cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Ancient Art of Falling Down Vaudeville Cinema between Hollywood and China : A Conversation between Christopher Rea and Henry Jenkins
Creators: name: Rea, Christopher G.
name: Jenkins, Henry, 1958-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Slapstick performance and trick cinematography dominated early global cinema. People climb into boxes and are tossed around; they jerry-rig all manner of dwellings and conveyances; they leap out of windows, crash through doors, dangle from clock towers, and slide down staircases; they appear and disappear like ghosts. But what did such visual gags look like in films made in Shanghai, as opposed to Los Angeles? How did filmmakers from different cultural traditions share or adapt comic tropes—and which ones? And how did their comedy change with technology, such as the advent of sound cinema, or with politics, war, and revolution? The following conversation between Henry Jenkins, a media scholar who works primarily on American popular culture, and Christopher Rea, a cultural historian of China, explores comic convergences on the silver screen, focusing on filmmakers who embraced a vaudevillian aesthetic of visceral comedy and variety entertainment. It offers a guided tour of cinematic comedy in comparative perspective, drawing out resonances between Hollywood and Chinese films from the 1910s to the 1950s. Illustrating the discussion are clips from a variety of films, from early works by Charlie Chaplin to the short-lived era of cinematic satire in Mao’s China.
Passive mechanical stimulation regulates expression of acetylcholinesterase in skeletal muscle fibers.
Creators: name: Hubatsch, Douglas A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is responsible for the rapid hydrolysis of acetylcholine into acetic acid and choline thus allowing precise temporal control of muscle contraction. The expression of AChE in skeletal muscle is strongly influenced by both nerve-evoked electrical activity and trophic factors. In recent years however, several lines of evidence have emerged indicating that mechanical forces influence the growth and differentiation of a variety of tissues including cardiac and skeletal muscles. In the present study, we therefore tested the hypothesis that AChE expression is modulated by mechanical stimulation by using two distinct, yet complementary approaches. In a first series of experiments, primary cultures of myotubes were subjected to repeated cycles of stretch/relaxation. In a second series of experiments, we further tested our hypothesis in vivo by examining AChE expression in denervated rat hemidiaphragm muscle. Results from these studies indicate that in addition to neural activation and trophic factors, passive mechanical forces modulate the expression of AChE in skeletal muscle fibers. Since in tissue cultured myotubes tetrodotoxin did not prevent the increase in AChE expression, it appears that the effects of mechanical stimulation are independent of electrical activity and further indicates the use of an alternate signalling pathway: The results therefore show for the first time, that passive mechanical forces modulate expression of a synaptic protein in skeletal muscle fibers. As such, these results fit well with converging lines of evidence indicating that the imposition of a mechanical stimulus dramatically affects expression of several muscle genes encoding specialized contractile proteins. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The shapes of BCGs and normal ellipticals in nearby clusters
Creators: name: Fasano, G.
name: Bettoni, D.
name: Ascaso, B.
name: Tormen, G.
name: Poggianti, B. M.
name: Valentinuzzi, T.
name: D'Onofrio, M.
name: Fritz, J.
name: Moretti, A.
name: Omizzolo, A.
name: Cava, A.
name: Moles, M.
name: Dressler, A.
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Kjærgaard, P.
name: Varela, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We compare the apparent axial ratio distributions of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and normal ellipticals (Es) in our sample of 75 galaxy clusters from the WINGS survey. Most BCGs in our clusters (69%) are classified as cD galaxies. The sample of cDs has been completed by 14 additional cDs (non-BCGs) we found in our clusters. We find that: (i) Es have triaxial shape, the triaxiality sharing almost evenly the intrinsic axial ratios parameter space, with a weak preference for prolateness; (ii) the BCGs have triaxial shape as well. However, their tendence towards prolateness is much stronger than in the case of Es. Such a strong prolateness appears entirely due to the sizeable (dominant) component of cDs inside the WINGS sample of BCGs. In fact, while the ‘normal’(non-cD) BCGs do not differ from Es, as far as the shape distribution is concerned, the axial ratio distribution of BCG_cD galaxies is found to support quite prolate shapes; (iii) our result turns out to be strongly at variance with the only similar, previous analysis by Ryden et al.(1993)(RLP93), where BCGs and Es were found to share the same axial ratio distribution; (iv) our data suggest that the above discrepancy is mainly caused by the different criteria that RLP93 and ourselves use to select the cluster samples, coupled with a preference of cDs to reside in powerful X-ray emitting clusters; (v) the GIF2 N-body results suggest that the prolateness of the BCGs (in particular the cDs) could reflect the shape of the associated dark matter halos.
