cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dealing with the dragon : what safeguards are required to make an extradition treaty between Canada and the People's Republic of China conform to Canadian extradition law?
Creators: name: Gibb-Carsley, John M.L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Canada does not have an extradition treaty with China. Concerns over the Government of China’s use of the death penalty and use of torture as well as the lack of procedural fairness in the Chinese criminal justice system present obstacles to the creation of an extradition treaty. Despite the problems with the Chinese legal system, Canada sees fit to trade extensively with China and continues to develop other treaty relationships with the Chinese Government. The Chinese Government wants extradition with Canada, in part to further its massive anti-corruption schemes including Operation Fox Hunt and Operation Skynet. This paper examines Canadian extradition law in the context of possible extradition from Canada to China. While not advocating for or against a Canada-China extradition treaty, the paper considers the current state of the Chinese criminal legal system relevant to extradition law and examines the primary problems and legal reforms undertaken by the Chinese Government to its Criminal Procedure Law and judiciary. From the perceived problems that would hinder or prevent extradition from Canada to China, safeguards are proposed to allow the Minister of Justice and reviewing courts the ability to respond to an extradition request from China on terms that do not offend Canadian principles of justice or the protections established by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These safeguards, which derive from diplomatic assurances, current extradition treaties and immigration law, are examined and set out in a proposed Canada-China extradition treaty that provides a framework from which to evaluate extradition between the countries.
A introdução do Escutismo em Portugal
Creators: name: Vicente, Ana Cláudia S. D.
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: A Introdução do Escutismo em Portugal apresenta-se como momento de reflexão resultante da investigação para dissertação de mestrado homónima. Partiu-se para este artigo com o objectivo de expor algumas das características do processo de implantação e adaptação do escutismo à realidade social portuguesa, adoptando-se uma perspectiva historiográfica ao serviço do desenvolvimento da História da Juventude. Procedeu-se, primeiramente, à aferição do estado do conhecimento das formas de enquadramento da juventude portuguesa no século XX. Num segundo momento, de forma sumária, encetou-se a análise qualitativa do escutismo enquanto instrumento de acção educativa sobre os jovens portugueses, expondo o seu corpus pedagógico de base, identificando os seus promotores e descrevendo a emergência de diferentes associações.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Additional file 1 of Kinetics and Mechanism of In Situ Metallization of Bulk DNA Films
Creators: name: Shi, Zi-Hao
name: Hsu, Feng-Ming
name: Mansel, Bradley W.
name: Chen, Hsin-Lung
name: Fruk, Ljiljana
name: Chuang, Wei-Tsung
name: Hung, Yu-Chueh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: In situ phototriggered experimental characterizations based on poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA).
Information Distance
Creators: name: Bennett, Charles H.
name: Gacs, Peter
name: Li, Ming
name: Vitanyi, Paul M. B.
name: Zurek, Wojciech H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 68Q30, 94A15, 94A17

description: While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the information distance between two individual objects, for example, two pictures. We give several natural definitions of a universal information metric, based on length of shortest programs for either ordinary computations or reversible (dissipationless) computations. It turns out that these definitions are equivalent up to an additive logarithmic term. We show that the information distance is a universal cognitive similarity distance. We investigate the maximal correlation of the shortest programs involved, the maximal uncorrelation of programs (a generalization of the Slepian-Wolf theorem of classical information theory), and the density properties of the discrete metric spaces induced by the information distances. A related distance measures the amount of nonreversibility of a computation. Using the physical theory of reversible computation, we give an appropriate (universal, anti-symmetric, and transitive) measure of the thermodynamic work required to transform one object in another object by the most efficient process. Information distance between individual objects is needed in pattern recognition where one wants to express effective notions of "pattern similarity" or "cognitive similarity" between individual objects and in thermodynamics of computation where one wants to analyse the energy dissipation of a computation from a particular input to a particular output.
description: 39 pages, LaTeX, 2 Figures/Tables
A «Catedral de Papel» do escritor Manuel Ribeiro (1878-1941) e a recuperação do Gótico na I República Portuguesa
Creators: name: Ribeiro, José Alberto
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: A obra de Manuel Ribeiro (1878-1941) é o testemunho literário de um percurso que parte de uma posição anarco-sindicalista até chegar ao cristianismo. Este autor defende uma estética da medievalidade e o seu valor simbólico, inserido no contexto de uma herança cultural da época contemporânea, ligada ao resgate de um gosto e de um modelo civilizacional inspirado numa Idade Média cristã, tendo como objectivo uma restauração católica. É nesta perspectiva que estudámos o caso deste escritor português, enquanto representante do movimento de «construtores» de catedrais simbólicas erigidas em caracteres. O livro A Catedral é uma descrição de emoções estéticas e todo o entusiasmo desenvolvido ao longo da obra em torno do restauro da Sé é, também, o entusiasmo em encontrar as sua origens mais remotas. Restaurar, significa não só libertar a igreja de todos os acrescentos e adulterações ocorridos ao longo dos tempos, mas também a beleza primitiva do monumento, o mesmo é dizer restaurar uma Igreja mais evangélica.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Pullback of parabolic bundles and covers of ${\mathbb P}^1\setminus\{0,1,\infty\}$
Creators: name: Dhillon, Ajneet
name: Joyner, Sheldon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H60

description: We work over an algebraically closed ground field of characteristic zero. A $G$-cover of ${\mathbb P}^1$ ramified at three points allows one to assign to each finite dimensional representation $V$ of $G$ a vector bundle $\oplus \mathscr{O}(s_i)$ on ${\mathbb P}^1$ with parabolic structure at the ramification points. This produces a tensor functor from representation of $G$ to vector bundles with parabolic structure that characterises the original cover. This work attempts to describe this tensor functor in terms of group theoretic data. More precisely, we construct a pullback functor on vector bundles with parabolic structure and describe the parabolic pullback of the previously described tensor functor.
description: 25 pages
Style exploration and generalization for character animation
Creators: name: Agrawal, Shailen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Believable character animation arises from a well orchestrated performance by a digital character. Various techniques have been developed to help drive this performance in an effort to create believable character animations. However, automatic style exploration and generalization from motion data are still open problems. We tackle several different aspects of the motion generation problem which aim to advance the state of the art in the areas of style exploration and generalization. First, we describe a novel optimization framework that produces a diverse range of motions for physics-based characters for tasks such as jumps, flips, and walks. This stands in contrast to the more common use of optimization to produce a single optimal motion. The solutions can be optimized to achieve motion diversity or diversity in the proportions of the simulated characters. Exploration of style of task achievement for physics-based character animation can be performed automatically by exploiting ``null spaces'' defined by the task. Second, we perform automatic style generalization by generalizing a controller for varying degree of task achievement for a specified task. We describe an exploratory approach which explores trade-offs between competing objectives for a specified task. Pareto-optimality can be used to explore various degrees of task achievement for a given style of physics-based character animation. We describe our algorithms for computing a set of controllers that span the pareto-optimal front for jumping motions which explore the trade-off between effort and jump height. We also develop supernatural jump controllers through the optimized introduction of external forces. Third, we develop a data-driven approach to model sub-steps, such as, sliding foot pivots and foot shuffling. These sub-steps are often an integral component of the style observed in task-specific locomotion. We present a model for generating these sub-steps via a foot step planning algorithm which is then used to generate full body motion. The system is able to generalize the style observed in task-specific locomotion to novel scenarios.
Physical and chemical characteristics analysis of bottom ash and boiler tappings coming from the Burnaby Incinerator
Creators: name: Muntasir, Sardar Yafee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The primary objective of this research was to update information collected some twenty years ago with a view to revisiting opportunities to enhance the utilization of the bottom ash, emanating from Metro Vancouver’s Burnaby Incinerator, from both as an aggregate and a source of recoverable metals. Bottom ash is made up of three stream; the material coming off the grates, grate siftings and boiler tappings. As review of the literature showed absence of information on boiler tappings characteristics, the opportunity was taken in this study to rectify that information gap to see if there was an opportunity for metal recovery. The work included the determination of grade size distribution, material composition and total metal concentration. In total 56 samples were analyzed; 32 bottom ash and 24 boiler tappings. Results from the grain size distribution samples showed that bottom ash is finer with about 5% fines retained on #200 sieve compared to about 2% some 20 years ago. Almost 50% of the bottom ash samples passed through No. 4 sieve compared to around 30% previously, making the bottom ash more amenable as an aggregate. Almost all (98%) of the boiler tappings passed through No. 4 sieve. Physical sorting of the coarser fractions showed ferrous and non-ferrous metals constitute about 22% of the bottom ash, glass and glass composites about 21% and ceramics about 25%, whereas 22 years ago it was 27%, 50% and 3% respectively. The secondary objective was to find out the dust characteristics. While processing dry bottom ash fractions, dust could come off it, which might contain heavy metals or silica, which may be hazardous when inhaled. To determine whether bottom ash fine fractions, if elevated to airborne concentrations, have substances in them of potential concern, total metals analysis was done on the size fractions less than 100 microns, which were considered to be in the inhalable sizes. Total metals analysis showed that bottom ash fines contain, as expected, a full suite of metals and about 1% silica. Comparing the total metal concentrations of the fines with bottom ash total metal results collected by Metro showed no apparent enrichment.
