cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Where and When of Tundra Plants: Distribution and Phenology of Sub-Arctic Vegetation
Creators: name: Diepstraten, Rianne
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Environmental Sciences

description: Distribution and demography of wildlife populations are influenced by the distribution of food resources in space and time, particularly in ecosystems characterized by pronounced seasonality. In this thesis, I describe the spatiotemporal occurrence of vegetation in a 40,000 km2 study area in the Northwest Territories tundra by combining methods from vegetation science and remote sensing. First, I conduct a literature review and conclude that tundra vegetation is being relatively neglected in recent studies. I also create a new land cover classification that describes the biological and physical composition of the landscape. In addition, I establish phenology of plant species important for foraging and determine that temperature at the start of the season, aspect, and land cover type all influence the timing of plant development. Finally, I discuss how my findings can be applied to other studies about wildlife, vegetation, and climate change, and can inform wildlife management and conservation planning.
Characterization and Modelling of Stormwater for the City of Calgary
Creators: name: Shrestha, Dhiraj
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Sanitary and Municipal
subject: SWMM
subject: Water quality
subject: landuse

description: The quantification of pollutant loading from nonpoint pollution sources is very challenging but crucial. Statistical analyses were performed for identifying differences of stormwater quality among different types of land use and among catchments of same land use in three types of flow (baseflow, snowmelt and stormwater runoff). Results indicate water quality parameters present variations among different types of land use and among catchments of same land use. In addition, Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) was calibrated and verified for industrial and residential land uses. The modeling results clearly demonstrate distinct coefficient values for pollutant build-up and wash-off. Rainfall, as the source of stormwater, in the city was also investigated to characterize the spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall. The identified differences in stormwater quality from statistical analysis and modeling suggest the need of quantifying and modeling pollutant loading from different types of land use.
Local signal regularity and smoothness as a means for seismic Q estimation
Creators: name: Izadi, Hormoz
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Seismic Q
subject: Continuous wavelet transform
subject: Lipschitz Exponent
subject: Signal smoothness

description: In seismic signal analysis, irregular structures and points of sharp variation contain critical information, thus making the study of a signal's local properties an appropriate mechanism for obtaining information from seismic data. The local regularity of a seismic event is determined by the wavelet transform modulus maxima and the associated Lipschitz exponent. As a means of classifying regularities of a signal and estimating the associated Lipschitz exponent, the linear and non-linear Mallat-Hwang-Zhong (MHZ) signal model based on the wavelet theory is reviewed and developed. For isolated seismic events, resembling a delta function or a Heaviside function, the linear MHZ model is used to estimate the associated Lipschitz exponent and subsequently verify the theoretical properties of the exponent. However for practical settings, in particular, band-limited signal events, the more complex non-linear MHZ signal model must be applied in order to estimate the local regularity and the additional smoothness parameter. Based on the synthetic vertical seismic profile (VSP) modelling, a relatively complicated mathematical mapping between the Lipschitz exponent and seismic quality factor Q is obtained. However, analysing the smoothness parameter results in an invertible power law relation between the aforementioned parameter and Q. Applying the non-linear MHZ model to the Ross Lake VSP field data captures the general absorption trend estimated by Zhang and Stewart (2006). Furthermore, the power law relation provides geophysically reasonable Q values comparable to the estimated values using traditional methods, such as the steepest descent. However, for a more robust mathematical relation between the Lipschitz exponent, smoothness parameter and seismic quality factor Q, additional theoretical and field data analysis is required.
"It Scars": Meaning Making and Psychological Impacts of Parental Feeding Control
Creators: name: Brun, Isabel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Parental Feeding Control Practices
subject: Childhood Overweight and Obesity
subject: Constructivist Grounded Theory

