cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gas transfer in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): An investigation of factors controlling oxygen(2) uptake and carbon dioxide excretion.
Creators: name: Desforges, Patrick J. R. C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The entry of bicarbonate ions (HCO3-) into the red blood cell (RBC) via the Cl-/HCO3 - exchanger for dehydration to CO2 has long been regarded as the limiting step of CO2 excretion in fish. The first component of this thesis was to test the hypothesis that proton availability may limit the catalysed dehydration of HCO3- within the extracellular compartment. The results presented in this thesis suggest that H+ availability does not appear to limit plasma HCO3- dehydration in vivo. Furthermore, the enhancement of CO2 excretion by means of the acceleration of HCO3- dehydration within the plasma following the administration of carbonic anhydrase (CA) demonstrated in this thesis was the first in vivo evidence ratifying the hypothesis of the chloride shift as the limiting factor on CO2 excretion in teleost fish. Using the knowledge acquired from the previous chapter, I tested the hypothesis that the slow entry rate of HCO3- into the RBC may be responsible for the apparent diffusion limitations on CO2 excretion. The experiments examined the effect of blood transit time through the gills on gas transfer to test the hypothesis that the efficiency of CO2 excretion is sensitive to changes in blood flow owing to chemical equilibrium limitations, whereas the efficiency of O2 uptake is insensitive to changes in blood flow. The insensitivity of PaO 2 to changes in cardiac output in vivo reaffirms the theory that O2 uptake behaves as a perfusion limited system. However, the sensitivity of CO2 transfer efficiency to changes in cardiac output, coupled with the impact of (CA) availability on this sensitivity, argue strongly that the apparent diffusion limitations on CO2 excretion are, in fact, chemical equilibrium limitations.
Cittadinanza democratica in costruzione. Lettura dei rapporti di “esclusione/inclusione” in Macedonia.
Democratic citizenship under construction. Reading the records of "exclusion / inclusion" in Macedonia
Creators: name: Carta, Alessia
name: Podda, Carla
name: Secci, Claudia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: educazione; democrazia; cittadinanza; inclusione; Repubblica di Macedonia
education; democracy; citizenship; inclusion; Republic of Macedonia

description: La formazione di una coscienza civica europea, può essere indubbiamente letta a partire dal crollo del blocco sovietico e in concomitanza con gli eventi che hanno contrassegnato la fine della Jugoslavia ? la successiva formazione di stati multietnici nella penisola balcanica. E' pur vero che, negli ultimi anni, si sta sempre più consolidando un'idea di Educazione alla Cittadinanza attraverso elementi di comunanza e di opportunità di accesso alla formazione, che interessano anche i paesi post socialisti in preadesione. La presenza di sistemi educativi, formali e non (EFA), che mettano al centro dell'azione formativa i temi dell'Educazione alla Cittadinanza attiva (EaC), è una delle questioni più rilevanti per contribuire al consolidamento di democrazie multiculturali. Ma, la realizzazione di infrastrutture educative, necessarie a questo scopo, come nel caso della Repubblica macedone, si è confrontata con diverse problematicità. In merito a questi aspetti, proprio perché rappresentano un obiettivo comune, riteniamo necessaria un'adeguata riflessione.
description: The constitution of an European civic awareness, can be clearly read from the collapse of the Soviet bloc and in conjunction with the events that have marked the end of Yugoslavia and the next constitution of multi-ethnic states in the Balkan area. It's nonetheless true that in recent years, it is increasingly consolidating the idea of Citizenship Education through elements of communication and access to training opportunities, which also affects the post-socialist countries in preaccession. The existence of formal and non-formal (EFA) educational activities focused on themes like Education for Active Citizenship (EAC), is one of the most important issues to contribute to the consolidation of multicultural democracies. But, the construction of educational infrastructure, necessary for this purpose, as in the case of the Republic  of Macedonia, was confronted with several topics. With regard to these issues, precisely because they represent a common goal, we need an adequate reflection.
description: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education; Vol 7, No 1 (2012)
La narrazione autobiografica fra cura e liberazione. La vita di Janet Frame.
The autobiographical narrative between care and liberation. The life of Janet Frame.
Creators: name: Borruso, Francesca
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: autobiografia; narrazione; educazione; storia; donne
autobiography; narrative; education; history; women

description: L’autobiografia, in qualità di fonte storiografica, può offrirci una pluralità di informazioni sul piano storico-educativo, che possono riguardare gli stili di vita, i modelli educativi, la vita materiale, le mentalità collettive, i comportamenti e i vissuti presenti in un determinato contesto e momento storico. L’autobiografia, inoltre, nella sua accezione di scrittura di sé,  mostra il suo volto di percorso di costruzione dell’identità, o più semplicemente di cura di sé. Nel saggio è analizzata, in questa duplice prospettiva, l’autobiografia di Janet Frame, scrittrice neozelandese contemporanea, la cui narrazione diventa una preziosa fonte per far emergere nella ricerca storico-educativa tasselli relativi alla storia delle donne.  Campo del sapere quest’ultimo, ancora oggi poco conosciuto a causa della scarsa visibilità o del difficile reperimento delle fonti. Negli ultimi anni, però, il perimetro di reperimento delle fonti relativo alle scritture femminili si stia ampliando notevolmente, consentendo al ricercatore di dare vita a nuove frontiere epistemologiche.
description: ?As a historical source, the autobiography provides a number of information – that are relevant from a historical and educational point of view - concerning lifestyles, educational models, material life, collective attitudes and behaviors as well as individual experiences in a given context and time in history. In its original meaning of writing about themselves, it is also a path for identity or more simply a practice of self-care. In this essay it is analyzed, in that dual perspective, the autobiography of Janet Frame, the New Zealander contemporary novelist, whose narrative has become an important source of historical and educational information related to the history of women. This latter area of knowledge is still relatively unknown because of poor visibility or difficulties in finding new sources. In recent years, however, the availability of sources concerning women's writings is expanding dramatically, thus allowing researchers to give life to new epistemological frontiers.
description: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education; Vol 7, No 1 (2012)
Ammoniak-Emissionen in der Landwirtschaft mindern
Creators: name: Amon, Barbara
name: Borghardt, Gabriele
name: Büscher, Wolfgang
name: Hofmeier, Maximilian
name: Richter, Simone
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ammoniak
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Nutztier
subject: Emissionen
subject: Nutztierhaltung
subject: Luft
subject: Landwirtschaft

description: Ammoniakemissionen mindern ist eine wichtige Aufgabe der Luftreinhaltung, um international vereinbarte Minderungsziele zu erreichen. Der Landwirtschaft kommt hierbei große Bedeutung zu, denn sie verursacht die meisten Ammoniakemissionen in Deutschland. Daher haben UBA und KTBL im Auftrag des BMU gemeinsam Empfehlungen für die Gute Fachliche Praxis zur Ammoniakminderung veröffentlicht. In Zusammenarbeit mit einer Expertengruppe wurden Maßnahmen zusammengestellt, die in der Fütterung, im Stall, bei der Lagerung und Ausbringung von Wirtschaftsdünger sowie der Anwendung synthetischer Düngemittel umgesetzt werden können, um die Ammoniakemissionen in landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben zu senken. Diese Broschüre nimmt auch die Verpflichtung aus der Genfer Luftreinhaltekonvention auf, adressatengerechte Empfehlungen für die Gute Fachliche Praxis zur Ammoniakminderung zu veröffentlichen. www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Ammoniakemissionen mindern ist eine wichtige Aufgabe der Luftreinhaltung, um international vereinbarte Minderungsziele zu erreichen. Der Landwirtschaft kommt hierbei große Bedeutung zu, denn sie verursacht die meisten Ammoniakemissionen in Deutschland. Daher haben ⁠UBA⁠ und KTBL im Auftrag des ⁠BMU⁠ gemeinsam Empfehlungen für die Gute Fachliche Praxis zur Ammoniakminderung veröffentlicht. In Zusammenarbeit mit einer Expertengruppe wurden Maßnahmen zusammengestellt, die in der Fütterung, im Stall, bei der Lagerung und Ausbringung von Wirtschaftsdünger sowie der Anwendung synthetischer Düngemittel umgesetzt werden können, um die Ammoniakemissionen in landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben zu senken.Diese Broschüre nimmt auch die Verpflichtung aus der Genfer Luftreinhaltekonvention auf, adressatengerechte Empfehlungen für die Gute Fachliche Praxis zur Ammoniakminderung zu veröffentlichen.
On tests of the quantum nature of gravitational interactions in presence of non-linear corrections to quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Spaventa, Giovanni
name: Lami, Ludovico
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Quantum theory
subject: Quantenmechanik

description: When two particles interact primarily through gravity and follow the laws of quantum mechanics, the generation of en- tanglement is considered a hallmark of the quantum nature of the gravitational inter- action. However, we demonstrate that en- tanglement dynamics can also occur in the presence of a weak quantum interaction and non-linear corrections to local quan- tum mechanics, even if the gravitational interaction is classical or absent at short distances. This highlights the importance of going beyond entanglement detection to conclusively test the quantum character of gravity, and it requires a thorough exam- ination of the strength of other quantum forces and potential non-linear corrections to quantum mechanics in the realm of large masses.
Hyper-ludicity, contra-ludicity, and the digital game
Creators: name: Conway, Steven
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article identifies and interrogates a primary design principle that exists across digital game genres and formats, articulated as ludicity. The article uses specific examples across videogame genres to communicate a spectrum of ludicity with two opposing poles, hyper-ludicity and contra-ludicity. Hyper-ludicity describes instances where the game mechanics inflate, expand, or enable the player to perform actions either beyond their usual effectance, providing a sense of empowerment, or provide new actions previously outside the boundaries of the game mechanics. Contra-ludicity is the opposing principle, where the game mechanics deflate, contract, or disempower the player, where tried and tested mechanics become less effective or have no effect at all, and in some instances where entire mechanics are wholly removed from the system. Though this would seem contrary to the pleasure of play, this article investigates how this design principle also maintains its own form of pleasure.
HIVAIDS and gendered prevention education in Ontario
Creators: name: Brown, Monica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Education, Health.

description: Young women in Canada are increasingly at risk for contracting HIV through heterosexual transmission, which represents the most common mode of HIV transmission worldwide. In Canada, women now comprise a quarter of all HIV prevalent people, and the number of young women aged 15-29 who have tested positive for HIV has increased dramatically despite over twenty years of health and education programming Women's gendered vulnerabilities are not well understood in the Canadian context, nor is women's risk (especially that of young women engaging in supposedly safer 'hetero'-sexual practices). The purpose of this study is to analyse how young Canadian women's prevention needs are represented in HIV/AIDS discourse and to determine whether and how those needs are being met in the current public health and formal educational contexts. This has been accomplished through a feminist content analysis of the relevant epidemiological, social, legal, educational and operational documents related to HIV prevention. This analysis addresses young women's representation in HIV/AIDS discourse; normative understandings of risk (primarily risk behaviours and categories in light of prevalence and incidence rates); and the inclusion of a gendered perspective in current Canadian policies, guidelines and public health prevention and formal education programs. The results show that all of these elements are lacking in current HIV prevention research, policies and programs. The intent of the study is to reflect this information back to researchers and educators, highlighting absences and silences in the representations of women in HIV/AIDS discourse and prevention efforts; it is also meant to provide a baseline understanding from which to undertake future research. This ongoing work largely consists of the development of evidence-based, gendered HIV prevention interventions in schools and communities. It also includes further analysis of issues relating to women's representation in HIV/AIDS discourse, particularly from a queer perspective; Foucault's exploration of power and knowledge, of the pedagogization of children's sex and the hysterization of women's bodies, and Butler's exploration of compulsory heterosexuality and the performativity of gender are presented as important ideas for informing analyses of young women's representation in the HIV epidemic. Hopefully this study serves to highlight young women's increasing vulnerability to HIV, clarify some of the issues impacting on that vulnerability, and inform the future development of effective, gendered prevention interventions.
Patterns of Medication Use Before, During, and After Pregnancy in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus : A Population-Based Cohort Study
Creators: name: Zusman, Enav Zipora
name: Sayre, E. C.
name: Aviña-Zubieta, J. Antonio
name: De Vera, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: This study aimed to characterize the patterns of medication use before, during and after pregnancy in a population-based cohort of women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: Using population-based administrative data in British Columbia, Canada with valid information on start date of pregnancy, we identified women with SLE who had singleton pregnancies ending in deliveries between January 1st, 2002 and December 31st, 2012. We assessed the proportion of SLE pregnancies exposed to SLE medications – namely antimalarials and immunosuppressants – as well as glucocorticosteroids, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) 24 months before pregnancy, each trimester of pregnancy, and 12 months post-pregnancy. We also assessed discontinuation of antimalarials and immunosuppressants, defined as no prescriptions in a given window following a prescription in a preceding window. Results: Of 376 pregnancies (284 women) with SLE, 24.2% had one or more dispensing for antimalarials, 8.2% for azathioprine, 19.7% for glucocorticosteroids and 4.8% for NSAIDs during pregnancy. We observed 16.7% discontinuation of antimalarials in the year prior to pregnancy, 29.8% in the first trimester, 9.7% in the second trimester, and 26% in the third trimester. We also observed 29.2% discontinuation of azathioprine in the first trimester, 8% in the second trimester, and 9% in the third trimester. Conclusions: These population-based data show frequent discontinuation of medications, particularly antimalarials, in SLE pregnancies. Findings suggest the importance of educating women with SLE who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant on the benefits and risks of medications during pregnancy.
Periodic Radio Emission from the T8 Dwarf WISE J062309.94-045624.6
Creators: name: Rose, Kovi
name: Pritchard, Joshua
name: Murphy, Tara
name: Caleb, Manisha
name: Dobie, Dougal
name: Driessen, Laura
name: Duchesne, Stefan W.
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Lenc, Emil
name: Wang, Ziteng
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the detection of rotationally modulated, circularly polarized radio emission from the T8 brown dwarf WISE J062309.94−045624.6 between 0.9 and 2.0 GHz. We detected this high-proper-motion ultracool dwarf with the Australian SKA Pathfinder in 1.36 GHz imaging data from the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey. We observed WISE J062309.94−045624.6 to have a time and frequency averaged Stokes I flux density of 4.17 ± 0.41 mJy beam−1, with an absolute circular polarization fraction of 66.3% ± 9.0%, and calculated a specific radio luminosity of L ν ∼ 1014.8 erg s−1 Hz−1. In follow-up observations with the Australian Telescope Compact Array and MeerKAT we identified a multipeaked pulse structure, used dynamic spectra to place a lower limit of B > 0.71 kG on the dwarf’s magnetic field, and measured a P = 1.912 ± 0.005 hr periodicity, which we concluded to be due to rotational modulation. The luminosity and period we measured are comparable to those of other ultracool dwarfs observed at radio wavelengths. This implies that future megahertz to gigahertz surveys, with increased cadence and improved sensitivity, are likely to detect similar or later-type dwarfs. Our detection of WISE J062309.94−045624.6 makes this dwarf the coolest and latest-type star observed to produce radio emission.
Biogeochemistry of iron and phosphorus in soils impacted by penguin colonies in Antarctica
Creators: name: Perez Rojas, Nadejda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.
subject: Biogeochemistry.
subject: Agriculture, Soil Science.
subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: Penguin colonies from permanently cold environments have a strong impact on their surrounding ecosystem because their excrements provide ample nutrients to the soils and sediments. The high phosphate content of the penguin guano directly affects primary productivity. However, phosphate solubility is dependent on the presence of iron and other metals, which can form stable PO4-rich minerals. Phosphate can also be sorbed onto minerals, including iron oxides. The present study investigated the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in a 42 cm-deep soil profile on Gardiner Island in Antarctica in order to assess the effect of penguin excrements on P partitioning in the solid and aqueous phases. The results indicate that the porewaters were slightly acidic (pH 5-6) and contained extremely high levels of dissolved organic carbon (DOC; 120 mM), PO4 (120 mM), SO4 (27 mM), NO3 (18 mM), Cl (320 mM), F (2 mM), Sr (0.10 mM), Ca (18 mM) and Mg (150 mM) at the top of the soil profile. Dissolved iron concentrations were generally low (< 0.04 mM) and increased at a depth of 15-20 cm and at the bottom of the profile. Chemical extraction revealed the presence of two zones of reactive phosphorus (P-ascorbate extractable fraction) in the soil profile, i.e., at the surface and between 16 and 20 cm. Enriched reactive and crystalline iron fractions were also present at a depth of 16-20 cm, but fluctuated throughout the profile. The Fe(II)/Fe(III) molar ratio of the soil was greater than 1 at the surface of the profile and declined with depth. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that the soil likely contained berlinite, strengite and vivianite, along with silicates and quartz. Saturation index calculations also indicated that Ca and Mg-rich phosphate minerals were likely present in the soil. Based on the above results, the presence of penguin colonies on Gardiner Island strongly impacted the geochemical and mineralogical composition of the soil, as observed in other studies on bird guano impacted (ornithogenic) soils. In addition, the presence of both Fe(II) and Fe(III) points to the fact that the soil undergos redox changes, likely as a result of seasonal water table fluctuations. Microcosm experiments with selected samples from the soil profile and an iron-reducing bacterium indeed showed that iron and phosphorus were released into solution as a result of microbial iron reduction. However, abiotic systems also showed a release of phosphorus indicating that non Fe-rich phosphate minerals are soluble under the conditions prevailing in the growth medium.
An Automated Script to Acquire Gas Uptake Data from Molecular Simulation of Metal Organic Frameworks
Creators: name: Van Rijswijk, David G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: MOF
CCS
Gas Uptake
Green House Gas

description: Attention worldwide has been placed towards reducing the global carbon footprint. To this end the scientific community has been involved in improving many of the available methods of carbon capture and storage (CCS). CCS involves scrubbing flue gases of greenhouse gases and safely storing them deep underground. MOFs, a family of functionally tunable three dimensional nanoporous frameworks, have been shown to adsorb gases with great selectivity and capacity. Investigating these frameworks using computational simulations, although faster than in-lab synthetic methods, involves a tedious and meticulous input preparation process which is subject to human error. This thesis presents Dave's Occupancy Automation Package (DOAP),a software which provides a means to automatically determine the gas uptake of many three dimensional frameworks. By providing atomic coordinates for a unit simulation cell, the software acts to performs the necessary calculations to construct and execute a Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulation, determining the gas uptake in a metal organic framework. Additionally an analysis of different convergence assessment tests for describing the end point of the GCMC simulation is presented.
Supplementary document for Bio-inspired wrinkle microstructures for random lasing governed by surface roughness - 5043093.pdf
Creators: name: Gummaluri, Venkata Siva
name: Radhakrishnan, Gayathri
name: C, Vijayan
name: Matham, Murukeshan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Information for additional experiment
Performance Improvement of Smart Grid Communications Using Multi-homing and Multi-streaming SCTP
Creators: name: Alowaidi, Majed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Smart Grid
SCTP
Multihoming
Multistreaming
AMI
HAN
Utility center
Communications
HoLB
TCP

