cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Statistical and machine learning modelling of UK surface ozone
Creators: name: Gouldsbrough, Lily
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: In addition to atmospheric observations, numerical models are crucial to understand the impacts of human activities on the environment, from attributing poor air quality to assessing climate change impacts. While process-based models, such as chemistry transport models (CTMs), are widely used, recent data science advances enable greater use of statistical and machine learning methods as alternatives to describe and predict atmospheric composition. State-of-the-art data science methods can be faster to run than CTMs and used at high temporal and spatial resolutions due to codebase efficiencies. This thesis focuses on modelling UK surface ozone and its drivers (high levels of which are detrimental to human and plant health) through the development and novel application of sophisticated statistical and machine learning techniques. Motivated by possible adverse effect of climate change on ozone concentrations, a temperature-dependent Extreme Value Analysis is used to explore the probability, magnitude, and frequency of extreme ozone events over recent decades. For 2010–2019, it is found that the 1-year return level of daily maximum 8-h mean (MDA8) ozone exceeds the ‘moderate’ health threshold (100 µg/m3) at >90% of sites, but that the probability of extreme ozone events has markedly decreased since the 1980s. A machine learning methodology to downscale and bias correct a CTM (EMEP4UK) ozone surface was developed and evaluated. Compared to the unadjusted CTM, the downscaled surface exhibits a lower bias in reproducing MDA8 ozone allowing more robust assessments of important policy metrics. Analysis of the downscaled product (2014–2018) reveals on average 27% of the UK fails the government long-term objective for MDA8 ozone to not exceed 100 µg/m3 more than 10 times per year, compared to 99% in the unadjusted CTM. A classification-based machine learning analysis into high-level ozone drivers was also performed and shows a robust relationship between ozone and temperature. The method is demonstrated to offer remarkable promise as a tool with which to forecast the presence of high-level ozone. Despite a UK focus, the data-driven methods developed and applied here are applicable to modelling ozone in other regions of the world where measurements exist.
Global Neoliberal Agendas and Local Livelihood Realities of Carbon Trade: Whose Interests, Whose Benefits in Nepal's Community Forest Governance
Creators: name: Bastakoti, Rishi Ram
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: Carbon trade
subject: community forestry
subject: discourse
subject: forest governance
subject: livelihoods
subject: Nepal
subject: REDD+
subject: tenure rights

description: Forests are an important component of climate change governance for their function of carbon sequestration. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries has become a global approach to combat climate change through carbon trade. Treating carbon as a commodity has created economic pressures for locals' livelihoods in competition with global conservation efforts to increase carbon stocks. The REDD+ framework is adding complexity to an already complex framework of rights and resources which might jeopardize past successes of decentralized forest governance. Nepal offers a fitting case study for an exploration of how global policy has affected forest governance and community forestry practices through the commodification of forest carbon. With a history of devolution towards community-level forest governance, Nepal represents a prime example of successful community forestry governance practice prior to the onset of carbon trade. Recently, Nepal started REDD+ policy preparations with the support of global donor agencies, which are anticipated to change the national forestry framework considerably. This research aims at gaining insight on the multi-level policy dynamics between global and local interests which often find themselves in conflict. Using political ecology approach on multi-scale forest governance from local forest communities to national policy actors, this research identifies critical concerns for forest tenure security, state-community power relationships, forest governance of local commons, and local rights. The findings highlight challenges to REDD+ as it should not alter but complement existing rights and community governance, and as its goals need to be carefully negotiated vis-a-vis local non-monetary livelihood needs and expectations to ensure long-term viability and justice. Overall, this dissertation helps to broaden our understanding of the global-local links of carbon trade politics, contribute to careful and sustainable policy implementation of new climate change mitigation efforts, and help build a stable future of community forestry governance in the Global South.
Hydrogen Two-Photon Continuum Emission from the Horseshoe Filament in NGC 1275
Creators: name: Johnstone, R. M.
name: Canning, R. E. A.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Ferland, G. J.
name: Lykins, M.
name: Porter, R. L.
name: van Hoof, P. A. M.
