cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(Post)political power and international sport : examining the International Olympic Committee's journey to Permanent Observer status at the United Nations
Creators: name: Van Luijk, Nicolien
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United Nations (UN) have had an ongoing relationship over the past 80 years that culminated in granting the IOC Permanent Observer status at the UN General Assembly in 2009. This is an honor usually reserved for quasi-states and inter-governmental organizations: very rarely do non-governmental organizations (NGO) obtain this position. This dissertation critically examined the links between the IOC and the UN in a bid to gain an understanding of how and why the IOC obtained this status at the UN. Four research questions guided this study: (i) How, and in what contexts, has the UN engaged with the IOC in the past; (ii) Why/how is the UN currently engaging with the IOC; (iii) How/Why did the IOC obtain Permanent Observer status at the UN General Assembly; and (iv) What are the potential implications of the partnership between the IOC and the UN? In my pursuit of these questions, I drew in particular from the work of Dorothy Smith and Michel Foucault to aid my underlying examination of how forms of knowledge are socially constructed in ways that privilege some groups over others. The work of these theorists supported my attempts to contribute especially to the emerging field of research focused on inequitable power relations within and around the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) ‘movement’. My findings demonstrated that there were various factors at play that have influenced the relationship between these two organizations, including the neoliberalization of development, the global power of sport, and processes of legitimation for both the IOC and the UN.
Congresso Internacional «Padre Manuel Antunes: Interfaces da Cultura Portuguesa e Europeia»
Creators: name: Martins, Maria Odete Soares
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Les Journées de la démocratie dans la Grande Région
Creators: name: Bewersdorf, Katja
name: Goisse, Philippe
name: Jellonnek, Burkhard
name: Lamberts, Alain-Yves
name: Mascherin, Laurent
name: Nehs, Romain
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Großregion (Körperschaft)
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/1201598451
subject: Politischer Unterricht
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4076231-2
subject: Demokratische Erziehung
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4149063-0

description: Comment organise-t-on les Journées de la démocratie dans la Grande Région ? Nous avons parlé à des représentant·e·s des ministères de l’éducation et de l’administration scolaire et les avons interrogé·e·s sur la signification des Journées de la démocratie, les orientations de la politique éducative, les objectifs, les souhaits et les mesures de soutien.
IfcXMLExplorer : a visualization tool for exploring and understanding ifcXML data
Creators: name: Duttachoudhury, Nayantara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: XML is a markup language popularly used for data exchange across different applications. Its flexibility and simplicity has made it easy to use. However, this flexibility makes it difficult for large XML files to be easily comprehensible. Most XML files have complex schemas and these schemas differ across domains. In this work, we have taken a specific type of XML files - ifcXML. IfcXML files are domain specific XML files generated from building information models (BIM). The organization of ifcXML files is hard to follow; elements in the ifcXML file are identified through unique identifiers, which are used to connect one element to another. This results in long chains of connections. Currently there is no effective method of extracting and understanding these connections. The only way a user can see how one element is connected to another is by following the path of connections through the ifcXML file. We address this gap by introducing ifcXMLExplorer. IfcXMLExplorer is a visualization tool that enables users to better understand the different systems in a BIM model along with the connections within elements of the system by extracting necessary information from the ifcXML file.
Stability of 1+1 dimensional causal relativistic viscous hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Li, J. W.
name: Ma, Y. G.
name: Ma, G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of the 1+1 dimensional solution of Israel-Stewart theory is investigated. Firstly, the evolution of the temperature and the ratio of the bulk pressure over the equilibrium pressure of the background is explored. Then the stability with linear perturbations is studied by using the Lyapunov direct method. It shows that the shear viscosity may weaken the instability induced by the large peak of bulk viscosity around the phase transition temperature $T_c$.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; to be published in Nuclear Physics A
Differentiability of functions in the Zygmund class
Creators: name: Donaire, Juan Jesus
name: Llorente, Jose G.
name: Nicolau, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points where a function in the Zygmund class in the euclidean space has bounded divided differences, is bigger or equal to 1. A similar result for functions in the Small Zygmund class is also proved and an example is constructed to show that these results are sharp.
A comparison of touchscreen and mouse for real-world and abstract tasks with older adults
Creators: name: Zhang, Kailun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Touchscreens have become a mainstream input device for older adults. We compared performance of touchscreen and mouse input for older adults on both abstract and real-world pointing and dragging tasks: classic Fitts’s law tasks and tasks drawn from C-TOC, a computerized cognitive test being designed for older adults. The abstract and real-world tasks were designed to require equivalent motor skills. Sixteen older adult participants completed both types of tasks using a touchscreen and a mouse. The touchscreen was faster for both task types but somewhat more error-prone. However, the speed advantage of touchscreens for abstract tasks did not translate evenly to the corresponding real-world tasks. A KLM was used to explain the different speed gains in real-world tasks by incorporating both physical and cognitive components. As a self-administered test, C-TOC, would benefit from richer performance measures, beyond speed and accuracy, to compensate for the lack of a clinician observer who is typically present in comparable paper-based cognitive tests. We looked into the movement patterns of a real-world dragging task – the C-TOC Pattern Construction task – and found that older adults naturally adopted different movement patterns between devices: they tended to make shorter moves and a greater number of moves on a touchscreen than with a mouse. This indicates that careful device-based calibration will be needed for new performance metrics in computerized tests.
International Conversations in Numbers
Creators: name: García-Holgado, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: WYRED; H2020; Digital Society; Youth; Online conversations

description: The WYRED (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) project has celebrated its sixth face-to-face meeting in Belfast (North Ireland) from March 11th – 13th. This presentation gives information about the participations if the online international conversations carried out since the beginning of January 2019.
UHECR by lightest nuclei in Nearby Universe and its parasite neutrino trace
Creators: name: Fargion, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: UHECR mystery survived first Auger claims of AGN connection within a GZK (100 Mpc size) Universe. Last 2010 UHECR maps and compositions do show a much lower correlation with AGN SuperGalactic maps and with protons (the two main ingredient of that claim). The three main AUGER results that survived are: an embarrassing absence of Virgo cluster UHECR, somehow an expected signal; a steady presence of Cen-A clustering and a remarkable signature of nuclei (not nucleon) composition. We claim that the He-like lightest nuclei may solve most of the puzzle: He UHECR cannot arrive from Virgo because light nuclei fragility and opacity; Cen-A UHECR are spread (if He-Li-Be) as much as the observed ones; the light nuclei may fit well Auger composition signature as well as Hires spectra. Future multiplet of half energy UHECR (Eth/Z around 15-30 EeV) must trace in tails overlapping around some of higher UHECR spread . Their secondaries GZK neutrinos will crowd not at thousand PeV as GZK photopion foresee, but more at tens PeV observable maybe in ICECUBE and-or by horizontal tau airshowers in ARGO or by upward tau airshowers nearest to Auger and TA fluorescence telescopes.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures, ICRC2011
Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Mercer County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Carey, Daniel I.
name: Eclov, Peter
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006

description: Abstract:
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
From level to field : factors influencing student choice of undergraduate field of study
Creators: name: Breton-Skagen, Camille
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: As universities face unprecedented numbers of applicants, competition for access to the more prestigious fields of higher education has become increasingly important. This study focuses on “what one studies” rather than “where one studies” based on how a student’s family background (as measured both by socioeconomic status and ethnicity) and gender influence their choice of undergraduate field of study. This paper addresses two main theoretical traditions: the “liberated” theory and Effectively Maintained Inequality (EMI). Whereas the latter suggests that social background may actually become more important for later transitions than for earlier ones, the “liberated” theory emphasizes that as children age, they become more independent of parents and therefore social background effects are lower for later transitions and less likely to impact student’s choice of field. The data for this study are drawn from Statistics Canada’s National Graduate Survey (NGS) of 2007 (class of 2005) and 2013 (class of 2009-2010). I conduct logistic and OLS regressions in order to assess the influence of a variety of independent variables, such as socioeconomic status, on the dependent variable “Field of study”, measured using 3 types of dichotomous codings: cultural fields, professional fields, and hard sciences, as well as the categorical coding of field by average income. Findings are not in keeping with the EMI theory, but rather lean towards a more “liberated” theory of choice of undergraduate field of study. Indeed, instead of maintaining the intergenerational transmission of status, as EMI predicts, field of study may well weaken the disadvantageous effect of family background, thereby providing a means for upward social mobility for lower SES students.
Additional file 11 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 10. Supplemental material 2. Contour plots of all participants including a table with all MFI values per population. DN = double negative population, DP = double positive population, IgA dom = IgA dominant population.
Projecto «Ius Lusitaniae: Fontes Históricas do Direito Português»
Creators: name: Cardim, Pedro
name: Xavier, Ângela Barreto
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Simple system to measure the Earth's magnetic field
Creators: name: Akoglu, R.
name: Halilsoy, M.
name: Mazharimousavi, S. Habib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our aim in this proposal is by using the Faraday's law of induction as a simple lecture demonstration to measure the Earth's magnetic field (B). This will also enable the students to learn about how electric power is generated from the rotational motion. Obviously the idea is not original, yet it may be attractive in the sense that no sophisticated devices are used.
Multi-domain ferroelectricity as a limiting factor for voltage amplification in ferroelectric field-effect transistors
Creators: name: Cano, A.
name: Jimenez, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revise the possibility of having an amplified surface potential in ferroelectric field-effect transistors pointed out by [S. Salahuddin and S. Datta, Nano Lett. 8, 405 (2008)]. We show that the negative-capacitance regime that allows for such an amplification is actually bounded by the appearance of multi-domain ferroelectricity. This imposes a severe limit to the maximum step-up of the surface potential obtainable in the device. We indicate new device design rules taking into account this scenario.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 2 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Correlation between bacteria bound IgA and IgG. Correlation between bacteria bound IgA and IgG during menstrual bleeding; time point 1 (T = 1), 7-11 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 2 (T = 2) and 17-25 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 3 (T = 3). Data visualized as 10log coating index (CI, coating index = percentage of immunoglobulin bound bacteria * median fluorescence intensity).
Assessing the impact of policies and regulations on log supply : a British Columbia case study
Creators: name: Mojahednia, Mahsa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: British Columbia is one of the major log producers in Canada and is somewhat unique compared to the rest of the world since the majority of its forests are publicly owned. Log supply is the key underlying economic driver in the performance of British Columbia’s wood-products industry. Despite its importance, little work has been done recently to analyze it. Moreover, there have been significant changes in markets and policies in the past decade that needs to be addressed in these analysis. This research investigates the impacts of government policies and market changes on British Columbia`s log supply. The objectives of this research are (1) to develop a log supply model for British Columbia regions (coast and interior) and (2) to identify relationships between government and market factors and log supply. Monthly time-series data from 2000 to 2013 were used to develop regional regression models for log supply. These models take into account differences in log quality as well as log prices, cost of labour, seasonality, and policy. The methodology used in this research is based on developing simultaneous equations models where the price is endogenously determined at the intersection of the demand and supply models. Two Stage Least Square (2SLS) method is used to estimate the models. The results showed that log supply is elastic in the coast region and inelastic in the interior. Own price elasticity was significant in all regions with respect to different grades except for the low grade logs in the interior. Changes in policy impacted the log supply and harvest levels in BC. These changes in the policy included the elimination of minimum harvest levels and introducing take or pay policy. Costs and other market factors such as wage and log export price impacted log supply but the effect differs based on the region and log quality. Seasonality is the other factor impacting log supply in all regions and for all log types.
Use of 2G coated conductors for efficient shielding of DC magnetic fields
Creators: name: Fagnard, J. -F.
name: Dirickx, M.
name: Levin, G. A.
name: Barnes, P. N.
name: Vanderheyden, B.
name: Vanderbemden, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation of the performance of two types of magnetic screens assembled from YBa2Cu3O7-d (YBCO) coated conductors. Since effective screening of the axial DC magnetic field requires the unimpeded flow of an azimuthal persistent current, we demonstrate a configuration of a screening shell made out of standard YBCO coated conductor capable to accomplish that. The screen allows the persistent current to flow in the predominantly azimuthal direction at a temperature of 77 K. The persistent screen, incorporating a single layer of superconducting film, can attenuate an external magnetic field of up to 5 mT by more than an order of magnitude. For comparison purposes, another type of screen which incorporates low critical temperature quasi-persistent joints was also built. The shielding technique we describe here appears to be especially promising for the realization of large scale high-Tc superconducting screens.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Neutrino Solar Flare detection for a saving alert system of satellites and astronauts
Creators: name: Fargion, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Largest Solar Neutrino Flare may be soon detectable by Deep Core neutrino detector immediately and comunicate to satellites or astronauts. Its detection is the fastest manifestation of a later (tens minutes,hours) dangerous cosmic shower. The precursor trigger maybe saving satellites and even long flight astronauts lives. We shall suggest how. Moreover their detection may probe the inner solar flare acceleration place as well as the neutrino flavor mixing in a new different parameter windows. We show the updated expected rate and signature of neutrinos and antineutrinos in largest solar flare for present tens Megaton Deep Core telescope at tens Gev range. Speculation for additional Icecube gigaton array signals are also considered.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, ICRC 2011
SHIP deficiency is associated with the Crohn’s disease susceptibility variant in ATG16L1 and leads to increased interleukin-1beta transcription and intestinal autoinflammation
Creators: name: Ngoh, Eyler Ndumeya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Crohn`s disease (CD) is a polygenic immune-mediated disease of the gastrointestinal tract characterized by chronic inflammation. The SH2-domain-containing inositol polyphosphate 5΄phosphatase (SHIP) is a hematopoietic-specific negative regulator of inflammatory cytokine production and plays an important role in regulating immune homeostasis. Using the SHIP deficient mouse model of intestinal inflammation, we found that IL-1β is increased in SHIP-/- mouse macrophages due to increased class I PI3K p110α activity. Macrophage depletion or treatment with an IL-1 receptor antagonist reduced development of intestinal inflammation in SHIP-/- mice. To interrogate if SHIP is dysregulated in people with ileal CD, we demonstrate that subjects with ileal CD have reduced SHIP mRNA expression and enzymatic activity at sites of inflammation and in PBMCs, compared to control subjects. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the gene encoding ATG16L1 (T300A) causes an autophagy defect and is associated with increased IL-1β production and susceptibility to CD. In all tissues from our patient cohort and in PBMCs from a second healthy control cohort, subjects, who were homozygous for the CD-associated ATG16L1 T300A encoding gene variant, had reduced SHIP mRNA expression and enzymatic activity, which correlated with increased IL-1β production. In addition, starvation-induced autophagy increased SHIP protein levels, which were reduced in the presence of the ATG16L1 CD-associated risk allele. Examining the effects of additional autophagy and CD-related gene variants, which may affect SHIP mRNA expression and enzymatic activity, on IL-1β production in PBMCs from a cohort of healthy control subjects, we found that the NOD2 rs2066844 and the XBP-1 rs35873774 gene variants were associated with increased IL-1β production in response to specific PAMPs. Collectively, these data identify SHIP up-regulation as a novel mechanism by which autophagy regulates IL-1β production and intestinal autoinflammation. Our findings also identify a subgroup of CD patients that could be amenable to treatment with therapy that targets IL-1β.
Selfdecomposable Laws Associated with Hyperbolic Functins
Creators: name: Jurek, Zbigniew J.
name: Yor, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60E07, 60E10, secondary 60B11, 60G51

description: It is shown that the hyperbolic functions can be associated with selfdecomposable distributions (in short: SD probability distributions or Lévy class L probability laws). Consequently, they admit associated background driving Lévy processes $Y$ (BDLP Y). We interpret the distributions of Y(1) via Bessel squared processes, Bessel bridges and local times.
Highly efficient enantioselective liquid-liquid extraction of 1,2-amino-alcohols using SPINOL based phosphoric acid hosts
Creators: name: Pinxterhuis, Erik B.
name: Gualtierotti, Jean-Baptiste
name: Heeres, Hero J.
name: De Vries, Johannes G.
name: Feringa, Ben L.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Enantioselectivity
subject: Liquids
subject: Phosphoric acid
subject: Solvent extraction
subject: Chemical principles
subject: Cost-efficient
subject: Enantiopure compounds
subject: Enantioselection
subject: Enantioselective
subject: Liquid-liquid extraction
subject: Resolution systems
subject: Solvent dependencies
subject: Extraction
subject: 540

description: Access to enantiopure compounds on large scale in an environmentally friendly and cost-efficient manner remains one of the greatest challenges in chemistry. Resolution of racemates using enantioselective liquid-liquid extraction has great potential to meet that challenge. However, a relatively feeble understanding of the chemical principles and physical properties behind this technique has hampered the development of hosts possessing sufficient resolving power for their application to large scale processes. Herein we present, employing the previously untested SPINOL based phosphoric acids host family, an in depths study of the parameters affecting the efficiency of the resolution of amino-alcohols in the optic of further understanding the core principles behind ELLE. We have systematically investigated the dependencies of the enantioselection by parameters such as the choice of solvent, the temperature, as well as the pH and bring to light many previously unsuspected and highly intriguing interactions. Furthermore, utilizing these new insights to our advantage, we developed novel, highly efficient, extraction and resolving protocols which provide remarkable levels of enantioselectivity. It was shown that the extraction is catalytic in host by demonstrating transport in a U-tube and finally it was demonstrated how the solvent dependency could be exploited in an unprecedented triphasic resolution system.
Reconstruction in quantum field theory with a fundamental length
Creators: name: Soloviev, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T05, 81T10, 46N50, 46F15

description: In this paper, we establish an analog of Wightman's reconstruction theorem for nonlocal quantum field theory with a fundamental length. In our setting, the Wightman generalized functions are defined on test functions analytic in a complex l-neighborhood of the real space and are localizable at scales large compared to l. The causality condition is formulated as continuity of the field commutator in an appropriate topology associated with the light cone. We prove that the relevant function spaces are nuclear and derive the kernel theorems for the corresponding classes of multilinear functionals, which provides the basis for the reconstruction procedure. Special attention is given to the accurate determination of the domain of the reconstructed quantum fields in the Hilbert space of states. We show that the primitive common invariant domain must be suitably extended to implement the (quasi)localizability and causality conditions.
description: LaTeX, 23 pages, no figures
Examining the deployment of overt and covert attention to social stimuli in naturalistic and laboratory environments
Creators: name: Laidlaw, Kaitlin Elizabeth Wiggins
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The study of social attention has in large part been constrained to studying how individuals look to images or videos of other people within highly controlled and isolated laboratory environments. The belief is that measuring responses to non-interactive images or videos of people can serve to inform and predict everyday social attentional behaviours. However, this implicit assumption has gone relatively untested. In order to better characterize how and why people pay attention to others, the present thesis explores the proposition that social attentional processes are generalizable across levels of realism and scale. In so doing, this thesis describes social attentional deployment based on whether it is oriented overtly (shifting attention with the eyes) or covertly (shifting attention without an eye movement), within both naturalistic and laboratory environments. Chapters 2 and 3 explore whether and how social attention is directed to nearby others within naturalistic environments, and identifies major departures from conclusions that were generated using computer-based laboratory tasks. In particular, the results of the first two chapters suggest a weakened role for overt orienting and a strong reliance on covert mechanisms. Chapter 4 confirms that a covert bias to social stimuli can also be observed within the lab. Chapter 5 moves away from initial selection of social stimuli within the environment to explore how attention is deployed to facial features once a person is already attended to, and demonstrates a non-volitional drive to overtly orient attention to the eyes. Finally, Chapter 6 asks whether overt and covert attentional selection of socially-relevant facial features have different behavioural effects, and reveals an important functional benefit of orienting attention overtly rather than covertly during face encoding for later recognition. Collectively, the results of this thesis support a generalized importance of attending to social stimuli and also extend upon previous work to demonstrate that the deployment of social attention is modulated by the level of selection required, as well as degree of interaction afforded by the situation.
V Semana de Estudos Medievais: «No Reino dos Céus: a investigação recente em história da Igreja em Portugal»
Creators: name: Farelo, Mário
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Damage modelling for performance-based earthquake engineering
Creators: name: Javaherian Yazdi, Abbas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The overarching objective in this work is to advance damage modelling for performance-based earthquake engineering. To achieve this objective, this thesis provides a new vision, technique, and software framework for the assessment of seismic damage and loss to building components. The advent of performance-based earthquake engineering placed a renewed emphasis on the assessment of damage and monetary loss in structural engineering. Assessment of seismic damage and loss for decision making entails two ingredients. First, models that predict the detailed damage to building components; second, a probabilistic framework that simulates damage and delivers the monetary loss for the reliability, risk, and optimization analysis. This motivates the contributions in this thesis, which are summarized in the following paragraphs. First, a literature review is conducted on models, techniques and experimental studies that address component damage due to earthquakes. The existing approaches for prediction of the seismic damage, repair actions, and costs are examined. The objective in this part is to establish a knowledge bank that facilitates the subsequent development of probabilistic models for seismic damage. Second, a logistic regression technique is employed for developing multivariate models that predict the probability of sustaining discrete damage states. It is demonstrated that the logistic regression remedies several shortcomings in univariate damage models, such as univariate fragility curves. The multivariate damage models are developed for reinforced concrete shear walls using experimental data. A search algorithm for model selection is included. It is found that inter-story drift and aspect ratio of walls are amongst the most influential parameters on the damage. Third, an object-oriented software framework for detailed simulation of visual damage is developed. The work builds on the existing software Rt. Emphasis is on the software framework, which facilitates detailed simulation of component behaviour, including visual damage. Information about visual damage allows the prediction of repair actions, which in turn improves our ability to predict the time and cost of repair.
Cobalt-catalysed reductive C-H alkylation of indoles using carboxylic acids and molecular hydrogen
Creators: name: Cabrero-Antonino, Jose R.
name: Adam, Rosa
name: Junge, Kathrin
name: Beller, Matthias
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Alkenylation
subject: Alkylation
subject: Carboxylic acids
subject: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
subject: Control experiments
subject: Functionalizations
subject: Indole derivatives
subject: Molecular hydrogen
subject: Non-precious metals
subject: Reaction conditions
subject: Reductive alkylation
subject: Substituted indoles
subject: Catalysts
subject: 540

description: The direct CH-alkylation of indoles using carboxylic acids is presented for the first time. The catalytic system based on the combination of Co(acac)3 and 1,1,1-tris(diphenylphosphinomethyl)-ethane (Triphos, L1), in the presence of Al(OTf)3 as co-catalyst, is able to perform the reductive alkylation of 2-methyl-1H-indole with a wide range of carboxylic acids. The utility of the protocol was further demonstrated through the C3 alkylation of several substituted indole derivatives using acetic, phenylacetic or diphenylacetic acids. In addition, a careful selection of the reaction conditions allowed to perform the selective C3 alkenylation of some indole derivatives. Moreover, the alkenylation of C2 position of 3-methyl-1H-indole was also possible. Control experiments indicate that the aldehyde, in situ formed from the carboxylic acid hydrogenation, plays a central role in the overall process. This new protocol enables the direct functionalization of indoles with readily available and stable carboxylic acids using a non-precious metal based catalyst and hydrogen as reductant.
Optimal design of duct silencers in naturally-ventilated buildings
Creators: name: Vasudevan Shankar, Vivek
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Natural-ventilation systems in sustainable buildings rely on wind and buoyancy effects to ensure sufficient airflow though the building. To promote airflow, these buildings have openings that connect rooms and common spaces. These openings are usually made as large as possible to maximize airflow across connected spaces. Large openings result in noise ingress between these spaces, leading to poor noise isolation and speech privacy. The performance of these openings needs to be optimized -- meaning the sound isolation of these openings has to be improved, with minimal impact on the airflow performance. Previous work by Bibby investigated openings in thin partitions. This study addresses the problem of openings in thick partitions, which essentially are short ducts, as well as long ducts that deliver air-flow to different building levels. Simple surrogate models were developed from symbolic regression; they can be used as a provisional tool for predicting the sound and airflow performance of ducts with absorptive lining and baffle inserts. This tool can be used in the design phase to build optimal ducts, or for retrofit noise control. Predicted results from 2D Finite Element Analysis were used as the input data-set to build these surrogate models. Novel methods were used to extend the surrogate model into the 3D domain and to model complex duct configurations. Different configurations of sound absorbers (duct lining and baffles) were tested to identify optimal designs. The use of scale-models of ducts to study their real-life performance was also investigated. The surrogate models were validated experimentally in a 1:4-scale-model facility, by applying appropriate scaling laws, and were found to capture the general trend of the acoustics and airflow performance within acceptable accuracy. Finally guidelines for designers were proposed based on results from the surrogate models, experiments and FEA.
Unprecedented selective homogeneous cobalt-catalysed reductive alkoxylation of cyclic imides under mild conditions
Creators: name: Cabrero-Antonino, Jose R.
name: Adam, Rosa
name: Papa, Veronica
name: Holsten, Mattes
name: Junge, Kathrin
name: Beller, Matthias
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Amines
subject: Catalysis
subject: Synthesis (chemical)
subject: Aromatic rings
subject: Carbonyl groups
subject: Functionalized
subject: Isolated yield
subject: N-heterocyclic compounds
subject: One-step process
subject: Reductive couplings
subject: Tricyclic compounds
subject: Cobalt
subject: 540

description: The first general and efficient non-noble metal-catalysed reductive C2-alkoxylation of cyclic imides (phthalimides and succinimides) is presented. Crucial for the success is the use of [Co(BF4)2·6H2O/triphos (L1)] combination and no external additives are required. Using the optimal cobalt-system, the hydrogenation of the aromatic ring of the parent phthalimide is avoided and only one of the carbonyl groups is selectively functionalized. The resulting products, N- and aryl-ring substituted 3-alkoxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindolin-1-one and N-substituted 3-alkoxy-pyrrolidin-2-one derivatives, are prepared under mild conditions in good to excellent isolated yields. Intramolecular reductive couplings can also be performed affording tricyclic compounds in a one-step process. The present protocol opens the way to the development of new base-metal processes for the straightforward synthesis of functionalized N-heterocyclic compounds of pharmaceutical and biological interest.
D. António Caetano Maciel Calheiros, Arcebispo de Lacedemónia: notas para uma biografia pessoal e institucional
Creators: name: Ponces, Teresa
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Este texto tem como fim revelar dados biográficos e institucionais relativos a´D. António Caetano Maciel Calheiros. Natural de Viana do Castelo, nasce a 25 de Junho de 1734. Como freire conventual de S. Bento de Avis, frequenta o Colégio dos Militares de Coimbra para cursar Cânones na Universidade. Mais tarde, aqui torna-se lente e ali reitor. Dirige-se para Lisboa na sequência de ter sido eleito ministro de hábito prelatício da Igreja Patriarcal, em 1779. É então nomeado provisor e vigário-geral do Patriarcado e no ano imediato preconizado arcebispo de Lacedemónia. Já na posse do título arquiepiscopal, D. António Maciel Calheiros integra o Conselho de Sua Majestade e desempenha funções na Real Mesa Censória, destacando-se como a segunda figura da administração episcopal, logo abaixo do bispo diocesano. Chega ainda a assumir, na década de oitenta do século XVIII, as responsabilidades do ordinário próprio, voltando pontualmente a estar à frente dos destinos da diocese. Foi presidente da Cúria Patriarcal, quase quatro décadas, vindo a falecer no dia 8 de Fevereiro de 1820.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
$γ^{*}$-semi-open Sets in Topological Spaces-II
Creators: name: Hussain, Sabir
name: Ahmad, Bashir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54A05, 54A10, 54D10

description: In this paper, we continue studying the properties of $γ^{*}$-semi-open sets in topological spaces introduced by S. Hussain, B. Ahmad and T. Noiri[8]. We also introduce and discuss the $γ^{*}$-semi-continuous functions which generalize semi-continuous functions defined by N. Levine [10].
description: This paper have been published in Southeast Asain Bulletin of Mathematics
Efficient and selective hydrogenation of amides to alcohols and amines using a well-defined manganese-PNN pincer complex
Creators: name: Papa, Veronica
name: Cabrero-Antonino, Jose R.
name: Alberico, Elisabetta
name: Spanneberg, Anke
name: Junge, Kathrin
name: Junge, Henrik
name: Beller, Matthias
Publisher: name: Cambridge : RSC
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Amides
subject: Amines
subject: Catalyst selectivity
subject: Hydrogenation
subject: Aromatic amides
subject: High activity
subject: Pincer complexes
subject: Selective hydrogenation
subject: Tertiary amides
subject: Manganese compounds
subject: 540

description: Novel well-defined NNP and PNP manganese pincer complexes have been synthetized and fully characterized. The catalyst Mn-2 containing an imidazolyaminolphosphino ligand shows high activity and selectivity in the hydrogenation of a wide range of secondary and tertiary amides to the corresponding alcohols and amines, under relatively mild conditions. For the first time, more challenging substrates like primary aromatic amides including an actual herbicide can also be hydrogenated using this earth-abundant metal-based pincer catalyst.
Circadian rhythm and cell population growth
Creators: name: Clairambault, Jean
name: Gaubert, Stephane
name: Lepoutre, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Molecular circadian clocks, that are found in all nucleated cells of mammals, are known to dictate rhythms of approximately 24 hours (circa diem) to many physiological processes. This includes metabolism (e.g., temperature, hormonal blood levels) and cell proliferation. It has been observed in tumor-bearing laboratory rodents that a severe disruption of these physiological rhythms results in accelerated tumor growth. The question of accurately representing the control exerted by circadian clocks on healthy and tumour tissue proliferation to explain this phenomenon has given rise to mathematical developments, which we review. The main goal of these previous works was to examine the influence of a periodic control on the cell division cycle in physiologically structured cell populations, comparing the effects of periodic control with no control, and of different periodic controls between them. We state here a general convexity result that may give a theoretical justification to the concept of cancer chronotherapeutics. Our result also leads us to hypothesize that the above mentioned effect of disruption of circadian rhythms on tumor growth enhancement is indirect, that, is this enhancement is likely to result from the weakening of healthy tissue that are at work fighting tumor growth.
Real Archicofradía de Nuestro Señor Jesús de los Pasos de Olivenza (Badajoz): documentos para su historia
Creators: name: López, Manuel Salamanca
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Os antecedentes da Real Archicofradía de Nosso Senhor Jesús dos Passos remontam ao século XVI, coincidindo com o falecimento de Leonor Velha, viúva de Pedro Borges, quem por testamento de 10 de agosto de 1556 instituiu uma capela em honra de Santa Ana. Entre os muros da ermida estabeleceu-se uma confraria, denominada de Santa Ana, em honra de sua Patrona, da qual nasceu no ano 1579 a congregação das Chagas de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo. Assim se terá mantido até ao momento da anexação de Olivença a Espanha no ano 1801, pois, segundo parece, a Irmandade foi criada ou refundada anos depois, concretamente em 1811, sob o nome atual. Os frutos mais visíveis desta dupla nacionalidade da Confraria comprovam-se na celebração da Semana Santa oliventina, onde participa desde o século XVI enriquecendo-a com contribuições de pura tradição portuguesa como a “paderinha”.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
From Galilean Relativity to Quantum Gravity : Three Issues, c, h, G, concerning Time, Matter and Inertia
Creators: name: Provost, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An odd look at "standard" physics (Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Dirac) leading to a radical change of our concept of inertial motion and to new heuristic approaches of gravitation and the cosmological constant.
La Journée de la démocratie en Rhénanie-Palatinat en tant que plateforme d’éducation à la démocratie et à la participation
Creators: name: Kreiner-Wolf, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rheinland-Pfalz
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4049795-1
subject: Politischer Unterricht
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4076231-2
subject: Demokratische Erziehung
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4149063-0

description: La Rhénanie-Palatinat organise depuis 2006 une Journée de la démocratie à l’échelle du Land. Elle sert à promouvoir l’échange, la sensibilisation du public et la valorisation de tout ce qui favorise la démocratie et l’engagement. Son succès est le résultat d’un partenariat vivant et solide.
Truncated Mellin moments: Useful relations and implications for the spin structure function $g_2$
Creators: name: Kotlorz, D.
name: Kotlorz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review our previous studies of truncated Mellin moments of parton distributions. We show in detail the derivation of the evolution equation for double truncated moments. The obtained splitting function has the same rescaled form as in a case of the single truncated moments. We apply the truncated moments formalism to QCD analyses of the spin structure functions of the nucleon, $g_1$ and $g_2$. We generalize the Wandzura-Wilczek relation in terms of the truncated moments and find new sum rules. We derive the DGLAP-like evolution equation for the twist-2 part of $g_2$ and solve it numerically. We find also useful relations between the truncated and untruncated moments.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 3 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Median Fluorescence Intensity (MFI) per bacterium. The MFI of immunoglobulins bound to bacteria was measured during menstrual bleeding; time point 1 (T = 1), 7-11 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 2 (T = 2) and 17-25 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 3 (T = 3) and divided by the percentage of bacteria with bound IgA or IgG. Red line represents the median.
Loucas relações entre Clemente XIV e Pombal sobre a extinção da Companhia de Jesus
Creators: name: Lopes, António
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: O autor, tendo por base a documentação publicada nas obras Collecção dos Negocios de Roma... e Portugal em Roma, esta última da responsabilidade de José de Castro, aborda a correspondência trocada entre o papa Clemente XIV e o Marquês de Pombal nos anos que vão de 1769 a 1774. A correspondência documenta a comunicação entre ambos, envolvendo a troca de presentes e de expressões de cortesia. É dada relevância à correspondência que refere o processo de elaboração e de transmissão do breve Dominus ac Redemptor, pelo qual é extinta a Companhia de Jesus, e ao papel das figuras do Comendador Francisco de Almada de Mendonça (primo do Marquês de Pombal) e de Mons. Vicente Macedónio (Secretário da Congregação dos Ritos) neste mesmo processo.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755