cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
State-of-the-art library publishing
Creators: name: van Edig, Xenia
name: Withanage, Dulip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Library Publishing
Open Access
OJS
XML

description: TIB Open Publishing – TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology's open-access publishing platform - is a new service. Nevertheless, the first two published conference volumes have been able to benefit from various features of our service: All contributions have been released under CC BY 4.0 and the copyright remains with the authors. The published contributions are archived via the TIB's long-term archiving system. For this purpose, we have developed a plugin that transfers metadata and files from OJS to Rosetta. We deliver the publications to the German National Library and they are referenced in the Verbundkatalog K10plus and can thus be found in the TIB Portal. We are fond of persistent identifiers and use ISSNs (online), Crossref DOIs, ORCIDs, and RORs for the publications. To enable the latter we developed a ROR Plugin for OJS. For some of the contributions, we are already able to provide full-text XML. In doing so, we converted template-compliant Word submissions to JATS XML within OJS. We then post-processed this JATS XML using the Texture Editor in OJS. Online representation of the XML is created using the LensGalleyBits plugin, which generates a dynamic HTML view. The protection of personal data is very important to us. Therefore, we have modified our OJS so that editors from one publication cannot search user data from another publication, even though both publications run on the same OJS instance. In the future we would like to be able to offer full-text XML also for LaTeX submissions and we would like to generate HTML and PDF directly from the XML files. Besides simplifying the workflow we also want to improve the layout of the output formats. Furthermore, we are aiming to improve the presentation and handling of conference publications with OJS and are in an exchange with PKP on this.
Limits on the event rates of fast radio transients from the V-FASTR experiment
Creators: name: Wayth, Randall B.
name: Tingay, Steven J.
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Brisken, Walter F.
name: Thompson, David R.
name: Wagstaff, Kiri L.
name: Majid, Walid A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from the V-FASTR experiment, a commensal search for fast transient radio bursts using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). V-FASTR is unique in that the widely spaced VLBA antennas provide a discriminant against non-astronomical signals and a mechanism for the localization and identification of events that is not possible with single dishes or short baseline interferometers. Thus far V-FASTR has accumulated over 1300 hours of observation time with the VLBA, between 90 cm and 3 mm wavelength (327 MHz - 86 GHz), providing the first limits on fast transient event rates at high radio frequencies (>1.4 GHz). V-FASTR has blindly detected bright individual pulses from seven known pulsars but has not detected any single-pulse events that would indicate high redshift impulsive bursts of radio emission. At 1.4 GHz, V-FASTR puts limits on fast transient event rates comparable with the PALFA survey at the Arecibo telescope, but generally at lower sensitivities, and comparable to the "fly's eye" survey at the Allen Telescope Array, but with less sky coverage. We also illustrate the likely performance of the Phase 1 SKA dish array for an incoherent fast transient search fashioned on V-FASTR.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL. 3 figures, 1 table
Evaluation of Lateglacial temperatures in the Southern Alps of New Zealand based on glacier modelling at Irishman Stream, Ben Ohau Range
Creators: name: Doughty, Alice M.
name: Anderson, Brian M.
name: Mackintosh, Andrew N.
name: Kaplan, Michael
name: Vandergoes, Marcus J.
name: Barrell, David J. A.
name: Denton, George H.
name: Schaefer, Joerg M.
name: Chinn, Trevor J. H.
name: Putnam, Aaron Ervin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Paleoclimatology

description: Climate proxy records from the middle to high latitude Southern Hemisphere indicate that a Lateglacial (15,000-11,500 years ago) climate reversal, approximately coeval with the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR), interrupted a warming trend during deglaciation. In New Zealand, some palaeoclimate proxy records indicate a cool episode during the ACR (ca 14,500-12,500 years ago), while others do not express a significant change in climate. Recently published moraine maps and ages present an opportunity to improve the palaeoclimate interpretation through numerical modelling of glaciers. We use a coupled energy-balance and ice-flow model to quantify palaeoclimate from past glacier extent constrained by mapped and dated moraines in the headwaters of Irishman Stream, a high-elevation catchment in the Southern Alps. First, a suite of steady-state model runs is used to identify the temperature and precipitation forcing required to fit the modelled glacier to well-dated Lateglacial moraine crests. Second, time dependent glacier simulations forced by a nearby proxy temperature record derived from chironomids are used to assess the fit with the glacial geomorphic record. Steady-state experiments using an optimal parameter set demonstrate that the conditions under which the 13,000 year old moraine formed were 2.3-3.2 *C colder than present with the range in temperature corresponding to a +/- 20% variance in precipitation relative to the present-day. This reconstructed climate change relative to the present-day corresponds to an equilibrium-line altitude of ca 2000 +/- 40 m above sea level (asl), which is ca 400 m lower than present. Time-dependent simulations of glacier length produce ice advance to within 100 m of the 13,000 year old terminal moraine, indicating that the chironomid-based temperature forcing and moraine record provide consistent information about past climate. Our results, together with other climate proxy reconstructions from pollen records and marine sediment cores, support the notion that temperatures during the ACR in New Zealand were ~2-3 *C cooler than today.
Process Development for the Expansion of Equine Cord Blood Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Stirred Suspension Bioreactors for the Treatment of Joint Injuries in Horses
Creators: name: Roberts, Erin L.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Stem Cells
subject: Bioreactors
subject: Regenerative Medicine
subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Musculoskeletal injuries are the leading cause of lameness and loss of performance in horses with conventional treatments having high rates of re-injury. Equine Mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs), specifically equine cord blood derived MSCs (eCB-MSCs) are a promising treatment alternative owing to their ability to differentiate into cartilage, as well as due to their immunomodulating properties. However, treatments can require cell numbers in the millions or billions, therefore conventional expansion methods using static T-flasks are typically inadequate in achieving these cell numbers. Expansion of eCB-MSCs in stirred suspension bioreactors with microcarriers as an attachment surface has the potential to obtain a clinically relevant number of cells while decreasing cost, time and labour requirements and increasing reproducibility and yield when compared to static expansion. As eCB-MSCs had not yet been expanded in stirred suspension bioreactors, a robust protocol was required to expand these cells using this method. This study outlines the process development of expansion, detailing the inoculation phase, the expansion phase, and the harvesting phase, followed by further testing on different donor cells. The process achieved maximum cell densities up to 75,000 cells/cm2 corresponding to 40 million cells in a 100mL bioreactor, with a harvesting efficiency of up to 80%, corresponding to a yield of 32 million cells in a 100mL bioreactor. Further testing is required to ensure eCB-MSCs maintained phenotype and functionality, however this study lays the groundwork for the large scale bioprocess of the expansion of eCB-MSCs.
Local Scale-Dependent Non-Gaussian Curvature Perturbations at Cubic Order
Creators: name: Bramante, Joseph
name: Kumar, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate non-Gaussianities in the bispectrum and trispectrum arising from the cubic term in the local expansion of the scalar curvature perturbation. We compute to three-loop order and for general momenta. A procedure for evaluating the leading behavior of the resulting loop-integrals is developed and discussed. Finally, we survey unique non-linear signals which could arise from the cubic term in the squeezed limit. In particular, it is shown that loop corrections can cause $f_{NL}^{sq.}$ to change sign as the momentum scale is varied. There also exists a momentum limit where $τ_{NL} <0$ can be realized.
description: Published in JCAP
Identification of dipeptidase-1 as an organ-selective adhesion receptor utilized by neutrophils and metastatic cancer cells in the liver and lungs
Creators: name: Roy Choudhury, Saurav
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neutrophil
subject: metastatic cancer cell
subject: Adhesion
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Lungs and liver are two major sites of neutrophil trafficking and inflammatory disease. Neutrophil recruitment in response to an inflammatory cue is a sequentially coordinated process where adhesion molecules expressed on the endothelium of a given organ mediate different steps in the classical leukocyte recruitment cascade [1]. However, molecules identified as being central in the canonical schema of neutrophil recruitment to different organs (mesentery, skin, and cremaster muscle) are not required in the inflamed pulmonary and hepatic vasculatures [2-8]. Using an unbiased functional screen in vivo, we isolated a peptide-displaying phage that homed to the liver and lungs of mice treated with a bacterial inflammatory stimulus (lipopolysaccharide). Employing intravital microscopy, we found that this phage, or its corresponding displayed-peptide, termed LSALT herein, inhibited the adhesion of neutrophils in the inflamed lungs and liver vasculatures in response to LPS. The corresponding synthetic peptide also reduced the metastatic colonization of melanoma cells to the lungs in human xenograft and immunocompetent mouse models. Using biochemical, genetic and confocal intravital imaging approaches we identified dipeptidase-1 (DPEP1) as the functional target of this peptide and established its role as a physical adhesion receptor for neutrophil and metastatic cancer cell adhesion independent of its enzymatic activity. Importantly, genetic ablation or functional peptide blocking of DPEP1 significantly reduced neutrophil recruitment and cancer metastasis to the lungs and liver, and in models of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), prevented septic lung injury and mortality. This study identified DPEP1 as an organ-selective vascular endothelial adhesion receptor for the recruitment of neutrophils and metastatic cancer cells to the lungs and liver and identifies DPEP1 as a novel therapeutic target for systemic inflammatory disorders as well as organ-selective metastatic diseases.
Personalized Web Services for Web Information Extraction
Creators: name: Jarir, Zahi
name: Quafafou, Mohamed
name: Erradi, Mahammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The field of information extraction from the Web emerged with the growth of the Web and the multiplication of online data sources. This paper is an analysis of information extraction methods. It presents a service oriented approach for web information extraction considering both web data management and extraction services. Then we propose an SOA based architecture to enhance flexibility and on-the-fly modification of web extraction services. An implementation of the proposed architecture is proposed on the middleware level of Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) servers.
Exploring Perspectives of Social Workers on Female Perpetrated Sexual Abuse
Creators: name: Allen, Devin Douglas
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Discourse Analysis
subject: Child Welfare
subject: Sexual Abuse
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Gender Studies
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Female perpetrated child sexual abuse is a phenomenon that has been under researched by social work scholars. Professional responses to the issue have a significant impact on the experiences of survivors and social workers play a key role in the identification, investigation and treatment of sexual abuse. To address the dearth of research in this area, I studied social worker’s perspectives on women’s sexual offending using a discourse analysis methodology. A sample of six social workers participated in semi-structured interviews. The participants talked about the lack of social work training and education specific to women’s sexual offending, and how this could lead to difficulty in understanding and responding to the issue. They described several dominant discourses in society, which draw on dominant ideologies of gender and serve to mask recognition and minimize the seriousness of women’s sexual offending. The participants talked about the consequences of this lack of recognition for survivors, who could face responses of disbelief and dismissal, and a lack of appropriate resources. They described female perpetrated sexual abuse as a traumatic experience that can result in emotional and relational difficulties for survivors. In their representations of offenders, a history of trauma, in particular a previous history of sexual victimization, was given as an explanation for offending behaviour. In their descriptions of motivations for women’s sexual offending, some participants articulated a discourse based on gender difference. This involved framing women’s offending as passive, and emotionally and relationally motivated, compared to men’s offending as aggressive and sexually motivated. This conflicts with previous research that shows a large degree of similarity between men and women’s sexual offending. These findings have implications for social work practice, education and research.
title: Students' beliefs about learning English as a foreign language in wartime: the experience of Damascus University from 2017 to 2020
Creators: name: Abdul Hadi, R
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2021

description: This research investigates the factors that have affected Damascus University students' attitudes towards learning English as a foreign language and have, as a consequence, led to their poor English exam results during the war in Syria. Given that learners' attitudes towards and progress in language learning are directly associated with their beliefs about language learning, this research argues that learners' beliefs are contextually conditioned and responsive to the surrounding environment and can as a result affect their attitudes towards and success in the target language. To this end, an explanatory sequential mixed-methods methodology combining three approaches within the theoretical framework of Dewey's (1938, 1916) concept of experience was employed using a modified version of Horwitz's (2012) Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI 2.0) survey and utilising semi-structured interviews. The research has found that two major sets of factors, namely internal factors, including cognitive and affective constructs associated with the students, and external/objective factors relating to the learning context and the overall environment surrounding the students, have interacted with each other and contributed to creating contradictions in the students' language learning beliefs, which eventually influenced their attitudes and final exam results. The research has also found that some of the students' language learning beliefs were variable, responsive to context, and some others were stable, resisting change. Also, the students' motivation and strategy use were found to be context-driven. Theoretically, this research contributes to the field of language learning beliefs in that it emphasises the role of context in constructing and shaping learners' beliefs and experiences, including the interplay between learners and their context. It is the first study to investigate learners' beliefs about foreign language learning in wartime. It also contributes to the scant studies investigating Arab learners' beliefs about language learning. Methodologically, this research utilises three approaches to investigating language learning beliefs, normative, metacognitive and contextual, and is the first study to use the BALLI in the context of war. Findings from this research provide a basis for future studies, which can help in creating more studentcentred foreign language classes and language programmes that take into account students' beliefs and context and help in adjusting their attitudes to enhance their autonomy, particularly in turbulent contexts. Also, findings from this research can help in designing English language teaching programmes that are not limited to the linguistic content but could prepare the students to engage actively with the world outside their classrooms.
Data Management Planning
Creators: name: Brosz, John
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2018

description: Research data, whether made up of spreadsheets, interview transcripts, image collections, digital records, or other material, will be crucial to your career as a graduate student and researcher. Properly managing this data you will save you time and headaches by ensuring your data is not accidentally lost while making your data easier to work with and verifying your research findings. This session will focus on how to manage your data before, during, and after your research, as well as describe how to use Data Management Plan Assistant, a Canadian online tool for creating data management plans.
title: Project knole: an autocosmic approach to authoring resonant computational characters
Creators: name: Sherman, R.P
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2021

description: Project knole, consisting of this thesis and a mixed reality installation artwork centred around a computational simulation, is a practice-based response to the question of how a character in a work of computational narrative art might maintain their defining quality of dynamic agency within a system (arguably one of the key potentials of the form), while achieving the ‘resonant’ qualities of characters in more materially-static artforms. In all aspects of this project, I explore a new design philosophy for achieving this balance; between the authorship of a procedural computational system, and the ability of that system to ‘resonate’ with the imagination of an audience. This philosophy, which I term the ‘autocosmic’, seeks inspiration for the curation of audience response outside the obvious boundaries of artistic discipline, across the wider spectrum of human imaginative engagement; examples often drawn from mostly non-aesthetic domains. As well as defining the terms ‘resonance’ and ‘autocosmic’, and delineating my methodology more generally, this thesis demonstrates how the ‘autocosmic’ was employed within my creative work. In particular, it shows how some of the perennial problems of computational character development might be mediated by exploring other non-aesthetic examples of imaginative, narrative engagement with personified systems. In the context of this project, such examples come from the historio-cultural relationship between human beings and the environments they inhabit, outside of formal artistic practice. From this ‘autocosmic’ launchpad, I have developed an artwork that starts to explore how this rich cultural and biological lineage of human social engagement with systemic place can be applied fruitfully to the development of a ‘resonant’ computational character.
Ecology of Mite Phoresy on Mountain Pine Beetles
Creators: name: Peralta Vázquez, Guadalupe Haydeé
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mountain pine beetle
subject: Phoretic mites
subject: Flight mill
subject: Commensalism
subject: Western Canada
subject: Forest pest
subject: Tarsonemus ips
subject: Dendroctonus ponderosae
subject: Phoresy
subject: Bark beetles
subject: Phoretic symbionts
subject: Outbreak dynamics
subject: Forestry and Wildlife
subject: Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Entomology

description: Phoresy, a commensal interaction where smaller organisms utilize dispersive hosts for transmission to new habitats, is expected to produce positive effects for symbionts and no effects for hosts, yet negative and positive effects have been documented. This poses the question of whether phoresy is indeed a commensal interaction and demands clarification. In bark beetles (Scolytinae), both effects are documented during reproduction and effects on hosts during the actual dispersal are largely unknown. In the present research, I investigated the ecological mechanisms that determine the net effects of the phoresy observed in mites and mountain pine beetles (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins. Using flight mills, I found that MPB flight increased with beetle size and body condition but was not modified by mite abundance. Mites were initially more abundant on larger beetles in better condition, but their dispersal success was similar among all hosts. Host dispersal was costly for both host and mites. Beetles lost mass whereas mites exhibited mortality. In the second study, I determined the number and survivorship of all juvenile stages of MPB development and found neutral effects of mites. Although I found a negative effect of mite abundance despite a positive effect of mite presence during host larval stage, there were no further effects during subsequent stages of beetle development. Moreover, I did not find effects of mites on the number or quality of adult beetle offspring. When observing the distribution of phoretic mites and beetle hosts in the field, I found that the range-expanding behavior of MPB might determine symbiont loss at the leading front of beetle expansion. Three mites were common: Tarsonemus ips, Proctolaelaps subcorticalis, and Trichouropoda australis. Of these species, only T. ips was prevalent among all sites. However, both total mite abundance, considering all three species together, and T. ips abundance alone were comparatively lower in the new area of MPB expansion. In addition, beetle body condition was similar in both historical and new areas of MPB distribution. Given the results, MPB and its phoretic mites sustain a commensalism and the lower distribution of mites may be a consequence of MPB outbreak dynamics.
Supplementary document for Polarization and longitudinal modes of Möbius fiber ring lasers - 6139037.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Sha
name: zeng, xin
name: Zhou, Jiaqi
name: Cheng, Zhi
name: Feng, Yan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
A Subscriber-Oriented Interference Detection and Mitigation System for Cloud-Based Web Services
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Joydeep
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering

description: Web services are increasingly being hosted on public cloud platforms. Such platforms often employ resource virtualization. Specifically, a public cloud provider can co-locate multiple virtual machines (VMs) belonging to different cloud subscribers on a single physical machine (PM). The responsiveness of a Web service hosted on a VM can be impacted by interference, i.e., contention among multiple VMs for shared PM resources. Response time degradations can frustrate end users of the Web service, who may eventually terminate the service. Most existing studies have focused on developing techniques that cloud providers can use to mitigate the adverse impact of interference. In contrast, very few studies have focused on directly enabling cloud subscribers, i.e., Web service operators, to address this problem. Developing subscriber oriented techniques is challenging since subscribers typically do not have direct access to PMs and hence cannot easily measure inter-VM contention. This thesis focuses on addressing this challenge. Specifically, it develops a system that can dynamically adapt a Web service at runtime so that it satisfies a specified response time target even in the face of fluctuations in service workload and interference. Using a benchmarking study on a popular public cloud platform, I show that the impact of interference can be significant onWeb service response times. I then develop a novel software probe based system that helps a cloud subscriber obtain a direct measure of how interference is currently impacting service response times. I also develop a runtime management controller that exploits the probe to automatically scale in and scale out resources to handle changes in workload and interference. Results from both public and private cloud setups indicate that the probe technique is very effective in detecting the extent and type of interference. Furthermore, the controller ensures that a desired response time target is met at each resource instance in a system while using only the minimum number of instances necessary given the observed workload and interference conditions.
Maximal spaceability in topological vector spaces
Creators: name: Botelho, Geraldo
name: Cariello, Daniel
name: Fávaro, Vinícius
name: Pellegrino, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we introduce a new technique to prove the existence of closed subspaces of maximal dimension inside sets of topological vector sequence spaces. The results we prove cover some sequence spaces not studied before in the context of spaceability and settle some questions on classical sequence spaces that remained open.
Fermionic superfluidity and spontaneous superflows in optical lattices
Creators: name: Yang, Shi-Jie
name: Feng, Shiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study superfluidity of strongly repulsive fermionic atoms in optical lattices. The atoms are paired up through a correlated tunneling mechanism, which induces superfluidity when repulsive nearest-neighbor interactions are included in the Hubbard model. This paired superfluid is a metastable state which persists for a long time as the pair-broken process is severely suppressed. The mean-field phase diagram and low energy excitations are investigated in a square lattice system. Intriguingly, spontaneous superflows may appear in the ground state of a triangular optical lattice system due to antiferromagnetic frustration.
description: 4 figures
A Market-based Bandwidth Charging Framework
Creators: name: Turner, David Michael
name: Prevelakis, Vassilis
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Computer science

description: The increasing demand for high-bandwidth applications such as video-on-demand and grid computing is reviving interest in bandwidth reservation schemes. Earlier attempts did not catch on for a number of reasons, notably lack of interest on the part of the bandwidth providers. This, in turn, was partially caused by the lack of an efficient way of charging for bandwidth. Thus, the viability of bandwidth reservation depends on the existence of an efficient market where bandwidth-related transactions can take place. For this market to be effective, it must be efficient for both the provider (seller) and the user (buyer) of the bandwidth. This implies that: (a) the buyer must have a wide choice of providers that operate in a competitive environment, (b) the seller must be assured that a QoS transaction will be paid by the customer, and (c) the QoS transaction establishment must have low overheads so that it may be used by individual customers without a significant burden to the provider. In order to satisfy these requirements, we propose a framework that allows customers to purchase bandwidth using an open market where providers advertise links and capacities and customers bid for these services. The model is close to that of a commodities market that offers both advance bookings (futures) and a spot market. We explore the mechanisms that can support such a model.
title: Evaluating outcome measures to assess fatigue in adults with cancer receiving radiation therapy: A scoping review
Creators: name: Hitch, Danielle
name: Apostol, Courtney
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Occupational Therapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy

description: Abstract
Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to identify validated fatigue outcome measures for use in outpatient radiotherapy settings.
Introduction: Cancer-related fatigue is a common and often distressing symptom for many cancer patients, which can occur throughout all stages of treatment and into survivorship. Poorly managed CRF can significantly impact a patient’s quality of life and ability to perform daily occupations and life roles.
Methods: Ethics approval is not required for this review of published literature. A scoping review methodology (Arksey & O'Malley, 2005) will be used to identify English language outcome measures validated to measure CRF. Four databases (Medline, CINAHL, Embase, and PubMed) will be searched using MeSH terms. The identified articles will then be screened before being read in full text and selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The following inclusion criteria apply; article published in English, adult patients (aged 18 years or older), confirmed diagnosis of cancer, currently receiving radiation therapy or combined chemoradiation therapy, peer reviewed publication, primary source of evidence, and studies including the descriptive use of English language outcome measures relevant to cancer-related fatigue. The exclusion criteria were articles or outcome measures published in languages other than English, articles published prior to 2010, paediatric patients (aged under 18 years), and non-peer reviewed or secondary sources of evidence.
Following the database search two researchers will independently screen the results using the Covidence platform, and a third researcher will be consulted to address any unresolved conflicts if necessary. A numerical overview detailing the quantity, design, and character of the selected studies will be reported, accompanied by a qualitative narrative analysis of the themes and concepts identified within the outcomes of these studies.
title: 2023 Data Collection with the NSSL Advanced Technology Demonstrator
Creators: name: Alford, Austin
name: Kuster, Charles
name: Schuur, Terry
name: Reinhart, Anthony
name: Boettcher, Jami
name: Carlin, Jacob
name: Witt, Arthur
name: Curtis, Chris
name: Estes, Robbie
name: Forren, Eddie
name: Gregg, Stephen
name: Hopper, Larry
name: Ivic, Igor
name: Nai, Feng
name: Servello, Patrick
name: Smith, Chad
name: Torres, Sebastian
name: Warde, David
name: Wasielewski, Daniel
name: Woodlard, Felicia
name: Zahrai, Allen
name: Zemlin, Noah
Publisher: name: NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00gd1f947
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD) is a dual-polarization phased array radar (PAR) that is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). The ATD is the first full-scale, S-band polarimetric PAR designed for weather observations to test the feasibility of PAR as a potential next generation radar system in the United States.
An Examination of Conflict Management among Family Caregivers of Residents in Long Term Care Facilities: A Mixed-Methods Study
Creators: name: Petrovic, Ana
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Long term care
subject: Nuring home
subject: Family caregiving
subject: Caregiving
subject: Conflict
subject: Conflict management
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Family-staff conflict in long term care (LTC) is a daily reality that has adverse outcomes for residents, staff and families. However, to date it has not been empirically evaluated from the family caregiver's perspective. Multiple barriers exist in examining conflict, including its sensitive nature, which may have precluded such study, as well as lack of theoretical integration. In order to examine family-staff conflict and its management in LTC, this study has merged two independent bodies of literature, that of family caregiving in LTC and organizational behaviour literature on conflict, namely the theory of cooperation and competition (Deutsch, 1949). Through the application of a theoretical approach, the objective of the study was to examine the predictors and outcomes of conflict and its management in 107 family caregivers in LTC using self-report measures. Family caregivers experienced multiple conflicts with staff concerning a range of care-related issues, and primarily reported the use of cooperative conflict management, which was positively related to trust, communication, power and sense of community (SOC). Family caregivers' trust in staff was identified as the main predictor of competitive conflict management, whereas family caregivers' perceptions of power in LTC and SOC predicted cooperative conflict management. Cooperative conflict management mediated the relationship between frequency of conflict and satisfaction with care, meaning that conflict management is the mechanism by which conflict and satisfaction are linked in this family caregiver sample. Another aim was to gain a greater understanding of family caregivers who experience conflict most frequently, as these families have been identified to require a disproportionate amount of limited LTC resources and may be at greatest risk of adverse outcomes. Ten family caregivers completed comprehensive interviews concerning their experience of conflict with staff and conflict management in LTC. These 'high conflict' family caregivers described employing primarily competitive conflict management, as well as engaging in a variety of other strategies to address conflicts with staff. The implications of the conflict management strategies reported by family caregivers for key caregiver outcomes (i.e., satisfaction with care and caregiver burden) and recommendations for intervention in family-staff conflicts are discussed.
Hurricane Sandy: Lessons Learned, Again
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Emergency management--Communication systems
Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Disaster relief--Evaluation
Emergency management--Evaluation

description: Hurricane Sandy was a sobering reminder to those of us who call New York home that it is a port city and subject to the whims of wind and water. The storm itself was massive: climatologically, a thousand miles wide at its peak; economically, an estimated excess of $50 billion in damages. In the New York metropolitan area, 97 people died in the storm, thousands were displaced from their homes, and 2 major hospitals required perilous evacuations even as the hurricane force winds engulfed the metropolitan region. For those of us in the fields of disaster medicine and public health preparedness, the question is, were we ready? During the past decade considerable public investment has been made in standardizing command and communication, assuring appropriate and rapid supply chains, and training the medical and public health workforces to respond appropriately. And yet, in the week after the storm, persistent reports of widespread gaps in the provision of coordinated relief were received from the Rockaways to Coney Island to Staten Island and New Jersey. The question was not one of capacity and capability as much as it was of communication and coordination. Resources did not always make it the last mile to reach those most in need.
Techno-Economic Analysis for Integration of Hybrid Renewable Energy Resources in The Alberta Energy System
Creators: name: Moosavian, Seyed Mahdi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Mechanical

description: Using stand-alone hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) is sometimes more economical than extending the grid to electrify just a few households. However, over generation and over demand are two common issues in deploying renewable energy resources in a stand-alone system. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a methodology for optimal design of HRES. University of Calgary Spy Hill Campus was chosen as case study to test this methodology and the optimum size for each generation components of HRES was determined. It was shown that the HRES with the determined size has the minimum total cost while it is able to fully cover the electrical demand of the campus. For the optimization purpose, a new optimization algorithm was introduced and its capability to find the optimum size of HRES was validated.
Lethal Control, Tradition, and Politics: Anthropocentric Large Carnivore Management in Western Canada
Creators: name: Lukasik, Victoria M.
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: wildlife management
subject: large carnivores
subject: hunting and trapping
subject: Qualitative Analysis
subject: land use
subject: Geography
subject: Forestry and Wildlife
subject: Environmental Sciences

description: Contemporary large carnivore management in North America employs a variety of lethal management practices, some of which are beginning to garner public and scientific scrutiny. These practices are questioned from an ethical and animal welfare perspective, leading some to call for a shift to a compassionate conservation approach. From a pragmatic perspective, mounting scientific evidence questions the efficacy of many of these practices. To better understand which tools are used to manage carnivores and why, I interviewed wildlife managers across Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon, including provincial or territorial wildlife managers, Parks Canada biologists, and conservation practitioners working for environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs). Interviews were semi-structured, covering a broad range of topics related to carnivore management. Transcribed interviews were coded in NVivo to identify trends and themes in carnivore management. Interviews confirmed a preponderance of lethal management techniques and identified a prioritization of hunting and industrial land-use by provincial and territorial governments. Managers acknowledged the inefficacy of some management techniques (e.g. bounties, hunting), but often tolerated or valued these as means to placate members of the public. Lethal management was often rationalized as acceptable for “resilient” carnivore species (e.g. wolves, coyotes), demonstrating a priority for maintaining sustainable populations. While managers expressed concern over animal suffering, they felt that ethical questions were reserved for politicians and members of the public. In order to maintain sustainable wildlife populations, wildlife habitat must be managed. However, managers discussed their lack of involvement in land-use decisions, particularly with regard to oil and gas leases in Alberta. In general, industrial development is frequently prioritized over even critical wildlife habitat, limiting managers from their ability to manage sustainable populations. Agriculture and forestry are also frequently prioritized over wildlife habitat. Managers described resorting to manipulating other species’ populations in a reactionary manner, as a result of these political influences. Managers suggested a need for members of the Canadian public to become more aware and vocal about how they value wildlife. Greater involvement and prioritization of wildlife and wild spaces amongst the citizenry could generate greater political will to improve wildlife regulations and plan implementation.
Optimizing resource recovery in Vancouver
Creators: name: Thoren, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Vancouver’s expanding population is putting pressure on the city’s water and wastewater infrastructure; more efficient uses of this resource need to be explored as the cost of upgrading the city’s water and sewer network is daunting. Wastewater presents a significant source of water and heat and, if properly exploited, can reduce pressure on existing infrastructure while reducing stress on the receiving environment. This thesis presents a model with three scenarios that seek to quantify and optimize the amount of water that can be cascaded within the Vancouver Sewerage Area, as well as evaluates each reuse scheme for the economic, environmental, and social benefits associated with each. The first scenario shows a number of potential sources and sinks for direct cascading of wastewater between industries, however water quality represents a significant barrier to this form of water reuse. With the implementation of a satellite water reclamation facility (WRF) in scenario 2, water quality is no longer a barrier and water recycling potential is significantly increased. However, proximity becomes a problem as many of the industries are too far away from the WRF and the cost of pumping and infrastructure far outweighs the benefits of water reuse. When the model is modified in scenario 3 to include the rest of the industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) sector and multifamily housing, the potential for water reuse is much greater than the first two scenarios due to the proximity of reclaimed water sinks. The scenario with the greatest water reuse potential, a satellite WRF supplying ICI and multifamily water users, was calculated to recycle upwards of 1,000,000m³/year. Implementation of this scenario would require up to 50 years to allow for public acceptance, policy implementation, and buy in from government and industry. The required infrastructure is extensive but with proper planning over an appropriate time period, the added benefit of energy recovery from wastewater, and participation from industry and government, water reuse can be a viable option for Vancouver.
The suppression of magnetism and the development of superconductivity within the collapsed tetragonal phase of Ca0.67Sr0.33Fe2As2 at high pressure
Creators: name: Jeffries, J. R.
name: Butch, N. P.
name: Kirshenbaum, K.
name: Saha, S. R.
name: Weir, S. T.
name: Vohra, Y. K.
name: Paglione, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural and electronic characterization of (Ca0.67Sr0.33)Fe2As2 has been performed as a func- tion of pressure up to 12 GPa using conventional and designer diamond anvil cells. The compound (Ca0.67Sr0.33)Fe2As2 behaves intermediate between its end members-CaFe2As2 and SrFe2As2- displaying a suppression of magnetism and the onset of superconductivity. Like other members of the AEFe2As2 family, (Ca0.67Sr0.33)Fe2As2 undergoes a pressure-induced isostructural volume collapse, which we associate with the development of As-As bonding across the mirror plane of the structure. This collapsed tetragonal phase abruptly cuts off the magnetic state, giving rise to superconductivity with a maximum Tc=22.2 K. The maximum Tc of the superconducting phase is not strongly correlated with any structural parameter, but its proximity to the abrupt suppression of magnetism as well as the volume collapse transition suggests that magnetic interactions and structural inhomogeneity may play a role in its development. The pressure-dependent evolution of the ordered states and crystal structures in (Ca,Sr)Fe2As2 provides an avenue to understand the generic behavior of the other members of the AEFe2As2 family.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
LIBSENSE: Pan-African Library/NREN Collaborations around Open Science at the Institutional, National and Regional Levels
Creators: name: Abbott, Pamela
name: Oaiya, Omo
name: Kuchma, Iryna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: LIBSENSE
Libraries
NRENs
Open Science
Africa
Higher Education

description: LIBSENSE is a Pan-African initiative instituted in 2017 to foster Library/NREN collaboration to provide digital services for African libraries, specifically, those in research and higher education and particularly around Open Science. After a successful pan-African survey and workshop series in AfricaConnect2, founding members WACREN, Ubuntunet Alliance and ASREN, in collaboration with three other core partners (COAR, EIFL and University of Sheffield Information School) are undertaking new activities in 2020-2021. In order to strengthen and stimulate action under its 3 pillars of infrastructure support, capacity-building and policy development, LIBSENSE in AfricaConnect3 has instituted a number of working groups, namely: Infrastructure - open access journals, repositories for publications and data, and open discovery services; Policies - open science policies, governance and leadership; Capacity Building - communities of practice and training; and region-specific and language-specific initiatives - Arabic (North Africa) and French (West and Central Africa).
 LIBSENSE envisages these activities to form part of a sustainable framework for engaging with open science at institutional, national, regional and eventually continental levels. Rather than top-down imposition of policies and principles, this initiative focuses on contingent, bottom-up and grassroots programmes of action initiated by its community. Examples are 12 workshops under capacity-building endeavours, with two focusing on skills development and the others on open access publishing, research data repositories and repository interoperability, persistent Identifiers, engagement with faculty and support and training.
 As part of policy development, LIBSENSE has also engaged with the UNESCO Open Science Partnership and adopted Open Science Africa: Principles and Actions for Global Participation. Furthermore, LIBSENSE are also developing National Open Science Roadmaps including policies, infrastructure, and capacities in pilot African countries and at the institutional level, targeted workshops for the executive leadership of HE institutions and policy-makers across Africa. On the infrastructure side, plans are also underway to develop shared platforms at the national level.