cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dietary Risk Factors and Odds of Colorectal Adenoma in Malaysia : A Case Control Study
Creators: name: Razinah, SHARIF
name: YAU Jia Xin
name: ABDUL HAMID Nor Hidayah
name: Amani, MOHAMMAD Nur Mahirah
name: Suzana, SHAHAR
name: Affendi, RAJA ALI Raja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Colorectal Adenoma
Dietary Risk Factors
Case Control
lifestyle factors

description: Current evidence suggests that dietary and lifestyle factors may play an important role in colorectal cancer risk but there are only a few studies that investigated their relationship with colorectal adenomas (CRA), the precursors for colorectal cancer. A case-control study was conducted to determine the relationship between dietary and lifestyle factors associated with CRA risk. The questionnaires were used to obtain information on diet and physical activity using dietary history questionnaire (DHQ) and International Physical Activity Questionnaire- Short Form (IPAQ), involving a sample of 125 subjects with CRA and 150 subjects without CRA at Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz UKM (HCTM), Malaysia were recruited. Data analysis perform by SPSS 21 The findings of this study revealed that male gender [OR=2.71 (95% CI= 1.01-7.27)], smoking [OR=6.39 (95% CI= 1.04-39.30)], family history of cancer [OR=6.39 (95% CI= 1.04-39.30)], high body fat percentage [OR=1.25 (95% CI= 1.04-1.51)], high calorie and fat intake [OR=1.03 (95% CI= 1.01-1.06)], [OR=1.01 (95% CI= 0.95-1.09)] and red meat intake more than 100 g per day [OR=1.02 (95% CI= 1.01-1.04)] increased CRA risk. Working status [OR=0.05 (95% CI= 0.01-0.31)], high fibre intake and calcium intake decreased CRA risk with [OR=0.78 (95% CI= 0.64-0.95)] and [OR=0.78 (95% CI= 0.98-1.00)]. Risk factors which include gender, body fat percentage, smoking, family history of cancer, red meat intake, high fat, high energy, low fibre and inadequate calcium have significant association with risk of colorectal adenoma in the Malaysian population. The results of this study will help to inform the design of healthy lifestyle promotions which are necessary to reduce the risk of colorectal adenoma. Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Symmetry protected topological phases in non-interacting fermion systems
Creators: name: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are gapped quantum phases with a certain symmetry, which can all be smoothly connected to the same trivial product state if we break the symmetry. For non-interacting fermion systems with time reversal (T), charge conjugation (C), and/or U(1) (N) symmetries, the total symmetry group can depend on the relations between those symmetry operations, such as T N T^{-1}= N or T N T^{-1}= -N. As a result, the SPT phases of those fermion systems with different symmetry groups have different classifications. In this paper, we use Kitaev's K-theory approach to classify the gapped free fermion phases for those possible symmetry groups. In particular, we can view the U(1) as a spin rotation. We find that superconductors with the S_z spin rotation symmetry are classified by Z in even dimensions, while superconductors with the time reversal plus the S_z spin rotation symmetries are classified by Z in odd dimensions. We show that all 10 classes of gapped free fermion phases can be realized by electron systems with certain symmetries. We also point out that to properly describe the symmetry of a fermionic system, we need to specify its full symmetry group that includes the fermion number parity transformation (-)^N. The full symmetry group is actually a projective symmetry group.
description: 15 pages, RevTeX4, 7 tables
Hierarchical self-organization of cytoskeletal active networks
Creators: name: Gordon, Daniel
name: Bernheim-Groswasser, Anne
name: Keasar, Chen
name: Farago, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structural reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton is facilitated through the action of motor proteins that crosslink the actin filaments and transport them relative to each other. Here, we present a combined experimental-computational study that probes the dynamic evolution of mixtures of actin filaments and clusters of myosin motors. While on small spatial and temporal scales the system behaves in a very noisy manner, on larger scales it evolves into several well distinct patterns such as bundles, asters, and networks. These patterns are characterized by junctions with high connectivity, whose formation is possible due to the organization of the motors in "oligoclusters" (intermediate-size aggregates). The simulations reveal that the self-organization process proceeds through a series of hierarchical steps, starting from local microscopic moves and ranging up to the macroscopic large scales where the steady-state structures are formed. Our results shed light into the mechanisms involved in processes like cytokinesis and cellular contractility, where myosin motors organized in clusters operate cooperatively to induce structural organization of cytoskeletal networks.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Biology. Copy including the Supporting Information text can be downloaded from http://www.bgu.ac.il/~ofarago/paper_arxiv.pdf
Giant birefringence in optical antenna arrays with widely tailorable optical anisotropy
Creators: name: Kats, Mikhail A.
name: Genevet, Patrice
name: Aoust, Guillaume
name: Yu, Nanfang
name: Blanchard, Romain
name: Aieta, Francesco
name: Gaburro, Zeno
name: Capasso, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The manipulation of light by conventional optical components such as a lenses, prisms and wave plates involves engineering of the wavefront as it propagates through an optically-thick medium. A new class of ultra-flat optical components with high functionality can be designed by introducing abrupt phase shifts into the optical path, utilizing the resonant response of arrays of scatters with deeply-subwavelength thickness. As an application of this concept, we report a theoretical and experimental study of birefringent arrays of two-dimensional (V- and Y-shaped) optical antennas which support two orthogonal charge-oscillation modes and serve as broadband, anisotropic optical elements that can be used to locally tailor the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. The degree of optical anisotropy can be designed by controlling the interference between the light scattered by the antenna modes; in particular, we observe a striking effect in which the anisotropy disappears as a result of destructive interference. These properties are captured by a simple, physical model in which the antenna modes are treated as independent, orthogonally-oriented harmonic oscillators.
Intrinsic disc emission and the Soft X-ray Excess in AGN
Creators: name: Done, Chris
name: Davis, Shane
name: Jin, Chichuan
name: Blaes, Omer
name: Ward, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies have low mass black holes and mass accretion rates close to (or exceeding) Eddington, so a standard blackbody accretion disc should peak in the EUV. However, the lack of true absorption opacity in the disc means that the emission is better approximated by a colour temperature corrected blackbody, and this colour temperature correction is large enough ($\sim 2.4$) that the bare disc emission from a zero spin black hole can extend into the soft X-ray bandpass. Part of the soft X-ray excess seen in these objects must be intrinsic emission from the disc unless the vertical structure is very different to that predicted. However, the soft excess is much broader than predicted by a bare disc spectrum, indicating some Compton upscattering by cool, optically thick material. We associate this with the disc itself, so it must ultimately be powered by mass accretion. We build an energetically self consistent model assuming that the emission thermalises at large radii, but that at smaller radii the gravitational energy is split between powering optically thick Comptonised disc emission (forming the soft X-ray excess) and an optically thin corona above the disc (forming the tail to higher energies). We show examples of this model fit to the extreme NLS1 REJ1034+396, and to the much lower Eddington fraction Broad Line Seyfert 1 PG1048+231. We use these to guide our fits and interpretations of three template spectra made from co-adding multiple sources to track out a sequence of AGN spectra as a function of $L/L_{Edd}$. The new model is publically available within the {\sc xspec} spectral fitting package.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Oil Oxidation and Adiabatic Compression as Ignition Sources in Oilfield Operations
Creators: name: Panjeshahi, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Oxidation
subject: Adiabatic
subject: Ignition
subject: LTO
subject: Compression
subject: Explosion
subject: Wellwork

