cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Trajectory Optimization for an On-Ramp Freeway Merging Segment in a Mixed Vehicular Traffic Environment
Creators: name: Hesabi Hesari, Abbas
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Merging Control
subject: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
subject: Human-Driven Vehicles
subject: Multilane Freeway
subject: Mixed Traffic
subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Engineering--Automotive

description: Efficient and smooth merging processes on highways are critical for ensuring traffic safety, flow, and network efficiency. While traditional techniques, such as ramp metering and variable speed limits, offer benefits, their ability to optimize highway throughput remains limited. The emergence of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in road networks holds promise for enhancing transportation network efficiency and safety. This research develops a novel control algorithm focused on optimizing autonomous vehicle trajectories in a mixed traffic environment on a multilane highway. The objective is to eliminate stop-and-go conditions during merging and enhance a smooth and safe merging maneuver. The merging process is outlined in a hierarchical hybrid control framework that consists of three control layers: the top control layer, the intermediate tactical control layer, and the lower operational layer. At the top level, the controller gathers data from the real-time traffic environment and identifies a group of vehicles most impacted by the merging maneuvers. This information is relayed to the mid-layer, which then establishes a multiphase kinematic model of the system. Utilizing this model, the tactical controller designs a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) model predictive control (MPC) scheme that optimizes autonomous vehicle trajectories while adhering to various constraints. At the operational level, CAVs employ optimized trajectories as reference signals for executing essential longitudinal and lateral maneuvers during merging operations. A PI (Proportional-Integral) control scheme regulates longitudinal maneuvers, while a PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) control scheme manages lateral maneuvers, and both schemes consider the distinctive vehicle dynamics of each CAV. Through comprehensive simulations that encompass diverse driving scenarios, the hybrid technique demonstrates reliability, robustness, and precision across variable initial conditions. This study also introduces a novel centralized control technique that integrates the control layers of the hybrid control system into a single layer and manages the entire merging process in a continuous motion. Comparing the hybrid and centralized control techniques demonstrates that the hybrid approach has remarkable computational efficiency and showcases higher robustness against model uncertainties and communication disturbances. In contrast, the centralized controller exhibits better stability and control performance with higher fuel efficiency and passenger comfort.
Additional file 4 of Exploring sensory phenotypes in autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Scheerer, Nichole E.
name: Curcin, Kristina
name: Stojanoski, Bobby
name: Anagnostou, Evdokia
name: Nicolson, Rob
name: Kelley, Elizabeth
name: Georgiades, Stelios
name: Liu, Xudong
name: Stevenson, Ryan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4. Full statistics on the one-way ANOVAs conducted to determine whether the VABS-II Adaptive Behaviour subscales differ across the 5 sensory phenotypes are presented.
Total Hadronic Cross Section and the Elastic Slope: An Almost Model-Independent Connection
Creators: name: Fagundes, D. A.
name: Menon, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An almost model-independent parametrization for the ratio of the total cross section to the elastic slope, as function of the center of mass energy, is introduced. The analytical result is based on the approximate relation of this quantity with the ratio $R$ of the elastic to total cross section and empirical fits to the $R$ data from proton-proton scattering above 10 GeV, under the conditions of asymptotic unitarity and the black-disk limit. This parametrization may be useful in studies of extensive air showers and the determination of the proton-proton total cross section from proton-air production cross section in cosmic-ray experiments.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, v4: few typos corrected, final version to be published in Nucl. Phys. A
Rediscovering the unusual, solitary bryozoan Monobryozoon ambulans, Remane 1936:First molecular and new morphological data clarify its phylogenetic position
Creators: name: Schwaha, Thomas
name: Decker, Sebastian H.
name: Baranyi, Christian
name: Saadi, Ahmed J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310401
subject: Animal systematics and taxonomy
classificationCode: 310405
subject: Evolutionary ecology
classificationCode: 310410
subject: Phylogeny and comparative analysis

description: Background: One of the most peculiar species of the mostly colonial phylum Bryozoa is the genus Monobryozoon, whose name already implies non-colonial members of the phylum. Its peculiarity and highly unusual lifestyle as a meiobenthic species living on sand grains has fascinated many biologists. In particular its systematic relationship to other bryozoans remains a mystery. Despite numerous searches for M. ambulans in its type locality Helgoland, a locality with a long-lasting marine station and tradition of numerous courses and workshops, it has never been reencountered until today. Here we report the first observations of this almost mythical species, Monobryozoon ambulans. Results: For the first time since 1938, we present new modern, morphological analyses of this species as well as the first ever molecular data. Our detailed morphological analysis confirms most previous descriptions, but also ascertains the presence of special ambulatory polymorphic zooids. We consider the processes as bud anlagen that ultimately consecutively separate from the animal rendering it pseudo-colonial. The remaining morphological data shows strong ties to alcyonidioidean ctenostome bryozoans. Our morphological data is in accordance with the phylogenomic analysis, which clusters it with species of Alcyonidium as a sister group to multiporate ctenostomes. Divergence time estimation and ancestral state reconstruction recover the solitary state of M. ambulans as a derived character that probably evolved in the Late Cretaceous. In this study, we also provide the entire mitogenome of M. ambulans, which – despite the momentary lack of comparable data – provides important data of a unique and rare species for comparative aspects in the future. Conclusions: We were able to provide first sequence data and modern morphological data for the unique bryozoan, M. ambulans, which are both supporting an alcyonidioidean relationship within ctenostome bryozoans.
Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: VI. Potentially interesting candidate systems from Fourier-based statistical tests
Creators: name: Steffen, Jason H.
name: Ford, Eric B.
name: Rowe, Jason F.
name: Fabrycky, Daniel C.
name: Holman, Matthew J.
name: Welsh, William F.
name: Borucki, William J.
name: Batalha, Natalie M.
name: Bryson, Steve
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Ciardi, David R.
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Kjeldsen, Hans
name: Koch, David G.
name: Prsa, Andrej
name: Sanderfer, Dwight T.
name: Seader, Shawn
name: Twicken, Joseph D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the deviations of transit times from a linear ephemeris for the Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) through Quarter six (Q6) of science data. We conduct two statistical tests for all KOIs and a related statistical test for all pairs of KOIs in multi-transiting systems. These tests identify several systems which show potentially interesting transit timing variations (TTVs). Strong TTV systems have been valuable for the confirmation of planets and their mass measurements. Many of the systems identified in this study should prove fruitful for detailed TTV studies.
description: 32 pages, 6 of text and one long table, Accepted to ApJ
Time-Reversal-Invariant Hofstadter-Hubbard Model with Ultracold Fermions
Creators: name: Cocks, Daniel
name: Orth, Peter P.
name: Rachel, Stephan
name: Buchhold, Michael
name: Hur, Karyn Le
name: Hofstetter, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the time-reversal-invariant Hofstadter-Hubbard model which can be realized in cold atom experiments. In these experiments, an additional staggered potential and an artificial Rashba--type spin-orbit coupling are available. Without interactions, the system exhibits various phases such as topological and normal insulator, metal as well as semi--metal phases with two or even more Dirac cones. Using a combination of real-space dynamical mean-field theory and analytical techniques, we discuss the effect of on-site interactions and determine the corresponding phase diagram. In particular, we investigate the semi--metal to antiferromagnetic insulator transition and the stability of different topological insulator phases in the presence of strong interactions. We compute spectral functions which allow us to study the edge states of the strongly correlated topological phases.
description: 4+ pages, 4 figures; includes Supplemental Material (5 pages). Published version
Softening the Complexity of Entropic Motion on Curved Statistical Manifolds
Creators: name: Cafaro, Carlo
name: Giffin, Adom
name: Lupo, Cosmo
name: Mancini, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the information geometry and the entropic dynamics of a 3D Gaussian statistical model. We then compare our analysis to that of a 2D Gaussian statistical model obtained from the higher-dimensional model via introduction of an additional information constraint that resembles the quantum mechanical canonical minimum uncertainty relation. We show that the chaoticity (temporal complexity) of the 2D Gaussian statistical model, quantified by means of the Information Geometric Entropy (IGE) and the Jacobi vector field intensity, is softened with respect to the chaoticity of the 3D Gaussian statistical model.
description: 17 pages and 0 figures. To appear in Open Systems & Information Dynamics
Shear viscosity and damping of collective modes in a two-dimensional Fermi gas
Creators: name: Schaefer, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the shear viscosity of a two dimensional Fermi gas interacting via a short range potential with scattering length $a_{2d}$ in kinetic theory. We find that kinetic theory predicts that the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of a strongly interacting two dimensional gas is comparable to that of the three dimensional unitary gas. We use our results to compute the damping of collective modes in a trapped Fermi gas, and compare to experimental data recently obtained in E. Vogt et al., arXiv:1111.1173.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures; text revised, corrected error in data for and incorrect value for N in theory vs data plot
Two-electron dephasing in single Si and GaAs quantum dots
Creators: name: Gamble, John King
name: Friesen, Mark
name: Coppersmith, S. N.
