cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
So You Want to Create a Student Research Journal? How to Craft a Journal Based on Peer Learning
Creators: name: Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly
name: Mainwaring, Ben
name: Dugdale, Sean
name: Kinney, Carly
name: Hanson, Brian
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although many university educators and administrators seek to promote student research, opportunities to do so often are rare or costly. This case study of the undergraduate academic journal Clocks&Clouds provides a clear model for reaping the rewards of this high-impact educational experience based on peer learning. The goal of this article is to institutionalize knowledge by reviewing Clocks&Clouds, American University's undergraduate research journal in political science, international relations, and public policy. Input from three successive teams of student leaders, as well as interviews with administrators and faculty members at American University, suggests a method for creating a journal and lessons learned that can be applied at other institutions. The article builds on the research of Mariani et al. (2013), which considered various organizational strategies that political science departments use to structure undergraduate student publications. It highlights three facets of a model undergraduate journal in political science: organizational structures, peer-review process, and funding and resources. The purpose of this study was to encourage other undergraduate programs in political science to create student research publications and expand the reach of this high-impact educational practice.
Nonlinear Attitude Estimation for Small UAVs with Low Power Microprocessors
Creators: name: Kim, Sunsoo
name: Tadiparthi, Vaishnav
name: Bhattacharya, Raktim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Among algorithms used for sensor fusion for attitude estimation in unmanned aerial vehicles, the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is the most commonly used for estimation. In this paper, we propose a new version of H2 estimation called extended H2 estimation that can overcome the limitations of the extended Kalman Filter, specifically with respect to computational speed, memory usage, and root mean squared error. We formulate a new attitude-estimation algorithm, where the filter gain is designed offline about a nominal operating point, but the filter dynamics is implemented using the nonlinear system dynamics. We refer to this implementation of the H2 optimal estimator as the extended H2 estimator. The solution presented is tested on two cases, corresponding to slow and rapid motions, and compared against the EKF in the performance metrics mentioned above.
Minimally Fine-Tuned Supersymmetric Standard Models with Intermediate-Scale Supersymmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Nomura, Yasunori
name: Poland, David
name: Tweedie, Brock
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct realistic supersymmetric theories in which the correct scale for electroweak symmetry breaking is obtained without significant fine-tuning. We consider two classes of models. In one class supersymmetry breaking is transmitted to the supersymmetric standard model sector through Dirac gaugino mass terms generated by a D-term vacuum expectation value of a U(1) gauge field. In the other class the supersymmetry breaking sector is separated from the supersymmetric standard model sector in an extra dimension, and the transmission of supersymmetry breaking occurs through gauge mediation. In both these theories the Higgs sector contains two Higgs doublets and a singlet, but unlike the case for the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model the singlet field is not responsible for generating the supersymmetric or supersymmetry breaking mass for the Higgs doublets. These masses, as well as the mass for the singlet, are generated through gravitational-strength interactions. The scale at which the squark and slepton masses are generated is of order (1-100) TeV, and the generated masses do not respect the unified mass relations. We find that electroweak symmetry breaking in these theories is caused by an interplay between the top-stop radiative correction and the holomorphic supersymmetry breaking mass for the Higgs doublets and that the fine-tuning can be reduced to the level of 20%. The theories have rich phenomenology, including a variety of possibilities for the lightest supersymmetric particle.
description: 24 pages, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
So You Want to Create a Student Research Journal? How to Craft a Journal Based on Peer Learning
Creators: name: Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly
name: Mainwaring, Ben
name: Dugdale, Sean
name: Kinney, Carly
name: Hanson, Brian
Publisher: name: American Political Science Association
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: Although many university educators and administrators seek to promote student research, opportunities to do so often are rare or costly. This case study of the undergraduate academic journal Clocks&Clouds provides a clear model for reaping the rewards of this high-impact educational experience based on peer learning. The goal of this article is to institutionalize knowledge by reviewing Clocks&Clouds, American University's undergraduate research journal in political science, international relations, and public policy. Input from three successive teams of student leaders, as well as interviews with administrators and faculty members at American University, suggests a method for creating a journal and lessons learned that can be applied at other institutions. The article builds on the research of Mariani et al. (2013), which considered various organizational strategies that political science departments use to structure undergraduate student publications. It highlights three facets of a model undergraduate journal in political science: organizational structures, peer-review process, and funding and resources. The purpose of this study was to encourage other undergraduate programs in political science to create student research publications and expand the reach of this high-impact educational practice.
