cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Differential evolution: difference vectors and movement in solution space
Creators: name: Montgomery, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the commonly used DE/rand/1 variant of differential evolution the primary mechanism of generating new solutions is the perturbation of a randomly selected point by a difference vector. The newly selected point may, if good enough, then replace a solution from the current generation. As the magnitude of difference vectors diminishes as the population converges, the size of moves made also diminishes, an oft-touted and obvious benefit of the approach. Additionally, when the population splits into separate clusters difference vectors exist for both small and large moves. Given that a replaced solution is not the one perturbed to create the new, candidate solution, are the large difference vectors responsible for movement of population members between clusters? This paper examines the mechanisms of small and large moves, finding that small moves within one cluster result in solutions from another being replaced and so appearing to move a large distance. As clusters tighten this is the only mechanism for movement between them.
Cuerpos, voces y textos en disputa: Museo de la revolución, de Martín Kohan
Cuerpos, voces y textos en disputa: Museo de la revolución, de Martín Kohan
Creators: name: Gómez, Facundo; UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Martín Kohan; Argentine literature; history; dialogism; Marxism
Martín Kohan; literatura argentina; historia; dialogismo; marxismo

description: Museo de la revolución, the novel by Martín Kohan, develops a fictional counterpoint between two different stories: the disappearance of an activist in Argentina during the seventies and the recovery of his papers by a writer during the nineties. The aim of this work is to analyse the way in which the voices and discourses are linked throughout the text in order to consider some relevant issues of Argentina´s contemporary history. Besides, the novel allows to think about the complex relation between theory and practice throughout the criticism of some aspects of traditional Marxism.
description: La novela Museo de la revolución, de Martín Kohan, construye un contrapunto ficcional entre dos historias: la de un militante desaparecido en la década del setenta y la de un escritor de los noventa que lee los recuperados manuscritos del primero. El presente trabajo se propone analizar cómo las voces y los discursos articulados en el texto permiten por un lado iluminar relevantes cuestiones en torno a la historia argentina contemporánea y por otro, reflexionar acerca de la problemática relación entre teoría y práctica, centrada principalmente en la crítica al Marxismo tradicional.
A European Multi Lake Survey dataset of environmental variables, phytoplankton pigments and cyanotoxins
Creators: name: Mantzouki, Evanthia
name: Fastner, Jutta
name: Campbell, James
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Limnologie

description: Under ongoing climate change and increasing anthropogenic activity, which continuously challenge ecosystem resilience, an in-depth understanding of ecological processes is urgently needed. Lakes, as providers of numerous ecosystem services, face multiple stressors that threaten their functioning. Harmful cyanobacterial blooms are a persistent problem resulting from nutrient pollution and climate-change induced stressors, like poor transparency, increased water temperature and enhanced stratification. Consistency in data collection and analysis methods is necessary to achieve fully comparable datasets and for statistical validity, avoiding issues linked to disparate data sources. The European Multi Lake Survey (EMLS) in summer 2015 was an initiative among scientists from 27 countries to collect and analyse lake physical, chemical and biological variables in a fully standardized manner. This database includes in-situ lake variables along with nutrient, pigment and cyanotoxin data of 369 lakes in Europe, which were centrally analysed in dedicated laboratories. Publishing the EMLS methods and dataset might inspire similar initiatives to study across large geographic areas that will contribute to better understanding lake responses in a changing environment. Quelle: https://www.nature.com
Thirst
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'Thirst' began with an image experienced in the mouth of the speaker struggling to speak her struggle: ‘tongue a pebble’. Rhythm took over, and in a sense the whole poem is a process of translation from images to words enhanced by the pulse of the cicada singing at the end of summer. It addresses the theme of drought from physical, emotional, linguistic, spiritual and global perspectives.
How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with “smartphone addiction”?
Creators: name: Montag, Christian
name: Wegmann, Elisa
name: Sariyska, Rayna
name: Demetrovics, Zsolt
name: Brand, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Internet addiction
subject: Internet use disorder
subject: Problematic Internet use
subject: Smartphone addiction
subject: Smartphone use disorder
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Cell phone use; Adverse effects
subject: Internet
subject: Behavior, Addictive
subject: Online-Sucht
subject: Smartphone

