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Dreams of wonder, dreams of deception: Tension and resolution between Buddhism and shamanism in Tibetan culture
Creators: name: Sumegi, Angela
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.
subject: Anthropology, Cultural.

description: This study explores the nature of dreams and dreaming in shamanism and Buddhism. It focuses on the specific case of Tibet where the indigenous layer of religious beliefs and practices has been dominated by Buddhism but continues to emerge as a vital presence in the religious world-view of Tibet. The three major divisions in this study are concerned with (1) the shamanic world-view and attitude towards dream, (2) the ancient Indian world-view and the Buddhist approach to dream, and (3) the use and meaning of dreams and dreaming in Tibetan culture. With regard to Tibetan attitudes to dream, it will be shown that conflicting statements and views expressing, on the one hand, the value of dream as a vehicle of prophecy and knowledge and, on the other, dismissing the world of dream as the ultra-illusions of an illusory world were present in the Indian Buddhist tradition that entered Tibet. However, in the Tibetan context, dream comes to play a heightened role in Buddhist religious life as a method of authenticating spiritual status and as a path to liberation. The Tibetan attitude toward dream is shown to encompass earlier contradictions, but also to involve an additional tension arising out of the Buddhist competition with, and eventual hegemony over, indigenous religious systems that also use dream to transmit and validate knowledge and religious power. These tensions are reflected in conflicting statements over dream that appear in Tibetan literature. Resolution and harmony, however, are possible because of a concept of interdependency and interconnectedness that is fundamental to both shamanism and Buddhism. I have proposed that the conflicting views on dream in Tibetan literature reflect a much more complex situation than is expressed in assigning the differing views to the categories of 'popular' and 'elite', and I have provided an alternate model for understanding the contradictory attitudes to dream in Tibetan Buddhism.
Comprendre l'expérience de création des artistes dans le théâtre pour adolescents en Ontario français
Creators: name: Thibault, Laurence Valérie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Education, Performing Arts.
subject: Theater.

description: La présente recherche repose sur le principe que la création théâtrale professionnelle est une partie intégrante de l'éducation théâtrale et qu'elle peut contribuer à la mission linguistique et culturelle de l'école de langue française en Ontario (Haentjens et Chagnon-Lampron, 2004; Théberge, 2006b, Théberge, 2007a). Il est donc profitable d'aborder la problématique art-éducation-culture du point de vue de des experts de la création théâtrale pour apprécier l'ampleur de leurs initiatives et prendre en compte leurs constats et leurs besoins. J'ai rencontré seize professionnels de théâtre impliqués dans la création de spectacles pour adolescents pendant l'automne 2006. Les deux spectacles étudiés, Libérés sur parole: la passion et Cette fille-là, ont été crées respectivement par le Théâtre du Trillium et le Théâtre la Catapulte, à Ottawa. Au niveau théorique, je me suis appuyée sur les concepts d'expérience, de représentation, d'identité et de culture ainsi que sur modèle systémique de créativite de Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1999). Au niveau méthodologique, j'ai adopté une approche inspirée de l'ethnométhodologie (Garfinkel, 1967, 2007) pour avoir accès aux liens qui unissent l'artiste et son environnement. J'ai d'abord étudié les représentations que les artistes se font de leur rôle dans l'éducation théâtrale et culturelle des adolescents. L'analyse a devoilé les concepts d'artiste conteur, formateur et passeur. Ensuite, je me suis concentrée sur les parcours des deux directeurs artistiques des compagnies participantes. Finalement l'observation des heures de répétition a fourni un portrait évolutif de l'expérience de création. La recherche apporte une reconnaissance et une valorisation de l'engagement des artistes envers les adolescents et la communauté. Elle souligne le besoin de formation à une culture théâtrale que les artistes identifient chez de nombreux adolescents et parfois chez les enseignants, ces derniers étant décrits comme des partenaires indispensables. La recherche contribue à connaître le travail des artistes qui pourrait être davantage intégré à l'éducation des adolescents.
Mesolithic occupation around Hockham Mere
Creators: name: Wymer, John J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2020

