cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Individual and area-level determinants associated with C-reactive protein as a marker of cardiometabolic risk among adults
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Background High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) is a sensitive biomarker of systemic inflammation and is related to the development and progression of cardiometabolic diseases. Beyond individual-level determinants, characteristics of the residential physical and social environment are increasingly recognized as contextual determinants of systemic inflammation and cardiometabolic risks. Based on a large nationwide sample of adults in Germany, we analyzed the cross-sectional association of hsCRP with residential environment characteristics. We specifically asked whether these associations are observed independent of determinants at the individual level. Methods Data on serum hsCRP levels and individual sociodemographic, behavioral, and anthropometric characteristics were available from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (2008â€Ì2011). Area-level variables included, firstly, the predefined German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD) derived from the INKAR (indicators and maps on spatial and urban development in Germany and Europe) database and, secondly, population-weighted annual average concentration of particulate matter (PM10) in ambient air provided by the German Environment Agency. Associations with log-transformed hsCRP levels were analyzed using random-intercept multi-level linear regression models including 6,768 participants aged 18â€Ì79 years nested in 162 municipalities. Results No statistically significant association of PM10 exposure with hsCRP was observed. However, adults residing in municipalities with high compared to those with low social deprivation showed significantly elevated hsCRP levels (change in geometric mean 13.5%, 95%CI 3.2%-24.7%) after adjusting for age and sex. The observed relationship was independent of individual-level educational status. Further adjustment for smoking, sports activity, and abdominal obesity appeared to markedly reduce the association between area-level social deprivation and hsCRP, whereas all individual-level variables contributed significantly to the model. Conclusions Area-level social deprivation is associated with higher systemic inflammation and the potentially mediating role of modifiable risk factors needs further elucidation. Identifying and assessing the source-specific harmful components of ambient air pollution in population-based studies remains challenging. © 2019 Steppuhn et al.
Imaging of extragalactic globular cluster systems
Creators: name: Spitler, Lee R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Globular clusters are a class of star cluster notable for their compactness and relatively high total masses. Their formation requires very unique conditions that were more commonplace in the early Universe, thus the study of extragalactic globular cluster systems can yield useful observational constraints on the first stages of galaxy formation. This thesis contains a detailed study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of four galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and the ground-based WIYN Telescope. The primary results include: Observational evidence that helps to explain the apparent size difference between the globular cluster metallicity subpopulations; The discovery of the first metal-poor GC color-magnitude trend within a spiral galaxy and confirmation that this trend is not caused by a contribution from younger GCs; Mid-IR photometry of two extragalactic GC systems is presented for the first time. This data is used to confirmed GC metallicity bimodality and test stellar population models; The globular cluster system of an elliptical galaxy in an isolated environment is studied. Its properties resemble those found in cluster ellipticals, suggesting galaxy mass was more important in determining globular cluster system numbers compared to the local environment; A direct proportionality between globular cluster system mass and host galaxy dark matter mass is reported; Galaxy bulge formation is constrained in a synthesis of metal-rich globular cluster and galaxy observations from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey.
Richmond School District Evaluation : District-wide Education and Awareness
Creators: name: Turcotte, Kate
name: Zheng, Alex
name: Babul, Shelina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The Richmond School District in British Columbia and Dr. Shelina Babul of the B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit, BC Children’s Hospital, collaborated on the development of a concussion management protocol and district-wide education and awareness, based upon the Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT) resource. CATT is intended to support standardized concussion response and management, and includes toolkits with self-paced learning modules and other tailored resources for various audiences. CATT for School Professionals provides educators and school administrators with resources for supporting a student in his/her integration back to school after sustaining a concussion or how to respond to a situation where a student may have sustained a concussion in the school setting. This collaboration resulted in the creation of a district-wide concussion protocol, a tailored concussion response poster promoting the CATT Concussion Pathway, and professional development sessions for educators (administrators, teachers, support staff) on concussion which were held February 15th during the Richmond School District Conference – 2019.
Genome-wide analysis of interchromosomal interaction probabilities reveals chained translocations and overrepresentation of translocation breakpoints in genes in a cutaneous T-Cell lymphoma cell line
Creators: name: Steininger, Anne
name: Ebert, Grit
name: Becker, Benjamin Valentin
name: Assaf, Chalid
name: Möbs, Markus
name: Schmidt, Christian A.
name: Grabarczyk, Piotr
name: Jensen, Lars
name: Przybylski, Grzegorz K.
name: Port, Matthias
name: Kuss, Andreas W.
name: Ullmann, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: chromosome conformation capture
subject: chromoplexy
subject: chromosomal translocations
subject: deep sequencing
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Carcinogenesis
subject: Chromothripsis
subject: Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous
subject: Translocation, Genetic
subject: High-throughput nucleotide sequencing
subject: Carcinogenese
subject: T-Zell-Lymphom
subject: Translokation

