cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Linaria tonzigii Lona 1949
Creators: name: Orsenigo, Simone
name: Galasso, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Plantaginaceae
Linaria
Linaria tonzigii

description: Linaria tonzigii Lona [1949: 66 (–67, 65–72, figs. 1–4)]
Type (lectotype, designed here):— ITALY: Pizzo Arera, macereto vallone ovest, 2,300 m, July 1948. F. Lona s.n. (FI barcode FI002452!, image available at http://parlatore.msn.unifi.it/types).
Other original material:— ITALY: Mte Arera, dolomia, c. 2,200 m, 11 August 1911. [P. Chenevard s.n.] (G Herb. Chenevard barcode G00446127, digital image!).
Nomencaltural notes:— Lona (1949) described Linaria tonzigii providing a detailed description and reporting the following type locality: “In glareosis montis Arerae (dolomia) (Alpes Orobienses), 2000–2400.” Moreover, in the article he reported two pictures of dried specimens, one from his personal collection (with no label and collection information), the other one from the Herbarium Chenevard (G) with flowers in bud only, identified by Paul Chenevard (1839–1919) himself as Linaria thymifolia (Vahl 1791: 67) DC. in Lamarck & Candolle (1805: 587). The latter specimen was subsequently considered a teratological form of Linaria alpina (Linnaeus 1753: 615) Miller (1768: Linaria No. 4) by Ernst Wilczek (1867–1948) (on the label it is written “galle de Mecinus sp. ”), that however Lona recognized as Linaria tonzigii. We traced this specimen in G and we confirm the Lona identification.
We are able to trace only one specimen, collected by Lona in Pizzo Arera prior to the publication of the name, deposited by the same author in FI (barcode FI002452) in 1950. This specimen completely agrees with the protologue (in this sheet, there are the same plants reproduced in the protologue) and can be considered as original material (Art. 9.4 of the ICN, Turland et al. 2018). The specimen FI barcode FI002452 is selected here as lectotype for the name L. tonzigii.
Distribution:— Linaria tonzigii is an Italian endemic exclusive of few localities of the Orobian Prealps (Lombardia) (Orsenigo et al. 2016, Bartolucci et al. 2018).
Habitat:—It grows on unstable limestone screes between 1,600 and 2,400 m a.s.l.
Etimology:—The specific epithet honours Sergio Tonzig (1905–1998), professor of botany at Milano University.
Conservation status:— Linaria tonzigii is listed in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive 92/43/CEE (Rossi et al. 2016), and according to Orsenigo et al. (2016, 2018) based on the IUCN criteria is classed as Near Threatened (NT).
description: Published as part of Orsenigo, Simone & Galasso, Gabriele, 2019, Lectotypification of the name Linaria tonzigii Lona (Plantaginaceae), pp. 265-266 in Phytotaxa 387 (3) on page 265, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.387.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13724302
Prevalence, risk factors, and economic costs of beef cattle lameness in southern Alberta feedlots
Creators: name: Davis-Unger, Jessica
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Lameness
subject: Feedlot
subject: Economic
subject: Risk Factor
subject: Beef Cattle
subject: Bovine Respiratory Disease
subject: Veterinary Science

