cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Caractérisation du frisson chez l’humain et ses effets sur les comportements sensorimoteurs
Creators: name: Imbeault, Marie-Andrée
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Frisson
Dextérité
Contrôle sensorimoteur

description: La présente thèse de doctorat caractérise le frisson chez l’humain en plus d’évaluer les effets d’une exposition au froid et du frisson sur le contrôle sensorimoteur. Quatre études ont été complétées : la première a déterminé l’influence de la périphérie dans la modulation du frisson lors de changements rapides de la température environnementale, la deuxième a caractérisé le signal efférent du frisson en s’attardant à la cohérence bilatérale et entre les muscles du même côté du corps, la troisième a évalué l’effet d’une modalité d’entraînement sur le patron de frisson et la quatrième a déterminé l’effet d’une exposition locale au froid et l’effet du frisson sur la dextérité manuelle et la prise de précision (pouce-index). La première étude a déterminé que les thermorécepteurs cutanés jouent un rôle majeur dans la modulation du frisson chez l’humain puisqu’une inhibition systématique du frisson lors des périodes des expositions à 33 ºC a été observée et ce, malgré des températures de la peau bien en-dessous des températures observées en situation thermoneutres. Les résultats de la deuxième étude suggèrent que la voie réticulospinale est la voie efférente du frisson chez l’humain vue le parallèlle entre son anatomie et la coordination des signaux musculaires au niveau des deux composantes du frisson. La troisième étude suggère que la modalité d’entraînement, endurance et résistantce, n’affecte pas le patron de frisson et que l’origine de ce dernier semble inhérente au système neuromusculaire. La quatrième étude a observé que les effets néfastes du froid semblent être liés à la nature de la tâche. Somme toute, le frisson chez l’humain semble avoir un effet détériorant tant sur le contrôle sensorimoteur, dû aux tremblements, que sur le contrôle postural du tronc et des bras, dû à la généralisation des bouffées demandant une activation musculaire additionnelle.
The Rucellai Loggia
Creators: name: Preyer, Brenda
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 21, Nr. 2 (1977): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Bachelard-Flocon, Paysages. Il mouvement – Forza, Provocazione, Volontà tra éléments e poésie
Creators: name: Chiore, Valeria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: “Le graveur est voué au mouvement” writes Bachelard, commenting in the sign of movement, the fifteen tables of the engraver Albert Flocon, in a work composed by four hands in 1950, along the thin threshold that unites and separates art and philosophy, thematizing the movement – main principle for the psyche, imagination and dream – such as strength, creation and will. Particular thamatization, that if has amazing wealth of content, referring to the notions of  “will to power”, “creative imagination”, “provocation and promotion of materiality”, also acts as a bridge between two different formulations of the movement: on the one hand the elementalist movement, tied to air, water, earth and fire – Empedocle’s rizomata, as always, Aristotelian, beds as natural roots of natural feelings (this will be the case of Novalis, Poe, Nietzsche and Goethe, poets of air, water, fire, and earth, lords of the Tetravalent Doctrine of Poetic Temperaments); on the other hand a movement that, dropped from the material substrate, is a direct expression of the poetic word (this will be the case of flame or light in Novalis, or even the poetic du Phénix that cross, soaring, La Flamme d'une Chandelle or Fragments d'une Poétique du Feu). Complex process, which, engaging psyche, imagination and art at first on the elements (Material Imagination of the Elements) – passing through the psychologistic relief of Freud, Jung and Desoille – places the movement in the point of articulation between two different ontologies: the ontology of elements and the ontology of poetry.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Detection of CSF1 Rearrangements Deleting the 3'UTR in Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors
Creators: name: Ho, Julie
name: Peters, Thomas
name: Dickson, Brendan C.
name: Swanson, David
name: Fernandez, Anita
name: Frova-Seguin, Aurelie
name: Valentin, Marie-Anne
name: Schramm, Ursula
name: Sultan, Marc
name: Nielsen, Torsten
name: Demicco, Elizabeth G.
