cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Social Learning and Monetary Policy at the Effective Lower Bound
Creators: name: Arifovic, Jasmina
name: Grimaud, Alex
name: salle, isabelle
name: Vermandel, Gauthier
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2020

description: The first contribution of this paper is to develop a model that jointly accounts for the missing disinflation in the wake of the Great Recession and the subsequently observed inflation-less recovery. The key mechanism works through heterogeneous expectations that may durably lose their anchorage to the central bank (CB)’s target and coordinate on particularly persistent below-target paths. We jointly estimate the structural and the learning parameters of the model by matching moments from both macroeconomic and Survey of Professional Forecasters data. The welfare cost associated with those dynamics may be reduced if the CB communicates to the agents its target or its own inflation forecasts, as communication helps anchor expectations at the target. However, the CB may lose its credibility whenever its announcements become decoupled from actual inflation, for instance in the face of large and unexpected shocks.

description: Ce travail de recherche présente un modèle dans lequel l’économie est directement influencée par le niveau de pessimisme ou d’optimisme des acteurs économiques en ce qui concerne l’avenir. Ces acteurs peuvent avoir des anticipations différentes et les revoir au fur et à mesure que de nouvelles données économiques deviennent disponibles.

Le modèle, qui se base sur des données américaines, intègre plusieurs caractéristiques importantes des données macroéconomiques et des données sur les anticipations issues des enquêtes auprès des prévisionnistes professionnels. En particulier, le modèle reproduit des épisodes prolongés durant lesquels l’inflation est en deçà de la cible et les taux d’intérêt sont proches de zéro, ce qui ressemble à la situation observée depuis la crise de 2008. Lorsqu’un choc externe fait baisser la production ou l’inflation, les anticipations des acteurs à ces égards diminuent. Leur pessimisme se vérifie et l’inflation reste ainsi bloquée à un niveau inférieur à sa cible.

Les banques centrales peuvent communiquer de l’information dans le but d’amener les acteurs économiques à anticiper, collectivement, des niveaux d’inflation plus élevés. Cependant, il y a un risque de perte de crédibilité. D’une part, si l’inflation constatée est faible, les acteurs risquent de ne pas croire le message de la banque centrale concernant une hausse future de l’inflation ou de la cible. D’autre part, si la banque centrale publie une prévision factuelle d’inflation faible, il y a un risque que ce pessimisme se confirme : les acteurs économiques pourraient adopter le point de vue de la banque centrale et continuer à anticiper une inflation sous la cible. Dans les deux cas, si la communication réduit les divergences de vues entre les acteurs, elle ne résout pas le problème d’une inflation et de taux d’intérêt durablement bas.
title: Opportunistic screening for osteoporosis using computed tomography among menopausal women in comparison with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry measurements
Creators: name: Abuzaid, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Bones
subject: CT

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency of Computed Tomography (CT) for bone mineral density (BMD) evaluation by correlating the CT-attenuation (region of interest (ROI) with the corresponding Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry DEXA...
The proximity force approximation for the Casimir energy as a derivative expansion
Creators: name: Fosco, C. D.
name: Lombardo, F. C.
name: Mazzitelli, F. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proximity force approximation (PFA) has been widely used as a tool to evaluate the Casimir force between smooth objects at small distances. In spite of being intuitively easy to grasp, it is generally believed to be an uncontrolled approximation. Indeed, its validity has only been tested in particular examples, by confronting its predictions with the next to leading order (NTLO) correction extracted from numerical or analytical solutions obtained without using the PFA. In this article we show that the PFA and its NTLO correction may be derived within a single framework, as the first two terms in a derivative expansion. To that effect, we consider the Casimir energy for a vacuum scalar field with Dirichlet conditions on a smooth curved surface described by a function $ψ$ in front of a plane. By regarding the Casimir energy as a functional of $ψ$, we show that the PFA is the leading term in a derivative expansion of this functional. We also obtain the general form of corresponding NTLO correction, which involves two derivatives of $ψ$. We show, by evaluating this correction term for particular geometries, that it properly reproduces the known corrections to PFA obtained from exact evaluations of the energy.
description: Minor changes. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
A qualitative investigation of factors contributing to the successful licensure of international medical graduates
Creators: name: Ruiter-Kohn, Renee
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2010

description: Bibliography: p. 164-215
description: The substantial and longstanding contribution International Medical Graduates (IMGs) make to Canada's national physician supply has been and will continue to be of immense importance to all Canadians. At the health service level, many provinces and territories have come to rely heavily on IMGs to address their physician supply and to fill vacancies in underserviced fields of practice and underserved communities. Historically, Canada's reliance on international medical graduates has been, quantitatively, in the 20 to 30 per cent range. While a fair amount of research has addressed the role of internationally educated medical graduates in the context of supply and demand in the physician workforce, that research has been limited to the examination of credentials, competencies, demographic characteristics and distribution across specialties, practice locations, and/or geographic regions. More specifically there is no information that speaks to the experience of international medical graduates who have successfully made the transition. The aim of this dissertation is to gain an understanding of what the experience has been for international medical graduates who have successfully gained their license to practice medicine in Canada (Ontario specifically), the meaning they attribute to that experience, and the factors they view as important in successfully achieving their licensure goal. This research explored just such issues in hopes of contributing a more textured understanding of the personal and collective experience of international medical graduates in Ontario. Three main concepts emerged as keys to the successful licensure of internationally trained physicians into the Canadian landscape: financial support, social support and resilience. The analysis of the grounded framework that arises from this dissertation has definite implications for social policy development. It also lays the groundwork for bringing some fresh perspectives to the training process of international medical graduates.
The effects of phentolamine on fructose-fed rats
Creators: name: Zhou, Kangbin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The present project was designed to establish a pharmacological profile of phentolamine, a non-selective α adrenergic receptor antagonist, to provide information as to whether phentolamine might be effective on preventing the blood pressure elevation in fructose fed rats, a well-established rodent model of metabolic syndrome. Male Wistar rats fed with a 60% fructose diet for 14 weeks were found to have elevated blood pressure and insulin resistance. Phentolamine treatment prevented this increase in blood pressure without affecting insulin resistance. To further investigate the mechanism of action of phentolamine in preventing the blood pressure elevation, the levels of plasma noradrenaline and angiotensin II, two proposed contributors to the development of elevated blood pressure, were examined. Neither noradrenaline nor angiotensin II was affected by phentolamine. Phentolamine is known to cause tachycardia mediated by indirect β adrenergic receptor activation. Cardiac tissue apoptosis was used as a marker to evaluate the extent of possible cardiac toxicity. The results suggest that there was no significant increase of apoptosis caused by in the phentolamine-treated rats. To examine the effects of phentolamine on cardiac β receptors, the activities of the dominant β receptors (β₁) were examined by measuring the phosphorylation of two downstream effectors, protein kinase A (PKA) and phospholamban since both proteins are activated through phosphorylation upon β₁ receptor activation. The phosphorylation levels of PKA were similar among all four animal groups while those of phospholamban were decreased significantly by phentolamine, suggesting chronic administration of phentolamine may have desensitized these receptors leading to a decrease in their activities. Plasma 8-isoprostane and total nitrate/nitrite were chosen as markers to evaluate the state of oxidative stress, a proposed mechanism of fructose-induced elevated blood pressure and insulin resistance. Plasma levels of 8-isoprostane were similar among all four animal groups while those of total nitrate/nitrite (an index of total nitric oxide production) index of were about 7 folds higher in the fructose fed animals regardless of the treatment of phentolamine. This suggests an increased level of oxidative stress since overproduction of nitric oxide has been shown to lead to an elevation in peroxynitrite which can cause oxidative damage.
Additional file 1 of Bmi-1 alleviates adventitial fibroblast senescence by eliminating ROS in pulmonary hypertension
Creators: name: Li, Kai
name: Li, Yan
name: Yu, Youjia
name: Ding, Jingjing
name: Huang, Huijie
name: Chu, Chunyan
name: Hu, Li
name: Yu, Yanfang
name: Cao, Yue
name: Xu, Peng
name: Fulton, David
name: Chen, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. Expression of γ-H2A.X in MCT-induced PH rat model. A. Western blotting of γ-H2A.X from rat lung tissues of the contrl (n=4) and MCT group (n=4). B. Quantification of the protein expression of γ-H2A.X in the two groups. All data are shown as the mean ± SEM. Statistical significance compared to controls was assessed using the unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test: *** P < 0.001. Figure S2. Transfection efficiency detection. The transfection efficiency of adv-Bmi-1 (A) and si-Bmi-1 (B) in HLFs. All data are shown as the mean ± SEM. Statistical significance compared to controls was assessed using the unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test: **** P < 0.0001. Figure S3. SA-β-gal staining of HLFs treated with adv-Bmi-1 and si-Bmi-1. A. Respresentitive images. Red arrows indicate the positively stained cells. B. The quantification of SA-β-gal positive cells are on the right. Three visual fields were randomly selected and the number of positive cells versus the total number of cells in each field was counted. All data are shown as the mean ± SEM. Statistical significance compared to controls was assessed using the unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test: ** P < 0.01.
title: Contagion in Dealer Networks
Creators: name: Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien
name: Walton, Adrian
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2020

