cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing Person-Centred Practice in Primary Care: Co-designing Strategies to Implement Quality Indicators Informed by the Patient Perspective
Creators: name: Manalili, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Person-centred care
subject: Quality improvement
subject: Implementation science
subject: Participatory approaches
subject: Quality indicators
subject: Primary care
subject: Health Care Management

description: Person-Centred Care (PCC) promotes engagement with patients and caregivers to improve patient experiences and outcomes. Person-Centred Quality Indicators (PC-QIs) are quality improvement (QI) tools that support healthcare providers and organizations to identify gaps in the delivery of PCC and improve the quality of care for patients. Little is known about how to implement PC-QIs effectively so that they are adopted and used to create meaningful change in practice. We aimed to address these knowledge gaps by applying a person-centred and implementation science lens to QI and collaborate with stakeholders to inform the future implementation of PC-QIs for primary care in Alberta, Canada. The first study of this thesis was a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of person-centred QI strategies on the management of hypertension in primary care. Our findings suggest that consistent features of person-centered QI interventions that were effective for improving hypertension outcomes included tailored communication with patients, use of health information technology, and multidisciplinary collaboration. The second and third studies of this thesis were mixed methods studies focussed on co-designing the implementation of the PC-QIs for future use in primary care in Alberta. In study two, our findings from an organizational readiness survey and interviews conducted with participants representing both Canadian system-level and Alberta clinical primary care perspectives shed light on key factors that may influence implementation. These factors included: the organization or clinics’ interest and motivation to implement the PC-QIs, resources and capacity to collect and use data for improvements, and the organizational climate for implementation of the PC-QIs, related to PCC and QI. In the third study, we conducted a consensus process with primary care stakeholders to prioritize the PC-QIs for implementation and implementation strategies that were identified, which emerged from our second study. Consensus panelists prioritized PC-QIs related to: patient and caregiver involvement in decisions about care, having a trusting relationship with the healthcare provider, health information technology to support PCC, co-designing care in partnership with communities, and overall experience. The strategies prioritized included: developing partnerships among stakeholder groups, obtaining QI resources, conducting a needs assessment, aligning measurement efforts provincially, and engaging champions.
Synthesis of template-assembled nucleotide quartets
Creators: name: Bare, Grant
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The thesis work described herein addresses a desire to isolate a guanine quartet and other unknown nucleobase quartets in Nature's solvent, water. Template-assembly of the nucleobase quartets or tetrads by the application of a cavitand template molecule was utilized as a synthetic strategy. Several synthetic precedents were sought and included developing DNA synthetic methodologies for four-fold nucleotide coupling of deoxyguanosine onto an individual substrate, imparting solubility in water on the resultant supramolecular constructs, and designing molecules capable of stabilizing G-quartet or G-tetrad self-assemblies. Chapter 1 forms an introduction for this work by summarizing significant reports in the scientific literature on nucleic acid structure and function and on known template-assembled syntheses of nucleic acid elements. Chapter 2 describes the development of phosphite triester and phosphoramidite DNA synthetic methodologies for synthesizing water-soluble phosphate-linked cavitand-nucleotide conjugates. The synthesis of triazole-linked cavitand-guanosine conjugates with imparted water-solubility is dealt with in Chapter 3. In Chapter 4, evidence is provided for the observation of unimolecular cation-free template-assembled guanine and thymine quartets in methanol solvent using the phosphate-linked architecture. Finally, Chapter 5 describes the first potential isolation of a single G-tetrad in water through template-assembly directed by a phosphate-linked cavitand-nucleotide conjugate. This species is shown to interact with small molecule binders of G-quadruplex DNA and inhibitors of the human telomerase enzyme. The novel supramolecules synthesized in this thesis have been shown to assist in the discovery of unusual DNA based structures, to act as a minimal model of human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA, and to serve as artificial receptors for potential anticancer therapeutics.
PRITSHMËRI TË STUDENTËVE SHQIPTARË KUNDREJT TREGUT TE PUNËS
Creators: name: MITLLARI, Eralda
name: KASIMATI, Mimoza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Attracting and keeping millenials, presents a sort of challenge for companies in the face of a growing concern for the trend of turnover increase in the early years of employment. This group of employees with their promotion, reward, work flexibility, family-life balance expectations and other peculiar characteristics, presents an addition to the management challenges associated with increased employee diversity in the last 30 years. When they are highly educated, they are more articulated and with expectations that better be taken in consideration by the employees. This paper, presenting results of a field study, shows some work expectations of millenials in Albania and their perception that the private sector is potentially a better employer in those terms. Key words: students, millennials, employers, demands on employers.
Amplitude analyses of the decays chi_c1 -> eta pi+ pi- and chi_c1 -> eta' pi+ pi-
Creators: name: CLEO Collaboration
name: Adams, G. S.
name: Napolitano, J.
name: Ecklund, K. M.
name: Insler, J.
name: Muramatsu, H.
name: Park, C. S.
name: Pearson, L. J.
name: Thorndike, E. H.
name: Ricciardi, S.
name: Thomas, C.
name: Artuso, M.
name: Blusk, S.
name: Mountain, R.
name: Skwarnicki, T.
name: Stone, S.
name: Zhang, L. M.
name: Bonvicini, G.
name: Cinabro, D.
name: Lincoln, A.
name: Smith, M. J.
name: Zhou, P.
name: Zhu, J.
name: Naik, P.
name: Rademacker, J.
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Edwards, K. W.
name: Randrianarivony, K.
name: Tatishvili, G.
name: Briere, R. A.
name: Vogel, H.
name: Onyisi, P. U. E.
name: Rosner, J. L.
name: Alexander, J. P.
name: Cassel, D. G.
name: Das, S.
name: Ehrlich, R.
name: Gibbons, L.
name: Gray, S. W.
name: Hartill, D. L.
name: Heltsley, B. K.
name: Kreinick, D. L.
name: Kuznetsov, V. E.
name: Patterson, J. R.
name: Peterson, D.
name: Riley, D.
name: Ryd, A.
name: Sadoff, A. J.
name: Shi, X.
name: Sun, W. M.
name: Yelton, J.
name: Rubin, P.
name: Lowrey, N.
name: Mehrabyan, S.
name: Selen, M.
name: Wiss, J.
name: Libby, J.
name: Kornicer, M.
name: Mitchell, R. E.
name: Shepherd, M. R.
name: Szczepaniak, A.
name: Besson, D.
name: Pedlar, T. K.
name: Cronin-Hennessy, D.
name: Hietala, J.
name: Dobbs, S.
name: Metreveli, Z.
name: Seth, K. K.
name: Tomaradze, A.
name: Xiao, T.
name: Martin, L.
name: Powell, A.
name: Wilkinson, G.
name: Ge, J. Y.
name: Miller, D. H.
name: Shipsey, I. P. J.
name: Xin, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a data sample of 2.59 x 10^7 psi(2S) decays obtained with the CLEO-c detector, we perform amplitude analyses of the complementary decay chains chi_c1 -> eta pi+ pi- and chi_c1 -> eta' pi+ pi-. We find evidence for a P-wave eta' pi scattering amplitude, which, if interpreted as a resonance, would have exotic J^PC = 1^-+ and parameters consistent with the pi_1(1600) state reported in other production mechanisms. We also make the first observation of the decay a_0(980) -> eta' pi and measure the ratio of branching fractions B(a_0(980) -> eta' pi)/B(a_0(980) -> eta pi) = 0.064 +- 0.014 +- 0.014. The pi pi spectrum produced with a recoiling eta is compared to that with eta' recoil.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures, available through http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/
title: Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
title: Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Creators: name: Mühlhausen, Walter
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands

description: At the outbreak of the First World War, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) voted, as the largest party in the German Empire, for the granting of war loans. However, the thus-introduced "truce" policy was rejected by more and more members of parliament and led, in 1917, to the split of the party. The opponents of the policy of “truce” within the party formed the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD).
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Demographics and Physical Properties of Gas Out/Inflows at 0.4 < z < 1.4
Creators: name: Martin, Crystal L.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
name: Coil, Alison L.
name: Kornei, Katherine A.
name: Bundy, Kevin
name: Weiner, Benjamin J.
name: Noeske, Kai G.
name: Schiminovich, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Keck/LRIS spectra of over 200 galaxies with well-determined redshifts between 0.4 and 1.4. We combine new measurements of near-ultraviolet, low-ionization absorption lines with previously measured masses, luminosities, colors, and star formation rates to describe the demographics and properties of galactic flows. Among star-forming galaxies with blue colors, we find a net blueshift of the FeII absorption greater than 200 km/s (100 km/s) towards 2.5% (20%) of the galaxies. The fraction of blueshifted spectra does not vary significantly with stellar mass, color, or luminosity but does decline at specific star formation rates less than roughly 0.8 Gyr^{-1}. The insensitivity of the blueshifted fraction to galaxy properties requires collimated outflows at these redshifts, while the decline in outflow fraction with increasing blueshift might reflect the angular dependence of the outflow velocity. The low detection rate of infalling gas, 3 to 6% of the spectra, suggests an origin in (enriched) streams favorably aligned with our sightline. We find 4 of these 9 infalling streams have projected velocities commensurate with the kinematics of an extended disk or satellite galaxy. The strength of the MgII absorption increases with stellar mass, B-band luminosity, and U-B color, trends arising from a combination of more interstellar absorption at the systemic velocity and less emission filling in more massive galaxies. Our results provides a new quantitative understanding of gas flows between galaxies and the circumgalactic medium over a critical period in galaxy evolution.
description: Accepted version in 2-column format with embedded figures
Key Generation Using External Source Excitation: Capacity, Reliability, and Secrecy Exponent
Creators: name: Chou, Tzu-Han
name: Draper, Stark C.
name: Sayeed, Akbar M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the fundamental limits to secret key generation from an excited distributed source (EDS). In an EDS a pair of terminals observe dependent sources of randomness excited by a pre-arranged signal. We first determine the secret key capacity for such systems with one-way public messaging. We then characterize a tradeoff between the secret key rate and exponential bounds on the probability of key agreement failure and on the secrecy of the key generated. We find that there is a fundamental tradeoff between reliability and secrecy. We then explore this framework within the context of reciprocal wireless channels. In this setting, the users transmit pre-arranged excitation signals to each other. When the fading is Rayleigh, the observations of the users are jointly Gaussian sources. We show that an on-off excitation signal with an SNR-dependent duty cycle achieves the secret key capacity of this system. Furthermore, we characterize a fundamental metric -- minimum energy per key bit for reliable key generation -- and show that in contrast to conventional AWGN channels, there is a non-zero threshold SNR that achieves the minimum energy per key bit. The capacity achieving on-off excitation signal achieves the minimum energy per key bit at any SNR below the threshold. Finally, we build off our error exponent results to investigate the energy required to generate a key using a finite block length. Again we find that on-off excitation signals yield an improvement when compared to constant excitation signals. In addition to Rayleigh fading, we analyze the performance of a system based on binary channel phase quantization.
description: accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
title: War Widows
title: War Widows
Creators: name: Bette, Peggy
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegerwitwe
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: War widows

description: One third of the 9.7 million soldiers killed or declared missing during the Great War left behind a widow. The mourning of these women was conditioned as much by the social conventions practiced during the time of peace as by the new constraints brought by war. Although many nation states tried to help them materially, they were often looking for political and social control in return.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
AiRT Workshop Pull Up Banner
Creators: name: Santamarina-Campos, Virginia
name: Carpenter, Sophie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: AiRT
Workshop
Pull Up Banner
RPAS
indoor positioning systems
aerial filming photography
intelligent navigation
drone
dissemination

description: AiRT Workshop Pull Up Banner. INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DRONES & TECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES Valencia, June 8, 2018
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 732433
title: Polish War Myths (East Central Europe)
title: Polish War Myths (East Central Europe)
Creators: name: Brudek, Paweł
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Polen
subject: Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Poland

description: During the First World War, Józef Piłsudski and his followers invented the legend of the Riflemen Association and the First Brigade of the legions. Piłsudski, as the leader of the First Cadre Company of Riflemen, marched into the Polish Kingdom to announce the rebirth of an independent Polish state. A refugee from the Russian partition, Piłsudski depicted himself and his followers as an elite group of patriots who were forced to fight not only Russian tsarism, but also Polish passivity, indifference and fear. Later, as a political leader appreciated by the Central Powers, Piłsudski used the history of the war and the sacrifices of “his” legionnaires as a political tool in conflicts with his opponents, which persisted after 1918.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells: the role of wall slip
Creators: name: Wolff, K.
name: Marenduzzo, D.
name: Cates, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a computer simulation study, via lattice Boltzmann simulations, of a microscopic model for cytoplasmic streaming in algal cells such as those of Chara corallina. We modelled myosin motors tracking along actin lanes as spheres undergoing directed motion along fixed lines. The sphere dimension takes into account the fact that motors drag vesicles or other organelles, and, unlike previous work, we model the boundary close to which the motors move as walls with a finite slip layer. By using realistic parameter values for actin lane and myosin density, as well as for endoplasmic and vacuole viscosity and the slip layer close to the wall, we find that this simplified view, which does not rely on any coupling between motors, cytoplasm and vacuole other than that provided by viscous Stokes flow, is enough to account for the observed magnitude of streaming velocities in intracellular fluid in living plant cells.
description: 18 pages (incl. appendix), 10 figures, accepted in J R Soc Interface
Keeler's theorem and products of distinct transpositions
Creators: name: Evans, Ron
name: Huang, Lihua
name: Nguyen, Tuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20B30

description: An episode of Futurama features a two-body mind-switching machine which will not work more than once on the same pair of bodies. After the Futurama community engages in a mind-switching spree, the question is asked, "Can the switching be undone so as to restore all minds to their original bodies?" Ken Keeler found an algorithm that undoes any mind-scrambling permutation with the aid of two "outsiders." We refine Keeler's result by providing a more efficient algorithm that uses the smallest possible number of switches. We also present best possible algorithms for undoing two natural sequences of switches, each sequence effecting a cyclic mind-scrambling permutation in the symmetric group S_n. Finally, we give necessary and sufficient conditions on m and n for the identity permutation to be expressible as a product of m distinct transpositions in S_n.
description: 12 pages; new proof of lemma via graph theory; to appear in Amer. Math. Monthly
Temperature gradient driven lasing and stimulated cooling
Creators: name: Sandner, K.
name: Ritsch, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A laser can be understood as thermodynamic engine converting heat to a coherent single mode field close to Carnot efficiency. From this perspective spectral shaping of the excitation light generates a higher effective temperature on the pump than on the gain transition. Here, using a toy model of a quantum well structure with two suitably designed tunnel-coupled wells kept at different temperature, we study a laser operated on an actual spatial temperature gradient between pump and gain region. We predict gain and narrow band laser emission for a sufficient temperature gradient and resonator quality. Lasing appears concurrent with amplified heat flow and points to a new form of stimulated solid state cooling. Such a mechanism could raise the operating temperature limit of quantum cascade lasers by substituting phonon emission driven injection, which generates intrinsic heat, by an extended model with phonon absorption steps.
Additional file 3 of Overexpressed XRCC2 as an independent risk factor for poor prognosis in glioma patients
Creators: name: Liu, Zhendong
name: Zhang, Wang
name: Cheng, Xingbo
name: Wang, Hongbo
name: Bian, Lu
name: Wang, Jialin
name: Han, Zhibin
name: Wang, Yanbiao
name: Lian, Xiaoyu
name: Liu, Binfeng
name: Ren, Zhishuai
name: Zhang, Bo
name: Jiang, Zhenfeng
name: Lin, Zhiguo
name: Gao, Yanzheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Characteristics of patients with glioma based on TCGA RNA-seq data.
title: Post-war Economies (Africa)
title: Post-war Economies (Africa)
Creators: name: Walker-Said, Charlotte
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Afrika
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Nachkriegszeit
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: o.P. Africa--Economic conditions--1918-1945

description: The economic development of African territories in the years following World War I was fostered by European and American capital, as well as by African societies’ innovations in agricultural methods and strategies for organizing labor. African colonies in the post-war era imported greater numbers of manufactured goods, which were traded for tropical raw materials and foodstuffs as capitalist integration intensified in both rural and urban areas. Colonies expanded their civil administrations and incorporated greater numbers of African intermediaries in the form of chiefs, interpreters, clerks, tax collectors, soldiers, and police. This new professional class engaged with another rapidly expanding cohort of entrepreneurs such as farmers, traders, miners, dockworkers, and others who were salaried or compensated through harvests and exports.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
FALIMENTI I BIZNESIT NË SHQIPËRI: NJË ANALIZË E RAPORTEVE FINANCIARE PËR TRE INDUSTRI
Creators: name: DHAMO, Zhaklina
name: KUME, Vasilika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: We compare financial distress characteristics for the energy, telecommunication, and construction sector in Albania through ratio analysis. We compare the bankruptcy potential and trends of the three industries through the five financial ratios used in the Z' model suggested by Altman (2000), Working Capital/Total Assets, Retained Earnings/Total Assets, EBIT/Total Assets, Book Value of Equity/Book Value of Debt, Sales/Total Assets. We divide the companies in each sector in two groups, the "bankrupt" and "non-bankrupt" group. The financial data are provided by the official website of the National Business Center. Based on the results of this study, the construction industry shows the highest exposure to potential default during the period 2011-2014, based on the five financial ratios estimated.
Improvements to Divisor Class Arithmetic on Hyperelliptic Curves
Creators: name: Lindner, Sebastian A
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Divisor Class Group
subject: Hyperelliptic Curves
subject: Arithmetic
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computer Science

