cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of intrinsic defects and alloying with Fe on the half-metallicity of Co$_2$MnSi
Creators: name: Flores, G. G. Baez
name: Zhuravlev, I. A.
name: Belashchenko, K. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure and half-metallic gap of Co$_{2}$MnSi in the presence of crystallographic defects, partial Fe substitution for Mn, and thermal spin fluctuations are studied using the coherent potential approximation and the disordered local moment method. In the presence of 5\% Co or Mn vacancies the Fermi level shifts down to the minority-spin valence-band maximum. In contrast to NiMnSb, both types of Mn antisite defects in Co$_{2}$MnSi are strongly exchange-coupled to the host magnetization, and thermal spin fluctuations do not strongly affect the half-metallic gap. Partial substitution of Mn by Fe results in considerable changes in the Bloch spectral function near the Fermi level, which strongly deviate from the rigid-band picture. In particular, a light band with the Fe character crosses the Fermi level at about 50\% concentration. At room temperature, Fe substitution of up to 30\% slightly increases the spin polarization at the Fermi level.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Reaching the Gobi
Creators: name: Stone, Marilyn Leigh
name: Douglass, John
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3605
subject: Screen and digital media

description: Reaching the Gobi is a short, natural history documentary about undergraduates from Texas A&M University experiencing a faculty-led study abroad program. The program focused on scientific methods of snow leopard conservation and was co-led in partnership with Snow Leopard Conservancy and Irbis Mongolia in the Gobi-Altai Mountains of Mongolia. Since graduating, their young professional careers have been directly influenced by the same passion for fieldwork and genetic research of the wildlife biologists who once led them.
Odor-Cued Taste Avoidance : A Simple and Robust Test of Mouse Olfaction
Creators: name: Slotnick, Burton
name: Coppola, David M.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press; Chemical Senses
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In odor-cued taste avoidance (OCTA), thirsty mice, offered either an odorized nonaversive fluid (S+) or an odorized aversive fluid (S−), quickly learn to use odor to avoid drinking the S−. Acquisition of both odor detection and odor discrimination tasks is very rapid with learning evidenced in most cases by either long response times or total avoidance on the second presentation of the S− stimulus. OCTA is perhaps one of the simplest conditioning procedures for assessing olfaction in mice; it requires only a test box, drinkometer circuit, and thirsty mice accustomed to drinking in the apparatus. Its advantages over the most commonly used alternatives, habituation–dishabituation, and the mouse dig test, are discussed.
Odor-Cued Taste Avoidance : A Simple and Robust Test of Mouse Olfaction
Creators: name: Slotnick, Burton
name: Coppola, David M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In odor-cued taste avoidance (OCTA), thirsty mice, offered either an odorized nonaversive fluid (S+) or an odorized aversive fluid (S−), quickly learn to use odor to avoid drinking the S−. Acquisition of both odor detection and odor discrimination tasks is very rapid with learning evidenced in most cases by either long response times or total avoidance on the second presentation of the S− stimulus. OCTA is perhaps one of the simplest conditioning procedures for assessing olfaction in mice; it requires only a test box, drinkometer circuit, and thirsty mice accustomed to drinking in the apparatus. Its advantages over the most commonly used alternatives, habituation–dishabituation, and the mouse dig test, are discussed.
Torotrogla Kethley 1970
Creators: name: Pidhorna, Svitlana Ya.
name: Chernychko, Kateryna J.
name: Kivganov, Dmytro A.
name: Trach, Viacheslav A.