description: In classical models of tumorigenesis, the accumulation of tumor promoting chromosomal aberrations is described as a gradual process. Next-generation sequencing-based methods have recently revealed complex patterns of chromosomal aberrations, which are beyond explanation by these classical models of karyotypic evolution of tumor genomes. Thus, the term chromothripsis has been introduced to describe a phenomenon, where temporarily and spatially confined genomic instability results in dramatic chromosomal rearrangements limited to segments of one or a few chromosomes. Simultaneously arising and misrepaired DNA double-strand breaks are also the cause of another phenomenon called chromoplexy, which is characterized by the presence of chained translocations and interlinking deletion bridges involving several chromosomes. In this study, we demonstrate the genome-wide identification of chromosomal translocations based on the analysis of translocation-associated changes in spatial proximities of chromosome territories on the example of the cutaneous T-cell lymphoma cell line Se-Ax. We have used alterations of intra- and interchromosomal interaction probabilities as detected by genome-wide chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) to infer the presence of translocations and to fine-map their breakpoints. The outcome of this analysis was subsequently compared to datasets on DNA copy number alterations and gene expression. The presence of chained translocations within the Se-Ax genome, partly connected by intervening deletion bridges, indicates a role of chromoplexy in the etiology of this cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Notably, translocation breakpoints were significantly overrepresented in genes, which highlight gene-associated biological processes like transcription or other gene characteristics as a possible cause of the observed complex rearrangements. Given the relevance of chromosomal aberrations for basic and translational research, genome-wide high-resolution analysis of structural chromosomal aberrations will gain increasing importance.
An oxalate cathode for lithium ion batteries with combined cationic and polyanionic redox
Creators: name: Yao, Wenjiao
name: Armstrong, A. Robert
name: Zhou, Xiaolong
name: Sougrati, Moulay Tahar
name: Kidkhunthod, Pinit
name: Tunmee, Sarayut
name: Sun, Chenghua
name: Sattayaporn, Suchinda
name: Lightfoot, Philip
name: Ji, Bifa
name: Jiang, Chunlei
name: Wu, Nanzhong
name: Tang, Yongbing
name: Cheng, Hui Ming
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The growing demand for advanced lithium-ion batteries calls for the continued development of high-performance positive electrode materials. Polyoxyanion compounds are receiving considerable interest as alternative cathodes to conventional oxides due to their advantages in cost, safety and environmental friendliness. However, polyanionic cathodes reported so far rely heavily upon transition-metal redox reactions for lithium transfer. Here we show a polyanionic insertion material, Li2Fe(C2O4)(2), in which in addition to iron redox activity, the oxalate group itself also shows redox behavior enabling reversible charge/discharge and high capacity without gas evolution. The current study gives oxalate a role as a family of cathode materials and suggests a direction for the identification and design of electrode materials with polyanionic frameworks.
The Short Form Reshaped: Email, Blog, SMS, and MSN in Twenty-First Century E-pistolary Novels
Creators: name: Santini, Laura
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: By borrowing from computer coding strategies or computer-based communication tools and rules, by re-thinking typo-graphic and layout strategies, the digital or electronic short forms of twenty-first century e-pistolary novels are made of are crossbreeds that expressively capture and mirror the fragmented, often simultaneous and multi(p)layer, nature of the contemporary conversation threads within a pervasive communicative environment. The result is that e-pistolary fiction revises correspondence typologies, thematic patterns, conventions, techniques and rules at various levels, namely narrative, symbolic, linguistic while disrupting the linearity of the book form through high discontinuity as well as refashioning and jeopardizing one of the strongest assumptions of epistolary novels, i.e. materiality. Not intended as an investigation of traditional letter novels, the aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it intends to provide a preliminary mapping of some of the computer-mediated short forms and their re-shaping in literary works in book form: to this end, somenarratives are briefly introduced as specimens of twenty-first century e-pistolary novels and some of their salient features highlighted - a question that has as yet received little critical attention. Four are the examples that have been selected: Microserfs (1995) and J-Pod (2006) by Douglas Coupland; The PowerBook (2000), by Jeanette Winterson; and Black Box (2012) by Jennifer Egan. On the other hand, this paper discusses e2 A novel (2010), the second e-pistolary novel by British author Matt Beaumont, as a case study of a remediation in print of some born-digital short forms compiled through an almost filmic montage: an effective rethinking of the letter novel that cleverly combines a multitude of characters, several subplots, and a variety of text types that are a collection of electronic messages emerging from the contemporary digital environment rather than from literary history or tradition.
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
D-Amino acids from foods and gut microbiota and their effects in health and disease
Creators: name: Roskjær, Ann B.
name: Roager, Henrik M.
name: Dragsted, Lars O.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: The D-enantiomers of L-amino acids are non-proteinogenic but widely present in foods. This is due to spontaneous racemization or processing, such as heating or alkali treatment, leading to substantial dietary exposure. Additional exposure to D-amino acids (D-AAs) comes from the human microbiota; D-AAs are present in bacterial surface proteoglycans, essential for bacterial competition and growth. Humans and other mammals have a complex set of genes for D-AA transport and degradation, and capacity to synthesize several D-AAs. Free D-AAs are present at low levels in human tissues and body fluids, yet they are apparently of considerable physiological and pathological importance. Amino acid transport regulates their presence and favors specific D-AAs, e.g. D-serine, D-aspartate, D-cysteine, and D-glutamate, over many others. Some of these D-AAs interact with the ubiquitous glutamate-gated Ca2+ channels, affecting signaling functions in most organs, especially the intestine, kidney, and brain. Consequently, the exposures, synthesis, local and systemic transport of D-AAs could be much more biologically important in humans than previously assumed, likely playing a role in gut-organ signaling and in many degenerative diseases.
CD1 restricted recognition by murine T cells.
Creators: name: Podrebarac, Theresa A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: CD1 molecules are non-polymorphic glycoproteins distantly related to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and represent a third lineage of antigen-presenting molecules in the immune system. An unusual subset of CD1d restricted T cells in mice called NK T cells, express an invariant Valpha14-Jalpha281 T cell receptor (TCR)alpha rearrangement. NK T cells have been shown to play a pivotal role in the regulation of the immune response, the development of autoimmunity and in tumour rejection. By immunizing mice with CD1d expressing transfectant cells, a panel of CD1d restricted, directly reactive T cell clones was generated. Functionally similar to NK T cells, these T cell clones secreted both Type1 (IFN-gamma) and Type 2 (IL-4, IL-10) cytokines upon stimulation. In contrast, detailed TCR analysis revealed that a diverse repertoire of T cells could recognize CD1d. T cells expressing Valpha10, -11, -15 and -17 and having non-germline-encoded nucleotides resulting in diverse V-J junctions were identified. Three clones expressed the invariant Valpha14-Jalpha281 TCR but were functionally indistinguishable from the clones expressing diverse TCRs. Murine gammadelta T cells were examined for similar reactivity to CD1d, but specific recognition of CD1d could not be demonstrated. These data establish that the universe of TCRs capable of direct recognition of CD1d is more diverse than was previously appreciated, indicating the flexibility of the adaptive immune system in response to CD1d mediated processes. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Product-Line Sampling of Field Configurations
Creators: name: Arens, Rahel
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Field configuration
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Product lines
subject: Sampling
subject: Produktlinie

