cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Athlete monitoring: a holistic approach to data collection and analysis
Creators: name: Turner, Aaron
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: cycling
bayesian
overreaching
overtraining
wellness
SRSS
jump
countermovement
training load
work load
Sports science and exercise

description: Background:
description: Prolonged performance decrements, excessive muscle soreness, overuse injuries, sleep disturbances, exhaustion, stress, and impaired mental health characterise non-functional overreaching (NFO) and overtraining syndrome (OTS). Thus, to safeguard against the manifestation of these maladaptive states, athlete monitoring protocols are now prevalent in high-performance sports. Specifically, athlete monitoring protocols typically include subjective and objective measures of athlete wellness, performance, and training load. Given the demands of the high-performance sporting environment, the countermovement jump (CMJ) test and Short Recovery and Stress Scale (SRSS) are candidate tools for monitoring the performance and wellness response to training load, respectively. However, despite their athlete monitoring applications in various endurance, field- and court-based sports, there is scarce longitudinal research investigating their applications in cycling populations.
description: Despite the importance of chronic training load development in athletes, few cycling studies have included it in performance and wellness models. Moreover, there is a poor understanding of which cycling training load variables, either acute or chronic, are most suitable for modelling the performance and wellness response. While dimension reduction techniques could overcome this issue, there is scarce research investigating its applications in cycling populations.
description: Aims:
description: By collecting holistic athlete monitoring data from national-level road cyclists, this project aimed to 1) provide insight into the effects of acute and chronic training load on athlete wellness (SRSS) and performance (CMJ test), and 2) aid the development of athlete monitoring procedures in high-performance sport.
Mismatch and misalignment: dark haloes and satellites of disc galaxies
Creators: name: Deason, A. J.
name: McCarthy, I. G.
name: Font, A. S.
name: Evans, N. W.
name: Frenk, C. S.
name: Belokurov, V.
name: Libeskind, N. I.
name: Crain, R. A.
name: Theuns, T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We study the phase-space distribution of satellite galaxies associated with late-type galaxies in the gimic suite of simulations. gimic consists of resimulations of five cosmologically representative regions from the Millennium Simulation, which have higher resolution and incorporate baryonic physics. Whilst the disc of the galaxy is well aligned with the inner regions (r∼ 0.1r200) of the dark matter halo, both in shape and angular momentum, there can be substantial misalignments at larger radii (r∼r200). Misalignments of >45° are seen in ∼30 per cent of our sample. We find that the satellite population aligns with the shape (and angular momentum) of the outer dark matter halo. However, the alignment with the galaxy is weak owing to the mismatch between the disc and dark matter halo. Roughly 20 per cent of the satellite systems with 10 bright galaxies within r200 exhibit a polar spatial alignment with respect to the galaxy – an orientation reminiscent of the classical satellites of the Milky Way. We find that a small fraction (& 8764;10 per cent) of satellite systems show evidence for rotational support which we attribute to group infall. There is a bias towards satellites on prograde orbits relative to the spin of the dark matter halo (and to a lesser extent with the angular momentum of the disc). This preference towards co-rotation is stronger in the inner regions of the halo where the most massive satellites accreted at relatively early times are located. We attribute the anisotropic spatial distribution and angular momentum bias of the satellites at z= 0 to their directional accretion along the major axes of the dark matter halo. The satellite galaxies have been accreted relatively recently compared to the dark matter mass and have experienced less phase-mixing and relaxation – the memory of their accretion history can remain intact to z= 0. Understanding the phase-space distribution of the z= 0 satellite population is key for studies that estimate the host halo mass from the line-of-sight velocities and projected positions of satellite galaxies. We quantify the effects of such systematics in estimates of the host halo mass from the satellite population.
Advanced Process Simulation of Low Pressure Die Cast A356 Aluminum Automotive Wheels—Part I, Process Characterization
