cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulator Development for Autonomous Racing: Purdue AI Racing Simulator
Creators: name: Ye, Alvin L
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400703
subject: Autonomous vehicle systems
classificationCode: 400203
subject: Automotive mechatronics and autonomous systems

description: High-speed autonomous racing is a unique and challenging research field that requires sophisticated simulation tools for algorithm development and validation. The difficulty in simulation development lies in bridging the sim-to-real gap by accurately modeling the dynamics of a real-world vehicle, external forces, and simulating realistic sensor data. As a competitor in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), the Purdue AI Racing (PAIR) team has had to build and iteratively improve upon their simulation tools while meticulously validating its performance with real-world data.This thesis provides an in-depth overview of existing autonomous vehicle simulators and details the design of the Purdue AI Racing Simulator (PAIRSim), a novel simulation platform for bridging software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing. PAIRSim has played a pivotal role in the Purdue AI Racing (PAIR) team's development pipeline and has contributed to the team's success in past IAC race seasons, including a podium finish in 2025. PAIRSim offers a range of sensor capabilities including navigational GNSS/IMU sensors, as well as perception sensors like camera and LiDAR. Furthermore, PAIRSim is a highly modular and user-friendly simulator that improves upon existing simulators in the field in both form and function. By using real-world data gathered during an IAC 2025 competition run as a means of simulator validation, it is clear that there is immense overlap between PAIRSim and reality. Data gathered from a simulation of the same competition run demonstrates that PAIRSim accurately replicates the dynamic behavior of a real-world racecar.Therefore, the insights provided in this thesis will advance the field of high-speed autonomy by providing an entry-point into simulation for future teams participating in the IAC and for general users who want to test autonomous racing algorithms.
Einfluß von Klimafaktoren auf das Wachstum von Vitis-Arten und -Sorten*)
Creators: name: Erlenwein, H.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2017

description: In den Jahren 1960-1963 wurden Versuche mit Topfreben der europäischen Kultursorten Riesling 90 und Silvaner, der interspezifischen Neuzucht Siegfried, der amerikanischen Wildform V. riparia G 1 sowie der Unterlagssorte Kober 5BB durchgeführt, um den Einfluß der ,Photoperiode, der Temperatur und des Feuchtigkeitsgehaltes des Bodens auf das Wurzelwachstum festzustellen. • Untersuchungen über das jahresperiodische Verhalten des Trieb- und Wurzelwachstums ließen erkennen, daß unter Gewächshausbedingungen die Intensität des Triebwachstums der der Wurzel vorauseilt. Demzufolge ergibt sich im Frühsommer ein sehr weites Sproß : Wurzel-Verhältnis. Im weiteren Verlauf des Wachstums erfuhr die Wurzel eine relative Förderung, woraus eine allmähliche Eingengung des Sproß:Wurzel-Verhältnisses resultiert. Kurztag förderte diese Einengung sehr erheblich, da die kurze Photoperiode vornehmlich das Sproßwachstum hemmte und das Wurzelwachstum wenig beeinflußte. • Die Wachstums1geschwindigkeit von Rieslingwurzeln wunde durch hohe Temperatur und Langtag gefördert. Hierbei konnte eine Wechselbeziehung zwischen Photoperiode und Temperatur derart festgestellt werden, als hohe Tag- und niedrige Nachttemperaturen die bei konstant hoher Temperatur beobachtete Kurztaghemmung aufhebt. • Die photoperiodische Reaktion der Reben zeigte sich durch eine Hemmung des Triebwachstums (Länge und Trockensubstanzgewicht des Triebes) im Kurztag und durch eine starke Förderung im photoperiodischen Langtag (Störlicht). Im Gegensatz dazu wurde das Wurzelwachstum im Kurztag nur sehr wenig, im Langtag aber stark gehemmt. Ihren Ausdruck fand diese gegenläufige Reaktion in einer starken Abänderung des Sproß : Wurzel-Verhältnisses. • Durch hohe Temperaturen wurde die Sproßentwicklung stärker gefördert als das Wurzelwachstum. Daraus resultiert eine Erweiterung des Sproß : Wurzel-Verhältnisses gegenüber tieferen Temperaturen bzw. Wechseltemperaturen. Die Temperaturwirkung stand insoweit in Abhängigkeit zur Tageslänge, als hohe Temperaturen die photoperiodische Reaktion verstärkten und niedrige bei weniger kurztagsensiblen Sorten sogar zu einer Aufhebung der Kurztaghemmung führten. • Eine Erhöhung der Wassergabe von 40% auf 80% der Wasserkapazität des Bodens bewirkte eine einseitige Förderung des Triebwachstums. Die Wurz·eltrockensubstanz wurde absolut nur gering vermehrt oder blieb unverändert. Durch eine gleichzeitige Erhöhung der Temperatur wurde neben einer weiteren Steigerung des Sproßgewichtes eine Verminderung der Wurzeltrockensubstanz erreicht. • Die Bedeutung der unterschiedlichen Sproß : Wurzel-Reaktion der Rebe gegenüber den Umweltfaktoren Licht, Temperatur und Wasser und das hierbei beobachtete sortenspezifische Verhalten wurde im Hinblick auf praktische Konsequenzen im Weinbau diskutiert.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 5 No. 2 (1965): Vitis
Efficacy of prescribed injectable diacetylmorphine in the Andalusian trial: Bayesian analysis of responders and non-responders according to a multi domain outcome index
Creators: name: Perea-Milla, Emilio
name: Ayçaguer, Luis C S
name: Cerdà, Joan C M
name: Saiz, Francisco G
name: Rivas-Ruiz, Francisco
name: Danet, Alina
name: Vallecillo, Manuel R
name: Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The objective of this research was to evaluate data from a randomized clinical trial that tested injectable diacetylmorphine (DAM) and oral methadone (MMT) for substitution treatment, using a multi-domain dichotomous index, with a Bayesian approach. Methods: Sixty two long-term, socially-excluded heroin injectors, not benefiting from available treatments were randomized to receive either DAM or MMT for 9 months in Granada, Spain. Completers were 44 and data at the end of the study period was obtained for 50. Participants were determined to be responders or non responders using a multi-domain outcome index accounting for their physical and mental health and psychosocial integration, used in a previous trial. Data was analyzed with Bayesian methods, using information from a similar study conducted in The Netherlands to select a priori distributions. On adding the data from the present study to update the a priori information, the distribution of the difference in response rates were obtained and used to build credibility intervals and relevant probability computations. Results: In the experimental group (n = 27), the rate of responders to treatment was 70.4% (95% CI 53.2-87.6), and in the control group (n = 23), it was 34.8% (95% CI 15.3-54.3). The probability of success in the experimental group using the a posteriori distributions was higher after a proper sensitivity analysis. Almost the whole distribution of the rates difference (the one for diacetylmorphine minus methadone) was located to the right of the zero, indicating the superiority of the experimental treatment. Conclusion: The present analysis suggests a clinical superiority of injectable diacetylmorphine compared to oral methadone in the treatment of severely affected heroin injectors not benefiting sufficiently from the available treatments. Trial Registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN52023186
A three-dimensional anthropometric muscle-based active appearance model for model-based video coding
Creators: name: Cordea, Marius Daniel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The work of this thesis focuses in key areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), namely rigid facial motion recovery and facial expression analysis, and interpretation. Rigid motion recovery from image sequences is based on Structure-From-Motion (SFM) using Kalman Filter-based recursive algorithms. Facial expression analysis is performed by an Active Appearance Model (AAM), which is a statistical model, based on the estimation of linear models of shape and texture variation. The thesis integrates new developed algorithms into an Automatic Facial Tracking System (AFTS) for a low bit-rate videophone system. The first contribution of this thesis is a new method for modeling the shape and appearance of three-dimensional (3D) human faces using a constrained 3D Active Appearance Model (AAM). The proposed algorithm is an extension of the classical 2D Active Appearance Model. It uses a generic 3D wireframe model of the face, based on two sets of controls: the anatomically motivated muscle actuators to model facial expressions and statistically based anthropometrical controls to model different facial types (3D Anthropometric Muscle-Based Active Appearance Model (3D AMB AAM). This allows describing a facial image in terms of a controlled model parameter set, hence providing both, a natural and a constrained basis for face segmentation and analysis. The generated face models are consequently simpler and less memory intensive compared to the classical appearance based models. The proposed method provides accurate fitting results by constraining solutions to be valid instances of a face model. Extensive image segmentation experiments demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed algorithm against the classical AAM. The second contribution of this thesis is a new 3D tracking algorithm allowing real-time recovery of 3D position, orientation and facial expressions of a moving head. The described method uses a recursive motion estimation algorithm, namely an Extended Kalman Filter (EFK) to extract the head pose (global motion) and the newly developed 3D AMB AAM to extract the facial expressions (local motion). The resulting motion tracking system works in a realistic environment without makeup on the face, with an uncalibrated camera, and unknown lighting conditions and background. In order to validate the accuracy of the 3D head tracking system, a rapid calibration technique was developed using a sequence of images of a synthetic "standard" 3D head in lieu of a real head.
Emancipatory discourses: Utilizing Kleinian psychoanalysis and poststructuralist theory to deconstruct and (re)present phallocentric themes in "Rebecca" and "American Beauty"
Creators: name: Hosking, Lynda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.
subject: Cinema.

description: This thesis develops a theoretical methodology that deconstructs and (re)presents phallocentric themes in cultural narratives. This methodology, I argue, is an analytical strategy that displaces the primacy of the mythic structures of the Oedipal narrative in contemporary Western culture because it attends to other means of subjectivization and highlights sites of resignification. The theorization accomplishes three related tasks: it identifies areas in discourse that promote images of integration and wholeness; it reveals the performative nature and historical contingency of phallocentric discourses in cultural media; and it allows for the emergence of de-centered subjects. Drawing from Melanie Klein and Judith Butler, I argue that the Oedipal drama is not the means by which bodies in nature become subjects in culture; rather, it is a discourse that sustains the power and privilege of shifting conceptions of masculinity through its perpetual iteration. The symbolic order is the temporal regulation of signification that describes the atmosphere in which consent and regulation are secured, but it does not determine it. If the Oedipal complex is understood to be a performative expression of dominant discourse rather than a natural process, the Oedipal complex can be said to produce that which it claims only to describe. A poststructuralist psychoanalytic criticism interrogates the text, searching for traces of the always already said embedded in discourse. The analyses of the films Rebecca and American Beauty demonstrate that a Kleinian-poststructuralist methodology identifies new and different interpretations of texts.
Absence of stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 does not promote DSS-induced acute colitis
Creators: name: Vallance, Bruce A.
name: Bissada, Nagat
name: MacDonald, Marcia L. E.
name: Hayden, Michael R.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Absence of stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 (SCD1) in mice leads to chronic inflammation of the skin and increased susceptibility to atherosclerosis, while also increasing plasma inflammatory markers. A recent report suggested that SCD1 deficiency also increases disease severity in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease, induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS). However, SCD1-deficient mice are known to consume increased amounts of water, which would also be expected to increase the intake of DSS-treated water. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of SCD1 deficiency on DSS-induced acute colitis with DSS dosing adjusted to account for genotype differences in fluid consumption. Wild-type controls were treated with 3.5% DSS for 5 days to induce moderately severe colitis, while the concentration of DSS given to SCD1-deficient mice was lowered to 2.5% to control for increased fluid consumption. Colonic inflammation was assessed by clinical and histological scoring. Although SCD1-deficient mice consumed a total intake of DSS that was greater than that of wild-type controls, colonic inflammation, colon length and fecal blood were not altered by SCD1-deficiency in DSS-induced colitis, while diarrhea and total weight loss were modestly improved. Despite SCD1 deficiency leading to chronic inflammation of the skin and increased susceptibility to atherosclerosis, it does not accelerate inflammation in the DSS-induced model of acute colitis when DSS intake is controlled. These observations suggest that SCD1 deficiency does not play a significant role in colonic inflammation in this model. [The original version of this article, along with updated information and services is located on the World Wide Web at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbalip.2009.08.001]
Integrating Data Mining Results with Knowledge Based System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cattle Diseases: The Case of Debre Birhan Basso Animal Health Center
Creators: name: TADESSE BEYENE, GASHAWTENA
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The general objective of this study is to construct predicting model and integrate automatically with the knowledge base system, in order to increase the efficiency in the diagnosis and treatment of common cattle disease. Different researches, articles, journal papers and guidelines that have been done on cattle disease diagnosis and treatment, data mining, KBS, knowledge acquisition for KBS and integration of data mining results with KBS were reviewed. Besides of this, related works were reviewed to identify the gap and formulate research questions of the study. Mixed (quantitative and qualitative) research design was used, integrated (manual and automated) knowledge acquisition techniques were used to acquire knowledge, rule based knowledge representation approach was used to represent knowledge in the knowledge base. Away from each researchers and as to the review of the researcher, no study was done at the area throughout the Amhara Region animal health center using data mining techniques. For this study, the researcher see that the limitation of the existing system is not considering analysis of data in detail. In this study, rule based diagnosis and treatment of cattle disease knowledge based system is proposed. The system is aimed at utilizing hidden knowledge extracted by employing an induction algorithm of data mining, specifically JRip from the sampled BAHC dataset. The Integrator application, then links the model created by JRip classifier to knowledge based system so as to add knowledge automatically. In doing so, the Integrator understands the syntax of JRip classifier and Prolog and converts from rule representation in JRip to Prolog understandable format. To do this, java programming was used to integrate WEKA result with the Knowledge Based System automatically. And also 'swiweka' is used as an interface that allows the use of WEKA API for classification; weka.jar, Weka _src.jar are used to construct a model when called from interface through swiweka package, JPL library to connect the Java layer with the Prolog layer. Finally, as a result, the proposed system can perform in the absence of domain experts with 98.7% accuracy of recall evaluation results which indicates that the KBS has the necessary knowledge for diagnosis and treatment of cattle disease which in turn implies that the study was effective in acquiring knowledge. Besides of this, the proposed system achieves 85.8% of the users' acceptance which in turn implies that the proposed system could be operational if it could be implemented.
A Hybrid knowledge based clinical decision support system using Rule based and Case based reasoning for HIV patient who start ART medication: The case of Debre Birhan Referral Hospital
Creators: name: Yared, Bahru
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Ethiopia has been providing free Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) since 2005 for HIV/AIDS patients. ART improves survival time and quality of life of HIV patients but ART treatment outcomes might be affected by several factors. However, factors affecting treatment outcomes are poorly understood in Ethiopia. There are different ways of managing ADR case of HIV/AIDS. Knowledge Based System (KBS) is the widely used one with rule-based reasoning or case-based reasoning. In this study, a combination of rule based and case based reasoning for managing ADR case of HIV/AIDS is proposed. To this end, knowledge is extracted using semi-structured interview from domain experts which are selected using purposive sampling technique from Debre Birhan Referral Hospital ART dep't. Relevant documents analysis method is also followed to capture explicit knowledge. Then, the acquired knowledge is modeled using decision tree that represents concepts and procedures involved in managing ADR case of HIV/AIDS and production rule is used to represent the domain knowledge. The method of combination used is a conditional combination model, which has a controller in between RBR and CBR. The knowledge-based system is developed using the integration of two programing languages with the interfacing library of JPL. A Prolog programming language with a SWI-Prolog tool is used to construct the rule base module, Java programming language with eclipse IDE tool is used to develop case base module, controller and GUI. In the combined system, it is the RBR that first treat the new query for recommending a solution. Otherwise, the query is automatically forwarded to the CBR system where the case retrieval module identifies the most related solution using case similarity measure. The combination of rule-based and case-based reasoning methods has shown a substantial improvement with regards to performance over the individual reasoning methods. The combined system scores 88.92% overall performance and achieves 87.5% accuracy with an average Precision and Recall of 87.5% and 91.67% respectively. The user acceptance testing also resulted 90.33% this is a very good acceptance. This shows the system has registered a promising result to come up with an applicable system. But, further exploration has to be done to refine the knowledge base and boost the advantages of combining RBR with CBR.
CONSTRUCTING FINANCIAL FRAUD DETECTION MODEL USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE: THE CASE OF WEDERA FARMERS MULTIPURPOSE COOPERATIVE UNION
Creators: name: YILMA, GOSHIME
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: In Ethiopia there are a number of business organizations which are hostile with fraudulent financial activities.This is why in most of business organization t here is lack of automatic system which assists in the detection of such activity. This study tried to predict fraudulent financial activity of wedera farmers' multipurpose cooperative union using data mining techniques and finally build validated prototype for convenient use.For this study out of 7500 financial datasets 5222 financial records were selected to build the predictive model using D e s i g n s c i e n c e r e s e a r c h m e t h o d o l o g y i n t e g r a t e d w i t h d a t a m i n i n g p r o c e s s m o d e l . T h e s t u d y u s e d t w o d a t a m i n i n g a l g o r i t h m s , such as J48 decision tree from tree classifiers and artificial neural network (multilayer perception)from function classifiers and registered best accuracy with J48 algorithm. Since J48 algorithm registered the highest accuracy, it is chosen to integrate weka with java and develop validated prototype system. To do this weka.jar library plays a great role for weka to java connectivity. The financial item "credit of cash" score was found as the most determinant attribute in the union transaction as well as for the financial fraud detection and prevention. In this case, the financial status is fraud if credit of cash is greater than 0.707107 otherwise the rule checks other financial items in order to know whether the financial status is nonfraud or fraud.This result was found since credit of cash serves as the base for a given financial activity. The prototype has achieved 85% system accuracy and 78% accuracy in the case of user acceptance test;but,the major challenge observed in this study is that the natures of the datasets are so difficult to train the model;because,in Accounting and finance rule if a number of attributes exist on a given instance once a time the financial dataset only touch two or three attribute value and the rest left null. So to solve such challenge the study used MATLAB programing language in order to fill null value. Finally even if the prototype scored a capable result, further study is needed by adding additional financial attributes and algorithms in order to enhance and yield a better system performance.
Improving healthcare consumer effectiveness: An Animated, Self-serve, Web-based Research Tool (ANSWER) for people with early rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Li, Linda C.
name: Adam, Paul
name: Townsend, Anne F.
name: Stacey, Dawn
name: Lacaille, Diane
name: Cox, Susan M.
name: McGowan, Jessie
name: Tugwell, Peter
name: Sinclair, Gerri
name: Ho, Kendall
name: Backman, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) should use DMARDs (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) within the first three months of symptoms in order to prevent irreversible joint damage. However, recent studies report the delay in DMARD use ranges from 6.5 months to 11.5 months in Canada. While most health service delivery interventions are designed to improve the family physician's ability to refer to a rheumatologist and prescribe treatments, relatively little has been done to improve the delivery of credible, relevant, and user-friendly information for individuals to make treatment decisions. To address this care gap, the Animated, Self-serve, Web-based Research Tool (ANSWER) will be developed and evaluated to assist people in making decisions about the use of methotrexate, a type of DMARD. The objectives of this project are: 1) to develop ANSWER for people with early RA; and 2) to assess the extent to which ANSWER reduces people's decisional conflict about the use of methotrexate, improves their knowledge about RA, and improves their skills of being 'effective healthcare consumers'. Methods/design: Consistent with the International Patient Decision Aid Standards, the development process of ANSWER will involve: 1.) creating a storyline and scripts based on the best evidence on the use of methotrexate and other management options in RA, and the contextual factors that affect a patient's decision to use a treatment as found in ERAHSE; 2.) using an interactive design methodology to create, test, analyze and refine the ANSWER prototype; 3.) testing the content and user interface with health professionals and patients; and 4.) conducting a pilot study with 51 patients, who are diagnosed with RA in the past 12 months, to assess the extent to which ANSWER improves the quality of their decisions, knowledge and skills in being effective consumers. Discussion: We envision that the ANSWER will help accelerate the dissemination of knowledge and skills necessary for people with early RA to make informed choices about treatment and to manage their health. The latest in animation and online technology will ensure ANSWER fills a knowledge translation gap, focusing on the next generation of people living with RA.
Respiratory plasticity in the zebrafish (Danio rerio )
Creators: name: Vulesevic, Branka
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: The aim of this thesis was to investigate respiratory plasticity in zebrafish (Danio rerio) confronted with long-term changes in water gas composition (hypoxia, hyperoxia or hypercapnia) either as embryos or adults. The ventilatory responses to acute changes in water gas composition (hypoxia, hypercapnia or cyanide) were assessed using a non-invasive technique (Altimiras and Larsen, 2000) to continuously monitor breathing frequency (f R) and relative breathing amplitude. The ventilatory response to acute hypoxia consisted of an increase in fR while the response to acute hypercapnia was an increase in relative breathing amplitude. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Virtual topology optimization in wavelength routed optical networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiming
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In static and semi-dynamic routing, the traffic requirements in the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) network are given as a set of point-to-point connections of different granularities between pairs of access stations. Finding the exact optima for most of the network optimization problems is generally impossible with today's computation facility even for the medium size networks. Therefore, finding a sub-optimal solution within a reasonable computation time is the only choice, while knowing the proximity of the sub-optimal solution to the exact-optimum will be an additional advantage. We provide in this thesis an efficient optimization framework to static and semi-dynamic connection routing problems, which contains new integer linear programming (ILP) formulations and a solution methodology employing Lagrangean Relaxation and Subgradient Method (LRSM). We are able to provide a good bound at the same time as obtaining a sub-optimal solution, with reasonable time complexity. We prove the efficiency and the easy adaptation of our framework by studying the optimization problems for various WDM networks with different models, different constraints and different objective functions in generalized network topologies. We use it to investigate the static Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem, semi-dynamic RWA problem, as well as the traffic grooming problem. We also study a wide range of influences, such as the number of resources and the network design parameters, on the network behaviours under different network structures and assumptions. On the other hand, we provide new formulations for the network optimization considering various aspects of the network operation and design concerns. Compared with many other methodologies proposed in some previous research, our framework demonstrates a high efficiency in terms of both computation results and time complexity.
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle: Dynamik im japanischen Einzelhandel. Einführung, Durchsetzung und Fortentwicklung neuer Betriebstypen 1954 bis 1994
Creators: name: Schneidewind, Dieter
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 62 (1997): ASIEN (Januar)
Le crime organisé: Nouvelle législation, nouvelle représentation?
Creators: name: Leclerc, Priscillia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: L'objectif de cette recherche est de comprendre pourquoi les parlementaires canadiens ont cru nécessaire de modifier la législation pénale par les projets de loi C-95, Loi modifiant le Code criminel (gangs) et d'autres lois en conséquence adopté en 1997 et G-24, Loi modifiant le Code criminel (crime organisé et application de la loi) et d'autres lois en conséquence adopté en 2001, qui ciblent spécifiquement Ie crime organisé. À cet objectif s'ajoute celui de savoir pourquoi ces projets de loi foumissent des outils pour lutter contre le crime organisé qui diffèrent des outils pour lutter contre lea autres types de crimes. Pour répondre à ces questions, nous nous sommes attardés aux représentations sociales du crime organisé des parlementaires, c'est-à-dire à la façon dont ils conçoivent ee phénomène. L'analyse de notre corpus, les débats parlementaires entourant les deux projets de loi ainsi que le Rapport de l'étude sur la criminalité érigée en entreprise de 1983, nous a permis de relever plusieurs transformations de leurs représentations sociales du crime organisé entre 1983 et 1997 ainsi qu'entre 1997 et 2001, c'est-à-dire avant l'adoption de chaque projet de loi. Ces transformations consistent, entre autres, en une différenciation entre le crime organisé et les autres formes de crimes, en l'apparition de nouveaux éléments représentationnels susceptibles de produire une peur abstraite et spontanée ainai qu'en l'émergence du crime organisé comme ennemi de la société.
Credit Risk Management Practice and Financial Performance of Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) in Addis Ababa City
Creators: name: Deje, Asefa Watol
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of the study was to assess the credit risk management practices and financial performance of MFIs in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. This study was based on some conceptual aspects of different risk management practices adopted by micro financial institutions From 23 MFIs in Addis Ababa the researcher purposively selected 20 MFIs and distributes 120 questioners and collected 111 questioners. Descriptive statistics was useful for coming up with an understanding of the data and helped in organizing and summarizing of the data as well as to achieve the research objective. Three measures of descriptive analysis such as means, Median and standard deviation (SD) was used for the interpretation of the result for credit risk management practice of the selected MFIs. While inferential statistics Correlation and regression analysis was used in order to find the degree of relationship between variable and help in fulfilling the purpose of the study. The study findings indicate that credit risk management practices are significant in influencing financial performance of the selected MFIS. Therefore, while 86.8% of financial performance was contributed by the independent variable the rest 16.2 % of the financial performance ratio was explained by the other unstudied factors and random variations of the selected micro MFIs in Addis Ababa. The credit risk management practice as well as financial performance of sampled MFIs in Addis Ababa city is moderately good. Risk identification, risk assessment and analysis, risk monitoring and control, managing credit risk and client appraisals are factors that affect credit risk management practice of selected micro financial institutions in Addis Ababa city. The financial performance of selected micro financial institution affects credit risk management practice. The researcher recommends the selected micro financial institutions to update their credit risk management practice more and more in order to improve their financial performance.
The innate immune and systemic response in honey bees to a bacterial pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae
Creators: name: Chan, Queenie W.
name: Melathopoulos, Andony P.
name: Pernal, Stephen F.
name: Foster, Leonard J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. There is a major paradox in our understanding of honey bee immunity: the high population density in a bee colony implies a high rate of disease transmission among individuals, yet bees are predicted to express only two-thirds as many immunity genes as solitary insects, e.g., mosquito or fruit fly. This suggests that the immune response in bees is subdued in favor of social immunity, yet some specific immune factors are up-regulated in response to infection. To explore the response to infection more broadly, we employ mass spectrometry-based proteomics in a quantitative analysis of honey bee larvae infected with the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae. Newly-eclosed bee larvae, in the second stage of their life cycle, are susceptible to this infection, but become progressively more resistant with age. We used this host-pathogen system to probe not only the role of the immune system in responding to a highly evolved infection, but also what other mechanisms might be employed in response to infection. Results Using quantitative proteomics, we compared the hemolymph (insect blood) of five-day old healthy and infected honey bee larvae and found a strong up-regulation of some metabolic enzymes and chaperones, while royal jelly (food) and energy storage proteins were down-regulated. We also observed increased levels of the immune factors prophenoloxidase (proPO), lysozyme and the antimicrobial peptide hymenoptaecin. Furthermore, mass spectrometry evidence suggests that healthy larvae have significant levels of catalytically inactive proPO in the hemolymph that is proteolytically activated upon infection. Phenoloxidase (PO) enzyme activity was undetectable in one or two-day-old larvae and increased dramatically thereafter, paralleling very closely the age-related ability of larvae to resist infection. Conclusion We propose a model for the host response to infection where energy stores and metabolic enzymes are regulated in concert with direct defensive measures, such as the massive enhancement of PO activity.
Monarcha everetti Hartert 1896
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Monarchidae
Monarcha
Monarcha everetti