description: With the obvious evolution and acceleration of smart grid, it is crucial for its success to rely on a solid transmission protocol among its peripherals due to its real time streaming. TCP is the well known traditional transport protocol used for a reliable transmission, and is a major player for smart grid. However, it lacks a fault tolerance transmission method that overcomes potential failures which may mitigate smart grid progress and in its turn decrease its reliability. We propose that smart grid operators utilize SCTP as the principle transport protocol for their smart grid communications, by using the two very significant characteristics offered by SCTP multi-homing and multi-streaming respectively. Thus, we argue that they can override two major obstacles caused by TCP Head of Line Blocking (HLB) and the inability of handling automatically two or more paths to a final destination. Although SCTP resembles TCP in many aspects, SCTP can definitely play a dominant role in many current and future applications due to its key features that do not exist in TCP. We have used ns2.34 simulator as the tool whom we relied on to investigate whether or not smart grid may benefit over TCP by the two SCTP features, and have analyzed the output of simulated results by using other analytical tools. As we obtain results, we argue that smart grid operators should rely on SCTP as a feasible transmission protocol instead of TCP.
Class E GaN Power Amplifier Design for WiMAX Base Stations
Creators: name: Rahman, Md Rejaur
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Power amplifier
GaN
Base stations
WiMAX
Class E

description: Modern wireless communication systems transmit complex modulated signals with high peak to average ratio in order to deliver high data rates. It demands wide bandwidth and rigorous efficiency performance for power amplifiers. Today’s conventional RF power amplifiers have relatively poor operating efficiency and require more power and area for operation. Therefore, more research on high efficiency power amplifier is crucial to the growth of the wireless industry. Until recent days, WiMAX systems are using technology processes such as Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Si LDMOSFET to obtain the performance. Although they are providing the required functional performance, they do not optimize cost and/or size. The primary focus of this thesis is to enhance the efficiency and output power of a compact microwave Power Amplifier suitable for a WiMAX base station. To achieve this goal, this thesis explores the highly efficient switched mode Class E microwave power amplifier using the Gallium Nitride on Silicon Carbide HFET (GaN-on-SiC) technology. The smallest gate length (0.15 µm) device recently released by NRC is used in this design. It provides higher performance at lower cost and area than the alternative Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology. Importance is given in designing the bias network of the device. The biasing network has a great impact on efficiency of power amplifiers. Many new techniques of Class E design have been presented to date, but there is not significant improvement related to the biasing network. A highly efficient Class E power amplifier for WiMAX base station transmitter was developed in this thesis for 2.5 GHz application. An improved bias network was introduced for biasing the active device. This successful design shows acceptable simulated performance with a gain of 10.12 dB, an output power of 34.12 dB, and a power added efficiency of 41.7 % at the peak output power.
Form Substance Difference.
Forma Sostanza Differenza. Brevi cenni di “epistemologia batesoniana”
Creators: name: Demozzi, Silvia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Gregory Bateson; form; substance; mental system; ethics
Gregory Bateson; forma; sostanza; sistema mentale; etica

description: The article focuses on some key-concepts of Gregory Bateson's thought. Among philosopher there has always been a sort of dichotomy between the concepts of “form” and “substance” since ancient Greece; concerning this topic, Gregory Bateson (influenced by his studies on biology, communication and by the birth of Cybernetics) presents what - in his opinion - is the only possible statement able to describe reality: the map is not the territory. The article, then, attempts to define what for Gregory Bateson is considered as an “eco-mental system” and, finally, discusses about its ethics implications.
description: Il contributo presenta alcuni concetti-chiave del pensiero di Gregory Bateson. Partendo dalla diatriba filosofica tra “forma” e “sostanza” che ha caratterizzato i dibattiti sin dai tempi antichi, si giunge a quella che, per Bateson, è l'unica formula possibile per descrivere la realtà (influenzata dagli studi sulla biologia, la comunicazione e la nascita della Cibernetica), riassumibile nella fortunata espressione “la mappa non è il territorio”. Da qui si cerca di definire la concezione batesoniana di “sistema eco-mentale” e si delineano alcune implicazioni di tipo etico e morale.
Supplementary document for Observation of topological valley hall edge states in honeycomb lattices of superconducting microwave resonators - 5043737.pdf
Creators: name: Esteve, Jérôme
name: Morvan, Alexis
name: Féchant, Mathieu
name: Aiello, Gianluca
name: Gabelli, Julien
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Supplementary document for Observation of topological valley hall edge states in honeycomb lattices of superconducting microwave resonators - 5043737.pdf
Creators: name: Esteve, Jérôme
name: Morvan, Alexis
name: Féchant, Mathieu
name: Aiello, Gianluca
name: Gabelli, Julien
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
title: International recommendations for an effective control of head louse infestations
title: International recommendations for an effective control of head louse infestations
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Habedank, Birgit
name: Mumcuoglu, Kosta Y.
name: Pollack, Richard J.
name: Reed, David L.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: Head louse infestations continue to be a concern of public health in most countries, including the most developed ones. The present recommendations are intended to inform and stress the role and impact of the different authorities, institutions, industry, and the public in the control of head lice in order to reduce the prevalence of this parasite. We encourage health authorities to pursue more effective methods to correctly identify such infestations, and evaluate existing and new pediculicides, medical devices, louse repellents, and louseâ€Ì and nitâ€Ìremoval remedies. Pediculicides and medical devices must have verifiable claims in the instructions for use and should be tested periodically to document current levels of resistance by lice to the active ingredients and to the formulated products. Where the prevalence of lice is claimed to be epidemic, children should be periodically evaluated objectively to document the actual level of prevalence. Continuing education for health providers and the general population promises to correct misinformation regarding the biology, prevention, and management of lice. Parents should regularly inspect their children for head lice and treat as necessary. Health authorities are encouraged to eliminate policies and practices that rely upon school exclusion as a means to reduce incidence and prevalence, e.g., the 'noâ€Ìnit' policy which lacks scientific justification, and are counterproductive to the health and welfare of children. © 2020 The Authors.
Developing ANN approaches to estimate neonatal ICU outcomes.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanling.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Information Science.