description: Norfolk Archaeology, 41 (2), 212-213
description: A variety of Mesolithic flint artefact types have been recovered from the area, including a rare type of petit-tranchet arrowhead. Microscopic charcoal found in borehole samples taken from round the mere are likely to result from small fires, which supports the likelihood of occupation at various intervals over a long period.
Strukturdynamiken im Demokratisierungsprozess
Creators: name: Kern, Thomas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: This article examines the impact of structural dynamics like "influencing" and "negotiating" on the process of democratization in South Korea in the 1980s. In the first part, the theoretical concepts of "structural dynamics" and "revolution" are introduced. In the second part the empirical results of the study are presented and discussed. For the most time the democratization process of South Korea was characterized by a structural dynamic of mutual influencing, which means, that the authoritarian regime and the democracy movement just interacted without communicating directly. But as it will be shown, this structural dynamic was interrupted by two sudden changes, which are crucial for the explanation of the transition in 1987: In early 1986, the government surprisingly altered from "influencing" to "negotiating", when it publicly announced direct talks with the dissident camp. In the spring of 1987, again a sudden change occurred, when the government broke off all negotiations in order to return to the path of "influencing”. The article tries to explain, why these two changes occurred and what kinds of effects they had on the democratic transition in 1987. Following from this, future perspectives for the development of the research on democratization are discussed. The concept of structural dynamics promises to be a key instrument for the overcoming of the division between structural and voluntaristic approaches.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 93 (2004): ASIEN (Oktober)
Assimilating Surface Weather Observations from Complex Terrain into a High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model.
Creators: name: Deng, Xingxiu
name: Stull, Roland B., 1950-
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2011

