cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An explorative study of Malaysian television content in the mobile environment
Creators: name: Che Hassan, Abdul Hadi
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis discusses television’s online content distribution on mobile platforms in Malaysia. It focuses on broadcast strategy of local television stations for mobile platforms; and comprehensively studies the development of regulatory policies in Malaysia during the past decade. It also explores the challenges faced by the local television industry, such as limited media freedom and fierce competition from global online content providers. The thesis aims to understand the strategies that have developed to meet demand for online content on mobile platforms within the current climate of Malaysian broadcasting. This thesis examines television content distribution strategies by analysing twenty-four one-to-one, open-ended interviews and two focus groups with key personnel in the industry. These personnel consist of operational teams in the main television stations, the heads of relevant government agencies, and content creators in Malaysia. All data collection sessions were conducted and transcribed in Malay before being translated into English. The analysis reveals the emergence of three major themes: the inconsistent development of Malaysia’s television industry, despite global advancements in media technology; a monopoly on sports content due to the ownership structure of Malaysian media; and the disorganised management of regulatory policy for online content in the Malaysian media landscape. The thesis concludes by offering significant insights on, and suggested improvements to, policies surrounding online content distribution on mobile platforms and best practice for sourcing state of the art television content. It argues that the establishment of an independent media gatekeeper is essential for the proper regulation of Malaysian media. Finally, it emphasises that there is an urgent need for the Malaysian government to establish competitive industry guidelines for a broad range of online content; policy which will benefit local television stations in the long run.
Policy Brief: Degradação das florestas amazônicas
Creators: name: Barlow, Jos
name: Ferreira, Joice
name: Berenguer, Erika
name: Alencar, Ane
name: Célia Guimarães Vieira, Ima
name: macedo, marcia
name: Dutra, Debora
name: Anderson, Liana
name: Aragao, Luiz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
Environmental management
Conservation and biodiversity

description: Esse Policy Brief é fruto do workshop “Degradação das florestas amazônicas: um diálogo entre ciência e sociedade em busca de soluções” ocorrido entre 14 e 15 de março de 2023 em Belém-Pará, e financiado pelo CNPq, Prevfogo e UKRI.
The Byrd Amendment Is WTO-Illegal: But We Must Kill the Byrd with the Right Stone
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Mavroidis, Petros C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Public policy (Law)
Economics

description: On 16 January 2003, the WTO Appellate Body issued its report on United States – Continued Dumping And Subsidy Offset Act Of 2000 (WTO Doc. WT/DS217 and 234/AB/R). In this report, the Appellate Body condemned the so-called US Byrd Amendment by finding that it was inconsistent with the US obligations under the WTO Agreements on Antidumping (AD) and Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM).
Stockholm School Special Lecture on My Forthcoming Book: "Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Trading Agreements Are Undermining Free Trade"
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics

description: An outline of a lecture on the forthcoming book "Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Trading Agreements are Undermining Free Trade."
Storage Size Determination for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems
Creators: name: Ru, Yu
name: Kleissl, Jan
name: Martinez, Sonia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we study the problem of determining the size of battery storage used in grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. In our setting, electricity is generated from PV and is used to supply the demand from loads. Excess electricity generated from the PV can be stored in a battery to be used later on, and electricity must be purchased from the electric grid if the PV generation and battery discharging cannot meet the demand. Due to the time-of-use electricity pricing, electricity can also be purchased from the grid when the price is low, and be sold back to the grid when the price is high. The objective is to minimize the cost associated with purchasing from (or selling back to) the electric grid and the battery capacity loss while at the same time satisfying the load and reducing the peak electricity purchase from the grid. Essentially, the objective function depends on the chosen battery size. We want to find a unique critical value (denoted as $C_{ref}^c$) of the battery size such that the total cost remains the same if the battery size is larger than or equal to $C_{ref}^c$, and the cost is strictly larger if the battery size is smaller than $C_{ref}^c$. We obtain a criterion for evaluating the economic value of batteries compared to purchasing electricity from the grid, propose lower and upper bounds on $C_{ref}^c$, and introduce an efficient algorithm for calculating its value; these results are validated via simulations.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, June 2011; Jan 2012 (revision)
Broadband feed antenna design
Creators: name: Johnson, André Mark Allan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis describes the development of a log-periodic waveguide feed antenna from concept to design and finally to prototyping and testing. An electromagnetic simulator (CST) was used to evaluate different design concepts and a design based on a nested coaxial waveguide structure was selected. A design was developed that included a common excitation structure for all the waveguides and an aperture matching structure that scales periodically with frequency. In the design, each waveguide has a bandwidth ratio of 2:1 and the total bandwidth of the design is 1 GHz to 8 GHz. A physical model was created using the SolidWorks design software and a prototype was manufactured and tested. Simulation results were in good agreement with the experimental results over the majority of the antenna's bandwidth. The antenna design had good farfield patterns across most of the antenna's bandwidth with frequency-specific farfield issues. The return loss of the antenna varied greatly with frequency, being greater than 2 dB across the entire bandwidth of the antenna and greater than 6 dB for the majority of the bandwidth of the antenna. There were significant difficulties in achieving a good return loss at the aperture which limited the return loss of the antenna. This work demonstrates the potential of employing a nested coaxial waveguide structure for wideband feed applications.
Additional file 3 of Comparison of the efficacy of hematopoietic stem cell mobilization regimens: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of preclinical studies
Creators: name: Luo, Chengxin
name: Wang, Li
name: Wu, Guixian
name: Huang, Xiangtao
name: Zhang, Yali
name: Ma, Yanni
name: Xie, Mingling
name: Sun, Yanni
name: Huang, Yarui
name: Huang, Zhen
name: Song, Qiuyue
name: Li, Hui
name: Hou, Yu
name: Li, Xi
name: Xu, Shuangnian
name: Chen, Jieping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3. Results about the mobilization of different LSK subsets.
Trade and Poverty in the Poor Countries
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Srinivasan, T. N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Economics

description: While freer trade, or “openness” in trade, is now widely regarded as economically benign, in the sense that it increases the size of the pie, the recent anti-globalization critics have suggested that it is socially malign on several dimensions, among them the question of poverty. Their contention is that trade accentuates not ameliorates, deepens not diminishes, poverty in both the rich and the poor countries. The theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of freer trade on poverty in the rich and in the poor countries is not symmetric, of course. We focus here therefore only on the latter. But in doing so, we distinguish between two different strands of argumentation: static and dynamic. In the former case, we treat the resources and technology to be given and then ask: how does freer trade affect poverty in this static framework. In the latter case, we admit growth effects that impact on the state of poverty over time.
An epidemic process mediated by a decaying diffusing signal
Creators: name: Faria, Fernando P.
name: Dickman, Ronald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a stochastic epidemic model consisting of elements (organisms in a community or cells in tissue) with fixed positions, in which damage or disease is transmitted by diffusing agents ("signals") emitted by infected individuals. The signals decay as well as diffuse; since they are assumed to be produced in large numbers, the signal concentration is treated deterministically. The model, which includes four cellular states (susceptible, transformed, depleted, and removed), admits various interpretations: spread of an infection or infectious disease, or of damage in a tissue in which injured cells may themselves provoke further damage, and as a description of the so-called radiation-induced bystander effect, in which the signals are molecules capable of inducing cell damage and/or death in unirradiated cells. The model exhibits a continuous phase transition between spreading and nonspreading phases. We formulate two mean-field theory (MFT) descriptions of the model, one of which ignores correlations between the cellular state and the signal concentration, and another that treats such correlations in an approximate manner. Monte Carlo simulations of the spread of infection on the square lattice yield values for the critical exponents and the fractal dimension consistent with the dynamic percolation universality class.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
Decoding CUDA Binary - File Format
Creators: name: Hayes, Ari B.
name: Hua, Fei
name: Huang, Jin
name: Chen, Yanhao
name: Zhang, Eddy Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This document is intended as an appendix for our paper "Decoding CUDA Binary", published in CGO'19 (International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization). It describes he file format used by CUDA executables.
Collisional rates for the inelastic Maxwell model: application to the divergence of anisotropic high-order velocity moments in the homogeneous cooling state
Creators: name: Santos, Andrés
name: Garzó, Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collisional rates associated with the isotropic velocity moments $$ and the anisotropic moments $$ and $$ are exactly derived in the case of the inelastic Maxwell model as functions of the exponent $r$, the coefficient of restitution $α$, and the dimensionality $d$. The results are applied to the evolution of the moments in the homogeneous free cooling state. It is found that, at a given value of $α$, not only the isotropic moments of a degree higher than a certain value diverge but also the anisotropic moments do. This implies that, while the scaled distribution function has been proven in the literature to converge to the isotropic self-similar solution in well-defined mathematical terms, nonzero initial anisotropic moments do not decay with time. On the other hand, our results show that the ratio between an anisotropic moment and the isotropic moment of the same degree tends to zero.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; v2: clarification of some mathematical statements and addition of 7 new references; v3: Published in "Special Issue: Isaac Goldhirsch - A Pioneer of Granular Matter Theory"
The Critiques of Free Trade: A Refutation
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics

description: My principal focus will be the critiques addressed to free trade in the developing countries, though I will survey the entire set of critiques briefly at the outset so that you get a clear idea of the landscape within which all of you have to operate if you accept at the end of my Lecture today the argument that freer trade is desirable for developing countries which, of course, constitute your constituency and clientele.
Decoding CUDA Binary - Decoded Instructions
Creators: name: Hayes, Ari B.
name: Hua, Fei
name: Huang, Jin
name: Chen, Yanhao
name: Zhang, Eddy Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This document is intended as an appendix for our paper "Decoding CUDA Binary", published in CGO'19 (International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization). It describes instruction encodings for multiple CUDA architectures.
The spatial and velocity bias of linear density peaks and proto-haloes in the Lambda cold dark matter cosmology
Creators: name: Elia, Anna
name: Ludlow, Aaron D.
name: Porciani, Cristiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high resolution N-body simulations to investigate the Lagrangian bias of cold dark matter haloes within the LCDM cosmology. Our analysis focuses on "proto-haloes", which we identify in the simulation initial conditions with the subsets of particles belonging to individual redshift-zero haloes. We then calculate the number-density and velocity-divergence fields of proto-haloes and estimate their auto spectral densities. We also measure the corresponding cross spectral densities with the linear matter distribution. We use our results to test a Lagrangian-bias model presented by Desjacques and Sheth which is based on the assumption that haloes form out of local density maxima of a specific height. Our comparison validates the predicted functional form for the scale-dependence of the bias for both the density and velocity fields. We also show that the bias coefficients are accurately predicted for the velocity divergence. On the contrary, the theoretical values for the density bias parameters do not accurately match the numerical results as a function of halo mass. This is likely due to the simplistic assumptions that relate virialized haloes to density peaks of a given height in the model. We also detect appreciable stochasticity for the Lagrangian density bias, even on very large scales. These are not included in the model at leading order but correspond to higher order corrections.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Matches version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mediated Film Tourists’ Experiences: Navigating Anne with an E-inspired Travelogues on Social Media
Creators: name: Jeong, Hanseul
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Film tourism
subject: Tourist gaze
subject: Social media
subject: Anne of Green Gables
subject: Anne with an E
subject: Prince Edward Island
subject: Media fandom
subject: Cinema
subject: Mass Communications

description: This thesis explores film tourists’ experiences associated with a popular Canadian TV series, Anne with an E (2017-2019). Situating Anne with an E in the narrative of L.M. Montgomery's original text, Anne of Green Gables, this research follows the trajectory of Anne-inspired trips to Prince Edward Island and Anne with an E filming locations. It draws upon Urry and Larsen’s arguments (2011) on “tourist gaze” to understand the tourists’ practices in actual places (film locations) and virtual places (online). Within this framework, this research focuses on film tourists’ experiences to illuminate their performative and embodied practices. Visual and social features are central to this study, so it pays particular attention to Anne with an E film tourists’ mediation on YouTube and Instagram due to their visual and social user experience. By analyzing the travel accounts from the platforms, this research demonstrates how film tourists reflected Anne-text in their embodied experiences, and how their mediation facilitated the fans’ re-engagement with the text.
Gorse in vitro digestion
Creators: name: Russell, Wendy
name: Bestwick, Charles
name: Duncan, Sylvia
name: Iyer, Ajay
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dietary protein
Invasive plants
Waste valorisation

description: Gorse leaf protein concentrates and Gorse protein depleted fractions were subjected to an in vitro digestion model to study the metabolites produced across the model.
Enhancement of Kelowna's biosolids to energy conversion with thermal pretreatments
Creators: name: Mehdizadeh, Seyedeh Neda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The potential of using biogas generated from organic waste as energy source is broadly recognized and anaerobic digestion has become a major part of modern wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Various pretreatment techniques have been recently developed to increase the quantity of biogas and reduce digester volume by enhancing the hydrolysis of waste material fed to the digesters. This study evaluates advanced anaerobic digestion incorporating thermal pretreatments (microwave at 2.45 GHz and conventional heating) as an alternative disposal method for the municipal biosolids generated by Kelowna WWTP (BC, Canada) which are currently composted. To be able to compare microwave irradiation with conventional heating under identical conditions (temperature/ heating rates), a custom pressure vessel was built for conventional heating. Biosolids heated from room temperature up to pretreatment temperatures of 80, 120 and 160oC at heating rate of (7.5oC/min) in the closed vessel microwave unit and the pressure sealed vessel. Both conventional heating and microwave pretreatments indicated that in a pretreatment range of 80-160oC, temperature was a statistically significant factor (p<0.05) for increasing solubilization of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biopolymers of the biosolids. Fourteen lab-scale semi-continuous digesters were operated for digestion of the biosolids to optimize energy (methane) output and sludge retention time (SRT) requirements of untreated (control) and thermally pretreated digesters. In general, relative (to control) organic removal efficiencies dramatically increased as SRT was shortened from 20 to 10 and 5 days, indicating that the control digesters were challenged as the organic loading was increased. Except the control digesters at the SRT of 5 days, all control and pretreated digesters achieved steady state at three SRTs, corresponding to volumetric organic loading rates of 1.74 to 6.96 g COD/L/d. At the SRT of 5 days, the controls stopped producing biogas after 20 days of operation while the pretreated digesters continued producing biogas. Energy analysis showed that all digesters had positive net energy productions except the digesters fed with sludge pretreated at 160oC and operated at SRT of 20 and 5 days. Digesters operated at 10 days SRT were more favorable, and they produced net energy of 1.3 - 9.6 (GJ/d/Tonne total solids added).
The Chinese Immigrant Women’s Experience of Autism Diagnosis
Creators: name: Ye, Qian Qian
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: autism
subject: immigrants
subject: Chinese
subject: Identity
subject: Diagnosis
subject: Experiences
subject: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
subject: Chinese immigrants
subject: Autism in women
subject: Canada
subject: critical race
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Ethnic and Racial Studies
subject: Mental Health
subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Psychology--Social

description: Understanding the diagnostic experiences of autistic Canadian Chinese immigrants is imperative for clinical practice in our diverse landscape as they are underrepresented in research and considered vulnerable to delayed care due to their socioeconomic background, immigration status, English proficiency, stigma, and marginalization. Individual experience of the diagnostic process of autistic Chinese immigrants can inform clinicians of how it affects diverse individuals. Data from semi-structured interviews with three Chinese immigrant female participants were analyzed via Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Results suggest clinician way-of-being and knowledge about autism were important. Participants preferred a clinician who explained the diagnosis using simple English, rather than jargon, and a use of visual aids was considered helpful. Participants developed a better sense of themselves through the diagnosis but wished there was more awareness about autism, education, and access to supports. Finally, all participants felt more supported when their families were included in the process. Incorporation of these considerations when providing an accessible diagnostic process is encouraged. The implications of these results could inform diagnostic practice guidelines.
President Obama and Trade Policy, Keynote Luncheon Speech at the World Affairs Councils Summit Meeting, Washington, DC, February 19, 2009
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: A call for a speech from President Obama on the virtues of free trade and the perils of protectionism. Subjects covered: trade, foreign investment, and immigration.
Additional file 4 of Comparison of the efficacy of hematopoietic stem cell mobilization regimens: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of preclinical studies
Creators: name: Luo, Chengxin
name: Wang, Li
name: Wu, Guixian
name: Huang, Xiangtao
name: Zhang, Yali
name: Ma, Yanni
name: Xie, Mingling
name: Sun, Yanni
name: Huang, Yarui
name: Huang, Zhen
name: Song, Qiuyue
name: Li, Hui
name: Hou, Yu
name: Li, Xi
name: Xu, Shuangnian
name: Chen, Jieping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table 4. Characteristics and results of in vivo transplantation experiments.
Analytic Coleman-De Luccia Geometries
Creators: name: Dong, Xi
name: Harlow, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the necessary and sufficient conditions for a Euclidean scale factor to be a solution of the Coleman-De Luccia equations for some analytic potential $V(ϕ)$, with a Lorentzian continuation describing the growth of a bubble of lower-energy vacuum surrounded by higher-energy vacuum. We then give a set of explicit examples that satisfy the conditions and thus are closed-form analytic examples of Coleman-De Luccia geometries.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures; (v3) removed a footnote, other minor corrections, version published in JCAP
Overview of Issues
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics

description: It is widely believed that skilled immigrants create less assimilation problems and are more desirable in modern knowledge-based economies than unskilled immigrants. Whereas unskilled workers migrating on a permanent basis into major countries of immigration (unlike the temporary importation of workers legally under the gastarbeiter  programs of postwar Europe or the Bracero program of the United States for agricultural workers) are typically entering illegally, or have entered legally and stayed on illegally, the entry of skilled workers therefore has been through legal mechanisms. Equally, international migration of the skilled from the developing to the developed countries is increasingly a feature of the legal-immigration systems of many developed countries. The resulting focus on skilled migration raises a host of questions, for both “receiving” and “sending” countries, many of which are addressed in this volume. This overview provides a systematic, if brief, look at the different contributions in the volume and the important insights they provide on the phenomenon, its prospects, possibilities and problems.
Spintronics-based mesoscopic heat engine
Creators: name: Atalaya, J.
name: Gorelik, L. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a nanowire suspended on two spin-polarized leads and subject to a nonuniform magnetic field. We show that in such a system a temperature drop between leads can significantly affect the nanowire dynamics. In particular, it is demonstrated that under certain conditions the stationary distribution of the mechanical subsystem has Boltzmann form with effective temperature which is smaller than the temperature of the "cold" lead; this seems rather counterintuitive. We also find that the change of the direction of the temperature gradient results in generation of mechanical vibrations rather than heating of the mechanical subsystem.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Experimental study of the delayed threshold phenomenon in a semiconductor laser
Creators: name: Amili, Abdelkrim El
name: Gredat, Grégory
name: Alouini, Mehdi
name: Sagnes, Isabelle
name: Bretenaker, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experimental study of the delayed threshold phenomenon in a Vertical Extended Cavity Semiconductor Emitting Laser is carried out. Under modulation of the pump power, the laser intensity exhibits a hysteresis behavior in the vicinity of the threshold. The temporal width of this hysteresis is measured as a function of the modulation frequency, and is proved to follow the predicted scaling law. A model based on the rate equations is derived and used to analyze the experimental observations. A frequency variation of the laser around the delayed threshold and induced by the phase-amplitude coupling is predicted and estimated.
Cholestatic liver disease: Role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor
Creators: name: Mathews, Alexander
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that plays a key role in immune regulation and has been shown to be dysregulated in inflammatory disease. Cholestatic liver disease due to bile duct ligation is associated with liver inflammation, disrupted bile flow, neuroinflammation, and the development of sickness behavior. Whether AhR activation in a murine model of cholestatic liver disease will attenuate inflammation and prevent the development of sickness behaviors has not been examined. This thesis tested the hypothesis that activation of the AhR will reduce neuroinflammation and sickness behavior in a murine model of cholestatic liver disease. The expression of AhR-controlled genes was examined using quantitative polymerase chain reaction in the liver, pre-frontal cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus of sham and bile duct ligated (BDL) mice treated with vehicle or the synthetic AhR agonist beta-naphthoflavone (BNF). Two endogenous AhR ligands indoxyl sulfate (I3S) and indole-3-carbinol (I3C) were also used. We found that the AhR was not activated by I3C and I3S, however BNF upregulated the expression of AhR-regulated genes in the liver and the brain. Acute administration of BNF to BDL mice was able to attenuate the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the liver and the brain, however, BNF was not able to ameliorate the underlying liver injury or sickness behavior development. The immunoreactivity of glial fibrillary acidic protein (astrocyte marker) and ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule 1 (microglia marker) increased in the CA1 region of the hippocampus of BDL mice. Using flow cytometry, we isolated astrocytes and microglia from the hippocampus and found that the proportion of microglia in the hippocampus of BDL mice increased compared to sham mice. However, the proportion of astrocytes in the hippocampus decreased in BDL mice compared to sham mice, with BNF administration causing a further decrease. Overall, this study showed that systemic BNF administration can activate the AhR both in the periphery and the brain and can attenuate inflammation, but not prevent the development of sickness behavior in this model of cholestatic liver disease.
Hydrodynamics of Core-Collapse Supernovae at the Transition to Explosion. I. Spherical Symmetry
Creators: name: Fernández, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transition to runaway expansion of an initially stalled core-collapse supernova shock. The neutrino luminosity, mass accretion rate, and neutrinospheric radius are all treated as free parameters. In spherical symmetry, this transition is mediated by a global non-adiabatic instability that develops on the advection time and reaches non-linear amplitude. Here we perform high-resolution, time-dependent hydrodynamic simulations of stalled supernova shocks with realistic microphysics to analyze this transition. We find that radial instability is a sufficient condition for runaway expansion if the neutrinospheric parameters do not vary with time and if heating by the accretion luminosity is neglected. For a given unstable mode, transition to runaway occurs when fluid in the gain region reaches positive specific energy. We find approximate instability criteria that accurately describe the behavior of the system over a wide region of parameter space. The threshold neutrino luminosities are in general different than the limiting value for a steady-state solution. We hypothesize that multidimensional explosions arise from the excitation of unstable large-scale modes of the turbulent background flow, at threshold luminosities that are lower than in the laminar case.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Added an appendix describing implementation and testing of a grid of variable spacing in FLASH3.2. Minor changes otherwise
title: The impact of social comparison processes on self-evaluation of performance, self-concept, and task interest
Creators: name: Bosch, Jannis
name: Wilbert, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: Development of self-concept and task interest has been shown to be affected by social comparison processes in a variety of cross-sectional studies. A potential explanation for these effects is an effect of social comparative performance feedback on an individual’s self-evaluation of performance, which in turn influences development of self-concept and task interest. There are, however, only few studies addressing this topic with experimental designs. This study was aimed at closing this research gap by experimentally manipulating social comparative performance. Feedback given was based on 2 × 2 experimental conditions: social position (high vs. low) and average performance of the reference group (high vs. low). Results show a strong effect of social position on self-evaluation of performance and smaller effects on self-concept and task interest.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 836
Search for scalar bottom quarks and third-generation leptoquarks in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV
Creators: name: Deterre, Cécile
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for pair production of scalar bottom quarks ($\tilde b_1$) and scalar third-generation leptoquarks ($LQ_3$) in a data sample of 5.2 $fb^{-1}$ collected by the D0 experiment at the Tevatron, the $p\bar{p}$ collider at Fermilab. We assume that sbottoms decay to a neutralino ($\tilde χ^0_1$) and a b quark, and we set 95% C.L. lower limits on their production in the ($m_{\tilde b_1}$, $m_{\tilde χ^0_1}$) mass plane such that $m_{\tilde b_1} > 247$ GeV for $m_{\tilde χ^0_1} = 0$ and $m_{\tilde χ^0_1} > 110$ GeV for $160 < m_{\tilde b_1} < 200$ GeV. The leptoquarks are assumed to decay to a tau neutrino and a b quark, and we set a 95% C.L. lower limit of 247 GeV on the mass of a charge-1/3 third-generation leptoquark.
description: Proceedings of ICHEP2010
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Calgary, Canada
Creators: name: Ricketson, Leah
name: Kellner, James
name: CASPER Investigators
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: Streptococcus pneumoniae
pneumococcus
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
invasive pneumococcal disease

description: 12th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-12), Toronto, Canada, June 19-23, 2022
description: Similar to other regions and countries, there was a dramatic decline in the incidence of IPD and other contagious infectious diseases in Calgary after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial decline in overall IPD incidence (IRR 0.22 in 2nd quarter of 2020 vs average for 2011-19) was particularly dramatic and was sustained until mid-2021 in adults and the end of 2021 in children. Presumably, the reduction was related to society-side measures implemented to reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with such measures also reducing the transmission of other contagious diseases including pneumococcus and influenza. These measures were highest in 2020 and gradually reduced through 2021. In addition, IPD uncommonly occurs as a complication of SARS-CoV-2 infections, unlike other viruses such as influenza and RSV, where secondary pneumococcal infections occur readily. The higher rebound in PCV13 serotype IPD in adults in 2021 (compared with non-PCV13 serotype IPD) of interest. Childhood PCV programs have demonstrated a strong herd-protection effect to prevent vaccine-serotype IPD in adults. There was a significant decline in routine childhood vaccination rates in Alberta in 2020 (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/1/e055968). There may be an association between such declines and a reduction in the level of herd protection that influences vaccine-serotype IPD in adults.
Why the Critics of Globalization Are Mistaken
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics

description: Globalization is the target of many critics today. The young see it as a malign force in regard to social agendas. The workers see it as a pernicious force in regard to their economic well-being. But both sets of fears, and resulting opposition to (economic) globalization, especially via trade and multinationals, are mistaken.
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Implications for Policy, Testimony by Jagdish Bhagwati Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 11, 2008
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, June 11, 2008.
title: Secrecy and transparancy towards third-parties in negotiation : contribution to a historical study of international negotiation
Creators: name: Colson, Aurelien
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This research studies the historical and political move from secrecy to transparency in international negotiation, and investigates to what extent the latter constitutes a political progress. Exploring century-old texts on diplomatic practice, Chapter 1 shows how secrecy was constructed as the norm of international negotiations (from the Renaissance to the apex of absolute monarchy): both the negotiation process and outcome could be veiled. Secrecy has then been contested by the principle of publicity, the philosophical roots of which are examined (from the Enlightenment to Wilson): negotiation process could remain secret, but it became generally agreed that its outcome should be made public (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 introduces the concept of injunction of transparency: in contemporary times, secrecy is contested by a powerful demand for exposure, which gradually expands into negotiation arenas. Consequently, the negotiation process itself is under an increasing pressure to be made public. Simmel' s works on secret societies help analyse this evolution. It is then demonstrated, from the viewpoint of negotiation theories and techniques, that secrecy and transparency towards third-parties constitute a dilemma - or a tension, as the literature puts it - between efficiency of the process and legitimacy of the outcome. Chapter 4 builds two ideal-types of negotiations - totally secret or totally transparent towards third parties - to highlight their key characteristics. Extreme transparency dissolves the boundary between the negotiation table and "the rest of the world", enabling stakeholders to interfere. The original concepts of quasi-negotiator and quasi-multilateral negotiations are constructed. Chapter 5 examines how the dilemma is handled in practice. Consideration is given to the "closed door diplomacy" model, followed by a discussion of partial secrecy, and temporal secrecy. The issue of asymmetry is addressed, in relation with the sustainability of secrecy over time. In order to verify the previous findings, Chapter 6 provides a case study of the international negotiations on air services agreements, based on the 1944 Chicago Convention, and which feature the interplay between secrecy and transparency.
BBC Postcard on the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics

description: The current financial crisis poses little risk of a meltdown like the Great Crash in 1929. Left to itself, it certainly could. But the governments are wide awake and a flood of interventions to kill the crisis is in evidence. The crisis therefore will pass. Will it however destroy “capitalism” and undermine “globalization”? I find such claims fanciful.
title: XRD mineralogy of sedimentary rocks from the Birrindudu and McArthur Basins
Creators: name: J., Anderson
name: N., Owen
name: R., Fan
name: D., Dewhurst
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: EFTF – Exploring for the Future
subject: Officer–Musgrave–Birrindudu
subject: XRD
subject: Birrindudu Basin
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Inorganic geochemistry
subject: Published_External

description: The Birrindudu Basin is a region of focus for the second phase of the EFTF program (2020–2024) as it contains strata of similar age to the prospective McArthur Basin, South Nicholson region and Mount Isa Province, but remains comparatively poorly understood.
In order to provide an improved understanding of the stratigraphy, basin architecture and resource potential of the Birrindudu Basin and surrounding region, Geoscience Australia, in collaboration with the Northern Territory Geological Survey and CSIRO is acquiring a range of datasets as part of phase two of EFTF.
This data release presents XRD results from 79 bulk core samples from the Birrindudu and McArthur basins. This report and the associated analyses were conducted by CSIRO, under contract to Geoscience Australia.
Defending Sweatshops
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics
Sweatshops

description: When the reaction in the rich countries is to boycott businesses such as Wal-Mart and Primark that import inexpensive goods from the poor countries, and to shame and exhort consumers to refrain from buying “cheap goods” made in these countries, the results are certain to be harmful to the poor in the poor countries. In short, a morally motivated action will  lead to unintended immoral outcomes.
Assessment of upper limb myoelectric prostheses
Creators: name: Chan, Anthony Yuet K
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In recent years, many new prosthetic devices have entered the marketplace claiming to be easy to use and to significantly improve the functional outcomes of the amputees. This research study aimed at establishing evidence and providing tools to rehabilitation professionals and funding agencies for use in appropriate prescriptions of prostheses to amputees who lost their upper limbs from work-related injuries. The thesis started with a review of published literatures on upper limb myoelectric prostheses. The review focused on critical factors affecting successful prescriptions, current standards governing design and safe use, guidelines and practice for testing, performance evaluation, and outcome measurements. To understand the current practice and state of technology, an overview of upper limb functions, amputation characteristics, residual limb management, prosthetic intervention, and current prosthetic technologies was included. A retrospective data analysis was performed on case files of upper limb amputee prosthetic users. The analysis first looked at the profile of the amputees, characteristics of prosthetic prescriptions, and levels of prosthetic utilization. Based on the claim files from prosthetists, the reliability, maintenance requirements, as well as the acquisition and operating costs of different prosthetic devices were studied. Results of the analysis such as prosthetic abandonment rates, mean time between failures, average maintenance service intervals, and life-cycle cost of ownerships were presented. A survey was performed to collect information on safety issues relating to prosthetic use. Based on survey results and risk management standards on medical devices, a systematic process to perform risk assessment on upper limb prostheses was formulated. This process took into consideration the functional activities and employment needs from the users’ and caregivers’ perspectives. An assessment platform for upper limb externally-powered prostheses was developed. The platform consisted of a hardware EMG signal acquisition module, an analog I/O module, virtual instrument (VI) modules, and a number of custom-built transducer circuits. The platform was designed to assess the functional performance of myoelectric prostheses and to verify technical specifications of prosthetic components. Two commercial myoelectric prosthetic terminal devices were used to validate the platform.
Boundary growth in one-dimensional cellular automata
Creators: name: Brummitt, Charles D.
name: Rowland, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68Q80, 68R15, 82C41

description: We systematically study the boundaries of one-dimensional, 2-color cellular automata depending on 4 cells, begun from simple initial conditions. We determine the exact growth rates of the boundaries that appear to be reducible. Morphic words characterize the reducible boundaries. For boundaries that appear to be irreducible, we apply curve-fitting techniques to compute an empirical growth exponent and (in the case of linear growth) a growth rate. We find that the random walk statistics of irreducible boundaries exhibit surprising regularities and suggest that a threshold separates two classes. Finally, we construct a cellular automaton whose growth exponent does not exist, showing that a strict classification by exponent is not possible.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures
Multi-Resolution Representation Using Graph Database
Creators: name: Huang, Yizhi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geographic Information System
subject: Multi-resolution
subject: Multi-representation
subject: Graph Database;
subject: Physical Geography
subject: Remote Sensing

description: In the context of rapid development on mobile and internet services, volumes of geospatial data are also increasing enormously. Demands on geospatial information systems are no longer limited to more efficient data storage and retrieving, but also expand to faster querying and higher flexibility. Multi-resolution representation data is an important geospatial data resource for various research works and applications. With one spatial object represented by different geometries under different resolutions, multi-resolution representation data is usually more complex in the relationship and larger in size when comparing to single resolution ones. In addition, most of current approaches for multi-resolution representation data are either complex in structure, or time consuming in traversal and query. Besides, switching between different representations for one spatial instance is still intricate in most of the approaches, especially in topological map sets. A novel approach for storing, managing, and querying multi-resolution representation data is proposed. Development of the proposed approach is based on a popular graph database platform, Neo4j. Neo4j is advanced in flexibility since it allows user-defined structures. Benefited from its node-relationship structure as well as the powerful query language, Cypher, query within Neo4j is exceedingly readable and efficient, especially for join-style queries. Nevertheless, spatial visualization and operation are rather limited in Neo4j. On top of this, bridging by Neo4j Bolt Driver, a web-based interface is also developed to provide interactive spatial visualization and more diverse operations. Moreover, direct traversal between different representations for one spatial object (or groups of objects) is now available. Consequently, the well-structured system for multi-resolution representation data provides a reliable and intuitive database architecture and interface. Over and above that, this system truly closes the gap between complex data and novice users by simplifying various query operations.