description: Well interventions or work-overs are generally a safe operation, however there are areas where an explosion might occur in surface equipment during the process, causing Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) hazards and damages to surrounding equipment and the environment. The source of these explosions often remains a mystery as they are initiated inside the process piping under conditions where there is no obvious source of oxygen and often no obvious ignition mechanism. The In-situ Combustion Research Group (ISCRG) believes that trapped pockets of air in contact with immobile hydrocarbons, accumulated in surface equipment, could be the source of ignition. These accumulations under the right temperature conditions such as during a hot summer day could raise the temperature of the trapped pocket of air and immobile hydrocarbon high enough to exceed the Self-ignition Temperature (SIT) of the immobile hydrocarbon and initiate the generation of flammable liquid and vapor phase components through spontaneous liquid phase oxidation (LTO) reactions. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation was to analyze the ignition and self-heating characteristics of oxidized oils in order to better understand LTO-initiated explosions. Three (3) different oil samples (Athabasca bitumen, a paraffinic light oil, and diesel as a refined product) were chosen. Twelve (12) High Pressure Isothermal Oxidation (HPIO) tests were performed to oxidize the oil samples in the batch reactors at temperatures of 25°C, 50°C, 75°C, and 100°C, by keeping them in contact with normal air (21% O2 and 79% N2) at a nominal pressure of 7 MPa for the period of seven days. Seven (7) Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC) tests were conducted on original (un-oxidized) and selected oxidized oil samples to determine the ignition and self-heating characteristics. The major finding of the study was that two of the oil types (Oil B – light paraffinic crude oil and Oil C - diesel) exhibited oxidation characteristics that could lead to explosive events. Both of these hydrocarbons exhibited increased maximum reaction rates when they were pre-oxidized. The third sample, Oil A or Athabasca bitumen exhibited easily observable oxygen uptake rate at 75°C, but it is unlikely that the bitumen would support an explosive event during a well work-over operation.
Additional file 1 of Menopausal symptoms by HIV status and association with health-related quality of life among women in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Madanhire, Tafadzwa
name: Hawley, Samuel
name: Dauya, Ethel
name: Bandason, Tsitsi
name: Rukuni, Ruramayi
name: Ferrand, Rashida A
name: Gregson, Celia L
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional File Table 1: Different contraceptive methods by menopause status in women living with and without HIV
Comparison of Paleodietary Reconstructions Using Pre- and Post-Glacial Mammut and Mammuthus
Creators: name: Cammidge, Tasha Sabrina
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Paleontology
subject: Paleodietary reconstruction
subject: proboscidean
subject: end-Pleistocene
subject: mesowear
subject: microwear
subject: dental calculus

description: Mesowear, microwear and dental calculus analyses are utilized to complete dietary reconstructions on Mammut and Mammuthus, and are compared to modern Loxodonta africana. These analyses demonstrate that left and right, upper and lower, and imperfect molars may be utilized indiscriminately. Loxodonta africana are grazers or mixed-feeders. Mammut were primarily browsers, but may have changed their diets meal-by-meal or seasonally to graze or mixed-feed. Mesowear analysis of Mammuthus indicates a grazing diet, but microwear analysis indicates a mixed-feeding diet. Dental calculus analysis shows all three species were mixed-feeding. Mesowear and microwear show no differences in pre- and post-glacial diet for fossil proboscideans, but dental calculus showed large differences. In pre-glacial dental calculus there was a larger proportion of tiny grass starch granules, whereas post-glacially there is a larger proportion of large grass starch granules with lamellae. This result is consistent with a shift in Mammut and Mammuthus diet during the end-Pleistocene.
Health and Weight Beliefs and Behaviours of Pre-Service Teachers: Considerations and Implications for a Health Promotion Perspective
Creators: name: Tkachuk, Michelle
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Health
subject: Education--Teacher Training
subject: Teacher Training
subject: Health
subject: Weight
subject: Health Promoting Universities
subject: Body Satisfaction
subject: Weight Bias

description: This project explored pre-service teachers (i.e., bachelor of education [B.Ed.] students) beliefs and behaviours about health and weight during their university education at an Alberta university. Although many studies claim that there is a need for training teachers in the areas of health and weight, recommendations for the specific areas requiring professional development or intervention for teachers are lacking. The present study was conducted with 226 pre-service teachers. Participants’ self-reported height, weight, body satisfaction, health promoting behaviours, implicit weight bias, current weight loss and muscle gain attempts were assessed. Results demonstrated many pre-service teachers have concerns about their weight and their bodies and exhibit weight bias, which may be transferred to their future students. Professional development interventions targeting body satisfaction, weight bias, exercise behaviour, and stress management may be beneficial for pre-service teachers. Such interventions may help to better prepare teachers to teach and model health to their future students.
Additional file 2 of Menopausal symptoms by HIV status and association with health-related quality of life among women in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Madanhire, Tafadzwa
name: Hawley, Samuel
name: Dauya, Ethel
name: Bandason, Tsitsi
name: Rukuni, Ruramayi
name: Ferrand, Rashida A
name: Gregson, Celia L
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional File Table 2: Multivariate model for factors associated with moderate and/or severe menopausal symptoms in Zimbabwean women living in Harare
Resolved Measurements of Xco in NGC 6946
Creators: name: Meyer, Jennifer Donovan
name: Koda, Jin
name: Momose, Rieko
name: Fukuhara, Masayuki
name: Mooney, Thomas
name: Towers, Sarah
name: Egusa, Fumi
name: Kennicutt, Robert
name: Kuno, Nario
name: Carty, Misty
name: Sawada, Tsuyoshi
name: Scoville, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the largest sample to date of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in a substantial spiral galaxy other than the Milky Way. We map the distribution of molecular gas with high resolution and image fidelity within the central 5 kpc of the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 in the 12CO (J=1-0) transition. By combining observations from the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45-meter single dish telescope and the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Astronomy (CARMA) interferometer, we are able to obtain high image fidelity and accurate measurements of LCO compared with previous purely interferometric studies. We resolve individual giant molecular clouds (GMCs), measure their luminosities and virial masses, and derive Xco - the conversion factor from CO measurements to H2 masses - within individual clouds. On average, we find that Xco = 1.2 \times 10^20 cm-2 / (K km s-1), which is consistent within our uncertainties with previously derived Galactic values as well as the value we derive for Galactic GMCs above our mass sensitivity limit. The properties of our GMCs are largely consistent with the trends observed for molecular clouds detected in the Milky Way disk, with the exception of six clouds detected within \sim400 pc of the center of NGC 6946, which exhibit larger velocity dispersions for a given size and luminosity, as has also been observed at the Galactic center.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ
Signature of antiferromagnetic long-range order in the optical spectrum of strongly correlated electron systems
Creators: name: Taranto, C.
name: Sangiovanni, G.
name: Held, K.
name: Capone, M.
name: Georges, A.
name: Toschi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the onset of a non-Slater antiferromagnetic ordering in a correlated material can be detected by optical spectroscopy. Using dynamical mean-field theory we identify two distinctive features: The antiferromagnetic ordering is associated with an enhanced spectral weight above the optical gap, and well separated spin-polaron peaks emerge in the optical spectrum. Both features are indeed observed in LaSrMnO_4 [Gössling et al., Phys. Rev. B 77, 035109 (2008)]
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Metoporhaphis calcarata Say 1818
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Inachidae
Metoporhaphis
Metoporhaphis calcarata

description: Metoporhaphis calcarata (Say, 1818)
Material examined (N=4). 1f, 19/IX/2000, 13°52’99”S / 38°59’59”W (MZUESC #54); 1m, 07/VIII/2005, St. 0 5 (MZUESC #678).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – North Carolina, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and Brazil (from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio de Janeiro) (Melo 1996).
Ecological notes. On coral, rocks, hydroids, and oysters. From shallow waters to 90 m (Melo 1996).
Previous records in Bahia. Miers (1886) (as M. forficulatus A. Milne Edwards, 1878), Moreira (1901) (as M. forficulatus), Joly et al. (1969), Gomes Corrêa (1972), Almeida et al. (2003, 2007).
Remarks. This species was recorded from Camamu Bay by Almeida et al. (2003). In Northeast Brazil, it ranges from Rio Grande do Norte to Abrolhos (Miers 1886; Joly et al. 1969; Ferreira & Sankarankutty 2002).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Assessing the environmental practices and impacts of intentional communities: an ecological footprint comparison of an ecovillage and cohousing community in southwestern British Columbia
Creators: name: Giratalla, Waleed
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The ecological footprint of the average Canadian is three times greater than the global per capita biocapacity of the planet. The purpose of this research is to gain insights from intentional communities on how to reduce household ecological footprints in Canada. Intentional community is an inclusive term for a variety of community types, including ecovillages and cohousing, where residents have come together to achieve a common purpose. Studies show that intentional communities have per capita ecological footprints that are less than those of conventional communities. I corroborate these findings through my own ecological footprint analyses of Quayside Village and OUR Ecovillage, in southwestern British Columbia. These communities have per capita ecological footprints that are smaller than some conventional averages. Overall, Quayside Village and OUR Ecovillage also have comparatively similar per capita ecological footprints, suggesting that residents of both urban and rural intentional communities may demonstrate similar environmental behaviours. Intentional community living is currently confined to small‐scale grassroots initiatives so even the aggregate environmental benefits are insignificant. Municipalities and land developers can help to advance the pro‐environmental practices of intentional communities by increasing incentives for this community model and adapting intentional community practices to a conventional context.
THE EFFECT OF TEACHING IN IMPROVEMENT OF FIVE MOMENTS OF HAND HYGIENE AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SHAH ALAM
Creators: name: LIM Fang Jen
name: SIVAGANABALAN Ranjini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: clinical audit
hand hygiene
emergency department
quality improvement initiative

description: Introduction:
 Data shows poor hand hygiene compliance in busy emergency department prompted a quality improvement initiative to improve hand hygiene compliance. To date, there have been no comprehensive reviews on hand hygiene in emergency department (ED) within Malaysia. The aim of this study was to investigate hand hygiene compliance rate and to measure the impact of intervention on hand hygiene compliance among staff in the emergency department. Methods:
 This is a clinical audit conducted in emergency department of Hospital Shah Alam for 1 month. Prospective 2 phase pre and post intervention study to determine compliance of hand hygiene and the effect of intervention. The intervention included regular reminders via social media, online continuous medical educations, educational hand hygiene video sharing, rewards, and interviewed staff with poor compliance of hand hygiene. Results:
 Total of 36 healthcare professionals participated in the study. The compliance rate was 55.6% in the pre intervention phase. Compliance minimally increases to 59.76% after intervention. Conclusion:
 Hand hygiene compliance was low in Hospital Shah Alam ED setting. Compliance rates remain unsatisfactory despite measures implemented. The review findings indicate that there is a room for improvement in hand hygiene in EDs. Future multilevel modalities are necessary to advocate hand hygiene compliance in EDs. Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Protection of ecological goods and services through water management planning: a case study of the nose creek watershed, Alberta
Creators: name: Koleyak, Danielle
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Urban and Regional Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: ecological goods and services
subject: water management planning
subject: environmental management
subject: environmental planning

description: Integrated water management planning describes a holistic management framework to developing plans that will maintain water quantity and quality for environmental, economic, and social goals. The concept of ecological goods and services can be utilized to address these three goals simultaneously. Utilization of this concept by water management planners can therefore assist in achieving planning goals. This research evaluates the extent to which the protection of ecological goods and services is provided by integrated water management planning in Alberta. An evaluative framework was developed from a literature synthesis to identify elements critical to successful integrated water management planning and subsequent EGS protection. The framework was then applied to a case study of the Nose Creek Watershed in Alberta. Analysis of the results indicate that while there are positive movements towards protecting ecological goods and services by integrated water management planning the level is currently low within the case study area.
Pre-Competition Mental Preparation Routines and Performance in Hockey
Creators: name: Dixon, Joshua
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: ice hockey
subject: sports psychology
subject: Performance
subject: mental preparation
subject: pre-competition routines