description: The divisor class group of a hyperelliptic curve over a field is a finite abelian group at the center of many open questions in algebraic geometry and number theory. Sutherland surveys some of these, including the computation of the associated L-functions and zeta functions used in his investigation of Sato-Tate distributions. Many of these problems lend themselves to empirical investigation, and as emphasized by Sutherland, fast arithmetic in the divisor class group is crucial for their efficiency. Indeed, implementations of these fundamental operations are at the core of the algebraic geometry packages of widely-used computer algebra systems such as Magma and Sage. This thesis provides contributions to improve the efficiency of divisor class arithmetic on hyperelliptic curves, with special attention to the often ignored split model cases and to genus 2 and 3. There are two main contributions: the introduction of “Balanced NUCOMP” for improved arithmetic on curves given by split models of arbitrary genus, and improved explicit formulas for genus 2 (ramified and split models) and genus 3 (split models) based on Balanced NUCOMP for split models and NUCOMP for ramified models. Empirical analysis, using a complete Magma implementation and testing suite, is conducted with all contributed algorithms to provide proof of correctness and comparisons to previous best. Our results show that Balanced NUCOMP does offer improvements to split model arithmetic, further narrowing the performance gap between split and ramified models. Our explicit formulas require fewer field operations, most notably significantly fewer additions, than previous best for computing arithmetic on genus 2 (ramified and split models), and genus 3 (split models). Our empirical results demonstrate that our formulas yield the fastest general-purpose arithmetic for these cases.
Swift J2058.4+0516: Discovery of a Possible Second Relativistic Tidal Disruption Flare?
Creators: name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Krimm, Hans A.
name: Horesh, Assaf
name: Rau, Arne
name: Frail, Dale A.
name: Kennea, Jaime A.
name: Levan, Andrew J.
name: Holland, Stephen T.
name: Butler, Nat R.
name: Quimby, Robert M.
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Greiner, Jochen
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Ofek, Eran O.
name: E., Felipe Olivares
name: Schady, Patricia
name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Tanvir, Nial
name: Xu, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery by the Swift hard X-ray monitor of the transient source Swift J2058.4+0516 (Sw J2058+05). Our multi-wavelength follow-up campaign uncovered a long-lived (duration >~ months), luminous X-ray (L_X,iso ~ 3 x 10^47 erg s^-1) and radio (nu L_nu,iso ~ 10^42 erg s^-1) counterpart. The associated optical emission, however, from which we measure a redshift of 1.1853, is relatively faint, and this is not due to a large amount of dust extinction in the host galaxy. Based on numerous similarities with the recently discovered GRB 110328A / Swift J164449.3+573451 (Sw J1644+57), we suggest that Sw J2058+05 may be the second member of a new class of relativistic outbursts resulting from the tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole. If so, the relative rarity of these sources (compared with the expected rate of tidal disruptions) implies that either these outflows are extremely narrowly collimated (theta < 1 degree), or only a small fraction of tidal disruptions generate relativistic ejecta. Analogous to the case of long-duration gamma-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae, we speculate that rapid spin of the black hole may be a necessary condition to generate the relativistic component. Alternatively, if powered by gas accretion (i.e., an active galactic nucleus [AGN]), Sw J2058+05 would seem to represent a new mode of variability in these sources, as the observed properties appear largely inconsistent with known classes of AGNs capable of generating relativistic jets (blazars, narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies).
description: Minor typos corrected
Chiral nematic mesoporous materials templated by nanocrystalline cellulose
Creators: name: Shopsowitz, Kevin Eric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The synthesis, characterization, and application of the first examples of chiral nematic mesoporous materials are reported. Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) was used as a liquid crystal template to generate NCC/silica composite films through evaporation induced self-assembly. The NCC was removed from the composite films by calcination to generate mesoporous silica films with high specific surface areas and chiral nematic structures. The chiral nematic ordering in these films gives rise to photonic properties that can be tuned depending on the synthetic conditions. Thus mesoporous silica films with colours spanning the visible spectrum were synthesized. The combination of mesoporosity and chiral nematic ordering in these materials causes them to change colour in response to liquids and show strong circular dichroism signals that depend on the refractive index within the mesopores. Chiral nematic mesoporous silica can also be used as a hard template to generate nanocrystalline films of anatase titanium dioxide. The titanium dioxide replicas are mesoporous and show chiral nematic ordering and photonic properties that mimic the original silica films. By exploring different methods to remove NCC from the composite films, the procedure used to synthesize chiral nematic mesoporous silica films was expanded to organosilica. The resulting chiral nematic mesoporous organosilica films show similar properties to the mesoporous silica films but have superior flexibility in some cases. Methods to control the pore size of the mesoporous silica and organosilica materials were developed. Nanocrystalline cellulose/silica composite films were also used as a starting point to synthesize chiral nematic mesoporous carbon films. This was achieved by pyrolyzing NCC/silica composite films followed by dissolving the silica in strong base. The silica used in this procedure was shown to be necessary for both the retention of chiral nematic ordering and the introduction of mesoporosity into the carbonaceous material. Finally, chiral nematic mesoporous carbon (CNMC) was shown to be a promising material as a supercapacitor electrode material both on its own and as a composite with polyaniline.
title: Post-war Economies (Turkey)
title: Post-war Economies (Turkey)
Creators: name: Barlas, Dilek
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Türkei
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Nachkriegszeit
subject: o.P. Turkey--Economic conditions--1918-1960

description: In 1923, Turkey was declared a republic after fighting against the Allied occupation (1919-1922) following the First World War. In the 1920s, the Turkish political leadership was mainly engaged in making reforms at the political level. At the economic level, they had not yet developed any strategy. In 1929, the world economic crisis offered Turkey the opportunity to develop a strategy autonomous from the collapsing liberal economic world order even though it badly affected Turkey’s economy. However, the pre-conditions of another coming world war interrupted the implementation of this autonomous strategy in the first half of the 1930s.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
COUPLING ACTIVE HEAT EXCHANGE AND VACUUM MEMBRANE-BASED AIR DEHUMIDIFICATION FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY AIR CONDITIONING
Creators: name: Fix, Andrew J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401703
subject: Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: Building cooling and ventilation account for nearly 10% of the global electricity consumption. In fact, a recent study even showed that, globally, dehumidification consumes more energy than sensible cooling. One high-efficiency dehumidification technology is selective membrane dehumidification. Selective membranes allow water vapor transport but block air transport. There are two overarching gaps in the literature that are addressed in this dissertation: (1) vacuum membrane dehumidification (VMD) has been rigidly defined as an isothermal process and (2) literature on one of the most efficient VMD system designs, which I will refer to as the “dual module humidity pump,” is limited to ideal thermodynamic modeling (no experimental demonstration or practical system modeling in the current literature).This work presents a novel system concept, referred to as the “Active Membrane Energy Exchanger” (AMX), which specifically couples VMD and air cooling into one process to provide the first non-isothermal VMD system concept. The present study provides a wholistic understanding of the benefits and limitations of the AMX approach through both thermodynamic system modeling and experimental protype development and demonstration.System models developed in Engineering Equation Solver were used to compare the energy performance of the AMX to other HVAC technologies. These models showed that the AMX could achieve up to 25% annual cooling electricity savings in commercial buildings and up to 60% annual cooling electricity savings in 100% outdoor air applications. Experiments showed that combining cooling and dehumidification increased membrane permeance by up to 40% and increased dehumidification performance by 3-6%. Further demonstration showed the prototype could remove up to 45% of the humidity in the humid air flow but struggled to reject all of that vapor to the exhaust air (mass transfer imbalance). This discovery enabled a practical thermofluid model to estimate theoretical and practical COP limits, which were approximately 40 and 10, respectively. Additionally, a global sensitivity analysis on the new model showed that mechanical design is far more limiting to the performance than material design.In summary, this dissertation develops and demonstrates a novel air conditioning technology, from system modeling to prototype demonstration. This work was funded and guided by industry partners, and the results of this dissertation are a major step towards real-world implementation.
Color Coded Health Data: Factors related to willingness to share health information in South Asians
Creators: name: Naeem, Iffat
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health data
subject: health research
subject: ethnicity
subject: trust
subject: Health Sciences--General
subject: Health Sciences--Epidemiology

description: Background: Canada is becoming an increasing multicultural society welcoming individuals of various ethnicities. Ethnicity has become an established modifier of health in Canada, where ethnocultural communities face health disparities for multiple health outcomes. To understand these health disparities further, a call for high quality health data for ethnocultural communities has been made. Since health information availability is controlled by the participant, it is important to understand the willingness to share health information by an ethnic population to increase data availability within ethnocultural communities. Objectives: The objectives of this study aimed to explore and synthesize factors associated with willingness to share health information via a rapid review of literature and qualitative interviews with (South Asian) SA participants, the largest ethnic group in Canada. Findings: Triangulating results from both the rapid review of literature and the qualitative interviews, revealed that factors associated with sharing health information operated at 3 different levels: 1) community level, 2) individual level, and 3) process level. These factors also operated through a lens that considered the cultural and sociodemographic aspect of ethnocultural communities. Conclusions: The results of this study reveal important factors associated with sharing health information for ethnocultural communities, and support the need for culturally sensitive and respectful engagement with the community, ethically sound research practices that make participants feel comfortable to share their information, and an easy and incentivised process to share their information feasibly. Future study should aim to understand and measure data-sharing partnerships between researchers and ethnocultural communities to maximize data availability for ethnic populations.
Diffusion and Mass Transfer of Gases in Surfactant Solutions and Nanofluids
Creators: name: Yang, Zehao
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nanofluids
subject: Surfactants
subject: Gases
subject: Mass transfer
subject: Diffusion
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: The investigation of gas-liquid mass transfer process is critical in many fields, such as petroleum engineering, environmental science, and chemical engineering. Mass transfer coefficient (k) and diffusion coefficient (D) are the key parameters affecting mass transfer process. A reliable method to measure and optimize these parameters can be very useful and have many applications, such as optimizing gas solvent-based oil recovery processes, enhancing efficiency of the sequestration of greenhouse gases in reservoirs, and controlling the gas-liquid mass transfer rate in liquid-gas reactor or an effective scheme of fermentation. The pressure decay technique is a simple but effective method to measure k and D accurately and efficiently. The application of surfactants and nanoparticles in optimizing the gas-liquid mass transfer is rarely reported previously. In this study, pressure-decay-based methods, with a large number of experiments, are proposed to systematically measure the k and D of CH4 and N2 in pure water, surfactant solutions, and nanofluids. A designed apparatus is used to measure the gas pressure change with time using a high-resolution pressure transducer. Diffusion dominated (DD) model and interface-resistance diffusion (IRD) model, based on the experiments, are presented. The exact solutions of these two models are further obtained to estimate the k and D using pressure data through a global optimization method. The DD and IRD models extend previous pressure-decay models and resolve several existed issues. The methods, proposed in this work, are used to investigate the effect of surfactants and nanoparticles on the gas-liquid mass transfer. The results provide new insight into the mechanisms of gas mass transfer in the surfactant solutions and nanofluids. The effect is significant. Compared with pure water, the smallest k is a decrease ratio of 8.6. It takes place at a concentration of 10,000 ppm for modified-oleic acid (OA) nanofluid. The greatest D enhancement ratio is about 2.5, which is achieved in modified-OA nanofluid at a concentration of 5,000 ppm.
title: Food and Nutrition (Austria-Hungary)
title: Food and Nutrition (Austria-Hungary)
Creators: name: Langthaler, Ernst
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Österreich-Ungarn
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Lebensmittelversorgung
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Food supply
subject: Austria--History--1867-1918

description: Food became a scarce – and thus decisive – resource for the Habsburg Empire’s warfare. Agricultural production in Austria-Hungary dramatically deteriorated due to causes more or less related to the war. The consumers’ shrinking food supply reflected not only the declining amount of foodstuffs available to the Habsburg Empire, but also their unequal distribution at state, provincial, regional and local levels. Everyday struggles for food fostered the fragmentation of wartime society – with effects that lasted far beyond the war period.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Characterization and exploitation of community structure in cover song networks
Creators: name: Serrà, Joan
name: Zanin, Massimiliano
name: Herrera, Perfecto
name: Serra, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of community detection algorithms is explored within the framework of cover song identification, i.e. the automatic detection of different audio renditions of the same underlying musical piece. Until now, this task has been posed as a typical query-by-example task, where one submits a query song and the system retrieves a list of possible matches ranked by their similarity to the query. In this work, we propose a new approach which uses song communities to provide more relevant answers to a given query. Starting from the output of a state-of-the-art system, songs are embedded in a complex weighted network whose links represent similarity (related musical content). Communities inside the network are then recognized as groups of covers and this information is used to enhance the results of the system. In particular, we show that this approach increases both the coherence and the accuracy of the system. Furthermore, we provide insight into the internal organization of individual cover song communities, showing that there is a tendency for the original song to be central within the community. We postulate that the methods and results presented here could be relevant to other query-by-example tasks.
NJË ANALIZË LIDHUR ME MIGRIMIN RURAL – URBAN TË PUNËS NË QARKUN E ELBASANIT
Creators: name: BIÇOKU, Jonida
name: MEMAJ, Fatmir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Migration seems to always be present within the cycle of the human life and sometimes it also seems inevitable. We are living in a time when migration in its logical and linguistic sense exists almost as a similar phenomenon within time and space. In developing countries and in countries or regions with sustainable socioeconomic parameters it is presented with general typologies and almost unchanged ones. We will have to refer to the economic and identity picture, the chances, the opportunities and the environment of their implementation. Moving from one place to another, from a village to a city, or from one state to another, is often difficult. Problems consist in several elements but what makes the difference is the perspective point of view. An economist would undoubtedly head of by the market supply and the jobs' demand in the host city (when the movement is carried from a village to a town). A sociologist would understand all issues of economic security, and employment in particular, but would appreciate as a problem not at all secondary, the dealing with the unknown, the adaption to a new life and what is essential to life the social reintegration. Migration has been and remains an often-conflicting issue in scientific treatises, in terms of future policy orientation. Today, immigration and migration of workers are at the center of many important policies and projects at national and international levels. Keywords: internal migration, human mobility, the effects of migration
Fast Generation of Realistic Data-Driven Stereoscopic Shower Im- ages using Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Anomaly Detection
Manifold Learning
Gamma-Hadron Separation

description: Effective identification and characterization of particle showers captured by ground-based cherenkov telescopes is critical for very high energy gamma-ray astrophysics. A common step employed in the field is to use synthetic gamma-ray and hadronic events generated based on computationally- expensive simulations and use them for downstream analyses. Leveraging the power of generative deep learning, various studies have developed fast emulators that can generate synthetic simulated events that mimic the simulation outputs. However, they still carry the intrinsic assumption that the emulated/simulated data is representative of the observations. In an attempt to address the aforementioned challenges, in this work, we designed and trained on real data a fully-unsupervised Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network on stereoscopic shower images (Stereo-wGAN) from the VERITAS gamma-ray observatory. In this presentation, we highlight our model’s ability to gen- erate realistic stereoscopic events that are self-consistent in their quantitative image-wise moments (Hillas parameters) and overall reconstructed shower parameters. We also showcase the utility of our model-learnt internal feature representations in exploring the diversity of shower events as a way towards enabling future unsupervised characterization of gamma-ray and hadronic events, which is another challenging task in the field of gamma-ray astrophysics.
title: Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve
title: Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve
Creators: name: D'Andurain, Julie
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Lyautey, Hubert Louis
subject: o.P. Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve, 1854-1934

description: During World War One, Hubert Lyautey was the French Resident-General in Morocco and became Minister of the French War Department in 1916.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Sepoy Letters (India)
title: Sepoy Letters (India)
Creators: name: Omissi, David
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Sepoy
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: India. Army

description: Indian soldiers were sent to Europe in 1914, and some of them were to serve there until 1918. Throughout their stay in Europe, Indian soldiers wrote and received letters. Translated excerpts from their correspondence – mainly to and from their families – have copiously survived in transcripts preserved in British censors’ reports. These letters offer evidence for the morale and concerns of India’s warrior-peasantry, and reveal much about their reactions to wartime life in Britain and France. The letters demonstrate that their encounter with Europe encouraged them to reflect, sometimes critically, on life in India.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: China
title: China
Creators: name: Mühlhahn, Klaus
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. China
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--China

description: This article discusses China’s role in the First World War with a focus on the country’s contribution to the war and the role of the war in shaping Chinese development and its place in the world. Contrary to common knowledge, China was not only involved in various aspects of the war, but the war also had a significant impact on China. The war period, therefore, marks a turning point for the country: the crises challenged China to define where it stood in the world and how to embark on a political and cultural revival.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War