cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Domain Adaptation for Automated Program Repair
Creators: name: Zirak, Armin
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Natural Language Processing
subject: Transformers
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Automated Program Repair
subject: Domain Adaptation
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Computer Science

description: Automated Program Repair (APR) is defined as the process of fixing a bug/defect in the source code by an automated tool. APR methods have recently experienced promising results by leveraging state-of-the-art Neural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. APR tools such as TFix and CodeXGLUE that combine text-to-text transformers with software-specific techniques are outperforming alternatives these days. However, all these methods are limited with respect to Domain Shift. In other words, APR models are trained and tested on the same set of projects (i.e., when fixing a bug from project A, the model has already seen example fixed bugs from project A in the training set). However, in the real world, APR models are meant to be generalizable to new and different projects. Therefore, there is a potential threat that the proposed APR models with high effectiveness, reported in the studies, perform poorly when the characteristics of the new project or its bugs are different (domain shift). In this study, we first define the problem of domain shift in software engineering and automated program repair. Next we measure the potential damage of domain shift on two state-of-the-art APR methods (TFix and CodeXGLUE). Based on this observation, we then propose a domain adaptation framework that can adapt an APR method for a given target project. We conduct an empirical study with three domain adaptation methods and two APR models on 611 bugs from 19 projects. The results show that our proposed framework can improve the effectiveness of TFix by 13.05% and CodeXGLUE by 23.4%, in terms of “Exact Match”. Through experiments, we also show that the framework provides high efficiency and reliability (in terms of exposure bias). Another contribution of this study is the proposal of a data synthesis method to address the lack of labeled data in APR (bugs and their fixes). We leverage transformers to create a bug generator model. We use the generated synthetic data to domain adapt TFix and CodeXGLUE on the projects with no data (Zero-shot learning), which results in an average improvement of 5.76% and 24.42% for TFix and CodeXGLUE, respectively.
P-wave Quarkonium Decays to Meson Pairs
Creators: name: Chen, Long-Bin
name: Qiao, Cong-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The processes of P-wave Quarkonium exclusive decays to two mesons are investigated, in which the final state vector mesons with various polarizations are considered separately. In the calculation, the initial heavy quarkonia are treated in the framework of non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics, whereas for light mesons, the light cone distribution amplitudes up to twist-3 are employed. It turns out that the higher twist contribution is significant and provides a possible explanation for the observation of the hadron helicity selection rule violated processes $χ_{c1}\rightarrow ϕϕ,ωω$ by the BESIII collaboration in recently. We also evaluate the $χ_{b1}\to J/ψJ/ψ$ process and find that its branching ratio is big enough to be measured at the B-factories.
description: more results and discussions added
Natural Resource Funds and the Promotion of Environmental Protection through Socially Responsible Investment: An Evaluation of the Alberta, Norwegian and Nigerian Sovereign Funds
Creators: name: Tawoju, Akindele
Publisher: name: Law
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Natural Resources
subject: Environment
subject: Energy
subject: Socially Responsible Investment
subject: Sovereign Wealth Fund
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Environmental protection remains a burning global concern and different approaches have been developed to achieve it. Consistent with the dynamics of these approaches, the world has discerned the enormous potential of the financial sector in contributing to subsisting efforts towards the realization of environmental protection. Due to their huge capital strength, risk appetite and investment horizon, sovereign wealth funds are regarded as major financial actors. This research reveals that the major mechanism deployed by financial players, including sovereign wealth funds, in contributing to environmental protection is the making of socially responsible investments. With expatiation on the concept and principles of socially responsible investment in a manner that promotes environmental protection, this research focuses primarily on investigating the investment practices of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority in comparison with those of the Norwegian Norges Bank Investment Management (which manages the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global) and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (which manages the Alberta Heritage Fund). By employing comparative, qualitative and doctrinal research methodologies, this research evaluates the legal, regulatory and governance frameworks of these three funds with particular attention on the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority. This research finds that while the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority lacks greatly in the implementation of its statutorily recognized obligation to make investments that contemplates environmental protection, the enabling statutory scheme of the Alberta Heritage Fund needs to be revisited to give legal force and credence to its policy implementation of socially responsible investment. The research further recommends that the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority create and implement policies that accommodate socially responsible investment in a fashion similar to the investment strategies adopted by the Norwegian Norges Bank Investment Management and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation.
