cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parts of a whole: building a shared school culture in dual-track immersion schools
Creators: name: Crawford, Donna
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: LB 1029 C55 C73 1993
subject: French language - Study and teaching as a second language - Alberta
subject: French language - Study and teaching - Immersion method
subject: Immersion method (Language teaching)
subject: English language - Study and teaching - Alberta

description: Bibliography: p. 326-331.
description: Although French immersion schools have been studied in depth, no systematic appraisal exists of how dual-track schools in particular might function harmoniously. This study explored the perceptions of parents, students, staff and administrators within two selected dual-track junior high schools, particularly in regard to the effects of the direct promotion of a shared school culture. In addition, responses were solicited regarding climate, normative, and practice factors that might be associated with the development of a shared school culture. There was strong agreement among participants that direct promotion of such a culture was important and advantageous for dual-track schools. Associated climate and normative factors were identified. Of the practices deemed effective, most significant were: providing a diversity of activities, extensive mixing of students, teaching across the program, equality of treatment, inclusion of parents in the process, and a focus on tolerance.
An Overview of Recent Progress in LaserWakefield Acceleration Experiments
Creators: name: Mangles, S.P.D.
Publisher: name: CERN, Geneva
Year: 2016
Subjects: Laser wakefield accelerators; plasma accelerators; laser-plasma acceleration.

description: The goal of this paper is to examine experimental progress in laser wakefield acceleration over the past decade (2004–2014), and to use trends in the data to understand some of the important physical processes. By examining a set of over 50 experiments, various trends concerning the relationship between plasma density, accelerator length, laser power and the final electron beam energy are revealed. The data suggest that current experiments are limited by dephasing and that current experiments typically require some pulse evolution
to reach the trapping threshold.
description: CERN Yellow Reports, Vol 1 (2016): Proceedings of the 2014 CAS-CERN Accelerator School: Plasma Wake Acceleration
Longitudinal assessment of listening skills in UK infants with hearing aids using the LittlEARS® auditory questionnaire
Creators: name: Visram, Anisa Sadru
name: Purdy, Suzanne Carolyn
name: Kelly, Jack
name: Munro, Kevin James
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To investigate listening skills in infant hearing aid users using the LittlEARS® Auditory Questionnaire (LEAQ). Caregivers completed the LEAQ, and hearing aid data logging was recorded, at infant age 3–7 months and 7–21 months. Seventy infant hearing aid users with permanent bilateral hearing loss, no developmental comorbidities, aged 3–7 months at first visit. Infants with mild and moderate losses tended to have scores within the normative range at the early time point (88%), but 29% were below the normative range when older. Thirty percent of infants with severe hearing loss were outside the normative range at the early time point and 60% outside the normative range when older. Infants with profound loss were almost always (95%) outside the normative range. At the later time point, and for infants with severe-to-profound loss, low LEAQ scores were associated with fewer daily hours hearing aid use. Scores were poorer than previous reports in the literature for infant hearing aid users. This study provides further knowledge on infant listening performance and hearing aid use over time that can be used to guide management of individual cases and to develop and audit service quality improvements.
Covariant Derivatives on Null Submanifolds
Creators: name: Hickethier, Don
name: Dray, Tevian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The degenerate nature of the metric on null hypersurfaces makes it difficult to define a covariant derivative on null submanifolds. Recent approaches using decomposition to define a covariant derivative on null hypersurfaces are investigated, with examples demonstrating the limitations of the methods. Motivated by Geroch's work on asymptotically flat spacetimes, conformal transformations are used to construct a covariant derivative on null hypersurfaces, and a condition on the Ricci tensor is given to determine when this construction can be used. Several examples are given, including the construction of a covariant derivative operator for the class of spherically symmetric hypersurfaces.
description: 13 pages, no figures
Case Studies on Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Design
Creators: name: Osterhoff, J.
name: Najmudin, Z.
name: Faure, J.
Publisher: name: CERN, Geneva
Year: 2016
Subjects: Plasma wakefield accelerators; applications; case study.

