cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Basal biomarkers Nestin and INPP4B predict gemcitabine benefit in metastatic breast cancer : samples from the phase III SBG0102 clinical trial
Creators: name: Asleh, Karama
name: Carstensen, Stina Lyck
name: Jørgensen, Charlotte Levin Tykjær
name: Burugu, Samantha
name: Gao, Dongxia
name: Won, Jennifer R.
name: Jensen, Maj-Britt
name: Balslev, Eva
name: Lænkholm, Anne-Vibeke
name: Nielsen, Dorte L.
name: Ejlertsen, Bent
name: Nielsen, Torsten
Publisher: name: Ivyspring International Publisher
Year: 2021

description: In a formal prospective-retrospective analysis of the phase III SBG0102 clinical trial randomizing metastatic breast cancer patients to gemcitabine-docetaxel or to single agent docetaxel, patients with basal-like tumors by PAM50 gene expression had significantly better overall survival in the gemcitabine arm. By immunohistochemistry (IHC), triple negative status was not predictive, but more specific biomarkers have since become available defining basal-like by nestin positivity or loss of inositol-polyphosphate-4-phosphate (INPP4B). Here, we evaluate their capacity to identify which patients benefit from gemcitabine in the metastatic setting. Nestin and INPP4B staining and interpretation followed published methods. A prespecified statistical plan evaluated the primary hypothesis that patients with basal-like breast cancer, defined as “nestin+ or INPP4B-”, would have superior overall survival on gemcitabine-docetaxel when compared to docetaxel. Interaction tests, Kaplan-Meier curves and forest plots were used to assess prognostic and predictive capacities of biomarkers relative to treatment. Among 239 cases evaluable for this study, 36 (15%) had been classified as basal-like by PAM50. “Nestin+ or INPP4B-” was observed in 41 (17%) of the total cases and was significantly associated with PAM50 basal-like subtype. Within an estimated median follow-up of 13 years, patients assigned as IHC basal “nestin+ or INPP4B-” had significantly better overall survival on gemcitabine-docetaxel versus docetaxel monotherapy (HR=0.31, 95%CI: 0.16-0.60), whereas no differences were observed for other patients (HR=0.99), P-interaction<0.01. In the metastatic setting, women with IHC basal breast cancers defined as “nestin+ or INPP4B-” have superior overall survival when randomized to gemcitabine-containing chemotherapy compared to docetaxel alone. These findings need to be validated using larger prospective-retrospective phase III clinical trials series.
Positive Living Skills for teens: A youth intervention
Creators: name: Partridge, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Education, Secondary.
subject: Education, Health.
subject: Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

description: The Positive Living Skills (PLS) program for teens is a personal life enhancement intervention program centered on teaching focusing skills, positive perspectives, and relaxation skills. To date the PLS program has not been introduced to an adolescent population. The purpose of this study was to introduce the PLS program to adolescents (in a classroom context) and to investigate whether the students enjoyed, applied, and found these skills effective in their daily lives. A secondary purpose of this study was to learn from the interactions with the students and teachers and explore the best ways to deliver the program. Two grade 10 health and physical education classes (one boys' and one girls' class) participated in a 10 session PLS intervention over a period of 16 weeks. These sessions included PLS audio CD activities, interactive and person guided PLS activities, logbook exercises, discussions and practice using skills within the physical education context. Teens who participated in the PLS program enjoyed the program skills, applied and planned to continue applying the program skills, and found the program skills effective in daily life. These findings support results from previous PLS research conducted with younger students between the ages of 4-12 years of age (Cox & Orlick, 1996; Gilbert & Orlick, 2002; Taylor & Orlick, 2004). In addition facilitation and program delivery lessons learned are highlighted and discussed.
Organische Mikroverunreinigungen in Gewässern
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Kläranlage
subject: Abwasserbehandlung
subject: Spurenstoff
subject: Organischer Schadstoff
subject: vierte Reinigungsstufe
subject: Mikroverunreinigung
subject: Wasser
subject: Water

description: Die Konzentrationen an Mikroverunreinigungen überschreiten in vielen Gewässern die gesetzlich vorgegebenen Umweltqualitätsnormen. Zur Reduzierung der Einträge reichen die möglichen Vermeidungsmaßnahmen, wie Anwendungsbeschränkungen oder -verbote über Stoffrecht, Produktrecht, Verminderung von Luftemissionen nicht aus, so dass nur eine nachgeschaltete Abwasserbehandlungstechnik Erfolg verspricht. Dies erfordert die Fortschreibung des Standes der Technik bei der Abwasserbehandlung und die Einführung weitergehender Abwasserbehandlungsverfahren (4. Reinigungsstufe) in den kommunalen Kläranlagen (KA) der Größenklasse 5 sowie kleinerer KA, die in sensitive Gewässer einleiten. Am wirksamsten und kosteneffizientesten sind dabei gegenwärtig die Verfahren der Ozonung und der Aktivkohleadsorption durch Pulveraktivkohle. Für eine gerechte Lastenverteilung sollten Optionen für eine öffentliche Anreizfinanzierung erwogen werden.
L'isolamento come spazio di rottura nel mondo accademico
Creators: name: Giroux, Henry
name: Di Maio, Myriam
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Traduzione di Myriam di Maio di Exile as a Space of Disruption in the Academy. Come si fa a non isolarsi lavorando nell’ambiente accademico, specie se si aborrono le combriccole, la mediocrità, le forme isteriche di rancore, le ripicche e quella produzione infinita di ricerche irrilevanti (se non talvolta immorali) che caratterizza sempre di più l’università delle multinazionali? Oggi gli spazi di isolamento dalla vita pubblica occupano un numero eccessivo di istituzioni universitarie, riducendole a zone morte dell’immaginazione, impegnate in una difesa drastica delle loro posizioni degradate e in una corsa al prestigio e ai profitti. In troppi dipartimenti accademici la dirigenza è vuota, debilitante e chiusa, priva di qualsiasi apparente visione o senso di responsabilità sociale. Sono troppi gli amministratori che, imitando la logica strumentale di una cultura degli affari, mancano di una visione, di una conoscenza generale e della volontà di fare chiarezza sul ruolo dell'università in una democrazia. Troppi sono gli individui coinvolti in innumerevoli comitati, travolti dalla mediocrità che loro stessi o altri promuovono, e intimoriti da chiunque varchi i limiti dell’omologazione e della cortesia burocratica. L’eccellenza appartiene ormai a una formula vuota usata come criterio per le assunzioni ma estranea al lavoro o alla ricerca svolta dal corpo docente universitario, spesso svilito o malvisto per il compito che svolge.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
title: LE CHANTEUR DE MINUIT
Creators: name: Misraki, Paul
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Musique de film

description: Manuscrits des partitions musicales du film réalisé par Léo Joannon : LE CHANTEUR DE MINUIT
description: Temporal: XXème siècle
Management of Inflammatory Arthritis in pregnancy: a National Cross-Sectional Survey of Canadian rheumatologists
Creators: name: De Vera, Mary
name: Baldwin, Corisande
name: Tsao, Nicole W.
name: Howren, Alyssa
name: Hazlewood, Glen S.
name: Rebić, Nevena
name: Ensworth, Stephanie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: With improved therapies and management, more women with inflammatory arthritides (IA) are considering pregnancy. Our objective was to survey rheumatologists across Canada about their IA management in pregnancy to identify practice patterns and knowledge gaps. Methods: We administered an online survey with questions regarding medications for IA treatment including conventional synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) and biologics/small molecules in planned and unplanned pregnancies. Email invitations were sent to members of the Canadian Rheumatology Association. We calculated responses frequencies and a priori set a cut-off of ≥75% to define consensus. Results: Ninety rheumatologists participated in the survey (20% participation rate); 57% have been practicing for > 10 years, 32% for ≤10 years, and 11% in training. There was consensus on discontinuation of 4 csDMARDs – cyclophosphamide (100%), leflunomide (98%), methotrexate (96%), and mycophenolate mofetil (89%) – in planned pregnancies but varied responses on when to discontinue them or what to do in unplanned pregnancies. Respondents agreed that 3 csDMARDs – azathioprine (84%), hydroxychloroquine (95%), and sulfasalazine (77%) – were safe to continue in planned and unplanned pregnancies. There was consensus with use of 4 biologics – adalimumab (81%), certolizumab (80%), etanercept (83%), and infliximab (76%) – in planned pregnancies but uncertainty on when they should be discontinued and their use in unplanned pregnancies. Conclusions: This national survey shows consensus among rheumatologists on the use of some csDMARDs and biologics/small molecules in IA patients planning pregnancy but varied knowledge on when to discontinue and what to do in unplanned pregnancies.
title: Potere e risorse intangibili: Un silenzio diffuso e sintomatico
Creators: name: Masino, Giovanni
name: Berdicchia, Domenico
Publisher: name: TAO Digital Library
Year: 2024

description: The mainstream literature on the management of intangible assets and intellectual capital has developed considerably in the last three decades. While a variety of conceptualizations about how intangible assets can be understood and identified are available, the concept of power and, more generally, power dynamics have been vastly neglected in this literature, both conceptually and empirically. In this contribution we argue, through an internal critique, that this lack of attention represents a serious weakness for this literature in relation to its explicit goals. We also attempt an interpretation about the reasons for this conceptual void. Finally, we propose that an increased epistemological diversity would be significantly beneficial for this literature.
Reframing public relations: new directions for theory and practice
Creators: name: Leitch, Shirley
name: Neilson, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this article we deconstruct the central concepts of public relations theory: 'publics', 'relations', and 'organisations'. In offering a revised version of these concepts as a framework within which to reconstruct theory, we argue that the most seriously inadequate and undertheorised of these concepts is 'publics'. As Moffitt (1994) and Karlberg (1996) contend, the organisational perspective has tended to overwhelm and marginalise 'publics' within public relations theory. Thus the dominant focus on 'relations' has been conceptualised in the absence of a developed concept of 'publics'. As a result, public relations theory has been unable to come to terms with the power differentials between discourse participants.
Brodsky's "An Immodest Proposal:" Contents and Outcomes of an Extraordinary Project
Creators: name: Panicieri, Silvia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: This year falling the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Russian-born poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky, exile in the United States since 1972, it is worth to remind his project to foster literature – and poetry in particular - in his host country. On 10 May 1991, he was appointed “fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress”. This second important achievement came after the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, and proved a final turning point for his work, since, from that moment on, he published almost exclusively in English. Presented during the inaugural evening at the Library of Congress, Brodsky’s “An Immodest Proposal” took its title from Swift’s provocative essay “A Modest Proposal” and consisted of providing free volumes of poetry in public places – airports, hotels, supermarkets, hospitals - where people congregate and "can kill time as time kills them." Besides analyzing the contents of the project, the paper aims at investigating its outcomes. Brodsky’s words are interesting not only for they give us the opportunity to understand his vision of American culture, but also because they are a further evidence of the deep bond he had with his adoptive country. Brodsky’s warning offers us thoughts for reflection on the risks a society runs when a sufficiently higher culture is not spread between the masses. Brodsky’s fears prove actual, unavoidably leading us to the tragic news reports of mass murdering by armed citizens in the USA: “What concerns me is that, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, man reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to its body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.”
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Le post-fordisme et la marginalisation des pays les moins avancés : la réaction des acteurs économiques et institutionnels dominants à la crise du fordisme.
Creators: name: Leblanc, Daniel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Business Administration, Management.

description: Cette these a comme objectif de demontrer les consequences du passage a la production post-fordiste sur les possibilites d'integration des PMA a l'economie mondiale. L'argument defendu affirme qu'en reaction a la crise du fordisme, les FTN et les acteurs politiques dominants du systeme mondial entreprennent des actions conjointes et coordonnees ayant pour objectif une restructuration de l'economie mondiale. Il en decoule une liberalisation repondant aux interets des FTN. Nous croyons que cette dynamique perpetue la marginalisation des PMA de l'economie mondiale. En vu d'effectuer cette demonstration, la crise de la production de masse et le passage subsequent a la production flexible sont tout d'abord etudies. Par la suite, une ideologie dominante qualifiee de liberalisme transnational est definie, est il est demontre comment une liberalisation repondant aux interets des acteurs economiques prives est mise en place a travers le monde. L'insertion des FTN--en tant qu'acteurs economiques principaux de l'economie mondiale--a cette dynamique est alors etudiee. Il est vu que les celles-ci ne s'aventurent pas tellement au-dela des frontieres de la Triade dans leurs activites de production, de vente et d'investissement. Ce fait mine fortement les possibilites de developpement des PMA, qui dans un contexte de liberalisation en viennent a deprendre des FTN pour tenter de s'inserer au sein de l'economie mondiale. Il est finalement vu que le post-fordisme erige en trop grand nombre de barrieres a la participation des PMA a sa dynamique pour que nous puissions envisager, a court ou a moyen terme, une integration des PMA a l'economie mondiale. A ce niveau, le post-fordisme ne se distingue pas tellement du fordisme.
Il ritratto e la scopa. Riscrittura di Henry James nel romanzo di esordio di David Foster Wallace
Creators: name: Giovannone, Daniele
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Although David Foster Wallace may be the most famous writer of his generation, his first works have been surprisingly neglected by scholars. This study attempts to cast a new light on Wallace's first novel by arguing that it may be a rewriting of The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James' masterpiece. The two novels share many similarities: the more evident of them concern characters and plot elements, but the more meaningful instances can be found in the way they treat the key concepts of reification and human contact. After commenting on Wallace's frequent use of rewriting at the time wrote the novel, the paper employs two main approaches to try to explain the link between the two novels. First, the two authors are linked through a historical analysis where they are portrayed, respectively, as the most prominent ancestor and the latest fruit of the modernist/post-modernist branch of American literature. In the second half, the paper treats the moral implications of the novels, which are linked through the thinking of Martha Nussbaum and her idea of morality. Through this analysis, two authors usually seen mostly as innovators of style reveal their deep interest in a morally engaged literature.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Ossa di capra nel sotterraneo. Un caso di razza, genere, e visitazioni nella vecchia Savannah
Creators: name: Miles, Tiya
name: Panza, Stefania
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Ghost tourism, a form of dark tourism, is steadily competing with traditional tourism in America’s historic places, including plantation sites and urban centers in the South that have been profoundly shaped by histories of slavery. This essay exploresways in which the fraught relationship between an enslaved woman and her male owner is foregrounded and trivialized in a popular ghost tour in Savannah, Georgia, "America's Most Haunted City." Through a close examination of the Sorrel-Weed House narrative, this piece analyzes how touristic interpretations such as this misrepresent racial and gender dynamics of the 19th century andtoday.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Birthing under the condition of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: interviews with mothers, partners, and obstetric health care workers
Creators: name: Schmiedhofer, Martina
name: Derksen, Christina
name: Dietl, Johanna Elisa
name: Häussler, Freya
name: Louwen, Frank
name: Hüner, Beate
name: Reister, Frank
name: Strametz, Reinhard
name: Lippke, Sonia
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: obstetrics
subject: birth
subject: qualitative research
subject: delivery
subject: obstetric health care workers
subject: HCW
subject: health care research
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: COVID-19
subject: Pandemics
subject: Parturition
subject: Patient safety
subject: Germany
subject: COVID-19
subject: Pandemie
subject: Geburt
subject: Patientensicherheit
subject: Deutschland

description: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and the necessary containment measures challenge obstetric care. Support persons were excluded while protection measures burdened and disrupted the professionals’ ability to care and communicate. The objective of this study was to explore the first-hand experience of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers, their partners, and obstetric professionals regarding birth and obstetric care in a university hospital. Methods: To answer the descriptive research questions, we conducted a qualitative content analysis using a data triangulation approach. We carried out 35 semi-structured interviews with two stratified purposive samples. Sample one consisted of 25 mothers who had given birth during the pandemic and five partners. Sample two included 10 obstetric professionals whose insights complemented the research findings and contributed to data validation. Participants were recruited from the study sample of a larger project on patient safety from two German university hospitals from February to August 2021. The study was approved by two ethics committees and informed consent was obtained. Results: Mothers complied with the rules, but felt socially isolated and insecure, especially before transfer to the delivery room. The staff equally reported burdens from their professional perspective: They tried to make up for the lack of partner and social contacts but could not live up to their usual professional standards. The exclusion of partners was seen critically, but necessary to contain the pandemic. The undisturbed time for bonding in the maternity ward was considered positive by both mothers and professionals. Conclusion: The negative effects of risk mitigation measures on childbirth are to be considered carefully when containment measures are applied.
Improving the iterated MAP decoder by remapping.
Creators: name: Cooke, Jason Alister.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis, we present a method of rectifying a deficiency intrinsic to iterative MAP decoding. The decoding of multidimensional product codes using an iterated symbol-by-symbol maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoder was recently shown to have good performance. Although iterating the MAP process was found to improve the BER performance, it causes overly optimistic estimates of bit reliability to be output. This inaccuracy reduces the usefulness of the iterative MAP decoder, when it is used as the inner decoder in a concatenated coding scheme. We investigated several modifications to the basic MAP algorithm in an attempt to improve the accuracy of the reliability estimates. The most effective approach found was one termed "remapping" in which the reliability estimates output by the MAP process are mapped to more realistic values using functions generated from error statistics. Remapping was found to significantly improve the accuracy of reliability estimates output by the iterative MAP decoder. However, this improvement comes at a small cost in BER performance.
Candidate set strategies for ant colony optimisation
Creators: name: Randall, Marcus
name: Montgomery, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ant Colony Optimisation based solvers systematically scan the set of possible solution elements before choosing a particular one. Hence, the computational time required for each step of the algorithm can be large. One way to overcome this is to limit the number of element choices to a sensible subset, or candidate set. This paper describes some novel generic candidate set strategies and tests these on the travelling salesman and car sequencing problems. The results show that the use of candidate sets helps to find competitive solutions to the test problems in a relatively short amount of time.
