cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Linear response calculation using the canonical-basis TDHFB with a schematic pairing functional
Creators: name: Ebata, Shuichiro
name: Nakatsukasa, Takashi
name: Yabana, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A canonical-basis formulation of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (TDHFB) theory is obtained with an approximation that the pair potential is assumed to be diagonal in the time-dependent canonical basis. The canonical-basis formulation significantly reduces the computational cost. We apply the method to linear-response calculations for even-even nuclei. E1 strength distributions for proton-rich Mg isotopes are systematically calculated. The calculation suggests strong Landau damping of giant dipole resonance for drip-line nuclei.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, INPC 2010 conference procedings
MONTENEGRO, Maria Margarida (coord.) – Um Compromisso para o futuro: 500 anos da Iª edição impressa do Compromisso da Confraria da Misericórdia, Lisboa: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, 2017. 296 p. ISBN 978-989-87126-0-8
Creators: name: Silva, Ana Isabel Coelho
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Novel recovery strategies for elite athletic performance
Creators: name: Buschmann, Lauren Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Recovery strategies aim to reduce the inflammatory response that occurs following exercise induced muscle damage (EIMD) via increased venous return. Available research is contradictory regarding whether recovery strategies are effective in reducing recovery time and improving subsequent athletic performance. As a result, further research is warranted. Purpose: To determine which application is effective in accelerating recovery for athletes following eccentric exercise, and maintaining performance. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that the VIP and CWT will be more effective compared to placebo and NormaTec conditions in facilitating recovery. Methods: 24 highly trained participants were tested over five test sessions. Participants underwent measures of VJ, 10m/30m sprints, HRV, VAS and Leg Girth. Participants underwent 100 repetitions of a plyometric drop jump and were then randomly assigned into four conditions: 1) Contrast water therapy (CWT, n=6), 2) Variable intermittent pressure (VIP, n=6), 3) NormaTec IPC (NormaTec, n= 6), 4) Passive Recovery/ Placebo (Placebo, n=6). Perception of recovery was analyzed using a Likert recovery questionnaire. Follow-up measures of outcome variables occurred at 24, 48 and 72 hr. Statistics: Two-way mixed model ANOVA was used to assess between groups and repeated measures. Tukey’s HSD was used when necessary. Results: CWT demonstrated 4.4% increase in mean VJ @ 72 hr (p > 0.05). VIP demonstrated performance maintenance for VJ and sprint measures (p > 0.05). VIP demonstrated significantly (p < 0.05) elevated VAS scores compared to CWT for stand to sit, maximal quadriceps contraction, passive quadriceps stretch and total pain scores at 72 hr post-exercise. VIP VAS scores were also significantly (p < 0.05) elevated for the NormaTec and Placebo at 72 hr post-exercise for some movements. No other statistically significant differences (p > 0.05) occurred between groups at any time point for any other outcome measures. Conclusion: CWT and VIP appear to be beneficial in facilitating recovery and the maintenance of performance following strenuous exercise compared to placebo and NormaTec conditions. There appear to be differences in subjective perceptions of muscle soreness reflecting the differences in recovery strategy methodologies. Further research is warranted to determine the underlying mechanisms responsible for facilitating recovery and maintaining physical performance.
เจเนอเรชันวาย : ความผูกพันเชิงความรู้สึกกับองค์การ และความตั้งใจคงอยู่ในงาน
Creators: name: พรหมมาตร จินดาโชติ
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: ความผูกพันเชิงความรู้สึก
ความตั้งใจคงอยู่ในงาน
เจเนอเรชันวาย

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 50-62
ความรับผิดชอบต่อสังคมด้านแรงงานขององค์กรภาคอุตสาหกรรม ในช่วงวิกฤต COVID-19
Creators: name: สานิตย์ หนูนิล
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: ความรับผิดชอบต่อสังคมด้านแรงงาน
องค์กรภาคอุตสาหกรรม
วิกฤตโควิด 19
สิทธิแรงงาน

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 63-75
แนวทางการควบคุมการขยายตัวของเมืองอย่างไร้ทิศทาง (urban sprawl) กรณีศึกษา : เทศบาลเมืองบัวใหญ่ จังหวัดนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: จิรฉัตร เจริญบุญ
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: การขยายตัวของเมืองอย่างไร้ทิศทาง
การพัฒนาพื้นที่รอบสถานีขนส่งมวลชน
เทศบาลเมืองบัวใหญ่

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 76-90
Additional file 1 of Pituitary adenoma consistency affects postoperative hormone function: a retrospective study
Creators: name: De Alcubierre, Dario
name: Puliani, Giulia
name: Cozzolino, Alessia
name: Hasenmajer, Valeria
name: Minnetti, Marianna
name: Sada, Valentina
name: Martines, Valentina
name: Zaccagnino, Antonella
name: Ruggeri, Andrea Gennaro
name: Pofi, Riccardo
name: Sbardella, Emilia
name: Venneri, Mary Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Baseline and post-surgical characteristics of patients with fibrous pituitary adenomas.As per journal requirements, every additional file must have a corresponding caption. In this regard, please be informed that the caption was taken from the additional e-file itself. Please advise if the action taken is appropriate and amend if necessary.I confirm that the caption is appropriate.
