cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Layered double hydroxides as electrode materials for Ni based batteries and as novel inorganic/organic hybrid materials.
Creators: name: Caravaggio, Gianni.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: Layered double hydroxides (LDH) containing NiAl or NiV of varying M(II):M(RI) (2:1, 5:1, 9:1 for NiAl and 2:1, 5:1 for NiV) ratios have been prepared by coprecipitation and characterized by XRD, elemental analysis, and FT-IR. The LDHs electrochemical properties were investigated in half-cells to determine their potential application as positive electrode in Ni-Cd and NiMH batteries. The Ni2Al LDH exchanges the most electrons (up to 1.6) and is the most stable during discharging in the KOH electrolyte. The large quantity of electrons and accrued stability was attributed to the aluminium in the layers acting in a two fold manner: High charge to radius ratio increased the electrostatic interaction between the anions and the metal layers increasing the stability of the LDHs and the increase in Bronsted acidity of the hydroxyl groups was accredited for the high exchange of electrons. Notwithstanding the high exchange of electrons of the NiAl LDHs the powders exhibit lower discharge capacity compared to commercial electrode material (beta-Ni(OH) 2) due to their low density. The NiV LDHs only exchanged up to 1.2 electrons (Ni2V) and were found only stable up to a maximum of 14 days in electrolytic solutions of the cells. In the second part of the study ZnAl LDHs were synthesized and intercalated with phenyl phosphonic acid (PPA) or 1,4-phenylene bis phosphonic acid (B-PPA) in order to create microporous materials. The compounds were characterized by XRD, chemical, IR and solid state NMR analysis in addition to being tested for microporosity. The ZnAl LDHs treated with phenyl phosphonic acid gave rise to materials with a d spacing of 14.7A and when treated to B-PPA resulted in materials with a d spacing of 9.6 A. The results showed that the grafting of both phosphonates to the metal layers had occurred. The d spacing of 14.7 A was interpreted as being due to a bilayer of PPA molecules in head to head configuration in the layers. The d spacing of 9.6 A was consistent with a monolayer of B-PPA molecules cross-linking the metal layers of the material. Both materials exhibited little or no microporosity due to the "packing" of the phosphonate moieties in the layers. The last section of the thesis consisted of attempting to synthesize MCM or FSM type molecular sieves by the treatment of ZnAl LDH with hexadecane sulfonic acid or sodium dodecyl sulfate used as templates under different reaction conditions. The materials were characterized by XRD, chemical analysis and IR analysis. The results were consistent with LDHs intercalated with either a monolayer or a bilayer arrangement of surfactant molecules and therefore did not exhibit MCM or FSM mesoporous frameworks.
Seniority and employment equity for women.
Creators: name: Dulude, Louise.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: Conflicts between seniority and employment equity became evident after the United States adopted laws in the 1960s prohibiting discrimination in employment. Seniority rights sometimes slowed down or prevented the integration of Blacks and women in the workplace; in times of layoffs, they insured that recently-hired employees from these groups were the first to go. This led to innumerable law suits culminating in a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The potential for similar conflicts is even greater under Canadian anti-discrimination provisions because Canadian laws contain no counterpart of the general seniority exemption which is included in U.S. law. In spite of this, not a single case concerning indirect discrimination by seniority systems has been reported in this country. The few reported cases involving seniority and discrimination dealt with crude questions such as separate seniority units for women and men. The main elements demonstrated in this thesis are: (1) that seniority rules have harmful effects on Canadian women; (2) that these harmful rules constitute unjustified adverse impact discrimination under Canadian law; (3) that laws prohibiting adverse impact discrimination by seniority rules are not enforced in Canada; and (4) that many measures could be taken to reduce the negative impact of seniority systems on women while retaining the beneficial effects of the seniority principle. These points are developed in five chapters. Chapter I provides background information on the nature and coverage of seniority rights, the arguments for and against them and the way in which they are applied. Chapter II assesses the impact of seniority on women to correct its unjust effects on them. Chapter III reviews the legal history of the conflict between seniority and equality rights in the United States. In Chapter IV, we consider whether unmodified seniority rules constitute unjustified adverse impact discrimination under the following Canadian laws: (1) laws on the duty of fair representation of labour unions; (2) human rights acts; and (3) the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the end of Chapter IV, and in Chapter V, we describe changes which could be made to correct present injustices. Some, like the adoption of proactive employment equity laws with vigorous sanctions and powerful implementing agencies, aim at correcting the lack of enforcement. Other proposed changes involve a broad range of modifications to seniority systems to reduce or eliminate their negative impact on women, as well as alternatives to seniority-based layoffs. Our conclusion is that if such changes were made, the seniority principle could at last become the essential protector of vulnerable workers it was originally meant to be. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The political economy of competitiveness in the new world economy: The case of Canada under the Progressive Conservatives, 1984-1993.
