cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Real-Time Symptom Capture of Hallucinations in Schizophrenia with fMRI: Absence of Duration-Dependent Activity
Creators: name: Gill, Karanvir
name: Percival, Chantal
name: Roes, Meighen
name: Arreaza, Leo
name: Chinchani, Abhijit
name: Sanford, Nicole
name: Sena, Walter
name: Mohammadsadeghi, Homa
name: Menon, Mahesh
name: Hughes, Matthew
name: Carruthers, Sean
name: Sumner, Philip
name: Woods, Will
name: Jardri, Renaud
name: Sommer, Iris E.
name: Rossell, Susan
name: Woodward, Todd S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: While advances in the field of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provide new opportunities to study brain networks underlying the experience of hallucinations in psychosis, there are methodological challenges unique to symptom-capture studies. Study Design: We extracted brain networks activated during hallucination-capture for schizophrenia patients when fMRI data collected from two sites was merged (combined N = 27). A multidimensional analysis technique was applied, which would allow separation of brain networks involved in the hallucinatory experience itself from those involved in the motor response of indicating the beginning and end of the perceived hallucinatory experience. To avoid reverse inference when attributing a function (e.g., a hallucination) to anatomical regions, it was required that longer hallucinatory experiences produce extended brain responses relative to shorter. Study Results: For radio-speech sound files, an auditory perception brain network emerged, and displayed speech-duration-dependent hemodynamic responses (HDRs). However, in the hallucination-capture blocks, no network showed hallucination-duration-dependent HDRs, but a retrieved network that was anatomically classified as motor response emerged. Conclusions: During symptom capture of hallucinations during fMRI, no HDR showed duration dependence, but a brain network anatomically matching the motor response network was retrieved. Previous reports on brain networks detected by fMRI during hallucination capture are reviewed in this context; namely, that the brain networks interpreted as involved in hallucinations may in fact be involved only in the motor response indicating the onset of the hallucination.
Care and educative services for early childhood
Servizi di cura e di educazione della prima infanzia
Creators: name: Campioni, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Article presented at International Workshop “Children and Families; critical issues and socio-cultural resources”, Bologna October 16th 2009.
description: Intervento al Workshop Internazionale “Infanzie e Famiglie in Europa”, del 16 ottobre 2009, presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Via Filippo Re, 6 Bologna (Aula Magna).
Road2Openness - Open Science Self-assessment Tool
Creators: name: Heise, Verena
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.6365661
description: Open Science means opening up science through transparency in the research process and participation of new actors in research and innovation. Many research performing organisations (RPOs) are interested in or have already set out to strengthen Open Science at their institution. To facilitate top-down engagement from institutional leaders and culture change we are currently developing Road2Openness (R2O). R2O is a web-based assessment tool that helps institutions to evaluate their current Open Science activities and supports them with recommendations for a strategic opening to develop institutional training, infrastructure and incentive systems for Open Science. We have partnered with three universities in Germany to co-develop and pilot the tool. In this talk, we will present the idea behind the tool, how it can be used by RPOs and the results from the pilot project.
Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Almarzouq, Batool
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: open science
saudi arabia
middle east
global south
community
Vision 2030

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4940010
description: This is our presentation at the graduation of the Open Life Science (OLS) program. OLS is a program to helps  individuals and stakeholders in research  to become  Open Science ambassadors . It describes our initiative Open Science community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) which was established in line with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. Vision 2030 focuses on installing values, enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education.
The “Centro Nascita Montessori”. From babies in families to babies and families inside the educative services
Il Centro Nascita Montessori. Dal neonato in famiglia al bambino e alla famiglia nel servizio educativo
Creators: name: Franceschini, Laura
name: Honegger Fresco, Grazia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Article presented at International Workshop “Children and Families; critical issues and socio-cultural resources”, Bologna October 16th 2009.
description: Intervento al Workshop Internazionale “Infanzie e Famiglie in Europa”, del 16 ottobre 2009, presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Via Filippo Re, 6 Bo-logna (Aula Magna). L’intervento illustra i valori fondativi del Centro Nascita Montessori dalle sue origini ai giorni nostri attraverso un percorso che si è allarga-to nel tempo: dalla focalizzata attenzione e cura al neonato in famiglia o nel brefo-trofio fino agli anni ’60 alla cura della crescita del bambino nei servizi educativi e alla cura della relazione con le famiglie dagli anni ‘70 in poi. Tale espansione del campo di interesse e d’indagine operativa ha arricchito il patrimonio di competen-ze e di conoscenze del C.N.M..
