cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parsing and acquisition: Evidence from Serbo-Croatian.
Creators: name: Stojanovic, Danijela.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: The goal of the thesis was to examine the processing of different types of filler-gap dependencies in Serbo-Croatian. The Active Filler Strategy (Frazier 1987) and its extension, the Minimal Chain Principle (de Vincenzi 1991), formulated as ambiguity resolution strategies in the processing of empty categories, predict that subject extractions are easier than the object ones. Other strategies, such as the Syntactic Prediction Locality Theory (Gibson 1998), although formulated as a more general theory of sentence processing, make very similar predictions about the processing of wh-extractions. The thesis consists of different experiments in Serbo-Croatian, in which a number of predictions based on the AFS, the MCP and potentially the SPLT were tested. Three on-line reading time experiments were carried out: the scarmbling, koji and Sto experiments. In the scrambling experiment the processing of different word orders was tested. In the koji ("who/which") relative clause experiment the processing of filler-gap dependencies in relative clauses was tested. The third experiment, the Sto experiment, presents an innovative contribution to the study of the filler-gap processing. As object binders always precede the subject binders, object Sto relatives are predicted to be easier to process than the subject ones. The results from the scrambling experiment indicate that there is a strong preference to interpret an initial ambiguous NP as the subject. The results from the koji experiment show that the parser prefers to postulate the gap in the first grammatically available position, making subject relatives easier to process than the object ones. In Sto relatives, the locality asymmetry, based on a structural difference, is reflected in processing: object Sto relatives are easier to process than subject relatives. In sum, the results from the on-line experiments indicate that the parser searches actively for the gap/binder in the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Serbo-Croatian. Additionally, the adult study has been extended to testing children's comprehension of different types of relative clauses. Results from act-out tasks and an elicited production task show a trend towards preference for an object interpretation in Sto relatives, as well as a subject interpretation in koji relatives. Results from both adult and child experiments are examined within a model of parsing in which syntactic and semantic information are factored in at different levels.
Supplementary document for High-resolution 3D refractive index microscopy of multiple-scattering samples from intensity images - 4044047.pdf
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Shwetadwip
name: Chen, Michael
name: Eckert, Regina
name: Ren, David
name: Wu, Fan
name: Repina, Nicole
name: Waller, Laura
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supporting Information 1
Comparison of the non-invasive Nexfin® monitor with conventional methods for the measurement of arterial blood pressure in moderate risk orthopaedic surgery patients
Creators: name: Balzer, Felix
name: Habicher, Marit
name: Sander, Michael
name: Sterr, Julian
name: Scholz, Stephanie
name: Feldheiser, Aarne
name: Mueller, Michael
name: Perka, Carsten
name: Treskatsch, Sascha
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Blood pressure
subject: monitoring
subject: non-invasive arterial pressure
subject: invasive arterial pressure
subject: Nexfin® Trial registration: ClinGov. NCT01263990
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective Continuous invasive arterial blood pressure (IBP) monitoring remains the gold standard for BP measurement, but traditional oscillometric non- invasive intermittent pressure (NIBP) measurement is used in most low-to- moderate risk procedures. This study compared non-invasive continuous arterial BP measurement using a Nexfin® monitor with NIBP and IBP monitors. Methods This was a single-centre, prospective, pilot study in patients scheduled for elective orthopaedic surgery. Systolic BP, diastolic BP and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) were measured by Nexfin®, IBP and NIBP at five intraoperative time-points. Pearson correlation coefficients, Bland–Altman plots and trending ability of Nexfin® measurements were used as criteria for success in the investigation of measurement reliability. Results A total of 20 patients were enrolled in the study. For MAP, there was a sufficient correlation between IBP/Nexfin® (Pearson = 0.75), which was better than the correlation between IBP/NIBP (Pearson = 0.70). Bland–Altman analysis of the data showed that compared with IBP, there was a higher percentage error for MAPNIBP (30%) compared with MAPNexfin® (27%). Nexfin® and NIBP underestimated systolic BP; NIBP also underestimated diastolic BP and MAP. Trending ability for MAPNexfin® and MAPNIBP were comparable to IBP. Conclusion Non-invasive BP measurement with Nexfin® was comparable with IBP and tended to be more precise than NIBP.
On scientific realism: In defence of a deflationary approach.
Creators: name: McArthur, Daniel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: This thesis explores the question of scientific realism. It proceeds by first providing an historical examination of the history of the debate in recent decades that has led to scientific realism replacing logical empiricism as the received view of scientific theories. Van Fraassen's proposed replacement "constructive empiricism" is examined and found to be an inadequate replacement. However, it is made clear that his critique of realism is valid. Recent post-van Fraassen positions are then examined in order to develop a plausible solution to the realism debate. The thesis focuses in particular on "deflationary approaches", those positions that eschew global solutions to the debate that are supposed to apply to the whole of science. A solution is proposed that draws features from recent "deflationary" approaches to the realism question. The normative methodological role of the deflationary approach is then defended from the claim that no interpretative, normative or methodological role is left for such a position. An illustration of the utility of the approach is demonstrated through a case study of the methodological role that the realism question has played in the field of quantum mechanics.
Evaluation of a mock circulation model through time-series analysis.
Creators: name: Hicks, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: A mathematical model of the Donovan Mock Circulation Unit (MCU), derived from fundamental principles of fluid dynamics is utilized to represent this system. A new solution to a lumped-parameter model of the human circulation is developed using discontinuous line segments to approximate the complicated aortic flow profile. Aortic pressure and flow data for the human circulation are taken from the literature and are collected as a time-series from the mock circulation unit. The model is fitted to this data using non-linear regression analysis. Residual plots and autocorrelation functions for the data sets suggest that the model should be fitted using a first-order moving average process and tests for lack-of-fit indicate that the model is adequate. Parameter estimates are within acceptable physiological limits. Approximate inference bands for the model predictions are presented for both the human physiological data and the MCU data. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Hydrocracking Boscan heavy oil with catalysts containing a zeolite component.
Creators: name: Minja, Rwaichi J. A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: In this study, hydrodesulphurization (HDS), hydrodenitrogenation (HDN), hydrodemetallization (HDM), and micro carbon residue (MCR) removal were investigated using residuum hydrocracking catalysts containing a zeolite component. The first family of catalysts containing H-mordenite was tested at a pressure of 13.9 MPa and at temperatures of 400 and 450$\sp\circ$C in an upward flow packed bed reactor. The results showed increased overall HDM, but decreased overall HDS, HDN, and MCR removal with increasing catalyst H-mordenite content. Analysis based on constant residence time and constant catalyst surface area, i.e., calculation of pseudo turnover frequency (PTOF) and PTOF per unit residence time, showed increased catalyst activity for all reactions with increasing catalyst H-mordenite content. The second family of catalysts containing HY was tested at the same conditions, but at temperatures of 400 and 370$\sp\circ$C. For these catalysts there was similar results compared to the first family of catalysts. Benzofuran temperature programmed desorption (TPD) measurements showed that, the number of acid sites increased with increasing zeolite (H-mordenite or HY) content in the catalysts. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Effect of oil contamination on the properties of sand.
Creators: name: Ben Amor, Faouzi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Considering that oil is capable of altering the frictional resistance of all surfaces, it may be expected that the angle of internal friction of sand also changes if oil penetrates its pores. The experimental part of the present research is an attempt to find out how much the behaviour of sand is affected by oil contamination. The results of a series of conventional triaxial compression tests showed that oil contamination resulted in a significant reduction in the angle of internal friction. Furthermore, the behaviour of an interface between sand and two different structure materials was investigated. Oil contamination of the interface resulted in a relatively small change of the interface friction angle. The bearing capacity and sliding resistance of a retaining wall, and the factor of safety of a slope were evaluated for both clean and oil contaminated sands. Lade's work hardening model which was modified to compensate for plastic strains resulting from proportional loading Evgin (1981), has been used in this study. The model parameters for both clean and oil contaminated sand were determined and predictions were made for the soil behaviour in tests using the computer program. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Möglichkeiten der verstärkten Nutzung von Synergien zwischen Umweltschutz und sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Programmen wie der "Sozialen Stadt"
Creators: name: Böhme, Christa
name: Franke, Thomas
name: Preuß, Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Städtebauförderung
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Umweltgerechtigkeit
subject: Ökologische Gerechtigkeit
subject: Sozialstruktur
subject: integrierte Quartiersentwicklung
subject: soziale Stadt
subject: Soziale Ungleichheit
subject: soziale Milieus
subject: Teilhabe
subject: soziale Integration
subject: zusammenleben
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Studie richtet den Blick auf Quartiere, in denen mehrfache Benachteiligungen vorliegen, und fragt nach Synergiepotenzialen zwischen Umweltschutz und sozialer Gerechtigkeit beim Ansatz der Städtebauförderung. Solche Synergien können der Studie zufolge erschlossen werden, wenn: a) Förderprogramme Themen adressieren, die zu einer verbesserten Beziehung der Quartiersbewohner/-innen zu ihrer eigenen Nahwelt führen; b) eine stärkere handlungsfeld- und ressort-übergreifende Zusammenarbeit nicht nur auf kommunaler, sondern auch auf Bundes- und Landesebene verfolgt wird, und c) die Bewohner/-innen aktiv in die Verbesserung sozialer und ökologischer Verhältnisse im Quartier einbezogen werden.
Supplementary document for Dispersion-engineered nanocomposites enable achromatic diffractive optical elements - 4045466.pdf
Creators: name: Werdehausen, Daniel
name: Burger, Sven
name: Staude, Isabelle
name: Pertsch, Thomas
name: Decker, Manuel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Surfaces and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

description: Supplementary Material
Social networks, life satisfaction and community adaptation for people with severe mental illness: The contribution from friends, family, and service providers
Creators: name: Graham Bevan, Gillian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: This thesis examined the social networks and the perceived social support of people who have been receiving case management services from a community mental health program. Specifically, I focused on individuals who have severe and persistent mental illness and who have been living on the streets, in homeless shelters and in other forms of inadequate housing, since there is some evidence that homelessness itself can have important ramifications for the social network. The study had several objectives. Firstly, I described the social networks (including the professional branch of the network) of participants. Next, I looked at the links between their objective social network features (such as total network size, number of professionals, number of 'close confidantes', etc.) and their well being (as measured by life satisfaction and community adaptation). I also examined the relationship between subjective social support and well-being. Finally, a qualitative analysis was conducted using an inductive content analysis approach. Participants were asked to describe the types of changes they would like to make in their relationships with family members, and they were asked about the changes they would like to make in their relationships with unrelated individuals. As expected, participants described abnormally small social networks, and there was an over-representation of mental health professionals. The regression analyses suggested that the objective aspects of the social network may not be as important as participants' beliefs about their relationships and their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their relationships. After controlling for the effects of gender and level of symptomatology, satisfaction with family relationships stood out as a predictor of overall life satisfaction. The qualitative results supported the quantitative results in some ways, but in other ways, the qualitative results contrasted with the quantitative. Participants were well aware that their social networks are small, and they wanted to have more friends. Importantly, they wanted to have friends who are "normal", i.e. friends who do not have mental health issues, friends who are socially acceptable and friends who look like valued members of society. In describing their family relationships, participants wanted to have more contact with their families and they wanted to feel more accepted by their families. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
From VHS to the Cloud: Audiovisual content in education comes a long way
Creators: name: Lake, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In just over twenty years, audiovisual use in Australia's classrooms has come a long way. The days of wheeling in a VHS recorder and television to play a program to students have gone, replaced by a myriad of new audiovisual technologies. In the face of this change, there have been two constants - teachers want ready access to fresh relevant programming that speaks to the curriculum, and we need copyright laws that provide easy access to this work, and payment to the program makers. This article explains the operation of the provisions of the Australian Copyright Act that allow for educational copying from television and radio and the collecting society that administers them - Screenrights. It then describes a Screenrights initiative, EnhanceTV Direct, that was trialled in 2011 and is now being rolled out to educational institutions. This service makes existing and new audiovisual content, specifically curated for the education market, easily available to schools, universities, TAFEs and other licensed institutions, while ensuring program makers receive a royalty and are therefore encouraged to produce more creative work. © 2012 Swinburne University of Technology.
Representing Matroids over the Reals is $\exists \mathbb R$-complete
Creators: name: Kim, Eun Jung
name: de Mesmay, Arnaud
name: Miltzow, Tillmann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A matroid $M$ is an ordered pair $(E,I)$, where $E$ is a finite set called the ground set and a collection $I\subset 2^{E}$ called the independent sets which satisfy the conditions: (i) $\emptyset \in I$, (ii) $I'\subset I \in I$ implies $I'\in I$, and (iii) $I_1,I_2 \in I$ and $|I_1| < |I_2|$ implies that there is an $e\in I_2$ such that $I_1\cup \{e\} \in I$. The rank $rank(M)$ of a matroid $M$ is the maximum size of an independent set. We say that a matroid $M=(E,I)$ is representable over the reals if there is a map $φ\colon E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{rank(M)}$ such that $I\in I$ if and only if $φ(I)$ forms a linearly independent set.
 We study the problem of matroid realizability over the reals. Given a matroid $M$, we ask whether there is a set of points in the Euclidean space representing $M$. We show that matroid realizability is $\exists \mathbb R$-complete, already for matroids of rank 3. The complexity class $\exists \mathbb R$ can be defined as the family of algorithmic problems that is polynomial-time is equivalent to determining if a multivariate polynomial with integers coefficients has a real root.
 Our methods are similar to previous methods from the literature. Yet, the result itself was never pointed out and there is no proof readily available in the language of computer science.
description: v2 and v3: Minor changes v4: Final version, to appear in DMTCS
Supplementary document for Dispersion-engineered nanocomposites enable achromatic diffractive optical elements - 4045466.pdf
Creators: name: Werdehausen, Daniel
name: Burger, Sven
name: Staude, Isabelle
name: Pertsch, Thomas
name: Decker, Manuel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Surfaces and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

description: Supplementary Material
A study of the human X-linked inhibitory apoptosis protein XIAP and its murine homologue MIAP-3.
Creators: name: Farahani, Reza.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: IAPs (inhibitor of apoptosis proteins) are a new family of proteins capable of interacting with the components of the cell death machinery thus, inhibiting apoptosis. IAPs contain two or three 70 amino acid domains in their N-terminus called BIR (baculovirus IAP repeat) domains and a C-terminus $\rm C\sb3HC\sb4$ type RING zinc finger. Four human genes called naip, xiap (X-linked IAP), hiap-1 and hiap-2 (human IAP-1 and 2) have been cloned in the past several years. Although all of these genes exhibit some degree of apoptosis suppression capability, it is not clear which region of the protein is responsible for the anti-apoptotic function. miap-3, the mouse homologue of xiap was cloned by cDNA and genomic library screening and characterized. miap-3 has a coding sequence of 1491 bp translating into a protein with 496 amino acids and predicted size of 55 kDa. The mouse gene has 898 and 94% homology with human xiap at DNA and amino acid levels respectively and has been assigned to mouse chromosome X in the A3-A5 region. Northern blot analysis showed that miap-3 expresses as an over 8 kb message in all tissues examined indicating large 3' and/or 5' UTRs. The capacity of various miap-3 and xiap constructs to protect cells against apoptotic insult was assessed. Expression of full-length xiap or miap-3 cDNAs in CHO cells conferred only modest protection above the level observed for controls (i.e. CHO cells expressing plasmids with no insert which demonstrate 15-20% cell survival level). Expression of the RING zinc finger provides no protection to CHO cells. In contrast, expression of a construct encoding only the BIR domains (and not the RING zinc finger) resulted in four fold enhancement of survival after 72 hours of serum deprivation. It was of interest to investigate the cellular distribution of IAPs and any possible change in their distribution pattern under normal and apoptotic conditions. Immunofluorescent microscopy performed on CHO cells expressing xiap revealed that under normal conditions, Xiap concentrates in the cytoplasm. During apoptosis, however, Xiap appears in the nucleus as well. Change of localization pattern during apoptosis was further investigated by immunofluorescent studies. These revealed that full-length Xiap and Miap-3 as well as RING zinc-finger proteins concentrate in the cytoplasm. In contrast, BIR domains appeared to localize both in the cytoplasm and nucleus, suggesting that BIR domains may be cleaved and translocalized to the nucleus during apoptosis. The anti-apoptotic effect of IAPs during apoptosis may depend on the cleavage and/or translocation of BIR domains to the nucleus. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Classical Reissner-Nordström metric from perturbative quantum field theory
Creators: name: Wang, Rachel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Following a brief review of perturbative Einstein-Hilbert gravity, we extract the Feynman rules from the flat-space expanded action. Computing diagrams order by order in the gravitational coupling G_N, we construct the small rₛ/r expansion of the perturbed Schwarzschild metric to 𝒪(1/r²), where r is radial coordinate and rₛ=2G_Nm is the Schwarzschild radius for an object of mass m. In applying the same treatment to the Einstein-Maxwell action, we compute an additional graviton-photon interaction vertex and the 𝒪(1/r²) correction to the photon 1-point function. Our result is then verified against the small G_N expansion of the Reissner-Nordström (RN) metric. For a pair of interacting RN black holes, each with electric charge Q, we show that the force vanishes at each order in G_N provided the black holes are extremal (Q=√G_Nm). Based on this result, we propose a novel perturbative expansion in the relative velocity v² for multi-centre black hole solutions, to be explored and further developed in future work.
Testability-directed specification of communications software.
Creators: name: Yu, Hua-Long.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: In this thesis, we make a contribution to improving software testability by providing a useful model and guide-lines for constructing highly testable specifications of distributed real time (communications) systems. A global events model is developed based on relative clock for interpreting concurrent aspect of a communications system. Extended trace assertion language (ETAL) is presented for formally representing both the sequential and concurrent aspects of the system. A relative clock based specification in ETAL method also facilitates subsequent testing activity. Subsequently, based on the global events model, a new test result analysis approach including timing information is presented for communication service and protocol conformance testing. This approach is also ETAL specification-based. After the descriptions of the contributions mentioned above, the definition of a testability-directed specification and a study on the relations between the testability-directed specification and ETAL are then presented. Finally, the feasibility and usefulness of the relative clock based formal specification method is demonstrated by its application to OSI transport software (service and protocol). Also, the effectiveness of the relative clock based approach for test result analysis is illustrated in a set of realistic conformance testing examples. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The rostral migratory stream generates hippocampal CA1 pyramidal-like neurons in a novel organotypic slice co-culture model
Creators: name: Singec, Ilyas
name: Knoth, Rolf
name: Vida, Imre
name: Frotscher, Michael
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The mouse subventricular zone (SVZ) generates large numbers of neuroblasts, which migrate in a distinct pathway, the rostral migratory stream (RMS), and replace specific interneurons in the olfactory bulb (OB). Here, we introduce an organotypic slice culture model that directly connects the RMS to the hippocampus as a new destination. RMS neuroblasts widely populate the hippocampus and undergo cellular differentiation. We demonstrate that RMS cells give rise to various neuronal subtypes and, surprisingly, to CA1 pyramidal neurons. Pyramidal neurons are typically generated before birth and are lost in various neurological disorders. Hence, this unique slice culture model enables us to investigate their postnatal genesis under defined in vitro conditions from the RMS, an unanticipated source for hippocampal pyramidal neurons.
Supplementary document for Near-field out-of-plane coupling between terahertz photonic crystal waveguides - 4048793.pdf
Creators: name: Headland, Daniel
name: Xiongbin, Yu
name: Fujita, Masayuki
name: Nagatsuma, Tadao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Data Communications
Networking and Communications
Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: This document presents the results of several numerical simulations that support the arguments presented in the main text.
Frozen condition of quantum coherence
Creators: name: Bai, Zhaofang
name: Du, Shuanping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum coherence as an important physical resource plays the key role in implementing various quantum tasks, whereas quantum coherence is often deteriorated due to the noise. In this paper, we analyse under which dynamical conditions the $l_1$-norm or the relative entropy of coherence can remain unchanged during the whole evolution (freezing coherence). For single qubit systems, a nice formula is given to realize freezing coherence. Conversely, for a $d\ (d>2)$ dimensional system, we identify universal geometric conditions of freezing coherence. This offers an affirmative answer to the open question: how can one determine whether a unital quantum operation can be decomposed as a convex combination of unitary operations [M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000)]. Based on this analysis, we also give a complete classification of coherent states from operational coherence theory. This builds the counterpart of entanglement classification under LOCC.
description: 9 pages, 73 references
title: Evaluación radiológica de la osteocondrosis intervertebral
Creators: name: Corbella Sala, Cristina
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Hernia

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar la imagen de las estructuras y procesos involucrados en la degeneración vertebral,
haciendo especial hincapié en la información morfológica que será decisiva en la toma de decisiones...
La politique extérieure soviétique : assistance militaire soviétique aux pays du Tiers Monde (1964-1979).
Creators: name: Gauthier, Sonia.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: History, Modern.

description: Il nous apparai t essentiel de faire un retour dans le passe et d'observer l'Union sovietique au cours des annees qui ont connu la consolidation de son hegemonie, de sa puissance et finalement de son declin. L'hegemonie signifie pour nous une grande puissance qui reussit par ses capacites en ressources materielles et sa volonte et de developpement economique. L'Union sovietique lors de la periode etudiee trouve son hegemonie explicite limitee a la region des pays d'Europe de l'Est. A l'echelle mondiale, l'Union sovietique n'est pas une puissance hegemonique capable de controler les rapports de force economique, dans une economie monde capitaliste. En somme et en depit de son ideologie marxisme-leninisme a vocation universelle son statut de superpuissance a l'echelle mondiale repose sur sa capacite d'agir sur les plans militaire et nucleaire. Nous avons voulu verifier si l'objectif qui consiste a repandre l'ideologie marxisme-leninisme peut expliquer la presence des armes sovietiques au tiers-monde. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Hollow victory: An alarm for industry collaboration on Internet energy
Creators: name: O'Halloran, Seán
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The global telecommunications industry cannot ignore the looming explosion of energy consumption associated with network data growth. Improving equipment efficiency is one thing, but the scale of growth and sheer complexity of the network requires a new approach. Alcatel-Lucent, through its investment in the University of Melbourne's Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications is leading the way, rethinking network architecture with an efficiency foundation. But solutions won't be found in isolation and greater collaboration is required for Australian industry to establish a collective leadership on energy efficiency. © 2012 Swinburne University of Technology.
GABRB1 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Associated with Altered Brain Responses (but not Performance) during Measures of Impulsivity and Reward Sensitivity in Human Adolescents
Creators: name: Duka, Theodora
name: Nikolaou, Kyriaki
name: King, Sarah L.
name: Banaschewski, Tobias
name: Bokde, Arun L. W.
name: Buechel, Christian
name: Carvalho, Fabian
name: Heinz, Andreas [U.V.M.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: alcohol abuse
subject: stop signal
subject: monetary incentive delay
subject: fMRI
subject: GABAA receptor
subject: inferior frontal gyrus
subject: insula
subject: supramarginal gyrus
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Variations in genes encoding several GABAA receptors have been associated with human drug and alcohol abuse. Among these, a number of human studies have suggested an association between GABRB1, the gene encoding GABAA receptor β1 subunits, with Alcohol dependence (AD), both on its own and comorbid with other substance dependence and psychiatric illnesses. In the present study, we hypothesized that the GABRB1 genetically-associated increased risk for developing alcoholism may be associated with impaired behavioral control and altered sensitivity to reward, as a consequence of altered brain function. Exploiting the IMAGEN database (Schumann et al., 2010), we explored in a human adolescent population whether possession of the minor (T) variant of the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2044081 is associated with performance of tasks measuring aspects of impulsivity, and reward sensitivity that are implicated in drug and alcohol abuse. Allelic variation did not associate with altered performance in either a stop-signal task (SST), measuring one aspect of impulsivity, or a monetary incentive delay (MID) task assessing reward anticipation. However, increased functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) response in the right hemisphere inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), left hemisphere caudate/insula and left hemisphere inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) during MID performance was higher in the minor (T) allelic group. In contrast, during SST performance, the BOLD response found in the right hemisphere supramarginal gyrus, right hemisphere lingual and left hemisphere inferior parietal gyrus indicated reduced responses in the minor genotype. We suggest that β1-containing GABAA receptors may play a role in excitability of brain regions important in controlling reward-related behavior, which may contribute to susceptibility to addictive behavior.
A Human Word Association based model for topic detection in social networks
Creators: name: Khadivi, Mehrdad Ranjbar
name: Akbarpour, Shahin
name: Feizi-Derakhshi, Mohammad-Reza
name: Anari, Babak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the widespread use of social networks, detecting the topics discussed on these platforms has become a significant challenge. Current approaches primarily rely on frequent pattern mining or semantic relations, often neglecting the structure of the language. Language structural methods aim to discover the relationships between words and how humans understand them. Therefore, this paper introduces a topic detection framework for social networks based on the concept of imitating the mental ability of word association. This framework employs the Human Word Association method and includes a specially designed extraction algorithm. The performance of this method is evaluated using the FA-CUP dataset, a benchmark in the field of topic detection. The results indicate that the proposed method significantly improves topic detection compared to other methods, as evidenced by Topic-recall and the keyword F1 measure. Additionally, to assess the applicability and generalizability of the proposed method, a dataset of Telegram posts in the Persian language is used. The results demonstrate that this method outperforms other topic detection methods.
description: This is a preprint of an article published in "Annals of Data Science". The final authenticated version is available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40745-024-00561-0
title: Ecografía Pulmonar en el paciente crítico.
Creators: name: Sánchez Crespo, Juan Manuel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: Emergency

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
La ecografía pulmonar en una técnica cada vez más empleada en el manejo,
sobre todo inicial,
de los pacientes críticos. Debido al abaratamiento de los equipos de ecografía,
su uso es cada vez más generalizado por diferentes especialistas no...
Development of electric probes to detect phase change at a heated surface.
Creators: name: Ragheb, Helmy S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Two types of electric resistance probe have been developed to detect the rewetting of a heated surface, during quenching experiments. Measurements of electric resistance were made using two different methods: (i) Two-Electrode measurement, through a thermocouple probe; (ii) Probe-to Wall measurement, through a zirconium-platinum probe. Forced vertical flow experiments were conducted for water at atmospheric pressure, mass fluxes at 25,000 and 50,000 lbm/hr-ft2 and inlet subcooling ranging from 0 to 70°F. These experiments were preceded by a pool boiling experiment to relate visually the probe output signals to different boiling regimes. The zirconium-platinum probe showed advantages over the thermocouple probe and could detect the onset of rewetting at 440--480°F. the maximum heat flux point was also detected by both types of probe and was found to be in good agreement with those available from boiling curves. Several boiling phenomena recorded by the probes, are discussed. Finally, recommendations are made for alternative methods of detecting the transition from film boiling to nucleate boiling during a quenching process.
title: EnteroRM en el estudio de la patología inflamatoria intestinal
Creators: name: VARA CASTRODEZA, ALEJANDRO
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Inflammation
subject: Fistula
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Small bowel
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Demostrar la utilidad de la resonancia magnética en el estudio de la afectación intestinal en la enfermedad de Crohn para evaluar su localización,
distribución,
grado de actividad,
complicaciones extraluminales,
afectación mesentérica y...
Design and evaluation of an implementation intervention to enhance decision support by call centre nurses for callers facing values-sensitive health decisions.
Creators: name: Stacey, Dawn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: Purpose. To evaluate the process of implementing decision support by call centre nurses for callers facing values-sensitive health decisions. Design. Exploratory case study guided by the Ottawa Model of Research Use with an embedded randomized controlled trial. Setting. A Canadian province-wide call centre. Intervention. Online autotutorial, skill-building workshop, decision support protocol, and performance feedback using simulated callers. Methods. (1) Barriers assessment using a survey, interviews, focus groups, and quality audit of baseline simulated calls. (2) Comparison of intervention and control groups using a knowledge test, quality audit of simulated calls, and acceptability surveys. (3) Assessment of the uptake and sustainability of decision support using a survey, interviews, and focus groups. Results. (1) Of 108 nurses, 57 responded to the barriers survey. Nurses had positive attitudes toward patient participation in decision making and their role in supporting callers. Main barriers included inadequate nurses' knowledge, skills, and confidence in providing decision support; lack of process to guide decision support calls; patient decision aids not formatted for telephone use; low public awareness; pressure to minimize call length, and unclear program direction. (2) Compared to controls (n=20), nurses (n=19) who participated in the intervention had improved knowledge (M= 74% vs. 60%, p=0.007) and provided a higher quality of decision support particularly in the domains of discussing values and support (M= 81.3% vs. 45.8%,p<0.0001) without significantly increasing call duration (M= 18.5 vs. 16.7 min, p=0.73). Nurses were satisfied with the multifaceted intervention. Twelve control group nurses opted to complete the training after the trial concluded. (3) Within 3 months post-intervention, 25 of the 31 nurses (n=19+12) completed the decision support uptake survey. Of these, 44% had used the protocol with real callers and 88% intended to use it. Nurses spoke positively about their experiences with real callers. Suggestions to improve sustainability included integrating the protocol in the call centre database, reformatting the patient decision aids, clarifying the program direction, establishing call length guidelines tailored to call type, implementing decision support training for all staff, and publicizing the new decision support services. Conclusions. The multifaceted intervention and process evaluation measures may provide a feasible approach to expanding call centre services to include values-sensitive decision support. However, to ensure sustainability, barriers within the practice environment need to be addressed and patient outcomes evaluated.
Supplementary document for Near-field out-of-plane coupling between terahertz photonic crystal waveguides - 4048793.pdf
Creators: name: Headland, Daniel
name: Xiongbin, Yu
name: Fujita, Masayuki
name: Nagatsuma, Tadao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Data Communications
Networking and Communications
Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: This document presents the results of several numerical simulations that support the arguments presented in the main text.
title: Cirugía bariatrica. Estudio y análisis de las complicaciones mediante estudios seriados.
Creators: name: Fernandez- Crehuet Serrano, Carolina
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
El objetivo de este estudio es realizar un análisis comparativo de las complicaciones más frecuentes de la gastroplastia vertical anillada u operación de Mason(GVA),
la derivación bilio-pancreática u operación de Scopinaro (DBP) y Manga...
D4.2 BOW products in vitro and ex vivo immunotoxicity/genotoxicity
Creators: name: Aloi, Noemi
name: Bergese, Paolo
name: Bongiovanni, Antonella
name: Colombo, Paolo
name: Dominici, Massimo
name: Rivas, Josè
name: Romano, Miriam
name: Tegliai, Simonetta
name: Trapani, Irene
name: Zendrini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: BOW project deliverable 4.2 BOW products in vitro and ex vivo immunotoxicity/genotoxicity
TRPV6 modulates proliferation of human pancreatic neuroendocrine BON-1 tumour cells
Creators: name: Skrzypski, Marek
name: Kolodziejski, Pawel A.
name: Mergler, Stefan
name: Khajavi, Noushafarin
name: Nowak, Krzysztof W.
name: Strowski, Mathias Z.
name: Strowski, Mathias Z.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Highly Ca2+ permeable receptor potential channel vanilloid type 6 (TRPV6) modulates a variety of biological functions including calcium-dependent cell growth and apoptosis. So far, the role of TRPV6 in controlling growth of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour (NET) cells is unknown. In the present study, we characterize the expression of TRPV6 in pancreatic BON-1 and QGP-1 NET cells. Furthermore, we evaluate the impact of TRPV6 on intracellular calcium, the activity of nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT) and proliferation of BON-1 cells. TRPV6 expression was assessed by real-time PCR and Western blot. TRPV6 mRNA expression and protein production were down-regulated by siRNA. Changes in intracellular calcium levels were detected by fluorescence calcium imaging (fura-2/AM). NFAT activity was studied by NFAT reporter assay; cell proliferation by bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), MTT and propidium iodine staining. TRPV6 mRNA and protein are present in BON-1 and QGP-1 NET-cells. Down-regulation of TRPV6 attenuates BON-1 cell proliferation. TRPV6 down- regulation is associated with decreased Ca2+ response pattern and reduced NFAT activity. In conclusion, TRPV6 is expressed in pancreatic NETs and modulates cell proliferation via Ca2+-dependent mechanism, which is accompanied by NFAT activation.
title: Difusión de las fístulas perianales: protocolo, hallazgos y utilidad
Creators: name: de Miguel Criado, Jaime
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Fistula
subject: Infection
subject: Abscess

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
La enfermedad fistulosa perianal es un proceso inflamatorio-infeccioso de la región perianal que causa importante morbilidad a los pacientes que la sufren.
El protocolo de evaluación habitual de las fístulas perianales incluye secuencias...
PGCN: Pyramidal Graph Convolutional Network for EEG Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Jin, Ming
name: Zhu, Enwei
name: Du, Changde
name: He, Huiguang
name: Li, Jinpeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Emotion recognition is essential in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of various mental diseases. In the last decade, electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition has been intensively investigated due to its prominative accuracy and reliability, and graph convolutional network (GCN) has become a mainstream model to decode emotions from EEG signals. However, the electrode relationship, especially long-range electrode dependencies across the scalp, may be underutilized by GCNs, although such relationships have been proven to be important in emotion recognition. The small receptive field makes shallow GCNs only aggregate local nodes. On the other hand, stacking too many layers leads to over-smoothing. To solve these problems, we propose the pyramidal graph convolutional network (PGCN), which aggregates features at three levels: local, mesoscopic, and global. First, we construct a vanilla GCN based on the 3D topological relationships of electrodes, which is used to integrate two-order local features; Second, we construct several mesoscopic brain regions based on priori knowledge and employ mesoscopic attention to sequentially calculate the virtual mesoscopic centers to focus on the functional connections of mesoscopic brain regions; Finally, we fuse the node features and their 3D positions to construct a numerical relationship adjacency matrix to integrate structural and functional connections from the global perspective. Experimental results on three public datasets indicate that PGCN enhances the relationship modelling across the scalp and achieves state-of-the-art performance in both subject-dependent and subject-independent scenarios. Meanwhile, PGCN makes an effective trade-off between enhancing network depth and receptive fields while suppressing the ensuing over-smoothing. Our codes are publicly accessible at https://github.com/Jinminbox/PGCN.