cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Biodegradation of novel chitin biocomposites
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Suchetana Thakur
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Chitin is a natural polymer found abundantly in structural components of crustaceans and insects. Commercial interest has been generated in this polymer because of its widespread availability, high degree of biodegradability; biocompatibility and nontoxicity. Chitin and microcrystalline cellulose were combined with different commercially available polymers to form biocomposites with varying properties. The biodegradation of these composites was investigated under composting conditions with a view to develop composites that could be considered as completely biodegradable in accordance with Australian Standard AS14855 requirements. A preliminary investigation into biodegradability of chitin/low density polyethylene (LDPE) composites by the soil burial method indicated faster degradation of the composites compared to native LDPE. To enhance the biodegradation rate of the chitin/LDPE composites, an inexpensive, readily-available and partly biodegradable polymer (Flex 262) was used to partially replace LDPE. Extruded films were tested for their biodegradability in compost using the respirometric method outlined in AS 14855. The addition of Flex 262 was shown to increase the rate of biodegradation; however the degradation was still slow and the extent of degradation limited due to the presence of non-biodegradable LDPE in the composites. In order to further explore the potential of chitin fillers, chitin was combined with polybutylene succinate adipate (PBSA) and polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) which are commercially available and fully biodegradable synthetic polyesters. Chitin and microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) or chitin by itself was combined with the polyesters in different ratios to form biocomposites. It was found that composites containing chitin and MCC filler in a PBAT/PBSA matrix degraded at the fastest rate and was 100% biodegradable (in accordance with Australian Standard AS 14855). To understand the biological process in greater detail, an assessment of the microbial community of the resultant composts was undertaken with the help of molecular biology techniques. In the ';Day zero'; compost, the dominant microbial community was found to include members of Phylum Proteobacteria and Day 100 compost was dominated by members of the group Chloroflexi irrespective of the fact whether compost contained test composites or not. It can therefore be inferred that the presence of the composites have not triggered the proliferation of any specialized bacterial microbiota. Chitin/PBAT/PBSA composites were also subjected to mechanical testing. It was found that the tensile strength of chitin filled biocomposites decreased along with increasing filler content while the reinforcement effect could be observed as an increase in stiffness (modulus) of the composites with increasing filler loading.
Between Realpolitik and Idealism: The Slovak-Polish Border, 1918-1947
Creators: name: Jesenský, Marcel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Slovakia
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Orava
Spiš
Tešín
Javorina
Gorals
Horals
border
identity
Paris Peace Conference 1919
diplomacy
international relations
Slovak - Polish border
Slovak - Polish relations
Slovak - Czech relations
border settlement

description: My doctoral dissertation examines the delimitation of the Slovak - Polish border in the interwar period and the impact of the cession of the parts of the Slovak districts in Orava and Spiš to Poland on the relations between Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and Slovakia and Poland. The Tešín question dominated the border delimitation and the relations and the Orava and Spiš questions and the delimitation of the Slovak - Polish border received much less scholarly attention. While acknowledging the complexity of the issue under consideration, this work attempts to make small contribution towards filling existing gap in historiography. The majority of research work occurred at the diplomatic archives in Prague, Paris and Warsaw (Archives of the Foreign Ministry, Archives diplomatiques and Archiwum Akt Nowych). Some primary research also took place in Bratislava, Warsaw, Washington and Ottawa. This work seeks to interpret primary sources in an innovative way which demonstrates influence exerted by the Orava and Spiš questions on the relations between Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, Czechoslovakia and Poland, Slovakia and Poland, Slovaks and Poles, Slovaks and Czechs, and Czechs and Poles. Effectiveness of the Orava and Spiš questions to carve out their own constituencies and to communicate the message of their populations were limited or enhanced by contemporary configuration of international and internal factors. The Orava and Spiš border delimitations in the Slovak-Polish border and their consequences for the Slovak-Czech-Polish relations, remain largely neglected by the scholars in the English and French historiographies. The Orava and Spiš border delimitations play an important role in understanding of Slovak-Polish-Czech relations and international relations in the interwar and post World War II periods. The questions posed by examining the Orava and Spiš border delimitations are as relevant in Schengen Europe as they were almost a century ago.
Geography of a Stereotype: A Computational Study on the Italian Presence in the British Nineteenth Century Novel
Creators: name: Perazzini, Federica
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Italian studies; Nineteenth-century literature; British Literature