Creators: name: Paterson, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: This thesis examines recent transformations in international political economy, particularly the role of the nation-state in responding to the challenge of competitiveness within a new world economy characterized by globalization and technological innovation. Developing a typology of competitiveness from a survey of four leading new theories of economic competitiveness, the thesis presents a hypothesis that an evolving, post-fordist regime of accumulation shaping the new world economy requires new means of state intervention in trade, foreign investment, innovation promotion and other specific policy areas. Applying selected case studies of federal privatizations in Canada under the Progressive Conservative governments of Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1993--a policy area central to the Mulroney Governments' neoconservative agenda--against the typology of competitiveness clearly indicates that when confronted with the conflicting imperatives of global markets and economic prosperity, governments will likely choose to intervene to protect and promote the latter than pay homage to the former. The results of the thesis' analyses challenge the viability of neoconservative ideology and particularly the effectiveness of free market policies to respond to the challenge of economic competitiveness in the new world economy, presenting a renewed case for progressive and proactive state intervention.
The Cumulative Effects of Forest Disturbance and Climate Variability on Streamflow in the Deadman River Watershed
Creators: name: Giles-Hansen, Krysta
name: Li, Qiang
name: Wei, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Climatic variability and cumulative forest cover change are the two dominant factors affecting hydrological variability in forested watersheds. Separating the relative effects of each factor on streamflow is gaining increasing attention. This study adds to the body of literature by quantifying the relative contributions of those two drivers to the changes in annual mean flow, low flow, and high flow in a large forested snow dominated watershed, the Deadman River watershed (878 km²) in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Over the study period of 1962 to 2012, the cumulative effects of forest disturbance significantly affected the annual mean streamflow. The effects became statistically significant in 1989 at the cumulative forest disturbance level of 12.4% of the watershed area. The modified double mass curve and sensitivity-based methods consistently revealed that forest disturbance and climate variability both increased annual mean streamflow during the disturbance period (1989–2012), with an average increment of 14 mm and 6 mm, respectively. The paired-year approach was used to further investigate the relative contributions to low and high flows. Our analysis showed that low and high flow increased significantly by 19% and 58%, respectively over the disturbance period (p < 0.05). We conclude that forest disturbance and climate variability have significantly increased annual mean flow, low flow and high flow over the last 50 years in a cumulative and additive manner in the Deadman River watershed.
Supplementary document for Enhancing the Efficiency of Solution-Processed Inverted Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes via Ligand Modification with 6-mercaptohexanol - 4927397.pdf
Creators: name: Chae, Heeyeop
name: Lee, Woosuk
name: Lee, Changmin
name: KIM, BO
name: Choi, Yonghyeok
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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Post-modernism as the decadence of the social democratic state
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper it is argued that the corresponding rise of post-modernism and the triumph of neo-liberalism are not only not accidental, the triumph of neo-liberalism has been facilitated by post-modernism. Post-modernism has been primarily directed not against mainstream modernism, the modernism of Hobbes, Smith, Darwin and social Darwinism, but against the radical modernist quest for justice and emancipation with its roots in German thought. The Social Democratic State, the principles of which, it is here argued, were articulated by Hegel, was a partial triumph of this radical modernism, realising a higher level of reciprocal recognition and overcoming much of the brutality of the Liberal State. Post-modernism is shown to be a manifestation of the decadence of the Social Democratic State, characterised by the disintegration of cognitive and ethical developments which have been the condition for people to form communities based on reciprocal recognition. In this regard it parallels the decadence which took place in ancient Rome, for similar reasons: both the Roman Empire and the social democratic state reduced people to passive recipients of the benefits of their societies. The implications of this are twofold. If social democracy is to be revived, it will require a struggle for 'strong' democracy; that is, for a major role for participatory democracy. On the other hand if people opt for the creation of confederations of genuinely democratic communities to replace the state, this will not be achieved by post-modern decadence but through the developments of cognitive forms and communities through which the recognition of people as free agents is institutionalised.
Supplementary document for Enhancing the Efficiency of Solution-Processed Inverted Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes via Ligand Modification with 6-mercaptohexanol - 4927397.pdf
Creators: name: Chae, Heeyeop
name: Lee, Woosuk
name: Lee, Changmin
name: KIM, BO
name: Choi, Yonghyeok
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

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Publicité, publicitaires et presse écrite au Canada et au Québec 1929-1960 : essai sur la manipulation idéologique.
Creators: name: Côte, Luc.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Journalism.

