cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Accelerometry in Surfing: the feasibility of employing accelerometers to capture, detect, and analyse the waveform signals of manoeuvres and movements performed during wave-riding
Creators: name: Lowrie, Jayden
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: accelerometers
surfing
acceleration
waveforms
manoeuvres
Sports science and exercise

description: Biomechanical inquiries into the performance of surfing-related manoeuvres / movements are rare within the scientific literature. Most studies that have been conducted have taken place in a lab-based setting or via video analysis. Consequently, any direct kinematic or kinetic measures of surfers and/or their surfboards while wave-riding are almost non-existent. The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate the feasibility of using accelerometers to collect kinematic data of experienced surfers and their surfboards during wave-riding. The intent was to detect the acceleration waveform signals produced during the performance of specific surfing manoeuvres / movements. The secondary aim was to analyse these waveform signals to identify any significant trends in manoeuvre / movement execution in addition to any variations specifically between complete and incomplete bottom turn to top turn manoeuvre combinations. Notable results from the three main studies are as follows. Pop-up acceleration waveform signals were congruent between the accelerometers and the criterion motion-capture system and provided a reliable means to detect the start of wave-rides within the surfing session data sets. The five surfing manoeuvres / movements that were analysed generally had unique acceleration waveform signals. There were also several discrete acceleration and temporal variables that had a significant main effect for manoeuvre type. Acceleration waveform patterns were similar but differed in magnitude between complete and incomplete bottom turn to top turn manoeuvre combinations. Certain discrete acceleration and temporal variables were also significantly different between complete and incomplete manoeuvre combinations. Overall, accelerometers provide a valid and reliable way to collect kinematic data of surfing performances. This unique study has contributed to the body of knowledge in this domain and was the first to measure and evaluate acceleration data related to the lower-body and surfboard during the execution of several commonly performed surfing manoeuvres / movements.
Wirkende Bilder
Creators: name: Griffero, Tonino
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: The belief in the plastic power of imagination and of imagine is a fundamental part of human Psychology’s History. A look to the ground of this belief could clarify the cohabitation of science and superstition at the beginning of the Modern Age. Although in modern treatise from the field of subjectivity and unreality, imagination does not always enjoys the benefit of science. The power of imagination, as a faculty or as magical Medium between thought and being, allows belief to consider what is imagined as fundamental part of the processes of universe.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Additional file 8 of STARR-seq identifies active, chromatin-masked, and dormant enhancers in pluripotent mouse embryonic stem cells
Creators: name: Tianran Peng
name: Yanan Zhai
name: Atlasi, Yaser
name: Huurne, Menno Ter
name: Marks, Hendrik
name: Stunnenberg, Hendrik G.
name: Megchelenbrink, Wout
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8. Review history.
Environmental Responsibility of a Canadian Alpine Sport Area: A Case Study
Creators: name: Apostolis, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Corporate Social Responsibility
Environmental Programs
Ski Industry
Greenwashing
Legitimacy Gaps
Communicating CSR

description: This Master’s thesis explores environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) in the alpine sport industry. A mixed methods case with a single alpine sport provider in Quebec was performed. The first study is a qualitative examination of how and why ECSR is employed and communicated. Results indicate ECSR is strategically motivated, and as such, the focal organization runs the risk of using several greenwashing techniques in communications that could jeopardize gaining competitive advantage. The second study quantitatively investigates alpine sport consumers’ environmental expectations, engagement with environmental products, and perceptions of the focal organization’s environmental reputation. The results show the focal organization’s customers do indeed have environmental expectations, but believe the focal organization’s environmental reputation remains neutral. The thesis supports arguments of corporate social responsibility (CSR) being strategically motivated and other findings of skiers having conflicting environmental values. Lastly, the thesis provides insight regarding greenwashing, a phenomenon that remains unexplored in sport management.
Supplementary document for Mirror-symmetry breaking mitigates finite-size related performance degradation in guided mode resonance filters - 5279560.pdf
Creators: name: Hegde, Ravi
name: Vyas, Hardik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Influence of fabrication imperfections in a miniaturized (20 unit cells) width and gap perturbed dimerized medium contrast grating (w+g-DMCG) on its optical response.
Additional file 2 of Assessing mental well-being in a Sinhala speaking Sri Lankan population: validation of the WHO-5 well-being index
Creators: name: Perera, B. P. R.
name: R. Jayasuriya
name: A. Caldera
name: A. R. Wickremasinghe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Educating students with disabilities in regional independent Christian schools of Queensland: An analysis of school policies
Creators: name: Mercer, David
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: students with disabilities
regional independent schools
Queensland