description: Lameness, an important health and welfare concern with negative impacts on production, performance, and profitability of feedlot cattle is a multi-faceted issue that is not fully understood. Objectives were to identify the prevalence of lameness, related risk factors, explore associations between BRD and lameness, and estimate net return of various lameness diagnoses. Estimated lameness prevalence was 32% (range, 1.3 to 46%) from cattle health records at 28 feedlots from 2005 to 2015. Fall-placed calves were more at risk of lameness with no swelling compared to yearling cattle that were at risk of foot rot diagnosis. Heifers were at a higher risk of lameness compared to steer cattle types. Cattle with chronic lameness were at a higher risk of subsequently developing BRD. Furthermore, cattle with joint infections and lameness with no swelling had negative returns of $-286 and $-701, respectively. Therefore, lameness was a common and costly disorder in Alberta feedlots.
Strong Extension-Free Proof Systems
Creators: name: Heule, Marijn J. H.
name: Kiesl, Benjamin
name: Biere, Armin
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: We introduce proof systems for propositional logic that admit short proofs of hard formulas as well as the succinct expression of most techniques used by modern SAT solvers. Our proof systems allow the derivation of clauses that are not necessarily implied, but which are redundant in the sense that their addition preserves satisfiability. To guarantee that these added clauses are redundant, we consider various efficiently decidable redundancy criteria which we obtain by first characterizing clause redundancy in terms of a semantic implication relationship and then restricting this relationship so that it becomes decidable in polynomial time. As the restricted implication relation is based on unit propagation—a core technique of SAT solvers—it allows efficient proof checking too. The resulting proof systems are surprisingly strong, even without the introduction of new variables—a key feature of short proofs presented in the proof-complexity literature. We demonstrate the strength of our proof systems on the famous pigeon hole formulas by providing short clausal proofs without new variables.
Low mode volume slotted photonic crystal single nanobeam cavity
Creators: name: Ryckman, Judson D.
name: Weiss, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and experimentally demonstrate a slotted photonic crystal single nanobeam cavity in silicon. The slot geometry is exploited to achieve ultra-small effective mode volumes, ~0.025(λ/n)^3, more than an order of magnitude smaller than traditional nanobeam cavities. A continuous slot and a tapered photonic crystal design are implemented to achieve experimental quality factors near 10^4. This device structure offers a unique platform for achieving enhanced light-matter interactions and could be used to benefit a variety of applications including non-linear optics, cavity quantum electro-dynamics, sensing, optical modulation, and nano-optomechanics.
description: Accepted to Applied Physics Letters
Modernizing NERC Reliability Standards for Inverter-Based Resources: Status and Opportunities
Creators: Alex Shattuck
Thomas Schmidt Grau
Bradley Marszalkowski
Patrick Dalton
William Yancey
Ryan Quint
Katelynn Vance
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

On October 19, 2023, in Order No. 901, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Commission-certified Electric Reliability Organization, to develop new or modified Reliability Standards that address reliability gaps related to inverter-based resources in the following areas:  data sharing; model validation; planning and operational studies; and performance requirements.  Given the urgency, NERC must submit new or modified standards in three tranches starting in November 2024. NERC is working to address the directives.    Concurrently, utilities and ISOs/RTOs are adopting various requirements for interconnecting IBR as part of their compliance with FERC Order No. 2023, which requires certain modeling and performance capabilities of IBR as a condition of interconnection.  This panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating IBR, especially regarding energy adequacy and sufficient reliability services: (1) the reliability risks associated with IBR and how Order No. 901 and other reforms propose to address them; (2) status and observations regarding the ongoing standards development in response to Order No. 901; and (3) status of adoption of interconnection requirements pertaining to IBR.
On October 19, 2023, in Order No. 901, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) directed the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Commission-certified Electric Reliability Organization, to develop new or modified Reliability Standards that address reliability gaps related to inverter-based resources in the following areas:  data sharing; model validation; planning and operational studies; and performance requirements.  Given the urgency, NERC must submit new or modified standards in three tranches starting in November 2024. NERC is working to address the directives.    Concurrently, utilities and ISOs/RTOs are adopting various requirements for interconnecting IBR as part of their compliance with FERC Order No. 2023, which requires certain modeling and performance capabilities of IBR as a condition of interconnection.  This panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating IBR, especially regarding energy adequacy and sufficient reliability services: (1) the reliability risks associated with IBR and how Order No. 901 and other reforms propose to address them; (2) status and observations regarding the ongoing standards development in response to Order No. 901; and (3) status of adoption of interconnection requirements pertaining to IBR.
Education and Training for Workforce Development in Solar Energy
Creators: Shuhui Li
Lance  Taylor
Yixiang Gao
Osama Mohammed
Jhi-Young Joo
Catherine  Dalton
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

Strong government and local support, declining system costs, and growing public and private sector demand for clean energy have all contributed to a rapid increase in solar deployment over the past decade worldwide, which requires the renewable energy and solar workforce to grow significantly to meet the fast renewable energy/solar deployment. This panel brings experts from industry and academia to address the challenges and solutions in developing educational and training programs and materials that can enhance the development and training of the qualified workforce to meet the rapid growth of renewable/solar energy.
Strong government and local support, declining system costs, and growing public and private sector demand for clean energy have all contributed to a rapid increase in solar deployment over the past decade worldwide, which requires the renewable energy and solar workforce to grow significantly to meet the fast renewable energy/solar deployment. This panel brings experts from industry and academia to address the challenges and solutions in developing educational and training programs and materials that can enhance the development and training of the qualified workforce to meet the rapid growth of renewable/solar energy.
PNNL/WSU Advanced Grid Institute
Creators: Peter Christensen
Uzma Siddiqi
Greg Zweigle
Richard Wallen
Will  Rambo
Jeff Dagle
Anamika Dubey
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

