cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Faith, Fiction, and Fame: Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables
Creators: name: Patchell, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: McClung, Nellie
Montgomery, L.M.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
Anne of Green Gables
Christian
Methodism
Protestantism
Presbyterianism
Evangelicalism
Revivals
Worldview
Typology
Secularism
Romanticism
Manitoba
Prince Edward Island
Eugenics
Imperialism
Maternal feminism
Racism
Biblical literacy
Sunday-School Fiction
Didacticism
Idealism
Temperance
Presentism

description: In 1908, two Canadian women published first novels that became instant best-sellers. Nellie McClung's Sowing Seeds in Danny initially outsold Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, but by 1965 McClung's book had largely disappeared from Canadian consciousness. The popularity of Anne, on the other hand, has continued to the present, and Anne has received far more academic and critical attention, especially since 1985. It is only recently that Anne of Green Gables has been criticized for its ideology in the same manner as Sowing Seeds in Danny. The initial question that inspired this dissertation was why Sowing Seeds in Danny disappeared from public and critical awareness while Anne of Green Gables continued to sell well to the present day and to garner critical and popular attention into the twenty-first century. In light of the fact that both books have in recent years come under condemnation and stand charged with maternal feminism, imperial motherhood, eugenics, and racism, one must ask further why this has now happened to both Danny and Anne. What has changed? The hypothesis of the dissertation is that Danny's relatively speedy disappearance was partly due to a shift in Canadians' religious worldview over the twentieth century as church attendance and biblical literacy gradually declined. McClung's rhetorical strategies look back to the dominant Protestantism of the nineteenth century, in contrast to Montgomery's, which look forward to the twentieth-century's waning of religious faith. Although there is enough Christianity in Montgomery's novel to have made it acceptable to her largely Christian reading public at the beginning of the century, its presentation is subtle enough that it does not disturb or baffle a twenty-first-century reader in the way McClung's does. McClung's novel is so forthright in its presentation of Christianity, with its use of nineteenth-century tropes and conventions and with its moralising didacticism, that the delightful aspects of the novel were soon lost to an increasingly secular reading public. Likewise, the recent critical challenges to both novels spring from a worldview at odds with the predominantly Christian worldview of 1908. The goal of the dissertation has been to read Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables within the religious contexts of a 1908 reader in order to avoid an unquestioning twenty-first-century censure of these novels, and to ascertain the reasons for their divergent popularity and recent critical condemnation.
TransCom N2O model inter-comparison - Part 2: Atmospheric inversion estimates of N2O emissions
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Atmosphärenchemie
Emission
Distickstoffoxid

description: This study examines N2O emission estimates from five different atmospheric inversion frameworks based on chemistry transport models (CTMs). The five frameworks differ in the choice of CTM, meteorological data, prior uncertainties and inversion method but use the same prior emissions and observation data set. The posterior modelled atmospheric N2O mole fractions are compared to observations to assess the performance of the inversions and to help diagnose problems in the modelled transport. Additionally, the mean emissions for 2006 to 2008 are compared in terms of the spatial distribution and seasonality. Overall, there is a good agreement among the inversions for the mean global total emission, which ranges from 16.1 to 18.7 TgN yrg^'1 and is consistent with previous estimates. Ocean emissions represent between 31 and 38% of the global total compared to widely varying previous estimates of 24 to 38%. Emissions from the northern mid- to high latitudes are likely to be more important, with a consistent shift in emissions from the tropics and subtropics to the mid- to high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere; the emission ratio for 0-30˚ N to 30-90˚ N ranges from 1.5 to 1.9 compared with 2.9 to 3.0 in previous estimates. The largest discrepancies across inversions are seen for the regions of South and East Asia and for tropical and South America owing to the poor observational constraint for these areas and to considerable differences in the modelled transport, especially inter-hemispheric exchange rates and tropical convective mixing. Estimates of the seasonal cycle in N2O emissions are also sensitive to errors in modelled stratosphere-to-troposphere transport in the tropics and southern extratropics. Overall, the results show a convergence in the global and regional emissions compared to previous independent studies.©Author(s) 2014. Quelle: http://www.scopus.com
A conceptual framework on the relationship between nation brand perception and donation behaviour
Creators: name: Helmi, Jessica
name: Mulyanegara, Riza Casidy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Over the past two decades, the topic of nation brands has attracted the interest of academics, researchers, and policy markers alike. This study developed a conceptual framework of donation behaviour with nation brand perceptions as a mediating variable between donation motives and donation behaviour. The framework proposes that people's perception of a nation's brand will have significant implications on the willingness and extent of contribution to a charitable cause associated with the nation. The brand image of charitable organisations is proposed to moderate the relationship between nation brand perception and donation behaviour. The study also proposed that integrated marketing communications will significantly affect the perception of nation brands and the brand image of the charitable organisations. The paper concludes by discussing the practical and theoretical implications of the study.