description: An anisotropic surface analysis method based on the mother–daughter (MD) approach has been developed to spread valley station observations to grid points in circuitous steep valleys. In this paper, the MD approach is further refined to allow spreading the mountain-top observations to grid points near neighboring high ridges across valleys. Starting with a 3D first guess from a high-resolution mesoscale model forecast, surface weather observations are assimilated into the boundary layer, and pseudo-upper-air data (interpolated from the coarser-resolution analyses from major operational centers) are assimilated into the free atmosphere. Incremental analysis updating is then used to incorporate the final analysis increments (the difference between the final analysis and the first guess) into a high-resolution numerical weather prediction model. The MD approaches (including one with shoreline refinement) are compared with other objective analysis methods using case examples and daily mesoscale real-time forecast runs during November and December 2004. This study further confirms that the MD approaches outperform the other methods, and that the shoreline refinement achieves better analysis quality than the basic MD approach. The improvement of mountain-top refinement over the basic MD approach increases with the percentage of mountaintop stations, which is usually low. Higher skill in predicting near-surface potential temperature is found when surface information is spread upward throughout the boundary layer instead of at only the bottom model level. The results show improved near-surface forecasts of temperature and humidity that are directly assimilated into the model, but poorer forecasts of near-surface winds and precipitation, which are not assimilated into the model. Copyright 2007 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
The chromatin remodelling protein SNF2L regulates cell number in the developing brain
Creators: name: Yip, Darren John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: Mutations in genes encoding chromatin-remodelling proteins, such as the ATRX gene, underlie a number of genetic disorders including X-linked mental retardation syndromes; however knowledge of the role of these proteins in CNS development is limited. In Drosophila, ISWI is essential for development, the protein functions as the ATP-hydrolysing component in several chromatin-remodelling complexes. The two mammalian ISWI orthologs, SNF2H and SNF2L are differentially expressed, suggesting that they possess distinct developmental roles. Prevalent expression of SNF2H occurs during neuroprogenitor proliferation while SNF2L transcripts are increased in maturing neurons. It is well known that an appropriate balance between neuroprogenitor proliferation and neuronal differentiation during the embryonic stages is critical to regulate the size of the developing neocortex. Here, I have analyzed mice ablated for Snf2l chromatin remodelling activity to determine its role in cortical development. The loss of active Snf2l resulted in a 1.4-fold increase in the ratio between brain weight and body weight. This was accompanied by a concomitant increase in cell number in the cerebral cortical strata ranging from 1.3- to 1.6-fold (in embryonic and adult tissues). This increase did not coincide with an observable change in the frequency of apoptotic events. Pulse-labelling experiments with BrdU resulted in similar proportions of labelled cells within the periventricular zone of embryonic (E15.5) cortices from wildtype and mutant mice. We observed a 3-fold increase in mitotic cells by phospho-histone H3 staining. BrdU birthdating and BrdU/Ki67 double-labelling experiments revealed that there was a 3-fold increase in the number of progenitors that re-entered the cell cycle and a concomitant decrease in cell cycle exit. Gene expression analysis of Snf2l-mutants revealed a perturbation in the expression patterns of many genes, including genes encoding neurogenic factors and cell cycle regulators. One such gene identified was Foxg1. Foxg1 is regulated by Snf2l, and limiting Foxg1 mitigated the brain phenotype. Our results suggest loss of Snf2l alters the timing between cell cycle exit and differentiation leading to increased cell numbers in the developing neocortex.
Husluman Vava; Auvini Kadresengan; Badai (Shu-hwa Shirley Wu, transl.; David R. Braden, ed.) : Voices from the Mountain. Taiwanese Aborigional [sic] Literature
Creators: name: Diefenbach, Thilo
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: Asien, Nr. 144 (2017): ASIEN (Juli)
Stabilität des nordkoreanischen Regimes
Creators: name: Mayer, Maximilian
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: It is surprising that the survival of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea has not been sufficiently explained on a theoretical basis yet. Nevertheless, the North Korean regime has been existing for more than fifty years and hence several premature forecasts of its coming collapse have been disproved. This fascinating fact seems to be even more remarkable when the regime of this rogue state is taken into consideration. North Korea's regime is the only still existing totalitarian regime, which also can be considered to be nearly in its ideal state. Which kind of strategy is the reason for the lasting success of this regime, which in this respect is able to outshine the totalitarian phases of the People's Republic of China and of the USSR? An attempt to apply various theories concerning the transformation or stability of regimes reveals that it is very difficult to sufficiently explain the phenomenon of North Korea's stability with the help of existing theories. This unsatisfying status of research makes it necessary to develop a new theoretical approach, which is able to explain the stability of the North Korean regime in order to fill this gap. By means of applying some concepts of the Evolutionary Regime-Theory it is possible to analyse and explain in a plausible way the stability of the North Korean regime in its context. Stability seems to be achieved by the ongoing strategy of exploitation of the North Korean populace and the parasitic strategy of the militant begging diplomacy and blackmailing. This approach connects internal and external influences on behaviour and offers a consistent explanation of the reasons for and limits of (unchanged stability. In addition, a forecast of the (necessary) conditions for a further survival of the North Korean regime will be possible based on the previously analysed stability factors.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 93 (2004): ASIEN (Oktober)
Regulation of the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p27 in glioblastoma
Creators: name: Gillies, Jana K
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most common and most malignant brain tumour. The cyclin dependant kinase inhibitor p27 is commonly inactivated in this and many other cancers. p27 is an important negative regulator of the cell cycle which acts by inhibiting cyclinE/cdk2 and cyclinA/cdk2 complexes. We identify PKCiota, a pro-proliferative kinase which is activated by phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI3K), as a regulator of p27 in GBM. siRNA-mediated depletion of PKCiota in U87MG cells resulted in an increase in p27 protein levels, and p27 levels are extremely high in PKCiota-null mouse embryonic fibroblasts. The mechanism by which PKCiota regulates p27 is unclear, although it occurs at the post-transcriptional level, as QRTPCR analysis showed that PKCiota depletion did not alter p27 mRNA levels. PKB is a known regulator of p27, but we show that PKCiota does not regulate p27 through modulation of PKB activity. MEK/ERK signaling is also implicated in the regulation of p27. The combined inhibition of PKCiota and MEK resulted in an increase in p27 levels which was greater than the added effects of inhibiting either kinase alone, suggesting some overlap in the function of these two pathways. Additionally, we show that p27 is regulated by miRNAs, which are 20-25 nucleotide RNAs that repress gene expression by post-transcriptional silencing. In eukaryotes, this occurs predominantly at the level of translational inhibition and is mediated by defined sequences in the 3'UTRs of target genes. miRNAs are processed by dicer, and therefore the deletion of dicer abrogates miRNA expression. We show that siRNA-mediated depletion of dicer increases p27 levels and halts the cell cycle at G1 phase. The miRNA target site prediction program Targetscan predicted 2 binding sites for miR-221/222 in the p27 3'UTR. Transfection of glioblastoma cells with inhibitors of miR-221 and/or miR-222 resulted in an increase in p27 protein levels. These results were corroborated by luciferase reporter assays in which dicer depletion or miR-221 inhibition increased activity from a luciferase reporter gene located immediately upstream of the p27 3'UTR. Site-directed mutagenesis of the predicted miR-221 binding sites in the reporter construct increased luciferase activity and abrogated the effect of miR-221 inhibition. Therefore, p27 is regulated by miR-221. We also show that PKCiota and MEK alter p27 levels via an element in the 3'UTR. These results are consistent with a model in which oncogenic signaling pathways increase miR-221 expression to decrease translation of p27.
Patient experiences with ambulatory cancer care in British Columbia, 2005/06
Creators: name: Watson, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth), 1963-
name: Mooney, Dawn
name: Peterson, Sandra
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: "This report provides a snapshot of what patients have to say about the accessibility and quality of ambulatory cancer care in British Columbia (BC). These first-hand experiences matter—to patients, their families and friends, and to those who work in health care. They also provide an essential perspective from which we can continue to inform and target initiatives to improve cancer care in the province. Patient Experiences with Ambulatory Cancer Care in British Columbia focuses on features of health care that Canadians have indicated are important to them—respect for their values, preferences and needs, coordination and continuity of care, information, communication and education, physical comfort, emotional support, and the involvement of family and friends. The report also pays attention to other facets of quality that have been identified as a priority by those who work in health care in BC—access to care and safety." -CHSPR
Childcare providers' perceptions of food and mealtimes: A qualitative approach
Creators: name: Lynch, Meghan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nutrition.

