cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Synthesis of High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles and Compounds Using Germanium-Based Nanostructures
Creators: Ni, Chuyi
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

High-entropy alloy nanoparticles and compounds exhibit significant potential in various emerging energy storage and conversion fields due to their compositional flexibility for precise tuning of desired functionalities. The research described in this thesis aims to explore germanium-based nanostructures for the synthesis of high-entropy alloy nanoparticles and compounds.

In Chapter 1, the principles of high-entropy alloys, nanoparticles, and compounds are introduced. The most common synthetic methods that provide high-entropy alloy nanoparticles are discussed, highlighting the importance of rapid heating and cooling. Additionally, a compilation of high-entropy compounds is presented. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of germanium nanostructures, including nanoparticles and nanosheets, and the synthetic methodologies used to prepare them.

Chapter 2 outlines a method for introducing a suite of metal nanoparticles (i.e., Au, Ag, Cu, Pd, Pt) onto the surfaces of germanium nanosheets (GeNSs). Characterization confirming the integrity of the GeNS structure and the formation of metal nanoparticles is then discussed. The resulting materials are investigated as photocatalysts for the selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol, demonstrating higher efficiency compared to freestanding metal nanoparticles and GeNSs. The direct linking of metal nanoparticles to GeNSs showcases a synergistic effect, and thin films of the decorated GeNSs offer convenient catalyst recovery and recyclability.

Chapter 3 details the deposition of high-entropy alloy nanoparticles onto various germanium surfaces through surface-mediated reduction. Techniques including XRD, FTIR, XPS, and TEM confirm the structure, composition, and morphology of the resulting nanoparticles. Freestanding high-entropy alloy nanoparticles can be liberated from GeNSs via UV light irradiation while maintaining their single-phase solid solution structure. This methodology is extended to different germanium substrates.

Chapter 4 introduces a method for preparing high-entropy germanides through rapid thermal annealing, presenting two types of high-entropy germanides (i.e., AuAgCuPdPtGe and FeCoNiCrVGe). XRD, XPS, and TEM analyses confirm the synthesis and composition of the high-entropy germanides. The formation and growth mechanisms are studied using in situ heating experiments, revealing a multi-stage process involving the initial decomposition of germanane, followed by gradual grain growth and rapid grain growth at elevated temperatures. A summary of the experimental chapters is provided in Chapter 5, along with future research directions.
Zvoni za mir
Creators: name: Bačić, Lovorka
Publisher: name: Centar za mirovne studije
Year: 2009
Subjects: mir
obrazovanje

description: Centar za mirovne studije zalaže se za uvođenje mirovnog obrazovanja u formalni obrazovni sustav. Ovom publikacijom želimo predstaviti temeljna polazišta te razjasniti načela i vrijednosti na kojima se obrazovanje za mir temelji, kao i sadržaje te metode koje smatramo neodvojivim dijelom mirovnog obrazovanja koje zagovaramo. Također, ovdje izlažemo što edukacija za mir predstavlja (u europskom, ali posebice domaćem kontekstu), u čemu je njena važnost i vrijednost te, posredno, objašnjavamo svoje motive i uvjerenje o potrebi uvođenja ove komponente u formalnom obrazovnom sustavu u Republici Hrvatskoj. U publikaciji se nalazi analiza šireg društvenog konteksta u odnosu na pojam mira odnosno izgradnje mira u društvu i mirovnog obrazovanja te analiza postojećih obrazovnih sadržaja i programa koji imaju elemente obrazovanja za mir, a provode se unutar formalnog obrazovnog sustava. U ovom dijelu razmatraju se promjene u odgojno-obrazovnom sustavu te odnos između ciljeva i prakse provođenja ovih programa, kao i poteškoće i prepreke u njihovoj svrsishodnijoj provedbi. U nastavku se izlažu neki nalazi istraživanja koje je proveo Centar za ljudska prava, a koje smatramo relevantnim pokazateljima problematike neusklađenosti ciljeva i prakse u provođenju Nacionalnog programa obrazovanja za ljudska prava te su važni za obrazlaganje potrebe uvođenja mirovnog obrazovanja u sustav formalnog obrazovanja.

Uz navedeno predstavljamo nekoliko primjera dobre prakse sličnih odnosno komplementarnih programa koji se provode u europskim državama, a koji kroz obrazovanje za aktivne građane podučavaju o nekim sadržajima i vrijednostima sadržanima u mirovnom obrazovanju.

U dodatku ovoj publikaciji predstavljamo analizu relevantnih dokumenata i obrazovnih politika koje se tiču izgradnje mira i njihove provedbe, kao i preporuke za unapređenje obrazovnih politika koje su proizašle iz analize i istraživanja „Mladi i izgradnja mira“. Na kraju ove publikacije nalaze se preporuke za integraciju mirovnih sadržaja u formalni obrazovni sustav koje su osmišljene i razrađene kroz širi konzultacijski proces s predstavnicima/ama mirovnih organizacijama mladih s područja Balkana, euromediteranske regije i država Europske unije te s nekim stručnjacima/kinjama iz Hrvatske.
Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds on Honeycomb Zeolite: Experimental and Modeling Approaches
Creators: Esfandiar Pour, Sina
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Honeycomb adsorbents demonstrate the capacity to treat high flowrate gas streams with lower pressure drop compared to packed bed adsorbents. Zeolite honeycombs exhibit considerable potential for the adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Zeolite honeycomb adsorber design, operating, and modeling could be challenging due to the variety of parameters affecting its performance. The goal of this research is to develop and validate a model to investigate the adsorptive behavior of VOCs on honeycomb adsorbents. The proposed models are adaptable and capable of responding to variations in design and operational parameters, such as alterations in the scale of the adsorber, humidity levels, gas stream flowrate, initial concentration of VOCs, type of adsorbent and adsorbate, as well as structural parameters of the honeycomb.

This research can be divided into three sections. The very first section investigated the adsorption performance of two honeycomb zeolites and beaded activated carbon (BAC) under relevant industrial conditions. The adsorbents were evaluated in terms of equilibrium and cyclic adsorption capacity, and heel buildup (Chapter 3). Furthermore, the study delved into the impact of critical operational parameters on the regeneration performance of zeolite honeycombs. This investigation was carried out utilizing a design of experiment  approach to systematically explore and analyze these parameters (Chapter 4). The second section of the thesis centered on the simulation of VOC adsorption on honeycomb adsorbents using a coupled mass and momentum model to describe the dynamic adsorption of a single VOC over honeycomb structured zeolite under industrial operating conditions covering the effect of initial concentration and gas flowrate (Chapter 5), presence of humidity (Chapter 6), and effect of structural parameters of the honeycomb adsorbent (Chapter 7) to enhance its performance in VOC adsorption processes. The accuracy of the developed model was assessed through a series of experimental tests conducted under various operating conditions, including different inlet VOC concentrations, gas flowrate, and relative humidity levels. The third section of this research employed a combination of additive manufacturing, specifically direct ink writing (DIW), and computational fluid dynamic simulation as a rapid method to analyze the VOC adsorption performance of honeycomb structure adsorbents prior to mass production. This section demonstrated that the DIW approach can be effectively utilized to tailor the design of adsorbents based on the developed model, thereby enhancing their pollutant adsorption capabilities for specific applications.
Approximation Scheme for Vehicle Routing Problems
Creators: Ren, Zhong
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

In this thesis we consider the point to point orienteering and deadline traveling salesman problems on graphs with bounded treewidth and graphs with consant doubling dimension and present approximation schemes for them.

These are extensions of the classic Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Suppose we are given a (weighted) graph $G=(V,E)$. In point to point orienteering we are given a length budget $B$, start and end nodes $s,t \in V$ and the goal is to find a path of length at most $B$ starting at $s$ and ending at $t$ that visits as many vertices as possible. In deadline TSP we are given a start node $s\in V$ and $D(v) \geq 0$ (called deadline) for all $v\in V$ and the goal is to find a path starting at $s$ that visits as many vertices as possible before their deadline (where the visit time of a node is the distance travelled from $s$ to that node). On general metrics, the best approximation for point to point orienteering is $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation \cite{chekuri2012improved} and $O(\log n)$-approximation for deadline TSP \cite{bansal2004approximation}. On Euclidean space, \cite{chen2008euclidean} shows a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for rooted oritenteering. For graphs with bounded treewidth $\omega$ we show point to point orienteering can be solved exactly in polynomial time and a quasi-polynomial time approximation scheme (QPTAS) for deadline TSP when the distances are quasi-poly bounded and integers. For graphs with constant doubling dimension, we show QPTAS for point to point orienteering when the distances are quasi-poly bounded and a QPTAS for deadilne TSP when the distances are quasi-poly bounded and integers.
Supplementary document for Comprehensive study of Ag/Au-TiO2 composite thin films for tunable LSPR absorption - 6595260.pdf
Creators: name: Mukhametkarimov, Yerzhan
name: YERGALIYEVA, Saule
name: Nemkayeva, Renata
name: Gusseinov, Nazim
name: Prikhodko, Oleg
name: Arbuz, Aleksandr
name: Orynbay, Bakytzhan
name: Sagidolda, Yerulan
name: Aitzhanov, Madi
name: Ismailova, Guzal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplement document
Supplemental material for Extreme-value sampling design is cost-beneficial only with a valid statistical approach for exposure–secondary outcome association analyses
Creators: name: Zhang, Hang
name: Bi, Wenjian
name: Cui, Yuehua
name: Chen, Honglei
name: Chen, Jinbo
name: Zhao, Yanlong
name: Kang, Guolian
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Nursing not elsewhere classified
Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

description: Supplemental Material for Extreme-value sampling design is cost-beneficial only with a valid statistical approach for exposure–secondary outcome association analyses by Hang Zhang, Wenjian Bi, Yuehua Cui, Honglei Chen, Jinbo Chen, Yanlong Zhao and Guolian Kang in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Supplemental material for Handling ties in continuous outcomes for confounder adjustment with rank-ordered logit and its application to ordinal outcomes
Creators: name: Yilin Ning
name: Chuen Seng Tan
name: Maraki, Angeliki
name: Peh Joo Ho
name: Sheilagh Hodgins
name: Comasco, Erika
name: Nilsson, Kent W
name: Wagner, Philippe
name: Khoo, Eric YH
name: E-Shyong Tai
name: Kao, Shih Ling
name: Hartman, Mikael
name: Reilly, Marie
name: Støer, Nathalie C
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental Material for Handling ties in continuous outcomes for confounder adjustment with rank-ordered logit and its application to ordinal outcomes by Yilin Ning, Chuen Seng Tan, Angeliki Maraki, Peh Joo Ho, Sheilagh Hodgins, Erika Comasco, Kent W Nilsson, Philippe Wagner, Eric YH Khoo, E-Shyong Tai, Shih Ling Kao, Mikael Hartman, Marie Reilly and Nathalie C Støer in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Augmented-reality-driven medical simulation platform for percutaneous nephrolithotomy with cybersecurity awareness
Creators: name: Tai, Yonghang
name: Wei, Lei
name: Zhou, Hailing
name: Peng, Jun
name: Li, Qiong
name: Li, Feiyan
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Shi, Junsheng
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_material for Augmented-reality-driven medical simulation platform for percutaneous nephrolithotomy with cybersecurity awareness by Yonghang Tai, Lei Wei, Hailing Zhou, Jun Peng, Qiong Li, Feiyan Li, Jun Zhang and Junsheng Shi in International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
DS_10.1177_0022034519837249 – Supplemental material for Masseter Deoxygenation in Adults at Risk for Temporomandibular Disorders
Creators: name: N. Shah
name: L. Melo
name: W.D. Reid
name: I. Cioffi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0022034519837249 for Masseter Deoxygenation in Adults at Risk for Temporomandibular Disorders by N. Shah, L. Melo, W.D. Reid and I. Cioffi in Journal of Dental Research
DS_10.1177_0363546519832868 – Supplemental material for Complete Capsular Repair Restores Native Kinematics After Interportal and T-Capsulotomy
Creators: name: Baha, Pardis
name: Burkhart, Timothy A.
name: Getgood, Alan
name: Degen, Ryan M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, DS_10.1177_0363546519832868 for Complete Capsular Repair Restores Native Kinematics After Interportal and T-Capsulotomy by Pardis Baha, Timothy A. Burkhart, Alan Getgood and Ryan M. Degen in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Superfluidity of Helium-4 Films on Graphene Substrate
Creators: Yu, Sam
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

We study the ground state physics of a helium-4 monolayer adsorbed onto graphene substrate through means of quantum Monte Carlo simulations. At low temperatures, helium-4 is well-known to undergo a superfluid transition. In the presence of a modulating potential from corrugated substrates like graphene however, the situation is less clear. This thesis is primarily aimed at addressing existing controversy in the literature about whether a metastable superfluid state exists when the system is a commensurate C1/3 crystal. Starting from a detailed microscopic model, we conduct first principles quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the system at both finite and zero temperature. Our results indicate the absence of a superfluid signal in the ground state crystal, with no evidence of a low-lying fluid state.
Supporting_Information_(JEFF-18-0009)1.26 – Supplemental material for Dissolution and recovery of cellulose from pine wood bits in ionic liquids and a co-solvent component mixed system
Creators: name: Liu, Ran
name: Zhang, Juan
name: Sun, Shuang
name: Bian, Yuhang
name: Hu, Yanhui
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supporting_Information_(JEFF-18-0009)1.26 for Dissolution and recovery of cellulose from pine wood bits in ionic liquids and a co-solvent component mixed system by Ran Liu, Juan Zhang, Shuang Sun, Yuhang Bian and Yanhui Hu in Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of interventions in the early course of bipolar disorder I or II: a report of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Taskforce on early intervention
Creators: name: Ratheesh, A.
name: Hett, D.
name: Ramain, J.
name: Wong, E.
name: Berk, L.
name: Conus, P.
name: Fristad, M. A.
name: Goldstein, T.
name: Hillegers, M.
name: Jauhar, S.
name: Kessing, L. V.
name: Miklowitz, D. J.
name: Murray, G.
name: Scott, J.
name: Tohen, M.
name: Yatham, L. N.
name: Young, A. H.
name: Berk, M.
name: Marwaha, S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. GRADE assessments. Table S2. PRISMA (2020) Checklist.
Automatic Migration Percentage Measurements on Ultrasound Images
Creators: Yousefvand, Reza
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Hip displacement is a prevalent disorder in children with cerebral palsy, defined as the lateral displacement of the femur head from under the acetabulum, and leads to severe pain and difficulties in daily activities. As a result, hip surveillance programs have been developed to monitor and diagnose hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy, and ensure that appropriate interventions are made at the right time. These programs involve regular assessments of hip displacement. Migration Percentage (MP), defined as the ratio of the distance between the lateral borders of the femur head and the acetabulum (A) to the total width of the femur head (B), is the gold standard parameter of hip displacement measurement and is measured using anteroposterior X-ray imaging (MP=A/B). However, the frequent X-ray imaging in hip surveillance programs exposes children to ionizing radiation, increasing the risk of cancer development later in life. Recently, ultrasound (US) has been proposed as a non-invasive and widely accessible alternative for hip assessments. Yet, the inherently fuzzy and noisy nature of US images makes accurately identifying edges and landmarks challenging, leading to time-consuming and user-dependent manual measurements. To tackle these issues, this study aimed to develop a fast, reliable, and fully automatic algorithm to measure the MP from US images.

In the developed methodology, for each of the “A” and “B” measurements, UNets were trained to segment the hip features on the coronal hip scans. A convolution neural network was trained to score and select frames for measurement. More UNets were trained to identify the measurement features on the selected frames, and statistical analysis was applied to aggregate and finalize the measurements.

To verify the developed method, a total of 38 children with an average age of 9 ± 3.4 years old were recruited, and 62 hips were scanned in total. From the 62 scanned hips, 36 were utilized for training, 8 for validation, and 18 for testing. An experienced rater provided the X-ray measurements for all scanned hips as the ground truth. The mean absolute difference (MAD) and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC(2,1)) of the test measurements were 6.5% ± 5.5% and 0.86. The clinical acceptance rate was 72%, and the sensitivity and specificity of classification of displaced hips (MP>30) were found to be 100% and 93%. The measurement time for each hip was 105.6 seconds on average, which was 3 times faster than manual measurements. Hence, the developed method demonstrated good reliability, accuracy, and speed in MP measurements, marking a significant step towards replacing X-ray with US in hip assessments.
Liddell_Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for Neural Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, Trauma Exposure, and Postmigration Stress in Response to Fear Faces in Resettled Refugees
Creators: name: Liddell, Belinda J.
name: Cheung, Jessica
name: Outhred, Tim
name: Pritha Das
name: Gin S. Malhi
name: Felmingham, Kim L.
name: Nickerson, Angela
name: Den, Miriam
name: Askovic, Mirjana
name: Coello, Mariano
name: Aroche, Jorge
name: Bryant, Richard A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Liddell_Supplemental_Material for Neural Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, Trauma Exposure, and Postmigration Stress in Response to Fear Faces in Resettled Refugees by Belinda J. Liddell, Jessica Cheung, Tim Outhred, Pritha Das, Gin S. Malhi, Kim L. Felmingham, Angela Nickerson, Miriam Den, Mirjana Askovic, Mariano Coello, Jorge Aroche and Richard A. Bryant in Clinical Psychological Science
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Silicon Nanoparticles
Creators: Glockzin, Brayden D.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Despite the widespread use of hydrofluoric acid (HF) in the preparation of silicon surfaces, the true nature of fluorinated surface species remains unclear. Here, an array of characterization techniques led by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is employed to uncover the nature of fluorinated moieties on the surface of hydride-terminated silicon nanoparticles. A structural model that explains the observed trends in 19F and 29Si magnetic shielding is proposed and further supported by quantum chemical computations. Fluorine is incorporated into local oxidation domains on the surface and clustered at the interface of the oxide and surrounding hydride-terminated surface. Silicon sites capped by a single fluorine are also identified by their distinct 19F and 29Si chemical shifts, providing insight into how fluorine termination influences the electronic structure. Finally, challenges associated with Teflon® contamination are highlighted that future explorations of nanomaterials may have to contend with.
Supplementary document for Scalable photonic integrated circuits for programmable control of atomic systems - 6596137.pdf
Creators: name: Menssen, Adrian
name: Hermans, Artur
name: Christen, Ian
name: Propson, Thomas
name: Li, Chao
name: Leenheer, Andrew
name: Zimmermann, Matthew
name: Dong, Mark
name: Larocque, Hugo
name: Raniwala, Hamza
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement
AOP_Figure_S3 – Supplemental material for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in the Workplace With CAMMPUS (Cardiovascular Assessment and Medication Management by Pharmacists at the UBC Site)
Creators: name: Gobis, Barbara
name: Kapanen, Anita I.
name: Reardon, Jillian
name: Min, Jason
name: Li, Kathy H.
name: Lynd, Larry D.
name: Zed, Peter J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, AOP_Figure_S3 for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in the Workplace With CAMMPUS (Cardiovascular Assessment and Medication Management by Pharmacists at the UBC Site) by Barbara Gobis, Anita I. Kapanen, Jillian Reardon, Jason Min, Kathy H. Li, Larry D. Lynd and Peter J. Zed in Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Supplemental Material, 14862158_PracticesValue_OnlineAppend_PROOFED_5Feb2019_FINAL - The Score Is Not the Music: Integrating Experience and Practice Perspectives on Value Co-Creation in Collective Consumption Contexts
Creators: name: Kelleher, Carol
name: Wilson, Hugh N.
name: Macdonald, Emma K.
name: Peppard, Joe
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material, 14862158_PracticesValue_OnlineAppend_PROOFED_5Feb2019_FINAL for The Score Is Not the Music: Integrating Experience and Practice Perspectives on Value Co-Creation in Collective Consumption Contexts by Carol Kelleher, Hugh N. Wilson, Emma K. Macdonald and Joe Peppard in Journal of Service Research
title: Petersilie :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: Group identity
New Varieties of Plants
Parsley

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Supplemental Material, PracticesValue_ExecSumm_PROOFED_6Feb2019_v2 - The Score Is Not the Music: Integrating Experience and Practice Perspectives on Value Co-Creation in Collective Consumption Contexts
Creators: name: Kelleher, Carol
name: Wilson, Hugh N.
name: Macdonald, Emma K.
name: Peppard, Joe
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material, PracticesValue_ExecSumm_PROOFED_6Feb2019_v2 for The Score Is Not the Music: Integrating Experience and Practice Perspectives on Value Co-Creation in Collective Consumption Contexts by Carol Kelleher, Hugh N. Wilson, Emma K. Macdonald and Joe Peppard in Journal of Service Research
Additional file 1 of Identification of brain-enriched proteins in CSF as biomarkers of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Wurtz, Lincoln I.
name: Knyazhanskaya, Evdokiya
name: Sohaei, Dorsa
name: Prassas, Ioannis
name: Pittock, Sean
name: Willrich, Maria Alice V.
name: Saadeh, Ruba
name: Gupta, Ruchi
name: Atkinson, Hunter J.
name: Grill, Diane
name: Stengelin, Martin
name: Thebault, Simon
name: Freedman, Mark S.
name: Diamandis, Eleftherios P.
name: Scarisbrick, Isobel A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Fostering Community Engagement through Knowledge Mobilization in Renewable Energy Cooperatives - A Case Study of Canmore, Alberta
Creators: Nekounamghadirli, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Renewable energy cooperatives can be critical resources in promoting sustainable energy transitions and developing alternates to conventional energy systems. Gaining experience and learning from those cooperatives innovating practices on the frontlines can support emerging energy communities, and may encourage greater participation amongst a broader public.   Understanding the dynamic of knowledge mobilization within these cooperatives is critical for encouraging such engagement, and can be a useful means of supporting more comprehensive and community integrated forms of energy transition. This subject is particularly important in Alberta, the third-largest electricity producer in Canada, where a small number of cooperative energy projects are taking shape, but in a context in which experience and research is limited. While some research has investigated the challenges of developing cooperatives, there is a significant gap in understanding how knowledge mobilization shapes the institutional structure of these cooperatives and what factors affect processes of knowledge mobilization. This research explores knowledge mobilization dynamics in Bow Valley Green Energy Cooperative in Canmore, Alberta. In this study, a case study approach was taken incorporating data from in-depth interviews with key informants and field visits. From these datasets, results highlight the role of strategies, routines and shared interests in collaborating and learning from similar organizations. Regulatory frameworks and intermediary organizations were identified as contextual factors influencing knowledge mobilization. Addressing power dynamics is also essential, advocating for a federated approach and policy changes to enhance the effectiveness of knowledge mobilization processes.
Supplementary document for Towards isolated attosecond pulses from liquids: independence of the high-harmonic cutoff on laser-pulse duration - 6596168.pdf
Creators: name: Mondal, Angana
name: Waser, Benedikt
name: Balciunas, Tadas
name: Neufeld, Ofer
name: Yin, Zhong
name: Tancogne-Dejean, Nicolas
name: Rubio, Angel
name: Woerner, Hans Jakob
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
Diversified No-Till Crop Rotations: Soil Health Attributes across Multiple Ecozones on the Canadian Prairies
Creators: Iheshiulo, Ekene M.-A
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Traditional cereal-based cropping systems on the Canadian prairies have contributed considerably to soil and environmental degradation, increased production costs, and a threat to agricultural sustainability. To address global food demand, there is a need for sustainable cropping systems that enhance soil health (SH) in current climate conditions while reducing the use of agrochemicals. This dissertation focuses on understanding the impact of diverse crop rotations on SH. Chapter 2 presents a meta-analysis, which revealed that increased crop diversity significantly reduces bulk density, enhances soil aggregation, improves total porosity, and saturated hydraulic conductivity. Although it did not significantly change the infiltration rate, the benefits were more pronounced in medium- and fine-textured soils with >900 mm mean annual precipitation, especially when managed with conservation practices for 5 to 10 years. Chapters 3 and 4 document a multi-year field study conducted at three Canadian prairie sites (Lethbridge, Swift Current, and Scott). Six 4-year crop rotations [denoted as conventional (control), pulse/oilseed intensified, diversified, market-driven, high-risk and high-reward, and soil health-enhanced rotations] were established under no-till in 2018. Chapter 3 explores short-term soil organic matter (SOM) and aggregate stability (AS) dynamics, showing no improvement in SOM fractions but significant changes in AS at two sites (Lethbridge and Swift Current), with the soil health-enhanced and high-risk and high-reward rotations having the highest AS. Chapter 4 investigates how diverse crop rotations can alter soil hydraulic and physical quality, demonstrating moderate improvements in rotations with legumes and increased functional diversity, depending on the site. Chapter 5 assesses overall SH using a minimum dataset, revealing that the diversified rotation at Lethbridge and Swift Current, along with the high-risk and high-reward rotation at Scott exhibited the highest SH index. However, the number of indicators varies across sites, with common indicators such as soil organic carbon, bulk density, macroporosity, and plant-available water capacity. In conclusion, increasing the crop and functional diversity in rotations has the potential to sustain SH and contribute to sustainable agroecosystems but may require a longer period to become more evident.
Debiasing Language Models using Distributionally Robust Optimization
Creators: Gandhi, Deep Rajesh
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

It has been shown that pretrained language models exhibit biases and social stereotypes. Prior work on debiasing these language models has largely focussed on modifying embedding spaces in pretraining, which is not scalable for large models. Since pretrained models are typically fine-tuned on task-specific datasets for various downstream tasks, language model performance can be degraded and biases present in finetuning datasets may be amplified.  We focus on the fine-tuning phase of language models rather than the computationally expensive pretraining.  While training language models using traditional optimization approaches such as Empirical Risk Minimization has proven beneficial for downstream tasks, we often observe the social biases in these language models being amplified during the fine-tuning phase of the pretrained models. To counter this, we propose RobustDebias, a novel mechanism that adapts Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) methods for debiasing large language models in the fine-tuning phase. In this work, we focus on debiasing a model across multiple demographics while it is fine-tuned on the Masked Language Modeling (MLM) task. Our method can be used to finetune a pretrained model on any dataset and for any task. We perform extensive experiments on various language models. The results show that our method significantly mitigates bias while the impact on the language model performance is minimized.
Supplemental Material, PracticesValue_OnlineAppend_PROOFED_5Feb2019 - The Score Is Not the Music: Integrating Experience and Practice Perspectives on Value Co-Creation in Collective Consumption Contexts
Creators: name: Kelleher, Carol
name: Wilson, Hugh N.
name: Macdonald, Emma K.
name: Peppard, Joe
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150402 Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental Material, PracticesValue_OnlineAppend_PROOFED_5Feb2019 for The Score Is Not the Music: Integrating Experience and Practice Perspectives on Value Co-Creation in Collective Consumption Contexts by Carol Kelleher, Hugh N. Wilson, Emma K. Macdonald and Joe Peppard in Journal of Service Research
SupplementaryData03_Excluded_references - GRADE-Based Recommendations for Surgical Repair of Nonruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Creators: name: Posso, Margarita
name: M. Jesús Quintana
name: Bellmunt, Sergi
name: García, Laura Martínez
name: Escudero, José R.
name: Viteri-García, Andrés
name: Valli, Claudia
name: Bonfill, Xavier
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cardiology

description: SupplementaryData03_Excluded_references for GRADE-Based Recommendations for Surgical Repair of Nonruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm by Margarita Posso, M. Jesús Quintana, Sergi Bellmunt, Laura Martínez García, José R. Escudero, Andrés Viteri-García, Claudia Valli, Xavier Bonfill and On Behalf of the AAA Spanish Study Group in Angiology
Thermal Stability and Corrosivity of Bio-oil Blends for Co-processing Applications
Creators: Wang, Haoxiang
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Bio-oil (BO) is a promising and renewable energy source that could alleviate dependence on fossil fuels, but its direct use faces challenges due to low thermal stability and high corrosiveness. Co-processing BO with vacuum gas oil (VGO) in existing refineries offers a solution without requiring additional capital investment. However, the unique characteristics of BO, such as changes during storage and transportation, corrosion risks, and low miscibility with petroleum intermediates, necessitate thorough evaluation before integration.

This thesis investigates three crucial aspects of BO derived from pinewood through fast pyrolysis: thermal stability, corrosiveness to steel, and miscibility with VGO at temperatures up to 80 °C. Firstly, accelerated aging experiments with methanol addition revealed a positive correlation between aging rate and temperature, highlighting the stabilizing effect of methanol. Later, corrosion evaluations demonstrated significant corrosion in BO for carbon steel, while stainless steel exhibited minimal corrosion. Adapted electrochemical methods effectively assessed steel corrosion in the low-conductivity BO environment. Gas chromatography analysis identified gases generated during BO aging and steel corrosion, unveiling comprehensive mechanisms behind corrosion processes and BO internal reactions. The study proposed mechanisms explaining the interactions between BO and steel. In addition, to enhance miscibility with VGO, surfactants were utilized, resulting in stable BO/VGO emulsions at 50 °C with a 2 wt% surfactant addition.

Overall, the findings presented in this thesis contribute significantly to BO co-processing operations by enhancing understanding of BO characteristics, providing advanced electrochemical techniques for corrosion assessments, proposing mechanisms for BO-steel interactions, and optimizing blending processes with BO/VGO emulsions. Insights on optimal preheating temperature and materials compatibility offer valuable guidance for efficient, reliable, and safe BO co-processing.
Tackling the Charge Transfer Problem: A Guide to Avoid Low-Energy Dark States while Including Solvent Effects
Creators: Leung, Cuthbert Wai Hean
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

Developed from the Schrödinger equation, quantum mechanics has been an indispensable

branch in theoretical chemistry for nearly a century. With the help of computers, we are

able to solve the Schrödinger equation to a certain accuracy, which in turn enables us to

study a wide range of chemical systems. However, limited by computing power, early

computational chemists often had to leave some parts of a system out in their calculation.

One such part is the solvent, which, while crucial, is commonly represented by solvation

models instead of explicit molecules. With the advance of computational technologies, we

can now include a reasonable number of explicit solvent molecules in our systems to

improve the results and no longer need to rely on these models. Nonetheless, using explicit

solvent molecules has a weakness when it comes to the calculation of excited states. When

used in conjunction with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT), a popular

method to calculate excited states, it leads to the proliferation of spurious dark states in the

low-energy region. As a result, more states must now be computed for the same spectral

range when explicit solvent is included. This phenomenon, known as the charge transfer

problem, can thus lead to a much higher computational cost and render explicit solvation

impractical. A better understanding of the phenomenon would enable us to propose

solutions to alleviate or even avoid the problem

As such, the charge transfer problem forms the focus of this thesis. The problem was first

reproduced in a series of water-solvated BODIPY systems. Methods to alter the relativeorientation of the explicit water molecules were then applied to one of the systems. The

resulting number of dark states as well as the excitation energies were compared to the

original values to evaluate the efficacy of the proposed methods. The use of solvation

models was also re-examined to evaluate the possibility of obtaining accurate excitation

energies without having to resort to explicit solvation.
In the name of security (against science): AI Act and emotion recognition
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Privacy
Personal Data Protection
Artificial Intelligence
Mass surveillance
Emotion Recognition
EU AI Act
Recital 44
Precautionary principle
Antiscience

description: The regulation of emotion recognition in the EU AI Act shows a dangerous reversal of the precautionary principle. Despite the premise in recital 44 – “there are serious concerns about the scientific basis of AI systems aiming to identify or infer emotions […]” - emotion recognition is prohibited only in very delimited cases. This policy choice is one of many indicators of the gradual weakening, even in the European Union, of the pillars of a democratic society.
Supplementary document for Optical closure in highly absorptive coastal waters: significance of inelastic scattering processes - 6596352.pdf
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Soham
name: Hedley, John
name: Fichot, Cedric
name: Laliberté, Julien
name: Belanger, Simon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ACS scatter correction, backscatter validation, test for vertical distribution of Hydrolight inputs, Rrs consistency
Supplementary document for Enhancing in vitro photothermal therapy using plasmonic gold nanorod decorated multiwalled carbon nanotubes - 6596400.pdf
Creators: name: Oudjedi, Fatma
name: Lee, Seung
name: Paliouras, Miltiadis
name: Trifiro, Mark
name: Kirk, Andrew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: figures, tables, equqations
PU-Ray: Domain-Independent Point Cloud Upsampling via Ray Marching on Neural Implicit Surface
Creators: Lim, Sangwon
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

While recent advancements in deep-learning point cloud upsampling methods have improved the input to intelligent transportation systems, they still suffer from issues of domain dependency between synthetic and real-scanned point clouds. This thesis addresses the above issues by proposing a new ray-based upsampling approach with an arbitrary rate, where a depth prediction is made for each query ray and its corresponding patch. Our novel method simulates the sphere-tracing ray marching algorithm on the neural implicit surface defined with an unsigned distance function (UDF) to achieve more precise and stable ray-depth predictions by training a point-transformer-based network. The rule-based mid-point query sampling method generates more evenly distributed points without requiring an end-to-end model trained using a nearest-neighbour-based reconstruction loss function, which may bias towards the training dataset. Self-supervised learning becomes possible with accurate ground truths within the input point cloud. The results demonstrate the method's versatility across domains and training scenarios with limited computational resources and training data. Comprehensive analyses of synthetic and real-scanned applications provide empirical evidence for the significance of the upsampling task across the computer vision and graphics domains to real-world applications of ITS.
SMM885985 Appendix - Supplemental material for Statistical tests for latent class in censored data due to detection limit
Creators: name: He, Hua
name: Tang, Wan
name: Kelly, Tanika
name: Li, Shengxu
name: He, Jiang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Nursing not elsewhere classified
Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

description: Supplemental material, SMM885985 Appendix for Statistical tests for latent class in censored data due to detection limit by Hua He, Wan Tang, Tanika Kelly, Shengxu Li and Jiang He in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
MURAKKAB LOYIHALARDA MANFAATDOR TOMONLARNI BOSHQARISH: MUAMMOLAR VA YECHIMLAR
Creators: name: Sadullayeva, Farangiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Zamonaviy global loyihalar ijtimoiy, iqtisodiy, texnologik va siyosiy omillar kesishmasida shakllanmoqda. Ular murakkab struktura, ko‘p qatlamli manfaatdor tomonlar va tez o‘zgaruvchan tashqi muhit bilan xarakterlanadi. Bunday loyihalarda manfaatdor tomonlarni (stakeholderlarni) boshqarish nafaqat loyiha muvaffaqiyati uchun, balki uning ijtimoiy maqbulligi va uzoq muddatli barqarorligi uchun ham hal qiluvchi omil hisoblanadi. Murakkab loyihalarda manfaatdor tomonlar sonining ko‘pligi, ularning manfaatlarining o‘zaro zidligi va qaror qabul qilishdagi ta’siri ushbu boshqaruv sohasini yanada muhimlashtirmoqda.
The ‘Emergence’ of the Verse Tradition in Mauritania: Intellectual History and the Culture of Islamic Scholarship in the “Land of Million Poets.”
Creators: Abdulkadir, Abubakar Sadiq
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2024

This study focuses on the vibrant literary-intellectual tradition of the classical Arabic poetry of Mauritania and the role it has played in Saharan knowledge production and transmission. It attempts to illuminate an important and understudied facet of Afro-Islamic intellectual and artistic history: the Arabic poetic tradition that embodied and popularized the intellectual thought and doctrines of Saharan (and West African) Muslim scholars and continues to shape the culture of Islamic scholarship in the region. Despite its outsize influence throughout the region, this intellectual tradition has received scant Europhone academic attention. Studies on the Sahara generally and Mauritania specifically have largely focused on the political and socio-economic dimensions of the region’s history, thereby neglecting its important and widely influential intellectual traditions and their history. While a few excellent scholarly works have been published on the history, Islamic texts, and prominent Muslim intellectuals of Mauritania, other works have examined the poetic and Islamic scholarly writings as literary productions and important sources for social history. However, despite these contributions, there is still no comprehensive study on the history of Mauritania’s and the Sahara’s rich Arabo-Islamic intellectual/literary traditions as such.

This study addresses this lacuna through a historical investigation into the so-called ‘emergence’ of Mauritania’s celebrated Arabic poetic tradition that reportedly emerged in the seventeenth to eighteenth century. Specifically, the project seeks to understand why and how this tradition reportedly emerged, when and where it did, and how it has shaped the region’s culture of Islamic scholarship and Mauritanian culture ever since. Firstly, it explores the socio-political, economic, religious, and intellectual milieu of seventeenth to eighteenth-century Mauritania, expanding its focus to the broader West African context.  Furthermore, examining the lives and contributions of key figures such as Sīdī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī (d. 1731/2) and Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Yadālī (d. 1753), recognized as founders of this poetic/intellectual tradition, alongside later eighteenth to nineteenth century scholars, the research illuminates the intellectual landscape and social factors that led to the reported emergence and eventual dominance of this poetic tradition. In other words, by way of a literary archaeology of texts among other dynamics, this study is a critical examination of how specific political, economic, and intellectual trends of the region came together to create the conditions for the rise and perpetuation of this intellectual and social tradition.
Diversity_Statement_ – Supplemental material for Suffering in the Hands of a Loved One: The Endemic to Intimate Partner Violence and Consequences on Migrant Female Head-Load Carriers in Ghana
Creators: name: Adomako, Emmanuel Brenyah
name: Baffour, Frank Darkwa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, Diversity_Statement_ for Suffering in the Hands of a Loved One: The Endemic to Intimate Partner Violence and Consequences on Migrant Female Head-Load Carriers in Ghana by Emmanuel Brenyah Adomako and Frank Darkwa Baffour in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Online_Supplement_CA – Supplemental material for Identifying, Defining, and Measuring Justification Mechanisms: The Implicit Biases Underlying Individual Differences
Creators: name: Schoen, Jeremy L.
name: DeSimone, Justin A.
name: Rustin D. Meyer
name: Schnure, Katherine A.
name: LeBreton, James M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, Online_Supplement_CA for Identifying, Defining, and Measuring Justification Mechanisms: The Implicit Biases Underlying Individual Differences by Jeremy L. Schoen, Justin A. DeSimone, Rustin D. Meyer, Katherine A. Schnure and James M. LeBreton in Journal of Management