description: Bond dealers form trading networks that connect investors who buy and sell. Following the release of economic data, these  networks become larger to accommodate more trades. But there may be a trade-off. Large networks also suffer from contagion: in this case, a prevalence of investors experiencing delays receiving their bonds.

description: Les courtiers en obligations forment des réseaux de négociation qui mettent en relation les investisseurs qui veulent acheter ou vendre des titres. Après la diffusion de données économiques, ces réseaux prennent de l’ampleur pour traiter plus de transactions. Mais il pourrait y avoir un arbitrage. De plus, ces vastes réseaux sont touchés par un phénomène de contagion : en effet, les investisseurs reçoivent souvent leurs obligations en retard
Quarantined histories: Sindh and the question of historiography in colonial India‐ Part I
Creators: name: Ahmed Asif, Manan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: History
Historiography
Muslims--Historiography
Muslim historians
British Occupation of India (1765-1947)

description: This essay examines histories of colonial British India and the annexation of Sindh in 1843 from two perspectives. The first is the colonial historiographic project that frames the history of Islam in India, creates an archive for its study and produces the political and military dominance of Sindh. Fundamentally, it argues that Muslims in India cannot produce their own histories for they lack the language and archives for scientific objectivity. In response, a set of Indian intellectuals take on the project of writing histories of Sindh from 1890 to 1950s. These histories are written in direct dialogue with the colonial archive and insist on their engagement with social scientific methodologies and tools. In rethinking this past, the essay argues that that Urdu historiography was itself deemed unscientific by modern South Asian historians and abandoned as not “proper history.” This essay thus asks that we incorporate such histories in our genealogies of anticolonial past.
title: Snow density variability in the Rio Esera Valley, Pyrenees Mountains, Spain
title: Hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fassnacht, S. R.
name: Heun, C. M.
name: Lopez-Moreno, J.-I.
name: Latron, J.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2010

description: 2010 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 22 - March 24, 2010.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: An accurate assessment of snow depth and snow density is essential to determine that amount of water stored in the snowpack, i.e., snow water equivalent (SWE). The measurement of snow density is much more difficult and time consuming than snow depth. The variability in snow density is evaluated for a 5.4-km stretch of the Rio Esera headwaters in the Spanish Pyrenees Mountains. The traditional snow tube method is compared to the more labour-intensive but accurate snow pit method. The former method measures snow depth and extracts a snow core that is weighed. The latter method uses a wedge cutter to extract a 1-L snow sample to estimate density at 10-cm intervals through the snowpack. The variability in snowpack density is not systematic and can only be explained at lower elevation when the snowpack is known to be melting, as identify by an isothemal snowpack at zero degrees Celsius. This occurred during a mid-January survey. A late-April survey showed that these lower elevation sites were still more dense.
Contractile stresses in cohesive cell layers on finite-thickness substrates
Creators: name: Banerjee, Shiladitya
name: Marchetti, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Using a minimal model of cells or cohesive cell layers as continuum active elastic media, we examine the effect of substrate thickness and stiffness on traction forces exerted by strongly adhering cells. We obtain a simple expression for the length scale controlling the spatial variation of stresses in terms of cell and substrate parameters that describes the crossover between the thin and thick substrate limits. Our model is an important step towards a unified theoretical description of the dependence of traction forces on cell or colony size, acto-myosin contractility, substrate depth and stiffness, and strength of focal adhesions, and makes experimentally testable predictions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: Will exchange-traded funds shape the future of bond dealing?
Creators: name: Arora, Rohan
name: Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien
name: Garriott, Corey
name: Ouellet Leblanc, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2020

description: Bond dealers have traditionally kept bonds in an inventory until clients buy them. But now, dealers have another way to access bonds for their clients: the exchange-traded fund. We discuss this new way to manage bond dealing and what it might mean for bond markets.