description: This thesis research sought to explore childcare providers' perceptions of nutrition in childcare settings. Drawing upon a social ecological understanding of behaviour, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 providers. Written in a two article format, the first article details factors providers perceived as influencing their decisions regarding food and mealtimes for childcare settings; the second article focuses on strategies providers perceived to encourage healthy eating and their reasons for use of these strategies. Providers described being influenced by a range of factors, not receiving pertinent support for assisting healthy nutritional development in childcare settings, and being focused on short-term objectives rather than long-term healthy nutritional development. These results encourage further research into understanding the interconnections between the different influences and developing nutritional materials better suited to providers' needs. Gaining an increased understanding of factors influencing childcare providers' decisions regarding nutrition is vital to encouraging healthy nutritional behaviour development in children.
Institutionalisierung von Sicherheit in den EU-Südostasien-Beziehungen
Creators: name: Maier-Knapp, Naila
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Since the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, considerable institutional adaptation has taken place to manage the overlapping areas or the nexus between the EU’s security and development policies. Current plans of the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) to build up structures suggest that this nexus is furthermore driving externalization and external institutionalization efforts of FPI, in particular in relation to FPI’s Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) in Southeast Asia. This envisaged institution-building beyond the EU’s borders implies a transfer of the security-development nexus debate and pertinent responsibilities from the Brussels headquarters of FPI to the corresponding structures on site. This thus begs the question whether — if at all — the effectiveness of IcSP in Southeast Asia can be improved through an institutional shift of the nexus debate? Can inter-institutional issues of the EU arising from the nexus be attenuated or even dissolved through externalization processes? In light of the ongoing violent conflicts in Rakhine State and Marawi City at the time of writing, questions about effective crisis response and management in Southeast Asia are more relevant than ever and demand attention to the potential of international assistance providers, namely the EU’s evolving security actor capability.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 145 (2017): ASIEN (Oktober)
Violence and Abuse in British Columbia
Creators: name: Joshi, Pamela
name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Olsen, Lise
name: Han, Guanghong
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This report describes the epidemiology of violence and abuse as reflected in a variety of population and nonpopulation based data sources in British Columbia. Comparisons between BC data and national data, health consequences, economic burden are also described for selected topic areas in violence and abuse, including child abuse and neglect, youth violence, intimate partner violence, violent crimes and elder abuse and neglect.
Vietnamese Research Practice
Creators: name: Fforde, Adam
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: The paper broaches the general research issue of whether there are distinct characteristics to common Vietnamese methods of knowledge production, drawing upon the author’s own experiences. It examines various policy documents, and frames its analysis of the implied methods used to produce them through reference to existing research. It is suggested that Vietnamese are ‘catholic’ in their gauging of proposed knowledges, but are so at the level of the individual rather than that of the communities of belief found among societies whose histories refer to the Abrahamic traditions. The paper argues that knowledge validation in Vietnam can often be viewed as similar to the following of inductive procedures, with a stress on the requirement that they be related to ‘perceived reality’. However ‘nous’ is felt to be less of a psychological individual experience and more of a social acceptance one, being marked by terms such as so ket and tong ket (Vietnamese diacritics are omitted). The paper concludes with reference to certain policy documents of major historical importance.
description: Asien, Nr. 145 (2017): ASIEN (Oktober)
Distortional analysis of thin walled beams
Creators: name: Rivet, Adam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: A general solution for the stress-deformation analysis of interconnected plates subjected to general loading conditions is developed. The solution is based on the assumptions of thin-walled plate theory and is limited to combinations of straight plates made of linearly elastic isotropic material. The principle of stationary potential energy is used in conjunction with series expansion for the displacement fields to formulate the equilibrium conditions and boundary conditions. In general, the differential equilibrium equations are coupled. A quasi-closed form solution for the displacement fields is nonetheless provided. The solution developed is successfully adopted to solve several example problems. Three of the problems involve individual plates, while six involve multiply connected plates. Comparisons with established finite element solutions demonstrate the ability of the model to accurately capture the behaviour with a remarkably small number of degrees of freedoms.
Die Rolle des Staates in Aufwertungsprozessen der Öl- und Gasindustrie – der Fall Vietnam
Creators: name: Breul, Moritz
name: Kalvelage, Linus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Starting with the doi moi reforms, Vietnam has gradually been integrated into the global production network (GPN) of the oil and gas industry. However the mere integration into these global production processes does not guarantee regional economic outcomes; this depends, rather, on the exact position within the GPN. In these industries especially, states can play an influential role in the endeavours to enhance and capture value from GPN participation. This article aims to reveal whether, and if so how, the Vietnamese state has contributed to the inducement of such an upgrading process. Based on interviews with public and private actors of the oil and gas industries in Vietnam, as well as relevant secondary data, we portray the development of the Vietnamese oil and gas industries since the country’s global integration. By these means we reveal the changing position of Vietnam in the oil and gas GPN and highlight the role of the state therein. Our empirical findings suggest a process of enhancement in Vietnam’s oil and gas industries driven by the national corporate network Vietnam Oil and Gas Group. The development of domestic refining capacities, the increasing Vietnamese share in upstream projects and the outgoing investments of domestic companies reflect these shifting dynamics. Yet, in order to change the integration into the GPN substantially, crucial challenges still need to be addressed – namely the lack of efficiency of refinery projects and the low competitiveness of the downstream sector. Against the background of a currently low global oil price, striking a balance between the attracting of foreign capital while also maximizing value capture is of key importance.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 145 (2017): ASIEN (Oktober)
Isolation, characterization and SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibitory activity of a new methylsulfinyl-butanyl derivative from Raphani Semen
Creators: name: Wang, Huanjun
name: Chi, Bingqing
name: Li, Caiyu
name: Tian, Zhenhua
name: Liu, Yuecheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new compound named raphanised A (1), along with two known methylsulfinyl -butanyl derivatives (2-3) and seven known indole derivatives (4-10), were isolated from the Raphani Semen. Among the indole derivatives, 5 was identified as a new natural product, and 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 were isolated from the genus of Raphanus for the first time. Their structures were elucidated based on the NMR and HR-EI-MS analysis. Additionally, the inhibitory activity of methylsulfinyl-butanyl derivatives 1-3 on SARS CoV-2 3CL protease was evaluated. The results showed that 1-3 exhibited inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease activity at concentrations ranging from 3.3 to 30 µM.
Combining Research Practices
Creators: name: Fuhrmann, Eva
name: Schiele, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: Why should Germans conduct research in Vietnam if there are Vietnamese researchers who could do this work? This is the question that this article tries to answer. By presenting two different research projects that were implemented in Vietnam by German researchers, the special role that what we call the “transcultural researcher” holds will be analyzed. As a theoretical framework, the work of Rehbein (2013) on the “kaleidoskopische Dialektik” and Homi K. Bhabha’s (2004) “third space” will be employed. We argue that the researcher can create a synthesis of two societies and two scientific systems as he or she temporarily migrates to the country in which the research is implemented. The synthesis in this context is, however, not accompanied by the loss of either of those two but rather entails the deeper connection of both.
description: Asien, Nr. 145 (2017): ASIEN (Oktober)
Jesus Christ, king of the kingdom of God : royal discourse in Christian literature before 150 CE
Creators: name: Hoagland, Tyler Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2024
Subjects: Kingdom of God
Kingdom
Kingship
1 Corinthians
Acts of the Apostles
Shepherd of Hermas
Kingship discourse
Royal responsibilities
Royal discourse