Singing Cowboys on the Moon: Science Fiction Re-Opens the Western Frontier
Creators: name: Fenimore, David
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: When I was six, my great-grandmother, a devout and practical woman who had nurtured three generations of engineers, gave me The Big Book of Space. I was so utterly absorbed by this colorful encyclopedia of “space ships, space station, rockets, equipment” and “star maps” (Hurst) that she followed up by giving me another illustrated children’s book, You Will Go To the Moon. Published in 1959 in the immediate wake of the International Geophysical Year and the launch of Sputnik I, this simply written and earnestly didactic story promoted the friendliness, familiarity, and safety of space travel to impressionable and daydreamy Anglo-American boys such as myself. In it, a little brown-haired, blue-eyed boy – dead ringer for six-year-old me – gazes through a telescope at a full moon over the rolling fields of Midwestern farm country. On the next page, his well-dressed parents are escorting our young hero to the launch facility, which spreads out across a laser-flat plain between dry rocky desert ridges. Arriving on the moon, he encounters a similar landscape, described as "different from earth – no water, no lakes, no trees (…) just deep gray dust" (Freeman 50). He climbs a hill in his space suit and looks out over the moon colony, a cluster of shiny metallic pods and domes spreading across the lunar plain under an outer-space sky. Inside, the off-duty "rocket men" are shown relaxing by watching a Western film, the scene on the screen – a frame within a frame – being a mounted cowboy galloping past a desert mesa, his six-guns blazing (52). A cowboy! Spaceships! The moon! I was hooked.
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
title: German Informative Inventory Report 2023
title: Welcome to the German Informative Inventory Report 2023
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hausmann, Kevin
name: Butz, Wolfgang
name: Böttcher, Christian
name: Feigenspan, Stefan
name: Günther, Dirk
name: Gniffke, Patrick
name: Mielke, Christian
name: Gromke, Ulrich
name: Schiller, Stephan
name: Hermann, Tim
name: Kludt, Robert
name: Juhrich, Kristina
name: Kessler, Kai
name: Lehmann, Christian
name: Zheng, Jiexia
name: Plickert, Sebastian
name: Döring, Ulrike
name: Reichart, Almut
name: Reichel, Jens
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023

description: The Informative Inventory Report (IIR) is providing complementary information to Germany's air pollution inventories under the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE/CLRTAP) as well as the EU's National Emission Ceiling Directive (NECD). Germany's air pollution inventory includes emission data in consistent time-series ranging from 1990 (1995 for PM10, PM2.5 and 2000 for Black Carbon) to the latest reported year (2 years back) for nine air pollutants and priority heavy metals & persistent organic pollutants (POP). This report includes a comprehensive analysis of the inventory data, descriptions of methods, data sources, and carried out QA/QC activities. It follows the outline established by the latest guidelines for estimating and reporting of emission data and all data presented in this report were compiled according to those same guidelines. Quelle: Bericht
The metaphysical roots of physical inactivity and obesity in late-capitalism: toward a better understanding of major health problems through the application of process philosophy
Creators: name: McLaren, Glenn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this thesis is to comprehend the nature of an emergent major public health problem in Western developed societies; the increase in levels of physical inactivity and obesity. The position taken is that this problem is related to the defective ways of thinking underpinning the current period of late-capitalism. Supporting this position is a complex, philosophical argument that links multiple disciplines and levels of understanding within the human spatio-temporal domain. It is argued that such linking is only possible from a broader metaphysical perspective that examines underlying assumptions related to concepts of primary existence. The framework for this examination is an ongoing dialectic between two competing metaphysical traditions of thought, mechanistic materialism and process thought. Process metaphysics is put forward as a secular basis for re- integrating the human spatio-temporal domain left fragmented and nihilistic from centuries of dominance of the defective tradition of mechanistic materialism. It is this fragmentation and nihilism that has created the conditions for the problem of physical inactivity and obesity to emerge. This emergence is understood to be an aspect of the decaying process of a hegemonic culture that values extremes and is devoid of the ability to imagine alternatives. Drawing on the process tradition, and in particular the writings of contemporary philosophers coupled with less commonly studied older works, a more imaginative and encompassing definition of health, as compared with that enabled by the mechanistic materialist world-view, is conceived and developed. This is then contrasted with the way health is considered by those seeking to address public health issues. Through this approach, the key to the emergence and development of the physical inactivity and obesity problem is revealed in the beliefs and practices of those deemed to have the legitimacy to address it. It is suggested that this problem will not be adequately understood or addressed unless there is a major cultural change from one based in mechanistic materialism to one that is process based.
