cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Digital Media and enjoyment of Cultural Heritage
Media digitali per il godimento dei beni culturali
Creators: name: Ippoliti, Elena; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR17 - Drawing
Enjoyment of Cultural Heritage; digital applications to Cultural Heritage; vision technologies; edutainment;
ICAR17 - Disegno
Godimento del patrimonio culturale; applicazioni digitali al patrimonio culturale; tecnologie della visione; edutainment;

description: Preserving, protecting and improving cultural heritage depend on its working role in society, which is achieved only when it is made the most of by the community. As far back as 1967 the Franceschini Commission made a statement in its official records, (the 17th declaration) underlining the necessity to guarantee that cultural heritage should be made available to the public, that is, to be used for pleasure, amusement, satisfaction and personal gratification. From this point of view, our paper leads to speculation on how digital technology can be applied to cultural heritage and, furthermore, can contribute towards the creation of effective communicative means. By taking advantage of sensory and emotional involvement, these communicative techniques should be aimed at allowing an ever wider public audience to access information on cultural heritage. These forms of communication should be shaped around those rules that are at the basis of every form of amusement. Enjoying oneself is to be taken seriously and those who don’t follow the rules are to be considered spoilsports.
description: Le azioni della conservazione, tutela e valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale si fondano tutte sulla sua funzione sociale che si realizza a patto di garantirne la più ampia fruizione da parte della collettività. Già nel lontano 1967, la Commissione Franceschini dedicava negli Atti una distinta Dichiarazione, la XVII, alla necessità di assicurare i beni culturali ad adeguate forme di godimento pubblico, cioè all’uso per ricavarne diletto, piacere, soddisfazione, intima contentezza. In questo quadro l’articolo propone una riflessione su come le applicazioni delle tecnologie digitali al patrimonio culturale possano concorrere alla costruzione di modelli comunicativi efficaci che, facendo leva sul coinvolgimento sensoriale ed emozionale e sulla partecipazione del fruitore, consentano di avvicinare un pubblico sempre più ampio ai contenuti culturali. Forme di comunicazione modellate su quelle regole che sono alla base di ogni gioco. Perché il gioco è una cosa seria e guastafeste è colui che non sta alle sue regole.
Three-dimensional In vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of mouse facial nerve regeneration
Creators: name: Wanner, Renate
name: Abaei, Alireza
name: Rasche, Volker
name: Knöll, Bernd
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Axon regeneration
subject: MRI
subject: Mouse
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Central nervous system diseases
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Peripheral nerves
subject: Facial nerve
subject: Axons
subject: Nerve regeneration
subject: Nervenkrankheit
subject: Kernspintomografie
subject: Nervenregeneration

description: MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is an indispensable tool in the diagnosis of centrals nervous system (CNS) disorders such as spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis (MS). In contrast, diagnosis of peripheral nerve injuries largely depends on clinical and electrophysiological parameters. Thus, currently MRI is not regularly used which in part is due to small nerve calibers and isointensity with surrounding tissue such as muscles. In this study we performed translational MRI research in mice to establish a novel MRI protocol visualizing intact and injured peripheral nerves in a non-invasive manner without contrast agents. With this protocol we were able to image even very small nerves and nerve branches such as the mouse facial nerve (diameter 100–300μm) at highest spatial resolution. Analysis was performed in the same animal in a longitudinal study spanning 3 weeks after injury. Nerve injury caused hyperintense signal in T2-weighted images and an increase in nerve size of the proximal and distal nerve stumps were observed. Further hyperintense signal was observed in a bulb-like structure in the lesion site, which correlated histologically with the production of fibrotic tissue and immune cell infiltration. The longitudinal MR representation of the facial nerve lesions correlated well with physiological recovery of nerve function by quantifying whisker movement. In summary, we provide a novel protocol in rodents allowing for non-invasive, non-contrast agent enhanced, high-resolution MR imaging of small peripheral nerves longitudinally over several weeks. This protocol might further help to establish MRI as an important diagnostic and post-surgery follow-up tool tomonitor peripheral nerve injuries in humans.
Digital technology in the communication of Cultural Heritage. State of the art and potential development
Tecnologie digitali e comunicazione dei beni culturali. Stato dell’arte e prospettive di sviluppo
Creators: name: Meschini, Alessandra; Università Di Camerino
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR17 - Drawing
Digital communication tools; Cultural Heritage; virtual museums; immersive environments; web-based interactive tools;
ICAR17 - Disegno
Strumenti di comunicazione digitale; Patrimonio Culturale; Musei virtuali; Ambienti immersivi; strumenti web interattivi;

