performance-driven marketing
Creators: name: Burtini, Giuseppe Antonio
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In this work, we explore an online reinforcement learning problem called the multi-armed bandit for application to improving outcomes in a web marketing context. Specifically, we aim to produce tools for the efficient experiment design of variations of a website with the goal of increasing some desired behavior such as purchases. We provide a detailed reference, with a statistical lens, of the existing research in variants and associated policies known for the problem, then produce a set of theoretical and empirical analyses of specific application area questions. Concretely, we provide a number of contributions: First, we present a new standardized simulation platform integrating knowledge and techniques from the existing literature for the evaluation of bandit algorithms in a set of pre-defined worlds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive simulation platform for multi-armed bandits capable of arbitrary arms, parameterization, algorithms and repeatable experimentation. Second, we integrate Thompson sampling into linear model techniques and explore a number of implementation questions, finding both that replication of Thompson sampling and adjusting for estimative uncertainty is a plausible mechanism for improving the results. Third, we explore novel techniques for dealing with certain types of structural non-stationarity such as drift and find that the technique of weighted least squares is a strong tool for handling both known and unknown drift. Empirically, in the unspecified case, an exponential decaying weight provides good performance in a large variety of cases; in the specified case, an experimenter can select a weighting strategy to reflect their known drift achieving state-of-the-art results. Fourth, we present the first known oracle-free measure of regret called statistical regret, which utilizes intuitions from the confidence interval to produce a type of interval metric by replaying late-experiment knowledge over prior actions to determine how performant an experimenter can believe their results to be. Fifth, we present preliminary results on a specification-robust and computationally efficient sampling technique called the Simple Optimistic Sampler which shows promising outcomes via a technique which requires no modelling assumptions to implement.
title: Effect of agrochemicals on the pattern of visitation of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in melon (Cucumis melo) flowers in Brazilian Northeast
Creators: name: Siqueira, Kátia M. M.
name: Ribeiro, Márcia De F.
name: Kiill, Lucia H. P.
name: Coelho, Márcia S.
name: Araújo, Diêgo C. S.
name: Gama, Diego R. S.
name: Lima, Jr Ivan O.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012
Subjects: melon
pollination
agrochemicals
honey bees
Apis mellifera

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 180-183
DORES, Hugo Gonçalves – A missão da República: política, religião e o império colonial português (1910-1926). Lisboa: Edições 70, 2015. 224 p. (Lugar da História nº 87). ISBN 978-972-4418-34-6
Creators: name: Mohomed, Carimo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
A Quantitative Model of Energy Release and Heating by Time-dependent, Localized Reconnection in a Flare with a Thermal Loop-top X-ray Source
Creators: name: Longcope, D. W.
name: Jardins, A. C. Des
name: Carranza-Fulmer, T.
name: Qiu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantitative model of the magnetic energy stored and then released through magnetic reconnection for a flare on 26 Feb 2004. This flare, well observed by RHESSI and TRACE, shows evidence of non-thermal electrons only for a brief, early phase. Throughout the main period of energy release there is a super-hot (T>30 MK) plasma emitting thermal bremsstrahlung atop the flare loops. Our model describes the heating and compression of such a source by localized, transient magnetic reconnection. It is a three-dimensional generalization of the Petschek model whereby Alfven-speed retraction following reconnection drives supersonic inflows parallel to the field lines, which form shocks heating, compressing, and confining a loop-top plasma plug. The confining inflows provide longer life than a freely-expanding or conductively-cooling plasma of similar size and temperature. Superposition of successive transient episodes of localized reconnection across a current sheet produces an apparently persistent, localized source of high-temperature emission. The temperature of the source decreases smoothly on a time scale consistent with observations, far longer than the cooling time of a single plug. Built from a disordered collection of small plugs, the source need not have the coherent jet-like structure predicted by steady-state reconnection models. This new model predicts temperatures and emission measure consistent with the observations of 26 Feb 2004. Furthermore, the total energy released by the flare is found to be roughly consistent with that predicted by the model. Only a small fraction of the energy released appears in the super-hot source at any one time, but roughly a quarter of the flare energy is thermalized by the reconnection shocks over the course of the flare. All energy is presumed to ultimately appear in the lower-temperature T<20 MK, post-flare loops.
