cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Exploring a self-regulation program in a multi-grade inclusive classroom
Creators: name: Danuser, Nancy
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Inclusive education

description: This self-study explores lessons learned from teaching self-regulation in a multi-grade inclusive classroom. Using general observations and reflections in my researcher journal I explore my own teaching practice and ways to improve it as I implement the Alert Program® in an attempt to support student self-regulation in my classroom. Not everything went as planned and the self-study aspect of research enabled me to reflect on my teaching and develop new ways to approach my students’ learning needs as well as my needs as the teacher. Hands-on activities, flexibility, and balancing pressures were key findings in this self-study. These findings can provide some insight for other teachers who may be looking to implement a self-regulation program such as the Alert Program® or otherwise consider self-regulation strategies in inclusive classrooms.
Coprinus foetidellus P. D. Orton
Creators: name: Melo, Roger Fagner Ribeiro
name: Chikowski, Renata Dos Santos
name: Miller, Andrew Nicholas
name: Maia, Leonor Costa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Agaricaceae
Coprinus
Coprinus foetidellus

description: 10. Coprinus foetidellus P.D. Orton, Notes Royal Bot. Gdn Edinb. 32(1): 139 (1972)
(Figure 5, f–k)
 Closed pileus subglobose to ellipsoid, 4–5 × 3–4 μm, whitish to pale gray, abundantly covered along its entire length by farinaceous to fibrillose veil fragments, giving it a tomentose aspect. Expanded pileus initially ellipsoid to cylindrical-ellipsoid, later campanulate and finally flattened, 8–11 mm in diameter, whitish to light gray, with wavy to slightly sulcate margin. Lamellae free, initially white, becoming dark gray to black, ca. 1 mm thick, deliquescent. Lamellulae present, similar in morphology. Stipe central, cylindrical to slightly clavate near the base, hollow, finely fibrillose, whitish to pale gray, 30–40 mm long, 0.5 mm in diameter. Ring absent. Volva absent. Pileipellis hyphal. Veil composed of globular elements, hyaline, thin-walled, with up to 65 μm in diameter, adorned by nipple-shaped crystal projections. Cheilocystidia 22.5–37.5 × 15–22.5 μm, subglobose, saccate to clavate, usually collapsing, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth. Pleurocystidia large, up to 75 μm in length, subglobose, subellipsoid to obpyriform, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth. Clamp connections absent or not observed. Basidia 4-spored, usually interspersed with hyphidial elements. Basidiospores ovoid to oblong in frontal view, ellipsoid to cylindrical in side view, reddish-brown to dark brown, 7.5–10.5 × 5–7.5 μm, thick-walled, with rounded ends and a central germ pore.
 Material examined: — BRAZIL. Pernambuco, Instituto Agronômico de Pernambuco (IPA), Serra Talhada, on cattle dung, 13 Sep 2011, R.F. R. Melo (URM 86790!).
 Distribution: —Europe (Netherlands, Ukraine). This is the first record from Brazil.
 Notes: —This species was recorded on a few samples of herbivore dung in the semiarid region of Pernambuco, Coprinus foetidellus possesses a strong narcotic odor (which accounts for its specific epithet) and veil remnants formed by large globular cells adorned by nipple-shaped crystals. It resembles Coprinopsis stercorea, differing by the tomentose aspect of the pileus and by the wider basidiospores (7.5–10.5 × 5–7.5 μm).
description: Published as part of Melo, Roger Fagner Ribeiro, Chikowski, Renata Dos Santos, Miller, Andrew Nicholas & Maia, Leonor Costa, 2016, Coprophilous Agaricales (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) from Brazil, pp. 1-14 in Phytotaxa 266 (1) on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.266.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13660196
title: Be. Here. Now. An investigation into middle-school teacher’s experiences using mindfulness-based practices in their classrooms
Creators: name: Glynn, Tari-Rae
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mindfulness (Psychology)

description: This paper explores the research questions, What experiences do middle-school teachers who use mindfulness practices have in their classrooms? And, What aspects of mindfulness practices do teachers perceive to be impacting anxiety, stress, behaviour difficulties, and student outcomes in students in their classroom settings? Five intermediate teachers from a school district in southern British Columbia who have implemented mindfulness programs and interventions in their classrooms were interviewed. Qualitative data was collected through interviews about how these participants implemented mindfulness-based programs, what was noticed or observed as students participated in these practices, and how the effectiveness of these practices in supporting students was perceived by participants. Based on data collection and content analysis, it became clear that participants saw students demonstrating more self-control, self-regulation, and were able to express and communicate their feelings in a more positive way, after they have been taught and regularly use mindfulness-based practices. All participants interviewed expressed the need for more resources and professional development in order to feel confident in using mindfulness practices in their classrooms. Clearly, educators observed their students benefiting from these practices and should be provided with more access to resources, in the same way they are with Mathematics and Language Arts. Further research in this area should be conducted with larger participant groups in order to generalize findings.
