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Impact of Bed Form Celerity on Oxygen Dynamics in the Hyporheic Zone
Creators: name: Wolke, Philipp
name: Teitelbaum, Yoni
name: Deng, Chao
name: Lewandowski, Jörg
name: Arnon, Shai
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: hyporheic exchange
subject: bed form migration
subject: moving streambed
subject: ripples
subject: planar optodes
subject: 690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk

description: Oxygen distribution and uptake in the hyporheic zone regulate various redox-sensitive reactions and influence habitat conditions. Despite the fact that fine-grain sediments in streams and rivers are commonly in motion, most studies on biogeochemistry have focused on stagnant sediments. In order to evaluate the effect of bed form celerity on oxygen dynamics and uptake in sandy beds, we conducted experiments in a recirculating indoor flume. Oxygen distribution in the bed was measured under various celerities using 2D planar optodes. Bed morphodynamics were measured by a surface elevation sensor and time-lapse photography. Oxygenated zones in stationary beds had a conchoidal shape due to influx through the stoss side of the bed form, and upwelling anoxic water at the lee side. Increasing bed celerity resulted in the gradual disappearance of the upwelling anoxic zone and flattening of the interface between the oxic (moving fraction of the bed) and the anoxic zone (stationary fraction of the bed), as well as in a reduction of the volumetric oxygen uptake rates due shortened residence times in the hyporheic zone. These results suggest that including processes related to bed form migration are important for understanding the biogeochemistry of hyporheic zones.
The Great War and British fiction by women, 1917-1925.
Creators: name: Briggs, Marlene Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: This study of British women writers of the Great War highlights the connections between literature and social history in the first quarter of the twentieth century. An examination of The Tree of Heaven (1917), The Return of the Soldier (1918), The Crowded Street (1924), and Mrs. Dalloway (1925) will reveal the manner in which male and female gender roles were subject to acute interrogation in wartime and post-war British society. Chapter 1 surveys literary and cultural scholarship on the Great War in order to emphasize the failure of gender-specific narratives of social change to address the complex dynamics of gender conflict which characterized the period. Chapter 2 investigates the non-combatant communities of women created through the gender-segregation of the War, revealing that the constructions of feminism in The Tree of Heaven and The Crowded Street are contextualized within their appropriation of military models for female collectivity and interaction. Chapter 3 focuses on the relationships between non-combatant women and shell-shocked veterans in The Return of the Soldier and Mrs. Dalloway, illustrating that the male and female subjects of these texts are constructed in terms of their mutual subjection to the discursive institutions of the State in wartime and post-war society. All four texts provide both Modernism and feminism with a compelling, if contradictory, dimension which needs to be recovered.
Using a Microfluidics System to Reproducibly Synthesize Protein Nanoparticles: Factors Contributing to Size, Homogeneity, and Stability
Creators: name: Van Ballegooie, Courtney
name: Man, Alice
name: Andreu, Irene
name: Gates, Byron D.
name: Yapp, Donald
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The synthesis of Zein nanoparticles (NPs) using conventional methods, such as emulsion solvent diffusion and emulsion solvent evaporation, is often unreliable in replicating particle size and polydispersity between batch-to-batch syntheses. We have systematically examined the parameters for reproducibly synthesizing Zein NPs using a Y-junction microfluidics chip with staggered herringbone micromixers. Our results indicate that the total flow rate of the fluidics system, relative flow rate of the aqueous and organic phase, concentration of the base material and solvent, and properties of the solvent influence the polydispersity and size of the NPs. Trends such as increasing the total flow rate and relative flow rate lead to a decrease in Zein NP size, while increasing the ethanol and Zein concentration lead to an increase in Zein NP size. The solvent property that was found to impact the size of the Zein NPs formed the most was their hydropathy. Solvents that had a hydropathy index most similar to that of Zein formed the smallest Zein NPs. Synthesis consistency was confirmed within and between sample batches. Stabilizing agents, such as sodium caseinate, Tween 80, and Pluronic F-68, were incorporated using the microfluidics system, necessary for in vitro and in vivo use, into Zein-based NPs.
Joining pultruded FRP tubular components into space latticed shell structure - joint design and performance
Creators: name: Luo, F. J.
name: Bai, Y.
name: Lu, Y.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The development of space latticed shell structure using fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) tubular members is a promising practice wherein the key issue is to join different components together. In this study, a bolted sleeve joint in a staggered pattern was designed for joining square tubular pultruded FRP members into the proposed system inspired by Unistrut®. The current study focuses on the joint performance under tensile loading and a total of four groups of specimen were prepared. Key parameters including bolt type (normal bolt or blind bolt), element dimensions (e.g. tube and bolt dimensions) and bolt group layouts were chosen and studied. During experiments, the failure modes, load-displacement and load-strain relationships were recorded to assess the joint performance. The test results demonstrate that a desirable ultimate load carrying capacity can be achieved by optimising element dimensions and bolt group layout when using normal bolt. Besides, when blind bolts are used, the compromise between easier fixing and joint performance must be considered.
