cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A panchromatic view of the restless SN 2009ip reveals the explosive ejection of a massive star envelope
Creators: name: Margutti, R.
name: Milisavljevic, D.
name: Soderberg, A. M.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Zauderer, B. A.
name: Murase, K.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Sanders, N. E.
name: Kuin, P.
name: Fransson, C.
name: Levesque, E. M.
name: Chandra, P.
name: Berger, E.
name: Bianco, F. B.
name: Brown, P. J.
name: Challis, P.
name: Chatzopoulos, E.
name: Cheung, C. C.
name: Choi, C.
name: Chomiuk, L.
name: Chugai, N.
name: Contreras, C.
name: Drout, M. R.
name: Fesen, R.
name: Foley, R. J.
name: Fong, W.
name: Friedman, A. S.
name: Gall, C.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Hsiao, E.
name: Kirshner, R.
name: Im, M.
name: Leloudas, G.
name: Lunnan, R.
name: Marion, G. H.
name: Martin, J.
name: Morrell, N.
name: Neugent, K. F.
name: Omodei, N.
name: Phillips, M. M.
name: Rest, A.
name: Silverman, J. M.
name: Strader, J.
name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Szalai, T.
name: Utterback, N. B.
name: Vinko, J.
name: Wheeler, J. C.
name: Arnett, D.
name: Campana, S.
name: Chevalier, R.
name: Ginsburg, A.
name: Kamble, A.
name: Roming, P. W. A.
name: Pritchard, Tyler
name: Stringfellow, G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The double explosion of SN 2009ip in 2012 raises questions about our understanding of the late stages of massive star evolution. Here we present a comprehensive study of SN 2009ip during its remarkable rebrightenings. High-cadence photometric and spectroscopic observations from the GeV to the radio band obtained from a variety of ground-based and space facilities (including the Very Large Array, Swift, Fermi, Hubble Space Telescope, and XMM) constrain SN 2009ip to be a low energy (E ∼ 1050 erg for an ejecta mass ∼0.5M ) and asymmetric explosion in a complex medium shaped by multiple eruptions of the restless progenitor star. Most of the energy is radiated as a result of the shock breaking out through a dense shell of material located at ∼5 × 1014 cm with M ∼ 0.1M , ejected by the precursor outburst ∼40 days before the major explosion. We interpret the NIR excess of emission as signature of material located further out, the origin of which has to be connected with documented mass-loss episodes in the previous years. Our modeling predicts bright neutrino emission associated with the shock break-out if the cosmic-ray energy is comparable to the radiated energy. We connect this phenomenology with the explosive ejection of the outer layers of the massive progenitor star, which later interacted with material deposited in the surroundings by previous eruptions. Future observations will reveal if the massive luminous progenitor star survived. Irrespective of whether the explosion was terminal, SN 2009ip brought to light the existence of new channels for sustained episodic mass loss, the physical origin of which has yet to be identified.
Nietzsche's plan for political organization and its formation in political theory.
Creators: name: Dombowsky, Don.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Virtually all treatments of Nietzsche's political thought today are concerned with its posthumous appropriation. The principal imperative guiding my work, conversely, is to situate Nietzsche's political thought in relation to the political issues, critiques and movements of his own period. I begin with a polemic of efforts in contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy to interpret Nietzsche's philosophy as essentially consonant with liberal democratic pluralism. In opposition to this view, I advance the proposition that the foundation of Nietzsche's political thought is the conservative or aristocratic liberal critique of democratic society found in Alexis de Tocqueville, Jacob Burckhardt and Hippolyte Taine. I subsequently demonstrate, however, that Nietzsche radicalizes this critique insofar as he takes as absolute what its proponents merely take for the potential dangers of democracy, advocating its subversion, containment or manipulation through the figures of the free spirits and the philosopher-legislators. I argue that Nietzsche is engaged in class warfare and that he is ultimately committed to the reversal of the process of democratization and the laying of the groundwork for an alternative aristocratic ideal of political organization which he sees as a condition for the production of the exemplary human being. I conclude that Nietzsche's radicalization of the aristocratic liberal critique is primarily informed by a reading of Machiavelli's The Prince which allows Nietzsche to think in terms of political control techniques and a spectral-syncretic or perspectival art of governance. Given this, I argue that Nietzsche's political thought may be more accurately situated in relation to the anti-liberal and anti-democratic neo-Machiavellian elite theorists of his generation like Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca, and to the founders of mass psychology such as Gustave Le Bon. All continue the aristocratic liberal critique but radicalize it in supporting the idea of the manipulation of mass behavior through elite leadership. This conclusion is directed at those, in particular, who would argue that Nietzsche most closely resembles the anarchists of his period.
