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Exploring Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Open Innovation
Creators: name: Terhorst, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A growing number of firms are turning to open innovation as a competitive strategy. Tacit knowledge is strongly implicated in innovation as it guides the thinking that leads to the generation and realisation of novel ideas. This thesis explores tacit knowledge sharing in open innovation. It uses a convergent mixed-method research design that combines social network analysis and semi-structured interviews to assess tacit knowledge sharing relations in three open innovation partnerships. The thesis finds tacit knowledge features strongly in group work. Moreover, autonomous motivation is a reliable predictor of tacit knowledge-seeking behaviour. There is a strong alignment between tacit knowledge sharing and cognition-based trust ties. Because tacit knowledge resides in various internal and external communities of practice, knowledge brokers are crucial for connecting communities in open innovation. The thesis found that one can characterise open innovation partnerships in terms of brokerage patterns alone.
РОМАН НАБОКОВА “THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT” КАК ГИБРИДНЫЙ ГИПЕРТЕКСТ ДОСТОЕВСКОГО (Статья вторая)
Creators: name: Кибальник Сергей Акимович
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: Набоков; Достоевский; роман; литература; русский; англоязычный; интертекстуальный; «Подлинная жизнь Себастьяна Найта»; «Подросток»; «Игрок».

description: Роман Владимира Набокова “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight” не относится к числу тех произведений писателя, которые обнаруживают явную ориентацию на Достоевского. И тем не менее в нем есть как явные, так и достаточно скрытые следы присутствия образов русского классика. Набоков, кажется, нигде не упоминает роман «Подросток», однако его ориентация на него в «Подлинной жизни…» имеет столь значительный характер, что как раз неупоминание его писателем нигде и никогда представляется весьма значимым. Тем более что в развитии главной сюжетной коллизии его романа есть герои и образы, навеянные «Подростком». В первой из двух статей, посвященных отзвукам «Подростка» в романе Набокова, наше внимание было сосредочено преимущественно на общности некоторых сюжетных линий и образов: Себастьяна и их общего с В. отца, с одной стороны, и Версилова, с другой, В. и Аркадия Долгорукого, первой жены отца Себастьяна Вирджинии и первой жены Версилова Фанариотовой, подруги Клэр мисс Пратт и «тетушки» Аркадия Татьяны Павловны Прутковой. Во второй статье речь идет о явном сходстве некоторых других героев этих двух романов: мадам Лесерф с Катериной Николаевной и Анной Андреевной Ахмаковыми, Клэр – с матерью Аркадия Софьей Андреевной, а также Пальчина с Бьорингом. Детальный анализ этой «обязательной» и «факультативной», по М. Риффатеру, интертекстуальности романа Набокова с произведением Достоевского и представляет собой настоящая статья. Роман «Подлинная жизнь Себастьяна Найта» рассматривается в статье как явление «гибридной интертекстуальности», поскольку вторая часть его движется уже по сюжетным рельсам и мотивам не столько «Подростка», сколько другого романа Достоевского – «Игрок».
«ТИХО ЛЬЕТСЯ ТИХИЙ ДОН…»: ДОНСКОЙ КОНТЕКСТ ПОЭМЫ А.А. АХМАТОВОЙ «РЕКВИЕМ»
Creators: name: Ларионова Марина Ченгаровна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: А.А. Ахматова; Л.Н. Гумилев; «Реквием»; Дон; казаки; Шолохов.