description: The field of plasma-based particle accelerators has seen tremendous progress over the past decade and experienced significant growth in the number of activities. During this process, the involved scientific community has expanded from traditional university-based research and is now encompassing many large research laboratories worldwide, such as BNL, CERN, DESY, KEK, LBNL and SLAC. As a consequence, there is a strong demand for a consolidated effort in education at the intersection of accelerator, laser and plasma physics. The CERN Accelerator School on Plasma Wake Acceleration has been organized as a result of this development. In this paper, we describe the interactive component of this one-week school, which consisted of three case studies to be solved in 11 working groups by the participants of the CERN Accelerator School.
description: CERN Yellow Reports, Vol 1 (2016): Proceedings of the 2014 CAS-CERN Accelerator School: Plasma Wake Acceleration
A Psycho-Cultural Approach to Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Creators: name: Mamba, Augustin Mubiayi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Newborn
mother
society
environment
culture
development
nutriment

description: Talking Pediatrics refers to the welfare of the newborn, taking into consideration his behavior and his development. It is worth to emphasize and mention that we cannot talk of Pediatrics without having a glance to how the mother of the newborn survived the pregnancy period and how the birthchild was handled. These elements play an important role to figure out how the growth of the newborn will be. The development and behavior of a newborn is affected positively or negatively by the behavior of the mother, the one we think does not live in a sole network but in a socio-cultural network which impacts on the birth child, the health of the pregnant woman and the pediatrics considerations in general. A mother, who spent a pregnancy period in harmony with the family (society, environment) is expected to go through well-balanced parturition, in the absentia of infections or programmed complications. This is why a global approach is envisaged in the care to be given to the newborn in order to attain successful pediatrics management. Let us consider a nutrition aspect picking the case of breast-feeding, for example. We may notice that, not only the milk that comes out of the mother’s breast is crucial for the baby. On a psychological point of view, the fact that a baby remains in the chest of the mother, sucking the breast even if no milk is coming out, increases the attachment and the affectivity of the newborn to the mother. This is an expression of libido of Sigmund Freud. While advising and campaigning on the breastfeeding for a newborn, the emphasis should not be put only on the chemical or biological nutriment but also on the psychic nutriment, which contribute to the total care and development of this newborn and build his behavior tomorrow. In our research on psychological accompaniment to complicated childbirth’s, we considered the problem of childbirth as a node containing several facets, which facets could be treated in synergy between several specialties. It is this holistic view of the problem that, amongst other things, has led us to believe that the mother as well as the newborn does live not in a social and cultural vacuum, but rather in a network of social and cultural relations. This society waits from the newborn, in terms of potential, will occupy status and plays roles in this society and change the environment. We believe that culture plays a proper role in the development and behavior of the newborn, future adult.
Infrared and submillimeter emission from dust surrounding ultracompact H II regions
Creators: name: Daines, Jeffrey T.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QB 791.5 D35 1994
subject: Interstellar hydrogen
subject: Stars - Evolution
subject: Stars, New
subject: Interstellar matter

