cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Life in the Shadows: Examining the Role that HIV Status Plays in the Decision Making Processes of HIV Positive Aboriginal Women in Terms of Their Reproductive Health and Their Decisions to Have a Child or Not
Creators: name: Nash, Tina Marie Lynn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Health
subject: Anthropology--Cultural
subject: Native American Studies
subject: Ethnic and Racial Studies
subject: WomenÕs Studies
subject: Obstetrics and Gynecology
subject: Public Health
subject: Aboriginal
subject: HIV
subject: Pregnancy
subject: Reproductive
subject: Child bearing
subject: Decision

description: This thesis represents a qualitative research study involving three urban dwelling, HIV positive Aboriginal women. It highlights the factors that participants describe as being influential in their decision to have a child or not, given positive HIV status. In depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants and descriptive construction of emerging themes and categories were developed to explain the results. Key factors that were found to influence participant’s decisions to have a child or not were: intention; fertility options; stigma; fear; social support; personal health status; spirituality; and cultural safety. This study also found that an analysis of the role HIV status plays in the decision making processes of HIV positive Aboriginal women with regards to whether or not to have a child must take into account how colonization, systematic discrimination, racism, early childhood and adolescent experiences, poverty, addictions, homelessness, co-morbidity of illness and culture intersect to influence their decisions.
Discovery of a ZZ Ceti in the Kepler Mission Field
Creators: name: Hermes, J. J.
name: Mullally, Fergal
name: Østensen, R. H.
name: Williams, Kurtis A.
name: Telting, John
name: Southworth, John
name: Bloemen, S.
name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Everett, Mark
name: Winget, D. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of the first identified pulsating DA white dwarf in the field of the Kepler mission, WD J1916+3938 (Kepler ID 4552982). This ZZ Ceti star was first identified through ground-based, time-series photometry, and follow-up spectroscopy confirm it is a hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarf with an effective temperature = 11,129 $\pm$ 115 K and log g = 8.34 $\pm$ 0.06, placing it within the empirical ZZ Ceti instability strip. The object shows up to 0.5 percent amplitude variability at several periods between 800 -- 1450 s. Extended Kepler observations of this object could yield the best lightcurve, to-date, of any pulsating white dwarf, allowing us to directly study the interior of an evolved object representative of the fate of the majority of stars in our Galaxy.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
An outcome evaluation of the diabetes education component of the Living Well Program
Creators: name: Weaver, Robert
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Health Care Management
subject: Public Health
subject: diabetes education
subject: Evaluation
subject: Administrative Data
subject: HbA1c
subject: ambulatory care sensitive conditions

description: The main objectives of this thesis were to determine the associations between participation in Diabetes Essentials (DE), and change in HbA1c and the rate of hospitalizations/ED visits for diabetes-specific ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC). We linked attendance data for DE with administrative and laboratory data for Alberta, and conducted a retrospective cohort study, with the exposure being attendance at DE in the first six months after diagnosis. The study population was adults residing in the Calgary area with recently diagnosed diabetes. We conducted regression analysis using the full cohort and within a propensity-matched sample. All analytical approaches found participation in DE was associated with a significantly greater reduction in HbA1c of approximately 0.3% at follow-up. No significant association was found with the rate of hospitalizations/ED visits for diabetes-specific ACSC. Health care programs should consider interventions such as DE to help individuals with newly diagnosed diabetes improve glycemic control.
The first GRB survey of the IBIS/PICsIT archive
Creators: name: Bianchin, V.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Foschini, L.
name: Vianello, G.
name: Malaguti, G.
name: Di Cocco, G.
name: Gianotti, F.
name: Schiavone, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The multi-purpose INTEGRAL mission is continuously contributing to Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) science, thanks to the performances of its two main instruments, IBIS and SPI, operating in the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray domain. We investigate the possibilities offered to the study of GRBs by PICsIT, the high-energy detector of the IBIS instrument. We searched for transient episodes in the PICsIT light curves archive from May 2006 to August 2009, using stringent criteria optimized for the detection of long events. In the time interval under examination PICsIT provides an energy coverage from 208 to 2600 keV, resolved in eight energy channels, combined with a fine time resolution of 16 ms. PICsIT successfully observes GRBs in the 260-2600 keV energy range with an incoming direction spread over half the sky for the brightest events. We compiled a list of 39 bursts, most of which are confirmed GRBs or simultaneous to triggers from other satellites/instruments. We produced light curves with a time sampling down to 0.25 s in three energy intervals for all events. Because an adequate response matrix is not yet available for the PICsIT burst sample, we obtained a calibration coefficient in three selected energy bands by comparing instrumental counts with physical fluences inferred from observations with different satellites. The good time resolution provided by the PICsIT data allows a spectral variability study of our sample through the hardness ratio.
description: 20 pages, 48 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
PROSPECTS FOR REDUCING POVERTY IN UZBEKISTAN AND IMPROVING THE WELL-BEING OF THE POPULATION
Creators: name: Fayziyeva, D.
name: Dosnazarova, Aysuliw
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The thesis provides proposals and recommendations for poverty, preventing the problem of poverty, maintaining employment, promoting their aspirations for entrepreneurship, conducting scientific research in order to realize economic reforms, and making solutions to drastically reduce poverty.
Proceedings of the 7th Slag Valorisation Symposium-Efstathios Kyrilis.pdf
Creators: name: Kyrilis, Efstathios
name: Thorsten, TONNESEN
name: Rainer, TELLE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ceramics

