cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nyssodrysternum multilineatum Monné & Tavakilian, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Tavakilian, Gerard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nyssodrysternum
Nyssodrysternum multilineatum

description: Nyssodrysternum multilineatum sp. nov.
 (Fig. 4)
 Etymology: Latin, multus = many + lineatus = lines, by the longitudinal lines in pronotum and elytra.
 Female: Integument black. Pubescence predominantly black, very sparse. Pubescence pale-grayish as follows: head with a longitudinbal line in the occiput; pronotum with seven entire longitudinal lines one in the middle and three each side, the broader covering the lateral tubercles. A spot in the middle of the scutellum and in each elytron fourth interrupted longitudinal narrow lines from base to apex, some of them enlarged in the middle and in the apical third. Ventral face of the body and legs covered with pale-greyish pubescence.
Antennae very long, three times the length of the body, attaining the apices of the elytra in the distal extremity of antennomere V; antennomere XI longer than X. Lateral tubercles of the prothorax proeminent and obtuse. Pronotum with a single transversal line of punctures near the posterior margin. Elytral apices subtruncate; punctures dense and minute in the basal half mainly near the sutural border. Tarsomere I as long as II+III. Urotergite and urosternite V truncate in the apex.
 Male: Antennae reaching the apices of the elytra in the middle of antennomere V. Fifth urotergite triangularly emarginate in the middle of the distal extremity; fifth urosternite semicircularly emarginate at apex.
 Measurements (mm), male/female: Total length, 8,9/5,6-6,8; prothorax length, 1,6/1,1-1,4; prothorax width, 2,1/1,5-1,9; elytral length, 6,5/4,0-4,9; humeral width, 2,6/1,8-2,3.
 Type material: Holotype female, French Guiana, Piste de Kaw, pk 37,5, 25.VIII.1993, Jean-Aimé Cerda [battage, ex collection IRD number 376], (MNHN). Paratype female, Route Nationale 2, pk 30, 08.VIII.1982, G. Tavakilian col. (MNRJ). BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: Florida Prov. 4 km N Bermejo, Refúgio Los Volcanes (1045 m), 2 males. 18-22.I.2007, Lingafelter, Wappes & Prena col (ACMT, MNRJ).
 Comments: The black surface ornamented with longitudinal clear-cut lines of pale-grayish pubescence allow us to identify N. multilineatum sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Tavakilian, Gerard L., 2011, New Species Of Nyssodrysternum Gilmour (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) From Central And South America, pp. 453-464 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51 (29) on pages 455-456, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492011002900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13222451
Understanding the Characteristics, Benefits and Challenges of Agile it Project Management: A Literature Based Perspective
Creators: name: KOI-AKROFI, GODFRED
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The objectives of this study was to bring out the understanding of the concept of agile IT project management; what it is and what it is not. It was also aimed at comparing the pros and cons of both agile and traditional methods of IT project management in a typical industry setting; the challenges of going purely agile, and so on. It is purely a review of literature of peer reviewed papers sourced mainly from Google Scholar. It was revealed that agile outweigh the traditional methods in terms of benefits, but its implementation poses a lot of challenges due to a number of issues, paramount among them being organizational culture and empowerment of the project team. This has resulted in a number of industries sticking to the traditional methods despite the overwhelming benefits of agile. In another school of thought, the combination of the two paradigms is the way forward.
Vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete Columns to External Blast Loading
Creators: name: Al-Bayti, Abdullah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Reinforced Concrete Columns
Close-in Explosions

description: Reinforced concrete columns are essential elements that are responsible for overall strength and stability of structures. Loss of a column within a frame can cause progressive collapse. While some research has been conducted on blast performance of reinforced columns, primarily under far-field explosions, very limited work exists on the effects of close-in explosions. Dynamic response of concrete columns, in multi storey building, was investigated under close-in blast loads numerically, using FEM software LS-DYNA. A six-storey reinforced concrete building was selected for this purpose. Different standoff distance/charge mass combinations were used to investigate the failure modes of external building columns. Three different charge masses were used; i) backpack bomb having 22.67 kg (50 lbs) of TNT, ii) compact sedan car bomb with 227 kg (500 lbs) of TNT and iii) sedan car bomb with 454 kg (1000 lbs) of TNT. The explosives were placed at different distances relatively close to the structure, triggering different failure modes. Effects of transverse reinforcement and column location (edge versus corner column) were studied under different combinations of charge weight and standoff distance. Column response under dynamic blast load was identified as either local or global. The results show that the failure mode with backpack bombs located at small standoff distance is either local breaching or concrete scabbing. Direct shear failure occurred at column supports when higher charge masses were detonated at close distances. As the standoff distance increased the response changed from breaching or direct shear to diagonal tension and flexure. The column transverse reinforcement played a major role in controlling diagonal shear cracks and promoting flexural response. Hence, the amount and spacing of transverse reinforcement were observed to be important design parameters.
Trade Settlement Operation
Creators: name: Yang, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Trade settlement, trade termination, trade life cycle, cash settlement, physical settlement