description: Often chosen as the privileged setting for plays, poems, and novels, Italy has been one of the core English literary imageries from the Middle Ages to the late Victorian era and beyond. However, more than an actual geographical space, the presence of Italian locations within the corpus of British literature can be configured as a distinctive discursive practice disclosing a variety of literary possibilities or, as Roland Barthes would say, a situation d’écriture: a writing situation based on the construction of a fictive geography capable of conveying an inexhaustible basin of themes and conventions. But what are the features at the basis of the representation of Italy as a writing situation? And is there a relationship between the use of certain Italian locations and the development of specific sub-genres within the British novel? Using innovative computer-based tools capable of macro analysis such as topic modelling and words-cohort correlation, in the discussion that follows I will give evidence of the occurrences and the transformations of the Italian stereotype in British 19thcentury fiction. The aim is to investigate the changes in the relative rendition of different geographical areas within the fictional horizon of the novel thus using new empirical tools to test the correlation between space and novelistic genres.
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An examination of two genes involved in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss) sodium transport.
Creators: name: Beyers, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: This thesis examines the theory that rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) regulate sodium through an epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and a proton-ATPase. An attempt was made to clone an ENaC from a rainbow trout cDNA library and from total RNA through nested primers and PCR and RT-PCR resulting in RAPD-type E. coli DNA amplification and amplification of trout collagen, however, producing nothing related to ENaC. The second part focuses on the trout proton-ATPase B-subunit (H +-ATPase) that was used in a Northern hybridization tissue distribution. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the H+-ATPase is highly similar to other known B-subunits, particularly the brain isoform. H+-ATPase mRNA quantification attempts to examine the effect of various environmental factors failed due to the use of an improper internal control. Cortisol RIA's showed no change in levels in fish exposed to hypercapnia or reduced ion water but were significantly increased in the cortisol implanted fish.
Why cash and copyright are bad news for creativity
Creators: name: Hunter, Dan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Imagine you were asked to write a law that encouraged creativity. What would it look like? Whatever your answer, it’s pretty clear that it wouldn’t look like copyright. Which is weird, right? Because copyright is supposed to be the law that spurs creativity. The problem, it turns out, is that the central features of copyright are directly opposed to the things that support creativity. Creativity is a tricky thing to understand, and we have very little insight into what animates the creative spark and why some people are more creative than others. But one thing we do know about creativity is that a really good way to make people less creative, is to pay them. A series of studies by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan Teresa Amabile, and others, have shown that primary school kids don’t learn to read if they’re paid to, artists produce their worst work when they’re commissioned to produce it, and people get worse at solving puzzles if you reward them for successful solutions. The reason for this? Creativity is closely linked to motivation, and humans become creative when they’re internally motivated by curiosity or interest or desire. They get demotivated — and less creative - when you introduce money into the equation.
English in Business and Commerce: Interaction and Policies; English in Europe Volume 5. A cura di Tamah Sherman e Jiří Nekvapil
Creators: name: Ting, Shwanea Sum Pok
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Review of English in Business and Commerce: Interaction and Policies; English in Europe Volume 5, edited by Tamah Sherman and Jiří Nekvapil
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
A fast radio burst with frequency-dependent polarization detected during Breakthrough Listen observations
Creators: name: Price, Daniel
name: Foster, G.
name: Geyer, M.
name: Van Straten, W.
name: Gajjar, V.
name: Hellbourg, G.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: Siemion, A. P.V.
name: Arcavi, I.
name: Bhat, R.
name: Caleb, M.
name: Chang, S. W.
name: Croft, S.
name: Deboer, D.
name: De Pater, I.
name: Drew, J.
name: Enriquez, J. E.
name: Farah, W.
name: Gizani, N.
name: Green, J. A.
name: Isaacson, H.
name: Hickish, J.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Lebofsky, M.
name: Macmahon, D. H.E.
name: Moller, Anais
name: Onken, C. A.
name: Petroff, E.
name: Werthimer, D.
name: Wolf, C.
name: Worden, S. P.
name: Zhang, Y. G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Here, we report on the detection and verification of fast radio burst FRB 180301, which occurred on UTC 2018 March 1 during the Breakthrough Listen observations with the Parkes telescope. Full-polarization voltage data of the detection were captured -a first for non-repeating FRBs - allowing for coherent de-dispersion and additional verification tests. The coherently de-dispersed dynamic spectrum of FRB 180301 shows complex, polarized frequency structure over a small fractional bandwidth. As FRB 180301 was detected close to the geosynchronous satellite band during a time of known 1-2 GHz satellite transmissions, we consider whether the burst was due to radio interference emitted or reflected from an orbiting object. Based on the pre-ponderance of our verification tests, we cannot conclusively determine FRB 180301 to be either astrophysical or anthropogenic in origin.
Umweltverträgliche Biogaserzeugung
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biogas
subject: Biogaserzeugung
subject: Umweltverträglichkeit
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Soil | Land

