cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gold and silver nanoparticles effects to the earthworm Eisenia fetida – the importance of tissue over soil concentrations
Creators: name: Bourdineaud, Jean-Paul
name: Štambuk, Anamaria
name: Šrut, Maja
name: Brkanac, Sandra Radić
name: Dušica Ivanković
name: Lisjak, Damir
name: Klobučar, Roberta Sauerborn
name: Dragun, Zrinka
name: Bačić, Niko
name: Klobučar, Göran I. V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: To address and to compare the respective impact of gold and silver nanoparticles (Au and Ag NPs) in soil invertebrate, the earthworm Eisenia fetida was exposed to soil containing 2, 10, and 50 mg/kg of Au and Ag in both nanoparticulate and ionic forms for 10 days. Both metal NPs were 2–15 times less bioavailable than their ionic forms, and displayed similar transfer coefficients from soil to earthworm tissues. Both metal NPs triggered the onset of an oxidative stress as illustrated by increased glutathione S-transferase levels, decreased catalase levels, and increased malondialdehyde concentrations. Protein carbonylation distinguished the nanoparticular from the ionic forms as its increase was observed only after exposure to the highest concentration of both metal NPs. Au and Ag NPs triggered DNA modifications even at the lowest concentration, and both repressed the expression of genes involved in the general defense and stress response at high concentrations as did their ionic counterparts. Despite the fact that both metal NPs were less bioavailable than their ionic forms, at equivalent concentrations accumulated within earthworms tissues they exerted equal or higher toxic potential than their ionic counterparts. Capsule: At equivalent concentrations accumulated within earthworm tissues Au and Ag NPs exert equal or higher toxic potential than their ionic forms.
title: Hildesheimer Geographische Studien: Band 2
Creators: name: Stadtmann, Robin
name: Jung-Dahlke, Christin
name: Sauerwein, Martin
name: Graen, Hannah
name: Gawert, Kristin
name: Panzer-Krause, Sabine
Publisher: name: UVH - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim
Year: 2015

description: Hildesheimer Geographische Studien
Archaeological Investigations in the Baalche’ Group at Yaxnohcah, Campeche, Mexico: An Analysis of the Function of a Courtyard Group
Creators: name: Bednar, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Maya
subject: palace

description: This thesis details the 2013 and 2014 excavation and analysis of the Baalche’ Group at the Maya site of Yaxnohcah in southeastern Campeche, Mexico. The Baalche’ Group is a courtyard group consisting of four structures (Brisa 4 and Baalche’ 5, 6, and 7) that is located in the site core, directly adjacent to an E-Group complex. This thesis will address the construction history, activities, and status associated with the Baalche’ Group in order to evaluate the group’s function. Based on ceramic analysis and radiocarbon dating, the group was first constructed in Late Preclassic period and was continuously occupied until the Terminal Classic period. The arrangement of the group and the artifact assemblage collected from excavations compares with palatial complexes from the Maya lowlands, indicating that the Baalche’ Group functioned as a palace, or, more specifically, a place where a ruling family resided and/or governed at Yaxnohcah.
The Role of Endothelial Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) and FAK Related Non-Kinase (FRNK) in Leukocyte Recruitment
Creators: name: Sharma, Ritu
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education--Sciences

description: Endothelial cells form the first barrier that leukocytes have to breach in order to reach the site of inflammation. Focal adhesions are the cellular structures that connect the endothelial cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix. Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a signalling protein that is localized to focal adhesions and becomes phosphorylated during leukocyte recruitment. The main aim of this thesis research was to test the hypothesis that FAK is required for leukocyte transmigration. We used in vitro models of TNF-α - and IL-4-mediated inflammation to examine the recruitment and transmigration of neutrophils and eosinophils, respectively. We observed shear-independent loss of FAK in the proximity of neutrophil transmigration. Downregulation of FAK by siRNA, or disruption of FAK signalling by overexpression of FRNK (FAK-related non kinase, an inhibitor of FAK) decreased neutrophil transmigration without interfering with the TNF-α signalling pathway, implicating a functional role for FAK during neutrophil transmigration. In contrast, downregulation of FAK had no effect on eosinophil transmigration. Surprisingly, FRNK overexpression reduced eosinophil transmigration and this was shown to occur independently of FAK. FRNK blocked eosinophil recruitment and transmigration by preventing transcription and protein expression of IL-4 mediated VCAM-1 and CCL26. Interestingly, the FAK inhibitor FAK-II also blocked VCAM-1 and CCL26 expression through an unknown mechanism that we propose involves enhanced availability of the scaffolding domains of inactivated FAK. Finally, we attempted to determine how FRNK regulates expression of VCAM-1. Phosphorylation and nuclear localization of the transcription factor STAT6 were unaffected by FRNK. We found that, in addition to STAT6, IL-4 also regulates expression of GATA6, which induced VCAM-1 expression, and that loss of GATA6 attenuated eosinophil recruitment and transmigration. FRNK reduced IL-4-induced transcription of GATA6 but not its translation. Although we were unable to determine how FRNK regulates VCAM-1, endogenous FRNK was shown to be regulated by IL-4, suggesting an anti-inflammatory role for FRNK in an IL-4 model of leukocyte recruitment.
Au40: A Large Tetrahedral Magic Cluster
Creators: name: Jiang, De-en
name: Walter, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 40 is a magic number for tetrahedral symmetry predicted in both nuclear physics and the electronic jellium model. We show that Au40 could be such a a magic cluster from density functional theory-based basin hopping for global minimization. The putative global minimum found for Au40 has a twisted pyramid structure, reminiscent of the famous tetrahedral Au20, and a sizable HOMO-LUMO gap of 0.69 eV, indicating its molecular nature. Analysis of the electronic states reveals that the gap is related to shell closings of the metallic electrons in a tetrahedrally distorted effective potential.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, phys. rev. b, in press
As Representações dos Professores do 1.º Ciclo Acerca da Liderança dos Delegados Escolares
Creators: name: Gomes Nunes, Paulo Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Liderança, Delegados Escolares, Professores, Escola, Administração Escolar

