cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Visual-tactile integration and individual differences in speech perception
Creators: name: Bicevskis, Katie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Integration of speech information is evident in audio-visual (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976) and audio-tactile (Gick & Derrick, 2009) combinations and an asymmetric window of multimodal integration exists which is consistent with the relative speeds of the various signals (Munhall et al., 1996; Gick et al., 2010). It is presently unclear whether integration is possible if the audio speech signal is removed. The current thesis utilizes synchronous and asynchronous visual and aero-tactile speech stimuli to investigate potential integration effects of this modality combination and explores the shape of the potential window of visual-tactile integration. Results demonstrate that the aero-tactile stimulus significantly affects categorization of speech segments so that individuals are more likely to perceive a voiceless aspirated stop when they experience a combination of visual-tactile stimuli, as opposed to experiencing a visual stimulus in isolation. A window of visual-tactile integration which reflects relative speeds of light and speech airflow is also evident. These results add to our knowledge of multimodal speech integration and support notions that speech is perceived as a holistic, modality neutral event. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have exhibited differential multimodal integration behaviour (Gelder et al., 1991; Mongillo, et al., 2008; Irwin et al., 2011; Stevenson, et al., 2014) and differences in temporal acuity (Stevenson, et al., 2014) as compared to typically developing children, however it is unclear whether these differential findings are specific to this clinical population or can be considered part of a continuum of multimodal integration behaviour which includes typically developed adults. The current thesis examines individual differences in visual-tactile integration based on temporal acuity and behavioural traits associated with ASD, in a typically developed adult population. Results show that temporal acuity and behavioural traits associated with ASD, especially the trait of imagination, significantly influence the range of asynchronous stimuli over which visual-tactile integration occurs and also affect individuals’ abilities to differentiate visually similar speech stimuli. These results reveal a relationship between visual-tactile integration rates, traits associated with ASD and temporal acuity and suggest that the differential behaviour observed in child ASD populations forms part of a continuum which extends to typically developed adults.
MOREIRA, Luciano Augusto dos Santos – Igreja Paroquial de São Pedro de Penedono: descrição e inventário: breves apontamentos para a sua história. Penedono: Fábrica da Igreja Paroquial de Penedono, 2017. 191 p. ISBN 978-989-96934-2-5
Creators: name: Costa, Isabel Teixeira
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
Additional file 2 of A rapid review of early guidance to prevent and control COVID-19 in custodial settings
Creators: name: Pearce, Lindsay A.
name: Vaisey, Alaina
name: Keen, Claire
name: Calais-Ferreira, Lucas
name: Foulds, James A.
name: Young, Jesse T.
name: Southalan, Louise
name: Borschmann, Rohan
name: Gray, Ruth
name: Stürup-Toft, Sunita
name: Kinner, Stuart A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Appendix S2. Summary of included publications; Description of data: Appendix S2 provides a complete list of all 201 eligible publications analysed in this review and provides information on (1) WHO region (country), (2) Date of publication, (3) Type of author, (4) Type of publication, (5) Targeted audience, and (6) Targeted setting.
Additional file 2 of Transnational prenatal care among migrant women from low-and-middle-income countries who gave birth in Montreal, Canada
Creators: name: Merry, Lisa
name: Kim, Ye Na
name: Urquia, Marcelo L.
name: Goulet, Julie
name: Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted
name: Gagnon, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2
Genomic analysis of head and neck endocrine glands
Creators: name: Kasaian, Katayoon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Discovering biomarkers and molecular drivers of head and neck endocrine tumors was the inspiration for this thesis. Here, I describe the molecular evaluation of tumors of the thyroid and parathyroid endocrine glands for the purpose of identifying somatic driver alterations in these cancers. While molecular interplay of the germline genomic background of an individual and the somatic genome that emerges throughout the lifetime plays significant roles in increasing the susceptibility to cancer and in driving the malignant phenotype, the major known contributors to cancer remain the acquired somatic mutations. Analysis of a sporadic and recurring parathyroid carcinoma, with incidence of 1 per million population, revealed mutations in mTOR, MLL2, CDKN2C and PIK3CA and comparison of patient-matched primary and recurrent malignant tumors uncovered loss of PIK3CA activating mutation during the evolution of the tumor. Loss of the short arm of chromosome 1 along with somatic missense and truncating mutations in CDKN2C and THRAP3 provided new evidence for the potential role of these as tumor suppressors. Hürthle cell thyroid carcinoma accounts for a small proportion of all thyroid cancers; however, this malignancy often presents at an advanced stage and poses unique challenges. Genomic analysis revealed large regions of copy number variation encompassing nearly the entire genomes accompanied also by near haploidization. Moreover, I identified loss-of-function mutations of the tumor suppressor gene MEN1 in 4% of patients. Repeated alterations of the epigenetic machinery in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, one of the most fatal of all adult solid malignancies, and novel gene fusions including MKRN1-BRAF, FGFR2-OGDH and SS18-SLC5A11 are reported here. The transcriptomic analysis suggested known drug targets such as FGFRs, VEGFRs, KIT and RET to have low expressions in this cancer; however, through integrative data analysis, I identified the mTOR signaling pathway as a potential therapeutic target for anaplastic thyroid cancer. Molecular analysis of papillary thyroid carcinoma and benign thyroid nodules revealed very low mutation rates in these tumors with CYP1B1, PTPRE, CTSH and RUNX1 emerging as promising diagnostic markers. The key somatic mutations identified in these studies can serve as novel diagnostic markers as well as therapeutic targets.
