cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Patient communication in an online peer-to-peer forum for atrial fibrillation : an interpretive description
Creators: name: Redman, Kirsten
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart arrhythmia. For people who experience symptomatic episodes, trying to identify triggers and maintain control can cause significant distress. While the sharing of personal experiences and stories occurs routinely on the Internet, the impact of having access to online AF-related information is unknown. The purpose of this study was to explore anecdotal and experiential knowledge about AF created online and elucidate information and support needs from a patient perspective. I employed a non-participant, observational design to tap into a uniquely patient-centred perspective by analyzing messages on a commonly available electronic message board used by AF patients. My analysis was guided by the Interpretive Description qualitative approach, and informed by the Experiential Health Information Processing model. In my analysis, I conceptualized four component parts to describe how participants interacted on the message board to take command of their AF: 1) sharing experiences and values, 2) searching for sense, 3) managing the complexities of information, and 4) acting as a wise consumer. The results demonstrated that many of the participants entered the message board with a common sense of mistrust in the pharmaceutical industry and desired non-pharmacologic approaches to AF treatment. The opinions of lay experts on the message board, anecdotal stories, and hyperlinked Internet data were all highly valued sources of information in the messages. Notable actions described by participants included manipulating anti-arrhythmic drugs and nutritional supplements to perceived symptoms of arrhythmia and using the board to select an ablation operator. I propose that there is an unmet need in the AF population for patient education regarding non-pharmacologic approaches to AF. Further research is suggested to examine the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use in the AF population and to support nurses encountering patients who present with information gained online.
Intorno all’intesa con i Testimoni di Geova
Creators: name: Floris, Pierangela
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. La confessione dei Testimoni di Geova e il nodo dei principi religiosi tra politica e diritto - 3. Il nodo dell’intesa. Le tappe del negoziato - 4. L’impasse e le difficili vie d’uscita. On the State-Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses agreement ABSTRACT: To date, the State-Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses agreement is waiting to complete the procedure within the meaning of article 8, paragraph 3, of the Italian Constitution. The latest statements by the government refer to the need for further information on health matters, evoking the issue of refusal of blood transfusion treatments. On a legal level, there are difficulties in overcoming the impasse in which the agreement is, also because there isn't a legislative discipline of the procedure prefigured in the article 8 of the Constitution; furthermore the statements made in 2016 by the Constitutional Court on the political nature of the government's choices regarding the agreements can be an obstacle. The paper deals with these points, also taking into account the application to the ECHR presented by the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses against the Italian Republic.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Multi-dimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion-disk outflows III: application to a hydrodynamical simulation
Creators: name: Sim, S. A.
name: Proga, D.
name: Miller, L.
name: Long, K. S.
name: Turner, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform multi-dimensional radiative transfer simulations to compute spectra for a hydrodynamical simulation of a line-driven accretion disk wind from an active galactic nucleus. The synthetic spectra confirm expectations from parameterized models that a disk wind can imprint a wide variety of spectroscopic signatures including narrow absorption lines, broad emission lines and a Compton hump. The formation of these features is complex with contributions originating from many of the different structures present in the hydrodynamical simulation. In particular, spectral features are shaped both by gas in a successfully launched outflow and in complex flows where material is lifted out of the disk plane but ultimately falls back. We also confirm that the strong Fe Kalpha line can develop a weak, red-skewed line wing as a result of Compton scattering in the outflow. In addition, we demonstrate that X-ray radiation scattered and reprocessed in the flow has a pivotal part in both the spectrum formation and determining the ionization conditions in the wind. We find that scattered radiation is rather effective in ionizing gas which is shielded from direct irradiation from the central source. This effect likely makes the successful launching of a massive disk wind somewhat more challenging and should be considered in future wind simulations.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Cultural Resources Survey of 160 Acres North of the Abel Substation Site, Southeast of Queen Creek, Pinal County, Arizona
Creators: name: Bagwell, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Desert Archaeology, Inc.