Jacinto Cândido da Silva (1857-1926): o Nacionalismo Católico através das memórias de um dos seus fundadores
Creators: name: Olaio, Nuno
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: O presente estudo aborda a vida de Jacinto Cândido da Silva e o papel que este advogado, deputado, e depois, par do reino, desempenhou no movimento católico entre o final do séc. XIX e as três primeiras décadas do séc. XX. Através das obras Autobiografia e Memórias Intimas para o meu filho (1898-1925) o autor traça o percurso de Jacinto Cândido da Silva no movimento católico caracterizando os principais aspectos do seu pensamento sobre o nacionalismo católico.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Toward a quantum theory of cognition : history, development, and perspectives
Creators: name: Veloz, Tomás
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The representation and processing of concepts is one of the hardest challenges in cognitive science. While computer scientists and engineers have focused on developing advances for particular tasks, philosophers and cognitive scientists have focused on elucidating the structural nature of meaning. A remarkable bridge between these two limited-success approaches can be found in behavioral research, since, in a variety of tasks, humans process information at a conceptual level in a way that is incompatible with classical probability and fuzzy set theory. Recently, attempts have been made to use mathematical schemes founded on quantum structures as alternative approaches. For this reason, the application of quantum structures to this type of phenomena has received increasing attention. The quantum approach allows to faithfully model a number of non-classical deviations observed in experimental data. Moreover, it shows that genuine quantum theoretical notions, such as contextuality, superposition, emergence, and entanglement, are powerful epistemic tools to understand and represent cognitive phenomena. In this thesis, we identify the limitations of classical theories to handle some important cognitive tasks, and introduce the fundamentals of the quantum cognitive approach to concepts. Next, we perform a mathematical analysis of current concept combination models and develop an extension that allows for concrete representations of multiple exemplars simultaneously. Our analysis indicates that a superposition of logical reasoning and a specific form of non-logical reasoning, where non-logical reasoning is dominant, allows to faithfully represent the experimental data. Therefore, the non-logical reasoning introduced by this model represents an important but unexplored form of reasoning in humans. In addition, we develop novel experimental methodologies to identify quantum conceptual structures for concept combinations in the context of natural language processing and psychological experiments. Namely, we present a methodology to build entangled concepts represented as sets of words with respect to a corpus of text, and present a computational and psychological methodology to discern if a collection of concepts behaves statistically as a collection of quantum or classical particles. Using both methodologies we have identified a significant presence of quantum conceptual structure in the context of natural language processing and psychological experiments.
A New Dynamic Round Robin and SRTN Algorithm with Variable Original Time Slice and Intelligent Time Slice for Soft Real Time Systems
Creators: name: Behera, H. S.
name: Patel, Simpi
name: Panda, Bijayalakshmi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Operating Systems (cs.OS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The main objective of the paper is to improve the Round Robin (RR) algorithm using dynamic ITS by coalescing it with Shortest Remaining Time Next (SRTN) algorithm thus reducing the average waiting time, average turnaround time and the number of context switches. The original time slice has been calculated for each process based on its burst time.This is mostly suited for soft real time systems where meeting of deadlines is desirable to increase its performance. The advantage is that processes that are closer to their remaining completion time will get more chances to execute and leave the ready queue. This will reduce the number of processes in the ready queue by knocking out short jobs relatively faster in a hope to reduce the average waiting time, turn around time and number of context switches. This paper improves the algorithm [8] and the experimental analysis shows that the proposed algorithm performs better than algorithm [6] and [8] when the processes are having an increasing order, decreasing order and random order of burst time.
description: 07 pages; International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol 16, No. 1(9) February 2011
Business fluctuations in a credit-network economy
Creators: name: Gatti, Domenico Delli
name: Gallegati, Mauro
name: Greenwald, Bruce
name: Russo, Alberto
name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We model a network economy with three sectors: downstream firms, upstream firms, and banks. Agents are linked by productive and credit relationships so that the behavior of one agent influences the behavior of the others through network connections. Credit interlinkages among agents are a source of bankruptcy diffusion: in fact, failure of fulfilling debt commitments would lead to bankruptcy chains. All in all, the bankruptcy in one sector can diffuse to other sectors through linkages creating a vicious cycle and bankruptcy avalanches in the network economy. Our analysis show how the choices of credit supply by both banks and firms are interrelated. While the initial impact of monetary policy is on bank behaviour, we show the interactive play between the choices made by banks, the choices made by firms in their role as providers of credit, and the choices made by firms in their role as producers.