Constraints on Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation from IceCube Results
Creators: name: Albuquerque, Ivone F. M.
name: Silva, Leandro J. Beraldo e
name: Heros, Carlos Pérez de los
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excesses on positron and electron fluxes measured by ATIC, and the PAMELA and Fermi--LAT telescopes can be explained by dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. However, this requires large boosts on the dark matter annihilation rate. There are many possible enhancement mechanisms, such as the Sommerfeld effect or the existence of dark matter clumps in our halo. If enhancements on the dark matter annihilation cross section are taking place, the dark matter annihilation in the core of the Earth should also be enhanced. Here we use recent results from the IceCube 40-string configuration to probe generic enhancement scenarios. We present results as a function of the dark matter-proton interaction cross section, $σ_{χp}$ weighted by the branching fraction into neutrinos, $f_{ν\barν}$, as a function of a generic boost factor, $B_F$, which parametrizes the expected enhancement of the annihilation rate. We find that dark matter models which require annihilation enhancements of $\mathcal{O}(100)$ or more and that annihilate significantly into neutrinos are excluded as the explanation for these excesses. We also determine the boost range that can be probed by the full IceCube telescope.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; version accepted for publication
A biologically-inspired eye model for testing oculomotor control theories
Creators: name: Lakzadeh, Mahkameh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This research presents a new biologically motivated robotic model of the human eye. The model incorporates aspects of the anatomy that are functionally important for understanding biological oculomotor systems. The 3DOF robotic eye is driven by 6 DC motors through low friction dyneema cables. The DC motors represent muscle actuation while dyneema cables represent the 6 extraocular muscles (EOM). The globe’s natural orbital support is emulated by a low-friction gimbal structure that supports the eye on the anteroposterior axis at the back of the globe, where there is no tendon interference. Moreover, we have used the Buckingham Π theorem dimensionless analysis to scale the geometric and dynamic properties of the biological eye according to the model’s specified dimensions and inertia. Lastly, to confirm the functionality of the eye and to verify that the initial design requirements have been satisfied, we have implemented a controller design to drive this redundant (6 actuators, 3 DOF) system.The presented robotic eye model is to be employed as a test bed for testing theories about oculomotor control. Furthermore, this system could also be used to assess proposed surgical corrections for various oculomotor diseases.
MOESM1 of Serum uromodulin and progression of kidney disease in patients with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Lv, Li
name: Wang, Jinwei
name: Gao, Bixia
name: Wu, Liang
name: Wang, Fang
name: Cui, Zhao
name: He, Kevin
name: Zhang, Luxia
name: Chen, Min
name: Zhao, Ming-Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figure and tables.
What Do You Mean I Have Autism? Perspectives of the Impact and Lived Experiences of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum Being Uninformed of Their Diagnosis
Creators: name: Lorentz, Brittany R.
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
subject: diagnosis disclosure
subject: diagnosis nondisclosure
subject: diagnosis disclosure decision-making
subject: parents
subject: withheld
subject: qualitative research
subject: autism
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Social Sciences

description: Autism (spectrum disorder) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a range of qualitative impairments in social communication across various settings as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviours, interests, or activities. Many autistic individuals go through the diagnostic process while still a minor, with parents serving as translators of sharing the outcomes of the assessment with their child. Parents are often overwhelmed with contemplating whether to tell their child about the diagnosis as there are considerable stereotypes and stigma associated with the label of autism and parents often associate this when receiving the diagnosis from a clinician. Therefore, considerable time and thought go into the decision of whether to disclose the information to one’s child. The current study investigated the lived experiences of autistics who were not disclosed their autism diagnosis and remained uninformed for at least one year. A qualitative methodology was conducted to understand autistics’ perceptions, understanding, and opinions on nondisclosure of their autism diagnosis. Six participants took part in semi-structured interviews that were then analyzed utilizing interpretive phenomenogical analysis. Six group experience themes emerged from cross-case analysis of individual experiential themes. The findings of the study are discussed in context to existing literature and highlighting new knowledge as well as discussion of clinical and research implications and suggestions for future research.