description: All the steps involved in a trade, from the point of pre-negotiations and trade execution through to settlement of the trade, are commonly referred to as the trade life cycle. Trade life cycle consists of a series of logical stages and steps. Trade settlement is the process of simultaneous exchange of cash payments or assets periodically between two parties for derivatives (such as swaps) or securities (such as bonds). In the EOD process,
Репозитарії вищих навчальних закладів України у системі наукової комунікації
Creators: name: Nazarovets, Serhii
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Theoretical Computer Science

description: Results of the research repositories of universities of Ukraine, using the search engine Google Scholar and search engine Solomono are illustrated.
Topology Control and Opportunistic Routing in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Lima Coutinho, Rodolfo Wanderson
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Underwater sensor networks
Topology control
Routing
Performance evaluation

description: Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an enabling technology for a new era of underwater monitoring and actuation applications. However, there still is a long road ahead until we reach a technological maturity capable of empowering high-density large deployment of UWSNs. To the date hereof, the scientific community is yet investigating the principles that will guide the design of networking protocols for UWSNs. This is because the principles that guide the design of protocols for terrestrial wireless sensor networks cannot be applied for an UWSN since it uses the acoustic channel instead of radio-frequency-based channel. This thesis provides a general discussion for high-fidelity and energy-efficient data collection in UWSNs. In the first part of this thesis, we propose and study the symbiotic design of topology control and opportunistic routing protocols for UWSNs. We propose the CTC and DTC topology control algorithms that rely on the depth adjustment of the underwater nodes to cope with the communication void region problem. In addition, we propose an analytical framework to study and evaluate our mobility-assisted approach in comparison to the classical bypassing and power control-based approaches. Moreover, we develop the GEDAR routing protocol for mobile UWSNs. GEDAR is the first OR protocol employing our innovative depth adjustment-based topology control methodology to re-actively cope with communication void regions. In the second part of this thesis, we study opportunistic routing (OR) underneath duty-cycling in UWSNs. We propose an analytical framework to investigate the joint design of opportunistic routing and duty cycle protocols for UWSNs. While duty-cycling conserves energy, it changes the effective UWSN density. Therefore, OR is proposed to guarantee a suitable one-hop density of awake neighbors to cope with the poor and time-varying link quality of the acoustic channel. In addition, we propose an analytical framework to study the impact of heterogeneous and on-the-fly sleep interval adjustment in OR underneath duty-cycling in UWSNs. The proposed model is aimed to provide insights for the future design of protocols towards a prolonged UWSN lifetime. The developed solutions have been extensively compared to related work either analytically or through simulations. The obtained results show the potentials of them in several scenarios of UWSNs. In turn, the devised analytical frameworks have been providing significant insights that will guide future developments of routing and duty-cycling protocols for several scenarios and setting of UWSNs.
Baseline Report on Injuries 2005
Creators: name: Smith, Dorry
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The information presented in this report provides a review of baseline injury data among residents in the Northern Health (NH). This report is meant to draw together data from mortality and hospital separation datasets in order to (a) describe the injury trends and patterns in Northern Health; (b) compare injury rates in Northern Health with the injury rates of British Columbia (BC); (c) describe the leading causes of injury mortality and hospital separation among residents of Northern Health; (d) provide recommendations based on current research and programming relevant to the leading causes of injury; (e) synthesize and report on key points and next steps that were discussed at the Northern Health Strategic Planning Meeting held on Thursday, May 12, 2005 in Prince George, BC.
Human Action Recognition from Gradient Boundary Histograms
Creators: name: Wang, Xuelu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: real-time
recognition

description: This thesis presents a framework for automatic recognition of human actions in un- controlled, realistic video data with fixed cameras, such as surveillance videos. In this thesis, we divide human action recognition into three steps: description, representation, and classification of local spatio-temporal features. The bag-of-features model was used to build the classifier. Fisher Vectors were also studied. We focus on the potential of the methods, with the joint optimization of two constraints: the classification precision and its efficiency. On the performance side, a new local descriptor, called Gradient Boundary Histograms (GBH), is adopted. It is built on simple spatio-temporal gradients, which can be computed quickly. We demonstrate that GBH can better represent local structure and motion than other gradient-based descriptors, and significantly outperforms them on large datasets. Our evaluation shows that compared to HOG descriptors, which are based solely on spatial gradient, GBH descriptor preserves the recognition precision even in difficult situation. Since surveillance video captured with fixed cameras is the emphasis of our study, removing the background before action recognition is helpful for improving efficiency. We first preprocess the video data by applying HOG to detect humans. GBH descriptor is then used at reduced spatial resolutions, which yields both high efficiency and low memory usage; in addition, we apply PCA to reduce the feature dimensions, which results in fast matching and an accelerated classification process. Experiments our methods achieved good performance in recognizing precision, while simultaneously highlighting effectiveness and efficiency.
Nyssodrysternum hovorei Monné & Tavakilian, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Tavakilian, Gerard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nyssodrysternum
Nyssodrysternum hovorei

description: Nyssodrysternum hovorei sp. nov.
 (Fig. 7)
 Etymology: The species is dedicated to the memory of Franklin T. Hovore, a dearest friend.
 Male: Integument dark brown. Pubescence mainly dark brown. Pubescence clear-grayish: head, sides of the prothorax, seven longitudinal lines in the pronotum, the middle one narrow; scutellum; basal half of the elytra with several longitudinal stripes, the nearest of the middle disposed in a transversal zigzag, distal half with a similar stripe, and a few longitudinal lines near the apices. Ventral face of the body and legs covered with clear-brown pubescence.
Antennae at least two times the length of the body; antennomere XI with same length of the X; attaining the apices of the elytra in the apex of antennomere V. Sides of the prothorax with an acute diminute tubercle in the beginning of the posterior third. Pronotum with a single row of punctures parallel to the posterior margin. Elytral apices obliquely truncate; surface densely punctate in the anterior half, mainly near the suture. Metatarsomere I slightly longer than II+III. Fifth urotergite and urosternite transversely truncate.
 Female: Antennae reaching the elytral apices approximately in the distal extremity of antennomere VI, ovipositor projecting 1. 5 mm beyond the elytral apices. Urotergite acute in the apex.; urosternite transversely truncate.
 Measurements (mm), male/female: Total length, 6,6/7,6-8,5; prothorax length, 1,4/1,5-1,8; prothorax width, 2,0/2,2-2,6; elytral length, 4,7/5,6-6,1; humeral width, 2,3/2,6-3,0.
 Type material: Holotype male, FRENCH GUIANA, Piste de Kaw, pk 45, 12.II.1986, Dominique Peugnet col. (MNHN). Paratypes, same locality, female, 20.VII.1985, G. Tavakilian col. (MNHN), male, 30.VIII.1986, F. & J-P. Serais col. (MNRJ). Route forestière de Belizon, pk 1, female, 17.II.1994, F.T. Hovore col. (MNHN).
 Comments: N. hovorei sp. nov. is similar to N. cingillum Monné, 2009 by the presence of seven longitudinal grayish lines in the pronotum, but differs by the pattern of the elytral patches.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Tavakilian, Gerard L., 2011, New Species Of Nyssodrysternum Gilmour (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) From Central And South America, pp. 453-464 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51 (29) on page 458, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492011002900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13222451
Nyssodrysternum cotopaxi Monné & Tavakilian, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Tavakilian, Gerard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nyssodrysternum
Nyssodrysternum cotopaxi

description: Nyssodrysternum cotopaxi sp. nov.
 (Fig. 10)
 Etymology: The epiteth is a reference to one of the provinces of Ecuador were the holotype was collected.
 Male: Integument dark brown to black. Pubescence predominantly yellow, as follows: head with a stripe surrounding the eyes; basal third of the antennomeres III-VI; pronotum with three longitudinal lines each side of the middle, elytra with interrupted longitudinal lines, and subrounded spots in the base. Greyishyellowish pubescence covering irregular patches in the distal half of the elytra and the basal tarsomeres.
Antennae reaching the apices of the elytra in the apex of the antennomere V. Prothorax with a minute lateral tubercle in the beginning of the posterior third. Pronotum with a single line of punctures near the posterior margin. Apices of the elytra transversely truncate, the external angle slightly projected in acute spine. Apex of the fifth urotergite and urosternite transversely truncate. Metatarsomere I a little longer than II+III.
 Female: Antennae attaining the apices of the elytra in the bsal third of the antennomere VI. Ovipositor projecting near 1 mm beyond the elytral apices, fifth urosternite subacute, fifth urosternite transversely truncate.
 Measurements (mm), male/female: Total length, 5,6/5,6-6,8; prothorax length, 1,0/1,0-1,4; prothorax width, 1,2/1,2-1,7; elytral length, 3,8/4,0-4,8; humeral width, 2,0/1,8-2,2.
 Type material: Holotype female. ECUADOR, Cotopaxi: San Francisco de las Pampas, (1300 a 1500 m), II. 1993, L. Bertolozzi col. (MNRJ). Paratypes: same data of the holotype, male. ECUADOR, Loja: Zamora, male, female, X.1977, L. Peña col. Esmeraldas: La Boca, female, VI.1985, M. Argüello col. Los Ríos: Quevedo, (Pichilingue, 100 m), female, VIII.1974, C. Bordón col. Sucumbios: Rio Napo – Rio Aguarico, 76-77 W, 2 males, IX. X.1977, L. Peña col. All in MNRJ.
 Comments: N. cotopaxi sp. nov. has a similar pattern of elytral patches as N. tucurui sp. nov., but the pubescence predominantly in the basal half of the elytra is yellow and not pale brown as in N. tucurui sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Tavakilian, Gerard L., 2011, New Species Of Nyssodrysternum Gilmour (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) From Central And South America, pp. 453-464 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51 (29) on page 460, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492011002900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13222451
Randomness and Complexity in Networks
Creators: name: Evans, Tim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Probability
subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Anthropology

description: Lecture notes based on talk given by Dr Tim Evans at the workshop on “Stochastic Networks and Internet Technology”, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Matematica nelle Scienze Naturali e Sociali, Pisa, 17th 21st September 2007. [arXiv:0711.0603, 2nd November 2007]
Improvement of portfolio selection: A comparison of different methods
Creators: name: Yiyun FANG
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150205 Investment and Risk Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150202 Financial Econometrics

description: As one of the most important models in finance, Efficient Portfolio Theory pioneered by Markowitz (1952) has been developed since 1950s. Although it has been widely used in practice, Markowitz's mean-variance model has been questioned about its validity because of its bad estimation performance especially in small samples due to the parameter uncertainty problem. Many strategies have been proposed for the purpose of lower the estimation error of mean-variance model. This dissertation gives a review of the existing literature with the goal of improving the performance of the Markowitz mean-variance model. We evaluate across five empirical data sets of 11 estimation methods. Among these methods, the combination rules by Tu and Zhou (2010) are practicable in terms of Sharpe ratio, and optimal two-fund rule and shrinkage on the covariance rule are practicable in terms of CEQ return. However, in comparison with the in-sample performance, these models surely still have room to improve.
Modifying River-Floodplain Systems: A Historical and Ecological Perspective
Creators: name: Ross, Noam
name: Gravuer, Kelly
name: Mendoza, Mary E
name: Kelso, Megan
name: Ashander, Jaime
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This presentation made 9/14 at the UC Davis REACH IGERT Floodplains workshop, by Jaime Ashander, Kelly Gravuer, Megan Kelso, Mary E. Mendoza, Noam Ross
Le droit pénal dans le continuum des soins de santé: Réflexions sur le rôle des acteurs du système judiciaire et sur les mécanismes de protection de l’usager de drogue ou d’alcool dans les formes de prise en charge thérapeutique
Creators: name: Bernier, Dominique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Droit criminel
Alcool
Drogue
Tribunaux
Traitement
Droit de la personne

description: Cette thèse porte sur les formes de prise en charge thérapeutique des usagers de drogue et d’alcool dans le système de justice pénale canadien. Que ce soit lors de l’arrestation ou du prononcé de la peine, par le biais des tribunaux réguliers ou découlant de la mise en place de tribunaux spécialisés, les acteurs du système de justice pénale et criminel canadien – juges, avocats de la défense et du DPCP – peuvent décider d’orienter un usager de drogue ou d’alcool vers une intervention de nature thérapeutique destinée à aider le contrevenant à « régler » son problème de dépendance. Si la littérature des sciences sociales s’intéresse à ce phénomène depuis bien longtemps, la doctrine juridique reste encore très peu investie par les réflexions plus critiques sur ce sujet. S’appuyant sur un travail de terrain effectué auprès de certains acteurs judiciaires appelés à mettre en œuvre des mesures thérapeutiques dans le cadre des tribunaux réguliers ainsi que dans le cadre du Programme de traitement de la toxicomanie de la Cour du Québec en 2014, cette thèse cherche à comprendre pourquoi ces derniers choisissent d’orienter les usagers de drogue ou d’alcool vers ce type d’intervention thérapeutique et quel rapport ceux-ci entretiennent avec le droit et les catégories juridiques dans un contexte où le paradigme classique du droit criminel s’entremêle avec un nouveau paradigme orienté vers l’intervention thérapeutique. La thèse vise également à identifier la place qu’occupent les droits fondamentaux et les garanties juridiques dans le discours de ces acteurs et à discuter des dérives de certaines protections individuelles au profit d’objectifs thérapeutiques et de la recherche d’une solution alternative. Par la mobilisation du concept foucaldien de multiplication des instances et une analyse des discours des acteurs, cette thèse cherche ultimement à comprendre la coexistence des différents paradigmes dans le cadre des formes de prise en charge thérapeutique et à comprendre les effets de ces dispositifs pour le droit criminel alors que celui-ci évolue d’un lieu coercitif basé sur la punitivité vers un espace de prise en compte des besoins de santé des usagers.
Three essays on Bayesian hypothesis testing and model selection
Creators: name: TAO, Zeng
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: My dissertation consists of three essays which contribute new theoretical results to Bayesian hypothesis and model selection.
 Chapter 2 shows that the data augmentation technique undermines the theoretical underpinnings of the deviance information criterion (DIC), a widely used information criterion for Bayesian model comparison, although it facilitates parameter estimation for latent variable models via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation. Data augmentation makes the likelihood function non-regular and hence invalidates the standard asymptotic arguments. A robust form of DIC, denoted as RDIC, is advocated for Bayesian comparison of latent variable models. RDIC is shown to be a good approximation to DIC without data augmentation. While the later quantity is difficult to compute, the expectation – maximization (EM) algorithm facilitates the computation of RDIC when the MCMC output is available. Moreover, RDIC is robust to nonlinear transformations of latent variables and distributional representations of model specification. The proposed approach is applied to several popular models in economics and finance. While DIC is very sensitive to the nonlinear transformations of latent variables in these models, RDIC is robust to these transformations. As a result, substantial discrepancy has been found between DIC and RDIC.
 Chapter 3 proposes a new Bayesian approach to test a point null hypothesis based on the deviance in a decision-theoretical framework. The proposed test statistic may be regarded as the Bayesian version of likelihood ratio test and appeals in practical applications with three desirable properties. First, it is immune to Bartlett’s paradox. Second, it avoids Jeffreys-Lindley’s paradox, Third, it is easy to compute and its threshold value is easily derived, facilitating the implementation in practice. The method is applied to three real examples in economics and finance. Empirical results confirm the strength of the test over the Bayes factor and reject the wellknown three factor Fama-French model.
 Chapter 4 proposes a Bayesian method for assess the model specification of an econometric model after it is estimated by Bayesian MCMC methods. The proposed approach does not required an alternative model be specified and is applicable to a variety of models, including latent variable models for which frequentist’s methods are more difficult to use. It is shown that the proposed statistic and its threshold values are easy to compute. The method is illustrated using the Fama-French asset price model and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model.
Nyssodrysternum capixaba Monné & Tavakilian, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Tavakilian, Gerard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nyssodrysternum
Nyssodrysternum capixaba

description: Nyssodrysternum capixaba sp. nov.
 (Fig. 11)
 Etymology: The epiteth is allusive to the name that received the inhabitants of the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
 Male: Integument dark brown to black. Pubescence predominantly clear gray, in the pronotum disposed in seven longitudinal lines, one in the middle and three each side of the middle. Pubescence dark brown as follows: antennae, six longitudinal lines in the pronotum, intercalated with the grayish lines, in the elytra a large rounded patch in juxtaposition with the scutellum, a subquadrate median lateral patch and several rounded spots in the sides in the basal half and in the whole surface of the distal half.
Antennae reaching the apices of the elytra approximately in the apex of the antennomere V. Prothorax with an acute minute lateral tubercle in the beginning of the posterior third. Pronotum with a single row of punctures near the posterior margin. Apices of the elytra slightly obliquely truncate, external angle projected in acute spine.
Fifth urotergite and urosternite semicircularly emarginate at the apex. Metatarsomere I as long as II+III.
 Measurements (mm), male: Total length, 6,2; prothorax length, 1,2; prothorax width, 1,8; elytral length, 4,5; humeral width, 2,1.
 Type material: Holotype male, BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Linhares, X.1972, B. Silva col. (MNRJ). Paratypes, same data, 3 males. All in MNRJ.
 Comments: N. capixaba sp. nov. has similar pattern of arrangement of elytral patches of N. schmithi (Melzer, 1931), and also the same color of pubescence, differs by the external angle of the elytral apices subrounded in N. schmithi. and projected in acute spine in N. capixaba sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Tavakilian, Gerard L., 2011, New Species Of Nyssodrysternum Gilmour (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) From Central And South America, pp. 453-464 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51 (29) on page 460, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492011002900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13222451
Essays on high-frequency financial econometrics
Creators: name: Shouwei LIU
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150202 Financial Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: My dissertation consists of three essays which contribute new theoretical and em- pirical results to Volatility Estimation and Market Microstructure theory as well as Risk Management. Chapter 2 extends the ACD-ICV method proposed by Tse and Yang (2012) for the estimation of intraday volatility of stocks to estimate monthly volatility. We compare the ACD-ICV estimates against the realized volatility (RV) and the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) estimates. Our Monte Carlo experiments and empirical results on stock data of the New York Stock Exchange show that the ACD-ICV method performs very well against the other two methods. As a 30-day volatility predictor, the Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index (VIX) predicts the ACD-ICV volatility estimates better than the RV estimates. While the RV method appears to dominate the literature, the GARCH method based on aggregating daily conditional variance over a month performs well against the RV method. Chapter 3 propose to model the aggregate trade volume of stocks in a quote- driven (specialist) market using a compound Poisson distribution. Trades are as- sumed to be initiated by either informed or uninformed traders. Our model treats trade volume endogenously and calibrates two measures of informed trading: rela- tive frequency of informed trading and relative volume of informed trading. Empiri- cal analysis of daily volatility estimates of 50 NYSE stocks shows that trade volume initiated by informed traders increase volatility, while trade volume initiated by un- informed traders reduce volatility. However, for both informed and uninformed traders, the disaggregated effect of trade frequency is to increase volatility. Our results also confirm that trade frequency dominates trade volume and trade size in affecting volatility. Yet trade volume and trade size have incremental information for volatility beyond that exhibited in trade frequency. Chapter 4 propose to estimate the intraday Value at Risk (IVaR) for stocks using real-time transaction data. Transaction data filtered by price durations are modeled employing a two-state asymmetric autoregressive conditional duration (AACD) model, and the IVaR is computed using Monte Carlo simulation. Empirical analysis of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stocks show that IVaR estimated using the AACD ap- proach track closely to those using the Dionne, Duchesne and Pacurar (2009) and Giot (2005) methods. Backtesting results show that our method performs the best among other methods.
 The dissertation comprises 3 papers available at:

 1. Estimation of Monthly Volatility: An Empirical Comparison of Realized Volatility, GARCH and ACD-ICV Methods (2012). Working paper.

 2. Intraday Value-at-Risk: An asymmetric autoregressive conditional duration approach (2015). Journal of Econometrics, 189, (2), 437-446.
Calcareous nannofossils from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ore-bearing clays at Gnaszyn as palaeoenvironmanetal indicator, Kraków-Silesia Homocline, Poland
Creators: name: Kędzierski, Mariusz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Paleontology
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Qualitative and quantitative studies on calcareous nannofossils have been carried out on the Middle–Upper Bathonian succession of Gnaszyn (Kraków-Silesia Homocline, Częstochowa region). The nannofossil assemblages are moderately or well-preserved and are dominated by Watznaueria britannica; also common are Staurolithites lumina and Zeugrhabdotus erectus. The presence of delicate nannofossil forms together with dissolution-resistant taxa shows that the changes in composition of some of the nannoplankton assemblages reflect original variations. The frequency and diversity changes of the calcareous nannofossil assemblages have been interpreted in relation to fluctuations of sedimentation rate versus changes in trophic conditions within the photic zone. The highest diversity assemblages contain a high percentage of palaeofertility indicators, and are impoverished in the genus Watznaueria. This is interpreted as a reflection of a lower sedimentation rate and more stable, possibly mesotrophic conditions within the photic zone. On the other hand, W. britannica-dominated assemblages with low species diversity may represent more unstable environments with a high influx of terrestrial material related to a high sedimentation rate and a high nutrient influx, i.e. eutrophic conditions in the photic zone.
Zero-rating educational content in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: McBurnie, Christopher
name: Adam, Taskeen
name: Kaye, Tom
name: Haßler, Björn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EdTech
Zero-rating
Distance learning
Remote learning
Online learning
Access

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for governments to provide accessible online education opportunities to all learners. Governments have explored ways to give students free access to digital content. This typically entails “zero-rating” or removing data charges for access to selected online resources. This document outlines how implementers can use zero-rating to ensure children continue learning. The brief includes: An introduction to key terms and concepts An overview of considerations on zero-rating Common questions (and answers) that implementers should examine before zero-rating digital content This document can also be found on Google Docs.
Nyssodrysternum bolivianum Monné & Tavakilian, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Tavakilian, Gerard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nyssodrysternum
Nyssodrysternum bolivianum

description: Nyssodrysternum bolivianum sp. nov.
 (Fig. 13)
 Etymology: The epithet is a reference to the country where the specimens were collected.
 Male: Integument dark brown to black. Pubescence predominantly grayish, in the pronotum disposed in seven longitudinal lines, one in the middle and three each side of the middle. Elytra with interrupted intercalate longitudinal lines of grayish and dark brown pubescence, surrounding a median irregular dark brown patch, near the lateral margin.
Antennae very long, more than twice the length of the body, attaining the apices of the elytra in the distal extremity of antennomere V. Prothorax with the lateral tubercle subconical, situated in the beginning of the posterior third. Pronotum with a row of minute punctures near the anterior and posterior margins. Elytral apices obliquely emarginate, external angle projected in acute spine. Punctuation dense in the basal half, disperse in the apical half.
Fifth urotergite notched in the middle of the distal extremity, fifth urosternite shallowly emarginate in the apex. Metatarsome I as long as II+III.
 Female: Antennae attaining the apices of the elytra in the apex of antennomere; ovipositor projecting 0. 5 mm beyond the elitral apices, fifth uroternite transversely truncate, fifth urosternite shallowly emarginate.
 Measurements (mm), male/female: Total length, 5,7-7,0/6,8; prothorax length, 1,0-1,4/1,3; prothorax width, 1,5-2,0/2,0; elytral length, 3,8-4,8/4,8; humeral width, 1,8-2,3/2,2.
 Type material: Holotype male, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: 4-6 km SSE Buena Vista (Hotel Flora & Fauna), 17-30.IV.2003, R. Clarke col. (MNKM). Paratypes, same locality and collector, male, 01-15.III.2003 (MNRJ), female, 01-16.IV.2003 (MNRJ), male, 01-04.V.2003 (ACMT). 3-7 km SSE Buena Vista (Hotel Flora & Fauna), female, 08.V.2004, A. Cline & J. Wappes col. (ACMT).
 Comments: The distribution of the elytral longitudinal lines is similar to that of N. gilvolineatum, but the lines are grayish instead of yellowish.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A. & Tavakilian, Gerard L., 2011, New Species Of Nyssodrysternum Gilmour (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) From Central And South America, pp. 453-464 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51 (29) on page 462, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492011002900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13222451
The Role of Pre-mRNA Splicing and Splicing-Related Proteins in the Cold Acclimation Induced Adjustment of Photosynthesis and the Acquisition of Freezing Tolerance in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Creators: name: Rosembert, Marc
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cold acclimation
SR proteins
LAMMER kinases
Cold acclimation induced adjustment of photosynthetic performance
Acquisition of freezing tolerance

description: This thesis evaluated the role of Serine/Arginine-rich proteins, also known as SR proteins, in addition to LAMMER kinases in the cold acclimation response using Brassica napus and Arabidopsis thaliana. Transcription profile analyses of SR and LAMMER kinase genes in Brassica napus and BnCBF overexpressor lines showed that exposure to low temperatures led to increased transcript levels for nine SR genes and two kinases. BnCBF overexpression was found to exacerbate this response. This was associated with increases in SR protein abundance and phosphorylation status, suggesting that SR proteins play an essential role in cold acclimation. These findings prompted further studies to assess the role of SR proteins and kinases in the cold acclimation induced adjustment of photosynthesis, the acquisition of freezing tolerance and the transcriptional profile of CBF, SPS and COR genes, which play an important role in the transcriptional cascade allowing plants to undergo cold acclimation. Using Arabidopsis loss-of-function mutants of SR proteins and AME3 LAMMER kinase, it was shown that At-RSZ22 and At-SR45 are indispensable in the regulation of photosynthesis under non-acclimated and cold acclimation conditions. At-RSZ22a, At-SCL30 and At-RS41 were then proposed to play a crucial role in the cold acclimation induced adjustment of photosynthetic performance. Moreover, the deletion of At-AME3 kinase not only jeopardized the cold acclimation induced adjustment of photosynthetic performance, but also the acquisition of freezing tolerance. This was associated with attenuation of the transcription profile of key cold responsive genes and protein abundance of COR15 A/B and dehydrins. These findings prompted further physiological characterization of ame3 mutants, and the elucidation of Serine/Arginine-rich proteins capable of interacting with this LAMMER kinase of interest. Under cold stress and acclimation conditions, the deletion of At-AME3 LAMMER kinase impeded Photosystem I physiology and state-1 state-2 transitions. These findings were associated with decreases in Photosystem II and Photosystem I protein abundance. Yeast 2-hybrid assays showed that six SR proteins are capable of physically interacting with AME3. Taken together, the results of this study demonstrate that At-RSZ22 and At-SR45 are essential in the photosynthetic performance of Arabidopsis, that At-RSZ22a, At-SCL30 and At-RS41 play an essential role in the cold acclimation induced recovery of photosynthetic performance, and that At-AME3 plays an essential role in the cold acclimation response.
Critical Care Nurses’ Experiences of Coping with Moral Distress
Creators: name: Forozeiya, Dana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: moral distress
coping
critical care
intensive care
nursing

description: Over the last three decades, there has been a growing body of literature that has described moral distress as a prominent issue that negatively affects critical care nurses. However, little focus has been given to how nurses cope and continue on in their practice despite the hardship that moral distress can cause. This study sought to reveal nurses’ strategies of coping with moral distress to allow for a better understanding of this aspect of critical care nurses’ experiences. This study adopted a qualitative design that used Thorne’s (2008) approach to interpretative description. Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven critical care nurses employed within two ICUs of a tertiary care academic hospital. Interviews were analyzed using Aronson’s (1995) approach to thematic analysis. The experience of coping with moral distress had an overarching theme of being “like grass in the wind.” Four major themes were identified: Going Against What I Think is Best, Moral Distress- It’s Just Inherent in Our Job, It Just Felt Awful, and Dealing with It.
Aqueous phase chemistry of mercury in the atmosphere: a kinetic study of the reaction Hg0 + •OH
Creators: name: Svensson, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: My (by now ancient) honors thesis (BSc in Chemistry): Aqueous phase chemistry of mercury in the atmosphere: A kinetic study of the reaction Hg0 + •OH Summary:
 Mercury is a global pollutant that has been used by mankind for thousands of years. This has led to extensive discharges into the environment, contaminating air, lakes and soils. Bio-methylation of oxidized mercury species results in the highly toxic methyl-mercury thereby making mercury a threat to both humans and animals. The biogeochemical cycling of mercury between different natural compartments is governed by redox processes in both gas- and aqueous phase. The understanding of these processes requires thorough knowledge of the involved redox reactions of mercury species. In this study, the oxidation rate of elemental mercury by hydroxyl radicals in aqueous phase has been re-determined, as the earlier reported values have shown differences. It was found that the rate constant for the reaction Hg0 + ·OH was (2.9 ± 0.6) x 109 M-1s-1 at pH 4.1 and (4.8 ± 1.5) x 109 M-1s-1 at pH 7.2. A possible reason for the difference in the rate constant at the two pH-values may be a parallel reduction of Hg(II) to Hg0.
Le secret d’office du juge ecclésiastique : Application du canon 1455 du CIC/83 par rapport au bien commun
Creators: name: Saint-Louis, Edwine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Juge ecclésiastique
secret canonique
confidentialité
information
communication
transparence
protection du bien commun
réputation
intimité
dignité
justice
vérité

description: Le c. 1455 en exigeant des juges et des ministres du tribunal de garder le secret inhérent à leur charge, en tout procès pénal et au contentieux, ou encore quand la révélation d’un acte peut porter préjudice aux parties, s’inscrit dans la même ligne que l’Instruction sur le secret pontifical Secreta continere, publiée le 28 février 1974. En tout procès, il en résulte que, la loi du secret d’office est pour le bon ordre de la vie sociale et aussi pour la protection de la dignité de la personne humaine. Mais comment parler d’une justice équitable, s’il y a des dossiers probatoires, tenus secrets par le juge, et qui ne sont pas révélés à l’autre partie pour qu’elle puisse présenter sa défense ? Et si le juge tient compte de cette information tenue secrète pour rendre la sentence ? N’y aurait-il pas là deux poids deux mesures ? N’est-ce pas une violation du droit de défense ? Et comment vérifier la vérité des faits allégués ? C’est à ces questions et d’autres que nous nous proposons de donner des éléments de réponse dans cette thèse. Aussi, dans les lignes suivantes, le but principal est de réfléchir sur le traitement des informations reçues confidentiellement par le juge ecclésiastique dans la procédure canonique. À ce but principal, deux autres secondaires sont attachés. Il s’agit de rechercher les possibles raisons de la loi du secret dans le droit canonique, et de faire la lumière sur l’application du canon 1455 du CIC/83 par rapport au bien commun. Pour atteindre les buts fixés, le premier chapitre pose la question des formes et des matières du secret en droit canonique. Les deux chapitres suivants, en utilisant les principes de la ratio legis et de la mens legislatoris, cherchent à interpréter la législation canonique sur le secret d’office du juge ecclésiastique dans l’esprit du législateur. Le chapitre quatre présente la difficile relation entre le secret d’office du juge ecclésiastique et le bien commun. Le dernier chapitre fait une lecture de certaines décisions romaines, en lien avec le secret d’office du juge, pour les procès pénaux, contentieux, matrimoniaux et civils.
Drugs for Overactive Bladder Symptoms
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 57 reviews drugs for overactive bladder symptoms. Conclusions: Oxybutynin and tolterodine (all forms) have not been tested in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) beyond 12 weeks nor in elderly patients or those with serious co-morbidities. Oral anticholinergic formulations and regimens are equivalent in benefit; evidence for transdermal oxybutynin is less clear. Symptomatic benefit occurs in 60% of people with OAB treated with an anticholinergic drug versus 45% of people treated with placebo, ARR 15%, NNT 6 to 7. Anticholinergic side effects, particularly dry mouth, are frequent: ARI 22%, NNH 4 to 5. The benefit of anticholinergic drugs (0.6 less leakage episodes per day) must be weighed against the harm (3% of patients treated for 12 weeks experienced a serious adverse event).
Hermann Mückler, Ingfrid Schütz-Müller: Die Entdeckung der Südsee im Spiegel alter Karten, Ansichten und Reiseberichte
Creators: name: Cwik, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 69 (1998): ASIEN (Oktober)
TGF-β1 increases proliferation of airway smooth muscle cells by phosphorylation of map kinases
Creators: name: Chen, Gang
name: Khalil, Nasreen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Airway remodeling in asthma is the result of increased expression of connective tissue proteins, airway smooth muscle cell (ASMC) hyperplasia and hypertrophy. TGF-β1 has been found to increase ASMC proliferation. The activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), p38, ERK, and JNK, is critical to the signal transduction associated with cell proliferation. In the present study, we determined the role of phosphorylated MAPKs in TGF-β1 induced ASMC proliferation. Methods Confluent and growth-arrested bovine ASMCs were treated with TGF-β1. Proliferation was measured by [3H]-thymidine incorporation and cell counting. Expressions of phosphorylated p38, ERK1/2, and JNK were determined by Western analysis. Results In a concentration-dependent manner, TGF-β1 increased [3H]-thymidine incorporation and cell number of ASMCs. TGF-β1 also enhanced serum-induced ASMC proliferation. Although ASMCs cultured with TGF-β1 had a significant increase in phosphorylated p38, ERK1/2, and JNK, the maximal phosphorylation of each MAPK had a varied onset after incubation with TGF-β1. TGF-β1 induced DNA synthesis was inhibited by SB 203580 or PD 98059, selective inhibitors of p38 and MAP kinase kinase (MEK), respectively. Antibodies against EGF, FGF-2, IGF-I, and PDGF did not inhibit the TGF-β1 induced DNA synthesis. Conclusion Our data indicate that ASMCs proliferate in response to TGF-β1, which is mediated by phosphorylation of p38 and ERK1/2. These findings suggest that TGF-β1 which is expressed in airways of asthmatics may contribute to irreversible airway remodeling by enhancing ASMC proliferation.