description: Исследователи неоднократно задавались вопросом, почему в ленинградской поэме «Реквием», в колыбельной «Тихо льется тихий Дон…», появляется образ Дона. Ахматова, судя по мемуарам Э. Герштейн, объясняла это судьбой сына, Л.Н. Гумилева, его донскими экспедициями и любимым романом – «Тихим Доном» М. Шолохова. Однако комментаторы с недоверием отнеслись к свидетельству мемуариста и предложили свои версии. Они связали образ Дона в стихотворении либо с поэмой А. Пушкина «Кавказский пленник», либо с биографией О. Мандельштама и его воронежской ссылкой, либо с поэзией Н. Гумилева и А. Блока. Автор настоящей статьи предлагает поверить А. Ахматовой. Именно судьба сына – не только арест, но и факты его биографии, род его занятий – стала ближайшим контекстом стихотворения. На это указывает жанр – колыбельная. Среди фольклорных колыбельных есть песни, рассказывающие о мире матери, ее заботах и переживаниях. Их называют «лирикой материнства». Стихотворение А. Ахматовой воспроизводит эту «материнскую» линию колыбельных и обращено к испытывающему страдания сыну. Необычный образ колыбельной – «месяц в шапке набекрень» указывает на род занятий Л.Н. Гумилева. Всех знакомых с донской казачьей культурой он отсылает к конкретным историко-культурным реалиям. В казачьем фольклоре отмечено особое почитание месяца, что корреспондирует с «детской» темой колыбельной. Казаков отличает особая манера носить шапки – набекрень. Это зафиксировано в казачьих народных и авторских песнях. Интерес к казакам появился у Л.Н. Гумилева во время его донских экспедиций 1935 и 1936 гг. Руководителем экспедиций и учителем Л.Н. Гумилева был М.И. Артамонов, автор книги «История хазар». В ней впервые была намечена связь между хазарами и казаками. Эта тема была продолжена в книге Л.Н. Гумилева «Открытие хазарии», где казаки были названы потомками бродников, а те – потомками хазар. К казачьей теме Ахматова вернулась в 1946 г. в стихотворении «Со шпаной в канавке…». Это стихотворение может иметь отношение к «Тихому Дону» Шолохова – любимому произведению Л.Н. Гумилева. В нем говорится о разобщении, войне против своего народа, как и в романе Шолохова. Так сплелись в узел экспедиции Л.Н. Гумилева, его аресты, любимое произведение, М. Шолохов – и судьба матери и ее поэмы «Реквием». Даже одно глубоко личное стихотворение поэмы показывает, как лирика Ахматовой превращается в эпос, в рассказ о судьбах народа.
The WiggleZ dark energy survey: Probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure
Creators: name: Poole, G. B.
name: Blake, Chris
name: Parkinson, D.
name: Brough, S.
name: Colless, M.
name: Contreras, C.
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Croton, Darren
name: Croom, S.
name: Davis, T.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Forster, K.
name: Gilbank, D.
name: Gladders, M.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Jelliffe, B.
name: Jurek, R. J.
name: Li, I.-h.
name: Madore, B.
name: Martin, D. C.
name: Pimbblet, K.
name: Pracy, M.
name: Sharp, R.
name: Wisnioski, E.
name: Woods, D.
name: Wyder, T. K.
name: Yee, H. K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We place the most robust constraint to date on the scale of the turnover in the cosmological matter power spectrum using data from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find this feature to lie at a scale of k0 = 0.0160+ 0.0035− 0.0041 (h Mpc−1) (68 per cent confidence) for an effective redshift of zeff = 0.62 and obtain from this the first ever turnover-derived distance and cosmology constraints: a measure of the cosmic distance–redshift relation in units of the horizon scale at the redshift of radiation–matter equality (rH) of DV(zeff = 0.62)/rH = 18.3+ 6.3− 3.3 and, assuming a prior on the number of extra relativistic degrees of freedom Neff = 3, constraints on the cosmological matter density parameter ΩM h2 = 0.136+ 0.026− 0.052 and on the redshift of matter–radiation equality zeq = 3274+ 631− 1260. We stress that these results are obtained within the theoretical framework of Gaussian primordial fluctuations and linear large-scale bias. With this caveat, all results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of standard ΛCDM models. Our constraints on the logarithmic slope of the power spectrum on scales larger than the turnover are bounded in the lower limit with values only as low as −1 allowed, with the prediction of P(k) ∝ k from standard & 0923;CDM models easily accommodated by our results. Finally, we generate forecasts to estimate the achievable precision of future surveys at constraining k0, ΩM h2, zeq and Neff. We find that the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey should substantially improve upon the WiggleZ turnover constraint, reaching a precision on k0 of ±9 per cent (68 per cent confidence), translating to precisions on ΩM h2 and zeq of ±10 per cent (assuming a prior Neff = 3) and on Neff of + 78− 56 per cent (assuming a prior ΩM h2 = 0.135). This represents sufficient precision to sharpen the constraints on Neff from WMAP, particularly in its upper limit. For Euclid, we find corresponding attainable precisions on (k0, ΩM h2, Neff) of (3, 4, + 17− 21) per cent. This represents a precision approaching our forecasts for the Planck Surveyor.
«КАБАЦКИЙ ЛОКУС» В РУССКОЙ ПОЭЗИИ ХХ ВЕКА: статья вторая
Creators: name: Гавриков Виталий Александрович
name: Кихней Любовь Геннадьевна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: Сергей Есенин; Иосиф Бродский; Владимир Высоцкий; Александр Башлачев; кабацкий текст; русский модернизм; песенная поэзия; мотив; художественное пространство

description: Во второй статье, посвященной кабацкому тексту в русской поэзии ХХ века, рассматривается творчество С. Есенина, И. Бродского, В. Высоцкого, А. Башлачева. У Есенина этот комплекс «ресторанных мотивов» в первую очередь реализуется в цикле «Москва кабацкая». Есенин дает несколько ипостасей ресторанной темы, где аккумулируются практически все мотивы и образы, составляющие кабацкий текст в символизме и акмеизме. Высоцкий как ключевая фигура авторской песни и Башлачев – поэтический лидер рок-поэзии – в своих «кабацких текстах» наследуют основные мотивы и образы Серебряного века. Однако в произведениях поющих поэтов второй половины ХХ века присутствуют и элементы, ранее не входившие в пространство кабацкого текста, например, мотив кощунства. Бродский восстанавливает модернистскую мотивную матрицу почти без изменений. В завершение статьи дается общая типологическая матрица кабацких мотивов в русском модернизме и поэтической песенности (на материале обеих статей цикла). Система персонажей в кабацком тексте чаще всего следующая: «заблудший» лирический герой, потусторонние медиаторы, насельники гиблого места (своеобразный «персонал»), гости-бражники, женственно-эротические персонажи. Находящиеся внутри кабацкого локуса пьют, курят, дерутся, играют в азартные игры, пляшут и т.д. Пространство характеризуется, как замкнутое, мертвенное, инфернальное, миражное. В статье реконструируется сквозной сюжет, определяющий специфику кабацкого текста в русской поэзии ХХ века: затрудненный путь в гиблое место, вход в пограничье (преддверие), пребывание в кабацком локусе и выход из него, часто равнозначный спасению.
DEVELOPMENT OF BIOCHAR-DERIVED CARBON CATALYSTS FOR UPGRADING BIO-OIL AND SYNGAS FROM CO-PYROLYSIS OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS AND WASTE PLASTICS
Creators: name: Zou, Rongge
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomass
Carbon catalysts
Co-pyrolysis

