cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dementia + planning: Expanding accessibility through design and the planning process
Creators: name: Biglieri, Samantha
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Barrier-free design for people with mental disabilities--Canada

description: Contrary to popular belief, over two thirds of Canadians with dementia live in the community as opposed to congregate living. This begs a question that has not been adequately explored in planning practice or academia: How can we as planners who deal with land-use, community design, and public consultation every day, understand and meet the needs of people with dementia (PWD), who are citizens just like everyone else? After examining existing work on the relationship between the built environment and PWD, I argue a dementia-specific approach to planning practice and research is needed in the Canadian context.
description: Contrairement à une idée reçue, plus de deux tiers des Canadiens atteints de démence vivent au sein de la collectivité et non dans des habitations collectives. Cela nous amène à nous poser la question suivante, qui n’a pas suffisamment été étudiée dans la pratique et dans le monde universitaire de l’urbanisme : à titre d’urbaniste, nous gérons au quotidien l’aménagement du territoire et des collectivités, ainsi que des consultations publiques, que pouvons-nous faire pour comprendre et répondre aux besoins des personnes atteintes de démence, qui sont des citoyens comme les autres? Après avoir étudié les travaux déjà réalisés sur le rapport entre l’environnement bâti et les personnes atteintes de démence, j’avance qu’une approche de la pratique de l’urbanisme axée sur les personnes atteintes de démence est nécessaire au Canada.
Redes comerciales y producción cerámica entre los siglos IX y XI. Estudio comparativo en la kūra de Ilbīra (sureste de la Península Ibérica)
Creators: name: Martínez-Álvarez, Cristina
name: Carvajal Lopez, Jose C.
name: Auch, Michał
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: El estudio se centra en la kūra de Ilbīra, una división administrativa bajo dominio omeya durante los periodos emiral (756-929 d.C.) y califal (929-1031 d.C.), que abarcaba casi toda la actual provincia de Granada (España). Tras la desintegración del Califato, el territorio pasó a estar controlado por la dinastía Zirí, que trasladó la capital de Madīnat Ilbīra a Madīnat Ġarnāṭah (actual Granada). Este territorio constituye un espacio de gran interés para comprender la evolución de los espacios urbanos y su relación con los asentamientos rurales en los inicios de al-Andalus.
Quantum Simulation of a Quantum Stochastic Walk
Creators: name: Govia, Luke C. G.
name: Taketani, Bruno G.
name: Schuhmacher, Peter K.
name: Wilhelm, Frank K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of quantum walks has been shown to have a wide range of applications in areas such as artificial intelligence, the study of biological processes, and quantum transport. The quantum stochastic walk, which allows for incoherent movement of the walker, and therefore, directionality, is a generalization on the fully coherent quantum walk. While a quantum stochastic walk can always be described in Lindblad formalism, this does not mean that it can be microscopically derived in the standard weak-coupling limit under the Born-Markov approximation. This restricts the class of quantum stochastic walks that can be experimentally realized in a simple manner. To circumvent this restriction, we introduce a technique to simulate open system evolution on a fully coherent quantum computer, using a quantum trajectories style approach. We apply this technique to a broad class of quantum stochastic walks, and show that they can be simulated with minimal experimental resources. Our work opens the path towards the experimental realization of quantum stochastic walks on large graphs with existing quantum technologies.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Facilities planning using graph theory : an experimental comparison of five methods to evaluate the significance of the initial solution of the Deltahedron method]
Creators: name: Gunaratne, Deepika.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Real-analytic AbC constructions on the torus
Creators: name: Banerjee, Shilpak
name: Kunde, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C40, 32C05

description: In this article we demonstrate a way to extend the AbC (approximation by conjugation) method invented by Anosov and Katok from the smooth category to the category of real-analytic diffeomorphisms on the torus. We present a general framework for such constructions and prove several results. In particular, we construct minimal but not uniquely ergodic diffeomorphisms and nonstandard real-analytic realizations of toral translations.
description: 48 pages, 7 figures
title: Aging Atlantic cities: Challenges and potential solutions for planners
Creators: name: Thomas, Ren
name: Terashima, Mikiko
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atlantic Provinces--Population
subject: Population aging
subject: City planning--Atlantic Provinces