name: Hu, Xuedong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dephasing of two-electron states in a single quantum dot in both GaAs and Si. We investigate dephasing induced by electron-phonon coupling and by charge noise analytically for pure orbital excitations in GaAs and Si, as well as for pure valley excitations in Si. In GaAs, polar optical phonons give rise to the most important contribution, leading to a typical dephasing rate of ~5.9 GHz. For Si, intervalley optical phonons lead to a typical dephasing rate of ~140 kHz for orbital excitations and ~1.1 MHz for valley excitations. For harmonic, disorder-free quantum dots, charge noise is highly suppressed for both orbital and valley excitations, since neither has an appreciable dipole moment to couple to electric field variations from charge fluctuators. However, both anharmonicity and disorder break the symmetry of the system, which can lead to increased dipole moments and therefore faster dephasing rates.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Lebertia (Lebertia) abseta Guo, Jin & Asadi 2006
Creators: name: Wang, Jialin
name: Jin, Daochao
name: Yi, Tianci
name: Guo, Jianjun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Lebertiidae
Lebertia
Lebertia abseta

description: 3.4 Lebertia (Lebertia) abseta Guo, Jin & Asadi, 2006 Lebertia (Pseudolebertia) abseta Guo, Jin & Asadi, 2006: 346; Guo & Xu, 2013: 190. Material examined. 3 females, 1 male, Pangquangou Nature Reserve, Jiaocheng County, Shanxi, China (37°30′N, 111°39′E; elev. 1 500 m), 15 August 2002, coll. Jianjun Guo; 6 females, 2 males, Mt. Luya National Nature Reserve, Shanxi, China (37°43′N, 111°51′E; elev. 1 350 m), 17 August 2002, coll. Jianjun Guo; 2 females, Mt. Cangyan, Jingxing County, Hebei, China (38°02′N, 114°08′E; elev. 900 m), 19 August 2002, coll. Jianjun Guo; 3 females, 2 males, Taibaishan National Nature Reserve, Taibai County, Shaanxi, China (37°07′N, 107°53′E; elev. 2 150 m), 9 July 2009, coll. Chengshuai Xu. Remarks. The species was erected by Guo, Jin & Asadi (2006) based on specimens from Iran, and redescribed by Guo & Xu (2013) based on specimens from China. In this paper, the authors agree with the system which proposed by Gerecke (2009) that the subgenus Pseudolebertia should be considered the synonym of the subgenus Lebertia. So that, the species L. (Pseudolebertia) abseta should be L. (Lebertia) abseta. Distribution. Palaearctic Region (Iran (Kerman); China (Shanxi, Shannxi, Hebei)). Founding This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372161, 31201744), the Program of Science and Technology Innovation Talents Team, Guizhou Province (20144001), the Innovation Team Program for Systematic and Applied Acarology ([2014]33), and the Provincial Outstanding Graduate Program for Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control ([2013]010). Acknowledgement Special thanks to Prof. Shangwei Li (Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, P. R. China) and Chengshuai Xu (Huantai No. 1 Middle School, Shandong Province, P. R. China) for providing references and advice to the authors.
description: Published as part of Wang, Jialin, Jin, Daochao, Yi, Tianci & Guo, Jianjun, 2016, Water mites of subgenus Lebertia (Lebertia) Neuman from China (Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae), pp. 54-63 in Zoological Systematics 41 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201603, http://zenodo.org/record/5367272
description: {"references": ["Gerecke, R. 2009. Revisional studies on the European species of the water mite genus Lebertia Neuman 1880 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae). Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung, 566: 1 - 144."]}
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and genotype specific concordance of oro-genital and anal human papillomavirus infections among sexually active Nigerian women
Creators: name: Morhason-Bello, Imran O.
name: Baisley, Kathy
name: Pavon, Miquel Angel
name: Adewole, Isaac F.
name: Bakare, Rasheed
name: de Sanjosé, Silvia
name: Francis, Suzanna C.
name: Watson-Jones, Deborah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1. Conceptual framework for the risk factor analysis of any HPV infection among females in the two communities in Ibadan, Nigeria. Fig S2. Prevalence with 95% confidence intervals of specific HPV genotypes in the four anatomic sites. Table S1. Pattern of HPV concordance by means of anatomical sites among females in Ibadan, Nigeria (n=310).
Can the conversion to organic apple production improve economic and ecological viability in the Okanagan? a case study
Creators: name: King, Richard R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The viability of commercial apple production in the central Okanagan is threatened by high input costs, high land cost, restrictions on operations due to perceived and real environmental damage, and a historically oversupplied free market for apples. This paper documents the conversion of a Kelowna apple orchard to certified organic status in 2006 to 2008 and analyzes the potential of the conversion to counter some of the threats to viability of the farm. Economic factors compared for conventional and organic farm systems are input costs, market returns (historical and projected) and changes occurring in market access for organic produce. Environmental factors discussed are differences in pest control methods, orchard nutrition, water use, and the potential environmental impact of organic philosophy on Okanagan apple production. Organic food production and marketing in Canada is regulated by the federal government. The importance of regulation and identification of organic foods is discussed and evaluated.Study results show that conversion of a conventional apple orchard to organic production has significant potential for improving economic viability for an Okanagan apple orchard but does not conclusively demonstrate environmental improvement. Government and infrastructure support systems for organic production and marketing are limited in capacity to promote significant growth in Canada’s organic production. A threat to the observed improvement in Orchard viability by converting to organic production is the fact that the organic market is small. If a large number of producers in the Okanagan and Washington state were to convert to organic production, premiums for organic apples would likely shrink and the improved viability noted in the study might disappear. Several recommendations are made for further research and an outline of necessary steps for those planning conversion of an Okanagan apple orchard to organic production is included.
Taking Research out of the Lab: Embodied and Situated Language Development
Creators: name: Reggin, Lorraine Dale
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: language acquisition
subject: parent training
subject: partner engaged research
subject: community based research
subject: embodied cognition
subject: situated cognition
subject: Psychology--Cognitive

description: Language acquisition is influenced by the child, in terms of their genetic and biological make-up, but also acquired within the context of their family, social systems, schools, and community. Development is influenced by the culture, language, and social context surrounding the child. Embodied cognition is the view that thinking is grounded in perceptual, action, and emotion systems. An embodied theory of language acquisition predicts that early concepts develop from sensorimotor experience. Evidence regarding the role of the body in language acquisition can influence teaching, community programs, and families. Researchers also can learn from the experiences of the child and their communities when supporting young language learners. In Chapter 2, I describe embodied cognition for educators. I describe the shift in cognitive psychology from describing thinking as the manipulation of arbitrary symbols to the view that an integrated system houses sensory and motor systems but also language information. I provide evidence for the role of sensorimotor experience in learning. I also discuss some critical areas that need to be explained by embodied cognition, where more research is required and take-home messages for teachers. In Chapter 3, I delineate embodied from situated cognition in language acquisition. Language is embodied in that our internal cognitive mechanisms are grounded in our sensorimotor and affective systems but also situated because language is learned within a broader context. In Chapter 4, I describe a community-based research project testing a program designed to increase adult talk and conversation between caregivers and children. Community-based research allows for an exploration of language learning in the context of the families and communities in which children live. With training, caregivers can increase the quantity of speech they share with their children, and feedback could be one way to help facilitate this process. I consider how these findings could influence a broader discussion around the role of parental input in language development. Across these diverse studies, I explore language outside the traditional laboratory setting for language research. I bring knowledge of language acquisition theory and principles to teachers for direct application in their classrooms. I delineate the need for lab-based research and research in naturalistic environments and examine one such endeavour.
łuk’é náte (A Child Called Dream)
Creators: name: Purcell, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Research-Creation
subject: Indigenous Studies
subject: Turtle Island Literature
subject: Hermeneutics
subject: Dreamwork
subject: Storyweaving
subject: Dene Suline
subject: Creative Non-Fiction
subject: Memoir
subject: Cut-up Writing
subject: Grief
subject: Dreams
subject: Recovery
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Literature--English
subject: Native American Studies
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Education--Art

description: łuk’é náte (A Child Called Dream) is a work of research-creation that moves between autobiographical accounts of my childhood and my life in university over the last thirteen years. I reflect on the process and publication of my first book, ʔbédayine, as well as the grief of losing my sister Lorrie, the intergenerational traumas passed down from my mother, and the creative research practices I have embraced over all these years. Through my doctoral studies and the writing of this thesis, I found ways to heal myself and embrace the parts of my way of thinking and being that I had been ashamed of. My mind riddled with attention and trauma disorders. My mind which struggles to communicate verbally as well as I can write. My mind tangled by a lifetime living in fear as a result of intergenerational violence passed down by the residential and day school systems. Through my intuitive research-creation practices as an urban Dënë Sųłınë́ person, I write my childhood memoir while exploring my lineage of thought from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, poets, and artists, such as Rob Cardinal, Kablusiak, CAConrad, Anne Boyer, and Marilyn Dumont. The critical exegesis is woven into the creative elements, and the creative is woven into the critical. It is a genre-bending work of research-creation, storyweaving and intuition as theoretical practice. It is a carefully curated amalgamation of poetry, story, personal archival material, photos, and art. I storyweave my childhood with reflections on my journey becoming sober and becoming an academic—and that which induced moments of either a regressed or reclaimed sense of self and autonomy. This creative process becomes instrumental in my ability to transform trauma cycles, and use art for restorative grieving, clowning, and holistic self-acceptance.
