cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Architecture for 3D Multi-view video Transmission based on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
Creators: name: Su, Tianyu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: 3D video
QoE
DASH

description: Recent advancement in cameras and image processing technology has generated a paradigm shift from traditional 2D and 3D video to Multi-view Video (MVV) technology, while at the same time improving video quality and compression through standards such as High Efficiency video Coding (HEVC). In multi-view, cameras are placed in predetermined positions to capture the video from various views. Delivering such views with high quality over the Internet is a challenging prospect, as MVV traffic is several times larger than traditional video since it consists of multiple video sequences each captured from a different angle, requiring more bandwidth than single view video to transmit MVV. Also, the Internet is known to be prone to packet loss, delay, and bandwidth variation, which adversely affects MVV transmission. Another challenge is that end users’ devices have different capabilities in terms of computing power, display, and access link capacity, requiring MVV to be adapted to each user’s context. In this paper, we propose an HEVC Multi-View system using Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) to overcome the above mentioned challenges. Our system uses an adaptive mechanism to adjust the video bitrate to the variations of bandwidth in best effort networks. We also propose a novel scalable way for the Multi-view video and Depth (MVD) content for 3D video in terms of the number of transmitted views. Our objective measurements show that our method of transmitting MVV content can maximize the perceptual quality of virtual views after the rendering and hence increase the user’s quality of experience.
Membrane remodeling in plant salt tolerance
Creators: name: Guo, Qi
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: CAM
Crassulacean acid metabolism
Salt tolerance
Quantitative proteomics
Lipid metabolism
SWATH-MS
Sequential Window Acquisition of All Theoretical Mass Spectra
Subcellular compartment
Lipid signalling
Membrane markers
Phospholipid

description: Soil salinisation is a serious land degradation issue worldwide, limiting the productivity of crops. Understanding the tolerance mechanisms employed by halophytes is of great value for ultimately identifying biomarkers for salt-tolerant crop breeding. This PhD project capitalised on the use of innovative membrane isolation technology Free-Flow Electrophoresis, next-generation proteomic technology SWATH-MS, and mass spectrometry-based lipidomic analyses to investigate changes in proteins and lipids in leaf tissue of the halophyte Mesembryanthemum crystallinum grown under salt conditions. Results provided a framework to develop a model for salinity-induced membrane remodelling at the subcellular level and will inform future work to engineer salt-tolerant crops.
Near-infrared photonic crystals with higher-order bandgaps generated by two-photon photopolymerization
Creators: name: Gu, Min
name: Straub, Martin Hermann
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Three-dimensional photonic crystals with bandgaps of 1.5-2.3 mum in wavelength and with gap/midgap ratios of as much as 18% were generated efficiently by two-photon photopolymerization in a liquid resin. From 0.5-1.1-mW femtosecond-pulsed 540-nm light, woodpile structures consisting of 40 layers of elliptically shaped rods spaced at 350-500 nm were fabricated by focusing with a 1.3-N.A. objective. The high degree of correlation in these structures allowed the suppression of infrared transmission by as much as 50% as well as the observation of higher-order bandgaps. We also investigated the decrease in the gap wavelength on reduction of layer spacing, in-plane rod spacing, and rod size.
Loin des yeux et loin du coeur: Deux hôpitaux militaires canadiens-français au service de la France, 1915--1919
Creators: name: Litalien, Michel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: During the First World War, the infantry was the only service in which French Canadians could serve while speaking their mother tongue. But, other than the 22nd Infantry Battalion, there were two more French-Canadian units that saw active service throughout the Great War. These units were the "Hopital general canadien no. 6" (Number 6 Canadian General Hospital), raised by the Medical Faculty of Laval University in Montreal, and the "Hopital stationnaire no. 4" (Number 4 Stationary Hospital) (later augmented and re-named "Hopital general no. 8") [Number 8 General Hospital], whose existence was made possible thanks to the personal fortune of a wealthy Montreal physician, Doctor Arthur Mignault. Although the memory of these two hospitals is still very much alive in France, it is non-existent in Canada. And yet, when these two hospitals were raised in 1915, Montreal's French daily newspapers were very interested in them. Media interest diminished as time passed, and by the spring of 1919 the newspapers barely noted their homecoming. Attempts to publish a history of the accomplishments of these two units were fruitless, the memory of their existence was lost, and they disappeared from our collective consciousness. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title:  Le fonti giuridiche e lo studio della presenza islamica nello Stato della Chiesa (XVI-XVIII secolo)
Creators: name: Benedetti, Roberto
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: I numerosi studi condotti fino ad oggi sul tema della schiavitù all’interno dei confini dello Stato della Chiesa di età moderna hanno portato all’attenzione della comunità scientifica l’evidenza documentale della presenza sul lungo periodo di una minoranza composta da schiavi islamici che, pur non passando attraverso la conversione al cristianesimo e pur mantenendo la propria identità religiosa d’origine, costituiscono parte integrante di una complessa rete sociale ed economica. Ciò che è rimasto scoperto è, invece, lo studio dell’approccio istituzionale al fenomeno. Come era regolamentata la vita dei musulmani all’interno dei confini dello Stato del papa? Quali magistrature avevano la giurisdizione su di loro e in quali modalità la esercitavano? La seconda parte di questa comunicazione intende quindi presentare i primi risultati di una ricerca condotta sulle fonti normative prodotte dalle varie autorità centrali e periferiche dello Stato, in merito alla regolamentazione di una parte certamente esigua della popolazione ma estremamente significativa sul piano simbolico e teologico.
description: Venire a Roma, restare a Roma. Forestieri e stranieri fra Quattro e Settecento
Zeit und Raum. Das jelineksche Drama als Erinnerungsort
Creators: name: Wind, Priscilla
Publisher: name: Studia austriaca
Year: 2012