description: Configurable systems are often developed as a product line. Different features might be in- or excluded for the creation of a specific product. Making a selection or deselection for every possible feature results in a configuration. Field configurations, configurations that have been sold and are out in the market, might now get software updates which then could lead to a fault in the finished configuration. How to cover and test inter- actions between features of products that have already been sold is not yet efficiently solved. Common testing approaches are not efficient enough for this use case for multi- ple reasons. On the one hand, field configurations contain configurations from different and older feature models that might not be valid in the newer feature models. On the other hand, there are interactions and features that would theoretically be possible for the different feature models that do not appear in the field configurations at all. In this thesis, we introduce a method to determine a set of configurations to represent the fea- ture interactions of a specific set of field configurations. To this end, we provide two algorithms, which both reduce a set of given field configurations to a subset containing the same interactions as the field configurations. We evaluate both algorithms regarding their calculation time, size, and coverage of interactions from the field configurations. We compare the result with a sample of an existing sampling technique executed on the last feature model of the product line. The results show that we differ from existing sam- pling techniques in our coverage and that reducing the field variants to a smaller subset works. For one-wise feature interactions, we are able to reduce the field configurations to a subset up to 995 times smaller in size and for pair-wise interactions, up to 121 times smaller.
Interview with Professors Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki) and Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna)
Creators: name: Franceschi, Valeria
name: Corrizzato, Sara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Anna Mauranen; Barbara Seidlhofer

