cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mathematical modelling of monotonic and cyclic behavior of polycrystalline freshwater ice.
Creators: name: Derradji-Aouat, Ahmed.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The objective of the present work is to develop and evaluate a three dimensional mathematical model for fresh water ice. The model serves as a mathematical base that can be extended to include the mechanical behaviour of sea-ice. A series of creep compression tests were carried out on columnar grained S-2 fresh water ice samples. The objective of this experimental work is to investigate the rate of accumulation of the permanent strains generated in ice undergoing creep deformations for non-cracking conditions. New equations for Poisson's ratio for columnar grained ice are proposed. A three dimensional mathematical model for polycrystalline fresh water ice is developed on the basis of analysis of the experimental results obtained in this study as well as experimental results taken from the literature. The model describes the mechanical behaviour of ice subjected to any loading path in the three dimensional stress space, including cyclic loading. The model formulations take into account the observed material non-linearity, time and temperature dependency, plasticity, material anisotropy, stress path dependency, and hysteresis behaviour of ice subjected to cyclic loading. The model is made up of the sum of two sub-models: A Non-cracking model and a Crack-activity model. Upon loading, ice undergoes both elastic and plastic deformations simultaneously. The total strains are presented as the sum of four strain components. A three dimensional visco-plastic constitutive relation is developed on the basis of the concepts of the classical theory of plasticity. However, modifications of the classical theory of plasticity were made so that the theory could be used to model the behaviour of ice and accommodate time, temperature, and material anisotropy in the constitutive equations. A comprehensive evaluation of the proposed mathematical model is conducted to verify the versatility and accuracy of the model in predicting the observed ice behaviour. The model predictions of the results of the monotonic uniaxial and triaxial tests are in excellent agreement with the measured stress strain curves, the cyclic tests, and the creep tests. Additional evaluation of the model includes theoretical predictions of tensile tests and predictions of the effect of stress rate and initial confining pressure on the behaviour of ice. In the light of all these predictions, recommendations for future research are suggested. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Additional file 3 of Association between fetal sex and maternal plasma microRNA responses to prenatal alcohol exposure: evidence from a birth outcome-stratified cohort
Creators: name: Salem, Nihal A.
name: Mahnke, Amanda H.
name: Wells, Alan B.
name: Tseng, Alexander M.
name: Yevtushok, Lyubov
name: Zymak-Zakutnya, Natalya
name: Wertlecki, Wladimir
name: Chambers, Christina D.
name: Miranda, Rajesh C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Concordance between ANCOVA-bootstrap & ANOVA bootstrap. X-Y scatterplot showing the relation between the proportion of ANCOVA significant iterations (x-axis) and the proportion of ANOVA significant iterations (y-axis)
Potential for Using Nano-metals for Protecting Timber against UV Exposure
Creators: name: Yi, Tengfei
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: weathering
subject: nano-particles
subject: wood surface
subject: UV protection
subject: colour change
subject: wettability
subject: UV-Vis properties
subject: surface distribution
subject: chemical interactions
subject: coatings
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Weathering of wood surfaces remains a major problem when timber is used in exterior exposures. Surface degradation starts almost immediately, mainly induced by ultraviolet light (UV). This surface deterioration often leads to a series of physical, microscopic, and chemical changes that cause dramatic declines in surface appearance. Although traditional surface protection systems can limit UV degradation, all existing surface treatments have drawbacks. Opaque coatings such as paint totally mask the natural appearance of wood, which is not desirable when the purpose of treatment is to maintain the natural wood appearance. Less robust clear coatings often provide only 12 to 24 months of protection and must be reapplied to provide continued protection. The desire to prolong wood performance in exterior applications has created continuing interest in developing more effective additives and treatments to reduce wood weathering. One alternative approach to wood surface modification for UV protection is the use of nanotechnology. Nano-particles have unique properties that may have promise for surface protection, but our understanding of the mechanisms by which these materials perform remains limited. This study was performed using only nano-particles to simplify the experiments and help delineate the direct role of the nano-particles. The characteristics of nano-particles in relation to wood protection against UV light were explored. The most effective nano-particles were conducted to evaluate the nano-particle/wood interactions.
