cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Calibration of an item bank in 474 orthopedic patients using Rasch analysis for computer-adaptive assessment of anxiety
Creators: name: Kallinger, Selina
name: Scharm, Henry
name: Boecker, Maren
name: Forkmann, Thomas
name: Baumeister, Harald
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: orthopedic disease
subject: item bank
subject: Rasch model
subject: OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT
subject: CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS
subject: MENTAL-DISORDERS
subject: HEALTH OUTCOMES
subject: WORK CAPACITY
subject: MUSCULOSKELETAL
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Anxiety
subject: Computer adaptive testing
subject: Item response theory
subject: Mental illness
subject: Rehabilitation
subject: Angst
subject: Probabilistische Testtheorie
subject: Arbeitsfähigkeit
subject: Rehabilitation
subject: Depression
subject: Skelettmuskelkrankheit

description: Objective: To calibrate an item bank of anxiety-related questions for use in orthopedic patients within a computer-adaptive test. Design: This is a psychometric study. Setting: The sample of orthopedic patients was recruited in two orthopedic rehabilitation clinics in Germany. Subjects: A total of 474 orthopedic rehabilitation patients were recruited for this study. Interventions: Not applicable. Main measures: The main measure is an adapted version of an existing anxiety item pool for cardiovascular rehabilitation patients. Results: The results of the confirmatory factor analysis and Mokken analysis confirmed a one-factor structure and double monotonicity. An anxiety item bank (48 items) could be developed and calibrated using Rasch analysis. It fitted to the Rasch model with a non-significant item–trait interaction (χ2(203) = 172.59; P = .94) and was free of differential item functioning. Unidimensionality could be verified and the person separation reliability was .96. The category threshold parameters varied between 4.72 and 3.16 (7.88 logits). Conclusion: The unidimensional anxiety item bank provides the basis for a computer-adaptive test to assess a wide range of anxiety in rehabilitation patients with orthopedic diseases with very good psychometric characteristics.
BattG-Melderegister: Antworten auf häufig gestellte Fragen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Batteriegesetz
subject: BattG
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Nach dem Batteriegesetz (BattG) sind alle Hersteller von Batterien unter anderem verpflichtet, ihre Marktteilnahme, Änderungen und gegebenenfalls auch den Marktaustritt gegenüber dem Umweltbundesamt (UBA ) elektronisch anzuzeigen. Um dieser Pflicht nachkommen zu können, stellt das UBA seit dem Jahr 2009 das BattG-Melderegister zur Verfügung. Im Dokument â€ÌHäufig gestellte Fragenâ€Ì werden gezielt die wesentlichsten Fragestellungen, die sich insbesondere im Rahmen der Herstellerpflichten gemäß § 4 des Batteriegesetzes ergeben können, betrachtet. Neben prägnanten Antworten auf vielfältige Fragestellungen werden auch geeignete Lösungswege aufgezeigt. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Nach dem Batteriegesetz (BattG) sind alle Hersteller von Batterien unter anderem verpflichtet, ihre Marktteilnahme, Änderungen und gegebenenfalls auch den Marktaustritt gegenüber dem Umweltbundesamt (⁠UBA⁠) elektronisch anzuzeigen. Um dieser Pflicht nachkommen zu können, stellt das UBA seit dem Jahr 2009 das BattG-Melderegister zur Verfügung. Im Dokument „Häufig gestellte Fragen“ werden gezielt die wesentlichsten Fragestellungen, die sich insbesondere im Rahmen der Herstellerpflichten gemäß § 4 des Batteriegesetzes ergeben können, betrachtet. Neben prägnanten Antworten auf vielfältige Fragestellungen werden auch geeignete Lösungswege aufgezeigt.
Faculty retention in higher education institutions of Pakistan
Faculty retention in higher education institutions of Pakistan
Creators: name: Zeeshan Mubarak, Rana
name: Wahab, Zaira
name: Khan, Naveed R
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Higher education institutions; faculty retention; pay satisfaction; opportunities of learning and growth
Istituti di istruzione superiore; qualità corpo docente; soddisfazione per la retribuzione; opportunità di apprendimento e crescita

