cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) producing Escherichia coli in hospitals and the community; a study on the prevalence of ESBL genes
Creators: name: Gundogdu, Aycan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: ESBL
E. coli
antibiotic resistance
sewage treatment plants (STPs)

description: Demonstrating the prevalence of antibiotic resistant (AR) bacteria or multi drug resistant (MDR) bacteria in the community has generally been based on isolating these bacteria from hospitalized patients which constitute only a small percentage of the bacteria in the community. Thus, AR profiles do not provide a true representation of the existing patterns of AR bacteria in the community. Testing only hospitalised patients may also result in the exclusion of new clones of AR strains which form a small sub-set of bacteria in the wider community. E. coli are part of commensal microbial community of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of humans and warm blooded animals. However, certain E. coli strains are capable of causing intestinal or extraintestinal diseases. Sewage treatment plants (STPs) receive a high proportion of E. coli strains via waste materials from the community. Therefore testing AR E. coli strains from STPs, might offer a reliable approach to evaluate the true rate of AR bacteria in the community. Among the AR E. coli, strains producing extended spectrum of ÃŸ- lactamase (ESBL) constitute a major health problem. The presence of such bacteria in the community STPs and the prevalence of their genotypes can serve as an early warning for the spread of ESBL-producing strains. Although it is assumed that AR bacteria are selected or favoured mainly by the use of antibiotics in hospitals, most of the resistant strains found in hospital effluents are those that are already resistant. Thus, the number of AR or MDR bacteria in sewage correlate with the size and the number of hospitals connected to an STP.
An Empirical Study of Interest, Task Complexity, and Search Behaviour on User Engagement
Creators: name: O'Brien, Heather, 1977-
name: Arguello, Jaime
name: Capra, Rob
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: User engagement has become an important outcome measure in interactive information retrieval (IIR) research, as commercial (e.g., search engines and e-commerce companies), and educational (e.g., libraries) enterprises focus on capturing and retaining customers. User engagement pertains to the kind of investment – emotional, cognitive, behavioural – the user is willing to make in an application. While research has shown how characteristics of users (e.g., individual differences and preferences) and the systems and content with which they interact influence engagement, less is understood about how the tasks people perform using digital applications affect their engagement. Drawing upon a wealth of literature in IIR, this study examined the effects of task on search engagement in a within-subjects Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) experiment. Participants completed six search tasks on different task topics using task versions that included or excluded items and dimensions in the task descriptions. Items refer to things being compared (alternatives) and dimensions correspond to attributes by which items may differ. The task topics were meant to influence user interest in the task, and the versions were intended to manipulate the task doer’s degree of certainty as they planned and performed the task, with the expectation that these factors would affect their self-reported engagement. We captured self-reported task perceptions (e.g., complexity, difficulty, interest) and logged search behaviours (e.g., querying, bookmarking) to both validate our manipulations and to understand how these variables related to engagement. Using multi-level modelling (MLM) we discovered that task topic affected user engagement, whereas task version had limited effects. However, participants’ perceptions of the tasks as interesting, difficult, and so on affected their engagement. Through the self-report and behavioural data, we observed that effort (more search engine results page exploration, greater perceived task difficulty) had a negative effect on engagement, while bookmarking pages and the ability to understand the task and how to complete it was associated with positive engagement. These results have implications for designing search tasks, deciphering the relationship between user experience and task complexity in IIR experiments, and aligning self-reports and search behaviours in evaluating online search engagement.
Supplementary document for The LUCA device: a multi-modal platform combining diffuse optics and ultrasound imaging for thyroid cancer screening - 5232608.pdf
Creators: name: Cortese, Lorenzo
name: Presti, Giuseppe Lo
name: Zanoletti, Marta
name: Aranda, Gloria
name: Buttafava, Mauro
name: Contini, Davide
name: Mora, Alberto Dalla
name: Dehghani, Hamid
name: Di Sieno, Laura
name: de Fraguier, Sixte
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
Pomological characterization of Carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) from the Province of Sefrou, Middle Atlas of Morocco
Creators: name: Seghir, Nadia
name: Elhoussaine Harki
name: Abdelkader Dahchour
name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Forty five Sefrou carob populations from three sites were studied to assess their genetic variation based on pod and seed measures. Locust beans were characterised by: length, width, thickness, chord, weight, number and weight of seeds, aborted seeds rate and seeds yield in addition to the twist coefficient. For seeds, we measured the length, width, the ratio "width/length", the thickness, the ratio "width/thickness", the weight and the yields of the various parts of the seed i.e., the endosperm, the embryo-cotyledons and the tegument. The results showed that the chord, the weight and the yields of seeds and pulp of the carob pod, and the seed weight allow a better discrimination between the three surveyed locations. However, there were no differences between the three localities regarding the width and thickness of the carob pod, and the seed tegument yield. Generally, the intra-locations changes show a very highly significant difference between the trees of each location for all the parameters studied. These results show that environmental conditions do not explain alone the variation in pomological parameters followed and thereby there would be probablya genotypic variability within each locality.
Molecular modelling of epoxy resin crosslinking experimentally validated by near-infrared spectroscopy
Creators: name: Unger, Robin
name: Braun, Ulrike
name: Fankhänel, Johannes
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: IR-Strahlung
Polymer
Spektralanalyse

