cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What is the economic and social return on investment for telephone cancer information and support services in Australia? An evaluative social return on investment study protocol
Creators: name: McCaffrey, Nikki
name: White, V
name: Engel, L
name: Mihalopoulos, C
name: Orellana, L
name: Livingston, PM
name: Paul, CL
name: Aranda, S
name: De Silva, Daswin
name: Bucholc, J
name: Hutchinson, AM
name: Steiner, A
name: Ratcliffe, J
name: Lane, K
name: Spence, D
name: Harper, T
name: Livingstone, A
name: Fradgley, E
name: Hutchinson, CL
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Introduction: Over 50% of people affected by cancer report unmet support needs. To address unmet information and psychological needs, non-government organisations such as Cancer Councils (Australia) have developed state-based telephone cancer information and support services. Due to competing demands, evidence of the value of these services is needed to ensure that future investment makes the best use of scarce resources. This research aims to determine the costs and broader economic and social value of a telephone support service, to inform future funding and service provision. Methods and analysis: A codesigned, evaluative social return on investment analysis (SROI) will be conducted to estimate and compare the costs and monetised benefits of Cancer Council Victoria's (CCV) telephone support line, 13 11 20, over 1-year and 3-year benefit periods. Nine studies will empirically estimate the parameters to inform the SROI and calculate the ratio (economic and social value to value invested): step 1 mapping outcomes (in-depth analysis of CCV's 13 11 20 recorded call data; focus groups and interviews); step 2 providing evidence of outcomes (comparative survey of people affected by cancer who do and do not call CCV's 13 11 20; general public survey); step 3 valuing the outcomes (financial proxies, value games); step 4 establishing the impact (Delphi); step 5 calculating the net benefit and step 6 service improvement (discrete choice experiment (DCE), € what if' analysis). Qualitative (focus groups, interviews) and quantitative studies (natural language processing, cross-sectional studies, Delphi) and economic techniques (willingness-to-pay, financial proxies, value games, DCE) will be applied. Ethics and dissemination: Ethics approval for each of the studies will be sought independently as the project progresses. So far, ethics approval has been granted for the first two studies. As each study analysis is completed, results will be disseminated through presentation, conferences, publications and reports to the partner organisations.
Analyse de discours de la construction du savoir infirmier au Québec, 1898-1970.
Creators: name: Nazon, Evy A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: savoir infirmier
Histoire des soins infirmiers
Analyse de discours
Michel Foucault

description: À l’instar de nombreuses disciplines, les sciences infirmières ont dû élaborer un savoir qui leur était propre. Ce savoir décrit comme étant un savoir « scientifique » a inspiré nombre d’historiens dans leurs analyses. Adoptant une approche « traditionnelle », plusieurs associent la construction du savoir infirmier à l’esprit d’entreprise, aux luttes et à la volonté des pionnières d’obtenir la reconnaissance légale de la profession. Des analyses multiples ayant recours à l’histoire sociale, à l’histoire des idées, à l’histoire des mentalités, à l’histoire des femmes, etc. ont ainsi vu le jour et ont fourni une interprétation où la prépondérance et le rôle de ces femmes dans l’évolution et les progrès réalisés au sein de la profession infirmière étaient indéniables. À ce jour, peu de recherches historiques se sont éloignées de ces approches. La présente recherche, loin d’embrasser de telles perspectives, décrit plutôt la construction des savoirs infirmiers sous l’angle de concepts puisés dans les propositions critiques suggérées par Michel Foucault. À cet effet, la généalogie et l’analyse de discours de Michel Foucault qui nous ont inspiré pour cette étude convenaient tout à fait aux objectifs de ce projet. De nombreux documents d’archives des Sœurs Grises de Montréal, des Religieuses Hospitalières de Saint-Joseph (Montréal et Bathurst), de l’Ordre des Infirmières et Infirmiers du Québec, de l’Archevêché de Montréal, de la Ville de Montréal pour ne citer que ceux-là ont été consultés et analysés. Les données recueillies ont permis de mettre en lumière les dispositifs discursifs et non-discursifs qui ont contribué à la valorisation et la validation des discours dans la construction du savoir scientifique infirmier. De plus, l’organisation et la médicalisation de l’hôpital, l’apparition de la médecine sociale et des pratiques hygiéniques ont également mis en exergue l’importance d’organiser des écoles de formation pour les infirmières. Ces écoles reconnues pour fournir une formation établie sur des programmes de cours formels et structurés ont permis aux infirmières d’acquérir un savoir reconnu comme « scientifique ». Cette formation scientifique a permis aux infirmières d’avoir une crédibilité dans le milieu de la santé, d’agir efficacement au sein de l’appareil administratif et d’avoir un pouvoir sur les individus et la population. L’expertise des infirmières et leur rôle auprès de la population leur ont offert la possibilité de conduire la conduite des individus et de participer à la normalisation et au gouvernement des populations.
Meaning and methods of this book: A guide for the reader
Creators: name: Maghradze, David
name: Rustioni, Laura
name: Scienza, Attilio
name: Turok, Jozef
name: Failla, Osvaldo
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: This publication is supported by:
● COST - European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research, in the framework of the Action FA1003: "East-West Collaboration for Grapevine Diversity Exploration and Mobilization of Adaptative Traits for Breeding".
● Bayer CropScience S.r.l., Italy
● VCR Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo, Italy
● Norsk wax, Norway
● Della Toffola Group, Italy
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 51 (2012): Vitis (Special Issue)
Investigating interspecific hybridisation in ornamental fishes
Creators: name: Collins, Rupert A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Manuscript abstract: Biosecurity agencies dealing with the trade in ornamental fishes have a responsibility to accurately identify the exotic organisms crossing their borders. Molecular methods such as DNA barcoding have been proposed as tools to assist in this process. However, hybrid fishes present in the ornamental aquaculture industry represent a potential problem; standard techniques such as DNA barcoding using mitochondrial genes are known to be inappropriate and potentially misleading in situations where this interspecific hybridisation has occurred. One potential solution is with the addition of genetic data from a nuclear gene. Standardised nuclear barcoding genes have, however, received little attention. The aim of this study is to assess a selection of nuclear genes using genomic resources, and investigate whether a chosen locus can: (1) detect the presence of a hybrid using sequence heterozygosity; and (2) estimate the maternal and paternal species when combined with mtDNA. The nuclear rhodopsin gene (RHO) was chosen as a potential candidate, being relatively variable among species. An experiment using laboratory-bred control hybrids Danio spp.) indicates that sequence heterozygosity can show hybridisation, and that parentage can be elucidated from the nuclear and mitochondrial data. However, when tested upon putative hybrid fishes collected from the aquarium trade, results were mixed, suggesting further work is required before a universal technique can be proposed.
Presentation for the 2024 IEEE IGARSS International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Creators: name: Giulia, Guerri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation for the 2024 IEEE IGARSS International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium "Acting for Sustainability and Resilience", 7-12 July, 2024, Athens, Greece.

Session WE3.R8 "Space Applications for a Resilient, Sustainable and Evolving Society", speaker: Giulia Guerri. 

This contribution deals with remote sensing analysis focused on the Urban Heat Island phenomenon on the Italian territory, showing the research results of the first year of activity of the "Mirificus" project.

The "Mirificus" project is focused on monitoring forestry interventions to mitigate the Urban Heat Island through satellite remote sensing data. 

This project is coordinated by the Institute of Bioeconomy of the National Research Council of Italy, in partnership with the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, and is funded by the Italian Space Agency - Call for Ideas "Effects of climate change and extreme events"  “I4DP_PA (Innovation for downstream preparation for Public Administrations)”.
Single-Image Vignetting Correction by Constrained Minimization of log-Intensity Entropy
Creators: name: Rohlfing, Torsten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: This is a paper describing an algorithm for unsupervised correction of image vignetting in single images. The method is derived from one in use for correcting intensity inhomogeneities in magnetic resonance images. Various versions of the article were submitted to (and rejected by) IJCV, CVPR, and IEEE-TIP.
A time to win? Patterns of outcomes for football teams in the English Premier League
Creators: name: Smeeton, Nigel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Probability

description: It is a widely held view that football teams can have periods of good, poor or indifferent performance characterised by a preponderance of wins, defeats or draws respectively. The multiple runs test can be used to detect clustering in a sequence of events in which several outcomes are possible. The development of the study of runs is briefly outlined. A method for simulating multiple runs distributions using the statistical package Stata is applied to the results of the English Premier League for the 2002-2003 season. For these data there is little evidence for clustering of outcomes.
Potential community and public health impacts of medically supervised safer smoking facilities for crack cocaine users
Creators: name: Shannon, K.
name: Ishida, Tomiye
name: Morgan, Robert
name: Bear, Arthur
name: Oleson, Megan
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Tyndall, Mark
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: There is growing evidence of the public health and community harms associated with crack cocaine smoking, particularly the risk of blood-borne transmission through non-parenteral routes. In response, community advocates and policy makers in Vancouver, Canada are calling for an exemption from Health Canada to pilot a medically supervised safer smoking facility (SSF) for non-injection drug users (NIDU). Current reluctance on the part of health authorities is likely due to the lack of existing evidence surrounding the extent of related harm and potential uptake of such a facility among NIDUs in this setting. In November 2004, a feasibility study was conducted among 437 crack cocaine smokers. Univariate analyses were conducted to determine associations with willingness to use a SSF and logistic regression was used to adjust for potentially confounding variables (p < 0.05). Variables found to be independently associated with willingness to use a SSF included recent injection drug use (OR = 1.72, 95% CI: 1.09–2.70), having equipment confiscated or broken by police (OR = 1.96, 95% CI: 1.24–2.85), crack bingeing (OR = 2.16, 95% CI: 1.39–3.12), smoking crack in public places (OR = 2.48, 95% CI: 1.65–3.27), borrowing crack pipes (OR = 2.50, 95% CI: 1.86–3.40), and burns/ inhaled brillo due to rushing smoke in public places (OR = 4.37, 95% CI: 2.71–8.64). The results suggest a strong potential for a SSF to reduce the health related harms and address concerns of public order and open drug use among crack cocaine smokers should a facility be implemented in this setting.
Probabilistic models for semantic visualization and its applications
Creators: name: Le, Van Minh Tuan
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visualization of high-dimensional data, such as text documents, is useful to map out the similarities among various data points. In the high-dimensional space, documents are commonly represented as bags of words, with dimensionality equal to the vocabulary size. Classical document visualization directly reduces this into visualizable two or three dimensions. Recent approaches consider an intermediate representation in topic space, between word space and visualization space, which preserves the semantics by topic modeling. These approaches consider the problem of semantic visualization which attempts to jointly model visualization and topics. With semantic visualization, documents with similar topics will be displayed nearby. This dissertation focuses on building probabilistic models for semantic visualization by modeling other aspects of documents (i.e., document relationships and document representations) in addition to their texts. The objective is to improve the quality of similarity-based document visualization while maintaining topic quality. In addition, we find applications of semantic visualization to various problems. For document collection visualization, we develop a system for navigating a text corpus interactively and topically via browsing and searching. Another application is single document visualization for visual comparison of documents using word clouds.
Inhaled beta-2 agonist salbutamol and acute lung injury: an association with improvement in acute lung injury
Creators: name: Manocha, Sanjay
name: Gordon, Anthony C.
name: Salehifar, Ebrahim
name: Groshaus, Horacio
name: Walley, Keith R. (Keith Robert)
name: Russell, James A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: β2 agonists have several properties that could be beneficial in acute lung injury (ALI). We therefore chose to study the effect of inhaled β2 agonist use (salbutamol) on duration and severity of ALI. Methods: We undertook a retrospective chart review of 86 consecutive mechanically ventilated patients with ALI, who had varying exposure to inhaled salbutamol. The cohort was divided into two groups according to the average daily dose of inhaled salbutamol they received ('high dose' ≥ 2.2 mg/day and 'low dose' <2.2 mg/day). Severity of ALI and non-pulmonary organ dysfunction was compared between the groups by calculating the days alive and free of ALI and other organ dysfunctions. Results: The high dose and low dose groups received a mean of 3.72 mg and 0.64 mg salbutamol per day, respectively. The high dose salbutamol group had significantly more days alive and free of ALI than the low dose group (12.2 ± 4.4 days versus 7.6 ± 1.9 days, p = 0.02). There were no associations between dose of β agonist and non-pulmonary organ dysfunctions. High dose salbutamol (p = 0.04), APACHE II score (p = 0.02), and cause of ALI (p = 0.02) were independent variables associated with number of days alive and free of ALI in a multivariate linear regression model. Conclusion: Our retrospective study suggests that salbutamol, an inhaled β2 agonist, is associated with a shorter duration and lower severity of ALI. A dose greater than 2.2 mg/day of inhaled salbutamol could be a minimal effective dose to evaluate in a randomized controlled trial.
Roman Malek (Hrsg.): "Fallbeispiel China”. Ökumenische Beiträge zu Religion, Theologie und Kirche im chinesischen Kontext
Creators: name: Mühlhahn, Klaus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 69 (1998): ASIEN (Oktober)
Variabilities of Dopamine (₯)
Creators: name: Huang, Andrea Wei-Ching
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 500204
subject: History and philosophy of science
classificationCode: 320202
subject: Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)
classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 319999
subject: Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The Variabilities of Dopamine (₯) - PART I:ChEBI:18243What is the specific image of the charming and changeable dopamine among scientists? What is the family tree of dopamine established by chemists and information scientists? What is so called ontology? Let us try to brief in common words, knowledge ontology (ontology for short) is a basic computing model compiled by scientific experts in a specific field and fed to computers.Today, we try to use the knowledge architecture of these computers to feed human readers in the context of popular science for writing and reading. This is an innovative creative experiment that uses dopamine to open a new chapter in popular science. It’s so exciting, so nervous for me. What are the benefits of learning about dopamine through Ontology?Telling stories by the graphical structure of the basic knowledge summary, let people understand the information quickly and clearly at a glance.Linking to specific knowledge bases, the information can be “tasted” briefly and deeply by human choices.Are you in urgent need of inspiration tools? Why not try the ontological popular science for different creativity?Chinese version published at CASE Science, Center for the Advancement of Science Education, National Taiwan, 2024-06-27 | English VersionVariabilities of Dopamine (₯) - PrequelDopamine should be the most well-known neurotransmitter in the human body. After all, who doesn’t like the “happy molecule”? But you know what? Dopamine is not that simple! There are still divergent opinions about the role she plays in the human body, and it is often said that her actions and reactions affect us in unexpected ways. This article uses the theme of anthropomorphic scientific information to observe and understand the development process of dopamine in the history of science and the different characteristics discovered at different stages. It uses the growth process of a girl as a metaphor to observe and understand it as a leading story to understand the complete knowledge structure of dopamine.Chinese version published at CASE Science, Center for the Advancement of Science Education, National Taiwan, 2024-04-24 | English Version多變多巴胺——第一部:ChEBI:18243多巴胺是什麼?如果一張圖就能告訴我們許多多巴胺知識,而且,這些知識是由許多科學家合力建立完成的;如果一張圖就能提供多巴胺關鍵的連結,對於我們快速掌握多巴胺的資訊結構有多大幫助?試試看,透過多巴胺在一個知識庫中有一個身分證號碼:18243,ChEBI知識本體,開始帶領我們透視化學多巴胺與連結即時更新的豐富資源探索旅程。多變多巴胺——前傳多巴胺應該是最為大眾所熟知的人體內神經傳遞物質,畢竟「快樂分子」誰不喜歡呢?但你知道嗎?多巴胺可沒有這麼簡單喔!她在人體內所扮演的角色至今依然眾說紛紜,甚至經常傳出她在哪個行為、反應當中,又出乎意料地如何影響著我們。本文藉擬人化科學資訊主題,將多巴胺在科學史上發展的過程、不同階段所發現的不同特性,以少女成長過程作為比喻來觀察和理解,來作為認識迷人多巴胺完整知識架構的前導故事。
Functional and Structural Insights into the First and Second Intracellular Domains for D1-Class Dopaminergic Receptors
Creators: name: Zhang, Boyang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Dopamine
GPCR

description: Previous studies have shown that the subtype-specific pharmacological properties of D1-class receptors (D1R and D5R) can be attributed to their third intracellular domain and C-terminal tail. However, the importance of their first and second intracellular domains (IC1 and IC2) has yet to be explored. Using mutagenesis and bioinformatics, we examine the functional and structural roles of Ser/Thr spanning IC1 and IC2—most of which are conserved not only among D1-class receptors but also among other GPCRs. Mutant receptors of human D1-class receptors (hD1R and hD5R) were constructed whereby all Ser and Thr were mutated to the respective Ala and Val in the IC1 region (termed ST1 mutant receptors) and in the IC2 region (termed ST2 mutant receptors). We found that hD1-ST2 and hD5-ST2 exhibited contrasting properties of agonist affinity, constitutive activity, and dopamine potency. On the other hand, both ST2 mutants underwent internalization as wild-type but displayed weakened desensitization abilities. Homology models, which have been refined under membrane simulations, illustrate that the conserved Ser3.55 and Thr3.65 utilize their side chains to anchor the loop regions of IC2 to cytoplasmic helices. We also found multiple functional alterations in the hD1-ST1 and hD5-ST2, but in a subtype-similar manner. Mutating the conserved Thr2.39 recapitulated the ablated basal activity and drastic decrease in dopamine potency previously witnessed in the hD1-ST1. Based on the recurring theme observed in crystal structures, the side-chain of Thr2.39 may help to position IC2 to have proper contacts with the G protein. Mutating the conserved Ser2.45 was found to be solely responsible for the elevated Emax (maximal response) of the hD1-ST1. Using single point mutagenesis, we further found that breaking the potential molecular interactions of Ser2.45 in hD1R (i.e. with Asn3.42 and Trp4.50) mimicked its elevated Emax. This elevated Emax was not found to be caused by altered abilities to undergo agonist-induced desensitization or internalization relative to hD1R. Overall, our work highlights the important functional and structural roles of IC1 and IC2 that needs to be accounted for in our current canonical models of GPCR signalling. Given the conserved nature of these Ser/Thr, our work may also be pertinent towards understanding the roles of IC1 and IC2 for other GPCRs.
Fellowship App - Managing Emerging Forest Disease Under Uncertainty
Creators: name: Ross, Noam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This is a (funded!) proposal for a 1-year fellowship from UC Davis' REACH IGERT program to study emerging forest disease from both ecological and economic perspectives.
title: The origin of "Old World" viticulture
Creators: name: Forni, Gaetano
name: Fogarty, Marina Olwen
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The best way to understand the importance of a certain
agricultural activity is to focus on all its aspects, on its cosmo-ecologic traits, story and origins. This is precisely what we
will do in this contribution
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 51 (2012): Vitis (Special Issue)
The Lived Experiences of Mothers of Adolescents who Misuse Substances
Creators: name: KATOUZIYAN, MASOUMEH
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mothers' experiences
Adolescent substance misuse
Qualitative research

description: Background: When a family encounters the problem of adolescent substance misuse, the burden of managing it often falls primarily on the mother. Objective and methods: This research was conducted in two phases to explore the experiences of mothers of adolescents who misuse substances. Phase one was a systematic qualitative evidence synthesis of qualitative studies on the experiences of mothers of adolescents who misused substances. In this phase, conventional content analysis was used to create a narrative synthesis of themes and categories. Phase two was a qualitative study using thematic analysis to describe mothers’ experiences of parenting an adolescent who misused drugs. Findings: Eleven qualitative studies were included in the literature review. New categories regarding mothers’ experiences emerged from the review and synthesis: 1) I love you and we can talk no matter what; 2) So this is really happening . . . My kid’s on drugs; 3) What have I done?; 4) My family is shattered: a) I can’t believe what you’re doing, b) I can’t face this, c) I’ve lost my baby; and 5) It’s not my addiction. Four mothers were interviewed for the qualitative study. Mothers described their realities and the challenges they faced parenting an adolescent who misused drugs. Their experiences were represented in the following categories:1) recognition, 2) punishment/surveillance, 3) negative emotions, 4) relationships, 5) escalating effects, 6) strategies, and 7) home–a safe place. Conclusions: The findings from this research contribute to our understanding of the everyday lives and struggles that mothers face with their adolescents’ substances misuse. Nurses, by implementing early targeted interventions, will meet the needs of these mothers and assist themselves and ultimately their adolescents to attain optimal wellbeing.
Joshua A. Fogel, Peter Zarrow (eds.): Imagining the People. Chinese Intellectuals and the Concept of Citizenship, 1890-1920
Creators: name: Mühlhahn, Klaus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 69 (1998): ASIEN (Oktober)
Persistence in Engaging in Formal Mindfulness Practice
Creators: name: Khazraei, Narges
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mindfulness
Persistence

description: The purpose of this study was to explore individuals’ experience with persistence in maintaining a regular practice of formal mindfulness. Employing a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the main findings derived from in-depth semi-structured interviews with five mindfulness practitioners. Other sources included the pre-interview questionnaire, which asked for experience with mindfulness, field notes, a reflective journal, and feedback from the participants (member-check). Twenty-two codes were identified through the process of thematic data analysis. After grouping them based on relevance, seven themes emerged: (a) Creating appropriate conditions to practice, (b) flexibility in practice, (c) reaching out, (d) developing and maintaining habits, (e) living the teachings of mindfulness, (f) motivated to experience benefits, and (g) learning from lived experience. All codes and themes were related to both sources of motivation and actions taken by participants associated with persistence in maintaining a regular practice of formal mindfulness. The findings of this study have implications for psychotherapists and counsellors who want to incorporate mindfulness into their therapy practice. They contribute ideas for drawing on mindfulness as a self-care practice, and also for enhancing the therapeutic relationship with clients. The study also contributes useful ideas for mindfulness instructors in supporting their trainees in maintaining a continuous and regular practice following a mindfulness program.
Кооперативна діяльність бібліотеки вищого навчального закладу для створення електронних інформаційних ресурсів
Creators: name: Nazarovets, Serhii
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Theoretical Computer Science

description: The paper presents the experience of cooperation between the Scientific Library of Lviv Polytechnic National University and the World Digital Library project. Practical advice that can be used by other libraries of Ukraine to establish their own collaboration with the project.
Ethical Abnegation: Insights from Lonergan
Creators: name: Pauley, Amy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bernard Lonergan
Ethics
Interiority
Patterns of Experience
Dramatic Pattern of Experience
Aesthetic and Artistic Patterns of Experience
Charles Taylor
Alasdair MacIntyre

description: The overarching intent of the present work is to identify features of the problem of ethical abnegation and to offer solutions to the problem for the sake of promoting ethical reflection. This project follows a method of problem and response. This involves identifying and responding to elements within ethical theory that contribute to the problem of ethical abnegation. We will offer accounts of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre (chapter 2), Charles Taylor (chapter 3) and Bernard Lonergan (chapter 4 to chapter 8). Each author, in his own manner, identifies features of ethical theory that can foster and even promote ethical abnegation. Based on the research findings, we propose that Lonergan's method for intentionality analysis advances the works of MacIntyre and Taylor on the topic of ethical abnegation. Lonergan's method treats the operations of responsible consciousness, different stages of meaning and patterns of experience and provides a theoretical framework for identifying features of the problem of ethical abnegation and its possible solutions in both ethical theory and interiority and thereby, provides a framework for self-appropriating tools that aid subjects in pursuing ethical reflection on social goods and values. In chapters four and five, we refer to the possibility of developing responsible interiority and moral conversion. These chapters also refer to Lonergan’s framework for differentiating among stages of meaning and multiple concerns that can facilitate moving back and forth between stages and concerns to promote ethical reflection. Chapter six offers Lonergan’s account of the theological tools available to advance the project of contending with ethical abnegation. In particular, theological categories can refer the subject to the need of God’s grace and religious conversion to overcome despair and initiate a loving orientation to do good for others. Chapters seven and eight provide explanations for how Lonergan’s account of the patterns of experience and in particular, the dramatic pattern of experience can facilitate loving orientation to God as a constituent dimension of ordinary experience. The explicability of Lonergan’s tools for identifying and mitigating the challenges of ethical abnegation will be shown to provide justification for the present work’s proposal that Lonergan’s method advances MacIntyre and Taylor’s project of enhancing ethical theory to promote ethical reflection.
title: Penemuan Hukum dalam Perumusan Kriteria Pemeriksaan
title: Legal findings in the formulation of public sector audit criteria
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Atmaja, A.P. Edi
Publisher: name: Warta Pemeriksa
Year: 2018

description: Teori penemuan hukum dapat diberlakukan untuk subjek lain yang berurusan dengan hukum, termasuk pemeriksa. Sebab tugas seorang pemeriksa lekat dengan proses membandingkan antara kondisi dan kriteria pemeriksaan yang antara lain berwujud peraturan perundang-undangan. Di samping itu, Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan memiliki fungsi kuasi-yudisial berkenaan dengan penilaian dan/atau penetapan kerugian negara.

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The theory of legal findings can be applied to other subjects that deal with the law, including auditors. This is because the task of an auditor is closely related to the process of comparing conditions and audit criteria, which are, among other things, in the form of laws and regulations. In addition, the Indonesian Supreme Audit Institution (Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan) has a quasi-judicial function regarding the settlement of state losses.
The Use of Technology in Nursing: A Grounded Theory for Getting a Picture
Creators: name: Nagel, Daniel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: grounded theory
telehealth
constructivist
nursing
qualitative
technology

description: Background: Using technology requires nurses to capture, retrieve and organize digital data within virtual environments. Nurses often integrate digital data with other data sources when providing patient care with telehealth technologies and conducting research. Little is understood of how nurses navigate technology and process digital data in professional practice. Purpose: The overall aim of this dissertation was to explore how nurses navigate virtual environments and integrate digital data in professional practice through a grounded theory study of how nurses know the person using telehealth technology. The goals of the dissertation were to: a) Describe how knowing the person occurs with use of telehealth technology; b) Create a theoretical conceptualization of how the nurse comes to know the person in a virtual environment; and, c) Explicate data collection and analytical processes in Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory. Methods Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory (ConGT) was used for the research study. Findings: The process of conducting this study yielded two outcomes: 1. A grounded theory and conceptualization for Getting a Picture, which illuminates an integrated and iterative interplay of seven processes and 21 sub-processes that nurses described when forming a mental image of the person being cared for. Twenty-two registered nurses from five telehealth programs in two different provincial health systems participated. Primary data sources included 22 first interviews and 11 second interviews with the participants, and five observational experiences. 2. The approach for conducting ConGT involved operationalizing a series of five steps in the analytic process to visualize and conceptualize Getting a Picture. These steps included Initial Data Collection, Initial Coding, Focused Coding, Theoretical Coding and Theory Building. Conclusion: Visualization played an instrumental role when technology was used for both knowing the person in a virtual environment and operationalizing the methodological processes for this ConGT research study. Three main themes related to this overall finding in this dissertation were: (a) visualization and conceptualization to create a mental image is evident in both clinical and research domains of nursing practice; (b) interoperability of technology can impact visualization; and (c) competencies are required to support mental imaging and use of technology in visualizing a whole and accurate picture.
The relationship between stage 1 and 2 non-small cell lung cancer and lung function in men and women
Creators: name: Malhotra, Samir
name: Lam, Stephen
name: Man, S. F. P.
name: Gan, Wen Q.
name: Sin, Don D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Reduced forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) has been linked to non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, it is unclear whether all or only certain histological subtypes of NSCLC are associated with reduced FEV1. Moreover, there is little information on whether gender modifies this relationship. Using a large tissue registry, we sought to determine the relationship between FEV1 and subtypes of NSCLC and determine whether this relationship is modified by gender. Methods We used data from patients who underwent tumor resection for NSCLC at a teaching hospital in Vancouver and had various pre-operative clinical measurements including FEV1. We divided the cohort into quartiles of predicted FEV1 and using both logistic and linear regression modeling techniques determined whether FEV1 was related to the occurrence of adeno or squamous cell carcinoma in men and women. Results There were 610 patients in the study (36% females). On average, women were more likely to have adenocarcinoma than were men (72% of all cases of NSCLC in women versus 40% in men; p < 0.001). In women, there was no significant relationship between FEV1 and the risk of any histological subtypes of NSCLC. In men, however, there was an inverse relationship between the risk of adenocarcinoma and FEV1 such that the lowest quartile of FEV1 was 47% less likely to have adenocarcinoma compared with the highest FEV1 quartile (adjusted odds ratio, 0.52; 0.28 to 0.98; p for trend, 0.028). The reverse was observed for squamous cell carcinoma. Conclusion In individuals undergoing lung resection for NSCLC, the risk of adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung varies as a function of FEV1, independent of smoking intensity in men but not in women. Clinical Implications These data indicate that women are much more susceptible to adenocarcinoma than are men especially when they have normal or near normal lung function. It may thus be useful to conduct periodic surveillance chest radiographs in asymptomatic female smokers (or ex-smokers) to ascertain peripheral nodules or masses before distant metastases occur since adenocarcinomas tend to metastasize earlier in the disease course than squamous cell carcinomas.
Voluntourism Discourse: A Case Study of ME to WE
Creators: name: Buchmayer, Kelsey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: voluntourism
ME to WE
volunteer abroad

description: Youth’s perceptions of international development and its related themes are being shaped through the messages relayed in the marketing of volunteer sending organizations. This research explores how one voluntourism sending organization, ME to WE, packages and portrays themes of international development and contributes to Heron’s “helping imperative” (2007), which is a desire to go abroad and make change by asserting one’s own values of development. It uses qualitative content analysis from ME to WE’s online youth trip pages and explores how the organization uses a discourse that focuses on the notion of “doing” development, selling adventure, the allure of the proximity to poverty, and leadership and social justice training. The research situates the findings in the scholarly debates on international volunteering and voluntourism and draws heavily on postcolonial analysis. It examines how ME to WE uses a rhetoric that promotes sustainable development, partnerships, building leaders, and global citizenship, however upon deeper analysis this promotion is superficial in that the themes in the discourse point to a lack of critical reflexivity in meaningful, thick conceptions of global citizenship education, an overwhelming support for egoistic motivations over altruism in youth going abroad, a consumer-first, consumption-based mentality, and a reinforcing of unequal power structures between the Global North and Global South, reverting back towards charity as opposed to solidarity.
Can inhaled fluticasone alone or in combination with salmeterol reduce systemic inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? – study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [NCT00120978]
Creators: name: Sin, Don D.
name: Man, S. F. P.
name: Marciniuk, Darcy D.
name: Ford, Gordon
name: FitzGerald, Mark
name: Wong, Eric
name: York, Ernest
name: Mainra, Rajesh R.
name: Ramesh, Warren
name: Melenka, Lyle S.
name: Wilde, Eric
name: Cowie, Robert L.
name: Williams, Dave
name: Rousseau, Roxanne
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Systemic inflammation is associated with various complications in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease including weight loss, cachexia, osteoporosis, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Inhaled corticosteroids attenuate airway inflammation, reduce exacerbations, and improve mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Whether inhaled corticosteroids by themselves or in combination with a long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonist repress systemic inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is unknown. The Advair Biomarkers in COPD (ABC) study will determine whether the effects of inhaled corticosteroids alone or in combination with a long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonist reduce systemic inflammation and improve health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Methods/Design After a 4-week run-in phase during which patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will receive inhaled fluticasone (500 micrograms twice daily), followed by a 4-week withdrawal phase during which all inhaled corticosteroids and long acting β2-adrenoceptor agonists will be discontinued, patients will be randomized to receive fluticasone (500 micrograms twice daily), fluticasone/salmeterol combination (500/50 micrograms twice daily), or placebo for four weeks. The study will recruit 250 patients across 11 centers in western Canada. Patients must be 40 years of age or older with at least 10 pack-year smoking history and have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease defined as forced expiratory volume in one second to vital capacity ratio of 0.70 or less and forced expiratory volume in one second that is 80% of predicted or less. Patients will be excluded if they have any known chronic systemic infections, inflammatory conditions, history of previous solid organ transplantation, myocardial infarction, or cerebrovascular accident within the past 3 months prior to study enrolment. The primary end-point is serum C-reactive protein level. Secondary end-points include circulating inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 as well as health-related quality of life and lung function. Discussion If inhaled corticosteroids by themselves or in combination with a long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonist could repress systemic inflammation, they might greatly improve clinical prognosis by reducing various complications in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Identification of "Chan-daeng" Sold in Wholesale Herbal Stores in Bangkok and Vicinity areas by using HPLC Fingerprint
Creators: name: Jinda Wangboonskul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chan-daeng, Dracaena cochinchinensis (Lour.) S.C.Chen, herbals homonym, HPLC fingerprint, Pterocarpus santalinus L.f.

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 1, 63-70
Impact of High Fat- and High Fructose-Diet on Murine Hepatic Histological Feature and CYP3A11 Profile
Creators: name: Nattharat Jearapong
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: CYP3A11, Histopathology, High fat diet, High fructose diet

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 1, 71-80
Storyboard: Living inquiries, computer-generated
Creators: name: Mallos, Melina
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390101
subject: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390401
subject: Comparative and cross-cultural education
classificationCode: 470212
subject: Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies

description: As the a/r/tographer leading this participatory research, my chosen method of rendering data throughout this dissertation was storyboarding. Each storyboard presents visual, metaphoric openings to contemplate my own identity and migration experience amidst the voices of my participants. The artmaking and participatory activities have woven their ways in and out of my thinking as a/r/tographer. Through reflection on our digital interactions, what evolved for each participant became more important to my praxis in depicting how my own living inquiry continued to grow and change throughout the research. By rendering the data through living inquiry, I created a storyboard combining some of the visual images, experiences, and sentiments articulated and expressed by the participants. In other words, the storyboard is an artefact of our living inquiries. The elements I included in the rendering below were to make sense of the data derived from elements of the participants’ living inquiries that resonated with mine, such as missing Greece like I would miss a friend who I craved to see and reconnect with. The cultural elements such as Greek dance, costumes, music, and language are aspects that Greek migrants of a diaspora seem to cling to or embrace while also creating a life in Australia, wearing different masks depending on the contexts. With COVID-19, this mask became not only a metaphorical, but also a physical marker of emotional and social distance and a barrier to intimacy or expressing the true self. In the storyboard, the different voices and perspectives were incorporated to describe a unifying or shared experience. I selected and assigned images to the concepts that the participants shared, which resonated with my own experiences, and organised them into a visual artefact.
Security and privacy in RFID-enabled supply chains
Creators: name: Shaoying CAI
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80303 Computer System Security
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 150309 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supply chain is a network involving multiple parties such as suppliers, transporters, storage facilities, distributors, and retailers that participate in the production, delivery, and sale of a product. It is difficult to monitor a supply chain since the involving parties are distributed at multiple locations or even across countries. RFID technology, when combined with networking technology, enables product information to be collected, integrated, shared, and queried in supply chains at various levels (e.g., item, pallet, case, and container) in real time manner. While RFID technology has greatly facilitated the supply chain management, it is still challenging to design a secure, privacy-preserving, and efficient RFIDenabled supply chain system. The wireless communications between RFID readers and tags are subject to a variety of attacks. An adversary may eavesdrop, replay, and manipulate RFID communications to obtain tag identifier, track tag location, impersonate tag and reader, and trigger denial of service. This dissertation focuses on secure and privacy-preserving tag authentication in various supply chain application scenarios. Our first work is on attacks and improvements of an existing mutual authentication protocol and a tag secret update protocol for RFID-enabled supply chains. Our second work improves the efficiency of an RFID-enabled supply chain system by designing the system in two security modes. In the weak security mode, the tagged products can be processed in a highly efficient way. In the strong security mode, our system guarantees a high level of security, while its efficiency is lower than that in the weak security mode. Our third work addresses the tag authentication problem in the scenario of third-party logistics(3PL). We firstly formalize the security and privacy requirements of RFID systems for 3PL supply chains considering the existence of the internal adversaries as well as the external adversaries. We propose two different protocols, one is based on aggregate message authentication codes, the other is based on aggregate signature scheme. Our solutions enable a third-party to check tag existence without knowing tag secrets. Our fourth work focuses on path authentication in RFID-enabled supply chains. We propose a single-game-based privacy notion for RFID-enabled path authentication which has been proven to be stronger than existing privacy notions for path authentication. We also propose two new path authentication schemes, one for closed supply chains, and another for dynamic supply chains.