cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supporting Chinese-speaking cancer patients to make safe and informed complementary medicine decicions
Creators: name: Wong, Margurite Elvina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Clinical observation indicated that there were a substantial number of Chinese-speaking cancer patients receiving care at the British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) located in Vancouver, where the second largest Chinese Canadian population resides. CAM has been popular among Chinese-speaking cancer patients around the world, but little research has been done to examine the prevalence of CAM use in these patients in Canada. It was found that almost half of these patients used CAM and their preferred choice of CAM therapy was biological-based therapy that included natural health products (NHPs) and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The use of CAM is controversial because of its potential to interact with conventional cancer treatment and other medications. Due to a lack of culturally relevant CAM information and decision support intervention, many Chinese-speaking patients were using CAM without adequate support. This type of support is urgently needed to help these patients to make safe and informed CAM decisions. Knowledge about their CAM decision-making experiences and the types of CAM information and decision supports needs are required to create such interventions. A sequential multi-method research design was used for this study, which occurred in two phases: a quantitative secondary data analysis and qualitative semi-structured interviews. In this study, we found that more than 65% of the Chinese-speaking cancer patients surveyed reported to have used CAM since their diagnoses, and the prevalence of its use was significantly higher than that used by the mainstream cancer population. There were two types of CAM decision-making experience: Spontaneous and deliberate. The spontaneous decision makers relied heavily on their peers to help with decision making, whereas the deliberate decision makers gathered information from multiple sources and selected the CAM therapies that were safe and fitted their cultural health beliefs and their previous CAM use experience. In addition, the group of patients also had unique CAM information and decisions supports needs. All this newly gained knowledge would contribute to the development of future interventions to help theses patients to make safe and informed CAM decisions.
In situ encapsulation of ZrQ in UiO-66 (Zr-BDC) for pore size control to enhance detection of a nerve agent simulant dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP)
Creators: name: Wong, Danny
name: Kim, Seonghwan
name: Abuzalat, Osama
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: Chemical warfare agents are toxic chemicals that require rapid, easy-to-use, sensitive, and selective sensors to countermeasure. Simulants, such as dimethyl methyl phosphonate (DMMP), are used to test the effectiveness of sensors toward nerve agents. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) offer large surface area and selective accessibility to active sites making them appealing for chemical sensing applications. In this work, we propose a fast, facile, direct synthesis method for manufacturing fluorescent MOFs with high sensitivity and selectivity. Zr-BDC is synthesized with 1, 4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (BDC) as an organic ligand and zirconium (Zr) metal. Fluorescent materials are then encapsulated in a novel and rapid in situ approach with strong solvents. X-ray diffraction, UV–visible spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy are used to verify the successful formation of fluorescent MOFs. Compared to other methods, the gel synthesis method helps to control crystal growth leading to higher BET surface areas of ~1150 m2 g−1 for Zr-BDC and 850 m2 g−1 for ZrQ@Zr-BDC. Titration experiments show the sensitivity of the material to DMMP down to 8.3 nM with a highly linear response. Enhanced fluorescence and occupation of mesopores by ZrQ enable lower limit of detection than those of comparable works in literature. The encapsulation mechanism also prevents substantial defects that would otherwise lead to water adsorption.
Shulḥan ʻarukh
Shulḥan ʻarukh Hebräisch 1627
Creators: name: Ḳaro, Yosef
Publisher: name: [Typographia orientalis]
Year: 1627

