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Carleton University

EducationOttawa, Ontario, Canada
About: Carleton University is a education organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 15852 authors who have published 39650 publications receiving 1106610 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the conditions under which fences reduce the impact of roads on population persistence and found that fences were more likely to be beneficial the lower the degree of road avoidance and the higher the probability of an animal being killed on the road.
Abstract: Roads affect animal populations in three adverse ways. They act as barriers to movement, enhance mortality due to collisions with vehicles, and reduce the amount and quality of habitat. Putting fences along roads removes the problem of road mortality but increases the barrier effect. We studied this trade-off through a stochastic, spatially explicit, individual-based model of population dynamics. We investigated the conditions under which fences reduce the impact of roads on population persistence. Our results showed that a fence may or may not reduce the effect of the road on population persistence, depending on the degree of road avoidance by the animal and the probability that an animal that enters the road is killed by a vehicle. Our model predicted a lower value of traffic mortality below which a fence was always harmful and an upper value of traffic mortality above which a fence was always beneficial. Between these two values the suitability of fences depended on the degree of road avoidance. Fences were more likely to be beneficial the lower the degree of road avoidance and the higher the probability of an animal being killed on the road. We recommend the use of fences when traffic is so high that animals almost never succeed in their attempts to cross the road or the population of the species of concern is declining and high traffic mortality is known to contribute to the decline. We discourage the use of fences when population size is stable or increasing or if the animals need access to resources on both sides of the road, unless fences are used in combination with wildlife crossing structures. In many cases, the use of fences may be beneficial as an interim measure until more permanent measures are implemented.

248 citations

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E. Kou, Phillip Urquijo1, Wolfgang Altmannshofer2, F. Beaujean3  +558 moreInstitutions (140)
TL;DR: The Belle II detector as mentioned in this paper is a state-of-the-art detector for heavy flavor physics, quarkonium and exotic states, searches for dark sectors, and many other areas.
Abstract: The Belle II detector will provide a major step forward in precision heavy flavor physics, quarkonium and exotic states, searches for dark sectors, and many other areas. The sensitivity to a large number of key observables can be improved by about an order of magnitude compared to the current measurements, and up to two orders in very clean search measurements. This increase in statistical precision arises not only due to the increased luminosity, but also from improved detector efficiency and precision for many channels. Many of the most interesting observables tend to have very small theoretical uncertainties that will therefore not limit the physics reach. This book has presented many new ideas for measurements, both to elucidate the nature of current anomalies seen in flavor, and to search for new phenomena in a plethora of observables that will become accessible with the Belle II dataset. The simulation used for the studiesinthis book was state ofthe artat the time, though weare learning a lot more about the experiment during the commissioning period. The detector is in operation, and working spectacularly well.

247 citations

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TL;DR: The informal literacy environment at home predicts growth in English receptive vocabulary from kindergarten to Grade 1, whereas parent reports of the formal literacy environment in kindergarten predicted growth in children's English early literacy between kindergarten and Grade 1 and growth inEnglish word reading during Grade 1.
Abstract: One hundred and ten English-speaking children schooled in French were followed from kindergarten to Grade 2 (Mage :T 1= 5;6, T2 = 6;4, T3 = 6;11, T4 = 7;11). The findings provided strong support for the Home Literacy Model (Senechal & LeFevre, 2002) because in this sample the home language was independent of the language of instruction. The informal literacy environment at home predicted growth in English receptive vocabulary from kindergarten to Grade 1, whereas parent reports of the formal literacy environment in kindergarten predicted growth in children’s English early literacy between kindergarten and Grade 1 and growth in English word reading during Grade 1. Furthermore, 76% of parents adjusted their formal literacy practices according to the reading performance of their child, in support of the presence of a responsive home literacy curriculum among middle-class parents. Young children enter Grade 1 with a variety of skills that facilitate their acquisition of reading. Individual differences in the quality of these skills are present early and remain relatively stable over time (e.g., Butler, Marsh, Sheppard, & Sheppard, 1985). Children who struggle with learning to read in Grade 1 often have difficulty in other school domains, and are less likely than their peers to complete high school or pursue education beyond high school (Alexander, Entwisle, & Horsey, 1997; Entwisle, Alexander, & Olson, 2005). Given the stability of the pathways toward efficient reading and academic success, it is essential to understand the development of these differences so that intervention can be done early (Hart & Petrill, 2009; Landry, Smith, Swank, & Guttentag, 2008). In this research, we examined the role of the home literacy environment in prediction of language and literacy development for young English-speaking children as they entered kindergarten, learned to read in Grade 1, and became more fluent readers in Grade 2. The novelty of this research is that the children were schooled in French but spoke English at home, thus allowing for a test of the relation between English home literacy activities and the children’s progress in English literacy that was independent of schoolbased English language instruction.

247 citations

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TL;DR: This work addresses the derivation of test requirements, which will be transformed into test cases, test oracles, and test drivers once the authors have detailed design information, and the one of testability.
Abstract: System testing is concerned with testing an entire system based on its specifications. In the context of object-oriented, UML development, this means that system test requirements are derived from UML analysis artifacts such as use cases, their corresponding sequence and collaboration diagrams, class diagrams, and possibly the use of the Object Constraint Language across all these artifacts. Our goal is to support the derivation of test requirements, which will be transformed into test cases, test oracles, and test drivers once we have detailed design information.Another important issue we address is the one of testability. Testability requirements (or rules) need to be imposed on UML artifacts so as to be able to support system testing efficiently. Those testability requirements result from a trade-off between analysis and design overhead and improved testability. The potential for automation is also an overriding concern all across our work as the ultimate goal is to fully support testing activities with high-capability tools.

247 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, strong-motion deamplification, accompanied by changes in resonant frequencies, are found in the data from the 1985 Michoacan, Mexico, and the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquakes, the events recorded by the vertical and surface accelerograph arrays in Taiwan, as well as a number of other events throughout the world.
Abstract: Geotechnical models consistently indicate that the stress-strain relationship of soils is nonlinear and hysteretic, especially at shear strains larger than ∼10−5 to 10−4. Nonlinear effects, such as an increase in damping and reduction in shear-wave velocity as excitation strength increases, are commonly recognized in the dynamic loading of soils. On the other hand, these effects are usually ignored in seismological models of ground-motion prediction because of the lack of compelling corroborative evidence from strong-motion observations. The situation is being changed by recently obtained data. Explicit evidence of strong-motion deamplification, accompanied by changes in resonant frequencies, are found in the data from the 1985 Michoacan, Mexico, and the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, earthquakes, the events recorded by the vertical and surface accelerograph arrays in Taiwan, as well as a number of other events throughout the world. Evidence of nonlinear behavior becomes apparent beyond a threshold acceleration of ∼100 to 200 gal. Nonlinearity is considerable in cohesionless soil but may be negligible in stiff soils. The findings of recent years indicate that nonlinear site effects are more common than previously recognized in strong-motion seismology.

246 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
George F. Koob171935112521
Zhenwei Yang150956109344
Andrew White1491494113874
J. S. Keller14498198249
R. Kowalewski1431815135517
Manuella Vincter131944122603
Gabriella Pasztor129140186271
Beate Heinemann129108581947
Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous129121186741
Monica Dunford12990677571
Dave Charlton128106581042
Ryszard Stroynowski128132086236
Peter Krieger128117181368
Thomas Koffas12894276832
Aranzazu Ruiz-Martinez12678371913
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202389
2022381
20212,299
20202,243
20192,017
20181,841