description: A figura do Delegado Escolar, enquanto integrante do presente sistema educativo, está prestes a ser extinta. O novo sistema de gestão das escolas, que acaba de ser legislado, vem terminar uma instituição que viu o seu começo nos inícios do Estado Novo e que, julgamos, de uma forma muito profícua, acompanhou o percurso do Ensino Primário e posteriormente também dos Ensinos Pré-Escolar e Básico Mediatizado, em Portugal.

Não é nossa pretensão fazer aqui uma análise do que foi (e ainda é) a sua actuação, nem, porventura, do seu contributo para as nossas realidades educativas. Com este projecto pretendemos atingir objectivos bem mais modestos.

Sendo o 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico o nível de ensino em que nos incluímos, optámos naturalmente por a ele limitar o horizonte das nossas pesquisas.

Considerámos de alguma pertinência a possibilidade de nos debruçarmos sobre os Delegados Escolares tendo como ponto de observação aqueles que, de forma mais directa, com eles se relacionam – os professores.

Não optámos por incluir no conjunto dos questionados os Educadores de Infância, uma vez que a sua relação institucional com os Delegados é diferente da dos Professores do 1º Ciclo, por via do estatuto autónomo dos Jardins de Infância. Também o âmbito do estudo foi por nós ponderado num espaço temporal relativamente longo, e de entre as várias hipóteses que afloraram o nosso espírito, concluímos que seria interessante reflectir sobre as representações dos Professores do 1º Ciclo acerca da liderança dos Delegados Escolares.

É este precisamente o foco sobre o qual irá incidir o nosso trabalho.

Na primeira parte reflectiremos sobre os conceitos de Satisfação, Liderança e Representações Sociais, tentando dar substância às questões que fizeram parte do nosso questionário.

Na segunda parte explicaremos qual a metodologia usada para a recolha e tratamento dos dados e reflectiremos sobre os resultados que obtivemos.

Terminaremos o projecto com uma conclusão geral, para verificarmos o sentido da correspondência entre os dados por nós recolhidos e aspectos e aspectos pertinentes desenvolvidos na I parte.
THE NEED TO REFORM ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND IMPLEMENT NEW PRINCIPLES TO THEM
Creators: name: Boymirzayeva, Dilbar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this article, the training of qualified and competitive personnel in the higher education system is an urgent socio-economic issue, and the introduction of new approaches to the organization and management of educational activities in the higher education system, personnel training and continuous education system, the dynamics of development and structural changes of state and non-state educational institutions are expressed.
Direct observation of Levy flight of holes in bulk n-InP
Creators: name: Luryi, Serge
name: Semyonov, Oleg
name: Subashiev, Arsen
name: Chen, Zhichao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the photoluminescence spectra excited at an edge side of n-InP slabs and observed from the broadside. In a moderately doped sample the intensity drops off as a power-law function of the distance from the excitation - up to several millimeters - with no change in the spectral shape.The hole distribution is described by a stationary Levy-flight process over more than two orders of magnitude in both the distance and hole concentration. For heavily-doped samples, the power law is truncated by free-carrier absorption. Our experiments are near-perfectly described by the Biberman-Holstein transport equation with parameters found from independent optical experiments.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Hildesheimer Geographische Studien: Band 4
Creators: name: Dannemann, Sara
name: Herrmann, Nico
name: Sandner, Moritz
name: Karaschewski, Jasmis
name: Dieck, Jan-Philip
name: Elfers, Svenja
name: Panzer-Krause, Sabine
name: Lammers, Lien
name: Lübcke, Judith
name: Schröer, Teresa
Publisher: name: UVH - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim
Year: 2015

