cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ritual and politics in new order Indonesia: a study of discourse and counter-discourse in Indonesia
Creators: name: Mundayat, Aris Arif
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis will examine the more active role played in Java by the urban wong cilik (the underclass; literally, the 'little people') in contesting the state's authority, particularly during the later years of the New Order regime, and following its demise in 1998. I will provide examples of social practices employed by the wong cilik in their everyday lives and in their adaptation to periods of significant social and political upheaval. These demonstrate the ways in which they are able to contest the state's efforts to impose its authority. These practices also develop and employ a variety of subversive discourses, whose categories and values diverge significantly from the official language of government. The examination of the relative linguistic, cultural and normative autonomy of the seemingly powerless underclass reveals an extremely contested political terrain in which the wong cilik are active rather than passive agents in urban society. These ideas have developed out of urban field research sited around warungs (sidewalk food stalls), urban kampongs and in the city streets of the three Javanese cities of Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Jakarta. These urban social spaces will be shown to be significant for the underclass because they constitute sites through which they constantly interact with diverse social groups, thereby sharpening their knowledge of the contradictions and feelings of otherness manifest between the classes in Java's large cities. It will be shown how, in these spaces, the underclass also experience the state's attempts at control through various officially sanctioned projects and how the underclass are able to subvert those projects through expressive means such as songs, poems and forms of mockery which combine to make the state's dominant discourses lose much of their efficacy.
Supplementary document for Optical Microlever Assisted DNA Stretching - 5225391.pdf
Creators: name: Andrew, Philippa-Kate
name: Avci, Ebubekir
name: Williams, Bill
name: Fan, Daniel
name: Raudsepp, Allan
name: Staufer, Urs
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Additional figures for lever tracking
Perceived health benefits of higher education for ageing Australian baby boomers
Creators: name: Hardy, Margaret
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: ageing
health benefits
later life study

description: Australia, as with many other countries, is experiencing a demographic change to an older population structure. It has been forecast that ageing baby boomers will have a substantial impact on long-term health and care costs. The primary aims of this research project were to explore baby boomers' perceived health benefits, motivators and cost of later life university engagement as well as barriers to such engagement, to determine how baby boomers define healthy ageing and quality of life; and to assess if later life university engagement could have a beneficial impact for future health promoting initiatives for this influential cohort and, as a consequence, potential savings on health expenditure.
La pratica filosofica: una possibile genealogia
Creators: name: Manicone, Alberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Lo scritto si pone l’obiettivo di una  ricostruzione genealogica della filosofia intesa come pratica; in questo  tentativo, si cerca di mettere in evidenza il ruolo fondamentale che ha  rivestito l’avvento della scienza. Più precisamente, la tesi che il  presente lavoro vuole proporre è che l’impresa scientifica abbia portato  alla luce, intrecciandoli in vario modo, tre elementi essenziali per  questa genealogia, ovvero il tempo, la prassi e il concetto di relazione.The philosophical practice: a possible genealogyAim  of this writing is to give a genealogical reconstruction of philosophy  meant as practice; in this attempt, we try to point out the fundamental  role played by the coming of science. More precisely, according to the  thesis proposed by the present work, the scientific practice brought to  light, weaving them together, three essential elements for this  genealogy: time, praxis and the concept of relation.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Characterization of Atrial Natriuretic Factor Storage Pools in HL-1 Atrial Cardiomyocytes
Creators: name: Choudhry, Asna Ali
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Atrial Natriuretic Factor (ANF)
HL-1 atrial cardiomyocytes
Monensin
proANF
Secretory Pathways

description: Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a cardiac hormone that helps maintain cardiovascular homeostasis. ANF secretion is linked to the constitutive, regulated and constitutive-like pathways. Presence of a monensin-sensitive pool that may follow constitutive-like secretion has previously been identified in an isolated atrial perfusion study. The intracellular ANF storage pools linked to each secretory pathway have not been identified. In this study, ANF storage and secretion was characterized in HL-1 atrial cardiomyocytes through the use of pharmacological agents, density gradient and RP- HPLC analysis. Treatment of HL-1 cells with monensin followed by cell fractionation was unsuccessful in identifying the monensin-sensitive pool. RP-HPLC analysis identified presence of low molecular weight ANF in low density gradient fractions that were defined by the presence of organelle markers of Golgi, early endosome, clathrin and corin. Since the monensin-sensitive pool was thought to be of a constitutive-like nature, targeting this pathway with pharmacological inhibitors of clathrin coat vesicle (CCV) formation and endosomal trafficking failed to prevent stimuli-independent secretion. Based on an inability to prevent ANF secretion by targeting the constitutive-like pathway and the presence of low molecular weight ANF in low density gradient fractions, stimuli- independent ANF secretion seems to be through a constitutive pathway.
Multispectral Image Analysis for Object Recognition and Classification
Creators: name: Viau, Claude
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: multispectral
object recognition
visual thermal imagery
support vector machines (SVM)
classification

