cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sectoral crediting: getting governance right from the beginning
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
name: Keohane, Nathaniel E.
name: Petsonk, Annie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental economics

description: Several pathways lead into a low-carbon, high-efficiency future. Many go through something commonly called 'sectoral crediting', by which developing economies would both adopt emission reduction goals for entire economic sectors and allow reductions to be sold, via permits, into industrialized countries' compliance carbon markets. These twin elements of sectoral crediting contrast with project-by-project crediting, as is currently seen under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and sector-level emission standards not linked to any market mechanism. Properly designed and operated, sectoral crediting could unleash substantial investment in efficient emissions reductions across entire sectors. A quick look at the numbers makes the appeal of and need for sectoral crediting clear. The world now emits roughly 45,000 million CO2-equivalent tonnes of greenhouse gases annually. In order to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, that number needs to decrease swiftly, and by at least one-half to two-thirds by mid-century. Neither the market-based project-by-project approach of the CDM nor sectoral non-market standards on their own are likely to achieve this goal.
Investigating Intranasal Oxytocin as a Treatment for Women's Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Flynn, Michelle Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chronic pain
subject: chronic pelvic pain
subject: oxytocin
subject: intranasal oxytocin
subject: feasibility study
subject: randomized clinical trial
subject: Mental Health
subject: Obstetrics and Gynecology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects approximately 5.7-26.6% of women in the general population and has limited treatment options. Administration of oxytocin (OT) has been associated with reductions in pain in other chronic pain conditions. The current feasibility study was the first to investigate the OT-pain association in women with CPP. The aims were: 1) determine if a clinically significant change in pain intensity (1-centimeter improvement on a 10-centimeter visual analogue scale) could be detected following intranasal OT administration; 2) identify challenges in treatment and study protocol implementation. Women with CPP (N=18) were recruited from chronic pain and gynecology clinics for this randomized, double-blind, within-subject crossover trial (Registration#NCT02888574). Exclusion criteria included pregnancy, primary diagnosis of endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, interstitial cystitis, functional bowel disorder, fibromyalgia, or neuropathic pain. Currently, 11 women have completed the trial (2-weeks OT, 2-weeks washout, 2-weeks placebo, with random order of OT and placebo). Women recorded symptoms of pain at baseline and in daily diaries. One participant dropped out due to headaches following placebo administration, one did not complete daily diaries, and two were randomized despite having pain only during intercourse, leaving seven women in the analyses. Clinically significant change was reported for average and current pain following OT and placebo administration. Self-reported treatment adherence was near perfect. Participants viewed the treatment as credible, anticipating improved pain. Daily diary adherence was good. Challenges with protocol implementation highlight the need for more systematic eligibility assessments and recruitment strategies, and moving daily diaries to an online platform. Overall, a clinically significant change was detected on pain and the treatment protocol was feasible, though some adjustments to the study protocol are warranted before a subsequent trial is completed.
MPEC 2023-H157 : 2023 HW3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HW3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Autonomic function and masticatory masseter and temporalis muscle activities in growing adolescents
Creators: name: Hamieh, Myriam
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Adolescent
subject: Oregon
subject: Autonomic nervous system
subject: Heart rate variability
subject: Masticatory muscle activity
subject: Facial type
subject: Ramus height
subject: Growth modification

description: The study sought to examine the relationships between ramal height, autonomic nervous system activity, as measured by the heart rate variance in inter-beat intervals, and masticatory muscle activity gauged by duty factors in circumpubertal children aged 10-14 years at the CVM3 stage. While age, masseter and temporalis muscle duty factors, and ANS tone (pNN50 and LF/HF) served as independent variables, ramus height was treated as the dependent variable.
Supplementary Material from Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France
Creators: name: de Courson, Benoît
name: Frankenhuis, Willem E.
name: Nettle, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: appendix.pdf
Children in Canadian Military-Connected Families: Developmental Assets, Parent Mental Health, and Social-Behavioural Outcomes
Creators: name: Stelnicki, Andrea M.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: developmental assets
subject: military-connected children
subject: Military families
subject: parental mental health
subject: social-behavioural outcomes
subject: developmental systems theory
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: History--Military
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychology--Developmental
subject: Psychology--Social