description: Im Bereich der Energieerzeugung aus Biogas hat die Förderpolitik der vergangenen Jahre zweifellos unerwünschte agrarökologische Fehlentwicklungen verursacht. Aus Sicht der Kommission Landwirtschaft am Umweltbundesamt (KLU) war hier in der Tat dringender Korrekturbedarf gegeben.
Quelle: Verlagsinformation
description: Im Bereich der Energieerzeugung aus Biogas hat die Förderpolitik der vergangenen Jahre zweifellos unerwünschte agrarökologische Fehlentwicklungen verursacht. Aus Sicht der Kommission Landwirtschaft am Umweltbundesamt (KLU) war hier in der Tat dringender Korrekturbedarf gegeben.
An interactive decision support system for course assignment.
Creators: name: Mercier, Paul.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Administration.

description: This thesis proposes to assist administrators and instructors in their task of assigning instructors to courses while respecting resources, goals and preferences of the members of the academic unit and its students. The analysis of the different methods and models used to assign courses to instructors leads to the development of a new mathematical model that retains most of the advantages of previous ones while being simple and efficient enough to be implemented in a real administrative context. The new model is used to design a flexible, interactive and customizable decision support software to allocate courses to faculty members and maintain the derived selections. This decision support software relies on a database system with modelling and optimization capabilities. The methodology is applied to the course assignment problem faced each year by the Faculty of Administration of the University of Ottawa and reports actual course assignment exercises.
Myth, image, dianoia: Situating the myth of Er on the Divided Line
Creators: name: Woloshyn, Cameron
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Perennially, investigations into Plato's use of myths have hinged on a distinction between muthos and logos, from which logos is privileged as philosophical discourse, while muthoi are relegated to tools of persuasion for the non-philosophical. Focussing exclusively on the Republic, this thesis argues that Plato's myths can constitute a necessary, although not a sufficient component of Plato's philosophical discourse. In his discussion of the section of dianoiu in the Divided Line, Plato writes: "the soul, using as images the things that were imitated before, is forced to investigate from hypotheses, proceeding not to a first principle but to a conclusion (510b4-6)." Elaborating on this passage, I shall demonstrate how dianoetic understandings rely on the collaboration of both images and argument. I argue that Plato presents the Myth of Er as a dianoetic image, on which Plato's arguments concerning the justice rely.
The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings. An Intercultural Perspective. A cura di Giuliana Garzone e Cornelia Ilie
Creators: name: Malinowski, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Review of The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings. An Intercultural Perspective, edited by Giuliana Garzone and Cornelia Ilie
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Diffusion d'une particule ponctuelle dans un système multi-phase et en présence d'obstacles vibrants: Deux études numériques
Creators: name: Kingsburry, Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics, Low Temperature.
subject: Physics, Solid State.

description: It is impossible to enumerate all the areas where diffusion plays a crucial role. Numerous studies of diffusion have been made since the observation of brownian motion by Robert Brown in 1827. In the last decades, the development of computers made it possible to carry numerical studies of diffusion. Monte Carlo algorithms are often used to model the random walk of a particle in a given system in order to measure its diffusion coefficient. In the last years, Dr Slater's research group developed an exact calculation method that allows one to compute diffusion coefficients with high precision. This calculation method, even if major modifications were necessary, is the base of the two projects presented in this thesis. The first project is a sequel of an article published in 2006 by Hickey et al. These authors derived an expression that predicts the diffusion coefficient of a point-like particle in a two-phase system, such as a hydrogel made of gelatin with maltodextrin viscous inclusions. This expression works well for a simple two-phase system but neglects numerous characteristics such hydrogels can present. In this thesis' first project, we modify this expression in order to include the possible interactions between the particle and the gel structure, the interfacial steric effects between phases and the possible incomplete phase separation. We validate these modifications by comparing them with exact numerical calculations. In preceding studies made by the research group of Dr Slater, it was assumed that the system was quenched, i.e. the obstacles didn't move. However, it is logical to believe that gel fibers inside a real hydrogel are subject to thermal motion and that they vibrate around a mean position. The second project presents a new numerical method allowing one to investigate the effect of obstacles motion on the diffusion of a particle. We vary different parameters such as the vibration frequency compared to the diffusion time scale of the particle, the amplitude of vibration, the obstacle concentration as well as their configuration (periodic or random). This new method is innovative because it makes it possible to study in details the transition of a system from a quenched state (fixed obstacles) to an annealed state (obstacles vibrating much faster than the diffusion time scale of the particle).
Detection of psychopathic traits in emotional faces
Creators: name: Olderbak, Sally
name: Bader, Christina
name: Hauser, Nicole
name: Kleitman, Sabina
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: psychopathy
subject: halo effect
subject: detecting psychopathy
subject: thin-slice judgments
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Psychopaths; Evaluation
subject: Psychopathology
subject: Effect modifier, Epidemiologic
subject: Perception
subject: Psychopathologie
subject: Abnorme Persönlichkeit
subject: Halo-Effekt

description: When meeting someone at zero acquaintance, we make assumptions about each other that encompass emotional states, personality traits, and even cognitive abilities. Evidence suggests individuals can accurately detect psychopathic personality traits in strangers based on short video clips or photographs of faces. We present an in-depth examination of this ability. In two studies, we investigated whether high psychopathy traits are perceivable and whether other traits affect ratings of psychopathic traits in the sense of a halo effect. On the perceiver’s end, we additionally examined how cognitive abilities and personality traits of the responders affect these ratings. In two studies (n1 = 170 community adults from the USA, n2 = 126 students from Australia), participants rated several targets on several characteristics of psychopathy, as well as on attractiveness, masculinity, sympathy, trustworthiness, neuroticism, intelligence, and extraversion. Results show that responders were generally able to detect psychopathy. Responders generally came to a consensus in their ratings, and using profile similarity metrics, we found a weak relation between ratings of psychopathy and the targets’ psychopathy level as determined by the Psychopathy Checklist: Short Version. Trait ratings, though, were influenced by the ratings of other traits like attractiveness. Finally, we found accuracy in the perception of psychopathy was positively related to fluid intelligence but unrelated to emotion perception ability.
Naloxone urban legends and the opioid crisis: what is the role of public health?
Creators: name: Crabtree, Alexis
name: Masuda, Jeffrey R
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: As the overdose crisis in North America continues to deepen, public health leaders find themselves responding to sensational media stories, many of which carry forms and themes that mark them as urban legends. This article analyzes one set of media accounts – stories of misuse of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote distributed to people who use drugs – through the lens of social science scholarship on urban legends. We suggest that these stories have met a public need to feel a sense of safety in uncertain times, but function to reinforce societal views of people who use drugs as undeserving of support and resources. Our field has a duty to speak out in favour of evidence-based programs that support the health of people who use drugs, but the optimal communication strategies are not always clear. Drawing attention to the functions and consequences of urban legends can help frame public health communication in a way that responds to needs without reinforcing prejudices, with application beyond naloxone to the other urban legends that continue to emerge in response to this crisis.
Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca. How Written Communication is Changing under the Influence of Electronic Media and New Contexts of Use. Franca Poppi
Creators: name: Bagni, Marco
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Review of Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca. How Written Communication is Changing under the Influence of Electronic Media and New Contexts of Use by Franca Poppi
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
The Training of Business Professionals in ELT Materials: a Focus on Email Writing
Creators: name: Caleffi, Paola
name: Poppi, Franca
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Nowadays, business organizations are faced with the challenge of operating in a global, informational, and highly networked context. The globalization of business and the fast growth in digital technology are having a massive impact both on business structures, with a proliferation of international mergers and acquisitions, and on corporate communication, as most business transactions are being carried out via digital media. In this context, professional communication needs are rapidly changing too: not only is a common working language required, but there is also the necessity for business professionals to acquire the communicative competence that will enable them to communicate efficiently, effectively, and rapidly. As for the language, although “[i]t is undeniable that English […] has now come to represent the main common contact language and lingua franca in an interconnected globalized world” (Vettorel 2014, 1), a more encompassing conceptualization of the language of business is necessary in order to cater to the ‘super-diversity’ (Cogo 2012) of today’s business contexts. On the communicative competence side, professionals need to acquire the ability to adjust quickly to the immediacy of the communicative event and to the dynamic nature of intercultural negotiations. This requires a vast array of pragmatic and interactional skills which have mainly been investigated in spoken interactions (e.g. Firth 1996; Björkman 2011, 2014). In business contexts, however, transactions are often conducted via non-face-to-face media, where the lack of contextual cues may pose a barrier to effective communication (Soucek and Moser 2010). This diachronic study of a set of ten Business-English (email)-writing texts published between 2000 and 2016 focuses on the tasks and guidelines provided for the development of email writing skills. Drawing on Louhiala-Salminen and Kankaanranta’s (2011) notion of “Global Communicative Competence,” the analysis tries to establish whether there has been a change in the way the English language is presented in business ELT materials and whether provisions are made for the development of those pragmatic and interactional skills which can be of use to business professionals in the workplace.
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How to find a good app for mental health
Creators: name: Bakker, David
name: Rickard, Nicki
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Search for 'stress', 'depression', 'anxiety', or 'mental health' in the app store on your mobile device and you are confronted with a bewildering array of options. Some apps claim to track your mood over time, while others claim to 'cure' your mental ill health with hypnosis. Apps hold amazing potential as mental health and wellbeing tools. You can carry them everywhere, engage with them in real time as you're experiencing distress, and interact with them in a completely different way to other self-help tools. But it is important to know which apps you can rely on for good support, and which might even do you harm. There is no current accreditation system for apps designed to improve or support mental health. And while some respectable organisations have lists of recommended apps, such as ReachOut.com and eMHPrac, very few of these apps are supported by experimental evidence. This means there is no way of knowing whether they actually help or not.
BELF, Communication Strategies and ELT Business Materials
Creators: name: Vettorel, Paola
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Communication strategies (CSs) have been shown to be an essential element of ELF, with participants cooperatively constructing communication through pragmatic moves. In BELF settings, CSs aimed at enhancing explicitness and checking comprehension are seen as an essential skill. Together with business know-how, clarity of message, explicitness and the ability to draw on plurilingual repertoires (e.g. Cogo 2016a, 2016b), they have been shown to be highly relevant in international business communication. While the use of CSs in ELF has been looked into in teaching materials (e.g. Vettorel 2017, 2018), BELF research in this area has been less explored (e.g. Franceschi 2018; Lario de Oñate and Vázquez 2013; Caleffi and Poppi this issue; Pullin 2015). This paper aims at contributing to this area of research through the analysis of recently published Business ELT coursebooks at elementary/pre-intermediate/intermediate levels, investigating whether awareness and use of CSs are taken into account in any way, drawing mainly on Björkman’s taxonomy of CSs in ELF (2014). Aspects related to the inclusion of the different layers of the Global Communicative Competence (GCC) model in the materials under examination are also looked into. Findings show that the materials under examination do not consistently acknowledge the competences that have been shown to be paramount in BELF communication, and do not regularly include CSs within a BELF perspective.
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Intercultural and International Business Communication. Theory, Research and Teaching. A cura di Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveira, Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido e Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Creators: name: Renna, Dora
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Review of Intercultural and International Business Communication. Theory, Research and Teaching Edited by Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveira, Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido and Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Existence of a positive solution to a nonlinear system of PDEs in a domain with a triple-phase boundary
Creators: name: Mo'Tassem, Al-Arydah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: We consider a system of nonlinear PDEs describing the reaction-diffusion dynamics near a triple-phase boundary in the catalyst layer of hydrogen fuel cells. The system involves bulk diffusion and surface reaction-diffusion processes and is an approximation of a model with a thin layer. The coupling of surface and bulk diffusion involves a nonlinear equation (adsorption-desorption process) and a singular boundary condition. Using certain a priori estimates, variational methods techniques and the fixed point theorem, we prove the existence of a positive bounded weak solution. Moreover, we prove the validity of the model by computing the solution numerically and comparing it with the solution obtained with a thin layer model.
English as a Lingua Franca in International Business: Resolving Miscommunication and Reaching Shared Understanding. Marie-Luise Pitzl
Creators: name: Antonello, Monica
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Review of English as a Lingua Franca in International Business: Resolving Miscommunication and Reaching Shared Understanding by Marie-Luise Pitzl
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Structural Equation Modeling of Parent’s Electronic Word-of-Mouth in International Schools
Creators: name: Warisara Klomtooksing
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2024
Subjects: Discretionary Accruals
Earnings Management
Economic disclosures
Environmental disclosures
Social disclosureElectronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM)
School Marketing Mix
School Educational Quality
chool Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM)
School Image
Parental Satisfaction

description: Journal of Family Business and Management Studies, 16, 2, 169-188
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-19, Kyrill Kunakhovich, Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany
Creators: name: Fidelis, Malgorzata
name: Kunakhovich, Kyrill
name: Babiracki, Patryk
name: Dovern, Lukas
name: Feinberg, Melissa
name: Naimark, Norman
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: No description supplied
Book review: 'The expressive organization: linking identity, reputation, and the corporate brand', by Maiken Schultz, Mary Jo Hatch and Mogens Holt Larsen
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Review of the book 'The expressive organization: linking identity, reputation, and the corporate brand', by Maiken Schultz, Mary Jo Hatch and Mogens Holt Larsen, published by Oxford University Press, 2003.
Are Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce the Inventors of the American "Anti-War" Story?
Creators: name: Mariani, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Stephen Crane; Ambrose Bierce; Anti-war novel

description: Drawing on premises more extensively developed elsewhere concerning the impossibility for war narratives to live up in a consistent way to their desire of delivering an anti-war lesson, the essay debates the extent to which Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce may be considered as the founders of a new, typically modern literary form—the anti-war story. After illustrating why such claim may be considered both valid and invalid, the essay turns to what would seem to be Bierce’s most uncompromisingly shocking and critical war story he ever wrote, “Chickamauga.” By intelligently playing off the deaf-mute child’s perspective against the narrator’s viewpoint, Bierce succeeds in de-sublimating war, puncturing the chivalric ideal with a tableau of grotesque violence. However, one must still wonder whether the shock generated by the gruesome spectacle of war may be considered as a critical appraisal of violence, or simply an emotional response that has not much to offer in terms of understanding the historical circumstances that generate violence in the first place.
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Holocene environmental variability inferred from lake sediments, southwest Yukon Territory, Canada
Creators: name: Bunbury, Joan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geography.
subject: Climate Change.
subject: Sedimentary Geology.
subject: Paleoclimate Science.

description: Lake sediment cores collected from four lakes (Upper Fly Lake 61.04°N, 138.09°W, 1326 m a.s.l.; Jenny Lake 61.04°N, 138.36°W, 817 m. a.s.l.; Donjek Kettle 61.69°N, 139.76°W, 732 m a.s.l.; Lake WP02 61.48°N, 139.97°W, 1463 m a.s.l.) in the southwest Yukon provide records of postglacial climatic variability in the region. A 13,000 year pollen record from Upper Fly Lake indicated that herbaceous tundra existed on the landscape from 13.6 to 11 ka, followed by birch shrub tundra until 10 ka, when Picea forests were established in the region. Pollen-, chironomid-, and ostracode-inferred paleoclimate reconstructions showed a long-term cooling with increasing moisture from the late glacial through the Holocene. The early and mid-Holocene were warm and dry, with cool, wet conditions after 4 ka, and warm, dry conditions over the last 100 years. Chironomid accumulation rates provided evidence of millennial-scale climate variability, and the chironomid community responded to rapid climate changes. Late Holocene environmental variability was investigated through the analysis of paleoproduction indices (sediment loss-on-ignition, biogenic silica) and chironomid and ostracode communities. Coherent trends were revealed among the four lakes and pairs of sites located closer together showed more similarities than more distant sites located in similar environments (alpine tundra or boreal forest). Chironomid-inferred paleotemperature estimates are inconsistent with other data from the region, however certain fluctuations in paleoproduction indices and changes in abundance and composition of the chironomid and ostracode communities compare well with interpretations based on independent paleoclimate records. The White River Ash event (1147 cal yrs BP and 1953 cal yrs BP) impacted three of the four aquatic ecosystems studied, with a greater impact occurring at sites with greater ash thickness. Interannual variability in the lake environment is of lesser concern when deriving inference models relating organisms to environmental variables, and the results presented here provide guarded optimism that the sampling methodology applied in paleolimnological studies is appropriate in this region.
Tiny grains shining bright in the gaps of Herbig Ae transitional discs
Creators: name: Birchall, Eloise K.
name: Ireland, Michael J.
name: Federrath, Christoph
name: Monnier, John D.
name: Kraus, Stefan
name: Willson, Matthew
name: Kraus, Adam L.
name: Rizzuto, Aaron
name: Agnew, Matthew T.
name: Maddison, Sarah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This work presents a study of two Herbig Ae transitional discs, Oph IRS 48 and HD 169142; which both have reported rings in their dust density distributions. We use Keck-II/NIRC2 adaptive optics imaging observations in the L' filter (3.8 mu m) to probe the regions of these discs inwards of similar to 20 au from the star. We introduce our method for investigating these transitional discs, which takes a forward modelling approach: making a model of the disc (using the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code RADMC3D), convolving it with point spread functions of calibrator stars, and comparing the convolved models with the observational data. The disc surface density parameters are explored with aMonte Carlo Markov Chain technique. Our analysis recovers emission from both of the discs interior to the well-known optically thick walls, modelled as a ring of emission at similar to 15 au in Oph IRS 48, and similar to 7 au for HD 169142, and identifies asymmetries in both discs. Given the brightness of the near-symmetric rings compared to the reported companion candidates, we suggest that the reported companion candidates can be interpreted as slightly asymmetric disc emission or illumination.
Confini porosi. Pelle e rappresentazione in quattro narrazioni della modernità. Serena Fusco
Creators: name: Bordin, Elisa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: review

description: Review of Confini porosi. Pelle e rappresentazione in quattro narrazioni della modernità by Serena Fusco
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Les rapports entre le droit pénal national et le droit pénal international dans la prévention et la répression des infractions internationales
Creators: name: Hitimana, Célestin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Law.
subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: La présente thèse précise comment les deux espaces normatifs, national et international, ainsi que leurs institutions interagissent pour éliminer l'impunité des génocidaires, des criminels de guerre et des criminels contre l'humanité. Cette question se pose d'abord au niveau des législateurs nationaux où elle est évoquée en terme d'obligation internationale d'adapter le droit interne au droit international. Ensuite au niveau de's juridictions pénales nationales ou elle sous-tend la compétence ou l'incompétence du juge saisi d'une affaire ayant un élément d'internationalité. Et in fine, au niveau des juridictions pénales internationales pour qui "les lois nationales ne sont que de simples faits" dont la légalité doit être appréciée selon les normes internationales. Les exemples belge, canadien et rwandais illustrent l'existence de trois modèles d'intégration du droit pénal international en droit interne: le modèle d'intégration forte caractérisé par une compétence universelle absolue, le modèle pragmatique qui consacre la compétence universelle restreinte et le modèle divergent qui ignore la compétence universelle. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Dissipative ground-state preparation of a spin chain by a structured environment
Creators: name: Cormick, Cecilia
name: Bermudez, Alejandro
name: Huelga, Susana F.
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Nearest neighbor analysis (Statistics)
subject: Ionenfalle

description: Abstract We propose a dissipative method to prepare the ground state of the isotropic XY spin Hamiltonian in a transverse field. Our model consists of a spin chain with nearest-neighbor interactions and an additional collective coupling of the spins to a damped harmonic oscillator. The latter provides an effective environment with a Lorentzian spectral density and can be used to drive the chain asymptotically toward its multipartite-entangled ground state at a rate that depends on the degree of non-Markovianity of the evolution. We also present a detailed proposal for the experimental implementation with a chain of trapped ions. The protocol does not require individual addressing, concatenated pulses, or multi-particle jump operators, and is capable of generating the desired target state in small ion chains with very high fidelities.
The Gorgon’s Head: On Narration, Torture and Truth-Seeking in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and in the South African TNC’s History-Writing and Restorative Undertaking
Creators: name: Zinato, Susanna
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Coetzee; Torture; Post-colonial literature

description: The article retrospectively considers the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s main assumptions and procedures concerning truth-seeking, narration and, by implication, healing, forgiveness and reconciliation, in the problematizing light that J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) can shed upon them. The narrative choices made by Coetzee to tackle in ethically acceptable ways torture and, broadly, any inhuman authoritarian violence on the powerless victim’s body are discussed by drawing on the arguments advanced in his essay “Into the Dark Chamber: The Writer and the South African State” (1986) and in the chapter “The Problem of Evil” of his novel Elizabeth Costello (2003). Zinato comparatively ponders on the ‘hermeneutic’ approaches respectively employed in their truth-seeking practices by a) Coetzee’s ethically-oriented fiction, b) the perpetrator’s inquisitorial torture procedures authorized by state terrorism (represented in the novel by Joll and Mandel), and c) the TRC’s rules of procedure espoused in their courageous, unprecedented undertaking. In doing so, she necessarily passes through crucial issues investing the novel as much as the TRC’s “staging” and recording/filing of the hearings: the relationship between torture/violence and language/narration (directly involving the novelist’s responsible representation), the questioning of the healing power of post-traumatic story-telling, and of forgiveness.
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Enhancing Explicitness in BELF Interactions: Self-Initiated Communication Strategies in the Workplace
Creators: name: Franceschi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: BELF; corpus linguistics; linguistics

description: Differences in the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of participants to ELF communication, as well as in their linguistic abilities, may pose obstacles to the accomplishment of communicative goals in international encounters (Kaur 2011, Mauranen 2006). Achieving mutual understanding requires therefore the adoption of co-operative behavior by participants to ensure the success of the interaction. In the professional context, where communicative events may be heavily task-oriented, clarity emerged as an essential feature of communicative success (Louhiala-Salminen and Kankaanranta 2011, 255). Participants therefore make use of a number of Communication Strategies (Cogo 2009; Kaur 2009, 2011; Björkman 2011, 2014) to pre-empt and/or solve instances of misunderstanding and communication breakdown, including appeals and requests as well as other self-initiated strategies with the purpose of enhancing explicitness and therefore anticipating potential problems (Mauranen 2006, Kaur 2011). This paper will focus on a set of Communication Strategies aimed at increasing explicitness that have been attested in ELF communication, in order to identify which types occur in BELF interactions and their role in ensuring communicative success in such contexts. To this purpose, naturally-occurring BELF data drawn from business conversations and meetings in the Professional Business and Professional Organizational subsections in the VOICE corpus will be analyzed from a qualitative perspective. The outcome is expected to be in line with previous findings in different ELF context, with speakers displaying strategic competence and making use of Communication Strategies in order to get their points across while ensuring that intelligibility is maintained.
description: Iperstoria, No 13 (2019): Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca
Alpha-thalassemia mental retardation (ATR-X) syndrome: Elucidating cellular functions of the ATRX gene
Creators: name: Hodgson, Todd R
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Genetics.
subject: Biology, Cell.
subject: Health Sciences, Pathology.

description: Mutations in the ATRX gene are responsible for the alpha-thalassemia mental retardation (ATR-X) syndrome. ATRX is a putative global transcription regulator and chromatin remodelling protein. The goal of this research is to characterize interactions ATRX has with other proteins involved in transcription regulation, and identify domains in ATRX that may be responsible for these interactions. Several stable NIH 3T3 tet-off cell lines have been established that contain a human ATRX transgene. In addition, ATRX, PML, and Daxx appear to co-localize in nuclear bundles, suggesting they may act together transiently, or in a complex, in a regulatory role. A domain has been identified on ATRX that appears to target the protein to nuclear bundles, and interact with PML and Daxx. ATRX patient mutations appear to alter these interactions. This work attempts to elucidate cellular functions of ATRX, in hopes of establishing a better understanding of the neuropathology of this complex disease.
Functional interaction between the glucocorticoid receptor and C/EBP-beta.
Creators: name: Boruk, Marcin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a ligand activated sequence specific transcription factor that belongs to the nuclear receptor superfamily. Most often GR regulates transcription through binding to glucocorticoid DNA response elements (GREs) found in the regulatory regions of target genes. Regulation of transcription by GR usually occurs in a combination with other heterologous transcription factors whose DNA response elements are found in proximity of GREs in the gene regulatory regions. The Herpes Simplex Virus thymidine kinase (HSV tk) proximal promoter contains two DNA binding sites for Sp1, and one "CCAAT" DNA motif. Surprisingly, when GR was transiently co-transfected with a CAT reporter gene driven by the HSV tk promoter, it induced HSV tk transcription 5 fold in response to dexamethasone in the absence of any apparent GREs. Activation of HSV tk transcription was dexamethasone dependent, as RU 486, a GR antagonist was unable to activate transcription. Activation of HSV tk was also GR specific as androgen receptor was unable to activate HSV tk transcription following DHT treatment. To map the region of GR responsible for GRE independent activation of HSV tk transcription, several different GR expression constructs were used. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Results from a first-in-human trial of a novel vascular sealant
Creators: name: Florek, Hans-Joachim
name: Brunkwall, Jan
name: Orend, Karl-Heinz
name: Handley, Ian
name: Pribble, John
name: Dieck, Ronald
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Surgical sealant
subject: Vascular surgery
subject: Efficacy evaluation
subject: Polyaldehyde
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Hemostasis
subject: Vascular surgical procedures
subject: Equipment safety
subject: Serum albumin
subject: Blutstillung
subject: Gefäßchirurgie
subject: Sicherheit
subject: Evaluation
subject: Serumalbumine

description: Background Suture hole bleeding from synthetic grafts presents a hemostatic challenge. The designs of many vascular sealants are not optimal (non-adherence to wet surfaces, excessive swelling, inflexible). PreveLeak™ (formerly ArterX®) is a polyaldehyde–bovine serum albumin-based sealant whose efficacy, safety, and performance were evaluated in this first-in-human study. Materials and methods A prospective, single-arm, multicenter study was performed in patients undergoing open vascular reconstructions with prosthetic grafts. Sealant was applied to the suture line after completion of the anastomosis. The primary endpoint was the incidence of immediate sealing (without clinically significant bleeding) upon clamp release. Secondary endpoints were time to sealing, safety, and assessment of product performance. Results Fifty-six anastomoses were performed in 32 patients. Grafts were Dacron (66% of sites), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE; 32%), or both Dacron and PTFE (2%). The femoral artery was the most common site of anastomosis (41% of sites). Immediate sealing after clamp release was achieved at all anastomoses (100%); 93% had no bleeding and 7% had oozing. No rebleeding occurred during 10 min of observation. The three most common adverse events were graft or bypass occlusion (n = 5 patients), infection (n = 4), and seroma (n = 3); none were device related. The sealant was considered easy to apply, quickly forming a soft gel, and adhering to tissue and grafts. Conclusion PreveLeak effectively sealed anastomotic suture lines during vascular reconstruction procedures and was considered easy to use. Adverse events were consistent with those commonly observed in patients undergoing surgical procedures. These results provided the support for conducting a larger controlled clinical trial.