description: In higher education institutions, which are considered as the hub of knowledge, the retention of knowledge-workers commonly called as faculty members has become a crucial issue. Based on the previous evidences this paper aims to investigate the impact of “pay satisfaction” and the “opportunities of learning and growth” on faculty retention in private higher education institutions of Pakistan. The study is quantitative in nature. Primary data was collected through field survey method from 200 fulltime faculty members. Pearson correlation and regression analysis were employed to examine the hypotheses of the study. Findings suggested that both of the independent variables have a significant impact on retention of faculty members whereas in higher education institutions ‘opportunities of learning and growth have a higher impact as compared to pay satisfaction on faculty retention. Study proposed that both retention factors are indispensable and can play a vital role in retaining the faculty members.
description: Negli istituti di istruzione superiore, che sono considerati la culla del sapere, il mantenimento/aggiornamento delle conoscenze da parte dei membri del corpo docente è diventato un tema cruciale. Basandosi su ricerche precedenti, il presente articolo si propone di analizzare l’impatto del livello di soddisfazione per la retribuzione recepita e delle opportunità di aggiornamento, apprendimento e crescita professionale sul mantenimento/sviluppo delle conoscenze da parte dei docenti negli istituti di istruzione superiore in Pakistan. Si tratta di uno studio di natura quantitativa, nella fattispecie di una ricerca sul campo che ha coinvolto un campione di 200 docenti a tempo pieno. Per esaminare l’ipotesi di studio, si è ricorso alla correlazione di Pearson e all’analisi della regressione. I risultati suggeriscono che entrambe le variabili indipendenti hanno un impatto significativo sul mantenimento delle conoscenze da parte dei membri del corpo docente, sebbene le opportunità di aggiornamento, apprendimento e crescita professionale abbiano una influenza superiore rispetto alla soddisfazione per la remunerazione economica. Lo studio suggerisce come comunque entrambi i fattori risultino indispensabili e come occorra investire su entrambi per conservare un corpo docente adeguato al proprio ruolo.
Rompiendo el ciclo: Abordaje integral en la recuperación de trastornos disociativos y dependencia emocional
Creators: name: Gil Delgado, Patricia
name: Mayo González, Sara
name: Nogales Raedo, Antonia María
name: Menéndez Trillo, Patricia
name: Rodríguez Rincón, Manuela María
name: Blanco Pericacho, Andrea
name: Orozco Quiroz, Laura Andrea
name: Andía Díez, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCCIÓN Y OBJETIVOS:

Los trastornos disociativos y de conversión, frecuentemente asociados a conductas autolesivas y crisis emocionales, pueden generar disfunción progresiva en diversas áreas de la vida del paciente. El manejo terapéutico integral, con enfoque multidisciplinario, es esencial para lograr la estabilización psicopatológica y promover la autonomía. Revisamos, a propósito de un caso, la importancia del abordaje integral en un dispositivo de rehabilitación como medio para la recuperación.

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CASO:

Se presenta el caso de una paciente con antecedentes de sintomatología ansioso-depresiva, múltiples ingresos hospitalarios por autolesiones y episodios paroxísticos no epilépticos (EPNE). Tras varios años de tratamiento en diferentes dispositivos de Salud Mental (Consultas externas, Hospitalización Aguda y Hospital de Día), con manejo farmacológico y psicoterapéutico, los episodios conversivos e intentos autolíticos persistieron, con lo que se decide su ingreso en la Unidad de Rehabilitación Psiquiátrica como última instancia.

EXPLORACIÓN Y PRUEBAS COMPLEMENTARIAS:

La exploración inicial reveló un estado ansioso, hipotimia, y sentimientos de culpa, junto a una dependencia emocional marcada hacia su núcleo familiar. Se realizaron estudios neurológicos y cardiológicos, incluyendo EEG, TAC, RMN craneal, potenciales evocados, ECG y Holter, descartando epilepsia y causas orgánicas. El MCMI-IV indicó rasgos melancólicos y dependientes, con niveles elevados de depresión mayor.

DIAGNÓSTICO DIFERENCIAL Y TRATAMIENTO:

Los diagnósticos incluyeron trastorno de personalidad dependiente, depresión mayor, trastorno ansioso-depresivo y EPNE. El tratamiento consistió en farmacoterapia (antidepresivos, anticonvulsivos, antipsicóticos) y un enfoque psicoterapéutico, abordando la dinámica familiar y el desarrollo de estrategias para fomentar la independencia emocional.

DISCUSIÓN Y CONCLUSIONES:

El abordaje integral, en un dispositivo de rehabilitación, permitió la estabilización clínica de la paciente, destacando la importancia de la intervención interdisciplinaria. La participación activa en equipo de los diferentes facultativos y la familia fue clave en la evolución favorable de la paciente, facilitando la reducción de los episodios disociativos y la adquisición de mayor autonomía. Este enfoque es fundamental en la recuperación, incluso en aquellos de larga trayectoria con evolución tórpida.
MPEC 2024-P76 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 August 6)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Risk assessment of particle-associated bacteria in Melbourne's water supply
Creators: name: Tomlinson, S.
name: Kelly, F.
name: Brady, E. K.
name: Palombo, Enzo
name: Harding, I.H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The level of turbidity in drinking water affects both its suitability for consumption and its aesthetic properties. Although a moderate level of turbidity does not itself provide a direct health risk, it has been reported that bacteria associated with these particles can exhibit an increased resistance to disinfection. The current study investigated the relationship between hydrophobicity and level of attachment, as well as how particle-association affects disinfection efficacy. Data was obtained from the physico-chemical characterisation of particles and bacteria (laboratory strains and environmental isolates), and from microbiological assays. Attachment was facilitated under nutrient deprivation and in the presence of an adsorbed organic substance, two conditions reported to influence adhesion. The concentration of chlorine required to neutralise a number of particle-associated samples was also determined. This allowed the preliminary assessment of relationships between adhesion and disinfection efficacy in anticipation of further work, and is part of an ongoing, quantitative evaluation of particle-mediated resistance within the water storage system of Melbourne, Australia.
Studying and working in Bologna in the Middle Ages
Studiare, lavorare a Bologna nel Medioevo: forestieri/stranieri in città
Creators: name: Smurra, Rosa
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: Middle Ages; Bologna; students; economic activities; fiscal sources
Medioevo; Bologna; studenti; attività economiche; fonti fiscali