Eat4Thought: A Design of Food Journaling
Creators: name: Zhang, Yixuan
name: Parker, Andrea G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Food journaling is an effective method to help people identify their eating patterns and encourage healthy eating habits as it requires self-reflection on eating behaviors. Current tools have predominately focused on tracking food intake, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and calories. Other factors, such as contextual information and momentary thoughts and feelings that are internal to an individual, are also essential to help people reflect upon and change attitudes about eating behaviors. However, current dietary tracking tools rarely support capturing these elements as a way to foster deep reflection. In this work, we present Eat4Thought -- a food journaling application that allows users to track their emotional, sensory, and spatio-temporal elements of meals as a means of supporting self-reflection. The application enables vivid documentation of experiences and self-reflection on the past through video recording. We describe our design process and an initial evaluation of the application. We also provide design recommendations for future work on food journaling.
description: 8 pages
Historical Approaches to Problem Solving in Agriculture with Reference to Colonial Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Pemberton, Rita
name: Pemberton, Rita
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: The realization that agricultural resource exploitation offered attractive prospects for profits resulted in the movement of numbers of adventurous individuals into the region to establish plantations. Most had neither farming experience nor credentials in agriculture but all shared the desire to make their ventures profitable. Initially, agriculture in the Caribbean was largely private enterprise under the full direction of the individual plantation owners, or managers who were usually attorneys, who ran the operations without state interference or professional assistance. This was the modus operandi until the second half of the 19th century when the most notable change discernible in the practice of agriculture in the Caribbean was a growing expectation of and dependence on government assistance of various kinds which heralded a period of state involvement in the agriculture of the region. This paper examines the historical tradition of problem solving manifested in the agriculture of the region with reference to developments in the colony of Trinidad and Tobago during the colonial era. The paper identifies the earliest forms of government assistance to agriculture and the kinds of requests for assistance and the levels of response from both the imperial and colonial government. The paper then discusses the problems that were identified in the colony's agriculture and the methods used to deal with them. Central to this discussion is an examination of the reports of the various commissions of enquiry which consistently identified increased diversification, more scientific applications to agriculture, disease control and more education and training for the labour force. The paper argues that these were among the main factors which stimulated the development of extension services as a state responsibility in the colony's agriculture and determined the nature of its development and its efficacy up to the end of the colonial period.
Cheyletus malaccensis Oudemans 1903
Creators: name: Ardeshir, Fariba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Cheyletidae
Cheyletus
Cheyletus malaccensis

description: Cheyletus malaccensis Oudemans, 1903
 World Distribution – Cosmopolitan: Egypt (Zaher and Soliman 1971); Peru (Caceres and Fain 1977); Afrotropical (Fain 1971, 1979); China (Lung-Shut 1984); India (Mathur and Mathur 1982); Pakistan (Zaman 1990); Iraq (Mahmood 1992); Greece (Eliopoulos et al. 2000); Czech Republic (Stejskal et al. 2003).
 Distribution in Iran – Khuzestan (Sepasgozarian 1978; Kamali 1990; Modaress Awal 1994); Fars (Ostovan 1993), Guilan (Hajizadeh et al. 2011), Alborz (Seiedy et al. 2012).
 Material examined – Alborz province (Karaj), 1997 (silo: grain); 1998 (silo: grain and dust); 2005–2006 (silo and flour-mills: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff). Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari (Shahr-e Kord), 2006–2007 (flour-mill: dust). Isfahan province (Golpayegan and Kashan), 2005– 2006 (silos, barns and flour-mills: grain. Fars province (Shiraz), 2006–2007 (flour-mills: grain). Guilan province (Rasht, Sowméeh Sara, Rudsar), 2006–2007 (rice-mill, barn: rice, bran, paddy, brass scrap). Golestan province (Gorgan), 1997 (silo and flour-mills: grain and dust); 1998 (silo and flour-mills: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff); (Galikesh and Gonbad-e Kavus) 2005–2006 (silo and flour-mills: grain and chaff); (Gorgan, Gonbad-e Kovus, Minodasht, Bandar Torkaman and Agh Ghala), 2006–2007 (silo, barn, flour-mill and animal food factories: grain, chaff, dust, paddy and brass scrap, barley and maize). Khorasan-e Razavi and South Khorasan provinces (Mashhad, Neyshabur, Chenaran and Birjand), 2005–2006 (silos and flour-mill: grain, broken wheat and dust). Mazandaran province (Sari, Neka), 1996 (silo and barn: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff); 1997 (silo and flour-mills: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff); 1998 (silo, barn and flour-mills: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff); (Sari, Neka, Nur, Mahmoud Abad, Tenekabon, Babol and Ghaemshahr), 2006–2007 (rice-mills and flour-mills: rice, paddy, broken rice, bran, brass scrap, grain, barley, broken wheat, dust and chaff). Tehran province (Tehran and Varamin), 2005–2006 (silo, flour-mill and mills: grain, broken wheat, dust and chaff) and West Azarbijan (Uromia, Khoy, Mahabad, Takab, Shahin Dezh, Sardasht, Mako, Poldasht and Miandoab), 2005–2006 (silos, flourmills: grain and chaff).
 Remarks – This species is very abundant in Iran and both sexes can easily collect from different provinces.
description: Published as part of Ardeshir, Fariba, 2017, Cheyletid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes) in stored grains in Iran, pp. 11-24 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i1.14307, http://zenodo.org/record/4634035
Women’s Political Parties in Europe
Creators: name: Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This project considers the emergence of women’s parties, their nature, and development in a comparative framework. Using an original dataset derived from European electoral commissions, statistical offices, national libraries, media archives, party records, and interviews of experts from the respective countries, I document and describe 30 such parties contesting elections at the national level in Europe since 1987. I then conduct a series of tests on this panel data to determine when and under what conditions women’s parties are likely to emerge. I argue that women’s parties are indications of failures of the established political parties to include and represent women’s interests. Additionally, I demonstrate that women’s parties are more likely to appear where women are empowered unevenly than where they are already included or their marginalization is consistent.
Some Social, Environmental and Economic Implications of Increased Soil Erosion and Agro-Chemical Use in Caribbean Agriculture
Creators: name: Simpson, Leslie Anthony
name: Lauckner, Frank Bruce
name: Simpson, Leslie Anthony
name: Lauckner, Frank Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Agricultural cultivation in the islands of the Caribbean is carried out on lands of varying degrees of slope. The increased use of steeper slopes in recent times has led to increased land slips and soil erosion on hillsides, and flooding and sedimentation of coastal regions. Also, there has been a large increase in the use of agricultural chemicals in agricultural production. These two factors present a formidable pollution threat which will ultimately impact on the social and economic wellbeing of the Caribbean people. In 2000, a project was initiated to research "The impact and amelioration of sediment and agrochemical pollution on Caribbean coastal waters". This project which used Jamaica and St Lucia as the case study countries looked at various aspects of this problem including the quantification and toxicity of agro -chemicals imported, the on-farm use of agro -chemicals and associated soil management and farming practices, the fate of agro-chemicals in the land-water interface and the harmonization of agro-chemical management in the Caribbean. This presentation reports on some of the important findings of this study. In particular, the data on the increased importation of agro-chemicals is presented, some of the farming practices which are likely to influence soil sediment and agro-chemical pollution are highlighted and the possible effects of the use of these toxic chemicals on public health and the environment are discussed. In conclusion, implications of improper soil and agro-chemical management to the social and economic fortunes of the Caribbean are also discussed and recommendations are given for alleviating this emerging problem.
Attitudes toward aquaculture in Ireland and Norway
Creators: name: Hynes, Stephen
name: Skoland, Kathrine
name: Ravagnan, Elisa
name: Gjerstad, Brita
name: Krøvel, Vatland Anne
name: Hynes, Stephen
name: Skoland, Kathrine
name: Ravagnan, Elisa
name: Gjerstad, Brita
name: Krøvel, Vatland Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Around the world, there is a growing emphasis on developing the aquaculture industry in an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable manner and this is the case also in Norway and Ireland. The impact of aquaculture on the environment is currently evaluated by the use of a set of indicators focusing mainly on physical and chemical parameters, while to date social acceptance has not been integrated fully into aquaculture sustainability evaluation. With this in mind, this paper examines the public attitudes of the Irish and Norwegian general public to marine aquaculture. Both countries have long coastlines, a significant aquaculture industry and a strong emphasis on public participation in decision-making. The results indicate that both the Norwegian and Irish public recognise the potential of aquaculture to create opportunities for employment in coastal areas but opinion is much more divided on some of the more controversial impacts of aquaculture on the marine environment. The results would also suggest that the Norwegian general public may be better informed on issues related to aquaculture development.
