cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Filipino Translation and Validation of the General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale: Panukat ng Pangkalahatang Kakayahang Pansarili
Creators: name: Tus, Jhoselle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 220311 Philosophical Psychology (incl. Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: 170105 Gender Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Applied Psychology
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: 170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing

description: The General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale was translated into Filipino, and one thousand seven hundred eighty four (1784) students from senior high school and colleges were assessed in a counter-balanced format with the English. The Filipino translation was rendered by producing: (a) an initial Filipino translation, (b) a blind back-translation, and (c) extensive pilot testing.
Search for a simultaneous signal from small transient events in the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Tupi muon telescopes
Creators: name: Augusto, C. R. A.
name: Kopenkin, V.
name: Navia, C. E.
name: Tsui, K. H.
name: Sinzi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a search for a possible signal from small scale solar transient events (such as flares and interplanetary shocks) as well as possible counterparts to Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) observed simultaneously by the Tupi muon telescope Niteroi-Brazil, 22.90S, 43.20W, 3 m above sea level) and the Pierre Auger Observatory surface detectors (Malargue-Argentina, 69.30S, 35.30W, altitude 1400 m). Both cosmic ray experiments are located inside the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) region. Our analysis of several examples shows similarities in the behavior of the counting rate of low energy (above 100 MeV) particles in association with the solar activity (solar flares and interplanetary shocks). We also report an observation by the Tupi experiment of the enhancement of muons at ground level with a significance higher than 8 sigma in the 1-sec binning counting rate (raw data) in close time coincidence (T-184 sec) with the Swift-BAT GRB110928B (trigger=504307). The GRB 110928B coordinates are in the field of view of the vertical Tupi telescope, and the burst was close to the MAXI source J1836-194. The 5-min muon counting rate in the vertical Tupi telescope as well as publicly available data from Auger (15 minutes averages of the scaler rates) show small peaks above the background fluctuations at the time following the Swift-BAT GRB 110928B trigger. In accordance with the long duration trigger, this signal can possibly suggest a long GRB, with a precursor narrow peak at T-184 sec.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
MEDICAMENTOS BIOSSIMILARES
Creators: name: Faria Vaz, António
name: Alcobia, Armando
name: Fontes Ribeiro, Carlos
name: Gouveia Pinto, Carlos
name: Canhão, Helena
name: Cruz, João Paulo
name: Aranda Da Silva, José
name: Matos, Leopoldo
name: Amaral, Marta
name: Miranda, Nuno
name: Lago, Paula
name: Lobato, Rosário
name: Tavares, Viviana
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia
Year: 2013

description: A Reunião de Reflexão sobre Medicamentos Biossimilares teve como objetivo debater aspetos do enquadramento regulamentar europeu e nacional destes medicamentos e os desafios da implementação da sua utilização ao nível do Sistema Nacional de Saúde. No decorrer da reunião foram debatidos alguns aspetos relativos à avaliação e comprovação da qualidade dos medicamentos biossimilares e as eventuais consequências clínicas resultantes do contexto da disponibilização ao doente, particularmente de alguns grupos de medicamentos biossimilares. A reunião contou com a participação ativa e a opinião de todos os intervenientes.
Este documento foi objeto de parecer por parte dos participantes na reunião, tendo sido a sua redação final o resultado de um processo de consulta realizado com o objetivo de elaborar um documento consensual.
description: Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, v. 5 n. 3 (2013): Julho
On the Diophantine properties of lambda-expansions
Creators: name: Persson, Tomas
name: Reeve, Henry W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J83, 28A78

description: For $λ\in (1/2, 1)$ and $α$, we consider sets of numbers $x$ such that for infinitely many $n$, $x$ is $2^{-αn}$-close to some $\sum_{i=1}^n ω_i λ^i$, where $ω_i \in \{0,1\}$. These sets are in Falconer's intersection classes for Hausdorff dimension $s$ for some $s$ such that $- \frac{1}α \frac{\log λ}{\log 2} \leq s \leq \frac{1}α$. We show that for almost all $λ\in (1/2, 2/3)$, the upper bound of $s$ is optimal, but for a countable infinity of values of $λ$ the lower bound is the best possible result.
description: 21 pages
Digitalisation And Its Impact On Leadership Competences In Production Work
Creators: name: Dworschak, Bernd
name: Karapidis, Alexander
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Digitalisation
subject: Leadership
subject: Digital transformation
subject: Competence Management
subject: Interactional competences
subject: Work design for learning
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: This contribution tackles the effects of digitalisation on leadership in production work. Based on the assumption that production work in the future will be characterised as more flexible, networked and digitalised, the digital transformation will lead to changes in business models, organisations and work design. Accordingly, changed and new competences are needed by executives. There is a new generation of executives who have to view business differently and use different sets of competences to lead employees. In this paper, an overview will be given about digital trends and their impact on leadership. Secondly, definitions of terms about leadership and the difference between traditional management and digital leadership will be illustrated. Furthermore, competence sets for leadership in digital transformation in production work will be outlined. These competence sets can be described both by several competences subsumed under the term - interactional competences - and by competences needed to establish a work design conducive to learning, facilitating and enabling competence development of employees. We think that these two competence bunches depict the core of future competences of executives in production.
Pilumnus reticulatus Stimpson 1860
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pilumnidae
Pilumnus
Pilumnus reticulatus

description: Pilumnus reticulatus Stimpson, 1860
Material examined (N=7). 1m, 31/X/2004, St. 0 6 (MZUESC #722); 1f, 28/VIII/2004, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #723). Distribution. Western Atlantic – Central America, Antilles, northern South America, and Brazil (from Pará to Rio Grande do Sul) (Melo 1996). Eastern Pacific – from the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Panama (Hendrickx 1995).
Ecological notes. On mud and shell bottoms. Intertidal to 75 m (Melo 1996). Previous records in Bahia. Rathbun (1930), Joly et al. (1969), Gomes Corrêa (1972), Gouvêa (1986a), Barreto et al. (1993).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Factors Influencing the Use of Autonomous and Shared Autonomous Vehicles in Alberta
Creators: name: Ghaffari Targhi, Mahsa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sociology--Transportation
subject: autonomous vehicle
subject: shared autonomous vehicle
subject: willingness to pay
subject: demand modelling

description: Autonomous vehicles (AV) are expected to have a wide-ranging affect on traffic congestion, safety, comfort, car ownership, land use and the environment. In this thesis, stated preference survey was designed to examine people’s willingness to give up driving control to AVs and their willingness to use them as shared autonomous vehicles (SAV). The results indicate that Level 3 automation should be skipped and the market should move directly to full automation. People are willing to pay $3529, $2691 and $4349 per year for the fixed cost of AVs with Level 2, 3, and 4 automation. The early owners of AVs are males over 50 years old and the early adaptors of SAVs are males younger than 35 years old. Also, the willingness to use higher levels of automation is attributed to people’s perception towards AVs.
A Comparison Between Data Mining Prediction Algorithms for Fault Detection(Case study: Ahanpishegan co.)
Creators: name: Amooee, Golriz
name: Minaei-Bidgoli, Behrouz
name: Bagheri-Dehnavi, Malihe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the current competitive world, industrial companies seek to manufacture products of higher quality which can be achieved by increasing reliability, maintainability and thus the availability of products. On the other hand, improvement in products lifecycle is necessary for achieving high reliability. Typically, maintenance activities are aimed to reduce failures of industrial machinery and minimize the consequences of such failures. So the industrial companies try to improve their efficiency by using different fault detection techniques. One strategy is to process and analyze previous generated data to predict future failures. The purpose of this paper is to detect wasted parts using different data mining algorithms and compare the accuracy of these algorithms. A combination of thermal and physical characteristics has been used and the algorithms were implemented on Ahanpishegan's current data to estimate the availability of its produced parts. Keywords: Data Mining, Fault Detection, Availability, Prediction Algorithms.
Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: Ultracold Quantum Gases, Quantum Chromodynamic Plasmas, and Holographic Duality
Creators: name: Adams, Allan
name: Carr, Lincoln D.
name: Schaefer, Thomas
name: Steinberg, Peter
name: Thomas, John E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly correlated quantum fluids are phases of matter that are intrinsically quantum mechanical, and that do not have a simple description in terms of weakly interacting quasi-particles. Two systems that have recently attracted a great deal of interest are the quark-gluon plasma, a plasma of strongly interacting quarks and gluons produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions, and ultracold atomic Fermi gases, very dilute clouds of atomic gases confined in optical or magnetic traps. These systems differ by more than 20 orders of magnitude in temperature, but they were shown to exhibit very similar hydrodynamic flow. In particular, both fluids exhibit a robustly low shear viscosity to entropy density ratio which is characteristic of quantum fluids described by holographic duality, a mapping from strongly correlated quantum field theories to weakly curved higher dimensional classical gravity. This review explores the connection between these fields, and it also serves as an introduction to the Focus Issue of New Journal of Physics on Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: from Ultracold Quantum Gases to QCD Plasmas. The presentation is made accessible to the general physics reader and includes discussions of the latest research developments in all three areas.
description: 138 pages, 25 figures, review associated with New Journal of Physics special issue "Focus on Strongly Correlated Quantum Fluids: from Ultracold Quantum Gases to QCD Plasmas" (http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/focus/Focus%20on%20Strongly%20Correlated%20Quantum%20Fluids%20-%20from%20Ultracold%20Quantum%20Gases%20to%20QCD%20Plasmas)
Analysis Of Uncertainty Over The Factory Life Cycle
Creators: name: Hingst, Lennart
name: Nyhuis, Peter
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Factory Planning
subject: Factory Life Cycle
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Change Drivers
subject: Risks
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: The cost and performance structure of a factory is determined in factory planning and activated in the operation phase with a time delay. Even though the majority of investments result from structural planning, the first conceptual and most important step in factory planning, the majority of costs occur during factory operation, the longest phase of a factory life cycle. Life cycle-oriented factory planning seeks to anticipate operation in order to increase the performance potential and reduce total costs over the entire factory life cycle. Experience shows that this can reduce total costs by about one-third, 80% of which are unplanned operating costs. Therefore, it is imperative to be aware of possible uncertainties in the course of a factory life cycle as a factory planner. Up to now, there has been an inconsistent understanding in this regard. By definition, the emphasis has been on long-term change drivers influenced by megatrends due to the strategic orientation of factory planning. The current crisis situation illustrates the relevance of an operational view on potential short-term uncertainties. The goal of the paper is to analyze the uncertainty over the factory life cycle in its entirety and to create a common understanding for factory planning so that life cycle-oriented planning and evaluation of factories can be aligned accordingly.
Development of Mechanistic Models and Numerical Methods for Corrosion Prediction in Oil Industry
Creators: name: Li, Qiang
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Materials Science
subject: Corrosion
subject: Modelling
subject: corrosion prediction
subject: gathering pipeline
subject: steam-assisted gravity drainage
subject: carbon dioxide storage
subject: pipeline abandonment

description: Corrosion is the primary mechanism resulting in facility failures in oil industry, where downhole tubulars, above-ground gathering pipelines and buried transmission pipelines constitute the important facilities. Corrosion modelling is advantageous over experimental studies, and has been essential for industrial corrosion management. Internal corrosion of pipelines occurs in CO2-containing single-phase water or oil-water emulsion flow due to dissolved CO2 in water. Corrosion of X65 pipeline steel under various flow conditions is studied with a home-made flow loop. A semi-empirical model is developed based on computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations to predict the corrosion rate of the pipe steel in CO2-saturated oil-water emulsion flow. The high-temperature high-pressure conditions encountered in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD)/CO2 co-injection systems introduce major corrosion concerns to downhole tubulars. A semi-empirical mode is developed to predict the tubular corrosion rate under the SAGD/CO2 co-injection conditions. The corrosion rate is very small when a compact scale is formed. The CO2 storage is used worldwide to help reduce CO2 emission. However, supercritical CO2 conditions in sites can lead to severe corrosion to steel tubing. To predict corrosion rate of the steel tubing under CO2 storage conditions, a mechanistic model, which includes a water chemistry sub-model and an electrochemical corrosion sub-model, is developed. The predicted solution pH and corrosion rates are well consistent with the experimental results. External corrosion is the dominant threat to structural integrity of abandoned pipelines in soils. Studies of corrosion of X52 pipeline steel in a simulated Regina soil solution show that the iron oxidation and oxygen or water reduction are electrochemical anodic and cathodic reactions, respectively, depending on the dissolved oxygen level. Porous corrosion products reduce somewhat the corrosion rate. A mechanistic model enabling prediction of the long-term corrosion rate is developed. Corrosion kinetic parameters used in the model are obtained by fitting the experimentally measured polarization curves with a computer program. The model is validated by comparing the calculated results with experimental data.
Modelling and Control of Aqueous Parts Cleaning Machines for Demand Response
Creators: name: Fuhrländer-Völker, Daniel
name: Grosch, Benedikt
name: Weigold, Matthias
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Carbon Neutral Production
subject: Energy-flexibility
subject: Cyber-physical Production System
subject: Model Predictive Control
subject: Data Model
subject: Inherent Energy Storage
subject: Single Machine Scheduling
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: With the aim of enabling better utilization of renewable power and reducing the environmental impact of industrial sites, we propose an approach for implementing electric demand response. Cleaning machines provide significant potential for demand response due to their large water tanks, which can be used for thermal energy storage. Furthermore, many batch cleaning machines allow process interruptions without impacting the cleaning result. We show that utilizing inherent energy storage and process interruptions are practical ways to implement demand response. Hence, we present a mathematical demand response model of an aqueous parts cleaning machine and integrate it in a cyber-physical production system. The mathematical demand response model is used to determine the energy consumption of the machine resulting from the cleaning process and the tank heater. The model is divided into an event-based part describing the individual steps of the cleaning process and a time-based part representing the energy required by the tank heater to satisfy specified tank temperature limits. In addition to the mathematical model, we present the data model required for communication with the physical machine. We validate the mathematical model and the complete cyber-physical production system including a real machine in a field test in the ETA research factory for their demand response capabilities.
Wrongful convictions : a review and assessment of miscarriage of justice in Canada
Creators: name: David, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Despite the checks and balances of our criminal justice system many cases of wrongful convictions have occurred. In Canada, the government has responded to wrongful convictions by creating a legislative process whereby someone claiming they have been wrongfully convicted can apply to the Federal Minister of Justice based on a miscarriage of justice. The postconviction review process allows the Minister of Justice to refer cases back to courts if, he or she is satisfied that a new trial or hearing should be directed. The Department of Justice initiated internal changes to the postconviction review process in 1994 after serious criticism about the process. The changes created were not significant enough to curb more criticism and the need arose to rectify the problems again. Possible reform options included; the creation of a separate agency for reviewing criminal convictions, the elimination of s.690 altogether with a broadening of the scope of appellate review, or amending the s.690 process. In 2002 the Government decided to amend the existing process and ss.696.1 to 696.6 of the Criminal Code and the applicable regulations are Canada’s current legislative postconviction review process. It has been eight years since these legislative changes were made and this thesis is going to assess whether the changes were an effective response to the criticisms that plagued the previous process. A look at the legislative changes along with an in-depth statistical analysis is conducted to determine if the process addressed the criticisms of not being independent, open, effective, and accessible. The years have shown, that there has been little real improvement in the function of the system. The changes made were not substantial enough to check the existing problems. The need to reassess the situation is still paramount. After canvassing the options for reform I conclude that the only viable option is to create an independent criminal convictions review body. I hope that the carefully considered and consolidated research for this thesis will allow the government to take notice of the genuine need of those struggling to gain access to a system that should run and effectively and efficiently.
Galaxies in X-ray Groups I: Robust Membership Assignment and the Impact of Group Environments on Quenching
Creators: name: George, Matthew R.
name: Leauthaud, Alexie
name: Bundy, Kevin
name: Finoguenov, Alexis
name: Tinker, Jeremy
name: Lin, Yen-Ting
name: Mei, Simona
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Aussel, Hervé
name: Behroozi, Peter S.
name: Busha, Michael T.
name: Capak, Peter
name: Coccato, Lodovico
name: Covone, Giovanni
name: Faure, Cecile
name: Fiorenza, Stephanie L.
name: Ilbert, Olivier
name: Floc'h, Emeric Le
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Tanaka, Masayuki
name: Wechsler, Risa H.
name: Wolk, Melody
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the mechanisms that lead dense environments to host galaxies with redder colors, more spheroidal morphologies, and lower star formation rates than field populations remains an important problem. As most candidate processes ultimately depend on host halo mass, accurate characterizations of the local environment, ideally tied to halo mass estimates and spanning a range in halo mass and redshift are needed. In this work, we present and test a rigorous, probabalistic method for assigning galaxies to groups based on precise photometric redshifts and X-ray selected groups drawn from the COSMOS field. The groups have masses in the range 10^13 < M_200c/M_sun < 10^14 and span redshifts 0
description: ApJ accepted. Catalogs will be posted at IRSA upon publication, currently available upon request
Additional file 1 of E-portfolio as an effective tool for improvement of practitioner nurses’ clinical competence
Creators: name: Najaffard, Nastaran
name: Mohammadi, Aeen
name: Mojtahedzadeh, Rita
name: Zarei, Afagh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Group Selection in Semiparametric and Nonparametric Accelerated Failure Time Models
Creators: name: Huang, Longlong
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In survival analysis, a number of regression models can be used to estimate the effects of covariates on the censored survival outcome. When covariates can be naturally grouped, group selection is important in these models. Motivated by the group bridge approach for variable selection in a multiple linear regression model, we consider group selection in a semiparametric accelerated failure time (AFT) model using Stute's weighted least squares and a group bridge penalty. This method is able to simultaneously carry out feature selection at both the group and within-group individual variable levels and enjoys the powerful oracle group selection property. Although the group bridge penalized approach can effectively remove unimportant groups, it cannot effectively remove unimportant variables within the important groups. To overcome this limitation, the adaptive group bridge method is proposed. We show that the adaptive group bridge method obtains the oracle property. Simulation studies indicate that the group bridge and adaptive group bridge approaches for the AFT model can correctly identify important groups and variables even with high censoring rates. A real data analysis is provided to illustrate the application of the proposed methods. We further study a nonparametric accelerated failure time additive regression (NP-AFT-AR) model whose covariates have nonparametric effects on the survival time. The proposed model is more flexible than the linear model and can be fitted to high-dimensional censored data when some components are unknown non-linear functions. B-splines are used to approximate the nonparametric components. A group bridge penalized variable selection approach based on the inverse probability-of-censoring weighted least squares is developed to select nonparametric components. The proposed approach is able to distinguish the nonzero components from the zero components and estimate the nonzero components simultaneously. Computational algorithms and theoretical properties of the proposed method are established. Simulation studies indicate that the proposed method has satisfactory performance even with relatively high censoring rates. Two real data analyses are used to illustrate the application of the proposed method to survival data analysis.
Heightened Resolution in Wildlife Health Monitoring and Outbreak Investigations through the Use of Molecular and Genomic Tools
Creators: name: Forde, Taya Linden
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Veterinary Science
subject: wildlife
subject: Health
subject: Monitoring
subject: ungulate
subject: Mycobacterium
subject: Erysipelothrix
subject: Genomics
subject: Molecular

description: Wildlife health monitoring and outbreak investigations are essential for understanding effects of disease on population dynamics. Furthermore, they are important for determining the distribution and diversity of pathogens that could influence conservation efforts or livestock or human health, and they provide baseline information for evaluating the impacts of anthropogenic changes on ecosystem health. Molecular and genomic tools can greatly enhance detection and genetic characterization of pathogens in wildlife populations. This thesis comprises three parts that explore the use of molecular tools of varying complexity for addressing particular monitoring objectives, using bacterial pathogens of wild ungulates as examples. In Part 1, polymerase chain reaction was used to determine the herd-level infection status of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) in Canadian wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) in the absence of successful bacterial culture, thereby providing important data for translocation decisions. In Part 2, pathogen transmission at the wildlife-livestock interface was examined using genotyping. The detection of multiple MAP genotypes in a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis) population in an area of southwestern Alberta where beef cattle are grazed was an impetus to investigate whether strain sharing of MAP was occurring between these sympatric species. Finally, in Part 3, whole-genome sequencing was used to examine the diversity of the poorly characterized multi-host pathogen Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. Initially prompted by an investigation into large-scale muskox (Ovibos moschatus wardi) mortalities in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago associated with E. rhusiopathiae, the population structure and genomic variability of this bacterium were determined, while accounting for homologous recombination. This provided a framework within which to investigate the diversity of E. rhusiopathiae in muskoxen, caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and moose (Alces alces), yielding important insights for delineating outbreaks and inferring transmission. In conclusion, this thesis clearly demonstrated the value of integrating molecular and genomic tools into wildlife health monitoring, including heightened pathogen detection, understanding multi-host diseases, and determining microbial diversity for interpreting outbreaks. Ultimately, as part of a multidisciplinary approach to studying wildlife health, these tools will greatly enhance our understanding of microbial diversity and epidemiology, and provide critical new knowledge to promote evidence-based wildlife conservation and management.
Essays on the Economics of Safe Consumption Sites
Creators: name: Berrigan, Patrick
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: In many countries, opioid overdoses are a substantial public health issue. Safe consumption sites are facilities where people who use drugs are provided with medical supervision while consuming drugs to reverse overdoses. Though safe consumption sites can reduce drug related adverse events, these facilities are not always welcomed in the communities where they are established. This public opposition can represent a barrier to the development and operation of sites. As a result, this thesis aimed to investigate current knowledge gaps that represent barriers to the establishment of safe consumption sites with respect to public opposition. Specifically, this thesis conducted a discrete choice experiment, described in Chapter 4, to determine the attributes of safe consumption sites that are correlated with public preferences for these facilitates. With respect to findings, the discrete choice experiment identified a set of attributes for safe consumption sites that influence public support for these facilities. Specifically, survey respondents disliked sites that increased cost to the healthcare system. Additionally, survey respondents preferred sites that were better able to reduce fatal overdoses, that could reduce improperly discarded needles, and that were accompanied by policies that provided compensation to individuals living near sites. This thesis also conducted a difference in differences analysis to assess the effectiveness of mobile versus brick & mortar safe consumption sites in preventing drug-related mortality, described in Chapter 5. It has been suggested that mobile sites are more acceptable to the public than brick & mortar facilities. If mobile sites are not less effective than brick & mortar facilities than mobile sites could represent a less controversial approach to safe consumption. The primary analysis of the difference in differences analysis did not find a significant association between drug related mortality and safe consumption site type, suggesting that mobile sites were not less effective than brick & mortar sites. However, several sensitivity analyses found results that conflicted with those of the primary analysis. When taken together, the findings of the primary and sensitivity analyses suggested that the optimal site type may be dependent on jurisdictional factors. As a result, policymakers who aim to develop sites should conduct jurisdictional specific research prior to implementation, to identify the optimal site type for the targeted community. To facilitate these two quantitative chapters literature reviews were conducted that are presented in Chapters 2 & 3.
How to Help Older Adults Navigate Through VR? Effects in Outdoor–Indoor Transition Environments
Creators: name: Zuo, Yanling
name: Zhou, Jia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: In more complex outdoor–indoor transition scenarios, people were more prone to getting lost due to difficulties in effectively integrating proprioceptive cues and external navigation cues. Previous research had mostly focused on spatial perception driven by head or limb movements, with less discussion on locomotion methods that involved significant visual discrepancies. The challenge in designing navigation systems lies in balancing the enhancement of wayfinding performance with the potential negative impact on spatial cognition. We believe that navigation legibility might be a key optimization approach. Additionally, the differences in performance between different age groups were also worth investigating. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how locomotion methods and navigation legibility affected wayfinding performance, navigation interaction, navigation regression, and spatial cognition in younger and older adults during outdoor–indoor transition scenarios. Twenty-four younger (aged 19–27) and 24 older adults (aged 60–83) underwent VR wayfinding tasks. Participants initially followed virtual phone navigation from outdoor starting points to indoor endpoints, then drew cognitive route maps. Five main findings emerged: Continuous teleportation positively affected navigation performance and global representation of routes. Improving navigation legibility boosted navigation interaction, navigation regression, and global representation of routes. Older adults engaged more in navigation interaction but less in navigation regression, exhibiting poorer performance and route representation. Location-specific differences were observed in locomotion, legibility, and age effects. Furthermore, most older adults and over half of younger adults displayed a deflection effect based on outdoor–indoor (OI) space in route representation. These findings indicated that continuous teleportation and enhanced navigation legibility could improve user experience and spatial cognition, highlighting the importance of considering user age and the characteristics of outdoor–indoor transition scenarios when optimizing navigation methods.
NetFlix and Twitch Traffic Characterization
Creators: name: Laterman, Michel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Network
subject: measurement
subject: NetFlix
subject: Twitch
subject: video-streaming
subject: DASH

description: Streaming video content is the largest contributor to inbound network traffic at the University of Calgary. Over five months, from December 2014 - April 2015, over 2.7 petabytes of traffic on 49 billion connections was observed. This thesis presents traffic characterizations for two large video streaming services, namely NetFlix and Twitch. These two services contribute a significant portion of inbound bytes. NetFlix provides TV series and movies on demand. Twitch offers live streaming of video game play. These services share many characteristics, including asymmetric connections, content delivery mechanisms, and content popularity patterns. This thesis sheds light on the usage of modern video streaming services on an edge network. It's one of only a few studies to utilize long-term network-level data. To the best of our knowledge, it's one of the first studies that uses network-level data for Twitch traffic characterization, and content characterization for NetFlix and Twitch.
Comparing Soft Computing Techniques For Early Stage Software Development Effort Estimations
Creators: name: Bhatnagar, Roheet
name: Ghose, Mrinal Kanti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurately estimating the software size, cost, effort and schedule is probably the biggest challenge facing software developers today. It has major implications for the management of software development because both the overestimates and underestimates have direct impact for causing damage to software companies. Lot of models have been proposed over the years by various researchers for carrying out effort estimations. Also some of the studies for early stage effort estimations suggest the importance of early estimations. New paradigms offer alternatives to estimate the software development effort, in particular the Computational Intelligence (CI) that exploits mechanisms of interaction between humans and processes domain knowledge with the intention of building intelligent systems (IS). Among IS, Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic are the two most popular soft computing techniques for software development effort estimation. In this paper neural network models and Mamdani FIS model have been used to predict the early stage effort estimations using the student dataset. It has been found that Mamdani FIS was able to predict the early stage efforts more efficiently in comparison to the neural network models based models.
description: 09 PAGES
Quantum-size effects on chemisorption properties: CO on Cu ultrathin films
Creators: name: Mouketo, L.
name: Binggeli, N.
name: M'Passi-Mabiala, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address, by means of ab-initio calculations, the origin of the correlation that has been observed experimentally between the chemisorption energy of CO on nanoscale Cu(001) supported films and quantum-size effects. The calculated chemisorption energy shows systematic oscillations, as a function of film thickness, with a periodicity corresponding to that of quantum-well states at the surface-Brillouin-zone center crossing the Fermi energy. We explain this trend based on the oscillations, with film thickness, of the decay length on the vacuum side of the quantum-well states at the Fermi energy. Contrary to previous suggestions, we find that the actual oscillations with film thickness of the density of states per atom of the film at the Fermi energy cannot account for the observed trend in the chemisorption energy.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Blood Plasma Trigonelline Concentration and the Early Prognosis of Death in SARS-Cov-2 Patients
Creators: name: Besharati, Mohammad Reza
name: Izadi, Mohammad
name: Alireza Talebpour
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Trigonelline, SARS-Cov-2, COVID-19, Blood Plasma, Prognosis of Death, Nicotinate, Nicotinic Acid, Methyl Nicotinate, Nicotinamide Riboside, Nicotinuric Acid

description: Blood Plasma Trigonelline Concentration and the Early Prognosis of Death in SARS-Cov-2 Patients
Bending of electric field lines and light-ray trajectories in a static gravitational field
Creators: name: Singal, Ashok K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the light-ray trajectories follow a curved path in a gravitational field. This has been confirmed observationally where light rays coming from distant astronomical objects are seen to get bent in Sun's gravitational field. We explore here the bending of electric field lines due to gravity. We determine, from a theoretical perspective, not only the exact shapes of the bent trajectories of light rays, emitted isotropically by a source supported in a gravitational field, but also demonstrate that the electric field lines of a charge, supported in a gravitational field, follow exactly the trajectories of light rays emitted isotropically from a source at the charge location. From a detailed examination of the electrostatic field of a charge accelerated uniformly in the instantaneous rest frame, exploiting the strong principle of equivalence, we determine the bending of the electric field lines of a charge in a gravitational field. The fraction of electric field lines crossing a surface, stationary above or below the charge in the gravitational field, are shown to be exactly similar to the fraction of light-ray trajectories intersecting that surface, emanating from a source lying at the charge location. On the other hand, for a freely falling charge in the gravitational field there is no such bending of electric field lines. The field lines continue to extend in radial straight lines from the instantaneous 'present' position of the charge, as do the trajectories of light rays spreading away from the instantaneous position of a freely falling source in the gravitational field. The electric field configuration of a freely falling charge in the gravitational field is shown to be exactly the same as that of a charge moving uniformly in an inertial frame with velocity equal to the instantaneous ``present'' velocity of the freely falling charge.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Fine-Grained Quantum Uncertainty Relations
Creators: name: Poostindouz, Alireza
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics--Theory
subject: Heisenberg 's Uncertainty Principle
subject: Quantum Measurements
subject: Uncertainty Relations
subject: Entropy
subject: Majorization
subject: Information Theory

description: Quantum theory predicts an inherent joint unpredictability for some pairs of measurements. For example, Heisenberg showed that the more precisely the position of a quantum particle is known, the less precisely its momentum can be known and vice versa. Uncertainty relations (URs) are mathematical expressions quantifying the constraints between the output probability distributions of the given sets of measurements. Typically, URs are expressed in terms of uncertainty quantifiers such as entropies. Based on an information-theoretic approach, we discovered a characterization that unifies all uncertainty quantifiers and thus, generalizes a large class of URs into a single framework. We also prove new URs that are fundamentally different from typical URs in that they are fine-grained; i.e. they set restrictions directly on the output probability distributions without using any particular uncertainty quantifiers. We used Majorization theory and other techniques such as matrix analysis to prove our fine-grained uncertainty relations.
Steady-state fluctuations of a genetic feedback loop: an exact solution
Creators: name: Grima, R.
name: Schmidt, D. R.
name: Newman, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Genetic feedback loops in cells break detailed balance and involve bimolecular reactions; hence exact solutions revealing the nature of the stochastic fluctuations in these loops are lacking. We here consider the master equation for a gene regulatory feedback loop: a gene produces protein which then binds to the promoter of the same gene and regulates its expression. The protein degrades in its free and bound forms. This network breaks detailed balance and involves a single bimolecular reaction step. We provide an exact solution of the steady-state master equation for arbitrary values of the parameters, and present simplified solutions for a number of special cases. The full parametric dependence of the analytical non-equilibrium steady-state probability distribution is verified by direct numerical solution of the master equations. For the case where the degradation rate of bound and free protein is the same, our solution is at variance with a previous claim of an exact solution (Hornos et al, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 72}, 051907 (2005) and subsequent studies). We show explicitly that this is due to an unphysical formulation of the underlying master equation in those studies.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics (2012)
Where Canadian social work educators situate the natural environment – an exploration
Creators: name: Burns, Deborah M.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social Work
subject: Education
subject: Environment
subject: Ecological
subject: Mixed-Methods

description: This study explores the level of importance and the degree of inclusion social work educators give to the natural environment in Canadian social work university courses and curricula. Social work education and environmental intersections are explored through the reports submitted by 121 Canadian university social work educators who constitute this exploratory study’s sample group. Their responses to an on-line survey provide preliminary insight into the importance and inclusion they assign the natural environment in the courses they teach and addresses both supports and constraints that influence their curriculum planning. The information gleaned from this pilot study points to possible next steps for curriculum development as well as directions for more complex and in-depth research.
Entropy as logarithmic term of the central charge and modified Friedmann equation in AdS/CFT correspondence
Creators: name: Bousder, M.
name: Salmani, E.
name: Ez-Zahraouy, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is about the extended thermodynamics of AdS black holes and its relation to CFT thermodynamics. The logarithmic term of the central charge is interpreted as black hole entropy. We have obtain a modified Friedmann equation from the Smarr formula. We find that the AdS radius is the critical shadow radius. We obtain the Hawking-Bekenstein formula with logarithmic corrections, which depends on the central charge. The real gas in AdS is a dual of an ideal gas in CFT. This work can be extended to the AdS-Kerr black holes.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures
The origin, ecology and reef-building contribution of Late Paleozoic Palaeoaplysina in Nunavut, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Creators: name: Anderson, Kaylee
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Palaeoaplysina
subject: Sverdrup
subject: Nunavut

description: Palaeoaplysina was a major component of Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian reef build-ups along northwestern Pangea, however the paleoecology and geologic contributions of this macrofossil remain poorly understood. A coarse inner and fine outer cellular skeleton suggests Palaeoaplysina was an ancestral Rhodophyte. Two palaeoaplysinid forms are identified in the Sverdrup Basin, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic, including a new anatomically simpler Moscovian-Kasimovian form. Palaeoaplysina is identified as inhabiting both the back-reef and reef front environments within the Nansen Formation at West Blind Fiord on SW Ellesmere Island. This reef complex is interpreted to have four growth stages, including a major coalesced keep-up reef phase. Palaeoaplysina is interpreted to have acted in the reef as a horizontal sediment binder, encruster, trap and hard substrate for encrustation. Russian Palaeoaplysina reefs act as major petroleum reservoirs and further understanding of the formation and distribution of these reefs is important for identifying exploration potential in the arctic.