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Item 225Ac production via 226Ra (µ-, n ν)225Fr reaction with 226Ra target.(2023) Matsuzaki, Teiichiro; Sakurai, HiroyoshiItem 99Mo production via 99Tc (µ-, ν) 99Mo reaction on recycled 99Tc.(2023) Matsuzaki, Teiichiro; Sakurai, HiroyoshiItem The Canadian research-embedded health librarian experience: Results of a mixed methods study(2013) Dennett, Liz; Surette, Soleil; Chatterley, Trish; Greyson, DevonItem Comparing oranges to oranges: Two demand-driven acquisitions e-book services(2013) Shrubsole, JenniferItem Copyright: An International Perspective(2019-05-30) Dryden, JeanNational copyright laws necessarily include a number of provisions that are required to comply with international copyright treaties. The World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO) has traditionally been focused on treaties that strengthen the rights of copyright owners. However, for nearly a decade, WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) has been discussing the need for a treaty setting out copyright exceptions for libraries and archives. Such a treaty would require signatory nations to include in their domestic copyright laws a minimum level of exceptions (a.k.a. users' rights) that would enable libraries and archives to fulfill their public interest mission. Drawing on her experience as a representative of the International Council on Archives at SCCR, Dr. Dryden describes the current state of these discussions, including the players, the obstacles, strategies, and prospects for success.Item Could once be enough? Support for the efficacy of the one-shot library instruction session(2013) Hayes-Bohanan, Pamela; Spievak, Elizabeth R.Item Crop models and their use in assessing crop production and food security: A review(Wiley Open Access [Commercial Publisher], Association of Applied Biologists [Society Publisher], 2023) Gavasso-Rita, Yohanne Larissa; Papalexiou, Simon Michael; Li, Yanping; Elshorbagy, Amin; Li, Zhenhua; Schuster Wallace, CorinneAgriculture is directly related to food security as it determines the global food supply. Research in agriculture to predict crop productivity and losses helps avoid high food demand with little supply and price spikes. Here, we review ten crop models and one intercomparison project used for simulating crop growth and productivity under various impacts from soil–crop– atmosphere interactions. The review outlines food security and production assessments using numerical models for maize, wheat, and rice production. A summary of reviewed studies shows the following: (1) model ensembles provide smaller modeling errors compared to single models, (2) single models show better results when coupled with other types of models, (3) the ten reviewed crop models had improvements over the years and can accurately predict crop growth and yield for most of the locations, management conditions, and genotypes tested, (4) APSIM and DSSAT are fast and reliable in assessing broader output variables, (5) AquaCrop is indicated to investigate water footprint, quality and use efficiency in rainfed and irrigated systems, (6) all models assess nitrogen dynamics and use efficiency efficiently, excluding AquaCrop and WOFOST, (7) JULES specifies in evaluating food security vulnerability, (8) ORYZA is the main crop model used to evaluate paddy rice production, (9) grain filling is usually assessed with APSIM, DAISY, and DSSAT, and (10) the ten crop models can be used as tools to evaluate food production, availability, and security.Item Cross-section Measurement and Thick Target Production of Terbium Radioisotopes by Enriched Gadolinium Targets(2023) wang, yizheng; GUERTIN, Arnaud; NIGRON, Etienne; haddad, ferid; Michel, Nathalie; Sounalet, ThomasIntroduction Short-lived radioisotopes of the terbium (Tb) family show great prospects in theranostics: the 149Tb can be used for alpha therapy, the 152Tb, as a positron emitter, can be applied for the positron emission tomography (PET), the 155Tb can be used for the single photon emission tomography (SPECT) and for Auger therapy, and finally, the 161Tb can be an alternative to 177Lu for β-therapy. Nevertheless, the applications of Terbium are limited at the moment due to its insufficient production and high cost: except for 161Tb, the other radionuclides are produced by nuclear spallation reactions. The use of enriched Gadolinium (Gd) targets can help to increase their availability according to the following production reactions: 152Gd(p,4n)149Tb 1, 152Gd(p,n)152Tb 1, 155Gd(p,n)155Tb 2 and 155Gd(d,2n)155Tb 3. In this work, the 155Tb is taken as a case study, and Gd2O3 enriched in 155Gd is used. Objectives of this work are on the one hand to measure the cross section of the 155Gd(d,2n)155Tb nuclear reaction induced by deuteron, and on the other hand to irradiate enriched Gd2O3 targets for thick target production with deuteron. Description of the Work or Project For the cross section measurement, thin targets (10-20 µm) are required while thicker targets are preferred for production. Therefore, two types of Gd targets with