cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Simple Flood Forecasting Scheme Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Seal, Victor
name: Raha, Arnab
name: Maity, Shovan
name: Mitra, Souvik Kr
name: Mukherjee, Amitava
name: Naskar, Mrinal Kanti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a forecasting model designed using WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) to predict flood in rivers using simple and fast calculations to provide real-time results and save the lives of people who may be affected by the flood. Our prediction model uses multiple variable robust linear regression which is easy to understand and simple and cost effective in implementation, is speed efficient, but has low resource utilization and yet provides real time predictions with reliable accuracy, thus having features which are desirable in any real world algorithm. Our prediction model is independent of the number of parameters, i.e. any number of parameters may be added or removed based on the on-site requirements. When the water level rises, we represent it using a polynomial whose nature is used to determine if the water level may exceed the flood line in the near future. We compare our work with a contemporary algorithm to demonstrate our improvements over it. Then we present our simulation results for the predicted water level compared to the actual water level.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, published in International Journal Of Ad-Hoc, Sensor And Ubiquitous Computing, February 2012; V. seal et al, 'A Simple Flood Forecasting Scheme Using Wireless Sensor Networks', IJASUC, Feb.2012
Spenser, landscape and Ireland
Creators: name: Frey, Christopher Lorne
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: PR 2364 F725 1995
subject: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 - Political and social views
subject: Landscape in literature
subject: Ireland in literature

description: Bibliography: p. 103-116.
Far infrared constraints on the contamination by dust obscured galaxies of high-z dropout searches
Creators: name: Boone, F.
name: Schaerer, D.
name: Pello, R.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Weiss, A.
name: Egami, E.
name: Smail, I.
name: Rex, M.
name: Rawle, T.
name: Ivison, R.
name: Laporte, N.
name: Beelen, A.
name: Combes, F.
name: Blain, A. W.
name: Richard, J.
name: Kneib, J. -P.
name: Zamojski, M.
name: Dessauges-Zavadsky, M.
name: Altieri, B.
name: van der Werf, P.
name: Swinbank, M.
name: Perez-Gonzalez, P. G.
name: Clement, B.
name: Nordon, R.
name: Magnelli, B.
name: Menten, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral energy distributions (SED) of dusty galaxies at intermediate redshift may look similar to very high redshift galaxies in the optical/near infrared (NIR) domain. This can lead to the contamination of high redshift galaxy searches based on broad band optical/NIR photometry by lower redshift dusty galaxies as both kind of galaxies cannot be distinguished. The contamination rate could be as high as 50%. {This work shows how the far infrared (FIR) domain can help to recognize likely low-z interlopers in an optical/NIR search for high-z galaxies.} We analyse the FIR SEDs of two galaxies proposed as very high redshift ($z>7$) dropout candidates based on deep Hawk-I/VLT observations. The FIR SEDs are sampled with PACS/Herschel at 100 and 160\,$μ$m, with SPIRE/Herschel at 250, 350 and 500\,$μ$m and with LABOCA/APEX at 870\,$μ$m. We find that redshifts $>7$ would imply extreme FIR SEDs (with dust temperatures $>100$\,K and FIR luminosities $>10^{13}$\,$L_{\odot}$). At z$\sim$2, instead, the SEDs of both sources would be compatible with that of typical ULIRGs/SMGs. Considering all the data available for these sources from visible to FIR we re-estimate the redshifts and we find $z\sim$1.6--2.5. Due to the strong spectral breaks observed in these galaxies, standard templates from the literature fail to reproduce the visible-near IR part of the SEDs even when additional extinction is included. These sources resemble strongly dust obscured galaxies selected in Spitzer observations with extreme visible-to-FIR colors, and the galaxy GN10 at $z=4$. Galaxies with similar SEDs could contaminate other high redshift surveys.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Systematic barriers to refugee women
Creators: name: Fugle, Bonita Louise
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: HV 640 F84 1995
subject: Women refugees - Government policy - Canada
subject: Sex discrimination against women
subject: Race discrimination

description: Bibliography: p. 92-101.
description: The Canadian refugee policy is comprised of the overseas selection and in­land determination processes. In this document, these processes are examined for barriers arising from systemic discrimination and impacting significantly on refugee women. Systemic discrimination, referring to discrimination occurring in the practice of policy implementation, is explored \vithin the context of racism, sexism and dassism \vithin Canadian society. Using a variety of sources, it is conduded that the primary barriers exist \vithin the Convention definition, in access to the refugee processes and in the selection criteria. The document condudes \vith consideration of mechanisms acting to continue existing discrimination and means of effecting change, which is unlikely to occur \vithout long-term societal change.
Nonlinear pulsations of red supergiants
Creators: name: Fadeyev, Yuri A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitation of radial oscillations in population I (X=0.7, Z=0.02) red supergiants is investigated using the solution of the equations of radiation hydrodynamics and turbulent convection. The core helium burning stars with masses 8M_odot <= M <= 20M_odot end effective temperatures T_eff < 4000K are shown to be unstable against radial pulsations in the fundamental mode. The oscillation periods range between 45 and 1180 days. The pulsational instability is due to the kappa-mechanism in the hydrogen and helium ionization zones. Radial pulsations of stars with mass M < 15M_odot are strictly periodic with the light amplitude Delta M_bol <= 0.5 mag. The pulsation amplitude increases with increasing stellar mass and for M > 15M_odot the maximum expansion velocity of outer layers is as high as one third of the escape velocity. The mean radii of outer mass zones increase due to nonlinear oscillations by <= 30% in comparison with the initial equilibrium. The approximate method (with uncertainty of a factor of 1.5) to evaluate the mass of the pulsating red supergiant with the known period of radial oscillations is proposed. The approximation of the pulsation constant Q as a function of the mass-to-radius ratio is given. Masses of seven galactic red supergiants are evaluated using the period-mean density relation.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy Letters
Sedimentology and diagenesis of carbonate mud-dominated buildups: Lower Devonian of Hamar Laghdad, Eastern Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Africa
Creators: name: Aitken, Steven Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QE 472 A38 1995a
subject: Additional Copy: QE 472 A38 1995
subject: Mud mounds - Morocco - Anti-Atlas Mountains
subject: Geology - Morocco - Anti-Atlas Mountains
subject: Sedimentation and deposition - Morocco - Anti-Atlas Mountains
subject: Sedimentology
subject: Biotherms - Morocco

description: Bibliography: p. 308-330.
Zinc in soil around non-ferrous metals smelter "Miasteczko Śląskie"
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sierka E., Palowski B., Kimsa T. (2001). Zinc in soil around non-ferrous metals smelter "Miasteczko Śląskie". Environmental protection 27 (2), 169-173.
Conditional measurement in noncontextual hidden variables models
Creators: name: Fujikawa, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The noncontextual hidden variables models in $d=2$, such as the ones constructed by Bell and by Kochen and Specker, have difficulties in accounting for the conditional measurement of two non-orthogonal projectors. An idea of branching in the hidden variables space, which provides a means to realize the notion of reduction effectively and describe the state preparation, is suggested as a way to resolve the difficulties associated with the conditional measurement.
description: 11 pages. Progress of Theoretical Physics (in press). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1201.4421
The Automation Of Pde-Constrained Optimisation And Its Applications
Creators: name: Funke, Wolfgang Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Optimization, partial differential equations, adjoint method, tidal energy, wetting and drying

description: This thesis is concerned with the automation of solving optimisation problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs). Gradient-based optimisation algorithms are the key to solve optimisation problems of practical interest. The required derivatives can be efficiently computed with the adjoint approach. However, current methods for the development of adjoint models often require a significant amount of effort and expertise, in particular for non-linear time-dependent problems.

This work presents a new high-level reinterpretation of algorithmic differentiation to develop adjoint models. This reinterpretation considers the discrete system as a sequence of equation solves. Applying this approach to a general finite-element framework results in an automatic and robust way of deriving and solving adjoint models. This drastically reduces the development effort compared to traditional methods.

Based on this result, a new framework for rapidly defining and solving optimisation problems constrained by PDEs is developed. The user specifies the discrete optimisation problem in a compact high-level language that resembles the mathematical structure of the underlying system. All remaining steps, including parameter updates, PDE solves and derivative computations, are performed without user intervention. The framework can be applied to a wide range of governing PDEs, and interfaces to various gradient-free and gradient-based optimisation algorithms.

The capabilities of this framework are demonstrated through the application to two PDE-constrained optimisation problems. The first is concerned with the optimal layout of turbines in tidal stream farms; this optimisation problem is one of the main challenges facing the marine renewable energy industry. The second application applies data assimilation to reconstruct the profile of tsunami waves based on inundation observations. This provides the first step towards the general reconstruction of tsunami signals from satellite information.
Long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) ecology and management in Waterton Lakes National Park
Creators: name: Fukumoto, Julie M.
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QL 668 C23 D85 1995
subject: Ambystoma macrodactylum - Ecology - Alberta
subject: Wildlife management - Alberta
subject: Salamanders - Ecology - Alberta