The effect of a differential observing response and an error correction procedure for teaching conditional discriminations to children with autism spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Lam, Yvonne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A differential observing response (DOR), in which a unique response puts the learner in sensory contact with the sample stimulus (Walpole, Roscoe, & Dube, 2007), is an antecedent strategy used to address faulty stimulus control. Similarly, error correction (EC) procedures are consequence strategies for addressing errors and faulty stimulus control (McGhan & Lerman, 2013). Few studies have compared the combination of an error correction procedure and a DOR; thus, the purpose of this study was to examine this combination for teaching auditory to visual conditional discriminations. The study employed an adapted alternating treatments design with one participant where the primary dependent variable was the number of sessions to reach mastery criterion. A total of three comparative evaluations (i.e., stimulus bundles) were completed in which the auditory-visual stimuli consisted of nonsense consonant-vowel-consonant words assigned to flags. For the first stimulus bundle, more rapid learning was associated with the EC condition. For the second stimulus bundle, neither treatment was associated with more rapid learning, as acquisition in each treatment occurred at the same rate. Finally, for the third stimulus bundle, more rapid learning was associated with the DOR+EC condition. The results indicated that the addition of a DOR to an error correction procedure did not result in more rapid learning of auditory to visual conditional discriminations for the participant. Limitations of the study and directions for future research are discussed.
Martins Capela e a Igreja Católica na transição entre a Monarquia Constitucional e a República
Creators: name: Silva, Amaro Carvalho Da
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Estabelecendo o Diário do padre Manuel José Martins Capela, sobretudo nos anos de 1901 a 1913, como principal fonte de informação procurámos enunciar e reflectir sobre alguns problemas com que se defrontou a Igreja Católica portuguesa no período conturbado de transição da Monarquia à República: envolvimentos sociais da Igreja em período dominado pelo rotativismo; defesa da Monarquia e rituais patrióticos; conflitualidade social e fragilidade da Monarquia; problemas no interior da Igreja e intenções reformistas; jogos de protecção e de influência em período de ineficácia legislativa; a “União Católica” como um projecto condenado pelo “clero rotativo” e pelas atitudes “modernistas”; desarticulação da vida eclesiástica na sequência da revolução republicana. Entendemos como muito importante o aspecto testemunhal e vivencial de um «presbítero bracarense» que se distinguiu em vários domínios: divulgação do Neotomismo, ensino, investigação arqueológica, jornalismo, Nacionalismo Católico e obras de apostolado.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
Hadron-quark phase transition in asymmetric matter with boson condensation
Creators: name: Cavagnoli, Rafael
name: Providência, Constança
name: Menezes, Debora P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we study the hadron-quark phase transition with boson condensation in asymmetric matter by investigating the binodal surface and extending it to finite temperature in order to mimic the QCD phase diagram. We consider a system with two conserved charges (isospin and baryon densities) using the Gibbs' criteria for phase equilibrium. In order to obtain these conditions we use two different models for the two possible phases, namely the non-linear Walecka model (NLWM) for the hadron matter (also including hyperons) and the MIT bag model for the quark phase. It is shown that the phase transition is very sensitive to the density dependence of the equation of state and the symmetry energy. For isospin asymmetry of 0.2 and a mixed phase with a fraction of 20% of quarks, a transition density in the interval 2 rho_0 to 4 rho_0 was obtained for temperatures 30 < T < 65 MeV.
description: 18 pages, 23 figures
Dynamical mean-field theory from a quantum chemical perspective
Creators: name: Zgid, Dominika
name: Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) from a quantum chemical perspective. Dynamical mean-field theory offers a formalism to extend quantum chemical methods for finite systems to infinite periodic problems within a local correlation approximation. In addition, quantum chemical techniques can be used to construct new ab-initio Hamiltonians and impurity solvers for DMFT. Here we explore some ways in which these things may be achieved. First, we present an informal overview of dynamical mean-field theory to connect to quantum chemical language. Next we describe an implementation of dynamical mean-field theory where we start from an ab-initio Hartree- Fock Hamiltonian that avoids double counting issues present in many applications of DMFT. We then explore the use of the configuration interaction hierarchy in DMFT as an approximate solver for the impurity problem. We also investigate some numerical issues of convergence within DMFT. Our studies are carried out in the context of the cubic hydrogen model, a simple but challenging test for correlation methods. Finally we finish with some conclusions for future directions.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 4 of Proteomic profiling in cerebral amyloid angiopathy reveals an overlap with CADASIL highlighting accumulation of HTRA1 and its substrates
Creators: name: Zellner, Andreas
name: Müller, Stephan A.
name: Lindner, Barbara
name: Beaufort, Nathalie
name: Rozemuller, Annemieke J. M.
name: Arzberger, Thomas
name: Gassen, Nils C.
name: Lichtenthaler, Stefan F.
name: Kuster, Bernhard
name: Haffner, Christof
name: Dichgans, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4. Shared proteins between CAA and CADASIL reveal high correlation with Aβ1-40. Scatter plots of log10 iBAQ intensities and log10 Aβ1-40 intensities (determined by ELISA) for the 12 proteins enriched in CAA and CADASIL microvessel extracts. p-values and correlation coefficients were calculated via linear regression analysis.
Arsenic, cadmium, and lead in rice and rice products on the Austrian market
Creators: name: Dressler, Julia Monika
name: Raab, Andrea
name: Wehmeier, Silvia
name: Feldmann, Jörg
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Fifty-one rice samples, i.e. 25 rice varieties, 8 rice products, and 18 rice containing baby foods from the Austrian market were surveyed for arsenic, cadmium, and lead. Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is most toxic to human health, and its mean concentrations in rice were 120 µg kg−1, 191 µg kg−1 in rice products, and 77 µg kg−1 in baby foods. The average dimethylarsinic acid and methylarsonic acid concentrations were 56 µg kg−1 and 2 µg kg−1, respectively. The highest iAs concentration was found in rice flakes (237 ± 15 µg kg−1), close to the Maximum Level (ML) set by the EU regulation for husked rice (250 µg kg−1). The levels of cadmium (12 to 182 µg kg−1) and lead (6 to 30 µg kg−1) in the majority of rice samples were below the European ML. Upland grown rice from Austria showed both, low inorganic arsenic (<19 µg kg−1) and cadmium (<38 µg kg−1) concentrations.
Additional file 2 of High dose expression of heme oxigenase-1 induces retinal degeneration through ER stress-related DDIT3
Creators: name: Li, Huirong
name: Liu, Bo
name: Lian, Lili
name: Zhou, Jiajia
name: Xiang, Shengjin
name: Zhai, Yifan
name: Chen, Yu
name: Ma, Xiaoyin
name: Wu, Wencan
name: Hou, Ling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2 : Figure S2. AAV8-mediated low level expression of HMOX1 protects photoreceptor cells from LD. 2-month-old albino mice were infected by the low dose of AAV8-HMOX1 or control virus for 2 weeks, then exposed to high-intensity light (15,000 lx) for 3 days and finally analyzed for retinal degeneration. (A) ERG traces of albino mice infected with the low dose of AAV8-HMOX1 or control virus after 3 days of LD. (B, C) Quantification of ERG amplitudes in rod response (B) and standard response (C) according to the ERG traces (Error bars: SD; n = 6, Student T-test). (D) Representative histological images of H&E staining of retinas infected with the indicated viruses, kept for 2 weeks and then exposed to high intensity light continuously for 3 days. (E) The curve diagram of the thickness of photoreceptor cell layer from the albino mice kept under the indicated conditions (Error bars: SD; n = 6, one-way ANOVA). (F, G) Representative images of TUNEL assays from retinas of albino mice exposed to high-intensity light for the indicated times (F) and the quantification of cell death in the ONL of retinas (G) (Error bars: SD; n = 3, Student T-test). GCL, ganglion cell layer; INL, inner nuclear layer; ONL, outer nuclear layer. PL, photoreceptor layer. * or ** indicates p < 0.05 or p < 0.01. Scale bar: 50 μm.
Quark and Lepton Flavor Triality
Creators: name: Ma, Ernest
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the success of A_4 in explaining neutrino tribimaximal mixing, and its approximate residual Z_3 symmetry in the quark and charged-lepton sectors, the notion of "flavor triality" is proposed. Under this hypothesis, certain processes such as tau+ to mu+mu+e- and tau+ to e+e+mu- are favored, but tau+ to mu+e+e- and mu+ to e+e+e- are disfavored. Similarly, B0 to tau+e- is favored, but B0 to tau-e+ is disfavored.
description: 8 pages, no figure
Inverse Additive Problems for Minkowski Sumsets II
Creators: name: Freiman, G. A.
name: Grynkiewicz, D. J.
name: Serra, O.
name: Stanchescu, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A20, 52A40, 26B25

description: The Brunn-Minkowski Theorem asserts that $μ_d(A+B)^{1/d}\geq μ_d(A)^{1/d}+μ_d(B)^{1/d}$ for convex bodies $A,\,B\subseteq \R^d$, where $μ_d$ denotes the $d$-dimensional Lebesgue measure. It is well-known that equality holds if and only if $A$ and $B$ are homothetic, but few characterizations of equality in other related bounds are known. Let $H$ be a hyperplane. Bonnesen later strengthened this bound by showing $$μ_d(A+B)\geq (M^{1/(d-1)}+N^{1/(d-1)})^{d-1}(\frac{μ_d(A)}{M}+\frac{μ_d(B)}{N}),$$ where $M=\sup\{μ_{d-1}((\mathbf x+H)\cap A)\mid \mathbf x\in \R^d\}$ and $N=\sup\{μ_{d-1}((\mathbf y+H)\cap B)\mid \mathbf y\in \R^d\}$. Standard compression arguments show that the above bound also holds when $M=μ_{d-1}(π(A))$ and $N=μ_{d-1}(π(B))$, where $π$ denotes a projection of $\mathbb R^d$ onto $H$, which gives an alternative generalization of the Brunn-Minkowski bound. In this paper, we characterize the cases of equality in this later bound, showing that equality holds if and only if $A$ and $B$ are obtained from a pair of homothetic convex bodies by `stretching' along the direction of the projection, which is made formal in the paper. When $d=2$, we characterize the case of equality in the former bound as well.
A Place for Us : a song cycle for amplified pop tenor and chamber ensemble
Creators: name: James, Glenn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A Place for Us is a song cycle for amplified pop tenor and chamber ensemble (amplified string quintet, piano, electric bass, and drum set). It is approximately twenty minutes in duration and is divided into ten short sections. The text was written in collaboration with writer Tamara Chandon. It explores a love story using elements of an archetypal hero’s journey narrative. The music incorporates an eclectic array of styles and focuses on rhythmic attributes such as groove, syncopation, and backbeat.
Evaluation of a web-based tool designed to prepare people for treatment decisions and advance care planning : applicability in oncology
Creators: name: Cresswell, Martha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Health care delivery is structured around patient-centered care and the expectation that patients will exercise autonomous medical decision making, however many oncology patients who access health care have no preparation for making informed treatment decisions or engaging in advance care planning (ACP) conversations. Engagement in ACP conversations facilitates patient-centred care that is consistent with the care and treatment the patient wants and enables in-the-moment medical decisions during treatment and at end of life. Patient engagement in ACP is associated with a measure of high quality care delivery by legal standards, clinical guidelines and ethical consensus. The majority of Canadians acknowledge the importance of ACP, but do not benefit from it because they are not engaging in ACP discussions or documentation. This study addressed the need to find an acceptable and relevant means to engage cancer patients in ACP. PREPARE is a promising web-based intervention aimed at preparing patients to engage in ACP discussions that was developed with community dwelling seniors in the United States. It had not been evaluated for use with an oncology population. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to evaluate the acceptability, applicability, and understandability of PREPARE for cancer patients. Data was collected via cognitive interviewing, followed by a brief semi-structured interview with 21 participants to gather a meaningful account of their experience with the PREPARE website. Content analysis resulted in a comprehensive summary of what the participants liked and did not like about the resource, as well as suggestions for change. The active cancer treatment patients enrolled in this study indicated that the PREPARE website was acceptable, applicable, and understandable for an oncology population. Importantly, this was the case for both older and middle aged participants. Some participants had difficulty with the life limiting language of “life not worth living or worse than death” and this requires follow-up in order to determine whether changes to the resource are needed. However, overall, PREPARE was found to be a useful reflective resource for cancer patients that merits further consideration for implementation.
title: Moral Agents in a Moral World: A New Account of Moral Realism and Moral Perception
Creators: name: Mason, Lanell Maria
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide a metaphysic for moral realism and moral perception. This thesis is in two parts. The first is concerned with basic ontology. I begin in chapter 1 with an analysis of causation, demonstrating that substance theory is superior to Humeanism at accounting for our observations; thus I defend a substance ontology. In chapter 2, I address human agency, demonstrating that reasons internalism does not allow for incompatibilist freedom; hence, I affirm reasons are states of affairs. I move on to qualia in chapter 3, demonstrating that arguments both for and against qualia realism involve question begging. In response, I argue that qualia realism is just as reasonable as anti-realism, and affirm realism. Given this, I address the mind-body problem in chapter 4, demonstrating the failure of physicalists to account for mental causation. I conclude that panpsychism, idealism, and substance dualism are equal reasonable alternatives: each allows for intrinsic properties, which are integral to substance ontology. The second part builds a moral ontology, along with an account of moral perceptual knowledge, compatible with the above basic ontology. In chapter 5, I reject moral properties as monadic since this would bar mapping moral concepts onto mind-independent reality. Instead, I argue that moral properties are relations. More specifically, in chapter 6, I make the case that they are features of relations, relations themselves being the total complex states of affairs between one or more substances. This allows moral properties to have their own nonreducible phenomenal quality. To account for moral normativity, I argue that moral features are actually a class of causal features, and briefly argue that final causes determine the normative causal trajectory of all substances. In chapter 7, I conclude this thesis with addressing possible objections to my theory of perception and perceptual knowledge.
Additional file 1 of Semi-supervised incremental learning with few examples for discovering medical association rules
Creators: name: Sánchez-de-Madariaga, Ricardo
name: Martinez-Romo, Juan
name: Escribano, José Miguel Cantero
name: Araujo, Lourdes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. This file includes the formal definitions related to Association Rules, the definition and computation of the Fisher's test and the EHR preprocessing used in this work.
Particle trajectories in linearized irrotational shallow water flows
Creators: name: Ionescu-Kruse, Delia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the particle trajectories in an irrotational shallow water flow over a flat bed as periodic waves propagate on the water's free surface. Within the linear water wave theory, we show that there are no closed orbits for the water particles beneath the irrotational shallow water waves. Depending on the strength of underlying uniform current, we obtain that some particle trajectories are undulating path to the right or to the left, some are looping curves with a drift to the right and others are parabolic curves or curves which have only one loop.
A study of provenance in databases and improving the usability of provenance database systems
Creators: name: AlOmeir, Omar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Provenance refers to information about the origin of a piece of data and the process that led to its creation. Provenance information has been a focus of database research for quite some time. In this field, most of the focus has been on the sub-problem of finding the source data that contributed to the results of a query. More formally, the problem is defined as follows: given a query q and a tuple t in the results of q, which tuples from the relation R accessed by q caused t to appear in the results of q. The most studied aspect of this problem has been on developing models and semantics that allow this provenance information to be generated and queried. The motivations for studying provenance in databases vary across domains; provenance information is relevant to curated databases, data integration systems, and data warehouses for updating and maintaining views. In this thesis, I look extensively at provenance models as well as different system implementations.I compare the different approaches, analyze them, and point out the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Based on my findings, I develop a provenance system based on the most attractive features of the previous systems, built on top of a relational database management system. My focus is on identifying areas that could potentially make provenance information easier to understand for users, using visualization techniques to extend the system with a provenance browsing component. I provide a case study using my provenance explorer, looking at a large dataset of financial data that comes from multiple sources. Provenance information helps with tracking the sources and transformations this data went through and explains them to the users in a way they can trust and reason about. There has not been much work focused on presenting and explaining provenance information to database users. Some of the current approaches support limited facilities for visualizing and reporting provenance information. Other approaches simply rely on the user to query and explore the results via different data manipulation languages. My approach presents novel techniques for the user to interact with provenance information.
O Conde de Samodães e o discurso conciliador entre catolicismo e liberalismo político
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Eduardo C. Cordeiro
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2004

description: Figura expressiva da política e do catolicismo de oitocentos, Francisco de Azeredo Teixeira de Aguilar, 2º conde de Samodães, atinge particular projecção no âmbito do relançar do movimento católico em Portugal, em 1870, cuja espessura cronológica se estende até à república. Nesta circunstância, o cerne da problemática ora apresentada pretende averiguar as principais linhas de pensamento do conde face a algumas das grandes questões político-religiosas que dominavam a época, tendo por pano de fundo o relacionamento do catolicismo com o liberalismo. Líder de um grupo de católicos que buscam, com êxito, separar os objectivos políticos dos objectivos religiosos, abre, deste modo, um «espaço próprio» na designada questão político-religiosa de então. Pelo pensamento e pela acção, Samodães afirma-se um dos mais significativos defensores do discurso conciliador entre catolicismo e liberalismo político.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 16 (2004): Mutações Religiosas na Época Contemporânea: Figuras e Pensamento
HAT-P-13: a multi-site campaign to detect the transit of the second planet in the system
Creators: name: Szabó, Gy. M.
name: Kiss, L. L.
name: Benkő, J. M.
name: Mező, Gy.
name: Nuspl, J.
name: Regály, Zs.
name: Sárneczky, K.
name: Simon, A. E.
name: Leto, G.
name: Sanchez, R. Zanmar
name: Ngeow, C. -C.
name: Kővári, Zs.
name: Szabó, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possible transit of HAT-P-13c has been predicted to occur on 2010 April 28. Here we report on the results of a multi-site campaign that has been organised to detect the event. CCD photometric observations have been carried out at five observatories in five countries. We reached 30% time coverage in a 5 days interval centered on the suspected transit of HAT-P-13c. Two transits of HAT-P-13b were also observed. No transit of HAT-P-13c has been detected while the campaign was on. By a numerical experiment with 10^5 model systems we conclude that HAT-P-13c is not a transiting exoplanet with a significance level from 65% to 72%, depending on the planet parameters and the prior assumptions. We present two times of transit of HAT-P-13b ocurring at BJD 2455141.5522 +- 0.0010 and BJD 2455249.4508 +- 0.0020. The TTV of HAT-P-13b is consistent with zero within 0.001 days. The refined orbital period of HAT-P-13b is 2.916293 +- 0.000010 days.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be accepted by A&A
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach
Creators: name: Ferraresi, Tommaso
name: Ghezzi, Leonardo
name: Vanni, Fabio
name: Caiani, Alessandro
name: Guerini, Mattia
name: Lamperti, Francesco
name: Reissl, Severin
name: Fagiolo, Giorgio
name: Napoletano, Mauro
name: Roventini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: We evaluate the exposure of Italian regions to employment and the health risk associated with the spread of COVID-19. First, we estimate the degree of participation of Italian regions in a plurality of value chains linked to consumption, investment and exports. Second, we investigate the different levels of contagion risk associated with each value chain and the possibility of reducing such risk through remote work. We find that regions are affected differently by lockdown policies because of their highly heterogeneous embeddedness in different value chains, and their diverse sectoral contributions to each of them.
title: Kritische Analyse des Geschäftsmodells von Amazon mit einem Fokus auf wettbewerbsrechtliche Aspekte
Creators: name: Fischer, Lena
name: Zerres, Thomas
name: Zerres, Christopher
Year: 2021

description: Die Digitalisierung verändert unsere Gesellschaft, sie schafft beinahe unendliche Möglichkeiten und eröffnet neue Wege zur Nutzung von innovativen Ideen. Daraus hervorgegangen sind auch digitale Plattformen, welche heute nicht mehr wegzudenken sind und von nahezu jedem Konsumenten genutzt werden. Während der fortdauernden Coronapandemie haben digitale Plattformen und insbesondere digitale Marktplätze zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen, denn während Einzelhändler ihre Geschäfte vor Ort schließen mussten, blieb der Einkauf über digitale Angebote weiterhin möglich. Diesen Bedeutungszuwachs bestätigt auch der Umsatz von Amazon, einem Unternehmen, welches mit seinem digitalen Geschäftsmodell insbesondere für seinen digitalen Marktplatz bekannt ist, denn es verzeichnet im ersten Quartal 2021 ein Umsatzwachstum von 44 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass es sich dabei um eine Entwicklung handelt, welche fortdauern wird, denn das Verhalten von Verbrauchern wird sich durch die Erfahrungen, die sie im Laufe der Pandemie gesammelt haben, nachhaltig verändern. So wollen Menschen beispielsweise auch nach der Pandemie vermehrt online sein und insbesondere auch online einkaufen, da es bequemer und zeitsparender ist und online meist bessere Angebote verfügbar sind.
description: Arbeitspapiere für Marketing und Management; 60
Symmetries in Nuclei
Creators: name: Van Isacker, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of dynamical symmetries or spectrum generating algebras for the solution of the nuclear many-body problem is reviewed. General notions of symmetry and dynamical symmetry in quantum mechanics are introduced and illustrated with simple examples such as the SO(4) symmetry of the hydrogen atom and the isospin symmetry in nuclei. Two nuclear models, the shell model and the interacting boson model, are reviewed with particular emphasis on their use of group-theoretical techniques.
description: 46 pages, 11 figures. Lecture given at the XL Latin American School of Physics "Symmetries in Physics", Mexico City, July 26 - August 6, 2010. Accepted for publication in AIP Conference Proceedings Series
Additional file 1 of Replacing vaccine paper package inserts: a multi-country questionnaire study on the acceptability of an electronic replacement in different target groups
Creators: name: Bamberger, Martina
name: De Loof, Hans
name: Marstboom, Charlotte
name: Oury, Stéphanie
name: Bonanni, Paolo
name: Launay, Odile
name: Kojouharova, Mira
name: Van Damme, Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.