cIAP2 Negatively Regulates Proliferation and Tumourigenesis by Repressing IKK Activity and Maintaining p53 Function
Creators: name: Lau, Rosanna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Inhibitor of apoptosis
Cancer
Cell signaling
p53

description: The cellular inhibitor of apoptosis protein (cIAP)-2 plays an important role in the protection against apoptosis by inhibiting the endogenous IAP inhibitor Smac, thus allowing other members of the IAP family, such as XIAP to block caspases. Additionally, cIAP2 functions as a ubiquitin ligase and mediates survival/proliferative signaling through NF-κB. cIAP2 is overexpressed in many human cancers and is believed to play an oncogenic role. This led to the development of small molecule IAP antagonists aimed at eliciting apoptosis in cancer cells. However, the loss of cIAP2 is also associated with multiple myeloma, in which constitutively active NF-κB signaling contributes to pathogenesis of the disease and suggests that cIAP2 may also perform a tumour suppressive function. We demonstrate a novel role for cIAP2 in maintaining p53 levels in mammary epithelial cells that express wildtype p53. Downregulation of cIAP2 resulted in activation of IKKs, which led to increased Mdm2-mediated degradation of p53. cIAP2 depletion also led to increased phosphorylation of ERK1/2. Reduction of p53 levels, in combination with survival signaling provided by NF-κB and MEK-ERK pathways were associated with increased colony formation in vitro and increased DMBA-induced adenocarcinomas in cIAP2-null mice. Treatment of cells with IAP antagonists resulted in significant cytotoxicity only in p53-mutant MDA-MB-231 cells, which was associated with autocrine production of TNF-α. We propose that the transcription of TNF-α is potentiated by gain-of-function mutation in p53 since downregulation of mutant p53 in MDA-MB-231 cells decreased TNF-α mRNA. Downregulation of cIAPs in p53-mutant cells resulted in a decrease in nuclear IKK-α, which may result in decreased IKK-α-mediated survival signaling. In contrast, cIAP downregulation in p53-wildtype cells resulted in no change in nuclear IKK-α, degradation of the corepressor SMRT and cell survival. We show that the effects of cIAP2 downregulation are context-dependent. Downregulation of cIAP2 in p53-wildtype cells results in a decrease in p53 and an increase in survival and proliferative signaling. These results suggest a tumour suppressor function for cIAPs that may account for cIAP mutation-associated cancers such as multiple myeloma. Moreover, our data also defines gain-of-function p53 mutation as a possible contributor to IAP antagonist sensitivity.
Parkinson's, employment & quality of life
Creators: name: Cooper, Mary-Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Parkinson’s is a progressive, neurological condition generally viewed as a disease of the elderly although a large proportion are of working age when diagnosed (15% diagnosed before age 50). Scant attention has been given to employment concerns in the Parkinson’s psychosocial literature. The aim of this research was to explore the work experience of people with Parkinson’s using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The first study comprised interviews with six individuals with Parkinson’s who were working full-time, part-time, or had recently left the workforce. Using a grounded theory approach, the role of work emerged as extremely important in maintaining social participation, a daily routine and sense of purpose. Fatigue, job demands, control, self efficacy and social support (both positive and negative) were identified as the factors most influencing the experience of people with Parkinson’s at work. The second study tested the application of the Job Strain Model (Karasek,1979) to people with Parkinson’s and incorporated these factors as work and personal characteristics specific to this population. One hundred and sixteen working Australians with Parkinson’s (age M = 53.61 years) completed an online survey in relation to their employment subsequent to diagnosis. As predicted, job demands, job control, social support from family and friends, negative social support and self-efficacy were associated with depression. It was hypothesised that, after controlling for age, disease severity and fatigue, the constructs of job demands, job control, self-efficacy and social support (both positive and negative) would predict quality of life and depression. The hypothesis was only partially supported with job demands and self-efficacy emerging as predictors of depression. Self-efficacy buffered the effects of job demands on depression but, contrary to the second and third hypotheses, no other interactive effects were evident. This version of the Job Strain Model adapted to people with Parkinson’s did not fully explain the employment experience of this population but emerged as a valuable tool for future research. The occurrence of depression in people with Parkinson’s who were working was much lower than that found generally in Parkinson’s populations. It was concluded that interventions to improve and maintain employment for people with Parkinson’s need to be targeted at increasing self-efficacy rather than decreasing job demands.