description: Computer and machine vision applications are used in numerous fields to analyze static and dynamic imagery in order to assist or automate some form of decision-making process. Advancements in sensor technologies now make it possible to capture and visualize imagery at various wavelengths (or bands) of the electromagnetic spectrum. Multispectral imaging has countless applications in various field including (but not limited to) security, defense, space, medical, manufacturing and archeology. The development of advanced algorithms to process and extract salient information from the imagery is a critical component of the overall system performance. The fundamental objectives of this research project were to investigate the benefits of combining imagery from the visual and thermal bands of the electromagnetic spectrum to improve the recognition rates and accuracy of commonly found objects in an office setting. The goal was not to find a new way to “fuse” the visual and thermal images together but rather establish a methodology to extract multispectral descriptors in order to improve a machine vision system’s ability to recognize specific classes of objects.A multispectral dataset (visual and thermal) was captured and features from the visual and thermal images were extracted and used to train support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. The SVM’s class prediction ability was evaluated separately on the visual, thermal and multispectral testing datasets. Commonly used performance metrics were applied to assess the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of each classifier. The research demonstrated that the highest recognition rate was achieved by an expert system (multiple classifiers) that combined the expertise of the visual-only classifier, the thermal-only classifier and the combined visual-thermal classifier.
«... Cercare l'esperienza alla sua fonte». Il dono della verità
Creators: name: Vitiello, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Un cammino nel territorio della conoscenza, da Wittgenstein a Kant, da Aristotele a Platone, con finale apertura all’etica dell’«accanto», dell’io tu a se medesimo e di se medesimo, ovvero: alla filosofia come testimonianza, alla verità come dono d’altri.«...Look for the experience at its source». The gift of truth   A path into the territory of knowledge, from Wittgenstein to Kant, from Aristotle to Plato, with a final opening to the ethics of 'beside', of the I (that is) «You» towards Himself and of Himself; that is, to philosophy as witness, to truth as others' gift.
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La verità come compito della filosofia
Creators: name: Adinolfi, Massimo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il saggio si propone di liberare la questione della verità tanto dai formalismi della riflessione e dalle argomentazioni elenctiche con le quali si suole confutare lo scetticismo in filosofia, quanto dall’appello perentorio ad una supposta verità dei fatti e alla concezione della verità come oggettività. L’obiettivo non è però quello di rinunciare alla verità né tantomeno di proporne una piatta relativizzazione, bensì quello di intendere la filosofia come incontro sempre ricominciante con l’evento della verità.Truth as philosophy's taskThe paper aims to free the issue of truth: on the one side, from both the formalisms of reflection and the elenctical argumentations usually used to refute skepticism in philosophy. And, on the other side, from the imperative call for a supposed truth of facts and the conception of truth as objectivity. The main objective, though, is not to give up truth, nor to propose its mere relativization, but rather to conceive philosophy as an encounter that always begins with the event of truth itself.

description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Nuovo realismo FAQ
Creators: name: Ferraris, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il vero punto, nel confronto tra realisti e postmodernisti, non è ovviamente l’affermazione o negazione dell’esistenza del mondo esterno, ma il costruzionismo: quanto incidono gli schemi concettuali nella costruzione della realtà naturale e sociale? Infatti nessun realista negherebbe che l’IVA dipenda da schemi concettuali (il che non significa ancora sostenere che siano puramente soggettivi: l’IVA vale – in linea di principio – per chiunque faccia acquisti in Italia). Quello che il realista si chiede è, appunto, fin dove si spinge l’azione degli schemi concettuali, ed è qui che si manifesta il dissidio tra realisti e postmodernisti. Questi ultimi sono molto più generosi nella lista delle parti di realtà che sono socialmente costruite, al punto da affermare, in taluni casi, che noi non abbiamo mai accesso a un mondo "là fuori”, ma solo con ciò che viene costruito dai nostri schemi concettuali.New Realism FAQThe actual issue at stake, in the confrontation between realists and postmodernists, is not whether you should accept or deny the existence of the external world, but the scope of constructionism: how far conceptual schemes bear on the construction of natural and social reality? Indeed, no realist would deny that the VAT depends on our conceptual schemes, which does not mean that it is purely subjective: you don’t decide whether (or to which country) you have to pay the VAT, it depends on where the purchase takes places. The realist just asks where the sphere of influence of conceptual schemes stops, and here the disagreement with the postmodernists begins. The latter are much more generous in listing the parts of reality that they consider socially constructed, up to maintaining (the most extreme ones) that we do not have any access to the world “out there”, but only to what our conceptual schemes construct.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Oggettività e realismo. L'ultima impresa della verità
Creators: name: Sini, Carlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Presentazione del nuovo numero della rivista e del tema proposto per questa raccolta di saggi e contributi.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
title: Using Experiments, 3D Scanning, and Computational Fluid Dynamics to Analyze Variance in Minor Loss Coefficients
Creators: name: Pack, Adam B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: As water moves through pipes, it loses energy. The energy losses are due to friction and the minor losses associated with various pipe fittings, which change the direction of flow. Pipe bends, or elbows, are a common pipe fitting and a significant source of energy loss in piping systems. This research was performed to better understand the variability of energy loss due to different pipe elbow designs and to investigate methods to replicate these losses using numerical simulations.
Eight pipe elbows, all 3-inch, 90-degree, schedule 40 PVC elbows that vary by radius of curvature and/or end connection type, were tested to determine the energy loss caused by each. The energy losses between the elbows with the same radius of curvature varied by up to 51% at a given flow rate. Reversing the flow direction through the elbows changed the energy loss by up to 14% for a given elbow.
A numerical model was created to simulate flow through two of the eight elbows. To determine the importance of modeling small geometric details, two geometries were produced for each elbow: an ideal geometry and the actual geometry. The ideal geometry was created using measured dimensions but included no geometric abnormalities. A 3D scanner captured the actual geometry, which included finer details of each elbow.
The simulations using the more accurate geometry did not consistently produce a more accurate energy loss compared to the ideal geometry simulations. This suggests the smaller details of the elbows captured using 3D scanning may not be significant when modelling energy losses in pipe fittings.
Impact and implications of the ageing population on anaemia management, patient blood management and unplanned blood use
Creators: name: Simon, Geoff
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: blood transfusion
transfusion
geriatric
liberal
restrictive
anaemia
anemia
frail elderly
Cardiovascular medicine and haematology

description: Population ageing presents a challenge across many domains and has been described as being at a crossroads with “other mega-trends of the twenty-first century” such as climate change. Pathophysiological changes that occur as part of the ageing process will increase the vulnerability of a greater proportion of the population to the impacts of climate change, including humanitarian crises, severe weather events and heat-related illnesses. Age-related changes also increase the susceptibility of older adults to negative consequences in a range of clinical scenarios.
description: In the fields of transfusion medicine and transfusion science, the majority of blood products are transfused to adults aged 65 years above (older adults). This cohort is predicted to grow in Australia from 3.2 million in 2012 to 5.8 million by 2031 and 11.1 million by 2061. These numbers represent an expansion from 14% to 19% then 25% of the population across this timeframe. Despite the knowledge that older adults are the greatest consumers of blood products they are under-represented in research studies related to transfusion. This contrasts with paediatric patients who consume a comparatively small proportion of the blood supply but are well supported in Australia with national patient blood management guidelines that recognise their special physiological needs. Management of older adults is generally informed by a set of evidence-based guidelines that span the entire adult lifespan, where evidence comes predominantly from studies that recruited age cohorts spanning several decades, with older adult representation diluted by the much greater proportion of younger adults. Therefore the guidance is not specific for older adults and does not take account of pathophysiological changes that accrue with older age.
Development of a spermatogonial germ cell transplantation platform for southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)
Creators: name: Smith, Andre
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: southern bluefin tuna
yellowtail kingfish
germ cell transplantation
surrogate broodstock
aquaculture