description: Elfriede Jelinek’s dramas focus on the power of mental images. Her “language surfaces” describe spaces of ideas which are created by associations und amalgams. These are hybrid intellectual places, where those who were driven out from history try to come back. This theatrical aesthetics evolves thanks to circumlocutions around a symbolic und concrete «lieu de mémoire» (Pierre Nora): Auschwitz. Elfriede Jelinek uses the ancient “method of loci” to question the link between theatre and “lieu de mémoire”, while building up intellectual places very similar to contemporary memorials.

description: Studia austriaca, Vol 20 (2012)
The business case for corporate training applications of Web-based tele-learning.
Creators: name: Whalen, Tammy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Adult and Continuing.

description: The Business Case for Corporate Training Applications of Web-Based Tele-Learning is divided into five chapters, each illustrating a key concept related to the economic and business impacts of implementing Web-based training in corporations. Chapter 1, the "Market for Web-Based Tele-Learning" presents an overview of the Web-based training industry and includes many examples of how corporations are using Web-based training today. The costs and benefits of Web-based training are introduced, including online training management. Chapter 2, "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Web-Based Tele-Learning: Case Study of the Bell Online Institute" hypothesizes that there are several key design elements that must be considered in costing Web-based training projects. The relative importance of these elements is examined using a case study approach. Chapter 3, "Web-Based Competency and Training Management Systems for Distance Learning" discusses the value to companies of using a Web-based system for competency and training management, using the case of Bell Canada as an example of how companies are implementing these tools today. Chapter 4, "Pricing Models for Web-Based Tele-Learning" examines the factors that influence the pricing of Web-based courses for employee training. Chapter 5, "Business Process Reengineering for the Use of Distance Learning at Bell Canada" is a case study that examines the use of Web-based training at Bell Canada in the context of business process reengineering. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Validated algorithms for fully coupled 3-D inversion
Creators: name: Cirpka, Olaf A.
name: Leven, Carsten
name: Rieckh, Veronika
name: Lopez-Alvis, Jorge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: hydrology
geophysics
hydrogeophysics
inversion algorithm

description: This report is deliverable D12 of ENIGMA ITN project. "The transport of fluids and their constituents in the subsurface causes a change in the physical properties of the medium. The aim of hydrogeophysical investigations is to study these changes by geophysical surveying techniques in order to infer the groundwater flow and solute transport behavior in the investigated domain, estimate hydraulic, geophysical and other material properties, and predict the system behavior under changing boundary conditions. Hydrogeological data such as hydraulic heads, tracer concentrations, or derived variables such as solutes travel times provide additional information to the geophysical data. While combining data of such disparate nature should theoretically improve the accuracy of the subsurface description, it also adds complexity, introduces additional properties to be considered (which are non-uniform and uncertain by themselves) and can cause inconsistent interpretations. Therefore, the joint analysis of geophysical and hydrogeological data is an active area of research.  The aim of this report is to give an overview of existing algorithms to jointly use hydrological and geophysical data in a single problem set."
Towards sustainable plant protection
Creators: name: Bär, Susanne
name: Foit, Kaarina Pirko
name: Heß, Michael
name: Knillmann, Saskia
name: Kotschik, Pia
name: Kuppe, Konstantin
name: Matezki, Steffen
name: Müller, Alexandra
name: Otto, Sally
name: Petzold, Nora
name: Pieper, Silvia
name: Wogram, Jörn
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: EU-Verordnung
subject: Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
subject: Pestizidwirkung
subject: Integrierte Schädlingsbekämpfung
subject: Biologisches Schutzgebiet
subject: Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt
subject: EU regulation
subject: sustainable agriculture
subject: chemical plant protection
subject: interaction of pesticides
subject: integrated pest management
subject: biological protected area
subject: protection of biodiversity
subject: Chemicals
subject: Air
subject: Water
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: With the new draft regulation on the "Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products" (SUR), the European Commission is concretising the pesticide reduction target of 50% by 2030 stipulated in the Farm-to-Fork Strategy. The legally binding implementation of integrated pest management sets a new course for sustainable agriculture. However, for the success of practical implementation to contribute to species conservation and to create resilient ecosystems in the agricultural landscape, further preconditions are necessary. This scientific opinion paper provides four major recommendations for action that are needed from an environmental perspective to achieve the envisaged objectives. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: With the new draft regulation on the "Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products" (SUR), the European Commission is concretising the pesticide reduction target of 50% by 2030 stipulated in the Farm-to-Fork Strategy. The legally binding implementation of integrated pest management sets a new course for sustainable agriculture. However, for the success of practical implementation to contribute to species conservation and to create resilient ecosystems in the agricultural landscape, further preconditions are necessary. This scientific opinion paper provides four major recommendations for action that are needed from an environmental perspective to achieve the envisaged objectives.
Hegel's logical determinations.
Creators: name: Frias, Denis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The system of logical determinations outlined in Hegel's Science of Logic is capable of further development because it is an aspect of a living process called the Idea. The system does not develop by the addition of new categories of thought, rather it develops when philosophers achieve insights into the nuances in the ways the logical determinations interrelate. Philosophers attain this nuanced knowledge by witnessing the process at work, and by actively analyzing the various experiential events occurring around them.
Mehr Leben als Tod in Rom. Josef Winklers römische Novelle «Natura morta»
Creators: name: Haas, Franz
Publisher: name: Studia austriaca
Year: 2012

description: The essay’s introduction examines the importance of Italy for Josef Winkler and puts the novella «Natura morta» in context with his oeuvre. The  subsequent analysis of the text highlights the technique used by the author, which shows similarities with the process of film shooting. The narrator’s eye follows the main character like a movie camera and is focused on numerous details as if it were zooming on them. In this process, while advancing the novella’s plot, the author paints a colorful portrait of Rome, bringing the city to
life like a baroque still life.
description: Studia austriaca, Vol 20 (2012)
The Notorious Soilborne Pathogenic Fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: An Update on Genes Studied with Mutant Analysis
Creators: name: Xia, Shitou
name: Xu, Yan
name: Hoy, Ryan
name: Zhang, Julia
name: Qin, Lei
name: Li, Xin
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Ascomycete Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is one of the most damaging soilborne fungal pathogens affecting hundreds of plant hosts, including many economically important crops. Its genomic sequence has been available for less than a decade, and it was recently updated with higher completion and better gene annotation. Here, we review key molecular findings on the unique biology and pathogenesis process of S. sclerotiorum, focusing on genes that have been studied in depth using mutant analysis. Analyses of these genes have revealed critical players in the basic biological processes of this unique pathogen, including mycelial growth, appressorium establishment, sclerotial formation, apothecial and ascospore development, and virulence. Additionally, the synthesis has uncovered gaps in the current knowledge regarding this fungus. We hope that this review will serve to build a better current understanding of the biology of this under-studied notorious soilborne pathogenic fungus.
Immanuel Kant's theory of experience.
Creators: name: Bosley, Aneurin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The goal of this thesis are, firstly, to critically explicate the role of the understanding in making experience possible (where experience is defined as 'empirical knowledge of objects'), and, secondly, to argue that Kant's conclusion regarding the possibility of experience is not tenable. My argument is essentially that the schematism of the pure concepts does not succeed in bridging the gap between sensibility and understanding. I suggest that not only does the schematism not succeed in providing the pure concepts with sensible content, but that nothing could provide them with such content.
title: Selektiv adressierbare Grenzflächen in Papier über Faserpräfunktionalisierung
Creators: name: Mikolei, Joanna Judith
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: Papier besitzt ein großes Potenzial für Spezialanwendungen wie zum Beispiel als Material zur Substitution von Einwegplastik oder im Bereich der Diagnostik sowie Sensorik. Diese Spezialanwendungen benötigen eine gezielte Gestaltung der Papierbenetzbarkeit, der Fluidverteilung, sowie der intrinsischen Papierporosität. Ziel dieser Arbeit war das Verständnis und die Kontrolle der Benetzbarkeit wie auch des Fluidflusses in allen Papierdimensionen, so wie die Papierporosität über die Verwendung von silicabasierten Beschichtungen. Dafür wurden, basierend auf Vorarbeiten, zwei Silicabeschichtungsstrategien optimiert (Dip-Coating) beziehungsweise entwickelt (Stir-Coating), die eine gezielte Silicaverteilung in allen Papierdimensionen und somit die Integration von komplexeren Benetzungsmustern ermöglichen. Das gezielte Einbringen von nanoskaligen Poren und somit die Gestaltung der spezifischen Papieroberfläche sowie Papierporosität erfolgte über mesoporöse Silicabeschichtungen. Basierend auf einem multi-methodalen Analyseansatz konnte, mit zum Teil für Papiere neu entwickelten Methoden, die Silicabeschichtungsbildung verstanden, sowie der Einfluss der Silicabeschichtungen und deren Verteilung im Papier auf die Benetzbarkeit wie auch auf den Fluidfluss auf makroskopischer und mikroskopischer Ebene untersucht werden. Dadurch ließ sich zum Einen Wasser während Benetzungs- und Trocknungsprozessen im Papier lokalisieren und zum Anderen die wasserdirigierenden Eigenschaften der Silicabeschichtungen verstehen. Es wurden drei unterschiedliche Imbibitionsmechanismen identifiziert und der Einfluss der Silicabeschichtung auf diese analysiert. Die für Papier entwickelten Beschichtungsstrategien zur Kontrolle der Benetzbarkeit wie auch des Fluidtransportes konnten auf Baumwollfäden übertragen werden. Der Transfer auf Baumwollfäden ermöglichte die Integration von unterschiedlichen Funktionalitäten über die einfache Verknüpfung von verschieden funktionalisierten Fäden. Dies erlaubte den Aufbau von komplexen Fädennetzwerken in denen Fluide kontrolliert durchgeleitet werden können, was von Bedeutung für Multisensorik- und Diagnostikanwendung sein kann.
From what we know to how we use it: five principles for turning entrepreneurship research and practitioner action guidelines
Creators: name: Hindle, Kevin
name: Anderson, Robert B.
name: Gibson, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper introduces a 'third stream' of publication, that will appear in the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship(JSBE), the journal of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Conseil Canadien des PME et de l’entrepreneuriat (CCSBE/CCPME), and in Small Enterprise Research (SER), the journal of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ). In this stream-founding paper it is argued that entrepreneurship researchers, currently, do not place sufficient emphasis on making their research findings relevant to entrepreneurs and their advisors, educators and those working in government on policy and programs. The paper then presents five general principles for turning entrepreneurship research findings into practical action guidelines for practitioners. The piece ends with a description of a new section to appear in both JSBE and SER beginning with this issue.
Supplementary document for Dielectric perturbations: anomalous resonance frequency shifts in optical resonators - 5177498.pdf
Creators: name: Azeem, Farhan
name: Trainor, Luke
name: Devane, Patrick
name: Norman, Daniel
name: Sanchez, Alfredo Rueda
name: Lambert, Nicholas
name: Kumari, Madhuri
name: Foreman, Matthew
name: Schwefel, Harald
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Table S1, Figures S1, S2
Kafka e Karl Stauffer-Bern. Sul personaggio di Titorelli
Creators: name: Di Noi, Barbara
Publisher: name: Studia austriaca
Year: 2012

description: Stauffer-Bern’s biography by Otto Brahm can be regarded as an important source for Titorelli, the painter in Kafka’s novel Der Prozeß. The way in which Kafka used this source recalls the idea of “lethetic Reading”, which Clayton Koelb introduces in order to explain the relationship between Kafka’s text Das Schweigen der Sirenen and Homer’s episode in The Odyssey. Although Kafka may have used Stauffer-Bern as a basis for his own creation, he used only a few of the details he found in Brahm’s biography. The importance of this source can then be appreciated only if we consider the story of Stauffer as the missing link between Titorelli and Kafka’s later creation of Gracchus.
description: Studia austriaca, Vol 20 (2012)
EOSC Secretariat D3.1 Stakeholder engagement plan, 1st version
Creators: name: Garavelli, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: EOSC
European Open Science Cloud
Open Science
FAIR principles

description: The report defines the activities to be carried out by the EOSC Secretariat in order to sustain, steer and monitor stakeholder engagement.
Projected local rain events due to climate change and the impacts on waterborne diseases in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Chhetri, Bimal K
name: Galanis, Eleni
name: Sobie, Stephen
name: Brubacher, Jordan
name: Balshaw, Robert
name: Otterstatter, Michael
name: Mak, Sunny
name: Lem, Marcus
name: Lysyshyn, Mark
name: Murdock, Trevor
name: Fleury, Manon
name: Zickfeld, Kirsten
name: Zubel, Mark
name: Clarkson, Len
name: Takaro, Tim K
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Climate change is increasing the number and intensity of extreme weather events in many parts of the world. Precipitation extremes have been linked to both outbreaks and sporadic cases of waterborne illness. We have previously shown a link between heavy rain and turbidity to population-level risk of sporadic cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis in a major Canadian urban population. The risk increased with 30 or more dry days in the 60 days preceding the week of extreme rain. The goal of this study was to investigate the change in cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis risk due to climate change, primarily change in extreme precipitation. Methods: Cases of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis were extracted from a reportable disease system (1997–2009). We used distributed lag non-linear Poisson regression models and projections of the exposure-outcome relationship to estimate future illness (2020–2099). The climate projections are derived from twelve statistically downscaled regional climate models. Relative Concentration Pathway 8.5 was used to project precipitation derived from daily gridded weather observation data (~ 6 × 10 km resolution) covering the central of three adjacent watersheds serving metropolitan Vancouver for the 2020s, 2040s, 2060s and 2080s. Results: Precipitation is predicted to steadily increase in these watersheds during the wet season (Oct. -Mar.) and decrease in other parts of the year up through the 2080s. More weeks with extreme rain (>90th percentile) are expected. These weeks are predicted to increase the annual rates of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis by approximately 16% by the 2080s corresponding to an increase of 55–136 additional cases per year depending upon the climate model used. The predicted increase in the number of waterborne illness cases are during the wet months. The range in future projections compared to historical monthly case counts typically differed by 10–20% across climate models but the direction of change was consistent for all models. Discussion: If new water filtration measures had not been implemented in our study area in 2010–2015, the risk of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis would have been expected to increase with climate change, particularly precipitation changes. In addition to the predicted increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events, the frequency and length of wet and dry spells could also affect the risk of waterborne diseases as we observed in the historical period. These findings add to the growing evidence regarding the need to prepare water systems to manage and become resilient to climate change-related health risks.
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 75, June 15, 1965)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1965

description: The Alcoholism Treatment Digest was a subscription-based publication prepared for special clients by the editorial department of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol / Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 to 1973 with Mark Keller as editor. It was published in February, April, June, October, and December, summarizing scholarly content on four topics, available to republish with attribution. Some of the reviews were simultaneously published in the "Connecticut Review on Alcoholism" under the identical subtitle "Alcoholism Treatment Digest" every other month. The authors of the reviews were first noted in 1964, in the June issue.Contents, Release No. 751.Should Alcoholism be Treated While the Patient is Intoxicated?2.Lemon Juice in Alcoholism3.Prevention of Alcoholism by a Total Government Program4.Nurses and Alcoholics
Cryo-EM structure of a light chain-derived amyloid fibril from a patient with systemic AL amyloidosis
Creators: name: Radamaker, Lynn
name: Lin, Yin-Hsi
name: Annamalai, Karthikeyan
name: Huhn, Stefanie
name: Hegenbart, Ute
name: Schönland, Stefan
name: Fritz, Günter
name: Schmidt, Matthias
name: Fändrich, Marcus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryoelectron microscopy
subject: Protein aggregation
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Amyloidosis
subject: Amyloidose

description: Amyloid fibrils derived from antibody light chains are key pathogenic agents in systemic AL amyloidosis. They can be deposited in multiple organs but cardiac amyloid is the major risk factor of mortality. Here we report the structure of a λ1 AL amyloid fibril from an explanted human heart at a resolution of 3.3 Å which we determined using cryo-electron microscopy. The fibril core consists of a 91-residue segment presenting an all-beta fold with ten mutagenic changes compared to the germ line. The conformation differs substantially from natively folded light chains: a rotational switch around the intramolecular disulphide bond being the crucial structural rearrangement underlying fibril formation. Our structure provides insight into the mechanism of protein misfolding and the role of patient-specific mutations in pathogenicity.
Dynamic performance limits of the Benko-Veres Passive TCP packet loss estimation algorithm
Creators: name: Armitage, Grenville
name: Favi, Claudio
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we evaluate and discuss the performance of a passive TCP packet loss estimation algorithm described by Benko and Veres. Our analysis is motivated by recent work modeling web traffic patterns and the network conditions experienced by TCP sessions carrying web traffic. We experimentally determine the dynamic characteristics of the Benko-Veres estimation algorithm, focusing on how quickly the algorithm converges to a reasonable estimate of packet loss rate for a given TCP session and path. The Benko-Veres algorithm is stimulated in a small IP network testbed, using repeated TCP sessions over a path with variable and controlled packet loss rates. Our results show that the Benko-Veres algorithm requires many packets and loss events before it converges to reasonably accurate loss rate estimates. Finally we identify and discuss the limited real-world scenarios where this method of passive, external estimation of packet loss rates can be applied.
Control of Morphogenesis and Neoplasia by the Oncogenic Translation Factor eEF1A2
Creators: name: Pinke, Dixie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Morphogenesis
eEF1A2
PI4KIIIB
Oncogenesis
Phosphoinositide signaling

description: The eukaryotic elongation factor 1 alpha 2 (eEF1A2) is a protein normally expressed only in the brain, heart and skeletal muscle. eEF1A2 is likely to be a breast and ovarian cancer oncogene based on its high expression in these malignancies and its in vitro transforming capacity . The goal of my thesis is to understand eEF1A2’s role in oncogenesis. In order to determine if eEF1A2 was a prognostic marker for ovarian cancer, we examined eEF1A2 expression in 500 primary human ovarian tumours. We show that eEF1A2 is highly expressed in approximately 30% of ovarian tumours. In serous cancer, high expression of eEF1A2 was associated with an increased 20-year survival probability. Expression of eEF1A2, in a clear cell carcinoma cell line, SK-OV-3, increased the cells ability to form spheroids in hanging drop culture, enhanced in vitro proliferative capacity, increased stress fiber formations, and reduced cell-cell junction spacing. Expression of eEF1A2 did not alter sensitivity to anoikis, cisplatin, or taxol. In order to examine the role of eEF1A2 in breast cancer, we used a three-dimensional culture system. The ability to disrupt the in vitro morphogenesis of breast cells cultured on reconstituted basement membranes is a common property of breast oncogenes. I found that phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4KIIIβ), a lipid kinase that phosphorylates phosphatidylinositol (PI) to PI(4)P, disrupts in vitro mammary acinar formation. The PI4KIIIβ protein localizes to the basal surface of acini created by the human MCF10A cells and ectopic expression of PI4KIIIβ induces multi-acinar formation. Expression of the PI4KIIIβ activator, eEF1A2, also causes a multi-acinar phenotype. Ectopic expression of PI4KIIIβ or eEF1A2 alters PI(4)P and PI(4,5)P2 localization, indicating a role for these lipids in acinar development. Therefore, eEF1A2 is highly expressed in ovarian carcinomas and its expression enhances cell growth in vitro. eEF1A2 expression is likely to be a useful ovarian cancer prognostic factor in ovarian patients with serous tumours. Furthermore, PI4KIIIβ and eEF1A2 both have an important role in the disruption of three-dimensional morphogenesis of MCF10A cells. Additionally, PI4KIIIβ and eEF1A2 likely have an important role in mammary neoplasia and development and could be anti-cancer targets.
Critical assessment of emerging techniques for in situ monitoring of water content and fluxes
Creators: name: Looms, Majken C.
name: Tirado-Conde, Joel
name: Blazevic, Lara A.
name: Pouladi, Behzad
name: Anne-Karin Cooke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: hydrology
geophysics
hydrogeophysics
seismic methods
distributed temperature sensing
gravimetry
joint inversion

description: This report is deliverable D8 of ENIGMA ITN project. "The objective is the development and field validation of novel techniques for characterizing temporal changes in the spatial distribution of flow and water content in the subsurface. These methods will go beyond classical approaches of static subsurface characterization, explore the potential of emerging techniques, and validate prototype instruments for monitoring temporal fluctuations in the distributions of subsurface fluxes, water content and exchanges with surface water bodies.  Four different techniques are explored, focusing, on one hand, on the subsurface water content, quantification (ESR5 and ESR 8) and, on the other hand, on the groundwater flux estimation (ESR 6 and ESR 7). Based on existing knowledge, new approaches are developed with the aim of applying the latest technology in order to make in situ data acquisition productive and reliable. The combination of these techniques could allow for a better subsurface water processes understanding, broadening the possibilities in terms of groundwater dynamics monitoring and prediction." 
A promising approach to monitor microplastic masses in composts
Creators: name: Bannick, Claus Gerhard
name: Wiesner, Yosri
name: Bednarz, Marius
name: Braun, Ulrike
name: Ricking, Mathias
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Kompost
Boden
Düngemittel
Monitoring

description: Inputs of plastic impurities into the environment via the application of fertilizers are regulated in Germany and the EU by means of ordinances. Robust and fast analytical methods are the basis of legal regulations. Currently, only macro- and large microplastic contents (>1 mm) are measured. Microplastics, are not yet monitored. Thermal analytical methods are suitable for this purpose, which can determine the mass content and can also be operated fully automatically in routine mode. Thermal extraction desorption-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TED-GC/MS) allows the identification of polymers and the determination of mass contents in solid samples from natural environments. In accordance with the German or European Commission (EC) Fertiliser Ordinance, composting plants should be monitored for microplastic particles with this method in the future. In this context a compost plant was sampled. At the end of the rotting process, the compost was sieved and separated in a coarse (>1 mm) and a fine fraction (<1 mm). The fine fraction was processed using density separation comparing NaCl and NaI as possible salt alternative and screened for microplastic masses by TED-GC/MS with additional validation and quality assurance experiments. With TED-GC/MS total microplastics mass contents of 1.1-3.0 g/mg in finished compost could be detected with polyethylene mainly. What differs much to the total mass of plastics in the coarse fraction with up to 60 ug/mg, which were visually searched, identified via ATR-FTIR and gravimetrically weighted. © 2023 Wiesner, Bednarz, Braun, Bannick, Ricking and Altmann.
Supplementary document for Dielectric perturbations: anomalous resonance frequency shifts in optical resonators - 5177498.pdf
Creators: name: Azeem, Farhan
name: Trainor, Luke
name: Devane, Patrick
name: Norman, Daniel
name: Sanchez, Alfredo Rueda
name: Lambert, Nicholas
name: Kumari, Madhuri
name: Foreman, Matthew
name: Schwefel, Harald
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: Table S1, Figures S1, S2
Worldly and Other-Worldly Ethics: The Nonhuman and Its Relationship to the Meaningful World of Jains
Creators: name: Saucier, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jains
Jainism
Animal Rights
Religion and Ecology
Jainism and Ecology
Environmental ethics

description: This thesis examines the intersection between religion and environmental ethics in Jainism. Religious traditions, as they confront the challenges of modernity, are redefining their traditional mores and narratives in ways that appear, and are, contemporary and relevant. One of the most striking ways in which Jains are accomplishing this, is through their self-presentation as inherently “ecological” through their use of “Western” animal rights discourse in tandem with traditional Jain doctrine. This essay seeks to explore the ways in which this is accomplished, and how these new understandings are being established and understood by members of this “living” community.
Relevance of engineering entrepreneurship: a study at CPUT
Creators: name: Esbach, Johan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examines the concept ‘Engineering entrepreneurship’, looking at the contribution that engineers make towards a rapid changing technological environment that support the growth South African economy. This research works on the premise that engineering entrepreneurship lends itself to high technology entrepreneurial activity, but seeks to understand whether engineers are sufficiently progressive to support rapid change. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) places the catalyst for high-expectation entrepreneurship (aged: 23 - 32 years, highly educated, potential high income), squarely in the BACCALAUREUS TECHNOLOGIAE (BTech) program at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The answer we must find is one that seeks to understand whether engineering entrepreneurship is relevant in the South African context.
Effects of water balance, decomposition of organic matter and photosynthesis on the chemistry and the carbon cycle in the Upper St.Lawrence River (Canada).
Creators: name: Barth, Johannes A. C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: Temporal and spatial investigations of seven ecosystems in the St. Lawrence River (the 'Main Channel', a creek, a wetland and embayments) near the city of Cornwall, Ontario revealed more intense biogeochemical activity in near-shore ecosystems. The resulting gradients between near-shore ecosystems and the 'Main Channel' exist despite the Great Lakes' strong buffering effect, which is reflected in the well mixed water masses of the 'Main Channel', with consistent average d 18OH2O and d DH2O values of -6.9 and -50‰ VSMOW, respectively. These isotopic compositions also reflect lake-surface evaporation. The evaporated water is then added to atmospheric vapor and produces a deuterium excess of 11.8 +/- 1.4‰ in local rain at Cornwall that indicates admixture of evaporated Great Lakes water to the local precipitation. Precipitation over the Great Lakes catchment area contributes 3.9% of Mg2+ and 31.2% of SO42- to the major ion flux of the `Main Channel', with other major elements (Ca 2+, Na+, K+, Cl-, SiO 2) falling between these two end-members. The pCO2 of waters ranges from values close to atmospheric equilibrium, 358 ppmV in the 'Main Channel', to as high as ∼5450 ppmV in near-shore ecosystems indicating their higher groundwater influx and more active decomposition of organic matter. This gradient is also manifest in isotopic compositions of dissolved inorganic carbon, with d 13CDIC values ranging from +2.2 to -13.7‰ VPDB for the 'Main Channel' and near-shore ecosystems, respectively. Photosynthesis and detrital inputs are both significant contributors to the POC pool in the isolated embayments. The former dominates during warm seasons, with POC concentrations up to 2663 m g/L. Near-shore ecosystems have a wide range of d 13CPOC values (-31.5 to -16.3‰), but this variability is not reflected in the 'Main Channel.' The carbon cycle studies are the most essential part of this work and outline three major ecosystems for the St. Lawrence River: (1) The 'Main Channel' and related ecosystems that are dominated by the Great Lakes and exchange processes with the atmosphere; (2) nearshore ecosystems (creeks and wetlands) that are dominated by groundwater and decomposition of organic matter; (3) isolated embayments that, during the warm season, also have a strong photosynthetic component. The latter two types of ecosystems are the most active in carbon recycling, indicating their importance in terms of net primary productivity. They also mark the locations with the highest vulnerability to anthropogenic influences. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Fusarium stalk rot incidence in maize, Zea mays L., in relation to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) infestation, genotype maturity and eastern Ontario climatic gradient.
Creators: name: Meloche, François.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Agriculture, Agronomy.

description: Development of maize, Zea mays L., germplasm resistant to the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) and Fusarium fungal pests has been in progress for more than three decades as a worldwide cooperative effort. Some of the host plant resistance to the European corn borer and Fusarium has been attributed to the phytochemical product 6-methoxybenzoxazolinone. However, it has been shown that seasonal weather impacts concurrently on maize development, corn borer and Fusarium phenology. It was hypothesized that some of the maize resistance to both pests depended directly on climatological conditions. In the United States, genotype selection for first generation borer resistance is achieved during June infestations using leaf feeding assessment. In Canada, first selection began at the silk stage of plant development in July. The second genotype selection is conducted at grain harvest in October by plant dissections. The larval population, number of tunnels and tunnel length in the first 30 cm of the stalk above the soil surface were used to differentiate genotype susceptibility to corn borers. Grain moisture was directly correlated with genotype resistance to corn borer. Fungi encountered comprised Fusarium moniliforme, F. graminearum, F. sporotrichioides, F. oxysporum, F. avenaceum, and F. equiseti. Two species, F. moniliforme and F. equiseti, were recovered throughout the season. These fungi were first recovered from pollen caught in the leaf collar sheath. As the leaf sheath of maize is relaxed with plant development, the Fusarium contaminated soil and the pollen run down past the ligule by wind, rain splash, and insect movement to settle within the sheath cavity. Undamage pith samples (by the borer) taken at grain harvest showed sporadic tissue contamination by Fusarium. Oppositely, as the corn borer larvae migrated downward on the plant, they drilled the collar sheath, the stalk rind and dug galleries in the stalk to feed on the pith tissue to complete their development. Consequently, the larvae and borer tunnels were repeatedly contaminated with Fusarium. It was shown that pith tissues were initially colonized by primary fungi such as F. equiseti which initiate pith breakdown; then these fungi were overgrown by more competitive species such as F. moniliforme or F. sporotrichioides. Correlation of the stalk rot incidence to genotype maturity and the stalk rot incidence to grain moisture were both negative and significant; indicating that physiological activity during October protected the stalk against fungi infection. It was hypothesized that genotype maturity based on the heat unit rating (given by companies) or grain moisture at harvest (indicator of genotype maturity) were the two common factors related to Fusarium stalk rot resistance. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Perceptions of research capacity and culture in New South Wales Local Health Districts
Creators: name: Raschke, Nicole
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research capacity
Research culture
New South Wales Local Health District
Public healthcare organisation
Perception
LHDs
Local Health District

description: The aims of this study were to explore the perceptions of research capacity and culture (RCC) in NSW Local Health Districts (LHDs). The Research Capacity and Culture Tool was delivered online to clinicians and health managers. A 10-point Likert scale of success or skill at organisational, team and individual level of research capacity was used. A total of 1243 participants responded. Results indicated the perception of individual’s research skills were greater than the team and organisational levels. Participants from metropolitan locations had significantly higher perceptions of RCC across all three domains compared with NSW R3. This research may inform targeted strategies for building research capacity in NSW LHDs.
Teacher educators’ discursive enactment of professional digital competencies
Creators: name: Straume Bussesund, Erik
name: McGarr, Oliver
name: Engen, Bård Ketil
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: This paper explores how teacher educators in Norway discursively enact a policy framework for teachers’ professional digital competence (PDC) in the context of the digitalisation of education. This study draws on group interviews and focuses on how teacher educators understand and respond to the policy through practical argumentation. The paper identifies different variations and inter-relationships in policy enactment and discusses the tension between a qualification-oriented and a critical-reflective perspective on PDC. This paper contributes to the literature on teacher educators and their enactment of education policy by highlighting the influence of beliefs and values and the wider context of teacher education. In particular, it highlights how the multiple professional roles held by teacher educators adds an additional level of complexity to teacher educators’ policy enactment
title:  L’Archivio del Sant’Uffizio come fonte per la storia degli stranieri a Roma (XVI-XVIII sec.)
Creators: name: Ponziani, Daniel
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: Il contributo mette in evidenza la relazione tra l’Inquisizione romana e gli stranieri a Roma, provenienti per lo più dall’Impero germanico. Questi ultimi erano in genere considerati nemici della fede, portatori sani di animus haereticus. Ma allo stesso tempo la Curia romana e lo stesso Sant’Uffizio erano composti in gran parte da stranieri, in accordo con la vocazione universale della Chiesa. Inoltre, a partire dalla metà del XVII secolo, i rapporti con gli stranieri – nobili, principi, pellegrini, viaggiatori, commercianti, intellettuali, artisti – cominciarono ad essere meno ostili e la Roma barocca divenne la meta preferita del Grand Tour. In ragione di questo, l’Archivio del Sant’Uffizio si rivela come una straordinaria fonte per la storia degli stranieri a Roma in Età moderna, in particolare grazie al fondo Stanza Storica, che contiene documenti che vanno dal XVI al XVIII secolo, e alla serie archivistica Decreta Sancti Officii. Questi registri annuali, redatti dai notai dell’Inquisizione, sono documenti essenziali per la storia del Tribunale di fede. Sulla base dei Decreta e di altri documenti conservati nel fondo Stanza Storica, il saggio descrive le modalità di produzione documentaria del Sant’Uffizio, riferendosi a specifiche cause attraverso le quali si può, da un canto, mettere in luce il rapporto tra stranieri e Inquisizione, e, dall’altro, proporre una comprensione più adeguata delle funzioni e delle attività del Sant’Uffizio al servizio del papa e della Chiesa.
description: Venire a Roma, restare a Roma. Forestieri e stranieri fra Quattro e Settecento
Sulla responsabilità civile del giudice canonico. Profili giurisdizionali
Creators: name: Serra, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è destinato alla pubblicazione nella Rivista Ius Ecclesiae.SOMMARIO: 1. Una nuova questione di giurisdizione – 2. La vicenda che ha condotto al ricorso - 3. Due opposte chiavi di lettura: a) La violazione delle norme canoniche da parte del giudice ecclesiastico quale causa di un danno ingiusto ex art. 2043 c.c. Le confessioni religiose come formazioni sociali ex art. 2 Cost. e la garanzia del diritto al giusto procedimento quale limite dell’autonomia confessionale - 4. La Chiesa cattolica quale ordinamento giuridico originario e primario. Insindacabilità dell’azione del giudice canonico quale svolgimento di un potere espressione della libertà ed autonomia riconosciuta alla Chiesa nel suo ordine- 5. I principi a fondamento della decisione delle Sezioni Unite: a) Il processo canonico sulla nullità di un matrimonio concordatario è una realtà esterna ed estranea all’ordinamento statale - 6. Non ogni soggetto che svolge la funzione giudiziale canonica è ministro di culto in senso civilistico. Il sindacato statale sull’applicazione delle norme confessionali quale atto fortemente invasivo dell’autonomia confessionale. Il profilo positivo e negativo del criterio della funzionalità e il controllo del rispetto della legge penale italiana quale causa di deroga al principio di non ingerenza nell’ordine confessionale. La risoluzione del problema della “competenza delle competenze” in prospettiva canonistica - 7. Rilievi conclusivi.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 12 dicembre