Beschreibung der Minderungsmaßnahmen im Projekt PAREST - Maßnahmenblätter
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Feinstaub
subject: Luftverunreinigende Partikel
subject: Luftreinhaltemaßnahme
subject: Emissionsminderungsmaßnahme
subject: Luft
subject: Air

description: Die ausgewählten Maßnahmen lassen sich in technische Maßnahmen und nicht-technische Maßnahmen einteilen. Insgesamt wurden 75 Maßnahmen identifiziert und in den folgenden Kapiteln beschrieben. Die Minderungspotenziale der Maßnahmen wurden jeweils für die Jahre 2015 und 2020 quantifiziert.
Optical absorption and plasma reflection studies in III--V alloy semiconductors.
Creators: name: Thomas, Mathew B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: Room temperature optical energy gap values for GaxIn (1-x)As and GaAsxSb(1-x) alloys have been determined from infrared transmission measurements. For GaxIn(1-x)As alloys Burstein effect was observed and the necessary correction to the energy gap was made by finding the Fermi energy from thermoelectric power data. For both the alloy systems value of C the bowing parameter has been obtained. These values show good agreement with the theoretical values of Van Vechten and Bergstresser. Room temperature infrared reflectivity measurements near the plasma edge and high field Hall effect measurements have been made on polycrystalline n-type samples of GaxIn(1-x)Sb, GaxIn (1-x)As and InAsxSb(1-x) alloys. The Spitzer and Fan expressions for dielectric constant (57S1) applicable for degenerate case have been extended to the case of general degeneracy in a Kane type band, the effects of lattice contributions to the dielectric constant being included. This analysis has been applied to the experimental data to give values of effective mass at the bottom of the (000) conduction band minimum of the three alloy systems. These effective mass values show very good agreement with the values obtained by Faraday rotation and magnetothermoelectric power measurements.
Aufkommen und Verwertung von Verpackungsabfällen in Deutschland im Jahr 2015
Creators: name: Schüler, Kurt
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Verpackungsverbrauch
subject: Verpackungsabfall
subject: EU-Verpackungsrichtlinie 94/62/EG
subject: Wertstofferfassung
subject: Verpackungsverwertung
subject: EG-Verpackungsrichtlinie
subject: Wertstoffverordnung
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Die Studie bestimmt die in Deutschland in Verkehr gebrachte Menge an Verpackungen für die Materialgruppen Glas, Kunststoff, Papier, Aluminium, Weißblech, Verbunde, Sonstiger Stahl, Holz und Sonstige Packstoffe. Im Ergebnis wurden im Jahr 2015 18,15 Millionen Tonnen Verpackungen verbraucht und fielen als Abfall an. Gegenüber dem Vorjahr hat der Verpackungsverbrauch damit um 2,1 Prozent zugenommen. Insgesamt wurden 17,61 Millionen Tonnen verwertet, davon 12,59 Millionen Tonnen stofflich und 5,03 Millionen Tonnen energetisch. Zusätzlich wurden 1,88 Millionen Tonnen aus dem Ausland importierte Verpackungsabfälle in Deutschland verwertet.
The control of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in the North American eel, Anguilla rostrata.
Creators: name: Ouellet, Gabriel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Biology, Zoology.

description: In the North American eel, Anguilla rostrata, the problems of intracellular location of isocitrate oxidation and the control of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in the liver were investigated. Three methods were used to elucidate these problems. The first method involved the determination of isolated mitochondrial oxidative capacity with different TCA cycle intermediates measured by the Clark oxygen electrode; isocitrate was oxidized at a rate comparable to the subsequent TCA cycle intermediates (∝ ketoglutarate, succinate and malate) showing that these isolated particles are able to maintain isocitrate oxidation. However, pyruvate oxidative rate was significantly lower than isocitrate, and citrate and acetate were not oxidized alone or in conjunction with malate or oxaloacetate. The second method dealt with the incorporation of a radioactive substrate into the isolated mitochondria and the analysis of the distribution of this label in the TCA cycle intermediates. Labelled citrate was used with added aconitase. Results demonstrated that isocitrate was mobilized in the isolated mitochondria with label accumulation in the subsequent TCA cycle intermediates. This experiment suggested that isolated intact eel liver mitochondria contain all the enzymes necessary for the complete oxidation of isocitrate by the TCA cycle. The third method was the spectrophotometric and oxygen electrode analyses of specific activities and compartmentalization of enzymes necessary for the TCA cycle. Results demonstrated that citrate synthase (CS) and transhydrogenase activities were found only in the mitochondrial fraction; aconitase was detected only in the supernatant; and NADP-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP-IDH) and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) were measured in both fractions. NAD-IDH was not detected using a number of isolation procedures. Since CS and transhydrogenase activities were lower than those of NADP-IDH, these two enzymes probably limit metabolic flux through the TCA cycle in eel liver. From these data, a proposal for the physiological significance and the control mechanism of the TCA cycle in the eel liver is discussed, with isocitrate oxidation occurring either within the mitochondrial or cytoplasmic compartments depending upon the NADP/NADPH ratio and/or the energy status of the cell.