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2021

description: Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCTs) are characterized by rearrangements in CSF1, thought to drive overexpression of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (CSF1), thereby promoting tumor growth and recruitment of non-neoplastic mononuclear and multinucleated inflammatory cells. While fusions to collagen promoters have been described, the mechanism of CSF1 overexpression has been unclear in a majority of cases. Two cohorts of TGCT were investigated for CSF1 rearrangements using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and either RNA-seq or DNA-seq with Sanger validation. The study comprised 39 patients, including 13 localized TGCT, 21 diffuse TGCT, and 5 of unspecified type. CSF1 rearrangements were identified by FISH in 30 cases: 13 translocations, 17 3’ deletions. Sequencing confirmed CSF1 breakpoints in 28 cases; in all 28 the breakpoint was found to be downstream of exon 5, replacing or deleting a long 3’UTR containing known miRNA and AU-rich element negative regulatory sequences. We also confirmed the presence of CBL exon 8-9 mutations in 6/21 cases. In conclusion, TGCT in our large cohort were characterized by variable alterations, all of which led to truncation of the 3’ end of CSF1, instead of the COL6A3-CSF1 fusions previously reported in some TGCTs. The diversity of fusion partners but consistent integrity of CSF1 functional domains encoded by exons 1-5 support a hypothesis that CSF1 overexpression results from transcription of a truncated form of CSF1 lacking 3' negative regulatory sequences. The presence of CBL mutations affecting the linker and RING finger domain suggests an alternative mechanism for increased CSF1/CSF1R signaling in some cases.
Marmi e bronzi di Simone Bianco
Creators: name: Meller, Peter
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 21, Nr. 2 (1977): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
The Use of Items Personality Profiles in Recommender Systems
Creators: name: Alharthi, Haifa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cross-domain recommendations
Big Five Personality Traits
Recommender Systems
Collaborative filtering recommender

description: Due to the growth of online shopping and services, various types of products can be recommended to an individual. After reviewing the current methods for cross-domain recommendations, we believe that there is a need to make different types of recommendations by relying on a common base, and that it is better to depend on a target customer’s information when building the base, because the customer is the one common element in all the purchases. Therefore, we suggest a recommender system (RS) that develops a personality profile for each product, and represents items by an aggregated vector of personality features of the people who have liked the items. We investigate two ways to build personality profiles for items (IPPs). The first way is called average-based IPPs, which represents each item with five attributes that reflect the average Big Five Personality values of the users who like it. The second way is named proportion-based IPPs, which consists of 15 attributes that aggregate the number of fans who have high, average and low Big Five values. The system functions like an item-based collaborative filtering recommender; that is, it recommends items similar to those the user liked. Our system demonstrates the highest recommendation quality in providing cross-domain recommendations, compared to traditional item-based collaborative filtering systems and content-based recommenders.
Supplementary document for Instant FLIM enables 4D in vivo lifetime imaging of intact and injured zebrafish and mouse brains - 5243711.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Yide
name: Guldner, Ian
name: NICHOLS, Evan
name: Benirschke, David
name: Smith, Cody
name: Zhang, Siyuan
name: Howard, Scott
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)
Biomedical Instrumentation
Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Document
Monthly and seasonal rainfall in Australia: distribution, consistency and predictors
Creators: name: Hasan, Md Masud
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: consistency index
Tweedie family of distributions
Tweedie generalized linear model
rainfall
Australia

description: Rainfall has a substantial influence on agriculture, rural industries, food security and water quality. However, different parts of the world, especially many regions of Australia, often experience rainfall extremes of floods and droughts, and hence the inhabitants struggle to adapt to the diverse rainfall climate. Better understanding of the various characteristics of rainfall amounts in any region (variability in rainfall, distribution of rainfall totals, potential predictors of rainfall, etc.) is the first step towards adaptation. The first aim of the research was to develop measures to quantify the consistency in monthly rainfall totals of Australian stations. Then the various characteristics of the monthly and the seasonal rainfall totals of Australian stations were studied using well fitting theoretical probability distributions. Finally, appropriate statistical models are fitted to the monthly rainfall totals to simulate and predict rainfall, and to find the potential predictors of monthly rainfall totals of Australian rainfall stations.
Gaston Bachelard: i sogni dell’immaginazione materiale e il cosmo di ferro
Creators: name: Bulcão, Marly
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Gaston Bachelard’s incursions into the beaten tracks of image creation inaugurate a new conception of imagination. By departing from a criticism of what is called reproductive imagination, which is based on the contemplation of things, he shows instead that true imagination is creative because it instantiates a surreal world. The purpose of this work is to understand the process of image production, as well as the creative act inherent to imagination. In order to accomplish this, we revisit the notion of ‘material imagination’, which we consider an essential pressuposition in the more poetic side of Bachelard. Even though it is well known that Bachelard privileges poetry and literature over other art forms, we turn our attention to the philosophical texts in which he talks about the plastic arts, such as painting and sculpture, in order to demonstrate the salutary action of the dreams of the will on the subject, as well as the importance of the manual work of the artist which has been made dynamic by his creative work. Our study will take the analysis of the work of Eduardo Chillida made by Bachelard, in order to show in what sense a sculptor, who becomes a metalworker, succeeds at plunging into the dreams of iron and, by perceiving the metal propagating its force, creates artistic works which present themselves as materialized echoes of the beating of the hammer on iron. It will become obvious in the conclusion of this essay that true imagination cannot simply be a copy of reality. By distancing itself from sensible reality, the artist’s imagination succeeds in constructing images that are fundamentally material ones. On their turn, these make possible for the artist to surpass, by means of a struggle between his hands and the matter of the world, the level of everyday life, thus reaching out to what can be taken as a true aesthetic revolution.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Bachelard, a present: au coeur de l’oeuvre de Giuseppe Penone
Creators: name: Regimbald, Manon
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The perennial relevance of Bachelard’s poetic insight makes him a prophet for an age of ecological alienation. He clarifies the intuition of visual artists "since the 1960's", exemplified in the art of Giuseppe Penone, and their common “volonté de regarder à l’intérieur des choses.” How then does an artist such as Penone go from inside real things to arrive at this “intimité des substances” (Bachelard 1948 : 5). How do both men aspire to “l’immensité intime”?