description: Given the negative physiological and psychosocial outcomes associated with childhood obesity, it is no wonder that parents may want to utilize parental feeding control practices in order to promote weight loss, or prevent weight gain, in their children. However, regardless of parents’ best intentions, parental feeding control practices have been found to have counterproductive effects on children’s eating behaviours and weight status. Despite these findings, minimal research has been conducted to examine how these parental feeding control practices are subjectively experienced by children. As such, the current study explored perceived meaning making and psychological impacts of parental feeding control practices through constructivist grounded theory methods. Results from the preliminary constructivist grounded theory indicate that individuals face lasting negative meaning making (e.g., viewing self-worth as contingent on weight), psychological (e.g., fearing weight gain), and behavioural (e.g., engaging in maladaptive eating behaviours) impacts as a result of experiencing parental feeding control practices during their childhoods. Findings have implications for counselling and future research.
A Renormalizable Supersymmetric SU(5) Model
Creators: name: Zheng, Jun-hui
name: Zhang, Da-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Supersymmetric SU(5) Model of Unification with the Missing Partner Mechanism, we present a renormalizable model using the Georgi-Jarlsog mechanism to describe the fermion masses and mixing. At the meantime the proton decay rates are also suppressed to satisfy the experimental data.
Orbital fluctuation theory in iron-based superconductors: s-wave superconductivity, structure transition, and impurity-induced nematic order
Creators: name: Kontani, H.
name: Inoue, Y.
name: Saito, T.
name: Yamakawa, Y.
name: Onari, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main features in iron-based superconductors would be (i) the orthorhombic transition accompanied by remarkable softening of shear modulus, (ii) high-Tc superconductivity close to the orthorhombic phase, and (iii) nematic transition in the tetragonal phase. In this paper, we present a unified explanation for them, based on the orbital fluctuation theory, considering both the e-ph and the Coulomb interaction. It is found that a small e-ph coupling constant ($λ~ 0.2$) is enough to produce large orbital (=charge quadrupole $O_{xz/yz}$) fluctuations, which causes the s-wave superconductivity without sign reversal ($s_{++}$-wave state). The derived orbital fluctuations also cause the instability toward the structure transition due to the bound state formation of two orbitons with opposite momenta, which is called the "two-orbiton process". Moreover, impurity-induced non-local orbital order with $C_2$-symmetry is obtained when the orbital fluctuations are strong. This "impurity-induced nematic state" explains the in-plane anisotropy of resistivity in detwinned samples. We stress that (i)-(iii) are reproducible only when orbital fluctuations with respect to $O_{xz}$ and $O_{yz}$ charge quadrupoles are the most divergent. This fact ensures the reliability of the present model Hamiltonian and calculation.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, an article in a special issue on Iron Pnictide Superconductors in Solid State Communications
Quantum control with spectral constraints
Creators: name: Pawela, Łukasz
name: Puchała, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various constraints concerning control fields can be imposed in the realistic implementations of quantum control systems. One of the most important is the restriction on the frequency spectrum of acceptable control parameters. It is important to consider the limitations of experimental equipment when trying to find appropriate control parameters. Therefore, in this paper we present a general method of obtaining a piecewise-constant controls, which are robust with respect to spectral constraints. We consider here a Heisenberg spin chain, however the method can be applied to a system with more general interactions. To model experimental restrictions we apply an ideal low-pass filter to numerically obtained control pulses. The usage of the proposed method has negligible impact on the control quality as opposed to the standard approach, which does not take into account spectral limitations.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Transat : a method for detecting evolutionarily conserved helices in alignments of RNA sequences and its application in identifying transient or alternative RNA structures
Creators: name: Wiebe, Nicholas J. P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The secondary structure of RNA molecules is often critical to their proper functioning, and so prediction of those structures has been a focus of bioinformatics research for many years. RNA folds as it is transcribed, and it has lately become apparent that the sequences of structures that an RNA adopts (its folding path) is vitally important for the RNA to fold into its proper structure. Analysis of the evolution of a group of related RNAs is useful for identifying conserved and therefore functionally important secondary structures. In theory, functional but transient secondary structures which play a role in the folding pathway should also be detectable in this way. Moreover, folding may be affected by a variety of factors in the cellular environment, which presents a challenge to the existing methods of RNA pathway prediction via simulation. Evolutionarily conserved helices are implicitly the ones formed in vivo, and so is a useful means of accounting for this problem. Here we present TRANSAT, a method of identifying evolutionarily conserved elements of RNA secondary structure, including transient structures, from an alignment of related RNAs. We evaluate TRANSAT’s performance on a wide variety of alignments, present some examples of its predictions, and show how its predictions may be useful for predicting folding pathways. We also present a method of generating simulated alignments, and use these alignments to examine TRANSAT’s performance in ways that are challenging with alignments of real sequences.
The role of gauge symmetry in spintronics
Creators: name: Sobreiro, R. F.
name: Otoya, V. J. Vasquez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we employ a field theoretical approach to explain the nature of the non-conserved spin current in spintronics. In particular, we consider the usual U(1) gauge theory for the electromagnetism at classical level in order to obtain the broken continuity equation involving the spin current and spin-transfer torque. Inspired in the recent work of A. Vernes, B. L. Gyorffy and P. Weinberger where they obtain such equation in terms of relativistic quantum mechanics, we formalize their result in terms of the well known currents of field theory such as the Bargmann-Wigner current and the chiral current. Thus, an interpretation of spintronics is provided in terms of Noether currents (conserved or not) and symmetries of the electromagnetism. In fact, the main result of the present work is that the non-conservation of the spin current is associated to the gauge invariance of physical observables where the breaking term is proportional to the chiral current. Moreover, we generalize their result by including the electromagnetic field as a dynamical field instead of an external one.
description: One reference corrected. 8 pages, no figures. Final version to appear in Annals of Physics
Velocity Model Building and Seismic Imaging in a Complex Structural Setting in the Rocky Mountains.
Creators: name: Mirabella, Carolina Paola
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics
subject: Seismic
subject: Processing

description: A 2D seismic line located in the Foothills Thrust fold belt in Northeast British Columbia was reprocessed and interpreted for this thesis. The area is topographically difficult and structurally complex with surface carbonates, velocity inversions and steeply dipping structures associated with thrust faults. Data quality recorded has a low S/R, therefore the seismic processing called for strong noise suppression. Two different processing sequences were developed in order to achieve an improved image. Kirchhoff migration was chosen for its parameter testing flexibility and computational efficiency. Kirchhoff PSTM produced an improved subsurface image, showing better focus and continuous reflection events. PSDM was done via a Kirchhoff code and a PSDM velocity model was manually interpreted and tested using externally pre-processed data. The velocity model building required the integration and tying of geophysical and geological data. PSDM showed some reflection coherence. The best PSTM outcome was similar to the best PSDM outcome.
An examination of the longitudinal associations between post-traumatic growth, rumination, deservingness, trait resilience, and disordered eating behaviour
Creators: name: Blackie, Laura
name: Scott, Charlotte
name: Lewandowski, Felix
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Other Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Health Psychology
subject: longitudinal
subject: ptg
subject: deservingness
subject: post-traumatic growth
subject: trait resilience
subject: rumination
subject: eating behaviour
subject: disordered eating behaviour

description: This longitudinal study on a high-adversity population involves three separate research projects: Project 1 examines the predictors of perceptions of post-traumatic growth. Project 2 examines the relationship between trait resilience and current-standing post-traumatic growth. Project 3 examines disordered eating and post-traumatic growth. Each project has separate pre-registered research questions.
In-Medium Energy Loss and Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV
Creators: name: Grosse-Oetringhaus, Jan Fiete
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the LHC. In fall 2010, Pb-Pb collisions were recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair, about 14 times higher than the energy achieved in A-A collisions at RHIC. The study of the produced hot and dense matter with an unprecedented energy density allows the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma, the deconfined state of quarks and gluons, predicted by QCD. The study of in-medium partonic energy loss allows insights into the density of the medium and the energy-loss mechanisms. This paper presents results based on inclusive spectra as well as two and more-particle correlations of charged particles. These are well suited to assess in-medium effects, ranging from the suppression of particles (R_AA) and away-side jets (I_AA) at high pT to long-range phenomena attributed to collective effects like the ridge at low pT. The analysis is discussed and the results are presented in the context of earlier RHIC measurements where appropriate.
description: Proceedings for EPIC@LHC, Bari, Italy
Modelling the Propagation of a Weak Fast-Mode MHD Shock Wave near a 2D Magnetic Null Point Using Nonlinear Geometrical Acoustics
Creators: name: Afanasyev, Andrey N.
name: Uralov, Arkadiy M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of analytical modelling of fast-mode magnetohydrodynamic wave propagation near a 2D magnetic null point. We consider both a linear wave and a weak shock and analyse their behaviour in cold and warm plasmas. We apply the nonlinear geometrical acoustics method based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation. We calculate the wave amplitude, using the ray approximation and the laws of solitary shock wave damping. We find that a complex caustic is formed around the null point. Plasma heating is distributed in space and occurs at a caustic as well as near the null point due to substantial nonlinear damping of the shock wave. The shock wave passes through the null point even in a cold plasma. The complex shape of the wave front can be explained by the caustic pattern.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Solar Physics
Patient Education and Selection of Peritoneal Dialysis
Creators: name: Devoe, Daniel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Health Care Management
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Dialysis
subject: choice
subject: kidney disease

description: Our first study was a systematic review that explored the relationship between patient-targeted educational interventions and the selection and use of PD. Of 3540 citations screened, 15 studies met our inclusion criteria. Patient targeted educational interventions were associated with a 2-fold increase in the odds of choosing PD. Our second study used data from this randomized trial to explore if the observed increased likelihood of choosing self-care dialysis resulted in increased likelihood of receiving self-care dialysis. In this clinical trial, seventy patients were randomized to receive either standard care or the educational intervention in 2003. The proportion of patients who received self-care dialysis as their first treatment in extended follow-up was not significantly different between the intervention group and the usual care group. In summary, this thesis work found a strong association between patient-targeted education interventions and the subsequent selection of PD, the most common form of self-care dialysis.
Multi-modal, Ultrasensitive Detection of Trace Explosives Using MEMS Devices
Creators: name: Zandieh, Omid
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Explosive
subject: Infrared
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: Calorimetry

description: Multi-modal chemical sensors based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have been developed with an electrical readout. Opto-calorimetric infrared (IR) spectroscopy, capable of obtaining molecular signatures of extremely small quantities of adsorbed explosive molecules, has been realized with a microthermometer/microheater device using a widely tunable quantum cascade laser. A microthermometer/microheater device responds to the heat generated by non-radiative decay process when the adsorbed explosive molecules are resonantly excited with IR light. Monitoring the variation in microthermometer signal as a function of illuminating IR wavelengths corresponds to the conventional IR absorption spectrum of the adsorbed molecules. In addition, micro differential thermal analysis, which can be used to differentiate the exothermic or endothermic reaction of heated molecules, has been performed with the same device to provide additional orthogonal signal for trace explosive detection and sensor surface regeneration. We have demonstrated the successful detection, differentiation, and quantification of trace amounts of explosive molecules and their mixtures.
Phase Behaviour and Physical Properties of Athabasca Bitumen and Solvent Mixtures
Creators: name: Haddadnia, Ali
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Bitumen
subject: Phase Behaviour
subject: Viscosity
subject: Thermal Recovery Processes
subject: ES-SAGD

description: The production of heavy oil and bitumen is more complex than conventional oil production. One of the main reasons is their high viscosity that must be lowered in order to be recoverable by an oil recovery method such as solvent injection, SAGD, and ES- SAGD. The objective of this study was to better understanding of phase behaviour and thermo-physical properties of solvent/bitumen mixtures. Our findings will find applications in the design and simulation of heavy oil and bitumen recovery processes. Solubility of CO2 and N2 in Athabasca bitumen, the density, and viscosity of saturated bitumen were measured at several temperatures and pressures. PR-EoS was applied to represent the experimental solubility data. Density and viscosity of diluted Athabasca bitumen with n-pentane and n-hexane were measured at several temperatures, pressures, and solvent concentrations. Various mixing rules was examined to find appropriate method for predicting the density and viscosity of solvent bitumen system.
title: Regulation of Dental Hygienists: Its Effect on Disciplinary Action and Opinions of Regulatory Board Members in the United States and Canada
Creators: name: Mueller, Jodie A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first was to examine the effect of regulatory status (dentist versus dental hygienist control) on disciplinary sanctions for dental hygiene practitioners. The second was to assess the opinions of board members concerning the regulation of the practice of dental hygiene. Regulatory bodies from jurisdictions with and without dental hygiene self-regulation in both Canada and the United States respectively were examined to determine if differences exist in opinions and sanctions exercised by the two. A self-designed questionnaire titled the Mueller-Dental Hygiene Regulatory Questionnaire was used to obtain descriptive data on a sample of 44 members of boards regulating dental hygiene.

The questionnaire was divided into three sections, "Disciplinary Sanctions," "Opinions," and "Demographics." Data obtained in the "Disciplinary Sanctions" portion of the study were from dentist controlled boards only. Members of dental hygienist controlled boards were unable to complete information concerning disciplinary sanctions, as they were newly formed and had not yet exercised disciplinary sanctions against dental hygiene practitioners. Data from the dentist controlled boards showed a great variability and no set standard for exercising disciplinary sanctions against dental hygiene practitioners was observed. Data obtained in the "Opinions" portion of the study were analyzed using the Kendall Taub measure of association. The results suggest wide variability in the opinions of both dentist and dental hygienist controlled boards concerning the regulation of the practice of dental hygiene. The Board members' opinions regarding the right of the dental hygiene profession to be self-regulated, whether dental hygiene should have regulatory autonomy from dentistry, whether self-regulation would benefit dental hygiene as a profession and whether dental hygienists on separate regulatory boards can more accurately monitor themselves are all strongly associated with the type of board the respondent was from. The two areas with the weakest association related to dental hygienists being educated enough to become self-regulated and dental hygiene self-regulation leading to independent practice.
title: Обеспечение безопасности позиций нефтегазовых компаний Российской Федерации на мировом энергетическом рынке: футурологический ракурс
title: Provision of Positions’ Security of Oil and Gas Companies of the Russian Federation in Global Energy Market: Futuristic Perspective
Creators: name: Ефименко, Анна Викторовна
name: Аджавенко, Иван Николаевич
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2019

description: В статье обосновано, что современной ситуации на мировом энергетическом рынке свойственно умножение опасных факторов и условий, которые требуют от нефтегазовых компаний Российской Федерации решений и действий упреждающего, а не компенсаторного характера. Показано, каким образом посредством использования методов футурологии можно предвидеть ряд опасных тенденций, своевременно принять меры по снижению их разрушительного воздействия и защитить тем самым позиции предприятий на мировом энергетическом рынке. Определены события и явления, несущие в себе серьезную опасность для нефтегазовых компаний Российской Федерации. Предложены варианты реагирования на угрозы геополитического, экономического и технологического характера.
description: The article proves that the current situation of the world energy market is characterized by the multiplication of dangerous factors and conditions that require decisions and actions of a proactive rather than compensatory nature from oil and gas companies of the Russian Federation. It is shown how using futurology methods is possible to foresee a number of dangerous trends, take timely measures to reduce their destructive impact and thus protect the positions of enterprises in the global energy market. The events and phenomena that carry a serious risk for oil and gas companies of the Russian Federation are identified. Variants of response to threats of geopolitical, economic and technological character are offered.
Pseudonicsara (Cercana) hum Ingrisch 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Pseudonicsara
Pseudonicsara hum

description: Pseudonicsara (Cercana) hum sp. n. Figs. 90, 123, 165, 227, 257–258, 295, 323, 371, 428–429, map 4. Holotype (male): Indonesia, Papua: Dorei Hum [? 0° 54' S, 134° 3' E], II.1875, Beccari, labelled " Pseudonicsara hura ", depository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova, Italy (MCSN). Diagnosis. P. hum comes close to P. nana and P. spinibranchis in that the male tenth abdominal tergite is slightly globular with the apex deeply excised in middle. It differs by the apical lobes of the tenth abdominal tergite being depressed (Fig. 123), the cercus has both apico-internal processes spinose (Fig. 165), the basointernal processes inserted upon each other (Figs. 257–258), and the apical parts of the are titillators narrow with the apex rounded (Figs. 428–429). Differences to other species are outlined in the key. Description. Fastigium verticis in front of eyes 0,9 mm, from base 1,4 mm; dorsal eye length 1,7 mm; index fastigium verticis from base: eye length 0.8–0.9. Face rugose. Tegmen little surpassing hind knees; rather narrow; basal two thirds with pre-subcostal area widened, apical third narrow. Prosternal spine short; mesosternal lobes rounded. Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 6 external, 6 internal; mid femur 6–7 external, 2 internal near base; hind femur 10–14 external, 3–6 minute internal in basal area. Male. Stridulatory file with about 110 teeth (Fig. 90). Tenth abdominal tergite globular, apex roundly excised in middle and with long obtuse projecting lobes on both sides of excision (Figs. 123, 165). Cerci short, stout, with external surface convex, internal surface concave, shining and with a low dorsal and a high ventral carina, both carinae with a long projection at base and a short projection at apex; basal projections compressed, apex hook-shaped; apical projections conical, apex acute (Figs. 165, 227, 257–258). Styli very long and thin, longer than half the length of subgenital plate (Fig. 295). Titillators with apical part ovoid, ventro-apical surface dark, with clinging hairs and a fleck of little longer hairs surpassing apex of titillator; margin granular; apico-lateral sclerite band-shaped, curved [broken in preparation] (Figs. 323, 371, 428–429). Female unknown. Coloration. Uniformly medium brown (discoloured due to former conservation in alcohol). Face concolorous, dorsal area of clypeus dark brown, mandibles blackish brown. Hind knees darkened. Measurements of male: body 25, pronotum 7.8, tegmen 24, hind femur 17 mm. Etymology. Named after the type locality; noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 2185 on page 55
Exploring Conversational Spaces of Reflection, Generativity, and Commitment in Family Therapy
Creators: name: French, Jared
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Space
subject: Family Therapy
subject: Reflection
subject: Generativity
subject: Commitment
subject: Conversation

description: This dissertation explores how family therapists and client family members co-create conversational spaces of reflection, generativity, and commitment. Using a discourse-oriented ethnographic approach I show how therapists and family members recognized, negotiated, and maintained these conversational spaces while accounting for the contextual influences affecting the spaces, and how they facilitated therapeutic change. I conclude the dissertation by discussing the results in light of the extant literature and by specifying the study’s limitations and implications for therapeutic practice and future research.
Life and Grief in the Classroom
Creators: name: Mistal, Michaela
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General
subject: Guidance and Counseling
subject: Health
subject: grief
subject: bereavement
subject: Relationships
subject: cancer
subject: suicide
subject: self-study
subject: death

description: This research explores the lifeworld of grief in teaching and learning. Guided by my own story of teaching while living through the process of my mother’s dying and my bereavement, I question my knowing about how this might affect the relationships between myself and my students within the classroom. Such understandings moved beyond the boundaries of my own story, into the depth of the lifeworld of the classroom as a student in my school was lost to suicide. Reflecting on how these events affected my life as a teacher as well as the pedagogical space of my classroom, I ask: what are we to do in the midst of pain and suffering in the classroom? I want to understand and explore deeply how grief is dealt within individual and collective lives and how it might manifest itself in the daily life of school.
СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ МЕХАНИЗМЫ РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННО-КОНФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ В РОССИЙСКОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ
Creators: name: АХМЕДОВ РУСЛАН МАРАТОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: ГОСУДАРСТВЕННО-КОНФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ
РОССИЙСКОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО
ГОСУДАРСТВО
ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ МЕХАНИЗМ
КОНФЕССИИ
STATE-CONFESSIONAL RELATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY
THE STATE
THE INSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY OF THE DENOMINATION

description: Современное влияние конфессионального фактора на социально-политическую реальность существенно и значимо. Хрупкий межконфессиональный мир в российской действительности достигается благодаря комплексному взаимодействию ряда институциональных государственно-конфессиональных образований, которые на уровне своих компетенции разрешают текущие конфликтные вопросы. Однако, в ближайшей перспективе существующего институционального механизма будет недостаточно, что побудит стороны к разрешению многих социально важных задач благодаря устоявшемуся алгоритму совместных действий.
MESS (Multi-purpose Exoplanet Simulation System): A Monte Carlo tool for the statistical analysis and prediction of exoplanets search results
Creators: name: Bonavita, M.
name: Chauvin, G.
name: Desidera, S.
name: Gratton, R.
name: Janson, M.
name: Beuzit, J. L.
name: Kasper, M.
name: Mordasini, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high number of planet discoveries made in the last years provides a good sample for statistical analysis, leading to some clues on the distributions of planet parameters, like masses and periods, at least in close proximity to the host star. We likely need to wait for the extremely large telescopes (ELTs) to have an overall view of the extrasolar planetary systems. In this context it would be useful to have a tool that can be used for the interpretation of the present results,and also to predict what the outcomes would be of the future instruments. For this reason we built MESS: a Monte Carlo simulation code which uses either the results of the statistical analysis of the properties of discovered planets, or the results of the planet formation theories, to build synthetic planet populations fully described in terms of frequency, orbital elements and physical properties. They can then be used to either test the consistency of their properties with the observed population of planets given different detection techniques or to actually predict the expected number of planets for future surveys. In addition to the code description, we present here some of its applications to actually probe the physical and orbital properties of a putative companion within the circumstellar disk of a given star and to test constrain the orbital distribution properties of a potential planet population around the members of the TW Hydrae association. Finally, using in its predictive mode, the synergy of future space and ground-based telescopes instrumentation has been investigated to identify the mass-period parameter space that will be probed in future surveys for giant and rocky planets
description: 14 pages, 16 figures
Cite My Thesis? Dois For Grey Literature
Creators: name: Bangert, Daniel
name: Frances, Maude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Persistent identifiers
Grey literature
Digital object identifiers
Repositories
Metadata

description: This paper describes analysis undertaken by UNSW Library for assigning Digital Object Identifiers to grey literature. As a ‘trusted identifier’, DOIs assist tracking and relating research artefacts, but their assignment carries responsibilities that affect workflow options. Factors to be considered include the scope of repositories and resource types, request and minting mechanisms, DOI display within landing pages and files, and restrictions on items assigned a DOI. This paper includes an environmental scan of relevant international DOI services for grey literature and outlines a model whereby requests are reviewed and actioned by Library staff. The service is provided through a web application that allows students or staff to submit DOI requests for grey literature deposited in a UNSW repository. Library staff are then able to review the submission, mint a DOI, and update the record. In addition, trusted partners within the institution have access to Mint functionality. The submission process makes the user aware of DOI conditions and the subsequent workflow meets requirements for DOI assignment, including that objects assigned a DOI be a citable, enduring part of the scholarly record. The service balances ease of use by researchers, interoperability with existing systems, and flexibility to cater to existing and future use cases.
description: The video is a demonstration of an early release (not final version) of the UNSW DOI Service.
Design, Development and Testing of a Prototype Extendable Blade Wind Turbine
Creators: name: Cheung, Hiu Fung
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Mechanical
subject: Wind Energy
subject: Real-time Control System
subject: Control System
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Wireless communication
subject: Power Regulation
subject: Arduino
subject: MATLAB

description: The wind energy industry has grown fast over the past decades. One critical part in maximizing and regulating energy production in any wind turbine is the control system. Typical wind turbines perform variable speed and variable pitch control strategy, but the concept of using an extendable blade wind turbine as an alternative actuation is not fully explored. This thesis will explore the design and development of an extendable blade wind turbine along with experimental wind tunnel testing of the prototype operating in a power regulation region. Extendable blade wind turbines add a different degree of freedom to the control strategy. Through the use of a blade extending mechanism, swept area of turbine blades could be adjusted to vary energy capture and mechanical loading on the system. The turbine blades were designed with Blade Element Momentum Theory and they were constructed with 3D printed plastic and a retractable mechanism. A direct current gear motor in the turbine hub is used to control the blade extending and retracting mechanism in a feedback manner wirelessly. A laptop, micro-controllers and sensors are used for measuring the generated power, rotational speed and the blade position. The measured power is fed back to the system and control signals are sent to the motor which extends and retracts the turbine blades. Initial testing showed that the effect of varying blade length has a significant impact on generated power. Closed loop feedback control shows effective power regulation and disturbance rejection of wind speed variations near a selected rated power level for the machine. This regulation is achieved through extending and retracting the blade only based on feedback power measurements. Variations of proportional-integral-derivative controllers were used to track a constant reference under those wind conditions and the result of different controller gains were analyzed using one-way Analysis of Variance. The integral gain was found to be statistically more sensitive as compared to the proportional and differential gains. Thus a proportional-integral control is recommended for operation of this type of system.
Towards a state minimizing the output entropy of a tensor product of random quantum channels
Creators: name: Collins, Benoit
name: Fukuda, Motohisa
name: Nechita, Ion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the image of some classes of bipartite quantum states under a tensor product of random quantum channels. Depending on natural assumptions that we make on the states, the eigenvalues of their outputs have new properties which we describe. Our motivation is provided by the additivity questions in quantum information theory, and we build on the idea that a Bell state sent through a product of conjugated random channels has at least one large eigenvalue. We generalize this setting in two directions. First, we investigate general entangled pure inputs and show that that Bell states give the least entropy among those inputs in the asymptotic limit. We then study mixed input states, and obtain new multi-scale random matrix models that allow to quantify the difference of the outputs' eigenvalues between a quantum channel and its complementary version in the case of a non-pure input.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
ФЕНОМЕН ПОЛИЦЕЙСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА КАК ТИП УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ОБЩЕСТВОМ
Creators: name: ЩЕЛОКОВ КОНСТАНТИН СТАНИСЛАВОВИЧ
name: ВАСЕЧКО АЛЛА АЛЕКСАНДРОВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского университета МВД России
Year: 2020
Subjects: ПОЛИЦИЯ
ПОЛИЦЕЙСКОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВО
КОММУНИЗМ
ПРАВО
ПРАВОВОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВО
ОТКРЫТОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО
ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ
POLICE
POLICE STATE
COMMUNISM
LAW
LEGAL STATE
OPEN SOCIETY
RESPONSIBILITY

description: Дихотомическая пара идеологем: «полицейское государство» - «правовое государство» это результат сложившейся в обществе исследовательской матрице, при которой первое понятие маркировано крайне негативно, а второе позитивно. Однако, каждодневный ответ общества и государства на те вызовы, которые посылает экономика, политика или социальная сфера, состоит в соответствии или несоответствии каким-либо идеологическим концепциям, - это выбор, продиктованный эффективностью и целесообразностью. Важнейшая задача - соблюдение баланса интересов личности, общества и государства. В данной статье путем сравнительного анализа поднимается вопрос эффективности и легитимности применения административнополицейских и правовых методов государственного управления на примере ряда западных, восточных стран и России.
Fractal Topology Foundations
Creators: name: Porchon, Helene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54A05, 54A10, 54D80, 54F65, 54H20

description: In this paper, we introduce the foundation of a fractal topological space constructed via a family of nested topological spaces endowed with subspace topologies, where the number of topological spaces involved in this family is related to the appearance of new structures on it. The greater the number of topological spaces we use, the stronger the subspace topologies we obtain. The fractal manifold model is brought up as an illustration of space that is locally homeomorphic to the fractal topological space.
description: 20 pages
The psychology of persuasion in global politics : global image, source cues, and U.S. soft power
Creators: name: Dragojlovic, Nicolas Isak
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation applies the concept of source cue effects – drawn from the political psychology literature – to the study of transnational persuasion in International Relations. As a theoretical contribution, it elaborates a set of hypotheses about the conditions under which transnational source cue effects are most likely to occur. As a substantive contribution, it focuses on how foreign publics’ perceptions of the United States and of the U.S. President shape U.S. soft power. It explores how the U.S. President’s global popularity shapes the U.S. government’s transnational persuasiveness and influences the United States’ country image, and investigates the ways in which a negative U.S. country image (anti-Americanism) constrains its foreign policy. The empirical contribution of this dissertation consists primarily of a set of original computer-based source cue and priming experiments administered to undergraduate students at the University of British Columbia in the spring and winter of 2009. The results of these experiments show that foreign actors like Presidents Obama and Clinton and the United States can exert source cue effects on a Canadian audience. Furthermore, they point to three key moderators of transnational source cue effects: 1) the popularity of the source in question, 2) the audience’s familiarity with the source, and 3) the way in which the message source is covered in the news media. The experiments also show that priming a popular U.S. President like Barack Obama significantly improves participants’ overall attitudes towards the United States when compared to their attitudes if an unpopular president like George W. Bush is primed. In a separate empirical analysis, the dissertation also uses a cross-national dataset to show that aggregate attitudes towards the United States were associated with state decisions to participate in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and their subsequent decisions to withdraw their forces from the operation.
Where Are We From? Where Are We Goan? The Religio-Cultural Identity of Diasporic Goans
Creators: name: Gonsalves, Roselle
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Anthropology--Cultural
subject: Goans
subject: Catholics
subject: Mumbai
subject: India
subject: Toronto
subject: Canada
subject: Place Studies
subject: Anthropology of Religion
subject: Ethnography
subject: Transnationalism
subject: Lived Religions
subject: Diaspora
subject: Immigrants
subject: Identity
subject: Memory
subject: Narrative

description: Identity as a product of religion, culture, history, and place is the central focus of this dissertation. The Goan Catholic communities in Mumbai and Toronto, who are at the heart of this project, are each migrant communities that, though many generations removed from their ‘homeland’ of Goa, continue to maintain and strengthen their identities as “Goans” through innovative practices. This project focuses on the processes of identity construction as undertaken by members of the Goan communities of Mumbai and Toronto. By taking into account the unique historical narrative of the Goans, and the spatial contexts that shape the way these two Goan communities create meaningful places, this ethnographic project enquires into the religio-cultural identities of these communities. In order to fully engage with the communities as they exist “on the ground,” this ethnographic project involved two significant periods of fieldwork: in Mumbai, India and in Toronto, Canada. By engaging with these communities in such an intimate way, this project offers insight into the particular ways in which the Goans of Mumbai and Toronto maintain their self-identity, their religious practices, their cultural performances, and their ties to the ur-place of Goa. By examining the pathways of connection that sustain these sites of identity maintenance, this project highlights the bridge building that the Goan communities undertake: between the “here” of their current location and the “there” of Goa; and between the “now” of their reality and the “then” of their cultural memory. Though bi-locational, the comparative aspect of this project is not a comparison of Goans living in Mumbai versus the Goans living in Toronto. Rather, drawing on the tradition of Jonathan Z. Smith, the comparison is one that traces the practices of these two communities, side by side, thus providing a side-by-side exploration of each one. In this way, this project is committed to examining how each community maintains their unique historical narrative in spatially-unique ways, adapting their practices in pursuit of the similar goal: maintaining their Goan religio-cultural identities.