description: Reliable simulation of polymers on an atomistic length scale requires a realistic representation of the cured material. A molecular modeling method for the curing of epoxy systems is presented, which is developed with respect to efficiency while maintaining a well equilibrated system. The main criterion for bond formation is the distance between reactive groups and no specific reaction probability is prescribed. The molecular modeling is studied for three different mixing ratios with respect to the curing evolution of reactive groups and the final curing stage. For the first time, the evolution of reactive groups during the curing process predicted by the molecular modeling is validated with near-infrared spectroscopy data, showing a good agreement between simulation results and experimental measurements. With the proposed method, deeper insights into the curing mechanism of epoxy systems can be gained and it allows us to provide reliable input data for molecular dynamics simulations of material properties. © The Author(s)
A new fuzzy sliding mode control scheme
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaojiang
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Yu, Xinghuo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, a new fuzzy sliding mode control scheme is proposed for second-order linear time-varying systems in order to obtain faster error convergence and desired error dynamics. It is well known that a second-order linear time-varying system can be used to model higher order linear time invariant systems piece-wisely. Therefore, it is necessary to do deep investigation for the stability and robustness analysis and the design of advanced tracking controllers for second-order linear time-varying systems. It is shown that the design of sliding mode control system is divided into two steps. A linear sliding mode controller is designed first to speed up the error convergence when the error is greater than one. A terminal sliding mode controller is then designed to guarantee that the error can converge to zero in a finite time when the error is around the system origin. In order to have a smooth switching from the linear sliding mode control to the terminal sliding mode control, a fuzzy logic technique is used to connect two sliding mode surfaces. The stability of the proposed fuzzy sliding mode controller is analyzed, and the convergence and robustness properties are demonstrated in a simulation example with a second-order system.
Orientalism Now: Lebanese History, Identity and Alterity
Creators: name: Nader, Marwan Anthony
name: Nader, Myrna Alexandra
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In this essay we apply Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism to a study of Lebanese culture and identity. The starting point is pedagogical, the intellectual license assumed by western thinkers in constructing, interpreting and articulating the history of the East. However, does this theory help us to understand the crisis of identity that has been the source of so much conflict in Lebanon in the past?
What we contend is that though undeniably Said’s Orientalism has generated arguments and counterarguments, it remains, as regards the history of Lebanon, a reductive concept that simplifies the difference between European outsider and Eastern “other”. Rather, it is necessary to take into account what in contemporary sociological terms is a far more complex encounter between Christians, Muslims and Jews. Geographically, the physical landscape encompasses division and even inaccessibility. This cultural palimpsest resists homogeneity: Maronites, for example, the most prominent Christian sect, have since the twelfth century looked to Rome for spiritual guidance; Sunnis and Shiites assert their own denominational allegiances; and Jews, though their presence has been almost completely eliminated, their identity remains evident in the electoral registers, and emblematised in the empty places of worship.
Our modus operandi is to adopt an ontological and epistemological approach in the study of Orientalism, while, at the same time, exploring the realities of sectarian divisions in Lebanon, which determine how people, in the formation of identity, respond to and interact with their immediate surroundings. Bearing in mind the inherent religious differences that divide the Lebanese, where then is otherness to be located? Arguably, the ideological fissures that exist between them have allowed outsiders to penetrate their culture and to monopolise their knowledge.

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The Diasporic Writer in the Post-colonial Context: The Case of Ahdaf Soueif
Creators: name: Lebœuf, Yvette Katherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ahdaf Soueif
Arab Diaspora
Anglo-Egyptian authors
Egypt
Post-colonial Egypt

description: The purpose of this study of Anglo-Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif’s two novels, In the Eye of the Sun (1999), first published in 1992, and The Map of Love (2000), first published in 1999, is to examine how they are arenas for hybrid politics in the post-colonial Egyptian context and the Arab diasporic context. This thesis examines how Soueif deals with residual colonial logics by using Post-colonial theories of transculturation. These theories reveal, through an analysis of Soueif’s use of Pharaonicism and her depiction of social and religious divides, that Soueif sometimes legitimizes and sometimes contests the results of transculturation by using products of this very process of transculturation. In the diasporic context, Soueif’s work deterritorializes these hybrid politics of legitimation and contestation by collapsing disparate temporalities and emphasizing continuity between them. To do this she deterritorializes and reterritorializes Pharaonicism, as well as Western literary tradition, the English language and political activism, to emphasize the cultural affinities between Egyptians/Arabs and Western culture. In this manner, she composes an integration strategy designed to facilitate her incorporation into her Western society of settlement, Great-Britain. This allows her to build a political platform from which she can contest and influence politics in her homeland, her society of settlement and the shape of Western cultural and political hegemony on a global scale. She is consequently able to transcend residual colonial logics through the very hybrid politics that they have created. Moreover, in the process, through the political agency that she exercises in her writing and activism, she builds a deterritorialized diasporic identity based on integration into many spheres of belonging that problematizes the victim model of diaspora in Diaspora studies.
The Westray Mine explosion: The production of a public inquiry.
Creators: name: Ross, Wanda.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Theory and Methods.

description: The Westray Mine disaster, that occurred on May 9, 1992 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia led to the death of twenty-six miners and has been linked to gross corporate violations. A public inquiry into the Westray Mine explosion was called on May 15, 1992 by Nova Scotia premier Donald Cameron. In this thesis a qualitative discourse analysis is applied to the examination of the Westray Mine Inquiry Report, the seventy-four recommendations from the Inquiry and a sample of the Inquiry transcripts. This research includes the exploration of the key players, problematizations which emerged in the discourse, the formal and informal rules and the relationships of truth and power. There is also an analysis of several key themes, including: the nature of the Inquiry discourse, the Inquiry's conceptualization of risk and its construction of the distinction between the private and public sectors. The theoretical framework for this thesis was provided by literature on governmentality which I found particularly pertinent to the analysis of public inquiries. In this thesis, the governmentality framework was helpful in formulating research questions and an analytics of government approach provided useful research guidelines for my study. Public inquiries are also analyzed as an example of reflexive government since they react to governability problems by including the public and developing recommendations for changes in the governing style. The aim of this thesis is to examine how the Westray Mine Inquiry evolved as a form of governing. This is accomplished through an exploration of mechanisms, practices and discourses related to the production of the Inquiry. The thesis traces its frame of reference, formal and informal rules, power relations, hierarchies of knowledge, tactics, rules of inclusion and exclusion as well as the relationship between the Inquiry discourse and the final set of recommendations.
Supplementary document for Precompensation of 3D field distortions in remote focus two-photon microscopy - 5232931.pdf
Creators: name: Valera, Antoine
name: Neufeldt, Fiona
name: Kirkby, Paul
name: Mitchell, John
name: Silver, Robin Angus
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental methods and figures
Esportazione di un modello poetico orientale. L’esempio dello haiku nella letteratura spagnola ultima
Creators: name: Calabrese, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: As explained by George Steiner in Nostalgia for The Absolute (1974), after the decline of the formal religious systems and of the major theories-mythologies of the XIX-XX centuries as  well (Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis and Lévy-Straussian anthropology), in Western culture it has appeared a great moral and emotional  emptiness. In order to avoid this condition, Western emptiness has often been replaced with “irrational waves” of supernatural concepts as astrology, occultism and Orientalism.
Thanks to this perspective, an Oriental cultural model can be used in Western society and find a new onset in an artistic form such as short poetry (already used in Western literature by the great Latin-American masters José Juan Tablada, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges and by some of the Spanish poets of the so called Generación del 27). In Spain, in the last decade, thanks to the Eastern model, the haiku, an example of short poetry, has been a recurring model in the youngest poets’ literature but also in their predecessors’ poetry.
The aim of this paper is to present a way among some writings of haiku, that in these last years has become an inevitable model in the exclusive practice and in combination with other poetic forms as well. We will see how poets use haiku in a standard way (the description of a moment of contemplation of nature) but also how they apply haiku’s philosophy to the Western context. Spanish poets as Josep María Rodríguez, Aurora Luque or Manuel Lara Cantizani show how Eastern legacy can gain a greater and greater power, even if, in some cases, its aesthetical-poetical essence has been adapted to the Western Postmodern context that practices it.

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The waiting time distribution for a TDMA model with a finite buffer
Creators: name: Neuts, Marcel F.
name: Guo, Jun
name: Zukerman, Moshe
name: Vu, Hai
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We obtain detailed analytic formulas for the density and probability distribution of the waiting time in a TDMA model with a finite buffer. On successive intervals of length equal to the duration of a slot, the density is expressed as (infinite) linear combinations of beta densities with positive coefficients. A recursive scheme, obtained by a matrix-analytic derivation, allows for the highly efficient computations of the coefficient sequences.
Controlling wombat mange by targeting scabies ligand-gated chloride channels
Creators: name: Takano, Kotaro
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sarcoptes scabiei
subject: Sarcoptic mange
subject: scabies
subject: Bare-nosed Wombat
subject: Vombatus ursinus
subject: ligand-gated ion channels
subject: drug resistance
subject: fluralaner
subject: citrus oil
subject: essential oil
subject: Veterinary sciences
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences
subject: Evolutionary biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sarcoptes scabiei, the microscopic burrowing mite responsible for sarcoptic mange, affects approximately 150 mammalian species across the world. In Australia, this disease is particularly severe in bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus), while also impacting both native and introduced wildlife species. There are currently several acaricides available to treat sarcoptic mange, including ivermectin, moxidectin and fluralaner, which target invertebrate ligand-gated chloride channels (LGCCs) activated by GABA or glutamate. However, treatment of wildlife diseases often faces challenges due to insufficient understanding of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interactions between acaricides, parasites, and hosts. Critical knowledge gaps in acaricide treatment of sarcoptic mange include: (i) There is no baseline information on the in vitro responses of S. scabiei to fluralaner; (ii) The physiological LGCC targets of the acaricides in S. scabiei remain uncharacterised; (iii) The mechanism of drug resistance in S. scabiei remain unexplored; and (iv) There is no comprehensive sequencing of S. scabiei LGCC genes from wild wombat populations for detecting genetic variants associated with acaricide resistance. My PhD research project addresses these questions through pharmacological, molecular and genetic characterisation of the LGCC acaricide targets in S. scabiei. I investigated in vitro drug sensitivity of fluralaner and a formulation vehicle (orange oil) against S. scabiei providing insights into their baseline efficacy, which confirmed their acaricidal properties and further support potential suitability of orange oil as a formulation vehicle for fluralaner. Genetic characterisation of the S. scabiei LGCCs was accomplished by amplification of full-length cDNAs using recently published high-quality genome data. I have identified 12 predicted LGCC genes in S. scabiei and explored their phylogenetics, assessing their potential roles in acaricide actions, resistance mechanisms and physiology. I also investigated the genetic diversity of selected S. scabiei LGCC genes sourced from wombat populations from different locations within Australia, discovering variants that could potentially have impacts on acaricide binding to LGCCs. These studies represent the first phenotypic and genetic investigations of LGCCs in S. scabiei, offering valuable information that may guide treatment and provide baseline data for monitoring acaricide resistance. This 'ground-up' approach has also created unique opportunities for engagement with wildlife carers aimed at enhancing treatment success.
IQTISODIY JARAYONLARNI O'RGANISHDA TESKARI MATRITSA USULINING QO'LLANILISHI
Creators: name: Kadirova, Gulchexra
name: Fayzulloyev, Xumoyun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Iqtisodiy muammolarni hal qilishning asosiy usullaridan biri matritsa usuli hisoblanadi. Barcha ma'lumotlar matritsa shaklida jadval holiga olinib, ishlov berilishi va saqlanishi malumotlar bazalarini yaratishda matritsalardan foydalanishga omildir.
Combining bibliotherapy and community-based intervention: An alternative model for treating depression in older adults with health problems.
Creators: name: Guirguis-Younger, Manal.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Gerontology.

description: Older persons who suffer from health problems leading to functional impairment are at risk for developing depression. Moreover, the combination of functional impairment and depression creates a complex situation requiring special treatment consideration. A successful intervention must address issues unique to late-life depression and must do so in the context of physical disability caused by serious health problems. The purpose of this work was to create a community-based intervention program that would address the needs of this special population of older persons. An intervention based on behavioural principles and on an empirically validated model, Lewinsohn's (1986) Control Your Depression , was modified to suit the needs of this population. The modifications included three distinctive features. First, the program was designed to be readable and relevant to the life circumstances of older adults with special physical impediments. Second, the aim of the program was to deliver this intervention in a self-administered, minimal-contact format, in order to facilitate access to this under-serviced population. Third, the program was adapted to be delivered by non-mental health professionals---in this case, home-care nurses---who were in a health-care delivery role with older individuals. These three elements were combined to create an efficacious model of service delivery that was able to overcome barriers to access, make use of existing community resources, address special issues of functional impairment, and that was deliverable with minimal supervision. This model was tested in three separate series, each with two participants. A multiple-baseline design allowed a data-driven refinement of the model, and was also well-suited for behavioural analysis. In Series A, we tested the feasibility of the model. Results indicated that the program is feasible, and especially highlighted the role of reinstating pleasant activities in alleviating depression in these participants. Series B further examined the role of pleasant activities. Results confirmed the initial findings that reinstating pleasant activities is a pivotal part of the treatment for this population. Some adjustments were added to produce a finalized model in Series C, with positive results. Overall, these three series of studies indicated that the model is feasible, deliverable, and efficacious in reducing depression in older participants. In addition, results showed a positive impact on participants' functional ability, especially in the areas where the impairment is reversible, such as social functioning and activities of daily living. This model has implications for future applications that encourage the development of alternative models of intervention capable of meeting the unique needs of special populations.
Réglage de position d'une poutre flexible avec amortissement actif des vibrations.
Creators: name: De Carufel, Jean.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Le reglage de structures flexibles est presentement un domaine de recherche tres actif. Les demandes en performance de l'industrie et de l'aerospatiale pour ce genre de reglage ne cesse d'augmenter. La grande complexite modale, les problemes de debordement et la difficulte de modelisation rendent le developpement de systeme de reglage et d'amortissement tres complexe, meme pour une structure simple. Dans ce rapport, deux methodes de reglage pour le positionnement et l'attenuation active des vibrations sont etudiees. Elles sont appliquees a la poutre d'Euler-Bernouilli. La premiere consiste en une methode a impedances actives a gains dynamiques concues dans le domaine fequentielle. La seconde est une methode plus complexe a retour d'etats complets et placement de poles concue dans le domaine temporelle. Une fonction de transfert et un modele d'etat y sont aussi presente. Des resultats de simulation et d'experience viennent appuyer les methodes proposees.
Abu Ghraib and Beyond: Torture as an Extension of the Desiring Machine
Creators: name: Nashef, Hania
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description:
In his discussion of Dante’s Inferno, Edward Said writes that “Maometto” or Mohammed occupies the eighth circle in the nine circles of Hell, belonging to “a rigid hierarchy of evils.”  According to Said, “Maometto” is “endlessly being cleft in two from his chin to his anus,” a punishment in Dante’s belief is well deserved because of Maometto’s sensuality and “pretensions to theological eminence.”  Such graphic description of torment evokes scenes of torture we have of late witnessed in Abu Ghreib and Guantanamo.  Prisoners, not only, were subjected to physical abuse but were also subjected to acts of sexual perversion as was revealed by the photos.  Furthermore, the latter showed those who partook in these actions seemed to be enjoying the power that the exercise of torture gave them.  Robert J.C. Young states that Colonialism “was not only a machine of war … but also a desiring machine.”  This poses the question as to whether torture does allow for the enactment of repressed desire by allowing it to surface by providing it with a venue in which it becomes acceptable.  Moreover, does Colonialism in its previous or in its current form, only sustain itself fundamentally through constant violence, of which perversion is a vital component as these practices are playing into the repertoire of the evil East, or is the perversion an extension of a suppressed Oedipus complex?

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Supplementary document for Precompensation of 3D field distortions in remote focus two-photon microscopy - 5232931.pdf
Creators: name: Valera, Antoine
name: Neufeldt, Fiona
name: Kirkby, Paul
name: Mitchell, John
name: Silver, Robin Angus
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental methods and figures
Responsive teaching of Indonesian language to foreign learners in an in-country intensive program
Creators: name: Waluyo, Untung
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: inter-university partnership
transnational education
teacher change
in-country Indonesian program
responsive teaching
transformative learning

description: This thesis is concerned with the implementation of a partnership for a transnational education program in an Indonesian higher education context, called the Lombok intensive in-country Indonesian Language Program. It is an Australian-Indonesian inter-university partnership program instigated by the Regional Universities Indonesian Language Initiative (RUILI) consortium and the State University of Mataram, Indonesia. The study was conducted at the language centre of the University of Mataram from 2009 to 2010. It aimed to examine the process of teacher change within the culture of an Indonesian higher education institution through the application of a model of dialogic, transformative learning and responsive teaching in the on-going professional development of the Lombok in-country program.
“The Mysterious Other”: Carter’s Japanese Reflections
Creators: name: Pasolini, Anna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Angela Carter’s Japanese experience (1970-1971) profoundly affected the writer, influencing all her following works. The collections Nothing Sacred (1982) and Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), gathering respectively journalistic writings and short stories, show how the Japanese years prompted to strengthen her criticism towards the Western patriarchal tradition and to codify a new paradigm for the representation and enactment of performative female identity(-ies).
As it has been argued, Carter’s perspective is that of a Western tourist, looking down on Japanese culture and society with an imperial gaze. However, this very point of view proves to be both problematic and productive, for her being a Western foreigner (the imperial Eye), combines with her being a woman, a subject who speaks from an unprivileged position, the subordinated Other in her homeland. Moreover, as Carter declared, she did not know nor was able to learn the Japanese language, thus being forced –and willing- to observe reality with sharpened senses in order to name everything anew, starting from her self-perception of what it means to be a woman and to act as one.   Thus, the author fills in Japanese empty signs with brand new meanings and begins to build up a new system of signification from the ambivalent perspective of a foreign woman, whose otherwise underprivileged position is empowered by the fact of being British. Her impressions of the Japanese world and her reasonings about gendered identities are then conveyed though the powerful, omnipresent image of the mirror. In Carter’s wor(-ds)k mirrors and reflections are at the same time both the means which make disruptive and original models and performances possible and effective ways to represent them, since it is through the reflection/projection of Japanese culture into the Western one and through the mirroring of the female subject in the other’s eyes, that female subjectivity is endowed with a new –subversive- potential.

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Censire l’esistente per creare il reale: l’origine indiana e la costruzione dei “rrom”
Creators: name: Angelillo, Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism was itself a cultural project of control. Colonial knowledge both enabled conquest and was produced by it. Cultural forms in Indian society were reconstructed and transformed by this knowledge. In the conceptual scheme which the British created to understand and to act in India they reduced vastly complex codes and their associated meanings to a few metonyms. An example of  colonial way of organizing and representing Indian social identity is offered by the British construction of Indian Gypsies. This communication is meant to explain first the logic of such an identification and then the new authority and vitality currently attained by this product of Orientalism in Romani political organizations and cultural associations.

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The role of cities in reducing the cardiovascular impacts of environmental pollution in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: Baumgartner, Jill
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Ezzati, Majid
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: As low- and middle-income countries urbanize and industrialize, they must also cope with pollution emitted from diverse sources. Main text: Strong and consistent evidence associates exposure to air pollution and lead with increased risk of cardiovascular disease occurrence and death. Further, increasing evidence, mostly from high-income countries, indicates that exposure to noise and to both high and low temperatures may also increase cardiovascular risk. There is considerably less research on the cardiovascular impacts of environmental conditions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the levels of pollution are often higher and the types and sources of pollution markedly different from those in higher-income settings. However, as such evidence gathers, actions to reduce exposures to pollution in low- and middle-income countries are warranted, not least because such exposures are very high. Cities, where pollution, populations, and other cardiovascular risk factors are most concentrated, may be best suited to reduce the cardiovascular burden in LMICs by applying environmental standards and policies to mitigate pollution and by implementing interventions that target the most vulnerable. The physical environment of cities can be improved though municipal processes, including infrastructure development, energy and transportation planning, and public health actions. Local regulations can incentivize or inhibit the polluting behaviors of industries and individuals. Environmental monitoring can be combined with public health warning systems and publicly available exposure maps to inform residents of environmental hazards and encourage the adoption of pollution-avoiding behaviors. Targeted individual or neighborhood interventions that identify and treat high-risk populations (e.g., lead mitigation, portable air cleaners, and preventative medications) can also be leveraged in the very near term. Research will play a key role in evaluating whether these approaches achieve their intended benefits, and whether these benefits reach the most vulnerable. Conclusion: Cities in LMICs can play a defining role in global health and cardiovascular disease prevention in the next several decades, as they are well poised to develop innovative, multisectoral approaches to pollution mitigation, while also protecting the most vulnerable.
Performance and genetics of provenance hybrids of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis in Queensland
Creators: name: Johnston, Amal J
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2001
Subjects: Pinus caribaea

description: Two control-pollinated inter-provenance hybrids made between selected trees in the improved Mountain Pine Ridge (MPR) provenance, and selected trees in both Coastal and Guanaja Island provenances of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis were evaluated along with a control (open-pollinated MPR provenance) at two Queensland sites (Tuan and Cardwell) to 6 - 7 years of age for growth, and stem and crown quality. Control-pollinated families of Coastal provenances were also planted in these tests. The major objective of provenance hybridisation was to incorporate desirable and complementary attributes of Coastal and Guanaja germplasm into the advanced breeding population of P. caribaea var. hondurensis in Queensland, which is composed primarily of trees from the MPR provenance. At both the individual sites and across the two sites, the inter-provenance hybrid MPR × Coastal had greater diameter, stem-straightness and wind-firmness, and fewer ramicorns than the MPR control provenance. This hybrid showed significant mid-parent heterosis for these same traits, and ranked better than the high-parental values.
State of riparian vegetation of streams in the watershed of the Inaouène wadi (NW Morocco)
Creators: name: Libiad, Mohamed
name: Abdelmajid Khabbach
name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Integrated management of water resources interfere, directly or indirectly, with the conservation of biodiversity. Surveys conducted along the Inaouène wadi (upstream of the catchment of the Sebou River) allowed us to identify 308 taxa of higher plants, belonging to 181 genera and 55 botanical families. The specific richness per station can exceed 100 species depending on the width of the stream bed and conservation. A correspondence analysis is done from 27 botanical statements, described 75 species, and highlighted four plant communities, especially along the "upstream-downstream of the dam” gradient. The main environmental and anthropogenic factors influencing the habitat quality of the river Inaouène were underlined. These factors are responsible for the “upstream-downstream” and transversal zonation of the river vegetation, and the high rate of therophytes.
Finite-element time-domain analysis of axisymmetrical radiating structures.
Creators: name: Ali, Hassan O.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: A method of computation based on the finite element method was used to solve axisymmetrical electromagnetic wave propagation problems directly in the time-domain. The finite element method, employing first order triangular elements, was used to generate a system of second order linear differential equations. The system of differential equations was solved for the magnetic field using a suitable differential equation solving algorithm written in the course of this work. The method was used to model several situations involving axisymmetrical radiating structures directly in the time domain and the results compared well with the published data. Situations involving pulses, which are of particular interest to EMI/EMC field, were successfully studied. Conclusions were drawn on the suitability of the method in modeling radiated emissions from printed circuit board configurations, under the influence of transient exciting fields.
Exploring biotechnology applications for improved productivity of the oyster aquaculture industry
Creators: name: Abramov, Tomer
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: oysters
biotechnology
teneurin
TCAP
stress
phagocytosis
reactive oxygen species
heart rate
reproduction
spawning pheromones
Biochemistry and cell biology
Medical physiology
Bioinformatics and computational biology

description: Oyster production is the second largest aquaculture sector globally and has significant socio- economic implications in coastal regions worldwide. This is exemplified by the native Sydney rock oyster (SRO; Saccostrea glomerata), which is one of the most important oyster species in Australia both economically and ecologically. Although SRO aquaculture is well established, several factors such as disease outbreaks, environmental pollutants, a lack of resilience to changing environments and a lack of novel spawning techniques are barriers to maximising production output. Several oyster species, including SRO, have many genomic resources available, which makes them ideal models for characterising molecular pathways and mechanisms. This PhD thesis focused on developing emerging and novel biotechnologies to improve SRO aquaculture. In tandem, this thesis has enhanced our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in stress modulation and animal spawning, which might be applied to other aquaculture species such as crustaceans and fish. Outside of aquaculture, the mechanisms and novel protein functions characterised in this thesis may have much broader applications in fields such as biomedicine and animal conservation by managing the deleterious effects of stress and aiding breeding efforts of vulnerable species. In addition to the direct benefits provided to aquaculture, the research in this thesis provides strong foundational knowledge of molecular stress mechanisms which are shared among many metazoans and may be employed in future biotechnology areas such as biomedicine.
Understanding the molecular basis for improved egg quality in maiden and repeat spawning Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) maintained at elevated temperature
Creators: name: Anderson, Kelli
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: Atlantic salmon
temperature
climate change
fertility
reproductive physiology
zona pellucida
vitelllogenin
gonadotropin
estrogen

description: Tasmanian Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) broodstock can encounter temperatures above 20 °C, which has a marked negative effect on reproductive development. Broodstock management strategies are needed in order to maintain egg quality in the face of thermal challenge either due to seasonal fluctuation or climate change, where temperatures are expected to rise even further. In Tasmania, the Atlantic salmon industry uses maiden fish for approximately 75 % of egg production due to their smaller size and the lower cost associated with their husbandry relative to repeats. However, maidens appear to be more susceptible than repeat fish to the effects of elevated temperature. The salmon industry’s ability to cope with rising temperature is hindered by the lack of understanding of the effects of thermal challenge on the endocrine system, which ultimately determines egg quality. Therefore the aims of the present research were to: (1) determine how temperature influences endocrine function and reproductive development in maiden and repeat spawning female Atlantic salmon; (2) understand the molecular mechanisms that determine egg quality in broodstock maintained at elevated temperature; and (3) develop management strategies to maintain endocrine function and egg quality under thermally challenging conditions.
Lo sguardo dell'Altra. Donne dell'islam e nuovi femminismi orientalisti
Creators: name: Vanzan, Anna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In post 9/11 one of the main focuses of the debate over Islam concerns the situation of women in Muslim countries. The rhetoric of Muslim women’s liberation has produced a huge wave of Islamophobia and has generated (Neo) Orientalist representations of the “oppressed” Muslim women in need of imperialist interventions. The promoters of this campaign are both Western “feminists” and “dissident” Muslim women who, by pretending to fight for  human rights, have produced a sensationalist Neo-orientalist literature based on the assumption of the existence of a unique, eternal and denigrated “Muslim woman”.
This article explores some Neo-orientalist issues fabricated around the myth of “the Muslim woman” by Western women observers also with the complicity of female “native informants”.

description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
The fundamental properties of dwarf elliptical galaxies in clusters
Creators: name: Guzman, Rafael
name: Graham, Alister
name: Matkovic, Ana
name: Vass, Ileana
name: Gorgas, Javier
name: Cardiel, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present preliminary results of an extensive study of the fundamental properties of dwarf elliptical galaxies (dEs) in the Coma cluster. Our study will combine HST surface photometry with ground-based UBRIJK photometry and optical spectroscopy. The combined data set will be used to investigate the intrinsic correlations among global parameters in cluster dEs, including the Fundamental Plane, color-magnitude, Faber-Jackson’s, Kormendy’s, and velocity dispersion vs. line strength indices. These empirical correlations have provided important constraints to theoretical models of galaxy formation and evolution for “normal” ellipticals. Although dEs are the most abundant galaxy population in clusters their properties remain, however, largely unknown. Our study aims to provide an essential reference for testing current theories on the formation and evolution of dEs in clusters, and understanding their relation to more massive ellipticals.
Supplementary document for Full field characterization of complex objects illuminated by ultrashort pulse laser using delay-line sweeping off-axis interferometry - 5233752.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Wenhui
name: Li, Xiang
name: Hu, Rui
name: Qu, Junle
name: Liu, Liwei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Information on the simulation and complex field generation using SLM.
Parameter Estimation, Optimal Control and Optimal Design in Stochastic Neural Models
Creators: name: Iolov, Alexandre V.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Stochastic Optimal Control
Stochastic Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neural Model
Optimal Design
First-Passage Times

description: This thesis solves estimation and control problems in computational neuroscience, mathematically dealing with the first-passage times of diffusion stochastic processes. We first derive estimation algorithms for model parameters from first-passage time observations, and then we derive algorithms for the control of first-passage times. Finally, we solve an optimal design problem which combines elements of the first two: we ask how to elicit first-passage times such as to facilitate model estimation based on said first-passage observations. The main mathematical tools used are the Fokker-Planck partial differential equation for evolution of probability densities, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation of optimal control and the adjoint optimization principle from optimal control theory. The focus is on developing computational schemes for the solution of the problems. The schemes are implemented and are tested for a wide range of parameters.