description: Bibliography: p. 202-209.
Risk and protective factors for self-harm in adolescents and young adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Mcevoy, David
name: Brannigan, Ross
name: Cooke, Lorcan
name: Butler, Emma
name: WALSH, CATHAL
name: Arensman, Ella
name: Clarke, Mary
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We conducted an umbrella review to synthesise the evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses that examined the risk and protective factors for self-harm in young people. We searched six different databases and used the AMSTAR-2 checklist for quality assessment. The importance of each risk and protective factor was determined based on (1) the number of times it was identified by general reviews examining any risk or protective factor, and (2) the effect sizes from meta-analyses. There were 61 systematic reviews included in this review. The most frequently identified risk factors for self-harm in young people included childhood abuse, depression/anxiety, bullying, trauma, psychiatric illnesses, substance use/abuse, parental divorce, poor family relationships, lack of friends, and exposure to self-harm behaviour in others. The risk factors with the strongest evidence for an association with self-harm were behavioural disorders, personality disorders and depression or anxiety. There was a dearth of systematic reviews examining protective factors but good family/friend relationships were most frequently identified. There was also evidence to show that non-suicidal and suicidal self-harm shared many of the same risk factors. Clinicians and other professionals who work with young people should be particularly cognisant of the psychiatric and adverse life event risk factors as well as the substance use, education-related and individual-level (e.g. being LGB) risk factors for self-harm. Knowledge of risk factors for self-harm can potentially be used to inform the design and implementation of prevention measures and further research is needed on the protective factors for self-harm.
Understanding Dual AGN Activation in the Nearby Universe
Creators: name: Koss, Michael
name: Mushotzky, Richard
name: Treister, Ezequiel
name: Veilleux, Sylvain
name: Vasudevan, Ranjan
name: Trippe, Margaret
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fraction of dual AGN in a sample of 167 nearby (z<0.05), moderate luminosity, ultra hard X-ray selected AGN from the all-sky Swift BAT survey. Combining new Chandra and Gemini observations together with optical and X-ray observations, we find that the dual AGN frequency at scales <100 kpc is 10% (16/167). Of the 16 dual AGN, 3 (19%) were detected using X-ray spectroscopy and were not detected using emission line diagnostics. Close dual AGN (<30 kpc) tend to be more common among the most X-ray luminous systems. In dual AGN, the X-ray luminosity of both AGN increases strongly with decreasing galaxy separation, suggesting that the merging event is key in powering both AGN. 50% of the AGN with a very close companion (<15 kpc), are dual AGN. We also find that dual AGN are more likely to occur in major mergers and tend to avoid absorption line galaxies with elliptical morphologies. Finally, we find SDSS Seyferts are much less likely than BAT AGN (0.25% vs. 7.8%) to be found in dual AGN at scales <30 kpc because of a smaller number of companions galaxies, fiber collision limits, a tendency for AGN at small separations to be detected only in X-rays, and a higher fraction of dual AGN companions with increasing AGN luminosity.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Speech discrimination and word identification with a consumer-level bone-conduction headset and remote microphone for children with normal hearing
Creators: name: Brown, Tamsin Holland
name: Marriage, Josephine
name: Salorio-Corbetto, Marina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study investigated the use of bone-conduction headsets paired to a wireless, remote microphone on speech discrimination and word identification for children with normal hearing. Children were tested with and without the headset, using the McCormick speech discrimination test in quiet and in speech-shaped noise to measure word-discrimination thresholds. Additionally, open-set word identification in noise was assessed while children were simultaneously engaged in a visual-monitoring task. Twenty normal-hearing children, aged 4–11 years. Median word-discrimination threshold in quiet (n = 20) was 20.5 dB(A) without a headset and 11.5 dB(A) with a headset (Z = –3.826, p = 0.0001). In noise, the median word-discrimination threshold (n = 20) was 52 dB(A) without a headset and 40.5 dB(A) with a headset (Z = –3.926, p< 0.0001). For open-set word identification (n = 11), children performed significantly better with a headset than without it, with an average improvement of 23 percentage points (t(10) = −5.227, p = 0.0004, two tailed). A bone-conduction headset paired to a Bluetooth microphone improved discrimination of distant speech in quiet and in noise and open-set word identification in noise.
2Nd Workshop Of Cost Action Tu1404 With Focus On Modelling Of Cement-Based Materials And Structures. Presentations E-Book.
Creators: name: Wyrzykowski, Mateusz
name: Benboudjema, Farid
name: Azenha, Miguel
name: Staquet, Stéphanie
name: Schlicke, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: cement based materials
service life
modelling
COST Action TU1404

description: The e-book contains 29 presentations of the 2nd workshop of the COST Action TU1404 with focus on Modeling of Cement Based Materials and Structures that took place on 19-20 September 2015 in Vienna, Austria. More details on the event can be found here: http://www.tu1404.eu/september-2015-vienna.
The 2010 August 01 type II burst: A CME-CME Interaction, and its radio and white-light manifestations
Creators: name: Oliveros, Juan Carlos Martínez
name: Raftery, Claire L.
name: Bain, Hazel M.
name: Liu, Ying
name: Krupar, Vratislav
name: Bale, Stuart
name: Krucker, Säm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observational results of a type II burst associated with a CME-CME interaction observed in the radio and white-light wavelength range. We applied radio direction-finding techniques to observations from the STEREO and Wind spacecraft, the results of which were interpreted using white-light coronagraphic measurements for context. The results of the multiple radio-direction finding techniques applied were found to be consistent both with each other and with those derived from the white-light observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The results suggest that the Type II burst radio emission is causally related to the CMEs interaction.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Accepted to ApJ: January 16, 2012
D7.1 FAIR in European Higher Education
Creators: name: Stoy, Lennart
name: Saenen, Bregt
name: Davidson, Joy
name: Engelhardt, Claudia
name: Gaillard, Vinciane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Data Management
FAIR
Universities
Higher education institutions (HEIs)
Data stewardship