INTEGRAL results on Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients and accretion mechanism interpretation: ionization effect and formation of transient accretion disks
Creators: name: Ducci, L.
name: Sidoli, L.
name: Paizis, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a systematic analysis of all INTEGRAL observations from 2003 to 2009 of 14 Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs), implying a net exposure time of about 30Ms. For each source we obtained lightcurves and spectra (3-100keV), discovering several new outbursts. We discuss the X-ray behaviour of SFXTs emerging from our analysis in the framework of the clumpy wind accretion mechanism we proposed (Ducci et al. 2009). We discuss the effect of X-ray photoionization on accretion in close binary systems like IGRJ16479-4514 and IGRJ17544-2619. We show that, because of X-ray photoionization, there is a high probability of formation of an accretion disk from capture of angular momentum in IGRJ16479-4514, and we suggest that the formation of transient accretion disks could be responsible of part of the flaring activity in SFXTs with narrow orbits. We also propose an alternative way to explain the origin of flares with peculiar shapes observed in our analysis applying the model of Lamb et al. (1977), which is based on the accretion via Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and was originally proposed to explain type II bursts.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS on 2010 June 16. Received 2010 June 16; in original form 2010 May 3. 12 pages, 10 figures and 7 tables
Prevalence of comorbidity amongst people with palmoplantar pustulosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Creators: name: Gleeson, David
name: Mahil, Satveer K
name: Corbett, Mark
name: Choy, Shern P
name: Jiang, Treasa
name: Lee, John YW
name: Bechman, Katie
name: Russell, Mark D.
name: Barker, Jonathan N W N
name: Galloway, James B
name: Smith, Catherine H
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This is a systematic review and meta-analysis quantifying the prevalence of comorbidities, including cardiovascular risk factors and malignancy, in individuals with palmoplantar pustulosis.
Astrometry and Exoplanets: the Gaia Era, and Beyond
Creators: name: Sozzetti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The wealth of information in the Gaia catalogue of exoplanets will constitute a fundamental contribution to several hot topics of the astrophysics of planetary systems. I briefly review the potential impact of Gaia micro-arsec astrometry in several areas of exoplanet science, discuss what key follow-up observations might be required as a complement to Gaia data, and shed some light on the role of next generation astrometric facilities in the arena of planetary systems.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the final ELSA Conference 'Gaia: at the frontiers of astrometry', Sevres (France), 7-11 June 2010. To appear in EAS Publication Series, EDP Sciences
Additional file 3 of Transnational prenatal care among migrant women from low-and-middle-income countries who gave birth in Montreal, Canada
Creators: name: Merry, Lisa
name: Kim, Ye Na
name: Urquia, Marcelo L.
name: Goulet, Julie
name: Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted
name: Gagnon, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3
Growth and ecophysiology of wide intraspecific balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera L.) hybrids
Creators: name: Ryan, Natalie Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The widespread species Populus balsamifera L. exhibits large intra-specific variation in photosynthetic rates and phenology. Northern populations have a tendency towards higher photosynthetic carbon assimilation rates (An) than trees from the south. However, because bud set occurs earlier in northern trees they accomplish far less height growth than do southern trees. Assuming that there are no physiological constraints to combining high An and long growing season, the progeny of intra-specific crosses between northern and southern populations may accomplish more growth in one growing season than their parents (i.e., heterosis). High performing F₁s could be used for a variety of agroforestry projects. Full reciprocal crosses were conducted between individuals from two northern (N) and two southern (S) populations found at the extremes of the P. balsamifera range. Representative selections of progeny and parental material were planted in a greenhouse and in the field and characters including shoot elongation rate, photosynthetic rates, stomatal conductance (gs), water-use efficiency (WUE) leaf mass per area (LMA), internal conductance (gm) in a greenhouse and phenology in the field were evaluated. Although the F₁ families did not display any evidence of heterosis, photosynthetic rates and phenology were uncorrelated in the NxS families, suggesting an uncoupling of traits. Additionally, a number of individuals which possessed a combination of high growth potential and late growth cessation (bud set) were observed and could be useful for a variety of potential deployment areas. The high An in northern populations has been partially attributed to gm, and appears to be a consequence of leaves with greater LMA, which have an increased mesophyll surface area available for carbon uptake. WUE was also correlated with LMA, suggesting that in facilitating CO₂ diffusion for carbon assimilation an increase in gm over an increase in gs provides a clear advantage in not promoting further water loss.
