cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Saudi Arabian Study of the Relationship Between the Socio-Psychological Profile and Consumers’ Behavior Toward Online Shopping
Creators: name: Bakerman, Shahad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Saudi Arabia
Online Shopping
Socio-demographics
Rokeach Terminal Values
Achievement Motivations

description: This study assesses consumer behavior toward online shopping in Saudi Arabia by studying the factors that affect whether or not they shop online. The sample consisted of 206 Saudis approached using the “snowball” technique. Participants were all above eighteen and Internet users. Participants were asked to give the frequency of their online shopping transactions using a four-point Likert scale. They used a seven-point Likert scale to rate their opinions about trends affecting electronic commerce, companies’ marketing approaches, and other aspects of online shopping. Participants also were asked about their feelings regarding traditional and online shopping using a nine-point bipolar scale. Using the Six Dimensional Achievement Motivations Scale, they were asked to describe themselves, and finally, they were asked to rank the Rokeach Terminal Values based on their importance. The version of the Rokeach Value System used in this study is the one shortened to nine terminal values, by Munson & McQuarrie, 1988, since it reflects better relevance to consumption. Results show that, when compared to traditional shopping, participants have relatively negative perceptions of online shopping. In addition, participants’ demographics and values related to their online shopping frequency, while their achievement motivations were less related. The major limitation of this research is that it was conducted in only one city, Jeddah. Therefore, additional research should be carried out in other cities with larger samples. The research results suggest that businesses in Saudi Arabia should use online shopping as a second channel to distribute their products in addition to their physical stores. This thesis makes a distinctive contribution to the literature, as it is the first to examine the correlation between the Rokeach Value System (1973); the Six Dimensional Achievement Motivation Scale (Jackson, Ahmed, and Heapy, 1976); and online shopping behavior in the world, let alone Saudi Arabia.
Growers’ knowledge on spices cultivation in shibganj upazila under Bogura district
Creators: name: Afrad, M.S.I.
name: Akter, M.R.
name: Afrad, M.S.I.
name: Akter, M.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Spices
subject: Practice
subject: Knowledge
subject: Cultivation
subject: Bogura district

description: The main objective guided the present study was to evaluate the knowledge of the growers on spices cultivation practice in Shibganj upazila under Bogura district. Three unions of the upazila were purposively selected based on the vicinity to the Spices Research Center, Bogura. Data were collected from selected growers using predesigned structured interview schedule. Eleven selected characteristics of the growers were considered as independent variables. As dependent variable, knowledge on spices cultivation practice was calculated by construction of a scale containing thirteen relevant questions. Coefficient of correlation was employed to determine the relationship between the selected characteristics of the growers and their knowledge on spices cultivation practice. Majority (67.8%) of the growers were middle aged, the highest portion (61.1%) of them belonged to primary level education. Major proportion (60.0%) of them had small family size, almost all of them (98.9%) possessed small to medium farm size, and huge majority (87.8%) of them earned up to BDT 240000 annually. About three-fourth (73.3%) of the farmers had medium extension contact, half of them (50.0%) had poor training experience while 40.0 percent of them had medium innovativeness. Great majority (85.5%) of the farmers had small to medium spices cultivation area (up to 0.6 ha) while almost three-fourth (72.2%) of them had medium to long durational (11 to above 20 years) practice of spices cultivation. Majority (65.6%) of them had moderate knowledge on spices cultivation technology compared to more than one-fourth (26.7%) having high knowledge and only 7.7 percent had low knowledge on the same. None of the selected characteristics showed significant relationship with the knowledge on spices cultivation practice.
Roaming Interoperability for Electric Vehicle Charging Networks
Creators: name: Al-Tubuly, Abdulnasir
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Electric Vehicle roaming OCHP

description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the maturity and the performance of the currently available roaming solutions that provide interoperability and roaming services to Electrical Vehicle Charging Networks. At least three different entities are involved in an Electrical Vehicle (EV) charging roaming scenario, namely the EV, the home charging network and the visited charging network. All of these entities have to interface and interact with each other on the physical and the communication protocols level. The Open Clearing House Protocol (OCHP) roaming protocol is implemented and its performance is evaluated against the e-Clearing.net test platform. The protocol functionality for billing and its suitability for different scenarios is also evaluated. Furthermore, an extension to the protocol is proposed to support prepaid subscription, and its performance is also estimated. The findings of this study have verified the performance and the maturity of the OCHP protocol, and strongly recommends the implementation of roaming protocols and clearing houses. The estimated performance of the proposed extension confirmed that both prepaid and postpaid billing can be realized using the tested roaming protocol and clearing house implementations.
Longiano’s Cross: notes and considerations for the history of conservation
Creators: name: Faranda, Franco
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The restoration of the antique worshiped Longiano’s Crucifix was the opportunity to examine in detail a board and a painting that has undergone in time numerous maintenance interventions. Describing the executive technique, it was possible to highlight a work methodology which definitely respected the secular traditions as we can see it in the very quality and universality of workshop
techniques that did not change in time, at least in some specific geographic areas. The restoration has also allowed to delete severe judgments often expressed, emphasizing a masterpiece of high interest realized around the sixth or seventh decade of the thirteenth century.
Der Deutschbund
Creators: name: Kuhn, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Deutschbund
Völkisch movement
Germany 1871-1918

