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Alien Registration- Gauvin, Rose A. (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)
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Government-Industry Cooperative Fisheries Research in the North Pacific under the MSFCMA
The National Marine Fisheries Serviceās Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) has a long and successful history of conducting research in cooperation with the fishing industry. Many of the AFSCās annual resource assessment surveys are carried out aboard chartered commercial vessels and the skill and experience of captains and crew are integral to the success of this work. Fishing companies have been contracted to provide vessels and expertise for many different types of research, including testing and evaluation of survey and commercial fishing gear and development of improved methods for estimating commercial catch quantity and composition. AFSC scientists have also participated in a number of industry-initiated research projects including development of selective fishing gears for bycatch reduction and evaluating and improving observer catch composition sampling. In this paper, we describe the legal and regulatory provisions for these types of cooperative work and present examples to illustrate the process and identify the requirements for successful cooperative research
Anomaly detection in temporal graph data: An iterative tensor decomposition and masking approach
Sensors and Internet-of-Things scenarios promise a wealth of interaction data that can be naturally represented by means of timevarying graphs. This brings forth new challenges for the identification and removal of temporal graph anomalies that entail complex correlations of topological features and activity patterns. Here we present an anomaly detection approach for temporal graph data based on an iterative tensor decomposition and masking procedure. We test this approach using highresolution social network data from wearable sensors and show that it successfully detects anomalies due to sensor wearing time protocols.published_or_final_versio
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Evaluating deliberative dialogues focussed on healthy public policy
Background: Deliberative dialogues have recently captured attention in the public health policy arena because they have the potential to address several key factors that influence the use of research evidence in policymaking. We conducted an evaluation of three deliberative dialogues convened in Canada by the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy in order to learn more about deliberative dialogues focussed on healthy public policy. Methods: The evaluation included a formative assessment of participantsā views about and experiences with ten key design features of the dialogues, and a summative assessment of participantsā intention to use research evidence of the type that was discussed at the dialogue. We surveyed participants immediately after each dialogue was completed and again six months later. We analyzed the ratings using descriptive statistics and the written comments by conducting a thematic analysis. Results: A total of 31 individuals participated in the three deliberative dialogues that we evaluated. The response rate was 94% (N = 29; policymakers (n = 9), stakeholders (n = 18), researchers (n = 2)) for the initial survey and 56% (n = 14) for the follow-up. All 10 of the design features that we examined as part of the formative evaluation were rated favourably by all participant groups. The findings of the summative evaluation demonstrated a mean behavioural intention score of 5.8 on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). Conclusion: Our findings reinforce the promise of deliberative dialogues as a strategy for supporting evidence-informed public health policies. Additional work is needed to understand more about which design elements work in which situations and for different issues, and whether intention to use research evidence is a suitable substitute for measuring actual behaviour change
Non-local corrections to dynamical mean-field theory from the two-particle self-consistent method
Theoretical methods that are accurate for both short-distance observables and
long-wavelength collective modes are still being developed for the Hubbard
model. Here, we benchmark against published diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo
results an approach that combines local observables from dynamical mean-field
theory (DMFT) with the two-particle self-consistent theory (TPSC). This method
(TPSC+DMFT) is relevant for weak to intermediate interaction, satisfies the
local Pauli principle and allows us to compute a spin susceptibility that
satisfies the Mermin-Wagner theorem. The DMFT double occupancy determines the
spin and charge vertices through local spin and charge sum rules. The TPSC
self-energy is also improved by replacing its local part with the local DMFT
self-energy. With this method, we find improvements for both spin and charge
fluctuations and for the self-energy. We also find that the accuracy check
developed for TPSC is a good predictor of deviations from benchmarks. TPSC+DMFT
can be used in regimes where quantum Monte Carlo is inaccessible. In addition,
this method paves the way to multi-band generalizations of TPSC that could be
used in advanced electronic structure codes that include DMFT.Comment: 15 pages, 19 figures. Changes from v1: added reference
An ensemble approach to assess hydrological modelsā contribution to uncertainties in the analysis of climate change impact on water resources
Over the recent years, several research efforts investigated the impact of climate
change on water resources for different regions of the world. The projection of future
river flows is affected by different sources of uncertainty in the hydro-climatic modelling chain. One of the aims of the QBic3 5 project (QueĀ“bec-Bavarian International Collaboration on Climate Change) is to assess the contribution to uncertainty of hydrological models by using an ensemble of hydrological models presenting a diversity of structural complexity (i.e. lumped, semi distributed and distributed models). The study investigates two humid, mid-latitude catchments with natural flow conditions; one located in
10 Southern QueĀ“bec (Canada) and one in Southern Bavaria (Germany). Daily flow is simulated with four different hydrological models, forced by outputs from regional climate
models driven by a given number of GCMsā members over a reference (1971ā2000)
and a future (2041ā2070) periods. The results show that the choice of the hydrological model does strongly affect the climate change response of selected hydrological indicators, especially those related to low flows. Indicators related to high flows seem less sensitive on the choice of the hydrological model. Therefore, the computationally less demanding models (usually simple, lumped and conceptual) give a significant level of trust for high and overall mean flows
RepreĢsenter l'Holocauste : le traitement et la repreĢsentation de l'Holocauste dans les museĢes-meĢmoriaux d'AmeĢrique du Nord : eĢtude comparative--le United States Holocaust Memorial Museum et le Centre commeĢmoratif de l'Holocauste aĢ MontreĢal
Cette recherche a pour objet l'eĢtude de la preĢsentation des meĢmoriaux de l'Holocauste de Washington et de MontreĢal. En plus d'une description sommaire de l'histoire de la perception de l'Holocauste en AmeĢrique du Nord, une contextualisation de l'histoire des deux institutions et une description sommaire des expositions permanentes preĢsenteĢes par celles-ci, une analyse de la preĢsentation est proposeĢe. L'objectif premier est de mettre en relief les partis-pris des gestionnaires des museĢes et des concepteurs d'exposition, en ce qui a trait aĢ la diversiteĢ des interpreĢtations possibles de l'Holocauste. SitueĢs aĢ cheval entre la meĢmoire et l'histoire sur l'eĢchelle temporelle, les museĢes posent la question de la peĢrenniteĢ et de nombreuses interrogations sont souleveĢes quant aĢ la Ā±veĢraciteĢĀ» et la qualiteĢ du reĢcit qu'ils proposent aux visiteurs
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