Additional file 4 of Temporal trends in behavioral risk and protective factors and their association with mortality rates: results from Brazil and Argentina
Creators: name: Santos, Leonardo Pozza
name: Meller, Fernanda De Oliveira
name: Amann, Valeria Romina
name: Antônio Augusto Schäfer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary figure 4. Prevalence of physical activity in Argentina according to geographical regions and stratified by gender.
La dualité linguistique en Colombie-Britannique : représentations de la francophonie dans trois programmes d'enseignement du français
Creators: name: Letendre, Simon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Colombie-Britannique
dualité linguistique
enseignement
français langue seconde
francophonie
immersion française
représentations

description: Vers la fin des années 1960, dans la foulée des travaux de la Commission royale d’enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme, le gouvernement fédéral a entrepris de financer les provinces pour les aider à assumer les coûts supplémentaires associés à l’enseignement de la langue seconde et à l’instruction dans la langue officielle minoritaire. En tant que politique identitaire, le Programme de bilinguisme en éducation visait à promouvoir la dualité linguistique à travers le pays et à favoriser le rapprochement entre les anglophones et les francophones. Plus de 40 ans plus tard, la représentation de la francophonie qui est véhiculée dans le curriculum des programmes de français mis en place grâce à ce financement peut-elle contribuer à l’atteinte de ces objectifs? Notre étude, qui s’appuie sur la théorie des représentations sociales, propose de répondre à cette question en comparant la représentation de la francophonie qui prévaut dans trois programmes de niveau primaire et secondaire offerts en Colombie-Britannique : français langue seconde en immersion, français de base et français langue première. Notre analyse de contenu démontre que la représentation de la francophonie qui est véhiculée dans ces trois programmes se situe à la jonction entre trois discours : un discours communautaire, qui est dominant, un discours utilitaire ou instrumental et un discours interculturel. Par ailleurs, il ressort que le programme de français langue seconde en immersion est le plus propice à créer un dialogue entre les communautés de langue française et de langue anglaise.
Supplementary document for Retinal adaptive optics imaging with a pyramid wavefront sensor - 5401116.pdf
Creators: name: Brunner, Elisabeth
name: Shatokhina, Julia
name: Shirazi, Muhammad Faizan
name: Drexler, Wolfgang
name: Leitgeb, Rainer
name: Pollreisz, Andreas
name: Hitzenberger, Christoph
name: Ramlau, Ronny
name: Pircher, Michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement
Mob Politics: The Political Influence of the Circus Factions in the Eastern Empire from the Reign of Leo I to Heraclius (457-641)
Creators: name: Main, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Rome
Circus Factions
Factions
Constantinople
imperial ceremonies
eastern empire
riots
hippodrome
chariot racing
militias
Byzantine
Byzantium

description: This paper seeks to continue the research started by scholars such as W. Liebeschuetz and P. Bell in order to challenge the traditional argument put forth by Al. Cameron, namely that the circus factions did not have a political role in society. The objective of this study is to examine the political importance of the circus factions from the reign of Anastasius (491-518) to Heraclius (610-641). Furthermore, it explores the political motivations behind the factions’ violent behaviour, the evidence for their involvement in the military, and their role in accession ceremonies. The methodology includes establishing a typology for sixth century riots, an examination of the hippodrome and its role as a medium between people and emperor, tracing the shift in the focus of imperial ideology, and a re-evaluation of the primary sources, with a focus on the literary and epigraphic evidence, to determine if there was a political aspect to the factions. The study concludes that Cameron did undervalue the factions’ political importance and outlines the conditions that were influential in their rise in importance.
Additional file 2 of High-resolution habitat suitability model for Phlebotomus pedifer, the vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in southwestern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Pareyn, Myrthe
name: Rutten, Anneleen
name: Behailu Merdekios
name: Wedegärtner, Ronja E. M.
name: Nigatu Girma
name: Regelbrugge, Leo
name: Shibru, Simon
name: Leirs, Herwig
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Percent variable contribution and jackknife estimates indicating the most important variables for the model. Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; Tmean, mean temperature; Pseas, precipitation seasonality; EVIdry, enhanced vegetation index in the dry season; Pdry, precipitation in the driest months; Pmean, mean precipitation; Cliffs, ordinal categorical values indicating cliffs between 20–40% and above 40%; EVIwet, enhanced vegetation index in the wet season.