name: Deli, Olga F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Syringophilidae
Torotrogla

description: Key to females of the genus Torotrogla occurring in Ukraine [based on Skoracki et al. (2016)]
 1. Setae l’ of trochanters III not extending beyond respective genua, hypostomal protuberances short and wide ……………………………………………………………….. T. rubeculi Skoracki, 2004
 – Setae l’ of trochanters III extending beyond respective genua, hypostomal protuberances long and slender ………………………………………… T. merulae Skoracki, Dabert & Ehrnsberger, 2000
description: Published as part of Pidhorna, Svitlana Ya., Chernychko, Kateryna J., Kivganov, Dmytro A., Trach, Viacheslav A. & Deli, Olga F., 2020, New and interesting records of quill mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) of passerine birds of southwestern Ukraine, pp. 213-223 in Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3) on pages 220-221, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i3.60299, http://zenodo.org/record/4635212
Functional Programming in Pattern-Match-Oriented Programming Style
Creators: name: Egi, Satoshi
name: Nishiwaki, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Throughout the history of functional programming, recursion has emerged as a natural method for describing loops in programs. However, there does often exist a substantial cognitive distance between the recursive definition and the simplest explanation of an algorithm even for the basic list processing functions such as map, concat, or unique; when we explain these functions, we seldom use recursion explicitly as we do in functional programming. For example, map is often explained as follows: the map function takes a function and a list and returns a list of the results of applying the function to all the elements of the list. This paper advocates a new programming paradigm called pattern-match-oriented programming for filling this gap. An essential ingredient of our method is utilizing pattern matching for non-free data types. Pattern matching for non-free data types features non-linear pattern matching with backtracking and extensibility of pattern-matching algorithms. Several non-standard pattern constructs, such as not-patterns, loop patterns, and sequential patterns, are derived from this pattern-matching facility. Based on that result, this paper introduces many programming techniques that replace explicit recursions with an intuitive pattern by confining recursions inside patterns. We classify these techniques as pattern-match-oriented programming design patterns. These programming techniques allow us to redefine not only the most basic functions for list processing such as map, concat, or unique more elegantly than the traditional functional programming style, but also more practical mathematical algorithms and software such as a SAT solver, computer algebra system, and database query language that we had not been able to implement concisely.
Maximal twist and the spectrum of quenched twisted mass lattice QCD
Creators: name: Abdel-Rehim, Abdou M.
name: Lewis, Randy
name: Woloshyn, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results on the hadron masses for a degenerate doublet of up and down quarks from quenched twisted mass lattice QCD at maximal twist are presented. Two definitions of maximal twist are used and the hadron masses for these definitions are compared. Mass splittings within the Delta(1232) multiplet due to flavor breaking effects are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Talk presented at Lattice 2005 (Hadron spectrum and quark masses)
Additional file 1 of Vitamin C for ≥ 5 days is associated with decreased hospital mortality in sepsis subgroups: a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Jung, Sun-Young
name: Lee, Min-Taek
name: Baek, Moon Seong
name: Kim, Won-Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. ICD-10 codes used for identification of infectious condition.
Fears and Misperceptions of the Ebola Response System during the 2014-2015 Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Yamanis, Thespina
name: Nolan, Elisabeth
name: Shepler, Susan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Background Future infectious disease epidemics are likely to disproportionately affect countries with weak health systems, exacerbating global vulnerability. To decrease the severity of epidemics in these settings, lessons can be drawn from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is a dearth of literature on public perceptions of the public health response system that required citizens to report and treat Ebola cases. Epidemiological reports suggested that there were delays in diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of our study was to explore the barriers preventing Sierra Leoneans from trusting and using the Ebola response system during the height of the outbreak. Methods Using an experienced ethnographer, we conducted 30 semi-structured in-depth interviews in public spaces in Ebola-affected areas. Participants were at least age 18, spoke Krio, and reported no contact in the recent 21 days with an Ebola-infected person. We used inductive coding and noted emergent themes. Findings Most participants feared that calling the national hotline for someone they believed had Ebola would result in that person's death. Many stated that if they developed a fever they would assume it was not Ebola and self-medicate. Some thought the chlorine sprayed by ambulance workers was toxic. Although most knew there was a laboratory test for Ebola, some erroneously assumed the ubiquitous thermometers were the test and most did not understand the need to re-test in the presence of Ebola symptoms. Conclusion Fears and misperceptions, related to lack of trust in the response system, may have delayed care-seeking during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Protocols for future outbreak responses should incorporate dynamic, qualitative research to understand and address people's perceptions. Strategies that enhance trust in the response system, such as community mobilization, may be particularly effective.
