cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A stress and coping approach to adolescent sexual development
Creators: name: Moore, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper it is argued that the normative biological, social and emotional events and processes of sexual maturation in adolescence can be interpreted as stressors. The nature of these stressors varies in terms of the amount of change required to adjust to the event or process, its unexpectedness, suddenness, negativity and uncontrollableness. Young people's capacity to cope with their sexual development, and the strategies they employ, will depend on the perceived nature of the stressor, the personal characteristics and inner resources of the adolescent, and the level of accessible social support. Personal characteristics discussed include optimism and a positive outlook, hardiness, communication and social skills, restraint/conscientiousness and sense of control. Environmental supports discussed include family, peers, school, and organised religion.
Advanced assisted reproduction technologies in endangered mammalian species
Creators: name: Hildebrandt, Thomas Bernd
name: Holtze, Susanne
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: assisted wildlife propagation
subject: conservation
subject: fertility improvement
subject: genetic enhancement
subject: rewinding extinction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: A new synergistic approach of classical conservation strategies combined with advanced assisted reproduction technologies (aART) allows for protection and rescue of endangered keystone species at the brink of extinction, which can help to safeguard complex ecosystems. Reproduction biology and management in mammal species is not only challenging in regards to their diverging sizes, anatomy, and often unknown physiology; it also requires customized training or chemical restraint protocols for safe handling. Besides these general challenges, there are several new assisted reproduction techniques (ART) specifically tailored to critically endangered mammals. The current portfolio of ART in these mammalian taxa is ranging from sexual cycle characterization and manipulation, semen collection and cryopreservation, artificial insemination, biobanking of living cells, oocyte collection, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and embryo production, embryo transfer as well as stem cell-derived in vitro gametogenesis for generating gametes in culture. The article covers advanced assisted reproduction technologies (aART), success and challenges, as well as ethical implications.
Il diritto pontificio nell’impasse della attuazione del concilio Vaticano II. Tensioni e dinamiche di un travaglio non risolto
Creators: name: Zanchini Di Castiglionchio, Francesco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il vero significato (politico) del “dogma” vaticano del 1870 – 2. La lezione della historia conciliorum e le ambiguità moderne - 3. Il superamento della lista dei concili del Bellarmino - 4. Il problema del concilio di Costanza: sovrano è chi decide sullo stato di eccezione- 5. Le tecniche di attuazione del Tridentino e del Vaticano II - 6. Il dictatus di papa Mastai e l’opposizione dei vescovi tedeschi – 7. La resistenza della curia al Vaticano II: il quinquennio iniziale - 8. La svolta restauratrice di Giovanni Paolo II – 9. Riflessioni conclusive - 10 - Postilla. Quale orizzonte per il futuro?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 31 gennaio
Consumo contemporâneo e discurso do capitalismo (Contemporary consumption and discourse of capitalism)
Creators: name: Castro, Julio Cesar Lemes De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 220317 Poststructuralism
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220318 Psychoanalytic Philosophy
subject: 200203 Consumption and Everyday Life
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: The Lacanian concept of discourse of capitalism sheds light on fundamental mechanisms of contemporary consumer society. In late capitalism, merchandises not only represent, more than ever, a condensation of signifiers, but they are also a direct expression of surplus-enjoyment: the act of consumption is in itself a source of enjoyment. To the extent that the role of signifier as a mediation between subject and enjoyment is reduced, the circuit from the promise of enjoyment to the frustration and to a new promise is speeded up. Moreover, the enjoyment becomes an imperative and there is now the beckon of a boundless enjoyment. In this context it is relevant a rapprochement between the enjoyment of consumption and the enjoyment of addition. / O conceito lacaniano de discurso do capitalismo lança luz sobre mecanismos fundamentais da sociedade de consumo contemporânea. No capitalismo tardio, a mercadoria não apenas representa, mais do que nunca, uma condensação de significantes, como é uma expressão direta do mais-de-gozar: o ato de consumir consiste em si mesmo numa fonte de gozo. Na medida em que se reduz o papel de mediação do significante entre o sujeito e o gozo, acelera-se o circuito que vai da promessa de gozo à frustração e a uma nova promessa. Ademais, o gozo torna-se imperativo e acena-se agora com um gozo sem limites. Nesse contexto, é pertinente uma aproximação entre o gozo do consumo e o gozo da adição.
L'Unione europea ed i diritti fondamentali: l'accordo tra la Santa Sede e la Slovacchia sull'obiezione di coscienza al vaglio del Parlamento europeo
Creators: name: Marchei, Natascia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. La bozza di accordo tra la Santa Sede e la Slovacchia in  materia di obiezione di coscienza e l’intervento del Parlamento europeo -  2. La “competenza” dell’Unione europea in materia di diritti  fondamentali: brevi cenni - 3. Il parere redatto dal gruppo di esperti:  il diritto di accesso effettivo all’aborto - 4. Segue. L’indicazione di  dettaglio dei limiti a cui deve essere sottoposto il diritto  all’obiezione di coscienza - 5. La posizione privilegiata della Chiesa  cattolica e la protezione del diritto fondamentale di libertà religiosa. Ora, con il titolo “L’accordo tra la Santa Sede e la Slovacchia sull’obiezione di coscienza al vaglio del Parlamento europeo”, in Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica, 1/ 2007, p. 203 ss.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2007: 29 gennaio
Measurable Krylov spaces and eigenenergy count in quantum state dynamics
Creators: name: Čindrak, Saud
name: Paschke, Adrian
name: Jaurigue, Lina
name: Lüdge, Kathy
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
subject: Lattice Integrable Models
subject: Nonperturbative Effects
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: In this work, we propose a quantum-mechanically measurable basis for the computation of spread complexity. Current literature focuses on computing different powers of the Hamiltonian to construct a basis for the Krylov state space and the computation of the spread complexity. We show, through a series of proofs, that time-evolved states with different evolution times can be used to construct an equivalent space to the Krylov state space used in the computation of the spread complexity. Afterwards, we introduce the effective dimension, which is upper-bounded by the number of pairwise distinct eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian. The computation of the spread complexity requires knowledge of the Hamiltonian and a classical computation of the different powers of the Hamiltonian. The computation of large powers of the Hamiltonian becomes increasingly difficult for large systems. The first part of our work addresses these issues by defining an equivalent space, where the original basis consists of quantum-mechanically measurable states. We demonstrate that a set of different time-evolved states can be used to construct a basis. We subsequently verify the results through numerical analysis, demonstrating that every time-evolved state can be reconstructed using the defined vector space. Based on this new space, we define an upper-bounded effective dimension and analyze its influence on finite-dimensional systems. We further show that the Krylov space dimension is equal to the number of pairwise distinct eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian, enabling a method to determine the number of eigenenergies the system has experimentally. Lastly, we compute the spread complexities of both basis representations and observe almost identical behavior, thus enabling the computation of spread complexities through measurements.
Efficacy of internet-based cognitive behavioral and interpersonal treatment for depression in Arabic speaking countries: A randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: El-Haj-Mohamad, Rayan
name: Stein, Jana
name: Stammel, Nadine
name: Nesterko, Yuriy
name: Wagner, Birgit
name: Böttche, Maria
name: Knaevelsrud, Christine
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Middle East and North Africa
subject: E-mental health
subject: Depression
subject: Psychotherapy
subject: Psychological interventions
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Background Politically and economically unstable contexts have been associated with increased prevalence rates of depression. Despite high demand, the availability of mental health experts and care systems is limited in Arabic-speaking countries. Internet-based interventions might provide an opportunity to treat patients independently of location. Therefore, we investigated the efficacy of internet-based cognitive behavioral treatment (iCBT) and interpersonal treatment (iIPT) for depression in Arabic-speaking countries. Methods In total, 743 Arabic-speaking adults with depression were randomly allocated to iCBT (n = 243), iIPT (n = 247), or waitlist (n = 253). Depressive, anxiety, and somatoform symptoms, perceived social support and quality of life (QoL) were assessed at pre-, and post-treatment and at three months follow-up. Multiple imputation was performed for missing data. Changes associated with treatment were analyzed using regression in the completer and intention-to-treat sample. Results Participants in both treatment groups showed lower depressive and anxiety symptom severity, higher QoL, and perceived social support compared to the waitlist group (p < .001). Somatoform symptom severity was significantly lower in participants receiving iIPT compared to waitlist (p < .001). Differences between the two treatments in all outcomes were non-significant (p > .05). Three-month follow-up treatment effects regarding depressive symptoms were indicated. Limitations The sample mainly consists of educated, single, female adults. Three-month follow-up results rely on a small subsample and must be interpreted with caution. Conclusions This is the first randomized controlled trial to demonstrate the efficacy of iCBT and iIPT for depression in Arabic-speaking countries. It provides first indications that internet-based interventions might help specific individuals in this region.
RNAi Screening of the Kinome Identifies PACT as a Novel Genetic Modifier of Foci Integrity in Myotonic Dystrophy type 1
Creators: name: O'Reilly, Sean W.P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: RNAi
Muscular Dystrophy
Myotonic Dystrophy
PACT
DMPK
MBNL1

