cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A sequential Monte Carlo approach to computing tail probabilities in stochastic models
Creators: name: Chan, Hock Peng
name: Lai, Tze Leung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Sequential Monte Carlo methods which involve sequential importance sampling and resampling are shown to provide a versatile approach to computing probabilities of rare events. By making use of martingale representations of the sequential Monte Carlo estimators, we show how resampling weights can be chosen to yield logarithmically efficient Monte Carlo estimates of large deviation probabilities for multidimensional Markov random walks.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AAP758 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Energy Potential from Livestock and Poultry Wastes in the South
Creators: name: Jones, Harold B.
name: Ogden, E. A.
name: Jones, Harold B.
name: Ogden, E. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biomass energy
subject: Animal wastes
subject: Anaerobic digestion
subject: Energy potential
subject: Direct combustion
subject: Energy values

description: Livestock and poultry wastes could produce significant amounts of biomass energy if conventional energy prices continue to rise. This study estimates the economically recoverable energy available through anaerobic digestion or direct burning of animal wastes in the South for the base year 1980 with projections for 1985 and 1990. Potential thermal energy from livestock and poultry wastes in 1990 could total more than 79.5 trillion Btu, or about 30 percent of the energy from such sources nationwide. The total potential farm value of biomass energy from livestock and poultry enterprises in the South could range from $344 million to $1.08 billion in 1990 depending upon the types of conventional energy displaced. Energy products from these wastes attained their highest value when substituted for LP gas.
Rogue waters
Creators: name: Slunyaev, Alexey
name: Didenkulova, Ira
name: Pelinovsky, Efim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this essay we give an overview on the problem of rogue or freak wave formation in the ocean. The matter of the phenomenon is a sporadic occurrence of unexpectedly high waves on the sea surface. These waves cause serious danger for sailing and sea use. A number of huge wave accidents resulted in damages, ship losses and people injuries and deaths are known. Now marine researchers do believe that these waves belong to a specific kind of sea waves, not taken into account by conventional models for sea wind waves. This paper addresses to the nature of the rogue wave problem from the general viewpoint based on the wave process ideas. We start introducing some primitive elements of sea wave physics with the purpose to pave the way for the further discussion. We discuss linear physical mechanisms which are responsible for high wave formation, at first. Then, we proceed with description of different sea conditions, starting from the open deep sea, and approaching the sea cost. Nonlinear effects which are able to cause rogue waves are emphasised. In conclusion we briefly discuss the generality of the physical mechanisms suggested for the rogue wave explanation; they are valid for rogue wave phenomena in other media such as solid matters, superconductors, plasmas and nonlinear optics
description: will be published in Contemporary Physics
Resistive switching effects on the spatial distribution of phases in metal-complex oxide interfaces
Creators: name: Schulman, A.
name: Acha, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to determine the key parameters that control the resistive switching mechanism in metal-complex oxides interfaces, we have studied the electrical properties of metal / YBa2Cu3O7-d (YBCO) interfaces using metals with different oxidation energy and work function (Au, Pt, Ag) deposited by sputtering on the surface of a YBCO ceramic sample. By analyzing the IV characteristics of the contact interfaces and the temperature dependence of their resistance, we inferred that ion migration may generate or cancel conducting filaments, which modify the resistance near the interface, in accordance with the predictions of a recent model.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Physica B. Corresponding author: C. Acha (acha@df.uba.ar)
Forest stand type and ectomycorrhizal fungal communities of western hemlock on northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Creators: name: Lim, Sea Ra
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis explores the diversity and phylogenetic structure of the ectomycorrhizal fungal community of western hemlock from five forest types on northern Vancouver Island. Chapter One reviews methods and provides background for studies of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. In Chapter Two, I describe the results of a new correlative study using recently developed measures of phylogenetic diversity as well as standard measures of diversity and of fungal species composition to relate ectomycorrhizal fungal species to productivity of hemlock trees. I sampled ectomycorrhizal root tips of western hemlock from northern Vancouver Island and amplified, cloned and sequenced the fungal DNA from root extracts. In my analyses, I combined new data from plots of mature western hemlock-amabilis fir stands on Hemlock-Amabilis fir (HA) sites, and from plots of old-growth western red cedar-western hemlock stands on Cedar-Hemlock (CH) sites, with data previously gathered from plots of 24-year-old regenerating hemlock on CH sites. I detected 147 operational taxonomic units among 1435 fungal clone sequences. Phylogenetic diversity indices showed that mature hemlock stands on HA sites had significantly higher ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity than regenerating hemlock stands on CH sites. In an analysis of beta diversity, I found that the species composition of the 24-year-old stands was more similar to the composition of old-growth stands on CH sites than to the species composition of mature stands on HA sites. Fungal species composition was strongly correlated with foliar nitrogen concentration. My phylogenetic analyses of net relatedness of species from forests of different types provided some of the first insights into how ectomycorrhizal fungal communities are structured. I found phylogenetic clustering in the plots of 24-year-old regenerating hemlock stands that contrasted with a pattern of phylogenetic evenness in the plots of mature and old-growth stands. A possible explanation for the difference between the patterns is that the regenerating hemlock stands were selecting for related, r-adapted fungi with similar traits while the older stands had more complex environments and selected for divergent fungi with varied traits. Finally, in Chapter Three I discuss some limitations and strengths of my research study, incorporating ideas on future research and implications.
Les catastrophes naturelles dans les romans caribéens d’expression française
Creators: name: Vignoli, Alessia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The notion of ‘disaster’ pervades the Caribbean thought. The common origin of the Caribbean region, the European colonization, caused two disasters: the extermination of Native Americans and the deportation of African slaves. The union between nature and the oppressed people against the oppressor resulted in the creation of an environmental conscience that the Caribbean literature has often expressed. This essay will investigate the common points shared by some Haitian, Martinican and Guadeloupean authors in the writing of natural hazards. It will show that, despite the diversity that marks the Caribbean, there is a repetition of common features that proves its geopoetic unity.

description: Il Tolomeo
Tapiena incisa Karny 1923
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg
name: Japir, Razy
name: Chung, Arthur Y. C.
name: Robillard, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Tapiena
Tapiena incisa

description: Tapiena? incisa Karny, 1923
(Figs 2G, 13–15)
Tapiena incisa Karny, 1923: 141 — Tan et al., 2015: 42, 43 (key); Tan et al., 2019: 328 (wrong identification); Tan et al., 2024a: 481.
New material examined. EAST MALAYSIA; Sabah State • 2♂; Sinipung Hill, near Long Pasia and Meligan; N4.44538 E115.71494, 1556.0± 10.1 m.a.s.l.; 21 November 2024, 21h30; attracted to light trap; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.205, 206 (ZRC) • 2♂; Meligan (P28 a.k.a. pt 2); N4.57619 E115.73923, 1266.0± 6.8 m.a.s.l.; 23 November 2024, 22h00; attracted to light trap on the road; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.268, 269 (Fig. 13) (ZRC).
Remarks. Our specimens resemble those collected from Mount Trus Madi by Tan et al. (2024a) and northwestern Kinabalu (Muhammad & Tan, 2025) in the important species characters, including the shapes of the male cercus, tenth abdominal tergite and subgenital plate, as well as the shape of the stridulatory areas (Fig. 14). Our specimens also resemble Tapiena bullata Karny, 1923 from Malay Peninsula, particularly in the shape of the apex of their cercus.
Type locality. EAST MALAYSIA: Sarawak: Baram River, Gunong Tamabo.
Calling song (Fig. 15). The calling song is an isolated echeme made up of an average of 11–12 closely-spaced syllables. The average echeme duration is 0.70± 0.10 s (0.58– 0.79 s). Within each echeme, the amplitudes of the syllables increase to a maximum; the average syllable duration is 13.7±1.4 ms (12.2–15.3 ms) and the average down time (silent interval between the two syllables) is 48.6±7.1 ms (40.7–54.5 ms). The average period of syllable is 62.3±5.8 ms (55.7–67.4 ms). The frequency spectrum is broadband and is not symmetrical and has a peak frequency of 13.82±0.83 kHz (13.41–14.16 kHz).
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg, Japir, Razy, Chung, Arthur Y. C. & Robillard, Tony, 2025, New species, new locality records and descriptions of calling songs of Phaneropterinae from Sabah, pp. 505-528 in Zootaxa 5604 (4) on pages 517-519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/15214059
Inpatient child–parent–provider interactions (Gormley & Light, 2020)
Creators: name: Gormley, Jessica
name: Light, Janice
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Language
subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Purpose: Children with complex medical needs often require extensive hospitalizations in the first years of life. Many of these children also experience complex communication needs and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies to interact with health care staff. Unfortunately, suboptimal communication experiences have been reported among these children, their families, and hospital staff; however, no studies have described the patterns of interactions beyond measures of self-report. The purpose of this study was to describe child–parent–provider interaction patterns that occurred in an inpatient unit.Method: Observational techniques were used to systematically describe the interactions of a 28-month-old child with complex communication needs, her parents, and 26 health care providers on an inpatient rehabilitation unit over 10 days.Results: Results indicated that substantial variability in the child’s routine occurred across days and providers. Interactions were generally short and occurred for only a small proportion of the child’s waking hours. The child and her mother actively communicated to varying degrees across sessions, yet health care providers often dominated interactions. The child used multiple modes of communication in each interaction; however, no aided AAC systems were used despite availability.Conclusions: Training is urgently required to equip health care providers to (a) incorporate the use of aided AAC strategies during inpatient interactions and (b) increase the active participation of both children with complex communication needs and their parents during these interactions.
Supplemental Material S1. Codebook of child–parent–provider locations and activities.
Supplemental Material S2. Operational definitions of intentional child communicative behaviors.
Gormley, J., & Light, J. (2020). Child–parent–provider interactions of a child with complex communication needs in an inpatient rehabilitation facility: A pilot study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00031
Rethinking surplus school reserve sites: Conceiving, regulating and repurposing "land like that" in Calgary, Alberta
Creators: name: Martin, Catherine Anne
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: surplus school site
subject: school reuse
subject: public asset
subject: problem definition
subject: municipal policy

description: This research addresses the question: if a surplus School Reserve site is no longer for a school, then what is it? What happens when multiple sites are in transition? A case study was conducted in the City of Calgary, Alberta, to explore how professional stakeholders conceive of the site itself and its reuse; and to understand how policy, in its design, application and implementation, shapes site reuse. Interviews with key informants, and analysis of the policy, demonstrated that the sites are a complex and important community asset that is held in trust for the citizens of Calgary. The current approach to site reuse is constrained by: provincial legislation that limits site uses; processes that are ill-defined; and a lack of clarity about how the future School Reserve could serve a transitioning community. Before site redesign can begin, site reconceptualization must continue.
Additional file 1 of A survey on the current status of Helicobacter pylori infection in households in Hainan Province, China
Creators: name: Liu, Danni
name: Pan, Jing
name: Chen, Zhengyi
name: Li, Sailian
name: Ma, Jiamei
name: Xiao, Yening
name: Wang, Danhong
name: Mu, Ganggang
name: Lin, Ya
name: Li, Juyuan
name: Chen, Zhai
name: Huang, Xiaoxi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Computer Aided Detection of Early Ischemic Changes in Non-Contrast CT Images of Acute Ischemic Stroke
Creators: name: Thomson, Quinn Parker
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Ischemic Stroke
subject: Medical Image Analysis
subject: Computer Aided Detection
subject: Image Texture Analysis

description: An ischemic stroke occurs from a brain artery blockage. Rapid treatment improves outcomes. However, there are two treatment prerequisites. First, early ischemic changes (EIC) in brain tissue must be established, often by interpreting a computed tomography (CT) scan. However, EIC identification from CT is difficult. Second, treatments are only effective within the first few hours. Consequently, the maximum delay between stroke onset and brain imaging must be estimated. This is difficult if the stroke onset was not observed. The goal of my PhD research was to create computer-aided detection (CADe) tools to: a) improve assessment of EIC in CT images; and, b) estimate the delay between stroke onset and brain imaging using CT scan features. My algorithm evaluated CT image features associated with EIC. Three stages of assessment determined software performance. First, I determined physician reliability when outlining EIC on CT images. Next, I determined how closely my algorithm matched physician driven outlines. Finally, I determined physician reliability when assisted by my algorithm. My CADe methods were used to calculate a new stroke severity index (SSI). The relationship between SSI and the delay between stroke onset and imaging time was then examined. Results showed that my CADe method identified EIC and helped physicians. Unassisted, the inter-rater reliability of identifying EIC was moderate. My software identified areas of EIC, but not as well as the unassisted physicians. With my software, physicians achieved a higher measure of agreement (Dice coefficient) than stroke fellows. However, fellows still achieved a Dice coefficient close to that of the physicians without software assistance. Inter- and intra-rater reliabilities were similar between the physicians and the fellows. The SSI did not correlate time from stroke onset, but did fit with known understanding of ischemic stroke pathology. This thesis showed that stroke CADe may have clinical utility. It quickly identified EIC in early CT images and increased the reliability of EIC identification by physicians. My ischemic stroke CADe tool brought quantitative methods to a subtle, subjective field.
Bilocal versus non-bilocal correlations in entanglement swapping experiments
Creators: name: Branciard, Cyril
name: Rosset, Denis
name: Gisin, Nicolas
name: Pironio, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement swapping is a process by which two initially independent quantum systems can become entangled and generate nonlocal correlations. To characterize such correlations, we compare them to those predicted by bilocal models, where systems that are initially independent are described by uncorrelated states. We extend in this paper the analysis of bilocal correlations initiated in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170401 (2010)]. In particular, we derive new Bell-type inequalities based on the bilocality assumption in different scenarios, we study their possible quantum violations, and analyze their resistance to experimental imperfections. The bilocality assumption, being stronger than Bell's standard local causality assumption, lowers the requirements for the demonstration of quantumness in entanglement swapping experiments.
Magnetic field control of photon echo in the electron-trion system: Shuffling of coherences between optically accessible and inaccessible states
Creators: name: Langer, L.
name: Poltavtsev, S. V.
name: Yugova, I. A.
name: Yakovlev, D. R.
name: Karczewski, G.
name: Wojtowicz, T.
name: Kossut, J.
name: Akimov, I. A.
name: Bayer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on magnetic field induced oscillations of the photon echo signal from negatively charged excitons in a CdTe/(Cd,Mg)Te semiconductor quantum well. The oscillatory signal is due to Larmor precession of the electron spin about a transverse magnetic field and depends sensitively on the polarization configuration of the exciting and refocusing pulses. The echo amplitude can be fully tuned from maximum down to zero depending on the time delay between the two pulses and the magnetic field strength. The results are explained in terms of the optical Bloch equations accounting for the spin level structure of electron and trion.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Search for the QCD Critical Point by Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC
Creators: name: Luo, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higher moments of net-proton multiplicity distributions are applied to search for the QCD critical point. In this paper, we will present measurements for kurtosis ($κ$), skewness ($S$) and variance $σ^2$) of net-proton multiplicity distributions at the mid-rapidity ($|y|<0.5$) and transverse momentum range $0.4
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, To appear in the conference proceedings for Strangeness in Quark Matter 2011, Cracow, Poland, September 18-24, 2011
Assessing the Behavior of Modern Solar Magnetographs and Spectropolarimeters
Creators: name: Iniesta, J. C. del Toro
name: Pillet, V. Martínez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The design and later use of modern spectropolarimeters and magnetographs require a number of tolerance specifications that allow the developers to build the instrument and then the scientists to interpret the data accuracy. Such specifications depend both on device-specific features and on the physical assumptions underlying the particular measurement technique. Here we discuss general properties of every magnetograph, as the detectability thresholds for the vector magnetic field and the line-of-sight velocity, as well as specific properties of a given type of instrument, namely that based on a pair of nematic liquid crystal variable retarders and a Fabry-Pérot etalon (or several) for carrying out the light polarization modulation and spectral analysis, respectively. We derive formulae that give the detection thresholds in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio of the observations and the polarimetric efficiencies of the instrument. Relationships are also established between inaccuracies in the solar physical quantities and instabilities in the instrument parameters. Such relationships allow, for example, to translate scientific requirements for the velocity or the magnetic field into requirements for temperature or voltage stability. We also demonstrate that this type of magnetograph can theoretically reach the optimum polarimetric efficiencies of an ideal polarimeter, regardless of the optics in between the modulator and the analyzer. Such optics induces changes in the instrument parameters that are calculated too.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Natural selection. I. Variable environments and uncertain returns on investment
Creators: name: Frank, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many studies have analyzed how variability in reproductive success affects fitness. However, each study tends to focus on a particular problem, leaving unclear the overall structure of variability in populations. This fractured conceptual framework often causes particular applications to be incomplete or improperly analyzed. In this paper, I present a concise introduction to the two key aspects of the theory. First, all measures of fitness ultimately arise from the relative comparison of the reproductive success of individuals or genotypes with the average reproductive success in the population. That relative measure creates a diminishing relation between reproductive success and fitness. Diminishing returns reduce fitness in proportion to variability in reproductive success. The relative measurement of success also induces a frequency dependence that favors rare types. Second, variability in populations has a hierarchical structure. Variable success in different traits of an individual affects that individual's variation in reproduction. Correlation between different individuals' reproduction affects variation in the aggregate success of particular alleles across the population. One must consider the hierarchical structure of variability in relation to different consequences of temporal, spatial, and developmental variability. Although a complete analysis of variability has many separate parts, this simple framework allows one to see the structure of the whole and to place particular problems in their proper relation to the general theory. The biological understanding of relative success and the hierarchical structure of variability in populations may also contribute to a deeper economic theory of returns under uncertainty.
Hydrological Functionality of Plants and Its Application to Stormwater Management
Creators: name: Skorobogatov, Anton
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Physiology
subject: Biogeochemistry
subject: Hydrology
subject: plant hydrology
subject: soil permeability
subject: Stormwater Management

description: Watershed degradation due to poor stormwater management is a significant problem. Bioretention systems are a promising approach to the management of stormwater through the use of vegetated depressions. However, the long-term functionality of these systems is often compromised by sediment accumulation and reduced infiltration. The objective of this project was to analyze the influence of vegetation on the performance of bioretention systems. It was achieved through: 1) a review of the literature describing the interconnections between hydrology and plant physiology, 2) experimental analysis of the effect that woody vegetation has on soil hydraulic conductivity. The hydraulic conductivity of planted areas was compared with a control environment lacking vegetation of interest. The analysis indicated a positive correlation between the presence of aged woody plant stands and soil hydraulic conductivity. This increase in hydraulic conductivity has the potential to attenuate the reduction of soil permeability and infiltration over the long term.
Additional file 1 of Psychosocial factors, dentist-patient relationships, and oral health-related quality of life: a structural equation modelling
Creators: name: Song, Youngha
name: Luzzi, Liana
name: Brennan, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1 and Tables S1-S6 for supplementary results of analyses
Bridging Representations of North American Chinese Diaspora with Homi Bhabha
Creators: name: Tsai, Sungfu
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Literature--American
subject: Literature--Asian
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Homi Bhabha
subject: Postcolonial Theory
subject: Chinese Diaspora
subject: Ethnic Studies
subject: Mimicry
subject: Cultural Translation
subject: The Third Space

description: This dissertation investigates how Wayson Choy and Laurence Yep deploy discursive strategies for increasing Chinese North Americans’ visibility in North America. So far, there has been a tremendous amount of published research on their works, but very few scholars have considered their representations of North American Chinese diaspora through the lens of postcolonial theory. In response to this insufficiency, my dissertation examines their Chinese diasporic writings with Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theory and addresses the inseparable link between postcolonial studies and Chinese North American literature. The dissertation argues that the liminal moment of cultural signification—“neither Chinese nor American/Canadian”— foregrounded in the works by Choy and Yep destabilizes the power of North American cultural hegemony and rearticulates the unsettling difference in the narration of the nations of Canada and the United States. This argument is developed in the course of four chapters: Chapter one theorizes postcolonial Chinese North American literature and argues that postcolonial theory offers a productive approach to the issues of transnationality and globalization represented in Chinese North American literature. Chapter two conducts a radical reading of Chinatown as “the third space” in Choy’s Paper Shadows and Yep’s The Lost Garden. The chapter argues that the memoirs of Yep and Choy reconfigure the image of Chinatown and reconstruct Chinese North American history through their childhood memories. Chapter three studies Jook-Liang’s Hollywood fantasies in Choy’s The Jade Peony and argues that her mimicry constitutes a double disarticulation of both Chinese and Canadian cultures and reverses the ideological and sexual gaze by Western male audience. Chapter four investigates how Yep’s discursive strategies in The Traitor disrupt the normalization of the English language. The chapter argues that Yep consciously mistranslates both the Chinese and English languages to reconstruct the history of Rock Springs Massacre in Wyoming. The dissertation concludes with the assertion that the writings by Choy and Yep represent the hidden or repressed voices of Chinese North Americans whose contributions to the development of North America must be properly recognized.
Turning Great Plains Crop Residues and Other Products Into Energy
Creators: name: Heid, Walter G.
name: Heid, Walter G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Crop residues
subject: municipal solid waste
subject: Great Plains
subject: biomass
subject: energy

description: Crop residues, such as corn stover, grain sorghum stover, and wheat straw, are abundant sources of fuel energy in the 10-State Great Plains region. These residues and other wastes, such as manure, may be either burned directly or decomposed into methane gas. However, costs of collecting these residues may be too high to be competitive with coal or other conventional fuels. Bulky crop residues and wastes, expensive to transport, can be economically shipped no more than 50 miles to a conversion plant.
A report on the nonlinear squeezed states and their non-classical properties of a generalized isotonic oscillator
Creators: name: Ruby, V. Chithiika
name: Senthilvelan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct nonlinear squeezed states of a generalized isotonic oscillator potential. We demonstrate the non-existence of dual counterpart of nonlinear squeezed states in this system. We investigate statistical properties exhibited by the squeezed states, in particular Mandel's parameter, second-order correlation function, photon number distributions and parameter $A_3$ in detail. We also examine the quadrature and amplitude-squared squeezing effects. Finally, we derive expression for the $s$-parameterized quasi-probability distribution function of these states. All these information about the system are new to the literature.
description: Accepted for publication in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor
EOSC-Life EOSC Sustainability best practice
Creators: name: Parkinson, Helen
name: Gribbon, Phil
name: David, Romain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Life Science Research Infrastructures
FAIR data
FAIR tools
Sustainable access to data
Access to sensitive data

description: Sustainability of FAIR Life Science Resources and Projects: Lessons Learned from EOSC-Life Research Infrastructures
This report summarises the key findings regarding sustainable LS resources, based on experiences from the EOSC-Life project. A more detailed description of EOSC-LIFE sustainably experiences and lessons learnt is contained in a companion publication (preprint link1) for which this report will provide an introduction. In the publication, we describe organisational, technical, financial and legal/ethical challenges using lessons from 27 scientific projects selected via open calls, and the work of RI teams. We describe the efficiency of the EOSC-Life support model for sustainable FAIR data management and explore the complex sustainability needs for sensitive- and industry-related data resources. A set of recommendations, which can be applied to other EOSC and data infrastructure projects, are given.
Isomorphisms between positive and negative beta-transformations
Creators: name: Kalle, Charlene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A05, 37A35, 11K55

description: We compare a piecewise linear map with constant slope beta>1 and a piecewise linear map with constant slope -beta. These maps are called the positive and negative beta-transformations. We show that for a certain set of beta's, the multinacci numbers, there exists a measurable isomorphism between these two maps. We further show that for for all other values of beta between 1 and 2 the two maps cannot be isomorphic.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Rectimarginalis ensis
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
name: Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg
name: Japir, Razy
name: Chung, Arthur Y. C.
name: Robillard, Tony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Rectimarginalis
Rectimarginalis ensis

description: Rectimarginalis ensis (Haan, 1843)
(Figs 2E, 10, 11)
Locusta (Phaneroptera) ensis Haan, 1843: 191, 194.
Psyra ensis (Haan, 1843) in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 171 — Kirby, 1906: 427; Karny, 1923: 155. Holochlora ensis (Haan, 1843) in Karny, 1925: 40 — Karny, 1926a: 120; Karny, 1926b: 103; Otte, 1997: 134.
Rectimarginalis ensis (Haan, 1843) in Liu & Kang, 2007: 190 — Tan, 2014: 587; Tan et al., 2019: 320.
New material examined. EAST MALAYSIA; Sabah State • 2♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre dining area; N4.73668 E116.97468; 17 November 2024, 19h00; attracted to light; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.126, 129 (ZRC) • 1♂; Maliau Basin Conservation Area, at Maliau Basin Studies Centre accommodation (Keruing); N4.73588 E116.97442; 17 November 2024, evening; attracted to light; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.136 (ZRC).
Type locality. Borneo.
Calling song (Fig. 11). The calling song is an isolated echeme made up of an average of 4±1 syllables (3–5 syllables), although on rare occasions, the echeme can also be made up of up to 8 and 9 syllables. The average echeme duration is 0.27± 0.05 s (0.17– 0.37 s). Within each echeme, the average syllable duration is 9.4±1.8 ms (5.8–13.1 ms) and the average down time (silent interval between the two syllables) is 77.1±10.9 ms (63.4–111.5 ms). The average period of syllable is 86.5±10.2 ms (74.1–119.9 ms). The frequency spectrum is broadband and is not symmetrical and has a peak frequency of 9.83±0.87 kHz (7.59–10.97 kHz).
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, Damit, Dayang Fazrinah Binti Awg, Japir, Razy, Chung, Arthur Y. C. & Robillard, Tony, 2025, New species, new locality records and descriptions of calling songs of Phaneropterinae from Sabah, pp. 505-528 in Zootaxa 5604 (4) on pages 514-515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/15214059
Additional file 1 of Comparison of post-acute sequelae following hospitalization for COVID-19 and influenza
Creators: name: Liu, Ting-Hui
name: Huang, Po-Yu
name: Wu, Jheng-Yan
name: Chuang, Min-Hsiang
name: Hsu, Wan-Hsuan
name: Tsai, Ya-Wen
name: Lai, Chih-Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Query Criteria for Cohort (query name: covid_cnetwork). Table S2. Query Criteria for Cohort (query name:flu). Table S3. Outcome Definitions. Table S4. The hazard ratio and events number for comparing matched COVID-19 group and Influenza group for the primary composite outcome and its constituents.
Discovery of Isotopes of the Transuranium Elements with 93 <= Z <= 98
Creators: name: Fry, C.
name: Thoennessen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One hundred and five isotopes of the transuranium elements neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium have so far been observed; the discovery of these isotopes is discussed. For each isotope a brief summary of the first refereed publication, including the production and identification method, is presented.
description: To be published in Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables
Possible Economic Consequences of Reverting to Permanent Legislation or Eliminating Price and Income Supports
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: agribusiness
subject: agricultural trade
subject: conservation
subject: crops
subject: economy
subject: elasticity
subject: farm inputs
subject: farm policy
subject: finance
subject: food costs
subject: land use
subject: land value
subject: livestock
subject: parity
subject: permanent farm legislation
subject: price support

description: If the agricultural legislation expiring in 1985 is not replaced, farm price and income supports will revert from the programs provided for in the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 and subsequent legislation to the programs provided for in the permanent support statutes. Reverting to the permanent support programs, dating back in some cases to the 1930's, would raise price and income support levels significantly and greatly reduce the role of market forces in determining farm returns. Conversely, if all price and income supports were eliminated in 1985, Government intervention in the market would end and supply and demand forces would determine farm returns. Adopting either of these two outerbound policy alternatives would have significant and far-reaching impacts on farm operations, the agribusiness sector, the general economy, and ultimately the world market for farm products.
Distance Scale Zero-Points from Galactic RR Lyrae Star Parallaxes
Creators: name: Benedict, G. Fritz
name: McArthur, Barbara E.
name: Feast, Michael W.
name: Barnes, Thomas G.
name: Harrison, Thomas E.
name: Bean, Jacob L.
name: Menzies, John W.
name: Chaboyer, Brian
name: Fossati, Luca
name: Nesvacil, Nicole
name: Smith, Horace A.
name: Kolenberg, Katrien
name: Laney, C. D.
name: Kochukhov, Oleg
name: Nelan, Edmund P.
name: Shulyak, D. V.
name: Taylor, Denise
name: Freedman, Wendy L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new absolute trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions for seven Pop II variable stars: five RR Lyr variables; RZ Cep, XZ Cyg, SU Dra, RR Lyr, UV Oct; and two type 2 Cepheids; VY Pyx and κ Pav. We obtained these results with astrometric data from Fine Guidance Sensors, white-light interfer- ometers on Hubble Space Telescope. We find absolute parallaxes in milliseconds of arc: RZ Cep, 2.12\pm0.16 mas; XZ Cyg, 1.67\pm0.17 mas; SU Dra, 1.42\pm0.16 mas; RR Lyr, 3.77\pm0.13 mas; UV Oct, 1.71\pm0.10 mas; VY Pyx, 6.44\pm0.23 mas; and κ Pav, 5.57\pm0.28 mas; an average σπ/π = 5.4%. With these parallaxes we compute absolute magnitudes in V and K bandpasses corrected for interstellar extinction and Lutz-Kelker-Hanson bias. Using these RRL absolute magnitudes, we then derive zero-points for MV -[Fe/H] and MK -[Fe/H]-Log P relations. The technique of reduced parallaxes corroborates these results. We employ our new results to determine distances and ages of several Galactic globular clusters and the dis- tance of the LMC. The latter is close to that previously derived from Classical Cepheids uncorrected for any metallicity effect, indicating that any such effect is small. We also discuss the somewhat puzzling results obtained for our two type 2 Cepheids.
description: Accepted by the Astronomical Journal
N-terminal Regulation of L-type Calcium Channel Expression, Function and Trafficking
Creators: name: Simms, Brett Alan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: calcium
subject: channel
subject: calmodulin
subject: Brugada
subject: inactivation
subject: amino
subject: Structure

description: The L-type voltage-gated calcium channel Cav1.2 is important for excitation-contraction coupling in the heart, as well as CREB mediated transcription and fear conditioned learning. The ubiquitous calcium binding protein calmodulin (CaM) and its associated kinase, calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII), are known to modulate calcium-dependent inactivation (CDI) and calcium dependent facilitation (CDF) of voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs), respectively. CDI functions to limit the amount of calcium entering through Cav1.2 channels during prolonged or repetitive membrane depolarizations, whereas a facilitative role for CaMKII can be uncovered by mutating the C-terminal PreIQ-IQ region. Here we identify a CaM interaction site in the Cav1.2 N-terminus downstream of the previously identified W52 locus that is formed by residue C106, and which functionally partakes in global CDI. We also show that the Brugada syndrome mutation A39V disrupts global CDI, but not the surface expression of neuronal Cav1.2 channels as previously described. Over the course of our research we also discovered that mutant CaM molecules alter activation properties of Cav1.2 channels in the absence of calcium and surprisingly, in a manner which can be augmented by the channel N-terminus. Finally we show that a CaMKII binding site in the N-terminus of Cav1.2 is formed by four residues (CISI) and is critical for channel expression and function. Ablation of CISI produces channels which express poorly at the surface of cells, but which also have dramatically increased channel function, which offsets the trafficking defect. Thus our data indicate that surface expression and functional regulation of Cav1.2 channels by CaM and CaMKII is more complex than previously thought, and explicitly involves the channel N-terminal domain.
Additional file 1 of Mapping and identifying service models for community-based services for children with intellectual disabilities and behaviours that challenge in England
Creators: name: Taylor, Emma L.
name: Thompson, Paul A.
name: Manktelow, Nicholas
name: Flynn, Samantha
name: Gillespie, David
name: Bradshaw, Jill
name: Gore, Nick
name: Liew, Ashley
name: Lovell, Mark
name: Sutton, Kate
name: Richards, Caroline
name: Petrou, Stavros
name: Langdon, Peter E.
name: Grant, Gemma
name: Cooper, Vivien
name: Seers, Kate
name: Hastings, Richard P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of services (multiple choice items). Figure S2. Counts of responses present within each class in those with responses and missing data. Figure S3. presents the patterns of response for Question 3. Figure S4. shows the pattern of responses for question 5A. Figure S5. shows the pattern of responses to question 5B (part 4). Figure S6. presents the patterns of responses for Question 8. Figure S7. presents the patterns of responses for Question 9. Figure S8. shows the distribution of responses for question 10. Figure S9. shows the distribution of responses for question 15. Figure S10. shows the pattern of responses for Question 24. Table S2. Items for LCA analysis.
Rectimarginalis ensis Haan 1842
Creators: name: Tan, Ming Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Rectimarginalis
Rectimarginalis ensis

description: Rectimarginalis ensis (Haan, 1842)
Figs. 1 H, 2F, 7H, 10G, 10P
Material examined. 4 males: 1 male (ZRC.ORT.1081), University Ground (NUS Bukit Timah campus), coll. D. H. Murphy, May 1965; 1 male (ZRC.ORT.1082), along Tanglin Road, coll. D. H. Murphy, 7 January 1978; 1 male (ZRC.ORT.1102), University Ground (NUS Bukit Timah campus), coll. D. H. Murphy, November 1979; 1 male (ZRC.ORT.1115), Singapore (no other locality data), D. H. Murphy, 1981.
description: Published as part of Tan, Ming Kai, 2014, An annotated checklist of the bush katydids (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Phaneropterinae) from Singapore, including an illustrated key to species, pp. 573-593 in Zootaxa 3884 (6) on page 587, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.6.6, http://zenodo.org/record/249813
Discontinuous Transition from a Real Bound State to Virtual Bound State in a Mixed-Valence State of SmS
Creators: name: Imura, Keiichiro
name: Kanematsu, Shinkichi
name: Matsubayashi, Kazuyuki
name: Suzuki, Hiroyuki S.
name: Deguchi, Kazuhiko
name: Sato, Noriaki K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Golden SmS is a paramagnetic, mixed-valence system with a pseudogap. With increasing pressure across a critical pressure Pc, the system undergoes a discontinuous transition into a metallic, anti-ferromagnetically ordered state. By using a combination of thermodynamic, transport, and magnetic measurements, we show that the pseudogap results from the formation of a local bound state with spin singlet. We further argue that the transition Pc is regarded as a transition from an insulating electron-hole gas to a Kondo metal, i.e., from a spatially bound state to a Kondo virtually bound state between 4f and conduction electrons.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Developing a Suburban Activity Corridor in Northwest Calgary
Creators: name: Haji Abootorabi, Elaheh
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Activity Corridors
subject: Calgary established areas
subject: Activity network
subject: Urban Design
subject: Public realm and Sense of place
subject: Density and Diversity
subject: Accessibility
subject: Mobility and Connectivity
subject: Structure

description: This thesis is an initial attempt to define a prototype of activity corridors to extend the Calgary activity network through established areas which are not considered in the Calgary Municipal Development Plan. To meet this goal, literature reviews and precedents studies were conducted to define a conceptual design framework and to determine the main characteristics of this prototype: the suburban corridor. Five communities in northwest Calgary that straddle inner-city areas and established areas were selected as the study area. After a general analysis, a study site was selected, and detailed analysis was conducted. To design the suburban corridor along the selected site, two scenarios were presented. The first one offered a short-term plan which includes mixed-use and residential developments with minimum commercial intensification. The second one outlined a 30-year plan through three phases which offered mixed-use developments with maximum commercial intensification along the corridor. The both scenarios intend to create a livable and functional activity corridor. Developing suburban corridors would promote livability, density, public transit, service accessibility and housing diversities in established areas, which are requires to meet suburban corridors' objectives, outcomes, minimum intensity and optimal resident-to-job ratio at the same time.
КАРАКАЛПАКСКАЯ ЖЕНЩИНА - ХРАНИТЕЛЬНИЦА ТРАДИЦИЙ
Creators: name: Бекмуратова, М.Е.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Роль женщины в сохранении и передаче семейных традиций может различаться в зависимости от культурных, религиозных и социальных факторов. Во многих культурах женщина традиционно воспринимается как опора семьи и ответственная за домашние дела, воспитание детей и поддержание гармонии в отношениях.