cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Testing Effects of Bilingualism on Inhibition, Shifting and Working Memory Ability in Adults
Creators: Anjomshoae, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Bilingualism is a prevalent experience and the notion of bilingual advantage in cognitive abilities has been debated hotly over the past decades. Researchers have sought to investigate the long-term impacts of knowing a second language on executive function (EF) enrichment. Some studies have found a bilingual advantage in executive functioning skills, including inhibition, attention, working memory, mental flexibility, creativity, and problem-solving. Other studies have failed to replicate these findings. Yet other studies found a bilingual disadvantage in some EF tasks. The first aim of this study was to test for a bilingual advantage in EF among a large number of young adults. One possible reason for the varied results in previous studies is that some variables might moderate the relationship between bilingualism and EFs. Another aim of this study is to investigate whether this bilingual advantage is moderated by age of acquisition (AoA), socioeconomic status (SES), and immigration status. The findings showed no difference between monolinguals and bilinguals on EF tasks and the abovementioned variables did not show a moderating effect. These results do not support the argument that there is a bilingual advantage in EF. I discuss other possible variables that might contribute to the mixed results across studies.
Flexible, Conducting Electrospun Pt Nanoislands@Carbon Nanofibers For Low-Temperature H2 Gas Sensor Applications
Creators: name: Keerthi G. Nair
name: R.Vishnuraj
name: P. Biji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The talk presented at 29th Annual General Meeting Of Materials Research Society Of India And National Symposium On Advances In Functional And Exotic Materials.
Helianthus giganteus L.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helianthus
Helianthus giganteus

description: Helianthus giganteus L.
Riesen-Sonnenblume
Art ISFS: 195900 Checklist: 1022280 Asteraceae Helianthus Helianthus tuberosus aggr. Helianthus giganteus L.
Bestimmungsschlüssel
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helianthus giganteusL.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Riesen-Sonnenblume Nom français: Hélianthe géant Nome italiano: Girasole bulb
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helianthus giganteus L.Checklist 2017195900=Helianthus giganteus L.SISF/ISFS 2195900
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neuer Status: Das Taxon hatte im SISF-2 den Status «I» eines eingeschlossenen Namens und ist neu als gültiger Name akzeptiert. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein Neophyten-Infoblatt
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Jamun Seed Derived Activated Carbon As An Efficient Adsorbent For Methylene Blue Removal
Creators: name: Araga Ramya
name: P.Priya
name: Sharma Chandra, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The talk presented at 29th Annual General Meeting Of Materials Research Society Of India And National Symposium On Advances In Functional And Exotic Materials.
Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helianthus
Helianthus pauciflorus

description: Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.
Steife Sonnenblume
Art ISFS: 196050 Checklist: 1022300 Asteraceae Helianthus Helianthus tuberosus aggr. Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.
Bestimmungsschlüssel
Zusammenfassung
Artbeschreibung (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 1-2 m hoch, oben verzweigt. Blätter gegenständig, untere früh abfallend, lanzettlich, 10-15 cm lang, rauhaarig, gezähnt, mit kurzem, geflügeltem Stiel, oberste wechselständig und viel kleiner. Durchmesser der Blütenköpfe 7-10 cm. Zungenblüten gelb, 4-5 cm lang und ca. 1 cm breit, spitz oder 2 zähnig. Röhrenblüten rotbraun. Hülle becherförmig. Hüllblätter schwarz, mit grünem Rand, bogig abstehend.
Blütezeit (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 8-9
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Ufer, Gräben, aus Gärten verwildert / kollin / In Ausbreitung begriffen
Verbreitung global (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Stammt aus Nordamerika
Ökologische Zeigerwerte (nach Landolt & al. 2010) 2 + w34-44 + 3.g.2n=102
Ökologie
Lebensform Geophyt
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
5.1.3 - Feuchter Krautsaum (Tieflagen) (Convolvulion)
fett Dominante Art, welche das Aussehen des Lebensraumes mitprägt Charakterart Weniger strikt an den Lebensraum gebundene Art
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl Ffrisch; Feuchtigkeit mässig wechselnd (± 1-2 Stufen)Lichtzahl LhellSalzzeichen--Reaktionszahl Rschwach sauer bis neutral (pH 4.5-7.5)Temperaturzahl Twarm-kollinNährstoffzahl NnährstoffreichKontinentalitätszahl Ksubozeanisch bis subkontinental (mittlere Luftfeuchtigkeit, mässige Temperaturschwankungen und mässig tiefe Wintertemperaturen)
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helianthus pauciflorusNutt.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Steife Sonnenblume Nom français: Hélianthe raide Nome italiano: Girasole selvatico
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.Checklist 2017196050=Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.Flora Helvetica 20122087=Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.Flora Helvetica 20182087=Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.SISF/ISFS 2196050
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Intertextuality and Literary Friendship in Caribbean Diasporic Writing and "As Man" (Poetry Collection)
Creators: Bogle, Cornel
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

