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The five pillars for agricultural development : a case study of beekeeping in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Schouten, Cooper
Publisher: name: Southern Cross university
Year: 2019
Subjects: International development
Agriculture
Beekeeping
Community development
Apis mellifera
Evaluation framework
Sustainable development
Financial resilience
Extension
Rural development
Apiculture

description: The determinants underpinning the success of international agricultural research for development programs are not always clear and their effectiveness is varied. Beekeeping represents an example of this phenomenon, as the activity has increasingly been promoted for improving and diversifying incomes among rural farmers. Despite the enthusiasm of funding agencies, attrition remains a chronic problem, colony losses are high, support for and coordination of the sector is low, and practices, production and income from beekeeping is often inefficient. This research investigated factors influencing the success of beekeepers and apicultural development programs to develop a conceptual framework for guiding future agricultural initiatives. This thesis critically evaluates relevant published literature, explores lessons learn by development professionals and examines beekeeping enterprises in Papua New Guinea as a case study. This research revealed a paucity of apicultural information in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite owning few bee hives, income from honey provides significant contributions to cash incomes and financial resilience among farmers. Twenty-four predictors were found to significantly influence net income from beekeeping, honey yields and numbers of hives owned by beekeepers. This research emphasizes a need for increased efforts to assess specific management practices which influence production and income and how these can be optimized, as well as increased efforts in facilitating effective extension in order to disseminate best practice approaches to farmers. While there are multiple benefits to beekeeping, programs should not overlook the fact that honey bees, like other livestock, require good nutrition, pest and disease management and appropriate support mechanisms to be successful. This research proposes the five pillars for agricultural development, namely, education and extension, nutrition, pest and disease, genetics and technology. The framework is relevant to farmers, academics, government and NGOs in developing countries seeking to improve the sustainability, productivity and profitability of beekeeping and other agricultural enterprises. These approaches may help to improve the relevance and impact of beekeeping and other crop and livestock production systems, as effective mechanisms to achieving sustainable development and assisting low-income farmers to improve their livelihoods.
A biography and obituary of W.H. Eberhard Schulz (1931–2017)
Creators: name: Gravendyck, Julia
name: Bachelier, Julien B.
name: Heunisch, Carmen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: This is a biography and obituary of the German Democratic Republic palynologist Dr Eberhard Schulz (1931–2017). A pioneer in Mesozoic palynology, he established, together with other important palynologists of that time, the basis of today’s palynological research, especially in the Triassic and Jurassic of Eastern Germany. His comprehensive range charts, numerous new type descriptions, and beautiful and informative illustrations were and still are a valuable contribution to our field. In addition, his professional life and heritage not only illustrate an important period of advances in palynology during the 1950s to 1970s, but also give us an insight in German history, and the restrictions and challenges that scientists faced in the German Democratic Republic.
Supplementary document for Field-resolved detection of the temporal response of a single plasmonic antenna in the mid infrared - 5187862.pdf
Creators: name: Fischer, Marco Patrick
name: Maccaferri, Nicolò
name: Gallacher, Kevin
name: Frigerio, Jacopo
name: Pellegrini, Giovanni
name: Paul, Douglas
name: Isella, Giovanni
name: Leitenstorfer, Alfred
name: Biagioni, Paolo
name: Brida, Daniele
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary figures
Laicità dello Stato: da concetto ideologico a principio giuridico
Creators: name: Cavana, Paolo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Contributo destinato alla pubblicazione nel volume degli Studi in onore del Prof. Piero Pellegrino.SOMMARIO: 1. Le origini. Laicità dello Stato e cristianesimo - 2. L’ideologia dello Stato laico nella crisi dello spirito europeo - 3. L’affermazione del regime di laicità in Francia - 4. L’evoluzione del principio di laicità nell’esperienza francese - 5. La laicità dello Stato nell’esperienza italiana. I dibattiti in Assemblea costituente - 6. Il principio di laicità dello Stato nella giurisprudenza costituzionale - 7. Le nuove sfide alla laicità dello Stato.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 29 settembre
Healing the circle: Exploring the conjuncture of peacemaking criminology and native justice initiatives.