description: The modern world's reliance on fossil energy sources has led to significant challenges, including an impending energy crisis and environmental degradation. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated these issues, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions and waste management strategies. Lignocellulosic biomass, considered a renewable and abundant resource, holds promise as a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based fuels. Similarly, with its widespread use and environmental concerns, plastic waste presents an opportunity for resource recovery through thermal decomposition methods like pyrolysis. However, challenges such as low energy efficiency and product quality hinder the widespread adoption of these techniques. To address these challenges, this research investigates using carbon-based catalysts derived from biochar to enhance the co-pyrolysis of biomass and plastics. These catalysts aim to improve product yields and quality by facilitating desirable chemical reactions during pyrolysis. Through rigorous experimentation and statistical analysis, biochar-derived catalysts' catalytic mechanisms and performance metrics are elucidated, offering insights into their potential applications in sustainable energy conversion and waste management. Besides, machine learning has also been applied for the future development of activated carbon from biochar. Overall, this thesis contributes to developing efficient and economically viable processes for converting biomass and plastic waste into valuable energy products, thereby advancing the goals of resource recovery, environmental sustainability, and circular economy principles.
IDEM-FORMA, МЕТАБОЛА, ТОЖДЕСТВО. ОБРАЗНАЯ СТРУКТУРА ПОЭМЫ ВЛАДИМИРА АРИСТОВА «ДЕЛЬФИНАРИЙ» (Статья первая)
Creators: name: Масалов Алексей Евгеньевич
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: русскоязычная поэзия; образная структура; поэтический язык; метареализм; метабола; idem-forma; тождество; субъектный неосинкретизм; синтез пространств.

description: Владимир Аристов – поэт русскоязычного метареализма, литературной школы, поиски которой находятся в области поэтической метафизики и усложнения семантики словесного образа. Осмысляя переходный период русской культуры и общества в 80-е годы XX века, он пишет цикл «Реализации», состоящий из трех поэм («Дельфинарий», «Кинорежиссер», «Омега моря») и двух стихотворений («Балтийские отражения» и «Пробуждение»). В поэме «Дельфинарий» поэт выражает поиски «пространства всеобщей родственности» и общего языка, общей телесности. Свою работу в этом ключе В. Аристов обозначает понятием «idem-forma», которое означает и особую технику создания стихотворений, и метод анализа художественных текстов. Данное понятие коррелирует с понятием «метабола», введенным М.Н. Эпштейном для анализа образной структуры и поэтического языка метареализма. В поэтике В. Аристова метабола является одним из элементов idem-form’ы, выражающим отношения синкретизма, синтеза и тождества на тропеическом уровне. Несмотря на то что термин «idem-forma» был предложен поэтом только в начале XXI века, образная структура анализируемой поэмы «Дельфинарий» говорит о том, что творческие поиски в этом русле В. Аристов ведет на протяжении всего литературного пути. Специфическими чертами использования этой техники в поэме является синтез на уровнях хронотопа и фокализации, субъектный неосинкретизм и образы-метаболы, выражающие и пересемантизацию деталей советского быта, и синтез миров – человеческого и природного, телесного и языкового. В данной статье анализируются I и II части поэмы «Дельфинарий».
"You haven't always been just a little old lady": Evaluating a digital storytelling program in residential aged care facilities
Creators: name: Stargatt, Jennifer Rose
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Older adults who live in residential aged care facilities may feel that their self-views are not recognised or supported by others, and this may influence their experience of loneliness and depression. Across four studies, this thesis demonstrated that engaging aged care residents to create short digital stories documenting their memories may assist in supporting their sense of self and mental health outcomes. Personalising aged care to account for the residents' sense of self may be a way to support the mental health of older adults as they navigate the challenges of living in residential aged care settings.
Preaching and other verbal performance in a United Church of Canada congregation: Speaking of experience.
Creators: name: Cummergen, Paul A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: This is a study of the ritual of Sunday worship in a United Church of Canada congregation. Its seeks to provide a contextual analysis of the preaching and other verbal performances which are the most significant ritual elements. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is critically assessed. On this basis, an account of preaching as symbolic labour is developed. Samples of preaching collected through participant-observation of the services are analysed to show the ways in which preaching serves to provide a discursive resource for the (re)production of communal individual conceptions of the "self" among members of the congregation. Age and gender are identified as key variables among this urban, middle-class population. A particular group of upwardly mobile, female adults is identified as especially responsive to the way in which the verbal performances of the minister provide a model and the linguistic resources for the production and transformation of self-description and self-understanding. In these ways, some account of the persistence of this example of mainstream, conventional Christianity is given.
Aging in Class: Independent Yet Connected --- Challenging the Narratives of Aging in Middle and Upper Class Communities in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Samaraweera, Vishni
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Family Relationships
Migration
Sri Lanka

description: This study aims to evaluate the consequences of the out-migration of children of older adult middle and upper-class Sri Lankans in the capital Colombo. Increased global migration patterns and changing aging demographics have transformed the relationships of transnational families. It is crucial to understand the significance of aging today amidst migration, social-transformation, and even crisis. This global phenomenon is also very large in Sri Lanka but little is studied and investigated. With limited literature on aging in Sri Lanka and the migration of transnational families, it is imperative to highlight the stories of the older adults. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with Sri Lankan adults over fifty years old with at least one adult child living abroad on their experiences with aging and wellbeing with a lens of the impacts of the ongoing economic crisis on their lives. All interviews were conducted in the summer of 2022 during the height of economic and political instability in Sri Lanka. Informal conversations and observations were also recorded in the context of day-to-day life while I conducted research there. This study expands on earlier literature regarding the expected loneliness of older adults within transnational families. The aging process and support system for the participant group demonstrates positive independent experiences with communities of friends and unanimous support for sending their children abroad for more opportunities. Based on participant responses, this study also investigates the relationships older adults have with Sri Lankan patriotism after living through decades of traumatic history. Participants revealed a largely content and independent lifestyle from their children due to community support in Sri Lanka and their national connection as a product of their shared experiences. Further, parents continue to feel connected to their children and care about their children’s professional and personal success even though they have moved away. The study suggests that cultural communities and a strong sense of patriotism can overshadow feelings of loneliness and separation from children within transnational families.
A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements of self-management strategies for Multiple Sclerosis
Creators: name: Weld-Blundell, Isabelle
name: Grech, Lisa
name: Marck, Claudia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND In multiple sclerosis (MS), suboptimal medication adherence is associated with subsequent discontinuation, which occurs in ~30-50% of people within 2-years. Medication adherence is critical for realisation of pharmacotherapy benefits and reduced healthcare expenditure. Previous systematic reviews have not included oral DMTs, first introduced in 2010. OBJECTIVE To undertake a systematic review of adherence and persistence rates for self-administered oral and injectable disease modifying therapies (DMTs) in people with MS. METHODS A literature search for publications examining DMT adherence and persistence rates in MS was conducted through databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and PsycINFO yielding 1,590 records, with 1,150 duplications removed, resulting in 440 abstracts screened. We included peer-reviewed, English written studies for objectively measured self-administered DMTs in samples aged 18+, published between July 1993, and December 2018. Studies reporting combined intravenous and self-administered DMT adherence results were excluded. RESULTS In total, 119 articles were extracted for quantitative synthesis. Preliminary results show 12-month mean adherence (medication possession ratio) for injectable compared to oral DMTs was 71.7% (n = 6) and 83.0% (n = 3), respectively. Mean discontinuation over 12- and 24-months for injectable DMTs were 30.4% (n = 9) and 29.7% (n = 8); and oral DMTs were 25.4% (n = 3) and 16.5% (n = 5), respectively. CONCLUSIONS Medication adherence and persistence remains problematic despite the introduction of oral DMTs. Oral DMT improvements are noted for 12-month adherence and 24-month discontinuation. With limited oral DMT adherence and persistence data, studies are hampered by methodological issues, such as inconsistent adherence and persistence definitions.
The development of hyperactive boys: A 12-year follow-up.
Creators: name: Claude, Diane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Developmental.