description: As part of the EOSC project family the FAIRsFAIR - Fostering Fair Data Practices in Europe - project aims to supply practical solutions for the use of the FAIR data principles throughout the research data life cycle. The FAIRsFAIR project runs from March 2019-February 2022. FAIRsFAIR Work Package 7 “FAIR Data Science and Professionalisation” aims to develop resources and build communities that support the uptake of RDM and FAIR practice within higher education curricula. To achieve these objectives, the present report aims to build a foundation for the identification of existing practices and needs of higher education institutions. Both a web-based questionnaire with 90 responses and two focus groups with a total of 50 participants were conducted between September and November 2019 as basis for the report. The research covered several dimensions of research data management at HEIs relevant for the implementation of FAIRsFAIR WP7, as well as WP3 “FAIR Data Policy Practice” and WP6 “FAIR Competence Centre”. These dimensions included: Institutional research data management policies Support services for research data management Competence development of students and graduates Universities and EOSC FAIRsFAIR support for universities This is the draft version of the deliverable not yet approved by the European Commission.
de Broglie waves as the "Bridge of Becoming" between quantum theory and relativity
Creators: name: Kastner, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is hypothesized that de Broglie's 'matter waves' provide a dynamical basis for Minkowski spacetime in an antisubstantivalist or relational account. The relativity of simultaneity is seen as an effect of the de Broglie oscillation together with a basic relativity postulate, while the dispersion relation from finite rest mass gives rise to the differentiation of spatial and temporal axes. Thus spacetime is seen as not fundamental, but rather as emergent from the quantum level. A result by Solov'ev which demonstrates that time is not an applicable concept at the quantum level is adduced in support of this claim. Finally, it is noted that de Broglie waves can be seen as the "bridge of becoming" discussed by Elitzur and Dolev (2005).
description: Forthcoming in Foundations of Science; reference added to recent work of Dolce
title: CERN Yellow Reports, Vol 1 (2016): Proceedings of the 2014 CAS-CERN Accelerator School: Plasma Wake Acceleration
title: Proceedings of the 2014 CAS-CERN Accelerator School: Plasma Wake Acceleration
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: CERN, Geneva
Publisher: name: CERN, Geneva
Year: 2016

description: edited by Bernhard Holzer

CERN-2016-001, ISSN 0007–8328, ISBN 978–92–9083–424–3 (paperback), ISBN 978–92–9083–425–0 (PDF)
description: Full text
Plasma Wake Accelerators: Introduction and Historical Overview...1
Introduction to Particle Accelerators and their Limitations...29
Introduction to Plasma Physics...51
Introduction to Plasma Accelerators: the Basics...67
Multidimensional Plasma Wake Excitation in the Non-linear Blowout Regime...79
Laser Wakefield Accelerators...109
Beam-driven, Plasma-based Particle Accelerators...119
Plasma Injection Schemes for Laser–Plasma Accelerators...143
Injection, Extraction and Matching...159
Particle-In-Cell Codes for Plasma-based Particle Acceleration...181
Laser-driven Plasma Wakefield: Propagation Effects...207
Ion Acceleration—Target Normal Sheath Acceleration...231
AWAKE, A Particle-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment...271
An Overview of Recent Progress in LaserWakefield Acceleration Experiments...289
Case Studies on Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Design...301
Classic Maya landscape in the upper Usumacinta River valley
Creators: name: Aliphat, Mario M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: F 1219.1 U8 A35 1994
subject: Usumacinta River Valley (Guatemala and Mexico) - Antiquities
subject: Landscape archaeology - Usumacinta River Valley (Guatemala and Mexico)