description: Germ cell transplantation technology may become an important tool for the successful closed life-cycle aquaculture of southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) (SBT), to ease the fishing pressure on the wild stocks and develop a self-sustained industry. Currently, there are issues surrounding the care and maintenance of SBT broodstock, as they are large animals (up to 160kg) and reach sexual maturity at a late age (10 – 12 years). Germ cell transplantation has the potential to overcome the difficulties in maintaining large bodied broodstock, such as SBT, by transplanting donor-derived testicular cells (SBT) into a smaller bodied surrogate species such as yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) (YTK). YTK has been selected as a prospective surrogate host, as YTK larval development and spawning occurs at a similar temperature as SBT, and reaches sexual maturity at a younger size (3kg) and age (3-4 years) than SBT. Another reason why YTK has been selected as a potential surrogate for SBT is that they are a commercially important species and the aquaculture of this species is already well developed in South Australia, in close proximity to where SBT testis material is available. The current study has laid the framework for a germ cell transplantation protocol for SBT by establishing some of the prerequisite knowledge required for this technology to progress. The first component of the study optimised an effective protocol to collect and dissociate SBT testis material to obtain a high number of viable testicular cells for transplantation was developed. This component also examined the effect of size and maturity of SBT on obtaining viable cell numbers. Secondly, the study confirmed an effective method to cryopreserve SBT testis material to ensure that SBT testicular cells were readily available year-round for germ cell transplantation. The study established the optimised rearing conditions for YTK in a small-scale rearing system in the third component. Lastly, the current study assessed the suitability of YTK as a surrogate host for SBT by successfully transplanting SBT testicular cells into YTK larvae, and then rear those transplanted larvae at low density in a small-scale system. This component successfully demonstrated that YTK supported the migration and colonisation of transplanted SBT testicular cells and therefore, YTK has the potential to act as a surrogate broodstock for SBT.
La musica nel secolo delle masse (Musica e società)
Creators: name: Sini, Carlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Muovendo dalle trasformazioni avvenute nella musica tra fine ‘800 e inizio ‘900, l’autore s’interroga sulle modalità con cui le “masse” hanno mutato gli assetti della vita economica, sociale e culturale. La riflessione prende spunto dal libro di Alex Ross Il resto è rumore. Ascoltando il XX secolo.   The music during the century of the masses (Music and society)
Focusing on the transformations that took place in the music between the late '800 and early '900, the author wonders about how the "masses" have changed the structure of economic, social and cultural life. The reflection is inspired by the book by Alex Ross The rest is noise. Listening to the Twentieth Century.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Understanding the impact of locomotor performance on the success of invasive predators in Australian ecosystems
Creators: name: Gaschk, Joshua
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: behaviours
subject: biomechanics
subject: diets
subject: geometric morphometrics
subject: invasive predators
subject: locomotor performance
subject: marsupials
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary biology
subject: Zoology

description: No abstract available.
Existentialism, psychology and religion: A comparative study of Viktor Frankl and Paul Tillich.
Creators: name: Sykes, Britt-Mari.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: This master's thesis explores the dialogue between religion and psychology in the writings of psychologist Viktor E. Frankl. The thesis proposes a possible bridge between these two discourses by comparing the similar existential style in Frankl's writings and psychological theory with the religious philosophy of theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich's religious philosophy provides a theoretical foil to explore the religious themes within Frankl's work. Frankl and Tillich share a similar existential style and approach that influences their respective analysis of human nature. The thesis explores psychological and religious perspectives on the following: an existential analysis of human existence, universal religiousness and finally, psychological healing and religious salvation. The thesis proposes that Frankl's psychological model, known as Logotherapy, may also provide a theoretical answer to Tillich's own attempt to find a compatible bridge between both psychological and religious discourse and the role of psychologist and the minister and/or priest.
Lorentz violating backgrounds from quadratic, shift-symmetric, ultralight dark matter
Creators: name: Jiang, Minyuan
name: Pecjak, Benjamin D.
name: Perez, Gilad
name: Sankaranarayanan, Somasundaram
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: violation: Lorentz
dimension: 8
dark matter: density
dark matter: hidden sector
renormalization group
mediation
numerical calculations
oscillation
background

description: We consider an effective theory for a shift-symmetric, quadratically-coupled, ultralight spin-0 field. The leading CP-conserving interactions with Standard Model fields in the effective theory arise at dimension 8. We discuss the renormalization group evolution and positivity bounds on these operators, as well as their possible UV origins. Assuming that the spin-0 field is associated with an ultralight dark matter candidate, we discuss the effects of the dimension-8 operators on experiments searching for the oscillation of fundamental constants and Lorentz violation. We find that the direct bounds on these two effects are of similar strength but rather weak, corresponding to a UV cutoff scale of keV order, as they are mediated by dimension-8 operators.
Conservation genetics and the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri; a spatio-temporal study of population structure
Creators: name: Lissone, Iman
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2003
Subjects: Neoceratodus forsteri
population genetics
endemic species