Quantum heating of a parametrically modulated oscillator: spectral signatures
Creators: name: Dykman, M. I.
name: Marthaler, M.
name: Peano, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the noise spectrum of a parametrically excited nonlinear oscillator can display a fine structure. It emerges from the interplay of the nonequidistance of the oscillator quasienergy levels and quantum heating that accompanies relaxation. The heating leads to a finite-width distribution over the quasienergy, or Floquet states even for zero temperature of the thermal reservoir coupled to the oscillator. The fine structure is due to transitions from different quasienergy levels, and thus it provides a sensitive tool for studying the distribution. For larger damping, where the fine structure is smeared out, quantum heating can be detected from the characteristic double-peak structure of the spectrum, which results from transitions accompanied by the increase or decrease of the quasienergy.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Propofol mediated cardioprotective signal transduction : ETAR dependence and caveolar effects in H9c2 cardiomyoblasts
Creators: name: Pavlovic, Marijana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Propofol is cardioprotective in the context of ischaemia-reperfusion. Components involved in propofol-mediated signaling involve AKT and STAT3. However, the involvement of the plasma membrane has not yet been elucidated. We hypothesized that propofol depends on two components located within the membrane — endothelin A receptor (ETAR) and caveolin. H9c2 cardiomyoblasts were propofol-treated. To determine propofol-signaling dependence on ETAR, the selective ETAR inhibitor, PD156707 was used, and pSTAT3 Y705 protein levels were measured as a functional outcome. Similarly, caveolar-dependence was determined by disrupting cellular lipid rafts with methyl-β-cyclodextrin. ETAR – AKT interaction was explored via Co-IP. Immunocytochemistry was used to determine if propofol was affecting the cellular localization of ETAR, Cav-1, AKT, or Cav-3. Cav-1 cellular localization was also investigated using discontinuous sucrose gradient fractionation. Propofol-mediated-signaling (via pSTAT3 Y705 levels) was significantly reduced upon the inhibition of ETAR. In contrast, lipid raft disruption failed to reduce propofol-mediated-signaling. Propofol did not affect localization/ interaction of AKT. ETAR protein levels increased in intracellularly with propofol. Cav-1 protein expression/ localization did not change. However, Cav-3 levels did increase in the nuclear region with propofol treatment. The results suggest that a component of propofol-signaling depends upon ETAR. Propofol signaling may act through a signalosome that involves receptor (ETAR) and Cav-3 internalization. This mechanism may be the avenue by which propofol is offering cardioprotection in a setting where other protection strategies are ineffective.
Additional file 2 of Antennal transcriptome analysis of olfactory genes and characterizations of odorant binding proteins in two woodwasps, Sirex noctilio and Sirex nitobei (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)
Creators: name: Guo, Bing
name: Hao, Enhua
name: Qiao, Haili
name: Wang, Jingzhen
name: Wu, Weiwei
name: Zhou, Jingjiang
name: Lu, Pengfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Best blastX hits for putative odorant binding proteins (OBPs), chemosensory proteins (CSPs), odorant receptors (ORs), sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs), ionotropic receptors (IRs), and gustatory receptors (GRs) of S. noctilio and S. nitobei. (Table S1, Table S2, Table S3, Table S4, Table S5 and Table S6). Table S1. Sequence information and best blasts match information of odorant binding proteins (OBPs). Table S2. Sequence information and best blasts match information of chemosensory proteins (CSPs). Table S3. Sequence information and best blasts match information of odorant receptors (ORs). Table S4. Sequence information and best blasts match information of sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs). Table S5. Sequence information and best blasts match information of gustatory receptors (GRs). Table S6. Sequence information and best blasts match information of ionotropic receptors (IRs).
วัจนกรรมในการแถลงข่าวของศูนย์บริหารสถานการณ์การแพร่ระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรน่า 2019 (ศบค.)
