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 Service’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) has a long and successful history of conducting research in cooperation with the fishing industry. Many of the AFSC’s 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

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 participants’ views about and experiences with ten key design features of the dialogues, and a summative assessment of participants’ 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 models’ 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 (Que´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 Que´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 GCMs’ members over a reference (1971–2000) and a future (2041–2070) 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

Représenter l'Holocauste : le traitement et la représentation de l'Holocauste dans les musées-mémoriaux d'Amérique du Nord : étude comparative--le United States Holocaust Memorial Museum et le Centre commémoratif de l'Holocauste à Montréal

Cette recherche a pour objet l'étude de la présentation des mémoriaux de l'Holocauste de Washington et de Montréal. En plus d'une description sommaire de l'histoire de la perception de l'Holocauste en Amérique du Nord, une contextualisation de l'histoire des deux institutions et une description sommaire des expositions permanentes présentées par celles-ci, une analyse de la présentation est proposée. L'objectif premier est de mettre en relief les partis-pris des gestionnaires des musées et des concepteurs d'exposition, en ce qui a trait à la diversité des interprétations possibles de l'Holocauste. Situés à cheval entre la mémoire et l'histoire sur l'échelle temporelle, les musées posent la question de la pérennité et de nombreuses interrogations sont soulevées quant à la ±véracité» et la qualité du récit qu'ils proposent aux visiteurs