The Advanced Grid Institute (AGI) is a joint collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Washington State University (WSU) with the goal to promote the research and evolution of advanced grid modeling for the support of planning and operations of the emerging complex power systems of the future.  The AGI is also a model for enhancing workforce training for the electric industry and is ideally situated to address regional grid challenges.    This session will first provide an overview of the AGI, its mission, and examples of past projects and collaborations.  The session will also include a panel comprised of AGI leadership and members of the AGI’s Industrial Advisory Board, which include representatives of regional utilities and industry vendors.  The panel members will provide their insights into how the collaborations such as the AGI can benefit the electric power industry as it faces unparalleled change and challenges.  They will also discuss the impact and benefit that their companies have seen from past AGI projects and provide insight into how this collaboration can address specific key challenges that they are facing in the future.  These panelists, representing this region’s industry thought leaders, will provide unique insights into the emerging electricity grid.
The Advanced Grid Institute (AGI) is a joint collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Washington State University (WSU) with the goal to promote the research and evolution of advanced grid modeling for the support of planning and operations of the emerging complex power systems of the future.  The AGI is also a model for enhancing workforce training for the electric industry and is ideally situated to address regional grid challenges.    This session will first provide an overview of the AGI, its mission, and examples of past projects and collaborations.  The session will also include a panel comprised of AGI leadership and members of the AGI’s Industrial Advisory Board, which include representatives of regional utilities and industry vendors.  The panel members will provide their insights into how the collaborations such as the AGI can benefit the electric power industry as it faces unparalleled change and challenges.  They will also discuss the impact and benefit that their companies have seen from past AGI projects and provide insight into how this collaboration can address specific key challenges that they are facing in the future.  These panelists, representing this region’s industry thought leaders, will provide unique insights into the emerging electricity grid.
Fourier Optics on Graphene
Creators: name: Vakil, Ashkan
name: Engheta, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical simulations, here we demonstrate that a single sheet of graphene with properly designed inhomogeneous, nonuniform conductivity distributions can act as a convex lens for focusing and collimating the transverse-magnetic (TM) surface Plasmon polariton (SPP) surface wave propagating along the graphene. Consequently, we show that the graphene can act as a platform capable of obtaining spatial Fourier transform of infra-red (IR) SPP signals. This may lead to rebirth of the field of Fourier Optics on a one-atom-thick structure.
Convergence of grid-forming and microgrid research and education
Creators: Ben Kroposki
Claudio Canizares
Katelynn Vance
Sukumar Kamalasadan
Saman Babaei
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