description: Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy (~1:8000) currently has no effective treatment. In DM1, expansion of a tri-nucleotide repeat in the 3' UTR of the DMPK gene results in DMPK mRNA hairpin structures, aggregating as insoluble ribonuclear foci. The resulting mis-regulation of important splicing factors, causes the inclusion of fetal exons in dozens of transcripts that contribute to the disease phenotype. In order to identify novel gene targets and kinase signalling pathways for potential therapeutics we have performed a high-throughput RNAi. RNA foci were visualized and quantified by in-situ hybridization. From our screen, we have identified a novel gene, PACT, as a modulator of foci integrity and that PACT knockdown can induce MBNL1 protein levels. The identified signalling complex represents a valid target for DM1 therapeutics. Our data further emphasizes the utility of RNAi screens in identifying disease-associated genes.
"A chiare lettere" Editoriale gennaio 2007
Creators: name: Casuscelli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Ad onta delle crisi ricorrenti che investono il diritto ecclesiastico,  nell’anno appena iniziato la nostra disciplina raccoglie il testimone  inatteso della speranza. Il 2006 ci ha offerto la pubblicazione di tre  manuali1 che, con un taglio ed un’impostazione nuovi, si  rivolgono ad un’utenza che non è fatta soltanto degli studenti delle  nostre Università; la pubblicazione del primo numero della nuova rivista  semestrale “Diritto e Religioni”2, che intende trattare il  fattore religioso da molteplici punti di vista aprendosi ad una  molteplicità di scienze affini (antropologia, sociologia, storia,  filosofia); la nascita di questa rivista telematica che non vuole avere  un proprio indirizzo o orientamento, ma si prefigge lo scopo di essere  strumento e manifesto della pluralità e del pluralismo delle scuole,  delle sensibilità, dei metodi che alimentano il patrimonio comune del  sapere teorico perché in esso trovi a sua volta alimento il concreto,  quotidiano farsi dell’esperienza giuridica. Due ricorrenze di  particolare rilievo segnano, ancora, questa fase: i cinquanta anni della  Corte costituzionale, alla cui attività molto è legato il rinnovamento  del “diritto ecclesiastico”, che ha partecipato alla celebrazione corale  offrendo uno specifico contributo di analisi della sua giurisprudenza 3;  i dodici lustri della Costituzione repubblicana, un’età “matura” che  offre l’occasione per un bilancio della sua vitalità, delle compiute  attuazioni, delle attese non ancora realizzate.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, Editoriali
title: Formant Estimation from DCTC's Using a Feedforward Neural Network
Creators: name: Kelkar, Shubhangi U.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1992