Trace and Detect Adversarial Attacks on CNNs using Feature Response Maps
Creators: name: Amirian, Mohammadreza
name: Schwenker, Friedhelm
name: Stadelmann, Thilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The existence of adversarial attacks on convolutional neural networks (CNN) questions the fitness of such models for serious applications. The attacks manipulate an input image such that misclassification is evoked while still looking normal to a human observer -- they are thus not easily detectable. In a different context, backpropagated activations of CNN hidden layers -- "feature responses" to a given input -- have been helpful to visualize for a human "debugger" what the CNN "looks at" while computing its output. In this work, we propose a novel detection method for adversarial examples to prevent attacks. We do so by tracking adversarial perturbations in feature responses, allowing for automatic detection using average local spatial entropy. The method does not alter the original network architecture and is fully human-interpretable. Experiments confirm the validity of our approach for state-of-the-art attacks on large-scale models trained on ImageNet.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
title: Practically co-teaching: an educational resource
Creators: name: McCallum, Kori
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Teaching teams

description: With the implementation of Response to Intervention generalist teachers and specialist teachers must evaluate and potentially alter the way in which they work together if they are to continue meet the diverse and ever changing needs of students. Response to Intervention requires the specialist teacher to provide supports not only to students with exceptionalities but all students within the setting of the classroom. Co-teaching is one alternative to explore when attempting to meet the needs of students within the inclusive classroom. Co-teaching requires the generalist and specialist teachers to teach together within the generalist classroom. Utilizing co-teaching practices as a model of support can be challenging; however, when these challenges are proactively addressed, the benefits to the students as well as the educators involved can be significant.
The effect of orbital damping during planet migration on the Inclination and Eccentricity Distributions of Neptune Trojans
Creators: name: Chen, Yuan-Yuan
name: Ma, Yuehua
name: Zheng, Jiaqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore planetary migration scenarios for formation of high inclination Neptune Trojans (NTs) and how they are affected by the planetary migration of Neptune and Uranus. If Neptune and Uranus's eccentricity and inclination were damped during planetary migration, then their eccentricities and inclinations were higher prior and during migration than their current values. Using test particle integrations we study the stability of primordial NTs, objects that were initially Trojans with Neptune prior to migration. We also study Trans-Neptunian objects captured into resonance with Neptune and becoming NTs during planet migration. We find that most primordial NTs were unstable and lost if eccentricity and inclination damping took place during planetary migration. With damping, secular resonances with Neptune can increase a low eccentricity and inclination population of Trans-Neptunian objects increasing the probability that they are captured into 1:1 resonance with Neptune, becoming high inclination NTs. We suggest that the resonant trapping scenario is a promising and more effective mechanism explaining the origin of NTs that is particularly effective if Uranus and Neptune experienced eccentricity and inclination damping during planetary migration.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, accepted by MNRAS
title: Supporting struggling learners through BalAVisX exercises
Creators: name: DeSchiffart, Susan
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Attention in children

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of a movement based program called BalAVisX in primary grades. The intent was to determine if this type of rhythmic movement provided an effective strategy to help support students with academics as well as focus and attention. In order to do this, I utilized a mixed methods research platform to answer: Is BalAVisX a valuable program to help improve our support for students with attention and academic challenges? The exercise program was set up for students in Kindergarten and Grade One who struggled with focus and attention. Over a three month period the students worked on sequential, rhythmic exercises, crossing the midline. After the three-month period, teachers, support staff, parents and students were invited to participate in a survey on their perception of the effectiveness of the exercises. The findings of the study supported that BalAVisX was a beneficial support program to increase academics and overall focus.
