cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Divergence in alternative splicing patterns between duplicated gene pairs in polyploid Brassica napus
Creators: name: Moshgabadi, Noushin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Polyploidy is the process of genome doubling that gives rise to organisms with multiple sets of chromosomes. Expression patterns and levels of genes duplicated by polyploidy, termed homeologs, can change and gene silencing can occur after polyploidy. Alternative splicing (AS) creates multiple mature mRNAs from a single type of precursor mRNA. AS can change the level of gene expression by degradation of transcripts with premature stop codons, as well as create new protein isoforms. Little is known about how AS changes after a polyploidization event, either within a few generations after polyploidy or over evolutionary time, and what effects AS changes have on gene expression in polyploids. In this project, the evolution of alternative splicing patterns after genome duplication in allotetraploid Brassica napus and a synthetic allotetraploid B. napus was examined by RT-PCR assays of a set of 31 duplicated genes. Since genes can show different patterns of AS in different organ types and under different abiotic stresses, two different organ types (leaf and cotyledon), and two different abiotic stresses (heat and cold) were used. Comparing the AS patterns between the two homeologs in B. napus revealed that 18% of the gene pairs show AS in only one homeolog. In contrast 33% of the gene pairs in the synthetic allotetraploid showed AS in only one homeolog. Gene silencing was observed for 6% and 9% of genes in B. napus and synthetic B. napus, respectively. These results indicate that there are many changes in AS in both the synthetic B. napus and natural B. napus after polyploidy, but more AS changes occurred in the synthetic polyploid. The PASTICCINO gene showed partitioning of two AS events between the homeologs in the synthetic allopolyploid, suggesting subfunctionalization of AS forms. Results from this project indicate that AS patterns can change rapidly after polyploidy and suggest that changes in AS patterns are a major phenomenon in allopolyploids.
Correlation effects on a topological insulator at finite temperatures
Creators: name: Yoshida, Tsuneya
name: Fujimoto, Satoshi
name: Kawakami, Norio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the effects of the local Coulomb interaction on a topological band insulator (TBI) by applying the dynamical mean field theory to a generalized Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model having electron correlations. It is elucidated how the correlation effects modify electronic properties in the TBI phase at finite temperatures. In particular, the band inversion character of the TBI inevitably leads to the large reduction of the spectral gap via the renormalization effect, which results in the strong temperature-dependence of the spin Hall conductivity. We clarify that a quantum phase transition from the TBI to a trivial Mott insulator, if it is nonmagnetic, is of first order with a hysteresis. This is confirmed via the interaction dependence of the double occupancy and the spectral function. A magnetic instability is also addressed. All these results imply that the spectral gap does not close at the transition.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Plasma Metabolomics of Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) For Prognosis of Patients at Highest Risk of Mortality
Creators: name: Banoei, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Health Care Management
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Metabolomics
subject: Pneumonia
subject: H1N1
subject: CAP
subject: Prognosis of Mortality

description: Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an acute disease with clinical features of lower respiratory tract infections. Early and accurate prognoses, and effective treatment, where possible, in the management of CAP are essential to decrease mortality. Metabolomic analysis is defined as the comprehensive study of low molecular-weight metabolites present in biological samples that enable the qualitative and/or quantitative measurement and analysis of multiple metabolites We showed the feasibility of metabolomics using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and direct infusion tandem mass spectrometry (DIMS/MS) as most common analytical platforms in association with multivariate statistical analysis to separate non-survivors and survivor of bacteria CAP and H1N1 pneumonia patients for prognosis of mortality. In conclusion, this study may not only be instrumental in predicting the mortality of CAP patients within 24 hours of hospitalization, but may also allow for the rapid identification of the infective organism in CAP.
Unsharp continuous measurement of a Bose-Einstein condensate: full quantum state estimation and the transition to classicality
Creators: name: Hiller, Moritz
name: Rehn, Magnus
name: Petruccione, Francesco
name: Buchleitner, Andreas
name: Konrad, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double-well potential subject to an unsharp continuous measurement of the atom number in one of the two wells. We investigate the back action of the measurement on the quantum dynamics and the viability to monitor the ensuing time evolution. For vanishing inter-atomic interactions, mainly the expectation values of the measured local observable can be inferred from the measurement record. Conversely, in the presence of moderate inter-atomic interactions, the entire many-body state --modified by the measurement-- is monitored with unit fidelity and, at the same time, the measurement effects a transition from quantum to mean-field (classical) behavior of the BEC. We show that this perfect state estimation is possible because the inter-atomic interactions enhance the information gained via the measurement.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Dual Extension CMOS Imager and Peripherals for Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Dattner, Yonathan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: CMOS Imager

description: A dual extension CMOS imager, also known as a High and Low Light Imager (HALLI), and peripherals for biomedical applications is presented in this thesis. The HALLI utilizes a single column parallel partitioned pixel amplifier with variable topology for the detection of both high and low light levels in the same frame. For fluorescence detection the fabrication of a low cost poly-acrylic acid (PAA) based emission filter integrated with the CMOS contact imager is introduced. An additional peripheral proposed in this research is a rail-to-rail differential difference amplifier which can be integrated as part of the imager architecture and will allow for high resolution analog-to-digital conversion using a newly developed expanding technique. The HALLI and peripherals are key components towards achieving a lab-on-a-chip device for biomedical applications.
title: Schumann as aspiring pianist: technique, sonority, and composition
Creators: name: Neergaard, B.
Publisher: name: Royal College of Music
Year: 2018

description: In recent decades, the pianism of Robert Schumann’s compositions has increasingly gained recognition. What was previously seen as dense and mid-keyboard centric is now recognised as ground-breaking in terms of sonorous invention, informed by an intimate understanding of the instrument and its playing techniques. Yet, as pianist Schumann has received little credit,
primarily due to a short-lived and relatively unsuccessful career. This thesis aims to explore this seeming paradox. I shall argue that Schumann developed rarely discussed concepts of imagined sound and tactile feedback during his days as aspiring pianist (1828–1831), and that these became integral to the pianistic style of his earliest published compositions. Following a general
overview of the historical and biographical contexts for this study, I will trace Schumann’s piano practice to establish his overall artistic aims and the primacy of sonority in this regard. This leads to an investigation of his ideals of tone to locate Schumann within prevailing schools of piano playing and of piano making around 1830. Acknowledging his comprehension of playing mechanics, I observe that during an 1831 crisis which preceded his much-debated hand injury, his technique suffered from a series of insurmountable issues relating to the right hand. Disabled as performer, Schumann realised his virtuoso aspirations in his capacity as composer.
Two case studies featuring the Abegg Variations op. 1 and Papillons op. 2 demonstrate his use of sound—audible and imagined—to elevate the mechanical virtuosity of piano playing into a virtuosity of the imagination. Not only does this demonstrate a transfer of sound concepts from performance to composition; it offers a timely reassessment of Schumann’s pianistic merits and presents new interpretational paths for future performances of his piano music.
Markov Chain Analysis of Web Cache Systems under TTL-based Consistency
Creators: name: Gomaa, Hazem
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--System Science
subject: Web Caching
subject: Markov Chain

description: Caching plays a crucial role in improving Web-based services. The basic idea of Web caching is to satisfy the user’s requests from a nearby cache, rather than a faraway origin server (OS). This reduces the user’s perceived latency, the load on the OS, and the network bandwidth consumption. This dissertation introduces a new analytical model for estimating the cache hit ratio as a function of time. The cache may not reach the steady state hit ratio (SSHR) when the number ofWeb objects, object popularity, and/or caching resources themselves are subject to change. Hence, the only way to quantify the hit ratio experienced by users is to calculate the instantaneous hit ratio (IHR). The proposed analysis considers a single cache with either infinite or finite capacity. For a cache with finite capacity, two replacement policies are considered: first-in-first-out (FIFO) and least recently used (LRU). In addition, the proposed analysis accounts for the use of two variants of the time-to-live (TTL) weak consistency mechanism. The first is the typical TTL (TTL-T), specified in the HTTP/1.1 protocol, where expired objects are refreshed using conditional GET requests. The second is TTL immediate ejection (TTL-IE) whereby objects are ejected as soon as they expire. Based on the insights from the analysis, a new replacement policy named frequency-based-FIFO (FB-FIFO) is proposed. The results show that FB-FIFO achieves a better IHR than FIFO and LRU. Furthermore, the analytical model of a single cache is extended for characterizing the instantaneous average hit distance (IAHD) of two cooperative Web caching systems, distributed and hierarchical. In these systems, the analysis considers fixed caches that are always connected to the network, and temporary caches that randomly join and leave the network. In the distributed cache system, the analysis considers caches that cooperate via Internet cache protocol (ICP). In the hierarchical cache system, the analysis accounts for two sharing protocols: leave copy everywhere (LCE) and promote cached objects (PCO), which is a new protocol that is introduced in this dissertation. The results show that PCO outperforms LCE in terms of the IAHD, especially under TTL-T.
On the range of validity of the autoregressive sieve bootstrap
Creators: name: Kreiss, Jens-Peter
name: Paparoditis, Efstathios
name: Politis, Dimitris N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We explore the limits of the autoregressive (AR) sieve bootstrap, and show that its applicability extends well beyond the realm of linear time series as has been previously thought. In particular, for appropriate statistics, the AR-sieve bootstrap is valid for stationary processes possessing a general Wold-type autoregressive representation with respect to a white noise; in essence, this includes all stationary, purely nondeterministic processes, whose spectral density is everywhere positive. Our main theorem provides a simple and effective tool in assessing whether the AR-sieve bootstrap is asymptotically valid in any given situation. In effect, the large-sample distribution of the statistic in question must only depend on the first and second order moments of the process; prominent examples include the sample mean and the spectral density. As a counterexample, we show how the AR-sieve bootstrap is not always valid for the sample autocovariance even when the underlying process is linear.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOS900 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Characterization and microstructural evolution model of a Nb ferrite-bainite steel
Creators: name: Gerami, Sepehr
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Complete microstructural evolution models for dual phase ferrite-bainite micro-alloy steels do not yet exist despite their widespread use. An attempt is made here to make a contribution towards development of a unified model. Transformation behaviour in a niobium bearing line-pipe steel is investigated. Grain growth and recrystallization studies are performed, and the results used to design continuous cooling transformation tests to study the effects of prior austenite grain size, cooling rate, retained strain, and niobium dissolution on transformation behaviour in the steel. Existing modelling techniques are then applied to the experimental data in order to predict ferrite and bainite transformation start temperatures and transformation kinetics.
Expanding Allergen-specific Tr-1 CD4+ T cells to treat Allergic Asthma
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Mainak
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs, which is one of the most frequent chronic disease in industrialized nations. The associated morbidity and occasional mortality rates are secondary to an underlying dysfunction of the airway driven by immune-mediated inflammation. Our lab has been developing a nanoparticle based therapy to deliver antigen-specific peptide-major histocompatibility complex to treat autoimmunity, which triggers the induction and expansion of cognate autoregulatory CD4+ Tr1-like cells that suppresses the autoimmune response via secretion of anti-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-10 and TGF-β. We tested this therapeutic avenue in a chronic model of asthma in BALB/c mice, and found that the pMHC-NP therapy triggers allergen-specific Tr-1 cell formation and expansion that can suppress inflammation, promoting the resolution of airways hyper-responsiveness and airway remodeling. Asthma-relevant pMHC class II-coated NPs may therefore represent a viable alternative to current approaches to restore immune homeostasis in allergic individuals.
Multichannel Effects near Confinement-Induced Resonances in Harmonic Waveguides
Creators: name: Melezhik, Vladimir S.
name: Schmelcher, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the impact of multichannel scattering in harmonic waveguides on the positions and widths of confinement-induced resonances for both isotropic and anisotropic transversal confinement. Multichannel scattering amplitudes and transmission coefficients are calculated and used to characterize the resonant behaviour of atomic collisions with varying anisotropy. A mechanism is established which leads to a splitting of the confinement-induced resonance in the presence of anisotropy.
description: 6 figures
Orumcekia libo
Creators: name: Liu, Jie
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Pham, Dinh-Sac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Agelenidae
Orumcekia
Orumcekia libo

description: Orumcekia libo (Wang, 2003) Figs 85–86, 87 Coronilla libo Wang, 2003: 99, fig. 99. Orumcekia libo Koçak & Kemal, 2008: 139. Other material: 1 male, VIETNAM: Ninh Binh Province, Cuc Phuong National Park (20º21.44’N, 105º34.21’E), 1 to 30 April 2007, Dinh-Sac PHAM leg. Description. See Wang (2003). Habitat preferences. This specimen was collected by pitfall traps, this species may live on the forest floor or in leaf litter. Distribution. China (Guizhou), Vietnam (Ninh Binh) (Fig. 87).
description: Published as part of Liu, Jie, Li, Shuqiang & Pham, Dinh-Sac, 2010, 2377, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 2377 on page 89
description: {"references": ["Wang, X. P. (2003) Species revision of the coelotine spider genera Bifidocoelotes, Coronilla, Draconarius, Femoracoelotes, Leptocoelotes, Longicoelotes, Platocoelotes, Spiricoelotes, Tegecoelotes, and Tonsilla (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 54, 499 - 662.", "Kocak, A. O. & Kemal, M. (2008) New synonyms and replacement names in the genus group taxa of Araneida. Centre for Entomological Studies, Miscellaneous Papers, 139 - 140, 1 - 4."]}
“The Third Sex” – A study of distress in physicians
Creators: name: Kenny, Kathryn May
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Physician Distress
subject: Medical Uncertainty
subject: Disorders of Sexual Development

description: The purpose of this inquiry was to gain a rich and deep understanding of the lived experiences of physicians who engage in Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD) diagnosis, disclosure and management. The primary aim of this inquiry was to achieve an in-depth understanding of ethical and/or moral dilemmas, emotions, feelings, and challenges that may arise in DSD counselling, and to begin to understand the meaning behind these experiences, and how physicians shape their practices based on these experiences. Hermeneutic phenomenology was selected as the most appropriate method of qualitative research as outlined by Max Van Manen. Open ended unstructured interviews were conducted with seven physicians of various specialties in the Calgary Zone of Alberta Health Services who work with patients under the age of eighteen. DSD diagnosis and counselling was revealed to be a distressing clinical encounter for physicians in my study; however, the origin as well as depth to which physicians perceive an impact on their clinical practice is quite variable. Physicians are faced with varying degrees of uncertainty in DSD counselling and all specialties acknowledge its presence. Physicians have uniquely adapted practice styles to minimize the effect of this uncertainty. Physicians involved in the surgical dimension of the DSD counselling experience describe the possible violation of the ethical principle non-maleficence as a source of personal distress. Poor communication, as embodied in the form of mixed diagnostic and management messages between various multidisciplinary health care team members and the parents of DSD infants/children, contributes to physician anxiety. Lastly DSD counselling is made more difficult by the societal and sometimes cultural expectations placed on families. The interpretive description of this inquiry has the promise to help readers gain a greater understanding of the essence of DSD counselling from the perspective of the physician. I hope the rich descriptions provided in the analysis section of this paper will compel each reader of this paper to advocate for DSD patients whether or not they are directly involved in healthcare. Increased exposure and education, framed within a positive perception, is critical to the improvement of the lives of DSD patients throughout the world.
Conservation Laws and Stress-energy-momentum Tensors for Systems with Background Fields
Creators: name: Gratus, Jonathan
name: Obukhov, Yuri N.
name: Tucker, Robin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70S10, 83C50, 70S05, 78A25, 83C05

description: This article attempts to delineate the roles played by non-dynamical background structures and Killing symmetries in the construction of stress-energy-momentum tensors generated from a diffeomorphism invariant action density. An intrinsic coordinate independent approach puts into perspective a number of spurious arguments that have historically lead to the main contenders, viz the Belinfante-Rosenfeld stress-energy-momentum tensor derived from a Noether current and the Einstein-Hilbert stress-energy-momentum tensor derived in the context of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Emphasis is placed on the role played by non-dynamical background (phenomenological) structures that discriminate between properties of these tensors particularly in the context of electrodynamics in media. These tensors are used to construct conservation laws in the presence of Killing Lie-symmetric background fields.
description: 37 Pages
The Role of Integrin alpha1beta1 and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signalling in Post-traumatic Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Shin, Sung Yong
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Pathology
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Integrin
subject: Murine Model
subject: EGF-Receptor
subject: Cartilage
subject: Micro-CT

description: Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the role of integrin α1β1 in the progression of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA), and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signalling as the mechanism(s) by which integrin α1β1 might delay signs of PTOA. Methods: Surgery to destabilise the medial meniscus was performed on integrin α1-null and wildtype mice and the progression of PTOA was monitored for 12 weeks using microCT, histology, and behavioural testing. The EGFR-inhibitor erlotinib was administered to a subset of mice. Results: Cartilage damage occurred four weeks earlier in α1-null compared to WT female mice. Independent of genotype, cartilage damage and bony signs of PTOA were lessened by erlotinib treatment in female mice. Conclusion: Integrin α1β1 protects against PTOA-induced cartilage degradation up to 8 weeks post-surgery partially via the dampening of EGFR signalling, in female mice. Furthermore, EGFR signalling aggravates the development of PTOA in female but not male mice.
Microbial natural products that inhibit c-di-GMP signalling and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: McCartney, Nathan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
subject: Natural products
subject: Microbiology
subject: anti-infective
subject: biofilms
subject: Antibiotic resistance

description: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a notorious opportunistic pathogen that forms highly antibiotic resistant biofilms to establish chronic infections. Antibiotic resistance of this organism is a significant contributor to mortality in immunocompromised patients. In this thesis, a high-throughput screening protocol was used to identify microbial spent media with inhibitory activity against P. aeruginosa c-di-GMP signalling. The biocontrol agent Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 was identified to have significant inhibitory activity against the c-di-GMP signalling and biofilm forming capacity of P. aeruginosa. The natural product secreted by P. protegens was shown to be dependent on the PSL polysaccharide produced by P. aeruginosa and may exert its effect through the dipA pathway. Results demonstrated that this natural product had activity against a range of clinically-isolated P. aeruginosa and holds promising translational benefits to the eradication of chronic biofilm infections.
The Biotransformation of Bitumen
Creators: name: Desance, Ismarck
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: Three microbial strains (Bacillus lentus, Ganoderma applanatum, Pseudomonas fluorescens) were evaluated for their capacity to biotransform bitumen in suspended and porous media. Bitumen is characterized by high viscosity and low mobility at reservoir conditions, and high toxicity. Microbes capable of biotransforming bitumen might potentially be used for bioremediation and enhanced oil recovery. The microbes grew very well in suspended cultures with bitumen presence. Additionally, results in packed bed cultures indicated that B. lentus in medium E (ATCC-1502) had the higher capability for bitumen bioconversion (42±4%), B. lentus in modified mushroom minimal medium (MMM, 24±7%). A supernatant obtained from B. lentus pretreated with bitumen in medium MMM resulted in (14±4%) conversion, which is the highest in the supernatant group. It was observed that bitumen dispersed and floated to the top of the flask. Bitumen treated with either B. lentus or P. fluorescens has an apparent viscosity lower than no-treated.
Model-Following Control for a Helicopter with Suspended Load in Low Velocity Forward Flight
Creators: name: Serpas Siguenza, Jose
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Engineering--Mechanical

description: A helicopter’s vertical takeoff and landing, as well as its ability to hover, make it ideal for carrying a suspended load, which facilitates multiple military and civil applications in places of difficult access. The suspended load; however, alters the flight characteristics and degrades the handling qualities of the helicopter, which can lead to instability or a serious accident. This work proposes a controller for a helicopter slung load system in low velocity forward fight. The controller uses explicit model following with command generator tracker to adhere to the Aeronautical Design Standard 33 specified level 1 handling qualities. A load stability control (LSC) term is added to dampen load oscillation. Simulations show that the addition of the LSC term improves the system behaviour by damping load oscillation. Results also show that the LSC has little effect on the desired helicopter response with only a small deviation from the target behaviour.
Informatics and the Electronic Medical Record for Syndromic Surveillance in Companion Animals: Development, Application and Utility
Creators: name: Anholt, Rae
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Veterinary Science
subject: Epidemiology
subject: surveillance, companion animals, electronic medical record, informatics, environmental health risks

description: There is growing interest in companion animal surveillance to provide an early warning for emerging environmental health risks including zoonotic diseases and chemical contamination of food, water and air. The objectives of this thesis were to plan, implement and evaluate a companion animal surveillance system capable of using existing clinical data to detect emerging environmental risks to people and/or pets. Twelve companion animal practices participated in a sentinel veterinary practice syndromic surveillance network. Enteric diseases were targeted due to their anticipated prevalence and relevance to animal and public health. Customized data extraction software automatically extracted the required fields from the veterinary practice management software at each practice and exported them to a secure data warehouse (n = 447,388 records from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010; extraction 99.4% accurate). The records were in free-text with no diagnostic codes or standardized nomenclature. A categorization dictionary developed using commercially available text-mining software automatically classified and retrieved cases of enteric syndrome (n = 18,832; sensitivity, 87.6% and specificity, 99.3%). Using this data it was possible to identify clusters of enteric disease in space and time, describe these patterns by the host factors and observe patterns of antimicrobial use (AMU). There was often not enough specific information recorded in the medical record to describe the clusters by the proportion of vaccinated cases, the probable etiological agent or by environmental factors that may be predictive of increased risk. The lack of contextual information in the medical records limited the usefulness of this system to provide an early warning of environmental hazards. The system could be used to monitor temporal trends in AMU or conduct analytical studies to explore patterns of AMU and concomitant increases in antimicrobial resistance. The system may be useful for studies that support evidence-based veterinary medicine. Future companion animal surveillance systems should consider imposing structured clinical reports onto the submissions from the participating veterinarians. This would address many of the data and system quality issues encountered in this study, but may have an impact on the willingness of veterinarians to participate in community-based surveillance.
Upogebia marina Coelho 1973
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Upogebiidae
Upogebia
Upogebia marina

description: Upogebia marina Coelho, 1973
Material examined (N=1). 1ni, 31/X/2004, St. 0 8 (MZUESC #699).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Venezuela and Brazil (from Pará to São Paulo) (Melo 1999).
Ecological notes. On calcareous algae, coral and sand bottoms; also in estuaries. Collected between 11 and 90 m (Coelho 1997a; Melo 1999).
Previous records in Bahia. None.
Remarks. Since its description, U. marina has been reported from almost all Brazilian states from Pará to Sergipe (Coelho 1997a). South of Sergipe, there is only one record at present, for São Paulo (Nucci & Melo 1999), which indicates a vast gap with no records between these two states.
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Examining the Application of Principles of Auditory Perception to Music Analysis: Building a Perception-based Music Theory to Capture Musical Features of Palestrina’s Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
Creators: name: Bouz, John
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Music
subject: Music
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This thesis presents the argument that basic perceptual principles describing the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into perceptually meaningful units ought to play a more foundational role in music analysis. To strengthen and support this argument, an original perception-based system of analysis is proposed and applied to an excerpt of Palestrina’s “Agnus Dei” from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera. In addition, an experiment in sound perception (conducted by the author) is presented to further support the credibility of the theoretical approach described in this thesis. Various theoretical innovations are proposed in order to: 1) describe fundamental principles of music organization (the compensation principles); and 2) suggest a new general approach for the classification of musical similarity and equivalence that takes into account a hypothetical music listener, and that allows for the integration of any number of disparate musical parameters.
"Jesús, el Crist" i el "Crist Jesús" en Pau de Tars: exaltació i abaixament
Creators: name: Puigdollers Noblom, Rodolf
Publisher: name: Revista Catalana de Teologia
Year: 2023

description: Revista Catalana de Teologia, Vol. 47, Núm. 1 (2022): Revista Catalana de Teologia
Limitations on the Ginzburg criterion for dirty superconductors
Creators: name: Aharony, A.
name: Entin-Wohlman, O.
name: Bary-Soroker, H.
name: Imry, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contributions of superconducting fluctuations to the specific heat of dirty superconductors are calculated, including quantum and classical corrections to the `usual' leading Gaussian divergence. These additional terms modify the Ginzburg criterion, which is based on equating these fluctuation-generated contributions to the mean-field discontinuity in the specific heat, and set limits on its applicability for materials with a low transition temperature.
description: Special issue of Lithuanian Journal of Physics, honoring the memory of Yehoshua Levinson
Towards a model for the instantaneous aerodynamic forces on accelerating profiles with spanwise flow
Creators: name: Wong, Jaime
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Aerospace
subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Leading-edge vortex
subject: Added Mass
subject: Spanwise Flow
subject: Theodorsen
subject: Vorticity Transport

description: As a step towards a reduced-order model for aerodynamic force history, a model for leading-edge vortex growth was proposed and validated with Particle Image Velocimetry. As a precursor to validating this model for three-dimensional cases, the effect of spanwise flow on nominally two-dimensional profiles was investigated by imposing plunging and flapping motions on swept profiles. It was shown that spanwise flow had no effect on vortex stability or force history. To investigate additional contributors to force history, gust-induced loads on a flat-plate profile were compared to those on an equivalent profile accelerated within a uniform flow. The contribution to force history from fluid acceleration could not be neglected. However, differences between gust loads and accelerating-model loads were not proportional to model acceleration. Rather, the force histories were differentiated primarily by the distribution of vorticity in the wake, caused by changes in the effective velocity at the trailing-edge of the profile.
HS3 - A serialization standard for statistical models in high energy physics
Creators: name: Burgard, Carsten
name: Pelkner, Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The HEP Statistics Serialization Standard is a new format in which to write, store, exchange and archive statistical models. It is based on JSON and easily readable and writable for both machines and humans. It is fully interoperable with ROOT workspaces, the current de-facto standard in the experimental HEP community, and has a concept implementation in Julia / BAT.jl and intends to be interoperable with pyhf, zfit and any other large-scale, general-purpose statistical modeling library used in HEP. It supports binned and unbinned datasets and models, as well as a growing library of distributions and auxiliary functions. It is bidirecionally convertible to ROOT workspaces and pyhf JSON files.
While the standard is already in-use and implementations covering most currently defined features exist, the development of the standard is ongoing, and community feedback of any type is highly welcome.
Physical and Cognitive Activity and Recovery From Sports Related Concussion
Creators: name: Lishchynsky, Justin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Public Health
subject: Concussion
subject: Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity
subject: Recovery
subject: Actigraph

description: Concussions are among the most common injuries in youth sport and can affect an individual both cognitively and physically, thus proper clinical care is imperative. In this thesis, a review of physical and cognitive activity and rest following concussion highlights the need for more research to better define the optimal amounts and types of rest and activity to facilitate recovery. Comparing Actigraph accelerometry to participant self-report data during concussion recovery revealed poor agreement and correlation between the two. There was no association between cognitive activity and recovery from concussion demonstrated in an exploratory analysis of high and low levels of cognitive activity. More time performing moderate-vigorous physical activity (>45 minutes daily) was associated with a significantly longer time to return to baseline symptom scores and being medically cleared to return to play. Future high level studies evaluating the impact of physical activity on recovery are needed to inform clinical practice.
Generating self-organizing collective behavior using separation dynamics from experimental data
Creators: name: Kattas, Graciano Dieck
name: Xu, Xiao-ke
name: Small, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Mathematical models for systems of interacting agents using simple local rules have been proposed and shown to exhibit emergent swarming behavior. Most of these models are constructed by intuition or manual observations of real phenomena, and later tuned or verified to simulate desired dynamics. In contrast to this approach, we propose using a model that attempts to follow an averaged rule of the essential distance-dependent collective behavior of real pigeon flocks, which was abstracted from experimental data. By using a simple model to follow the behavioral tendencies of real data, we show that our model can exhibit emergent self-organizing dynamics such as flocking, pattern formation, and counter-rotating vortices. The range of behaviors observed in our simulations are richer than the standard models of collective dynamics, and should thereby give potential for new models of complex behavior.
description: Submitted to Chaos
Micro-Scale Simulation of Evaporation, Condensation and Transport in Porous Media
Creators: name: Etemad, Sahand
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Nucleation
subject: Mineralogy
subject: Surface roughness
subject: Condensate
subject: Phase change
subject: SAGD
subject: Trapping

description: Sub-pore scale modeling of flow in porous media is gaining momentum. The concept of Digital Core Analysis deals with measurements of virtual core and the purpose of such modeling is to replace conventional and special core analysis when the latter are not feasible. One of the challenging concepts in micro-scale simulation of porous media is consideration of phase change phenomena. Mass and heat transfer equations have to be considered simultaneously to capture complexities involved in the evaporation and condensation processes. Therefore, a numerical scheme based on the Volume-of-Fluid method was implemented using the OpenFOAM open-source CFD package along with four phase change models. The aforementioned approach is extended in the modeling of phase change within a porous medium. Surface roughness is introduced by the incorporation of wedges of variable density and amplitude on the grain surface. A further introduced complication is that the individual grains are of different mineralogy and thus of different wettability. It is observed that steam condenses first in the smallest of wedges, which act as nucleation sites. A condensate film was generated around high roughness density areas and the amount of condensate being generated in the roughened medium was significantly larger than the generated condensate in smooth surface. Water spreads on water-wet surfaces. Snap-off is observed in several cases leading to temporary trapping of vapor. Grid size effects are also addressed. The application of this modeling effort is the condensation of steam in thermal recovery methods. The effect of temperature on bitumen viscosity reduction during steam flooding operation as well as steam condensation, trapping of the oil behind the steam front and finally countercurrent flow of steam and condensate-bitumen due to gravity effects.
Regulation of Cell Death by The Drosophila ING Proteins
Creators: name: Mobahat, Mahsa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Oncology
subject: ING
subject: dING2
subject: p53
subject: Apoptosis
subject: Drosophila
subject: Tumor Suppressor

description: The inhibitor of growth (ING) family of type II tumor suppressors (ING1-ING5) are involved in various cellular processes including apoptosis, DNA repair and tumor growth. INGs are subunits of histone deacetylase (HDAC) and histone acetyltransferase (HAT) complexes. The Drosophila genome encodes 3 ING homologues, dING 2, 3 and 4. In this research, I showed that overexpression of dING2 leads to smaller tissue and clone size in Drosophila. dING2 was sufficient to induce caspase-dependent but p53-independent cell death, which promoted expression of the pro-apoptotic gene, reaper. Experiments conducted on polyploid tissues revealed that clonal overexpression of dING2 had little effect in cells in the larval fat body, but resulted in smaller salivary glands. My experiments established that overexpression of dING3 induces caspase-dependent cell death. However, neither dING2 nor dING3 is required for IR-induced apoptosis. This work should provide valuable insights into the role of INGs in apoptosis.
Quantum fermions and quantum field theory from classical statistics
Creators: name: Wetterich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An Ising-type classical statistical ensemble can describe the quantum physics of fermions if one chooses a particular law for the time evolution of the probability distribution. It accounts for the time evolution of a quantum field theory for Dirac particles in an external electromagnetic field. This yields in the non-relativistic one-particle limit the Schrödinger equation for a quantum particle in a potential. Interference or tunneling arise from classical probabilities.
description: 15 pages, proceedings Emergent Quantum Mechanics, Heinz von Foerster conference, Vienna
Ekpyrosis and inflationary dynamics in heavy ion collisions: the role of quantum fluctuations
Creators: name: Dusling, Kevin
name: Gelis, Francois
name: Venugopalan, Raju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize recent significant progress in the development of a first-principles formalism to describe the formation and evolution of matter in very high energy heavy ion collisions. The key role of quantum fluctuations both before and after a collision is emphasized. Systematic computations are now feasible to address early time dynamics essential to quantifying properties of strongly interacting quark-gluon matter.
description: Talk by R.V. at Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France, May 23-28, 2011. LaTex, 4 pages; v2, final version to appear in J. Phys. G
The Prognostic Accuracy of Suggested Predictors of Failure of Medical Management for Patients with Spinal Epidural Abscess
Creators: name: Stratton, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: epidural abscess
subject: spine
subject: antibiotics
subject: medical management

description: Controversy exists as to the first-line treatment in patients with spinal epidural abscess (SEA) who present with an intact neurologic exam—medical treatment or surgery. The aim of this thesis was to clarify treatment decision making in such patients. A systematic review and meta-analysis were first undertaken to define the risk of failure of medical treatment and to identify predictors of failure. Although the incidence of failure of medical management of SEA was found to be relatively common in published reports, estimates were highly heterogeneous between studies. Two studies were identified in the literature with prediction criteria for failure of medical management. These prediction criteria were tested in a cohort of patients from a tertiary care centre and both overestimated medical treatment failure. Once the prediction models were calibrated to our data it was Patel’s model that was superior and thus more useful for clinical decision making.
Making Use of Advances in Answer-Set Programming for Abstract Argumentation Systems
Creators: name: Dvořák, Wolfgang
name: Gaggl, Sarah Alice
name: Wallner, Johannes
name: Woltran, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.3; I.2.4

description: Dung's famous abstract argumentation frameworks represent the core formalism for many problems and applications in the field of argumentation which significantly evolved within the last decade. Recent work in the field has thus focused on implementations for these frameworks, whereby one of the main approaches is to use Answer-Set Programming (ASP). While some of the argumentation semantics can be nicely expressed within the ASP language, others required rather cumbersome encoding techniques. Recent advances in ASP systems, in particular, the metasp optimization frontend for the ASP-package gringo/claspD provides direct commands to filter answer sets satisfying certain subset-minimality (or -maximality) constraints. This allows for much simpler encodings compared to the ones in standard ASP language. In this paper, we experimentally compare the original encodings (for the argumentation semantics based on preferred, semi-stable, and respectively, stage extensions) with new metasp encodings. Moreover, we provide novel encodings for the recently introduced resolution-based grounded semantics. Our experimental results indicate that the metasp approach works well in those cases where the complexity of the encoded problem is adequately mirrored within the metasp approach.
description: Paper appears in the Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAP 2011)
Tax-exempt foundations and their influence within society
Creators: name: Kapchinsky, Ryan James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this paper is to outline the history and character of the prominent tax-exempt foundations in the United States, with a particular emphasis on their use by the Rockefeller family to expand both their economic power, and their political influence within society. Furthermore, the paper outlines the motivations for providing philanthropy, the benefits of having tax-exempt foundations, as well as their involvement within education and the funding of the media. This paper also examines the multiple connections between the foundations and certain policy-making institutions. The conclusion of this paper is that certain large tax-exempt foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Bertelsmann Foundation exercise significant political influence within society. Their vast ownership of multiple financial institutions, natural resource companies, media outlets, newspapers, and broadcasting companies has given them immense economic power. Moreover, the multifaceted roles played by the foundation trustees, who are often directors and chairmen of various private policy-making institutions has enabled the trustees of these foundations to exercise a great degree of political influence on the development of policy initiatives that are often implemented by the federal government.