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Das Datum des Nekrologs für Kardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi im Martyrologium der Vatikanischen Basilika
Creators: name: Hueck, Irene
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 21, Nr. 2 (1977): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Reaching imaginary places: resonance and reverberation
Creators: name: Sabolius, Kristupas
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Based on Bachelard’s phenomenological take on the temporality of imagination, this paper analyzes a few works by Marcos Lutyens, a contemporary artist. Bachelard offers two concepts that bring about an altered temporality of material imagination: resonance and reverberation. Resonance is a dynamical condition through which the world discloses its imaginary opportunities: it oscillates with larger amplitude at some frequencies than it does at others. Under this intense state, the attunement of two rhythms, the rhythm of consciousness and the world-rhythm, can occur. Reverberation technically means a further step, i.e., a change in the configuration of our rhythmical settings through the intrusion of an alien vibration: we are possessed by external rhythms; the so-called depth of our interiority is affected by an alien energy, and we vibrate in tune with alien rhythms. By reshaping the rhythmical organization of one’s perception (using hypnosis, a trance state and registered body automatisms), Lutyens tries to trace pathways related to unconscious thought processes. Shifting the experience of duration, he moves through imaginary environments within the preconscious that are progressively charted and recorded. Consequently it appears that what is “penetration” in space is marked by resonance and reverberation in time.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Benefits and Harms of Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Hypogonadal Men: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Elliott, Jesse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Testosterone
Hypogonadal
Network Meta-analysis
Systematic review

description: Testosterone products comprise a multi-billion dollar industry; however, Health Canada and the United States Food and Drug Administration have issued statements of concern about their safety, and their benefits are unclear. In the first phase of this study, we performed a systematic review of the current evidence for the benefits of testosterone replacement therapy. In the second phase, we analyzed the evidence from randomized controlled trials for the benefits of testosterone replacement therapy (depression, quality of life, erectile function, libido, total testosterone level). In the third phase, we analyzed data for harms (cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke, newly diagnosed prostate cancer, coronary artery disease or diabetes, serious adverse events, withdrawals due to adverse events, erythrocytosis) from randomized controlled trials and non-randomized studies. In general, most included studies had a short duration and were poorly reported. Additional high-quality research into the long-term safety of testosterone products is needed.
The effect of short and long term aerobic training on exercise capacity and tissue oxygenation in young (18 - 30 yr) and older (40 - 60 yr) men and women
Creators: name: Buzza, Gavin L
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: aerobic training
VÌ‡O2peak
oxygenation

description: Aerobic exercise training increases peak aerobic capacity (VÌ‡O2peak) in previously untrained adults. Despite there being a dose-response relationship for increases in VÌ‡O2peak and the duration (weeks) and volume (intensity, duration and frequency) of training, VÌ‡O2peak plateaus within 12 - 24 months of aerobic exercise training. Whether VÌ‡O2peak can be further increased by additional training years independent of training load is yet to be investigated. Furthermore, while increases in VÌ‡O2peak result from improved delivery of O2 to, and/or extraction of O2 by active muscles, the contribution which improved tissue O2 extraction could have on increases in VÌ‡O2peak are unconfirmed. A series of four independent but related cross-sectional studies were conducted to investigate the difference in systemic O2 utilisation (VÌ‡O2), and tissue O2 extraction (HHb) between short and long-term aerobically-trained young and older men and women, who were matched for age and current training load.