description: Raw materials, such as metals and minerals, that are not only part of our daily lives butalso of decisive economic importance, while having a high supply risk, are called criticalraw materials. The criticality of the raw materials implies that they are vital to thefunctioning and integrity of a wide range of industrial ecosystems. For example, galliumand indium are part of light-emitting diode (LED) technology in lamps1. Vanadium is notonly a vital part of performance enhancement of certain ferrous alloys but also ofemerging scientific interest as V-redox batteries can be an alternative for lithium-ionbatteries for storage of renewable energy2,3. Vanadium, like other critical raw materialshas an immense economic value to the EU, combined with a high risk associated with itssupply4. During the reduction of V2O5 with aluminum, fluxed with lime5, a residue of theferrovanadium production process is generated containing large amount of calciumaluminates and magnesia alumina spinel (MgAl2O4) together with smaller amount ofmagnesia. Different paths of vanadium recovery from industrial residues have beenestablished6–8, with some of those9 leaving the matrix intact after extraction. However,in the current research a direct valorisation approach was adopted for the V-bearingresidues. Alumina-spinel castables are the state of the art for some parts of the steelladle lining10. The V-bearing residues that were studied contain significant amounts ofalumina (mainly bound to calcium aluminate phases) and spinel. Thus, they can be partof alumina-spinel self-flow castables’ matrix substituting totally or, in large proportionsthe traditionally used calcium aluminate cement (CAC).
 (PDF) Valorisation potential of V-bearing residues. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351153984_Valorisation_potential_of_V-bearing_residues#fullTextFileContent [accessed Jun 30 2023].
Power and Timing Driven Optimal Gate, Clock Buffer and Clock Wire Sizing in High Performance Digital Integrated Circuits
Creators: name: Farshidi, Amin
Publisher: name: Engineering
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Clock network
subject: Buffer sizing
subject: Gate sizing
subject: Wire sizing
subject: Integrated circuits

description: Gate sizing and clock buffer and wire sizing are intertwined problems that greatly impact the trade-off between the power consumption and timing metrics of digital integrated circuits. With the increasing demands for mobile devices and low power technologies, the power consumption has become as important as the timing performance for the integrated circuit designers. However, finding a balanced trade-off among these objectives is a complex task that may need time-consuming experiments. On the other hand, in the recent technology nodes, the effects of process variations in the circuit component sizes cannot be neglected. In this thesis, a circuit optimization framework is proposed to handle the competing objectives and solve the multi-objective geometric programming problem by achieving a balanced trade-off between power and timing metrics. The proposed framework is self-tuning meaning that the multi-objective weights are optimally calculated during the optimization procedure without any manual tuning by the designer. In the next stage, robust optimization is employed to develop the robust geometric programming counterpart of the uncertainty-aware self-tuning multi-objective optimization framework. It is proposed to consider the buffer size variations during the optimization process by incorporating an uncertainty model in a robust optimization framework. Then, a smart heuristic for discretization of the solutions of the proposed frameworks is developed that remedies the timing performance degradations due to the discretization. Finally, a guideline is provided for the designers to decide which one of the proposed clock network buffer sizing frameworks is the most appropriate for their design goals.
Assessing urban brownfields for community gardens in Vancouver, British Columbia
Creators: name: Iverson, Melissa Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In Vancouver, British Columbia, community gardens are in great demand, but community groups interested in establishing gardens on urban brownfields face several environmental barriers. Identifying and addressing issues related to soil quality and microclimate suitability pose particular challenges. The goal of this study is to aid community groups in overcoming these obstacles through the development of a three-phase Site Assessment Guide. The guide aims to help communities: 1) identify likelihood of soil contamination, 2) assess soil and microclimate quality, and 3) select appropriate management solutions. Interpretive indicators for assessment were selected from trials on three study sites and feedback from soils workshop participants. To ensure accuracy and credibility, interpretive methods were evaluated against corresponding laboratory-based methods. Another outcome of the community workshops was the desire of local gardening communities to learn more about their native landscape and soil. An interpretive map of soil management groups for the City of Vancouver was derived using generalized surficial geology and Google-based topographic maps to produce a “terrain” map. The resulting map of soil management groups in the previously unmapped City of Vancouver is incorporated into the site assessment guide for converting brownfields to community gardens, with opportunity for future expansion.
Excitation spectrum of a supersolid
Creators: name: Saccani, Sebastiano
name: Moroni, Saverio
name: Boninsegni, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conclusive experimental evidence of a supersolid phase in any known condensed matter system is presently lacking. On the other hand, a supersolid phase has been recently predicted for a system of spinless bosons in continuous space, interacting via a broad class of soft-core, repulsive potentials. Such an interaction can be engineered in assemblies of ultracold atoms, providing a well-defined pathway to the unambiguous observation of this fascinating phase of matter. In this article, we study by first principle computer simulations the elementary excitation spectrum of the supersolid, and show that it features two distinct modes, namely a solid-like phonon and a softer collective excitation, related to broken translation and gauge symmetry respectively.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Multi-Constellation GNSS for Absolute and Relative Navigation in Highly Elliptical Orbits
Creators: name: Kahr, Erin Jennifer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Aerospace
subject: GPS Global Positioning System
subject: GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems
subject: Orbit Determination
subject: SBAS Satellite Based Augmentation Systems
subject: Receiver
subject: Formation Flying
subject: Highly Elliptical Orbit

description: The goal of this research project was to determine to what order of magnitude relative positions of formation flying spacecraft in highly elliptical orbits (HEO) can be measured using Global Navigation Satellite Systems. The orbit of the European Space Agency’s upcoming PROBA-3 mission, with a roughly 600 km perigee and 60500 km apogee, was chosen as the test case throughout the research project. The key result was that, provided there were sufficient measurements, relative positioning could be accomplished throughout the HEO orbit to the sub-metre level in the absence of maneuvers, and to the sub-10 m level when a tight formation flying phase bracketed by maneuvers was simulated during the apogee arc. In the case of maneuvers or of too few measurements, the additional uncertainty prevents sufficiently rigorous blunder detection from being carried out, and the filter becomes extremely susceptible to outliers. In addition to answering the original research question, it was concluded that the regional navigation systems offer a significant advantage for above the constellation users, because the slower relative motion translates into longer arcs of uninterrupted measurement data. Using live signals collected from a low Earth orbiting CubeSat, Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) tracking over the Earth’s limb was demonstrated, and it was proven for the first time that SBAS ranging is a viable source of positioning information for users in highly elliptical or other above the constellation Earth orbits. Finally, it was determined in the preliminary visibility studies that the entire positioning problem is extremely sensitive to the receiver’s ability to acquire and track weak GNSS signals. Hardware-in-the-loop simulation and receiver design work on a software research receiver confirmed that the power in the GNSS side lobes hovers slightly below the acquisition and tracking threshold of a standard receiver, but that these signals can be acquired and tracked making use existing weak signal algorithms, dramatically improving both absolute and relative positioning accuracies.
Jovian Early Bombardment: planetesimal erosion in the inner asteroid belt
Creators: name: Turrini, Diego
name: Coradini, Angioletta
name: Magni, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The asteroid belt is an open window on the history of the Solar System, as it preserves records of both its formation process and its secular evolution. The progenitors of the present-day asteroids formed in the Solar Nebula almost contemporary to the giant planets. The actual process producing the first generation of asteroids is uncertain, strongly depending on the physical characteristics of the Solar Nebula, and the different scenarios produce very diverse initial size-frequency distributions. In this work we investigate the implications of the formation of Jupiter, plausibly the first giant planet to form, on the evolution of the primordial asteroid belt. The formation of Jupiter triggered a short but intense period of primordial bombardment, previously unaccounted for, which caused an early phase of enhanced collisional evolution in the asteroid belt. Our results indicate that this Jovian Early Bombardment caused the erosion or the disruption of bodies smaller than a threshold size, which strongly depends on the size-frequency distribution of the primordial planetesimals. If the asteroid belt was dominated by planetesimals less than 100 km in diameter, the primordial bombardment would have caused the erosion of bodies smaller than 200 km in diameter. If the asteroid belt was instead dominated by larger planetesimals, the bombardment would have resulted in the destruction of bodies as big as 500 km.
description: 36 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables; accepted for publication on The Astrophysical Journal
Quantum Correlations for Fundamental Tests and Quantum Communication
Creators: name: Slater, Joshua A.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Physical
Atomic
Optics

description: Quantum correlations arising from measurements on pairs of entangled particles are often referred to as the most non-classical feature of quantum mechanics. As such, they have found a role in many fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and most emerging applications in the field of quantum communication. The most well-known fundamental test is the Bell inequality. Its repeated violation in countless experiments has convinced physicists that local hidden variables cannot describe the correlations arising from measurements on entangled particles. On the application side, quantum correlations have been used in quantum key distribution, which aims to provably secure messages during transmission, and quantum repeaters, which are essential for future long-distance quantum communication. The main goal of this thesis was to use quantum entanglement for new fundamental studies and quantum communication applications. Towards this end, we developed a high-fidelity source of entanglement and used it in a fundamental test where we bounded the predictive power any physical theory could have about the outcomes of measurements on entangled particles. Secondly, we made use of entangling measurements to develop a new quantum cryptography system based on the promising MDI-QKD protocol, which protects users from otherwise undetectable hacking attacks. We developed a detailed model of MDI-QKD systems with which one can optimize any implementation, deployed our MDI-QKD system across the city of Calgary, and demonstrated the feasibility of this protocol and of long-distance entangling measurements. Thirdly, we have built a source of entanglement compatible with quantum memories, which is an essential ingredient of quantum repeaters. We then demonstrated several crucial steps towards a functioning quantum repeater, including the preservation of entanglement during storage and, more generally, the entire photonic wavefunction. While further work is required to bring our demonstrations to real-world applications, we are confident that they will prove useful in guiding future developments.
The EDIBLES survey. X. The 6196 Å diffuse interstellar band: Identification of side DIBs as an indication of a small carrier molecule
Creators: name: Ebenbichler, A.
name: Ončák, M.
name: Przybilla, N.
name: Hrodmarsson, H. R.
name: Smoker, J. V.
name: Lallement, R.
name: Farhang, A.
name: Bhatt, C.
name: Cami, J.
name: Cordiner, M.
name: Ehrenfreund, P.
name: Cox, N. L. J.
name: van Loon, J. Th.
name: Foing, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Numerous studies of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) profiles have detected substructures, which in turn suggests that large molecules are acting as their carriers. However, some of the narrowest DIBs generally do not show such substructures, suggesting the possibility of very small carriers. Aims: Based on the previously found tight correlation of the three narrow DIBs at 6196, 6440 and 6623 A and the present detection of weaker side DIBs to each of them in the extensive data set from the ESO Diffuse Interstellar Bands Large Exploration Survey, we investigated whether they may stem from small linear carrier molecules. This approach can lead to concrete DIB carrier suggestions, which can be tested in laboratory measurements in future studies. Methods: We suggest that the DIBs we studied here represent individual rotational transitions of a small molecule. We determined the molecular constants from observations and compared them with data from a large set of quantum-chemical calculations to constrain possible carrier candidates. Furthermore, we determined the rotational temperatures by fitting line ratios using the fitted molecular models. Results: We determined molecular constants for three DIB systems and the corresponding transition types. The fitted rotational temperatures lie within the range of known interstellar diatomic molecules. We identified several DIB carrier candidates, almost all of them molecular ions. Some of them are metastable species, indicating the possibility of collision complexes as DIB carriers. Conclusions: If our hypothesis holds, this would be a major step towards the identification of a carrier molecule of the 6196 A DIB, the strongest among the narrow DIBs.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: La maltraitance envers les personnes âgées dans les soins à domicile
title: La maltraitance envers les personnes âgées dans les soins à domicile
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bachmann, Emilie
name: Fernandes Afonso, Flavia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Personnes âgées
subject: Maltraitance
subject: Soins à domicile
subject: Rôle infirmier

description: Bien qu’il s’agisse d’un problème prioritaire de santé publique, la maltraitance des personnes âgées à domicile reste un sujet relativement peu exploré dans la littérature. Il existe plusieurs formes de maltraitance comme la maltraitance physique ou psychologique, figures de proue de la maltraitance auprès du grand public, mais elle peut également se rencontrer sous ses formes financière ou matérielle. La maltraitance peut être intentionnelle ou involontaire mais, dans tous les cas, la personne maltraitée sera atteinte dans sa qualité de vie. Il existe plusieurs facteurs de risque, notamment le sexe, le fait d’être atteint d’une démence ou encore la dépendance dans les activités de la vie quotidienne. Dans ce travail, nous avons décidé de nous intéresser au rôle infirmier dans la prise en soins des clients susceptibles de subir de la maltraitance dans les soins à domicile. En effet, dans la profession infirmière, la population soignée est majoritairement âgée Les infirmières sont donc susceptibles de rencontrer, dans leur pratique quotidienne des personnes âgées victimes de maltraitance. Il est donc primordial qu’elles puissent reconnaître ces situations à risque afin de pouvoir agir adéquatement.
Allostasis and uncertainty: An active inference perspective
Creators: name: CORCORAN, ANDREW WILLIAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This thesis sets out to understand how biological systems deal with uncertainty. In particular, it investigates the relation between mind and body as understood in philosophy and cognitive science, and the way perception, action, and thought are adaptively co-ordinated in order to cope with complex environmental dynamics.
A tissue dissociation method for ATAC-seq and CUT&RUN in Drosophila pupal tissues
Creators: name: Buchert, Elli M.
name: Fogarty, Elizabeth A.
name: Uyehara, Christopher M.
name: McKay, Daniel J.
name: Buttitta, Laura A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, and transcription factor binding are highly dynamic during Drosophila metamorphosis and drive global changes in gene expression as larval tissues differentiate into adult structures. Unfortunately, the presence of pupa cuticle on many Drosophila tissues during metamorphosis prevents enzyme access to cells and has limited the use of enzymatic in situ methods for assessing chromatin accessibility and histone modifications. Here, we present a dissociation method for cuticle-bound pupal tissues that is compatible for use with ATAC-Seq and CUT&RUN to interrogate chromatin accessibility and histone modifications. We show this method provides comparable chromatin accessibility data to the non-enzymatic approach FAIRE-seq, with only a fraction of the amount of input tissue required. This approach is also compatible with CUT&RUN, which allows genome-wide mapping of histone modifications with less than 1/10th of the tissue input required for more conventional approaches such as Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (ChIP-seq). Our protocol makes it possible to use newer, more sensitive enzymatic in situ approaches to interrogate gene regulatory networks during Drosophila metamorphosis.
Vocabulary Use in Academic-Track High-School English Literature Diploma Exam Essay Writing and its Relationship to Academic Achievement
Creators: name: Pinchbeck, Geoffrey George
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Bilingual and Multicultural
subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Education--Secondary
subject: Education--Tests and Measurements
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Rhetoric and Composition
subject: productive vocabulary
subject: lexical sophistication
subject: lexical diversity
subject: age of acquisition
subject: length of residence
subject: learner corpus
subject: corpus linguistics
subject: academic achievement
subject: academic written register
subject: Bilingual
subject: academic English
subject: monolingual

description: This dissertation will examine the relationship between written vocabulary use and academic achievement in academic-track Canadian high-school students. With a shift away from labour based sectors and rapid demographic shifts in large urban centres, there has been a call for academic language to be further operationalized and be given a more prominent role in mainstream public educational planning across the curricula in Canada and the U.S. Although this call for research was inspired initially from studies on language-minority children, it is clear that the register of academic English is difficult for all students: monolingual English speakers, bilinguals, and multilinguals alike. A >1,000,000-word corpus and associated student data (n=1508) from a representative sample of government-administered academic-track grade 12 English Language Arts (ELA) final exam essays were used to examine the relationships between lexical sophistication (LS) and several indices of diversity (LD: MTLD, HD-D, Maas, tokens, types, families) with three types of academic achievement: 1) Essay Score, 2) ELA and Social Studies mean score, and 3) Math Score. Academic achievement was regressed on 1) LS, 2) LD, and 3) ESL funding history status. LS explained 30% of both ELA-Social Studies Score and Essay Score, whereas LD indices were associated with Essay Score only. Early-arriving immigrant ESL status was not a significant factor in any model. Mid-frequency word families were significantly more frequent in a high-achieving student sub-corpus as compared to a sub-corpus of low-achieving students. High-achieving student writing was also significantly more similar to academic written register corpora than spoken register corpora as compared to that of low-achieving students. I present how this research might be used to further operationalize academic language, to develop tools to monitor English academic literacy development for diagnostic purposes, and to inform a strategic mastery learning K-12 academic language pedagogy that includes lexical syllabus design for content classes.
BIOINFORMATIC MODELLING AND FUNCTIONALIZATION OF PEA PROTEIN THROUGH COLD DENATURATION WITH APPLICATIONS IN EXTRUSION, GELATION, AND EMULSIFICATION
Creators: name: Helmick, Harrison Dale Brent
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300602
subject: Food chemistry and food sensory science
classificationCode: 300607
subject: Food technology
classificationCode: 300699
subject: Food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The impacts of processing on protein structure are of broad interest to the food science community including ingredient producers, product developers, and researchers. Processing and isolation steps induce protein structural changes which occur due to temperature based, shear, and chemical inputs, leading to denatured protein with different functionalities. However, exploration of the protein folding landscape as a way to intentionally modify protein conformation is not widely understood in food science. This particularly applies to cold denaturation, which is the structural changes in protein as the result of low temperature treatments.This work has two primary goals. The first was to develop understanding of protein conformations resulting from cold denaturation and its implications for food textural properties. Pea protein was selected for this work since it is a source of plant-based protein that has recently grown in popularity and contains many hydrophobic amino acids that would make is susceptible to cold denaturation. Cold denaturation was studied using physicochemical techniques including differential scanning calorimetry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, zeta potential, fluorescence spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, and rheology. These techniques are used to characterize untreated pea protein, and proteins that have been modified using different combinations of ethanol, shear forces, acidic conditions, extrusion, and temperatures below 0°C. Significant physicochemical differences are found as the result of low temperatures, driven by an increase in surface hydrophobicity and electrostatic interactions. These differences led to protein gelation through hydrophobic forces, changing the nature of gels. Similarly, the increase in protein hydrophobicity leads to more stable emulsions from these products and unique fatty extrudates.A second aim of this work developed bioinformatic models to interpret physiochemical data and provide mechanistic understanding of the process, as well as predict functional properties based on protein models. Strong correlations are found for the zeta potential, secondary structure, hydrogen bonds, and surface hydrophobicity. These models are used to convert data into physicochemical energy and used to provide reasonable estimates of mechanical properties of pea protein in extrusion, gelation, and emulsification. Together, this work shows that cold denaturation may be a useful tool for food product developers creating fatty and creamy textures. It also suggests bioinformatic modeling as a tool to estimate protein functionality, which could lead to tremendous time savings in process and product design.
The General Duty of "Due Regard" under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Creators: name: Gaunce, Julia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: law
subject: International
subject: sea
subject: treaty
subject: interpretation

description: This thesis offers an interpretation and doctrinal analysis of the undefined, open-textured term “due regard” under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC). The focus is on LOSC Articles 87(2), 56(2) and 58(3) under which a state is to have “due regard” to—or, to balance—the rights, duties and freedoms of other states when it exercises its own rights, duties and freedoms. The study proceeds by first considering relevant rules of international treaty interpretation set out in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, with emphasis on doctrinal debates as to when and how preparatory work (travaux préparatoires, a treaty’s negotiation record, or legislative history) may be used as a treaty interpretive aid. An exhaustive examination of judicial interpretations of the LOSC on this point confirms that recourse to preparatory work is prevalent in the judicial interpretation of open-textured terms under the LOSC. Next, “due regard” is interpreted with reference to the term’s ordinary meaning and context and in light of the LOSC’s object and purpose—and, on the basis that “due regard” is an open-textured, ambiguous or obscure LOSC term, using legislative history to inform and confirm an understanding of its meaning. Finally, balancing methodology in international law and judicial interpretations and applications of “due regard” are examined. The interpretive conclusions are that the duty of “due regard” signifies (a) a relationship based on legal equality, and (b) the shift from traditional laissez-faire freedoms of the seas to a comprehensive, more heavily normative legal order under the LOSC. The practical consequence of the first is that no state enjoys priority in any ocean use conflict beyond the territorial sea simply on the basis of being a coastal or a flag state. The practical consequences of the second are that “due regard” is a more heavily normative and narrower standard than its predecessor “reasonable regard”, and, because it encompasses obligations to the interests of the international community, the specific application of “due regard” must always include ecological considerations, howsoever to be weighted.
Top quark pair production via (un)polarized photon collisions in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity at the ILC
Creators: name: Yang, Bingfang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the top-quark pair production via polarized and unpolarized photon collisions at the International Linear Collider in the context of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. We calculate the production cross section of the process $γγ\rightarrow t\bar{t}$ and find the effects can be more significant in the $- -$ polarized photon collision mode than in other collision modes, and the relative correction can be expected to reach about -1% in the favorable parameter space.
title: Report on the R/V Natsushima NT02-10 Cruise
Creators: name: Tamura, Yoshihiko
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT02-10 Leg1 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2002-09-20 to 2002-10-11.
On the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in hot quenched lattice QCD
Creators: name: Francis, Anthony
name: Kaczmarek, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extending our recent work, we report on a calculation of the vector current correlation function for light valence quarks in the deconfined phase of quenched QCD in the temperature range 1.16Tc
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the "International School of Nuclear Physics 33rd Course 'From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei' Erice-Sicily, September 16-24, 2011"
Saari's homographic conjecture for planar equal-mass three-body problem under a strong force potential
Creators: name: Fujiwara, Toshiaki
name: Fukuda, Hiroshi
name: Ozaki, Hiroshi
name: Taniguchi, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70F07

description: Donald Saari conjectured that the $N$-body motion with constant configurational measure is a motion with fixed shape. Here, the configurational measure $μ$ is a scale invariant product of the moment of inertia $I=\sum_k m_k |q_k|^2$ and the potential function $U=\sum_{i0$. Namely, $μ= I^{α/2}U$. We will show that this conjecture is true for planar equal-mass three-body problem under the strong force potential $\sum_{i
Editorial
Creators: name: Aranda Da Silva, José
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia
Year: 2015

description: Há um ano prevíamos no editorial do número de janeiro que 2012 seria um ano difícil para os portugueses, instituições e empresas. Infelizmente a situação foi pior do que prevíamos, e as perspetivas para 2013 são assustadoras. As Grandes Opções do Plano e Orçamento para 2013 mantêm como objetivo cortes muito significativos na área da saúde e, em particular, do medicamento. O esforço que é pedido em termos de impostos à população em geral, e aos reformados em particular,
é único na Europa e vai agravar as condições de vida da esmagadora maioria da população, com inevitáveis impactos no seu bem-estar e estado de saúde.

O estudo divulgado pelo FMI no início de janeiro (http://oinsurgente.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/fmi.pdf) apresenta propostas preocupantes que são muitas vezes baseadas em pressupostos de natureza ideológica, e não em evidência científica demonstrada. Quando são apresentadas algumas propostas quantitativas, nomeadamente a redução dos valores das pensões ou a comparação dos valores nos diferentes sistemas, parte-se de análises incompletas e pouco rigorosas que não permitem sustentar os valores propostos.

As barreiras que se propõe levantar ao acesso das unidades de saúde, através do aumento das taxas moderadoras, podem vir a ter consequências preocupantes no estado de saúde da população, com implicações económicas a curto e médio prazo.

Está a generalizar-se na Europa, em especial nos países mais afetados pela crise económica, uma grande preocupação sobre o impacto nefasto da crise na saúde de parte muito significativa da população. Um conjunto de profissionais de saúde de renome de Espanha, Grécia, Irlanda e Portugal já tomou uma posição pública sobre este tema (www.inodes.eu). A Organização Mundial da Saúde, no seguimento da conferência realizada em Oslo em 2009, está a analisar a situação e vai organizar uma segunda conferência em maio/junho.

A degradação do estado da saúde da população, além do impacto que tem em cada cidadão, é um facto que pode impedir o desenvolvimento económico e social dos países. Mas nem tudo é negro: a Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia realizou em novembro a sua primeira Reunião Anual, subordinada ao tema «Controvérsias com Medicamentos». A reunião foi um êxito, não só pela elevada qualidade das apresentações e debate, mas também pelo elevado número de participantes. Contamos realizar a Reunião Anual de 2013 no mês de junho.

Este número da revista, além das habituais rubricas, publica o artigo original «Critérios de Avaliação da Prescrição de Medicamentos Potencialmente Inapropriados no Doente Geriátrico: Comparação de Resultados Práticos» e os artigos de revisão «O Impacto Clínico e Económico do Suporte Nutricional no Doente Desnutrido» e «Medicamentos à Base de Plantas: Contributo para o Aproveitamento dos Recursos Naturais Nacionais».
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, v. 5 n. 1 (2013): Janeiro
Dynamics of localized Kaluza-Klein black holes in a collapsing universe
Creators: name: Kastor, David
name: Sorbo, Lorenzo
name: Traschen, Jennie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 prohibits corporate mergers that would result in certain highly undesired end states. We study an exact solution of the Einstein equations describing localized, charged Kaluza-Klein black holes in a collapsing deSitter universe and seek to demonstrate that a similar effect holds, preventing a potentially catastrophic black hole merger. As the collapse proceeds, it is natural to expect that the black hole undergoes a topological transition, wrapping around the shrinking compact dimension to merge with itself and form a black string. However, the putative uniform charged black string end state is singular and such a transition would violate (a reasonable notion of) cosmic censorship. We present analytic and numerical evidence that strongly suggests the absence of such a transition. Based on this evidence, we expect that the Kaluza-Klein black hole horizon stays localized, despite the increasingly constraining size of the compact dimension. On the other hand, the deSitter horizon does change between spherical and cylindrical topologies in a simple way.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
Trading Secrets: Canada's Comparative Advantage in Signals Intelligence Sharing, 1947 to Present
Creators: name: Robson, Maria Ann
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Economics--Commerce-Business
subject: History--Canadian
subject: Military Studies
subject: Canada
subject: COMINT
subject: Communications intelligence
subject: Communications Security Establishment
subject: Comparative advantage
subject: Five Eyes
subject: Intelligence
subject: Intelligence sharing
subject: International Trade
subject: SIGINT
subject: Signals Intelligence
subject: Snowden
subject: UKUSA

description: Canada is a member of the world’s strongest intelligence-sharing relationship, the Five Eyes. Why has Canada been a valued partner for the United States and the United Kingdom, states with greater absolute intelligence capabilities? Canada’s intelligence capabilities are understudied; existing scholarship has suffered from a lack of access to material. The declassification of archival materials surrounding the establishment of Five Eyes allow this thesis to make a new contribution to the literature, illuminating Canada’s unique value to its strategic partners. This thesis demonstrates that Canada has a comparative advantage in signals intelligence (SIGINT). While directly benefiting national security, Canadian SIGINT was built and leveraged to ensure value to its most powerful intelligence-sharing partners. Canada has acted on gains from trade, identifying comparative advantages in geography and analytical capabilities and capitalizing on them to access intelligence and military support and enhance political relationships, thereby furthering national security.
Electroweak Gauge-Boson Production at Small q_T: Infrared Safety from the Collinear Anomaly
Creators: name: Becher, Thomas
name: Neubert, Matthias
name: Wilhelm, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using methods from effective field theory, we develop a novel, systematic framework for the calculation of the cross sections for electroweak gauge-boson production at small and very small transverse momentum q_T, in which large logarithms of the scale ratio M_V/q_T are resummed to all orders. These cross sections receive logarithmically enhanced corrections from two sources: the running of the hard matching coefficient and the collinear factorization anomaly. The anomaly leads to the dynamical generation of a non-perturbative scale q_* ~ M_V e^{-const/α_s(M_V)}, which protects the processes from receiving large long-distance hadronic contributions. Expanding the cross sections in either α_s or q_T generates strongly divergent series, which must be resummed. As a by-product, we obtain an explicit non-perturbative expression for the intercept of the cross sections at q_T=0, including the normalization and first-order α_s(q_*) correction. We perform a detailed numerical comparison of our predictions with the available data on the transverse-momentum distribution in Z-boson production at the Tevatron and LHC.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures
Shedding light on the star formation rate-halo accretion rate connection and halo quenching mechanism via DECODE, the Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl
Creators: name: Fu, Hao
name: Boco, Lumen
name: Shankar, Francesco
name: Lapi, Andrea
name: Ayromlou, Mohammadreza
name: Roberts, Daniel
name: Peng, Yingjie
name: Rodríguez-Puebla, Aldo
name: Yuan, Feng
name: Cleland, Cressida
name: Mei, Simona
name: Menci, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: The relative roles of the physical mechanisms involved in quenching galaxy star formation are still unclear. We tackle this fundamental problem with our cosmological semi-empirical model DECODE (Discrete statistical sEmi-empiriCal mODEl), designed to predict galaxy stellar mass assembly histories, from minimal input assumptions. Methods: Specifically, in this work the star formation history of each galaxy is calculated along its progenitor dark matter halo by assigning at each redshift a star formation rate extracted from a monotonic star formation rate-halo accretion rate (SFR-HAR) relation derived from abundance matching between the (observed) SFR function and the (numerically predicted) HAR function, a relation that is also predicted by the TNG100 simulation. SFRs are integrated across cosmic time to build up the mass of galaxies, which may halt their star formation following input physical quenching recipes. Results: In this work we test the popular halo quenching scenario and we find that: 1) the assumption of a monotonic relation between SFR and HAR allows to reproduce the number densities of the bulk of star-forming galaxies in the local Universe; 2) the halo quenching is sufficient to reproduce the statistics of the quenched galaxies and flat (steep) high-mass end of the SMHM relation (SMF); and 3) to align with the observed steep (flat) low-mass end of the SMHM (SMF) additional quenching processes in the least massive haloes are needed. Conclusions: DECODE is an invaluable tool and will pave the way to investigate the origin of newly observed high-redshift objects from the latest ongoing facilities such as JWST and Euclid.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics
On hyperbolicity of minimizers for 1D random Lagrangian systems
Creators: name: Boritchev, Alexandre
name: Khanin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove hyperbolicity of global minimizers for random Lagrangian systems in dimension 1. The proof considerably simplifies a related result in [2]. The conditions for hyperbolicity are almost optimal: they are essentially the same as conditions for uniqueness of a global minimizer in [3].