description: Traditionnellement, les courtiers en obligations stockaient ces titres jusqu’à ce que des clients les achètent. L’introduction des fonds négociés en bourse (FNB) leur offre dorénavant une autre option. Nous analysons cette nouvelle méthode de gestion des opérations obligataires et ce qu’elle pourrait impliquer pour les marchés des obligations.
title: The role of Automated Breast Ultrasound in addition to breast tomosynthesis in assessment of dense breast
Creators: name: Ali, Engy
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Screening
subject: Cancer
subject: Prospective
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Mammography as the standard imaging method of breast cancer screening has resulted in reduced breast cancer mortality. The performance of mammography is reduced for cancer detection in dense-breasted women as mammograms are summation images, with...
Additional file 7 of Human induced-T-to-natural killer cells have potent anti-tumour activities
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhiwu
name: Qin, Le
name: Tang, Yuou
name: Liao, Rui
name: Shi, Jingxuan
name: He, Bingjia
name: Li, Shanglin
name: Zheng, Diwei
name: Cui, Yuanbin
name: Wu, Qiting
name: Long, Youguo
name: Yao, Yao
name: Wei, Zhihui
name: Hong, Qilan
name: Wu, Yi
name: Mai, Yuanbang
name: Gou, Shixue
name: Li, Xiaoping
name: Weinkove, Robert
name: Norton, Sam
name: Luo, Wei
name: Feng, Weineng
name: Zhou, Hongsheng
name: Liu, Qifa
name: Chen, Jiekai
name: Lai, Liangxue
name: Chen, Xinwen
name: Pei, Duanqing
name: Graf, Thomas
name: Liu, Xingguo
name: Li, Yangqiu
name: Liu, Pentao
name: Zhang, Zhenfeng
name: Li, Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 7: Table S7. ITNK cell product release specifications.
Regions Respond to Catastrophes
Creators: name: Kirsch, Thomas D.
name: Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
name: Strauss-Riggs, Kandra
name: Chandler, Thomas E.
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Disaster relief--Planning
Emergency management
Emergency management--Planning
Disaster medicine--Planning

description: In large-scale disasters that include but are not limited to detonation of an improvised nuclear device, a major earthquake, or another large hurricane striking a major US city, we will simultaneously lose health care system capacity with damage to facilities while needing to care for a surge of injured and ill people seeking care. This cannot be accomplished by a single or few facilities, but requires a region-wide plan.
Guidance Document On Good Practices For Designing, Implementing, And Evaluating Capacity Development Interventions In GEOGLAM
Creators: name: Nelson, Andrew
name: Teuben, Joost
name: Whitcraft, Alyssa
name: Bontemps, Sophie
name: Makabe, Esther
name: Jarvis, Ian
name: Basso, Bruno
name: De Simone, Lorenzo
name: Dimou, Maria
name: Gilliams, Sven
name: Humber, Michael
name: Justice, Chris
name: Justice, Christina
name: Keniston, John
name: Le Toan, Thuy
name: McNairn, Heather
name: Nakalembe, Catherine
name: Newby, Terry
name: Oyoshi, Kei
name: Peiser, Livia
name: Prashnani, Meghavi
name: Puricelli, Estefania
name: Rembold, Felix
name: Searby, Nancy
name: Sobue, Shinichi
name: Tuvdendorj, Battsetseg
name: Vadrevu, Krishna
name: Wu, Bingfang
name: Zeng, Hongwei
Publisher: name: GEO Knowledge Hub
Year: 2023
Subjects: capacity development
capdev
geoglam
agriculture
guidance document
good practices
co-development

description: This document details good practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating CapDev relationships, based on a co-development process. It also includes case study narratives from GEOGLAM's members and stakeholders that exemplify successful engagement.
This Guidance Document consists of 6 sections:

Section A: Describes the scope and target audience of the document
Section B: Describes CapDev from GEOGLAM's perspective and our Guiding Principles
Section C: Explains useful models and frameworks for approaching CapDev. e.g., the Theory of Change for defining how and why a change/impact will occur, and the Strategic Pathway as a framework for understanding the necessary steps to achieve the desired change/impact
Section D: Presents several tools that can foster impactful CapDev interventions and describes how to develop and deploy a continuous Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning framework
Section E: Presents a series of GEOGLAM Case Studies, highlighting successful examples of GEOGLAM CapDev interventions
Section F: Summarises next steps future priorities for the GEOGLAM CapDev Team to ensure GEOGLAM continues to effectively support stakeholder needs for Capacity Development
Note on contributors
This Guidance Document was written by GEOGLAM for GEOGLAM with input from members of the GEOGLAM Capacity Development (CapDev) Team, key stakeholders, and interested parties. It was created to provide the GEOGLAM community with a common understanding of CapDev principles and processes.
This guide will be a living document. We encourage you, the reader, to contribute to the following content by sharing observations and/or comments for improvement with GEOGLAM's CapDev Team. Sharing new insights, proven tools, good practices, and case studies is highly appreciated
Tropidotilla fimbriata
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Tropidotilla
Tropidotilla fimbriata

description: Tropidotilla fimbriata (KLUG, 1829)
Tropidotilla fimbriata (KLUG, 1829): BISCHOFF 1920: 156 (key, tax., Obock).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Obock.
Tropidotilla fimbriata is known from the Afrotropical (Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) and Palaearctic (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen) regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 924-925, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: Comparison between the 3D automated breast ultrasound versus 2D ultrasound and digital mammography in characterization of breast lesions
Creators: name: Ali, Engy
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Screening
subject: Cancer
subject: Prospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Breast imaging tools play a vital role in prevention and early detection of breast cancer. Although mammography is the first breast screening tool, its sensitivity is reduced by the increasing density of the breast and thus increasing the lifetime...
title: COVID-19 and bond market liquidity: alert, isolation and recovery
Creators: name: Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien
name: Ford, Hayden
name: Walton, Adrian
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2020

description: The disruption due to COVID-19 reverberated through the bond markets in three phases. In the first phase, dealers met the rising demand for liquidity. In the second, dealers reduced the supply of liquidity, and trading conditions worsened significantly. Finally, the market returned to relative stability following several interventions by the Bank of Canada.

description: La COVID-19 s’est répercutée sur les marchés obligataires en trois phases. D’abord, les courtiers ont fait face à une demande de liquidité accrue. Ensuite, ces derniers ont réduit l’offre de liquidité, et les conditions de négociation se sont considérablement détériorées. Enfin, les marchés sont redevenus relativement stables après plusieurs interventions de la Banque du Canada.
Towards precise asteroseismology of solar-like stars
Creators: name: Grigahcène, A.
name: Dupret, M. -A.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.
name: Garrido, R.
name: Scuflaire, R.
name: Gabriel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adiabatic modeling of solar-like oscillations cannot exceed a certain level of precision for fitting individual frequencies. This is known as the problem of near surface effects on the mode physics. We present a theoretical study which addresses the problem of frequency precision in non-adiabatic models using a time-dependent convection treatment. We find that the number of acceptable model solutions is significantly reduced and more precise constraints can be imposed on the models. Results obtained for a specific star (beta Hydri) lead to very good agreement with both global and local seismic observables. This indicates that the accuracy of model fitting to seismic data is greatly improved when a more complete description of the interaction between convection and pulsation is taken into account.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings series (ASSP). Proceedings of the "20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series: Impact of new instrumentation and new insights in stellar pulsations", 5-9 September 2011, Granada, Spain
Holding spaces : geographies of Filipino-Canadian students' educational experiences
Creators: name: Farrales, May
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis is concerned with the educational aspirations and outcomes of Filipino-Canadian youth. Rendered by scholars as an anomaly to established patterns of academic achievement, integration, and social mobility among immigrants in Canada, children of first generation Filipino immigrants are neither meeting nor exceeding the levels of education attained by their parents. While a framing concerned with outcomes is useful for signaling issues around the integration of immigrants in Canada, there remains a need to interrogate how and where Filipino students are produced as different. This thesis seeks to explore ways of approaching the question of how to make sense of the less-than-expected educational achievements and outcomes of Filipino-Canadian youth. Based on interviews and focus groups with 46 Filipino high school students from two different Vancouver public high schools, I attend to the ways in which Filipino youth negotiate both time and space in their transnational and educational experiences. The thesis deals with the particular geographies in Filipino-Canadian students' experiences migrating to, and/or growing up in Canada, and their lives as high school students. In particular, I focus on spaces in the students' transnational and high school lives that can highlight conditions that help to shape their educational aspirations and trajectories.
From AIDS to Opioids: How to Respond to an Epidemic
Creators: name: Williams, Arthur
name: Bisaga, Adam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Opioid abuse
Epidemics
Substance abuse

description: The United States is facing a vast epidemic of opioid-related deaths. More than 2.4 million Americans have a severe opioid use disorder (OUD) involving dependence on pain medications, heroin, or both, and rates of drug overdose deaths in this country have outpaced mortality from motor vehicle accidents since 2013. The rising death toll has been rivaled in modern history only by that at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. Although these epidemics differ in nature, the large-scale, highly coordinated response to AIDS that was eventually mounted may be instructive for combating the opioid epidemic.
title: Comparative study between conventional US strain elastography and advanced intelligent elastography software in differentiating breast masses
Creators: name: Mekhaimar, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Equipment
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Cancer
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Prospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To compare conventional US elastography and advanced intelligent elastography software (US-Elasto)with respect to the results of the biopsy and/or follow up in differentiating breast...
The Rebound Effect in a More Fuel Efficient Transportation Sector
Creators: name: Wagner, Gernot
name: Lee, Ruiwen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Energy efficiency measures are typically met with a small but often persistent “rebound effect” that manifests itself across various spheres: Install a more efficient air conditioning unit, lose some of the savings by setting the temperature lower. Buy a more fuel efficient car, visit grandma more often.The rebound effect has troubled energy analysts and economists for over a century.  Sometimes it is also called the “Jevons Paradox,” after William Jevons who, in the 19th century, hypothesized that efficiency improvements will only backfire and lead us to use more resources overall. In fact, the Jevons Paradox acts in the extreme long run—over decades, centuries, and millennia—and might be better thought of as economic growth, progress.
title: Canadian stock market since COVID‑19: Why a V-shaped price recovery?
Creators: name: Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien
name: Ouellet Leblanc, Guillaume
name: Shotlander, Ryan
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2020

description: Between February 19 and March 23, 2020, the Canadian stock market plunged due to the severe economic impact of COVID-19. By the end of the summer, the stock market had already recovered a significant portion of its losses, leaving many asking if investors see the economy through rose-coloured glasses. Despite these concerns, we find that current market valuations for companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange align well, on average, with the declines in earning forecasts observed since the start of the year. We also find these market valuations are consistent with the discount rate returning to its pre-pandemic level.

description: Entre le 19 février et le 23 mars 2020, le marché boursier canadien a chuté sous l’effet des graves répercussions économiques de la COVID-19. À la fin de l’été cependant, il avait déjà regagné une bonne partie du terrain perdu, ce qui en a amené beaucoup à se demander si les investisseurs n’étaient pas trop optimistes. Notre étude montre que, malgré cette préoccupation, les cours actuels des actions des sociétés inscrites à la Bourse de Toronto cadrent avec les baisses observées depuis le début de l’année dans les prévisions de bénéfices. De plus, le niveau de ces cours concorde avec le retour du taux d’actualisation à son niveau d’avant la pandémie.
title: T2-FLAIR mismatch sign in grade II and III gliomas: a specific imaging biomarker of IDH and 1p19q status?
Creators: name: De Llano Ibisate, Loreto Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Grade II (diffuse) and III (anaplastic) glioma classification was updated in the World Health Organization (WHO) classification system for central nervous system in 2016 [1, 2]. The introduction of molecular parameters such as the mutation of...
title: Proceedings of the twenty-third annual AGU hydrology days: table of contents
title: Hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ramírez, Jorge A.
name: American Geophysical Union, Author
name: Colorado State University, Author
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Hydrology -- Congresses

description: Edited and published by Jorge A. Ramírez.
description: 23rd annual AGU hydrology days was held on March 31 - April 2, 2003 at Colorado State University.
description: Table of contents for the proceedings of the 23rd annual AGU Hydrology Days; includes dedication page to José Salas.
Adaptable nonlinear bimode metamaterials with rigid bars, pivots, and actuators
Creators: name: Milton, Graeme Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A large family of periodic planar non-linear bimode metamaterials are constructed from rigid bars and pivots. They are affine materials in the sense that their macroscopic deformations are only affine deformations: at large distances any deformation must be close to an affine deformation. Bimode means that the paths of all possible deformations of Bravais lattices that preserve the periodicity of the lattice lie on a two dimensional surface in the three dimensional space of invariants describing the deformation (excluding translations and rotations). By adding two actuators inside a single microscopic cell one can control the macroscopic deformation, which may be useful for the design of adaptive structures. The design of adaptable nonlinear affine trimode metamaterials (for which the macroscopic deformations lie within a three-dimensional region in the space of invariants) is discussed, although their realization remains an open problem. Examples are given of non-affine unimode and non-affine bimode materials. In these materials the deformation can vary from cell to cell in such a way that the macroscopic deformation is non-affine.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
title: Evaluation of exposure dose of lens in whole breast irradiation : Feasibility of protective glasses for the patient during radiation delivery.
Creators: name: Nakamura, Tokiko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radiation Protection
subject: Breast
subject: Oncology
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Experimental
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Not applicable
subject: Experimental
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: With the development of high-precision radiotherapy in recent years, use of applications such as radical radiotherapy is increasing. Improvements in irradiation methods and its therapeutic effect increased the survival rate and the number of cases...
Tunable metal-insulator transition in double-layer graphene heterostructures
Creators: name: Ponomarenko, L. A.
name: Geim, A. K.
name: Zhukov, A. A.
name: Jalil, R.
name: Morozov, S. V.
name: Novoselov, K. S.
name: Cheianov, V. V.
name: Fal'ko, V. I.
name: Watanabe, K.
name: Taniguchi, T.
name: Gorbachev, R. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a minimum metallic conductivity at the neutrality point, and its resistivity diverges at low temperatures. This divergence can be suppressed by magnetic field or by reducing the carrier density in the adjacent layer. We believe that the observed localization is intrinsic for neutral graphene with generic disorder if metallic electron-hole puddles are screened out.
Loose regulation of medical marijuana programs associated with higher rates of adult marijuana use but not cannabis use disorder
Creators: name: Williams, Arthur
name: Santaella Tenorio, Julian
name: Mauro, Christine Marie
name: Levin, Frances R.
name: Martins, Silvia S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Epidemiology
Marijuana
Public health
Marijuana--Therapeutic use--Law and legislation

description: Background and Aims

Most US states have passed medical marijuana laws (MMLs), with great variation in program regulation impacting enrollment rates. We aimed to compare changes in rates of marijuana use, heavy use and cannabis use disorder across age groups while accounting for whether states enacted medicalized (highly regulated) or non-medical mml programs.
Design

Difference-in-differences estimates with time-varying state-level MML coded by program type (medicalized versus non-medical). Multi-level linear regression models adjusted for state-level random effects and covariates as well as historical trends in use.
Setting

Nation-wide cross-sectional survey data from the US National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) restricted use data portal aggregated at the state level.
Participants

Participants comprised 2004–13 NSDUH respondents (n ~ 67 500/year); age groups 12–17, 18–25 and 26+ years. States had implemented eight medicalized and 15 non-medical MML programs.
Measurements

Primary outcome measures included (1) active (past-month) marijuana use; (2) heavy use (> 300 days/year); and (3) cannabis use disorder diagnosis, based on DSM-IV criteria. Covariates included program type, age group and state-level characteristics throughout the study period.
Findings

Adults 26+ years of age living in states with non-medical MML programs increased past-month marijuana use 1.46% (from 4.13 to 6.59%, P = 0.01), skewing towards greater heavy marijuana by 2.36% (from 14.94 to 17.30, P = 0.09) after MMLs were enacted. However, no associated increase in the prevalence of cannabis use disorder was found during the study period. Our findings do not show increases in prevalence of marijuana use among adults in states with medicalized MML programs. Additionally, there were no increases in adolescent or young adult marijuana outcomes following MML passage, irrespective of program type.
Conclusions

Non-medical marijuana laws enacted in US states are associated with increased marijuana use, but only among adults aged 26+ years. Researchers and policymakers should consider program regulation and subgroup characteristics (i.e. demographics) when assessing for population level outcomes. Researchers and policymakers should consider program regulation and subgroup characteristics (i.e. demographics) when assessing for population level outcomes.
title: Interbank Asset-Liability Networks with Fire Sale Management
Creators: name: Feinstein, Zachary
name: Halaj,  Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2020

description: "Raising liquidity when funding is stressed creates pressure on the financial market. Liquidating large quantities of assets depresses their prices and may amplify funding shocks. How do banks weathering a  funding crisis contribute to contagion risk? 