description: Cette these propose ne etude qualitative du phenomene publicitaire dans la presse ecrite au Quebec et au Canada. A partir d'un depouillement du contenu editorial de la revue professionnelle Canadian Advertising Rates and Data, et surtout de la constitution d'une banque de textes et d'images publicitaires tires de trois quotidiens quebecois majeurs (La Presse, Le Soleil et le Montreal Daily Star) entre les annees 1929 et 1960, nous procedons a un bref survol des principaux enjeux qui ont marque l'emergence et la consolidation de l'institution publicitaire en Amerique du Nord pour ensuite analyser le discours ideologique de la publicite marchande, et particulierement des grands themes referentiels qu'ell exploite et manipule dans ses representations symboliques: le corps, le foyer domestique, l'univers du travail et du loisir, la conjoncture, la nature et la culture. Nous esperons montrer comment la publicite, en exploitant le pouvoir evocateur des objets, communique une vision a la fois rationalisee et idealisee de la vie socio-culturelle, particulierement de la relation entre les personnes et les objets, une socio-culture qui se veut en harmonie avec les exigences et les interets du marche de la consommation.
Excavations within the medieval hall at Upton Court, Slough
Creators: name: Hawkes, John W
name: Trott, M R
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 74, 146-147
description: Investigations aimed at resolving questions arising from a recent survey have revealed the medieval open hearth, evidence of an early structural phase, and burials (assumed to pre-date the hall and to be associated with the adjacent church of St Laurence).
Shake table tests for pulse-generated active-seismic control of frame structure
Creators: name: Navidpour, Mansour
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The majority of the existing infrastructure, designed prior to the enactment of modern seismic codes, is seismically deficient. Because it is not feasible to replace the entire inventory of seismically deficient infrastructure with new and seismically designed infrastructure, retrofitting remains to be the only viable option for seismic risk mitigation. Therefore, there has been significant research on the development of seismic retrofit technologies. The research project reported in this thesis is an effort towards developing a new seismic retrofit technique that utilizes pulse-based active force control. This approach involves the monitoring of structures during a seismic event and applying control forces through actuators beyond an acceptable range of deformations to minimize lateral drift and hence the potential structural and nonstructural damage. The research project involves tests of small-scale frames on a shake table, with and without active force control. Two single-storey single-bal frames were manufactured for this purpose, with two different stiffnesses. Different magnitudes of mass were placed on the frames as part of experimental parametric investigation. The changes in stiffness and mass resulted in different vibration frequencies. Idealized ground motions in the form of sinusoidal wave functions were applied at different frequencies to assess the relationship between the dynamic characteristics of the structure and those of the ground excitation. A previously recorded earthquake record was also used to investigate the feasibility of the retrofit technique under realistic seismic excitations. The results indicate that pulse-control can be used as an effective methodology for seismic risk mitigation. The seismic drift was reduced between 65% and 95%, and the structural performance improved significantly. The control forces remained relatively low, indicating that it is possible to apply the techniques in practice, at full scale.
Integrated intelligence: the future of intelligence?
Creators: name: Anthony, Marcus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Many classical depictions of intelligence suggest that individual human intelligence is part of a greater transpersonal consciousness. The concept of this integrated intelligence has resurfaced in contemporary times in a number of fields. This paper presents the ideas of four thinkers whose works incorporate integrated intelligence - Broomfield, Dossey, Wilber and Zohar. Inayatullah's Causal Layered Analysis is used to deconstruct them. The four authors and their texts are compared and contrasted on some of their major themes. Finally, some of the most significant issues associated with integrated intelligence are introduced.
Healing Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured on a Collagen-Based Scaffold for Skin Regeneration
Creators: name: Shokrgozar, Mohammad Ali
name: Fattahi, Maryam
name: Bonakdar, Shahin
name: Kashani, Iraj Ragerdi
name: Majidi, Mohammad
name: Nooshin Haghighipour
name: Bayati, Vahid
name: Sanati, Hassan
name: Seyyed Nasirolddin Saeedi
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
Supplementary document for Artefact removal in ground truth deficient nanoscopy images using deep learning - 4927665.pdf
Creators: name: Jadhav, Suyog
name: Maldonado, Sebastián Acuña
name: Agarwal, Krishna
name: Prasad, Dilip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

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A study of the hemin-stimulated respirative growth kinetics of Lactococcus lactis using batch cultivation
Creators: name: Razvi, Azher
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The influence of initial glucose concentration: 60, 80, and 90 g/L on the hemin-stimulated respirative growth of Lactococcus lactis was studied in batch culture. Quantification of substrate consumption, biomass and product formation kinetics revealed that energy-spilling reactions may to contribute to a significant amount of non-growth associated or non-maintenance associated substrate utilization. The maximum specific growth rate was unaffected by initial substrate concentration, while the maintenance coefficient, mS, and the maximum yield coefficient, YMX/S, were strongly affected. The value of mS increased from 1.56 to 1.73 g glucose/g DCW-h when the substrate concentration was increased. Product formation kinetics were also affected with the growth associated product formation (alpha) increasing from 1.9 to 2.8 g lactate/g DCW, while the non-growth associated product formation (beta) value increasing from 0.74 to 0.81 g lactate/g DCW-h. The total biomass accumulated was also improved by a systematic modification of the growth medium utilized. A 50 % increase in the concentration of yeast extract, peptone, and tryptone against the base medium used increased the final biomass concentration from 4.2 to 6.3 g/L. An analytical solution to the differential equations developed by Pirt for substrate consumption, Leudeking-Piret for production formation, and the differential logistic growth equation was successfully developed in this work. The solution represents a nonlinear system of equations that allows the simultaneous modeling of cell growth, substrate consumption, and product formation for substrate-limited growth. A medium for improved growth of L. lactis and lactic acid bacteria was also developed for small-scale microbiological applications. By modification of a popular commercial medium used for its cultivation, not only was improved growth of L. lactis observed, but the final extracellular environment for long term cell survival was improved. Increasing the concentration of the salt disodium glycerophosphate from 19 to 59 g/L and addition of 7.5 g/L glucose increased the amount of biomass accumulated by a factor of 4 while maintaining a final pH of 5.1, which is ideal for growth.
An individualized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) based patient decision aid and surgeon report for patients considering total knee arthroplasty: protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Bansback, Nick
name: Trenaman, Logan
name: MacDonald, Karen V
name: Hawker, Gillian
name: Johnson, Jeffrey A
name: Stacey, Dawn
name: Marshall, Deborah A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: While the rates of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) continue to rise worldwide, there are concerns about whether all surgeries are appropriate. Guidelines for appropriateness suggest that patients should have realistic expectations for total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and that the patient and their surgeon should agree that the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether routinely collected pre- and post-TKA patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) could be integrated into a patient decision aid to better inform these appropriateness criteria. This randomised trial will evaluate the preliminary efficacy of a tailored PROM-based patient decision aid and surgeon report (compared to usual care) for patients considering TKA on decision quality. Methods: This is a pragmatic, randomised controlled trial conducted at one site in Alberta, Canada. Adults over the age of 30 years, who have been scheduled for a TKA consultation at the Edmonton Bone and Joint Centre with a participating surgeon, who understand, speak, and read English, and can provide informed consent, are eligible to participate. Participants will be randomised to receive a PROM-based patient decision aid and surgeon report before their surgical consultation or usual care. The decision aid will provide patients with information on their expected outcomes based on the EQ-5D-5L PROM, and these estimates are individualized based on clinical and demographic characteristics. The primary outcome of this trial is decision quality. Analysis will consider outcomes intention to treat, and feasibility outcomes for implementing the trial to routine practise. Discussion: This patient decision aid and surgeon report intervention could contribute to improved treatment decision-making for patients considering total knee arthroplasty. Trial registration (registry and number) ClinicalTrials.gov : NCT03240913. Registered on August 1, 2017.
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Accurate number densities and environments of massive ultra-compact galaxies at 0.02 z 0.3
Creators: name: Buitrago, F.
name: Ferreras, I.
name: Kelvin, L. S.
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Davies, L.
name: Angthopo, J.
name: Khochfar, S.
name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Brough, S.
name: Sabater, J.
name: Conselice, C. J.
name: Liske, J.
name: Holwerda, B. W.
name: Bremer, M. N.
name: Phillipps, S.
name: López-Sánchez, A. R.
name: Graham, Alister
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Context. Massive ultra-compact galaxies (MUGs) are common at z = 2-3, but very rare in the nearby Universe. Simulations predict that the few surviving MUGs should reside in galaxy clusters, whose large relative velocities prevent them from merging, thus maintaining their original properties (namely stellar populations, masses, sizes and dynamical state). Aims. Our goal is to obtain a complete census of the MUG population at 0.02 < z < 0.3, determining the number density, population properties and environment. Methods. We have taken advantage of the high-completeness, large-area spectroscopic GAMA survey, complementing it with deeper imaging from the KiDS and VIKING surveys. We find a set of 22 bona-fide MUGs, defined as having high stellar mass (> 8 × 1010 M™) and compact size (Re < 2 kpc). An additional set of seven lower-mass objects (6 × 1010 < Ma/M™ < 8 × 1010) are also potential candidates according to typical mass uncertainties. Results. The comoving number density of MUGs at low redshift (z < 0.3) is constrained at (1.0 ± 0.4)×10-6 Mpc-3, consistent with galaxy evolution models. However, we find a mixed distribution of old and young galaxies, with a quarter of the sample representing (old) relics. MUGs have a predominantly early or swollen disk morphology (Sérsic index 1 < n < 2.5) with high stellar surface densities (â Σea ∼1010 M™ Kpc-2). Interestingly, a large fraction feature close companions- A t least in projection-suggesting that many (but not all) reside in the central regions of groups. Halo masses show these galaxies inhabit average-mass groups. Conclusions. As MUGs are found to be almost equally distributed among environments of different masses, their relative fraction is higher in more massive overdensities, matching the expectations that some of these galaxies fell in these regions at early times. However, there must be another channel leading some of these galaxies to an abnormally low merger history because our sample shows a number of objects that do not inhabit particularly dense environments.
title: Utilidad clínica de la espectroscopia en el estudio de la lesiones tumorales cerebrales.