description: Scholarship on the kingdom of God has built different conceptions of the kingdom from the multiple occurrences in the Synoptic Gospels, to which all other occurrences in early Christian literature are compared. This approach is unable to explain the use of the phrase βασιλεία θεοῦ outside the Synoptics. It often equates the kingdom with the age to come as an eschatological signifier of a future state of affairs, but this does not explain the limited but persistent use outside the Synoptics. This thesis avoids the problem by beginning with the use of the phrase βασιλεία θεοῦ in 1 Corinthians, Acts, and the Shepherd of Hermas. A different starting point provides a different perspective. These three texts demonstrate that the king of the kingdom of God is not God the Father, but Jesus. In ancient kingship discourse there are consistent expectations regarding the role of the king. While the details can vary, the key royal responsibilities are often expressed as confronting enemies, judging justly, and mediating the divine. While the articulations vary, each of the selected texts present Jesus assuming these royal responsibilities over the kingdom of God. In 1 Corinthians, Jesus defeats death, bringing the kingdom of God at his return through the general resurrection. In Acts, Jesus confronts an enemy in Paul, who is then made one of Jesus’s representatives after Jesus’s ascension, taking the kingdom of God with him. In the Shepherd, Jesus mediates the divine and maintains order through just judgment over the kingdom. Jesus’s kingship of the kingdom explains the comparatively less frequent use of the phrase βασιλεία θεοῦ in the early Christian texts outside the Synoptic Gospels and raises the question of the link between the presence of the kingdom and the bodily presence of Jesus, its king.
Exploring mHealth Solutions: A Case Study on the Influence of mHealth Technologies on Communication and Information Sharing at Hamilton Health Sciences
Creators: name: Aceti, Victoria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Technology.
subject: Mass Communications.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: The recognition of the need to improve communication has led healthcare organizations to integrating health informatics technologies. This study investigated the extent to which mHealth applications influenced communication and information sharing patterns between interdisciplinary healthcare providers in the delivery of healthcare services. The study was conducted at a multi-campus health organization in Ontario. Sociotechnology theory examines the influence of sociological factors in the introduction and use of information and communication technologies. Through a sociotechnical approach, this research study focused on how the communicative and social aspects of an organization influence health informatics integration, as well as the extent to which information sharing and communication patterns were influenced. This study found that several factors contributed to the integration of mHealth technologies, including: significant end user contribution to system design, an organizational culture open to technological change, the use of creative internal communication practices, training, and evaluation procedures. Findings indicated that the limited use of mHealth technologies were a result of poor ergonomical design and a lack of employee consultation prior to integration. That being said, participants indicated that the accessibility of information and convenience of mHealth technologies ameliorated their work routines. Research shows that health informatics has the potential to improve healthcare service delivery, and consequently, future studies must look at the affect of these technologies on the fundamental elements of healthcare, including communication and information sharing patterns among healthcare providers.
An Iron Age pit at Holmebrink Farm, Methwold
Creators: name: Northover, Peter
name: Silvester, Robert J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2020

