cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"Acts of 'brief authority'": Entrapment, escape and narrative strategy in selected twentieth-century Newfoundland novels.
Creators: name: Strong, Joan M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: This thesis focuses on major twentieth-century native Newfoundland novelists whose legacies comprise a variety of voices and narrative strategies that circumvent or confront perceived cultural and literary authority. These novelists include, in chapter one, Anastasia English (1862-1959) and Margaret Duley (1894-1968); in chapter two, Harold Horwood (1923) and Percy Janes (1922); in chapter three, M. T. Dohaney (1930) and William Gough (1945); and in chapter four, Gordon Pinsent (1930), William Rowe (1942) and Wayne Johnson (1958). English and Duley are both centrally concerned with women's roles in their societies and in expressing their awakening feminism they develop subtexts of imagery and metaphores which align them with nineteenth-century British women writers. Harold Horwood's frequent disparagement of Newfoundlanders is matched by Percy Jane's depiction of their often self-inflicted violences, yet Horwood pontificates solutions and isolates himself from the people of the island whereas Janes acknowledges his need for their companionship and the necessity of collective change. Dohaney and Gough both emphasize the importance of memory in their characterizations of the Newfoundlander's psyche. They suggest that memory functions to overcome both the geography of Newfoundland, which dispassionately destroys its inhabitants' creative work, and the history of Newfoundland which is determined in large parts by events and interpretations of those events occurring beyond the Newfoundlander's control. Pinsent, Rowe and Johnson use humourous texts to convey the anguish Newfoundlanders feel regarding religious, political and industrial powers imposed by foreign cultures over them. Their texts demonstrate the wide-spread use of self-mockery by Newfoundlanders, which diminishes self-esteem and self-reliance in the province. All of the novelists assembled in this study indicate that the construction of stories may establish a personal mythology and power enabling the architect to survive geographic, cultural and personal domination.
Tutti i possibili noi stessi. Schermi per identità alternative e sé virtuali da Asimov a Black Mirror
Creators: name: Boni, Donatella
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: screens; what-if; fantastic in narrative; social networks; Black Mirror (TV series)

description: The article deals with chance, fate and free will in twentieth and twenty-first century fiction (short stories, movies, tv series). It examines fantastic narratives, where screens can show sequences from the past, from the future or from a parallel, alternative and virtual present. Recently, internet, instant messaging, social networks have added new dimensions of reality in our experience and new themes in fiction on fate and free will, life and death, time and memory. Internet now contains countless “new possibilities,” including many possible identities for us, existing, yet to be created or to be bequeathed to posterity. New types of fictional writing are probably about to be invented, so as new types of reality are coming our way.
description: Iperstoria, No 15 (2020): Populism and Its Languages
Developing Sectoral Mechanisms in the Transition Period towards a New Climate Treaty
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Emission Trading
subject: cdm project
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: This study analyses how sectoral approaches are evolving in existing and future mitiga-tion mechanisms, and how they can help shaping the transition period to a new climate regime most effectively. The analysis is based on an evaluation of recent UNFCCC sub-missions, a desk review of the relevant literature and databases, as well as a set of semi-structured expert interviews. The desk review is complemented by an analysis of a set of indicators regarding the potential of the identified sectoral elements standardized base-lines, programme of activities, sectoral crediting and trading, as well as domestic policy instruments for NMM/FVA and NAMAs, by differentiating and structuring the analysis according to various institutional, technical and political aspects. A reflection of relevant barriers for adoption of sectoral approaches, as well as opportunities to overcome them is provided together with a set of recommendations for political decision makers.
Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: This study analyses how sectoral approaches are evolving in existing and future mitiga-tion mechanisms, and how they can help shaping the transition period to a new climate regime most effectively. The analysis is based on an evaluation of recent ⁠UNFCCC⁠ sub-missions, a desk review of the relevant literature and databases, as well as a set of semi-structured expert interviews. The desk review is complemented by an analysis of a set of indicators regarding the potential of the identified sectoral elements standardized base-lines, programme of activities, sectoral crediting and trading, as well as domestic policy instruments for NMM/FVA and NAMAs, by differentiating and structuring the analysis according to various institutional, technical and political aspects. A reflection of relevant barriers for adoption of sectoral approaches, as well as opportunities to overcome them is provided together with a set of recommendations for political decision makers.
