cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Promising Futures: An Integral Exploration of the Futures Thinking of High School Teachers in a Technology-Rich Learning Environment
Creators: name: Norris, Roy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Secondary
subject: Education--Sociology of
subject: Education--Teacher Training
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Individual and Family Studies
subject: Industrial and Labor Relations
subject: Sociology--Organizational
subject: Sociology--Theory and Methods
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Psychology--Personality
subject: Psychology--Social
subject: integral
subject: teacher
subject: beliefs
subject: future
subject: futures
subject: planning
subject: foresight
subject: education
subject: highschool
subject: utopia
subject: dystopia
subject: technology
subject: hope

description: Teachers spend their working days preparing young people for the times to come. Teachers also imagine a wide variety of ideas about possible, probable and preferable futures. The purpose of this study is to discover how teachers feel and think about the potential futures for themselves and their students, and to explore how teacher perceptions of futures inform and are enacted in their teaching practices. Learning more about how often, how deeply and how optimistically teachers envision possible futures matters because teachers are educating the people who will become adults in all versions of the near futures. The conceptual framework sets integral theory as the basis for the methodological pluralism and analytical blending which are sustained throughout this trans-disciplinary study as a whole. The participants in this study were all high school teachers in one school in Winnipeg, Manitoba during the 2015-16 school year. Participants completed a survey, followed by eight focus group sessions, and finally twelve were individually interviewed. The research design employed integral methodological pluralism as an organizing methodological structure to draw together multiple research methods in a coherent fashion. The findings show that high school teachers deliberately think about their own futures and those of their students, that they are most likely to trust shorter term empiric predictions about futures, and that while they value long term thinking they rarely think about futures more than a few years away. Conclusions and recommendations point out the need for developing teacher capacity via training in long term futures thinking which allows teachers to consider much larger problems and challenges confronting cultures, over longer time spans. Thinking about the long term and choosing hopeful stances will ultimately strengthen teachers, and potentially lead cultures and civilizations to the more preferable futures that they envision.
Rate-Transient Analysis of Tight Gas Condensate and Black Oil Wells Exhibiting Two-phase Flow
Creators: name: Behmanesh, Hamid
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Gas Condensate
subject: Linear Flow
subject: Two-Phase Flow
subject: Rate Forecasting
subject: History Matching
subject: Production Data Analysis

description: Quantitative Production Data Analysis (PDA) is a popular petroleum reservoir engineering technique that is employed to derive information about reservoir properties and well stimulation (hydraulic fractures). Rate-Transient Analysis (RTA), which is an advanced form of PDA, uses well flowing well pressures along with production rates to extract this information. Although mathematical models used for RTA are reasonably mature for conventional reservoirs, there are complexities associated with reservoir fluid storage and flow behavior that impede direct adaptation of these methods for low-permeability (tight), unconventional reservoirs. For example, wells producing from tight unconventional reservoirs may exhibit lengthy periods of transient flow, during which time multi-phase flow could occur. The primary objective of this thesis is to demonstrate that analytical RTA techniques may be adapted to quantitatively analyze and forecast wells producing from tight unconventional reservoirs exhibiting single− and multi-phase flow during the transient linear and boundary-dominated flow periods. In particular, multi-fractured horizontal wells (MFHWs) producing from tight gas condensate and oil reservoirs and exhibiting long-term transient linear flow are studied. Several commonly observed behaviors associated with MFHWs producing from tight reservoirs, such as constant gas-oil-ratios (GORs) during the transient linear flow, are explained analytically. Modified pseudovariables, critical for linearizing the diffusivity equation for describing multi-phase flow, are developed that allow the liquid-solution analogy to be applied to the transient linear and boundary-dominated flow versions of the diffusivity equation. Novel techniques for calculation of saturation pressure relationships, required for pseudovariable evaluation, are developed. Solutions that utilize modified pseudovariables are applied to both inverse and forward modeling of wells producing from these reservoir types. The accuracy of the new analytical approaches is demonstrated through comparison to numerical simulation, and practical utility through analysis of field cases. A secondary objective is to demonstrate the use of black oil simulation and surface fluid rate recombination techniques, combined with assisted history-matching techniques, to extract reservoir, hydraulic fracture and in-situ fluid compositions from MFHWs completed in tight gas condensate reservoirs. The analytical techniques developed in this thesis will be useful for petroleum engineers who employ analytical techniques in tight unconventional reservoir and hydraulic-fracture characterization.
Seesaw Mechanism with Occam's Razor
Creators: name: Harigaya, Keisuke
name: Ibe, Masahiro
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the seesaw mechanism which includes the minimum number of parameters for successful leptogenesis and three neutrino oscillations in the spirit of Occam's razor. We show that models with two right-handed neutrinos with two texture zeros supported by Occam's razor cannot fit the observed neutrino parameters consistently for the normal light neutrino mass hierarchy. For the inverted light neutrino mass hierarchy, on the other hand, we find that the models can fit the observed neutrino parameters consistently. Besides, we show that the model predicts the maximal Dirac CP-phase of the neutrino mixing matrix in the measurable range in the foreseeable future for the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy. We also show that the predicted effective Majorana neutrino mass responsible for the neutrinoless double beta decay is around 50 meV which is also within reach of future experiments.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures; v2 reference and explanation added
One loop partition function for Topologically Massive Higher Spin Gravity
Creators: name: Bagchi, Arjun
name: Lal, Shailesh
name: Saha, Arunabha
name: Sahoo, Bindusar
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: We calculate the one loop partition function for topologically massive higher spin gravity (TMHSG) for arbitrary spin by taking the spin-3 TMHSG action constructed in arXiv:1107.0915 and subsequently generalising it for an arbitrary spin. We find that the final result can be put into a product form which cannot be holomorphically factorized giving strong evidence that the topologically massive higher spin gravity is dual to a high spin extension of logarithmic CFT rather than a chiral one.
description: 16 pages, latex, minor modifications, calculation for generic spins corrected. results qualitatively unchanged
Construction of a platinum sensitivity predictive model with multiple genomic variations for epithelial ovarian cancer
Creators: name: 邰再仙
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2021
Subjects: Genome sequencing
Multiisolate
Medical

description: Platinum-based chemotherapy is still the standard of care after cytoreductive surgery in the first-line treatment for epithelial ovarian cancer. This study aims to integrate novel biomarkers for predicting platinum sensitivity in EOC after initial cytoreductive surgery precisely. To this end, 60 patients were recruited from September 2014 to October 2019. Based on the duration of progress-free survival, 44 and 16 patients were assigned to platinum-sensitive and platinum-resistant group, respectively. Next generation sequencing was performed to dissect the genomic features of ovarian tumors obtained from surgery.
Midrash as a Refracting Lens: A.J. Heschel's Illumination of Jewish History
Creators: name: Andrews Pardes, Zvi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Literature--Classical
subject: Literature--Middle Eastern
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Religion
subject: Biblical Studies
subject: Religion--History of
subject: Religion--Philosophy of
subject: Theology
subject: History--Ancient
subject: History--Medieval
subject: History--Middle Eastern
subject: Jewish Studies
subject: midrash
subject: rabbinic theology
subject: jewish studies
subject: talmud
subject: mishna
subject: mishnah
subject: medieval jewish philosophy
subject: philology
subject: Heschel
subject: rabbi aqiva
subject: rabbi akiva
subject: rabbi ishmael
subject: midrash halakha
subject: halakhic midrash

description: A.J. Heschel’s Torah Min Ha-Shamayyim BeAspaqlaria Shel Ha-Doroth (TMS) never received the comprehensive scholarly attention that it deserves. Its philosophical and theological emphasis was out of place in the oeuvre in which it was published. Decades later it resurged in popularity, but by and large not amongst those with the textual and philological grounding in rabbinics to assess it meaningfully. TMS stands as a compelling analysis of early-rabbinic theological trends and the historical ramifications therein. I pay careful attention to Heschel’s sources and other experts in the field. I demonstrate that there is a decisive difference in philosophical outlook that can be traced between the schools of Rabbis Aqiva and Ishmael respectively, just as Heschel argues. Likewise, the theological dichotomies which Heschel articulates between these two textual personalities and their schools is shown to inform later permutations of these tensions throughout the Jewish History of Ideas.
Isothermal magnetic entropy behavior in Tb5Si3: Sign reversal and non-monotonic variation with temperature, and implications
Creators: name: Mohapatraa, Niharika
name: Das, Sitikantha D.
name: Mukherjee, K.
name: Sampathkumaran, E. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic entropy change (\DeltaS), a measure of the magnetocaloric effect, in Tb5Si3, a compound exhibiting unusual positive magnetoresistance following a magnetic-field-induced transition below magnetic transition temperature (~ 69 K), has been investigated. We found that \DeltaS is negative in the paramagnetic state. At the magnetic transition temperature, \DeltaS shows sign reversal from negative (in the paramagnetic state) to positive value in the magnetically ordered state. The high-field state which is interestingly the high resistive state is found to be associated with higher entropy i.e. large positive \DeltaS, behaving like a paramagnet. On the basis of this observation, we conclude that the magnetic field induces magnetic fluctuations in the system resulting in positive magnetoresistance, thereby rendering support to the idea of 'inverse metamagnetism' in this compound. In addition, we note that Arrott plots present an interesting scenario.
Orbital L-functions for the space of binary cubic forms
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Thorne, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M41 (Primary) 11E76 (Secondary)

description: We introduce the notion of orbital L-functions for the space of binary cubic forms and investigate their analytic properties. We study their functional equations and residue formulas in some detail. Aside from the intrinsic interest, results from this paper are used to prove the existence of secondary terms in counting functions for cubic fields. This is worked out in a companion paper (arXiv:1102.2914).
description: 49 pages; submitted
Neutral-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections based on relativistic nuclear energy density functional
Creators: name: Djapo, H.
name: Paar, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: Inelastic neutrino-nucleus scattering through the weak neutral-current plays important role in stellar environment where transport of neutrinos determine the rate of cooling. Since there are no direct experimental data on neutral-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections available, only the modeling of these reactions provides the relevant input for supernova simulations. Purpose: To establish fully self-consistent framework for neutral-current neutrino-nucleus reactions based on relativistic nuclear energy density functional. Methods: Neutrino-nucleus cross sections are calculated using weak Hamiltonian and nuclear properties of initial and excited states are obtained with relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model and relativistic quasiparticle random phase approximation that is extended to include pion contributions for unnatural parity transitions. Results: Inelastic neutral-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections for 12C, 16O, 56Fe, 56Ni, and even isotopes {92-100}Mo as well as respective cross sections averaged over distribution of supernova neutrinos. Conclusions: The present study provides insight into neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections in the neutral channel, their theoretical uncertainty in view of recently developed microscopic models, and paves the way for systematic self-consistent large-scale calculations involving open-shell target nuclei.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Physical Review C
Wireless Propagation in the Near-Ground Forest Environment
Creators: name: Smith, Devin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Wireless
subject: Propagation
subject: channel modelling
subject: Wireless Sensor Networks
subject: forest
subject: Fresnel zone
subject: 2.4 GHz

description: This thesis presents propagation measurements for a peer-to-peer wireless network for near-ground sensor networks, in the forest environment. Measurements were performed for Deciduous, Coniferous and Mixed forest species in the winter and summer seasons, as well as measuring the propagation characteristics of a cutline. Results indicate dual path-loss behaviour, typical of Fresnel zone obstructions. The small scale Rician K-factor was found to increase in the summer months, due to the presence of foliage. The cut line environment exhibited an oscillatory decay, suggesting the presence of a strong ground reflection. Antenna correlation was found to be dependent on the topology of the forest, and frequency diversity was limited due to a lack of scattering objects. The results were used to simulate the physical layer performance of a fixed wireless link, using SISO, SIMO and frequency hopping diversity schemes.
Parent Reported Impacts of their Disclosure of their Child's ASD Diagnosis to their Children
Creators: name: Cadogan, Sarah
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Autism Spectrum Disorder
subject: Diagnosis Disclosure
subject: Parent-Reported Child Impacts

description: The current study investigated parent-reported impacts associated with disclosing a child’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to their child with ASD. This study addressed a distinct gap in the empirical literature, and findings have practical utility for individuals with ASD, their parents, and associated professionals and researchers. A qualitative design was used, whereby 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of a child with ASD, who had disclosed their child’s diagnosis to their child, and were living in Alberta, Canada. Interviews were carefully transcribed. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis, with six themes arising: Communication about ASD; Understanding ASD; Awareness of ASD Features; Specific Child Reactions and Impacts; Views and Feelings Associated with ASD; and Magnitude and Valence of Impacts. Overall, current findings suggest that parental diagnosis disclosure to their child with ASD is associated with discernible positive impacts.
Probing Molecular Mechanisms of Self-Assembly in Metal-Organic Frameworks: A MD Simulation Study
Creators: name: Biswal, Debasmita
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education--Sciences
Chemistry--Physical

description: Metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) are a class of porous, solid-state materials, important to many applications. Although MOF synthesis has received considerable attention, very little is known about the mechanisms of self-assembly of MOFs. The primary goal of this thesis is to provide molecular level insights into the mechanistic details of the self-assembly process for an archetypal Zn-carboxylate MOF. In this thesis, simplified atomistic models representing Zn-ions, carboxylate ligands, and solvents were designed and validated against characteristic parameters for a key MOF structure. The Zn-ion models were further benchmarked by comparing the potential of mean force profiles for Zn-Zn and Zn-carboxylate oxygen generated from classical simulations to those generated from ab initio simulations. An extended cationic dummy atom (ECDA) Zn-ion model combined with an all-atom BDC ligand model and simple dipolar solvent model are found to reproduce key structural motifs anticipated for the archetypal Zn- carboxylate MOF system. The efficiency of these models provided access to relatively long time scale ordering processes during simulations. While a simple dipolar solvent model was found to exhibit structural behaviour similar to that of a more realistic DMF solvent, the former demonstrated a significantly faster rate of structural reorganization. A continuum solvent model was observed to exhibit structural behaviour similar to that of the dipolar solvent model, although with this model key structural motifs appear relatively less stable. The effect of system compositions, both increased concentrations and carboxylate ligand ratios, on structural behavior of the systems were also investigated. Through extensive sets of simulations, fundamental insights that elucidate key aspects of the self-assembly mechanism for MOFs are provided. An important finding of this study is the characterization of a stochastic and multistage ordering process intrinsic to self-assembly of the Zn-carboxylate MOF system. A variety of transient intermediate structures consisting of various types of Zn-ion clusters and carboxylate ligand coordination, and featuring a range of geometric arrangements, are observed during structural evolution. The general features deduced here for the mechanism of the self-assembly of this archetypal MOF system expose the complexities of the various molecular level events that can occur during different stages of structural evolution.
Depressurization Dynamic Modeling and Effect on Flare Flame Distortion
Creators: name: Shafaghat, Ali
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Chemical Engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The aim of equipment depressurization in an upset operation is to maintain the internal pressure of the vessels and piping below the rupture pressure, as the material ultimate tensile strength decreases with temperature tolerance beyond the acceptable limit. Depressurizing also causes to decrease the extent and duration of leaks that may occur as a result of mechanical failure. In the case of ignition and fire, a depressurization system can limit the fuel supply to the fire. In addition, the main objective of the pressure relief facilities is to keep personnel safe as well as equipment exposed to overpressure conditions that happen during process upsets. This thesis is intended to examine the modeling of depressurization in different scenarios, evaluate flare flame distortion and heat radiation as the most important consequences of this event, and consequently offer some recommendations for the design of any gas plant that has potential for overpressure.
Double Blind Comparison: Secure Database Integration with Minimal Database Aggregation
Creators: name: Lorimer, William
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Cryptography
subject: Privacy
subject: secure database integration
subject: public key encryption with equality testing
subject: security in database systems
subject: Electronic Health Records
subject: database aggregation problem

description: The Database Inference Problem occurs when a user with legitimate access to a data set is able to infer information that he or she should not have access to; the Database Aggregation Problem occurs when two or more data sets are combined, and the resulting combination allows unauthorized inference to take place. Secure database integration is the study of legitimately combining information from two or more databases, while ensuring that database aggregation and inference are at least minimized, if not prevented. Pseudonymized database integration involves replacing the record identifier with an encrypted identifier called a pseudonym, to prevent unauthorized aggregation. This thesis presents a new cryptographic primitive, Double Blind Comparison, which allows two co-operating users, who each hold a ciphertext, to determine whether the corresponding plaintexts are the same, even though neither user can discover any information about the plaintexts. Only if the two users co-operate can this comparison take place. The outcome of a Double Blind Comparison is that the user who submits the request (the submitter) learns nothing, while the user who makes the comparison (the comparer) learns only whether the two plaintexts are equal. The thesis shows how Double Blind Comparison can be used to implement secure database integration while protecting against aggregation, by allowing the respective administrators to compare records on a case-by-case basis. The thesis presents two practical realizations of Double Blind Comparison, one using groups with infeasible inversion and one using bilinear pairings. It also develops an efficient search capability, illustrated using groups with infeasible inversion. This is the only pseudonymized database integration scheme with an efficient search capability.
Spatially resolved hard X-ray polarization in solar flares: effects of Compton scattering and bremsstrahlung
Creators: name: Jeffrey, Natasha
name: Kontar, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper aims to study the polarization of hard X-ray (HXR) sources in the solar atmosphere, including Compton backscattering of photons in the photosphere (the albedo effect) and the spatial distribution of polarization across the source. HXR photon polarization and spectra produced via electron-ion bremsstrahlung are calculated from electron distributions typical for solar flares. Compton scattering and photoelectric absorption are then modelled using Monte Carlo simulations of photon transport in the photosphere. Polarization maps across HXR sources (primary and albedo components) for each of the modelled electron distributions are calculated at various source locations from the solar centre to the limb. We show that Compton scattering produces a distinct polarization variation across the albedo patch at peak albedo energies of 20-50 keV for all anisotropies modelled. The results show that there are distinct spatial polarization changes in both the radial and perpendicular to radial directions across the extent of the HXR source at a given disk location. In the radial direction, the polarization magnitude and direction at specific positions along the HXR source will either increase or decrease with increased photon distribution directivity towards the photosphere. We also show how high electron cutoff energies influence the direction of polarization at above ~100 keV. Spatially resolved HXR polarization measurements can provide important information about the directivity and energetics of the electron distribution. Our results indicate the preferred angular resolution of polarization measurements required to distinguish between the scattered and primary components. We also show how spatially resolved polarization measurements could be used to probe the emission pattern of an HXR source, using both the magnitude and the direction of polarization.
The Space Complexity of Distributed Tasks in the Shared Memory Model
Creators: name: Helmi Khomeirani, Maryam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: asynchronous, shared memory model

description: In this thesis, I study the space complexity of the implementation of test-and-set and renaming problems from atomic multi-reader/multi-writer registers in distributed synchronous systems with n processes. Previously, Giakkoupis and Woelfel as well as Styer and Peterson showed that at least Omega(log n) registers are required to implement one-shot test-and-set objects. First, I show a deterministic obstruction-free test-and-set algorithm using O(sqrt n) unbounded registers. Next, I present a deterministic obstruction-free implementation of a one-shot test-and-set object from Theta(log n) registers of size Theta(log n) bits, which closes the gap between the upper and lower bound. The problem of assigning unique names to processes from a set of size f(k) is called f-adaptive renaming, where k is the number of participating processes. Long-lived f-adaptive renaming allows each process to acquire and then release a name any number of times. One-shot adaptive renaming allows each process to get a name at most once. Let f: {1, ... ,n} -> N be a non-decreasing function satisfying f(1) <= n-1 and let d = max{x | f(x) <= n-1}. I show a lower bound of d + 1 registers for any non-deterministic solo-terminating long-lived f-adaptive renaming task. Furthermore, I observe that, this is a tight lower bound for long-lived (k+c)-adaptive renaming. However, for any non-deterministic solo-terminating one-shot (k+c)-adaptive renaming, I prove a lower bound of floor{2(n - c)/(c+2)} registers. I also provide two one-shot renaming algorithms: a wait-free one-shot (3k^2/2)-adaptive renaming algorithm from ceil{sqrt n} + 1 registers, and an obstruction-free one-shot f-adaptive renaming algorithm from min{n, x | f(x) >= 2n} + 1 registers.
Additional file 1 of Non-linear association of atherogenic index of plasma with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Yin, Bei
name: Wu, Zihong
name: Xia, Yaqing
name: Xiao, Shunqiang
name: Chen, Lingling
name: Li, Yousheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 60506
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Child Care Directors' Understanding of Leadership
Creators: name: Garrow-Oliver, Susan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Early Childhood
subject: Child Care
subject: Leadership
subject: Advocacy

description: Professionals who care for and teach young children are often treated with disrespect, and their voices go unheard. The role of the early childhood educator is not valued. Advocacy efforts for children’s and women’s rights by early childhood educators are rare, resulting in children being placed in unsafe care, and early childhood educators working in environments where they are often bullied, devalued, and silenced. Given this context, it is necessary to ask what role early childhood education (ECE) leaders play in the effort to advocate for change. While research on leadership as position is plentiful, inquiry into the topic of leadership as practice in early learning and child care (ELCC) is limited. The purpose of this study was to explore child care directors’ understanding of leadership and how, or if, it is connected to their role as social justice advocates. Through individual interviews with five child care directors and the telling of their stories, the study explored and considered different views and ideas of leadership as it related to their role as child care directors. The findings indicate that the participants’ understanding of leadership closely aligned with the business model of leadership, that is, leadership as position, with a top-down hierarchical and supervisory approach. Findings also indicate that participants’ advocacy efforts beyond the program level were rare. Participants were overwhelmed with managing their programs, and the practice of advocating for their own rights or those of children and families as a part of their leadership practice was nonexistent. Participants acknowledged a lack of confidence, skill, and knowledge, along with a fear of speaking out or supporting change. This study highlights the need for further exploration and understanding of leadership as practice, along with specific knowledge related to advocating for social justice issues in child care. Furthermore, this study reinforces the urgency for significant change in government investment and societal values as they pertain to early years education and care.
Variable and Transient Radio Sources in the FIRST Survey
Creators: name: Thyagarajan, Nithyanandan
name: Helfand, David J.
name: White, Richard L.
name: Becker, Robert H.
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: A comprehensive search for variable and transient radio sources has been conducted using ~55,000 snapshot images of the FIRST survey. We present an analysis leading to the discovery of 1,627 variable and transient objects down to mJy levels over a wide range of timescales (few minutes to years). Variations observed range from 20% to a factor of 25. Multi-wavelength matching for counterparts reveals the diverse classes of objects exhibiting variability, ranging from nearby stars and pulsars to galaxies and distant quasars. Interestingly, more than half of the objects in the sample have either no classified counterparts or no corresponding sources at any other wavelength and require multi-wavelength follow-up observations. We discuss these classes of variables and speculate on the identity of objects that lack multi-wavelength counterparts.
description: 63 pages, 18 encapsulated postscript figures (19 if individual subfigures are counted), 3 tables. LaTeX style file fltpage.sty used. Submitted, accepted and "in press" for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Full electronic version of table 1 (tab1.txt) has been uploaded and can be obtained after extracting the zipped source file
Sensitivity analysis of an eddy current problem related to induction heating
Creators: name: Hömberg, Dietmar
name: Sokołowski, Jan
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: sensitivity analysis
subject: Maxwell equations
subject: material derivatives
subject: 49K35
subject: 78A55
subject: 74N25

description: We study a mathematical model for the inductive heating of steel.It consists of a vector potential formulation of Maxwells equations coupled with a heat equation and an evolution equation for the volume fraction of high temperature phase in steel. An important task for practical applications of induction heating it to find the optimal coupling distance between inductor and workpiece. To this end, we employ the speed method to investigate the sensitivity of solutions to the state equations with respect to perturbations of the inductor coil. We show the existence of strong material derivatives for the state variables and apply the structure theorem to characterize the Eulerian derivative of the cost functional.
Contrasting magnetic behavior of fine particles of some Kondo Lattices
Creators: name: Mukherjee, K.
name: Iyer, Kartik K.
name: Sampathkumaran, E. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the magnetic behavior of ball-milled fine particles of well-known Kondo lattices, CeAu2Si2, CePd2Si2 and CeAl2, by magnetization and heat-capacity studies in order to understand the magnetic behavior when the particle size is reduced. These compounds have been known to order antiferromagnetically in the bulk form near (TN=) 10, 10 and 3.8 K respectively. We find that the features due to magnetic ordering get suppressed to temperatures below 1.8 K in the case of fine particles of ternary alloys, though trivalence of Ce as inferred from the effective moment remains unchanged. In contrast to this, in CeAl2, there appears to be a marginal enhancement of TN, when the particle size is reduced to less than a micron. These results can be consistently understood by proposing that there is relatively more 4f-localization as the particle size is reduced, resulting in weakening of exchange interaction strength.
PEREDA-PATRICIA-KAEREL-T.-SST-I_AUSTRIA-JHIE-ANNE-M.-SST-I_-GARCIA-ABIGAIL-N._-ACTION-RESEARCH-PROPOSAL-PROJECT-ERA-ENHANCMENT-READING-AREA.pdf
Creators: name: Jhie Anne Austria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 50203 Environmental Education and Extension
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: This study Project ERA (Enhancement Reading Area): A Gamification Coin-Counter Inspired Reading Center in Producing Grade 7 Independent Readers will adapt the strategy of gamification, which is further defined as the integration of game design elements that can increase the learners’ engagement and motivation. The first problem we, the researchers have to tackle is how we are going to motivate the learners to read. The researchers will approach this by incorporating Carlson et al., (2017) Coin Counter: Gamification for Classroom Management journal. To be more precise, the researchers will use a gamification reward system.
The Relational Model for Teaching and Learning
Creators: name: Lalonde, Solange
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Adult and Continuing
subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Higher
subject: Education--Teacher Training
subject: Indigenous Education
subject: Leadership
subject: Teaching and Learning
subject: Professional Learning
subject: Indigenous Methodologies

description: This thesis presents a learning-centred model where the goals and measures of success align in the process of teaching and learning. The education system in Alberta requires an alternative to using racial identity as a factor in measuring success. This thesis is a non-traditional creative research design which uses métissage as a research praxis to introduce the Relational Model for Teaching and Learning (RMTL). The RMTL is presented in the form of a professional learning guide to reflect a philosophy for teaching and learning that empowers educators to use a qualitative narrative approach to reporting achievement in their professional learning and in the practice of teaching and learning. This thesis represents a practical application and approach to designing and implementing professional learning for educators across multiple contexts and disciplines. As a method for decolonizing education, the RMTL offers an entry point to creating relational spaces for teaching and learning.
A Safe Home Quarantine Digital Solution for COVID-19: A Proof-of-Concept Study
Creators: name: Pathmanathan, Mohan Dass
name: Rahman, Mohd Aizuddin Abd
name: Boon, William Law Kian
name: Xuan, Kuan Pei
name: Ci, Wong Xin
name: Peariasamy, Kalaiarasu M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19; biosensor; CODIQ-My

description: Introduction: Malaysia implemented home quarantine for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in response to the upsurge in the daily confirmed cases. Nevertheless, monitoring of vital signs while in quarantine is important. The aims were to assess the functionality and usability of a newly developed home quarantine digital solution (CODIQ-My) for remote monitoring. Methodology: COVID-19 patients with mild clinical symptoms designated to a low-risk quarantine centre were selected and instructed on CODIQ-My Solution which incorporates 3 elements; i. patient mobile application ii. vital signs biosensor iii. centralized monitoring dashboard Twice daily, the patients reported their symptoms as well as their vital signs - body temperature (T), oxygen saturation (SpO2), and heart rate (HR) using the biosensor and mobile application. Individual patient information was then captured in the dashboard. The consolidated data was analyzed to test system performance and functionality. Results:  A total of 31 mild COVID-19 patients from MAEPS were recruited into the study between 21 May and 23 June 2021. During the study period, 193 (98.0%) check-in attempts were performed and recorded 455 (78.6%) vital readings were successfully and 3 (9.7%) patients failed to use the CODIQ-My due to technical delay. A total of 472 alerts were triggered, with 207 (43.9%) for device communication failure, 149 (31.6%) for user photo mismatch, 64 (13.6%) for quarantine breach, 32 (6.8%) for abnormal vital signs, and 20 (4.2%) for biosensor failure. Discussion/Conclusion: Emerging technology such as validated biosensors and artificial intelligence algorithms can enhance patient management in a pandemic. Our study indicated that the CODIQ-My solution is a secure and robust system with the ability to detect warning signs in quarantine patients. Health care providers can monitor patients remotely and provide fast and targeted treatment plans apart from monitoring the physical movements of these patients with its geofencing ability. Further studies are planned to enhance the biosensor performance by incorporating an infrared temperature sensor and improvising the existing photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor. [Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster]
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) on August 18-20 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Arrays of Nano-Electromechanical Biosensors Functionalized by Microcontact Printing
Creators: name: Salomon, Sven
name: Leichle, Thierry
name: Dezest, Denis
name: Seichepine, Florent
name: Guillon, Samuel
name: Thibault, Christophe
name: Vieu, Christophe
name: Nicu, Liviu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The biofunctionalization of nanoelectromechanical structures is critical for the development of new classes of biosensors displaying improved performances and higher-level of integration. We propose a modified microcontact printing method for the functionalization and passivation of large arrays of nanocantilevers in a single, self-aligned step. Using fluorescence microscopy and resonant frequency measurements, we demonstrate (1) the bioactivity and the anti-fouling property of deposited antibodies and BSA molecules and (2) the preservation of the nanostructures' mechanical integrity.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
title: Профессор Ю.Д. Филиппов – один из основоположников экономического образования в Эстонии
title: Professor Filippov: one of founders of economical education in Estonia
Creators: name: Лукьянов, Александр Сергеевич
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого
Year: 2018
Subjects: профессор Ю.Д. Филиппов (Филипов)
русские экономисты
эмигранты
Тартуский университет
экономический факультет
биография
научное наследие
professor Filippov
Russian economists
emigrants
Tartu University
economic faculty
biography
scientific heritage

description: Рассматриваются основные этапы деятельности русского ученого, юриста и экономиста Ю.Д. Филиппова в царской России и в Эстонии, анализируется его научное наследие. Показана роль в становлении экономического образования в Эстонской республике. Приводится библиография его трудов.
description: The paper considers the key achievements of Yu.D. Filippov, a Russian scientist, lawyer and economist who worked in Imperial Russia and in Estonia, analyzing his scientific heritage. Filippov’s role in shaping economic education in the Republic of Estonia is shown, a bibliography of his works is provided.
The role of AMP-activated protein kinase in initiating metabolic rate suppression in goldfish hepatocytes
Creators: name: Lau, Gigi Yik Chee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The ability to undergo metabolic rate suppression (MRS) markedly improves chances of survival during aquatic hypoxia. In this thesis, I specifically tested the hypothesis that AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) initiates MRS in hepatocytes from the common goldfish (Carassius auratus). My first goal was to investigate the responses of isolated hepatocytes to changes in O₂. Goldfish hepatocytes showed a gradual decrease in cellular oxygen consumption rate (MO₂) as O₂ was decreased from normoxia (~310 µM O₂) down to the apparent P₉₀ of 13 µM, below which there was a steep decline in MO₂. The apparent P₉₀ for hepatocyte respiration matched published measurements of venous [O₂], which suggests that hepatocyte MO₂ in vivo may be regulated by O₂. To address the relationship between AMPK and MRS, several drugs were used to manipulate AMPK activity. I was able to activate AMPK with 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide 1-β-D-ribofuranoside (AICAR) under normoxic conditions, which caused a reduction in MO₂; this decrease was mediated through a decrease in protein synthesis rate via eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2) phosphorylation. Specifically, a maximal 7.5-fold activation of AMPK resulted in a 24% reduction in MO2, thus supporting the notion that AMPK activation initiates MRS. We then used compound C, a general protein kinase inhibitor, in an attempt to reverse the AICAR effects on AMPK activation, but compound C did not reverse the effects of AICAR. A recently discovered specific AMPK activator, A769662, was also used to manipulate AMPK activity. However, at all doses, A769662 failed to activate AMPK. Nevertheless, whenever I was able to activate AMPK via AICAR incubation, there was a consistent lowering of metabolic rate. Thus I have provided evidence to support the hypothesis that AMPK is important in the initiation of MRS in goldfish hepatocytes.
Omalus biaccinctus
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Omalus
Omalus biaccinctus

description: 4. Omalus biaccinctus (Buysson, 1892)
Ellampus biaccinctus Buysson in André 1892: 152. Syntypes ♂, ♀; France (MNHN) (examined).
Omalus biaccinctus: Linsenmaier 1959: 18, Valkeila 1962: 63, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Banaszak 1980: 10, Silfverberg 1981: 61, Vikberg 1986b: 67, Cederberg 2000: 177, Söderman & Vikberg 2003: 44, Soon 2004: 19, 45, Cederberg 2005: 290, Sörensson 2008f, Allearter.dk 2010, Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 153, Paukkunen 2010: 542, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.
Material examined. Denmark: LFM: Kaerstrup, 1913, 1 ♀; Søholt, 1917, 1 ♀; * Latvia: Dalbe, 22.VI.1973, 1 ♀ (V. Tumšs); Langstini, 25.VII.1971, 1 ♀ (V. Tumšs); Upseims, 16.VII.1974, 1 ♀ (V. Tumšs); * Norway: BØ: Hole, Utstranda, 25.VI–2.VIII.2011, 2 exx. (F. Ødegaard); Ø: Hvaler, Asmaløy, 25.VI.2010, 1 ex. (F. Ødegaard); *Russian Fennoscandia: Ik: Metsäpirtti [= Zaporozhskoe], 12.VII.1934, 1 ♀ (A. Merisuo).
Distribution. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, * Latvia, * Norway, Sweden, *Russian Fennoscandia.—Westpalearctic: from West Europe to West Asia (Linsenmaier 1959). Most common in the Mediterranean area (Mingo 1994).
Remarks. Omalus biaccinctus is a rare species in the Nordic and Baltic countries. It has not yet been recorded in Lithuania. The species has been classified as vulnerable in Finland (Paukkunen 2010). In Sweden it is also uncommon, but was excluded from the latest national red list (Cederberg et al. 2010). The Latvian specimens were found in LMSZ in Riga, where they had been erroneously identified as O. aeneus by Tumšs.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Investigation of LiFeAs by means of "Break-junction" Technique
Creators: name: Kuzmichev, S. A.
name: Shanygina, T. E.
name: Morozov, I. V.
name: Boltalin, A. I.
name: Roslova, M. V.
name: Wurmehl, S.
name: Buchner, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our tunneling investigation using Andreev superconductor - normal metal - superconductor contacts on LiFeAs single crystals we observed two reproducible independent subharmonic gap structures at dynamic conductance characteristics. From these results, we can derive the energy of the large superconducting gap $Δ_L=(2.5 ÷3.4)$ meV and the small gap $Δ_L=(0.9 ÷1)$ meV at $T = 4.2$ K for the $T_C^{local} \approx (10.5 ÷14)$ K (the contact area critical temperature which deviation causes the variation of $Δ_L$). The BCS-ratio is found to be $2Δ_L/k_BT_C = (4.6 ÷5.6)$, whereas $2Δ_S/k_BT_C \ll 3.52$ results from induced superconductivity in the bands with the small gap.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Published in Pis'ma v ZhETF 95, 604-610 (2012)
Additional file 1 of Association between atherogenic index of plasma and prehypertension or hypertension among normoglycemia subjects in a Japan population: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Tan, Mingjuan
name: Zhang, Yongliang
name: Jin, Ling
name: Wang, Youli
name: Cui, Weiwei
name: Nasifu, Lubanga
name: He, Bangshun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Stratification analysis of the association between AIP andprehypertension and hypertension.