Creators: name: Ou, Jun
name: Wei, Chunying
name: Cockcroft, Steve L.
name: Maijer, Daan M.
name: Zhu, Lin
name: A, Lateng
name: Li, Changhai
name: Zhu, Zhihua
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: In this work, a plant trial was conducted on an industrial low pressure die casting (LPDC) manufacturing process for the production of aluminum alloy wheels. Various types of data have been acquired, including extensive measurements of temperature at different locations (die, wheel and cooling channels), pressure in cooling channels and size/location of shrinkage porosity in the produced wheels. Moreover, two process conditions were tested in the trial—one was the standard production process condition and the other was designed to generate shrinkage porosity in wheels by altering the die temperature. The large amount of quantitative data acquired in this study helped us to understand the key transport phenomena occurring in the process, which include: (1) a thorough picture of the evolution in temperature at a large number of discrete locations in the die and the casting; (2) the dynamic and complicated heat transfer in the cooling channels both water-on and water-off stages, associated with boiling water heat transfer. This paper (Part I) presents the results and findings obtained from the process characterization. The follow-on paper (Part II) will introduce the developed modeling methodology based on the data produced from this work.
Disequilibrium textures in the Centre Hill complex, Munro Township, Ontario.
Creators: name: Thériault, Robert.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Centre Hill complex is part of the mafic to ultramafic Munro Lake sill that occurs within the Stoughton-Roquemaure Group of the Abitibi Subprovince. The complex is approximately 450 m thick and consists of alternating layers of peridotite and clinopyroxenite overlain by 250 m of gabbroic rocks. Two distinct occurrences of cyclic layering are observed: (1) cyclic units of peridotite and clinopyroxenite in the bottom half of the intrusion; and (2) cyclic units of branching-textured gabbro (BTG) and clotted-textured gabbro (CTG) characteristic of the upper layer of gabbro. The upper part of the gabbro is characterized by the presence of spectacular branching crystals that extend away from the upper contact. The primary composition of the branches is interpreted to have been that of Fe-rich olivine based on the actual secondary assemblage. From petrological observations and geochemical data, it is suggested that the branching olivine crystals grew within a crystal-liquid mush in the later stages of fractionation. Two models based on their appearance within the petrogenetic sequence are proposed: (1) the branching olivine crystals grew from the residual melt of the last batch of magma only; or (2) the branching olivine crystallized in the later stages of each cyclic event. The branching textures are truly fractal objects as they are self-similar over a large range of scale. They consistently yield fractal dimensions approximating 1.6. The branching morphologies were qualitatively and quantitatively simulated on the computer using a variation of the Witten-Sander diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) algorithm. From the simulations, it is established that the growth of branching crystals was limited by diffusion of molecules to the crystal-liquid interface, and that the resulting morphology was controlled by two opposing phenomena: (1) the random aggregation of growth molecules along the crystal periphery without relocation; and (2) the systematic arrangement of molecules onto the growing interface according to the internal crystal structure of the mineral. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for 300-attosecond response of acetylene in two-photon ionization/dissociation processes - 5290521.pdf
Creators: name: Matsubara, Takuya
name: Fukahori, Shinichi
name: Lotstedt, Erik
name: Nabekawa, Yasuo
name: Yamanouchi, Kaoru
name: Midorikawa, Katsumi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental material
Additional file 1 of Self-referred walk-in patients in the emergency department – who and why? Consultation determinants in a multicenter study of respiratory patients in Berlin, Germany
Creators: name: Holzinger, Felix
name: Oslislo, Sarah
name: Möckel, Martin
name: Schenk, Liane
name: Pigorsch, Mareen
name: Heintze, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Fragebogen EMACROSS. Survey questionnaire – German language version.
Metalibertà e libertà regionali: dilemmi e paradossi del libero arbitrio
Creators: name: Grasso, Matteo
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2011

