cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Release of nitrous oxide from the global coastal ocean: interactions with ecosystems and humans (NITRACTIONS)
Creators: name: van Hulten, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: nitrogen, nitrous oxide, coastal ocean, modelling, fertilisers

description: Nitrous oxide (N₂O)—a strong greenhouse gas and a cause of ozone layer depletion—is released from land, seawater and its sediment into the atmosphere. This release is aggravated by the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers worldwide. About one third of N₂O emissions comes from the ocean, most of which is formed in the coastal ocean. The basic mechanisms of biochemical reactions of nitrogen compounds (also called reactive nitrogen, Nr) are largely known, but quantitative estimates and predictions of N₂O outflux diverge. We plan to improve the representation of the nitrogen cycle and get better flux estimates in the state-of-the-art ocean model BLOM/iHAMOCC (also a module of the Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM). We will model the N₂O sources and sinks in the seawater and sediment porewaters, which will be the basis for simulating realistic N₂O fluxes. Hence, we will create a dataset of time-dependent maps of the amount of N₂O released from the sediment and seawater into the atmosphere, derived from the model simulations. This will be validated against observations. The release of N₂O is aggravated by the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers worldwide. Hence, the final objective in this proposal is to quantify the influence of the inflow of anthropogenic nitrogen compounds into the sea on N₂O fluxes from the sea. If much of the N₂O outflux can be attributed to Nr inflow, we can make recommendations for nutrient management in agriculture to the Norwegian government and other stake holders.
description: This proposal was submitted to the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) in May 2020. In December 2020 it was rejected.
Pilot studies to assess myocardial fibrosis, left ventricular function, and the effects of exercise training on left ventricular function in individuals with type 1 diabetes
Creators: name: Vasanji, Zainisha
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 52-54, 82-85, 109-112, 128-138
description: Includes copy of ethics approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
title: A Hard Truth to Swallow: Assessing the Role of Barium Imaging in the Investigation of Upper GI Cancer
Creators: name: Yeomans, James Declan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Barium meal
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: CT
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Provide a brief overview of the diagnostic pathway for upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. Audit the imaging of confirmed upper GI cancer patients to assess the role of barium studies in diagnosis. Audit referrals for barium studies to assess if...
Structural Reliability Estimation with Vibration-Based Identified Parameters
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Soyoz, Serdar
name: Shinozuka, Masanobu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This paper presents a unique structural reliability estimation method incorporating structural parameter identification results based on the seismic response measurement. In the shaking table test, a three-bent concrete bridge model was shaken to different damage levels by a sequence of earthquake motions with increasing intensities. Structural parameters, stiffness and damping values of the bridge were identified under damaging seismic events based on the seismic response measurement. A methodology was developed to understand the importance of structural parameter identification in the reliability estimation. Along this line, a set of structural parameters were generated based on the Monte Carlo simulation. Each of them was assigned to the base bridge model. Then, every bridge model was analyzed using nonlinear time history analyses to obtain damage level at the specific locations. Last, reliability estimation was performed for bridges modeled with two sets of structural parameters. The first one was obtained by the nonlinear time history analysis with the Monte Carlo simulated parameters which is called nonupdated structural parameters. The second one was obtained by updating the first set in Bayesian sense based on the vibration-based identification results which is called updated structural parameters. In the scope of this paper, it was shown that residual reliability of the system estimated using the updated structural parameters is lower than the one estimated using the nonupdated structural parameters.
Coastal sea level change from satellite altimetry and tide guages
Creators: name: Tang, Feng
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 202-210
description: Abstract In this thesis, in order to obtain accurate sea level anomalies time series from satellite altimetry data in the coastal areas, ocean tide corrections from a local tide model and residual ocean tides derived by the least-squares spectral and harmonic analysis were removed from I 0-day TOPEX/POSEIDON and Jason- I data, which have been corrected for other bias and errors. The variations of altimetry time series reduce from 9.6 cm to 5.2 cm on average in the west coast of Canada and the values reduce from 8.7 cm to 5.1 cm on average in the east coast of Canada. Cleaned altimetry and tide gauge data were submitted to a first-order linear regression model to determine the absolute and relative linear sea level trend for every time series, respectively. The noise model for every time series was tested by the power spectral density and maximum likelihood. The white and, the white and flicker noise model are found to be the best noise model for altimetry and tide gauge data respectively. Our rate estimate results agree with published values very well. GPS-derived rates of vertical land motion were added to the relative sea level trend derived from tide gauge data. A joint analysis method is developed to combine satellite altimetry and tide gauge rate estimates together for estimating the regional sea level change. Regional trend estimates by the joint method are very similar to the results by satellite data only. It indicates that the contribution of tide gauge data in the joint analysis method is very limited.
title: Mines Beyond The Spine: A Pictorial Review of Significant Extraspinal Findings on MRI Spine
Creators: name: YANG, YONGQIANG
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Dissection
subject: Acute
subject: Abscess
subject: Staging
subject: Drainage
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: PACS
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: A significant extra-spinal finding is defined as a pathologic process found outside the vertebral column or spinal canal on a dedicated MRI Spine study, and that may change the patient’s management or outcome. A wide spectrum of significant...
Implications of Recent Data on Neutrino Mixing and Lepton Flavour Violating Decays for the Zee Model
Creators: name: He, Xiao-Gang
name: Majee, Swarup Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study implications of recent data on neutrino mixing from T2K, MINOS, Double Chooz and $μ\to e γ$ from MEG for the Zee model. The simplest version of this model has been shown to be ruled out by experimental data some time ago. The general Zee model is still consistent with recent data. We demonstrate this with a constrained Zee model based on naturalness consideration. In this constrained model, only inverted mass hierarchy for neutrino masses is allowed, and $θ_{13}$ must be non-zero in order to have correct ratio for neutrino mass-squared differences and for mixing in solar and atmospherical neutrino oscillations. The best fit value of our model for $θ_{13}$ is $8.91°$ from T2K and MINOS data, very close to the central value obtained by Double Chooz experiment. There are solutions with non-zero CP violation with the Jarlskog parameter predicted in the range $\pm 0.039$, $\pm 0.044$ and $\pm 0.048$ respectively for a 1$σ$, 2$σ$ and 3$σ$ ranges of other input parameters. However, without any constraint on the $θ_{13}$-parameter above respective ranges become $\pm 0.049$, $\pm 0.053$ and $\pm 0.056$. We analyse different cases to obtain a branching ratio for $μ\to e γ$ close to the recent MEG bound. We also discuss other radiative as well as the charged trilepton flavour violating decay modes of the $τ$-lepton.
description: References added, one extra figure added, typos corrected, few more related phenomenology discussion added/modified; 25 pages, 10 figures
title: Spectrum of Lesions of the Gastric Antrum: Imaging characteristics. A Pictorial Guide.
Creators: name: Mast Vilaseca, Richard
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the most important and characteristic malignant and non-malignant entities affecting the antrum. To provide a basis to help differentiate the wide spectrum of diseases , focusing on the findings in computed tomography (CT) technique. To...
Counterexamples to Kalai's Conjecture C
Creators: name: Flammia, Steven T.
name: Harrow, Aram W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide two simple counterexamples to Kalai's Conjecture C and discuss our perspective on the implications for the prospect of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. v2, minor changes. To appear in QIC
title: Pretibial lumps in childhood: a spectrum of abnormalities.
Creators: name: Parks, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Inflammation
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: ·Review imaging of a series of paediatric cases presenting with a pretibial lump. ·Highlight radiological features which may aid diagnosis, with focus on ultrasound and...
What happens to the Upsilon and eta_b in the quark-gluon plasma? Bottomonium spectral functions from lattice QCD
Creators: name: Aarts, Gert
name: Allton, Chris
name: Kim, Seyong
name: Lombardo, Maria Paola
name: Oktay, Mehmet B.
name: Ryan, Sinead M.
name: Sinclair, D. K.
name: Skullerud, Jon-Ivar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study bottomonium spectral functions in the quark-gluon plasma in the Upsilon and eta_b channels, using lattice QCD simulations with two flavours of light quark on highly anisotropic lattices. The bottom quark is treated with nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD). In the temperature range we consider, 0.42 < T/T_c < 2.09, we find that the ground states survive, whereas the excited states are suppressed as the temperature is increased. The position and width of the ground states are compared to analytical effective field theory (EFT) predictions. Systematic uncertainties of the maximum entropy method (MEM), used to construct the spectral functions, are discussed in some detail.
description: 27 pages, 22 eps figures; additional paragraph in Section 6, to appear in JHEP
Properties of a Polar Coronal Hole During the Solar Minimum in 2007
Creators: name: Hahn, Michael
name: Landi, E.
name: Bryans, P.
name: Miralles, M. P.
name: Savin, Daniel Wolf
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astrophysics
Microphysics

description: We report measurements of a polar coronal hole during the recent solar minimum using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode. Five observations are analyzed that span the polar coronal hole from the central meridian to the boundary with the quiet-Sun corona. We study the observations above the solar limb in the height range of 1.03-1.20 R ☉. The electron temperature T e and emission measure (EM) are found using a geometric mean emission measure method. The EM derived from the elements Fe, Si, S, and Al are compared in order to measure relative coronal-to-photospheric abundance enhancement factors. We also studied the ion temperature T i and the non-thermal velocity v nt using the line profiles. All these measurements are compared to polar coronal hole observations from the previous (1996-1997) solar minimum and to model predictions for relative abundances. There are many similarities in the physical properties of the polar coronal holes between the two minima at these low heights. We find that the electron density, T e, and T i are comparable in both minima. T e shows a comparable gradient with height. Both minima show a decreasing T i with increasing charge-to-mass ratio q/M. A previously observed upturn of T i for ions above q/M>0.25 was not found here. We also compared relative coronal-to-photospheric elemental abundance enhancement factors for a number of elements. These ratios were ~1 for both the low first ionization potential (FIP) elements Si and Al and the marginally high FIP element S relative to the low FIP element Fe, as is expected based on earlier observations and models for a polar coronal hole. These results are consistent with no FIP effect in a polar coronal hole.
Reconciling the emission mechanism discrepancy in Mira's tail, and its evolution in an interface with shear
Creators: name: Wareing, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GALEX observations of the Mira AB binary system revealed a surrounding structure that has been successfully hydrodynamically interpreted as a bow shock and tail of ram-pressure-stripped material. Even the narrow tail, initially difficult to model, has been understood as the effect of the passage of Mira from a warm neutral medium into a hot, low-density medium, postulated to be the Local Bubble. However, no model to date has explained the observed kink and associated general curvature of the tail. We test the hypothesis that before entering the Local Bubble, Mira was travelling through a shear flow with approximately 1/3 Mira's own velocity at an angle of ~30degrees to Mira's proper motion. The hypothesis reproduces the kinked nature of Mira's tail and predicts recompression and reheating of the tail material to the same or greater levels of density and temperature predicted in the shock. This provides a heat source for the FUV emission, allowing for an extended lifetime of the FUV emission in line with other estimates of the age of the tail. The uniqueness of Mira's situation implies that the chances of observing other FUV tails behind AGB stars is highly unlikely.
description: 12 pages, including 3 figures. Accepted to ApJ Letters
Leaders influencing knowledge creation and mobilization: a collective effort to foster student learning
Creators: name: Reid, Steven M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 232-258
description: Includes copy of copyright permission. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The importance of leadership in promoting organizational success has continued to be a topic of interest and research. In the field of education, leaders at all levels have been highlighted for their positive affect on student achievement. With the goal of improved student achievement in mind, the influence of leaders on the learning of adults was critical. New knowledge was created by educators while instructional practices and learning environments for students were analyzed. This study investigated the influence of leaders on knowledge creation and mobilization processes. As knowledge creating groups collectively engaged together to challenge current knowledge and preconceptions, new knowledge was created and implemented in classrooms, schools, and districts. To further understand the influence of leaders on knowledge creation and mobilization processes, this study included three high-performing districts based on provincial assessment results and socio-economic factors. Interviews and questionnaires were used to gather data from 5 system leaders, 11 principals, and 37 educators. Individual and focus group semi-structured interviews, as well as questionnaires, were used to gain an in-depth understanding of how leaders nurtured and facilitated knowledge creation and mobilization. The results of this study were presented through five broad themes that emerged as a result of the analysis of the study data: 1) inquiry; 2) learning beyond the boundaries; 3) collaboration; 4) focus; and 5) role specificity. The themes of the interviews were also quantified, based on the coding frequency in the interviews. Through mixed methods, the strengths of qualitative and quantitative methodologies were maximized, whereas the weaknesses were minimized. The study emphasized the importance of leaders supporting knowledge creation and mobilization processes through practices such as fostering cultures of trust and risk-taking and engaging school-based knowledge influencers. Two models were developed based on the results of this study, addressing conceptualizations of knowledge creation and mobilization processes: 1) Knowledge Creation and Mobilization Strategy and 2) Knowledge Creation. This study and the resultant models will be of interest to those wishing to further implement or study the influence of knowledge influencers on the creation and mobilization of knowledge within organizations.
The natural science of cosmology
Creators: name: Peebles, P. J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The network of cosmological tests is tight enough now to show that the relativistic Big Bang cosmology is a good approximation to what happened as the universe expanded and cooled through light element production and evolved to the present. I explain why I reach this conclusion, comment on the varieties of philosophies informing searches for a still better cosmology, and offer an example for further study, the curious tendency of some classes of galaxies to behave as island universes.
description: Keynote lecture at the seventh International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Goa India, December 2011
Partners on the Health Care Team: Librarians Collaborating with Nurses
Creators: name: Nickum, Nicky
name: Raszewski, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Librarians are useful members of the healthcare team and can assist practicing nurses with answering clinical questions.
 https://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2022/01/12/partners-on-the-health-care-team-librarians-collaborating-with-nurses/
Fragmentos verticales: el texto fragmentario como via alterna de trascendencia ontologica
Creators: name: Ortiz Hernandez, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 282-299
description: Este estudio se aproxima a la ultima obra del poeta argentino Roberto Juarroz: Fragmentos verticales, desprendiendose del hecho que la pasi6n del poeta argentino par el "sujeto en crisis" y su relaci6n con el otro en el escenario de la postmodernidad es un data relevante en la sociedad contemporanea. La lectura minuciosa del trabajo de Juarroz me ha llevado a estipular que la poesfa y, en especial el texto fragmentado, es masque un vehfculo literario para explorar el lenguaje, el acto de escribir y, par tanto, el acto de leer. Asimismo, propongo que el fragmento, es masque un "pseudo-genera" literario, ya que conjuntamente a la literatura, el "fragmento" alienta un debate filos6fico acerca de su propia composici6n. Se argumenta en este estudio que el concepto de "verticalidad" se nos da coma una forma de pensar del poeta que, ir6nicamente representa a su propio "metodo socratico-16gico" para desestabilizar las conceptos tradicionales de lenguaje poetico y generos literarios. Se establece que el poeta nos lleva a preguntarnos si el "fragmento", par su propia naturaleza, debe ser considerado coma parte de un todo o coma un objeto aut6nomo. Par lo tanto, se traza aqui el proceso que sigue un poema para convertirse en un fragmento, se establece el significado y las implicaciones de un poema coma fragmento y, par ultimo, propongo la forma en que puede ser lefdo un fragmento coma un texto poetico o texto de una fndole alterna. La obra poetica de Juarroz me permite unir el pensamiento filos6fico occidental {el problema del ser y la existencia, la teoria del fragmento), con la filosofia budista {el Zen), a fin de rastrear la travesia poetica juarroziana coma una reflexion existencial que gravita hacia la busqueda de significados ontol6gicos tanto desde la perspectiva occidental coma tambien a la manera Zen. En la obra de Roberto Juarroz, a pesar de ser este una de las figuras de la literatura mas reconocidas de la cultura hispana, siguen existiendo una gran cantidad de espacios significativos que abordar; yen espedfico, sabre sus escritos ultimas principalmente en el piano del marco internacional.
Resource use by reintroduced large African herbivores in an altered landscape
Creators: name: Conneely, Bridget Pauline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Suitable habitat for large terrestrial animals is declining worldwide and protected areas provide viable habitat for these species. However, human disturbances can make potential habitat less suitable for species of concern, and can cause extirpation or even extinction. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique experienced the loss of nearly all of its large grazing herbivores causing a shift from short, nutritious grasses to low-quality grass. The objectives of this study are twofold (1) to determine the drivers of resource selection by reintroduced blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and African buffalo (Synercus caffer) to an altered system with low herbivore abundances and minimal risk of predation; (2) to identify the mechanisms by which these two species select resources on the patch scale by the creation of artificial grazing lawns. I performed AIC model selection on a suite of predictor variables to identify important factors driving resource selection on multiple spatial scales across three seasons. Next, I experimentally tested the effects of a mowing treatment on patch use by the two species to elucidate the interactions between grass clipping, soil and grass nutrients, and herbivore use. The findings of this study identify three major trends in resource selection by both species. First, wildebeest selected short, protein-rich grass patches during all seasons when available while buffalo utilized these patches predominantly during the early dry season when other resources are scarce. Second, open (low-tree cover) areas and proximity to water were secondary factors that determined wildebeest resource selection. Third, morphological adaptations allowed buffalo to feed on tall or short grasses depending on resource requirements; grass height was not a significant factor in resource selection. In the wet season, when resources were abundant, buffalo choice was driven by the composition of grass species. During the late dry season, buffalo chose unmowed salt plain vegetation in previously burned areas which had high percent grass greenness. These trends indicate that the establishment of short, productive grazing lawns would be highly beneficial for wildebeest during all seasons while a diversity of grass patch heights, grass species, vegetation types, and burning regimes would benefit buffalo.
Inert-states of spin-5 and spin-6 Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Fizia, Marcin
name: Sacha, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with spin f=5 and f=6 in the presence and absence of external magnetic field at the mean field level. We calculate all of so-called inert-states of these systems. Inert-states are very unique class of stationary states because they remain stationary while Hamiltonian parameters change. Their existence comes from Michel's theorem. For illustration of symmetry properties of the inert-states we use method that allows classification of the systems as a polyhedron with 2f vertices proposed by R. Barnett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180412 (2006).
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
title: The many faces of the multiple sclerosis (MS) imaging
Creators: name: Grilli Wagnerová, Monika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Case-control study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Pathology
subject: Developmental disease
subject: Biological effects
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Head and neck
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is not only inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, but also degenerative one. It affects predominantly young people and has a chronic, often progressive and debilitating course. We searched...
Poteique de la communaute dans les fictions francophones de la deterritorialisation
Creators: name: Mfossi Yienou, Awawou
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 292-303
description: Si Jes notions d'exil, d'immigration ou de diaspora se sont imposees dans le champ des etudes sur !es mouvements des populations ou des individus dans I' es pace, aussi bien en sociologie, en philosophie qu'en litterature, la question de la deterritorialisation, qui en est l'une des consequences, induit a evaluer, sous un nouvel angle la complexite du groupe social dans sa dynamique culturelle, historique voire ideologique. De fait, le groupe social, en perpetuelle reconstruction redefinit Jes rapports entre le Moi et l 'Alterite, I' individu et le collectif, la memo ire et I' espace mais surtout entre societe et communaute. La deterritorialisation soul eve done un enjeu fondamental dans la production et la reception de l'imaginaire litteraire notamment dans l'espace francophone d'Afrique et des Carai"bes, plus enclin au phenomene. L'enjeu de la presente these est de questionner, dans la conscience et le projet litteraire des sujets deterritorialises, les mecanismes de reconstruction et de reconstitution de la communaute dans le territoire autre, Jes modes d'elaboration de leur double narratif dans l'espace du texte. II s'agit, specifiquement, de reflechir sur des modalites narratives, une poetique en somme, qui serait au centre des ceuvres produites dans un contexte de deterritorialisation a partir de trois auteurs : Tierno Monenembo, Sarni Tchak et Emile Ollivier representatifs de la francophonie litteraire africaine et caribeenne.
title: Don't Rack your Brain! - A no-nonsense guide to intracranial CT angiograms for the non-specialist radiologist
Creators: name: Hesni, Susan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Acute
subject: Normal variants
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Outline normal and variant anatomy of the intra and extracranial circulations. 2. Highlight common and significant pathologies of which the non-specialist radiologist should be...
Who are you?: ethnic identity in Canada
Creators: name: Lovell, Kerri Lee
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 96-104
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Canada is comprised of a rich tapestry of language, ethnic groups, culture and history. Historically, the Canadian government viewed immigration as a means to an end, in which the incoming labour force would populate the vast landscape and ultimately boost the economy to make to make Canada a viable country. Today, immigration is viewed not only in terms of the obvious economic benefits, but as an addition to our already successful pluralist society. The integration process starts the moment the newcomer steps onto Canadian soil; but to what degree, if ever, an individual will identify as 'Canadian' is of great interest to sociological researchers. The 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey provides a useful dataset for the examination of ethnic identity in Canada, and this thesis explores which variables have an effect on whether or not an individual will report 'Canadian' as their ethnic identity.
title: Imaging in Renal Transplant
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Transplantation
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: This review aims to- Discuss relevant pre-operative imaging in recipients and donors. Objectively evaluate transplanted kidney for potential complications/ forewarn...
Drug use and sexual behavior of indigent African American men
Creators: name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Schilling, Robert F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Social psychology

description: A total of 108 African American men in a free lunch program with histories of drug abuse were surveyed to determine the relationships among drug use, sexual activity, AIDS prevention practices, and perceived risk of AIDS. Of the 108, 69.5 percent were homeless and only 12 percent were currently receiving drug abuse treatment. More than half of the participants had injected drugs, and 38 percent had shared needles. Among the 80 percent who were sexually active, 40 percent reported using condoms every time they had sex. Respondents in monogamous relationships tended to use condoms less frequently. Those who shared needles were more likely to have sex with IV drug users and had more sexual partners. Respondents who used crack used condoms less frequently. Those with multiple partners were more likely to engage in anal intercourse. Three-quarters perceived themselves at risk of AIDS.
Analyticity for Classical Gasses via Recursion
Creators: name: Michelen, Marcus
name: Perkins, W
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Quantum Mechanics

description: We give a new criterion for a classical gas with a repulsive pair potential to exhibit uniqueness of the infinite volume Gibbs measure and analyticity of the pressure. Our improvement on the bound for analyticity is by a factor e2 over the classical cluster expansion approach and a factor e over the known limit of cluster expansion convergence. The criterion is based on a contractive property of a recursive computation of the density of a point process. The key ingredients in our proofs include an integral identity for the density of a Gibbs point process and an adaptation of the algorithmic correlation decay method from theoretical computer science. We also deduce from our results an improved bound for analyticity of the pressure as a function of the density.
title: Pre-operative assessment of Major Aorto-Pulmonary Collateral Arteries (MAPCA): What the Surgeon wants to know.
Creators: name: Gaduputi, Jahnavi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Aims and Objectives: ·To briefly illustrate the spectrum of MAPCAs. ·To discuss commonly encountered MAPCAs and their implication in surgical...
Exploring the use of clickers to support active learning and knowledge building by pre-service teachers in large lectures
Creators: name: Liu, Angyue
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 105-115
description: Educators in higher education are being challenged to engage every learner in their learning in large lectures. This case study explored the use of an Audience Response System (i.e., clickers) to engage pre-service teachers in active learning and collaborative knowledge building in a large lecture setting within a Bachelor of Education program. Qualitative and quantitative data was collected from classroom observations, student interviews, the instructor interview, and the student survey. This research found that with the opportunity to respond to clicker questions in lectures, especially to the open-ended text-entry questions, student teachers can be engaged in active learning, and also in the creation, sharing, and promising improvement of their ideas/knowledge as individuals and as a learning community in the large lecture setting. Findings from this study can enrich our understanding about effective strategies of using clickers to improve learning and teaching in large lectures in higher education.
Rechcerche-action en milieu minoritaire: la collaboration pour l'apprentissage du francais
Creators: name: Lampron, Caroline
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 82-87
description: A page is in colour.
description: Ce memoire de maitrise examine l'apprentissage d'une langue en milieu minoritaire. Le contexte minoritaire amene son lot de defis. Les varietes linguistiques sont nombreuses, car les eleves viennent de differents endroits et de dynamiques familiales differentes. En suivant l'approche socio-constructiviste, cette recherche-action demontre comment la collaboration aide a l'apprentissage d'une langue. La theorie socio-constructiviste de Vygotsky prone la coconstruction des apprentissages avec l'aide de mediateurs. L'apprentissage de la litteratie en premiere annee est une grosse partie de la scolarite de l'enfant et la coconstruction ainsi que la collaboration font partie integrante de cet apprentissage. La collaboration entre pairs ou avec l'enseignante amene l'enfant plus loin dans sa reflexion, done lui permet de mieux reussir. Cette recherche-action est egalement une reflexion de ma pratique enseignante dans le but de l' ameliorer.
title: Whole-body MRI in myeloma: "spot the lesions"
Creators: name: Santos, Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Haematologic
subject: Bones
subject: Oncologic Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives:  To review the updated criteria to diagnose multiple myeloma (MM);  To illustrate the features of MM in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and summarize the recently proposed recommendations;  To discuss the importance of whole-body MRI in the...
Process tomography of photon creation and annihilation operators
Creators: name: Kumar, Ranjeet
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 77-80
description: The photon creation and annihilation operators are cornerstones of the quantum description of the electromagnetic field. They signify the isomorphism of the optical Hilbert space to that of the harmonic oscillator and the bosonic nature of photons. We perform complete experi­mental characterization (quantum process tomography) of these operators. By measuring, via homodyne detection, their effect on coherent states, we obtain their process tensor in the Fock basis, which explicitly shows the 'raising' and 'lowering' properties of these operators with respect to photon number states. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experin1ental demonstration of complete tomography of trace-non-preserving quantum processes. All output states are characterized through their corresponding Wigner functions. Results are also validated through theoretical modeling. Fuithermore, the photon addition and subtrac­tion operations are characterized through the diagonal elements of the process tensors and are validated through theoretical generated data using Monte Carlo simulation.
Lattice QCD determination of m_b, f_B and f_Bs with twisted mass Wilson fermions
Creators: name: ETM Collaboration
name: Dimopoulos, P.
name: Frezzotti, R.
name: Herdoiza, G.
name: Lubicz, V.
name: Michael, C.
name: Palao, D.
name: Rossi, G. C.
name: Sanfilippo, F.
name: Shindler, A.
name: Simula, S.
name: Tarantino, C.
name: Wagner, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a lattice QCD determination of the b quark mass and of the B and B_s decay constants, performed with N_f=2 twisted mass Wilson fermions, by simulating at four values of the lattice spacing. In order to study the b quark on the lattice, two methods are adopted in the present work, respectively based on suitable ratios with exactly known static limit and on the interpolation between relativistic data, evaluated in the charm mass region, and the static point, obtained by simulating the HQET on the lattice. The two methods provide results in good agreement. For the b quark mass in the MSbar scheme and for the decay constants we obtain m_b(m_b)=4.29(14) GeV, f_B=195(12) MeV, f_Bs=232(10) MeV and f_Bs/f_B=1.19(5). As a byproduct of the analysis we also obtain the results for the f_D and f_Ds decay constants: f_D=212(8) MeV, f_Ds=248(6) MeV and f_Ds/f_D=1.17(5).
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. Added appendix showing the agreement of the data for the ratios with the HQE prediction. Matching JHEP published version
Factors Affecting Financial Institutions to Adopt Mobile Peer-to-Peer Platforms
Creators: name: Dawood, Dr Hatim
name: Liew, Chee Yoong
name: Rajan, Marcia Edna Santhana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Finance
Technology management
Banking, finance and investment not elsewhere classified
Financial institutions (incl. banking)
Mobile computing

description: This cross-sectional study empirically evaluated a model designed to predict the varied elements influencing the behavioural intents of financial institutions towards the use of mobile peer-to-peer platforms. Combining behavioural and instrument elements from frameworks based on the Net Valence Theory and the Theory of Reasoned Action, this study examined behavioural intention from the standpoint of financial institutions. An online survey of 88 organizations yielded data analyzed using PLS-SEM for hypothesis testing. The findings revealed that (1) instrument mobile perceived trust is a good mediator of heterogeneous factors, including economic ones, (2) the perceived risk has no effect when a mobile perceived trust significantly influences the intention, (3) the mobile perceived usefulness plays no role in the new mobile context, and (4) the combination of behavioural (extrinsic) and instrument (intrinsic) factors is vital and significant in mobile financial business models. In addition, the results suggest that practitioners concentrate on perceived mobile trust, perceived convenience, perceived economics, and perceived mobile ease of use as the primary drivers of mobile peer-to-peer platform adoption. These elements considerably increase the rate of mobile peer-to-peer platform adoption. Therefore, FinTech and mobile technology regulators are recommended to establish a regulatory framework that helps financial institutions regard mobile as trustworthy.
Journey to the honour song: stories of first nations student success
Creators: name: Dobson, Margaret A.E.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 313-333
description: The study is an interpretive work regarding the cross-cultural and paradigmatic experiences of First Nations students attending and graduating from university. It is an arts based, imaginative and philosophical presentation of clusters of stories concerning the journey of First Nations students through university when they are expected to conform to Euro-Canadian post-secondary academic culture. The inquiry depicts and evokes the lived experience of successful First Nations graduates through the medium of fictional story. Storytelling is engaged to investigate and celebrate ways of knowing valued by and integral to Aboriginal cultures, and in order to contextualize and convey insights about the journey of First Nations university students in a manner that makes the pathway accessible to future generations. The inquiry results from twenty years of acculturation among First Nations students, learning from, adopting and appropriating many First Nations perspectives and understandings shared by the courageous students who taught me about their experience in my capacity as educator and university programme co-ordinator/instructor between 1984- 2005. Beginning with a conventional Euro-Canadian thesis format, the study, moves across knowledge cultures to weave First Nations myth, legend, poetry and song with contemporary fictionalized accounts of the experiences of Aboriginal students in post­secondary learning settings. Embedded in the stories is information that may relate to educational processes such as admissions, or course selection, and to more personal and learning matters such as motivation, First Nations history, acquiring success and the esoteric of power. The stories highlight the perspectives of First Nations students on the interactions between their cultural paradigms and academics. The empowering stories of university success carry the potential to inspire, to teach, to create change and promote healing for prospective First Nations students and educators who work beside them.
ТУПРОҚҚА ИШЛОВ БЕРУВЧИ ОСМА ИККИ ИЗЛИ БОРОНА ТИШИНИНГ СИФАТ КЎРСАТКИЧЛАРИ
Creators: name: Кубанов, Эрмамат
name: Бабабеков, Умидбек
name: Zhong, Weizhou
name: Yang, Xueji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Мақолада икки изли, яъни кетма-кет икки қатор ўрнатилган бороналар тишининг сифат кўрсаткичларини яхшилаш мақсадида ўтказилган назарий ва экспериментал тадқиқотларнинг натижалари келтирилган. Назарий тадқиқотларда икки изли боронанинг иш жараёнида бороналарнинг мувозанат ҳолатини бузилишига олиб келадиган буровчи моментни камайтириш орқали уларнинг барқарор ҳаракатини таъминлаш ва демак сифат кўрсаткичларини яхшилаш масаласи қаралган. Экспериментал тадқиқотларда эса назарий тадқиқотлар натижаларидан келиб чиқиб, O‘z Dst 3412: 2019 “Қишлоқ хўжалиги техникасини синаш. Тупроқ юзасига ишлов берувчи машиналар ва қуроллар. Синов дастури ва усуллари” ва O‘z Dst 3193: 2017 “Қишлоқ хўжалиги техникасини синаш. Машиналарни энергетик баҳолаш усули” асосида осма икки изли боронанинг ишлов бериш чуқурлиги, тупроқнинг уваланиш сифати, дала юзасидаги нотекисликлар баландликларининг ўртача квадратик четланиши, бороналарнинг тортишга қаршилигига таъсири ўрганилган.
Disconnect
Creators: name: Chouinard, Kellie L.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 22-23, 126
description: This creative prose poetry manuscript challenges the boundary between fact and fiction through the story of a displaced narrator and other unnamed characters, all of whom are disconnected from chronological time. Beginning in Windsor, Ontario, and continuing to Calgary, the second-person narrator interrogates the events that occur both before and immediately following her cross-country move in an attempt to feel connected to both cities. Disconnect interrogates the validity of memory and how one goes about creating a life from a handful of seemingly unrelated events, questioning whether the story is really yours if you remember it from a different point of view. The introductory essay examines the roles of autobiography, biotext, and confessional writing in contemporary Canadian women's literature through the works of Lynn Crosbie, Nicole Markotic, Damian Rogers, and others, and well as the influence of genealogy on the works of Daphne Marlatt and Robert Kraetsch.
title: Imaging findings in hip replacement. How can I help the surgeon?
Creators: name: Azpeitia Armán, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Complications
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Prostheses
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: -To review the different types of hip replacement. -To illustrate imagingfindings in different techniques in the evaluation of prostheses. - To describe usefulness and limitations of plain radiographs and CT in the evaluation of hip replacements....