description: Neoceratodus forsteri is a phylogenetically distinct ancient lineage with a natural distribution restricted to 3 catchments in the southeast Queensland region. Modifications to the river systems they are restricted to has prompted concern for the persistence of this species in the face of such changes. Accordingly, ecological and molecular surveys have been undertaken to identify the management units in order to design and implement a sound management strategy. Ecological surveys of the Burnett catchment have highlighted that compounding factors of longevity, low reproductive output and loss of suitable spawning sites through seasonal fluctuations as well as habitat degradation have greatly reduced juvenile recruitment rates. Genetic surveys investigating allozyme , mtDNA and microsatellite markers show that despite substantial barriers to gene flow, lungfish populations comprise of one homogenous population. This lack of diversity was attributed to historic and present bottleneck events, as well as to historic fluvial connectivity. To obtain a broader snapshot of the genome, this survey developed and screened RAF and AFLP multi-locus markers, as well as a microsatellite library. Moreover, in a study complementing previous ATPase survey of contemporary populations, sequence data from this region was evaluated from formalin preserved adult specimens (collection dates range between 1912 and 1976). This study has shown that the common ATPase haplotype found in contemporary populations was also present among specimens collected from 1912. Further, the high prevalence of rare alleles recorded from modern Mary populations was also recorded from formalin preserved specimens. AFLP banding profiles were monomorphic; by contrast, variation detected by RAF markers identified significant patterns of substructure between catchments. Significant structure was also recorded between impounded populations and non-impounded populations. Lungfish populations have a relatively narrow range and occur within regulated fluvial systems. Habitat degradation is implicated in reduction of spawning sites. Combined with low juvenile recruitment these effects greatly reduce the effective population size. The phyletic age of this species, in conjunction with low genetic diversity greatly increases its vulnerability to environmental change or novel diseases. In accordance with the World Conservation Union (IUCN), genetic diversity is one of three recognised levels requiring conservation.
Nature de la réforme constitutionnelle de 1999 au Venezuela
Creators: name: Robert-Meunier, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Venezuela
Chavez
1999
réforme constitutionnelle
Constitution
Bolivar
bolivarienne
bolivarien
démocratie
référendum
MVR
1998
Mouvement cinquième république
Hugo Chavez
changements
AD
COPEI
Accion Democratica
Comité de organizacion politica electoral independiente
modernité
démocratique
LeBot
Kriegel
droits
droits politiques
refondation
modernisation
étape de la modernité
alternance
partis traditionnels
Punto Fijo
puntofijisme
révolution
1811
1958
1961
pacte
démocratie pactisée
consociativisme
souveraineté
fondation
indépendance
autodétermination

description: Depuis la prise du pouvoir au Venezuela par le Mouvement Cinquième République (MVR) et son leader Hugo Chávez en 1998, ainsi que par l'implantation d'une nouvelle constitution en 1999, la face du pays a changé au plan politique. Alors que plusieurs chercheurs s’attardent à analyser les conditions ayant impulsé ces changements politiques, très peu tentent réellement d’en clarifier la nature intrinsèque. Ce que nous suggérons, c’est que la fin du monopole d’alternance au pouvoir entre les deux grands partis traditionnels (AD et COPEI) en 1998, puis l’implantation de la Constitution bolivarienne en 1999, ont fait entrer le Venezuela dans une nouvelle étape de la modernité. Cette nouvelle étape prendrait assise sur une extension des droits politiques, eux-mêmes devenus le socle de la démocratie. La conséquence de cela serait une refondation du politique inspirée des idéaux républicains promus lors de la fondation du pays en 1811 : la souveraineté et l’autodétermination.
The Formula 1 Championship Game. Spreadsheets Simulators.
Creators: name: Febres, Gerardo L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10206 Operations Research
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 10303 Optimisation

description: The files here contained serve as the basis to play the Formula 1 Championship Game. The game mimics a F1 championship comprising five races (maybe more in the future).The simulations consist of computing the time circuit-lap for the conjunction of the car model, and its performance improved conditions. The simulation allows varying the quantity of fuel loaded before the completion of a segment of laps is run. Currently in the actual Formula 1 races, no refueling is permitted. However, in this game we split the race into two or three stints to let each team refuel the car. Another difference with the real case is that we do not include in these simulations the change of tires. Maybe in the future a variant to the game is added to require the change of tires.The documents included are:1. A Spanish written document describing the conditions of the championship celebrated during year 2019..2. A packed file containing five circuit models developed over spreadsheets. One for each Grand Prix of the championship.
Option Pricing with Long Memory Stochastic Volatility Models
Creators: name: Tong, Zhigang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Long Memory
Option Pricing
Stochastic Volatility

description: In this thesis, we propose two continuous time stochastic volatility models with long memory that generalize two existing models. More importantly, we provide analytical formulae that allow us to study option prices numerically, rather than by means of simulation. We are not aware about analytical results in continuous time long memory case. In both models, we allow for the non-zero correlation between the stochastic volatility and stock price processes. We numerically study the effects of long memory on the option prices. We show that the fractional integration parameter has the opposite effect to that of volatility of volatility parameter in short memory models. We also find that long memory models have the potential to accommodate the short term options and the decay of volatility skew better than the corresponding short memory stochastic volatility models.
PPA diagnosis (Europa et al., 2020)
Creators: name: Europa, Eduardo
name: Iaccarino, Leonardo
name: Perry, David C.
name: Weis, Elizabeth
name: Welch, Ariane E.
name: Rabinovici, Gil D.
name: Miller, Bruce L.
name: Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa
name: Henry, Maya L.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Language
subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose: Diagnosis and classification of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) requires confirmation of specific speech and language symptoms, highlighting the important role of speech-language pathologists in the evaluation process. The purpose of this case report is to inform speech-language pathologists regarding current practices for diagnostic assessment in PPA, describing standard approaches as well as complementary, state-of-the-art procedures that may improve diagnostic precision.Method: We describe the diagnostic evaluation of a 49-year-old woman with complaints of progressive word-finding difficulty. She completed standard neurological, neuropsychological, and speech-language evaluations, as well as magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography imaging of her brain. In addition, a history of developmental speech, language, and learning abilities was obtained, as well as genetic testing and assessment of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers. We discuss the evaluation results in the context of the most current research related to PPA diagnosis.Conclusion: Detailed behavioral assessment, thorough intake of symptom history and neurodevelopmental differences, multimodal neuroimaging, and comprehensive examination of genes and biomarkers are of paramount importance for detecting and characterizing PPA, with ramifications for early behavioral and/or pharmacological intervention.
Supplemental Material S1. Supplemental methods.
Europa, E., Iaccarino, L., Perry, D. C., Weis, E., Welch, A. E., Rabinovici, G. D., Miller, B. L., Gorno-Tempini, M. L., & Henry, M. L. (2020). Diagnostic assessment in primary progressive aphasia: An illustrative case example. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00007
How will social media affect museum communication?
Creators: name: Russo, Angelina
name: Watkins, Jerry
name: Kelly, Lynda
name: Chan, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across broad online social networks. Museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, wikis and vlogs to engage online participants with new interactive experiences. This represents a shift in the ways in which museums: act as trusted cultural online networks; distribute community knowledge; and view their role as custodians of cultural content. It is this broader distribution of community knowledge which sets social media technologies apart from more traditional outreach models where museums work with audiences. As the products of social media are readily available online, their existence within museum communication programs presents debate around an institution’s investment in its own continuing cultural authority. This paper will investigate some of the issues surrounding the use of social media in museum programs and will argue that there are strong epistemological reasons for social media to add value to museum programs.
Blood flow during passive leg movement: impact of vascular disease and nitrate supplements
Creators: name: Walker, Meegan A
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: peripheral arterial disease
vasoactive enzymes
nitric oxide
oxidative stress
inorganic nitrate
beetroot juice
endothelial function
arterial stiffness
cardiovascular risk

description: Blood flow is regulated by finely tuned vessel dilation and constriction, which is primarily influenced by vasoactive moderators released from the endothelial cells (Hellsten, Nyberg, Jensen, & Mortensen, 2012). Endothelial function is intricately linked to the bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) (Green, Dawson, Groenewoud, Jones, & Thijssen, 2014), which, in turn, is determined by the balance between NO production (from endothelial nitric oxide synthase and nitrite) and NO consumption (by metabolic reactions and inactivation by reactive oxygen species) (Bredt, 1999b; Lundberg & Weitzberg, 2005; Selemidis, 2008). Nitric oxide has a short half-life, a few milliseconds when in close proximity to other bioreactants (Thomas, Liu, Kantrow, & Lancaster, 2001), making it difficult to measure. Two techniques to assess NO-dependent endothelial function are passive leg movement hyperaemia and flow mediated dilatation (FMD) (Gifford & Richardson, 2017; Thijssen, Black, et al., 2011). Passive leg movement hyperaemia is a novel technique, where the blood flow response appears to be highly dependent on NO bioavailability (Mortensen, Askew, Walker, Nyberg, & Hellsten, 2012; Trinity et al., 2012). In peripheral arterial disease (PAD), conduit vessel blood flow may be limited by atherosclerotic lesions, but there is evidence that endothelial dysfunction also contributes to poor muscle blood flow (Boger & BodeBoger, 1997), and this suggests that NO bioavailability is low. The passive leg movement technique may help characterise blood flow impairment in PAD, providing insight to the underlying pathophysiology.
On the origin of anomalous velocity clouds in the milky way
Creators: name: Connors, Tim W.
name: Kawata, Daisuke
name: Bailin, Jeremy
name: Tumlinson, Jason
name: Gibson, Brad K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report that neutral hydrogen (H I) gas clouds, resembling high-velocity clouds (HVCs) observed in the Milky Way (MW), appear in MW-sized disk galaxies formed in high-resolution Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmological simulations that include gas dynamics, radiative cooling, star formation, supernova feedback, and metal enrichment. Two such disk galaxies are analyzed, and H I column density and velocity distributions in allsky Aitoff projections are constructed. The simulations demonstrate that ΛCDM is able to create galaxies with sufficient numbers of anomalous velocity gas clouds consistent with the HVCs observed within the MW, and that they are found within a galactocentric radius of 150 kpc. We also find that one of the galaxies has a polar gas ring with radius 30 kpc that appears as a large structure of HVCs in the Aitoff projection. Such large structures may have an origin similar to that of extended HVCs observed in the MW, such as Complex C.
BC-Ereignisse: Wachsende Bedeutung der Forensik
Creators: name: Reiners, Sophie
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2025
Subjects: Forensic investigations
Forensic sciences
CHEMICAL WEAPONS (WEAPON TECHNOLOGY)
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS + BACTERIOLOGICAL WEAPONS (WEAPON TECHNOLOGY)

description: CSS Analysen zur Sicherheitspolitik, 358
description: ISSN:2296-0236
Fever Narrative in the Fiction of Charles Dickens
Creators: name: Smith, Ralph
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Dickens
sanitary reform
nineteenth-century public health
narrative

description: This thesis argues that what it terms fever narratives figure prominently in Charles Dickens’s fiction. Fever was regarded not as a symptom but as a generic disease that had sub-species, such as cholera, smallpox, typhus and typhoid, and that presented itself through devastating epidemics that frightened the public and drove the government to enact public health legislation. The core elements of the fever narrative – such as fever’s cause, pathology, treatment and prevention – were still not clearly understood. This inevitably heightened public anxiety and frustration, particularly given lengthy delays in the bureaucratic processes of Parliament and local governments in dealing with fever’s perennial threat. The politically favoured sanitarian narrative influenced Dickens significantly. Sanitarians believed that water and sewer projects in urban localities and improved sanitary practices would prevent most diseases. However, Dickens was influenced also by an alternative approach that this thesis calls the “medical narrative,” comprising a more holistic vision of public health, reliant on improved treatments, greater medical professionalism, and specialized hospitals, in addition to sanitary reform. Dickens’s 1840s novels reflected both approaches, but he emphasized the medical narrative in portrayals of the fevers of individual characters. In the 1850s, the predominant focus of fever narratives in Dickens’s journals and novels became fever of the social body – fever that figuratively infected English institutions or the country as a whole. Dickens’s fever narratives became progressively darker during these two decades and, with each novel onward from Dombey and Son (1846-48), his representations of fever apocalypses infecting both the rich and the poor became more strident, even to the extent of suggesting that the whole institutional and economic infrastructure of the country would suffer an irrevocable blow. The thesis argues that Dickens presented these minatory scenes of vengeance in response to what he perceived as the blindness of the middle class to the condition of the sick and poor of England. This reached a climax with “Revolutionary fever” in A Tale of Two Cities (1859). The thesis presents a final argument that Dickens’s stories of the early 1860s and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) provided both a continuation of and a denouement for the two previous decades’ fever narratives, by offering a view of the dust of corpse upon corpse of those who were mowed down by fever, and of a river polluted by this dust. However, he foresees also the possibility of the fundamental regeneration of a more humane physical, social and institutional environment in England.
Challenges of Coal Transitions
Creators: name: Wehnert, Timon
name: Andreeva, Tatiana
name: Fekete, Hanna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Minderungspotenzial
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: Treibhausgas
subject: Emissionsminderung
subject: coal mining
subject: coal use
subject: Indonesia
subject: Colombia
subject: Viet Nam
subject: Vietnam
subject: Paris Agreement
subject: adaptation and mitigation strategies
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Today more than 45 % of all energy-related ⁠CO2⁠ emissions come from burning coal. Thus, reducing CO2 emissions from coal use is a necessity for reaching the targets of the Paris Agreement. This will not only pose challenges for coal consumers (restructuring of the energy system), but also for countries whose economy is strongly depending on the production of coal.This paper examines the role of coal in three countries, which are or were in recent years among the top coal exporters: Indonesia, Colombia and Vietnam. Understanding challenges and possible transition pathways in these countries will help to develop global strategies to reduce CO2 emissions from coal in the short to mid-term.
A Fast MLP-based Learning Method and its Application to Mine Countermeasure Missions
Creators: name: Shao, Hang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Machine Learning
Mine-Like Objects Detection
Robust Learning
Sparse Learning
Multi-Layer Perceptrons

description: In this research, a novel machine learning method is designed and applied to Mine Countermeasure Missions. Similarly to some kernel methods, the proposed approach seeks to compute a linear model from another higher dimensional feature space. However, no kernel is used and the feature mapping is explicit. Computation can be done directly in the accessible feature space. In the proposed approach, the feature projection is implemented by constructing a large hidden layer, which differs from traditional belief that Multi-Layer Perceptron is usually funnel-shaped and the hidden layer is used as feature extractor. The proposed approach is a general method that can be applied to various problems. It is able to improve the performance of the neural network based methods and the learning speed of support vector machine. The classification speed of the proposed approach is also faster than that of kernel machines on the mine countermeasure mission task.
B and C Incidents: The Growing Importance of Forensics
Creators: name: Reiners, Sophie
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2025
Subjects: CHEMICAL WEAPONS (WEAPON TECHNOLOGY)
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS + BACTERIOLOGICAL WEAPONS (WEAPON TECHNOLOGY)
Forensic investigations
Forensic sciences

description: CSS Analyses in Security Policy, 358
description: ISSN:2296-0244
Massimo Carlotto, The Black Album. Il Noir tra cronaca e romanzo. Conversazione con Marco Amici
Creators: name: Pasolini, Anna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Massimo Carlotto, The Black Album. Il Noir tra cronaca e romanzo. Conversazione con Marco Amici
(Roma, Carocci, 2012, pp. 138. ISBN 978-88-430-6568-4)
di Anna Pasolini
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Diari e memorie degli emigranti italiani arruolati nella Legione straniera francese
Creators: name: Rinauro, Sandro
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Since the Seventies, Italian and international historiographies on Italian foreign migration have recourse to the subjective sources as letters, interviews, memoirs, diaries, literature and songs. The present writing relates to the memoirs of the Italian migrants who served in the French Foreign Legion during the XX century. In fact, the enrolment in the Legion was the last device to avoid repatriation in front of the most difficult conditions faced by migrants. The first candidates for the Legion among Italians migrants were, during the Thirties, the ";fuorusciti";, the voluntaries of the international brigades defeated at the war of Spain and especially the Italians menaced of repatriation because of unemployment. Many of them volunteered to obtain naturalization and free access in the French labour market. During the Second World War Italian prisoners of war in French ands enlisted in the Legion to escape the terrible conditions of the camps. Just after the end of the war political and common criminals volunteered, but the most part of the Italians engaged were the clandestine migrants to France who accepted to serve in the Legion to avoid prison and repatriation. Their destiny was to fight in the bloody war of Indochina and in the war of Algeria. Here I present seven memoirs of Italians migrants survived to their service in the Legion, fours of them served between the Thirties and the Second World War and three participated in the wars of Indochina and Algeria.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Italy: political instability? Real or perceived?
Creators: name: Mascitelli, Bruno
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Italy experienced a political system during the post war period which many have defined as a 'particracy' of a 'polarised' kind. This produced a permanent one party government (run by the Christian Democracy) along with a one party opposition (the Italian Communist Party). There was no alternation in government which subsequently brought on other difficulties not to mention a 'deficit in democracy'. The system was defined by some as being 'blocked'. With the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the political crisis which followed soon after (in 1992-94), changes occurred to the Italian political process. Traditional parties that had dominated the political process ceased to exist or radically changed. New parties emerged including Forza Italia, the party of the current Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Corruption revelations uncovered a systemic wholesale level of political corruption cutting across most parties and factions. Changes occurred as a result of these new political developments. In part there were specific reforms to the political machinery such as electoral reform. In addition the political culture changed which began to see a bi-polar political alternation of centre left versus centre right. Did these changes produce a different, more stable Italy? Were these changes of a kind which produced a new political system, a new republic? Have the fundamental weakness of the Italian political system been overcome?
Characterization of HLA Class I antigens on platelets as integral or adsorbed membrane proteins.
Creators: name: Hogan, Victoria.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: To determine whether HLA-A,B antigens on platelets are integral membrane constituents or simply represent adsorbed plasma proteins, the degree to which they are adsorbed, and the relative ease with which they elute off platelet membranes was studied using various treatments known to elute passively adsorbed membrane proteins. In addition, this question was investigated at the RNA level using phytohemagglutinin stimulation to determine whether platelets have the capacity to respond with de-novo synthesis of HLA antigens and by enzymatic amplification of platelet derived mRNA to attempt to demonstrate the presence of nascent message encoding for these antigens. HLA antigen present on platelet membranes did not elute when platelets were incubated in autologous plasma or in plasma from homologous, antigen negative donors. When HLA-A2 negative platelets were incubated in HLA-A2 positive plasma a small amount of HLA-A2 antigen was detectable indicating that platelets possess the ability, to a limited extent, to absorb HLA antigen from the plasma, in vitro. The results indicate that the majority of HLA antigen present on platelet membranes can be selectively eluted without a concomitant loss of known integral membrane proteins such as GPIIIa. These findings argue in favor of the existent hypothesis that HLA antigens are absorbed platelet membrane proteins. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)