description: The present 12-year follow-up study was conducted to investigate the long-term development of 60 hyperactive children, who were further subdivided onto those with and without childhood aggressiveness. They were followed from childhood to late adolescence/early adulthood, and compared on psychiatric, cognitive, and academic outcome with that of 60 matched normal control subjects. Childhood predictors of poor outcome were also explored in the hyperactive group. Consistent with previous studies, the core deficits of hyperactivity persisted in more than half of the hyperactive group. However, the results called into question the widespread claim that childhood hyperactivity was related to antisocial behaviours in adolescence. Although the hyperactive group displayed significantly more Antisocial Personality Disorder, Drug Use Disorders and comorbidity than the control group in adolescence, these group differences were significantly attributable to the aggressive subgroup of hyperactive subjects. In contrast, adolescents who were hyperactive only in childhood did not differ significantly from the control group in psychiatric functioning, except for their persistent ADHD. The hyperactive/aggressive subgroup had received the most individual and residential treatment for their behaviour problems. Consistent with previous research, at follow-up, hyperactive subjects displayed significantly poorer spelling, arithmetic and reading comprehension skills than did the control group. In comparison with the control group, the hyperactive group had also completed fewer years of High School education, failed more courses, received more special services in High School and fewer of them had attended post-secondary school. Hyperactive/aggressive and hyperactive only subgroups generally displayed similar problems on these academic variables. These preliminary findings suggest that chronicity of hyperactive behaviours is in part determined by its severity in childhood. Overall, the present findings suggest that hyperactivity is persistent in a significant number of children and the heterogeneity of ADHD needs to be addressed in order to move towards a better understanding of the long-term development of children with ADHD. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
CFHTLenS: testing the laws of gravity with tomographic weak lensing and redshift-space distortions
Creators: name: Simpson, F.
name: Heymans, C.
name: Parkinson, D.
name: Blake, Chris
name: Kilbinger, M.
name: Benjamin, J.
name: Erben, T.
name: Hildebrandt, H.
name: Hoekstra, H.
name: Kitching, T. D.
name: Mellier, Y.
name: Miller, L.
name: Van Waerbeke, L.
name: Coupon, J.
name: Fu, L.
name: Harnois-Déraps, Joachim
name: Hudson, Michael J.
name: Kuijken, Koenraad
name: Rowe, Barnaby
name: Schrabback, Tim
name: Semboloni, Elisabetta
name: Vafaei, Sanaz
name: Velander, Malin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Dark energy may be the first sign of new fundamental physics in the Universe, taking either a physical form or revealing a correction to Einsteinian gravity. Weak gravitational lensing and galaxy peculiar velocities provide complementary probes of general relativity, and in combination allow us to test modified theories of gravity in a unique way. We perform such an analysis by combining measurements of cosmic shear tomography from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) with the growth of structure from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey and the Six-degree-Field Galaxy Survey, producing the strongest existing joint constraints on the metric potentials that describe general theories of gravity. For scale-independent modifications to the metric potentials which evolve linearly with the effective dark energy density, we find present-day cosmological deviations in the Newtonian potential and curvature potential from the prediction of general relativity to be ΔΨ/Ψ = 0.05 ± 0.25 and ΔΦ/Φ = −0.05 ± 0.3, respectively (68 per cent confidence limits).
Training improves visual processing speed and generalizes to untrained functions
Creators: name: Lev, Maria
name: Ludwig, Karin
name: Gilaie-Dotan, Sharon
name: Voss, Stephanie
name: Sterzer, Philipp
name: Hesselmann, Guido
name: Polat, Uri
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Studies show that manipulating certain training features in perceptual learning determines the specificity of the improvement. The improvement in abnormal visual processing following training and its generalization to visual acuity, as measured on static clinical charts, can be explained by improved sensitivity or processing speed. Crowding, the inability to recognize objects in a clutter, fundamentally limits conscious visual perception. Although it was largely considered absent in the fovea, earlier studies report foveal crowding upon very brief exposures or following spatial manipulations. Here we used GlassesOff's application for iDevices to train foveal vision of young participants. The training was performed at reading distance based on contrast detection tasks under different spatial and temporal constraints using Gabor patches aimed at testing improvement of processing speed. We found several significant improvements in spatio-temporal visual functions including near and also non-trained far distances. A remarkable transfer to visual acuity measured under crowded conditions resulted in reduced processing time of 81 ms, in order to achieve 6/6 acuity. Despite a subtle change in contrast sensitivity, a robust increase in processing speed was found. Thus, enhanced processing speed may lead to overcoming foveal crowding and might be the enabling factor for generalization to other visual functions.
A study to develop clinical decision rules for the emergency department use of radiography in acute ankle injuries.
Creators: name: Stiell, Ian Gilmour.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, General.

description: This study was performed in two phases. The goal of Phase 0 was to determine the current use of radiography in ankle injury patients in two large university hospitals. The goal of Phase I was to develop clinical decision rules that are sensitive for detecting significant fractures in adult ankle injury patients. All 70 significant fractures found in the 689 ankle x-ray series performed were identified among people who had pain near the malleoli and who either: (1) were age 55 or greater, or (2) had localized bone tenderness of the posterior edge or tip of either malleolus, or (3) were unable to bear weight both immediately after the injury and in the emergency department. Combining these four predictors yielded a decision rule that was 100% sensitive and 40.1% specific for detecting ankle fractures, and would allow a reduction of 36.0% of ankle x-ray series ordered. This study confirmed that the majority of ankle injury patients are currently being referred for radiography but that the yield of the x-rays for fracture is relatively low. Decision rules may permit clinicians to confidently reduce the number of x-rays ordered in adult ankle injury patients and thereby reduce unnecessary costs to the health care system. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
ПОЭТИКА ЗАГЛАВИЙ В КНИГЕ ИВАНА ЖДАНОВА «ВОЗДУХ И ВЕТЕР»
Creators: name: Чижов Николай Сергеевич
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: И. Жданов; заглавие; мистериальность; история; возвращение; христианская метафизика.