description: Norfolk Archaeology, 41 (2), 214-218
description: A small crucible used in metalworking, together with pottery, bone and fired clay fragments were recovered from a circular pit. Analysis of the crucible showed that it had been used to melt medium tin, unleaded bronze. The dating of the material from the pit, which seems to be an isolated feature, can be placed in the third or second century BC.
Improving use of evidence in health care : needs, hopes and the reality
Creators: name: Li, Linda C.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2007

description: Improving use of evidence in health care : needs, hopes and the reality. This is a workshop #6 presented by BC RSRnet (BC Rehabilitation Sciences Research Network) for British Columbia physiotherapists and occupational therapists on April 12, 2007 and recorded by Eugene Barsky, UBC Physiotherapy Outreach Librarian.
title: Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands
Creators: name: Sanetra, Dennis
name: Berger, Johanna
name: Hartlieb, Margarita
name: Simons, Nadja K.
name: Walther, Genevieve
name: Blüthgen, Nico
name: Staab, Michael
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2024

description: 1. Urban areas have profound impacts on local species diversity and composition through a set of intertwined changes in the environment. As the world is rapidly urbanising while simultaneously facing a biodiversity crisis, a better understanding of how urbanisation influences biodiversity is necessary.

2. To test if and how urbanisation influences moth diversity and whether urbanisation is acting directly or indirectly via urbanisation‐induced increased habitat isolation, smaller habitat area, higher light pollution and increased mowing intensity, we sampled moths with light trapping in 20 grasslands in the urban core of the city of Darmstadt (southwestern Germany) and 20 grasslands in the surrounding area.
 
3. Moth abundance and diversity decreased with increasing urbanisation. Smaller habitat area and high mowing intensity reduced moth abundance, while other environmental variables including isolation and light pollution had only indirect effects. High levels of urbanisation were associated with reduced moth abundance, which in turn drove declines in diversity. Urbanised sites favoured generalist species and differed in species composition compared to sites in the surrounding.
 
4. The results show that urbanisation is directly reducing moth abundance and diversity in cities. The negative effect of urbanisation is further attenuated by habitat fragmentation and high mowing intensity, which are both known drivers of biodiversity decline in urban areas and beyond.
 