Emissions from petrol engine fueled Gasoline-Ethanol-Methanol (GEM) ternary mixture as alternative fuel
Creators: name: Thangavelu, Saravana Kannan
name: Chelladorai, Piraiarasi
name: Ani, Farid Nasir
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The increasing demands of petroleum fuels due to the rapid development automotive society coupled with the environmental pollution issues have inspired the efforts on exploring alternative fuels for internal combustion engines. Bioethanol obtained from biomass and bioenergy crops has been proclaimed as one of the feasible alternative to gasoline. In this study, the effect of gasoline-ethanol-methanol (GEM) ternary blend on the emission characteristics of petrol engine was studied. Three different fuel blends, namely, E0 (gasoline), G75E21M4 (75% gasoline, 21% hydrous ethanol and 4% methanol) and E25 (25% anhydrous ethanol and 75% gasoline) were tested in a 1.3-l K3-VE spark-ignition engine. The results indicate that, when G75E21M4 fuel blend was used, a significant drop in CO, CO2, NOx and HC emissions by about 42%, 15%, 7% and 5.2% compared to E0, respectively. Moreover, the emission results for G75E21M4 are marginally lower than E25 whereas; HC emission was slightly higher than E25.
Modeling the Unobserved Heterogeneity in E-bike Collision Severity Using Full Bayesian Random Parameters Multinomial Logit Regression
Creators: name: Guo, Yanyong
name: Wu, Yao
name: Lu, Jian
name: Zhou, Jibiao
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Understanding the risk factors of e-bike collisions can improve e-bike riders’ safety awareness and help traffic professionals to develop effective countermeasures. This study investigates risk factors that significantly contribute to the severity of e-bike collisions. Two months of e-bike collision data were collected in the city of Ningbo, China. A random parameters multinomial logit regression (RP-MNL) is proposed to account for the unobserved heterogeneity across observations. A fixed parameters multinomial logit regression (FP-MNL) is estimated and compared with the RP-MNL under the Bayesian framework. The full Bayesian approach based on Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation is employed to estimate the model parameters. Both parameter estimates and odds ratio (OR) are used to interpret the impact of risk factors on the severity of e-bike collisions. The model comparison results show that RP-MNL outperforms FP-MNL, indicating that accommodating the unobserved heterogeneity across observations could improve the model fit. The model estimation results show that age, gender, e-bike behavior, license plate, bicycle type, location, and speed limit are statistically significant and associated with the severity of e-bike collisions. Furthermore, four risk factors, i.e., gender, e-bike behavior, bicycle type, and speed limit, are found to have heterogeneous effects on severity of e-bike collisions, appearing in the form of random parameters in the statistical model.
Galantamine Effect on Tularemia Pathogenesis in a BALB/c Mouse Model
Creators: name: Pohanka, Miroslav
name: Pavlis, Oto
name: Jiri Pikula
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
Il perpetuo viaggio verso l'americanità: migrazioni, speranza e desiderio in Angels in America di Tony Kushner
Creators: name: Asperti, Stefano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: American theater; Angels in America

description: Angels in America (1990, 1991) di Tony Kushner rappresenta uno dei casi di maggior successo di critica e di pubblico nel teatro americano del Novecento, al punto da spingere David Savran ad affermare che “not within memory has a new American play been canonized by the press as rapidly as Angels in America”.
description: Iperstoria, No 1 (2013): Arizona Book Ban
The regulation of calbindin D-28K by epidermal growth factor in MDBK cells and the involvement of signal transduction pathways.
Creators: name: Donepudi, Manjula.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: We investigated the ability of 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$ and EGF to modulate cell proliferation and VDR levels in renal distal tubular cells. As well, we characterized the effects of EGF on the vitamin D-dependent calcium binding protein calbindin D-28K in order to determine if changes in its expression were linked to cell proliferation. The MDBK cells represent an ideal in vitro system for studying the regulation of calbindin D-28K and VDR since both proteins are expressed in a 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$-dependent manner in these cells. Assessment of DNA synthesis, cell cycle kinetics and cell number indicated that EGF significantly increased DNA synthesis (40%), cell number and the population of cells in S phase of the cell cycle compared to vehicle treated MDBK cells. On the other hand, 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$ did not affect proliferation ot MDBK cells nor did it blunt the mitogenic actions of EGF in these cells. We observed that EGF down-regulated 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$-binding levels (33%) after 4 hour and 24 hour treatment compared to PBS treatment for the same time. Pre-treatment with 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3,$ prior to the addition of EGF, restored VDR binding to levels observed when cells were exposed to 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$ alone. The changes in 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$ binding in response to EGF prompted us to examine EGF effects on calbindin D-28K expression. MDBK cells were stimulated with EGF for up to 24 hours and calbindin D-28K levels were assessed by ELISA and immunoblotting. After 24 hours with EGF calbindin D-28K was down-regulated compared to control treated cells. Calbindin D-28K down-regulation was prevented by 1,25(OH)$\rm\sb2D\sb3$ and therefore correlated with the changes in VDR binding observed under the same conditions. However, acute (4 hour) EGF treatment up-regulated calbindin D-28K protein levels as assessed by ELISA and immunoblotting. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: ¿Es útil la realización de una TC inmediatamente después de una punción aspiración con aguja fina o biopsia pulmonar?.