description: Заглавия разделов, стихотворений и прозаических миниатюр в шестой книге И. Жданова «Воздух и ветер» рассматриваются как сравнительно самостоятельный текст, выражающий смысловое единство многосоставной книжной структуры, и ключ к художественному миру поэта (В.И. Тюпа). Анализ показал, что лексико-грамматические особенности заголовочного комплекса стихотворений (48% (51 ед.) от общего числа текстов, из них 30% жанровые и более 60% выражены одним словом; традиционная, общепоэтическая лексика) сближают И. Жданова с такими русскими поэтами второй половины XX века, как А. Тарковский, О. Чухонцев, А. Кушнер, О. Седакова. Установлено, что проза поэта, в отличие от стихотворных текстов, практически не озаглавлена (7% от общего числа). Причина этого видится в подключении И. Жданова к литературнофилософской традиции, идущей от Л. Шестова («Апофеоз беспочвенности») и В. Розанова («Уединенное», «Опавшие листья» и др.). В системе заглавий текстов были выделены следующие семантические группы: 1) природный мир; 2) человек и его духовный путь; 3) искусство; 4) история и христианская модель мира. Структурообразующие связи между заглавиями этих групп обусловливаются лежащими в их основе семантическими доминантами, что определяют своеобразие художественного мышления автора. К таковым были отнесены семы векторной динамики, циклического возвращения и статики как постоянства, духовной неразменности. Сема динамики в заглавиях преимущественно воплощается в образах частной и всеобщей истории, спроецированной на христианский метафизический вектор (Крещение» – «Плач Иуды» – «До слова» – «Преображение» – «Восхождение» – «Воскресение или повторение» – «Когда времена проходят»). Сема цикличности – в образах природы и человеческого бытия, где прослеживается мистериальный комплекс умирания-воскресения («На новый год», «Возвращение», «Ода ветру»). Жанровые заглавия в книге «Воздух и ветер», с одной стороны, формируют образ мира большой культуры, куда «транслируется» духовный опыт поэта, с другой стороны, наравне с «природными» заглавиями, наделяются семантикой мистериальности, гармонизации бытия. Наконец, образный строй таких заглавий, как «Неразменное небо», «Дом», «Воздух и ветер», «Где сорок сороков», выражает метафизические представления поэта о духовной первооснове мира, идеально устроенном Космосе. Делается вывод, что в системе заглавий книги «Воздух и ветер» воплощается ждановская концепция «освидетельствования», направленная на преодоление эсхатологической заданности развития истории путем возвращения к всеобщему единению людей, Бога и природного мира. Обосновывается, что истоки мистериального мышления И. Жданова восходят к архетипическому комплексу народной сибирской духовности.
“POEM-PAINTINGS” BY V. KAMENSKY: PERFORMATIVE GESTURE AND ITS MATERIAL EMBODIMENT
Creators: name: Shvets, Anna V.
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: avant-garde; futurism; Kamensky; ferroconcrete poems; performance; gesture.

description: The paper focuses on the poem-paintings (“stikhokartiny”) by V. Kamensky, verbo-visual texts published in his experimental book “Tango with Cows” (1915). Given that the poems were seen as located halfway between literature and painting, the author tries to account for the hybrid character of the poems by placing them in a wider communicative and aesthetic context. One of the contexts to be taken into consideration is the visual arts background, namely, artistic exhibitions that became a site of meeting for most Futurist poets. Besides providing futurists with publishing and financial resources, visual arts unions and groups exerted conceptual influence on the artists suggesting a new aesthetic orientation. That orientation could be described as stressing the pragmatic dimension of the text over its semantics, choosing an act produced by the words over their literary meaning. Elaborating on that artistic choice, the paper addresses scandal as a PR strategy and asserts that this strategy was promoted by the means of gesture as a device. A few examples and testimonies from Futurist practices are examined as the body of evidence. Then the paper transitions to arguing that gesture as a device for generating an overall pragmatic effect of shock, scandal etc. could be recreated virtually, by material properties of the book. A few examples of Futurist productions are called for to prove the point. Then the paper provides a thorough analysis of one of ferroconcrete poems.
ФОТОПОЭЗИЯ И ФОТОТЕОРИЯ РУССКОЙ ЭМИГРАЦИИ: В.В. ВЕЙДЛЕ
Creators: name: Волкова Галина Викторовна
name: Марков Александр Викторович
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: Вейдле; фотография; теория фотографии; поэтика; теория культуры; интенция в фотографии; фигура умолчания; украшенная речь; риторичность; простой стиль.

description: В статье рассматриваются противоречия в теории фотографии В.В. Вейдле, стимулировавшие его позднее поэтическое творчество. Вейдле критически относится к фотографии и кинематографу как к подмене искусства развлечением и восприятием поверхности предметов, но размышления над свойствами поверхности самого медиа и изменение ситуации в искусстве после Второй мировой войны заставили его изменить позицию. Вейдле заменил исторический критерий риторическим и стал противопоставлять украшенную риторику живописи и простую риторику фотографии. При этом исторический взгляд на фотографию внутри ценностного анализа был вытеснен оценкой эффектов фотографии как эффектов простой и искренней речи. В статье доказывается, что такой переход был поддержан и поэтическим творчеством Вейдле, который в стихотворении «Похвала фотографии» дал ключи к своей поздней теории. Внимательный анализ стихотворения позволил вскрыть в нем отсылки к истории царскосельского парка, истории русской драматургии и театральной практики, а также намеки на сюжет стихотворения в прозе Тургенева «Мы еще повоюем», которое тоже по сути оспаривает старую риторику жеста ради новой риторики непосредственного чувства. Тем самым примирение Вейдле с фотографией оказывается частью такой поздней «простоты», которая обосновывается как отказ от риторики, дискредитированной политическими злоупотреблениями и поспешным вписыванием в ценностные ряды. Проведенное исследование показывает перспективность исследования поэзии, написанной теоретиками искусства, которая будучи «культурной» и интертекстуальной, может раскрыть теоретический подход автора там, где в самом теоретическом тексте у него или нее фигуры умолчания или лакуны, вызванные спецификой изложения в эссеистике, ее условностями и ограничениями, или же сломами в самом способе производства искусства, не позволяющими выработать теоретический аппарат на основе старых стратегий аргументации и описания.
СРАВНЕНИЯ В «АРГОНАВТИКЕ» АПОЛЛОНИЯ РОДОССКОГО: ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ЭПИЧЕСКОЙ ТРАДИЦИИ
Creators: name: Мостовая Вера Геннадиевна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: героический эпос; книжный эпос; устная поэзия; Аполлоний Родосский.