Supplementary document for Fast Correlated-Photon Imaging Enhanced by Deep Learning - 5038422.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Zhan-Ming
name: Wu, Shi-Bao
name: Gao, Jun
name: Zhou, Heng
name: Yan, Zeng-Quan
name: Ren, Ruo-Jing
name: Yin, Si-Yuan
name: Jin, Xianmin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Materials
A cerberus‐inspired anti‐infective multicomponent gatekeeper hydrogel against infections with the emerging “superbug” yeast candida auris
Creators: name: Kubiczek, Dennis
name: Flaig, Carolin
name: Raber, Heinz
name: Dietz, Steffen
name: Kissmann, Ann‐Kathrin
name: Heerde, Thomas
name: Bodenberger, Nicholas
name: Wittgens, Andreas
name: González‐Garcia, Melaine
name: Kang, Fan
name: Franco, Octavio L.
name: Staendker, Ludger
name: Otero‐González, Anselmo J.
name: Walther, Paul
name: Gottschalk, Kay E.
name: Weil, Tanja
name: Rosenau, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: compound encapsulation
subject: intrinsic antimicrobial activity
subject: multicomponent hydrogels
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Candida auris
subject: Hydrogels
subject: Drug delivery systems
subject: Mykose
subject: Hydrogel
subject: Antimykotikum

description: The pathogenic yeast Candida auris has received increasing attention due to its ability to cause fatal infections, its resistance toward important fungicides, and its ability to persist on surfaces including medical devices in hospitals. To brace health care systems for this considerable risk, alternative therapeutic approaches such as antifungal peptides are urgently needed. In clinical wound care, a significant focus has been directed toward novel surgical (wound) dressings as first defense lines against C. auris. Inspired by Cerberus the Greek mythological “hound of Hades” that prevents the living from entering and the dead from leaving hell, the preparation of a gatekeeper hybrid hydrogel is reported featuring lectin-mediated high-affinity immobilization of C. auris cells from a collagen gel as a model substratum in combination with a release of an antifungal peptide drug to kill the trapped cells. The vision is an efficient and safe two-layer medical composite hydrogel for the treatment of severe wound infections that typically occur in hospitals. Providing this new armament to the repertoire of possibilities for wound care in critical (intensive care) units may open new routes to shield and defend patients from infections and clinical facilities from spreading and invasion of C. auris and probably other fungal pathogens.
Impermeable and Compliant: SIBS as a Promising Encapsulant for Ionically Electroactive Devices
Creators: name: Ebrahimi Takalloo, Saeedeh
name: Fannir, Adelyne
name: Nguyen, Giao T. M.
name: Plesse, Cedric
name: Vidal, Frederic
name: Madden, John D. W.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Metals and glass are excellent for containing electrolytes and liquids in general, but their rigid mechanics limits their application for mechanically active ionic actuators or flexible/ stretchable electrochemical devices such as batteries and supercapacitors. In this study, we evaluate the performance of spray-coated poly (styrene-block-isobutylene-block-styrene) (SIBS) as a stretchable encapsulant, which suggests that it offers a better combination of compliance and impermeability than any other barrier. We examined the drying time of 360-µm thick encapsulated tri-layer conducting polymer (CP) actuators, comprised of poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) as the CP electrode and an interpenetrated polymer network of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) as the separator layer, which operates with a 1 M solution of Lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (Li⁺TFSI⁻) in propylene carbonate (PC). A 100-µm thick SIBS encapsulation layer is anticipated to help these devices to retain 80% of stored PC for more than 1000 times longer compared to when there is no encapsulation (from less than 0.5 days to over 1.5 years). This low permeability combined with the low Young’s modulus of the SIBS film, its biocompatibility, biostability, and FDA approval, as well as ease of fabrication, make this thermoplastic elastomer a promising candidate as an encapsulant for flexible ionic devices such as flexible batteries and supercapacitors, ionic-electrode capacitive sensors, and ionically electroactive actuators. This paves the way for using these devices in implantable and in vivo applications.
How to create and publish FAIR research datasets directly from your research environment?
Creators: name: Girgin, Serkan
name: Alvarez, Manuel Garcia
name: Urra Llanusa, Jose
name: den Heijer, Kees
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIR
dataset
research data
data publication
research support software
Python
JupyterLab

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7399588
description: The FAIR principles require research data to be published with complete metadata and ideally shared at different key milestones during the research. However, currently this requires creation of dataset records and uploading of large data files to data repositories manually, which is time consuming. In this workshop, we will present and demonstrate open-source faily Python package and JupiterFAIR JupyterLab extension we developed, which allow to easily create and quickly publish research datasets to popular research data repositories, such as Zenodo , figshare , and 4TU.ResearchData . At the end of the workshop the participants will be able to perform these tasks with ease.
Sons of the street. Helpless and abandoned childhood in Romania
I figli della strada. Infanzia indifesa e abbandonata in Romania
Creators: name: De Caris, Rita
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Article presented at International Workshop “Children and Families; critical issues and socio-cultural resources”, Bologna October 16th 2009.
description: Intervento al Workshop Internazionale “Infanzie e Famiglie in Europa”, del 16 ottobre 2009, presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Via Filippo Re, 6 Bologna (Aula Magna).
Education and Childcare Policies. An Overview of the Spanish Case
Education and Childcare Policies. An Overview of the Spanish Case
Creators: name: Jiménez Ramírez, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: The aim of this study is to present a contribution on how these policies for child-hood have been carried out in the case of Spain, despite the fact that “to speak of childhood and child education is to place ourselves in a complex context of neces-sities, interests and demands from children, families and society” (Sánchez, 2008: 76-77). To this end, we use some indicators that reflect the expansion of child-hood policies, especially educational ones, although they differ depending on the age range considered (less than three or between three and six) and there is, there-fore, a limited provision of educational and social policies of attention and care for children younger than three and their families. In some sections, the information is analyzed with regard to the European context, since the development of care ser-vices for early infancy is a political priority in the European Union.
This article is structured in three sections. In the first, an overview is given of the development of childcare in Spain, centring on the duality between family and school, and showing how such care for the child population differs according to the age range considered. The second section deals with a number of key elements to be considered concerning the demand for public policies on childcare. Some alternative strategies are then described, given the lack of care policies. Finally, the conclusions occupy the last section.
description: The aim of this study is to present a contribution on how these policies for child-hood have been carried out in the case of Spain, despite the fact that “to speak of childhood and child education is to place ourselves in a complex context of
necessities, interests and demands from children, families and society” (Sánchez, 2008: 76-77). To this end, we use some indicators that reflect the expansion of child-hood policies, especially educational ones, although they differ depending on the age range considered (less than three or between three and six) and there is, therefore, a limited provision of educational and social policies of attention and care for children younger than three and their families. In some sections, the information is analyzed with regard to the European context, since the development of care services for early infancy is a political priority in the European Union.
This article is structured in three sections. In the first, an overview is given of the development of childcare in Spain, centring on the duality between family and school, and showing how such care for the child population differs according to the age range considered. The second section deals with a number of key elements to be considered concerning the demand for public policies on childcare. Some alternative strategies are then described, given the lack of care policies. Finally, the conclusions occupy the last section.
Genome-Wide Screen Identifies Novel Genes Involved in Mitochondrial Quality Control
Creators: name: Ng, Cheuk-Him (Andy)
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: TID1
Mitochondria
Mitochondrial morphology
genome-wide screen

description: In addition to ATP generation, mitochondria are essential in various cellular processes ranging from biosynthetic pathways, apoptosis, cell cycle progression, and calcium buffering. Studies in living cells have now firmly established that mitochondria exist as a dynamic network sculpted by fission and fusion reactions, rather than separated, individual organelles. Not surprisingly, mutations in genes involved in mitochondrial dynamics and quality control lead to human diseases such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A, Optic atrophy, and autosomal recessive Parkinson disease. I have designed a high-throughput protocol to permit genome-wide screening for novel genes that are required for normal mitochondrial morphology. I have executed a genome-wide RNA interference screen and identified several novel genes required for mitochondrial dynamics in addition to known regulators of mitochondrial dynamics. A detailed high-throughput genome-wide screening protocol is presented. I have shown that TID1, a gene identified from the screen, has a dual-role in maintaining the integrity of mitochondrial DNA and preventing the aggregation of complex I subunits. My analysis of the mitochondrial role of TID1 supports the existence of a TID1- mediated stress response to ATP synthase inhibition. The genome screen also identified the novel gene ROMO1 as essential for normal mitochondrial morphology. I have shown that ROMO1 may have an additional role in maintaining mitochondrial spare respiratory capacity, possibly by affecting cellular substrate availability. Finally, in a collaborative effort, we have shown that homozygous mutations in the mitochondrial fusion gene MFN2 lead to multiple symmetric lipomatosis (MSL) associated with neuropathy. Mechanistically, this mutation reduces MFN2 homocomplex formation. Taken together, these results show the utility of genome-wide screening in identifying genes involved in mitochondrial quality control.
Microtubule-associated protein 1A: Heavy chain and light chain interactions
Creators: name: Villeneuve, Tania S
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.
subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Microtubule (Mt)-associated proteins (MAPs) have been shown to play a role in Mt stability in axons and dendrites, in determining neuronal shape and in regulating the balance between rigidity and plasticity in neuronal processes. MAP1A is the most abundant MAP in adult brains, and in neurons is localized in axons and dendrites. MAP1A is represented by a protein complex of one heavy chain (HC) and three light chains (LC1, LC2, LC3). Understanding MAP1A-Mt-LC interactions may give insight into the neuronal cytoskeleton, which is often involved in neuronal diseases. To determine which area of the MAP1A HC is essential in Mt binding, parts of the MAP1A HC were expressed in HeLa cells. Through fluorescence microscopy, we determined that MAP1A colocalized with Mts, but did not alter the Mt network. Also, an in vitro binding assay, where MAP1A HC fragments were added to taxol stabilized Mts, determined that the N-terminus of MAP1A is involved in Mt binding. To determine the effect of the LCs on Mts, they were also expressed in HeLa cells. By the same in vivo and in vitro experiments, all three LCs were shown to bind Mts. LC1 and LC2 also conferred to Mts a wavy distribution, especially in the perinuclear region and increased Mt stability as shown by increased resistance to nocodazole. However, Mts in cells transfected with LC3 were not altered and showed no increased Mt stability. Whenever both MAP1A HC and LC2 were expressed in HeLa cells, the altering effect of LC2 was reduced, suggesting that the MAP1A HC might regulate LC2 activities.
On-line algorithms for attribute sampling
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: Acceptance sampling is an important field of statistical quality control. This thesis proposed online algorithms to construct hypergeometric sampling plans using Chebyshev polynomials. The recurrence relationship of Chebyshev polynomials significantly reduces the combinatorial computations for hypergeometric distributions. This property can be extended to compute binomial probabilities. The online tables generated by the proposed algorithms are easy to use and precise compared with the Odeh and Owen (1983)'s table. One can readily check the required sample size and acceptance number for pre-specified producer's risk; consumer's risk, proportion defective, and/or lot size for hypergeometric and binomial samplings. The algorithms also cover the confidence limits for hypergeometric and OC curve for binomial sampling. The programs written in R language are appended to show the implementation for the algorithms proposed.
On the way to a quality of reception: children and parents at Crèche
En route vers la qualité de l'accueil: enfants et parents à la Crèche
Creators: name: Pénaguin, Pierrette
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Article presented at International Workshop “Children and Families; critical issues and socio-cultural resources”, Bologna October 16th 2009.
description: Intervento al Workshop Internazionale “Infanzie e Famiglie in Europa”, del 16 ottobre 2009, presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Via Filippo Re, 6 Bologna (Aula Magna).
Orientation illusions and crosstalk
Creators: name: Kreiner, Welf A.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Apparent tilt
subject: Geometrical-optical Illusions
subject: Hering illusion
subject: Herringbone structure
subject: Intersect angle
subject: Orientation illusions
subject: Size constancy
subject: Zöllner Illusion
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Crosstalk
subject: Optical illusions
subject: Visual cortex
subject: Geometrisch-optische Täuschung
subject: Zöllner-Täuschung

description: Since the Zöllner illusion, several more orientation illusions have been published. Two effects are discussed here: A rotation effect on lines or stroke patterns at small angles to one of the two principal axes of alignment (vertical or horizontal) and another rotation effect on herringbone like structures. In the small-angle-to-axis-illusion (SMOX) a single line or a pattern of parallel lines appears to be slightly rotated towards the nearest axis. This effect is attributed to the uneven distribution of orientation cells in the visual cortex, as well as to an averaging process of the signals they produce. Vertical or horizontal target lines seen above such a pattern are rotated, too. This apparent interaction is attributed to crosstalk between neural pathways processing the visual information. Beside a general example of a herringbone type illusion, as a special case the original version of the Zöllner illusion is discussed, where the strokes of each two mirrorlike patterns form an angle of 90 degrees. The perceived tilt of the parallel target lines is attributed to a size constancy effect. However, herringbone type illusions can be enhanced by the small angle rotation effect. The Hering illusion is attributed to small angle rotation as well as to a size constancy effect. Both illusions are investigated with respect to their dependence on the overall orientation of the stimulus.
Value of parenting is measured by love and support
Value of parenting is measured by love and support
Creators: name: Tahirovic, Senija
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Article presented at International Workshop “Children and Families; critical issues and socio-cultural resources”, Bologna October 16th 2009.
description: Article presented at International Workshop “Children and Families; critical issues and socio-cultural resources”, Bologna October 16th 2009.
Refugees making history
Creators: name: Neumann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Reviews the books 'The Making of the Modern Refugee', by Peter Gatrell, published by Oxford University Press, 2013 and 'Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952' by Adam R. Seipp, published by Indiana University Press, 2013.
CESSDA Tips for Trainers
Creators: name: Leenarts, Ellen
name: Braukmann, Ricarda
name: Van den Eynden, Veerle
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2019
Subjects: CESSDA
Data management
Data sharing
Data archive
Training resources
Open Science

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4072273
description: Presentation on Tips for Trainers presented during the Open Science and Research Data Management Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp, organized by FOSTER, CESSDA, ELIXIR and DANS on 17 April 2019 in the Hague, The Netherlands. The bootcamp was for people supporting researchers in Open Science and Research Data Management (RDM) and looking for ways to make their training more effective. The event gave an overview of different European Open Science and RDM training and learning resources.
L’essere competenti nel linguaggio grafico-simbolico-artistico
Creators: name: Panciroli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Che cosa si intende per competenza grafico-simbolica? Si parla di una o più competenze. Di chi è questa competenza: del bambino, dell’insegnante/educatore o di entrambi? Questi sono alcuni dei quesiti che hanno indirizzato le principali argomentazioni del percorso formativo rivolto alle insegnanti delle scuole di infanzia provinciali di Trento, nello specifico dei Circoli didattici di Cles e Malè.
Questo articolo si propone di analizzare la competenza grafico-simbolica dell’insegnante e dell’operatore extrascolastico come premessa a quella del bambino.
I laboratori artistici di matrice educativa
Creators: name: Panciroli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Questo articolo si propone di individuare le principali funzioni del laboratorio artistico partendo da una specifica riflessione sullo sviluppo della pratica laboratoriale nei contesti scolatici ed extrascolastici. Il presupposto concettuale di questa analisi risiede nel costatare come uno spazio dedicato ai percorsi visivi debba essere strutturato in relazione alle caratteristiche specifiche del linguaggio artistico/espressivo e secondo una matrice strutturale che sappia raccogliere le finalità educative di questi luoghi. Il riferimento alle dimensioni del problematicismo pedagogico vuole offrire all’insegnante/educatore un modello progettuale adeguato ad allestire gli spazi del laboratorio artistico.
Two-Photon Polymerization Lithography for Optics and Photonics: Fundamentals, Materials, Technologies, and Applications
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Zhang, Wang
name: Ladika, Dimitra
name: Yu, Haoyi
name: Gailevičius, Darius
name: Wang, Hongtao
name: Pan, Cheng Feng
name: Nair, Parvathi Nair Suseela
name: Ke, Yujie
name: Mori, Tomohiro
name: Chan, John You En
name: Ruan, Qifeng
name: Farsari, Maria
name: Malinauskas, Mangirdas
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: Gu, Min
name: Yang, Joel K.W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The rapid development of additive manufacturing has fueled a revolution in various research fields and industrial applications. Among the myriad of advanced 3D printing techniques, two-photon polymerization lithography (TPL) uniquely offers a significant advantage in nanoscale print resolution, and has been widely employed in diverse fields, for example, life sciences, materials sciences, mechanics, and microfluidics. More recently, by virtue of the optical transparency of most of the resins used, TPL is finding new applications in optics and photonics, with nanometer to millimeter feature dimensions. It enables the minimization of optical elements and systems, and exploration of light-matter interactions with new degrees of freedom, never possible before. To review the recent progress in the TPL related optical research, it starts with the fundamentals of TPL and material formulation, then discusses novel fabrication methods, and a wide range of optical applications. These applications notably include diffractive, topological, quantum, and color optics. With a panoramic view of the development, it is concluded with insights and perspectives of the future development of TPL and related potential optical applications.
The Ukrainian Grid Infrastructure contribution to EGI and Open Science
Creators: name: Ferrari, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ukrainian Grid Infrastructure, EGI Federation, Open Science

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7258031
description: The Ukrainian Grid Infrastructure has been contributing to the EGI Federation and Open Science through scientific computing. Open Science has been supported to advance knowledge in curiosity-driven science. In more recent times Open Science had the opportunity to demonstrate itself as a powerful tool to support scientists in jointly tackling global societal challenges. In 2022 the EGI Federation is opening its infrastructure to support scientists who no longer have access to local compute and storage infrastructure.
Excess enthalpies of binary and ternary mixtures.
Creators: name: Wang, Laurie Luo.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The research work involved in this study can be described in two aspects: the experimental determination of excess enthalpies, H$\rm\sp{E},$ for some binary and ternary liquid mixtures; and a theoretical study of various approaches for the representation of experimental H$\rm\sp{E}$ data. To determine the excess enthalpies of desired systems, a series of calorimetric experiments have been carried out for 15 binary and six ternary mixtures with an LKB flow microcalorimeter. A new model, based on statistical thermodynamic principles, has been developed for representing and predicting the excess enthalpy of a ternary mixture from correlation of the H$\rm\sp{E}$ values of its constituent binaries. The analyses of experimental results were carried out with several solution models, such as the Flory theory model, an association model, the DISQUAC model, the NRTL model, the UNIQUAC model, and the model developed in this study. The applicability of the proposed model for predicting ternary H$\rm\sp{E}$ values was further investigated. In addition to the six ternary systems experimentally studied in this work, six more ternary systems were selected from the literature. For comparison, the same calculations were also carried out with the 3-parameter NRTL and 2-parameter UNIQUAC models.
Open Science for Society - There is a World outside of your lab: outreach initiatives
Creators: name: Antonietti, Alberto
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2019
Subjects: Outreach
Scientific Communication
SkypeAScientist
FameLab

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3401283
description: Slides from the presentation 'Open Science for Society - There is a World outside of your lab: outreach initiatives' at the Eurotech Summer School Open Science In Practice 2019 (http://osip2019.epfl.ch/). Lausanne, Switzerland.
Video e comunicazione scientifica. Il laboratorio MELA dell’Università di Bologna
Video and scientific communication. The MELA MediaLab of the University of Bologna
Creators: name: Corazza, Laura
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Al Media Education e-learning LAboratorio del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’educazione e della Facoltà di Scienze della formazione, Università di Bologna, un gruppo di esperti e di tecnici svolge attività di supporto alla didattica e alla ricerca, lavorando con i docenti per produrre audiovisivi e materiali multimediali. I prodotti MELA sono video per l’approfondimento culturale, per la produzione scientifica, per la documentazione.
description: At the Media Education e-learning LAboratory of the Education and Training Faculty of the University of Bologna a group of experts and technicians are carrying out a series of activities which provide support for teaching and research. Working alongside lecturers and teachers the MELA team produce audiovisual and other multimedia material aimed at increasing cultural knowledge, scientific production and documentation.
Implicit characterizations of FPTIME and NC revisited
Creators: name: Niggl, Karl-Heinz
name: Wunderlich, Henning
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: FPTIME
subject: Implicit computational complexity
subject: NC
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Computational complexity
subject: Komplexitätsklasse
subject: Komplexitätstheorie
subject: Rekursion

description: Various simplified or improved and partly corrected well-known implicit characterizations of the complexity classes FPTIME and \NC are presented. Primarily, the interest is in simplifying the required simulations of various recursion schemes in the corresponding (implicit) framework and in developing those simulations in a more uniform way, based on a step-by-step comparison technique, thus consolidating groundwork in implicit computational complexity.
Identità, alterità e cura
Identity, Otherness and care
Creators: name: Poletti, Fulvio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Il presente saggio intende portare una riflessione critica sul termine di identità, cercando di metterne in luce l’alone di ambiguità e il tasso di problematicità semantico-concettuale, in relazione soprattutto all’altro polo speculare rappresentato dal concetto di alterità. Alla luce della condizione esistenziale in cui l’uomo contemporaneo si trova immerso – caratterizzata da una forte instabilità, incertezza e precarietà che non di rado lo porta ad avvertire acuti sentimenti di smarrimento e di sfuocamento dell’orizzonte di senso relativo al proprio essere e al proprio agire – sembra ormai improponibile pensare a identità (personali, gruppali, professionali, comunitarie …) fisse e monolitiche. Le innumerevoli appartenenze incrociate cui ciascuno di noi è inserito nella vita privata, lavorativa e nel tempo libero ci rendono esseri in perenne divenire e soggetti a disparate esperienze di frequentazione con l’Altro, che rendono le traiettorie esistenziali e professionali assai diversificate e nel contempo ricche di spessore e di suggestioni. Il confronto con la differenza e l’alterità interroga con particolare intensità le professioni della cura e della relazione, contraddistinte da un tasso di complessità molto elevato e per le quali è auspi-cabile l’integrazione nei processi formativi destinati agli operatori sociali e sanitari una solida matrice umanistica per consolidarne la professionalità.
description: This paper presents  a critical consideration  of the meaning of identity. It seeks to highlight the ambiguity and the semantic- conceptual problematicity of the term. In the light of the existential condition in which contemporary Man finds him/herself, characterised by a high levels of instability, uncertainty and a precarious nature which often results in intense feelings of loss of a sense of belonging- it now seems nearly impossible to conceive of  identity (personal, group, professional, community) in monolithic or fixed terms. The innumerable interlacing groups in which each of us find ourselves in our private, working and social lives constantly brings us into contact with the Other, rendering highly diversified existential and professional trajectories rich in depth and stimulation. Contact with diversity and Otherness is particularly common in professions concerned with care and relationships and is distinguished by high levels of complexity that requires a solid humanist education and training.
Groundwater/surface water interaction in the Raisin River watershed, near Cornwall, Ontario.
Creators: name: Porter, Sandra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Hydrology.

description: A field study was conducted in 1994 and 1995 to understand the interaction of groundwater and surface water in the Raisin River watershed, near Cornwall, Ontario. The Raisin River lies within an agricultural region which relies heavily on groundwater use. The regional groundwater supply is predominantly from a limestone aquifer which underlies various surficial deposits (primarily glacial till). Groundwater movement appears to be in a southeasterly direction, towards the St. Lawrence River. Seepage meters, mini-piezometers, and a falling head permeameter were used to (i) measure the flux of groundwater into (positive seepage) or out (negative seepage) of the Raisin River, and (ii) measure the hydraulic conductivity of the Raisin River sediments. Measurements were made at thirteen sites within the watershed. To identify the source of groundwater and study processes of streamflow generation during storm runoff, surface water, groundwater, and rainwater samples were collected for environmental isotopes (oxygen-18 and deuterium). Raisin River discharge data were also analysed. Seepage measurements and hydraulic conductivities exhibit significant variability. The coefficients of variation for seepage measurements ranged from 20.3 to 392%, and for hydraulic conductivity from 0 to 161%, depending on the site. Seepage flux ranges from $2.23\times10\sp{-6}$ to $\rm{-}9.82\times10\sp{-9}m\sp3m\sp{-2}s\sp{-1},$ and hydraulic conductivity ranges from 10$\sp{-6}$ to 10$\sp{-9}$ ms$\sp{-1}$ (a negative seepage flux indicates groundwater flow from the aquifer to the river). Environmental isotope analyses indicate that meteoric water is the source of local groundwater with a mean residence time of approximately 4 months. After a storm event, groundwater composed 63% of total stream discharge. The peak response in the river is approximately two days after a storm event. These variables indicate that groundwater/surface water relationships should be taken into account if decisions are made with respect to water quality or quantity. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Synthesis and surface functionalization of gold nanoparticles for localized tissue heating
Creators: name: Yong, Jiawey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Gold nanorods (GNRs) are efficient photon-to-heat converters. In this thesis, we demonstrated the feasibility of applying stable GNRs (synthesized and functionalized using wet chemical techniques) in near-infrared (NIR) stimulation of primary auditory neurons in vitro. Using whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology, the results showed that the neurons cultured with stable silica-coated GNRs were able to respond to the 780 nm pulsed NIR laser irradiation by exhibiting enhanced cell electrical activity. The results also revealed temperature rises between 0.5 ºC and 6.0 ºC depending on the laser pulse length used. This work shows great promise for the future development of neural prosthetic devices.
Characterization of carbon felt electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries: impact of treatment methods
Creators: name: Eifert, Laszlo
name: Banerjee, Rupak
name: Jusys, Zenonas
name: Zeis, Roswitha
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Carbon Felt
subject: Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Aging
subject: Alterungsbeständigkeit

description: In this study, we investigated the influence of thermal treatment, soaking in H2SO4 and electrochemical ageing on commercially available carbon felt materials from SGL carbon. We compared both the influence of the pre-treatment (carbonization or graphitization) and the influence of the precursor (Rayon or PAN). By thermogravimetric analysis coupled with mass spectrometry (TGA-MS) we showed, that after thermal treatment, the thermal stability was lower for carbonized felts compared to graphitized felts and the Rayon based felts were more stable than PAN based ones. Soaking had a stronger impact on the thermal stability of PAN based felts, whereas it was similar to the electrochemical ageing for Rayon based felts. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy revealed that thermal treatment reduces the overall surface oxygen content for all felt types and the degree of graphitization doesn't change, but the content of single bonded oxygen was increased for graphitized carbon felts, only. For carbonized felts, thermal treatment highly reduced the electrochemical activity characterized by cyclic voltammetry due to a reduced overall oxygen content and increased C=O and C=C contents. In this work, we provide a comprehensive overview of commercially available carbon felts and characterize the effects of several treatment methods.
Educazione scolastica e pratiche di esclusione sociale: la prospettiva dei giovani migranti. Una ricerca nelle scuole superiori della Provincia di Modena
Scholastic Education and social exclusion: The perspective of young migrants
Creators: name: Farini, Federico
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: L’educazione presuppone la distinzione tra comportamenti corretti o sbagliati, che diventa il riferimento di una distribuzione ineguale di rimproveri o elogi che ha effetti selettivi. Ogni azione selettiva è elemento di una costruzione autoportante che dà fiducia e credito, creando aspettative differenziate verso gli studenti che inevitabilmente ne condizionano il percorso educativo. A fronte di scuole ampia-mente multiculturali, si crede opportuno interrogarsi se, come ed in che misura la selezione educativa abbia specifiche conseguenze sul più ampio processo di integrazione sociale degli studenti migranti. Cercheremo di rispondere a questi interrogativi da una prospettiva bottom down, a partire dalle  parole di studenti migranti che frequentano scuole medie di grado superiore nella città di Modena
description: Education presupposes the distinction between correct and wrong behaviour which becomes the reference point for an unequal distribution of censure and praise which have selective effects. Each selective action is an element in a self-supporting construction which gives confidence and credit, creating differing expectations in students with inevitable effects on their educational progress. In the face of increasingly multicultural schools we believe it to be necessary to ask ourselves how and to what extent educational selection has on the wider process of the social integration of migrant students. We seek to respond to these questions through a bottom down perspective, starting out from the words of migrant students attending a middle school in Modena.
Downregulation of adiponectin expression by IL-6 & Functional analyses of novel genetic variants of DGAT1 and DGAT2 in humans
Creators: name: Cadotte, Natalie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Obesity is characterized by two major events: systemic low-grade inflammation and energy metabolism imbalance. Adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived protein, has insulin-sensitizing properties in muscle and liver. Its expression and plasma concentrations are decreased in obesity. Our studies examined the role of interleukin-6 (IL-6), an important obesity-related cytokine, on adiponectin gene expression. IL-6 decreased adiponectin expression in a time- and dose-dependent manner in both human primary adipocytes and 3T3-L1 cells through a p44/42 MAP kinase-dependent pathway. In vivo studies demonstrated that IL-6 KO mice have increased plasma adiponectin levels on both a chow and a high fat/high glucose diet. Acyl-CoA: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) is a key enzyme in triglyceride biosynthesis. Although many studies have demonstrated the role of DGAT in rodents, very little is known about its role in humans. Our studies identified a novel stop codon in the DGAT2 gene, which results in decreased DGAT2 mRNA expression in adipocytes and is associated with decreased triglyceride levels.
Chance, la scuola della seconda opportunità
Chance: a school offering a second chance
Creators: name: Filippini, Federica
name: Giustini, Chiara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Il presente articolo illustra la realtà del progetto Chance, scuola della seconda opportunità nata nei quartieri periferici di Napoli. Ne evidenzia potenzialità, risorse, ricchezze e difficoltà, raccontate  in una serie di interviste dai protagonisti che quotidianamente vivono questa “scuola”, e osservate dalle ricercatrici autrici dell’articolo in alcune visite effettuate fra il 2009 e il 2010. Non vuole essere un racconto esaustivo di una realtà complessa come Chance, ma un’occasione per riflettere su una “buona pratica”, sul fare scuola anche in contesti di difficoltà, violenza, illegalità, sulla professionalità di insegnanti, educatori, “mamme sociali”, sull’importanza di lavorare per incidere sul territorio in cui si opera.
description: This article describes the Chance project, a school offering a second chance for learners who have dropped out of the official system, based in the suburbs of Naples. It highlights the potential, the resources, the rewards and difficulties told through a series of interviews with the people who live the day to day reality of this “school” combined with observations from the researcher-authors of the paper who made a series of visits between 2009 and 2010. It does not set out to be give an exhaustive record of the complex reality of Chance but rather presents a series of reflections regarding “best practices” and schooling in contexts of hardship, violence, illegality. It considers the professionalism of the teachers,  social workers, “social mothers” and the importance of attempting to make a mark upon the local community in which the project operates.
Development and validation of two instruments measuring intrinsic, extraneous, and germane cognitive load
Creators: name: Klepsch, Melina
name: Schmitz, Florian
name: Seufert, Tina
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Load Theory
subject: Differentiated measurement
subject: Multimedia research
subject: Multimedia design principles
subject: Dual-task methodology
subject: Worked examples
subject: Metaanalysis
subject: Strategies
subject: Increase
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 370 / Education
subject: Instructional systems; Design
subject: Education research
subject: Performance
subject: Prompting (Education)
subject: Thought and thinking
subject: Bildungswesen
subject: Multimedia
subject: Pädagogik
subject: Forschung
subject: Metaanalyse
subject: Performanz
subject: Denkform

description: Cognitive Load Theory is one of the most powerful research frameworks in educational research. Beside theoretical discussions about the conceptual parts of cognitive load, the main challenge within this framework is that there is still no measurement instrument for the different aspects of cognitive load, namely intrinsic, extraneous, and germane cognitive load. Hence, the goal of this paper is to develop a differentiated measurement of cognitive load. In Study 1 (N = 97), we developed and analyzed two strategies to measure cognitive load in a differentiated way: (1) Informed rating: We trained learners in differentiating the concepts of cognitive load, so that they could rate them in an informed way. They were asked then to rate 24 different learning situations or learning materials related to either high or low intrinsic, extraneous, or germane load. (2) Naïve rating: For this type of rating of cognitive load we developed a questionnaire with two to three items for each type of load. With this questionnaire, the same learning situations had to be rated. In the second study (N = between 65 and 95 for each task), we improved the instrument for the naïve rating. For each study, we analyzed whether the instruments are reliable and valid, for Study 1, we also checked for comparability of the two measurement strategies. In Study 2, we conducted a simultaneous scenario based factor analysis. The informed rating seems to be a promising strategy to assess the different aspects of cognitive load, but it seems not economic and feasible for larger studies and a standardized training would be necessary. The improved version of the naïve rating turned out to be a useful, feasible, and reliable instrument. Ongoing studies analyze the conceptual validity of this measurement with up to now promising results.