cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Production of fructose and ethanol by selective fermentation of glucose-fructose mixtures.
Creators: name: Koren, David W.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agriculture, Food Science and Technology.

description: In this project the selective conversion of glucose to ethanol from glucose/fructose mixtures was investigated. The process was carried out using a mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, batchwise, continuously with immobilized cells and semicontinuously. The kinetic behaviour of S. cerevisiae ATCC 36859 was studied using batch fermentation data. The growth of the yeast is inhibited equally by glucose and fructose, even though fructose is not consumed by the yeast. Fermentation models were formulated in this work. These models include terms which account for the inhibition of growth, glucose consumption and ethanol production by the carbohydrate and ethanol. The models predict that the growth rate of the yeast will be zero if the medium contains either 488 g/L total carbohydrates of 62 g/L ethanol. Batch tests were carried out with hydrolyzed Jerusalem artichoke juice and High Fructose Corn Syrup. An ethanol productivity of 21 g/Lh was attained in a batch process using an initial biomass concentration of 94 g/L. It was found though that this process suffered from the inhibitory effects of high total carbohydrate concentrations, therefore products containing high fructose concentrations were produced with lower ethanol productivities. In addition, reuse of the biomass resulted in a reduction of 40% in its activity. The cells were immobilized in calcium alginate beads and placed in a tubular reactor. In this form they were used for more than 1000 hours without a loss of activity. A syrup containing fructose as 99% of the reducing sugars was produced from synthetic as well as from food grade glucose/fructose mixtures. A maximum ethanol productivity of 13 g/Lh was attained. A product containing 76 g/L ethanol was also produced in this process. The productivity of the reactor was reduced as the total carbohydrate concentration was increased, therefore products with a high fructose concentration ($>$150 g/L) could not be formed without a significant drop in the productivity using the immobilized cells. The inhibitory effects of high total carbohydrate concentrations were reduced by using a fed batch process. In this scheme, 42 High Fructose Corn Syrup was used with and without added nutrients as the feed solution; sterilization of the syrup was not necessary due to its high solids concentration. The syrup was continuously fed to a bioreactor, the glucose was converted to ethanol while the fructose accumulated. A syrup containing 257 g/L fructose and 68 g/L ethanol was produced in this process. The product formed in the process was purified with activated carbon and ion-exchange resin. A clear and colourless fructose syrup that visibly resembled HFCS was produced. The ethanol in the product allowed for storage of the product for long periods of time before its further treatment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
L'influenza del Volapük di Schleyer su Zamenhof (1879-1887) / La influo de la Volapuko de Schleyer sur Zamenhof (1879-1887)
Creators: name: Tresoldi, Roberto Guido
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Dopo aver analizzato storia e caratteristiche del movimento sorto attorno alla lingua pianificata Volapük, si sono studiati i rapporti tra le due comunità e, in particolare, il mutevole atteggiamento dell’autore dell’Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, passato da posizioni assai critiche a posizioni di alta stima nei confronti dell’inventore del Volapük, p. Johann Martin Schleyer. Utilizzando documenti storici significativi e analizzando alcuni elementi della struttura grammaticale delle due lingue, si è cercato inoltre di individuare in quali momenti e in che misura sia possibile riconoscere un influsso esercitato dal Volapük sull’Esperanto. Si prendono in considerazione due possibili ipotesi (una delle quali ormai tradizionale) e se ne presenta una terza atta ad armonizzare i dati contrastanti delle prime due. Secondo quest’ultima, l’Esperanto avrebbe subito un influsso del Volapük almeno in due periodi differenti: una più marcata al momento della comparsa del Volapük, studiato e analizzato da Zamenhof, e una più superficiale in un periodo successivo, intorno al 1884-1885.Analizinte historion kaj karakterizojn de la movado, kiu formiĝis ĉirkaŭ la planlingvo Volapuko, oni pristudis la rilatojn inter la du komunumoj kaj, ĉefe, la ŝanceliĝantan sintenon de la aŭtoro de Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, rilate la ellaborinton de Volapuko, pastro Johann Martin Schleyer. Zamenhof transiris fakte de tre kritika sinteno al sinteno de alta estimo. Utiligante kelkajn gravajn historiajn dokumentojn, kaj analizante kelkajn elementojn de la gramatika strukturo de ambaŭ lingvoj, oni ankaŭ klopodis malkovri en kiuj momentoj, kaj kiagrade, oni povas rekoni influon de Volapuko sur Esperanto. Oni konsideras du eblajn hipotezojn (el inter kiuj, la unua esta jam tradicia) kaj oni fine prezentas trian hipotezon, kiu  klopodas harmoniigi la diferencojn de la du unuaj. Laŭ ĉi tiu hipotezo, Esperanto ricevis influon de Volapuko almenaŭ en du malsamaj periodoj, pli profundan je la apero de Volapuko, lingvo, kiun Zamenhof lernis kaj analizis, kaj pli supraĵan en pliposta periodo, ĉirkau 1884-1885.
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Un-ordinary languages / Ne-ordinaraj lingvaĵoj
Lingue pianificate e terminologia nell’opera di Eugen Wüster / Planizitaj lingvoj kaj terminologio en la verko de Eugen Wüster
Creators: name: Galantucci, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Eugen Wüster (1898-1977), ingegnere ed esperantista austriaco, è considerato il fondatore della terminologia. Questo articolo mostra, attraverso l’analisi della sua opera Internationale Sprachnormung in der Technik, besonders in der Elektrotechnik (1931), i rapporti che intercorrono tra la terminologia e le lingue pianificate e come queste ultime, secondo Wüster, possano fungere da modello per la standardizzazione del lessico tecnico-scientifico. Eugen Wüster (1898-1977), aŭstria inĝeniero kaj esperantisto, estas estimata la fondinto de la terminologio. ĉi tiu artikolo, tra la analizo de sia verko Internationale Sprachnormung in der Technik, besonders in der Elektrotechnik, montras la rilatojn kiuj estas tra la terminologio kaj la planizitaj lingvoj, kaj kiel la lastoj, laŭ Wuster, povas ofici kiel modelon por normigo de la teknika-scienca leksiko.
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Un-ordinary languages / Ne-ordinaraj lingvaĵoj
Evolution, explosion, and nucleosynthesis of core-collapse supernovae
Creators: name: Limongi, Marco
name: Chieffi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a new set of presupernova evolutions and explosive yields of massive stars of initial solar composition (Y=0.285, Z=0.02) in the mass range 13-35 Msolar. All the models have been computed with the latest version (4.97) of the FRANEC code that now includes a nuclear network extending from neutrons to 98Mo. The explosive nucleosynthesis has been computed twice: a first one with a hydro code and a second one following the simpler radiation-dominated shock approximation (RDA). The main results concerning the models and the associated explosions are as follows: (1) the inclusion of the latest available input physics does not alter significantly the main properties of the presupernova models with respect to our previous ones; (2) the differences between the old and new explosive yields computed with the RDA remain confined within a factor of 2 for most of the nuclei; (3) the differences between the elemental RDA yields and those computed with a hydro code do not exceed 0.1 dex, with the exceptions of the elements produced mainly by the complete explosive Si burning: in this case the variations are anyway less than a factor of 3; (4) the relation between the final kinetic energy and the 56Ni ejected weakens as the mass of the progenitor star increases; (5) the yields corresponding to the ejection of a given amount of 56Ni are in fair agreement with those obtained by a more energetic explosion in which the mass cut is chosen in order to give the same 56Ni. The production factors (integrated over a Salpeter mass function between 13 and 35 Msolar) of the majority of the isotopes show an almost scaled solar distribution relative to oxygen. The few exceptions are discussed in detail. We also find that the present integrated yields allow a fraction of the order of 10%-20% of Type Ia supernovae if their latest available yields are adopted.
Characteristics Associated with Neonatal Carnitine Levels: A Systematic Review & Clinical Database Analysis
Creators: name: Sutherland, Sarah C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: newborn screening
neonatal screening
carnitine
acylcarnitine
mass screening
inborn errors of metabolism
lipid metabolism
fatty acid oxidation
fatty acid oxidation disorders
free carnitine
octanoylcarnitine
C8
short chain acylcarnitine
medium chain acylcarnitine
long chain acylcarnitine
ratio total acylcarnitine / free carnitine
ratio total acylcarnitine to free carnitine
birth weight
gestational age
sex
age at collection
age of collection
blood spot
heel prick
socioeconomic status
feeding
breast milk
formula
transit time
transfusion
false positive
Newborn Screening Ontario
Ontario Newborn Screening Program
database analysis
systematic review

description: Newborn screening programs measure analyte levels in neonatal blood spots to identify individuals at high risk of disease. Carnitine and acylcarnitine levels are primary markers used in the detection of fatty acid oxidation disorders. These analytes may be influenced by certain pre/perinatal or newborn screening related factors. The primary objective of this study was to explore the association between these characteristics and levels of blood carnitines and acylcarnitines in the newborn population. The study was composed of two parts: a systematic review and a clinical database analysis of existing newborn screening data. The systematic review results suggested considerable variability across studies in the presence and directionality of associations between analyte levels and birth weight, gestational age, age at time of blood spot collection, type of sample, and storage time. Sex was not significantly associated with carnitine or acylcarnitine levels in neonatal blood. We identified a need to more fully investigate a potential interaction between gestational age and birth weight in regard to analyte levels. The secondary data analyses indicated a statistically significant relationship between analyte levels and all perinatal / infant and newborn screening related factors of interest, but effect sizes were generally small. The interaction between gestational age and birth weight was significant in all models; when further explored through graphical analysis with conditional means, extremely premature neonates stood out as having distinct analyte patterns in relation to birth weight. Variation in the ratio of total acylcarnitine to free carnitine was better accounted for by the perinatal and newborn factors than was variation in any individual carnitine or acylcarnitine, indicating that proportions of carnitine and acylcarnitines may be more important in understanding an individual’s metabolic functioning than individual analyte levels. A low proportion of variation was explained in all multivariate models, supporting the use of universal algorithms in newborn screening and suggesting the need for further large scale empirical research targeted at previously unaccounted for perinatal factors such as birth stress.
Scripta manent. Note in margine a proposito di un recente libro di Maurizio Ferraris / Scripta manent. Marĝenaj notoj pri freŝa libro de Maurizio Ferraris
Creators: name: Valore, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tradukis Costanza Brevini kaj Daniela Tagliafico.
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Un-ordinary languages / Ne-ordinaraj lingvaĵoj
Supplementary document for Differential wavefront sensing and control using radio-frequency optical demodulation - 5220840.pdf
Creators: name: Brown, Daniel
name: Cao, Huy Tuong
name: Ciobanu, Alexei
name: Veitch, Peter
name: Ottaway, David
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
La coopération triangulaire : potentiel ou illusion d'efficacité?
Creators: name: Moisan, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Coopération triangulaire
Coopération Sud-Sud
Efficacité de l'aide
Acteurs non-gouvernementaux
Société civile

description: La coopération triangulaire (CTr) est une modalité novatrice de coopération internationale pour le développement. En intégrant la participation de donateurs du Nord et du Sud dans un même arrangement, incluant les puissances émergentes, la CTr vient altérer les dynamiques des axes traditionnels Nord-Sud et Sud-Sud, dites verticales et horizontales, pour représenter et intégrer une plus grande variété d’intérêts. En s’appuyant sur une étude de cas d’une CTr réalisée au Mozambique par des acteurs non-gouvernementaux canadiens et brésiliens, cette étude se penche sur l’impact de la modalité de coopération triangulaire sur l’efficacité d’un projet. Il démontre que ce type de coopération apporte plus d’avantages que d’inconvénients face à l’efficacité du projet. Cependant, un grand éventail de facteurs tels que la flexibilité des partenaires, le degré d’appropriation de chacun et une division claire des rôles influencent l’efficacité du projet, rendant son atteinte complexe.
Diversity competency and access to healthcare in hospitals in Croatia, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia
Creators: name: Doričić, Robert
name: Orzechowski, Marcin
name: Nowak, Marianne
name: Tutić Grokša, Ivana
name: Bielińska, Katarzyna
name: Chowaniec, Anna
name: Ramšak, Mojca
name: Łuków, Paweł
name: Muzur, Amir
name: Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka
name: Steger, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: access to healthcare
subject: healthcare inequality
subject: health services
subject: diversity
subject: ethnicity
subject: religious belief
subject: sexual orientation
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Health services accessibility
subject: Delivery of health care
subject: Right to health
subject: Sexual and gender minorities
subject: Ethics
subject: Gesundheitswesen
subject: Medizinische Versorgung
subject: Ethnizität
subject: Sexuelle Orientierung
subject: Ethik

description: Diversity competency is an approach for improving access to healthcare for members of minority groups. It includes a commitment to institutional policies and practices aimed at the improvement of the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals. The aim of this research is to investigate whether and how such a commitment is included in internal documents of hospitals in Croatia, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia. Using the methods of documentary research and thematic analysis we examined internal documents received from hospitals in these countries. In all four countries, the documents concentrate on general statements prohibiting discrimination with regard to healthcare provision. Specific regulations concerning ethnicity and culture focus on the issue of language barriers. With regard to religious practices, the documents from Croatia, Poland, and Slovenia focus on dominant religious groups. Observance of other religious practices and customs is rarely addressed. Healthcare needs of patients with non-heteronormative sexual orientation, intersexual, and transgender patients are explicitly addressed in only a few internal documents. Diversity competency policies are not comprehensively implemented in hospital internal regulations in hospitals under investigation. There is a need for the development and implementation of comprehensive policies in hospitals aiming at the specific needs of minority groups.
The Situation of water, sanitation and hygine in schools in the pan-European region
Creators: name: Grossi, Valentina
name: Klimschak, Emanuel
name: Rechenburg, Andrea
name: Schmoll, Oliver
Publisher: name: World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Year: 2016
Subjects: Hygiene
Hygienisierung
Wasserversorgung
Europa

description: Adequate access to water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) is every human̷s and child̷s right. Ensuring WASH accessibility in schools is encompassed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and is a priority area under the Protocol on Water and Health to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. This publication summarizes the status of WASH in schools in the pan-European region. Available evidence was retrieved from scientific literature, national and international surveys and a desk review of case studies. The data show general progress in WASH policies and targets, but a concurrent lack of translation of this progress into efficient improvement of WASH in schools. Gaps and challenges are found as a result of non-comprehensive standards, inefficient coordination and inadequate surveillance and monitoring indicators. Further, neglected disparities and inequalities are observed through the region. WASH conditions do not reflect policies̷ aspirations and are not adequate to pupils̷ needs, affecting their health, well-being and performance at school. The main challenges across the region are related in particular to inadequate cleanliness and provision of consumables, as well as maintenance of sanitation facilities and accessibility to safe drinking-water. Policy-making needs to be supported by evidence-based information, especially on neglected topics such as menstrual hygiene management. Quelle: http://www.susana.org
Intervista a Nicla Vassallo
Creators: name: Brocca, Ettore
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tradukis Elena Marazzi.
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Un-ordinary languages / Ne-ordinaraj lingvaĵoj
Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science
Creators: name: Lähnemann, David
name: Köster, Johannes
name: Szczurek, Ewa
name: McCarthy, Davis J.
name: Hicks, Stephanie C.
name: Robinson, Mark D.
name: Vallejos, Catalina A.
name: Campbell, Kieran R.
name: Beerenwinkel, Niko
name: Mahfouz, Ahmed
name: Pinello, Luca
name: Skums, Pavel
name: Stamatakis, Alexandros
name: Attolini, Camille S.
name: Aparicio, Samuel, 1963-
name: Baaijens, Jasmijn
name: Balvert, Marleen
name: Barbanson, Buys D.
name: Cappuccio, Antonio
name: Corleone, Giacomo
name: Dutilh, Bas E.
name: Florescu, Maria
name: Guryev, Victor
name: Holmer, Rens
name: Jahn, Katharina
name: Lobo, Thamar J.
name: Keizer, Emma M.
name: Khatri, Indu
name: Kielbasa, Szymon M.
name: Korbel, Jan O.
name: Kozlov, Alexey M.
name: Kuo, Tzu-Hao
name: Lelieveldt, Boudewijn P.
name: Mandoiu, Ion I.
name: Marioni, John C.
name: Marschall, Tobias
name: Mölder, Felix
name: Niknejad, Amir
name: Raczkowski, Lukasz
name: Reinders, Marcel
name: Ridder, Jeroen D.
name: Saliba, Antoine-Emmanuel
name: Somarakis, Antonios
name: Stegle, Oliver
name: Theis, Fabian J.
name: Yang, Huan
name: Zelikovsky, Alex
name: McHardy, Alice C.
name: Raphael, Benjamin J.
name: Shah, Sohrab P.
name: Schönhuth, Alexander
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even millions—of cells analyzed in a single experiment amount to a data revolution in single-cell biology and pose unique data science problems. Here, we outline eleven challenges that will be central to bringing this emerging field of single-cell data science forward. For each challenge, we highlight motivating research questions, review prior work, and formulate open problems. This compendium is for established researchers, newcomers, and students alike, highlighting interesting and rewarding problems for the coming years.
The Metabolic Syndrome and the Effects of Different Types of Exercise Modalities in Adolescents with Obesity: a HEARTY Study
Creators: name: Frappier, Alexandrine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Adolescents
Obesity
Metabolic Syndrome
Exercise

description: Purpose: The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities including high waist circumference and blood pressure, elevated triglyceride, glucose, and, insulin concentrations and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations. The prevalence of MetS in overweight and obese adolescents ranges from 10 to 66% depending of the definition used and the population studied. Obese adolescents are more prone to have MetS, highlighting the necessity of designing effective none pharmacological interventions targeting the specific needs of adolescents and to improve the management of the metabolic syndrome. Objectives: The objectives of this thesis were first, to perform a secondary data analysis of the Healthy Eating Aerobic and Resistance Training in Youth (HEARTY) trial to determine the effects of different modalities of exercise training on the prevalence of the MetS and second, to do a critical analysis of the literature surrounding the MetS concept and diagnostic for the pediatric population. Methods: Among the 304 participants of the HEARTY trial, 65 (21%) participants were classified as having MetS by the International Diabetes Federation. Measures of waist circumference, blood pressure, fasting plasma concentrations of lipids, glucose and insulin and prevalence of MetS were compared to baseline and post-6 months intervention (Aerobic training, Resistance training, Combined aerobic and resistance training and Control). Results: There were no significant changes in the prevalence of MetS within and between Aerobic, Resistance, Combined aerobic and resistance and Control groups after the 6-month intervention. However, significant improvements in MetS parameters were observed from baseline to post-intervention within groups. Aerobic and Resistance training alone significantly decreased waist circumference and systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Combined aerobic and resistance significantly decreased triglyceride concentrations and increased high density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations whereas Control significantly decreased systolic blood pressure and insulin levels. Conclusions: Exercise, regardless of the modality, and diet counseling were not statistically effective for reducing the prevalence of MetS but did improve some of the independent MetS parameters. The absence of statistical difference in the prevalence of the MetS may be due to a lack of statistical power. Moreover, the critical analysis of the MetS literature bring us to conclude that the first step towards a standard definition of MetS for the adolescent population is to define the true clinical purpose of a MetS diagnostic in the pediatric population.
The role and significance of the electronic market maker
Creators: name: Standing, Craig
name: Stockdale, Rosemary
name: Tellefsen, Brynjulf
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The significance of the market structure, in particular the role of the market maker, on the overall success of a marketplace is still an unresolved issue. This paper examines market structures with a focus on the role of the market maker to identify the implications for participants of the various structures and mechanisms employed in electronic markets. Market maker strategies are classified in a framework according to economic, network, service and community perspectives. The market structures of intermediary, hierarchy, consortium and large group ownership are mapped onto this framework to provide a model that relates structure with strategy. Each ownership model has implications for other market participants. These include the economic motive for intermediaries and political (power) motives for hierarchies and consortia. The large group ownership model has potential for e markets with community motives. Whilst all marketplaces have architectures it is the architectural detail that makes e-marketplaces different to their traditional counterparts.
Supplementary document for Differential wavefront sensing and control using radio-frequency optical demodulation - 5220840.pdf
Creators: name: Brown, Daniel
name: Cao, Huy Tuong
name: Ciobanu, Alexei
name: Veitch, Peter
name: Ottaway, David
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Activity-Centric Prioritized Streaming of Games to Mobile Devices
Creators: name: Rahimi Koopayi, Hesam Aldin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: 3D Streaming
Mobile games
Context-awareness
Virtual environments
Multiplayer online 3D games

description: As mobile devices still have limited battery life, processing power, memory, and display size, they cannot yet execute gaming applications with the same fidelity and quality as their PC counterparts. In response, researchers have recently performed research with the goal of the real-time delivery of game content specifically to fit within mobile devices’ limitations. In this thesis, we present a novel approach to tackling the streaming of objects to mobile devices. Our goal is to reduce the number of objects subject to streaming from the server to the target devices, while not violating the user-defined limitations through an efficient, context-aware 3D object selection and prioritization scheme. We take advantage of the game context to stream only the most relevant objects. Our evaluations have shown that this technique not only leads to better performance in general, but also increases the gameplay experience by helping the player to achieve a higher score.
The Experience of Intensive Care Nurses Caring for Patients with Delirium
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Allana E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Critical Care
subject: Critical Care Nursing
subject: ICU Delirium
subject: Delirium
subject: Phenomenology
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Qualitative Research

description: The purpose of this research was to seek a deep understanding of the lived experience of intensive care nurses caring for patients with delirium. Delirium affects a large proportion of adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Delirium has been linked to increased morbidity and mortality, longer intensive care and hospital length of stay, long-term cognitive impairments, short-term and long-term psychological distress, and increased hospital and health system costs. Critical care nurses play central roles in preventing, identifying, and treating ICU patients with delirium. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight intensive care nurses working in an ICU in a tertiary level, university-affiliated hospital in Ontario, Canada. The researcher analyzed the interviews using an interpretive phenomenological approach as described by van Manen (1990). The essence of the experience of critical care nurses caring for ICU patients with delirium was revealed to be finding a way to help them come through it. Six main themes emerged: It's Exhausting; Making a Picture of the Patient's Mental Status; Keeping Patients Safe: It's a Really Big Job; Everyone Is Unique; Riding It Out With Families; and Taking Every Experience With You. The findings describe how intensive care nurses find a way to help patients and their families through this complex and often distressing experience. This study has contributed to the understanding of the lived experience of ICU nurses caring for patients with delirium.
Supplementary document for Hemodynamics of the sternocleidomastoid measured with frequency domain near-infrared spectroscopy towards non-invasive monitoring during mechanical ventilation - 5221729.pdf
Creators: name: Istfan, Raeef
name: Gomez, Carlos
name: Applegate, Matthew
name: Rozenberg, Dmitry
name: Reid, W
name: Roblyer, Darren
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Tables 1 and 2
Complement in sepsis—when science meets clinics
Creators: name: Mollnes, Tom E.
name: Huber‐Lang, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Complement activation
subject: Sepsis; Therapy
subject: Toll-like receptors
subject: Sepsis
subject: Komplement
subject: Toll-like-Rezeptoren
subject: Komplement C3a
subject: Komplement C5a

description: Sepsis as life‐threatening organ dysfunction caused by microorganisms represents a dreadful challenge for the immune system. The role of the complement system as major column of innate immunity has been extensively studied in various sepsis models, but its translational value remains in the dark. Complement activation products, such as C3a and C5a, and their corresponding receptors provide useful diagnostic tools and promising targets to improve organ function and outcome. However, a monotherapeutic complement intervention irrespective of the current immune function seems insufficient to reverse the complex sepsis mechanisms. Indeed, sepsis‐induced disturbances of cross talking complement, coagulation, and fibrinolytic cascades lead to systemic ‘thromboinflammation’, ultimately followed by multiple‐organ failure. We propose to reliably monitor the complement function in the patient and to re‐establish the immune balance by patient‐tailored combined therapies, such as complement and Toll‐like receptor inhibition. Our working hypothesis aims at blocking the ‘explosive’ innate immune recognition systems early on before downstream mediators are released and the inflammatory response becomes irreversible, a strategy that we name ‘upstream approach’.
Assessing the dynamic status of fish resources in space and time.
Creators: name: Liu, Qizhi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Biostatistics.

description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the spatial-temporal dynamic status of Scotia-Fundy herring stocks in NAFO divisions 4WX in the Bay of Fundy region and the Scotian Shelf. This thesis uses an alternative method to examine the dynamic in-season status of fish movement in space and time over the fishing season. Two models are presented based on Bayesian uncertainty statistical theory. A working computer decision model is developed to estimate the weekly stock abundance by area. A simulation model is developed to examine the strategic plan of the fishery. A visualized computer application tool, MapTest has been developed to implement the above two models. This application uses OLE (object linked and embedded) techniques to present fishing data on a GIS (geographic information system) mapping system and link and embed to a Visual Basic application. Using MapTest, fishery scientists can estimate the stock abundance based on the available catch data and simulate the impact of alternative catch scenarios. This thesis used the MapTest application to analyze the catch and estimated abundance of the five spawning areas in the 4WX herring fishery and processed three estimated caches year analyses. The computer application developed and illustrated here provides valuable information to assist decision makers in managing the fishery in real on a spatial-temporal basis throughout the fishing year.
Test de l'hypothèse de congruence entre structures dépressogènes et événements de vie pour la prédiction de la rechute dépressive après rémission chez des patients âgés.
Creators: name: Voyer, Marlène.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Cognitive.

description: L'objectif de la présente recherche consiste à étudier le rôle des structures dépressogènes et des événements de vie dans la rechute dépressive au sein d'une population âgée. L'échantillon est composé de 41 personnes, âgées en moyenne de 75 ans, qui vivent dans un centre pour soins de longue durée ou qui reçoivent des services offerts par un service de psychogériatrie. L'utilisation d'un devis de rémission a permis d'évaluer l'hypothèse de congruence auprès d'une population âgée qui était en rémission d'un épisode dépressif au cours d'un suivi de 6 mois. Les participant(e)s ont complété une fiche signalétique, l'Échelle de statut mental modifié (3MS), deux modules de l'Entrevue clinique structurée pour le DSM-IV, l'Échelle de dépression gériatrique, l'Échelle des attitudes dysfonctionnelles de 24 items et le Questionnaire des changements de vie récents. Les résultats des analyses ont indiqué que la congruence entre la structure de dépendance et l'impact subjectif de l'événement de vie sur le réseau social prédit la rechute dépressive. De même, la congruence entre la structure d'accomplissement et l'impact subjectif de l'événement de vie sur l'autonomie prédit la symptomatologie dépressive. La symptomatologie dépressive n'a pas été prédite par l'hypothèse de non congruence entre la structure d'accomplissement et l'impact subjectif de l'événement de vie dans le domaine social, mais de très peu. Ces résultats appuient le modèle de diathèse du stress dans la prédiction de la rechute dépressive au sein de la population âgée. Cette étude montre également que l'événement de vie doit être évalué en fonction des conséquences de l'événement pour l'individu dans son domaine de vulnérabilité et non pas seulement en fonction d'une catégorisation a priori. De plus, la présente étude souligne l'importance de la structure dépressogène d'accomplissement qui est peut-être activée par des menaces autant dans le domaine social que dans la sphère de l'accomplissement. Les implications cliniques et de la recherche sont abordées dans la discussion.
Supplementary document for Hemodynamics of the sternocleidomastoid measured with frequency domain near-infrared spectroscopy towards non-invasive monitoring during mechanical ventilation - 5221729.pdf
Creators: name: Istfan, Raeef
name: Gomez, Carlos
name: Applegate, Matthew
name: Rozenberg, Dmitry
name: Reid, W
name: Roblyer, Darren
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Tables 1 and 2
Ökologische und ökonomische Aspekte beim Vergleich von Arbeitsplatzcomputern für den Einsatz in Behörden unter Einbeziehung des Nutzerverhaltens (Öko-APC)
Creators: name: Prakash, Siddhartha
name: Antony, Florian
name: Köhler, Andreas R.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer
subject: Arbeitsplatz
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Eine neue Studie des Umweltbundesamts zeigt: Computer länger zu nutzen, entlastet die Umwelt und senkt die Kosten. Durch eine kluge Auswahl der richtigen Produkte lassen sich zusätzlich Umweltbelastung und Kosten senken: Verwaltungen sollten ihre Computerarbeitsplätze mit Mini-PCs statt mit Desktop-PCs ausstatten und Notebooks nur verwenden, wenn die Computer mobil eingesetzt werden sollen. Der Bericht des Öko-Instituts und der TU Berlin liefert erstmals belastbare Zahlen zur Umweltbelastung über den gesamten Lebenszyklus und gibt Empfehlungen, wie der Energieverbrauch in der Nutzung realistisch berechnet werden kann.
Repenser l'anthologie en traduction : réflexion sur les enjeux de la constitution d'une anthologie de nouvelles latino-américaines traduites d'un nouveau genre
Creators: name: Menon, Sandrine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: La présente thèse traite des enjeux liés à la constitution d’une anthologie de nouvelles latino-américaines récentes traduites en français. J’y aborde tout d’abord les lacunes inhérentes à la forme anthologique, et plus particulièrement aux anthologies de nouvelles latino-américaines traduites en français et en anglais. Je souligne entre autres leurs différentes fonctions et remets en question la notion de représentativité qu’on leur attribue généralement. J’appuie notamment mon analyse sur une liste d’anthologies de nouvelles latino-américaines traduites publiées en France et aux États-Unis au cours des 30 dernières années, et sur l’étude d’un cas d’anthologie récente, qui illustre bien cette question : Les Bonnes Nouvelles de l’Amérique latine (2010). Les lacunes liées aux anthologies traduites exigent l’établissement de meilleurs projets permettant de remédier à l’ambiguïté du processus de sélection qui les définit. Pour cela, je rappelle ensuite la notion de « projet de traduction » formulée par Antoine Berman dans Pour une critique des traductions : John Donne (1995), avant de la critiquer et de la compléter, en y intégrant des aspects de la tâche de traduction particuliers aux anthologies traduites, qui ne sont pas couverts par la définition de Berman. Je décris enfin la méthode et les principes qui ont guidé l’établissement de ma propre anthologie, qui est fondée sur la réflexion engagée dans la présente thèse. Les nouvelles qui la composent et leur paratexte figurent à la suite de la partie théorique de ma thèse.
Chemical Composition and Concentration of Bioactive Compounds in Garlic Cultivated from Air Bulbils
Creators: name: Kopeć, Aneta
name: Skoczylas, Joanna
name: Jędrszczyk, Elżbieta
name: Francik, Renata
name: Bystrowska, Beata
name: Zawistowski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: This study was designed to determine the chemical composition, antioxidant activity, and selected bioactive compound content and occurrence in whole immature and mature garlic plants grown from air bulbils. Two winter garlic cultivars, Harnaś and Ornak, of Polish origin, were cultivated from air bulbils at the Experimental Station of the Agricultural University in Kraków, Poland. Harvest bunching of garlic of both cultivars was carried out in May and in June. Mature plants were harvested in July. In whole plant proximate analysis, the concentration of vitamin C, total polyphenols, antioxidant activity, carotenoids, chlorophyll a and b, as well as glutathione level were determined. P-coumaric acid was found in Harnaś and Ornak samples collected in May. Sinapinic acid was identified in Ornak samples collected in June and July. Identification of sulphur compounds depended on the term of harvesting. Significantly higher content of total phenolic compounds, antioxidant activity, as well as other bioactive compounds, was measured in the Harnaś and Ornak cultivars harvested in May. A significantly lower level of bioactive compounds was determined in mature plants harvested in July. The organosulfur compound profile and polyphenolic profile depended on the time of harvesting. Immature garlic cultivated from air bulbils is recognized as a potential source of bioactive compounds in human nutrition, however, more research, in particular in vivo studies, is required to confirm its functional properties.
Part A. The syntheses of dillapiol and its 4-thio derivatives. Part B. The synthesis of trichiliasterone B.
Creators: name: Alibhai, Najma.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: Part A. This thesis describes a new route for the synthesis of dillapiol, a natural synergist, starting with the commercially available sessamol. It has potential for significant scale-up reactions. A key step in our synthesis is the introduction of an oxygen substituent at the C-4 position via an ortho metallation--DMF sequence on suitably protected sessamol followed by a Baeyer Villiger oxidation. The new route allowed us to prepare the first 4-thio, 4-sulfinyl and 4-sulfonyl derivatives of dillapiol. The 4-thio derivatives have been screened for their ability to synergize the light-activated pesticide, alpha-T. Some of the 4-thio derivatives were more active than dillapiol; the 4-sulfinyl and the 4-sulfonyl compounds showed lower synergism with alpha-T than dillapiol. The ability of these compounds to act as drug sparing agents by inhibiting CYP3A4 has also been briefly investigated. In this case the 4-sulfonyl derivatives were found to be potent in inhibiting CYP3A4 with IC50 values in micro molar range.* Part B. The synthesis of trichiliasterone B was completed starting from an androsterone intermediate (16-ethylenedioxypregnan-3-one) prepared earlier by Hantos. It involved converting the 3-keto functionality of the Hantos intermediate into a 2-keto-3beta-hydroxy arrangement. This was accomplished via preparation and thermolysis of 3beta-acetoxy-2alpha,3alpha-epoxy-16-ethylenedioxypregnane followed by treatment with basic alumina.* Four ester derivatives of 3beta-hydroxyandrost-17(20)-en-16-one were prepared and sent for screening as potential anti-cancer agents based on the concept that the alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone should act as a potential Michael acceptor. Promising activity was found towards in vitro tests against the human leukemia cell line.* *Please refer to dissertation for diagrams.
Air-Gap Covert Channels
Creators: name: Carrara, Brent
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: covert channels
out-of-band covert channels
air-gap covert channels
detectable covert channels
undetectable covert channels
secure undetectable covert channels
covert-acoustic channels
steganographic capacity

description: A fresh perspective on covert channels is presented in this work. A new class, air-gap covert channels, is defined as an unintentional communication channel established between systems that are physically and electronically isolated from one another. A specific class of air-gap covert channel is studied in depth, out-of-band covert channels (OOB-CCs), which are defined as policy-breaking communication channels established between isolated, physically unmodified systems. It is shown that OOB-CCs can be categorized by the physical channel that they communicate over: acoustic, light, seismic, magnetic, thermal, and radio-frequency, and the hardware that is required at the transmitter and receiver to make covert communication possible. In general, OOB-CCs are not as high-bandwidth as conventional radio-frequency channels; however, they are capable of leaking sensitive information that requires low data rates to communicate (e.g., text, recorded audio, cryptographic key material). The ability for malware to communicate information using a specific type of OOB-CC, the covert-acoustic channel, is also analyzed. It is empirically demonstrated that using physically unmodified, commodity systems (e.g., laptops, desktops, and mobile devices), covert-acoustic channels can be used to communicate at data rates of hundreds of bits per second, without being detected by humans in the environment, and data rates of thousands of bits per second when nobody is around to hear the communication. Defence mechanisms to counter covert-acoustic channels are also proposed and evaluated, and, as a result, best practices for the designers of secure systems and secure facilities are presented. Additionally, the covertness of OOB-CCs, i.e., the amount of data that can be leaked before the channel is detected, is also determined for classical communication channels as well as for covert-acoustic channels.
Case Report: When Exercise Went Wrong
Creators: name: Kim, Heng Shee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Exercise stress test (EST) is recommended as the first-line investigation in major guidelines. It believed as a safe procedure. However, there is unignorable complications include hospitalisation, acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death.
Case Presentation: We describe a case of a 56-year-old male who underwent exercise stress test and complicated with hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia. He was resuscitated and diagnosed with acute anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Subsequent coronary angiogram showed severe two vessels disease.
Conclusion: This illustrates the importance to identify a cohort of high-risk patient pre-EST, along with proper supervision and well-staffed exercise stress test lab in order to provide appropriate lifesaving treatment.
title: Transcriptional Dysregulation in the Hippocampus of a Mouse Model for Parkinson's - Linked Cognitive Decline is Driven by Sex, Age, and Alpha-synuclein overexpression
Creators: name: Alessia Sciortino
name: Thomas Hentrich
name: Sergio Helgueta Romero
name: Pierre Garcia
name: Kristopher Schmit
name: Melanie Thomas
name: Rashi Halder
name: Djalil Coowar
name: Michel Mittelbronn
name: Lasse Sinkkonen
name: Julia Schulze-Hentrich
name: Manuel Buttini
Publisher: name: LCSB
Year: 2024

description: Cognitive decline is the most common and detrimental, but understudied non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Neuropathologically, cognitive decline in PD is associated with alpha-synuclein (αSyn) misfolding and synapse loss in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, leading to cognitive impairment and, ultimately clinically manifest dementia. The molecular underpinnings of PD-associated cognitive decline are unknown. In the present study, longitudinal gene expression profiling was performed to characterise molecular hippocampal alterations in a transgenic mouse overexpressing E46K mutated αSyn, a model of early PD with loss of synaptophysin, a proxy marker of cognition, in hippocampus and cortex. Comparing 4 different ages of mice from both sexes showed that hippocampal gene expression changes were sexually dimorphic and strongly modulated by age and αSyn overexpression. Pathways that emerged across different comparisons were connected to a variety of neuronal functions, collagen synthesis/remodelling, cellular stress, and inflammatory responses. The findings indicate that sex and age are essential covariates to consider when studying PD-associated cognitive decline. The uncovering of early events leading to disease in an animal model is an essential step toward prognostic biomarker identification and early interventions, which may have implications for monitoring, and for timing of therapeutic approaches.
Del tradurre ovvero il tormento e l'estasi
Creators: name: Giacomelli, Roberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Una lungo viaggio fra esteti, scrittori e poeti, dotti riformatori, critici letterari, linguisti, traduttologi up to date.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 7 (2007): Tradurre l'intraducibile
Il Medioevo basso, materiale e corporeo di Terry Gilliam
Creators: name: Giori, Mauro
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: I temi della corporeità, della sporcizia, della materialità, in una ricerca esasperata di realismo.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 6 (2007): Un medioevo per il cinema: Intentio, Fictio
P. Zellini - Numero e Logos
Creators: name: Brevini, Costanza
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: [Adelphi, Milano 2010]Recensione di Costanza Brevini
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Un-ordinary languages / Ne-ordinaraj lingvaĵoj
A. Moro - Breve storia del verbo essere
Creators: name: Caffo, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: [Adelphi, Milano 2010]Recensione di Leonardo Caffo
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Un-ordinary languages / Ne-ordinaraj lingvaĵoj
Fabrication, measurement and modeling of electroosmotic flow in micromachined polymer microchannels
Creators: name: Suriyage, Nihal U.
name: Ghantasala, Muralidhar K.
name: Iovenitti, Pio
name: Harvey, Erol C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not reproduced here by request of the publisher. The text is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.521576.