description: Аполлоний Родосский, ученый поэт III в. до н.э., был одним из реформаторов традиционного героического эпоса. Посвятив поэму «Аргонавтика» сюжету о похищении золотого руна, в центральном эпизоде поэмы он рассказывает не о героических подвигах аргонавтов, а о зарождении и развитии любви к Ясону в сердце Медеи. Лирический и волшебный сюжеты (последний, в отличие от гомеровских поэм, рассказывает повествователь, а не персонажи) не единственное отличие от героических поэм Гомера – «Аргонавтика» имеет черты киклического эпоса (линейная композиция) и этиологической разновидности дидактического эпоса (происхождение современных автору обрядов и история происхождения городов). Сравнение, часто встречающееся в поэме, особенно развернутое, является характерной чертой гомеровского стиля. Статья рассматривает изменения, которые произошли в языке и структуре сравнения у Аполлония. Обновление лексического состава сравнений вместе с использованием гомеровской лексики, варьирование устоявшихся гомеровских формул делают сравнения органической частью позднего эпического языка. Изменение соотношения объекта и признака сравнения, появление сравнений в бытовых сценах, а не только в героических, в том числе в посвященных морской тематике эпизодах, использование сравнений для изображения чувств отвечает новым интересам читательской аудитории: в центре внимания оказывается внутренний мир человека, а также все экстраординарное. Вместе с тем сохраняется тенденция использовать сравнения чаще в батальных сценах. Как средство субъективной оценки сравнения дают голос автору, позволяя менять интонацию от иронии к состраданию или восхищению. Многочисленные опознаваемые аллюзии к Гомеру подчеркивают диалог и полемику, которые ведет Аполлоний со своим предшественником
An Analysis of Eight East-Coast Australian Newspapers' Coverage of Mental Illness Stories, 2000-2014
Creators: name: Teague, Samuel Kingsley
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study focused on the stories Australian journalists tell, and have told, about persons with mental illness in articles published in eight east-coast Australian newspapers, 2000-2014. A total of 1302 articles were sourced, containing both search terms `mental illness' and `mentally ill'. The study is innovative in that it draws on the history of mental illness to contextualize the stories published in the twenty-first century. Qualitative in its methodological approach, roughly forty per cent of the entire sample was coded `violence'. Analysis revealed that journalists frequently employ mental illness as an explanatory device to account for stories of violence, and in particular, murder. Mental illness was more likely to be drawn on in cases involving women who killed others, particularly family members, whereas men were more often portrayed as deliberate, calculated, and cold in their actions, as opposed to insane.
Authoritative communication behind indirect communication: The design of Kierkegaard's aesthetic works.
Creators: name: Paterson, John.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: In this thesis I juxtapose two points about the ends and means of Kierkegaard's indirect communication: that Kierkegaard wrote with the intention of having some kind of effect on his readers; but that his writing style was so peculiar that it grossly jeopardized the possibility of such an effect. The suspicious and obscure nature of most of his books, particularly the "aesthetic" texts, fosters mistrust in the reader, breaking the contact between reader and writer. Without the writer overtly standing behind what he writes, it is unreasonable to expect someone to be influenced by what he reads or even to read it seriously. Yet, Kierkegaard hoped to find his reader developing a serious attitude and to be moved in a certain direction, namely towards religiousness. The question is how these two facts about his work come together, and my answer is that there is a third, hidden element at work in the relationship between Kierkegaard and his reader. Namely, he postulates the authoritative revelation of the religious spirit, and this is responsible for influencing the reader, not Kierkegaard himself. His own role as a writer is to release this stronger communication on his reader, by undermining the latter's capacity to ignore the spirit. Hence, the above problematic juxtaposition is mediated by an external and covert element being inserted into Kierkegaard overall project.
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF PURPLE POTATO ON GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH
Creators: name: Sun, Qi
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: purple-fleshed potatoes
Purple Potato
Gastrointestinal Health

description: The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is vital for nutrient digestion, absorption, and host defense. Several diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer, can compromise the GIT barrier, impacting epithelial cell metabolism, function, and gut microflora. This dissertation evaluated the potential benefits of purple-fleshed potatoes (PP), known for their rich macronutrient and phytochemical content, and their polyphenol-rich extract supplementation on intestinal epithelial barrier function, metabolism, and the microbial metabolome using a murine colitis model induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) and intestinal epithelial cell line. The study also examined the influence of different cooking methods on the antioxidant capacity and anti-inflammatory capacity of PP bioactive. Results indicated PP, regardless of cooking methods, retained its phytochemical content, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities. Among the tested cooking methods, vacuum-sealing and boiling exhibit the highest content of extractable polyphenolic compounds and bioactivity. PP extract promoted differentiation, up-regulated the level of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator (PGC)-1α and enhanced mitochondrial biogenesis in human intestinal epithelial Caco-2 cells. Inhibition of PGC-1α by either inhibitor or siRNA knockdown negated the enhancing effects of PP extract on the expression of differentiation and mitochondrial biogenesis markers. Furthermore, purple potato (PP) extract inhibited HIF-1α accumulation and the expression of its downstream genes in Caco-2 cells. PP extract reduced cellular lactate production induced by hypoxia. PP extract suppressed hypoxia-induced shifts in cellular glycolytic metabolism. The fecal metabolome analyses in DSS-induced colitis mice revealed significant alterations in 68 compounds, primarily encompassing amino acids, fatty acids, organic acids, carbohydrates, and polyamines. DSS treatment led to the upregulation of 25 metabolites mainly amino acids and fatty acids in feces. However, dietary PP supplementation reversed 13 of the 25 metabolites affected by DSS. Additionally, six potential microbial metabolites derived from PP polyphenols were identified, showing a strong positive correlation with M2 differentiation of macrophages. In summary, these findings highlight the beneficial effects of PP on intestinal epithelium differentiation, cellular metabolism, and modulation colitis-induced alteration in intestinal microbial metabolome.
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Creators: name: Huang, He-Liang
name: Wang, Xi-Lin
name: Rohde, Peter
name: Luo, Yi-Han
name: Zhao, You-Wei
name: Liu, Chang
name: Li, Li
name: Liu, NaiLe
name: Lu, Chaoyang
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 314506-supp
title: Invoking emotions through natural forms
title: using abstracted natural forms in furniture to invoke emotional reactions
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Williams, Jake
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2024
Subjects: 3D Design
Digital Design
Furniture
Furniture Design
Product Design

description: Plants and animals are the most basic and fundamental entities on Earth that we as humans connect to in our day-to-day lives. With a culture that is constantly moving away from nature and into the age of technology many people have found peace and solace in nature. Throughout my life, I have been encapsulated by the emotions and attitudes that different animals have and provoke in others and knew that I had an affinity for the natural world and our emotional connection to it. It wasn’t until I saw the Art Nouveau styles of Tim Burton and Dr. Seuss that I learned that these emotions could be created in a fictional fantasy world if the fundamental aspects of what provoked a specific emotion were carried over to a made-up being. The combination of my education in furniture design and the fabrication of the abstract / surrealist worlds that inspired me as a child has been the driving inspiration of my MFA work. This thesis reflects on my process of designing, how I first came up with this theme, and how I approached each project and what I felt were the most important elements to carry over into my work.
Optimal control of time-dependent viscous flow with potential application to artificial hearts.
Creators: name: Sahrapour, Akbar.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Biomedical.

description: The present research is concerned with the application of optimal control theory to time-dependent viscous flows. Some specific designs of artificial hearts are described briefly, followed by a review on common hemodynamic problems created by artificial hearts and heart valves. Some mathematical models for certain types of artificial hearts are formulated. Optimal control theory has been applied to some of these models to obtain the necessary conditions of optimality. The optimization problem consists of determining the optimal control policy in order to minimize the value of an appropriate cost functional, which accounts for differences from a desired flow rate and the mean squared shear stresses and vorticity. The necessary conditions of optimality include the Navier-Stokes equations, the associated adjoint equations and an inequality. For the purpose of the numerical solution of the governing equations, a numerical code has been developed, which solves the Navier-Stokes and the corresponding adjoint equations by the Finite Element Method with penalty function formulation. The Navier-Stokes and the adjoint equations were solved iteratively. Each system of equations was solved separately but the two systems were iteratively coupled in the control problem context. At the end of each iteration a new control was computed using the inequality, and the process was repeated until convergence was achieved. Numerical solution of the optimization algorithm was achieved for a two-dimensional model with an initial velocity distribution as the control variable, and a two-dimensional model with a time-dependent boundary velocity applied at some part of the boundary as the control. The latter case was further extended to an approximate three-dimensional model of an artificial heart. In all cases, it was observed that, in the absence of shear stress and vorticity in the cost functional, the desired flow rate was almost achieved, while including these parameters resulted in a decreased optimal flow rate but with smoother velocity distributions. In the case of two- and three-dimensional boundary control, it was found that, when the stress and vorticity levels were minimized, the optimization algorithm could successfully rearrange the flow distribution, smoothen the sharp gradients and remove the vortices that would occur otherwise in the velocity field. This study demonstrates that optimal control of flow systems is practical and can be used as a design tool.
Exploring modifiable risk factors of cognitive ageing: Evidence from resting state fMRI
Creators: name: Peters, Riccarda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Increased population ageing and the associated global burden of age-associated cognitive impairments has led to a critical need for better understanding of modifiable ageing processes which impact brain function. The present thesis contributes to our understanding of the neural correlates of cognitive ageing, focusing on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Across nutrition and appetite signalling the work presented advances our understanding of the neural correlates of cognitive ageing and potentially modifiable central mechanisms of ageing. In the absence of any effective drug therapy for cognitive decline or dementia, this may lead to the identification of new treatment targets.