Air quality prediction by machine learning methods
Creators: name: Peng, Huiping
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: As air pollution is a complex mixture of toxic components with considerable impact on humans, forecasting air pollution concentration emerges as a priority for improving life quality. In this study, air quality data (observational and numerical) were used to produce hourly spot concentration forecasts of ozone (O₃), particulate matter 2.5μm (PM₂.₅) and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), up to 48 hours for six stations across Canada -- Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. Using numerical data from an air quality model (GEM-MACH15) as predictors, forecast models for pollutant concentrations were built using multiple linear regression (MLR) and multi-layer perceptron neural networks (MLP NN). A relatively new method, the extreme learning machine (ELM), was also used to overcome the limitation of linear methods as well as the large computational demand of MLP NN. In operational forecasting, the continuous arrival of new data means frequent updating of the models is needed. This type of learning, called online sequential learning, is straightforward for MLR and ELM but not for MLP NN. Forecast performance of the online sequential MLR (OSMLR) and online sequential ELM (OSELM), together with stepwise MLR, all updated daily were compared with MLP NN updated seasonally, and the benchmark, updatable model output statistics (UMOS) from Environmental Canada. Overall OSELM tended to slightly outperform the other models including UMOS, being most successful with ozone forecasts and least with PM₂.₅ forecasts. MLP NN updated seasonally was generally underperforming the linear models MLR and OSMLR, indicating the need to update a nonlinear model frequently.
title: Assessment of lethal and sublethal effects by spinetoram on Bombus terrestris
Creators: name: Mommaerts, Veerle
name: Besard, Linde
name: Abdu-Alla, Gamal
name: Smagghe, Guy
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2012

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 437; 184
SCHEBESTA, Paul – Portugal: a Missão da Conquista no Sudoeste de África. História das Missões da Zambézia e do Reino do Monomotapa (1560-1920). Lisboa: Missionários do Verbo Divino, 2011, 510 p. ISBN 978-989-97552-0-8
Creators: name: Dores, Hugo Gonçalves
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Extreme Value Laws in Dynamical Systems for Non-smooth Observations
Creators: name: Freitas, Ana Cristina Moreira
name: Freitas, Jorge Milhazes
name: Todd, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37A50, 37C40, 60G10, 60G70, 37B20, 37D25

description: We prove the equivalence between the existence of a non-trivial hitting time statistics law and Extreme Value Laws in the case of dynamical systems with measures which are not absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue. This is a counterpart to the result of the authors in the absolutely continuous case. Moreover, we prove an equivalent result for returns to dynamically defined cylinders. This allows us to show that we have Extreme Value Laws for various dynamical systems with equilibrium states with good mixing properties. In order to achieve these goals we tailor our observables to the form of the measure at hand.
Supersolidity in quantum films adsorbed on graphene and graphite
Creators: name: Gordillo, M. C.
name: Cazorla, C.
name: Boronat, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using quantum Monte Carlo we have studied the superfluid density of the first layer of $^4$He and H$_2$ adsorbed on graphene and graphite. Our main focus has been on the equilibrium ground state of the system, which corresponds to a registered $\sqrt3 \times \sqrt3$ phase. The perfect solid phase of H$_2$ shows no superfluid signal whereas $^4$He has a finite but small superfluid fraction (0.67%). The introduction of vacancies in the crystal makes the superfluidity increase, showing values as large as 14% in $^4$He without destroying the spatial solid order.