The VLT LEGA-C Spectroscopic Survey: The Physics of Galaxies at a Lookback Time of 7 Gyr
Creators: name: van der Wel, A.
name: Noeske, K.
name: Bezanson, R.
name: Pacifici, C.
name: Gallazzi, A.
name: Franx, M.
name: Munoz-Mateos, J. C.
name: Bell, E. F.
name: Brammer, G.
name: Charlot, S.
name: Chauke, P.
name: Labbe, I.
name: Maseda, M. V.
name: Muzzin, A.
name: Rix, H. -W.
name: Sobral, D.
name: van de Sande, J.
name: van Dokkum, P. G.
name: Wild, V.
name: Wolf, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Early Galaxy Census (LEGA-C) is a Public Spectroscopic Survey of $\sim3200$ $K$-band selected galaxies at redshifts $z=0.6-1.0$ with stellar masses M_star > 1e10M_sun, conducted with VIMOS on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The survey is embedded in the COSMOS field ($R.A. = 10h00$; $Dec.=+2°$). The 20-hour long integrations produce high-$S/N$ continuum spectra that reveal ages, metallicities and velocity dispersions of the stellar populations. LEGA-C's unique combination of sample size and depth will enable us for the first time to map the stellar content at large look-back time, across galaxies of different types and star-formation activity. Observations started in December 2014 and are planned to be completed by mid 2018, with early data releases of the spectra and value-added products. In this paper we present the science case, the observing strategy, an overview of the data reduction process and data products, and a first look at the relationship between galaxy structure and spectral properties, as it existed 7 Gyr ago.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJS - LEGA-C website: http://www.mpia.de/home/legac/index.html
Interferometry with Photon-Subtracted Thermal Light
Creators: name: Rafsanjani, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi
name: Mirhosseini, Mohammad
name: Magana-Loaiza, Omar S.
name: Gard, Bryan T.
name: Birrittella, Richard
name: Koltenbah, B. E.
name: Parazzoli, C. G.
name: Capron, Barbara A.
name: Gerry, Christopher C.
name: Dowling, Jonathan P.
name: Boyd, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and implement a quantum procedure for enhancing the sensitivity with which one can determine the phase shift experienced by a weak light beam possessing thermal statistics in passing through an interferometer. Our procedure entails subtracting exactly one (which can be generalized to m) photons from the light field exiting an interferometer containing a phase-shifting element in one of its arms. As a consequence of the process of photon subtraction, and somewhat surprisingly, the mean photon number and signal-to-noise ratio of the resulting light field are thereby increased, leading to enhanced interferometry. This method can be used to increase measurement sensitivity in a variety of practical applications, including that of forming the image of an object illuminated only by weak thermal light.
Scenario-Adaptive and Self-Supervised Model for Multi-Scenario Personalized Recommendation
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuanliang
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
name: Hu, Jinxin
name: Gao, Ke
name: Lei, Chenyi
name: Fang, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-scenario recommendation is dedicated to retrieve relevant items for users in multiple scenarios, which is ubiquitous in industrial recommendation systems. These scenarios enjoy portions of overlaps in users and items, while the distribution of different scenarios is different. The key point of multi-scenario modeling is to efficiently maximize the use of whole-scenario information and granularly generate adaptive representations both for users and items among multiple scenarios. we summarize three practical challenges which are not well solved for multi-scenario modeling: (1) Lacking of fine-grained and decoupled information transfer controls among multiple scenarios. (2) Insufficient exploitation of entire space samples. (3) Item's multi-scenario representation disentanglement problem. In this paper, we propose a Scenario-Adaptive and Self-Supervised (SASS) model to solve the three challenges mentioned above. Specifically, we design a Multi-Layer Scenario Adaptive Transfer (ML-SAT) module with scenario-adaptive gate units to select and fuse effective transfer information from whole scenario to individual scenario in a quite fine-grained and decoupled way. To sufficiently exploit the power of entire space samples, a two-stage training process including pre-training and fine-tune is introduced. The pre-training stage is based on a scenario-supervised contrastive learning task with the training samples drawn from labeled and unlabeled data spaces. The model is created symmetrically both in user side and item side, so that we can get distinguishing representations of items in different scenarios. Extensive experimental results on public and industrial datasets demonstrate the superiority of the SASS model over state-of-the-art methods. This model also achieves more than 8.0% improvement on Average Watching Time Per User in online A/B tests.
description: Accepted by CIKM 2022
Panaeolus antillarum Dennis, Kew Bull.