Creators: name: Navasa Melado, José Mª
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Puncture
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Thorax
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Es una práctica habitual,
tras la realización de una punción aspiración con aguja fina (PAAF) o biopsia pulmonar,
que el paciente permanezca ingresado unas horas en el hospital por el riesgo de neumotórax.
Nuestro objetivo es valorar la...
title: Deficit de B12. Degeneración combinada subaguda de la médula. A propósito de un caso.
Creators: name: Tabernero Rico, Roberto Domingo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: MR
subject: Haematologic

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
1- Revisar las manifestaciones imagenológicas características de la degeneración subaguda de la médula. 2- Indagar sobre las diferentes manifestaciones clínicasde la anemia por déficit de cobalamina. 3-Repasar la absorción de la vitamina B12...
Buffering against maladaptive perfectionism in bipolar disorder: The role of self-compassion
Creators: name: Fletcher, Kathryn
name: Yang, Yan
name: Johnson, Sheri L.
name: Berk, Michael
name: Perich, Tania
name: Cotton, Sue
name: Jones, Steven
name: Lapsley, Sara
name: Michalak, Erin
name: Murray, Greg
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Maladaptive perfectionism is a transdiagnostic risk and maintaining factor for a range of mental health conditions, including bipolar disorder (BD). Self-compassion represents a potential protective factor against maladaptive perfectionism, however no studies to date have examined the relationship of these constructs in BD. The aim of the present study was to examine associations between maladaptive perfectionism, self-compassion and symptoms among individuals with BD. Methods: Baseline data were collected from 302 participants with a DSM-IV diagnosis of BD participating in an international randomised controlled trial. Participants completed measures of maladaptive perfectionism, self-compassion, symptom severity and emotion regulation difficulties. Clinician-administered measures of depression and mania severity were additionally collected. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted. Results: Maladaptive perfectionism was positively associated with depression, anxiety and emotion regulation difficulties. Lower levels of self-compassion correlated with greater self-reported depression, anxiety and emotion regulation difficulties. Self-compassion partially mediated relationships between maladaptive perfectionism, depression, anxiety and emotion regulation difficulties. Limitations: The cross-sectional design limits conclusions about causal relationships between study variables. Results may not be generalizable to other BD populations. The role of maladaptive perfectionism and self-compassion in elevated mood states of BD remains unclear. Conclusion: Self-compassion represents one mechanism through which maladaptive perfectionism influences symptoms of depression, anxiety and emotion regulation difficulties in BD. Self-compassion represents a modifiable treatment target; individuals with BD exhibiting maladaptive perfectionistic tendencies may benefit from interventions fostering self-compassion.
The effect of adaptive mutations in the influenza A NS1 protein on CPSF30 and PABP1 binding
Creators: name: Stecho, William M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Virology.

description: The Influenza A NS1 protein is an interferon (IFN) antagonist and a major virulence determinant. To characterize the genetic basis of NS1-mediated virulence, highly pathogenic mouse-adapted Influenza A strains were derived from human A/Hong Kong/1/68 H3N2 by experimental evolution in the mouse lung. Within these strains seven specific NS1 mutations were identified, some of which conferred greater IFN resistance and/or increased viral protein synthesis to the virus. Most of these mutations were shown to affect NS1 CPSF30 binding, which may affect post-transcriptional processing and increase host IFN induction. Some of these mutations were also shown to increase NS1 binding to host translation initiation factor PABP1, supporting a model of increased IFN resistance through direct modulation of host translation.
title: Análisis de la sensibilidad de las imágenes sin contraste virtuales obtenidas con TC de energía dual de segunda generación para la detección de lesiones hepáticas.
Creators: name: Macías Rodríguez, Napoleón Gabriel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Artifacts
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Liver

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Comparar la sensibilidad de las imágenes sin contraste convencionales y las virtuales obtenidas con TC de energía dual de segunda generación para la detección de lesiones...