description: Formants are the natural frequencies of the human vocal tract. Existing methods for estimating formants from speech signals are computationally complex and subject to errors for certain type of speech sounds. This thesis describes a method for estimating vowel formant frequencies from Discrete Cosine Transform Coefficients (DCTC's), a form of cepstral coefficients, using a feedforward neural network with back-propagation training. Experimental results are based on a large multispeaker data base. The results are obtained for both a linear transformation and a feedforward neural network with a nonlinear hidden layer. In general, the neural network transformation is superior to the linear transformation for formant estimation. Thus our experiments indicate the nonlinear nature of the relationship between DCTC's and formants. However, since the results are always much better for training data as compared to test data, a large data base is necessary for adequate neural network training. Vowel classification experiments show that estimated formants can discriminate vowels nearly as well as 14 DCTC's.
Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator
Creators: name: Gregr, Edward J.
name: Christensen, Villy
name: Nichol, Linda
name: Martone, Rebecca G.
name: Markel, Russell
name: Watson, Jane
name: Harley, Christopher D. G.
name: Pakhomov, Evgeny A.
name: Shurin, Jonathan B.
name: Chan, Kai Ming Adam, 1975-
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2020

description: Predator recovery often leads to ecosystem change that can trigger conflicts with more recently established human activities. In the eastern North Pacific, recovering sea otters are transforming coastal systems by reducing populations of benthic invertebrates and releasing kelp forests from grazing pressure. These changes threaten established shellfish fisheries and modify a variety of other ecosystem services. The diverse social and economic consequences of this trophic cascade are unknown, particularly across large regions. We developed and applied a trophic model to predict these impacts on four ecosystem services. Results suggest sea otter presence yields 37% more total ecosystem biomass annually, increasing the value of finfish (+9.4 M$), carbon sequestration (+2.2 M$), and ecotourism (+42.0 M$). To the extent these benefits are realized, they will exceed the annual loss to invertebrate fisheries (-7.3 M$). Recovery of keystone predators thus not only restores ecosystems, but can also affect a range of social, economic, and ecological benefits for associated communities.
Force Transduction and Strain Dynamics through Actin Stress Fibres of the Cytoskeleton
Creators: name: Guolla, Louise
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Atomic Force Microscope
Actin
Cytoskeleton
Mechanotransduction
Biophysics

description: It is becoming clear that mechanical stimuli are critical in regulating cell biology; however, the short-term structural response of a cell to mechanical forces remains relatively poorly understood. We mechanically stimulated cells expressing actin-EGFP with controlled forces (0-20nN) in order to investigate the cell’s structural response. Two clear force dependent responses were observed: a short-term local deformation of actin stress fibres and a long-term force-induced remodelling of stress fibres at cell edges, far from the point of contact. We were also able to quantify strain dynamics occurring along stress fibres. The cell exhibits complex heterogeneous negative and positive strain fluctuations along stress fibres, indicating localized dynamic contraction and expansion. A ~50% increase in myosin contractile activity is apparent following application of 20nN force. Directly visualizing force-propagation and stress fibre strain dynamics has revealed new information about the pathways involved in mechanotransduction which ultimately govern the downstream response of a cell.
title: Produktionsanlage für Trimethylgallium
title: Produktionsanlage für Trimethylgallium
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Installation of a production unit for Trimethylgallium
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Karch, Ralf
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: Gallium
Atomökonomie
Ressourceneffizienz
Halbleiter

