cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Improving secondary literacy supports through collaborative inquiry and action
Creators: name: Ylagan, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Literacy

description: Proficient literacy skills have been correlated with not only academic achievement, but also with career outcomes and quality of life expectations. There is concern about the literacy skills of adolescents and young adults leaving high school. Response to Intervention (RtI) is one way school districts are choosing to address the literacy needs of their students, and although there is ample literature pertaining to the use of RtI as a system to support literacy at the elementary level, there is a need to examine the application of RtI at the secondary level. Collaborative Action Research (CAR) was utilized to explore the research question: How can we improve our literacy supports at the secondary level through the use of a whole-school Response to Intervention model? I, the researcher, and four participants from the participating school met for three collaborative action cycles to discuss chosen literacy support implementations within the context of a newly adopted schoolwide RtI system. Data was collected from pre- and postresearch questionnaires and the transcripts of the three collaborative action cycle meetings. The three emerging themes of time, resources, and collaboration were then analyzed using the Zone of Mediation framework to assess the forces at play in the equity-focused RtI system. Participants found collaborating beneficial and cited increased confidence and knowledge in providing literacy supports within an RtI system. Participants also noted their practice was positively impacted with instruction being more intentional, explicit, and accessible. Suggestions for the participating school and recommendations for further research are offered based on the analysis of the interpreted data and experienced collaboration.
Electrical Writing of Magnetic and Resistive Multistates in CoFe Films Deposited onto Pb[Zr$_x$Ti$_{1-x}$]O$_3$
Creators: name: Iurchuk, V.
name: Doudin, B.
name: Bran, J.
name: Kundys, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric control of magnetic properties is an important challenge for modern magnetism and spintronic development. In particular, an ability to write magnetic state electrically would be highly beneficial. Among other methods, the use of electric field induced deformation of piezoelectric elements is a promising low-energy approach for magnetization control. We investigate the system of piezoelectric substrate Pb[Zr$_x$Ti$_{1-x}$]O$_3$ with CoFe overlayers, extending the known reversible bistable electro-magnetic coupling to surface and multistate operations, adding the initial state reset possibility. Increasing the CoFe thickness improves the magnetoresistive sensitivity, but at the expenses of decreasing the strain-mediated coupling, with optimum magnetic thin film thickness of the order of 100 nm. The simplest resistance strain gauge structure is realized and discussed as a multistate memory cell demonstrating both resistive memory (RRAM) and magnetoresistive memory (MRAM) functionalities in a single structure.
description: 20th International Conference on Magnetism, ICM 2015, 11 pages, 7 figures
Role of arginine vasopressin in mediating ACTH release from the ovine anterior pituitary
Creators: name: Shen., Pei-juan
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: The EU’s engagement in the G20: how to deal with global power shifts
Creators: name: Dang, Vy
name: Grimm, Sven
name: Reiners, Wulf
Publisher: name: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Year: 2024