description: We interviewed professors Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki) and Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna) when they were invited as keynote speakers at the symposium “New Frontiers in Teaching and Learning English”, where they delivered talks about English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The symposium, held at the University of Verona, was organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, headed by Prof. Roberta Facchinetti, and chaired by Dr. Paola Vettorel. The conference achieved resounding success, as shown by the presence of both academics and teachers at primary and secondary levels. Great interest in fact was displayed in relation to the topics discussed during the day: the focus was preeminently on the most recent research on pedagogical and didactic approaches to English teaching, developed in response to the globalization processes that have increased the relevance of English as a language of international communication.
description: Iperstoria, No 2 (2013): Django Unchained di Quentin Tarantino
Experimental evaluation of delay/loss-based TCP congestion control algorithms
Creators: name: Leith, Douglas J.
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Quetchenbach, Tom
name: Shorten, Robert N.
name: Lavi, Kfir
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present initial experimental results for TCP Illinois and Compound TCP. These tests are for relatively simple scenarios yet they are sufficient to highlight several interesting issues. We observe that both TCP Illinois and Compound TCP can exhibit poor scaling behaviour as path BDP increases. As a result, link utilisation can be low and network responsiveness can become sluggish as BDP increases. We also document a number of important implementation issues observed during our tests.
Epinephrine autoinjectors available in Canada
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 119 discusses epinephrine autoinjectors available in Canada. Conclusions People at risk for anaphylaxis in the outpatient setting should be advised to have access to at least two epinephrine autoinjectors especially when they are far from emergency medical care (home, travel, occupation, recreational activities). Oral medications such as antihistamines and corticosteroids are inadequate to treat rapidly-evolving, severe allergic reactions. Healthcare providers, especially community pharmacists, can access placebo demonstration epinephrine autoinjectors (trainers) to be used in patient teaching.
Jahresbericht der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie 2012 – 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Jahresbericht DGEpi
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Epidemiologie

description: Die „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi) e. V.“ ist eine unabhängige wissenschaftliche Fachgesellschaft, die im Jahr 2005 gegründet wurde und aus der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Epidemiologie (DAE) hervorging. Sie vertritt das Fach Epidemiologie in Forschung und Lehre. Im Zwei-Jahresbericht wird über die Aktivitäten der DGEpi in den Jahren 2012 und 2013 berichtet.
Harmonization of environmental exposure assessment for veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides
Creators: name: Junker, Thomas
name: Römbke, Jörg
name: Hennecke, Dieter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Tierarzneimittel
subject: Gülle
subject: Prüfvorschrift
subject: ransformation
subject: Veterinärpharmaka
subject: Biozide
subject: Gülle
subject: Prüfrichtlinie
subject: Veterinary Medicinal Products
subject: biocides
subject: manure
subject: test guidelin
subject: Chemikalien

description: The spread of veterinary medicinal products (VMP) and biocides onto agriculturally used areas repre-sents a very important path of entry into the environment for these product groups. For this reason, current guidance (e.g. „Guideline on determining the fate of veterinary medicinal products in ma-nure“ (EMA/CVMP/ERA/430327/2009) (EMA, 2011) stipulates experimental studies on transfor-mation of VMPs and biocides in manure. Though, the documents only contain basic regulatory re-quirements, whereas an experimental test guideline is still missing, both on EU and ⁠OECD⁠ level. To allow for a consistent assessment of studies within the registration process, a harmonized interna-tionally accepted and validated test method is needed.A draft test guideline was developed within a previous R&D-Project “Development of test guidance for transformation of veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides in liquid manure” (Hennecke et al., 2015). The experimental method was examined and revised by an intra-laboratory comparisons as well as an international inter-laboratory comparison (pre-validation ring test).In the present project, an international ring test has been performed and evaluated testing a veteri-nary medicinal product (florfenicol) in pig manure and a biocide (imidacloprid) in cattle manure. Moreover, two international workshops were organized; one at the beginning in connection with pre-ceding project (Hennecke et al., 2015) and one at the end of the project to discuss and evaluate the ring test. Based on the experimental results of the ring test as well as discussions and conclusions of both workshops, a revised draft test guideline was prepared.
Embryonic Stem Cell Extracts Possess Immune Modulatory Properties That Prevent Dendritic Cell Maturation and T Cell Activation
Creators: name: Mohib, Kanishka
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Embryonic stem cell
Dendritic cells
T cells
Immune modulation

description: Embryonic stem cells (ESC) possess immune privileged properties and have the capacity to modulate immune activation. ESCs can persist across allogeneic immunological barriers, prevent lymphocyte proliferation in mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) assays and can promote graft acceptance. However, clinical application of live ESC to treat immunological disorders is not feasible as live ESC can form teratoma in-vivo. In order to harness these properties of ESCs without adverse risk to patients, we hypothesized that ESC derived extracts may retain immune modulatory properties of whole cells and therefore could be used to abrogate allo-immune responses. We found addition of ESC-extracts from human lines H1 and H9, significantly prevented T cell proliferation in allogeneic MLRs. These results were confirmed using murine J1 ESC line. In-vitro studies showed human ESC EXT were able to modulate maturation of human monocyte derived dendritic cells (DC) by suppressing up-regulation of important co-stimulatory and maturation markers CD80, HLA-DR and CD83. In addition, DCs educated in the presence of human ESC extracts significantly lost their ability to stimulate purified allogeneic T cells compared to control extract treated DCs. We also determined that ESC extracts have an independent effect on T cells. ESC extracts prevented T cell proliferation in response to anti CD3/CD28 stimulation. In MLRs, ESC derived factors significantly down-regulated IL-2 and IFN-γ expression, while up-regulating TGF-β and Foxp3 expression. Furthermore, lymphocytes and purified T cells activated with anti-CD3/CD28, ConA and PMA proliferated poorly in the presence of ESC derived factors, while proliferation in response to ionomycin was not affected. Western blot analysis indicated that ESC derived factors prevented PKC-θ phosphorylation without influencing total PKC-θ levels. Moreover, IκB-α degradation was abrogated, confirming absence of PKC-θ activity. Therefore, ESC extracts have potent immune suppressive properties and may have clinical applications in ameliorating transplant rejection and autoimmune conditions.
British Columbia Record
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Vancouver : Record Publishing Company
Year: 2016

description: The British Columbia Record was published in Vancouver, and ran from June 1916 to July 1922. The Record was published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. As the official publication for the Architectural Institute of B.C., the B.C. Builders’ Exchange, and the Building and Construction Industries’ Exchange of B.C., the Record primarily covered news related to building, contracting, engineering, real estate, and industrial finance. The Record was published by the Record Publishing Company, which had previously published the paper under a number of different titles, including the Daily Building Record and the British Columbia Building Record. The Record subsequently evolved into the Journal of Commerce.
Processing "Alphabet City" in Abraham Cahan's Yekl. A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896)
Creators: name: Strazzanti, Nicola Maurizio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Jewish; Abraham Cahan; Yekl: A Tale of The New York Ghetto

description: In the quote taken from Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin, the Russian-American writer measures – on linguistic and phonological parameters – the ability of his semi-autobiographical protagonist to behave correctly in the adopted homeland. The short excerpt is stylistically tantamount, but at the same time momentous in the history of American ‘ethnic’ literature, with reference to the literary experiment Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) performed in his novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896). This short book mirrors an eminently transitional socio-cultural framework through the representation of a peculiar descriptive element: the immigrant’s linguistic identity in trans-Atlantic dimension. The contact between the writer’s sharp view and what he actually saw generated a book deeply influenced by the illustration of imperfection in his protagonists’ speech. Manhattan’s Lower East Side Jewish neighborhood – the ghetto Cahan wanted to describe and possibly explain to the American audience – was inhabited by immigrants whose mother-tongue, to quote Vladimir Nabokov’s citation pointed out above, sounded like “music”, but whose English represented alphabetical “murder”. Cahan’s novella is set in the critical time of mass immigration, when a couple of millions of eastern ashkenazic Jews left eastern Europe and settled in the United States (Geipel 3). The disruption of narrative language, which mirrors in almost naturalist fashion first generation immigrants’ obvious failure to use the language of mainstream society, constitutes as I see it one of the primary critical keys to understand the text. By means of a highly sophisticated articulation of racialized dialogue, Cahan fictionalizes a series of socio-cultural issues: the settlement of an eastern European community in New York City, the linguistic configuration of the Lower East Side at that time, and in general the ways in which the United States inform and deform immigrants’ attitudes towards life in an alien society. Narrative language in Yekl – far from playing the simple role of a means to constitute a literary form – should therefore be understood as an explanation for the eternal transformational practices that influence the evolution of ideology and society, especially in the multiple socio-cultural contexts that have shaped (and are still shaping) the United States – a complex issue which has recently been investigated most interestingly by Roberto Cagliero and Anna Belladelli (2013).
description: Iperstoria, No 2 (2013): Django Unchained di Quentin Tarantino
Mixed methods study exploring parent engagement in child health research in British Columbia
Creators: name: Smith, Jennifer
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Tucker, Lori
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
name: Mah, Janet W. T.
name: Boudreau, Ainsley
name: Mount, Dawn
name: Bonaguro, Russell
name: Glegg, Stephanie
name: Amed, Shazhan
Publisher: name: BMJ Open
Year: 2021

