cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Framework for Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beams Affected by Reinforcement Corrosion
Creators: name: Baingo, Darek
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: structural reliability
time-dependent reliability
reinforced concrete
corrosion damage
bond deterioration
computational framework

description: Corrosion of reinforcing bars is the major cause of deterioration of reinforced concrete (RC) structures in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and many coastal regions around the world. This deterioration leads to a loss of serviceability and functionality and ultimately affects the structural safety. The objective of this research is to formulate and implement a general stochastic finite element analysis (SFEA) framework for the time-dependent reliability analysis of RC beams with corroding flexural reinforcement. The framework is based on the integration of nonlinear finite element and reliability analyses through an iterative response surface methodology (RSM). Corrosion-induced damage is modelled through the combined effects of gradual loss of the cross-sectional area of the steel reinforcement and the reduction bond between steel and concrete for increasing levels of corrosion. Uncertainties in corrosion rate, material properties, and imposed actions are modelled as random variables. Effective implementation of the framework is achieved by the coupling of commercial finite element and reliability software. Application of the software is demonstrated through a case study of a simply-supported RC girder with tension reinforcement subjected to the effects of uniform (general) corrosion, in which two limit states are considered: (i) a deflection serviceability limit state and (ii) flexural strength ultimate limit state. The results of the case study show that general corrosion leads to a very significant decrease in the reliability of the RC beam both in terms of flexural strength and maximum deflections. The loss of strength and serviceability was shown to be predominantly caused by the loss of bond strength, whereas the gradual reduction of the cross-sectional area of tension reinforcement was found to be insignificant. The load-deflection response is also significantly affected by the deterioration of bond strength (flexural strength and stiffness). The probability of failure at the end of service life, due to the effects of uniform corrosion-induced degradation, is observed to be approximately an order of magnitude higher than in the absence of corrosion. Furthermore, the results suggest that flexural resistance of corroded RC beams is controlled by the anchorage (bond) of the bars and not by the yielding of fully bonded tensile reinforcement at failure. This is significant since the end regions can be severely corroded due to chloride, moisture, and oxygen access at connections and expansion joints. The research strongly suggests that bond damage must be considered in the assessment of the time-dependent reliability of RC beams subjected to general corrosion.
Supplementary document for REPAID: Resolution Enhanced Plenoptic All-In-Focus Imaging Using Deep Neural Networks - 5219182.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Miao
name: Gu, Yuanjie
name: Jiang, Zhilong
name: He, Xiaoliang
name: Kong, Yan
name: Liu, Cheng
name: Ai, Lingyu
name: Wang, Shouyu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplemental Document
Inflexibility of the plasma miRNA response following a high-carbohydrate meal in overweight insulin-resistant women
Creators: name: Ramzan, F.
name: D’Souza, R. F
name: Durainayagam, B. R
name: Milan, A. M
name: Roy, N. C
name: Kruger, M. C
name: Henry, C. J
name: Mitchell, C. J
name: Cameron-Smith, D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Context: Metabolic inflexibility is a characteristic of insulin resistance, limiting the ability to transiently regulate oxidative metabolism and gene expression in response to nutrient availability. Little is known of the flexibility of post-transcriptional regulation, including circulatory miRNAs (c-miRNAs). Design: The abundances of targeted c-miRNAs, with reported functions in metabolic regulation, were analysed in response to a high-carbohydrate meal in healthy weight insulin-sensitive (IS) and overweight insulin-resistant (IR) women. Participants: Age-matched healthy weight IS (n = 20, BMI = 24.3 ± 0.70) and overweight IR (n = 20, BMI = 28.6 ± 0.67) women. Methods: An abundance of c-miRNAs was quantified prior to and following a high-carbohydrate breakfast meal (2500 kJ; 50% carbohydrate, 20% fat and 27% protein). Target genes of the differentially regulated c-miRNA were measured in RNA extracted from circulatory peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Results: In healthy weight IS women, both miR-15a-5p (p = 0.03) and miR-17-5p (p < 0.01) levels were halved at 4 h post-meal. These miRNA remained unaltered following the same meal in the overweight IR women. Furthermore, amongst genes targeted by these miRNA, CPT1A (p = 0.01) and IL8 (p = 0.03) had also reduced expression 4 h post-meal only in the healthy weight IS women. Conclusions: The study findings provide preliminary evidence for a possible extension of metabolic inflexibility to include c-miRNAs. Trial registration: The clinical trial is registered with Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry under Trial registration: ANZCTR: ACTRN12615001108505. Registered on 21 October 2015.
I labirinti: il dramma del percorso
Creators: name: Angelino, Maria-Isabella
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Il labirinto è un argomento ricorrente negli scritti di Borges, ed in particolar modo l’interesse dello scrittore argentino è rivolto al racconto del mito cretese, giunto ai nostri giorni attraverso l’elaborazione antica e medievale. Nel corso del Medioevo l’elaborazione del mito attribuì grande importanza, soprattutto da un punto di vista metaforico, al fatto che la complessità del labirinto fosse solo apparente: il labirinto veniva concepito come un tracciato monoviario, ma ugualmente veniva descritto come un luogo nel quale, fino all’inevitabile momento del raggiungimento del centro, si aveva l’impressione di potersi perdere. Le situazioni labirintiche borgesiane risultano similmente impostate, dal momento che sempre si raggiunge la meta (il centro del labirinto), ma solo dopo aver superato innumerevoli difficoltà, che inizialmente apparivano insormontabili.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 2 (2003): Medioevo storico e medioevo fantastico in Jorge Luis Borges
Le saghe, i bardi, le spade
Con Borges nelle terre della grande memoria concava
Creators: name: Perassi, Emilia
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Numerose sono le figure – narrative, simboliche, storiche – nelle pagine di Borges, tratte dalla tradizione di una Germania intesa, alla maniera di Tacito, come l’antico nord del mondo. La passione per la germanistica percorre tutta l’opera di Borges per farsi, nell’ultima parte della sua vita, scoperta del mito e ripensamento della poesia, capace di conferire alla sua immagine della letteratura un colore perdutamente romantico.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 2 (2003): Medioevo storico e medioevo fantastico in Jorge Luis Borges
1. Aspetti conoscitivi della metafora in Aristotele
Creators: name: Eco, Umberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Per Aristotele la metafora non è un semplice ornamento del discorso ma possiede valore conoscitivo, perché consente di conoscere il simile e di cogliere concetti affini. Negli autori medievali la metafora mantiene la funzione di strumento di conoscenza?
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
2. L'Aristotele Latino
Creators: name: Eco, Umberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Le traduzioni latine della Poetica e della Retorica atistoteliche. Gli equivoci del commento di Averroè alla Poetica. Ermanno il Tedesco e Guglielmo di Moerbeke.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
DISC 2017: Geophysical Electromagnetics: Fundamentals and Applications
Creators: name: Oldenburg, Douglas W.
name: Heagy, Lindsey J.
name: Kang, Seogi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Electromagnetics
subject: DC Resistivity
subject: Induced Polarization
subject: Electrical Methods

description: Presentation materials for the 2017 Society of Exploration Geophysics Distinguished Instructor Short Course entitled: Geophysical Electromagnetics: Fundamentals and Applications. The course website is at: https://disc2017.geosci.xyz/.
Conoscenza e metafora in Averroè
Creators: name: Campanini, Massimo
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: L'analisi della metafora in Averroè conferma la centralità del linguaggio come strumento conoscitivo e l'equivalenza dei linguaggi sul piano pratico.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Metafora ed evidenza in Ugo di san Vittore
Creators: name: Daloiso, Viviana
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La metafora della luce di origine dionisiana esaminata come strumento di conoscenza che si traduce in pratica di vita.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
3. La metafora nel Medioevo latino
Creators: name: Eco, Umberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La metafora nella tradizione retorica medievale. Filosofia, teologia e limiti del discorso metaforico. Metafora, allegoria e simbolismo. Tommaso, Dante e lo pseudo Dionigi.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Metafora e linguaggi politici
Creators: name: Briguglia, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Il passaggio dalle tradizioni metaforiche ai diversi linguaggi come momento per individuare gli oggetti di cui è possibile parlare in campo politico.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
UV hyperspectral imaging as process analytical tool for the characterization of oxide layers and copper states on direct bonded copper
Creators: name: Al Ktash, Mohammad
name: Stefanakis, Mona
name: Englert, Tim
name: Drechsel, Maryam S. L.
name: Stiedl, Jan
name: Green, Simon
name: Jacob, Timo
name: Boldrini, Barbara
name: Ostertag, Edwin
name: Rebner, Karsten
name: Brecht, Marc
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: pushbroom
subject: UV spectroscopy
subject: principal component analysis
subject: partial least squares regression
subject: direct bonded copper
subject: copper oxide layer thickness
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Hyperspectral imaging
subject: Least squares
subject: Hauptkomponentenanalyse
subject: Methode der partiellen kleinsten Quadrate
subject: DBC-Substrat

description: Hyperspectral imaging and reflectance spectroscopy in the range from 200–380 nm were used to rapidly detect and characterize copper oxidation states and their layer thicknesses on direct bonded copper in a non-destructive way. Single-point UV reflectance spectroscopy, as a well-established method, was utilized to compare the quality of the hyperspectral imaging results. For the laterally resolved measurements of the copper surfaces an UV hyperspectral imaging setup based on a pushbroom imager was used. Six different types of direct bonded copper were studied. Each type had a different oxide layer thickness and was analyzed by depth profiling using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. In total, 28 samples were measured to develop multivariate models to characterize and predict the oxide layer thicknesses. The principal component analysis models (PCA) enabled a general differentiation between the sample types on the first two PCs with 100.0% and 96% explained variance for UV spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging, respectively. Partial least squares regression (PLS-R) models showed reliable performance with R2c = 0.94 and 0.94 and RMSEC = 1.64 nm and 1.76 nm, respectively. The developed in-line prototype system combined with multivariate data modeling shows high potential for further development of this technique towards real large-scale processes.
