cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emergency Medical Services Response Time and Mortality in Paediatric Trauma Patients in the Urban Setting: A Cohort Study
Creators: name: Couperthwaite, Amy Bonnie Gale
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: injury prevention
subject: Emergency Medical Services
subject: Epidemiology
subject: ambulances
subject: response time
subject: ambulance response times
subject: EMS response times
subject: paediatric injury
subject: injury
subject: Paediatrics
subject: paediatric injury prevention

description: Introduction: The standard for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) response times has been set at eight minutes or less in many places in the world. We examined the relationship between trauma related mortality and morbidity and EMS response time. Methods: Retrospective cohort study of paediatric patients under the age of 18 who suffered a traumatic injury and were attended to by EMS in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta between April 2010 and September 2013 Results: The adjusted risk ratio of mortality given a response time of ≥8 minutes is 0.635 times that of a response time <8 minutes (95% CI: 0.346-1.166; p=0.143). The adjusted risk ratio of admission to hospital given a response time of >8 minutes is 1.165 times that of a response time <8 minutes (95% CI: 0.985-1.379; p=0.075). Conclusions: The eight minute response time was not associated with a difference in all cause mortality or admission to hospital.
Consideraciones sobre algunos aspectos lógicos del giro lingüístico
Creators: name: Dib, Eduardo Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Logic, History of Ideas, Philosophy and history of science

description: Regarding the linguistic turn in History of Ideas there are logical topics to be considered in order to increase the accuracy of reconstruccions oriented to describe and explain conceptual formations of the past. This paper propose an overview of these topics and a methodological approach to deal with its difficulties
Interaction of Silica Nanoparticles with Primary Alveolar Epithelial Cells
Creators: name: Bogari, Nawaf N.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Health
subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nanoparticles
subject: Alveolar epithelial cells
subject: Primary cell culture
subject: Endocytosis

description: The fate of nanoparticles reaching the alveolar lung is not completely understood. Clearance of these particles has been ascribed to the alveolar macrophages scavenging this region. In contrast, in my thesis, I show in vitro, that particles interact more strongly with the alveolar epithelial cells (AECs) than alveolar macrophages (AMs), are then taken up efficiently and transported across the cells and released on the basolateral side. First, I developed a protocol for obtaining a pure culture of rat AEC. Single cell force spectroscopy showed the AEC to respond strongly and in a clathrin-independent manner to the particles, unlike a host of control cells, including alveolar macrophages. Fluorescence light microscopy and total internal reflection fluorescence light microscopy (TIRF) demonstrated the transport to be novel, actin-dependent and microtubule independent. In summary, my thesis provides evidence of a second clearance mechanism in addition to AMs.
Additional file 2 of Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
Creators: name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Trapp, Georgina
name: Maitland, Clover
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: George, Phoebe
name: Wenden, Elizabeth
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 2.
Observation of Negative Contact Resistances in Graphene Field-Effect Transistors
Creators: name: Nouchi, Ryo
name: Saito, Tatsuya
name: Tanigaki, Katsumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gate-voltage (VG) dependence of the contact resistance (RC) in graphene field-effect transistors is characterized by the transmission line model. The RC-VG characteristics of Ag, Cu, and Au contacts display a dip around the charge neutrality point, and become even negative with Ag contacts. The dip structure is well reproduced by a model calculation that considers a metal-contact-induced potential variation near the metal contact edges. The apparently negative RC originates with the carrier doping from the metal contacts to the graphene channel and appears when the doping effect is more substantial than the actual contact resistance precisely at the contacts. The negative RC can appear at the metal contacts to Dirac-cone systems such as graphene.
description: 7 figures, 1 table
Controls on the Timing and Evolution of Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Basin, British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Englert, Rebecca Gail
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Submarine channel-system deposits of the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia, Canada record long-lived (>10^6 yr) deep-water sedimentation across a tectonically active basin margin. The integration of detrital zircon geochronology and stratigraphic analyses provides a unique opportunity to characterize the paleogeographic setting, source-to-sink relationships, and temporal evolution of this ancient sediment-routing system. Three contemporaneous conglomeratic channel-levee deposits are documented across a 135-km basin margin (strike-oriented) transect, indicating a period of widespread deep-water sedimentation. At one of these locations, continuous sediment transfer occurred for 21.1 ± 3.4 m.y. through an established submarine conduit that underwent a period of prolonged sediment bypass followed by a phase of channel aggradation. The timing and nature of deposition along the paleo-basin margin relates to geomorphic and tectonic changes in the basin and upstream drainage-systems, suggesting localized and regional controls on deep-water sediment delivery. These deposits provide insight into the geologic history of North America and sediment dispersal in tectonically active settings globally.
Reply to the comment of Huey-Wen Lin and Keh-Fei Liu on "Controversy concerning the definition of quark and gluon angular momentum" by E. Leader (arXiv:1111.0678, PRD 83, 096012 (2011))
Creators: name: Leader, Elliot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lin and Liu evaluate the nucleon expectation value of the non gauge-invariant canonical quark momentum operator on a lattice, and obtain zero. They conclude that my argument that, despite the non gauge-invariance of the operator, its physical matrix elements \emph{are} gauge-invariant, cannot be correct. I show that their result has no bearing on the question of gauge-invariance, and also point to an amusing lattice paradox.
description: 2 pages, no figures
Additional file 3 of Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
Creators: name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Trapp, Georgina
name: Maitland, Clover
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: George, Phoebe
name: Wenden, Elizabeth
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 3.
Developing a robotic assessment tool for sense of effort
Creators: name: Logan, Lindsey Marie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Proprioception
subject: Motor Control
subject: Sensory Feedback
subject: Robotics
subject: Sensorimotor
subject: Sense of Effort