Creators: name: Melo, Roger Fagner Ribeiro
name: Chikowski, Renata Dos Santos
name: Miller, Andrew Nicholas
name: Maia, Leonor Costa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Bolbitiaceae
Panaeolus
Panaeolus antillarum

description: 12. Panaeolus antillarum (Fr.) Dennis, Kew Bull. 15(1): 124 (1961)
(Figure 6, g–l)
 Closed pileus subglobose to ovoid, white, smooth. Expanded pileus hemispheric to campanulate, 6–9 × 4–6 mm, white, pale gray to pale luteous, smooth to slightly scaly. Lamellae adnexed, white, with a conspicuous black punctation in mature basidiomata due to the non-simultaneous basidial maturation giving it a grayish coloration and a powdery texture to the naked eye. Lamellulae 0.2–0.4 mm thick, similar in morphology. Stipe central, cylindrical, slightly bulbous near the base, flat, 70–140 mm in height, 2–3 mm at the base, 1.2–1.5 mm wide close to the pileus, white, solid to strongly contorted. Ring absent. Volva absent. Pileipellis formed by a few globose to saccate cells, hyaline, smooth. Veil not observed in mature basidiomata. Cheilocystidia lageniform to utriform, 17.5–25 × 7.5–12.5 μm. Pleurocystidia chrysocystidioid, clavate to fusoid, occasionally slightly capitate, 22.5–50 × 7.5–12.5 μm, with a short stipe, usually with a golden to luteous refractive body. Clamps connections not observed. Basidia 4-spored, clavate, 27–32.5 × 12–20 μm, with sterigmata 7.5–8.5 μm in length. Basidiospores limoniform to subellipsoid, 15–20 × 7.5–10 μm, smooth, dark brown. Spore print violet to black.
 Material examined: — BRAZIL. Pernambuco, Instituto Agronômico de Pernambuco (IPA), Caruaru, on horse dung, 05 Dec 2011, R.F. R. Melo (URM86807!), 11 Apr 2012, R.F. R. Melo (URM86808!); on cattle dung, 06 Feb 2012, R.F. R. Melo (URM86809!); Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, on goat dung, 28 Nov 2012, R.F. R. Melo (URM86810!); on horse dung, 14 Jun 2012, R.F. R. Melo (URM86811 a!, 86811b!); on cattle dung, 03 Feb 2013, R.F. R. Melo (URM8612!).
 Distribution: —Worldwide.
 Notes: — Panaeolus antillarum is a common representative on herbivore dung, both collected in situ or on incubated dung, usually forming white or lightly colored mushrooms with campanullate pileus and dark basidiospores (Ola’h 1969). It differs from P. semiovatus (Sowerby) S. Lundell & Nannf. by the shape of the pileus, being more hemispherical, the absence of a ring and shape of pleurocystidia.
description: Published as part of Melo, Roger Fagner Ribeiro, Chikowski, Renata Dos Santos, Miller, Andrew Nicholas & Maia, Leonor Costa, 2016, Coprophilous Agaricales (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) from Brazil, pp. 1-14 in Phytotaxa 266 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.266.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13660196
Measuring nonequilibrium retarded spin-spin Green's functions in an ion-trap based quantum simulator
Creators: name: Yoshimura, Bryce T.
name: Freericks, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work proposed a variant on Ramsey interferometry for coupled spin-$1/2$ systems that directly measures the retarded spin-spin Green's function. We expand on that work by investigating nonequilibrium retarded spin-spin Green's functions within the transverse-field Ising model. We derive the lowest four spectral moments to understand the short-time behavior and we employ a Lehmann-like representation to determine the spectral behavior. We simulate a Ramsey protocol for a nonequilibrium quantum spin system that consists of a coherent superposition of the ground state and diabatically excited higher-energy states via a temporally ramped transverse magnetic field. We then apply the Ramsey spectroscopy protocol to the final Hamiltonian, which has a constant transverse field. The short-time behavior directly relates to Lieb-Robinson bounds for the transport of many-body correlations, while the long-time behavior relates to the excitation spectra of the Hamiltonian. Compressive sensing is employed in the data analysis to efficiently extract that spectra.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, typeset with ReVTeX
Reconciling the ionic and covalent pictures in rare-earth nickelates
Creators: name: Varignon, Julien
name: Grisolia, Mathieu N.
name: Íñiguez, Jorge
name: Barthélémy, Agnès
name: Bibes, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of AMO3 perovskite oxides, where M is a 3d transition metal, depend strongly on the level of covalency between the metal d and oxygen p orbitals. With their complex spin orders and metal-insulator transition, rare-earth nickelates verge between dominantly ionic and covalent characters. Accordingly, the nature of their ground state is highly debated. Here, we reconcile the ionic and covalent visions of the insulating state of nickelates. Through first-principles calculations, we show that it is reminiscent of the ionic charge disproportionation picture (with strictly low-spin 4+ and high-spin 2+ Ni sites) while exhibiting strong covalence effects with oxygen electrons shifted toward the depleted Ni cations, mimicking a configuration with identical Ni sites. Our results further hint at strategies to control electronic and magnetic phases of transition metal oxide perovskites.