description: Hildesheimer Geographische Studien
Engineered impurity-doped materials for Quantum Information Processing applications - nano-structures and disordered materials
Creators: name: Lutz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Acoustics
subject: Condensed Matter
subject: Optics
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: Quantum Information
subject: Quantum Memory
subject: Phonons

description: In this thesis we explore various ways to extend population lifetimes and coherence times of solid-state emitters. We focus on rare-earth-ion doped host materials and silicon vacancy centers in diamond, both of which are used for applications in quantum information processing and quantum communications. Enhanced lifetimes and coherence times would improve the performance of these applications. One approach investigates the possibility to suppress lattice vibrations that cause decoherence and population relaxation by engineering the phonon density of states through nano-structuring of the emitter's host material. Towards this end we study different materials and methods to obtain the desired nano-materials. Using various optical spectroscopic methods, we show that population dynamics can indeed be influenced by modifying the structure of the surrounding host material. However, we also find that the employed fabrication and synthesis methods often induce crystal damage that, in turn, degrades spectroscopic properties. As a second approach, we study rare-earth-ions in disordered host materials. Detailed spectroscopic characterizations are presented and we show with the example of an erbium doped fiber that such materials can indeed feature better properties, specifically longer population lifetimes, than the commonly used bulk crystals. We found optimal operation parameters for the erbium doped fiber which made it possible to use this medium for successful proof of principle experiments demonstrating a multimode quantum memory that operates within the convenient telecom band (around 1550 nm wavelength). Besides increasing the fundamental knowledge, the results of the studies presented in this thesis are highly relevant for the fields of quantum communications and quantum information processing since nano-structured materials are beginning to be investigated for on-chip implementations of various applications such as quantum memories and quantum gates. In addition, we found that population dynamics driven by detrimental lattice vibrations can indeed be modified in small powder materials and thus, with improved fabrication techniques, the complete suppression of lattice vibrations should be possible, benefiting a plethora of applications.
Gamma-ray variability and correlation properties of blazars observed with Fermi LAT
Creators: name: Larsson, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) provides long term systematic monitoring observations of the gamma-ray emission from blazars. The variability properties and the correlation with other wavelength bands are important clues for the evaluation of blazar models. We present results from timing and multiwavelength correlation analysis and discuss differences between blazar classes.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "Beamed and Unbeamed Gamma Rays from Galaxies," held in Muonio, Finland, 11-15 April, 2011, ed. R. Wagner, L. Maraschi, A. Sillanpaa, Journal of Physics: Conference Series
title: Lehrerbildung und Bildungsstandards – Oder: Haben Lehrer selbst die Kompetenzen, die sie bei Schülern entwickeln sollen?
Creators: name: Rhode-Jüchtern, Tilmann
Publisher: name: UVH - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim
Year: 2015

description: Hildesheimer Beiträge zur fachdidaktischen Forschung
Mangrove distribution score map of Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Song, Cholho
name: Lim, Chul-Hee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This dataset was created by integrating the Global Mangroves dataset with citizen science-based mangrove maps. The two maps were compared and scored, assigning values ranging from 1 to 3.

Score 1: Mangroves were identified in only one source, with no mention of ecosystem services, no mangrove information from global datasets, or ecosystem services mentioned without corresponding mangrove data.

Score 2: Mixed information from different sources.

Score 3: Mangrove locations were identified by both global datasets and citizen science mapping, confirming their presence and highlighting key ecosystem services in the area.

 

[Abbreviations] 

The following abbreviations are used in this data attribute table:

MD: Mention about mangrove distribution by citizen science

CP: Conservation points of high ecosystem services by citizen science

ES: High ecosystem services area by MD and CP

MCS: Mangrove map using Citizen Science

GMW: Global Mangrove Watch

HGMF: High-resolution Global Mangrove Forests FV: Final value of scores

 

[Reference]

Song , C., Lim, C.H*., Choi, H.A., Kim, W., Han, D., Paia, M.T., Ahn, H. K., Kang, S., Lee, W.K. 2025. Mapping ecosystem services based on citizen science for intergarted coastal zone management in the Solomon Islands. Ecological Informatics. in review *Corresponding Author
Successful Application of Channel Fracturing in Canada in Reducing Screenout Rate
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Petroleum
subject: Channel Fracturing
subject: hydraulic fracturing
subject: Screenout Reduction

