cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multi-Wavelength Observations of the HBL Object 1ES 1011+496 in Spring 2008
Creators: name: Reinthal, Riho
name: Rügamer, Stefan
name: Lindfors, Elina J.
name: Mazin, Daniel
name: Stamerra, Antonio
name: Longo, Francesco
name: Lucarelli, Fabrizio
name: Pittori, Carlotta
name: Lähteenmäki, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the spring of 2008 MAGIC organised multi-wavelength (MWL) observations of the blazar 1ES 1011+496. 1ES 1011+496 is a high-frequency peaked BL Lac object discovered at VHE gamma-rays by MAGIC in spring 2007 during an optical outburst reported by the Tuorla Blazar Monitoring Programme. MAGIC re-observed the source during the 2008 MWL campaign which also included the Metsähovi, KVA, Swift and AGILE telescopes. This was the first MWL campaign on this source that also included VHE coverage. MAGIC observed 1ES 1011+496 from March 4th to May 24th 2008 for a total of 27.9 hours, of which 20 h remained after quality cuts. The observations resulted in a detection of the source a ~7 sigma significance level with a mean flux and spectral index similar to those during the discovery. Here we will present the results of the MAGIC observations of the source in combination with contemporaneous observations at other wavelengths (radio, optical, X-rays, high energy gamma-rays) and discuss their implications on the modelling of the spectral energy distribution.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the 32nd ICRC, Beijing 2011
A Refreshing Contact with Something Real: The Appeal of Dude Ranch Vacations in Canada and the United States, 1920-1940
Creators: name: Herriman, Margaret
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History--Modern
subject: History--Canadian
subject: dude ranching
subject: antimodernism
subject: guest ranching
subject: cowboys

description: This thesis examines the popularity of dude ranch vacations in the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that the appeal of dude ranches rested on the appeal of the cowboy and the western environment, both of which relied on currents of antimodernism and discomfort with an increasingly urbanized world. Popular literature disseminated the constructed image of the cowboy and the west to people in eastern Canada and the United States, and in Europe. A robust image emerged that ranchers drew on and modified in order to create the dude ranch experience. Easterners used the cowboy archetype as an avatar. Many slipped into the role only for a weeks on vacation, but others took it on as a career or lifestyle. The following pages examine the creation of the cowboy and western images, and explore the ways in which individual ranchers interacted with and took on those images.
Popint como herramienta de inteligencia para el análisis social. El caso de Rusia
Creators: name: Andrés Pérez, Sergio
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Primer estudio cuyo objetivo es desarrollar el concepto POPINT como herramienta necesaria para obtener resultados en el área de inteligencia. El objetivo es utilizar la sociología, partiendo de fuentes abiertas, y aplicarla al análisis de problemas concretos para obtener información fiable y contrastable.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 2
Community Fecal Immunotesting for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Creators: name: Crouse, Amber
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Colorectal Cancer
subject: Screening
subject: Laboratory Medicine

description: Community fecal immunochemical testing screening programs are important for detecting early disease and are a common way of promoting colorectal cancer screening by primary care physicians. Fecal Immunochemical testing has advantages to the patient as well as to clinical laboratories, but screening rates remain low across Canada and may be associated with sociodemographic factors. This research assesses the operational test characteristics of a FIT pilot program in Calgary, Alberta. Data from a new community-based screening program were also used to test associations of screening rate with sociodemographic variables. The performance of FIT in this clinical setting was very good for detecting carcinoma, but marginal for detection of colonic adenomas. There was also significant geographic variation in screening rates in Calgary. These are associated with a number of sociodemographic factors.
Additional file 1 of Continuum of maternity care in Zambia: a national representative survey
Creators: name: Sserwanja, Quraish
name: Musaba, Milton W.
name: Mutisya, Linet M.
name: Olal, Emmanuel
name: Mukunya, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Shared Risk Factors for Overweight and Disordered Eating: An Exploration of Weight Status' Association to Five-Shared Risk Factors Among Jr. High Students
Creators: name: Carr, Laura
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Psychology--Social
subject: Obesity
subject: Eating Disorders
subject: Weight-Related
subject: Shared Risk Factors
subject: Weight Status

description: Weight-related concerns can be seen as a spectrum with obesity and eating disorders on either extreme end, both sharing a number of risk factors. This study explored five of these risk factors - body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, dieting, internalization of media ideals and perceived teasing - and their association with weight status among junior high students. Significant group differences were found for body dissatisfaction and dieting behaviours. Specifically the data demonstrated that both the underweight and normal weight participants had significantly more body satisfaction than those above-normal weight and that the normal weight group reported significantly less dieting behaviours than the above- normal weight group. Girls were found to also rate more negatively across almost all the risk factors. Further research is needed to understand how to best apply these findings into weight-related programming that promotes psychosocial wellness for children and youth of all weights.
Additional file 2 of Continuum of maternity care in Zambia: a national representative survey
Creators: name: Sserwanja, Quraish
name: Musaba, Milton W.
name: Mutisya, Linet M.
name: Olal, Emmanuel
name: Mukunya, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Beethoven: sublimitat i entusiasme
Creators: name: Tomaszewski, Mieczyslaw
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: L’article estudia les dues categories de “la sublimitat” i de “l’entusiasme” en la música de Ludwig van Beethoven com a antitètiques i com a complementàries. S’hi aproxima tant des de la musicologia tradicional, que beu de les fonts i els tractats teòrics contemporanis, com des de la musicologia dels significats, és a dir, fent ús d’una hermenèutica musical que està prenent força en els últims decennis. El text prové del volum del mateix autor Beethoven (2016), publicat a Cracòvia. El traductor agraeix l’ajuda i la revisió acurada d’Iwona Malecka. Mieczysław Tomaszewski és un dels musicòlegs més prestigiosos del seu país, Polònia. Nascut el 1921, és professor de la Universitat de Cracòvia i representa el corrent de la musicologia més vinculat amb les humanitats. El seu terreny preferent és la música de Fryderyk Chopin, al qual ha dedicat la majoria de les seves nombroses publicacions en diverses llengües.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 2
Microscale Mechanics and Structure of the Articular Cartilage Surface in Early Experimental Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Desrochers, Jane
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Atomic Force Microscopy
subject: Micromechanics
subject: Post-traumatic osteoarthritis model
subject: Articular cartilage surface
subject: Cartilage biomechanics
subject: Viscoelasticity
subject: Cartilage Friction

description: The study of osteoarthritis (OA) – a painful and disabling disease characterized by disruption and loss of articular cartilage – is challenged by the fact that in most cases clinically recognizable signs and symptoms appear late in the osteoarthritic process, at which point structural and mechanical changes are already quite advanced. Consequently, the critical early events that occur when the disease process is potentially reversible are still not well defined. Although many of the exact details of the early natural history of OA are still unknown, clinical and experimental evidence suggest a degenerative progression beginning with disruption of the extracellular network at the articular surface. Since the articular surface cartilage has an important role in governing the mechanical behavior of the tissue, a better understanding of the early structural and mechanical changes of the cartilage surface that precede overt fibrillation and cartilage thinning would help to characterize the initiating pathogenic events in OA. The studies in this thesis support the presence of a discrete surface lamina and reveal distinct biochemical, structural and mechanical changes in this region in the early phases of experimental osteoarthritis. Micromechanical analyses reveal dramatic reductions in material properties of the articular surface in injured cartilage compared to contralateral controls including reductions in indentation moduli of up to six-fold; a decrease in the ratio of elastic vs. viscous material behavior; and an increase in surface friction coefficients under nanonewton-level applied normal forces. Changes in mechanical properties were associated with disintegration of the articular surface indicated by cracking and roughening of the cartilage surface and reduced fibrillar organization and thinning of the superficial zone. These analyses contribute to a better understanding of the depth- and scale-dependent properties of cartilage in health and disease. The mechanical data define a range of microscale structural and mechanical properties that can potentially be used as targets and inputs for: (1) repair tissues and tissue-engineered constructs for OA treatment; (2) clinical functional diagnostic tests of cartilage integrity; and (3) microscale and hierarchical computational models of cartilage force-deformation behavior.
Approaches to Reduce Clutter and Enhance Robustness of Vortex Extraction in Flow Visualization
Creators: name: Padmesh, Kavya
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Technology
subject: Fluid and Plasma
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Fluid dynamics
subject: Vortex extraction
subject: Cluster analysis
subject: Noise reduction

description: Over the past few decades, extraction and visualization of flow features like vortices has gained tremendous importance and is employed in numerous applications. Several vortex detectors are available in literature that can identify vortices in most empirical and computational datasets. However, despite these efforts, uncertainties in empirical measurements often results in undesired vectors that cause clutter in visualization. Clutter would obscure vortex features and make it hard to understand complex flow behavior. Additionally, floating-point errors in vortex detector computations lead to false positives in vortex extraction. This thesis aims to solve aforementioned problems by implementing - a pre-processing technique to filter undesired vectors from empirical data and a threshold estimation technique to reduce the effect of floating-point errors in vortex extraction. Proposed methodologies are tested on several flow datasets of various sizes and turbulence intensities. Results indicate enhanced visualization by reducing clutter; also, they confirm improved robustness in vortex extraction.
Additional file 1 of Young migrants’ sexual rights in Sweden: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Baroudi, Mazen
name: Hurtig, Anna-Karin
name: Goicolea, Isabel
name: San Sebastian, Miguel
name: Jonzon, Robert
name: Nkulu-Kalengayi, Faustine Kyungu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Full list of questions in the five domains of sexual rights. Supplementary information of To what extent are young migrants’ sexual rights being fulfilled in Sweden? A cross-sectional study. Mazen Baroudi, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastian, Robert Jonzon, Faustine Kyungu Nkulu-Kalengayi.
Additional file 2 of Young migrants’ sexual rights in Sweden: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Baroudi, Mazen
name: Hurtig, Anna-Karin
name: Goicolea, Isabel
name: San Sebastian, Miguel
name: Jonzon, Robert
name: Nkulu-Kalengayi, Faustine Kyungu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Detailed results of all questions in the five domains of sexual rights. Supplementary information of To what extent are young migrants’ sexual rights being fulfilled in Sweden? A cross-sectional study. Mazen Baroudi, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Isabel Goicolea, Miguel San Sebastian, Robert Jonzon, Faustine Kyungu Nkulu-Kalengayi.
« Le corps mangeur: la faim, le goût et l'incorporation. », in F. Duhart, A. Charif et Y. Le Pape (ed.), Anthropologie historique du corps. Seize regards, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006, pp. 231-237.
Creators: name: Duhart, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Anthropology of Food
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Body
subject: Incorporation
subject: Nutrition
subject: Hunger
subject: Representation
subject: Taste
subject: Food Preferences

description: II faut manger pour vivre. De cette nécessité physiologique découle un fait essentiel : il n'est de corps, qui ne soit ou n'ait été un corps mangeur, un corps sensible à la faim, guidé par le goût, rassasié par des incorporations alimentaires et construit grâce à celles-ci. Le corps mangeur est tout aussi indéniablement biologique qu'éminemment culturel, tout autant perçu socialement que vécu psychologiquement. Dans cette brève note, nous considérerons le corps mangeur selon les angles d'observation offerts par la faim, le goût et l'incorporation.
The Riemann-Lovelock Curvature Tensor
Creators: name: Kastor, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to study the properties of Lovelock gravity theories in low dimensions, we define the kth-order Riemann-Lovelock tensor as a certain quantity having a total 4k-indices, which is kth-order in the Riemann curvature tensor and shares its basic algebraic and differential properties. We show that the kth-order Riemann-Lovelock tensor is determined by its traces in dimensions 2k \le D <4k. In D=2k+1 this identity implies that all solutions of pure kth-order Lovelock gravity are `Riemann-Lovelock' flat. It is verified that the static, spherically symmetric solutions of these theories, which are missing solid angle space times, indeed satisfy this flatness property. This generalizes results from Einstein gravity in D=3, which corresponds to the k=1 case. We speculate about some possible further consequences of Riemann-Lovelock curvature.
description: 12 pages
More power via graph-structured tests for differential expression of gene networks
Creators: name: Jacob, Laurent
name: Neuvial, Pierre
name: Dudoit, Sandrine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We consider multivariate two-sample tests of means, where the location shift between the two populations is expected to be related to a known graph structure. An important application of such tests is the detection of differentially expressed genes between two patient populations, as shifts in expression levels are expected to be coherent with the structure of graphs reflecting gene properties such as biological process, molecular function, regulation or metabolism. For a fixed graph of interest, we demonstrate that accounting for graph structure can yield more powerful tests under the assumption of smooth distribution shift on the graph. We also investigate the identification of nonhomogeneous subgraphs of a given large graph, which poses both computational and multiple hypothesis testing problems. The relevance and benefits of the proposed approach are illustrated on synthetic data and on breast and bladder cancer gene expression data analyzed in the context of KEGG and NCI pathways.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS528 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1009.5173
JunctionBox: A Multi-touch Interaction Mapping Toolkit for Creating Musical Interfaces
Creators: name: Fyfe, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Music
subject: Computer Science
subject: Multi-touch

description: This thesis describes my research into the development of a unit interaction model for multi-touch interactions in a musical context. To create this model of unit interactions, I first determined the most fundamental aspects of multi-touch that offer interaction building blocks that can be combined in a variety of ways, allowing for a high degree of freedom to design and build musical interfaces. This unit interaction model is implemented via JunctionBox, a toolkit for mapping multi-touch input to control of music. With JunctionBox, composers, musicians, and programmers can build interfaces that combine multi-touch and mapping for use in a wide variety of musical contexts. As a toolkit, JunctionBox features multi-touch input tracking, mapping of input to output via messaging, output for graphical feedback, and flexible networking options. All of these features are designed such that they can be used in any combination, allowing for tremendous creative freedom in building interfaces. To put JunctionBox in a context, it is compared to other toolkits to examine its interaction features in comparison to other tools. The comparisons show that JunctionBox provides a richer set of interaction options than the other tools. By providing a rich set of interactions, JunctionBox opens the door to greater creativity in designing multi-touch musical interfaces. JunctionBox is also explored via practice-based research. During my research, I have created and performed with a variety of interfaces that I built with JunctionBox. These interfaces range from live performance interfaces to controls for an interactive installation. The variety of interfaces shows the flexibility inherent in the design of JunctionBox. In addition, these interfaces serve to show the creative interface possibilities that JunctionBox affords. Finally, research into the design and implementation of JunctionBox led to the development of a series of design principles that can be applied to toolkits that aspire to balance features and creative freedom. The design principles are variations on tolerance. Tolerance for allowing developers to use their own creativity in designing and building musical interfaces.
Thermal-transport studies of Two-dimensional Quantum Spin Liquids
Creators: name: Yamashita, Minoru
name: Shibauchi, Takasada
name: Matsuda, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are fluid-like states of quantum spins where its long-range ordered state is destroyed by quantum fluctuations. The ground state of QSL and its exotic phenomena, which have been extensively discussed for decades, have yet to be identified. We employ thermal transport measurements on newly discovered QSL candidates, $κ$-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3 and EtMe3Sb[Pd(dmit)2]2, and report that the two organic insulators possess different QSLs characterized by different elementary excitations. In $κ$-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3, heat transport is thermally activated at low temperatures, suggesting presence of a spin gap in this QSL. In stark contrast, in EtMe3Sb[Pd(dmit)2]2, a sizable linear temperature dependence of thermal conductivity is clearly resolved in the zero-temperature limit, showing gapless excitation with a long mean free path (~1,000 lattice distances). Such a long mean free path demonstrates a novel feature of QSL as a quantum-condensed state with long-distance coherence.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; invited mini-review article for ChemPhysChem
El reto del humanismo cristiano en la universidad
Creators: name: Melé, Domènec
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: En la universidad actual persiste una notable fragmentación de los saberes, de modo contrario a la idea original de universidad. Por otra parte, predominan ideologías de corte positivista, pragmatista y utilitarista que proponen una visión reduccionista de lo humano. Ello plantea el reto de incorporar a la universidad una visión integral del hombre tal como la presenta el humanismo cristiano, que considera lo humano en todas sus dimensiones, incluyendo su dimensión transcendente y las realidades que se descubren a la luz de la fe. Aquí se analizan algunos rasgos esenciales del humanismo cristiano, con los valores que comporta, y la aportación del humanismo cristiano a la institución y el quehacer universitario. Finalmente, se proponen algunas recomendaciones para la implementación del humanismo cristiano en la universidad.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 2
Sketch Recognition and Interpretation Using a Web-Based PGIS Framework for Urban Planning
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Psychology--Cognitive
subject: Participatory GIS
subject: Sketch Recognition
subject: Ontology
subject: Spatial Reasoning
subject: Human Computer Interaction
subject: Urban Planning
subject: VGI

description: Internet and web mapping technologies have provided the public with a new understanding of maps and how they can participate in different types of activities. Access to these technologies offers opportunities for the provision of services that utilize users’ tacit knowledge to enhance the quality of engagements. This has led to the advent of applications that rely on users’ knowledge. However, participation in planning and decision-making using mapping technologies used by GIS and urban planning experts can be difficult and problematic for lay people as it requires expert knowledge. To address this issue, and other associated limitations (such as: validating the users’ input, defining the implication of planning based on users’ input and so on), this research investigates the difficulties and limitations related to participation and offers a solution based on semantics that models urban feature relationships to help recognize and validate users’ contributions collected as a set of sketches in an urban context. This methodology aims to help community members to engage in participatory GIS activities with minimal cognitive effort. The overall process requires an approach to help participants convey their cognitive maps in a valid and logical way that matches with standard urban patterns generally, or for an application specifically. Developing an ontology to model urban entities and their relationships is crucial for this matter. Utilizing spatial reasoning to check and validate logical relationships between sketches and existing features based on the developed ontology for the domain is also essential. In this thesis, the main objective was to overcome the aforementioned difficulties of user interaction with a PGIS system. To achieve the objective, an ontology was developed to present the semantic, topological and geometric relationships among the urban planning entities. Then, spatial reasoning rules were applied to recognize and validate users’ input and give them feedback based on the nature of their input. Finally a web-based system called PYPsketch for participatory GIS was developed. The user interface of the system was also evaluated in terms of urban feature recognition.
Additional file 1 of Feasibility and acceptability of monitoring personal air pollution exposure with sensors for asthma self-management
Creators: name: Xie, Sherrie
name: Meeker, Jessica R.
name: Perez, Luzmercy
name: Eriksen, Whitney
name: Localio, Anna
name: Park, Hami
name: Jen, Alicia
name: Goldstein, Madison
name: Temeng, Akua F.
name: Morales, Sarai M.
name: Christie, Colin
name: Greenblatt, Rebecca E.
name: Barg, Frances K.
name: Apter, Andrea J.
name: Himes, Blanca E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure 1. Photograph of a HabitatMap AirBeam sensor paired via Bluetooth to an Android mobile phone through the AirCasting app. Supplemental Figure 2. Results from an indoor test of basic sensor functionality and inter-sensor reliability. A) PM2.5 concentration measured by different AirBeam sensors, colored by sensor ID, while a stick of burning incense emitted particles in a confined indoor space. The dotted black line indicates the time at which the incense was lit. B) Correlation matrix of PM2.5 measurements recorded by different sensors. Supplemental Figure 3. Scatterplot of PM2.5 concentration measured by Airbeam sensors vs. PM2.5 concentration interpolated from space- and time-matched EPA measurements. Supplemental Figure 4. Time trends of temperature, relative humidity and PM2.5 concentration measured by an AirBeam sensor while being deployed outside on July 12, 2018. Supplemental Figure 5. Photographs of select commercially available particulate pollution sensors labeled by model name (manufacturer), with asterisks denoting those suitable for personal sensing. For sensor specifications, refer to Supplemental Table 1. Appendix. Standardized script used to guide semi-structured interviews with adults with asthma.
Spectroscopy of the spatially-extended Lya emission around a QSO at z=6.4
Creators: name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Utsumi, Yousuke
name: Walsh, Jeremy R.
name: Hattori, Takashi
name: Miyazaki, Satoshi
name: Yamauchi, Chisato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have taken a deep, moderate-resolution Keck/Deimos spectra of QSO, CFHQS2329, at z=6.4. At the wavelength of Lya, the spectrum shows a spatially-extended component, which is significantly more extended than a stellar spectrum, and also a continuum part of the spectrum. The restframe line width of the extended component is 21+-7 A, and thus smaller than that of QSO (52+-4 A), where they should be identical if the light is incomplete subtraction of the QSO component. Therefore, these comparisons argue for the detection of a spatially extended Lya nebulae around this QSO. This is the first z>6 QSO that an extended Lya halo has been observed around. Careful subtraction of the central QSO spectrum reveals a lower limit to the Lya luminosity of (1.7+-0.1)x 10^43 erg s^-1. This emission may be from the theoretically predicted infalling gas in the process of forming a primordial galaxy that is ionized by a central QSO. On the other hand, if it is photoionized by the host galaxy, an estimated star-formation rate of >3.0 Msun yr^-1 is required. If we assume the gas is virialized, we obtain dynamical mass estimate of Mdyn=1.2x10^12 Msun. The derived MBH/Mhost is 2.1x10^-4, which is two orders smaller than those from more massive z~6 QSOs, and places this galaxy in accordance with the local M-sigma relation, in contrast to a previous claim on the evolution of M-sigma relation at z~6. We do not claim evolution or non-evolution of the M-sigma relation based on a single object, but our result highlights the importance of investigating fainter QSOs at z~6.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. A minor computational error fixed
A generalization of a theorem of Boyd and Lawton
Creators: name: Issa, Zahraa
name: Lalín, Matilde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R06, 11R09

description: The Mahler measure of a nonzero $n$-variable polynomial $P$ is the integral of $\log|P|$ on the unit $n$-torus. A result of Boyd and Lawton says that the Mahler measure of a multivariate polynomial is the limit of Mahler measures of univariate polynomials. We prove the analogous result for different extensions of Mahler measure such as generalized Mahler measure (integrating the maximum of $\log|P|$ for possibly different $P$'s), multiple Mahler measure (involving products of $\log|P|$ for possibly different $P$'s), and higher Mahler measure (involving $\log^k|P|$).
description: 9 pages
Cognitive Processes and Paralepsis
Creators: name: Remorini, Paolo
Publisher: name: RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne
Year: 2023

description: This paper has the dual purpose of outlining the case history related to paralepsis in literary texts, highlighting the different possibilities of application and the narrative effects that derive in any case towards a transgressive fantastic alteration, and of trying to update the referential system drawn by Genette in 1972. For that, we will draw on some postulates and principles of linguistics and cognitive narratology, applying them to two specific stories by Michele Mari, Josef K. and Lamento del guerriero, when we will show how unexpected informations offered by a particular character (bottom-up vertical paralepsis and internal horizontal paralepsis) produce metaleptic shifts that dis-locate and re-locate the reading around different attractors that transgress the fictional logic (Remorini 2023).
description: RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne, V. 10 N. 19 (2023)
Artistic Creation is Artistic Research: Substantiation through a Bimodal Framework
Creators: name: Willard, Christopher
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Philosophy
subject: Artistic
subject: Research
subject: Art
subject: Practice
subject: Aesthetics
subject: Collingwood
subject: Wittgenstein

description: The primary objective of this dissertation is to disentangle and arrange a number of issues particular to the sphere of activity designated as artistic research. A bimodal conception of artistic research is proposed as a framework by which confusions in the discourse and in applications of artistic research may be avoided or resolved. Mode one indicates that artistic creation is in most instances ipso facto artistic research. A philosophical substantiation is offered for the claim. In brief, a work of art is considered to be a state of affairs, to use Wittgenstein’s terminology, of the artistic kind. The creation of a state of affairs of the artistic kind and the formulation of propositional belief about that state of affairs are claimed to be necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for artistic research to occur. A state of affairs of the artistic kind provides the artistic component of artistic research; however, the state of affairs in and of itself does not normally convey propositional belief, and therefore does not satisfy the condition of research in artistic research. For artistic research to take place, propositional belief about the state of affairs of the artistic kind must be formulated. The site of the initiation of the research component of artistic research is thus located. In normal artistic practices, the class of activities commonly seen as art and the class of activities commonly seen as research exhibit significant class overlap and are inseparably intertwined in the vast majority of artistic creations. Mode two indicates delimited forms of artistic research. Mode two artistic research does not accept that the conditions of mode one are sufficient for artistic research and subsequently requires further epistemic justification or criteria. The further justification or criteria delimits the form of artistic research, usually within particular contexts for particular purposes. Clarity in the discourse of artistic research is promoted when the modes are clearly differentiated, when their purposes are stated, and when the underlying presuppositions held by their proponents are revealed.
Additional file 1 of ESPED survey on newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia in childhood: how much treatment do we give?
Creators: name: von Lukowicz, Hannah
name: Schlegel, Paul-Gerhardt
name: Härtel, Christoph
name: Morbach, Henner
name: Haubitz, Imme
name: Wiegering, Verena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. ESPED questionnaire.
Comparing the Experiences of University Teachers and Students in Synchronous Hybrid Settings During and after the Pandemic
Creators: name: Giacosa, Antonella
Publisher: name: RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne
Year: 2023

description: Among the many innovations, teachers and students experimented widely for the first time with synchronous hybrid settings, which took hold in the second year of the pandemic (20-21). Although synchronous hybrid education is nothing new, it was neither widespread among practitioners nor established in the literature. This mixed method study aims to contribute to the body of knowledge about a format which was already studied before the pandemic as a convenient way to make tertiary education more inclusive, which is consistent with the 2030 Agenda goals regarding equity in education. To this end, it compares data collected during and after the pandemic on teacher and student approach towards synchronous hybrid teaching and learning combining quantitative and qualitative data. The opinions on synchronous hybrid education obtained during and after the pandemic do not differ. On the one hand, students and teachers in the three data collections mentioned the same challenges of synchronous hybrid settings. On the other hand, they see the opportunities differently. For teachers, the disadvantages in terms of workload, stress and effectiveness do not outweigh the opportunities in terms of student attendance. In contrast, students tend to favour synchronous hybrid teaching and learning because it could improve their quality of life, if not their learning.
description: RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne, V. 10 N. 19 (2023)
New Techniques for Private Function Evaluation
Creators: name: Sadeghian, SeyedSaeed
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Computer Science
subject: Privacy
subject: Secure Computation
subject: Private Function Evaluation

description: In this thesis, we study the problem of general-purpose private function evaluation (PFE) wherein a single party P1 holds a circuit C, while each Pi for 1<=i<=m holds a private input xi, and the goal is for a subset (or all) of the parties to learn C(x1,…,xm) but nothing else. We pursue the design of PFE with better concrete and/or asymptotic complexity for a variety of settings. We put forth a general framework for designing PFE as the first alternative general approach to universal circuits. In this framework, the task of hiding the circuit topology and securely evaluating its gates are addressed independently through two functionalities we call CTH (Circuit Topology Hiding) and PGE (Private Gate Evaluation). We instantiate our framework using the building blocks of several well-known general MPC constructions, obtaining more efficient PFE than prior work for two-party PFE, multi-party PFE and PFE for arithmetic circuits. Next, we propose the first general framework for designing actively secure PFE, not based on universal circuits. On the theoretical side, our framework yields the first actively secure PFE with linear complexity in the circuit size. On the practical side, we obtain the first actively secure PFE for arithmetic circuits with O(glogg) complexity where g is the circuit size, significantly improving over previous constructions with complexity O(g^5). Despite its inefficiency, we identify various advantages for PFE based on universal circuits. Valiant's construction (STOC 1976) yields universal circuits with the optimal asymptotic complexity, and has been employed in several recent works. But somewhat surprisingly, no implementations of the construction exist. We look back at this construction, and provide a more approachable description. This enables us to provide constant factor improvements and the first implementation. A more accurate comparison made possible through our implementation shows that the improved Valiant's UC performs better than the theoretical estimate, and in fact is almost always smaller than the UC construction of Kolesnikov and Schneider (FC 2008). We also observe, for the first time, that the same construction can be adapted to yield size-optimized universal arithmetic circuits (UAC).
Between-limb Gait and Muscle Strength Asymmetry in Runners with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Creators: name: Webber, Talia
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Patellofemoral Pain Sydrome
subject: Asymmetry
subject: Gait Kinematics
subject: Muscle Strength

description: Purpose: To investigate between-limb gait and muscle strength asymmetry in patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) subjects and controls. Methods: Three-dimensional hip, knee, and ankle joint kinematics were collected during treadmill running. Maximum voluntary isometric contractions of the hip musculature were collected using a force dynamometer. PFPS subjects completed a 6-week strengthening program. Discrete variable asymmetry was calculated using analysis of variance and waveform kinematic asymmetry was calculated using coefficients of multiple correlation and root mean square error. Results: PFPS exhibited between-limb asymmetry of hip and knee transverse plane waveform kinematics, while controls exhibited asymmetry of hip frontal plane waveform kinematics. PFPS subjects exhibited decreased hip transverse plane and increased knee transverse plane waveform kinematic asymmetry following rehabilitation. Conclusion: PFPS subjects demonstrate a different pattern of gait asymmetry than controls. Increases in hip muscle strength results in between-limb asymmetry of PFPS subjects to more closely resemble that of healthy controls.
Additional file 1 of The association between first-time accreditation and the delivery of recommended care: a before and after study in the Faroe Islands
Creators: name: Bergholt, Maria Daniella
name: Falstie-Jensen, Anne Mette
name: Hibbert, Peter
name: Eysturoy, Barbara Joensen
name: Guttesen, Gunnvá
name: Róin, Tóra
name: Valentin, Jan Brink
name: Braithwaite, Jeffrey
name: von Plessen, Christian
name: Johnsen, Søren Paaske
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Mortality among British Columbians testing for hepatitis C antibody, 1992-2004
Creators: name: Yu, Ya-Wen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major preventable and treatable cause of morbidity and mortality. The ability to link records between population-based centralized laboratory HCV testing data and administrative databases has provided a unique opportunity to compare mortality and morbidity between HCV seronegative and seropositive individuals. Through the use of laboratory testing patterns and results, this study attempts to differentiate the viral effects of mortality due to HCV infection from risk behaviours/activities that are associated with acquisition of HCV infection. Methods: Serological testing data at the British Columbia (BC) Centre for Disease Control from 1992-2004 were linked to the death registry at the BC Vital Statistics Agency. Four groups of HCV testers were defined by their HCV antibody (anti-HCV) testing patterns: single non-reactive (SNR); serial multiple tested non-reactive (MNR); reactive at initial testing (REAC); and seroconverter (previously seronegative followed by reactive, a marker for incident infection) (SERO). Standardized mortality ratios were generated to compare all-cause and disease specific mortality with the BC population. Time-dependent Cox proportional hazard regression was used to compare hazard ratios among HCV serological groups. Results: Anti-HCV testers were found to have higher mortality than the BC population. Referent to the SNR group, the REAC group had higher risks for liver-related mortality (hazard ratio (HR): 9.71, 95% confidence interval (CI): 8.62-10.87) and drug-related mortality (HR: 13.51, 95% CI: 11.63-15.63). When compared to the REAC group, the SERO group had a lower risk for liver-related mortality (HR: 0.53, 95% CI: 0.24-0.92), but a higher risk for drug-related mortality (HR: 1.60, 95% CI: 1.20-2.08). Conclusions: These findings confirm that anti-HCV positive testers have increased mortality due to chronic infection related to progressive liver disease, and that a substantial proportion of the mortality is attributable to drug use and risk behaviours/activities associated with HCV acquisition. Mortality reduction in HCV infected individuals will require comprehensive prevention programming to reduce the impact of mental health and problematic substance use behaviours/activities which relate to HCV acquisition, as well as HCV treatment to prevent progression of chronic liver disease.
Pure and entangled N=4 linear supermultiplets and their one-dimensional sigma-models
Creators: name: Gonzales, Marcelo
name: Iga, Kevin
name: Khodaee, Sadi
name: Toppan, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: "Pure" homogeneous linear supermultiplets (minimal and non-minimal) of the N=4-Extended one-dimensional Supersymmetry Algebra are classified. "Pure" means that they admit at least one graphical presentation (the corresponding graph/graphs are known as "Adinkras"). We further prove the existence of "entangled" linear supermultiplets which do not admit a graphical presentation, by constructing an explicit example of an entangled N=4 supermultiplet with field content (3,8,5). It interpolates between two inequivalent pure N=4 supermultiplets with the same field content. The one-dimensional N=4 sigma-model with a three-dimensional target based on the entangled supermultiplet is presented. The distinction between the notion of equivalence for pure supermultiplets and the notion of equivalence for their associated graphs (Adinkras) is discussed. Discrete properties such as chirality and coloring can discriminate different supermultiplets. The tools used in our classification include, among others, the notion of field content, connectivity symbol, commuting group, node choice group and so on.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures. Two references added
La Vida de Skanderbeg en su versión castellana: Chrónica del esforçado príncipe y capitán Jorge Castrioto (Lisboa, 1588)
Creators: name: Contreras Martín, Antonio
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: La figura del noble Gjergj Kastrioti (Jorge Castriota) (1405-1468) transciende las fronteras nacionales albanesas y se convierte en protagonista de una obra, Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum Principis (Roma, 1508-1510), de Marin Barleti, que será vertida en diversas lenguas. El propósito del presente trabajo es un análisis introductorio y comparado de la versión castellana (1588) con la portuguesa (1567), con el fin de observar cómo trabajó el traductor y cómo pudo ser comprendida por el público español del último tercio del siglo XVI.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 1
Low Impact Development Policy Implementation: Achieving Volume Reduction Targets in the Nose Creek Watershed
Creators: name: Maitland, Christopher
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Stormwater Management
subject: Low Impact Development
subject: Nose Creek Watershed

description: Urban development has cumulative negative impacts on hydrological processes and overall watershed health. Traditional stormwater management methods combined with extensive impervious surfaces create high volumes and velocities of runoff. This can have the effect of preventing groundwater recharge, increasing erosion and collecting and concentrating non-point source pollution. The term Low Impact Development (LID) covers a wide array of methods implemented to reduce flow volumes, filter sediments, increase infiltration and base flow, control erosion and protect riparian areas. LID has been implemented in the Nose Creek Watershed through an approved Watershed Water Management Plan which enforces incremental volume reduction targets. The purpose of this thesis is to measure the financial implications of such targets relative to performance criteria. The method consists of creating typical site criteria that can be run through a modelled scenario for each stage of volume reduction targets and establish estimated costs. The savings associated with LID are also established for each of the reduction targets. The first set of scenarios focus on land intensive bio-swales which have a relatively low cost of construction. A second set of scenarios focuses on underground infiltration chambers which have a relatively high cost of construction however preserve developable building area. The results show that LID implementation has a significant cost implication on industrial development, the Stage 4 reduction target cannot be achieved without revised right of way standards, and that cost intensive underground chambers are significantly less expensive than surface intensive bio-swales when balanced against the value of recovered developable building area. Additional consideration is given to the cost of not implementing LID volume reduction targets, local conditions and runoff reduction, ownership, land use planning, and the distribution of LID costs. Future LID policy implementation is considered in light of the scenario results.