cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analyzing the Agricultural Trade Impacts of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement : CATPRN Working Paper 2008-08
Creators: name: Malhotra, N.
name: Stoyanov, Andrey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we study the agricultural trade impacts of the Canada Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA). We find that the effect of the CCFTA on Chilean agricultural exports to Canada is large and positive. We estimate that approximately one-half of a 90 percent increase in Chilean exports to Canada can be attributed to trade preferences that the country received under the agreement. We found no effect of the agreement on Canadian exports to Chile. As far as we know, our paper is among the few that carries out a detailed empirical analysis of \ the effect of the FTA on agriculture. Most empirical papers that have studied the trade impact of FTAs rely on country-wide gravity models and aggregate trade data. These aggregate analyses can hide negative effects of FTAs on some sectors (like agriculture) where a country may have a comparative disadvantage. Our approach is industry-focused and differs from the mainstream literature analyzing FTAs.
Rupprecht Mayer (Hrsg.), Achim Mittag (Red.): Chinablätter No.18, November 1991, In memoriam Achim Hildebrand
Creators: name: Reiter, Florian C.
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 46 (1993): ASIEN (Januar)
Rainer Schryen: Hong Kong und Shenzhen. Entwicklungen, Verflechtungen und Abhängigkeiten. Eine wirtschaftsgeographische Untersuchung
Creators: name: Müller-Hofstede, Christoph
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 46 (1993): ASIEN (Januar)
Self-modeling and competitive diving performance
Creators: name: Rymal, Amanda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: The aim of this experiment was to investigate whether a self-modeling intervention could enhance competitive diving performance along with psychological mechanisms, such as self-efficacy, self-talk, and mental readiness. Eight participants (M age =12.6) competed at two competitions where one of their dives received the self-modeling video while the other acted as a control. At each competition, measures associated with the participants' self-efficacy, self-talk, mental readiness, and diving performance were collected. In addition, the participants responded to four questions relating to their thoughts and feelings of the self-modeling video intervention. Separate analyses of variance were conducted on all dependent measures. The results revealed no significant difference for all dependent measures between the self-modeling and control dive. This indicates that the self-modeling video failed to enhance competitive diving performance, and did not have an effect self-efficacy, self-talk, and mental readiness. Furthermore, imagery ability was measured to determine whether it acted as a possible moderating variable. However, this was not found to be a moderating variable between the self-modeling video and performance. Possible explanations for the lack of significant results with the quantitative data are forwarded A deductive analysis of the participants' transcripts was conducted where Zimmerman's (1989, 2000) self-regulation framework was adopted. Discussion of the qualitative data will focus on the participants' use of the self-modeling video with respect to self-regulatory processes.
Zu Haymo Mitschian, "Passivität asiatischer Lerner - ein kulturelles oder interkulturelles Problem? Analysen an Beispielen aus der VR China"
Creators: name: Franke, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 46 (1993): ASIEN (Januar)
Haymo Mitschian: Chinesische Lerngewohnheiten. Evaluierungen für den Deutsch-als-Fremdsprachenunterricht in der Volksrepublik China
Creators: name: Hess, Hans-Werner
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 46 (1993): ASIEN (Januar)
Active learning for excited states dynamics simulations to discover molecular degradation pathways
Creators: name: Zhou, Chen
name: Kumar, Prashant
name: Escudero, Daniel
name: Friederich, Pascal
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023

description: The demand for precise, data-efficient, and cost-effective exploration of chemical space has ignited growing interest in machine learning (ML), which exhibits remarkable capabilities in accelerating atomistic simulations of large systems over long time scales. Active learning is a technique widely used to reduce the cost of acquiring relevant ML training data. Here we present a modular, transferrable, and broadly applicable, parallel active learning orchestrator. Our workflow enables data and task parallelism for data generation, model training, and ML-enhanced simulations. We demonstrate its use in efficiently exploring multiple excited state potential energy surfaces and possible degradation pathways of an organic semiconductor used in organic light-emitting diodes. With our modular and adaptable workflow architecture, we expect our parallel active learning approach to be readily extended to explore other materials using state-of-the-art ML models, opening ways to AI-guided design and a better understanding of molecules and materials relevant to various applications, such as organic semiconductors or photocatalysts.
Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
Creators: name: Boyd, Susan
name: Johnson, Joy L.
name: Moffat, Barbara
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: In 2004, a team comprised of researchers and service providers launched the Safer Crack Use, Outreach, Research and Education (SCORE) project in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The project was aimed at developing a better understanding of the harms associated with crack cocaine smoking and determining the feasibility of introducing specific harm reduction strategies. Specifically, in partnership with the community, we constructed and distributed kits that contained harm reduction materials. We were particularly interested in understanding what people thought of these kits and how the kits contents were used. To obtain this information, we conducted 27 interviews with women and men who used crack cocaine and received safer crack kits. Four broad themes were generated from the data: 1) the context of crack use practices; 2) learning/transmission of harm reducon education; 3) changing practice; 4) barriers to change. This project suggests that harm reduction education is most successful when it is informed by current practices with crack use. In addition it is most effectively delivered through informal interactions with people who use crack and includes repeated demonstrations of harm reduction equipment by peers and outreach workers. This paper also suggests that barriers to harm reduction are systemic: lack of safe housing and private space shape crack use practices.
Wolfgang Bauer: Das Antlitz Chinas. Die Autobiographische Selbstdarstellung in der Chinesischen Literatur von Ihren Anfängen bis Heute
Creators: name: Heberer, Thomas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 46 (1993): ASIEN (Januar)
Joachim Glaubitz: Fremde Nachbarn: Tokyo und Moskau. Ihre Beziehungen vom Beginn der 70er Jahre bis zum Ende der Sowjetunion
Creators: name: Jäger, Thomas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 46 (1993): ASIEN (Januar)
High prevalence of HIV infection among homeless and street-involved Aboriginal youth in a Canadian setting
Creators: name: Marshall, Brandon David Lewis
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Livingstone, Chris
name: Li, Kathy
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Aboriginal people experience a disproportionate burden of HIV infection among the adult population in Canada; however, less is known regarding the prevalence and characteristics of HIV positivity among drug-using and street-involved Aboriginal youth. We examined HIV seroprevalence and risk factors among a cohort of 529 street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada. At baseline, 15 (2.8%) were HIV positive, of whom 7 (46.7%) were Aboriginal. Aboriginal ethnicity was a significant correlate of HIV infection (odds ratio = 2.87, 95%CI: 1.02 – 8.09). Of the HIV positive participants, 2 (28.6%) Aboriginals and 6 (75.0%) non-Aboriginals reported injection drug use; furthermore, hepatitis C co-infection was significantly less common among Aboriginal participants (p = 0.041). These findings suggest that factors other than injection drug use may promote HIV transmission among street-involved Aboriginal youth, and provide further evidence that culturally appropriate and evidence-based interventions for HIV prevention among Aboriginal young people are urgently required.
Malurus lamberti subsp. mungi Mathews
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Maluridae
Malurus
Malurus lamberti
Malurus lamberti mungi mathews

description: Malurus lamberti mungi Mathews
 Malurus lamberti mungi Mathews, 1912a: 360 (North-West Australia (Mungi)).
 Now Malurus lamberti assimilis X rogersi. See Schodde, 1982: 91, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 85–87.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602230, adult male, collected at Mungi Rockhole, 18.45S, 123.44E (Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), 8 mi southeast of Mount Alexander, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 30 June 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1836). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9092) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. This holotype, like the previous one, bears a Mathews type label but no Rothschild type label, nor was it cataloged at AMNH as a type. An AMNH type label has been added. The problem has to do with the fact that Mathews cataloged all 11 specimens of this form as coming from the Fitzroy River and has put this locality on his collection label of the type even though Rogers’ original label attached to that bird clearly gives the locality as ‘‘Mungi Rock hole, 8 miles S.E. of Mount Alexander, West Kimberly (sic), NWA’’. All of Rogers’ specimens of this form collected in mid-June and mid-July 1911 were from the Fitzroy River area, with the June birds labeled ‘‘Mungi Rock-hole’’ and July birds ‘‘ 14 mi w of Mt. Anderson’’, and all were found in Mathews’ catalog (nos. 9087–9096 and 9448). The entry for the holotype opposite 9092 has the correct sex and Rogers’ label is marked ‘‘Type of mungi’’ in what appears to be Mathews’ hand. The 10 paratypes are: AMNH 602228, 602229, and 602231–602238.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 109, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Achievement of one Tambon One ProductIn Kanchanaburi province
Creators: name: Budsara Mui-Ink
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2017
Subjects: achievement
One Tambon one product
Kanchanaburi province

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 4, 2, 64-74
Structural Equation Modeling of Wholesaler's Opportunistic Behaviour Risk Factorinfluence to Partner's Relationship Termination within Vegetable Supply Chain
Creators: name: Ditsathaporncharoen, Santi
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2017
Subjects: opportunistic behaviour
opportunism
relationship termination
risk factor
wholesaler
vegetable supply chain

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 4, 2, 75-88
Malurus lamberti subsp. occidentalis Mathews
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Maluridae
Malurus
Malurus lamberti
Malurus lamberti occidentalis mathews

description: Malurus lamberti occidentalis Mathews
 Malurus lamberti occidentalis Mathews, 1912a: 360 (Lake Way, West Australia).