Discrete Gauge Symmetries in Discrete MSSM-like Orientifolds
Creators: name: Ibanez, L. E.
name: Schellekens, A. N.
name: Uranga, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the necessity of discrete Z_N symmetries in the MSSM to insure baryon stability, we study the origin of discrete gauge symmetries from open string sector U(1)'s in orientifolds based on rational conformal field theory. By means of an explicit construction, we find an integral basis for the couplings of axions and U(1) factors for all simple current MIPFs and orientifolds of all 168 Gepner models, a total of 32990 distinct cases. We discuss how the presence of discrete symmetries surviving as a subgroup of broken U(1)'s can be derived using this basis. We apply this procedure to models with MSSM chiral spectrum, concretely to all known U(3)xU(2)xU(1)xU(1) and U(3)xSp(2)xU(1)xU(1) configurations with chiral bi-fundamentals, but no chiral tensors, as well as some SU(5) GUT models. We find examples of models with Z_2 (R-parity) and Z_3 symmetries that forbid certain B and/or L violating MSSM couplings. Their presence is however relatively rare, at the level of a few percent of all cases.
description: 47 pages. References added
What Autistic Females Can Teach Teachers: Understanding the Elementary School Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum
Creators: name: Large, Darcy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Autism
subject: School Experiences
subject: Female Autism Phenotype
subject: Camouflaging
subject: Teacher Training
subject: Reflexive Thematic Analysis
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Education--Teacher Training

description: This study explored autistic females' experiences in elementary school with a focus on their relationships with teachers and peers. Women were also asked to reflect on these experiences to offer suggestions about what they believe can be done to improve school experiences for current female autistic elementary students. A qualitative design was selected and semi-structured interviews were conducted with five women who were diagnosed with autism after the age of 18, hence who navigated elementary school without formal identification. Interviews were transcribed and data were analyzed via Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Three themes emerged as challenges that autistics experienced in their relationships with teachers and peers: (1) I Knew I Was Different, (2) Navigating Social Situation, and (3) Seeking Acceptance. Three themes also emerged pertaining to suggestions for improvement of school experiences for current female autistic students: (1) Promoting Inclusion, (2) Supporting Autistic Students Supports All Students, and (3) Teachers Can Only do so Much. Implications for pre- and in-service teachers, teacher training programs, and stakeholders are discussed, as are directions for future research.
Stereotyping and 'Strine'
Creators: name: Muecke, Stephen (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1976

description: STEREOTYPING AND 'STRINE'. 29 1. Stereotyping 29 1.1. Stereotyped Varieties 31 2. Strine 31 2.1. Some Experimentation with Strine 33 2.2. The Staged Strine Speech Act 35Notes 39Bibliography 40
Leadership Practices of Middle School Principals that Promote Collective Teacher Efficacy
Creators: name: Lisi, Nancy Maria-Luisa
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Collective teacher efficacy
subject: School leadership
subject: Leadership practices
subject: Leadership actions
subject: Middle school
subject: Education--Administration

description: The purpose of this case study was to understand the practices and actions of school leaders in middle schools with high levels of enabling conditions for collective teacher efficacy (CTE) according to the Enabling Conditions for Collective Teacher Efficacy Survey (EC-CTES) results. Through the identification of specific leadership practices and actions that enable CTE and with a clearer understanding of the rationale and intentions behind these practices, the case study provides insight into how CTE is enabled within middle schools. Research into instructional leadership and CTE indicates a correlation between high levels of CTE and student achievement. Other identified benefits of high levels of CTE include improved teacher practices and collaborative school cultures able to respond to change and innovation. However, there is limited research focused on the actual practices and actions of school-based leaders that enable high levels of CTE. This study used qualitative case study methodology involving semi-structured interviews with three middle school principals, and semi-structured focus group interviews with groups of four to five teachers from each principal’s school, totaling 13 focus group participants overall, all from a large urban school district in Alberta, Canada. The findings of this inquiry revealed five themes identifying general leadership practices within which 13 findings, identifying specific leadership practices and actions that enable CTE, are situated. These themes include building teacher capacity, leadership distribution and development, community engagement and decision making, school improvement, and principal deportment. The findings of this study contribute to a growing body of knowledge exploring the relationship between school leadership practices and actions and collective teacher efficacy, specifically in middle schools.
