cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thalamocortical dysconnectivity in ASD: an analysis of the ABIDE
Creators: name: Giraldo, Monica
name: Cascio, Carissa
name: Woodward, Neil
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: ASD is defined by deficits in social interaction and communication, rigid or stereotypical behaviors, and abnormal sensory processing. The Thalamus plays a key role in gating sensory information to the cortex, modulating efferent motor signals, and regulating overall cortical activity by virtue of the sensory input it receives and dense connections with virtually all regions of the cortex. Consequently, the neuropathology of ASD may involve dysfunction of the Thalamus and its connections with the cortex.

Using data from the ABIDE, a large, publically-available  repository of rs-fMRI scans collected on over 1100 individuals, the goal of this study is to clarify mixed findings on thalamocortical functional connectivity in ASD.
Australian solid wood products
Creators: name: Nordman, Brock
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This paper looks at the Australian solidwood products industry, focusing on the state of New South Wales (NSW) solid hardwood products. Australia has native and forest plantations, each with different market conditions, management strategies, products offered and limitations. This paper illustrates the difference between documented information and what is actually currently happening in Australia.
Thermally modified wood: from preservative to potential substitute
Creators: name: Hoang, David
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: For decades, wood has been a victim of the wrath caused by insects and fungi degrading wood, using its natural properties for food and habitat. There are preventative measures humans can take to prolong the life of wood products. Pressure treating wood with chemicals such as CCA and ACQ provide adequate protection against organisms that feast on wood. The process involves using harmful chemicals that may leach out of the treated wood into the surrounding environment, causing potential hazards to the health of beings. Thermally treating wood preserves the specimen without the use of chemicals. Anti-organism performance is comparable to that of the chemically treating wood. Using high temperature and steam in specialized kilns, cell structures are modified and the food sources for fungi and insects are eradicated. Though the changes physically to the wood prevent it from being degraded by organisms, the changes affect the mechanical properties as well. The natural colour of the wood darkens with the increase in temperature, and swelling is reduced when exposed to humid environments thus increasing dimensional stability. Thermal modified wood also increases in brittleness and decreases in overall bending strength. Thermally modified wood can continue to be a method of preserving wood. However, with its modified properties after heat treatment, the change to consistent hues throughout the cross-section resembling exotic wood species can enter new markets such as being a substitute for non-structural exotic wood products.
Detecting Common Errors in Event-Driven Process Chains by Label Analysis
Creators: name: Gruhn, Volker
name: Laue, Ralf
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: In this article, we discuss several classes of error patterns that can frequently be found in Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC). Instances of these patterns can be detected by using a pattern-matching approach: The model is translated into a set of Prolog rules and potential modelling problems are located by querying the Prolog fact base for certain problem patterns. In particular, this article presents patterns for problems that can be detected by analysing the labels of events and functions in EPCs. To make reasoning about the contents of the labels possible, the labels are transformed into a normal form. By taking synonyms, antonyms and negating words (no, not) into account, we locate labels that contradict each other. This leads to the detection of some classes of errors like modelling of an event and its negation occurring at the same time. Our method has been applied to 1253 EPC models in German language. We have been able to detect a large number of errors in those models that remain undetected using traditional approaches for EPC validation.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 1 (2011)
API-Assisted Code Generation for Question Answering on Varied Table Structures
Creators: name: Cao, Yihan
name: Chen, Shuyi
name: Liu, Ryan
name: Wang, Zhiruo
name: Fried, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A persistent challenge to table question answering (TableQA) by generating executable programs has been adapting to varied table structures, typically requiring domain-specific logical forms. In response, this paper introduces a unified TableQA framework that: (1) provides a unified representation for structured tables as multi-index Pandas data frames, (2) uses Python as a powerful querying language, and (3) uses few-shot prompting to translate NL questions into Python programs, which are executable on Pandas data frames. Furthermore, to answer complex relational questions with extended program functionality and external knowledge, our framework allows customized APIs that Python programs can call. We experiment with four TableQA datasets that involve tables of different structures -- relational, multi-table, and hierarchical matrix shapes -- and achieve prominent improvements over past state-of-the-art systems. In ablation studies, we (1) show benefits from our multi-index representation and APIs over baselines that use only an LLM, and (2) demonstrate that our approach is modular and can incorporate additional APIs.
description: EMNLP 2023 camera ready, 13 pages, 11 figures
Recognising Activity Labeling Styles in Business Process Models
Creators: name: Leopold, Henrik
name: Smirnov, Sergey
name: Mendling, Jan
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Quality assurance is a serious issue for large-scale process modelling initiatives. While formal control flow analysis has been extensively studied in prior research, there is little work on how the textual content of a process model and its activity labels can be systematically analysed. In this context, it is a major challenge to systematically identify and to consequently assure high label quality. As many large process model collections contain more than thousand models, each including several activity labels, there is a strong need for an automatic detection of labels that might be of bad quality. Recent research has shown that different grammatical styles correlate with potential ambiguity of a label. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for recognition of activity labeling styles. The developed algorithm exploits natural language processing techniques, e.g., part of speech tagging and analysis of the grammatical structure. We also study how ontologies, like WordNet, can support the solution. We conduct a thorough evaluation of the developed techniques utilising about 6,000 activity labels from the SAP Reference Model. The evaluation of this algorithm shows that spurious labels can be identified with a significant level of precision and recall. In this way, our approach can be used as a means of quality assurance for process repository management by listing bad quality labels, which a human modeler should correct.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 1 (2011)
Automatic Generation of Glossaries for Process Modelling Support
Creators: name: Peters, Nicolas
name: Weidlich, Matthias
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Process models are often used for human to human communication. Besides other aspects, e.g., the chosen modelling notation or the model layout, the labelling has a strong influence on the understandability and, therefore, quality of a model. Consequently, labels should be reused and aligned across different process models. In order to support these goals, a glossary might be applied in the course of modelling. In this article, we argue that such a glossary can be generated automatically from the labels of an existing process model collection, e.g., a reference model. We introduce an approach for such a glossary generation that takes additional information on structural as well as control flow aspects into account. The applicability of our approach is illustrated by means of two case studies. Based thereon, we also report on findings regarding the appropriateness of the chosen structural and behavioural aspects.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 1 (2011)
A Conception of a Presentation Development and Management System Featuring ‘Smart Slides’
Creators: name: Frank, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents a conception of a presentation development and management system (PDMS) and a related process model that guides its adequate use. It is inspired by the idea to replace certain graphical representations on presentation slides with diagrams that are constructed with domain-specific modelling languages (DSML) and corresponding model editors. The PDMS features an extensible set of graphical DSML that originate in a method for enterprise modelling. They provide the conceptual foundation for graphical representations that include domain-specific semantics. Specifying DSML and generating code for corresponding model editors is supported by an integrated metamodelling environment. Various DSML can be combined to create interactive, multi-language diagrams. The embedded semantics enables versatile machine analysis and allows for interactive slides. An accompanying compound architecture allows for integrating interactive diagrams with slides that contain traditional types of content such as text or drawings. Furthermore, it provides the conceptual foundation for storing presentations in a steadily growing common repository of organisational knowledge, thereby promoting reuse on various levels of abstraction.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 1 (2011)
Converting a plantation resource from pulp and paper to sawn timber products
Creators: name: Mihalcheon, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Plantation forestry is a significant forest resource for the Australian forest product industry. In recent years, the amount of native and regrowth forests allowed for harvest have been significantly reduced, so plantation sourced material will need to be harvested in order to make up for this shortfall. As the majority of plantations (83%) are bred and managed for pulp production, there are concerns over whether this resource can be properly utilized for production of sawn timber products. Issues such as internal check in Eucalyptus nitens, and growth stresses in Eucalyptus globulus, make using this plantation resource extremely difficult when not processed into wood chips. Every year the amount of plantation fibre available for the pulp and paper industry increases, which has been driving down the prices of pulp. This price increase has caused many plantation owners to shift to managing their plantations for sawn timber products, a market which gives a higher return over the pulp market. In order to successfully utilize a pulp and paper resource for sawn timber products, pruning, thinning and other silvicultural regimes need to be initiated within the first five years of the stands growth in order to significantly increase the wood quality of the stand.
Analytical model for large-scale design of sidewalk delivery robot systems
Creators: name: Yang, Hai
name: Du, Yuchen
name: Le, Tho V.
name: Chow, Joseph Y. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rise in demand for local deliveries and e-commerce, robotic deliveries are being considered as efficient and sustainable solutions. However, the deployment of such systems can be highly complex due to numerous factors involving stochastic demand, stochastic charging and maintenance needs, complex routing, etc. We propose a model that uses continuous approximation methods for evaluating service trade-offs that consider the unique characteristics of large-scale sidewalk delivery robot systems used to serve online food deliveries. The model captures both the initial cost and the operation cost of the delivery system and evaluates the impact of constraints and operation strategies on the deployment. By minimizing the system cost, variables related to the system design can be determined. First, the minimization problem is formulated based on a homogeneous area, and the optimal system cost can be derived as a closed-form expression. By evaluating the expression, relationships between variables and the system cost can be directly obtained. We then apply the model in neighborhoods in New York City to evaluate the cost of deploying the sidewalk delivery robot system in a real-world scenario. The results shed light on the potential of deploying such a system in the future.
Causes of persistent febrile illnesses in eastern Nepal
Creators: name: Koirala, Kanika Deshpande
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Kanika Deshpande Koirala from the Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal presents an analysis of the causes of persistent febrile illnesses (PFI) in Nepal. The study was conducted from January 2013 to October 2014 and involved a district and tertiary hospital. This was the first study to report the causes of PFI in a Visceral Leishmaniasis endemic region in Nepal.
Supplementary document for High-fidelity optical diffraction tomography of live organisms using non-toxic tunable refractive index media - 6121154.pdf
Creators: name: Lee, Dohyeon
name: Lee, Moosung
name: KWAK, Haechan
name: Kim, Young Seo
name: Shim, Jaehyu
name: Jung, Jik Han
name: Park, Wei Sun
name: Park, Jiho
name: Lee, Sumin
name: Park, YongKeun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Rapid manufacturing in the humanitarian sector
Creators: name: Abi  Bush
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Abi Bush from Field Ready, USA gives an update on rapid manufacturing in the humanitarian sector. In particular, he describes the Field Ready pilot project in Nepal employing new techniques to improve humanitarian work. Research is only based on few case studies and there is a strong need to increase documentation to establish trends and patterns and gather inputs from health professionals at all stages of a response.
Coal frontier: corporate power and the making of the Powder River Basin, 1965-1985
Creators: name: Tate, Ryan Driskell
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: The western states of Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota produced only a small fraction of American coal until the 1970s. But by the 1990s, they accounted for more than half. Today the region’s coal mines and power plants rank among the largest carbon polluters on the planet. This dissertation examines the rapid energy industrialization of the region’s Powder River Basin in the late twentieth century. As national politics, global energy crises, and corporate profit-seeking spurred the westward migration of acquisitive energy firms, local townspeople, ranchers, workers, and Northern Cheyenne and Crow Nations fought to defend their lands, workplaces, and ways-of-life. But by the mid-1980s, fossil-fuel companies had largely overcome that resistance and embedded themselves deeply into the social and political fabric of the region. This study asks how these energy conglomerates amassed political and economic power from the ground up. How did fossil fuel capitalism come to prevail? By closely examining corporate strategies to win over the hearts and minds of workers and communities—be it hardball tactics or financial largess—and the operation of these industries within the West’s fractured sovereignties and landscapes of power, this dissertation shows how energy conglomerates earned a social license to operate. It argues that the creation of an energy frontier, out-of-sight and out-of-mind of most consumers, emboldened the corporate power of the coal industry in the late-twentieth century, and extracted not only commodities from the earth, but also political allegiances and social loyalties from the people who lived there.
Access to new HCV treatment tools: barriers, responses and lessons learned from MSF’s experiences in South Asia
Creators: name: Menghaney, Leena
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Leena Menghaney, Head of South Asian MSF Access Campaign, talks about current barriers to access to hepatitis C treatment access and outlines strategies and responses to face these barriers. MSF medical projects and Access Campaign need to work together to improve access to treatment and big pharma’s voluntary licenses and donations which are currently limited should be improved. The aim is to obtain affordable generic antivirals for everyone.
‘The five pillars of care’: an inclusive and equitable medical approach to hepatitis c care in people who inject drugs (pwid’s)
Creators: name: Janes, Simon
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics in Manipur are driven by the use of intra-venous drugs. The estimated prevalence of HIV and HCV in people who inject drugs is between 21% and 29%. Here Simon Janes introduces an inclusive and equitable medical approach to hepatitis C care in people who inject drugs. He explains that through a this model the most vulnerable populations can be equitably included in the treatment for Hepatitis C and there is a need for program managers to understand, accept and adapt care models to issues of social function and stigmatisation that currently limit access to treatment.
An alternative approach to secondary prophylaxis in HIV patients co-infected with progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (pdh)
Creators: name: Goswami, Rama P
name: Basu, Ayan
name: Rudra Goswami
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: This poster presents an observational, hospital based, retrospective study on lyophilised AmB as a secondary prophylaxis for HIV patients co-infected with progressive disseminated histoplasmosis.
Changing of Transportation Cost for Furniture Exports from China to the United States
Creators: name: Widiyanto, Dwi
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Transportation cost is one of the most crucial elements in the manufacturing process. Furniture companies try to reduce their production costs to generate higher profit. One method of reducing production cost is by using cheap labor from developing countries such as China. Globalization and global recession play important role in affecting transportation cost. With the increase in transportation cost from China to the United States, many companies have begun to search for alternative methods to mitigate this problem.
Introduction of Direct Acting Antivirals for hepatitis C treatment in a primary care clinic in Karachi, Pakistan
Creators: name: Safieh Shah
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Safieh Shah from MSF India summarises the work on hepatitis C treatment in a primary care MSF clinic in Karachi, Pakistan. More than 4000 patients were screened between March 2015 and April 2016 and about 27% of patients were found HCV Ab positive. Data on primary care and follow-up are presented on 307 patients who received the treatment.
'Too little, too late'; new anti-TB drugs for patients with complex drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai
Creators: name: Sarthak  A. Rastogi
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Sarthak Rastogi presents the recent MSF efforts in providing new anti-tuberculosis drugs to patients with complex drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai. Drug resistant patterns are recently emerging making it difficult to treat patients on time and use new drugs that take time to be tested for efficacy and toxicity. MSF provides treatment services in Mumbai since 2006 and is seeing increasing proportion of drug resistant TB cases every year. Here are shown the data from a small cohort of patients who received two of the new drugs validate by the WHO.
TB in children in Uzbekistan: don’t forget MDR TB
Creators: name: Junia Cajazeiro
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Junia Cajazeiro from MSF, Nukus, Uzbekistan talks about tuberculosis in childrenin Uzbekistan. The main aim of her talk is to compare treatment regimens prescribed for patients diagnosed positively with TB and those with a negative lab diagnosis of TB in Karakalpakstan. TB treatment outcomes in 355 patients are discussed.
HIV-infected female sex workers in Myanmar: a retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Fontaine, Julie
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Julie Fontaine presents a retrospective analysis on HIV infected female sex workers in Myanmar. The HIV prevalence among female sex workers in Myanmar is 6.6% and condom use programmes are in place to stabilize HIV epidemics. The objective of this study was to describe clinical, virological and immunological characteristics and outcomes of a female sex workers cohort seen in MSF clinics.
Classically forbidden regions in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene. With an appendix by Zhongkai Tao and Maciej Zworski
Creators: name: Hitrik, Michael
name: Tao, Zhongkai
name: Zworski, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish exponential decay, as the angle of twisting goes to $ 0$, of eigenstates in a model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), near the hexagon connecting stacking points. That is done by adapting microlocal methods Kawai-Kashiwara and Sjöstrand used to establish analytic hypoellipticity by Trépreau and Himonas. That replaces ellipticity, absent here, which is the usual mechanism behind classically forbidden regions. We also discuss numerical evidence of exponential decay in other regions (the center of the hexagon) and analytic complications involved in establishing that decay.
description: We added a reference to a recent development and made some minor corrections
Kondo effect and its destruction in hetero-bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Xie, Fang
name: Chen, Lei
name: Si, Qimiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moiré structures, along with line-graph-based $d$-electron systems, represent a setting to realize flat bands. One form of the associated strong correlation physics is the Kondo effect. Here, we address the recently observed Kondo-driven heavy fermion state and its destruction in AB-stacked hetero-bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, which can be controlled by the gate voltages. By studying an effective interacting Hamiltonian using the slave spin approach, we obtained a phase diagram with the total filling factor and the displacement field strength as the tunable parameters. In an extended range of the tunable displacement field, our numerical results show that the relative filling of the $d$ orbital, which is associated with the highest moiré band from the $\rm MoTe_2$ layer, is enforced to be $ν_d \approx 1$ by the interaction. This agrees with the experimental observation. We also argue that the observed high coherence temperature scale could be explained by the non-negligible bandwidth of the $d$ orbital. Our results set the stage to address the amplified quantum fluctuations that the Kondo effect may produce in these structures and new regimes that the systems open up for Kondo-destruction quantum criticality.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures
YOSH BOLALARNI TINGLAB TUSHUNISHGA O'RGATISH
Creators: name: Abdullayeva, Dilrabo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ma’lumki, tinglab tushunishga o’rgatish mashg’ulotlari talabalarda muayyan o’quv materiali bo’yicha grammatik, leksik, perseptiv (idrok qilingan) ko’nikma va malakalar shakllantirilgach tashkil qilinadi. Bunday tizimga rioya qilmaslik eshitiladigan nutqning fonetik, grammatik, leksik qonuniyatlarini idrok qilmaslikka, natijada eshitiladigan axborotni butunlay tushunmaslikka olib kelishi mumkin. Zero, tinglab tushunish ko’nikma va malakalarini shakllantirish talaffuz, leksik, grammatik ko’nikmalar va malakalarni shakllantirish bilan uzviy bog’liqdir.
Telescope conjecture via homological residue fields with applications to schemes
Creators: name: Hrbek, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 18G80, 18N55, Secondary: 13H99, 13B35

description: For a big tt-category, we give a characterization of the Telescope Conjecture (TC) in terms of definable tensor-ideals generated by homological residue fields. We formulate a stalk-locality property of (TC) and prove that it holds in the case of the derived category of a quasi-compact quasi-separated scheme, strengthening a result \cite{HHZ21}. As an application, we find strong links between (TC) and separation properties of the adic topology on local rings. This allows us to recover known examples and counterexamples of when (TC) holds over a scheme, as well as to construct some new ones.
description: 27 pages, final version, to appear in Tunisian Journal of Mathematics
Dimensional Synthesis of a Watt-II Linkage Using Pareto Optimization
Creators: name: Villegas, Claudio
name: Hüsing, Mathias
name: Corves, Burkhard
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2022
Subjects: 620

description: Achte IFToMM D-A-CH Konferenz 2022 : 24./25. Februar 2022, Online-Konferenz IFToMM D-A-CH 2022, online, 22 Feb 2022 - 24 Feb 2022; Duisburg ; Essen : Universitätsbibliothek 2 Seiten (2022). doi:10.17185/DUEPUBLICO/75446
description: Published by Universitätsbibliothek, Duisburg ; Essen
Balancing Customer Requirements and IT Service Standardisation - A Procedural Reference Model for Individualised IT Service Agreement Configurations
Creators: name: Brocke, Henrik
name: Uebernickel, Falk
name: Brenner, Walter
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: IT service providers are increasingly urged to stringently align their service portfolio with the IT support of their customers’ business processes. Consequently, both IT expenses and its strategic contribution to value creation are expected to become subject to heightened transparency. Yet, in order to allow for standardised on-demand service request processing within the meaning of IT industrialisation, these services appear too adapted to individual customer needs, particularly as they are subject to continuous changes in business requirements. In order to address this issue, a three-phase procedural model of IT service agreement configuration is introduced: IT services thus remain transformable and configurable via predefined complementary services which are selected by configuring a customer’s individual service directory. In addition, the reutilisation of modular commitments in order to compose service specifications aims to maintain standardised IT operations. Serving as a procedural reference model, these configuration phases are introduced in detail regarding activities, roles, techniques and data structure as developed and implemented in Action Research cooperation with two IT providers.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 2 (2011)
Schedule Viewer: A Scheduling Tool for UBC Okanagan Administration
Creators: name: Orr, Jacob
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Schedule Viewer is an add‐in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 developed to assist administrative staff and faculty members in viewing a selected subset of academic schedules, which has not been possible until now. Information on times, professors and locations for classes has always been readily available online, but to make productive use of this data staff members have been forced to manually sift through spreadsheets and compile the data themselves. The Schedule Viewer application allows users to enter search criteria in order to select a group of time blocks (classes, labs, etc.) and have these time blocks displayed in a useful graphical way. Time blocks are displayed as appointments in an Outlook calendar which allows users to easily view the layout of academic schedules in relation to their specific query. In addition to viewing existing schedule information, users can create their own Outlook appointments which are then saved in the database for others to work with. The Schedule Viewer application runs on a three‐tier client‐server architecture. The client portion of the system involves the Outlook add‐in which runs locally on each user’s machine. There are two components to the server architecture. The server application is written in Java and runs on a campus server. The server application communicates directly with each client and provides the link from the client to the database. The database is located on another server on campus and stores time block information including times, dates, and locations. All information stored in the database, which was created specifically for Schedule Viewer, is obtained from the UBC Student Services web site [4] using an HTML screen scraping process.
Service Modelling as a Basis for Simulation
Creators: name: Kloos, Oliver
name: Nissen, Volker
name: Petsch, Mathias
name: Schorcht, Hagen
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Process models are often created without regard to their possible later use in simulations. If a process model generated in this way is to be simulated, additional information must be gathered, the model adapted and transferred into an appropriate simulation environment. This process is complex, weakly structured and errorprone. Using practical example data from an outpatient clinic, this work introduces an approach for model transformation with which service process models can be transferred into a simulation environment in a structured way and supported by the system. The transformation concept focuses on process models generated without taking into consideration the requirements of future simulation. The concept prepares the process models for simulation and supports the transfer of the models into the appropriate simulation environment.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 2 (2011)
Alternative energy possibilities and the forest landscape in BC
Creators: name: Pledger, Sean
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: In response to global pressures to reduce green house gas emissions and promote clean energy technologies the government of British Columbia has devised an energy plan to meet these demands. The plan is comprised of 55 policy actions to help steer BC Hydro and the forest and oil and gas industries. To accompany them a bioenergy strategy was also developed to identify specific ways in which the forest industry may utilize the vast devastation caused by the mountain pine beetle in the interior of BC. Additional to biomass energy, BC is well poised to take advantage of both wind and hydro energy. Although there are economic short falls to these alternative energy technologies the push towards clean, non destructive energy will make the transition necessary. Due to BC’s vast landscape and the complicated diversity of ecosystems forest professionals will be integral to safely and properly utilizing the landscape and implement these energy strategies.
Conceptual Development of Industrial Product-Service Systems - A model-based Approach
Creators: name: Sadek, Tim
name: Köster, Matthias
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The increasing competitiveness of today’s globalised economies and changing customer requirements prompt manufacturers to provide integrated product and service solutions, referred to as Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS²). An IPS² constitutes a customised solution, whereas providing performance is set above the purchase of a mere technical product. It can comprise any combination of product and service shares. Once such an offer is planned, the IPS² concept development phase generates principle solutions that meet customerspecific requirements. This article presents a model-based methodology to support an IPS² designer during the process of generating IPS² concepts in the early phase of IPS² development. This methodical framework and the modelling approach for conceptual IPS² development has been implemented as a computer-aided tool and has been evaluated by solving a typical IPS² issue.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 2 (2011)
Pricing of Value Bundles - A Multi-Perspective Decision Support Approach
Creators: name: Becker, Jörg
name: Beverungen, Daniel
name: Knackstedt, Ralf
name: Müller, Oliver
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Value bundles are compositions of physical goods and related value-added services that are put together to solve customer problems. Pricing value bundles constitutes a complex decision problem, since it requires the consideration of three perspectives: From the point of view of the provider, the available price corridor is limited downward by the costs for engineering, marketing and delivering a value bundle. From the customer’s point of view, the upper limit of the price corridor is imposed by the expected customer value and corresponding willingness to pay. From a competitive perspective, the upper limit of the price corridor is marked by the price of a comparable competitor’s offer. To provide companies with sound decision support, an integrated multi-perspective modelling language that accounts for all three perspectives simultaneously is presented. Based on the developed modelling language, an integrated decision support tool, i.e., the pricing workbench, has been designed.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 6, No 2 (2011)
Flight distance and foraging of Tetragonisca fiebrigi (Apidae: Meliponini) in response to different concentrations of sugar in food resources and abiotic factors
Creators: name: Kaehler, Tatiana G.
name: Halinski, Rosana
name: Contrera, Felipe A. L.
name: Silveira, Arthur
name: Blochtein, Betina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Social bees rely on food resources collected from flowers while foraging to guarantee the survival of their offspring. Pollen and nectar are the most important of these resources for protein and energy sources. This study analyzed the maximum flight distance of Tetragonisca fiebrigi (Shwarz, 1938) and the influence of sugar concentration of food resources and abiotic factors on visiting rates. Experiments were carried out in the Botanical Garden in South Brazil. The workers were training to collect sugar syrup from artificial feeders (water and sugar, 1:1) to which an aromatic essence (peach) had been added to attract the bees. It was found that workers reduced the number of visits as the distance to food sources increased. The experiments with feeders indicated that the maximum flight distance of T. fiebrigi workers from the four colonies analyzed reached 600 m. Additionally, 95% of visits to the feeder were within 350 m (colony C) or 400 m (colonies A, B, and D) of the hives. The number of worker visits could be significantly explained for all colonies (p < 0.05) by a relationship with flight distance, with explanatory power ranging from 65% to 89%. Regarding accumulated foraging activity, 75% was concentrated in distances up to 200 m from the colonies and the recruitment increased in higher sugar concentrations. Knowledge about achievable flight distances and effective foraging areas enables the planning of conservation measures, such as ensuring the availability of food resources in the landscape.
High-Q two-dimensional photonic crystal nanocavity on glass with an upper glass thin film
Creators: name: Kawata, Ryusei
name: Fujita, Akinari
name: Pholsen, Natthajuks
name: Iwamoto, Satoshi
name: Ota, Yasutomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically analyze two-dimensional photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavities on glass with a thin glass film on top of the structure. We investigated a multi-step heterostructure GaAs PhC nanocavity located on glass. We found that covering the structure even with a very-thin glass film efficiently suppresses unwanted polarization mode conversion occurring due to the asymmetric refractive index environment around the PhC. We also uncovered that the glass-covered structure can exhibit a higher Q factor than that observed in the structure symmetrically cladded with thick glass. We point out that the mode mismatch between the PhC nanocavity and modes in the upper glass film largely contributed to the observed Q-factor enhancement. These observations were further analyzed through the comparison among different types of on-glass PhC nanocavites covered with thin glass films. We also discuss that the in-plane structure of the upper glass film is important for additionally enhancing Q factor of the nanocavity.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Long-term clinical, immunological and virological characteristics of HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy in southern Myanmar
Creators: name: Incerti, Andrea
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: In his presentation, Andrea Incerti summarizes the long term clinical, immunological and virological characteristics of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in southern Myanmar. This is one of the only few studies that describes long-term outcomes of patients under antiretroviral therapy in low and middle income countries. Adult patients started on ART from 2004 and still on ART on 2015 were enrolled in the study. The MSF team showed good immunological and virological outcomes in patients on ART for 9 years, although observed an initial high mortality rate in the first year. A high proportion of comorbidities (co-infections such as TB or hepatitis) was observed even in presence of ART.
‘Trial and Error’ operational reflections on the set-up of a community engagement programme for a phase ii/iii clinical trial to identify new MDR-TB treatments in Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Alpamis Babaniyazov
name: Bern Thomas Nyang’wa
name: Pardington, Naomi
name: Stringer, Beverly
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: In 2016 a multi-centre, multi-arm randomised phase II/III clinical trial to identify new improved multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, received the required ethical approval. This poster is a reflection of the experience of setting up the trial, which includes a core community engagement component, and provides key insights into the importance of initiating engagement from the trial outset.
A way out of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT): community approaches to self-administered treatment for rifampicin resistant tuberculosis in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Creators: name: Buci Beko
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Buci Beko presents results from a self-administration treatment (SAT) intervention in a South African township with high rates of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis and HIV co-infection. Data suggest that structured SAT does not reduce the proportion of patients retained in care 12 months post-treatment, indicating that this intervention should be considered for wider implementation to decrease burden on patients and health facilities.
Supplementary document for Bifacial metasurface enabled pancake metalens by polarized space folding - 6121320.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Chen
name: Ye, Xin
name: Sun, Jiacheng
name: Chen, Yuxin
name: Huang, Chunyu
name: Xiao, Xingjian
name: Song, Wange
name: Zhu, Shining
name: Li, Tao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Sexual violence and rape in Rustenburg: Implications for service provision and prevention
Creators: name: Steele, Sarah Jane
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: In her talk, Sarah Jane Steele from MSF South Africa presents data on prevalence of sexual violence and rape in Rustenburg, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities. These data show a very high prevalence of sexual violence even among children. This includes rape by partners and non-partners, making women vulnerable to mental and physical trauma and HIV transmission.
Optimization of solvent extraction and HPLC-DAD method parameters for determination of phenolic compounds in various Brazilian propolis
Creators: name: Rajan, Murugan
name: de Carvalho Batista, Thiga
name: de Oliveira, Christean Santos
name: de Oliveira, Daniel Guedes
name: Narain, Narendra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Propolis is an organotherapeutic product collected by honey bees that contains a large number of phytoconstituents, possessing excellent pharmacological properties. In this study, phenolic composition and antioxidant capacity were evaluated in different types of Brown, Green and mixture of Red, Green I and Brown II (RGB) Brazilian propolis. Ultrasonic-assisted extraction was performed by direct solvent extraction (DSE) and successive solvent extraction (SSE) methods. The ethanolic extract of Green I propolis by SSE was higher in total phenolics (403.88 mg GAE/g extract), flavonoids (311.57 mg QE/g extract), and DPPH· scavenging activity (82.33 µMol TE/g extract) compared to other Brazilian propolis samples. Moreover, different solvent phases were used in the HPLC-DAD analysis and the results were validated by linearity and sensitivity. The optimized method was proven to be precise revealing good separation of standard phenolic compounds. Thermal stability of the compounds was accessed by using different column oven temperatures (40, 50 and 60 °C), and the results showed that lower temperature (40° C) retains the maximum contents of total phenolics in the 80% ethanolic extract of Green I propolis (253.71 mg/g extract) by DSE compared to other propolis samples. This extract (109.35 mg/g extract) also obtained a higher amount of total phenolic compounds in the SSE compared to ethyl acetate and acetone extracts. Among the phenolic compounds, artepillin C (60.10 mg/g extract) was higher in the SSE of Green I propolis 80% ethanolic extract. Thus, this study optimized the extraction and HPLC analytical conditions for the determination of phenolic composition and antioxidant capacity in different samples of Brazilian propolis.
Evaluation and Registration of the Newly Introduced Supersonic Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Variety in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kebede, Gezahagn
name: Feyissa, Dr. Fekede
name: Mengistu, Dr. Solomon
name: Faji, Mulisa
name: Mohammed, Kedir
name: Dejene, Dr. Mesfin
name: Mengistu, Gezahegn
name: Geleti, Dr. Diriba
name: Assefa, Dr. Getnet
name: Mekasha, Dr. Aklilu
name: Workiye, Mezgeb
name: Berhanu, Dr. Tekleyohannes
name: Megersa, Berhanu
name: Getiso, Aman
name: Shanku, Edao
name: Ijara, Fromsa
name: Mijena, Diribi
name: Shitaneh, Esubalew
name: Arega, Habtie
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2022

description: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the most important perennial forage legume recommended for livestock feed due to its better yield and nutritional quality. So the introduced supersonic alfalfa variety was evaluated with the standard check variety (alfalfa-1086) at Holetta, Debre-Zeit, Kulumsa, Wondo-Genet, Werer, and Pawe locations aimed to assess forage biomass yield, chemical composition, and tolerance to major pests and diseases during the main cropping season of 2018 under supplementary irrigation. The result indicated that the introduced supersonic alfalfa variety gave a higher (P<0.05) plant height and dry matter yield than the standard check variety at each location and combined across locations. Moreover, the plant height and dry matter yield of alfalfa varieties varied significantly (P<0.05) across locations. The introduced supersonic alfalfa variety was consistently superior in dry matter yield than the standard check variety which implied better stability under diverse environmental conditions. However, the dry matter yield varied across locations due to the differential response of the varieties for the test locations. The introduced supersonic alfalfa variety had 12.9, 11.6, and 7.7% dry matter yield, digestible yield, and crude protein yield advantages over the standard check variety, respectively. The nutritive values of supersonic alfalfa were slightly lower in ash, crude protein, digestibility and relative feed value and higher in fiber contents than the standard check variety. Based on the overall performances, the introduced variety was verified with the same standard check variety during the main cropping season of 2020 under supplementary irrigation. Due to its better yield performance, and pest and disease reaction, the National Variety Releasing Committee approved supersonic alfalfa variety in 2021 to be cultivated in low to high altitude areas ranging from 750 to 2400 meters above sea level, which have an annual rainfall ranging from 800 to 1200 mm.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 9 No 1 (2022): EJSSD