description: In recent decades, in Australia as elsewhere, students with disabilities (SWD) have been increasingly introduced to mainstream schools. This reflects both changes in social attitudes towards young people with a disability and changes in the policy environment for disability and education. At the same time, independent schools in Australia have been growing both in number and rate; but, as Prasser (2009a) has indicated, the numbers of SWD in independent schools are not growing at a proportional rate. In Christian independent schools, policy issues with regard to SWD collide with central tenets of the Christian faith and the business models in which these schools operate; and these may generate tensions and problems with regard to educating these students. This study sought to explore the issues surrounding educating SWD in a number of regional independent schools in the state of Queensland, Australia. It sought to uncover uniquely Christian approaches to educating SWD by exploring: (a) the perspectives of Principals of these independent Christian schools, (b) tensions between faith and policy and (c) issues surrounding the mainstreaming of SWD.
Supplementary document for Mirror-symmetry breaking mitigates finite-size related performance degradation in guided mode resonance filters - 5279560.pdf
Creators: name: Hegde, Ravi
name: Vyas, Hardik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Influence of fabrication imperfections in a miniaturized (20 unit cells) width and gap perturbed dimerized medium contrast grating (w+g-DMCG) on its optical response.
The influence of power dynamics on climate-related water governance in Australia
Creators: name: McIlwain, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: collaboration
discourse analysis
power dynamics
polycentricity
resilience
social-ecological systems
social learning
social network anaysis
water governance
Political geography
Human geography not elsewhere classified
Environment policy