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Queen Creek
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/54280/queen-creek
subject: Pinal (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3961/pinal-county
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: AZ U:15:583 (ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/131566/az-u15583-asm
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Glass
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/6/glass
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: This report presents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey of 160.3 acres of privately owned land (Parcel 210-38-001A) located southeast of the Town of Queen Creek in Pinal County, Arizona. The work was requested by Salt River Project (SRP) as part of its internal Phase 1 Environmental Assessment prior to purchasing the two parcels. The purpose of the survey was to determine if significant cultural resources were present within the property. The field survey was conducted on 1 May 2008, by Dr. Elizabeth A. Bagwell, Connie Darby, and Sandra Wadsworth of Desert Archaeology, Inc. A total of 3 person days was expended in the field effort. Dr. Kathleen Henderson served as Principal Investigator for the project. Although the surveyed land is private and no archaeological permit is required, Desert Archaeology holds a current Arizona Antiquities blanket permit (Permit No. 2008-001bl) for conducting non-collection surveys within the state. The survey recorded one archaeological site, AZ U:15:583 (ASM), and seven isolated occurrences that included both historic and prehistoric artifacts. The newly identified site, a historic trash dump, is judged to be ineligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
La Chiesa di Scientology. Narrazione religiosa e configurazione giuridica
Creators: name: Carobene, Germana
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Sulla nozione di religione, confessione, setta - 2. La Chiesa di Scientology e il suo inquadramento - 3. Problematiche giurisprudenziali nel riconoscimento di Scientology - 4. La configurazione del reati di associazione per delinquere - 5. Il plagio e l’abus de faiblesse - 6. I movimenti “anti-sette”. Considerazioni conclusive. Scientology. Religious narrative and legal rules ABSTRACT: Scientology is an exemplary case, in the definition of "religious confession", both because it is a movement of rupture with respect to the common religious feeling, and because its recognition as confession has taken place, in Italy, following a process that developed, with alternating events, for twenty years, until the final judgment of 2000. It is particularly interesting to reflect on the alleged crimes, which are anomalous if they relate to a religious context, but also on similar trials that have taken place in France and, more recently, in Belgium. In addition, it is important to stress that the three judicial procedures examined were also influenced by two important factors, which were not always explicitly stated in the course of the proceedings: the subject of mental manipulation and the action of anti-cult movements in public debate. If in Italy, plagiarism has been decriminalized by a ruling of the Constitutional Court, in France and Belgium laws have recently been introduced against the abuse of weakness in sectarian movements which, however, have not been recalled in the Scientology trials. Very dangerous is, moreover, the public action of the anti cult movements that can act as a sounding board of news not always reliable and that, often, are financed with public money. All these considerations offer interesting insights into the level of democratic secularism and the protection of religious freedom.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
A group at risk : a case study of the rental housing experiences and coping strategies of single mothers in Kelowna earning above the government subsidy benchmark
Creators: name: Sanbrooks, Lauren Victoria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The main objective of this study is to assess the barriers single mothers earning above the subsidy benchmark face when trying to locate affordable rental housing in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Particular attention is focused on the coping strategies these single mothers use when trying to locate affordable rental housing. Policy strategies for improving the housing experiences for single mothers earning above the government subsidy benchmark were proposed for the municipal, provincial and federal government. Data for this case study were gathered between July 2014 and September 2014, the collection of three questionnaires from single mothers was followed up by two semi-structured interviews and seven semi-structured interviews with key informants. Marxism and feminist perspectives influenced the theoretical framework for this study. This framework is used to examine the housing issues facing this vulnerable group of women and ultimately helps to shape a well-built, well-planned city. This study expands on existing literature concerning single mothers and housing in North America as well as reviews the literature on housing issues in Canadian mid-sized cities. Results from this study indicate that single mothers earning above the subsidy benchmark face many barriers when it comes to finding rental housing in Kelowna, including affordability, issues with landlords, and proximity to schools. Neighbourhood safety, which ultimately creates housing stability for children, can be a consequence of these barriers. Recommendations from this study suggest that further research needs to focus on the rental housing barriers of single mothers earning above the subsidy benchmark from a provincial or federal government planning perspective. Research should deal specifically with the Housing Income Limits at the provincial level. In addition, further research should be conducted on the possible implementation of a national housing policy in Canada. Without a national housing policy, there is no guarantee that an individual or a family will live in affordable housing in Canada. The creation of a national housing policy or national housing strategy could have a domino effect on changes being made to the provincial and municipal government levels in terms of rental housing. This case study adds to the existing literature by highlighting the importance of understanding the housing experiences of single mothers earning just above the subsidy benchmark in the mid-sized Canadian city of Kelowna, British Columbia.
Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Grayson County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Beck, E. Glynn
name: Williams, David A.
name: Carey, Daniel I.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006

description: Abstract:
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
Particle dynamics near extreme Kerr throat and supersymmetry
Creators: name: Galajinsky, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extreme Kerr throat solution is believed to be non-supersymmetric. However, its isometry group SO(2,1) x U(1) matches precisely the bosonic subgroup of N=2 superconformal group in one dimension. In this paper we construct N=2 supersymmetric extension of a massive particle moving near the horizon of the extreme Kerr black hole. Bosonic conserved charges are related to Killing vectors in a conventional way. Geometric interpretation of supersymmetry charges remains a challenge.
description: V2: 10 pages; discussion in sect. 4 and 5 extended, acknowledgements and references added
Noncommutative deformations of quantum field theories, locality, and causality
Creators: name: Soloviev, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate noncommutative deformations of quantum field theories for different star products, particularly emphasizing the locality properties and the regularity of the deformed fields. Using functional analysis methods, we describe the basic structural features of the vacuum expectation values of star-modified products of fields and field commutators. As an alternative to microcausality, we introduce a notion of $θ$-locality, where $θ$ is the noncommutativity parameter. We also analyze the conditions for the convergence and continuity of star products and define the function algebra that is most suitable for the Moyal and Wick-Voros products. This algebra corresponds to the concept of strict deformation quantization and is a useful tool for constructing quantum field theories on a noncommutative space-time.
description: LaTeX, 14 pages, no figures. Presented at the 2nd Intern. Conf. "String Field Theory and Related Aspects" (Steklov Math. Institute, Moscow, April 2009)
Spin-aligned neutron-proton pairs in $N=Z$ nuclei
Creators: name: Zerguine, S.
name: Van Isacker, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study is carried out of the role of the aligned neutron-proton pair with angular momentum J=9 and isospin T=0 in the low-energy spectroscopy of the $N=Z$ nuclei $^{96}$Cd, $^{94}$Ag, and $^{92}$Pd. Shell-model wave functions resulting from realistic interactions are analyzed in terms of a variety of two-nucleon pairs corresponding to different choices of their coupled angular momentum $J$ and isospin $T$. The analysis is performed exactly for four holes ($^{96}$Cd) and carried further for six and eight holes ($^{94}$Ag and $^{92}$Pd) by means of a mapping to an appropriate version of the interacting boson model. The study allows the identification of the strengths and deficiencies of the aligned-pair approximation.
description: 5 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in Physical Review C
O romantismo político do padre Marcos (1820-1851)
Creators: name: Carromeu, Francisco
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2007

description: A atividade política do padre Marcos Vaz Preto foi intensa e coincidiu com o espaço temporal que fica entre as duas regenerações, a de 1820 e a de 1851. Foi figura central da reforma eclesiástica que o liberalismo levou a cabo em Portugal, facto que não lhe tem sido muito abonatório, dado tratar-se de um sacerdote. O padre Marcos quis compreender o seu tempo: pensou, discutiu, tomou partido, defendeu ideias e opôs-se a tantas outras, correu riscos, agiu, decidiu e justificou-se sempre. Católico, crente, romântico e liberal, nem sempre esteve ao lado das opções políticas adotadas pela Igreja, principalmente quando esta, não entendendo que o tempo da história era outro, foi apoiando todas as propostas de regresso ao passado, mesmo quando as nações nelas não se reviam. A Igreja perdeu a oportunidade histórica de ser uma das autoras, a par da nação, do novo regime constitucional: era representativa, confundia-se com os valores nacionais e era por ela aceite. O nome do padre Marcos honrou a Igreja e a Maçonaria, honrou a liberdade e os princípios constitucionais, mas honrou ainda mais a nação e a sua religião.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 19-20 (2007): Correntes Cristãs, Política e Missionação nos Séculos XIX e XX