description: This dissertation examines the history of the right-wing organisation Deutschbund in Germany from 1894 to 1914. It is also a study about how the Völkisch movement organized and coordinated its activities and some of its leading figures.
Locally nilpotent derivations of polynomial rings.
Creators: name: Wang, Zhiqing.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Let k be a field of characteristic 0. We classify locally nilpotent derivations D : k[ X, Y, Z] → k[X, Y, Z] satisfying D2X = D2 Y = 0; in particular, it is proved that every k-derivation D satisfying D 2X = D2Y = D2Z = 0 is essentially a partial derivative. Then we study three classes of k-derivations D : k [X1,..., Xn] → k [X 1,...Xn], namely the elementary , constructible and nice derivations. We note the simple fact that elementary ⇒ constructible ⇒ nice, and we investigate under which conditions the converses hold. We find that if n = 3 then all three notions are the same; in dimension 4, if D is irreducible then constructible is equivalent to elementary; in dimension 5, there is an example which is constructible, irreducible but not elementary. Another result states that rank D ≤ n -- 2 holds for all constructible derivations and all n ≥ 3.
3D visualization and virtual reality for cultural heritage diagnostic
Creators: name: Colizzi, Lucio
name: De Pascalis, Fabio
name: Fassi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: In the past years, many different new technologies for Cultural Heritage Diagnostic have been developed. In particular laser scanner surveys with digital photogrammetry and also multi-spectral surveys are becoming very useful and inalienable tools for non invasive diagnosis. In the SIDART Project (Integrated System for Cultural Heritage diagnosis), we develop a software able to visualize and elaborate triangulated surfaces coming from high resolution laser scanner survey. In this paper, we want to present the most innovative aspect of our study, that is the possibility to visualize and work in default mode or in immersive Stereoscopy (3D mode). This lets the operator perceive the third dimension and the “virtual investigation” of the object becomes more realistic. This lets us take into consideration in a more simple, natural and correct way and also reduce the possibility to make wrong evaluation due to the false prospective of the classic visualization.
Seismic retrofit of concrete columns with splice deficiencies by external prestressing.
Creators: name: Beauséjour, Pascal.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: According to the current design practice, reinforced concrete columns should have sufficient ductility to resist major earthquakes. The ductility allows a column to maintain its strength during inelastic response to earthquakes. The research project reported in this thesis involves the use of a new retrofit strategy developed for concrete columns at the University of Ottawa. The new procedure consists of external prestressing existing columns with seven wire strands. External prestressing overcomes diagonal tension caused by shear, confines compression concrete, and may improve the behaviour of spliced reinforcement under reversed cyclic loading. Six large scale bridge columns were built and tested under simulated seismic loading. Four long columns with a circular or a square cross-section of approximately 500 mm, and two short circular columns of 610 mm in diameter, were investigated. The columns all had lap spliced longitudinal reinforcement within the potential plastic hinge region. The splice length was equal to twenty times the bar diameter. The reinforcing details were typical of the pre-1970's design practice. The columns were subjected to a constant axial load of 15% of their concentric capacity. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Optics-on-a-chip for ultrafast manipulation of sub-GHz hard x-ray pulses - 5141759.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Pice
name: Jung, Jin
name: Walko, Don
name: gao, Ya
name: Li, Zhilong
name: Mooney, Tim
name: Shenoy, Gopal
name: Lopez, Daniel
name: Wang, Jin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: A supplementary file in MS Word format
Tricorythodes arequita Traver 1959
Creators: name: Dias, Lucimar G.
name: Molineri, Carlos
name: Ferreira, Paulo S. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Leptohyphidae
Tricorythodes
Tricorythodes arequita

description: Tricorythodes arequita Traver
 T. arequita Traver, 1959:128; Molineri, 2002:275-277.
 Diagnose: Adulto: 1) asa anterior com veia CuP completa; 2) tíbias e tarsos esbranquiçados com notórias faixas subapicais negras (Fig. 61); 3) abdômen predominantemente sombreado de negro, com pequenas pontuações esbranquiçadas (Fig. 79); 4) pênis largo e achatado (Fig. 54). Ninfa: 1) projeção genal presente; 2) palpo maxilar trissegmentado e curto; 3) cabeça e pronoto sem tubérculos; 4) pronoto com projeção anterolateral reduzida; 5) fêmur anterior com fileira transversal de cerdas na região mediana (Fig. 62A); 6) fêmur, tíbia e tarso de todas as pernas com manchas subapicais negras (Fig. 63A, B); 7) garra tarsal com 11-13 dentículos marginais e um par de dentículos submarginais próximo ao ápice; 8) segmentos abdominais III-VIII expandidos lateralmente, com VII e IX formando espinho posterolateral (Fig. 80); 9) padrão de coloração abdominal como na Fig. 80; 10) brânquia II triangular, sombreada de negro como na Fig. 74.
 Registro Geográfico (Tabela 1): Brasil: Rio Grande do Sul (Rio Ivay). Argentina: Misiones. Uruguay: Lavalleja.
description: Published as part of Dias, Lucimar G., Molineri, Carlos & Ferreira, Paulo S. F., 2007, Ephemerelloidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) do Brasil, pp. 213-244 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 47 (19) on page 228, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492007001900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13236289
Demographic and clinical predictors of progression and mortality in connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Chan, Chrystal
name: Ryerson, Christopher J.
name: Dunne, James V.
name: Wilcox, Pearce G.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) is associated with reduced quality of life and poor prognosis. Prior studies have not identified a consistent combination of variables that accurately predict prognosis in CTD-ILD. The objective of this study was to identify baseline demographic and clinical characteristics that are associated with progression and mortality in CTD-ILD. Methods: Patients were retrospectively identified from an adult CTD-ILD clinic. The predictive significance of baseline variables on serial forced vital capacity (FVC), diffusion capacity (DLCO), and six-minute walk distance (6MWD) was assessed using linear mixed effects models, and Cox regression analysis was performed to assess impact on mortality. Results: 359 patients were included in the study. Median follow-up time was 4.0 (IQR 1.5–7.6) years. On both unadjusted and multivariable analysis, male sex and South Asian ethnicity were associated with decline in FVC. Male sex, positive smoking history, and diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc) vs. other CTD were associated with decline in DLCO. Male sex and usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern predicted decline in 6MWD. There were 85 (23.7%) deaths. Male sex, older age, First Nations ethnicity, and a diagnosis of systemic sclerosis vs. rheumatoid arthritis were predictors of mortality on unadjusted and multivariable analysis. Conclusion: Male sex, older age, smoking, South Asian or First Nations ethnicity, and UIP pattern predicted decline in lung function and/or mortality in CTD-ILD. Further longitudinal studies may add to current clinical prediction models for prognostication in CTD-ILD.
Women in the combat arms: A question of attitudes?
Creators: name: Dunn, Jason.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: Examining change in any organization can be a difficult task, especially in an organization as complex as the military. With the assistance of civilianization theory, we will examine change within the Canadian Forces imposed by outside civilian legislation (external pressure). In particular, we will examine the integration of women in the combat arms, a result of federal human rights legislation (1989). Issues that are discussed include a brief history of women in combat, arguments used against the participation of women in combat environments, the masculine nature of the military, and the training standards and physical requirements within the Canadian Forces.
Le lobbying lors des débats sur le contrôle des armes à feu au Canada, 1993 à 1997 : analyse des discours.
Creators: name: Garneau, Julie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: Cette etude a pour objectif l'analyse des discours employes lors des activites de lobbying dans le debat menant a l'adoption de la Loi sur les armes a feu au Canada, soit le projet de loi C-68, entre 1993 et 1997. Notre hypothese est que le lobby pour le controle des armes a feu a construit la representation de ses interets en un discours emprunte a l'ideologie de l'interet general. Ce texte propose une analyse de cette argumentation ainsi que la demonstration de l'utilisation de l'ideologie de l'interet general comme discours de legitimation.
Ergonomics and cultural heritage: the Palatina chapel in Palermo, Italy
Creators: name: Barbaro, Salvatore
name: Caracausi, Rosario
name: Chaix, Bénédicte
name: Chisesi, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The present article presents results of a study that aims at the assessment of ergonomic safety conditions inside the Palatina chapel of Palermo. To reach this object, an informative questionnaire was established so as to collect visitors’ subjective judgments regarding overall ergonomic conditions in terms of accessibility, availability, safety or else environmental conditions (thermo-hygrometry; air, sound and visual quality); this stage was carried out, bearing in mind the Museum Visitors’ Rights Card that is currently under creation by the “Legambiente” group. An automatic instrument was bought to daily count the numbers of visitors; the latter element shall then be related to indoor environmental data registered thanks to a monitoring system of thermohygrometry, illuminating engineering and environmental aggressiveness.
Not over-the-hill ... yet! The older entrepreneur
Creators: name: Langan-Fox, Janice
name: Canty, James
name: Karami, Elham
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Currently, sustainable employment for senior citizens in Australia is in its early stages. While the aging of our population is an unavoidable issue, serious actions are necessary by the government to support the older population. Unfortunately, this issue is neglected by the Australian government. Encouraging people in late life to participate in the labor market is one practical solution to this problem. Self-employment and small business ownership are two of the best strategic options for the older population. Since small business is a dynamic sector of the Australian economy and older population has shown a high success rate in this particular sector, it will be economically profitable to Australia. Considering the fact that this cohort possesses a valuable experience, knowledge, financial source and social networks, it is a great solution for developing 'older entrepreneurship' issue.
title: Patient-Specific Finite Element Analysis for Mandibular Fracture Fixation
Creators: name: Snyder, Ethan
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2020

description: This thesis proposes an approach for Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of mandibular fracture fixation. Using a Computerized Tomography (CT) scan of mandible obtained from a specific person, the material characteristics, density and modulus of elasticity, were determined from a set of discrete points within the mandible that are 1mm spaced based on the Hounsfield Units of these points. The mandible geometry was sectioned to simulate a fracture. Muscle and mastication forces were added to replicate post-surgery loading. Using a standard linear miniplate, this material model was compared with two commonly used mandibular cortical shell bone models: isotropic and orthotropic. A modified V-shaped miniplate was fixed over the fracture. A comparison of this V-miniplate to a standard linear miniplate typically used in fixation under identical loading conditions was done to assess the veracity of the modified design.
Assessment of the conservation state of stone materials in relation to the level environmental pollution in the conservation place
Creators: name: Rizzo, Giovanni
name: D'Agostino, Fabio
name: Megna, Bartolomeo
name: Parlapiano, Maria
name: Ercoli, Laura
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The patina represents a superficial natural alteration of the constituting matter of the work of art. It emerges from the natural and usual stabilization process that the materials of the surface undergo because of the interaction with outdoor agents characterizing the surrounding environment. Besides, it is not linked to an obvious phenomenon of degradation that can be noticed through the change in the original colour of the matter.
This is what we intend when we talk about biological patina usually generated by macro and/or micro-organic colonization (fungi, bacteria, alga) which contributes to surface bio-deterioration and thus lead to the formation of orange, red or even brown and dark pigmented areas. The presence of chromatic alterations (rose-coloured areas), as a consequence of bacterial colonization, was most particularly pointed out in different sites, such as in the marble slabs on the facades of both the Cathedral of Siena (Duomo di Siena) and the Certosa of Pavia. The present study shows an example of chromatic alteration of the surface of marble works due to bacterial colonization.
Evaluation of the basal temperature of snow (BTS) method to map permafrost in complex mountainous terrain, Wolf Creek, Yukon Territory
Creators: name: Ednie, Mark
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography.

description: This study is the first known attempt in North America to use the basal temperature of snow (BTS) method to predict the distribution of mountain permafrost. The study site, Wolf Creek Research Basin, Yukon Territory (60°30'N, 135°13'W), is a 195 km2 basin ranging in elevation from 650--2100 m with a mean annual air temperature of about -4°C at 1235 m a.s.l. A modeled BTS surface, based on 394 measured BTS values and with elevation and potential incoming solar radiation as independent variables, was created within a GIS environment with an r2 value similar to European results. The distribution of permafrost within the basin was identified from pits and boreholes. A subsequent logistic regression was used to compare modeled BTS values to the actual permafrost distribution in order to produce a map of permafrost probability in the basin. A significantly higher likelihood of permafrost, observed in a confined valley bottom, was attributed to cold air drainage. This occurrence was not predicted by the BTS model and data from the affected area were removed from later analyses. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The culture of teaching
Creators: name: Scott, Catherine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Education is characterised by marked and damaging schisms among its specialties, especially between classroom practitioners and academic members of the profession. While many or most commentators accept this rift as arising from real and significant differences between the groups, this article argues that the schism can be seen as the consequence of the reduced status of education as an institution. Mary Douglas's cultural theory is utilised to explore ways in which low status pushes any institution, education included, towards the world-view of a cult or sect. The origins of aspects of contemporary educational thought that attract considerable criticism from 'outside' are traced to thought styles that are typical of a cult. The suggestion is made that continuing criticism that further erodes education's status will not lead to desired change but instead entrench practitioners' stance of resistance to demands that originate from outside the profession.
Paxilline Prevents the Onset of Myotonic Stiffness in Pharmacologically Induced Myotonia: A Preclinical Investigation
Creators: name: Hoppe, Kerstin
name: Sartorius, Tina
name: Chaiklieng, Sunisa
name: Wietzorrek, Georg
name: Ruth, Peter
name: Jurkat-Rott, Karin
name: Wearing, Scott
name: Lehmann-Horn, Frank
name: Klingler, Werner
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Paxilline
subject: NS1608
subject: Repetitive firing
subject: Muscle disease
subject: BK channel
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Myotonia congenita
subject: Large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels
subject: Muskelkrankheit

description: Reduced Cl− conductance causes inhibited muscle relaxation after forceful voluntary contraction due to muscle membrane hyperexcitability. This represents the pathomechanism of myotonia congenita. Due to the prevailing data suggesting that an increased potassium level is a main contributor, we studied the effect of a modulator of a big conductance Ca2+- and voltage-activated K+ channels (BK) modulator on contraction and relaxation of slow- and high-twitch muscle specimen before and after the pharmacological induction of myotonia. Human and murine muscle specimens (wild-type and BK−/−) were exposed to anthracene-9-carboxylic acid (9-AC) to inhibit CLC-1 chloride channels and to induce myotonia in-vitro. Functional effects of BK-channel activation and blockade were investigated by exposing slow-twitch (soleus) and fast-twitch (extensor digitorum longus) murine muscle specimens or human musculus vastus lateralis to an activator (NS1608) and a blocker (Paxilline), respectively. Muscle-twitch force and relaxation times (T90/10) were monitored. Compared to wild type, fast-twitch muscle specimen of BK−/− mice resulted in a significantly decreased T90/10 in presence of 9-AC. Paxilline significantly shortened T90/10 of murine slow- and fast-twitch muscles as well as human vastus lateralis muscle. Moreover, twitch force was significantly reduced after application of Paxilline in myotonic muscle. NS1608 had opposite effects to Paxilline and aggravated the onset of myotonic activity by prolongation of T90/10. The currently used standard therapy for myotonia is, in some individuals, not very effective. This in vitro study demonstrated that a BK channel blocker lowers myotonic stiffness and thus highlights its potential therapeutic option in myotonia congenital (MC).
Colorimetry applied to the field of cultural heritage: examples of study cases
Creators: name: Lorusso, Salvatore
name: Natali, Andrea
name: Matteucci, Chiara
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: For a few years now, the Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (sede di Ravenna) has been creating a Diagnostic Laboratory for the study on the “system: cultural heritage/conservation environment”. In the present paper the results of different surveys concerning the use of colorimetry on different typologies of art works are reported: graphic documents (fig. 1); oil painting on board and canvas (fig. 2); wall painting (fig. 3); stony materials consolidated with ethyl silicate (fig. 4). Measurements of the chromatic parameters, according to the CIE L*a*b* chromaticity diagram and to the UNI 8941 Standard Coloured surfaces, were carried out with the spectrophotometric colorimeter Minolta CM-2600D model. The reference measurements (targets) were carried out on every typology of works. Such targets, recorded on the tool or in the computer, could be considered in order to draw a comparison in time on the same studied surface. It is then possible to check the trend of the chromatic alteration as an effect of interaction of the environment of location-conservation with the art work and, then to determine the causes, i.e the environmental operating-factors. The measurements of the chromatic parameters for graphic documents and for wall paintings have
also allowed us to establish if the modifications, caused by an inappropriate environment, must be linked to irreversible or reversible effects and, then, with the possibility of being removed. As regards wall paintings, the respect of the “noble patina” was showed, as established by the Card of Restoration, by means of the measurement of the + b* parameters (yellow degree). The studies on stony materials aimed at the evaluation of the chromatic alterations of the art works previously consolidated with various products based on ethyl silicates: different results were reached according to the different degree of stone cohesion, anisotropy of the material and different exposure conditions of the works. Such researches may contribute to applying colorimetry in the field of cultural heritage.
Supplementary document for Improvements to strip-based digital image registration for robust eye-tracking and to minimize distortions in images from scanned ophthalmic imaging systems - 5141776.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Min
name: Gofas-Salas, Elena
name: LEONARD, BIANCA
name: Rui, Yuhua
name: Snyder, Valerie
name: REECHER, HOPE
name: Mecê, Pedro
name: Rossi, Ethan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Ophthalmology

description: Supplemental Figures and Table
Large high-precision x-ray timing of three millisecond pulsars with NICER: stability estimates and comparison with radio
Creators: name: Deneva, J. S.
name: Ray, P. S.
name: Lommen, A.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Bogdanov, S.
name: Kerr, M.
name: Wood, K. S.
name: Arzoumanian, Z.
name: Black, K.
name: Doty, J.
name: Gendreau, K. C.
name: Guillot, S.
name: Harding, A.
name: Lewandowska, N.
name: Malacaria, C.
name: Markwardt, C. B.
name: Price, S.
name: Winternitz, L.
name: Wolff, M. T.
name: Guillemot, L.
name: Cognard, I.
name: Baker, P. T.
name: Blumer, H.
name: Brook, P. R.
name: Cromartie, H. T.
name: Demorest, P. B.
name: DeCesar, M. E.
name: Dolch, T.
name: Ellis, J. A.
name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Ferrara, E. C.
name: Fonseca, E.
name: Garver-Daniels, N.
name: Gentile, P. A.
name: Jones, M. L.
name: Lam, M. T.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Lynch, R. S.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Ng, C.
name: Nice, D. J.
name: Pennucci, T. T.
name: Spiewak, R.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J. K.
name: Vigeland, S. J.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is an X-ray astrophysics payload on the International Space Station. It enables unprecedented high-precision timing of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) without the pulse broadening and delays due to dispersion and scattering within the interstellar medium that plague radio timing. We present initial timing results from a year of data on the MSPs PSR B1937+21 and PSR J0218+4232, and nine months of data on PSR B1821-24. NICER time-of-arrival uncertainties for the three pulsars are consistent with theoretical lower bounds and simulations based on their pulse shape templates and average source and background photon count rates. To estimate timing stability, we use the sigma(z) measure, which is based on the average of the cubic coefficients of polynomial fits to subsets of timing residuals. So far we are achieving timing stabilities sigma(z) approximate to 3 x 10(-14) for PSR B1937+21 and on the order of 10 (-12) for PSRs B1821-24 and J0218+4232. Within the span of our NICER data we do not yet see the characteristic break point in the slope of sigma(z); detection of such a break would indicate that further improvement in the cumulative root-mean-square timing residual is limited by timing noise. We see this break point in our comparison radio data sets for PSR B1821-24 and PSR B1937+21 on timescales of 2 yr.
Paladini’s activity in Vizzini (Catania): constituent materials and executive techniques
Creators: name: Sebastianelli, Mauro
name: Alescio, Adriana
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The present study aiming at defining the constituent materials and understanding the executive techniques used by Filippo Paladini during his painting heyday, perfectly displays the main characteristics of the painter’s ability – famous expression of the manneristic Tuscan and Tuscan-Roman culture with a clear emphasis on the new expressionist style and methods introduced after Caravaggio’s works. Some technical information in terms of Paladini’s technique were gathered, focusing the attention on
some depictions corresponding to the mature period of the artist. We here refer to three important and relevant art works executed in Vizzini (Sicily, Catania) – respectively the Madonna of Mercede,
the San Lorenzo Martyrdom and the Deposition – in a fair conservation state.
The Effect of Pre-strain and Strain Path Changes on Ductile Fracture
Creators: name: Alinaghian, Yaser
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Ductile Fracture
Pre Strain
Strain Path Changes
Void growth and coalescence

description: Industrial metal forming operations generally require several deformation steps in order to create the final product. The mechanical behavior of materials undergoing strain path changes can be very different from those deformed in a given direction to fracture. The work presented here employed laser drilled model materials to better understand the effect of pre-strains and strain path changes on void growth and linkage leading to fracture is studied. The experimental results show that increasing pre-strain results in faster void growth which was justified in terms work hardening rate in the sample. Scanning electron microscope images revealed that the ductility of the sample decreased with increasing pre-strain but only slightly compared to the large decrease in far field strain at failure. This suggests that pre-strain affects strain localization significantly and to a lesser extent the ductility. Finally a finite element model has been built to predict the linkage between voids.
¿Por qué he ingresado?: A propósito de un caso.
Creators: name: Andía Díez, Miguel
name: Nogales Raedo, Antonia
name: Menéndez Trillo, Patricia
name: Gil Delgado, Patricia
name: Orozco Quiroz, Laura
name: Rodríguez Rincón, Manuela
name: Blanco Pericacho, Andrea
name: Franco Porras, Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCCIÓN Y OBJETIVOS

La Terapia Electroconvulsiva (TEC) es un tratamiento con eficacia demostrada para diversas patologías psiquiátricas. No obstante, no está exento de efectos secundarios. El objetivo de este trabajo es ahondar sobre secundarismos a nivel cognitivo en pacientes tratados con TEC y los factores que influyen en estos.

 

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CASO

Se trata de una mujer de 65 años con historia filiada desde hace más de 20 años por un trastorno depresivo recurrente. Cuatro años atrás precisó ingreso por un episodio depresivo con síntomas psicóticos que requirió de la administración de TEC. Desde entonces estabilizada, realizando seguimiento ambulatorio.

 

EXPLORACIÓN Y PRUEBAS COMPLEMENTARIAS

Exploración psicopatológica: Discurso hipofónico con latencia de respuesta aumentada y bloqueo del pensamiento. Suspicaz e hipervigilante.  Hipotimia y rumiación en torno a sentimientos de culpa e ideas de ruina de carácter delirante.  

TAC: Sin alteraciones

 

DIAGNÓSTICO DIFERENCIAL Y TRATAMIENTO

Se orienta el caso como depresión psicótica. Ante la falta de resultados se decide iniciar tratamiento con TEC. Tras las primeras sesiones se aprecia una clara mejoría de los síntomas depresivos. No obstante, comienza con fallos mnésicos anterógrados, no recordando el motivo del ingreso. Se objetiva una disminución en la puntuación del Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) hasta 20/30. Se suspende la TEC tras la sexta sesión, progresivamente la paciente mejora a nivel cognitivo (MMSE:28/30).

 

DISCUSIÓN Y CONCLUSIONES

La TEC continúa siendo uno de los tratamientos más efectivos para los trastornos afectivos graves y existe un conocimiento creciente sobre su mecanismo de acción.

Los efectos cognitivos, inmediatos o tardíos, son causa de rechazo en muchos casos. Se ha demostrado que en estos influyen varios factores, los relativos a la técnica (posición de los electrodos, tipo de pulso, cadencia de sesiones) y otros del propio paciente (factores cognitivos desfavorables, lesiones previas, tratamiento farmacológico). El estudio con test (por ejemplo MMSE) que midan la función cognitiva tanto a corto como a medio plazo sería de interés con la finalidad de detectar de forma precoz la aparición de síntomas cognitivos, individualizar el tratamiento y lograr así una mejor adherencia y aceptación.
Fashioning Value: The Work of Identity in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Creators: name: Lajoie, Jason
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Oprah Winfrey
Meme theory

description: The traditional notions of value rooted in the system of physical print publication have been irrevocably altered by the emergence of electronic publication. Where the value of the book could once be easily quantified as a tangible product which contained and conferred various forms of value, this value has now been challenged by the proliferation of digital products. Contemporary studies of literary value have so far been dominated by the theories of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and his distinctions of capital value, and while his theories are a productive means of exploring the problem of distinguishing value, digitization lessens the necessity for and value of the traditional institutional imprimatur which Bourdieu predominantly focuses on. This is so because digital technology has given writers an unprecedented ability to engage directly in mass public discourse and for readers to circumvent intended modes of reading. My thesis thus explores how value has been redefined in the digital age by questioning whether the digital literary paradigm is not altogether unlike the print-based one. By treating all aspects of each paradigm as information, be it the text or identity, my thesis conducts a meta-analysis of the social and cultural operations underlying the evaluation and evolution of value in the field of literature.
Diagnostic and analytical study of Punic terracotta pieces excavated from the archaelogical site of Mozia (Sicily)
Creators: name: Acquaro, Enrico
name: De Vita, Paola
name: Matteucci, Chiara
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The study on Punic terracotta elements excavated from the archaeological site of Mozia refers to some diagnostic and analytical examinations of ceramics, with a particular interest in the clay typology. It also draws our attention on the technique involved in the production of such products, from the making to the cooking.
Diagnostic investigation and historical-stylistic evaluation of oil painting on metal board. Example of “Christ Crucified with two mourning angels”
Creators: name: Lorusso, Salvatore
name: Natali, Andrea
name: Matteucci, Chiara
name: Bertolino, Roberta
name: Tumidei, Stefano
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2007

description: The oil painting on metal board (40 x 30 cm) under study was bought from the antiquarian French market and bears a very common representation that derives from one of Michelangelo’s designs: “Cristo Crocifisso con due angeli dolenti”. The present paper not only refers to a stylistic and historical-artistic assessment, but also alludes to knowledge in a general sense through diagnostic technique and preservation conditions. The results of the diagnostic study, together with the stylistic analysis, have confirmed that the painting is an ancient one that dates back to the first decades of the XVIIth century.
Heat adaptation measures in private households: an application and adaptation of the protective action decision model
Creators: name: Beckmann, Sabrina Katharina
name: Hiete, Michael
name: Schneider, Michael
name: Beck, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental studies
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Umweltanalyse

description: Extreme heatwaves will occur more frequently and with higher intensity in future. Their consequences for human health can be fatal if adaptation measures will not be taken. This study analyses factors related to heat adaptation measures in private households in Germany. During the summer months of 2019, indoor temperatures were measured in over 500 private households in the City of Augsburg, Germany, accompanied by a survey to find out about heat perception and adaptation measures. Hypotheses deducted from the Protective Action Decision Model were tested using one-way ANOVAs, regression analysis and in the end a multiple hierarchical regression model. The results of the hypotheses tested imply an influence of knowledge and heat risk perception of heat adaptation behaviour and an influence of age on heat risk perception. The results of the regression model show an influence of the efficacy-related attribute, of age, indoor temperature, subjective heat stress and health implications to heat adaptation behaviour. In the end, this study proposes adjustments to the PADM according to the results of the hierarchical regression analysis.
L’esprit des institutions : le problème de la médiation institutionnelle dans la théorie critique contemporaine
Creators: name: Martin, Eric
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hegel
esprit objectif
Michel Freitag
Moishe Postone
dialectique
symbolique
théorie critique
institution
médiation
holisme
totalité
Axel Honneth

description: Hegel réinscrit l’idée d’autonomie kantienne au sein d’une totalité organisée par des médiations qui constituent le sujet et lui livrent un contenu normatif venant mettre en forme sa pratique et lui assigner sa signification et sa place au sein du processus de reproduction de la société. La philosophie substitue à la morale abstraite une éthicité concrète (Sittlichkeit) objectivée au sein de médiation institutionnelle (l’esprit objectif). Cette conception incarnée de la moralité, exprimée par Hegel dans la Philosophie du droit sera l’objet d’une critique sévère par le marxisme au nom de l’émancipation de la puissance instituante de la société civile et des sujets, si bien que bon nombre d’interprètes contemporains de Marx le présentent comme un individualiste, un naturaliste et un économiciste. La théorie critique contemporaine, chez Axel Honneth, s’est-elle aussi repliée sur une conception naturaliste et intersubjectiviste de la théorie de la reconnaissance, puisée chez le jeune Hegel, où l’amour, l’amitié et la reconnaissance réciproque sont présentés comme des préalables à l’établissement d’une relation de communication, et servent de modèle pour penser l’ensemble du lien social. À l’encontre de ces approches, notamment à l’aide des travaux de Vincent Descombes et du sociologue québécois Michel Freitag, je cherche à revaloriser l’institutionnalisme hégélien et son concept d’esprit objectif. J’illustre aussi, avec Moishe Postone, comment toute théorie critique contemporaine doit, si elle espère réellement développer une critique des sociétés capitalistes avancées, pouvoir retrouver en Marx un penseur de la totalité et des médiations aliénées ou fétichisées (la forme-valeur) et articuler à la critique de la médiation des rapports sociaux par le travail abstrait une revalorisation de des médiations symboliques et politico-institutionnelles, de l’esprit objectif, en tant que seule la transcendance d’une dimension de sens objectivée peut suppléer à la régulation des rapports sociaux par la forme aliénée propre à la valeur abstraite. La revalorisation du concept d’esprit objectif hégélien, c’est-à-dire du pôle d’objectivité normative instituée, m’apparaît l’une des conditions sine qua non pour réorienter la théorie critique vers la dialectique qui, seule, lui évitera les écueils de l’intersubjectivisme, du dualisme et du nominalisme.
More comprehensively measuring quality of life in life-threatening illness: the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire – Expanded
Creators: name: Cohen, S. R.
name: Russell, Lara B.
name: Leis, Anne
name: Shahidi, Javad
name: Porterfield, Pat
name: Kuhl, David R.
name: Gadermann, Anne
name: Sawatzky, Richard
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Domains other than those commonly measured (physical, psychological, social, and sometimes existential/spiritual) are important to the quality of life of people with life-threatening illness. The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (MQOL) – Revised measures the four common domains. The aim of this study was to create a psychometrically sound instrument, MQOL – Expanded, to comprehensively measure quality of life by adding to MQOL-Revised the domains of cognition, healthcare, environment, (feeling like a) burden, and possibly, finance. Methods: Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on three datasets to ascertain whether seven new items belonged with existing MQOL-Revised domains, whether good model fit was obtained with their addition as five separate domains to MQOL-Revised, and whether a second-order factor representing overall quality of life was present. People with life-threatening illnesses (mainly cancer) or aged > 80 were recruited from 15 healthcare sites in seven Canadian provinces. Settings included: palliative home care and inpatient units; acute care units; oncology outpatient clinics. Results: Good model fit was obtained when adding each of the five domains separately to MQOL-Revised and for the nine correlated domains. Fit was acceptable for a second-order factor model. The financial domain was removed because of low importance. The resulting MQOL-Expanded is a 21-item instrument with eight domains (fit of eight correlated domains: Comparative Fit Index = .96; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = .033). Conclusions: MQOL-Expanded builds on MQOL-Revised to more comprehensively measure the quality of life of people with life-threatening illness. Our analyses provide validity evidence for the MQOL-Expanded domain and summary scores; the need for further validation research is discussed. Use of MQOL-Expanded will enable a more holistic understanding of the quality of life of people with a life-threatening illness and the impact of treatments and interventions upon it. It will allow for a better understanding of less commonly assessed but important life domains (cognition, healthcare, environment, feeling like a burden) and their relationship to the more commonly assessed domains (physical, psychological, social, existential/spiritual).