Metafora e conoscenza nella cultura monastica
Creators: name: Cartotto, Elena
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: I Sermoni su Cantico dei Cantici di Bernardo di Chiaravalle come esemplificazione della funzione conoscitiva della metafora: dall'autocomprensione di sé all'illustrazione della relazione uomo Dio.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Come l'araba fenice, che vi sia ciascun lo dice, dove sia nessun lo sa
Creators: name: Spinelli, Luigi
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La piega critica del realismo filosofico di Tommaso rivela una realtà inaferrabile dischiudendo al soggetto nuove possibilità conoscitive, che ci restituiscono un Tommaso un po' meno tomista.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Biosonar resolving power: echo-acoustic perception of surface structures in the submillimeter range
Creators: name: Simon, Ralph
name: Knörnschild, Mirjam
name: Tschapka, Marco
name: Schneider, Annkathrin
name: Passauer, Nadine
name: Kalko, Elisabeth
name: Von Helversen, Otto
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: echolocation
subject: resolving power
subject: structure recognition
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 590 / Animals (Zoology)
subject: Bat sounds
subject: Bats
subject: Echoorientierung
subject: bat
subject: Resolution

description: The minimum distance for which two points still can be separated from each other defines the resolving power of a visual system. In an echo-acoustic context, the resolving power is usually measured as the smallest perceivable distance of two reflecting surfaces on the range axis and is found to be around half a millimeter for bats employing frequency modulated (FM) echolocation calls. Only few studies measured such thresholds with physical objects, most often bats were trained on virtual echoes i.e., echoes generated and played back by a computer; moreover, bats were sitting while they received the stimuli. In these studies differences in structure depth between 200 and 340 μm were found. However, these low thresholds were never verified for free-flying bats and real physical objects. Here, we show behavioral evidence that the echo-acoustic resolving power for surface structures in fact can be as low as measured for computer generated echoes and even lower, sometimes below 100 μm. We found this exceptional fine discrimination ability only when one of the targets showed spectral interferences in the frequency range of the bats′ echolocation call while the other target did not. This result indicates that surface structure is likely to be perceived as a spectral quality rather than being perceived strictly in the time domain. Further, it points out that sonar resolving power directly depends on the highest frequency/shortest wavelength of the signal employed.
Lettere contro Natura. Il gioco artificiale delle lettere e dei numeri / Kontraŭnaturaj literoj. La artefarita ludo de la literoj kaj de la ciferoj.
Creators: name: Valore, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Language construction and policies / Lingvokonstruado kaj lingvopolitikoj
The topographical properties of paediatric brain electrical activity during anaesthesia
Creators: name: Martin, Jessica Catherine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite thousands of children anaesthetised yearly at the Royal Children's Hospital, surprisingly little is known about how anaesthesia interacts with the brain. We recruited 60 children ages five to fourteen years. Children were induced with sevoflurane or propofol and high density electroencephalography was recorded. Age-related changes were not statistically significant in the topography or functional connectivity results. However, connectivity in frontal networks increased with anaesthesia which is different finding to adults. This work provides insight into the mechanisms responsible for the modulation of brain activity during anaesthesia which may help us reduce side-effects from too much or too little anaesthesia.