description: Much of the extant literature on military families is American-based and problem-focused. Very little research has examined the strengths of military families, with emphasis on children from military families. Protective factors, or factors known to prevent the development of behavioural problems, have recently started to gain more attention from researchers. Using a developmental systems lens, this study profiled the developmental assets of children from Canadian military families, examined the relation between developmental assets and youth self-reported problematic behaviour, and determined whether this relation is moderated by the presence of parental mental health symptomology. Thirty-one military families (with at least one child and one parent responding) participated in the study. Slightly more external assets than internal assets were reported for the sample, although each of these fell within the “fair” range, suggesting considerable room for enhancement. Family was the greatest contextual asset reported. Multiple regression analysis revealed that children reporting stronger assets reported less problematic behaviour. Parents’ self-reported PTSD symptoms were used as a moderator to examine whether this relationship remained significant. Although the developmental assets failed to remain a significant predictor of problematic behaviour, inspection of the semi-partial correlations suggests that the numbers of assets account for a large percentage of the variance in problematic behaviour. The current study provides preliminary findings to fill a gap in the knowledge of the personal and contextual assets of military-connected children and the protective role they play in the development of problem behaviour. Implications for clinicians, researchers, and policy makers are discussed.
title: A multimodality approach on imaging in the differential diagnosis of the intrahepatic biliary tree cysts
Creators: name: Belfiore, Maria Paola
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Education and training
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To depict differential diagnosis of cystic lesions in the intrahepatic biliary ducts with a multimodality diagnostic approach on Ultrasonography, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance...
Forecasting of Wind Energy Generation in Alberta
Creators: name: Luo, Yilan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Gaussian Process
subject: Spatial-Temporal Process
subject: Wind Energy Generation
subject: Forecasting
subject: Aggregate Wind Energy
subject: Education--Mathematics
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Energy

description: In this paper, our goal is to build a model for the future wind power generation of Alberta, as Alberta’s wind power capacity is growing, and new wind farms are expected to be built in the near future. An important feature of the wind power data is spatial and temporal correlation. To capture this, we model the wind power generation in Alberta as a spatio-temporal process. We apply the method of Gaussian random fields to analyze the wind power time series of 20 wind farms of Alberta. Following the work of Gneiting et al. [11] , we build several spatio-temporal covariance function estimates with increasing complexity: separable, non-separable symmetric, and non-symmetric. We compare the performance of the models using simple kriging. We also use kriging to demonstrate the performance of the models to forecast the future wind generation for both an existing wind farm and a new farm in Alberta. In the end, we also formulate the mean and variance of the aggregate wind power generation in Alberta.
Participatory mapping and herders' local knowledge on Mongolia's landscapes and socio-ecological boundaries
Creators: name: Allegretti, Arren Mendezona
name: Laituri, Melinda
name: Batjav, Batbuyan
name: Baival, Batkhishig
name: Action, Nutag
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2015
Subjects: socio-ecological boundaries
local knowledge
participatory mapping

description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Presented at the Building resilience of Mongolian rangelands: a trans-disciplinary research conference held on June 9-10, 2015 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
description: Socio-ecological boundaries delineate landscapes containing natural resources that are differentially accessed and managed by stakeholders. These boundaries may be human-demarcated and biophysical serving as tangible and intangible features delineating landscapes. Our purpose is to explore Mongolian herders' perceptions of their pasture and boundaries through participatory mapping processes. Our research questions include: 1) what boundaries are depicted on herders' participatory maps? and 2) how are boundaries discussed through herders' participatory mapping narratives? We conducted participatory mapping and informal interviews (n= 35) with herder groups and district officials in Arkhangai, Tuv, Dornod, and Dornogovi. We qualitatively coded participatory mapping narratives and applied visual grounded theory. Tangible features on participatory maps included economic, hydroclimatic, geomorphological, and ecological boundaries portrayed as springs, landforms, vegetation types, seasonal camps, wells, and roads. Non-physical intangible boundaries such as governance arrangements were evident in participatory mapping narratives and served as human demarcated boundaries for accessing seasonal camps, markets, government assistance, and resources for herder migration. The relationships among herder mobility, governance boundaries, and biophysical pasture boundaries are coupled and dynamic, resulting in multi-dimensional outcomes of herder livelihoods.
Analysis of Truck Travel behaviour using passive GPS data – Case study of Calgary Region, Alberta
Creators: name: Kinjarapu, Ashok
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: gps data
subject: freight trucks
subject: Transportation
subject: destination choice model
subject: truck stop identification
subject: Sociology--Transportation
subject: Engineering--Civil

description: Freight demand modelling requires detailed information about the volumes and travel patterns of freight trucks and other commercial vehicles. This thesis explores the feasibility of using passive truck GPS data as a complementary source of data collection to traditional truck surveys to obtain information related to the travel behaviour of freight trucks in the Calgary region. GPS data is inexpensive and has a larger sample size compared to traditional surveys. A stop detection model was developed that used a heuristic algorithm to extract information on truck stop activities, including stop locations and stop dwell times. This model was successful in identifying stops with an accuracy of more than 97%. A combination of truck dwell times and the value of entropy, which provided a measure of the homogeneity of observed trucking carriers, at the stop location could be used to classify these stops by purpose. It was found that stop locations with a higher value of entropy tended to have a larger range of dwell times, while locations with a lower entropy had a lower range of dwell times. A separate heuristic model was developed to derive the truck trips and tours from these stops. This model used parameters that were derived from the observed dwell time behaviour of trucks at the stop locations. Additionally, destination choice models were developed for trucks in the Calgary region using trips derived from the GPS data, Info-Canada data, and travel impedances extracted from the existing Calgary Regional Transportation model. An importance based sampling approach was used to identify the choice set for the observed trips. The model estimation results showed that travel distance, a zone-specific explanatory variable related to employment, and a dummy variable indicating trips between the ‘City of Calgary’ and surrounding areas were significant in explaining the destination choices. The models had a satisfactory coincidence ratio of approximately 0.55 between the observed and modelled trips. The model simulation results show that trips shorter than 20 km are consistently underestimated, and therefore, the models require further calibration.
Blockchain Application in Food Supply Chains: Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research
Creators: name: Handayani, Dwi Iryaning
name: Vanany, Iwan
name: Ciptomulyono, Udisubakti
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2023
Subjects: Blockchain application; food supply chains; halal supply chains; bibliometric analysis; strategic diagram

description: This study aimed to organize and analyze studies on blockchain application in food supply chains and to discover emerging research themes and topics using cluster analysis to determine future research directions. Bibliometric analysis was used to organize and analyze the literature on blockchain application in food supply chains. The database consisted of 629 Scopus-indexed articles from 2016 to 2021. These were organized using bibliometric analysis (e.g., annual publication trends) and content analysis (e.g., research method applied). Themes and emerging research trends were then clustered based on keywords using the VOSviewer software. The analysis showed that manufacturing is the type of industry that most applies the blockchain. Trust is the most-cited benefit achieved by blockchain application, while traceability is the most-claimed function. Keyword classification resulted in seven main clusters (e.g., sustainability and transparency) and each cluster had emerging research trends (e.g., resilience toward sustainability and transparency). This research provides an overview of scientific development and emerging application trends related to blockchain application in food supply chains.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 14, No 2 (2023)
A Search for pair production of the LSP $\tilde{ν_τ}$ at the CLIC via RPV Decays
Creators: name: Sahin, M.
name: Sener, A. B.
name: Sultansoy, S.
name: Yilmaz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we consider pair production of LSP tau-sneutrinos at the Compact Lineer Collider. We assume that tau-sneutrinos decays in to e\textmu pair via RPV interactions. Backgroundless subprocess $e{}^{-}e^{+}\rightarrow\tildeν\bar{\tildeν}\rightarrowμ^{+}μ^{+}e^{-}e^{-}(μ^{-}μ^{-}e^{+}e^{+})$ is analyzed in details. Achievable limits on $Br\,(\tildeν_τ\rightarrowμe)$ at $3σ$ and $5σ$ CL are obtained depending on $\tilde{ν_τ}$ mass.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Essays on liquidity shocks and firms' financial reporting quality
Creators: name: Lo, Kin Ying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Problems of endogeneity often cloud interpretation in studies on the relation between firm disclosure and external financing. This dissertation uses two different liquidity shocks as natural experiments to provide new evidence in this research area. The first essay makes use of tightened liquidity supply in the banking industry following monetary contractions for examining the impact of credible accounting information on corporate financing and investments. Theory suggests that asymmetric information will restrict banks’ ability to raise additional financing to offset the liquidity losses caused by monetary contractions. The attendant liquidity shortfall will force banks to hold back their investments (i.e., lending). Using external audits to proxy for accounting credibility and a sample of 9,910 small banks for which audits are voluntary, this paper finds that audited banks enjoy greater access to outside financing than other banks. Correspondingly, the lending of audited banks is less affected by policy-induced liquidity issues. Further results indicate that audited banks disclose higher quality accounting information that gives them greater reporting credibility and reduced information problems. In summary, this paper offers new evidence that credible disclosure facilitates corporate financing and investments. The second essay identifies negative shocks to the supply of bank loans as exogenous events that motivate firms’ disclosure of management forecasts. Following loan supply distortions, borrowers have greater motives to finance through alternate capital sources. If forecasts enhance firms’ access to the public capital markets, borrowers have incentives to increase forecasts to facilitate capital raising to substitute for previously available loans. The test exploits the emerging-market financial crises in the late 1990s. These events were plausibly external to the U.S. loan markets, yet their effect was transmitted through U.S. banks' large loss exposures to the crisis areas which ultimately limited the lending of exposed banks. Accordingly, I predict and find evidence consistent with borrowers of exposed banks increasing forecasts following the crises to ease access to public financing. Further, these borrowers changed forecast characteristics in ways consistent with the use of forecasts to reduce investor uncertainty. Overall, these disclosure changes provide new evidence on how capital supply affects firms' incentives to issue forward-looking information.
title: When measurements matter – for the general radiologists
Creators: name: Leung, Clement
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Imaging Informatics
subject: Abdomen
subject: Extremities
subject: Head and neck
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Observer performance
subject: Perception image
subject: Education and training
subject: Image verification
subject: Outcomes
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To highlight the most clinically relevant angles, lines and measurements in imaging that are diagnostic for the general radiologists across...
Change talk: Levels of adaptability to the livestock sector transformation
Creators: name: Berkes, Jessica
name: Ollier, Carla
name: Faletar, Ivica
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2023
Subjects: change talk; animal welfare; livestock reduction; consumption patterns; communication

description: The livestock sector is facing numerous challenges due to a transformation process caused by animal welfare concerns and environmental impacts. Different stakeholders in this process have their own individual interests and depend on each other in several ways. The discussions of livestock sector transformation are complex and show, that change processes need special ways to communicate. Mainly the method of motivational interviews is used as a method-of-choice-instrument especially when it comes to goal conflicts. This article will help to better understand communication processes between farmers and consumers in group discussions based on qualitative data analysis. A special focus beside the way of communication is on the aspects of animal welfare and livestock reduction. Results show insights into perspectives for communication strategies for different stakeholders. For perspectives on future animal husbandry systems it can be seen that there are three differing groups that will have to be addressed differently in upcoming political communication strategies.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 14, No 2 (2023)
title: Abdominopelvic actinomycosis – the great mimicker
Creators: name: Muntean, Delia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation
subject: Abscess
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Pelvis
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To describe and illustrate the wide spectrum of CT features of abdominopelvic actinomycosis and its possible complications depending on the involvement sites. 2. To highlight the problems in the differential diagnosis of actinomycosis as it often...
Emotional response to pictures of farm animals: Influence of picture content and recipient characteristics
Creators: name: Schröter, Iris
name: Mergenthaler, Marcus
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pleasure; arousal; indoor husbandry; outdoor husbandry; suffering animals

description: Pictures play a dominant role in communication about livestock farming. They are used by competing lobby groups not only to inform their audience cognitively but also to target emotionally. However, few studies have looked at the effects pictures from livestock farming have on recipients. In this study, we used an online survey to investigate the emotional response in the dimensions pleasure and arousal to pictures showing farm animals of the animal classes fish, birds, and mammals in different circumstances. The results show that pictures depicting farm animals in an outdoor environment led to high pleasure and low arousal. Looking at pictures showing animals kept indoors led to less pleasure and higher arousal, a response that was further intensified when recipients were confronted with pictures of suffering animals. While the recipients’ characteristics investigated in this study, i.e. professional background, belief in animal mind and personality traits, had no influence on emotional response to pictures showing farm animals outdoors, they affected emotional response to pictures depicting farm animals indoors and suffering. We discuss how awareness of the individuality of emotional response and reflection on one’s own emotional states related to livestock farming might lead to more animal and human welfare and a more respectful dialogue between opposing groups.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 14, No 2 (2023)
Oxygen vacancies at titanate interfaces: two-dimensional magnetism and orbital reconstruction
Creators: name: Pavlenko, N.
name: Kopp, T.
name: Tsymbal, E. Y.
name: Mannhart, J.
name: Sawatzky, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that oxygen vacancies at titanate interfaces induce a complex multiorbital reconstruction which involves a lowering of the local symmetry and an inversion of t2g and eg orbitals resulting in the occupation of the eg orbitals of Ti atoms neighboring the O vacancy. The orbital reconstruction depends strongly on the clustering of O vacancies and can be accompanied by a magnetic splitting between the local eg orbitals with lobes directed towards the vacancy and interface dxy orbitals. The reconstruction generates a two-dimensional interface magnetic state not observed in bulk SrTiO3. Using generalized gradient approximation (LSDA) with intra-atomic Coulomb repulsion (GGA+U), we find that this magnetic state is common for titanate surfaces and interfaces.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures, to appear in Physical Review B
title: Dimensional and Mechanical Changes Assessment of 3D Printed Models after Sterilization: A Pilot Study.
Creators: name: Munuera, Josep
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Imaging Informatics
subject: Computer applications
subject: Experimental
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To assess the effect and dimensional changes of three of the most commonly used sterilization techniques on 3D printed clinical objects (121 Autoclave, 134 Autoclave and formaldehyde) for the most common used 3D printing technologies in medicine:...
Green's Function Method for Line Defects and Gapless Modes in Topological Insulators : Beyond Semiclassical Approach
Creators: name: Shiozaki, Ken
name: Fujimoto, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Defects which appear in heterostructure junctions involving topological insulators are sources of gapless modes governing the low energy properties of the systems, as recently elucidated by Teo and Kane [Physical Review B82, 115120 (2010)]. A standard approach for the calculation of topological invariants associated with defects is to deal with the spatial inhomogeneity raised by defects within a semiclassical approximation. In this paper, we propose a full quantum formulation for the topological invariants characterizing line defects in three-dimensional insulators with no symmetry by using the Green's function method. On the basis of the full quantum treatment, we demonstrate the existence of a nontrivial topological invariant in the topological insulator-ferromagnet tri-junction systems, for which a semiclassical approximation fails to describe the topological phase. Also, our approach enables us to study effects of electron-electron interactions and impurity scattering on topological insulators with spatial inhomogeneity which gives rise to the Axion electrodynamics responses.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Investigation of the acoustical and airflow performance of interior natural ventilation openings
Creators: name: Bibby, Chris
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Natural ventilation is being adopted in building design to reduce building operational energy usage and increasing building occupant comfort. Unfortunately, ventilation openings in interior partitions of naturally ventilated buildings also reduce the noise isolation across the partition, resulting in a poor acoustical environment – for example, insufficient privacy and excessive annoyance. This work moves toward an understanding of, and design methodology for, interior natural ventilation opening silencers which will allow design optimization for both airflow and noise isolation. An optimization parameter is defined in terms of both airflow and acoustical transmission performance. Using a simple diffuse-field model, factors that affect acoustical privacy between two spaces separated by a partition are investigated, showing the relationship between ventilation opening acoustical performance and acoustical privacy. In order to maintain the privacy provided by a partition it is shown that the sound energy transmitted through the ventilation opening should not exceed 10% of that transmitted through the remainder of the partition. Ventilation openings and ventilation opening silencers in naturally ventilated buildings are studied experimentally to gain an understanding of current design practices. Airflow and acoustical performance of 19 ventilation opening and ventilation opening silencer types were measured in a purpose-built lab facility. Cross talk silencers are shown to have the highest performance of all silencer types tested. Lining the ceiling above a slot ventilation opening was measured to increase the transmission loss by 3 to 6 dB. A novel “acoustical baffle” silencer type is proposed for application when the silencer length is limited; measured performance is superior to that of an acoustical louver. Numerical acoustical and airflow modeling techniques are developed for ventilation opening silencer performance optimization and analysis work. Airflow modeling indicates that the errors associated with using a high-Reynolds number discharge coefficient are not of practical concern. By way of result synthesis, best-practice guidelines for silencer design in the context of speech privacy are provided. Select conclusions for cross talk silencers are: flow-path shape does not affect acoustical performance; straight sections before the silencer termination increase airflow performance by up to 30%; elbows in the silencer flow path reduce overall silencer performance.
Is animal welfare of great importance when purchasing poultry meat? - Results from cross-national focus groups with consumers -
Creators: name: Lehmann, Cathleen
name: Christoph-Schulz, Inken
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal welfare; poultry meat; consumer attitudes; consumer perceptions; focus groups

description: Farm animal husbandry is increasingly criticized by consumers across Europe. This paper provides insights into consumer attitudes and perceptions regarding animal welfare poultry meat in the study countries Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Animal welfare is stated to be an important product characteristic, although it obtains less importance than other product attributes such as quality and price. However, many participants indicated to be willing to pay a higher price for poultry meat produced under improved husbandry conditions. The main motivating factors for buying improved animal welfare poultry meat are the perception of better quality and ethical concerns.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 14, No 2 (2023)
Food risk communication to consumers: The scare of antibiotic resistant bacteria in chicken
Creators: name: Ueland, Øydis
name: Langsrud, Solveig
name: Veflen, Nina
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2023
Subjects: Risk communicators; food scare; antibiotic resistant bacteria; consumer risk perception; media storm

description: In 2014 a food scare following a report on antibiotic resistant bacteria in chicken fillets led to a dramatic drop in sales of chicken. Actors in the food chain as well as the authorities were unprepared for the consequences of the case. The study investigated how risk communicators coped with the crisis through in-depth interviews with 14 relevant actors. The case study illustrated how delayed risk communication from authorities opened for stakeholders with contradictory views and other agendas. Further, although the risk communicators were aware of the concept of risk perception, they may not truly acknowledge the power triggering emotions.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 14, No 2 (2023)
Strong Disorder RG principles within a fixed cell-size real space renormalization : application to the Random Transverse Field Ising model on various fractal lattices
Creators: name: Monthus, Cecile
name: Garel, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong Disorder Renormalization is an energy-based renormalization that leads to a complicated renormalized topology for the surviving clusters as soon as $d>1$. In this paper, we propose to include Strong Disorder Renormalization ideas within the more traditional fixed cell-size real space RG framework. We first consider the one-dimensional chain as a test for this fixed cell-size procedure: we find that all exactly known critical exponents are reproduced correctly, except for the magnetic exponent $β$ (because it is related to more subtle persistence properties of the full RG flow). We then apply numerically this fixed cell-size procedure to two types of renormalizable fractal lattices (i) the Sierpinski gasket of fractal dimension $D=\ln 3/\ln 2$, where there is no underlying classical ferromagnetic transition, so that the RG flow in the ordered phase is similar to what happens in $d=1$ (ii) a hierarchical diamond lattice of fractal dimension $D=4/3$, where there is an underlying classical ferromagnetic transition, so that the RG flow in the ordered phase is similar to what happens on hypercubic lattices of dimension $d>1$. In both cases, we find that the transition is governed by an Infinite Disorder Fixed Point : besides the measure of the activated exponent $ψ$, we analyze the RG flow of various observables in the disordered and ordered phases, in order to extract the 'typical' correlation length exponents of these two phases which are different from the finite-size correlation length exponent.
description: v2=final version, 24 pages, 25 figures
The Ernest K. Smith Collection of Shang Divination Inscriptions at Columbia University, and the Evidence for Scribal Training at Anyang
Creators: name: Smith, Adam Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: History
History, Ancient

