cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Re-Industrialisation and Low-Carbon Economy̶Can They Go Together? Results from Stakeholder-Based Scenarios for Energy-Intensive Industries in the German State of North Rhine Westphalia
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: The German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is home to one of the most important industrial regions in Europe, and is the first German state to have adopted its own Climate Protection Law (CPL). This paper describes the long-term (up to 2050) mitigation scenarios for NRWs main energy-intensive industrial sub-sectors which served to support the implementation of the CPL. It also describes the process of scenario development, as these scenarios were developed through stakeholder participation. The scenarios considered three different pathways (best-available technologies, break-through technologies, and CO2 capture and storage). All pathways had optimistic assumptions on the rate of industrial growth and availability of low-carbon electricity. We find that a policy of "re-industrialisationŁ for NRW based on the current industrial structures (assumed here to represent an average growth of NRWs industrial gross value added (GVA) of 1.6% per year until 2030 and 0.6% per year from 2030 to 2050), would pose a significant challenge for the achievement of overall energy demand and German greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, in particular as remaining efficiency potentials in NRW are limited. In the best-available technology (BAT) scenario CO2 emission reductions of only 16% are achieved, whereas the low carbon (LC) and the carbon capture and storage (CCS) scenario achieve 50% and 79% reduction respectively. Our results indicate the importance of successful development and implementation of a decarbonised electricity supply and breakthrough technologies in industry-such as electrification, hydrogen-based processes for steel, alternative cements or CCS-if significant growth is to be achieved in combination with climate mitigation. They, however, also show that technological solutions alone, together with unmitigated growth in consumption of material goods, could be insufficient to meet GHG reduction targets in industry.
Quelle: www.mdpi.com
Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes.
Creators: name: Zargarian, Davit.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: This thesis describes the palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes with formic acid. Terminal alkynes react with formic acid in the presence of catalytic amounts of Pd(OAc)$\sb2$ and suitable phosphine ligands (120 psi of CO gas pressure, 100-110$\sp\circ$C) to produce the unsaturated carboxylic acids CR(COOH)=CH$\sb2,$ 1, and (E)-CHR=CH(COOH), 2. The combined yields of 1 and 2 for various R's range from 60 to 90%. The regioselectivity is approximately 90:10 in favour of 1 when R is a phenyl or a straight chain alkyl group; 2 is the favoured product when R is t-Bu and the exclusive one when R is SiMe$\sb3.$ Under similar conditions, internal alkynes react with formic acid to produce the unsaturated carboxylic acids (E)-CR(COOH)=CHR$\sp\prime$, 3, and (E)-CHR=CR$\sp\prime$(COOH), 4, also in 60-90% combined yields. The regioselectivity of this reaction, however, is not as high as for terminal alkynes. Oxalic acid can be used instead of formic acid in both of these reactions. The most suitable phosphine ligands for alkyne hydrocarboxylation in the present system are PPh$\sb3$ and dppb (1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane). In some cases, using a mixture of these two ligands remarkably improves the reaction yields; the implications of such ligand synergism are discussed. On the basis of deuterium labelling studies and other experimental results, a reaction mechanism has been proposed which involves the addition of the O-H bond of formic acid to form a cationic hydrido(alkyne) intermediate. This intermediate is thought to undergo a sequence of reactions, including hydride and CO insertions, to give the acid product and regenerate the active catalyst. Terminal alkynes undergo dicarbonylation upon reacting with formic acid and/or water in a catalytic system consisting of $\rm PdCl\sb2/CuCl\sb2/O\sb2/CO$ (room temperature, atmospheric pressure); the products are monosubstituted maleic anhydrides and the corresponding maleic and fumaric acids in 30-75% combined yields. The product distribution is influenced by both the steric bulk of the alkyne substituent and the amount of water present in the reaction medium. Internal alkynes are unreactive in this system. Among the solvents tested, THF is the most suitable one. Phosphines and phosphites completely inhibit the reaction. In contrast to most systems in which CuCl$\sb2$ acts as the principal oxidant for converting Pd(0) to Pd(II), the role of CuCl$\sb2$ in the present system seems to be secondary to that of oxygen. For instance, modest catalytic turnovers are observed in the absence of CuCl$\sb2$, whereas no catalysis occurs if oxygen is excluded from the system, even in the presence of excess CuCl$\sb2$. These and other observation are rationalized by invoking various oxidation schemes involving oxygen as the main oxidant. The role of CuCl$\sb2$ is thought to be one of facilitating the catalysis by forming a heterometallic Cu/Pd complex.
Analyzing elements affecting the survival of new nonprofit organizations in the context of social entrepreneurship ventures
Creators: name: Douglas, Heather
name: Sullivan Mort, Gillian
name: Cuskelly, Graham
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite their important contribution to the social economy, the processes of establishing new nonprofit organizations have not been systematically examined. The survival of new nonprofits is an important issue since if they cease to exist it is a loss to the economy as well as to community. It is well known that new for-profit businesses are vulnerable to failure in the first few years. It would be reasonable to assume the mortality rate for new nonprofits may be comparable to that for business since the establishment processes are similar, but the survival of new nonprofits has received scant attention in the research literature. This paper examines the relevance for emerging nonprofits of elements identified as contributing to the survival of new business ventures, including reference to the limited literature on nonprofits.
title: Choice of a method for surgical treatment of residual caves after echinococcectomy
Creators: name: Odishelashvili, Liana G.
name: Zurnadzh'yanc, Viktor A.
name: Odishelashvili, Givi D.
name: Pakhnov, Dmitry V.
Publisher: name: Astrakhan State Medical University
Year: 2020