description: Das vorliegende Projekt stellt die Installation einer Fertigung für Trimethylgallium (TMG) dar, einem wesentlichen Vorprodukt für die Herstellung bestimmter Halbleitermaterialien, z.B. zur Herstellung von anorganischen LEDs. Die Anlage basiert auf einem neu entwickelten und patentgeschützten Verfahren, welches eine hohe Atomökonomie und damit verbunden niedrige Verluste und Abfallmengen gegenüber alternativen Herstellwegen aufweist. Die Anlage wurde zwischen 2015 und 2017 gebaut und erfolgreich in Betrieb genommen; Kunden werden mit hochreinem TMG beliefert. Das ursprüngliche Projektziel einer nahezu quantitativen Galliumausbeute konnte für Roh-Trimethylgallium bereits realisiert werden. An Lösungen diesem Ziel auch für reinst-TMG noch näher zu kommen als es während der Projektlaufzeit erreicht wurde, wird gearbeitet. Die Reaktion zur Herstellung von TMG läuft wie geplant ohne organische Lösemittel, sondern in einer Salzschmelze; allerdings konnte das Ziel komplett auf organische Lösemittel zu verzichten derzeit noch nicht ganz erreicht werden, da damit momentan noch kleine Mengen pyrophorer Reststoffe deaktiviert werden müssen. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The present project addressed the installation of production unit for Trimethylgallium (TMG), an essential precursor for the manufacturing of semi-conductors e.g. for the lighting industry (LED), based on a newly developed and patented process. This new highly atom-economic process results in lower losses and waste streams compared with alternative manufacturing processes. The production line was installed and commissioned between 2015 and 2017; customers are supplied with TMG of very high purity. The original target of nearly quantitative Gayield is already achieved for raw Trimethylgallium. Solutions to get even closer to this goal for TMG of very high purity than was achieved during the project period are being worked on. The reaction for the production of TMG runs as planned without organic solvents, but in a molten salt bath; however, the goal of complete omission of use of organic solvents has not yet been fully achieved, as small amounts of pyrophoric residues still have to be deactivated with organic solvent. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
L'influence d'un stage d'enseignement dans un musée de sciences naturelles sur le sentiment d’autoefficacité en sciences de futurs enseignants
Creators: name: Deblois, Annick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: sentiment d'autoefficacité
enseignement des sciences
futurs enseignants
stage en enseignement
musée
formation initiale

description: Cette étude qualitative multicas est ancrée dans l'approche sociale-cognitive de la théorie de l'autoefficacité de Bandura (1977). Elle s’intéresse à quatre stages à l’enseignement qui se sont déroulés au Musée canadien de la nature en 2009. L’utilisation de données secondaires issues du questionnaire STEBI-B traduit et modifié (Dionne et Couture, 2010) ainsi que des entrevues semi-dirigées ont permis une analyse du changement d’autoefficacité en sciences chez les stagiaires. Les éléments les plus intéressants de cette recherche sont l’apprentissage vicariant et la possibilité de répétition qui favorise une meilleure connaissance de soi et une pratique réflexive. Les résultats, dans l’ensemble positifs, illustrent bien le potentiel d’un tel stage afin de rehausser le sentiment d’autoefficacité en sciences chez des stagiaires en enseignement, particulièrement chez ceux qui se destinent à enseigner à l’élémentaire puisque ceux-ci ont souvent une formation académique sans science.
Gaining confidence on the correct realization of arbitrary quantum computations
Creators: name: Carrasco, Jose
name: Langer, Marc
name: Neven, Antoine
name: Kraus, Barbara
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum benchmarking
subject: Quantum verification
subject: Quantum Information, Science & Technology
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: We present verification protocols to gain confidence in the correct performance of a device implementing an arbitrary quantum computation. The derivation of the protocols is based on the fact that matchgate computations, which are classically efficiently simulable, become universal if supplemented with additional resources. We combine tools from weak simulation, randomized compiling, and statistics to derive verification circuits that (i) strongly resemble the original circuit and (ii) can be classically efficiently simulated not only in the ideal, i.e., error free scenario, but also in the realistic situation where errors are present. In fact, in one of the protocols we apply exactly the same circuit as in the original computation, however, to a slightly modified input state.
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF CHINESE MASS ORGANIZATIONS ON ASEAN FOREIGN RELATIONS: A DATA-DRIVEN INVESTIGATION
Creators: name: Prof. Li, Wei Chen
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Belt and Road, Mass organizations, Non-governmental diplomacy, ASEAN foreign affairs Evidence-based decision-making