We propose a model to study the transmission of distress in a banking system that has been hit by a funding shock. The model captures (1) the indirect effects of price impacts due to the optimal reinvestment of banks’ asset mixture and (2) the direct network effects if banks cannot fully pay back their interbank exposures. 

We demonstrate how banks liquidate assets in equilibrium and at what price, and we examine the role of regulators in stabilizing prices in a funding crisis. Our empirical results, based on the Canadian supervisory data, show that even very large funding shocks are unlikely to trigger a cascade of defaults. However, losses incurred on liquidated assets in fire sales may be substantial. Nevertheless, banks are less likely to overreact or sell more than strictly necessary when they take other banks' actions into account. "

description: "Mobiliser des liquidités lorsqu’il y a des difficultés de financement exerce des pressions sur le marché financier. Liquider de grandes quantités d’actifs fait baisser leur prix et peut amplifier les chocs de financement. Comment les mesures prises par les banques pour surmonter une crise de financement accroissent-elles le risque de contagion? 

Nous proposons un modèle permettant d’étudier la transmission des difficultés au sein d’un système bancaire ébranlé par un choc de financement. Le modèle prend en compte 1) les effets indirects qui découlent de l’incidence sur les prix d’un réinvestissement optimal de l’actif des banques et 2) les effets de réseau observés si les banques ne sont pas en mesure de rembourser tout ce qu’elles doivent aux autres banques (expositions interbancaires directes). 

Nous démontrons comment, et à quel prix, les banques liquident leurs actifs à l’équilibre, et examinons le rôle des organismes de réglementation sur la stabilisation des prix pendant une crise de financement. Nos résultats empiriques, basés sur les données de l’autorité canadienne de surveillance, révèlent que même des chocs de financement de très grande ampleur sont peu susceptibles de déclencher des défauts en cascade. Cependant, les pertes attribuables à la liquidation d’actifs en catastrophe pourraient être substantielles. Néanmoins, une banque a moins tendance à réagir de manière excessive ou à vendre plus que le strict nécessaire quand elle prend en compte les actions des autres banques."
title: Evaluation of the penetration of radiation protective apron with Dual-Source Dual-Energy CT scanning.
Creators: name: Takei, Yasutaka
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Radiographers
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Not applicable
subject: Experimental
subject: Not applicable

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: With the improvement of image processing technology of dual-energy CT (DECT), many kinds of DECT images are available. [1-5] Utilized the benefit of the DECT, brain DECT are greater used in case of the emergency. [6-7] The third-generation dual...
Connection between complete and Moebius forms of gauge invariant operators
Creators: name: Fadin, V. S.
name: Fiore, R.
name: Grabovsky, A. V.
name: Papa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the connection between complete representations of gauge invariant operators and their Moebius representations acting in a limited space of functions. The possibility to restore the complete representations from Moebius forms in the coordinate space is proven and a method of restoration is worked out. The operators for transition from the standard BFKL kernel to the quasi-conformal one are found both in Moebius and total representations.
description: Changed title and a short paragraph in the section "Conclusion"; unchanged results. Version to appear on Nucl. Phys. B
General high-order rogue waves and their dynamics in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation
Creators: name: Ohta, Yasuhiro
name: Yang, Jianke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General high-order rogue waves in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation are derived by the bilinear method. These rogue waves are given in terms of determinants whose matrix elements have simple algebraic expressions. It is shown that the general N-th order rogue waves contain N-1 free irreducible complex parameters. In addition, the specific rogue waves obtained by Akhmediev et al. (Phys. Rev. E 80, 026601 (2009)) correspond to special choices of these free parameters, and they have the highest peak amplitudes among all rogue waves of the same order. If other values of these free parameters are taken, however, these general rogue waves can exhibit other solution dynamics such as arrays of fundamental rogue waves arising at different times and spatial positions and forming interesting patterns.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures
title: Comparative diagnostic performance of contrast enhanced dual-energy spectral mammography, digital mammography and (99m) Tc MIBI scintimammography in detecting multicentric breast cancer
Creators: name: Danilov, Vsevolod
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Prospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Mammography
subject: Oncology
subject: Breast

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of digital mammography (MMG), contrast spectral dual-energy mammography (CESM) and (99m) Tc MIBI scintimammography in detecting multicentric breast...