cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Safety and tolerability of plasma exchange and immunoadsorption in neuroinflammatory diseases
Creators: name: Dorst, Johannes
name: Fillies, Frank
name: Dreyhaupt, Jens
name: Senel, Makbule
name: Tumani, Hayrettin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: therapeutic plasma exchange
subject: immunoadsorption
subject: neurological diseases
subject: chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
subject: TRYPTOPHAN IMMUNOADSORPTION
subject: COMPLICATIONS
subject: COMBINATION
subject: EXPERIENCE
subject: SEPARATION
subject: PROTEIN
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Plasma exchange
subject: Adsorption; Immunology
subject: Multiple sclerosis
subject: Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic inflammatory demyelinating
subject: Nervous system diseases
subject: Immunadsorption
subject: Nervenkrankheit
subject: Polyneuropathie
subject: Multiple Sklerose

description: Plasma exchange (PE) and immunoadsorption (IA) are frequently used for treatment of various autoimmune-mediated neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS). Although both methods are generally regarded as well-tolerated treatment options, evidence for safety and tolerability is low for most indications and largely relies on small case series. In this study, we retrospectively analysed adverse events (AEs) and laboratory changes in 284 patients with various neurological indications who received either PE (n = 65, 113 cycles) or IA (n = 219, 435 cycles) between 2013 and 2020 in our Neurology department. One standard treatment cycle for PE as well as IA consisted of five treatments on five consecutive days. During every treatment, the 2.0–2.5-fold individual plasma volume (PV) was treated in IA, while in PE, the 0.7-fold individual PV was replaced by human albumin solution. Overall, both methods showed an excellent safety profile; no deaths of life-threatening adverse events were recorded. Severe AEs (corresponding to grade 3 on the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events grading scale v5.0) including three patients with sepsis, one pneumonia, and one pneumothorax were present in 5/435 IA cycles (1.1%); in the PE group, no severe AEs were recorded. Furthermore, although advantageous tolerability is generally considered the main advantage of IA over PE, we found that overall frequency of AEs (including grades 1 and 2) was higher in IA (67.1% of all cycles) compared to PE (35.4%; p < 0.001). The low incidence of AEs in PE might be caused by the lower PV exchanged during each treatment (0.7-fold) compared to previous studies which predominantly exchanged the 1.0–1.5-fold PV. In order to verify this hypothesis as well as confirming the efficacy of this lower-dosed scheme, prospective studies comparing different treatment regimens are needed.
The Anglo-Australian observatory 2dF facility
Creators: name: Lewis, I. J.
name: Cannon, R. D.
name: Taylor, K.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Bailey, J. A.
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Barton, J. R.
name: Bridges, T. J.
name: Dalton, G. B.
name: Farrell, T. J.
name: Gray, P. M.
name: Lankshear, A.
name: McCowage, C.
name: Parry, I. R.
name: Sharples, R. M.
name: Shortridge, K.
name: Smith, G. A.
name: Stevenson, J.
name: Straede, J. O.
name: Waller, L. G.
name: Whittard, J. D.
name: Wilcox, J. K.
name: Willis, K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The 2dF (Two-degree Field) facility at the prime focus of the Anglo-Australian Telescope provides multiple-object spectroscopy over a 2° field of view. Up to 400 target fibres can be independently positioned by a complex robot. Two spectrographs provide spectra with resolutions of between 500 and 2000, over wavelength ranges of 440 and 110 nm respectively. The 2dF facility began routine observations in 1997. 2dF was designed primarily for galaxy redshift surveys and has a number of innovative features. The large corrector lens incorporates an atmospheric dispersion compensator, essential for wide wavelength coverage with small-diameter fibres. The instrument has two full sets of fibres on separate field plates, so that re-configuring can be done in parallel with observing. The robot positioner places one fibre every 6s, to a precision of 0.3 arcsec (20 μm) over the full field. All components of 2dF, including the spectrographs, are mounted on a 5-m diameter telescope top end ring for ease of handling and to keep the optical fibres short in order to maximize UV throughput. There is a pipeline data reduction system which allows each data set to be fully analysed while the next field is being observed. 2dF has achieved its initial astronomical goals. The redshift surveys obtain spectra at the rate of 2500 galaxies per night, yielding a total of about 200 000 objects in the first four years. Typically a B = 19 galaxy gives a spectrum with a signal-to-noise ratio of better than 10 per pixel in less than an hour; redshifts are derived for about 95 per cent of all galaxies, with 99 per cent reliability or better. Total system throughput is about 5 per cent. The failure rate of the positioner and fibre system is about 1:10000 moves or once every few nights, and recovery time is usually short. In this paper we provide the historical background to the 2dF facility, the design philosophy, a full technical description and a summary of the performance of the instrument. We also briefly review its scientific applications and possible future developments.
Gelpi E. (2002), Lavoro futuro. La formazione come progetto politico, Milano, Guerini e Associati.
Creators: name: Tolomelli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Questo volume è la traduzione italiana, a cura di Bruno Schettini, dell’ultimo lavoro compiuto di Ettore Gelpi, uscito in Francia per la casa editrice L’Harmattan di Parigi con il titolo Futurs du travail.
The Mirror and Personal Identity: pedagogical reflections
Specchio e identità personale: riflessioni pedagogiche.
Creators: name: Bucchi, Federica
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Una stretta ed intima connessione ha da sempre legato specchio e identità personale, in un intreccio pieno di luci e di ombre, non privo di complessità e contraddizioni, ma nel contempo ricco di risvolti esistenziali. Dal punto di vista pedagogico, l’esame del legame tra specchio e identità personale permette di af-frontare questioni educative salienti e di delineare percorsi improntati all’autenticità, che tendano nel contempo a libertà e differenza.
description: Una stretta ed intima connessione ha da sempre legato specchio e identità personale, in un intreccio pieno di luci e di ombre, non privo di complessità e contraddizioni, ma nel contempo ricco di risvolti esistenziali. Dal punto di vista pedagogico, l’esame del legame tra specchio e identità personale permette di af-frontare questioni educative salienti e di delineare percorsi improntati all’autenticità, che tendano nel contempo a libertà e differenza.
Supplementary document for Backscattering in antiresonant hollow-core fibers: over 40 dB lower than in standard optical fibers - 5024461.pdf
Creators: name: Michaud-Belleau, Vincent
name: Fokoua, Eric Rodrigue Numkam
name: Bradley, Tom
name: Hayes, John
name: Chen, Yong
name: Poletti, Francesco
name: Richardson, David
name: Genest, Jérôme
name: Slavik, Radan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Details about the OFDR instrument and NANF sample
Sensing phases of water via nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond
Creators: name: Fernández-Acebal, Pelayo
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Qubits
subject: Theoretical Physics
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Theoretical physics
subject: Qubit
subject: Theoretische Physik

description: Ultra-thin layers of liquids on a surface behave differently from bulk liquids due to liquid-surface interactions. Some examples are significant changes in diffusion properties and the temperature at which the liquid-solid phase transition takes place. Indeed, molecular dynamics simulations suggest that thin layers of water on a diamond surface may remain solid even well above room temperature. However, because of the small volumes that are involved, it is exceedingly difficult to examine these phenomena experimentally with current technologies. In this context, shallow NV centres promise a highly sensitive tool for the investigation of magnetic signals emanating from liquids and solids that are deposited on the surface of a diamond. Moreover, NV centres are non-invasive sensors with extraordinary performance even at room-temperature. To that end, we present here a theoretical work, complemented with numerical evidence based on bosonization techniques, that predicts the measurable signal from a single NV centre when interacting with large spin baths in different configurations. In fact, by means of continuous dynamical decoupling, the polarization exchange between a single NV centre and the hydrogen nuclear spins from the water molecules is enhanced, leading to differences in the coherent dynamics of the NV centre that are interpreted as an unambiguous trace of the molecular structure. We therefore propose single NV centres as sensors capable to resolve structural water features at the nanoscale and even sensitive to phase transitions.
Problems of empathy. Difficulties of emotive understanding and social complexity.
Problemi di empatia. Difficoltà di comprensione emotiva e complessità sociale.
Creators: name: Fabbri, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The Author analyses certain problems concerning the transformation of styles in educational experience. Refering also to neuroscientific studies, more radical model of empaty, that enable the interpretation of historical change, are proposed.
description: L’Autore analizza alcuni problemi, posti all’esperienza educativa dall’evoluzione degli stili esistenziali. Anche attraverso il riferimento a contributi della ricerca neuroscientifica, sollecita l’assunzione, da parte degli educatori, di più radicali forme d’empatia, in grado di tenere conto dei cambiamenti storici in atto.
Care for the homeless- Local Services and practical action
L’educatore sociale fra i Servizi e l’intervento di strada.
Creators: name: Giustini, Chiara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Ci siamo sempre poste molte domande sulla povertà, sulle cause dell'impoverimento, sulle responsabilità di noi “ricchi”, sulle possibilità che ogni persona ha di cambiare le cose. Forse è per questo che tre anni fa abbiamo deciso di aderire alla proposta del prof. Genovese e di partecipare al progetto "Un sacco a pelo per l'inverno" promosso dalla Caritas Diocesana di Bologna: da questa collaborazione è nato il Gruppo Nuove Povertà, tuttora impegnato in attività di ricerca sulla povertà, di impegno concreto e di sensibilizzazione al tema della marginalità nella nostra città e di formazione per gli studenti della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione. Forse è sempre per questo che per le nostre tesi abbiamo affrontato il problema della povertà e delle nuove povertà, la condizione dei senza dimora e le risposte dei Servizi. Ne sono nati due articoli: il primo, firmato da Federica Filippini, affronta il tema della povertà nella sua multidimensionalità e analizza in particolare la condizione dei senza dimora, il percorso di impoverimento, le difficoltà della vita in strada, il rapporto con la città e i Servizi; il secondo, firmato da Chiara Giustini, si sofferma, invece, sulla figura dell'educatore, sia all'interno dei Servizi rivolti ai senza dimora, sia nel lavoro di strada.