description: With the 2016 Census, Canada reached a significant milestone: there are now more seniors in the country than children. In this article, we discuss how the issue of demographic change plays out in the Atlantic region. Not surprisingly, we found that the younger population is shrinking across the major cities in the region. However, Atlantic cities are still growing, many at an above-average rate. Some reasons for this type of change might be the smaller and less diverse economies, persistent high unemployment rates, and the small town appeal of many Atlantic communities for older, rather than younger, demographics.
description: Le recensement de 2016 a permis au Canada de franchir une étape importante : il y a aujourd’hui plus d’aînés dans le pays que d’enfants. Dans cet article, nous analysons comment la question du changement démographique se répercute dans la région de l’Atlantique. Nous n’avons pas été surpris de constater que la population plus jeune recule dans les principales villes de cette région. Cependant, les villes dans la région de l’Atlantique continuent de croître, dont beaucoup à un taux supérieur à la moyenne. Diverses raisons expliquent ce changement, notamment les économies de petite taille et moins diversifiées, un taux de chômage qui demeure élevé, et l’attrait que les petites villes de la région de l’Atlantique exercent chez les aînés plutôt que chez les jeunes.
title: Теория телетрафика
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: Учебное пособие затрагивает основные положения теории телетрафика применительно к современным мультисервисным сетям и, в первую очередь, к IP-сетям с коммутацией пакетов. В приложении к изданию приведено описание лабораторных работ по исследованию пропускной способности сети с коммутацией пакетов и моделированию мультисервисной сети связи. Учебное пособие предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Теории телетрафика» студентами, обучающимися по направлению подготовки 11.03.02 «Инфокоммуникационные технологии и системы связи».
title: How can we better plan age-friendly communities?
Creators: name: Peterson, Eva
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Population aging--British Columbia

description: Age-friendly plans represent an opportunity to ‘get out in front’ of the challenges facing our aging communities. However, in order to be impactful, they require a strategic and contextual approach to each community. The author offers several lessons learned and then challenges planners to both integrate an age-friendly lens into their daily work and, importantly, address the deep-rooted barriers to age-friendly communities. While others – including my esteemed collaborator, Elaine Gallagher, PhD – have and will again produce comprehensive ‘lessons learned’ reports, this article seeks to reflect on the author’s age-friendly planning experience in British Columbia (BC) and ask what can we do better?
description: Les projets favorables aux aînés représentent l’occasion de surmonter les défis auxquels nos collectivités sont confrontées. Cependant, il faut adopter une approche stratégique et contextuelle dans chaque collectivité pour qu’il y ait des résultats concrets. L’auteur fait part de plusieurs enseignements tirés et défie les urbanistes d’intégrer une vision favorable aux aînés dans leur travail quotidien et, surtout, de surmonter les préjugés profondément ancrés à l’égard des collectivités favorables aux aînés.
title: Теоретические основы техники связи
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: В учебном пособии излагаются основные сведения по теории вероятностей, теории случайных процессов, приводятся данные по линейным и нелинейным преобразованиям случайных процессов с различной формой спектра. Рассмотрены информационные основы передачи сообщений по каналам связи, а также теория оптимального приема дискретных сигналов. Настоящее издание поможет студентам восполнить недостаток знаний в области теории вероятностей и случайных процессов применительно к анализу типовых электрических и радиоцепей при случайных воздействиях. Учебное пособие может быть использовано студентами, обучающимися по укрупненной группе специальностей и направлений подготовки 11.00.00 «Электроника, радиотехника и системы связи», при изучении дисциплин «Общая теория связи», «Теория случайных процессов».
title: [Book review] Still renovating: A history of Canadian social housing policy
Creators: name: Catherall, Robert
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Housing policy--Canada
subject: Social policy--Canada