name: Williams, R. J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Far ultraviolet emission has been detected from a knot of Halpha emission in the Horseshoe filament, far out in the NGC 1275 nebula. The flux detected relative to the brightness of the Halpha line in the same spatial region is very close to that expected from Hydrogen two-photon continuum emission in the particle heating model of Ferland et al. (2009) if reddening internal to the filaments is taken into account. We find no need to invoke other sources of far ultraviolet emission such as hot stars or emission lines from CIV in intermediate temperature gas to explain these data.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Identity crisis : the nude in 1930s modern Canadian art
Creators: name: Smither, Devon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In their unwillingness to fully assimilate or relate the human body to its surroundings, many artists who painted nudes in the 1930s in Canada found their works the subject of censure and moral debate. Rather than becoming the site of praise for a new Canadian sensibility in the visual arts, the nudes painted in this period would not come to be associated with a uniquely Canadian artistic practice, and the genre failed to assume a pivotal place within the canon of Canadian art history. Viewers could not imagine themselves as heroic pioneers in front of a painting like Lilias Torrance Newton’s Nude (1933), or could they see anything distinctly modern and revolutionary in its execution that would allow them to hold up such an image as an example of an inherently Canadian art. The nude in Canada did not incite the admiration of an art-going public who instead came to associate a national art movement with the landscape paintings of the Group of Seven. Censored, debated, praised, and criticized, the nude genre ultimately failed to have the same impact as landscape painting on the visual arts in Canada. Landscape painting was able to mediate the relationship between the natural world and its human inhabitants in a way not offered by the nude or figurative painting. In 1916, Saturday Night magazine published an article jocularly recounting how the typical Canadian artist was a “husky beggar” who pulled on a pair of Strathcona boots and set off into the woods with a rifle, a paddle, and enough baked beans for three months. Such assertions would lead a critic like Barker Fairley to complain later that, “[N]ot one Canadian in a hundred goes into an art gallery looking for anything but hills and trees and lakes and clouds and flowers and fruit.” Ultimately, the nude was not able to provide a collective viewing position that could embody a national sentiment. It was unable to penetrate the Canadian consciousness in a way that would win it a place alongside the rolling topography and pristine lakes of the Group of Seven.
Pseudodistoma fragile Tokioka 1958
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Pseudodistomidae
Pseudodistoma
Pseudodistoma fragile

description: Pseudodistoma fragile Tokioka, 1958 (Figure 1) Pseudodistoma fragile Tokioka, 1958: 316 Fig.3. Monniot F. 1987: 508 Fig 5. Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001: 226 Fig. 19, 114E and synonymy. Material. Viet Nam, coll. N.J. Pilcher et al., Con Dao Isl., Bai Canh Isl. Bai Giong, 08°40.55’N – 106°41.16’E, 8m, 25/VII/2008, 0PHG 1653-G (MNHN A1 PSE 77); Con Dao Isl., Bai Canh Isl., Quam Café, 08°40.01’N – 106°40.02’E, 8m, 25/VII/2008, 0PHG 1653-G (MNHN A1 PSE 78). When fixed the colonies are totally disorganised remaining in mucous sheets and isolated zooids. The zooids are colourless and transparent with a wide square thorax (Fig. 1). The oral siphon is short, the cloacal siphon tubular. The first row of stigmata is dorsally curved, with about 35 openings per side. A brood pouch is appended to the dorsal and posterior angle of the thorax (Fig. 1). It contains one well developed larva at a time and a young embryo. The thoracic musculature is weak with few spaced longitudinal fibres. The abdomen is narrow, smaller than the thorax with the stomach at mid-length. The length of the post-abdomen varies but is always longer than the thorax plus abdomen; the testis vesicles are grouped in a cluster at the posterior extremity. The larvae 1.6mm long are as previously described (Monniot & Monniot 2001 Fig. 19) with 3 adhesive papillae and 4 ampullae on each side. The geographic distribution covers the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Viet Nam but P. fragile is also recorded from Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
description: {"references": ["Tokioka, T. (1958) Contributions to Japanese ascidian fauna XII. Sporadic memoranda (3). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 6, 313 - 325."]}
Turing Categories and Realizability
Creators: name: Nester, Chad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computer Science
subject: Category Theory
subject: Computability
subject: Realizability

description: We present a realizability tripos construction in which the usual partial combinatory algebra is replaced with a Turing category, and the category of partial functions on sets is replaced with a discrete cartesian closed restriction category. As an intermediate step we construct in this setting a restriction category of assemblies. Our constructions generalize existing constructions in the field.
Properties of the electron-doped infinite-layer superconductor Sr$_{1-x}$La$_{x}$CuO$_{2}$ epitaxially grown by pulsed laser deposition
Creators: name: Tomaschko, Jochen
name: Leca, Victor
name: Selistrovski, Teresa
name: Diebold, Sebastian
name: Jochum, Josef
name: Kleiner, Reinhold
name: Koelle, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin films of the electron-doped infinite-layer cuprate superconductor Sr$_{1-x}$La$_x$CuO$_2$ (SLCO) with doping $x \approx 0.15$ were grown by means of pulsed laser deposition. (001)-oriented KTaO$_3$ and SrTiO$_3$ single crystals were used as substrates. In case of SrTiO$_3$, a BaTiO$_3$ thin film was deposited prior to SLCO, acting as buffer layer providing tensile strain to the SLCO film. To induce superconductivity, the as-grown films were annealed under reducing conditions, which will be described in detail. The films were characterized by reflection high-energy electron diffraction, atomic force microscopy, x-ray diffraction, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy, and electric transport measurements at temperatures down to $T = 4.2\,$K. We discuss in detail the influence of different process parameters on the final film properties.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures
Trididemnum lanugineum Monniot 2010, n. sp.