Supplementary document for Efficient magnetic-coupling excitation of LSSPs on high-Q multilayer planar-circular-grating resonators - 5276535.pdf
Creators: name: Siqi, Li
name: Chao-Hai, Du
name: Han, Feng-Yuan
name: Li, Fan-Hong
name: Zhang, Zi-Wen
name: Gao, Zi-Chao
name: Liu, Pu-Kun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Simulated S11 spectra
Indigenous land management in urban and peri-urban landscapes
Creators: name: Wilson, Rachele
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: Indigenous land management
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
participatory research
natural resource management

description: This research examined the roles, challenges and opportunities for Indigenous land management in urban and peri-urban landscapes through a case study of Bunya Bunya Country Aboriginal Corporation (BBCAC) on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The study is distinct in that it documents the work of Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) Traditional Owners, Australian South Sea Islanders, and historically-connected Aboriginal people in a setting that is peri-urban and urban in location and land use, and where native title has yet to be determined. This is in contrast to previous ILM research in Australia that tends to focus on rural or remote locations with large natural areas and protected lands. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, participant observation (e.g. during monitoring activities) and analysis of secondary sources (e.g. organisational documents) between 2014 and 2015. The data shows that Indigenous land managers in urban and peri-urban landscapes work in a variety of roles, particularly when partnering with other land user groups to manage complex environmental issues. Significant challenges to their work include the effects of urban development and population growth/change, poor cross-cultural engagement with decision-makers, a growing gap for work opportunities between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous organisations, and barriers to appropriate, long-term funding and resources. There are several opportunities to overcome these challenges through existing programs such as the Indigenous Ranger Program, decolonised decision-making tools (i.e. "boundary objects") and sustainable enterprises that draw on public, private, and customary economies (e.g. eco-cultural tourism). The research highlights the need for bottom-up, Indigenous-driven approaches to ILM on the Sunshine Coast to address land management issues in a way that delivers socio-economic and cultural co-benefits to local Aboriginal peoples.
Supplementary document for CALIOP retrieval of droplet effective radius accounting for cloud vertical homogeneity - 5276540.pdf
Creators: name: Zang, Lin
name: Rosenfeld, Daniel
name: MAO, Feiyue
name: Pan, Zengxin
name: Zhu, Yannian
name: Gong, Wei
name: Wang, Zemin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
Additional file 4 of Association between fetal sex and maternal plasma microRNA responses to prenatal alcohol exposure: evidence from a birth outcome-stratified cohort
Creators: name: Salem, Nihal A.
name: Mahnke, Amanda H.
name: Wells, Alan B.
name: Tseng, Alexander M.
name: Yevtushok, Lyubov
name: Zymak-Zakutnya, Natalya
name: Wertlecki, Wladimir
name: Chambers, Christina D.
name: Miranda, Rajesh C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Bootstrap-resampling to determine effect size and confidence interval estimates for the effects of fetal sex on maternal HEua miRNA expression. Median bootstrap effect sizes (solid dot) and 95% confidence interval (error bars) for miRNAs which have a non-zero containing confidence interval during sex-segregated resampling. Second and third trimester, HEua vs. UE effect sizes are shown. Dashed line indicates zero effect size.
Mapping the haemagglutinin and neuraminidase functions of the human parainfluenza virus type 3 haemagglutinin-neuraminidase protein.
Creators: name: Wheatley, Nicola.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The haemagglutinin-neuraminidase protein (HN) of human parainfluenza virus type 3 is a bifunctional protein. To map the functions to the protein, three truncations of the gene were constructed by digesting the HN gene with the restriction endonucleases Hind III, Bgl II or Xbo I and inserting a stop codon. An internal deletion using Rsa I was also constructed. The four mutants were expressed in the recombinant vaccinia virus system. The expression of the mutant proteins was analysed by both Western Blot and immunoprecipitation. The products of the three truncations migrated at the molecular weights predicted for the truncated proteins. The product of the internal deletion migrated more quickly than predicted and upon sequencing revealed a frame shift mutation and, therefore, a fourth truncation. The migration of the gene product was consistent with the molecular weight predicted for this truncation. The full length HN was functional in both haemagglutination and neuraminidase assays. The four mutants were active only in the neuraminidase assay, none of them haemagglutinated Guinea pig erythrocytes. This allows us to predict that the haemagglutination region is near the carboxy-terminus of the protein while the neuraminidase region is amino-terminal of amino acid 212.