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 2, N° 2 (2011): Filosofia della Matematica
Supplementary document for Time Encoded (TICO) Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy of Tumorous Human Pharynx Tissue in the Fingerprint region from 1500-1800 cm-1 - 5290789.pdf
Creators: name: Hakert, Hubertus
name: Eibl, Matthias
name: Tillich, Marie
name: Pries, Ralph
name: Hüttmann, Gereon
name: Brinkmann, Ralf
name: Wollenberg, Barbara
name: Bruchhage, Karl-Ludwig
name: Karpf, Sebastian
name: Huber, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biotechnology

description: System resolution
Additional file 3 of Activation of Toll-like receptor 5 in microglia modulates their function and triggers neuronal injury
Creators: name: Ifuku, Masataka
name: Hinkelmann, Lukas
name: Kuhrt, Leonard D.
name: Efe, Ibrahim E.
name: Kumbol, Victor
name: Buonfiglioli, Alice
name: Krüger, Christina
name: Jordan, Philipp
name: Fulde, Marcus
name: Noda, Mami
name: Kettenmann, Helmut
name: Lehnardt, Seija
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3: Flagellin does not induce microglial injury or cell loss. C57BL/6 microglia were incubated with different flagellin (FLA) doses, as indicated, for 72 h. Unstimulated cells served as negative control. Subsequently, cells were stained with IB4 to mark microglia, TUNEL assay to mark apoptotic cells, and DAPI. (a) Representative image of microglia exposed to 5 μg/ml FLA. Scale bar, 50 μm. (b) IB4- and (c) TUNEL-positive cells were quantified. Results were expressed as absolute number of IB4-positive or TUNEL-positive cells per field (c). Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Results were analyzed by Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Dunn’s post hoc test. n.s., not significant.
Additional file 1 of Activation of Toll-like receptor 5 in microglia modulates their function and triggers neuronal injury
Creators: name: Ifuku, Masataka
name: Hinkelmann, Lukas
name: Kuhrt, Leonard D.
name: Efe, Ibrahim E.
name: Kumbol, Victor
name: Buonfiglioli, Alice
name: Krüger, Christina
name: Jordan, Philipp
name: Fulde, Marcus
name: Noda, Mami
name: Kettenmann, Helmut
name: Lehnardt, Seija
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Primary cultures of microglia, astrocytes, and neurons. Microglia, astrocytes, and neurons were isolated from C57BL/6 mice as described in the Methods section. Phase contrast images display the respective cell type, as indicated, after 3 d in vitro. Scale bar, 10 μm.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 56 Nr. 2 (2014): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2020

description: Band LVI (2014), Heft 2
description: Frank Martin 1961-2014...249-251
Pellegrino Tibaldi architetto. Un progetto d'altare e qualche riflessione sugli altari del duomo di Milano...236-245
De España a Florencia. Obras de Arte y Artículos de Lujo Adquiridos por Cosimo III De' Medici Durante su Viaje Hispánico...192-213
Corrado Cagli e Charles Olson. La Ricerca di Nuovi Linguaggi tra Esoterismo e Geometria non Euclidea...214-235
Domenico Ghirlandaio's Santa Maria Novella Altarpiece. A Reconstruction...170-191
Ein unpubliziertes Fragment vom Grabmal für Kardinal Luca Fieschi von Lupo di Francesco und ein neuer Vorschlag zur Rekonstruktion des Monuments...152-169
Inhalt
Higher education in prisons: A historical analysis.
Creators: name: Crouse, Tara Elizabeth Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Education, Adult and Continuing.

description: This thesis provides an exploration and analysis of university education in prisons from a historical point of view. It examines how post-secondary education in prisons has reproduced dominant economic and cultural relations, but also how it can resist doing this. A qualitative research process is used to investigate the empirical research produced in this field. The primary method used is the analysis of the experiences and the voices of persons who have participated in higher education in prisons as students and teachers. The primary objective is to give a voice to prisoners as a traditionally oppressed group. Past and current post-secondary education in Canadian prisons are examined, as are the problems encountered in both. An argument is made for an alternative form of education in prisons, with an emphasis on the pedagogy of Paulo Freire. Freire's work calls for the empowerment of the oppressed and argues that this is best done through participatory education. It is further argued that prisoners should be in charge of their own educational practices in order to counter the hegemony of correctional education's discourse.
Additional file 2 of Activation of Toll-like receptor 5 in microglia modulates their function and triggers neuronal injury
Creators: name: Ifuku, Masataka
name: Hinkelmann, Lukas
name: Kuhrt, Leonard D.
name: Efe, Ibrahim E.
name: Kumbol, Victor
name: Buonfiglioli, Alice
name: Krüger, Christina
name: Jordan, Philipp
name: Fulde, Marcus
name: Noda, Mami
name: Kettenmann, Helmut
name: Lehnardt, Seija
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Protein concentrations of cytokines/chemokines released from wild-type and Tlr5−/− microglia. Multiplex immunoassay was used to detect cytokines/chemokines, as indicated, in supernatants of cultured neonatal microglia from C57BL/6 (wild-type, WT) and Tlr5−/− mice in response to 100 ng/ml flagellin (FLA) after 24 h. Unstimulated cells served as negative control, while LPS (100 ng/ml) was used as positive control (n = 3). Data are expressed in pg/ml ± SD. n.d., not detectable.
Towards adaptive coastal governance: An improved framework for planning
Creators: name: Zafrin, Sabiha
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: coastal governance
ICZM
coastal planning
policies
stakeholders/actors
fuzziness
actor-consulting model

description: Getting coastal planning and management right has never been more important with the combined stresses of population growth, coastal development and resource exploitation and impact of climate change along the coastal areas. The multifaceted nature of the coastal resources and the human use of them present increasing challenges for coastal planners and managers during decision-making. The coast is a meeting zone between land and sea but institutions managing human use of these coastal zones are often fragmented. Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) has been considered a standard approach for coastal planning and governance worldwide. The concept of ICZM is based on the premise that its application would overcome the fragmentation of both sectoral approaches to planning across different levels of governments. However, achieving ICZM goals is often highly problematic because of the lack of policy clarity and political will, poor coordination among stakeholders and the diverse regulatory regimes that exist in coastal areas. Queensland's coastal planning regime is going through a transition in a changing political era. Incorporation of climate change in the 2012 Queensland Coastal Plan (QCP) created an additional layer of complexity for land use planning and implementation that also needed direction. Using South East Queensland (SEQ) as a case study, this research examines the transition in Queensland's coastal governance system focusing particularly on land use planning in the coastal zone and evaluates its performance against a set of internationally derived ICZM governance criteria. The research methods used in this study are document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Analysis of relevant legislation, plans and policies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of available coastal planning instruments. Key actors involved in the decision-making process expressed their views based on their experience, contributions and responsibilities in Queensland's coastal planning system.
Learning algorithms for restricted neural networks.
Creators: name: Hadjifaradji, Saeed.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The problem of supervised learning can be phrased in terms of finding a good approximation to some unknown target function f, based on observing f's values on some examples drawn randomly according to some underlying distribution. Unfortunately, finding an algorithm that efficiently learns simple classes of neural networks under any distribution has proven to be very hard. In this thesis, we propose learning algorithms that provably and efficiently learn simple classes of neural networks under simple distributions within the rigorous framework of computational learning theory. We therefore propose some restrictions on both the neural network class and the underlying distribution that generates the examples because, otherwise, the learning problem becomes intractable. In the first part of the thesis, we present an algorithm that provably learns the class of stochastic perceptrons with arbitrary monotonic activation function and binary weights when the probability distribution that generates the input examples is member of a class that we call k-blocking distributions . The problem studied in the second part of the thesis is much more involved. Whereas in the first part, the target function consists only of a single perceptron, in the second part, it consist of a nonoverlapping network of perceptrons. We provide an algorithm that provably finds both the binary-valued weights and the network connectivity of the target function when the distribution is such that each variable is statistically independent of all the others.
Supplementary document for Time Encoded (TICO) Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy of Tumorous Human Pharynx Tissue in the Fingerprint region from 1500-1800 cm-1 - 5290789.pdf
Creators: name: Hakert, Hubertus
name: Eibl, Matthias
name: Tillich, Marie
name: Pries, Ralph
name: Hüttmann, Gereon
name: Brinkmann, Ralf
name: Wollenberg, Barbara
name: Bruchhage, Karl-Ludwig
name: Karpf, Sebastian
name: Huber, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biotechnology

description: System resolution
Ein unpubliziertes Fragment vom Grabmal für Kardinal Luca Fieschi von Lupo di Francesco und ein neuer Vorschlag zur Rekonstruktion des Monuments
Creators: name: Kreytenberg, Gert
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2014: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Energy and Water Conservation in Biodiesel Purification Processes
Creators: name: Hastie, Michele
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: biodiesel
purification
wastewater
ion exchange

description: Biodiesel purification processes generate wastewater streams that require a large amount of energy when distillation is used as a treatment technology. Process simulation software was used to show that an alternative water treatment process involving ion exchange would require only 31% of the energy used by distillation. Experiments showed that multiple washing stages were required to meet the standard specification for sodium, an impurity present in crude biodiesel, when washing biodiesel made from used frying oil. A comparison was made between washing biodiesel in a cross-current washing configuration and a counter-current configuration. Both configurations met the specification for sodium within three washing stages; however, the counter-current configuration required less water, making it the more efficient process. Lastly, the removal of sodium from wastewater samples using an ion exchange resin was experimentally investigated. The results validated the use of ion exchange to reduce energy consumption in biodiesel purification.
Congestion control with multi-packet feedback
Creators: name: Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Znati, Taieb
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Many congestion control protocols use explicit feedback from the network to achieve high performance. Most of these either require more bits for feedback than are available in the IP header or incur performance limitations due to inaccurate congestion feedback. There has been recent interest in protocols that obtain high-resolution estimates of congestion by combining the explicit congestion notification (ECN) marks of multiple packets, and using this to guide multiplicative increase, additive increase, multiplicative decrease (MI-AI-MD) window adaptation. This paper studies the potential of such approaches, both analytically and by simulation. The evaluation focuses on a new protocol called Binary Marking Congestion Control (BMCC). It is shown that these schemes can quickly acquire unused capacity, quickly approach a fair rate distribution, and have relatively smooth sending rates, even on high bandwidth-delay product networks. This is achieved while maintaining low average queue length and negligible packet loss. Using extensive simulations, we show that BMCC outperforms XCP, VCP, MLCP, CUBIC, CTCP, SACK, and in some cases RCP, in terms of average flow completion times. Suggestions are also given for the incremental deployment of BMCC.
The role of rootstocks and mineral nutrition in the quality of 'Hass' avocado fruit
Creators: name: Mullen, Colleen
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: avocado
rootstock
fruit
nutrients
calcium

description: Consumers are concerned about the quality of the avocados they purchase, since fruit on the retail shelf can contain rots and physiological disorders. Previous studies have shown that high fruit calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), and low potassium (K), concentrations are related to less internal disorders and rots. Several pre-harvest factors such as rootstocks and pruning systems can reduce rots and disorders, and these may exert their effect partly through improving fruit mineral concentrations. This thesis examined the scion/rootstock characteristics that might affect the movement of cations from the soil to the roots, and from the rootstock to the scion, as well as the effect of leaf to fruit ratio on distribution to the fruit and the partitioning of cations between the fruit tissues. Four seedling rootstock cultivars (Velvick, Hass, Duke 7 and Fuerte) were grown from 6 weeks of age under adequate and marginal Ca nutrition in inert growing medium in the glasshouse to determine the potential of the rootstock to affect cation uptake. There were no significant cultivar effects on total root and suberised root Ca concentrations. However, there was a strong trend for higher Ca concentrations in Velvick leaves compared with Hass, Duke 7 and Fuerte leaves. In contrast, Velvick had significantly lower leaf K and higher root K concentrations, compared with the other cultivars. As a result, Velvick had the lowest ratios of K/Ca, Mg/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca in the leaves. This suggests that Velvick may be better able to increase Ca and decrease K concentrations in the leaves, which could be related to the higher Ca concentrations in fruit from Hass scions on Velvick rootstock trees.
Discovery of Novel Neurologically Active Phytochemicals in Neotropical Piperaceae: An Ethnopharmacological Approach
Creators: name: Picard, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Piperaceae
Anxiety
Epilepsy
Ethnopharmacology
Peru
Phytochemistry
Piper tuerckheimii

description: The goal of this thesis was to understand and quantify to what extent plants are used for the treatment of mental and folk illnesses such as susto and mal aire in the Neotropics and to investigate the anxiolytic and antiepileptic potential of previously unstudied Neotropical members of the genera Piper and Peperomia. Firstly, the literature was reviewed and a regression analysis method was used in order to quantitatively determine which plant families are preferred for the treatment of mental, behavioral and neurological health disorders in the Neotropics. This analysis identified Piperaceae, among others, as an important taxonomic group for the treatment of such disorders. Following that lead, a botanical survey was conducted in Peru, where 47 species of Piperaceae and 21 plants traditionally used for folk illnesses by the Yanesha of Peru, an Amazonian ethnic group, were collected. In order to target potential anxiolytic and antiepileptic plants, two high throughput bioassays were used to evaluate the extracts’ in vitro activity on the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system. Plant extracts in general demonstrated moderate to high affinity to the GABA-BZD receptor. Additionally, extracts demonstrated low to moderate activity in the inhibition of the GABA-T enzyme, with a few plants exhibiting promising activity. Plants selected by the Yanesha showed comparable activity to the other Piperaceae plants with Piper cremii being the most active plant in the GABAA assay, and Drymaria cordata in the GABA-T assay. Finally, four phytochemicals from Piper tuerckheimii, a plant regarded as one of the most effective traditional remedy for the treatment of epilepsy and susto by the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Belize presented, were isolated for the first time.
The ex-vivo intestinal absorption rate of uranium is a two-phase function of supply
Creators: name: Konietzka, Rainer
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uran
Dünndarm
Resorption

description: The concentration-dependent absorption behaviour of uranium was investigated with surviving intestinal segments of rat jejunums, using an ex-vivo model. The results showed a monotonic slightly nonlinear increase in absorption as uranium concentrations increased. This trend was observed over the entire concentration range tested. In the lower concentration range a slower linear ascent was observed while a steeper linear ascent was found for the higher concentration range. Statistical fit was only slightly poorer for an exponential function in the range of lower values and a logarithmic function in the range of higher values. The proportion of uranium absorbed expressed as percent of uranium concentrations in the perfusion solutions followed a monotonically increasing trend from 20 to around 200 ìg/l uranium in the perfusion solutions, which thereafter appears to reach a plateau, as further increase towards concentrations around 400 ìg/l is not substantial. The uranium concentration administered had no effect on the vitality and consequently the functionality of the intestinal segments, measured in terms of active glucose transport. The results imply that uranium concentrations of more than 20 ìg/l in drinking water, for example, could lead to elevated absorption rates and thus to higher internal exposures to consider when setting of Guideline values in this concentration range.Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
B-cell Lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) Is an Essential Regulator of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
Creators: name: Ceizar, Maheen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adult Neurogenesis
Apoptosis
Bcl-2
Hippocampus
Transgenic Mouse Model
BAX
Progenitor Cells
Retrovirus
Inducible Knock out

description: Of the thousands of dividing progenitor cells (PCs) generated daily in the adult brain only a very small proportion survive to become mature neurons through the process of neurogenesis. Identification of the mechanisms that regulate cell death associated with neurogenesis would aid in harnessing the potential therapeutic value of PCs. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is suggested to regulate death of PCs in the adult brain as overexpression of B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2), an anti-apoptotic protein, enhances the survival of new neurons. To directly assess if Bcl-2 is a regulator of apoptosis in PCs, this study examined the outcome of removal of Bcl-2 from the developing PCs in the adult mouse brain. Retroviral mediated gene transfer of Cre into adult floxed Bcl-2 mice eliminated Bcl-2 from developing PCs and resulted in the complete absence of new neurons at 30 days post viral injection. Similarly, Bcl-2 removal through the use of nestin-induced conditional knockout mice resulted in reduced number of mature neurons. The function of Bcl-2 in the PCs was also dependent on Bcl-2-associated X (BAX) protein, as demonstrated by an increase in new neurons formed following viral-mediated removal of Bcl-2 in BAX knockout mice. Together these findings demonstrate that Bcl-2 is an essential regulator of neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus.
Network stability under alpha fair bandwidth allocation with general file size distribution
Creators: name: Paganini, Fernando
name: Tang, Antony
name: Ferragut, Andres
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Rate allocation among a fixed set of end-to-end connections in the Internet is carried out by congestion control, which has a well established model: it optimizes a concave network utility, a particular case of which is the alpha-fair bandwidth allocation. This paper studies the slower dynamics of connections themselves, that arrive randomly in the network and are served at the allocated rate. It has been shown that under the condition that the mean offered load at each link is less than its capacity, the resulting queueing system is stochastically stable, for the case of exponentially distributed file-sizes. The conjecture that the result holds for general file-size distributions has remained open, and is very relevant since heavy-tailed distributions are often the best models of Internet file sizes. In this paper, building on existing fluid models of the system, we use a partial differential equation to characterize the dynamics. The equation keeps track of residual file size and therefore is suitable for general file size distributions. For alpha fair bandwidth allocation, with any positive alpha parameter, a Lyapunov function is constructed with negative drift when the offered load is less than capacity. With this tool we answer the conjecture affirmatively in the fluid sense: we prove asymptotic convergence to zero of the fluid model for general file-size distributions of finite mean, and finite-time convergence for those of finite p>1 moment. In the stochastic sense, we build on recent work that relates fluid and stochastic stability subject to a certain light-tailed restriction. We further provide the supplementary fluid stability argument to establish the conjecture for this class that includes phase-type distributions. Results are supplemented by illustrative network simulations at the packet level.
Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica
Creators: name: Basso, Flavio
name: Brunialti Masera, Gianmarco
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2011

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 2, N° 1 (2011): Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica
Prevalent and Persistent Oncogenic HPV Types in a Cohort of Women Living with HIV Prior to HPV Vaccination
Creators: name: McClymont, Elisabeth
name: Lee, Marette
name: Raboud, Janet
name: Coutlée, François
name: Walmsley, Sharon
name: Lipsky, Nancy
name: Loutfy, Mona
name: Trottier, Sylvie
name: Smaill, Fiona
name: Klein, Marina B.
name: Harris, Marianne
name: Cohen, Jeffrey
name: Yudin, Mark H.
name: Wobeser, Wendy
name: Money, Deborah M.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2021

description: Objective: To describe prevalent and persistent oncogenic HPV types detected in women living with HIV (WLWH) in Canada, including in women with cervical dyskaryosis, and to determine predictors of type-specific HPV persistence. Methods: 252 women were eligible for this sub-analysis of a prospective vaccine immunogenicity cohort study (2 HPV DNA results, ≥1 cervical cytology result pre vaccination). Demographic and clinical data were collected alongside cervical samples for cytology and HPV DNA typing between 2008-2015. Results: Pre-vaccination, HPV16 and HPV52 were the most prevalent oncogenic HPV types. Forty-five percent of participants were infected with ≥1 oncogenic HPV type and one-third of participants had a persistent oncogenic infection. HPV16, 45, and 52 were the most frequently persistent types. Seventeen percent of women had persistent infections with oncogenic HPV types not within currently available vaccines (HPV35/39/51/56/59/68/82). Lower CD4 count significantly predicted HPV persistence (p=0.024). Cervical cytology was 82.9% normal, 2.4% atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance, 11.5% low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, and 2.8% high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions. Conclusion: Unvaccinated WLWH were infected with a wide range of oncogenic HPV types. Our findings highlight the importance of optimal HIV treatment and continued cervical cancer screening as key steps towards global elimination of cervical cancer.
A mixed-methods investigation of the Best Possible Selves intervention: Relationships and thriving
Creators: name: Loveday, Paula M
name: Loveday, Paula M
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: best possible self
best possible other
leisure
well-being
relationships
thriving

description: Positive psychology has been criticised as being dominated by quantitative research. As a field, positive psychology has also tended to be overly focused on individual well-being, on the 'self' rather than the 'other'. The research described in this thesis addressed both these issues by: (a) conducting a mixed-methods research program which consisted of an experiment (n = 141) using a participant-focused, qualitative lens in conjunction with quantitative analysis, and (b) considering the role of both the other, and the self, in data analysis, and the development of an other-focused intervention. Results are presented as five research papers, two of which have been published, the other three are under review. The Best Possible Self (BPS) was the intervention used in this research program. The BPS is an expressive-writing activity in which participants write about their life working out in the best possible way. The first paper (published) of this program of study was a critical review of the BPS literature, which categorised the extant research by type of evidence sought, and synthesised the results from the 31 studies to determine the efficacy of the BPS intervention. The literature review concluded with the identification of topics for future research. Gaps in the literature which were addressed and presented in the remaining four papers included: the potential of the BPS as a hope intervention; the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions as a potential mechanism explaining efficacy; the lack of qualitative analysis of BPS texts; and the overly individualistic focus inherent in the BPS activity.
From “Cinderella” to “Sleeping Beauty”: Taking Pronunciation Instruction in the CELTA Course Beyond “Listen and Repeat”
Creators: name: Sweeting, Arizio
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: English pronunciation
L2 pronunciation
pronunciation instruction
communicative language teaching
speaking skills
CELTA
second language teacher education
second language teacher cognition

description: In a world where approximately two billion people speak English (Crystal, 2008), the demand for English language teaching continues to increase. Consequently, there is a growing need for educational fields such as Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to respond to this demand by continuing to invest in the education of new and experienced teachers. It is also the goal of the profession to provide teacher educators with professional development opportunities which increase their knowledge of new methodologies for teaching TESOL and develop their educational skills for better preparing and supporting student teachers (Galaczi, Nye, Poulter, & Allen, 2018). Borg (2003) points out that mainstream educational research “has recognised the impact of teacher cognition on teachers’ professional lives, and this has generated a substantial body of research” (p.81). However, in the field of Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE), a dearth of research is particularly evident in the area of short teacher education courses for novice teachers of TESOL such as the British-administered Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA). Similarly, there are few studies which have explored the preparation of pronunciation teachers in SLTE (Baker, 2011; Burri, 2016; Couper, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020). The aim of this thesis is, therefore, to bridge the divide between theory and practice by conducting a research inquiry that combines the examination of second language (L2) teachers’ cognitions (beliefs and knowledge) and the consensus of pronunciation experts (who are also teacher educators) on appropriate andragogical recommendations for pronunciation teaching in the CELTA. The construction of an andragogy was achieved through two qualitative case studies (Study One and Two) carried out using a virtual focus group and an online Delphi, respectively. The data were obtained using semi-structured interviews and online questionnaires. Study One was an exploratory case study with five English teachers from Australia and Study Two was a case study with 12 pronunciation experts from an international specialist group, the SUPRAS. The findings demonstrated that CELTA-trained teachers, and by proxy, CELTA tutors find it hard to part with their ab initio beliefs about pronunciation teaching. The findings also showed that CELTA tutors require continuing professional development program to become familiar with research-based, learner-centred and multisensory techniques.
Luca della Robbia e Verrocchio. Un Nuovo Documento e una Nuova Interpretazione Iconografica del Tabernacolo di Peretola
Creators: name: Rizzo, Anna Padoa
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 1994: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Additional file 2 of Self-referred walk-in patients in the emergency department – who and why? Consultation determinants in a multicenter study of respiratory patients in Berlin, Germany
Creators: name: Holzinger, Felix
name: Oslislo, Sarah
name: Möckel, Martin
name: Schenk, Liane
name: Pigorsch, Mareen
name: Heintze, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Questions EMACROSS. Survey questionnaire – English language version.
DNA Markers and Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi) Breeding
Creators: name: Premachandra, H K A
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Yellowtail Kingfish (Seriola lalandi)
DNA markers

description: As the capture fisheries have reached the plateau of maximum productivity and fairly stable catches, aquaculture represents the most sustainably efficient way to supply the global meat/protein requirement and become the future of the seafood industry. The world population is predicted to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, hence the demand for high quality protein will continue to grow. An increasing focus on new species and improved aquaculture technologies may help ensure the future global food security. Yellowtail kingfish (YTK), Seriola lalandi, is one of the more recently emerged marine aquaculture species and is considered to have great potential as a species for aquaculture in both sea cages and land based recirculating aquaculture systems worldwide. Genetic improvement through selective breeding is one of the most promising ways to increase aquaculture production including kingfish and improve the quality of the products. The operation and efficiency of genetic improvement programs for kingfish can be supported by the use of molecular marker technologies to identify 1) population structures (and potentially candidates to form or augment the base selected populations), 2) establish pedigrees, 3) achieve more precise genetic parameter estimates and 4) conduct selection on favourable traits using genomic predictions of breeding values. This PhD study aimed to develop new molecular resources to support and enhance selective breeding of yellowtail kingfish using DNA markers targeting the aforementioned four goals.
Harnessing Social Networks for Social Awareness via Mobile Face Recognition
Creators: name: Bloess, Mark
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social Network
Face Recognition
Mobile Application
Social Graphing
Content Recommendation

description: With more and more images being uploaded to social networks each day, the resources for identifying a large portion of the world are available. However the tools to harness and utilize this information are not sufficient. This thesis presents a system, called PhacePhinder, which can build a face database from a social network and have it accessible from mobile devices. Through combining existing technologies, this is made possible. It also makes use of a fusion probabilistic latent semantic analysis to determine strong connections between users and content. Using this information we can determine the most meaningful social connection to a recognized person, allowing us to inform the user of how they know the person being recognized. We conduct a series of offline and user tests to verify our results and compare them to existing algorithms. We show, that through combining a user’s friendship information as well as picture occurrence information, we can make stronger recommendations than based on friendship alone. We demonstrate a working prototype that can identify a face from a picture taken from a mobile phone, using a database derived from images gathered directly from a social network, and return a meaningful social connection to the recognized face.
Riconoscere lo stile analitico
Creators: name: De Conti, Manuele
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2011

description: The present paper’s aim is to outline a definition of “analyticity” through assuming a framework whose basic concepts are taken from rhetoric. Thus, assuming particular examples from the history of analytic philosophy – i.e. philosophers that are commonly considered “analytic” - the author shows how many shared patterns are recognisable within their argumentations, explanations, beginnings and conclusions. A previous extensional definition of “analytical philosophy” is not assumed; hence the concluded remarks can be taken as features of any analytic philosopher.
description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 2, N° 1 (2011): Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica
Supplementary document for In vivo measurement of the lineal density of red blood cells in human retinal capillaries using high speed adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy - 5291452.pdf
Creators: name: Gu, Boyu
name: Sarraf, David
name: Ip, Michael
name: Sadda, Srinivas
name: Zhang, Yuhua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biotechnology

description: Supplemental material
Storia d’una Fontana. Il Bacco del Giambologna in Borgo San Jacopo
Creators: name: Vossilla, Francesco
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 1994: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Additional file 4 of Activation of Toll-like receptor 5 in microglia modulates their function and triggers neuronal injury
Creators: name: Ifuku, Masataka
name: Hinkelmann, Lukas
name: Kuhrt, Leonard D.
name: Efe, Ibrahim E.
name: Kumbol, Victor
name: Buonfiglioli, Alice
name: Krüger, Christina
name: Jordan, Philipp
name: Fulde, Marcus
name: Noda, Mami
name: Kettenmann, Helmut
name: Lehnardt, Seija
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4: Neither TLR5 deficiency nor exposure to flagellin does affect glioma growth ex vivo. (a) mCherry GL261 glioma cells were inoculated into organotypic brain slices (OBS) derived from P14-P16 C57BL/6 (n = 2; number of inoculated tumors: 27) and P14-P16 Tlr5−/− mice (n = 3; number of inoculated tumors: 21) and cultured for 4 d. Subsequently, OBS were fixed, stained with Hoechst, and scanned by confocal microscopy, followed by 3D surface reconstruction of gliomas and measurement of tumor volumes. (b) OBS derived from P14-P16 C57BL/6 mice were inoculated with mCherry glioma GL261 cells and stimulated with FLA (100 ng/ml, n = 3; number of analyzed tumors: 12). Tumor volume was compared to unstimulated control (n = 2; number of analyzed tumors: 16). Results are represented as mean ± SEM. Data were analyzed by Student’s t-test. n.s., not significant.