description: This study explores the effectiveness of Belt and Road mass organizations in facilitating non-governmental diplomacy with the ASEAN countries and advancing the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. While the Belt and Road initiative has gained significant attention in international relations, empirical research on the effectiveness of mass organizations in ASEAN foreign affairs services remains limited. Our research combines various methodologies, including theoretical analysis and empirical investigations, to provide evidence-based insights into the impact of mass organizations on ASEAN foreign affairs services. By bridging the gap in this area, our study aims to offer valuable theoretical guidance and policy recommendations to enhance decision-making practices in ASEAN foreign affairs
Existence, regularity, and a strong Itô formula for the isochronal phase of SPDE
Creators: name: Adams, Zachary P.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: invariant manifold
subject: isochronal phase
subject: neural field equations
subject: Reaction-diffusion equations
subject: spiral waves
subject: strong Itô formula
subject: Travelling waves
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik

description: We prove the existence and regularity of the isochron map for stable invariant manifolds of a large class of evolution equations. Our results apply in particular to the isochron map of reaction-diffusion equations and neural field equations. Using the regularity properties proven here, we prove a strong Itô formula for the isochronal phase of stochastically perturbed travelling waves and other patterns appearing in SPDEs driven by white noise, even for SPDEs that only admit mild solutions.
Supplementary document for Bayesian Optimal Control of the Ultrashort Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulse Generation by Two-Color Polarization Gating - 5352385.pdf
Creators: name: Chu, Chon-Teng Belmiro Chu
name: Sheu, Yae-lin
name: Chu, Shih-I
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bayesian optimization
MaxNet: a congestion control architecture for scalable networks
Creators: name: Wydrowski, Bartek
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Zukerman, Moshe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: MaxNet is a distributed congestion control architecture. This paper analyzes the stability properties of MaxNet. We show that MaxNet is stable for networks with arbitrary delays, numbers of sources, capacities, and topologies. Unlike existing proposals, MaxNet does not need to estimate the number of bottleneck links on the end-to-end path to achieve these scaling properties.
Identification of malfunctioning quantum devices
Creators: name: Skotiniotis, Michalis
name: Llorens, Santiago
name: Hotz, Ronja
name: Calsamiglia, John
name: Muñoz-Tapia, Ramon
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum networks
subject: Quantum sensing
subject: Quantum gates
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: We consider the problem of correctly identifying a malfunctioning quantum device that forms part of a network of 𝑁 such devices, which can be considered as the quantum analog of classical anomaly detection. In the case where the devices in question are sources assumed to prepare identical quantum pure states, with the faulty source producing a different anomalous pure state, we show that the optimal probability of successful identification requires a global quantum measurement. We also put forth several local measurement strategies—both adaptive and nonadaptive—that achieve the same optimal probability of success in the limit where the number of devices to be checked is large. In the case where the faulty device performs a known unitary operation, we show that the use of entangled probes provides an improvement that even allows perfect identification for values of the unitary parameter that surpass a certain threshold. Finally, if the faulty device implements a known qubit channel, we find that the optimal probability for detecting the position of rank-one and rank-two Pauli channels can be achieved by product state inputs and separable measurements for any size of network, whereas for rank-three and general amplitude damping channels, optimal identification requires entanglement with 𝑁 qubit ancillas.
Party Switching in the Canadian House of Commons
Creators: name: Snagovsky, Feodor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Party switching
Floor crossing
Political party
Elites
Legislator
House of Commons
Member of parliament

description: This thesis seeks to explain the phenomenon of party switching (or floor-crossing) in the understudied case of the Canadian House of Commons. It uses Müller and Strøm’s “Policy, Office or Votes?” framework at the individual level of analysis and a mixed methods approach that combines document analysis and econometrics to assess the effects of individual and institutional variables on the decision to switch parties. The results inform a wider discussion regarding individual political behavior as well as the role, influence and evolution of political parties in the Canadian state. The research demonstrates that the electorate is adept at recognizing opportunism and tends to respect MPs who switch parties on principle while punishing those that switch for more self-centered reasons.
Supplementary document for Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states - 5352439.pdf
Creators: name: Yanagimoto, Ryotatsu
name: Ng, Edwin
name: Wright, Logan
name: Onodera, Tatsuhiro
name: Mabuchi, Hideo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
title: Первый опыт применения фотодинамической терапии с использованием мощных светодиодов для лечения предраковых заболеваний влагалища
Creators: name: Мыреева, С. А.
name: Гельфонд, М. Л.
name: Макарова, Н. Н.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Данный метод включает в себя два компонента: первый лечебный компонент — препарат-фотосенсибилизатор, он накапливается преимущественно в болезнетворных (воспалительных, злокачественных) клетках; второй — световая энергия лазера, которая активирует фотосенсибилизатор и создает в «больных» клетках фотохимическую реакцию. Под воздействием лазера болезнетворные клетки уничтожаются, а здоровые не затрагиваются.
Bookkeepers of catastrophes: The overlooked role of reinsurers in climate change debates
Creators: name: Röper, Nils
name: Kohl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Reinsurance
subject: Climate change
subject: Sociology of knowledge
subject: Knowledge politics
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Global warming had long been discussed as an abstract matter of physics and chemistry. Only in the 1990s did the more tangible costs caused by natural catastrophes come into focus. The key corporate actors to advance this damage and risk perspective on climate change and corroborate it with data – reinsurance companies – have largely been overlooked in the literature. Drawing on expert interviews, hitherto confidential archival sources and text analysis, this paper traces how the two largest reinsurers have made sense of climate change and become important voices in creating awareness of man-made climate change. It underscores their unique role as both producers and translators of climate change knowledge and highlights the thorny and even subjective nature of interpreting climate-related data. This sheds new light on the history of climate change knowledge and raises important questions about the role of business actors.
Prise de décision complexe liée à la supervision pédagogique : une étude multicas en milieu minoritaire francophone de l’Ontario (Canada)
Creators: name: Leurebourg, Rodney
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: compétence
prise de décision complexe
supervision pédagogique
direction d’école
milieu minoritaire