description: The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)
Role of Ni, Si and P on the formation of solute-rich clusters under irradiation in Fe-Cr alloys
Creators: name: Gueye, P. M.
name: Gómez-Ferrer, B.
name: Kaden, C.
name: Pareige, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After irradiation of Fe-Cr alloys of low purity (model alloys of F-M steels), minor solute elements as P, Ni and Si have been shown to create solute clusters which significantly contribute to hardening and might be associated with small dislocation loops. In order to understand the role of each impurity on the formation of the nano-features formed under irradiation and the eventual synergies between the different species, Fe-15at.%Cr-X (X=Si, Ni, P, NiSiP) alloys of different composition have been ion irradiated and characterized using atom probe tomography. Irradiation were performed at 300 {\textdegree}C up to 2.5 dpa in four alloys: Fe15CrNi, Fe15CrSi, Fe15CrP and Fe15CrNiSiP. Influence of C atoms implanted during irradiation on the nanostructure evolution is also discussed. The study of the evolution of the nanofeatures formed under irradiation with the dose as a function of the composition highlights the role of P and C on the formation of the nano-clusters and confirm the radiation-induced nature of solute-rich clusters.
Building a GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics Test Bench
Creators: name: Consortium, The Gravity Plus
name: Millour, Florentin
name: Berio, Philippe
name: Lagarde, Stéphane
name: Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie
name: Gouvret, Carole
name: Lai, Olivier
name: Allouche, Fatmé
name: Bailet, Christophe
name: Boebion, Olivier
name: Carbillet, Marcel
name: Marcotto, Aurélie
name: Spang, Alain
name: Girard, Paul
name: Mauclert, Nicolas
name: Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste Le
name: Paumard, Thibaut
name: Soulez, Ferréol
name: Woillez, Julien
name: More, Nikhil
name: Eisenhauer, Frank
name: Straubmeier, Christian
name: Kreidberg, Laura
name: Garcia, Paulo J. V.
name: Hoenig, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the testbench aimed at integrating the GRAVITY+ adaptive optics GPAO. It consists of two independent elements, one reproducing the Coud{é} focus of the telescope, including the telescope deformable mirror mount (with its surface facing down), and one reproducing the Coud{é} room opto-mechanical environment, including a downwards-propagating beam, and the telescope mechanical interfaces in order to fit in the new GPAO wavefront sensor. We discuss in this paper the design of this bench and the solutions we adopted to keep the cost low, keep the design compact (allowing it to be fully contained in a 20 sqm clean room), and align the bench independently from the adaptive optics. We also discuss the features we have set in this bench.
Charge Puddles in Graphene Near the Dirac Point
Creators: name: Samaddar, S.
name: Yudhistira, I.
name: Adam, S.
name: Courtois, H.
name: Winkelmann, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge carrier density in graphene on a dielectric substrate such as SiO$_2$ displays inhomogeneities, the so-called charge puddles. Because of the linear dispersion relation in monolayer graphene, the puddles are predicted to grow near charge neutrality, a markedly distinct property from conventional two-dimensional electron gases. By performing scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy on a mesoscopic graphene device, we directly observe the puddles' growth, both in spatial extent and in amplitude, as the Dirac point is approached. Self-consistent screening theory provides a unified description of both the macroscopic transport properties and the microscopically observed charge disorder.
Factoring differential operators over algebraic curves in positive characteristic
Creators: name: Pagès, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an algorithm for factoring linear differential operators with coefficients in a finite separable extension of F p (x). Our methods rely on specific tools arising in positive characteristic: p-curvature, structure of simple central algebras and p-Riccati equations.
title: Introduction to: The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership
Creators: name: Hackenesch, Christine
name: Keijzer, Niels
name: Koch, Svea
Publisher: name: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
publisherIdentifier: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261267915
publisherIdentifierScheme: GND
Year: 2024

description: The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)
title: It only takes one match to light a fire and one voice to create change
Creators: name: Bennet, Justin
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Problem children--Education

description: Alternate school programs support students who have not been successful in traditional schools. It is important to understand the qualities and components of these programs that foster success of these students. This study uses a narrative inquiry methodology to inquire into the experiences of students who are enrolled in an alternate learning program. It investigates the research question, “What are student experiences of alternate learning programs, with attention to those that foster and limit engagement?” The data was collected through semi structured interviews guided by questions on alternate learning programs, extracurricular activities, student voice, and school connection. The interviews were then transcribed and coded in order to create a variety of different themes. These themes were then used to make and design four different stories that touched on the four main elements of this study. Efforts were made to have the stories paint a picture in the minds of readers using a variety of different perspectives and writing styles. Some of the key themes are effectiveness of alternate programs at helping at risk youth, the use of extracurricular activities and student voice to reduce feelings of anxiety or negative self-worth, and the overarching idea that school connection is of utmost importance when creating a healthy and positive environment for students. The use of student voices in this study and the stories that came from the research has a goal of informing and guiding educators in their understanding and future development of alternate programs.
title: The EU and the Sustainable Development Goals: three options for a post-2030 framework
Creators: name: Sumner, Andy
name: Klingebiel, Stephan
Publisher: name: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
publisherIdentifier: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1261267915
publisherIdentifierScheme: GND
Year: 2024

description: The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)
Measurement of the $\vec{n}p \to dπ^0π^0$ Reaction with Polarized Beam in the Region of the $d^*(2380)$ Resonance
Creators: name: Adlarson, P.
name: Augustyniak, W.
name: Bardan, W.
name: Bashkanov, M.
name: Bergmann, F. S.
name: Berłowski, M.
name: Bhatt, H.
name: Bondar, A.
name: Büscher, M.
name: Calen, H.
name: Ciepał, I.
name: Clement, H.
name: Czerwiński, E.
name: Demmich, K.
name: Engels, R.
name: Erven, A.
name: Erven, W.
name: Eyrich, W.
name: Fedorets, P.
name: Föhl, K.
name: Fransson, K.
name: Goldenbaum, F.
name: Goswami, A.
name: Grigoryev, K.
name: Gullström, C. -O.
name: Heijkenskjöld, L.
name: Hejny, V.
name: Hüsken, N.
name: Jarczyk, L.
name: Johansson, T.
name: Kamys, B.
name: Kemmerling, G.
name: Khan, F. A.
name: Khatri, G.
name: Khoukaz, A.
name: Kirillov, D. A.
name: Kistryn, S.
name: Kleines, H.
name: Kłos, B.
name: Krzemień, W.
name: Kulessa, P.
name: Kupść, A.
name: Kuzmin, A.
name: Lawani, K.
name: Lersch, D.
name: Lorentz, B.
name: Magiera, A.
name: Maier, R.
name: Marciniewski, . P.
name: Mariański, B.
name: Morsch, H. -P.
name: Moskal, P.
name: Ohm, H.
name: del Rio, E. Perez
name: Piskunov, N. M.
name: Prashun, D.
name: Pszczel, D.
name: Pysz, K.
name: Pyszniak, A.
name: Ritman, J.
name: Roy, A.
name: Rudy, Z.
name: Rundel, O.
name: Sawant, S.
name: Schadmand, S.
name: Schätti--Ozerianska, I.
name: Sefzick, T.
name: Serdyuk, V.
name: Shwartz, B.
name: Sitterberg, K.
name: Siudak, R.
name: Skorodko, T.
name: Skurzok, M.
name: Smyrski, J.
name: Sopov, V.
name: Stassen, R.
name: Stepaniak, J.
name: Stephan, E.
name: Sterzenbach, G.
name: Stockhorst, H.
name: Ströher, H.
name: Szczurek, A.
name: Täschner, A.
name: Trzciński, A.
name: Varma, R.
name: Wolke, M.
name: Wrońska, A.
name: Wüstner, P.
name: Zabierowski, J.
name: Zieliński, M. J.
name: Zink, A.
name: Złomańczuk, J.
name: Żuprański, P.
name: Żurek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a high-statistics measurement of the most basic double pionic fusion reaction $\vec{n}p \to dπ^0π^0$ over the energy region of the $d^*(2380)$ resonance by use of a polarized deuteron beam and observing the double fusion reaction in the quasifree scattering mode. The measurements were performed with the WASA detector setup at COSY. The data reveal substantial analyzing powers and confirm conclusions about the $d^*$ resonance obtained from unpolarized measurements. We also confirm the previous unpolarized data obtained under complementary kinematic conditions.
title: A workshop for iPads as assistive technology to aid implementation for teachers
Creators: name: Gaber, Amanda
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Self-help devices for people with disabilities

description: This purpose of this project was to begin to fill the gaps in the basic education of teachers when it comes to the lack of awareness of assistive technology. For this project there is a focus on the basic use of iPads and the built-in accessibility features they contain. Through this project teachers will be able to explore the main use of iPads and diving deeper into the use of the accessibility features for students with different specific learning differences. Within the workshop, teachers who are well focused will gain valuable hands-on professional development that they will then be able to take back to their classrooms and schools.
title: Special education through the lens of a/r/tography: an exploration of developing identity
Creators: name: Silver, Andrea L.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Identity (Philosophical concept)

description: Teacher education programs have focused primarily on specific curriculum, content delivery and assessment strategies. Relatively little time has been spent on either inclusive practices or on teacher identity development. Identity development is often left to an individual teacher to investigate at the point in their career when they determine it is personally relevant either through professional development or further education. In this paper I use an a/r/tographical methodology to evaluate, destabilize, re-imagine my identities (artist/researcher/teacher) as an inclusive educator. Using self-portraiture, a visual research journal, art projects based on Ministry of Education Designations and a series of narrative explorations I examine my biases and expectations, both for myself and my students. Using the lenses of artist, researcher, and teacher I re-examine my practice as an inclusive educator, discarding assumptions, experiences and theories that I have internalized but that do not support inclusion. The practice of a/r/tography has allowed me to integrate my multiple roles and intentionally build inclusion into the core of all of them in order to continue becoming inclusive throughout my career as an educator.
title: Adapted outdoor education
Creators: name: Robb, Jessica
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Outdoor education

description: This research was done in preparation for the creation of a teacher’s guidebook to aid teachers in developing an inclusive outdoor education program. The purpose of the guidebook is to provide information about outdoor education, skills that can be developed and activities to engage all students in outdoor education. It is the creator’s intent that the guidebook be used to support a teacher’s understanding and instruction of outdoor education for their classrooms, inclusive of students with exceptionalities. The areas addressed in the guidebook are: Cognitive Development, Physical Development and Social-Emotional Development.
title: Explorations into narrative assessment and Indigenous ways of knowing
Creators: name: Midgley, Melanie
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Special education