FRANCO, José Eduardo, dir.; PINHO, Joana Balsa de, coord. - Lugares sagrados de Portugal. Vol. I: espaços de proteção e harmonia. Vol. II: fontes de graça e renascimento
Creators: name: Costa, Isabel Teixeira
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
The Jesuits in Ethiopia (1609-1641): Latin Letters in Translation. Translated by Jessica Wright and Leon Grek, edited by Wendy Laura Belcher, introduced by Leonard Cohen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag/ Aethiopische Forschungen, 2017, Bd. 84, 272 p.
Creators: name: Osswald, Cristina
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
3-D Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae IV. NGC 40
Creators: name: Monteiro, Hektor
name: Falceta-Gonçalves, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuing our series of papers on the 3-D structure and accurate distances of Planetary Nebulae (PNe), we present here the results obtained for the planetary nebula NGC\,40. Using data from different sources and wavelengths, we construct 3-D photoionization models and derive the physical quantitities of the ionizing source and nebular gas. The procedure, discussed in detail in the previous papers, consists of the use of 3-D photoionization codes constrained by observational data to derive the three-dimensional nebular structure, physical and chemical characteristics and ionizing star parameters of the objects by simultaneously fitting the integrated line intensities, the density map, the temperature map, and the observed morphologies in different emission lines. For this particular case we combined hydrodynamical simulations with the photoionization scheme in order to obtain self-consistent distributions of density and velocity of the nebular material. Combining the velocity field with the emission line cubes we also obtained the synthetic position-velocity plots that are compared to the observations. Finally, using theoretical evolutionary tracks of intermediate and low mass stars, we derive the mass and age of the central star of NGC\,40 as $(0.567 \pm 0.06)$M$_{\odot}$ and $(5810 \pm 600)$yrs, respectively. The distance obtained from the fitting procedure was $(1150 \pm 120)$pc.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of Expression of a recombinant FLT3 ligand and its emtansine conjugate as a therapeutic candidate against acute myeloid leukemia cells with FLT3 expression
Creators: name: Zhang, Dengyang
name: Guo, Yao
name: Zhao, Yuming
name: Yu, Liuting
name: Chang, Zhiguang
name: Pei, Hanzhong
name: Huang, Junbin
name: Chen, Chun
name: Xue, Hongman
name: Xu, Xiaojun
name: Pan, Yihang
name: Li, Ningning
name: Zhu, Chengming
name: Zhao, Zhizhuang Joe
name: Yu, Jian
name: Chen, Yun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. LC-MS materials, methods and results: S1. Chemicals and Instrumentation; S2. Sample Preparation; S3: LC-MS Analysis method; S4: LC-MS analysis results
Competency-based assessment in clinical high-fidelity simulation : a survey of methods used in undergraduate nursing
Creators: name: Masigan, Peterson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This study aimed to describe the current use of competency-based assessment frameworks and tools in nursing programs in British Columbia (BC) who utilize HFS. High-Fidelity Simulation (HFS) is being adopted and used by nursing programs at an increasing rate. Competency-based assessment frameworks or tools offer an effective way to assess student learning and competence when utilizing HFS as part of teaching. However, current assessment methods used by nurse educators when utilizing HFS mostly involve assessing student’s self-reported competence measures, confidence, or satisfaction with the learning process. These instruments are typically designed within their institution and many have not been tested for validity or reliability. A survey study was designed to explore the frameworks and instruments currently used by nurse educators, trends related to specialized training in using HFS as a teaching tool for nurse educators, HFS utilization in nursing programs, and challenges experienced when using HFS. An online survey was used to collect data from nurse educators in British Columbia. Findings indicated inconsistent use of competency-based assessment frameworks and tools in various nursing programs in BC. Participants reported completing formative assessments after each HFS scenario, but a large majority of participants did not complete any summative assessments when utilizing HFS activities as part of their teaching. Lower range values were reported with regards to the number of specially trained nurse educators using HFS, as well as hours students were exposed to HFS in their programs. Challenges related to students’ attitudes towards realism of HFS scenarios, as well as nurse educators’ resistance to implementing best practices related to HFS use in education were also reported. Further research on developing validated and reliable competency-based assessment frameworks and tools, and implementation of consistent use of these tools in nursing programs is recommended.