Increasing education, awareness, and participation in sustainable food systems
Creators: name: Chen, Jiawen
name: Hanna, Amy
name: Labow, Ilana
name: Lam, Timothy
name: Puddicombe, Brock
name: Tham, Lisa Yuet-Mei
name: Yaung, Joyce
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Our AGSC 450 group has created a food component for the 2007 UBC Sustainability Fair. We followed the guidelines created by the UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP) with the intention of helping UBC continue transitioning towards a more sustainable food system. Recognizing the connection between the UBCFSP and the greater global food system, we focused our energies in two specific directions. One aspect we focused on was marketing the food component of the fair. We selected a slogan, logo, pins, poster, created a pamphlet, mascot, an ad for the AMS Insider, and encourage all the volunteers to wear “uniforms”. Our other focus was on the content of the fair which includes on and off-campus food organizations working and/or promoting sustainable practices, entertainers, how-to workshops, prepared foods by Vancouver chefs using local, sustainably grown products, and more. Acknowledging the problems of our current global and local food systems, we recognize the important role increasing awareness and education can play in the everyday food consumer’s life. Embracing UBC as a microcosm of the world, the UBC Sustainability Fair is a means to achieving UBCFSP on-campus goals on a larger scale. We feel that the 7 guiding principles of the UBCFSP’s Vision Statement for a Sustainable UBC Food System appropriately represent our individual perspectives towards achieving a sustainable food system. With all this said, including a few recommendations regarding the amount of energy that should be directed towards marketing the fair, we are quite excited about our results. After much brainstorming, dialogue, and research, our group has prepared what we believe to be a fun, educational, and experiential food component for the 2007 UBC Sustainability Fair. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
A Connes-amenable, dual Banach algebra need not have a normal, virtual diagonal
Creators: name: Runde, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A15, 22A20, 43A07, 43A10, 43A60, 46H20 (primary) 46H25, 46M18, 46M20

description: Let $G$ be a locally compact group, and let $WAP(G)$ denote the space of weakly almost periodic functions on $G$. We show that, if $G$ is a $[SIN]$-group, but not compact, then the dual Banach algebra $WAP(G)^\ast$ does not have a normal, virtual diagonal. Consequently, whenever $G$ is an amenable, non-compact $[SIN]$-group, $WAP(G)^\ast$ is an example of a Connes-amenable, dual Banach algebra without a normal,virtual diagonal.
description: 16 pages; some more, minor revisions
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. INTERVIEWS WITH MOTHERS – THE VICTIMS OF THE VIOLENCE IN BIAŁA PODLASKA
PRZEMOC DOMOWA. WYWIADY Z MATKAMI – OFIARAMI PRZEMOCY W BIAŁEJ PODLASKIEJ
Creators: name: Tomczyszyn, Dorota
name: Dajema, Beata
name: Tomczyszyn, Dorota
name: Dajema, Beata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: domestic violence
subject: the victim of the violence
subject: the forms of the violence

description: The aim of the research was to present the way of functioning of a woman in the role of a mother, a wife and at the same time the victim of the violence in the family. The following research was based on the survey in the form of the interview. 15 women were surveyed in 2009. The violence in the family influences negatively on the way a woman performs the role of a mother, wife or a worker. Women who suffered from the domestic violence are taught to resign from their own needs and their hierarchy of values. The most frequently used forms of the domestic violence are physical violence, beating and pushing. Women who suffered from their husbands’ violence did not make their dreams and wishes come true, and what is more, they gave up their professional plans. The attempts of leaving a husband were not successful because of the lack of financial means. It is highly necessary to counteract this phenomenon on the level of politics, economy, institutions, society and family. The law instruments are unsatisfactory, inefficient and the means of helping the victims are still not sufficient.
More on deviation from bi-maximal neutrino mixing
Creators: name: Pires, C. A. de S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the case of $U^T_l$ presenting the exact bi-maximal mixing form with $U_ν$ inducing the deviation from the bi-maximal mixing in the final form of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata neutrino mixing, $U_{PMNS}=U^T_l U_ν$. We will show that such possibility will lead to a democratic texture for the charged lepton mass matrix and to a neutrino mass matrix with four null entries.
description: a scenario realizing our proposal is added, new references added, to be published in J.Phys.G
A Radio Survey of Type Ib and Ic Supernovae: Searching for Engine Driven Supernovae
Creators: name: Berger, E.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Frail, D. A.
name: Soderberg, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The association of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and core-collapse supernovae (SNe) of Type Ib and Ic was motivated by the detection of SN 1998bw in the error box of GRB 980425 and the now-secure identification of a SN 1998bw-like event in the cosmological GRB 030329. The bright radio emission from SN 1998bw indicated that it possessed some of the unique attributes expected of GRBs, namely a large reservoir of energy in (mildly) relativistic ejecta and variable energy input. The two popular scenarios for the origin of SN 1998bw are a typical cosmological burst observed off-axis or a member of a new distinct class of supernova explosions (gSNe). In the former, about 0.5% of local Type Ib/c SNe are expected to be similar to SN1998bw; for the latter no such constraint exists. Motivated thus, we began a systematic program of radio observations of most reported Type Ib/c SNe accessible to the Very Large Array. Of the 33 SNe observed from late 1999 to the end of 2002 at most one is as bright as SN 1998bw. From this we conclude that the incidence of such events is <3%. Furthermore, analysis of the radio emission indicates that none of the observed SNe exhibit clear engine signatures. Finally, a comparison of the SN radio emission to that of GRB afterglows indicates that none of the SNe could have resulted from a typical GRB, independent of the initial jet orientation. Thus, while the nature of SN 1998bw remains an open question, there appears to be a clear dichotomy between the majority of hydrodynamic and engine-driven explosions.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Programming Paradigms, Turing Completeness and Computational Thinking
Creators: name: Michaelson, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The notion of programming paradigms, with associated programming languages and methodologies, is a well established tenet of Computer Science pedagogy, enshrined in international curricula. However, this notion sits ill with Kuhn's classic conceptualisation of a scientific paradigm as a dominant world view, which supersedes its predecessors through superior explanatory power. Furthermore, it is not at all clear how programming paradigms are to be characterised and differentiated. Indeed, on closer inspection, apparently disparate programming paradigms are very strongly connected. Rather, they should be viewed as different traditions of a unitary Computer Science paradigm of Turing complete computation complemented by Computational Thinking.
SOCIAL CHANGE AND WOMEN IN THE POLISH ARMY. SELECTED SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
ZMIANA SPOŁECZNA A KOBIETY W WOJSKU POLSKIM. WYBRANE ASPEKTY SOCJOLOGICZNE
Creators: name: Maciejewski, Jan
name: Maciejewski, Jan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: the uniformed public services army
subject: stereotypes

description: The turn of the century showed that the uniformed public services are permanent segments of the population gaining its livelihood by commanding, hierarchy, discipline, drill, and greatly reduced family life and personal life to perform inner and external group roles, that is, the segment social roles, essentially different from the roles of groups within civil society. The work in systems of contemporary availability is often popularly referred to as the service and requires the sacrifice of life, therefore, it was and is remunerated in both totalitarianism and democracy, but in democracy through the contemporary labour market. Thus the uniformed public services are soldiers, policemen, firemen, etc. who keep the right kind of availability, public order and if necessary, in accordance with the orders of the government, carry out its instructions. They protect production, operational, economic and natural processes, and protect the appropriate infrastructural facilities which task is to prevent a disaster and if this happens removing its effects (Zagórski 2006).
On the formation of hydrogen-deficient low-mass white dwarfs
Creators: name: Battich, Tiara
name: Althaus, Leandro G.
name: Córsico, Alejandro H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two of the possibilities for the formation of low-mass ($M_{\star}\lesssim 0.5\,M_{\odot}$) hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs are the occurrence of a very-late thermal pulse after the asymptotic giant-branch phase or a late helium-flash onset in an almost stripped core of a red giant star. We aim to asses the potential of asteroseismology to distinguish between the hot flasher and the very-late thermal pulse scenarios for the formation of low-mass hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs. We compute the evolution of low-mass hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs from the zero-age main sequence in the context of the two evolutionary scenarios. We explore the pulsation properties of the resulting models for effective temperatures characterizing the instability strip of pulsating helium-rich white dwarfs. We find that there are significant differences in the periods and in the period spacings associated with low radial-order ($k\lesssim 10$) gravity modes for white-dwarf models evolving within the instability strip of the hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs. The measurement of the period spacings for pulsation modes with periods shorter than $\sim500\,$s may be used to distinguish between the two scenarios. Moreover, period-to-period asteroseismic fits of low-mass pulsating hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs can help to determine their evolutionary history.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Fears and Misperceptions of the Ebola Response System during the 2014-2015 Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Yamanis, Thespina
name: Nolan, Elisabeth
name: Shepler, Susan
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science; Public Library of Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background Future infectious disease epidemics are likely to disproportionately affect countries with weak health systems, exacerbating global vulnerability. To decrease the severity of epidemics in these settings, lessons can be drawn from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is a dearth of literature on public perceptions of the public health response system that required citizens to report and treat Ebola cases. Epidemiological reports suggested that there were delays in diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of our study was to explore the barriers preventing Sierra Leoneans from trusting and using the Ebola response system during the height of the outbreak. Methods Using an experienced ethnographer, we conducted 30 semi-structured in-depth interviews in public spaces in Ebola-affected areas. Participants were at least age 18, spoke Krio, and reported no contact in the recent 21 days with an Ebola-infected person. We used inductive coding and noted emergent themes. Findings Most participants feared that calling the national hotline for someone they believed had Ebola would result in that person's death. Many stated that if they developed a fever they would assume it was not Ebola and self-medicate. Some thought the chlorine sprayed by ambulance workers was toxic. Although most knew there was a laboratory test for Ebola, some erroneously assumed the ubiquitous thermometers were the test and most did not understand the need to re-test in the presence of Ebola symptoms. Conclusion Fears and misperceptions, related to lack of trust in the response system, may have delayed care-seeking during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Protocols for future outbreak responses should incorporate dynamic, qualitative research to understand and address people's perceptions. Strategies that enhance trust in the response system, such as community mobilization, may be particularly effective.
Additional file 2 of Vitamin C for ≥ 5 days is associated with decreased hospital mortality in sepsis subgroups: a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Jung, Sun-Young
name: Lee, Min-Taek
name: Baek, Moon Seong
name: Kim, Won-Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. ICD-10-based classification of organ dysfunction. Table S2. Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical codes and charge codes for intravenous vitamin C, corticosteroids, and thiamine. Table S3. ICD-10 codes for different sites of infection. Table S4. Baseline patient characteristics in the unmatched cohort. Table S5. Primary and secondary outcomes according to ICU length of stay. Table S6. Secondary outcomes of patients who survived to hospital discharge. Table S7. Risk factors for hospital mortality. Table S8. Primary and secondary outcomes according to vitamin C duration. Table S9. Primary and secondary outcomes in patients who received vitamin C for ≥ 5 days and in matched controls. Table S10. Primary and secondary outcomes according to ICU length of stay in patients who received vitamin C for ≥ 5 days and in matched controls. Table S11. Primary and secondary outcomes by subpopulations. Table S12. Primary and secondary outcomes by subpopulation in patients who received vitamin C for ≥ 5 days and in matched controls.
TDFs and Trade : The U.S.-Canada Free-Trade Agreement from a Transborder Data Flow Perspective.
Creators: name: Rutenbeck, Jeffrey B.
Publisher: name: Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This paper examines the potential impacts of the comprehensive free-trade agreement negotiated by the United States and Canada in 1987 on transborder data flow between the two countries. An introductory overview of transborder data flow (TDFs) is followed by a discussion of how TDFs have been dealt with by both the United States and Canada to date; a brief history of the most recent free-trade negotiations between the two countries; and an analysis of the foundations of the agreement on two levels that relate directly to TDFs--its possible impact on trade in services and its potential impact on foreign direct investment in Canada. The paper concludes with speculations about the long-term effects of free trade in the areas of trade in services and foreign direct investment as they pertain to TDFs.
Proposals for new initiatives to increase the sustainability of the Barn Coffee Shop
Creators: name: Lewis, Ashley
name: Bejar, Cheryl
name: Leung, Gary
name: Chung, Ken
name: Castellan, Maël
name: Wahl, Patti
name: Hon, Michelle
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The goal of the UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP) is to improve the overall sustainability of the campus food system. The current food system reflects the imbalance of the global food system, which tends to value economic profitability over environmental health and social well-being. This study focuses on the Barn Coffee Shop which is located at the top of Sustainability Street (SS). Previous sustainability initiatives that have been implemented at the Barn focused on a local food supply, nutrition development and waste management. Many other issues need addressing to increase the overall sustainability of the Barn Coffee Shop. The goal of Group 11 was to investigate other components that would contribute to establishing the Barn as an economic, social and environmental sustainable model on Sustainability Street. Research was conducted that focused on ways of improving the sustainability of the building and surrounding landscape. This was achieved through literature review of previous UBCFSP papers and consultation with numerous collaborators such as UBC Food Services (UBCFS), Sustainability Office (S0), Campus and Community Planning (CCP), Plant Operations (PO) and Landscape Architecture (LARC). Funding and promotion for the project was also created through a fundraising event held in March. Based on the information gathered and the interest expressed by collaborators, it was concluded that actual implementation of the proposals for the building and landscape would be part of a long-term strategy. Short-term goals have been achieved through the initial contact with collaborators and the initiation of a fund dedicated towards future sustainability initiatives at the Barn Coffee Shop. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
TDFs and Trade : The U.S.-Canada Free-Trade Agreement from a Transborder Data Flow Perspective.
Creators: name: Rutenbeck, Jeffrey B.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper examines the potential impacts of the comprehensive free-trade agreement negotiated by the United States and Canada in 1987 on transborder data flow between the two countries. An introductory overview of transborder data flow (TDFs) is followed by a discussion of how TDFs have been dealt with by both the United States and Canada to date; a brief history of the most recent free-trade negotiations between the two countries; and an analysis of the foundations of the agreement on two levels that relate directly to TDFs--its possible impact on trade in services and its potential impact on foreign direct investment in Canada. The paper concludes with speculations about the long-term effects of free trade in the areas of trade in services and foreign direct investment as they pertain to TDFs.
Generating a Generic Fluent API in Java
Creators: name: Nakamaru, Tomoki
name: Chiba, Shigeru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: The algorithms for generating a safe fluent API are actively studied these years. A safe fluent API is the fluent API that reports incorrect chaining of the API methods as a type error to the API users. Although such a safe property improves the productivity of its users, the construction of a safe fluent API is too complicated for the developers. The generation algorithms are studied to reduce the development cost of a safe fluent API. The study on the generation would benefit a number of programmers since a fluent API is a popular design in the real world. Inquiry: The generation of a generic fluent API has been left untackled. A generic fluent API refers to the fluent API that provides generic methods (methods that contain type parameters in their definitions). The Stream API in Java is an example of such a generic API. The recent research on the safe fluent API generation rather focuses on the grammar class that the algorithm can deal with for syntax checking. The key idea of the previous study is to use nested generics to represent a stack structure for the parser built on top of the type system. In that idea, the role of a type parameter was limited to internally representing a stack element of that parser on the type system. The library developers could not use type parameters to include a generic method in their API so that the semantic constraints for their API would be statically checked, for example, the type constraint on the items passed through a stream. Approach: We propose an algorithm to generate a generic fluent API. Our translation algorithm is modeled as the construction of deterministic finite automaton (DFA) with type parameter information. Each state of the DFA holds information about which type parameters are already bound in that state. This information is used to identify whether a method invocation in a chain newly binds a type to a type parameter, or refers to a previously bound type. The identification is required since a type parameter in a chain is bound at a particular method invocation, and that bound type is referred to in the following method invocations. Our algorithm constructs the DFA by analyzing the binding time of type parameters and their propagation among the states in a DFA that is naively constructed from the given grammar. Knowledge and Importance: Our algorithm helps library developers to develop a generic fluent API. The ability to generate a generic fluent API is essential to bring the safe fluent API generation to the real world since the use of type parameters is a common technique in the library API design. By our algorithm, the generation of a safe fluent API will be ready for practical use. Grounding: We implemented a generator named Protocool to demonstrate our algorithm. We also generated several libraries using Protocool to show the ability and the limitations of our algorithm.
Additional file 3 of Vitamin C for ≥ 5 days is associated with decreased hospital mortality in sepsis subgroups: a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Jung, Sun-Young
name: Lee, Min-Taek
name: Baek, Moon Seong
name: Kim, Won-Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S1. Survival from hospital admission to day 90 by subpopulations. Fig. S2. Survival from hospital admission to day 90 by sepsis subpopulations among patients who received vitamin C for ≥5 days and matched controls. Fig. S3. Association between vitamin C monotherapy and hospital mortality compared with in combination with corticosteroids and/or thiamine in the sepsis subpopulations.
Impact of political influence on appointees, the : evidence from the small business administration disaster loan program
Creators: name: Davis, Matthew
name: Hansen, Mary
name: Husted, Thomas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Presidential disaster declarations provide disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and are known to be motivated by political factors as well as by need. The extent to which politics influence the Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster declaration decision, made by a presidential appointee, has not been previously measured. We use new data covering 1960–2013 to show that SBA declarations are subject to the same political influences as presidential declarations. Disasters occurring during reelection years, as well as those occurring in electorally important states, are more likely to receive SBA declarations. The effect of politics is stronger in the period prior to the passage of the Stafford Act in 1988, showing that the two types of declarations are substitutes for political purposes.
Impact of political influence on appointees, the : evidence from the small business administration disaster loan program
Creators: name: Davis, Matthew
name: Hansen, Mary
name: Husted, Thomas
Publisher: name: Southern Economic Journal
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Presidential disaster declarations provide disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and are known to be motivated by political factors as well as by need. The extent to which politics influence the Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster declaration decision, made by a presidential appointee, has not been previously measured. We use new data covering 1960–2013 to show that SBA declarations are subject to the same political influences as presidential declarations. Disasters occurring during reelection years, as well as those occurring in electorally important states, are more likely to receive SBA declarations. The effect of politics is stronger in the period prior to the passage of the Stafford Act in 1988, showing that the two types of declarations are substitutes for political purposes.
Additional file 1 of The promise of computer adaptive testing in collection of orthopaedic outcomes: an evaluation of PROMIS utilization
Creators: name: Wong, Liam H.
name: Meeker, James E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Materials. All manuscripts evaluated.
A fault diagnosis methodology for an external gear pump with the use of Machine Learning classification algorithms: Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Perceptron
Creators: name: K. Lakshmanan
name: A. J. Gil
name: F. Auricchio
name: F. Tessicini
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents a fault diagnosis Machine Learning (ML) computational strategy for an external gear pump. The method uses supervised learning of descriptive features. The focus is on two types of ML nonlinear multi-class classification algorithms: Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) algorithms. Although significant work has been reported by previous authors, it is still difficult to optimise ab initio the choice of the hyper parameters (ML method dependent) for each specific application. For instance, the type of SVM kernel function or the selection of the MLP activation function and the optimum number of hidden layers (and neurons). As it is well known, reliability of ML algorithms is strongly dependent upon the existence of a sufficiently large quantity of high-quality training data. In our case, and in the absence of experimental data, high-fidelity in-silico data (generated via the software PumpLinx) have been used for the training of the underlying ML metamodel. A variety of working conditions are recreated, ranging from healthy to various kinds of faulty scenarios (i.e., clogging, radial gap variations, viscosity variations). In addition, noise perturbation has been considered in order to increase the sample data available for ML training. This paper explores and compares the use of SVM and MLP algorithms for predictive maintenance. To reduce the high computational cost during the training stage in the MLP algorithm, some predefined network architectures, like 2n neurons per hidden layer, are used to speed up the identification of the precise number of neurons (shown to be useful when the sample data set is sufficiently large). A series of benchmark tests are presented, enabling to conclude that the use of wavelet features and SVM or MLP algorithms can provide the best accuracy for classification.
On the Anticipatory Aspects of the Four Interactions: what the Known Classical and Semi-Classical Solutions Teach us
Creators: name: Lusanna, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The four (electro-magnetic, weak, strong and gravitational) interactions are described by singular Lagrangians and by Dirac-Bergmann theory of Hamiltonian constraints. As a consequence a subset of the original configuration variables are {\it gauge variables}, not determined by the equations of motion. Only at the Hamiltonian level it is possible to separate the gauge variables from the deterministic physical degrees of freedom, the {\it Dirac observables}, and to formulate a well posed Cauchy problem for them both in special and general relativity. Then the requirement of {\it causality} dictates the choice of {\it retarded} solutions at the classical level. However both the problems of the classical theory of the electron, leading to the choice of ${1\over 2} (retarded + advanced)$ solutions, and the regularization of quantum field teory, leading to the Feynman propagator, introduce {\it anticipatory} aspects. The determination of the relativistic Darwin potential as a semi-classical approximation to the Lienard-Wiechert solution for particles with Grassmann-valued electric charges, regularizing the Coulomb self-energies, shows that these anticipatory effects live beyond the semi-classical approximation (tree level) under the form of radiative corrections, at least for the electro-magnetic interaction.
description: 12 pages, Talk and "best contribution" at The Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems CASYS'03, Liege August 11-16, 2003
Historian's craft and economics, the
Creators: name: Hansen, Bradley A.
name: Hansen, Mary
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: History refers both to the past and to the systematic study of the past. Attempts to make a case for history in economics generally emphasize the first definition. There are benefits from increased attention to the past. This paper argues that significant benefits can be gained from increased attention to the systematic study of the past, the historian’s craft. The essence of the historian’s craft is the critical evaluation of sources. Failure to critically evaluate sources has the potential to lead to erroneous conclusions, whether one is using historical documents or more recently created data.
NEBU_3D: A fast pseudo-3D photoionization code for aspherical planetary nebulae and HII regions
Creators: name: Morisset, C.
name: Stasinska, G.
name: Pena, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a pseudo-3D photoionization code, NEBU_3D and its associated visualization tool, VIS_NEB3D, which are able to easily and rapidly treat a wide variety of nebular geometries, by combining models obtained with a 1D photoionization code. We also present a tool, VELNEB_3D, which can be applied to the results of 1D or 3D photoionization codes to generate emission line profiles, position-velocity maps and 3D maps in any emission line by assuming an arbitrary velocity field. As examples of the capabilities of these new tools, we consider three very different theoretical cases. The first one is a blister HII region, for which we have also constructed a spherical model (the spherical impostor) which has exactly the same Hbeta surface brightness distribution as the blister model and the same ionizing star. The second example shows how complex line profiles can be obtained even with a simple expansion law if the nebula is bipolar and the slit slightly off-center. The third example shows different ways to produce line profiles that could be attributed to a turbulent velocity field while there is no turbulence in the model.
description: Proceeding of the Planetary Nebulae as Astronomical Tools, Gdansk, 2005
title: Aortic Dissection with Contained Rupture on MRI.
Creators: name: Miseur, Bram
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Dissection
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 67-year-old male presented with sudden onset of mid- to lower back pain, weakness and paresthesia in both legs. CT of the lumbar spine was performed to exclude spinal nerve root compression or bone lesions, both of which were not present. Additional MRI of the spine was performed to exclude spinal cord pathology.

description: 67 years, male
CONTENTS AND EVOLUTIONARY STEPS IN PLACE MARKETING DEVELOPMENT
ISTOTA I ETAPY ROZWOJU MARKETINGU TERYTORIALNEGO
Creators: name: Kaminski, Jacek
name: Kaminski, Jacek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: marketing
subject: place marketing
subject: evolution of marketing

description: Territory marketing (place marketing) it is no doubt nowadays one of the faster developing area of marketing practice and theory. We can see major grow of local governors and authorities activities in the area of territory marketing (place marketing). Many cities and provinces are taking intensive actions in the area of brand strategy building. In the territory marketing literature not much attention is put on definition issues. In the article based on the new definition of marketing AMA 2007 the territory marketing definition was presented as well as characteristics being a key of its existence. Also, the stages of territory marketing evolutions’ were presented. The author pointer out further steps and research actions to be taken in this area.
Neural data processing
Creators: name: Farashi, Sajjad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biological Engineering

description: A single tungsten microelectrode with impedance about 1MΩ was used to record neuronal activity from a cockroach restrained firmly on a plastic disk. This plastic disk was located in a faraday cage to reduce the effects of electromagnetic interference. After an initial amplification using a preamplifier, analog neural data was amplified by the main amplifier with a gain of 2000 and band-passed filtered in the range of 0.3-3 kHz. The analog data were digitized using a National Instrument ADC card (30K samples/s). All procedures, including data acquisition and analyses, were controlled by a user-written program in the Labview environment (Version 8.6, National Instruments, USA). Recorded data was up-sampled (up-sampling factor= 2) to increase the number of data points and reduce the alignment error [15]. Using an automatic amplitude thresholding strategy, spikes were extracted. The labeling process for extracted spikes was performed by 3 experts. In the first stage two experts (1 neurologist and 1 neuroscientist) labeled the extracted spikes; however, to resolve any conflicts the third person (a neuroscientist) finalized the labeling procedure. There was 93% agreement between the first two experts.