description: Foreign students who attended the University of Bologna during the Middle Ages contributed to creating the reputation of the city and to deepening its capacity to attract students from cross over Europe. The city had, however, from remote times, experimented with welcoming practices (temporary or not) and experienced significant events in the circulation of persons. It was not just in the Middle Ages that such introductions of people coming from other regions can be verified in the Bolognese territory. A great immigration was decreed by Rome in the 2nd century B.C. with the establishment of a Latin colony and the transfer of 3,000 families of tenant farmers from central-southern Italy. Even if the migratory processes in the history of Bologna were numerous, this contribution nevertheless directs its attention to the 12th -13th centuries, a period that, thanks to the presence of the Studium and to economic activities, forced the city to confront anew an elevated number of students. It should be specified that while in present-day terminology those whose mother tongue is not Italian are called foreigners, in the Middle Ages all those who did not belong to the Bolognese district were called forenses (foreigners). In particular certain events concerning foreigners will be analyzed on the basis of data obtained from fiscal sources at the end of the 13th century.
description: Gli studenti stranieri che hanno frequentato l’Università di Bologna nel Medioevo hanno contribuito a creare la fama della città e a diffondere la sua capacità di attrarre scolari da ogni parte d’Europa. La città ha però sin da tempi remoti sperimentato pratiche di accoglienza (temporanea o meno) e significative vicende di circolazione di persone. Non fu solo nel Medioevo che nel territorio bolognese si verificarono tante immissioni di persone provenienti da altre regioni. La più grande immigrazione fu decretata da Roma nel II sec. a. C. con la costituzione della colonia latina con il trasferimento di tremila famiglie di coloni dell’Italia centro-meridionale. Pur se i processi migratori nella storia di Bologna furono numerosi, tuttavia questo contributo rivolge la sua attenzione ai secoli XII-XIII, periodo che, grazie alla presenza dello Studium e alle attività economiche, ha portato la città a confrontarsi nuovamente con un elevato numero di presenze di forestieri/stranieri. Si precisa che mentre nella terminologia attuale, sono stranieri coloro la cui lingua madre non è l’italiano, nel Medioevo erano chiamati forenses (forestieri) tutti coloro che non appartenevano al distretto bolognese. In particolare saranno analizzate alcune vicende di stranieri sulla base di quanto si ricava dalle fonti fiscali della fine del XIII secolo.
Tricorythodes molinerii Dias & Salles 2006
Creators: name: Dias, Lucimar G.
name: Molineri, Carlos
name: Ferreira, Paulo S. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Leptohyphidae
Tricorythodes
Tricorythodes molinerii

description: Tricorythodes molinerii Dias & Salles
 Tricorythodes molinerii Dias & Salles, 2006:56.
 Diagnose: Ninfa: 1) projeção genal presente e bem desenvolvida (Fig. 58); 2) palpo maxilar bissegmentado, com seta apical curta (Fig. 60); 3) ausência de tubérculos na cabeça e tórax; 4) pronoto com projeção anterolateral muito desenvolvida (Fig. 58); 5) fêmur anterior com fileira transversal de cerdas situada na região subapical (Fig. 67A); 6) fêmur com manchas subapicais cinzas, tíbias e tarsos sem manchas (Fig. 67A, B); 7) garra tarsal sem dentículos marginais e com 1 dentículo submarginal de cada lado (Fig. 73); 8) padrão de coloração abdominal conforme Fig. 84; 8) segmentos abdominais III-VII expandidos lateralmente, com VII-VIII formando espinhos posterolaterais (Fig. 84); 9) grande tamanho corporal (acima de 6 mm); 10) brânquia II triangular, sombreada com negro e com mancha sub-basal esbranquiçada (Fig. 77). Adulto desconhecido.
 Registro Geográfico (Tabela 1): Brasil: Minas Gerais (Campos Altos).
description: Published as part of Dias, Lucimar G., Molineri, Carlos & Ferreira, Paulo S. F., 2007, Ephemerelloidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) do Brasil, pp. 213-244 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 47 (19) on page 231, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492007001900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13236289
Chi ha paura del relativismo? Peirce, Wittgenstein, Vygotsky e le radici linguistiche della conoscenza (non della realtà)
Chi ha paura del relativismo? Peirce, Wittgenstein, Vygotski e le radici linguistiche della conoscenza (non della realtà).
Creators: name: Caronia, Letizia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: education; constructivism; knowledge; positivism; realism; relativism; truth; responsibility
conoscenza scientifica; costruttivismo; educazione; positivismo; realismo; relativismo; responsabilità; verità

description: This paper discusses the recent realistic turn in philosophy and social sciences.The extreme oscillation of the epistemological pendulum toward radical constructivism (i.e. textualism and the lost of a realty “out there”) has produced a suitable counter oscillation toward realism and a renewed claim for a positivistic foundation of knowledge and praxis. Are we throwing the baby out with the bath water? The paper argues that constructivism a) doesn’t necessarily presuppose an antirealistic ontological premise; b) it implies some version of truth-as-correspondence criterion; c) it assumes the constitutive role of language and concepts in making a representation of reality and in assessing the truth value of the statement conveying this representation. Drawing upon the recognition of the unavoidable linguistic bases of knowledge and truth assessment, we contend that constructivism is –perhaps unfortunately – the only way we can access the world. Conceptual and epistemic relativisms are necessary corollaries of epistemological constructivism. In the discussion we contend that these forms of relativism do not necessarily lead to moral relativism. On the contrary epistemic relativism outlines responsibility as a relevant issue more than any claim for an ultimate, positivistic foundation of knowledge, decision making and praxis.
description: Le derive decostruzioniste e antirealiste e la discutibile equivalenza tra relativismo e disimpegno scettico hanno necessariamente prodotto un richiamo al realismo e un ennesimo appello alla necessità di una fondazione ultima delle conoscenze, delle decisioni e delle pratiche. Stiamo gettando via il bambino insieme all’acqua sporca? Questo articolo argomenta la tesi dell’irritante ineluttabilità del costruttivismo. Attraverso un riordinamento delle categorie pertinenti e sulla scorta del pensiero di Peirce, Wittgenstein e Vygotsky, si sostiene che il costruttivismo a) presuppone una ontologia realista; b) afferma che la realtà sia osservabile, rappresentabile, descrivibile; c) implica una definizione di verità come corrispondenza ma nega che sia possibile individuare quell’ “una e una sola” descrizione della realtà che corrisponderebbe alla realtà in modi indipendenti dal linguaggio. Nelle sezioni conclusive si discutono le implicazioni del costruttivismo realista. In particolare ci si propone di dimostrare l’ineludibile e radicale appello alla responsabilità proprio – malgrado le apparenze – di uno dei corollati del costruttivismo: la relatività concettuale e la connessa questione della relatività epistemica.
Supplementary document for Photoacoustic Brillouin spectroscopy of gas-filled anti-resonant hollow-core optical fibers - 5142130.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, Yan
name: Qi, Yun
name: HO, HOI LUT
name: Gao, Shoufei
name: Wang, Yingying
name: Jin, Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Mechanisms of the assembly of hepatic very low density lipoprotein in rat hepatoma McA-RH7777 cells.
Creators: name: Wang, Yuwei.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: The role of apolipoprotein B (apoB) and microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) in hepatic triglyceride (TG)-rich very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) assembly has been investigated. Rat hepatoma McA-RH7777 cells were used to characterize structural determinants within apoB that are required for VLDL assembly/secretion, and to define mechanisms through which MTP facilitates VLDL assembly/secretion. Working with McA-RH7777 cells stably expressing recombinant human apoB100 (representing the full-length apoB) and various carboxyl-terminally truncated apoB proteins, we found that the apoB forms equal to or shorter than apoB29 (representing the amino-terminal 29% of the full-length apoB) were unable to assemble VLDL, whereas those equal to or longer than apoB34 could. Detailed biochemical analysis using apoB100- and apoB48-transfected cells revealed that assembly of VLDL, irrespective of the apoB length, was achieved through the same general pathway. Three notable features associated with the VLDL assembly process in McA-RH7777 cells were: (a) VLDL assembly was absolutely dependent upon exogenous oleate, (b) VLDL assembly was achieved post-translationally, and (c) the hallmark of VLDL assembly was the incorporation of bulk TG. Using chemical inhibitors of MTP, we found that MTP activity was required in the assembly/secretion of TG-rich VLDL, and that the requirement of MTP activity was determined by the amount of TG utilized for lipoprotein assembly. Moreover, the accumulation and attainment of TG within microsomal lumen was a function of MTP activity. Thus, MTP plays a role in facilitating the accumulation of TG within microsomes, an event that can be separated from TG incorporation into mature VLDL but represents an indispensable requisite for the post-translational assembly of TG-enriched VLDL.
Immunostimulatory functions of adoptively transferred MDSCs in experimental blunt chest trauma
Creators: name: Kustermann, Monika
name: Klingspor, Malena
name: Huber-Lang, Markus
name: Debatin, Klaus-Michael
name: Strauss, Gudrun
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Cell biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Myeloid-derived suppressor cells
subject: Bronchoalveolar lavage
subject: Immunologie
subject: Myeloide Suppressorzelle
subject: Broncho-alveoläre Lavage