description: The C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University has a small but important collection of Late Shang (ca. 1300-1050 B.C.) divination inscriptions. The core of this collection was acquired in the 1930s by Ernest K. Smith, and has been present in the library since around that time. Smith‘s collection lacks a documented archaeological provenance, but the location where the inscriptions were discovered at the late Shang site near Anyang can nevertheless be determined with precision. The largest and most important of Smith‘s 62 pieces is a densely inscribed divination scapula (US414-415 = YiCun266+257) belonging to the so-called He Group of inscriptions. This item is often referred to in the scholarly literature, but rarely with reference to the context of its discovery, its relationship with other items in Smith‘s collection, or the fact that most of the inscriptions that appear on it are by scribal trainees. Its relevance to the question of late Shang scribal training has been overlooked. The presentation of these issues is preceded by a brief overview of divination and its written record at Anyang, and of late Shang scribal training.
“I can only work so hard before I burn out.” A proof-of-concept of the relationship between ideological psychological contract breach, work effort, and burnout over time.
Creators: name: Jones, Samantha Kari
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: ideological psychological contracts
subject: work effort
subject: burnout
subject: mixed-methods
subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Psychology--Industrial

description: Employees often draw meaning from personal experiences and contributions in their work, particularly when engaging in organizational activities that align with their personal identity or values. However, recent empirical findings have demonstrated how meaningful work can also have a negative effect on employee’s well-being as employees feel so invested in their work, they push themselves beyond their limits resulting in strain and susceptibility to burnout. I use a recently developed framework to understand this “double edged” role of meaningful work by drawing from ideological psychological contracts (iPCs), which are characterized by employees and their employer who are working to contribute to a shared ideology or set of values. The proposed relationships and previous empirical findings, suggest that in response to an iPC breach, employees may actually work harder. Furthermore, these iPC breaches and increases in work effort can result in strain and eventually burnout over time. To provide proof-of-concept and identify deficiencies in these proposed relationships, the present study used a mixed-methods approach, employing thematic analysis with 19 interviews from healthcare workers in a variety of roles as well quantitative measures of iPCs, work effort, strain, and burnout. The themes represent the importance of healthcare values to these employees, define the organizational activities that may be identified as an iPC breach, their affective and behavioural responses to the event of an iPC breach, and lastly, key outcomes that are experienced over time including constructs not previously identified in the model such as decreased self-esteem and identity threat and increased role ambiguity. The quantitative data supported the themes. These findings provide further evidence about the importance of iPCs in healthcare workers and the negative consequences of iPC breach over time.
Docking into a global carbon market: Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
name: Keohane, Nathaniel
name: Petsonk, Annie
name: Wang, James
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Environmental economics

description: Financing the transition to low-carbon economic development must be the focus of any framework to encourage developing countries' participation in the global carbon market. It needs to do so with the aim of eventual full participation in carbon markets while maintaining the core market's integrity and meeting the environmental goal of avoiding long-term warming in excess of 2°C above pre-industrial levels. This paper proposes a mechanism to achieve these goals: Clean Investment Budgets (CIBs). Under this proposal, emerging economies could adopt binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions, set above current levels but within economic and environmental constraints. Such a step would enable these nations to access carbon finance immediately and far more efficiently than existing and proposed mechanisms. Moreover, the growth increment — the portion of the CIB in excess of a nation's actual emissions — provides a pool of readily available emissions allowances that could be leveraged in carbon markets, financing investments in renewable and low-carbon energy generation, energy efficiency, and technology transfer. CIBs would thus reward early action taken by emerging economies, providing them with a source of capital to enable a rapid transition to a low-carbon economic development path.
A supermatrix phylogeny of the world's bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)
Creators: name: Henriquez Piskulich, Patricia Andrea
name: Hugall, Andrew F.
name: Stuart-Fox, Devi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bees
Phylogenetics
Molecular systematics
Macroevolution

description: The increasing availability of large phylogenies based on genetic data has provided new opportunities to study the evolution of species traits, their origins and diversification, and biogeography; yet there are limited attempts to synthesise existing phylogenetic information for major insect groups. Bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) are a large group of insect pollinators that have a worldwide distribution, and a wide variation in ecology, morphology, and life-history traits, including sociality. For these reasons, as well as their major economic importance as pollinators, numerous molecular phylogenetic studies of family and genus-level relationships have been published, providing an opportunity to assemble a bee 'tree-of-life'. We used publicly available genetic sequence data, including phylogenomic data, reconciled to a taxonomic database, to produce a concatenated supermatrix phylogeny for the Anthophila comprising 4,586 bee species, representing 23% of species and 82% of genera. At family, subfamily, and tribe levels, support for expected relationships was robust, but between and within some genera, relationships remain uncertain. Within families, sampling of genera ranged from 67–100% but species coverage was lower (17–41%). Our phylogeny mostly reproduces the relationships found in recent phylogenomic studies with a few exceptions. We provide a summary of these differences and the current state of molecular data available and its gaps. We discuss the advantages and limitations of this bee supermatrix phylogeny (available online at beetreeoflife.org), which may enable new insights into long-standing questions about evolutionary drivers in bees, and potentially insects.
description: Funding provided by: Agencia Nacional de Investigación y DesarrolloCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/02ap3w078Award Number: 72210037
Review of The Promise of Happiness, by Sara Ahmed
Creators: name: Natarajan, Vani M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Library science

description: Sara Ahmed asks readers a provocative question: “Do we consent to happiness? And what are we consenting to, if or when we consent to happiness?” Ahmed takes on the elusive topic of happiness not to define it, but to look at how it works. Amazingly, this book does not get trapped in abstraction. Sara Ahmed approaches her critique of happiness with explicitly feminist, anti-racist, and queer analysis, always attentive to the historical moment in which she’s writing. She moves through what she calls an “archive of happiness,” comprised of novels, philosophical treatises, films, utopian proposals, and dystopian visions that all deal in some way with happiness.
The Reasons for Wars: An Updated Survey
Creators: name: Jackson, Matthew O.
name: Morelli, Massimo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Why do wars occur and recur, especially in cases when the decisions involved are made by careful and rational actors? There are many answers to this question. Given the importance of the question, and the wide range of answers, it is essential to have a perspective on the various sources of conflict. In this chapter we provide a critical overview of the theory of war. In particular, we provide not just a taxonomy of causes of conflict, but also some insight into the necessity of and interrelation between different factors that lead to war.
title: Evaluating the impact of climate change based on herders' observations and comparing it with hydro-climatic and remote sensing data
title: Comparing herders' observations of climate change impacts with weather and remote sensing data
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jigjsuren, Odgarav
name: Baival, Batkhishig
name: Nayanaa, Kherlentuul
name: Jargalsaikhan, Azjargal
name: Dash, Khurelbaatar
name: Badamkhand, Bayarmaa
name: Bud, Amarzaya
name: Action, Nutag
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2015
Subjects: herders' observations
climate change
rangeland degradation

description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Presented at the Building resilience of Mongolian rangelands: a trans-disciplinary research conference held on June 9-10, 2015 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
description: Studying the impact of recent years' climate change on Mongolian rangeland livestock husbandry and on pastoral herders' livelihoods, based on herders' observations and their experience, is an approach that is of considerable interest to many scientists. Our research identifies changes in natural conditions and climate, as well as the changes in rangeland conditions, as observed by herders, and compares them against weather stations' multi-year observations and remote sensing data. Our research region of Khanbogd, Manlai and Bayan-Ovoo soums of Umnugobi aimag has been, in the recent years, experiencing a rapid development of the mining industry and human population growth. According to local herders, current rangeland quality greatly decreased compared to the period before the year 2000, while the area of barren land, sand movement and soil erosion increased. Herders also said that the amount of rainfall diminished and the rainy season's duration shortened, short high intensity rains grew in number, and it became extremely hot in summer. Soum weather station records of air temperature, precipitation and evaporation confirmed herders' observations, and were consistent with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) or the results of observations of rangeland vegetation phenology. To develop local adaptive capacity in the face of changing social-ecological systems it is important to use and integrate multiple sources of information that are essential for making policy implementation mechanisms and measures more locally appropriate and relevant.
title: Osmotic demyelination syndrome: imaging features and differential diagnoses
Creators: name: Maresca, Maria Alessandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Pathology
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the imaging features of Osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) and its major differential...