Sculpting the Woman: Muscularity and its Relationship to Femininity
Creators: name: Rosdahl, Jamilla
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: autoethnography
body
bodybuilding
bodysculpting
critical historicist framework
compulsory heterosexuality
feminine bodily practices
feminine discourse
femininity
feminist theory
Foucauldian genealogy
gender
identity
masculinity
muscularity

description: Muscular female bodies have long been the object of public scrutiny, cultural contempt and fascination. Focusing on bodysculpting and accounts of women who participate in the sport, this thesis adopts a feminist genealogical framework to explore how muscular female bodies have been historically and culturally constructed, regulated and negotiated. The thesis argues that the disavowal and dismissal of muscularity in women are the effects of the disassociation of muscular female bodies from the normalising practices of femininity. I argue that this disassociation makes it difficult to fully recognise the limits of femininity and the intrinsic embodied satisfaction of muscularity on female bodies. Critical to the problematic of muscular femininity is the question of how femininity informs what can be thought about and experienced by women with muscle. This thesis investigates the problem of muscularity in women in two ways. First, it draws on Victorian representations of strong women to undertake a detailed examination of femininity's historical, political and theoretical contribution to 'the production of knowledge' about the modern female body. A feminist genealogy of the muscular woman enables an interrogation of the relationship between muscularity and femininity by exposing the ways in which the very thinking of what is possible for a female body is foreclosed by discourses that construct, regulate and denaturalise the muscular female body. Second, the thesis interrogates the impact of this domain of knowledge on female bodysculptors' ideas about identity, femininity and their experiences of muscular bodies. To highlight the knowledge, experience and politics of women who build and sculpt muscle, this thesis uses ethnographic methods such as interviews and personal observations as well as autoethnographic reflections
Controllability, stability and stabilizability of distributed parameter systems.
Creators: name: Li, Peng.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Aerospace.

description: In this thesis the question of stabilization of perturbed (or uncertain) infinite dimensional linear systems is considered. First, we identify the class of perturbations for which the system remains controllable thereby stabilizable by the same feedback law as for the nominal system. That is, sufficient conditions are presented that guarantee stabilizability of the perturbed system given that the unperturbed system has similar properties. Secondly, we present a methodology for designing feedback controllers such that the feedback system is stable. It is shown that exponential stability can be achieved by choice of suitable additional state feedback controls even in the presence of unbounded and nonlinear perturbations. Both deterministic and stochastic systems are considered. Finally, we apply these stabilization results to a simplified SCOLE model proposed by NASA. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the impact of perturbations on the performance of the space structures and the effectiveness of the stabilizing control.
Adolescent sleep quality, white matter development and psychological distress: understanding the connection
Creators: name: Jamieson, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: White matter
adolescence
sleep
Mental health

description: Adolescence has been shown to be a sensitive period for the onset of many mental disorders. Studies have demonstrated that the majority of mental disorders first emerge during adolescence and that anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorder in this age group. Anxiety disorders are also among the most persistent mental disorders typically following a life-long trajectory. Subclinical anxiety symptoms have been found to be even more prevalent than diagnosed anxiety disorders and, left untreated, will often reach the threshold of a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder.
description: Sleep disorders and poor sleep quality have been shown to be highly correlated with an increase in mental disorder symptomology. Studies have shown that sleep patterns undergo changes during adolescence which often lead to a reduction in sleep quality. Most notably, a circadian rhythm phase delay has been shown to occur at around the onset of puberty, peak at around 20 years of age, and then decline back to a pre-pubescent pattern in adulthood. This circadian rhythm phase delay combined with increased social activity and early school start times makes adolescence a period of increased vulnerability to chronic sleep deprivation and disruption.
Finding the Words for Feelings: Narrative Fiction’s Linguistic Interpretation of Somatic Markers
Creators: name: Gardiner, Michael L
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: feelings
subjectivity
somatic markers
thought language

description: The creative artefact, AnaÃ¯s, and the accompanying exegesis explore notions of subjectivity and the limitations of language, particularly in respect to the possibilities for articulation of human feelings (somatic markers) and the process of attaining shared understanding. Being written in first-person, the narrator in the creative artefact, AnaÃ¯s, is free to meander in labyrinthine thought among the pressing and the not-so-pressing details of his life. Spanning a contemporary period of a few weeks, AnaÃ¯s also includes an intra-text (as 'Notebook') written by the narrator some ten to twelve years earlier. The inclusion of vignettes from the Notebook allows comparisons to be made between earlier and later versions of the 'Self', as well as the stylistic approaches possible to re-present the fragmented nature of thought on the printed page. As with the exegesis, the creative artefact-via the narrator-is concerned with how shared understanding using language is achieved, despite the seeming fact that it is impossible to describe somatic markers in any literal sense.