description: 5 pages, accepted for publication in PRB
FEITLER, Bruno – The Imaginary Synagogue: anti-jewish literature in the Portuguese Early Modern World (16th-18th centuries). Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015. 206 p. ISBN 978-90-26410-6
Creators: name: Mateus, Susana Bastos
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
The Formation and Coarsening of the Concertina Pattern
Creators: name: Steiner, Jutta
name: Wieczoreck, Holm
name: Schäfer, Rudolf
name: McCord, Jeffrey
name: Otto, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The concertina is a magnetization pattern in elongated thin-film elements of a soft material. It is a ubiquitous domain pattern that occurs in the process of magnetization reversal in direction of the long axis of the small element. Van den Berg argued that this pattern grows out of the flux closure domains as the external field is reduced. Based on experimental observations and theory, we argue that in sufficiently elongated thin-film elements, the concertina pattern rather bifurcates from an oscillatory buckling mode. Using a reduced model derived by asymptotic analysis and investigated by numerical simulation, we quantitatively predict the average period of the concertina pattern and qualitatively predict its hysteresis. In particular, we argue that the experimentally observed coarsening of the concertina pattern is due to secondary bifurcations related to an Eckhaus instability. We also link the concertina pattern to the magnetization ripple and discuss the effect of a weak (crystalline or induced) anisotropy.
MARTINS, João Furtado – Corrupção e Incúria no Santo Ofício. Ministros e Oficiais sob Suspeita e Julgamento. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2015. 126 p. ISBN 978-972-8361-65-5
Creators: name: Fernandes, Maria
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Measurement of the minimal external dimension of the primary particles of particulate materials by the NanoDefine ParticleSizer software
Creators: name: Wagner, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: This SOP describes an off-line method for automated image analysis of particulate materials imaged by electron microscopy, which has been developed in the NanoDefine project, referred to as the ‘NanoDefine ParticleSizer’. The method allows determining automatically the distributions of the characteristic size and shape properties (section 7) of primary particles in aggregates and agglomerates, or present as single particles, from EM images. This application is specifically designed in the scope of implementing the EC-definition of a nanomaterial. The median value of the number-based distribution of the minimal external dimension of the primary particles is assessed.
Approaches to working with Aboriginal adults with acquired brain injury : exploring perspectives of speech-language pathologists
Creators: name: Leung, Colleen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Efforts to raise awareness of culturally safe speech-language pathology services for Aboriginal populations have grown in recent years. However, while most of the literature focuses on Aboriginal children and families, few studies are tailored towards the adult population. Furthermore, little is known in Canada or internationally about approaches to providing culturally safe care to Aboriginal adults with acquired brain injury in a speech-language pathology context. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore perspectives of speech-language pathologists working with Aboriginal adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) to develop an understanding of the supports, barriers, and facilitators in working with this population. Semi-structured, participant-driven interviews were conducted with seven speech-language pathologists from different geographical locations and health care settings across British Columbia. The data were interpreted using a method called thematic analysis to identify common topics and themes. A wide range of participant perspectives highlighted the diversity in participants’ experiences. A total of four topics were identified: (1) a description of service delivery for adults in British Columbia revealing various barriers and facilitators; (2) working with patients and families within the context of service delivery; (3) participants’ concerns that they considered to be specific to Aboriginal peoples; and (4) participants’ perspectives on cultural safety. Seven themes that reflect participants’ personal statements emerged from the second, third, and fourth topic: building relationships with patients; family and community support; Aboriginal languages, culture, and identity; awareness of the impacts of colonization in health care; move towards holistic practice; participants’ feelings of uncertainty; and role of building relationships in the provision of culturally safe care. This study shows the need for broader research to develop a deeper understanding and explore Aboriginal views on cultural safety in speech-language pathology practice with Aboriginal peoples with ABI. It is also critical for clinicians to become culturally competent through continuing education in order to increase their ability to provide culturally safe care.