Creators: name: Edo Prades, Miguel Ángel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Small bowel

description: Objetivos
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Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Valorar la utilidad clínica de la espectroscopia de cabeza con RM en el diagnóstico y seguimiento de las lesiones tumorales...
Accessibility and gambling-related harm: a commentary on the Productivity Commission's 2010 inquiry into gambling
Creators: name: Thomas, Anna
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Gambling accessibility is an important policy consideration for Governments. The recent Productivity Commission's (2010) review of gambling focussed on geographic and time-based accessibility to electronic gaming machines (EGMs) which have been most clearly associated with gambling-related harm. Based on the evidence, they recommended mandatory, simultaneous, six hour shutdown periods for clubs and hotels. This type of common, extended shutdown is likely to be effective in forcing a break in play for some problem gamblers. However, the effect will be limited to the small minority of people who gamble during the recommended shutdown time periods. The Productivity Commission did not to make any recommendations to reduce geographic accessibi lity to EGM venues. They argued that their proposed pre-commitment system (where consumers set up personal time andlor monetary limits on future gambling) would provide sufficient consumer protection. If this pre-commitment model is not implemented within the near future, or if independent research shows it to be ineffective as a harm minimisation strategy, Governments should revisit the need to substantially reduce geographic accessibility. This should be via stringent restrictions on the number of EGM venues within a set geographical region. This would increase the effort required for EGM visits and encourage consideration of additional, alternative leisure-time options.
title: Evolution und Menschwerdung: Vorträge anläßlich der Jahresversammlung vom 7. bis 9. Oktober 2005 zu Halle (Saale)
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Evolution
subject: Hominisation
subject: Höherentwicklung
subject: 570

description: Evolution und Menschwerdung gehören noch immer zu den interessantesten Themen, mit denen sich die Naturwissenschaft auseinandersetzt und die die Öffentlichkeit faszinieren. Die Thematik verlangt eine interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung, für die eine Akademie wie die Leopoldina prädestiniert ist. Daher griff die Jahresversammlung 2005 verschiedene Aspekte hierzu auf. Die Schwerpunkte der Tagung spiegeln den enormen Fortschritt der Erkenntnisse über das Evolutionsgeschehen und den veränderten Blickwinkel wider, der sich aufgrund des außerordentlich großen Wissenszuwachses und veränderter Diskussionsebenen in der Forschung, aber auch zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft ergeben. Die Evolution des Menschen und dessen physische, geistige und kulturelle Entwicklungstendenzen stehen dabei im Zentrum. Der Band spannt den Bogen vom Urknall und der Bildung der Planetensysteme über die Entstehung des Lebens, die Entwicklung von Prokaryoten und Eukaryoten, die Evolution und das Sterben der Saurier, die Analyse von Insektenstaaten bis hin zu Fragen der Menschwerdung und Formen der menschlichen Kultur. Hier werden unter anderem „Das Sprachmosaik und seine Evolution“, die „Evolution durch Schrift“, Rituale, Religionen, Gemeinschaftsbildung und sozialer Wandel unter evolutionären Aspekten untersucht, aber auch „Bilder in Evolution und Evolutionstheorie“ sowie die „Griechischen Anfänge der Wissenschaft“ betrachtet. Interessenten: Naturwissenschaftler, vor allem Biologen, Evolutionsforscher, Kulturwissenschaftler, Historiker sowie die wissenschaftlich interessierte Öffentlichkeit.
description: Nova Acta Leopoldina: NAL ; Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, vol. 93, Nummer 345
Detecting feature interactions and feature inconsistencies in CPL
Creators: name: Xu, Yiqun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Internet Telephony grants users the power of developing their own telephony services, and the Call Processing Language (CPL) has been designed to fulfil this target. However, this objective confronts a major obstacle known as the feature interaction problem, which describes the situation that one feature or service is violated by another in overall system behaviour. This thesis addresses a Feature Interaction detection approach for CPL. Starting with a review of the issue of Feature Interaction, we extend the traditional Feature Interaction definition to Intention Interaction and Policy Interaction in Internet Telephony. Existing related work is discussed as well. We also give an overview of Internet Telephony, and analyse the structure of CPL. A logic-based language, the Simple Formal Specification Language (SFSL) is introduced to express formally the intention of CPL scripts. Method of translating CPL into SFSL is presented as well. Based on the SFSL specifications, we propose detection rules to identify feature interactions in CPL, locally and pair-wise. An automatic detection tool applying the detection rules is implemented in SWI-Prolog. Finally, in order to validate the correctness of the detection rules, we prove the logical incoherencies behind these rules using Predicate Logic.