description: Bibliography: p. 219-240.
description: The Usumacinta River Basin in Chiapas, Mexico witnessed the growth and florescence of the Classic Maya civilization. However, the area has been relatively little explored archaeologically in comparison to other lowland Classic Maya areas such as Belize and the Peten in Guatemala. The primary objective of this thesis is to provide a broad base of data concerning the Upper Usmacinta River Basin on which to build a comprehensive knowledge of the Classic Maya in this area. The data base is presented from the perspective of landscape studies in archaeology, which transcend the purely ecological, economical or iconographical approaches to understanding the rise of past civilizations. The study area, defined hydrologically, is explored in terms of the structural geology, the geomorphology, the soils, and the vegetation to develop an approximation of the physical and biotic landscapes. These data, which are provided in the form of maps and figures, are then compared with the location of known archaeological sites in the Upper Usumacinta River Basin. The correlation of settlement location with natural and biotic landscape features provides the basis for the generation of a proposed political landscape for a specific period of Classic Maya times. The results of this landscape analysis support the idea that settlement decisions are influenced-by physical and biotic landscape features. For the study area, it is proposed that the location of sites corresponds to landscape features which facilitate the movement of goods and the maintenance of interaction along the Usumacinta River in downstream travel and through geologically-defined valleys in overland travel in the upstream direction.
Light propagation with non-minimal couplings in a two-component cosmic dark fluid with an Archimedean-type force and unlighted cosmological epochs
Creators: name: Balakin, Alexander B.
name: Bochkarev, Vladimir V.
name: Lemos, José P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the evolution of the universe there are at least two epochs during which electromagnetic waves cannot scan the universe's internal structure neither bring information to outside observers. The first epoch is when photons are in local thermodynamic equilibrium with other particles, and the second is when photon scattering by charged particles is strong. One can call these two periods of cosmological time as standard unlighted epochs. After the last scattering surface, photons become relic photons and turn into a source of information about the universe. Unlighted cosmic epochs can also appear when one considers non-minimal theories, i.e., theories in which the electromagnetic field is coupled in an intricate way with the cosmological gravitational field. By considering a cosmological model where the dark sector, i.e., the dark energy and dark matter, self-interacts via an Archimedean-type force, and taking into account a non-minimal coupling theory for the electromagnetic field, we discuss the appearance of unlighted epochs. In the framework of our non-minimal theory, a three-parameter non-minimal Einstein-Maxwell model, the curvature coupling can be formulated in terms of an effective refraction index n(t). Then, taking advantage of a well-known classical analogy, namely, in a medium with n^2<0 electromagnetic waves do not propagate and their group velocity, i.e., energy transfer velocity, has zero value at the boundary of the corresponding zone, one can search for the unlighted epochs arising in the interacting dark fluid cosmological model. We study here, both analytically and numerically, cosmological models admitting unlighted epochs.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
A qualitative study showing that a telecare tool can have benefits before and during the initial hearing assessment appointment
Creators: name: Heffernan, Eithne
name: Maidment, David W.
name: Ferguson, Melanie A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: To examine patient and audiologist experiences and perspectives of using a patient-centred telecare tool, the Ida Institute’s Why Improve My Hearing? (WIMH) Tool, before and during the initial hearing assessment appointment. A qualitative study comprising individual semi-structured interviews using a maximum variation sampling strategy. The data were analysed using an established thematic analysis technique. Fifteen participants, including ten patients (i.e. adults with hearing loss) and five audiologists, were recruited from Adult Audiology Services within the United Kingdom’s publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS). Three themes described the impact of using the WIMH Tool. Theme 1 (i.e. enhanced preparation before the appointment): the Tool helps patients to better understand and accept their hearing difficulties in advance of their first appointment. Theme 2 (i.e. enriched discussion during the appointment): the tool can enhance patient-centred communication, as well as the efficiency of the appointment. Theme 3 (i.e. varied impact on outcomes following the appointment): the Tool can improve patient motivation, readiness, and involvement in decision-making, though it may have limited impact on additional outcomes, such as adherence. The WIMH Tool can be successfully implemented in audiological practice, resulting in benefits before and during the initial hearing assessment appointment.
Excavation of Land for the Stony Brook Village Center
Creators: name: Unknown
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1940
Subjects: Stony Brook
Photographs
Trees
Tree limbs
Men
Construction
Excavation
Clearing of land

description: This photograph shows the scene of excavation of the land for the Stony Brook Village Center. Leveling the land for the project included the removal of many trees and one million cubic yards of dirt.
Spectra originated from semi-B-Fredholm theory and commuting perturbations
Creators: name: Zeng, Qingping
name: Jiang, Qiaofen
name: Zhong, Huaijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A10, 47A11 (Primary) 47A53, 47A55 (Secondary)

description: Burgos, Kaidi, Mbekhta and Oudghiri provided an affirmative answer to a question of Kaashoek and Lay and proved that an operator $F$ is power finite rank if and only if $σ_{dsc}(T+F) =σ_{dsc}(T)$ for every operator $T$ commuting with $F$. Later, several authors extended this result to the essential descent spectrum, the left Drazin spectrum and the left essentially Drazin spectrum. In this paper, using the theory of operator with eventual topological uniform descent and the technique used in Burgos, Kaidi, Mbekhta, and Oudghiri, we generalize this result to various spectra originated from seni-B-Fredholm theory. As immediate consequences, we give affirmative answers to several questions posed by Berkani, Amouch and Zariouh. Besides, we provide a general framework which allows us to derive in a unify way commuting perturbational results of Weyl-Browder type theorems and properties (generalized or not). These commuting perturbational results, in particular, improve many recent results of Berkani and Amouch, Berkani and Zariouh, and Rashid by removing certain extra assumptions.
description: 18 pages
Two-stage empirical likelihood for longitudinal neuroimaging data
Creators: name: Shi, Xiaoyan
name: Ibrahim, Joseph G.
name: Lieberman, Jeffrey
name: Styner, Martin
name: Li, Yimei
name: Zhu, Hongtu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Longitudinal imaging studies are essential to understanding the neural development of neuropsychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, and the normal brain. The main objective of this paper is to develop a two-stage adjusted exponentially tilted empirical likelihood (TETEL) for the spatial analysis of neuroimaging data from longitudinal studies. The TETEL method as a frequentist approach allows us to efficiently analyze longitudinal data without modeling temporal correlation and to classify different time-dependent covariate types. To account for spatial dependence, the TETEL method developed here specifically combines all the data in the closest neighborhood of each voxel (or pixel) on a 3-dimensional (3D) volume (or 2D surface) with appropriate weights to calculate adaptive parameter estimates and adaptive test statistics. Simulation studies are used to examine the finite sample performance of the adjusted exponential tilted likelihood ratio statistic and TETEL. We demonstrate the application of our statistical methods to the detection of the difference in the morphological changes of the hippocampus across time between schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects in a longitudinal schizophrenia study.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS480 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: CERN Yellow Reports, Vol 2 (2016): Proceedings of the 2014 Joint International Accelerator School: Beam Loss and Accelerator Protection
title: Proceedings of the 2014 Joint International Accelerator School: Beam Loss and Accelerator Protection
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: CERN, Geneva
Publisher: name: CERN, Geneva
Year: 2016

description: Newport Beach, United States, 5–14 November 2014

Edited by Rudiger Schmidt

CERN-2016-002, ISSN 0007–8328, ISBN 978–92–9083–426–7 (paperback), ISBN 978–92–9083–427–4 (PDF)
description: Full text
IMOLAB: Project poster
Creators: name: ITI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: IMOLAB
2022
connected signal
smart traffic light
ITS
beacon
bluetooth
smart mobility
distribuited laboratory

description: This document represents a poster for the project, which is part of the project's dissemination activities.
description: IMOLAB. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2022 with 56.964,32 €. File number: IMDEEA/2022/30
A developmental analysis of the narrative of verbally talented children
Creators: name: Davis, Lynn A.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: BF 723 S74 D38 1994
subject: Storytelling ability in children
subject: Gifted children
subject: Verbal ability in children
subject: Children - Language
subject: Cognition in children

description: Bibliography: p. 59-64.
Novel Oral Anticoagulants Network Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Chan, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: meta-analysis
network meta-analysis
multiple treatment comparison
anticoagulants
R

description: Draft release after sensitivity analysis

This network meta-analysis is an update to [Fu *et al*, 2014](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244213/), *J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown).* 2014 Dec; 15(12): 873-879.

	Extends meta-analysis from Fu 2014
	Uses data from additional studies
	Fixed-effects network meta-analysis
A novel method for objective in-situ measurement of audibility in bone conduction hearing devices – a pilot study using a skin drive BCD
Creators: name: Persson, Ann-Charlotte
name: Håkansson, Bo
name: Mechanda, Moksha Caveramma
name: Hodgetts, William Bill
name: Jansson, Karl-Johan Fredén
name: Eeg-Olofsson, Måns
name: Reinfeldt, Sabine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Objective measurement of audibility (verification) using bone conduction devices (BCDs) has long remained an elusive problem for BCDs. For air conduction hearing aids there are well-defined and often used objective methods, and the aim of this study is to develop an objective method for BCDs. In a novel setup for audibility measurements of bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) attached via a soft band, we used a skin microphone (SM) on the forehead measuring in-situ sound field thresholds, maximum power output (MPO) and international speech test signal (ISTS) responses. Five normal-hearing persons. Using the electrical output of SM it was possible to objectively measure the audibility of a skin drive BCD, presented as an eSPL-o-gram showing thresholds, MPO and ISTS response. Normalised eSPL-o-gram was verified against corresponding FL-o-grams (corresponding force levels from skull simulator and artificial mastoid (AM)). The proposed method with the SM can be used for objective measurements of the audibility of any BCDs based on thresholds, MPO and speech response allowing for direct comparisons of hearing and BCD output on the same graph using an eSPL-o-gram. After normalisation to hearing thresholds, the audibility can be assessed without the need for complicated calibration procedures.
Metamorphic temperature, pressure, and fluid composition of the Sullivan orebody, Kimberly, British Columbia, using silicate-carbonate equilibria
Creators: name: De Paoli, Glen R.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QE 475 A2 D47 1994a
subject: Additional Copy: QE 475 A2 D47 1994
subject: Metamorphism (Geology) - British Columbia
subject: Rocks, Metamorphic - British Columbia
subject: Thermodynamic equilibrium
subject: Geology, Structural - British Columbia
subject: Rock pressure

description: Bibliography: p. 91-99.
Distribution of particles and bubbles in turbulence at small Stokes number
Creators: name: Fouxon, Itzhak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inertia of particles driven by the turbulent flow of the surrounding fluid makes them prefer certain regions of the flow. The heavy particles lag behind the flow and tend to accumulate in the regions with less vorticity, while the light particles do the opposite. As a result of the long-time evolution, the particles distribute over a multi-fractal attractor in space. We consider this distribution using our recent results on the steady states of chaotic dynamics. We describe the preferential concentration analytically and derive the correlation functions of density and the fractal dimensions of the attractor. The results are obtained for real turbulence and are testable experimentally.
description: 4 pages
Cohort difference in the association between use of recreational firearms and hearing loss: findings from the HUNT study
Creators: name: Engdahl, Bo
name: Aarhus, Lisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: The risk of noise injury from recreational firearm use is well known. Despite preventive measures it is uncertain whether it has become less harmful. We assessed whether the association between recreational firearm use and hearing has changed during the last two decades. We used a repeated cross-sectional design and determined hearing thresholds by pure-tone audiometry. Frequency-specific associations between recreational firearm use and hearing thresholds were assessed by multivariate linear regression stratified by sex and adjusted for age and other covariates. Two cross-sectional population-based cohorts 20 years apart (1998 and 2018) comprised 27,580 (53% women, mean age 53 years) and 26,606 individuals (56% women, mean age 54 years), respectively. Recreational firearm use was reported by 28% in 1998 and 30% in 2018. The proportion that reported wearing hearing protection increased. Exposure to recreational firearms was associated with elevated thresholds at 3-6 kHz in both cohorts. The association increased with the number of lifetime shots. The associations increased by age and were substantially smaller in the most recent cohort. Analyses of two cohorts revealed a reduction in the association between recreational firearm use and hearing over 20 years, coinciding with the introduction of hearing preservation measures.
Mechanical properties of high manganese steel (Fe-30.5Mn-9.7Al-0.86C-0.57Si) at low temperatures
Creators: name: Depiak, Karol O. (Karol Otmar)
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: TN 757 M3 D47 1994
subject: Austenitic steel - Mechanical properties
subject: Manganese steel - Mechanical properties
subject: Manganese steel - Analysis

description: Bibliography: p. 141-151.
Pathways to executive leadership for minority nurses
Creators: name: Amofa, Nicola
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Minorities are underrepresented in nursing leadership and even more so in C-suite executive leadership roles. The goal of this project was to identify the preparation, strategies, and resources that contributed to the success of racial/ethnic minority nurses throughout their journey to executive leadership roles, in both clinical and academic settings.Methods: This project was framed by the Plan-Do-Study-Act Framework and the National Standards for Culturally Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (CLAS). Appreciative Inquiry was used to guide interviews with nine racial/ethnic minority nurses in C-suite positions to understand the preparations, strategies, and resources that helped them advance to executive leadership positions.Results: Common themes identified from this project included earning credentials, developing leadership skills and strategies, patient centeredness, networking, mentoring and being mentored, accepting opportunities, and having a purpose driven career. Implications: Strategies such as mentoring opportunities, executive shadowing, and emphasis on patient centered care to promote career development of minority nurses who are pursuing advancement to executive leadership positions. Continued efforts to develop, recruit, retain, and promote racial/ethnic minority nurses in the highest levels of healthcare by incorporating inclusivity in the recruitment and promotional practices. Increased ethnic minority leadership in the healthcare industry and academia are needed to reduce the health care disparities that currently exist.
Self-energy of a scalar charge near higher-dimensional black holes
Creators: name: Frolov, Valeri P.
name: Zelnikov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of self-energy of charges in higher dimensional static spacetimes. Application of regularization methods of quantum field theory to calculation of the classical self-energy of charges leads to model-independent results. The correction to the self-energy of a scalar charge due to the gravitational field of black holes of the higher dimensional Majumdar-Papapetrou spacetime is calculated exactly. It proves to be zero in even dimensions, but it acquires non-zero value in odd dimensional spacetimes. The origin of the self-energy correction in odd dimensions is similar to the origin the conformal anomalies in quantum field theory in even dimensional spacetimes.
description: 9 pages
Structure-function analyses of E.Coli uracil-DNA glycosylase
Creators: name: Devchand, Pallavi Ratilal
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QP 619 D53 D48 1994
subject: DNA ligases
subject: DNA repair
subject: Escherichia coli - Genetics
subject: Biochemical genetics
subject: Uracil

description: Bibliography: p. 265-273.
Hitting Time of Quantum Walks with Perturbation
Creators: name: Chiang, Chen-Fu
name: Gomez, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hitting time is the required minimum time for a Markov chain-based walk (classical or quantum) to reach a target state in the state space. We investigate the effect of the perturbation on the hitting time of a quantum walk. We obtain an upper bound for the perturbed quantum walk hitting time by applying Szegedy's work and the perturbation bounds with Weyl's perturbation theorem on classical matrix. Based on the definition of quantum hitting time given in MNRS algorithm, we further compute the delayed perturbed hitting time (DPHT) and delayed perturbed quantum hitting time (DPQHT). We show that the upper bound for DPQHT is actually greater than the difference between the square root of the upper bound for a perturbed random walk and the square root of the lower bound for a random walk.
description: 9 pages
EpCAM aptamer activated 5-FU-loaded PLGA nanoparticles in CRC treatment; in vitro and in vivo study
Creators: name: Yavari, Bahram
name: Athari, Seyyed Shamsadin
name: Omidi, Yadollah
name: Jalali, Akram
name: Najafi, Rezvan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
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: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: In this study, epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) aptamer-activated nanoparticles (Ap-NPs) were synthesised to enhance treatment efficiency in colorectal cancer (CRC). PLGA [poly(d, l-lactide-co-glycolide)] copolymer was fabricated by conjugation of COOH-PEG-NH2 to PLGA-COOH through an EDC/NHS-mediated chemistry. Afterwards, 5-fluorouracil-loaded (FU) nanoparticles were prepared using the water/oil/water double emulsion solvent evaporation method. The in vitro cytotoxicity of formulations was evaluated using the MTT assay in HCT-116, CT-26 and HEK-293 cell lines. For in vivo study, tumour-bearing BALB/c mice were established by subcutaneous injection of CT-26 cell line. The results indicated that fabricated AP-FU-NPs had 101 nm size with a spherical surface, relatively homogeneously and, satisfactory encapsulation efficiency (83.93%). In vitro experiments revealed that Ap-FU-NPs had a superior in vitro cytotoxicity than both FU-NPs and free 5-FU in CT-26 and HCT-116 cells but, were significantly low toxic against HEK-293 cells relative to free 5-FU. Furthermore, in vivo results showed no significant haemolytic effect, hepatic and renal injury, or weight loss. After treatment of various animal groups with formulations, notable tumour growth delay was observed following the order: Ap-FU-NPs < FU-NPs < 5-FU < PBS. The results suggest that AP-FU-NPs could be an effective and promising carrier for 5-FU delivery to the EpCAM overexpressing CRC cells. The present study was carried out in the three steps summarised: (1) synthesis and characterisation. At first, PEG was conjugated to PLGA polymers by EDC/NHS chemistry method, then the resulting polymers were used to prepare PLGA-PEG NPs via the W/O/W technique. Finally, EpCAM Aptamers were attached to fabricated NPs. (2) In the second step cytotoxicity of formulated NPs was evaluated in vitro experiments in HEK-293, CT-26 and HCT-116 cell lines. (3) In the third step in vitro results further was investigated in CT-26 tumour-bearing BALB/c mice. ‘Created with BioRender.com’.
The extrinsic modulation of entorhinal cortex theta: field and unit activity studies
Creators: name: Dickson, Clayton T.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: QP 383.25 D52 1994
subject: Theta rhythm
subject: Hippocampus (Brain) - Research
subject: Brain - Localization of functions

description: Bibliography: p. 212-237.
The Star-Formation Histories of z~2 DOGs and SMGs
Creators: name: Bussmann, R. S.
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Armus, L.
name: Brown, M. J. I.
name: Desai, V.
name: Gonzalez, A. H.
name: Jannuzi, B. T.
name: Melbourne, J.
name: Soifer, B. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Spitzer Space Telescope has identified a population of ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z ~ 2 that may play an important role in the evolution of massive galaxies. We measure the stellar masses of two populations of Spitzer-selected ULIRGs, both of which have extremely red R-[24] colors (dust-obscured galaxies, or DOGs) and compare our results with sub-millimeter selected galaxies (SMGs). One set of 39 DOGs has a local maximum in their mid-IR spectral energy distribution (SED) at rest-frame 1.6um associated with stellar emission ("bump DOGs"), while the other set of 51 DOGs has a power-law dominated mid-IR SED with spectral features typical of obscured AGN ("power-law DOGs"). We use stellar population synthesis models applied self-consistently to broad-band photometry in the rest-frame ultra-violet, optical, and near-infrared of each of these populations and test a variety of stellar population synthesis codes, star-formation histories (SFHs), and initial mass functions (IMFs). Assuming a simple stellar population SFH and a Chabrier IMF, we find that the median and inner quartile stellar masses of SMGs, bump DOGs and power-law DOGs are given by log(M_*/M_sun) = 10.42_-0.36^+0.42, 10.62_-0.32^+0.36, and 10.71_-0.34^+0.40, respectively. Implementing more complicated SFHs with multiple age components increases these mass estimates by up to 0.5 dex. Our stellar mass estimates are consistent with physical mechanisms for the origin of z~2 ULIRGs that result in high star-formation rates for a given stellar mass. Such mechanisms are usually driven by a major merger of two gas-rich systems, rather than smooth accretion of gas and small satellites.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Plus figures showing SEDs and best-fit synthesized stellar population model. Accepted to the ApJ