cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates for biomedical sensing
Creators: name: Hartley, Jennifer Sarah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This project characterised four potential SERS substrates and then developed these substrates further for application based uses. The first substrate (gold nanoparticles) was deemed unsuitable for most applications due to the strong bands originating from the cross-linker. The second substrate was chosen for suitability with optical fibres. Optical fibres are ideal for remote sensing in biomedical applications as they are biocompatible, minimally invasive, readily available and affordable. Optical fibres can be used as miniaturised probes suitable for in vivo applications. However optical fibres, when coupled with a Raman spectrometer, are a complex optical element which needs to be investigated and fully comprehended in order to determine the ideal parameters needed to address biomedical applications. This project determines those parameters so that future work can be undertaken to customise the probe to sense a specific biological compound of interest. Standard telecom fibres were investigated as they are readily available and affordable. Multiple fibre types with different numerical apertures (NA), core sizes, mode structure and core/cladding materials were compared as probes. All fibres used in the comparison were manufactured as probes using OAD and thiophenol as a test analyte. Cladding modes were removed by bending each fibre and placing index matching gel on the bend. This was done in an effort to ensure that the mode structure was repeatable for each fibre. Otherwise the cladding modes can interfere with the mode structure in unexpected and random ways, making comparison difficult. This work determined SMF28 had the largest signal to noise ratio when the spectrometer was operated at a wavelength of 514.5 nm with a slit width of 62.5 μ
Open Science Framework: A Practical Guide
Creators: name: Schettino, Antonio
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
open infrastructure
open scholarship

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3826881
description: Many published findings in medicine and social sciences are difficult to replicate. To counteract this phenomenon, an increasing number of funding agencies and journals encourage or require data, materials, and analysis scripts associated with each publication. Consequently, researchers are turning to comprehensive services that facilitate collaborative workflow with colleagues and evaluators. One of the most popular is the Open Science Framework ( OSF ), a free online platform that allows researchers to manage, document, and share the products of their research workflow at all stages, from the initial idea to the final report. The slides were used in an online workshop which was part of the Open Scholarship Week 2020 . The slides are taken from a 2019 talk from Dr Schettino which was first published at https://osf.io/83u9x/
La fille d'en face : création romanesque et réflexion théorique.
Creators: name: St-Onge, Simon.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Lorsque j'ai décidé de rédiger une thèse en création, ce n'est pas un thème particulier ou une histoire que j'avais en tête; c'était plutôt une structure narrative bien spécifique: le récit est pris en charge par deux auteurs distincts, un homme et une femme, auxquels ont a demandé d'écrire, conjointement, un roman. Ils doivent, chacun leur tour, rédiger un chapitre, le récit de l'un alimentant celui de l'autre dans ce qui constitue une seule et même histoire. L'histoire en question met en scène Vincent et Gabrielle, sa compagne. Alors que le couple tente d'avoir un enfant, Vincent devient peu à peu obsédé par sa voisine d'en face. À cette partie «fictive» se joignent les réflexions personnelles des écrivains à propos du processus créatif: leurs réactions face à la mise en intrigue de leur partenaire, leur motivation, implication, etc. C'est à travers la présence--implicite ou explicite--de leurs instances narratrices et des manipulations du contenu narratif (mise en scène, point de vue, distance et profondeur, relation narrateur-personnage) que l'on peut déceler les «motivations» des auteurs. La question du pouvoir du narrateur, le jeu qui existe entre l'auteur, son narrateur, les personnages et le lecteur: voilà ce que j'ai tenté d'exploiter dans cet exercice de style. Le concept du point de vue est donc au caeur de ce projet romanesque; la réflexion théorique s'efforce de dégager les corrélations entre le récit et les différentes perspectives qui le dirigent. Avec l'aide de Pouillon, Genette et Lintvelt, je m'attarde aux problématiques du mode et de la voix (qui voit , qui parle et de quelles façons), tout en soulignant les influences de la structure et de la technique sur le matériel narratif, de l'expérience créative sur la forme et ses instruments.
Open Science and Research Data Management
Creators: name: Donato, Francesca Di
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023
Subjects: open science
research data management