description: Techniques for digitalising content, organising data platforms, setting up simulations, animation and 3D reconstruction, planning user-friendly interfaces, creating active and involving learning techniques, or more generally, designing multimedia/multifunctional ways to access information have all contributed to the redefinition of space and time as far as the transmission and management of knowledge are concerned. Within this framework, our paper proposes a series of considerations on the relationship between digital technology and its application in the communication of cultural heritage. Starting from investigation of the connection between tools/procedures used and the actual fulfilment of groundbreaking methods of communication, our study aims at comparing the different branches of research, the areas in which the technology needs to be applied and the requirements of cultural and educational establishments. All this had been considered while trying to focus on a range of unsolved problems and on additional achievable goals.
description: Tecniche di digitalizzazione di contenuti, allestimento di piattaforme di dati, pratiche di simulazione, animazione e ricostruzione tridimensionale, progettazione di interfacce friendly, predisposizione di logiche di apprendimento partecipative e immersive, più in generale modalità multimediali/multimodali di accesso alle informazioni, hanno ridefinito spazi e tempi sia della trasmissione sia della fruizione della conoscenza. In tale quadro, l'articolo propone una serie di riflessioni intorno al rapporto tra tecnologie digitali e loro applicazioni nella comunicazione dei Beni Culturali. A partire da una indagine sui rapporti tra strumenti/procedure impiegate e concrete realizzazioni di modalità di comunicazione innovative, l’analisi ha inteso mettere a confronto orientamenti della ricerca, ambiti applicativi di utilizzo di prodotti tecnologici ed esigenze di istituzioni culturali ed educative, cercando anche di focalizzare lo spettro delle problematiche tutt’ora irrisolte e degli obiettivi ulteriormente raggiungibili.
Immunoaffinity selection with mass spectrometry for the characterization of expressed single-chain antibodies and the c-myc peptide from complex matrices.
Creators: name: LeRiche, Tammy G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Analytical.

description: The primary objective of this project was the development of affinity selection techniques that can be used with mass spectral detection for the direct identification of trace level target antigens from complex matrices. Mouse monoclonal antibody IgG1 specific for the human c-myc epitope---EQKLISEEDLN---was covalently immobilized on recombinant protein G beads using chemical crosslinking. This immunomatrix was then used to selectively enrich both the wild-type and mutant single chain (scFv) antibodies (containing the c-myc epitope) from the periplasmic extract of Escherichia coli (E. coli). To identify the point mutation within the scFv mutant, a tryptic digest was performed followed by LC-MS of the tryptic peptides. This novel approach was applied to a number of scFv proteins containing single point mutations. In particular, mass spectrometry was used to confirm the site of mutation L46N on one specific mutant using LC-MS/MS. Immunoaffinity enrichment was also used to select the c-myc peptide from a spiked sample of human serum at a concentration of 20 ng/ml. LC-MS/MS was performed to confirm the identity of the selected peptide. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Mobile evaluation: what the data and the metadata told us
Creators: name: Pedell, Sonja
name: Graham, Connor
name: Kjeldskov, Jesper
name: Davies, Jessica
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Evaluating mobile applications to identify usability problems presents a unique set of challenges. Not only is it difficult to capture data on an application that is inherently mobile, but generating an authentic environment of use is also problematic. This paper compares two traditional user-based approaches to evaluate a mobile system: one laboratory-based and the other in the field. These data serve as a basis for the primary focus of this study: the effectiveness of 'metadata' generated from 'rapid reflections'. These data were collected by the evaluators after each day of evaluation in order to investigate the quality of metadata in relation to the data of the two evaluation methods. The study also found that the laboratory study identified typical usability problems with the system at a more detailed level whilst the field study identified characteristic problems of mobile use. The metadata findings summarised the major findings in a useful way, but generally were less specific and reflected subjective theories of individual researchers.
In Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondria 5′ end polymorphisms of nad4L-atp4 and nad3-rps12 transcripts are linked to RNA PROCESSING FACTORs 1 and 8
Creators: name: Schleicher, Sarah
name: Binder, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: RNA processing
subject: 5′ End polymorphisms
subject: Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Arabidopsis thaliana
subject: Mitochondria
subject: Ackerschmalwand
subject: Mitochondrium

description: Key message RNA PROCESSING FACTORs 1 AND 8 (RPF1 and RPF8), both restorer of fertility like pentatricopeptide repeat proteins, are required for processing of dicistronic nad4L-atp4 and nad3-rps12 transcripts in Arabidopsis mitochondria. Abstract In mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), the 5′ termini of many RNAs are generated on the post-transcriptional level. This process is still poorly understood in terms of both the underlying mechanism as well as proteins required. Our studies now link the generation of polymorphic 5′ extremities of the dicistronic nad3-rps12 and nad4L-atp4 transcripts to the function of the P-type pentatricopeptide repeat proteins RNA PROCESSING FACTORs 8 (RPF8) and 1 (RPF1). RPF8 is required to generate the nad3-rps12 -141 5′ end in ecotype Van-0 whereas the RPF8 allele in Col has no function in the generation of any 5′ terminus of this transcript. This observation strongly suggests the involvement of an additional factor in the generation of the -229 5′ end of nad3-rps12 transcripts in Col. RPF1, previously found to be necessary for the generation of the -228 5′ end of the major 1538 nucleotide-long nad4 mRNAs, is also important for the formation of nad4L-atp4 transcripts with a 5′ end at position -318 in Col. Many Arabidopsis ecotypes contain inactive RPF1 alleles resulting in the accumulation of various low abundant nad4L-atp4 RNAs which might represent precursor and/or degradation products. Some of these ecotypes accumulate major, but slightly smaller RNA species. The introduction of RPF1 into these lines not only establishes the formation of the major nad4L-atp4 dicistronic mRNA with the -318 5′ terminus, the presence of this gene also suppresses the accumulation of most alternative nad4L-atp4 RNAs. Beside RPF1, several other factors contribute to nad4L-atp4 transcript formation.
Experimental and theoretical studies of the effects of buoyancy forces on liquid/liquid displacement processes in porous media.
Creators: name: Guo, Tianle.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Petroleum.

description: When a higher-viscosity fluid is displaced by a lower-viscosity fluid in a porous medium, the displacing fluid tends to channel through the paths of lesser hydrodynamic resistance, thereby forming pronounced "fingers". The effects of buoyancy (gravity) forces on the stability of such displacement processes are of considerable importance in many practical situations, especially during the recovery of oil from underground reservoirs, or during the clean-up of subterranean toxic chemical spills, by means of aqueous fluid injection. The present work is confined to the former (i.e., oil recovery) situation. In this work, the effects of buoyancy forces on immiscible water/oil displacement processes and miscible oil/oil displacement processes were studied for linear flows occurring in a two-dimensional, consolidated, transparent porous medium aligned in either the vertical or horizontal plane. Experiments were performed using three different flow modes, namely horizontal, vertical-upwards and vertical-downwards. A wide range of injection flow rates were employed in order to elucidate the relative effects of buoyancy forces, viscous forces and capillary forces. For each displacement, the breakthrough condition was measured, and photographs of the evolving fingering patterns were taken. A mathematical analysis of the observed displacement phenomena produced an analytical relationship expressing the macroscopic water saturation profile as a function of dimensionless distance. The horizontal flow mode was employed as the reference condition for the prediction of the oil recovery efficiency in the two vertical flow modes, since buoyancy forces can be effectively neglected in horizontal flow. A reliable technique for measuring the saturation profile from the displacement photographs was developed in order to interpret the experimental data. Good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results was obtained, thereby permitting a reliable quantitative prediction of the effects of buoyancy forces on oil recovery during immiscible water/oil displacement processes. The extent to which the viscosity ratio, interfacial tension, and flow rate influenced the relative effects of the buoyancy forces will be discussed in relation to measured breakthrough times and oil recoveries. Also, the instability theory of the displacement will be discussed. It is evident from the results obtained that buoyancy forces are capable of exerting very significant effects on the stability of liquid-liquid displacement processes occurring in porous media, on the formation of fingers, and on the ultimate recovery efficiency during practical oil recovery processes involving aqueous fluid injection.
Architectural Video projection
La videoproiezione architetturale
Creators: name: Antonelli, Ezio; Unità C1
name: Mordenti, Andrea; Unità C1
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR17 - Drawing
Architectural Video projection; Video-art; Video-installations; Augmented Reality; warping; soft-edge;
La videoproiezione architetturale; Video-arte; video-installazioni; realtà aumentata; warping; soft-edge;

description: Transfigure a building, even for a few minutes, involves some responsibilities. A building is not a simple screen where images are supposed to be projected: it becomes a space of transformation, the place where the architectural idea arises an unusual level of attention, while, at the same time, architecture is temporarily liberated from the building's dependence. The form becomes the instrument of abstraction, metaphor, concept. Art is transformation of perceptive reality by means of transgressive optical contradictions towards evasion and  abstraction. Architectural video projection, in this sense, is strictly connected with XXth Century Artistic Avant-garde, as stated by Umberto Eco in ''The falsehood theory'', every form recalls a content that may be interpretable by fruition. With Architectural Video projection there's a possibility (or a need) to focus on lying in a critical and constructive sense.
description: Trasfigurare un edificio, seppure temporaneamente, comporta una serie  di responsabilità: l'edificio  non è semplicisticamente uno schermo su  cui proiettare immagini, si trasforma invece nel luogo dove l'idea  architettonica viene portata ad un livello inusuale di protagonismo,  sottraendo provvisoriamente l'architettura dalla dipendenza  dall'edificio. La forma diventa strumento di astrazione,  metafora, concetto. L'arte come trasformazione della realtà percettiva  in trasgressive contraddizioni ottiche, fino all’evasione ed astrazione  lega con filo diretto la videoproiezione architetturale all’estetica  delle avanguardie artistiche del '900. Come enunciato da  Umberto Eco nella “teoria della menzogna” ogni forma richiama un  contenuto interpretabile da parte del fruitore. Con la videoproiezione  architetturale c'è la possibilità-necessità di finalizzare il mentire in  senso critico costruttivo.
The Diffused Museum
Il Museo Diffuso
Creators: name: Taiuti, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diffused Museum; Virtual Museum; Digital Museum; Art And Web; Prosumer and Culture;
Museo diffuso; museo virtuale; museo digitale; arte e web; Prosumer e cultura;

description: The New Media produced in the last 20 years multiple hypothesis and on different levels; communicative, cultural, aesthetical. The development of a section of applications and research on relationships between art and science, drives to define an area of communication between technology and creative languages is slowly getting inside aesthetic cultures, creative production, in managing  and use of art. The acquisition of new instruments, new media, new general shapes, must get in the esthetic body and in the art system. Concepts like virtual reality, immateriality, global networks and many other points that digital culture has produced during these years are points that need questioning. Those are application fields that Museums have begun to explore and where much is left to do. The links between museum functions and public must go through activations of museums in the fields of digital languages, new didactics and new mass communications.
description: I Nuovi Media hanno prodotto negli ultimi 20 anni molteplici ipotesi e a diversi livelli, comunicativi, culturali, estetici. Lo svilupparsi di un settore di applicazione e ricerca sui rapporti fra arte e scienza porta alla definizione di un’area di comunicazione fra tecnologia e linguaggi creativi che sta lentamente penetrando nelle culture estetiche, sia nella produzione creativa sia nella gestione e nella fruizione dell’arte. L’acquisizione di nuovi strumenti, nuovi media, nuove forme comuni, deve oggi entrare nel corpo estetico e nel sistema dell’arte, mentre i concetti di realtà virtuale, immaterialità, rete globale e i molti altri che la cultura digitale ha prodotto negli anni sono oggi altrettanti punti su cui interrogarsi. Ciò costituisce una serie possibili campi applicativi che le istituzioni museali hanno iniziato ad esplorare, e in cui però moltissimo rimane da fare. In particolare una maggiore vicinanza tra funzioni museali e utenza deve dar luogo a maggiori applicazioni museali nel settore dei linguaggi digitali, delle nuove didattiche e della nuove comunicazioni di massa.
Early career retention among undergraduate degree holders in science and technology: A five-year follow-up of a national Canadian sample.
Creators: name: Worth Gavin, Darlene A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: Both government and private industry are concerned as to why young Canadians, particularly young women, hesitate to choose careers in the growing labour markets of science and technology (S&T). Aggregate data suggest that women not only enter into S&T-related endeavours in disproportionately lower numbers than men, but also exit from S&T careers at higher rates than do their male counterparts. This investigation's primary objective was to establish comparative rates of "loss" (non-retention) of highly trained young women and young men from the fields of S&T in Canada. Its secondary objective was to conduct a preliminary investigation into some potential social and psychological correlates of retention (and non-retention) in S&T careers. A national sample ($N=3158$) of Natural Science, Engineering, Life Science/Health Professions, and Mathematics/Computer Science (NELM) bachelor's degree holders participated. Statistics Canada surveyed 1212 women and 1946 men in NELM fields from the university graduating classes of 1986, two- and five-years after graduation (i.e., in 1988 and 1991). A set of four complementary hypotheses were tested in order to investigate the fundamental postulation that early career retention among undergraduate degree holders in S&T would be proportionately lower for young women than for young men. Findings at both the two- and five-year follow-ups showed highly similar retention-rates for women and men. Women had only slightly high non-retention rates than men ($\sim$5%) among Natural Science and Mathematics graduates; rates were approximately equal among Engineering and Life Science graduates. In direct and sequential logistic regression analyses conducted to predict the probability of retention (vs. non-retention) in S&T at post-graduation year-5, the main predictor variable of interest--sex--consistently failed to reliably predict retention (vs. non-retention) in S&T, even after controlling for the effects of the following antecedent variables: level of mother's and father's education; respondents' age; marital status at 2-years; number of dependent children at 2-years; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for originally having enrolled in an N, E, L, or M program of study, further education at 2-years; income at 2-years; job satisfaction at 2-years; and, salary satisfaction at 2-years. Findings had two main policy implications, first with regard to the relative insignificance of sex in the prediction of persistence in S&T, and second with regard to the importance of further education and training in predicting this outcome. These are discussed in light of the inter-related issues of lessening the shortage of highly qualified S&T personnel in Canada and of eliminating the underrepresentation of women in Canada's S&T community.
title: Floodplains: a natural system to preserve and restore
title: Floodplains: a natural system to preserve and restore
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Christiansen, Trine
name: Azlak, Muhammet
name: Ivits-Wasser, Eva
name: Völker, Jeanette
Publisher: name: Europäische Union / Amt für Veröffentlichungen
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biologische Vielfalt