5. While urbanisation itself is often irreversible, reducing mowing intensity and preserving larger grassland areas could facilitate moths and other taxa in and around cities.
The Media Discourses of Concussions in the National Hockey League
Creators: name: Cabot, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: media
hockey
concussion
Foucault

description: The North American ice hockey world has come to realise that concussions are a major problem and a threat to the sport and to the National Hockey League (NHL). The media coverage of the concussions suffered by several NHL stars and of the scientific advancements in the detection and long-term effects of concussions has intensified over the last 20 years. A discourse analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of concussions in the NHL in 1997-1999 and 2010-2012 focusing on the production of discursive objects and subjects reveals two important discourses. On the one hand, emerging objects of the discourses of blame and responsibility for the concussions in the NHL gained prominence in the later timeframe, especially blame on the NHL, the rulebook and hockey’s violent and risk-taking culture. On the other hand, a shift in reporting saw the emergence of a new subject position for the concussed hockey player, that of a frail and vulnerable subject. More NHL players are covered as ‘suffering’ subjects concerned with both physical pain and the mental health problems associated to concussions, rather than merely as athletes. Indeed, the impact of concussions on the personal lives of players is now an object of discourses that also produce the NHL player as a family member. Finally, former hockey players’ stories who have suffered serious concussions are recounted as a cautionary tale, opposing early retirement as a result of health issues to persistence in playing despite such health concerns.
Interaction and Networks in the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture
Creators: name: Menne, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neolithic
Ceramic
Pottery
Human Development in Landscapes
Megalith
Past Societies
Funnelbeaker
Network

description: The study presented here deals with the ceramic grave goods recovered from a selection of megalithic tombs associated with the Funnel Beaker culture (more precisely with the TRB West Group) in Northwestern Germany. The main focus of this particular study
 was on the sociocultural and economic links between the individual funerary communities as represented by stylistic changes in terms of the diversity of the deposited vessels.
 Based on its high density of megalithic tombs, the Emsland District, which is one of the regional groups within the TRB West Group, was chosen as the study area. The small groups throughout the region were examined for potential connections between the individual burial sites. As part of this study, it has been possible for the first time to obtain proof of the existence of a dense system of communication networks within the TRB West Group in this region.
5. Duisburg-Frankfurt-Workshop „Institutionen in der Entwicklung Ostasiens“
Creators: name: Pascha, Werner
name: Storz, Cornelia
name: Taube, Markus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 145 (2017): ASIEN (Oktober)
An adaptive bin framework search method for a beta-sheet protein homopolymer model
Creators: name: Shmygelska, Alena
name: Hoos, Holger H
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The problem of protein structure prediction consists of predicting the functional or native structure of a protein given its linear sequence of amino acids. This problem has played a prominent role in the fields of biomolecular physics and algorithm design for over 50 years. Additionally, its importance increases continually as a result of an exponential growth over time in the number of known protein sequences in contrast to a linear increase in the number of determined structures. Our work focuses on the problem of searching an exponentially large space of possible conformations as efficiently as possible, with the goal of finding a global optimum with respect to a given energy function. This problem plays an important role in the analysis of systems with complex search landscapes, and particularly in the context of ab initio protein structure prediction. Results In this work, we introduce a novel approach for solving this conformation search problem based on the use of a bin framework for adaptively storing and retrieving promising locally optimal solutions. Our approach provides a rich and general framework within which a broad range of adaptive or reactive search strategies can be realized. Here, we introduce adaptive mechanisms for choosing which conformations should be stored, based on the set of conformations already stored in memory, and for biasing choices when retrieving conformations from memory in order to overcome search stagnation. Conclusion We show that our bin framework combined with a widely used optimization method, Monte Carlo search, achieves significantly better performance than state-of-the-art generalized ensemble methods for a well-known protein-like homopolymer model on the face-centered cubic lattice.
Critica epistemológica a los sistemas cerrados de la Modernidad: Análisis del espacio virtual organizacional
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: El pensamiento analítico y reductor de la Modernidad ha brindado una representación unívoca y universa lista del mundo. La objetividad científica le cerró el paso a la diversidad y pluralidad de otros conocimien tos posibles. La crítica epistemológica a la racionalidad moderna se basa en una desfundamentación de los aprioris universales de tal pensamiento; ahora se trata de ver el mundo en una interacción donde la realidad resulta de una intersubjetividad que gesta el conocimiento en un origen múltiple que evita todo determinismo y que, por el contrario, favorece la incertidumbre y el caos como eje poiético de los saberes. El espacio organizacional e institucional de la sociedad no puede quedar excluido del pensar comple jo, lo que requiere una contextualidad en el nuevo orden cibernético de los intercambios virtuales.
Translation of the deed of appropriation of the church of St. Peter of Mundham to the hospital of St. Giles in Norwich, by Anthony (de Bec), under his episcopal seal, dated at Hoxne, 30 June, 1340.
Creators: name: Brightwell, Thomas
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2020

description: Norfolk Archaeology, 1 (1), 224-230
The jumps of Australian Myrmecia ants
Creators: name: Allman, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Insects are astonishing jumpers and have been the focus of much research since the mid-1900s. This attention stems from the fact that their jumps are executed with intricate choreographies and powered by a myriad of strategies. My thesis explores the jumps of insects across two chapters. In the first, I review the current literature surrounding jumping insects by exploring the mechanisms they use to power their jumps, the context in which they jump, and identifying some gaps in our knowledge. In the second, I investigate the jumps of eight species of Australian Myrmecia ants in which certain species are known to jump. I describe the jump choreography of Myrmecia ants from the gulosa, mandibularis, nigrocincta, and pilosula species groups using high-speed videography. The videos were subjected to frame-by-frame analyses from which I quantified several variables to describe species-specific take-off kinematics. I found that five of the eight Myrmecia species jumped, including two from the gulosa complex. All ants used the middle and hind legs when jumping. The smallest species had the quickest take-off times and velocities. I discuss the variation in kinematics found between closely related species and its significance in the context of morphology, phylogeny, and foraging time.
Characterizing Cellular Responses During Oncolytic Maraba Virus Infection
Creators: name: Hassanzadeh, Golnoush
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Maraba virus
Selective translation
Translation initiation factors
Bcl-xL

description: The rising demand for powerful oncolytic virotherapy agents has led to the identification of Maraba virus, one of the most potent oncolytic viruses from Rhabdoviridae family which displays high selectivity for killing malignant cells and low cytotoxicity in normal cells. Although the virus is readied to be used for clinical trials, the interactions between the virus and the host cells is still unclear. Using a newly developed interferon-sensitive mutant Maraba virus (MG1), we have identified two key regulators of global translation (4E-BP1 and eIF2α) responsible for the inhibition of protein synthesis in the infected cells. Despite the translational arrest upon viral stress, we showed an up-regulation of anti-apoptotic Bcl-xL protein that provides a survival benefit for the host cell, yet facilitates effective viral propagation. Given the fact that eIF5B canonically regulates 60S ribosome subunit end joining, and is able to replace the role of eIF2 in delivering initiator tRNA to the 40S ribosome subunit upon the phosphorylation of eIF2α, we have tested whether eIF5B mediates the translation of target mRNAs during MG1 infection. Our results show that the inhibition of eIF5B significantly down-regulates the level of Bcl-xL steady-state mRNA, thus indirectly attenuates viral propagation.
Machtwechsel im Zeichen der Krise.
Creators: name: Croissant, Aurel
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: The 15th presidential election of the Republic of Korea on February 25, 1998, produced a political outcome which seemed a few years ago nearly unthinkable. The victory of an opposition party over the ruling party and the turn over of presidency is one of the most important steps in the democratic development of Korea after forty years of authoritarian rule since its independence in 1948. This paper tries to examine the potential impact of the election resp. the take-over of government by the opposition on further consolidation of South Korean democracy. By this it shows that the alternation of power is a further step on the road of consolidation. But it is not the final solution for the problems of South Korean democracy.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 68 (1998): ASIEN (Juli)
Politische Entwicklung und Probleme der demokratischen Konsolidierung in Pakistan
Creators: name: Wagner, Christian
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Ten years after the second transition to democracy in 1988 Pakistan is still confronted with various problems on her way to democratic consolidation. Because of the constitutional legacies of the military dictatorship and the inherent rivalry between President and Prime Minister none of the elected governments could stay in power to complete its legislative period. The problems of consolidation are not limited to the institutional framework. The military and the feudal interests are still important veto powers, political parties are mainly fragmented among ethnic, religious and personal lines, and civil society, groups are mostly concentrated in the urban centers. The constitutional amendments introduced by the new government of Nawaz Sharif in 1997 removed at least the constitutional deadlock. The recent institutional clashes between the Prime Minister, the Supreme Court and the President which were solved by the mediation of the Army have strengthened the position of the Prime Minister. Given the political traditions since independence it is not unlikely that these developments will foster again autocratic tendencies.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 68 (1998): ASIEN (Juli)