cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review of Nicholas Rescher, Pascal's Wager: A Study of Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: The immeasurable impact of Pascal is rarely appreciated or understood by contemporary thinkers. On the one hand, Pascal is lauded by literary critics for his writing style while his philosophical contributions are overlooked. On the other hand, Pascal is trivialized by analytic philosophers who view his wager argument as but a poor instance of decision theory. Nicholas Reseller's book is distinctive in that it takes Pascal seriously as a philosopher in light of past and present theological modes of argumentation. As a distinguished historian of pragmatic philosophy, Rescher understands Pascal to be the great innovator of the major philosophical trends of our day: the theological use of practical reason, the diversity of modes of rationality, and the focus on praxis in contemporary hermeneutics.
title: Appraising surface water quantity and quality in the Upper Arkansas River Basin in Chaffee County, Colorado
title: Hydrology days 2011
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2011
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Steed, G. H.
name: Gates, T. K.
name: Niemann, J. D.
name: Labadie, J. W.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2011

description: 2011 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 21 - March 23, 2011.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: The Arkansas River, one of four major rivers that begin in Colorado, has the largest drainage basin in the state and serves as a vital source of water. At peak flows, the Arkansas River swells by 70% through Chaffee County, in the heart of the Rockies, and only increases by 20% before exiting the mountains onto the high plains near Pueblo. The production of this discharge depends on a complex natural system of snowmelt and groundwater-stream interactions, as well as on numerous human interventions. The Arkansas valley in Chaffee County, from Granite to Salida, is characterized as an intermountain, high altitude, agricultural, small-municipal, and recreational region. Increasing demands on the stream-aquifer system have necessitated more up-to-date, integrated, and technology-driven data to assist water users, managers, and decision makers in moving toward optimal overall water use. Monthly synoptic measurements and triannual water sampling over July 2009 – January 2011 at 19 river and tributary sites provide data on discharge; dissolved oxygen; pH; specific conductance; oxidation reduction potential; temperature; and major dissolved ions, uranium, selenium, and other select minerals. Data analysis for the range of hydrologic conditions during the study period reveals flow conditions similar to long-term averages. Relationships of specific conductance and total dissolved solids derived from field samples yields equations useful for estimation of mass loading in the river system. Spatial and temporal analysis of tributary to river discharge and dissolved solids loading helps quantify and qualify water sources as well as potential aquifer interactions. Overall water quality is good, with some constituents worthy of continued active monitoring.
II. The Standard Model in the Isotopic Foldy-Wouthuysen Representation without Higgs Bosons in the Fermion Sector. Spontaneous Breaking of Parity and "Dark Matter" Problems
Creators: name: Neznamov, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Standard Model with massive fermions is formulated in the isotopic Foldy-Wouthuysen representation. SU(2)xU(1) - invariance of the theory in this representation is independent of whether fermions possess mass or not, and, consequently, it is not necessary to introduce interactions between Higgs bosons and fermions. The study discusses a possible relation between spontaneous breaking of parity in the isotopic Foldy-Wouthuysen representation and the composition of elementary particles of "dark matter".
description: 12 pages
The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: African Americans

description: The contemporary black intellectual faces a grim predicament. Caught between an insolent American society and an insouciant black community, the African American who takes seriously the life of the mind inhabits an isolated and insulated world. This condition has little to do with the motives and intentions of black intellectuals; rather it is an objective situation created by circumstances not of their own choosing. In this meditative essay, I will explore this dilemma of the black intellectual and suggest various ways of understanding and transforming it.
Copyright vs parody: the fair balance doctrine in front of the Italian Supreme Court
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Intellectual Property
Copyright
Parody

description: The case decided by the Corte di Cassazione (ord. 2022, n. 38165, Zorro case) provides an opportunity to reformulate the legal principle of prevalence of freedom of parody over copyright in the terms used by the Court of ustice of the EU (CJEU). The (magic) formula is the “fair balance between fundamental rights”. In the lexicon of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CRF), this is the balance between intellectual property (Article 17(2)) and freedom of expression and information (Article 11). In short, the EU-style fair balance doctrine officially becomes part of the interpretive and argumentative techniques of the Italian Supreme Court.
description: https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2023/03/29/copyright-vs-parody-the-fair-balance-doctrine-in-front-of-the-italian-supreme-court/
Implementing quantum logic gates with GRAPE: principles and practicalities
Creators: name: Rowland, B.
name: Jones, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We briefly describe the use of GRAPE pulses to implement quantum logic gates in NMR quantum computers, and discuss a range of simple extensions to the core technique. We then consider a range of difficulties which can arise in practical implementations of GRAPE sequences, reflecting non-idealities in the experimental systems used.
description: 15 pages rspublic including 4 figures. This is the original manuscript preprint form which differs slightly from the final accepted version (Phil Trans Roy Soc A in press)
Monolithic integration of AlGaAs distributed Bragg reflectors on virtual Ge substrates via aspect ratio trapping
Creators: name: Lin, Yiheng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Over the past two decades, researchers have devoted great efforts on Si photonics to overcome the communication bottleneck of integrated circuits. In order to realize short-reach optical interconnects, excellent performance has been achieved so far on waveguides, modulators and detectors, which use Si compatible materials (e.g. SiO₂, Si₃N₄ and SiGe) and processes. However, lasers on Si have been much more difficult to implement. Monolithically integrated vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) on Si platforms are a suitable choice as output devices on Si, and is the long-term goal of this project. The research for this thesis work chose Ge/Si ART (aspect ratio trapping) substrates as the Si platform to overcome the material mismatch between AlGaAs/GaAs system and Si, and investigated the first and crucial step of successful VCSEL integration on Si platforms, which is the VCSEL distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) growth and characterization on Ge/Si ART substrates. Three types of samples were grown and characterized to reveal the quality of DBRs and ART substrates. The results show good quality and potential for high performance VCSEL. The ART-based DBRs have reflectance spectra comparable to those grown on conventional bulk GaAs substrates and have smooth morphology. High-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) rocking curves show that the residual stress and crystal quality of the Ge films depend on oxide trench patterns. Though GaAs-DBRs have sharper satellite peaks, ART-DBRs also show good structural quality, considering the effect of more complex substrate structure with SiO₂, Ge and strained-Ge. The main peaks’ full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of ART-DBR are about twice as GaAs-DBR’s. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images reveal very good periodicity and uniformity that are unaffected by threading dislocations or residual strain. These results are very encouraging for the successful full VCSEL growth on these substrates and also confirm that virtual Ge substrates via the ART technique are effective Si platforms for optoelectronic integrated circuits.
title: Subchondral, Osteochondral and Chondral Lesions of the Knee: MRI Findings and Differential Diagnosis
Creators: name: Olajos, Eszter Ajna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Trauma
subject: Oedema
subject: Inflammation
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Trauma
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To know the most common traumatic and non-traumatic subchondral, osteochondral and chondral lesions of the knee To recognize the importance of clinical data when making a differential diagnosis To describe them with correct terminology To know the...
ВЛИЯНИЕ И ИСХОДЫ COVID-19 У НОВОРОЖДЕННЫХ, ЗАРАЖЕНННЫХ ВНУТРИУТРОБНО
Creators: name: Касымова, Н.А.
name: Ачилова, Д.Н.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: За последние несколько лет человечество столкнулось с новым видом респираторной инфекции SARS COVID-19, впервые обнаруженном в Китае, которое затем охватило весь мир. Ученые подробно изучили механизм воздействия, клинические проявления и исходы данного заболевания у взрослых. Однако, недостаточно исследований посвящено воздействию и исходом данного вируса на новорожденных детей, матери которых перенесли COVID -19 во время беременности.
Use of non-invasive methods to examine species distribution relative to a highway in the Calakmul region, Mexico
Creators: name: Brichieri-Colombi, Typhenn
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 199-214
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: In 2007, the Mexican government started to widen Highway 186 that traverses the Calakmul region from two to four lanes. This study uses wildlife occurrence data obtained from systematic sampling and citizen science to examine 1) focal species and functional guild distribution in the road-effect zone of Highway 186; 2) wildlife crossing hotspots using citizen science data; and 3) the use of quantitative and qualitative methods to describe road effects on wildlife. Wildlife was detected using four non-invasive methods: 1) tracks collected on 10 secondary roads perpendicular to the highway, 2) remotely triggered cameras placed along each road at 50m, 750m and 2000m from the highway, 3) community maps placed in four villages along the highway on which residents and non residents indicated where, when and what species they encountered, and 4) interviews with local residents. Differences in species relative activity along sampled roads were compared using Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests for camera and track data. Wildlife sightings reported in community mapping and interviews were digitized into a GIS and crossing hotspots were identified. Participant comments also were examined qualitatively to explore community perceptions of wildlife. Finally, species accumulation curves, latency to first detection and relative efficiency were compared for each detection method, and a data transformation model of the triangle design was used to corroborate qualitative and quantitative methods to describe overall effects of Highway 186 on wildlife. Cameras and tracking indicated species were more active farther from the highway, but activity differed between species. Crossing hotspots along the highway identified by community mapping and interview data changed between years; overall, four mortality hotspots were identified. Cameras and tracks were more effective at detecting species than community mapping and interviews, but the latter two methods detected some species earlier due to the qualitative nature of the data. Although the quality and information provided by data from each collection method varied, together they provide a more comprehensive view of road effects on wildlife in the region.
title: Step by step: Contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography, from kidneys to urethra.
Creators: name: Tomas Chenoll, Mireia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Dilatation
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Paediatric
subject: Kidney
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To explain the indications and objectives of contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography. To make an exhaustive description of the technique. To review the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the most common complications and pitfalls of this...
Continuum of success: a case study of Colombian refugee women in Canada
Creators: name: Munoz, Marleny
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 192-207
description: Victimization is the dominant representation of women in war and armed conflict zones. This representation is extensive in the literature. In such settings they have, for the most part, been symbolized primarily as passive victims. Little documentation is available on women as agents of change within war zones, or about the learning, knowledge and exercise of agency that women deploy to survive the vicissitudes of violent environments. Where there is such documentation, it tends to be ad hoe, fragmented and/or limited in scope. In this dissertation I explore the mechanisms by which Colombian women war survivors, who were internally displaced in Colombia and are now living in Canada as refugees, exercised agency to learn and build knowledge and transcend the limitations of their situations. In particular, how they made use of this knowledge to restore their lives in a new society. This exploratory study uses qualitative research methodologies that incorporate appreciative inquiry, feminist perspectives and modified grounded theory. A semistructured interview was used to collect personal narratives from the 17 participants. Findings show that fear continued to haunt each of the participants as a consequence of the violence they suffered. Even so, the majority of participants were able to identify successful experiences in the asylum zone, and to a lesser degree in their displacement and in their original places, the armed conflict zones. Further, using situational analysis, five indicators of women's success were developed: possibilities, family and community, resources, good life, and English language. The indicators help to situate the participants within a continuum of success that uses victimization and agency as its poles. They integrate contentious topics that emerged in the data analysis. This continuum helps to visualize these successes in a more fluid pattern that may help in future research in this area and contributes to a new perspective of women exposed to armed conflict and war. In doing this, it also provides more holistic insights to designing policies, services and supports for women survivors of war, internally displaced and refugee women.
Between Dewey and Gramsci: Unger’s Emancipatory Experimentalism
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Roberto Unger's distinctive contribution to contemporary social thought is to radically
deepen and sharpen John Dewey's notion of social experimentation in light of the crisis of Marxist theory and praxis. Unger's fundamental aim is to free Marxist conceptions of human society-making from evolutionary, deterministic, and economistic encumbrances. He seeks to accomplish this by building upon Deweyan concerns with the plethora of historically specific social arrangements and with the often overlooked politics of personal relations between unique and purposeful individuals. Unger's fascinating effort stakes out new discursive space on the contemporary political and ideological spectrum. This space is neither simply left nor liberal, Marxist nor Lockean, anarchist nor Kantian. Rather, Unger's perspective is both post-Marxist and post-liberal; that is, it consists of an emancipatory experimentalism that promotes permanent social transformation and perennial self-development toward ever increasing democracy and individual freedom.
Analisis del impacto de los escritos sobre las Americas en "Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda" de Cervantes
Creators: name: Vasquez De Brown, Maria De Los Angeles
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 118-125
description: A page is in colour.
description: En su obra literaria, Miguel de Cervantes estudi6 las dinamicas que estaban tomando lugar entre Espafia y Las Americas. Fue tanto su interes por este tema, que gracias a el, su obra literaria triunf6 global y atemporalmente. Aunque la influencia de las Americas en Espana se encuentra mas claramente en su ultima obra el Persiles, esta influencia estaba presente en su obra mucho antes de la escritura de su ultimo libro. A traves de ejemplos especificos tanto del autor como de otros autores de cr6nicas, se concluira que sin el descubrimiento de las Americas, Cervantes no hubiera podido concebir la idea central de su obra, ya fuera esta el venir a las Americas o regresar de ellas, siendo este uno de los impactos principales de la influencia de las Americas en Espafia, asi reflejada en el Persiles de Cervantes.
Influence of trial sample size on treatment effect estimates: meta-epidemiological study
Creators: name: Dechartres, Agnes
name: Trinquart, Ludovic
name: Boutron, Isabelle
name: Ravaud, Philippe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Epidemiology

description: Objective To assess the influence of trial sample size on treatment
effect estimates within meta-analyses. Design Meta-epidemiological study. Data sources 93 meta-analyses (735 randomised controlled trials) assessing therapeutic interventions with binary outcomes, published in the 10 leading journals of each medical subject category of the Journal Citation Reports or in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Data extraction Sample size, outcome data, and risk of bias extracted from each trial. Data synthesis Trials within each meta-analysis were sorted by their sample size: using quarters within each meta-analysis (from quarter 1 with 25% of the smallest trials, to quarter 4 with 25% of the largest trials), and using size groups across meta-analyses (ranging from <50 to ≥1000 patients). Treatment effects were compared within each meta-analysis between quarters or between size groups by average ratios of odds ratios (where a ratio of odds ratios less than 1 indicates larger effects in smaller trials). Results Treatment effect estimates were significantly larger in smaller trials, regardless of sample size. Compared with quarter 4 (which included the largest trials), treatment effects were, on average, 32% larger in trials in quarter 1 (which included the smallest trials; ratio of odds ratios 0.68, 95% confidence interval 0.57 to 0.82), 17% larger in trials in quarter 2 (0.83, 0.75 to 0.91), and 12% larger in trials in quarter 3 (0.88, 0.82 to 0.95). Similar results were obtained when comparing treatment effect estimates between different size groups. Compared with trials of 1000 patients or more, treatment effects were, on average, 48% larger in trials with fewer than 50 patients (0.52, 0.41 to 0.66) and 10% larger in trials with 500-999 patients (0.90, 0.82 to 1.00). Conclusions Treatment effect estimates differed within meta-analyses solely based on trial sample size, with stronger effect estimates seen in small to moderately sized trials than in the largest trials.
Internet-based peer support following traumatic childbirth: a hermeneutic interpretive analysis
Creators: name: Storton, Sharon
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 137-161
description: This study was undertaken using a Gadamerian hermeneutic interpretive analysis. Six women were interviewed and their comments were analyzed to learn more about Internet-based peer support following challenging or traumatic childbearing experiences. Online support allows women to deconstruct and understand events, emotions and options related to childbirth. This form of support has significant benefits and some cautions. Benefits may include positive additions to participants' senses of identity and power; freedom to choose among groups based upon content, style, and moderator involvement; the uniqueness of time online, and the ability to participate in groups anonymously. Support in online groups was woman centred, allowing participants to define trauma and healing for themselves. Potentially-negative effects included disrespect expressed by other group members, the inability to guarantee privacy of content in online groups, and the potential to experience transient increases in sadness, grief, or worry as a result of reading emotional-laden content.
Shark Tooth Weapons from the 19th Century Reflect Shifting Baselines in Central Pacific Predator Assemblies
Creators: name: Drew, Joshua Adam
name: Philipp, Christopher
name: Westneat, Mark W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The reefs surrounding the Gilbert Islands (Republic of Kiribati, Central Pacific), like many throughout the world, have undergone a period of rapid and intensive environmental perturbation over the past 100 years. A byproduct of this perturbation has been a reduction of the number of shark species present in their waters, even though sharks play an important in the economy and culture of the Gilbertese. Here we examine how shark communities changed over time periods that predate the written record in order to understand the magnitude of ecosystem changes in the Central Pacific. Using a novel data source, the shark tooth weapons of the Gilbertese Islanders housed in natural history museums, we show that two species of shark, the Spot-tail (Carcharhinus sorrah) and the Dusky (C. obscurus), were present in the islands during the last half of the 19th century but not reported in any historical literature or contemporary ichthyological surveys of the region. Given the importance of these species to the ecology of the Gilbert Island reefs and to the culture of the Gilbertese people, documenting these shifts in baseline fauna represents an important step toward restoring the vivid splendor of both ecological and cultural diversity.
Nonprofit leaders' experiences in learning at their workplace
Creators: name: Serafino, Allan Brian
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 152-161
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The purpose of this study was to uncover the perceptions of four nonprofit leaders with regards to their meaning of self-learning in their workplace as well as their perceptions of the meaning oflearning in their workplace for their staff. This study fills a gap in the nonprofit research literature in which its leaders' individual experiences in learning in their workplace is missing and suggests a conceptual understanding for personal reflection on it. In late 2009 four critical incident exercise questionnaires relating to successful and unsuccessful learning workplace experiences were first completed with each of two male and two female nonprofit Executive Directors from Calgary, Alberta. Then, using the interpretative phenomenological method (IP A)(Smith, Flowers & Larkin, 2009), two-hour interviews with each of the study participants were conducted, taped, transcribed and interpreted for meaning. Eight Master themes on self-learning and seven Master themes on staff-learning were extracted from the critical incident exercises and interviews providing two Master Tables. An interpretation of the themes reflected three components of self-identity, roles and workplace environment and how they interact with the learning of nonprofit leaders in their workplace. The study suggests that for nonprofit leaders to be continuous and lifelong learners they must first understand their own learning needs, desires, styles and goals. In short, they must 'know oneself first. The dissertation concludes with a description of explanations and implications of the themes for future directions.
Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Literature
African Americans

description: What does it mean to engage in canon formation at this historical moment? In what ways does the prevailing crisis in the humanities impede or enable new canon formations? And what role do the class and professional interests of the canonizers play in either the enlarging of a canon or the making of multiple, conflicting canons?
Speakable in Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Hermens, Ronnie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the 1927 Como conference Bohr spoke the now famous words "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature." However, if the Copenhagen interpretation really holds on to this motto, why then is there this feeling of conflict when comparing it with realist interpretations? Surely what one can say about nature should in a certain sense be interpretation independent. In this paper I take Bohr's motto seriously and develop a quantum logic that avoids assuming any form of realism as much as possible. To illustrate the non-triviality of this motto a similar result is first derived for classical mechanics. It turns out that the logic for classical mechanics is a special case of the derived quantum logic. Finally, some hints are provided in how these logics are to be used in practical situations and I discuss how some realist interpretations relate to these logics.
Review of Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: African Americans

description: Going beyond mere Leftist rhetoric which pervades so much of black Marxist discourse, Marable empirically examines the role and function of the black underclass, black working class, black women, black prisoners, black farmers,
black entrepreneurs, black preachers and black Brahmins. In short, Marable attempts to lay bare the present-day anatomy of black America in a highly detailed manner.
The black and white book of knowledge: knowledge sharing in the oil and gas industry
Creators: name: Scherpenisse, Jason F.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 144-149
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The oil and gas industry in western Canada has a wealth of knowledge and experience, the sharing of which is challenged by an uncertain economic environment, a naturally complex project management setting and, more recently, an aging population of baby boomers that are transitioning to retirement. There is a need to explore the oil and gas industry to understand its unique challenges and discover in what context sharing knowledge works in order to make it more effective. Experiential observations led to the postulation that there could be two versions of knowledge; a "black book" (that is least shared) and a "white book" (that is more readily shared). This research investigates this dichotomy by posing three research questions: 1.- Do industry participants perceive information and knowledge differently?; 2.- What information and knowledge are shared?; 3.- What is the context in which information and knowledge are shared?. A modified Delphi methodology was employed to survey industry participants. Results were displayed in an "information-to-knowledge spectrum", which identified a "grey area of uncertainty" regarding what information and knowledge meant to the oil and gas industry. Contradiction among the 'owner' and 'engineer' industry roles was observed and no correlation was found between the information-to-knowledge spectrum and willingness to share. However, willingness to share was found to be motivated by the perception of 'added value' or 'benefit' in the specific context of information and knowledge. This research concludes by illustrating that there is neither a black nor white book, but rather a "grey book with black and white tabs" that are movable and assigned subjectively by an individual following observation of the specific context.
title: Growing teratoma syndrome: kept in mind!
Creators: name: Luis Fernández, Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Varices
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases
subject: Stents
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Retroperitoneum
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: a.To know growing teratoma syndrome and the radiological, analytical and histological diagnostic criteria . b.To discuss the imaging findings for performing a proper differential diagnosis with other causes of retroperitoneal necrotic...
Descriptive Analysis of Articles and Advertisements Pertaining to Skin Cancer Prevention in 2 Popular US Parenting Magazines, 2000–2010
Creators: name: Basch, Corey H.
name: Hillyer, Grace A.
name: Basch, Charles E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Epidemiology

description: Magazines focused on parenting are popular in the United States, and parents may use them to guide decisions about the health of their children. We analyzed issues of 2 popular parenting magazines published in the past 11 years during the months of peak ultraviolet radiation exposure for content related to sun protection and for advertisements for skin products that did and did not contain sun protection factor. Only 24 of 2,594 articles addressed the topic of sun protection for skin cancer prevention. Although advertising is pervasive in these magazines, the extent to which such advertising focuses on products with sun protection factor was low. These findings suggest that parenting magazines can do more to assist parents in making informed decisions about preventing skin cancer risk among youth.
Long-term performances and membrane lifespan of full-scale MBR treating filtrate from sludge ultra-dewatering
Creators: name: Mailler, R.
name: Pouillaude, J.
name: Fayolle, Y.
name: Filho, M. Oliveira
name: Causserand, C.
name: Rocher, V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: An MBR treating filtrate from sludge ultra-dewatering (FSD) was studied to evaluate the real applicability to concentrated effluents. The MBR operation is comparable to conventional wastewater MBRs in terms of F/M and nitrogen to sludge ratios, SRT and MLSS in biological tanks. On the contrary, the volume treated is lower with a comparable pollution load, the effluent being concentrated in nitrogen and carbon. Very high and stable ammonium (97.7 ± 2.4%), total phosphorus (81.8 ± 11.9%), chemical (89.5 ± 2.3%) and biochemical oxygen demands (98.8 ± 0.7%) removals are observed despite a significant modification of the FSD composition. The MBR removal performances are whether comparable or greater than those reported at full-scale for Sharon or Anammox processes. The evolution of membranes properties, in particular, the decrease of permeability induced by the irreversible fouling, leads to a decrease of the daily permeate volume produced and an increase of the chemical cleaning need. The membrane lifespan was determined to be 5.5 years based on both the permeability loss and TSS in permeate. The permeability is directly correlated to the cumulated filtered flux of colloidal matter and a total of 350 kg O2/m2 of the membrane (COD in the supernatant) is needed to reach a permeability below 100 LMH/bar. The specific energy consumption is comparable to other wastewater MBRs in kWh/kgCOD removed but the intensive chemical cleanings need to be 2.5–4.5 times more frequent. Overall, it can be concluded that MBR is adapted to treat FSD efficiently.
title: European expansion of DenseBreast-info.org educational resource
Creators: name: Cruwys, Cheryl
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: Mammography
subject: Screening
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Breast
subject: Not applicable
subject: Radiographers
subject: Oncology
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Breast density has implications for both breast screening and risk [1,2]. Dense breast tissue can mask detection of noncalcified cancers on a mammogram and is an independent risk factor for the development of breast cancer [3] (Fig.1). Over 40% of...
Atomic quantum state transferring and swapping via quantum Zeno dynamics
Creators: name: Shi, Zhi-Cheng
name: Xia, Yan
name: Song, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we first demonstrate how to realize quantum state transferring (QST) from one atom to another based on quantum Zeno dynamics. Then, the QST protocol is generalized to realize the quantum state swapping (QSS) between two arbitrary atoms with the help of a third one. Furthermore, we also consider the QSS within a quantum network. The influence of decoherence is analyzed by numerical calculation. The results demonstrate that the protocols are robust against cavity decay.
description: To appear in J. Opt. Soc. Am. B (JOSAB)
A systematic approach for on-site productivity improvement with proposed construction productivity improvement office (cpio) role and task based productivity loss control and improvement (tbplci) framework
Creators: name: Ranasinghe, Upul
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 280-294
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: Construction productivity improvement activities in the industry has seen many developments in terms of new tools, techniques and processes been introduced through researches and practices. However, on site studies and literature surveys confirm that there is still a huge potential exists in the industry for further improvements. This study identified two major issues prevails in the industry hindering productivity performances. One reason being the productivity improvement process itself has been built into other site management processes and no prime concern by the management. The other one being a spinoff from the first one that is there is no assigned person in the site to plan control and monitor productivity improvement activities. This paper discusses a new framework for the implementation of productivity improvement activities on a construction site, making the productivity control process more systematic, accountable and sustainable with the creation of a novel and dedicated position, the construction productivity improvement officer (CPIO) on construction sites. Proposed Task Based Productivity Loss Control framework (TBPLCI) and tools will assist CPIO in performing productivity tasks in the site more objectively with close control.
Pair-Density-Wave Superconducting Order in Two-Leg Ladders
Creators: name: Jaefari, Akbar
name: Fradkin, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show using bosonization methods that extended Hubbard-Heisenberg models on two types of two leg ladders (without flux and with flux $π$ per plaquette) have commensurate pair-density wave (PDW) phases. In the case of the conventional (flux-less) ladder the PDW arises when certain filling fractions for which commensurability conditions are met. For the flux $π$ ladder the PDW phase is generally present. The PDW phase is characterized by a finite spin gap and a superconducting order parameter with a finite (commensurate in this case) wave vector and power-law superconducting correlations. In this phase the uniform superconducting order parameter, the $2k_F$ charge-density-wave (CDW) order parameter and the spin-density- wave Néel order parameter exhibit short range (exponentially decaying) correlations. We discuss in detail the case in which the bonding band of the ladder is half filled for which the PDW phase appears even at weak coupling. The PDW phase is shown to be dual to a uniform superconducting (SC) phase with quasi long range order. By making use of bosonization and the renormalization group we determine the phase diagram of the spin-gapped regime and study the quantum phase transition. The phase boundary between PDW and the uniform SC ordered phases is found to be in the Ising universality class. We generalize the analysis to the case of other commensurate fillings of the bonding band, where we find higher order commensurate PDW states for which we determine the form of the effective bosonized field theory and discuss the phase diagram. We compare our results with recent findings in the Kondo-Heisenberg chain. We show that the formation of PDW order in the ladder embodies the notion of intertwined orders.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures (one with two subfigures), revised text, 5 new references; total of 49 references
Experiences and beliefs of pre-service ECEC teachers in British Columbia
Creators: name: Pawliuk, Sarah A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This exploratory study sought to better understand the experiences and resources that pre-service early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers in British Columbia use in their emergent practice. The participants for this study were five female pre-service ECE teachers enrolled at a small British Columbia university. Participants were divided into two groups, the first comprised of 3 students enrolled in a two year diploma program in ECEC and the other comprised of 2 students enrolled in a four year BA program in ECEC. Both groups participated in one 90 minute interview at their university. The interview was semi-structured and posed questions about the experiences and resources participants use in their ECEC practice. Using a variety of qualitative methods, data were coded and analyzed for themes. The results from this study showed that for participants, the experience of being a pre-service teacher in a university education program, which included participating in practicum and reading course materials, was the main factor that was influencing participants’ emergent ECEC practice. A number of other results emerged from this study as well. These were participants’ desire for professional community, a perception that ECEC was a temporary career and lastly, several implications of the BA program in ECEC, which was relatively new at the time of this study. The findings from this study suggest that the experiences of pre-service ECEC teachers are crucial to planning and service delivery in ECEC and that more research is needed in this area, particularly in the province of BC. Recommendations were provided for both the BC provincial government and post-secondary institutions with ECEC teacher education programs to consider carefully the needs and experiences of pre-service ECEC teachers.
title: Spectrum of third window syndrome: a pictorial review
Creators: name: Júnior, Sérgio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Head and Neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Congenital
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the sound conduction mechanism. To describe the pathophysiology of hearing loss and vestibular symptoms in third window syndrome. To recognize relevant imaging findings in third window pathological...
title: Equity Ownership
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2020

description: A company offers equity incentives to encourage CEOs to take actions that are in the interest of shareholders. At the same time, equity incentives have the potential to encourage undesirable behaviors. This Quick Guide examines the effects of executive equity ownership. In provides answers to the questions: How much wealth do CEOs have invested in their companies? Does equity ownership improve performance? Does it encourage risk taking? What “bad” behaviors might occur? Should the board allow CEOs to sell or hedge their shares?
Effect of solar radiation on natural organic matter composition in surface waters and resulting impacts on drinking water treatment
Creators: name: Slavik, I.
name: Kostrowski, D.
name: Uhl, W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Solar radiation experiments showed a shift in the composition of natural organic matter (NOM). Due to irradiation, the concentration of high molecular weight (HMW) molecules decreased, and that of the low molecular weight (LMW) fraction increased. Microbiological analyses showed that biodegradation was neglectable. To assess the consequences for water treatment processes, coagulation jar tests were performed by comparing the removal effectivity for NOM fractions from irradiated and unirradiated raw water. The degree of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal by coagulation was lower for irradiated waters. As primarily HMW organic compounds are removed by coagulation, the decrease in coagulation performance is attributed to the increase in the LMW concentration due to photochemical reactions induced by solar radiation. Flocs were about 15% larger for irradiated water. Possibilities to adapt water treatment to respond to changes in DOC composition and concentration are outlined. Ozonation–biofiltration is judged as the most promising treatment process to cope with climate change-related challenges in drinking water treatment.
title: Iatrogenic urogenital fistulas. Can MDCT accurately delineate the extent of injury ?
Creators: name: Abdelnasser, Dina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Trauma
subject: Fistula
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Kidney
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the fundamental role of different MDCT techniques either urography or cystography in characterization of post-operative urogenital fistulas in females. To provide tips about the proper MDCT technique selection concerning patient , s...
Peripheral visions: the dissident geographies of Farley Mowat
Creators: name: Nunez Toews, David Juan
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 99-104
description: Farley Mowat's stories of the Arctic and its inhabitants are a valuable model for subverting hegemonic national ideologies that obscure the experiences of subaltern populations. Images of the North and the Arctic wilderness hold a central role in Canadian national iconography, yet such images often serve to mask the realities of the northern regions. Mowat mobilizes an idealized image of the Canadian nation as a champion for human rights and ecology, as a rallying cry to redress the injustices and destruction that he witnessed during his northern travels. Mowat's work focuses a northward national gaze on the obscured peripheral space of the Arctic with hopes of bringing about changed attitudes towards the North in the southern metropolitan centres of power. His texts, which defy the constraints of form and genre, establish a liminal literary space from which he can mount a more effective challenge to institutional power and authority.