description: Proprioception comprises the senses of position, movement, and effort of our body and limbs. These senses are generally difficult to quantify, but previous studies have done so using robotic assessments of position and movement sense. In the present study, to characterize sense of effort, we asked subjects to match torques applied to one elbow (“reference”) with their contralateral elbow (“matching”). Elbow angles were varied. We hypothesized that healthy subjects’ matching torques would reflect different reference torque levels, and that subjects would perform best with both elbows at the same angles. In general, our hypotheses were confirmed. Subjects exerted more torque to move toward the reference arm position, and less to move away. However, subjects also tended to overestimate the reference torques. The enclosed thesis describes results of four experiments examining sense of effort in healthy subjects. These experiments provide foundation for quantifying sense of effort in neurologically impaired individuals.
Setting up CI/CD for JavaScript Applications with GitLab and Docker
Creators: name: Fürmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: devops
gitlab
docker
CI
CD

description: Software development teams working with agile methods want to improve discussions
 regarding new features and satisfy their customer by releasing new versions of their
 software as early and as often as possible. If not done with the right strategy, the
 deployment of a web application can become a time-consuming and error-prone task,
 that is neither reliable, repeatable nor executable for deployments on a short interval.
 If in addition tight security requirements of the customer with regard to the secure
 productive operation are added, deployment becomes a risk to keep the best developers
 of the team busy for a long time.
 To solve this difficulty, approaches known as Continuous Integration (CI), Delivery
 (CDE) and Deployment (CD) describe techniques to test and deploy software changes in
 a highly automated manner. Additionally, using established cloud server techniques for
 virtualisation and code signing provides new possibilities for deployments on restricted
 systems that meet higher security demands even for projects dealing with sensitive
 personal information.
 With a suitable set of tools, a team of developers can accomplish tests and deliver-
 ies/deployments, that are fully automated and not only fit their development process
 but also meet the client’s security requirements. This work shows an approach how such
 a system can be set up, and gives recommendations on how to support the development
 process and deploy tested software frequent, reliable, and repeatable in different stages
 of development, from feature test releases to production, using GitLab and Docker.
Proposed Experiment in Two-Qubit Linear Optical Photonic Gates for Maximal Success Rates
Creators: name: Smith, A. Matthew
name: Uskov, D. B.
name: Fanto, M.
name: Ying, L. H.
name: Kaplan, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we propose an experiment in Linear Optical Quantum Computing (LOQC) using the framework first developed by Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn. This experiment will test the ideas of the authors' previous work on imperfect LOQC gates using number-resolving photon detectors. We suggest a relatively simple physical apparatus capable of producing CZ gates with controllable fidelity less than 1 and success rates higher than the current theoretical maximum (S=2/27) for perfect fidelity. These experimental setups are within the reach of many experimental groups and would provide an interesting experiment in photonic quantum computing.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Understanding the genetic evolution of oral cancer genomes
Creators: name: Tsui, Ivy F.L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Background: Oral cancer is the most common type of head and neck cancer, with a 5-year survival rate of < 50%. The major problems of oral cancer include the late stage of disease at the time of diagnosis, a lack of effective targeted therapies, and failure in surgical treatment. A better understanding of the genetic evolution of oral cancer will greatly benefit the identification of molecular targets for the prevention and treatment of the disease. I applied whole genome profiling to delineate genes and pathways associated with oral carcinogenesis and to uncover the clonal relationships between samples from the same field. Hypotheses: (i) Genetic alterations critical to oral cancer development will be present in oral premalignant lesions (OPLs), and candidate genes will reside within recurrent regions of alterations in OPLs. (ii) DNA amplification occurs at the premalignant stage of oral cancer development and harbours genes involved in key oncogenic pathways. (iii) The oral cancer field is genetically heterogeneous, and the clonal evolution between biopsies from the field will be revealed by their genetic signatures. Materials/Methods: DNA copy number data from OPLs were generated using tiling-path DNA microarrays. Recurrent regions of alterations on chromosome 3p were identified and associated with clinical information. Copy number data were associated with public expression datasets to identify genes and pathways contributing to oral carcinogenesis. Genetic breakpoints were used to evaluate the clonal expansion of genetically altered cells within a single field. Results: I identified the genetic alterations that are recurrently altered in different individuals, supporting hypothesis 1. Regions of high-level amplification are frequently detected in OPLs, and genes mapped in amplicons are significantly enriched in the FGF signaling network, supporting hypothesis 2. Furthermore, the genetic relatedness among biopsies from an oral cancer field is revealed by comparing their genetic signatures, and the field is found to be genetically heterogeneous, supporting hypothesis 3. Conclusions: Whole genome profiling of OPLs allows the detection of novel genetic changes and fine-maps the genetic breakpoints previously not known. Together, this work highlights the importance of tailored targeted therapy to effectively treat different patients and different subclones of a field.
Effects of Nanopores on Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery in Tight Oil Reservoirs
Creators: name: Zhang, Kai
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Nanopore
subject: CO2
subject: Tight Oil
subject: Miscibility
subject: Enhance Oil Recovery