An implementation of the microphysics in full general relativity : General relativistic neutrino leakage scheme
Creators: name: Sekiguchi, Yuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Performing fully general relativistic simulations taking account of microphysical processes is one of long standing problems in numerical relativity. One of main difficulties in implementation of weak interactions in the general relativistic framework lies on the fact that the characteristic timescale of weak interaction processes (the WP timescale) in hot dense matters is much shorter than the dynamical timescale. Numerically this means that stiff source terms appears in the equations so that an implicit scheme is in general necessary to stably solve the relevant equations. Otherwise a very short timestep will be required to solve them explicitly. Furthermore, in the relativistic framework, the Lorentz factor is coupled with the rest mass density and the energy density. The specific enthalpy is also coupled with the momentum. Due to these couplings, it is very complicated to recover the primitive variables and the Lorentz factor from conserved quantities. At the current status, no implicit procedure have been proposed except for the case of the spherical symmetry. Therefore, an approximate, explicit procedure is developed in the fully general relativistic framework in this paper as an first implementation of the microphysics toward a more realistic sophisticated model. The procedure is based on the so-called neutrino leakage schemes which is based on the property that the characteristic timescale in which neutrinos leak out of the system (the leakage timescale) is much longer than the WP timescale. In this paper, I present a detailed neutrino leakage scheme and a simple and stable method for solving the equations explicitly in the fully general relativistic framework. I also perform a test simulation to check the validity of the present method, showing that it works fairly well.
description: An invited paper from Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis (NRDA) 2009, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam Finer-resolution-figure version will be found in the journal reference
AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira – Terramoto Doutrinal. A Carta dogmático-política (1755) do P. João Moutinho contra a Inquisição. Lisboa: Temas e Debates; Círculo de Leitores, 2015. ISBN 978-989-6443-83-2
Creators: name: Lourenço, Miguel Rodrigues
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Long and short distance behavior of the imaginary part of the heavy-quark potential
Creators: name: Boguslavski, Kirill
name: Kasmaei, Babak
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The imaginary part of the effective heavy-quark potential is related to the total in-medium decay width of heavy quark-antiquark bound states. We extract the static limit of this quantity using classical-statistical simulations of real-time Yang-Mills dynamics by measuring the temporal decay of Wilson loops. By performing the simulations on finer and larger lattices, we are able to show that the nonperturbative results follow the same form as the perturbative ones. For large quark-antiquark separations, we quantify the magnitude of the non-perturbative long-range corrections to the imaginary part of the heavy-quark potential. We present our results for a wide range of temperatures, lattice spacings, and lattice volumes. We also extract approximations for the short-distance behavior of the classical potential.
description: Talk given at the Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (vConf21), Stavanger, Norway, August 2nd - 6th, 2021
Applications of hypervalent iodine reagents in organic synthesis : the development of iodonium metathesis reaction and effort towards himandrine
Creators: name: Kasahara, Takahito
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis discloses two different applications of hypervalent iodine(III) reagents in organic synthesis. In the first part, a novel reactivity of diaryliodonium triflates towards aryl iodides will be discussed. The new mode of reactivity allows various diaryliodonium triflates to be accessed, simply by heating a mixture of electron deficient diaryliodonium triflate with a moderately electron rich aryliodide. In the second part of the thesis, the use of (diacetoxyiodo) benzene in oxidative amidation in the context of total synthesis will be made.
Additional file 1 of Acupuncture for cancer pain: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline
Creators: name: Ge, Long
name: Wang, Qi
name: He, Yihan
name: Wu, Darong
name: Zhou, Qi
name: Xu, Nenggui
name: Yang, Kehu
name: Chen, Yaolong
name: Zhang, Anthony Lin
name: Hua, Haiqing
name: Huang, Jinchang
name: Hui, Ka-Kit
name: Liang, Fanrong
name: Wang, Linpeng
name: Xu, Bin
name: Yang, Yufei
name: Zhang, Weimin
name: Zhao, Baixiao
name: Zhu, Bing
name: Guo, Xinfeng
name: Xue, Charlie Changli
name: Zhang, Haibo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. The professional field of the steering committee and the expert consensus group. Appendix S2. Details of panel members’ declarations of interests. Appendix S3. Grading the certainty of evidence and the strength of recommendations. Appendix S4. Details of patients preference and values. Appendix S5. Details of expert consensus. Appendix S6. Summary of findings table.
SOARES, António Franquelim Sampaio Neiva – Relatórios das visitas “ad limina” da Arquidiocese de Braga (1585-1910), 2 vols. Braga: Arquidiocese de Braga, 2015. ISBN 978-989-97761-1
Creators: name: Pinto, Sérgio Ribeiro
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Information storing by biomagnetites
Creators: name: Bokkon, Istvan
name: Salari, Vahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the discovery of the presence of biogenic magnetites in living organisms, there have been speculations on the role that these biomagnetites play in cellular processes. It seems that the formation of biomagnetite crystals is a universal phenomenon and not an exception in living cells. Many experimental facts show that features of organic and inorganic processes could be indistinguishable at nanoscale levels. Living cells are quantum "devices" rather than simple electronic devices utilizing only the charge of conduction electrons. In our opinion, due to their unusual biophysical properties, special biomagnetites must have a biological function in living cells in general and in the brain in particular. In this paper we advance a hypothesis that while biomagnetites are developed jointly with organic molecules and cellular electromagnetic fields in cells, they can record information about the Earth's magnetic vector potential of the entire flight in migratory birds.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
GASPAR, João Gonçalves – Diocese de Aveiro, subsídios para a sua história. Aveiro: Diocese de Aveiro, 2014. 800 p. ISBN 978-989-98919-0-6
Creators: name: Pacheco, Ana Assis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)
Functional characterization of T-type calcium channels in area CA3 of the hippocampus
Creators: name: Malik, Aqsa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Calcium (Ca²+) entry through voltage-gated Ca²+ channels in dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal cells (PCs) contributes to synaptic depolarization and activation of downstream pathways that regulate many aspects of synaptic and cellular function. Activated by small depolarizing changes in voltage, T-type Ca²+ channels mediate low-threshold spikes (LTS) that drive the resting membrane potential towards action potential threshold. T-type Ca²+ channels are hypothesized to contribute to subthreshold synaptic depolarization in the CA3 subfield of the hippocampus due to the stratified nature of inputs on CA3 dendrites. While T-type Ca²+ channels are densely expressed in area CA3, their functional characteristics and interactions with postsynaptic receptors are not well understood and LTS have not been reported in CA3 PCs. In Chapter 3, using whole-cell electrophysiology, we demonstrate that LTS in CA3 PCs can be evoked by somatic current injection. LTS were only evoked when 4AP was applied to depress A-type K+ channels. Using specific pharmacological blockers, we show that Cav3.2 channels mediate LTS in CA1 and CA3 PCs. In Chapter 4, using two-photon Ca²+ imaging, we map the subcellular distribution of Cav3.2 channels in hippocampal PCs. Our results show that Cav3.2 channel expression is restricted to the soma and proximal dendrites in CA1 PCs, while Ca²+ influx from Cav3.2 channel activation occurs in distal (>50 μm) regions of CA3 PC dendrites. In Chapter 5, we demonstrate that mAChR stimulation potentiates LTS amplitude and such amplification of Ca²+ influx through Cav3.2 channels is dependent on M-current inhibition. Furthermore, we show that application of t-ACPD causes potent and rapid inhibition of LTS propagation. This inhibition occurs exclusively through mGlu₁ receptors and downstream activation of PKC is necessary for this process. Lastly, in Chapter 6, we show boosting of subthreshold synaptic signals by T-type Ca²+ channels in PCs within area CA3 but not CA1. Taken together, our data identify a new T-type mediated Ca²+ signaling pathway in CA3 PC dendrites that is unlocked by A-type K+ channel blockade, potentiated by mAChR activation, and inhibited by mGluR₁ activation. Furthermore, our study highlights the important involvement of T-type Ca²+ channels in enhancing dendritic depolarization in CA3 PCs.
História da Diocese de Viseu. Coordenação científica de José Pedro Paiva. Viseu: Diocese de Viseu; Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2016, 3 vols. – 1: séc. VI-1505 (600 p.); 2: 1506-1819 (682 p.); 3: 1820-1974 (714 p). ISBN 978-989-98269-1-5
Creators: name: Fernandes, Maria De Lurdes Correia
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 35 (2017): Diálogos Transoceânicos: Catolicismo e Protestantismo em Portugal e no Brasil (Séculos XIX e XX)