The Value of achieving Good Environmental Status in the North East Atlantic using Contingent Valuation and Value Transfer
Creators: name: Norton, Daniel
name: Hynes, Stephen
name: Norton, Daniel
name: Hynes, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD); Value transfer; Distance decay; modifiable area unit problem (MAUP); Interval regression; Contingent valuation method (CVM); population density

description: This paper uses a combination of the contingent valuation method (CVM) and value transfer (VT) to estimate the non-market benefit values associated with the achievement of good (marine) environmental status (GES) as specified in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) for Atlantic member states. The increased use of geographic information systems in VT means that many VT exercises now include spatial elements such as distance decay and population density. This paper explores the impact of distance decay on welfare estimates as well as the impact of the modifiable area unit problem when population density is included as an explanatory variable. These issues can have a large effect on a VT estimate. In this study the overall value for achieving GES for Atlantic member states varied between €2.37 billion and €3.64 billion. It was found that the different distance decay specifications changed values between -3% and 82% with a mean absolute difference of 25% and by adjusting the spatial scale in an effort to overcome the MAUP changed aggregate values between 13% and 25% with a mean of 17%.
Study of glycosylation of flavonoids using different glycosyltransferases from Leuconostoc mesenteroides
Creators: name: Bodlev Stepan
name: Veselin, Bivolarski
name: Tonka, Vasileva
name: Ilia, Iliev
name: Mariana, Nikolova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Enzymatic glycosylation is a perspective method for biosynthesis and modification of biologically active flavonoids, which can influence the metabolic processes in the human body with different strength. Controllable enzymatic glycosylation of flavonoids from different groups was performed based on the specific action of glycosyltransferases produced by the Leuconostoc mesenteroides strain, such as dextransucrase LM28, high molecular weight glucansucrase URE13-300 and fructosyltransferase L17. The flavonoids used in the process of glycosylation are rutin, quercetin and anthocyanins.
description: Acknowledgement: This work was supported by Department for Scientific Research – PU, Bulgaria, Project MU19-BF-019, and by operational program "Science and education for smart growth" 2014–2020, grant number BG05M2OP001-1.002-0005-C01, Personalized Innovative Medicine Competence Centre (PERIMED).
Sustainability Mapping Project
Creators: name: Cullum, Alissa
name: Gunther, Bianca
name: Ristaniemi, Emilia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and orbital polarization in ferromagnetic transition metals
Creators: name: Xie, Yuannan
name: Blackman, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetocrystalline anisotropy energies (MAEs) of the ferromagnetic metals bcc Fe, fcc and hcp Co, and fcc Ni have been calculated by using the {\it ab initio} tight-binding method. Disentangling the strong correlation among the $d$ orbitals with the Hamiltonian in the local spin-density approximation, we have investigated the orbital polarizations induced by the Hubbard $U$ and Racah $B$. The experimental MAE of fcc Ni is found with the value of $U$ close to that determined from experiments and used in other theories. With the optimized values of $U$ and $J$, both the MAEs and the orbital moments for Fe and Co are in close agreement with experiment.
description: 4 pages, 3 PS-figures
Melting of the critical behavior of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid under dephasing
Creators: name: Bernier, Jean-Sebastien
name: Tan, Ryan
name: Guo, Chu
name: Kollath, Corinna
name: Poletti, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly correlated quantum systems often display universal behavior as, in certain regimes, their properties are found to be independent of the microscopic details of the underlying system. An example of such a situation is the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid description of one-dimensional strongly correlated bosonic or fermionic systems. Here we investigate how such a quantum liquid responds under dissipative dephasing dynamics and, in particular, we identify how the universal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid properties melt away. Our study, based on adiabatic elimination, shows that dephasing first translates into the damping of the oscillations present in the density-density correlations, a behavior accompanied by a change of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid exponent. This first regime is followed by a second one characterized by the diffusive propagation of featureless correlations as expected for an infinite temperature state. We support these analytical predictions by numerically exact simulations carried out using a number-conserving implementation of the matrix product states algorithm adapted to open systems.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Women’s Political Parties in Europe
Creators: name: Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Politics & Gender Journal
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This project considers the emergence of women’s parties, their nature, and development in a comparative framework. Using an original dataset derived from European electoral commissions, statistical offices, national libraries, media archives, party records, and interviews of experts from the respective countries, I document and describe 30 such parties contesting elections at the national level in Europe since 1987. I then conduct a series of tests on this panel data to determine when and under what conditions women’s parties are likely to emerge. I argue that women’s parties are indications of failures of the established political parties to include and represent women’s interests. Additionally, I demonstrate that women’s parties are more likely to appear where women are empowered unevenly than where they are already included or their marginalization is consistent.
Teaching and learning SoTL : preparing future faculty in a pedagogy course
Creators: name: Auten, Janet G.
name: Twigg, Margaret M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) offers a way of equipping graduate students for monitoring, assessing, and reflecting on their teaching and their students’ learning in higher education. After reviewing recent literature about the ways graduate students prepare for teaching, this essay presents an example of one way SoTL can inform teaching and teacher education as part of a graduate seminar. When a SoTL approach was integrated into a course about teaching in higher education, the course itself became a faculty-graduate student collaborative project. This essay demonstrates the potent circularity of the reflective teaching practice that drives the course and inspires similar practice in its students, which in turn informs subsequent iterations of the course.
When Amazon ate Whole Foods: big changes for Big Food
Creators: name: Phillips-Connolly, Kate
name: Connolly, Aidan J.
name: Phillips-Connolly, Kate
name: Connolly, Aidan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Big Food
subject: millenials
subject: Amazon
subject: Whole Foods
subject: food supply chain

description: The grocery store is ground zero in the tsunami of change facing Big Food. Consumers are changing how they relate to grocery stores, increasingly circling the perimeter, focusing on produce and preferentially choosing fresh, local, and new, even unknown, brands while spending less time in the processed food aisles in the center. The next generation, the millenials, are increasingly shunning traditional outlets when buying food. Traditional leading brands of processed food, backed by traditional marketing strategies (heavy advertising on traditional media, coupons, brand extensions, etc.) are failing to hold on to their customers. The challenges can be found throughout the food value chain, from new competitors for grocery providers to new delivery mechanisms, from changes in generational food preferences with social media platforms to express their preferences to farmers who increasingly can and want to communicate directly with the end-users who actually eat the food that they produce. This access to more information opens more options (and opportunities) to buyers and suppliers all along the food value chain. Barely 100 years old, the grocery store model is becoming obsolete, and with it the organization of the food value chain must be re-written. So what does that mean for Big Food and the food supply chain? What directions can the industry take to adjust to the new competitive realities? This paper offers direction and guidance for Big Food and other producers in the food supply chain.
A spanyol Guardia Civil családon belül elkövetett bűncselekményekkel kapcsolatos feladatai (in Magyar Rendészet 5. évf. 1. sz. / 2005)
Creators: name: Kemeny, Gabor
name: Kemény, Péter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 180110 Criminal Law and Procedure
subject: FOS: Law

description: The research introduces the role and the ask of the Spanish Guardia Civil in the fight against domestic violence focusing on the institution of the restrain order and provide suggestion to the adaptation into the Hungarian legal system.
Teaching and learning SoTL : preparing future faculty in a pedagogy course
Creators: name: Auten, Janet G.
name: Twigg, Margaret M.
Publisher: name: Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) offers a way of equipping graduate students for monitoring, assessing, and reflecting on their teaching and their students’ learning in higher education. After reviewing recent literature about the ways graduate students prepare for teaching, this essay presents an example of one way SoTL can inform teaching and teacher education as part of a graduate seminar. When a SoTL approach was integrated into a course about teaching in higher education, the course itself became a faculty-graduate student collaborative project. This essay demonstrates the potent circularity of the reflective teaching practice that drives the course and inspires similar practice in its students, which in turn informs subsequent iterations of the course.
Scenic Streams Stormwater Management Cost-Benefit Analysis
Creators: name: Guimaraes, Carolina
name: Littlejohn, Rob
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of Demand for community-based Case Management in Austria - a qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Gessl, Alessandra Schirin
name: Flörl, Angela
name: Schulc, Eva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Appendix A Interview Guide for Registered Nurses. This file contains the interview guide used for the focus groups conducted among registered nurses. The original guide was in German and translated into English for dissemination. Appendix B Interview Guide for Mobile Home Care Managers & Head Nurses. This file contains the interview guide used for the focus groups conducted among mobile home care managers and head nurses. The original guide was in German and translated into English for dissemination. Appendix C Interview Guide for Discharge Managers. This file contains the interview guide used for the focus groups conducted among discharge managers at the local hospital. The original guide was in German and translated into English for dissemination.
Invertible braided tensor categories
Creators: name: Brochier, Adrien
name: Jordan, David
name: Safronov, Pavel
name: Snyder, Noah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a finite braided tensor category A is invertible in the Morita 4-category BrTens of braided tensor categories if, and only if, it is non-degenerate. This includes the case of semisimple modular tensor categories, but also non-semisimple examples such as categories of representations of the small quantum group at good roots of unity. Via the cobordism hypothesis, we obtain new invertible 4-dimensional framed topological field theories, which we regard as a non-semisimple framed version of the Crane-Yetter-Kauffman invariants, after Freed--Teleman and Walker's construction in the semisimple case. More generally, we characterize invertibility for E_1- and E_2-algebras in an arbitrary symmetric monoidal oo-category, and we conjecture a similar characterization of invertible E_n-algebras for any n. Finally, we propose the Picard group of BrTens as a generalization of the Witt group of non-degenerate braided fusion categories, and pose a number of open questions about it.
Generalized parton distributions and composite constituent quarks
Creators: name: Scopetta, Sergio
name: Vento, Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approach is proposed to calculate Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) in a Constituent Quark Model (CQM) scenario, considering the constituent quarks as complex systems. The GPDs are obtained from the wave functions of the non relativistic CQM of Isgur and Karl, convoluted with the GPDs of the constituent quarks themselves. The latter are modelled by using the structure functions of the constituent quark, the double distribution representation of GPDs, and a recently proposed phenomenological constituent quark form factor. The present approach permits to access a kinematical range corresponding to both the DGLAP and the ERBL regions, for small values of the momentum transfer and of the skewedness parameter. In this kinematical region, the cross sections relevant to deeply virtual Compton scattering could be estimated by using the obtained GPDs. As an example, the leading twist, unpolarized GPD $H$ has been calculated. Its general relations with the non relativistic definition of the electric form factor and with the leading twist unpolarized quark density are consistently recovered from our expressions.Further natural applications of the proposed approach are addressed.
description: 38 pages, 8 figures; final, extended version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
U.S. milled rice markets and integration across regions and types
Creators: name: Kim, Man-Keun
name: Tejeda, Hernan
name: Yu, T. Edward
name: Kim, Man-Keun
name: Tejeda, Hernan
name: Yu, T. Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: rice markets
subject: cointegration
subject: impulse response functions

description: Rice is among the top seven U.S. major crops in terms of harvested acres – covering over 2.6 million acres – and sixth in terms of sales, with annual cash receipts around 3.1 billion dollars. This paper investigates whether U.S. milled rice markets are integrated across regions and whether these markets are integrated by rice types. Understanding dynamic relationships across regions and types provides important insights for risk management and policy making. Of the four major producing regions, three are in the South – Arkansas-Missouri, Louisiana-Mississippi, and Texas – and the other is California. There are different rice types associated with a production region. California mainly produces short and medium grain; while Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana primarily produce long and also medium grains. We determine the potential market integration of these rice markets by applying a Vector Error Correction Model and Directed Acyclic Graphs to monthly free on board milled rice price data from August 1986 to December 2015. Results suggest that Arkansas-Missouri region is the leading price reference in the long grain markets. Arkansas-Missouri medium grain also plays an important role in the medium grain markets. California medium grain markets are weakly exogenous in the short run, but affected by Arkansas-Missouri medium grain in the longer term. As anticipated, Arkansas-Missouri long grain milled rice markets are driven by rough rice futures price in the longer term. Interestingly, Arkansas-Missouri medium grain market has a sizable impact on long grain markets even though long and medium grains are not substitutes. This may be due to land competition to long grain rice production in Arkansas, a major area of long grain rice production.
Morphology of Ti on Monolayer Nanocrystalline Graphene and its Unexpectedly Low Hydrogen Adsorption
Creators: name: Murata, Yuya
name: Veronesi, Stefano
name: Whang, Dongmok
name: Heun, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen adsorption on graphene can be increased by functionalization with Ti. This requires dispersing Ti islands on graphene as small and dense as possible, in order to increase the number of hydrogen adsorption sites per Ti atom. In this report, we investigate the morphology of Ti on nanocrystalline graphene and its hydrogen adsorption by scanning tunneling microscopy and thermal desorption spectroscopy, and compare the results with equivalent measurements on single-crystalline graphene. Nanocrystalline graphene consists of extremely small crystal grains of < 5 nm size. Ti atoms preferentially adsorb at the grain boundaries of nanocrystalline graphene and form smaller and denser islands compared to single-crystalline graphene. Surprisingly, however, hydrogen adsorbs less to Ti on nanocrystalline graphene than to Ti on single-crystalline graphene. In particular, hydrogen hardly chemisorbs to 1 ML of Ti on nanocrystalline graphene. This may be attributed to strong bonds between Ti and defects located along the grain boundaries in nanocrystalline graphene. This mechanism might apply to other metals, as well, and therefore our results suggest that when functionalizing graphene by metal atoms for the purpose of hydrogen storage or other chemical reactions, it is important to consider not only the morphology of the resulting surface, but also the influence of graphene on the electronic states of the metal.
Quantum transport and utilization of free energy in protein $α$-helices
Creators: name: Georgiev, Danko D.
name: Glazebrook, James F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The essential biological processes that sustain life are catalyzed by protein nano-engines, which maintain living systems in far-from-equilibrium ordered states. To investigate energetic processes in proteins, we have analyzed the system of generalized Davydov equations that govern the quantum dynamics of multiple amide I exciton quanta propagating along the hydrogen-bonded peptide groups in $α$-helices. Computational simulations have confirmed the generation of moving Davydov solitons by applied pulses of amide I energy for protein $α$-helices of varying length. The stability and mobility of these solitons depended on the uniformity of dipole-dipole coupling between amide I oscillators, and the isotropy of the exciton-phonon interaction. Davydov solitons were also able to quantum tunnel through massive barriers, or to quantum interfere at collision sites. The results presented here support a nontrivial role of quantum effects in biological systems that lies beyond the mechanistic support of covalent bonds as binding agents of macromolecular structures. Quantum tunneling and interference of Davydov solitons provide catalytically active macromolecular protein complexes with a physical mechanism allowing highly efficient transport, delivery, and utilization of free energy, besides the evolutionary mandate of biological order that supports the existence of such genuine quantum phenomena, and may indeed demarcate the quantum boundaries of life.
description: 40 pages, 20 figures
“Soft Balancing” avant la Lettre : Latin America and the United States : Latin America and the United States
Creators: name: Friedman, Max Paul
name: Long, Tom
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, scholars of international relations debated how to best characterize the rising tide of global opposition. The concept of “soft balancing” emerged as an influential, though contested, explanation of a new phenomenon in a unipolar world: states seeking to constrain the ability of the United States to deploy military force by using multinational organizations, international law, and coalition building. Soft balancing can also be observed in regional unipolar systems. Multinational archival research reveals how Argentina, Mexico, and other Latin American countries responded to expanding U.S. power and military assertiveness in the early twentieth century through coordinated diplomatic maneuvering that provides a strong example of soft balancing. Examination of this earlier case makes an empirical contribution to the emerging soft-balancing literature and suggests that soft balancing need not lead to hard balancing or open conflict.
title: Development of New Methods for the (Q)SAR Applicability Domain Assessment: Using Structural Information in a Statistical Study of the Errors in Prediction
Creators: name: Diaza, Rodolfo Gonella
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: The main aim of (Q)SAR is to build models to evaluate and predict properties of molecules, such as biological and environmental effects, and physicochemical properties. These models are built using available experimental data, whose quality and quantity heavily affect their capability of obtaining reliable predictions for new chemicals. A dataset can be viewed as a "sampling" of the whole chemical space, if a sample is too small and / or too homogeneous, the model will inevitably have limitations in the type of chemicals it can predict.

 From the point of view of protecting the human health and the environment, it is preferable that a model is able to predict even a small number of chemicals, but with the highest possible reliability. The "coverage" issue can be overcome by integrating results from different models. In this perspective the importance of clearly defining the model's applicability domain is crucial to identify which model is most suitable for each chemical to assess.

 The definition of the applicability domain (AD) of (Q)SAR models is still an open research field. Several approaches have been proposed and implemented through years, including the use of structural features such as functional groups and atom-centered fragments. These features have also proven to be useful for an a priori definition of AD, making it independent from the specific algorithm chosen to develop the model.

 Within this study, the definition of (Q)SAR models' applicability domain has been investigated using structural features of different complexity: thresholds for chemical composition and molecular weight, chemical classes related to commonly well and badly predicted molecules, and statistically-extracted structural fragments to model the error in prediction. In the case studies considered, these approaches improved the AD definition provided by the model developers, supporting their integration within the definition of the models' applicability domain.
Factors influencing attrition among learners : Faculty of Applied Social Sciences in OUM
Creators: name: Mohamed, Noor Hassline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 50203 Environmental Education and Extension
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 130199 Education systems not elsewhere classified
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education
subject: 130108 Technical, Further and Workplace Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education

description: This study examined factors affecting the attrition rate among learners in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institution. The main focus of the study is to explore what factors cause the attrition, and what are the best ways or strategies to prevent the attrition rate among adult learners. There were 15 adult learners from the Faculty of Applied and Social Sciences (FASS) at Open University Malaysia (OUM) were taken from the population of dormant learners which were not registered for three concurrent semesters. The study found that the main factor of attrition was learners were overextended with too many responsibilities. The three ways to prevent attrition among learners were learners’ communication, learners’ mentoring, and learners’ awareness. It is recommended that the best practice for prevention learners’ attrition was learner itself. This study offered two benefits, factors affecting the attrition rate among adult learners and offered some ways in preventing attrition among adult learners from learners’ own perspective. Therefore, this study can be used as a benchmark for the faculty to handle the attrition cases for adult learners in open and distance learning institutions.
Possible fractal structure of exact universal exchange-correlation potential
Creators: name: Babinec, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heuristic arguments are presented to show that the basic quantity of density functional theory - exact universal exchange-correlation potential should have fractal structure.
description: 4 pages
Additional file 1 of Explanatory models of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among Afghan refugees in Norway
Creators: name: Brea Larios, Dixie
name: Sandal, Gro Mjeldheim
name: Guribye, Eugene
name: Markova, Valeria
name: Sam, David Lackland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PTSD and depression vignettes. The FGIs used a vignette displaying a fictional person suffering from symptoms of either PTSD or depression in line with ICD-10 and DSM-5.
Assessing electron emission induced by pulsed ion beams: a time-of-flight approach
Creators: name: Lohmann, Svenja
name: Niggas, Anna
name: Charnay, Vincent
name: Holeňák, Radek
name: Primetzhofer, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to measure the kinetic energy of electrons emitted upon ion impact via their time-of-flight. Pulsed beams of H$^{+}$, D$_2^{+}$, He$^{+}$ and Ne$^{+}$ ions with velocities between 0.4 and 3.5 a.u. are transmitted through thin, self-supporting carbon and gold foils. Transmitted ions and secondary electrons are detected with a position-sensitive detector behind the sample and their respective energies are determined via their flight times. A coincidence criterium can be applied in the acquisition software. Measured electron energies range between 10 and 400 eV. Above ion velocities of 1 a.u. the most probable electron energy scales with ion velocity pointing towards a kinetic emission mechanism. At lower ion velocities, the electron energy stays constant and lies above the maximum energy transfer possible in a classical binary collision between ion and electron. Potential applications and technical challenges of measuring electron energies and yields with a time-of-flight approach are discussed.
description: submitted to the VSI: 23rd International Workshop on Inelastic Ion-Surface Collisions proceedings