description: This thesis focuses on two areas for successful placement with a channel fracturing technique: one in Wild River multiple formations with casehole completion and the other in cardium openhole multiple stages completion. This thesis is an attempt to analyze why channel fracturing can actually reduce a screenout rate. To do so, the thesis starts with both conventional and channel fracturing introduction, fracturing mechanism, and fracturing geometry simulation. The proppant transport mechanism horizontally and vertically is carried out to better conclude the condition that proppant can be transport without settling and bridging. Different causes of screenout are illustrated in detail. An analysis on why channel fracturing helps to reduce the screenout rate and increase successful placement is performed theoretically and then the theory is illustrated with all jobs pumped in Canada so far without screenout. Channel fracturing by itself has advantages over conventional fracturing to ensure successful placement.
Approximation Complexity of Complex-Weighted Degree-Two Counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Creators: name: Yamakami, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Constraint satisfaction problems have been studied in numerous fields with practical and theoretical interests. In recent years, major breakthroughs have been made in a study of counting constraint satisfaction problems (or #CSPs). In particular, a computational complexity classification of bounded-degree #CSPs has been discovered for all degrees except for two, where the "degree" of an input instance is the maximal number of times that each input variable appears in a given set of constraints. Despite the efforts of recent studies, however, a complexity classification of degree-2 #CSPs has eluded from our understandings. This paper challenges this open problem and gives its partial solution by applying two novel proof techniques--T_{2}-constructibility and parametrized symmetrization--which are specifically designed to handle "arbitrary" constraints under randomized approximation-preserving reductions. We partition entire constraints into four sets and we classify the approximation complexity of all degree-2 #CSPs whose constraints are drawn from two of the four sets into two categories: problems computable in polynomial-time or problems that are at least as hard as #SAT. Our proof exploits a close relationship between complex-weighted degree-2 #CSPs and Holant problems, which are a natural generalization of complex-weighted #CSPs.
description: A4, 10pt, 23 pages. This is a complete version of the paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.6842, pp.122-133, Dallas, Texas, USA, August 14-16, 2011
3D Building Model-Assisted Snapshot GNSS Positioning Method
Creators: name: Kumar, Rakesh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Aerospace
subject: Engineering--Automotive
subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Engineering--System Science
subject: Geotechnology
subject: Satellite-based navigation
subject: positioning
subject: GNSS
subject: GPS
subject: Multipath, 3D building models
subject: NLOS signals
subject: matching algorithms
subject: ray-tracing

description: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have proven to be a viable and reliable solution in interference-free environments and in presence of Line-of-Sight (LOS) signals only. However, in urban canyons, multipath signals directly affect the pseudorange measurements resulting in degraded positioning performance of traditional GNSS receivers. Moreover, traditional GNSS receivers cannot distinguish between non-LOS (NLOS) and LOS signals, resulting in even worse performance if the receiver tracks NLOS-only signal. Hence, NLOS and multipath signals remains a dominant source of error in satellite-based navigation. Most of the existing research has focused on identifying and rejecting NLOS measurements. However, little research has used NLOS signals constructively. In this regard, this research uses snapshots of GNSS data in order to estimate position, utilizing all NLOS signals constructively with the help of a 3D Building Model (3DBM). Using a 3DBM and a ray-tracing algorithm, the number of reception paths and the corresponding path delays of reflected signals is predicted across a grid of candidate positions. These predictions are then used to compute least-squares fit to the GNSS receiver’s correlator outputs and the position with smallest residuals is selected as the position estimate. This approach is termed Signal Delay Matching (SDM) and yields a solution that is nearly unaffected by traditional GNSS error sources, and has capability of providing a position solution using a single satellite only. The use of snapshots of data mean the receiver need not perform tracking operations, thus making it easier to implement and power efficient. The feasibility and performance of the algorithm was tested using data collected in downtown Calgary, Canada, where buildings reach heights of over 200 m. Contrary to traditional approaches, results for the proposed method show that positioning error decreases as sky-visibility decreases. For sky-visibility below 20%, the median error was found to be just over 3 m. Compared to two pseudorange-based receivers, the proposed method yields RMS errors improvements of 22% to 48% in the horizontal plane.
Nutrient intakes of elite Canadian athletes with a spinal cord injury
Creators: name: Krempien, Jennifer Luella
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Energy intakes of adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) have been reported to be relatively low with many micronutrients below recommended amounts but very little is known about the diets of athletes with SCI. This cross-sectional, observational study assessed energy intakes and estimated the prevalence of dietary inadequacy in a sample of elite Canadian athletes with SCI (n=32). Three-day self-reported food diaries completed at home and training camp were analyzed for energy (kcal), macronutrients, vitamins and elements and compared to the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). Energy intakes were 2156 ± 431 kcal for men and 1991 ± 510 kcal for women and the macronutrient intakes as a percentage of energy were within the Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges for both men (55.6% carbohydrate, 17.9% protein, 28.1% fat) and women (53.3% carbohydrate, 17.9% protein, 28.9% fat). While at training camp, greater than 25% of men had mean intakes below the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for magnesium, zinc, riboflavin, folate and vitamin B12. At home, prevalence of inadequacy decreased for magnesium, zinc and riboflavin but not for folate. At home, men had greater intakes of vitamin D (160.1 ± 133.4 IU vs. 38.5 ± 78.3 IU, p<0.05) and calcium (856 ± 330 mg vs. 693 ± 204 mg, p<0.05). The proportion of women with intakes below the EAR was greater while at training camp for magnesium, niacin and folate. No significant differences in the mean intake of any nutrients were detected between home or training camp for women. Cognitive dietary restraint scores were higher than expected for men with relatively low scores for disinhibition and hunger. These results demonstrate that athletes with SCI are at risk of several nutrient inadequacies relative to the DRIs, despite a diet with an appropriate macronutrient balance. A higher prevalence of nutrient inadequacy was observed in men especially while at training camp. Women were able to better maintain nutrient adequacy in both situations. This highlights an opportunity for coaches, administrators, sport scientists and dietitians working with these athletes to improve the access to better food choices and to educate athletes in making more balanced food choices.
12 soupes, 12 histoires (Time Machine Soup, Saint-Sébastien, 2016)
Creators: name: Duhart, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Anthropology of food
History of food
Performance Art
Soup