description: Objectives The objective of this study was to explore parent perspectives of and interest in an interactive knowledge translation platform called Child-Sized KT that proposes to catalyse the collaboration of patients, families, practitioners and researchers in patient-oriented research at British Columbia Children’s Hospital (BCCH). Methods An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was used over 1 year. Over 500 parents across BC completed an online survey, including a subsample of 102 parents who had accessed care at BCCH within the past 2 years. The survey explored parent perspectives about the value of their engagement at all stages of the research process and their interest in and concerns with using an online platform. Following the online survey, two focus groups were held with parents in the Vancouver area to explore themes emerging from the survey. Results Parents expressed keen interest in engaging in research at BCCH. Parents perceived benefit from their input at all stages of the research process; however, they were most interested in helping to identify the problem, develop the research question and share the results. Although parents preferred online participation, they had concerns about protecting the privacy of their child’s information. Conclusions Parents see value in their involvement in all stages of child health research at BCCH. Their input suggests that Child-Sized KT, a hypothetical online platform, would facilitate meaningful stakeholder engagement in child health research, but should offer a customised experience and ensure the highest standard of data privacy and protection.
Immigrants and natives: investigating differences between staff and students' use of technology
Creators: name: Kennedy, Gregor
name: Dalgarno, Barney
name: Bennett, Sue
name: Judd, Terry
name: Gray, Kathleen
name: Chang, Rosemary
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The corollary of the 'Digital Native'---young, technologically avid and literate---is the 'Digital Immigrant'---older, less familiar and comfortable with technology. The accompanying rhetoric posits that in the higher education sector, staff and students are ensconced firmly on either side of a 'digital divide', with critical implications and consequences for teaching and learning. This proposition was tested by surveying 108 staff and 2588 first-year undergraduate students across three Australian Universities about their use of a large selection of common and emerging technologies. These technologies were grouped into eight coherent categories using factor analysis. A MANOVA was then used to analyse different uses of these technologies according to participants' role (staff or student), gender and age. Significant main effects were reported for each of these independent variables and differences were seen particularly for technologies related to mobile phone use and gaming. However, the absolute magnitudes of most differences between groups were small and, critically, there were no role, gender or age effects for technology-based activities associated with Web 2.0 technologies, and the overall use of these technologies was low. These findings support a growing evidence base that, while some differences exist, the 'digital divide' between students and staff is not nearly as large as some commentators would have us believe.
Magnetically controlled exchange process in an ultracold atom-dimer mixture
Creators: name: Knoop, S.
name: Ferlaino, F.
name: Berninger, M.
name: Mark, M.
name: Nagerl, H.-C.
name: Grimm, R.
name: D'Incao, J. P.
name: Esry, B. D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report on the observation of an elementary exchange process in an optically trapped ultracold sample of atoms and Feshbach molecules. We can magnetically control the energetic nature of the process and tune it from endoergic to exoergic, enabling the observation of a pronounced threshold behavior. In contrast to relaxation to more deeply bound molecular states, the exchange process does not lead to trap loss. We find excellent agreement between our experimental observations and calculations based on the solutions of three-body Schrodinger equation in the adiabatic hyperspherical representation. The high efficiency of the exchange process is explained by the halo character of both the initial and final molecular states.
"Un chien andalou", un "filme poema": Analisis del prologo
Creators: name: Kryszak, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Language, General.
subject: Cinema.

description: El corpus biliografico en tomo al prologo del "filme poema" Un chien andalou (1929) es voluminoso. En este trabajo proporcionamos una sintesis de los analisis del prologo obtenidos gracias a diversos acercamientos: el analisis textual, la indagacion pragmatica, la intertextualidad y el estudio de la recepcion filmica. Identificamos dos esquemas globales que estructuran las imagenes y los temas del prologo: la contraposicion simple y la poesia asociativa surrealista. En los ultimos anos, teoricos y biografos han relacionado la esqumatizacion del prologo con varios discursos que circulaban en aquella epoca y que, segun Jose Caos, forman parte de la antitesis del racionalismo, o sea el antropologismo: las consideraciones entomologicas de Fabre y de Maeterlinck, las reflexiones del marques de Sade sobre la doctrina tomista, el marxismo, los movimientos literarios ultraista y surrealista, y el psicoanalisis. Segun los defensores del psicoanalisis, estos aspectos formales, tematicos y estructurales del prologo escenifican los mecanismos psiquicos regresivos e irracionales que intervienen en la recepcion espectatorial. Sin embargo, nuestro estudio del prologo dentro el marco cognitivo y ecologico revela el caracter racional y adaptativo de estos comportamientos mentales. Asi concluimos que el filme Un chien andalou, mas alla que una simple reaccion en contra del racionalismo, es el sitio donde se contraponen el racionalismo y el antropologismo.
“What is behind the word?” A conversation with Amitav Ghosh, and his translators
Creators: name: Rigoli, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Amitav Ghosh; interview

description: In April 2013, Amitav Ghosh was in Venice for some weeks to attend the Incroci di Culture festival and to continue writing his new novel, the third part of his announced Ibis trilogy. After a public meeting with the writer, his translator Anna Nadotti and Pia Masiero of the University of Venice, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Ghosh about his latest books, Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke. For a lucky coincidence, at the very end of the interview Ghosh's translators Anna Nadotti and Norman Gobetti joined us and I could also have a brief conversation with the three of them. The interview was especially concerned with the topics of history and language, two of Ghosh's main literary interests. Some of Nadotti and Gobetti's comments on the difficulties of translating Ghosh's books helped clarify Ghosh's attitude towards the concept of “multifacity”. This seems to be one of the central points of both his literary style and his approach to history-writing, which is the matter of these two books about the Indian Ocean in the 19th century, but also one of the main topics of Indian literature in English in the last decades.
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Leitfaden zur umweltfreundlichen öffentlichen Beschaffung: Emissionsarme Möbel und Lattenroste aus Holz und Holzwerkstoffen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Innenausstattung
subject: Holzmöbel
subject: Möbel
subject: Büromöbel
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: In den Arbeitsbereichen der öffentlichen Hand kommen Möbel unterschiedlichster Form und Funktion zum Einsatz. Da die Produkte während des gesamten Lebensweges Umweltbelastungen verursachen können, beziehen sich die Kriterien in diesem Leitfaden sowohl auf die Herstellung, als auch auf die Nutzungsphase und die Entsorgung. Möbel und Lattenroste werden im Innenraum verwendet, weshalb aus Umwelt- und Gesundheitssicht möglichst geringe Emissionen aus diesen Produkten in die Umgebung abgegeben werden sollten. Die Verwendung von Holz aus nachhaltiger Forstwirtschaft trägt ebenfalls zur Umweltverträglichkeit bei und ist daher adressiert. Der Leitfaden basiert auf den Kriterien des Umweltzeichens Blauer Engel für emissionsarme Möbel und Lattenroste aus Holz und Holzwerkstoffen (DE-UZ 38, Ausgabe Januar 2022). Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: In den Arbeitsbereichen der öffentlichen Hand kommen Möbel unterschiedlichster Form und Funktion zum Einsatz. Da die Produkte während des gesamten Lebensweges Umweltbelastungen verursachen können, beziehen sich die Kriterien in diesem Leitfaden sowohl auf die Herstellung, als auch auf die Nutzungsphase und die Entsorgung.Möbel und Lattenroste werden im Innenraum verwendet, weshalb aus Umwelt- und Gesundheitssicht möglichst geringe Emissionen aus diesen Produkten in die Umgebung abgegeben werden sollten. Die Verwendung von Holz aus nachhaltiger Forstwirtschaft trägt ebenfalls zur Umweltverträglichkeit bei und ist daher adressiert.Der Leitfaden basiert auf den Kriterien des Umweltzeichens Blauer Engel für emissionsarme Möbel und Lattenroste aus Holz und Holzwerkstoffen (DE-UZ 38, Ausgabe Januar 2022).
In Vitro Effects of Bisphenol A on Prostate Cells: Searching for Clues of Environmental Carcinogenesis
Creators: name: Sienkiewicz, Marta
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Bisphenol A
Xenoestrogens
Prostate Cancer

description: Estrogens maintain the appropriate androgen-estrogen balance for normal regulation of the structure and function of the male reproductive tract, including the prostate gland. This research investigated viability of cells and expression of selected genes in prostate carcinoma cells (PC-3) exposed to bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogen-like substance present in a number of plastic materials. PC-3 cells are able to metabolize BPA at concentrations below 100 µM. BPA exposure at concentrations between 1nM and 100 µM does not increase or significantly reduce cell viability of these cells. Although the genes investigated in this study (GSTP1 and MGMT) did not show a significant change in expression following in vitro exposure to BPA, the positive control ethinyl estradiol (EE2) caused an increase in GSTP1 expression at mRNA level. These results indicate that BPA does not affect the viability of prostate cells, and motivate a need for further research to identify other genes that could be affected by BPA.
News As Changing Texts. Corpora, Methodologies And Analysis. Di Roberta Facchinetti, Nicholas Brownlees, Birte Bös, Udo Fries.
Creators: name: Belladelli, Anna
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: news

description: The volume, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and divided into four chapters, explores almost four hundred years of newspaper writing. One of the assets of the book is the very chapter organization, which is not based on equally distributed time spans, but rather on relevant turning points in news history and also on the specific academic expertise of the authors. This editorial decision allows for a less pre-packaged and more lively approach to changes in news discourse and format. Another valuable aspect of the book is that, as experts and even compilers of machine-readable corpora, the authors share their personal experience and concerns with readers, such as the need to focus on amounts of news material that can be searched electronically but which can also be read and analyzed manually in their entirety. Moreover, available corpora (such as ZEN, the largest corpus of late 17th- and 18th-century newspapers, compiled by Fries himself et al.) are described, evaluated, and sometimes critiqued as for size and features, thus enabling the academic reader – and, more broadly, the scientific community – to gather useful information and stimuli for further research.
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The Bravo: A Venetian Story. Di James Fenimore Cooper
Creators: name: Poole, Gordon
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: James Fenimore Cooper

description: During his three-month stay in Sorrento starting August 30, 1829, James Fenimore Cooper rented two floors of a sumptuous palazzo at what he saw as a convenient price. Today you can still take up lodgings in this historic building, where Torquato Tasso was born and lived his early years, but at the time of this writing it will cost you upwards of €150.00 ($195.00) per night for a single room. When beggars thronged outside his gates, Cooper did what he could for them. However, his mind-set as an American was so far from that of his surroundings that, enjoyable as his stay was, he found no inspiration for any specific literary work.
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title: Trends for plasticizers in German freshwater environments - Evidence for the substitution of DEHP with emerging phthalate and non-phthalate alternatives
title: Trends for plasticizers in German freshwater environments
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Nagorka, Regine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Umweltprobenbank

description: Plasticizers are marketed in high volumes and Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is frequently detected in the environment and human populations. Industry had largely relied on DEHP until regulation started to restrict its marketing in 1999 due to environmental and human health concerns. The aim of this study was to obtain spatial-temporal trends for DEHP and its substitutes in German rivers. We have investigated suspended particulate matter (SPM) samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) for the presence of 23 plasticizers, i.e. 17 phthalates and 6 non-phthalates. The samples were collected in the last 10 years at 13 sites in large river basins in Germany such as the Rhine, Elbe and Danube. A decrease in DEHP concentrations was observed at all sampling sites between the mid-2000s and 2017. The maximum concentration for DEHP was determined in 2006 in samples from Rehlingen/Saar (6720 ng/g dry weight (dw)). By 2017, the DEHP concentration in Rehlingen had dropped to 2080 ng/g dw. Currently, Diisononyl phthalate (DINP) is the plasticizer with the highest levels in the SPM samples (maximum value 4150 ng/g dw in Rehlingen/Saar). Our results show that novel plasticizers such as Diisononylcyclohexane-1,2-dicarboxylate (DINCH) spread rapidly in surface waters after their market introduction. We have found several plasticizers of emerging concern in the environmental samples, the further use of which is currently under review under the EU chemicals regulation (REACH, registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals). In particular for Di(2-propylheptyl) phthalate (DPHP) a significant increase in concentration was observed at almost all sites between the mid-2000s and 2017, for example in Prossen/Elbe from 24 ng/g dw (2005) to 1380 ng/g dw (2017). © 2020 The Authors.
Study of the oxygen mass transfer in viscous fermentation systems
Creators: name: Patel, Nilesh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: During aerobic fermentations, availability of oxygen to microorganisms is a very important factor for their growth and subsequent product formation. To evaluate the amount of oxygen that is available to microorganisms for their consumption, the oxygen mass transfer coefficient (KLa ) is often used in the design and comparison of bioreactors. It becomes more difficult to characterize oxygen mass transfer and to design bioreactors when the viscosity of the medium constantly increases during the fermentation process. Therefore, this work is concerned with the study of K La in viscous fermentation systems. Two types of bioreactors, the reciprocating plate bioreactor and the stirred tank bioreactor, were used to study the growth of Aspergillus niger and the production of citric acid. This fermentation leads to a very viscous fermentation medium due to the long filamentous structure of Aspergillus niger. Before conducting fermentation experiments with the microorganism Aspergillus niger, wood pulp solutions were used as a model fluid to mimic its physical characteristics and to study the oxygen mass transfer in such mixtures. Experiments were done with different pulp concentrations and KLa was estimated using the gassing-out method. The estimated KLa values were then correlated to the power input per unit volume and the gas superficial velocity using a power law equation. Fermentation experiments with Aspergillus niger were conducted with both bioreactors at different agitation speeds, and KLa was estimated using a data reconciliation algorithm that used 12 measured process variables and 4 mass conservation models. KLa was obtained at different stages of fermentation and at different agitation intensities. It is believed that the data reconciliation algorithm allowed reliable estimates of KLa.