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7584122
description: Slides for the  8 hrs transversal introductory course on 'Open Science and research data management' delivered to PhD students at the Scuola Sant'Anna of Pisa on January 27. The first part covers the following topics: 1.1 What is Open science. an historical introduction 1.2 The reform of research assessment 1.3 Open Access publishing 1.4 Open science in Europe The second part is focused on the following topics: 2.1 FAIR principles and open data 2.2 Data management Plans 2.3. How to FAIRify your slides 2.4. OS workflows 2.5 A bad example of (OS) workflow 2.6. Rethinking impact: narrative CVs
Dendroecological analysis of successional dynamics after fire in the Shakwak Trench, southwest Yukon Territory.
Creators: name: Zalatan, Rebecca.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: This study investigates the succession following fire in a relatively dry area of the boreal forest, the Shakwak Trench, southwest Yukon. The postfire successional regime is determined by an analysis of age structure and composition of tree populations in stands of different ages. The dendroecological approach used in this study is based on the sampling of one plot in each of 11 fires ranging from A.D. 1844--1998. Picea glauca established 0--4 years after fire and reached a period of maximum establishment after 20--40 years. Populus tremuloides was generally recruited immediately after fire and was no longer present after approximately 20 years, at which point, the Picea glauca began to dominate. Salix spp. were found in all stages of succession, but decreased in abundance through time. Five chronologies that were developed from ring-width measurements of the older Picea glauca trees depict similar growth-ring patterns, suggesting a large-scale climate influence on all sites in the region. There is a weak relation between the variability of the tree-ring chronology and the establishment of Picea glauca seedlings. Regeneration of tree species after fire is primarily driven by biological influences rather than climatological ones.
Infothek : Zeitung der Universitätsbibliothek Ulm, Nr. 1, 1988
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bibliothekszeitung
subject: Infothek
subject: kiz Ulm
subject: DDC 020 / Library & information sciences
subject: Libraries; Germany; Ulm
subject: Kommunikations- und Informationszentrum
subject: Universitätsbibliothek

description: Erste Ausgabe der im Jahr 1988 veröffentlichten und von den Bibliotheksmitarbeitern in Eigenregie erstellten Zeitung der Universitätsbibliothek Ulm (heute kiz)
Supplementary document for On-chip optical tweezers based on free-form optics - 5106884.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Shaoliang
name: Lu, Jinsheng
name: Ginis, Vincent
name: Kheifets, Simon
name: Lim, Soon Wei Daniel
name: Qiu, Min
name: Gu, Tian
name: Hu, Juejun
name: Capasso, Federico
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
Optical Physics not elsewhere classified
Optical Technology

description: Supplemental Document
Parents' experience caring for children with drug resistant epilepsy
Creators: name: Boreale, Kathleen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Rationale for study: Of the more than 65 million people estimated to have epilepsy worldwide, 10.5 million are children; one third of whom have drug resistant epilepsy (DRE). Although caring for a child with epilepsy impacts the lives of the child and family, parents who care for children with DRE have been found to experience more stress, as this severe form of epilepsy negatively affects the child's physical growth and mental development and is often associated with behavior disorders and disturbances. This study examined the lived experiences of parents with children with DRE to gain insight into how they described and gave meaning to their own quality of life relating to their lived experience. Method: A purposeful sample of ten parents of children with DRE participated in the study, equally represented by men and women. The participants' ages ranged from 27 years to 56 years, with a mean age of 45 years. Using distinct interview guides to facilitate conversation, three interviews were conducted over the course of a four-month period. Time for reflection occurred between each interview, with field notes and journal reviews done by the researcher. The transcribed interviews were also reviewed at the beginning of each subsequent interview to ensure accuracy of the stories shared. Results: The semi-structured interviews and narrative analyses portrayed parents' life stories pertaining to what it is like to care for a child with DRE. Narrative life patterns emerged and culminated in five shared areas: what is best for my child, functioning in silos, maintaining balance, living with uncertainty, and finding meaning and purpose. Conclusions: A composite narrative told the story that represented the patterns of parents' experience caring for a child with DRE, which provided a deeper insight into their lived experience. Understanding their experience provided valuable information, such as, the type of support they need and how best to assist them as they care for their children.
La trifuerza de la Open Science
Creators: name: Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
repositorios

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3749501
description: Presentación del curso La trifuerza de la Open Science de #yosigopublicando: Plan de formación y asesoramiento virtual para investigadores y alumnos de posgrado.
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 64, April 15, 1963)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1963

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. 641.Drugs for Alcoholics--Cautions and Contraindications2.Some Common Diseases of the Nervous System in Alcoholics3.Alcoholism and Industry 4.Integrated Drug-and Psychotherapy for Alcoholism
DANIEL BARENBOIM - PATRICE CHÉREAU, Dialoghi su musica e teatro: “Tristano e Isotta”, a cura di Gastón Fournier-Facio, traduzione di Maria Teresa Crisci, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008
Creators: name: Lora, Francesco; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Barenboim; Chéreau; Tristano e Isotta