description: Ces douze petits essais sur la soupe sont nés dans le cadre d'un projet artistique de Santos Bregaña : la Time Machine Soup. Cette machine à remonter le temps fonctionna pour la première fois en février 2016, dans le cadre de la programmation de Saint-Sébastien Capitale Culturelle de l'Europe. La Time Machine Soup mobilisa de nombreuses formes d'expression artistique et de perception sensorielle pour inviter ceux qui participèrent aux représentations à prendre le temps de penser le monde et le devenir de l'humanité. Douze étapes dans le temps, douze soupes ; en commençant logiquement dans notre monde contemporain. La Time Machine Soup était une proposition artistique et en rien une expérience de gastronomie historique ou une tentative d'intellectualisation de la cuisine. Entrer dans le jeu proposé par Santos fut donc un exercice d'écriture très stimulant, bientôt pimenté par la créativité débordante d'Iñigo Cojo, le chef qui cisela les recettes des soupes chargées de provoquer les sens au cours des représentations. Sans les lumières, la musique, les projections d'images, les chorégraphies et, bien sûr, sans les soupes d'Iñigo, ces textes sont incapables de produire le même effet que lorsqu'ils étaient embarqués dans la Time Machine Soup. Au mieux, peuvent-ils être une invitation à penser la soupe ou mieux à penser par la soupe !
Environmental and social determinants of tick-borne zoonoses in the South Okanagan
Creators: name: Teng, Jack
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Zoonoses (i.e., diseases transmitted from wild and domestic animals to humans) are health challenges with environmental and social determinants. For my thesis, I examined the environmental and social determinants of zoonoses transmitted by ticks, an obligate arthropod ecto-parasite, in the South Okanagan—a region with a potentially increasing risk of infection to tick-borne zoonoses. I first reviewed proximate (e.g., pathogens) and distal (e.g., land use) determinants of tick-borne zoonoses, and the management options to address them. This resulted in the description of an interdisciplinary approach to manage and prevent the diseases. In the remaining of my thesis, I contributed to this approach by examining two environmental determinants (prevalence of tick-borne zoonoses; and ecological dynamics of ticks and host species diversity) and two social determinants (impacts of land use practices on tick densities; and reasons for the adoption of protective practices). For the environmental determinants, the prevalence of tick-borne zoonoses was found to be low in the South Okanagan. As well, in contrast to previous works, host species diversity only reduced tick densities when there were specific changes in host species composition that affected tick-host dynamics. For the social determinants, tick densities were found to be better predicted by the type of land use practice, rather than the patch size of suitable habitat. Finally, adoption of protective practices was not related to knowledge of ticks and tick-borne diseases, but to the level of experience with ticks. These results help determine the prevalence of tick-borne zoonoses, and thus the infection risk of those diseases in the South Okanagan. They also help predict how various human activities at small ecological and large landscape scales may increase or decrease tick densities, and thus human exposure to ticks and their diseases. As well, these results can be used to develop risk communication strategies encouraging the adoption of protective practices, and reduce social concern regarding tick-borne zoonoses. Given that the prevalence of tick-borne zoonoses in the South Okanagan is low, adopting management options against ticks or tick-borne zoonoses may not be necessary. Instead, promoting personal protective practices against ticks may be cost-effective in reducing the infection risk of tick-borne zoonoses.
Improving Seismic-to-well Ties
Creators: name: Cui, Tianci
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computer Science
subject: seismic-to-well ties
subject: Dynamic Time Warping
subject: anelastic attentuation
subject: Gabor deconvolution

description: Seismic-to-well ties are important for seismic interpretation and impedance inversion. Reflectivity can be calculated directly from well logs while its estimation from seismic data requires the determination of the seismic wavelet and the removal of the same. In the presence of anelastic attenuation, the constant-Q theory predicts that the seismic wavelet evolves with amplitude decay and minimum-phase dispersion. Stationary deconvolution estimates and eliminates a single wavelet from the nonstationary trace, resulting in large nonstationary amplitude and phase errors. Gabor deconvolution accurately estimates and eliminates the amplitude spectra of the propagating wavelets, but only corrects the phase to the seismic Nyquist frequency. A phase correction operator is developed to correct the phase to the well logging frequency. Both synthetic and real data examples show seismic-to-well ties can be improved by correcting their time shifts via smooth dynamic time warping and addressing slowly time-variant nonstationarity in a sliding Gaussian window.
Clepidecrella abeona Lowry & Stoddart 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Stoddart, H. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Kergueleniidae
Clepidecrella
Clepidecrella abeona

description: Clepidecrella abeona sp. nov. (Figs 1–3) Type material. HOLOTYPE, female, 6.0 mm, AM P.68999, east of Cape Naturaliste, Tasmania, Australia, 40°45.94’S 149°01.62’E to 40°46.54’S 149°00.27’E, 2400–2500 m, mud, clay, 10 December 1986, R. T. Springthorpe, RV Franklin stn FR1086-04. PARATYPES: male, 6.0 mm, AM P.69000 and 2 specimens, AM P.69001, type locality. Type locality. East of Cape Naturaliste, Tasmania, Australia, 40°45.94’S 149°01.62’E to 40°46.54’S 149°00.27’E, 2400–2500 m depth. Etymology. Named for the barque Abeona, wrecked off King Island, Bass Strait in the late 1800’s. Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 not or only slightly produced dorsodistally. Mandible incisor present; left lacinia mobilis present; accessory spine row absent; molar absent. Maxilla 1 outer plate with 6 setal-teeth, most setal-teeth cuspidate; palp 2-articulate. Maxilliped palp article 2 longer than broad, length 1.5 x breadth. Gnathopod 1 basis expanded midanteriorly; ischium short, length 1.65 x breadth; carpus long, length 3.1 x breadth, longer than (1.7 x) propodus; propodus tapered distally, length 2.3 x breadth. Pereopods 3 and 4 propodus with short distal locking seta.  Pereopod 5 basis slightly expanded posteriorly , with posteroventral lobe; merus moderately expanded posteriorly. Pereopod 7 basis with posteroventral lobe not extending much beyond ischium; merus posteroventral lobe extending less than halfway along carpus. Pleonite 3 without dorsodistal boss. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner narrowly rounded. Uropod 1 rami with robust setae.  Uropod 3 biramous ; inner ramus about 1.9 x outer ramus; outer ramus 2-articulate. Telson shorter than broad, length about 0.9 x breadth. Male. Antenna 1 with strong 2-field callynophore. Remarks. Clepidecrella abeona is similar to the two previously described species, C. cabinda and C. tropicalis, in having a lacinia mobilis on the left mandible and 6 setal-teeth on maxilla 1 outer plate. It differs from these two species in not having a molar and having a narrowly rounded posteroventral corner on epimeron 3. It differs from all other Clepidecrella species in having a gnathopod 1 basis expanded midanteriorly. The holotype female has long oostegite buds on gnathopod 2 and pereopods 3 to 5. It is the only species we have seen with a full complement of oostegites. Distribution. South-eastern Australia, in 2400–2500 m depth.
description: Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2010, Kergueleniidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 2564 (1) on pages 3-6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2329.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5301357
Extension of the critical inclination
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaodong
name: Baoyin, Hexi
name: Ma, Xingrui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The critical inclination is of special interest in artificial satellite theory. The critical inclination can maintain minimal deviations of eccentricity and argument of pericentre from the initial values, and orbits at this inclination have been applied to some space missions. Most previous researches about the critical inclination were made under the assumption that the oblateness term J2 is dominant among the harmonic coefficients. This paper investigates the extension of the critical inclination where the concept of the critical inclination is different from that of the traditional sense. First, the study takes the case of Venus for instance, and provides some preliminary results. Then for general cases, given the values of argument of pericentre and eccentricity, the relationship between the multiplicity of the solutions for the critical inclination and the values of J2 and J4 is analyzed. Besides, when given certain values of J2 and J4, the relationship between the multiplicity of the solutions for the critical inclination and the values of semimajor axis and eccentricity is studied. The results show that for some cases, the value of the critical inclination is far away from that of the traditional sense or even has multiple solutions. The analysis in this paper could be used as starters of correction methods in the full gravity field of celestial bodies
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science
Magnetic Interactions in Pre-Main-Sequence Binaries
Creators: name: Adams, Fred C.
name: Cai, Michael J.
name: Galli, Daniele
name: Lizano, Susana
name: Shu, Frank H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young stars typically have strong magnetic fields, so that the magnetospheres of newly formed close binaries can interact, dissipate energy, and produce synchrotron radiation. The V773 Tau A binary system, a pair of T Tauri stars with a 51 day orbit, displays such a signature, with peak emission taking place near periastron. This paper proposes that the observed emission arises from the change in energy stored in the composite magnetic field of the system. We model the fields using the leading order (dipole) components and show that this picture is consistent with current observations. In this model, the observed radiation accounts for a fraction of the available energy of interaction between the magnetic fields from the two stars. Assuming antisymmetry, we compute the interaction energy $E_{\rm int}$ as a function of the stellar radii, the stellar magnetic field strengths, the binary semi-major axis, and orbital eccentricity, all of which can be measured independently of the synchrotron radiation. The variability in time and energetics of the synchrotron radiation depend on the details of the annihilation of magnetic fields through reconnection events, which generate electric fields that accelerate charged particles, and how those charged particles, especially fast electrons, are removed from the interaction region. However, the major qualitative features are well described by the background changes in the global magnetic configuration driven by the orbital motion. The theory can be tested by observing a collection of pre-main-sequence binary systems.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ
title: Task as workplan, task in process: Welche Aufschlüsse gibt eine Unterrichtsaufzeichnung zu Lernaufgaben im Fach Deutsch?
Creators: name: Köster, Juliane
Publisher: name: UVH - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim
Year: 2015

description: Hildesheimer Beiträge zur fachdidaktischen Forschung
UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT REFORM AND THE NEED FOR NEW APPROACHES
Creators: name: Soliyev, Ibodulloxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this article, the training of qualified and competitive personnel in the higher education system is an urgent socio-economic issue, and the introduction of new approaches to the organization and management of educational activities in the higher education system, personnel training and continuous education system, the dynamics of development and structural changes of state and non-state educational institutions are expressed.
Incorporation of Engineering Knowledge in History Matching, Optimization, and Uncertainty Assessment Frameworks with Application to the SAGD Process
Creators: name: Mirzabozorg, Arash
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: SAGD, History Matching, Optimization, Knowledge

description: Sensitivity Analysis (SA), History Matching (HM), Optimization (OP), and Uncertainty Assessment (UA) are the four main steps during a field development plan. The main stimulus in this thesis is to provide promising frameworks within HM, OP, and UA contexts. These workflows are assessed to show their merits for tackling complex problems, mainly the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process. The first phase of this research study is devoted to the HM problems, where an optimization algorithm called Differential Evolution (DE) is utilized as one of the most efficient global optimization techniques to solve challenging reservoir engineering problems. Comparative studies were conducted to show the merits of the DE method compared with the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), which is a common optimizer used in this arena. The results confirmed the superiority of the DE technique over the PSO scheme from different perspectives. Integration of engineering knowledge in the current HM and OP workflows has not been considered for a long time, where reservoir engineers are not able to monitor the optimization methods in order to control their mechanisms during generating candidate solutions. Therefore, in the second phase, a workflow is developed to facilitate the incorporation of engineering knowledge to deal with constraints in the HM and OP contexts. The proposed framework called Fuzzy Inference System - Differential Evolution (FIS + DE), was applied during different HM and multi-objective optimization (MOO) examples, where the results demonstrated its power to solve reservoir engineering problems in a more realistic way than the current approaches. Eventually, correlations that may exist between parameters during an UA problem are addressed in this thesis. In general, they are assumed to be independent for the sake of simplicity. This entails a modified approach to improve the current UA workflows by considering the interrelationships between the uncertain parameters. The technique was applied to a SAGD case study, in which the outcomes indicated that neglecting the relationships between variables could yield a bias during an UA study due to underestimating the overall uncertainty. However, the integration of the parameters correlations provided reliable solutions to facilitate the decision making process.
Quantifying the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals and fields
Creators: name: Silva, Filipi Nascimento
name: Rodrigues, Francisco Aparecido
name: Junior, Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira
name: Costa, Luciano da Fontoura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There is an overall perception of increased interdisciplinarity in science, but this is difficult to confirm quantitatively owing to the lack of adequate methods to evaluate subjective phenomena. This is no different from the difficulties in establishing quantitative relationships in human and social sciences. In this paper we quantified the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals and science fields by using an entropy measurement based on the diversity of the subject categories of journals citing a specific journal. The methodology consisted in building citation networks using the Journal Citation Reports database, in which the nodes were journals and edges were established based on citations among journals. The overall network for the 11-year period (1999-2009) studied was small-world and scale free with regard to the in-strength. Upon visualizing the network topology an overall structure of the various science fields could be inferred, especially their interconnections. We confirmed quantitatively that science fields are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, with the degree of interdisplinarity (i.e. entropy) correlating strongly with the in-strength of journals and with the impact factor.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
Clepidecrella cataraqui Lowry & Stoddart 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lowry, J. K.
name: Stoddart, H. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Kergueleniidae
Clepidecrella
Clepidecrella cataraqui

description: Clepidecrella cataraqui sp. nov. (Figs 4–6) Type material. HOLOTYPE, female, 3.7 mm, AM P.69002, east of Cape Naturaliste, Tasmania, Australia, 40°45.94’S 149°01.62’E to 40°46.54’S 149°00.27’E, 2400–2500 m, mud, clay, 10 December 1986, R. T. Springthorpe, RV Franklin stn FR1086-04. Type locality. East of Cape Naturaliste, Tasmania, Australia, 40°45.94’S 149°01.62’E to 40°46.54’S 149°00.27’E, 2400–2500 m depth. Etymology. Named for the barque Cataraqui lost off King Island in 1845. Diagnostic description. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 not or only slightly produced dorsodistally. Mandible incisor present; left lacinia mobilis absent; accessory spine row absent; molar absent. Maxilla 1 outer plate with 3 setal-teeth, setal-teeth without cusps; palp 2-articulate. Maxilliped palp article 2 longer than broad, length 3 x breadth. Gnathopod 1 basis margins subparallel; ischium short, length 1.7 x breadth; carpus long, length 3.1 x breadth, longer than (1.85 x) propodus; propodus subrectangular, length 2.2 x breadth. Pereopods 3 and 4 propodus with long distal locking seta.  Pereopod 5 basis expanded posteroventrally , with posteroventral lobe; merus moderately expanded posteriorly. Pereopod 7 basis with posteroventral lobe not extending much beyond ischium; merus posteroventral lobe extending less than halfway along carpus. Pleonite 3 without dorsodistal boss. Epimeron 3 posteroventral corner narrowly rounded. Uropod 1 rami without robust setae.  Uropod 3 uniramous; outer ramus 2-articulate . Telson shorter than broad, length about 0.9 x breadth. Remarks. Clepidecrella cataraqui, C. colliboi and C. ira share the characters of left lacinia mobilis absent and maxilla 1 outer plate with only 3 setal-teeth. Clepidecrella cataraqui can be distinguished from C. colliboi and C. ira by the long distal locking seta on pereopods 3 and 4, the short posteroventral lobe on the basis of pereopod 7, the 2-articulate outer ramus on uropod 3 and the shorter than broad telson. The holotype female has a non-setose oostegite on pereopod 5 only. Distribution. South-eastern Australia, in 2400–2500 m depth.
description: Published as part of Lowry, J. K. & Stoddart, H. E., 2010, Kergueleniidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 2564 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2329.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5301357
Вибір типу генератора з магнітоелектричним збудженням для вітроенергетичних установ малої потужності
Creators: name: Володимирівна, Шевченко Валентина
name: Сябрук Я.О.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: генератори з магнітоелектричним збудженням
вітроенергетичні установи малої потужності

description: Українською: [Шевченко В.В., Сябрук Я.О. Вибір типу генератора з магнітоелектричним збудженням для вітроенергетичних установ малої потужності // Матеріали роботи семінару "Електромагнітні та теплові процеси високовикористованих електричних машин" Наукової ради "Наукові основи електроенергетики" Інституту електродинаміки Національної академії наук України, секція 2 "Електромеханічне перетворювання і генерування енергії", жовтень 2013. - Україна, Київ: Інститут електродинаміки НАНУ, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2550748]
description: Наведено лише програму семінару
Self-dual non-Abelian N = 1 tensor multiplet in D = 2+ 2 dimensions
Creators: name: Nishino, Hitoshi
name: Rajpoot, Subhash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a self-dual non-Abelian N=1 supersymmetric tensor multiplet in D=2+2 space-time dimensions. Our system has three on-shell multiplets: (i) The usual non-Abelian Yang-Mills multiplet (A_μ^I, λ^I) (ii) A non-Abelian tensor multiplet (B_{μν}{}^I, χ^I, φ^I), and (iii) An extra compensator vector multiplet (C_μ^I, ρ^I). Here the index I is for the adjoint representation of a non-Abelian gauge group. The duality symmetry relations are G_{μνρ}{}^I = - ε_{μνρ}{}^σ\nabla_σφ^I, F_{μν}{}^I = + (1/2) ε_{μν}{}^{ρσ} F_{ρσ}{}^I, and H_{μν}{}^I = +(1/2) ε_{μν}{ρσ} H_{ρσ}{}^I, where G and H are respectively the field strengths of B and C. The usual problem with the coupling of the non-Abelian tensor is avoided by non-trivial Chern-Simons terms in the field strengths G_{μνρ}{}^I and H_{μν}{}^I. For an independent confirmation, we re-formulate the component results in superspace. As applications of embedding integrable systems, we show how the {\cal N} = 2, r = 3 and {\cal N} = 3, r = 4 flows of generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations are embedded into our system.
description: 21 pages, 0 figures