description: Echinococcosis is a common parasitic disease, registered in many regions of the world, causing interest in surgical practice. A radical treatment for this disease is surgical. Radical methods include: pericystectomy, open echinococcectomy and closed echinococcectomy. One of the least traumatic and life-threatening methods is open echinococcectomy. But at the same time, surgeons in practice face long-term non-healing residual cavities, which lead to secondary purulent complications, as a result of which the postoperative hospital bed increases, the periods of temporary disability and the risk of disability increase. Key words: echinococcosis, liver, echinococcectomy, s chemotherapy, surgical, treatment, parasite, obliteration cavity.
description: Astrakhan Medical Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 6–12
A software tool for estimation of burden of infectious diseases in Europe using incidence-based disability adjusted life years
Creators: name: Colzani, Edoardo
name: Cassini, Alessandro
name: Lewandowski, Daniel
name: Plaß, Dietrich
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: The burden of disease framework facilitates the assessment of the health impact of diseases through the use of summary measures of population health such as Disability- Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). However, calculating, interpreting and communicating the results of studies using this methodology poses a challenge. The aim of the Burden of Communicable Disease in Europe (BCoDE) project is to summarize the impact of communicable disease in the European Union and European Economic Area Member States (EU/EEA MS). To meet this goal, a user-friendly software tool (BCoDE toolkit), was developed. This stand-alone application, written in C++, is open-access and freely available for download from the website of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). With the BCoDE toolkit, one can calculate DALYs by simply entering the age group- and sexspecific number of cases for one or more of selected sets of 32 communicable diseases (CDs) and 6 healthcare associated infections (HAIs). Disease progression models (i.e., outcome trees) for these communicable diseases were created following a thorough literature review of their disease progression pathway. The BCoDE toolkit runs Monte Carlo simulations of the input parameters and provides disease-specific results, including 95% uncertainty intervals, and permits comparisons between the different disease models entered. Results can be displayed as mean and median overall DALYs, DALYs per 100,000 population, and DALYs related to mortality vs. disability. Visualization options summarize complex epidemiological data, with the goal of improving communication and knowledge transfer for decision-making. Quelle: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170662
They talk the talk, but do they walk the walk? To what extent do entrepreneurial organizations in Germany and New Zealand practice sustainability?
Creators: name: Mueller, Jens
name: Klandt, Heinz
name: MacDonald, Gael
name: Finke-Schuermann, Tanja
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We review the level of acceptance of sustainability principles among German and New Zealand entrepreneurship firms by using a uniform global survey tool which is in operation in several countries.
Rezultati istraživanja o financiranju neformalnih obrazovnih programa organizacija civilnog društva
Creators: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2023
Subjects: financiranje
neformalno obrazovanje

description: Neformalno obrazovanje koje pružaju organizacije civilnog društva važan je čimbenik u povećanju građanskih kompetencija, prevencije diskriminatornih i rizičnih ponašanja te poboljšanju kvalitete života građana i razvoja zajednica. Prepoznajući ulogu koju ima neformalno obrazovanje, Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb je u sklopu projekta SKOCKANO provela istraživanje o financiranju neformalnih obrazovnih programa organizacija civilnog društva u Hrvatskoj.
title: Omics technologies in the study of Bacillus anthracis
Creators: name: Pechkovskiy, Grigoriy A.
name: Timchenko, Lyudmila D.
name: Eremenko, Evgeniy I.
name: Kovalev, Dmitriy A.
name: Kulichenko, Aleksandr N.
Publisher: name: Astrakhan State Medical University
Year: 2020

