cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Role of the I56i enhancer sequence in the expression of the Dlx gene family
Creators: name: Shipley, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The genes of the distal-less ( Dlx) gene family encode homeodomain transcription factors involved in the development of the brain, branchial arches, limbs, teeth, olfactory placodes and otic vesicles. In mice and humans, six Dlx genes have been identified and are organized in bigene clusters. The I56i cis-acting regulatory element is located within the intergenic region of the Dlx5/Dlx6 locus. This element has been shown to be active in the forebrain (telencephalon and diencephalon), the first and second branchial arches, and the apical ectodermal ridge. In this study, we identified eight putative transcription factor binding regions within the sequence of the I56i enhancer using DNaseI footprinting. These included putative binding sites for GATA-1, Engrailed-1, DLX and homeodomain transcription factors. Three to eight base-pair mutations were introduced into these putative binding sites. The effect of mutagenesis of four of these putative binding sites was evaluated in vivo in transgenic mice using a lacZ-beta-globin minimal promoter construct and in vitro using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA). Activity of the mutant enhancer in the forebrain of mouse embryos was reduced in some of the transgenic animals obtained. A reduction or complete loss of activity was seen in the branchial arches of all but one of the transgenic mice carrying the mutant enhancer constructs. EMSA demonstrated that proteins from the nuclear extracts of E11.5 mouse brains and E13.5 mouse forebrains bind fragments of DNA corresponding to the 156i enhancer sequences. Further, mutagenesis of the putative binding sites appears to reduce the ability of proteins to bind these areas of the I56i enhancer sequences. These experiments provide preliminary evidence suggesting that a number of factors may be involved in regulating the activity of the I56i enhancer and demonstrating the potential role of the I56i enhancer in the regulation of gene expression in the forebrain and branchial arches.
Епископы, социальное происхождение и организация местной власти около 500 года
Creators: name: Штеффен Патцольд
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: епископы; местное управление; просопография; собор в Орлеане 511 г.; Хлодвиг.

description: В центре внимания статьи находится социальное происхождение епископов в Галлии конца V — начала VI в. На примере просопографического исследования участников собора в Орлеане 511 г. он показывает несостоятельность принятого в историографии положения о преобладании в галльском епископате имперской аристократии, напротив, источники часто указывают на их происхождение из местной элиты. Статья переведена с немецкого языка
Transforming future teaching through 'Carpe Diem' learning design
Creators: name: Salmon, Gilly
name: Wright, Phemie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Academic staff in Higher Education (HE) need to transform their teaching practices to support more future-orientated, digital, student-centred learning. Promoting, enabling and implementing these changes urgently requires acceptable, meaningful and effective staff development for academics. We identify four key areas that are presenting as barriers to the implementation of successful staff development. We illuminate the Carpe Diem learning design workshop process and illustrate its impact on academic staff as a viable, constructive alternative to traditional staff development processes. The Carpe Diem model directly exposes and addresses the irony that educational institutions expect their academic staff to learn to design and deliver personalized, mobile and technology-enhanced learning to students, whilst wedded to 'one size fits all' face-to-face interventions ... or worse, 'page turning' e-learning that masquerades as staff development. To avoid further frustrations and expensive, inappropriate initiatives, the spirit and practice of Carpe Diem could act as a 'pathfinder beacon', and be more widely adopted to enable fast, effective and fully embedded learner-ready, future-proofed learning.
Re-examining the trait theory of voice disorders (Welch et al., 2025)
Creators: name: Welch, Brett
name: Helou, Leah B.
name: Wright, Aidan
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 520599
subject: Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology

description: Purpose: Voice disorders associated with vocal hyperfunction are some of the most common vocal pathologies. Certain personality traits are thought to be a risk factor for developing these disorders. The trait theory of voice disorders (TTVD) provided a unified framework to understand these relationships. This study re-examines the TTVD by adopting current theories and methods from personality science.Method: This cross-sectional study recruited individuals diagnosed with primary muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) or a diagnosis associated with phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction (PVH), that is, benign bilateral lesions of the lamina propria and bilateral or unilateral vocal fold polyp(s). Participants completed a contemporary personality battery. Data were analyzed via structural equation modeling and compared to vocally healthy controls.Results: Several significant differences existed between vocally healthy controls (n = 416) and participants with MTD (n = 71) or PVH (n = 38). Compared to the controls, participants with MTD reported lower levels of Stability, Plasticity, Conscientiousness, Openness/Intellect, and the corresponding aspects of Industriousness and Intellect, respectively. Conversely, the MTD cohort was significantly higher in Neuroticism and its two corresponding aspects, Withdrawal and Volatility. Likewise, when compared to controls, the PVH reported significantly lower levels of Stability, Agreeableness, its aspect Politeness, and the aspect of Industriousness. Finally, compared to the MTD cohort, individuals with PVH were higher on Extraversion, specifically the aspect of Assertiveness, and lower on the aspect of Politeness.Conclusions: The current study largely replicates the initial TTVD studies and updates them with a modern theory of personality. These results provide a strong foundation for future investigations to continue to study the relationships between personality traits and voice disorders.Supplemental Material S1. Self-report measures, a priori power analysis, multiple indicator multiple causes models, and references.Welch, B., Helou, L. B., & Wright, A. (2025). Integrating advances in personality science to re-examine the trait theory of voice disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00034
Supplementary document for Hybrid modes in a single thermally excited asymmetric dimer antenna - 4936737.pdf
Creators: name: Hamdan, Loubnan Abou
name: Li, Claire
name: Haidar, Riad
name: KRACHMALNICOFF, Valentina
name: Bouchon, Patrick
name: De Wilde, Yannick
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Surface Processes

description: Supplemental document
Seismic drift demands of reinforced concrete buildings.
Creators: name: Shooshtari, Ahmad.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: A comprehensive analytical research has been conducted in the current study, which involved more than 350 analyses of R/C buildings in Canada, to gain insight into inelastic seismic drift demands of these buildings. The investigation consists of three major phases. The first phase includes the development of an improved version of an existing general purpose dynamic analysis software. The improvements consist of four major modifications; (a) implementation of a hysteretic model for P-M interaction effects, (b) implementation of a hysteretic model for masonry infill panels, (c) introduction of a new method to consider the P-$\Delta$ effect, and (d) introduction of a new feature to conduct inelastic static "Push-Over" analysis. The second phase involves a parametric study to establish importance of structural and ground motion parameters on seismic drift demands of R/C buildings. A 10-storey frame building, with and without reinforced concrete shear walls, was considered for the parametric study. An inventory of earthquake motions, consisting of 17 records, was selected for this purpose. The results indicated that inelastic shear, anchorage slip, P-$\Delta,$ and presence of masonry infills all played important roles on drift response. The P-M interaction on flexural behavior during response did not affect drift response for the structures considered. Therefore, this feature was not considered in the subsequent phase of the investigation, where inelastic drift demands were established. A total of 12 different types of buildings with different structural systems and heights were designed for response history analysis to establish seismic drift demands of R/C buildings. This constituted the third phase of the study. The structures considered included frame buildings with or without reinforced concrete shear walls and/or masonry walls. The current project also included an investigation on the credibility of push-over analysis as a tool for use in computing drift and ductility demands. It was found that its usefulness may be limited to structures behaving predominantly in the force mode. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
«Идеальные» епископы поздней Античности: визуализация образа
Creators: name: Манукян Эдуард Мгерович
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: позднеантичный Запад; церковная аристократия; образ идеального епископа; культ святых; аристократизм; аскетизм; визуальный образ.

description: На примере текстов Сульпиция Севера, Григория Турского и Венанция Фортуната показывается, как образ епископа Мартина Турского претерпевает определенные преобразования. Если Сульпиций и Григорий в своих текстах пытались сгладить его неблагородное происхождение, то у Венанция образ святого Мартина приобрел четкую аристократическую форму. При попытках определить, с чем было связано подобное конструирование, мы должны понимать, что все трое были непосредственно связаны культом святого Мартина, который был их небесным patronus. Стих Венанция был непосредственным диалогом со своим небесным покровителем. Чтобы лучше осознать сущность того, что хотели донести до своей читательской аудитории Сульпиций и Венанций, мы должны обратиться от текста к визуальному образу, а конкретнее, к мозаике «шествия мучеников» во главе со святым Мартином в Sant’Apollinare Nuovo. Мартин предстает перед позднеантичным созерцателем в образе благочестивого аристократа, являющегося patronus целого экзархата. Епископ становится центральной фигурой позднеантичного города, будь он в этом мире или пребывай он в мире потустороннем. Культ святых выступает одной из тех замечательных точек, где происходит соприкосновение классической аристократической и монашеско-аскетической традиций. Patronus человека поздней Античности (тем более аристократа) не мог быть простолюдином. По этой же причине Сульпиций, а за ним Венанций и равеннские мастера проводили намеренную «аристократизацию» образа святого Мартина. Для церковной аристократии, набравшей силу, особенно в Галлии V в., было необходимо выстроить собственные христианские общины согласно привычным для их сословного менталитета социально-властным ценностям, при которых тип праведного заступника слабых и чудотворца в лице епископа общины отлично подходил на роль святого покровителя христиан. В VI в. же Галлия и ее Церковь были под властью Меровингов, и такие люди, как Григорий и Венанций, чувствовали необходимость поставить акценты на принадлежности епископов к миру старой сенаторской аристократии, которая переживала не лучшие годы. Отсюда и выходит идея «аристократизировать» образ Мартина, который, в отличие от Сульпиция, Григория и Венанция, был незнатного происхождения. Создание идеального образа в данном случае происходило неразрывно и в рамках культа святости. Такое конструирование опиралось на знатность и аскетические заслуги святого и было рассчитано на усиление лидерства и авторитета собственного сообщества церковной аристократии, на поклонение мощам, которыми владели ее представители, и на создание назидательного репрезентативного образа, как для простых христиан, так и для сильных мира сего.
Письма об общей пользе: Определение и восхваление общественного блага в письмах эпохи Меровингов
Creators: name: Брюно Дюмезиль
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: «всеобщее благо»; политическая теория; Меровингская Галлия; монархия

description: Хотя в Меровингскую эпоху не существовало политической литературы сравнимой с произведения последующих столетий, Меровингам было знакомо понятие «общего блага». Все письма, адресованные королям для того, чтобы польстить им или дать совет, содержат идею о том, что монархия должна служить интересам и счастью всех людей. Однако, следуя позднеантичным традициям, подобная риторика оказывается довольно гибкой. В зависимости от эпохи «общее благо» может защищать как военный экспансионизм, так и идею подчинения королевской власти христианским идеалам, или растущее влияние аристократии. Статья переведена с французского языка.
Места погребений королей франков из династии Меровингов
Creators: name: Федонников Никита Александрович
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: потестарная имагология; Меровинги; погребения королей; Григорий Турский; Фредегар

description: Данная статья посвящена изучению мест погребений королей франков из династии Меровингов. Цель исследования заключается в попытке проследить, какие места погребения использовались королями, что связывало королей с их местами захоронения, что определяло их выбор правителями. Описание мест погребений, свидетельствовавших о покровительстве королю какого-либо святого и являвшихся одним из методов, с помощью которых выражали преемственность власти, важно для понимания политического смысла самого погребения и определения степени осознанности, с которой производился выбор места погребения. В частности, королей хоронили в церквях. В связи с проникновением во франкскую культуру христианства, изменившего символы репрезентации королевской власти, места погребения становятся демонстрацией соблюдения правил христианской этики и символом власти умершего. Также увеличивалось количество самих церквей, в которых впоследствии происходило погребение королей. Нередко они были построены самими королями, что являлось символом их благочестия, представляющим христианские основы правления королей. С течением времени некоторые церкви приобретали центральное значение, в то время как другие смещались на периферию. Но также имело место и обратное явление: захоронение королей в мало значивших, не «родовых» местах. И если первый способ захоронения был направлен на легитимацию власти и представление благочестивого образа короля, то такое погребение было нацелено на ослабление легитимности умершего короля и его потомков. Источниками для изучения выбранной проблемы послужили «История франков» Григория Турского и «Хроники Фредегара». Было выделено четыре основных места захоронения правящей династии королевства франков: церкви Святых Апостолов и Святого Винценция в Париже, церковь Сен-Дени, базилика Святого Медарда в Суассоне.
IJODKOR USLUBI – BADIIY OBRAZ TASVIRINING ASOSI SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Qodirov, Abdulazizbek
name: Ne'matullayeva, Mohlaroy
name: Tursunaliyeva, Ominaxon
name: To'ychiyeva, Bahoroy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu ilmiy maqolada badiiy adabiyotning obraz tushunchasi, hamda uning shaxsning individual belgilarida namoyon bo'lishi ilmiy tahlil etilgan.
Внутреннее Средневековье Умберто Эко
Creators: name: Папушина Анастасия Андреевна
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: Умберто Эко; схоластика; новое Средневековье; написание истории; хаос

description: Итальянский философ и семиолог Умберто Эко известен во всем мире как автор увлекательных и сложных романов, действие которых разворачивается в Средневековье. Эту эпоху Эко любил с юности и превосходно знал как историк и философ, однако для того, чтобы поговорить о Средних веках, он чаще всего выбирает художественную и публицистическую, а не научную форму. Каково же положение Эко по отношению к медиевистике как исторической дисциплине? В предлагаемой статье приводится краткий обзор взглядов итальянского ученого на Средние века. Согласно гипотезе автора статьи, ключом для понимания как художественного творчества Эко, испытавшего сильное влияние Джойса, так и его научных занятий, посвященных теории знака, является его увлечение схоластикой. Именно философия, стремившаяся прочесть в хаосе мира таинственные знаки и истолковать их, открывая новые смыслы, делает Средневековье не столько областью изучения, сколько пространством «мысленной повседневности» автора.
Explicit and Emergent Mechanisms of Information Status
Creators: name: Arnold, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2016

description: It is well established that language production and comprehension are influenced by information status, for example, whether information is given, new, topical, or predictable, and many scholars suggest that an important component of information status is keeping track of what information is in common ground (i.e., what is shared), and what is not. Information status affects both speakers' choices (e.g., word order, pronoun use, prosodic prominence) and how listeners interpret the speaker's meaning (e.g., Chafe, 1994; Prince, 1981). Although there is a wealth of scholarly work on information status (for a review, see Arnold, Kaiser, Kahn, & Kim, 2013), there is no consensus on the mechanisms by which it is used, and in fact relatively little discussion of the underlying representations and psycholinguistic mechanisms. Moreover, a major challenge to understanding information status is that its effects are notoriously variable. This study considers existing proposals about information status, focusing on two questions: (a) how is it represented; and (b) by what mechanisms is it used? I propose that it is important to consider whether representations and mechanisms can be classified as either explicit or emergent. Based on a review of existing evidence, I argue that information status representations are most likely emergent, but the mechanisms by which they are used are both explicit and emergent. This review provides one of the first considerations of information status processing across multiple domains.
Метафора, словарь и энциклопедия
Creators: name: Умберто Эко
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: семиотическая теория метафоры; оппозиция словарь — энциклопедия; древо Порфирия; теория переноса свойств; первые тропы; «сгущение» (Фрейд).

description: В статье рассмотрена классическая семиотическая оппозиция словаря — энциклопедии с точки зрения компонентной репрезентации метафор. Автор тестирует эти два формата на четырех типах метафор по Аристотелю и приходит к выводу, что объяснить подлинный метафорический эффект может только компонентная репрезентация, данная в формате энциклопедии. Словарная модель может справиться с первыми двумя типами метафор по Аристотелю, которые в действительности представляют собой синекдохи, тогда как для подлинных метафор третьего и четвертого типа необходима репрезентация в виде многомерной сети свойств (энциклопедия). Автор в качестве наиболее удобного варианта предлагает выстраивать ее на основе четырех причин Аристотеля (действующей, формальной, материальной и целевой), принятых с чисто операциональными, не метафизическими коннотациями. Этот способ заменяет или дополняет недостаточную для объяснения метафор модель «словареобразной» компетенции, выведенную Порфирием в «Исагогах» и представленную в истории так называемым древом Порфирия. В заключение модель, основанная на четырех причинах Аристотеля, успешно тестируется на кеннингах и метафорах, что позволяет автору помимо прочего наметить различение «хороших» («поэтических») и бедных по содержанию метафор. Также в статье затронуты темы переноса свойств в метафорах, первых тропов по Вико и эффект «сгущения» по Фрейду. Статья переведена с английского языка.
Supplementary document for Hybrid modes in a single thermally excited asymmetric dimer antenna - 4936737.pdf
Creators: name: Hamdan, Loubnan Abou
name: Li, Claire
name: Haidar, Riad
name: KRACHMALNICOFF, Valentina
name: Bouchon, Patrick
name: De Wilde, Yannick
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Surface Processes

description: Supplemental document
Initial medical management of rotator cuff tears: a demographic analysis of surgical and nonsurgical treatment in the United States Medicare population
Creators: name: Patterson, Brendan M.
name: Spang, Jeffrey T.
name: Varkey, Dax T.
name: Kamath, Ganesh V.
name: Creighton, R. Alexander
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Rotator cuff tears have a lifetime incidence between 25% and 40% in the United States, but optimum treatment strategies and protocol have not yet been widely accepted. This study evaluated the proportions of patients treated with nonoperative and operative modalities and how this proportion has changed during an 8-year period (2005-2012) among patients with Medicare.
METHODS: Using the PearlDiver patient record database, we identified Medicare patients having been diagnosed with a rotator cuff tear. These patients were then stratified on the basis of treatment with physical therapy, subacromial/glenohumeral injection, or rotator cuff repair. We analyzed the data in regard to standard demographic information, comorbidities, and the Charlson Comorbidity Index.
RESULTS: During the study period, 878,049 patients were identified and 397,116 patients had rotator cuff repair. The proportion of patients treated initially with physical therapy dropped from 30.0% in 2005 to 13.2% in 2012, and the subacromial/glenohumeral injection proportion decreased from 6.00% to 4.19% (P < .001). The proportion of patients who had rotator cuff repair increased from 33.8% to 40.4% from 2005 to 2012 (P < .001). Charlson Comorbidity Indexes were significantly lower in operative patients compared with each nonoperative treatment examined.
DISCUSSION: This analysis demonstrates a significant decrease in the initial trial of nonoperative treatment and an increase in the rate of surgery. Patients undergoing rotator cuff repair had fewer comorbidities than those undergoing nonoperative treatments. It also demonstrates that patients who had a trial of injection had a higher incidence of eventual rotator cuff repair compared with the patients with an initial trial of physical therapy.
Latratus canis
Creators: name: Умберто Эко
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: семиотика; классификация знаков; Абеляр; Августин; Аристотель; Боэций; Роджер Бэкон; Фома Аквинский

description: Одно из главных достоинств Умберто Эко (как ученого, так и писателя) — внимание к деталям. Деталь для него не мелочь и не простой повод для разговора о больших вопросах. Статья о latratus canis — прекрасный тому пример. В ней Эко обращает наше внимание на, казалось бы, незначительную черту в трактатах средневековых грамматиков: неоднозначное положение собачьего лая в их классификациях знаков. Скрупулезно прослеживая мельчайшие изменения в том, как этот пример, пришедший из работы Аристотеля, используется в текстах Августина, Боэция, Фомы Аквинского, Абеляра и Роджера Бэкона, автор раскрывает нам мир средневековой семиотики с ее проблемами, их истоками и решениями, предложенными основными мыслителями эпохи. Статья переведена с английского языка.
Theory construction in design research: criteria, approaches, and methods
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Design involves creating something new or transforming a less desirable situation to a preferred situation. To do this, designers must know how things work and why. Understanding how things work and why requires explanation, and it sometimes requires prediction. To explain and predict, we must construct and test theories. Theories are propositions or sets of propositions that allow us to analyze or explain subjects. Some theories are complex and sophisticated. Others are simple. Theory can be described in many ways. In its most basic form, a theory is a model. It is an illustration describing how something works by showing its elements in their dynamic relationship to one another. The dynamic demonstration of working elements in action as part of a structure distinguishes a theoretical model from a simple taxonomy or catalogue. A theory predicts what will happen when elements interact. Understanding design process and design outcomes now implies the kinds of theory construction common in the natural and social sciences. This paper argues that successful design is inherently theory-rich. The paper outlines a framework for understanding theory construction in design. This framework will clarify the meaning of theory and theorizing. It will explain the nature and uses of theory as a general concept. It will propose necessary and sufficient conditions for theory construction in design. Finally, it will outline potential areas for future inquiry in design theory.
Knockout of arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase is associated with adverse metabolic phenotype in mice: the role of sex and arsenic exposure
Creators: name: Douillet, Christelle
name: Huang, Madelyn C.
name: Saunders, R. Jesse
name: Zhang, Chongben
name: Dover, Ellen N.
name: Stýblo, Miroslav
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2016

description: Susceptibility to toxic effects of inorganic arsenic (iAs) depends, in part, on efficiency of iAs methylation by arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (AS3MT). As3mt-knockout (KO) mice that cannot efficiently methylate iAs represent an ideal model to study the association between iAs metabolism and adverse effects of iAs exposure, including effects on metabolic phenotype. The present study compared measures of glucose metabolism, insulin resistance and obesity in male and female wild-type (WT) and As3mt-KO mice during a 24-week exposure to iAs in drinking water (0.1 or 1 mg As/L) and in control WT and As3mt-KO mice drinking deionized water. Results show that effects of iAs exposure on fasting blood glucose (FBG) and glucose tolerance in either WT or KO mice were relatively minor and varied during the exposure. The major effects were associated with As3mt KO. Both male and female control KO mice had higher body mass with higher percentage of fat than their respective WT controls. However, only male KO mice were insulin resistant as indicated by high FBG, and high plasma insulin at fasting state and 15 min after glucose challenge. Exposure to iAs increased fat mass and insulin resistance in both male and female KO mice, but had no significant effects on body composition or insulin resistance in WT mice. These data suggest that As3mt KO is associated with an adverse metabolic phenotype that is characterized by obesity and insulin resistance, and that the extent of the impairment depends on sex and exposure to iAs, including exposure to iAs from mouse diet.
Human parechovirus infection in young infants : strategies to improve detection and management
Creators: name: Kadambari, Seilesh
name: Harvala, Heli
name: Simmonds, Peter
name: Pollard, Andrew J.
name: Sadarangani, Manish
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: Human parechovirus (HPeV) infections are the second most common cause of viral meningitis in children. HPeV’s are most frequently seen in infants less than 90 days of age. Clinical manifestations include encephalitis, meningitis, myocarditis and sepsis syndrome, which can lead to significant neurodevelopmental sequelae in young infants. Molecular techniques, including polymerase chain reaction assays are the diagnostic tool of choice and have contributed to a marked increase in reported cases, along with an increasing awareness of the aetiological role of HPeV in infant disease. However, focused clinical and diagnostic investigations for HPeV in infants and the use of such information in management is variable due in part to the lack of robust incidence data and its range of clinical presentations. In this review, we outline recent clinical cohort and epidemiological studies which can be used to inform the evidence based management of young infants with HPeV disease and also identify key research priorities. A better understanding of the pathogenesis and epidemiology of HPeV infections is required to inform an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and treatment in the future.
Que constitue la diaspora chinoise? Au-delà des modèles existants, saisir l'expérience migrante et transmigrante
Creators: name: Montsion, Jean Michel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: Il est difficile de cerner ce que représente la diaspora chinoise sur la scène internationale, car tout en regroupant un ensemble important de rapports transnationaux, elle n'apparaît pas comme un sujet transnational cohésif. Par un examen des activités transnationales des communautés chinoises de Malaisie et de Californie depuis 1978, nous chercherons à expliquer ce paradoxe. Nous tenterons de démontrer que ce paradoxe s'explique par l'existence de structures sociales transnationales qui se développent au sein des communautés en diaspora. Chaque structure transnationale correspond à une communauté spécifique et établit un cadre unique dans lequel se développe et sont facilitées les activités transnationales. Ainsi, l'ensemble de ces structures ne représente pas la diaspora chinoise comme un sujet transnational cohésif, mais nous permet de la concevoir plutôt comme un espace social transnational.
A Web oriented framework for distributed e-learning
Creators: name: Xu, Zhengfang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The objective of this thesis is to propose a Web services oriented framework for distributed e-learning systems aimed at providing a flexible integration model in which all the learning components and applications are well defined, effectively discovered and loosely connected. Web services provide an essential deploy environment to realize dynamic e-learning/e-business systems by facilitating application-to-application interaction. Using the proposed framework, learning service providers will be able to publish their learning objects or services universally and learning service requesters can retrieve those services anywhere, any time with any device (wired or wireless) through common communication protocols. The key values of interoperability and accessibility in the proposed architecture enhance the future distributed e-learning systems to communicate more efficiently and share data more easily. A proof of concept of the proposed system is designed and implemented in a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) combined with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) environment, using JAX Pack (Java for XML Pack) for building essential Web services and kSOAP package for parsing SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages on lightweight platforms. The implementation is a successful demonstration that learning services can be easily accessed through standard Web services interface. A cross-platform service invocation (C# to Java, Windows to Linux) is successfully accomplished in this implementation.
EU-Beihilfepolitik - Analyse der Auswirkungen des neuen Beihilferechts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Instruments der Ex-post-Evaluierung
Creators: name: Lünebürger, Simone
name: Ziegenhorn, Gero
name: Rosenfeld, Andreas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: EU-Politik
subject: Energiewirtschaft
subject: EU-Recht
subject: Umweltschutz
subject: Finanzierungshilfe
subject: Umweltschutzbeihilfe
subject: Wirtschaftsförderung
subject: Ex-post-Evaluierung
subject: Umweltbeihilferegelung
subject: Wettbewerbsverfälschung
subject: ex-post evaluation
subject: environmental state aid scheme
subject: distortion of competition
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Europäische Kommission hat in den Umwelt- und Energiebeihilfeleitlinien (UEBL) und der Allgemeinen Gruppenfreistellungsverordnung (AGVO) für die Mitgliedstaaten der EU neue Pflichten zur Ex-post-Evaluierung von bestimmten Beihilferegelungen eingeführt. Die Studie bietet Arbeitshilfen für nationale Behörden und evaluierende Sachverständige für solche Ex-post-Evaluierungen.The European Commission has introduced new obligations for the ex-post evaluation of state aid schemes for the member states of the EU in the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy (EEAG) and the General block exemption Regulation (GBER). This research project develops strategies for handling and carrying out ex-post evaluations. Building on those strategies, specific tools for the responsible national authorities respectively the expert carrying out the evaluation are provided.
Reliability of two-point discrimination thresholds using a 4-2-1 stepping algorithm
Creators: name: Wikstrom, Erik A.
name: Allen, Gary
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016

description: PURPOSE: A 4-2-1 stepping algorithm reliably captures light touch thresholds but has not been used to assess two-point discrimination (TPD) thresholds. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to determine the intra- and inter-rater reliability of a 4-2-1 stepping algorithm at determining TPD thresholds.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifteen healthy, physically active young adults were assessed twice over a 1-week period using digital calipers and a 4-2-1 stepping algorithm. TPD thresholds were assessed by an expert and a novice examiner at each time point. Reliability was assessed on the plantar surface of the foot at the head of the first and base of the fifth metatarsal.
RESULTS: Three intra-rater intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) values exceeded 0.75 and were interpreted as good. The inter-rater reliability was good with ICC values ranging from 0.76 to 0.93 at both sites during both test sessions.
CONCLUSIONS: The 4-2-1 stepping algorithm demonstrates good intra- and inter-tester reliability at determining TPD thresholds on the plantar surface of the foot at the head of the first and base of the fifth metatarsal in young healthy adults.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 351 (50. Jg.), Februar 2020
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: 25 Jahre ZAWiW
subject: Gleichstellung an der Uni
subject: Descartes träumt Wissenschaftsgeschichte
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Universities and colleges; Germany
subject: Universität Ulm

description: uni ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin mit Themen aus Forschung, Lehre und vom Campus
description: uni ulm intern, Das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin mit Themen aus Forschung, Lehre und vom Campus, Heft Nr. 351 (50. Jahrgang), Februar 2020
The balanced scorecard in a not-for-profit environment: a theoretical discussion
Creators: name: Kluvers, Ron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is promoted as a management tool that will clarify strategy; align goals; identify and align strategic initiatives; and provide feedback that will encourage learning. In their examination of the implementation and benefits of the BSC Kaplan and Norton emphasize commercial organisations and devote one chapter to discuss the possible usefulness of the BSC in public sector and not- for-profit organisations. However, there are important differences between the three sectors and the assumptions underpinning the BSC in a business may not be relevant to the BSC in a not-for-profit organisation. In this paper the implications of inappropriate assumptions are considered in the context of the implementation and design of the BSC in a not- for-profit environment. The paper concludes that the BSC would require significant changes if it were to be successfully introduced into a Not-For- Profit organization.
Designing a Large-Scale Lake Cooling System for an Ultra-Deep Mine: A Canadian Case Study
Creators: name: Kuyuk, Ali Fahrettin
name: Ghoreishi-Madiseh, Seyed Ali
name: Sasmito, Agus P.
name: Hassani, Ferri
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Subsurface mining operations are continuously getting deeper and more complex due to depletion of shallow deposits. This fact inevitably brings more expensive, high-tech oriented and most importantly energy intensive subsurface mining operations to come alive. Accordingly, while big mining companies are developing sensible extraction methods to exploit orebodies located at great depths, they are also seeking to cut down their costs and carbon footprint. A large percentage of the energy needed by a subsurface mine is due to the mine ventilation and air conditioning reasons. In fact, for mines deeper than 2 km, mine air conditioning becomes a must. Yet, as there are not many alternatives developed, most of the modern mines are subjected to deploy tens of megawatts worth of cooling plants using massive refrigeration units. This does not only create a large financial burden during the project stage but also results in heavy energy demands during the operation. This paper aims to investigate a natural, alternative deep-mine lake cooling system by providing a detailed ‘front-end-loading’ design conducted for a real-life, Canadian example.
Dermatology in Ancient Rome: Medical ingredients in Ovid's “Remedies for female faces”
Creators: name: Ursin, Frank
name: Borelli, Claudia
name: Steger, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: aesthetic dermatology
subject: Celsus
subject: history of medicine
subject: Ovid
subject: Pliny the Elder
subject: DDC 170 / Ethics
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Roman medicine
subject: History of medicine
subject: History, Ancient
subject: Roman world
subject: Dermatology
subject: Medizin
subject: Altertum
subject: Dermatologie

description: Abstract Background In Roman medicine, face packs, plasters, unguents, and peelings were part of the therapy of dermatological diseases, but also served cosmetic purposes. Ancient medical textbooks inform us about the ingredients for these applications. Beyond medical literature, other genres contain information about dermatological applications. The Roman poet Ovid (43 BC–17 AD) wrote a didactic poem recording five recipes for topical applications for female faces (Medicamina faciei femineae). Researchers debate the relation of Ovid's poem to Roman medicine: Does the poem contain therapeutical or cosmetical information, or is it mere belles lettres? Aims The objective of the paper is to conduct a medico‐historical classification of Ovid's poem by determining whether the ingredients of Ovid's recipes were thought to be effective by the authors of Roman medical textbooks. Methods First, translation and identification of the ingredients were carried out. Second, comparison of the ingredients' functions regarding the therapy of dermatological diseases in two important Roman medical textbooks was realized. For this purpose, several commentaries on the text of Ovid were used and a keyword search in Roman medical textbooks was performed. Results Ovid's five recipes contain 23 ingredients. All ingredients can be found in medical textbooks. We find that 14 of these ingredients serve cosmetic purposes, 17 serve the therapy of dermatological diseases, and 13 serve both. Conclusion Ovid's recipes contain drugs that were considered effective by the authors of Roman medical textbooks. These drugs were recommended both for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes by the same authors. Therefore, Ovid's didactic poem is not mere belles lettres, but contains serious medical and cosmetical information. As far as we know, it is the first Roman text that contains dermatological recipes.
End-to-end quality of service support for multimedia applications in the Internet.
Creators: name: Sallabi, Farag M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Quality of Service (QoS) in the Internet is one of the most active research areas in recent years. With the introduction of sophisticated multimedia applications, researchers have concentrated in finding solutions to make the Internet a suitable environment for such applications. The obvious solution is to enable applications reserve network resources according to their QoS needs. Researchers have also suggested enhancing the existing routing protocols for handling QoS. In this thesis, we present an end-to-end QoS architecture based on resource reservations. The architecture proposes the introduction of domain agencies in network domains. The domain agency is responsible for managing the resources in its domain and reserve resources according to the received requests from the users. It handles immediate and advance resource reservations and adapts the reserved resources according to user interactions. It contains a QoS routing agent to construct a QoS intra-domain path. The QoS routing agent uses a modification of Dijkstra's algorithm to find a shortest-narrowest path that accommodates the requested QoS. We present the analytical study and implementation of the main components proposed in this thesis. Then we present implementation of the architecture in an agent environment, which provides a good opportunity to test and analyze the system.
Petrogenesis of the Sudbury Igneous Complex: The shocking story.
Creators: name: Therriault, Ann Marie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Sudbury Structure, Ontario, is the remnant of a 1.85 Ga old impact crater, 200--250 km in diameter. Erosion and tectonism have affected the Sudbury Structure and resulted in considerable brittle and ductile deformation, and the removal of the surface expression of the crater structure and all exterior deposits typical of many terrestrial impact structures. However, substantial amounts of the interior deposits, including the craterfill products, have been preserved within the Sudbury Basin. Although most workers acknowledge an impact origin for the Sudbury Structure, the origin of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC), located inside the Sudbury Structure, remains controversial. The objectives of this study are to elucidate the division of the SIC into lithologically separate phases and to understand their relation to impact and endogenic igneous processes by using physical, chemical and computer methods, and to model the genesis of the SIC. The SIC is a 2.5--3.0 km thick, ∼60 x 27 km elliptical igneous-rock body, consisting of four major lithologies (top to base): granophyre, quartz gabbro, norite, and the so-called contact sublayer. All these lithologies are continuous across the complex, except for the contact sublayer. Modal compositions reveal that the current nomenclature is improper. According to the IUGS classification, "quartz gabbro" samples should be classified as quartz monzogabbros and "norite" samples as quartz gabbros or quartz monzogabbros. In view of these observations, an updated terminology is proposed (top to base): upper unit, transition zone, middle unit, lower unit, and contact sublayer. Gradational mineralogical and geochemical variations between the SIC lithological units are evidence of a single melt system for the SIC. The occurrence of primary hydrous minerals, deuteric alteration, and abundant micrographic and granophyric intergrowths demonstrate that this melt was rich in H 2O. The intergrowths and other far-from-equilibrium textures are likely due to rapid crystallization as a result of a large undercooling caused by the exsolution of a volatile phase. The SIC differs from other known terrestrial impact melt sheets only by its great thickness and its chemical layering. It is concluded that the SIC is a differentiated impact melt sheet, the only one identified on Earth to date.
title: TCMD en la evaluación de la vasculatura mesentérica: anatomía normal y hallazgos patológicos.
Creators: name: Taboada Rodriguez, Vanesa
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT-Angiography

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir la anatomía y los principales hallazgos radiológicos de la patología vascular mesentérica mediante el TCMD y la aplicación de técnicas de postprocesado de imágenes (MPR,
MIP y...
Negotiating the divides: How adult children of Holocaust survivors remember their engagement with the popular culture of the 1950s.
Creators: name: Lindenberg Cooperman, Bruria.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies.

description: This dissertation examines how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors (COS), growing up in the 1950s in a small city in Ontario engaged with popular culture. Set within the context of a predominantly English-speaking Christian environment, this culture frequently did not represent them. It often excluded their knowledge and lived experiences and thus forced them to be silent. Utilizing an oral history approach, nine children of survivors were interviewed about their elementary school years and growing up in the fifties. The history of postwar Canada serves as the framework for how adults remember the meanings they made of their childhood experiences and how they incorporated these stories into the personal scripts of their lives. Their memories of childhood reflect the discourses that shaped them, discourses that are situated in the language and the images of a society and within the wider historical and social structure of that society. Individuals, however, do not fit into neat categories. Positioning their stories within the larger context of postwar Canada, while also accommodating the diverse meanings they made from their historical positions required a multi-disciplinary orientation. Therefore, a historical framework anchors the narratives and serves as a backdrop for the personal childhood memories of children of survivors. Specifically, the thesis draws on four areas of literature: the literature on children of survivors; cultural studies, which helps make sense of the variety of experiences, their relational character and the discourses through which they operate; various historical literatures which establish the historical context for the remembered accounts; and anti-racist education which provides some of the tools for analysis. Through their oral testimonies, we begin to see how, as children, they entered, mediated and often transformed the representations of television and the movies to create their own subjective and social possibilities. Their "narratives of redemption" enabled them to negotiate the divides between the representations of themselves and the representations of the popular culture around them.
Медиевистика в Белорусском государственном университете: история и современность
Creators: name: Малюгин Олег Иванович
Publisher: name: Vox medii aevi
Year: 2017
Subjects: медиевистика; БГУ; А. Н. Ясинский; В. Н. Перцев; история повседневности; раннее Средневековье

description: В статье на основе архивных материалов рассматривается история изучения истории Средневековья в Белорусском государственном университете — вначале на педагогическом факультете в 1921–1931 гг., а затем, с 1934 г., — на историческом факультете. Основателем медиевистики в БГУ был профессор А. Н. Ясинский, специализировавшийся на истории славянских стран в Средние века; основателем школы медиевистики на историческом факультете БГУ был академик В. Н. Перцев, основные научные интересы которого сосредоточились в области германской истории. На современном этапе основные проблемы медиевистики, которые изучаются сотрудниками кафедры, — история варварских королевств в Западной Европе, история ментальности и история повседневности.