The importance of airway and lung microbiome in the critically ill
Creators: name: Martin-Loeches, Ignacio
name: Dickson, Robert
name: Torres, Antoni
name: Hanberger, Håkan
name: Lipman, Jeffrey
name: Antonelli, Massimo
name: De Pascale, Gennaro
name: Bozza, Fernando
name: Vincent, Jean L
name: Murthy, Srinivas
name: Bauer, Michael
name: Marshall, John
name: Cilloniz, Catia
name: Bos, Lieuwe D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: During critical illness, there are a multitude of forces such as antibiotic use, mechanical ventilation, diet changes and inflammatory responses that could bring the microbiome out of balance. This so-called dysbiosis of the microbiome seems to be involved in immunological responses and may influence outcomes even in individuals who are not as vulnerable as a critically ill ICU population. It is therefore probable that dysbiosis of the microbiome is a consequence of critical illness and may, subsequently, shape an inadequate response to these circumstances. Bronchoscopic studies have revealed that the carina represents the densest site of bacterial DNA along healthy airways, with a tapering density with further bifurcations. This likely reflects the influence of micro-aspiration as the primary route of microbial immigration in healthy adults. Though bacterial DNA density grows extremely sparse at smaller airways, bacterial signal is still consistently detectable in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, likely reflecting the fact that lavage via a wedged bronchoscope samples an enormous surface area of small airways and alveoli. The dogma of lung sterility also violated numerous observations that long predated culture-independent microbiology. The body’s resident microbial consortia (gut and/or respiratory microbiota) affect normal host inflammatory and immune response mechanisms. Disruptions in these host-pathogen interactions have been associated with infection and altered innate immunity. In this narrative review, we will focus on the rationale and current evidence for a pathogenic role of the lung microbiome in the exacerbation of complications of critical illness, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Bill C-25 The Truth in Sentencing Act: An Examination of the Implementation of Criminal Law by the Canadian Judiciary under Challenging Circumstances
Creators: name: Gallant, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sentencing
Judges
Judge
Resistance
Judicial Resistance
Tough on crime
policy
criminal justice
evaluation

description: In Canada, we regularly incarcerate accused persons while they are still legally innocent. By the turn of the century, the growing number of accused held in pre-sentence custody had become a concern for provincial/territorial governments, and, by extension, the federal government. In an effort to address the problem, Bill C-25 - ‘The Truth in Sentencing Act’ - was passed into law. Adopting a quantitative as well as qualitative methodology, this study uses a randomly selected sample of 110 cases to examine the implementation of Bill C-25 as a case study of how Canadian judges respond to legislation which likely created friction between the political and judicial social spheres. Analyses suggest that there is strong evidence to support the notion that judges did not fully implement the legislation as intended by the federal government. Instead, it appears that judges may have been motivated to resist the implementation of Bill C-25 in order to protect fundamental principles of justice that were ignored in the drafting of the new law.
Scheitern der Reform des Emissionshandels
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: Im April lehnte das Europäische Parlament den Vorschlag der EU-Kommission ab, vorübergehend CO2-Emissionszertifikate vom Markt zu nehmen, um so den Preisverfall für Emissionsrechte zu stoppen und Anreize für die Industrie, in klimafreundliche Technologien zu investieren, zu setzen. Steht die Reform des europäischen Emissionshandels endgültig vor dem Scheitern? Nach Ansicht von Hans-Jürgen Nantke, Umweltbundesamt, ist der Emissionshandel ein sehr effizientes Klimaschutzinstrument. Wie effizient, hänge allerdings vom politischen Willen für ambitionierte Ziele zur Kohlendioxidminderung ab, und daran hapere es derzeit in der EU. In den bisherigen beiden Handelsperioden seien die emissionshandelspflichtigen Unternehmen zu großzügig mit weitestgehend kostenlosen Emissionsberechtigungen ausgestattet worden, so dass von diesem Preissignal kein spürbarer Anreiz für Investitionen in zusätzliche Klimaschutzmaßnahmen ausgehen konnte. Alfred Endres und Frederik Schaff, FernUniversität Hagen, sehen es aus umweltökonomischer Sicht als sinnvoll an, den durch Vergabe von Emissionszertifikaten gesteckten Rahmen der Klima belastenden Emissionen zu verengen. Durch das Backloading wäre aber nur eine Verschiebung des Problems zu erwarten. Die Chancen wären besser, wenn man sich entschlossen hätte, die Emissionsrechte unwiderruflich aus dem Markt zu nehmen. Aber dafür fehle den verantwortlichen Politiker(inne)n die Willenskraft. Auch für Till Requate, Universität Kiel, bedeutet das Backloading nur einen kurzatmigen ordnungspolitischen Eingriff, der das Problem des reformbedürftigen unkoordinierten Nebeneinanders europäischer, nationaler und regionaler Energiepolitik nicht löst. Dem Klimaziel helfen würde nur eine langfristige Verringerung der Menge an Emissionszertifikaten. Es wäre vernünftig, das EU ETS mit anderen Emissionshandelssystemen zu verknüpfen.
Quelle: http://ideas.repec.org
Making Dying Better: Envisioning a Meaningful Death by Contemplating the Assisted Death
Creators: name: Herington, Thomas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: right to die
assisted dying
assisted suicide
death
dying
subjectivity
becoming
techniques of the self
Spirituality
Others

description: The contemporary juridico-political and bioethical debate over physician assisted dying has emerged as one of the most divisive of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Commonly strained through Western conceptions of individual rights and near ubiquitous calls for the respect an abstractly defined human dignity, popular discourse on assisted dying tends to promote universal understandings of both human beings as well as ethical, legal, moral action. This thesis, however, holds these debates in abeyance preferring rather to explore the ways in which the possibility of an assisted death creates a more meaningful dying space for many Canadian advocates. And though I cannot answer for everyone, for many of the 24 individuals I spent months interviewing, “hanging out” with and generally following around to various meetings/training sessions, the assisted death is not some nihilistic response to the suffering of our materially bounded/feeling bodies, but a contemporary recurrence of a deeply spiritual, relational and artful dying.
Supplementary document for Modeling of UV diffused-LOS communication channel incorporating obstacle and its applicability analysis - 5401407.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Tianfeng
name: Yang, Fang
name: Song, Jian
name: Ma, Jianshe
name: Ping, Su
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Modeling of UV diffused-LOS communication channel incorporating obstacle and its applicability analysis: supplemental document
Predicting Disease Vector Distributions Through Space and Time Using Environmental and Vector Control Data
Creators: name: Acheson, Emily
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: mosquito
statistical model
insecticide-treated net
disease vector

description: Within this thesis, I performed a systematic review of approaches to broad-scale modelling of disease vector distributions and determined the most widely used methods predict current species niches and project the models forward under future climate scenarios without temporal validation. I then provided a forward-looking summary of emerging techniques to improve the reliability and transferability of those models, including historical calibration. I then predicted Anopheles mosquito distributions across Tanzania in 2001 (before large-scale ITN distributions) and compared this model with countrywide ITN use by 2012 to assess where the most suitable mosquito habitats were located and whether ITN rollouts in Tanzania ensured coverage of such areas. I concluded that ITNs in Tanzania did not optimally target areas most at risk of malaria. In doing so, I provided a new approach to monitoring and evaluating vector control interventions across large spatial scales.
Guest editorial
Creators: name: Bedawi, Saba
name: Bossio, Diana
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As we are writing this editorial, thousands of Egyptian men and women are protesting on the streets of Cairo, opposed to President Mohammad Morsi's assumption of sweeping political power in the country's draft constitution. The sometimes violent scenes - reminiscent of the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 -are being played out across the world on computer screens, tablets and social media.
Übersicht zur Entwicklung der energiebedingten Emissionen und Brennstoffeinsätze in Deutschland 1990 - 2020
Creators: name: Drosihn, Detlef
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Energiebedingte Emissionen
subject: Luftschadstoff
subject: Emission
subject: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
subject: Brennstoffeinsatz
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Die Publikation zeigt anhand von Schaubildern die Entwicklung energiebedingter Brennstoffeinsätze und Emissionen von Treibhausgasen und Luftschadstoffen im Zeitverlauf von 1990 bis 2020. Durch die Corona-Pandemie ist der Ausstoß im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich zurückgegangen. Aber auch der Trend bei den Treibhausgasen insgesamt ist rückläufig, die Entwicklung der einzelnen Sektoren ist jedoch sehr unterschiedlich. Außer dem Verkehrssektor haben sich die Brennstoffeinsätze aller Sektoren seit 1990 teilweise deutlich gemindert. Diese Entwicklung spiegelt sich auch bei den energiebedingten Emissionen von Treibhausgasen und Luftschadstoffen wider. Die Publikation erscheint jährlich mit aktualisierten Zahlen aus der Emissionsberichterstattung des UBA. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Publikation zeigt anhand von Schaubildern die Entwicklung energiebedingter Brennstoffeinsätze und Emissionen von Treibhausgasen und Luftschadstoffen im Zeitverlauf von 1990 bis 2020. Durch die Corona-Pandemie ist der Ausstoß im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich zurückgegangen. Aber auch der Trend bei den Treibhausgasen insgesamt ist rückläufig, die Entwicklung der einzelnen Sektoren ist jedoch sehr unterschiedlich. Außer dem Verkehrssektor haben sich die Brennstoffeinsätze aller Sektoren seit 1990 teilweise deutlich gemindert. Diese Entwicklung spiegelt sich auch bei den energiebedingten Emissionen von Treibhausgasen und Luftschadstoffen wider.Die Publikation erscheint jährlich mit aktualisierten Zahlen aus der Emissionsberichterstattung des ⁠UBA⁠.
Global structure and kinematics of stellar haloes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
Creators: name: McCarthy, I. G.
name: Font, A. S.
name: Crain, R. A.
name: Deason, A. J.
name: Schaye, J.
name: Theuns, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We use the Galaxies–Intergalactic Medium Interaction Calculation (GIMIC) suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the global structure and kinematics of stellar spheroids of Milky Way mass disc galaxies. Font et al. have recently demonstrated that these simulations are able to successfully reproduce the satellite luminosity functions and the metallicity and surface brightness profiles of the spheroids of the Milky Way and M31. A key to the success of the simulations is a significant contribution to the spheroid from stars that formed in situ. While the outer halo is dominated by accreted stars, stars formed in the main progenitor of the galaxy dominate at r≲ 30 kpc. In the present study, we show that this component was primarily formed in a protodisc at high redshift and was subsequently liberated from the disc by dynamical heating associated with mass accretion. As a consequence of its origin, the in situ component of the spheroid has different kinematics (namely net prograde rotation with respect to the disc) than that of the spheroid component built from the disruption of satellites. In addition, the in situ component has a flattened distribution, which is due in part to its rotation. We make comparisons with measurements of the shape and kinematics of local galaxies, including the Milky Way and M31, and stacked observations of more distant galaxies. We find that the simulated disc galaxies have spheroids of the correct shape (oblate with a median axial ratio of ∼0.6 at radii of ≲30 kpc, but note there is significant system-to-system scatter in this quantity) and that the kinematics show evidence for two components (due to in situ versus accreted), as observed. Our findings therefore add considerable weight to the importance of dissipative processes in the formation of stellar haloes and to the notion of a ‘dual stellar halo’.
Mechanical Properties of Aerospace Composite Parts Made from Stitched Multilayer 3D Carbon Fibre Preforms
Creators: name: Audette, Scott
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: PMC
Carbon Fibre
Mechanical Properties
Mechanical Testing
RTM
Stitched Multilayer
Near Net Shape Preforms
3D Preforms

description: Producing composite parts using low-cost processes such as resin transfer moulding (RTM) has received much interest in the aerospace industry. RTM manufactured components require near net shape preforms which closely fit mould cavities. To reduce labour costs associated with composite production, automated preforming processes must be utilized. However, obtaining reproducible high quality preforms is required for manufacturing consistent high quality parts. Stitched multilayer 3D non crimp fabric preforms are well suited for automation and an investigation into quality and performance of components manufactured from these preforms is required. This thesis provides an initial evaluation of quality and mechanical properties of components made from stitched multilayer 3D non crimp fabric preforms using RTM. Similar sized flat plates of varying fibre volume fractions were manufactured to evaluate flexural modulus and strength, short beam shear strength and drop weight impact resistance of the material. Also, integral reinforced panels (IRPs) featuring a reinforcing section joined to a flat plate of varying laminating sequences were manufactured to evaluate debonding strength between sections. Optical microscopy was performed on component samples to determine quality based on void content and was found to be within acceptable limits for production composites. Flexural moduli were found to be comparable with theoretical expected values, however flexural strength was limited by the presence of transverse stitches. Short beam shear strength results showed high consistency between specimens, however were lower than comparable values found in literature. Impact specimens showed consistency among specimens, with greater damage resistance than comparable values found in literature. Determining debonding strength proved difficult as different failure modes were observed between IRPs, however, initial baseline values were acquired.
Worsening pulmonary outcomes during sex reassignment therapy in a transgender female with cystic fibrosis (CF) and asthma/allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: a case report
Creators: name: Lam, G. Y.
name: Goodwin, J.
name: Wilcox, Pearce G.
name: Quon, Bradley S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary pulmonary and extra-pulmonary disease that occurs equally in men and women. However, a difference in morbidity and mortality rates between the sexes has been long documented. Similarly, a sex-disparity in disease severity has been reported in asthma as well. Studies done to date point to estrogen as a possible cause of this sex disparity in pulmonary outcomes in both conditions. Case presentation: Here, we describe a case of a patient with CF and asthma/allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) undergoing sex reassignment therapy (male-to-female) and the negative impact it had on her lung function and frequency of pulmonary exacerbations in the context of increasing doses of exogenous estrogen. Conclusions: This case raises the possibility of a link between estrogen and worsening pulmonary outcomes and the need for further studies into transgender individuals with CF and/or asthma/ABPA as well as those undergoing high dose estrogen therapy for other indications.