description: Book review
description: Review of the book "Still renovating: A history of Canadian social housing policy" by Greg Suttor (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016).
A cluster analysis of water quality data from three metropolitan drainage catchments
Creators: name: Bethke, Karrena.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Scaling and memory in seismological phenomena
Creators: name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
name: Suzuki, Norikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of memory is of central importance for characterizing complex systems and phenomena. Presence of long-term memories indicates how their dynamics can be less sensitive to initial conditions compared to the chaotic cases. On the other hand, it is empirically known that the Feller-Pareto distribution, which decays as the power law i.e. the scale-invariant nature, frequently appears as a statistical law generated by the dynamics of complex systems. However, it is generally not a simple task to determine if a system obeying such a power law possesses a high degree of complexity with a long-term memory. Here, a new method is proposed for characterization of memory. In particular, a scaling relation to be satisfied by any memoryless dynamics generating the Feller-Pareto power-law distribution is presented. Then, the method is applied to the real data of energies released by a series of earthquakes and acceleration of ground motion due to a strong earthquake. It is shown in this way that the sequence of the released energy in seismicity is memoryless in the event time, whereas that of acceleration is memoryful in the sampling time.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Aftershocks and fluctuating diffusivity
Creators: name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
name: Suzuki, Norikazu
name: Tayurskii, Dmitrii A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Omori-Utsu law shows the temporal power-law-like decrease of the frequency of earthquake aftershocks and, interestingly, is found in a variety of complex systems/phenomena exhibiting catastrophes. Now, it may be interpreted as a characteristic response of such systems to large events. Here, hierarchical dynamics with the fast and slow degrees of freedom is studied on the basis of the Fokker-Planck theory for the load-state distribution to formulate the law as a relaxation process, in which diffusion coefficient in the space of the load state is treated as a fluctuating slow variable. The evolution equation reduced from the full Fokker-Planck equation and its Green's function are analyzed for the subdynamics governing the load state as the fast degree of freedom. It is shown that the subsystem has the temporal translational invariance in the logarithmic time, not in the conventional time, and consequently the aging phenomenon appears.
description: 25 pages, no figures
Interrogating the superconductor Ca10(Pt4As8)(Fe2-xPtxAs2)5 Layer-by-layer
Creators: name: Kim, Jisun
name: Nam, Hyoungdo
name: Li, Guorong
name: Karki, A. B.
name: Wang, Zhen
name: Zhu, Yimei
name: Shih, Chih-Kang
name: Zhang, Jiandi
name: Jin, Rongying
name: Plummer, E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ever since the discovery of high-Tc superconductivity in layered cuprates, the roles that individual layers play have been debated, due to difficulty in layer-by-layer characterization. While there is similar challenge in many Fe-based layered superconductors, the newly-discovered Ca10(Pt4As8)(Fe2As2)5 provides opportunities to explore superconductivity layer by layer, because it contains both superconducting building blocks (Fe2As2 layers) and intermediate Pt4As8 layers. Cleaving a single crystal under ultra-high vacuum results in multiple terminations: an ordered Pt4As8 layer, two reconstructed Ca layers on the top of a Pt4As8 layer, and disordered Ca layer on the top of Fe2As2 layer. The electronic properties of individual layers are studied using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S), which reveals different spectra for each surface. Remarkably superconducting coherence peaks are seen only on the ordered Ca/Pt4As8 layer. Our results indicate that an ordered structure with proper charge balance is required in order to preserve superconductivity.
title: Re-imagining civic improvements
Creators: name: Pryce, Nick
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: City planning
subject: Mixed-use developments

description: Financial challenges face cities across North America and the bones behind our cities are requiring significant financial investment as a result of neglect or need for replacement. The question arises as to how we can move forward with developing infrastructure that is more sustainable. Since the post-war boom in suburban development, there has been a realization that land use needs to become more efficient to create a more sustainable infrastructure model. This is resulting in government forcing developers to meet certain density requirements, and mix of uses, and pay for infrastructure related to the development. While this direction is needed, government also need to re-evaluate ways to become more efficient in the development of key infrastructure assets that benefit all. This article seeks to raise questions on how government could be taking the lead on mix use development and save on financial investments.
description: Les problèmes financiers des villes un peu partout en Amérique du Nord et leurs obligations à l’égard des citoyens nécessitent des investissements financiers d’envergure en raison de déficits d’entretien ou de la nécessité de remplacement. La question qui se pose alors est de savoir comment instaurer un développement de l’infrastructure qui soit durable. Depuis le boom d’après-guerre du développement des banlieues, il est devenu évident qu’il faut rationaliser l’utilisation des sols pour créer un modèle plus durable pour nos infrastructures. Ceci amène les gouvernements à forcer les promoteurs à respecter certaines exigences de densité et d’utilisations mixtes, et à payer pour les infrastructures liées à leurs projets. Bien que cette façon de procéder s’impose, les gouvernements doivent aussi trouver des façons d’être plus efficaces dans l’implantation d’infrastructures qui profitent à tous. Cet article vise à soulever des questions sur la façon dont les gouvernements pourraient donner l’exemple sur les aménagements mixtes et ainsi réduire les investissements.
Security of entanglement-based QKD with realistic parametric down-conversion sources
Creators: name: Kravtsov, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper analyzes security aspects of practical entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD), namely, BBM92 or entanglement-based BB84 protocol. Similar to prepare-and-measure QKD protocols, practical implementations of the entanglement-based QKD have to rely upon non-ideal photon sources. A typical solution for entanglement generation is the spontaneous parametric down-conversion. However, this process creates not only single photon pairs, but also quantum states with more than two photons, which potentially may lead to security deterioration. We show that this effect does not impair the security of entanglement-based QKD systems. We also review the available security proofs and show that properties of the entanglement source have nothing to do with security degradation.
description: 6 pages
title: Gender-based discrimination and the city
title: La discrimination fondée sur le sexe et la cité
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Modlich, Regula
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sexism
subject: Sexisme