description: This review presents the results of a current study of the anthrax pathogen obtained using omics technologies. The main achievements in the field of genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, interaсtomics, and metabolomics of Bacillus anthracis as a result of the use of omics technologies are described. The connection of the development of omics technologies and bioinformatics are discussed; further prospects and problems in this area are reflected. Key words: Bacillus anthracis, “omics” technologies, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics.
description: Astrakhan Medical Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 13–23
Behandlung von Elektroaltgeräten (EAG) unter Ressourcen- und Schadstoffaspekten
Creators: name: Sander, Knut
name: Otto, Sarah Julie
name: Rödig, Lisa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Elektrogerät/Elektronikgerät
subject: Kritischer Rohstoff
subject: Ressourcenerhaltung
subject: Elektroaltgerät
subject: Elektronikaltgerät
subject: Strategischer Rohstoff
subject: Ressourcenschutz
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Aufgrund neuer Entwicklungen von Behandlungstechnologien für Elektroaltgeräte, der Entwicklungstrends neuartiger Gerätearten sowie der umweltpolitischen Ziele der Schadstoffentfrachtung und Ressourcenschonung besteht ein Konkretisierungs- und Weiterentwicklungsbedarf der bestehenden Behandlungsanforderungen für Elektroaltgeräte nach ElektroG. In dem Projekt wurden offene Fragestellungen in den Themenbereichen „Leiterplatten und ressourcenrelevante Bauteile“, „Bildschirmgeräte“, „Photovoltaikmodule“, „Kunststoffe“ und „Schadstoffentfrachtung“ identifiziert, bearbeitet und nach einer eingehenden Bewertung eine Ableitung spezifischer konkreter Behandlungsempfehlungen vorgenommen.
Smjernice za unaprjeđenje suradnje organizacija civilnog društva i jedinica lokalne i regionalne samouprave s naglaskom na neformalne obrazovne programe
Creators: name: Đaković, Tina
name: Sinčić, Sara
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2022
Subjects: suradnja
neformalno obrazovanje

description: Važan dio svake lokalne zajednice čine jedinice lokalne i regionalne samouprave s kojima organizacije civilnog društvačesto surađuju i u svim područjima rada, pa tako i u području neformalnog obrazovanja. U sklopu projekta SKOCKANO, proveli smo istraživanje kako bi bolje razumjeli kako jedinice lokalne i regionalne samouprave i udruge surađuju, ispitali izazove i mogućnosti poboljšanja suradnje. Cilj ovih smjernica je doprinijeti produbljivanju sektorske i međusektorske suradnje udruga i jedinica lokalne i regionalne samouprave u području provođenja neformalnog obrazovanja koji provode udruge.
Validation of an inverse dynamics method to predict joint kinetics in the absence of dynamometry.
Creators: name: Barden, John M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Biomedical.

description: When investigating the joint kinetics of human locomotion, ground reaction forces are typically measured directly using a force platform. In many different skills and movement environments, the utilization of a force platform to collect external force data is not possible. These particular movement situations require an indirect method to estimate joint kinetic variables if they are to be analyzed. This study investigated whether or not an eleven segment, complete body model could be used to accurately predict the net joint reaction forces and moments of force from cinefilm and body segment parameter data, using force platform calculated net joint reaction forces and moments of force as the criterion for validation. The body was modelled as a linked system of pin-connected rigid bodies and was restricted to the sagittal plane analysis of single support locomotions. The movements analyzed for three subjects were jogging, running, the acceleration phase of sprinting, the long jump takeoff and a running front somersault into a forward roll. Displacement and ground reaction force data were both sampled at 100 Hz and low-pass filtered at cutoff frequencies of 6 and 10 Hz, respectively. The film predicted, support limb net joint reaction forces and moments of force were compared to the force platform calculated results using RMSE and Pearson product moment correlation statistics to quantify phase and magnitude variations. It was found that vertical net joint reaction forces can be estimated from displacement data using the inverse dynamics approach and a complete body segment model. Limited success was attained in estimating the horizontal net joint reaction forces. No consistent results were obtained in estimating the net joint moments of force. Further refinements are necessary if net joint moments are to be predicted accurately using this particular method.
Gardening in Ashes: The Possibilities and Limitations of Gardening to Support Indigenous Health and Well-Being in the Context of Wildfires and Colonialism
Creators: name: Timler, Kelsey
name: Sandy, Dancing Water
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: In this paper, we will discuss gardening as a relationship with nature and an ongoing process to support Indigenous health and well-being in the context of the climate crisis and increasingly widespread forest fires. We will explore the concept of gardening as both a Euro-Western agriculture practice and as a longstanding Indigenous practice—wherein naturally occurring gardens are tended in relationship and related to a wider engagement with the natural world — and the influences of colonialism and climate change on both. Drawing on our experiences as an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper (Dancing Water) and a non-Indigenous community-based researcher (Kelsey), our dialogue will outline ways to support health and well-being through land-based activities that connect with Indigenous traditions in ways that draw on relationships to confront colonialism and the influences of climate change. This dialogue is founded on our experiences in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada, one of the areas hit hardest by the 2017 wildfires. We will explore the possibilities and limitations of gardening and the wider concept of reciprocity and relationship as a means to support food security, food sovereignty, and health for Indigenous Peoples.
Preporuke za unaprjeđivanje suradnje organizacija civilnog društva i odgojno-obrazovnih ustanova
Creators: name: Đaković, Tina
name: Sinčić, Sara
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2022
Subjects: suradnja
obrazovanje
preporuke

description: Važan dio svake lokalne zajednice čine odgojno-obrazovne ustanove s kojima organizacije civilnog društva često surađuju i dijele napore u poučavanju djece i mladih, a ponekad i samih obrazovnih djelatnika. Bitno je bilo odrediti kako odgojno-obrazovne ustanove i organizacije civilnog društva surađuju, na koji način dovode u simbiozu formalno i neformalno obrazovanje. Cilj ovih preporuka je popuniti prazninu u komunikaciji između formalnog i neformalnog sustava obrazovanja te ponuditi rješenja koja će poboljšati međusobnu suradnju i kvalitetu ovih dvaju sektora.