This panel focuses on research and education similarities between the operation of distributed energy resources (DER) in a microgrid and grid-forming (GFM) inverters in the bulk power system and discusses how the experience in microgrid research and education can be translated into research and workforce training for GFMs. The similarities are plenty: For example, in a microgrid, the small size of the system requires stringent control of DERs to ensure they can provide voltage regulation and load-generation balance. These are the same functions that GFM inverters are required to provide in the bulk power system (usually provided by synchronous generators). The parallels we can draw between the operation of a microgrid and an inverter-dominated bulk power system suggest that lessons learned in to two decades of efforts on microgrids can help inform research and education on grid-forming inverters. Panelists will share their specific examples and experience.
This panel focuses on research and education similarities between the operation of distributed energy resources (DER) in a microgrid and grid-forming (GFM) inverters in the bulk power system and discusses how the experience in microgrid research and education can be translated into research and workforce training for GFMs. The similarities are plenty: For example, in a microgrid, the small size of the system requires stringent control of DERs to ensure they can provide voltage regulation and load-generation balance. These are the same functions that GFM inverters are required to provide in the bulk power system (usually provided by synchronous generators). The parallels we can draw between the operation of a microgrid and an inverter-dominated bulk power system suggest that lessons learned in to two decades of efforts on microgrids can help inform research and education on grid-forming inverters. Panelists will share their specific examples and experience.
Telling cause from effect by local and global regression
Creators: name: Marx, Alexander
name: Vreeken, Jilles
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: We consider the problem of inferring the causal direction between two univariate numeric random variables X and Y from observational data. This case is especially challenging as the graph X causes Y is Markov equivalent to the graph Y causes X, and hence it is impossible to determine the correct direction using conditional independence tests. To tackle this problem, we follow an information theoretic approach based on the algorithmic Markov condition. This postulate states that in terms of Kolmogorov complexity the factorization given by the true causal model is the most succinct description of the joint distribution. This means that we can infer that X is a likely cause of Y when we need fewer bits to first transmit the data over X, and then the data of Y as a function of X, than for the inverse direction. That is, in this paper we perform causal inference by compression. To put this notion to practice, we employ the Minimum Description Length principle, and propose a score to determine how many bits we need to transmit the data using a class of regression functions that can model both local and global functional relations. To determine whether an inference, i.e. the difference in compressed sizes, is significant, we propose two analytical significance tests based on the no-hypercompression inequality. Last, but not least, we introduce the linear-time SLOPE and SLOPER algorithms that through thorough empirical evaluation we show outperform the state of the art by a wide margin.
Linguistic returns : the currency of sceptical-rhetorical theory and its stylistic inscription in the Platonic and Derridian text
Creators: name: Wittfoth, Monina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Based on the premise that modernity’s understanding of the linguistic sign has a long history dating back to ancient Greece when the linguistic mediation of knowledge preoccupied thinkers like Parmenides and Plato, this dissertation synthesizes contemporary post-structuralist and rhetorical understandings of language with like-minded findings of other fields of language study. It sees post-structuralist and deconstructive understandings of language as being congruent with the long tradition of rhetorical theory and the infamous linguistic turn in philosophy, that was initiated by the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, as a turn away from the actual phenomena of language towards an idealization of it. Nevertheless the thesis discovers recent findings by some of the beneficiaries of the “philosophy of language” that corroborate rhetorical theory’s insights. Inspired by both Derrida and Plato, this dissertation presents a rhetorical-deconstructive image of language that, recalling the root of the term skopevw (‘I look,’ ‘behold,’ ‘contemplate’), I characterize as sceptical. This study follows the theoretical matrix of de Man, Fish, Culler and Barbara Johnson, who are, of course, themselves following Derrida. It has a holistic attitude to language characteristic of the Bakhtin/Volsohinov approach, drawing insights from classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, post-structuralist theory, findings of systemic functional grammar, recent work in cognitive science and psychology on affect and language use, the scholarship of reported speech, and the ostensive-inferential theory of communication called Relevance. This cross border work in intellectual history, language theory and stylistics examines the interstices of theory and style in the work of figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Voloshinov, Bakhtin and Derrida. Sperber and Wilson, Scholars of Reported Speech and Halliday are central to its findings; the thinking of William James and Silvan Tomkins play supporting roles. It positions Plato as the founder of rhetorical theory and studies the voices of Plato and Derrida as language theorists. I examine both how Plato and Derrida talk about language and what theories of language underlie their styles, determining finally that their sceptical-rhetorical theories prompt their ironic-conversational stylistics.
Abstractions for security protocol verification
Creators: name: Nguyen, Binh Thanh
name: Sprenger, Christoph
name: Cremers, Cas