Wales: (Still) a Problem of Translation? Language Choice in Wales at the End of the Anglo-Welsh Era
Creators: name: Newbold, David
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In 1996 the poet R. S. Thomas claimed that ‘my country, Cymru, to be understood presents a problem of translation, and if it is to maintain a separate and valuable identity, it must continue to do so.’ Thomas, a native speaker of English, and a self-taught user of Welsh, seemed to be questioning the value of English to reflect the reality of Wales, and with it his own status as an ‘Anglo-Welsh’ poet. This inner conflict mirrored the language situation in Wales, and the lack of language choice facing writers, since native Welsh speakers carried the psychological onus of remaining faithful to the ‘old language’, and non-Welsh speakers had no choice but to use English. But the last two decades have seen considerable social, political, and linguistic change in Wales. An extensive bilingual education policy, the emergence of a Welsh language television channel, and the establishment of the Welsh assembly, seem to have halted the decline in the number of Welsh speakers, and bridged the gap between the two linguistic communities. Today writers in Welsh and in English share the same national platform (Llenyddiaeth Cymru - Literature Wales) and an increasing number of bilingual writers choose to use both languages, often translating their own work. In this paper I shall look back over a century of Anglo Welsh writing, and suggest that entrenched language attitudes in Wales, and the attendant ‘impossibility of translation’, have given way to a vibrant bilingual literary scene as Welsh writers look beyond the hills and valleys of an Anglo-Welsh tradition to the world at large.
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
The Legacy of Exceptionalism
Creators: name: Weltzien, Alan
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The towering position of the volcanoes in the Northwest ethos is foregrounded in regional literature and historical writing. Exceptionalism – the notion that we’re something special, given our landscapes — provides the preferred rhetoric, a chauvinistic master trope, in the fond story many Northwesterners tell of themselves. To understand that story, we must define that sensibility then trace its evolution. The Northwest’s special endowment depends in part on what I will call the sociology of the snowpeaks. At the top of the region’s remarkable topographies float the volcanoes, as virtually every contemporary Northwest literary history or general history claims, and above them all floats Mt. Rainier – Tacoma, or Tahoma in the Yakama language – undisputed crown of the lower forty-eight states’ upper left corner. Like Pacific salmon, Rainier, in its myriad views, poses as the quintessential Northwest icon. As such it has served as a commonplace market brand and television backdrop, even appearing on commemorative postage stamps. Its image endorse
description: Iperstoria, No 7 (2016): Old and New West
D'une errance close à une errance polarisée : thème et structure de Visions d'Anna ou le vertige de Marie-Claire Blais.
Creators: name: Clément, Annie Lise.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: "L'errance ou le martyr des sens anormalement aiguises", dira Guislaine, mere de l'un des nombreux personnages errants du roman Visions d'Anna ou le Vertige de Marie-Claire Blais. Qu'est-ce au juste qu'errer? Pourquoi ce theme central a l'oeuvre et pourquoi cette forme errante aussi? Pourquoi, surtout, cette vive impression chez le lecteur de participer a l'errance des protagonistes? La presente these tentera de repondre a ces questions. Elle demontrera surtout l'intime correspondance entre la forme et le rond du roman, grace a un regard attentif sur la mise en intrigue du texte. Apres avoir reconstitue le faire diegetique des protagonistes, nous nous proposons ensuite d'examiner la structure du roman, en fonction des elements suivants: etudes des anachronies narratives, des "visions d'Anna", des reperes semantiques et spatio-temporels, des faits de conscience les plus englobants et enfin, de la cloture du roman. Cette analyse de la mise en forme du texte permettra de confirmer l'hypothese suivante: La mise en intrigue du roman Visions d'Anna ou le Vertige constitue une mimesis de la quete de la protagoniste Anna, qui, d'une errance close, evolue progressivement vers une errance polarisee. Etude, donc, d'une thematique centrale en fonction de ses repercussions sur la structure narrative et diegetique complexe du roman. Un regard attentif au texte, pour mieux comprendre ses emboi tements, sa progression, associes au parcours des differents protagonistes et, plus particulierement, a la "quete d'Anna". Bref, une etude formelle qui debouche sur une hermeneutique blaisienne, etroitement liee au traitement temporel d'ensemble. vskip9pt
Access to healthcare for disabled individuals : an analysis of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights from an ethical perspective
Creators: name: Skuban-Eiseler, Tobias
name: Orzechowski, Marcin
name: Steger, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Access to healthcare
subject: DDC 170 / Ethics
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Health services accessibility
subject: Disabled persons
subject: Delivery of health care
subject: Ethics, Medical
subject: Human rights
subject: International law
subject: Behinderter Mensch
subject: Medizinische Versorgung
subject: Medizinische Ethik
subject: Internationales Recht
subject: Menschenrecht

description: Introduction Individuals with disabilities (ID) suffer from restricted access to healthcare. This contributes to their poorer health status and constitutes an ethical challenge. The aim of this research was to systematically analyze judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to illustrate examples of restricted access to healthcare for ID. Methods Through a search in the ECtHR's database we identified judgments dealing with access to healthcare for ID. The search resulted in n = 329 judgments, of which n = 55 were included in the analysis. A descriptive statistic was performed on Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and violation of these articles. Qualitative thematic analysis was conducted to group the judgments in thematic categories. Results Most applications were filed against Russia (n = 23), followed by Poland (n = 8) and Ukraine (n = 7). The youngest applicant was 18, the oldest 72 years old. An overwhelming majority of cases dealt with disabled prisoners. Most of the judgments involved Article 14 and Article 8. We identified seven partially overlapping categories representing thematic patterns in the analyzed judgments. Discussion Any restriction of access to healthcare can be considered a violation of human rights. However, the results show a relatively low total number of judgments dealing with limited access to healthcare for ID. This could be a further confirmation of the fact that ID still experience too little attention in our societies. Especially in the context of detention, ID is restricted from receiving the healthcare they require. Indirect ways of a restricted access to healthcare should not be overseen.
Unwanted warriors: The rejected volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Creators: name: Clarke, Nicholas (Nic) J
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: History, Military.

description: This study examines men who volunteered for active service during the Great War but were rejected as "unfit." In doing so, it explores the following issues: (1) the mechanisms by which the Canadian military adjudged an individual unfit to serve; (2) the difficulties faced by medical authorities when attempting to adjudge an individual's suitability for service; (3) how the military's construction of what characterised (un)fitness for service evolved during the Great War and what caused this evolution; (4) the clashing concepts of military fitness held by the Canadian military authorities, Canadian medical professionals, and lay people; (5) the implications of being labelled unfit for rejected volunteers and how these men reacted to being so labelled; and (6) how some individuals used claims of medical unfitness as a means to resist enlistment pressures or counter family members' attempts to enlist. This exploration highlights a group of individuals who have been overlooked in Canada's Great War historiography: rejected volunteers. It offers a new vantage point from which Great War historians might survey and reconceptualise a number of ongoing areas of research which include, but are not limited to, recruiting; manpower mobilisation; the growth of the post-war veterans' rights movement; civil-military and periphery-centre relations; agency and resistance; and how the war impacted on, and was understood by, Canada's civilian population. Furthermore, it examines the factors that informed early-twentieth-century Canadians' perceptions of disability, and, more broadly, what constituted disability. This study is founded on a research infrastructure of three interrelated databases. These databases contain information drawn from the attestation papers, service files, and, in some cases, personal correspondence, of 3,400 rejected volunteers. 3,050 of these men were rejected at Valcartier Camp in August-September, 1914, and represent 60 per cent of the total number of men---5,081---rejected at Valcartier during the formation of the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The remaining 350 individuals were discharged as medically unfit to serve in England in 1916. The information contained in these databases enabled the description of physical and social characteristics of these men, as well as a close analyse of their reasons for rejection. In addition, they also allowed the tracing of multiple enlistment attempts; the examination of individual medical examiners' views regarding certain impairments; and the creation of personal histories---some extending well beyond 1918---for a number of these individuals.
Active transmitarray submodule for K/Ka band satcom applications
Creators: name: Chaloun, Tobias
name: Hillebrand, Christoph
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
name: Menzel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Multifrequencey antennas
subject: Planar antenna arrays
subject: Satellite communication
subject: K/Ka band satcom applications
subject: SiGe
subject: MMIC
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Antennas (Electronics)
subject: Microstrip antennas
subject: Microwave antennas
subject: Antenna arrays
subject: BICMOS
subject: Satellitenfunk
subject: Mikrowellenantenne
subject: Streifenleiterantenne

description: A novel concept for an active transmitarray architecture for K/Ka Band Satcom applications is presented. The highly-integrated antenna system is based on planar multilayer arrangement covering both Satcom frequency bands for uplink at 30 GHz and downlink at 20 GHz. To verify the proposed manifold approach, the individual components and a first active dual-band transmitarray submodule enhanced by a multi-functional SiGe BiCMOS MMIC have been realized and measured successfully.
Photography and the American multimodal novel: Exploring J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S.