Creators: name: ธรรมวัฒน์ พัฒนาสุทธินนท์
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2564
Subjects: วัจนกรรม
การแถลงข่าว
โควิด-19
โรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรน่า 2019
ศูนย์บริหารสถานการณ์โควิด-19

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 41, 3, 91-104
Economic Freedom: The Top, the Bottom, and the Reality. I. 1997-2007
Creators: name: Ausloos, Marcel
name: Bronlet, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We recall the historically admitted prerequisites of Economic Freedom (EF). We have examined 908 data points for the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index and 1884 points for the Index of Economic Freedom (IEF); the studied periods are 2000-2006 and 1997-2007, respectively, thereby following the Berlin wall collapse, and including Sept. 11, 2001. After discussing EFW index and IEF, in order to compare the indices, one needs to study their overlap in time and space. That leaves 138 countries to be examined over a period extending from 2000 to 2006, thus 2 sets of 862 data points. The data analysis pertains to the rank-size law technique. It is examined whether the distributions obey an exponential or a power law. A correlation with the country Gross Domestic Product (GDP), an admittedly major determinant of EF, follows, distinguishing regional aspects, i.e. defining 6 continents. Semi-log plots show that the EFW-rank relationship is exponential for countries of high rank ($\ge 20$); overall the log-log plots point to a behaviour close to a power law. In contrast, for the IEF, the overall ranking has an exponential behaviour; but the log-log plots point to the existence of a transitional point between two different power laws, i.e., near rank 10. Moreover, log-log plots of the EFW index relationship to country GDP is characterised by a power law, with a rather stable exponent ($γ\simeq 0.674$) as a function of time. In contrast, log-log plots of the IEF relationship with the country's gross domestic product point to a downward evolutive power law as a function of time. Markedly the two studied indices provide different aspects of EF.
description: 47 pages, 44 references, 10 figures
AMARAL, Luís Carlos (coord.) – Um poder entre poderes. Nos 900 anos da restauração da diocese do Porto e da construção do Cabido Portucalense, Porto: Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Cabido Portucalense, 2017. 422 p. ISBN 978-972-8361-72-3
Creators: name: Vilar, Herminia Vasconcelos
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Development and maintenance of force and stiffness in airway smooth muscle
Creators: name: Norris, Brandon Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The primary function of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is to contract upon stimulation. Mechanical manifestation of contraction includes development and maintenance of force and stiffness, and when the developed force is greater than the load on the muscle, shortening occurs. Dysfunction of ASM could lead to excessively stiff or narrowed airways. This thesis research is aimed at advancing our understanding of the basic mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of force and stiffness in ASM and how these mechanical properties are regulated by enzymes and their associated signalling pathways. The research is also aimed at identifying new targets for asthma therapy with specific interventions that reduce airway stiffness and narrowing. Recently, stiffness of the passive components of ASM –unrelated to that stemming from attached myosin crossbridges - has been shown to be actively regulated by intracellular enzymes. Chapter 2 of this thesis shows that the passive components of the ASM can be activated to generate force and augment stiffness. This activation is cross-bridge independent, as the calcium within the ASM cells was removed and the phosphorylation of the regulatory myosin light chain was abolished. The activation could be prevented when Rho-kinase was inhibited. Rho-kinase is known to be actively involved in the cytoskeletal dynamics of ASM; therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the cytoskeletal network is at least partly responsible for the activation of the passive components in ASM. Chapter 3 of the thesis aimed to explain the biphasic response that occurs when a ramp stretch is applied to an activated ASM strip. By performing ramp stretches in different conditions, the two phases of the biphasic force response revealed an intricate relationship between the two contributors to muscle stiffness – the attached actomyosin crossbridges and the cytoskeleton. Results presented in both chapters of the thesis suggest that signalling pathways involving Rho-kinase is crucial for regulating the calcium dependent and independent ASM force and stiffness. This has provided a focus for future studies in identifying enzyme or structural protein targets for modulating ASM mechanical properties down stream of the Rho-kinase.