Vere risonanze elusive: la poetica del compositore Federico Incardona nello specchio di Maldoror riflesso da Bachelard
Creators: name: Lombardi Vallauri, Stefano
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The musical poetics of the composer Federico Incardona (Palermo, 1958-2006) reveals deep affinities with the Chants de Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse. The method used to identify and analyze these affinities is an inter-disciplinary triangulation, linking music and poetry through the psychological and philosophical reading of the Chants given by Gaston Bachelard in his essay of 1939. The “active” poetry of Lautréamont, his “cinétisme”, his “dynamogénie” are reflected in the Incardonian idea of composition as transmutation of living bodies into sound. This is achieved by a treatment of timbre, articulation and intensity extremely mobile, “alive”, and by a tempo that combines an exhausted slowness with an aggressive, almost animal rapidity. The very act of composition can be conceived, in analogy to hunting, such as “capture” of sounds, in particular thanks to the twelve-tone device. The “complex of Lautréamont” is a phenomenon inextricably psychological and cultural; so also in Incardona adolescence is transformed from existential motive into artistic motif. Starting from the case of Lautréamont, Bachelard formulates a general poetics of metamorphosis, which extends validly in music, especially in the informal writing of Incardona. Finally, Lautréamont is useful to Bachelard for grafting, onto the “living” basis of writing, cultural and intellectual values??; Incardona as well, intending music as “night mathematics”, combines construction and expression, emotion and serial structure.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Supplementary document for Photochromic Oxygen Indicator Films with Tunable Response Times - 5243862.pdf
Creators: name: Iacono, Stefania Dello
name: Battisti, Mario
name: De Martino, Selene
name: Miranda, Bruno
name: Tammaro, Chiara
name: Dardano, Principia
name: De Stefano, Luca
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
Le cinéma est-il bachelardien? hypothèse théoriques autour de la matière (et) des images
Creators: name: Thouvenel, Éric
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Either in his epistemological or "poetic" writings, Gaston Bachelard has almost never referred to the cinema – of which he was contemporary –, unlike other artistic practices, more valued, such as painting or engraving. Where, exceptionally, he mentions the device that produces moving images, this is called as a foil or a negative model, also like his theoretical "opponent" Henri Bergson. This text offers from this "missed encounter" between Bachelard and films to re-examine the relation of the philosopher with the material, either in the books on the four elements and in the epistemological works like Le matérialisme rationnel and Les intuitions atomistiques. Indeed, cinema is an ambiguous art: deeply material in its main relationship with the real and, at the same time, secured by its mode of production (recording) and presentification (projection) of the images, an immaterial dimension that is now accelerating. By his constant attention to the tangible presence of things, to the qualities of material, to the fundamental relationship between the eye and the hand in a perspective even more phenomenological, Bachelard's thinking help to think the material dimension of motion pictures, often underestimated or simply removed. Conversely, the cinema has been accustomed us to original forms of perception (the blur, the fade, the overprinting, the slow or accelerated motion), which can explain certain aspect of philosopher’s thinking, which have been very few convened.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Surrazionalismo: Bachelard e la plasticità della ragione
Creators: name: Bonicalzi, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: With his article Surrationalism, 1936, (now in The Rationalist Engagement), Gaston Bachelard codifies the neologism ‘surrationalism’ by which he describes his engagement in favor of a kind of rationality that rejects any closing within the dogmas of indisputable knowledge. The aim of this paper is not only to analyze this concept in its connection with the ‘philosophy of no’ and the ‘philosophy of re’, but also to highlight the semantic effect of the ‘sur’ that in Bachelard’s text multiplies and produces many neologisms. This necessity to provoke language to take over the effect of liberty produced by surrationalism could find another theoretical resource in the term ‘plasticity’, as it is used by Catherine Malabou to characterize Hegelian thought and as it is taken by Derrida to identify a kind of reason which does not dominate reality.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Investigating the physiochemical properties and proton conduction mechanism of a new proton exchange membrane, based on novel heteropoly acid functionalised mesoporous silica nanocomposites
Creators: name: Lamb, Krystina
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: phosphotungstic acid
silica
QENS
FTIR
hydrogen
proton

description: In this PhD project, a fundamental understanding of the relationship between the structure and properties of a new type of proton exchange membrane, based on phosphotungstic acid impregnated mesoporous silica nanocomposites has been developed. The effect of changes to the physical structure of various mesoporous symmetries and HPA concentrations and changes to the chemical environment on the proton conduction mechanism and the efficiency of resulting fuel cells have been constructed using a variety of techniques. The techniques of N2 adsorption/desorption, small angle X-ray scattering, near edge X-ray absorbance fine structure, ex-situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and quasi-elastic neutron scattering were focused on elucidating the exact mechanism of proton conduction in these materials.
