cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kinetics of vacancy annealing in monolayers and instabilities in stressed materials.
Creators: name: Zhou, Zicong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: Using isothermal-isochore and isoenthalpic-isobaric molecular dynamics simulations, with either periodic boundary conditions or free boundary conditions, we explore in detail the vacancy annealing mechanisms in monolayers with or without substrate. A new mechanism, named dislocation mediated annealing (DMA), is observed. In this mechanism, vacancies condense rapidly into dislocation dipoles, with an associated shear modulus collapse, and anneal out of the system. External pressure, mobility of the vacancies and increased range of the interactions all favour DMA. We find that the other mechanism observed, annealing of the vacancies by the formation of voids, is a slower process, by at least an order of magnitude. We clarify the concept of reference configuration and volume in the calculation of the elastic constants in "equilibrium" fluctuation methods and give the general expressions. We derive the correct fluctuation formulae for elastic constants in uniform dilation systems. We show that the traditional thermodynamic potentials cannot be used in stability problems for an anisotropically stressed system. We derive general expressions for the mechanical stability criteria of a stressed material. We find that for a system under isotropic initial stress, the elastic stiffness coefficients which govern stress-strain relations can be used as stability criteria. However, for a system under anisotropic initial stress, stability criteria are different from either elastic constants or elastic stiffness coefficients. We show that the stability conditions in the constant pressure ensemble are stronger than in the constant volume ensemble. Exact solutions for perfect systems at zero temperature with three types of interactions of different range are found to be consistent with those obtained from long-wavelength expansion and computer simulations. We study the rupture of models of solid membranes for several interparticle interactions. We show that rupture at zero temperature occurs at the mechanical instability point. We verify that in general rupture at finite temperature takes place before the mechanical instability point. Two regimes are observed in the variation of the critical rupture pressure ($P\sb{c}$) with temperature (T) for both one and two dimensional (2D) systems; $P\sb{c}$ drops very fast at low T, but relatively slowly at high T. In ideal 2D membranes under isotropic tension, a linear decrease of $P\sb{c}$ was observed at high T. The kinetics in non defected systems, involve, just before rupture, the creation of gliding dislocation dipoles. In-grown vacancies reduce the influence of dislocations and can lead to direct cavitation.
“Experience Doesn’t Pay the Bills” Exploring the Identity-Populism Nexus in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Political Activism
Creators: name: Rasulo, Margherita
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: identity nexus; multimodal critical discourse analysis; populist discourse; Twitter

description: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), currently the youngest Representative of the United States Congress, is intent on convincing the American political system to put the material interests of ordinary people above those of the economic elite. After her 2018 upset victory in New York’s 14th Congressional District, AOC seems to devote the bulk of her political message to establishing an identity-based connection with her constituents, especially through her Twitter account which she uses as an agenda-setting tool. However, her willingness to appeal to the people as well as her marked anti-elitist rhetoric have often aligned her with a populist identity which, this study poses, she leverages along with her personal, cultural and political identities to increase her relatability factor and legitimize her role as the people’s representative. The aim of this investigation is, therefore, twofold: firstly, to assess the extent to which this nexus or blend of identities influences AOC’s political activism and, secondly, to evaluate the impact of populist undercurrents on her style of communication. To this purpose, by applying a methodological framework that combines the resources of qualitative approaches, such as transitivity, appraisal and multimodal critical discourse analysis, this study analyzes a corpus of AOC tweets containing verbal and non-verbal instantiations of self-representational strategies and features that provide evidence of a nexus of identities and of how this construct can reconcile the coexistence of AOC’s multiple narratives.
description: Iperstoria, No 15 (2020): Populism and Its Languages
Stechmücken als Überträger exotischer Krankheitserreger in Deutschland
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Stechmücken

description: Infolge der immer ausgeprägteren Globalisierung im internationalen Warenhandel und der hohen Reisetätigkeit der Bevölkerung gewinnen exotische Krankheitserreger, die durch Stechmücken übertragen werden, in Europa zunehmend an Bedeutung. In Deutschland kommen etwa 50 verschiedene Stechmückenarten vor, von denen etliche Vektorkompetenz für Pathogene besitzen. So wurden in den letzten Jahren bereits verschiedene zoonotische Arboviren mit humanpathogener Bedeutung in Stechmücken aus Deutschland nachgewiesen, darunter Usutu-, Sindbis- und Batai-Viren. Auch Filarien wie der Hundehautwurm Dirofilaria repenswurden wiederholt in Stechmücken aus Brandenburg gefunden. Mit dem Auftreten weiterer Erreger, insbesondere dem West-Nil-Virus, muss in absehbarer Zeit in Deutschland gerechnet werden, da es bereits in den Nachbarländern Frankreich, Österreich und Tschechien zirkuliert. Die Übertragung exotischer Arboviren könnte zusätzlich unterstützt werden durch das verstärkte Vorkommen neuer sog. invasiver Stechmückenarten wie dem Japanischen Buschmoskito Ochlerotatus japonicusoder der Asiatischen Tigermücke Aedes albopictus, die hohe Vektorkompetenz für verschiedene Pathogene besitzen und gleichzeitig den Menschen als bevorzugte Blutquelle nutzen. Um diesen Entwicklungen zu begegnen und Risikoabschätzungen vornehmen zu können, wurden in den vergangenen Jahren in Deutschland verschiedene Projekte zur Erfassung von Stechmücken und ihrer Pathogene initiiert. Gleichzeitig müssen Bekämpfungsstrategien und Handlungsanweisungen erarbeitet werden, um möglichen Vektor-assoziierten Epidemien frühzeitig und effizient entgegenwirken zu können.
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Filterbank implementations of a window based Gabor transform for SAR processing.
Creators: name: Paul, Devashish.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis a Window Based Gabor Transform (WBGT) is presented that is suitable for real time digital signal processing. Other Gabor Transform approaches presented in the literature such as the Orthogonal Like Discrete Gabor Transform (OLGT) are not suitable for real time processing. The reduction in analysis time using the WBGT instead of the OLGT is proportional to the ratio of the analysis window to the signal length. Using the WBGT the number of JTF coefficients required to accurately represent the original signal is far less than when using the STFT. Two filterbank implementations for the WBGT which reduce analysis times are developed, one using serial input and the second using a parallel input, each of which computes the frequency content of the signal using N parallel band pass filters. In the case of the parallel input filterbank, the analysis times are similar to those using a Short Time Fourier Transform with FFT. The parallel input filterbank can be implemented using a matrix formulation for the N band pass filters. This approach is suitable for software implementation and results in analysis times that are lower than when using an STFT or the parallel input implementation with the bank of band pass filters. The WBGT, along with the filterbank implementations result in very accurate JTF spectra. Near perfect reconstruction of the original signal from the JTF spectra was obtained for several cases for the Gabor Transform techniques presented in this thesis. Finally, the use of the parallel input filterbank in the context of SAR processing is presented and the hardware requirements are derived and shown to be achievable using commercially available products. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Akcijski plan za suzbijanje govora mržnje
Creators: name: Refi Homolak, Martina
name: Đaković, Tina
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2024
Subjects: akcijski plan
govor mržnje

description: U sklopu projekta ‘Jačanje sustava zaštite i osnaživanje zajednica za prepoznavanje i suzbijanje govora mržnje u Hrvatskoj’, Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb u suradnji s drugim organizacijama civilnog društva te uz konzultacije s relevantnim dionicima izradila je Akcijski plan za suzbijanje govora mržnje.  Govor mržnje kontinuirano je prisutan problem koji jača, a za čije rješavanje nedostaje sustavnog istraživanja i praćenja. U tu svrhu, izrađen je sveobuhvatan, na dokazima, ljudskim pravima i međunarodnim preporukama i standardima temeljen Akcijski plan za suzbijanje govora mržnje s ciljem postavljanje temelja za holistički pristup u borbi protiv govora mržnje koji uključuje prepoznavanje, praćenje, prevenciju, osvještavanje, osnaživanje žrtava i jačanje mehanizama procesuiranja i reguliranja. Akcijski plan sadrži konkretne mjere za ciljano holističko djelovanje svih aktera–od škola do tijela progona, za prevenciju, suzbijanje i procesuiranje govora mržnje.
Supplementary document for Two-beam coupling by a hot electron nonlinearity - 4970464.pdf
Creators: name: Wahlstrand, Jared
name: Paul, Jagannath
name: Miscuglio, Mario
name: Gui, Yaliang
name: Sorger, Volker
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
Hard Brexit, Soft Brexit, Smooth Brexit. Definizioni a confronto
Creators: name: Antonello, Monica
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: English terminology; terminological definition; Hard Brexit; Soft Brexit; Smooth Brexit

description: Il fenomeno della Brexit ha portato diversi cambiamenti, di natura sia politico-sociale sia linguistica. Dal 2012, anno della creazione del neologismo, da questo termine ne sono stati coniati diversi altri, atti a definire i protagonisti e le implicazioni di tale evento. Questo studio si concentra su tre composti – hard Brexit, soft Brexit e smooth Brexit – che designano tre possibili realizzazioni dell’uscita del Regno Unito dall’Unione Europea. Lo scopo è quello di confrontare le definizioni di tali termini fornite da due glossari istituzionali, quello del Parlamento inglese e quello del Parlamento europeo – entrambi denominati Brexit Glossary, con le definizioni reperite nel Brexit Corpus, un corpus giornalistico di testi raccolti dal web e disponibile sulla piattaforma SketchEngine. I dati dimostrano che le definizioni dei tre termini analizzati non sono completamente coerenti e che i processi che descrivono non sono del tutto trasparenti e chiari agli utenti.
description: Iperstoria, No 15 (2020): Populism and Its Languages
Peter Gidal and anarchic criticism
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 1983, Frederik Smith made use of the occasion of a special edition of Modern Fiction Studies to take stock of Beckett criticism. Smith argued that given Beckett's attitude to the distorting glass of language, a critical book on him was 'almost a contradiction in terms', for in writing on Beckett we distort him. Smith boldly concluded that it was 'theoretically impossible to write sensibly about Samuel Beckett'. In its immediate context, Smith's essay was a brief introduction to a number of new critical works. However, within the larger, historical context of Beckett scholarship, he had made a point with such clarity and incisiveness that one wonders, when reading it, how it had not been made before. Perhaps it had, but amid the burgeoning years of the Beckett critical industry, who would have been likely to stop writing on Beckett's writing out of a fidelity to the metaphysics of the text?
Daudet, James, and the Revision of the Nineteenth-Century Wifely Adultery Plot
Creators: name: Francescato, Simone
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Henry James; Alphonse Daudet; adultery novel; La petite paroisse; The Golden Bowl

description: Although it is widely known that Henry James took inspiration from Alphonse Daudet’s L’Evangéliste (1883) for The Bostonians, and from Numa Roumestan (1881) for “The Liar,” the influence of the French novelist on James’s late fiction is still far from being fully grasped or acknowledged. In this essay I will read Daudet’s La petite paroisse. Moeurs conjugales (1895) together with James’s The Golden Bowl (1904) and discuss the similar ways in which these two works revised the nineteenth-century form of the “wifely adultery novel” (Overton 2002) within their respective literary and cultural contexts. My argument is that they challenged both the social stigmatization attached to the adulteress and what were taken to be ‘natural’ relations between husband and wife, and within the family circle.
description: Iperstoria, No 15 (2020): Populism and Its Languages
Policy recommendations and cost implications for a more sustainable framework for European human biomonitoring surveys
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Politik

description: The potential of Human Biomonitoring (HBM) in exposure characterisation and risk assessment is wellestablished in the scientific HBM community and regulatory arena by many publications. The EuropeanEnvironment and Health Strategy as well as the Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 of theEuropean Commission recognised the value of HBM and the relevance and importance of coordination ofHBM programmes in Europe. Based on existing and planned HBM projects and programmes of work andcapabilities in Europe the Seventh Framework Programme (FP 7) funded COPHES (COnsortium to PerformHuman Biomonitoring on a European Scale) to advance and improve comparability of HBM data
across Europe. The pilot study protocol was tested in 17 European countries in the DEMOCOPHES feasibilitystudy (DEMOnstration of a study to COordinate and Perform Human biomonitoring on a EuropeanScale) cofunded (50%) under the LIFEþ programme of the European Commission. The potential ofHBM in supporting and evaluating policy making (including e.g. REACH) and in awareness raising onenvironmental health, should significantly advance the process towards a fully operational, continuous,sustainable and scientifically based EU HBM programme. From a number of stakeholder activities duringthe past 10 years and the national engagement, a framework for sustainable HBM structure in Europe isrecommended involving national institutions within environment, health and food as well as Europeaninstitutions such as ECHA, EEA, and EFSA. An economic frame with shared cost implications for nationaland European institutions is suggested benefitting from the capacity building set up by COPHES/DEMOCOPHES.© 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Yields of multicharged ions scattered and recoiled from a clean silicon surface.
Creators: name: Gauthier, Pierre.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Physics, Molecular.

description: This thesis investigates the basic interactions of energetic ions with the top atoms on a clean surface. This information is of relevance to impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy (ICISS) investigations of surface structure. Using a variety of ions with energies in the keV range e.g. C$\rm\sp+,\ N\sp+,\ O\sp+,\ F\sp+,\ Ne\sp+,\ P\sp+,\ S\sp+,\ Cl\sp+$ and Ar$\sp+,$ incident upon a clean amorphous silicon surface, the outgoing particles were found to contain a significant fraction of multiply charged ions. Note that the ejected ions were energy analysed with a cylindrical electrode electrostatic analyser, designed and built by us, which had a sufficiently large solid angle of acceptance so that good energy spectra could be obtained with beam fluxes which did not significantly damage the surface structure. To explain the appearance of these multicharged ions, a charge exchange model is described that considers the interaction domain to be divided into three steps: the incoming trajectory, the close encounter and the outgoing trajectory. A definite threshold distance of closest approach for the production of each of the multicharged ion species was found. These threshold distances directly confirm the model in which multiply charged ions are created in binary encounters by molecular orbital electron promotion, and then are partially neutralized as they leave the surface. The molecular orbital correlation diagram can associate particuliar crossings responsible for each multicharged ion species observed.
Pearl Buck, a Nob(e)le Lady Speaking to/of the Masses in/from the Land of Logocracy
Creators: name: Lamberti, Elena
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pearl Buck; masscult; literature and society storytelling; Anglo-American Literature

description: The paper proposes an analysis of Pearl Buck’s Nobel Prize for Literature (1938) in the light of the then forming transmedia storytelling and populism. It cross reads Buck’s literary productions in relation to the film adaptation of her masterpiece The Good Earth, as well as of the mass culture of her time; the goal is to show the appropriation of cultural production to facilitate public euphemism and mainstream ‘historical’ storytelling, as well as Buck’s counter-narratives and original poetics.
description: Iperstoria, No 15 (2020): Populism and Its Languages
How the study of networks informs knowledge translation and implementation: a scoping review
Creators: name: Glegg, Stephanie
name: Jenkins, Emily (Emily K.), 1981-
name: Kothari, Anita
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: To date, implementation science has focused largely on identifying the individual and organizational barriers, processes, and outcomes of knowledge translation (KT) (including implementation efforts). Social network analysis (SNA) has the potential to augment our understanding of KT success by applying a network lens that examines the influence of relationships and social structures on research use and intervention acceptability by health professionals. The purpose of this review was to comprehensively map the ways in which SNA methodologies have been applied to the study of KT with respect to health professional networks. Methods: Systematic scoping review methodology involved searching five academic databases for primary research on KT that employed quantitative SNA methods, and inclusion screening using predetermined criteria. Data extraction included information on study aim, population, variables, network properties, theory use, and data collection methods. Descriptive statistics and chronology charting preceded theoretical analysis of findings. Results: Twenty-seven retained articles describing 19 cross-sectional and 2 longitudinal studies reported on 28 structural properties, with degree centrality, tie characteristics (e.g., homophily, reciprocity), and whole network density being most frequent. Eleven studies examined physician-only networks, 9 focused on interprofessional networks, and 1 reported on a nurse practitioner network. Diffusion of innovation, social contagion, and social influence theories were most commonly applied. Conclusions: Emerging interest in SNA for KT- and implementation-related research is evident. The included articles focused on individual level evidence-based decision-making: we recommend also applying SNA to meso- or macro-level KT activities. SNA research that expands the range of professions under study, examines network dynamics over time, extends the depth of analysis of the role of network structure on KT processes and outcomes, and employs mixed methods to triangulate findings, is needed to advance the field. SNA is a valuable approach for evaluating key network characteristics, structures and positions of relevance to KT, implementation, and evidence informed practice. Examining how network structure influences connections and the implications of those holding prominent network positions can provide insights to improve network-based KT processes.
Pregled odabranih presuda Europskog suda za ljudska prava za 2023. godinu
Creators: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2023
Subjects: Europski sud za ljudska prava
sudska praksa

description: U 2023. godini Europski sud za ljudska prava donio je niz presuda u kojima je dalje razjasnio i razradio kakvo postupanje državnih tijela te kakva zakonodavna uređenja zahtijevaju standardi iz Konvencije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i temeljnih sloboda. U svrhu informiranja javnosti o najnovijim relevantnim tumačenjima konvencijskih standarda, Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb izradila je pregled odabranih presuda koje su donesene u 2023. godini. Analizirane presude ukazuju na važne  standarde glede slobode izražavanja, odgovornosti političara za govor mržnje na internetu te zaštite zviždača relevantnih za Republiku Hrvatsku kao članicu Vijeća Europe.
Communicating Medical Information Online. The Case of Adolescent Health Websites
Creators: name: Pennisi, Giulia Adriana
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: multimodality; discourse analysis; online communication; medical information; adolescents

description: In recent times, our understanding and practice of public health has been increasingly guided by technological advances generally based on governmental decisions (Green et al. 2009). Not only does the growth of a public system for protecting health hinge upon scientific discovery and dissemination of medical knowledge, but also the World Wide Web has considerably changed the health communication environment. This paper considers the online health information addressed to adolescents. Given that young people have difficulty accessing traditional health services, in theory, the Internet might offer them a more confidential and convenient access to an unprecedented level of information about a diverse range of subjects (Hansen et al. 2003). In this context, the analysis concentrates on ‘adolescent health,’ and compares and contrasts the discourse of three websites: Healthdirect, a free service supported by the Government of Australia, SAHM managed by a multidisciplinary society based in the USA, Canada and the UK, and TeenMentalHealth.Org managed by the WHO (World Health Organization) Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Policy and Training. The study is designed to highlight both the specificities of communication of ‘adolescent health’ (Harvey 2014; Gotti, Maci and Sala 2015; Garzone and Ilie 2014), and the linguistic/discoursal and visual strategies adopted over the dedicated online platforms. Given the communicative immediacy of the new medium and the specificities of the target audience, it becomes crucial to see how the selected websites both linguistically and visually communicate medical information to adolescent web-users (LeVine and Scollon 2004; Kolucki and Lemish 2011).
description: Iperstoria, No 15 (2020): Populism and Its Languages
ESiWACE2 Dissemination, Engagement and Communication Plan (D7.3)
Creators: name: Project Office
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ESiWACE2
Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe Phase 2
communication
dissemination

description: This document provides details on target audiences, goals and tools for disseminating to, engaging with and communicating to a number of selected audiences. Version 1 summarises the mid-term planned activities for the first 18 months of the project i.e. 1 January 2019-30 June 2020. Version 1 was updated for the periodic report of Month 18. Further updates will follow with the reports for month 36 and 48.
description: ESiWACE2 stands for Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe Phase 2. ESiWACE2 is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (H2020-INFRAEDI-2018-1 call) under grant agreement 823988
Urban climate policy and action through a health lens : an untapped opportunity
Creators: name: De Nazelle, Audrey
name: Roscoe, Charlotte J.
name: Roca-Barcelό, Aina
name: Sebag, Giselle
name: Weinmayr, Gudrun
name: Dora, Carlos
name: Ebi, Kristie L.
name: Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.
name: Negev, Maya
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: co-benefits
subject: systems thinking
subject: co-production
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Climate change
subject: Cities
subject: Urban health
subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Stadt

description: Motivated by a growing recognition of the climate emergency, reflected in the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26), we outline untapped opportunities to improve health through ambitious climate actions in cities. Health is a primary reason for climate action yet is rarely integrated in urban climate plans as a policy goal. This is a missed opportunity to create sustainable alliances across sectors and groups, to engage a broad set of stakeholders, and to develop structural health promotion. In this statement, we first briefly review the literature on health co-benefits of urban climate change strategies and make the case for health-promoting climate action; we then describe barriers to integrating health in climate action. We found that the evidence-base is often insufficiently policy-relevant to be impactful. Research rarely integrates the complexity of real-world systems, including multiple and dynamic impacts of strategies, and consideration of how decision-making processes contend with competing interests and short-term electoral cycles. Due to siloed-thinking and restrictive funding opportunities, research often falls short of the type of evidence that would be most useful for decision-making, and research outputs can be cryptic to decision makers. As a way forward, we urge researchers and stakeholders to engage in co-production and systems thinking approaches. Partnering across sectors and disciplines is urgently needed so pathways to climate change mitigation and adaptation fully embrace their health-promoting potential and engage society towards the huge transformations needed. This commentary is endorsed by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) and accompanies a sister statement oriented towards stakeholders (published on the societies’ websites).
title: Challenges to the Quality of the Educational Management Information System (EMIS) in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan
Creators: name: Rizavi, Saba Masud
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This paper is organized into four detailed chapters and a series of Appendices. The paper highlights the importance of information in the development of an education system as well as the system for better management of the information. The focus the paper is on the Educational Management Information Cell that is currently running under the Directorate of Primary Education in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), that is one of the provinces in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The purpose is to describe the existing information system, point out the problems and then present some feasible solutions and recommendations to help improve it. It is absolutely necessary to understand the constraints of not enough budgets and the lack of other resources while trying to solve a problem, hence a revolutionary change of a current system should not be in the goal in mind. There may be some minor alterations within the available resources that can be extremely helpful in the long run instead of focusing on major changes.
The deep groth strip galaxy redshift survey. III. Redshift catalog and properties of galaxies
Creators: name: Weiner, Benjamin J.
name: Phillips, Andrew C.
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Willmer, Christopher N.A.
name: Vogt, Nicole P.
name: Simard, Luc
name: Geshardi, Karl
name: Im, Myungshin
name: Koo, D. C.
name: Sarajedini, Vicki L.
name: Wu, Katherine L.
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Gronwall, Caryl
name: Groth, Edward J.
name: Illingworth, G. D.
name: Kron, R. G.
name: Rhodes, Jason
name: Szalay, A. S.
name: Takamiya, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP) is a series of spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies, targeted at understanding the properties and clustering of galaxies at redshifts z~1. We present the redshift catalog of the DEEP1 Groth Strip pilot phase of this project, a Keck LRIS survey of faint galaxies in the Groth Survey Strip imaged with HST WFPC2. The redshift catalog and data, including reduced spectra, are made publicly available through a Web-accessible database. The catalog contains 658 secure galaxy redshifts with a median z=0.65. The distribution of these galaxies shows large-scale structure walls to z~1. We find a bimodal distribution in the galaxy color-magnitude diagram that persists to the same distance. A similar color division has been seen locally by the SDSS and to z~1 by the COMBO-17 survey. The HST imaging allows us to measure structural properties of the galaxies, and we find that the color division corresponds generally to a structural division. Most red galaxies, ~75%, are centrally concentrated, with a red bulge or spheroidal stellar component, while blue galaxies usually have exponential profiles. However, there are two subclasses of red galaxies that are not bulge dominated: edge-on disks and a second category that we term diffuse red galaxies (DIFRGs). Comparison to a local sample drawn from the RC3 suggests that distant edge-on disks are similar in appearance and frequency to those at low redshift, but analogs of DIFRGs are rare among local red galaxies. DIFRGs have significant emission lines, indicating that they are reddened mainly by dust rather than age. The DIFRGs in our sample are all at z>0.64, suggesting that DIFRGs are more prevalent at high redshifts; they may be related to the dusty or irregular extremely red objects beyond z>1.2 that have been found in deep K-selected surveys. We measure the color evolution of both red and blue galaxies by comparing our U-B colors to those from the RC3. For red galaxies, we find a reddening of only 0.11 mag from z~0.8 to now, about half the color evolution measured by COMBO-17. Larger, more carefully defined samples with better colors are needed to improve this measurement. Reconciling evolution in color, luminosity, mass, morphology, and star formation rates will be an active topic of future research.
Enriched aptamer libraries in fluorescence-based assays for rikenella microfusus-specific gut microbiome analyses
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiting
name: Xing, Hu
name: Bolotnikov, Grigory
name: Krämer, Markus
name: Gotzmann, Nina
name: Knippschild, Uwe
name: Kissmann, Ann-Kathrin
name: Rosenau, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: DNA aptamer
subject: Cell-SELEX
subject: in vitro diagnostic
subject: Rikenella microfusus
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Biosensors
subject: Biosensor

description: Rikenella microfusus is an essential intestinal probiotic with great potential. The latest research shows that imbalance in the intestinal flora are related to the occurrence of various diseases, such as intestinal diseases, immune diseases, and metabolic diseases. Rikenella may be a target or biomarker for some diseases, providing a new possibility for preventing and treating these diseases by monitoring and optimizing the abundance of Rikenella in the intestine. However, the current monitoring methods have disadvantages, such as long detection times, complicated operations, and high costs, which seriously limit the possibility of clinical application of microbiome-based treatment options. Therefore, the intention of this study was to evolve an enriched aptamer library to be used for specific labeling of R. microfusus, allowing rapid and low-cost detection methods and, ultimately the construction of aptamer-based biosensors. In this study, we used Rikenella as the target bacterium for an in vitro whole Cell-SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential Enrichment) to evolve and enrich specific DNA oligonucleotide aptamers. Five other prominent anaerobic gut bacteria were included in this process for counterselection and served as control cells. The aptamer library R.m-R13 was evolved with high specificity and strong affinity (Kd = 9.597 nM after 13 rounds of selection). With this enriched aptamer library, R. microfusus could efficiently be discriminated from the control bacteria in complex mixtures using different analysis techniques, including fluorescence microscopy or fluorometric suspension assays, and even in human stool samples. These preliminary results open new avenues toward the development of aptamer-based microbiome bio-sensing applications for fast and reliable monitoring of R. microfusus.
title: Errores de identificacion de pacientes. Analisis y control de calidad
Creators: name: Martínez Serrano, Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Management
subject: PACS
subject: Safety

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Analizar el impacto de un control de calidad establecido diariamente,
para la búsqueda de posibles errores de identificación en la rx simple en un Servicio de Radiología que trabaja en entorno...
Analiza međunarodnih preporuka za Hrvatsku u području suzbijanja govora mržnje
Creators: name: Refi Homolak, Martina
name: Đaković, Tina
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2023
Subjects: govor mržnje
preporuke

description: U sklopu projekta ‘Jačanje sustava zaštite i osnaživanje zajednica za prepoznavanje i suzbijanje govora mržnje u Hrvatskoj’ Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb izradila je Analizu implementacije relevantnih preporuka upućenih Hrvatskoj od strane međunarodnih tijela za zaštitu ljudskih prava, a koje se odnose na govor mržnje, slobodu izražavanja i zaštitu od diskriminacije.

U dokumentu su preporuke su grupirane prema područjima koja se ponavljaju u preporukama različitih tijela te su istaknuta područja u kojima je uočen prostor za napredak u implementaciji preporuka i učinkovitijem suzbijanju govora mržnje u Hrvatskoj.
Evaluation of growth and yield of four strawberry (Fragaria × annanassa) genotypes
Creators: name: M.S. Islam
name: M.J. Hossan
name: M.K. Ahsan
name: Mehraj, H
name: AFM JAMAL UDDIN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70601 Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: A pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield performance of four strawberry germplasms at the Horticulture Farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka during October 2010 to April 2011. The experimental materials were four strawberry germplasms: V1 (SAU Line-01), V2 (SAU Line-02), V3 (SAU Line-03) and V4 (SAU Line-04). The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with five replications. Among the germplasms the maximum number of flowers (32.5/plant), the maximum number of fruits (28.8/plant), the highest average fruit weight (12.3 g) and the highest total fruit yield (361 g/plant) were found in V1. Considering the overall
results of the study, it may be concluded that V1 (SAU Line-01) is a promising strawberry germplasm for cultivation in Bangladesh.
Modeling of the hydrodynamics within the header of a tubular membrane module.
Creators: name: Boukouris, Dimitrios F. (James).
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Ultrafiltration (UF) is one of the many technologies used in the treatment of process and wastewaters. Tubular UF membrane modules are used to treat fiber suspensions for effluent control and chemical recovery in the pulp and paper industry. However, the treatment of pulp suspensions with modules containing tubes having an inside diameter of less than 2.54 cm is typically problematic. Severe blockage occurs at the inlet of the tubes due to the accumulation of pulp fibers within the header. In the present study, the commercial computational fluid dynamics package, CFD-ACE+ was used to simulate the hydrodynamics within the header of a simplified system. The hydrodynamics were simplified by approximating the two-phase pulp suspension with a single-phase Newtonian fluid. The main flow structures within various header geometries were analyzed. Header geometry was varied by chamfering the inlet of a tube at four specific angles. These four angles, referred to as inlet angles, were 0$\sp\circ,$ 30$\sp\circ,$ 45$\sp\circ,$ and 55$\sp\circ.$ The hydrodynamic features within the different header configurations were compared. A central eddy in the shape of a torus of varying cross section was observed at lower inlet angles. The eddy was less discernable at larger inlet angles. The eddy intensity within the header was identified as the key hydrodynamic structure affecting fiber accumulation. Changes in the average velocity of recirculation of the eddy were found to be closely correlated (r$\sp2$ = 0.9986) to previously reported fiber accumulation results.
title: “Localizaciones poco habituales de la enfermedad Hidatidica"
Creators: name: Castiñeira, Virginia
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: eHealth

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
La hidatidosis es una zoonosis de distribución mundial producida por el estado larvario delcestodeEchinococcusGranulosus.El hombre,
huésped intermediario se infecta de forma accidental por la ingesta de huevos (embriónhexacanto),
por el contacto...
Pregled odabranih presuda Europskog suda za ljudska prava protiv Hrvatske za 2021. i 2022. godinu
Creators: name: Refi Homolak, Martina
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2022
Subjects: Europski sud za ljudska prava
sudska praksa

description: Poznavanje i razumijevanje sudske prakse Europskog suda za ljudska prava važan je čimbenik za pravilnu primjenu Konvencije i konvencijskih standarda na nacionalnoj razini. Također, sve presude i odluke u predmetima protiv Republike Hrvatske obvezujuće su za državu, što znači da je Republika Hrvatska dužna poduzeti potrebne mjere za izvršenje pojedine presude. Upravo iz navedenih razloga, a u cilju informiranja javnosti o sadržaju donesenih odluka, Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb izradila je pregled odabranih presuda koje su donesene ili postale konačne u 2021.- 2022. godini.
title: Isquemia mesentérica, todo lo que debemos conocer.
Creators: name: Paz Maya, Silvia
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Vascular
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar,
basándonos en casos diagnosticados en nuestro centro,
los hallazgos radiológicos de la isquemia mesentérica según las posibles etiologías que la causan: oclusión arterial,
venosa,
bajo gasto y obstrucción...
Supplementary document for High Spatial and Energy Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of the Magnetic and Electric Excitations in Plasmonic Nanorod Oligomers - 4972191.pdf
Creators: name: Pakeltis, Grace
name: Rotunno, Enzo
name: KHORASSANI, SIAMAK
name: Garfinkel, David
name: Collette, Robyn
name: West, Claire
name: Retterer, Scott
name: Ibrodo, Juan
name: MASIELLO, DAVID
name: Rack, Philip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplemental Information Document
Abus d'alcool et traitement alternatif : perspectives autochtones.
Creators: name: Cayer, Helen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: Plusieurs explications ont ete avancees afin d'expliquer la surconsommation d'alcool chez les Peuples Autochtones mais tres peu ont des fondements bien etablis. Bref, il n'y a pas de consensus parmi les auteurs. Par contre, il y a unanimite pour dire que la surconsomation d'alcool ou de drogues est un probleme complexe comprenant les spheres psychologique, economique, politique, biologique et surtout socio-culturelle. Il existe plusieurs programmes de desintoxication tels que les Alcooliques Anonymes. Par contre, tres peu de ces programmes remplissent adequatement les besoins des autochtones. Afin de contrer ce probleme croissant, certaines personnes des communautes des Premieres Nations proposent une approche "holistique" dans le but de retourner a une vie active et saine. Cette guerison "holistique" a comme premisse que la comprehension du probleme ne peut etre consideree que dans le cadre de l'environnement total de la personne. L'objet de cette recherche est une mise en lumiere, une comprehension de la surconsommation d'alcool chez les autochtones et de l'approche "holistique" utilisee dans un centre de desintoxication au sein d'une reserve de la Province de Quebec. Cette recherche a egalement comme objet de mettre en evidence la reception des autochtones vis-a-vis cette approche alternative de la toxicomanie. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A comparative analysis of Canadian and Belarussian sport organizations.
Creators: name: Kondratovsky, Yavgeniy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Management.

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the governmental organizations in charge of sport in Belarus (Goskomsport Belarus) and Canada (Sport Canada) from a comparative perspective. Data were collected in both Russian and English. Results of the study suggested that the sport organizations have a number of common elements, notably their complexity and formalization. Granted their instable, complex and heterogeneous environments, both Sport Canada and Goskomsport Belarus are heavily influenced by political and economic factors and are confronted with budget reductions and re-structuring. It was found that Sport Canada had a more flexible structure, less centralized decision making, and more advanced technology than Goskomsport Belarus. Results also suggest that Goskomsport Belarus operates in a more instable and complex environment, with a proportionally smaller budget, but that it is more aggressive in terms of its quest for a political power that would allow it to maintain its operations, and for corporate partners that would bring revenues from sources other than the traditional state contributions. The environment's high degree of instability and complexity in Canada and in Belarus was perhaps the main factor affecting the two focal organizations. Environmental turbulence demands a lot of flexibility and adaptiveness on the part of organizational structures for the latter to allow an organization to be effective. In the case of Sport Canada, better structural flexibility (because of the matrix system), lesser structural complexity, lesser formalization and more decentralized decision making processes made the organization apparently better equipped to adapt to the changing political and economic situation. In brief, Sport Canada had a structural arrangement that was more suited to the contextual situation than was the case for Goskomsport Belarus. This may explain why Sport Canada seemed to be more effective than Goskomsport Belarus in an unstable and dynamic environment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for High Spatial and Energy Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of the Magnetic and Electric Excitations in Plasmonic Nanorod Oligomers - 4972191.pdf
Creators: name: Pakeltis, Grace
name: Rotunno, Enzo
name: KHORASSANI, SIAMAK
name: Garfinkel, David
name: Collette, Robyn
name: West, Claire
name: Retterer, Scott
name: Ibrodo, Juan
name: MASIELLO, DAVID
name: Rack, Philip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplemental Information Document
Examining the Multi-Seasonal Consistency of Individual Tree Segmentation on Deciduous Stands Using Digital Aerial Photogrammetry (DAP) and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
Creators: name: Nuijten, Rik J. G.
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: Goodbody, Tristan R. H.
name: Pelletier, Gaetan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Digital aerial photogrammetric (DAP) techniques applied to unmanned aerial system (UAS) acquired imagery have the potential to offer timely and affordable data for monitoring and updating forest inventories. Development of methods for individual tree crown detection (ITCD) and delineation enables the development of individual tree-based, rather than stand based inventories, which are important for harvesting operations, biomass and carbon stock estimations, forest damage assessment, and forest monitoring in mixed species stands. To achieve these inventory goals, consistent and robust DAP estimates are required over time. Currently, the influence of seasonal changes in deciduous tree structure on the consistency of DAP point clouds, from which tree-based inventories can be derived, is unknown. In this study, we investigate the influence of the timing of DAP acquisition on ITCD accuracies and estimation of tree attributes for a deciduous-dominated forest stand in New Brunswick, Canada. UAS imagery was acquired five times between June and September 2017 over the same stand and consistently processed into DAP point clouds. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, acquired the same year, was used to reconstruct a digital terrain model (DTM) and served as a reference for UAS-DAP-based ITCD. Marker-controlled watershed segmentation (MCWS) was used to delineate individual tree crowns. Accuracy index percentages between 55% (July 25) and 77.1% (September 22) were achieved. Omission errors were found to be relatively high for the first three DAP acquisitions (June 7, July 5, and July 25) and decreased gradually thereafter. The commission error was relatively high on July 25. Point cloud metrics were found to be predominantly consistent over the 4-month period, however, estimated tree heights gradually decreased over time, suggesting a trade-off between ITCD accuracies and measured tree heights. Our findings provide insight into the potential influence of seasonality on DAP-ITCD approaches to derive individual tree inventories.