cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Representing the Plough and Harrow of knowledge: Popular literacy and the creation of new models of reading and writing in Victorian prose genres
Creators: name: Stephenson, Ryan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, English.

description: This project examines the impact of popular literacy on the representation of reading and writing in Victorian prose. Literacy increased dramatically in Victorian Britain, becoming nearly universal by the turn of the century, and major developments in education and publishing accompanied this growth. While critics have investigated extensively the reading habits of women (Flint 1993, Phegley 2004) and the working class (Vincent 1993, Brantlinger 1998, Rose 2001), my thesis argues that the rise of popular literacy caused a more wide-ranging reconceptualization of what was involved in the acts of reading and writing for literate Britons from across the social spectrum. This redefinition of literacy occurred inter-generically through the development of diverse conceptual models of reading and writing in Victorian prose. By examining the literacy models circulated in educational literature, periodicals and popular reading guides, and fiction, my thesis reveals literacy's association with control of the self and the social body and outlines the perceived impact of reading and writing on individual psychology. I trace the transformation of reading and writing instruction in elementary schools from a process intended to engender obedience and moral conformity to one intended to create a habit of reading. The models of reading as eating, reading as an addiction, and desultory reading circulated in periodicals and reading guides demonstrate the perceived dangers of this habit, once created. Critics and educators constructed counter-models of intensive, systematic reading to combat these dangers. Examining George Eliot's Romola and Daniel Deronda and George Gissing's New Grub Street, "Spellbound," and "Christopherson," I show how these authors reinterpreted popular models of literacy in their fiction, exploring the effects of reading and writing on psychology and gender identity. Through this analysis of literacy's representation in Victorian prose, my thesis reveals the complicated position of reading and writing in the nineteenth century.
title: Medicina Nuclear para Radiólogos
Creators: name: Redondo Olmedilla, Manuel de Dios
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear medicine

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Acercar conocimientos básicos de Medicina Nuclear al especialista en Radiodiagnóstico,
así como conocer las indicaciones fundamentales de las distintas pruebas diagnosticas que conciernen a esta especialidad médica. La O.M.S.
define la Medicina...
David L. Moore, That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America; Padraig Kirwan, Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing; Alan R. Velie e Robert A. Lee (a cura di), The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement.
Creators: name: Bosco, Stefano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Review of three volumes: That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America by David L. Moore; Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing by Padraig Kirwan; The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement, edited by Alan R. Velie e Robert A. Lee.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
title: Hallazgos radiológicos en el angiolipoma epidural.
Creators: name: Fernández Orué, Arnaldo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos de una entidad poco frecuente, así como los aspectos clínicos de la...
Everybody Loves Guido: Italian Characters on Modern U.S. Sitcoms
Creators: name: Cicciò, Sebastiano Marco
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Conducted by Linda and Samuel Lichter, co-directors of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, a study of 1988 examined the relationship between watching television and ethnic and racial groups attitudes. This study was sponsored by the Commission for Social Justice of the Order of Sons of Italy and other anti-defamation groups. It showed that many people regarded television as “a learning tool and an accurate reflection of the real world,” and that about one-third of those who expressed opinions regarding this topic said that the characters they watched on television affected their ethnic self-perception and the attitudes towards other groups (Litcher and Lichter). Television is a primary source of entertainment for millions of Americans and it influences people’s opinions with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Small groups of people build up their opinions on what they see on TV, however the role of television as a reinforcer and crystallizer of existing attitudes is significant. Furthermore, the study of 1988 that we mentioned before showed that the more positive or favorable the response to a TV character is, the more likely the viewer sees the character as typical of his or her ethnic group. Comic characters, for example, create likability through humor, and this factor is important in evaluating the degree to which ethnic characters on sitcoms may reflect reality for viewers, particularly for young people. Situation comedy is a mass genre and a consistent staple of broadcasting over the world. It can be defined as a “form of programming which foregrounds its comic intent” (Mills). Sitcom “comic impetus” is the most obvious and significant genre characteristic and while the audience might enjoy it for a variety of reasons, its humor is “always of paramount concern”.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Supplementary document for Synchrotron X-Ray Metrology of Dopant Distribution and Oxidation State in High Pressure CVD Grown TM2+:ZnSe Optical Fibers - 4981852.pdf
Creators: name: Coco, Michael
name: Aro, Stephen
name: Hendrickson, Alexander
name: Krug, James
name: Lai, Barry
name: Cai, Zhonghou
name: Sazio, Pier
name: McDaniel, Sean
name: Cook, Gary
name: Gopalan, Venkatraman
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: XANES spectra of Cr and Fe standards; XANES dataset of samples
Neurodivergencias Innatas: Autismo, TDAH y Otras Variaciones del Neurodesarrollo
Creators: name: Vega Vázquez, Edward Diego
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este trabajo explora las neurodivergencias innatas —como el autismo, el TDAH, la dislexia y el Síndrome de Tourette— desde una perspectiva de diversidad funcional y derechos humanos. Rechazando el enfoque patologizante, el documento argumenta que estas variaciones neurológicas son expresiones naturales del neurodesarrollo, no enfermedades. Se analizan sus implicaciones en la comunicación, el procesamiento sensorial y la atención, destacando la necesidad de ajustes razonables en entornos educativos, laborales y sociales. El texto integra marcos teóricos clave, como la Convención de la ONU sobre Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad (2006) y el concepto de "diversidad funcional" (Romañach Cabrero, 2005), para proponer un modelo inclusivo basado en el respeto a la neurodiversidad.