Creators: name: Mantzaris, Thomas
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Doug Dorst; J.J. Abrams; multimodal fiction; multimodality

description: The emergence of multimodal fiction has resulted in the avid exploration of narrative possibilities in relation to the print book medium. Multimodal fiction is centered on the notion of combining verbal and non-verbal modes of representation in the ways in which the narrative is created as well as communicated to the reader. In this article, I am examining the use of photography in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s novel S. (2013). Existing as distinct physical objects, the photographic images expand the physical space of the codex, and are in dialogue with the other visual strategies in the novel. Challenging literary norms and publishing conventions, S. features a range of creative experimentation across narrative layers. At the core is a fictional novel entitled Ship of Theseus featuring a character also named S, who awakes onboard a floating ship with no recollections of himself. This is layered with the work of a translator/editor and the handwritten annotations of two fictional readers who also augment the original novel with material artefacts. By exploring the function of photography in relation to other visual strategies in the novel, I suggest that the ship functions as a metaphor for the transformations that the print book medium currently undergoes.
description: Iperstoria, No 11 (2018): American Constructions of Photography / Photographic Constructions of America
The Justification for Designating the Russian Imperial Movement as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Creators: name: Chin, Taylor
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations
classificationCode: 440217
subject: Terrorism
classificationCode: 440402
subject: Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding

description: The white supremacist Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and its leaders Stanislav Vorobyev and Denis Gariev pose an underestimated threat to the United States that may soon call for greater proactive vigilance, such as designating the group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). RIM’s growing threat is evidenced by the group’s two-decade survival, incriminating activity on social media, and uncompromising ideological principles.
Originally designated an SDGT for providing training to terrorists from the Nordic Resistance Movement, RIM claims on social media that it has quadrupled program attendance since joining the war in Ukraine. It has also bolstered its presence on multiple social media platforms (including US-based platforms on which it is banned) to forge alliances with like-minded organizations and post propaganda and free paramilitary training tutorials — evidence that it provides terrorist training not only in person, but also online.
This report argues that RIM has used social media, particularly YouTube, to build a more global network that focuses on militant accelerationism, making it a growing threat to the US and western allies. By analyzing RIM’s actions, propaganda, media, and militant presence in Ukraine, this report presents new research findings to the counterterrorism academic community and argues why RIM should be designated an FTO.
Regardless of the geopolitical landscape in Russia and Ukraine, it is highly improbable that RIM will waver from its accelerationist goals or ideology, which may target US nationals abroad in the short term, or even US citizens at home in the long term. Designating RIM as an FTO will grant the United States greater range to investigate activity associated with this group, as well as the ability to criminally prosecute accelerationist actors within the US who provide material support and resources to the group’s activities. RIM has demonstrated, especially in the past year, that it not only meets all three criteria of an FTO designation, but also that such a designation would avail new opportunities to the US and its western allies to address domestic accelerationist actors and tech companies regarding better, updated violent extremist content policies.
Muslim Turks and anti-Muslim discourse: the effects of media constructions of 'Islamic' and 'Arabic' in Australia
Creators: name: Hopkins, Liza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The proliferation of anti-Muslim discourse in recent years has both contributed to the reification of a singular category of Muslims in the West and encouraged erasure of the difference within and between followers of Islam. In Australia, much of this discourse has tended to equate the religion, Islam, with both a particular national identity, namely Lebanese, and a particular ethnicity, Arabic. Yet the reality of contemporary Australia, and of other western immigration nations, is a Muslim community that comprises a diversity of ethnic groups, countries of origin, language, culture, and religio-sectarian beliefs and practices. This paper examines some of the media practices that make up this homogenising discourse and then discusses the response of some non-Arabic Australian Turks who actively resist being categorised in this way.
Konzeptvorschlag für die IT-technischen Grundlagen und die Informationsarchitektur eines Expertensystems zu lokalen Umwelteffekten erneuerbarer Energiesysteme
Creators: name: Jacob, Klaus
name: Hüsing, Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Wissensmanagement

description: Vor dem Hintergrund der dezentralen Verteilung von Daten und Erkenntnissen zu Umweltwirkungen der Energieerzeugung aus erneuerbaren Energien (eE) soll im vorliegenden Gutachten die Machbarkeit eines EDV-gestützten Informationssystems zum Wissensmanagement in diesem Bereich untersucht werden. Bis dato ist dieses Wissen nicht zentral erschlossen, sondern dezentral über zahlreiche Studien, Datenbestände und Experten verteilt. Vor diesem Hintergrund soll ein Softwaresystem entwickelt werden, in dem die unterschiedlichen Wissensbestände zu eE-Technologien und deren Umweltwirkungen gesammelt und nach Anwendungsfällen, Technikfaktoren und lokalen Bedingungen erschlossen und bereitgestellt werden.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Against the background of a decentralized availability of data and knowledge on the environmentalimpacts of energy production with renewable energies, the study analyses the feasibility of an IT based information system for knowledge management in this domain. So far, relevant knowledge is not centrally collected, but instead decentrally distributed among numerous studies, datasets and experts. Against this background, a software system should be developed which collects the various stocks of knowledge on renewable energy technologies and their environmental impacts, making the knowledge accessible and supplying it depending on application cases, technology factors and local conditions.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht