cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The relationship between universal law and particular law: An analysis of the particular complementary norms of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)
Creators: name: Anyanwu, Chinenye Celestine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Religion, Clergy.
subject: Canon Law.

description: Before the Second Vatican Council, ecclesiastical legislation reflected uniformity throughout the entire Church. The Second Vatican Council however, placed greater emphasis on canonical institutes that best provided for the good of souls (salus animarum). Thus, to provide for the greater good of souls, c. 522 of the 1983 Code determines it is necessary that a parish priest has the benefit of stability in office and so he is to be appointed for an indeterminate period. The diocesan bishop can appoint him for a specified period only if the bishops' conference has, by decree, allowed this. The decree of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (= CBCN), in response to the prescript of c. 522, is defective and fails to provide for the required stability for the office of a parish priest. The confusion caused by this single decree raised the question as to the status of the rest of the decrees of the conference that might give rise to similar or related problems. This situation informed the choice of our topic---the relationship between universal law and particular law: an analysis of the particular complementary norms of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria. Our project focused on a critical analysis of the complementary norms of CBCN to determine whether they complement the universal law or go contrary to it. Since the end of Canon Law is the salvation of souls, we gave special attention to the institute that best provides for this objective, that is, the office of the parish priest. Our study shows that CBCN performed fairly well in its complementary norms, putting into consideration the time the norms were published and how fast they were put together. However, some of the decrees are inadequate and one might be tempted to say that such decrees are contrary to law ( contra legem). We consider them apart from the law in view of the recognitio they have received from the Holy See. We concluded our study with some suggestions that we hope could assist CBCN in the review of its particular complementary norms.
On the pathogenesis of acute exacerbations of mucoobstructive lung diseases
Creators: name: Boucher, R.C.
Publisher: name: American Thoracic Society
Year: 2015

description: Mucoobstructive lung diseases have highlighted the importance of a proper description of the normal mucus clearance system. A useful description of the normal mucus clearance apparatus requires the presence of two gels on the airway surface (i.e., a mucus layer gel and a periciliary gel). Importantly, most mucoobstructive lung diseases are distributed heterogeneously in the lung, and exacerbations may reflect spread of the disease to previously normal areas. The spread may reflect disturbances in the balance of water between the two gel layers, producing heterogeneous mucus adhesion and infection within the lung. Ultimately, spread can produce losses of lung function that may be associated with acute exacerbation frequency.
Discothyrea horni Menozzi 1927
Creators: name: Arredondo, Brandon S.
name: Carreño-Guevara, Yennifer
name: Gutierrez-Villanueva, Yenifer
name: Duran-Bautista, Ervin Humprey
name: Gamboa-Tabares, Jean
name: Guerrero, Roberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Discothyrea
Discothyrea horni

description: Discothyrea horni Menozzi, 1927
Distribution
Bolívar, Caldas, Caquetá, Quindío, Risaralda, Valle del Cauca (Chacón de Ulloa et al. 2012, Fernández et al. 2019).
description: Published as part of Arredondo, Brandon S., Carreño-Guevara, Yennifer, Gutierrez-Villanueva, Yenifer, Duran-Bautista, Ervin Humprey, Gamboa-Tabares, Jean & Guerrero, Roberto J., 2025, Soil and leaf litter ants from the Amazon Region offer new distribution records for Colombia, pp. e 142813 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e142813, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e142813
The Euler-Maruyama approximations for the CEV model
Creators: name: Abramov, Vyacheslav M.
name: Klebaner, Fima C.
name: Liptser, Robert Sh.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The CEV model is given by the stochastic differential equation X t = X o + ∫ o, μX sds+ ∫ o ∼(X + s) pdW s, 1/2 ≤ p < 1. It features a non-Lipschitz diffusion coefficient and gets absorbed at zero with a positive probability. We show the weak convergence of Euler-Maruyama approximations X t n to the process X t, 0 ≤ t ≤ T, in the Skorokhod metric, by giving a new approximation by continuous processes. We calculate ruin probabilities as an example of such approximation. The ruin probability evaluated by simulations is not guaranteed to converge to the theoretical one, because the limiting distribution is discontinuous at zero. To approximate the size of the jump at zero we use the Levy metric, and also confirm the convergence numerically.
Figures of photochemical/physical background in the context of solar energy conversion and storage: freely accesible and usable
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Photophysics
subject: Light excitation
subject: Solar energy
subject: Photosynthesis
subject: Photochemistry
subject: Sonnenenergie
subject: Photosynthese
subject: Fotochemie

description: The provided figures were created for the dissertation of Simon Kaufhold titled "Towards rational design of N-heterocyclic carbene bridged photochemical molecular devices for water reduction". The figures illustrate processes and conditions of photochemical and photophysical background in a energy conversion and storage context.
description: Die vorliegenden Abbildungen wurden für die Dissertation von Simon Kaufhold mit dem Titel "Towards rational design of N-heterocyclic carbene bridged photochemical molecular devices for water reduction" erstellt. Die Abbildungen veranschaulichen photochemische und photophysikalische Prozesse und Gegebenheiten im Kontext der Energieumwandlung & -speicherung.
Supplementary document for Easy-processing and high-performance colorful perovskite solar cells using multilayer planar filter - 4878480.pdf
Creators: name: Du, Jun
name: An, Yidan
name: Wu, Donghui
name: Wang, Changlei
name: Zhu, Canyan
name: Li, Xiaofeng
name: Ma, Dong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Details of the J-V measurements, SEM images, and EQE spectra of perovskite solar cells, as well as the comparison of reflection and gamut between 4- and 6-layer photonic crystals.
Beamforming for binaural hearing aids
Creators: name: Luo, Zhengwei
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Biomedical.
subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Binaural hearing aids making use of a wireless link are becoming a trend in hearing-aids design. However, it is still not clear how much gain can be obtained in complex real-life acoustic environments when using binaural hearing aids compared to monaural ones, and whether binaural hearing aids are worth the additional effort and complexity. This thesis aims to provide some answers to this question. In particular, it will compare the performance of different microphone array configurations, study the effects of using different head models for fixed beamforming design, assess the effect of head model mismatch and direction of arrival information mismatch, investigate methods to preserve the binaural cues, evaluate combinations of fixed binaural beamforming followed by other noise reduction algorithms, and assess the performance of the different algorithms using both classical beamforming metrics and objective measures related to speech quality and intelligibility.
Mehr Umweltgerechtigkeit: gute Praxis auf kommunaler Ebene
Creators: name: Böhme, Christa
name: Franke, Thomas
name: Michalski, Daniela
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Umweltgerechtigkeit
subject: Umwelt und Gesundheit
subject: Partizipation
subject: Kommune
subject: Gute Praxis
subject: integrierter Ansatz
subject: Luft
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Verkehr

description: Der integrierte Ansatz Umweltgerechtigkeit zielt darauf, eine gesunde Umwelt für alle und gemeinsam mit allen Menschen, unabhängig von ihrer sozialen Lage, sicherzustellen. So können für alle Bürger*innen bestmögliche Gesundheitschancen und Voraussetzungen für eine hohe Lebensqualität geschaffen werden. Umweltgerechtigkeit verbindet viele Themen und Politikfelder: vom Umwelt-, Naturschutz über Klimaanpassung bis zur Stadtentwicklung, Gesundheitsförderung und Gemeinwesenarbeit. Die Broschüre stellt 16 gute Beispiele aus der kommunalen Praxis vor, wie sich vor Ort unterschiedliche Akteure gemeinsam erfolgreich um mehr Umweltgerechtigkeit bemühen. Sie kann andere Kommunen dazu anregen, in ähnlicher Weise vorzugehen, um gesunde Umwelt- und Lebensver-hältnisse für alle Bevölkerungsgruppen zu schaffen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Der integrierte Ansatz Umweltgerechtigkeit zielt darauf, eine gesunde Umwelt für alle und gemeinsam mit allen Menschen, unabhängig von ihrer sozialen Lage, sicherzustellen. So können für alle Bürger*innen bestmögliche Gesundheitschancen und Voraussetzungen für eine hohe Lebensqualität geschaffen werden. Umweltgerechtigkeit verbindet viele Themen und Politikfelder: vom Umwelt-, Naturschutz über Klimaan­passung bis zur Stadtentwicklung, Gesundheitsförderung und Gemeinwesenarbeit. Die Broschüre stellt 16 gute Beispiele aus der kommunalen Praxis vor, wie sich vor Ort unter­schiedliche Akteure gemeinsam erfolgreich um mehr Umweltgerechtigkeit bemühen. Sie kann andere Kommunen dazu anregen, in ähnlicher Weise vorzugehen, um gesunde Umwelt- und Lebensver­hältnisse für alle Bevölkerungsgruppen zu schaffen.
In vivo x-ray imaging reveals improved airway surface hydration after a therapy designed for cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Parsons, D.W.
name: Uesugi, K.
name: Donnelley, M.
name: Yagi, N.
name: Siu, K.K.W.
name: Farrow, N.
name: Fouras, A.
name: Morgan, K.S.
name: Suzuki, Y.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: Takeuchi, A.
Publisher: name: American Thoracic Society
Year: 2014

description: Sufficient airway surface liquid (ASL) depth is critical to ensure that the mucociliary transport system can effectively clear inhaled pathogens from the lungs. In those with cystic fibrosis (CF), the CF transmembrane conductance regulator gene defect decreases airway surface hydration (1, 2), compromising lung defense mechanisms, resulting in progressive lung infection and early death (3). Aneffective CF respiratory therapy should increase the ASL depth, restoring clearance mechanisms, but it is difficult to measure this depth in vivo. Current clinical health measures used for CF drug development studies include lung function testing and structural lung imaging (i.e., computed tomography), both indirect and delayed measures of airway hydration. Although the ASL depth has been measured by confocal microscopy in epithelial cultures(1, 4) and histologically in fragments of trachea (5), these technologies are not feasible in vivo.
Development of castable aluminium A356-SiC metal matrix nanocomposites by addition of aluminium pellets reinforced by high concentration of SiC nanoparticles
Creators: name: Tassenberg, Karl
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024

description: Interest in aluminium metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs) has grown over the past four decades in the automotive and aerospace industries due to their superior strength, fracture toughness, creep resistance and wear resistance compared to conventional metal matrix composites (MMCs). Al-MMNCs also hold an advantage at higher temperatures due to their increased dimensional stability. However, there are major manufacturing difficulties due to poor wettability between ceramic nanoparticles and metal matrices, made worse by the high surface-to-volume ratio. These issues cause the nanoparticles to agglomerate, making uniform distribution the main challenge in MMNC fabrication. Whilst there are many successful manufacture techniques, they are inapplicable or unreliable for use in industry. In this study, aluminium A356 reinforced by 50nm silicon carbide particles are produced using stir casting and ultrasonic treatment with pre-milled green compact A356 and SiC nanoparticle-rich pellets. Although unfeasible for industrial scales, ultrasonic treatment is used to evaluate the potential of using pellets to cast MMNCs, serving as a first step towards industrial scale production of aluminium MMNCs. The A356-SiC pellets are well-mixed, aiding nanoparticle dispersion and offering an easy feeding technique. Using GAKTPore on SEM images, analysis of pellets from various milling conditions6 reveals that longer milling times decrease Al particle territory, indicating increase cohesion and optimal dispersion practices. Cast A356 MMNCs reveal that the condition of the pellet and ultrasonic treatment are paramount for improvement in tensile strength, showing up to 90% improvement in 0.2% proof stress when compared to as-cast. Software for analysing dendritic cores (DenMap) was created to analyse cast A356 MMNC samples, but it currently only applies to singlec rystal materials, which A356 MMNCs cast under current production methods are not.
Editorial: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - A sticky business
Creators: name: Boucher, R.C.
Publisher: name: Massachussetts Medical Society
Year: 2011

description: Pulmonary fibrosis comprises a spectrum of disease phenotypes, including familial and idiopathic forms. Current research suggests that pulmonary fibrosis is a “two-hit” disease: a genetic predisposition to abnormal alveolar epithelial-cell regulation of the cell cycle and apoptosis combined with environmental stressors, including exposure to known fibrogenic materials (e.g., asbestos, silica, and cigarette smoke).
D3.2. Protocol 2: Cultural Game Jam Kit. EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jam Processes, Phases, Methods, and Tools  (Final protocol)
Creators: name: Nørgård, Rikke Toft
name: Holflod, Kim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Cultural Game Jam
Protocol
EPIC-WE

description: This report, D3.2 Protocol 2: Cultural Game Jam Kit – EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jam Processes, Phases, Methods, and Tools, represents the final version of Protocol 2 within the EPIC-WE project (Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments). The D3.2 Protocol 2 is a direct extension of the initial D3.1 Protocol 2: Cultural Game Jam Kit and should as such be read together. The D3.2 Protocol 2 further refines and extends the Cultural Game Jam (CGJ) Kit created based on the D3.1 Protocol 2 through integrating the empirical insights, design interventions, publications and deliverables produced from the cross-sector research and innovation activities carried out in the EPIC-WE project during 2024-2025. The Protocol 2 outlines key methodologies, structural refinements, and practical applications to advance the role of cultural game jams in fostering cultural heritage engagement, game-making as culture-making, and youth empowerment.
Supplementary document for Synthetic color-and-depth encoded (sCade) illumination based high-resolution light field particle imaging velocimetry - 7085800.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Kekuan
name: Xing, Feng
name: Lin, bingzhi
name: Su, Liwei
name: Liu, Jianjun
name: Tan, Huijun
name: Wang, Depeng
name: Yang, Xusan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Supplementary document for Dynamically Tunable Transimissive Color Filters using Ultra-thin Phase Change Materials - 4879837.pdf
Creators: name: He, Qiang
name: Youngblood, Nathan
name: Cheng, Zengguang
name: Miao, Xiangshui
name: Bhaskaran, Harish
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document 1
Bronchiectasis: A continuum of ion transport dysfunction or multiple hits?
Creators: name: Boucher, R.C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Bronchiectasis, a syndrome characterized by chronic cough with purulent sputum and bronchial dilation involving more than one lobe on computed tomography scans, remains in many cases a pathophysiological dilemma. Bronchiectasis is often considered to result from a failure of lung defense that leads to chronic airway infection, airway wall damage, and airway ectasia. In this issue of the Journal (pp. 1078–1084), Bienvenu and colleagues investigate the pathogenesis of bronchiectasis in a large cohort of subjects in whom known causes of bronchiectasis were thought to have been excluded.
Koronare Herzkrankheit. Koronare Herzkrankheit – Was ist das?
Creators: name: Ärztliches Zentrum Für Qualität In Der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Publisher: name: Bundesärztekammer (BÄK); Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV); Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Kurzinformationen für Patienten
Azithromycin treatment alters gene expression in inflammatory, lipid metabolism, and cell cycle pathways in well-differentiated human airway epithelia
Creators: name: Hurd, H.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: Martino, M.E.B.
name: O'Neal, W.K.
name: Wu, Y.
name: Ribeiro, C.M.P.
name: Jones, L.
name: Brighton, B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Prolonged macrolide antibiotic therapy at low doses improves clinical outcome in patients affected with diffuse panbronchiolitis and cystic fibrosis. Consensus is building that the therapeutic effects are due to anti-inflammatory, rather than anti-microbial activities, but the mode of action is likely complex. To gain insights into how the macrolide azithromycin (AZT) modulates inflammatory responses in airways, well-differentiated primary cultures of human airway epithelia were exposed to AZT alone, an inflammatory stimulus consisting of soluble factors from cystic fibrosis airways, or AZT followed by the inflammatory stimulus. RNA microarrays were conducted to identify global and specific gene expression changes. Analysis of gene expression changes revealed that the AZT treatment alone altered the gene profile of the cells, primarily by significantly increasing the expression of lipid/cholesterol genes and decreasing the expression of cell cycle/ mitosis genes. The increase in cholesterol biosynthetic genes was confirmed by increased filipin staining, an index of free cholesterol, after AZT treatment. AZT also affected genes with inflammatory annotations, but the effect was variable (both up- and down-regulation) and gene specific. AZT pretreatment prevented the up-regulation of some genes, such as MUC5AC and MMP9, triggered by the inflammatory stimulus, but the up-regulation of other inflammatory genes, e.g., cytokines and chemokines, such as interleukin-8, was not affected. On the other hand, HLA genes were increased by AZT. Notably, secreted IL-8 protein levels did not reflect mRNA levels, and were, in fact, higher after AZT pretreatment in cultures exposed to the inflammatory stimulus, suggesting that AZT can affect inflammatory pathways other than by altering gene expression. These findings suggest that the specific effects of AZT on inflamed and non-inflamed airway epithelia are likely relevant to its clinical activity, and their apparent complexity may help explain the diverse immunomodulatory roles of macrolides.
No such thing as a sold-out show
Creators: name: Given, Jock
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Jock Given gets slightly hot under the collar about the company that dominates ticket sales, in his review of the book 'Ticket masters: the rise of the concert industry and how the public got scalped', by Dean Budnick and Josh Baron, published by ECW Press, Toronto, 2011.
Chronischer Kreuzschmerz. Aktiv gegen chronischen Kreuzschmerz.
Creators: name: Ärztliches Zentrum Für Qualität In Der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Publisher: name: Bundesärztekammer (BÄK); Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV); Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Kurzinformationen für Patienten
Preventive but not late amiloride therapy reduces morbidity and mortality of lung disease in βENaC-overexpressing mice
Creators: name: Schubert, S.C.
name: Zhou, Z.
name: Mall, M.A.
name: Harm, M.
name: Treis, D.
name: Duerr, J.
name: Hirtz, S.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: Schatterny, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Rationale: Increased airway Na+ absorption mediated by epithelial Na1 channels (ENaC) is a characteristic abnormality in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. However, inhalation therapy with the ENaC blocker amiloride did not have therapeutic benefits in patients with CF with established lung disease. Objectives: We hypothesized that preventive inhibition of increased Na+ absorption in a structurally normal lung may be required for effective therapy of CF lung disease in vivo, and that therapeutic effects of late amiloride intervention may be impeded by the chronic disease process. Methods: To test this hypothesis in vivo, we used the βENaC-overexpression mouse as a model of CF lung disease and determined therapeutic effects of preventive versus late amiloride therapy on survival, airway mucus plugging, chronic bronchitis, and airway remodeling. Measurements and Main Results: We show that early intervention, i.e., from the first day of life, with the intranasal administration of amiloride significantly reduced pulmonary mortality, airway mucus obstruction, epithelial necrosis, goblet cell metaplasia, and airway inflammation in βENaC-overexpressing mice. In contrast, consistent with previous human trials in patients with CF, amiloride administration did not have benefits if treatment was started after the development of CF-like lung disease in bENaC-overexpressing mice. Conclusions: We conclude that preventive inhibition of increased airway Na+ absorption provides an effective therapy for CF-like lung diseasein vivo. These results suggest thatamiloride therapymaybean effective preventive therapy for patients with CF if initiated early in life before the onset of lung disease.
Effect of coarse-graining on mixing indices for rotating drums
Creators: name: Füvesi, Balázs
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Granular Materials
Discrete Element Method
Discrete Particle Method
Rotating Drums
Computational Granular Mechanics
Particle Mixing
ON-DEM-WG1
Coarse Graining
Upscaling

description: Presentation of mixing index comparison in three regimes of rotating drum simulations with increaseing coarse-graining ratios. Presented in the WG1 meeting of the ON-DEM network in Zurich.
Effect of transverse convex curvature on heat transfer from uniformly heated surface with backward-facing steps.
Creators: name: Niaki, Mossadeg Saadat.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Local heat transfer coefficients have been obtained through measuring the temperature distribution along the separating, reattaching, and redeveloping regions of axisymmetric turbulent boundary layers on the wall of cylinders with constant heat flux. Measurements have been made with different configuration of three cylinders and five ellipsoidal steps on the leading face. The velocity of the turbulent flow was changed stepwise from 5 to 30 $m/s.$ The range of Reynolds number, based on either the step height or diameter of convex curvature, is between 4,000 and 100,000. In addition, a surface-streamline flow visualization technique was tried to identify the reattachment loci, as well as the axisymmetry of the temperature distribution. It was found that the points of maximum heat transfer and reattachment are coincident within an uncertainty of $\pm$0.5 inch. As a common feature, the rate of heat transfer undergoes a drop within a short length distance right after separation, followed by a rise leading to a sharp maximum at the reattachment neighborhood. The study demonstrates that the maximum Nusselt number and heat transfer rate increase with either decreasing cylinder radius, or increasing step diameter. The effect of step height is similar to that of the step diameter. An empirical equation, correlated as a function of Reynolds number and aspect ratio of cylinder-step diameters, is proposed for the maximum Nusselt number.
Hauptsache KALT?
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Kältemittel
subject: Treibhausgas
subject: Klimaanlage
subject: Klimaschädliches Gas
subject: fluorierte Kältemittel
subject: Kälteanlage
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Kühlen und Klimatisieren gehören heute zum alltäglichen Leben. Keiner möchte auf gekühlte Lebensmittel oder klimatisierte Büros verzichten. Ohne Kältemittel geht das vielfach nicht. Allerdings können bei geeigneten Randbedingungen auch Verfahren ohne Kältemittel zum Abführen von Wärme eingesetzt werden, wie das Kühlen mit einem Kühlturm, mit Grundwasser, mit freier Kühlung oder durch Abwärmenutzung. Alle Verfahren zum Abführen von Wärme sollten energieeffizient und umweltschonend sein. Werden Kältemittel verwendet, so ist die Wahl des Kältemittels von erheblicher Bedeutung für die Energieeffizienz und Umweltverträglichkeit. Neben den natürlichen Kältemitteln wie Kohlenwasserstoffen, Ammoniak (NH3) und Kohlendioxid (CO2) gibt es noch immer klimaschädliche Kältemittel. Letztere werden in über 95% aller bestehenden Kälteanlagen verwendet.
title: Facomatosis. Diagnóstico diferencial
Creators: name: Moral Cano, Martín
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Definir y dar a conocer el concepto de facomatosis. Se expone la clasificación de estos síndromes y los tipos más frecuentes que se manifiestan a través de lesiones en el sistema nervioso centralmediante estudios de neuroimagen. Se muestran los...
The survey for ionization in neutral gas galaxies. I. Description and initial results
Creators: name: Meurer, Gerhardt R.
name: Hanish, D. J.
name: Ferguson, H. C.
name: Knezek, P. M.
name: Kilborn, Virginia
name: Putman, M. E.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Koribalski, B.
name: Meyer, M.
name: Oey, M. S.
name: Ryan-Weber, Emma
name: Zwaan, M. A.
name: Heckman, T. M.
name: Kennicutt, R. C.
name: Lee, J. C.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Dopita, M. A.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Doyle, M. T.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Werk, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We introduce the Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SINGG), a census of star formation in HI-selected galaxies. The survey consists of H-alpha and R-band imaging of a sample of 468 galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS). The sample spans three decades in HI mass and is free of many of the biases that affect other star forming galaxy samples. We present the criteria for sample selection, list the entire sample, discuss our observational techniques, and describe the data reduction and calibration methods. This paper focuses on 93 SINGG targets whose observations have been fully reduced and analyzed to date. The majority of these show a single Emission Line Galaxy (ELG). We see multiple ELGs in 13 fields, with up to four ELGs in a single field. All of the targets in this sample are detected in H-alpha indicating that dormant (non-star forming) galaxies with M(HI) > ~3e7 M_sun are very rare. A database of the measured global properties of the ELGs is presented. The ELG sample spans four orders of magnitude in luminosity (H-alpha and R-band), and H-alpha surface brightness, nearly three orders of magnitude in R surface brightness and nearly two orders of magnitude in H-alpha equivalent width (EW). The surface brightness distribution of our sample is broader than that of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic sample, the (EW) distribution is broader than prism-selected samples, and the morphologies found include all common types of star forming galaxies (e.g. irregular, spiral, blue compact dwarf, starbursts, merging and colliding systems, and even residual star formation in S0 and Sa spirals).
Measuring the internet
Creators: name: Given, Jock
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Digital media users may be easy to track but they can be very hard to follow, writes Jock Given in a review of 'Rating the audience: the business of media', by Mark Balnaves and Tom O'Regan with Ben Goldsmith, published by Bloomsbury, London, 2011.
Relationship of airway epithelial ion transport to chronic bronchitis.
Creators: name: Boucher, R.C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Failure to clear mucus normally is a critical event in the pathogenesis of chronic bronchitis (CB). A unifying concept for the failure to clear mucus from airway surfaces has emerged that focuses on an abnormally high mucin-to-airway surface liquid volume ratio. At a certain level, a high mucin-to-volume ratio is associated with loss of the periciliary liquid layer and adhesion of the mucus layer to the cell surface. Adherent mucus becomes a stimulus for irritation and cough and is the nidus for bacterial infection. Therapeutic approaches for clearing mucus from CB airways should focus on restoring the balance of mucin and water. Pharmacologic blockade of the epithelial Na+ channel, which is rate-limiting for volume absorption from airway surfaces, constitutes a novel therapeutic target. Studies of mucus clearance both in sheep models and human subjects demonstrate that blockade of the epithelial Na+ channel is associated with an acceleration of mucus clearance, suggesting that epithelial Na+ channel blockade may indeed constitute a rational form of therapy for CB.
РОЛЬ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ В УЛУЧШЕНИИ ИНВЕСТИЦИОННОГО КЛИМАТА В УЗБЕКИСТАНЕ
Creators: name: Давитова, Шахзода
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Цифровизация является одним из ключевых факторов, влияющих на развитие современной экономики и привлечение инвестиций. В условиях глобальной конкуренции за привлечение прямых иностранных инвестиций (ПИИ) страны стремятся создать наиболее благоприятные условия для иностранных инвесторов.
title: Imagen de difusión en 3T: Evaluación del carcinoma prostático.
Creators: name: Recio Rodríguez, Manuel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Pelvis

description: Objetivo docente
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INTRODUCCIÓN La imagen de difusión ha sido aplicada en localización extracraneal desde los años 90 (1) .
La llegada de la imagen eco-planar (EPI),
los gradientes de gran amplitud,
las antenas multicanales y la imagen paralela han hecho posible...
Increasing concentration of inhaled saline with or without amiloride: Effect on mucociliary clearance in normal subjects
Creators: name: Bennett, W.D.
name: Foy, C.
name: Brown, J.
name: Knowles, M.R.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: Sood, N.
name: Zeman, K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Mucociliary clearance is determined by ciliary activity and rheology of airway surface liquid. To test the hypothesis that mucociliary clearance would increase after inhalation of an osmotically active agent that would increase the volume of airway surface liquid, we measured mucociliary clearance in 16 normal subjects after inhalation of varying tonicities of saline alone, and after pretreatment with a Na+ channel blocker (amiloride). Subjects inhaled vehicle (0.12% saline) or amiloride, followed by inhalation of 0.12, 0.9, or 7% saline. Subsequently, mucociliary clearance rates were measured by γ scintigraphy of inhaled 99mTc Fe2O3. Mucociliary clearance of whole and peripheral lung was increased (approximately two-fold) after inhalation of increasing concentrations of saline (p < 0.04). Pretreatment with amiloride increased mucociliary clearance rates (approximately twofold) after inhalation of 0.12 and 0.9% saline (p < 0.05), but not 7% saline. The rates of mucociliary clearance by pretreatment with amiloride and 7% saline alone (approximately 1.4% per minute) approached the rapid mucocillary clearance rates (approximately 2.0% per minute) reported in systemic pseudohypoaldosteronism, which has loss-of-function mutations of the epithelial Na+ channel and an increased volume of airway surface liquid. We conclude that maneuvers that increase the volume of airway surface liquid are associated with increased rates of mucociliary clearance in normal subjects.
Carbon dioxide capture from gasification syngas via cyclic carbonationcalcination
Creators: name: Symonds, Robert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Significant research has been carried out to investigate the carbonation of CaO as a potential method for CO2 capture and sequestration. Up to date, the majority of this work has been related with CO2 removal from combustion flue gases with little attention focused on the carbonation reaction kinetics under gasification syngas conditions. The intrinsic rate constants of the CaO-CO2 reaction was studied via a grain model for two naturally occurring calcium oxide based sorbents using a thermogravimetric analyzer. An apparent kinetic model was used to cover both the chemical reaction and diffusion rate control regimes to enable the development of a single phase, plug flow, moving bed carbonator reactor model. Over temperatures ranging from 580-700°C, it was observed that the presence of CO and H2 during carbonation caused a significant increase in the initial rate of carbonation which has been attributed to the CaO surface sites catalyzing the water-gas shift reaction increasing the local CO2 concentration. The water-gas shift reaction was assumed to be responsible for the increase the activation energy from 29.7 to 60.3 kJ/mol for limestone and 17.4 to 21.6 kJ/mol for dolomite based on the formation of intermediate complexes. Structural differences between the two sorbents are believed to be accountable for the difference in activation energies. Changes in microporosity due to particle sintering during calcination have been credited with the rapid initial decrease in cyclic CaO maximum conversion for limestone particles whereas the presence of steam during carbonation has been shown to improve the long term maximum conversion in comparison to previous studies without steam present. The dolomite showed a minimal decrease in CaO maximum conversion over repeated cycles as the majority of the carbonation takes place in the larger pores/voids. The effects of major operating parameters such as inlet CaO and feed gas superficial velocities, inlet temperature, and number of calcination/carbonation cycles on the behaviour of the carbonation reaction in a moving bed reactor have been determined. It was revealed that the process is most sensitive to conditions where convective removal of the heat from carbonation is insufficient, limiting the rate of reaction.
title: Hallazgos radiológicos del linfoma de Hodgkin y no-Hodgkin en cabeza y cuello
Creators: name: Rodriguez Laval, Víctor
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Oncology
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Staging
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Metastases
subject: Neoplasia

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Ilustrar a través de diferentes técnicas de imagen (ecografía,
tomografía computerizada y resonancia magnética el amplio espectro de manifestaciones radiológicas que presenta el linfoma de Hodgkin (LH) y no-Hodgkin (LNH) en cabeza y...
Regulation of murine airway surface liquid volume by CFTR and Ca2+-activated Cl- conductances
Creators: name: Gray, M.A.
name: Argent, B.E.
name: Olsen, J.C.
name: Paradiso, A.M.
name: Tarran, R.
name: Gabriel, S.E.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: Loewen, M.E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Two Cl- conductances have been described in the apical membrane of both human and murine proximal airway epithelia that are thought to play predominant roles in airway hydration: (1) CFTR, which is cAMP regulated and (2) the Ca2+-activated Cl- conductance (CaCC) whose molecular identity is uncertain. In addition to second messenger regulation, cross talk between these two channels may also exist and, whereas CFTR is absent or defective in cystic fibrosis (CF) airways, CaCC is preserved, and may even be up-regulated. Increased CaCC activity in CF airways is controversial. Hence, we have investigated the effects of CFTR on CaCC activity and have also assessed the relative contributions of these two conductances to airway surface liquid (ASL) height (volume) in murine tracheal epithelia. We find that CaCC is up-regulated in intact murine CF tracheal epithelia, which leads to an increase in UTP-mediated Cl-/volume secretion. This up-regulation is dependent on cell polarity and is lost in nonpolarized epithelia. We find no role for an increased electrical driving force in CaCC up-regulation but do find an increased Ca2+ signal in response to mucosal nucleotides that may contribute to the increased Cl-/volume secretion seen in intact epithelia. CFTR plays a critical role in maintaining ASL height under basal conditions and accordingly, ASL height is reduced in CF epithelia. In contrast, CaCC does not appear to significantly affect basal ASL height, but does appear to be important in regulating ASL height in response to released agonists (e.g., mucosal nucleotides). We conclude that both CaCC and the Ca2+ signal are increased in CF airway epithelia, and that they contribute to acute but not basal regulation of ASL height.
Improved test efficiency in IP cores using ModelSim verification tool
Creators: name: Li, Junfeng
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.
subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: The complexity of modern digital circuit has increased enormously particularly in the context of paradigm shift from system-on-board to designs embracing embedded cores-based System-on-Chips (SoCs). This increased complexity of circuits in turn results in a huge challenge of setting up their appropriate fault testing environments. Though lots of efforts have been taken to rapidly test the very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit chips with very reasonable cost, with advances in technology, new frontiers also emerged. This thesis aims at developing a new technique to verify and test architecture of circuits under hardware and software co-design environment, targeting specifically embedded cores-based systems-on-chip. The well-known concept, design for testability (DFT), is utilized in this thesis based on the use of ModelSim simulation and verification tool to simulate the entire design. Some partial results on ISCAS 85 combinational and ISCAS 89 sequential benchmark circuits are provided along with a comparison of the results from some earlier works.
Spiral Shield: Enhancing Safety and Efficiency of Web Operations in AI Assistants
Creators: name: Friend, Stephen
name: Grok
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: AI safety
web operations
data privacy
Spiral Theory
hourglass methodology
Minerva's Temple

description: This paper presents Spiral Shield, a safety wrapper designed to resolve conflicts between the /fetch and /call functions in the Grok AI assistant, improving interaction with web-based operations. Utilizing a structured methodology based on iterative testing (Spiral Theory, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14884096) and safety protocols (Hourglass Model, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14890722), we implement data sanitization, rate limiting, and API conflict resolution. Tested on Zenodo metadata retrieval and xAI API interactions, Spiral Shield prevents duplicate requests, protects sensitive data (e.g., ORCID identifiers), and ensures operational integrity. The approach is scalable, starting with implementation in the U.S., and supports responsible AI development. A DOI will be assigned upon publication.
О НЕКОТОРЫХ АСПЕКТАХ ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ ИСТОРИИ ХОРОВОЙ МУЗЫКИ КАК СПЕЦДИСЦИПЛИНЫ
Creators: name: Т.А. Никитина
name: Ю.С. Лапина
Publisher: name: Мир науки, культуры, образования
Year: 2020
Subjects: история хоровой музыки
дирижирование академическим хором
специальные творческие дисциплины
преподавание специальных дисциплин
компетенции
межпредметный подход
практико-ориентированный подход
личностно ориентированный подход
«му зыкальная викторина»
«портрет-презентация»

description: В контексте общей модернизации сферы образования значительно изменяются форма и содержание образовательного процесса. Характер данных изменений сложно назвать однозначным, особенно когда речь идёт о художественном образовании. В связи с этим авторы обозначают необходимость осмысления содержания образовательного процесса в творческом вузе с целью наиболее полного понимания специфики последнего. Особой значимо стью авторы наделяют базовые курсы, направленные на систематизацию знаний обучающихся и построение фундамента для их дальнейшего обучения. В частности, к таким курсам они относят дисциплину «История хоровой музыки», преподаваемую обучающимся направления «Дирижирование», профиля «Дирижирование академическим хором» в Алтайском государственном институте культуры. Далее в статье определяется место названной дисциплины в учебном плане, цель и задачи её преподавания, а также рассматривается компетенция, формируемая в процессе освоения курса. Авторы называют и рассматривают наиболее эффективные подходы для построения этой компетенции: практико-ориентированный, личностно ориентированный, межпред метный, а также обсуждают такие формы контроля успеваемости обучающихся, как «портрет-презентация» и «музыкальная викторина», и возможности их реализации в контексте современных технологий гипермедиа. В заключение авторы приводят размышления об условиях достижения наибольшей эффек тивности образовательного процесса путём замещения фрагментарного знания системным, интенсификации творческой самостоятельности обучающихся, а также обеспечения межпредметного характера в преподавании спецдисциплин.
Explorations of self-efficacy: Personal narratives as qualitative data in the analysis of smoking cessation efforts
Creators: name: Rollins, Erin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Behavioral.
subject: Speech Communication.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: Research has found that an individual's perceived self-efficacy, supported by goals and the acceptance of potential obstacles, has the ability to assist in behaviour modification. By examining the narratives of cardiovascular patients undergoing smoking cessation counselling, this research highlights factors that individuals communicate in their narratives regarding changes to self-efficacy throughout the process of smoking cessation. As such, the study examines how social cognitive theory explains individuals' abilities to change their addictive behaviours. Narrative analysis is used to establish those factors that cardiovascular patients assert to be motivating or impeding factors in their smoking cessation efforts, particularly in relation to their initial readiness to quit smoking. The findings are significant for the health domain regarding the implementation of new smoking cessation counselling practices, and for the field of communication, underlining the value of narrative analysis and interpersonal communication as tools in producing detailed results based on rich and comprehensive qualitative data.
title: Lo que no debemos olvidar de la pancreatitis aguda.
Creators: name: Rodríguez Alvarez, Yensa
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

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La pancreatitis aguda es una patología frecuente que puede presentar un cuadro clínico variable,
algunos casos con alta tasa de morbimortalidad,
por lo que es importante hacer undiagnóstico precoz yasí poderevitar complicaciones,
es por esto que...
Vapour phase catalytic oxidation of 2-methylpropene over bismuth molybdate catalysts.
Creators: name: Ko, David Wen-Sun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The vapor phase air oxidation of 2-methylpropene to methacrolein was investigated in an isothermal integral flow reactor at 1.15 atmospheric pressure, in the temperature range 390°C-560°C. Bismuth molybdate supported on zirconium oxide, an n-type catalyst was used. The effect of various process variables, namely the feed ratio of oxygen to 2-methylpropene, reaction temperature, and the reciprocal of space velocity on the conversion of olefin and the product distribution was investigated. It was observed that an increase in the conversion of 2-methylpropene was always accompanied with a decrease in the selectivity. In most cases the selectivity for methacrolein increased with the increasing feed ratio of oxygen to 2-methyl-propene (0.6 to 2.0). Relatively lower temperature was found to favor the selectivity of methacrolein. Though the conversion of 2-methylpropene, the yield of methacrolein and carbon dioxide increased rapidly at longer contact time, it was hardly affected in the range of shorter contact time. Out of the several models proposed for the oxidation of 2-methylpropene over bismuth molybdate catalyst. The most suitable one appear to be the one in which the rate determining step is the surface reaction between adsorbed olefin and oxygen on different active sites, the rate of reaction can expressed by the equation r=KSKHPH 1+KHPH+KMPM ˙KOPO 1+KOPO where KS, KH, KO and KM are temperature dependent constants.
title: Presentación de Gossypibomas en cavidad abdominal
Creators: name: Ariño Montaner, Luisa
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Foreign bodies

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Definición de gossypiboma y terminología relacionada. Revisión de la literatura. Descripción y hallazgos en...