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: We present a large class of security protocol abstractions with the aim of improving the scope and efficiency of verification tools. We propose abstractions that transform a term’s structure based on its type as well as abstractions that remove atomic messages, variables, and redundant terms. Our theory improves on previous work by supporting rewrite theories with the finite-variant property, user-defined types, and untyped variables to cover type flaw attacks. We prove soundness results for an expressive property language that includes secrecy and authentication. Applying our abstractions to realistic IETF protocol models, we achieve dramatic speedups and extend the scope of several modern security protocol analyzers.
title: A randomized controlled trial comparing right lateral decubitus and left lateral decubitus starting position on outcomes in colonoscopy
Creators: name: Greene, Alison
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Patient positioning in colonoscopy has been proposed as a simple and inexpensive technique to increase luminal distention and improve navigation through the large bowel. We sought to determine if right lateral (RL) starting position compared to the standard left lateral (LL) starting position could improve outcomes in colonoscopy. Patients presenting for their scheduled colonoscopy were consented for the trial and randomized to RL or LL starting position. Variables including age, sex, BMI, time to cecal intubation, adenoma detection rate (ADR), NAPCOMs pain score, amount of sedation administered, and quality of bowel preparation were collected during their colonoscopy. The primary outcome was time to cecal intubation. All colonoscopists who had successfully completed upskilling courses were included in the trial.
 A total of 185 patients were included in the analysis - 94 patients were randomized to RL and 91 patients were randomized to LL. No difference was found in time to cecal intubation comparing the starting position of RL (542.6s) to LL (497.85s) (p=0.354). There was also no difference in cecal intubation rate (RL - 94.9%, LL – 94.8%, p=0.960), ADR (RL – 56.3%, LL – 64.8%, p=0.240), or patient comfort (p=0.078) comparing the starting position.
 In conclusion, no difference was found for outcomes in colonoscopy comparing the RL and LL starting position.
Avoiding bias in reconstructing the largest observable scales from partial-sky data
Creators: name: Feeney, Stephen M.
name: Peiris, Hiranya V.
name: Pontzen, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Obscuration due to Galactic emission complicates the extraction of information from cosmological surveys, and requires some combination of the (typically imperfect) modeling and subtraction of foregrounds, or the removal of part of the sky. This particularly affects the extraction of information from the largest observable scales. Maximum-likelihood estimators for reconstructing the full-sky spherical harmonic coefficients from partial-sky maps have recently been shown to be susceptible to contamination from within the sky cut, arising due to the necessity to band-limit the data by smoothing prior to reconstruction. Using the WMAP 7-year data, we investigate modified implementations of such estimators which are robust to the leakage of contaminants from within masked regions. We provide a measure, based on the expected amplitude of residual foregrounds, for selecting the most appropriate estimator for the task at hand. We explain why the related quadratic maximum-likelihood estimator of the angular power spectrum does not suffer from smoothing-induced bias.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures. v2: replaced with version accepted by PRD (minor amendments to text only)
Classification of Entanglement in Symmetric States
Creators: name: Aulbach, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum states that are symmetric with respect to permutations of their subsystems appear in a wide range of physical settings, and they have a variety of promising applications in quantum information science. In this thesis the entanglement of symmetric multipartite states is categorised, with a particular focus on the pure multi-qubit case and the geometric measure of entanglement. An essential tool for this analysis is the Majorana representation, a generalisation of the single-qubit Bloch sphere representation, which allows for a unique representation of symmetric n qubit states by n points on the surface of a sphere. Here this representation is employed to search for the maximally entangled symmetric states of up to 12 qubits in terms of the geometric measure, and an intuitive visual understanding of the upper bound on the maximal symmetric entanglement is given. Furthermore, it will be seen that the Majorana representation facilitates the characterisation of entanglement equivalence classes such as Stochastic Local Operations and Classical Communication (SLOCC) and the Degeneracy Configuration (DC). It is found that SLOCC operations between symmetric states can be described by the Mobius transformations of complex analysis, which allows for a clear visualisation of the SLOCC freedoms and facilitates the understanding of SLOCC invariants and equivalence classes. In particular, explicit forms of representative states for all symmetric SLOCC classes of up to 5 qubits are derived. Well-known entanglement classification schemes such as the 4 qubit entanglement families or polynomial invariants are reviewed in the light of the results gathered here, which leads to sometimes surprising connections. Some interesting links and applications of the Majorana representation to related fields of mathematics and physics are also discussed.
description: PhD thesis, University of Leeds, July 2011. 170 pages
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Creators: name: ศุภวิชญ์ ศิริผลวุฒิชัย
Publisher: name: ศูนย์นวัตกรรมทางการศึกษา สื่อสิ่งพิมพ์ และสื่อออนไลน์
Year: 2564
Subjects: การนิเทศ
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Advancing Power Research - Universities & National Laboratories – Collaborations and Opportunities
Creators: Yilu Liu
Ankush Sarma
Jeff Dagle
Anamika  Dubey
Rob Hovsapian
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

