cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"What are my options"-concept ("Wat mag er wel")
Creators: name: Meesters, Kenny
name: van Emmerloot, Nikki
name: van Batenburg, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID19
Empowerment
Resilience
Application
Information Management

description: During the global COVID-19 pandemic government agencies around the globe have introduced measures to stop the spread of the virus. Many of the measures limited the exposure of people to others, and relate to maintaining (physical) distance. This has resulted in reduced availability and access to services and social contacts. As the pandemic continues, the effects of the resulting social distance become increasingly noticeable in our societies and communities. Especially around the holidays and other special events that normally would be opportunities to connect. Combined with the long duration of these measures, people are struggling to maintain distance, adhere to the measures and follow the guidelines. People are looking for ways to make social connections, and even with the best intentions, it can be hard to follow the rules. Lucky, information and communication technologies (ICTs), creative thinking and (digital) communities have led to creative ideas to stay engaged and facilitate social contacts. In order to not only remind people of the measures and their importance, it is also important to share information about possibilities. In other words, an additional narrative not on restrictions but possibilities. At the same time, people may suffer from an information overload, and need to apply efforts to come up with suitable alternatives. Using modern technologies relevant suggestions can be tailored to the context of the user. We introduce this concept note and the related prototype therefore to demonstrate two principles: Introducing an additional narrative from restrictions to possibilities. And therefore creating an extra incentive for the public to act in accordance with the measures. Tailoring the information to the user-specific context. Thus reducing the cognitive load for people to identify and assess possibilities for undertaking activities. The prototype is available at: https://dev.watmagweltijdenscrisis.nl/. We encourage you to take these concepts and design documents and develop your own implementations. We invite you to share your ideas, projects and findings with us. At the same time, if you have any questions, suggestions or feedback it would be most welcome.
How Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing the Future of Healthcare
Creators: name: Alkhaqani, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Primary health care

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. AI is a rapidly growing field of research that has been more and more attention in recent years. As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, one of the most exciting developments is the integration of AI in the field of healthcare. AI has the ability to identify biomarkers that play predicting the efficacy and safety of drugs. AI offer numerous benefits to healthcare. One of the most significant benefits of AI in healthcare is its ability to provide faster, more accurate diag errors, and personalizing treatment plans. This article will explore how already impacts healthcare and the potential for even greater advancements in the coming years.
A lucky imaging multiplicity study of exoplanet host stars
Creators: name: Ginski, C.
name: Mugrauer, M.
name: Seeliger, M.
name: Eisenbeiss, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the influence of additional wide stellar companions on planet formation, it is necessary to determine the fraction of multiple stellar systems amongst the known extrasolar planet population. We target recently discovered radial velocity exoplanetary systems observable from the northern hemisphere and with sufficiently high proper motion to detect stellar companions via direct imaging. We utilize the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope in combination with its lucky imaging camera AstraLux. 71 planet host stars have been observed so far, yielding one new low-mass (0.239 \pm 0.022M\odot) stellar companion, 4.5 arcsec (227AU of projected separation) northeast of the planet host star HD185269, detected via astrometry with AstraLux. We also present follow-up astrometry on three previously discovered stellar companions, showing for the first time common proper motion of the 0.5 arcsec companion to HD126614. Additionally, we determined the achieved detection limits for all targets, which allows us to characterize the detection space of possible further companions of these stars.
Particle breakage using wet mill, ultrasonic, and hydrodynamic cavitation
Creators: name: Tiwari, Vidit
name: Walker, Gavin
name: RANADE, VIVEK
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In-line fluidic devices and mills are often used for controlling crystal size distribution during crystallization. In this work, we investigated the breakage of organic crystals in three particle breakage devices. Paracetamol was selected as a model API (active pharmaceutical ingredient). In order to focus the investigation on particle breakage, we have used paracetamol suspended in its saturated solution and eliminated possible changes in particle size because of crystallization or dissolution. Particle breakage in a wet mill (WM), which is one of the commonly used particle breakage devices, is compared with the two cavitation-based devices: one based on ultrasonic or acoustic cavitation (AC) and the other based on hydrodynamic cavitation (HC). The particle size distributions (PSD) were measured by using laser diffraction. Kapur function analysis was used to study the effect of various conditions, such as rotational speed, intensity, or pressure drop, on the specific breakage rates and breakage mechanisms. The vortex-based HC device used in this work generated more fine particles than any other technique at a similar power consumption.
The Development of Complex Movement Motor Maps Using Long Duration Intracortical Microstimulation (LD-ICMS) in Rats
Creators: name: Singleton, Anna
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Psychology--Developmental
subject: LD-ICMS
subject: Motor Map
subject: Plasticity
subject: Development

description: The adult motor cortex is topographically organized into representations (maps) of different body parts (Fritsch & Hitzig, 1870; Ferrier, 1873). Recent evidence, however suggests a movement-based, rather than, muscle-based cortical motor organization (Graziano et al., 2002; Brown & Teskey, in press). In the adult rat, four specialized multi-joint forelimb movements have been consistently evoked using long-duration intracortical microstimulation (LD-ICMS; limb elevation, advancement, grasping, and retraction) that are thought to recapitulate components of the basic walking and reaching movements in rats (Karl & Whishaw, 2013; Brown and Teskey, in press). The present experiment characterized the behavioural and cortical development of these four movement categories in Long-Evans hooded rats and how skilled reach training could affect forelimb development. This study was the first to find that LD-ICMS evoked single-joint movements developed before multi-joint movements within the neocortex. In addition, the forelimb behavioural capacity of the rat predated the emergence of LD-ICMS-evoked forelimb responses indicating that subcortical structures might be mediating behaviour. Moreover, this study revealed for the first time that grasp movements were not restricted to the “grasp region” at early stages of development, suggesting that the motor cortex underwent large cortical changes as the rat developed, leaving a refined grasp region in adulthood. Finally, after skilled reach training, the LD-ICMS motor map of the hemisphere contralateral to the skilled reach trained forelimb contained more grasp movements than the ipsilateral hemisphere, which is not observed in adult rats (Ramanathan et al., 2006; Brown & Teskey, in press). This novel finding revealed that rat motor maps might be more plastic throughout development than in adulthood. It is important to understand how forelimb movements develop within the cortex in order to begin finding solutions for when these areas become damaged, such as during a stroke.
Discovery in Drell-Yan Processes at the LHC
Creators: name: Chiang, Cheng-Wei
name: Christensen, Neil D.
name: Ding, Gui-Jun
name: Han, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Drell-Yan process mediated by a new bosonic resonance at the LHC. The bosons of spin-0, 1, and 2 with the most general leading-order couplings to Standard Model fermions and gluons are considered, which provide a model-independent formulation for future exploration of the resonance properties, such as its spin, mass and couplings. In the case of neutral resonances, we demonstrate how the shapes of the kinematical distributions change as one varies the chiral couplings of the quarks and leptons, and show how to analyze the couplings by making use of the forward-backward asymmetry. In the case of charged resonances, we propose a novel technique to effectively reconstruct the angular distribution in the center-of-mass frame, to a large extent avoiding the two-fold ambiguity due to the missing neutrino. Similar to the case of a neutral resonance, the spin information of the resonance can be extracted unambiguously, and chiral couplings and the asymmetries can be explored in a statistical manner. With the current LHC data, we present bounds on the mass and cross section times branching fraction of the new resonance and estimate the future reach.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables
First steps in developing clinical practice guidelines for post-acute rehabilitation after primary total hip and knee arthroplasty
Creators: name: Westby, Marie D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Total hip (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are cost-effective interventions for advanced osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee and hip. With the rapidly growing number of these procedures performed annually in Canada and the United States, greater attention needs to be directed to identify rehabilitation practices that optimize outcomes and minimize cost. Currently, there is no consensus on rehabilitation best practice and no evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to inform clinical decision-making on post-acute rehabilitation following THA and TKA. A multi-phase, mixed-method project integrated stakeholder perspectives, research evidence and expert opinion to develop best practice recommendations for THA and TKA rehabilitation. Chapter 2 involved 11 focus groups and eight interviews to identify key themes related from North American patients and health care professionals on rehabilitation practices and outcomes. Chapters 3-4 are Cochrane systematic reviews examining the strength of the evidence for post-acute physiotherapy after THA and TKA. Chapter 5-6 involved two parallel Delphi surveys with consumers, clinicians and researchers to develop consensus on a range of rehabilitation topics to inform best practice for THA and TKA rehabilitation. Chapter 2: Six key themes emerged relating to communication, patient expectations, patient attitude, forms of support, barriers to recovery, and diversity of outcomes. Chapters 3-4: Systematic reviews of THA (n=8) and TKA (n=7) trials revealed limited, low to high quality evidence with mixed findings for various forms of post-acute physiotherapy on pain, function and health-related quality of life. Trial heterogeneity prevented meta-analysis. Chapters 5-6: Consensus (80% agreement) was reached on the need for post-acute rehabilitation, types of interventions, rehabilitation providers, treatment settings, outcomes and outcome measurement. Consensus was not reached regarding timing and dosage of rehabilitation. Sub-group analysis revealed few differences comparing responses by profession, primary role and country. This thesis has taken important first steps in identifying appropriate rehabilitation interventions and health care resources to optimize individuals’ activity, participation and health-related quality of life after THA and TKA. Further, it highlights the need for more high quality research to address the knowledge gaps and inform policy on this important and understudied aspect of arthroplasty surgery.
Charged bottomonium-like structures $Z_b(10610)$ and $Z_b(10650)$
Creators: name: Liu, Xiang
name: Chen, Dian-Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of two charged bottomonium-like structures $Z_b(10610)$ and $Z_b(10650)$ has stimulated extensive studies of the properties of $Z_b(10610)$ and $Z_b(10650)$. In this talk, we briefly introduce the research status of $Z_b(10610)$ and $Z_b(10650)$ combined with our theoretical progress.
description: 6 pages, 1 table, 5 figures. Plenary talk given at the international conference The Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Systems in Physics 2011 (APFB2011), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 22-26 August 2011
Meeting Environmental Challenges of Oil Production in Nigeria: a Case for Environmental Restoration Funds
Creators: name: Opara, Nonye
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Environmental Restoration
subject: Environmental Restoration Funds
subject: Environment Funds
subject: Intergenerational Equity
subject: Public Trust Doctrine
subject: Environment
subject: Environmental Law
subject: Energy Law

description: Historically, the Nigerian economy has been dependent on oil. Decades of oil production in the Niger Delta, the country’s oil producing region, has degraded the environment. While the need to tackle environmental degradation in oil-producing communities has been widely recognized, existing legal interventions are dispersed and do not focus on environmental restoration. Against the backdrop of recent scientific studies highlighting the severity of contamination in the region, this thesis makes a legal case for the establishment of an environmental restoration fund as a targeted mechanism to restore the Niger Delta environment. Through the lens of the theory of intergenerational equity, the thesis concludes that the creation of a fund dedicated to environmental restoration will help maintain the environment in a way that supports current oil production, encourages local livelihoods and preserves existing natural resources as a legacy for the future.
When Those in Judea Flee to the Mountains: Mobility, Property, and Loss in Mark's Gospel
Creators: name: Fry, Miriam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biblical Studies
subject: History--Ancient
subject: mobility, geography, property, household, gospel, Mark

description: The synoptic gospels contain teachings that promote a lifestyle of mobility and a rejection of home and family. Employing recent developments in humanistic geography, place theory and mobility studies, this thesis considers why the author of Mark chooses to present texts that enshrine the surrendering of all one’s property and possessions in order to gain a share in the kingdom of God. It is proposed that Mark's audience is experiencing a turbulent period in history, which will culminate in an imminent loss of home, homeland, Temple, and – emanating from all of those – orientation in the world. It is further argued that the shift in identity instigated by these events plays a formative role in how Mark depicts the life and teachings of Jesus. Mark’s enshrinement of mobility in the gospel could have served to provide adherents of the Jesus Movement with a model for detachment and innovation that facilitated the creation of new notions of homeland in the wake of the catastrophic events leading up to, during, and after 70 CE.
Space-time inhomogeneity, anisotropy and gravitational collapse
Creators: name: Sharma, R.
name: Tikekar, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of non-adiabatic collapse of a shear-free spherically symmetric stellar configuration with anisotropic stresses accompanied with radial heat flux. The collapse begins from a curvature singularity with infinite mass and size on an inhomogeneous space-time background. The collapse is found to proceed without formation of an even horizon to singularity when the collapsing configuration radiates all its mass energy. The impact of inhomogeneity on various parameters of the collapsing stellar configuration is examined in some specific space-time backgrounds.
description: To appear in Gen. Relativ. Grav
Autonomy and the infertility patient : exploring the limits of the criteria that identify autonomous decision making with regards to the female infertility patient
Creators: name: Paton, Alexis Hannahson Collins
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Autonomous decision making is the cornerstone of bioethics, as it respects every person's right to make decisions for themselves based on their own values and beliefs. Maintaining autonomy in medicine is especially important due to the long standing history of paternalism in medicine. Today best practice in medicine demands that competent patients be allowed to make autonomous decisions about their treatment. The criteria that we use to classify an individual as autonomous are crucial in medicine, where the validity of a patient's informed consent to receive treatment rests on whether they are recognized as autonomous. One area in which the classification of autonomy is most perplexing is that of infertility. The known causes of infertility are few, the number of effective diagnostic tests are limited and less than 50% of couples end up with a child. The uncertainty and limited prognosis mean that choices should be driven by personal preferences rather than paternalism. Due to the nature of infertility, the intricacies of its diagnosis and treatment as well as the heavy influence of social norms about femininity, infertile women may lose their identity as autonomous individuals, despite seeming to be autonomous in all other respects. While the traditional criteria for autonomy successfully identify those female infertility patients who are not autonomous, they give us no direction as to how to tackle the larger issue of societal influence on infertility patients. I will argue that a change in the theory used by medical professionals is necessary in order to address the concern of social influence on patient decision making. Instead we must replace the use of traditional autonomy by the medical institution as the paradigm with the theory of relational autonomy, since relational autonomy is the only theory that can properly account for societal influence on patients.
The Ultraviolet Spectral Energy Distributions of Quiescent Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Hynes, R. I.
name: Robinson, E. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present HST/ACS ultraviolet photometry of three quiescent black hole X-ray transients: X-ray Nova Muscae 1991 (GU Mus), GRO J0422+32 (V518 Per), and X-ray Nova Vel 1993 (MM Vel), and one neutron star system, Aql X-1. These are the first quiescent UV detections of these objects. All are detected at a much higher level than expected from their companion stars alone and are significant detections of the accretion flow. Three of the four UV excesses can be characterized by a black body of temperature 5000-13,000K, hotter than expected for the quiescent outer disk. A good fit could not be found for MM Vel. The source of the black-body-like emission is most likely a heated region of the inner disk. Contrary to initial indications from spectroscopy there does not appear to be a systematic difference in the UV luminosity or spectral shape between black holes and neutron star systems. However combining our new data with earlier spectroscopy and published X-ray luminosities there is a significant difference in the X-ray to UV flux ratios with the neutron stars exhibiting Lx/Luv about 10x higher than the black hole systems. Since both bandpasses are expected to be dominated by accretion light this suggests the difference in X-ray luminosities cannot simply reflect differences in quiescent accretion rates and so is a more robust discriminator between the black hole and neutron star populations than the comparison of X-ray luminosities alone.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Der achte Tag : Oder Gott sah, dass es nicht gut war. Ein Dialog zwischen Grete, Mephisto und Gott
Creators: name: Hauf, Thomas
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Meteorologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: [No abstract available]
On the structure of quantum intermediate state in type I superconductors
Creators: name: Ledenyov, Oleg P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The calculation of spatial structure of a quantum intermediate state in high pure type I superconductors in external magnetic field at low temperatures is completed. The theoretical model of thermodynamics of intermediate state in type I superconductors was proposed by Andreev. It is shown, that in the quantum case, the period of structure of quantum intermediate state appears to be significantly shorter and it has different dependences on the magnetic field H and temperature T in comparison with the classical intermediate Landau state. The decrease of thickness of normal layers results in the increase of characteristic distance between the quantum Andreev levels of electronic excitations, and leads to the transition to the quantum intermediate state from the classical intermediate Landau state, which is realized at the higher temperatures T~1K. The comparison of the computed data with the experimental results in the researched case of high pure Gallium single crystal is made.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
A Not-So-Clear-Cut Sense of Morality: Analyzing Envy, Greed, and Thorin Oakenshield’s Antagonism
Creators: name: Parampottil, Sally
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Writing Flag Award
JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit
Thorin Oakenshield
Literary Analysis
Antagonism
Character Study
Comparative Analysis
Beowulf
Bruce Lincoln
Āz

description: This paper discusses the antagonism of Thorin Oakenshield, who is often described as a heroic character, by comparing his actions to those of more explicit antagonists in The Hobbit in order to highlight Tolkien’s less obvious themes of morality.
Microseismic Data Processing, Modeling and Interpretation in the Presence of Coals: A Falher Member Case Study
Creators: name: Pike, Kimberly Anne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Microseismic
subject: Finite-difference modeling
subject: Deep Basin

description: Low-velocity, low-density coal units are prevalent throughout the Cretaceous section of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Their elastic properties differ considerably from the surrounding clastic units, resulting in complex seismic propagation paths and interference patterns. This thesis presents a case study evaluating the implications these coal units have on the processing, finite-difference modeling and interpretation of a borehole microseismic dataset recorded in the Falher Member of western Alberta's Deep Basin. Seismic energy generated during hydraulic fracturing of the Falher Member manifests as low-velocity, high-amplitude channel waves. A Matlab-based processing workflow is developed to analyze the data set, with emphasis on velocity model calibration, receiver orientation and hypocentre location in the presence of coals. Finite-difference modeling is used to evaluate the propagation of seismic energy through the monitoring interval, leading to the identification of complex P- and S-wave arrival patterns which significantly complicate microseimsic processing. Alternative acquisition geometries are evaluated via finite-difference modeling and offer improvements to the original acquisition design. The resulting hypocentre distribution suggests that the completion design effectively stimulated the reservoir along the wellbore. Systematic error introduced by the coal layers may contribute to distance-dependant uncertainty in the final hypocentre locations.
Religious "Interpersonal Network Proximity" and the Case for Recognition
Creators: name: Bartel, Megan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Religion--Philosophy of
subject: Religion
subject: Networks
subject: Secularism
subject: Recognition
subject: Marginalized
subject: Social Media
subject: Individualism
subject: social capital

description: This thesis addresses the secular societal transition away from traditional, tight-knit forms of community to a more networked model. This social shift is interesting to consider in tandem with theories of secularization that emphasize the rise of an individualized social imaginary. Within a networked society, individuals remain inherently communicative and thus retain the ability to cultivate social capital in new and interesting ways. This has implications for religion as religious communities can also be seen as increasingly networked. Such developments might have the potential to challenge more traditional forms of religious authority. In light of these ideas, a consideration of philosophical understandings of recognition can prove helpful when determining how marginalized religious individuals might create new networked communities through which contemporary modes of recognition could be generated. Through this process, social media resources may serve to increase networking capabilities and thus the potential to cultivate a form of social capital that is ethically grounded in a mode of recognition for which justice is the ultimate goal.
Life-LCA: the first case study of the life cycle impacts of a human being
Creators: name: Bossek, David
name: Goermer, Marcel
name: Bach, Vanessa
name: Lehmann, Annekathrin
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 333.7 Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
subject: environmental awareness
subject: life cycle assessment
subject: LCA
subject: Life-LCA
subject: personal environmental footprint
subject: sustainable consumption
subject: sustainable lifestyles

description: Purpose: Besides politics and the private sector, changes in the consumption pattern of individuals can significantly contribute to sustainable development. The recently published Life-LCA method adapts life cycle assessment to analyse human beings and quantifies their impacts. This method is applied for the first time in this case study to provide insights and remaining challenges. Methods: The environmental impacts caused by the life cycle of a middle-aged German man (“Dirk”) were determined by the Life-LCA method from his birth until his current age (0–49 years). To determine and quantify reduction options, a current 1-year period was analysed in detail by a baseline scenario of his current consumption and an optimized scenario after changing his consumption patterns. The environmental impact assessment included global warming (GWP), acidification (AP), eutrophication (EP), and photochemical ozone creation potentials (POCP). Results and discussion: Dirk has emitted 1,140 t CO 2 -eq., 4.48 t SO 2 -eq., 1.69 t PO 4 -eq., and 0.537 t C 2 H 4 -eq. emissions over his current lifetime. Transportation dominated all considered impact categories (40 up to 55%). Energy and water consumption is the second most significant product category for GWP (39%). Food products, with 10%, are the third biggest contributor to GWP, but contribute rather significantly to the impact categories AP (34%), EP (42%), and POCP (20%). The optimized scenario analysis revealed significant reductions for all studied impacts in the range of 60–65%. CO 2 -eq. emissions were reduced from 28 to 10 t/a. The remaining challenges include data collection for childhood, gaps and inconsistencies of existing data for consumer goods, the allocation between product users, and depreciation of long-living products. Conclusion: The first Life-LCA case study confirmed the applicability of the Life-LCA method. It showed that the Life-LCA approach allows for tracking individual consumption patterns of a human being. The impacts of behavioural changes were quantified, and significant reduction potentials of the environmental impacts were revealed. Additional case studies on people of different age, region, culture, and lifestyle are needed for further insights and methodological refinements.
The Educational Implications of Chronic Illness in Children: A Study of Parents’ Perspectives
Creators: name: Pham, Nhi
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Writing Flag Award
Education
chronic illness
complex condition
childhood development
chronic absence

description: Abstract. The challenges of parenting a child with a long term illness drastically changes the family’s lifestyle. As efforts become focused on managing the child’s health, their education is overlooked, raising the risk of potentially developing deficiencies in the skills that are crucial to the child’s ability to successfully adapt to society. This study aims to explore the potential obstacles that prevent parents from being able to prioritize the education of their ill child. The data sample consists of text from ten blog posts written by mothers raising a child with a complex condition. The text was compared to a dataset of words related to education and words related to emotions to reveal the extent to which education is prioritized by this particular group of parents. The results revealed that parents’ primary concerns are generally more about the emotional wellbeing of their ill child and family rather than the child’s education. Several factors that support these findings are highlighted and efforts to expand the scope of understanding for this topic by exploring the perspectives of other family members are suggested.
Higher Dimensional Cosmology with Some Dark Energy Models in Emergent, Logamediate and Intermediate Scenarios of the Universe
Creators: name: Ranjit, Chayan
name: Chakraborty, Shuvendu
name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have considered N-dimensional Einstein field equations in which four-dimensional space-time is described by a FRW metric and that of extra dimensions by an Euclidean metric. We have chosen the exponential forms of scale factors a and d numbers of b in such a way that there is no singularity for evolution of the higher dimensional Universe. We have supposed that the Universe is filled with K-essence, Tachyonic, Normal Scalar Field and DBI-essence. Here we have found the nature of potential of different scalar field and graphically analyzed the potentials and the fields for three scenario namely Emergent Scenario, Logamediate Scenario and Intermediate Scenario. Also graphically we have depicted the geometrical parameters named statefinder parameters and slow-roll parameters in the higher dimensional cosmology with the above mentioned scenarios.
description: 21 pages, 36 figures
Conceptualizing Stigma: The Development of a Cross-Cultural Scale to Measure Stigma Related to Depression
Creators: name: Prentice, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Clinical
subject: Stigma Related to Depression
subject: Cross-Cultural
subject: Quantitative Measure

description: The development of psychometrically sound, quantitative, and emically-driven measures of stigma across cultures has been identified as a critical lacuna in the growing body of literature on mental illness related stigma. The present investigation addresses this gap by designing a multidimensional measure of stigma with four separate participant pools comprised of Asian-Canadian and European-Canadian undergraduate students. Study 1 (N = 33) generated 144 scale items. In Study 2, 11 students, four stigma researchers, six consumers of depression, and three culture brokers evaluated the items. Scale design and development was conducted in Study 3 (N = 729) and includes the final factor solution. Study 4 (N = 258) investigates cross-cultural differences in stigmatizing attitudes using the new measure, as well as the scale’s convergent validity. The results of an exploratory factor analysis revealed a four-factor solution that evidenced strong internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity. The four factors were titled: Culture, Personal, Workplace and Family. This measure may be used to identify nuanced variations in the experience of mental illness stigma that are accounted for by culture. The strengths and limitations as well as directions for future research are discussed.
Flip-OFDM for Optical Wireless Communications
Creators: name: Fernando, Nirmal
name: Hong, Yi
name: Viterbo, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider two uniploar OFDM techniques for optical wireless communications: asymmetric clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) and Flip-OFDM. Both techniques can be used to compensate multipath distortion effects in optical wireless channels. However, ACO-OFDM has been widely studied in the literature, while the performance of Flip-OFDM has never been investigated. In this paper, we conduct the performance analysis of Flip-OFDM and propose additional modification to the original scheme in order to compare the performance of both techniques. Finally, it is shown by simulation that both techniques have the same performance but different hardware complexities. In particular, for slow fading channels, Flip-OFDM offers 50% saving in hardware complexity over ACO-OFDM at the receiver.
description: published in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Paraty Brazil, Sept 2011
Analytical framework for recurrence-network analysis of time series
Creators: name: Donges, Jonathan F.
name: Heitzig, Jobst
name: Donner, Reik V.
name: Kurths, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recurrence networks are a powerful nonlinear tool for time series analysis of complex dynamical systems. {While there are already many successful applications ranging from medicine to paleoclimatology, a solid theoretical foundation of the method has still been missing so far. Here, we interpret an $\varepsilon$-recurrence network as a discrete subnetwork of a "continuous" graph with uncountably many vertices and edges corresponding to the system's attractor. This step allows us to show that various statistical measures commonly used in complex network analysis can be seen as discrete estimators of newly defined continuous measures of certain complex geometric properties of the attractor on the scale given by $\varepsilon$.} In particular, we introduce local measures such as the $\varepsilon$-clustering coefficient, mesoscopic measures such as $\varepsilon$-motif density, path-based measures such as $\varepsilon$-betweennesses, and global measures such as $\varepsilon$-efficiency. This new analytical basis for the so far heuristically motivated network measures also provides an objective criterion for the choice of $\varepsilon$ via a percolation threshold, and it shows that estimation can be improved by so-called node splitting invariant versions of the measures. We finally illustrate the framework for a number of archetypical chaotic attractors such as those of the Bernoulli and logistic maps, periodic and two-dimensional quasi-periodic motions, and for hyperballs and hypercubes, by deriving analytical expressions for the novel measures and comparing them with data from numerical experiments. More generally, the theoretical framework put forward in this work describes random geometric graphs and other networks with spatial constraints which appear frequently in disciplines ranging from biology to climate science.
Caracterização do potencial tecnológico de bactérias ácido-lácticas isoladas de alheiras artesanais do Nordeste de Portugal
Creators: name: Faria, A.S.
name: Fernandes, N.
name: Cadavez, V.
name: Gonzales-Barron, U.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presented as Oral Presentation; and in Book of Abstracts of the VIII APEZ / XXIII ANCSUB Jornadas do Porco Bísaro. Vinhais, Portugal (10 February 2023) (Page 55).
Non-adiabatic radiative collapse of a relativistic star under different initial conditions
Creators: name: Sharma, R.
name: Tikekar, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the role of space-time geometry in the non-adiabatic collapse of a star dissipating energy in the form of radial heat flow, studying its evolution under different initial conditions. The collapse of a star with interior comprising of a homogeneous perfect fluid is compared with that of a star filled with inhomogeneous imperfect fluid with anisotropic pressure. Both the configurations are spherically symmetric, however, in the latter case, the physical space $t= constant$ of the configurations is assumed to be inhomogeneous endowed with spheroidal or pseudo-spheroidal geometry. It is observed that as long as the collapse is shear-free, its evolution depends only on the mass and size of the star at the onset of collapse.
description: To appear in Pramana- j. of physics
Life-LCA: Impacts of a German Human Being in the Old Adulthood Stage
Creators: name: Bossek, David
name: Rudolph, Caroline
name: Bach, Vanessa
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::600 Technik::600 Technik, Technologie
subject: life cycle assessment
subject: Life-LCA
subject: old adulthood
subject: sustainable lifestyles
subject: sustainable consumption
subject: carbon footprint
subject: personal environmental footprint

description: Life-LCA studies, which assess the environmental impacts of human beings, focused so far on the span from conception to 50 years. This case study extends the analysis to an “old adulthood stage”, including a retirement (65–75 years) and end-of-life phase (75–80 years), thus complementing the assessment gap in the life cycle of a human being. The Life-LCA method is applied to a fictional study object representing an average German adult using mainly secondary data. Over both life phases, impacts result in 1.2 × 102 t CO2-eq for climate change, 9 × 10−⁵ CTUh for human toxicity cancer, 2 × 10−3 CTUh for human toxicity non-cancer, 1.35 × 10⁰ kg Sb-eq for abiotic depletion for elements, and 1.55 × 10⁰ TJ for fossil fuels. Across all impact categories, “transport” is a hotspot, contributing 41% to GWP, followed by “Energy and water” (39%) and “food” (20%). For abiotic depletion for elements, “Electronics” shows a share of 50%. The “retirement phase” causes a higher environmental impact than the “EoL phase” across all impact categories due to restricted mobility with higher age. A study with primary data collection is suggested to check the plausibility of the results.
title: Good neighbours, good friends: Promising practices for "Partners in Place"
Creators: name: Shergill, Shashi
name: Latremouille, Jodi
Publisher: name: The Center for Holistic Education, Southern Oregon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Place-based education--Alberta
subject: Connect Charter School (Calgray, Alta.)
subject: Chiila Elementary School (Alta.)
subject: Tsuut'ina Nation

description: This article was originally published as: Shergill, S. & Latremouille, J. (2021). Good neighbours, good friends: Promising practices for "Partners in Place." Holistic Education Review, 1(2), 1-8.
description: This piece is a series of dialogues and reflections about an ongoing learning partnership between Connect Charter School and Chilla Elementary School of the Tsuut’ina Nation in Calgary, Alberta, both situated on Treaty 7 land. Through interview transcripts, reflections, and reminders from our scholarly influences, we reflect on how the project began with the hope for the two communities to be "good neighbours," and how they eventually became "good friends." We share the challenges, joys, and controversies surrounding this project, and how it continues to evolve based on dialogue and community collaboration.
Radion Phenomenology with 3 and 4 Generations
Creators: name: Frank, Mariana
name: Korutlu, Beste
name: Toharia, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study radion phenomenology in an warped extra-dimension scenario with Standard Model fields in the bulk, with and without an additional fourth family of fermions. The radion couplings with the fermions will be generically misaligned with respect to the Standard Model fermion mass matrices, therefore producing some amount of flavor violating couplings and potentially influencing production and decay rates of the radion. Simple analytic expressions for the radion-fermion couplings are obtained with three or four families. We also update and analyze the current experimental limits on radion couplings and on the model parameters, again with both three and four families scenarios. We finally present the modified decay branching ratios of the radion with an emphasis on the new channels involving flavor diagonal and flavor violating decays into fourth generation quarks and leptons.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures
Life-LCA: case study of the life cycle impacts of an infant
Creators: name: Bossek, David
name: Bach, Vanessa
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: Life cycle assessment
subject: LCA
subject: Life-LCA
subject: sustainable consumption
subject: infant
subject: environmental footprint
subject: carbon footprint
subject: prenatal
subject: sustainable lifestyles
subject: environmental awareness

description: Purpose: The recently published first Life-LCA case study of a human being (0–49 years) did not use primary data for the “childhood and youth stage” (0–17 years). Consumption was assumed to contribute 50% of the calculated 48th baseline year. This led to uncertainties as consumer behavior changes from birth to adulthood. Furthermore, transport emissions and environmental impacts before birth were neglected. Therefore, this paper analyzes the prenatal and infancy phase (0–3 years) to develop the Life-LCA method and database further and evaluate generic assumptions. Methods: The Life-LCA method sets the reporting unit to newly defined prenatal and infancy phases. The reporting flow describes the range of all consumed products attributable to an infant. Primary data was collected with a sample of three study objects—a pregnant mother, a newborn baby, and a 3-year-old infant—living in Germany. The following environmental impact assessment categories are considered: climate change (GWP), acidification (AP), eutrophication (EP), and photochemical ozone creation (POCP). Results and discussion: Prenatal and infancy phase burdens account for a GWP of 4,011 kg CO2-eq., an AP of 22.3 kg SO2-eq., an EP of 10.7 kg PO4-eq., and a POCP of 1.7 kg C2H4-eq. The share of the prenatal phase is around 15–20% for all impact categories. Transport is a hotspot for GWP (30–60%) and POCP (45–70%) in both phases. AP (50%) and EP (45–50%) are dominated by food products, mainly meat (45%) and dairy products (35%). For the prenatal phase, energy and water consumption at birth rank third in GWP (8%). Diapers account for 6% (GWP) of the environmental burden in the infancy phase. Assumptions made in the first Life-LCA study connect closely with the values calculated for the first three years of infancy. A remaining challenge is allocating the impacts between infants and parents and developing a methodology for assessing data quality. Conclusion: Focusing on two new life phases has led to the subdivision of the “childhood and youth stage” and an extension of the system boundaries. The results' uncertainty was reduced by developing a new set of specific datasets focusing on several study objects. The case study results show the importance of primary data collection for evaluating generic assumptions. Additional studies on childhood and adolescence from 3 to 17 years are suggested for a robust assessment of the complete “childhood and youth stage.”
Pole prescription of higher order induced vertices in Lipatov's QCD effective action
Creators: name: Hentschinski, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Lipatov's QCD effective action for the QCD high energy limit and propose a pole prescription for higher order induced vertices. The latter can be used in the evaluation of loop corrections to high energy factorized matrix elements within the effective action approach. The proposed prescription respects the symmetry properties of the unregulated vertices. Explicit results are presented up to third order in the gauge coupling, while an iterative procedure for higher orders is proposed.
description: 16 pages
Exploring Novel Diabetes Surveillance Methods: A Comparison of Administrative, Laboratory and Pharmacy Data Case Definitions
Creators: name: Khokhar, Bushra
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Diabetes
subject: International Classification of Diseases
subject: ICD Codes
subject: Read Codes
subject: The Health Improvement Network

description: Rationale: There are several ways to potentially identify diabetes for the purpose of surveillance and hence it is crucial to understand the validity of these approaches. This thesis systematically reviewed population-based studies validating ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes reporting on sensitivity, specificity and PPV of case definitions. Data from THIN was used to study demographic differences of the populations being captured using different case definitions. Methods: Electronic databases were systematically searched for validation studies where an administrative case definition of diabetes was validated and test measures reported. The second sub-study used a large EMR to compare different case definitions of diabetes with respect to the number of cases identified and characteristics of each cohort. Conclusion: This thesis demonstrates that the validity of commonly used case definitions varies significantly. Whether using administrative or clinical data, this work illustrates the importance of using multiple data sources to effectively capture individuals with diabetes.