description: Bibliography: p. 92-98.
description: Evidence of the long-toed salamander, Ambystoma macrodactylum, was obtained at nine of thirteen study sites within Waterton Lakes National Park, located in the southwest corner of Alberta. Distribution was scattered throughout the park at elevations ranging from 1280 to 1930 metres. Breeding activity of salamanders in the park occurs from early April to late June, depending on location. Development of salamander larvae in lakes or ponds is usually completed in one season (ie. during one summer); however, the occurrence of two-season development was indicated at Summit Lake (elev. 1930 m). Surrounding terrestrial habitat varied from aspen parkland to subalpine coniferous forest. Using the Schumacher-Eschmeyer estimator, the size of the Linnet Lake adult salamander population based on 1994 field work was estimated at between 3,274 and 4,690 adults (95% confidence interval). During the breeding period in April and May, greater numbers of salamanders migrated on nights when there was surf ace moisture or rainfall, particularly after short dry periods. An unusual 3: 1 (464 females: 155 males) sex ratio was obtained. Females spent an average of 19 days near and at Linnet Lake during breeding activity; males spent an average of 27 days. Several management issues were identified. Included are roadway mortality of salamanders at Linnet Lake, the need for a water quality monitoring program, and potential contamination of breeding sites due to roadsalt and acidification. Measurements indicated that pH values of the aquatic habitat have decreased substantially within the past twenty-five years. The global problem of acid precipitation may be a contributing factor.
Holographic Schwinger Effect
Creators: name: Semenoff, Gordon W.
name: Zarembo, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study tunneling pair creation of W-Bosons by an external electric field on the Coulomb branch of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We use AdS/CFT holography to find a generalization of Schwinger's formula for the pair production rate to the strong coupling, planar limit which includes the exchange of virtual massless particles to all orders. We find that the pair creation formula has an upper critical electric field beyond which the process is no longer exponentially suppressed. The value of the critical field is identical to that which occurs in the Born-Infeld action of probe D3-branes in the AdS5XS5 background.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, To appear in Physical Review Letters
D1.1 Project handbook
Creators: name: Príncipe, Pedro
name: Vieira, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: project handbook
redata

description: Este documento reúne as diretrizes, processos e informações essenciais para orientar todos os membros das equipas Re.Data na coordenação do consórcio, desenvolvimento e execução do projeto. Funciona como um manual de referência, garantindo regras de funcionamento e alinhamento entre os envolvidos e facilitando a gestão do projeto.
Ethnoarchaeology of the Tallensi compound (Upper East Region, Ghana)
Creators: name: Gabrilopoulos, Nick
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: DT 510.43 T35 G33 1995
subject: Tallensi (African people) - Dwellings
subject: Ethnoarchaeology - Ghana
subject: Ethnology - Ghana

description: Bibliography: p. 185-201.
description: Archaeologists frequently excavate houses, but the underlying dynamics of house form and domestic organization are little understood in traditional societies. To address this, ethnoarchaeological fieldwork was conducted among the Tallensi of the Upper East Region of Ghana, focusing on compounds and their spatial organization. The goal is to identify factors pertaining to the built environment, be they physical, social or ideological. Interviews ascertained Tallensi conceptions of the built environment, and direct observations of compound design, social structure, variability and the use of space were made. Comparative observations of compounds of neighboring ethnic groups served to identify features unique to the Tallensi. A model of occupant vigilance and surveillance is proposed to account for Tallensi compound form and layout. This and other identified processes governing the spatial logic of compound design and use will inform archaeologists on the interpretation of similarly constituted settlements.
An introduction to local Black Hole horizons in the 3+1 approach to General Relativity
Creators: name: Jaramillo, José Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an introduction to dynamical trapping horizons as quasi-local models for black hole horizons, from the perspective of an Initial Value Problem approach to the construction of generic black hole spacetimes. We focus on the geometric and structural properties of these horizons aiming, as a main application, at the numerical evolution and analysis of black hole spacetimes in astrophysical scenarios. In this setting, we discuss their dual role as an "a priori" ingredient in certain formulations of Einstein equations and as an "a posteriori" tool for the diagnosis of dynamical black hole spacetimes. Complementary to the first-principles discussion of quasi-local horizon physics, we place an emphasis on the "rigidity" properties of these hypersurfaces and their role as privileged geometric probes into near-horizon strong-field spacetime dynamics.
description: 37 pages, 5 figures. Notes prepared for the course at the 2011 Shanghai Asia-Pacific School and Workshop on Gravitation (Shanghai Normal University, February 10-14, 2011)
Zarośla śródpolne a kształtowanie się zgrupowań wciornastków
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sierka E., Sierka W. (2003). Zarośla śródpolne a kształtowanie się zgrupowań wciornastków. Środowisko i Rozwój 8(2), 157-169.
Probing spectral properties of radio-quiet quasars searched for optical microvariability-II
Creators: name: Joshi, Ravi
name: Chand, Hum
name: Wiita, Paul J.
name: Gupta, Alok C.
name: Srianand, Raghunathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of AGN unification scheme rapid variability properties play an important role in understanding any intrinsic differences between sources in different classes. In this respect any clue based on spectral properties will be very useful toward understanding the mechanisms responsible for the origin of rapid small scale optical variations, or microvariability. Here we have added spectra of 46 radio-quiet quasars (RQQSOs) and Seyfert 1 galaxies to those of our previous sample of 37 such objects, all of which had been previously searched for microvariability. We took new optical spectra of 33 objects and obtained 13 others from the literature. Their \hbeta and \mgii emission lines were carefully fit to determine line widths (FWHM) as well as equivalent widths (EW) due to the broad emission line components. The line widths were used to estimate black hole masses and Eddington ratios, $\ell$. Both EW and FWHM are anticorrelated with $\ell$. Nearly all trends were in agreement with our previous work, although the tendency for sources exhibiting microvariability to be of lower luminosity was not confirmed. Most importantly, this whole sample of EW distributions provides no evidence for the hypothesis that a weak jet component in the radio quiet AGNs is responsible for their microvariability.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables, Accepted in MNRAS main journal
Discovering habitable Earths, hot Jupiters and other close planets with microlensing
Creators: name: Di Stefano, Rosanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searches for planets via gravitational lensing have focused on cases in which the projected separation, a, between planet and star is comparable to the Einstein radius, R_E. This paper considers smaller orbital separations and demonstrates that evidence of close-orbit planets can be found in the low-magnification portion of the light curves generated by the central star. We develop a protocol to discover hot Jupiters as well as Neptune-mass and Earth-mass planets in the stellar habitable zone. When planets are not discovered, our method can be used to quantify the probability that the lens star does not have planets within specified ranges of the orbital separation and mass ratio. Nearby close-orbit planets discovered by lensing can be subject to follow-up observations to study the newly-discovered planets or to discover other planets orbiting the same star. Careful study of the low-magnification portions of lensing light curves should produce, in addition to the discoveries of close-orbit planets, definite detections of wide-orbit planets through the discovery of "repeating" lensing events. We show that events exhibiting extremely high magnification can effectively be probed for planets in close, intermediate, and wide distance regimes simply by adding several-time-per-night monitoring in the low-magnification wings, possibly leading to gravitational lensing discoveries of multiple planets occupying a broad range of orbits, from close to wide, in a single planetary system.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social Media
Creators: name: Lovejoy, Kristen
name: Saxton, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid diffusion of "microblogging" services such as Twitter is ushering in a new era of possibilities for organizations to communicate with and engage their core stakeholders and the general public. To enhance understanding of the communicative functions microblogging serves for organizations, this study examines the Twitter utilization practices of the 100 largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. The analysis reveals there are three key functions of microblogging updates-"information," "community," and "action." Though the informational use of microblogging is extensive, nonprofit organizations are better at using Twitter to strategically engage their stakeholders via dialogic and community-building practices than they have been with traditional websites. The adoption of social media appears to have engendered new paradigms of public engagement. Keywords: microblogging; Twitter; social media; stakeholder relations; organizational communication; organization-public relations; nonprofit organizations
Cotesia erionotae Wilkinson
Creators: name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Lokhande, Swapnil A.
name: Soman, Abhay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia erionotae

description: Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson) from host Udaspes folus (Cramer)
(Figs. 14, 15 & 16)
 The collection of the gregarious larval braconid parasitoid Cotesia erionotae (Wilkinson) from host Udaspes folus (Cramer) from Maharashtra and Karnataka States marks an extension in its distributional range from Kerala to Maharashtra and Karnataka in peninsular India.
 Brief diagnosis: Head and mesosoma black. Scape and pedicel yellow brown, flagellomeres dark brown. Fore and mid coxa red testaceous. First metasomal tergite deep red-black; second tergite brown with yellow infuscation in the middle, apex of hind femur and apical half of hind tibia darkened, stigma and wing veins brown. Propodeum with well marked median longitudinal carina. Oblique carinae run upwards on each side of median carina and join to a strong transverse basal carina.
 Specimens examined: Six females. Hebbal, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; 13.04°N 77.59°E, sept. 2012, bred from caterpillar of U. folus (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), coll. Ankita Gupta, NBAII/Brac/Micro/ Cotesia /erio/22912 A–E. Five females and males, Powai, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; 19.12°N 72.91°E, elevation 50 m (160 ft), 22.ix.2012, bred from caterpillar of U. folus (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) on host plant Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig, coll. Swapnil Lokhande & Abhay Soman. All specimens deposited in NBAII.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Ankita, Lokhande, Swapnil A. & Soman, Abhay, 2013, Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), pp. 277-290 in Zootaxa 3701 (2) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/249275
X-Ray Surveyor Discussion Session Results From The X-Ray Vision Workshop
Creators: name: Allured, Ryan
name: Arenberg, Jonathan
name: Bogdan, Akos
name: Canning, Rebecca
name: Churazov, Eugene
name: Civano, Francesca
name: Clarke, Tracy
name: Corrales, Lia
name: Di Matteo, Tiziana
name: Falcone, Abe
name: Garcia, Javier
name: Gaskin, Jessica
name: Goldman, Itzhak
name: Kargaltsev, Oleg
name: Klinger, Noel
name: Laming, Martin
name: McNamara, Brian
name: Markevitch, Maxim
name: Marshall, Herman
name: Mosquera, Ana
name: Mroczkowski, Anthony
name: Natarajan, Priyamvada
name: Nielsen, Joey
name: Nowak, Michael
name: Ozel, Feryal
name: Poppenhaeger, Katja
name: Porquet, Delphine
name: Randall, Scott
name: Schwartz, Daniel
name: Swartz, Douglas A.
name: Temim, Tea
name: Van Weeren, Reinout
name: Weisskopf, Martin
name: Zhuravleva, Irina
name: ZuHone, John A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: X-ray surveys
Spectroscopy

description: This paper summarizes the results of a brainstorming session held during the X-ray Vision Workshop (Oct 6-8, 2015, Washington DC). The workshop was convened to discuss the scientific potential of the X-ray Surveyor mission. The X-ray Surveyor concept, which was defined by the Astrophysics Roadmap, is to effect a 100-fold gain in survey and spectroscopic capability over the Chandra X-ray Observatory, while at least matching Chandra’s sub-arcsecond imaging capability.

This paper is intended to inform interested scientists of the growing discussion in

our community and to solicit their input in the area of new science that a next

generation high-resolution X-ray Observatory may provide for astrophysics. This

paper is not an official document and is certainly not the definitive science case for an X-ray Surveyor mission. It is, instead, an early input to this discussion, which we hope will lead to a full reference white paper on the X-Ray Surveyor concept.
description: X-Ray Vision Workshop, Breakout Brainstorming Session
A modified supervised classification approach for mapping coniferous understory in the boreal mixedwood of Northern Alberta
Creators: name: Ghitter, Geoff Sidney
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: SD 387 M3 G55 1995
subject: Forest mapping
subject: Conifers
subject: Vegetation classification
subject: Forests and forestry - Remote sensing

description: Bibliography: p. 87-94.
On an extremal problem in two Siegel domains
Creators: name: Shamoyan, Romi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide sharp new estimates for distance function in a Siegel domain of first and of second type
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1205.3323
Alkali-aggregate reaction and freeze-thaw durability of activated blast furnace slag cement concrete
Creators: name: Gifford, P. M. (Peter Marston)
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: TA 440 G53 1995
subject: Concrete - Testing
subject: Slag cement - Testing
subject: Aggregates - (Building materials)
subject: Alkali-aggregate reactions
subject: Concrete - Expansion and contraction - Testing

description: Bibliography: p. 274-294.
Fabrication and Room-Temperature Single-Charging Behavior of Self-Aligned Single-Dot Memory Devices
Creators: name: Tang, Xiaohui
name: Reckinger, Nicolas
name: Bayot, Vincent
name: Krzeminski, Christophe
name: Dubois, Emmanuel
name: Villaret, Alexandre
name: Bensahel, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-aligned single-dot memory devices and arrays were fabricated based on arsenic-assisted etching and oxidation effects. The resulting device has a floating gate of about 5-10 nm, presenting single-electron memory operation at room temperature. In order to realize the final single-electron memory circuit, this paper investigates process repeatability, device uniformity in single-dot memory arrays, device scalability, and process transferability to an industrial application.
Collective Dynamics in Arrays of Coupled Nonlinear Resonators
Creators: name: Lifshitz, Ron
name: Kenig, Eyal
name: Cross, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of collective nonlinear dynamics of coupled mechanical resonators is regaining attention in recent years thanks to rapid developments in the fields of microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS). We review a wide range of collective dynamical phenomena, while highlighting the common concepts and theoretical tools that we have developed for treating them. We provide detailed derivations of amplitude equations, which allow us to obtain reduced descriptions for the relevant dynamics of our complex systems. We apply these amplitude equations to study (a) resonant response to parametric excitation; (b) pattern selection, or the nonlinear competition between extended modes in situations of multistability; (c) formation and dynamics of intrinsically localized modes (ILM); and (d) spontaneous synchronization of oscillators with differing frequencies. All the predictions obtained from analyzing the different amplitude equations are in excellent agreement with numerical solutions of the underlying equations of motion, suggesting that the predicted effects can be observed in arrays of real micromechanical or nanomechanical resonators, thus motivating new experiments in these systems.
description: To appear in "Fluctuating nonlinear oscillators", Ed. Mark I. Dykman (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012)
title:   Nutritional Status in Critical Care of COVID-19 Patients
Creators: name: Davis III, Dolph
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Health sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Critical care nutrition is a poorly researched, and such a sudden pandemic event requiring manipulation of nutritional status via propofol-induced sedation for mechanical ventilation is potentially impactful on patient outcomes. This paper seeks to provide context to the impact of critical care protocols on the nutritional status of obese patients suffering from COVID-19.
description: © 2022 Dolph Lewis Davis III
Enhancement of Images using Morphological Transformation
Creators: name: Sreedhar, K.
name: Panlal, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper deals with enhancement of images with poor contrast and detection of background. Proposes a frame work which is used to detect the background in images characterized by poor contrast. Image enhancement has been carried out by the two methods based on the Weber's law notion. The first method employs information from image background analysis by blocks, while the second transformation method utilizes the opening operation, closing operation, which is employed to define the multi-background gray scale images. The complete image processing is done using MATLAB simulation model. Finally, this paper is organized as follows as Morphological transformation and Weber's law. Image background approximation to the background by means of block analysis in conjunction with transformations that enhance images with poor lighting. The multibackground notion is introduced by means of the opening by reconstruction shows a comparison among several techniques to improve contrast in images. Finally, conclusions are presented.
description: 18 pages
The social construction of moral discourse
Creators: name: Giordano, Rita
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: BJ 1012 G54 1995
subject: Ethics
subject: Moral development
subject: Conversation analysis
subject: Social psychology - Moral and ethical aspects
subject: Kohlberg, Lawrence, 1927-

description: Bibliography: p. 97-103.
Biofortification and subcellular localization of minerals in faba bean as influenced by Mg foliar application
Creators: name: Geilfus, Christoph-Martin
name: Wendler, Neele
name: Mühling, Karl H.
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biofortification; Magnesium; Foliar fertilization; Apoplast; Symplast; Vicia faba; Ion antagonism

description: Foliar application of Mg is a measure for the correction of Mg deficiency in crop plants. Foliar applied nutrients need to access the symplastic side where majority of physiological processes take place. To achieve an adequate uptake of the Mg ions through the leaf surface, high concentrations of of 100-200 mM MgSO4 are usually supplied. This can cause antagonistic perturbations on the subcellular distribution of Caand K cations. To test for such unintended side effects, we used the infiltration-centrifugation method to extract ions from the apoplastic and symplastic side of Vicia faba leaves and quantified concentrations of Mg, Ca and K in dependency to the dose of the foliar fertilized Mg. Results show that a large fraction of Mg accesses the symplast whereas the apoplastic fraction shows a concomitant increase. Symplastic and apoplastic K and Ca relations were only affected under conditions of high exogenous leaf supply of Mg (200 mM) but did not change upon moderate Mg supply (50; 100 mM). Overall, results reveal the suitability of leaf fertilization to biofortify plant-based products with magnesium. With respect to human nutrition, care must be taken that K and Ca do not become impoverished based on antagonistic effects.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol 89 (2016), p.68-72
The excitonic resonance in semiconductor-metal nano-hybrids
Creators: name: Climente, Juan I.
name: Movilla, Jose L.
name: Goldoni, Guido
name: Planelles, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a configuration interaction approach within the envelope function approximation to study the nature of the excitonic resonance in nano-hybrids, composite nanoparticles (NPs) combining a semiconducting and a metallic segment in contact. With reference to recent experimental reports, we specifically study CdS-based nanorods with metallic NPs deposited at the tips (matchstick) or metallic coatings (core-shell). The excitonic states are computed taking into account both the renormalization of the electron-hole interaction and self-energy effects induced by the the metallic segment on the electron-hole pair, as well as by the dielectric environment, through an induced charge numerical approach. In neutral matchstick structures the metal NP has only a minor influence (~1 meV) on the excitonic states. When the metallic NP is charged the exciton becomes rapidly redshifted and spatially indirect. In contrast, in neutral core-shell structures the exciton energy redshifts by tens of meV
description: 23 pages (preprint format). Accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. This is the unedited authors version. Minor changes added
Stress-inducible peroxidase of neurospora crassa: gene cloning and expression studies
Creators: name: Machwe, Amrita
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QP 552 H43 M33 1995
subject: Neurospora crassa - Genetic aspects
subject: Heat-shock proteins

description: Bibliography: p. 194-215.
Importance of spontaneous succession in reclamation processes
Creators: name: Sierka, Edyta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Woźniak G., Sierka E. (2004). Znaczenie sukcesji spontanicznej w procesach rekultywacji. Inżynieria Środowiska 12, 391-398.
Charops plautus Gupta & Maheshwary
Creators: name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Lokhande, Swapnil A.
name: Soman, Abhay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Charops
Charops plautus

description: Charops plautus Gupta & Maheshwary from host Udaspes folus (Cramer)
(Figs. 17, 18 & 19)
 The solitary pupal parasitoid Charops plautus Gupta & Maheshwary was reared from the host Udaspes folus Gupta & Maheshwary (1970). No male specimens were bred and the species was identified based on females. Udaspes folus is the first host record of the parasitic wasp genus Charops.
 Brief diagnosis: This species has following characters: scape and pedicel ventrally yellow; tegula pale yellow. Mesopleuron reticulate rugose; malar space 0.7× basal width of mandible; inter-ocellar distance 3× ocello-ocellar distance; fore coxa with a mix of black and yellow patches; trochanter pale yellow and femur yellow brown medially; tarsus pale yellow. Mid leg with coxa black; trachanter pale yellow; femur yellow brown with very faint black infuscation on dorso-apical region. Hind leg with coxa black; femur yellow brown with a black patch ventrally in basal half; hind tibia yellow brown with apical 1/4th black; tarsi brown with basitarsus darker; tibial spurs pale yellow. Metasoma with petiole black except at extreme apical region. Second tergite yellow brown with apical margin black; rest metasoma yellowish brown.
 Specimens examined: Two females, Powai, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; 19.12°N 72.91°E, elevation 50 m (160 ft), 22.ix.2012, bred from pupa of U. folus (Grass Demon) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), coll. Swapnil Lokhande & Abhay Soman; NBAII/Brac/Micro/ Charops /plau/0912. All specimens deposited in NBAII.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Ankita, Lokhande, Swapnil A. & Soman, Abhay, 2013, Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), pp. 277-290 in Zootaxa 3701 (2) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/249275
The distibution of a glutamic acid decarboxylase65-LACZ transgene in the central nervous system of the mouse
Creators: name: Upadhyaya, Varsha
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QH 470 M52 U63 1995
subject: Mice - Genetics
subject: Mice - Nervous system
subject: Transgenic mice
subject: Glutamate decarboxyglase
subject: Central nervous system

description: Bibliography: p. 122-135.
Effect of Different Stellar Galactic Environments on Planetary Discs I: The Solar Neighbourhood and the Birth Cloud of the Sun
Creators: name: Jimenez-Torres, Juan J.
name: Pichardo, Barbara
name: Lake, George
name: Throop, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have computed trajectories, distances and times of closest approaches to the Sun by stars in the Solar neighbourhood with known position, radial velocity and proper motions. For this purpose we have used a full potential model of the Galaxy that reproduces the local z-force, the Oort constants, the local escape velocity, and the rotation curve of the Galaxy. From our sample we constructed initial conditions, within observational uncertainties, with a Monte Carlo scheme for the twelve most suspicious candidates because of their small tangential motion. We find that the star Gliese 710 will have the closest approach to the Sun, with a distance of approximately 0.34 pc at 1.36 Myr in the future. We show that the effect of a flyby with the characteristics of Gliese 710 on a 100 AU test particle disk representing the Solar system is negligible. However, since there is a lack of 6D data for a large percentage of stars in the Solar neighbourhood, closer approaches may exist. We calculate parameters of passing stars that would cause noticeable effects on the Solar disk. Regarding the birth cloud of the Sun, we performed experiments to reproduce roughly the observed orbital parameters such as eccentricities and inclinations of the Kuiper Belt. It is known now that in Galactic environments, such as stellar formation regions, the stellar densities of new born stars, are high enough to produce close encounters within 200 AU. Moreover, in these Galactic environments, the velocity dispersion is relatively low, typically approximately 1-3 km s-1.We find that with a velocity dispersion of approximately 1 km s-1 and an approach distance of about 150 AU, typical of these regions, we obtain approximately the eccentricities and inclinations seen in the current Solar system. Simple analytical calculations of stellar encounters effects on the Oort cloud are presented.
description: Accepted 2011 August 2 by MNRAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal). Received 2011 June 27; in original form 2010 June 10 The paper contains 10 figures and 5 tables
The hydraulic and mechanical characterization of oil sand fracture
Creators: name: Walters, Dale Alvin
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: TN 870.54 W35 1995
subject: Oil sands

description: Bibliography: p. 143-148.
description: An experimental and numerical study was conducted to investigate the hydraulic and mechanical response of an oil sand fracture to a varying confining pressure. The oil sand fracture was induced in core samples along the axis of the sample using the Brazilian tensile test. A Computer Assisted Tomography (CAT) scanning analysis was performed before and during the flow tests to determine the fracture geometry as a function of confining pressure. The fracture was shown to be a variable aperture system with surface roughness and tortuosity playing an increasing role as the fracture closed under pressure. Flow tests revealed a non-linear behaviour, deviating from the cubic law and indicated the roughness effects of a natural oil sand fracture are significant. The mechanical response was similar to that of the hydraulic behaviour indicating the strong relationship between the two. The numerical study revealed that the tortuosity of the flow paths increased as the fracture closed. A two-phase flow study showed that phase interference was significant and the interface between phases has an unsteady nature. Thus, relative permeability is not a function of saturation alone.
Supplementary document for Real-time, in-situ measurement of H2O generated during in situ combustion tests using 1f –normalized wavelength modulation spectroscopy with second harmonic detection - 6100203.pdf
Creators: name: Posada, Juan Duque
name: Jaramillo, Manuel
name: Gómez, Sebastian López
name: Torres, Pedro
name: Molina, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplemental document
The effects of glucose or lipid infused intravenously or intragastrically on voluntary oral food intake and diet selection in the rat
Creators: name: Burggraf, Kimberly K.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: QP 147 B87 1995
subject: Ingestion - Regulation
subject: Lipids in nutrition
subject: Glucose - Physiological effect
subject: Lipids - Physiological effect
subject: Gastrointestinal system
subject: Rats - Physiology

description: Bibliography: p. 77-82.
description: Glucose or lipid was infused intravenously (I.V.) or intragastrically (I.G.) for 30 minutes before and during the 17 hours when rats were fed. Three day infusions of 28. 1 kcals of nutrient yielded the following: ( 1) infusions of glucose reduced daily food intake by 19. 7 ± 1. 9 kcal/day, representing an oral intake reduction equivalent to 70% of each calorie infused, and (2) infusions of lipid reduced baseline food intake by 11.2 ± 2.7 kcal/day or 40% of each calorie infused (12.<.0005). In addition: (3) infusions of nutrient I. G. reduced baseline food intake by 17. 6 kcals ± 2 .1 kcal/day or 63% of each calorie infused, and (4) infusions of nutrient I. V. reduced baseline food intake by 13. 7 kcals ± 2. 6 kcal/day or 49% of each calorie infused (Q<.05). Infused glucose is more effective than infused lipid in inhibiting short term intake, daily food intake and intake of high carbohydrate diet, and I.G. infusion is more effective than I.V. infusion in inhibiting daily food intake.
Video abstract for publication: Neurexan helps to reduce distractibility
Creators: name: Mayer, Kathrin
name: Krylova, Marina
name: Alizadeh, Sarah
name: Jamalabadi, Hamidreza
name: van der Meer, Johan
name: Vester, Johannes C.
name: Naschold, Britta
name: Schultz, Myron
name: Walter, Martin
Publisher: name: Heel GmbH
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 400304
subject: Biomedical imaging
classificationCode: 321402
subject: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
classificationCode: 520301
subject: Clinical neuropsychology
classificationCode: 3208
subject: Medical physiology

description: This is a video abstract of a published peer-reviewed article. It represents the opinions of the authors. For a full list of declarations, including funding and author disclosure statements, please read the full open-access article online.
Generalized information entropies depending only on the probability distribution
Creators: name: Obregón, O.
name: Gil-Villegas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systems with a long-term stationary state that possess as a spatio-temporally fluctuation quantity $β$ can be described by a superposition of several statistics, a "super statistics". We consider first, the Gamma, log-normal and $F$-distributions of $β$. It is assumed that they depend only on $p_l$, the probability associated with the microscopic configuration of the system. For each of the three $β-$distributions we calculate the Boltzmann factors and show that they coincide for small variance of the fluctuations. For the Gamma distribution it is possible to calculate the entropy in a closed form, depending on $p_l$, and to obtain then an equation relating $p_l$ with $βE_l$. We also propose, as other examples, new entropies close related with the Kaniadakis and two possible Sharma-Mittal entropies. The entropies presented in this work do not depend on a constant parameter $q$ but on $p_l$. For the $p_l$-Gamma distribution and its corresponding $B_{p_l}(E)$ Boltzmann factor and the associated entropy, we show the validity of the saddle-point approximation. We also briefly discuss the generalization of one of the four Khinchin axioms to get this proposed entropy.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures