cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document from Perspective: sustainability challenges, opportunities and solutions for long-term ecosystem observations
Creators: name: Mori, Akira S.
name: Suzuki, Kureha F.
name: Hori, Masakazu
name: Kadoya, Taku
name: Okano, Kotaro
name: Uraguchi, Aya
name: Muraoka, Hiroyuki
name: Sato, Tamotsu
name: Shibata, Hideaki
name: Suzuki-Ohno, Yukari
name: Koba, Keisuke
name: Toda, Mariko
name: Nakano, Shin-ichi
name: Kondoh, Michio
name: Kitajima, Kaoru
name: Nakamura, Masahiro
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figure S1-2
Aspectos da luta política e do republicanismo no contexto da diocese do Algarve
Creators: name: Duarte, Afonso Da Cunha
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: A implantação da República no Algarve reflecte o rescaldo das lutas fratricidas do século XIX entre os partidários da fação de D. Pedro e de D. Miguel. O clero religioso e secular tomara parte na luta partidária e a Igreja no Algarve ficou totalmente desorganizada. A evangelização deixou de se fazer. Quando se implantou a República, uma parte dos que se diziam de cristãos eram anticlericais. D. António Barbosa Leão não ignorou a crítica política da situação reinante e a dicotomia dos que se diziam cristãos. Perante o mutismo e o encolher de ombros de muitos, enalteceu todos aqueles que espontaneamente, apesar das ameaças e opressões, viviam a fé. Evitou que se repetissem comportamentos e atitudes do século XIX. Não permitiu que o clero se intrometesse na política. Perante roubos e assaltos aos bens da Igreja e da perseguição feroz ao clero, diante do rol de acusações e discursos anticlericais, a Igreja no Algarve vai contrapor com uma nova evangelização, com realizações sociais e culturais e deixa de lado o discurso e o palavreado estéril e caceteiro. D. António Barbosa Leão fez da pena uma espada e defendeu a verdade como se defende a vida. Apesar de todos os dissabores e perseguições, defendeu os sacerdotes perseguidos, condenou o laicismo exacerbado e acabou por cantar vitória por se ter libertado do regalismo. O porta‑voz foi o jornal diocesano Boletim do Algarve.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 24 (2011): A República: Resistências e Acatamento a Nível Local
On the Clustering of Sub-millimeter Galaxies
Creators: name: Williams, Christina C.
name: Giavalisco, Mauro
name: Porciani, Cristiano
name: Yun, Min S.
name: Pope, Alexandra
name: Scott, Kimberly S.
name: Austermann, Jason E.
name: Aretxaga, Itziar
name: Hatsukade, Bunyo
name: Lee, Kyoung-Soo
name: Wilson, Grant W.
name: Cybulski, J. Ryan
name: Hughes, David H.
name: Kawabe, Ryo
name: Kohno, Kotaro
name: Perera, Thushara
name: Schloerb, F. Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the angular two-point correlation function of sub-millimeter galaxies (SMGs) from 1.1-millimeter imaging of the COSMOS field with the AzTEC camera and ASTE 10-meter telescope. These data yields one of the largest contiguous samples of SMGs to date, covering an area of 0.72 degrees^2 down to a 1.26 mJy/beam (1-sigma) limit, including 189 (328) sources with S/N greater than 3.5 (3). We can only set upper limits to the correlation length r_0, modeling the correlation function as a power-law with pre-assigned slope. Assuming existing redshift distributions, we derive 68.3% confidence level upper limits of r_0 < 6-8 h^-1 Mpc at 3.7 mJy, and r_0 < 11-12 h^-1 Mpc at 4.2 mJy. Although consistent with most previous estimates, these upper limits imply that the real r_0 is likely smaller. This casts doubts on the robustness of claims that SMGs are characterized by significantly stronger spatial clustering, (and thus larger mass), than differently selected galaxies at high-redshift. Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that even strongly clustered distributions of galaxies can appear unclustered when sampled with limited sensitivity and coarse angular resolution common to current sub-millimeter surveys. The simulations, however, also show that unclustered distributions can appear strongly clustered under these circumstances. From the simulations, we predict that at our survey depth, a mapped area of two degrees^2 is needed to reconstruct the correlation function, assuming smaller beam sizes of future surveys (e.g. the Large Millimeter Telescope's 6" beam size). At present, robust measures of the clustering strength of bright SMGs appear to be below the reach of most observations.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Dynamic elastography with finite element-based inversion
Creators: name: Honarvar, Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Tissue stiffness is often correlated to its pathological state and can be used as a basis for initial recognition of many tissue abnormalities. The term elastography refers to the class of medical imaging techniques that non-invasively measure the viscoelastic properties of soft tissue. Elastography involves deforming the tissue using an exciter, measuring the deformations using an imaging technique such as ultrasound (US) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and then calculating the tissue elasticity distribution by solving an inverse problem. The focus of this thesis is on the inverse problem. Specifically, this thesis studies the inverse problem of elastography using direct finite element methods under the condition of applying continuous harmonic excitation to measure the absolute value of the elasticity. First, the “mixed-FEM” inversion technique that solves for both the shear modulus and the pressure is considered. Different regularization techniques are investigated for this method. New sparsity and strain-based regularization techniques, which improve the accuracy, robustness to noise, and speed of the reconstruction, are developed. A comparison of the iterative and direct FEM techniques is performed using simulations. The results show the superiority of the direct method over the iterative method. In order to reduce the number of unknowns, the pressure parameters are removed using the curl operator in a new curl-based direct FEM technique (c-FEM). In this technique, unlike in all previous curl-based methods, the local homogeneity assumption is not used. One of the main observations of this thesis is the importance of the deleterious effect of the tissue homogeneity assumption on the reconstruction results for regions with large variations in the elasticity of the region. A new simplified direct FEM technique without the homogeneity assumption (shear-FEM) is also developed for cases where only partial displacement data is available, such as in US elastography. It is shown that using multi-frequency excitations in both c-FEM and shear-FEM techniques is beneficial by providing multiple measurements of the shear waves and reducing the problem of low-amplitude nodes. To conclude the thesis, the methods developed in this thesis, plus two other established reconstruction algorithms, are compared using simulations, phantoms, ex-vivo and in-vivo data.
Os alevantes populares na Primeira República: Continente, Açores e Madeira, 1910 -17
Creators: name: Carvalho, David Luna De
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Apresenta-se, de modo resumido, a tipologia, quantificação, seriação, cartografia e análise dos tumultos, levantes ou alevantes com que a República se deparou entre 1910 e 1917. Com os mais variados pretextos, a grande maioria destes levantes envolveram razões de natureza político-religiosa. A laicização do Estado e da vida pública constituíram o principal motivo dessas resistências abertas e quando, em 1914, já se dissipavam, eclodiu a Primeira Grande Guerra. Com o seu advento, surgiu um novo ciclo de levantes, agora com pretextos de natureza económica e social. Nesse contexto, no quadro de uma «economia moral» advogada pelas populações, a teologia rigorista das missões populares, implementadas a partir da segunda metade do século XIX, parece ter encontrado a sua grande justificação. A partir de 1916 houve relatos de um número invulgar de aparições que culminaram nas de Fátima em 1917.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 24 (2011): A República: Resistências e Acatamento a Nível Local
Additional file 3: of The heterotrimeric G protein Î˛ subunit RGB1 is required for seedling formation in rice
Creators: name: Gao, Yun
name: Gu, Houwen
name: Leburu, Mamotshewa
name: Li, Xuhui
name: Wang, Yan
name: Sheng, Jiayan
name: Fang, Huimin
name: Gu, Minghong
name: Liang, Guohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S3. Induction of RGB1 expression by NAA and measurements of the concentrations of endogenous hormones in the rgb1 mutant and WT. (a) Relative expression of RGB1 in 7-day-old wild-type seedlings grown in mock medium and in medium supplemented with 10 ÎźM NAA. (b-f) Mass spectrometric measurements of different endogenous hormones in the embryos of 3-day-old seedlings. (b) IAA, (c) BRs, (d) IPA, (e) ABA, (f) GA3. (DOCX 2663 kb)
Diagnosis & disruption : understanding guideline-consistent dementia care and patterns of transitions experienced by individuals with dementia
Creators: name: Sivananthan, Saskia Nikali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Introduction Early detection and management, as outlined in dementia guidelines, can improve outcomes and potentially reduce the number of transitions experienced between care-facilities. The objectives of this thesis were to : conduct a critical assessment of the literature on actual versus guideline-consistent dementia care; use population-level data to examine variations in receipt of guideline-consistent dementia care; understand longitudinal patterns of transitions and the factors that contribute to transitions; and assess if receipt of guideline-consistent dementia care and/or high quality primary care are associated with the number of transitions experienced. Method Population-level administrative data in British Columbia were used to identify cohorts of individuals newly diagnosed with dementia in 2001/02 and 2009/10. Dementia guidelines were used to characterize clinical care individuals could receive. The proportion of patients diagnosed with dementia in 2009/10 who received guideline-consistent dementia care and the probability that patient characteristics affected the likelihood of receiving each process was assessed. Those diagnosed with dementia in 2001/02 were followed forward 10-years after the first point of diagnosis and points of care when transitions were highest as well as factors that contribute to those transitions were assessed. The association of receipt of guideline-consistent dementia care and/or high quality primary care with the number of transitions experienced in the year of diagnosis was assessed using negative binomial regression. Results Older patients were less likely to receive guideline-consistent dementia care. A quarter of the cohort received an antipsychotic or non-recommended benzodiazepine. Individuals living within rural health-authorities or of low income were more likely to receive antipsychotic treatment. Transitions were highest in the year of diagnosis and at end-of-life, driven by acute hospitalizations. Higher morbidity, living within rural health-authorities, and having behavioural symptoms associated with dementia were strongly associated with the number of transitions experienced. Lastly, receipt of guideline-consistent dementia care and high quality primary care, independently, were associated with fewer transitions across care settings. Conclusion Patterns of inequality by age and income may signal barriers to guideline-consistent dementia care. The spike in transitions in the year following diagnosis highlights a distressing period for individuals with dementia, but suggests a useful target for interventions.
Casimir effect in the scattering approach: correlations between material properties, temperature and geometry
Creators: name: Lambrecht, Astrid
name: Canaguier-Durand, Antoine
name: Guérout, Romain
name: Reynaud, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present calculations of the quantum and thermal Casimir interaction between real mirrors in electromagnetic fields using the scattering approach. We begin with a pedagogical introduction of this approach in simple cases where the scattering is specular. We then discuss the more general case of stationary arbitrarily shaped mirrors and present in particular applications to two geometries of interest for experiments, that is corrugated plates and the plane-sphere geometry. The results nicely illustrate the rich correlations existing between material properties, temperature and geometry in the Casimir effect.
Understanding geographic variation in health care costs in British Columbia
Creators: name: Lavergne, Miriam Ruth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Amidst concerns about escalating health spending, examining variation in health care delivery may reveal opportunities for improved efficiency. Influential research in the United States (US) has concluded that health care spending and service use vary substantially from place to place, and this cannot be explained by differences in the health status of populations or by better outcomes of care in higher-spending regions. Whether similar patterns exist in Canada is not clear. This thesis uses administrative health data to examine how and why health care use and costs vary within the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). We developed networks of patients, physicians, and hospitals that correspond to actual service use, in order to ensure that observation of variation was not obscured by unit of analysis. We also identified areas of the province representing distinct health service environments, as an improvement over existing urban/rural classifications in understanding the role of geographic context. Access to individual-level data allowed more complete adjustment for population characteristics than is typically possible. In contrast to the US, this thesis suggests that variation in costs of physician and hospital services in BC is largely explained by population health status. The very different environments for health services that exist among metropolitan, non-metropolitan, and remote regions of the province also explained some area-level variation. Despite modest variation in total costs, there are clear differences in patterns of service use across the province due to substitution between categories of care (such as inpatient and outpatient, or generalist and specialist services). Though differences in costs are modest, marked differences in health outcomes are evident, and require further scrutiny. Results show there are no areas with systematically higher volume or more intensive service provision for populations with similar health needs. However, this does not mean that important variation does not exist and cannot be uncovered. It may be that examining variation at the level of provider, among population groups, or in treatment for specific diseases or conditions will yield more actionable results. Ultimately policy reforms aimed at system-wide quality and efficiency, rather than targeted at high-spending regions, will likely prove most promising.
A resistência e o acatamento à República no seio do clero português
Creators: name: Moura, Maria Lúcia De Brito
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Resistências e acatamentos não podem ser ponderados como realidades circunscritas e antagónicas. Onde termina o acatamento e se delineia a resistência? Se entre os membros do chamado alto clero parece existir um relativo consenso quanto ao modelo de actuação, no respeitante ao clero mais dependente a zona de fronteira entre os que acatam as normas republicanas e os que a elas resistem expande‑se por um espaço muito difuso onde têm cabimento pensionistas e não pensionistas (poderíamos mesmo alargar a republicanos e monárquicos). Interesses económicos, solidariedades e dependências, maior ou menor “vanguardismo” das autoridades locais, pressões desencontradas, cruzam‑se numa multiplicidade de matizes que não é legítimo escamotear ou simplificar. Em numerosas ocasiões, as clivagens políticas do tempo da Monarquia – onde, não raramente, o padre constituía uma peça fundamental nas guerras entre clientelas eleitorais – retemperaram‑se no regime nascente, em que o novo ordenamento proporcionava oportunidades de ajustes de contas que tinham como alvo esse padre ex‑influente encarado agora, por razões que não se restringem ao político, como símbolo de todo um passado que se repudiava.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 24 (2011): A República: Resistências e Acatamento a Nível Local
MPEC 2024-S49 : 2024 SO
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 SO

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Diverse mechanisms of transcription regulation by RNA polymerase II in saccharomyces ceresisiae
Creators: name: Aristizabal, Maria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Transcription is the process by which information encoded in the DNA is read by the cell. RNAPII is a key enzyme in this process and it contains a unique and functionally conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) composed of heptapeptide repeats. The CTD plays essential roles in the coordination of transcription events, which is is mediated by its ability to be differentially modified throughout the transcription cycle. As such, a number of CTD modifying enzymes act at different stages on the CTD, including the phosphatase Fcp1, which associates with RNAPII along the length of transcribed genes and plays key roles in transcription elongation and recycling. In addition to the modification status, both CTD sequence and length are important for normal function. This thesis focuses on understanding the role of the RNAPII-CTD and its modifying enzyme, Fcp1, in gene expression and in understanding how the CTD and the process of transcription contribute to genome instability. We found clear evidence that despite their general role in transcription both CTD length and Fcp1 function have gene-specific effects on transcription. In particular, we show that truncation of the CTD results in an increasing number of transcriptional defects. These defects resulted primarily from changes in initiation and were suppressed by loss of a previously reported CTD suppressor, CDK8. Additionally, our work on Fcp1 mutants provides a framework for exploring a general role for Fcp1 in the regulation of transcription factors. Furthermore, we find that truncating the CTD also resulted in altered expression of mobile genetic elements, a previously unreported phenotype. Here, we show that loss of CDK8 was able to suppress the increased expression of retrotransposons, expanding our understanding of retrotransposon regulation in vivo. We also find that this effect is mediated by the transcription factors Ste12 and Tec1 and that loss of either of these can suppress growth and retrotransposon expression defects of CTD truncation mutants. Finally, we report the genome-wide distribution of DNA:RNA hybrids in S. cerevisiae. By comparing this profile to that of mutants in genes encoding RNA or DNA:RNA hybrid processing factors, we show differential effects on DNA:RNA hybrid abundance and localization.
L’impact de la Séparation dans la réalité diocésaine française
Creators: name: Guilbaud, Mathilde
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: La loi de séparation de 1905 s’inscrit dans une logique de rupture très nette, en mettant fin simultanément au Concordat et à la politique anticléricale de contrôle de l’Église par l’État. L’entrée en application de la loi, au mois de décembre 1906, fait craindre une grave crise politico‑religieuse. En réalité, l’apaisement recherché simultanément par le clergé et par les autorités locales permet à la vie paroissiale de se poursuivre sans changement majeur avec la période précédente. La séparation a pourtant entraîné deux ruptures importantes et durables pour l’Église de France, la liberté et la pauvreté. Pour édifier l’autonomie matérielle de leurs diocèses, les évêques sont contraints de s’appuyer sur les laïcs, qui prennent après 1905 une place nouvelle au sein de l’Église de France. Mais la liberté acquise par les évêques pour la gestion du clergé et du territoire diocésain se heurte à la force de résistance du clergé et des populations, imprégnés des habitudes concordataires.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 24 (2011): A República: Resistências e Acatamento a Nível Local
Some remarks on structural matrix rings and matrices with ideal entries
Creators: name: Foldes, Stephan
name: Meletiou, Gerasimos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15B99, 16S50 (Primary) 06A11, 06A75 (Secondary)

description: Associating to each pre-order on the indices 1,...,n the corresponding structural matrix ring, or incidence algebra, embeds the lattice of n-element pre-orders into the lattice of n x n matrix rings. Rings within the order-convex hull of the embedding, i.e. matrix rings that contain the ring of diagonal matrices, can be viewed as incidence algebras of ideal-valued, generalized pre-order relations. Certain conjugates of the upper or lower triangular matrix rings correspond to the various linear orderings of the indices, and the incidence algebras of partial orderings arise as intersections of such conjugate matrix rings.
description: Corrections, added references
National Institute of Mental Health Depression of Alzheimer Disease : assessment and diagnostic validity studies using depression scales developed for older adults
Creators: name: Sepehry, Amir Ali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The Lancet published a large multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial of noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressant (NSSA) and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI) for depression in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) suggesting that these compounds have no clinical benefit [Banerjee et al 2011]. We felt that it might be premature to suggest that the use of all antidepressant treatments is ineffective [Sepehry et al 2012]. In response, we ran a meta-analysis examining the evidence for the use of SSRIs for treatment of depression co-occurring with AD [Sepehry et al 2012, see Appendix N]. This study suggested that treatment effects are potentially assessment dependent, and provided the motivation for the current examination of depression diagnostic criteria and assessment/screening scales for AD. A literature search showed that Provisional Diagnostic Criteria for depression of AD (PDC-dAD) was proposed to diagnose depression in AD. Their validity has not been established, yet they have been used in epidemiological studies and clinical trials. Likewise, no study examined short and easy to use screening measures with comparable collateral version’s validity and utility for use with the PDC-dAD. Hence, I set these as my goals : to examine the validity-evidence of the PDC-dAD followed by simultaneous examination of the reliability (internal consistency), utility, and validity (content, construct, and concurrent) of screening measures already validated for use with older adults, for use with the PDC-dAD. Thus, the literature around depression in older adults and in AD was reviewed to improve understanding of the importance of investigating depression and its diagnostic/assessment approaches. Briefly, the result of the validity studies showed that, first, the PDC-dAD are the best that exist to date for diagnosing depression in AD; however it needs optimization. Second, screening measures developed for depression in older adults, including the collateral version, are psychometrically acceptable (valid and reliable) allowing for adequate screening of mild to mildly-moderate AD for dAD; however, the collateral version was the most valid given its psychometric properties, particularly, positive predictive value, specificity, and clinical accuracy for use with the PDC. Hence, recommendations are made for the use of the screening scales with the PDC and for future research.
title: The role of combustion science and technology in low and zero impact energy transformation processes
Creators: name: Dreizler, Andreas
name: Pitsch, Heinz
name: Scherer, Viktor
name: Schulz, Christof
name: Janicka, Johannes
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021

description: Predictions made by climate researchers are highly worrisome and demand rapid action to avoid the threat of climate catastrophe. Global energy systems must be transformed as quickly as possible by minimising or avoiding net greenhouse gas emissions. There is broad agreement on this goal, demonstrated by international treaties such as the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and the European Green Deal presented in 2019. However, the practical measures required for the transition are the subject of heated discussion. Consensus on the goal, dissent on the pathway is how the situation can be summarized. This opinion article aims to bring engineering sciences into the centre of the discussion. We are concerned that technological options that are important for our society from an ecological and economic point of view are being neglected. We plead for competition between all technological solutions to reach the goals in the best possible way and to consider feasibility, ease of transition, and economical and societal aspects. We are convinced that the thermochemical utilisation of chemical energy carriers is an important component of future energy systems and is key to enabling climate neutrality. Biogenic and synthetic carbonaceous and carbon-free chemical energy carriers will be indispensable for reliable power generation and energy supply for mobility, industry, and buildings. This opinion article is the result of intensive discussions between a group of more than fifty internationally renowned researchers who are scientifically engaged in thermofluids and energy process engineering. With this article we express our plea: Let us consider all options and explore new ideas that will move us towards a climate-neutral energy system!
AMARAL, Ana Filomena Leite – Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo: os anos da Juventude Universitária Católica Feminina (1952-1956). Coimbra: Almedina, 2009, 270 p.
Creators: name: Soares, David
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 23 (2011): Clero, Doutrinação e Disciplinamento
SoC Software Components Diagnosis Technology
Creators: name: Chumachenko, Svetlana
name: Gharibi, Wajeb
name: Hahanova, Anna
name: Sushanov, Aleksey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A novel approach to evaluation of hardware and software testability, represented in the form of register transfer graph, is proposed. Instances of making of software graph models for their subsequent testing and diagnosis are shown.
description: 4 pages
The role of apolipoprotein E in recovery from traumatic brain injury and development of CHIMERA : a novel closed-head impact model of engineered rotational acceleration
Creators: name: Namjoshi, Dhananjay Rajaram
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a “silent epidemic” that currently lacks any effective treatment. While a major health care problem in itself, TBI also increases Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk and leads to the deposition of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid deposits similar to those found in AD. Agonists of Liver X receptors (LXRs), which regulate the expression of many genes involved in lipid homeostasis and inflammation, improve cognition and reduce neuropathology in AD mice. One pathway by which LXR agonists exert their beneficial effects is through ATP-binding cassette transporter A1-mediated lipid transport onto apolipoprotein E (apoE). In the first part of this thesis, I show that a short-term treatment with synthetic LXR agonist GW3965 improves post-injury outcomes in mice subjected to closed-head, mild, repetitive weight drop TBI (mrTBI). My results suggest that both apoE-dependent and apoE-independent pathways contribute to the ability of GW3965 to promote recovery from mrTBI. While many drugs have shown promising outcomes in preclinical TBI models, clinical drug trials for TBI so far have failed, suggesting that the translational potential of TBI models may require further improvement. As most human TBIs result from impact to an intact skull, closed head injury (CHI) rodent models are highly relevant. Traditional CHI models like weight drop however suffer from large experimental variability that may be due to poor control over biomechanical inputs. To address this caveat we developed a novel CHI model called CHIMERA (Closed-Head Impact Model of Engineered Rotational Acceleration) that fully integrates biomechanical, behavioral, and neuropathological analyses. CHIMERA is distinct from existing neurotrauma model systems in that it uses a completely non-surgical procedure to precisely deliver impacts of prescribed dynamic characteristics to a closed skull while enabling kinematic analysis of unconstrained head movement. Here I show that repeated TBI in mice using CHIMERA mimics many features of the human TBI including neurological, motor, and cognitive deficits along with persistent neuroinflammation and diffuse axonal injury, and increased endogenous tau phosphorylation up to 14 days with a reliable biomechanical response of the head. This makes CHIMERA well suited to investigate the pathophysiology of TBI and for drug development programs.
Spectral tunneling of lattice nonlocal solitons
Creators: name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address spectral tunneling of walking spatial solitons in photorefractive media with nonlocal diffusion of the nonlinear response and an imprinted shallow optical lattice. In contrast to materials with local nonlinearities, where solitons travelling across the lattice close to the Bragg angle suffer large radiative losses, in photorefractive media with diffusion nonlinearity resulting in self-bending solitons survive when their propagation angle approaches and even exceeds the Bragg angle. In the spatial frequency domain this effect can be considered as tunneling through the band of spatial frequencies centered around the Bragg frequency where the spatial group velocity dispersion is positive.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Physical Review A
title: From Floor to Ceiling Crowded Shelves: Writing About Reading
Creators: name: Watson, Susan
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2021

description: All writers should begin by reading.  In this thesis I have explored ways of writing about reading through the process of writing my own poems and short prose pieces and through my readings of the work of the Canadian poet and academic Anne Carson.

The poems and prose pieces conduct a conversation with the work of writers who have been significant figures in my own history as a reader.  These writers include D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and Sir Thomas Malory.  Many of the pieces reflect on the experience of reading itself: the intellectual, analytical, and critical readings occurring alongside the more instinctive and personal responses.

My critical thesis focuses on the conversations that Anne Carson has entered into with other writers.  The close reading and re-reading necessitated by scholarly translation has engaged Carson in creative collaborations with classical writers such as Sappho and Stesichoros.  It has also resulted in formal experiments that cross traditional genre boundaries.  Carson’s long narrative poem ‘The Glass Essay’ examines the work of close reading and demonstrates the process of reading both as recuperation and inspiration.

There is considerable risk involved in producing work of this kind.  It may baffle or alienate the reader, or it may give the impression that the writer is merely showing off their erudition.  But where creative writing about reading succeeds, it can engage the reader deeply.  Through my own close reading of Carson’s poems and lyric essays I demonstrate the different strategies by which she illuminates the full complexity and subtlety and redemptive power of literature and the reading process.
ABREU, Adélio Fernando – D. Américo Ferreira dos Santos Silva, Bispo do Porto (1871-1899): Igreja e Sociedade no Porto no Fim do Século XIX; e COELHO, Francisco Senra – D. Augusto Eduardo Nunes: professor de Coimbra, Arcebispo de Évora
Creators: name: Castro, Zília Osório De
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 23 (2011): Clero, Doutrinação e Disciplinamento
Visitors' conceptions and self-report of learning in museums
Creators: name: Trépanier, Gabrielle Andrée
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation questions and examines conceptions of learning underlying museum visitors’ responses to a self-report of learning questionnaire. The central problem addressed by this study is a lack of significant engagement in the museum visitor studies literature with the methodological implications of self-report methods; in particular their sensitivity to contextual factors and the ways in which instruments can themselves shape respondents’ accounting practices. The methods of investigation were grounded in phenomenographic research, an interpretivist approach oriented towards the description of how phenomena are conceptualized (Marton & Booth, 1997) and expressed (Anderberg, 2000; Säljö, 1997). Participants were invited to visit one of two museums, followed immediately by a self-report questionnaire. Once completed, a semi-directed interview was initiated to explore with respondents, as best possible, situated conceptions of learning used in the process of responding to the questionnaire. Through a hermeneutic process of transcription, analysis, and iterative categorizations 24 conceptions of learning were identified and organized into six main categories : learning as consuming facts and information, learning as cognitive acts, learning as embodied experiences, learning as behaviours and actions, learning as serendipitous, and learning as knowing about self and others. Discursive analyses of the transcripts also identified accounting practices and visitor self-concepts turning on low visitor responsibility for learning and the granting of considerable agency to the built environment. As a whole, the results affirm the need to include interpretivist and critical perspectives on the use of self-report methods within visitor studies and point to specific areas where more investigation is needed.
Final Supplement Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds RD Gregory from Drivers of the changing abundance of European birds at two spatial scales
Creators: name: Gregory, Richard D.
name: Eaton, Mark A.
name: Burfield, Ian J.
name: Grice, Philip V.
name: Howard, Christine
name: Klvaňová, Alena
name: Noble, David
name: Šilarová, Eva
name: Staneva, Anna
name: Stephens, Philip A.
name: Willis, Stephen G.
name: Woodward, Ian D.
name: Burns, Fiona
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: 1. Supporting online figures and tables (figures S1-S4 & tables S1-S7) & Supporting online text (text S1)
A close look at the Centaurus A group of galaxies II. Intermediate-age populations in early-type dwarfs
Creators: name: Crnojević, D.
name: Rejkuba, M.
name: Grebel, E. K.
name: Da Costa, G.
name: Jerjen, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the resolved stellar content of early-type dwarf galaxies in the CenA group, in order to estimate the fraction of their intermediate-age populations. We use near-infrared photometric data taken with the VLT/ISAAC instrument, together with previously analyzed archival HST/ACS data. The combination of the optical and infrared wavelength range permits us to firmly identify luminous asymptotic giant branch stars, which are indicative of an intermediate-age population in these galaxies. We consider one dwarf spheroidal (CenA-dE1) and two dwarf elliptical (SGC1319.1-4216 and ESO269-066) galaxies that are dominated by an old population. The most recent periods of star formation are estimated to have taken place between ~2 and ~5 Gyr ago for SGC1319.1-4216 and ESO269-066, and approximately 9 Gyr ago for CenA-dE1. For ESO269-066, we find that the intermediate-age populations are significantly more centrally concentrated than the predominantly old underlying stars. The intermediate-age population fraction is found to be low in the target galaxies (up to ~15% of the total population). These values could be higher by a factor of two or three, if we consider the observational limitations and the recent discussion about the uncertainties in theoretical models. We suggest that there is a correlation between intermediate-age population fraction and proximity to the dominant group galaxy, with closer dwarfs having slightly smaller such fractions, although our sample is too small to draw firm conclusions. Even when considering our results as lower limits, the intermediate-age population fractions for the studied dwarfs are clearly much lower than those found in similar dwarfs around the Milky Way, but comparable to what is seen for the low-mass M31 companions. Our results confirm the work by Rejkuba et al. (2006) about early-type dwarfs in the CenA group.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in A&A
Figure S2. Thin-section detrital zircon geochronology mitigates bias in provenance investigations
Creators: name: Zutterkirch, Isabel C.
name: Kirkland, Christopher L.
name: Barham, Milo
name: Elders, Chris
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Figure S2: Cumulative probability plot of concordant age data.
Behavioural measures of interference and facilitation in an audiovisual colour-word Stroop matching task
Creators: name: Bornstein, Ido Shlomo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Previous audiovisual Stroop studies used spoken colour-words mainly as ignored distractors when performing the visual Stroop task. Previous matching Stroop studies in the visual domain provided opposing views regarding whether interference effects resulted from conflicting semantic representations or conflicting responses. This study’s main objective was to explore how a written word distractor affects audiovisual matching of a spoken colour-word and font colour. I presented colour-words written in congruent or incongruent font colours simultaneously with spoken colour-words. Participants pressed buttons to indicate whether the spoken word and font colour were “same” or “different”, while ignoring written word meaning. I recorded response times and accuracy to measure interference and facilitation effects between experimental and control conditions. I hypothesised that incongruent written words (e.g., red) would interfere with “same” responses (e.g., font colour = blue, spoken word = /blue/) but facilitate “different” responses (e.g., font colour = green, spoken word = /blue/); and that congruent written words (e.g., red) would facilitate “same” responses (e.g., font colour = red, spoken word = /red/) but interfere with “different” responses (e.g., font colour = red, spoken word = /blue/, or font colour = blue, spoken word = /red/). The results showed large interference effects but no facilitation effects on audiovisual judgements. While incongruent written words interfered with “same” responses, congruent written words interfered with “different” responses. The largest interference effect occurred when the written word was incongruent with both task-relevant dimensions, while smaller effects occurred when the written word was congruent with either task-relevant dimension. Consistent with previous Stroop findings, my audiovisual matching task showed that in the case of cross-modal colour judgements, written word meaning predominantly interferes with but does not facilitate performance. The pattern of results showed that a conflict between the outcome of the relevant matching task and the outcomes of two mistakenly performed matching tasks involving the written word produced interference effects, rather than a conflict among the semantic representations activated by the three stimulus dimensions.
Analytical Treatment of the Oscillating Yukawa Potential
Creators: name: Bahlouli, H.
name: Abdelmonem, M. S.
name: Al-Marzoug, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a suitable Laguerre basis set that ensures a tridiagonal matrix representation of the reference Hamiltonian, we were able to evaluate in closed form the matrix elements of the generalized Yukawa potential with complex screening parameter. This enabled us to treat analytically both the cosine and sine-like Yukawa potentials on equal footing and compute their bound states spectrum as the eigenvalues of the associated analytical matrix representing their Hamiltonians. Finally we used a carefully designed complex scaling method to evaluate the resonance energies and compared our results satisfactorily with those obtained in the literature.
description: 8 pages 2 tables
Additional file 1 of Women’s experience of psychological birth trauma in China: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Zhang, Ke
name: Dai, Ling
name: Wu, Meiliyang
name: Zeng, Tieying
name: Yuan, Mengmei
name: Chen, Ye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide
COELHO, Francisco Senra – D. Augusto Eduardo Nunes: professor de Coimbra, Arcebispo de Évora. Lisboa: Paulus Editora, 2010. 919 p.
Creators: name: Azevedo, Carlos A. Moreira
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 23 (2011): Clero, Doutrinação e Disciplinamento
MITCHELL, Nathan D. – The Mystery of the Rosary: Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism. New York and London: New York University Press, 2009. 325 p.
Creators: name: Marques, Tiago Pires
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 23 (2011): Clero, Doutrinação e Disciplinamento
Egg glucocorticoids and maternal stressor exposure as modulators of offspring quality in Pacific salmon
Creators: name: Sopinka, Natalie Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Maternal experiences can have profound effects on offspring phenotype. In oviparous animals, prolonged maternal exposure to stressors can elevate circulating cortisol and is thought to also elevate egg cortisol. Experimental increases in egg cortisol are known to affect offspring performance. In fishes, past research has focused on how chronic maternal exposure to stressors affects egg size and embryonic survival, but changes to egg hormones and progeny phenotype beyond early development are not well understood. The aim of this thesis was to test the hypothesis that maternal exposure to a stressor alters behavioural and physiological attributes of offspring, and that those alterations are mediated by increases in egg cortisol. The research focused on Pacific salmon; animals that, as adults, encounter diverse stressors during their once-in-a-lifetime migration to spawning areas. I found that experimentally elevating egg cortisol, mimicking the presumed outcome of maternal stress, modified offspring morphology, swimming performance, and behavioural responses to conspecific intruders and simulated predator attacks. However, when I chronically exposed females to a daily chase stressor during sexual maturation, egg cortisol at spawning was not affected. Despite the absence of differences in egg hormone content, maternal stressor exposure did have latent effects on offspring swimming performance and physiological stress responses. Collectively, the evidence presented in this thesis suggests that, in Pacific salmon, experimentally manipulating egg cortisol elicits changes in offspring, but maturing females may have the capacity to buffer eggs from increases in cortisol. Gametic properties other than the concentration of cortisol are likely affected by maternal stress and responsible for the observed changes to offspring performance. The multidirectional effects of maternal stress and egg cortisol treatment on offspring traits I report in this thesis support an emerging notion that the intergenerational effects of stress are highly-context dependent, as are interpretations of the adaptive versus maladaptive nature of changes to offspring. I conclude that the complexities of maternal stress and egg hormone deposition are not always captured when examining a single offspring trait at one life stage, without consideration of all components of the intergenerational process.
The Capacity of the Semi-Deterministic Cognitive Interference Channel and its Application to Constant Gap Results for the Gaussian Channel
Creators: name: Rini, Stefano
name: Tuninetti, Daniela
name: Devroye, Natasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The cognitive interference channel (C-IFC) consists of a classical two-user interference channel in which the message of one user (the "primary" user) is non-causally available at the transmitter of the other user (the "cognitive" user). We obtain the capacity of the semi-deterministic C-IFC: a discrete memoryless C-IFC in which the cognitive receiver output is a noise-less deterministic function of the channel inputs. We then use the insights obtained from the capacity-achieving scheme for the semi-deterministic model to derive new, unified and tighter constant gap results for the complex-valued Gaussian C-IFC. We prove: (1) a constant additive gap (difference between inner and outer bounds) of half a bit/sec/Hz per real dimension, of relevance at high SNRs, and (b) a constant multiplicative gap (ratio between outer and inner bounds) of a factor two, of relevance at low SNRs
description: submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC2011, Kyoto, Japan
OLIVEIRA, Paulo – A Congregação Beneditina Portuguesa no percurso para a extinção (1800-1834). Viseu: Palimage Editores, 2005. 344 p.
Creators: name: Marques, João Francisco
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2011

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 23 (2011): Clero, Doutrinação e Disciplinamento