description: Horizontal well drilling with multi-stage hydraulic fracturing is mainly applied in tight oil exploitation. In some tight carbonate reservoirs like Pekisko, acidizing is applied. The primary recovery factor, however, remains below 10% even with advanced technologies. Water flooding has also been proposed for tight oil development, but water can form a membrane up to 43 nm, which tremendously hinders water injectivity. A CO2 miscible process seems a promising technique to enhance tight oil recovery. The mechanism of CO2-oil miscibility is the separation of oil molecules by the CO2 introduced; van der Waals forces that hold the oil molecules together need to be overcome. The process is similar to the vaporization of a liquid. The energy added into the liquid is used to overcome the van der Waals forces that hold the molecules of the liquid together, separate the liquid molecules and split them into the gas phase. In a nanoscale pore medium, variations in molecular orientation and molecules arrangement result in an alteration in the van der Waals forces, thereby creating unique thermal dynamic properties. These contribute to changes in CO2-oil miscibility compared to that in conventional reservoirs. At present, no systematical study addresses CO2-oil miscibility in nanopores. To unlock the mysteries of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in nanopores, the interactions between nanopores and molecules are studied using armchair, a zig-zag carbon nanotube, cubic shape smooth and rough nano-channels, and nano-channels with a functional group OH. The molecules trajectory and potential energy can be recorded by molecular dynamics simulations. The CO2-oil miscibility in nanopores is further presented including phase equilibrium, vaporizing and condensing drive, immiscible and miscible processes, and solubility parameters. The nanopore effect can be applied in screening candidate reservoirs for CO2 flooding and in selecting CO2 parameters by reservoir simulations. The thesis can be very revealing to researchers in the area of CO2-oil miscibility in nanopores.
Understanding Pre-Registration Employment and Transition to Practice for the Newly Graduated Nurse
Creators: name: Reimche, Ruthanne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Transition
subject: New Nurses
subject: Pre-Registration Employment