Nutrition status and repletion in aged care
Creators: name: Savige., Gayle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Parent-teacher collaboration: sharing knowledge to support a child's literacy development
Creators: name: Dewarle, Jessica
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Literacy

description: This qualitative study explores parent-teacher collaboration by examining the understandings and practices of parents and teachers, which contribute to the literacy development of children. Semistructured interviews with parents and school personnel were used to explore the study questions: 1. How are parents involved in their child’s literacy development? 2. How do teachers support parents, and parents support teachers, in creating meaningful and engaging literacy opportunities for a child? 3. How are parents involved in the school’s collaborative process of offering additional help to a child? Findings indicate that parents are unintentionally involved in various literacy activities with their children at home; however, parents place greater value on the literacy activities that come from the school than the literacy activities that naturally occur in the home. Teachers could support parents by recommending adjustments to everyday home activities to foster a child’s literacy development. Parents tend to view advocacy as being unsupportive of the school or teacher, and do not wish to communicate ideas the teacher may view negatively. The culture of school continues to reinforce this view, and traditional schooling does not offer parents a place to advocate for their child. This study suggests that the school could empower parents in meeting the needs of a child through a family literacy initiative, and by creating a space for a parent to advocate for their child.
Multi-bunch Feedback Systems
Creators: name: Lonza, M.
name: Schmickler, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coupled-bunch instabilities excited by the interaction of the particle beam with its surroundings can seriously limit the performance of circular particle accelerators. These instabilities can be cured by the use of active feedback systems based on sensors capable of detecting the unwanted beam motion and actuators that apply the feedback correction to the beam. Advances in electronic technology now allow the implementation of feedback loops using programmable digital systems. Besides important advantages in terms of flexibility and reproducibility, digital systems open the way to the use of novel diagnostic tools and additional features. We first introduce coupled-bunch instabilities, analysing the equation of motion of charged particles and the different modes of oscillation of a multi-bunch beam, showing how they can be observed and measured. Different types of feedback systems will then be presented as examples of real implementations that belong to the history of multi-bunch feedback systems. The main components of a feedback system and the related issues will also be analysed. Finally, we shall focus on digital feedback systems, their characteristics, and features, as well as on how they can be concretely exploited for both the optimization of feedback performance and for beam dynamics studies.
description: 44 pages, contribution to the CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Advanced Accelerator Physics Course, Trondheim, Norway, 18-29 Aug 2013
title: “Together is better.” a workshop for immigrant parents to support effective parent-teacher communication
Creators: name: Amaya, Emilia
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Immigrant families

description: This project is a workshop that contains knowledge about special education and activities to develop skills to improve in a positive way the relationship between immigrant parents and teachers in the special education field. Culture and the special education system are factors to take into consideration when creating a relationship between immigrant parents and teachers. This project helps to provide immigrant parents with tools such as knowledge of concepts like: inclusion, roles and responsibilities within special education, assessments and IEPs. At the same time, this project is intended to create a safe and friendly environment to facilitate and practice effective communication skills with the purpose of building positive pedagogical partnerships.
Towards Sustainable Cities: Utilizing Floating Car Data to Support Location-Based Road Network Performance Measurements
Creators: name: Braun, Maximilian
name: Kunkler, Jan
name: Kellner, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: URBAN TRAFFIC CONGESTION; ROUTE CHOICE BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL; RELIABILITY; INDICATORS; EMISSIONS; TRANSPORTATION; FRAMEWORK; IMPACTS; COPERT; road network performance; urban sustainability; economic sustainability; traffic congestion; data collection methods; navigation services
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Road network performance (RNP) is a key element for urban sustainability as it has a significant impact on economy, environment, and society. Poor RNP can lead to traffic congestion, which can lead to higher transportation costs, more pollution and health issues regarding the urban population. To evaluate the effects of the RNP, the involved stakeholders need a real-world data base to work with. This paper develops a data collection approach to enable location-based RNP analysis using publicly available traffic information. Therefore, we use reachable range requests implemented by navigation service providers to retrieve travel times, travel speeds, and traffic conditions. To demonstrate the practicability of the proposed methodology, a comparison of four German cities is made, considering the network characteristics with respect to detours, infrastructure, and traffic congestion. The results are combined with cost rates to compare the economical dimension of sustainability of the chosen cities. Our results show that digitization eases the assessment of traffic data and that a combination of several indicators must be considered depending on the relevant sustainability dimension decisions are made from.