Représenter l'artiste au Québec : entre la petite société, la mémoire, la nation et la réception de l'art
Creators: name: Mainguy, Jacinthe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Jean-Paul Riopelle
nation québécoise
statut de l'artiste
image de l'artiste
mémoire collective
manifeste Refus global
petite société
Nathalie Heinich
Joseph-Yvon Thériault
Pierre Schneider
François Marc-Gagnon
art canadien
art québécois
modernité culturelle au Québec

description: Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’institutionnalisation de l’art, au statut de l’artiste à l’ère démocratique de même qu’à leur portée universelle (grande société). La recherche se rapporte aux interdépendances entre la mémoire, la nation, la réception de l’art et la représentation de l’artiste dans une petite société comme le Québec. Le parcours de légitimation de Jean-Paul Riopelle sert d’outil analytique pour comprendre la dynamique institutionnelle de la représentation de l’artiste québécois, et ce, en appliquant la méthodologie de l’idéal-type. La réception de l’art est interprétée en suivant l’individualisme méthodologique. Il s’agit d’observer l’exercice d’admiration à travers les discours spécialisés de l’art (Schneider et Marc-Gagnon). L’un provient d’une grande société et le second d’une petite. L’histoire nationale marque la représentation de Riopelle, l’un des signataires du Refus global. La représentation de l’artiste issu d’une petite société est spécifique : la réception de l’oeuvre engage des registres d’admiration différents.
Supplementary document for Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polariton Resonances and Microparticle Sensing in Bulk Dirac Semimetal with Spatially Perturbed Geometries - 5276811.pdf
Creators: name: Blessan, Tony
name: Natesan, Yogesh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Figures
Molecular approaches to better understand the epidemiology and host resistance to Nervous Necrosis Virus in Asian groupers
Creators: name: Luu, Giang
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: Grouper
nervous necrosis virus
molecular
epidemiology

description: The grouper aquaculture industry in many Asian and Pacific countries makes a great contribution to fish products. However, outbreaks of infectious diseases, in particular viral nervous necrosis (VNN), can result in the high mortalities and severe financial losses. Although, considerable efforts have been invested in order to resolve the problems caused by VNN, including trials for disinfecting pathogens and vaccination, the grouper aquaculture industry still lacks an effective and commercial solution to manage VNN. Thus, prevention and control of VNN remains one of the main obstacles to the development of grouper aquaculture industry for both small and large scale farmers. Additional strategies for treatment and vaccination may need to be com-bined with traditional approaches to enhance VNN management in grouper aquacul-ture, including the prevention of NNV transmission as well as the production of more resistant animals through selective breeding and interspecies hybridization.
Supplementary document for Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polariton Resonances and Microparticle Sensing in Bulk Dirac Semimetal with Spatially Perturbed Geometries - 5276811.pdf
Creators: name: Blessan, Tony
name: Natesan, Yogesh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Figures
Composés inter-halogènes sous pression: étude des transformations structurales dans le monobromure d’iode sous forme dense
Creators: name: Bouchard, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: iodine monobromide
incommensurate phase
high pressure crystallography
interhalogen compounds
halogen compounds

description: La famille des composés halogènes et inter-halogènes représentent des solides moléculaires adoptant des phases denses communes avec des solides moléculaires diatomiques comme l’azote et l’hydrogène. Parmi les transformations structurales et électroniques induites sous haute pression et observées dans ces solides, on note, entre autres, la dissociation moléculaire et la métallisation. De plus, l’étude des phases denses de l’iode a permis récemment l’observation d’une structure cristalline possédant une modulation dite incommensurable, c’est-à-dire une modulation possédant une périodicité différente de celle de la structure cristalline, jetant ainsi une lumière nouvelle sur le processus de dissociation moléculaire dans les solides halogènes. Dans ce mémoire, on propose d’étudier les changements structuraux dans monobromure d’iode (IBr), un composé inter-halogène possédant des propriétés structurales semblables à celles de deux composés halogènes, soit l’iode (I2) et le brome (Br2) sous leur forme solide. Des expériences de diffraction des rayons X de poudres en utilisant un rayonnement synchrotron ont été réalisées à température ambiante sur l’IBr en variant la pression jusqu’aux environs de 60 GPa. La nature chimique particulière du composé IBr a nécessité la mise au point de techniques de chargement d’échantillon destinées à préserver l’intégrité chimique de la substance utilisée. On rapporte également l’observation d’une phase de l’IBr présentant une modulation incommensurable. Les phases observées dans l’IBr permettent d’établir des parallèles avec les phases denses rapportées dans I2 et Br2 par le biais d’un modèle phénoménologique décrivant la séquence structurale des solides halogènes sous forme condensée.
Alterity: Writing Differentness in Print
Creators: name: Goodall, Eileen
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: print narrative
electronic media
changing literacy practices

description: The creative artefact accompanying this submission for the Degree of Doctorate of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) is a 40,000 word novel, entitled The Sherbrooke Brothers, written for the cross-over market, which includes young adult and older readers. Following the lives of two brothers, Alex and Rob (aged 17 and 20 respectively), The Sherbrooke Brothers explores existential themes such as fate, choice, death, freedom, personal responsibility, and the possibility of an afterlife. As an important manifestation of alterity (the sense of self and other) the subconscious world of both characters is explored using surreal devices - such as memories, dreams, visions and/or hallucinations - most of which are written as stand-alone episodes that may be read non-sequentially. Additionally, parallel storylines allow readers to observe events impacting upon both characters simultaneously, but in different settings. Digressive footnotes, as well as material written in the margins, intensify the creative artefact's multi-linear nature, providing readers with a choice as to how they traverse and interpret the text. Footnotes also allow for the introduction of an omniscient narrator, instilling the creative artefact with a different point of view, as well as multiple character-oriented perspectives. The Sherbrooke Brothers is an experimental work that re-presents the networked, interlinked, visually-oriented aesthetics of electronic-based technologies, such as computers and smartphones. This re-presentation is brought to the fore in several ways, including the use of Quick Response (QR) Codes that link the creative artefact with the Internet. When adapting electronic aesthetics into the printed realm, it has been my intention to transform a contemporary existential narrative into an assemblage of texts that conjures individual interpretations and reader interactivity. Yet, as a deeply intertextual work that positions the printed text as physical artefact, The Sherbrooke Brothers reinforces the collaborative dynamics that occur between readers and author when determining meaning.
Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistances in the Environment
Creators: name: Adler, Nicole
name: Balzer, Frederike
name: Blondzik, Katrin
name: Brauer, Frank
name: Chorus, Ingrid
name: Ebert, Ina
name: Fiedler, Traute
name: Förster, Christina
name: Grummt, Tamara
name: Heidemeier, Joachim
name: Hein, Arne
name: Helmecke, Manuela
name: Hilliges, Falk
name: Kirst, Ingo
name: Klasen, Jutta
name: Konradi, Sabine
name: Krause, Bernd
name: Küster, Anette
name: Pirntke, Ulrike
name: Roskosch, Andrea
name: Schönfeld, Jens
name: Selinka, Hans-Christoph
name: Straff, Wolfgang
name: Szewzyk, Regine
name: Westphal-Settele, Kathi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: antibiotics
subject: Chemicals
subject: Health
subject: Water

description: Environmental aspects have so far only partially been addressed in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance. To bring this issue into focus, ⁠UBA⁠ compiled background information and data on the topic 'Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in the environment'. The results show that previously considered requirements for reduction, from the perspective of UBA, are insufficient to adequately protect health and the environment. UBA sees urgent need for improvement and proposes possible options for action.
Copreneurship: reflections on method from a study of women's experiences of copreneurship in rural tourism
Creators: name: Bensemann, Jo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper uses conversation about a study of copreneurship within rural tourism to lead a wider discussion of the competing paradigms which exist in fieldwork in tourism and entrepreneurship. Many tourism businesses are built around lifestyle and integration of life stakeholders such as family and partners, yet to date there has been no published discussion of copreneurship within tourism businesses specifically. The study used to bring about this discussion investigated copreneurship in rural tourism businesses. It explored the experiences of owners of rural tourism accommodation businesses in New Zealand within the framework of copreneurship. It examined roles within copreneurial rural tourism businesses and studied women’s experiences of entrepreneurship within the copreneurial environment. To do this, the study used a mixed method approach (a survey and in-depth interviews) to elicit information about copreneurs operating rural tourism businesses, and about how women experience copreneurship within rural tourism. Copreneurs are couples who share ownership, commitment and responsibility for a business together (Barnett and Barnett, 1989), or as Marshack (1994) put it, copreneurship represents the dynamic interaction of the systems of love and work.
Additional file 1 of PTWAS: investigating tissue-relevant causal molecular mechanisms of complex traits using probabilistic TWAS analysis
Creators: name: Yuhua Zhang
name: Quick, Corbin
name: Ketian Yu
name: Barbeira, Alvaro
name: Luca, Francesca
name: Pique-Regi, Roger
name: Im, Hae Kyung
name: Wen, Xiaoquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 Figure S1: Diagram representing instrumental variable analysis. Figure S2: Distribution of Gini coefficients summarizing the sparsity of the composite IVs in different TWAS scan methods. Figure S3: Allelic heterogeneity in implicated PTWAS signal genes. Figure S4: Heterogeneity of gene-to-trait effects across tissues. Figure S5: Comparison of distributions of colocalization probabilities between all genes and PTWAS significant genes.
Investigation into Layer 3 Multicast Virtual Private Network Schemes
Creators: name: Bazama, Muneer I.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012

description: The need of multicast applications such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and dependent financial services require more scalable and reliable MVPN infrastructures. This diversity and breadth of services pose a challenge for operators to create an infrastructure that supports Layer 2 (ATM/Frame relay/Ethernet/PPP) and Layer 3(IPv4/IPv6) Virtual Private Networks. The difficulty is particularly true for virtual services that require complex control and data plane operations. Another challenge is to support emerging multicast applications incrementally on top of the existing Layer 3 VPN infrastructure without adding operational complexity. In this thesis, we investigate and analyze several implementation methods of Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) schemes by carrying out tests in a research testbed environment. These schemes are intended for offering multicast services over layer 3 VPN. However, some of these technologies can be tuned to offer multicast services over layer 2 VPN as well. We also provide tools and tactics on how to implement and evaluate the scalability and performance of two MPVN schemes in IP/MPLS core networks such as Rosen scheme and NG MVPN.
Supplementary document for Multicomponent garnet phosphor (LuYGd)(Al4Ga)O12:Ce3+,V3+: Trap modulation via reductive gas annealing and optical information storage property - 5277398.pdf
Creators: name: Deng, Mingxue
name: Wang, Caiyan
name: Liu, Qian
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Zhou, Zhenzhen
name: Xu, Xiaoke
name: He, Huan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Information
Towards Guidelines for the Inclusion of Children with Disability in Sport: How framing the treatment of children with disability in competitive sport as discrimination leads to true inclusion
Creators: name: Pearce, Simone
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: disability
sport
true inclusion
discriminiation
reasonable adjustments
Law in context

description: The law plays a crucial role in the treatment of children with disability in competitive sport. It can lead to improved experiences for those children. If not implemented in the right way, it can hinder and hamper experiences of children with disability in sport. This thesis considers the way the law applies to the structures, rules and policies in competitive sport in Australia, and argues that using discrimination law to identify treatment as discriminatory can lead to the law, or more importantly its implementation, providing a solution to the exclusion of children with disability from meaningful experiences in competitive sport. The solution proposed in this thesis is the introduction of Guidelines for the inclusion of children with disability in competitive sport, as provided for in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (‘DDA’). This thesis culminates, in Chapter 7, with draft Guidelines.
"The Market That Just Grew Up": How Eaton's Fashioned the Teenaged Consumer in Mid-twentieth-century Canada
Creators: name: Rollwagen, Katharine E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Canada
twentieth century
teenagers
childhood
growing up
students
Eaton's
department store
advertising
advisory councils
clothing
speciality sizes
retail
mail order catalogues
consumer magazines
Chatelaine
Mayfair
Canadian Home Journal
gender
Canadian census

description: This thesis focuses on the emergence of the teenaged consumer as a market segment in Canada during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It challenges the notion that teenagers were of little interest to retailers until economics and demographics shaped the more numerous and prosperous post-war teenagers of the Baby Boom generation. Using evidence from corporate records and analysis of mail order catalogues, the study examines how department store retailer, the T. Eaton Company, Limited, began to cultivate a distinct and lucrative teenaged consumer in the 1930s, and thereby began shaping the teenaged consumer. The thesis contextualizes the case study of Eaton’s by exploring the varied expectations that adults had of young people at the time, using census records and magazines (Chatelaine, Canadian Home Journal and Mayfair) to explore concerns about young people’s transition to adulthood. It then focuses on how Eaton’s made a concerted and sustained effort to attract teenager customers to its catalogue and stores. Analysis of its semi-annual catalogue highlights the emergence of specialized clothing size ranges and styles, revealing that Eaton’s increasingly viewed the teenaged years as an important in-between life stage. Eaton’s also instituted teenage advisory councils to both glean market trends and provide a venue for what it considered education for novice consumers. Eaton’s presented consumption as a way to prepare young people for adult roles, legitimizing teenaged participation in the consumer marketplace and contributing to wider debates about when and how teenaged Canadians should reach maturity.
Additional file 6 of Association between fetal sex and maternal plasma microRNA responses to prenatal alcohol exposure: evidence from a birth outcome-stratified cohort
Creators: name: Salem, Nihal A.
name: Mahnke, Amanda H.
name: Wells, Alan B.
name: Tseng, Alexander M.
name: Yevtushok, Lyubov
name: Zymak-Zakutnya, Natalya
name: Wertlecki, Wladimir
name: Chambers, Christina D.
name: Miranda, Rajesh C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Concordance between partial correlation analyses correcting for gestational age (GA) at blood draw and full correlation analyses estimates. Figures showing full correlation coefficient between each miRNA pair on X-axis, and partial correlation coefficient correcting for GA on Y-axis, blue line shows the linear regression between the two coefficients. R2 between the two coefficients are shown. Second trimester groups are shown in (a), third trimester groups are shown in (b).
Homeless women: no home at the end of the road
Creators: name: Sharam, Andrea
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Single, older women in Australia are a group vulnerable to housing insecurity and at risk of homelessness in their old age. Wage inequality and childrearing have contributed to a decreased capacity to acquire housing equity and retirement savings. In addition, social changes that have enabled serial monogamy means there has been significant growth in the number and proportion of single, older women in the population. These women now face further disadvantage in the housing market as purchase prices and rental costs have risen, reflecting a number of factors including a shortage of housing supply.
Caring for Carers: How formal support services help parent-carers maintain their health and wellbeing
Creators: name: Teo, Cynthia
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: respite
disability support worker
family-centred
person-centred
challenging behaviours

description: Background: Most children with significant developmental disabilities are cared for by their parents at home, and their caregiving responsibilities can last the lifetime of the child. Many parent-carers need support to continue with their caregiving responsibilities indefinitely. There has, however, been little evidence that respite interventions have consistent or enduring beneficial effects on carer wellbeing. Many studies have also mainly focused on what has not been working in respite interventions, and there is no known research on disability support staff who work with families with children with significant intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in the home environment.Method: Using a qualitative approach, underpinned by an Appreciative Inquiry philosophy, three focus groups were conducted to explore the views of parent-carers on how formal support services have helped them maintain their health and wellbeing. Preliminary findings then informed the questions used in individual interviews with eight disability support workers who work with children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings: Flexibility and adaptability of parents and service providers were found to contribute to the positive perceptions of formal support services. When disability support providers work in the homes of their clients, parents expect and prefer a combination of a client- and family-centred approach. Better communication and collaboration between service providers and users, and clearer aims and definition for support services and support workers emerged as what could be improved in service provision; while parent empowerment and professionalising the role of support work emerged as dreams for the future. Conclusion: The findings generated offer policy-makers and support service providers insight into how their services might be improved to better meet the needs of families, including embracing a person- and family-centred approach to respite services, clearer definition and communication of the scope of respite services, and potentially recognising disability support work as a para-profession.
title: Coordination by Default or by Design Implementing Education Programs in Post-Conflict: the South Sudan Experience
Creators: name: Kahando, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Education

description: The process of rebuilding and reconstruction after war is a long, demanding and arduous process. Different actors are involved, drawn from the local community, neighboring countries and international arena. The actors come with various expectations, interests, resources and demands in programs implementation. Each actor has their own way and understanding of doing things based on where they have come from. To further complicate the process, coordination issues, whether planned or unplanned, become an imperative and have to be addressed or further strengthened so as to meet the objectives of the various actors involved. Implementing education in post conflict countries has seen its fair share of these complexities. Driven by different interests, needs, expectations and demands, there is a lack of clarity among the different actors, which ultimately has a negative impact on the success of programs. Using a case study of the community girl's school, a Non-formal program implemented in south Sudan, I will explore and examine the missed opportunities that arise when there is lack of clarity at the onset and continuation of implementing education programs. The author will address coordination challenges that are faced by different actors working in Post-Conflict scenarios and how these affect program implementation. The author argues that coordination issues especially in post-conflict scenarios should be clearly included in program plans and not merely assumed. Data used is largely drawn from the authors experience in implementing the program, interviews of the respective people working in the different organizations, former and current officials from the government representatives and reports submitted on the program. The study will also examine the envisioned roles of the concerned actors involved, their objectives, roles and coordination efforts within the program that was implemented and how that contributed towards the overall impact of the program. Finally, the project will analyze the lessons that can be drawn from the analysis including ineffective oversight, clarifying terms and mandates and communication across and among all actors. The study recommends among other factors the need to not only involve community in designing programs but also clarifying goals, roles and responsibilities. Coordination should not be a design by default but rather well planned and budget for with clearly articulated goals.
Risikogovernance von neuartigen Materialien
Creators: name: Schwirn, Kathrin
name: Völker, Doris
name: Haase, Andrea
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Globale Aspekte
subject: Neuartige Materialien
subject: Umweltveränderung
subject: Risikogovernance
subject: Chemikaliensicherheit
subject: Frühwarnsystem
subject: safe and sustainable by design
subject: regulatory preparedness
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Neuartige Materialien haben das Potenzial, technische Lösungen für drängende globale Herausforderungen zu bieten. Derzeit lässt sich aber nur schwer ableiten, welche neuartigen Materialien in Zukunft tatsächlich zum Einsatz kommen werden und inwieweit die bestehenden (rechtlichen) Rahmenbedingungen geeignet sind, ihre Sicherheit sowie andere Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit zu berücksichtigen. Dieses Dokument fasst die aktuelle Perspektive der Bundesoberbehörden UBA, BfR und BAuA zusammen, die darauf abzielt, eine gute Governance für neuartige Materialien zu etablieren, um ihre verantwortungsvolle Entwicklung, Verwendung und Lebensende unter Berücksichtigung der Sicherheit für Mensch und Umwelt sicherzustellen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Advanced materials have the potential to provide technical solutions for pressing global challenges, i.e. for energy revolution, digitalisation, or health care. However, it is currently difficult to derive which advanced materials will be actually used in the future and to what extent the existing legal frameworks or other measures are suitable to address their safety as well as other aspects of sustainability along their life cycle. This document summarises the current perspective of the higher federal authorities UBA, BfR and BAuA aiming to establish good governance of advanced materials to ensure their responsible development, use and end of life considering human and environment safety. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Neuartige Materialien haben das Potenzial, technische Lösungen für drängende globale Herausforderungen zu bieten. Derzeit lässt sich aber nur schwer ableiten, welche neuartigen Materialien in Zukunft tatsächlich zum Einsatz kommen werden und inwieweit die bestehenden (rechtlichen) Rahmenbedingungen geeignet sind, ihre Sicherheit sowie andere Aspekte der ⁠Nachhaltigkeit⁠ zu berücksichtigen. Dieses Dokument fasst die aktuelle Perspektive der Bundesoberbehörden ⁠UBA⁠, ⁠BfR⁠ und BAuA zusammen, die darauf abzielt, eine gute Governance für neuartige Materialien zu etablieren, um ihre verantwortungsvolle Entwicklung, Verwendung und Lebensende unter Berücksichtigung der Sicherheit für Mensch und Umwelt sicherzustellen.
Lectures contemporaines du symbolisme maussien dans la socio-anthropologie française
Creators: name: Létourneau, Kateri
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: le don
le symbolisme
Marcel Mauss
Camille Tarot
Bruno Karsenti
Alain Caillé
Jacques T. Godbout
le fait social total

description: Les travaux de Marcel Mauss connaissent au tournant des années 1980 un renouveau d’intérêt, notamment avec la revue du MAUSS. Cet intérêt serait attribuable à la conception originale du social comme symbolisme qui s’esquisse chez ce durkheimien hétérodoxe. Cette thèse compare les perspectives de quatre lecteurs contemporains du symbolisme maussien issus de la socio-anthropologie française, soit Camille Tarot, Bruno Karsenti, Alain Caillé et Jacques T. Godbout. Si ces derniers s’entendent sur l’importance des travaux de Mauss, le sens à donner aux concepts de fait social total et de don diffère sensiblement selon les auteurs : Tarot et Karsenti, en accordant plus d’importance à la découverte du fait social total, décèlent chez Mauss une conception sociale accordant une place à la totalité symbolique, alors que Caillé et Godbout, en insistant davantage sur la découverte maussienne du don, y trouvent les prolégomènes d’un tiers paradigme se situant entre l’holisme et l’individualisme.
Supplementary document for A Self-Adaptive Metasurface Platform Based on Computer Vision - 5277562.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Qian
name: Zheng, Yi Ning
name: Gu, Ze
name: Liu, Jia
name: Liang, Yu Chen
name: Li, Lin Zhou
name: Zhang, Xin Ge
name: Jiang, Wei Xiang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Some supplemental materials
Additional file 7 of PTWAS: investigating tissue-relevant causal molecular mechanisms of complex traits using probabilistic TWAS analysis
Creators: name: Yuhua Zhang
name: Quick, Corbin
name: Ketian Yu
name: Barbeira, Alvaro
name: Luca, Francesca
name: Pique-Regi, Roger
name: Im, Hae Kyung
name: Wen, Xiaoquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 7 Review history.
Should we design buildings for lower-probability earthquake motion?
Creators: name: Tsang, Hing Ho
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: On February 22, 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6. 3 occurred very near to the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The consequence came as a shock to many seismologists and earthquake engineers as New Zealand is known as the homeland of modern earthquake-resistant design techniques. After the earthquake, the focus of discussion has been on the collapse of buildings, while few queried the adequacy of design requirements. Importantly, similar 'inadequacy' seems to repeat all around the world more frequently than expected. Hence, the question statement in the title concerns not only Christchurch, but anywhere in the world.
Exploring the day-to-day support needs and coping strategies of mothers with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Creators: name: Meloncelli, Shannyn
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: day to day support needs
coping strategies
mothers
rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

description: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease, whereby the body's immune system attacks its own tissues. This chronic, systemic condition impacts the whole body, including organs, joints, respiratory and digestive systems. According to 2012 ABS self-reported data approximately 445,000 Australians (2% of the population) had RA with RA prevalence expected to rise 40% in Australia by 2032. RA onset commonly occurs between 35-64 years of age, potentially impacting women in their reproductive years. There is currently no cure for RA and treatment success is unpredictable despite improvements in early stage treatment over the last two decades. Little qualitative research in relation to how mothers with RA cope and their support needs has been undertaken. Some evidence exists that individual adaptive coping strategies, including accepting realistic standards, pacing activities and drawing in support are beneficial. There is also evidence that mothers connecting locally and online to share stories, practical strategies and parenting tips is a useful way for mothers with RA to gain peer support and useful information.
Constitutionnaliser la langue inuit au Nunavut
Creators: name: Richardson, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016

description: La présente thèse a pour objet d’analyser les moyens par lesquels la langue inuit au Nunavut pourrait être constitutionnalisée en droit canadien. Nous dresserons la toile de fond des droits linguistiques au Nunavut pour ensuite analyser les moyens par lesquels le droits canadien pourrait conférer des protections constitutionnelles à cette langue. En premier lieu, nous analyserons l’article 35 de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982 en vue de répondre à la question de savoir si la langue inuit pourrait constituer un droit ancestral. Nous analyserons aussi la question de savoir si une telle reconnaissance exigerait que la Couronne prenne des mesures positives pour protéger cette langue. Nous expliciterons ensuite les moyens par lesquels on pourrait constitutionnaliser expressément la langue inuit au Nunavut. Pour ce faire, nous étudierons, d’une part, la procédure de modification prévue à l’Accord sur les revendications territoriales du Nunavut et, d’autre part, les procédures de modification prévues à la Partie V de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982.
Drivers of Forest Loss in a Megadiverse Hotspot on the Pacific Coast of Colombia
Creators: name: Anaya, Jesús A.
name: Gutiérrez-Vélez, Víctor H.
name: Pacheco-Pascagaza, Ana M.
name: Palomino-Ángel, Sebastián
name: Han, Natasha
name: Balzter, Heiko
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Tropical forests are disappearing at unprecedented rates, but the drivers behind this transformation are not always clear. This limits the decision-making processes and the effectiveness of forest management policies. In this paper, we address the extent and drivers of deforestation of the Choco biodiversity hotspot, which has not received much scientific attention despite its high levels of plant diversity and endemism. The climate is characterized by persistent cloud cover which is a challenge for land cover mapping from optical satellite imagery. By using Google Earth Engine to select pixels with minimal cloud content and applying a random forest classifier to Landsat and Sentinel data, we produced a wall-to-wall land cover map, enabling a diagnosis of the status and drivers of forest loss in the region. Analyses of these new maps together with information from illicit crops and alluvial mining uncovered the pressure over intact forests. According to Global Forest Change (GFC) data, 2324 km² were deforested in this area from 2001 to 2018, reaching a maximum in 2016 and 2017. We found that 68% of the area is covered by broadleaf forests (67,473 km²) and 15% by shrublands (14,483 km²), the latter with enormous potential to promote restoration projects. This paper provides a new insight into the conservation of this exceptional forest with a discussion of the drivers of forest loss, where illicit crops and alluvial mining were found to be responsible for 60% of forest loss.