Discretionary decision-making by trustees in Canada’s personal bankruptcy system
Creators: name: Lund, Anna Jane Samis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Each year, tens of thousands of Canadians turn to the bankruptcy system for relief from unmanageable debt loads. Bankruptcy provides individuals with a significant benefit, the opportunity to be released from their debts. This release of past debts is called a discharge. The existence of this significant benefit raises the spectre of abuse. Policy makers and the public share an anxiety that unscrupulous individuals may improperly take advantage of the debt relief available in bankruptcy. Bankruptcy trustees, the professionals who administer bankruptcy files, are granted significant discretion to police abuse in the bankruptcy system. When a trustee believes that a debtor should not receive a discharge, the trustee can trigger a court hearing, by filing an opposition to the debtor’s discharge. At the resulting hearing, if the court agrees that the debtor is undeserving, it can deny the debtor’s discharge, delay it, or grant it subject to the debtor fulfilling conditions. This dissertation examines how trustees exercise their discretion when deciding whether or not to file an opposition. To understand how trustees exercise their discretion, this dissertation examines three different types of data. It starts with a synthesis of traditional sources of law including legislation and case law. This synthesis reveals that the traditional sources of law identify both pre-bankruptcy misconduct, and non-compliance during bankruptcy as grounds upon which a debtor’s discharge may be opposed, but do little to constrain or direct the trustees’ discretion. Next it analyzes empirical data, including quantitative data provided by the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, a branch of the federal government, on all the oppositions filed in 2012, and qualitative interviews undertaken with 40 bankruptcy trustees in 13 communities across Canada. This analysis reveals that oppositions are lodged in about 10% of files. Trustees rarely oppose on the basis of a debtor’s pre-bankruptcy misconduct, most oppositions result from a debtor’s non-compliance during bankruptcy. The dissertation explains how this pattern of oppositions may result from the economic and emotional constraints facing trustees.
Obsidian Procurement in the Gallinas Mountains of West Central New Mexico
Creators: name: Schaefer, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Missouri
Year: 2020

description: The Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico are a relatively understudied area within the greater American Southwest. The area effectively lies within a transitionary zone between three classically defined culture areas, the Cibola region to the northwest, the Mogollon Highlands to the southwest, and the Rio Abajo region (or Lower Rio Grande Valley) to the east. New projects in the Gallinas Mountains area have sought to better understand how its extensive Pueblo period occupations interacted with the surrounding regions. The following research uses in-field X-ray fluorescence to analyze the surface obsidian assemblages of ten late Pithouse and Pueblo period sites in the Gallinas Mountains in order to determine source use and ultimately provide a narrow but precise indication of procurement strategy and inter-regional interaction. Results show that residents of the area utilized a variety of obsidian sources through time. Chief among these were Mount Taylor and McDaniel Tank, with Jemez also being somewhat common. Mule Creek along with several other sources were utilized in a more minor capacity. Residents of the area during the late Pithouse, early Pueblo, and late Pueblo periods showed a preference for northern source material, especially Mount Taylor, while middle Pueblo period sites (with the exception of the possible Mesa Verde migrant community of Gallinas Springs Pueblo) showed quite the opposite, with assemblages dominated by material from the relatively local McDaniel Tank source. The variable obsidian source use patterns and procurement strategies observed through time and across cultural boundaries are indicative of a complex and shifting system of exchange and interaction between the residents of the Gallinas Mountains area and those of the surrounding regions.
Physical activity during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation
Creators: name: Zbogar, Dominik
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Introduction Rehabilitation activities of a sufficient intensity are necessary for optimal recovery in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Optimizing rehabilitation and activity prescription requires quantification of physical activity and its predictors during this time. Purpose To determine, during inpatient rehabilitation, the: 1) reliability and validity of measures of physical activity. 2) level of physical activity using objective and self-report measures. 3) level of cardiovascular stress experienced during physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT). 4) variables associated with greater time spent at higher heart rate during PT. 5) number of active movement repetitions occurring during PT and OT. Methods Design: A test retest design was used to determine the reliability of physical activity measures. A longitudinal observation design was used to determine movement repetitions and physical activity levels. A cross-sectional observational design was used to determine the level of cardiovascular stress. Subjects: Participants (n=108) were recruited from consecutive admissions to rehabilitation. Results Good reliability for accelerometry and step counts, and moderate reliability for self-report, was demonstrated. Validity was demonstrated for wrist accelerometry and step counts but not self-report physical activity. For most groups and variables, no changes occurred during therapy time from admission to discharge. Outside of therapy all groups increased from admission to discharge in accelerometer measured activity kilocounts but not self-report minutes, where the majority of time was spent in leisure time sedentary activity (~4.5 hours). The average time spent at a heart rate within the cardiovascular training zone was 6.0±9.0 minutes in PT and lower in OT. Lower spasticity, higher exercise self-efficacy, and better orthostatic tolerance correlated with a greater amount of time within a cardiovascular training zone. Average repetitions for PT and OT combined did not exceed 300 for the upper or lower extremity. Most repetition variables remained unchanged over the inpatient rehabilitation stay while clinical outcomes improved significantly. Conclusions Individuals report that a large amount of time is spent engaged in higher intensity activities. Measurement of heart rate during therapy sessions shows little time is spent at intensities sufficient to accrue cardiovascular benefits. Repetitions in therapy are low compared to the motor learning literature.
Bond diluted Levy spin-glass model and a new finite size scaling method to determine a phase transition
Creators: name: Leuzzi, L.
name: Parisi, G.
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, F.
name: Ruiz-Lorenzo, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin-glass transition occurs both in and out of the limit of validity of mean-field theory on a diluted one dimensional chain of Ising spins where exchange bonds occur with a probability decaying as the inverse power of the distance. Varying the power in this long-range model corresponds, in a one-to-one relationship, to change the dimension in spin-glass short-range models. Using different finite size scaling methods evidence for a spin-glass transition is found also for systems whose equivalent dimension is below the upper critical dimension at zero magnetic field. The application of a new method is discussed, that can be exported to systems in a magnetic field.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
OXIPRO: Harnessing the Power of Enzymes for Greener Consumer Products - Case studies factsheets
Creators: name: Aydemir, Gizem
name: Bassegoda Puigdomenec, Arnau
name: Besen de Oliveira, Beatriz
name: Bjerga, Gro
name: Guillén Montalban, Marina
name: Hollmann, Susanne
name: Regierer, Babette
name: Rey Campa, Aroa
name: Tobin, Lesley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: enzymes
biotechnology
oxidoreductases
bio-based economy
RRI
sustainability
innovation
bioeconomy
circularity
machine learning
enzyme engineering
enzyme optimisatoin

description: These four factsheets provide the most relevant information about the four consumer sector case studies focused on by the OXIPRO project. Oxidoreductases are enzymes that can be applied as tools to reduce energy, water and chemical usage in industrial processes while improving the quality of the end product. OXIPRO is speeding up enzyme and oxidoreductase discovery and development for greener, innovative solutions in four specific consumer sectors: liquid detergents, sunscreen, textiles and nutraceuticals.. Each factsheet describes the challenges faced, our approach, expected achievements, and the benefits of OXIPRO's ground-breaking research for the target sectors and consumers themselves. For more information, visit www.oxipro.eu Join our community here
Gli atei sono una minoranza religiosa? La condizione giuridica dell’ateismo in Italia e in alcuni Paesi dell’Unione europea
Creators: name: Baldassarre, Silvia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Teismo/ateismo: l’eredità storica di una presunta dicotomia - 2. La polifonia “in crescendo” del nuovo panorama religioso - 3. Confessione religiosa, esser(lo) o non esser(lo): questo è il dilemma - 4. Associazioni ateiste: minoranze religiose escluse? Osservazioni conclusive. Are atheists a religious minority? The legal status of atheism in Italy and in some countries of the European Union. ABSTRACT: “Religion” and “confession” are terms without an established definition in sociology and the legal sciences. The absence of a definition allows us to consider the religious phenomenon in its complexity, including both belief and unbelief. The analysis tries to understand if a common legal discipline is possible for theistic and non-theistic phenomenon. The analysis focuses on the legal status of non-believers minority in Italy and in some countries of the European Union.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Transceiver optimization for broadband cooperative wireless communication systems
Creators: name: Wu, Peiran
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Cooperative broadband communications is a promising technique to improve the reliability, throughput, and coverage of the next generation wireless communication systems. Single-carrier transmission with frequency-domain equalization (SC-FDE) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) are the prevailing block based broadband schemes widely adopted in major wireless standards. Traditionally, these broadband schemes are deployed for point-to-point communications without the cooperation of any intermediate transmission nodes. However, as the communication systems evolve, both service providers and users are demanding higher data rates and non-seamless connection over large areas. As a result, it is necessary to design novel transceiver architectures that meet these stringent requirements. This dissertation proposes four such cooperative transceiver designs which are tailored for different communication scenarios. Firstly, for single-user SC-FDE broadband systems with multiple multi-antenna amplify-and-forward (AF) relays, we optimize the relay beamforming (rBF) filters and destination equalization filter based on the minimum mean-square error (MSE) criterion under an aggregate relay transmit power constraint. We also propose suboptimal rBF schemes which perform close to the optimal rBF scheme. Subsequently, we investigate single-user SC-FDE broadband MIMO AF relay systems. By exploiting the properties of the block-circulant channel matrices and the majorization theory, the problem is transformed into an equivalent power optimization problem with scalar variables. An alternating optimization algorithm is devised to obtain the optimal solution for the source and relay power allocation. Thirdly, we study a robust transceiver design for multiuser broadband systems with multiple single-antenna AF relays and in the presence of channel estimation errors. Our proposed design treats multiuser SC-FDE and OFDM based systems in a unified manner, where the goal is to maximize the network ABR subject to different types of relay power constraints. Lastly, we propose a robust transceiver design for single-user SC-FDE based multi-hop full-duplex decode-and-forward relay systems. The optimization problem is formulated as the minimization of the sum MSE or maximum MSE of different hops which takes into account the loopback interference of the full-duplex relays. We propose two algorithms to solve the resulting non-convex power allocation problems based on sequential geometric programming and alternating optimization, respectively.
Additional file 1 of Exploring the ability of self-report measures to identify risk of high treatment burden in chronic disease patients: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Hardman, Ruth
name: Begg, Stephen
name: Spelten, Evelien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 2 of Exploring the ability of self-report measures to identify risk of high treatment burden in chronic disease patients: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Hardman, Ruth
name: Begg, Stephen
name: Spelten, Evelien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
A platform for building context-aware mobile crowdsensing applications in vehicular social networks
Creators: name: Hu, Xiping
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the past few years, many research works have demonstrated that mobile crowdsensing could be effectively applied in vehicular social networks (VSNs) to serve many purposes and bring huge economic benefits in transportation. In this thesis, we provide a crowdsensing platform which addresses the research challenges in the overall workflow of crowdsensing in VSNs in terms of task allocation and task execution. This platform supports the creation of different context-aware mobile crowdsensing applications and facilitates their real-world deployments in VSNs. First, because of the inherent nature of crowdsensing, usually a crowdsensing task needs a group of different participants to finish it collaboratively. Thus, for task allocation in crowdsensing, we propose an application-oriented service collaboration model (ASCM). This ASCM automatically allocates multiple participants with multiple crowdsensing tasks across different mobile devices and cloud platform in an efficient and effective manner in VSNs. Second, for task exaction of mobile crowdsensing applications in VSNs, the dynamic network connectivity of the underlying vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) may cause failures of such applications during their executions. We design S-Aframe, an agent-based multi-layer framework, which provides a programming model to support creation and deployment of robust and reliable crowdsensing applications that self-adapt to the dynamic nature of VANETs. Furthermore, due to the dynamism of VANETs and the opportunism of user connections in VSNs, the changing environments of the users involved in the VSNs may also result in users’ dynamic contexts. We propose a context-aware semantic service (CSS), and incorporate this service with S-Aframe to improve the self-adaptiveness of mobile crowdsensing applications to users’ dynamic contexts of VSNs. Finally, we design and develop SAfeDJ, a crowdsensing-based situation-aware music recommendation application for drivers. The development of SAfeDJ has further demonstrated how our platform supports the creation of a context-aware mobile crowdsensing application, and facilitates the realization of such an application in real-world deployment in VSNs.
Le minoranze religiose in Italia. Nuovi problemi (?)
Creators: name: Cianitto, Cristiana
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. La libertà di espressione e la libertà di coscienza - 3. Le tematiche bioetiche - 4. I simboli e l’identità - 5. Considerazioni conclusive. Religious minorities in Italy. New problems (?) ABSTRACT: In the contest of a wider pluralism of the Italian society, legislation still struggles to guarantee an real equal treatment to all religious minorities. Religious denominations - who ratified an intesa with the Government - are for sure in a privileged position compared to those who are still regulated by the general law. Among the last ones, the Italian jurisprudence is playing an important role to find a balance especially on those issues that ask for a more decise government of religious diversity.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Elucidating the role of cell to extracellular matrix adhesion in regulating tissue mechanics during development
Creators: name: Goodwin, Katharine Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Tissue morphogenesis requires force-generating mechanisms to drive the organization of cells into complex three-dimensional structures. Although such mechanisms have been characterized across the metazoan lineage, we know little about how force transmission across a tissue is regulated. Here, using Drosophila melanogaster as a model system, I provide evidence that integrin-mediated cell-ECM adhesion is required for the regulation and transmission of forces in tissues. Specifically I show that during Dorsal Closure (DC), an integrin-dependent morphogenetic process that occurs during Drosophila embryogenesis, failure to regulate the level of cell-ECM adhesion results in abnormal levels of tension in the amnioserosa (AS), an extra-embryonic epithelium that is essential for DC. Integrin-containing adhesive structures were identified on the basal surface of the AS that share many features with focal adhesions. Using mutations that either increase or decrease integrin-based Cell-ECM adhesion, I show that DC is defective in both cases, and that the level of adhesion is inversely correlated with the mobility of cells in the AS. Mathematical modeling, quantitative image analysis, and in vivo laser ablation experiments reveal a relationship between cell mobility and the magnitude, distribution and transmission of tension in the AS. Finally, I provide evidence that mechanical coupling exists between AS cells and their substrate, the underlying ECM and the yolk membrane. Overall, my data shows that integrins regulate the transmission of forces across the AS, and thereby control a critical component of DC. I propose that modulating Cell-ECM adhesion could provide control over force transmission within developing tissues to promote specific outcomes.
Tunneling characteristic of a chain of Majorana bound states
Creators: name: Flensberg, Karsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider theoretically tunneling characteristic of a junction between a normal metal and a chain of coupled Majorana bound states generated at crossings between topological and non-topological superconducting sections, as a result of, for example, disorder in nanowires. While an isolated Majorana state supports a resonant Andreev process, yielding a zero bias differential conductance peak of height 2e^2/h, the situation with more coupled Majorana states is distinctively different with both zeros and 2e^2/h peaks in the differential conductance. We derive a general expression for the current between a normal metal and a network of coupled Majorana bound states and describe the differential conductance spectra for a generic set of situations, including regular, disordered, and infinite chains of bound states.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
ASIS&T 2022
Creators: name: Von Mach, Sonja
name: Lewandowski, Dirk
name: Sünkler, Sebastian
name: Schultheiß, Sebastian
name: Sygulla, Daniela
name: Yagci, Nurce
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Research data for the paper "A Comparison of Source Distribution and Result Overlap in Web Search Engines" for ASIS&T 2022.
Access to health care among women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada : universal health coverage in a criminalized sex work environment
Creators: name: Socías, María Eugenia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Universal access to health care is a critical determinant of health. Despite the numerous health inequities faced by women sex workers, research on access to health services among this population remains limited, particularly on the role of social-structural factors. This thesis sought to investigate sex workers experiences along the continuum of health care access in a setting with universal health coverage. Methods: Data was dawn from “An Evaluation of Sex Workers’ Health Access”(AESHA), an open prospective cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada. Logistic regression analyses were employed to evaluate correlates of institutional barriers to care (using generalized estimating equations for longitudinal data), and to assess baseline engagement in the HCV continuum of care. Extended cox regression analyses, with a confounder model approach, were used to examine the independent effect of depot medroxyprogesterone on HSV-2 acquisition. Results: These analyses demonstrated inequities faced by sex workers all along the continuum of health care access, from trying to reach health services (Chapter 2), to utilizing these services (Chapter 3), to the impacts of inadequate and sub-optimal care on their health outcomes (Chapter 4). Among 723 participants, 70.4% reported institutional barriers to health care, only half (52.9%) of 552 HCV-seronegative participants having a recent HCV test, and less than 1% of the 302 women living with HCV receiving treatment. Further, high incidence rates of HSV-2 were documented, with depot medroxyprogesterone use independently associated with approximately 4-times increased risk. Importantly, barriers to care appeared to be exacerbated among most vulnerable women, including sexual/gender minorities, migrants, women of Aboriginal Ancestry, uninsured and those with previous experiences of violence. Conclusions: Findings from this research revealed systemic and persistent barriers to appropriate and quality care among sex workers, highlighting the crucial role played by structural factors in shaping their health care seeking patterns and outcomes. These results further underscore the need to explore new models of care, as well as broader institutional and legal changes to fulfill women sex workers health and human rights, and fully realize the aims of the Canadian universal health system.
La disciplina giuridica delle minoranze religiose (escluse).Le diseconomie esterne del favor religionis
Creators: name: Alicino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. Alle radici del pluralismo della disparità - 3. Le definizioni a contrario - 4. Le minoranze nel sentiero del principio di laicità - 5. Le minoranze religiose alle prese con il genus e la species della laicità - 6. La rilevanza legale delle minoranze religiose - 7. L’autonomia delle confessioni diverse - 8. Le diseconomie esterne del diritto comune delle intese - 9. Come ridurre le diseconomie esterne negative - 10. Conclusioni e prospettive. The Legal Discipline of Minority Religions. The External Diseconomy of Italy’s Favor Religionis ABSTRACT: This article analyses the State’s legal discipline regulating minority religions, which are part of the current religious pluralism in Italy. Pluralism is not new in the Italian context. Various minority religions have long been part of the national scene and often enjoyed a level of public consideration far superior compared to their numerical consistency. However, today in Italy there are religious organizations that, in the light of the traditional ex parte Ecclesiæ favor religionis and the method of state-church(es) relations, stress some difficulties of constitutional relevance. In particular, these difficulties have increasingly come to be seen in terms of “negative externalities”: while creating privileges for the Catholic Church and few minority denominations, it produces unreasonable discriminations against all other religions. That is particularly the case of legal status of “new” minority religious, made up mainly of immigrants.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Mason County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Carey, Daniel I.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006

description: Abstract:
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
Le minoranze religiose in Italia. Una prospettiva storico-religiosa
Creators: name: Filoramo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive - 2. Minoranze religiose e costruzione della nazione - 3. Per una storia delle minoranze religiose. Religious minorities in Italy: a historical-religious perspective ABSTRACT: The history of religious minorities in unitary Italy has been deeply linked to the construction of the national state both in its formative phase (the Risorgimento) and in the period of liberal Italy. The responses ranged between a desire for integration, as in the Jewish case, and an occasional and missionary presence, as in the case of certain Evangelical communities. The Great War, first, the twenty years of Fascism, then, profoundly changed this situation, further marginalizing the religious minorities also as a consequence of the 1929 Concordat.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Coherent manipulation of charge qubits in double quantum dots
Creators: name: Croy, Alexander
name: Saalmann, Ulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent time evolution of electrons in double quantum dots induced by fast bias-voltage switches is studied theoretically. As it was shown experimentally, such driven double quantum dots are potential devices for controlled manipulation of charge qubits. By numerically solving a quantum master equation we obtain the energy- and time-resolved electron transfer through the device which resembles the measured data. The observed oscillations are found to depend on the level offset of the two dots during the manipulation and, most surprisingly, also the on initialization stage. By means of an analytical expression, obtained from a large-bias model, we can understand the prominent features of these oscillations seen in both the experimental data and the numerical results. These findings strengthen the common interpretation in terms of a coherent transfer of electrons between the dots.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
SOUZA, Evergton Sales – Jansénisme et Réforme de l’Église dans l’Empire Portugais: 1640 à 1790. Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004. 503 p.
Creators: name: Paiva, José Pedro
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755