description: Ci siamo sempre poste molte domande sulla povertà, sulle cause dell'impoverimento, sulle responsabilità di noi “ricchi”, sulle possibilità che ogni persona ha di cambiare le cose. Forse è per questo che tre anni fa abbiamo deciso di aderire alla proposta del prof. Genovese e di partecipare al progetto "Un sacco a pelo per l'inverno" promosso dalla Caritas Diocesana di Bologna: da questa collaborazione è nato il Gruppo Nuove Povertà, tuttora impegnato in attività di ricerca sulla povertà, di impegno concreto e di sensibilizzazione al tema della marginalità nella nostra città e di formazione per gli studenti della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione. Forse è sempre per questo che per le nostre tesi abbiamo affrontato il problema della povertà e delle nuove povertà, la condizione dei senza dimora e le risposte dei Servizi. Ne sono nati due articoli: il primo, firmato da Federica Filippini, affronta il tema della povertà nella sua multidimensionalità e analizza in particolare la condizione dei senza dimora, il percorso di impoverimento, le difficoltà della vita in strada, il rapporto con la città e i Servizi; il secondo, firmato da Chiara Giustini, si sofferma, invece, sulla figura dell'educatore, sia all'interno dei Servizi rivolti ai senza dimora, sia nel lavoro di strada.
Bolognesi, Ivana e Di Rienzo, Adriana (2007), Io non sono proprio straniero. Dalle parole dei bambini alla progettualità interculturale, Milano, FrancoAngeli.
Creators: name: Corazza, Laura
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Ivana Bolognesi e Adriana Di Rienzo sono insegnanti con esperienza sia nella scuola dell’infanzia, sia nella scuola primaria; si occupano di formazione del personale docente sui temi dell’educazione interculturale con la sapienza che deriva dallo studio e dalla pratica insieme. Nel libro propongono percorsi didattici originali, nati da conversazioni e attività con alunni, genitori, insegnanti e frutto di una rivisitazione delle pratiche educative in chiave interculturale.
Wacquant, L. Anima e corpo. La fabbrica dei pugili nel ghetto nero americano, DeriveApprodi, Roma, 2002.
Wacquant, L. Anima e corpo. La fabbrica dei pugili nel ghetto nero americano, DeriveApprodi, Roma, 2002.
Creators: name: Scandurra, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Wacquant’s book focuses on the relationship bertween street culture and the world of the gym. Wacquant’s goal is to avoid the exotic insight often adopted in representing the environment of boxing, in order to focus on the gym space and on the daily life practices by a group of pugilists who are not probably going to be professionals. The gym turns into a a window allowing to observe the migratory flows towards U.S., since boxers belong mostly to the working class. The Author analyzes deeply the connection between pugilists and the coach, often similar to a father-son connection. The main issue of the book, however, is the teaching and learning dynamic through which they learn how to become pugilists. The training method of the “noble art”, indeed, shows the paradox of an individual discipline that implies a collective training. It’s impossible to learn boxing through a theoretical pathway. To learn a punch requests to repeat it thousands of times. Teaching a physical practices involves a lot of theoretical issues – this should be taken into careful consideration by social science when attempting to give a theoretical account of processes that happen mostly at an unconsciouos level.
description: Il saggio di Loic Wacquant tratta di un gruppo di pugili immigrati, delle loro pratiche di vita e della palestra che frequentano quotidianamente in un ghetto nero di Chicago. E’ una riflessione sulla boxe e sulla sua funzione pedagogica.
Formare alla Cooperazione Civile-Militare. Sistemi pedagogici a confronto.
Training for civil-military co-operation. A comparison of pedagogical systems
Creators: name: Berruti, Davide
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: In queste pagine vi presentiamo un soggetto che sta assumendo sempre maggiore importanza nel panorama della formazione, sia professionale che accademica: la cooperazione civile-militare. Essa è presente già da molti anni nella formazione delle Forze Armate e relativamente da poco nella formazione degli operatori civili delle emergenze e degli aiuti umanitari.; si affaccia, invece, solo negli ultimi anni nel dibattito politico dei movimenti pacifisti e nel mondo della cooperazione allo sviluppo.
description: In queste pagine vi presentiamo un soggetto che sta assumendo sempre maggiore importanza nel panorama della formazione, sia professionale che accademica: la cooperazione civile-militare. Essa è presente già da molti anni nella formazione delle Forze Armate e relativamente da poco nella formazione degli operatori civili delle emergenze e degli aiuti umanitari; si affaccia, invece, solo negli ultimi anni nel dibattito politico dei movimenti pacifisti e nel mondo della cooperazione allo sviluppo.
Paulo Freire educatore interculturale.
Paulo Freire intercultural educator
Creators: name: Ardito, Antonina
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Questo breve saggio intende proporre una lettura in chiave interculturale dell’impegno educativo e del pensiero di Paulo Freire. La sua pedagogia, nata in una terra come il Brasile segnata da una storia dalla valenza inter-trans-culturale, può offrire elementi di analisi e di riflessione per una ricerca educativa volta a smascherare le nuove forme di oppressione e ineguaglianza. La Pedagogia degli oppressi, ispirando la postcolonial education, ha contribuito alla nascita di una prospettiva di ricerca che intende studiare le nuove forme di mentalità coloniale nell’era della globalizzazione.
description: This essay does suggest an intercultural interpretation of educational care and reflexion of Paulo Freire. His educational thought, that originated in Brazil, a place marked by an inter-trans-cultural history, offers the possibility to analyze and to reflex about an educational research that will unmask new forms of (cultural) oppression and (political) inequality. Education of oppressed people prompts the postcolonial education and contributes to realize a research that will study new forms of colonial mentality in this era of globalization.
Agomelatine versus placebo: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished trials
Creators: name: Kösters, Markus
name: Cipriani, Andrea
name: Guaiana, Giuseppe
name: Becker, Thomas
name: Barbui, Corrado
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agomelatine
subject: Systematic review
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Antidepressive agents
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Agomelatin
subject: Metaanalyse

description: This is a protocol for a systematic review. The objectives are to determine the acute and long term efficacy of agomelatine in the treatment of unipolar major depression compared to placebo and to review the acceptability of agomelatine in comparison to placebo.
Uno sguardo sulla povertà e sulla condizione dei senza dimora.
Poverty and the conditions of the homeless
Creators: name: Filippini, Federica
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Ci siamo sempre poste molte domande sulla povertà, sulle cause dell'impoverimento, sulle responsabilità di noi “ricchi”, sulle possibilità che ogni persona ha di cambiare le cose. Forse è per questo che tre anni fa abbiamo deciso di aderire alla proposta del prof. Genovese e di partecipare al progetto "Un sacco a pelo per l'inverno" promosso dalla Caritas Diocesana di Bologna: da questa collaborazione è nato il Gruppo Nuove Povertà, tuttora impegnato in attività di ricerca sulla povertà, di impegno concreto e di sensibilizzazione al tema della marginalità nella nostra città e di formazione per gli studenti della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione. Forse è sempre per questo che per le nostre tesi abbiamo affrontato il problema della povertà e delle nuove povertà, la condizione dei senza dimora e le risposte dei Servizi. Ne sono nati due articoli: il primo, firmato da Federica Filippini, affronta il tema della povertà nella sua multidimensionalità e analizza in particolare la condizione dei senza dimora, il percorso di impoverimento, le difficoltà della vita in strada, il rapporto con la città e i Servizi; il secondo, firmato da Chiara Giustini, si sofferma, invece, sulla figura dell'educatore, sia all'interno dei Servizi rivolti ai senza dimora, sia nel lavoro di strada.
description: Ci siamo sempre poste molte domande sulla povertà, sulle cause dell'impoverimento, sulle responsabilità di noi “ricchi”, sulle possibilità che ogni persona ha di cambiare le cose. Forse è per questo che tre anni fa abbiamo deciso di aderire alla proposta del prof. Genovese e di partecipare al progetto "Un sacco a pelo per l'inverno" promosso dalla Caritas Diocesana di Bologna: da questa collaborazione è nato il Gruppo Nuove Povertà, tuttora impegnato in attività di ricerca sulla povertà, di impegno concreto e di sensibilizzazione al tema della marginalità nella nostra città e di formazione per gli studenti della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione. Forse è sempre per questo che per le nostre tesi abbiamo affrontato il problema della povertà e delle nuove povertà, la condizione dei senza dimora e le risposte dei Servizi. Ne sono nati due articoli: il primo, firmato da Federica Filippini, affronta il tema della povertà nella sua multidimensionalità e analizza in particolare la condizione dei senza dimora, il percorso di impoverimento, le difficoltà della vita in strada, il rapporto con la città e i Servizi; il secondo, firmato da Chiara Giustini, si sofferma, invece, sulla figura dell'educatore, sia all'interno dei Servizi rivolti ai senza dimora, sia nel lavoro di strada.
Hubble space telescope imaging of the CFRS and LDSS redshift surveys - IV. Influence of mergers in the evolution of faint field galaxies from z ∼ 1
Creators: name: Le Fèvre, O.
name: Abraham, R.
name: Lilly, S. J.
name: Ellis, R. S.
name: Brinchmann, J.
name: Schade, D.
name: Tresse, L.
name: Colless, M.
name: Crampton, D.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Hammer, F.
name: Broadhurst, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Hubble Space Telescope images of a sample of 285 galaxies with measured redshifts from the Canada-France Redshift Survey (CFRS) and Autofib-Low Dispersion Spectrograph Survey (LDSS) redshift surveys are analysed to derive the evolution of the merger fraction out to redshifts z ∼ 1. We have performed visual and machine-based merger identifications, as well as counts of bright pairs of galaxies with magnitude differences δm ≤ 1.5 mag. We find that the pair fraction increases with redshift, with up to ∼ 20 per cent of the galaxies being in physical pairs at z ∼ 0.75-1. We derive a merger fraction varying with redshift as ∝ (1 + z)3.2±0.6, after correction for line-of-sight contamination, in excellent agreement with the merger fraction derived from the visual classification of mergers for which m = 3.4 ± 0.6. After correcting for seeing effects on the ground-based selection of survey galaxies, we conclude that the pair fraction evolves as ∝ (1 + z)2.7±0.6. This implies that an average L* galaxy will have undergone 0.8-1.8 merger events from z = 1 to z = 0, with 0.5 to 1.2 merger events occuring in a 2-Gyr time-span at around z ∼ 0.9. This result is consistent with predictions from semi-analytical models of galaxy formation. From the simple coaddition of the observed luminosities of the galaxies in pairs, physical mergers are computed to lead to a brightening of 0.5 mag for each pair on average, and a boost in star formation rate of a factor of 2, as derived from the average [O II] equivalent widths. Mergers of galaxies are therefore contributing significantly to the evolution of both the luminosity function and luminosity density of the Universe out to z ∼ 1.
Minimizing machine set-up time when manufacturing printed circuit boards.
Creators: name: Weedmark, Michael Ellsworth.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Operations Research.

description: Technical advances in the past decade have enabled the development of very fast but expensive component placement machines for the production of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). However, when these fast machines have to assemble small volumes of many different types of circuit boards, the machine set-up time becomes much more important than the assembly rate of each board. In order to minimize this set up time, we must try to solve the set-up/sequencing decision problem according to either the MCS (Minimizing Component Switches) or MSI (Minimizing Switching Instants) performance criterion, or both. We examine the set-up/sequencing decision problem for a single machine (work cell) which has high mix low volume production schedules. We compare and improve methods which attempt to solve this problem, and we develop our own heuristics for solving this problem when both performance criteria are of great importance. We use lower bounds to determine how good our results are, and we discuss how to adapt methods which we have looked at to different manufacturing environments.
Internet e la costruzione di un sapere interculturale.
Internet and the creation of intercultural knowledge.
Creators: name: Corazza, Laura
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Le forme di comunicazione possibili in rete corrispondono ad una diffusione del sapere democraticamente inteso, ma anche orientato fortemente in senso interculturale. L’apporto di Internet all’interculturalità, intesa nel suo significato di scambio, condivisione, produzione culturale comune, si manifesta in tre direzioni: nel concetto di “cybercultura”; nell’idea di una conoscenza nuova e complessa; nella partecipazione “dal basso” alla costruzione del sapere.
description: Le forme di comunicazione possibili in rete corrispondono ad una diffusione del sapere democraticamente inteso, ma anche orientato fortemente in senso interculturale. L’apporto di Internet all’interculturalità, intesa nel suo significato di scambio, condivisione, produzione culturale comune, si manifesta in tre direzioni: nel concetto di “cybercultura”; nell’idea di una conoscenza nuova e complessa; nella partecipazione “dal basso” alla costruzione del sapere.
Étude comparative entre deux espaces de réception cinématographique: Cinéma multiplexe et e-cinéma
Creators: name: Mesana, Virginie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mass Communications.
subject: Cinema.

description: Devant la prolifération des dispositifs et des technologies de la représentation et de la diffusion, le cinéma se manifeste à travers une diversité de supports pour véhiculer les contenus audiovisuels. Le téléchargement des films via Internet sur un écran personnel, qu'il s'agisse d'un téléviseur ou d'un ordinateur, dans la sphère domestique représente, entre autres, une des étapes importantes dans l'évolution du cinéma vers des dispositifs autres que traditionnels. Aujourd'hui, cette pratique émergeante de visionnement de films peut être qualifié de e-cinéma. Cette étude de réception s'articule autour des questions suivantes: en quoi l'expérience du e-cinéma est-elle différente de l'expérience cinématographique en salle? Et le terme spectateur est-il encore justifié pour caractériser un individu ayant des pratiques de visionnement aussi variées? Face à l'ambivalence des pratiques culturelles de réception cinématographique, les notions de spectateur ou même de public rencontrent des limites conceptuelles non négligeables, laissant la place à une redéfinition de cet individu récepteur-décodeur de l'image.
Supplementary document for Self-stabilized soliton generation in a microresonator through mode-pulled Brillouin lasing - 5024810.pdf
Creators: name: Hwan, In
name: Kim, Dohyeong
name: Jeong, Dongin
name: suk, daewon
name: Kwon, Dohyeon
name: Kim, Jungwon
name: Lee, Jae Hoon
name: Lee, Hansuek
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: supplemental document
An examination of the impact of Ontario's Patient Restraint Minimization Act, 2001 on the use of physical and chemical restraints among elderly clients in complex continuing care facilities
Creators: name: Ralphs-Thibodeau, Sylvia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: In 2001, the Ontario provincial government passed an act to minimize the use of physical and chemical restraints in hospitals. This study utilized data from the Ontario Chronic Care Patient System (OCCPS) from April 1998 to March 2004. Data were analyzed using a simple interrupted time series design with visual and ITSACORR analysis to evaluate whether the act has resulted in a change in prevalence rates of physical restraints among elderly patients in Ontario's complex continuing care beds, both province wide and by facility type (i.e., rural, urban, small, large, private or public). Provincial legislation to minimize the use of physical restraints was not effective. ITSACORR analysis coupled with visual analysis can be a useful combination of instruments to assess brief interrupted time series although neither method alone is without limitations.
FMCW-Interference of frequency agile OFDM radars
Creators: name: Knill, Christina
name: Schweizer, Benedikt
name: Stephany, Simon
name: Werbunat, David
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
subject: Radar
subject: Electromagnetic interference
subject: Signal processing
subject: OFDM
subject: Interferenz
subject: Signalverarbeitung
subject: FMCW-Radar
subject: Komprimierte Abtastung

description: Flawless operation even with a high density of radar sensors in the vicinity is an essential prerequisite for radar sensors in automotive applications, safety systems, future autonomous driving, and in industry applications. Recent research shows the great potential of digitally modulated radars such as orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). Furthermore, novel frequency agile OFDM approaches such as stepped and sparse OFDM are superior to standard OFDM as they are able to achieve high resolution beyond the hardware-related band limits. In order to prevent possible mutual interference issues of common and novel modulation schemes, the influence of a state-of-the-art FMCW on stepped and sparse OFDM is examined in this paper. The effects of interference are investigated theoretically and through measurements using an experimental OFDM setup at 76 GHz and scenarios with up to two FMCW interferers. To prevent signal deterioration and limited detection performance due to interference, an efficient but low-cost detection and mitigation approach is presented for each of the two approaches.
Una edicion critica de "El indulto general," de Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
Creators: name: Escudero Baztan, Juan Manuel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Literature, Romance.

description: This M.A. thesis offers for the first time a critical edition of Calderon's auto sacramental El indulto general. The thesis consists of: (A) an Introductory study, composed of the following sections: (1) general survey of the dramatic genre known as the auto sacramental or sacramental play, mystery plays in honour of the Holy Eucharist; (2) date of composition and performances of El indulto general; (3) critical analysis of the auto, with special emphasis on its allegorical nature; (4) a study of the textual transmission of the auto, using the calculus of variants to construct a bibliographical stemma in order to establish the best available copy-text; (5) editorial criteria used to reconstruct an eclectic edition of the auto based on the nine independently-derived extant witnesses. (B) The edited text of the auto; (C) Critical apparatus. The thesis also contains a Bibliography and an Index of words commented in the Philological Notes. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
An A/r/tographical Inquiry of a Silenced First Nation Ancestry, Hauntology, G(hosts) and Art(works): An Exhibition Catalogue
Creators: name: Cloutier, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Arts-based research
Ar/tography
Hauntology
Liminality
Silenced narratives
Movement

description: As a hauntological artist, I deconstruct my silenced First Nation Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) ancestry as I look towards the intergenerational narratives of my grandmother, mother, and I. As I employ the methodology of a/r/tography, the intersection of autobiography and art-making, I utilize diverse art forms to find that g(hosts) reside amongst spaces of liminality. Supported by the methodology of a/r/tography, as I draw on works which blur the boundary between past and present, self and other, I deconstruct the silencing of my First Nation lineage by creating three art(works). These art(works) are placed within an exhibition catalogue and inquire into 1) the specters that loom between the evocative objects of our narratives, 2) how script-writing and the script’s performance can reveal g(hosts) in spaces of liminality, and 3) how sculptures facilitate spectral movement. Each individual art(work) plays a role in breaking the silence. A(wake), specters arise.
A mixed Lagrangian-Eulerian approach for numerical simulation of mixing layers and uniformly sheared flow.
Creators: name: Abdolhosseini, Reza.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The vortex-in-cell (VIC) method is applied for the prediction of the turbulent characteristics and flow development of the two-dimensional spatially growing mixing layer, the two-dimensional uniformly sheared flow and the three-dimensional uniformly sheared flow. The VIC method has the advantage that it requires less computational tune compared with the Lagrangian method. In the first part of thesis, the two-dimensional VIC method is validated by simulating a spatially growing mixing layer. The results show that the VIC method is capable of predicting the characteristics of the spatially growing mixing layers as well as the grid-free Lagrangian method. In the second part of thesis, the two-dimensional VIC method is used to simulate the uniformly sheared flow. In this new approach a combination of several adjacent mixing layers simulate the initial condition used to generate the uniformly sheared flow. Turbulent characteristics such as the mean velocity, the r.m.s. longitudinal and lateral velocity fluctuations and the Reynolds shear stress are predicted and compared with previous numerical and experimental works. In the third part of this work, three-dimensional simulation of uniformly sheared flows is performed as an extension of the two-dimensional simulation in order to take into account the effect of stretching which is a major contributor to turbulence production. The methodology is based on a mixed Lagrangian-Eulerian three-dimensional vortex-in-cell method. Histograms and two-angle probability distribution of the inclination angle of the vorticity vectors at the grid points with the horizontal plane indicate the presence of vortical structures at a 35°--40° angle with horizontal plane which is consistent with the results of Rogers and Moin (1987). The time evolution of the component energy ratios K11, K22 and K33 are calculated and compared with the previous works. Sensitivity to the numerical parameters is investigated and the results exhibited robustness to the numerical parameters.
title: Bosnia: The Interface of Hope and History and the Conundrum of Post-War International Intervention
Creators: name: Weir, Jimmy
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Education

description: In 1997 I worked with the OSCE in Bosnia organizing the first post-war municipal elections. During this time I was confronted with the massive efforts of the international community in Bosnia, the limited development of the peace process two years after the war and the need for a clearer sense of history in order to understand the best direction for international community in their ongoing intervention in Bosnia. Coming so close on the heels of this genocidal war, an establish historical perspective on the war is still very much in the making. Using a spate of conversations I had with Bosnians regarding the war combined with recent readings on the war, I attempt a general overview of the war with an aim to orientating future international involvement. I begin with a brief overview of the ancient and recent history that led up to the war. The paper then explores some of the problems inherent to the Dayton agreement. I explain my work on elections and explain how this relates to implementation of the Dayton peace agreement. In conclusion I develop some specific ideas about how international assistance could be more effective in promoting the peace process.
Supplementary document for Self-stabilized soliton generation in a microresonator through mode-pulled Brillouin lasing - 5024810.pdf
Creators: name: Hwan, In
name: Kim, Dohyeong
name: Jeong, Dongin
name: suk, daewon
name: Kwon, Dohyeon
name: Kim, Jungwon
name: Lee, Jae Hoon
name: Lee, Hansuek
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: supplemental document
Labirinti elettronici. Quando le storie incontrano i videogame.
Electronic labyrinths – When stories meet videogames
Creators: name: Antoniazzi, Anna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Le nuove tecnologie, attraverso i videogiochi narrativi, permettono l’accesso a quel territorio altamente simbolico e metaforico al quale appartengono il mito e la fabula, intesa nel senso più ampio, ma anche più tradizionale, del termine. Le storie narrate dai videogame, però, proprio perché supportate da un nuovo strumento mediatico, non si limitano a ribadire consuete categorie epistemologiche, ma acquistano nuovi statuti e rinnovano le proprie funzioni, anche in ambito educativo. In particolare è la presenza di labirinti a ristabilire l’importanza dei rituali iniziatici come imprescindibili momenti di crescita. L’ipotesi è quella che, sebbene si tratti di un’iniziazione indiretta, il superamento delle prove, la soluzione degli enigmi, la sconfitta delle proprie paure più profonde, tenda a ricreare tutte le fasi che caratterizzavano il passaggio all’età adulta nelle società tradizionali e, in un certo senso, possa dimostrarsi, per le attuali generazioni, un aiuto effettivo al processo di crescita.
description: Le nuove tecnologie, attraverso i videogiochi narrativi, permettono l’accesso a quel territorio altamente simbolico e metaforico al quale appartengono il mito e la fabula, intesa nel senso più ampio, ma anche più tradizionale, del termine. Le storie narrate dai videogame, però, proprio perché supportate da un nuovo strumento mediatico, non si limitano a ribadire consuete categorie epistemologiche, ma acquistano nuovi statuti e rinnovano le proprie funzioni, anche in ambito educativo. In particolare è la presenza di labirinti a ristabilire l’importanza dei rituali iniziatici come imprescindibili momenti di crescita. L’ipotesi è quella che, sebbene si tratti di un’iniziazione indiretta, il superamento delle prove, la soluzione degli enigmi, la sconfitta delle proprie paure più profonde, tenda a ricreare tutte le fasi che caratterizzavano il passaggio all’età adulta nelle società tradizionali e, in un certo senso, possa dimostrarsi, per le attuali generazioni, un aiuto effettivo al processo di crescita.
Setting the Tone: A Newspaper Analysis on Canada’s Decision to Impose a Visa Requirement on the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Adatia, Rishma
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Refugee
Visa
Canada
Roma
Czech Republic
Media
Ideology

description: This thesis examines Canada’s imposition of a visa requirement on visitors from the Czech Republic. By analyzing articles in three major Canadian newspapers, I conduct an Althusserian (theory that “culture ventures” are part of the Ideological State Apparatus), analysis. The thesis demonstrates that a dominant ideological viewpoint – a pro-capitalist ideology supported by a racist ideology – was evident in the coverage in all three newspapers. Additionally, this thesis addresses the presence of more ‘even-handed’ discussions of the conditions of the Roma, including experiences of racism and discrimination in the Czech Republic. I conclude that the newspapers present ideological views, with occasional exceptions.
Opportunities to improve energy use in urban wastewater treatment: a European-scale analysis
Creators: name: Ganora, Daniele
name: Hospido, Almudena
name: Husemnn, Jovana
name: Obermaier, Nathan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Wastewater treatment is an essential public service that has a major impact on energy use in the urban water cycle, thus receiving increasing attention in context of the Water-Energy Nexus. Understanding the current energy use for wastewater is an essential step to design reliable policies promoting a more efficient use of resources. This paper develops a pan European estimation of electricity use for the treatment of wastewater, based on a dataset of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) across the continent. Prediction of electricity use has been performed using a statistical model that accounts for economies of scale. Different scenarios of improvements of energy use efficiency have been investigated to understand the possible reductions in electricity consumption at the continental scale. The overall WWTP electricity use in Europe (only plants with no less than 2000 population equivalent (PE) have been considered) was estimated at 24 747 GWh yr-1, about the 0.8% of the electricity consumption in the EU-28. Small plants (less than 50 000 PE) represent almost 90% of the total number of plants, but process only 31% of the PE and require 42% of electricity use. Plants from mid to very large size (more than 50 000 PE), being only 10% of the plants, process about 70% of the PE with 58% of the total electricity use. If all plants that use more than the current average were shifted to the average value, the saving would be slightly more than 5500 GWh yr-1. With highly stringent targets of efficiency improvement, saving of about 13 500 GWh yr-1 could be expected. Further considerations on the emerging role of WWTPs as energy and material producer are finally discussed.© 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
A city in the savage garden: La Nouvelle-Orléans telle que représentée par les vampires d'Anne Rice
Creators: name: Bartolini, Nadia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geography.
subject: Literature, American.

description: While writers in the 18th and 19th centuries kept New Orleans' untamed and eerie spirit alive in their literary works, Anne Rice has added a new dimension to its atmosphere to serve the purposes of a community of vampires. This thesis focusses on the representation of New Orleans in Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. The "autobiographical" style of her series provides a vampire's perspective on New Orleans. This is particularly evident when we consider the following: the space depicted by the vampire is limited by its nocturnal as well as its immortal nature (New Orleans from 1791 to 1999 is seen through the eyes of the same characters). We will use a series of typical locales used by the vampires to illustrate the nocturnal lifestyle of the vampires. From the seven novels of the series, New Orleans is represented through various descriptions of place, comparisons with other cities, recollections, and gothic elements. The reader senses the feelings of identity, rootedness and belonging described by the vampiric characters. Descriptions of spatial activities by the vampires themselves make New Orleans even more familiar. Rice's fiction demonstrates the social relevance of literature. The representation of New Orleans in The Vampire Chronicles has contributed to tourists' expectation of the city and has drawn many fans around the world to experience the "magical and magnificent" New Orleans as described by her vampires.
Preventing Youth Crime in Chongqing: The Implications of Western Scientific Evidence and Intergovernmental Guidelines on Crime Prevention Through Social Development
Creators: name: Cao, Jing
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: crime prevention
youth crime
Chongqing
China
Crime prevention through social development

description: The primary objective of this thesis was to examine the relevance of intergovernmental decisions and western risk-focused social crime prevention to reducing youth crime within Chongqing, China. This involved a review of the existing literature that might be relevant to: (i) the current youth crime situation in the city of Chongqing, (ii) risk factors that might contribute to youth crime within Chongqing, (iii) the scientific evaluations of ‘evidence-based’ risk-focused crime prevention strategies for different age groups of youth, and (iv) implementation strategies for evidence-based innovations to reduce youth crime. Based on this knowledge, interviews with six key stakeholders of Chongqing were conducted for the purpose of obtaining initial perceptions regarding the utility and practicality of crime prevention through social development within Chongqing. Ultimately, this study demonstrates the preliminary relevance of western studies and action, recalls China’s endorsement of intergovernmental recommendations, and provides a foundation for further research.
Design of Lightweight Alternatives to Secure Border Gateway Protocol and Mitigate against Control and Data Plane Attacks
Creators: name: Israr, Junaid
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: BGP
security
RPKI
IP spoofing
S-BGP
C-BGP

description: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the backbone of routing infrastructure in the Internet. In its current form, it is an insecure protocol with potential for propagation of bogus routing information. There have been several high-profiles Internet outages linked to BGP in recent times. Several BGP security proposals have been presented in the literature; however, none has been adopted so far and, as a result, securing BGP remains an unsolved problem to this day. Among existing BGP security proposals, Secure BGP (S-BGP) is considered most comprehensive. However, it presents significant challenges in terms of number of signature verifications and deployment considerations. For it to provide comprehensive security guarantees, it requires that all Autonomous Systems (ASes) in the Internet to adopt the scheme and participate in signature additions and verifications in BGP messages. Among others, these challenges have prevented S-BGP from being deployed today. In this thesis, we present two novel lightweight security protocols, called Credible BGP (C-BGP) and Hybrid Cryptosystem BGP (HC-BGP), which rely on security mechanisms in S-BGP but are designed to address signature verification overhead and deployment challenges associated with S-BGP. We develop original and detailed analytical and simulation models to study performance of our proposals and demonstrate that the proposed schemes promise significant savings in terms of computational overhead and security performance in presence of malicious ASes in the network. We also study the impact of IP prefix hijacking on control plane as well as data plane. Specifically, we analyze the impact of bogus routing information on Inter-Domain Packet Filters and propose novel and simple extensions to existing BGP route selection algorithm to combat bogus routing information.