description: Power dynamics are often cited as a contributor to poor governance outcomes in the water sector. Yet, our knowledge about the detailed ways in which power dynamics influence governance processes remains limited. In the face of the global water crisis and largely ineffective management approaches, there is a need to better understand how power dynamics influence water governance processes to address diverse water challenges. Climate change will further exacerbate existing challenges such as water accessibility, availability, quality, and the impacts of flood and drought. With the urgent need for more effective governance solutions in the water sector, a detailed understanding of the power dynamics that shape water governance becomes a pre-requisite. To address this knowledge gap, my study emphasises power within the social-ecological resilience principles by applying a three-dimensional power model to the concepts of polycentricity, collaboration and social learning.
description: The aim of this research was to understand how power dynamics shape water governance, especially through processes of polycentricity, collaboration and social learning, in an Australian climate change context.
Intorno al concetto di presentazione perspicua. Spengler e Wittgenstein
Creators: name: Iacono, Alfonso Maurizio
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: Starting from the problem of correspondence between words and things, immagine and objects, I analyze Wittgenstein’s notion of übersichtlichen Darstellung in relation with comprehension. This relation is possible thanks to our capacity to see connections. The thesis I support claims that, in order to clarify this point, it is important to take into consideration Spengler’s Philosophy, that is undoubtedly a Wittgenstein’s source. I also refer to Goethe, who is called by Wittgenstein against Spengler on the topic of the distinction between the experimenter subject and object of the experimentation.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Towards improving the identification of anterior cruciate ligament tears in primary point-of-care settings
Creators: name: Whittaker, Jackie L.
name: Chan, Michelle
name: Pan, Bo
name: Hassan, Imran
name: Defreitas, Terry
name: Hui, Catherine
name: Macedo, Luciana
name: Otto, David
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Only a small proportion of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears are diagnosed on initial healthcare consultation. Current clinical guidelines do not acknowledge that primary point-of-care practitioners rely more heavily on a clinical history than special clinical tests for diagnosis of an ACL tear. This research will assess the accuracy of combinations of patient-reported variables alone, and in combination with clinician-generated variables to identify an ACL tear as a preliminary step to designing a primary point-of-care clinical decision support tool. Methods: Electronic medical records (EMRs) of individuals aged 15–45 years, with ICD-9 codes corresponding to a knee condition, and confirmed (ACL+) or denied (ACL−) first-time ACL tear seen at a University-based Clinic between 2014 and 2016 were eligible for inclusion. Demographics, relevant diagnostic indicators and ACL status based on orthopaedic surgeon assessment and/or MRI reports were manually extracted. Descriptive statistics calculated for all variables by ACL status. Univariate between group comparisons, clinician surveys (n = 17), availability of data and univariable logistic regression (95%CI) were used to select variables for inclusion into multivariable logistic regression models that assessed the odds (95%CI) of an ACL-tear based on patient-reported variables alone (consistent with primary point-of-care practice), or in combination with clinician-generated variables. Model performance was assessed by accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and positive and negative likelihood ratios (95%CI). Results: Of 1512 potentially relevant EMRs, 725 were included. Participant median age was 26 years (range 15–45), 48% were female and 60% had an ACL tear. A combination of patient-reported (age, sport-related injury, immediate swelling, family history of ACL tear) and clinician-generated (Lachman test result) variables were superior for ACL tear diagnosis [accuracy; 0.95 (90,98), sensitivity; 0.97 (0.88,0.98), specificity; 0.95 (0.82,0.99)] compared to the patient-reported variables alone [accuracy; 84% (77,89), sensitivity; 0.60 (0.44,0.74), specificity; 0.95 (0.89,0.98)]. Conclusions: A high proportion of individuals without an ACL tear can be accurately identified by considering patient-reported age, injury setting, immediate swelling and family history of ACL tear. These findings directly inform the development of a clinical decision support tool to facilitate timely and accurate ACL tear diagnosis in primary care settings.
Hölderlin lettore di Kant
Creators: name: Portera, Mariagrazia
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: In this paper I discuss the notion of transcendentalEmpfindung (transcendental sensation), which plays a central role in Hölderlin's fragmentary essay Wenn der Dichter einmal des Geistes mächtig ist.Thenotion of transcendental Empfindung is introduced in this essay as a replacement for the concept of intellectual intuition, the well-known philosophical notion which represents one of the key-terms for German philosophers between XVIII and XIX century. In this paper I argue that Hölderlin, having made use of this notion for a long time in his works and philosophical writings, now rejects the intellectual intuition and find a substitute for it in the transcendental sensation
under the influence of a renewed reading of Kant's writings, especially Kant's Critique of pure reason and Critique of judgement.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Environmental health risks to children and adolescents: an umbrella review on indoor and outdoor air pollution
Creators: name: Castro, Alberto
name: Kappeler, Ron
name: Kienzler, Sarah
name: Plaß, Dietrich
name: Scutaru, Ana Maria
name: Valtanen, Kerttu
Publisher: name: European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment
Year: 2023

description: Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental factors including indoor and outdoor air pollution. In order to present the state-of-the-art knowledge for the health effects for children related to outdoor and indoor air pollution, scoping reviews followed by umbrella reviews is conducted. Thereby, intervention studies are included as a special case of evidence generation as they may directly point to solutions to improve the situation. Prioritization of topics among numerous potential health risks and pollutants is based on available evidence, potential health impact on population level, potential individual health risks for exposed children, possibility to conduct interventions and specificity of the topic for children in Europe. For ambient air pollution there is strong evidence for effects on mortality, respiratory endpoints such as development of asthma, decreased lung function and lung function development, and respiratory infections. Similarly strong evidence exists for the development of asthma and severe asthma attacks in relation to secondhand smoke exposure. Further, studies provide reliable evidence for children exposed to mould to be at risk for a number of health outcomes of the respiratory tract including development of asthma, exacerbation of asthma, allergic rhinitis and wheeze. For numerous other outcomes there are indications of health effects, although uncertainty remains about causality. These health effects amount to substantial burden of disease in Europe. Unfortunately data on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce exposure levels and/or health risks in children are scarce. There is thus an urgent need for a better understanding of which interventions are most useful to prevent environmental health problems in European children. In future reports health effects in children from other research areas such as noise, climate change and chemicals will be dealt with. © European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment
Does prior knowledge matter? Exploring how prior study and informal learning affects the study of compulsory tertiary Indigenous Studies
Creators: name: Grogan, Justine
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: Indigenous studies
pre-service teachers
university
prior knowledge
stuent survey
acceptance
resistance
structural racism
deflection
Curriculum and pedagogy
Specialist studies in education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education

description: Prior knowledge may influence non-Indigenous students' understanding of knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Studies undergraduate course and this prior knowledge may constitute preconceived notions and misconceptions. Prior knowledge may influence student engagement with and/or resistance to topics in Indigenous Studies courses, and hence their future professions including the classroom practices of pre-service teachers. In Indigenous Studies classes, students frequently learn, unlearn, and relearn so as to improve pedagogy. This study sought to better understand what formal and informal prior knowledge students bring to their university studies and how it influences course resistance. As a result, the research question posed is how does prior knowledge affect student resistance in Indigenous Studies higher education? For effective analysis of the research question, a mixed methods approach was used. It included start-of-semester surveys to explore the prior knowledge of mostly non-Indigenous students at the beginning of their semester and followed these students to the end of their semester in a mandatory tertiary Indigenous Studies course. End of semester surveys focused on quantitatively examining factors and qualitatively exploring understandings around achieving partial or full scores on a developed Acceptance Scale. Survey data were collected from 357 students in the Time 1 (before the course) survey and 93 students in the Time 2 (after the course), and 50 students responded to both time points and were matched. Ten students also agreed to be interviewed at the end of the semester, and classroom observations supplemented these data. Data were collected across four semesters. The start-ofsemester survey findings revealed two separate clusters: those who valued prior formal knowledge (from schooling) and those who valued prior informal knowledge (from personal experience) at the start of the semester.
Supplementary document for Hemodynamics of the sternocleidomastoid measured with frequency domain near-infrared spectroscopy towards non-invasive monitoring during mechanical ventilation - 5279584.pdf
Creators: name: Istfan, Raeef
name: Gomez, Carlos
name: Applegate, Matthew
name: Rozenberg, Dmitry
name: Reid, W
name: Roblyer, Darren
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary materials
The ends of violence. Girard and Derrida
Creators: name: McKenna, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: Jacques Derrida’s critique of philosophical origins, in his essay on Plato and elsewhere, unveils a sacrificial dynamic that René Girard hypothesizes as the origin of human culture. Girard’s latest book, Achever Clausewitz (2008), applies his mimetic theory to history: the Prussian general’s analysis of increasingly violent «reciprocal action» in modern, post-revolutionary warfare exposes the mimetic principle of lethally violent doubles. This «trend to extremes» works to the dissolution of institutions – national sovereignty, international law, politics, war itself – that Derrida explores in Voyous, his book-length essay on terrorism (2003). Both authors see the world of globalized commerce and the globalized terrorism that goes with it as enmeshed in violent undifferentiation. Girard’s historically grounded work supplies a narrative line to Derrida’s structural analyses. Derrida’s call for an ever more vigorous deconstructive rationality as a solution is symptomatic of philosophy’s blindness to the interactive crescendos of human violence that is unveiled in Girard’s religious anthropology.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Reconstructing opacity. Husserlian motivation as a ‘third synthesis’
Creators: name: Dell'Orto, Francesca
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: In this article I propose to read the Husserlian notion of ‘motivation’ by comparison with the Kantian Schematism, in order to understand its peculiar status and time frame. I maintain that motivations – like a third synthesis in addition to retention (perception) and recollection (reproduction) – mediate and organize the flux of retentions and protentions by intercession of external supports (material, artificial and cultural). Thus, they offer the means to thematize history and, consequently, to recast the transcendental basis of Phenomenology taking the opacity of consciousness into serious account.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Coven of the Wildewood
Creators: name: Lloyd, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: cultural transformation theory
shamanic poetry
cosmogonic mythology
shamanism
The Anima Mundi
'We' narration
prosopopoeia
ecofeminism
qualitative research
ethnopoetics
literary fantasy
The World Tree
symbolism
creative writing

description: Coven of the Wildewood and the accompanying exegesis implement Riane Eisler's Cultural Transformation Theory, a conceptual framework that argues for a return to a partnership model of society. The predominant use of Eisler's theory is in the construction of shamanic poetry that mirrors the 'golden age and paradise lost' found in cosmogonic mythology, which cycles in a partnership of unity. Shamanism itself constitutes this theme through the vision quests of the shaman, which enact the primordial unity of nature's paradox. These themes are explored in the literature review through the poets Taliesin, Arthur Rimbaud, and Gary Snyder in relation to narrative style and structure.
The uptake of infant safe sleep advice by Queensland caregivers: a multi-methods study
Creators: name: Cole, Roni
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: sleep-related infant mortality
subject: safe sleeping campaign
subject: sudden infant death
subject: SUDI
subject: SIDS
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Public health

description: Background: High rates of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) in the 1990s prompted concerted efforts globally to identify associated factors through epidemiological studies. Subsequent findings informed sudden infant death risk reduction campaigns in many countries at the end of last century. Despite achieving an 85% decline in Australian SUDI rates preventable sleep-related infant mortality remains. In the last two decades the pace of SUDI rate reduction has become more gradual, and since 2004 has plateaued. Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy continues to be a major public health concern and remains a leading category of post-neonatal infant death in Australia.
description: Modifiable infant care practices are recognised as the most important factors parents and health practitioners can influence to reduce the risk of sleep-related infant mortality. Consequently, modifiable infant care practices are the focus of SUDI safe sleeping public health campaigns. However, most infant sleep-related deaths occur in situations where national public health advice for safe infant sleeping has not been followed. Understanding family engagement with the current national infant safe sleeping public health awareness program and their acceptance and uptake of the safe sleep messages remains largely unknown, especially within contemporary Australia. Subsequently, the overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate the uptake of Australia’s national ‘Safe Sleeping’ program, with a targeted exploration of the six-key messages intended to reduce the risk of sudden and unexpected infant mortality among Queensland families.
Segmentation Based Depth Extraction for Stereo Image and Video Sequence
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Depth extraction
Stereo matching
Color segmentation
2D-to-3D video conversion

description: 3D representation nowadays has attracted much more public attention than ever before. One of the most important techniques in this field is depth extraction. In this thesis, we first introduce a well-known stereo matching method using color segmentation and belief propagation, and make an implementation of this framework. The color-segmentation based stereo matching method performs well recently, since this method can keep the object boundaries accurate, which is very important to depth map. Based on the implemented framework of segmentation based stereo matching, we proposed a color segmentation based 2D-to-3D video conversion method using high quality motion information. In our proposed scheme, the original depth map is generated from motion parallax by optical flow calculation. After that we employ color segmentation and plane estimation to optimize the original depth map to get an improved depth map with sharp object boundaries. We also make some adjustments for optical flow calculation to improve its efficiency and accuracy. By using the motion vectors extracted from compressed video as initial values for optical flow calculation, the calculated motion vectors are more accurate within a shorter time compared with the same process without initial values. The experimental results shows that our proposed method indeed gives much more accurate depth maps with high quality edge information. Optical flow with initial values provides good original depth map, and color segmentation with plane estimation further improves the depth map by sharpening its boundaries.
De la méconnaissance
Creators: name: Dumouchel, Paul
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: I argue that the conception of «méconnaissance» put forward by René Girard should be understood in relation to what Popper calls objective knowledge rather than to the classical idea of knowledge as true and justified belief. Objective knowledge considers knowledge as a tool which is open to many uses and abuses. It allows us to make sense of Girard’s claim that «méconnaissance» grows as our knowledge increases and shows that knowledge and «méconnaissance» should not be understood as polar opposites. This suggests a different relationship between «méconnaissance» and revelation, that revelation does not spell the end of «méconnaissance» but rather initiates a different type of relationship between knowledge and «méconnaissance». I try to illustrate this last point with the help of two examples: Ernesto De Martino’s analysis of tarantism in La terra del rimorso and John Rawls’s idea of a veil of ignorance in his A theory of justice.

description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
Stakeholder variation in perceptions about training program evaluation.
Creators: name: Michalski, Greg V.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Industrial.

description: This study explores perceptual variation among stakeholder groups regarding their views of training results and evaluation in a complex organization. The case setting for the study was chosen in part based on its collective intellectual capital of knowledge workers. Rather than focus on the evaluation of a singular instructional intervention based on the perceptions of a singular stakeholder group, the current study considers the perceptions of three distinct stakeholder groups, namely training participants, training providers, and training sponsors, in terms of their perceptions relative to an entire program (consisting of multiple course interventions). A conceptual framework was developed to accommodate complex organizational contextual elements especially in terms of effectiveness, multiple-constituency group perceptions, knowledge work, and organizational learning. Multiple methods were used in three phases of research to analyze perceptual variation across the stakeholder groups. These methods included the use of concept mapping and pattern matching (phase 1), semistructured interviews (phase 2), and a survey instrument using quantitative techniques (phase 3). The integrated results of the study support that stakeholder group views of training evaluation do correspond with and depend on their perceptions of training results. While all groups perceived a similar set of training results as beneficial to the organization, each group emphasized different aspects of thew results in terms of training evaluation. These differences were found to correspond with the specific organizational role of each group. Implications of the findings are developed and discussed. Several recommendations to improve training evaluation theory and practice are presented with the main findings of the study.
Additional file 1 of Multiparametric investigation of non functionalized-AGuIX nanoparticles in 3D human airway epithelium models demonstrates preferential targeting of tumor cells
Creators: name: Sancey, Lucie
name: Sabido, Odile
name: Zhiguo He
name: Rossetti, Fabien
name: Guignandon, Alain
name: Bin, Valérie
name: Coll, Jean-Luc
name: Cottier, Michèle
name: Lux, François
name: Tillement, Olivier
name: Constant, Samuel
name: Mas, Christophe
name: Boudard, Delphine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Main AGuIX characteristics. Figure S2. MucilAir™ and OncoCilAir™ histological and phenotypic characteristics. Figure S3. Complementary representative confocal images of OncoCilAir™ inserts 24 h after AGuIX®-Cy5.5 exposure. Figure S4. Radiosensitizing effect of the nanoparticles in combination with radiation exposure. Table S1. AGuIX® NPs quantification by ICP-MS on OncoCilAir™ tissue.
Development of a structural framework to assist SMEs formulate eBusiness strategies
Creators: name: Stiller, Anthony D
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2009
Subjects: structural framework
action research
eCommerce
eBusiness

description: Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged by government agencies, industry groups and sections within the community to take an active role in contributing toward the 'knowledge economy' by becoming adopters of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and contribute to the Australian economy by doing business online. When developing an eBusiness strategy, SMEs have to rely on the literature and online information available through various federal and state government agencies, non-government organisations, newspaper articles, industry groups, books, the Internet, radio, television, academic and practitioner journals and publications. While the literature is rich with concepts, definition, examples and case studies of organisations that have successfully implemented an online eBusiness strategy, there is confusion in the mind of many SMEs as to their meaning, relevance and what they have to do when developing an eBusiness strategy. This prompted the research to explore what resources would be required by an SME to successfully develop an eBusiness strategy? Preliminary reading of the literature and brochures available to the SME from government and non-government agencies identified a gap in the practical 'how to', step-by-step process they should follow when developing their eBusiness strategy resulting in two interrelated questions: 1) what issues are encountered by SMEs when formulating an eBusiness strategy? and 2) could a structural framework assist SMEs develop their eBusiness strategy?
Transparency and the logic of auto-immunity
Creators: name: Antonelli, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2011

description: In Voyous, Jacques Derrida develops his argument starting from the presupposition that democracy as such is the entity whose integrity and immunity are at stake and, therefore, under investigation. This gesture reflects the setting in which ten years before, in Foi et savoir, he had cast his reasoning about the logic of immunity. There, it was one of the sources of religion, the immunity of the sacred, that operated according to this logic. The hyphen between these two essays, beside Derrida’s own crossed references, is the genealogical reasoning on the meaning and essence of the concept of democracy: contrary to what Derrida claims, it will be maintained that Athenian democracy had a clear immune matrix, whose constant exercise is clearly defined, in spite of himself, by Vernant, and it will be shown how modern democracy has been forced to change policy. Modern democracy is an entity characterized by an immune deficiency. In order to save Derrida’s intuition from both the collapse of different vantage points and from a quite bizarre reticence in taking into account of the immune value of rituals, our starting point will be René Girard’s œuvre and his reading of the role of immune logic in sacred systems and, more generally, in modernity. The threshold between the auto-immune reaction, immune deficiency and auto-immune disease, between the sacrifice who delimits and constitutes the self and the holocauste du peuple en détail, is the space where, constantly exposed to the risk of auto-denial, democracy lives.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N° 1 (2011)
The canonical status of separately incorporated healthcare apostolates in the United States: Current status and future possibilities for the public and private juridic person.
Creators: name: Gonsorcik, Patsy James.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: The development of healthcare in the United States is unique. Within this framework, the Catholic healthcare apostolate has had to engage in various and complex innovations, both canonically and civilly, to carry out this mission which encompasses acute care facilities, emergency systems, clinics, hospices, home healthcare, mobile clinics, nursing homes, etc. Financial and other pressures have led to the establishment of various congregational and inter-congregational systems. However, the canon law, as we know it, was not designed specifically for such massive undertakings. What arrangements can be made within the present canonical system to provide for good management and oversight of these new systems? Starting from the Vatican II teachings on "apostolate" and "mission", the dissertation examines various ways in which issues relating to the administration of healthcare works have been addressed in the United States. The 1983 Code of Canon Law presented a number of possibilities which help bridge the gap between the present and the future. Among these, there is the canonical institution of "juridic persons", distinct from the juridic personality of the sponsoring congregations. Are there good openings here? Although the law provides for both "private" and "public" juridic persons, the experience of the past few years shows a marked preference on the part of Church authorities for the public juridic person, since the temporal goods belonging to them are considered to be ecclesiastical goods. However, for some people, this creates difficulties because of the legal restrictions governing the administration and disposal of temporal goods. In healthcare, these assets are quite significant. Nevertheless, in spite of some hesitations, we must recognize that new means of instant communication have resolved a number of potential administrative difficulties. The dissertation examines the implications of both types of juridical personality, the advantages and disadvantages of both, and roads towards future development. Looking at the future and given the pressure faced today, particularly when confronted with various delicate ethical and moral issues, it can be asked whether the Catholic healthcare apostolate can indeed continue to exist as Catholic? The response, obviously, is in the affirmative, but we must recognize that participation in the healing mission of Christ calls for strong commitment and informed boards of directors. It might even be helpful if there were a centralized "clearing house", or Vatican "office for healthcare", properly staffed and administered, so as to assure some type of unity in approach. However, the implications of such a move would have to be carefully considered before any decision was taken in this regard.
Mesostigmatid mites as predators of nematodes in sugarcane soils: occurrence, ecology, food preferences and biocontrol potential
Creators: name: Manwaring, Mathew
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: microarthropods
subject: compaction
subject: soil health
subject: agro-ecosystem
subject: Mesostigmata
subject: bio-control
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Soil fauna have an essential role in maintaining soil health. For example, the microarthropods have many roles within soil food webs and help to regulate decomposition, nutrient cycling and populations of other soil fauna. The soil mesofaunal community is, in terms of abundance and diversity, dominated by the springtails (Collembola) and mites (Acari) which are integral components of the soil food web.
description: Soil fauna can be negatively impacted by certain agricultural practices, however, soil compaction, which is a common and damaging long-term issue encountered in many agricultural systems. Although the impact of soil compaction on production systems has been well researched generally, there have been few studies on the effects of compaction on some soil fauna like microarthropods and subsequent downstream effects on other ecologically important species such as pests.
description: A key function of natural predators is population control and in the soil of agro ecosystems, that function can be focused on pests. Nematodes are significant pests of many agricultural soils and are also prey items for a range of predators, including predatory mites (Atkins et al. 2003). The general role of mites that feed primarily on nematodes (nematophagy) and their ability to actively control nematode abundance in agricultural settings is becoming more apparent. However, some of the more dominant predatory species found within the Australian agro-ecosystem are understudied and therefore, their viability as potential nematode suppressants is not understood.
description: Given the known beneficial effects of microarthropods on soil health, the prevalence of compaction and nematode pests in agricultural soils globally and the relationship between these factors; the aim of this thesis was to determine the impacts of some soil physical characteristics, food preferences and biocontrol potential of microarthropods in the soil of sugarcane agroecosystems.
The Spatial Ecology of Eastern Hognose Snakes (Heterodon platirhinos): Habitat Selection, Home Range Size, and the Effect of Roads on Movement Patterns
Creators: name: Robson, Laura E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Eastern Hognose Snakes
Habitat selection
Kernels
Road mortality