different thicknesses have been developed through two different techniques. Thin targets were manufactured via the electrochemical co-deposition technique. Uniform Ni/Gd2O3 composite targets with a thickness of 10-20 µm containing about 2 mg of enriched Gd were obtained after 35 min of deposition. These targets were irradiated at GIP ARRONAX cyclotron with deuteron beams. Cross sections of 155Tb and other Tb radionuclides (153Tb, 154Tb and 156Tb) were measured from 8 MeV to 30 MeV. These measurements give the first experimental results for the reaction 155Gd(d,x)Tb. From these results, the thick target yield and the purity of 155Tb were estimated. The irradiation parameters for thick target production were also determined from the simulation. Thicker targets were manufactured through the pelletizing technique. A uniform and compact target with a thickness of 390 µm was obtained using 0.6 g of enriched Gd2O3 powder. This target was irradiated by deuteron beams with an incident energy of 15.1 MeV and a beam intensity of 368 nA for 1 h. The production yield of 155Tb was 10.2 MBq/µAh and the purity was 89% after 14 days of decay. These results are consistent with the estimation obtained by the measured cross sections. Conclusions This work shows the possibility of using enriched gadolinium targets to produce terbium radioisotopes via biomedical cyclotrons. Cross sections of deuteron-induced reactions on enriched Gd were measured and a test of thick target production was carried out. As for large batch production, higher intensity and longer irradiation time will be necessary. To this end, specific encapsulation and cooling systems will also be designed and in addition, pure metal Gd targets with better thermal conductivity will be developed.Item Crown copyright: More than just an outdated provision(2019-05-30) Wakaruk, AmandaPresentation at ABC Copyright 2019. Conference program abstract: Section 12 of the Copyright Act is at odds with the aims of Open Government and many government works have become inaccessible, or even been lost due to Crown copyright chill. This session will report on recent advocacy work to persuade Canada's federal government to update an antiquated and undemocratic copyright provision.Item Cultural Appropriation in Fashion: Is Copyright the Answer?(2019-05-31) Vézina, BrigitteCultural appropriation cases spark passionate debate because while fashion's borrowing of stylistic elements from other cultures is common practice, it can in reality be offensive to the holders of source cultures. Misinterpretation or disregard for the cultural significance of a traditional cultural expression (TCE), even unintentional, can have drastic consequences for its holders. Calls for action to curb appropriation emphasize a need for indigenous peoples to have better control over their TCEs. Cultural appropriation may be explained by the jarring relationship between TCEs and copyright. While TCEs, such as traditional designs or motifs, are a product of the human mind, it is difficult to protect them within the existing copyright system, which casts most TCEs into the public domain. For instance, protection remains unavailable for TCEs that have been passed down the generations and fail to meet the originality criterion. This presentation explains the concept of cultural appropriation and illustrates it with multiple examples from fashion. It shows how copyright law fails to provide adequate protection to TCEs and thus make them vulnerable to appropriation. The presentation concludes by showing how copyright principles, particularly moral rights, could be adapted to offer strong protection to TCEs against cultural appropriation.Item CUSMA & Technical Protection Measures(2019-05-30) Tiessen, RobertIf CUSMA (aka USMCA or MUSCA) is ratified it will severely limit the ability of the Canadian Government to limit the impact technical protection measures on Canadians and Canadian libraries. Section 41 of the Copyright Act is already a Canadianized version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. After CUSMA is ratification, the Government will be extremely limited in making any changes to Section 41 of our Copyright Act because of the limits placed on Canada (and Mexico and the US) by the trade agreement. Going against CUSMA would require Canada to either convince both of its trade partners to amend CUSMA; or it would need to withdraw from the agreement. This presentation will take a look at how TPMs have evolved in international arena from the WIPO Copyright Treaty in 1996 through to current times. Then it will look at what kind of flexibility and exceptions CUSMA does allow member countries and what kinds of regulations or amendments to the Copyright Act that we might want to lobby for.Item The Decline of Collective Copyright Licensing in Canada's Post-Secondaries Explained Using the Theory of Fields(2019-05-31) Taylor, DonaldFligstein's and MacAdam's Theory of Fields was used to analyze how Access Copyright lost its incumbent advantage in the traditionally stable field of copyright administration in Canadian post-secondaries