Saturno, Giove, Marte e Filippo: le quattro chiavi del Codice Bellaso / Saturno, Jupitero, Marto kaj Filippo: la kvar ŝlosiloj de la Kodo de Bellaso
Creators: name: Rizzardini, Massimo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: ABSTRACT Il vero modo di scrivere in cifra con facilità, prestezza et securezza è un’operetta scritta e pubblicata nel 1564 da Giovan
Battista Bellaso, sconosciuto diplomatico di origini bresciane. In poche pagine, l’autore esponeva i risultati delle sue ricerche in
un ambito misterioso e sospettato: quello della crittografia. Divisi in quattro metodi e in numerose varianti, i sistemi polialfabetici
spiegati nel manuale seguivano e miglioravano i "dischi cifranti" di Leon Battista Alberti (che con ogni probabilità Bellaso non
conosceva), anticipavano la celebre tavola di Vigenère e guidavano il lettore meno esperto nel complicato mondo dei codici
segreti. Quattrocento anni prima del codice Enigma di Arthur Scherbius. RESUMO Il vero modo di scrivere in cifra con facilità, prestezza et securezza estas verketo skribita kaj eldona en 1564 de Giovan Battista Bellaso, nekonata diplomato brescia laŭ naskiĝo. En malmultaj paĝoj, la aŭtoro prezentas la rezultojn de la ĝiaj esploroj en mistera kaj suspekta kadro: la kriptografio. Disitaj en kvar metodoj kaj multaj variantoj, la polialfabetaj sistemoj klarigitaj en la manlibro sekvis kaj plibonigis la ”ĉifrantajn diskojn” de Leon Battista Alberti (kiujn probable Bellaso ne sciis), anticipis la konan tabelon de Vigenère kaj gvidis la malpli ekspertan leganton tra la komplika mondo de la sekretaj kodoj. Kvarcent jarojn antaŭ Enigma codo de Arthur Scherbius.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Language construction and policies / Lingvokonstruado kaj lingvopolitikoj
The (inter)linguistic ecology of education / La (inter)lingva ekologio de la edukado
Creators: name: Fettes, Mark
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: ABSTRACT The text is a revised version of a public lecture delivered in Parma,
Italy, on February 9, 2010. It outlines a definition of linguistic ecology and
analyzes the role of the formal education system in the linguistic ecology of
modernity. The shift from solid to liquid modernity is shown to have farreaching
implications for schools and for languages that in turn are bound up
with the ecological health of the planet. I argue that interlinguistics can yield
important insights into the linguistic ecology of transmodernity, a systemic
alternative to the present sociological impasse.RESUMO La teksto estas reviziita versio de publika prelego prezentita en Parma,
Italio, la 9an de februaro, 2010. Ĝi skizas difinon de lingva ekologio kaj analizas
la rolon de la formala eduksistemo en la lingva ekologio de la moderneco.
Montriĝas ke la transiro de solida al likva moderneco kuntrenas profundajn
sekvojn por la lernejoj kaj la lingvoj, kaj ke ĉio ĉi kunplektiĝas kun la ekologia
sano de la planedo. Mi argumentas, ke la interlingvistiko povas grave kontribui
al nia kompreno pri la lingva ekologio de la transmoderneco, konceptita
kiel sistema alternativo al la nuna sociologia sakstrato.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Language construction and policies / Lingvokonstruado kaj lingvopolitikoj
Comunicazione internazionale e libero pensiero: Esperanto tra pianificazione linguistica e religiosa / Internacia komunikado kaj libera penso: Esperanto inter lingvistika kaj religia planado
Creators: name: Astori, Davide
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: ABSTRACT Il programma zamenhofiano di lingua internazionale si presenta
molto più articolato e complesso di quanto superficialmente si potrebbe
credere: l’idea di uno strumento privilegiato di comunicazione per l’umanità
sarebbe dovuto essere, agli occhi del suo inventore, solo il primo passo di una
riflessione ben più ambiziosa. L’Esperanto sarebbe stato solo un viatico per
il contributo alla creazione, nel mondo di una cultura comune, di un sentire
comune, di una comunione d’intenti, affermando che un motivo etico era alla
base del movimento delle origini: come una lingua-ponte, pur nella tutela
delle native, avrebbe contribuito al miglioramento della comunicazione nel
mondo, così una religione ponte, nei medesimi termini dell’Esperanto, avrebbe
aiutato il progresso dell’Umanità. In parte dissimulati, agli stessi Esperantisti,
origini e ideali dell’Esperanto, questo tentativo di globalizzazione ante
litteram mostra una supposta matrice di libero pensiero. RESUMO La zamenhofa programo de lingvo internacia prezenti ĝas multe pli detalite kaj komplekse ol unuavide oni povus kredi: la ideo de ĉefa komunikilo por la homaro devintus, laŭ la vidpunkto de sia inventinto, nur la unua paŝo por multe pli ambicia pripensado. Esperanto devintus ilo por kontribuado al la kreado, en mondo kun komuna kulturo, de komuna sento, de komuna emo, asertante, ke etika kialo troviĝas baze de la pionira movado: kiel pontolingvo, en protektado de etnaj lingvoj, povus kontribui al plibonigi mondokomunikadon, tiel pontoreligio, samcele de Esperanto, povintus helpi la progreson de la Homaro. Parte kaŝitaj la originojn kaj idealojn de Esperanto al la esperantistoj mem, ĉi klopodo de antaŭtempa tutmondiĝo montras supozeblan matricon de liberkreda pensmaniero.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Language construction and policies / Lingvokonstruado kaj lingvopolitikoj
Stojan Ĝuĝev - Interlingvistika Utopiismo
Creators: name: Gobbo, Federico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: el: Violin Oljanov (red.). Interlingvistiko Esperantologio. Sofio:
Bulgara Esperantista Asocio. 1985. pp. 19–43.
Antaŭparolo de Federico Gobbo
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Language construction and policies / Lingvokonstruado kaj lingvopolitikoj
Emanuele Banfi, Nicola Grandi - Le lingue extraeuropee: Americhe, Australia e lingue di contatto
Creators: name: Caffo, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 1, No 2 (2010): Language construction and policies / Lingvokonstruado kaj lingvopolitikoj
Increased NF-L levels in the TDP-43G298S ALS mouse model resemble NF-L levels in ALS patients
Creators: name: Buck, Eva
name: Öckl, Patrick
name: Grozdanov, Veselin
name: Bopp, Verena
name: Kühlwein, Julia K.
name: Ruf, Wolfgang P.
name: Wiesner, Diana
name: Roselli, Francesco
name: Weishaupt, Jochen H.
name: Ludolph, Albert C.
name: Otto, Markus
name: Danzer, Karin M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Motor neuron loss
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
subject: Neurofilament proteins
subject: Myatrophische Lateralsklerose
subject: Neurofilament

description: Elevated levels of neurofilament light chain (NF-L) in CSF and blood are linked to the presymptomatic and symptomatic phase of patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, whether the NF-L level in extracellular liquids like serum or CSF is a marker of destruction or NF-L is secreted actively outside the cell is not known so far. NF-L levels in CSF and blood clearly separate ALS patients and controls [9], serving as a prognostic biomarker for ALS [4]. Also in pre-symptomatic ALS gene mutation carriers NF-L levels are elevated thus allowing prediction for clinical phenoconversion [3, 4]. The picture of NF-L levels in ALS mouse models is less clear. Previous studies report on elevated NF-L plasma levels in SOD1G93Adl and TDP-43 (TAR6/6) mice [6], but the correlation to motor neuron (MN) loss has not been determined. We therefore employed a transgenic TDP-43G298S mouse model to study the interaction of motor neuron pathophysiology, muscle denervation and NF-L levels. TDP-43G298S mutant mice show decreased performance in grip strength and motor activity compared to controls [10].
Reading for a multicultural society
Creators: name: Whitehead, Derek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The culture of reading is transplanted with people. Not only does book culture, literary culture, transplant to a new country, but it is also possible to say that it can grow and develop too. Sadly however, the evidence is that reading in Australia has grown and developed only in English: for other languages and cultures Australia has been, with few qualifications, a book desert. Australia has paid little attention to the needs and interests of people who wish to read in a language other than English, instead of or, more often, as well as English. There has been little research into or study of the reading needs and interests of Australians who use other languages. In our treatment of libraries, education, government support for creative writing, publishing, literature, we pay no real attention to the linguistic diversity of the book culture which already exists amongst Australians. About two million Australians read in languages other than English, despite the fact that their reading is largely ignored officially. This paper is concerned mainly with reading in other languages: the limited amount of research on the subject, the extent and nature of reading in other languages, and some reasons why people don't read. Finally, it suggests why reading in other languages is important, and what might be done. [Introduction]
Mitigating Loneliness of AdultRetiree Teachers: Mediating role of Engaged Living
Creators: name: Zafar Saleem, Faizul Hassan Shah, Muhabat Khan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Trait Gratitude, Loneliness, Engaged Living, Mediation

description: This study was undertaken in rural setup to study mediating role of engaged living in mitigating loneliness in adult retiree teachers. Population of the study comprised of adult retired teachers. Only those retiree teachers were selected whose age was more than 60 year. Snow ball sampling technique was used for sample selection. Total 180 male teachers were selected. Data was collected through standardized questionnaire. Three questionnaires were used for data collection. One questionnaire was for trait gratitude, second questionnaire was for loneliness and third questionnaire was used for engaged living. Data was collected through personal visit and analysed through SPSS using regression analysis. It was found that there was significant relationship between trait gratitude and loneliness. Significant relationship was found between trait gratitude and engaged living. It was found that Engaged living and loneliness were significant related. Engaged living significantly mediated relationship between trait gratitude and loneliness. Four hypotheses were formulated and all were accepted at 95% confidence level.
End-of-Career Practice Patterns of Primary Care Physicians in Ontario
Creators: name: Simkin, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Retirement
Physicians
Physician's Practice Patterns
Canada
Family Practice
General Practice
Health Manpower
Health Planning
Workforce

description: Incomplete understanding of attrition from the physician workforce has hampered policy-makers’ efforts to achieve optimal alignment of the supply of physicians with population demand for medical services. This longitudinal study of Ontario primary care physicians uses health administrative data to characterize changes in physicians’ practice patterns over time. We examined the workload and scopes of practice of 21,240 physicians between 1992 and 2013. We found that physicians reduce their workloads gradually as they age, retiring from clinical practice at an average age of 70.5. Furthermore, we found that 60% of family physicians who stop providing comprehensive primary care continue to provide clinical services for an average of three years, with reduced workloads, before retiring fully. Our findings clarify the process of physician attrition from the workforce and will help to improve estimates of attrition and make physician workforce planning more accurate and effective.
Evolving expert neural networks for meteorological rainfall estimations
Creators: name: McCullagh, John
name: Bluff, Kevin
name: Hendtlass, Tim
name: Copland, Howard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Various techniques for estimating meteorological parameters have been developed over the past few years that involve artificial neural networks. However, the estimation of rainfall has continued to be a very difficult and complex problem to solve. Data mining techniques are needed to extract the important information from the vast amount of meteorological data available. A single multi-layer backpropagation neural network used on complex problems involving different sub-tasks will often show strong inter sub-task interference effects that lead to slow learning and poor generalisation. Dividing the system up into several different 'expert networks' each specialising in a different sub-task can reduce this interference at the cost of having to combine the outputs from each of the experts. This paper investigates the technique of dividing the rainfall estimation problem into a number of such experts each specialising in a particular rainfall band (i.e. low, medium or high rain). Results demonstrate that expert networks can be successfully developed which result in both improved individual classifications and improved overall classification accuracy.
Stability of certain models of suspension bridges.
Creators: name: Harbi, Hani.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: In this thesis the problem of stability and analysis of distributed dynamical systems with applications to engineering is considered. A methodology has been developed for rigorous modelling of suspension bridges. It was shown that the complete dynamics of the system could be described by a coupled system of hyperbolic partial differential equations. Two models (A) and (B) have been developed. These models are generalized cases of those proposed by Lazer and McKenna and that suggested by Jacober-McKenna, which includes aerodynamic forces as developed by Maurice Roseau. Stability of the system has been proved using Lyapunov's approach under different types of dynamic loading. Further the model (B) has been extended to its stochastic counter parts. Stability of suspension bridge in the presence of distributed white noise has been investigated. Also, for each loading situation, the results are illustrated by numerical simulation with physical interpretation. And finally a dynamic model of suspension bridge based on Kirchhoff plate model as road way has been presented.
Pragmatism and hermeneutics: Rorty, James and Gadamer on truth.
Creators: name: Pollock, Albert.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Inspired by Richard Rorty's attempt to exploit both pragmatism and philosophical hermeneutics in support of his own end of epistemology project, the dissertation presents a comparative study of William James' pragmatic theory of truth and Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutic account of human understanding. Chapter 1 examines Rorty's end of philosophy project and his critique of truth as correspondence. It identifies three fundamental orientations of his thought, namely, the rejection of: representationalism, the ideal of transcendence, and scientism. It examines his claim that the pragmatic theory of truth and philosophical hermeneutic account of understanding are best understood as thorough repudiations of the representational intuition and the ambition for transcendence that inform the traditional meaning of philosophy and truth. It identifies the two aims of the thesis: first, to compare William James' pragmatic theory of truth and Hans-Georg Gadamer's account of human understanding, and second, to critically reflect on Rorty's general deconstruction of truth in light of the findings. Chapter 2 presents a straightforward interpretation of William James' pragmatic theory of truth bearing Rorty's three orientations in mind. It employs three questions as interpretive guides: How does James' concept of truth stand in relation to the representational intuition? How does it stand in relation to the ideal of transcendence? How does it challenge scientism? Chapter 3 compares Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutic account of understanding to James' theory of truth. It demonstrates their agreement concerning the primordial, interpretive structure of thought and the temporal, situated nature of truth. This chapter reveals that Gadamer, like James, wants to correct false thinking about science and truth. Both reject scientism. Consequently, they propose a more primordial and universal account of human understanding and truth than is circumscribed by science and scientific method per se. Both understand the breach between scientific consciousness and aesthetic, moral and religious consciousness to be the central problem of modern thought. Chapter 4 presents a critical reflection on Rorty's general deflation of truth in light of the comparative reading of James and Gadamer. It argues that Rorty remains entrapped by Cartesian metaphysical doubt and the identification of truth with certainty and that this leads to the extremity of his incoherent repudiation of the traditional notion of truth informed by the representational intuition and the ambition for transcendence. This chapter attempts to make clear how non-negotiable are the ambition for transcendence and the representationalist intuition, in contributing to the coherency of theoretical inquiry as such. It also argues that the essence of the liberal ironist society that Rorty promotes is entirely dependent upon the conception of inquiry that he denies. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
4. L'analogia entis
Creators: name: Eco, Umberto
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Univocità o equivocità del linguaggio umano applicato alle realtà divine. Analogia di attribuzione e analogia di proporzionalità: fondamento metafisico e valore conoscitivo.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Metafora e relazione
Creators: name: Ferrara, Alfio
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Il significato della metafora sta nelle nuove relazioni che si instaurano fra i termini, dunque essa fa esplodere il carattere puramente estensionale della classificazione porfiriana.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Flat plate buffeting in yawed wind with possible applications to bridges.
Creators: name: Kimura, Kichiro.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The wind resistant design of bridges becomes more realistic if the directionality of wind is incorporated into the analysis. However, the necessary information about the bridge response under wind with yaw angle, namely, under a wind not perpendicular to the bridge longitudinal axis, has not been obtained to this date. This thesis is concerned with the buffeting response of cantilever models under yawed turbulent wind. The employed cantilever models can be thought as a simple version of a cable-stayed bridge under construction which is known to be extremely vulnerable to the wind action. It has been also indicated that these structures reveal relatively large response under yawed wind. Models with various cross-sections were tested under different flow conditions and the buffeting response was measured taking the yaw angle as a parameter. The response was mostly in the first vertical bending mode. For the flat plate cross-section models, the effect of the model width was found to be most significant. The wider the model was, the larger the response was found to be under the wind from the free end direction. Even the largest response was sometimes observed under the wind parallel to the model axis from free end direction. A simple response prediction by taking the cosine component of the wind velocity, which has been used from time to time, was found to give generally smaller values than the actual model response. The conventional buffeting analysis was modified so that the response of the cantilever structure under yawed wind can be predicted. Wind velocity components normal to the side and the end of the model were taken as the effective wind velocities, and the response was calculated separately corresponding to each effective wind velocity. The modified buffeting analysis was applied to the flat plate cross-section models. The analytical results generally explained the experimental findings regarding the effect of the wind yaw angle.
Persistent but atypical germinal center reaction among 3rd SARS-CoV-2 vaccination after rituximab exposure
Creators: name: Stefanski, Ana-Luisa
name: Rincon-Arevalo, Hector
name: Schrezenmeier, Eva
name: Karberg, Kirsten
name: Szelinski, Franziska
name: Ritter, Jacob
name: Chen, Yidan
name: Meisel, Christian
name: Jahrsdörfer, Bernd
name: Ludwig, Carolin
name: Schrezenmeier, Hubert
name: Lino, Andreia C.
name: Dörner, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: rituximab (RTX)
subject: vaccination
subject: memory B cell (MBC)
subject: germinal center (GC)
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: COVID-19 vaccines
subject: B-lymphocytes
subject: SARS-CoV-2; Immunology
subject: Rituximab
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Impfung
subject: Gedächtniszelle

description: Background Durable vaccine-mediated immunity relies on the generation of long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells (MBCs), differentiating upon germinal center (GC) reactions. SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination induces a strong GC response in healthy volunteers (HC), but limited data is available about response longevity upon rituximab treatment. Methods We evaluated humoral and cellular responses upon 3rd vaccination in seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who initially mounted anti-spike SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies after primary 2x vaccination and got re-exposed to rituximab (RTX) 1-2 months after the second vaccination. Ten patients with RA on other therapies and ten HC represented the control groups. As control for known long-lived induced immunity, we analyzed humoral and cellular tetanus toxoid (TT) immune responses in steady-state. Results After 3rd vaccination, 5/7 seroconverted RTX patients revealed lower anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG levels but similar neutralizing capacity compared with HC. Antibody levels after 3rd vaccination correlated with values after 2nd vaccination. Despite significant reduction of circulating total and antigen-specific B cells in RTX re-exposed patients, we observed the induction of IgG+ MBCs upon 3rd vaccination. Notably, only RTX treated patients revealed a high amount of IgA+ MBCs before and IgA+ plasmablasts after 3rd vaccination. IgA+ B cells were not part of the steady state TT+ B cell pool. TNF-secretion and generation of effector memory CD4 spike-specific T cells were significantly boosted upon 3rd vaccination. Summary On the basis of pre-existing affinity matured MBCs within primary immunisation, RTX re-exposed patients revealed a persistent but atypical GC immune response accompanied by boosted spike-specific memory CD4 T cells upon SARS-CoV-2 recall vaccination.
Risk of bleeding associated with antidepressants: impact of causality assessment and competition bias on signal detection
Creators: name: Zeiss, René
name: Connemann, Bernhard J.
name: Schönfeldt-Lecuona, Carlos
name: Gahr, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Antidepressants
subject: Serotonin transporter
subject: Bleeding risk
subject: Competition bias
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Pharmacovigilance
subject: Antidepressive agents
subject: Serotonin uptake inhibitors
subject: Antidepressivum
subject: Arzneimittelüberwachung

description: Introduction: Until now, methods of pharmacovigilance as disproportionality analysis were not capable of proving the otherwise well-established increased bleeding risk related to antidepressants (ADs). As bleeding events with ADs often occur in combination with antithrombotics, they might not be considered causative of, but merely “linked” with, the bleeding event. Therefore, we hypothesized that the causality assessment of bleeding events in association with ADs and the competitive impact of antithrombotics are factors contributing to the non-findings of previous pharmacovigilance studies. Methods: We performed a case/non-case study based on data from VigiBaseTM and calculated reporting odds ratios (RORs) for 25 ADs. We used individual case safety reports (ICSRs) that were differently categorized in the database regarding their type of association between drug and event. Furthermore, we investigated the competitive impact of antithrombotics by comparing RORs with and without ICSRs related to antithrombotics. Results: Analysis of ICSRs that were categorized as causally associated resulted in the detection of only two signals (citalopram and escitalopram; upper gastrointestinal bleeding). Analysis of ICSRs irrespective of the type of association resulted in the detection of signals in 8 out of 25 ADs (regarding bleeding, in general, gastrointestinal bleeding and upper gastrointestinal bleeding). Consideration of ICSRs associated with antithrombotics as competitive substances did not have a major impact on signal detection in our analysis. Conclusion: Categorization of the type of association between drug and event affects the results of quantitative signal detection. Causality assessment seems to play a major role in signal detection, probably particularly concerning rare, unknown, or clinically insignificant adverse drug reactions. ADs appear to significantly increase the bleeding risk, even independent of antithrombotic comedication.
La metafora laica dei poeti
Creators: name: Raimondi, Stefano
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La metafora poetica: un andar a tentoni capace di conoscere empaticamente le cose trasportandole in un Altro senso.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 3 (2004): La metafora nel Medioevo
Defining sustainability in practice: views from implementing real-world innovations in health care
Creators: name: Urquhart, Robin
name: Kendell, Cynthia
name: Cornelissen, Evelyn
name: Madden, Laura L
name: Powell, Byron J
name: Kissmann, Glenn
name: Richmond, Sarah A
name: Willis, Cameron
name: Bender, Jackie L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: One of the key conceptual challenges in advancing our understanding of how to more effectively sustain innovations in health care is the lack of clarity and agreement on what sustainability actually means. Several reviews have helped synthesize and clarify how researchers conceptualize and operationalize sustainability. In this study, we sought to identify how individuals who implement and/or sustain evidence-informed innovations in health care define sustainability. Methods: We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with implementation leaders and relevant staff involved in the implementation of evidence-based innovations relevant to cancer survivorship care (n = 27). An inductive approach, using constant comparative analysis, was used for analysis of interview transcripts and field notes. Results: Participants described sustainability as an ongoing and dynamic process that incorporates three key concepts and four important conditions. The key concepts were: (1) continued capacity to deliver the innovation, (2) continued delivery of the innovation, and (3) continued receipt of benefits. The key conditions related to (2) and (3), and included: (2a) innovations must continue in the absence of the champion or person/team who introduced it and (3a) adaptation is critical to ensuring relevancy and fit, and thus to delivering the intended benefits. Conclusions: Participants provided a nuanced view of sustainability, with both continued delivery and continued benefits only relevant under certain conditions. The findings reveal the interconnected elements of what sustainability means in practice, providing a unique and important perspective to the academic literature.
Australia's informal venture capitalists: an exploratory profile
Creators: name: Hindle, Kevin
name: Wenban, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In Australia, as elsewhere, finding and acquiring equity capital is one of the major problems facing start-up or growing entrepreneurial ventures. The informal venture capital market, comprising high net worth non-institutional private equity investors (or 'business angels') provides risk capital directly to new and growing businesses and has been shown to be considerably more significant than institutional providers as a source of finance for entrepreneurial businesses. Building upon research undertaken internationally, this study generated and evaluated data resulting from an investigation of 36 carefully screened Australian business angels. It focused upon three primary research questions: (i) Who are Australia's informal venture capitalists (business angels)? (ii) How do they behave? (iii) What are their investment criteria? The study initiates Australian angel research into the developing international continuum of informal venture capital research and can serve as the generator of empirically testable hypotheses for future research and theory development.
Herausforderungen im Umgang mit MRE in außerklinischen Intensivpflege-Wohngemeinschaften. Erfahrungsbericht und Ergebnisse einer Prävalenzerhebung zu multiresistenten Erregern im Stadtgebiet Jena
Creators: name: Schwerdtner, Nora-Lynn
name: Trommer, Sabine
name: Dietsch, Sabine
name: Stein, Claudia
name: Weise, Antje
name: Popp, Anke
name: Kipp, Frank
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: außerklinischen Intensivpflege
subject: multiresistente Erreger
subject: 4MRGN
subject: Antibiotikaresistenz
subject: Infektionsschutzgesetz
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Die Zunahme von Patienten mit Intensivpflegebedarf führte in den letzten Jahren zur Etablierung einer neuen Versorgungsform, der außerklinischen Intensivpflege (AKI), welche im häuslichen Umfeld oder in sogenannten Wohngemeinschaften stattfindet. Anlass für die im Epidemiologischen Bulletin 37/2020 publizierte Untersuchung multiresistenter Erreger in einer AKI war die zeitgleiche Meldung von Nachweisen des multiresistenten gramnegativen Erregers 4MRGN Acinetobacter baumannii bei zunächst drei Bewohnern einer WG im Stadtgebiet Jena.