This dissertation comprises a collection of poetry framed by an introductory essay that foregrounds the aesthetic, archival, and critical impetuses behind the work. Deploying techniques of erasure, found, and lyric poetry, the collection surfaces lyrical subjects and manifests aphoristic affective utterances taken from varied source texts such as letters, memories, and artifacts from my family archives; Joseph Brodsky’s Nativity Poems; and letters exchanged between two Caribbean diasporic writers living in Canada, Austin Clarke and Sam Selvon. This thesis is embedded within a series of intertextual relationships that instigate poetic and critical explorations of genre, form, and themes within the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition. The first section, "Imagining Leaving," consults personal experiences and family histories to stage an inquiry into how diasporic place-making and intergenerational trauma remain central to the constitution of Caribbean subjectivities. The following section, "Natty Oms," engages with Brodsky’s Nativity Poems, a text that performs diasporic literary community-making through practices of translation of Brodsky’s poems by his writer-friends, including the Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul. This thesis produces an erasure poem from Brodsky’s work to consider how intimacy, eroticism, and spatial disorientation function as diasporic literary aesthetics. The final section, "As Man," employs techniques of found poetry to signal the role of Canada in Caribbean literary history, as well as to explore diasporic epistolary practices, homosocial intimacies, and Caribbean masculinities. This dissertation offers three significant contributions to the field of Caribbean and Black diaspora studies. First, through creative practice it renders an account of the personal relations that fuelled Caribbean cultural production among prominent male writers by foregrounding shared intimacies as opposed to institutional affiliations. Second, it asserts the utility of intertextuality as a creative method, particularly suited to explorations of diaspora, rather than merely as a hermeneutical approach. Lastly, this doctoral thesis advances our understanding of key figures in the development of Anglophone Caribbean literature, insight into production of diasporic aesthetics, and the historical continuities in Caribbean literature across periods and geographies.
The neglected history of the Eastern Balkans: the clashing nationalist plans of the Bulgarians and the Greeks 1864-1913
Creators: name: Eker, Can
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: During the mid-nineteenth century, the Bulgarian irredentists increasingly began to view the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as a body that restrained the basic religious entitlement of the ethnic Bulgarian adherents. The nationally conscious Bulgarians thus believed that a separate Bulgarian Church would liberate the Bulgarian populace from the Greek domination of spiritual life. The birth of the Bulgarian Exarchate was the most crucial step in the “ethnicization” of religious life in the Eastern Balkans. From that point on, the conflicting legitimacy race amongst the Bulgarians and the Greeks gained significant momentum. This type of nation-state model fueled xenophobia amongst the nationalist designers as their envisioned nation-state excluded outsiders. This work systematically uncovers the complexity of the overlapping power struggles of the Greeks and the Bulgarians amidst the power-declining Ottoman Empire. As the title of this paper hints, instead of focusing specifically on the experiences of the Greeks and the Bulgarians with the power-declining Ottoman Empire, I looked further into how the nation-state projects of the two Eastern Balkan neighbors contradicted each other’s aspirations. The various primary and secondary source accounts that I consulted will testify that nation-builders were staunchly against a likely pan-Balkan or a pan-Orthodox structure. Therefore, this piece sheds light on how and why the nation-builders were rather more inclined towards a nation-state model. In this manner, the reader will easily grasp the non-friendly atmosphere of the antithetical nationalist endeavors. By conducting this thorough effort, I aim to provide a thriving ground for future publications that will further expand on this contentious topic for the sake of accurate history. I expect that the divergent approach I provide will become a breakthrough in Balkan historiography.
Helianthus tuberosus L.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helianthus
Helianthus tuberosus

description: Helianthus tuberosus L.
Topinambur
Art ISFS: 196090 Checklist: 1022310 Asteraceae Helianthus Helianthus tuberosus aggr. Helianthus tuberosus L.
Bestimmungsschlüssel
Zusammenfassung
Artbeschreibung (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 0,5- 3 m hoch, oben meist verzweigt, rauhaarig, mehrjährig, mit rübenförmigen bis kugeligen Wurzelknollen. Blätter breit-lanzettlich, grob gezähnt, gegenständig (oberste wechselständig), alle +/- gleich gross. Blütenköpfe meist mehrere, lang gestielt, +/- aufrecht, Durchmesser 4-8 cm. Blüten gelb. Zungenblüten 12-20, 2,5- 4 cm lang und ca. 1 cm breit, Scheibe mit den Röhrenblüten klein, Durchmesser nur 1-2,5 cm. Blütenboden wenig gewölbt, mit Spreublättern. Früchte 4-6 mm lang, mit 4 Pappusborsten.
Blütezeit (nach Lauber & al. 2018): 9-11
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Schuttplätze, Ufer, Wegränder, aus Gärten verwildert / kollin /
Verbreitung global (nach Lauber & al. 2018): Stammt aus Nordamerika
Ökologische Zeigerwerte (nach Landolt & al. 2010) 3 + w34-34 + 3.g.2n=102
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helianthus tuberosusL.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Topinambur, Knollige Sonnenblume Nom français: Topinambour, Hélianthe tubéreux Nome italiano: Girasole del Canada, Topinambur
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helianthus tuberosus L.Checklist 2017196090=Helianthus tuberosus L.Flora Helvetica 20182086
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neues Konzept: Die Art ist gegenüber SISF-2 enger gefasst, da H. decapetalus L., H. giganteus L., H. × multiflorus L., H. pauciflorus Nutt. und H. × laetiflorus Pers. abgetrennt wurden. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): NeinArt der "Liste der invasiven gebietsfremden Arten"Neophyten-Infoblatt
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Helianthus tuberosus
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helianthus
Helianthus tuberosus

description: Helianthus tuberosus aggr.
Topinambur
Art ISFS: 196100 Checklist: 1022305 Asteraceae Helianthus Helianthus tuberosus aggr. Enthält: Helianthus decapetalus L. Helianthus giganteus L. Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt. Helianthus tuberosus L. Helianthus ×laetiflorus Pers. Helianthus ×multiflorus L.
Bestimmungsschlüssel
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensform Geophyt
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
5.1.3 - Feuchter Krautsaum (Tieflagen) (Convolvulion)
fett Dominante Art, welche das Aussehen des Lebensraumes mitprägt Charakterart Weniger strikt an den Lebensraum gebundene Art
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl Ffeucht; Feuchtigkeit mässig wechselnd (± 1-2 Stufen)Lichtzahl LhalbschattigSalzzeichen--Reaktionszahl Rschwach sauer bis neutral (pH 4.5-7.5)Temperaturzahl Twarm-kollinNährstoffzahl NnährstoffreichKontinentalitätszahl Ksubozeanisch bis subkontinental (mittlere Luftfeuchtigkeit, mässige Temperaturschwankungen und mässig tiefe Wintertemperaturen)
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helianthus tuberosusaggr.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Topinambur Nom français: Topinambour Nome italiano: Girasole del Canada, Topinambur
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helianthus tuberosus aggr.Checklist 2017196100=Helianthus tuberosus L.Flora Helvetica 20012094=Helianthus tuberosus L.Flora Helvetica 20122086=Helianthus tuberosus L.Index synonymique 1996196100=Helianthus tuberosus L.Landolt 19773113=Helianthus tuberosus L.Landolt 19912507=Helianthus tuberosus L.SISF/ISFS 2196100
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neue Rangstufe: Wechsel von Art zu Aggregat. Durch das Hinzukommen zusätzlicher Neophyten und der präziseren Fassung der Artengruppe ist die bisherige H. tuberosus L. neu als Aggregat zu betrachten. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein Neophyten-Infoblatt
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Helianthus laetiflorus Pers.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helianthus
Helianthus laetiflorus

description: Helianthus × laetiflorus Pers.
Blühfreudige Sonnenblume
Art ISFS: 196150 Checklist: 1022320 Asteraceae Helianthus Helianthus tuberosus aggr. Helianthus ×laetiflorus Pers.
Bestimmungsschlüssel
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helianthus ×laetiflorusPers.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Blühfreudige Sonnenblume Nom français: Hélianthe vivace Nome italiano: Girasolino ibrido gioioso
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helianthus ×laetiflorus Pers.Checklist 2017196150
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neues Taxon: Von SISF-2 nicht berücksichtigter, stabiler (ohne Eltern vorkommender) Hybrid. Das Taxon entspricht einem Hybrid H. pauciflorus Nutt. × H. tuberosus L. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Helianthus multiflorus L.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helianthus
Helianthus multiflorus

description: Helianthus × multiflorus L.
Vielstrahlige Sonnenblume
Art ISFS: 196000 Checklist: 1022290 Asteraceae Helianthus Helianthus tuberosus aggr. Helianthus ×multiflorus L.
Bestimmungsschlüssel
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helianthus ×multiflorusL.
Volksname Deutscher Name: Vielstrahlige Sonnenblume Nom français: Hélianthe multiflore hybride Nome italiano: Girasole doppio
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helianthus ×multiflorus L.Checklist 2017196000=Helianthus multiflorus L.SISF/ISFS 2196000
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Korrigierter Name: Das Taxon wird neu als Hybrid und nicht mehr als Art behandelt. Das Taxon entspricht einem Hybrid H. annuus L. × H. decapetalus L. Neuer Status: Das Taxon hatte im SISF-2 den Status «I» eines eingeschlossenen Namens und ist neu als gültiger Name akzeptiert. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Neophyt: nach der Entdeckung von Amerika in der Region aufgetreten (nach 1500)
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein Neophyten-Infoblatt
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Improving Automated Vehicle Safety with Collective Perception
Creators: Siqi Yan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Automated Vehicle (AV) is a trending technology being developed with the promise to reduce traffic accidents caused by human errors. Perception plays a crucial role for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) to make safe decisions. However, local sensory data is insufficient to capture comprehensive information for ADS due to occlusion and limited perception range. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology provides an alternative solution by enabling vehicles to exchange perception information (referred to as Collective Perception or CP), increasing environment awareness for all vehicles in the network, and thus improving driving safety. In this research, we demonstrate the safety benefits of CP through the simulation of three driving scenarios in the Carla simulator. We use pose graph optimization (PGO) to fuse high-level sensory data between the local sensor and the data coming from the V2V network to reduce state estimation uncertainty. After that, a connected ADS was developed to make driving decisions based on the fused information to prevent potential traffic hazards. We show that the time-to-collision (TTC) metrics between the ego vehicle and unconnected road users (URU) are improved for all three scenarios compared to the baseline, indicating that CP can improve safety for AV in the simulated scenarios.
THE EFFECT OF SHEAR ON SWEEP FLOCCULATION IN STABLE  WATER-IN-OIL EMULSIONS
Creators: Bhargava, Aakanksha
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Naphthenic Froth Treatment (NFT) is employed to remove water droplets and solids from the bitumen froth recovered from the extracted oilsands ore. In the process, bitumen froth is diluted with naphtha to reduce the viscosity and induce density difference to promote settling of water droplets and solids. The diluted bitumen froth is then mixed with a demulsifier and passed through Inclined Plate Settlers (IPSs) and centrifuges. The IPS units separate most water and solids from the diluted bitumen froth, leaving the final concentration of around 1.5 -2.5 wt % water and 0.5 wt% solids in the final product. The remaining water is present in the form of very stable droplets that are difficult to separate without the assistance of induced flocculation or coalescence. These water droplets in diluted bitumen are detrimental to upgrading facilities as they may cause corrosion problems. The selection of operating conditions for separating equipment (IPS) such as demulsifier selection/optimal concentration depends on the data obtained from laboratory scale bottle or jar tests. These tests are done under static conditions that are not representative of the shear/flow experienced at the industrial scale. The main objective of the project is to understand the effect of shear on the flocculation of water droplets. This project uses water-in-light mineral oil emulsions as analogs for water-in-diluted bitumen emulsions.

Several experiments were conducted to determine the effect of shear rate on the flocculation of water droplets in water-in-light mineral oil emulsions. The effect of shear was studied using a custom-built Couette cell, which has a shear rate range similar to IPS. The shear rate selected is 12.2 – 29.3 s-1, similar to that experienced by the water droplets between the parallel plates in an IPS. The emulsion was sheared in the Couette cell using a precisely defined protocol and then allowed to settle for one hour. 

The laminar shear rate (12.2 – 29.3 s-1) induced in the water-in-light mineral oil emulsion forces water droplets/ flocs to come in contact with each other, increasing the number of collisions and promoting floc formation. Furthermore, the formed flocs have higher settling velocities than individual droplets. The faster settling flocs sweep away single water droplets or small flocs present in their settling path, leading to further growth of the flocs, which increases their settling velocity; this mechanism is called sweep flocculation. Sweep flocculation promotes the removal of small water droplets from the oil that would otherwise take many days or hours to settle. It can be inferred from the experiments that shearing the emulsion promotes the formation of flocs, which further induces sweep flocculation in the emulsion and results in a cleaner oil as compared to the emulsions, that have not been sheared in the Couette cell.
Helichrysum italicum G. Don
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum italicum

description: Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don
Art ISFS: 196200 Checklist: 1022330 Asteraceae Helichrysum Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helichrysum italicum(Roth) G. Don
Volksname
Deutscher Name: -- Nom français: -- Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. DonChecklist 2017196200=Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. DonIndex synonymique 1996196200=Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. DonLandolt 19773061=Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. DonSISF/ISFS 2196200
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Status Indigenat: -
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
The development of a hypermedia document about can and filtration
Creators: name: Pace, Steven
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80305 Multimedia Programming
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This thesis presents the results of an investigation into the process of converting existing paper -based publications into computer -based hypermedia documents. The study was conducted in cooperation with the Sugar Research Institute (SRI) on a part-time basis between March 1992 and September 1995. An SRI publication on the subject of cane mud filtration was converted to hypermedia form using iterative design methods which involved testing prototypes early in the course of development and making refinements based on feedback from SRI staff, information technology professionals and potential users of the system. The purpose of the exercise was to develop a set of guidelines for converting other SRI publications into hypermedia documents. These guidelines, which are presented in this thesis, focus on activities such as: selecting the document to be converted to hypermedia form; selecting the development and delivery platform; selecting the authoring system; gathering content for inclusion in the hypermedia document; defining the structure of the hypermedia document; creating storyboards; mastering development tools; designing the user interface and navigation system; working with the basic elements of multimedia (text, graphics, sound, video and animation); developing prototypes; and conducting useability tests. Recommendations are made to SRI for the adoption of hypermedia as a means of communicating the results of its research and development activities to sugar industry personnel.
Sparse and Dense Visual SLAM with Single-Image Depth Prediction
Creators: Loo, Shing Yan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

In this thesis, we investigate the use of single-image depth prediction from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in sparse and dense monocular visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problems. Mainly, we are interested in solving three problems: (1) data association, (2) dense mapping, and (3) long-term adaptation.

Hence, we divide the thesis into three parts to discuss the contributions to solving the problems mentioned above.

To improve the robustness of data association in visual SLAM, our first proposal extends the state-of-the-art semi-direct visual SLAM algorithm using single-image depth prediction to improve the reliability of feature matching. We propose to use the additional depth information to initialize new features with a small uncertainty centred at the predicted depth. By reducing depth uncertainty, feature correspondence can be identified in a reduced search range along the epipolar line, resulting in fast convergence of the feature depth and improved mapping performance. With the improved mapping performance, our method outperforms the state-of-the-art visual SLAM algorithms in camera tracking error.

To recover a dense structure, we densify the semi-dense structure of the scene recovered from the state-of-the-art direct SLAM algorithm, LSD-SLAM. To this end, our second proposal exploits the local depth gradient consistency from single-image relative depth prediction as a spatial regularizer to densify the semi-dense depth maps. In addition, we propose an adaptive filtering scheme that incorporates the depth and pixel intensity of a local window to reduce the noise of the semi-dense structure, which allows for a substantial gain in densification accuracy. The optimized semi-dense and densified structures, in turn, are being used to refine the pose-graph to refine the pose estimation. Experimental results show that our dense reconstruction accuracy outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a large margin.

Nevertheless, single-image depth prediction from CNNs tends to give accurate depth estimations on images similar to that of the training images. Therefore, to improve the generality of single-image depth prediction used in visual SLAM, our third proposal introduces a long-term adaptation framework, which supports online fine-tuning of a depth prediction CNN to improve its accuracy while leveraging improved quality of depth prediction to optimize the structure and camera pose estimation globally. Particularly, we propose a novel online adaptation method in which the fine-tuning is enhanced with regularization to retain the previously learned knowledge while the CNN is continually trained. We demonstrate the use of fine-tuned depth prediction for map point culling before running global photometric BA, resulting in a more accurate map reconstruction than running global photometric BA on all map points.
A Measurement of Solar Neutrinos and the Development of Reconstruction Algorithms for the SNO+ Experiment
Creators: Jie Hu
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

This thesis presents a measurement of the flux of Boron-8 ($^8$B) solar neutrinos. The measurement is based on a dataset of 190.33 live days acquired during the SNO+ water physics commissioning. To analyze the data, an event reconstruction framework was developed to evaluate the orientation of the incoming neutrino's momentum vector and the position of the event it induces. A multivariate analysis was applied to reduce the number of background events in the analysis dataset. By analyzing the data within an energy range from 5 to 15 MeV, an observed elastic scattering flux assuming no neutrino flavor transformation is obtained as $\Phi{\mathrm{ES}}=(2.10 \pm 0.204 \mathrm{(stat.)}^{+0.169}{-0.0722}\mathrm{(syst.)})\times10^6$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ while the total $^8$B solar neutrino flux is evaluated as $\Phi{\mathrm{^8B}}=(4.62 \pm 0.447 \mathrm{(stat.)}^{+0.300}{-0.137}\mathrm{(syst.)})\times10^6$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. These fluxes are consistent with the previous measurement published by SNO+ [Anderson, M., et al. Measurement of the $^8$B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds.'' Physical Review D 99.1 (2019): 012012], and the measurements from Super Kamiokande [Abe, K., et al.Solar Neutrino Measurements in Super-Kamiokande-IV.'' Physical Review D 94.5 (2016): 052010] and Borexino [Agostini, M., et al. ``Improved measurement of 8B solar

neutrinos with 1.5 kt$\cdot$y of Borexino exposure.'' Physical Review D 101.6 (2020): 062001]. The systematics were obtained by reconstructing and analyzing the calibration datasets from a nitrogen-16 calibration source.

Currently, the SNO+ experiment has completed the water phase commission and is filled with the liquid scintillator. It turns from a water Cherenkov detector into a 780-tonne liquid scintillator detector. Tellurium-130 isotopes will be loaded into the detector to fulfill the ultimate physics goal of SNO+: to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay. The other parts of this thesis discuss the reconstruction framework for the partial-fill and scintillator phases. For the scintillator phase, the event reconstruction gives a high position resolution down to about 65 mm.
SENP1 IN ISLET COMPENSATION AND FAILURE DURING HIGH FAT FEEDING
Creators: Lin, Haopeng
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Pancreatic β-cells are paramount for optimizing insulin secretion to metabolic need. The progression from non-diabetes to type 2 diabetes (T2D) is accompanied by β-cell compensation and decompensation. While β-cell decompensation is a hallmark of overt diabetes, β-cell compensation promotes insulin output, either through functional or mass increases, to maintain normoglycemia. The sentrin-specific SUMO protease-1 (SENP1) reverses a post translational modification (PTM) called SUMOylation, and this is required for physiological β-cell function. In contrast, SENP1 exerts a negative effect on β-cell survival under oxidative stress. This dual and opposite effect on function and survival has not been reconciled in the context of metabolic stress, where both β-cell functional and mass compensation are essential to maintain glucose homeostasis.

    The present thesis shows that in short-term HFD exposure, an early stage of compensation where functional compensation is predominant, adaptive glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is accounted for by upregulation of cytosolic reducing signaling via SENP1, redox regulation of which is fine-tuned by a coordinated interaction between Zn2+ and cysteines 603 and 535 of the SENP1 catalytic domain. Loss of β-cell SENP1 impairs intraperitoneal glucose tolerance. Furthermore, under long-term high fat diet (HFD) exposure with decompensated glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and pronounced islet mass expansion, islet and -cell SENP1 is required for maintaining oral glucose tolerance by ensuring robust incretin-stimulated insulin secretion at a point downstream of incretin receptors. Importantly, loss of SENP1 does not have any harmful effect on β-cell mass compensation.

    These findings elucidate the molecular basis of SENP1 redox sensing and provide insights into the mechanisms how β-cell adopts different strategies for functional compensation at different stages of compensation, establishing an indispensable role of SENP1 for β-cell functional compensation to maintain normoglycemia. Targeting SENP1 might emerge as a therapeutic intervention to rescue the β-cell functional decompensation commonly seen in T2D.
Stingrays: no longer the silent residents of the sea
Creators: name: Fetterplace, Lachlan C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Press Release and additional multimedia for Fetterplace, L.C., Delgado Esteban, J.J., Pini-Fitzsimmons, J., Gaskell, J. and Wueringer, B.E. (2022), Evidence of sound production in wild stingrays. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript e3812. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3812
Helichrysum stoechas Moench
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum stoechas

description: Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench
Art ISFS: 196300 Checklist: 1022340 Asteraceae Helichrysum Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Helichrysum stoechas(L.) Moench
Volksname
Deutscher Name: -- Nom français: -- Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Helichrysum stoechas (L.) MoenchChecklist 2017196300=Helichrysum stoechas (L.) MoenchIndex synonymique 1996196300=Helichrysum stoechas (L.) MoenchLandolt 19773060=Helichrysum stoechas (L.) MoenchSISF/ISFS 2196300
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Status Indigenat: Kultivierter Neophyt: nach dem Jahr 1500 in der Schweiz aufgetreten
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
A capillarity model for soap films
Creators: name: King, Darren Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Minimal surfaces
Soap films
Plateau's problem
Capillarity

description: We study a variational model for soap films based on capillarity theory and its relation to minimal surfaces. Here soap films are modeled, not as surfaces, but as regions of small volume satisfying a homotopic spanning condition. The addition of a volume constraint adds a length scale to the Plateau problem, and has the potential to better describe the effect of surface tension on thin films by capturing behaviors related to thickness that are inaccessible by surface models.
Making training materials FAIR experiences, challenges, solutions
Creators: name: Hiltemann, Saskia
name: Swan, Anna
name: Ras, Verena
name: Doyle, Maria
name: Burke, Melissa
name: Palagi, Patricia M.
name: van Gelder, Celia W.G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: FAIR, FAIR principles, training, training materials, implementation, challenges, solutions, experiences

description: Sharing data has become common practice around the globe, and training is part of this trend. This PLoS 10 simple rules paper published in 2020 introduced tips and tricks on how to make training materials FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), which encouraged trainers to share their materials with others, and facilitated this process. The WEB (Workshop on Education for Bioinformatics) 2021 was a dedicated forum for training providers, trainers and trainees to share their experiences of making training materials FAIR. The WEB was composed of short presentations from invited speakers who have been through this process, where they have introduced their approaches, challenges and solutions.
description: {"references": ["https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007854"]}
Heliopsis helianthoides Sweet
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Heliopsis
Heliopsis helianthoides

description: Heliopsis helianthoides (L.) Sweet
Art ISFS: 197150 Checklist: 1022450 Asteraceae Heliopsis Heliopsis helianthoides (L.) Sweet
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Heliopsis helianthoides(L.) Sweet
Volksname
Deutscher Name: -- Nom français: -- Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Heliopsis helianthoides (L.) SweetChecklist 2017197150
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neues Taxon: Gegenüber SISF-2 neu aufgenommener Neophyt. Aus Kultur verwildert. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Kultivierter Neophyt: nach dem Jahr 1500 in der Schweiz aufgetreten
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Economics of wildfire suppression: Estimation of drivers of suppression expenditure and Risk preference experiments with wildfire management
Creators: Huang, Michael S.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Public wildfire management agencies are presented with a momentous responsibility: to protect life, property and infrastructure from the devastation of wildland fire, while operating at a level of expenditure justifiable to taxpayers. At a time when climate change drives more extreme fire behaviour, agencies such as Alberta Wildfire must also be prepared to respond despite uncertain budgets. This thesis contributes by offering new empirical insights on wildfire suppression through two directions. Firstly, Chapter 2 focuses on the drivers of wildfire suppression costs. An empirical model seeks to explain how costs are affected by a series of environmental factors, such as time-variant weather variables and time-invariant landscape characteristics, as well as by operational policy variables based on Alberta Wildfire’s organizational capacity and priorities. Results from regression analysis and machine learning show that while policy decisions have measurable impacts on abating costs, the bulk of expenditures is driven by environmental factors. Chapter 3 studies risk aversion of Alberta Wildfire Incident Commanders (ICs). Through laboratory economic experiments, I seek to determine whether ICs, who are in a risky profession, exhibit risk preferences in laboratory experiments that are different from a control group. Results show that ICs’ experiment choices are not significantly different from those of typical experimental subjects across all risk elicitation tasks. However, among their colleagues, ICs with additional operational deployment experience tend to exhibit significantly lower levels of risk aversion. Findings from this study motivate further research into wildland firefighters’ risk preferences that will help decisionmakers better understand how individual risk perceptions impact resource allocation, and by extension, costs. Taken together, the novel insights generated from this thesis contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of wildfire suppression research.
TOSHKENT VILOYATI BO'YICHA  OSHQOZON SARATONI BILAN KASALLANISH KO'RSATKICHLARINING 2022 YIL TAXLILI
Creators: name: Ergashev, S.O'.
name: Musaxodjayeva, I.N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mustaqillikning dastlabki yillaridanoq yurtimizda aholi salomatligini mustahkamlash, ularni ijtimoiy himoya qilish masalalariga yuksak e’tibor qaratilmoqda. Bu jarayonda nafaqat tibbiyot muassasalarini jahon talablari darajasiga keltirish, balki yana bir muhim yo‘nalish — farmatsevtika sanoatini rivojlantirib, xalqimizni sifatli dori-darmon asoslar yaratilgani qo‘l kelmoqda. Jumladan O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidentining “2017-2021  yillarda  O’zbekiston  Respublikasida onkologiya xizmatini yanada rivojlantirish  va  aholiga onkologik  yordam  ko’rsatishni   takomillashtirish  chora  tadbirlari  to’g’risida”  gi  qarori  aholiga  ixtisoslashgan  onkologik  tibbiy  yordam ko’rsatish  sifatini  yaxshilash  va  ko’lamini  kengaytirish   aholining  barcha  qatlamlarini to’la  qamrab  oluvchi  tizimni  shakllantirish   va  rivojlantirishda  muhim  dasturilamal  bo’lmoqda.
Controls on Solubility and Deposition of Quartz, Calcite, Fluorite and Anhydrite in Boiling Saline Hydrothermal Systems
Creators: Barrier, Jackson
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Fluid boiling is a key mechanism for precipitation of minerals in epithermal deposits, and evidence for boiling includes a variety of vein mineral textures that indicate rapid deposition. Hence, the relationships between vein mineral paragenesis and boiling are critical to interpreting processes that drive mineralization. Here, we evaluate quantitatively the factors that control solubility and deposition of four common epithermal vein minerals – quartz, calcite, fluorite and anhydrite – in boiling hydrothermal fluids ranging from 0 to 15 wt% NaCl. Major controls on the precipitation of these minerals include the initial salinity of fluid; the temperature at which boiling commences; the extent of vaporization; and magnitude of temperature decrease during progressive boiling. At 0 wt% NaCl, solubilities of all four minerals in the liquid phase increase with increasing temperature up to a local maximum (336 °C for quartz; 287 °C for calcite; 300 °C for fluorite; and 100 °C for anhydrite). Solubility of each mineral in the liquid phase decreases with increasing temperature thereafter (a phenomenon referred to as retrograde solubility), and converges with that in the vapor phase at the critical point of H2O. As fluid salinity increases, solubilities of all four minerals increase, but to different extents. Specifically, the solubilities of calcite, fluorite and anhydrite show strong salting-in effects in comparison to that of quartz. For quartz, calcite, and fluorite, salting-in eventually overcomes the retrograde solubility trends, such that the temperature dependence of solubility is strictly prograde at salinities exceeding a certain threshold (approximately 6 wt% NaCl for quartz; 3 wt% NaCl for calcite; 1 wt% NaCl for fluorite). Anhydrite stands apart in that it exhibits a strictly retrograde trend for all salinities up to 10 wt% NaCl, and only sees a limited prograde trend at temperatures close to the critical point for a fluid of 15 wt% NaCl. The various factors affecting boiling-induced deposition of all three minerals allow for a variety of distinct paragenetic sequences depending on fluid salinity, temperature and extent of vaporization and cooling. Our results provide a framework for both qualitative and quantitative interpretations of vein paragenesis and relationships between fluid composition, boiling and mineral deposition.
Les effets de la pandémie de la COVID-19 sur le bien-être au travail : Perspectives des enseignants albertains
Creators: Essiomle, Komla M
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Dans un contexte sociétal fortement perturbé par la COVID-19, les préoccupations des enseignants concernant leur santé mentale peuvent être exacerbées. L'objectif de cette recherche est d’identifier les pratiques de leadership qui peuvent permettre aux administrateurs scolaires de favoriser le bien-être au travail des enseignants dans un contexte où l’organisation scolaire fait face à une période de turbulences comme une pandémie .

Ancrée dans la philosophie pragmatique de John Dewey (1859-1952) et sa théorie de l'enquête qui considère la recherche comme « une investigation visant à comprendre une partie de la réalité et à créer des connaissances pour apporter des changements dans cette partie de la réalité » (Kaushik et Walsh, 2019, p.5), cette étude a utilisé une méthode mixte pour analyser les données recueillies auprès de 35 enseignants.

Les résultats obtenus démontrent que 86 % des enseignants albertains ayant participé à cette recherche se sentent stressés par leur travail depuis le début de la pandémie de la COVID-19 et 14 % ont besoin d’une prise en charge immédiate liée aux symptômes d’épuisement professionnel. Les causes des problèmes de santé mentale révélées dans l'étude sont principalement liées (a) à la surcharge de travail, (b) à l'absence de directives claires de la part d’Alberta Education sur la manière de gérer la pandémie dans les écoles, (c) aux longues heures travaillées (au-delà de 40 heures par semaine), (d) à la peur d’être contaminé par la COVID-19, (e) au temps passé devant un écran tous les jours, (f) à l'isolement social, (g) à la non atteinte des objectifs d'apprentissage par les élèves, et (h) à la prospection en vue de la mise en œuvre d'un nouveau programme scolaire de la maternelle à la 6ᵉ année alors que la pandémie est toujours en cours.

Bien que ces résultats révèlent dans leur ensemble une perception négative des enseignants en ce qui concerne leur bien-être au travail, cette recherche rapporte également que l'adoption de certaines pratiques par les équipes de direction des écoles peut permettre d’atténuer les effets stressants de la profession. Plus précisément, nous avons trouvé que l'intelligence émotionnelle des chefs d'établissement combiné avec l’exercice d’un leadership pédagogique et d’un leadership moral pourrait améliorer le bien-être au travail des éducateurs