Machine Learning Algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Next-Gen AI-Based Firewalls: A Performance Analysis
Creators: name: Blessing, Elisha
name: Fathia, Ademola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460201
subject: Artificial life and complex adaptive systems
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: With the increasing sophistication of cyber threats, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into next-generation firewalls has become imperative for robust cybersecurity. This research focuses on the application of machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection within AI-based firewalls, aiming to enhance the overall security posture of modern networks. The study explores various machine learning techniques, including but not limited to neural networks, support vector machines, and decision trees, evaluating their effectiveness in identifying anomalous patterns indicative of potential cyber threats. The research methodology involves the development of a comprehensive dataset representing normal network behavior and various cyber threats. Subsequently, a comparative analysis is conducted to assess the performance of different machine learning algorithms in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and false positive rates. The experimental setup considers real-world scenarios and diverse attack vectors to ensure the generalizability of the findings.
Correlates of agreement between accelerometry and self-reported physical activity
Creators: name: Cerin, Ester
name: Cain, Kelli L.
name: Oyeyemi, Adewale L.
name: Owen, Neville
name: Conway, Terry L.
name: Cochrane, Tom
name: Van Dyck, Delfien
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Mitas, Josef
name: Toftager, Mette
name: Aguniaga-Ontoso, Ines
name: Sallis, James F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Purpose: Understanding factors that influence accurate assessment of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) is important to measurement development, epidemiologic studies, and interventions. This study examined agreement between self-reported (International Physical Activity Questionnaire—Long Form[IPAQLF]) and accelerometry-based estimates of PA and SB across six countries and identified correlates of between-method agreement. Methods: Self-report and objective (accelerometry-based) PA and SB data were collected in 2002–2011 from 3865 adult participants in eight cities from six countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). Between-method relative agreement (correlation) and absolute disagreement (mean difference between conceptually and intensity-matched IPAQ-LF and accelerometry-based PA and SB variables) were estimated. Also, sociodemographic characteristics and PA patterns were examined as correlates of betweenmethod agreement. Results: Observed relative agreement (relationships of IPAQ-LF with accelerometry-based PA and SB variables) was small to moderate (r = 0.05–0.37) and was moderated by sociodemographic (age, sex, weight status, and education) and behavioral (PAtype) factors. The absolute disagreement was large, with participants self-reporting higher PA intensity and total time in moderate-tovigorous- intensity PA than accelerometry. Also, self-reported sitting time was lower than accelerometry-based sedentary behavior. After adjusting for sociodemographic and behavioral factors, the absolute disagreement between pairs of IPAQ-LF and accelerometry-based PA variables remained significantly different across cities/countries. Conclusions: Present findings suggest systematic cultural and/or linguistic and sociodemographic differences in absolute agreement between the IPAQ-LF and the accelerometry-based PA and SB variables. These results have implications for the interpretation of international PA and SB data and correlate/determinant studies. They call for further efforts to improve such measures.
Dactylopleustes obsolescens Hirayama 1988
Creators: name: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Pleustidae
Dactylopleustes
Dactylopleustes obsolescens

description: Dactylopleustes obsolescens Hirayama, 1988
Figures 1d, 2e, n, 3k, t, 4i, r, 5i, r, 6n, 7o, 8g, n, 36
Dactylopleustes obsolescens Hirayama, 1988: 44–48, figs. 269–271.— Bousfield & Hendrycks 1995: 123, 124, fig. 41.— Tomikawa et al. 2004: 13.
Dactylopleustes (Apodactylopleustes) obsolescens — Bousfield & Hendrycks 1995: 120, 123.
Distribution. Northwestern Pacific: Kyushu Island, Ariake Sea, Japan (Hirayama 1988; Bousfield & Hendrycks 1995). Absent in my collections.
description: Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2025, Review of amphipods of the family Pleustidae Buchholz, 1874 (Amphipoda) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka Peninsula (Far East of Russia). IV. Subfamily Dactylopleustinae Bousfield and Hendrycks, 1994, pp. 201-253 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15325903
Petrology and geochemistry of the Nimish Formation, western Labrador, Newfoundland.
Creators: name: Watanabe, Donald Hiroshi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Nimish Formation comprises an accumulation of Early Proterozoic (1879 Ma) volcanic, intrusive, and volcaniclastic rocks which occur in the second cycle supracrustal succession of the Knob Lake Group, New Quebec Orogen. The volcanic and intrusive suites are predominantly composed of basalt and gabbro with minor intermediate and felsic differentiates. The latter suite also includes previously unrecognized sill-like bodies of peridotite and pyroxenite. The basalts and gabbros exhibit a lower greenschist mineral assemblage with clinopyroxene as the only remaining primary phase. Thin lenses of volcaniclastic strata occur in many parts of the study area ranging from mafic tuff and agglomerate, to volcanic and jasper clast-rich conglomerates. The flows, sills, and volcaniclastic rocks are coeval with Lake Superior-type iron formation (Sokoman Formation) and occur in allochthons of a foreland fold and thrust belt that has been transported westwardly over the Archean Superior Craton. The Nimish volcanic suite ranges from alkali basalt to trachyte in composition and has alkaline to transitional geochemical affinities based on major and trace element abundances. Further, the relatively evolved chemistry of the basalts indicates that they are not the direct products of primary melts. The gabbros also have alkaline affinities as shown by their high field strength element abundances and clinopyroxene mineral chemistry. The overall similarities in elemental abundances, geochemical affinities, and REE spectra between the basalts and gabbros indicate that the suites are comagmatic. In contrast, the petrology and primitive geochemistry of the peridotites and pyroxenites reveals that they are cumulates representative of crystallization processes by which the primitive Nimish alkaline magma became differentiated prior to the formation of the basalts and gabbros. The strong incompatible trace element enrichment patterns of the Nimish basalts demonstrate that the basalts are similar to other alkaline volcanic rocks from oceanic and continental settings. As such, they indicated derivation from a relatively undepleted or enriched mantle source. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Terminal complement activation is increased and associated with disease severity in CIDP
Creators: name: Quast, Isaak
name: Keller, Christian W.
name: Hiepe, Falk
name: Tackenberg, Bjoern
name: Lunemann, Jan D.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is the most common chronic autoimmune neuropathy. While both cell-mediated and humoral mechanisms contribute to its pathogenesis, the rapid clinical response to plasmapheresis implicates a circulating factor responsible for peripheral nerve injury. We report that treatment-naïve patients with CIDP show increased serum and CSF levels of the anaphylatoxin C5a and the soluble terminal complement complex (sTCC). Systemic terminal complement activation correlates with clinical disease severity as determined by the Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment (INCAT) disability scale. These data indicate that complement activation contributes to peripheral nerve injury and suggest that complement inhibition should be explored for its potential therapeutic merit in CIDP.
Edward R. Hoehl to A. W. H., August 1, 1955
Creators: name: Hoehl, Edward R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Correspondence
Foundations
Gardening

description: This letter is written by Edward R. Hoehl to A. W. H. on August 1, 1955, regarding Al DeHart laying the foundation down for the schoolhouse on the Carriage House grounds, as well as the planting on Whelan's property.
The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: The growth rate of cosmic structure since redshift z=0.9
Creators: name: Blake, Chris
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Contreras, Carlos
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Croom, Scott
name: Davis, Tamara
name: Drinkwater, Michael J.
name: Forster, Karl
name: Gilbank, David
name: Gladders, Mike
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Jelliffe, Ben
name: Jurek, Russell J.
name: Li, I-hui
name: Madore, Barry
name: Martin, D. Christopher
name: Pimbblet, Kevin
name: Poole, Gregory B.
name: Pracy, Michael
name: Sharp, Rob
name: Wisnioski, Emily
name: Woods, David
name: Wyder, Ted K.
name: Yee, H. K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We present precise measurements of the growth rate of cosmic structure for the redshift range 0.1 < z < 0.9, using redshift-space distortions in the galaxy power spectrum of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. Our results, which have a precision of around 10% in four independent redshift bins, are well-fit by a flat LCDM cosmological model with matter density parameter Omega_m = 0.27. Our analysis hence indicates that this model provides a self-consistent description of the growth of cosmic structure through large-scale perturbations and the homogeneous cosmic expansion mapped by supernovae and baryon acoustic oscillations. We achieve robust results by systematically comparing our data with several different models of the quasi-linear growth of structure including empirical models, fitting formulae calibrated to N-body simulations, and perturbation theory techniques. We extract the first measurements of the power spectrum of the velocity divergence field, P_vv(k), as a function of redshift (under the assumption that P_gv(k) = -sqrt[P_gg(k) P_vv(k)] where g is the galaxy overdensity field), and demonstrate that the WiggleZ galaxy-mass cross-correlation is consistent with a deterministic (rather than stochastic) scale-independent bias model for WiggleZ galaxies for scales k < 0.3 h/Mpc. Measurements of the cosmic growth rate from the WiggleZ Survey and other current and future observations offer a powerful test of the physical nature of dark energy that is complementary to distance-redshift measures such as supernovae and baryon acoustic oscillations.
Do highlights affect comprehension? Lessons from a user study
Creators: name: Dodson, Samuel
name: Freund, Luanne
name: Kopak, Rick
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: A largely unquestioned assumption in social reading is that publicly shared annotations improve reading outcomes. In this study, we explore the specific assumption that relevant and irrelevant passive highlighting affects comprehension. Participants were divided by cognitive style based on their degree of Field Dependence-Independence [19]. We found that irrelevant highlights had significant negative effects on reading comprehension for Field Independents (FIs), but not Field Dependents (FDs). This is a surprising result because FDs typically rely on external cues to structure and help process information, whereas FIs use internal cues. This suggests that highlighting cues information but does not structure it.
The evolution of early-type galaxies in clusters from z∼ 0.8 to z ∼ 0: the ellipticity distribution and the morphological mix
Creators: name: Vulcani, Benedetta
name: Poggianti, Bianca M.
name: Dressler, Alan
name: Fasano, Giovanni
name: Valentinuzzi, Tiziano
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Moretti, Alessia
name: Simard, Luc
name: Desai, Vandana
name: Bettoni, Daniela
name: D'Onofrio, Mauro
name: Cava, Antonio
name: Varela, Jesús
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the ellipticity distribution and its evolution for early-type galaxies in clusters from z∼ 0.8 to the current epoch, based on the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (0.04 ≤z≤ 0.07) and the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (0.4 ≤z≤ 0.8). We first investigate a mass-limited sample and we find that above a fixed mass limit (M*≥ 1010.2 M⊙), the ellipticity (ε) distribution of early-type galaxies notably evolves with redshift. In the local Universe, there are proportionally more galaxies with higher ellipticity, hence flatter, than in distant clusters. This evolution is due partly to the change in the mass distribution and mainly to the change in the morphological mix with z among the early types, the fraction of ellipticals goes from ∼70 per cent at high z to ∼40 per cent at low z). Analysing separately the ellipticity distribution of the different morphological types, we find no evolution both for ellipticals and for S0s. However, for ellipticals a change with redshift in the median value of the distributions is detected. This is due to a larger population of very round (ε < 0.05) elliptical galaxies at low z. In order to compare our finding to previous studies, we also assemble a magnitude-& 8216;delimited’ sample that consists of early-type galaxies on the red sequence with −19.3 > MB+ 1.208z > −21. Analysing this sample, we do not recover exactly the same results as the mass-limited sample. This indicates that the selection criteria are crucial to characterize the galactic properties: the choice of the magnitude ‘delimited’ sample implies the loss of many less-massive galaxies and so it biases the final conclusions. Moreover, although we are adopting the same selection criteria, our results in the magnitude-‘delimited’ sample are also not in agreement with those of Holden et al. This is due to the fact that our and their low-zsamples have a different magnitude distribution because the Holden et al. sample suffers from incompleteness at faint magnitudes.
The relationship between law and love in the Gospel of John.
Creators: name: Fernando, G. Charles Anthony.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Religion, Biblical Studies.

description: Law and love are two of the very important themes of the Fourth Gospel. Surprisingly, there have been only a few works on the theme of love and still fewer on the theme of law. In fact, there are only two monographs on the concept of law in the Fourth Gospel: an English one, Law in the Fourth Gospel, by Severino Pancaro and the other, a German one, Umstrittener Zeuge, by Markku Kotila. A survey of the works produced on the themes of law and love in the Fourth Gospel is presented in the Introduction. However, there has not been so far a single work which deals with the relationship between these two themes in the Fourth Gospel. Therefore, the present thesis is a new venture in the on-going johannine research. This thesis intends to demonstrate that the relationship between the concepts of law and love in the Fourth Gospel is an inalienable feature in the structure of the whole Gospel. The relationship between law and love is interwoven in the content and message of the Fourth Gospel. It is not just a coincidence that the theme of law, and even the occurrences of the term itself, find a place of predominance in the first part of the Gospel (chapters 1--12). In the same way, the theme of love and the frequency of the term itself gain utmost importance in the latter part of the Gospel (chapters 13--21). The relationship between the concepts of law and love belongs to the very core of the message of the Fourth Gospel. This thesis consists of two parts. Part One, comprising of three chapters (chapters one, two and three), deals with the law in the Fourth Gospel and the two chapters (four and five) of Part Two treat the theme of love. The Conclusion presents the Relationship between law and love in the Fourth Gospel. All three chapters of Part One demonstrate beyond doubt that the reality of the law in the Fourth Gospel is only positive and it has the function of leading the people to Jesus, who fulfills the relationship of love, commenced by God in the Old Testament through the mediation of Moses. A deeper look into johannine Christology presents us with the interesting insight that Jesus is not the one who fulfills the law, rather, it is the law which finds its fulfillment in Jesus. The law is only subservient to Jesus, the one in whom the revelation of God finds its fullness. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Three essays on trade and biodiversity
Creators: name: Alam, Rafat
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Economics, Theory.

description: The thesis is motivated on the background of rapid biodiversity depletion around the world. Using a general equilibrium model, the first essay shows how free trade can have negative impacts on the biodiversity stock of the South due to missing markets. It also shows that free trade added with Southern rapid population growth and agricultural extensions are the main reasons of biodiversity loss. Demand side mechanisms like discounting of biodiversity depleting products and supply side mechanism like ecofriendly agricultural technologies can have a positive impact to decrease biodiversity loss. Essay two shows how absence of a market for ecosystem services causes depletion of biodiversity in the developing countries. In any period, the amount of land development in the south depends on how large the relative size of the southern younger generation in that period is, compared to the size of the maximum available land resources. Lack of any other assets in the South for old age savings, low land clearing cost and low discount rate causes biodiversity loss. There is scope of conserving biodiversity and the flow of ecosystem services by fiscal tools like land development fee or land tax and market creation through payment for ecosystem services. But these policies may deteriorate Southern terms of trade. Through a two period general equilibrium model with an open economy, paper three shows how bio-prospecting can help in the conservation of biodiversity and under what conditions it can fail. The paper shows that a systematic search process depending on prior information on the plant species and the health characteristics increases the success of bio-prospecting. Also a lower cost of the bio-prospecting process or manufacturing of drugs, a high probability of drug discovery, and a drug with a high benefit result in a higher royalty payment to the South and conservation of biodiversity. Strategic pricing by the bio-prospecting firms or marketing of only high benefit drugs ensure successful bio-prospecting schemes. A larger set of bio-prospected drugs may drive away the low-benefit drug firms out of market. The caveat is that bio-prospecting process may ignore Southern low-value diseases. The three essays of this thesis suggest that green consumerism, payment for ecosystem services or bio-prospecting scheme can be viable tools for biodiversity conservation. But the strong message in all the three essays is also that there is no one miracle tool that can save biodiversity. So a mix of market and non-market tools has to be used for the conservation of world's biodiversity.
Molecular adsorbent recirculating system and single-pass albumin dialysis in liver failure - a prospective, randomised crossover study
Creators: name: Sponholz, Christoph
name: Matthes, Katja
name: Rupp, Dina
name: Backaus, Wolf
name: Klammt, Sebastian
name: Karailieva, Diana
name: Bauschke, Astrid
name: Settmacher, Utz
name: Kohl, Matthias
name: Clemens, Mark G.
name: Mitzner, Steffen
name: Bauer, Michael
name: Kortgen, Andreas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Extracorporeal liver support
subject: Liver failure
subject: Albumin dialysis
subject: Bile acid
subject: Albumin-binding capacity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The aim of extracorporeal albumin dialysis (ECAD) is to reduce endogenous toxins accumulating in liver failure. To date, ECAD is conducted mainly with the Molecular Adsorbents Recirculating System (MARS). However, single-pass albumin dialysis (SPAD) has been proposed as an alternative. The aim of this study was to compare the two devices with a prospective, single- centre, non-inferiority crossover study design with particular focus on reduction of bilirubin levels (primary endpoint) and influence on paraclinical and clinical parameters (secondary endpoints) associated with liver failure. Methods Patients presenting with liver failure were screened for eligibility and after inclusion were randomly assigned to be started on either conventional MARS or SPAD (with 4 % albumin and a dialysis flow rate of 700 ml/h). Statistical analyses were based on a linear mixed-effects model. Results Sixty-nine crossover cycles of ECAD in 32 patients were completed. Both systems significantly reduced plasma bilirubin levels to a similar extent (MARS: median −68 μmol/L, interquartile range [IQR] −107.5 to −33.5, p = 0.001; SPAD: −59 μmol/L, −84.5 to +36.5, p = 0.001). However, bile acids (MARS: −39 μmol/L, −105.6 to −8.3, p
Human leukocyte antigen-E mismatch is associated with better hematopoietic stem cell transplantation outcome in acute leukemia patients
Creators: name: Tsamadou, Chrysanthi
name: Fuerst, Daniel
name: Vucinic, Vladan
name: Bunjes, Donald
name: Neuchel, Christine
name: Mytilineos, Daphne
name: Gramatzki, Martin
name: Arnold, Renate [U.A.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The immunomodulatory role of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-E in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has not been extensively investigated. To this end, we genotyped 509 10/10 HLA unrelated transplant pairs for HLA-E, in order to study the effect of HLA-E as a natural killer (NK)-alloreactivity mediator on HSCT outcome in an acute leukemia (AL) setting. Overall survival (OS), disease free survival (DFS), relapse incidence (RI) and non-relapse mortality (NRM) were set as endpoints. Analysis of our data revealed a significant correlation between HLA-E mismatch and improved HSCT outcome, as shown by both univariate (53% vs. 38%, P=0.002, 5-year OS) and multivariate (hazard ratio (HR)=0.63, confidence interval (CI) 95%=0.48–0.83, P=0.001) analyses. Further subgroup analysis demonstrated that the positive effect of HLA-E mismatch was significant and pronounced in advanced disease patients (n=120) (5-year OS: 50% vs. 18%, P=0.005; HR=0.40, CI 95%=0.22–0.72, P=0.002; results from univariate and multivariate analyses, respectively). The study herein is the first to report an association between HLA-E incompatibility and improved post–transplant prognosis in AL patients who have undergone matched unrelated HSCT. Combined NK and T cell HLA-E-mediated mechanisms may account for the better outcomes observed. Notwithstanding the necessity for in vitro and confirmational studies, our findings highlight the clinical relevance of HLA-E matching and strongly support prospective HLA-E screening upon donor selection for matched AL unrelated HSCTs.
Mathematical modelling of sediment transport and bed transients in multichannel river networks under conditions of unsteady flow.
Creators: name: Morse, Brian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The fixed-bed, hydrodynamic and water quality model ONE-D has been successfully applied to virtually every major river system in Canada. In 1984 one of the supporting agencies, Environment Canada, expressed the desire to extend ONE-D for the simulation of sediment transport processes and river-bed dynamics. After performing a literature review it was found that currently available mobile-bed river models did not have the features that the basic ONE-D model had, particularly those required to model channel networks. Because of these numerical modelling limitations it was decided to proceed with this research effort. Sediment transport and bed dynamic routines were written in modular form and the resulting model (ONE-D-SED) became the mobile-bed version of ONE-D. ONE-D-SED was initially validated for hypothetical test cases. This initial application showed that the model reproduced analytical solutions for the 'linear' cases examined. In addition, these simulations provided documentation of the numerical properties of ONE-D-SED's finite difference schemes. Following these preliminary tests correction coefficients were generated for analytical solutions of bed transients of finite height. The subsequent application of ONE-D-SED to the Lower Fraser River was partly in response to the need expressed by Public Works Canada for accurate sediment budgets for certain reaches of this major river system. More importantly, part of this system is tidal, multi-channel network and hence is ideally suited for model validation purposes. Finally, superior sediment data were available for the study reach identified in this research. After analysis of Lower Fraser River sediment data, and calibration of the Ackers-White (A-W) sediment transport equation. ONE-D-SED was applied to the study reach at a "screening-level". Since the results of this application were encouraging, ONE-D-SED was then applied at a detailed level and simulated changes in bed elevation were compared to those observed. In addition to the work directly related to model development, application and validation work was also undertaken to address the issue of representing suspended sediment 'fractions' consisting of a range of grain sizes. This work was motivated by the findings of analyses of the suspended sediment load in the Lower Fraser River and by the necessity of characterizing the representative grain size for natural rivers where there is a large gradation in the bed material composition. This study revealed that the representative grain size of a fraction depends on certain local hydraulic conditions. In addition, correction factors for modelling suspended sediment concentrations were obtained when the geometric grain size of the fraction is used in lieu of the mathematically accurate representative size.
New architecture to implement product terms in complex programmable logic devices
Creators: name: Dancea, Livio
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: Nowadays, the vast majority of programmable logic devices cannot be partially reprogrammed at run-time, preventing them to support real-time reconfigurable computing applications. A new family of computational logic blocks having a dynamic reconfigurable structure is introduced in the thesis. The presented architecture implements any combinational circuit with multiple outputs. The input/output relation of these circuits is expressed by logical equations in the sum-of-product form. Each product term is translated into context words which characterize the logical behaviour of the circuit and are arranged in an array of registers. A development software environment generating necessary data for programming the circuit is given. Finally an implementation of the product terms method on an existing reconfigurable device is given to demonstrate proven advantages of the work.
WINGS-SPE II: A catalog of stellar ages and star formation histories, stellar masses and dust extinction values for local clusters galaxies
Creators: name: Fritz, J.
name: Poggianti, B. M.
name: Cava, A.
name: Valentinuzzi, T.
name: Moretti, A.
name: Bettoni, D.
name: Bressan, A.
name: Couch, Warrick
name: D'Onofrio, M.
name: Dressler, A.
name: Fasano, G.
name: Kjærgaard, P.
name: Moles, M.
name: Omizzolo, A.
name: Varela, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Context. The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy clusters Survey (wings) is a project whose primary goal is to study the galaxy populations in clusters in the local universe (z < 0.07) and of the influence of environment on their stellar populations. This survey has provided the astronomical community with a high quality set of photometric and spectroscopic data for 77 and 48 nearby galaxy clusters, respectively. Aims. In this paper we present the catalog containing the properties of galaxies observed by the wings SPEctroscopic (wings-spe) survey, which were derived using stellar populations synthesis modelling approach. We also check the consistency of our results with other data in the literature. Methods. Using a spectrophotometric model that reproduces the main features of observed spectra by summing the theoretical spectra of simple stellar populations of different ages, we derive the stellar masses, star formation histories, average age and dust attenuation of galaxies in our sample. Results. ~5300 spectra were analyzed with spectrophotometric techniques, and this allowed us to derive the star formation history, stellar masses and ages, and extinction for the wings spectroscopic sample that we present in this paper. Conclusions. The comparison with the total mass values of the same galaxies derived by other authors based on sdss data, confirms the reliability of the adopted methods and data.
Groupe de discussion dans l'univers virtuel: Communauté virtuelle ou non? Le cas du groupe de discussion "Sportbike World"
Creators: name: Vinette, Yann
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Sociology, General.

description: Ce travail a pour but d'examiner la thèse selon laquelle il y a une baisse du capital social dans la société nord-américaine, en tenant compte des technologies de communications qui offrent aux individus une toute nouvelle façon d'interagir les uns avec les autres. Ces échanges entre individus peuvent entraîner la formation de communautés virtuelles. Afin de déterminer si des communautés existent dans le monde virtuel, nous avons effectué une analyse qualitative et quantitative du contenu des interactions verbales entre les membres du groupe de discussion Sportbike World, groupe de discussion ayant comme sujet la motocyclette sportive. Pour ce faire, plusieurs dimensions d'une communauté virtuelle furent étudiées. L'analyse a permis de conclure que le groupe de discussion forme une communauté virtuelle, que des liens virtuels entre les participants existent, ce qui permet d'affirmer qu'il y a création de cohésion sociale.
Finding Worth in the Wilderness: The Abandonment of France and England's Earliest North American Colonies, 1534--1590
Creators: name: Renaud, Tabitha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: History, United States.
subject: History, Modern.

description: The earliest attempts of France and England to colonize North America were disappointments. The sixteenth century saw French attempts to colonize the St. Lawrence Valley (1541-3) and Northern Florida (1562-5) and English attempts to colonize Roanoke Island (1585-7). In all three cases, the venture's hopes of finding valuable resources or the Northwest Passage were not realized and colonization was not achieved. This dissertation will examine four major types of difficulties the French and English faced in Canada, Virginia and Florida in the sixteenth century. They are challenges of environment and adaptation; internal conflicts such as rivalry and mutiny; challenges of Amerindian relations and, finally, challenges of transportation and communication. The struggles of these abandoned colonies will be compared with those of permanent colonies such as Jamestown, Quebec, Port Royal, Hispaniola and New Spain. Particular emphasis will be placed on the early struggles of Samuel de Champlain in Canada and John Smith in Virginia. It will be demonstrated that these were standard challenges of colonization for successful and unsuccessful colonies alike and that they could be overcome eventually with enough effort, experimentation, men and materials. France and England did not stop their earliest North American colonization projects because the task was too difficult. Rather, there appeared to be no worthwhile reason to waste resources or to battle rival powers such as Spain to hold these territories at this time.
Targeting the latent cytomegalovirus reservoir with an antiviral fusion toxin protein
Creators: name: Krishna, B. A.
name: Spiess, K.
name: Poole, E. L.
name: Lau, B.
name: Voigt, S.
name: Kledal, T. N.
name: Rosenkilde, M. M.
name: Sinclair, J. H.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Antivirals
subject: Herpes virus
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::615 Pharmakologie, Therapeutik

description: Reactivation of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in transplant recipients can cause life-threatening disease. Consequently, for transplant recipients, killing latently infected cells could have far-reaching clinical benefits. In vivo, myeloid cells and their progenitors are an important site of HCMV latency, and one viral gene expressed by latently infected myeloid cells is US28. This viral gene encodes a cell surface G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that binds chemokines, triggering its endocytosis. We show that the expression of US28 on the surface of latently infected cells allows monocytes and their progenitor CD34+ cells to be targeted and killed by F49A-FTP, a highly specific fusion toxin protein that binds this viral GPCR. As expected, this specific targeting of latently infected cells by F49A-FTP also robustly reduces virus reactivation in vitro. Consequently, such specific fusion toxin proteins could form the basis of a therapeutic strategy for eliminating latently infected cells before haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Modifying medical trainees' perspectives on vulnerable populations through engagement in community-based team sports : fostering the Health Advocate role
Creators: name: Boyda, Heidi Noel
name: Raber, Sari
name: Bates, Alan T.
name: Agha, Arun
name: Tse, Lurdes
name: Honer, William G. (William George), 1957-
name: Barr, Alasdair M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Background: The Vancouver Street Soccer league offers a low barrier program to individuals from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to engage in team sport with the goal of creating a community that fosters healthy choices and habits. Addressing the medical needs of this vulnerable and complex population requires informed and compassionate medical care. The goal of this study was to assess medical trainees’ and healthcare workers’ perceptions of people affected by homelessness as well as the impact of participating in street soccer on those perceptions. Methods: Healthcare workers and medical trainees were invited to attend local street soccer games, and complete a self-report questionnaire after participation. Results: Data suggest a positive change on medical trainees’ perceptions of physical capabilities and skills of persons affected by homelessness. Conclusions: Team sport programs that promote direct engagement with vulnerable populations may have the potential to influence the future work of health care professionals, and their involvement with Canada’s marginalized populations.