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Liquid Ammonia: More than an Innocent Solvent for Zintl Anions
Creators: name: Gärtner, Stefanie
name: Witzmann, Michael
name: Lorenz-Fuchs, Corinna
name: Gschwind, Ruth M.
name: Korber, Nikolaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ammonia Anions Cluster chemistry Crystal structure Liquids
subject: 540 Chemie

description: Liquid ammonia as the original solvent for Zintl anions has been replaced by easier to handle or more versatile solvents in most recent Zintl chemistry. However, methodological advances have made it possible to structurally investigate the anions in ammoniate crystals via crystallography or in the solutions themselves via nuclear magnetic resonance. While in some cases liquid ammonia acts as an innocent solvent, it also provides different possibilities of direct involvement in chemical reactions. In addition to simple dissolution without changes to the anions observed in the solid starting materials, protonation of the anion, incongruent dissolution involving redox processes, and further oxidation and reduction products have been observed. The use of the solvent liquid ammonia under ambient pressure is limited to low temperatures, which in turn allows the monitoring of kinetically stabilized species, some of which cannot be accessed at higher temperatures. In this work, the available literature reports are summarized or referenced, and compounds that have been characterized as new ammoniate crystals are presented and contextualized. Innocent dissolution is observed for clusters involved in K2.9Rb5.1[Si4][Si9]·15NH3, Cs4Sn9·12NH3, Cs4Pb9·5NH3, and [Rb@[18]crown-6]2[Rb@[2.2.2]crypt]Rb[Ge9]·4NH3. Formal protonation of [Ge4]4– results in the crystallization of [Na@[2.2.2]crypt]2[H2Ge4]·3NH3. Tt52– (Tt = Sn or Pb) and HSi93– cannot be accessed in a binary solid state material but can be crystallized in co-crystals of PPh3 in [Rb@[2.2.2]crypt]2[Sn5][PPh3]2·NH3, [Rb@[2.2.2]crypt]2[Pb5][PPh3]2·NH3, and [K@[2.2.2]crypt]3[HSi9][PPh3]·5NH3.
Anti-Semitism and Islamofobia in Bulgaria. Actual legal and sociological aspects
Creators: name: Ilieva, Irena
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: This article is based on the lecture held on 23rd September 2011 at the Law faculty of the University of Bologna.SOMMARIO: 1. Introduction – 2. Statistical data – 3. The Muslim community – 4. The Jewish community – 5. General overview of the relevant law provisions in Bulgaria – 6. Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and the political rights according to the domestic legislation – 7. The Law on Protection against Discrimination, the concept of “positive” discrimination and some new case-laws - 8. Religious Rights and Freedoms – 9. Criminal Law – 10. Some conclusions.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 14 novembre
A Semiotic Interrogation of Law and Economics
Creators: name: Moylan, James
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Economic Analysis of Law
Semiotics
Textual Analysis
Barthes
Bourdieu
Legal Anthropology
Ethnography
Richard Posner
Eric Posner

description: The texts associated with the law and economics movement have become a site of seemingly intractable contention. Most texts in this body of literature are economically focused treatises in which legal economists undertake analyses in accord with the proposition that the law is an economically rational system. Yet there are also texts that provide commentary about law and economics that variously support or refute these propositions, with some authors typifying this realm of research as being politically informed or motivated. This thesis focusses predominantly on these texts that supply commentary.
description: The question addressed asks; how might an analyst forge a range of descriptions of the texts and arguments associated with the law and economics movement that account for not just their apparent content but also the range of other meaning systems that they are evidently serving to arbitrate for their readers?
description: In interrogating both this question and the texts associated with law and economics, the thesis illustrates how and why a semiotically informed sensibility of analysis can be of particular assistance in this instance. Over the course of eight chapters the thesis illustrates how such a modality of inquiry promotes an engagement with not just the propositions being advanced by those involved in argumentation, but also the epistemic and common knowledge framing factors that are serving to inform all sides of a debate, in a range of sometimes uniform and sometimes differing ways. In accord with these observations, the thesis not only examines a series of texts but also a range of cultural, linguistic, and common knowledge factors that are implicated in supporting and informing the range of counterpoised propositions of argumentation that are in evidence.
description: Moreover, it is argued that it is significant that such a perspective of inquiry employs a language and focus of analysis that is largely unconcerned with the subject matter discriminations that are being commonly deemed as contentious, but which instead focusses on commonalities and contrasts in code discrimination and those aspects of common knowledge that are being appreciated as consequential in a variety of different arenas of discourse. By thus providing for an analytical perspective that is epistemically and culturally cognisant, yet also propositionally agnostic, a semiotically informed sensibility of analysis assists in enhancing communications relating to precisely those matters where this is of most consequence, which is regarding those instances of long-standing and widespread contention that are commonly described as constituting ‘intractable arguments.’
Projections of Sea Level Along the East Coast of North America
Creators: name: Love, Ryan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sea Level
Projections
Glacial Isostatic Adjustment
Climate
North America
East Coast