The forestry system and the timber market in China
Creators: name: Zou, Pan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.
subject: Agriculture, Wood Technology.
subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: In the past two decades, China has achieved a spectacular success in its economic growth. As a basic input for the production process, the forest resource has been one of the fundamental factors propping up the expansion of China's economy. When China is absorbing imports of timber products in the global market, studies of China's forestry system and its timber market incite greater interest. This paper represents a systematic approach to probe into the comprehensive realities of China's forestry system and its timber market. Econometric methods are applied in analyzing the demand and supply patterns. The empirical analysis is used to forecast the quantity demanded for timber products in China.
Supplementary document for Artefact removal in ground truth deficient nanoscopy images using deep learning - 4927665.pdf
Creators: name: Jadhav, Suyog
name: Maldonado, Sebastián Acuña
name: Agarwal, Krishna
name: Prasad, Dilip
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary file
Les impacts psychosociaux de consommation de pornographie chez les hommes gais: La perspective des consommateurs
Creators: name: Corneau, Simon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.
subject: GLBT Studies.
subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Cette étude qualitative exploratoire a pour but de mettre en lumière les impacts de consommation de pornographie gaie à l'aide d'entretiens avec 20 consommateurs. En ce qui concerne la pornographie gaie, la perspective des consommateurs brille par son absence. Tout un amalgame de discours théoriques, souvent discordants, existe entourant la pornographie gaie mais l'expérience vécue s'avère sous-théorisée et peu comprise. Selon certains, les hommes gais consomment plus de pornographie que les hommes hétérosexuels et semblent plus confortables avec ce medium; la pornographie semble normaliseée à l'intérieur du milieu gai. Les indicateurs utilisés pour qualifier les impacts possibles renvoient à des concepts liés à la santé sexuelle et la santé mentale. Notre recherche vise donc à explorer à travers la voix des hommes gais les impacts possibles de leur consommation de pornographie sur leur santé mentale et santé sexuelle prises au sens large. L'impact de la consommation de pornographie dans la population hétérosexuelle constitue un thème relativement bien documenté mais où les conclusions sont souvent contradictoires et ou le paradigme de recherche post-positiviste domine Notre étude utilise un cadre de sociologie des médias, ce qui situe la pornographie comme objet culturel de consommation. Trois auteurs dans la tradition postmoderne ont guidé l'analyse de nos données: Foucault (1976) et ses notions d'ars erotica et de scientia sexualis, Debord (1967) et sa notion de société du spectacle et finalement Baudrillard (1970) et sa notion de société de consommation. Utilisant un devis inspiré de l'ethnographie et une approche poststructuraliste, l'exploration des récits à l'aide de l'analyse thématique et l'analyse critique de discours nous ont permis de dégager des résultats de recherches en lien avec les impacts psychosociaux de consommation de pornographie gaie, les motivations relatives à la consommation de pornographie et enfin, la pornographie gaie comme véhicule de stéréotypes sur la masculinité, la race/ethnicité, le milieu gai et le genre.
Improving the safety of industrial tailings management facilities based on the example of Ukrainian facilities
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: The industrial accidents on tailings management facilities constitute threats to the environment, lead to substantial damages to flora, fauna, and human health and put considerable pressure on budgetary.A substantial reduction of the risks of the possible accidents on tailings management facilities would ensure that population, environment and neighboring countries are better protected. The introduction of the sound legislative framework for the planning,design, construction and closure of the tailings management facilities would improve the level playing field on the territory of Ukraine, and could improve the overall environmental situation in the country.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
Supplementary document for High performance OCT angiography enabled by combining features of shape, intensity and complex decorrelation - 4927695.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Huakun
name: Liu, Kaiyuan
name: Cao, TongTong
name: Yao, Lin
name: zhang, ziyi
name: Deng, Xiaofeng
name: Du, Chixin
name: Li, Peng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Animal preparation, System Setup and Detailed derivation of Eq. (2)
Paradox of Proof by Lehti
Creators: name: Lehti, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 500321
subject: Social and political philosophy
classificationCode: 500311
subject: Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)
classificationCode: 520102
subject: Educational psychology

description: The Paradox of Proof examines the inherent contradiction in dismissive responses to claims deemed unprovable or impossible without supporting evidence. This highlights how a responder’s rejection of a claim, based solely on perception, unfolds in three stages: asserting doubt with certainty, transferring the burden of proof, and maintaining certainty without substantiation. This paradox reveals a logical inconsistency where the responder assumes insight into what they declare unknowable, ultimately challenging the coherence of asserting certainty on an unsupported basis. Lehti uses examples, including skepticism around historical events, to demonstrate how unaddressed doubts can persist and hinder genuine inquiry, emphasizing the importance of transparency in fostering true understanding.
title: Revisión de tumores cartilaginosos: Hallazgos de imagen con correlación radiopatológica.
Creators: name: Barcina García, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos de los distintos tipos de tumores de origen cartilaginoso en radiografía simple,
TC y RM. Analizar los hallazgos dela RM que nos ayudan a: diferenciar el condrosarcoma de los tumores benignos. valorar las...
A Young Multipolar Planetary Nebula in the Making : IRAS 21282+5050
Creators: name: Hsia, Chih-Hao
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Kwok, S. (Sun)
name: Chau, Wayne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: We present high-angular-resolution Hub-ble Space Telescope (HST) optical and near-infrared imaging of the compact planetary nebula (PN) IRAS 21282+5050. Optical images of this object reveal several complex morphological structures including three pairs of bipolar lobes and an elliptical shell lying close to the plane of the sky. From near-infrared observations, we found a dust torus oriented nearly perpendicular to the major axis of elliptical shell. The results suggest that IRAS 21282+5050 is a multipolar PN, and these structures developed early during the post asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) evolution. From a three-dimensional (3-D) model, we derived the physical dimensions of these apparent structures. When the 3-D model is viewed from different orientations, IRAS 21282+5050 shows similar apparent structures as other multipolar PNs. Analysis of the spectral energy distribution and optical spectroscopic observations of the nebula suggests the presence of a cool companion to the hot central star responsible for the ionization of the nebula. Whether the binary nature of the central star has any relations with the multipolar structure of the nebula needs to be further investigated.
A consideration on thermal stress of steel members reinforced with CFRP
Creators: name: Suzuki, Hiroyuki
name: Namiki, Hironori
name: Matsumoto, Kentaro
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this study, the amount of thermal stress occurring in a CFRP-reinforced steel member subjected to axial force is evaluated, and a method for easily determining the cross-sectional area requirements for CFRP used for reinforcement is proposed. Furthermore, how the fatigue life of CFRP-reinforced steel members is affected by atmospheric temperature changes is evaluated by using the proposed formula in the case where live loads may be deemed constant and the case where loads from overloaded vehicles act as in the case of a highway bridge.
The regioselective carbonylation and related reactions of functionally substituted alkenes and alkynes catalyzed by rhodium(I) complexes.
Creators: name: Zhou, Jian-Qiang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: This thesis comprises research on the regioselective carbonylation and related reactions involving various unsaturated organic substances such as alkenes, alkynes, allylic esters, alcohols and amines, open chain and cyclic $\alpha$,$\beta$-unsaturated esters using cationic, neutral and zwitterionic rhodium(I) complexes as catalysts. New methods for the preparation of valuable functionally substituted derivatives have been developed.
Universität Ulm
Creators: name: Aumann, Bernd
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität
subject: Universität Ulm

description: In diesem zweisprachig verfügbaren Film wird die Universität Ulm mit ihren Einrichtungen und Fakultäten sowie den Schwerpunkten in Forschung und Lehre vorgestellt.
Streams with Riparian Forest Buffers versus Impoundments Differ in Discharge and DOM Characteristics for Pasture Catchments in Southern Amazonia
Creators: name: Dalmagro, Higo J.
name: Lathuillière, Michael J.
name: Sallo, Fernando Da S.
name: Guerreiro, Maurel F.
name: Pinto, Osvaldo B.
name: De Arruda, Paulo H. Z.
name: Couto, Eduardo G.
name: Johnson, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Forest to pasture land use change following deforestation in Southern Amazonia can result in changes to stream water quality. However, some pasture streams have riparian forest buffers, while others are dammed for farm ponds. Stream corridor management can have differential effects on hydrology and dissolved organic matter (DOM) characteristics. We examined rainfall-runoff patterns and DOM characteristics in a pasture catchment with a forested riparian buffer, and an adjacent catchment with an impoundment. Total streamflow was 1.5 times higher with the riparian buffer, whereas stormflow represented 20% of total discharge for the dammed stream versus 13% with buffer. Stream corridor management was also the primary factor related to DOM characteristics. In the impounded catchment, DOM was found to be less structurally complex, with lower molecular weight compounds, a lesser degree of humification, and a larger proportion of protein-like DOM. In the catchment with a forested buffer, DOM was dominated by humic-like components, with fluorescence characteristics indicative of DOM derived from humified soil organic matter under native vegetation. Our results suggest that differences in stream corridor management can have important implications for carbon cycling in headwater pasture catchments, and that such changes may have the potential to influence water quality downstream in the Amazon basin.