L’idea alla base dell’arte. Dal readymade a Habacuc
Creators: name: Negri, Katia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Il readymade stimola l’insorgere di molte problematicità circa la legittimità della denominazione di arte riferendosi a questi particolari prodotti e dà avvio a un fecondo periodo di riflessione del mondo dell’arte su se stesso. La strada che porta al readymade inizia con la trasformazione semantica dell’oggetto seriale di produzione industriale e conduce a nuove prospettive in campo artistico, che lasciano aperto e spinoso il problema della definizione del concetto di arte.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Estetica della Grazia, paesaggi ed etica nei film di Frédéric Back
Creators: name: Bottini, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: I film d’animazione di Frédéric Back mostrano una natura benigna, violentata dall’uomo. Eppure, proprio grazie a uomini come il pastore de L’homme qui plantait des arbres, la vita rinasce. Per comprendere questo rapporto uomo-natura, si è partiti da un’analisi estetica dei film, incentrata sulle categorie della Grazia e del Sublime e sul Paesaggio, per arrivare a delineare l’etica che sottende i film, basata sull’idea di rispetto della natura.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Supplementary document for Photochromic Oxygen Indicator Films with Tunable Response Times - 5243862.pdf
Creators: name: Iacono, Stefania Dello
name: Battisti, Mario
name: De Martino, Selene
name: Miranda, Bruno
name: Tammaro, Chiara
name: Dardano, Principia
name: De Stefano, Luca
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
La volontà determinate del giudizio estetico moderno: l’evasione scenica di Jerzy Grotowski, un’ipotesi interpretativa
Creators: name: Lolli, Angela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Un confronto fra l’estetica kantiana e nietzschiana e l’evasione scenica di Jerzy Grotowski si scopre capace di interpretare le profonde antinomie della odierna percezione estetica occidentale: la sua tendenza a osservare con distacco e il suo bisogno di coinvolgimento, i suoi desideri universalistici e il suo orgoglio particolarista, la sua agilità nel concepire ogni possibile percezione e allo stesso tempo il suo sospetto nell’averne fiducia. Il “giudizio riflettente”, paradigma kantiano base della percezione estetica, risulta nella modernità interpolato da volontà determinanti che ne caratterizzano l’impianto significante e la capacità percettiva.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Ghost crabs as ecological indicators of human stressors on sandy beaches
Creators: name: Lucrezi, Serena
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: sandy beaches
Ghost Crabs
Ocypode
invertebrate
indicator
impacts
stressor
recreation
trampling
armouring
erosion
off-road vehicle
climate change
storm impacts
recovery
pulse disturbance
monitoring
assessment
management
animal movement
burrow
behaviour

description: Sandy beaches geographically dominate the globe's shorelines. They critical ecosystem services, provide habitat for threatened species, and support biodiversity, and recycle nutrients and organic matter. Human pressures on sandy beaches are escalating, chiefly as a result of the high demand for recreation and coastal development. Direct human impacts on sandy shores include dune removal and infrastructure construction, soft (nourishment) and hard (armouring)-engineering solutions, pedestrian trampling, and ORV traffic. Global climate change and its predicted effects (e.g. increasing storm intensity and frequency; sea level rise) place additional stressors on ocean-exposed sandy shores. Assessing and monitoring the ecological effects of human pressures are critical steps in developing and implementing adequate coastal management strategies that are effective in conserving beach ecosystems. However, monitoring programs are currently impeded by the lack of scientifically robust biological indicators. Consequently, this thesis examined the utility of ghost crab (genus Ocypode) to measure biological responses to several types of human disturbance on sandy shores.
Clasificación de tareas con software. Propuesta usando la aplicación GeoGebra para dispositivos móviles en carreras de ingeniería.
Creators: name: Williner, Betina
name: Favieri, Adriana
name: Scorzo, Roxana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: En el presente trabajo proponemos una clasificación de tareas para ser realizadas con la aplicación móvil de GeoGebra en carreras de ingeniería. Mostramos el diseño y ejemplos de las categorías de la clasificación con la justificación teórica correspondiente. El objetivo de la propuesta es contar con una guía que favorezca un trabajo matemático rico y diverso por parte de los estudiantes sobre temas de Cálculo. Finalizamos con reflexiones sobre la implementación y la incorporación de la aplicación. Destacamos su gratuidad y facilidad de uso. A su vezel diseño y la clasificación presentada resaltan los beneficios de la visualización de los conceptos, la experimentación y la guía del docente
Can prescribers avoid contributing to opioid use disorder?
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 125 explores ways for prescribers to avoid contributing to opioid use disorder. Conclusions: Unsafe opioid prescribing (including for codeine and tramadol) can increase the prevalence of OUD in people with pain. Anticipating and preventing this could reduce premature deaths and serious morbidity. To avoid engendering OUD, prescribers should adopt universal precautions for opioid-naïve patients and communicate important new evidence: Long-term opioid therapy is unlikely to benefit most people with chronic non-cancer pain. There is no valid tool, nor validated way to identify patients at low risk for OUD when starting opioids. Reserve opioids for severe acute non-cancer pain – at low doses for short courses.
Umwelt und Klima schützen - Wohnraum schaffen - Lebensqualität verbessern
Creators: name: Bartke, Stephan
name: Becken, Katja
name: Breitmeier, Maresa
name: Brozowski, Frank
name: DeTroy, Sarah Eileen
name: Grimski, Detlef
name: Ilvonen, Outi
name: Keßler, Hermann
name: Meilinger, Valentin
name: Messner, Dirk
name: Schlippenbach, Ulrike Von
name: Schlippenbach, Ulrike Von
name: Schröder, Alice
name: Schuberth, Jens
name: Schubert, Susanne
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Umweltgerechtes Bauen
subject: Innenentwicklung
subject: Ressourcenerhaltung
subject: Schadstoffminderung
subject: Wohnung
subject: wohnen
subject: Nachhaltiges Bauen
subject: Ressourcenschutz
subject: Wohnraum
subject: Bestandsumbau
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Das Umweltbundesamt (UBA) und die Kommission Nachhaltiges Bauen am Umweltbundesamt (KNBau) haben Empfehlungen zur umwelt-, klima- und ressour-censchonenden und gleichzeitig klimaangepassten, gesundheits- und sozialverträglichen Schaffung bezahlbaren Wohnraums vorgelegt. Im Zentrum steht dabei der Umbau und die Umnutzung des Gebäudebestands, um die Ziele für Klima- und Ressourcenschutz im Gebäudesektor zu erreichen. Die Empfehlungen richten sich in erster Linie an die Bundespolitik mit den Ressorts für Bau- und Stadtentwicklung, Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Verkehr und Gesundheit. Darüber hinaus sind weitere Akteure angesprochen, wie politische Entscheidungs-träger*innen auf EU-, Landes- und kommunaler Ebene, Verbände, Planungspraxis und die Fachöffentlichkeit. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das Umweltbundesamt (⁠UBA⁠) und die Kommission Nachhaltiges Bauen am Umweltbundesamt (KNBau) haben Empfehlungen zur umwelt-, klima- und ressour­censchonenden und gleichzeitig klimaangepassten, gesundheits- und sozialverträglichen Schaffung bezahlbaren Wohnraums vorgelegt. Im Zentrum steht dabei der Umbau und die Umnutzung des Gebäudebestands, um die Ziele für ⁠Klima⁠- und Ressourcenschutz im Gebäudesektor zu erreichen.Die Empfehlungen richten sich in erster Linie an die Bundespolitik mit den Ressorts für Bau- und Stadtentwicklung, Umwelt, ⁠Klimaschutz⁠, Verkehr und Gesundheit. Darüber hinaus sind weitere Akteure angesprochen, wie politische Entscheidungs­träger*innen auf EU-, Landes- und kommunaler Ebe­ne, Verbände, Planungspraxis und die Fachöffentlich­keit.
Perceptions of the Faculty of Science, Health and Education staff about the practice of community engagement
Creators: name: Crowther, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: community engagement
regional engagement
constructivist grounded theory

description: Community engagement is a well established component of the core business of universities that enables them to connect and work with their communities. Universities are expected to achieve economic and social objectives, and contribute to community functioning and sustainability. As resources decline and social needs increase communities are increasingly looking for partners to address social, economic and environmental issues. Community engagement is a significant strategy for the progress of communities. Universities and their stakeholders need to have a clear understanding of what community engagement is in order to achieve their shared community engagement goals and objectives. Therefore universities need to be proactive in determining what their staff perceive the practice of community engagement to be. In order to enhance the community engagement practices of Faculty of Science, Health and Education (FoSHE) staff at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), the Dean of the Faculty instigated a research project focused on better understanding these practices within the Faculty.
Filosofia dello sport. Preparazione ad agire e vivere nel mondo
Creators: name: Bonori, Piercarlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In questo articolo ci si interroga sul significato originario della pratica sportiva, si ipotizza che sport e arte si  possano considerare due differenti rami dell’estetica e, infine, si afferma che solo attraverso un’attività prettamente estetica, l’uomo può giungere a ripensare le condizioni del suo esistere e con ciò a riappropriarsi di un esistenza autentica. Muovendo da questo presupposto e attraverso differenti contributi in campo filosofico, antropologico e neuro-scientifico, si passa ad indagare il meccanismo  angoscia-trascendenza che si ipotizza reggere strutture sottostanti l’umano agire e con ciò a evidenziare, da un lato, il pericolo di perdersi all’interno di un’esistenza inautentica cui è esposto l’individuo, dall’altro, il ruolo che l’estetica e nella fattispecie lo sport giocano nel recupero di una dimensione di autenticità da parte dell’uomo. In conclusione, sulla scorta delle argomentazioni precedenti, emerge la necessità di un differente approccio alla fruizione estetica, sia essa di natura artistica, sia di natura sportiva, un approccio da parte dello spettatore che gli consenta di rivivere il senso originario del fare sport.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Fractal engine: An affine video processor core for multimedia applications.
Creators: name: Fatemi, Omid.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The recent advances in VLSI technology, high-speed processor designs, Internet/Intranet implementations, broadband networks (ATM and ISDN) and compression standards are leading to the popularity of multimedia applications. In general, multimedia computing presents challenges from the perspectives of both hardware and software. Each medium in a multimedia environment requires different processes, techniques, algorithms and hardware. Hence, it is crucial to design a generic processor architecture that meets the computing requirements of the various media types. In another word, there is a need for a bottom-up design strategy for meeting the computing needs of multimedia processing. In this thesis, we propose the design of an affine video processor termed Fractal Engine. We have first derived the fundamental operations involved in visual processing tasks and designed the generic processing elements to map a majority of these operations. We have chosen affine transformations as the target algorithm as it is expected to be increasingly used in many visual-processing applications including latest video coding standard MPEG4. We have chosen fractal block processing (FBP) as a candidate algorithm for the design of target video processor, since it encompasses a variety of visual processing operations including affine transforms. Fractal Engine is capable of implementing the gamut of image/video processing algorithms. Fractal Engine is a simple, modular, and scalable architecture that is optimized to execute both low-level and mid-level operations. It is capable of implementing a variety of visual processing tasks. Fractal Engine is an open architecture and is therefore capable of adapting to the processing requirements of a variety of media processing algorithms. The individual modules of the Fractal Engine have been implemented in VHDL. A behavioral model of the circuit has been developed and fully tested by using VHDL simulators. The model is synthesized using BiCMOS .8mu ASIC library cells and Xilinx/Altera FPGAs. We have chosen to demonstrate the real-time execution capability of Fractal Engine by mapping specific visual processing algorithms such as fractal block coding (FBC), vector quantization and motion estimation onto the proposed architecture.
L’estetica in salotto: il melodrammatico, il sublime e il disgustoso nelle serie tv
Creators: name: Tocchio, Roberta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Il contemporaneo mondo seriale statunitense, sempre più stimato anche in ambito accademico, viene analizzato in relazione a tre categorie estetiche settecentesche di cui si avverte una forte insorgenza tematica e le cui teorie sono adattabili alla serialità contemporanea: il melo­drammatico, il sublime e il disgustoso. Lo scopo dichiarato è comprendere se lo spettatore è davvero così masochista come potrebbe apparire da un’affrettata analisi.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
The Experience of Individuals Transitioning from In-Center Hemodialysis to Home Dialysis After a Suboptimal Start: A Mixed-Method Study
Creators: name: Sauve, Caroline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Dialysis
Home Dialysis
Transition

description: Background It is estimated that up to 50% of individuals begin dialysis with a suboptimal start. Objective To explore the transition to home dialysis, with a special emphasis on this transition after a suboptimal start. Methods A two-phased mixed methods study including: 1) a scoping review and meta-synthesis on the facilitators and barriers to home dialysis and 2) a qualitative study using thematic analysis on the transition to home dialysis after a suboptimal start. Findings 12 studies were included in the scoping review. Principle facilitators and barriers included Support, Burden of Care, and Disruption of Life. Six individuals were included into the qualitative phase. Through their interviews, they expressed the importance of the timely delivery of information, support, living with loss, managing fear, living with hope, and learning to live with dialysis. Conclusions The facilitators and barriers to home dialysis were similar in both studies suggesting that the transition to home dialysis is similar regardless of the nature of dialysis start. Several subthemes obtained from the qualitative study however revealed that a suboptimal dialysis start entails unique challenges, requiring the delivery of more support and education.
Giacomo Casanova, una vita teatrale
Creators: name: Colombi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Difficile definire in poche parole Giacomo Casanova. La sua personalità rimane nascosta, celata dietro quella maschera che indossa ogni giorno, per essere qualcuno di diverso. Il Casanova più vero si scopre in pochi episodi, quando il suo essere attore si scioglie e si racconta per quello che davvero è. Il libertino veneziano interpreta al meglio l’idea di teatro vissuto nella quotidianità.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)