Leonardo Buonomo ed Elisabetta Vezzosi (a cura di), Discourses of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom
Creators: name: Bosco, Stefano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Leonardo Buonomo ed Elisabetta Vezzosi (a cura di), Discourses of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
Retinoic acid-independent regulation of RAR(beta)2 gene expression during cardiac development.
Creators: name: Crippen, Craig Alexander.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: RAR$\beta$ has been shown to be expressed in the developing heart at the 8 somite stage. Differentiation of EC cells with DMSO produces a mixture of embryonic cardiac, skeletal, endodermal and other mesodermal derivatives. The RAR$\beta$-2 isoform is predominantly expressed in the differentiated cardiac muscle cells. RT-PCR with isoform specific primers has been used to identify RAR$\beta$-2 as the predominant isoform. These results show, that like RA-treated EC cells, expression of the RAR$\beta$-2 isoform in DMSO differentiated P19 cells predominates. Stable transformants of the RARE$\beta$-2-CAT reporter gene construct were pooled and differentiated with either RA or DMSO. The results obtained demonstrate that RA induced CAT activities increased to a maximum of 188 fold by day 3. The increase in RAR$\beta$-2 mRNA levels was not due to another enhancer element as evidenced by nuclear run-on analysis. RAR$\beta$2 mRNA levels seem to be regulated by a post-transcriptional mechanism. The stability of the DMSO induced RAR$\beta$2 message was determined using the transcriptional inhibitor actimomycin-D on day 4 and 7 of differentiation. The half life of the message was found to be approximately equal on both days. We postulate that stabilization of the message occurs at an earlier time point, and that accumulation of the message occurs up until Day 7 of differentiation. Simultaneous administration of RA and DMSO to aggregating P19 cells blocked the up-regulation of Brachyury expression in these cells. No beating cardiac muscle was formed, however neuroectoderm was found to be the predominant cell type, indicating that the DMSO differentiating effect was usurped by the presence of RA. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Annarita Taronna e Paola Zaccaria (a cura di), L'archivio di genere. Mettere in rete saperi, generazioni e comunità translocali
Creators: name: Carbonara, Lorena
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Annarita Taronna e Paola Zaccaria (a cura di), L'archivio di genere. Mettere in rete saperi, generazioni e comunità translocali
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
Mental strategies of football quarterbacks for training and competition.
Creators: name: Anderson, Duncan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: Orlick (1992) proposed a "Model of Human Excellence," which was comprised of seven mental skills, including commitment, belief, full focus, positive imagery, mental readiness, distraction control, and constructive evaluation. Twelve individuals who had played the quarterback position at a high caliber of competition participated in a standardized interview to determine if this model accounted for their mental strategies for training and competition. The sample was divided into university (n = 9) and professional (n = 3) sub-groups. Structural, qualitative analyses were conducted on each transcript. Individual differences with respect to the use of mental skills appeared to be related to the level of play, with the best players in both sub-groups having the most comprehensive mental approaches and practices. The most marginal mental skills for the university quarterbacks were positive imagery and constructive evaluation.
The origins of magnetic anomaly lows associated with three impact structures.
Creators: name: Scott, Ronald Glenn.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Geophysics.

description: Drill cores from three Canadian impact structures were analysed for rock magnetic properties and mineralogy, in order to explain the reduced magnetizations associated with these structures. Samples from the drill cores were cut and measured for AMS and NRM parameters. Drill cores from the twin impact craters of the Clearwater structure exhibited different natural remanent magnetization (NRM) characteristics and samples from their respective drill cores were subject to demagnetization by alternating field and thermal techniques. The difference noted in their NRM characteristics was attributed to the acquisition of a viscous remanent magnetization (VRM) at depth in Clearwater East. Both magnetic susceptibilities and remanent magnetizations are well below regional values in impact generated breccias, melt rocks, shocked crystalline rocks, and in post-impact sedimentary infill. The processes of brecciation, alteration, shock, and infill by non-magnetic sediments contribute to the development of the magnetic lows. However, a significant component of the magnetic anomalies was found by forward modeling to derive from the unshocked basement rocks beneath the impact structures. This zone of reduced magnetization may be caused by the partial demagnetization of magnetite by the impact-induced transient stress wave travelling away from the point of impact, and the possible acquisition of a lower intensity shock remanent magnetization in the target rocks at depth. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Damage- and pathogen-associated molecular patterns and alarmins: keys to sepsis?
Creators: name: Denk, S.
name: Perl, Mario
name: Hubert-Lang, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Damage-associated molecular patterns
subject: Pathogen-associated molecular patterns
subject: Complement
subject: Alarmins
subject: Complement system proteins
subject: Sepsis
subject: Komplement

description: The concept that sepsis is the result of an uncontrolled inflammatory response of the host’s innate immune system towards invading pathogens has recently been challenged. Evidence is accumulating that, in addition, host-derived alarm molecules are released during sepsis- and trauma-associated cell death, thus triggering the host’s immune response. The identification and characterization of exogenous as well as endogenous danger molecules allowed significant advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology of sepsis and may provide potential targets for therapeutic interventions. © In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Les migrations internationales: Un défi pour la souveraineté étatique dans le contexte de l'internationalisation des droits de la personne
Creators: name: Mioc, Consuela
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: L'internationalisation des droits de la personne fait en sorte que les migrations internationales deviennent un défi important pour l'État et pour les concepts qui lui sont étroitement liés. Ce défi peut être illustré d'une manière plus claire dans le cas des demandeurs d'asile, car ce sont eux par définition les victimes de la violation de ces droits. Mais comment se manifeste ce défi plus précisement et surtout quelles sont ses conséquences au niveau de la théorie? Comment influence-t-il les conceptualisations qui se trouvent à la base des théories classiques des relations internationales? En répondant à ces questions, l'argument principal de cette thèse c'est qu'à partir des années 80, les droits accordés aux demandeurs d'asile, en vertu des droits universels de la personne, changent les pratiques étatiques, ce qui conduit à une transformation du principe de souveraineté étatique, vers la désétatisation et la déterritorialisation de ce principe.
Besoins et dysphorie des membres des familles durant les 72 premières heures suivant un traumatisme crânien sévère
Creators: name: St-Denis, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: Cette étude a été réalisée dans le but d'explorer la relation entre les besoins et le niveau de dysphonie des membres de la famille durant les 72 premières heures suivant l'arrivée à la salle d'urgence d'une victime de traumatisme crânien (TC). L'étude s'est déroulée auprès d'un l'échantillon de convenance de 23 sujets, entre les mois d'octobre 2001 et de mars 2002. Le Depressive Adjective Check List version G (DACL-G) de Lubin (1981) et l'Inventaire des besoins des familles (IBF) de Chartier et Coutu-Wakulczyk (1991 a) ont été utilisés. Les résultats de FIBF montrent des scores identiques ou relativement similaires aux scores normatifs. Au plan de la dysphorie les résultats obtenus différent significativement du groupe normatif (p < 0.01). La distance parcourue explique 49% de la variation des dimensions I et II (p < 0.01) et 38% de la variation du Score global des besoins et de l'Indice d'intensité des Besoins (p < 0.01) de l'IBF.
Soziale Innovationen im Aufwind
Creators: name: Rückert-John, Jana
name: Jaeger-Erben, Melanie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soziale Innovation
subject: Nachhaltiger Konsum
subject: Carsharing
subject: Urbanes Gärtnern
subject: Bürgerenergieanlage
subject: Urban Gardening
subject: Bürgerenergiegenossenschaft
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Ob Bürgerenergie-Genossenschaften oder das gemeinsame Nutzen von Autos oder Werkzeugen – soziale Innovationen gestalten unsere Konsumwelt nachhaltiger. Welche Typen sozialer Innovationen es gibt und wie man ihre Potenziale systematisch fördern kann, zeigt dieser Leitfaden des ⁠UBA⁠. Die Broschüre richtet sich unter anderem an Politik, Verwaltung, Stiftungen, Umwelt- und Verbraucherorganisationen sowie Bildungseinrichtungen. Auch interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern bietet sie Anregungen, welche Ideen es bereits gibt. Wissenschaftlich unterscheiden lassen sich zum Beispiel die Innovationstypen „Konsumgemeinschaften“, wie Tauschbörsen oder Leihläden, und „Do-it-yourself“, wie Nähcafés oder private Reparatur-Werkstätten. Möglichkeiten, sie zu fördern, sind zum Beispiel, Plattformen für den Austausch zu bieten, Ideenwettbewerbe auszuloben und Projekte finanziell zu unterstützen.
Colonne sonore di vagabondaggi
Creators: name: Tatum, Stephen
name: Corti, Erminio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: La colonna sonora che aveva accompagnato i miei due viaggi nel Deserto Rosso dello Utah meridionale e sugli altipiani del Panhandle1 texano durante l’estate del 2007 prese forma attraverso ripetuti ascolti degli album Garden of Ruin (2006) e Feast of Wire (2003) dei Calexico e di Thirteen Cities dei Richmond Fontaine, pubblicato nel luglio di quello stesso anno e registrato a Tucson con la partecipazione di numerosi musicisti legati al progetto Calexico. Come nei due album che hanno preceduto e seguito Thirteen Cities, alcuni paesaggi sonori dei brani di questo disco rivelano l’influenza di gruppi cowpunk losangelini attivi alla metà degli anni Ottanta, come i Green on Red e i Long Ryders. Invece altri brani – soprattutto “Lost in This World” e “The Kid from Belmont Street” – evocano la produzione discografica degli anni Settanta dell’ex Byrds Gene Clark, o il brano “Lost Weekend” dei Wall of Voodoo, seconda traccia di The Call of the West, pubblicato nel 1982. Ad ogni modo, mentre entravo in sintonia con la musica dei Richmond Fontaine grazie all’album Thirteen Cities, il brano “The Kid from Belmont Street” mi rivelò il DNA di quello che considero l’universo lirico e sonoro della band guidata da Willy Vlautin. In questa canzone, ad esempio, l’io lirico osserva un ragazzino “confuso” in procinto di salire in macchina con uno sconosciuto, un ragazzino che non ha ancora l’esperienza sufficiente per sapere “che cosa significa non fidarsi di nessuno” – ovvero, secondo il giudizio del narratore, il quale afferma di “esserci passato anche lui”, a suo tempo, che non ha ancora imparato a proprie spese che ci sono cose che “ti ossessioneranno e ti distruggeranno”. È come se nel momento in cui osserva ciò che sta accadendo in quella strada del West l’io lirico sperimenti – attraverso l’intermediazione di un giovane isolato e senza fissa dimora che rappresenta il suo “doppio” – l’inquietante ritorno nella sua coscienza di un evento traumatico represso.
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
Navigating Unsettled Waters: Old West Meets New West in Women's Colorado River Boating Narratives
Creators: name: Formisano, Paul
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In the foreword to Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico (1914), Owen Wister, the famed Western writer, describes Ellsworth and Emory Kolb’s historic voyage down the Colorado River in language ripe with Western overtones. He writes: Every youth who has in him a spark of adventure will kindle with desire to battle his way also from Green River to the foot of Bright Angel Trail; while every man whose bones have been stiffened and his breath made short by the years, will remember wistfully such wild tastes of risk and conquest that he, too, rejoiced in when he was young (…) This place exerts a magnetic spell (…) Bend after bend this trance of beauty and awe goes on, terrible as the Day of Judgment, sublime as the Psalms of David.” (ix, xi) For Wister, this journey recalls the longings of bygone days, the freedom to explore, and the heroic struggle between man and nature evident in the Kolb’s voyage through this dramatic landscape. It also entrenches the river running narrative as a sub-genre of the Western, making subsequent Colorado River Westerns heavily steeped in mythic landscapes, nostalgia, and perilous adventure for the male subject.
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
Kashir goat, an unexplored goat genetic resource of Jammu and Kashmir
Creators: name: 1Mubashir Ali Rather, 2Safeer Alam, 3Syed Shanaz, 4Olympica Sarma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Goat is an important species in the small ruminants and second largest species in livestock category which contributes in milk production after cattle and buffaloes (Waiz et al., 2018). Goats are ideal livestock for small-scale farmers due to their ease of management and adaptability to diverse agro-climatic conditions. Their small size enables maintenance in limited areas, making them suitable for marginal farmers and landless laborers (Wani et al., 2023). Goats significantly contribute to the agrarian economy and ensure livelihood security for small-scale farmers. They efficiently utilize a wide range of vegetation, including grasses, weeds, herbs, bushes, shrubs, tree leaves and crop residues and convert them into valuable resources viz; milk, meat, skin, manure and fiber.
Differences between problematic internet and smartphone use and their psychological risk factors in boys and girls: a network analysis
Creators: name: Rozgonjuk, Dimitri
name: Blinka, Lukas
name: Löchner, Nana
name: Faltýnková, Anna
name: Husarova, Daniela
name: Montag, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Problematic smartphone use
subject: Psychology risk factors
subject: HBSC study
subject: Health behavior in school-aged children study
subject: World Health Organization
subject: Network analysis
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Internet addicts; School children
subject: Internet addiction
subject: Health behavior in children; Studies
subject: Health behavior in adolescence; Studies
subject: Internet use; Trends
subject: Internet addiction disorder; Psychology
subject: Risk factors
subject: Online-Sucht
subject: Gesundheitsverhalten
subject: Risikofaktor

description: Background Problematic internet and smartphone use are significant health challenges for contemporary adolescents. However, their mutual relationship is unclear because studies investigating these phenomena are scarce. The present study aimed to investigate the psychological risks and protective factors associated with problematic internet and smartphone use. Method A representative sample of Slovak adolescents (N = 4070, Mage = 14.38, SDage = 0.77, 50.5% girls) from the Health Behavior in School-aged Children project was analyzed using network analysis separately for boys and girls. Results The results showed weak (for boys) and moderate (for girls) associations between problematic internet use and problematic smartphone use. Risk factors showed stronger associations with problematic internet use than problematic smartphone use, with the exception of fear of missing out, which was strongly associated with problematic smartphone use. The central nodes were externalizing problems for boys and internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and resilience for girls. Conclusion The study concluded that while problematic internet use and problematic smartphone use are somewhat related, they differ at the psychological level. In addition, the phenomena are rather different between boys and girls.