U sklopu projekta SKOCKANO (standard kvalitete organizacija civilnog društva konstruktivno angažiranih u neformalnom obrazovanju), nastale su tri skupine preporuka za aktere u sustavu odgoja i obrazovanja. Svakom akteru posvećena je jedna skupina preporuka, a cilj je ovim preporukama dati temelj za unaprjeđenje i osnaživanje suradnje odgojno-obrazovnih ustanova i organizacija civilnog društva.
Graph neural network and motion planning
Creators: name: Zang, Xiao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in various practical applications such as fake news detection, drug discovery, and content recommendation. Despite their success and popular adoptions, GNNs suffer the intentional attacks with imperceptible changes in data. To be specific, the attackers can perturb the node features or graph structure explicitly, thereby causing the wrong prediction of a specific target node. However, performing specific attacks on different targets can be expensive in real scenarios. In the first part of our thesis, we study the vulnerability of graph learning models and design the universal attack on node classification tasks. More specifically, we identify a set of a few bad nodes from the existing graph as the anchors, and any target node can be attacked by flipping its connections with the anchors. However, sometimes it is unrealistic to gain the control over the anchors nodes, therefore, we propose another method that adds fake nodes as the anchors and builds the edges between fake nodes and real nodes. Any node can be effectively attacked by the fake nodes without impacting the overall accuracy of other nodes, which is hard to detect. The second part of this dissertation focuses on the study of motion planning, which is one of the fundamental tasks across many applications like drone navigation, autonomous driving and robot arm manipulation, etc. Neural network (NN)-based methods have emerged as an attractive approach for robot motion planning due to the strong learning capabilities of NN models and their inherently high parallelism. We formulate the motion planning as a video prediction problem so that the future robot movement can be predicted as video frames iteratively. However, describing the planning statuses using images is not effective in high-dimensional motion planning tasks such as KUKA 14D. Therefore, we formulate motion planning as graph search problems, apply GNNs to construct collision-free random geometric graph and predict high-quality heurisitic values to guid the A* search. Such GNN-based planner can search for the high-quality paths with very fast planning speed under any-dimensional tasks.
Memory-guided Sensory Sampling During Self-guided Exploration in Pulse-type Electric Fish
Creators: name: Jun, Jaeyoon James
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: sensory sampling
spatial learning
pulse-type weakly electric fish
active sensing
dipole tracking
inverse problem
exploratory behaviour
freely behaving animal

description: Animals must sense their surroundings to update their internal representations of the external environment, and exploratory behaviours such as sensory sampling are influenced by past experiences. This thesis investigates how voluntary sensory sampling activities undergo learning-dependent changes. Studies of freely behaving animals impose two major challenges: 1) the accuracy of biological measurements is compromised by movement-induced artifacts, and 2) large degrees of freedom in unrestrained behaviours confound well-controlled studies. Pulse-type weakly electric fish (WEF) are an ideal choice to study adaptive sensory sampling from unrestrained animals, since they generate readily observable and quantifiable sensory capture events expressed by discrete pulses of electric organ discharges (EODs). To study the voluntarily movements and sensory sampling while animals navigated in darkness, we developed three novel experimental techniques to track movements and detect sensory sampling from a freely behaving WEF: 1) an EOD detector to remotely and accurately measure the sensory sampling rate, 2) an electrical tracking method to track multiple WEF using their own EODs, and 3) visual tracking algorithm for robust body tracking through water under infrared illumination. These techniques were successfully applied to reveal novel sensory sampling behaviours in freely exploring Gymnotus sp. Cortical activity precedes self-initiated movements by several seconds in mammals; this observation has led into inquiries on the nature of volition. Here we demonstrate the sensory sampling enhancement also precedes self-initiated movement by a few seconds in Gymnotus sp. Next, we tested whether these animals can be trained to learn a location of food using electrically detectable landmarks and, if so, whether they can use their past experiences to optimize their sensory sampling. We found that animals revisited the missing food location with high spatial accuracy, and they intensified their sensory sampling near the expected food location by increasing the number of EOD pulses per unit distance travelled.
Supplementary document for Ultrahigh-order harmonic generation in the subnanometer wavelength range: the role of finite atomic size - 5308763.pdf
Creators: name: Khairulin, Ilias
name: Emelin, Mikhail
name: Ryabikin, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Calculation of the volume integral
Socioeconomic differences in walking time of children and adolescents to public green spaces in urban areas - results of the German Environmental Survey (2014-2017)
Creators: name: Bunge, Christiane
name: Conrad, André
name: Rehling, Julia
name: Waldhauer, Julia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Umweltgerechtigkeit
Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit

description: Public green spaces have a high potential for a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing, especially in urban areas. Studies on environmental justice indicate socially unequal access possibilities to urban green spaces. This article presents results on associations between individual socioeconomic position (SEP) and walking time from home to public green spaces in young people living in urban areas with more than 20,000 inhabitants in Germany. Data were derived from the German Environmental Survey for Children and Adolescents 2014-2017 (GerES V), the environmental module of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS Wave 2). The sample comprises 1149 participants aged 3 to 17 years. A total of 51.5% of the participants reach a public green space on foot within five and 72.8% within ten minutes from home. The lower the participant's SEP, the longer the walking time. Logistic regression models controlling for age group, sex, migration background, and region of residence show that participants with a low SEP have a significantly higher risk (odds ratio = 1.98; 95% confidence interval: 1.31-2.99) of needing more than ten minutes to walk from home to a public green space than participants with a high SEP. GerES V data indicate that young people living in urban areas in Germany do not equally benefit from the health-promoting potential of green spaces, which is an important aspect of environmental health inequalities. © 2021 by the authors.
A checking method for probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment: case studies on three cities
Creators: name: Tsang, Hing Ho
name: Yaghmaei-Sabegh, Saman
name: Anbazhagan, P.
name: Neaz Sheikh, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The conventional Cornell's source-based approach of probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment (PSHA) has been employed all around the world, whilst many studies often rely on the use of computer packages such as FRISK (McGuire FRISK-a computer program for seismic risk analysis. Open-File Report 78-1007, United States Geological Survey, Department of Interior, Washington 1978) and SEISRISK III (Bender and Perkins SEISRISK III-a computer program for seismic hazard estimation, Bulletin 1772. United States Geological Survey, Department of Interior, Washington 1987). A 'black-box' syndrome may be resulted if the user of the software does not have another simple and robust PSHA method that can be used to make comparisons. An alternative method for PSHA, namely direct amplitude-based (DAB) approach, has been developed as a heuristic and efficient method enabling users to undertake their own sanity checks on outputs from computer packages. This paper experiments the application of the DAB approach for three cities in China, Iran, and India, respectively, and compares with documented results computed by the source-based approach. Several insights regarding the procedure of conducting PSHA have also been obtained, which could be useful for future seismic-hazard studies.
Behavioural Expectations and Behaviour Change in Pregnancy: Experiences of Young Single Women
Creators: name: Reszel, Jessica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Pregnancy
subject: Health behaviours
subject: Adolescents
subject: Youth
subject: Prenatal care
subject: Women
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Qualitative
subject: Intersectionality

description: Background: Pregnancy has been described as a period when women experience heightened behavioural surveillance. Young single women have commonly been described as a population who engage in high risk behaviours during pregnancy (e.g. smoking), yet they are also a population who often has access to fewer resources to make expected behaviour changes during pregnancy. Purpose: To explore the experiences of young single pregnant and parenting women regarding behavioural expectations and behaviour change during pregnancy. Research Questions: (1) What are the perceived behavioural expectations for young single women during pregnancy? (2) Who or what reinforces the perceived behavioural expectations? (3) To which behavioural expectations do young single women conform (or resist) and why? Methods: Nine single pregnant or parenting women between the ages of 15 and 24 were recruited from two urban community health settings between November 2011 and January 2012. Data was collected through individual semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The main findings of the study include: (1) young single pregnant women are subject to a multitude of health and social behavioural expectations, (2) young single women experience internal and external behavioural surveillance during pregnancy, and (3) young single pregnant women experience these behavioural expectations as a tension between the potential for opportunity and oppression. Implications for Practice: By understanding young single pregnant women’s perceptions of how they are expected to behave, who and what reinforces such expectations, and how young women conform to or resist such expectations, the results of this project will inform the development of effective individual, community, and systemic level interventions and better inform interactions with young pregnant women.
Methodological Developments for an Improved Evaluation of Climate Change Impact on Flow Hydrodynamics in Estuaries
Creators: name: Shirkhani, Hamidreza
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Climate Change Impact
Downscaling
Flow Hydrodynamics
Dispersion Relation Analysis

description: The knowledge of flow hydrodynamics within the next decades is of particular importance in many practical applications. In this study, a methodological improvement has been made to the evaluation of the flow hydrodynamics under climate change. This research, indeed, proposes an approach which includes the methods that can consider the climate change impact on the flow in estuaries, gulfs, etc. It includes downscaling methods to project the required climate variables through the next decades. Here, two statistical downscaling methods, namely, Nearest Neighbouring and Quantile-Quantile techniques, are developed and implemented in order to predict the wind speed over the study area. Wind speed has an essential role in flow field and wave climatology in estuaries and gulfs. In order to make the proposed methodology computationally efficient, the flow in the estuary is simulated by a large-scale model. The finite volume triangular C-grid is analysed and shown to have advantages over the rectangular (finite difference) one. The dispersion relation analysis is performed for both gravity and Rossby waves that have crucial effects in oceanic models. In order to study the unstructured characteristic of the triangular grids, various isosceles triangles with different vertex angles are considered. Moreover, diverse well-known second-order time stepping techniques such as Leap-Frog, Adams-Bashforth and improved Euler are studied in combination with the C-grid semi discrete method. The fully discrete method is examined through several numerical experiments for both linear and non-linear cases. The results of the large-scale model provide the boundary conditions to the local coastal model. In order to model the flow over a local coastal area, a well-balanced positivity preserving central-upwind method is developed for the unstructured quadrilateral grids. The quadrilateral grid can effectively simulate complex domains and is shown to have advantages over the triangular grids. The proposed central-upwind scheme is well-balanced and preserve the positivity. Therefore, it is capable of modelling the wetting and drying processes that may be the case in many local coastal areas. It is also confirmed that the proposed method can well resolve complex flow features. The local model incorporates the outputs of the downscaling and large-scale flow models and evaluates the flow hydrodynamics under changing climate.
Supplementary document for Ultrahigh-order harmonic generation in the subnanometer wavelength range: the role of finite atomic size - 5308763.pdf
Creators: name: Khairulin, Ilias
name: Emelin, Mikhail
name: Ryabikin, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Calculation of the volume integral
title: Pecularities of fusarium virulent activity
Creators: name: Valieva, Rita I.
name: Lisovskaya, Svetlana A.
name: Isaeva, Guzel' Sh.
name: Daudova, Adilya D.
Publisher: name: Astrakhan State Medical University
Year: 2020

description: Adhesive activity and germination intensity of Fusarium, as well as bacterial-fungal interaction, have been studied. 27 strains were selected – 15 strains of F. verticillioides and 12 strains of F. oxysporum, isolated from patients from different areas of lesion. The obtained data confirm the presence of more pronounced pathogenic species among Fusarium, which emphasizes the importance of species identification. Analysis of the bacterial-fungal interaction showed that Fusarium, depending on the species, has different symbiotic and antagonistic activity when interacting with bacterial flora. The belonging of clinical strains to certain species and determination of the composition of microbial flora is one of the criteria for doctors in predicting the clinic of disease and mycotic complications. Key words: Fusarium, fungal lesions, fungal virulence, bacterial-fungal interaction, biofilms.
description: Astrakhan Medical Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 24–29
AUTOGENOUS COSTAL CARTILAGE AND SILICONE AUGMENTATION: A STUDY OF ENHANCED OUTCOMES IN RHINOPLASTY
Creators: name: Mei, Hong Li
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Rhinoplasty, Autogenous Costal Cartilage, Silicone Implants, Nasal Aesthetics, Cosmetic Surgery

description: The nose plays a crucial role in determining the overall aesthetic balance of the face, and as societal emphasis on facial beauty intensifies, the demand for cosmetic procedures, particularly rhinoplasty, has surged. This increase in interest reflects a broader societal trend toward enhancing physical appearance through medical interventions. Rhinoplasty, a surgical procedure aimed at altering the shape and structure of the nose, has evolved significantly with advancements in technology and techniques. The procedure commonly involves the use of various filling materials to achieve a more refined and three-dimensional nasal profile. Among these materials, autogenous costal cartilage and silicone implants are prominent choices due to their distinct advantages and limitations. Autogenous costal cartilage, derived from the patient’s own rib cartilage, offers a natural, biocompatible solution that integrates well with existing nasal structures. Silicone implants, on the other hand, are favored for their stability and ease of placement but may present different long-term outcomes. This study explores the comparative efficacy of these two augmentation methods in rhinoplasty, assessing their impact on surgical outcomes, aesthetic results, and patient satisfaction. By examining these techniques, the research aims to provide insights into optimizing rhinoplasty results and guiding clinical practice in cosmetic nasal surgery.
Global cooperation and the human factor in international relations
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2015