Supplementary document for Sensitivity to brain hemodynamics of single-distance and dual-slope measurements with frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy: Simulations and human study of cerebral blood flow during hypercapnia - 4978469.pdf
Creators: name: Pham, Thao
name: Blaney, Giles
name: Sassaroli, Angelo
name: Fernandez, Cristianne
name: Fantini, Sergio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Document
The Compound U18666A Inhibits the Intoxication of Cells by Clostridioides difficile Toxins TcdA and TcdB
Creators: name: Papatheodorou, Panagiotis
name: Kindig, Selina
name: Badilla-Lobo, Adriana
name: Fischer, Stephan
name: Durgun, Ebru
name: Thuraisingam, Tharani
name: Witte, Alexander
name: Song, Shuo
name: Aktories, Klaus
name: Chaves-Olarte, Esteban
name: Rodríguez, César
name: Barth, Holger
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: toxin inhibitor
subject: cholesterol biosynthesis
subject: cholesterol transport
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Cholesterol
subject: Bacterial toxins
subject: Cholesterin
subject: Cholesterinstoffwechsel
subject: Bakteriengift

description: The intestinal pathogen Clostridioides (C.) difficile is a major cause of diarrhea both in hospitals and outpatient in industrialized countries. This bacterium produces two large exotoxins, toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB), which are directly responsible for the onset of clinical symptoms of C. difficile-associated diseases (CDADs), such as antibiotics-associated diarrhea and the severe, life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. Both toxins are multidomain proteins and taken up into host eukaryotic cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis. Within the cell, TcdA and TcdB inactivate Rho and/or Ras protein family members by glucosylation, which eventually results in cell death. The cytotoxic mode of action of the toxins is the main reason for the disease. Thus, compounds capable of inhibiting the cellular uptake and/or mode-of-action of both toxins are of high therapeutic interest. Recently, we found that the sterol regulatory element-binding protein 2 (SREBP-2) pathway, which regulates cholesterol content in membranes, is crucial for the intoxication of cells by TcdA and TcdB. Furthermore, it has been shown that membrane cholesterol is required for TcdA- as well as TcdB-mediated pore formation in endosomal membranes, which is a key step during the translocation of the glucosyltransferase domain of both toxins from endocytic vesicles into the cytosol of host cells. In the current study, we demonstrate that intoxication by TcdA and TcdB is diminished in cultured cells preincubated with the compound U18666A, an established inhibitor of cholesterol biosynthesis and/or intracellular transport. U18666A-pretreated cells were also less sensitive against TcdA and TcdB variants from the epidemic NAP1/027 C. difficile strain. Our study corroborates the crucial role of membrane cholesterol for cell entry of TcdA and TcdB, thus providing a valuable basis for the development of novel antitoxin strategies in the context of CDADs.
title: El paciente con fibrosis quística en la urgencia
Creators: name: Suárez Traba, Olga
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Thorax

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Mostrar los hallazgos radiológicos que nos permitan identificar las complicaciones agudas frecuentes y menos frecuentes,
de los pacientes con Fibrosis Quística...
Supplementary document for Sensitivity to brain hemodynamics of single-distance and dual-slope measurements with frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy: Simulations and human study of cerebral blood flow during hypercapnia - 4978469.pdf
Creators: name: Pham, Thao
name: Blaney, Giles
name: Sassaroli, Angelo
name: Fernandez, Cristianne
name: Fantini, Sergio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Document
An inductive analysis of intramural ice hockey officiating: A case study.
Creators: name: Gilbert, Wade D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: This project attempted to develop an accurate portrait of one case of intramural ice hockey officiating because a better understanding of this phenomenon was needed. Various sources of evidence were utilized over a 2 year period, including: semi-structured interviews, stimulated recall interviews, non-participant observation, a systematic observation instrument, document analysis and validation interviews. The depth and completeness of the results was directly attributable to the novel methodology which was used. The findings revealed both congruencies and contrasts to the existing literature on sport officials. This research supported previous findings related to the role of the official, invoking the spirit of the rules, and using discretion. Among the discrepancies, the most striking difference was related to the stress often attributed to sport officiating which was not revealed in this case. This research revealed the multidimensional nature of intramural ice hockey officiating and also exposed the difference between officiating theory and reality.
title: Contributions to the further development of the EC Waste Shipment Regulation
title: Contributions to the further development of the EC Waste Shipment Regulation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Zotz, Ferdinand
name: Bruijne, Emiel De
name: Fraunhofer, Sofie
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Abfalltransport
subject: Abfallexport
subject: waste shipment
subject: transboundary shipment of waste
subject: transboundary movements of waste
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on Shipments of Waste (Waste Shipment Regulation - WSR) transposes the requirements of the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal as well as OECD Decision C (2001) 107 into Union law. Following international law, the WSR prohibits certain transboundary shipments of waste and provides a procedural framework with two applicable types of procedures, which are to be used depending on the waste concerned, the planned method of waste management and the states involved. By 31 December 2020, the European Commission shall carry out a review of the WSR and, if appropriate, submit a legislative proposal. In this context, the Commission will also assess inspection plans and their effectiveness in combating illegal shipments. Against this background, the aim of the present project was to summarise and evaluate the implementation of the WSR in Germany with a focus on 1. identifying existing obstacles to an improved combat against illegal shipments and developing corresponding proposals; 2. making suggestions for more efficient enforcement; 3. outlining starting points for strengthening circular economy. In this report, inspection plans adopted by the German federal states (Bundesländer) in accordance with Article 50(2a) of the WSR are assessed. Furthermore, relevant topics relating to the application of the WSR are analysed and suggestions for measures are developed. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The application and enforcement of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on shipments of waste (“WSR”) rise to special challenges for economic agents and competent authorities.  The classification of waste in one of the annexes of the WSR, and therefore the crucial position for the applicable procedure, is rather complex. During the project the enforcement of the WSR in Germany was analyzed in relation to specific parts of the regulation and proposals were elaborated for:a. better combating illegal trafficb. a more efficient enforcementc. strengthening circular economy.The results of this study shall be integrated in flow with the revision of the WSR at EU level.
Commitment to Environmental and Climate Change Sustainability under Competition
Creators: name: Sim, Jeong Eun
name: Kim, Bosung
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This study investigates how the commitment of firms under competition influences environmental sustainability investment, pricing decisions, and profits of firms. We consider a stylized model where two firms compete in the market and examine three scenarios: (1) both firms commit, (2) only a single firm commits, and (3) neither firm commits. Interestingly, we find that commitment to sustainability investment by all firms results in the lowest sustainability investment in the industry. However, when a commitment is only made by one firm, sustainability investment in the industry can be the highest. Compared with under the no commitment scenario, a committed firm obtains a higher profit regardless of whether the commitment is also made by the competitor, but the competitor may become more profitable than the committed firm when it does not make a commitment. Although commitment by all firms yields the largest profits, it is the least effective from the entire societal perspective, resulting in both the lowest social welfare and the lowest sustainability investment. Instead, commitment by a single firm or no commitment can be the most effective for the entire society. We also discuss the implications of the investment efficiency of sustainability and consumer taste preference.
Ordained ministry in the United Church of Canada: An analysis of documents on the ordained ministry commissioned by the General Council of the United Church of Canada between 1925 and 1980.
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Georgina.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Religion, Clergy.

description: All of the United Church's studies on ministry acknowledge the role of the laity in the church's ministry. The Ministry in the Twentieth Century (1968), however, is the first document to question the necessity for an ordained ministry in the church or to suggest that this ministry may be detrimental to the church's welfare if, because of its focal position, it impedes the ministry of the laity. The Ministry in the Twentieth Century recommends that the church continue to "ordain" those who play an enabling function in the church but the understanding of ordination it presents is far removed from ordination's traditional meaning in the United Church or in the Reformed tradition generally. While On a Functional Ministry (1954) recommended that the church consider changes in the way it exercised its ministry so that the church could be more responsive to the heavily industrialized and technological context of the 1950's, the kind of changes which the Commission on The Ministry in the Twentieth Century advocate are more basic. The Commission on Ordination (1962) admits that the abolition of that ministry was one of the changes it had considered. The 1977 Task Force Report expresses many of the same sentiments found in The Ministry in the Twentieth Century. It presents a mainly functional understanding of this ministry, and creates opposition between clergy and laity via the suggestion that the laity have been prevented from realizing their ministry because of the status accorded the ordained ministry and the focal role this ministry plays in the church. Project: Ministry, in contrast, affirms the distinctiveness of the ordained ministry and its essential role in the church while at the same time emphasizing that there is only one ministry in the church "the ministry of Jesus Christ" in which both lay and ordained participate. What is noticeable in an examination of the United Church's two most controversial reports, The Ministry in the 20th Century and the 1977 Task Force on Ministry is that, other than a belief in the "servanthood" model of the ordained ministry and in the fact that this ministry must be carried out in mutuality with the ministry of the laity, nothing, including the existence of the ordained ministry itself, is considered normative. These two reports, in particular, indicate that there is a group of significant size in the United Church which distrusts the ordained ministry, and a smaller but equally vocal group which would like to do away with it altogether. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Direct modulation and injection locking characteristics of quantum cascade lasers
Creators: name: Yong, Kelvin Sheng Chek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Quantum cascade lasers have the advantages inherent to semiconductor lasers. They have very different operating principles than conventional semiconductor lasers which enables them to emit mid-to far-infrared light. Mid-and far-infrared light sources are of interest because of their important and wide ranging applications such as chemical sensing and communication. Thus, it is of interest to study the modulation properties of QCLs, leading to these applications. This study involves the investigation of the effect of various laser parameters on the performance of the laser along with the comparison of the behaviour of the laser with conventional semiconductor laser.