description: Monarcha everetti Hartert
 Monarcha everetti Hartert, 1896c: 173 (Insula Djampea).
 Now Monarcha everetti Hartert, 1896. See White and Bruce, 1986: 367, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 308.
 LECTOTYPE: AMNH 654917, adult male, collected on Tanahdjampea (5 Djampea) Island, 07.05S, 120.42E (White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Indonesia, in December 1895, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.
 COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type and said only that Everett collected a series of adult males and a female in December 1895. Five males and one female came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 502) listed his type as in the Rothschild Collection but did not further distinguish it. Only the above specimen bears a Rothschild type label, and the Everett label is marked ‘‘ 5 Type. 5 ’’. Because this is the specimen Hartert intended as his type, I hereby designate AMNH 654917 the lectotype of Monarcha everetti to remove any ambiguity and avoid possible confusion in interpreting the older literature. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 654918–654921, males, and 654922, female, all collected by Everett on Tanahdjampea in December 1895.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 203, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Le Labrador à l'heure de la contestation: (Analyse de la position juridique du Québec en 1927 et en 1971 concernant le recours au comité judiciaire du Conseil privé)
Creators: name: Patenaude, Luce
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Law.

description: Abstract not available.
Monarcha brodiei subsp. floridana Rothschild and Hartert
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Monarchidae
Monarcha
Monarcha brodiei
Monarcha brodiei floridana rothschild and hartert

description: Monarcha brodiei floridana Rothschild and Hartert
 Monarcha brodiei floridana Rothschild and Hartert 1901b: 182 (Florida Island).
 Now Monarcha barbatus barbatus Ramsay, 1879. See Watson et al., 1986c: 511, Filardi and Smith, 2005, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 312.
 LECTOTYPE: AMNH 655049, adult male, collected on Nggela Sula (5 Florida Island), 09.05S, 160.15E (USBGN, 1974a), Solomon Islands, on 4 January 1901, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2740). From the Rothschild Collection.
 COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but noted that they had two male specimens. Hartert (1920: 503) listed as type of floridana Meek’s specimen number 2740, thereby designating it the lectotype. The paralectotype is AMNH 655048, male, collected on Florida on 12 January 1901 by Meek (no. 2765).
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 204, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Bandwidth enhancement techniques for probe-fed microstrip patch antennas
Creators: name: Zou, Xinlei
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Many bandwidth enhancement techniques for microstrip patch antennas have been developed since the 1970's. Except for an IEEE collection of reprints which appeared in 1995, relatively little work has been done to review and categorize these techniques. As a result, the published research and design of broadband microstrip antennas has become somewhat unsystematic. In this thesis, papers on broadband microstrip antennas have been reviewed. Using full-wave electromagnetic simulation, the important performance parameters such as the bandwidth, realized gain, antenna efficiency, radiation efficiency and radiation patterns of broadband microstrip patch antennas have been considered. Based on these results, bandwidth enhancement techniques have been categorized in two broad classes, namely those applicable when electrically-thick low-permittivity substrates are used, and those applicable to electrically-thin high-permittivity substrates. These broad classes have been sub-divided into several sub-classes in a structured manner that aids the understanding of the bandwidth enhancement methods. A summary of these techniques, linked to a comparison of resulting microstrip patch antenna performance obtained from full-wave analysis of the sub-classes, is provided. It is also shown, through a specific example, how the increased understanding afforded by this categorization can lead to the development of new broad bandwidth geometries that can offer some advantages over existing ones.
title: Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity
title: Jean Toomer
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Estes--Hicks, Onita
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: African-American identity

description: "Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity" is taken from her forthcoming book, Jean Toomer and the Aesthetic Adventure. This is her fIrst appearance in Contributions.
Correction: Antifungal treatment for invasive Candida infections: a mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis
Creators: name: Mills, Edward J
name: Peeri, Dan
name: Cooper, Curtis
name: Nachega, Jean B
name: Wu, Ping
name: Tleyjeh, Imad
name: Philips, Peter
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

Abstract
Monarcha barbata subsp. malaitae Mayr
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Monarchidae
Monarcha
Monarcha barbata
Monarcha barbata malaitae mayr

description: Monarcha barbata malaitae Mayr
 Monarcha barbata malaitae Mayr, 1931c: 23 (Malaita Island, British Solomon Islands).
 Now Monarcha barbatus malaitae Mayr, 1931. See Filardi and Smith, 2005, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 312.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 227067, adult male, collected on Malaita Island, 09.00S, 161.00E (USBGN, 1974a), Solomon Islands, on 26 February 1930, by William F. Coultas, Walter J. Eyerdam, and Hannibal Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 39335).
COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 227060–227066 and 227068–227110.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 204, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Identità insulare e lingua regionale. La linea politica del PCF in Corsica e del PCI in Sardegna (1939-1989)
Creators: name: Di Stefano, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Nazioni e Regioni
Year: 2024
Subjects: PCF corso; PCI sardo; identità insulare; lingua corsa; lingua sarda; Corsican PCF; Sardinian PCI; island identity; Corsican language; Sardinian language

description: Le elaborazioni del PCF corso sull’identità insulare si delineano negli anni 1939-1945, con la definizione di un pantheon degli eroi regionali, e si aggiornano – con l’emergere nell’isola dei movimenti regionalisti e nazionalisti – dagli anni Settanta, con l’intermediazione del dirigente di partito Félix Damette. In ambito linguistico, un solido impianto teorico, più sistematico rispetto all’elaborazione del PCI sardo, viene sviluppato negli anni Ottanta grazie al sociolinguista Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi. Nell’isola italiana, su impulso del segretario nazionale Togliatti, il PCI impone la parola d’ordine dell’autonomia per il popolo sardo nell’immediato secondo dopoguerra (1945-1947). I comunisti corsi invece, restando più prudenti sul tema dell’autonomia, finiscono per concentrarsi maggiormente sull’aggiornare le elaborazioni relative alla lingua regionale e all’identità insulare.

 

The Corsican PCF's elaborations on island identity took shape in the years 1939-1945, with the definition of a pantheon of regional heroes, and were updated - with the emergence of regionalist and nationalist movements on the island - from the 1970s, with the mediation of party leader Félix Damette. In the linguistic sphere, a solid theoretical framework, more systematic than the elaboration of the Sardinian PCI, was developed in the 1980s thanks to the sociolinguist Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi. On the Italian island, under the impulse of the national secretary Togliatti, the PCI imposed the watchword of autonomy for the Sardinian people in the immediate post-World War II period (1945-1947). The Corsican communists, on the other hand, remained more cautious on the issue of autonomy, focusing more on updating their elaborations on regional language and island identity.
description: Nazioni e Regioni, N. 23 (2024)
The Theory of Defensive Nationalism and the Case of Deeply Divided Societies
Creators: name: Guelke, Adrian
Publisher: name: Nazioni e Regioni
Year: 2024
Subjects: Defensive nationalism; populism; deeply divided societies; South Africa; Northern Ireland; nazionalismo difensivo; populismo; società profondamente divise; Sudafrica; Irlanda del Nord

description: The article examines the applicability of Beth Rabinowitz’s theory of defensive nationalism to the case of deeply divided societies. In the heartlands of liberal-democracy, political stability tended to be taken for granted and consensus rather than polarisation was the predominant characteristic of political competition.Against a backdrop of rapid technological progress, all manner of political irrationality now surprisingly thrives. In deeply divided societies, many of the ills currently affecting metropolitan heartlands have long existed, including polarisation, political violence, and the dominance of issues of identity. Through the analysis of the Northern Irish and South African cases, tentative conclusions are put forward on the implications of an era of populism for deeply divided societies.

 

L’articolo esamina l’applicabilità della teoria del nazionalismo difensivo di Beth Rabinowitz ai casi di società profondamente divise. Nel cuore della democrazia liberale, la stabilità politica tendeva a essere data per scontata e il consenso, piuttosto che la polarizzazione, era la caratteristica predominante della competizione politica. In un contesto di rapido progresso tecnologico, oggi sorprendentemente prospera ogni tipo di irrazionalità politica. Nelle società profondamente divise, molti dei mali che attualmente affliggono i “centri” esistono da tempo, tra cui la polarizzazione, la violenza politica e il predominio delle questioni identitarie. Attraverso l’analisi dei casi dell’Irlanda del Nord e del Sudafrica, vengono presentate dall’autore alcune conclusioni sulle conseguenze di una stagione populista nelle società profondamente divise.
description: Nazioni e Regioni, N. 23 (2024)
Populism in Europe. A Comparative Discourse Reconstruction of the Culturalised Economic Conflict Lines in Contemporary Populisms
Creators: name: Leinfelder, Ida
Publisher: name: Nazioni e Regioni
Year: 2024
Subjects: Populism; Europe; Political Economy of Populism; welfare states; Discourse Analysis; populismo; Europa; Economia Politica del Populismo; stati sociali; analisi del discorso

description: This paper examines how economic factors influence populist rhetoric based on the Political Economy Theory of Populism (Manow 2019), which states that the rise of left and right populism can be determined economically. The qualitative discourse analysis explores whether populist party programmes reflect the influence of their economic environment by examining how the narrational structure and especially a populist we is constructed (based on labour market in- or outsiders). Findings show a partial confirmation of the theory: while the expected lines of conflict are reflected in the party manifestos analysed, results concerning the support of labour market in- and outsiders are not so clear cut.

 

Questo articolo esamina come i fattori economici influenzino la retorica populista sulla base della Teoria dell’Economia Politica del Populismo (Manow 2019), secondo la quale l’ascesa del populismo di destra e di sinistra può essere determinata dal punto di vista economico. L’analisi qualitativa del discorso esplora se i programmi dei partiti populisti riflettano l’influenza del loro ambiente economico, esaminando come viene costruita la struttura narrativa e in particolare un noi populista (basato sugli insider o sugli outsider del mercato del lavoro). I risultati mostrano una parziale conferma della teoria: mentre le linee di conflitto attese si riflettono nei manifesti dei partiti analizzati, i risultati relativi al sostegno degli in- e degli outsider del mercato del lavoro non sono così netti.
description: Nazioni e Regioni, N. 23 (2024)