Using complexity-identical human- and machine-directed utterances to investigate addressee detection for spoken dialogue systems
Creators: name: Akhtiamov, Oleg
name: Siegert, Ingo
name: Karpov, Alexey
name: Minker, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: addressee detection
subject: computational paralinguistics
subject: speaking style
subject: data augmentation
subject: mixup
subject: speech classification
subject: DDC 410 / Linguistics
subject: Human-computer interaction
subject: Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
subject: Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
subject: Data Augmentation

description: Human-machine addressee detection (H-M AD) is a modern paralinguistics and dialogue challenge that arises in multiparty conversations between several people and a spoken dialogue system (SDS) since the users may also talk to each other and even to themselves while interacting with the system. The SDS is supposed to determine whether it is being addressed or not. All existing studies on acoustic H-M AD were conducted on corpora designed in such a way that a human addressee and a machine played different dialogue roles. This peculiarity influences speakers’ behaviour and increases vocal differences between human- and machine-directed utterances. In the present study, we consider the Restaurant Booking Corpus (RBC) that consists of complexity-identical human- and machine-directed phone calls and allows us to eliminate most of the factors influencing speakers’ behaviour implicitly. The only remaining factor is the speakers’ explicit awareness of their interlocutor (technical system or human being). Although complexity-identical H-M AD is essentially more challenging than the classical one, we managed to achieve significant improvements using data augmentation (unweighted average recall (UAR) = 0.628) over native listeners (UAR = 0.596) and a baseline classifier presented by the RBC developers (UAR = 0.539).
Quand on se fait appeler "hyperactif" : étude du façonnement et du maintien d'une étiquette.
Creators: name: Faucher, Chantal Andrée.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Mental Health.

description: Le diagnostic d'hyperactivite (ou TDAH) releve de la sphere medicale, mais son application concrete est souvent amorcee et developee par des enseignants et/ou des professionnels scolaires. La prescription de medicaments, dont le plus connu est sans doute le Ritalin, pose plusieurs problemes supplementaires. Les effets a court terme peuvent s'averer plutot serieux et les effets a long terme ne sont pas entierement clairs. D'autre part, la medicalisation du probleme peut nous amener a croire qu'il s'agit d'un probleme ou d'un desordre dont souffre cet individu. Il est pertinent de tenter de comprendre les variables institutionnelles qui peuvent entrer en jeu, notamment l'importance que revet l'ordre dans le cadre scolaire. L'appui theorique qui sous-tend cette approche pour etudier la categorisation d'hyperactif est ti'e de deux theories principales: la theorie de la construction sociale de la realite et la theorie de l'etiquetage. Dans un premier temps, nous examinons la construction des categories en general, notamment les categories de deviance. Cela nous permet d'extrapoler sur la construction de la categorie d'hyperactivite. Dans un deuxieme temps, nous etudions le processus d'etiquetage tel que decrit par Schur (1971) en tentant d'appliquer ce processus au processus d'etiquetage d'un enfant comme etant hyperactif. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Private Theatricals and Feminist Abolitionism: "Jo's" and "Meg's" Sensation Plays
Creators: name: Daniele, Daniela