title: Astrocitoma pilocitico pediatrico. Aproximacion diagnostica con TC y RM.
Creators: name: Arango Arroyave,  Jorge Juan
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Mostrar los hallazgos de neuroimagen que permiten orientar el diagnóstico de astrocitoma pilocítico (AP) en una población infantil,
enfatizando las diferencias en sus distintas...
Affinity and press: The second-level agenda-setting power of Japanese print media coverage on Sino-Japanese relations
Creators: name: Nakayama, Maki
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.
subject: Mass Communications.

description: The media in Japan is unique in the world. Even though Japanese Society today enjoys advances in digital technology, the major national newspapers remain one of the most reliable sources for the public to learn about domestic and foreign news. Many researchers have examined the Japanese press's influence on public opinion during election campaigns, but very few have examined the interactions of the press and national public opinion in the context of international relations. This thesis analyzes the effects of the print media on the formation of national public opinion by examining the Japanese press coverage of Sino-Japanese relations. By testing the second-level agenda-setting theory through a content analysis of the coverage of Sino-Japanese relations in two major Japanese national newspapers, this thesis argues that the Japanese press plays a central role in the formation of Japanese public opinion toward China.
Towards an intelligent surveillance system for public security at crowded places
Creators: name: Barake, Bassem
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Nowadays, safety and security of public areas has become the centre of attention, and especially after 9/11 attack. A visual surveillance for public security is proposed to meet the needs of public areas, such as shopping malls, train stations, airports, etc... Surveillance researchers from the computer vision have focused on building automated systems and have hardly adopted an approach, where human is involved in decision making with the help of computer inputs. Knowing that the fully automated systems have some advantages such as saving human power, and supporting remote monitoring, but in other hand, these systems are not often tended to work in complex environments. This thesis adopts a human-cum-machine centric approach, where this approach is followed in order to assist security personnel in the physical monitoring with the support of video surveillance. A proposed system is designed and developed, which provides security personnel with real-time information about any suspected person they want to suspect about. Using the security system's application, the officer has to identify the region within the surveilled area where the suspected person is located. Based on the region identified, the system delegates and controls nearest installed cameras to cover the region and then capture pictures of the scene. Once the suspected person is identified by the security personnel from the pictures captured, the corresponding information such as personal and contact information of the person is displayed and available to the security officers. The architecture of the system is based on web services technology, where many researches outlined the benefits of using web services in terms of scalability, reliability, and re-usability of its components. This thesis provides detailed information about the proposed system and its components, discusses the application's graphical user interface to be used by security personnel, and proposes a methodology to select and control installed security cameras to cover a region identified by security personnel.
The translation power of top-down tree-to-graph transducers
Creators: name: Engelfriet, Joost
name: Vogler, Heiko
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Translators (Computer programs)
subject: Übersetzer

description: We introduce a new syntax-directed translation device called top-down tree-to-graph transducer. Such transducers are very similar to the usual top-down tree transducers except that the right-hand sides of their rules are hypergraphs rather than trees. Since we are aiming at a device which also allows to translate trees into objects different from graphs, we focus our attention on so-called tree-generating top-down tree-to-graph transducers. Then the result of every computation is a hypergraph which represents a tree, and in its turn the tree can be interpreted in any algebra of appropriate signature.
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Regulating Intestinal Redox Status and Intestinal Epithelial Cell Functionality
Creators: name: Mu, Kaiwen
name: Yu, Shengwu
name: Kitts, David D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Important functions of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) include enabling nutrient absorption to occur passively and acting as a defense barrier against potential xenobiotic components and pathogens. A compromise to IEC function can result in the translocation of bacteria, toxins, and allergens that lead to the onset of disease. Thus, the maintenance and optimal function of IECs are critically important to ensure health. Endogenous biosynthesis of nitric oxide (NO) regulates IEC functionality both directly, through free radical activity, and indirectly through cell signaling mechanisms that impact tight junction protein expression. In this paper, we review the current knowledge on factors that regulate inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and the subsequent roles that NO has on maintaining IECs’ intestinal epithelial barrier structure, functions, and associated mechanisms of action. We also summarize important findings on the effects of bioactive dietary food components that interact with NO production and affect downstream intestinal epithelium integrity.