description: Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) expand during inflammation and exhibit immunomodulatory functions on innate and adaptive immunity. However, their impact on trauma-induced immune responses, characterized by an early pro-inflammatory phase and dysregulated adaptive immunity involving lymphocyte apoptosis, exhaustion and unresponsiveness is less clear. Therefore, we adoptively transferred in vitro-generated MDSCs shortly before experimental blunt chest trauma (TxT). MDSCs preferentially homed into spleen and liver, but were undetectable in the injured lung, although pro-inflammatory mediators transiently increased in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Surprisingly, MDSC treatment strongly increased splenocyte numbers, however, without altering the percentage of splenic leukocyte populations. T cells of MDSC-treated TxT mice exhibited an activated phenotype characterized by expression of activation markers and elevated proliferative capacity in vitro, which was not accompanied by up-regulated exhaustion markers or unresponsiveness towards in vitro activation. Most importantly, also T cell expansion after staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) stimulation in vivo was unchanged between MDSC-treated or untreated mice. After MDSC transfer, T cells preferentially exhibited a Th1 phenotype, a prerequisite to circumvent post-traumatic infectious complications. Our findings reveal a totally unexpected immunostimulatory role of adoptively transferred MDSCs in TxT and might offer options to interfere with post-traumatic malfunction of the adaptive immune response.
Subjective consumer evaluation of multichannel audio codecs
Creators: name: Barbour, Jim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Are normal listeners able to identify any significant differences between multichannel audio codecs when listening to commercial music releases on good quality, consumer audio equipment? Audio professionals have often questioned whether consumers are able to hear the difference between high density, uncompressed multichannel formats, and lower data-rate delivery formats. In this study, formal subjective listening tests were conducted according to the ITU-R BS.1534 (MUSHRA) recommendation to evaluate consumer perception of popular 5.1 surround sound formats, namely Dolby AC-3, DTS, WMA Pro and mp3surround. Results suggest there is a threshold data-rate below which consumers are able to hear audible differences. Experimental design, methodology, and results will be presented and discussed.
L’ascolto clinico della biografia istituzionale di una comunità per minori Intercettare il campo istituzionale e valorizzare gli scarti delle pratiche educative
L’ascolto clinico della biografia istituzionale di una comunità per minori Intercettare il campo istituzionale e valorizzare gli scarti delle pratiche educative
Creators: name: Ulivieri Stiozzi, Stefania
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: educational practices; clinical listening; institution; field; imaginary
pratiche educative; ascolto cinico; istituzione; campo; immaginario

description: The following report refers to my research experience and it's based on the analysis of a residential placement for minors. Providing an overview on a qualitative research that refers to models such as the pedagogic approach of the clinical formation, the systemic approach and the psychoanalytic interpretation of the institutional field, the report aims at focusing on the fertility of clinical listening as a mental ability of the researcher to take in, and reflect, everything that is unconscious and belongs to the hidden background of the institution (the original myths and primitive affects feeding the imaginary of the institution). This archaic memory that has not been aggregated in evolved mental functions yet, plays a role in shaping the educative events in their effective carrying out, beyond the rational intentions, whether personal/group or related to the institutional mission. In the second part I will bring up part of the institutional biography, just as it was told by the coordinator of the placement, and highlight a few "pedagogic" questions emerged that, since then, have been directing us in our study.
description: Farò riferimento, in questo contributo, alla mia esperienza di ricercatore coinvolto in un progetto di ricerca che ha come oggetto l’analisi di una comunità residenziale per minori. L’obiettivo del seguente contributo è, in un quadro di ricerca qualitativa che utilizza come modelli di riferimento l’approccio pedagogico della clinica della formazione, lo sguardo sistemico, e la lettura psicoanalitica del campo istituzionale, mettere a fuoco la fecondità dell’ascolto clinico come capacità mentale del ricercatore di ospitare, riflettendolo, tutto quel materiale inconscio che appartiene allo sfondo nascosto dell’istituzione (i miri originari e gli affetti primitivi che nutrono il piano dell’immaginario dell’istituzione). Questo deposito arcaico che non è stato ancora aggregato in funzioni di pensiero evolute, gioca un ruolo nel dare forma gli accadimenti educativi nel loro svolgersi effettivo, al di là delle intenzioni razionali siano esse personali/gruppali o afferenti al “dichiarato” dei mandati istituzionali. Nella seconda parte del testo riporterò alcuni stralci della biografia istituzionale, così come è stata narrata dal coordinatore della comunità, per poi farne emergere alcune domande “pedagogiche” che stanno orientando il nostro percorso di ricerca.
Anaerobic treatment of landfill leachate using a peat moss filter for pre-treatment.
Creators: name: Savard, Catherine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Environmental.

description: The feasibility of anaerobically treating a leachate from a landfill site in the Ottawa-Carleton Region, ON, was studied. The levels of specific pollutants present in the leachate, COD, Fe, B and Ba, were required by the landfill owners to be treated in order to meet the local sewer user bylaw (SUB) discharge limits. The leachate had a high COD concentration (from 14 to 40 g COD L-1); however most of the organic content was readily biodegradable (up to 98%). The studied leachate was concluded to stimulate anaerobic bacterial microbial activity. The filtration of the leachate by peat moss was found to be an excellent means of removing suspended solids. The core experiments of this work were the treatment of the leachate by the combined peat-filter-UASB reactor process. Three series of reactor runs were conducted; feed leachate COD concentration and reactors flow rates were varied in order to mimic seasonal landfill leachate conditions (spring, summer and fall conditions). Finally, the removal of soluble inorganic ions by the combined treatment was studied. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: final data release and cosmological results
Creators: name: Parkinson, David
name: Riemer-Sorensen, Signe
name: Blake, Chris
name: Poole, Gregory B.
name: Davis, Tamara M.
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Contreras, Carlos
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Croom, Scott
name: Croton, Darren
name: Drinkwater, Michael J.
name: Forster, Karl
name: Gilbank, David
name: Gladders, Mike
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Jelliffe, Ben
name: Jurek, Russell J.
name: Li, I-hui
name: Madore, Barry
name: Martin, D. Christopher
name: Pimbblet, Kevin
name: Pracy, Michael
name: Sharp, Rob
name: Wisnioski, Emily
name: Woods, David
name: Wyder, Ted K.
name: Yee, H. K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents cosmological results from the final data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We perform full analyses of different cosmological models using the WiggleZ power spectra measured at z=0.22, 0.41, 0.60, and 0.78, combined with other cosmological data sets. The limiting factor in this analysis is the theoretical modeling of the galaxy power spectrum, including nonlinearities, galaxy bias, and redshift-space distortions. In this paper we assess several different methods for modeling the theoretical power spectrum, testing them against the Gigaparsec WiggleZ simulations (GiggleZ). We fit for a base set of six cosmological parameters, {Ωbh2,ΩCDMh2,H0,τ,As,ns}, and five supplementary parameters {nrun,r,w,Ωk,∑mν}. In combination with the cosmic microwave background, our results are consistent with the ΛCDM concordance cosmology, with a measurement of the matter density of Ωm=0.29±0.016 and amplitude of fluctuations σ8=0.825±0.017. Using WiggleZ data with cosmic microwave background and other distance and matter power spectra data, we find no evidence for any of the extension parameters being inconsistent with their ΛCDM model values. The power spectra data and theoretical modeling tools are available for use as a module for CosmoMC, which we here make publicly available at http://smp.uq.edu.au/wigglez-data. We also release the data and random catalogs used to construct the baryon acoustic oscillation correlation function.
A holistic perspective on designing and evaluating explainable AI models: from white-box additive models to post-hoc explanations for black-box models
Creators: name: Mariotti, Ettore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The thesis explores the black box problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the need for more transparent and explainable AI systems. XAI (Explainable AI) seeks to open AI systems to scrutiny, making the decision-making process more understandable for users. This is crucial for building trust and ensuring the fair and ethical implementation of AI across multiple sectors. The thesis hypothesizes that transparent AI models (white box) could be key to explaining more complex and opaque systems. The objectives include: 1) Understanding the landscape of XAI, 2) Designing interpretable models by design, 3) Generating post-hoc explanations for black box models, 4) Understanding the implications for the industry.
Phrasal Verbs through DDL
Phrasal Verbs through DDL
Creators: name: Azzaro, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: CALL; Data-Driven Learning; English language teaching; Linguistics; Teaching methodology

description: Two techniques are examined for teaching 10 Phrasal Verbs (PVs) to two groups of university students: dictionary presentation and concordance-based Data-Driven Learning (DDL). After checking their prior knowledge, 5 PVs were introduced via DDL, 5 via dictionary entries. The two techniques were compared, as well as the two groups of students, towards an assessment of DDL as a motivating and effective teaching aid. The results show that DDL can be a productive way to teach new lexical items and to consolidate old ones. The difference was statistically significant for the group which was smaller in size, more mature and working with corpus samples on screen rather than on paper. DDL, independently of classroom attendance, was a positive aid, whereas dictionary presentation was detrimental for some of the verbs involved.
description: Lo studio esamina due tecniche didattiche utilizzate nell’insegnamento di 10 verbi sintagmatici (Phrasal Verbs) a due gruppi di studenti universitari: la prima è basata sulla presentazione di voci di dizionario, la seconda su lavoro cooperativo con campioni reali tratti da un corpus (Data-Driven Learning o DDL). Dopo un test iniziale, ciascun gruppo ha lavorato sul significato contestuale di 5 verbi presentati tramite voci di dizionario e di altri 5 presentati tramite campione di frasi tratte da un corpus. Il confronto delle due tecniche e dei due gruppi di studenti mostra che l’uso dei corpora può presentare vantaggi nell’apprendimento di nuovi elementi lessicali e nel consolidamento di lessico noto. L’effetto positivo è particolarmente significativo per il gruppo più maturo e professionalmente motivato. Per alcuni verbi l’utilizzo del dizionario è risultato addirittura negativo.
title: ming rì zhì chéng
title: ming rì zhì chéng
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Die Stadt für Morgen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2017
Subjects: Verkehr
Nachhaltiger Verkehr

description: Großstädte sind aufregend, vielfältig und voller Leben. Sie sind oft aber auch laut und voll, beengt und anstrengend. Wie wollen wir künftig in unseren Städten wohnen? Ist eine urbane Umgebung möglich, die umweltschonend mobil, lärmarm, grün und durchmischt ist? Ja, eine solche Stadt ist möglich. Diese Fachbroschüre zeigt Wege auf, wie wir ein Umfeld mit weniger Verkehr, weniger Autos und weniger Belastungen für Gesundheit und Klima schaffen. "Weniger" auf der einen Seite schafft "Mehr"-Wert auf der anderen - mehr Grün, mehr Kompaktheit und mehr Raum zum Leben. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Big cities are by definition exciting, diverse and vibrant, but also loud and crowded, claustrophobic and exhausting. How do we want to live in our cities in the future? Is it at all possible to create an urban environment with environmentally friendly transport, low noise levels, green spaces and a functional mix? Yes, such a city is possible. Our brochure explains how an environment with less traffic, fewer cars and fewer health and climate hazards can be achieved. Less on the negative side generates more positive features - such as green and compact spaces and more space for living. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
Witchcraft, Violence and Mediation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Cameroon
Creators: name: Roxburgh, Shelagh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: This thesis explores the question of how witchcraft-related violence may be best addressed through the discipline of political science. This comparative analysis seeks to investigate the effectiveness of four actors mediation efforts: the state, religious organizations, NGOs and traditional authorities. Based on an extensive inter-disciplinary literature review and fieldwork conducted in Ghana and Cameroon, this thesis views witchcraft as a form of power and through this analysis presents two inter-related conclusions. The first conclusions argues that no actor is currently able to successfully address witchcraft-related violence or reduce the sense of spiritual insecurity which is associated with violence due to logical constraints. This is seen primarily in the inability of the state, many religions and NGOs to acknowledge the reality of witchcraft or address experiences of witchcraft which reflect the needs of those seeking redress. Where actors may share these experiences or reality, as in the case of traditional authorities, their ability is often seen as being limited by or in conflict with other actors. The second conclusion addresses this conflict by framing the logics of witchcraft and contemporary liberalism, seen in the state and NGO interventions, as a site of contention and debate; one which not only affects witchcraft-related violence in West Africa, but which also contributes to the construction of this phenomenon in academia and international discourse.
Meningitis vaccines in children : what have we achieved and where next?
Creators: name: McAlpine, Alastair
name: Sadarangani, Manish
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Purpose of review: This review highlights the recent impacts of vaccines against the major bacterial causes of meningitis in children, and the challenges for further prevention of bacterial meningitis, with a focus on Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Group B Streptococcus. Recent findings: Conjugate vaccines against S. pneumoniae and N. meningitidis have resulted in dramatic reductions in bacterial meningitis globally where they have been used. Recent licensure and use of capsular group B meningococcal protein vaccines have further reduced meningococcal meningitis in infants, young children and adolescents for countries with endemic disease and during outbreaks. Summary: Existing vaccines to prevent bacterial meningitis in children should be utilized in countries with significant numbers of cases of pneumococcal and/or meningococcal meningitis. Vaccines which are able to protect against more than 13 serotypes of S. pneumoniae are in clinical trials and should be able to further reduce pneumococcal meningitis cases. Cost effective meningococcal vaccines against non-A capsular groups are needed for low resource countries. There remains an urgent need for a vaccine against Group B Streptococcus, which is a major cause of neonatal meningitis globally and for which no vaccine currently exists.
Evolutions in Transnational Authority: Practices of Risk and Data in European Disaster and Security Governance
Creators: name: Leite, Christopher C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: EU
International Relations
Authority
International Institutions
Governance
Risk
Bourdieu
International Organizations
Disaster Response
Internal Security

description: The scholarly field of International Relations (IR) has been slow to appreciate the evolutions in forms of governance authority currently seen in the European political system. Michael Barnett has insisted that ‘IR scholars also have had to confront the possibility that territoriality, authority, and the state might be bundled in different ways in present-day Europe’ (2001, 52). This thesis outlines how modern governing authority is generated and maintained in a Europe that is strongly impacted by the many institutions, departments, and agencies of the European Union (EU). Using the specific cases of the EU’s disaster response organisation, the DG for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), and the hub for EU internal security policy management, the DG for Home and Migration Affairs (HOME), this thesis understands the different policy areas under EU policymaker and bureaucrat jurisdictions as semi-autonomous fields of practice – fields that are largely confined to the groups of bureaucratic, diplomatic, corporate, NGO, contracted, and IO that exist in Brussels, decidedly removed from in-field or operational personnel. Transnational governance authority in Europe, at least in these two fields, is generated and maintained by actors recognised as highly expert in producing and using data to monitor for the risks of future disasters and entrenching that ability into central functional roles in their respective fields. Both ECHO and HOME actors came to be recognised as central authorities in their fields thanks to their ability to prepare for unknown future natural and manmade disasters by creating and collecting and managing data on them and then using this data to articulate possible future scenarios as risks. They use the resources at their disposal to generate and manage data about disaster and security monitoring and coordination, drawing on these resources to impress upon the other actors in their fields that cooperating with ECHO and HOME is the best way to minimise the risks posted by future disasters. In doing so, both sets of actors established the parameters by which other actors understood their own best practices: through the use of data to monitor for future scenarios and establish criteria upon which to justify policy decisions. The specific way ECHO and HOME actors were able to position themselves as primary or central figures, namely, by using centralised data management, demonstrates the role that risk practices play in generating and maintaining authority in complex institutional governance situations as currently seen in Europe.
Supplementary document for Ultrafast optical switching and power limiting in intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces - 5142677.pdf
Creators: name: Mann, Sander
name: Nookala, Nishant
name: Johnson, Samuel
name: Cotrufo, Michele
name: Mekawy, Ahmed
name: Klem, John
name: Brener, Igal
name: Raschke, Markus
name: Alu, Andrea
name: Belkin, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary information
Australian comedy: what's that?
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As filmgoers, do you sometimes wonder if the phrase 'Australian comedy' is an oxymoron? Certainly, as I watched in a concentrated burst over a couple of weeks a half-dozen films from the last five years, it did quite often seem to me that the phrase was yoking together two concepts with little common ground. Then, very recently I caught up with the telemovie, Stiff (John Clarke, 2004), and my spirits rose again. But we'll come back to that.
Novel flexible MOFs, their application and in situ scXRD studies of gas loaded MOFs
Creators: name: Main, Russell Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2024
Subjects: Metal-organic frameworks
Flexible MOFs
Drug delivery
Nitric oxide
Carbon monoxide
Sulphur dioxide
Chemisorption
Physisorption
NO delivery
In situ single crystal X-ray diffraction

description: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an exciting class of porous materials with a large variety of potential applications. Finding and analysing new MOF systems is important for the development of new technologies, including in medicine and pollution capture. Furthermore, using high quality in situ single crystal X-ray diffraction (scXRD) is necessary to understand how MOFs capture, store and release gas molecules. Presented here are novel frameworks based on 2,3-dihydroxyterephthalic acid and the M(II) metal ions Mg, Ni, Co, Ca and Cu. So far nine different phases have been solved structurally with six new to this body of work. SIMOF-3 (St Andrews Isoreticular MOF) can be formed from Mg, Ni and Co. It contains a disordered pillar linker that may be flexible. The Ca phase SIMOF-4 is denser with a phase change to an even denser phase on solvent removal. However, this material did show utility as an anode in a sodium battery. Cu produced two distinct phases both showing breathing behaviour. The more stable phase has shown excellent capacity for the storage and release of the drug molecules Ibuprofen, Flutamide and caffeine as well as the adsorbtion of the medicinal gas nitric oxide (NO). In addition, in situ scXRD studies have been performed on Ni-CPO-27 and Co-4,6-dhip to investigate the binding of the polar gases NO, CO and SO₂. This has uncovered the relative binding strengths of these gases, their competitive interactions with water and the presence of physisorbed binding sites. Finally, a series of mixed metal Ni/Cu CPO-27 analogues were synthesised that could release preadsorbed NO on addition of moisture as well as catalytically generate NO from S-nitrosoglutathione. The framework and its stability in biological media were investigated with Ni₀.₁Cu₀.₉-CPO-27 showing excellent all round properties suitable for inclusion into future medical devices.
Somatosensory stimulus intensity encoding in borderline personality disorder
Creators: name: Malejko, Kathrin
name: Neff, Dominik
name: Brown, Rebecca Corinna
name: Plener, Paul L.
name: Bonenberger, Martina
name: Abler, Birgit
name: Grön, Georg
name: Graf, Heiko
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: pain
subject: parametric
subject: borderline
subject: fMRI
subject: stimulus processing
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Borderline personality disorder
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung
subject: Funktionelle Kernspintomografie

description: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is clinically characterized by emotional instability, interpersonal disturbances and dysfunctional behavior such as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). During NSSI, patients with BPD typically report analgesic or hypoalgesic phenomena, and pain perception and pain processing in BPD have been repeatedly investigated. Most of the studies so far focused on affective-motivational and cognitive-evaluative neural components of pain within categorial study designs. By contrast, rather basic somatosensory aspects such as neural intensity-encoding of somatosensory stimuli were not examined in further details. Thus, we investigated patients with BPD and healthy controls (HC) by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an unpleasant sensory stimulation task with parametrically increasing stimulus intensities. 15 females diagnosed with BPD and 15 HCs were investigated with fMRI during four individually adjusted levels of electrical stimulus intensities. Ratings of stimulus intensity were assessed by button presses during fMRI. fMRI-data were analyzed by analyses of variances (ANOVA) at a statistical threshold of p < 0.05 FWE-corrected on cluster level. Subjective ratings of stimulus intensities were alike between BPD and HC, and intensity levels identified with equal accuracy. Significant intensity-encoding neural activations were observed within the primary and secondary somtasensory cortex, the posterior insula, the posterior midcingulate cortex (pMCC) and the supplementary motor area (SMA) in both, HC and BPD. Notably, there were no significant between-groups differences in intensity-encoding neural activations, even at lowered significance thresholds. Present results suggest a similar neural somatosensory stimulus intensity encoding in BPD as previously observed on a behavioral level. The alterations in neural affective-motivational or cognitive-evaluative components reported so far may be restricted to pain rather than unpleasant stimulus processing and were absent in our study.