description: Using an Indigenous research methodology, this research examines how educators in British Columbia use narrative assessment as a more inclusive, strength-based approach to assess learners and intends to uncover teacher perceptions on the connections between narrative assessment and the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning / Indigenous ways of knowing. As a self-identified Métis researcher, my intention is that this study will contribute to a growing body of research that is framed using an Indigenous methodology and recognizes the significance of co-creating knowledge through reciprocal relationships. This research utilized collaborative methods with educators sharing alongside a Kwakwaka’wakw Elder in the form of a ‘talking circle.’ Qualitative data was collected on participant perceptions of their personal experiences using narrative assessment in the classroom and its connection to Indigenous ways of knowing. The main themes that emerged from the data were: Responsibility and Action, Relevance and Well-being, Reciprocity and Being-together, and Respect and Stories. While each distinct, these four themes are interconnected and represent the relational nature of Indigenous knowledge which includes community, family, students, and self at its core. Central findings of this study suggested that a narrative assessment approach enables educators to shift their practice toward a more inclusive and joyful process which invites reciprocity, relationship building, and co-learning opportunities.
Quark mass effects in double parton distributions
Creators: name: Diehl, Markus
name: Nagar, Riccardo
name: Ploessl, Peter Josef
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: mass, effect
quark, mass
parton, distribution function
parton, splitting
higher-order, 1
higher-order, 0
strong coupling
structure

description: doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2022-07409
description: Double parton distributions can be computed from the perturbative splitting of one parton into two if the distance between the two observed partons is small. We develop schemes to take into account quark mass effects in this computation, and we study these schemes numerically at leading order in the strong coupling. Furthermore, we investigate in detail the structure of the next-to-leading order corrections to the splitting kernels that include quark mass effects.
Matching Theory-based Recommender Systems in Online Dating
Creators: name: Tomita, Yoji
name: Togashi, Riku
name: Moriwaki, Daisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online dating platforms provide people with the opportunity to find a partner. Recommender systems in online dating platforms suggest one side of users to the other side of users. We discuss the potential interactions between reciprocal recommender systems (RRSs) and matching theory. We present our ongoing project to deploy a matching theory-based recommender system (MTRS) in a real-world online dating platform.
description: Accepted as RecSys'22 Industrial Talk Poster
Efficient Data-Driven Network Functions
Creators: name: Yao, Zhiyuan
name: Desmouceaux, Yoann
name: Cordero-Fuertes, Juan-Antonio
name: Townsley, Mark
name: Clausen, Thomas Heide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cloud environments require dynamic and adaptive networking policies. It is preferred to use heuristics over advanced learning algorithms in Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in production becuase of high-performance constraints. This paper proposes Aquarius to passively yet efficiently gather observations and enable the use of machine learning to collect, infer, and supply accurate networking state information-without incurring additional signalling and management overhead. This paper illustrates the use of Aquarius with a traffic classifier, an autoscaling system, and a load balancer-and demonstrates the use of three different machine learning paradigms-unsupervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning, within Aquarius, for inferring network state. Testbed evaluations show that Aquarius increases network state visibility and brings notable performance gains with low overhead.
Open Access infraštruktúra (materiály z kurzu)
Creators: name: Jamborová, Ľubica
name: Mucha, Rastislav
name: Stožická, Zuzana
name: Sofianos, Silvia
name: Dobbersteinová, Jitka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: otvorená infraštruktúra
otvorené dáta
Fair dáta
otvorené vzdelávacie zdroje
kurátorstvo digitálnych dát