description: Menée en milieu minoritaire francophone, cette recherche porte sur la prise de décision complexe liée à la supervision pédagogique chez les directions d’école élémentaire de l’Ontario. Sachant que les élèves de certaines écoles francophones réussissent moins bien que ceux des écoles anglophones, l’objectif est de décrire et de comprendre comment les directions d’école prennent des décisions pédagogiques complexes. Pour y parvenir, cette recherche se fonde sur un cadre de référence hybride traitant de la prise de décision complexe et du leadership éducationnel en milieux linguistiques minoritaires. Précisons que notre recherche ne tente pas de comparer les milieux linguistiques mais bien de relever les particularités du milieu francophone minoritaire quant à la prise de décision complexe liée à la supervision pédagogique chez les directions d’école. Épousant le paradigme interprétatif, cette recherche utilise l’étude multicas pour la collecte des données réalisée à l’aide d’entrevues semi-structurées individuelles auprès d’acteurs scolaires tels que les directions d’école, les directions de l’éducation et les enseignants. Les données ont été organisées selon quatre sections : le profil des répondants du cas, la fonction de la direction d’école, le processus de la prise de décision complexe et les éléments qui l'influencent. L'analyse des données a été réalisée à l'aide du logiciel NVivo et elle nous a permis de dresser le profil des répondants de chacun des quatre cas et de faire ressortir, par une analyse comparative, les convergences et les divergences entre ceux-ci.Les résultats de l'analyse mettent en évidence le fait que les directions d'école ne suivent pas nécessairement les mêmes étapes quant à la prise de décision pédagogique complexe. Si la majorité d'entre elles prend des décisions complexes selon la méthode rationnelle, les autres évoquent le recours à un processus décisionnel cyclique et itérative. Toutefois, ells croient toutes que l'expérience de vie personnelle et professionnnelle exerce la principale influence sur leur prise de décision complexe. L'analyse comparative des données a permis de proposer un modèle de prise de décision reflétant le milieu scolaire minoritaire francophone de l'Ontario où la consultation est considérée comme une valeur ajoutée dans le processus décisionnel. Finalement, s'insérant dans les rapports à l'identité et à la gestion scolaire, cette recherche pose un jalon pour l'étude de la prise de décision pédoagogique complexe et propose des pistes de recherches futures afin de poursuivre la réflexion.
Maut für Deutschland: Jeder Kilometer zählt
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Maut
subject: Autobahnmaut
subject: Autobus
subject: Lkw-Maut
subject: PKW-Maut
subject: Pkw-Maut-Vignette
subject: Fernbus
subject: Autobahnvignette
subject: Internalisierung externer Kosten
subject: Internalisierung externer Umweltkosten
subject: Verkehr

description: Der Straßenverkehr bürdet der Gesellschaft hohe Kosten für Infrastruktur, Umwelt und Gesundheit auf. Die fahrleistungsabhängige Maut für Lkw, Bus und Pkw ermöglicht eine differenzierte Anlastung dieser Kosten. Dadurch hat sie eine positive ökologische und verkehrliche Steuerungswirkung – im Gegensatz zur zeitabhängigen Vignette, die als „Flatrate“ eher zum Vielfahren animiert. Eine fahrleistungsabhängige Maut gibt es bisher nur für Lkw. Die ökologische Lenkungswirkung sollte erhöht werden, indem sich die Höhe der Gebühr stärker an den Kosten für Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschäden orientiert. Das ⁠UBA⁠ empfiehlt zudem eine Ausweitung auf alle Straßen sowie auf alle Lkw ab 3,5 statt wie bisher 7,5 Tonnen zulässigen Gesamtgewichts. Für die Befreiung der Reisebusse von der Maut gibt es keinen stichhaltigen Grund. Die Einführung einer fahrleistungsabhängigen Bus-Maut ist verursachergerecht und würde Wege- und Umweltkosten besser anlasten. Die fahrleistungsabhängige Pkw-Maut hat mittelfristig großes Potenzial, zu einer nachhaltigen Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierung beizutragen. Daher sollte schon jetzt an dieser ergänzenden Säule gearbeitet werden.
title: Остановка кровотечения у больных с варикозно-расширенными венами пищевода и желудка
Creators: name: Винокуров, М. М.
name: Савельев, В. В.
name: Игнатьев, В. П.
name: Винокуров, М. А.
name: Егорова, В. П.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Выбор метода остановки кровотечения у пациентов с кровоточащими варикозно-расширенными венами пищевода и желудка определяется степенью нарушения функции печени, оценкой резервных возможностей организма, состоянием параметров центральной гемодинамики, а также локализацией варикозно-расширенных вен.
title: Результаты хирургического лечения больных с перфоративными язвами желудка
Creators: name: Винокуров, М. М.
name: Савельев, В. В.
name: Игнатьев, В. П.
name: Винокуров, М. А.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Размеры перфоративного отверстия находятся прямой зависимости от степени выраженности деструктивных изменений в зоне язвенного кратера. Ведущим фактором в выборе метода оперативного вмешательства при перфоративной язве желудка является локализация перфоративного отверстия.
The Genetic Limits to Trait Evolution for a Suite of Sexually Selected Male Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Drosophila Serrata
Creators: name: Sztepanacz, Jacqueline L.P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Cuticular hydrocarbons
Evolutionary limit
Fitness optimum
Pleiotropy
Opposing selection
Sexual selection
Drosophila serrata

description: Directional selection is prevalent in nature yet phenotypes tend to remain relatively constant, suggesting a limit to trait evolution. The genetic basis of evolutionary limits in unmanipulated populations, however, is generally not known. Given widespread pleiotropy, opposing selection on a focal trait may arise from the effects of the underlying alleles on other fitness components, generating net stabilizing selection on trait genetic variance and thus limiting evolution. Here, I look for the signature of stabilizing selection for a suite of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) in Drosophila serrata. Despite strong directional sexual selection on CHCs, genetic variance differed between high and low fitness individuals and was greater among the low fitness males for seven of eight CHCs. Univariate tests of a difference in genetic variance were non-significant but have low power. My results implicate stabilizing selection, arising through pleiotropy, in generating a genetic limit to the evolution of CHCs in this species.
Minimising cost of lawful interception in mobile IP
Creators: name: Kouhnor, Shahnaz
name: Branch, Philip
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Communications interception is an essential part of law enforcement used by authorized government agencies to investigate criminal activities. With the growth of IP based applications and new IP technologies such as mobile IP, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will find themselves increasingly obliged to provide interception capabilities. IP interception is usually done with expensive hardware based systems the cost of which ISPs would like to minimize. In this paper we propose the use of optimisation techniques to find the optimal location(s) of systems in the network needed to be installed while minimising the cost and ensuring complete coverage of the network.
title:  Il romanesco di Pasolini fra tradizione e innovazione
Creators: name: Giovanardi, Claudio
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2017

description: Il contributo analizza la lingua dei due romanzi romani di Pasolini (Ragazzi di vita e Una vita violenta) e di due sceneggiature di film diretti da Pasolini (Accattone e Mamma Roma). Il romanesco di Pasolini è un dialetto che presenta numerosi tratti conservativi, essendo il modo di esprimersi di personaggi popolari. Soprattutto per quanto riguarda la morfologia verbale notiamo che sono ancora molti i fenomeni conservativi che poi spariranno o si attenueranno molto nel dialetto dei nostri giorni. Gli anni Cinquanta del Novecento rappresentano un momento di passaggio molto importante dal romanesco tradizionale, ancora legato al modello ottocentesco e il neoromanesco odierno assai più italianizzato soprattutto nel campo della morfologia. Si analizza anche l'interazione tra dialetto e italiano, considerando che Pasolini non lascia spazio all'italiano regionale, che proprio in quegli anni veniva messo a fuoco dalla bibliografia critica.
description: «L’ora è confusa e noi come perduti la viviamo». Leggere Pier Paolo Pasolini quarant’anni dopo
A Comparison of the Influence of Immigration on the Political Cultures of High River, Alberta, and Brooks, Alberta
Creators: name: Felske, Johanna Aileen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Immigration
Brooks
Political Culture
High River