description: ... ḥibro ... Yosef Ḳaro ... ; ʻim Ḥidushe dinim ... Mosheh Iserleś ... ṿe-eleh mosif ... meḳom meḳor ha-hagahah ... mi-tokh ḥiburo ha-gadol ... Darkhe Mosheh
description: Offizin ergänzt nach einem Katalogisat der Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
description: Das Konvolut enthält auf dem Vorsatz zwei hebräische 'Gekauft'-Vermerke (Käufer: Iziḳ ben Aharon Heller aus Ichenhausen bzw. ein R. Meʾir; Verkäufer: Avraham aus Buchau bzw. ein R. Ṿolf)
Supercurrent blockade in Josephson junctions with a Majorana wire
Creators: name: Zazunov, A.
name: Egger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Josephson effect for a topologically nontrivial superconducting (TS) wire with Majorana fermion end states and tunnel-coupled to s-wave BCS superconducting (S) electrodes. In an S-TS junction, no supercurrent flow is possible under fairly general conditions. For the S-TS-S junction, bulk TS quasiparticles must be accessible to have a Josephson effect. In the noninteracting case, we derive the exact current-phase relation (CPR) and find π-periodic behavior with negative critical current for weak tunnel couplings. Charging effects then cause the anomalous CPR $I(φ)=I_c \cosφ$, where the parity-sensitive critical current I_c provides a signature for Majorana states.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in PRB
Metal-Organic Framework Reinforced Highly Stretchable and Durable Conductive Hydrogel-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Biomotion Sensing and Wearable Human-Machine Interfaces
Creators: name: Rahman, Muhammad Toyabur
name: Rahman, Md Sazzadur
name: Kumar, Hitendra
name: Kim, Keekyoung
name: Kim, Seonghwan
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description: Flexible triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) with multifunctional sensing capabilities offer an elegant solution to address the growing energy supply challenges for wearable smart electronics. Herein, a highly stretchable and durable electrode for wearable TENG is developed using ZIF-8 as a reinforcing nanofiller in a hydrogel with LiCl electrolyte. ZIF-8 nanocrystals improve the hydrogel's mechanical properties by forming hydrogen bonds with copolymer chains, resulting in 2.7 times greater stretchability than pure hydrogel. The hydrogel electrode is encapsulated by microstructured silicone layers that act as triboelectric materials and prevent water loss from the hydrogel. Optimized ZIF-8-based hydrogel electrodes enhance the output performance of TENG through the dynamic balance of electric double layers (EDLs) during contact electrification. Thus, the as-fabricated TENG delivers an excellent power density of 3.47 Wm–2, which is 3.2 times higher than pure hydrogel-based TENG. The developed TENG can scavenge biomechanical energy even at subzero temperatures to power small electronics and serve as excellent self-powered pressure sensors for human-machine interfaces (HMIs). The nanocomposite hydrogel-based TENG can also function as a wearable biomotion sensor, detecting body movements with high sensitivity. This study demonstrates the significant potential of utilizing ZIF-8 reinforced hydrogel as an electrode for wearable TENGs in energy harvesting and sensor technology.
When are active Brownian particles and run-and-tumble particles equivalent? Consequences for motility-induced phase separation
Creators: name: Cates, M. E.
name: Tailleur, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active Brownian particles (ABPs, such as self-phoretic colloids) swim at fixed speed $v$ along a body-axis ${\bf u}$ that rotates by slow angular diffusion. Run-and-tumble particles (RTPs, such as motile bacteria) swim with constant $\u$ until a random tumble event suddenly decorrelates the orientation. We show that when the motility parameters depend on density $ρ$ but not on ${\bf u}$, the coarse-grained fluctuating hydrodynamics of interacting ABPs and RTPs can be mapped onto each other and are thus strictly equivalent. In both cases, a steeply enough decreasing $v(ρ)$ causes phase separation in dimensions $d=2,3$, even when no attractive forces act between the particles. This points to a generic role for motility-induced phase separation in active matter. However, we show that the ABP/RTP equivalence does not automatically extend to the more general case of $\u$-dependent motilities.
Understanding the Changes in Writing Between Early to Academic Literacy: The transition between Grade 3 and Grade 4 Students
Creators: name: Mir-Orefice, Aurélia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Writing
subject: Vocabulary
subject: Handwriting
subject: Fluency
subject: Educational Psychology

description: Due to the increasing curriculum demands, students often struggle to successfully transition from grade 3 to grade 4. During this transitional period, students are expected to have learned how to write and use those skills to perform academically. There are several variables at play in terms of making the transition from early literacy to academic literacy, such as vocabulary, handwriting, and fluency. Being successful in this literacy transition is crucial for overall academic success and flourishing. This study aims to explore different factors that may influence students’ writing during this transitional period. English Language Learners (ELL) and English Native Speakers (ENS) were compared. Students were compared in grade 3 to grade 4 in terms of quality of writing, quality of handwriting, total number of words (TNW), low-frequency threshold (LFT), band 4 coverage, and off-list words. A path analysis was conducted, demonstrating the importance of handwriting quality and lexical reach on fluency and indirectly on writing quality. Results show no significant differences between ELL students and ENS. Although there were no differences in quality writing outcomes from grade 3 to grade 4, LFT decreased, and TNW, handwriting quality, and band 4 coverage increased. In grade 3, all variables were correlated with quality writing outcome. However, in grade 4, the percentage of off-list words is no longer correlated with the quality writing outcome. In grade 3, only the LFT, the TNW, and the quality writing outcome were correlated with the grade 4 quality writing outcome. Path analyses suggest that the LFT and handwriting quality impact the TNW, impacting the quality writing outcome. Overall, students struggle to make the leap from grade 3 to grade 4 and require more support.
Leptogamasus Tragardh, 1936 sensu Juvara-Bals 1981
Creators: name: WitalińskiK, Wojciech
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parasitidae
Leptogamasus

description: Genus Leptogamasus Trägårdh, 1936 sensu Juvara-Balş, 1981
 Type species Leptogamasus suecicus Trägårdh, 1936: 227.
Some taxonomic remarks on the genus and its subgenera were recently published (Witaliński, 2021a).
description: Published as part of WitalińskiK, Wojciech, 2022, New Leptogamasus mite species (Parasitiformes: Parasitidae) from Europe. V. Romania, pp. 1171-1200 in Acarologia 62 (4) on page 1172, DOI: 10.24349/o36f-nsyv, http://zenodo.org/record/10272788
Varonaetal2023.Fig1b
Creators: name: Varona, Natascha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bioinformatic methods development
Bacteriology

description: This script contains the R-script used to make Figure 1b in Varona et al. 2023. This calculates the median relative abundance of bMAGs across samples in a mirrored barplot. The only way to plot mirrored barplots in R is to set the opposing side to be negative. The negatives can be removed manually in figure editing software like Adobe illustrator.
Local Projections of Low-Momentum Potentials
Creators: name: Wendt, K. A.
name: Furnstahl, R. J.
name: Ramanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear interactions evolved via renormalization group methods to lower resolution become increasingly non-local (off-diagonal in coordinate space) as they are softened. This inhibits both the development of intuition about the interactions and their use with some methods for solving the quantum many-body problem. By applying "local projections", a softened interaction can be reduced to a local effective interaction plus a non-local residual interaction. At the two-body level, a local projection after similarity renormalization group (SRG) evolution manifests the elimination of short-range repulsive cores and the flow toward universal low-momentum interactions. The SRG residual interaction is found to be relatively weak at low energy, which motivates a perturbative treatment.
Additional file 11 of Glycemic control and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus treated using glyburide, metformin, or insulin: a pairwise and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yu, Dan-Qing
name: Xu, Guan-Xin
name: Teng, Xin-Yuan
name: Xu, Jing-Wei
name: Tang, Liang-Fang
name: Feng, Chun
name: Rao, Jin-Peng
name: Jin, Min
name: Wang, Li-Quan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 11: Supplementary Table 2. Network meta-analysis of glycemic control and birth weight.
Probing Nucleation Mechanisms of Gas Hydrates via Molecular Simulations
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Molecular simulation
subject: Gas hydrate
subject: Markov state model
subject: nucleation mechanism
subject: Education--Sciences

description: Gas hydrates are ice-like solids where guest species can be encapsulated in water cages. Gas hydrates have received considerable attention because of the vast natural methane hydrates and various promising hydrate-based technologies. Relevant to the applications, a fundamental molecular-level understanding of nucleation behavior and mechanisms is necessary to support ongoing developments associated with gas hydrates. With the primary goal to provide significant insights into the mechanistic details of gas hydrate formation at the molecular level, this thesis investigates the behavior of gas hydrate nucleation and growth using Molecular Dynamic (MD) simulations along with Markov State Models (MSMs). The investigation of the nucleation behavior of mixed CH4/H2S hydrates within bulk aqueous solutions reveals the roles of different guest species in the hydrate formation process and the impacts of guest compositions, temperature, and different physical setups on the hydrate nucleation behavior. CH4 species has been consistently observed enriched in the hydrate phase relative to the aqueous solution, while increasing H2S composition can significantly enhance the rate of nucleation and growth of the hydrate through enhancement of the solubility of guests in solution. The investigation of the nucleation mechanisms of gas hydrates in water nanodroplets with pure-guest and mixed-guest species reveals key factors affecting hydrate nucleation behavior, including guest species, guest compositions, size of the nanodroplet, and temperature. The effects of temperature and the size of the water nanodroplet on the location of the initial hydrate nucleus have been explored. Utilizing water nanodroplet systems, the possible origins of the different effects of temperature control schemes on the behavior of hydrate formation have been addressed. It is found that the finite size of the surroundings is the origin of the influence of the temperature control schemes on the hydrate nucleation rates. Novel structural analyses, based on applying MSMs to data from gas hydrate simulations, have been used to identify and characterize a general transition network describing hydrate formation. This transition network of cage formation and the corresponding thermodynamic behavior confirm and validate that hydrate nucleation is essentially an ordering-in-stages process, where the early-stage behavior leading to a hydrate nucleus is dominated by entropic aspects.
Bulk and Transhorizon Measurements in AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Heemskerk, Idse
name: Marolf, Donald
name: Polchinski, Joseph
name: Sully, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the construction of bulk operators in asymptotically AdS spacetimes, including the interiors of AdS black holes. We use this to address the question "If Schrodinger's cat were behind the horizon of an AdS black hole, could we determine its state by a measurement in the dual CFT?"
description: 32 pages, 5 figures. v2: Author added, appendix on spacelike Green's function added, discussion of non-dependence on boundary Hamiltonian expanded
The Reactor Anomaly after Daya Bay and RENO
Creators: name: Ciuffoli, Emilio
name: Evslin, Jarah
name: Li, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gallium and short baseline reactor neutrino experiments indicate a short-distance anomalous disappearance of electron antineutrinos which, if interpreted in terms of neutrino oscillations, would lead to a sterile neutrino mass inconsistent with standard cosmological models. This anomaly is difficult to measure at 1 km baseline experiments because its disappearance effects are degenerate with that of theta_13. The flux normalization independent measurement of theta_13 at Daya Bay breaks this degeneracy, allowing an unambiguous differentiation of 1-3 neutrino oscillations and the anomalous disappearance at Double Chooz and RENO. The resulting anomaly is consistent with that found at very short baselines and suggests a downward revision of RENO's result for theta_13. A MCMC global analysis of current cosmological data shows that a quintom cosmology is just compatible at 2 sigma with a sterile neutrino with the right mass to reproduce the reactor anomaly and to a lesser extent the gallium and LSND/MiniBooNE anomalies. However models in which the sterile neutrino acquires a chameleon mass easily satisfy the cosmological bounds and also reduce the tension between LSND and KARMEN.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, v2 uses RENO results from nuTURN and Daya Bay results from Neutrino 2012
Lipschitz Games
Creators: name: Azrieli, Yaron
name: Shmaya, Eran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91A10, 05D40

description: The Lipschitz constant of a finite normal-form game is the maximal change in some player's payoff when a single opponent changes his strategy. We prove that games with small Lipschitz constant admit pure ε-equilibria, and pinpoint the maximal Lipschitz constant that is sufficient to imply existence of pure ε-equilibrium as a function of the number of players in the game and the number of strategies of each player. Our proofs use the probabilistic method.
description: minor changes, forthcoming in Mathematics of Operations Research
Mental Health Service Engagement Among Canadian-Born Chinese University Students: What Helps and What Hinders
Creators: name: Choy, Alexander Jonathan
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Mental Health Services
subject: Help-Seeking
subject: Chinese Canadians
subject: Canadian-Born Chinese
subject: University Students
subject: Help-Seeking Behaviour
subject: Educational Psychology

description: Mental health service (MHS) underutilization remains a significant issue for students on Canadian post-secondary campuses. Further, Chinese Canadians have reported among the poorest self-rated mental health, yet the lowest rates of MHS utilization of various ethnic groups within Canada. However, barriers and facilitators to mental health service engagement (MHSE) remain unexplored among Canadian-born Chinese (CBC) university students. As such, the aims of this study were to identify and explore helping and hindering factors related to CBC university students’ experiences of engaging with MHSs and the cultural context in which they do so. Seven CBC university students participated in semi-structured interviews about their experiences of MHSE, including the processes of recognizing and defining a problem requiring the support of mental health professionals, seeking MHSs, accessing MHSs, and utilizing MHSs. Data were analyzed using the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique, a qualitative research method which focuses on identifying helping and/or hindering critical incidents (CIs) and wish list (WL) items. Findings included themes related to the cultural context in which participants engaged with MHSs and categories of CIs and WL items related to what helped, hindered, and/or might have helped participants in MHSE. Implications for mental health promotion, counselling, and future research are discussed. This study provides unique perspectives that may inform culturally appropriate ways for university stakeholders, counsellors, and other allied professionals to promote successful MHSE among CBC university students.
Brommella resima Li 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Wang, Xiaoxiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Dictynidae
Brommella
Brommella resima

description: Brommella resima Li, sp. nov. (Figs 36–37, 97) Type material. Holotype. Female, China, Guizhou, Tongren City, Yinjiang County, Eling Town, Yandi Village, Makou Cave, 27º59.629'N, 108º27.202'E, elev. 600 m, 4 May 2010, Y. Lin & Q. Zhao leg., deposited in IZCAS. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ resimus ”, meaning “with upturned nose”, and refers to the shape of sclerotized lateral lobe edges and BO of epigynum; adjective. Diagnosis. Females of this new species appear almost identical to B. punctosparsa (Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 363, figs 213K–N), but can be distinguished by the detailed structure of epigynum. Description. Female (holotype). Total length 3.80 (Figs 37C–D). Prosoma length 1.75, width 1.20. Cephalic region width 0.70. Cephalic part flat, covered with several setae. Thoracic part brown, fovea reduced, prosoma margin indistinct. Eight eyes, AME black, others white, all eyes encircled with black. Eye diameters: AME 0.04, ALE 0.10, PLE 0.10, PME 0.08. Eye interdistances: ALE-PLE 0.03, AME-ALE 0.04, AME-AME 0.05, PLE-PME 0.07, PME-PME 0.10. Eye region length 0.21, width 0.74. Clypeus height 0.13. Chelicerae length 0.65, width 0.33. Chelicerae brown, with distinct lateral condyles, 3 (1 large, 2 small) promarginal and 5 retromarginal teeth. Labium and gnathocoxae brown, sternum light brown. Labium length 0.19, width 0.28. Gnathocoxae length 0.50, width 0.25. Sternum length 0.90, width 0.85. Legs light brown. Leg formula I-IV-II-III. Leg measurements: I 7.70 (2.25, 0.70, 2.10, 1.70, 0.95); II 6.30 (1.90, 0.60, 1.60, 1.40, 0.80); III 5.60 (1.70, 0.50, 1.20, 1.40, 0.80); IV 7.20 (2.05, 0.60, 1.75, 1.80, 1.00). Ratio Cl/Met IV = 0.42, with 16 setae. Opisthosoma length 1.60, width 2.23. Opisthosoma yellow, without distinct pattern. Cribellum narrow, undivided. Epigynum (Figs 36, 37A–B). Width 0.31. Copulatory ducts coiled as circle in ventral view. Bursae reduced. Copulatory ducts slender, twisted tightly (Figs 36A, 37B). Spermathecae swollen, coiled along epigynal duct ball. Male. Unknown. Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 97).
description: Published as part of Li, Shuqiang & Wang, Xiaoxiao, 2017, New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Dictynidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Guangxi and Guizhou, China, pp. 125-228 in Zoological Systematics 42 (2) on pages 163-165, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201711, http://zenodo.org/record/5366040
Green Connectivities: Environmental Literature, Community, and Alliance-Building in Canada
Creators: name: Van Dyk, Leah
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecocriticism
subject: Environmental Literature
subject: Literature--English
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)

description: "Green Connectivities: Environmental Literature, Community, and Alliance-Building in Canada" analyzes the spaces of interaction, potential, and interconnectivity between critical analysis, literature, and environmental activist communities. Specifically, this project engages with how creative works and embodied experiences are imagined and treated in contemporary Canadian environmental conversations and critical spaces. This project follows the pathways of embodied and textual experience alongside ecological literary criticism to examine ways of understanding, community formation, and knowledge sharing across and within environments, and to imagine how experience and advocacy might be different if we lived as if the works presented here were not only true but as urgent in environmental discourse as the theoretical works that underpin current praxis. In so doing, I seek to make visible the (dis)connections of ecocritical theory with literature and embodiment and argue for a (re)investment in land-based and interpersonal methods in ecocritical pedagogy. Chapter 1 situates the project’s methodological praxis and theoretical conversations, while also investigating who is able to speak in environmental narratives and how we tell climate stories. Chapter 2 considers the works of prairie writers Bertrand Bickersteth and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers alongside theories rooted in the prairies to examine how environmental community formation, relationality, and action—grounded in specific places and their histories—might connect to embodied literary and cultural production within that place. Chapter 3 explores the works of Rita Wong, Katherena Vermette, Christi Belcourt, and The Enpipe Line alongside environmental activist work to consider environmental rights and protections, the tensions of being an activist and an artist, and the forming of alliances across and between communities of being and thought. Chapter 4 considers the impact of collaborative voicings, or conversation, to writing about or through response-ability, intersectional ecological networks, and environmental community formation in the works of Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, David Chariandy, and Lee Maracle. In analyzing the experiences and spaces of environmental communities, I consider the connections and collisions that occur between and within activism, ecocritical analysis, and literature (or creative praxis more generally) and argue that through these connections we might find new ways of being and relating within environmental community.
On the optimal measurement for quantum discord of two-qubit states
Creators: name: Shi, Mingjun
name: Sun, Chunxiao
name: Jiang, Fengjian
name: Yan, Xinhu
name: Du, Jiangfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an efficient method to solve the quantum discord of two-qubit X states exactly. A geometric picture is used to clarify whether and when the general POVM measurement is superior to von Neumann measurement. We show that either the von Neumann measurement or the three-element POVM measurement is optimal, and more interestingly, in the latter case the components of the postmeasurement ensemble are invariant for a class of states.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Truth and Reconciliation in the Workplace: Indigenous Employment Experiences and Perceptions of Organizational Support
Creators: name: Grier, Melanie Ann
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Indigenous
subject: Indigenization
subject: post-secondary education
subject: perceived organizational support
subject: retention
subject: organizational change
subject: qualitative
subject: thematic analysis
subject: industrial-organizational
subject: psychology
subject: future of work
subject: sustainability
subject: Psychology--Industrial

description: Background: Truth and reconciliation with Indigenous people in Canada is of paramount importance, but despite initiatives like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action in 2015, progress is sluggish, particularly in sectors related to employment. Since poverty and underemployment directly impact disparities in all other sectors (e.g., education, health, and criminal justice), employment must remain a focus of truth and reconciliation efforts. Unfortunately, barriers like organizational ignorance of how to support Indigenous employees impede meaningful Indigenous participation in the workforce, highlighting the need for intervention. Responding to these calls, this pragmatic, action research-oriented qualitative investigation identifies sources of organizational support for Indigenous post-secondary employees using theoretical concepts from organizational psychology to support leaders in effectively and appropriately supporting Indigenous employees. Methods: Using a purposive sampling approach, 18 self-identified Indigenous staff and faculty members at public post-secondary research institutions in southwestern Canada agreed to participate in the study. I conducted semi-structured interviews with participants to discuss their work experiences and perceptions of organizational support. Iterative inductive and deductive thematic analysis was used to describe common themes within the interview transcripts. Results: Three prominent themes emerged: Stay Factors (encompassing Reciprocity and Belonging), Retention Factors (comprising Institutional, Cultural, Individual, and Relational Support Factors), and Leave Factors (consisting of Workload, Discrimination, and Organizational Dysfunction). Participants reported supportive attributes of their work directly from their institution, such as monetary rewards and benefits, as well as indirect supports that provide new ideas for organizationally supportive policies and services, such as culturally responsive performance review and advancement policies. These findings highlight various retention factors, emphasizing opportunities for organizational leaders to strengthen support for Indigenous post-secondary employees. Conclusion: This study offers theoretical contributions and provides concrete recommendations for how organizations can support Indigenous employees in post-secondary institutions and beyond. Using these findings as a stepping stone, organizations can more effectively support Indigenous employees and contribute to tangible truth and reconciliation progress.
Brommella wangfengcheni Li 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Wang, Xiaoxiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Dictynidae
Brommella
Brommella wangfengcheni

description: Brommella wangfengcheni Li, sp. nov. (Figs 50–51, 97) Type material. Holotype. Female, China, Guangxi, Chongzuo City, Tiandeng County, Dukang Town, Bakong Village, cave without name, 23º06.708'N, 107º04.558'E, elev. 480 m, 29 July 2011, X. Wang leg., deposited in IZCAS. Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honor of the late Prof. Fengchen Wang (1906–1978) from Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences (now Jilin University); noun in apposition. Prof. Wang is the first Chinese zoologist to carry out a systematic national-scale survey of spiders and harvestmen. Diagnosis. Females of this new species closely resemble those of B. baiseensis Li, sp. nov. (Figs 4, 6A–D), but can be distinguished by the twin-looped copulatory ducts (four loops can be seen in B. baiseensis Li, sp. nov.). Description. Female (holotype). Total length 2.95 (Figs 51C–D). Prosoma length 1.35, width 1.00. Cephalic region width 0.58. Carapace pyriform, cephalic part flat, covered with several setae. Thoracic part yellow, fovea reduced. Eight eyes, AME black, others white, all eyes encircled with black. Eye size and interdistances: AME 0.04, ALE 0.09, PLE 0.09, PME 0.08; ALE-PLE 0.02, PLE-PME 0.06, PME-PME 0.07, ALE-AME 0.01, AME-AME 0.03. Eye region length 0.20, width 0.39. Clypeus height 0.14. Chelicerae length 0.54, width 0.28. Chelicerae with distinct lateral condyles, 3 promarginal and 5 retromarginal teeth. Chelicerae, labium and gnathocoxae light brown; sternum yellow. Labium length 0.18, width 0.25. Gnathocoxae length 0.43, width 0.21. Sternum length 0.80, width 0.73. Legs light brown. Leg formula I-IV-II-III. Leg measurements: I 7.05 (2.00, 0.60, 1.90, 1.62, 0.93); II 5.33 (1.60, 0.50, 1.35, 1.10, 0.78); III 4.52 (1.44, 0.45, 1.05, 0.93, 0.65); IV 6.18 (1.80, 0.50, 1.50, 1.50, 0.88). Ratio Cl/Met IV = 0.25, with 12 setae. Opisthosoma length 1.75, width 1.30. Opisthosoma white, without any spots. Cribellum narrow, undivided. Epigynum (Figs 50, 51A–B). Width 0.36. Atrium situated posteriorly of epigynal plate, touching the epigastric furrow. Copulatory ducts coiled as two loops in ventral view. Bursae enlarged, fused at base. Copulatory ducts thick, tightly twisted. The spermathecae small, transversely swollen. Male. Unknown. Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 97).
description: Published as part of Li, Shuqiang & Wang, Xiaoxiao, 2017, New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Dictynidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Guangxi and Guizhou, China, pp. 125-228 in Zoological Systematics 42 (2) on pages 175-178, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201711, http://zenodo.org/record/5366040
OPTIMIZING FUEL ECONOMY AND EMISSIONS FOR OFF-ROAD DIESEL ENGINE USING ELECTRIC EGR PUMP AND HIGH EFFICIENCY TURBO
Creators: name: Ahmad, Zar Nigar
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401703
subject: Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)
classificationCode: 400201
subject: Automotive combustion and fuel engineering

description: An EGR Pump and High-Efficiency turbo were installed on a 13.6 L John Deere diesel engine. The main objective of this study was to examine how a high-efficiency turbocharger and an electric EGR pump can work together to improve fuel efficiency in engines without increasing the emission of NOx. The focus is on finding a balance, between enhancing efficiency and controlling emissions which will ultimately contribute to making vehicles eco-friendly and fuel-efficient.
Researching Researchers: Exploring the Challenges of Conducting Research During a Pandemic
Creators: name: Onuoha, Onyinyechi Choice
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: research assistants
subject: COVID-19 pandemic
subject: phenomenology
subject: challenges
subject: qualitative research
subject: Education
subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Health
subject: Psychometrics
subject: Public Health

description: Abstract Background: Research Assistants (RAs) play a key role in the successful completion of research. When data collection and recruitment are disrupted, as was the case during the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying restrictions, the effects on RAs attempting to conduct research are not well known. Objective: This study explored RAs’ perspectives of conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Five RAs who had begun collecting data at a mid-western children’s hospital on how a robot named MEDi® could help patients uphold health and safety procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic, took part in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was conducted on the interview data. Results: Through our analysis, we identified four key themes (and sub-themes) that reflected RAs’ experiences of conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic: Inspiration and Motivation; Research Barriers; Human Connections and Relationships; and Creativity and Problem-Solving. The first theme focused on the sources of RAs’ inspiration and motivation to participate in research; the second focused on the barriers that affected data collection and recruitment. The third theme described the impact that human connections and relationships had on the success of the research, and the final theme explored the RAs’ creativity and problem-solving approaches, which aided in navigating the challenges faced during the pandemic. The challenges faced by RAs in this study were overcome with positive attitudes, creativity, and collaboration. Conclusion: This research experience allowed RAs to explore creative strategies to adapt research methods to suit unanticipated circumstances and develop an array of interpersonal skills to facilitate participation in future research and career activities.
Additional file 1 of Rating of physiotherapy student clinical performance in a paediatric setting: are assessors consistent in their rating of a simulated clinical student performance?
Creators: name: Fulton, Tessa
name: Myatt, Kerry
name: Kirwan, Garry W
name: Clark, Courtney R
name: Dalton, Megan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary 1: APP Vignettes Validity and Reliability Testing
Competing misfit relaxation mechanisms in epitaxial correlated oxides
Creators: name: Sandiumenge, Felip
name: Santiso, José
name: Balcells, Lluis
name: Konstantinovic, Zorica
name: Roqueta, Jaume
name: Pomar, Alberto
name: Martínez, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strain engineering of functional properties in epitaxial thin films of strongly correlated oxides exhibiting octahedral-framework structures is hindered by the lack of adequate misfit relaxation models. Here we present unreported experimental evidences of a four-stage hierarchical development of octahedral-framework perturbations resulting from a progressive imbalance between electronic, elastic and octahedral tilting energies in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 epitaxial thin films grown on SrTiO3 substrates. Electronic softening of the Mn - O bonds near the substrate leads to the formation of an interfacial layer clamped to the substrate with strongly degraded magnetotransport properties, i.e. the so-called dead layer, while rigid octahedral tilts become relevant at advanced growth stages without significant effects on charge transport and magnetic ordering.
Binary Particle Swarm Optimization based Biclustering of Web usage Data
Creators: name: Rathipriya, R.
name: Thangavel, K.
name: Bagyamani, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Web mining is the nontrivial process to discover valid, novel, potentially useful knowledge from web data using the data mining techniques or methods. It may give information that is useful for improving the services offered by web portals and information access and retrieval tools. With the rapid development of biclustering, more researchers have applied the biclustering technique to different fields in recent years. When biclustering approach is applied to the web usage data it automatically captures the hidden browsing patterns from it in the form of biclusters. In this work, swarm intelligent technique is combined with biclustering approach to propose an algorithm called Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) based Biclustering for Web Usage Data. The main objective of this algorithm is to retrieve the global optimal bicluster from the web usage data. These biclusters contain relationships between web users and web pages which are useful for the E-Commerce applications like web advertising and marketing. Experiments are conducted on real dataset to prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.
Correlation between break fee and asset purchase option regulation in Canada and its empirical effects
Creators: name: Kleefstra, Zelius
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis focuses on break fee and asset purchase option regulation in Canada and the empirical effects of that regulatory regime. The structure of this thesis is divided into three broad sections. The first section of the thesis (Chapter 2) assesses the Canadian general corporate and securities law related to directors’ duties imposed on target directors when implementing any defensive tactic. These general directors’ duties affect the implementation of all defensive tactics and thus form a significant part of the regulatory scheme governing break fees and asset purchase options. The second section of this thesis (Chapter 3) considers the specific directors’ duties applicable exclusively to break fees and asset purchase options. This second section then analyses the doctrine underlying the complete Canadian regulatory framework, governing break fees and asset purchase options. The third and final section of the thesis (Chapter 4) analyses the empirical economic effects created by the Canadian regulatory regime of directors’ duties governing the use of break fees and asset purchase options. This analysis draws its empirical evidence on the effects of Canadian break fees, from a crucial study by P. Andr´e, S. Khalil and M. Magnan, (2007) “Termination Fees in Mergers and Acquisitions”. Past research has focussed exclusively on describing the regulatory regime, or on providing substantive data on the effect of break fees and asset purchase options. The key novel element provided in this thesis is that it establishes a logical correlation between the regulatory framework of directors’ duties imposed on the use of break fees and asset purchase options and the empirical effects of the regulatory framework. In this regard, I argue that the empirical effects of break fees and asset purchase options are strongly tied to the regime regulating its implementation. Secondly, I argue that much of the “positive” empirical findings on the effects of break fees and asset purchase options correlate with the “broad director welfare function” approach to regulatory design (developed in Chapter 3). Finally, this thesis proposes limited changes to this regulatory regime governing break fees and asset purchase options while maintaining the “broad director welfare function” as the underlying doctrine.
Leptogamasus (Leptogamasus) Tragardh 1936
Creators: name: WitalińskiK, Wojciech
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parasitidae
Leptogamasus

description: Leptogamasus (Leptogamasus) Trägårdh, 1936
 Type species Leptogamasus suecicus Trägårdh, 1936: 227.
description: Published as part of WitalińskiK, Wojciech, 2022, New Leptogamasus mite species (Parasitiformes: Parasitidae) from Europe. V. Romania, pp. 1171-1200 in Acarologia 62 (4) on page 1172, DOI: 10.24349/o36f-nsyv, http://zenodo.org/record/10272788
Additional file 1 of Study protocol for two pilot randomised controlled trials aimed at increasing physical activity using electrically assisted bicycles to enhance prostate or breast cancer survival
Creators: name: Bourne, Jessica E.
name: Foster, Charlie
name: Forte, Chloe
name: Aning, Jonathan
name: Potter, Shelley
name: Hart, Emma C.
name: Armstrong, Miranda E. G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*.
title: The Grievance Hoax, critical scholarship, and healthy cities as multi-species spaces
title: Learning from the retraction and ridicule of fraudulent research about people and pet dogs in urban parks
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: ROCK, Melanie J.
name: BLUE, Gwendolyn
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2023

description: Rock, M.J. & Blue G. 2023. The Grievance Hoax, critical scholarship, and healthy cities as multi-species spaces: Learning from the retraction and ridicule of fraudulent research about people and pet dogs in urban parks (Presentation). Resilient Communities: One Urban Health for resilient, inclusive, and innovative cities (Symposium). Organizers and Panelists (in alphabetical order): C. Aenishaenslin (Université de Montréal), M. Boiteux (Université de Montréal), M. Bouchard (Université de Montréal), T. Hancock (University of Victoria), C. Lawand (Health Canada), E. de Leeuw (University of New South Wales), S. Lord (Université de Montréal). Canadian Science Policy Conference, 13-15 November.
Chaos synchronization in networks of delay-coupled lasers: Role of the coupling phases
Creators: name: Flunkert, Valentin
name: Schöll, Eckehard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive rigorous conditions for the synchronization of all-optically coupled lasers. In particular, we elucidate the role of the optical coupling phases for synchronizability by systematically discussing all possible network motifs containing two lasers with delayed coupling and feedback. Hereby we explain previous experimental findings. Further, we study larger networks and elaborate optimal conditions for chaos synchronization. We show that the relative phases between lasers can be used to optimize the effective coupling matrix.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures