cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Am I missing something? The effects of absence from class on student performance
Creators: name: Arulampalam, Wiji
name: Naylor, Robin A.
name: Smith, Jeremy
name: Arulampalam, Wiji
name: Naylor, Robin A.
name: Smith, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Randomised experiments
subject: quantile regression
subject: selection correction
subject: panel data
subject: education
subject: student performance
subject: class absence

description: We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We exploit the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for endogeneity between class absence and academic performance of students stemming from the likely influence of effort and ability on both absence and performance. Our estimations also exploit features of the data such as the random assignment of students to classes and information on the timetable of classes, which provides potential instruments in our identification strategy. Among other results we find, from a quantile regression specification, that there is a causal effect of absence on performance for students: missing class leads to poorer performance. There is evidence that this is particularly true for better-performing students, consistent with our hypothesis that effects of absence on performance are likely to vary with factors such as student ability.
BELIEFS AND REDISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS UNDER INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
Creators: name: Gabrieli, Tommaso
name: Gabrieli, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Politico-Economic Equilibria
subject: Redistribution
subject: Incomplete Information

description: The reason why the social contract is so different in two otherwise comparable societies like the United States and continental Western European countries represents a challenging question. Large empirical evidence shows that the difference in the political support for redistribution appears to reflect a difference in the social perceptions regarding the determinants of individual wealth and the underlying sources of income inequality. I present a model of beliefs and redistribution which explains this evidence through multiple politico-economic equilibria. Differently from the recent literature which obtains multiple equilibria by modeling agents characterized by psychological biases, my model is based on standard assumptions. Multiple equilibria originate from multiple optimal levels of information for the society. Multiple optimal levels of information exist because increasing the informativeness of an economy produces a trade-off between a decrease in adverse selection and an increase in moral hazard. The framework allows the analysis of various comparative statics in order to answer to policy questions.
Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons
Creators: name: Harrison, Mark
name: Markevich, Andrei
name: Harrison, Mark
name: Markevich, Andrei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Contracts
subject: Dictatorship
subject: Hold-Up Problem
subject: Soviet Economy

description: Military market places display obvious inefficiencies under most arrangements, but the Soviet defense market was unusual for its degree of monopoly, exclusive relationships, intensely scrutinized (in its formative years) by a harsh dictator. This provided the setting for quality versus quantity in the delivery of weapons to the government. The paper discusses the power of the industrial contractor over the defense buyer in terms of a hold-up problem. The typical use that the contractor made of this power was to default on quality. The defense ministry’s counter-action took the form of deploying agents through industry with the authority to verify quality and reject substandard goods. The final compromise restored quality at the expense of quantity. Being illicit, it had to be hidden from the dictator.
Prevalence of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Afnan Qasim
name: Ayah Albalawi
name: Fatmah Aljudaibi
name: Ohud Obad
name: Rahaf Alghamdi
name: Reoof Aldosary
name: Wedad Alsamman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Background: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a condition when stomach acid comes up into esophagus and induce symptoms or complications. Methods: We enrolled 584 in a cross-sectional community-based study to assess the prevalence of GERD symptoms in Saudi Arabia in addition to determine the risk factors associated with GERD occurrence. Data were conducted and randomly distributed through electronic questionnaire translated by the researchers to the Saudi population. We included the Saudi population above age of 18 years old and we excluded population under age of 18 years from our study. The Questionnaire was about 27 Arabic questions to assess the knowledge, prevalence and associated risk factors related to GERD symptoms. Results: A total of 584 subjects participated in the study from different regions in Saudi Arabia. Most of them were between 18 – 51 age group, majority were females and 57.4 from the west region. The mean height of the sample was 158.57 cm with a standard deviation of 58.72 cm, and the mean weight was 68.28 kg with standard deviation 19.21 kg. Most of the participants have no disease. The majority of the sample participants were non-smokers 84.6%, while there were 12 % of participants were smokers and 3.4 were former smokers. Half of the study group has a family member with GERD. Approximately 50% of the sample were experiencing heartburn or bitterness in the throat.19% of the sample has been diagnosed with GERD. Most of the participants think that taking medications and the type of food alleviates the symptoms of GERD. The most used mediations to relieve the symptoms of GERD are Gaviscon, Nexium, and Pantoprazole. Conclusion: Prevalence of GERD is increasing in our society due to the multiple factors we discussed, mainly lifestyle. These modifiable factors should be highlighted by educating the community and rising awareness about this condition before establishing complications.
Simulation of nodal-line semimetal in amplitude-shaken optical lattices
Creators: name: Zhou, Tanji
name: Yu, Zhongcheng
name: Li, Zhihan
name: Chen, Xuzong
name: Zhou, Xiaoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With topologcial semimetal developing, semimetal with nodal-line ring comes into people's vision as a powerful candidate for practical application of topological devices. We propose a method using ultracold atoms in two-dimensional amplitude-shaken bipartite hexagonal optical lattice to simulate nodal-line semimetal, which can be achieved in experiment by attaching one triangular optical lattice to a hexangonal optical lattice and periodically modulating the intensity and position of the triangular lattice. By amplitude shaking, a time-reversal-symmetry-unstable mode is introduced into the bipartite optical lattice, and then the nodal-line semimetal is gotten by adjusting the proportion of such mode and the trivial mode of hexagonal lattice. Through calculating the energy spectrum of effective Hamiltonian, the transformation from Dirac semimetal to nodal-line semimetal in pace with changing shaking parameters is observed. We also study the change of Berry curvature and Berry phase in the transformation, which provides guidance on measuring the transformation in experiment. By analyzing the symmetry of the system, the emergence of the time-reversal-symmetry-unstable mode is researched. This proposal provides a way to research the pure nodal-line semimetal without the influence of other bands, which may contribute to the study of those unique features of surface states and bulk states of nodal-line semimetal.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
An Effective Reduction of Critical Current for Current-Induced Magnetization Switching by a Ru Layer Insertion in an Exchange-Biased Spin-Valve
Creators: name: Jiang, Y.
name: Abe, S.
name: Ochiai, T.
name: Nozaki, T.
name: Hirohata, A.
name: Tezuka, N.
name: Inomata, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been predicted that a spin-polarized electrical current perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) directly flowing through a magnetic element can induce magnetization switching through spin-momentum transfer. In this letter, the first observation of current-induced magnetization switching (CIMS) in exchange-biased spin-valves (ESPVs) at room temperature is reported. The ESPVs show the CIMS behavior under a sweeping dc current with a very high critical current density. It is demonstrated that a thin Ruthenium (Ru) layer inserted between a free layer and a top electrode effectively reduces the critical current densities for the CIMS. An "inverse" CIMS behavior is also observed when the thickness of the free layer increases.
description: 15 pages with figures
Dynamical evolution of fractal structures in star-forming regions
Creators: name: Daffern-Powell, Emma C.
name: Parker, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Q-parameter is used extensively to quantify the spatial distributions of stars and gas in star-forming regions as well as older clusters and associations. It quantifies the amount of structure using the ratio of the average length of a minimum spanning tree, mbar, to the average length within the complete graph, sbar. The interpretation of the Q-parameter often relies on comparing observed values of Q, mbar and sbar to idealised synthetic geometries, where there is little or no match between the observed star-forming regions and the synthetic regions. We measure Q, mbar, and sbar over 10 Myr in N-body simulations which are compared to IC 348, NGC 1333, and the ONC. For each star-forming region we set up simulations that approximate their initial conditions for a combination of different virial rations and fractal dimensions. We find that dynamical evolution of idealised fractal geometries can account for the observed Q, mbar, and sbar values in nearby star-forming regions. In general, an initially fractal star-forming region will tend to evolve to become more smooth and centrally concentrated. However, we show that initial conditions, as well as where the edge of the region is defined, can cause significant differences in the path that a star-forming region takes across the mbar-sbar plot as it evolves. We caution that the observed Q-parameter should not be directly compared to idealised geometries. Instead, it should be used to determine the degree to which a star-forming region is either spatially substructured or smooth and centrally concentrated.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, acccepted for publication in MNRAS
Until it rained
Creators: name: Zheng, Lingyue
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This short story collection explores the intersectionality and alternative interpretation of race, sexuality, class, and identity among underrepresented communities. Each story ponders on the relation of nationality and individual identity, revealing the nuanced emotional ties between them even when their divergent interests persuade individuals to perilously break from the bond. The collection also discusses the intricacy between identity migration and society assimilation against the backdrop of transformative cultural and political changes, searching for alternative interpretation of the concept of time and societal progression. These short stories depict the marginal of the marginal, with an observing, interrogating but no judging, fun but thoughtful undertone.
Until it rained
Creators: name: Zheng, Lingyue
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: This short story collection explores the intersectionality and alternative interpretation of race, sexuality, class, and identity among underrepresented communities. Each story ponders on the relation of nationality and individual identity, revealing the nuanced emotional ties between them even when their divergent interests persuade individuals to perilously break from the bond. The collection also discusses the intricacy between identity migration and society assimilation against the backdrop of transformative cultural and political changes, searching for alternative interpretation of the concept of time and societal progression. These short stories depict the marginal of the marginal, with an observing, interrogating but no judging, fun but thoughtful undertone.
Sweden’s mystery illness: resignation syndrome. An analysis of the impact on human rights of asylum-seeking children in Sweden
Creators: name: Schoina, Stavroula
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024
Subjects: asylum seekers
refugees
children
mental health
children's rights
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Sweden
psychological aspects

description: Second semester University: University of Cyprus
description: This thesis examines the phenomenon of Resignation Syndrome (Uppgivenhetssyndrom) affecting asylum- seeking children in Sweden, focusing on understanding its prevalence manifestations, and impacts in accordance with the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC). This syndrome is characterized by a complete disconnection from life, often leading to a catatonic state. Refugee children who have experienced traumatic events in their home countries and face uncertainty in Sweden are disproportionately affected by this syndrome. The study highlights the urgent need to address the mental health needs of asylum- seeking children, which are often overlooked on discussions about the health and well- being of refugees. It is also emphasizing the importance of ensuring the right and dignity of all children, especially those suffering from Resignation Syndrome. By proposing specific prevention and intervention strategies based on the principles of the CRC, this research aims to contribute to the development of more comprehensive and rights- oriented approaches to supporting asylum- seeking children in Sweden and beyond. The structure of the thesis includes an overview of the asylum process and children’s rights under the CRC, analysis of Resignation Syndrome, and an examination of the legal and ethical dimensions of the issue. The conclusion presents finding and recommendations for future research and actions. This study is significant as it highlights the need for a swift asylum process and the provision of psychological support to children arriving in Sweden with their families. It recommends immediate education of parents about the syndrome, access to family counselors and psychologists, and the creation of campaigns and activities in schools to reduce children’s anxiety.
A MICRO LEVEL STUDY OF EXPECTATIONS FORMATION AT GLOBAL SYSTEMICALLY IMPORTANT BANKS
Creators: name: Malek, Hoossam Shawki
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This work contributes to the growing literature on individual level expectations formation by leveraging a novel dataset of cash and liquidity projections from Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs) in a forecast evaluation and study of firm level rationality. Methodologies ranging from Mincer and Zarnowitz (1969), Elliot, Komunjer, and Timmermann (2008) and Bordalo, Gennaioli, Ma, and Shleifer (2020) test for rationality, asymmetric preferences in loss functions, and over or under reaction to news. Results indicate that the rejections of rationality may be partly driven by classical assumptions of symmetric loss, with many entities demonstrating an aversion to overestimating their ending day positions, or a preference towards “conservativeness.” Upon accounting for asymmetric preferences, the rejection rates moderate.
On the Excess Dispersion in the Polarization Position Angle of Pulsar Radio Emission
Creators: name: McKinnon, Mark M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarization position angles (PA) of pulsar radio emission occupy a distribution that can be much wider than what is expected from the average linear polarization and the off-pulse instrumental noise. Contrary to our limited understanding of the emission mechanism, the excess dispersion in PA implies that pulsar PAs vary in a random fashion. An eigenvalue analysis of the measured Stokes parameters is developed to determine the origin of the excess PA dispersion. The analysis is applied to sensitive, well-calibrated polarization observations of PSR B1929+10 and PSR B2020+28. The analysis clarifies the origin of polarization fluctuations in the emission and reveals that the excess PA dispersion is caused by the isotropic inflation of the data point cluster formed by the measured Stokes parameters. The inflation of the cluster is not consistent with random fluctuations in PA, as might be expected from random changes in the orientation of the magnetic field lines in the emission region or from stochastic Faraday rotation in either the pulsar magnetosphere or the interstellar medium. The inflation of the cluster, and thus the excess PA dispersion, is attributed to randomly polarized radiation in the received pulsar signal. The analysis also indicates that orthogonal polarization modes (OPM) occur where the radio emission is heavily modulated. In fact, OPM may only occur where the modulation index exceeds a critical value of about 0.3.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Combinatorial and computational aspects of multiple weighted voting games
Creators: name: Aziz, Haris
name: Paterson, Mike
name: Leech, Dennis
name: Aziz, Haris
name: Paterson, Mike
name: Leech, Dennis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: multi-agent systems
subject: multiple weighted voting games
subject: game theory
subject: algorithms and complexity
subject: voting power

description: Weighted voting games are ubiquitous mathematical models which are used in economics, political science, neuroscience, threshold logic, reliability theory and distributed systems. They model situations where agents with variable voting weight vote in favour of or against a decision. A coalition of agents is winning if and only if the sum of weights of the coalition exceeds or equals a specified quota. We provide a mathematical and computational characterization of multiple weighted voting games which are an extension of weighted voting games1 . We analyse the structure of multiple weighted voting games and some of their combinatorial properties especially with respect to dictatorship, veto power, dummy players and Banzhaf indices. An illustrative Mathematica program to compute voting power properties of multiple weighted voting games is also provided.
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators-September, 2023 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2024

description: U.S. economy (3); personal financial situation (1); buying a house (6); home prices (7); getting a home mortgage (2); owning primary property (3); current mortgages (4); current type of home (2); moving (4); refinancing mortgages (4); stressful aspects of /renting home (10); extreme weather damage on home (10); insurance (4); concerns about losing job (1); household income (1).
Considering Xenobiotics as Risk Factors for Postpartum Depression: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Creators: name: Mitchell, Hailey A
name: Edali, Sarah
name: Konkle, Anne TM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Postpartum depression is a serious mental health condition with onset of symptoms appearing anytime within the first four months after delivery (e.g. irritability, severe sadness, profound feelings of hopelessness, etc.). Environmental toxicants are synthetic (i.e. manufactured) or naturally found chemicals that are not produced by organisms as a result of cellular metabolism (e.g. tobacco smoke, pesticides, etc.). There is limited consideration for how exposure to environmental toxicants/xenobiotics can create adverse psychological health effects, specifically postpartum depression. The purpose of this systematic review was to determine if the literature supports a link between exposure to environmental toxicants/xenobiotics during the prenatal/perinatal period and postpartum depression and if so, to identify whether there are specific classes of xenobiotics that provide a higher risk for postpartum depression. Several databases were used to search the online literature, with the following inclusion criteria: articles published in English, publication years between 1995-2018, and with women of reproductive age (15-49 years old). The article selection process comprised of screening each article by title/abstract, followed by screening those articles based on full-text. Six categories of xenobiotics were identified among the thirty included articles. Active/passive smoke exposure was largely found to increase the risk of developing postpartum depression; dietary supplements provided mixed results; antidepressants demonstrated preventative effects; particulate air pollution was found to be associated with postpartum depression; oral contraceptives (DMPA) exhibited an increase in postpartum depressive symptoms; and organochlorine pesticides had no associative risk. Quality assessments were performed for all of the included articles, with the majority being assessed as satisfactory. This systematic review presents as a foundation for encouraging future research to investigate the link between environment and mental health, in order to attain a greater perspective.
Surface anisotropy in nanomagnets: transverse or Néel ?
Creators: name: Kachkachi, H.
name: Mahboub, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through the hysteresis loop and magnetization spatial distribution we study and compare two models for surface anisotropy in nanomagnets: a model with transverse anisotropy axes and Néel's model. While surface anisotropy in the transverse model induces several jumps in the hysteresis loop because of the cluster-wise switching of spins, in the Néel model the jumps correspond to successive {\it coherent partial rotations} of the whole bunch of spins. These calculations together with experimental results suggest that Néel's model for surface anisotropy is more appropriate.
description: 12 pages, 6 eps figures
Additional file 3 of Relationships between nurse managers’ work activities, nurses’ job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and medication errors at the unit level: a correlational study
Creators: name: Nurmeksela, Anu
name: Mikkonen, Santtu
name: Kinnunen, Juha
name: Kvist, Tarja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Subscales and items of Revised Humane Caring Scale (RHCS).
Social inertia in collaboration networks
Creators: name: Ramasco, Jose J.
name: Morris, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work is a study of the properties of collaboration networks employing the formalism of weighted graphs to represent their one-mode projection. The weight of the edges is directly the number of times that a partnership has been repeated. This representation allows us to define the concept of "social inertia" that measures the tendency of authors to keep on collaborating with previous partners. We use a collection of empirical datasets to analyze several aspects of the social inertia: 1) its probability distribution, 2) its correlation with other properties, and 3) the correlations of the inertia between neighbors in the network. We also contrast these empirical results with the predictions of a recently proposed theoretical model for the growth of collaboration networks.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
THE DOUBLE MAJORITY VOTING RULE OF THE EU REFORM TREATY AS A DEMOCRATIC IDEAL FOR AN ENLARGING UNION: AN APPRAISAL USING VOTING POWER ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Leech, Dennis
name: Leech, Dennis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: European Union
subject: Reform Treaty
subject: Nice Treaty
subject: Qualified Majority Voting
subject: Power Indices

description: The Double Majority rule in the Treaty is claimed to be simpler, more transparent and more democratic than the existing rule. We examine these questions against the democratic ideal that the votes of all citizens in whatever member country should be of equal value using voting power analysis considering possible future enlargements involving candidate countries and then to a number of hypothetical future enlargements. We find the Double Majority rule to fails to measure up to the democratic ideal in all cases. We find the Jagiellonian compromise to be very close to this ideal.
Limit distribution of a time-dependent quantum walk on the half line
Creators: name: Machida, Takuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We focus on a 2-period time-dependent quantum walk on the half line in this paper. The quantum walker launches at the edge of the half line in a localized superposition state and its time evolution is carried out with two unitary operations which are alternately cast to the quantum walk. As a result, long-time limit finding probabilities of the quantum walk turn to be determined by either one of the two operations, but not both. More interestingly, the limit finding probabilities are independent from the localized initial state. We will approach the appreciated features via a quantum walk on the line which is able to reproduce the time-dependent walk on the half line.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures
A MICRO LEVEL STUDY OF EXPECTATIONS FORMATION AT GLOBAL SYSTEMICALLY IMPORTANT BANKS
Creators: name: Malek, Hoossam Shawki
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This work contributes to the growing literature on individual level expectations formation by leveraging a novel dataset of cash and liquidity projections from Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs) in a forecast evaluation and study of firm level rationality. Methodologies ranging from Mincer and Zarnowitz (1969), Elliot, Komunjer, and Timmermann (2008) and Bordalo, Gennaioli, Ma, and Shleifer (2020) test for rationality, asymmetric preferences in loss functions, and over or under reaction to news. Results indicate that the rejections of rationality may be partly driven by classical assumptions of symmetric loss, with many entities demonstrating an aversion to overestimating their ending day positions, or a preference towards “conservativeness.” Upon accounting for asymmetric preferences, the rejection rates moderate.
Growing for the future : UBC Botanical Garden redevelopment
Creators: name: Brownlee, Devon
name: Kumar, Pritisha
name: Luk, Ike
name: McCutcheon, Steve
name: Ngai, Max
name: Shen, Simon
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Group Twelve Consulting was tasked with creating a conceptual redevelopment plan for the UBC Botanical Garden. Design concepts were developed with the objective of improving the visibility and presence of UBC Botanical Garden on UBC campus and within the surrounding communities; improving accessibility to the Garden; increasing the academic, research and recreational potential of the Garden and enhancing the overall visitor experience through carefully considered and evaluated developments. The conceptual redevelopment design proposed by Group Twelve Consulting Ltd. consists of multiple stand-alone elements. The primary element is a new two floor administrative building to be constructed in the location of the current administrative building and gift shop. This proposed building will provide the botanical garden with an attractive multi-functioning space and café, making it a desirable destination on campus and thus attract a broader demographic of visitors. This design incorporates a covered bicycle parking and storage area to improve accessibility of the garden. The secondary element is a timber tree house building that will be located adjacent to the existing food garden. This building is intended to provide a unique aesthetic to draw visitors into the garden, and to provide additional indoor space to accommodate future events in the planned cooking demonstration area. Tertiary elements consist of a pedestrian overpass across SW Marine Drive at the main entrance, and an expansion of the existing parking lot. The pedestrian overpass will improve the safety of the street crossing, loop visitor flow, and serve as advertisement space for the garden. The parking lot expansion will increase the overall parking capacity to accommodate special events and future increases in garden visitors. Due to funding constraints, a staged project implementation plan is proposed. It is recommended that redevelopment begin with the tree house, followed by either the parking lot expansion or pedestrian overpass. The new administration building should be implemented last. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Controlling ultracold atoms in multi-band optical lattices for simulation of Kondo physics
Creators: name: Duan, L. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that ultracold atoms can be controlled in multi-band optical lattices through spatially periodic Raman pulses for investigation of a class of strongly correlated physics related to the Kondo problem. The underlying dynamics of this system is described by a spin-dependent fermionic or bosonic Kondo-Hubbard lattice model even if we have only spin-independent atomic collision interaction. We solve the bosonic Kondo-Hubbard lattice model through a mean-field approximation, and the result shows a clear phase transition from the ferromagnetic superfluid to the Kondo-signet insulator at the integer filling.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Can Carbon Offset Trading Promote Economic Development in Forest-Dependent and First Nations Communities?
Creators: name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: carbon accounting
subject: climate mitigation and forestry
subject: forest-dependent rural communities

description: Forest-dependent, rural communities often experience declining populations and prosperity because technological changes related to harvesting, transportation and processing of wood fiber occur more rapidly than technical improvements in fiber availability – in forest growth. How then can communities where forest resources are the primary economic driver increase wealth that might then be used for economic development? Answers to this question are explored by examining the potential of different management regimes to create greater employment and wealth, particularly management options that include carbon values. Our application is to an interior forest region of British Columbia, the province where First Nations control the most timber supply and the region that produces the greatest volume and value of lumber for export. We examine the trade-offs between revenue as measured by net present value, employment and carbon in forest ecosystems, where the latter is a proxy for the ecological health of the forest. We conclude from the analysis that no management strategy is able to satisfy all of the technical, environmental and social/cultural constraints and, at the same time, offer forest-based economic development that will prevent the decline of rural communities. Nonetheless, given knowledge of tradeoffs, there are management options that can improve upon current employment, wealth and/or ecological health of the forest.
BY DEMONS BE DRIVEN
Creators: name: Ruble, Victor
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: During a string of vicious attacks on religious sites around the world, the True Cross of Christ is stolen, and the Holy See has come to Dr. Noah Rosado for help. Noah is a renowned demonologist and a former Marine. Ten years ago, he was medically discharged after a raid on an insurgent stronghold met an unknown, and unbelievable enemy. He was nearly killed and what he remembers from the engagement defies explanation. The medical community has told him that the images in his mind are created by the brain as a way of defending itself from an extraordinarily traumatic situation. After years of reconciling with this, the Vatican is now asking Noah to help their direct-action team – the Knights of the Covenant – confront the very evil forces that he was told were just figments of his mind dealing with trauma. Noah and the Knights of the Covenant will come to find that these attacks are part of plan beyond anything that Noah’s mind could have concocted and whose final goal is to see a prophecy fulfilled and all of creation potentially undone.
Class of solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with ordering parameter
Creators: name: Vieira, H. S.
name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: Muniz, C. R.
name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Christiansen, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q05, 83C45, 83C57, 83C75

description: In this letter, we discuss the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with an ordering parameter in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. The solutions when the universe was very small and at the end of the expansion are obtained in terms of Bessel and Heun functions, respectively. We also obtain a boundary condition which should be satisfied by the ordering parameter, namely, $0 \leq p \leq 2$. We investigate the minimum value of the scale factor with respect to the maximum value of the probability density.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION UNDER PRICE UNCERTAINTY
Creators: name: Kim, Tae-Kyun
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Hallam, J. Arne
name: Kim, Tae-Kyun
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Hallam, J. Arne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The paper examines the impact of changes in the variance of output prices on the bias and intrafirm rate of diffusion of technical change. The results indicate that a reduction in the variance of output prices will increase the rate of adoption and intrafirm speed of diffusion of yield-increasing technologies. The opposite is true for cost-reducing technologies.
Experimental Study on the Aerodynamic Sealing of Air Curtains
Creators: name: Viegas, Joao Carlos
name: Oliveira, Fernando
name: Aelenei, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the air quality is of the utmost importance in today buildings. Vertical air curtains are often used to separate two different climatic zones with a view to reduce heat transfer. In fact, this research work proposes an air curtain aimed to ensure a proper separation between two zones, a clean one and a contaminated one. The methodology of this research includes: (i) small-scale tests on water models to ensure that the contamination does not pass through the air curtain, and (ii) an analytical development integrating the main physical characteristics of plane jets. In the solution developed, the airflow is extracted from the contaminated compartment to reduce the curtain airflow rejected to the exterior of the compartment. In this research work, it was possible to determine the minimum exhaust flow necessary to ensure the aerodynamic sealing of the air curtain. This article addresses the methodology used to perform the small-scale water tests and the corresponding results.
Time Dependence of Hydrogen Induced Cracking of X70 Pipeline Steel under Severe and Mild Sour Service Conditions using Ultrasonic Analysis
Creators: Gawor, S.
Wiskel, J.B.
Ivey, D.G.
Liu, J.
Henein, H.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2020

A standard NACE hydrogen induced crack test was used to evaluate the resistance of two compositions of X70 steel (X70-X (Ca/S ratio of 2.5) and X70-B (Ca/S ratio of <0.5)) under severe (pH = 2.7 and 100% H2S) and mild (pH = 5.5 and 100% H2S) sour service conditions. An ultrasonic technique was developed to quantify the severity of hydrogen cracking in both steels as a function of test conditions, steel type and time. In this procedure, a series of local ultrasonic measurements was taken for each test sample to determine a local crack to backwall signal ratio (LCBR).  The LCBR values were integrated over the entire sample to give a global crack to backwall ratio (GCBR). A larger GCBR value corresponds to greater hydrogen cracking severity in the sample. Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and glancing angle X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the surface corrosion products that formed during testing. For severe sour service conditions, the GCBR value reached an asymptotic value of approximately 33% and 47% for X70-X (after 4 days) and X70-B (after 2 days) steels, respectively. For mild sour service conditions, no cracking was observed for testing of less than 16 days. After 32 days, X70-B showed a GCBR of approximately 18%. The onset of cracking of X70-X steel occurred between 32 and 64 days. Samples tested for 64 days showed a GCBR of 30% and 16% for X70-X and X70-B, respectively.

Glancing XRD measurements showed the presence of surface FeS on both steels tested under mild sour service. Quantitative XRD (QXRD) analysis was used to obtain the surface coverage of FeS as a function of test time.  EDX mapping confirmed the presence of a high sulfur content over a significant fraction of the surface. XRD measurements of X70-B steel under severe sour service after 8 days did not show a significant amount of FeS. The surface FeS is believed to alter hydrogen ingress into the steel, making it difficult to directly compare measured GCBR values obtained under mild and severe sour service.
Additional file 2 of Relationships between nurse managers’ work activities, nurses’ job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and medication errors at the unit level: a correlational study
Creators: name: Nurmeksela, Anu
name: Mikkonen, Santtu
name: Kinnunen, Juha
name: Kvist, Tarja
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Subscales and items of Kuopio University Job Satisfaction Scale (KUHJSS).
title: Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summary: None of this is inevitable - Issue 83, November 2023
Creators: name: Boykoff, Max
name: Katzung, Jennifer
name: Nacu-Schmidt, Ami
name: Pearman, Olivia
name: Fernández-Reyes, Rogelio
Publisher: name: University of Colorado Boulder
Year: 2024

description:         November media coverage of climate change or global warming in newspapers around the globe increased 21% from October 2023. However, coverage in November 2023 dropped 41% from November 2022 levels. This is largely attributed to attention paid in November 2022 to the United Nations (UN) climate negotiations (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt, while the UN climate negotiations in 2023 just began November 30 (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In November 2023, international wire services increased 30% from the previous month, while radio coverage went up 13% from October 2023. Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical regions around the world – from January 2004 through November 2023.
title: Media and Climate Change Observatory Monthly Summary: Monumental Challenges Remain - Issue 31, July 2019
Creators: name: Boykoff, Maxwell
name: Nacu-Schmidt, Ami
name: Katzung, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
Year: 2019

description: July media attention to climate change and global warming continued through ecological/meteorological, political, economic, scientific and cultural themes. Of note, New Zealand political developments contributed to a 31% increase in coverage from the previous month. Also, July Monsoon rains, floods and consequent landslides gripped India and contributed to a 5% increase in media coverage of climate change from June 2019 (along with an overall doubling of the amount of media coverage of climate change in India since April 2019). Meanwhile, July 2019 media coverage of climate change in Germany continued to rise like the mercury in the thermometer in continental Europe: it was up 9% from June and has been rising since April 2019. However, United States (US) television news coverage dropped 37% in July 2019, from the previous month’s numbers. CNN in particular dropped nearly 50%. Perhaps coverage of the ‘horse race’ for the Democratic nomination for US President displaced some attention in the finiteCNN news hole, despite the many new stories described below.
BY DEMONS BE DRIVEN
Creators: name: Ruble, Victor
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: During a string of vicious attacks on religious sites around the world, the True Cross of Christ is stolen, and the Holy See has come to Dr. Noah Rosado for help. Noah is a renowned demonologist and a former Marine. Ten years ago, he was medically discharged after a raid on an insurgent stronghold met an unknown, and unbelievable enemy. He was nearly killed and what he remembers from the engagement defies explanation. The medical community has told him that the images in his mind are created by the brain as a way of defending itself from an extraordinarily traumatic situation. After years of reconciling with this, the Vatican is now asking Noah to help their direct-action team – the Knights of the Covenant – confront the very evil forces that he was told were just figments of his mind dealing with trauma. Noah and the Knights of the Covenant will come to find that these attacks are part of plan beyond anything that Noah’s mind could have concocted and whose final goal is to see a prophecy fulfilled and all of creation potentially undone.
Vector Manifestation and Violation of Vector Dominance in Hot Matter
Creators: name: Harada, Masayasu
name: Sasaki, Chihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the details of the calculation of the hadronic thermal corrections to the two-point functions in the effective field theory of QCD for pions and vector mesons based on the hidden local symmetry (HLS) in hot matter using the background field gauge. We study the temperature dependence of the pion velocity in the low temperature region determined from the hadronic thermal corrections, and show that, due to the presence of the dynamical vector meson, the pion velocity is smaller than the speed of the light already at one-loop level, in contrast to the result obtained in the ordinary chiral perturbation theory including only the pion at one-loop. Including the intrinsic temperature dependences of the parameters of the HLS Lagrangian determined from the underlying QCD through the Wilsonian matching, we show how the vector manifestation (VM), in which the massless vector meson becomes the chiral partner of pion, is realized at the critical temperature. We present a new prediction of the VM on the direct photon-$π$-$π$ coupling which measures the validity of the vector dominance (VD) of the electromagnetic form factor of the pion: We find that the VD is largely violated at the critical temperature, which indicates that the assumption of the VD made in several analyses on the dilepton spectra in hot matter may need to be weakened for consistently including the effect of the dropping mass of the vector meson.
description: 41 pages, 4 figures; This is the final version accepted in Nucl. Phys. A
Additional file 1 of Plant-based oral care product exhibits antibacterial effects on different stages of oral multispecies biofilm development in vitro
Creators: name: Kommerein, Nadine
name: Weigel, Almut Johanna
name: Stiesch, Meike
name: Doll, Katharina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Reaction components for qRT-PCR. Table S2. Primer pairs used in qRT-PCR to classify the different bacterial species. Table S3. Thermal cycler conditions for qRT-PCR. Table S4. Genome sizes, consulted accession numbers and the calculated genome weight used for individual cell count determination.