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Louisa May Alcott started her career as an actress and a playwright. I explore some of the juvenile plays that she rehearsed in family barns with her siblings. Later collected by her elder sister, Anna, they reflect the racial turbulences and the radical reforming spirit which animated the pre-bellum years, referring to the ethnic issues raised by the Romantic revolutions in Europe and by the US-Mexican war in the Southern regions. In these neglected plays, Alcott maturely and bravely embraces the abolitionist positions expressed in Lydia Maria Child's tales on intermarriage, showing her ability in mastering the popular genres of sensation and melodrama to dramatize the racial controversies aroused by the process of annexation in the Southern regions. In particular, Alcott reenacts the colonial myth of Pocahontas and of the redemptive role played by a Moorish beauty as an allegory of the interracial intercourse involved in the process of American expansionism in the Spanish-speaking colonies, in a conflict which paved the way to Civil War toward the consolidation of North America as a mainly Anglophone country.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Supplementary document for Synchrotron X-Ray Metrology of Dopant Distribution and Oxidation State in High Pressure CVD Grown TM2+:ZnSe Optical Fibers - 4981852.pdf
Creators: name: Coco, Michael
name: Aro, Stephen
name: Hendrickson, Alexander
name: Krug, James
name: Lai, Barry
name: Cai, Zhonghou
name: Sazio, Pier
name: McDaniel, Sean
name: Cook, Gary
name: Gopalan, Venkatraman
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: XANES spectra of Cr and Fe standards; XANES dataset of samples
Quality of student outcomes: concepts and issues of measurement
Creators: name: Ng, Gan Che
name: Heskin, Ken
name: Sharma, Raj
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses the trend towards mass tertiary education in Australia, a dramatic increase in the demand for tertiary places as a consequence of high retention rates for year twelve students, and the demand for public accountability in tertiary education. The public demand for efficiency and effectiveness in the tertiary education sector is discussed. Student outcomes assessment as one of the processes identified as being more relevant in indicating the performance of an institution and its accountability, is considered.
The evolution of the huntingtin‑associated protein 40 (HAP40) in conjunction with huntingtin
Creators: name: Seefelder, Manuel
name: Alva Kullanja, Vikram
name: Huang, Bin
name: Engler, Tatjana
name: Baumeister, Wolfgang
name: Guo, Qiang
name: Fernández-Busnadiego, Rubén
name: Lupas, Andrei N.
name: Kochanek, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Huntingtin
subject: Huntingtin-associated protein 40
subject: Retroposition
subject: Single-exon gene
subject: Protein coevolution
subject: Huntington disease
subject: Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment proteins
subject: Evolution, Molecular
subject: Huntington-Chorea
subject: Proteine

description: Background The huntingtin-associated protein 40 (HAP40) abundantly interacts with huntingtin (HTT), the protein that is altered in Huntington’s disease (HD). Therefore, we analysed the evolution of HAP40 and its interaction with HTT. Results We found that in amniotes HAP40 is encoded by a single-exon gene, whereas in all other organisms it is expressed from multi-exon genes. HAP40 co-occurs with HTT in unikonts, including filastereans such as Capsaspora owczarzaki and the amoebozoan Dictyostelium discoideum, but both proteins are absent from fungi. Outside unikonts, a few species, such as the free-living amoeboflagellate Naegleria gruberi, contain putative HTT and HAP40 orthologs. Biochemically we show that the interaction between HTT and HAP40 extends to fish, and bioinformatic analyses provide evidence for evolutionary conservation of this interaction. The closest homologue of HAP40 in current protein databases is the family of soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment proteins (SNAPs). Conclusion Our results indicate that the transition from a multi-exon to a single-exon gene appears to have taken place by retroposition during the divergence of amphibians and amniotes, followed by the loss of the parental multi-exon gene. Furthermore, it appears that the two proteins probably originated at the root of eukaryotes. Conservation of the interaction between HAP40 and HTT and their likely coevolution strongly indicate functional importance of this interaction.