A CRHR1 antagonist prevents synaptic loss and memory deficits in a trauma-induced delirium-like syndrome
Creators: name: Cursano, Silvia
name: Battaglia, Chiara R.
name: Urrutia-Ruiz, Carolina
name: Grabrucker, Stefanie
name: Schön, Michael
name: Bockmann, Jürgen
name: Braumüller, Sonja
name: Radermacher, Peter
name: Roselli, Francesco
name: Huber-Lang, Markus
name: Böckers, Tobias M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurotrophic factor
subject: Receptor antagonist
subject: Signaling pathways
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Neurotrophic functions
subject: Working memory
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Depression
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Corticotropin-releasing hormone
subject: Nerve growth factors
subject: Dendritic spines
subject: Memory, Short-term
subject: Risk factors
subject: Hippocampus
subject: Stress, Psychological
subject: Depression
subject: Stress
subject: Corticoliberin
subject: Kurzzeitgedächtnis
subject: Hippocampus
subject: Nuklearfaktor Kappa B
subject: Risikofaktor

description: Older patients with severe physical trauma are at high risk of developing neuropsychiatric syndromes with global impairment of cognition, attention, and consciousness. We employed a thoracic trauma (TxT) mouse model and thoroughly analyzed age-dependent spatial and temporal posttraumatic alterations in the central nervous system. Up to 5 days after trauma, we observed a transient 50% decrease in the number of excitatory synapses specifically in hippocampal pyramidal neurons accompanied by alterations in attention and motor activity and disruption of contextual memory consolidation. In parallel, hippocampal corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) expression was highly upregulated, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels were significantly reduced. In vitro experiments revealed that CRH application induced neuronal autophagy with rapid lysosomal degradation of BDNF via the NF-κB pathway. The subsequent synaptic loss was rescued by BDNF as well as by specific NF-κB and CRH receptor 1 (CRHR1) antagonists. In vivo, the chronic application of a CRHR1 antagonist after TxT resulted in reversal of the observed histological, molecular, and behavioral alterations. The data suggest that neuropsychiatric syndromes (i.e., delirium) after peripheral trauma might be at least in part due to the activation of the hippocampal CRH/NF-κB/BDNF pathway, which results in a dramatic loss of synaptic contacts. The successful rescue by stress hormone receptor antagonists should encourage clinical trials focusing on trauma-induced delirium and/or other posttraumatic syndromes.
Noble gases in Canadian Shield groundwaters from the Con Mine, Yellowknife, NWT
Creators: name: Battye, Nicholas John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Hydrology.
subject: Geochemistry.

description: Dissolved noble gas concentrations in Canadian Shield groundwaters from various depths of the Miramar Con Mine, Yellowknife, were examined for paleotemperature information and isotopic ratios. A high-vacuum stainless steel line with reactive gas gettering, isotope spike dilution and quadrupole mass spectrometer was constructed, tested and calibrated prior to sample analysis. In addition to noble gases, groundwater flow rates and formational pressures, as well as the major ions, stable isotopes and tritium values, were also measured. Data collected on flow rates and formational pressures was compared to that published by Intera Consultants Ltd. (1997). Trends indicate an almost universal decline in both parameters over the four year period, reflective of changing mine conditions. The major ions in solution are represented primarily by Ca, Na, Cl, SO 4, and HCO3, at shallow depths. In the deep subsurface, Ca, Na, and Cl become the dominant species, forming a Ca-Na/CI brine characteristic of the Canadian Shield that reaches a TDS of 304 g/L. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
D1.1 ARIADNE use case definition and system requirements
Creators: name: Tcvetkova, Svetlana
name: Renzo, Marco Di
name: Ntouni, Georgia
name: Kritharidis, Dimitrios
name: Chartsias, Konstantinos
name: Ntontin, Konstantinos
name: Lazarakis, Fotis
name: Alexandridis, Antonis
name: Lamsa, Jukka
name: Moamen Ibrahim
name: Yaqub, Edwin
name: Luque, Lourdes
name: Cantó, Rafael
name: Kokkoniemi, Joonas
name: Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos
name: Giorgos Stratidakis
name: Papasotiriou, Evangelos
name: Alexiou, Angeliki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable includes the work conducted within Task 1.1 “Use cases definition and system requirements specification”. The main objective of this task is to define the use cases and a set of requirements that will be the basis for all further work. Each use case contains scenarios in order to organize the technical work efficiently and focus on ARIADNE challenges and innovations. Thus, Deliverable 1.1 presents an overview of the ARIADNE system concept, a detailed description of each use case and corresponding scenarios, the resulting analysis on the definition of the main Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that each use case and the ARIADNE system target to satisfy and, finally, a description of how the machine learning techniques will be applied in the framework of ARIADNE.