Extrapolation of Turbulence Intensity Scaling to $Re_τ \gg 10^5$
Creators: name: Basse, Nils T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have characterized a transition of turbulence intensity (TI) scaling for friction Reynolds numbers $Re_τ \sim 10^4$ in the companion papers [Basse, N.T. Scaling of global properties of fluctuating and mean streamwise velocities in pipe flow: Characterization of a high Reynolds number transition region, Physics of Fluids, Volume 33, 065127 (2021)] and [Basse, N.T. Scaling of global properties of fluctuating streamwise velocities in pipe flow: Impact of the viscous term, Physics of Fluids, Volume 33, 125109 (2021)]. Here, we build on those results to extrapolate TI scaling for $Re_τ \gg 10^5$, under the assumption that no further transitions exist. Scaling of the core, area-averaged and global peak TI demonstrates that they all scale inversely with the logarithm of $Re_τ$, but with different multipliers. Finally, we confirm the prediction that the TI squared is proportional to the friction factor for $Re_τ \gg 10^5$.
A new model for the X-ray continuum of the magnetized accreting pulsars
Creators: name: Farinelli, R.
name: Ferrigno, C.
name: Bozzo, E.
name: Becker, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accreting highly magnetized pulsars in binary systems are among the brightest X-ray emitters in our Galaxy. Although a number of high statistical quality broad-band (0.1-100 keV) X-ray observations are available, the spectral energy distribution of these sources is usually investigated by adopting pure phenomenological models, rather than models linked to the physics of accretion. In this paper, a detailed spectral study of the X-ray emission recorded from the high-mass X-ray binary pulsars Cen X-3, 4U 0115+63, and Her X-1 is carried out by using BeppoSAX and joined Suzaku+NuStar data, together with an advanced version of the compmag model. The latter provides a physical description of the high energy emission from accreting pulsars, including the thermal and bulk Comptonization of cyclotron and bremsstrahlung seed photons along the neutron star accretion column. The compmag model is based on an iterative method for solving second-order partial differential equations, whose convergence algorithm has been improved and consolidated during the preparation of this paper. Our analysis shows that the broad-band X-ray continuum of all considered sources can be self-consistently described by the compmag model. The cyclotron absorption features, not included in the model, can be accounted for by using Gaussian components. From the fits of the compmag model to the data we inferred the physical properties of the accretion columns in all sources, finding values reasonably close to those theoretically expected according to our current understanding of accretion in highly magnetized neutron stars. The updated version of the compmag model has been tailored to the physical processes that are known to occur in the columns of highly magnetized accreting neutron stars and it can thus provide a better understanding of the high energy radiation from these sources.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
title: Improving student health with nutrition
Creators: name: Shaw, Linden
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nutrition

description: This project investigated how to improve student health using nutritional protocols based on recent research findings. By avoiding foods that trigger inflammatory responses in the microbiome and including foods that provide support for mitochondrial functioning, students are able to achieve improved mental and physical functioning. Based on peer reviewed research, a website was developed to educate parents and educators about the mind-gut connection and to provide a variety of strategies that can be used to help improve student health.
title: Canadian educators’ preparedness in addressing mental health needs of secondary students
Creators: name: Nagra, Manjeet K.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Child mental health

description: An anonymous paper based survey was used to collect qualitative and quantitative data on a sample of teachers and special education assistants in an urban secondary school in British Columbia. The aim of this study was to investigate educators’ level of skills and knowledge to deal with student mental health issues. The results of the survey indicate that although the teachers acknowledge the importance of addressing mental health needs of their students, they also request greater access to resources, skill development, and information about mental health. They reported a global lack of training and knowledge to access various supports available within the school and the community. The survey revealed that most of them relied on school counsellors in most aspects of mental health service delivery, such as screening and behavioural assessments, monitoring student progress, and referring students to other services in the community. Most of the participants reported to have minimal training during their pre-service teacher education program and attempted to learn a majority about mental health through experiences of dealing with situations and some professional development. Major barriers to effective student mental health delivery that were identified included lack of time, resources, and knowledge about what is available both within and outside the school. A majority of the participants called for more professional development opportunities about mental health issues in students. They also insisted on more involvement from the administration at the school. Implications of the findings are discussed.
