cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Can Intelligence Explode?
Creators: name: Hutter, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The technological singularity refers to a hypothetical scenario in which technological advances virtually explode. The most popular scenario is the creation of super-intelligent algorithms that recursively create ever higher intelligences. It took many decades for these ideas to spread from science fiction to popular science magazines and finally to attract the attention of serious philosophers. David Chalmers' (JCS 2010) article is the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the singularity in a respected philosophy journal. The motivation of my article is to augment Chalmers' and to discuss some issues not addressed by him, in particular what it could mean for intelligence to explode. In this course, I will (have to) provide a more careful treatment of what intelligence actually is, separate speed from intelligence explosion, compare what super-intelligent participants and classical human observers might experience and do, discuss immediate implications for the diversity and value of life, consider possible bounds on intelligence, and contemplate intelligences right at the singularity.
description: 20 LaTeX pages
The biodiversity indicators dashboard: monitoring biodiversity trend and conservation performance
Creators: name: Han, Xuemei
name: Anderson, David
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: David Anderson.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Recognizing the imperiled status of biodiversity and its benefit to human well-being, the world's governments committed in 2010 to take effective and urgent action to halt biodiversity loss through the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its 'Aichi Targets'. These targets, and many other conservation programs, require monitoring to assess progress toward specific goals. However, comprehensive and easily understood information on biodiversity trends at appropriate spatial scales is often not available to the policy makers, managers, and scientists who require it. We surveyed conservation stakeholders in three geographically diverse regions of critical biodiversity concern (the Tropical Andes, the African Great Lakes, and the Greater Mekong) and found high demand for biodiversity indicator information but uneven availability. To begin to address this need, we envision a biodiversity 'dashboard', a visualization of biodiversity indicators designed to enable tracking of biodiversity and conservation performance data in a clear, user-friendly format. We structured around the Pressure-State-Response-Benefit framework, selecting four indicators to measure pressure on biodiversity (deforestation rate), state of species (Red List Index), conservation response (protection of key biodiversity areas), and benefits to human populations (freshwater provision). Disaggregating global data, we present dashboard maps and graphics for the three regions surveyed and their component countries. These visualizations provide charts showing regional and national trends and lay the foundation for a web-enabled, interactive biodiversity indicators dashboard. This should be able to help track progress toward the Aichi Targets, support national monitoring and reporting, and inform outcome-based policy-making for the protection of natural resources.
title: Clinician Alert! Radiologist can better guide towards the cause of trigeminal neuralgia - A case series.
Creators: name: Malik, Mariam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Outcomes
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Management
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: Head and Neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: We aim to provide a pictorial representation of how beautifully MRI demonstrates the normal anatomical coarse of trigeminal nerve , MR imaging protocol for patients with trigeminal neuralgia and an approach to segmental anatomy for identification...
Neutral Pion Production in the Threshold Region
Creators: name: Hornidge, D.
name: Bernstein, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an overview of the physics motivation and evolution of the neutral pion photoproduction measurements in the threshold region conducted in the A2 collaboration at MAMI. The latest two experiments have been performed with the almost 4-pi Crystal Ball detector. The first was with a linearly polarized photon beam and unpolarized liquid-hydrogen target. The data analysis is now complete and the linearly polarized beam asymmetry along with differential cross sections provide the most stringent test to date of the predictions of Chiral Perturbation Theory and its energy region of convergence. More recently a measurement was performed using both circularly polarized photons and a transversely polarized butanol frozen-spin target, with the goal of extracting both the target and beam-target asymmetries. From these we intend to extract pi-N scattering sensitive information for the first time in photo-pion reactions. This will be used to test isospin conservation and further test dynamics of chiral symmetry breaking in QCD as calculated at low energies by Chiral Perturbation Theory.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to EPJ Special Topics as part of the proceedings of the Conclusive Symposium of Collaborative Research Centre 443
Making Drug Discovery Data FAIR: The Yawning Gap between Aspiration and Implementation (slides)
Creators: name: Southan, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Databases
FAIR

description: BioITWorld, Oct 2020 (n.b. recording is a separate upload) The FAIRification of data is gaining impetus. However, for drug discovery, the envisaged increased flow of structures and bioactivity into major public databases, such as PubChem, has not happened. Reasons will be reviewed, but a key impediment is that even when supplementary data from journal papers is submitted to open repositories, such as figshare, there is neither push nor pull into PubChem. Ways to ameliorate this major bottleneck will be discussed, including bypassing the entombment of chemistry in PDFs
Roman women authors: authorship, agency and authority
Creators: name: Dean, Crystal
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 282-318
description: Three major works written by women have survived from the Roman world: Perpetua's Passio (early 3rd century AD), Proba's Cento (mid 4th century AD) and Egeria's Jtinerarium (late 4th century AD). This thesis examines these early Christian works and authors within their individual historical contexts and also applies them to the larger framework of Roman history in order to develop an inclusive historical narrative for Roman women writers. In opposition to the largely dismissive attitudes found in scholarship towards the literacy, textual complexity, and public voice of female Roman authors, this thesis uses the corpus to argue for the presence of an adaptive educational system that served to enable female authorship, a visible textual pattern of socio-political voice that provided a degree of agency for female-authored texts and the integration of Christian traditions of female speech and testimony that imbued the extant corpus with authority. Thus, this thesis argues for a significant, albeit generally unrecognized, creative tradition that existed across time for Roman women writers. The meager survival of female-authored texts, however, necessitates the examination of the extant corpus not only as part of a larger cohesive history, but also as uniquely successful works. An examination of the common elements within the texts that appear to have aided in the reception of these particular works suggests that ambiguity (in genre, authorial voice and textual purpose) rendered these texts both mutable and sustainable because it blurred the boundaries of expectations in terms of authorship, agency and authority within the texts and allowed for them to be employed for multiple purposes. Thus, the corpus represents the successful negotiation of two seemingly disparate contexts: a long-standing tradition of women writers upon which it could draw and the ability to stand apart from this tradition. That these texts were able to mediate a balance is further indication of the complexity and sophistication of the corpus and indeed offers valuable insight into a poorly understood component of Roman intellectual life.
PRIORITY TASKS OF PEDAGOGY IN YOUTH EDUCATION
Creators: name: Kholmatov Shakhobiddin Jumaboevich, Tashlanova Nigora Djuraevna, Khatamova Zumrad Nazirjonovna, Arabboev Khurshid.  Seneor teacher's  TUIT Ferganskogo branch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Annotation: The article discusses the inextricability of traditions and values along with a new pedagogical approach in the education of young people.
Key words: Pedagogue, youth, education, family, new methods, experience, skills.
Electron-impact-ionization measurements using hyperfine-assisted state preparation of ground-state berylliumlike sulfur
Creators: name: Hahn, Michael
name: Bernhardt, D.
name: Grieser, M.
name: Krantz, C.
name: Lestinsky, M.
name: Muller, A.
name: Novotny, Oldrich
name: Repnow, R.
name: Schippers, S.
name: Wolf, A.
name: Savin, Daniel Wolf
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Electron impact ionization
Electron impact ionization--Measurement
Physics.
Astrophysics

description: We have measured electron impact ionization (EII) of the beryllium-like ion S¹²⁺. The use of an isotopically pure A=33 beam of S¹²⁺ ions is established as a method to eliminate all metastable levels, including the extremely long-lived metastable level 2s2p 3 P0, which, for this isotope, decays by hyperfine-induced radiative transitions. The energy dependence and absolute size of the EII cross section were measured from the resulting pure ground-state population at energies from below the threshold at ≈ 652.2 eV up to 3000 eV. These data provide an experimental benchmark for theory.
title: Incidentally detected pulmonary lesion mimicking malignancy; A review of imaging patterns of pulmonary cryptococcosis in immunocompetent patients
Creators: name: Lee, Jong Eun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chest
subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Education
subject: Perception image
subject: Education and training
subject: Infection
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Retrospective
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: •To understand the pathogenesis and clinical characteristics of pulmonary cryptococcosis in immunocompetent patients •To review the imaging patterns and ancillary findings of pulmonary cryptococcosis •To investigate the imaging patterns of...
Laterally Propagating Detonations in Thin Helium Layers on Accreting White Dwarfs
Creators: name: Townsley, Dean M.
name: Moore, Kevin
name: Bildsten, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical work has shown that intermediate mass (0.01Msun0.8Msun) WDs, these helium shells can be dense enough (5x10^5 g/cc) that the convectively burning region runs away on a timescale comparable to the sound travel time across the shell; raising the possibility for an explosive outcome. The nature of the explosion (i.e. deflagration or detonation) remains ambiguous. In the case of detonation, this causes a laterally propagating front whose properties in these geometrically thin and low density shells we begin to study here. Our calculations show that the radial expansion time of <0.1 s leads to incomplete helium burning, in agreement with recent work by Sim and collaborators, but that the nuclear energy released is still adequate to realize a self-sustaining detonation propagating laterally at slower than the Chapman-Jouguet speed. Our simulations resolve the subsonic region behind the front and are consistent with a direct computation of the reaction structure from the shock strength. The ashes are typically He rich, and consist of predominantly Ti-44, Cr-48, along with a small amount of Fe-52, with very little Ni-56 and with significant Ca-40 in carbon-enriched layers. If this helium detonation results in a Type Ia Supernova, its spectral signatures would appear for the first few days after explosion. (abridged)
description: 7 pages, 5 figure, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
Searching for the Common Thread within Religions
Creators: name: Knitter, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Religions

description: In conversations about religion and the manyness of religions, one often hears, in general as well as scholarly discussions, remarks about what all the religions have in common. It is generally taken for granted that despite the evident, often flamboyant, diversity of religions, there is something that they all share, or something that holds them together in what even scrupulous historians of religions call "family resemblances." The image of a "common thread" (or threads) is often used to suggest that if we look closely and carefully enough, we will find something that is understood to have a unifying quality. But when it comes to stating more precisely just what that common thread is--or even where we can find it or how we can search for it--conversations usually become vague or contradictory. In the reflections that follow, I will review why such conversations about the common thread within all religions bog down, why the search for such a common thread can be frustrating, even futile, i will first review what I think are failed attempts at locating that common thread and how those failed attempts have led many people to give up the search for what is common to all religions. Then, in the second and principal part of my reflections, I will outline how the search for what the religions have in. common is being renewed today. I will show that the search, as complex and frustrating as it is, is also very important and rewarding, especially in light of the discussions on globalization in this issue of ReVision.
title: Fetal gastrointestinal tract anomalies: MRI findings correlated with pathology and postnatal follow-up
Creators: name: Framis Utset, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Foetus
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Paediatric

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe and illustrate the fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings for congenital malformations of the gastrointestinal tract. To correlate the MRI findings with the outcomes seen at pathology and postnatal follow-up and to explain them...
Black holes in spacetime dimension other than four
Creators: name: Stevens, Kory Allan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Recently, models of spacetime with extra dimensions has driven interest into higher dimensional black holes. In this thesis, we examine general relativity in spacetimes that are not four dimensional. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the higher dimensional Kerr-de Sitter metrics; we examine the separation of variables for the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations that occurs for particles and fields in those metrics. In the second part we consider lower dimensional geons, and give a proof that there cannot be any asymptotically flat geons in a three dimensional spacetime. Finally, we examine charged higher dimensional black holes, and consider the possibility of a higher dimensional generalization of the Kerr-Newman metric. We examine some approaches to find that solution, and demonstrate the form that the electromagnetic potential must have in such a spacetime.
Simulation of ions confined by quadrupole electric fields
Creators: name: Cummings, Michael David
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 319-328
description: Many pages are in colour.
description: Computer simulations are routinely used to develop physical insight into ionic systems confined by static and time-varying quadrupole electric fields. However, after nearly 30 years of numerical exploration, three questions remain: which numerical techniques produce accurate simulations for the least computational expense? How can thermal equilibrium initial conditions be generated? How should temperature be calculated? Trapped ion simulations generally employ molecular dynamics techniques, where ion trajectories are numerically calculated at discrete points in time. While many numerical methods have been applied to these systems, it is unclear which technique is fastest or what time-step is required. In this work, the computational speed of and time-step for 11 commonly used techniques are assessed through analysis of four numerical error com­ponents. The most rapid method and required step-size depend strongly on the system parameters, with any one of the Beeman, Gear6, 5th-order Adams-Bashforth-Moulton, or 4th-order Runge-Kutta algorithms proving most appropriate. The 11 algorithms are then applied to a realistic multi-ion system and verify that the four tests accurately predict the required step size. When equilibrium properties are desired, simulations should commence from initial conditions that conform closely to thermal equilibrium; however little has been pub­lished on initial condition generation and assessment for the multi-ion system. A method is presented for generating thermal equilibrium via laser cooling and recoil heating, a ramp-down stage, where the heating and cooling are gradually reduced, and an equili­bration phase where the ensemble is evolved under only the trapping forces. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that thermal equilibrium can be assessed using well-known tests of distribution normality. vVhen time-varying fields are present, temperature calculation becomes difficult, as the ion motion contains both thermal and nonthermal components. The literature de­scribes four temperature calculation procedures for multi-ion simulation; however nei­ther their accuracy nor mathematical underpinnings have been addressed. In this work, through detailed derivations, numerical calculations, and simulations, their accuracy is determined for a wide range of parameters. Furthermore, by extending an existing tem­perature calculation technique, a new method is created and is shown to be highly accu­rate while requiring low computational expense.
title: The conundrums and complexities around imaging the large bowel after surgery; which surgery did the patient have?
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Volvulus
subject: Outcomes
subject: Education and training
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Colonography CT
subject: Barium enema
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Colon
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: This poster’s objective is to familiarise readers with the postoperative appearances of the different types of large bowel resection on cross sectional imaging and fluoroscopy. We also highlight the pearls and pitfalls in diagnostic imaging, the...
Negative posttraumatic cognitions among military sexual trauma survivors
Creators: name: Carroll, KK
name: Lofgreen, AM
name: Weaver, DC
name: Held, P
name: Klassen, BJ
name: Smith, DL
name: Karnik, Niranjan
name: Pollack, MH
name: Zalta, AK
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Unique aspects of military sexual trauma (MST) may result in specific maladaptive cognitions among survivors. Understanding which posttraumatic cognitions are particularly strong among MST survivors could help clinicians target and improve treatment for these individuals. This study explored the impact of experiencing MST on posttraumatic cognitions among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Methods: Veterans enrolled in an Intensive Outpatient Program for PTSD (N = 226) were assessed for MST, PTSD severity, depression severity, and posttraumatic cognitions as part of a standard clinical intake. Multivariate analyses examined differences in posttraumatic cognitions between veterans who did and did not experience MST. Results: MST survivors (n = 88) endorsed significantly stronger posttraumatic cognitions related to self-blame compared to non-MST counterparts (n = 138), even when accounting for current symptom severity. Specifically, MST predicted the following cognitions: “The event happened to me because of the sort of person I am,” “Somebody else would have stopped the event from happening,” “Somebody else would not have gotten into this situation,” and “There is something about me that made the event happen,” after controlling for severity of PTSD and depression. Limitations: Study population was a treatment-seeking sample of veterans diagnosed with PTSD from a non-VA clinic. Veterans in MST group endorsed either sexual harassment, sexual assault, or both. Sample size of males who endorsed MST (n = 21) may be too small to generalize to all males. Conclusions: Beliefs related to self-blame may be important treatment targets for MST survivors.
Proteinase-activated receptor 1 (par1) elicits immunomodulatory effects in a mouse model of nonbacterial prostatitis
Creators: name: Stanton, M. Mark
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 156-185
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of animal protocol approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The prostate is an accessory reproductive gland that is found in all male mammals. This gland is prone to infection, inflammation, and cancer, making it one of the most disease-prone tissues in the body. Specifically, the role of Proteinase-Activated Receptor 1 (PARl) has not been addressed in the context of nonbacterial prostatitis. In this study, P ARl and P AR2 were localized primarily to the apical prostatic epithelium in C57BL/6 mice. Instillation of the PARl agonist TFLLR-NH2 into the mouse prostate significantly diminished dinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (DNBS)-induced prostatitis. Furthermore, TFLLR-NH2 also elicited non-PARl-rnediated imrnunornodulatory effects that were protective against DNBS-induced prostatitis. TFLLR-NH2 directly up-regulated anti­inflammatory IL-10 production and the source of this IL-10 elevation was not macrophage-driven. Overall, these findings support an immunomodulatory role for P ARI in the mouse prostate and may present a pharmacological therapy for nonbacterial prostatitis.
Democratisation of chemistry searching in PubChem with 38 million patent-extracted structures
Creators: name: Southan, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Outline Utilities of patent chemistry Introducing PubChem Chemistry extraction and introducing larger sources Smaller but valuble sources Caveats of automated Chemical Named Entity Recognition The good news about CNER in PubChem An example from SARS-Cov-2 Thoughts on democratisation Conclusions and references
Saving Mali's desert elephants from war and poaching: a successful model of national and community engagement
Creators: name: Martin, Vance
name: Van Hoven, Wouter
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: Wouter van Hoven.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Do poor villagers need elephants? The local people of Central Mali (West Africa) -- many ethnicities and clans -- know that elephants attract the attention (and therefore the assistance) of the wider community -- national, and international -- and are proud of that. As they say, "If the elephants disappear, our area will no longer be special." They also view elephants as an indicator of a healthy ecosystem and they know that their livelihoods depend on a healthy ecosystem. They also know from direct experience that elephants are important as seed dispersers and in forest regeneration. Elephants knock down otherwise inaccessible fruits and seeds from high branches that are gathered by the women for food and sometimes sale. Fruits and leaves are also eaten by livestock. Dung is valued to help conjunctivitis, a widespread problem in these environments. Over 12 years, The WILD Foundation and its many partners developed the Mali Elephant Project (MEP) as a very successful model of CBNRM. With engagement from local communities to the head of state, MEP has brought attention, action, and protection to this unique herd of elephants (the northern most in Africa, desert-adapted, and with the longest recorded elephant migration). It is now "war-tested" with only 2 elephants poached during the Tuareg rebellion and jihadist invasion of 2013. Yet local bandits remain, and the single biggest poaching incident in Mali's history occurred on the full moon night of the 13th/14th May 2014. But the local communities and the army solved it!
A technique to Improve the Empirical Mode Decomposition in the Hilbert-Huang Transform
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Chen, Yangbo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The Hilbert-based time-frequency analysis has promising capacity to reveal the time-variant behaviors of a system. To admit well-behaved Hilbert transforms, component decomposition of signals must be performed beforehand. This was first systematically implemented by the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in the Hilbert-Huang transform, which can provide a time-frequency representation of the signals. The EMD, however, has limitations in distinguishing different components in narrowband signals commonly found in free-decay vibration signals. In this study, a technique for decomposing components in narrowband signals based on waves’ beating phenomena is proposed to improve the EMD, in which the time scale structure of the signal is unveiled by the Hilbert transform as a result of wave beating, the order of component extraction is reversed from that in the EMD and the end effect is confined. The proposed technique is verified by performing the component decomposition of a simulated signal and a free decay signal actually measured in an instrumented bridge structure. In addition, the adaptability of the technique to time-variant dynamic systems is demonstrated with a simulated time-variant MDOF system.
Real and complex random neutrino mass matrices and theta13
Creators: name: Gluza, Janusz
name: Szafron, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been shown that one of the basic parameters of the neutrino sector, so called theta13 angle is very small, but quite probably non-zero. We argue that the small value of theta13 can still be reproduced easily by a wide spectrum of randomly generated models of neutrino masses. For that we consider real and complex neutrino mass matrices, also including sterile neutrinos. A qualitative difference between results for real and complex mass matrices in the region of small theta13 values is observed. We show that statistically the present experimental data prefers random models of neutrino masses with sterile neutrinos.
description: v3: Discussion about 3+1 scenario extended, fig 5,6 added
Molecular engineering of phosphole-based conjugated materials
Creators: name: Ren, Yi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 191-203
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: The work in this thesis focuses on the molecular engineering of phosphorus-based conjugated materials. In the first part (Chapters Two and Three), new phosphorus-based conjugated systems were designed and synthesized to study the effect of the heteroelement on the electronic properties of the re-conjugated systems. The second part (Chapters Four and Five) deals with the self-assembly features of specifically designed phosphorus-based conjugated systems. In Chapter Two, electron-poor and electron-rich aromatic substituents were introduced to the dithienophosphole core in order to balance the electron-accepting and electron-donating character of the systems. Furthermore, an intriguing intramolecular charge transfer process could be observed between two dithienophosphole cores m a bridged bisphosphole-system. In Chapter Three, a secondary heteroelement (Si, P, S) was incorporated in the phosphorus-based conjugated systems. Extensive structure-property studies revealed that the secondary heteroelement can effectively manipulate the communication in phosphinine-based systems. The study of a heterotetracene system allowed for selectively applying distinct heteroatom (S/P) chemistries, which offers a powerful tool for the modification of the electronic structure of the system. More importantly, the heteroatom­specific electronic nature (S/P) can be utilized to selectively control different photophysical aspects ( energy gap and fluorescence quantum yield). Furthermore, additional molecular engineering of the heterotetracene provided access to well-defined 1 D microstructures, which opened the door for designing multi-functional self-assembled phosphorus-based materials. In Chapter Four, the self-organizing phosphole-lipid system is introduced, which combines the features of phospholipids with the electronics of phospholes. Its amphiphilic nature induces intriguing self-assembly features - liquid crystal and soft crystal architectures, both exhibiting well-organized lamellar structure at a wide range of temperatures. Importantly, its dynamic structure endows the phosphole-lipid system with intriguing external stimuli-responsive features allowing for the modification of the emission of the system without further chemical modification. Chapter Five describes how further molecular engineering allowed for access to a series of new highly fluorescent phosphole-lipid organogels. Remarkably, the external­stimuli responsive features of the system can be amplified in a donor-acceptor system accessible through changes in long distance fluorescence resonance energy transfer processes. In addition, the first fluorescent liquid phospholes could also be accessed in the context of the work on the new phosphole-lipid system.
title: Congenital lung malformations: A practical approach in children.
Creators: name: Baron Rodiz, Patricia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Congenital
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: Paediatric
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - To review the most frequent congenital lung malformations and their current nomenclature. - To illustrate with own-experience images the imaging findings of each malformation with different techniques and pathologic...
DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN TO OVERCOME INTERNAL DISASTER AT DIARB NEGM CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Creators: name: REDA MOHAMMED MOHAMMED
name: AHLAM MAHMOUD EL SHAER
name: NEHAD SAAD EL-WKEEL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Disaster, Disaster Management Plan, Hospital Staff, Internal Disaster.

description: Abstract 
Background: Disasters are the most vulnerable factors affecting human life and the environment. Hospitals must be adequately prepared to manage internal disasters with proper disaster preparedness plans. Aim: Design and validate a Diarb Negm Central Hospital disaster management plan. Methods: Cross-sectional design was utilized. It included two group; a target group of all 200 available hospital staff and a jury group of 35 faculty members. Data collection tools consisted of three tolls; Disaster Expectation Questionnaire, Disaster Preparedness Checklist, and Validation Form for Disaster Management Plan. Results: Most study participants had low internal disaster expectations and awareness of the total disaster preparedness plan. More than half of the study participants had no awareness of the internal disaster preparedness plan. Conclusion: The developed plan agreed with about-face and content validity by the majority of the jury group. Recommendations: Implement the developed, validated plan in the study settings for a trial period to test its applicability and to amend any possible deficiencies. Conducted disaster drills for hospital staff periodically to improve their awareness and skills to deal with any internal disaster.
Variation of Modal Parameters of a Highway Bridge Extracted from Six Earthquake Records
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
name: Ulusoy, Hasan
name: Gomez, Hugo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Between 2005 and 2010 six earthquakes triggered a monitoring system consisting of 11 acceleration channels installed on the West Street On-Ramp, a three-span curved highway bridge located in the city of Anaheim, California. In this paper, three different system identification techniques are applied to the acceleration records to investigate and corroborate the dynamic properties of the bridge, that is, vibration frequencies, associated damping ratios and mode shapes. The identification techniques are applied to each one of the six seismic events. The identified frequencies and damping ratios are shown to be dependent variables of the earthquake intensity. In general, larger earthquake intensities result in reduced vibration frequencies and higher damping ratios of the bridge. Sensitivity analysis using a simple finite element model reveals that soil softening at the abutments considerably contributes to the variation in frequencies because of changes in the support conditions and ultimately in the global stiffness of the structure. In addition, mathematical models in the state space description are identified from the recorded response and excitation measurements. The state space models successfully replicate the bridge measured response to the earthquake from which it is constituted. The models also provide a reasonable prediction of the bridge response to a different earthquake.
Population dynamics in compressible flows
Creators: name: Benzi, Roberto
name: Jensen, Mogens H.
name: Nelson, David R.
name: Perlekar, Prasad
name: Pigolotti, Simone
name: Toschi, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Organisms often grow, migrate and compete in liquid environments, as well as on solid surfaces. However, relatively little is known about what happens when competing species are mixed and compressed by fluid turbulence. In these lectures we review our recent work on population dynamics and population genetics in compressible velocity fields of one and two dimensions. We discuss why compressible turbulence is relevant for population dynamics in the ocean and we consider cases both where the velocity field is turbulent and when it is static. Furthermore, we investigate populations in terms of a continuos density field and when the populations are treated via discrete particles. In the last case we focus on the competition and fixation of one species compared to another
description: 16 pages, talk delivered at the Geilo Winter School 2011
Offending patterns of high-risk offenders: evidence of specialization
Creators: name: Nerlien, Tamara A.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 116-124
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Research indicates that a distinct group of offenders commit more serious offenses more frequently thus posing a greater risk to public safety. Versatility in offending appears to be the norm among this group, and as such, scholars have paid less attention to the tendency of an offender to repeat the same offense. However, there is a perception within the criminal justice system that specialization does occur: specialized police units are, in part, predicated on this notion, as are Section 810 peace bonds that reflect this expectation. This research seeks to address this conundrum by investigating whether distinct patterns of factors predict the types of offenses committed by high-risk offenders. The life-course perspective guides this investigation as this allows for the consideration of how various elements, internal and external to the offender, may influence particular victim/crime preferences. Evidence supports the existence of a specialized group of sex offenders who target children.
title: Shoulder instability: diagnostic approach and most frequent imaging findings.
Creators: name: Zanirato Rambaldi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Trauma
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Arthrography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Anatomy
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the most frequent imaging findings and diagnostic process in patients with shoulder instability (SI), emerged from two centres experience and literature...
title: Rare plant conservation initiative: saving Colorado's wildflowers
title: Colorado rare plant conservation initiative
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Panjabi, Susan Spackman
name: Anderson, David
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: David Anderson.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: The Colorado Rare Plant Conservation Initiative (RPCI) is a diverse partnership of public agencies, private organizations and academic institutions. The overall goal of the RPCI is to conserve Colorado's most imperiled native plants (122 plant species at significant risk of extinction) and their habitats through collaborative partnerships for the preservation of our natural heritage and the benefit of future generations. This partnership has produced a strategy for Colorado's imperiled plants and their habitats that represents a collective vision for plant conservation in Colorado, emphasizing a proactive approach to ensure the long-term stewardship and viability of Colorado's rarest plants. The strategy identifies six objectives for the next ten years: 1) secure on-the-ground, site-specific habitat protection, 2) minimize the impacts of specific land uses, 3) improve scientific understanding through inventory, research and monitoring, 4) develop and implement a state program and polices, 5) facilitate stewardship through education and outreach, and 6) adopt measures for off-site conservation. The implementation of this strategy is supporting a systematic and meaningful advance in plant conservation in Colorado, with the aim of avoiding the need for federal listings. The efforts of RPCI, including Conservation Action Planning workshops, legislative initiatives, research projects, and the development of Best Management Practices, have already led to significant progress for rare plant conservation in Colorado with respect to policy, on-the-ground action, and awareness of rare plants. The strategy has become a model for collaborative plant conservation, and this approach is now being implemented and expanded to other states and internationally.
Phylogeography of the greater short-horned lizard (phrynosoma hernandesi) in Alberta
Creators: name: Leung, Magdalene Ngar-Yung
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 166-180
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of animal protocol approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The distribution pattern of a species reflects a mixture of historic and present-day influences. In Alberta, the Greater Short-homed lizard reaches the northern edge of its range and exhibits a patchy distribution pattern. Many sites where it occurs appear to be isolated. Phylogenetic inference and population genetics were employed to investigate the historical source(s) of the Alberta representatives and to determine whether Alberta "populations" are subject to gene flow between them. Two mitochondrial DNA genes and one nuclear DNA gene were sequenced from 94 lizard tail-tips collected from twelve localities in Alberta. Overall, Alberta lizard sequences displayed very little variability, and genetic analyses revealed that the most parsimonious explanation is that this species in Alberta is descended from one source population. All localities are inferred to be historically genetically interconnected. The correlation of homed lizard localities with selected landscape features revealed that they occupy only small portions of seemingly much more extensive suitable habitat. Overall, the historic genetic information investigated, and particular features of the landscape failed to explain the species' present-day distribution patterns in southeastern Alberta.
Charmed penguin versus BAU
Creators: name: Dolgov, A. D.
name: Godunov, S. I.
name: Rozanov, A. N.
name: Vysotsky, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the Standard Model most probably cannot explain the large value of CP asymmetries recently observed in D-meson decays we propose the fourth quark-lepton generation explanation of it. As a byproduct weakly mixed leptons of the fourth generation make it possible to save the baryon number of the Universe from erasure by sphalerons. An impact of the 4th generation on BBN is briefly discussed.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, version to be published in JETP Letters
title: Pictorial review of cardiac anamolies in second trimester scan.
Creators: name: BAHADURDESAI, Varsha
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Foetus
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Spectrum of cases seen during evaluation of second trimester anomaly scan done in between 18 to 22weeks having with fetal cardiac defects with or with out extracardiac abnormalities. The detection has prompted for detailed cardiac echo examination,...
Early Life Stress and Childhood Aggression: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Callousness and Stress Reactivity
Creators: name: Winiarski, DA
name: Engel, ML
name: Karnik, Niranjan
name: Brennan, PA
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Early life stress (ELS) has been implicated in the development of aggression, though the exact mechanisms remain unknown. This study tested associations between ELS, callousness, and stress reactivity in the prediction of school-age and persistent early childhood aggression. A longitudinal sample of 185 mother–child dyads completed a lab visit and mothers completed an online follow-up when children were preschool-aged and school-aged, respectively. Physiological and behavioral measures of stress reactivity were collected during the preschool period. Ratings of child aggressive behavior, ELS, and callousness were collected as well. The results suggested that ELS was related to measures of both school-age and persistent early childhood aggression, and that callousness had a mediating role in this process. Cortisol reactivity also moderated the association between ELS and persistent childhood aggression, such that the ELS–aggression relationship was stronger among children who had higher levels of cortisol reactivity during the preschool period. Clinical implications are discussed.
title: Spectrum of complex and major structural anomolies in first trimester
Creators: name: BAHADURDESAI, Varsha
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Intrauterine diagnosis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Spectrum of cases were studied in the fetus of first trimester determining the anatomical details of various systems of fetus. Ultrasonography (US) is performed during early pregnancy for dating, determination of the number of fetuses, assessment of...