LOURENÇO, Miguel Rodrigues – A Articulação da Periferia. Macau e a Inquisição de Goa (c. 1582 – c. 1650). Lisboa: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau e Fundação Macau, 2016. 367 p.
Creators: name: Costa, Bruno Abreu
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
Pairs of Generators for Matrix Groups. I
Creators: name: Taylor, Donald E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G40

description: Matrix generators for the general and special linear groups, the symplectic groups and the general and special unitary groups over finite fields. For the most part the generators have been obtained by translating Steinberg's generators for groups of Lie type into matrix form.
description: 10 pages. This article first appeared in The Cayley Bulletin, which is no longer extant
Detect Related Bugs from Source Code Using Bug Information
Creators: name: Wang, Deqing
name: Lin, Mengxiang
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Hu, Hongping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Open source projects often maintain open bug repositories during development and maintenance, and the reporters often point out straightly or implicitly the reasons why bugs occur when they submit them. The comments about a bug are very valuable for developers to locate and fix the bug. Meanwhile, it is very common in large software for programmers to override or overload some methods according to the same logic. If one method causes a bug, it is obvious that other overridden or overloaded methods maybe cause related or similar bugs. In this paper, we propose and implement a tool Rebug- Detector, which detects related bugs using bug information and code features. Firstly, it extracts bug features from bug information in bug repositories; secondly, it locates bug methods from source code, and then extracts code features of bug methods; thirdly, it calculates similarities between each overridden or overloaded method and bug methods; lastly, it determines which method maybe causes potential related or similar bugs. We evaluate Rebug-Detector on an open source project: Apache Lucene-Java. Our tool totally detects 61 related bugs, including 21 real bugs and 10 suspected bugs, and it costs us about 15.5 minutes. The results show that bug features and code features extracted by our tool are useful to find real bugs in existing projects.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables conference; 2010 IEEE 34th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference
PTF11eon/SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova From a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51
Creators: name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Yaron, Ofer
name: Sternberg, Assaf
name: Rabinak, Itay
name: Waxman, Eli
name: Kasliwal, Mansi M.
name: Quimby, Robert M.
name: Ofek, Eran O.
name: Horesh, Assaf
name: Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Li, Weidong
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Sullivan, Mark
name: Fox, Derek B.
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Poznanski, Dovi
name: Gorbikov, Evgeny
name: Riou, Amedee
name: Lamotte-Bailey, Stephane
name: Griga, Thomas
name: Cohen, Judith G.
name: Polishook, David
name: Xu, Dong
name: Ben-Ami, Sagi
name: Manulis, Ilan
name: Walker, Emma S.
name: Mazzali, Paulo A.
name: Pian, Elena
name: Matheson, Thomas
name: Maquire, Kate
name: Pan, Yen-Chen
name: Bersier, David
name: James, Philip
name: Marchant, Jonathan M.
name: Smith, Robert J.
name: Mottram, Chris J.
name: Barnsley, Robert M.
name: Kandrashoff, Michael T.
name: Clubb, Kelsey I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On May 31, 2011 UT a supernova (SN) exploded in the nearby galaxy M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy). We discovered this event using small telescopes equipped with CCD cameras, as well as by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) survey, and rapidly confirmed it to be a Type II supernova. Our early light curve and spectroscopy indicates that PTF11eon resulted from the explosion of a relatively compact progenitor star as evidenced by the rapid shock-breakout cooling seen in the light curve, the relatively low temperature in early-time spectra and the prompt appearance of low-ionization spectral features. The spectra of PTF11eon are dominated by H lines out to day 10 after explosion, but initial signs of He appear to be present. Assuming that He lines continue to develop in the near future, this SN is likely a member of the cIIb (compact IIb; Chevalier and Soderberg 2010) class, with progenitor radius larger than that of SN 2008ax and smaller than the eIIb (extended IIb) SN 1993J progenitor. Our data imply that the object identified in pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope images at the SN location is possibly a companion to the progenitor or a blended source, and not the progenitor star itself, as its radius (~10^13 cm) would be highly inconsistent with constraints from our post-explosion photometric and spectroscopic data.
Additional file 16 of Transcriptome and de novo analysis of Rosa xanthina f. spontanea in response to cold stress
Creators: name: Zhuang, Defeng
name: Ma, Ce
name: Xue, Li
name: Li, Zhen
name: Wang, Cheng
name: Lei, Jiajun
name: Yuan, Xingfu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 16: Figure S4. The BUSCO assessment results.
LUÍS, Maria dos Anjos Fernandes – Vivências religiosas e comportamentos sociais. Visitas pastorais ao concelho da Lourinhã nos séculos XVII e XVIII. Lourinhã: Câmara Municipal, 2014, 229 p.
Creators: name: Fernandes, Maria De Lurdes Correia
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
TAVIM, José Alberto R. Silva, et al. (ed.) – In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond. A History of Jews and Muslims (15th – 17th Centuries). 2 vols. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, vol. 1: 367 p; vol. 2: 270 p. ISBN 9781443877251
Creators: name: Mateus, Susana Bastos
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
To understand the biology and epidemiology of potato phytoplasmas
Creators: name: Sumner-Kalkun, Jason
name: Jeffries, Colin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Euphresco, plant health, potato, phytoplasmas, biology, epidemiology, diagnostics, PRA

description: Success story of the Euphresco project 2015-B-115  'The biology and epidemiology of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ and potato phytoplasmas and their contribution to risk management in potato and other crops' (PhyLib II)
description: Project funded through the Euphresco network
An unhealthy obsession? : supersonic airpower in an era of unconventional operations
Creators: name: Heard, Kaleigh Sarah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The use of airpower capabilities in unconventional warfare has become increasingly common in recent years and with that comes an interesting dichotomy: contemporary conflict is more often conducted through counterinsurgency and counterterror missions focused on winning hearts and minds, however states often respond to these situations using conventional forms of airpower. In the most recent unconventional operations Western forces have increasingly shown a preference for the supersonic fighter jets. While supersonic airpower is certainly useful across a variety of platforms and missions, the breed of unconventional warfare that the international community is confronting today commonly occurs in the context of absolute air superiority in which such supersonic power is significantly less useful than subsonic capabilities. While supersonic procurements were a strategic choice during the Cold War, their use is now a ‘preference of necessity’ since most Western forces do not possess the subsonic fighter capabilities best suited to unconventional warfare. This study considers the influence US procurement preferences have on Allied governments’ air procurements and analyze the perceptions, conceptions and assumptions that shape them. It argues that continued, unquestioned supersonic procurement is informed by the perceptual predispositions held by the procurement elite as to what war means and looks like, and the equipment required to fight one. As a result, not only are procurement preferences towards supersonic jets determined by perceptual predispositions in the United States but they, in turn, result in an ‘only choice’ framework whereby the procurement patterns of allied states are dictated by the perceived necessity to ‘fit’ their procurements into those advocated by the United States because of long-term clientelistic relationships. This relationship is demonstrated by analyzing this pattern of US influence on Canadian military procurement patterns. This study asserts that this clientelistic relationship with the United States has, in fact, hindered Canada’s ability to create and maintain full service air force capability and operability, as budget realities and US pressure have forced allies to focus solely on the procurement of supersonic jets rather than procuring strategically relevant purpose-built aircraft for the contemporary security environment.
MARQUES, Maria Alegria; OSSWALD, Helena (coord.) – Devoções e sensibilidades marianas: da memória de Cister ao Portugal de hoje. XIII Encontro Cultural S. Cristóvão de Lafões. 5 e 6 de maio de 2017
Creators: name: Azevedo, Carlos A. Moreira
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
Additional file 4 of Transnational prenatal care among migrant women from low-and-middle-income countries who gave birth in Montreal, Canada
Creators: name: Merry, Lisa
name: Kim, Ye Na
name: Urquia, Marcelo L.
name: Goulet, Julie
name: Villadsen, Sarah Fredsted
name: Gagnon, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4
title: Μια παράξενη ετεροτοπία στο κέντρο της Αθήνας: οκτώ οικοδομικά τετράγωνα «κρυμμένα» στην Ομόνοια
title: A strange heterotopia in the center of Athens: eight building blocks hidden in Omonoia
Creators: name: Αυγερινου Αντωνιος
name: Αυγερινου Γεωργιος-Μιχαηλ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: Στις σύγχρονες πόλεις όπου οι μεταναστευτικές ροές συνεχώς αυξάνονται, συνα-
ντάται έντονα ο κοινωνικός διαχωρισμός με αποτέλεσμα η κατανομή διαφόρων
κοινωνικών ομάδων στις πόλεις τείνουν να δημιουργούν θύλακες ή διαφορετικά
μειονοτικές συσσωματώσεις. Η παρούσα ερευνητική εργασία επιχειρεί να διερευ-
νήσει τις καθημερινές πρακτικές των ανθρώπων που οικειοποιούνται μια τέτοια
περιοχή κρυμμένη στην Ομόνοια, που περιγράφεται από τμήματα των οδών Ανα-
ξαγόρα, Γερανίου, Ευριπίδου, Μενάνδρου, Σοφ1οκλέους, Σωκράτους και Πλατεία
Θεάτρου, και συμπυκνώνει εθνική, κοινωνική, οικονομική, πολιτισμική και θρη-
σκευτική διαφοροποίηση από την υπόλοιπη πόλη, χαρακτηρισμένη σύμφωνα με
τις αφηγήσεις του δημοσίου λόγου ως γκέτο στο κέντρο της Αθήνας. Εξετάζει το
αντίκτυπο των πρακτικών πάνω στο δομημένο περιβάλλον, την νοηματοδότηση
που λαμβάνει ο δημόσιος χώρος και αναζητά συνέχειες ή ασυνέχειες που αντα-
νακλώνται στον αστικό ιστό. Μέσα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο μεταξύ άλλων διερευνά
τους τρόπους κατοίκησης των μεταναστών, τις σχέσεις τους με τον δημόσιο χώρο,
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Semiclassical Estimates of Electromagnetic Casimir Self-Energies of Spherical and Cylindrical Metallic Shells
Creators: name: Schaden, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The leading semiclassical estimates of the electromagnetic Casimir stresses on a spherical and a cylindrical metallic shell are within 1% of the field theoretical values. The electromagnetic Casimir energy for both geometries is given by two decoupled massless scalars that satisfy conformally covariant boundary conditions. Surface contributions vanish for smooth metallic boundaries and the finite electromagnetic Casimir energy in leading semiclassical approximation is due to quadratic fluctuations about periodic rays in the interior of the cavity only. Semiclassically the non-vanishing Casimir energy of a metallic cylindrical shell is almost entirely due to Fresnel diffraction.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Northeast China and uneven development under the influence of China's reform and opening up
Creators: name: Xia, Tian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A multi-mechanism framework under a multi-scale method proposed by Wei (1999) is appropriate to analyze the development conditions of Northeast China. In detail, the three mechanisms are decentralization, marketization and globalization, and the three scales are at the interregional, interprovincial and intra-provincial levels. Decentralization after 1978 in China has led to a weaker central state and stronger local governments, both of which have had important implications for regional development. Challenges from local governments have undermined the control of the central government over regional development. However, powerful local governments have helped Chinese governments to embed in local economies. This has been beneficial to develop and form diversified local economies in the Northeast region. But their over-embeddedness in the economic development target has led to an overlook of local government’s responsibilities in maintaining social justice and protecting and assisting the disadvantaged groups, increasing inter-provincial competition and subsequent local protectionism. Marketization reforms in China have generated a regional biased effect on older declining regions including Northeast China. Privatization or the restructure of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) has led to losses of skilled labor and valuable intellectual properties, such as product brands and major manufacturing equipment in Northeast China. Moreover, the formation of an integrated domestic market in China after 1978 has created a more advantageous condition for southern provinces, not for northeastern provinces, because of the closer distance with domestic and overseas markets of southern provinces, and market protectionism conducted by some southern local governments through disguised subsidies to local enterprises or government procurement contracts only for local enterprises. Foreign investment and trade, two major forms of globalization, also have had influences on regional development in China. In detail, international trade has generated border effects, for example the newly formed economic centers alongside the border with leading western European countries in the central and east European transition countries, and also the prosperous economy in coastal China. Foreign investment’s effects on regional development have been influenced by several factors, including the particular selected locations of foreign investors, and also the attitudes or reactions from local players such as governments, labor unions and other actors.
NASCIMENTO, Aires A. – Os antigos códices de Lorvão: balanço de pesquisa e recuperação de tradições. Penacova: Município de Penacova, D.L. 2016. 60, [1] p. ISBN 978-972-99628-6-8
Creators: name: Barreira, Catarina Fernandes
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna
Additional file 1 of Global and regional quality of care index for prostate cancer: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study 1990–2019
Creators: name: Nowroozi, Ali
name: Roshani, Shahin
name: Ghamari, Seyyed-Hadi
name: Shobeiri, Parnian
name: Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen
name: Ebrahimi, Narges
name: Rezaei, Negar
name: Yoosefi, Moein
name: Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza
name: Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi
name: Moghimi, Mana
name: Amini, Erfan
name: Shabestari, Alireza Namazi
name: Larijani, Bagher
name: Farzadfar, Farshad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Ranking of age-standardized QCI by country in 2019.
Observations of Diffuse Ultraviolet Emission from Draco
Creators: name: Sujatha, N. V.
name: Murthy, Jayant
name: Suresh, Rahul
name: Henry, Richard Conn
name: Bianchi, Luciana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied small scale (2 arcmin) spatial variation of the diffuse UV radiation using a set of 11 GALEX deep observations in the constellation of Draco. We find a good correlation between the observed UV background and the IR 100 micron flux, indicating that the dominant contributor of the diffuse background in the field is the scattered starlight from the interstellar dust grains. We also find strong evidence of additional emission in the FUV band which is absent in the NUV band. This is most likely due to Lyman band emission from molecular hydrogen in a ridge of dust running through the field and to line emissions from species such as C IV (1550 A) and Si II (1533 A) in the rest of the field. A strong correlation exists between the FUV/NUV ratio and the FUV intensity in the excess emission regions in the FUV band irrespective of the optical depth of the region. The optical depth increases more rapidly in the UV than the IR and we find that the UV/IR ratio drops off exponentially with increasing IR due to saturation effects in the UV. Using the positional details of Spitzer extragalactic objects, we find that the contribution of extragalactic light in the diffuse NUV background is 49 +/- 13 photon units and is 30 +/- 10 photon units in the FUV band.
description: 30 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), November 2010, v723 issue
Additional file 3 of Global and regional quality of care index for prostate cancer: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study 1990–2019
Creators: name: Nowroozi, Ali
name: Roshani, Shahin
name: Ghamari, Seyyed-Hadi
name: Shobeiri, Parnian
name: Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen
name: Ebrahimi, Narges
name: Rezaei, Negar
name: Yoosefi, Moein
name: Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza
name: Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi
name: Moghimi, Mana
name: Amini, Erfan
name: Shabestari, Alireza Namazi
name: Larijani, Bagher
name: Farzadfar, Farshad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Figure S3. QCIs for the seven GBD super-regions in 1990 and 2019.
Additional file 2 of Global and regional quality of care index for prostate cancer: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study 1990–2019
Creators: name: Nowroozi, Ali
name: Roshani, Shahin
name: Ghamari, Seyyed-Hadi
name: Shobeiri, Parnian
name: Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen
name: Ebrahimi, Narges
name: Rezaei, Negar
name: Yoosefi, Moein
name: Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza
name: Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi
name: Moghimi, Mana
name: Amini, Erfan
name: Shabestari, Alireza Namazi
name: Larijani, Bagher
name: Farzadfar, Farshad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure S2. Age-standardized QCI by socio-demographic index.
Impact of Heterogeneous Human Activities on Epidemic Spreading
Creators: name: Yang, Zimo
name: Cui, Ai-Xiang
name: Zhou, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent empirical observations suggest a heterogeneous nature of human activities. The heavy-tailed inter-event time distribution at population level is well accepted, while whether the individual acts in a heterogeneous way is still under debate. Motivated by the impact of temporal heterogeneity of human activities on epidemic spreading, this paper studies the susceptible-infected model on a fully mixed population, where each individual acts in a completely homogeneous way but different individuals have different mean activities. Extensive simulations show that the heterogeneity of activities at population level remarkably affects the speed of spreading, even though each individual behaves regularly. Further more, the spreading speed of this model is more sensitive to the change of system heterogeneity compared with the model consisted of individuals acting with heavy-tailed inter-event time distribution. This work refines our understanding of the impact of heterogeneous human activities on epidemic spreading.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
The effects of habitat preference, environmental heterogeneity, and inter-individual variation on fitness
Creators: name: Germain, Ryan Ross
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Theory predicts that animals breeding in heterogeneous landscapes should select habitat likely to maximize individual fitness, but identifying the fine-scale environmental characteristics which influence habitat preference and affect fitness is often problematic. While many studies quantify relationships between habitat preference and the reproductive success of their occupants, few are able to separate the independent effects of inter-individual variation among animals in a population from the effects of habitat on indices of fitness. In this thesis, I used up to 39 years of nesting, survival, and pedigree data from a resident, island population of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) to identify fine-scale environmental characteristics which influenced habitat preference, determine whether preferred habitats positively affected fitness, and distinguish the relative effects of preferred habitats on indices of fitness from those due to inter-individual variation among song sparrows within the population. Song sparrows in this population exhibited marked preference for habitats that conferred positive effects on individual fitness via annual reproductive success and survival. Females nesting in preferred habitats also began breeding earlier, exhibited more energetically efficient incubation behaviour, and produced more offspring that recruited the population than those nesting in less-preferred sites. Preferred habitats in this system had more shrub cover, more edge, and deeper soil. The potential benefits of occupying preferred habitats included greater early season food availability and shelter from predators and inclement weather during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons. Despite the positive effects of preferred habitats on fitness, the relative contributions of habitat to indices of fitness were substantially less than those related to inter-individual variation in phenotype, genotype and developmental stage (measured as relative lifetime reproductive success, additive genetic and permanent individual variance, and age). Together, results from this thesis suggest that inter-individual variation in ‘quality’ can be more influential of fitness than habitat quality in free-living populations, and highlight the importance of estimating the relative contributions of inter-individual variation when attempting to identify the environmental correlates of fitness in natural systems.
Additional file 1 of ADHD genetic burden associates with older epigenetic age: mediating roles of education, behavioral and sociodemographic factors among older adults
Creators: name: Arpawong, Thalida E.
name: Klopack, Eric T.
name: Kim, Jung Ki
name: Crimmins, Eileen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Tables and Material.
Critical thinking in second language writing : concept, theory and pedagogy
Creators: name: Dong, Yanning
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Recognizing the reciprocal connection between critical thinking (CT) and writing, many second language (L2) instructors attempt to infuse CT in their writing classrooms but encounter great challenges due to the fact that teaching CT in a specific subject requires a “substantial reconstruction of a teacher’s model of how to teach a discipline” (Nosich, 2005, p. 65). To facilitate this reconstruction, this study is designed to provide the needed conceptual, theoretical and pedagogical supports. Based on a clarification of the concept of CT in L2 writing and the establishment of a theoretical framework that draws insights from Skill Acquisition Theory and Constructivism, I developed a CT-oriented L2 writing approach that included both explicit CT instruction and CT-oriented writing activities. The effectiveness of this approach was evaluated in actual teaching practice that involved 44 second-year L2 undergraduates in a Chinese university. Employing a mixed method research design, the study involved a pre-study questionnaire survey, a quasi-experiment and a post-study interview. After the study, the participants’ pre-test and post-test CT and L2 writing scores were analyzed. The results of the statistical analyses indicate that the CT-oriented L2 writing approach was effective for improving students’ CT and L2 writing scores and that there was a significant high positive relationship (r=0.89, p<.01) between students’ CT and L2 writing scores. The analysis of the post-study interview and the participants’ essays and worksheets reveals that the CT-oriented L2 writing approach has facilitated students’ learning of both CT and L2 writing by connecting the abstract CT theories and practical interactive activities and naturally infusing the instruction of CT into that of L2 writing. The development of the CT-oriented brainstorming worksheet and peer review checklist, as well as the “criteria for evaluating CT in L2 writing” facilitated the teaching, learning and assessment of CT in L2 writing in the present study. Exploring the effectiveness of an approach to CT in L2 writing, the study provides pragmatic supports for L2 researchers and instructors who wish to cultivate their students to become not only proficient language users for effective written communication, but also independent critical thinkers for their life-long learning.
Analysis of a continuous-variable quadripartite cluster state from a single optical parametric oscillator
Creators: name: Midgley, S. L. W.
name: Bradley, A. S.
name: Pfister, O.
name: Olsen, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the feasibility of generating continuous-variable multipartite entanglement in an intra-cavity quadruply concurrent downconversion scheme that has been proposed for the generation of cluster states by Menicucci \textit{et al.} [Physical Review Letters \textbf{101}, 130501 (2008)]. By calculating optimized versions of the van Loock-Furusawa correlations we demonstrate genuine quadripartite entanglement and investigate the degree of entanglement present. Above the oscillation threshold the basic cluster state geometry under consideration suffers from phase diffusion. We alleviate this problem by incorporating a small injected signal into our analysis. Finally, we investigate squeezed joint operators. While the squeezed joint operators approach zero in the undepleted regime, we find that this is not the case when we consider the full interaction Hamiltonian and the presence of a cavity. In fact, we find that the decay of these operators is minimal in a cavity, and even depletion alone inhibits cluster state formation.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures
PRIETO, Victorino Pérez – Prisciliano, um cristão livre. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Editorial Novembro, 2017. 343 p. ISBN 9789898825650
Creators: name: Godinho, Paulo Reis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2017

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 36 (2017): Religião e Trabalho na Antiguidade Pré-Clássica | Clero Regular na Época Moderna