description: Floodplains are part of Europe's natural capital, covering 7 % of the continent's area and up to 30 % of its terrestrial Natura 2000 site area. Studies have shown that 70-90 % of floodplains have been environmentally degraded. The objective of this work is to showcase that natural floodplains support achieving multiple EU policy objectives. More specifically to show that natural and restored floodplains provide an alternative to structural measures for providing flood protection, and at the same time support achieving higher quality ecosystem service like improved water quality, improved conditions for biodiversity conservation and improved recreational value. Quelle: https://www.eea.europa.eu
An agent-based digital self in a 24x7 web services world: architecture and implementation
Creators: name: Goschnick, Steve
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Intelligent agents have the potential to play an important role in meeting the challenge to provide tools and interfaces for people to productively interact with the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week (24x7). This paper describes a novel agent-oriented architecture called ShadowBoard with a novel use interface called ShadowFace. Both the architecture and interface draw on concepts from cognitive psychology. The architecture has been embedded in a software framework called ShadowSpaces, and has been used to develop a prototype lab manager for booking servics and providing advice to potential users of the Interaction Design lab at the University of Melbourne. An overview of the architecture, interface, framework and implementation are all presented.
Communicate & fun. Edutainment for the communication of Cultural Heritage
Comunicare emozionando. L’edutainment per la comunicazione intorno al patrimonio culturale
Creators: name: Cervellini, Francesco; Università Di Camerino
name: Rossi, Daniele; Università Di Camerino
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR17 - Drawing
Edutainment; new technologies and cultural heritage; the design of experience;
ICAR17 - Disegno
Edutainment; nuove tecnologie e patrimonio culturale; il design dell’esperienza;

description: Edutainment represent the new frontier of education, for this reason new educational scenarios must be defined in order to bring together learning techniques and a communication system centered on emotion, fun and entertainment. The principal goal of an exhibition project is not to turn the information contents into a show, but the show represents a language used to interact with public, history and cultural heritage. Starting from these statements, five exempla were analyzed so that was possible to define new format for spreading the knowledge, the promotion, the enhancement of cultural heritage. Referring just to the Italian territory, these examples exhibit some distinguishing features that deal with the definition of “hot” communicative modality that develop an emotional route, where the technological presence is revealed to the visitors only after the magic revelation of its visual and sound effects.
description: Se si ritiene che l’edutainment possa rappresentare la nuova frontiera della formazione, allora per poter definire nuove modalità divulgative occorre conciliare le esigenze e le tecniche di apprendimento con un sistema comunicativo centrato sul divertimento, sull’emozione e sull’intrattenimento. La spettacolarizzazione dei contenuti informativi non è il fine ultimo di un progetto di allestimento, ma può rappresentare una formula comunicativa utilizzata per far dialogare pubblico, storia e beni culturali. A partire da tali presupposti sono stati analizzati cinque exempla in grado di esplicitare un nuovo format di trasmissione della conoscenza teso alla divulgazione, promozione e valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale. Tali esempi, riferiti al solo territorio italiano, presentano alcune caratteristiche comuni riguardanti la ridefinizione di modalità comunicative “calde”, finalizzate, cioè, a sviluppare un percorso emotivo ed immersivo, nel quale il carattere tecnologico si palesi al visitatore, proprio nel magico disvelamento dei suoi effetti visivi e sonori.
Modern Canadian Universities, Mission Drift and Quality of Education
Creators: name: Shingadia, Ashwin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: university
universities
research
teaching assistants
teaching
sessionals
faculty
tenured
Bovey
Rae
Drummond
democratization
knowledge economy
globalisation
competition
ranking
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
Mission Drift

description: This study contributes to theory and public policy in Canada and globally. It uses mixed methodology and triangulation of evidence through policy documents(Bovey,Rae,Drummond),empirical studies and surveys(ranking,NSSE data,regression), CAUT/AUCC and Statistics Canada sources and qualitative sources - writings of university presidents (Bok,Kerr,Fallis),researchers (Rajagopal, Clark et al.)as well,talks with sessionals,teaching assistants and administrators. The framework consists of Altbach's four factors - democratization, the knowledge economy, globalisation and competition and three ideal types for university development - entrepreneurial, liberal education and deliberative. The thesis contrasts classical college with the modern university system. The results show strong evidence for research domination, mission drift and shift towards the entrepreneurial model. Quality is compromised by lowering requirements, compressed courses, less study time, large classes taught by sessionals and TAs, grade inflation and consumerist behaviour, while critical thinking and moral development are neglected.
Otology/Neurotology recommendations – Choosing Wisely campaign
Creators: name: Ma, Andrew K
name: Nedzelski, Julian
name: Chen, Joseph
name: Le, Trung
name: Mick, Paul
name: Lea, Jane
name: Morris, David
name: Aron, Margaret
name: Agrawal, Sumit
name: Parnes, Lorne
name: Mijovic, Tamara
name: Lin, Vincent
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: The Choosing Wisely Canada Campaign aims to raise awareness amongst physicians and patients regarding unnecessary tests and treatment. The otology/neurotology subspecialty group within the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Society developed a list of five common otologic presentations to help physicians deliver high quality effective care: (1) Don’t order specialized audiometric and vestibular testing to screen for peripheral vestibular disease, (2) Don’t perform computed tomography or blood work in the evaluation of sudden sensorineural hearing loss, (3) Don’t perform auditory brain responses (ABR) in patients with asymmetrical hearing loss, (4) Don’t prescribe oral antibiotics as first line treatment for patients with painless otorrhea associated with tympanic membrane perforation or tympanostomy tube, and (5) Don’t perform particle repositioning maneuvers without a clinical diagnosis of posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
The coming culture. Visual communication: a clear tool for a free access to resources and knowledge
La cultura che verrà. La comunicazione visiva come strumento trasparente, per un libero accesso a risorse e saperi
Creators: name: Parisio, Enrico
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Visual Communication Design; communicative artifacts; new technology languages; new forms of social relations;
Progetto di comunicazione visiva; artefatti comunicativi; nuovi linguaggi della tecnologia; nuove forme di socialità;

description: Nowadays the technologic/communicative systems are self-sufficiency: we, the users, are a sort of a spread net to release messages. We are used by systems, we don’t apply them. We have to set the planning function in a context, which is completely turned upside down, compared with the past: basically  designers should  facilitate a very straight flow of information. “Let it be”, this is the password. The authority is replaced by neutral, by the occurring impersonal events, by plurality, by the collective. Today the one who designs, is a “no-author”, a no-subject, a “it”. Today a visual communication design competes not only with the new technology languages, but most of all with the more elaborated ones, which are set by real subjects, who experience new forms of social relations, aggregation, conflicts.
description: Oggi gli apparati tecnologico/comunicativi si garantiscono l’autosufficienza: la diffusione dei messaggi utilizza come “nodi” di propagazione noi stessi, gli utenti. Sono gli apparati che ci impiegano, non siamo noi ad utilizzarli. La  funzione progettuale, deve essere inserita in un contesto totalmente capovolto rispetto al passato: come progettisti dobbiamo favorire fondamentalmente il flusso di informazioni, del tutto eterodiretto. Lasciar accadere è la parola d’ordine, senza alcuna intenzionalità “rappresentativa”. Il soggetto autoritario viene sostituito dalla terza persona, dall’impersonalità degli eventi che incedono, dalle molteplicità, dai soggetti collettivi. L’autore oggi di un progetto è un non autore, un non soggetto, un “egli”. Il progetto di comunicazione visiva deve confrontarsi oggi non solo con i nuovi linguaggi della tecnologia, ma soprattutto con quelli ben più complessi che i soggetti reali attivano sperimentando nuove forme di socialità, di aggregazione, di conflitto.
The role of the sampling distribution in understanding statistical inference
Creators: name: Lipson, Kay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Many statistics educators believe that few students develop the level of conceptual understanding essential for them to apply correctly the statistical techniques at their disposal and to interpret their outcomes appropriately. It is also commonly believed that the sampling distribution plays an important role in developing this understanding. This study clarifies the role of the sampling distribution in student understanding of statistical inference, and makes recommendations concerning the content and conduct of teaching and learning strategies in this area.
Supplementary document for A Synchronously Pumped Raman Laser for Simultaneous Degenerate and Nondegenerate Two-Photon Microscopy - 5151543.pdf
Creators: name: Buttolph, Michael
name: Mejooli, Menansili
name: Sidorenko, Pavel
name: Eom, Chi-Yong
name: Schaffer, Chris
name: Wise, Frank
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental figures
Characterization and application of Brillouin scattering-based distributed fiber optic sensor
Creators: name: Zeng, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.
subject: Physics, Optics.

description: Brillouin scattering based distributed fiber optic sensing as a novel technique has attracted much attention in both research and application for the past ten years. The fiber optic group at the University of Ottawa has developed an advanced automatic Brillouin sensing system and improved it continuously. This thesis presents the characterization and optimization of this sensing system and a series of successful applications both in the laboratory and in the field. Several parameters have been studied around the pulse generation subsystem: such as, bias, leakage, PW voltage, pulsewidth, and repetition frequency. Bias is found to be the most important parameter. We also discuss the relationships between the system repeatability and control parameters such as bias, polarization states, averages and frequency lock methods. Four successful applications of the distributed Brillouin sensing system are reported in the thesis. They are strain measurement in a reinforced concrete beam, simultaneous strain and temperature monitoring of composite curing process, strain and temperature monitoring of a concrete structure, and temperature compensated strain measurement of the load test on the Rollinsford Bridge.
Particle production at very low transverse momenta in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[SNN]=200 GeV
Creators: name: Back, B. B.
name: Baker, M. D.
name: Ballintijn, M.
name: Barton, D. S.
name: Betts, R. R.
name: Bickley, A. A.
name: Bindel, R.
name: Budzanowski, A.
name: Busza, W.
name: Carroll, A.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Garcia, E.
name: George, N.
name: Gulbrandsen, K.
name: Gushue, S.
name: Halliwell, C.
name: Hamblen, J.
name: Heintzelman, G. A.
name: Henderson, C.
name: Hofman, D. J.
name: Hollis, R. S.
name: Holynski, R.
name: Holzman, B.
name: Iordanova, A.
name: Johnson, E.
name: Kane, J. L.
name: Katzy, J.
name: Khan, N.
name: Kucewicz, W.
name: Kulinich, P.
name: Kuo, C. M.
name: Lin, W. T.
name: Manly, S.
name: McLeod, D.
name: Mignerey, A. C.
name: Nouicer, R.
name: Olszewski, A.
name: Pak, R.
name: Park, I. C.
name: Pernegger, H.
name: Reed, C.
name: Remsberg, L. P.
name: Reuter, M.
name: Roland, C.
name: Roland, G.
name: Rosenberg, L.
name: Sagerer, J.
name: Sarin, P.
name: Sawicki, P.
name: Skulski, W.
name: Steadman, S. G.
name: Steinberg, P.
name: Stephans, G. S. F.
name: Sukhanov, A.
name: Tang, J. L.
name: Trzupek, A.
name: Vale, C.
name: Van Nieuwenhuizen, G. J.
name: Verdier, R.
name: Wolfs, F. L. H.
name: Wosiek, B.
name: Wozniak, K.
name: Wuosmaa, A. H.
name: Wyslouch, B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present results on charged particle production at very low transverse momenta in the 15% most central Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV obtained with the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The invariant yields were measured at midrapidity in the transverse momentum ranges from 30 to 50 MeV/c for charged pions, 90 to 130 MeV/c for charged kaons and 140 to 210 MeV/c for protons and antiprotons. No significant enhancement in low transverse momentum particle production is observed as compared to extrapolations of identified particle spectra measured at an intermediate pT range. The spectra tend to flatten at low pT, consistent with the expectations of transverse expansion of the system.
Realism, Interactivity and Performance: a pipeline for large scale Virtual Heritage dataset on line
Archeologia virtuale, realismo, interattività e performance: dalla ricostruzione alla fruizione on line
Creators: name: Pescarin, Sofia; CNR ITABC (Istituto Per Le Tecnologie Applicate Ai Beni Culturali)
name: Fanini, Bruno
name: Ferdani, Daniele
name: Lucci Baldassari, Guido; CNR ITABC (Istituto Per Le Tecnologie Applicate Ai Beni Culturali)
name: Calori, Luigi; CINECA
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Virtual Archaeology; Computer Graphics; 3D Web;
Archeologia virtuale; computer grafica; 3D Web;

description: The paper presents the different steps of a virtual archaeology project, where different data are produced using separate pipelines, and are optimized and integrated in a real time environment, accessible on line by specialists (restricted access to a back end section) and by a wider public (open access to a front end section). The work is based on an open source tool previously developed by the team, OSG4WEB, recently optimized, adding new features and functionalities to enable the final publication of massive landscape reconstructions and virtual environments. The case study, Aquae Patavinae project, was chosen in order to explain the problematic aspects of a typical virtual archaeology work, where the main goal is to reconstruct ancient potential contexts and landscapes, thus supporting the choices made in the development of the software. The paper will underline how large reconstructed worlds and virtual environments within real-time 3D applications via web is still a challenge.
description: L'articolo presenta le diverse fasi di un progetto di archeologia virtuale, nel quale i diversi tipi di dati vengono acquisiti e realizzati utilizzando approcci metodologici diversi, per poi essere integrati all'interno di un unico ambiente interattivo. Tale ambiente è costituito da una parte accessibile solo da utenti “esperti” (tramite accesso ristretto ad una sezione beck-end in cui è possibile comporre la scena 3d ed esporla) e da una parte 3d esplorabile interattivamente da un pubblico più ampio. Viene dunque descritto il software open source  realizzato, OSG4WEB, recentemente ottimizzato tramite l'aggiunta di nuove funzionalità che consentono di pubblicare on line ampi paesaggi 3d ricostruiti. Viene quindi analizzato un caso di studio, Aquae Patavinae VR, su cui si sono testati gli approcci metodologici e le funzionalità del software di visualizzazione e interazione on line. Vengono infine sottolineate le problematiche ancora aperte nel settore della creazione di paesaggi archeologici e nella loro esplorazione all'interno di ambienti di realtà virtuale.
La restituzione virtuale dell’architettura antica come strumento di ricerca e comunicazione dei beni culturali: ricerca estetica e gestione delle fonti
Virtual rebuilding of ancient architecture as a researching and communication tool for Cultural Heritage: aesthetic research and source management
Creators: name: Borghini, Stefano; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
name: Carlani, Raffaele; CNR ITABC (Istituto Per Le Tecnologie Applicate Ai Beni Culturali)
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: Restituzione virtuale dell’architettura antica; ricerca scientifica e nuove tecnologie; comunicazione del bene culturale; archeologia virtuale; database; 3DGIS;
Virtual rebuilding of ancient architecture; new technologies as tool researching; communication tool for cultural heritage; virtual archeology; database; 3DGIS;

description: Raffaello Sanzio intuì per primo che il mondo antico, come lo vedevano i suoi occhi, non era che l’eco sbiadita di quella ricchezza che pur doveva caratterizzarne l’esperienza artistica. Oggi la tecnologia permette di realizzare il sogno di Raffaello e di restituire le immagini delle antiche architetture, rivoluzionando la percezione del patrimonio culturale da parte del pubblico moderno. La nostra esperienza decennale nel settore della comunicazione del bene culturale ha consentito di confrontarci con diversi casi: dalla Domus Aurea, all'Ara Pacis; dai filmati divulgativi agli applicativi pensati per le postazioni fisse dei musei, fino alla creazione di software per la gestione dei dati degli scavi archeologici. Sempre ponendo al centro di ogni lavoro i cardini del nostro modo di fare ricerca: l'attenzione al linguaggio, quale strumento di comprensione estetica, e la gestione informatizzata delle fonti, come apparato di studio e metodo di validazione scientifica delle ricostruzioni.[L’impostazione del saggio è comune ai due autori. In particolare, però, Stefano Borghini ha curato il paragrafo “Considerazioni generali”, mentre Raffaele Carlani “Alcune esperienze”].
description: Raffaello Sanzio realized for the first time that the ancient world, as it appeared to his eyes, was the faded echo of the richness which characterized it in the arts. Today the technology allows to actualize Raffaello’s dream and to restore the appearance of the ancient buildings. It revolutions the cognition of the cultural heritage by the modern audience. During our ten-year long experience in the communication of the cultural heritage we could deal with examples as Domus Aurea or as Ara Pacis; realizing popular videos, applications for kiosk in museums and software to manage data of archaeological excavations. All our works focus our method of research: the attention to the language, as instrument of aesthetic understanding, and the computerizing management of the fonts, as apparatus of studies and instrument of scientific validation of the reconstructions.
Producing educated women: Eveline LeBlanc and the University of Ottawa
Creators: name: Muir, Michelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biography.
subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Education, Sociology of.
subject: Women's Studies.
subject: Education, History of.

description: As a French-Canadian, Catholic institution, the University of Ottawa's practices and policies traditionally reflected the philosophy that universities served primarily to train boys for the professions. This ideal remained in effect until the mid-1950s when the University of Ottawa first considered actively recruiting women students. In 1959, the University hired Eveline LeBlanc to organize an initiative to actively recruit women students. This thesis explores two issues of importance to the study of women's history. Firstly, the main theme of this thesis pertains to Eveline LeBlanc and her professional role as a person of authority within the all-male, Catholic based administrative structure at the University of Ottawa during its transition to a co-educational institution. Secondly, this thesis also looks at the experiences of women students at the University of Ottawa from the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s as they struggle to obtain acceptance and define their position in a predominantly male setting.
The canonical status of Catholic health care facilities in the Province of New Brunswick in the light of recent provincial government legislation.
Creators: name: McGowan, Michael Dennis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: The presence of the Roman Catholic Church in institutional health care is as old as the history of Canada itself. On July 25, 1869, the first Catholic hospital in the Province of New Brunswick was founded at Chatham by the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph. This marked the beginning of a one-hundred-and-thirty year tradition of caring for and healing the sick. Subsequently, other religious institutes of women founded and administered health care facilities throughout New Brunswick, ranging from hospitals to nursing schools to homes for the aged. At the heart of the Church's health care apostolate lays the affirmation of the dignity of the human person and the strong commitment to give concrete expression to the gospel mandate "to heal the sick." In March 1992, the provincial health minister announced an overhaul of the health care system in New Brunswick. This legislation threatened the Church's integral mission of providing health care in the Province. The Hospital Act of 1992 terminated unilaterally the collaboration, cooperation and partnership between Government and Church in the area of health care. The take-over of the Catholic hospitals, the dissolution of the individual hospital boards, the establishment of seven regional hospital corporations, challenged and even denied the Church's right to be involved in the health care delivery system. Obviously, this legislation proved unsatisfactory to the religious institutes owning hospitals in the Province, to the bishops and to the New Brunswick Catholic Health Association. On April 21, 1993, after nearly a year of negotiations, an Agreement was reached whereby Catholic hospital facilities in the Province would continue to be owned by the religious institutes. While administration and control of these same facilities would come under the authority of a regional hospital corporation, provisions were introduced to safeguard Catholic mission, values, philosophy and ethics in these hospitals. The Hospital Act of 1992 was also amended so as to include these guarantees, while, at the same time, establishing Advisory Committees for each of the Catholic hospitals in the Province. These Committees would be the mechanism assuring the protection and promotion of the Catholicity of the hospital facilities. The canonical status of the Catholic hospitals in New Brunswick has been definitively altered in New Brunswick by the provincial legislation of 1992. However, other health care facilities continue to be owned, administered and controlled by religious in the Province. These facilities make visible in a tangible way the presence of the Healing One who issued the command nearly two thousand years to care for and heal the sick. Canon Law provides the necessary provisions to assist and enhance this apostolic endeavour.