description: Aims: The present theoretical paper introduces the smartphone technology as a challenge for diagnostics in the study of Internet use disorders and reflects on the term “smartphone addiction.” Methods: Such a reflection is carried out against the background of a literature review and the inclusion of Gaming Disorder in ICD-11. Results: We believe that it is necessary to divide research on Internet use disorder (IUD) into a mobile and non-mobile IUD branch. This is important because certain applications such as the messenger application WhatsApp have originally been developed for smartphones and enfold their power and attractiveness mainly on mobile devices. Discussion and conclusions: Going beyond the argumentation for distinguishing between mobile and non-mobile IUD, it is of high relevance for scientists to better describe and understand what persons are actually (over-)using. This is stressed by a number of examples, explicitly targeting not only the diverse contents used in the online world, but also the exact behavior on each platform. Among others, it matters if a person is more of an active producer of content or passive consumer of social media.
VHDL design and implementation of a LAN on a chip.
Creators: name: Deng, Xiao Gang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: With ever increasing usage of Internet and more demand for real-time applications, the intrinsic shortcoming of Ethernet becomes more and more apparent. Ethernet architecture combined with the Medium Access Control protocol can not guarantee a maximum time delay variation, jitter, which is critical to real-time applications. In this thesis, a novel LAN architecture is proposed, designed and implemented with field programmable gate array (FPGA) device as target. This LAN on a chip design is simple, scaleable and modular. The preliminary simulation shows that it reduces the impact of packet collision on the LAN and improves the performance in terms of reducing and limiting jitter on real-time traffic.
How does the rib cage affect the biomechanical properties of the thoracic spine? A systematic literature review
Creators: name: Liebsch, Christian
name: Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Rib cage
subject: Thoracic spine
subject: Range of motion
subject: Neutral zone
subject: Coupled motions
subject: Stiffness
subject: Center of rotation
subject: Intradiscal pressure
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Spine
subject: Thoracic vertebrae
subject: Biomechanical phenomena
subject: Brustwirbelsäule
subject: Bewegung
subject: Steifigkeit

description: The vast majority of previous experimental studies on the thoracic spine were performed without the entire rib cage, while significant contributive aspects regarding stability and motion behavior were shown in several other studies. The aim of this literature review was to pool and increase evidence on the effect of the rib cage on human thoracic spinal biomechanical characteristics by collating and interrelating previous experimental findings in order to support interpretations of in vitro and in silico studies disregarding the rib cage to create comparability and reproducibility for all studies including the rib cage and provide combined comparative data for future biomechanical studies on the thoracic spine. After a systematic literature search corresponding to PRISMA guidelines, eleven studies were included and quantitatively evaluated in this review. The combined data exhibited that the rib cage increases the thoracic spinal stability in all motion planes, primarily in axial rotation and predominantly in the upper thorax half, reducing thoracic spinal range of motion, neutral zone, and intradiscal pressure, while increasing thoracic spinal neutral and elastic zone stiffness, compression resistance, and, in a neutral position, the intradiscal pressure. In particular, the costosternal connection was found to be the primary stabilizer and an essential determinant for the kinematics of the overall thoracic spine, while the costotransverse and costovertebral joints predominantly reinforce the stability of the single thoracic spinal segments but do not alter thoracic spinal kinematics. Neutral zone and neutral zone stiffness were more affected by rib cage removal than the range of motion and elastic zone stiffness, thus also representing the essential parameters for destabilization of the thoracic spine. As a result, the rib cage and thoracic spine form a biomechanical entity that should not be separated. Therefore, usage of entire human non-degenerated thoracic spine and rib cage specimens together with pure moment application and sagittal curvature determination is recommended for future in vitro testing in order to ensure comparability, reproducibility, and quasiphysiological validity.
La reforma del modelo económico cubano: una exposición
La reforma del modelo económico cubano: una exposición
Creators: name: Lamrani, Salim; UNIVERSITE PARIS-SORBONNE PARIS IV
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Cuba; economic model; reform; structural revolution; future
Cuba; modelo económico; reforma; revolución estructural; futuro

description: In light of the current world financial crisis, Cuba is compelled to make socioeconomic changes in order to preserve its social model. The serious difficulties facing the Island stem as much from external factors – mainly the sanctions imposed by the United States, the world systemic crisis and natural disasters – as from internal factors, namely bureaucracy, corruption, low productivity, a hypertrophic public sector and little or no culture of debate, among others. Before its adoption by the Cuban Parliament in August 2011, the project to reform the economic model presented to the VII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba was the object of profound changes resulting from a widespread popular discussion.
description: Frente a la crisis financiera global, Cuba se encuentra en la obligación de reformar su sistema socioeconómico con el fin de preservar su modelo de sociedad. Las graves dificultades a las cuales está confrontada la isla se explican a la vez por factores externos – principalmente las sanciones que imponen los Estados Unidos, la crisis sistémica mundial y las catástrofes naturales – y factores internos – la burocracia, la corrupción, la productividad baja, la hipertrofia del sector público y la falta de una cultura del debate, entre otros. El proyecto de reforma del modelo económico presentado durante la reunión del VII Congreso del Partido Comunista Cubano fue adoptado por el Parlamento Cubano en agosto de 2011, después de profundas modificaciones derivadas del amplio debate popular al cual fue sometido.
Supplementary document for All-optical single shot complete electric field measurement of extreme ultraviolet free electron laser pulses - 5112164.pdf
Creators: name: Peters, William
name: Jones, Travis
name: Efimov, Anatoly
name: Pedersoli, Emanuele
name: Foglia, Laura
name: Mincigrucci, Riccardo
name: Nikolov, Ivaylo
name: Trebino, Rick
name: Danailov, M
name: capotondi, flavio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized
Optical Physics not elsewhere classified

description: Supporting information
La zona roja: potere ed utilizzo del territorio urbano  a Città del Guatemala
La zona roja: potere ed utilizzo del territorio urbano  a Città del Guatemala
Creators: name: Grassi, Paolo; UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Guatemala; violence; social enclave; mara; pandilla
Guatemala; violenza; enclave sociale; mara; pandilla

description: This paper is the result of an in progress ethnographic research in a slum of Guatemala City, a “red zone”, as local media label the marginal areas of the city. The paper will offer a complex interpretation of that place, understood as a relational outcome not only relating to the actors that live in, but to a general mental and social structure interconnected to the whole metropolitan area. The analysis of the rhetoric used to produce this social enclave will necessary focus on a specific phenomenon: the transnational juvenile banditry.
description: Questo saggio, frutto di una ricerca etnografica tutt’ora in corso in un barrio di Città del Guatemala, una “zona rossa” - così come vengono etichettati i quartieri marginali della città dalla stampa locale - propone un’interpretazione complessa di quel luogo, inteso come prodotto relazionale non solo degli attori che lo abitano, ma di una struttura mentale e sociale più generale, relativa a tutta l’area metropolitana. L’analisi delle retoriche utilizzate nella produzione di questa enclave sociale si focalizzerà necessariamente su un fenomeno peculiare: il banditismo giovanile transnazionale.
Cuerpo, enfermedad y ciudadanía en las crónicas urbanas de Pedro Lemebel
Cuerpo, enfermedad y ciudadanía en las crónicas urbanas de Pedro Lemebel
Creators: name: Ostrov, Andrea; UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES-CONICET
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: gender; body; performativity; disease; transvestism

description: The chronicles by Pedro Lemebel configure a cartography of the suburbs of Santiago. It lights up those areas excluded from the “official” map of the city. In the case of Loco afán. Crónicas de sidario, the narrator runs through transvesti, prostitution and AIDS, linking gender and sexuality with other variables, such as ethinicity, language and social status, all involved in the construction of a Latinamerican homossexual subjectivity, which is pictured in these texts as an instance of resistance, towards the dominant identity models.
description: Las crónicas de Pedro Lemebel configuran una cartografía de la periferia santiaguina que ilumina aquellas zonas que no tienen cabida en el mapa oficial de la ciudad. En el caso de Loco afán. Crónicas de sidario, el narrador traza un recorrido por la prostitución travesti y el sida, vinculando las cuestiones de género sexual con otras variables (etnia, lengua, clase, etc.), determinantes para la construcción de una subjetividad homosexual latinoamericana que se plantea en estos textos como instancia de resistencia frente a los modelos identitarios dominantes.
The radial velocity experiment (RAVE): first data release
Creators: name: Steinmetz, Matthias
name: Zwitter, Tomaz
name: Siebert, Arnaud
name: Watson, Fred G.
name: Freeman, Kenneth C.
name: Munari, Ulisse
name: Campbell, Rachel
name: Williams, Mary
name: Seabroke, George M.
name: Wyse, Rosemary F.
name: Parker, Quentin A.
name: Bienayme, Olivier
name: Roeser, Siegfried
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Gilmore, Gerry
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: Helmi, Amina
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Burton, Donna
name: Cass, C. J. Paul
name: Dawe, John A.
name: Fiegert, Kristin
name: Hartley, Malcolm
name: Russell, Ken S.
name: Saunders, Will
name: Enke, Harry
name: Bailin, Jeremy
name: Binney, James
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Jonathan
name: Boeche, Corrado
name: Dehnen, Walter
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Evans, N. Wyn
name: Fiorucci, Massimo
name: Fulbright, Jon P.
name: Gerhard, Ortwin
name: Jauregi, Urtzi
name: Kelz, Andreas
name: Mijovic, Liza
name: Minchev, Ivan
name: Parmentier, Genevieve
name: Penarrubia, Jorge
name: Quillen, Alice C.
name: Read, Mike A.
name: Ruchti, Gregory
name: Scholz, Ralf D.
name: Siviero, Alessandro
name: Smith, Martin C.
name: Sordo, Rosanna
name: Veltz, Lionel
name: Vidrih, Simon
name: Von Berlepsch, Regina
name: Boyle, Brian J.
name: Schilbach, Elena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity, and surface gravity) of up to one million stars using the Six Degree Field multiobject spectrograph on the 1.2 m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The RAVE program started in 2003, obtaining medium-resolution spectra (median R = 7500) in the Ca-triplet region (8410-8795 Å) for southern hemisphere stars drawn from the Tycho-2 and SuperCOSMOS catalogs, in the magnitude range 9 < I < 12. The first data release is described in this paper and contains radial velocities for 24,748 individual stars (25,274 measurements when including reobservations). Those data were obtained on 67 nights between 2003 April 11 and 2004 April 3. The total sky coverage within this data release is ~4760 deg2. The average signal-to-noise ratio of the observed spectra is 29.5, and 80% of the radial velocities have uncertainties better than 3.4 km s-1. Combining internal errors and zero-point errors, the mode is found to be 2 km s-1. Repeat observations are used to assess the stability of our radial velocity solution, resulting in a variance of 2.8 km s-1. We demonstrate that the radial velocities derived for the first data set do not show any systematic trend with color or signal-to-noise ratio. The RAVE radial velocities are complemented in the data release with proper motions from Starnet 2.0, Tycho-2, and SuperCOSMOS, in addition to photometric data from the major optical and infrared catalogs (Tycho-2, USNO-B, DENIS, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey). The data release can be accessed via the RAVE Web site.
Umweltkennzahlen in der Praxis
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Umweltkennzahlen
subject: Umweltmanagement
subject: Umweltmanagementsystem
subject: EMAS
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Wie effizient geht ein Unternehmen mit Wasser und Rohstoffen um? Welchen Beitrag leistet es zum ⁠Klimaschutz⁠? Der Leitfaden hilft Unternehmen und anderen Organisationen, ihr Umweltengagement mit Hilfe von Kennzahlen mess- und steuerbar zu machen und über die eigene Umweltleistung glaubwürdig zu berichten. Bei der Auswahl und Anwendung von Kennzahlen greift der Leitfaden auf die umfangreiche Erfahrung von Organisationen zurück, die am Umweltmanagement ⁠EMAS⁠ teilnehmen.
An in-depth study of adaptive random testing for testing program with complex input types
Creators: name: Barus, Arlinta Christy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Adaptive random testing (ART) is a testing method aimed to improve the performance of random testing. The initial studies of ART merely focussed on programs with numeric input type. However, real life software involves more complex types of inputs. This thesis examines the application of ART on programs with complex input types. Firstly, the application of a distance-based ART technique, namely FSCS-ART, on real programs with complex input types is conducted. This is an extension of two previous studies which developed new approaches to apply FSCS-ART on such programs. However, those studies have not applied the approaches to test any real programs. Here, they are applied to test four real programs with such input types. An exclusion-based ART, namely Restricted Random Testing (RRT), has been demostrated effective to test programs with numeric input type. We are motivated to also apply RRT on programs with complex input types. Some new approaches are introduced to adjust the use of RRT on such programs. Previous studies of ART have identified the regularity of failure causing inputs (FCIs), which are inputs that cause a program under test fails, in the numeric context. They have also observed how ART techniques behaved towards the identified patterns. This thesis investigates the extension of the study to more complex input types. Using the results of the relevant experiments in this thesis, we investigate the FCI patterns in a program with complex input types and analyse how the ART techniques behave towards the identified patterns. When applying ART, the existence of a test oracle is required to identify the detection of failures. Test oracle is more difficult to obtain when the program under test has more complex input types. Therefore, in this thesis we propose the use of Metamorphic Testing (MT) as the test oracle for applying ART on a program with complex input types. We examine how effective is MT compared to a test oracle which has been commonly used in previous ART studies. At last, an application of ART on other area of testing is conducted. We apply ART as the source test case selection strategy of MT. We investigate how effective ART compared to RT in selecting the source test cases of the implemented metamorphic relations.
Viaggio e incertezza, fatalità e ribellione in Ekomo di María Nsue Angüe
Viaggio e incertezza, fatalità e ribellione in Ekomo di María Nsue Angüe
Creators: name: Manera, Danilo; UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: María Nsue Angüe; Literature of Equatorial Guinea; Afro-Spanish literatures; Postcolonial African novel
María Nsue Angüe; Letteratura della Guinea Equatoriale; Letterature ispanoafricane; Romanzo africano postcoloniale

description: María Nsue Angüe’s novel Ekomo (1985) is a classic of hispanophone Equatorial Guinea, presenting the world vision and experience of a young woman, an ethnic Fang living in rural area, during the decolonization of Africa. This study examines the spacetime coordinates and the cultural conflicts detectable in the text and proposes a map of the main interacting isotopies: journey (therapeutic, initiatory, through memory and myths) and borders (physical, temporal, mental and between life and death), uncertainty and helplessness, destiny and mourning, corporeality and rebellion.
description: Ekomo (1985) di María Nsue Angüe, romanzo già classico nella letteratura della Guinea Equatoriale ispanofona, presenta la visione del mondo e l’esperienza vitale di una giovane d’etnia fang e di zona rurale nell’Africa della decolonizzazione. Questo studio esamina le coordinate spazio-temporali e la rete di contrapposizioni culturali rilevabili nel testo e propone una mappa delle principali isotopie caratterizzanti che vi interagiscono: il viaggio (terapeutico, iniziatico, mnemonico e mitologico) e le frontiere (fisiche, temporali, mentali e soprannaturali), l’incertezza e l’impotenza, la fatalità e il lutto, la corporeità e la ribellione.
La ciudad en la poesía de Augusto de Campos: del conjuro y la ciudad-falansterio a la ciudad moderna pero babélica
La ciudad en la poesía de Augusto de Campos: del conjuro y la ciudad-falansterio a la ciudad moderna pero babélica
Creators: name: Jorge, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Augusto de Campos; poetry; city; modernity; Latin America
Augusto de Campos; poesía; ciudad; modernidad; Latinoamérica

description: This paper presents an analysis of the city’s image constructed in the work of brazilian poet Augusto de Campos, beginning with a poem from 1963, “cidade / city / cité”, and through works from the year 2000 as “sem saída”. Using concepts as “modern city”, “babelic city” and “phalanstery city”, this paper will approach the author’s conception of the relationship between poetry, city and politics, and the way it mutes. Finally, the article will raise critical views of Brazil’s modern image, emerged in the late sixties, and it will be revised De Campos’s intervention in this context..
description: La Villa di César Aira non racconta la vita nella baraccopoli: racconta i modi in cui questa viene percepita dagli altri abitanti della città. Anziché parlarci della villa miseria, ci parla del ruolo che questa occupa nelle autorappresentazioni della città. Gli stereotipi sociali che le vengono solitamente associati sono assimilati ironicamente nella prospettiva del testo, consentendo l’esplorazione obliqua dei discorsi che nutrono e mantengono la sua costruzione come corpo estraneo alla città.
Ciudades latinoamericanas: una utopía intelectual
Ciudades latinoamericanas: una utopía intelectual
Creators: name: Croce, Marcela; UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Latin America; imaginary cities; utopia
América Latina; ciudades imaginarias; utopía

description: This paper analyzes Latin American utopian texts of the nineteenth and twentieth century, from Francisco de Miranda political-independentist proposal to Carlos Gamerro's novel Las islas, taking as axis of the travel Gisela Heffes's book Las ciudades imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana. The central hypothesis is that fictional cities participate in the construction of major intellectual utopia, which is the very idea of Latin America.
description: El ensayo recorre textos utópicos latinoamericanos de los siglos XIX y XX, desde la propuesta político-independentista de Francisco de Miranda hasta la novela Las islas de Carlos Gamerro, tomando como eje de la travesía el libro de Gisela Heffes Las ciudades imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana. La hipótesis central es que las ciudades ficcionales participan en su imaginería de la utopía intelectual mayor que es la idea misma de América Latina.
Health-Risk Behaviours in Emerging Adults: Examining the Relationships among Personality, Peer, and Parent Variables
Creators: name: Blum, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: health-risk behaviours
reckless behavior
emerging adulthood
emerging adults
cigarette smoking
alcohol inebriation
marijuana usage
risky behaviour
Sensation Seeking
drunk

description: College students and emerging adults have been found to be at risk for smoking cigarettes, drinking to excess, using illicit drugs, driving dangerously, and engaging in risky sexual and delinquent behaviour. Psychosocial correlates (Sensation Seeking, peer behaviour, parent behaviour, and peer and parent anti-substance use messages) from three domains of influence (personality, parent, and peer) were examined together to provide a greater context for the occurrence of such health-risk behaviours. The strongest predictor(s) of each behaviour were identified to better inform intervention practices. Three groups were compared— 1) those who never tried substances, 2) those who tried substances in the past, and 3) those who continue to use substances at present, in a population of emerging adults. Self-report data was gathered from 203 Collèges d'Enseignement Général Et Professionnel (CEGEP) students in the Montreal region. Measures included: Reckless Behaviour Questionnaire, Reckless Driving Measure, Health Behaviour Survey, Sensation Seeking Scale—Form V, and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Results revealed that peer behaviour was the most significant predictor of substance use in emerging adults, whereas parent behaviour was only a significant predictor of reckless driving. Sensation Seeking, specifically Disinhibition, was found to predict more global reckless behaviours, including illegal activities, such as stealing or using marijuana (p < .01). Neither peer nor parent anti-substance messages were significantly related to any of the health-risk behaviours measured in this study. It would appear that health-risk behaviours tend to be related to the same underlying factors but to varying degrees. Intervention implications are discussed.
Visioni dal barrio. Trasformazioni nel Messico contemporaneo attraverso gli occhi di un quartiere.
Visioni dal barrio. Trasformazioni nel Messico contemporaneo attraverso gli occhi di un quartiere.
Creators: name: Anzalone, Serena; Università Di Genova
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: urban anthropology; city; vecindades; economics; NAFTA
antropologia urbana; città; vecindades; economia; TLC

description: The central district of Mexico City, Tepito, has always been of primary economical, social and cultural importance for the city and the country. The central goal of the present study is to investigate some changes that have affected the main features of social identity of the district. We will analyse the waythe informal economyof vecindadesarose after the implementation in 1994 of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Thispaper aims at demonstrating how the NAFTA economical policies led to social fragmentation; increase violence and proliferation of mafia-style systems.
description: Tepito, quartiere centrale di Città del Messico, è sempre stato di fondamentale importanza a livello economico, sociale e culturale, per la città e per il paese. Il presente studio si propone di analizzare alcune trasformazioni degli aspetti che hanno caratterizzato l'identità sociale del quartiere, avvenute dopo l'entrata in vigore del Trattato di Libero Commercio (TLC) nel 1994, nel tentativo di dimostrare come questa economia neoliberista abbia portato alla disgregazione sociale, all'aumento della violenza e al proliferare di sistemi mafiosi.
Le sentiment d'appartenance au sein de la communauté canadienne-française à Ottawa, (1852 à 1912)
Creators: name: Rathwell, Shawn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Même s'il y a une présence francophone en Ontario depuis le régime français, c'est surtout à partir du deuxième quart du XIXe siècle, à la suite des problèmes socioéconomiques qui émergent au Québec qu'une forte population canadienne-française s'y installe définitivement. Étant issus du même milieu, les Francophones du Québec et de l'Ontario partagent plusieurs des mêmes valeurs. Les Canadiens français d'Ottawa appartiennent bel et bien à une nation et il s'agit de la nation canadienne-française, la même qui est presenté au Québec à la même époque. La situation québécoise et ontarienne n'est pas la même. Les Canadiens français de ces deux provinces vivent des expériences différentes et témoignent des événements selon diverses perspectives. Ils ne partagent pas, non plus, nécessairement tous les mêmes objectifs. Les Canadiens français d'Ottawa commencent peu à peu à se distinguer de ceux du Québec. Toutefois, ils demeurent réellement le même groupe et partagent essentiellement la même identité tout au long de la période étudiée, c'est-à-dire au cours des soixante ans qui précèdent (entrée en vigueur du règlement XVII en 1912. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Thermally switching between perfect absorber and asymmetric transmission in vanadium dioxide-assisted metamaterials - 5112402.pdf
Creators: name: Ren, Yi
name: Zhou, Tianle
name: Jiang, Chun
name: Tang, Bin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Cabo Verde: expressões ibéricas de cultura política, morabeza e cordialidade
Cabo Verde: expressões ibéricas de cultura política, morabeza e cordialidade
Creators: name: De Pina, Leão Jesus
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: political culture; democracy; cordiality; Morabeza
cultura política; democracia; cordialidade; Morabeza; iberismo

description: In this essay, we will emphasize some of the main interpretive models of the so called Iberian based political culture and their relationship to the consolidation of deeply rooted democracy. The characterization of the idea of cordiality is put forward as a manifestation of this cultural tendency, best expressed, in the Cape Verdean context trough the category morabeza (welcoming, warmth, hospitality...). Both apologetic and critical arguments are presented regarding the relationship between this cultural current and the deepening of the modern democratic socio-political order.
description: Através deste ensaio procuramos enfatizar alguns dos principais modelos interpretativos da chamada cultura política de matriz ibérica e a sua relação com o enraizamento da democracia. Expõe-se, enquanto manifestação dessa tendência cultural, a caracterização da idéia de cordialidade, melhor expressa, no contexto cabo-verdiano, através da categoria Morabeza. Tanto argumentos apologéticos quanto argumentos críticos são apresentados, no que concerne à relação dessa corrente cultural  com o aprofundamento da ordem sócio-política democrático-moderna.
The influence of feedstock characteristics on enzyme production in Trichoderma reesei: a review on productivity, gene regulation and secretion profiles
Creators: name: Novy, Vera
name: Nielsen, Fredrik
name: Seiboth, Bernhard
name: Nidetzky, Bernd
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Biorefineries, designed for the production of lignocellulose-based chemicals and fuels, are receiving increasing attention from the public, governments, and industries. A major obstacle for biorefineries to advance to commercial scale is the high cost of the enzymes required to derive the fermentable sugars from the feedstock used. As summarized in this review, techno-economic studies suggest co-localization and integration of enzyme manufacturing with the cellulosic biorefinery as the most promising alternative to alleviate this problem. Thus, cultivation of Trichoderma reesei, the principal producer of lignocellulolytic enzymes, on the lignocellulosic biomass processed on-site can reduce the cost of enzyme manufacturing. Further, due to a complex gene regulation machinery, the fungus can adjust the gene expression of the lignocellulolytic enzymes towards the characteristics of the feedstock, increasing the hydrolytic efficiency of the produced enzyme cocktail. Despite extensive research over decades, the underlying regulatory mechanisms are not fully elucidated. One aspect that has received relatively little attention in literature is the influence the characteristics of a lignocellulosic substrate, i.e., its chemical and physical composition, has on the produced enzyme mixture. Considering that the fungus is dependent on efficient enzymatic degradation of the lignocellulose for continuous supply of carbon and energy, a relationship between feedstock characteristics and secretome composition can be expected. The aim of this review was to systematically collect, appraise, and aggregate data and integrate results from studies analyzing enzyme production by T. reesei on insoluble cellulosic model substrates and lignocellulosic biomass. The results show that there is a direct effect of the substrate’s complexity (rated by structure, composition of the lignin–carbohydrate complex, and recalcitrance in enzymatic saccharification) on enzyme titers and the composition of specific activities in the secretome. It further shows that process-related factors, such as substrate loading and cultivation set-up, are direct targets for increasing enzyme yields. The literature on transcriptome and secretome composition further supports the proposed influence of substrate-related factors on the expression of lignocellulolytic enzymes. This review provides insights into the interrelation between the characteristics of the substrate and the enzyme production by T. reesei, which may help to advance integrated enzyme manufacturing of substrate-specific enzymes cocktails at scale.
Why so many colors? Exploring the role of color polymorphism in the enigmatic neotropical polythore selys damselflies
Creators: name: Sanchez Herrera, Melissa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The Neotropics is a center of global diversity for many groups of organisms, including the dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). While the number of biodiversity surveys and new species descriptions for neotropical odonates is increasing, diversity in this region is still under-explored, and very few studies have looked at the genetic and morphological diversity within taxa. Here, I will present an overview of the evolutionary history, species diversity and morphological diversity of the Neotropical damselfly genus Polythore. Species in Polythore are stunningly colorful; their wings display varying shades of orange, black and white in complex patterns. Despite this color diversity, they lack variation in classical reproductive traits (e.g. male genitalia) commonly used for species description. The genus comprises 21 described morphospecies distributed along the eastern slopes of the Andes cordillera and the Amazon basin, from Colombia to northern Bolivia; they dwell in small, fast flowing streams with highly oxygenated waters. I used novel morphological methods (geometric morphometrics, chromaticity analysis, and Gabor wavelet transformation) to analyze the complexity of the wing color patterns present in this genus. I explored species and population relationships through phylogenetic reconstructions and species delimitation analyses incorporating mitochondrial (COI, ND1, 16S) and nuclear (18S, 28S, PMRT) sequences. I was able to quantify the color polymorphism and detect that wing color is not due to common descendent, i.e. not just result of phylogenetic history. I have discovered that the presence of four new cryptic species, which are new to science, are inflating the estimates species diversity within this genus. Furthermore, my phylogenetic reconstruction for the family Polythoridae suggests that Polythore has one common ancestor, however, other genera will need to be taxonomically revised. Finally, the divergence time calibration analyses indicate that important geological events like the Andes Cordillera uplift may have had an impact on the diversification of these Neotropical damselflies.
Small magics
Creators: name: Choi, Sydney
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This collection of poetry, Small Magics, is divided into three parts: Myth, Work, and Love. I explore how these three topics are intertwined in autobiographical poetry as well as created mythologies around stories I've heard from my family. I am interested in how capitalism informs domestic life and the self. My speaker considers the real and the imaginary and how the two realms are blurred. Asian Americanism is the background to each of these poems. Although not explicitly stated, tradition and culture are directly tied to the experiences of the speaker.
Paper plate masks and tin can totem poles: A documentary analysis of Ontario elementary school visual arts curriculum and support documents form 1985 to 1998 for representations of a multicultural perspective
Creators: name: Godward, Julie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Education, Art.
subject: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.
subject: Education, Elementary.

description: This documentary analysis study critically examines representations of a multicultural perspective in selected Ontario elementary school visual arts curriculum and support documents. The study focuses on five documents that were published between 1985 and 1998, a period that coincides with important curricular changes in art education. This period was also significant with regards to developments that occurred in this province relating to multicultural education. To complete this analysis, references to race, ethnicity and culture were examined in order to identify ways in which they were being utilized in the documents. Furthermore, these references were analyzed from the perspective of critical multiculturalism to determine how multicultural education was being represented in the resources. I argue that while certain efforts were made to include a multicultural perspective in art education during this time period, these were for the most part inadequate in that they tend to present information out of context, fail to include diverse perspectives, overemphasize certain groups to the detriment of others, and perpetuate false information and stereotypes. I also contend that these deficiencies in art education are closely related to the political context that influenced the role and place of art education within the educational system.
title: Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance
Creators: name: Wang, Zhengwei
name: Chen, Xiuxian
name: Okada, Ryuichi
name: Walter, Stefan
name: Menzel, Randolf
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Apis mellifera
subject: Radar tracking
subject: Dance-followers
subject: Heatmaps of search
subject: Heatmaps of dance messages
subject: Averaging dance message
classificationCode: 570
subject: Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Communication processes are characterized by three components: the encoding of a message by the sender, the content of the message, and the process of decoding by the receiver. In honeybee waggle dance communication, the dancing bee encodes the vector as defined by the distance and direction of its outbound flight; the content of the message is a vector that defines a location by its endpoint in a rectangular (Cartesian) or circular diagram; and the dance follower (the recruited bee) translates (decodes) this message into search behavior. Analyses of this communication process have so far depended on the experimenter’s knowledge of the geographic location of the hive and the feeder. We applied an approach fully independent of the experimenter’s knowledge by quantifying the encoding process by video recording the dance behavior (the waggle runs) and tracking the recruits’ flights with harmonic radar. The vector code of the dancer and the search pattern of the recruits led to 2D density distributions that are embedded in the landscape. These density maps (heatmaps) of the encoding and decoding processes were compared quantitively. We found (1) a non-linear relation between the distance code (number of waggles per waggle run) and the centroid of the search, (2) the dependence of the search pattern on the landscape structure, and (3) effects of the training procedure of the dancers. Importantly, recruits search more precisely than expected from the distribution of vector endpoints as encoded in the dancers’ waggle runs. The high search precision can be modeled by assuming an averaging over eight waggle runs, but other phenomena may also be involved (systematic deviations in the vector code, structure of the landscape memory). The high precision of the recruits’ search pattern explains why previous analyses of the dance communication of bees are largely adequate.
An Examination of Subjective and Physiological Stress-related Factors in Breast Cancer Survivors
Creators: name: Couture-Lalande, Marie-Ève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Breast cancer
Trier Social Stress Test
HPA axis
Cortisol

description: Dysregulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity has been commonly observed among breast cancer patients and has been linked to adverse health consequences. However, whether these alterations persist long after the cancer diagnosis has not been well-documented. In the first study, the diurnal cortisol rhythms and the cortisol stress response of breast cancer survivors who had completed all local and/or systemic adjuvant therapy with the exception of hormonal therapy were compared to those of women without a history of cancer. The Trier Social Stress Test was used to elicit a moderate stress response and the subjective levels of stress of participants were recorded using visual analog scales. The results indicate similar diurnal patterns in both groups; however, significant differences in stress reactivity were noted, with breast cancer survivors displaying a relatively flat profile following the acute stress induction. Subjective levels of psychological stress were similar in both groups, indicating that the subjective appraisal did not account for the blunted cortisol stress response. In the second study, the impact of the stressful life events that happened during the previous year on the cortisol stress response was analyzed in the same groups of participants. The frequency of stressful life events as well as their subjective impact was documented using the Life Experience Survey. Results suggest no group differences between the total number of stressful life events and their perceived effect. However, the number of stressful life events and their perceived impact correlated negatively with the peak cortisol concentration in breast cancer survivors. The results suggest that the cumulative effect of stressful life events contribute significantly to the low levels of cortisol reported in breast cancer survivors following a stressful situation. Together, these studies emphasize that breast cancer survivors are at risk of presenting a subtle alteration of their HPA axis activity when their system is challenged and that an accumulation of stressors plays a role in this dysregulation. These results reinforce the need for interventions intended to reduce the levels of psychological stress experienced by breast cancer survivors.