description: Il volume recensito raccoglie interventi del concertatore Daniel Barenboim e del regista Patrice Chéreau, nonché dialoghi tra loro stessi, sorti intorno a Tristan und Isolde di Richard Wagner, spettacolo inaugurale della stagione d'opera e balletto 2007/08 del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. La recensione dà conto dei contenuti del volume (di argomento musicale, teatrale, filosofico e sociale), li connette sinteticamente col milieu culturale odierno ed evidenzia alcuni aspetti di utilità didattica (p.es. la trasposizione di principii teorici e risorse tecniche musicali in immagini accessibili a lettori/ascoltatori non esperti).
Spitzer/MIPS infrared imaging of M31: further evidence for a spiral-ring composite structure
Creators: name: Gordon, Karl D.
name: Bailin, Jeremy
name: Engelbracht, Charles W.
name: Rieke, George H.
name: Misselt, Karl A.
name: Latter, William B.
name: Young, Eric T.
name: Ashby, Matthew L. N.
name: Barmby, Pauline
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Hines, Dean C.
name: Hinz, Joannah L.
name: Krause, Oliver
name: Levine, Deborah A.
name: Marleau, Francine R.
name: Noriega-Crespo, Alberto
name: Stolovy, Susan R.
name: Thilker, David A.
name: Werner, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: New images of M31 at 24, 70, and 160 µm taken with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) reveal the morphology of the dust in this galaxy. This morphology is well represented by a composite of two logarithmic spiral arms and a circular ring (radius ~10 kpc) of star formation offset from the nucleus. The two spiral arms appear to start at the ends of a bar in the nuclear region and extend beyond the star-forming ring. As has been found in previous work, the spiral arms are not continuous, but composed of spiral segments. The star-forming ring is very circular except for a region near M32 where it splits. The lack of well-defined spiral arms and the prominence of the nearly circular ring suggest that M31 has been distorted by interactions with its satellite galaxies. Using new dynamical simulations of M31 interacting with M32 and NGC 205, we find that, qualitatively, such interactions can produce an offset, split ring like that seen in the MIPS images.
Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, a cura di Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer e Richard Leppert, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007
Creators: name: Finocchiaro, Francesco; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: musica per film; Hollywood; Steiner; Rothapfel; Polanski

description: Beyond the Soundtrack presenta sedici saggi di autori diversi sulla musica per film, svolti in un convegno tenuto all’Università del Minnesota nel 2004. Nella prefazione al volume, i curatori asseverano la tesi, oggi largamente condivisa, secondo cui in passato la musica sarebbe stata erroneamente considerata un elemento subordinato nel testo filmico: gli studi sulla musica per film occupano invero una posizione marginale nel campo, molto più vasto, degli studi filmologici sull’immagine, la narratività, la storia del cinema. In questo quadro teorico e storiografico, lo slogan “Beyond the Soundtrack” vuol essere molto più d’un titolo: è il manifesto di un cambiamento concettuale riassumibile nella decisione di riconsiderare l’importanza della musica nel film, per guardare a quest’ultimo come a un medium musicale, oltre che visivo. Il cambio di paradigma apre la strada a nuovi interrogativi e a questioni del tutto inedite.
Rate-aware Cost-efficient Multiratecasting Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Liu, Xidong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: wireless sensor networks
multiratecasting
routing protocol

description: In the multiratecasting problem in wireless sensor networks, the source sensor is usually required to report to multiple destinations at dif- ferent rates for each of them. We present a MST-based rate-aware cost-efficient multiratecast routing protocol (MSTRC). The proposed MSTRC examines only one set partition of destinations at each for- warding step. A message split occurs when the locally-built minimum spanning tree (MST) over the current node and the set of destina- tions has multiple edges originated at the current node. Destinations spanned by each of these edges are grouped together, and for each of these subsets the best neighbor is selected as the next hop. We also suggested a novel face recovery mechanism to deal with void ar- eas, when no neighbor provides positive progress toward destinations. It constructs a MST of current node and destinations without the progress via neighbors, and for each set partition of destinations cor- responding to an edge e in MST, the face routing keeps going until a node that is closer to one of these destinations is found, allowing for greedy continuation, while the process repeats for the remaining desti- nations similarly. Our experimental results demonstrate that MSTRC is highly rate-efficient in all scenarios, and unlike existing solutions, it is adaptive to destination rate deviations.
Open Science dalla A alla Z
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Open Science, Open Access, FAIR data, Data Management Plan

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3688823
description: Corso tenuto a Perugia, Ist. Zooprofilattico, 27 febbraio 2020
Family Practice Nurses and Smoking Cessation Interventions for Pregnant Women
Creators: name: Cantin, Christina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: smoking cessation
pregnancy
primary care
nurses
prenatal care
perinatal
health promotion
family practice
counselling
best practice guideline

description: PURPOSE: To describe 1) smoking cessation (SC) interventions by Family Practice Nurses (FPN) during prenatal visits, and 2) the predictors and barriers of FPN-provided SC counselling for pregnant women. DESIGN: Non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design. Onetime, cross-sectional questionnaire using a previously validated questionnaire, modified and converted to electronic format. METHODS: Descriptive and multivariable analysis. Predictors investigated included nurses’ age, beliefs about their role in SC, self-efficacy to provide effective counselling, SC training, and interest in updating SC knowledge. PARTICIPANTS: Eighty-nine members of the Ontario Family Practice Nurses’ interest group (18% response rate) working in primary care settings across Ontario. RESULTS: Nearly one quarter (21.5%) of respondents never offer SC counselling to pregnant women. Nurses with higher levels of self-efficacy were more likely to provide SC counselling. Nurses are less likely to provide concrete assistance in the quitting process or arrange follow-up. The most commonly cited barriers included lack of time and cost of medication. CONCLUSIONS: FPNs are not consistently providing evidence-based SC interventions for pregnant women. Training to enhance self-efficacy may increase the frequency, efficiency and quality of FPN-provided SC interventions.
Behind the Boomgate: a short story cycle and accompanying exegesis
Creators: name: Harrison, Lesley Bronwyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Lesley Harrison's practice-led PhD is titled 'Behind the Boomgate: A short story cycle and accompanying exegesis'. The short story cycle shares the experiences of baby boomers living permanently in a caravan park. The accompanying exegesis explores key writerly insights such as the inter-relationship of narrative form, character, plot and complexity, techniques needed for creating a short story cycle, and how these elements combine in social action writing. Combined, the two works alert society to the suffering and oppression of others with whom they may be unfamiliar, and how writers can use narrative power for social activism on their behalf.
Exploring visual landscapes
Creators: name: Nijhuis, Steffen
name: Van Lammeren, Ron
name: Antrop, Marc
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2011

description: Visual landscape research is an interdisciplinary approach important for landscape and urban planning. This field of research integrates: (1) landscape planning, design and management concepts, (2) landscape perception approaches, and (3) GISc-based methods and techniques in order to map the visual landscape. It offers possible ways of getting a grip on themes like: landscape openness, cluttering of the rural landscape, high-rise buildings in relation to cityscape, historic landscapes and motorway panoramas. This article is an introduction to the field of visual landscape research and provides an overview of the different perspectives on the subject. It provides, from a specific Dutch academic context, important clues for theory, methodology and application in research and development of landscapes all over the world. It offers clues for visual landscape assessment of spaces in cities, parks and rural areas. This article provides a wide range of insights into the psychological background of landscape perception, the technical considerations of geomatics and methodology in landscape architecture, urban planning and design.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 2 (2011): Exploring the Visual Landscape: Advances in physiognomic landscape research in the Netherlands
Giuditta versus Oloferne. Un percorso didattico sull’oratorio musicale
Creators: name: De Luca, Maria Rosa
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: oratorio; Scarlatti; Giuditta; Bibbia; iconografia

description: This paper focuses on La Giuditta, an oratorio in vernacular composed by Alessandro Scarlatti on a libretto by Antonio Ottoboni. Based on a Bible’s deuterocanonical book, the story of the successful deeds of Judith, a beautiful Hebrew who decides to face the terrible Holofernes in order to save Israel, inspired poetic and music-dramatic features of lots of oratorios. Due to her high exemplary virtues, she is frequently represented in figurative arts, as well as in literature, where biblical memory meets poetic invention. So far, this subject gives the opportunity to structure a didactic project, relying music, considered as a point of departure, with historical, artistic and literary disciplines. Two sessions of didactics of listening based respectively on the duet Judith-Nurse, “Deh, rifletti al gran cimento”, and Holofernes’ aria “Togliti da quest’occhi”, in order to introduce the three main characters of Scarlatti’s oratorio and to illustrate two important moments of the plot.
Gesto e movimento per la comprensione musicale. Ascolto dal “Carnevale degli animali” di Camille Saint-Saëns
Creators: name: Sintoni, Chiara; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Saint-Saëns; didattica dell'ascolto; gesto; movimento

description: Questo percorso didattico è rivolto alle ultime due classi della scuola dell’infanzia e alle prime due classi della scuola primaria, ed è incentrato su alcuni brani da Le Carnaval des Animaux (1886) del compositore, pianista e organista francese Camille Saint-Saëns (Parigi,1835-Algeri,1921). Il percorso è adatto alla scuola dell’infanzia e primaria perché insegna alcune nozioni di base della musica e una prima grammatica della comprensione musicale all’ascolto. Il lavoro si basa sull’utilizzo del gesto e del movimento finalizzati alla comprensione del brano all’ascolto. Gesto e movimento sono due risorse utilissime nella didattica rivolta all’infanzia: nel nostro caso, daremo un esempio di come possano sviluppare nei bambini la capacità di ascoltare la musica in profondità e di promuoverne un ascolto oggettivo, ovvero riflessivo.
Il duetto nell'opera dell'Ottocento: forma e dramma
Creators: name: Pagannone, Giorgio; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: duetto; solita forma; morfologia; convenzione; drammaturgia

description: Il duetto e la sua particolare morfologia sono meccanismi drammatici essenziali alla comprensione dell’opera italiana dell’Ottocento. Rientrano fra quei saperi saperi essenziali che ogni docente di musica e ogni studente (diciamo a livello secondario e universitario) deve poter possedere. Questo saggio si pone come un sintetico percorso di scoperta e conoscenza di uno dei congegni drammatico-musicali di base del duetto ottocentesco, la cosiddetta ‘solita forma’, indagata nelle sue varie declinazioni e in senso anche cronologico, attraverso l’esame di alcuni brani esemplificativi, dal Tancredi di Rossini (1813) fino all’Aida di Verdi (1871), e può valere anche come un ideale percorso didattico d’ascolto.   The duet and its particular morphology are essential for understanding the dramatic mechanisms of nineteenth-century Italian opera. They are amongst those essential knowledges that every music teacher and student (at secondary school and university level) must possess. This paper stands as a discovery journey into one of the fundamental dramatic-musical devices of ninetheenth-century opera duet, the so called ‘solita forma’. It is explored chronologically and in its various forms by examining some exemplary pieces, from Rossini’s Tancredi (1813) to Verdi’s Aida (1871). This analysis can also be of value as a listening didactic unit.
Capturing Plume Rise and Dispersion with a Coupled Large-Eddy Simulation: Case Study of a Prescribed Burn
Creators: name: Moisseeva, Nadya
name: Stull, Roland B., 1950-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Current understanding of the buoyant rise and subsequent dispersion of smoke due to wildfires has been limited by the complexity of interactions between fire behavior and atmospheric conditions, as well as the uncertainty in model evaluation data. To assess the feasibility of using numerical models to address this knowledge gap, we designed a large-eddy simulation of a real-life prescribed burn using a coupled semi-emperical fire–atmosphere model. We used observational data to evaluate the simulated smoke plume, as well as to identify sources of model biases. The results suggest that the rise and dispersion of fire emissions are reasonably captured by the model, subject to accurate surface thermal forcing and relatively steady atmospheric conditions. Overall, encouraging model performance and the high level of detail offered by simulated data may help inform future smoke plume modeling work, plume-rise parameterizations and field experiment designs.
Exploring Novel Methods to Achieve Systemic Delivery of SMN for Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Creators: name: McFall, Emily
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Adenovirus

description: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by insufficient levels of the survival motor neuron protein (SMN), leading to progressive deterioration of α-motor neurons, onset of muscle atrophy and, in severe disease, death. We investigated whether reducing the size of Adenovirus (Ad) vectors, through use of a short fibre protein, could enhance delivery of a transgene to muscle and motor neurons after systemic delivery in vivo. Unfortunately, the biodistribution of the smaller Ad vector was unaltered compared to wildtype Ad, with most of the virus localizing to the liver. However, we determined Ad-derived SMN was efficiently packaged into cellular exosomes, suggesting a novel approach to protein delivery. We showed that exosomes naturally contain SMN both in vitro and in vivo and that exosomes can be used to deliver SMN to recipient cells. Further testing is required to establish if SMN-containing exosomes can function as an SMA therapeutic.
Hi Rise, I can see you!
Creators: name: Van Der Hoeven, Frank
name: Nijhuis, Steffen
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2011

description: West European cities like London, Paris, Rotterdam and Frankfurt am Main have seen impressive high-rise developments over the past two decades. The cities with a longstanding tradition of urban management, building regulations and zoning plans seem to feel the need for additional instruments to control the development of what is described by McNeill (2005) as "an extremely complex spatial phenomenon". It was only after the emergence of a new type of high building development in the inner cities and suburban centres in the early 1990s that the image of high buildings started to change for the better, not just in the Netherlands but also throughout much of Europe. Even now, high buildings evoke emotions and provoke controversies. This has led them to develop policies for regulating the planning and construction of tall buildings, high-rise buildings and skyscrapers within their territory. This article presents a systematic approach for analysing the visual impact of high building development on a city and its surrounding region, using Rotterdam as a case study. This work is based on a previous analysis that included aspects such as architectural height, year of completion, location and functional use of high buildings in the city. It allowed us to compare the actual high building development with the urban policies in place. The showcase city of Rotterdam demonstrates that a considerable distance exists between policy and reality. The city struggles to deliver a consistent and integrated policy for high-rise urban areas, although the high building developments themselves seem to be ruled by a remarkable internal logic that is not fully recognised in policymaking. By studying the height and completion year, identifying the tall building cluster as it is perceived visually, and by conducting a GISc-based visibility analysis, it provides a context to tall building designs, making the assessment of individual projects more transparant and balanced, and removing some of the emotional elements that often enter into the discussions.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 2 (2011): Exploring the Visual Landscape: Advances in physiognomic landscape research in the Netherlands
Pierrot, poeta "ebbro di luna"
Creators: name: Scalfaro, Anna; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Schönberg; Pierrot lunaire; Sprechgesang; tonalità; atonalità;

description: Arnold Schönberg compose il Pierrot lunaire nel 1912 a Berlino, per la cantate di cabaret Albertine Zehme. L’opera consiste in un ciclo di ventuno melologhi, su testi del poeta simbolista belga Albert Giraud, tradotti in tedesco da Otto Erich Hartleben, per voce recitante (in Sprechgesang, ossia ‘canto parlato’) e ensemble strumentale (pianoforte, clarinetto in la o clarinetto basso in si bemolle, flauto o ottavino, violino o viola, violoncello, variamente combinati a seconda dei brani). Il Pierrot lunaire è una delle composizioni più rappresentative della fase cosiddetta “atonale” di Schönberg, caratterizzata appunto dalla rinuncia da parte del compositore all’impiego del linguaggio armonico tonale. Il percorso, rivolto a studenti della Scuola Secondaria di I grado, si basa in generale sull’intero ciclo per poi soffermarsi sul primo brano, Mondestrunken (Ebbro di luna), al fine di analizzare più in dettaglio alcuni aspetti della scrittura compositiva dell’autore.   Arnold Schönberg composed Pierrot Lunaire in 1912 in Berlin, for the cabaret singer Albertine Zehme. The work consists of a series of twentyone melologues, on texts by the Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud, translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben, for narrator (Sprechgesang, or 'spoken song') and instrumental ensemble (piano, clarinet in A or bass clarinet in B flat, flute or piccolo, violin or viola, cello, in various combinations depending on the songs). Pierrot Lunaire is one of the most representative compositions of the so-told "atonal" phase of Schönberg’s work, characterized by his abandon of tonal harmonic language. The didactic-course, aimed at students of the lower secondary school, is generally based on the entire cycle and then focuses on the first piece, Mondestrunken (Moondrunk), in order to analyse in more detail a few aspects of the Author’s musical writing.
La musica nella scuola: una prospettiva pedagogica globale
Creators: name: Moscato, Maria Teresa; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: musica; scuola; formazione; pedagogia musicale; insegnanti

description: The paper discusses the use of music in education in a general pedagogical perspective. The Author begins with a very famous quotation from Plato’s Protagora about the effect of music on the harmonious development of young children’s attitudes and habits, and on shaping their minds. In the Author’s opinion, the loss of consideration of music teaching in school is nowadays due to its representation (in both parents’, teachers’ and pupils’ minds) as “a play”, or as a specific profession, ignoring its essential function of intellectual and emotional balance; an achievement that young people could obtain through musical education. Besides, music is also a part of our cultural heritage that creates and consolidates social bonds. Lastly the paper deals with some methodological aspects and problems that teachers face in concrete didactic school setting.
Effects of dietary sodium on cardiac responses to adrenergic stimulation in vitro.
Creators: name: Suleiman, Batool Jaffer.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Objective. To evaluate the role of $\alpha\sb1$- or $\beta$-adrenoceptors in dietary sodium-induced cardiac hypertrophy, we assessed (1) the effects of high sodium diet (8% NaCl) on the responses of hearts isolated from young WKY rats to $\alpha\sb1$- or $\beta$-adrenergic stimulation after 1, 2, or 6 weeks of high sodium intake and (2) the effects of high sodium diet on responses of hearts isolated from young WKY rats after 2 weeks of high sodium intake to $\alpha\sb1$- or $\beta$-adrenoceptor subtype stimulation. Conclusions. Studies using methoxamine as an $\alpha\sb1$-agonist, as an $\alpha\rm\sb{1a}$-adrenoceptor agonist in the presence of CEC, or as an $\alpha\rm \sb{1b}$-adrenoceptor agonist in the presence of urapidil or the use of isoproterenol as a non-selective $\beta$-agonist revealed no significant differences in the sensitivity of ventricular $\alpha\sb1$-adrenoceptor subtypes or $\beta$-adrenoceptors between hearts from rats on a control or high sodium diet at any duration of feeding. A possible effect of high sodium diet on atrial $\alpha\rm \sb{1a}$- or $\alpha\rm \sb{1b}$-adrenoceptors is suggestive. The unchanged ventricular contractile responses to $\alpha\sb1$ or $\beta$-adrenoceptor stimulation in the hypertrophied hearts suggest that changes in ventricular adrenergic receptors responsiveness do not play a role in dietary sodium-induced left ventricular hypertrophy. One can not exclude a dissociation of intracellular signals linked to $\alpha\sb1$- or $\beta$-adrenoceptors associated with dietary sodium induced cardiac hypertrophy from those associated with contractility. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The impact of migration status on adolescents’ mental health during COVID-19
Creators: name: Pieh, Christoph
name: Dale, Rachel
name: Jesser, Andrea
name: Probst, Thomas
name: Plener, Paul L.
name: Humer, Elke
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: migration status
subject: adolescents
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: COVID-19; Psychology
subject: Adolescent
subject: Transients and migrants
subject: Mental health
subject: Depression
subject: Anxiety
subject: COVID-19
subject: Pandemie
subject: Jugend
subject: Einwanderer
subject: Psychische Gesundheit

description: The purpose of this study was to compare mental health in adolescents with and without migration background after a semester of remote schooling and almost a year of social distancing in Austria. An online survey, supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, was conducted from 3rd February to 28th February 2021 measuring well-being (WHO-5), depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), sleep quality (ISI), stress (PSS-10), and disordered eating (EAT-8). A matched-pairs analysis with and without migration background was conducted and was checked with whole sample analysis. From a total of 3052 participants, N = 508 had a migration background (first or second generation) and N = 479 could be matched according to age, gender, region, and education with adolescents without migration background. Matched-pairs analyses showed that migration background is associated with poorer mental health concerning well-being, depression, anxiety, and insomnia scores (all p-values < 0.05). Prevalence of depressive symptoms (64.5% vs. 56.5%), anxiety symptoms (53.5% vs. 46.0%), as well as insomnia (31.9% vs. 21.0%) is higher in adolescents with migration background (all p-values ≤ 0.02). Comparison of the whole sample (N = 3052) confirmed these results. Results suggest that migration status is a risk factor for mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the need to implement easily accessible culture- and language-specific health promotion and prevention strategies.
Protein patterning by microcontact printing using pyramidal PDMS stamps
Creators: name: Filipponi, Luisa
name: Livingston, Peter
name: Kaspar, Ondrej
name: Tokarova, Viola
name: Nicolau, Dan V.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Micro-contact printing, μCP, is a well-established soft-lithography technique for printing biomolecules. μCP uses stamps made of Poly(dimethylsiloxane), PDMS, made by replicating a microstructured silicon master fabricated by semiconductor manufacturing processes. One of the problems of the μCP is the difficult control of the printing process, which, because of the high compressibility of PDMS, is very sensitive to minute changes in the applied pressure. This over-sensitive response leads to frequent and/or uncontrollable collapse of the stamps with high aspect ratios, thus decreasing the printing accuracy and reproducibility. Here we present a straightforward methodology of designing and fabricating PDMS structures with an architecture which uses the collapse of the stamp to reduce, rather than enlarge the variability of the printing. The PDMS stamp, organized as an array of pyramidal micro-posts, whose ceiling collapses when pressed on a flat surface, replicates the structure of the silicon master fabricated by anisotropic wet etching. Upon application of pressure, depending on the size of, and the pitch between, the PDMS pyramids, an air gap is formed surrounding either the entire array, or individual posts. The printing technology, which also exhibits a remarkably low background noise for fluorescence detection, may find applications when the clear demarcation of the shapes of protein patterns and the distance between them are critical, such as microarrays and studies of cell patterning.
L'Educazione musicale nelle "Indicazioni per il curricolo": tra esperienza, produzione, ascolto
Creators: name: Somigli, Paolo; Dipartimento Di Musica E Spettacolo, Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: esperienza; educazione musicale; musica d'arte

description: The article starts from a reflection about the concept of “experience” in XXth-Century Pedagogy; on this basis, it discusses some aspects of the Indicazioni per il curricolo (2007), with special care to the problem of the musical genres, music listening and the production; then it underlines the importance of offering to children new musical experience, paying special attention to the role of the music of art in music education.
Tectonic evolution of the Late Archean Pontiac Subprovince, Superior Province, Canada: Structural, metamorphic, and geochronological studies.
Creators: name: Ghassemi, Mohammad Reza.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Pontiac Subprovince is a Late Archean (ca. 2.7 Ga) metasedimentary-metavolanic-granitoid-gneiss terrane situated along the southeastern margin of the Superior Province in Quebec. Detailed structural study of the northwestern part of this amphibolite facies metasedimentary belt has revealed a protracted history of deformation in Late Archean and Early Proterozoic time. An early contractional event (D$\sb1$) resulted in development of steep foliations now preserved as folded or straight relics within microlithons of S$\sb2$ foliation. During this stage, the Cadillac-Larder Lake fault zone acted as a major fault zone along which greenstones for the Abitibi Subprovince were thrust over the Pontiac Subprovince. Regional metamorphism resulted from both thickening of the crust, and intrusion of voluminous I-type graintes. D$\sb2$ structures record peak metamorphic high-temperature deformation of the crustal rocks during which large-scale D$\sb2$ nappes moved towards the south-southeast. The basal thrust faults of these nappes are preserved as high-strain shear zones within the study area. Second order east-trending recumbent F$\sb2$ folds, a penetrative S$\sb2$ crenulation foliation, and a north-northwest-trending L$\sb2$ elongation lineation are other important structures of this deformational event. A later D$\sb3$ contractional event superimposed east-trending upright folds on all earlier structures. Extensional D$\sb4$ structures are associated with reactivation of the Cadillac-Larder Lake fault zone as a normal fault zone, and are only recorded in or close to normal faults within this fault zone. Finally, brittle D$\sb5$ thrust faults and kink structures are superimposed on all older structures in the northwestern Pontiac Subprovince. Gneisses of the Lac Opasatica area record pre-D$\sb1$ penetrative structures that are not present within the other rock types of the study area. Increasing metamorphic grade from biotite zone to sillimanite zone is evident from north (the Cadillac-Larder Lake fault zone) to south in the study area, close to outcrops of the S-type granites. Thermobarometry of samples from the study area indicates that regional metamorphism of the rocks in the northwestern Pontiac Subprovince occurred at about 590$\sp\circ$C and 6.2 kbar. Investigation of the metamorphic and structural history of these Late Archean rocks suggests a clockwise PT path similar to that of Phanerozoic collisional belts. $\sp{40}$Ar/$\sp{39}$Ar age constraints from this study combined with other geochronologic indicate a slow cooling rate of about 2$\sp\circ$ to 6$\sp\circ$C/Ma, and reveal that temperatures as high as 350$\sp\circ$C and 280$\sp\circ$C were persistent in crustal rocks of the area until ca. 150 Ma after attainment of peak metamorphic conditions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Tracking research
Creators: name: Van Schaick, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Research in Urbanism Series
Year: 2008

description: Van Schaick analyses the assumptions underlying the application of tracking technologies. On the basis of his findings and the results of the expert meeting Urbanism on track, he synthesises an agenda for the application of tracking research in the context of urban design and planning.
description: Research in Urbanism Series, Vol. 1 (2008): Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism
Burden of infectious disease studies in Europe and the United Kingdom: a review of methodological design choices
Creators: name: Charalampous, Periklis
name: Haagsma, Juanita A.
name: Jakobsen, Lea S.
name: Plaß, Dietrich
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023

description: This systematic literature review aimed to provide an overview of the characteristics and methods used in studies applying the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) concept for infectious diseases within European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries and the United Kingdom. Electronic databases and grey literature were searched for articles reporting the assessment of DALY and its components. We considered studies in which researchers performed DALY calculations using primary epidemiological data input sources. We screened 3053 studies of which 2948 were excluded and 105 studies met our inclusion criteria. Of these studies, 22 were multi-country and 83 were single-country studies, of which 46 were from the Netherlands. Food- and water-borne diseases were the most frequently studied infectious diseases. Between 2015 and 2022, the number of burden of infectious disease studies was 1.6 times higher compared to that published between 2000 and 2014. Almost all studies (97%) estimated DALYs based on the incidence- and pathogen-based approach and without social weighting functions; however, there was less methodological consensus with regards to the disability weights and life tables that were applied. The number of burden of infectious disease studies undertaken across Europe has increased over time. Development and use of guidelines will promote performing burden of infectious disease studies and facilitate comparability of the results. Quelle:© The Author(s)
Parasitization of bats by bat flies (Streblidae) in fragmented habitats
Creators: name: Hiller, Thomas
name: Brändel, Stefan Dominik
name: Honner, Benjamin
name: Page, Rachel A.
name: Tschapka, Marco
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: bat flies
subject: ectoparasites
subject: habitat fragmentation
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 590 / Animals (Zoology)
subject: Nycteribiidae
subject: Bats
subject: Central America
subject: Fragmented landscapes
subject: Streblidae
subject: Fledermäuse
subject: Mittelamerika
subject: Fledermausfliegen

description: Abstract Parasites represent a large fraction of the world's biodiversity. They control host population sizes and contribute to ecosystem functioning. However, surveys on species diversity rarely include parasitic species. Bats often present traits favoring parasite diversity, such as large home ranges, long life spans, and large colonies. The most conspicuous bat parasites are the highly host‐specific, blood‐sucking bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae, Nycteribiidae). Recent studies have found a direct effect of habitat alteration on the abundance of bat species. We expected, therefore, that changes in the host community in response to anthropogenic habitat modification will also result in changes in the associated parasite community. We captured bats in three different habitats in Central Panama between 2013 and 2015. We recorded information on prevalence and intensity of bat fly parasitization of the seven most commonly captured bat species. Prevalence and intensity were both significantly influenced by roost type, abundance, and host sex and age. We found that habitat variables and matrix type significantly influenced the prevalence and intensity of parasitization, while the direction of the responses was host species‐ and parasite species‐specific. In general, roosting conditions and behavior of host bats appear to be fundamental in explaining changes in prevalence and intensity of parasitization between different habitat types, as bat flies are bound to the roost during their reproductive cycle. Habitat alterations affect next to the host community composition also the availability of possible roost structures as well as microclimatic conditions, which all three reflect in parasitization.