description: "Human Rights and the City," Plan Canada’s summer 2017 issue theme, is most relevant in our diversifying society. Our military, police, judicial, educational, and religious institutions all have revealed evidence of systemic and individual acts of racism, homophobia, and misogyny. The Plan Canada issue fails to mention gender-based discrimination, even though Canada is a signatory to the 1979 Convention to End all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as well as various other international agreements and platforms on women’s rights, gender equality, anti-racism etc.
Optical spectral observations of three binary millisecond pulsars
Creators: name: Bobakov, A. V.
name: Karpova, A. V.
name: Zharikov, S. V.
name: Kirichenko, A. Yu.
name: Shibanov, Yu. A.
name: Zyuzin, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of optical spectroscopy of stellar companions to three binary millisecond pulsars, PSRs J0621$+$2514, J2317$+$1439 and J2302$+$4442, obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias. The spectrum of the J0621$+$2514 companion shows a blue continuum and prominent Balmer absorption lines. The latter are also resolved in the spectrum of the J2317$+$1439 companion, showing that both are DA-type white dwarfs. No spectral features are detected for the J2302$+$4442 companion, however, its broadband magnitudes and the spectral shape of the continuum emission imply that this is also a DA-type white dwarf. Based on the spectral analyses, we conclude that the companions of J0621$+$2514 and J2317$+$1439 are relatively hot, with effective temperatures $T_{\rm eff}$$=$8600$\pm$200 and 9600$\pm$2000~K, respectively, while the J2302$+$4442 companion is significantly cooler, $T_{\rm eff}$$<$6000~K. We also estimated the distance to J0621$+$2514 of 1.1$\pm$0.3 kpc and argue that its companion and the companion of J2317$+$1439 are He-core white dwarfs providing constraints on their cooling ages of $\lesssim$2 Gyr.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. Paper accepted to MNRAS
Repeatable Room Temperature Negative Differential Conductance in GaN/AlN Resonant Tunneling Diodes
Creators: name: Encomendero, Jimy
name: Faria, Faiza Afroz
name: Islam, S. M.
name: Protasenko, Vladimir
name: Rouvimov, Sergei
name: Fay, Patrick
name: Jena, Debdeep
name: Xing, Huili Grace
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Double barrier GaN/AlN resonant tunneling heterostructures have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on the (0001) plane of commercially available bulk GaN substrates. Resonant tunneling diodes were fabricated; room temperature current-voltage measurements reveal the presence of a negative differential conductance region under forward bias with peak current densities of ~6.4 $kA/cm^2$ and a peak to valley current ratio of ~1.3. Reverse bias operation presents a characteristic turn-on threshold voltage intimately linked to the polarization fields present in the heterostructure. An analytic electrostatic model is developed to capture the unique features of polar-heterostructure-based resonant tunneling diodes; both the resonant and threshold voltages are derived as a function of the design parameters and polarization fields. Subsequent measurements confirm the repeatability of the negative conductance and demonstrate that III-nitride tunneling heterostructures are capable of robust resonant transport at room temperature.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Review of Melbourne local area traffic management schemes 1979-1989
Creators: name: Jegatheeswaran, Chelliah.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: [Book review] Understanding India's new approach to spatial planning and development: A salient shift
Creators: name: Sangapala, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cities and towns--India
subject: Urbanization--India

description: Book review
description: Review of the book "Understanding India's new approach to spatial planning and development: A salient shift" by Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Shishir Marthur, and Sandeep Agrawal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Probing neutrino production in blazars by millimeter VLBI
Creators: name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
name: Plavin, A. V.
name: Pushkarev, A. B.
name: Troitsky, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The advancement of neutrino observatories has sparked a surge in multi-messenger astronomy. Multiple neutrino associations among blazars are reported while neutrino production site is located within their central (sub)parsecs. Yet many questions remain on the nature of those processes. The next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) is uniquely positioned for these studies, as its high frequency and resolution can probe both the accretion disk region and the parsec-scale jet. This opens up new opportunities for connecting the two regions and unraveling the proton acceleration and neutrino production in blazars. We outline observational strategies for ngEHT and highlight what it can contribute to the multi-messenger study of blazars.
description: 9 pages; accepted to Galaxies Special Issue "From Vision to Instrument: Creating a Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope for a New Era of Black Hole Science"
title: Public art: Creating a culturally vibrant region in Wood Buffalo
Creators: name: Malik, Nabil
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Public art--Alberta--Wood Buffalo

description: Established in 2014, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s Public Art Committee (PAC) has played a key role in advocating for and fostering a culturally vibrant region engaged through public art. In June 2018, the region will install its inaugural piece of public art selected through the Public Art Program. The PAC developed a multi-stage engagement and decision-making strategy, which significantly relied on residents to provide input on the selection of the inaugural piece and the location of the site on which it will be installed. This engagement and decisionmaking strategy was an innovative approach at the time it was implemented.
description: Le Comité d’art public (CAP) de la municipalité régionale de Wood Buffalo, mis sur pied en 2014, a joué un rôle de premier plan en défendant le droit et en favorisant les activités d’une région dynamique sur le plan culturel grâce à l’art public. En juin 2018, le gouvernement régional procédera à l’installation de la première oeuvre sélectionnée dans le cadre du programme d’art public. Le CAP a mis au point une stratégie de mobilisation et de prise de décisions en plusieurs étapes. La stratégie a misé beaucoup sur les commentaires des résidents pour choisir l’oeuvre d’art et l’endroit où elle sera installée. Cette stratégie de mobilisation et de prise de décisions constituait lors de son adoption une approche novatrice.
Data and techniques for capital cost estimation of process equipment
Creators: name: Breuer, Paul.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Bioinformatics core facility management training – availability and challenges
Creators: name: Alloza, Eva
name: Karaca, Ezgi
name: Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador
name: Brooksbank, Cath
name: Carvajal-Lopez, Patricia
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: Bioinformatics core facilities play an essential role in enabling research in life sciences. As deep learning and high-throughput sequencing methodologies are increasingly applied to analyse molecular data, there is a growing need for highly specialised services from bioinformatics core facilities and their supporting teams. Added to these challenges, the rapidly changing necessities of biological data management and analysis outgrow the capabilities of these facilities in terms of software or hardware usage and human resources.

 Bioinformatics core facility’s scientists face many career recognition and progression challenges, often hampered by the lack of formal education in their transition from a research-focused to a service-focused and management role.

 Several efforts have emerged to strengthen management-related competencies for bioinformatics core facilities. Since 2017 EMBL-EBI has run a yearly Bioinformatics Core Facility Management course aimed at experienced core facility managers. Biannually since 2019, an EMBO Research to Service practical course focuses on aspiring managers and those transitioning from a research-focused role. These events have reached over 100 participants with more than 200 applicants. Training contents evolve according to emerging needs like core facility strengths and limitations, financial sustainability, project management, human/computing resources estimation, sensitive data management, and engagement with their users and other core facilities. The participants enthusiastically apply the gained knowledge with their teams and beyond, some becoming core management trainers themselves.

 Diverse efforts are needed to support the bioinformatics core facilities' community of practice. The training targeted toward this community is essential to continue enabling research and development within the life sciences.
Edge currents in frustrated Josephson junction ladders
Creators: name: Marques, A. M.
name: Santos, F. D. R.
name: Dias, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study of quasi-1D frustrated Josephson junction ladders with diagonal couplings and open boundary conditions, in the large capacitance limit. We derive a correspondence between the energy of this Josephson junction ladder and the expectation value of the Hamiltonian of an analogous tight-binding model, and show how the overall superconducting state of the chain is equivalent to the minimum energy state of the tight-binding model in the subspace of one-particle states with uniform density. To satisfy the constraint of uniform density, the superconducting state of the ladder is written as a linear combination of the allowed k-states of the tight-binding model with open boundaries. Above a critical value of the parameter t (ratio between the intra-rung and inter-rung Josephson couplings), the ladder spontaneously develop currents at the edges which spread to the bulk as t is increased until complete coverage is reached. Above a certain value of t, which varies with ladder size (t = 1 for an infinite-sized ladder), the edge currents are destroyed. The value t = 1 corresponds, in the tight-binding model, to the opening of a gap between two bands. We argue that the disappearance of the edge currents with this gap opening is not coincidental, and that this points to a topological origin for these edge current states.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Bioinformatics core facility management training – availability and challenges
Creators: name: Alloza, Eva
name: Karaca, Ezgi
name: Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador
name: Brooksbank, Cath
name: Carvajal-Lopez, Patricia
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: Bioinformatics core facilities play an essential role in enabling research in life sciences. As deep learning and high-throughput sequencing methodologies are increasingly applied to analyse molecular data, there is a growing need for highly specialised services from bioinformatics core facilities and their supporting teams. Added to these challenges, the rapidly changing necessities of biological data management and analysis outgrow the capabilities of these facilities in terms of software or hardware usage and human resources.

 Bioinformatics core facility’s scientists face many career recognition and progression challenges, often hampered by the lack of formal education in their transition from a research-focused to a service-focused and management role.

 Several efforts have emerged to strengthen management-related competencies for bioinformatics core facilities. Since 2017 EMBL-EBI has run a yearly Bioinformatics Core Facility Management course aimed at experienced core facility managers. Biannually since 2019, an EMBO Research to Service practical course focuses on aspiring managers and those transitioning from a research-focused role. These events have reached over 100 participants with more than 200 applicants. Training contents evolve according to emerging needs like core facility strengths and limitations, financial sustainability, project management, human/computing resources estimation, sensitive data management, and engagement with their users and other core facilities. The participants enthusiastically apply the gained knowledge with their teams and beyond, some becoming core management trainers themselves.

 Diverse efforts are needed to support the bioinformatics core facilities' community of practice. The training targeted toward this community is essential to continue enabling research and development within the life sciences.

 * Selected talk at the Annual European Bioinformatics Core Community (AEBC2) Workshop 2022, part of the New Trends in Bioinformatics programme of workshops and tutorials of the 21st European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2022)
MPEC 2023-S87 : 2023 RG22
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RG22

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.
Does turbulence determine the initial mass function?
Creators: name: Liptai, David
name: Price, Daniel J.
name: Wurster, James
name: Bate, Matthew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the hypothesis that the initial mass function (IMF) is determined by the density probability distribution function (PDF) produced by supersonic turbulence. We compare 14 simulations of star cluster formation in 50 solar mass molecular cloud cores where the initial turbulence contains either purely solenoidal or purely compressive modes, in each case resolving fragmentation to the opacity limit to determine the resultant IMF. We find statistically indistinguishable IMFs between the two sets of calculations, despite a factor of two difference in the star formation rate and in the standard deviation of $\log(ρ)$. This suggests that the density PDF, while determining the star formation rate, is not the primary driver of the IMF.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Physical Layer Secret Key Agreement Using One-Bit Quantization and Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
Creators: name: Snoap, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Physical layer approaches for generating secret encryption keys for wireless systems using channel information have attracted increased interest from researchers in recent years. This paper presents a new approach for calculating log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) for secret key generation that is based on one-bit quantization of channel measurements and the difference between channel estimates at legitimate reciprocal nodes. The studied secret key agreement approach, which implements advantage distillation along with information reconciliation using Slepian-Wolf low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, is discussed and illustrated with numerical results obtained from simulations. These results show the probability of bit disagreement for keys generated using the proposed LLR calculations compared with alternative LLR calculation methods for key generation based on channel state information. The proposed LLR calculations are shown to be an improvement to the studied approach of physical layer secret key agreement.
description: Officially Published on ODU Digital Commons at https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ece_etds/13
MPEC 2023-S88 : 2023 RH22
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RH22

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.
On the notions of facets, weak facets, and extreme functions of the Gomory-Johnson infinite group problem
Creators: name: Köppe, Matthias
name: Zhou, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C10

description: We investigate three competing notions that generalize the notion of a facet of finite-dimensional polyhedra to the infinite-dimensional Gomory-Johnson model. These notions were known to coincide for continuous piecewise linear functions with rational breakpoints. We show that two of the notions, extreme functions and facets, coincide for the case of continuous piecewise linear functions, removing the hypothesis regarding rational breakpoints. We then separate the three notions using discontinuous examples.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures
title: Building community resilience in Vancouver's Chinatown
Creators: name: Shieh, Leslie
name: Chen, Jessica
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chinatowns--British Columbia--Vancouver
subject: Community organization--British Columbia--Vancouver
subject: Historic districts--British Columbia--Vancouver

description: While Vancouver’s Chinatown is one of the largest remaining in North America, gentrification pressures are rapidly changing the neighbourhood. This article examines the challenges facing Vancouver’s Chinatown through the perspective of resilience and asks the broader question of what constitutes a strong community. Based on our work in the community with family associations and benevolent societies, we advocate for greater support for communitybased associations, particularly those that struggle with asset management. We contend that community-owned assets are critical to safeguarding the neighbourhood’s intangible heritage, and in turn its resilience.
description: Bien que le quartier chinois de Vancouver soit un des plus importants qui restent en Amérique du Nord, des pressions attribuables à l’embourgeoisement transforment rapidement le quartier. Cet article porte sur les défis auxquels est confronté le quartier chinois de Vancouver vus dans une perspective de résilience et en arrive à poser une question fondatrice à savoir ce qu’est la résilience d’une collectivité. En basant notre travail dans la collectivité sur des associations familiales et des associations d’assistance mutuelle, nous défendons l’idée d’un plus grand soutien à accorder aux organismes communautaires, surtout celles qui s’occupent de la gestion des actifs. Nous estimons que des actifs qui appartiennent à la collectivité sont critiques au maintien du patrimoine intangible du quartier, et donc de sa résilience.
title: Keeping an eye on the prize: Embedding planned benefits into project delivery
Creators: name: Kravis, Reiner
name: Engel-Yan, Joshua
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Project management
subject: Metrolinx (Toronto, Ont.)

description: How do effective organizations ensure that intended outcomes of large infrastructure investments are realized? There is a risk that the planned benefits of a project can be overlooked when a project is handed from planning to construction since project managers typically focus on delivering a project ‘on time and on budget.’ Sponsorship is a best practice project management approach designed to ensure that planned project benefits are delivered as outcomes. Metrolinx, the regional transportation authority for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, is undergoing the largest investment in its history, with the $13.5 B Regional Express Rail program. Metrolinx has implemented a Benefits Management Initiative and new Sponsor Office that will be accountable for ensuring that the planned benefits of this transformative project are tracked, closely considered in project decision making, and realized over this investment’s lifecycle.
description: Comment les grandes organisations performantes s’assurent-elles que les résultats escomptés de gros investissements en infrastructure soient atteints? Il y a le risque que les retombées positives d’un projet puissent être négligées lorsque le projet est géré de la planification à la construction, puisque les gestionnaires de projet se préoccupent habituellement en priorité des échéanciers et des budgets. Le parrainage est une approche de mesure exemplaire de gestion de projet conçue pour assurer que les retombées prévues soient considérées comme faisant partie des résultats. Metrolinx, une autorité de transport de la région du Grand Toronto et de Hamilton (RGTH), pilote le plus important investissement de son histoire, le programme de train rapide régional réalisé à hauteur de 13,5 G$. Metrolinx a lancé une initiative de gestion des avantages et mis sur pied un bureau de parrainage qui sera responsable de s’assurer que les retombées prévues de ce projet de transformation fassent l’objet d’un suivi, prises en compte lors des décisions importantes et réalisées au cours du cycle de vie de l’investissement.
D4.3 – IPSP Guidelines
Creators: name: Armengou, Clara
name: Bowker, Lynne
name: Coslado, María Ángeles
name: Kuchma, Iryna
name: Laakso, Mikael
name: Melinščak Zlodi, Iva
name: de Pablo Llorente, Virginia
name: Pölönen, Janne
name: Redhead, Claire
name: Rooryck, Johan
name: Ševkušić, Milica
name: Souyioultzoglou, Irakleitos
name: Stojanovski, Jadranka
name: Stone, Graham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: IPSP Guidelines
Institutional Publishing Service Provider
DOAS
Diamond Open Access Standard
IPSP
Institutional Publishing Tools and Technology Provider
IPTP
DCH
Diamond Capacity Hub
CAP
Common Access Point
Diamond Open Access
Diamond OA
Diamond model
European Research Area
Diamond OA scholarly publishing
institutional publishing
scholarly communication
Institutional Publisher
Service Provider

description: This report outlines the development of the Institutional Publisher Service Providers (IPSP) Guidelines, a deliverable of DIAMAS Task 4.3. The guidelines build on existing resources and previous outputs from the DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects, and aim to provide comprehensive instructions to help IPSPs meet current standards for Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing, as defined in the Diamond OA Standard (DOAS) (Consortium of the DIAMAS Project, 2024).

Following an extensive analysis of resources, 18 thematic areas were identified, based on their relevance across diverse publishing practices and challenges as well as their potential to enhance the credibility, efficiency, and capacity of IPSPs. These topics align with the seven core components of the DOAS, and correspond to the scope and contents of the forthcoming IPSP Toolsuite (D4.3).

The guidelines were collaboratively drafted by DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA partners and reviewed by the Toolsuite Editorial Board. To ensure accessibility for a broader audience, the guidelines have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Croatian and will be integrated into the DIAMAS Common Access Point (CAP) as part of the online IPSP Toolsuite.

The guidelines will be regularly updated with new resources and tools to ensure they remain current and continue to support best practices in OA publishing.
description: Deliverable under the review of the European Commission
description: The report "D4.3 – IPSP Guidelines" is also available in Spanish, Croatian and Portuguese.
MPEC 2023-S89 : 2023 QZ40
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QZ40

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.
Short-term deflection of concrete beams
Creators: name: Truong, Bao.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
D4.2 IPSP Toolsuite
Creators: name: Armengou, Clara
name: Alevizos, Ioannis
name: Ševkušić, Milica
name: Souyioultzoglou, Irakleitos
name: Stone, Graham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report outlines the development and implementation of the Institutional Publisher Service Providers (IPSP) Toolsuite, a deliverable of DIAMAS Task 4.2. It includes a description of the process that led to the writing of the Toolsuite articles, their review, translation, and online technical development as part of the Common Access Point (CAP). It also refers to partner toolkits as well as the feedback and revisions process, and provides considerations about future sustainability and development.

We define the Toolsuite as a set of tools and resources that support Diamond Open Access (ΟΑ) and the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) including a set of high-level articles, in-depth guidelines and links to self-assessment tools, training materials and other resources. 

The Toolsuite launched in October 2024 and can be accessed at https://toolsuite.diamas.org/. Version 1 of the Toolsuite text is also available as part of this report (see Annex 2) and via https://doi.org/10.5281zenodo.14001342 

The Toolsuite is structured around the seven core components of DOAS. These are: funding; ownership and governance; open science practices; editorial quality, editorial management and research Integrity; technical service efficiency; visibility, indexation, communication, marketing and impact; and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB), gender, and multilingualism.

The Toolsuite also includes a glossary of terms, keywords and frequently asked questions (FAQs), background information and two further articles, an introduction to Diamond OA and also an article introducing the concept of DO
title: Professional ethics, lobbying and post-employment conduct
title: Éthique, lobbying et conduite après-mandat
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Buholzer, Bill
name: Steil, John
Publisher: name: Canadian Institute of Planners
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Planners--Professional ethics
subject: Urbanistes--Éthique professionnelle

description: In light of the BC government’s announced plans to restrict lobbying by ex-MLAs and very senior staff for a period after they leave office, some west coast Fellows have recently been musing about the parts of the PIBC Code of Ethics that potentially touch on post-employment conduct.
description: À la suite de l’annonce par le gouvernement de C.-B. de son intention de restreindre les activités de lobbying des exmembres de l’Assemblée législative et des cadres supérieurs pour un certain temps après la fin de leur mandat, certains des Fellows de la côté Ouest se sont interrogés sur la façon dont des articles du code de déontologie du PIBC pourraient avoir une incidence sur leur conduite après-mandat.