description: Projections of sea level rise for the east coast of North America at 2100CE were generated considering contributions from: ocean warming, land ice melting and isostatic land motion. The primary contribution of this study is the development of an improved Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) model that includes an assessment of model uncertainty using 36 ice loading histories, 363 Earth models and a new sea level proxy database comprising over 500 sea level index points. We find that, while there are differences between our projections and the Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) projections from the recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report, the two sets of results agree to within uncertainty largely because some of the regional processes cancel. Our results indicate that the isostatic signal is large, contributing up to 1/4 of sea level change at 2100CE, and so must be included to generate accurate projections for this region.
Sul principio di legalità nell’ordinamento canonico: profili funzionali
Creators: name: Serra, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è destinato alla pubblicazione negli Studi in onore di Gaetano Lo Castro.SOMMARIO: 1. Riflessioni introduttive. La crisi del principio di legalità: a) come dato oggettivo negli ordinamenti secolari - 2. (segue): b) come ipotesi ricostruttiva per l’ordinamento canonico. Il disagio strutturale della legalità dello Stato di diritto nell’esperienza giuridica ecclesiale e il declino della lex canonica come formula di comando. Ragioni di un’analisi della legalità canonica in prospettiva funzionale - 3. La costruzione dell’ordine giuridico canonico intorno alla struttura essenziale dell’idea di legalità. In particolare: lo “stare prima” del ius divinum quale causa efficiente delle funzioni della legalità canonica e della sua configurabilità come principio - 4. Gli enunciati del principio di legalità nel diritto positivo della Chiesa. Principali significati e funzioni di tali enunciati: a) la legalità canonica quale criterio organizzativo e procedurale, finalizzato a ricondurre al diritto l’esercizio del potere di governo. La compatibilità di tale criterio con gli aspetti di flessibilità e discrezionalità del sistema ecclesiale. Il conflitto fra questi aspetti e le ragioni storiche e teoriche della legalità come principio - 5. (segue): b) la legalità canonica come supremazia della legge. Significati di tale supremazia. In particolare: il principio di legalità come strumento per far sì che l’unità della Chiesa si rifletta nell’unità e coerenza del suo ordinamento - 6. L’affermazione del principio di legalità in funzione di un nuovo soggetto, il christifidelis, e dei suoi diritti. La parziale messa in ombra del volto garantista della legalità - 7. La funzione legittimante della legalità canonica - 8. Osservazioni conclusive.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 14 novembre
L'éthique d'Épicure : hédonisme ou eudémonisme?
Creators: name: Ranger, Jean-Philippe.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Cette thèse traite de la conception épicurienne du bonheur, constitué d'un équilibre entre l'état de plaisir et l'activité philosophique. Le premier chapitre examine la question de l'état qui accompagne le bonheur épicurien: le plaisir. Cependant, la conception hédoniste ne peut pas plus résoudre le problème du lien entre le plaisir et l'excellence, que celui entre le plaisir et la vérité. Le second chapitre, en définissant la philosophie comme thérapie de l'âme, montre comment l'activité philosophique fait partie de la conception épicurienne du bonheur. Cependant, la conception eudémoniste du bonheur épicurien ne peut pas expliquer pourquoi la disposition de l'âme est l'élément le plus important du bonheur épicurien. Le troisième chapitre montre comment, en regroupant les deux dimensions du bonheur épicurien: l'état et l'activité, il est possible de résoudre ces tensions, tout en permettant d'éclairer adéquatement le concept épicurien du bonheur.
Anemonefishes and their host sea anemones in a changing climate
Creators: name: Pryor, Sophie H
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ocean warming
Ocean acidification
Range expansion
Global warming

description: The oceans are warming and acidifying at unprecedented rates. My thesis explores marine fishes’ ability to adapt using anemonefishes and host sea anemones. I found juvenile anemonefish’s vulnerability to acute thermal change increases with mass. End-of-century temperature causes sea anemone bleaching, whereas pH has no measured impact. Early-stage range expansions of anemonefishes are occurring in a climate change hotspot, yet establishment is habitat limited. Finally, anemonefish facilitate sea anemone bleaching recovery, likely due to augmented nutrients. While climate change is causing detrimental impacts, marine fishes and their habitat can display thermal plasticity, resistance, resilience, and adaptation.
The Role of LMO4 in the Regulation of Hippocampal and Amygdalar Synaptic Function
Creators: name: Qin, Zhaohong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: LMO4
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Synaptic function