First-principles Studies for the Hydrogen Doping Effects on Iron-based Superconductors
Creators: name: Nakamura, Hiroki
name: Machida, Masahiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study hydrogen doping effects in an iron-based superconductor LaFeAsO_(1-y) by using the first-principles calculation and explore the reason why the superconducting transition temperature is remarkably enhanced by the hydrogen doping. The present calculations reveal that a hydrogen cation stably locating close to an iron atom attracts a negatively-charged FeAs layer and results in structural distortion favorable for further high temperature transition. In fact, the lattice constant a averaged over the employed supercell shrinks and then the averaged As-Fe-As angle approaches 109.74 degrees with increasing the hydrogen doping amount. Moreover, the calculations clarify electron doping effects of the solute hydrogen and resultant Fermi-level shift. These insights are useful for design of high transition-temperature iron-based superconductors.
description: 4 pages, 5 figrues
Gate-dependent spin-torque in a nanoconductor-based spin-valve
Creators: name: Cottet, Audrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article discusses the spin-torque effect in a spin-valve made out of two ferromagnetic leads connected through a coherent nanoconductor (NC), in the limit where a single channel of the NC lies near the Fermi energy of the leads. Due to quantum interferences inside the NC, the spin-torque presents clear qualitative differences with respect to the case of a multichannel disordered spin-valve. In particular, it can be modulated with the NC gate voltage. In principle, this modulation can be observed experimentally, assuming that the spin-torque affects a ferromagnetic nano-domain in direct contact with the NC.
Interactions of microbiome-associated metabolites with the blood–brain barrier
Creators: name: Hoyles, Lesley
Publisher: name: AMRC Open Research
Year: 2021

description: Presentation related to work funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK Pilot Grant No. ARUK-PPG2016B-6, associated with https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.28.428430v1 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5863458/.
$SU(3)_c\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X$ models with four families
Creators: name: Benavides, Richard H.
name: Ponce, William A.
name: Giraldo, Yithsbey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the local gauge group $SU(3)_c\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X$, we look for possible four family models, where all the particles carry ordinary electric charges. Thirteen different anomaly-free fermion structures emerge, out of which only two are realistic. For the simplest physical structure, we calculate the charged and neutral weak currents and the tree-level Fermion masses. We also look for new sources of flavor changing neutral currents in the quark sector, in connection with the upcoming experimental results at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
The use of genetic sequencing technologies to determine HIV-1 viral tropism and to evaluate the effects of maraviroc on patient viral populations
Creators: name: McGovern, Rachel Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: HIV-1 infection is reliant on the ability of the virus to enter target cells characterized by the expression of either the CCR5 or CXCR4 co-receptor at the cell surface. It is now well established that the V3 loop of the HIV-1 envelope is the primary determinant of co-receptor use, and that genetic analysis of the V3 loop can be used to infer co-receptor use, or “tropism”. This became clinically relevant with the development of the entry inhibitor, maraviroc (MVC), an anti-HIV compound designed to inhibit HIV-1 cell entry exclusively at the CCR5 co-receptor. As such, the more pathogenic CXCR4-using variants are likely to thrive during MVC therapy. Anti-HIV treatment guidelines now strongly suggest a tropism test be performed when considering the clinical use of MVC. There are two primary objectives discussed in this thesis, 1) the validation of a population-based sequencing tropism assay designed to predict virological response to MVC; 2) to apply a next generation sequencing tropism assay to investigate the selective pressures exerted by MVC on mixed tropic HIV-1 populations. The validation studies presented in this thesis demonstrate the reliability of a population-based sequencing assay to infer virological response to MVC in two large, multinational cohorts. The results of these studies have promoted the worldwide expansion of this genotypic assay as a practical and affordable option for tropism inference. In addition, a more intensive investigation into the selective pressures exerted by MVC on mixed tropic HIV-1 populations demonstrated the reproducible outgrowth of preexisting variants most genetically characteristic of CXCR4-using virus. The results of these studies suggest MVC may be effective against a broader range of variants than previously thought. In general, the four studies described in this thesis demonstrate the clinical utility of genetic sequencing when considering the use of MVC.
Cadernos de Estudos Leirienses 10, Leiria: Textiverso, 2016. 189 p. ISSN 2183-4350
Creators: name: Santos, Maria Leonor F. O. Silva
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
De Cister a Portugal: o tempo e o(s) modo(s): livro do XI Encontro Cultural de São Cristóvão de Lafões: Associação dos Amigos do Mosteiro de São Cristóvão de Lafões, 2016. 203 p.
Creators: name: Pacheco, Ana Assis
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Finding resilience-friendly compiler optimizations using meta-heuristic search techniques
Creators: name: Narayanamurthy, Nithya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: With the projected increase in hardware error rates in the future, software needs to be resilient to hardware faults. An important factor affecting a program's error resilience is the set of optimizations used when compiling it. Compiler optimizations typically optimize for performance or space, and rarely for error resilience. However, prior work has found that applying optimizations injudiciously can lower the program's error resilience as they often eliminate redundancy in the program. In this work, we propose automated techniques to find the set of compiler optimizations that can boost performance without degrading its overall resilience. Due to the large size of the search space, we use search heuristic algorithms to efficiently explore the space and find an optimal sequence of optimizations for a given program. We find that the resulting optimization sequences have significantly higher error resilience than the standard optimization levels (i.e., O1, O2, O3), while attaining comparable performance improvements with the optimizations levels. We also find that the resulting sequences reduce the overall vulnerability of the applications compared to the standard optimization levels.
SCHRÖTER, Jens; JACOBI, Christine (hrsg.) – Jesus Handbuch, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. 685 p. ISBN 978-3-16-153853-7
Creators: name: Morujão, Carlos
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Short collusion-secure fingerprint codes against three pirates
Creators: name: Nuida, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article, we propose a new construction of probabilistic collusion-secure fingerprint codes against up to three pirates and give a theoretical security evaluation. Our pirate tracing algorithm combines a scoring method analogous to Tardos codes (J. ACM, 2008) with an extension of parent search techniques of some preceding 2-secure codes. Numerical examples show that our code lengths are significantly shorter than (about 30% to 40% of) the shortest known c-secure codes by Nuida et al. (Des. Codes Cryptogr., 2009) with c = 3. Some preliminary proposal for improving efficiency of our tracing algorithm is also given.
description: 20 pages, a preliminary version was presented at Information Hiding 2010, Calgary, Canada, June 28-30, 2010
CAMPBELL, Price; FORSHAW, Roger; CHAMBERLAIN, Andrew, NICHOLSON, Paul (eds.) – Mummies, magic and medicine in Ancient Egypt: Multidisciplinary essays for Rosalie David, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 476 p. ISBN 978-1-7849-9244-6
Creators: name: Sousa, Rogério
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Physical measurements of groundwater contributions to a large lake
Creators: name: Pyett, Nicole Jean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Population increases and climate change are expected to increase water stress in the semi-arid Okanagan Valley in the Interior of British Columbia. Groundwater discharge from the largest unconsolidated aquifer system in the Okanagan Valley to Okanagan Lake was directly measured between September 2011 and August 2013. Seepage meter measurements (331) and gradient calculations (73) were used to measure flow from the Kelowna aquifers in an effort to constrain groundwater values in a basin-scale water-balance model constructed to inform water use and planning decisions within the Okanagan Valley. The complexity of the subsurface environment in the Kelowna area led to the construction of a 2-D MODFLOW transect to provide a sensitivity analysis of the percentage of total flow captured within the study area using a reasonable range of hydraulic conductivity values for the known confining and confined layers. Forty-two MODFLOW scenarios estimated 26% - 100% of the total flow from the Kelowna aquifers to Okanagan Lake was captured within the study area. Long-term station seepage meter measurements showed a large range of annual variabil^ity with flux measurements which ranged from 10-¹¹ to 10-⁹/10-⁸ m³/m²/s. A substantial reduction in flows observed within the study area between study year one (4.1 x 10⁵ m³) and study year two (2.9 x 10⁵ m³) was potentially due to anthropogenic water extractions. The annual groundwater discharge estimate of 3.7 x 10⁵ m³ found flow from the Kelowna aquifers to be less than one percent of some previous estimates and likely less than seven percent of the volume being extracted from upgradient aquifers. Long-term provincial potentiometric monitoring indicated groundwater pumping rates have likely exceeded recharge in some Kelowna aquifers for the past 34 years. Other studies using modelling and geochemistry have suggested groundwater pumping is inducing recharge from adjacent fluvial water bodies in some areas. The low discharge from the Kelowna aquifers to Okanagan Lake suggests cautious groundwater extraction rates need to be established in the Kelowna area to ensure the groundwater system can continue to support both human and environmental water needs.
ReliMM 2018 - A religião nas múltiplas modernidades: Lisboa, 20 e 21 de junho de 2018
Creators: name: Rei, Pedro J. Silva
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Oito séculos da presença Franciscana em Portugal: memória e vivência: jornadas de estudo, Lisboa, 26 e 27 de Abril de 2018
Creators: name: Rei, Pedro J. Silva
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2018

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 37 (2018): Entre o Destino e a Liberdade: Percursos Históricos da Predestinação
Foraging strategies and efficiencies of lactating northern and Antarctic fur seals : implications for reproductive success.
Creators: name: Jeanniard Du Dot, Tiphaine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Efficient extraction of energy from the environment is key to the survival and reproductive success of wild animals. Understanding the ratio of energy gained to energy spent of different foraging strategies (i.e., foraging efficiency) can shed light on how animals cope with environmental changes and how it affects population trajectories. I investigated how female foraging strategies during the breeding season impact the foraging efficiencies and reproductive successes of two fur seal species—one declining (NFS–northern fur seals, St. Paul Island, Alaska) and one increasing (AFS–Antarctic fur seals, Kerguelen Island, Southern Ocean). I also sought to develop new accelerometry-based methods to easily determine fine-scale energy expenditure at sea (VeDBA and flipper stroke metrics). Twenty lactating females of each species were captured and equipped with biologging tags to record GPS locations, depth and tri-axial acceleration. Energy expenditure for each foraging trip was measured using the doubly-labeled water method, and energy gained while foraging was determined from 1) diet composition (scat hard-parts and DNA) and blood stable isotope ratios; and 2) numbers of prey capture attempts (from head acceleration). Maternal investment in pups was determined from pup growth rates or from energy content of milk samples. Results showed acceleration metrics were only accurate at predicting energy expended by fur seals when time-activity budgets were taken into account (i.e., time spent performing different types of activity). Foraging strategies of AFS females resulted in efficiencies of ~3.4, with more efficient females producing bigger pups at weaning that had greater chances of survival. NFS females employed two foraging strategies with very different efficiencies (~1.4 vs ~3.0) that were associated with different foraging habitats and diet qualities. However, NFS with the more efficient strategy (3.0) undertook longer foraging trips than the other NFS (1.4) or AFS (3.4), and thus fed their pups ~20% less frequently. As a consequence, the declining NFS (unlike the increasing AFS) had to compromise between the rate of energy acquisition and the pup feeding frequency. Such reductions in energy intake and time allocated to nursing pups can ultimately lower juvenile survival, and may explain the population decline of NFS in Alaska.
Additional file 1 of Impact of maternal body mass index on outcomes of singleton pregnancies after assisted reproductive technology: a 14-year analysis of the US Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Creators: name: Li, Yi-Ping
name: Li, Wei-Jiun
name: Hsieh, Wen-Chi
name: Chen, Li-Shan
name: Yu, Cheng-Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1
Additional file 1 of Association between healthy eating index-2015 and various cognitive domains in US adults aged 60 years or older: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2014
Creators: name: Fan, Yameng
name: Zhang, Yinyin
name: Li, Jiaqiao
name: Liu, Yamei
name: Chang, Huan
name: Jiang, Yude
name: Tuo, Xingxia
name: Zhou, Long
name: Yu, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Comparison of characteristics between total and included participants.
Incommensurate Antiferromagnetic Insulating State in (MDT-TS)(AuI$_2$)$_{x}$
Creators: name: Yoshioka, Hideo
name: Seo, Hitoshi
name: Otsuka, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the metal-insulator transition in a molecular conductor (MDT-TS)(AuI$_2$)$_{x}$ composed with an incommensurate ratio ($x = 0.441$), where the conduction band originated from the HOMO of donor MDT-TS molecules is incommensurately filled. We consider a two-dimensional Hubbard model taking account of anisotropic transfer integrals in the donor layer, under a periodic potential due to the anions (AuI$_2$)$^-$ which mismatches the donor lattice period, and investigate the ground state within mean-field approximation. An antiferromagnetic insulating state with induced charge disproportionation is obtained in the large $U$ region; this corresponds to the incommensurate Mott insulating state predicted previously [H. Yoshioka {\it et al.}: \jo{\JPSJ}{74}{2005}{1922}] based on a simplified one-dimensional model.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures
Electromagnetic tunneling of obliquely-incident waves through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive uniaxial slab
Creators: name: Castaldi, Giuseppe
name: Galdi, Vincenzo
name: Alu', Andrea
name: Engheta, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that, under appropriate oblique-incidence and polarization conditions, the inherent opaqueness of a homogeneous, isotropic single-negative slab may be perfectly compensated (in the ideal lossless case) by a homogenous, anisotropic (uniaxial) double-positive slab, so that complete tunneling (with total transmission and zero phase delay) occurs. We present an analytical and numerical study aimed at deriving the basic design rules, elucidating the underlying physical mechanisms, and exploring the role of the various involved parameters.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 4 of Antennal transcriptome analysis of olfactory genes and characterizations of odorant binding proteins in two woodwasps, Sirex noctilio and Sirex nitobei (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)
Creators: name: Guo, Bing
name: Hao, Enhua
name: Qiao, Haili
name: Wang, Jingzhen
name: Wu, Weiwei
name: Zhou, Jingjiang
name: Lu, Pengfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. The sequence of CSPs with alignment were shown four conserved cysteine residues.
Additional file 1 of Association between impairment and self-rated health: a brazilian population study considering type, origin, and degree of limitation
Creators: name: Anderle, Paula
name: Ziegelmann, Patrícia Klarmann
name: de Goulart, Bárbara Niegia Garcia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Supersolid phase in atomic gases with magnetic dipole interaction
Creators: name: Bühler, Adam
name: Büchler, Hans Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major obstacle for the experimental realization of a supersolid phase with cold atomic gases in an optical lattice is the weakness of the nearest-neighbor interactions achievable via magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. In this letter, we show that using a large filling of atoms within each well the characteristic energy scales are strongly enhanced. Within this regime, the system is well described by the rotor model, and the qualitative behavior of the phase diagram derives from mean-field theory. We find a stable supersolid phase for realistic parameters with chromium atoms.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Understanding science museum educators in China and their self-concept as professionals
Creators: name: Ji, Jiao
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Museum educators are critical human connectors who have a crucial influence in fulfilling the educational mission and social responsibility of museums. However, studies focusing on museum educators have mostly been conducted in museums based in Western cultural contexts. The voice of museum educators from non-Western museums are often ignored, marginalized, or underrepresented. Moreover, empirical studies of Chinese science museum educators are nearly non-existent. Informed by a Communities of Practice (CoP) perspective and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), this interpretive case study investigated 23 Chinese science museum educators’ self-concept as museum education professionals and their perceived needs for future professional development. The research focused on museum educators’ perceptions of their self-concept as museum education professionals, and how these perceptions were influenced by the local social and cultural context in which they work. This study used semi-structured face-to-face interviews as the primary method of data collection. These were complemented by informal conversations between participants and the researcher, as well as the researcher’s self-reflective journaling. The study's findings indicate that Chinese science museum educators’ self-concept as museum education professionals is multifaceted and contextual. Their self-concept includes their perspectives on work motivations, job responsibility, work competency, current professional development pathways, and desires for future professional development. Moreover, museum educators’ self-concept varies across different contexts. The sociocultural factors within the Chinese museum context that shape their self-concept as professionals include: a) a highly hierarchical organizational culture, b) an authority-centered political structure, c) a highly competitive education reality, d) a hybridized educational philosophy that blends constructive teaching and the traditional teacher-centered didactic teaching pedagogies, and e) the contradictions emergent in the process of building a professional community and connecting with different stakeholders relevant to museum education work. The research findings elucidate Chinese science museum educators’ self-concept regarding who they are as professionals and their place within the larger museum professional community. The revelation of contradictions within Chinese science museum educators’ perception of themselves as professionals will help shape future research, develop pathways to professionalization of museum education work, and build a professional museum educator community in China
Additional file 6 of Antennal transcriptome analysis of olfactory genes and characterizations of odorant binding proteins in two woodwasps, Sirex noctilio and Sirex nitobei (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)
Creators: name: Guo, Bing
name: Hao, Enhua
name: Qiao, Haili
name: Wang, Jingzhen
name: Wu, Weiwei
name: Zhou, Jingjiang
name: Lu, Pengfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Primers of odorant binding proteins and reference gene for quantitative real-time PCR.
Evidence for impurity-induced frustration in La2CuO4
Creators: name: Carretta, P.
name: Prando, G.
name: Sanna, S.
name: De Renzi, R.
name: Decorse, C.
name: Berthet, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zero-field muon spin rotation and magnetization measurements were performed in La2Cu{1-x}MxO4, for 0
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Association between impairment and self-rated heath: a brazilian population study considering type, origin, and degree of limitation
Creators: name: Anderle, Paula
name: Klarmann Ziegelmann, Patrícia
name: Niegia Garcia de Goulart, Bárbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of Association between impairment and self-rated health: a brazilian population study considering type, origin, and degree of limitation
Creators: name: Anderle, Paula
name: Ziegelmann, Patrícia Klarmann
name: de Goulart, Bárbara Niegia Garcia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Ionization potentials in the limit of large atomic number
Creators: name: Constantin, Lucian A.
name: Snyder, John C.
name: Perdew, John P.