description: A medical database is a valuable resource for medical research. By analyzing the patient records, the physicians can know better about the patient outcomes and resources utilization. In NICU where the medical resources are very expensive, it is particularly important for the physicians to know the relationship between the patient measurements and the outcomes (e.g. death, ventilation, length of stay, and other complications including lung disease and brain damage). Many techniques have been used in predicting or estimating patient outcomes in the literature. A backpropagation neural network (NN) was selected. Because neural networks cannot handle missing information, whereas incomplete patient records is a very common occurrence in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) database, two sets of experiments were conducted. In the first set of experiments, all the cases with missing information in a NICU database of about seven thousand patients were excluded. Only complete records were kept. In the second set of experiments, we tended to make full use of the records with missing information. The missing values were replaced with their NORMAL values. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Transitional Faraday and Kerr effect in hybridized topological insulator thin films - 5044364.pdf
Creators: name: Shah, Muzamil
name: Akbar, Ali
name: Sajid, Muhammad
name: Anwar, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document to assist in the understanding of key ideas in the text.
Representations of women in Sidonius Apollinaris and Gregory of Tours: Coniuges et reginae.
Creators: name: MacDonald, Eve.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: The modern scholarship of women has relied on anecdotal evidence from the literature of Sidonius Apollinaris and Gregory of Tours to describe women's lives in fifth- and sixth-century Gaul. Rarely has it been noted that the anecdotes demonstrate behaviours that are part of formulaic descriptions employed by the authors. Sidonius represented life in late fifth-century sub-Roman Gaul as still very Roman. This illustrates Sidonius' conservatism and his attempt to hold onto Roman ideals in the face of a new Germanic reality in Gaul. Sidonius references women in terms of traditional Roman virtues and images of a dutiful wife. By the late sixth century, with the descendents of Clovis established as rulers of the Frankish kingdoms, Roman Gaul was a distant memory. Gregory of Tours wrote a narrative history about the world as he saw it, from his episcopal see in Tours. This was a Germanic and Christian world and the women he wrote about exemplify these realities. In spite of the differences there is much that is comparable between the two authors. Sidonius and Gregory had similar motivations for writing guided by a common set of rules and regulations. Their similar purpose reflects their status and role as leading men in a changing and unstable society. The validation of their own lives, choices, and traditions in the face of cultural change marks out their literature. There is a continuity between the authors that demonstrates universality in the portrayal of women found in both classical and Christian traditions. This is the belief that behind every good man is a good woman and that domestic harmony is a sign of a man's authority to rule, preach, or govern. My purpose is to analyse the representations of women in the context of the author's literary aims and personal goals. The accounts of women are construed to fit the themes of Gregory's history or Sidonius' letter or poem, not to represent the women. It then follows that if, and when, the author's anecdotal information on women is used as evidence for social history, the author's context and his connections to each woman must first be understood. This will permit a reinterpretation and re-evaluation of the evidence on women's lives from the literature of Sidonius Apollinaris and Gregory of Tours.
Supplementary document for Single-shot three-dimensional imaging with a scattering layer - 5044574.pdf
Creators: name: Situ, Guohai
name: Li, Guowei
name: Yang, Wanqin
name: Bian, Yaoming
name: Wang, Haichao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Mathematical Derivation
Supplementary document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides - 5044596.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Chunlei
name: Alquliah, Amged
name: ElKabbash, Mohamed
name: Zhang, Jihua
name: Cheng, Jin Luo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides
Supplementary document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides - 5044596.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Chunlei
name: Alquliah, Amged
name: ElKabbash, Mohamed
name: Zhang, Jihua
name: Cheng, Jin Luo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document for Ultrabroadband, compact, polarization independent and efficient Metasurface-based power splitter on Lithium Niobate waveguides
Applying a complex adaptive system and weak signals to economics teaching
Creators: name: Gerstman, Julie
name: Barry, Carol
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the eighteenth century, economics was established as a science which assumed economic reality could be conceptualized as formulating universal laws (de Cabo, Fernandez and Jaramillo). This proposition has since underpinned the widespread use of deterministic general equilibrium models to predict the impact of shocks (changes) on markets and the economy as a whole. The inability of economics to solve societal problems and to anticipate international crises, and widespread criticism by eminent academics and practicing economists, explains why it is necessary to consider a change in approach to teaching economics (Robinson (a), Brockway). The complex adaptive system (CAS) model addresses many issues raised by critics of the traditional approach to teaching economics. The CAS views the economy as a complex, interactive and dynamic system, made up of adaptive producers and consumers whose behaviour can be analyzed as a series of interactive responses to a change in circumstances. This paper sets out to explore the meaning and appropriateness of teaching economics as a CAS in an attempt to improve anticipating realistic sources of disruption and their likely interactive results.
Supplementary Information from Thylakoid membrane reorganizations revealed by small-angle neutron scattering of Monstera deliciosa leaves associated with non-photochemical quenching
Creators: name: Ünnep, Renáta
name: Paul, Suman
name: Zsiros, Ottó
name: Kovács, László
name: Székely, Noémi K.
name: Steinbach, Gábor
name: Marie-Sousai Appavou
name: Porcar, Lionel
name: Holzwarth, Alfred R.
name: Győző Garab
name: Nagy, Gergely
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Structural Biology

description: Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) is an important photoprotective mechanism in plants and algae. Although the process is extensively studied, little is known about its relationship with ultrastructural changes of the thylakoid membranes. In order to better understand this relationship, we studied the effects of illumination on the organization of thylakoid membranes in Monstera deliciosa leaves. This evergreen species is known to exhibit very large NPQ and to possess giant grana with dozens of stacked thylakoids. It is thus ideally suited for small-angle neutron scattering measurements (SANS)—a non-invasive technique, which is capable of providing spatially and statistically averaged information on the periodicity of the thylakoid membranes and their rapid reorganizations in vivo. We show that NPQ-inducing illumination causes a strong decrease in the periodic order of granum thylakoid membranes. Development of NPQ and light-induced ultrastructural changes, as well as the relaxation processes, follow similar kinetic patterns. Surprisingly, whereas NPQ is suppressed by diuron, it impedes only the relaxation of the structural changes and not its formation, suggesting that structural changes do not cause but enable NPQ. We also demonstrate that the diminishment of SANS peak does not originate from light-induced redistribution and reorientation of chloroplasts inside the cells.
Recovery Planning Under Canada's Species at Risk Act
Creators: name: Brassard, Christopher
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Conservation Biology
Recovery Planning
SARA
Recovery Strategies

description: One of the integral components of Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) is recovery planning for threatened, endangered, or extirpated species in Canada. The recovery planning process is guided by recovery strategies, to be published within one year of listing for endangered species and within two years of listing for threatened or extirpated species, though publication has rarely met statutory timelines. Here I investigate factors associated with recovery strategy completion as well as factors associated with strategy content, specifically recovery feasibility, information gaps, and critical habitat identification. Despite significant delays in strategy publication, I find no evidence of internal prioritization of species for strategy completion, with only administrative factors retained in predictive models; species listed on Schedule 1, for which the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) or Parks Canada Agency (PCA) is the Responsible Authority, or which there was a smaller backlog of due strategies one year after listing were more likely to have recovery strategies submitted on time. Analysis of factors associated with recovery feasibility show a higher likelihood of feasible recovery for species for which critical habitat is identified, the DFO or PCA is the Responsible Authority, there are more identified information gaps, or for which the recovery strategy contains a section on potential socioeconomic conflict. There were fewer identified information gaps in recovery strategies for those species for which recovery strategies were published after the judgments of the Nooksack Dace (ND) and Greater Sage-Grouse (SG) court proceedings, there was a greater time elapsed between strategy due date and date of draft publication, or whose range does not fall on a provincial or federal protected area. Pre-ND and SG court judgements, critical habitat was less likely to be identified for species with a lower threat status, species included in multi-species or ecosystem plans, or species not found within provincial or federal protected areas. None of these biases were detected post-judgement, however, as rates of identification increased significantly and only recovery feasibility was associated with CH identification. These results point to some potential problems in the recovery planning process as currently implemented under SARA, and inform recommendations as to how these might be addressed.
Not Just the Past, but History: Researcher-Historian Characters in Canadian Postmodern Historical Fiction
Creators: name: Andrews, Katherine Jean
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Canadian literature
Historical fiction
Historiographic metafiction

description: Since the mid-1980s, the study of Canadian postmodern historical fiction has been dominated by Linda Hutcheon’s “historiographic metafiction.” Emphasizing historiography and textuality, critics of historiographic metafiction have flattened the past to text and image, inadvertently severing its active connection with the present and removing it from historical process. This is problematic for the ideological intentions of the texts in question because it is an awareness of the past/present dialectic that incites awareness that present action can lead to future change. This thesis, therefore, examines three novels that have overwhelmingly been viewed as historiographic metafiction for their inclusion of researcher-historian characters: Findley’s The Wars, Bowering’s Burning Water, and Marlatt’s Ana Historic. By opening up these texts to criticism that acknowledges history as process, I demonstrate that there is no need to limit these novels to this problematic framework and that researcher-historian characters are valuable for more than their foregrounding of historiography.
Repräsentative Erhebung von Pro-Kopf-Verbräuchen natürlicher Ressourcen in Deutschland (nach Bevölkerungsgruppen)
Creators: name: Kleinhückelkotten, Silke
name: Moser, Stephanie
name: Neitzke, H.-Peter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Nachhaltiger Konsum
Ressourcenverbrauch
Ernährung
Textilien

description: Welchen CO2-Ausstoß haben unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen? Wovon hängt ein niedriger oder hoher Umweltverbrauch ab? Welche Rolle spielen verschiedene Umwelteinstellungen? Welche Rolle das Einkommen? Der Bericht liefert Antworten auf diese Fragen. Mittels einer Repräsentativbefragung von gut 1.000 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern aus ganz Deutschland wurden unter anderem Daten und Informationen zu den Bereichen Heizung, Warmwasserverbrauch, Wäschewaschen und -trocknen, Kühlen und Gefrieren, Kochen, Beleuchtung, Geräte der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik, Alltagsmobilität, Urlaubsreisen, Nahrung, Kleidung, Saunabesuch und Haustierhaltung abgefragt. Themen waren weiterhin eigene Anlagen zur Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien bzw. Beteiligungen an solchen Anlagen und Kompensationszahlungen für CO2-Emissionen. Die gängigen soziodemografischen Daten wurden erhoben und Einstellungen abgefragt, anhand derer eine Zuordnung der Befragten zu sechs sozialen Milieusegmenten möglich war.
Die statistischen Analysen bestätigen die Vermutung, dass vor allem das Einkommen einen zentralen Treiber für den Ressourcenverbrauch darstellt. Der Energieverbrauch nimmt mit dem Alter zu, ist bei Männern größer als bei Frauen und sinkt tendenziell mit der Haushaltsgröße. Bemerkenswert ist, dass er in den sozialen Milieusegmenten mit verbreitet positiven Umwelteinstellungen überdurchschnittlich hoch ist. Detaillierte Auswertungen für die einzelnen Energieverbrauchsbereiche ergeben zum Teil sehr komplexe Abhängigkeiten von soziodemografischen Merkmalen und Einstellungen der Befragten.Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
Supplementary document for Hydrophobic-substrate based water-microdroplet manipulation through the long-range photovoltaic interaction from a distant LiNbO3:Fe crystal - 5044651.pdf
Creators: name: Yan, Wenbo
name: Gao, Zuoxuan
name: Mugisha, Euphrem
name: Wang, Mengtong
name: Liu, Xiaohu
name: Zhang, Xiong
name: Gao, Kaifang
name: Mi, Yuhang
name: shi, Lihong
name: Chen, Hongjian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplemental document
Assessing Nursing and Midwifery Students' Attitudes Toward Abortion and Contraception: Results of a National Survey In the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Creators: name: St-Jean, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Palestine
Palestinian
Occupied Palestinian Territories
Abortion
Contraception
Family Planning
West Bank
Gaza
Reproductive Health
Sexual Health

description: Understanding the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is important for a greater understanding of the current state of sexual and reproductive rights of Palestinian women. Constant military occupation has been a determining factor hindering the development of comprehensive and coherent health policies and programmes. As a result of the Oslo Accords and the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement in 1994, the Palestinian National Authority was granted limited authority over portions of the West Bank and Gaza. In 2007-2008 a multi-national, multi-disciplinary study team undertook a national study to assess the reproductive health content of nursing education and identify gaps in curricular coverage and implementation. One component of this project included exploring final year nursing and midwifery students’ attitudes toward a range of sexual and reproductive health issues. This thesis analyzes these data and explores the demographic factors, including gender, region, and residence, associated with nursing and midwifery students’ attitudes toward abortion and contraception-related laws and policies. Our findings suggest that there is a considerable need to incorporate values clarification exercises as well as structured sessions dedicated to laws and policies governing sexual and reproductive health into the formal curricula of programs in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Our results also shed further light on the dynamics shaping abortion and contraception attitudes among health professions students in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.