and why that field is still unsettled today. Theory of Fields considers actions rather than motives and explains how a field moves into crisis using the concepts of: strategic action fields composed of incumbents (Access Copyright) and challengers (post-secondaries); external shocks to a field (e.g. court rulings); the social skill of the actors, particularly how an inability to envision alternatives leads to prolonged disruption. A field enters a crisis when the challenger(s) or incumbent act in ways which causes others to attempt to disrupt the status quo. Through interviews with copyright professionals and administrators actively involved at the beginning of the period of contention (2010-2012), analysis of institutional communications and records, and analysis of judicial and tribunal decisions, I used the Theory of Fields to analyze the actions of groups in the field of post-secondary copyright management and in proximate fields such as government and the courts. This approach moves us away from hyperbole and the "us against them" paradigm with its oversimplifications of "Access Copyright got too greedy" and "universities are trying to rip off creators". The presentation, using the Theory of Fields, will demonstrate how the actions of Access Copyright and of organizations like AUCC (now Universities Canada) led post-secondaries to challenge the status quo and how a series of actions/reactions, along with a lack of skilled social action by both incumbents and challengers, naturally brought us to the current period of contention in copyright management in the post-secondary environment.Item Digital literacy skills as determinants of job satisfaction and career progression of academic library staff(2013) Itsekor, Victoria; Oyewole, Oluwatofunmi JesudunniItem Does the VIVO Harvester populate bibliographic references for an institutional instance of VIVO effectively?(2013) Eldredge, Jonathan; Kroth, Philip; Hannigan, Gale; Murray-Krezan, Cristina; Carr, Richard; Weagel, Edward; Hantak, ChadItem DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF Mo-99 AND Ac-225 USING COMMERCIAL PWR AND FAST EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR JOYO IN JAPAN(2023) Takaki, Naoyuki; Iwahashi, Daiki; Sasaki, Yuto; Maeda, ShigetakaThe production technology of medical radioisotopes (RI) using existing nuclear fission reactors has been studied to improve/achieve their domestic preparedness in Japan. The target nuclides currently considered in our project are Mo/Tc which is the most commonly used ones in medical diagnosis and Ac-225 which is recently known as effective alpha emitting nuclide for targeted alpha-particle therapy. Existing fission reactors, PWRs and Joyo in Japan, have potentials to work as excellent facilities for medical isotope production, as by-products of heat/electricity generation without consuming electricity and needs for new plant construction.Item Don't lose it - use it! A guide to archiving library and information science research data(2013) Marshall, Joanne Gard; Thompson, Cheryl; Morgan, Jennifer Craft; Rathbun-Grubb, Susan; Wells, Amber L.Item The Evolving Landscape of Radioisotopes in Modern Medicine(2023) Schaffer, PaulIntroduction After decades of development, an increasing repertoire of radioisotopes are experiencing rapid growth in demand, both for diagnostic molecular imaging (MI), but also targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) – two modalities with great potential for the identification and treatment of difficult-to-treat diseases, including micro-metastatic cancers, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and viral infections. Clinical MI agents (specifically PET and SPECT radiotracers) were dominated for years by a small group of short-lived, main-group positron-, and metallic single-photon emitting radioisotopes. However, recent advances in technologies in and around solid targets and metal isotope production are now enabling cyclotron centres to produce and distribute many emerging and important radionuclides for clinical use. On the TRT front, recent clinical results demonstrating the efficacy of beta- and alpha-emitting radiopharmaceuticals toward advanced, metastatic disease have triggered a global pursuit for new drugs. Couple this with increasing supply of promising alpha-, beta- and Auger-emitting radionuclides, personalized diagnostic, therapeutic and theranostic medicine is closer to reality now than ever before. Researchers at facilities such as TRIUMF are playing an active and important role in developing and translating new technologies that are paving the way for the discovery and translation of radioisotopes and radiopharmaceuticals that will ultimately enable the paradigm of personalized molecular medicine. Description of the Work or Project Many of the ~1400 medical cyclotrons around the world today operate between 16 and 24 MeV [1], an ideal range for producing, among others, isotopes including 99mTc [2,3], 68Ga [4], 64Cu and 89Zr [5]. Efforts at TRIUMF have led to the development of a solid target transfer and irradiation system, and solid target processing chemistry which has demonstrated a high-yield, automated method for producing GBq-TBq quantities of these isotopes using up to 500 μA of ~13-22 MeV protons. Fully automated dissolution/separation processes along with regulatory filings now allow for cyclotron-produced materials to substitute for other sources used in the clinic today. On the therapeutic isotope front TRIUMF is scaling-up processes to produce 225Ac via the high-energy proton irradiation of 232Th, with the aim of implementing a scalable and routine production operation capable of supporting multiple clinical trials [6]. Targets containing 0.5 mm thick, 11 g thorium foils were irradiated to12,500 μAh with ~450 MeV protons using TRIUMF’s 500 MeV Isotope Production Facility (IPF), producing GBq quantities of 225Ac, 225Ra, 228Th, 212Pb, among a number of other alpha-emitting isotopes of interest [7]. A discussion will include recent experiences with target chemistry automation, product quality control, and Th-spallation waste handling and disposal. Conclusions This presentation will provide a summary update on the development and implementation of several newer technologies toward direct cyclotron-production of various emerging radionuclides across a fleet of 13 to 520 MeV cyclotrons located at TRIUMF and its partner institutions. References [1] Accelerator Knowledge Portal https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/accelerators/Pages/Cyclotron.aspx [2] Beaver, J.E., Hupf, H.B. (1971). J Nucl Med. 12(11), 739–41. PMID 5113635 [3] Bénard, F. et al. (2014). J.Nucl.Med. 55(6), 1017-22. https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.113.133413 [4] Thisgaard, H. et al. (2021). EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry. 6:1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41181-020-00114-9 [5] Oehlke, E. et al. (2015). Nucl. Med. Biol. 42, 842-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2015.06.005 [6] Robertson, A.K.H. et al. (2020). Inorg. Chem. 59(17), pp. 12156-165. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01081 [7] Robertson A.K.H., Kunz, P., Hoehr, C., Schaffer, P. (2020). Physics Review C, 102, 044613. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.044613Item Fast Neutron SMR’s empowering Regional Isotope Ecosystems(2023) Cooper, WilliamEcosystems will evolve around a multi-purpose Small Modular Fast Neutron Reactor and create an innovation-driven economy to become a local, national and international solution for reducing carbon-emissions and supplying high volume and high assay medical isotopes for many decades. This presentation includes a retrospective of the Canadian landscape, the path this decade of the currently developing landscape and what is on the horizon with Multi-purpose Small Modular Fast Neutron Reactors with the example of developing a Regional Isotope Ecosystem around the ARC-100 Sodium Fast Reactor deployment at the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating site in New Brunswick.Item Global public health policy transfer and dengue fever in Putrajaya, Malaysia: a critical discourse analysis(Taylor and Francis Group, 2012) Mulligan, Kate; Elliott, Susan J.; Schuster Wallace, CorinneThis study critically analyzed the operationalization and materialization of globally hegemonic dengue fever discourse at the local level in the city of Putrajaya, Malaysia. Textual analysis of the World Health Organization’s First report on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (2010) identified three discursive strategies in the WHO’s effort to set the agenda for research and action on neglected diseases: the nomination of dengue fever as a disease of the impoverished and voiceless other; the predication of neglected disease status on environmental and behavioural uncleanliness; and the framing of so-called ‘pro-poor’ neglected tropical disease discourse as a new paradigm under which targeting these othered people, behaviours and environments is a key strategy for NTD management and control. Further analysis of the transcripts of 14 key informant interviews conducted with experts in public health, governance and urban development in Putrajaya found that discursive links between dengue and poverty contributed to the inappropriate transfer of globally dominant dengue control strategies to Putrajaya’s non-poor local environment. These findings indicate that endemic dengue emerged in Putrajaya in part because planners, health officials and residents reproduced in their plans, policies and behaviours the construction of the disease as one of the other. The findings call into question the characterization of dengue fever as a disease of poor people, unclean spaces and unsanitary behaviours, and raise new questions about the appropriateness of targeting NTD initiatives to the poor. The findings also highlight the need for locally appropriate public health policies for infectious disease control in non-poor environments.Item Impact of research on practice for Canadian academic libraries(2013) Murphy, Sharon
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