name: Burke, Kieron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By extrapolating the energies of non-relativistic atoms and their ions with up to 3000 electrons within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, we find that the ionization potential remains finite and increases across a row, even as $Z\rightarrow\infty$. The local density approximation becomes chemically accurate (and possibly exact) in some cases. Extended Thomas-Fermi theory matches the shell-average of both the ionization potential and density change. Exact results are given in the limit of weak electron-electron repulsion.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Are We Standing on Unreliable Shoulders? The Effect of Retracted Papers Citations on Previous and Subsequent Published Papers: A Study of the Web of Science Database
Creators: name: Fahimifar, Sepideh
name: Ghorbi, Ali
name: Ausloos, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present research attempts to identify the impact of retracted papers on previous or subsequent papers. We consider the 5693 retracted papers from 1975 to 2020 indexed in the Web of Science database based on bibliometric methods. We use HistCite, Excel, and SPSS software as technical means. The findings suggest a significant difference between the average number of retracted and unretracted papers when cited in retracted papers. Furthermore, there is a significant difference between the average number of unretracted and retracted papers citing retracted papers. The reasons for the retraction of an article may not be the previous retracted papers, yet unretracted papers may be retracted later because of referring to (many) retracted papers. It is deduced that proprietors of citation databases should carefully focus on these papers by checking references to each new paper citing previously retracted papers.
Additional file 2 of Association between impairment and self-rated heath: a brazilian population study considering type, origin, and degree of limitation
Creators: name: Anderle, Paula
name: Klarmann Ziegelmann, Patrícia
name: Niegia Garcia de Goulart, Bárbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Recent improvements in Magic-BLAST 1.6
Creators: name: Boratyn, Grzegorz
name: Thierry-Mieg, Danielle
name: Madden, Thomas L
name: Thierry-Mieg, Jean
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: We present recent improvements to Magic-BLAST, an RNA-seq mapper that aligns long as well as short reads to target sequences in a BLAST database. The new features include accessing Sequence Read Archive (SRA) reads from cloud buckets, reporting National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy ID's, and reporting unaligned reads in a separate file.

 A powerful Magic-BLAST feature is that it can access reads from SRA by accession, making pipelines with Magic-BLAST more reusable. NCBI hosts SRA data at cloud providers, supporting large scale hyper-parallel data analyses. Magic-BLAST 1.6.0 downloads SRA data from the cloud. Benefits include uninterrupted downloads, faster download speeds, and huge bandwidth for parallel downloads to multiple running processes or cloud instances.

 Magic-BLAST provides NCBI taxonomy ID's in the SAM report. Using taxonomy ID's allows unambiguous mapping to taxonomic nodes. This is especially useful for metagenomic projects.

 Magic-BLAST can report unaligned reads in a separate file in SAM, tabular, or FASTA formats. In this fashion Magic-BLAST can, for example, be used as for contamination screening or for separating virus and host reads from a next-generation sequencing run.

 This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Library of Medicine at the NIH.
Robot learning for autonomous navigation in a dynamic environment
Creators: name: Zhang, Yunfei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation addresses autonomous navigation of robots in a dynamic environment where the existence of moving and/or unknown objects leads to more serious challenges for the robots than those when operating in a traditional stationary environment. Therefore, the use of learning capabilities to facilitate proper robotic operation in a dynamic environment has become an important research area in the past decade. This dissertation proposes several novel learning-based methods to overcome the shortcomings in the existing approaches of autonomous navigation. Three aspects are addressed in the present work. First, a real-time path planning method is designed for autonomous navigation that can generate a path that avoids stationary and moving obstacles. To this end, learning ability is imparted to the robot. The present framework incorporates the statistical planning approach called probabilistic roadmap (PRM), Q-learning together with regime-switching Markov decision process (RSMDP) due to its beneficial characteristics, to form a robust Q-learning. Consequently, the initial path can be improved through robust Q-learning during interaction with a dynamic environment. Second, motion planning under constraints is investigated. Specifically, a closed-form piecewise affine control law, called piecewise affine-extended linear quadratic regulator (PWA-ELQR), for nonlinear-nonquadratic control problems with constraints is proposed. Through linearization and quadratization in the vicinity of the nominal trajectories, nonlinear-nonquadratic control problems can be approximated to linear-quadratic problems where the closed-form results can be derived relatively easily. Third, people detection is integrated into the autonomous navigation task. A classifier trained by a multiple kernel learning-support vector machine (MKL-SVM) is proposed to detect people in sequential images of a video stream. The classifier uses multiple features to describe a person, and learn its parameter values rapidly with the assistance of multiple kernels. In addition to the methodology development, the present research involves computer simulation and physical experimentation. Computer simulation is used to study the feasibility and effectiveness of the developed methodologies of path planning, motion planning and people detection. The experimentation involves autonomous navigation of a homecare robot system. The performance of the developed system is rigorously evaluated through physical experimentation and is improved by refining the developed methodologies.