cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Host Responses to Leptospiral Infections
Creators: name: Craig, Scott B
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: Leptospira
Leptospirosis
tropical disease

description: Leptospires, the etiological agent of leptospirosis, are aggressive ubiquitous bacteria with a worldwide distribution, causing a spectrum of disease ranging from a mild influenza like illness to Weil's disease which manifests itself in multi organ failure. Studies delineating host responses to these bacteria are limited as is the current understanding of the pathology engendered by these pathogens. The overarching aim of this thesis is to explore and delineate targeted host responses in patients with leptospirosis.
Exploration of Oral Ketamine as a Rapid-Acting Anti-Suicidal Agent with Clinical and Neurobiological Outcomes
Creators: name: Can, Adem
name: Can, Adem
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: suicidality
neurobiology
Suicide prevention
Ketamine
Thompson Institute Special Collection

description: Each year, over 700,000 people die by suicide, and many more make suicide attempts. Families, communities, and nations, as well as those left behind, are greatly impacted by suicides (WHO, 2021). Suicide is a tragedy not only for the family members left behind but for everyone involved, including the medical staff. It is a catastrophic global public health problem and is now the leading cause of death and disease on a global scale. Suicide is a complicated phenomenon and various behavioural, social, environmental, genetic, and neurobiological factors may contribute to an individual's susceptibility to suicide. The neurobiology of suicidality remains poorly understood, however, research has shown that suicide has biological underpinnings. The extant literature suggests that changes in glutamate neurotransmitter systems are associated with reductions in suicidal ideation, which may be independent of depression and anxiety symptoms (E. D. Ballard, D. F. Ionescu, et al., 2014; G. N. Pandey, 2013).
description: Individuals with a mental illness are thirty times more likely to die by suicide than the general population (Pompili et al., 2008) and primary care providers often see suicide victims at some stage before they die (Luoma JB, Martin CE, & Pearson JL, 2002). Therefore, health professionals have a good chance of treating patients effectively if they have effective treatment options (M. J. Crawford, 2004). One promising option is the dissociative anaesthetic, ketamine, which has shifted the focus of psychiatric neuroscience from monoamine neurotransmitter based medications to glutamatergic agents, and thus help to enhance our understanding of the neurobiology of mood disorders (Dutta, Ray, & Nagarajan, 2013; McEntee & Crook, 1993; Meldrum, 2000). In this regard, molecular and structural neuroplasticity appears to mediate the rapid antidepressant effect of ketamine (Abdallah, Sanacora, Duman, & Krystal, 2018; M. J. Y. Kang, Hawken, & Vazquez, 2022).
Open Science and Democratic Dialogue: vision for constituting a foundation
Creators: name: Balli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: open science
emerging change
democratic dialogue
popular consensus
social commons

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5794265
description: Aims: Fostering the emergence of open science methodologies, knowledge and infrastructures that are co-created and coordinated by the people, and aligned with the objectives, values and principles of the UNESCO Recommendation adopted by 193 states in late 2021 . Carrying, valuing and contributing to a coherent set of essential social commons, that is resources whose primary utility is to enable every human being: the fulfilment of their basic needs; the development of their capacity to care; the full enjoyment of their civil and social rights. Building and preserving an information commons under copyfair or copyleft legal regime, or a normative framework of equivalent effect, as well as a movable and immovable heritage governed according to Ostrom principles. Practicing creation-as-research : research emerging from creative activities. Illustration of Open Science elements according to UNESCO Illustration presenting the positioning of the foundation Insert on the founder's journey Contact email Version française . Annex under CC BY SA: editable file, improved UNESCO icons (darker colours, uniform sizes), circle integrating the four elements (placement and labels modified).
A study of voluntary administration: statistical model predictions and experts' judgements regarding the reorganisation decision and success of reorganised companies
Creators: name: Routledge, James
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2000
Subjects: organisational change

description: The voluntary administration procedure, embodied in Part 5.3A of the Corporations Law, was introduced as part of Australia's corporate insolvency regime in June 1993. Voluntary administration has become the most widely used means of dealing with corporate insolvency in Australia since its inception. Since the inception of voluntary administration there has been little empirical research conducted to analyse the operation and effect of the legislation's provision for company reorganisation. Critical to the efficient operation of reorganisation legislation is the decision regarding which companies should be permitted to attempt reorganisation. Returning inefficient firms to the market may result in economic costs that are greater than the benefits derived from saving a few distressed companies.This thesis focuses on the reorganisation decision. A statistical model is developed, based on the coalition behaviour decision theory which provides some insight into the behaviour of parties involved in the reorganisation decision. A further statistical model is developed that addresses the problem of identifying suitable (successful) reorganisation candidates from a pool of distressed companies. This model should be of value to those required to decide which companies should attempt reorganisation. Improved understanding of what contributes to success in company reorganisation may be useful in minimising the incidence of reorganisation of inefficinet companies. This thesis also examines the relationship between information cues and insolvency experts' decisions regarding companies' prospects in reorganisation. The findings presented in this thesis have implications for insolvency policy that adopts a flexible regime for company reorganisation, which is a feature of the Australian voluntary administration law.
Supplementary document for Xenon Implantation of Nanodiamond Films for Tailored Color Center Emission at Sub-Nanosecond Time Scales. - 5247328.pdf
Creators: name: Akomolede, Oluseye
name: Bermel, Peter
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Description of SAUD process and Optical experiment
Toward a unified set of accident causation tenets: identification, application and implications
Creators: name: Grant, Eryn L
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: systems thinking
systems theory
accident causation
accident analysis
accident prevention
proactive safety
AcciMap
systems theoretic accident model and processes
normal accident theory
drift into failure
functional resonance analysis method

description: Whilst accident analysis is an accepted approach to safety management, it is reactive in nature and requires the occurrence of adverse events. A proactive approach to safety can be achieved by monitoring "normal performance"; however, there are few theories or methods in safety science that provide specific support on the identification of the conditions that could create accidents and safety compromising events. The research presented in this thesis is a response to this capability gap and aimed to use what is known about accident causation to identify a series of 'tenets' or principal beliefs regarding safety and accidents that could be examined in order to proactively assess the safety status of complex work systems.
A Venezuelan input to the Latin American Strategy for Research Infrastructures (LASF4RI)
Creators: name: Venezuela-Lasf4ri-Input@Googlegroups.Com
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: physics
Venezuela
sciences

description: This is a White Paper in the context of the Latin American Strategy for Research Infrastructures (LASF4RI). This proposal covers areas of importance for the region like High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Scientific Computing. It is supported by past experiences and current activities and expertise deployed by members of the Venezuelan community all over the world. The following pages summarise relevant scientific and educational efforts, infrastructure, collaborations and projects executed inside Venezuela and in research enterprises worldwide. It illustrates our position and ideas for this call -with the support of the international scientific community- showing our disposition to play a functional role in the LASF4RI efforts on the scientific and capacity-building areas in the region.
Gdańsk University of Technology Library as Regional Leader in creating Information Skills
Creators: name: Szuflita-Żurawska, Magdalena
name: Wałek, Anna
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2017
Subjects: open science
information skills
trainings

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4501753
description: The Polish higher education system is developing very dynamically. It is shaped by the international trends to construct a modern knowledge society with advanced information and technological skills. One of the essential directions is to turn into the Open Science that is strongly supported for example by European Commission.The role of the library in implementing and preparing trainings on information skills will be presented on the example of Gdansk University of Technology
Realizaciones posmemorísticas desde la perspectiva de género y el transatlantismo en los umbrales del siglo XXI
Creators: name: Cardona Núñez, Nohora Viviana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: posmemoria
trasatlantismo
género

description: The corpus for this thesis consists of the novels Lo real (2001) by Belén Gopegui, El corazón helado (2007) by Almudena Grandes and Demasiados héroes (2009) by Laura Restrepo, as well as the documentary films Papá Iván (2000) by María Inés Roqué and Los rubios (2003) by Albertina Carri. In the first chapter, I analyze Restrepo’s novel using the concept of postmemory, as coined by Marianne Hirsch and as discussed in relation to Argentina by Beatriz Sarlo. I also stress the way the paternal image is constructed through what Nelly Richard calls “language scenes,” i.e., representations made up of various media (that favour the visual) that serve to exorcise the trauma resulting from parental loss. In the final portion of this chapter, I look at representations of the New Man (Hombre Nuevo) and how this notion is problematized. The second chapter is dedicated to El corazón helado. Using José María Naharro Calderón’s theoretical framework, I examine themes of exile among Spanish emigrants in France. More specifically, I look at postmemory processes among the children and grandchildren of direct victims of the Spanish Civil War; the process of intergenerational transfer between certain female characters; and how these two types of processes pertain to preserving the memory of victims of reprisal under the Franco regime. In the third chapter, focused on the novel Lo real, I draw on psychoanalytic concepts such as the emotional field and intergenerational trauma to examine the protagonist’s identity process. Moreover, I reflect on Jean Baudrillard’s notion of “simulacrum” in order to explore the many identities this character assumes. Subsequently, I examine the role of the female characters as guardians of memory. In the fourth and final chapter, I revisit the three novels through comparative analysis while integrating the two documentaries. The analysis is structured according to three transatlantic tropes proposed by Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat: 1) a melancholic view of history, 2) post-memoristic policies in post-dictatorial societies, and 3) postmodern disenchantment. Ultimately, I insist on the importance of female agency both in revolutionary militancy and in the construction of postmemory linked to feminist issues; in doing so, I propose an additional trope, which incorporates these themes.
title: Assessment of Turbulence Modelling for Compressibility Effects in Ejector Ramjet Applications
Creators: name: McFadden, Andrew
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
subject: Turbulence Modeling
subject: Compressibility Correction
subject: Aerospace
subject: Ejector Ramjet
subject: Reynolds stresses
subject: Engineering--Aerospace

description: A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study is presented to assess the k−ω SST turbulence model’s accuracy in representing compressibility effects for a confined supersonic jet, a key component of the Atlantis Intake System ejector ramjet. The third-party OpenFOAM compressible flow solver, pimpleCentralFOAM, is used to simulate a Mach 1.25 axisymmetric jet discharging inside a mixing tube and is compared against PIV data. CFD results were found to over-predict the jet core length, mixing layer growth rate, and Reynolds shear stresses. Compressibility corrections were applied to the turbulence model through closures for dilatation dissipation (DD), pressure dilatation (PD), and a combination of both effects (CD). All models improved agreement to experimental data, with the CD model displaying the most accurate representation of compressibility effects through suppression of mixing layer growth, turbulent kinetic energy and maximum Reynolds shear stresses. The corrections did not improve the jet core length. For application to the AIS ejector design, the CD model predicted an increased length for the mixing tube designs through a delayed rise in stagnation pressure. CD model performance was also assessed at varied inlet conditions and confirmed a suppressed jet spreading rate with increasing convective Mach number.
I grandi eventi: un osservatorio privilegiato sulla ricon?gurazione degli spazi. Il caso di Zaragoza 2008
Creators: name: Mastropietro, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The paper Mega-events: a privileged observatory on the reconfiguration of spaces, landscapes and identities in the contemporary city. The case of Zaragoza 2008 proposes an analysis of urban restoration processes in contemporary European cities, through the case study of Zaragoza. Zaragoza represents a useful case study in order to point out how contemporary cities face the economic and social transition, from the traditional industrial model to the contemporary response to global urban challenges. The case of Zaragoza synthesizes the main strategies adopted by local administrations in reshaping cities, adopting urban renewal programs and policies. The transformation of Zaragoza started at the end of the eighties with the approval of the new Masterplan (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana). After that, in 1998, a commission composed by local administrators and stakeholders, adopted a Strategic plan, which promoted the regeneration and the local development of the city until 2015. In 2004 Zaragoza obtained the nomination as host city for the International Expo of 2008. The challenge of the Expo gave a new impulse to all the programmed projects, spread in all the neighborhoods, which converged towards the scheduled event of 2008.
The core of the research presented in this paper concerns the analysis of the policies, the strategies and practices promoted by the city of Zaragoza for the Expo 2008 and their consequences in reshaping and reorganizing the city after the conclusion of the event.

description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Confini mobili: lingua e cultura nel discorso del turismo
Characterisation of Chlamydia pecorum infection and antibody dynamics to inform diagnosis, epidemiology and control
Creators: name: Bommana, Sankhya
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chlamydia pecorum
diagnostics
serology
antibody response
sheep

description: Globally, Chlamydia pecorum is a ubiquitous and significant pathogen frequently reported in livestock. C. pecorum infections are also widespread across Australia’s mainland koala populations. Infections caused by this pathogen are highly diverse, resulting in varying disease manifestations and pathologies across the hosts infected. Despite these infections being widespread and resulting in significant health and economic impacts, there are major knowledge gaps in (a) the relationship between chlamydial shedding and overt animal pathology, (b) the questions about the performance and species-specificity of the existing serological methods, including their interpretation required for treatment of infections and, (c) the lack of strain-specific serological assays which are particularly useful in diagnosing C. pecorum strains associated with specific diseases. All the aforementioned knowledge gaps significantly hinder our understanding of the complex diagnosis picture, epidemiology and effective ways to control C. pecorum infections in domesticated and wildlife hosts.
L’heritage in rete: social media e promozione del territorio
Creators: name: Paganoni, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Heritage promotion through the Internet finds a privileged context in Great Britain, where the understanding of the relationship between places and cultural memory has led to a widespread awareness of the importance the historical and ethnological patrimony of the territory holds for the public. It is the emergence of heritage politics that has inspired the choice to analyze a sample of websites of British institutions concerned with heritage preservation, in order to identify the communicative strategies, digital genres and text types that may be selected as examples of the best practices of online remediation of the cultural landscape. Worthy of note is the skillful use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, now embedded within the websites, and currently the most interesting innovation in terms of content circulation across different platforms and creation of community networks. Following this intercultural perspective, the analysis may be turned from Great Britain to Italy in order to examine the websites of the city and province of Bergamo as a case study. Also in view of the Expo Milano 2015, Bergamo is working to renovate the representation of its territory and narrate its cultural heritage to a ‘glocal’ public of citizens and a wide selection of visitors including tourists, businesspeople, students and scientists. Networking through social media might indeed mark a step ahead in the city’s rebranding effort and leave a meaningful legacy to the region.

description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Confini mobili: lingua e cultura nel discorso del turismo
Metadata approach in the Bridge of Data project at Gdansk University of Technology
Creators: name: Szuflita-Żurawska, Magdalena
name: Wałek, Anna
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2019
Subjects: metadata
open science
institutional

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4522972
description: The Bridge of Data Project is an outgoing project at the Gdansk University of Technology (GUT) related to the open data curation and sharing. It is a continuum of the Bridge of Knowledge platform that was mainly focused on the institutional repository and scientific services for the academic community. In this poster, we would like to present the process of our approach to metadata collection and description and show the challenges and difficulties in designing it. Selecting the standards that will be appropriate for datasets collections and fulfill the FAIR principles, is a weighty and difficult decision. For scientific publications, we already support Dublin Core and Highwire Press tags. Additionally, to ensure the project’s compatibility with 5 stars Open Data, each object is described by schema.org with JSON-LD formatting. As metadata is essential for efficiently storing, sorting, retrieving, sharing and link scientific data, and to assure the description of granular levels of resources, we have decided to use the DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) standard for the first level of metadata. Due to the wide range of disciplines covered by our project (GUT in collaboration with Gdansk University and Gdansk Medical University) from humanities, social sciences, technical and engineering to medical science, we were looking for a standard that best reflects our needs and assumptions. DDI standard is quite general, flexible, and more accessible for all disciplines and broader communities in comparison to others. In addition, DDI is more interoperable than other standards that will result in better indexing provided datasets in various search engines and data hubs raising awareness of its presence and availability. The second level of metadata will be subject-specific and more constrained to assure scientific objects more findable and reusable. As one example, we will support INSPIRE standard for GIS data. It has to be highlighted that our data repository will have a hierarchical structure that allows e.g. research teams to assign the specific collection of datasets to specific projects a then sub-collection to different research objects such as individual scholars, publications, software or images.
The Crisis in Traditional Schooling from the Voice and Perspective of Students who have been Excluded
Creators: name: Grandin, Robert
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: student voice
schooling
learning
student/teacher relationships
learning patterns
future
diversity
alternative
community

description: Australian traditional schooling is coming under increasing pressure as the National test outcomes often do not compare favourably between communities and across nations. Of more concern is the growing number of disengaged and excluded young people. The increased focus on the outcome of common testing is causing increased levels of pressure on schools and young people. This is particularly debilitating when there is a decrease in the number of low-skill or unskilled jobs at the same time causing an increase in youth unemployment figures. Control of traditional schooling remains the domain of the hegemonic class who support and stimulate the processes that create an exclusionary situation for those that are not proficient at academic learning and/or testing. Ranking against academic ability for university studies is a pathway for only one-third of the young people emerging from schools. Society is failing a large proportion of young people when there are not inclusive, rather than exclusive, processes in schools. Every young person is required to attend school by law, yet for many, there is not the multiplicity of learning pathways to meet the diversity of ways in which they learn. A hierarchical class-based society is creating an under-class of young people without meaningful pathways into productive participation in society. This study has engaged with young people who have been excluded through these processes and have decided to attempt to recover their lives through attendance at alternative learning environments. Here the focus is on building relationships, engaging the young people in what they want to learn through what they can achieve and allowing the young people real negotiation in how they move forward. The contrast in this experience to their past school experience is staggering. A Future Studies approach is taken to the rapid evolution of society with the nature of work and participation in society changing in ways that are difficult to predict. Schooling needs to adapt to new skills of relationships, caring and community building, as other basic skills are developed. This calls for an inclusive approach to curriculum and teaching that assists the globalisation of the world community as it integrates the diversity of people and cultures into each community.
Supplementary document for Xenon Implantation of Nanodiamond Films for Tailored Color Center Emission at Sub-Nanosecond Time Scales. - 5247328.pdf
Creators: name: Akomolede, Oluseye
name: Bermel, Peter
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Description of SAUD process and Optical experiment
A redundancy free 4NF for XML
Creators: name: Vincent, Millist W.
name: Liu, Jixue
name: Liu, Chengfei
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While providing syntactic flexibility, XML provides little semantic content and so the study of integrity constraints in XML plays an important role in helping to improve the semantic expressiveness of XML. Functional dependencies (FDs) and multivalued dependencies (MVDs) play a fundamental role in relational databases where they provide semantics for the data and at the same time are the foundation for database design. In some previous work, we defined the notion of multivalued dependencies in XML (called XMVDs) and defined a normal form for a restricted class of XMVDs, called hierarchical XMVDs. In this paper we generalise this previous work and define a normal form for arbitrary XMVDs. We then justify our definition by proving that it guarantees the elimination of redundancy in XML documents.
“There's kind of a wall I have to stay inside of” : A Qualitative Understanding of Children's Independent Mobility Range, Destination, Time and Expansion
Creators: name: Han, Christina
name: Lin, Yingyi
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
name: Brussoni, Mariana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Children’s independent mobility (IM) is profoundly connected to their healthy development and wellbeing, and plays a critical role in promoting their further territorial expansion in their neighborhood. In this paper, we explore perspectives of Canadian children aged 10-13 years on their IM in their neighborhood, using interpretive description analysis. This paper discusses three themes yielded from the children’s data: 1) their perceived boundaries for their IM range, 2) utilized places for their IM destinations, and 3) temporal boundaries on their IM created by curfews and check-ins. Our iterative process of data triangulation allowed us to expand beyond the identified themes and original frameworks towards a novel conceptualization of children’s territorial boundary expansion in the context of IM development.
Is the Canadian Media Ready for a Tahrir Moment?: Comparing the Canadian Media’s Framing Strategy of Social Movements at Home and Abroad
Creators: name: Zaky, Radamis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Egypt
Canada
Egyptian Uprising
Occupy Movement
Media Framing

description: Mainstream media use “the protest paradigm” in framing social movements. The protest paradigm frames protests negatively by marginalizing protesters, trivializing their demands, focusing more on violent and dramatic issues instead of trying to establish a rational discussion around the reasons behind the protests and by neglecting the existence of their presence by simply not covering the protests at all. . The main function of a social movement is to challenge the status quo, while a main function of the mainstream media is arguably to contribute to the governance of society and the maintenance of public order; in a sense, to maintain the status quo. Thus, a main reason behind the consistent usage of the protest paradigm in covering protests is the conflict between social movements and mainstream media in society. But is it easier for mainstream Canadian media to challenge the status quo abroad than at home? Are Canadian media more reliant on the protest paradigm for covering global protest than local ones? Grounded in the theory of Media Framing, particularly the works of Entman (1993) this thesis compares the framing strategy that various Canadian media outlets applied while covering the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and the Occupy Toronto Movement. Empirical data collected by conducting deductive content analysis is applied to the coverage of the Toronto Edition of the Toronto Star, The Global and Mail and The Toronto Sun during the 18 days of the Egyptian uprising in January and February 2011 and the 42 days of Occupy Toronto from October 14th till November 24th, 2011 . The main argument of this thesis is that the Canadian media did not follow consist framing strategy in covering the two protests’ activities. The literature of the protest and media only focus on the notion of challenging the status quo without taking into consideration the factor of the location of the protests. Consequently, this paper is trying to add the location factor to the literature by trying to discover if the Canadian media is taking the same position from social movements that challenge the status quo regardless of where it is taking place or not.
A proposal for Transversal Computer-related Strategies & Services for Scientific and Training efforts for the LASF4RI
Creators: name: Pineda, Arturo Sanchez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computing
Capacity Building
Open Access

description: This schematic proposal is looking to give a first view of the different and vital services, protocols, tools and know-how relative to the Scientific Computing (SC) and Information Technology (IT) for scientific endeavours and capacity-building projects in the Latin America region. The proposal of transversal services and protocols for the design, development, deployment, distribution, training, publication and citation, proper accreditation and dissemination of scientific experiments, data, processes, software, documentation, results and resources using world-leading protocols and industrial standards under the Open Access philosophy is presented. It is showing a dedicated review of scenarios and proposals that can be seen under the umbrella of a “SC+IT Hub”. Also, it is presented effective usage of current hybrid spaces (physical and virtual) that contains very well known industrial and academic resources and practical ideas, and how to deploy those for current -diverse- and future experiments and research teams in the region.
description: Thematic areas: * Instrumentation and Computing * Capacity Building
title: The Evolution of Canadian Divisional Reconnaissance Regiments in the Second World War
Creators: name: Sotvedt, Victoria
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Reconnaissance
subject: Operational history
subject: Armour
subject: History--Military
subject: History--Canadian

description: This study explores the evolution of Canadian divisional reconnaissance regiments during the Second World War, including the development of tactics and doctrine, weaponry, vehicles, and other technologies used by reconnaissance troops. Additionally, it provides an operational account of these regiments and explores the various roles they assumed in combat in the context of broader Canadian operations from 1939 - 1945, filling a gap in developmental and operational histories of the Canadian army during that period. Most of the research for this project comes from primary sources held in Library and Archives Canada, particularly war diaries and their appendices, but extensive secondary sources and other primary source collections were also used. Ultimately, this project demonstrates that Canadian reconnaissance regiments were critical to the success of Canadian army operations in the Second World War.
Translating Cultural References in Tourism Discourse: the Case of the Apulian Region
Creators: name: Petillo, Mariacristina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The aim of this paper is to provide a reflection on cultural references in tourism discourse, highlighting the difficulties translators may face when dealing with culture-bound words (Newmark 1988: 95-102; Katan 1999: 45-65; Oltra Ripoll 2005: 76-78). On the basis of a corpus of texts belonging to different genres, this study will investigate how the lexical features described by G. Dann in terms of languaging (1996: 183) are differently displayed and distributed, and whether a different rate of languaging could be said to enhance or detract from the communicative effectiveness of the selected texts: a guidebook, a monograph and five tourist brochures about the Southern Italian region of Apulia. Some of the most relevant translation choices will be reflected upon, showing how different communicative strategies are at work and end up producing “a different emphasis and degree of explanation” (Poncini 2006: 145) in the foreign tourists’ comprehension of Apulian cultural references.

description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Confini mobili: lingua e cultura nel discorso del turismo
A New Regulatory Framework for Paramedic Practice in Australia
Creators: name: Moritz, Dominique
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: regulation
law
paramedic

description: Paramedics provide a fundamental service to the community. While historically paramedics were 'stretcher-bearers' and 'ambulance drivers' (with very little medical training), they are now highly trained and skilled health practitioners who diagnose, treat and advise on a range of medical conditions and emergency matters. Recently, the roles and responsibilities of paramedics have changed markedly and it is reasonable to assume paramedics will be given more responsibilities in the future. The expanding role of paramedics, and the community's expectations of paramedics providing skilled service to the community, has increased the risk of harm paramedics pose to the community.
Mecanismos discursivos de promoción de eventos en la Web: los titulares de las Expos
Creators: name: Rodrigo Mora, María José
name: Pano Alamán, Ana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This paper is in line with a national research project (PRIN) about the Language of Tourism in Spanish and Italian: Lexical, Pragmatic and Intercultural Aspects. Our aim is to contribute to the study of digital tourist texts adopting a methodological perspective based on the most recent studies about the rhetoric of advertising, web advertising and institutional communication. We carry out a contrastive analysis of the headlines introducing news and press releases published on line within five promotional and touristic websites, those of the expositions of Sevilla (1992), Zaragoza (2008), Shanghai (2010, Italian pavilion), Shanghai (2010, Spanish pavilion), and Milan (2015).

description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Confini mobili: lingua e cultura nel discorso del turismo
Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Urban Water Consumption Using Chaotic Approach (Case Study: City of Kelowna)
Creators: name: Yousefi, Peyman
name: Courtice, Gregory
name: Naser, Gholamreza
name: Mohammadi, Hadi
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: This study investigated urban water consumption complexity using chaos theory to improve forecasting performance to help optimize system management, reduce costs and improve reliability. The objectives of this study were to (1) investigate urban water distribution consumption complexity and its role in forecasting technique performance, (2) evaluate forecasting models by periodicity and lead time, and (3) propose a suitable forecasting technique based on operator applications and performance through various time scales. An urban consumption dataset obtained from the City of Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada) was used as a test case to forecast future consumption values using varying lead times under different temporal scales to identify models which may improve forecasting performance. Chaos theory techniques were employed to inform model optimization. This study attempted to address the paucity of studies on chaos theory applications in water consumption forecasting. This was accomplished by applying non-linear approximation, dynamic investigation, and phase space reconstruction for input variables, to improve the accuracy in various periodicity and lead time. To reconstruct the phase space, lag time was calculated using average mutual information for daily resolution as 17 days to reconstruct the phase space. The optimum embedding dimension and correlation exponent for the phase space were 18 and 3.5, respectively. Comparing the results, the non-linear local approximation model provided the best performance. The forecasting horizon for the models was 122 days. Moreover, phase space reconstruction improved the accuracy of the models for the different lead times. The findings of this study may improve forecasting performance and provide evidence to support further investigation of the chaotic behaviour of water consumption values over different time scales.
Call for papers/Convocatoria/ Appel à contribution n. 8 -11/2012 Orientalismo/Orientalismi
Creators: name: Emanuele Monegato, (A Cura Di)
name: Nicoletta Vallorani, (A Cura Di)
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Call for papers/Convocatoria/Appel à contribution
n. 8 -11/2012
Orientalismo/Orientalismi
description: Altre Modernità, N° 6 (2011): Le Americhe “al nero”
Extending the reach: a retrospective cohort study of Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy in Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Shipstone, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy (SUDI)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Indigenous
disadvantage
deprivation
vulnerability

description: This research presents the findings of the Queensland SUDI Study, a retrospective cohort study of all cases of Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy (SUDI) that occurred in Queensland between 2010 and 2014. In Australia, SUDI is the leading category of potentially avoidable infant mortality and a significant public health concern. Australia has shown significant progress in reducing sudden and unexpected infant deaths over the past 25 years. The public health campaigns of the 1990s—which advised parents to place their infants supine to sleep—saw SUDI decline by over 85%. However, Queensland compares poorly with the rest of Australia. Queensland experienced one of the smallest decreases in sudden infant death of all states and territories, resulting in an excess burden of sudden and unexpected infant mortality relative to Australia. Mortality rate reductions have also stalled, with little to no change in unexpected infant mortality since 2002. This is largely due to disparities in deaths occurring in the lowest socioeconomic areas in Queensland, and among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants.
“The Blackness of the Day”: Job’s Regressive Paradise as Creation Unmade
Creators: name: Knight, C. Ryan
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This article explores the regressive pursuit of paradise Job makes upon the onset of his calamities – his numerous losses, followed by the onset of sore boils. A figure uncannily resembling the prelapsarian Adam, Job (also innocently naked) curses all creation. By the end of the book of Job, God manages to quell Job’s opposition through his speech out of the whirlwind. Yet what Job has done, and what the book of Job does, is alert readers of the problematic dimension of creation. Job’s insistence on returning to the void maddens God because God and the void were, prior to creation, one: the God-void, the void-God. Through the act of creation, though, God, in his pursuit of alterity, originates evil by denying his very being and banishing the void. When God “re-creates” creation before Job, one thus realizes God is actually attempting to convince the void of the goodness of creation and to reunite with the void – which, of course, the void will not do, for to do is to act, and to act would be to divide its being. Thus, Job’s summoning of the void (even if he conceives of it as an immaterial substance and not also a being, a former component of God) is not just for every created person’s sake, but also for God’s sake; by returning to the void, God would ultimately be undivided once more. Such, then, is the regressive paradise which emerges from the book of Job – a paradise which cannot be, but which Job (and perhaps even God) longs for nonetheless.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
La littératie en santé sur l’agenda public : Explorer l’émergence d’un problème social par sa teneur dramatique, sa nouveauté et son adéquation avec la culture dominante
Creators: name: De Broucker, Gatien
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: littératie en santé
health literacy
agenda public
santé publique internationale

description: Développer la compréhension de la « littératie en santé » (ou « health literacy ») est devenu une préoccupation croissante pour les professionnels de la santé et les chercheurs en santé publique. Se définissant comme l’opérationnalisation, par l’entremise de mesures et de modèles, de la capacité des individus à obtenir, comprendre et utiliser de l’information pour prendre soin de leur santé, la littératie en santé est rapidement devenue un enjeu de santé publique à l'échelle internationale. La littératie en santé – comme domaine de recherche et comme enjeu de santé publique – progresse sur l’agenda public, grâce à la mobilisation et au travail de différents groupes d'acteurs qui interagissent dans le domaine de la santé publique et la médecine. En partie à cause de sa nature interdisciplinaire, la littératie en santé a engendré un bon nombre de définitions, apportant avec elles des perspectives très différentes sur la littératie en santé et sur les systèmes de santé eux-mêmes. Plusieurs études ont mis l'accent sur le développement d'un consensus autour de la définition, de la conceptualisation et de la mesure de la littératie en santé, essayant de créer une notion qui soit commune à tous les acteurs. Toutefois, peu nombreuses sont les études qui discutent des différentes perspectives des groupes d’acteurs, de manière à mettre en évidence autant les éléments de consensus que les points de divergence. Explorer les différentes idées qui s’expriment sur le rôle du patient et celui des professionnels de la santé, sur la manière de concevoir l’autonomie et « l’empowerment » et sur le développement d’une action publique enrichit notre compréhension de la littératie en santé. L’expression de points de vue opposés sur la littératie en santé, particulièrement entre les États-Unis et l’Europe, et la manière dont ces points de vue soutiennent le débat scientifique permettent de saisir la complexité du développement de ce concept ainsi que certains conflits d’idées qu’il révèle.
A new output regulation using sliding-mode technique for a class of SISO linear time-varying systems
Creators: name: Man, Zhihong
name: Yu, Xinghuo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this brief, we propose a new output regulator using the sliding-mode technique for a class of single-input single-output linear time-varying (LTV) systems. It is seen that a bounded D-similarity-transformation matrix is first designed, which is necessary for the transformed LTV system to retain the dynamical features of the original LTV system. The update law of the transformation matrix based on the eigenstructure-assignment technique is developed to guarantee the uniformly exponential convergence of the closed-loop dynamics on the sliding mode. A sliding-mode output regulator using only the output measurements is then designed to drive both the sliding variable and the system output to converge to zero in a finite time. A simulation example is given in support of the proposed scheme.
Étude de solides moléculaires fortement azotés sous conditions extrêmes
Creators: name: Laniel, Dominique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Haute pression
Haute température
Diffraction de rayons X
Spectroscopie Raman
Spectroscopie infrarouge
Cellule à enclumes de diamants
Solides moléculaires
Nitrures de carbone

description: L’azote polymérique, soit un réseau cubique d’atomes d’azote simplement liés, est un composé ayant un énorme potentiel comme matériau énergétique. Ce dernier est cinq fois plus énergétique que les composés conventionnellement utilisés. Synthétisé sous conditions extrêmes, à une pression de 110 GPa et à une température de plus de 2000 K, l’azote polymérique est métastable jusqu’à seulement 42 GPa. Depuis la confirmation expérimentale de l’azote polymérique, d’importantes recherches ont été lancées afin de déterminer des méthodes alternatives pour obtenir un matériau riche en liens simples entre atomes d’azote qui soit métastable jusqu’aux conditions ambiantes. C’est dans cette optique que s’inscrivent les présents travaux de recherche. Deux composés moléculaires, soit le 5,5'-bis(1H-tétrazolyle) amine (BTA) et le triazoture cyanurique (CTA), des nitrures de carbone fortement azotés, furent étudiés jusqu’à 12.9 et 63.2 GPa, respectivement, dans des cellules à enclumes de diamant. La caractérisation de ces échantillons, au moyen de la diffraction des rayons X et des spectroscopies Raman et infrarouge, a démontré la stabilité du BTA jusqu’à la pression maximale obtenue, tandis qu’une transition de phase aux environs de 30 GPa a été observée pour le cas du CTA.
Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
Creators: name: Mahmood, Sultan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: drugs
media
Afghanistan
agenda-setting
framing

description: Globally, research has shown that media coverage of illicit drug issues can play an important role in influencing public opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan media, especially radio and television have developed dramatically during the past 11 years. Using the theories of agenda setting and framing, this study explored what drug-related topics were covered in the Afghan news media; how were these topics covered; how were the health and social consequences of drug abuse depicted in the media; and how much time was devoted to drug related topics in the media. Employing content analysis, the study examined primetime news coverage of the two leading media outlets: Azadi Radio and Tolo Television from 1st March 2011 until 31st July 2011. This thesis found the following types of imbalances in Afghan media reporting on illicit drug issues: 1) media reports on drug issues were heavily focused on supply reduction issues (81%) while paying considerably less attention to drug demand reduction issues (19%); 2) media predominantly framed illicit drugs as a law enforcement issue (83%) with only 15% of the paragraphs in the sample framing illicit drug as a public health problem; 3) media reporting on illicit drugs heavily relied on official sources (79%) lacking voices of the public health practitioners and drug addicts; 4) media coverage of illicit drug issues was heavily centered in Kabul (56%) with considerably less reporting from southern Afghanistan, which is the largest opium producing region. This study, which is presumably the first of its kind, provides media organizations, policy makers, and public health officials with a broad picture on the drug-related information available to the public on the leading Afghan news outlets. In addition, it serves as a basis for future research on media coverage of illicit drug issues in Afghanistan.
Supplementary document for Topological reconstruction of stretched transparent surface relief grating via optical diffraction pattern - 5247447.pdf
Creators: name: SORKHABI, SHAHLA GOLGHASEMI
name: Kandjani, Sohrab Ahmadi
name: COUSSEAU, Fabien
name: DABOS-SEIGNON, sylvie
name: Loumaigne, Matthieu
name: ortyl, ewelina
name: zielinska, sonia
name: Barille, Regis
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

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