"The Only Cure I Know Is a Good Ceremony": Post-traumatic Reconstruction of Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Creators: name: De Angelis, Valerio Massimo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The article deals with the representation of post-traumatic stress disorder in Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony (1977), and with the complex psychological and cultural procedures of identity reconstruction its protagonist, half-blood Tayo, must follow in order to find some sort of inner balancing. Tayo’s traumatic experience of war seems to schizophrenically split his identity, turning his “real” self into a Lacanian absence (the symptom of the “Real”), a void that denounces the source of the trauma (not the war in itself, which is mainly a metaphorical projection of Tayo’s inner conflict, but his being neither Indian nor white) by erasing it from Tayo’s consciousness and substituting it with a mythical plot that constructs him as a scapegoat-like figure responsible for the drought afflicting the Reservation. Both the novel and its main character at the end manage to reach some sort of coherence by accepting the unrepresentable Real and turning it upside down: they both finally reject the dream of a homogenous identity, and the trauma, no more something to be simply “cured,” is transformed into a source of self-definition, thanks to the equally polymorphic, hybrid, “broken” ceremonies Tayo is subject to in the novel.
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
Angular momentum of z ∼ 1.5 galaxies and their local analogues with adaptive optics
Creators: name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Fisher, Deanne
name: Savorgnan, Giulia
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Obreschkow, Danail
name: Gillman, Steven
name: Tiley, Alfred L.
name: Lagos, Claudia D.P.
name: Wang, Liang
name: Mark Swinbank, A.
name: Bower, Richard
name: Sharples, Ray M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present stellar specific angular momentum j∗ measurements of two z ∼ 1.5 galaxies in the KGES sample and 12 DYNAMO z ∼ 0.1 analogues of high-redshift galaxies. We combine natural seeing integral field spectroscopic data to trace line emission out to high multiples of effective radius re, with adaptive optics assisted Keck/OSIRIS observations to trace the rapid rise in rotation curve in the inner regions. Our spaxel-wise integration method gives results that are on average within measurement uncertainty of the traditional rotation curve model method. At z ∼ 0, combining GMOS and OSIRIS data sets improves the measurement uncertainty in j∗ from 13 per cent (GMOS only) or 16 per cent (OSIRIS only) to 10 per cent. At z ∼ 1.5, systematics allow for at best 20 per cent uncertainty on j∗. DYNAMO analogues of high-z galaxies have low j∗ for their stellar mass M∗, and low bulge-to-total light ratio β for their j∗/M∗. The high-z galaxy COSMOS 127977 has j∗/M∗ consistent with normal local disc galaxies, while UDS 78317 is consistent with local analogues. However, our high-resolution OSIRIS data reveal that UDS 78317 may be a merging system. We report a relationship between distance to the β−j∗/M∗ plane and the ratio of velocity dispersion to rotational velocity σ/vmax, where galaxies that deviate more from the plane are more dispersion-dominated due to turbulence. Much of the scatter in M∗−j∗ that is not explained by variations in the bulge-to-total ratio or evolution with redshift may be driven by increased turbulence due to star formation, or by treating mergers as rotating discs.
You have to find yourself a place: Religion and the French-Canadian songs of departure for the United States
Creators: name: LeBeau, Timothy J
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.
subject: Folklore.

description: This project undertakes the study of a collection of French-Canadian folk songs arising from the experience of the emigration of French-Canadians to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The primary methodological tools employed in this study stem generally from the field of the history of religions, and specifically from the work of Charles H. Long. Religion here is understood as a mode of orientation that locates an individual or group meaningfully in the world in relation to ultimate reality. Religion can arise from situations of cultural contact and, therefore, is fundamentally important to issues of community and identity. As such, these songs articulate a mode of negotiating modernity that recognizes the homogenizing and silencing character of its discourse while simultaneously suggesting an understanding of human communities based on the recognition of the exchange of matter that served as the locus of the identity of Franco-Americans.
Lost in Astoria: History, Self, and Italian American Identity in Robert Viscusi's Astoria
Creators: name: Grilli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In his novel Astoria (1995), Robert Viscusi describes the tortuous path his alter-ego protagonist followed in his quest for the self during his permanence in Paris. While visiting Napoleon’s Tomb, the narrator falls into a state of sudden disorientation, which Viscusi links to the Stendhal Syndrome. By way of this shocking event, the common touristic experience deepens into a journey within the narrator’s self, a journey metaphorically defined as a “nerve-ending”. An infinite network of interconnected images, memories, fears and feelings coming from his Italian American heritage radiates like nerves from the seemingly-shattered self of the author. In this paper, I propose an analysis of the author/protagonist’s attempt to determine the origin of the blank space he had found in his own Italian American identity. In the novel the personal pronouns I and we, past and present, history and ahistory are relentlessly overlapping, developing the shattering struggle fought within the Italian American “I” of the author, the conflict between the mythical Astoria e the historical Storia.
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
The reciprocal influence of parent-subsidiary relationships and enterprise systems implementation: an exploratory study using power differential perspective
Creators: name: Budiyanto, Cucuk Wawan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The implementation of the Enterprise Systems in a subsidiary company of corporate group should be treated with caution. While the organisational changes and control could be introduced through the implementation of Enterprise Systems, the subtlety of power and the power differential in the relationships between holding and subsidiary companies may derail the objectives of the implementation. Despite the Enterprise Systems may be supportive to the exercise of authority of the holding company, the failure of the holding company to deliver guidelines as well as resources could be detrimental to the implementation of the Enterprise Systems as well as the entire corporate group.
"The Great Near." Mondi possibili in The Princess Steel di W.E.B. DuBois
Creators: name: Elia, Adriano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: W.E.B. Du Bois’s short storyThe Princess Steel(c. 1908) is a significant example of proto-Afrofuturist speculative fiction functioning as a powerful allegory on the origins of modern capitalistic industry. An original hybrid narrative form,The Princess Steelcombines to great effect disparate genres such as literary realism, romance and science fiction. Using a series of intertwining plots, Du Bois developed a clear-cut political statement that on the one hand, through irony, denounces the stigmatization of black people, and on the other, through the parable of the Princess Steel, prophetically directs acute criticism towards the degeneration of colonial exploitation and industrial capitalism.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
La restructuration de l'État-providence : le cas des services de garde en Ontario.
Creators: name: Frenette, Nicole.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: C'est au débat théorique et politique sur la restructuration de l'État-providence que nous nous attardons dans cette thèse. Nous formulons l'hypothèse selon laquelle la notion de crise est inappropriée pour décrire ce qui se déroule actuellement dans les sociétés industrialisées. Selon nous, malgré l'intensification de la conception résiduelle des politiques sociales, l'État-providence intervient toujours dans la société. D'entrée de jeu, nous examinerons le débat sur l'avenir de l'État-providence qui se fait surtout entre les analystes qui se situent dans l'approche attestant une «crise» de l'État-providence et les auteurs qui soulignent plutôt la continuité de l'État-providence, malgré sa recomposition. Pour démontrer que les politiques sociales ne sont pas appelées à être éliminées comme le suggère l'idée d'une crise, nous étudierons l'évolution des services de garde en Ontario. De fait, nous démontrerons que les services de garde ont toujours véhiculé des valeurs résiduelles et non universalistes bien qu'elles soient d'autant plus marquées aujourd'hui. Le troisième chapitre aura pour objet l'analyse du discours gouvernemental, et ce, en examinant trois rapports, soit La garde d'enfants: Orientations nouvelles de 1987, la Réforme des services de garde d'enfants en Ontario--préparer l'avenir de 1992 et Amélioration des services de garde d'enfants en Ontario de 1996. Nous proposons que le discours du gouvernement de l'Ontario ne fait pas une rupture complète avec le discours providentialiste mais reprend et modifie ses grandes thématiques.
Memory, Truth, and Différance in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending
Creators: name: Rossi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Julian Barnes’ successful novel The Sense of an Ending has been generating diverse interpretations, as it is told by a completely unreliable narrator. As it is said in the first part of this article, though, the tendency of the critics so far has been that of trusting the narrator himself in the last confession he makes at the end of his recounting. On the contrary, in the second part of the present essay the author tries to give meaning to the reported story, not through what the narrator says, but through a few proofs scattered all over the novel which demonstrate that even the finale is in essence a lie or, at least, only a partial truth. This is probably because the narrator is being untruthful to himself as well, in order not to feel guilty for a misdeed he committed during his youth. In the last two parts, through references to several French thinkers, the author of the article demonstrates that the bone of contention, that is, what in the end the reader finds out to be the narrator's son, is a form of (in Derrida's terminology) différance, in other words an incomplete identity created by means of the narrator's identification.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Beneficial molecular adaptations in BRCA-mutation carriers by combined HIT/HIRT intervention: results from a pilot study
Creators: name: Bizjak, Daniel A.
name: Schulz, Sebastian V. W.
name: Schumann, Uwe
name: Otto, Stephanie
name: Kirsten, Johannes
name: Ebner, Florian
name: Leinert, Elena
name: Huober, Jens
name: Janni, Wolfgang
name: Steinacker, Jürgen Michael
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: combination HIT/HIRT program
subject: molecular adaptations
subject: BRCA protein/gene expression
subject: anti-oxidative stress/inflammatory response
subject: BRCA1
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Breast neoplasms; Genetics
subject: Genes, BRCA1
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Genetic predisposition to disease
subject: Oxidative stress
subject: Brustkrebs
subject: Biomarker
subject: Gen BRCA 1
subject: Oxidativer Stress

description: Based on growing evidence that breast cancer (BRCA) also plays a pivotal role in the regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism and the response to anti-oxidative stress, we examined the influence of regular exercise in human BRCA mutation carriers on their BRCA1 gene/protein expression and inflammatory/oxidative response. Sixteen BRCA-mutation carriers were assigned to an intervention (IG) or control group (CG). IG received a combination of high-intensity interval endurance (HIT) and strength training (HIRT) for six weeks, whereas CG received a low-intensity activity program. Before (T0) and at the end of the intervention (T1), muscle biopsy, physiological performance, blood withdrawal and anthropometry were obtained. Parameters included: Muscle BRCA1 gene/protein expression, inflammatory/oxidative stress, anti-oxidative capacity, peak oxygen capacity (VO2peak) and 1-repetition maximum (1-RM) at six different training machines. VO2peak and 1-RM of IG were increased at T1 compared to T0, whereas CG performance, physiological and molecular parameters remained unchanged. IG showed increased BRCA1 protein concentration as well as anti-oxidative capacity, whereas gene expression was unaltered. IG inflammatory and oxidative damage did not differ between time points. Combined HIT/HIRT increases aerobic and strength performance of BRCA-mutation carriers with up regulated BRCA1 protein expression and improved anti-oxidative status without showing an increased inflammatory response.
Disability management: Developing the ideal disability management model. The Diamond Health Management model.
Creators: name: Ku, Shawn.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.

description: Disability management is a relatively new field that has received some attention recently. Although organizations have traditionally avoided the management of disability and its associated costs, they cannot continue to do so. This paper demonstrated the high costs associated with workplace injuries. A literature search led to a plethora of models for managing disability. The purpose of this paper was to prove the need for disability management, but more importantly to develop an ideal disability management model: the Diamond Health Management (DHM) model. The model developed in this paper was the result of analyzing several models in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. Key elements were applied to the DHM Model. The DHM Model has gone beyond other models in its completeness and simplicity. As well, the DHM Model has a focus on the new challenges facing disability management: psychological disorders, substance abuse, and repetitive strain injuries. Evidence was presented to support the elements present in the DHM Model. Finally, suggestions for future research and implications for the field were discussed.
Seeding propensity and characteristics of pathogenic αSyn assemblies in formalin-fixed human tissue from the enteric nervous system, olfactory bulb, and brainstem in cases staged for Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Fenyi, Alexis
name: Duyckaerts, Charles
name: Bousset, Luc
name: Braak, Heiko
name: Tredici, Kelly Del
name: Melki, Ronald
name: On Behalf Of The Brainbank Neuro-CEB Neuropathology Network,
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: alpha-synuclein
subject: enteric nervous system
subject: incidental Lewy body disease
subject: Parkinson’s disease
subject: protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA)
subject: prion-like
subject: synucleinopathy
subject: synuclein strains
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Synucleinopathies
subject: Lewy body disease
subject: Parkinson disease
subject: alpha-Synuclein
subject: Prions
subject: Synuclein
subject: Parkinson-Krankheit
subject: Lewy-Körperchen-Demenz
subject: Prion
subject: Darmwandnervensystem

description: We investigated α-synuclein’s (αSyn) seeding activity in tissue from the brain and enteric nervous system. Specifically, we assessed the seeding propensity of pathogenic αSyn in formalin-fixed tissue from the gastric cardia and five brain regions of 29 individuals (12 Parkinson’s disease, 8 incidental Lewy body disease, 9 controls) using a protein misfolding cyclic amplification assay. The structural characteristics of the resultant αSyn assemblies were determined by limited proteolysis and transmission electron microscopy. We show that fixed tissue from Parkinson’s disease (PD) and incidental Lewy body disease (ILBD) seeds the aggregation of monomeric αSyn into fibrillar assemblies. Significant variations in the characteristics of fibrillar assemblies derived from different regions even within the same individual were observed. This finding suggests that fixation stabilizes seeds with an otherwise limited seeding propensity, that yield assemblies with different intrinsic structures (i.e., strains). The lag phase preceding fibril assembly for patients ≥80 was significantly shorter than in other age groups, suggesting the existence of increased numbers of seeds or a higher seeding potential of pathogenic αSyn with time. Seeding activity did not diminish in late-stage disease. No statistically significant difference in the seeding efficiency of specific regions was found, nor was there a relationship between seeding efficiency and the load of pathogenic αSyn in a particular region at a given neuropathological stage.
The Gendering of Space: Female Strollers on the Market in 19th and 20th-century New York
Creators: name: Festa, Beatrice Melodia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: The aim of this essay is to provide further insight into the concept of urban walking or, using its literary definition, flânerie in America at the dawn of the 20th century. This study aims to discuss the role of the female flâneuse walking New York in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In order to broaden understanding of the complex role of women as strollers on the market, faithfully representing America’s social changes at the birth of women’s emancipation, this study compares Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893). Offering a reconsideration of the role of the female flâneur in America, these novels, analyze the representation of women as strollers on the market in two similar and yet different social contexts. In light of this, the female flâneuse at the turn of the century walks both as a social signifier and as a symbol of a collective psychology, representing America’s social changes. These two literary examples will help us understand this figure, providing us with the tools necessary to trace America’s cultural history and the history of New York City as filtered through the eyes of the flâneur. The ultimate aim of this essay is to offer a reconsideration of the image of the female flâneuse in America.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Assessment of the impacts of ozone on biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems
Creators: name: Bergmann, Elke
name: Bender, Jürgen
name: Weigel, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biologische Vielfalt
subject: Terrestrisches Ökosystem
subject: Ozon
subject: Risikoanalyse
subject: Vegetation
subject: Ökosystemfunktion
subject: Ökosystemdienstleistung
subject: biodiversity
subject: terrestrial ecosystem
subject: ozone
subject: ozone effects
subject: Critical Levels
subject: risk assessment
subject: chemicla transport models
subject: ecosystem function
subject: ecosystem service
subject: Luft
subject: Air

description: Tropospheric ozone is considered as the most significant phytotoxic pollutant in the atmosphere. While it has been shown that ozone concentrations have significant adverse effects on crop yields, forest growth and species composition, the impacts of ozone on biodiversity are uncertain. The project aims to assess the impacts of O3 on vegetation and biodiversity in Germany. For this purpose, the present study provides (i) a synthesis of current knowledge on the effects of O3 on biodiversity and ecosystem services through a comprehensive literature study and (ii) an analysis of methods and uncertainties in concentration-based and flux-based approaches in O3 risk assessments (critical levels), including validation studies for different vegetation types. Modelling and mapping approaches are used to evaluate the O3 risk for vegetation in Germany at both local and regional scale.
The SAMI galaxy survey: Bayesian inference for gas disc kinematics using a hierarchical Gaussian mixture model
Creators: name: Varidel, Mathew R.
name: Croom, Scott M.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Brewer, Brendon J.
name: Di Teodoro, Enrico M.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Bryant, Julia J.
name: Federrath, Christoph
name: Foster, Caroline
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Goodwin, Michael
name: Groves, Brent
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Lawrence, Jon S.
name: López-Sánchez, Ángel R.
name: Medling, Anne M.
name: Owers, Matt S.
name: Richards, Samuel N.
name: Scalzo, Richard
name: Scott, Nicholas
name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Taranu, Dan S.
name: Van De Sande, Jesse
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a novel Bayesian method, referred to as BLOBBY3D, to infer gas kinematics that mitigates the effects of beam smearing for observations using integral field spectroscopy. The method is robust for regularly rotating galaxies despite substructure in the gas distribution. Modelling the gas substructure within the disc is achieved by using a hierarchical Gaussian mixture model. To account for beam smearing effects, we construct a modelled cube that is then convolved per wavelength slice by the seeing, before calculating the likelihood function. We show that our method can model complex gas substructure including clumps and spiral arms. We also show that kinematic asymmetries can be observed after beam smearing for regularly rotating galaxies with asymmetries only introduced in the spatial distribution of the gas. We present findings for our method applied to a sample of 20 star-forming galaxies from the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We estimate the global H α gas velocity dispersion for our sample to be in the range σ¯v ∼[7, 30] km s−1. The relative difference between our approach and estimates using the single Gaussian component fits per spaxel is σ¯v/σ¯v = −0.29 ± 0.18 for the H α flux-weighted mean velocity dispersion.
"We Understand That You Undertake to Overthrow Our Undertaking." Sulla critica cubista delle opere di Gertrude Stein
Creators: name: Frigeni, Enrico
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: The article takes into account the way in which Gertrude Stein’s literary works have been interpreted by critics over the years. Following the writer’s own cue, scholars – starting with Stein’s long-time friend and admirer, Mable Dodge – have been inclined to view her baffling and sometimes obscure writing as an attempt to reproduce, through the literary medium, the project and the creative impulse behind the creation of the cubist avant-garde movement. Given Stein’s well-documented friendship with Picasso, literary critics have generally been willing to draw a comparison between the artists’ oeuvre in order to shed light on the challenging style of Stein’s pieces. Although this critical method has proved very prolific over the years, this paper explores the limitations of such an approach, especially for the interpretation of Stein’s post-1914 works (in which her style radically changed). While I discuss how the over-reliance on the cubist interpretative method might lead to inconsistencies in the analysis of her works, I suggest, in the final part of the article, that a parallel between Stein’s Tender Buttons and Piet Mondrian’s neoplastic painterly technique might provide a better frame of reference for the understanding of some of her works.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Human resources capacity building in Thailand: government responses to the impact of skill labour shortage on economic development
Creators: name: Chalapati, Nakarin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Thailand’s development progress is described as being stuck within the middle income trap, with its causes directly linked with the shortage of skilled labour that enable the transformation of economic activity. This thesis directly engages in this topic, exploring historical policy responses and future actions that may be implemented by the Thai government to support human resource capacity building that will unlock future economic development. In doing so, this thesis identified critical factors for future policy initiatives of Thailand, including policies for engaging substitute and migrant workforces, and redirecting educational and training agendas to supply an appropriately skilled talent pool.