description: Prezentácie, učebnica a ďalšie odkazy z kurzu Open Access infraštruktúra (modul 2).
Relativistic calculations of quasi-one-electron atoms and ions using Laguerre and Slater spinors
Creators: name: Jiang, Jun
name: Mitroy, J.
name: Cheng, Yongjun
name: Bromley, Michael W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A relativistic description of the structure of heavy alkali atoms and alkali-like ions using S-spinors and L-spinors has been developed. The core wavefunction is defined by a Dirac-Fock calculation using an S-spinors basis. The S-spinor basis is then supplemented by a large set of L-spinors for the calculation of the valence wavefunction in a frozen-core model. The numerical stability of the L-spinor approach is demonstrated by computing the energies and decay rates of several low-lying hydrogen eigenstates, along with the polarizabilities of a $Z=60$ hydrogenic ion. The approach is then applied to calculate the dynamic polarizabilities of the $5s$, $4d$ and $5p$ states of Sr$^+$. The magic wavelengths at which the Stark shifts between different pairs of transitions are zero are computed. Determination of the magic wavelengths for the $5s \to 4d_{\frac32}$ and $5s \to 4d_{\frac52}$ transitions near $417$~nm (near the wavelength for the $5s \to 5p_j$ transitions) would allow a determination of the oscillator strength ratio for the $5s \to 5p_{\frac12}$ and $5s \to 5p_{\frac32}$ transitions.
description: 2 figures, 23 pages
Out-of-equilibrium optomechanical resonance self-excitation
Creators: name: Milde, P.
name: Langenhorst, M.
name: Hölscher, H.
name: Rottmann-Matthes, J.
name: Hundertmark, D.
name: Eng, L. M.
name: Hoffmann-Vogel, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fundamental sensitivity limit of atomic force microscopy is strongly correlated to the thermal noise of the cantilever oscillation. A method to suppress this unwanted noise is to reduce the bandwidth of the measurement, but this approach is limited by the speed of the measurement and the width of the cantilever resonance, commonly defined through the quality factor Q. However, it has been shown that optomechanical resonances in interferometers might affect the cantilever oscillations resulting in an effective quality factor Q$_{eff}$ . When the laser power is sufficiently increased the cantilever oscillations might even reach the regime of self-oscillation. In this self-oscillation state, the noise of the system is partially determined by the interaction with the laser light far from equilibrium. Here, we show and discuss how tuning of the laser power leads to nonlinear optomechanical effects that can dramatically increase the effective quality factor of the cantilever leading to out-of-equilibrium noise. We model the effects using a fourth order nonlinearity of the damping coefficient.
description: 10 pages
Coprinopsis vermiculifer Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo
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
Psathyrellaceae
Coprinopsis
Coprinopsis vermiculifer