Navigating College Without a Stomach: A Qualitative Study Investigating CDH1 Pathogenic Variant Carrier Experiences in College Post-Gastrectomy
Creators: name: Liebler, Kaleigh
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: CDH1
college
decision-making
hereditary diffuse gastric cancer
lived experiences
prophylactic total gastrectomy

description: Individuals who carry a single pathogenic CDH1 variant have a high lifetime risk of developing gastric cancer. National guidelines recommend those with CDH1 variants undergo a prophylactic total gastrectomy (PTG) in their twenties, a surgery that greatly reduces the risk of developing gastric cancer but has significant comorbidities. While research has defined various ways in which emerging adults face challenges post-gastrectomy, there is limited information about the experiences of individuals who pursued gastrectomies during, or prior to, college. This qualitative study is the first, to our knowledge, to explore individuals’ experiences going through college without a stomach.Three participants who had their stomachs removed during college were interviewed to explore their lived experiences surrounding their gastrectomies. All interviews were transcribed and coded using an inductive approach in Atlas.ti9. Twenty-two codes were utilized and six major themes surrounding participants’ gastrectomies emerged from this coding analysis: 1) Timing, 2) Physical Considerations, 3) Mental Health Considerations, 4) Academic Experiences, 5) Social Experiences, and 6) Reflections and Recommendations. Within these themes, we found that participants largely felt the surgery did not significantly compromise their college experiences. Institutions were supportive of our participants’ needs to a great degree, offering accommodations when needed. Furthermore, despite varying challenges surrounding recovery, no participant regretted having a gastrectomy when they did and all three graduated on time.
description: Through these findings, we offer insights for those in similar situations; we suggest ways to prepare for college without a stomach, highlight considerations when choosing a college or university, and provide support in their surgical decision-making process.
The theory of phonon-induced infrared vibrational line shapes at surfaces.
Creators: name: Tu, Renfang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: Infrared radiation may be absorbed by a vibrational mode of an adsorption system at resonance. The homogeneous IR absorption line shape of a vibrational mode of an adsorbate is determined by its anharmonic interactions with other localized and delocalized modes of the adsorbate and substrate. These anharmonic interactions include both the adsorption potential between an adsorbed molecule or atom and the surface atoms, and the anharmonic couplings among the substrate atoms themselves at the adsorption site. Temperature dependent effects of substrate phonons and local mode self interactions on the line broadening and frequency shift are studied in a finite temperature field theory for both the internal stretching mode and admolecule-substrate stretching mode of a diatomic admolecule at an ontop site, and adatom-substrate stretching mode of an adatom absorbed at a bridge site. Modified phonon emission and elastic phonon scattering processes are described in a unified formalism. For the adsorption of an admolecule or adatom at an ontop site, a reduction factor is found which reduces all substrate phonon contributions induced by the anharmonicity of the adsorption potential on the line shift and line width of the low frequency admolecule-substrate stretching or adatom-substrate stretching mode. For the adsorption of an admolecule or adatom at a bridge site, reduction factors are found which reduce only some of the substrate phonon contributions induced by the same anharmonicity on the line shift and line width of the low frequency adatom-substrate stretching mode. A bulk Debye model and a semi-infinite elastic continuum model for the substrate are employed to describe the harmonic substrate behavior. The theory is applied to the extensively studied adsorption systems CO/Pt(111) and O/Cu(110). Qualitative agreement with experimental data is found in considering the partial contributions and simplicity of the model.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection modulates adipose tissue biology
Creators: name: Beigier-Bompadre, Macarena
name: Montagna, Georgina N.
name: Kuehl, Anja A.
name: Lozza, Laura
name: Weiner, January
name: Kupz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) primarily resides in the lung but can also persist in extrapulmonary sites. Macrophages are considered the prime cellular habitat in all tissues. Here we demonstrate that Mtb resides inside adipocytes of fat tissue where it expresses stress-related genes. Moreover, perigonadal fat of Mtb-infected mice disseminated the infection when transferred to uninfected animals. Adipose tissue harbors leukocytes in addition to adipocytes and other cell types and we observed that Mtb infection induces changes in adipose tissue biology depending on stage of infection. Mice infected via aerosol showed infiltration of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) or arginase 1 (Arg1)-negative F4/80+ cells, despite recruitment of CD3+, CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Gene expression analysis of adipose tissue of aerosol Mtb-infected mice provided evidence for upregulated expression of genes associated with T cells and NK cells at 28 days post-infection. Strikingly, IFN-γ-producing NK cells and Mtb-specific CD8+ T cells were identified in perigonadal fat, specifically CD8+CD44-CD69+ and CD8+CD44-CD103+ subpopulations. Gene expression analysis of these cells revealed that they expressed IFN-γ and the lectin-like receptor Klrg1 and down-regulated CD27 and CD62L, consistent with an effector phenotype of Mtb-specific CD8+ T cells. Sorted NK cells expressed higher abundance of Klrg1 upon infection, as well. Our results reveal the ability of Mtb to persist in adipose tissue in a stressed state, and that NK cells and Mtb-specific CD8+ T cells infiltrate infected adipose tissue where they produce IFN-γ and assume an effector phenotype. We conclude that adipose tissue is a potential niche for Mtb and that due to infection CD8+ T cells and NK cells are attracted to this tissue.
La réconciliation de l'individu et de la société dans la pensée d'Herbert Marcuse.
Creators: name: Bertrand, Olivier.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Une nouvelle problematique emerge en cette fin de XXe siecle: celle de la fondation d'un ordre nouveau de civilisation reposant sur les possibilites nouvelles decoulant des progres permis par le liberalisme. Un defi majeur emerge alors: celui de penser l'evolution de la societe industrielle avancee dans une optique qui reconcilierait progres social et bonheur, societe et individu. La pensee d'Herbert Marcuse s'inscrit dans le contexte de ce defi. La presente recherche etudie la tentative marcusienne de resolution du conflit entre l'universel et le particulier. L'interrogation generale la sous-tendant est la suivante: y a-t-il tension, reconciliation ou contradiction entre l'individu et la societe dans la pensee de Marcuse? Et plus precisement encore: dans quelle mesure Marcuse, en etablissant l'individu comme sujet de la liberte, parvient-il a reconcilier l'individu et la societe dans une theorie de la liberation?
Femtosecond laser fabrication of hybrid micro-optical elements and their integration on the fiber tip
Creators: name: Malinauskas, Mangirdas
name: Gilbergs, Holger
name: Žukauskas, Albertas
name: Belazaras, Kastytis
name: Purlys, Vytautas
name: Rutkauskas, Marius
name: Bičkauskaite, Gabija
name: Momot, Andrej
name: Paipulas, Domas
name: Gadonas, Roaldas
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: Piskarskas, Algis
name: Thienpont, Hugo
name: Van Daele, Peter
name: Mohr, Jürgen
name: Zappe, Hans
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not reproduced here by request of the publisher. The text is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.854396
title: Χρήση human resources analytics σε εταιρίες τεχνολογίας στην Ελλάδα
title: Use of HR analytics in technology companies in Greece
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Γιώτης, Ανδρέας
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: HR Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Λήψη αποφάσεων
Δεδομένα
Πραγματικά δεδομένα
Στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός
Διαχείριση ανθρώπινου δυναμικού

description: Τα HR Analytics είναι ένα πολλά υποσχόμενο πεδίο για τη Διαχείριση του Ανθρώπινου Δυναμικού καθώς βελτιώνει την αποτελεσματικότητα των αποφάσεων ενσωματώνοντας στη λήψη τους τη χρήση δεδομένων και στατιστικών αναλύσεων. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία επιχειρεί να διαπιστώσει το υφιστάμενο επίπεδο ανάπτυξης των HR Analytics στην ελληνική αγορά και κυρίως να εντοπίσει τους λόγους για τους οποίους η ανάπτυξη των HR Analytics και συγκεκριμένα των Predictive Analytics από τις ελληνικές εταιρίες είναι περιορισμένη. Προκειμένου να απαντηθεί το ερευνητικό ερώτημα επιλέχθηκε η ποιοτική μέθοδος έρευνας. Συγκεκριμένα, πραγματοποιήθηκαν ημι-δομημένες συνεντεύξεις, σε 10 επαγγελματίες του HR σε επίπεδο Business Partner εταιριών τεχνολογίας που δραστηριοποιούνται στην Ελλάδα. Σύμφωνα με τα βασικά συμπεράσματα της εργασίας, το επίπεδο των HR Analytics επηρεάζεται σημαντικά από τα ανεπαρκή διαθέσιμα ιστορικά δεδομένα, την υστέρηση των επαγγελματιών του HR σε σχετικά skills, την περιορισμένη υποστήριξη από το management για την υλοποίηση καθώς και την απουσία αντίστοιχης κουλτούρας για λήψη αποφάσεων βασισμένη σε δεδομένα.
Formation of collimated beams behind the woodpile photonic crystal
Creators: name: Trull, J.
name: Maigyte, L.
name: Mizeikis, V.
name: Malinauskas, M.
name: Juodkazis, Saulius
name: Cojocaru, C.
name: Rutkauskas, M.
name: Peckus, M.
name: Sirutkaitis, V.
name: Staliunas, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We experimentally observe formation of narrow laser beams behind the woodpile photonic crystal, when the beam remains well collimated in free propagation behind the crystal. We show that the collimation depends on the input laser beam's focusing conditions, and we interpret theoretically the observed effect by calculating the spatial dispersion of propagation eigenmodes and by numerical simulation of paraxial propagation model.
Approvisionnement électronique - Procéder de façon globale et orientée sur le partenariat s'avère payant
Creators: name: Tanner, Christian
Publisher: name: Verein procure.ch
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: B2B
subject: E-Procurement
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Au cours des dernières années, les optimisations réalisées dans l?approvisionnement électronique se sont faites dans le calme et le silence et les grands projets étaient plutôt une exception. On constatait en revanche plus de dynamique dans le domaine du E-Invoicing. C?est là précisément que l?on reconnaît l?importance de réseaux B2B intéressants ? ils peuvent accélérer le passage aux transactions commerciales électroniques.
The Role of TGF Beta Proteins In The Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Mass
Creators: name: Swati, Swati
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Skeletal muscles are one of the most vital tissues of human body and excessive loss of skeletal muscle mass (also known as muscle wasting) can prove fatal to human body. TGF Beta proteins, activins and myostatin are established negative regulators of skeletal muscle mass. Myostatin is a natural antagonist of muscle growth, whereas increased serum activin levels are associated with muscle wasting in diseased conditions such as cancer. The primary focus of this research was to develop a bi-specific inhibitor of activin and myostatin as a potential therapeutic to treat muscle wasting in severe conditions of muscle wasting.
Investigation of Naturally Occurring Single-Nucleotide Variants in Human TAAR1
Creators: name: Muhlhaus, Jessica
name: Dinter, Juliane
name: Jyrch, Sabine
name: Teumer, Alexander
name: Jacobi, Simon F.
name: Homuth, Georg
name: Kuhnen, Peter
name: Wiegand, Susanna
name: Grueters, Annette
name: Voelzke, Henry
name: Raile, Klemens
name: Kleinau, Gunnar
name: Krude, Heiko
name: Biebermann, Heike
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: trace amine-associated receptor 1
subject: variants
subject: weight regulation
subject: glucose homeostasis
subject: signal transduction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Activation of trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) in endocrine pancreas is involved in weight regulation and glucose homeostasis. The purpose of this study was the identification and characterization of potential TAAR1 variants in patients with overweight/obesity and disturbed glucose homeostasis. Screening for TAAR1 variants was performed in 314 obese or overweight patients with impaired insulin secretion. The detected variants were functionally characterized concerning TAAR1 cell surface expression and signaling properties and their allele frequencies were determined in the population- based Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP). Three heterozygous carriers of the single nucleotide missense variants p.Arg23Cys (R23C, rs8192618), p.Ser49Leu (S49L, rs140960896), and p.Ille171Leu (I171L, rs200795344) were detected in the patient cohort. While p.Ser49Leu and p.Ille171Leu were found in obese/overweight patients with slightly impaired glucose homeostasis, p.Arg23Cys was identified in a patient with a complete loss of insulin production. Functional in vitro characterization revealed a like wild-type function for I171L, partial loss of function for S49L and a complete loss of function for R23C. The frequency of the R23C variant in 2018 non-diabetic control individuals aged 60 years and older in the general population-based SHIP cohort was lower than in the analyzed patient sample. Both variants are rare in the general population indicating a recent origin in the general gene pool and/or the consequence of pronounced purifying selection, in line with the obvious detrimental effect of the mutations. In conclusion, our study provides hints for the existence of naturally occurring TAAR1 variants with potential relevance for weight regulation and glucose homeostasis.
Study of excitonic superfluidity in Cu2O.
Creators: name: Benson, Éric.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: Excitonic transport measurements in ultra-pure semiconducting Cu$\sb2$O crystals were performed over a wide range of exciton densities at liquid Helium temperatures. The excitons were created with a high power pulsed Nd:YAG laser in the Cu$\sb2$O over a 3 mm$\sp2$ area and in a thin layer a few micrometers thick. The excitons then migrated over several millimeters through the crystal and were measured at the opposite sample face in time resolve using the exciton mediated photovoltaic effect. At low exciton density the transport is diffusive as expected and the results are well fitted by a diffusion equation. However at high exciton densities the transport becomes ballistic and a reduction in the size of the exciton distribution becomes apparent. Furthermore, the density at which there is a crossover from diffusive to ballistic behaviour follows a $T\sp{3/2}$ temperature dependence and is of the same order of magnitude as the predicted critical density for Bose-Einstein condensation. Pump-probe experiments with two laser pulses separated by a variable time delay allowed the formation of two exciton packets separated by the distance traveled by the first packet during the time delay. The experiments confirmed the attractive nature of a Bose condensate with other condensates and normal Bose particles, and revealed the formation of a soliton condensate. We conclude that the results presented in this work are consistent with the condensation and superfluid transport of excitons in Cu$\sb2$O.
Synchronization studies in multimedia communications.
Creators: name: Li, Li.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Synchronization is considered as a key issue in distributed multimedia systems. Synchronization problems exist in both multimedia presentational and conversational applications. In a multimedia presentation, two basic synchronization issues are involved: Temporal Presentation Control (TPC) and Simultaneous Real-Time Data Delivery (SRTDD). TPC deals with the ordering of data objects in the presentation. SRTDD refers to simultaneously delivering multimedia data in different data streams belonging to the same time interval. In multimedia conversational applications, e.g., in cooperative applications, coordination control and causal ordering of the events give another synchronization problem. This thesis investigates the synchronization control in the distributed multimedia systems. All the above synchronization issues are covered. The temporal model and a synchronization algorithm for the TPC are proposed, which can support the real-time multimedia teleorchestration when multiple independent information sources are involved. The temporal model handles the relative and imprecise temporal requirements among the data objects in the "fuzzy" presentation scenario, and supports the synchronization dialogue among the independent sources. Thus the synchronization algorithm can be performed in a distributed manner. For the SRTDD control, an entire control architecture is presented which follows the layered communications model. We have introduced the multimedia session management, multimedia segment delivery, etc., to achieve the simultaneous data delivery. The Synchronization Quality of Service (SQoS) parameters are first applied for the SRTDD control over the ATM network. Meanwhile, taking the multimedia joint editing, one of the popular multimedia collaborative applications, as an example, we have developed the coordination control and the causal ordering algorithms for the joint editing session. Then in the second part of this thesis, we have studied the analytical performance modeling for distributed multimedia systems where the synchronization is considered. Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) are applied to model the different multimedia synchronization systems. We developed a computational algorithm for a class of SPNs, i.e., the LBSPNs (Locally Balanced Stochastic Petri Nets), which have product form solutions. Applying the computational algorithm for LBSPN, the performance analysis of a joint editing system is conducted.
Beyond bushfires: community, resilience and recovery: a longitudinal mixed method study of the medium to long term impacts of bushfires on mental health and social connectedness
Creators: name: Gibbs, Lisa
name: Waters, Elizabeth
name: Bryant, Richard A
name: Pattison, Philippa
name: Lusher, Dean
name: Harms, Louise
name: Richardson, John
name: MacDougall, Colin
name: Block, Karen
name: Snowdon, Elyse
name: Gallagher, Colin
name: Sinnott, Vikki
name: Ireton, Greg
name: Forbes, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350505
subject: Occupational and workplace health and safety
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services
classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods

description: Background Natural disasters represent an increasing threat both in terms of incidence and severity as a result of climate change. Although much is known about individual responses to disasters, much less is known about the social and contextual response and how this interacts with individual trajectories in terms of mental health, wellbeing and social connectedness. The 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia caused much loss of life, property destruction, and community disturbance. In order to progress future preparedness, response and recovery, it is crucial to measure and understand the impact of disasters at both individual and community levels. Methods/design This study aims to profile the range of mental health, wellbeing and social impacts of the Victorian 2009 bushfires over time using multiple methodologies and involving multiple community partners. A diversity of communities including bushfire affected and unaffected will be involved in the study and will include current and former residents (at the time of the Feb 2009 fires). Participants will be surveyed in 2012, 2014 and, funding permitting, in 2016 to map the predictors and outcomes of mental health, wellbeing and social functioning. Ongoing community visits, as well as interviews and focus group discussions in 2013 and 2014, will provide both contextual information and evidence of changing individual and community experiences in the medium to long term post disaster. The study will include adults, adolescents and children over the age of 5. Discussion Conducting the study over five years and focussing on the role of social networks will provide new insights into the interplay between individual and community factors and their influence on recovery from natural disaster over time. The study findings will thereby expand understanding of long term disaster recovery needs for individuals and communities.
A nineteenth-century adventure revisited: The account of the young Charles Darwin on board H. M. S. Beagle. A comparative analysis of chapters III to XVII of Charles Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" and four translations into Spanish.
Creators: name: Paoletti, Elisa.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Literature, Romance.

description: This comparative analysis presents Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle and four translations into Spanish. This travel account seems to have been rather overshadowed by the greater popularity of The Origin of Species but its stance as the first book in Darwin's prolific career and the paramount importance of having been the vehicle used by its author to introduce his incipient evolutionary ideas pose it as a very interesting project to embark upon. The Voyage of the Beagle, published for the first time in 1839, presents an unusual combination of scientific observations and reflections by the young traveller where Darwin's form of expression is a rich source for discourse analysis. This research focuses on only three, namely voices, negation and multilingualism. They are deemed as the most salient features of discourse in the source-language text and, therefore, the way in which they were rendered in the translations is observed and reflected upon. The detailed study of the decisions taken by the translators or editors according to their translation projects reveals that the salient discourse features of the source-language text were often overlooked. Thus, their rendering in Spanish modified Darwin's image as a narrator in the process. Moreover, despite the fact that these decisions have been greatly influenced by the place of publication and their target readership, many of the choices made throughout the translations show a lack of uniformity and coherence towards what they seemed to be trying to achieve within the framework of their translation projects.
title: Ασφάλεια και ποιότητα στην αιμοδοσία
title: Safety and quality in blood donation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Γκιόκα, Μαρίνα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ασφάλεια
Αιμοδοσία
Ποιότητα
Τεχνολογία
Υπηρεσίες Υγείας
Blood donation
Quality assurance
Safety
Health services
Technology
Greek hospitals

description: Η βελτίωση της ασφάλειας και της ποιότητας στην αιμοδοσία στα ελληνικά νοσοκομεία είναι ένα σημαντικό ζήτημα. Η διασφάλιση ποιότητας στις υπηρεσίες υγείας είναι απαραίτητο συστατικό για την παροχή της κατάλληλης φροντίδας.
COLONIAL INFLUENCE ON INDIAN MUSLIM RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS IN PENANG
Creators: name: Ahmad Sanusi Hassan, Asif Ali
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Colonial architectural style
Indian Muslim monuments
George Town
Penang
Neo-classical elements.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 13, 10A13D: 1-9
Micropayment Systeme für Online-Shops: Funktionsumfang und Kostenstruktur
Creators: name: Alioski, Adrian
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Arbeitsbericht E-Business Nr. 28
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Billing
subject: E-Fulfillment
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Vorwort: Das Thema ?E-Business? ist an der FHNW ein Kompetenzschwerpunkt, der am Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI) vom ?Competence Center E-Business Basel? bearbeitet wird. In diesem Kompetenzzentrum arbeiten neun Personen in Forschungs- und Dienst­leistungs­projekten mit Wirtschaftspartnern an aktuellen Fragestellungen im E-Business. Um den Transfer zwischen Lehre und Forschung sicherzustellen, unterrichten Mitarbeitende des IWI in verschiedenen Veranstaltungen der Grundausbildung und im Weiterbildungsprogramm der Hochschule für Wirtschaft.Die Studie zu ?Micropayment Systeme für Online-Shops? wurde im Sommer 2006 von Adrian Alioski durchgeführt. Die Auswertung der Ergebnisse wurde inhaltlich und wissenschaftlich betreut von Stefan Meier (Auftraggeber, yellowworld) und Prof. Dr. Petra Schubert (Dozentin, FHNW). Die Arbeit entstand aufgrund von Literaturrecherchen, Angebotsanfragen an Micropayment Provider und Telefoninterviews mit Anwendern.
Elektronischer Geschäftsverkehr... und wie wird archiviert?
Creators: name: Tanner, Christian
Publisher: name: Verein procure.ch
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: EDI
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: E-Mail-Kommunikation gehört in der Kunden-Lieferanten-Beziehung zum Alltag und der elektronische Austausch von Geschäftsdokumenten mittels EDI nimmt stetig zu. Wird die wachsende Zahl elektronischer Daten und Dokumente aber auch handels- und steuerrechtlich konform elektronisch aufbewahrt? Eine Frage, um die sich viele Unternehmen am liebsten drücken würden, denn die Archivierung generiert keine Erträge, kostet und ist nicht «sexy» ? dennoch muss sie sein.
The conformational heterogeneity of proteins.
Creators: name: Hutnik, Cindy Mary-Lynn.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Time-correlated single photon counting and steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy were used to investigate the conformational properties of select proteins. Specifically, the role of naturally associated metal ions in modulating the conformation of members from two families of metalloproteins was examined. Two homologous bacterial copper-containing azurins were purified from Pseudomonas fluorescens (ATCC 13525) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 10145). The intrinsic fluorescence of the native Cu(II) single tryptophan-containing protein, as well as experimentally prepared Cu(I), Ni(II), Co(II) and metal-free derivatives demonstrated that the metal centre of these redox proteins played an important role in the conformational heterogeneity of the protein. Such an effect was strongly dependent on the nature of the metal ion. From the calcium-binding superfamily, the single-tryptophan containing isotype III component of parvalbumin was purified from codfish. The previous notion that this protein was a Ca(II)/Mg(II)-specific protein was shown to be due to an experimental artefact arising from the use of the soluble chelator EGTA. The Ca(II)-specific conformational changes of cod III parvalbumin were compared with those of the highly homologous Ca(II)-binding tumour protein oncomodulin. Since native tumour oncomodulin was devoid of tryptophan, a site-specific mutant of oncomodulin with tryptophan in the identical position of the parvalbumin tryptophan was examined. The results showed that the ability of oncomodulin to function as a modulator (unlike parvalbumin) may be due to relatively subtle Ca(II)-specific conformational changes. Details of these changes were obtained by an examination of a number of oncomodulin mutant proteins in which the non-fluorescent phenylalanine, and the highly fluorescent tryptophan had been substituted into various positions of the two Ca(II)-binding loops. The results demonstrated that the binding of the first equivalent of Ca(II) induced greater than 90% of the conformational changes experienced by various probed positions, but that the second equivalent of Ca(II) played an important role in orienting the two Ca(II)-binding loops relative to each other.
Electrodeposition of Aluminum onto Copper-Coated Printed Circuit Boards
Creators: name: Xu, Min
name: Yue, Guikuan
name: Bizzotto, Dan
name: Asselin, Edouard
Publisher: name: The Electrochemical Society
Year: 2021

description: The electrodeposition of aluminum thin films onto copper-coated printed circuit boards from aluminum chloride-trimethylphenylammonium chloride ionic liquids is studied. Various electrodeposition methods with different surface pretreatment procedures were investigated and compared to optimize the deposited aluminum morphology and properties. For the same amount of charge, a pulse current deposition approach applied at a low duty cycle of 10 % allowed the use of higher deposition current densities, leading to finer and more compact aluminum deposits compared with those produced by constant potential and constant current deposition techniques. Pulse current deposition with various peak current densities of −25 mA/cm2 to −65 mA/cm2 was conducted over a temperature range of 20 °C to 60 °C. At a moderate temperature of 40 °C, the electrodeposited aluminum layer was the most adherent. An increase of peak current density did not have an obvious effect on the deposit morphology, but it led to an increased amount of both deposited aluminum and incorporated impurities (oxygen and chloride). At room temperature, the electrical resistivity of the copper-coated printed circuit boards with deposited aluminum decreased as the peak current density for aluminum deposition increased.
E-Government meets E-Business: A Portal Site for Startup Companies in Switzerland
Creators: name: Schubert, Petra
name: Häusler, Urs
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: E-Government
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Networked computer technology for business purposes is no longer a domain of companies alone. The Internet has invaded private homes and is becoming a communication interface between private parties (e.g. personal E-Mail), companies (E-Commerce) and the government (E-Government). The pervasion of the "virtual world" triggers government agencies to think about their role in setting a proper social and legal framework and to offer electronic interfaces to citizens and companies alike.The paper gives a description of the relations between E-Business and E-Government with definitions of the new terms in the E-Business arena. We describe a portal site for the organization of intellectual property rights for startup companies as a representative E-Government scenario. We conclude by summarizing our main findings and stressing the importance of E-Government for a healthy economic and socio-political environment.
Oil Palm Trunk Activated Carbon for the Removal of Tannin, Acid Blue 25, and Sunset Yellow: Synthesis, Kinetics, and Isotherms
Creators: name: Lim, Adeline Kher Li
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Activated carbon (AC) is a unique and versatile carbonaceous adsorbent with a high degree of porosity, well-developed surface area, and specific functional groups that are necessary for the removal of contaminants, making it one of the best candidates for removing pollutants from an aqueous medium. This thesis focuses on utilising oil palm trunk (OPT) as the precursor for the synthesis of AC via chemical activation and semi-carbonisation for the adsorption of tannin, acid blue 25, and sunset yellow in single and binary adsorbate systems. The adsorption behaviours and future application of OPT-derived AC for wastewater remediation are discussed.
title: Contrasting generalized and policy attitudes toward social Europe
title: understanding the discrepancies
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ignácz, Zsófia S.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: social Europe
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Public attitudes related to social Europe are important for legitimating the aspirations of the European Union and European politicians to deepen European integration. This paper investigates public opinion about social Europe by analyzing attitudes related to the basic principles for European social security measures and attitudes about implementing a uniform European social security system. Based on a survey conducted in 13 European countries, it explores the discrepancies between the two interrelated phenomena and investigates in detail the factors responsible for the strong support for general principles, but fizzling support for the implementation of a European social system. The main findings demonstrate that the value-based mechanisms are primarily responsible for carrying over the positive attitudes towards the general principles to positive attitudes towards a uniform European social security system. In contrast, self-interest does not play a prominent role. Left-leaning individuals, emphasizing the justice principle of need and who identify and trust the European Union are the primary proponents of general principles related to social Europe, as well as for the potential realization of a uniform European welfare system.
title: Virtuelle Transnationalisierung
title: Partizipation der EU‐Bürger an einer transnationalen europäischen Öffentlichkeit
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gerhards, Jürgen
name: Hans, Silke
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Die Globalisierungs‐ und Europäisierungsprozesse der vergangenen Jahrzehnte haben zu einem zunehmenden Demokratie‐ und Öffentlichkeitsdefizit auf der supranationalen Ebene geführt. Eine Möglichkeit, diesem Defizit zu begegnen, besteht in der wechselseitigen Wahrnehmung der nationalen Öffentlichkeiten durch die Rezeption der Mediendebatten in anderen Nationalstaaten. Mit Hilfe einer Sekundäranalyse von Eurobarometer‐Umfragen untersuchen wir, inwieweit die Bürger in den 27 Ländern der EU ausländische Medien wahrnehmen und welche Faktoren diese Form der Partizipation an einer transnationalen Öffentlichkeit erklären. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass nur eine sehr kleine Minderheit der EU‐Bürger überhaupt Medien aus anderen als der eigenen Gesellschaft wahrnimmt, wobei es beträchtliche Unterschiede zwischen den Ländern der EU, aber auch zwischen den Bürgern innerhalb eines Landes gibt. Als entscheidend für die Teilhabe an einer transnationalen Öffentlichkeit erweisen sich dabei neben anderen Faktoren sozial sehr ungleich verteilte Kompetenzen wie Bildung und Fremdsprachenkenntnisse. Die Teilnahme an einer transnationalen Öffentlichkeit ist damit auch eine Frage der sozialen Ungleichheit. So wie der europäische Einigungsprozess insgesamt als Projekt politischer Eliten beschrieben werden kann, so ist auch die Partizipation an einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit in erster Linie ein Elitenphänomen.
description: Processes of globalisation and Europeanisation have led to an increasing public sphere deficit, which can be addressed by a transnationalisation of national public spheres. This requires a perception of topics discussed in other national public spheres and awareness of the different interpretive frameworks used. Using Eurobarometer surveys, we examine the extent to which EU citizens engage with foreign media and the factors that determine participation in a transnational public sphere. Only a small minority of EU citizens engage with foreign media, and that there are considerable differences between countries and citizens. Education and multilingualism play a crucial rule in explaining participation in a transnational public sphere, resources which are distributed very unevenly. Thus, participation in a transnational public sphere is an issue of social inequality.
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Improved cosmic growth measurements using multiple tracers of large-scale structure
Creators: name: Blake, Chris
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Christodoulou, L.
name: Colless, M.
name: Conselice, C.
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: Liske, J.
name: Loveday, J.
name: Norberg, P.
name: Peacock, J. A.
name: Poole, G. B.
name: Robotham, A. S. G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the first application of a 'multiple-tracer' redshift-space distortion (RSD) analysis to an observational galaxy sample, using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Our data set is an r < 19.8 magnitude-limited sample of 178 579 galaxies covering the redshift interval z < 0.5 and area 180 deg2. We obtain improvements of 10-20 per cent in measurements of the gravitational growth rate compared to a single-tracer analysis, deriving from the correlated sample variance imprinted in the distributions of the overlapping galaxy populations. We present new expressions for the covariances between the auto-power and cross-power spectra of galaxy samples that are valid for a general survey selection function and weighting scheme. We find no evidence for a systematic dependence of the measured growth rate on the galaxy tracer used, justifying the RSD modelling assumptions, and validate our results using mock catalogues from N-body simulations. For multiple tracers selected by galaxy colour, we measure normalized growth rates in two independent redshift bins fσ8(z = 0.18) = 0.36 ± 0.09 and fσ8(z = 0.38) = 0.44 ± 0.06, in agreement with standard GR gravity and other galaxy surveys at similar redshifts.
Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass
Creators: name: Zillikens, Carola M.
name: Demissie, Serkalem
name: Hsu, Yi-Hsiang
name: Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M.
name: Chou, Wen-Chi
name: Stolk, Lisette
name: Demuth, Ilja
name: Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth [U.V.M.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: gene expression
subject: genome-wide association studies
subject: predictive markers
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Lean body mass, consisting mostly of skeletal muscle, is important for healthy aging. We performed a genome-wide association study for whole body (20 cohorts of European ancestry with n = 38,292) and appendicular (arms and legs) lean body mass (n = 28,330) measured using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry or bioelectrical impedance analysis, adjusted for sex, age, height, and fat mass. Twenty-one single-nucleotide polymorphisms were significantly associated with lean body mass either genome wide (p
Medizinaltechnik schweizweit propagieren: im Netz Kunden kurieren
Creators: name: Göckel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: E-Commerce
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die Strack AG entwickelt und vertreibt Produkte für die Medizinal- und Rehabilitationstechnik. Mit der Beschaffung eines ERP-Systems und dessen Integration in den Onlineshop bezieht das Unternehmen seine Kunden in die Kernprozesse des Unternehmens ein.
title: Social Class and Highbrow Lifestyle
title: a cross‐national Analysis
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gerhards, Jürgen
name: Hans, Silke
name: Mutz, Michael
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::307 Gemeinschaften

description: Above all, Pierre Bourdieu’s work has argued that there is a homology of social classes on the one hand and cultural consumption on the other. In contrast, theories of individualization posit that social class plays only a minor role in shaping lifestyle in contemporary societies. In this paper, using extensive survey data, we examine a) how much contemporary highbrow lifestyles are structured by class membership, b) the extent to which highbrow consumption varies according to the level of modernization of a society and c) whether the explanatory power of class status in relation to highbrow consumption decreases in more modernized countries. The findings show that highbrow lifestyles are strongly influenced by social class, and that highbrow consumption is more common in more modernized societies. Moreover, the findings confirm the suspicion that the formative power of social class on lifestyle decreases in highly modernized societies, albeit without disappearing completely.
Zwischen trivial und genial: Logistikketten für Lebensmittel
Creators: name: Wölfle, Ralf
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: ERP-Systeme
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die einzelnen Tätigkeiten in der Lebensmittellogistik mögen trivial sein: Ware aus dem Lager entnehmen, Palette packen, Palette in den LKW schieben, fertig. Der Rest geht mich nichts mehr an, könnte der Zulieferer denken. Aber dem ist nicht so. Wer Geld verdienen will, muss die Summe aller Einzeltätigkeiten optimieren, und zwar besser als die anderen. Und das geht.