The Atmosphere of Pluto as Observed by New Horizons
Creators: name: Gladstone, G. Randall
name: Stern, S. Alan
name: Ennico, Kimberly
name: Olkin, Catherine B.
name: Weaver, Harold A.
name: Young, Leslie A.
name: Summers, Michael E.
name: Strobel, Darrell F.
name: Hinson, David P.
name: Kammer, Joshua A.
name: Parker, Alex H.
name: Steffl, Andrew J.
name: Linscott, Ivan R.
name: Parker, Joel Wm.
name: Cheng, Andrew F.
name: Slater, David C.
name: Versteeg, Maarten H.
name: Greathouse, Thomas K.
name: Retherford, Kurt D.
name: Throop, Henry
name: Cunningham, Nathaniel J.
name: Woods, William W.
name: Singer, Kelsi N.
name: Tsang, Constantine C. C.
name: Schindhelm, Rebecca
name: Lisse, Carey M.
name: Wong, Michael L.
name: Yung, Yuk L.
name: Zhu, Xun
name: Curdt, Werner
name: Lavvas, Panayotis
name: Young, Eliot F.
name: Tyler, G. Leonard
name: Team, the New Horizons Science
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations made during the New Horizons flyby provide a detailed snapshot of the current state of Pluto's atmosphere. While the lower atmosphere (at altitudes <200 km) is consistent with ground-based stellar occultations, the upper atmosphere is much colder and more compact than indicated by pre-encounter models. Molecular nitrogen (N$_2$) dominates the atmosphere (at altitudes <1800 km or so), while methane (CH$_4$), acetylene (C$_2$H$_2$), ethylene (C$_2$H$_4$), and ethane (C$_2$H$_6$) are abundant minor species, and likely feed the production of an extensive haze which encompasses Pluto. The cold upper atmosphere shuts off the anticipated enhanced-Jeans, hydrodynamic-like escape of Pluto's atmosphere to space. It is unclear whether the current state of Pluto's atmosphere is representative of its average state--over seasonal or geologic time scales.
description: in Science 351, aad8866 (2016)
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure
Creators: name: White, Eric M.
name: Winder, Samantha G.
name: Wood, Spencer A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Natural disturbances such as wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency. Although the ecological impacts of disturbance are well documented, we have limited understanding of how disturbances and associated management responses influence recreation use patterns. This reflects, in part, difficulty in quantifying recreation use across different land ownerships with inconsistent, or non-existent, recreation monitoring practices. In this study, we use visitation models based on social media to examine how recreation use changed after a wildfire and site closures in a large, mixed-ownership landscape. We find that wildfire and associated closures resulted in visitation loss to the recreation system as a whole and little site-to-site displacement within the system in the two years following the wildfire. Our study highlights the importance, when considering how wildfire and management may alter recreation use patterns, of considering the many factors that influence substitution behavior, including the relative locations of visitor origins, disturbances, and substitute sites.
title: Struggling readers in Saskatoon French immersion schools: a mixed methods study examining strategies for support
Creators: name: McKeague, Caileen
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Reading

description: The purpose of this study was to find out the most effective methods and strategies to teach reading in Saskatoon French immersion schools and to learn how to implement them myself. In order to do this, I used a descriptive survey and followed the survey through action research. I surveyed my Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools colleagues about what their preferred strategies were for successfully teaching reading. From the responses, I pulled two of the most popular strategies and learned more about them. The two strategies were phonological awareness instruction and direct decoding instruction. I then implemented these strategies in a class of 25 grade one French immersion students, while doing action research. I used each strategy to teach reading for the duration of three weeks, and did pre-tests and post-tests for each. During the implementation, I kept field notes and a researcher journal in order to document my journey and my findings. My findings show that phonological awareness instruction is a very effective strategy for supporting students who are struggling read, and direct decoding instruction is also effective. They as well show that students who are struggling to read can be supported in the classroom in a Tier 1 setting.
No Existence and Smoothness of Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equation
Creators: name: Dou, Hua-Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Navier-Stokes equation can be written in a form of Poisson equation. For laminar flow in a channel (plane Poiseuille flow), the Navier-Stokes equation has a non-zero source term and a non-zero solution within the domain. For transitional flow, the velocity profile is distorted, and an inflection point or kink appears on the velocity profile, at a sufficiently high Reynolds number and large disturbance. In the vicinity of the inflection point or kink on the distorted velocity profile, we can always find a point where the source term is zero. At this point, the Poisson equation is singular, due to the zero source term, and has no solution at this point due to singularity. It is concluded that there exists no smooth and physically reasonable solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation for transitional flow and turbulence in the global domain due to singularity.