Creators: name: Gulati, Shruti Gola.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: This thesis discusses the peacemaking potential of Native justice initiatives within the context of Canadian criminal justice. Like peacemaking which rose as a revitalization of peace and non-violence within criminology and its concerns, Native justice initiatives can be viewed as a revitalization movement which has risen in response to the injustice of the criminal process for Native people. By offering alternatives to criminal justice or healing approaches within the structure of the conventional criminal process, Native justice initiatives seek to provide healing and restoration and a meaningful delivery of justice to Native people in conflict with the law. The peacemaking potential of such alternatives lies in the observation that the current euro-based structure of criminal justice is foreign to the traditional spiritual and social understanding of Native people. The tragic consequence of this incompatibility is the overincarceration of Native people and the failure of conventional correctional programming to help them. The offering of a process which is sensitive to the needs of Native people in conflict with the law is a move toward peace and social justice within the Canadian criminal justice system which provides an illustration of how Peacemaking may be achieved. This thesis proposes that Native Justice Initiatives facilitate a healing process between Native people and the criminal justice process and do not represent a full restoration to health. Deep healing for Native people in conflict with the law will require an ongoing process of understanding and accommodation both within the realm of criminal justice and society in general. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Genetic Modification of Cardiac Stem Cells with Stromal Cell-Derived Factor 1α to Enhance Myocardial Repair
Creators: name: Tilokee, Everad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Heart failure
Myocardial infarction
Cardiac stem cells
Regeneration

description: The incidence of heart failure (HF) continues to grow despite advances to current therapies which are effective insofar as slowing disease progression. Cardiac stem cell (CSC) therapy is an emerging treatment for the reversal of HF. We sought to examine the effect of genetically engineering CSCs to over-express stromal cell-derived factor 1α (SDF1α) on myocardial repair. SDF1α over-expressing CSCs exhibited a broader paracrine signature resulting in increased stimulation of capillary network formation and chemotaxis under in vitro conditions. Using a murine model of myocardial ischemia, we demonstrated over-expression of SDF1α increased myocardial SDF1α content, reduced scar burden and increased activation of PI3K/AKT signaling as compared to non-transduced CSC and vehicle controls. These effects improved cardiac function without increasing cell engraftment suggesting that the mechanisms driving these benefits are largely paracrine mediated. Taken together this data suggests that transplantation of CSCs genetically programmed to over-express SDF1α provides superior cardiac repair by boosting the content of cardio-protective cytokines during the critical healing phase after myocardial infarction.
Supp 3. The geology of the Shyok suture zone: evidence for Cretaceous extension of the southern Eurasian margin and Eocene India-Eurasia collision
Creators: name: Martin, C. R.
name: Van Buer, N. J.
name: Matchette-Downes, H.
name: Mueller, P. A.
name: Cruz-Uribe, A. M.
name: van Tongeren, J. A.
name: Hanchar, J. M.
name: Upadhyay, R.
name: Jagoutz, O.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: University of Maine Parameters.
Il Basic Agreement tra la Santa Sede e la Bosnia- Erzegovina nel quadro delle dinamiche concordatarie ‘post-comuniste’
Creators: name: Carobene, Germana
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Contributo destinato alla pubblicazione negli Studi in onore del Professore Piero Pellegrino.SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive. Configurazione giuridica delle attuali dinamiche concordatarie nei Paesi di recente strutturazione politico-giuridica - 2. L’Accordo del 2006 ed il suo contenuto normativo - 3. Evoluzione storica della Bosnia- Erzgovina fino all’attuale strutturazione politica - 4. Confronto con le regolamentazioni concordatarie degli altri Paesi dell’area balcanica e socialista. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 29 settembre
Design Approach for Thermal Performance Enhancements of a Pico‐Cell Base‐station Power Amplifier in Gallium Nitride HFET Technology
Creators: name: Sharma, Mihir
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: GaN
Thermal

description: As newer and more powerful technologies emerge in the market, the desire for compactness and aesthetics drive designers to aggressive new heights. The trend of technology is quite simply to deliver high-speed designs that pack more power while seeing reduction in form factor for ease of use at the consumer level. This presents new challenges with reliability, cost, and ultimately what the consumer strives for: performance. It is inevitable for a small compact size device, such as a smartphone or wireless repeater, to face heating issues when packing large amounts of power. The goal of this thesis is to characterize an in-market device’s thermal behavior and RF performance, and present an alternative design approach that helps improve thermal performance. This solution must not increase the design space or form factor excessively. The proposal utilizes an off-the-shelf solution and predicts performance improvements and degradation as a function of thermal performance. Electro-thermal simulators are used extensively to gauge the behavior and flow of heat within a gallium nitride device, and used as a baseline for comparison. Two modified approaches are presented and declared to be more efficient and reliable than the baseline. The design approaches comply with the industry standards of minimizing size and show a clear improvement in thermal behavior that can be utilized for any single device approach. The research is focused under similar power and biasing conditions so that designers can effectively implement a simple plug and play approach whenever the device under test is at risk of violating temperature limits and/or if performance degradation is observed under a variety of operating conditions.
Bounded rational decision-making models suggest capacity-limited concurrent motor planning in human posterior parietal and frontal cortex
Creators: name: Schach, Sonja
name: Lindner, Axel
name: Braun, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information capacity
subject: Human motor planning
subject: fMRI
subject: Prospective planning
subject: Bounded rationality model
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Sensorimotor

description: While traditional theories of sensorimotor processing have often assumed a serial decision-making pipeline, more recent approaches have suggested that multiple actions may be planned concurrently and vie for execution. Evidence for the latter almost exclusively stems from electrophysiological studies in posterior parietal and premotor cortex of monkeys. Here we study concurrent prospective motor planning in humans by recording functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a delayed response task engaging movement sequences towards multiple potential targets. We find that also in human posterior parietal and premotor cortex delay activity modulates both with sequence complexity and the number of potential targets. We tested the hypothesis that this modulation is best explained by concurrent prospective planning as opposed to the mere maintenance of potential targets in memory. We devise a bounded rationality model with information constraints that optimally assigns information resources for planning and memory for this task and determine predicted information profiles according to the two hypotheses. When regressing delay activity on these model predictions, we find that the concurrent prospective planning strategy provides a significantly better explanation of the fMRI-signal modulations. Moreover, we find that concurrent prospective planning is more costly and thus limited for most subjects, as expressed by the best fitting information capacities. We conclude that bounded rational decision-making models allow relating both behavior and neural representations to utilitarian task descriptions based on bounded optimal information-processing assumptions.
Ecology of the pale-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bitorquatus)
Creators: name: Shelton, Michael
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Snakes
Hollows
Species Distribution Model

description: The pale-headed snake is an arboreal elapid from eastern Australia which has received limited scientific attention. This thesis covers four research chapters that focus on the species’ population ecology, habitat selection, survey methodology and distribution modelling. This research demonstrates the vulnerability of a habitat specialist (dependant on hollow-bearing trees generally over 100 years old), which may have experienced significant population declines. Deforestation has already reduced the species’ historical distribution by one third, with habitat loss likely to be exacerbated by climate change. Anthropogenic pressures are projected to place the species’ in a high-risk category for extinction in the near future.
Turbulent Combustion Modelling of Fast-Flames and Detonations Using Compressible LEM-LES
Creators: name: Maxwell, Brian McNeilly
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: compressible flow
turbulent combustion
explosions
numerical simulation

description: A novel approach to modelling highly compressible and reactive flows is formulated to provide high resolution closure of turbulent-scale reaction rates in the presence of very rapid transients in pressure and energy. For such flows, treatment of turbulent-micro scales are generally unattainable through traditional modelling techniques. To address this, the modelling strategy developed here is based on the Linear Eddy Model for Large Eddy Simulation (LEM-LES); a technique which has only previously been applied to weakly compressible flows. In the current formulation of the Compressible LEM-LES (CLEM-LES), special treatment of the energy balance on the model subgrid is accounted for in order for the model reaction rates to respond accordingly to strong shocks and rapid expansions, both of which may be present in reactive and supersonic flow fields. In the current study, the model implemented is verified and validated for various 1D and 2D flow configurations in a compressible Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) framework. In 1D test cases, laminar and turbulent flame speeds and structure have been reproduced. Also, detonation speeds and initiation events are also captured with the model. For 2D model validation, unsteady and turbulent detonation propagation and initiation events, in a narrow channel, are simulated. Both test cases involve premixed methane-oxygen mixture at low pressures. The model is found to capture well the two-dimensional detonation cellular structure, behaviour, and initiation events that are observed in corresponding shock tube experiments. Furthermore, the effect of turbulent mixing rates is investigated though a single tuning constant. It was found that by increasing the intensity of turbulent fluctuations present, detonations exhibit larger and more irregular cell structures. Furthermore, the intensity of turbulent fluctuations is found to also have an effect on initiation events.
Politica, religione, laicità dello Stato. Luci ed ombre del caso italiano
Creators: name: Prisco, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Una versione più ristretta e inoltre meno aggiornata bibliograficamente di questo scritto è stata anticipata nella rivista Italianieuropei, 2/2008, nonché presentata come
ponencia al Congresso del CALIR su La libertad religiosa, origen de todas les libertades, Buenos Aires, 28 - 29 aprile 2008. La sua destinazione agli Studi in onore di Michele
Scudiero è un atto di omaggio ad un Maestro al quale la limpida fede religiosa e il profilo di cattolico impegnato nella società e nelle istituzioni non hanno mai impedito il laico confronto in materia, nel corso di molti anni di lavoro comune, con collaboratori di sensibilità diverse dalla sua, rendendo così le loro idee più ricche e articolate, sulla base di un dialogo da lui improntato sempre al rispetto dell’interlocutore e condotto con uno spirito di larghe e liberali vedute. Egli ha insegnato in tal modo col suo esempio - a chi ha avuto la fortuna di essergli allievo - che l’unico possibile valore di una seria ricerca  scientifica sta nell’imporsi di essere tanto rigorosa sul piano del metodo, quanto costantemente inquieta, problematica e alta nelle prospettive di analisi.SOMMARIO: 1. Uno sguardo al dibattito teorico contemporaneo – 2. Un panorama dell’attuale situazione italiana. Il dibattito sulla legge generale in materia di libertà religiosa – 3. L’azione governativa per l’integrazione dell’ identità religiosa islamica
- 4. Rilievi conclusivi.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 29 settembre
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 223 (28. Jg.), September 1998
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Supplementary document for Phase-difference imaging based on FINCH - 5188077.pdf
Creators: name: Sheng, Wei
name: Liu, Youwen
name: Shi, Yaoyao
name: hengchun, Jin
name: Wang, Jiming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Partial proof details of the point spread function
Paleocene–Eocene palynomorphs from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 2: angiosperm pollen
Creators: name: Vann Smith
name: Warny, Sophie
name: Jarzen, David M.
name: Demchuk, Thomas
name: Vajda, Vivi
name: Gulick, Sean P.S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: At the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid collided with the Earth and formed the Chicxulub impact structure on the Yucatán Platform. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 364 drilled into the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater. The post-impact section of the core was sampled for terrestrial palynological analysis, yielding a high-resolution record ranging from the early Paleocene to the earliest Eocene (Ypresian), including a black shale deposited during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The IODP 364 core provides the first record of floral recovery following the K–Pg mass extinction from inside the Chicxulub impact crater. The systematic taxonomy of the angiosperm pollen provided here follows a separate publication describing the systematic paleontology of the plant spores and gymnosperm pollen from the IODP 364 core (Smith et al. 2019). The Paleocene section of the core is nearly barren, but with unusually high relative abundances of the angiosperm pollen Chenopodipollis sp. A (comparable to the Amaranthaceae), possibly indicating an estuarine pollen source. Pollen recovery is higher in the PETM section, and variable but generally increasing in the later Ypresian section, with excellent preservation in several samples. Estimated absolute ages of several potentially useful regional biostratigraphic events are provided. One new genus (Scabrastephanoporites) and five new species (Brosipollis reticulatus, Echimonocolpites chicxulubensis, Psilastephanocolporites hammenii, Scabrastephanoporites variabilis, and Striatopollis grahamii) are formally described.
A cinque anni dalla riforma dei reati in materia di religione: un commento teorico-pratico degli artt. 403, 404 e 405 c.p.
Creators: name: Basile, Fabio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Questo scritto – in cui si fa il punto del dibattito dottrinale e delle applicazione giurisprudenziali relativi ai ‘nuovi’ delitti in materia di religione – anticipa, con alcune modifiche, il commento agli artt. 403, 404 e 405 c.p., destinato all’opera a cura di E. Dolcini, G. Marinucci, Codice penale commentato, 3ª ed., IPSOA, Milano, la cui pubblicazione è prevista per l’estate 2011.SOMMARIO: Parte prima: considerazioni generali sugli artt. 403, 404 e 405 c.p. - 1.1. L'evoluzione dei reati in materia di religione. - 1.2. Le "confessioni religiose": il problema della loro individuazione. - 1.3. La problematica individuazione del bene giuridico tutelato dai ‘nuovi’ delitti contro le confessioni religiose. - Parte seconda: il ‘nuovo’ art. 403 c.p. - 2.1. La dimensione plurioffensiva del delitto di “offese a una confessione religiosa mediante vilipendio di persone”. - 2.2. Elemento oggettivo. - 2.3. (Segue) in particolare, la persona-oggetto materiale. - 2.4. Elemento soggettivo. - 2.5. Questioni di legittimità costituzionale. - 2.6. Rapporti con altre figure di reato. - 2.7. Questioni di diritto intertemporale. - 2.8. Casistica. - Parte terza: il ‘nuovo’ art. 404 c.p. - 3.1. La riforma del 2006: il delitto di “offese a una confessione religiosa mediante vilipendio o danneggiamento di cose”. - 3.2. Il bene giuridico. - 3.3. Elemento oggettivo. - 3.4. (Segue) le cose-oggetto materiale. - 3.5. (Segue) le connotazioni spazio-temporali - 3.6. Elemento soggettivo. - 3.7. Questioni di legittimità costituzionale. - 3.8. Rapporti con altre figure di reato. - 3.9. Casistica. - Parte quarta: il ‘nuovo’ art. 405 c.p. - 4.1. Il bene giuridico tutelato dal delitto di “turbamento di funzioni religiose del culto di una confessione religiosa”. - 4.2. Elemento oggettivo. - 4.3. Elemento soggettivo. - 4.4. Consumazione e tentativo - 4.5. Circostanza aggravante e rapporti con altre figure di reato. - 4.6. Questioni di legittimità costituzionale. - 4.7. Sanzioni. - 4.8. Casistica.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 9 maggio
Estrogen receptor α signaling in osteoblasts is required for mechanotransduction in bone fracture healing
Creators: name: Steppe, Lena
name: Krüger, Benjamin Thilo
name: Tschaffon, Miriam Eva Angelica
name: Fischer, Verena
name: Tuckermann, Jan Peter Gottfried
name: Ignatius, Anita
name: Haffner-Luntzer, Melanie
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Estrogen receptor signaling
subject: Whole-body vibration
subject: LMHFV
subject: wnt signaling
subject: Prostaglandin signaling
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Osteoblasts
subject: Receptors, Estrogen
subject: Fracture healing
subject: Wnt signaling pathway
subject: Vibration; Therapeutic use
subject: Osteoblast
subject: Frakturheilung
subject: Schwingung
subject: Therapie

description: Biomechanical stimulation by whole-body low-magnitude high-frequency vibration (LMHFV) has demonstrated to provoke anabolic effects on bone metabolism in both non-osteoporotic and osteoporotic animals and humans. However, preclinical studies reported that vibration improved fracture healing and bone formation in osteoporotic, ovariectomized (OVX) mice representing an estrogen-deficient hormonal status, but impaired bone regeneration in skeletally healthy non-OVX mice. These effects were abolished in general estrogen receptor α (ERα)-knockout (KO) mice. However, it remains to be elucidated which cell types in the fracture callus are targeted by LMHFV during bone healing. To answer this question, we generated osteoblast lineage-specific ERα-KO mice that were subjected to ovariectomy, femur osteotomy and subsequent vibration. We found that the ERα specifically on osteoblastic lineage cells facilitated the vibration-induced effects on fracture healing, because in osteoblast lineage-specific ERα-KO (ERαfl/fl; Runx2Cre) mice the negative effects in non-OVX mice were abolished, whereas the positive effects of vibration in OVX mice were reversed. To gain greater mechanistic insights, the influence of vibration on murine and human osteogenic cells was investigated in vitro by whole genome array analysis and qPCR. The results suggested that particularly canonical WNT and Cox2/PGE2 signaling is involved in the mechanotransduction of LMHFV under estrogen-deficient conditions. In conclusion, our study demonstrates a critical role of the osteoblast lineage-specific ERα in LMHFV-induced effects on fracture healing and provides further insights into the molecular mechanism behind these effects.
Giudici e legislatori di fronte alla multiculturalità
Creators: name: Olivito, Elisa
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è destinato alla pubblicazione nel volume “La tutela dei diritti fondamentali tra diritto politico e diritto giurisprudenziale: ‘casi difficili’ alla prova”, a cura di M. Cavino, C. Tripodina, 2011.SOMMARIO: 1. A mo' di introduzione: diritto giudiziario e diritto legislativo - 2. Legislazione e giurisdizione nelle società pluraliste - 3. Giudici e legislatori alla prova della multiculturalità - 4. Segue: il caso dei simboli religiosi - 5. Giudici-antropologi e legislatori paternalisti: cultural defense, leggi manifesto, eguaglianza di genere - 6. Chi decide delle culture?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 9 maggio
The literature on Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts: supplement five
Creators: name: Riding, James B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Since the publication of five literature compilations issued between 2012 and 2020, 63 further published contributions on Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) dinoflagellate cysts have been discovered, or were issued in the last 14 months (i.e. between February 2019 and March 2020). These studies are on North Africa, Southern Africa, East Arctic, West Arctic, east and west sub-Arctic Canada, China and Japan, East Europe, West Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Arctic Russia west of the Ural Mountains, plus multi-region studies and items with no geographical focus. The single-region studies are mostly focused on Africa, the Arctic, Europe and the Middle East. All the 63 publications are listed herein with doi numbers where applicable, and a description of each item as a string of keywords.
An imaging K-band survey - II. the redshift survey and galaxy evolution in the infrared
Creators: name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Peacock, J. A.
name: Collins, C. A.
name: Miller, L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present further results from an imaging K-band survey of 552 arcmin2, complete to a 5σ limit of K ≃ 17.3. This paper describes a redshift survey of 124 galaxies, and addresses the colours of faint galaxies and the evolution of the K-band luminosity function. The optical-to-infrared colours are consistent with the range expected from synthetic galaxy spectra, although there are some cases of very red nuclei. These may possibly be attributed to either extinction or metallicity gradients. Our data show no evidence for evolution of the K-band luminosity function at z < 0.5, and the results are well described by a Schechter function with M K = -22.75 ± 0.13 + 5 log10 h and Φ = 0.026±0.003 h3 Mpc−3. This is a somewhat higher normalization than has been found by previous workers, and it removes much of the excess in faint K and bJ counts with respect to a no-evolution model. However, we do find evidence for evolution at z > 0.5: M K is approximately 0.75 mag. brighter at z = 1. This luminosity evolution is balanced by a reduced normalization at high redshift: the total luminosity density is required to be approximately constant in order not to exceed the faint counts. The overall evolution is thus opposite to that expected in simple merger-dominated models; we briefly consider possible interpretations of this result.
Influence of Pregnancy on Lifting Capacity
Creators: name: Buckley, Nellie
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Lifting
Physical activity
Perception
Pregnancy

description: Introduction
description: Many pregnant women are employed in occupations that require lifting. Remaining active during pregnancy is likely to lead to health benefits for mother and child, even if the activity involves occupational exposures, such as lifting (NHS Plus et al., 2009). To overcome the unnecessary limiting of lifting during pregnancy that could occur by following lifting guidelines established for the 5th percentile of the population (MacDonald et al., 2013), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have called for the assessment of a woman’s lifting ability to inform the best clinical judgement regarding occupational lifting in each case (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2020). However, the lifting capacity of pregnant women is largely unknown.
description: Aim
description: To assess the lifting capacity of pregnant and postpartum women, compare it with that of nonpregnant women and identify the predictive individual characteristics.
description: Method
description: The EPIC Lift Capacity Test measured safe and dependable lifting capacity across three ranges of motion and at two frequencies. Physiological and psychophysical responses to the lift capacity test were recorded. Personal characteristics were recorded through self-report surveys. Regression analysis identified the individual characteristics that contribute significantly to the prediction of lifting capacity.
description: Results
description: The lifting capacity of pregnant and postpartum women was approximately 30% lower than that of the nonpregnant women sampled. However, the lifting capacity of pregnant and postpartum women is similar to that demonstrated in the normative data for women aged 30-39, that is, an average lifting capacity of 16 kilograms. Longitudinally, on average lifting capacity decreased by approximately 20% from 24 to 36 weeks gestation. At 12 weeks postpartum, lifting capacity had not fully returned to the level observed at 24 weeks gestation. The strongest predictive factor for lifting capacity is a woman’s perceived lifting capacity, accounting for 27% of unique variance. A woman’s leisure-time physical activity level in the past 3 months also contributes significantly to her lifting capacity, accounting for 5% of unique variance.
description: Conclusions
description: Pregnant and postpartum women’s lifting capacity can be safely assessed using an incremental psychophysical methodology. Healthcare professionals’ best clinical judgement regarding lifting during pregnancy may be informed by a woman’s perceived lifting capacity and leisure-time physical activity level. The lifting capacity of healthy pregnant women appears to decline during pregnancy due to psychophysical factors. The lower lifting capacity of postpartum women indicates that musculoskeletal function has not recovered from its pregnancy adaptations by 12 weeks postpartum.
Microbiome mediating methane dynamics in coastal ecosystems
Creators: name: Euler, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Methane
Microbiomes
Coastal ecosystems
Nutrient cycling

description: In coastal ecosystems, prokaryotic communities play an important role in regulating the cycling of methane (CH₄) and related compounds. These areas are comprised of complex and delicately balanced ecosystem zones containing a multitude of specific ecological niches for resident microorganisms. Our understanding of the archaeal and bacterial players governing CH₄ cycling processes in coastal environments continues to evolve, however significant knowledge gaps remain. This thesis used 16S metagenomics sequencing and bioinformatics pipelines paired with cavity ring-down spectrometry and other high-resolution temporal and spatial evaluations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and nutrients in a set of interconnected coastal ecosystems. Hypotheses around anthropogenic impact, vegetation and sediment characteristics as well as subterranean estuary nutrient transformations are explored in the microbiome context using this approach. This thesis highlights that methanogenic archaea were most abundant in the highly urbanized sites of the studied river estuary, and had a positive correlation with elevated CH₄ concentrations. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) abundances, coupled with a scarcity of other electron acceptors like dissolved oxygen (DO) and nitrate (NO₃-) likely facilitated methanogen niches in these sites. Along a pristine mangrove continuum, methanogens primarily occurred in vegetated ecosystem zones and were confined to low/below rhizosphere depths, as well as in an atypical salt marsh niche in the upper tidal zone. Correspondingly, the dense mangrove forest exhibited the highest CH₄ emissions as well as forest floor methanotroph abundances. Pneumatophores and crab burrows were proposed as conduits, facilitating CH₄ transport from deeper sediments. The studied subterranean estuary (STE) revealed complex zonation, ecological niches, and microbiome distributions. Methanogens were most prevalent at the terrestrial end of the transect along with the highest concentrations of CH₄, CO₂ and DOC. Rapidly decreasing CH₄ and ammonium (NH4+) concentrations corresponded with higher abundances of methanotrophs as well as ammonia oxidizing and nitrifying prokaryotes in the mixing zone, likely representing a sink for CH₄ and bioavailable nitrogen. The results suggest that previous studies which deduced coastal CH₄ and nutrient fluxes using only terrestrial endmembers may have overestimated these fluxes by neglecting microbially mediated transformations throughout the STE. Overall, this thesis highlights the most important microbiological niches and environmental conditions mediating coastal CH₄ cycling in the face of a changing climate and provides a platform for future research.
A flexible DC–DC converter with multi-directional power flow capabilities for power management and delivery module in a hybrid electric aircraft
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Sumantra
name: Anagnostou, Dimosthenis
name: Schwane, Patrick
name: Bauer, Christiane
name: Kallo, Josef
name: Willich, Caroline
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: battery
subject: hybrid
subject: DC–DC converter
subject: aircraft
subject: resonant converters
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Fuel cells
subject: Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
subject: Flugzeug
subject: Energiemanagement
subject: Hardware-in-the-loop

description: The development of fully electric and hybrid electric aircraft using fuel cells and batteries has lately received much attention since the technology can contribute to achieving an emission-free world. For hybridisation of fuel cells and batteries, the challenge of integrating different voltage sources to supply power to different loads at different voltage levels has to be met. Presently, this is achieved by using a combination of complex passive circuitry and DC–DC converters. In this paper, a new galvanically isolated DC–DC converter topology is proposed; it integrates a battery and fuel cells as input sources and supplies power to a high voltage (HV) and a low voltage (LV) load simultaneously. The converter enables power flow from the sources to the load, as well as between the sources and power flow back towards the battery during recuperation for recharging the battery during flight. The functionality of the converter design is verified using a real-time (RT) hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) test. The proposed concept is easily scalable and can be adopted in any fuel cell and battery drive train of all-electric flights of different sizes.
Le laicità
Creators: name: Randazzo, Barbara
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Tratto da B. RANDAZZO, Diversi ed eguali. Le confessioni religiose davanti alla legge,
Giuffrè, Milano 2008, pp. 95-178. Per gentile concessione dell’Editore.SOMMARIO: Sezione I. LE PREMESSE: 1. Limiti e condizioni di un discorso sulla
laicità: un concetto da declinare al plurale - 2. La “rivincita di Dio” e le sue ragioni. -
3. Il patrimonio comune dei diritti umani - 4. La distinzione essenziale tra
istituzioni religiose e religione - 5. La consanguineità tra laicità e religione: il
paradosso giuridico del crocifisso simbolo di laicità - Sezione II. I CONTENUTI: 1.
Dalla laicità liberale alla laicità positiva e oltre - 2. La laicità all’italiana: un
principio supremo - 2.1 Le applicazioni del principio nella giurisprudenza
costituzionale - 2.2 Il nucleo essenziale del principio di laicità e i suoi riflessi sul
rapporto tra gli artt. 7 e 8 della Costituzione - 3. La laicità europea - 3.1 Laicità e
Unione Europea - 3.2 Laicità e Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo - 4. Uno
sguardo oltre oceano: le Religions clauses.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 6 ottobre
Supplementary document for Phase-difference imaging based on FINCH - 5188077.pdf
Creators: name: Sheng, Wei
name: Liu, Youwen
name: Shi, Yaoyao
name: hengchun, Jin
name: Wang, Jiming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Partial proof details of the point spread function
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 77, December 15, 1965)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1965

description: The Alcoholism Treatment Digest was a subscription-based publication prepared for special clients by the editorial department of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol / Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 to 1973 with Mark Keller as editor. It was published in February, April, June, October, and December, summarizing scholarly content on four topics, available to republish with attribution. Some of the reviews were simultaneously published in the "Connecticut Review on Alcoholism" under the identical subtitle "Alcoholism Treatment Digest" every other month. The authors of the reviews were first noted in 1964, in the June issue.Contents, Release No. 771.Disulfiram in Private Practice2.Treatment of Alcoholics in South Africa3.Delirium Tremens
Assessment of the Needs of Complex Trauma-Exposed Boys and Girls in the Child Welfare System: Symptom Profile, Gender Differences, and Placement Disruption
Creators: name: Hopton, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: complex trauma
developmental trauma
Posttraumatic stress
child welfare
gender
youth
placement disruption
externalizing behavior
attachment

description: This dissertation consists of two studies designed to broaden our understanding of the impact of complex trauma on symptom profiles and outcomes of children in the child welfare system through the lenses of gender, development, and placement permanency. Data for both were obtained using the Child and Adolescent Strengths and Needs Comprehensive Assessment tool (CANS; Lyons, Gawron, & Kisiel, 2005) for youth ages 6 -17 years involved in the child welfare system. In Study 1, I examined symptom profiles of 3,446 youth to determine the ability of gender, age, ethnicity, trauma type, and other adversity variables to predict the following CANS domains: posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), emotional/ behavioral needs, risk behaviors, life domain functioning, and child strengths. Findings supported the hypothesis that males and females would exhibit a similar number and severity of PTSS subsequent to exposure to maltreatment, including complex trauma. Unique gender-specific developmental profiles of trauma exposure and symptomatology emerged. I concluded that the complex and dynamic interactions among gender, age, trauma experience, and psychosocial functioning are more complicated than can be elucidated in main effect or two-way interactions. It is therefore recommended that trauma researchers disaggregate analyses by gender in trauma research because the dynamics of trauma are different for males and females. In Study 2, I employed survival analyses to examine the ability of child characteristics, complex trauma exposure, and placement-related variables to predict placement disruption in a sample of 4,822 youth at high-risk for placement disruption. Older age, female gender, higher levels of externalizing behavior, and more prior placements increased risk for placement disruption, whereas longer time in care and type of out-of-home placement decreased risk for placement disruption in the sample. It is recommended that placement stability be directly targeted for those at higher risk through provision of intensive support to youth and their foster caregivers. Caseworkers should receive training about those subgroups most at-risk for placement disruption. Externalizing behavior and attachment, but not PTSS, mediated the relation between complex trauma and placement disruption. Intervention for youth with a history of complex trauma should focus on both attachment and externalizing behaviors.
EGFR/Ras-induced CCL20 production modulates the tumour microenvironment
Creators: name: Hippe, Andreas
name: Braun, Stephan Alexander
name: Oláh, Péter
name: Gerber, Peter Arne
name: Schorr, Anne
name: Seeliger, Stephan
name: Holtz, Stephanie
name: Jannasch, Katharina
name: Pivarcsi, Andor
name: Buhren, Bettina
name: Schrumpf, Holger
name: Kislat, Andreas
name: Bünemann, Erich
name: Steinhoff, Martin
name: Fischer, Jens
name: Lira, Sérgio A.
name: Boukamp, Petra
name: Hevezi, Peter
name: Stoecklein, Nikolas Hendrik
name: Hoffmann, Thomas
name: Alves, Frauke
name: Sleeman, Jonathan
name: Bauer, Thomas
name: Klufa, Jörg
name: Amberg, Nicole
name: Sibilia, Maria
name: Zlotnik, Albert
name: Müller-Homey, Anja
name: Homey, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cancer microenvironment
subject: Chemokines
subject: CUTTING EDGE
subject: EGF RECEPTOR
subject: IN-SITU
subject: CANCER
subject: GROWTH
subject: CELLS
subject: EXPRESSION
subject: MELANOMA
subject: DIFFERENTIATION
subject: INVOLVEMENT
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Background The activation of the EGFR/Ras-signalling pathway in tumour cells induces a distinct chemokine repertoire, which in turn modulates the tumour microenvironment. Methods The effects of EGFR/Ras on the expression and translation of CCL20 were analysed in a large set of epithelial cancer cell lines and tumour tissues by RT-qPCR and ELISA in vitro. CCL20 production was verified by immunohistochemistry in different tumour tissues and correlated with clinical data. The effects of CCL20 on endothelial cell migration and tumour-associated vascularisation were comprehensively analysed with chemotaxis assays in vitro and in CCR6-deficient mice in vivo. Results Tumours facilitate progression by the EGFR/Ras-induced production of CCL20. Expression of the chemokine CCL20 in tumours correlates with advanced tumour stage, increased lymph node metastasis and decreased survival in patients. Microvascular endothelial cells abundantly express the specific CCL20 receptor CCR6. CCR6 signalling in endothelial cells induces angiogenesis. CCR6-deficient mice show significantly decreased tumour growth and tumour-associated vascularisation. The observed phenotype is dependent on CCR6 deficiency in stromal cells but not within the immune system. Conclusion We propose that the chemokine axis CCL20–CCR6 represents a novel and promising target to interfere with the tumour microenvironment, and opens an innovative multimodal strategy for cancer therapy.
Metal concentrations in littoral sediments and aquatic macroinvertebrates in the St. Lawrence River, near Cornwall, Ontario.
Creators: name: Filion, Alain.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: Concentrations of Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn were measured in surficial sediments and in five aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa from shallow littoral areas of the St. Lawrence River, near Cornwall, Ontario. The principal objectives were to assess metal levels in littoral sediments and littoral macroinvertebrates, and to determine the influence of local point sources relative to upstream inputs. Hg concentrations were, however, greatly enriched at a site 1 km downstream of two historical point sources of Hg (Domtar Fine Papers/ICI Forest Products). Littoral sediments had lower metal levels than contaminated areas of the Great Lakes and deeper sites in the Cornwall area. Results of these comparisons, however, suggested a problem of Hg contamination in the Cornwall area. Metal levels in littoral macroinvertebrates were assessed for the amphipod Gammarus fasciatus, the decapod Orconectes sp., the gastropod Bythinia tentaculata, the Chironomidae (midges) and the Oligochaeta (worms). Metal concentrations in macroinvertebrates were found to differ among taxonomic groups, and these differences were metal-specific. When compared to concentrations in sediments, invertebrates had lower levels of Cd (except for B. tentaculata), Cr, Fe, Ni and Pb, and higher concentrations of Cu and Zn. Concentrations of Hg were similar to levels in the sediments, except for slightly higher concentrations in B. tentaculata. Concentrations of Cr, Fe, Ni and Zn in chironomids and oligochaetes were similar or higher than levels reported for contaminated areas of the Great Lakes and deeper sites in the Cornwall area, and this despite the relatively much lower concentrations in littoral sediments. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)