 Now Malurus lamberti assimilis North, 1901. See Schodde, 1982: 91, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 86.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602169, adult male, collected at Lake Way, 26.50S, 120.25E (Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 509), East Murchison, Western Australia, Australia, on 7 July 1909, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2318) via the Rothschild Collection.
 COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It is the only Lake Way specimen cataloged at that place and the only one in AMNH. The specimen also bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1922e: pl. 462, lower right fig., opp. p. 95, text p. 96), where it is confirmed as the type of Malurus lamberti occidentalis. The range of this form was given as ‘‘ West Australia’ ’ and there are four probable paratypes, all collected by Whitlock: AMNH 602170 (Matthews no. 2319), immature male, and AMNH 602171 (2320), female, Borewell, East Murchison, 2 August 1909; and AMNH 602172 and 602173 (3992 and 3993), males, East Murchison, 28 September 1909. Two additional specimens are possible paratypes, AMNH 602174 and 602175, collected by Whitlock in the East Murchison in October and November 1909; however, I could not find these specimens in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into his possession.
Whitlock (1910) published on his expedition to the East Murchison, Western Australia, detailing his itinerary and collecting localities.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on pages 109-110, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Preliminary development of a scale to measure stigma relating to sexually transmitted infections among women in a high risk neighbourhood
Creators: name: Rusch, Melanie L.
name: Shoveller, Jean
name: Burgess, Susan
name: Stancer, Karen
name: Patrick, David, (Physician)
name: Tyndall, Mark
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: As stigma is a socially constructed concept, it would follow that stigma related to sexual behaviours and sexually transmitted infections would carry with it many of the gender-based morals that are entrenched in social constructs of sexuality. In many societies, women tend to be judged more harshly with respect to sexual morals, and would therefore have a different experience of stigma related to sexual behaviours as compared to men. While a variety of stigma scales exist for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in general; none incorporate these female-specific aspects. The objective of this study was to develop a scale to measure the unique experience of STI-related stigma among women. Methods A pool of items was identified from qualitative and quantitative literature on sexual behaviour and STIs among women. Women attending a social evening program at a local community health clinic in a low-income neighbourhood with high prevalence of substance use were passively recruited to take part in a cross-sectional structured interview, including questions on sexual behaviour, sexual health and STI-related stigma. Exploratory factor analysis was used to identify stigma scales, and descriptive statistics were used to assess the associations of demographics, sexual and drug-related risk behaviours with the emerging scales. Results Three scales emerged from exploratory factor analysis – female-specific moral stigma, social stigma (judgement by others) and internal stigma (self-judgement) – with alpha co-efficients of 0.737, 0.705 and 0.729, respectively. In this population of women, internal stigma and social stigma carried higher scores than female-specific moral stigma. Aboriginal ethnicity was associated with higher internal and female-specific moral stigma scores, while older age (>30 years) was associated with higher female-specific moral stigma scores. Conclusion Descriptive statistics indicated an important influence of culture and age on specific types of stigma. Quantitative researchers examining STI-stigma should consider incorporating these female-specific factors in order to tailor scales for women.
Maha and Hajer: The Price of Gender Non-conformity in Kuwait
Creators: name: Al AlEnezi, Maram Saif
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This thesis’s focus is the amendment of Article 198 of Kuwait’s criminal law in 2007. The amendment has been criminalizing “imitating the opposite sex” since 2007. The researcher presents to the reader the Article in question and its effects on transgender people. This thesis goes in depth and present to the reader two different stories about Maha Al Mutairi and Hajer Al Assi, two transgender individuals. The thesis is divided into different sections that discuss the amendment and the stories of Maha and Hajer. It also contains sections that discuss and explore Islam’s point of view on transitioning, the work of Lawyer Ali Al Aryan on abolishing the amendment, Kuwaiti culture’s view on cross dressing and transitioning, and the new medical law that allows transitioning in Kuwait under specific rules. This thesis’s aim and objective is to bring to light the stories of transgender and gender non-conforming people to light. And to ask the question of to which extent does the Kuwaiti state polices sex and gender.
Learning from multirelational data through multiple views
Creators: name: Guo, Hongyu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Since their first release in the 1970s, relational databases have been routinely used to collect and organize real-world data---from financial transactions, marketing surveys, to health informatics observations. Traditional data mining methods expect data in the form of a single table, thus resulting in an inability to deal with such relational repositories. Multirelational Data Mining, on the other hand, aims to discover useful patterns across multiple inter-connected relations in a relational database. To this end, this work focuses on how to build classification models for relational databases through multiple views (feature sets). This study developed four multiple view strategies for mining multirelational data. The thesis firstly introduces the Multi-View Relational Classification (MRC) framework, for constructing hypotheses from sets of attributes of the presented data. The MRC strategy distinguishes itself from existing multirelational mining algorithms by excluding the need to either transform multiple relations into a universal single table or to devise new techniques for direct relational learning. The MRC algorithm offers both predictive performance and efficiency gains over current relational models, when mining diverse relational databases. Secondly, the MRC-IM method extends the MRC approach in order to deal with skew-class multirelational data. Here, the number of examples from one class is much higher than the others and correctly classifying the underrepresented examples is of prime importance. The MRC-IM method offers performance gains over a current relational model not only against majority class instances, but also against underrepresented examples. While the MRC and MRC-IM methods construct an individual view using features within a sole relation, the third multi-view strategy formulated by this work, namely the MRC-Cross approach, enables the search and collection of relevant attributes across multiple relations when constructing individual views. Finally, we present the SESP technique for pre-pruning uninteresting relations of complex relational databases. Through identifying uninteresting views from the MRC framework, our SESP method creates a pruned structure, while minimizing predictive performance loss on the final classification model. The results of this study thus suggest that learning from multiple views sets a new direction for efficiently mining data in many relational forms, including relational databases, graphs and social networks.
Aplicação da extração supercrítica na valorização de resíduos agroindustriais
Creators: name: Coelho, J.A.P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Aplicação da extração supercrítica na valorização de resíduos agroindustriais - Oral presentation in the 5º Forum de Engenharia Química e Biológica do ISEL (iFEQB)
Y-box binding protein-1 serine 102 is a downstream target of p90 ribosomal S6 kinase in basal-like breast cancer cells
Creators: name: Stratford, Anna L
name: Fry, Christopher J
name: Desilets, Curtis
name: Davies, Alastair H
name: Cho, Yong Y
name: Li, Yvonne
name: Dong, Zigang
name: Berquin, Isabelle M
name: Roux, Philippe P
name: Dunn, Sandra E
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Introduction: Basal-like breast cancers (BLBC) frequently overexpress the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and subsequently have high levels of signaling through the MAP kinase pathway, which is thought to contribute to their aggressive behavior. While we have previously reported the expression of Y-box binding protein-1 (YB-1) in 73% of BLBC, it is unclear whether it can be regulated by a component of the MAP kinase signaling pathway. Phosphorylation of YB-1 at the serine 102 residue is required for transcriptional activation of growth-enhancing genes, such as EGFR. Using Motifscan we identified p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK) as a potential candidate for activating YB-1. Methods Inhibition of RSK1 and RSK2 was achieved using siRNA and the small molecule SL0101. RSK1, RSK2, activated RSK and kinase-dead RSK were expressed in HCC1937 cells. Kinase assays were performed to illustrate direct phosphorylation of YB-1 by RSK. The impact of inhibiting RSK on YB-1 function was measured by luciferase assays and chromatin immunoprecipitation. Results Using an in vitro kinase assay, RSK1 and RSK2 were shown to directly phosphorylate YB-1. Interestingly, they were more effective activators of YB-1 than AKT or another novel YB-1 kinase, PKCα. Phosphorylation of YB-1 (serine 102 residue) is blocked by inhibition of the MAP kinase pathway or by perturbing RSK1/RSK2 with siRNA or SL0101. In immortalized breast epithelial cells where RSK is active yet AKT is not, YB-1 is phosphorylated. Supporting this observation, RSK2-/- mouse embryo fibroblasts lose the ability to phosphorylate YB-1 in response to epidermal growth factor. This subsequently interfered with the ability of YB-1 to regulate the expression of EGFR. The RSK inhibitor SL0101 decreased the ability of YB-1 to bind the promoter, transactivate and ultimately reduce EGFR expression. In concordance with these results the expression of constitutively active RSK1 increased YB-1 phosphorylation, yet the kinase-dead RSK did not. Conclusions We therefore conclude that RSK1/RSK2 are novel activators of YB-1, able to phosphorylate the serine 102 residue. This provides a newly described mechanism whereby YB-1 is activated in breast cancer. This implicates the EGFR/RSK/YB-1 pathway as an important component of BLBC, providing an important opportunity for therapeutic intervention.
Open Synthesis: Open Science in Evidence Synthesis (third speaker)
Creators: name: Haddaway, Neal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Slides to the session "Open Synthesis: Open Science in Evidence Synthesis" by Dr Neal Haddaway. Further details of the workshop can be found here: https://evidencesynthesisireland.ie/opensynthesis. Neal Haddaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden and a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin, Germany. Neal researches evidence synthesis methodology and conducts systematic reviews and maps in the field of climate science, sustainability, environmental management and international development. His main research interests focus on improving the transparency, efficiency and reliability of evidence synthesis as a methodology, and supporting evidence synthesis in resource constrained contexts. He is also the co-founder of the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon (www.eshackathon.org), and has a keen interest in the use of Evidence Synthesis Technology to support rigorous computer-assisted systematic reviews and maps. Neal is the co-leader of the Open Synthesis Working Group; an international, cross-disciplinary group of experts interested in applying Open Science principles to evidence synthesis. The presentation was part of the Open Scholarship Week 2020. It can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANpI4xX-lk
Politische Kultur und die Wirtschaftskrise Südostasiens
Creators: name: Houben, Vincent
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Seit dem Sommer 1997 hat sich die Situation in Südostasien tiefgreifend verandert. Jahrzehntelang war diese Weltregion mit weit über 450 Mio. Einwohnern ein Muster rapiden wirtschaftlichen Aufstiegs und sozialen Wandels. Der wirtschaftliche Aufstieg der ASEAN-5 Lander (Indonesien, Malaysia, Philippinen, Singapur und Thailand) war auf den ersten Blick tatsächlich sehr beeindruckend: Das jährliche Wachstum des BSP betrug in den letzten zehn Jahren durchschnittlich 8%.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 70 (1999): ASIEN (Januar)
Methylmercury and Paraquat Induced Toxicity in the Mitochondria of Dopamine Neurons
Creators: name: Sharin, Tasnia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Methylmercury
Paraquat

description: Methylmercury and Paraquat are environmental toxins that affect the central nervous system. Exposure to Paraquat and methylmercury causes movement impairments similar to the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The degeneration of dopamine neurons due to mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in PD. This study investigates the mechanism of methylmercury and Paraquat induced mitochondrial dysfunction in dopamine neurons. Using in vitro assays, it was found that exposure to methylmercury (0.1-5µM) and Paraquat (300-500µM) inhibited complex I of the electron transport chain in mitochondria. This was associated with an increase in superoxide anion levels, decrease in superoxide dismutase activity, and loss of ATP. All of these factors led to the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential. Similar results were found in co-exposure treatment of 300µM of Paraquat with 0.1µM of methylmercury. These results indicate that methylmercury and Paraquat induce mitochondrial dysfunction causing the death of dopamine neurons.
title: Erfahrungsbericht (Lessons Learned) WiLMo-Projekt
title: Erfahrungsbericht der Teilprojektgruppe „Grundlagen betrieblicher Anwendungssysteme“ der Hochschule Bielefeld im Rahmen des WiLMo-Projekts
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schmidtmann, Achim
name: Wiemann, Volker
name: Rosenmeier, Nina
name: Hüser, Leah Kristin
Publisher: name: FH Bielefeld Publikationsserver
Year: 2024
Subjects: Wirtschaftsinformatik
OER
Open Educational Resources
Betriebliche Anwendungssysteme
Hochschullehre
Lehre
Lernen
Zusammenarbeit

description: Im Projekt WiLMo (Wirtschaftsinformatik Lehr- und Lern-Module) haben mehrere Hochschulen in Nordrhein-Westfalen gemeinsam an der Entwicklung von Open Educational Resources für die Wirtschaftsinformatik gearbeitet. Die Hochschule Bielefeld hat sich dabei auf das Thema betriebliche Anwendungssysteme konzentriert und umfangreiche Lehrmaterialien erstellt.
Ziel war es, qualitativ hochwertige, frei zugängliche Ressourcen zu schaffen, von denen sowohl Lehrende als auch Studierende profitieren. Die erstellten Materialien umfassen Lern- und Lehrmaterialien zur Vermittlung der Grundlagen betrieblicher Anwendungssysteme auf Bachelor-Niveau. Diese wurden erfolgreich in den Lehrbetrieb integriert und stehen nun der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung.
Die Umsetzung des Projekts war jedoch nicht ohne Herausforderungen. Unterschiedliche Lehrtraditionen, technische Hürden und die Gewährleistung der Barrierefreiheit stellten das Projektteam vor anspruchsvolle Aufgaben. Dennoch konnte das Projekt erfolgreich abgeschlossen werden.
Die Erfahrungen aus dem WiLMo-Projekt zeigen, dass die Entwicklung von offenen Bildungsmaterialien ein komplexer Prozess ist, der eine enge Zusammenarbeit und klare Strukturen erfordert. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse können als wertvolle Grundlage für zukünftige Projekte dienen, um die Qualität der Hochschullehre weiter zu verbessern und den Austausch zwischen den Hochschulen zu fördern.
Asian and European Experiences: Lessons for the 21st Century
Creators: name: Herzog, Roman
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: In Europe after much heated debate the launch of the Euro has been decided. With the markets now convinced of its success, "Euroland" is proving a kind of safe haven in the light of the turbulence affecting currencies in Asia, Latin America and Russia. Perhaps this experience will be seen in the longer term as a useful trial run for East Asia.
description: Asien, Nr. 70 (1999): ASIEN (Januar)
MPEC 2024-V62 : 2024 VY
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 VY

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Recognizing emotions in text
Creators: name: Aman, Saima
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: People express emotions as part of everyday communication. Emotions can be judged by a combination of cues such as facial expressions, prosodies, gestures, and actions. Emotions are also articulated by written texts. Inspired by works in sentiment analysis, this thesis explores approaches to automatic detection of emotions in text. I draw from emotion theories in the fields of psychology and linguistics, and use natural language processing and machine learning techniques for automatic emotion detection. In this thesis, I describe studies and experiments in manual and automatic recognition of expressions of the six basic emotions (Ekman, 1992)--- happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, and fear---in text form. The text under study comprises data collected from blogs, representing texts rich in emotion content and therefore suitable for this study. The first task I consider is to prepare a corpus annotated with emotion-related information. The annotations include emotion category out of the aforementioned six; emotion intensity at one of the four levels---high, medium, low, and neutral; and spans of text indicating emotion expressions within sentences. To measure consensus amongst human judges on annotation and to gauge the complexity of the task under investigation, an inter-annotator agreement study is also performed. In my work, I investigate features that can help differentiate emotion from non-emotion. A combination of lexical and semantic features is used to train classifiers for emotion/non-emotion classification. I describe the techniques implemented for discerning the six basic emotion categories. I use a knowledge-based approach for this task based on semantic resources---WordNet-Affect and Roget's Thesaurus. This approach provides results that significantly surpass the baseline term-counting method. For emotion intensity recognition, I use corpus-based syntactic bigrams to improve the performance of a baseline system that only uses unigrams as features.
EXPLORING SOCIAL NORMS: A PRAGMALINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF UZBEK AND ENGLISH NOVELS
Creators: name: Kholikova, Nazokat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In order to highlight the distinctive ways social norms are represented and contested in literary discourse, this study examines the interaction of pragmatics and linguistic elements in two novels: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (English) and Utkir Hoshimov's “The Silence” novel (Uzbek). The study emphasizes the cultural subtleties inherent in each language and the unique communication methods used by the writers through a comparative analysis of speech acts, conversational idiom, and politeness techniques. The study makes the case that pragmalinguistic analysis clarifies the complex interrelationships between language, culture, and literary meaning by analyzing these opposing viewpoints.
Discourse structure of software explanation: Snapshot theory, cognitive patterns and grounded theory methods
Creators: name: Murray, Adam Ross
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: This thesis introduces a grounded theory of the discourse structure that professional software engineers use while explaining software. The 'Snapshot Theory' relates how the snapshot is the critical moment and fundamental building block in the discourse structure. We built Snapshot Theory by applying a rigorous qualitative data analysis research methodology, known as grounded theory, on observational data of professional software developers explaining software architectures. We developed a research methodology, qualitative analysis tools and case data in support of our investigation. We present two versions of our theory, the grounded theory tied to evidence, and our interpretation of the applied theory in pattern form, as cognitive patterns. We intend cognitive patterns to facilitate the development of software tool features based on Snapshot Theory.
Changes in ENSO and Associated Overturning Circulations from Enhanced Greenhouse Gases by the End of the Twentieth Century.
Creators: name: Ye, Zhengqing
name: Hsieh, William W.
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2016

description: With data from 12 coupled models in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate under year 2000 greenhouse gas (GHG) + aerosol forcing was compared with climate under preindustrial conditions. In the tropical Pacific, the warming in the mean sea surface temperatures (SST) was found to have an El Niño–like pattern, while both the equatorial zonal overturning circulation and the meridional overturning circulation weakened under increased GHG forcing. For the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the asymmetry in the SST anomalies between El Niño and La Niña was found to be enhanced under increased GHG, for both the ensemble model data and the observed data (1900–99). Enhanced asymmetry between El Niño and La Niña was also manifested in the anomalies of the zonal wind stress, the equatorial undercurrent, and the meridional overturning circulation in the increased GHG simulations. The enhanced asymmetry in the model SST anomalies was mainly caused by the greatly intensified vertical nonlinear dynamic heating (NDH) anomaly (i.e., product of the vertical velocity anomaly and the negative vertical temperature gradient anomaly) during El Niño (but not during La Niña). Under increased GHG, the enhanced positive NDH anomalies during El Niño, when time averaged over the whole record, would change the SST mean state by an El Niño–like pattern. Copyright 2008 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
An experiment in critical modernism: Eschatology, prophecy, and revelation in Lewis, Huxley, and Golding
Creators: name: Penny, Jonathon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, English.

description: Chapters I through III of this thesis seek to advance the study of apocalyptic form, themes, and imagery in fiction, and more specifically British literature from the twentieth century, by demonstrating that critics of the period have tended to apply an exclusively secular concept of literary apocalypse informed by a deep skepticism about the scriptural tradition whence it comes. Chapter I establishes both the significant value of and oversight in critical discourse on this topic, including an analysis of major works on the subject (Kermode and Frye). Chapter II examines the character of Revelation as both sacred scripture and literary object, and posits a model of secularization that accounts for the cumulative assumptions made by what I have termed "critical modernism" about literary apocalypse, showing that this model delimits critical uses of apocalypse to ethical apocalypse, principally in the guise of eschatological anxiety, and discourages the study of texts that involve scriptural apocalypse in other ways. Chapter III identifies and defines prophecy and revelation as companion dimensions to eschatology, and suggests ways of analyzing apocalyptic elements that will help focus and thus enhance the critical use of apocalyptic language. The thesis argues that prophecy and revelation are overlooked as apocalyptic elements chiefly because they occur in a "second stream" of texts that considers the spiritual dimensions of scriptural apocalypse as vital to the uses of apocalypse in the literature of the British twentieth century as the eschatological dimension is known to be. The second part of the thesis (chapters IV--VI) addresses the absence in critical treatments of apocalypse of the texts in this second stream, and the concomitant absence of scholarship on them, by analyzing the uses of eschatology-as-hope in Wyndham Lewis' Blast and Tarr, the representation of prophetic vocation in Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay and Time Must Have a Stop, and the ontos of revelation in William Golding's Pincher Martin, The Spire, and Darkness Visible.
Ice nucleation on mineral dust particles: onset conditions, nucleation rates and contact angles.
Creators: name: Eastwood, Michael L.
name: Cremel, Sebastien
name: Gehrke, Clemens
name: Girard, Eric
name: Bertram, Allan K.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2016

description: An optical microscope coupled to a flow cell was used to investigate the onset conditions for ice nucleation on five atmospherically relevant minerals at temperatures ranging from 233 to 246 K. Here we define the onset conditions as the humidity and temperature at which the first ice nucleation event was observed. Kaolinite and muscovite were found to be efficient ice nuclei in the deposition mode, requiring relative humidities with respect to ice (RHi) below 112% in order to initiate ice crystal formation. Quartz and calcite, by contrast, were poor ice nuclei, requiring relative humidities close to water saturation before ice crystals would form. Montmorillonite particles were efficient ice nuclei at temperatures below 241 K but were poor ice nuclei at higher temperatures. In several cases, there was a lack of quantitative agreement between our data and previously published work. This can be explained by several factors including the mineral source, the particle sizes, the surface area available for nucleation, and observation time. Heterogeneous nucleation rates (Jhet) were calculated from the measurements of the onset conditions (temperature and RHi) required from ice nucleation. The Jhet values were then used to calculate contact angles ($\theta$) between the mineral substrates and an ice embryo using classical nucleation theory. The contact angles measured for kaolinite and muscovite ranged from 6° to 12°, whereas for quartz and calcite, the contact angles ranged from 25° to 27°. The reported Jhet and $\theta$ values may allow for a more direct comparison between laboratory studies and can be used when modeling ice cloud formation in the atmosphere. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2008 American Geophysical Union.
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath: Wirtschaftsintegration durch Netzwerke. Die Beziehungen zwischen Taiwan und der Volksrepublik China
Creators: name: Eberstein, Bernd
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 64 (1997): ASIEN (Juli)
N2O emissions and carbon sequestration in a nitrogen-fertilized Douglas fir stand
Creators: name: Jassal, Rachhpal S.
name: Black, T. Andrew
name: Chen, Baozhang
name: Roy, Real
name: Nesic, Zoran
name: Spittlehouse, David L.
name: Trofymow, J. A.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2011

description: This study investigated how nitrogen (N) fertilization with 200 kg N ha−1 of a 58-year-old West Coast Douglas fir stand influenced its net greenhouse gas (GHG) global warming potential (GWP) in the first year after fertilization. Effects of fertilization on GHG GWP were calculated considering changes in soil N2O emissions, measured using the static chamber technique and the soil N2O gradient technique; eddy covariance (EC) measured net ecosystem productivity (NEP); and energy requirements of fertilizer production, transport, and its aerial spreading. We found significant N2O losses in fertilized plots compared to a small uptake in nonfertilized plots. Chamber-measured N loss in the fertilized plots was about 16 kg N2O ha−1 in the first year, which is equivalent to 10 kg N ha−1 or 5% of the applied fertilizer N. Soil N2O emissions measured using the gradient technique, however, exceeded the chamber measurements by about 50%. We also compared a polymer-coated slow-release urea with regular urea and found that the former delayed N2O emissions but the year-end total loss was about the same as that from regular urea. Change in NEP due to fertilization was determined by relating annual NEP for the nonfertilized stand to environmental controls using an empirical and a process-based model. Annual NEP increased by 64%, from 326 g C m−2, calculated assuming that the stand was not fertilized, to the measured value of 535 g C m−2 with fertilization. At the end of the year, net change in GHG GWP was −2.28 t CO2 ha−1 compared to what it would have been without fertilization, thereby indicating favorable effect of fertilization even in the first year after fertilization with significant emissions of N2O. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2008 American Geophysical Union.
Assesing the efficiency of different prevetion methods of pine pitch canker, and the creation of a manual with the good pratices to follow in plant nurseries
Creators: name: Pacheco Marques, Pedro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Sustainable forest management
Pest/disease control
plant production
horticulture

description: This project developed methods to prevent Fusarium circinatum spread in pine nurseries, including seed, container, and water disinfection techniques, and tested soil alternatives to pine bark for healthier plant growth.
SONNET's Report on preliminary typology of social innovation in the energy sector
Creators: name: Wittmayer, Julia M.
name: Fraaije, Maria
name: Hielscher, Sabine
name: Avelino, Flor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: SONNET (Social innovation in Energy Transitions) aims to co-create a rich understanding of the diversity, processes, contributions, successes and future potentials of social innovation in the energy sector (SIE). This report addresses SONNET’s objective 1, namely, to capture the diversity of SIE in Europe within a comprehensive SIE typology.
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Risk and Return of Banks? A Comparison Between Islamic and Conventional Banks
Creators: name: Elakhdar, Yomna
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become very prevalent in both the private as well as public sectors in recent years. Considering the importance of corporate social responsibility, many organizations have renamed their core business values to include CSR. As part of the CSR concept, companies are encouraged to act as involved members of society, taking into consideration the environment, creating jobs and promoting labor practices, and promoting education. The economic literature indicates the critical role banks play in stimulating growth from their quest to perform the tasks of financial intermediation and mobilizing savings and directing them to the business sector according to its current and investment needs to achieve efficient resource allocation and reduce risks. In this context, Islamic banks emerged as financial institutions that take Islamic Sharia as a basis for their transactions. This expansion in the Islamic financial industry is not a complete success as long as the Islamic banks do not pay enough attention to social responsibility, including practicing some activities and providing some services that indicate their responsiveness to the hopes and aspirations of society. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of CSR on bank return and risk in emerging market countries. It also examines if the CSR effect is different between Islamic and conventional banks. Data is collected from 67 emerging markets countries with 13 Islamic banks and 44 conventional banks. Using the Prais-Winston regression method, the results show that CSR practices have a significant positive effect on the return level measured by the Net Interest Margin (NIM). Moreover, the evidence shows that the effect of CSR on bank risk, measured by Z-score, is insignificant. Finally, we aim to provide recommendations for Islamic banks to shift from CSR into the wider SDG framework to achieve sustainability.