The scope and scale of research projects are creating an increase in the collaborations between national research laboratories and universities.  The speakers on this panel will share experiences with formal partnerships through institutes, joint appointments and large research projects between national research laboratories and universities as they leverage interactions to advance state-of-the-art power research together.
The scope and scale of research projects are creating an increase in the collaborations between national research laboratories and universities.  The speakers on this panel will share experiences with formal partnerships through institutes, joint appointments and large research projects between national research laboratories and universities as they leverage interactions to advance state-of-the-art power research together.
Research and Education Efforts on Uncertainty Quantification and Modeling
Creators: Ian Dobson
Amarsagar Matavalam
Xiaozhe Wang
Simon Tindemans
Yujin Xu
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

Power grid uncertainties resulting from grid outages have increased dramatically in recent years. The rapid integration of intermittent renewables is expected to increase the grid uncertainties further. Current tools used in the industry for grid planning and operations cannot account for the uncertainties that need to be appropriately modeled and quantified for a robust future grid. In this panel, we will discuss university research that models uncertainties in generation, outages, parameters, and dynamics. We will also discuss research in modeling techniques that estimate the propagation of these uncertainties using scalable computing methods. These new techniques will facilitate the design of controllers, assess stability and resiliency metrics, and help perform adequacy studies to estimate system parameters. We will also discuss how traditional coursework should be modified to provide the necessary skills to future graduates. The panelists will also discuss their outreach and industry collaboration efforts related to this topic.
Power grid uncertainties resulting from grid outages have increased dramatically in recent years. The rapid integration of intermittent renewables is expected to increase the grid uncertainties further. Current tools used in the industry for grid planning and operations cannot account for the uncertainties that need to be appropriately modeled and quantified for a robust future grid. In this panel, we will discuss university research that models uncertainties in generation, outages, parameters, and dynamics. We will also discuss research in modeling techniques that estimate the propagation of these uncertainties using scalable computing methods. These new techniques will facilitate the design of controllers, assess stability and resiliency metrics, and help perform adequacy studies to estimate system parameters. We will also discuss how traditional coursework should be modified to provide the necessary skills to future graduates. The panelists will also discuss their outreach and industry collaboration efforts related to this topic.
Advanced Steel Microstructural Classification by Deep Learning Methods
Creators: name: Azimi, Seyedmajid
name: Britz, Dominik
name: Engstler, Michael
name: Fritz, Mario
name: Mücklich, Frank
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The inner structure of a material is called microstructure. It stores the genesis of a material and determines all its physical and chemical properties. While microstructural characterization is widely spread and well known, the microstructural classification is mostly done manually by human experts, which gives rise to uncertainties due to subjectivity. Since the microstructure could be a combination of different phases or constituents with complex substructures its automatic classification is very challenging and only a few prior studies exist. Prior works focused on designed and engineered features by experts and classified microstructures separately from the feature extraction step. Recently, Deep Learning methods have shown strong performance in vision applications by learning the features from data together with the classification step. In this work, we propose a Deep Learning method for microstructural classification in the examples of certain microstructural constituents of low carbon steel. This novel method employs pixel-wise segmentation via Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN) accompanied by a max-voting scheme. Our system achieves 93.94% classification accuracy, drastically outperforming the state-of-the-art method of 48.89% accuracy. Beyond the strong performance of our method, this line of research offers a more robust and first of all objective way for the difficult task of steel quality appreciation.
GIS as a Decision Support Tool in Regional Food System Policy Implementation
Creators: name: Letizia, Jessica
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: GIS
subject: Food System
subject: Calgary Region
subject: Calgary Regional Partnership
subject: CRP
subject: Decision Support
subject: Data
subject: Spatial Analysis
subject: Spatial Data
subject: Information Science
subject: Geography
subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Geotechnology

description: In response to increased urbanization, population growth, and changing climate patterns, cities and regions all over North America are implementing food strategies, including the Calgary Regional Partnership’s (CRP) Food Secure, released during the spring of 2017. This strategy aims to ensure the Calgary Region has access to a local food supply over the 60 next years. However, regional stakeholders and decision-makers lack a cross-scalar information system to support strategy implementation and monitoring over time. The purpose of this research was to identify the types of spatial data resources needed to support regional decision-makers in food strategy implementation, monitoring, and management. A number of significant spatial data gaps as well as a lack of stakeholder understanding about the need for relevant data emerged from key regional stakeholder questionnaires done for the CRP. The results of this research identify the types of spatial data and decision-support requirements that could be integrated into the CRP’s current geographic information system (GIS) to create the capacity for food strategy decision-support.
Black branes in AdS: BPS bounds and asymptotic charges
Creators: name: Hristov, Kiril
name: Toldo, Chiara
name: Vandoren, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We focus on black branes and toroidal black holes in N=2 gauged supergravities that asymptote to AdS_4, and derive formulas for the mass and central charge densities. We derive the corresponding BPS bound from the superalgebra of the asymptotic vacuum and illustrate our procedure with explicit examples of genuine black brane solutions with non-trivial scalars.
description: 9 pages, Contribution to the proceedings of the "XVII European Workshop on String Theory 2011", Padova, Italy, 5-9 September 2011
Resilient Control Architectures and Power Systems
Creators: Brian Johnson
Craig Rieger
Scott Manson
Vivek Kumar  Singh
Michael Diedesch
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

With greater reliance on network-based, digital automation and the stresses of pressing infrastructure for greater performance, the power grid has become more complex and more susceptible to both malicious attacks and natural threats. It is that resilience plays a large role in grid control design and development. A resilient control system is one that maintains state awareness and an accepted level of operational normalcy in response to disturbances. Resilient control systems design seeks solutions to the complexity through a holistic approach combining cognitive science, computer security, communications, and control systems. This panel will provide insight on how power control systems work and how they can fail through cybersecurity threats, human error and complex interdependencies. This session will introduce interdisciplinary concepts .to make these control systems more resilient to these threats. Metrics are required for measurement of success, the session will provide a differentiation of how resilience is quantified and valued.
With greater reliance on network-based, digital automation and the stresses of pressing infrastructure for greater performance, the power grid has become more complex and more susceptible to both malicious attacks and natural threats. It is that resilience plays a large role in grid control design and development. A resilient control system is one that maintains state awareness and an accepted level of operational normalcy in response to disturbances. Resilient control systems design seeks solutions to the complexity through a holistic approach combining cognitive science, computer security, communications, and control systems. This panel will provide insight on how power control systems work and how they can fail through cybersecurity threats, human error and complex interdependencies. This session will introduce interdisciplinary concepts .to make these control systems more resilient to these threats. Metrics are required for measurement of success, the session will provide a differentiation of how resilience is quantified and valued.
“But You’re Female!”: Discourses of Queer Gender and Sexuality Across BioWare’s Mass Effect Trilogy
Creators: name: Thai, Tina
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: media representation
subject: video games
subject: gender and sexuality
subject: Discourse Analysis
subject: Mass Communications

description: BioWare’s highly successful Mass Effect trilogy is one of the most lauded examples of mainstream video games that have incorporated prominent queer representation. In a media landscape that is still navigating marginalized representation in a meaningful way, BioWare has made strides in terms of their depth and quality of queer inclusion since its release. The ways that this inclusion is constructed in all levels of design – from formal game qualities to its storytelling choices – can tell researchers much about how discourses of queerness function, using the game space as a site of discursive operations. Utilizing theory from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, in tandem with concepts from film studies and queer studies, my research investigates the discursive operations at work throughout the Mass Effect games, with focus on what discourses of queer gender and sexuality are produced, circulated, and subverted though a critical discourse analysis of the games’ text and content. I examine the role of the player at the crux of it all, the specificities that arise from player choice and interactivity, and how they work to create something that demonstrates a nuanced and complex showcase of queer representation.
Getting knowledge from data by developing and running VREs
Creators: name: Schaap, Dick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ocean science
ocean data

description: This presentation was given by Dick Schaap on 30 June 2023 as part of the Grand Finale of the Ocean Race in Genova, Italy, during the session "Low cost / cost effective technologies for ocean data monitoring and participatory actions" Moderators: P. Gorringe, L. Cocquempot, A. Novellino, Friday, 30 June 2023 - Genova Discover Blue-Cloud
The Finite Field Multi-Way Relay Channel with Correlated Sources: Beyond Three Users
Creators: name: Ong, Lawrence
name: Timo, Roy
name: Johnson, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The multi-way relay channel (MWRC) models cooperative communication networks in which many users exchange messages via a relay. In this paper, we consider the finite field MWRC with correlated messages. The problem is to find all achievable rates, defined as the number of channel uses required per reliable exchange of message tuple. For the case of three users, we have previously established that for a special class of source distributions, the set of all achievable rates can be found [Ong et al., ISIT 2010]. The class is specified by an almost balanced conditional mutual information (ABCMI) condition. In this paper, we first generalize the ABCMI condition to the case of more than three users. We then show that if the sources satisfy the ABCMI condition, then the set of all achievable rates is found and can be attained using a separate source-channel coding architecture.
description: Author's final version (to be presented at ISIT 2012)
Anonymisierungsverfahren für genetische Daten
Creators: name: Marnau, Ninja
name: Berrang, Pascal
name: Humbert, Mathias
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) wie Differential Privacy und anderen Anonymisierungsverfahren kommen im Hinblick auf hochsensible Gesundheitsdaten besondere Bedeutung zu. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt neue Datenschutzrisiken bei epigenetischen Daten auf, entwickelt und anaIysiert geeignete Gegenmassnahmen durch PETs und diskutiert die rechtliche Bewertung von deren Einsatz in der medizinischen Forschung.
Transportation Electrification
Creators: Larry  Collier
John ‘JP’  Skeath
Ryan  Cryar
Xavier Francia
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

This panel will discuss the several challenges of managing the rapid growth of EV charging load and how to ensure reliable operation of the grid moving forward. Some of these challenges include: • Cybersecurity • Grid Friendly vs Unfriendly EV Charging behavior and Next StepsV2G & Inverter communications to utilities • V2G and Inverter communication with utilities • Emulating EV charging infrastructure and cybersecurity Updates will be provided regarding NERC perspectives and activities, industry perspectives and best practices, trends moving forward, and opportunities to improve grid reliability.
This panel will discuss the several challenges of managing the rapid growth of EV charging load and how to ensure reliable operation of the grid moving forward. Some of these challenges include: • Cybersecurity • Grid Friendly vs Unfriendly EV Charging behavior and Next StepsV2G & Inverter communications to utilities • V2G and Inverter communication with utilities • Emulating EV charging infrastructure and cybersecurity Updates will be provided regarding NERC perspectives and activities, industry perspectives and best practices, trends moving forward, and opportunities to improve grid reliability.
Planck-scale nonthermal correlations in a noncommutative geometry inspired Vaidya black hole
Creators: name: Mehdipour, S. Hamid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the noncommutative geometry inspired Vaidya metric obtained in terms of coordinate coherent states and also utilizing the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), we show that the nonthermal nature of the Hawking spectrum leads to Planck-scale nonthermal correlations between emitted modes of evaporation. Our analysis thus exhibits that owing to self-gravitational effects plus noncommutativity and GUP influences, information can emerge in the form of Planck-scale correlated emissions from the black hole.
description: 16 pages, no figure, minor revision
Effects of weather on the fate of domicile-established bumble bee colonies in Alberta foothills forests
Creators: name: Kutby, Rola
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Bumble bees
subject: Colony development
subject: weather
subject: Biology

description: Weather can potentially shape colony development of bumble bees, insects that actively regulate their nest and body temperatures. In this study, I examined the impact of weather (temperature and precipitation) on success of bumble bee colonies using nest boxes set out in semi-natural forested landscapes in the eastern slopes of Southwest Alberta. At each of my 13 study sites, distributed over an 80 x 200 km study area, I installed 12 tree nest-boxes and 12 ground nest-boxes in the spring for use by nest-searching bumble-bee queens, and collected them in the fall. I relate box use and development of colonies that were established in these boxes to weather measured at stations within 20 km of the sites. Colony success was most frequently explained by 2-way interactions of weather variables, particularly precipitation and mean minimum temperature. Colonies were most sensitive to early season weather. Colony success was best explained by two hypotheses explaining colony success: that precipitation enhances flowers, and that minimum night temperatures that are on average warmer reduce costs of colony thermoregulation. Three hypotheses were rejected: that variable temperatures reduce colony success, that colder minimum temperatures reduce colony success, and that rain reduces colony success by preventing foraging. Weather best explained a qualitative measure of colony success and the fraction of pupal cells that emerged, and was less important in explaining the number and the sizes of brood cells. This study highlights the moderate importance of abiotic influences on an important temperate pollinator.
A survey on routing inanonymous communication protocols
Creators: name: Shirazi, Fatemeh
name: Simeonovski, Milivoj
name: Asghar, Muhammad Rizwan
name: Backes, Michael
name: Díaz, Claudia
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The Internet has undergone dramatic changes in the past 2 decades and now forms a global communication platform that billions of users rely on for their daily activities. While this transformation has brought tremendous benefits to society, it has also created new threats to online privacy, such as omnipotent governmental surveillance. As a result, public interest in systems for anonymous communication has drastically increased. In this work, we survey previous research on designing, developing, and deploying systems for anonymous communication. Our taxonomy and comparative assessment provide important insights about the differences between the existing classes of anonymous communication protocols.
Substation Virtualization: Re-inventing Substation Protection, Automation, and Control
Creators: Craig Preuss
Ken Dennen
Joe  Xavier
Anthony  Sivesind
Nicole  Rexwinkel
Dave Whitehead
Jose Ruiz
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

The power grid and its infrastructure are expected to undergo extensive modernization to ensure its resiliency in the face of massive installations of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). To better enable this fundamental change, industry stakeholders are working on the virtualization of protection, automation, and control functions inside the substation. Currently, the vPAC Alliance, an organization comprised of OEMs, software, and engineering providers are developing a specification for virtualized substations. Separately, the IEEE is preparing a roadmap to account for the impact substation virtualization will have on existing standards and the need for new IEEE standards. This panel includes industry experts who will provide updates and perspectives on related industry work from IEEE standards committees, vendors, and utilities.
The power grid and its infrastructure are expected to undergo extensive modernization to ensure its resiliency in the face of massive installations of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). To better enable this fundamental change, industry stakeholders are working on the virtualization of protection, automation, and control functions inside the substation. Currently, the vPAC Alliance, an organization comprised of OEMs, software, and engineering providers are developing a specification for virtualized substations. Separately, the IEEE is preparing a roadmap to account for the impact substation virtualization will have on existing standards and the need for new IEEE standards. This panel includes industry experts who will provide updates and perspectives on related industry work from IEEE standards committees, vendors, and utilities.
Associations between candidate SNPs and combat-sport athletic status (PG-00118-2020)_Appendix
Creators: name: Guilherme, João Paulo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Associations between candidate SNPs and combat-sport athletic status (PG-00118-2020)_Appendix (Supplementary material)