description: 12 pages; 5 figures
Towards Sustainable Cities: Utilizing Floating Car Data to Support Location-Based Road Network Performance Measurements
Creators: name: Braun, Maximilian
name: Kunkler, Jan
name: Kellner, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: URBAN TRAFFIC CONGESTION; ROUTE CHOICE BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL; RELIABILITY; INDICATORS; EMISSIONS; TRANSPORTATION; FRAMEWORK; IMPACTS; COPERT; road network performance; urban sustainability; economic sustainability; traffic congestion; data collection methods; navigation services
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Road network performance (RNP) is a key element for urban sustainability as it has a significant impact on economy, environment, and society. Poor RNP can lead to traffic congestion, which can lead to higher transportation costs, more pollution and health issues regarding the urban population. To evaluate the effects of the RNP, the involved stakeholders need a real-world data base to work with. This paper develops a data collection approach to enable location-based RNP analysis using publicly available traffic information. Therefore, we use reachable range requests implemented by navigation service providers to retrieve travel times, travel speeds, and traffic conditions. To demonstrate the practicability of the proposed methodology, a comparison of four German cities is made, considering the network characteristics with respect to detours, infrastructure, and traffic congestion. The results are combined with cost rates to compare the economical dimension of sustainability of the chosen cities. Our results show that digitization eases the assessment of traffic data and that a combination of several indicators must be considered depending on the relevant sustainability dimension decisions are made from.
description: early access version
title: A case for psychoeducational assessments for students in ABE upgrading: a policy brief
Creators: name: Browning, Donna
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Elementary education of adults

description: This project cumulates into a policy brief which provides recommendations for changes to the policy involving psychoeducational assessment for students with learning disabilities enrolled in Adult Basic Upgrading (ABE). As much as 25% of students enrolled in ABE programs have a documented disability and many more are suspected. This project provides a review of the literature outlining the implications of education on societal and individual functioning as well as its significance in supporting inclusion and social justice practices. The writer was further informed through examining government documentation and websites, e-mail communication with two international initiations, an interview with a former department head of a disability service center, meetings with members of the provincial articulation subcommittee and attendance at meetings involving educators and support staff of ABE students. This project is intended to promote awareness of the inequality created by current policies around academic accommodations for students with learning disabilities and provide justification for policy reform.
Optical excitation and detection of high-frequency coherent phonons and magnons
Creators: name: Kobecki, Michal
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Photons
subject: Magnons
subject: Miniaturization
subject: Pump probe technique
subject: 530
subject: Phonon
subject: Magnon
subject: Pump-Probe-Technik
subject: Miniaturisierung

description: The goal of this work is to obtain better control over all-optical excitation and detection of high-frequency collective excitations, in particular - phonons and magnons. Phonons- a collective movement of atoms in the lattice, and magnons- excitations of a spin system in magnetically ordered materials, recently became the prospective alternative to electrons in quantum computing or in general, information technology. In the scope of this thesis, we present a novel approach to the resonant excitation of fundamental magnon mode in a thin ferromagnetic film of Iron-Gallium alloy, as well as enhanced detection sensitivity of propagating coherent phonon wave packet exploiting giant photo-elasticity of exciton-polaritons in GaAs/AlAs superlattice. Additionally, a possible way to miniaturize the all-optical set-ups for manipulation of collective excitations is proposed by implementing a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser diode.
title: Journey towards inclusion: a reflective exploration of changing teacher practice and identity
Creators: name: Aspell, Lenore
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Inclusive education

description: Teachers today face many challenges. They are required to teach greater numbers of students with diverse learning needs, to implement redesigned curriculum, and to engage in ongoing professional learning. This study explored the research question: Through a self-study of changing teaching practice to support inclusion, how can I better know, understand, and transform myself and my role as a secondary classroom teacher? Using self-study methodology, I reflectively explored in my journals and in conversations with a critical friend my experiences of using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) informed by Aboriginal perspectives to create units, and to try out inclusive learning approaches in my Grades 8 and 9 social studies classes. Themes which emerged from the coding and analysis of the research data were teaching to diversity, planning for instruction, and inclusive instructional approaches. My efforts to create an inclusive classroom where all learners could experience school success changed the way I planned, the types of instructional strategies I used, and how I perceived my teaching role. Changing my practice also transformed my beliefs about learning and attitude towards inclusion and led to increased self-efficacy and job satisfaction. One of the study’s conclusions is that to successfully meet the challenges of education today, teachers must be change agents, have a strong sense of self-efficacy, and be open to shifts in their role and sense of identity.