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Didemnidae
Trididemnum
Trididemnum lanugineum

description: Trididemnum lanugineum n. sp. (Figures 2B, 3, 4) Material. Palau, coll. Coral Reef Research Foundation, Koror, SW Ngeruktabel, 07°14.83’N – 134°21.12’E, 10m, cavern, 01/ VI /2008, 0CDN9584-A (MNHN A2 TRI 188). The white colonies (Fig.2A) are crusts several centimetres in extent with round edges and a raspy surface. In formalin the thickness is about 2mm, in 3 layers. The surface layer is hard, filled with large spicules 170µm in diameter with numerous sharp rays (Fig. 3), and contains the oral siphons. The thoraces are grouped in pillars of tunic linked to the medium spicule-free layer of tunic that has a cotton-wool texture. Abdomens and larvae are enclosed in this soft but very resistant layer. The basal part of the colony is densely filled with spiny spicules. At the contact with the substrate, the spicules are almost balls with very short rays. The oral siphon is trumpet-like with a plain rim, very often broken during the dissection. The cloacal aperture has a wide horseshoe shape. Its dorsal side is covered by a long languet applied on the dorsal lamina (Fig. 4B); the circular lateral thoracic organs protrude from its margin. The branchial sac has 3 rows of long stigmata: 7 were counted in the first two rows and 6 in the third row per side. A muscular appendage was not found. The abdomen (Fig.4A) is smaller than the thorax. The gut loop is included into an opaque tissue. The single testis vesicle is placed above the bend of the intestine circled with 4 (rarely 5) turns of the sperm duct. Several larvae were found into the cotton-like layer of the colony, they do not seem totally developed. The tail is wound in ¾ of a turn around a trunk 0.85 to 1mm long (Fig. 4C). The 3 adhesive papillae have parallel stems. On each side, at their base are 4 round vesicles, obviously incompletely formed lateral ampullae. The internal structure is obscured by large opaque cells filling the larval body wall (partly figured Fig. 4C). Ocellus and otolith lie in a clear dorsal vesicle. The anterior part of a damaged larva, found in shreds of tunic, has 3 adhesive papillae and 8 lateral vesicles on each side, suggesting that these vesicles may divide at maturity. The originality of this new species consists in the unique structure of the atrial opening, widely open with a large dorsal languet and very large spicules.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
Immigrant Filipino nurses in Western Canada : an exploration of motivations and migration experiences through oral history
Creators: name: Ronquillo, Charlene Esteban
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Over the latter half of the twentieth century, a steady increase in the numbers of immigrant Filipino nurses have been incorporated into the Canadian healthcare workforce, mirroring trends of international nurse migration to other Western countries. Yet, there is a paucity of information on the contexts surrounding the motivations and experiences of this group of migrants who work as registered nurses in Canada. This study aims to add a historical perspective in order to understand the historical contexts surrounding this phenomenon, to gain an informed understanding of past and current trends, and more importantly, to examine what surrounded and shaped the experiences of immigrant Filipino nurses. This study explores the oral histories of nine immigrant Filipino nurses in Alberta and British Columbia who migrated from 1974 to 2005, and aims to take the beginning steps in understanding this migration phenomenon in the Canadian context. The findings revealed that the motivations and experiences of migrant Filipino nurses were significantly influenced by the lasting effects of the historical colonial relationship between the US and the Philippines. Other important influences, however, include familial pressures and societal constructs of Filipino culture, the structure of nursing education in the Philippines, and issues of racism. These factors also shaped the transition process of the registered nurses into the Canadian workforce. With more attention and resources currently being directed at addressing foreign nurse transition and work integration in Canada, findings of this study prompt a critical reflection on these current trends and includes in the conclusion important implications on policy development for future foreign nurse immigrants entering Canada. The study concludes that social and cultural factors as much as economic ones shape nurses desire to migrate as well as their transition into the Canadian nurse workforce.
