cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disentangling Between-Person Level From Within-Person Level Relationships: How Sharing Alcohol References on Facebook and Alcohol Use Are Associated Over Time
Creators: name: Geusens, Femke
name: Chen, Y. Anthony
name: Kerr, Bradley
name: Moreno, Megan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A growing body of research supports that publicly displayed alcohol references on social media are positively associated with alcohol use among college students. However, unaddressed questions remain, particularly what types of alcohol references (i.e., alcohol use vs. intoxication) have such influence, and whether the association between sharing alcohol references on social media and drinking behavior is a within-person effect, or rather reflects group differences. The current study (N = 338) used secondary data analysis of a four-wave longitudinal dataset collected as part of a larger project, which evaluated college students’ Facebook profiles and their alcohol use across their college experience. Using a random intercept cross-lagged panel analysis, we found empirical support for a positive relationship between sharing alcohol references and alcohol use at between-person level rather than the within-person level. Moreover, there was a negative relationship between sharing intoxication alcohol references on Facebook and alcohol use at the within-person level. This means that we find more support for the idea that the association between sharing alcohol references on social media and drinking behavior reflects group differences, rather than true self-effect of social media use.
Sample_Weight_Model for Predictive Coding Deep Neural Network (Front. Psychol., 15 March 2018), and Bug-fixed Version
Creators: name: Watanabe, Eiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Sample weight model used in Illusory Motion Reproduced by Deep Neural Networks Trained for Prediction (Front. Psychol., 15 March 2018; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00345).
This model was generated with predictive coding deep neural network using 500K FPSI video images.
[Important remarks][About 29v_300K_i10K.model]
The video used in the paper has a bug where it plays the same two frames in a row (which may not be a bug for artificial perception...). The model 29v_300K_i10K.model was trained on the video with the bug fixed. The GPU parameters and initial values were fixed for 29v_300K_i10K.model training.
The videos used for the training were shared below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i8Iv4Gd9zwVyvgXTtVb4RIHeex4D5tXr/view?usp=sharing
Media as A Source of Coping and Social, Psychological and Hedonic Well-being: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Courbet, Didier
name: Fourquet-Courbet, Marie-Pierre
name: Basile-Commaille, Évi
name: Bernard, Pascal
name: Pascual-Espuny, Céline
name: Kouadio, Pemon
name: Klein, Tracy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have provided an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the processes by which media are used to improve coping and impaired well-being. Despite the important health issues at stake, the overall dynamic of media-based coping strategies (MBCS), their evolution over time according to their perceived efficacy, and their link with social well-being are poorly understood. The present longitudinal qualitative study, conducted in seven phases of interviews over a period of 36 weeks among a diverse population experiencing lockdown, lifting of lockdown, and then a second lockdown (N = 31; total duration 192 hours), shows how individuals implemented eight families of MBCS on two interdependent levels. On the first level, two families of MBCS developed “micro” and “macro” social processes, contributing to social well-being. Social media satisfied social needs usually satisfied offline. Two other families also improved psychological and hedonic well-being. Among these MBCS, the hedonic strategies in particular were perceived as being ineffective after about a month of confinement. Four families of second-level MBCS were then implemented and were perceived as effective in both the short and long term. Limitations and new perspectives opened by the results are discussed.
Geotechnical behaviour of bentonitic clay seam
Creators: name: Kumar, Deepak
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2005

description: Bibliography: p. 153-166
description: Thin layers of soft clay seam exist beneath the earth surface at several locations in Western Canada. They were formed out of volcanic eruptions in the past and were buried due to geological depositions on them from the top. Over the years, they have undergone several fabric and mineralogical transformations due to in situ pressure and existing physicochemical environment. Relative shearing of soil layers above and below a clay seam is always possible in the presence of a source of shearing. Several casing (meant for extracting oil) failures have been reported from the oil fields of Alberta due to such relative shearing of soil layers above and below the existing clay seam. At these sites, cyclic steam stimulation (a thermal process) technique is used to extract oil. In the mentioned technique, steam at high pressure and temperature is injected in oil bearing formations to reduce their viscosity before extraction, and it also acts as an excitation source of shearing along the clay seam. Beforehand knowledge of relative shear displacement along clay seam caused by a certain steam pressure can help reduce the number of casing failures. In the present work, an analytical elastic model has been developed to estimate the shear displacement along the clay seam due to steam injection. Concepts of elastic fracture mechanics were used to estimate the relative displacement. Several laboratory tests including creep test, direct shear box test, mineralogical and fabric analyses were conducted on samples of clay seam for their complete characterization.
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use
Creators: name: Schnauber-Stockmann, Anna
name: Scharkow, Michael
name: Breuer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Given the high importance of Web use in day-to-day life, understanding and predicting Web browsing behavior are important endeavors for academic as well as commercial research. We propose that routines – behaviors that are performed regularly (activation) and in similar ways (execution) – can be used to describe underlying structures in Web use and, thereby, improve the predictability of subsequent Web use behavior. Based on two large-scale Web-tracking data sets, we developed indicators for routine activation and execution, tested their reliability and stability, and examined their association with the predictability of six Web use behaviors: overall Web use, news use, shopping, Facebook, YouTube, and Google use. Our results show that routine measures derived from tracking data were only moderately reliable but very stable. Routine activation was consistently and substantially associated with higher predictability for all Web use behaviors, whereas routine execution was less consistently and not strongly linked to predictability.
MPEC 2023-H120 : 2023 HP2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HP2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Robust hypothesis testing in functional linear models
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan
name: Wu, Yuehua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: We extend three robust tests – Wald-type, the likelihood ratio-type and F-type in functional linear models with the scalar dependent variable and the functional covariate. Based on the percentage of variance explained criterion, we use the functional principal components analysis and re-express a functional linear model to a finite regression. We investigate the theoretical properties of these robust testing procedures and assess the finite sample properties through the numerical simulation. In our experiments, the power performance and Type I error rates are studied separately in the sparsely and densely functional linear models. The simulation results show that the robust test procedures are more stable and less sensitive to heavy-tailed distributed errors than the classical ones. Two real datasets are analysed to compare the classical and robust testing procedures.
Dielectric spectroscopy of breast tissue: measurement and permittivity models
Creators: name: McCartney, Leah M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2005

description: Bibliography: p. 125-135
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Microwave breast cancer detection applications are based on the hypothesis that there is a clear distinction between normal and malignant breast tissue dielectric properties across a wide frequency range. There is need for a database of the dielectric properties of breast tissue, as limited data has been collected to date. Measurement protocols have been developed for collecting the reflection coefficient of breast tissue using a high precision coaxial probe and vector network analyzer. Data processing techniques have been developed to extract permittivity from reflection coefficient data measured through dielectric spectroscopy. A rational func­tion model (RFM), dependent on frequency and permittivity, converts the aperture plane reflection coefficient to permittivity. Validation studies were conducted using breast tissue equivalent reference liquids. The RFM model has been preliminarily applied to measured breast tissue sam­ples. The initial results support the hypothesis of a fundamental difference between normal fat and malignant and benign tissues, as well as a distinction between benign fibroadenoma and malignant tissues.
title: Αλγοριθμική επίλυση του προβλήματος δρομολόγησης μη στελεχωμένων εναέριων οχημάτων με παραλαβές, παραδόσεις και σταθμούς αντικατάστασης μπαταριών
title: Algorithmic solution of the drone routing problem with pickups, deliveries and battery replacement stations

Creators: name: Γιαννουλακης Εμμανουηλ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Η εφοδιαστική αλυσίδα είναι η διαδικασία μεταφοράς ενός προϊόντος ή μιας υπηρεσίας από το σημείο παραγωγής στο σημείο παράδοσης με κύριο μέλημα τη μείωση του λειτουργικού κόστους της μεταφοράς των προϊόντων και την αύξηση της ικανοποίησης του πελάτη. Η εφοδιαστική αλυσίδα με σύμμαχο την τεχνολογία εξελίσσεται διαρκώς, με την εύρεση προηγμένων τρόπων και εναλλακτικών επίτευξης του σκοπού της. Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία μοντελοποιείται κι επιλύεται το πρόβλημα Δρομολόγησης Μη- Στελεχωμένου Εναέριου Οχημάτος με Παραλαβές, Παραδόσεις και Σταθμούς Αντικατάστασης Μπαταριών. Σκοπός του προβλήματος είναι η βελτιστοποίηση της διαδρομής, ελαχιστοποιώντας την ενέργεια του drone. Το drone πραγματοποιεί την παραλαβή πακέτων με προκαθορισμένο βάρος από ένα σύνολο πωλητών, καθώς και την παράδοση σε ένα σύνολο αγοραστών, λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τους περιορισμούς χωρητικότητας και ενέργειας. Σε περίπτωση αξιοποίησης της εκάστοτε μπαταρίας, το drone οδηγείται στον κοντινότερο σταθμό αντικατάστασης μπαταρίας, προϋποθέτοντας ότι υπάρχει διαθεσιμότητα. Για την επίλυση του προβλήματος υλοποιείται ένας υβριδικός αλγόριθμος, ο οποίος αποτελείται από τον αλγόριθμο Απληστης Τυχαιοποιημένης Αναζήτησης για την αρχικοποίηση της γειτονιάς, γνωρίζοντας την θέση του κάθε πελάτη και των σταθμών και από τον αλγόριθμο Μεταβλητής Γειτονιάς Αναζήτησης για την βελτιστοποίηση της λύσης εφαρμόζοντας διάφορες μεθόδους τοπικής αναζήτησης.
description: The supply chain is the process of transferring a product or one service from the point of production to the point of delivery, having as its main concern the reduction of the operational cost of transferring products and customer satisfaction. The supply chain allied with all the time evolving technology finds state-of-the-art ways and alternatives to achieve its purpose. In this senior thesis a drone routing problem is modeled and solved. The goal of this problem is the optimization of the path, minimizing the energy of one single drone. The drone carries out the pickup of the packages, which have predetermined weight, from a set of sellers and the delivery to a set of buyers, taking into consideration the capacity and energy constraints. In case of utilization of each battery, the drone is driven to the closest battery replacement station, if there is still availability. For the solution of the problem a hybrid algorithm is implemented, which consists of the algorithm of Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure for the initialization of the solution, knowing the location of each customer and each station and the Variable Neighborhood Search for the optimization of the solution applying a variety of local search methods.
Strengthening of reinforced concrete columns with various methods
Creators: name: Scholefield, Blair William James
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2003

description: Bibliography: p. 112-115
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: As our infrastructure ages, many structures need strengthening to cope with increases in permitted loads. One area of concern is the repair of concrete columns. Severe corrosion of the reinforcing steel and the trouble of total replacement requires a non-destructive, easily applied method of protection and strengthening be used. One such renovation method involves the use of Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP's). These lightweight, high strength materials could be a new strengthening option for the rehabilitation of civil engineering structures. In an initial series of tests, square concrete columns were strengthened by wrapping with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) sheets. The strength gains were higher than predicted. The inaccuracy of the predictions and the expense of the methodology used, indicated that further tests were required. These results suggested that column strengthening in not well understood, nor are there well-defined types of strengthening measures to suit different circumstances. More economical measures are desired in addition to strength prediction. Current design methods are based on the ultimate strain capacity of the wrap however, because of vertical compression cracks in the column, and/or buckling failure of the steel reinforcement the column fails prematurely. The results from the initial tests lead to the strengthening of fifty-four circular columns with six different strengthening measures. The measures that were assessed are: CFRP wrap, Glass FRP wrap (GFRP), GFRP spray, Steel hose clamps and column enlargement with additional concrete. For each measure, the Cost/Benefit ratio was determined accounting for the strength increase and initial costs. From the testing two things were observed 1) the strengthening measure with the best benefit/cost was sprayed GFRP and 2) Localized strain failure of the FRP jacket occurs because of circumferential column expansion at vertical compression cracks.
Unsettling Japanese Canadianness in Vancouver : negotiated and hybridized identity
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Kozue
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This research examines the identity construction processes and negotiations of members of the Japanese Canadian community in the Greater Vancouver area. In particular, it attempts to answer the following research questions: How do members of the Japanese Canadian community in the Greater Vancouver area construct, negotiate, and hybridize their identity in relation to their respective situations, such as people around them, their community, and the wider society? In particular, how do membership of the community and activities help construct their identity? This research looks at the concept of identity as relational, an on-going internal and external negotiation process, and hybrid based on the arguments of Bhabha (1990, 1994), Fuss (1995), Hall (1990), Nagel (1994) and Weeks (1990). This study also seeks to understand the informants’ relationships with their environment, employing the argument of Lowe (2004) and Spivak (1987) as well as the concept of the “third space” proposed by Bhabha (1990). Based on these perspectives, this research collected the identity construction stories from several Japanese Canadian community members through interviews. With a purposeful sampling strategy, the informants were selected based on their interests and engagement in the cultural and social side of the Japanese Canadian community in Greater Vancouver, and the variety of their ethnic background—in other words, the different ways of being to some extent Japanese. Based on the informants’ stories, this research argues that 1) the informants’ identities are hybrid and constructed through diverse processes and negotiations, including what they call themselves; 2) the informants and communities put efforts toward the deconstruction of “dominant” and “minority” dichotomous positioning with the combination of a sharing-oriented process and strategic essentialism; 3) community space plays a role as a third space for its members. From these arguments, this research also questions the concept of ethnicity and Canada’s multicultural policy based on ethnicity since there are many people and phenomena that cannot be explained with this concept.
Effect of the atomic construction and preparation procedure on the deformation behaviour of CuZr metallic glasses
Creators: name: Amigo, N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The construction of metallic glasses (MGs) at the atomic scale for molecular dynamics simulations involves several factors that ultimately affect the deformation behaviour, a matter that has been rarely addressed in the literature. In order to explore this issue, 10 Cu50Zr50 MGs with different random initial arrangements were subjected to compression tests under identical simulation conditions. Three different deformation behaviours were identified: weak shear band (SB) formation + homogeneous nucleation of shear transformation zones (STZs); SB formation + weak STZs nucleation; and heavily localised SB formation. Structural characterisation revealed that samples exhibiting localised SB formation presented larger populations of clusters with a high degree of local five-fold symmetry, fivefold and quasi-fivefold bonding. The deformation behaviour also varied from sample to sample when exploring other parameters such as the initial random velocities and the annealing temperature after replication of the small samples. Therefore, the preparation procedure must be considered cautiously when studying MGs ductility.
Evaluation of in vitro contact lens friction: Effects of recombinant human proteogrlycan 4 and test counterface
Creators: name: Chan, Amanda
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ocular friction
subject: Contact lenses
subject: Biotribology
subject: Biomaterials
subject: Biomedical devices
subject: Proteoglycan 4
subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: In vitro contact lenses friction significantly correlates with contact lens discomfort. In this thesis, in vitro friction testing was conducted to evaluate the effects of recombinant human PRG4 (rhPRG4) as an ocular surface boundary lubricant and to evaluate both biological and synthetic test counterfaces. The objectives were to (1) assess the potential effect of different lens types and incubation times on the friction of rhPRG4-incubated contact lenses and (2) evaluate mucin- soaked PDMS as a synthetic test counterface for in vitro friction testing of contact lenses. Results of this thesis work demonstrated that a) rhPRG4 may be useful as a friction reducing lubricant on some, but not all, silicone hydrogel contact lenses; and b) as a synthetic counterface, PDMSmucin can exhibit similar friction coefficients compared to biological counterfaces on certain silicone hydrogel lenses. Overall, results led to an improved understanding of PRG4 and in vitro contact lens friction.
Cross-correlation of WISE Galaxies with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Creators: name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Szapudi, Istvan
name: Granett, Benjamin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimated the cross-power spectra of a galaxy sample from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) survey with the 7-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) temperature anisotropy maps. A conservatively-selected galaxy sample covers ~13000sq.deg, with a median redshift of z=0.15. Cross-power spectra show correlations between the two data sets with no discernible dependence on the WMAP Q, V and W frequency bands. We interpret these results in terms of the the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect: for the |b|>20 deg sample at l=6-87, we measure the amplitude (normalized to be 1 for vanilla LambdaCDM expectation) of the signal to be 3.4+-1.1, i.e., 3.1 sigma detection. We discuss other possibilities, but at face value, the detection of the linear ISW effect in a flat universe is caused by large scale decaying potentials, a sign of accelerated expansion driven by Dark Energy.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Structural dynamics of Rhipicephalus microplus serpin-3
Creators: name: Pongprayoon, Prapasiri
name: Kaewhom, Paitoon
name: Kaewmongkol, Sarawan
name: Suwan, Eukote
name: Stich, Roger W.
name: Wiriya, Benjamaporn
name: Jittapalapong, Sathaporn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cattle ticks, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, have a serious impact on livestock worldwide. For tick control, host vaccination is more sustainable than chemical. Salivary serpin (serine protease inhibitor) from R. microplus (RmS-3) is a potential anti-tick vaccine candidate antigen. Like other serpins, RmS-3 has a suicide inhibition mechanism, where the reactive centre loop (RCL) is cleaved and then inserted into the main β-pleated sheet. This causes the breakdown of serpin into two regions (core domain and cleaved polypeptide). A small sequence variation of RmS-3 was observed among specimens in Thailand included three extra amino acids (T147, K180, N193). Molecular Dynamics simulations of the previously reported (Micro) and the novel Thai RmS-3 (Thai) were conducted in comparison. Overall, Micro is more rigid than Thai. Having additional T147 and K180 enhance the structural flexibility in Thai. Both residues are located close to areas that perform a distinct conformational change, so T147 and K180 may impact inhibitory activity of Thai RmS-3. In contrast, N193 seems to have a minor effect. A presence of T147 and K180 in Thai seems to cause significant differences in structural dynamics which may lead to different degrees of inhibition activity. Further experimental studies are required.
Jet squish motion in a homogeneous-charge spark-ignition engine fueled by natural gas
Creators: name: Kastanis, Eric James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Squish is one of the fundamental types of in-cylinder charge motion, and has been shown to be important in the generation of turbulence during the compression stroke. Turbulence intensity positively affects the mixture burning speed, which is important with inherently slow combustion systems, such as lean-burn. A previously proposed novel chamber design called ‘squish jet’ has been reported to further increase turbulence intensity compared with conventional combustion chamber designs. One bowl-in-piston (BIP) and two squish jet pistons (SJA and SJB), each with differing piston bowl geometry, were designed and built, and the operational characteristics of each were extensively investigated in an instrumented homogeneous-charge spark-ignition engine fueled by natural gas. The entire operating map of each chamber design was explored at 1500, 2000, and 2500 rpm and under naturally aspirated and supercharged inlet conditions (1.75 bar MAP). Test results showed that neither the SJA nor the SJB chamber conclusively exhibited superior brake thermal efficiency compared to the baseline BIP chamber. The observed differences were within the experimental uncertainty on the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) and air-fuel ratio parameters. Supplemental analysis of combustion heat release and exhaust hydrocarbon emission indicated that the SJA chamber exhibited the poorest BSFC performance. Because of uncertainty on BSFC and air-fuel ratio, NOx emission differences could neither be conclusively defined. The SJB chamber was found to result in the lowest exhaust hydrocarbon emission. Performance differences were similar under naturally aspirated and supercharged conditions. The main combustion duration of the three chambers was comparable, while the squish jet chambers exhibited longer ignition delay than the BIP chamber, and therefore favoured advanced ignition timing. Limit diagram analysis of the three chambers showed that the SJB chamber exhibited a limit space of comparable size to that of the BIP chamber, but was shifted toward advanced ignition timing. The SJA chamber limit space was similarly shifted, but was contracted in area. The results indicated that the difference in piston bowl geometry between the two squish jet chambers was as important as the addition of the jet-producing piston crown features in influencing combustion and engine performance.
Elampus spina
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Elampus
Elampus spina

description: 4. Elampus spina (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1806)
Hedychrum spinus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau 1806: 121. Holotype ♂; France: Meudon (MSNT) (examined).
Elampus productus Dahlbom 1854: 44. Syntypes; Portugal, France (ZMUL).
Remarks. This species has been confused with Elampus constrictus in older literature. Sahlberg (1910: 99) and Hellén (1920: 206) reported the species from Finland and Russian Fennoscandia, and Borries (1891: 92) reported it from Denmark (as Notozus productus). It was at first reported from Sweden by Thomson (1870: 103, as E. productus), after which it was mentioned by Mocsáry (1889: 68, as Ellampus spina), Aurivillius (1911: 6) and Jansson (1922: 33, as Notozus spina; 1934: 287, as Notozus panzeri var. spina). All Finnish and Russian Fennoscandian specimens have been checked and found to belong to E. constrictus. It is most likely that also all the Danish and Swedish published records refer to E. constrictus. Rosa & Soon (2012) reported E. spina from Sweden based on an old Swedish specimen deposited in NRM. The specimen was later found to represent a large individual of E. foveatus. Apparently E. spina is a predominantly South European and West Asian species, with some scattered records from central Europe (Banaszak 1980).
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Influence of chain stiffness on semiflexible polymer melts in two dimensions via molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Kim, Jun Mo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) semiflexible polymers exhibit distinctive conformational and dynamical behaviour compared to the corresponding bulk polymers. Understanding the microscopic origins of this characteristic behaviour of 2D semiflexible polymers is critical for the practical applications of nanoscale polymer systems such as monolayer polymer films, polymer nanocomposites, and biological membranes. To this end, we used coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation to investigate the behaviour of two-dimensional (2D) semiflexible polymers in a melt by varying the chain stiffness and chain length. Interestingly, the conformational and dynamical behaviour of semiflexible polymer chains was observed to depend on the chain stiffness.
Post-ischemic glycolytic & TCA cycle flux studies using 13C-NMR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Van Den Elzen-Horacek, Marketa
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Cerebral ischemia - Pathophysiology
subject: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
subject: Brain metabolism
subject: Brain - Diseases - Animal models

description: Bibliography: p. 138-154.
Magnetic field evolution in interacting galaxies
Creators: name: Drzazga, Robert T.
name: Chyzy, Krzysztof T.
name: Jurusik, Wojciech
name: Wiorkiewicz, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Violent gravitational interactions can change the morphologies of galaxies and, by means of merging, transform them into elliptical galaxies. We aim to investigate how they affect the evolution of galactic magnetic fields. We selected 16 systems of interacting galaxies and compared their radio emission and estimated magnetic field strengths with their star-forming activity, far-infrared emission, and the stage of tidal interaction. We find a general evolution of magnetic fields: for weak interactions the strength of magnetic field is almost constant (10-15muG) as interaction advances, then it increases up to 2x, peaks at the nuclear coalescence (25muG), and decreases again, down to 5-6muG, for the post-merger remnants. The magnetic field strength for whole galaxies is weakly affected by the star formation rate (SFR), while the dependence is higher for galactic centres. We show that the morphological distortions visible in the radio total and polarized emission do not depend statistically on the global or local SFRs, while they do increase with the advance of interaction. The constructed radio-far-infrared relations for interacting and non-interacting galaxies display a similar balance between the generation of cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and the production of the thermal energy and dust radiation. The process of strong gravitational interactions can efficiently magnetize the merger's surroundings, having a similar magnetizing effect on intergalactic medium as supernova explosions or galactic winds. If interacting galaxies generate some ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), the disk or magnetized outflows can deflect them (up to 23 degrees), and make an association of the observed UHECRs with the sites of their origin very uncertain.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables. Published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, minor changes to v1
New Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors
Creators: name: Kim, S. C.
name: Bhang, H.
name: Choi, J. H.
name: Kang, W. G.
name: Kim, B. H.
name: Kim, H. J.
name: Kim, K. W.
name: Kim, S. K.
name: Kim, Y. D.
name: Lee, J.
name: Lee, J. H.
name: Lee, J. K.
name: Lee, M. J.
name: Lee, S. J.
name: Li, J.
name: Li, J.
name: Li, X. R.
name: Li, Y. J.
name: Myung, S. S.
name: Olsen, S. L.
name: Ryu, S.
name: Seong, I. S.
name: So, J. H.
name: Yue, Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New limits are presented on the cross section for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering in the KIMS CsI(T) detector array at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory. The exposure used for these results is 24524.3 kg\cdotdays. Nuclei recoiling from WIMP interactions are identified by a pulse shape discrimination method. A low energy background due to alpha emitters on the crystal surfaces is identified and taken into account in the analysis. The detected numbers of nuclear recoils are consistent with zero and 90% confidence level upper limits on the WIMP interaction rates are set for electron equivalent energies from 3 keV to 11 keV. The 90% upper limit of NR event rate for 3.6-5.8 keV corresponding to 2-4 keV in NaI(T) is 0.0098 counts/kg/keV/day which is below the annual modulation amplitude reported by DAMA. This is incompatible with interpretations that enhance the modulation amplitude such as inelastic dark matter models. We establish the most stringent cross section limits on spin-dependent WIMP-proton elastic scattering for the WIMP masses greater than 20 GeV/c2.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
The impact of recruiter traits on recruiter effectiveness
Creators: name: Shultz, Jonas W.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2005

description: Bibliography: p. 67-73
description: This study examined the individual differences (e.g., personality, intelligence, recruiter training) and behaviours (e.g., intensity) of recruiters as potential antecedents to effectiveness longitudinally across multiple recruiting stages. Recruiter effectiveness, defined through objective measures ( e.g., actual job acceptance), was examined in a field setting within one organization to hold job and organizational characteristics constant. The findings suggest that specific personality facets (e.g., diligence, sincerity, and social boldness) and behaviours predict effectiveness; however, the utility of each predictor depends on the recruiting stage. Organizational implications are discussed.
Rapid Accurate Calculation of the s-Wave Scattering Length
Creators: name: Meshkov, Vladimir V.
name: Stolyarov, Andrey V.
name: Roy, Robert J. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transformation of the conventional radial Schrödinger equation defined on the interval $\,r\in[0,\infty)$ into an equivalent form defined on the finite domain $\,y(r)\in [a,b]\,$ allows the s-wave scattering length $a_s$ to be exactly expressed in terms of a logarithmic derivative of the transformed wave function $ϕ(y)$ at the outer boundary point $y=b$, which corresponds to $r=\infty$. In particular, for an arbitrary interaction potential that dies off as fast as $1/r^n$ for $n\geq 4$, the modified wave function $ϕ(y)$ obtained by using the two-parameter mapping function $r(y;\bar{r},β) = \bar{r}[1+\frac{1}β\tan(πy/2)]$ has no singularities, and $$a_s=\bar{r}[1+\frac{2}{πβ}\frac{1}{ϕ(1)}\frac{dϕ(1)}{dy}].$$ For a well bound potential with equilibrium distance $r_e$, the optimal mapping parameters are $\,\bar{r}\approx r_e\,$ and $\,β\approx \frac{n}{2}-1$. An outward integration procedure based on Johnson's log-derivative algorithm [B.R.\ Johnson, J.\ Comp.\ Phys., \textbf{13}, 445 (1973)] combined with a Richardson extrapolation procedure is shown to readily yield high precision $a_s$-values both for model Lennard-Jones ($2n,n$) potentials and for realistic published potentials for the Xe--e$^-$, Cs$_2(a\,^3Σ_u^+$) and $^{3,4}$He$_2(X\,^1Σ_g^+)$ systems. Use of this same transformed Schr{ö}dinger equation was previously shown [V.V. Meshkov et al., Phys.\ Rev.\ A, {\bf 78}, 052510 (2008)] to ensure the efficient calculation of all bound levels supported by a potential, including those lying extremely close to dissociation.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, to appear in J. Chem. Phys
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Recalibrating Single-Epoch Virial Black Hole Mass Estimates
Creators: name: Park, Daeseong
name: Woo, Jong-Hak
name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Barth, Aaron J.
name: Bentz, Misty C.
name: Bennert, Vardha N.
name: Canalizo, Gabriela
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Gates, Elinor
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Malkan, Matthew A.
name: Walsh, Jonelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the calibration and uncertainties of black hole mass estimates based on the single-epoch (SE) method, using homogeneous and high-quality multi-epoch spectra obtained by the Lick Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) Monitoring Project for 9 local Seyfert 1 galaxies with black hole masses < 10^8 M_sun. By decomposing the spectra into their AGN and stellar components, we study the variability of the single-epoch Hbeta line width (full width at half-maximum intensity, FWHM_Hbeta; or dispersion, sigma_Hbeta) and of the AGN continuum luminosity at 5100A (L_5100). From the distribution of the "virial products" (~ FWHM_Hbeta^2 L_5100^0.5 or sigma_Hbeta^2 L_5100^0.5) measured from SE spectra, we estimate the uncertainty due to the combined variability as ~ 0.05 dex (12%). This is subdominant with respect to the total uncertainty in SE mass estimates, which is dominated by uncertainties in the size-luminosity relation and virial coefficient, and is estimated to be ~ 0.46 dex (factor of ~ 3). By comparing the Hbeta line profile of the SE, mean, and root-mean-square (rms) spectra, we find that the Hbeta line is broader in the mean (and SE) spectra than in the rms spectra by ~ 0.1 dex (25%) for our sample with FWHM_Hbeta < 3000 km/s. This result is at variance with larger mass black holes where the difference is typically found to be much less than 0.1 dex. To correct for this systematic difference of the Hbeta line profile, we introduce a line-width dependent virial factor, resulting in a recalibration of SE black hole mass estimators for low-mass AGNs.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 18 pages, 17 figures
Romantic value and the literary marketplace : Wordsworth, Scott, Shelley and Landon in the Keepsake, 1829
Creators: name: Ferreira, Laila Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: “Romantic Value and the Literary Marketplace: Wordsworth, Scott, Shelley and Landon in the Keepsake, 1829” is an investigation of mediations of value in the Romantic literary marketplace. I focus on the Keepsake (1828-1855), the most commercially successful and longest running of the nineteenth-century gift-books and annuals. I approach the annual as embodying the flux and intersection of traditional, commercial and aesthetic ideas of value at a time when, according to some, they were well on their way to being established as separate categories. I look in particular at the writings five now canonical Romantic era writers published in the Keepsake: William Wordsworth’s five poems; Walter Scott’s five prose pieces and one play; Mary Shelley’s fifteen short stories as well the original pieces that she contributed on behalf of Percy Shelley; and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s twelve poems and two short stories. I look at why each writer was drawn, often several times and over many years to the Keepsake as a publication venue. My overall thesis is that these writers engaged with the Keepsake’s refinements of the annual form as an intervention into new forms of virtual sociability made available in the literary marketplace. The literal and virtual exchanges of emotion and sensation facilitated by the Keepsake allowed readers to vicariously experience a variety of values as they were embodied within the Keepsake’s stories, poems and art and by the form of the Keepsake itself. This experience provided the raw materials for writers’ reassessment of definitions and practices of value. I trace how these four writers used the Keepsake to mediate their experiments with aesthetics and commerce, reading and writing in the production of ideas of value that could be mobilized into the future. That the Keepsake offers multiple case studies of Romantic value as a dynamic idea in a state of flux opens interpretive possibilities for a rethinking of how value was understood and practiced in the era, including how ideas of value and forms of writing and print inflected one another.
MPEC 2023-H121 : 2023 HQ2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HQ2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Magneto-quantum-nanomechanics: ultra-high Q levitated mechanical oscillators
Creators: name: Cirio, M.
name: Twamley, J.
name: Brennen, G. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Engineering nano-mechanical quantum systems possessing ultra-long motional coherence times allow for applications in ultra-sensitive quantum sensing, motional quantum memories and motional interfaces between other carriers of quantum information such as photons, quantum dots and superconducting systems. To achieve ultra-high motional Q one must work hard to remove all forms of motional noise and heating. We examine a magneto-nanomechanical quantum system that consists of a 3D arrangement of miniature superconducting loops which is stably levitated in a static inhomogenous magnetic field. The resulting motional Q is limited by the tiny decay of the supercurrent in the loops and may reach up to Q~10^(10). We examine the classical and quantum dynamics of the levitating superconducting system and prove that it is stably trapped and can achieve motional oscillation frequencies of several tens of MHz. By inductively coupling this levitating object to a nearby flux qubit we further show that by driving the qubit one can cool the motion of the levitated object and in the case of resonance, this can cool the vertical motion of the object close to it's ground state.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures
An OpenCL implementation for the solution of TDSE on GPU and CPU architectures
Creators: name: Broin, Cathal Ó
name: Nikolopoulos, L. A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Open Computing Language (OpenCL) is a parallel processing language that is ideally suited for running parallel algorithms on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). In the present work we report on the development of a generic parallel single-GPU code for the numerical solution of a system of first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) based on the OpenCL model. We have applied the code in the case of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation of atomic hydrogen in a strong laser field and studied its performance on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs against the serial performance on a CPU. We found excellent scalability and a significant speed-up of the GPU over the CPU device which tended towards a value of about 40 with significant speedups expected against multi-core CPUs.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures. The present version is slightly different from the submitted peer-reviewed version
Models for unitary black hole disintegration
Creators: name: Giddings, Steven B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simple models for unitary black hole evolution are given in an effective Hilbert-space description, parameterizing a possible minimal relaxation of locality, with respect to semiclassical black hole geometry.
description: 7 pages of text, plus refs. v2: minor revs
Geology and metallic mineralization of a representative clippe of the Bravo Lake Formation, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Creators: name: Stacey, Jacques Remi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2005

description: Bibliography: p. 280-290
description: Some pages are in colour. Oversized maps at end of thesis.
description: Maps have been digitized and included on CD and attached.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of amino acid derivatives containing chrysin that induce apoptosis
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Zhang, Qizhi
name: He, Jun
name: Yu, Wenmei
name: Xiao, Jie
name: Guo, Yu
name: Zhu, Xiaoming
name: Liu, Yunmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: A series of chrysin amino acid derivatives were synthesized to evaluate for their antiproliferative activities against several cancer cell lines. Among the compounds tested, N-(2-((5-hydroxy-4-oxo-2-phenyl-4H-chromen-7-yl)oxy)octanoyl)-L-leucine methyl ester(5d) presented a good anti-proliferative activity in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells. Flow cytometry analysis showed that 5d induced apoptosis and prolonged cell cycle progression in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells. Western blot analysis showed that 5d significantly inhibited Akt phosphorylation (Ser473) in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells. In addition, 5d treatment markedly downregulated Bcl-2 and upregulated Bax in a dose-dependent manner. In vitro caspase activation assay showed that 5d induced apoptosis of MDA-MB-231 cells by enhancing caspase 3/7 activity. The regulatory effect of 5d on apoptosis of MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 cells may be induced by mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. This study is of great significance for designing and developing more effective chrysin amino acid derivatives.