description: This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected foundation for understanding how and under which conditions global cooperation can succeed. As the first profoundly interdisciplinary book dealing with global cooperation, it provides the state of the art on human cooperation in selected disciplines (evolutionary anthropology and biology, decision-sciences, social psychology, complex system sciences), written by leading experts. The book argues that scholars in the field of global governance should know and could learn from what other disciplines tell us about the capabilities and limits of humans to cooperate. This new knowledge will generate food for thought and cause creative disturbances, allowing us a different interpretation of the obstacles to cooperation observed in world politics today. It also offers first accounts of interdisciplinary global cooperation research, for instance by exploring the possibilities and consequences of global we-identities, by describing the basic cooperation mechanism that are valid across disciplines, or by bringing an evolutionary perspective to diplomacy. This book will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduates in International Relations, Global Governance and International Development. Quelle: Verlagsinformation
Project methods as the vehicle for learning in undergraduate design education: a typology
Creators: name: Lee, Nicolette
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Learning through projects is a common feature in practice-based design education. While theory and case-based literature on problem-based learning abounds, the project methods more familiar to design education are rarely defined in practical curriculum development terms. This paper outlines a study of project types in use in a faculty of design. The study identified six project types, four domains and 11 sub-domains related to curriculum design and pedagogical strategies. The resulting propositional typology is presented as a tool for decision-making in project-oriented curriculum design. Also briefly discussed are some significant areas of alignment difficulty found during the study.
Stop and search powers in UK terrorism investigations: a limited judicial oversight?†
Creators: name: Lennon, Genevieve
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4807
subject: Public law
classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: At the pre-trial stage of counter-terrorist investigations, an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ indulgence towards street-level policing powers has been brought to task by European human rights norms, especially privacy, which are exerting new forms of control over policing discretion and opening judicial oversight over traditional policing activity. This article examines these trends in relation to suspicionless counter-terrorist stop and search. While the European Court of Human Rights applied robust scrutiny in the case of Gillan v. United Kingdom, in stark contrast to the approach by the House of Lords, there exists a number of challenges which are threatening to weaken judicial scrutiny in this area. First, more recent European Court of Human Rights cases show a more indulgent stance being taken towards policing powers. Second, the precautionary nature of suspicionless counter-terrorist stop and search raises a number of difficulties in relation to effective oversight. In addition, it is a counter-terrorist measure of general application which, to date, has not been subjected to particularly rigorous scrutiny.
title: THE HaB SYSTEM : Ένα αλγοριθμικό σύστημα εξατομικευμένων αρθρωτών 3d εκτυπωμένων μονάδων κατοικιών έκτακτης ανάγκης
title: THE HaB SYSTEM : Disaster relief user-defined open-source system of modular 3d printed houses

Creators: name: Κατσαβου Μυρτω
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Πολλές καταστάσεις που σχετίζονται με το φυσικό περιβάλλον και τις ανθρώπινες δραστηριότητες αυξάνουν τον κίνδυνο καταστροφής κατοικήσιμων περιοχών και μεγαλώνουν την ανάγκη για ταχείες λύσεις ανάκαμψης. Οι λύσεις των μη κυβερνητικών οργανισμών και άλλων, είτε τοπικών είτε εθνικών, οργανώσεων πρέπει να καλύπτουν τις απαιτήσεις των προσωρινά εκτοπισμένων πληθυσμών. Ωστόσο, ο σχεδιασμός τους αντιμετωπίζει πολλές προκλήσεις καθιστώντας την ανταπόκριση αρκετά περίπλοκη. Η παρούσα διπλωματική έχει ως στόχο να εξάγει εξατομικευμένες σχεδιαστικές λύσεις βάσει των αναγκών και επιθυμιών των πληγέντων πληθυσμών. Επιχειρεί να απαντήσει στα εξής ερωτήματα :
-Ποιά σχεδιαστικά εργαλεία και ποιοί περιβαλλοντικοί παράγοντες επηρεάζουν θετικά το μετατραυματικό στρες λόγω της καταστροφής, ενώ σέβονται τα εκάστοτε ήθη και συνήθειες των λαών;
-Όταν υπάρχει ανάγκη για άμεση ανταπόκριση συμπαγούς κατοικίας για την μετεγκατάσταση των πληθυσμών, ποιός τρόπος δόμησης είναι ο βέλτιστος για γρήγορα και ακριβή αποτελέσματα;
-Ενώ παράλληλα, ποιό ανακυκλώσιμο, ανανεώσιμο υλικό θα μπορούσε να χρησιμοποιηθεί με στόχο την ελαχιστοποίηση των περιβαλλοντικών επιπτώσεων χωρίς να διακυβεύεται η άνεση και η απόδοση;
Τα ερωτήματα απαντώνται με την σύνταξη ενός ατομικού ηλεκτρονικού ερωτηματολογίου, που θα διατίθεται στους πληγέντες πληθυσμούς, άμεσα συνδεδεμένο με αλγοριθμικό πρόγραμμα σχεδίασης. το οποίο εξάγει το εκάστοτε μορφολογικό αποτέλεσμα σε κλίμακα μονάδας κατοικίας, και δυνητικά σε κλίμακα κοινότητας. Το συγκεκριμένο σύστημα μπορεί να αποτελέσει εργαλείο σχεδίασης της βασικής γεωμετρίας, βάσει του οποίου, κάθε αρχιτέκτονας εντάσσει για την προσωπική του αισθητική και ύφος.
Αντίστοιχα, η 3d εκτύπωση, σε κλίμακα 1: 1, μείγματος PLA (πολυεστέρας παραγόμενος από άμυλο καλαμποκιού ή ζαχαροκάλαμο) και τοπικών ορυκτών πόρων,απαντά στο ερώτημα σχετικά με την παραγωγή άμεσου αποτελέσματος με άριστη συναρμογή υλικού και ανακυκλωσιμότητα, χωρίς την ανάγκη πολυπληθούς ανθρωπίνου δυναμικού.
Validity and reliability of wearable inertial sensors in healthy adult walking: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kobsar, Dylan
name: Charlton, Jesse M.
name: Tse, Calvin T. F.
name: Esculier, Jean-Francois
name: Graffos, Angelo
name: Krowchuk, Natasha M.
name: Thatcher, Daniel
name: Hunt, Michael A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Inertial measurement units (IMUs) offer the ability to measure walking gait through a variety of biomechanical outcomes (e.g., spatiotemporal, kinematics, other). Although many studies have assessed their validity and reliability, there remains no quantitive summary of this vast body of literature. Therefore, we aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the i) concurrent validity and ii) test-retest reliability of IMUs for measuring biomechanical gait outcomes during level walking in healthy adults. Methods: Five electronic databases were searched for journal articles assessing the validity or reliability of IMUs during healthy adult walking. Two reviewers screened titles, abstracts, and full texts for studies to be included, before two reviewers examined the methodological quality of all included studies. When sufficient data were present for a given biomechanical outcome, data were meta-analyzed on Pearson correlation coefficients (r) or intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for validity and reliability, respectively. Alternatively, qualitative summaries of outcomes were conducted on those that could not be meta-analyzed. Results: A total of 82 articles, assessing the validity or reliability of over 100 outcomes, were included in this review. Seventeen biomechanical outcomes, primarily spatiotemporal parameters, were meta-analyzed. The validity and reliability of step and stride times were found to be excellent. Similarly, the validity and reliability of step and stride length, as well as swing and stance time, were found to be good to excellent. Alternatively, spatiotemporal parameter variability and symmetry displayed poor to moderate validity and reliability. IMUs were also found to display moderate reliability for the assessment of local dynamic stability during walking. The remaining biomechanical outcomes were qualitatively summarized to provide a variety of recommendations for future IMU research. Conclusions: The findings of this review demonstrate the excellent validity and reliability of IMUs for mean spatiotemporal parameters during walking, but caution the use of spatiotemporal variability and symmetry metrics without strict protocol. Further, this work tentatively supports the use of IMUs for joint angle measurement and other biomechanical outcomes such as stability, regularity, and segmental accelerations. Unfortunately, the strength of these recommendations are limited based on the lack of high-quality studies for each outcome, with underpowered and/or unjustified sample sizes (sample size median 12; range: 2–95) being the primary limitation.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING TO COPE WITH PULSAR EFFECTS OF DESTRUCTIVE EVENTS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Zakaria Alcheikh Mahmoud Awad, Melasutra Binti Md Dali, Nikmatul Adha Binti Nordin
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Analysis of destructive events
Civil war
Destructive impact
Sustainable town planning
Post-tsunami
Pulsar effect
Natural disaster
Post-disaster recovery
Post-war recovery.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12N: 1-15
title: Features of production of Th2-dependent cytokines and eosinophil cationic protein in Helicobacter pylori-associated diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
Creators: name: Iraklionova, Natalya S.
name: Belan, Eleonora B.
name: Turkina, Svetlana V.
name: Myazin, Roman G.
Publisher: name: Astrakhan State Medical University
Year: 2020

description: The article reviews the features of the IL-4, IL-5 production, eosinophilic cationic protein, IgE total in patients who also suffer from inflammatory diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract and allergic rhinitis. 225 patients aged 18 to 40 years were examined. It was revealed that the level of IL-4, IL-5 and immunoglobulin E total in serum was reduced in the case of Helicobacter pylori infection. It was shown that increased values of eosinophil cationic protein in Helicobacter pylori-negative patients were detected more often than in healthy patients. The results of the study prove that Helicobacter pylori infection contributes to the inhibition of the Th2-type immune response. Key words: IL-4, IL-5, eosinophil cationic protein, IgE total, gastrointestinal tract, Helicobacter pylori, gastritis, allergic rhinitis.
description: Astrakhan Medical Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 30–37
Supplementary document for Aperiodic bandgap structures for enhanced quantum two-photon sources - 5309176.pdf
Creators: name: Dal Negro, Luca
name: Chen, Yuyao
name: Gorsky, Sean
name: Sgrignuoli, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The supplemental document includes the multifractal scaling analysis of the LDOS in a region surrounding the highest-frequency TM-bandgaps, the spatial distributions of additional scattering resonances surrounding the first two bandgaps of the system
title: P2IP Grand Coulee Reintroduction
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for the Federal Support of the Phase 2 Implementation Plan Testing Feasibility of Salmon Reintroduction in the Upper Columbia River Basin
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2025

description: WCRO-2024-02940