description: The purpose of this study was to examine pre-competition mental preparation routines and their impact on male hockey players (N=17) at the Western Hockey League (WHL) level with three aims: 1) To develop individual mental preparation pre- competition routines that build upon existing physical preparation routines, 2) To examine whether a pre-competition plan with physical and mental considerations will have a positive impact on performance, 3) To determine whether workshops for the introduction of a Psychological Skills Training (PST) program impacts the participants use of preparation routines prior to practice and competition. Four workshops were conducted to teach and develop PST (diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscular relaxation, self-talk, visualization), and pre-competition routines for the participants. A generalized 10 phase pre-competition routine was created to reflect both physical and mental preparation considerations. Pre- and post-intervention performance was measured by a coaching staff (N=3) rating and a participant self-rating. Mental preparation prior to competition was rated by the participants for a pre- post-intervention comparison. The impact of the intervention on PST was assessed using the Test of Performance Strategies (TOPS), the Athlete Coping Skills Inventory-28 (ACSI-28), the Self-Talk Questionnaire (STQ), and the Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ). Results showed multiple sections with significant differences between pre- and post-intervention indicating a possible positive impact of the intervention on the use and effectiveness of PST and pre- competition routines. Results indicated improved consistency for on-ice performance, and an increase in the mental preparation pre-competition self-rating post-intervention.
Weak antiferromagnetic ordering and pure magnetic reflections induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in MnSi-type crystals
Creators: name: Dmitrienko, Vladimir E.
name: Chizhikov, Viacheslav A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry analysis of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction in MnSi-type cubic crystals demonstrates that the magnetic moments are tilted periodically, producing a weak antiferromagnetic pattern, when the helix is unwound by magnetic field. The tilt angles of four Mn sublattices are determined by a component of the DM vector perpendicular to that one responsible for helical spiraling; both components have been evaluated using a simple model. It is shown that the tilting should induce pure magnetic reflections 00l, l=2n+1 in neutron or x-ray magnetic scattering, and the structure factors of these "forbidden" reflections are calculated for arbitrary field orientations.
description: 6 pages, submitted to PRL
Interface-driven phase separation in multifunctional materials: the case of GeMn ferromagnetic semiconductor
Creators: name: Arras, Emmanuel
name: Lançon, Frédéric
name: Slipukhina, Ivetta
name: Prestat, Éric
name: Rovezzi, Mauro
name: Tardif, Samuel
name: Titov, Andrey
name: Bayle-Guillemaud, Pascale
name: D'Acapito, Francesco
name: Barski, André
name: Favre-Nicolin, Vincent
name: Jamet, Matthieu
name: Cibert, Joël
name: Pochet, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use extensive first principle simulations to show the major role played by interfaces in the mechanism of phase separation observed in semiconductor multifunctional materials. We make an analogy with the precipitation sequence observed in over-saturated AlCu alloys, and replace the Guinier-Preston zones in this new context. A new class of materials, the $α$ phases, is proposed to understand the formation of the coherent precipitates observed in the GeMn system. The interplay between formation and interface energies is analyzed for these phases and for the structures usually considered in the literature. The existence of the alpha phases is assessed with both theoretical and experimental arguments.
Flexoelectricity induced increase of critical thickness in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films
Creators: name: Zhou, Hao
name: Hong, Jiawang
name: Zhang, Yihui
name: Li, Faxin
name: Pei, Yongmao
name: Fang, Daining
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flexoelectricity describes the coupling between polarization and strain/stress gradients in insulating crystals. In this paper, using the Landau-Ginsburg-Devonshire phenomenological approach, we found that flexoelectricity could increase the theoretical critical thickness in epitaxial BaTiO3 thin films, below which the switchable spontaneous polarization vanishes. This increase is remarkable in tensile films while trivial in compressive films due to the electrostriction caused decrease of potential barrier, which can be easily destroyed by the flexoelectricity, between the ferroelectric state and the paraelectric state in tensile films. In addition, the films are still in a uni-polar state even below the critical thickness due to the flexoelectric effect.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
On turbulent fragmentation and the origin of the stellar IMF
Creators: name: Anathpindika, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two varieties of the universal stellar initial mass function (IMF) viz., the Kroupa and the Chabrier IMF, have emerged over the last decade to explain the observed distribution of stellar masses. The possibility of the universal nature of the stellar IMF leads us to the interesting prospect of a universal mode of star-formation. It is well-known that turbulent fragmentation of gas in the interstellar medium produces a lognormal distribution of density which is further reflected by the mass-function for clumps at low and intermediate masses. Stars condense out of unstable clumps through a complex interplay between a number of dynamic processes which must be accounted for when tracing the origin of the stellar IMF. In the present work, applying the theory of gravitational fragmentation we first derive the mass function (MF) for clumps. Then a core mass function (CMF) is derived by allowing the clumps to fragment, having subjected each one to a random choice of gas temperature. Finally, the stellar IMF is derived by applying a random core-to-star conversion efficiency, $ε$, in the range of 5%-15% to each CMF. We obtain a power-law IMF that has exponents within the error-bars on the Kropua IMF. This derived IMF is preceded by a similar core mass function which suggests, gravoturbulent fragmentation plays a key role in assembling necessary conditions that relate the two mass-functions. In this sense the star-formation process, at least at low redshifts where gas cooling is efficient, is likely to be universal. We argue that the observed knee in the CMF and the stellar IMF may alternatively be interpreted in terms of the characteristic temperature at which gas in potential star-forming clouds is likely to be found. Our results also show that turbulence in star-forming clouds is probably driven on large spatial scales with a power-spectrum steeper than Kolmogorov-type.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures; To appear in New Astronomy; Figure numbers corrected in this version
Implementation of Universal Design for Learning
Creators: name: Senechal, Megan Alyce
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Administration
subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education--Special
subject: UDL
subject: Universal design for learning
subject: Implementation

description: This study involves one school in an urban context that implemented the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in order to help educators in providing successful learning experiences for all students. Using Rogers’ (2003) theory of Diffusion of Innovations as the theoretical framework and Fullan’s (2007) change process as the conceptual framework, this study examines the factors that influence the change process when the UDL framework is implemented. This study is a descriptive case study that employed different types of data collection: documentation, interviews, and observations. The data analysis used Saldana’s (2013) two-cycled approach. Factors that challenged the implementation of UDL and affected the current and sustained implementation of UDL aligned with Fullan’s (2007) local factors, external factors, and characteristics of change. Local factors included leadership, time, teacher beliefs, professional development, resources, and students. External factors were the success for all students in one education system, professional development/training/coaching, time, the amount of curriculum to teach, funding, and resources. Characteristics of change included the practicality of UDL and how difficult it is to implement. The implications of these findings are important for various educational stakeholders, as they provide insight into the implementation of a novel framework in an urban learning context, which may be extended to other learning contexts. Future research directions are discussed.
The Role Of Laboratory Surveillance In Facilitating The Management Of The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak In Kelantan
Creators: name: MOHD HATTA Hazlienor
name: MOHD FUZI Nik Mohd Hafiz
name: SULAIMAN Suhaiza
name: MUHAMMAD Abdul Haris
name: HUSSIN Zaini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
Laboratory Surveillance
Coronavirus
Outbreak management
public health

description: Background
 Kelantan had the highest Reproductive (Rt) Value of COVID-19 cases recorded in Malaysia on 22 April 2021, contributing to a quarter of the nation's daily cases. This study aimed to describe the adjustment in testing strategies facilitated by laboratory surveillance in response to the surge of cases. Method
 All data from the state's COVID-19 registry between January-June 2021 was analyzed for the sampling and testing characteristics including types, frequencies, capacities, positivity rate and laboratory turn-around-time. Descriptive data analysed using SPSS version 25. Results
 The daily samples received for the diagnostic Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) were within capacity throughout Jan-March. In April, the averages test in the second week increased from 1131 tests/day to 1544 tests/day, exceeding the capacity of 1500 tests/day. Afterwards, 16.8% of samples were outsourced, increasing the average testing to 2677 tests/day. However, the average sampling persistently high amounting to 3311/day with positivity rate of 14.2%. Lab turn-around-time exceeded 48 hours; signalling for reactive strategies. Rapid Diagnostic Antigen Testing (Ag-RDT) were then amplified averaging 963/day. In high prevalent localities (>15% positivity rate), cases were confirmed with Ag-RDT without NAAT while negative Ag-RDT among high-risk groups were subjected to NAAT. Conversely, positive Ag-RDT results in low prevalent settings required confirmation by NAAT. On 22 June, NAAT was resumed as the confirmatory test as positivity rate reduced and samples were within the testing capacity. Conclusion
 Daily laboratory surveillance allowed proactive strategies to be identified in response to different epidemiological conditions, allowing Kelantan to stay within its surge capacity in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Biophysical studies of bacterial proteins; can we address antibiotic resistance?
Creators: name: Paul, Subrata
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biochemistry

description: It is forecast that the single biggest challenge to medical care in the twenty-first century will be the control of antibiotic resistant bacteria, including multidrug resistant strains. Although numerous factors are associated with the rapid emergence of pathogen resistance, the limited number of core structures of currently used antibiotics is one of the reasons for this development. Unlike other conventional antibiotics, the recently discovered class of lipopeptide antibiotics consists of a cyclic peptide head group with an acyl chain that are synthesized by a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase in association with an acyl carrier protein (ACP). This dissertation presents the solution structure of an ACP, LipD that is involved in the acylation of the lipopeptide antibiotic friulimicin. Enhanced stability of holo-LipD (LipD with the phosphopantetheine group attached) was observed through biophysical investigations. This may originate from a subtle change in the helix angles, required for the attachment of the acyl chain. Moreover, interaction studies of ACPs with antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) revealed that bacterial ACPs can be novel targets for AMPs and that this may perturb the fatty acid synthesis to abrogate the pathogenesis of recalcitrant pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We also investigated the ligand binding properties of two selected periplasmic binding proteins (PBP). Understanding the mechanisms by which PBPs can bind and release various ligands has implications for designing biosensors and developing therapeutic compounds that will perturb the pathways mediated by PBPs. Detailed biophysical studies of the Escherichia.coli ferric citrate binding PBP, FecB, revealed that it could form complexes with a wide variety of different tricarboxylic acid-iron complexes. Moreover unexpectedly FecB was found to bind apo-citrate and other iron-free tricarboxylic acids with great avidity. Information regarding the plasticity of substrate binding by FecB will allow us to design new strategies to overcome bacterial resistance. On the other hand, we demonstrated that E. coli HisJ interacts with L-histidine with nM affinity and can also bind 3-methyl-L-histidine, which has been identified as a biomarker for muscle wasting. Therefore, HisJ can potentially be used to design a reagentless protein-based biosensor for the early detection of this muscle disease.
"Cripping" Resilience: Generating New Vocabularies of Resilience from Narratives of Post-secondary Students Who Experience Disability
Creators: name: Hutcheon, Emily
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: critical disability studies
subject: resilience
subject: Narrative
subject: crip theory
subject: student

description: This study is an exploration into the kinds of meanings embedded in dominant conceptions of resilience, and the ways such conceptions may be deployed, shaped, and reshaped through an encounter with “disability.” The purpose of this project is to critique, deepen and expand on existing understandings of resilience through the storied accounts of 14 post-secondary students in Alberta who experience disability. Robert McRuer’s Crip Theory, and other scholarship in critical disability studies, assists in the identification of critiques and in proposing alternative meanings of resilience (referred to in this study as “cripping” resilience). New vocabularies of resilience, emerging from three kinds of narratives (Narrative of Movement, Complicating Narrative, and Narrative of (Re)imagination), are proposed to more realistically reflect the life experiences, meaning constructions, and (dis)identities of people who experience disability. Lastly, new vocabularies of resilience and new theoretical treatments suggest avenues for crafting more accessible university settings.
Validation of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameter using Inertial Measurement Unit for Patient with Non-Specific Low Back Pain
Creators: name: HAMIDON Norazebah
name: Aizreena, AZAMAN
name: Ruzita, MAHMOD Siti
name: ABDULLAH Nur Hidayah Ong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Low Back Pain
inertial measurement unit
Spatiotemporal gait parameter
gait analysis

description: Introduction:
 Gait analysis techniques were widely used in rehabilitation. Gait abnormality observed in patients with severe musculoskeletal disorder such as Low Back Pain (LBP). Currently Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) showed high consistency instrument for analysing spatiotemporal gait parameter in healthy person. Purpose of this study is to determine validity and reliability of spatiotemporal gait parameter using the IMU sensor among the non-specific LBP patient. Methodology:
 This study involved in two groups, LBP group (n = 28; male = 15; female = 13; 41.0±6.9 years old) diagnosed with chronic non-specific LBP recruited from Physiotherapy Department, Hospital Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru and healthy adults (n = 28; male = 11; female = 17; 40.9 ±7.4 years old) as control group. Spatiotemporal parameters interested: left and right velocity, cadence and stride/step time recorded by Vicon system and IMU sensors synchronously. Results:
 Higher significant correlation with p ≤ 0.01 for cadence, velocity, stride and step time for LBP group. The IMU also had shown excellent agreement in between 1st and 2nd trial for LBP group in velocity of shank, foot and lumbar placement of sensor with confidence interval ICC ≥ 0.90. Conclusion:
 The IMU system performs to be valid and reliable to determine spatiotemporal gait parameters in non-specific LBP patients. IMU provides a possible solution to measure spatiotemporal gait in a clinical setting without requiring specific working area and professional technician. Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
การพัฒนารูปแบบการควบคุมสถานการณ์การดื้อยาวัณโรคหลายขนานในพื้นที่ภาคเหนือตอนบน
Creators: name: ปิยะดา คุณาวรารักษ์
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2553
Subjects: รูปแบบการควบคุมการดื้อยาวัณโรคหลายขนาน
ภาคเหนือตอนบน

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 36, 2, 118-128
On Identifying the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Livio, Mario
name: Pringle, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose two new means of identifying the main class of progenitors of Type Ia supernovae--single or double degenerate: (i) If the range of supernova properties is significantly determined by the range of viewing angles of non-spherically symmetric explosions, then the nature of the correlation between polarization and another property (for example, the velocity gradient) can be used to determine the geometry of the asymmetry and hence the nature of the progenitor, and (ii) in the double- but not in the single-degenerate case, the range in the observed properties (e.g., velocity gradients) is likely to increase with the amount of carbon seen in the ejecta.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures; ApJL in press
Extended Distillation and Property Correlations for Heavy Oil
Creators: name: Sanchez Lemus, Maria Catalina
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Heavy Oil
subject: Physical properties
subject: Thermal properties
subject: normal boiling point
subject: vapor pressure
subject: elemental analysis
subject: Gaussian extrapolation
subject: extended distillation
subject: distillation fractions
subject: molecular weight
subject: Density
subject: liquid heat capacity

description: A previously developed Deep Vacuum Fractionation Apparatus (DVFA) was modified and improved to provide reproducible and consistent distillation data and samples of cuts with reproducible physical properties. The apparatus can distill up to 50 wt% of a bitumen compared to the 25% typically obtained with a conventional vacuum distillation. An interconversion method was implemented to obtain the Normal Boiling Points (NBP) of the distillation fractions. The physical properties of the distillation cuts collected were measured and used to improve and develop correlations to predict the normal boiling point (NBP), specific gravity (SG), molecular weight (MW), heat capacity, heat of vaporization, and heat of combustion of heavy distillation cuts. In addition, two methods were developed to generate property distributions from only bulk properties and distillation data. The extensive property measurements for the heavy distillation cuts provide a unique property database. The correlations developed in this thesis form the basis of an improved characterization procedure that requires only conventional distillation data and bulk specific gravity.