description: Synaptic activity can encode and store information in the brain through changes in synaptic strength as well as by control of gene expression. One corollary challenge becomes identifying these activity-dependent regulatory proteins and the underlying mechanisms associated with neuronal functions. By using biochemical, electrophysiological and behavioral approaches in combination with genetic and pharmacological manipulation, I report that LIM domain only 4 (LMO4) is a key regulator of calcium induced calcium release (CICR) and protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) in the hippocampus and amygdala, respectively. Neuronal ablation of LMO4 in the glutamatergic neurons (LMO4KO) was associated with reduced promoter activity, mRNA, and protein expression of ryanodine receptor 2 (RyR2), suggesting the involvement of LMO4 in the transcriptional regulation. CICR function in LMO4KO mice was severely compromised, reflected by inefficient CICR-mediated electrophysiological responses including afterhyperpolarization, calcium rise from internal stores and glutamate release probability. These changes were accompanied with impaired hippocampal long term potentiation (LTP) and hippocampal-dependent spatial learning ability. LMO4 was also shown to exert a cytoplasmic regulation as an endogenous inhibitor for PTP1B that accounts for tyrosine dephosphorylation of mGluR5 in the amygdala. LMO4KO mice had elevated PTP1B activity and decreased mGluR endocannabinoid signaling, resulting in a profound anxiety phenotype. The potential clinical value of PTP1B/LMO4 is promising, given that intra-amygdala injection of the PTP1B inhibitor Trodusquemine or a PTP1B shRNA alleviated anxiety by restoring eCB signal in LMO4KO mice. Thus this study identified PTP1B as a potential therapeutic target for anxiety, besides the previous findings of its association with obesity and diabetes. Moreover, this PTP1B-mediated anxiety may be a general mechanism during chronic stress. Collectively, these findings identify that LMO4 plays an essential role for non-genomic and genomic regulation in central neurons, providing a mechanism for LMO4 to modulate a wide range of neuronal functions and behavior.
title:  A Scola for ‘foreigners’ in the modern-age Roman ghetto. Preliminary findings of a work in progress
Creators: name: Ferrara, Micol
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: Con la bolla Cum nimis absurdum (1555), furono istituiti i ghetti e furono imposti agli ebrei i segni distintivii di colore giallo, colpendo duramente la vita quotidiana degli ebrei e provocando migrazioni di massa all’interno dell’Italia. La Comunità di Roma crebbe notevolmente, subendo significativi cambiamenti delle abitudini e delle relazioni interpersonali. I documenti relativi alle Cinque Scole, conservati presso l’Archivio Storico della Comunità ebraica di Roma, possono contribuire a ricostruire questi cambiamenti. Tracce del flusso migratorio persistono in alcuni cognomi ebrei romani: l’onomastica può quindi aiutare a identificare gli ebrei che originariamente vivevano al di fuori degli Stati Pontifici. L’analisi dello jus gazzagà permetterà poi di esaminare la localizzazione degli stranieri nell’area del ghetto, mentre i cambiamenti nella geografia delle strategie matrimoniali possono essere indagati a partire dai contratti matrimoniali e dagli accordi concernenti le doti. Infine, per illustrare l’atmosfera di convivenza all’interno del ghetto, si è dimostrata utile l’analisi del registro riguardante le controversie tra la Scola Nova e le altre Scole.
description: Venire a Roma, restare a Roma. Forestieri e stranieri fra Quattro e Settecento
AETOS: An Architecture for Offloading Core LTE Traffic Using Software Defined Networking Concepts
Creators: name: Nasim, Kamraan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: SDN
LTE
EPC
Openflow
mobile networks
deep packet inspection
network applications

description: It goes without saying that cellular users of today have an insatiable appetite for bandwidth and data. Data-intensive applications, such as video on demand, online gaming and video conferencing, have gained prominence. This, coupled with recent innovations in the mobile network such as LTE/4G, poses a unique challenge to network operators in how to extract the most value from their deployments all the while reducing their Total Cost of Operations(TCO). To this end, a number of enhancements have been proposed to the ”conventional” LTE mobile network. Most of these recognize the monolithic and non-elastic nature of the mobile backend and propose complimenting core functionality with concepts borrowed from Software Defined Networking (SDN). In this thesis we shall attempt to explore some existing options within the LTE standard to mitigate large traffic churns. We will then review some SDN-enabled alternatives, and attempt to derive a proof based critique on their merits and drawbacks.
Tritium Mobility in the Environment Using Deuterium as an Analogue
Creators: name: DeHay-Turner, Brett
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: tritium
organically bound tritium
obt
deuterium
tritiated water
hto
tritiated hydrogen gas
ht

description: Tritium is a radioisotope of hydrogen and a component of emissions from the nuclear industry. It is also a radioisotope of concern for human and environmental health. The near future could see an increase in tritium production as experimental fusion reactors initiate first plasma. The greatest risk pathway is human ingestion of edible plants grown near sites of tritium emissions as they can acquire high levels of organically bound tritium (OBT). Recent studies at a tritium Beta-light facility in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada characterized by tritiated hydrogen gas (HT) emissions have identified high OBT:HTO ratios that are not consistent with current tritium transfer models. This suggests that there is an unidentified physical, chemical, or biological mechanism generating OBT in plant tissue. Laboratory experiments have been undertaken using deuterium gas (D2) as an analogue for atmospheric HT in controlled plant exposure experiments, and compared the observations with short-term exposures at the SRBT facility. While the deuterium results did not uncover a hidden pathway or enrichment mechanism, the SRBT exposures showed elevated tissue free water tritium (TFWT) in stems and leaves in the presence of atmospheric HT, and lacking HTO in both soils and surrounding air. This study proposes that hydrogenase activity in microbial communities hosted within the laminar boundary layer on the leaf surface, are responsible for HT oxidation to HTO that contributes directly to leaf waters used in photosynthesis.
Computer simulations of two-fluid immiscible displacement flow in porous media.
Creators: name: Kiriakidis, Dionissios Georgios.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Two general-purpose computer programs have been developed for modelling the displacement of a wetting fluid by a non-wetting one in porous media. A microscopic approach is applied for the solution of the governing equations at the pore level. The porous medium is represented by a two-dimensional network of interconnected capillaries. One program makes use of a stochastic approach based on the aspects of random walks, invasion percolation and on the notion of the phase diagram for immiscible displacement. The other program makes use of a deterministic approach based on a relaxation technique in order to solve for the pressure field, and on certain rules for the advancement of the interface. The series of simulations undertaken successfully predicts certain important phenomena such as: (a) monophasic flow in porous media, (b) the effects of capillary and viscous forces on the dynamic behaviour of the displacing fluid and on the oil recovery, (c) the island formation and the island size distribution as a result of the interplay of viscous and capillary forces, (d) the fractal behaviour of the displacing fluid, (e) the transition from one distinct behaviour of the displacing fluid to another, and (f) the effects of local anisotropy and heterogeneity of the porous medium on the dynamic behaviour of the displacing fluid. The validity of the algorithms is tested by comparing the numerical results with physical experiments available in the literature. Comparisons between the two approaches reveal that (a) the stochastic approach is more efficient in terms of execution time in the computer, (b) the deterministic approach better describes the physics of the problem, and (c) the deterministic approach has more potential to be extended to other problems. It is proposed that the present programs can be used to successfully predict two-fluid immiscible displacement flow in porous media for other relevant situations.
“Frate sole” e il fotovoltaico. Il ruolo della parrocchia e la tutela dell’ambiente tra normativa statale e Magistero della Chiesa cattolica
Creators: name: Tavani, Angela Patrizia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. L’ente religioso imprenditore – 3. Rinnovata centralità di “frate sole” nel III millennio: le parrocchie e il fotovoltaico – 4. Il Magistero della Chiesa cattolica in tema di salvaguardia dell’ambiente – 5. Considerazioni conclusive.ABSTRACT: The establishment of a social enterprise for the production and sale of electricity through the creation of a photovoltaic system by imposing some parishes of Mantua shows that there is no conflict between the specific nature of ecclesiastical entity and the exercise by this socially useful economic activity, because the economic activity in order to provide the capital resources required to achieve the purpose of religion or belief, does not change the nature of ecclesiastical entity, because it does not absorb or blur the religious or of worship but rather reinforces the essence, as related and instrumental to this The invitation to promote renewable energy to protect the environment, has been the subject of interventions at various levels by both the Italian state and by the European Community, also Magisterium of the Catholic Church has often called for a real ecological conversion and an ecumenical commitment to that effect Associated Parishes are an example of civil economy, characterized by human sociality and reciprocity, as opposed to a utilitarian vision of the market based on the logic of exchange of equivalents.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 21 novembre
La Chiesa tra politica e religiosità popolare nei primi decenni del XX secolo. Alcune suggestioni
Creators: name: Bilotti, Domenico
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è stato sottoposto alla valutazione del Prof. Antonino Mantineo, che ne ha attestato la scientificità e l’originalità.SOMMARIO: 1. Apparente desuetudine dell’analisi - 2. La Prima Guerra Mondiale e le sue conseguenze nella società italiana. Questioni irrisolte – 3. Il contributo cattolico prima e dopo il Fascismo. Alcune ipotesi di continuità?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 28 novembre
La partecipazione dei fedeli laici alla vita pubblica. Testimonianza cristiana, etica pubblica e bene comune nell’insegnamento di Benedetto XVI
Creators: name: Franceschi, Fabio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Versione riveduta e ampliata, nel testo e nell’apparato bibliografico, della relazione presentata con il titolo “L’impegno dei fedeli laici nella vita pubblica tra responsabilità propria, libertà e dovere di obbedienza al magistero. L’insegnamento di Benedetto XVI” al Convegno di studi “Il fedele laico: realtà e prospettive”, organizzato dalla Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (7-8 aprile 2011). Il contributo è destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti del Convegno.SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive. Natura essenzialmente laicale della responsabilità politica - 2. L’intervento della Chiesa nel dibattito pubblico su questioni inerenti alla vita sociale e politica. I principi c.d. non negoziabili - 3. Fondamentale libertà dei fedeli rispetto alle indicazioni della gerarchia in materia temporale – 4. La funzione di orientamento dei pastori della comunità ecclesiale e i confini dell’intervento della stessa – 5. I limiti alla libertà dei fedeli in materia temporale: il rapporto tra libertà e verità e la salvaguardia delle esigenze etiche fondamentali e irrinunciabili per il bene comune e della società – 6. Benedetto XVI e l’invito a una nuova generazione di cattolici impegnati in politica. La difesa della centralità della persona umana come compito primario dei credenti impegnati nel governo della città terrena– 7. (segue) L’impegno a favore della promozione di un concetto positivo di laicità, aperto alla Trascendenza − 8. (segue) La politica come forma singolare di realizzazione della carità – 9. (segue) La dottrina sociale della Chiesa come strumento di formazione essenziale e guida sicura per i fedeli laici impegnati nell’ambito socio-politico – 10. Considerazioni conclusive. Doveri, rispettivi, dello Stato e della Chiesa affinché si conservino, o se necessario si creino le condizioni esterne idonee e necessarie allo svolgimento dei compiti dei christifideles laici nella polis.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 28 novembre
Aspects of the ecology of the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus, in a tall coastal production forest in north eastern New South Wales
Creators: name: Radford Miller, Sally Louise
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Koala
Home range
Habitat use
Wildlife health

description: The aim of this study was to document the effects of residual forest stand condition on its suitability as habitat for koalas, to test if habitat structure and floristics are pivotal to explaining koala distribution and abundance, and to test a proposed management strategy for koala conservation in a forest environment that has been managed for timber production for over 100 years. Vegetation structure and floristics were characterised by vegetation plot assessments. Forty two koalas were caught to undertake health assessments and radio-tracked to determine diurnal shelter trees, koala home-range size and selection of vegetation zones as habitat. Faecal pellet analysis determined koala food preferences. This was a structurally and floristically diverse forest with a widespread distribution of koala food trees. A new zonation system, derived from vegetation plot assessment, included four zones based on the variables of total species richness and ‘koala feed tree’ species richness. The estimated koala population density was 0.02 koalas per ha and the median home range size for the population was 9.3 ha (adaptive kernel (ADK) 95%). The vegetation within koala home ranges was characterised by higher proportions of eucalypts and koala feed tree species than available randomly through the forest. They also contained a higher proportion of smaller trees (20-30 cm DBH) and large trees (50+ cm DBH). The koalas showed a preference for trees greater than 20 cm DBH but the largest size class (50+ cm DBH) was not always the most preferred. Faecal cuticle analysis confirmed that Eucalyptus microcorys, E. saligna, E. propinqua and Allocasuarina torulosa were the primary koala feed tree species (KFTS) in this forest. Chlamydial disease was prevalent and the incidence of sub-clinical Chlamydia was approximately twice that for koalas observed with clinical symptoms, typically conjunctivitis (70.8%-17.6% c.f. 33.3%-11.8% respectively). A low intensity, single tree selection, experimental logging operation was conducted that resulted in the reduction of basal areas of eucalypts (the target species) but the KFTS were relatively unaffected, as specified by the harvesting protocols. The species composition and richness did, to a large extent, define the quality of the habitat for koalas, particularly with respect to the species richness of the primary browse species. The more floristically diverse a forest is, the greater its structural diversity so these two variables can be difficult to tease apart. The impacts of timber production and harvesting activities that target primary browse species need further research.
La laicità francese: “aperta”, “positiva” o “im-positiva”?
Creators: name: D'Arienzo, Maria
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il testo riproduce il paper della relazione “La laicità francese: vecchie costanti e nuove variabili” tenuta al Convegno: “La laicità e gli ordinamenti giuridici: principi, valori e regole”, organizzato dalla Facoltà di Scienze politiche dell’Università della Calabria, in data 5 maggio 2011, modificato nel titolo e aggiornato per la pubblicazione in corso sulla Rivista Diritto e Religioni, n. 2/2011.SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. Dalla “laicità aperta” alla “laicità positiva” – 3. Laicità e libertà religiosa. Le ventisei proposizioni del Pacte Républicaine: laïcité pour mieux vivre ensemble dell’UMP – 4. Dalla “laicità positiva” alla “laicità im-positiva” – 5. La strumentalizzazione politica del dibattito sulla laicità.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 5 dicembre
Cognitive biases and gambling
Creators: name: Grant, Leigh D.
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cognitive bias
Heuristics
Gambling
Faulty beliefs
Near miss
Near-miss

description: This dissertation presents four studies investigating the relationship between cognitive biases and gambling. The central question in this thesis concerns how gambling cognitions promote further gambling. In the first study, the relationship between gambling-related cognitions and gambling preferences was examined. Results indicated that people who prefer to play electronic gambling machines tend to use faulty strategies during gameplay. In the second study, a novel application of a heuristics and biases test was used to evaluate whether faulty decision making can predict problem gambling. Results found that problem gamblers tend to hold more heuristics and cognitive biases than non-problem gamblers. In the third study, a specific cognitive bias—the near-miss effect—was investigated using eye-gaze recordings. The aim of study 4 was to build on the position of the first three studies and obtain an objective measure demonstrating how people can learn that near-misses are meaningful and the subsequent effect holding this cognitive bias has on gambling. Results indicate that eye gaze is an objective way to measure preference for near-misses and that this preference can be diminished with stimulus equivalence training. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications arising from the series of studies.
Il volontariato religioso nell’ordinamento giuridico italiano (l’incompiuta integrazione tra società civile e società religiosa)
Creators: name: Di Prima, Fabiano
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Identikit d’una fattispecie “ibrida” sconosciuta al diritto positivo italiano - 2. L’assenza di una normativa ad hoc pattizia: alcune ragioni ipotizzabili – 3. Le fonti unilaterali: dall’indifferenza per il fenomeno della Legge-quadro del ’91 all’indirizzo restrittivo delle Linee-guida del 2010 - 4. Il problema a monte - 5. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 12 dicembre
Molecular Genetics of Renal Cell Tumors: A Practical Diagnostic Approach
Creators: name: Alaghehbandan, Reza
name: Perez Montiel, Delia
name: Luis, Ana Silvia
name: Hes, Ondrej
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Renal epithelial cell tumors are composed of a heterogeneous group of tumors with variable morphologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular features. A “histo-molecular” approach is now an integral part of defining renal tumors, aiming to be clinically and therapeutically pertinent. Most renal epithelial tumors including the new and emerging entities have distinct molecular and genetic features which can be detected using various methods. Most renal epithelial tumors can be diagnosed easily based on pure histologic findings with or without immunohistochemical examination. Furthermore, molecular-genetic testing can be utilized to assist in arriving at an accurate diagnosis. In this review, we presented the most current knowledge concerning molecular-genetic aspects of renal epithelial neoplasms, which potentially can be used in daily diagnostic practice.
Una nuova fiasca del pellegrino: integrazioni al repertorio vascolare veiente dell'Orientalizzante
Creators: name: Neri, Sara
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2009

description: This contribution is about a new "Pilgrim’s flask " vase from Veii, increasing the number of thirty similar vases already known from the Tyrrhenian area. This vase, belonging to a disturbed burial, could be dated during the 7th century BC, thanks to other objects found in the surrounding area. According to its formal and technical features, this vase represents an unicum,  probably realized by a local atelier. In fact Veian local pottery production in this period shows many experimentations, also conditioned by the greater opening to foreign suggestions.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 3 (2008): Aspetti nell’orientalizzante nell’Etruria e nel Lazio
Improving performance appraisal practices : a multiple case study of the Pakistan pharmaceutical industry
Creators: name: Ghauri, Ehtasham
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Business Administration, Management, and Operations
Human resource management
strategic human resource management
performance appraisal
strategic alignment
organisational and national culture
pharmaceutical industry
pharmaceutical sales employees
employee perceptions
employee expectations
employee satisfaction
rewards

description: The demand for achieving organisational efficiency through better work-force management is not new in the western world. However, how does strategic human resources management influence a developing country like Pakistan – motivated the researcher to investigate industry specific issues. Considerable research is being contributed on employee management – as they become a primary organisational asset and pivotal factor in its future existence. However, there has been an ever existing question – how their performance can be sustained or enhanced and what are the factors that enable an organisation to retain this talent. This persuaded to research performance appraisal (PA) practices within the Pakistan pharmaceutical industry. Based on the qualitative research data, a practical PA model is developed – which incorporates the country’s culture, organisational values and practices.
Supplementary document for Selective etching properties of Mg thin films and micro/nanostructures for dynamic photonics - 5178968.pdf
Creators: name: Lyu, Peifen
name: Leite, Marina
name: Farinha, Thomas
name: Deniz, Ece
name: Hoerauf, John
name: Gong, Tao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: sem, afm, xps, ad optical data
An examination of the chlorophyll-phosphorus relationships of lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Creators: name: Champion, Michelle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: The residual variability surrounding chlorophyll a---total phosphorus (Chl-TP) relationships decreases the predictive ability of phosphorus loading models to forecast algal biomass production in lakes. In the first section of this thesis I attempt to account for the residual variation in chlorophyll a concentration by examining how the sequestration of phosphorus into non-algal compartments of the water column varies among aquatic biomes. This is achieved by examining the relationships between chlorophyll a and various chemical forms (particulate, soluble, organic and inorganic) and size classes (total, >64mum, 30--64mum, 3--30mum, 0.2--3mum) of phosphorus. In the second section, I examine if the much lower than expected chlorophyll yield of Prince Edward Island (PEI) estuaries is the result of mussel grazing and/or increased turbidity or if it is the result of a general regional effect caused by the Island's geological characteristics. This latter hypothesis implies that PEI lakes and rivers would also possess lower chlorophyll yields. This question is examined by comparing the data from each of the PEI biomes (lakes, rivers, estuaries) with that of reference set possessing the expected chlorophyll a to total phosphorus ratio. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Rileggendo vecchi dati. Spunti sull'Orientalizzante tarquiniese
Creators: name: Perego, Lucio Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2009

description: The analysis of the distribution of foreign objects, on the basis of the archaeological evidences (both published and unpublished), makes it possible to reconsider the role of Tarquinia during the Orientalizing period, focusing on the relationship with other Etruscan cities and the development in Tarquinia itself during the Archaic and Classical periods. In fact, besides funerary tumuli, showing the power of the aristoi, the spread inland of Near-Eastern aegyptiaca and Greek (in particular Corinthian) objects show an opening to Mediterranean relationships. This general setting makes it possible to assess the territorial organization pursued by the Tarquinian community in order to guarantee the abundant supply of these commercial trends. Another interesting sign of these Mediterranean contacts is the adoption in local ware tradition of foreign vase-shapes (e.g. pyxides, oinochoai, etc.), showing both new trends in the development of vase-shapes and the respect of the local religious tradition.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 3 (2008): Aspetti nell’orientalizzante nell’Etruria e nel Lazio
Soft trellis waveform compression and joint source/channel coding.
Creators: name: Haddad, Tariq F.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis aims at improving the performance of trellis waveform compression systems and joint source/channel coders. We first provide the theoretical framework for the new concept of soft source coding, which is based on exploiting the similarity between trellis source compression and maximum likelihood channel decoding. The new approach involves using the maximum a posteriori soft-output channel decoding algorithm for trellis source compression. Given a block of source output vectors, the new algorithm delivers a set of soft reliability values that describe the likelihood of the different symbols at the encoder output, in the minimum distortion sense. As a trellis search algorithm, the new soft procedure performs as well as the Viterbi algorithm. The soft reliability information delivered during compression is employed to derive a fuzzy trellis codebook search algorithm. The new algorithm outperforms the Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) algorithm in delivering lower distortion reproduction codebooks. Unlike the LBG algorithm, the new fuzzy approach is significantly less sensitive to the initialization phase, and provides improved performance using "short" training sequences. This feature is particularly of interest with practical nonstationary sources of information. The success of this fuzzy algorithm is extended to the case of channel-optimized trellis waveform compression. Over a practical range of channel bit error rates, and compared to the channel-optimized LBG algorithm, the new approach provides lower distortion channel-optimized codebooks irrespective of initialization using short training sequences. Furthermore, the optimal channel-optimized codebooks show improved performance under channel-mismatch conditions. The last part of this thesis addresses the design of joint source/channel (JSC) soft decision decoding/detection systems. First, we study the performance of soft decision JSC decoding using k-DPCM compressed images over memoryless Gaussian channels with convolutional channel codes. Then, we show the advantage of using higher redundancy levels in providing higher coding gains, especially during "bad" channel conditions. This advantage is highly utilized when the alphabets of the source encoder output match the channel encoder input. For this purpose we test the performance using dual-k convolutional codes and k-DPCM systems. Furthermore, we provide a comparative study between sequence-MAP and symbol-MAP JSC detection. Although the two approaches provide similar bit error rates, we show that symbol-MAP detection is always associated with lower average distortions of reproduction as applied with VQ systems.
Riflessioni sulla pratica del rituale incineratorio nel Lazio meridionale della III e IV fase
Creators: name: Nizzo, Valentino
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2009

description: This article focuses on the cremation burial ritual in ancient Latium during the 3rd and 4th phase, dated from the end of the Iron Age to the beginning of the Orientalizing Period,  coinciding with the merging of a stratified society. This ritual, already uncommon during the 2nd phase, becomes exceptional in the later phases. A detailed analysis of all cases in every single centre of Latium shows this particular feature of funerary practices to be seen as an evident consequence of  direct contacts with the Greek world and not only with Etruria and the Fossakultur. In the present study its evaluation takes into account that such an innovation in ritual practices, received from abroad and filtered by local sensibility and tradition, is a sign of cultural enrichment and not of decadence.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 3 (2008): Aspetti nell’orientalizzante nell’Etruria e nel Lazio
Mentoring through scholarship-based academic development projects
Creators: name: Robbie, Diane
name: Weaver, Debbi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While there is definitely a place for centrally delivered Professional Development (PD), staff often don't transfer what they have learned in the PD sessions and return to their workspace usually continuing as before. This paper describes an evidence- and scholarship-based model of PD, where academic developers work closely with teaching staff on projects designed to address teaching needs specifically through the implementation of educational technologies. Each project involves engagement with the relevant scholarly literature, implementation of an appropriate teaching strategy or innovation, evaluation of the effectiveness of that implementation, and ultimately publication of the outcomes of the project. Fostering a one-to-one collaborative, mentoring relationship means the academic developer also benefits by extending their scholarly knowledge, and contributes to the discipline of academic development.
A conceptual framework for the law and technology knowledge domain
Creators: name: Horton, Fabian George
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Technology
Conceptual framework
Lawyers
Competency

description: Law and technology are two distinct fields that contain specific and specialised knowledge. The continued increase in interest and participation in law and technology-related activities has given rise, in both academia and praxis, to what could be described as a combined law and technology (law/tech) knowledge domain. However, much of the development in the field has been prompted by an awareness of specific emerging problems or potential opportunities. What has been lacking is an overarching perspective to broadly identify and understand the underlying connections between the various manifestations of the combined domain. Attempts to express the components of the law/tech knowledge domain have, at best, offered only a partial account. In terms of specific research outputs, the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of a unified law/tech knowledge domain remain unclear and relatively unexplored. This has been particularly evident in various implementations of law/tech curriculums and other products with a law/tech education focus. Lawyers and technologists alike have been left without a mechanism for expressing how their knowledge links with, or diverges from, that of others who also participate in the field. This thesis seeks to take the wide and disparate concepts of the law and technology domains and bind them together. The goal is to give expression to a unified field—presented in the form of a ‘conceptual framework’. Building initially on Yosef Jabareen’s approach to building a conceptual framework, this thesis employed a sequential, mixed methods research design, set within a pragmatic worldview. Firstly, a review of the extant literature was undertaken, enabling the identification of numerous distinct categories of law/tech engagement and research. Secondly, to provide conceptual breadth and philosophical depth to the investigation, applicable concepts from the philosophy of technology were reviewed. Finally, using a pragmatic process of synthesis and validation methods, a law/tech conceptual framework was developed and refined. The result is a proposed conceptual framework for the law/tech knowledge domain which comprises three law/tech subdomains, with each subdomain seen as having two ‘aspects’. The framework is broadly encompassing, yet also nuanced, so as to provide a comprehensive series of ‘lenses’ through which the law/tech knowledge domain can be perceived and understood. It is intended that the framework be used as a practical tool to facilitate the collaboration of legal professionals, technologists and academics, as they grapple with the prospects and problems arising from the ever-changing and fundamentally important field of law and technology.
Quantitative Subcellular Analysis of the Effects of the Enigmatic Protein PCSK9
Creators: name: Denis, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: biochemistry

description: PCSK9 is the third gene implicated in autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia, due to its role in promoting the degradation of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR). Little is known regarding the mechanism by which it promotes the degradation of LDLR, nor the effects PCSK9 has on other cellular proteins. I report here the first quantitative subcellular proteomic study of proteins affected by the expression of a variant of PCSK9. I show that the expression levels of 293 proteins were affected by the expression of the PCSK9-ACE2-V5 construct. Of particular interest, is a protein involved in receptor recycling, EHBP1, which shows reduced protein levels by both PCSK9-ACE2-V5 and the PCSK9-D374Y mutant. I show that an EHBP1 binding protein, EHD4, binds with PCSK9 and LDLR. These results establish novel effects of PCSK9 on liver cell protein levels, of which some relating to endosomal sorting are shown to bind to PCSK9 and LDLR in complex, providing insight into the mechanism of PCSK9 mediated LDLR degradation.
Circular terahertz ratchets in a two-dimensionally modulated Dirac system
Creators: name: Hild, Marcel
name: Yahniuk, I.
name: Golub, L. E.
name: Amann, Julia
name: Eroms, Jonathan
name: Weiss, Dieter
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Ganichev, S. D.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optoelectronics; Photogalvanic effect; Graphene; Terahertz spectroscopy
subject: 530 Physik

description: We report on the observation of the circular ratchet effect excited by terahertz laser radiation in a specially designed two-dimensional metamaterial consisting of a graphene monolayer deposited on a few-layer graphene gate patterned with an array of triangular antidots. We show that a periodically driven Dirac fermion system with spatial asymmetry converts the a.c. power into a d.c. current, whose direction reverses when the radiation helicity is switched. The circular ratchet effect is demonstrated for room temperature and a radiation frequency of 2.54 THz. It is shown that the ratchet current magnitude can be controllably tuned by the patterned and uniform back gate voltages. The results are analyzed in the light of the developed microscopic theory considering electronic and plasmonic mechanisms of the ratchet current formation.