description: 9. Coprinopsis vermiculifer (Joss. ex Dennis) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo, Taxon 50(1): 232 (2001)
(Figure 5, a–e)
 Closed pileus initially ellipsoid to subcylindrical, 5–6 × 3–4 mm, covered along its entire length by fibrillose velar fragments, giving it a cottony texture, whitish, greyish near the center. Expanded pileus conical to campanulate, 7–13 mm in diameter, becoming flattened, with revolute margin, initially whitish, becoming gray to dark gray with maturation. Lamellae free, initially white, becoming brownish to black, poorly distinguishable. Stipe central, cylindrical to slightly clavate at the base, hollow, finely fibrillose, whitish, 25–32 mm long, 0.5–1 mm in diameter. Ring absent. Volva absent. Pileipellis comprises hyphal elements, hyaline, from where emerges filaments of veil remnants, mainly on their center, spreading radially towards the edge, grouped into small scales in the center, giving a brownish appearance, plicate-sulcate, with sulcate margin. Veil composed of filamentous elements in chains, 5–7.5 mm in diameter, gradually decreasing towards the apex, with terminal elements with a thickened wall, hyaline, smooth. Cheilocystidia 30–40 × 20–25 μm, subglobose to ellipsoid, thin-walled, smooth. Pleurocystidia not observed. Clamp connections present. Basidia 4-spored, interspersed with hyphidial elements. Basidiospores broadly ellipsoid to ovoid in frontal view, reddish-brown to brown, 8.4–12 × 6–7.2 μm, flat, with a central germ pore.
 Material examined: — BRAZIL. Pernambuco, Instituto Agronômico de Pernambuco (IPA), Caruaru, on horse dung, 27 Sep 2011, R.F. R. Melo (URM86804!); Instituto Agronômico de Pernambuco (IPA), Serra Talhada, on horse dung, 14 Oct 2011, R.F. R. Melo (URM86805!), 24 Oct 2011, R.F. R. Melo (URM86806 a!, 86806b!, 86806c!).
 Distribution: —Africa (Namibia), Europe (England, Norway) and Oceania (Australia). This is the first record from Brazil.
 Notes: — Coprinopsis vermiculifer is a relatively rare species with few records in the literature. It is distinguished by its veil remnants composed of filamentous elements, whose last cell has thick walls.
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 10, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.266.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13660196
A note on many valued quantum computational logics
Creators: name: Sergioli, Giuseppe
name: Ledda, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard theory of quantum computation relies on the idea that the basic information quantity is represented by a superposition of elements of the canonical basis and the notion of probability naturally follows from the Born rule. In this work we consider three valued quantum computational logics. More specifically, we will focus on the Hilbert space C^3, we discuss extensions of several gates to this space and, using the notion of effect probability, we provide a characterization of its states.
description: Pages 15, Soft Computing, 2015
The role of mitochondrial function in human heart failure
Creators: name: Sheeran., Freya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Event-based Image Deblurring with Dynamic Motion Awareness
Creators: name: Vitoria, Patricia
name: Georgoulis, Stamatios
name: Tulyakov, Stepan
name: Bochicchio, Alfredo
name: Erbach, Julius
name: Li, Yuanyou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Non-uniform image deblurring is a challenging task due to the lack of temporal and textural information in the blurry image itself. Complementary information from auxiliary sensors such event sensors are being explored to address these limitations. The latter can record changes in a logarithmic intensity asynchronously, called events, with high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Current event-based deblurring methods combine the blurry image with events to jointly estimate per-pixel motion and the deblur operator. In this paper, we argue that a divide-and-conquer approach is more suitable for this task. To this end, we propose to use modulated deformable convolutions, whose kernel offsets and modulation masks are dynamically estimated from events to encode the motion in the scene, while the deblur operator is learned from the combination of blurry image and corresponding events. Furthermore, we employ a coarse-to-fine multi-scale reconstruction approach to cope with the inherent sparsity of events in low contrast regions. Importantly, we introduce the first dataset containing pairs of real RGB blur images and related events during the exposure time. Our results show better overall robustness when using events, with improvements in PSNR by up to 1.57dB on synthetic data and 1.08 dB on real event data.
Radial Basis Function Networks for Convolutional Neural Networks to Learn Similarity Distance Metric and Improve Interpretability
Creators: name: Amirian, Mohammadreza
name: Schwenker, Friedhelm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Radial basis function neural networks (RBFs) are prime candidates for pattern classification and regression and have been used extensively in classical machine learning applications. However, RBFs have not been integrated into contemporary deep learning research and computer vision using conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their lack of adaptability with modern architectures. In this paper, we adapt RBF networks as a classifier on top of CNNs by modifying the training process and introducing a new activation function to train modern vision architectures end-to-end for image classification. The specific architecture of RBFs enables the learning of a similarity distance metric to compare and find similar and dissimilar images. Furthermore, we demonstrate that using an RBF classifier on top of any CNN architecture provides new human-interpretable insights about the decision-making process of the models. Finally, we successfully apply RBFs to a range of CNN architectures and evaluate the results on benchmark computer vision datasets.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Constraints on primordial black holes from Galactic gamma-ray background
Creators: name: Carr, B. J.
name: Kohri, Kazunori
name: Sendouda, Yuuiti
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fraction of the Universe going into primordial black holes (PBHs) with initial mass M_* \approx 5 \times 10^{14} g, such that they are evaporating at the present epoch, is strongly constrained by observations of both the extragalactic and Galactic gamma-ray backgrounds. However, while the dominant contribution to the extragalactic background comes from the time-integrated emission of PBHs with initial mass M_*, the Galactic background is dominated by the instantaneous emission of those with initial mass slightly larger than M_* and current mass below M_*. Also, the instantaneous emission of PBHs smaller than 0.4 M_* mostly comprises secondary particles produced by the decay of directly emitted quark and gluon jets. These points were missed in the earlier analysis by Lehoucq et al. using EGRET data. For a monochromatic PBH mass function, with initial mass (1+μ) M_* and μ<< 1, the current mass is (3μ)^{1/3} M_* and the Galactic background constrains the fraction of the Universe going into PBHs as a function of μ. However, the initial mass function cannot be precisely monochromatic and even a tiny spread of mass around M_* would generate a current low-mass tail of PBHs below M_*. This tail would be the main contributor to the Galactic background, so we consider its form and the associated constraints for a variety of scenarios with both extended and nearly-monochromatic initial mass functions. In particular, we consider a scenario in which the PBHs form from critical collapse and have a mass function which peaks well above M_*. In this case, the largest PBHs could provide the dark matter without the M_* ones exceeding the gamma-ray background limits.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures, REVTeX 4.1
title: Equitable learning and neurodiversity: inclusive practices in French immersion
Creators: name: Mitchell, Gitanjali
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Inquiry-based learning

description: The number of neurodiverse learners in French Immersion (FI) increasing every year. The question of the suitability of the FI program should no longer be a topic of discussion for these learners. This study was designed to ask the questions: “what do FI teachers understand about inclusive practices and which ones do they utilize in their classrooms?” This mixed-methods study employed a cross-sectional survey to recruit participants from approximately 30,000 international FI teachers from various closed FI teacher groups on Facebook. From that number,54 Canadian FI teachers participated in the survey. The finding of this study reveal that FI who participated may recognize and utilize some inclusive practices, in particular Project/Inquiry-Based Learning. However, they do not demonstrate confidence in their understanding or use of UDL or RTI as a regular part of their teaching. This indicates a need for further professional development in inclusive practices such as UDL, RTI or P/I-BL to set neurodiverse learners up for success in FI classrooms.
Adaptive QoS of WebRTC for Vehicular Media Communications
Creators: name: Martín, Ángel
name: Mejías, Daniel
name: Fernández, Zaloa
name: Viola, Roberto
name: Pérez, Josu
name: García, Mikel
name: Velez, Gorka
name: Montalbán, Jon
name: Angueira, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vehicles shipping sensors for onboard systems are gaining connectivity. This enables information sharing to realize a more comprehensive understanding of the environment. However, peer communication through public cellular networks brings multiple networking hurdles to address, needing in-network systems to relay communications and connect parties that cannot connect directly. Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) is a good candidate for media streaming across vehicles as it enables low latency communications, while bringing standard protocols to security handshake, discovering public IPs and transverse Network Address Translation (NAT) systems. However, the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) adaptation in an infrastructure where transmission and reception are decoupled by a relay, needs a mechanism to adapt the video stream to the network capacity efficiently. To this end, this paper investigates a mechanism to apply changes on resolution, framerate and bitrate by exploiting the Real Time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) metrics, such as bandwidth and round-trip time. The solution aims to ensure that the receiving onboard system gets relevant information in time. The impact on end-to-end throughput efficiency and reaction time when applying different approaches to QoS adaptation are analyzed in a real 5G testbed.
title: Sound Transmission Loss Calculation for Metamaterial Plate Using Combined Analytical and Numerical Approach
Creators: name: Chojnacka, Klara
name: Kras, Aleksander
name: Kamisiński, Tadeusz
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2022

description: Vibrations in Physical Systems, 33(3), 2022314-1 - 2022314-8
Geometric phase for neutrino propagation in magnetic field
Creators: name: Joshi, Sandeep
name: Jain, Sudhir R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometric phase for neutrinos propagating in an adiabatically varying magnetic field in matter is calculated. It is shown that for neutrino propagation in sufficiently large magnetic field the neutrino eigenstates develop a significant geometric phase. The geometric phase varies from 2$π$ for magnetic fields $\sim$ fraction of a micro gauss to $π$ for fields $\sim 10^7$ gauss or more. The variation of geometric phase with magnetic field parameters is shown and its phenomenological implications are discussed.
An Introduction to Programming for Bioscientists: A Python-based Primer
Creators: name: Ekmekci, Berk
name: McAnany, Charles E.
name: Mura, Cameron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computing has revolutionized the biological sciences over the past several decades, such that virtually all contemporary research in the biosciences utilizes computer programs. The computational advances have come on many fronts, spurred by fundamental developments in hardware, software, and algorithms. These advances have influenced, and even engendered, a phenomenal array of bioscience fields, including molecular evolution and bioinformatics; genome-, proteome-, transcriptome- and metabolome-wide experimental studies; structural genomics; and atomistic simulations of cellular-scale molecular assemblies as large as ribosomes and intact viruses. In short, much of post-genomic biology is increasingly becoming a form of computational biology. The ability to design and write computer programs is among the most indispensable skills that a modern researcher can cultivate. Python has become a popular programming language in the biosciences, largely because (i) its straightforward semantics and clean syntax make it a readily accessible first language; (ii) it is expressive and well-suited to object-oriented programming, as well as other modern paradigms; and (iii) the many available libraries and third-party toolkits extend the functionality of the core language into virtually every biological domain (sequence and structure analyses, phylogenomics, workflow management systems, etc.). This primer offers a basic introduction to coding, via Python, and it includes concrete examples and exercises to illustrate the language's usage and capabilities; the main text culminates with a final project in structural bioinformatics. A suite of Supplemental Chapters is also provided. Starting with basic concepts, such as that of a 'variable', the Chapters methodically advance the reader to the point of writing a graphical user interface to compute the Hamming distance between two DNA sequences.
description: 65 pages total, including 45 pages text, 3 figures, 4 tables, numerous exercises, and 19 pages of Supporting Information; currently in press at PLOS Computational Biology
title: Using RTI to frame self-regulation strategies and movement in the classroom
Creators: name: Jones, Keith
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Response to intervention (Learning disabled children)

description: The goal of my master’s project is to develop a resource guide of movement strategies that can be utilized in the classroom which would align with the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework used in Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools. I am hopeful that this resource guide will support classroom teachers in utilizing movement and self-regulation strategies as they implement interventions in tiers one, two, and three of the RTI framework. The framing of movement and self-regulation strategies in RTI would allow teachers to have multiple layers of strategies that they could utilize to increase the amount of time their students spend on academic tasks. The resource guide that I will develop as the final part of this masters project will provide teachers with tiered interventions for providing movement strategies to students in their classrooms and hopefully also introduce some new strategies for teachers to try.
Experimental autoimmune gastritis induced by immunisation with the gastric H+/K+-ATPase
Creators: name: Scarff., Kate J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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title: Key design elements of self-regulation spaces within inclusive elementary school classrooms
Creators: name: Lesiuk, Jeanette A.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Regulatory focus (Psychology)

description: Studies have shown that students who struggle with self-regulation often have increased difficulty meeting learning and behavioural demands in the typical classroom environment. Various researchers recommend the inclusion of a withdrawal space within the classroom, where students can go when they are feeling upset, angry, or otherwise dysregulated. Such a space can help students to calm down, self-regulate, and then rejoin the rest of the class. The purpose of this applied project is to support educators in designing self-regulation spaces rooted in research, within their inclusive classroom environments. An in-depth analysis of the literature around self-regulation, inclusion, classroom design, and self-regulation spaces informed the design and implementation of a website that supports educators and answers the guiding questions, “How can elementary school teachers design research-informed self-regulation spaces in their inclusive classroom environments to support students with self-regulation?” and “What are the key design elements of effective self-regulation spaces?”
title: My story is my impact: a self-examination of personal resiliency and experiences in engaging vulnerable learners
Creators: name: Hill, Jessica J.
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Resilience (Personality trait)

description: This paper takes an autoethnographic approach towards inquiring into the relationships I had with my teachers during the most vulnerable years of my youth, and the impact those adults had on the development of my lifelong resiliency. The passion, leadership, and subtle strength modeled to me by the teachers I most remember from my time in school has shaped who I am as a person, and as an educator. By examining the importance of teacher impact on my personal story, I come to understand key characteristics in some teachers who stood out as conduits for improving the coping strategies I had at my disposal, as well as how those characteristics have translated into my own beliefs and practices as a middle school teacher. Finally, while many of the stories shared are my own and have been altered only when the identity of another needed to be protected, some are also carefully constructed based on many students whose struggles with resiliency have stood out for me over the years. Their many truths have been combined into snapshots of fiction so that the reader might better understand the scope of our impact as educational professionals.
Spin wave amplification using the spin Hall effect in permalloy/platinum bilayers
Creators: name: Gladii, O.
name: Collet, M.
name: Garcia-Hernandez, K.
name: Cheng, C.
name: Xavier, S.
name: Bortolotti, P.
name: Cros, V.
name: Henry, Y.
name: Kim, J. -V.
name: Anane, A.
name: Bailleul, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of an electrical current on the attenuation length of a 900 nm wavelength spin-wave in a permalloy/Pt bilayer using propagating spin-wave spectroscopy. The modification of the spin-wave relaxation rate is linear in current density, reaching up to 14% for a current density of 2.3$\times10^{11} $A/m$^2$ in Pt. This change is attributed to the spin transfer torque induced by the spin Hall effect and corresponds to an effective spin Hall angle of 0.13, which is among the highest values reported so far. The spin Hall effect thus appears as an efficient way of amplifying/attenuating propagating spin waves.
title: Embracing Emma: lessons in diversity and acceptance
Creators: name: Mackay, Laura Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Down syndrome

description: This study used the research method of an autoethnography to reflect on the fears, acceptance and hope, and celebration of raising a child with Down syndrome. In this autoethnography I have shared several stories about my journey with a child with Down syndrome. The stories highlight my experiences and share my reflections about how I have come to appreciate and value those with exceptionalities. This research found that fear can be a paralyzing experience and negatively impact an event that should have been filled with joy. Acceptance and hope emerged once the fear was understood and new knowledge gained. Learning to appreciate everything about life and celebrating with those around you is the most rewarding experience possible. With this thesis I hope to encourage others to view people with exceptionalities in a new way: with acceptance, value and respect.