description: This thesis compares the impact of immigration on the political cultures of the town of High River, Alberta, and the city of Brooks, Alberta, from 1996 until 2012. High River and Brooks are located in southern Alberta, and are home to large meat processing facilities. Both municipalities experienced population growth from 1996 until 2012, but while the immigrant and non-permanent resident population of High River increased by 108.82% from 1996 until 2011, the immigrant and non- permanent resident population of Brooks increased by 368.38% in the same period. Two indicators of political engagement are used, including voting results from provincial elections held in 1997, 2001, 2004, and 2008. In addition, local newspaper publications are reviewed; the High River Times and The Brooks Bulletin are examined for two months preceding a provincial election, during the month of an election, and for one month following an election. Cette thèse fait une comparaison de l'impact de l'immigration sur les cultures politiques de High River, Alberta, et de Brooks, Alberta, entre 1996 et 2012 . High River et Brooks sont situés dans le sud de l'Alberta, et il y a des usines de transformation de la viande dans les deux villes. La population des deux municipalités a augmenté entre 1996 et 2012, mais bien que la population immigrante et de résidents non-permanents de High River ont augmenté de 108,82% entre 1996 et 2011, cette population de Brooks a augmenté de 368,38% dans le même période. Deux indicateurs d'engagement politique sont utilisés, y compris les résultats des élections provinciales tenues en 1997, 2001, 2004, et 2008. En outre, les publications des journaux locaux, le High River Times et The Brooks Bulletin, sont examines deux mois avant une élection provinciale, au cours du mois d'une élection, et pendant un mois après.
Prova e processo matrimoniale
Creators: name: Berlingò, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Prolusione ai lavori del XLII Congresso Nazionale di Diritto canonico su  “La prova della nullità matrimoniale secondo la giurisprudenza della  Rota Romana” (6-9 settembre 2010, Riviera di Taormina).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 14 febbraio
Trifunctional sphingomyelin derivatives enable nanoscale resolution of sphingomyelin turnover in physiological and infection processes via expansion microscopy
Creators: name: Rühling, Marcel
name: Kersting, Louise
name: Wagner, Fabienne
name: Schumacher, Fabian
name: Wigger, Dominik
name: Helmerich, Dominic A.
name: Pfeuffer, Tom
name: Elflein, Robin
name: Kappe, Christian
name: Kleuser, Burkhard
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical tools
subject: Sphingolipids
subject: sphingomyelin
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Sphingomyelin is a key molecule of sphingolipid metabolism, and its enzymatic breakdown is associated with various infectious diseases. Here, we introduce trifunctional sphingomyelin derivatives that enable the visualization of sphingomyelin distribution and sphingomyelinase activity in infection processes. We demonstrate this by determining the activity of a bacterial sphingomyelinase on the plasma membrane of host cells using a combination of Förster resonance energy transfer and expansion microscopy. We further use our trifunctional sphingomyelin probes to visualize their metabolic state during infections with Chlamydia trachomatis and thereby show that chlamydial inclusions primarily contain the cleaved forms of the molecules. Using expansion microscopy, we observe that the proportion of metabolized molecules increases during maturation from reticulate to elementary bodies, indicating different membrane compositions between the two chlamydial developmental forms. Expansion microscopy of trifunctional sphingomyelins thus provides a powerful microscopy tool to analyze sphingomyelin metabolism in cells at nanoscale resolution.
title: Анализ колоректального рака в РС(Я) за период 2015–2017 гг.
по данным ПАО РБ № 1-НЦМ
Creators: name: Слепцов, И. К.
name: Гармаева, Д. К.
name: Иванов, П. М.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Результаты проведенного ретроспективного анализа показывают, что в РС(Я) КРР — патология с быстрым темпом роста заболеваемости и увеличением среднего возраста пациентов. Дальнейшее изучение данной патологии с учетом этнического аспекта, морфометрических и молекулярно-генетических особенностей позволит улучшить онкологическую ситуацию в регионе.
Emotionally Smart Makes You More Motivated: Associations between Emotional Intelligence, Motivation, and Work Outcomes in Police Source Handlers
Creators: name: Saad, Karene
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Emotional Intelligence
Self-Determined Motivation
Police
Work Outcome Variables

description: Emotional intelligence and self-determined motivation have been independently identified as important personal variables that are liable to foster optimal work functioning. However, the relationship between these two variables has never been assessed. Furthermore, research has also provided evidence that supervisor support, a social variable, is considered to be a significant source of influence on self-determined behaviour regulation. Thus the primary objective of the project was to jointly assess emotional intelligence and supervisor support as antecedents of self-determined work motivation; secondly, to assess the associations of self-determined work motivation on work outcome variables and psychological welfare; and thirdly, to examine the association between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being on 512 police source handlers. Specifically, it was proposed that emotional intelligence would be positively associated to self-determined work motivation and would display a unique association with work motivation, once the variance from supervisor support has been controlled for. It was further proposed that self-determined work motivation would, in turn, be positively associated with positive work outcomes; specifically, job satisfaction, job performance, future work intentions, and psychological well-being. Lastly, it was hypothesized that emotional intelligence would be positively associated to psychological well-being. Data was analyzed using structural equations modeling. Results revealed that emotional intelligence and supervisor support were both uniquely associated with work motivation. Together, these two variables explained a high proportion of the variance of work motivation. Work motivation, in turn, was positively associated with job satisfaction, job performance, future work intention, and psychological well-being. Emotional intelligence and psychological well-being were also positively associated. Overall, the findings of this thesis provide a basis for future research aimed at determining the causal relationship between emotional intelligence and self-determined motivation. It is further suggested that findings gleaned from this study can provide a better understanding of how certain interpersonal behaviours can impact specific work outcomes, which can provide researchers and practitioners with information to improve individual and organizational outcomes of interest.