description: Habitat loss is the greatest contributor to the decline of species globally and thus understanding habitat use and the consequences fragmentation has on biodiversity is a fundamental step towards management and recovery. I conducted a radio-telemetry study to examine the spatial ecology and the effects of roads on Eastern Hognose Snakes (Heterodon platirhinos), a species at risk, in the Long Point Region of Ontario, Canada. I tested habitat selection at multiple spatial scales and I found that within the home range, snakes avoided agricultural land and selected open sand barrens, particularly for nesting. At the local scale, snakes avoided mature overstory trees and used younger patches of forest. Used locations had more woody debris, logs and low-vegetative coverage than locations selected at random. Eastern Hognose Snakes also showed avoidance of paved road crossings in their seasonal movements, but readily crossed unpaved roads. Management efforts for this species at risk should be placed on the conservation of sand barrens and on the construction of road underpasses to prevent genetic isolation of populations.
Synthesizing school curriculum and song: a practice-led model for creating educational songs for children
Creators: name: Debreceny, Aniko
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: song
arts-integrated education
learning
composition
creativity
transdisciplinary
Other creative arts and writing
Curriculum and pedagogy

description: This practice-led research project investigates the process of creating subject-based songs for U.S. elementary and middle school students as an accessible medium for acquiring content knowledge and vocabulary. While considerable research has been conducted that shows that song enhances engagement, learning and retention, there is little current exploration of the process of creating educational songs. This exegesis discusses the use of song in the elementary and middle school classroom, then investigates and chronicles the process of developing subject specific songs, accompanied by embedded contextualising information. The methodology interweaves the commentary model and an annotated portfolio approach with a theoretical framework based on Wallas’s (1926/2014) theory of creativity. This exegesis accompanies two creative artefacts: a series of 33 original songs, and a brief guide for teachers on how to create songs for, or in collaboration with their classes. The study aims to contribute to the body of knowledge about an under-researched area, the creation of educational song, by presenting an in-depth investigation into the praxis of creating age-appropriate pedagogic song materials for children using U.S. learning standards.
Additional file 1 of Disease burden metrics and the innovations of leading pharmaceutical companies: a global and regional comparative study
Creators: name: Jung, Ye Lim
name: JeeNa Hwang
name: Yoo, Hyoung Sun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Global DALYs and DALYs by income level and region in 2016. Table S2. Association of the pharmaceutical companies’ innovation activities with DALYs by income level and region.
Digital Spectre: New Media Strategies for Imaging Nature
Creators: name: Livingston, Debra
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2009
Subjects: photography
history
holography
stereoscopy
virtual systems
nature
virtual nature
simulation
artificial nature
contemporary photo-media practice

description: This project considered digital photography and the three-dimensional medium to facilitate innovative modes of seeing to create awareness about our impact on nature. The theoretical research underpinning the creative project for this dissertation addresses the way we see images. In particular it considers how we have seen images of nature and how these modes of seeing may shape our future perspectives. The conceptual philosophy in this research is based on an investigation into how our perceptions have changed in line with evolving imaging technologies. To understand how we first came to see photographs of nature the author trialled the early cyanotype. Exposing plants to artificial light achieved a replica image of nature using much the same process as botanist Anna Atkins first did in the early nineteenth century. How this medium represented nature prior to the mechanisation of the camera obscura with its glass lens is important because it gave us the very first photographic image, which influenced future photographic methods. An important objective of this research was to experiment with some of the more recent photographic methods to highlight industrial impacts on nature and natural environments. In addition, how these technologies have changed our perceptions of nature was considered. Issues of ecological awareness also figure strongly in the creative research. It became evident that advancements in developing digital modes of seeing are creating idealised hyper-real images of nature using sophisticated computer software. Virtual environments re-created in the digital realm are becoming the familiar and often the preferred images of nature. This research also revealed that technology is becoming so highly developed that cameras will soon have the ability to image in three-dimensions that will advance the haptic dimensions of images to a similar degree the Kodak photographic process did in the twentieth century. In order to motivate this premise the author developed via photography, a holographic exhibition that communicated a postapocalyptic perception of the potential effects our post-industrial economy has on our ideas of the natural environment. The final creative work further presents nature through photographing objects painted with the light emitted from a small laser pointer, and using a commercial holographic viewer to see the three-dimensional effect. This process traced the changes in our perceptions of nature beginning with natural sunlight directly exposing chemicals; to light exposing film; then to light translated into coloured pixels; and finally to the generated light spectrum of virtual and holographic images.