Additional file 2 of Identification of multidimensional Boolean patterns in microbial communities
Creators: name: Golovko, George
name: Khanipov Kamil
name: Albayrak, Levent
name: Nia, Anna M.
name: Duarte, Renato Salomon Arroyo
name: Chumakov, Sergei
name: Fofanov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. 2 Dimensional Networks. 2D Network generated from Human Microbiome Project by Body Site.
Identifying Early Indicators of Subjective Memory Concerns in Seniors
Creators: name: Lloyd, Brittany K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Aging
Seniors
Activities of Daily Living
Cognition
Alzheimer's disease
Dementia
Vieillissement
Aînés
Activités de vie quotidienne
Maladie d'Alzheimer
Démence

description: Background: Subjective Memory Concerns (SMC) in seniors can be one of the earliest indicators of future dementia. There is a lack of research into the nature of these concerns and functional impairments. Methods: This retrospective secondary analysis gathered data from 67 healthy seniors aged 65+ using neuropsychological tests, memory concern questionnaires and daily functioning scales. Informants corroborated memory concerns and daily functioning. Participants comprised two groups: SMC if worried about their memory and Not Concerned about Memory if not. Results: People with SMC report more difficulty with word finding, remembering appointments, learning to use new equipment, and remembering details of social and personal events. Informants perceive word finding difficulties and minor problems with vocational abilities and bowel/bladder control in SMC participants. Conclusions: The SMC group primarily reports social difficulties. Further research is required to create a comprehensive list of cognitive concerns, which will ultimately improve care of the SMC population. Contexte: Les préoccupations subjectives de mémoire (PSM) chez les aînés peuvent être indicatives d’une démence future, bien qu’il existe un manque d’information sur les préoccupations et l’effet fonctionnel. Méthodes: Une analyse rétrospective secondaire de questionnaires de mémoire, de tests neuropsychologiques, et d’échelles fonctionnelles a été entreprise auprès de 67 personnes, en bonne santé, âgées de 65 ans et plus. Les aidants naturels ont pu appuyer les préoccupations cognitives et le niveau de fonctionnement chez deux groupes de participants: ceux avec préoccupations ou non. Résultats: Les participants PSM relèvent des difficultés de manque du mot, de rappel (rendez-vous, événements sociaux), et d’utilisation de nouveaux équipements. Les aidants naturels ont aussi trouvé de légères difficultés au travail et au niveau du contrôle intestinal et urinaire. Conclusions: Les PSM identifient principalement des lacunes au niveau social. Les recherches devront viser l’identification d’une liste exhaustive des préoccupations afin de pouvoir octroyer de meilleurs soins.
Additional file 1 of Chemotherapy-induced release of circulating-tumor cells into the bloodstream in collective migration units with cancer-associated fibroblasts in metastatic cancer patients
Creators: name: Nerymar Ortiz-Otero
name: Marshall, Jocelyn R.
name: Lash, Bradley
name: King, Michael R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Blood samples were collected from healthy donors where no CAFs were found.
Anisotacrus Schmiedeknecht 1913
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Anisotacrus

description: Genus Anisotacrus Schmiedeknecht, 1913
 Anisotacrus Schmiedeknecht, 1913: 2710. Type species: Mesoleius tenellus Holmgren, 1857 (= Mesoleptus bipunctatus Gravenhorst, 1829). Included by Schmiedeknecht (1913).
 Four species, An. albinotatus Kasparyan, 2007, An. iyoensis (Uchida, 1953), An. konishii Kasparyan, 2007, and An. kurilensis Kasparyan, 2007, have been recorded from Japan. In this study, I describe two new species below.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2024, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 22 New Species, pp. 39-102 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 53 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13237363
Additional file 2 of Chemotherapy-induced release of circulating-tumor cells into the bloodstream in collective migration units with cancer-associated fibroblasts in metastatic cancer patients
Creators: name: Nerymar Ortiz-Otero
name: Marshall, Jocelyn R.
name: Lash, Bradley
name: King, Michael R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Blood samples were collected from healthy donors where no CTCs were found.
Extending the Growing Hierarchical Self Organizing Maps for a Large Mixed-Attribute Dataset Using Spark MapReduce
Creators: name: Malondkar, Ameya Mohan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Self Organizing Map
Map-Reduce
Growing Hierarchical Self Organizing Map
GHSOM
SOM
Apache Spark

description: In this thesis work, we propose a Map-Reduce variant of the Growing Hierarchical Self Organizing Map (GHSOM) called MR-GHSOM, which is capable of handling mixed attribute datasets of massive size. The Self Organizing Map (SOM) has proved to be a useful unsupervised data analysis algorithm. It projects a high dimensional data onto a lower dimensional grid of neurons. However, the SOM has some limitations owing to its static structure and the incapability to mirror the hierarchical relations in the data. The GHSOM overcomes these shortcomings of the SOM by providing a dynamic structure that adapts its shape according to the input data. It is capable of growing dynamically in terms of the size of the individual neuron layers to represent data at the desired granularity as well as in depth to model the hierarchical relations in the data. However, the training of the GHSOM requires multiple passes over an input dataset. This makes it difficult to use the GHSOM for massive datasets. In this thesis work, we propose a Map-Reduce variant of the GHSOM called MR-GHSOM, which is capable of processing massive datasets. The MR-GHSOM is implemented using the Apache Spark cluster computing engine and leverages the popular Map-Reduce programming model. This enables us to exploit the usefulness and dynamic capabilities of the GHSOM even for a large dataset. Moreover, the conventional GHSOM algorithm can handle datasets with numeric attributes only. This is owing to the fact that it relies heavily on the Euclidean space dissimilarity measures of the attribute vectors. The MR-GHSOM further extends the GHSOM to handle mixed attribute - numeric and categorical - datasets. It accomplishes this by adopting the distance hierarchy approach of managing mixed attribute datasets. The proposed MR-GHSOM is thus capable of handling massive datasets containing mixed attributes. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the MR-GHSOM in terms of clustering of mixed attribute datasets, we present the results produced by the MR-GHSOM on some popular datasets. We further train our MR-GHSOM on a Census dataset containing mixed attributes and provide an analysis of the results.
Real-Time Localization of Planar Targets on Power-Constrained Devices
Creators: name: Akhoury, Sharat Saurabh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: planar target detection
power-constrained devices
feature recognition

description: In this thesis we present a method for detecting planar targets in real-time on power-constrained, or low-powered, hand-held devices such as mobile phones. We adopt the feature recognition (also referred to as feature matching) approach and employ fast-to-compute local feature descriptors to establish point correspondences. To obtain a satisfactory localization accuracy, most local feature descriptors seek a transformation of the input intensity patch that is invariant to various geometric and photometric deformations. Generally, such transformations are computationally intensive, hence are not ideal for real-time applications on limited hardware platforms. On the other hand, descriptors which are fast to compute are typically limited in their ability to provide invariance to a vast range of deformations. To address these shortcomings, we have developed a learning-based approach which can be applied to any local feature descriptor to increase the system’s robustness to both affine and perspective deformations. The motivation behind applying a learning-based approach is to transfer as much of the computational burden (as possible) onto an offline training phase, allowing a reduction in cost during online matching. The approach comprises of identifying keypoints which remain stable under artificially induced perspective transformations, extracting the corresponding feature vectors, and finally aggregating the feature vectors of coincident keypoints to obtain the final descriptors. We strictly focus on objects which are planar, thus allowing us to synthesize images of the object in order to capture the appearance of keypoint patches under several perspectives.
Additional file 1 of Favourable long-term survival of patients with esophageal cancer treated with extended transhiatal esophagectomy combined with en bloc lymphadenectomy: results from a retrospective observational cohort study
Creators: name: Kröll, Dino
name: Borbély, Yves Michael
name: Dislich, Bastian
name: Haltmeier, Tobias
name: Malinka, Thomas
name: Biebl, Matthias
name: Langer, Rupert
name: Candinas, Daniel
name: Seiler, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supp. Fig. S1. Five-year survival stratified by tumor type.
Levels and spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the environment
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: The Of/Oh-horizons of 447 forest stands in Germany were evaluated for concentrations and spatial distribution of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs). While concentrations of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and PCBs show similar spatial distribution patterns for all measured compounds within each compound class, significantly different distributions were identified for concentrations of low-molecular-weight PAHs [2- and 3-ring PAHs plus fluoranthene (FLA) and pyrene (PYR)] in contrast to high-molecular-weight PAHs (4-6-ring PAHs without FLA and PYR). Maxima of persistent organic pollutant (POP) concentrations could be mostly explained by specific locatable sources. Because of the slow degradation rates of these target substances, this is especially relevant for historic contamination sources, such as extensive 1980s DDT usage in the former German Democratic Republic and industrial facilities that produced hexachlorobenzene (HCB) or PCBs. A contribution of ubiquitous background pollution derived from long-range atmospheric transport is likely for some compounds in the studied area, e.g., DDT in the western part of Germany and dieldrin. However, most target compounds appear to be mainly sourced from local or regional emissions. This is supported by the absence of clear dependencies between POP concentrations and most evaluated environmental and local parameters. We suggest that these results generally reflect the distribution of POPs in densely populated and industrialized countries located in temperate regions.Quelle: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/