The New England Yeoman: Noah Webster and the Defining of American English (1758-1843)
Creators: name: Fodde, Luisanna
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Writing and reflecting on the works of a late eighteenth-century lexicographer today may seem a little unusual and perhaps outdated. Why should linguists and cultural analysts be interested in such a scholar, when so many changes have recently occurred in the English language with the advent of the Internet, digital communication and social media that require our attention? What is the sense nowadays of concentrating our attention on language phenomena and discussions occurred 200 years ago? Shouldn’t we worry about the future development of the English language instead of looking back at its origin? Such rhetorical questions will certainly arouse the offended reaction of most historical linguists. Indeed, the above assertions are of course intended to be a very simple and overt provocative introduction. I am often asked these types of questions in class, and I find that answering to them gives me the opportunity to introduce my favorite topic, i.e. the development of the English language in the United States. And indeed the answer partly lies, at least with regards to the topic of the present article, in the fascinating analysis of the so-called “war of words,” that harsh debate which occurred after the Declaration of American Independence in some British journals and magazines, such as The Critical Review, the European Magazine and London Review, the Gentleman’s Review and the Scots Magazine, to name just a few.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Music, Sampling, and Musical Intertextuality in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
Creators: name: Ibarraran-Bigalondo, Amaia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: According to both critics and the general public, Quentin Tarantino is probably one of the most respected, applauded—and despised—contemporary directors. Some of his movies will forever be regarded as revolutionary in the history of cinema and he has created his own style, the Tarantino style. This consists of the blending of different genres, the representation of violence in an aestheticized way, non-chronological storylines, and the centrality of music in his films (Barnes Hearn 6; Rennet 391; Ramírez Berg 6). He has shaped his work as that of a “director as DJ,” “because this cut-and-paste, mix-and-match directorial style is similar to that of a music DJ, who borrows sounds from older songs and combines them to create a new song through a process called ‘sampling’” (Rennet 391). In this article I use the concept of “sampling” to focus on Tarantino’s use of music in Django Unchained, and on the notion of the director as DJ. Just as DJs share their music cases, Tarantino shares his aural and visual case as an introduction to his cinematic world. For this purpose, I will group the musical pieces of the movie into those he borrows from other Spaghetti Westerns, “new” songs created for the movie and finally, a piece which is a clear example of “sampling” and intertextuality, or, of the Tarantino style.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
A unified theory of hypothesis testing based on rankings.
Creators: name: Pan, Jianhong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Statistics.

description: A unified theory of hypothesis testing based on the ranks of the data is proposed. A hypothesis testing problem often gives rise to two separate permutation sets corresponding to the data and to the alternative, respectively. By defining the distance between permutation sets as the average of all distances between pairs of permutations, one from each set, it is possible to obtain various test statistics. The limiting distributions of test statistics derived by the unified approach herein are obtained under both the null hypothesis and contiguous alternatives. The unified approach produces not only some well-known test statistics but also some new yet plausible test statistics. The corresponding results are extensions of the simple linear rank statistics defined by Hajek and Sidak (1967) to the generalized linear rank statistics and of the two-sample case to the multi-sample case. Furthermore, a combined method was developed for the case of composite alternatives.
Letture geocentrate: alcuni percorsi recenti
Creators: name: Izzo, Donatella
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Il paradigma spaziale consegnatoci dalla tradizione letteraria modernista era sotteso da un’occulta ossessione per il tempo: la “forma spaziale” – teorizzata in un classico saggio di Joseph Frank (e criticata in un altrettanto classico saggio di William Spanos) come un’emulazione, da parte delle arti lineari della parola, della sincronia percettiva propria delle arti visive – non era tanto un modo per ingaggiare i luoghi nella loro materialità, quanto un antidoto a una percezione disforica del tempo, che formalizzava lo spazio nella sua (presunta) staticità e permanenza. Ormai avvezza, nella sua condizione postuma, alla perdita di ogni teleologia, la letteratura postmoderna ha spesso invertito il segno di questo rapporto, abbracciando lo spazio come dimensione primaria del proprio Dasein, ambito privilegiato e ancoraggio – per quanto precario – di quella che Brian McHale ha a suo tempo definito come un’interrogazione ontologica sul mondo.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
The presentation of death in L. N. Tolstoy's prose.
Creators: name: Metzele, Josef.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Literature, Slavic and East European.