A Comparative Techno-Economic Analysis of Ammonia Production and Export in Western Canada and Australia
Creators: name: Palandri, Julian John
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Low Carbon Ammonia
subject: Canada
subject: Australia
subject: Blue Hydrogen
subject: Green Hydrogen
subject: Physics
subject: Energy

description: There is world-wide push today to dramatically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the effects of climate change. In this low carbon future, the demand for traditional hydrocarbons will be significantly reduced. Replacing some of these hydrocarbons with low carbon emissions hydrogen could be a viable alternative for energy storage or energy export, as hydrogen as a fuel source does not emit emissions. This is of relevance to Canada, an important exporter of traditional hydrocarbons. However, there is currently a lack of detailed techno-economic analyses that look at the cost competitiveness of hydrogen from Canada versus other likely hydrogen export candidates, like Australia. This gap is addressed by completing a detailed techno-economic analysis of the export of hydrogen as ammonia to Japan from Canada or Australia that compares the costs in 2020, 2030, and 2050. This detailed analysis could ultimately be useful for policy makers to understand the potential for Canada to emerge as an exporter of hydrogen as ammonia based on the comparative economics. A life cycle assessment is also included in this analysis. From this techno-economic analysis, the costs for exporting ammonia to Japan in 2020, 2030, and 2050 are, respectively, US$422/tNH3, US$458/tNH3, and US$463/tNH3 for Canada, and US$827/tNH3, US$614/tNH3, and US$497/tNH3 for Australia. The emissions rates for exporting this ammonia to Japan in 2020, 2030, and 2050 are, respectively, 16.0 gCO2/MJ NH3, 27.1 gCO2/MJ NH3, and 15.3 gCO2/MJ NH3 for Canada, and 9.17 gCO2/MJ NH3, 11.6 gCO2/MJ NH3, and 11.2 gCO2/MJ NH3 for Australia. The natural gas prices for Canada and solar/wind farm costs for Australia were the two main determinants of economic costs for their respective pathways. The findings suggests that Canada will have a cost advantage in the short-term for supplying hydrogen as ammonia to candidate countries that are looking to import hydrogen, such as Japan but that market dynamics could change over time. From the life cycle assessment results, Canada would have lower emissions in the present but Australia was found to have lower emissions in the future.
Neurooncology: 2025 update
Creators: name: Mittelbronn, Michel
Publisher: name: Free Neuropathology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Neurooncology
Neuropathology
Brain tumors
Glioblastoma
Brain metastasis

description: This collection of studies highlights groundbreaking advancements in brain tumor research, particularly primary CNS tumors and brain metastasis. One major focus is the tumor microenvironment, where alterations in cerebral microcirculation and hypoxic-ischemic conditions have been shown to influence metastatic progression. In
glioblastoma, recurrent tumors exhibit distinct DNA methylation profiles, and global DNA methylation has emerged as an independent diagnostic marker for IDH-wildtype glioblastoma. A whole-tumor perspective further emphasizes the extensive intratumoral heterogeneity driving glioblastoma evolution. The immune landscape of glioblastoma is another key area of research. Cranioencephalic functional lymphoid units have been implicated in tumor progression, while time-dependent single-cell phenotyping offers novel insights into immune cell
dynamics within glioblastoma. Additionally, histone serotonylation has been identified as a critical epigenetic regulator in ependymoma tumorigenesis. Diagnostic and prognostic innovations are paving the way for improved patient care. Histomorphological features provide enhanced prognosis prediction for glioblastoma patients.
Confocal laser microscopy enables real-time intraoperative histopathological diagnostics, and sequencing of
cerebrospinal fluid-derived cell-free DNA presents a promising non-invasive diagnostic approach. Together, these top studies of 2024 underscore the complexity of brain tumor biology and the integration of epigenetics, immune interactions, and advanced diagnostics into clinical practice. These insights mark significant progress toward personalized treatment strategies and improved outcomes in neurooncology.
description: Free Neuropathology, Bd. 6 (2025)
A Method for Obtaining Generating Function for Central Coefficients of Triangles
Creators: name: Kruchinin, Vladimir
name: Kruchinin, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15

description: We present techniques for obtaining a generating function for the central coefficients of a triangle $T(n,k)$, which is given by the expression $[xH(x)]^k=\sum_{n\geqslant k} T(n,k)x^n$, $H(0)\neq 0$. We also prove certain theorems for solving direct and inverse problems.
Monte Carlo techniques for patient specific verification of complex radiation therapy treatments including TBI, VMAT and SBRT lung
Creators: name: Teke, Tony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The main objective of this thesis is to develop Monte Carlo (MC) techniques for verification of complex radiation therapy treatments with emphasis on total body irradiation (TBI) and Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT). This work was motivated by an initial study including ten non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients which evaluated the dosimetric consequences of plans optimized using the treatment planning system (TPS) by recalculating them with MC. It was shown that poor modelling of electronic disequilibrium by the TPS lead to underdosage of the planning target volume (PTV) and that quality assurance (QA) procedures should be based on a MC approach. With the emergence of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), which is a complex type of treatment delivery, new developments in MC simulations are required. A patient specific MC based QA system for VMAT treatments was developed and implemented clinically. This system is able to assess machine delivery performance and dose calculation accuracy of the TPS. During a substantial portion of the treatment the radiation beam is attenuated by the treatment couch. The impact of the attenuation on QA results is found to be patient specific and is non negligible. A process to create a couch model for MC simulations and its implementation is presented. The accuracy of this system is demonstrated against experimental measurements. For TBI the most important contributors to mortality is interstitial pneumonitis (IP). Adequate lung shielding and accurate estimation of lung doses is critical to reduce incidence of IP. A MC based TBI verification system including all the treatment delivery characteristics as well as patient specific lung compensators is presented. For the purposes of treatment plan quality improvement, a study including five anonymized image data sets from previously treated patients is performed. It is shown that mean doses to lungs are systematically larger for the prone position treatment compared to the supine position due to anatomical deformation. Improvement in dose distribution is investigated using a new fast inverse dose optimization algorithm combined with a new treatment delivery technique. This thesis concludes that MC based verification for complex radiotherapy treatments is clinically feasible and outperforms current methods.
Additional file 1 of Resistin levels and inflammatory and endothelial dysfunction markers in obese postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Giandalia, A.
name: Alibrandi, A.
name: Giorgianni, L.
name: Lo Piano, F.
name: Consolo, F.
name: Longo Elia, G.
name: Asztalos, B.
name: Cucinotta, D.
name: Squadrito, G.
name: Russo, G. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical characteristics in T2DM women with and without established coronary artery disease (CHD). Table S2. Factors independently associated with established coronary artery disease in T2DM women participating to the study.
Το Μυστήριο της Θείας Οικονομίας στην υμνογραφία του Αγίου Δωδεκαημέρου
Creators: name: Σίσκος, Σωτήριος Πέτρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Θεία Οικονομία
Υμνογραφία
Άγιο Δωδεκαήμερο
Divine Economy
Hymnography
Holy twelve days of Christmas

description: Σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν, να ερευνήσουμε τη θεολογία του Μυστηρίου της Θείας Οικονομίας, όπου αυτή ενυπάρχει στην υμνογραφία της περιόδου του Αγίου Δωδεκαημέρου. Στα υμνογραφικά αυτά κείμενα εμπεριέχεται συμπυκνωμένη η θεολογική εμπειρία και οι αλήθειες της πίστης μας. Αποτελούν ποιητικό συνάμα και μυσταγωγικό λόγο, που ενδεδυμένα με τη σεμνή και απέριττη μουσική έκφραση, αποτυπώνονται στις καρδιές των ανθρώπων, εδώ και αιώνες, μέσα στο λειτουργικό χώρο και χρόνο της Εκκλησίας. Επιχειρήσαμε μία θεολογική παρουσίαση και ερμηνεία του περιεχομένου των υμνογραφικών κειμένων της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας, αρχίζοντας με τη δημιουργία του κόσμου και του ανθρώπου, συνεχίζοντας με την πτώση του ανθρώπου και τις συνέπειές της και ολοκληρώνοντας με την αναφορά στο γεγονός της Ενανθρώπησης του Θεού Λόγου και τη σωτηρία του ανθρώπου.
description: The purpose of the thesis was to investigate the theology of the Mystery of the Divine Economy, where it is present in the hymnography of the period of the Holy Twelve days of Christmas. In these hymnographic texts the theological experience and the truths of our faith are condensed. They are simultaneously poetic and mystifying speech, which, clothed with the modest and unnecessary musical expression, have been imprinted on the hearts of people, for centuries, within the liturgical space and time of the Church. We attempted a theological presentation and interpretation of the content of the hymnographic texts of the Orthodox Church, starting with the creation of the world and man, continuing with the fall of man and its consequences and concluding with the reference to the Incarnation of God and the salvation human's.
Quantum-correlated two-photon transitions to excitons in semiconductor quantum wells
Creators: name: Salazar, L. J.
name: Guzmán, D. A.
name: Rodríguez, F. J.
name: Quiroga, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dependence of the excitonic two-photon absorption on the quantum correlations (entanglement) of exciting biphotons by a semiconductor quantum well is studied. We show that entangled photon absorption can display very unusual features depending on space-time-polarization biphoton parameters and absorber density of states for both bound exciton states as well as for unbound electron-hole pairs. We report on the connection between biphoton entanglement, as quantified by the Schmidt number, and absorption by a semiconductor quantum well. Comparison between frequency-anti-correlated, unentangled and frequency-correlated biphoton absorption is addressed. We found that exciton oscillator strengths are highly increased when photons arrive almost simultaneously in an entangled state. Two-photon-absorption becomes a highly sensitive probe of photon quantum correlations when narrow semiconductor quantum wells are used as two-photon absorbers.
description: Extended Introduction and results discussion. Results unchanged.2 new figures. Added references.Published version
Zukunftsfragen
Creators: name: Lang, Louis
Publisher: name: Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit
Year: 2025
Subjects: Zukunftsangst
Klimaemotionen
ontologische Sicherheit
Zukunftspraktiken
sozial-ökologischer Wandel

description: Gesellschaftliche Nachhaltigkeits- und Klimawandeldiskurse sind in hohem Maße von Emotionalisierung und Katastrophennarrativen geprägt. Das zukünftige Fortbestehen gegenwärtiger sozialer Ordnungsstrukturen und Lebensweisen scheint zunehmend fraglich, bedroht entweder durch zu erwartende Klimawandelfolgen oder durch aktuelle politische Klimaschutzmaßnahmen. Infolgedessen werden Zukunftsängste und Klimaemotionen zu bedeutenden Faktoren für das gegenwärtige Zeitgefühl. Die Folgen für sozial-ökologische Transformationsprozesse scheinen ambivalent und sind noch Gegenstand der nachhaltigkeitssoziologischen Debatte.


Dieser Beitrag untersucht den alltagspraktischen Umgang mit krisenhaften Zukunftsorientierungen sowie daraus entstehende Emotionen und diskutiert den Einfluss dieser Bewältigungsstrategien auf Prozesse der sozial-ökologischen Transformation. Um sich diesem Phänomen zu nähern, werden die Konzepte der Zukunftspraktiken sowie der Emotions- und Zeitarbeit erörtert und ihr Erkenntnispotential anhand von Interviewdaten aus einer explorativen Studie mit Klima-Aktivist*innen und jungen Eltern veranschaulicht
description: Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit, Bd. 11 Nr. 2 (2025): Zeit der Transformation, Zeit des Stillstands?
Additional file 5 of Exploring sensory phenotypes in autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Scheerer, Nichole E.
name: Curcin, Kristina
name: Stojanoski, Bobby
name: Anagnostou, Evdokia
name: Nicolson, Rob
name: Kelley, Elizabeth
name: Georgiades, Stelios
name: Liu, Xudong
name: Stevenson, Ryan A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 5. Full statistics on the one-way ANOVAs conducted to determine whether the RBS-R Repetitive Beahviours subscales differ across the 5 sensory phenotypes are presented.
Additional file 1 of Identification of reference genes for gene expression studies among different developmental stages of murine hearts
Creators: name: Ren, Jie
name: Zhang, Ningning
name: Li, Xiangjie
name: Sun, Xiaogang
name: Song, Jiangping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. The ARRIVE checklist. The reporting of animal experiments according to the the ARRIVE guidelines ( http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/page.asp?id=1357 ).
Multiplet ligand-field theory using Wannier orbitals
Creators: name: Haverkort, M. W.
name: Zwierzycki, M.
name: Andersen, O. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how ab initio cluster calculations including the full Coulomb vertex can be done in the basis of the localized, generalized Wannier orbitals which describe the low-energy density functional (LDA) band structure of the infinite crystal, e.g. the transition metal 3d and oxygen 2p orbitals. The spatial extend of our 3d Wannier orbitals (orthonormalized Nth order muffin-tin orbitals) is close to that found for atomic Hartree-Fock orbitals. We define Ligand orbitals as those linear combinations of the O 2p Wannier orbitals which couple to the 3d orbitals for the chosen cluster. The use of ligand orbitals allows for a minimal Hilbert space in multiplet ligand-field theory calculations, thus reducing the computational costs substantially. The result is a fast and simple ab initio theory, which can provide useful information about local properties of correlated insulators. We compare results for NiO, MnO and SrTiO3 with x-ray absorption, inelastic x-ray scattering, and photoemission experiments. The multiplet ligand field theory parameters found by our ab initio method agree within ~10% to known experimental values.
Interpolatory Weighted-H2 Model Reduction
Creators: name: Anic, Branimir
name: Beattie, Christopher A.
name: Gugercin, Serkan
name: Antoulas, Athanasios C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper introduces an interpolation framework for the weighted-H2 model reduction problem. We obtain a new representation of the weighted-H2 norm of SISO systems that provides new interpolatory first order necessary conditions for an optimal reduced-order model. The H2 norm representation also provides an error expression that motivates a new weighted-H2 model reduction algorithm. Several numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Additional file 2 of Identification of reference genes for gene expression studies among different developmental stages of murine hearts
Creators: name: Ren, Jie
name: Zhang, Ningning
name: Li, Xiangjie
name: Sun, Xiaogang
name: Song, Jiangping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Reference gene expression variability and rankings. Demonstrating the results of the different statistical methods (GeNorm, NormFinder, Delta-Ct, BestKeeper and RefFinder) for analyzing the temporality expression variabilities of 21 housekeeping genes in the different comparisons among groups addressed.