Obligatory role of central aortic blood pressure in pulsatile cerebral hemodynamics
Creators: name: Kim, Mi Ok
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In the human circulatory system, the central aorta is closer to the brain than the radial artery, which is the preferential location for monitoring systemic blood pressure together with intracranial pressure (ICP) for determining cerebral perfusion pressure. The central aortic pressure pulse is different to the peripheral pulse as the pressure alters its morphology and amplifies while propagating from central to the peripheral locations. This alteration in waveform is associated with fundamental hemodynamic phenomena such as peripheral wave reflection and arterial stiffness, parameters which alter with advancing age. Particularly, it is hypothesised that amplified central aortic pulse pressure due to arterial stiffness would cause increased tensile and shear stress to the microvasculature in the brain of elderly people. This thesis aimed to assess the role of non-invasive central aortic blood pressure in experimental and clinical observations in pulsatile cerebral hemodynamics compared with the use of the radial pressure pulse. Furthermore, the investigation was expanded to include analysis of flow in cerebral arteries to gain additional information on pulsatile cerebral hemodynamics in conjunction with central aortic pressure pulse. Results suggest that arterial pulse pressure is strongly associated with controlling mean and pulsatile ICP. In particular, central aortic pulse pressure was a major determinant of individual variability of pulsatile ICP. Direct evidence of advancing age was found in features of cerebral blood flow waveforms which is a shared phenomenon with age-related changes in the aortic pressure pulse. Furthermore, the cerebral vasculature is found to be highly dilated, having a relatively low resistance from youth throughout the later stages in life. Findings of this thesis break new ground in quantifying the role of the aortic pressure pulse in cranial pressure and volume relationship. The findings lead to potential clinical applications such as individual diagnosis for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients and treatment of patients with cerebrovascular diseases or neurological disorders with anti-hypertensive drugs in order to control mean and pulsatile ICP. Overall, findings support the hypothesis for causal relation between increase in aortic pulse pressure with advancing age and proportional mechanical stress and longitudinal stress on the fragile cerebral vasculature.
Development of iron (III) tetra(meso-aryl)porphyrins and N-annulated perylene diimide tethered rhenium (I) bipyridine supramolecular dyads for carbon dioxide conversion catalysis
Creators: name: Koenig, Joshua David Brock
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Inorganic
subject: Chemistry--Organic
subject: Energy

description: This dissertation details the development of novel molecular organometallic complexes for applications in carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion catalysis. Chapter One introduces the notion of closing the carbon loop, as well as explores state-of-the-art molecular organometallic complexes based upon the iron (III) tetra(meso-aryl)porphyrin and rhenium (I) (2,2’-bipyridine) tricarbonyl chloride motifs, which are capable of highly selective and highly efficient CO2 conversion catalysis. Structure-property relationships described in this section helped guide the design of next generation organometallic catalysts that will make use of mesomeric effects and second-sphere electronic modifications to achieve improved performance with lower energy unput. Chapter Two explores the influence of mesomeric effects on the iron (III) tetra(meso-aryl)porphyrin platform by switching conventional phenyl-groups with smaller thiophene-based substituents. Although lower electrocatalytic CO2 conversion overpotentials were realized, these iron (III) tetra(meso-thienyl) porphyrins were subject to lower performance. Chapter Three investigates a series of N-annulated perylene diimide tethered rhenium bipyridine dyads. The N-annulated perylene diimide groups were elucidated to act as a second-sphere electron-reservoir for rhenium bipyridine catalyst, where the preferred electrocatalytic pathway was governed by the applied overpotential and the tether length between the two moieties. Chapter Four explores the photocatalytic CO2 conversion abilities of various electronically modified N-annulated perylene diimide tethered rhenium bipyridine dyads. The nature of the electronic substituent changed the preferred photoexcitation pathway, as well as the overall electronic driving-force for electron-transfer in the dyads. Chapter Five examines possible future research directions for these iron (III) tetra(meso-thienyl)porphyrin and N-annulated perylene diimide tethered rhenium (I) tricarbonyl bipyridine supramolecular dyad platforms, and then concludes by discussing the obstacles of closing the carbon loop using catalytic CO2 conversion.
W-STEM Project – Videoconference (February 2, 2019)
Creators: name: Zangrando, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM

description: Basic information and firsts steps in the W-STEM project. Videoconference held on February 2nd, 2019.
CHILD SLEEP AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES: A MIXED COHORT OF FAMILIES WITH AND WITHOUT NEUROGENETIC SYNDROMES
Creators: name: Galvez-Ortega, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: Purpose: Previous work demonstrates a link between poor child sleep and increased caregiver mental health symptoms. In particular, children with NGS are known to experience severe and persistent sleep difficulties. Few studies have examined the association between child sleep disturbances and caregiver internalizing symptoms across families affected by neurogenic syndromes. More specifically, no study has examined how sleep disturbances in children diagnosed with NGS impact caregiver internalizing symptoms severity across development (from infancy to school-age children), using a longitudinal framework and multilevel analyses. Thus, the current study aims to test the effect of child sleep duration on caregiver mental health changes over the course of development (child age, from infancy to school-age children) in a mixed cohort of families affected by neurogenetic syndromes and a sub-group of neurotypical children. Method: A total of 193 caregivers were recruited, via web-based support groups, syndrome research registries, and social networks, as part of a broader longitudinal study, the Early Phenotype Study. To measure child sleep duration and caregiver internalizing symptoms, parents completed the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale, respectively, at each time point yielding a total of 718 observations. Separate multilevel models were conducted for caregiver depression, anxiety, and stress in relation to child sleep duration at the between- and the within-person level with child age as a moderator. Results: Results of the present study revealed a between-person main effect of child sleep duration on caregiver symptoms of depression and a within-person effect of child sleep duration on stress symptoms in caregivers. The moderating effect of child age was not statistically significant across models. Conclusions: Overall, findings of the current study support previous literature and suggest child sleep duration may provide us with information on who may be at greater risk of exhibiting greater symptoms of depression, drawing the importance of focusing on improving child sleep duration as a way to reduce caregiver mental health challenges.
Occupational patterns of families living with a health condition: A scoping review
Creators: name: Ranger, Marie-Christine
name: Bossé, Stéphanie
name: Martini, Rose
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: A family’s health is sustained by its occupational patterns. While it is commonly accepted that a health condition places extra demands on a family’s time or can limit daily occupations, few studies have reported on the occupational patterns of these families. This scoping review provides an overview of the current state of research exploring occupational patterns of families living with a health condition. Publications between 2000 and 2018 indexed in CINAHL, PsycInfo, Medline and Scopus databases were searched. Seventy-seven studies were included in the final content analysis. Findings suggest that families’ occupational patterns are more complex than simply the sum of individual and shared occupational patterns, but consist of interconnected relational aspects of occupations, rarely highlighted in studies. Moreover, testimonies tend to be predominantly from the mother’s perspectives, thereby limiting the scope of understanding of the interdependent nature of families’ occupational patterns. To better understand the complexity and interdependence of families’ occupational patterns, future studies should examine multiple perspectives (parents and children) when studying occupations in a family setting. This can be enabled by the use of a variety of data collection methodologies.
ความหลากหลายของแพลงก์ตอนพืชในคลองทอน ตำบลทุ่งลาน อำเภอคลองหอยโข่ง จังหวัดสงขลา
Creators: name: ศรัณย์ รักษาพราหมณ์
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2023
Subjects: แพลงก์ตอนพืช
ความหลากหลาย
คลองหอยโข่ง
สงขลา

description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 20, 1, 98-105
Additional file 19 of The whole profiling and competing endogenous RNA network analyses of noncoding RNAs in adipose-derived stem cells from diabetic, old, and young patients
Creators: name: Ren, Sen
name: Xiong, Hewei
name: Chen, Jing
name: Yang, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Yutian
name: Guo, Jiahe
name: Jiang, Tao
name: Xu, Zhao
name: Yuan, Meng
name: Liu, Yang
name: Zhou, Nan
name: Chen, Hongrui
name: Li, Wenqing
name: Machens, Hans-Günther
name: Chen, Zhenbing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 19: Figure S2. The efficiency of mimic and inhibitor transfection were examined. (A, B) Representative images of ASCs treated with 50 nM mimic-NC labeled with cy3 (red) and 200 nM inhibitor-NC labeled with 5-FAM (green). Scale bar = 50 μm. (C, D) The miR-145-5p expression level of ASCs transfected with miR-145-5p mimic or inhibitor was detected by PCR. n = 3. ***p < 0.001, ****p< 0.0001.
Understanding Engagement in Physical Activity Over the Life Course to Promote Healthy Aging
Creators: name: Donaldson, Gerald Douglas
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Literacy
subject: Older Adults
subject: Exergaming
subject: Electronic Delphi Project
subject: Education--Health
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Psychology--Cognitive
subject: Psychology--Physiological

description: The analyses presented in this dissertation reconceptualized the philosophical speculations that underpinned the epistemological foundations of Margaret Whitehead’s Physical Literacy paradigm with attention to scientific claims of evidence. Establishing a scientific foundation for physical literacy as a holistic, immersive paradigm led to the notion that interactive experiences are laboratory exemplars for testing the motivation of Physical Literacy’s holistic experiences. This led to a randomized, comparative trial (RCT) of two cycling interfaces - 2D monitor and 360° headset – that demonstrated, for both conditions, motivation to engage in physical activity while exergaming increased equally. Experiences associated with 2D monitors and 360° VR headsets with interactive cycling and gaming illustrated a safe and enjoyable way to engage seniors in mitigating sedentary behavior while actively engaging in physical activity. This has important implications for the design and development of exergaming systems. The results of the RCT study found that interactive exergaming while cycling with immersive interfaces led to increased enjoyment, was encouraging, and gave rise to an exploration that has potential to foster lifelong engagement in physical activity. A Delphi Method enabled experts to generate and discuss recommendations for healthier lifespans by managing physical and sedentary behaviors across the lifespan.
Drin bleiben: Zur Kadrage in Ida Lupinos Regiearbeiten
Creators: name: Binotto, Johannes (Autor/in)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Film
Filmtheorie
Framing
Kadrage
Feministische Ästhetik

description: Kein Abstract vorhanden.
description: + ID der Publikation: hslu_57517 + Art des Beitrages: Buchkapitel/Beitrag in Sammelband + Herausgeberschaft: Elisabeth Bronfen; Ivo Ritzer; Hannah Schoch + Seiten: 126 - 140 + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2019-02-11 15:57:48
Query processor for the conceptual integration modeling framework
Creators: name: Chen, Zhaohong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: A data warehouse is a giant information pot made by integrating data from different data sources. Its schema can easily become complicated in order to hold all historical data. This complexity can confuse end users. The Conceptual Integration Modeling (CIM) framework was proposed to bridge the gap between users and the schema by adding a user-defined conceptual layer. This thesis aims to fulfill the query processor component in the CIM framework. Traditional query languages like SQL require a relatively tough learning curve, which is too dynamic for business users. Instead we propose a new CIM query language and a query interface to work with the visual representation of the CIM framework. This query interface only focuses on user needs and hides unnecessary implementation details to the back end. Thus, it is easy for business users to pose queries. In addition, we also do some optimization on the query processor by selecting views to materialize. Our proposed algorithm can achieve the lower performance bound of 46.7% of the optimal solution.
Stenandra Lameere 1912
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Heffern, Daniel
name: Matsuda, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Stenandra

description: Stenandra Lameere, 1912
 Parandra (Stenandra) Lameere, 1912: 114; 1913: 7 (cat.); 1919: 18; Gilmour 1956: 8.
 Stenandra; Quentin and Villiers 1972: 208 (new status); 1975: 20; Santos-Silva 2002: 30 (key).
 Type species. Parandra kolbei Lameere, 1903 (monotypy).
 Description. Dorsal face of head, mandibles, genae, pronotum, elytra (mainly at apical third), pro-, meso- and metasternum, and femora with short hair, relatively abundant.
Dorsal face of head convex, without gibbosities between eyes. Ocular carina absent; antennal tubercles large, placed almost dorsally on head, with their bases surpassing apex of eyes. Clypeus moderately long, oblique, clearly separated from front by suture. Labrum wide, short, concave; central projection narrow and sub-acute. Mandibles very similar in both sexes; as long as head in males, and as long as or shorter than head in females; triangular, with apex clearly curved inside; in males, separated at inner base; in females with inner base separated or not; outer face (Fig. 93) narrow at base, and with small tooth close to apex; dorsal carina with its limits not evident by inclination and width of inner face (absence of abrupt declivity between top of carina and beginning of inner face); inner margin with a strong concavity close to basal tooth of apex, and without evident teeth between that concavity and base. Eyes (Fig. 93) wide at ventral ocular lobes, and narrow at dorsal ocular lobes, emarginate; ocular posterior edge distinct. Mentum with hair very sparse. Galea extremely short, not reaching the base of first segment of maxillary palp. Antennae (Fig. 215) surpassing base of elytra; ventral sensorial area of antennomeres III-XI visible from side, divided by strong carina; dorsal sensorial area of antennomere XI large, deep, well delimited.
Pronotum convex; anterior edge slightly sinuous; anterior angles slightly projected forward; lateral angles absent; posterior angles distinct, almost in right angle. Elytra strongly punctate. Apex of prosternal process enlarged. Procoxal cavities closed behind (sometimes, slightly open). Paronychium absent.   Included species. Stenandra kolbei (Lameere, 1903); S. vadoni Quentin and Villiers, 1972.
 Geographical distribution. Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and Vietnam (Fig. 315).
 Comments. The general appearance of Stenandra easily separates it from other genera of Parandrini, notably by the pilosity of the elytra and the form of the mandibles.
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio, Heffern, Daniel & Matsuda, Kiyoshi, 2010, Revision of Hawaiian, Australasian, Oriental, and Japanese Parandrinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1-120 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (130) on page 72, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164485
Culture, cultural discontinuity and the need for change : understanding Canadian and Chinese cultures of learning
Creators: name: Akehurst, Jessica Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine sources of potential cultural discontinuity between Chinese students and Canadian teachers at an International school in China. Cultural discontinuity is a school-based process whereby culturally-based learning preferences and practices of students are discontinued at school (Ogbu, 1995). Since curriculum and classroom practices at International Schools are rooted in mainstream Western cultural values and worldviews, this dominant ideology may result in the discontinuance of cultural, value-based learning behaviours by Chinese students. This thesis delineates some of the issues that illustrate the incongruence between primary culture (home-based values) and secondary culture (school-based cultural values) and the implications for teaching and learning in British Columbian Offshore Schools. Conceptions of teaching and learning, the value and use of questioning, the issues of silence and plagiarism, and the role of the teacher and students are examined.
Time-Resolved Magnetic Relaxation of a Nanomagnet on Subnanosecond Time Scales
Creators: name: Liu, H.
name: Bedau, D.
name: Sun, J. Z.
name: Mangin, S.
name: Fullerton, E. E.
name: Katine, J. A.
name: Kent, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a two-current-pulse temporal correlation experiment to study the intrinsic subnanosecond nonequilibrium magnetic dynamics of a nanomagnet during and following a pulse excitation. This method is applied to a model spin-transfer system, a spin valve nanopillar with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Two-pulses separated by a short delay (< 500 ps) are shown to lead to the same switching probability as a single pulse with a duration that depends on the delay. This demonstrates a remarkable symmetry between magnetic excitation and relaxation and provides a direct measurement of the magnetic relaxation time. The results are consistent with a simple finite temperature Fokker-Planck macrospin model of the dynamics, suggesting more coherent magnetization dynamics in this short time nonequilibrium limit than near equilibrium.
Numerical method for non-linear steady-state transport in one-dimensional correlated conductors
Creators: name: Einhellinger, M.
name: Cojuhovschi, A.
name: Jeckelmann, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for investigating the steady-state transport properties of one-dimensional correlated quantum systems. Using a procedure based on our analysis of finite-size effects in a related classical model (LC line) we show that stationary currents can be obtained from transient currents in finite systems driven out of equilibrium. The non-equilibrium dynamics of correlated quantum systems is calculated using the time-evolving block decimation method. To demonstrate our method we determine the full I-V characteristic of the spinless fermion model with nearest-neighbour hopping t_H and interaction V_H using two different setups to generate currents (turning on/off a potential bias). Our numerical results agree with exact results for non-interacting fermions (V_H=0). For interacting fermions we find that in the linear regime eV << 4t_H the current I is independent from the setup and our numerical data agree with the predictions of the Luttinger liquid theory combined with the Bethe Ansatz solution. For larger potentials V the steady-state current depends on the current-generating setup and as V increases we find a negative differential conductance with one setup while the currents saturate at finite values in the other one. Both effects are due to finite renormalized bandwidths.
description: published version
ICOH Pre-study stimulus materials
Creators: name: MacArtney, J.I.
name: Eccles, A.
name: Fleming, J.
name: Grimley, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Extended data related to: MacArtney et al., (2021) What do we know about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hospices? A collaborative multi-stakeholder knowledge synthesis, AMRC Open Research.
Rheological Modelling and Simulations of Dilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions in Complex Geometries
Creators: name: Das, Subham Kumar
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Polyelectrolyte
subject: Viscoelasticity
subject: Numerical Simulation
subject: Variational Principle
subject: Molecular Migration
subject: Rheology
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: Dilute polyelectrolyte solutions show viscoelastic behaviour different from solutions of uncharged polymers by virtue of the additional stiffness provided by the repulsion between charges on the polymer chain and screening of the charged sites by ionic species in the system. Experiments report an increase in chain extensions and polymeric viscosities due to the charged nature of the polymers. These effects impact the macroscopic flow behaviour of polyelectrolytes in complex geometries. In this work, we have developed a theoretical model describing the viscoelastic behavior of dilute polyelectrolyte (PE) solutions using Onsager’s variational principle. The PE molecules are described as finitely extensible charged dumbbells suspended in a solvent containing ionic species which screen the charged sites on the macromolecules. We first formulate the rheological model in a conformation tensor formalism and couple it to the steady Stokes equations to simulate the flow of dilute polyelectrolyte solutions in confined geometries. Our results indicate an increase in the drag experienced by the bodies in a flowing PE solution, increased pressure drops and normal stresses with increasing molecular charge density. Next, the model is reformulated to consider stress induced inhomogeneities in the system and the effect of counterion fluctuations on molecular migration of polyelectrolytes is investigated. We conclude that our model based on a simple charged dumbbell with counterion screening, together with Onsager’s variational principle is a powerful tool to investigate the dynamics of dilute polyelectrolyte solutions and the effects of the polyelectrolyte charge and solvent salinity.
Thin nematic films: anchoring effects and stripe instability revisited
Creators: name: Manyuhina, O. V.
name: Amar, M. Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the formation of long-wavelength instability patterns observed at spreading of nematic droplets on liquid substrates. The role of surface-like elastic terms such as saddle-splay and anchoring in nematic films of submicron thickness is (re)examined by extending our previous work [Manyuhina et al EPL, 92, 16005 (2010)] to hybrid aligned nematics. We identify the upper threshold for the formation of stripes and compare our results with experimental observations. We find that the wavelength and the amplitude of the in-plane director undulations can be related to the small but finite azimuthal anchoring. Within a simplified model we analyse the possibility of non-planar base state below the Barbero-Barberi critical thickness.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
A network neuroscience approach to Developmental Topographical Disorientation
Creators: name: Faryadras, Mahsa
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Network neuroscience
subject: Functional brain networks
subject: Developmental Topographical Disorientation
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physics

description: Despite a decade-long study on Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD), the underlying mechanism behind this neurological condition remains unknown. This lifelong selective inability in orientation, which causes these individuals to get lost even in familiar surroundings, is present in the absence of any other neurological disorder or acquired brain damage. Herein, we report an analysis of the functional brain network of individuals with DTD (n = 19) compared against that of healthy controls (n = 21), all of whom underwent resting state fMRI, to identify if and how their underlying functional brain network is altered. While the established resting state networks are confirmed in both groups, there is on average a greater connectivity and connectivity strength, in addition to increased global and local efficiency in the overall functional network of the DTD group. In particular, there is an enhanced connectivity between some resting state networks facilitated through indirect functional paths. We identify a handful of nodes that encode part of these differences. Overall, our findings provide strong evidence that the brain networks of individuals suffering from DTD are modified by compensatory mechanisms, which might open the door for new diagnostic tools.
title: Die Hähnchenhälftenfrau
Creators: name: Widder, Roman
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst Slavistik
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Martynova, Olga Mörikes Schlüsselbein
subject: Rezension
subject: 491.8

description: Das Fleisch der Literatur sind die Worte. Jedes Buch besteht zunächst in einer Ansammlung von schönen, besonderen oder auf besondere Weise angeordneten Wörtern. Bei Olga Martynova finden wir zum Beispiel: “Pappelwolle”, “Einfallsarmut”, “Isabellafarbe”. Es sind lyrische Worte, die selbst schon aus Metaphern gebaut sind. Martynovas Vorliebe für solche Worte entspricht dem Eindruck, dass ihre Prosa unerschrocken an die Präzisionskraft von Metaphern glaubt.
description: novinkigegengelesen
Capillary-wave models and the effective average action scheme of functional renormalization group
Creators: name: Jakubczyk, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexamine the functional renormalization-group theory of wetting transitions. As a starting point of the analysis we apply an exact equation describing renormalization group flow of the generating functional for irreducible vertex functions. We show how the standard nonlinear renormalization group theory of wetting transitions can be recovered by a very simple truncation of the exact flow equation. The derivation makes all the involved approximations transparent and demonstrates the applicability of the approach in any spatial dimension d\geq 2. Exploiting the non-uniqueness of the renormalization-group cutoff scheme, we find however, that the capillary parameter omega is a scheme-dependent quantity below d=3. For d=3 the parameter omega is perfectly robust against scheme variation.
description: 10 pages
Additional file 1 of The whole profiling and competing endogenous RNA network analyses of noncoding RNAs in adipose-derived stem cells from diabetic, old, and young patients
Creators: name: Ren, Sen
name: Xiong, Hewei
name: Chen, Jing
name: Yang, Xiaofan
name: Liu, Yutian
name: Guo, Jiahe
name: Jiang, Tao
name: Xu, Zhao
name: Yuan, Meng
name: Liu, Yang
name: Zhou, Nan
name: Chen, Hongrui
name: Li, Wenqing
name: Machens, Hans-Günther
name: Chen, Zhenbing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1–S4. Primers used for real-time polymerase chain reaction. Table S5. Sequences of mimics and inhibitors.
On Three-Dimensional Mirror Symmetry
Creators: name: Dey, Anindya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mirror Symmetry for a large class of three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories has a natural explanation in terms of M-theory compactified on a product of $\text{ALE}$ spaces. A pair of such mirror duals can be described as two different deformations of the eleven-dimensional supergravity background $\mathcal{M}=\mathbb{R}^{2,1} \times \text{ALE}_{1} \times \text{ALE}_{2}$, to which they flow in the deep IR. Using the $A-D-E$ classification of $\text{ALE}$ spaces, we present a neat way to catalogue dual quiver gauge theories that arise in this fashion. In addition to the well-known examples studied in \cite{Intriligator:1996ex}, \cite{deBoer:1996mp}, this procedure leads to new sets of dual theories. For a certain subset of dual theories which arise from the aforementioned M-theory background with an $A$-type $\text{ALE}_{1}$ and a $D$-type $\text{ALE}_2$, we verify the duality explicitly by a computation of partition functions of the theories on $S^3$, using localization techniques . We derive the relevant mirror map and discuss its agreement with predictions from the Type IIB brane construction for these theories.
description: 50 pages, 12 figures; comments on the number of FI parameters added
On the existence of optimal controls for SPDEs with boundary-noise and boundary-control
Creators: name: Guatteri, Giuseppina
name: Masiero, Federica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a stochastic optimal control problem for an heat equation with boundary noise and boundary controls. Under suitable assumptions on the coefficients, we prove existence of optimal controls in strong sense by solving the stochastic hamiltonian system related.
DanceShala - A Visual Feedback Interface for Dance Learning
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Suvojit
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: dance
subject: computer science
subject: human computer interaction
subject: kinesiology
subject: interface
subject: Bollywood
subject: Dance
subject: Computer Science

description: Dance is a beautiful art form that can be enjoyed by people irrespective of age. One can learn dance from a dance teacher in a dance studio. The visual feedback received in an in-person class from an instructor is one of the best ways to improve dance learning. Sometimes it is not possible for a person to attend dance classes due to time and location constraints. The alternate option for people to learn dance is to attend dance classes online or self-learning with the help of dance games (online video games where a player attempts to follow a pattern of dance steps shown on screen in time to music). Organized remote visual feedback can assist a learner to learn dance in such scenarios. However, online dance classes or dance games may not be sufficient for a new learner to learn dance because the feedback received is not always adequate. To make online dance learning more comprehensive for new learners, a visual feedback interface named ‘DanceShala’ is created which will deliver comparative visual feedback to students after comparing teacher and student movements. In this study, dance movements of the teacher and the student are recorded. After processing the recorded movement data, feedback is generated on the correctness of the student’s movements as compared to the teacher. The visual feedback is displayed through an interface which assists a student to identify the errors made when compared to the teacher video. In the last stage of the study, a survey is administered to understand the user perception about this interface. This research is an interdisciplinary study combining Computer Science, Kinesiology and Dance.
Exploring the Responses of Prescribing Pharmacists and Family Physicians to Common Cases of Ambulatory Conditions
Creators: name: Chiang, Vincent
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: pharmacy
subject: prescribing
subject: ambulatory care
subject: survey
subject: comparison
subject: medicine
subject: pharmacist
subject: physician
subject: Education--Health
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Pharmacy
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Psychology--Social

description: Changes in the scope of practice of pharmacists have granted prescribing privileges to pharmacists in various jurisdictions. While seen as a natural progression of the expertise of pharmacy professionals by some, prescribing pharmacists have also been met with a range of cautionary warnings regarding proficiency and appropriateness because of the traditional training of pharmacists. Different models of prescribing pharmacist continue to be considered and implemented particularly regarding the treatment of ambulatory conditions, sometimes referred to as minor illness or ailments. Studies seeking to characterize the parameters of prescribing pharmacists with respect to ambulatory conditions such as clinical reasoning and clinical decision-making have been limited to using qualitative measures as well as focusing on a single prototypical clinical case. The following thesis describes a study which an online survey of multiple clinical cases of common ambulatory conditions was used to quantitatively assess the performance and behaviors of prescribing pharmacists in Alberta, Canada using family physicians as a comparison group. Participants were asked to respond to the clinical cases with diagnostic and therapeutic selections as well as report confidence in both selections. The prescribing pharmacists were hypothesized to demonstrate lower performance and confidence in selections compared to family physician counterparts due to aforementioned differences in training. The findings of the study concluded that were no significant differences in the diagnostic and therapeutic selection scores or in the reported confidence levels between a sample of prescribing pharmacists and family physicians. This research provides some of the first baseline evidence demonstrating the capabilities of prescribing pharmacists in the assessment and treatment of a range of ambulatory conditions. Future studies building on these findings should seek to understand how prescribing pharmacists can be better integrated into the healthcare system, particularly by using the methods of this study as a framework for the assessment of pharmacist in training and in practice.