description: Background Transition from nursing student to a registered nurse is fraught with difficulties such as gaining acceptance and knowledge on the unit, and obtaining comfort and confidence. Approximately 20% of newly graduated nurses (NGNs) leave the profession in the first year often due to difficulties in the transition phase. The focus of this research was understanding direct paid pre-registration employment and transition to practice for the NGN. Methods A study with a descriptive qualitative design was conducted. Nine participants, between three months and one year after completing their nursing program, were interviewed. Thematic analysis was conducted on the data. Findings The main themes emerging from the data were support, vulnerability, de-stress, becoming comfortable, and gaining confidence. Contribution to Nursing Practice Interviewing NGNs with paid pre-registration employment will assist employees’ understanding of the transition experience of new graduates, which may assist with retention of new hires.
Effect of an electric field on a Leidenfrost droplet
Creators: name: Celestini, Franck
name: Kirstetter, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate the effect of an electric field applied between a Leidenfrost droplet and the heated substrate on which it is levitating. We quantify the electro-Leidenfrost effect by imaging the interference fringes between the liquid-vapour and vapour-substrate interfaces. The increase of the voltage induces a decrease of the vapour layer thickness. Above a certain critical voltage the Leidenfrost effect is suppressed and the drop starts boiling. Our study characterizes this way to control and/or to avoid the Leidenfrost effect that is undesirable in many domains such as metallurgy or nuclear reactor safety.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 2 movies
Additional file 4 of Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
Creators: name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Trapp, Georgina
name: Maitland, Clover
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: George, Phoebe
name: Wenden, Elizabeth
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 4.
Scaling of Density-Dependent Reproduction in Bee-Pollinated Forbs of Logged Forests
Creators: name: Johnson, Sarah A.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: density-dependence
subject: Landscape
subject: local
subject: logging
subject: reproduction
subject: seeds
subject: Density
subject: interactions
subject: clearcut
subject: plant
subject: forb
subject: Competition
subject: Facilitation
subject: fitness
subject: neighbourhood
subject: conspecifics
subject: heterospecifics
subject: Pollination
subject: pollinator
subject: bees

description: Plant reproduction can be impacted by a variety of influences at a range of spatial scales. In the face of accelerating anthropogenic habitat disturbance, it is worth understanding how communities function within highly altered landscapes. I examined how seed size and number varied for nine species of understory forb within logged foothills forests of southern Alberta. I examined local relationships between reproductive output and floral neighbourhood, bee abundance, and habitat variation, and how these might be modified along a gradient of landscape-scale clearcut logging. I found that local variables best explained plant seed production, and heterospecifics were generally more beneficial than expected. Further, logging in the landscape modified local interactions above a threshold point of approximately 50% logging in a 1.77 km^2 area, predominantly for more habitat-specialized species. These results have implications for forest management, and for the importance of testing for interactions between explanatory variables, even across spatial scales.
Adolopus SHARP 1884
Creators: name: Angus, Robert B
name: Sadílek, David
name: Shaarawi, Fatma
name: Dollimore, Hayley
name: Liu, Hsing-Che
name: Seidel, Matthias
name: Sýkora, Vít
name: Fikáček, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Adolopus

description: GENUS ADOLOPUS SHARP, 1884 (FIG. 12A–C) Material examined: Adolopus sp. 1: 4 males, 3 females (NMPC): New Zealand: Stewart Island, Northwest Circuit Tk. at Kaipipi Bay, rotten longs/twigs in sparse hardwood forest with tree ferns, 46°53.88’S 168°4.31’E, 20 m a.s.l., 21.i.2016, M. Seidel & M. Fikáček lgt. (2016- NZ 017). Adolopus sp. 2: 1 male (NMPC): New Zealand, Waikato (WO), Pirongia Forest Park, Ruapane Link Track (lower part), 37.966°S 175.144°E, 235 m, 18– 21.xi.2016, M. Fikáček & M. Seidel lgt. (MM02). Karyotype: 2 n = 22 + Xy (♂). In the Kaipipi Bay species (Fig. 12B), autosome pair 1 is the longest, and remaining autosomes gradually decrease in length so that pair 11 is about a quarter of the length of pair 1. All autosomes are metacentric to submetacentric. The X chromosome is metacentric, about as long as autosome pair 5, and the Y chromosome is dotlike. Adolopus from Pirongia (Fig. 12A) differs from that of Kaipipi Bay by subacrocentric pairs 7–9 and the acrocentric X chromosome slightly longer than autosome pair 2. Note: The identification of the examined specimens is impossible at the moment; however, the DNA data (Seidel, unpubl.) indicate that they represent two different species.
description: Published as part of Angus, Robert B, Sadílek, David, Shaarawi, Fatma, Dollimore, Hayley, Liu, Hsing-Che, Seidel, Matthias, Sýkora, Vít & Fikáček, Martin, 2021, Karyotypes of water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new data and review of published records, pp. 958 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (3) on page 958, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa105, http://zenodo.org/record/5301134
Concerted genomic and epigenomic alterations in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Wilson, Ian Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Background: Around the world, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death and a major public health problem. A diagnosis of lung cancer carries a remarkably poor prognosis, even after years of research into the disease. The advent and availability of tools to survey the genomes and epigenomes of lung cancers is beginning to yield real clues into the molecular nature of the disease. These clues are being turned into new diagnostic and therapeutic tools with increasing regularity. We used modern high-resolution and high-throughput tools to identify novel genes implicated in various lung cancer phenotypes and aspects of lung cancer pathogenesis. Hypotheses: (1) Combined profiling of lung cancer genomes and epigenomes will identify critical lung cancer genes that are simultaneously affected by DNA copy number and DNA methylation aberrations. (2) The susceptibility locus on chromosome 6q, identified through familial linkage studies, contains an unidentified tumor suppressor gene (3) Key genes involved in lung cancer phenotypes can be identified through the elucidation of discriminating genomic and epigenomic alterations. Materials/Methods: Genomic and epigenomic data were analyzed independently and pair-wise to identify genes in NSCLC whose alterations are associated with NSCLC risk, development and phenotype. These genomic and epigenomic data were used in conjunction with a multitude of mRNA and protein-level assays to further refine candidate lists and validate their disruption. Targeted molecular silencing of a candidate TSG was used in conjunction with cellular assays to investigate and confirm the role of this gene in NSCLC. Results: We designed and optimized an experimental/analysis framework for the combined interrogation of epigenomic and genomic data. We used this framework to identify a novel lung cancer tumor suppressor gene, EYA4, that is frequently disrupted in lung cancers, and is associated with NSCLC risk. Following this, we identified subtype-specific genomic and epigenomic alterations with consequent gene expression changes in NSCLC subtypes. Lastly, we identified specific phenotypic characteristics of the subtypes affected by the DNA alterations. Conclusions: Integrated analysis of the genomes and epigenomes of NSCLC tumors provides a unique approach for the discovery of key cancer-related genes.
Rapid alerts for following up gravitational wave event candidates
Creators: name: Shawhan, Peter S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational waves carry unique information about high-energy astrophysical events such as the inspiral and merger of neutron stars and black holes, core collapse in massive stars, and other sources. Large gravitational wave (GW) detectors utilizing exquisitely sensitive laser interferometry--namely, LIGO in the United States and GEO 600 and Virgo in Europe--have been successfully operated in recent years and are currently being upgraded to greatly improve their sensitivities. Many signals are expected to be detected in the coming decade. Simultaneous observing with the network of GW detectors enables us to identify and localize event candidates on the sky with modest precision, opening up the possibility of capturing optical transients or other electromagnetic counterparts to confirm an event and obtain complementary information about it. We developed and implemented the first complete low-latency GW data analysis and alert system in 2009-10 and used it to send alerts to several observing partners; the system design and some lessons learned are briefly described. We discuss several operational considerations and design choices for improving this scientific capability for future observations.
description: For the proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation + Telescopes conference, Amsterdam, 2012
Additional file 5 of Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
Creators: name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Trapp, Georgina
name: Maitland, Clover
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: George, Phoebe
name: Wenden, Elizabeth
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 5.
Simultaneous Intracranial EEG-fMRI for the Study of Epilepsy in Humans at 3.0 T
Creators: name: Beers, Craig
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Radiology
subject: Epilepsy
subject: EEG
subject: fMRI

description: Neuroimaging plays in an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. In this work, a novel multi-modal technique for imaging the hemodynamic correlates of epileptic activity is explored. Simultaneous intracranial electroencephalography functional magnetic resonance imaging (iEEG-fMRI) combines the temporal precision of intracranial EEG with the high spatial resolution of fMRI. Applying this technique in patients with epilepsy, it was found the fMRI signal changes associated with interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) are patient-specific rather than consistent across subjects, implying that analyses of iEEG-fMRI data should allow for this variability through flexible analysis methods. In addition, significant fMRI activity was found adjacent to the electrode generating the IEDs in the majority of patients studied. It was determined that a minimum of 30 IEDs are necessary to detect fMRI activity near the active electrode, and the addition of more discharges to the analysis eliminates non-IED related noise providing more precise localization. Lastly, focusing exclusively on patients with mesial temporal lobe IEDs, two distinct patterns of fMRI activity were found: fMRI activity primarily localized to the active mesial temporal lobe, and widespread bilateral fMRI activity throughout the cortex. Notably, the patients with widespread activity were found to have fewer secondarily generalized seizures implying that the widespread fMRI activity may act to inhibit these seizures. In summary, simultaneous iEEG-fMRI is a viable technique for the study of epilepsy and may aid in the localization of the source of seizures and provide new insight into the networks involved in epileptic activity.
Examining Children’s Conceptual Subitizing Skill and its Role in Supporting Math Achievement
Creators: name: Goukon, Rina
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Educational Psychology
Education--Elementary
Education--Mathematics

description: The current study investigates the development of the conceptual subitizing skill, the ability to quickly and accurately recognize quantities above 4 items, and its relation to mathematics achievement in Grade 2 students. Both reaction time (RT) and strategy use to enumerate patterned structures of 4 to 10 dots were examined. Using cluster analysis on the collected enumeration speeds, three distinct groups were identified that supports the acquisition of conceptual subitizing as a developmental process. These clusters additionally aligned with students’ self-reported enumeration strategies used during the task, and also predicted children’s mathematics achievement. As one of the first psychophysical investigations into the conceptual subitizing skill, this study provides preliminary evidence for the importance of focusing on children’s speeded enumeration of larger set sizes (e.g., between 4 and 10) as a potential influence on their mathematical abilities.
Pahn-Ti-Pan: The Rise and Fall of Complex Socio-Political and Economic Systems as Attested in Subterranean Site Contexts of Central Belize, C.A.
Creators: name: Morton, Shawn Gregory
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Ancient Maya
subject: Cave Ritual
subject: Polity Development
subject: Speleoarchaeology
subject: Belize

description: The question that drives this dissertation is “As integrated and varied ritual contexts, how do changing patterns of pre-Columbian cave use inform on the complex of historical, social, political, economic and related ideological processes in action during the inception, florescence, and collapse of Tipan Chen Uitz and other nucleated centres in the region [Central Belize]?” It is intended to highlight, and within the specific regional context of this dissertation address, a tendency within the speleoarchaeology of the Maya area to isolate itself from broader topics of discourse. Following a brief introduction to the study area and the research project that supports work there—the Central Belize Archaeological Survey project—the remainder of this manuscript is divided into two broad sections. The first is structured along a chain of related concepts and datasets extending from the broad body of literature on ritual and religion, through discussion of the conceptual cave context drawn from epigraphic and iconographic sources, its invocation as recorded in contemporary (or at least, relatively recent) ethnographic contexts and earlier post-Columbian indigenous historic sources, and finally along the well-travelled paths of the archaeological study of caves. This forward section constitutes the web of theories, concepts, methods, and histories within which the rest of my study is caught. The second section deals explicitly with my own primary research in a number of caves located in Central Belize. While the identification of specific ritual motivations—through reference to material and environmental contexts—fell short of initial expectations, I am able to parse patterns from this body of work that serve to distinguish variability in behaviour within these contexts and define a regional pattern of ritual cave use. Thus defined, this manuscript finishes by turning from the dark passages of the Maya cave context to discuss the implications of these patterns on discussions of broader trends/developments in socio-political and economic systems in this region, and particular, in reference to the recently discovered civic-ceremonial centre of Tipan Chen Uitz.
Distance and Reddening of the Isolated Dwarf Irregular Galaxy NGC 1156
Creators: name: KIM, Sang Chul
name: PARK, Hong Soo
name: KYEONG, Jaemann
name: LEE, Joon Hyeop
name: REE, Chang Hee
name: KIM, Minjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a photometric estimation of the distance and reddening values to the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1156, which is one of the best targets to study the isolated dwarf galaxies in the nearby universe. We have used the imaging data sets of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) High Resolution Channel (HRC) of the central region of NGC 1156 (26" X 29") available in the HST archive for this study. From the (U-B, B-V) color-color diagram, we first estimate the total (foreground + internal) reddening toward NGC 1156 of E(B-V) =0.35 +/- 0.05 mag, whereas only the foreground reddening was previously known to be E(B-V)=0.16 mag (Burstein & Heiles) or 0.24 mag (Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis). Based on the brightest stars method, selecting the three brightest blue supergiant (BSG) stars with mean B magnitude of  = 21.94 mag and the three brightest red supergiant (RSG) stars with mean V magnitude of = 22.76 mag, we derive the distance modulus to NGC 1156 to be (m-M)_{0,BSG} = 29.55 mag and (m-M)_{0,RSG} = 29.16 mag. By using weights of 1 and 1.5 for the distance moduli from using the BSGs and the RSGs, respectively, we finally obtain the weighted mean distance modulus to NGC 1156 (m-M)_0 = 29.39 +/- 0.20 mag (d = 7.6 +/- 0.7 Mpc), which is in very good agreement with the previous estimates. Combining the photometry data of this study with those of Karachentsev et al. gives smaller distance to NGC 1156, which is discussed together with the limits of the data.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, Accepted by PASJ (2012 Apr issue)
Cylomissus BROUN 1903
Creators: name: Angus, Robert B
name: Sadílek, David
name: Shaarawi, Fatma
name: Dollimore, Hayley
name: Liu, Hsing-Che
name: Seidel, Matthias
name: Sýkora, Vít
name: Fikáček, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Cylomissus

description: GENUS CYLOMISSUS BROUN, 1903 (FIG. 12I–N) Material examined: Cylomissus glabratus Broun, 1903: 1 male, 1 female (NMPC): New Zealand: Otago Lakes, Little Meg headwaters at Cardrona Skifield Rd., stream collecting in small exposed streamlets (stony and mossy), 44°52.60’S 168°57.65’E, 1280 m, 5.xii.2017, M. Fikáček, D. Sadílek & V. Sýkora lgt. (2017-NZ63). 1 male (NMPC): New Zealand: Stewart Island, Fern Gully W of Oban, at bridge over Mill Creek, 17–21.i.2016, 46°53.52’S 168°6.00’E, 45 m, M. Seidel, V. Sýkora & M. Fikáček lgt. (2016- NZ 004). Karyotype: 2 n = 22 + Xy (♂). Autosome pair 1 is 3–4 times the length of pair 2, whereas the remaining pairs have a gradual decrease in length along the karyotype, with pair 11 about half the length of pair 2, the X chromosome is only slightly longer than pair 11. The Y chromosome is dot-like. Examined specimens from both localities have a similar karyotype.
description: Published as part of Angus, Robert B, Sadílek, David, Shaarawi, Fatma, Dollimore, Hayley, Liu, Hsing-Che, Seidel, Matthias, Sýkora, Vít & Fikáček, Martin, 2021, Karyotypes of water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new data and review of published records, pp. 958 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (3) on page 958, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa105, http://zenodo.org/record/5301134
The Social Organization of the Right to Mental Health and Development: An Institutional Ethnography
Creators: name: Jakubec, Sonya
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social Structure and Development
subject: Mental Health
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Human Rights Discourse
subject: Global Health Governance
subject: Institutional Ethnography

description: Indicators of the “right to mental health and development” and the scale up of treatment and services have been at the forefront in the field that is known discursively as “global mental health.” Those advocating for the rights of mentally ill people within this field struggle to produce indicators that can both account for their experiences in practice, while demonstrating accountability within the rules of global development. An international mental health advocacy organization was the site of institutional ethnographic exploration for this inquiry into an international research project and what it contributed as authoritative knowledge about mental health rights. Rather than relying on abstract notions of mental health rights and development, this study illuminates how researchers and funders came together to solve the everyday problems they encountered in advocacy and research for mental health, social inclusion, and the livelihoods of mentally ill people and their care-givers. Exploring the work of practitioners in the field, bureaucrats in aid agencies, and officials in bilateral and multilateral “development” organizations provides a place to begin to explicate how global health governance frameworks are reshaping the field of mental health and development. Specifically, the study explicates (a) a participatory research model and evolving research arrangements between nongovernmental agencies and official organizations, (b) the turn toward indicators for knowing mental health needs and rights, (c) the work of managing research for development results, and (d) measuring and accounting for “mental health rights” in economic measures. At this early stage of global mental health practice, it seems especially important to pay critical attention to how rights-based approaches are coordinated. Many of the concepts of “rights” are taken for granted as beneficial for those experiencing mental illness or distress. It is within their taken-for-granted iteration that they become ideological and cease to represent the interests of frontline mental health knowledge and, instead, carry the interests of the “institution”—in this case the interests of global economic advancement. Uncovering the social organization of knowledge making through institutional ethnographic approaches is a timely critique that points the direction to alternative knowledge and forms of knowledge for mental health and development.
Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs
Creators: name: Zanotti, Olindo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the results of two dimensional general relativistic inviscid and isothermal hydrodynamical simulations comparing the behavior of co-rotating (with respect to the black hole rotation) and counter-rotating circumbinary quasi-Keplerian discs in the post merger phase of a supermassive binary black hole system. While confirming the spiral shock generation within the disc due to the combined effects of mass loss and recoil velocity of the black hole, we find that the maximum luminosity of counter-rotating discs is a factor ~(2-12) higher than in the co-rotating case, depending on the spin of the black hole. On the other hand, the luminosity peak happens ~10 days later with respect to the co-rotating case, for a binary with a total mass M~10^6 M_\odot. Although the global dynamics of counter-rotating discs in the post merger phase of a merging event is very similar to that for co-rotating discs, an important difference has been found. In fact, increasing the spin of the central black hole produces more luminous co-rotating discs while less luminous counter-rotating ones.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, matches version accepted by New Astronomy
RIVOJLANGAN XORIJIY MAMLAKATLARDA TIJORAT BANKLARINING  MARKETING STRATEGIYASI
Creators: name: Nazarov, Elbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Bank kredit muassasalarida strategik rejalashtirishga metodologik yondashuvlarning o'tkazilgan tahlili,  bank kredit muassasalarida to'liq ishlab chiqilmaganligidan  dalolait beradi. Ushbu yo'nalishda mamlakatimiz olimlari tomonidan fundamental ishlar amalga oshirilmagan. Alohida olingan masalalar strategik rejalashtirishning umumiy nazariyasi no'qtai – nazaridan ko'rib chiqilgan xolos.
Characterization of Planar Titanium Platforms for Flame Ionization Detection in Microfluidic Gas Chromatography
Creators: name: Raut, Rahul Pandurang
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Analytical
subject: Miniature
subject: Gas Chromatography
subject: Micro
subject: Flame Ionization Detection
subject: Titanium

description: Gas chromatography (GC) with a Flame Ionization Detector (FID) has been widely used for the analysis of volatile organic compounds in various fields. Instrument portability and miniaturization of the FID for micro GC (μGC) applications are of increasing interest. This thesis describes the design and characterization of a planar on-chip counter current micro FID (μ-FID). The μ-FID fabricated in both quartz and Titanium (Ti) substrates were characterized and the Ti μ-FID showed great improvements in detection limit and sensitivity over other prototypes. This Ti μ-FID design is further integrated with a Ti separation column to fabricate a planar μGC-FID Ti tile for the first time. This Ti μGC-FID tile is explored for its detector performance attributes and some routine GC applications are examined. This novel Ti μGC-FID tile, with an on-chip single monolithic design, is found to provide a very low detection limit (9 pgC/s) and a high sensitivity (60 mC/gC).
Exydrus BROUN 1886
Creators: name: Angus, Robert B
name: Sadílek, David
name: Shaarawi, Fatma
name: Dollimore, Hayley
name: Liu, Hsing-Che
name: Seidel, Matthias
name: Sýkora, Vít
name: Fikáček, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Exydrus

description: GENUS EXYDRUS BROUN, 1886 (FIG. 13A, D, I) Material examined: Exydrus gibbosus Broun, 1886: 1 female (NMPC): New Zealand: Wellington (WL), Tararua Range, 1 km W of Titurea Dam, start of Greens Rd., 40.4295°S 175.66064°E, 145 m, 26.xi.2016, fragment of broadleaf forest with sparse understory with ferns and Pandanus Parkinson: sifting, M. Fikáček & M. Seidel lgt. (MM31). Karyotype: 2 n = 30 (♀). The only nucleus obtained has 29 chromosomes and the karyogram shows a serious size mismatch in pair 3 so there should be at least 30 chromosomes in the karyotype, presumably 14 pairs of autosomes plus the sex chromosomes. The smallest chromosome appears heavy and almost single-stranded; however, this is almost certainly because the two chromatids of a metacentric are lying on top of each other. This is frequent with small chromosomes. There is gradual decrease in length along the karyotype, with no pair strikingly longer than the others. The smallest pair is about a third of the length of the longest pair. Most of the chromosomes are metacentric or submetacentric; however, pairs 6–9 are subacrocentric.
description: Published as part of Angus, Robert B, Sadílek, David, Shaarawi, Fatma, Dollimore, Hayley, Liu, Hsing-Che, Seidel, Matthias, Sýkora, Vít & Fikáček, Martin, 2021, Karyotypes of water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new data and review of published records, pp. 958 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (3) on page 958, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa105, http://zenodo.org/record/5301134
Additional file 6 of Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial
Creators: name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Trost, Stewart G.
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Shilton, Trevor
name: Trapp, Georgina
name: Maitland, Clover
name: Thornton, Ashleigh
name: Mclaughlin, Matthew
name: George, Phoebe
name: Wenden, Elizabeth
name: Christian, Hayley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 6.
The Statutory Liabilities of Joint Operators and Non-Participating Parties
Creators: name: Lilles, Heather Elaine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: liability
subject: joint operating agreement
subject: co-owner
subject: abandonment

description: Oil and gas co-owners in Canada frequently chose to allocate liability contractually, in Joint Operating Agreements such as the 2007 CAPL Operating Procedure. This contractual allocation of liability coexists with the statutory allocation of liability. While these two liability schemes often work together sometimes there may be disparities between the contractual and statutory allocation of liability, especially in circumstances where one co-owner is insolvent. This thesis focuses on the legal position of joint operators under the 2007 CAPL and on those parties who chose not to participate in an independent operation on the joint lands. This thesis concludes that – in certain circumstances – these parties may be liable for the full costs of environmental clean-up and restoration (i.e. beyond their proportionate working interest share). Whether a joint operator will be exposed to liability depends, in part, on the discretionary authority exercised by the Alberta Energy Regulator.