Supplementary document for Copper circuits fabricated on flexible polymer substrates by high-frequency femtosecond laser-induced selective local reduction of copper oxide nanoparticles - 4978917.pdf
Creators: name: Huang, Yajun
name: Xie, Xiaozhu
name: Li, Miaoni
name: Xu, Meifang
name: Long, Jiangyou
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
title: Fracturas faciales: lo que el radiologo debe saber.
Creators: name: Garcia Villanego, Juan
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Emergency
subject: Head and neck

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Ilustrar los hallazgos en los diferentes tipos de fracturas de la cara y la información que debe contener el informe radiológico para un correcto manejo de estas por el cirujano maxilo...
An automated matching network incorporating a six-port reflectometer
Creators: name: Wayne, Walter
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis an automated matching network is investigated as a means to reduce mismatch loss in circuits whose impedance characteristics vary during operation. The automated matching network incorporates a six-port network to measure impedance and a tunable circuit is implemented using varactor diodes to provide continuously variable impedances. A novel implementation for two-port measurements using a single reflectometer is presented. The thesis concentrates on variable gain amplifier applications as these are common in wireless applications and matching is rarely maintained over the operating range of the device. A six-port reflectometer is implemented using off-the-shelf components. The tunable network is implemented using a miniature hybrid microwave integrated circuit (MHMIC) process with varactor diodes used as variable capacitances. Gain matching of a transistor amplifier is tested under various device biases. The project establishes design guidelines for a tunable matching network using continuously variable impedances. The feasibility of the automated matching network concept is also proven. Based on the results, several proposals are made for future work using automated matching networks.
Water scarcity, potential alternative sources and treatment feasibility
Creators: name: Imteaz, Monzur
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: With ever-increasing population and impacts of climate change, water supply systems in many cities of the world are under tremendous stress. Water authorities in many major cities around the world are struggling to maintain required water demand. Available potable water supply is crucial in some mega cities within developing and poor countries. Developed nations with ample resources and wealth are managing their demands to a satisfactory level, however still facing challenge to tackle demands. As such, water authorities are adopting several measures including demand management and identifying alternative water sources such as stormwater harvesting, greywater and wastewater reuse and desalination. During a decade long (2003~2012) drought in Australia, government spent 18 billion dollars to construct several desalination plants, most of those are now sitting idle as the climate has reversed with ample rains, which sufficiently contributing to the water supply reservoirs to fulfill the demands.
Supplementary document for Copper circuits fabricated on flexible polymer substrates by high-frequency femtosecond laser-induced selective local reduction of copper oxide nanoparticles - 4978917.pdf
Creators: name: Huang, Yajun
name: Xie, Xiaozhu
name: Li, Miaoni
name: Xu, Meifang
name: Long, Jiangyou
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
Ion-implanted InP for ultrafast photodetector application
Creators: name: Carmody, C.
name: Boudinov, H
name: Tan, H. H.
name: Jagadish, C.
name: Dao, Lap
name: Gal, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In order to create highly resistive InP with short carrier lifetimes, p-type epilayers at 200·C were implanted with MeV P+ ions up to doses of 1 x 10(16) cm-2•. Samples were subsequently annealed at temperatures between 400·C and 700·C for 30s. Double crystal x-ray diffraction, time resolved photoluminescence and Hall effect measurements were performed on these samples. The results of these experiments were then compared with the ones obtained from implantation into semi-insulating InP with a view to create materials suitable for ultrafast photodetector fabrication.
Foreign language acquisition in the case of d/Deaf learners: conceptualising compliments through original subtitles
Creators: name: Corrizzato, Sara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Foreign languag acquisition; d/Deaf learners; subtitles

description: The consistently increasing use of inter-lingual subtitles in audiovisual products has become an extraordinarily interesting area of research in many fields, such as the academic and the professional dimension. In fact, the discipline of translating audiovisual product dialogues from the original to the target language is now considered a common practice, which has led to several investigations into face-to-face communicative exchanges. Because of the frequent production of American and English TV series, cartoons, and films, the need for audiovisual translation has grown and, parallel to this, among its flexible and wide application, the practice of subtitling has gained both an inter- as well as an intra-linguistic perspective due to its increasing use for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. In the light of these observations, promoting an interdisciplinary approach, original subtitles can be considered and used as a helpful means in teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing Italians the syntactic and pragmatic rules governing complimenting speech acts in the English language. Promoting a constructive comparison between mother tongue and foreign language, the comparative analysis of compliments - selected from famous Anglophone films and TV series – helps the learners’ process of linguistic acquisition and cross-cultural pragmatic awareness. As a result, the use of authentic audiovisual material for didactic purposes narrows the distance between language and learners, promoting the conceptualisation of complimenting speech acts. Through films, in fact, words become images and images become concepts.
description: Iperstoria, No 1 (2013): Arizona Book Ban
Supplementary document for Model-informed deep learning for computational lithography with partially coherent illumination - 4979096.pdf
Creators: name: zheng, xianqiang
name: Ma, Xu
name: Zhao, Qile
name: Pan, Yihua
name: Arce, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The detailed calculation process of Eqs. (35) and (36) in the primary manuscript.
Numerical evaluation of low-slope roofs for wind uplift
Creators: name: Borujerdi, Javad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: This dissertation contributes to an ongoing research project at the National Research Council Canada in the evaluation of roofing systems for wind uplift design. Accomplishments are grouped in two tasks. Task one provides development of a knowledge-based design module for the estimation of wind load distribution on roofs. Task two, numerical modeling using finite element methods and experiments to investigate the performance of roofing systems subjected to wind uplift loads. For the Task one, all the data of wind uplift pressure distribution on roof configurations from open literature, including studies using wind tunnel boundary layer and full-scale measurements, are reviewed. For the Task two, various mechanically attached single-ply roofing systems were numerically modeled based on the Finite Element program with the capability of non-linear analysis. Experiments were also carried out and data obtained from the Dynamic Roofing Facility was used for benchmarking the developed model. Since, there is no consensus on table size for evaluation of roofing system in various test procedures, the validated model was further used to investigate the effect of table size. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the environment under environmentally relevant concentrations of antibiotics and its risk assessment
Creators: name: Schmitt, Heike
name: Ter Laak, Thomas
name: Duis, Karen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Risikoanalyse
subject: Zulassung
subject: Antibiotikaresistenz in der Umwelt
subject: Antibiotikarückstände in der Umwelt
subject: Risikobewertung
subject: Humane und Veterinäre Pharmazeutika
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Chemicals

description: In diesem Bericht wird die Rolle von Antibiotikarückständen in der Umwelt für die Entwicklung und Verbreitung von Antibiotikaresistenzen in Umweltkompartimenten untersucht. Zunächst wird ein Überblick über das Verhalten und Auftreten von Antibiotika in der Umwelt gegeben. Darauffolgend werden Daten zu Effekten von Antibiotika auf Resistenz in Umweltkompartimenten zusammengetragen. Es liegen nicht genügend Daten vor, um Effekte von Rückständen auf das Auftreten von Resistenz bei umweltrelevanten Konzentrationen nachzuweisen. Basierend auf Sammlungen von minimalen Hemmkonzentrationen und Daten zu minimalen selektiven Konzentrationen können solche Effekte jedoch nicht ausgeschlossen werden. Testmethoden für das Auftreten und die Verbreitung von Antibiotikaresistenz in der Umwelt werden beschrieben und bewertet. Eine Kombination von Kultur- und PCR-Techniken, kombiniert mit Tests zur Genübertragung, bietet die meisten Vorteile. Die vorhandenen Testsysteme sind jedoch noch nicht standardisiert. Die Berücksichtigung von Effekten von Antibiotikarückständen auf die Resistenzbildung in der Umwelt innerhalb der Umweltrisikoabschätzung von Antibiotika wird diskutiert. Ein Resistenzmonitoring in der Umwelt wird empfohlen, um auch resistente Bakterien, die mit Gülle oder Kläranlagenabläufen in die Umwelt gelangen, und die Effekte von andere Stoffgruppen (z.B. Schwermetallen) auf die Resistenz abzudecken. Ein mögliches Testsystem wird vorgestellt, Forschungsbedarf wird identifiziert und die Ergebnisse eines internationalen Expertentreffens zum Thema werden beschrieben.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: This report addresses the role of antibiotic residues for the development or dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the environment. It summarizes data on fate and occurrence of antibiotics in the environment and gives an overview of the existing information on effects at realistic concentrations. At present, there is too limited information to judge whether antibiotic residues in the environment can exert effects on resistance. However, such effects cannot be ruled out, when additional data on minimum inhibitory and minimum selective concentrations are taken into account. A test system for regulatory purposes is described and the results of an international expert meeting are summarized.