description: This study treats in detail one of the significant themes of world literature in the narratives of the Russian writer L. N. Tolstoy. The theme of death, its modalities, motifs and related aspects, occur frequently in all of Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical writings. He presents this theme in connection with other dominant themes such as appearance and reality, falsity and truth, the attempts and failures to materialize individuals' objectives, all in various contexts of life--both private and public, and especially military life. The selection of themes such as sexuality, violence, or the transgression of moral laws, also affects the presentation of the theme of death. Instead of focusing on one pair of dominant semantic fields, Tolstoy (in the majority of his narratives) connects several of them equally. There are very few of his works in which one semantic field dominates. In accordance with Realist poetics, Tolstoy presents the theme of death directly; references to death on an allegorical or symbolic level occur in only a few of his narratives. In his early works, Tolstoy varies not only the fundamental modalities, but also the basic modes of violent and natural death. The presentation of a theme in a narrative differs depending on the length of the narrative. In his shorter prose fiction, Tolstoy concentrates the theme of death into specific passages, while its presentation in the longer narratives is distributed throughout the texts. In presenting the various characters, his narrators reveal their philosophies of life, which are particularly apparent in the borderline situation of death and dying. Members of different social classes display, as a rule, contrasting philosophies in revealing their attitudes and reactions--a trend which is again noticeable both in Tolstoy's major prose and in his late narratives. The author's focus on introspection (although in his early prose members of the lower classes are excluded from this technique) continues to play an important role in his late work as well. The author uses typical narrative devices such as anticipation, retrospection, association and paradox in the depiction of this complex theme as he attempts to 'de-romanticize', 'de-sensationalize' and 'de-dramatize' this topic. Despite the general tendency to omit the actual moment of death, there are a few works in which the horror of violent death shocks the reader. As for artistic development in presenting this theme, Tolstoy continues to employ a basic stock of devices and techniques already manifest in his early works.
Mouse germ line mutations due to retrotransposon insertions
Creators: name: Gagnier, Liane
name: Belancio, Victoria P
name: Mager, Dixie L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Transposable element (TE) insertions are responsible for a significant fraction of spontaneous germ line mutations reported in inbred mouse strains. This major contribution of TEs to the mutational landscape in mouse contrasts with the situation in human, where their relative contribution as germ line insertional mutagens is much lower. In this focussed review, we provide comprehensive lists of TE-induced mouse mutations, discuss the different TE types involved in these insertional mutations and elaborate on particularly interesting cases. We also discuss differences and similarities between the mutational role of TEs in mice and humans.
Community banking: a new type of deposit taking institution in Australia
Creators: name: Thomson, Di
name: Abbott, Malcolm
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The general public has expressed a great deal of dissatisfaction with Australia's major banks. A particular manifestation of this dissatisfaction has been customers' anger about the closure of bank branches in both rural and suburban centres (1706 bank branches in Australia were closed between June 1993 and June 1999). The banks for their part have pointed out that customers are increasingly making use of electronic banking, which has reduced the need to maintain branch networks. The banks have also argued that they must reduce their operating costs in order to ward off the threat of further low cost entrants, such as the mortgage originators, who presumably will be unencumbered by expensive, labour intensive branch networks.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practices of the Largest Seafood Suppliers in the Wild Capture Fisheries Sector: From Vision to Action
Creators: name: Packer, Helen
name: Swartz, Wilf
name: Ota, Yoshitaka
name: Bailey, Megan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the seafood industry is on the rise. Because of increasing public awareness and non-governmental organization (NGO) campaigns, seafood buyers have made various commitments to improve the sustainability of their wild seafood sourcing. As part of this effort, seafood suppliers have developed their own CSR programs in order to meet buyers’ sourcing requirements. However, the CSR of these companies, many of which are mid-supply chain or vertically integrated, remain largely invisible and unstudied. In order to better understand how mid-chain seafood suppliers engage in sustainability efforts, we reviewed the CSR practices of the 25 largest seafood companies globally (by revenue) that deal with wild seafood products. Based on literature, existing frameworks, and initial data analysis, we developed a structured framework to identify and categorize practices based on the issues addressed and the approach used. We found companies implement CSR to address four key areas, and through various activities that fit into five categories: Power; Practices; Partnerships; Public policy; and Philanthropy. One of the biggest gaps identified in this study is the lack of accountability mechanisms, as well as robust and consistent accounting of impacts. Indeed, many companies express commitments without clear goals and structures in place to ensure implementation. Therefore, improvements in seafood company performance on social and environmental aspects may not only require creating a better business case for CSR, but also require ensuring that companies have the necessary processes and structures in place through public oversights and regulations.
Ulysses, and the White Whale: Vittorio Gassman's Adaptation of Moby-Dick
Creators: name: Mariani, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: At least since Cesare Pavese’s short but penetrating essays on Herman Melville, Italian critics and artists have been tempted to emphasize the latter’s greatness, and in particular the greatness of his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, by way of comparison with the accomplishments of the classic (European) literary tradition. Objecting to those who constructed American writers as inescapably “barbarous,” Pavese argued, “Melville is really a Greek. Read the European attempts to get away from literature and you feel more literary than ever, you feel small, cerebral, effeminate; read Melville, who was not ashamed to begin Moby-Dick with eight pages of citations (…) and your lungs are expanded, your brain is expanded, you feel more alive and more manly. And, as with the Greeks, no matter how dark the tragedy (Moby-Dick), so great are the tranquility and purity of its chorus (Ishmael) that we always leave the theater exalted in our own capacity for life” (57-58). One might say that Greek tragedy was Pavese’s way of bringing Melville, and Moby-Dick in particular, back to the Mediterranean, an intellectual maneuver somewhat replicated in the review of Pavese’s translation of Moby-Dick published by Elio Vittorini. Like Pavese, the Sicilian writer and critic refused to separate the “barbarian” from the “Greek” Melville, observing that what appears as barbarous and “primitive” in Moby-Dick is “in fact Homeric or Biblical” (127, my translation).
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Studies on the role of interleukin-1 on prostaglandin production by human fetal membranes and decidua.
Creators: name: Albaghdadi-Alnaif, Bunan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Recent studies have indicated the possible importance of cytokines in the onset of term and preterm labour. To understand this further, the effect of interleukin-1 ($\alpha$ and $\beta)$ and interleukin 6 on prostaglandin output by dispersed cells from human amnion, chorion laeve, and decidua obtained at term (38-42 weeks gestation) was examined. During the first or second 24 hours of culture, no significant effect of these interleukins on prostaglandin output was observed. The apparent refractoriness of these cells to interleukin-1 was further investigated by studying the distribution of IL-1 receptors in frozen sections of undisrupted fetal membranes and decidua at term. Whole-tissue and emulsion autoradiography indicated that receptors were present in the chorion and decidua but not in the amnion. Fresh cells labeled for IL-1 receptors confirmed the intact tissue findings. No labeling was found in the amnion; labeling was found in certain populations of the chorion cells. These studies indicate that under normal circumstances in human pregnancy at term, IL-1 does not stimulate prostaglandin production by dispersed cells. In the case of amnion, this may be due to the absence of receptors, and therefore it would appear that the IL-1 receptor must first be induced in this tissue before it can respond to this cytokine. Furthermore, although chorion laeve expresses the IL-1 receptor, dispersed cells from this tissue did not respond to the cytokine by increasing prostaglandin output. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Brain computer interface system for communication and robot control based on auditory evoked event-related potentials
Creators: name: Hinic, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This study evaluates the suitability of the auditory, specifically spoken words, evoked P300 based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) for the human-computer symbiotic control of Robotic Sensor Agents (RSA). This study is unique in using auditory evoked P300 for BCI communication and control, contrary to currently established P300 BCI research. The general, elaborate, and multi platform software framework BCIILab was developed as a part of BCI laboratory workbench used specifically in the research. Result of this study shows that it is possible to use auditory P300 based BCI for the complementary control of RSA on the strategic level. The problems encountered in classification during experiments were highlighted and suggestion for future research given.
Mengenproblematik
Creators: name: Meisch, Simon
name: Kerr, Matthias
name: Potthast, Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutschland. Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltiger Konsum
subject: Liberalismus
subject: Mengenproblematik
subject: freiheit
subject: Gerechtigkeit
subject: Verantwortung
subject: Nudging
subject: Framing
subject: Lebensstile
subject: Gutes Leben
subject: Lebensform
subject: Suffizienz
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Viele Umweltzerstörungen werden auf privaten Konsum zurückgeführt. Dessen negative Auswirkungen entstehen oft in Folge zahlreicher einzelner, an sich harmloser Verbraucherentscheidungen, wie beispielsweise Flugreisen oder Fleischkonsum. Zum Umweltproblem entwickeln sie sich dadurch, dass zu viele bzw. eine zunehmende Zahl an Menschen konsumieren. Der vorliegende Bericht diskutiert dieses Problem unter dem Titel der Mengenproblematik. Er fragt, ob es aus Gründen der intra- und intergenerationellen Gerechtigkeit nicht eher geboten wäre, dass Umweltpolitik privaten Konsum viel stärker reguliert und inwiefern diese Eingriffe mit dem liberalen Freiheitsbegriff vereinbar sind. Der Bericht argumentiert dafür, dass Konsum immer eine öffentliche Angelegenheit ist, dass es sinnvoll ist, die Mengenproblematik nicht primär und ausschließlich am Ende bei den Verbrauchenden zu „privatisieren“ sondern in gesellschaftliche Fragen einer Suffizienzpolitik einzubetten. Daher kann ethisch begründet werden, dass Konsum als Teil von Lebensformen Gegenstand von Umweltpolitik werden muss, damit die Mengenproblematik bearbeitet werden kann.
Henry A. Giroux, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine
Creators: name: Cagliero, Roberto
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Review of The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine, by Henry A. Giroux.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Health websites in Aboriginal context: Principles of conception based on a user-centered approach The case of the Sioux Lookout District
Creators: name: Gratton, Marie-France
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Technology.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.
subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis aims to establish the principles that should govern the conception of health websites in Aboriginal context. For Aboriginal Canadians in remote communities, it is essential to gain accurate, reliable and relevant access to health information. Health websites customized to the preferences of users and to the cultural particularities of Aboriginal culture are a possible means to vehicle this information to them. A user-centered approach is used to gather data on the preferences of presentation types and content on health websites for Aboriginal people. Remote focus group sessions were conducted using videoconferencing. Different Web presentation types, mainly videos and text-based Web pages, from Diabetes and COPD websites, are presented to the users during the focus group sessions. A qualitative data analysis is done to examine user preferences and what factors have an influence on those preferences. Key findings include: (1) the type of disease being presented on the websites has an influence on the preferences of users; (2) the preferences of users vary based on the different disease aspects presented; (3) the different factors related to the living location, such as the limited access to healthcare and the Internet, the inaccessibility of certain foods and the diversity of cultures of the different remote communities also affect the preferences of users; (4) users prefer websites to contain elements related to their culture. The findings of this research have allowed for the development of the principles for the conception of health websites. Health website owners should apply these principles to use the appropriate presentation types, add content that is more meaningful to its target audience, and reorganize the content so that the most relevant information is more easily accessible to the users. As a consequence of conducting qualitative research, the main limitation of this research is the small sample size. Future research should be conducted with a larger sample size that is more representative of the general population and of the heterogeneity of Aboriginal culture to confirm the results of this study.
AA.VV., La Grande Famiglia. Un romanzo di 12 autori (a cura di Giovanna Mochi).
Creators: name: Goracci, Giada
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Review of La Grande Famiglia. Un romanzo di 12 autori, by various authors (edited by Giovanna Mochi).
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Simulation of women's beach volleyball tournaments
Creators: name: Glasson, Sam
name: Jeremiejczyk, Brian
name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A study was conducted on the tournament structure of women’s beach volleyball. The official world rankings were used in a logistic regression model to estimate the chance that each team has of winning a match. Match results were gathered from the 1998 and 1999 season, and testing showed that the official rating system provided a good estimate of performance for teams. The probabilities produced by the regression were then used as input to a simulation, which can be applied at any stage of a tournament to ascertain the probabilities of each team winning, or placing in any position. The simulation was used to investigate the efficacy of different tournament structures. The simulation was then used during the Olympic tournament, and the chance of each team winning was updated on a web page as the tournament progressed.
Effect of mental training techniques on knowledge and performance of volleyball skills.
Creators: name: Green, Susan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Education, Adult and Continuing.

description: This study examined how certain mental training techniques affected skill acquisition and performance of a sports skill (overhand volleyball serve). The uniqueness of the study was the particular population - twelve recreational athletes (versus elite athletes) with mean age of 43.8. The subjects were divided into two groups with measures taken on three different occasions - pre-test, mid-test and post-test. Group 1 received the Mental Training Program (MT) and engaged in physical practice during the first half of the experiment, while Group 2 engaged in physical practice only. Group 2 then added the M.T. Program while Group 1 continued to practice physically. The M.T. Program focussed on relaxation, mental modelling of elite olympic volleyball players, and imagery. At the pre-test, subjects were given an Imagery Ability Questionnaire to assess whether they were high or low imagers. Five different tasks were performed to obtain both qualitative and quantitative data for analysis. Quantitative and qualitative analyses demonstrated both statistical and practical significance for an increase in knowledge, in addition to a performance increase in the skill. This was a positive beginning to new and exciting research involving recreational rather than elite athletes, and the impact mental training techniques have on this population (mean age = 43.8). Results are discussed with relevance to the effect on research that these findings have in terms of adults learning a new sport skill, improving performance of that newly acquired skill and the positive impact that mental training techniques have on them.
The activation of pepsinogen.
Creators: name: Yuan, Larry Chi-Yang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: The activation of purified pepsinogen was studied at pH 2.0 and 5.6 and at 20°C and 0°C. It was found to be catalyzed by hydrogen ions at pH 2.0 and to be truly autocatalytic only at pH 5.6 and 0°C. A certain number of peptides produced during activation were isolated, the rate of formation of the main peptide was found to be identical with the rate of formation of pepsin. The production of the other important peptides could be explained only by assuming that more than one species of active pepsin is produced during activation. It is concluded that the production of each species of active pepsin involves the cleavage of only one peptide bond in each case.
The economic burden of bottle-feeding.
Creators: name: Pennock, Jennifer M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.

description: Bottle-feeding has been associated with excess childhood disease. The costs of managing this burden have not yet been quantified in Canada. This thesis estimated the direct costs of three childhood diseases (diarrhea, otitis media and lower respiratory infection) attributable to bottle-feeding among Ontario infants under the age of one year in 1994. A systematic review identified relative risks among bottle-fed children. The prevalence of bottle-feeding was determined from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, 1994/1995. Impact fractions were calculated for each of the three diseases and applied to the costs of physician visits and hospitalizations which were provided by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. The net direct costs of bottle-feeding were estimated as the sum of attributable costs minus cost savings. The cost of health care attributable to bottle-feeding was estimated to be $2.2 million. A sensitivity analysis revealed that bottle-feeding could have yielded cost savings of $88,900 or cost just under $4.0 million. This estimate was conservative as the costs of drugs were not included.
Registration of range measurements with compact surface representation.
Creators: name: Chen, Changzhong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis introduces an automatic approach for registration estimation between successive viewpoints of a laser range camera that takes advantage of the raw measurements and does not require any external device for pose estimation nor complex feature extraction or triangulation. Assuming only object rigidity and some overlap between the scanned areas, the approach allows one to estimate the six rotation and translation parameters that link scans gathered from different viewpoints in 3D space. A compact modified Gauss sphere representation is used to encode a simple planar patch approximation of the objects' surface and to validate the mapping between the measurements as the appropriate rotation and translation parameters are computed. This solution results in an important reduction of the computational workload and a sufficient accuracy for most robot navigation applications. The proposed approach is demonstrated in an experimental context using real range measurements collected from a series of viewpoints.
New models to predict the acute and chronic toxicities of representative species of the main trophic levels of aquatic environments
Creators: name: Arning, Jürgen
name: Toma, Cosimo
name: Cappelli, Claudia Ileana
name: Manganaro, Alberto
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Fisch

description: To assess the impact of chemicals on an aquatic environment, toxicological data for three trophic levels are needed to address the chronic and acute toxicities. The use of non-testing methods, such as predictive computational models, was proposed to avoid or reduce the need for animal models and speed up the process when there are many substances to be tested. We developed predictive models for Raphidocelis subcapitata, Daphnia magna, and fish for acute and chronic toxicities. The random forest machine learning approach gave the best results. The models gave good statistical quality for all endpoints. These models are freely available for use as individual models in the VEGA platform and for prioritization in JANUS software. © 2021 by the authors
Alessandra Calanchi, Gloria Cocchi, Antonino Comune (a cura di), Il lato oscuro delle parole/The Dark Side of Words
Creators: name: Laquidara, Andrea
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Review of Il lato oscuro delle parole.The Dark Side of Words, edited by Alessandra Calanchi, Gloria Cocchi, Antonino Comune.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Supplementary document for Total internal reflection based super-resolution imaging for sub-IR frequencies - 4982250.pdf
Creators: name: Barr, Lauren
name: Karlsen, Peter
name: Hornett, Samuel
name: Hooper, Ian
name: Mrnka, Michal
name: Lawrence, Christopher
name: Phillips, David
name: Hendry, Euan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Clean copy of the supplementary document
Cristina Giorcelli, Luigi Magno (a cura di), New Objectivists/Nouveaux Objectivistes/Nuovi Oggettivisti
Creators: name: Morbiducci, Marina
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Review of New Objectivists/Nouveaux Objectivistes/Nuovi Oggettivisti, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Luigi Magno.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America; Sylviane A. Diouf, Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroon
Creators: name: Sanfilippo, Matteo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Review of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne, and Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf.
description: Iperstoria, No 5 (2015): Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
Supplementary document for Total internal reflection based super-resolution imaging for sub-IR frequencies - 4982250.pdf
Creators: name: Barr, Lauren
name: Karlsen, Peter
name: Hornett, Samuel
name: Hooper, Ian
name: Mrnka, Michal
name: Lawrence, Christopher
name: Phillips, David
name: Hendry, Euan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Clean copy of the supplementary document