Vectorial solutions to list multicoloring problems on graphs
Creators: name: Aubry, Yves
name: Godin, Jean-Christophe
name: Togni, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For a graph $G$ with a given list assignment $L$ on the vertices, we give an algebraical description of the set of all weights $w$ such that $G$ is $(L,w)$-colorable, called permissible weights. Moreover, for a graph $G$ with a given list $L$ and a given permissible weight $w$, we describe the set of all $(L,w)$-colorings of $G$. By the way, we solve the {\sl channel assignment problem}. Furthermore, we describe the set of solutions to the {\sl on call problem}: when $w$ is not a permissible weight, we find all the nearest permissible weights $w'$. Finally, we give a solution to the non-recoloring problem keeping a given subcoloring.
description: 10 pages
Synovial Cellular Composition in Osteoarthritic Knee Joints
Creators: name: O'Brien, Kate
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Osteoarthritis

description: Abstract Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disorder affecting every tissue within the joint. OA is characterized by the degeneration of articular cartilage leading to inflammation of the underlying bone and synovium, resulting in loss of mobility and pain. Inflammation has been shown to play a key role in the development and progression of OA, but since OA is a multi-factorial disease, its exact pathogenesis has yet to be fully elucidated. However, it has been established that a major influence in the development of OA is the presence of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the synovium; specifically, IL-1-beta has been implicated in cartilage destruction and the TNF pathway in the OA inflammatory cascade. The ability to detect these cytokines is limited until progression of the disease is relatively advanced. To date, few studies have examined the cellular composition (including inflammatory cells) in the synovium of patients with early OA. Furthermore, in studies which do examine cells within the synovium, few if any compare these results to stringently characterized normal joints. The current study examined human synovium taken from OA patients at the time of arthroscopic knee surgery, while normal tissue was harvested from cadaveric donations. Synovium was taken from one to four sites within the joint (osteoarthritic and non-osteoarthritic (normal) human knees) and examined using histological techniques to determine the cellular composition of the synovium. Within joint and between joint comparisons were made. There were no significant trends found either within joint or between joint with regards to cellularity. Early OA synovium was defined as subclinical OA synovium; this being the case, the lack of significant difference could be due to the fact that early OA synovium has few differences from “normal synovium”.
Signatures of middle aged, nearby pulsars in the cosmic ray lepton spectrum?
Creators: name: Büsching, Ingo
name: deJager, Okker C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent data reported by the PAMELA and ATIC experiments, as well as cosmic ray lepton results from FERMI and H.E.S.S. collaborations sparked a series of papers explaining these results either by contributions of electron positron pairs to the local interstellar cosmic ray (CR) spectrum by dark matter (DM) or pulsars. Focusing here on pulsars, we argue that at the present, our knowledge about particle acceleration at pulsars as well as of the local Galactic CR propagation is still limited, i.e. the recent results for CR electrons and positrons constrain pulsar and propagation models. We will thus not present another attempt to explain the data by contributions of pulsars to the local CR lepton flux but rather to highlight the caveats in doing so.
description: 6 pages, accepted for the publication in the proceedings of the ICATPP Conference on Cosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Villa Olmo (Como), Oct. 2010
title: NOAA Fisheries Equity and Environmental Justice Internal Workshop Guide
Creators: name: Kleiber, Danika
name: Chow, Michelle
name: Brown, Mya
Publisher: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02apffz65
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: PIFSC special publication ; SP-24-01
description: This guide was compiled by the NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands region (PIR) to share our approach and lessons learned on coordinating internal Equity and Environmental Justice (EEJ) workshops. The goals of the workshops are to provide a strong foundational understanding of EEJ for staff, increase capacity for EEJ work within NOAA Fisheries, and identify actions and activities to include in the upcoming PIR EEJ Implementation Plan.
Chiral nuclear dynamics with three-body forces
Creators: name: Holt, J. W.
name: Kaiser, N.
name: Weise, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in implementing high-precision chiral two- and three-body forces in nuclear many-body systems beyond light nuclei. We begin with applications to finite nuclei, which we study through the nuclear shell model and self-consistent mean field theory. We then turn our attention to infinite nuclear matter treated within the framework of Landau's theory of normal Fermi liquids.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Talk presented at the International School of Nuclear Physics: "From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei", 16-24 Sept 2011, Erice-Sicily, Italy
ENHANCING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AMONG BUSINESS ENGLISH STUDENTS: A STUDY AT HUNAN CITY UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: Wei, Xue
name: Li, Ming
Publisher: name: SADI journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: critical thinking
innovative spirit
practical skills
higher-order thinking
education reform

description: In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on cultivating critical thinking skills among students in China's higher education system. National education initiatives and reforms have underscored the importance of fostering innovative thinking, practical problem-solving abilities, and creating an environment conducive to independent thought and exploration. Central to the development of innovative spirit and practical skills is the cultivation of critical thinking, which serves as a foundational element for these skills. This shift in educational priorities is in line with the broader goal of enhancing the overall quality of compulsory education. One key aspect of this educational shift is the exploration of integrated teaching approaches that incorporate subject-based curriculum, research-based methods, project-based learning, and collaborative approaches. These initiatives aim to equip students with essential higher-order thinking skills, including the ability to gather and evaluate relevant information, analyze data, formulate hypotheses, and address complex problems effectively. This paper explores the evolving landscape of education in China, focusing on the promotion of critical thinking as a fundamental component of students' skill development. It discusses the implications of these changes for teaching and learning, highlighting the importance of nurturing critical thinking skills to meet the demands of contemporary education
Electric dipole polarizability of $^{58}$Ni
Creators: name: Brandherm, I.
name: Bonaiti, F.
name: von Neumann-Cosel, P.
name: Bacca, S.
name: Colò, G.
name: Jansen, G. R.
name: Li, Z. Z.
name: Matsubara, H.
name: Niu, Y. F.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Richter, A.
name: Roca-Maza, X.
name: Tamii, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric dipole strength distribution in $^{58}$Ni between 6 and 20 MeV has been determined from proton inelastic scattering experiments at very forward angles at RCNP, Osaka. The experimental data are rather well reproduced by quasiparticle random-phase approximation calculations including vibration coupling, despite a mild dependence on the adopted Skyrme interaction. They allow an estimate of the experimentally inaccessible high-energy contribution above 20 MeV, leading to an electric dipole polarizability $α_\mathrm{D}(^{58}{\rm Ni}) = 3.48(31)$ fm$^3$. This serves as a test case for recent extensions of coupled-cluster calculations with chiral effective field theory interactions to nuclei with two nucleons on top of a closed-shell system.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Interplay of electronic structure and atomic ordering on surfaces: Momentum-resolved measurements of Cs atoms adsorbed on a Ag(111) substrate
Creators: name: Bentmann, Hendrik
name: Buchter, Arne
name: Reinert, Friedrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface-state mediated interactions between adsorbates on surfaces can be exploited for the fabrication of self-organized nanostructures such as two-dimensional superlattices of adatoms. Using angle-resolved photoemission we provide experimental evidence that these interactions can be drastically modified by adsorbate-induced alterations in the surface potential barrier. This, in turn, will cause significant changes in the ordering of the adsorbates. For the studied case example of Cs adatoms on Ag(111) our momentum-resolved measurements reveal the surface state Fermi wave vector to be increased by as much as $\sim$100% for coverages around 0.03 ML. Our results unravel the origin for the hitherto puzzling and unexpectedly small lattice constant in the adatom superlattice observed for this system.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Development and Characterization of a Geostatic Model for Monitoring Shallow CO2 Injection
Creators: name: Dongas, Jessica Maria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics
subject: Geomodeling

description: A 25 sq. km static geomodel was constructed for shallow injection into the 7 m thick Basal Belly River Sandstone at 300 m depth in Newell County, Alberta. Effective porosity and intrinsic permeability were calibrated to six core laboratory analyses. The regressional shoreline sandstone has effective porosity of 11% and intrinsic permeability of 0.57 mD. Dynamic simulation was completed on the P10-50-90 static cases for multiple injection scenarios, totalling approximately 3250 t/CO2 over a five-year period. The evolution of the CO2 plume was observed at one-year during injection and five-years during injection, as well as the one-year and ten-year mark for the post-injection period. The final ten-year post-injection result simulated a laterally extensive plume, expanding to 350 m in diameter and 20 m of vertical migration into the caprock interval. The target interval proves to be an ideal reservoir, and the seal interval predicts containment over a ten-year post-injection period.
Didemnum parau Monniot & Monniot 1987
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Didemnidae
Didemnum
Didemnum parau

description: Didemnum parau Monniot & Monniot, 1987 (Figures 7B, 8A) Didemnum parau Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1987: 3 Fig. 12 A–D, pl. IIG. Monniot F. & Monniot C. 1996: 159 Fig. 14A, pl. 2F; 20001: 270. Kott 2002: 37; 2007: 1187, Figs 3C,D, 9D. Material. Coll. Coral Reef Research Foundation, Palau, Southwest Isls, Helen Reef channel, 02°52.24’N – 131°44.55’E, 30m, 17/IX/2008, 0CDN 9802-O (MNHN A2 DID. C 603); Helen Reef channel, 02°59.48’N – 131°44.67’E, 20m, 29/IX/2008, 0CDN 9914-L (MNHN A2 DID. C 604). This species is common in the entire tropical Pacific. The colonies are always white (Fig. 7B) with spicules in spheres made of very numerous needles (Fig. 8A).
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
description: {"references": ["Monniot, C. & Monniot, F. (1987) Les ascidies de Polynesie francaise. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle (A) 136, 1 - 155.", "Kott, P. (2002) Ascidiacea (Tunicata) from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 18, 19 - 55.", "Kott, P. (2007) New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part 4). Journal of Natural History, 41 (17 - 20), 1163 - 1211."]}
A Higgs Quadruplet for Type III Seesaw and Implications for $μ\to eγ$ and $μ- e$ Conversion
Creators: name: Ren, Bo
name: Tsumura, Koji
name: He, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Type III seesaw model the heavy neutrinos are contained in leptonic triplet representations. The Yukawa couplings of the triplet fermion and the left-handed neutrinos with the doublet Higgs field produce the Dirac mass terms. Together with the Majorana masses for the leptonic triplets, the light neutrinos obtain non-zero seesaw masses. We point out that it is also possible to have a quadruplet Higgs field to produce the Dirac mass terms to facilitate the seesaw mechanism. The vacuum expectation value of the quadruplet Higgs is constrained to be small by electroweak precision data. Therefore the Yukawa couplings of a quadruplet can be much larger than those for a doublet. We also find that unlike the usual Type III seesaw model where at least two copies of leptonic triplets are needed, with both doublet and quadruplet Higgs representations, just one leptonic triplet is possible to have a phenomenologically acceptable model because light neutrino masses can receive sizable contributions at both tree and one loop levels. Large Yukawa couplings of the quadruplet can induce observable effects for lepton flavor violating processes $μ\to e γ$ and $μ- e$ conversion. Implications of the recent $μ\to eγ$ limit from MEG and also limit on $μ- e $ conversion on Au are also given. Some interesting collider signatures for the doubly charged Higgs boson in the quadruplet are discussed.
description: Latex 11 pages, 1 figure. A few references added
title: Slim stuwen – fase 3: sturing stuwen, vispassages en turbines Bovenschelde
Creators: name: Vanderkimpen, Paul
name: Pereira, Fernando
name: Visser, Klaas Pieter
name: Viaene, Peter PV
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics
Year: 2023

description: Title : WL Rapporten. Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium: Antwerpen. Volume : 20_032_1 Issue : Pagination : IX, 110 + 36 bijl.
Current-Conserving Aharonov-Bohm Interferometry with Arbitrary Spin Interactions
Creators: name: Lee, Minchul
name: Stepanenko, Dimitrije
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a general scattering matrix formalism that guarantees the charge conservation at junctions between conducting arms with arbitrary spin interactions. By using our formalism, we find that the spin-flip scattering can happen even at nonmagnetic junctions if the spin eigenstates in arms are not orthogonal. We apply our formalism to the Aharonov-Bohm interferometer consisting of $n$-type semiconductor ring with both the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and the Zeeman splitting. We discuss the characteristics of the interferometer as conditional/unconditional spin switch in the weak/strong-coupling limit, respectively.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
Bronchial Thermoplasty and Airway Remodeling in Severe Asthma
Creators: name: Laing, Austin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Pathology
subject: Asthma
subject: Airway Remodeling
subject: Bronchial Thermoplasty

description: Increased airway smooth muscle (ASM) is a characteristic of severe asthma and strongly associated with airway hyperresponsiveness. Bronchial Thermoplasty (BT) aims is a new technique in which heat is applied to the airway. We hypothesize that BT causes reduced ASM in patients with severe asthma. We investigated the effect of BT on the airway in patients with severe asthma, acute effects in a pig model and the effect of hyperthermia on ASM and bronchial epithelial cells. We found a significant reduction in ASM and goblet cells at 6 weeks and 1 year post-BT, respectively. Acute effects of BT in the pig airway suggested a sterile injury pattern. Exposure to 65oC produced morphological changes in ASM and epithelial cells. We conclude that there is evidence of ASM and goblet cell reduction in response to BT but further confirmation awaits full analysis of the study in asthmatics.
The Value of Narrative Storytelling in Polarized Times
Creators: name: Wells, John
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing

description: This lecture was first presented on April 9, 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the President's Lecture Series, by John Wells, Hollywood director, producer, and writer—and CMU alumnus (CFA 1979). The President’s Lecture Series aims to engage and inspire the Carnegie Mellon community on issues of emerging and preeminent relevance to society. The series, launched by President Farnam Jahanian in 2023, brings a curated list of thought leaders and world leaders to campus over the academic year.Published by Tartan Editions, an imprint of Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Application of the SRISM approach to the study of the capacitance of the double layer of a high density primitive model electrolyte
Creators: name: Woelki, S.
name: Henderson, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study the Singlet Reference Interaction Site Model (SRISM) is employed to the study of the electrode charge dependence of the capacitance of a planar electric double layer using the primitive model of the double layer for a high density electrolyte that mimics an ionic liquid. The ions are represented by charged hard spheres and the electrode is a uniformly charged flat surface. The capacitance of this model fluid is calculated with the SRISM approach with closures based on the hypernetted chain (HNC) and Kovalenko-Hirata (KH) closures and compared with simulations. As long as the magnitude of the electrode charge is not too great, the HNC closure shows the most promise. The KH results are reasonably good for a high density electrolyte but are poor when applied at low densities.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Shiraz for piano solo by Claude Vivier : an analysis for the performer
Creators: name: Bergeron, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Claude Vivier wrote Shiraz in 1977, after returning from a trip to Bali and Iran. Linked to the compositional style of his mentors Gilles Tremblay and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Shiraz is the embryo of what would become Vivier’s own mature compositional and expressive language. Its scope and its importance in Vivier’s catalogue make it an essential subject for an exploration of Vivier’s compositional techniques. This thesis aims not only to give a broad sense of Vivier’s musical language, but also to communicate specific insights relevant to pianists who wish to understand better the subtleties of this particular composition. An investigation of selected works written by Vivier in 1975, a comparison with Schumann’s Toccata opus 7, and a consideration of influences from Stockhausen and Messiaen form the background for a thorough analysis of the piece (including its form, pitch structure, and rhythmic techniques). Problems of memorization and fingering are also discussed. The thesis can help the performer who wishes to add Shiraz to his or her repertoire, to understand and successfully prepare the work for performance and interpretation.
Fluid Flow Induced Modulation of Smad2 and Akt Phosphorylation in Arterial Endothelial Cells
Creators: name: Obrejanu, Alexander
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Fluid-flow
subject: Smad2
subject: Endothelial

description: Endothelial cells, which line the artery walls, respond to fluid flow stimulation through activation of signalling pathways. Smad2, a signalling molecule and transcription factor typically associated with TGF-β signalling, is preferentially phosphorylated in the linker region (L- pSmad2) and localized to the nucleus in a flow-dependent manner in endothelial cells. Here, we show that L-pSmad2 expression is higher in the high shear stress region of the thoracic aorta than in the lower shear stress region of the lesser curvature of mice. L-pSmad2 was not affected by flow pulsatility in human endothelial cells and did not vary in disturbed flow versus laminar regions in carotid arteries of surgically modified mice. Smad2 siRNA treatment of human endothelial cells resulted in decreased Smad2 and increased protein levels of Akt under flow. These findings represent novel contributions to the knowledge of fluid flow-induced Smad2 signalling and its role in endothelial health.
Didemnum rodriguesi Rocha & Monniot 1993
Creators: name: Monniot, Françoise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Aplousobranchia
Didemnidae
Didemnum
Didemnum rodriguesi

description: Didemnum rodriguesi Rocha & Monniot, 1993 (Figures 7C, 8B, 10) Didemnum rodriguesi Rocha & Monniot, 1993: 261. Monniot F. & Monniot C. 2001: 271 and synonymy. Material. Coll. N.J. Pilcher et al, Viet Nam, Con Son Isl., Con Dao, 08°45.48’N – 106°39.96’E, 15–20m, 27/ VII/2008, 0PHG 1679-J (A2 DID C 605). The colonies are pink or peach coloured (Fig.7C) in crusts. In life, the common cloacal openings are at the top of low elevations. The colony surface is smooth and does not show the spotty design described in previous collections. Orange inclusions are in the basal layer of the colonies. The zooids (Fig. 10) are small with 6 pointed oral lobes, a wide atrial opening without languet, a single testis vesicle circled by 7 turns of the sperm duct. The larval trunk measures 0.5mm, the tail is wound in ¾ of a turn (Fig. 10C). The 3 adhesive papillae are linked with a variable number of vesicles on each side: for example 6 to 8 on a side but 5 to 6 on the other side. The larvae are not gemmiparous. The stellate spicules (Fig. 8B) are dense with an average size of 30µm, but some of them reach 40µm. The geographic distribution is large covering warm waters of all oceans.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Françoise, 2010, Some new data on tropical western Pacific Ascidians, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2561 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2561.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5304193
description: {"references": ["Rocha, R. M. & Monniot, F. (1993) Didemnum rodriguesi sp. nov., a new didemnid tunicate common to southeastern Brazil and New Caledonia. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique Paris, 69 (2), 261 - 265."]}
The M16 molecular complex under the influence of NGC6611. Herschel's perspective of the heating effect on the Eagle Nebula
Creators: name: Hill, T.
name: Motte, F.
name: Didelon, P.
name: White, G. J.
name: Marston, A. P.
name: Luong, Q. Nguyen
name: Bontemps, S.
name: André, Ph.
name: Schneider, N.
name: Hennemann, M.
name: Sauvage, M.
name: Di Francesco, J.
name: Minier, V.
name: Anderson, L. D.
name: Bernard, J. P.
name: Elia, D.
name: Griffin, M. J.
name: Li, J. Z.
name: Peretto, N.
name: Pezzuto, S.
name: Polychroni, D.
name: Roussel, H.
name: Rygl, K. L. J.
name: Schisano, E.
name: Sousbie, T.
name: Testi, L.
name: Thompson, D. Ward
name: Zavagno, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Herschel images from the HOBYS key program of the Eagle Nebula (M16) in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre, using the PACS and SPIRE cameras at 70μm, 160μm, 250μm, 350μm, 500μm. M16, home to the Pillars of Creation, is largely under the influence of the nearby NGC6611 high-mass star cluster. The Herschel images reveal a clear dust temperature gradient running away from the centre of the cavity carved by the OB cluster. We investigate the heating effect of NGC6611 on the entire M16 star-forming complex seen by Herschel including the diffuse cloud environment and the dense filamentary structures identified in this region. In addition, we interpret the three-dimensional geometry of M16 with respect to the nebula, its surrounding environment, and the NGC6611 cavity. The dust temperature and column density maps reveal a prominent eastern filament running north-south and away from the high-mass star-forming central region and the NGC6611 cluster, as well as a northern filament which extends around and away from the cluster. The dust temperature in each of these filaments decreases with increasing distance from the NGC6611 cluster, indicating a heating penetration depth of \sim 10 pc in each direction in 3 - 6 \times 10^{22} cm-2 column density filaments. We show that in high-mass star-forming regions OB clusters impact the temperature of future star-forming sites, modifying the initial conditions for collapse and effecting the evolutionary criteria of protostars developed from spectral energy distributions. Possible scenarios for the origin of the morphology seen in this region are discussed, including a western equivalent to the eastern filament, which was destroyed by the creation of the OB cluster and its subsequent winds and radiation.
description: 12 pages, including 3 appendix, 9 figures, accepted by A&A
Integrated sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir characterization of the basal Spirit River Formation, west-central Alberta
Creators: name: Newitt, Dillon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The basal progradational Falher is comprised of five northward accreting wave-dominated deltaic shoreline parasequence sets within this study area. Well and core based sequence stratigraphy reveals broad facies belts and sharp-based shoreline parasequence sets, reflecting progradation into shallow water; and, an initial strongly progradational to subsequently dominantly aggradational parasequence set stacking pattern within the Spirit River Formation clastic wedge. Thin sections revealed the low porosity and permeability of the sandstone due to high degree of mechanical compaction, and precipitation of cements and clays. Locally, enhanced permeability is related to early ferroan dolomite cement, even though pore filling, reduced the effects of plastic deformation of ductile grains. Insights from this thesis provides a core and well based subsurface approach to studying ancient shoreline successions, which prograde into an epeiric sea within an active foreland basin; and, a thin section based approach to studying such tight sandstone intervals for various petrographic responses.
Compressive Volume Rendering
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaoyang
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Volume rendering
subject: Image recovery
subject: Compressed sensing

description: Compressive rendering refers to the process of reconstructing a full image from a small subset of the rendered pixels, thereby expediting the rendering task. Images produced via direct volume rendering are usually highly compressible in a transform domain such as the Fourier or wavelet domains. In this dissertation, we empirically investigate four image order tech- niques for compressive rendering that are suitable for direct volume rendering. The first technique is based on the theory of compressed sensing and leverages the sparsity of the image gradient in the Fourier domain. Following this, we investigate sparse representation of volume rendered images via dictionary learning. The latter techniques exploit smoothness properties of the rendered image; the third technique recovers the missing pixels via a to- tal variation minimization procedure while the fourth technique incorporates a smoothness prior in a variational reconstruction framework employing interpolating cubic B-splines. We compare and contrast these four techniques in terms of quality, efficiency and sensitivity to the distribution of pixels. Our results show that smoothness-based techniques significantly outperform techniques that are based on compressed sensing as well as dictionary learning and are also robust in the presence of highly incomplete information. We achieve high quality recovery with as little as 20% of the pixels distributed uniformly in screen space.
A measure of centrality based on the spectrum of the Laplacian
Creators: name: Pauls, Scott D.
name: Remondini, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a family of new centralities, the k-spectral centralities. k-Spectral centrality is a measurement of importance with respect to the deformation of the graph Laplacian associated with the graph. Due to this connection, k-spectral centralities have various interpretations in terms of spectrally determined information. We explore this centrality in the context of several examples. While for sparse unweighted networks 1-spectral centrality behaves similarly to other standard centralities, for dense weighted networks they show different properties. In summary, the k-spectral centralities provide a novel and useful measurement of relevance (for single network elements as well as whole subnetworks) distinct from other known measures.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables