cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Giuseppe e i suoi fratelli: un progetto non realizzato di Luchino Visconti
Creators: name: Giori, Mauro
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: In 1963, Luchino Visconti signed a contract with producer Dino De Laurentiis to direct a film inspired
by the biblical story of Giuseppe and his brothers. Giuseppe e i suoi fratelli was meant to be a part of an
Italian colossal along with several other episodes to be directed by renowned artists such as Orson Welles
and Robert Bresson. Analysing letters and several versions of the screenplay never studied before, this essay t
race a thorough story of this project and explains the reasons of its failure. Even if Visconti accepted
De Laurentiis’s offer only to be sure that the producer would fund his adaptation of Camus’s The Stranger,
Giuseppe e i suoi fratelli interested him because it gave him a second chance to work on the monumental
version of Giuseppe’s story written by Thomas Mann. A few years before, Visconti had already written a
treatment for Rocco e i suoi fratelli under the influence of this beloved novel, but he had abandoned
every reference to it in the following development. Unfortunately, Christopher Fry, an American playwright
and screenwriter also involved in the biblical project, failed to understand Visconti’s predilection for
the novel and rejected any influence of the German writer. Despite Visconti’s efforts to find a compromise,
the director’s conception of the story (and of cinema as well) was too far from Fry’s one, as the three
different screenplays written by them for the project show in an unmistakable way, and the director was
dismissed by the producer without any notification.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Rental policy: financial viability or affordability in Australian public housing
Creators: name: McNelis, Sean
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Hall and Berry (2004) in Operating Deficits and Public Housing: Policy Options for Reversing the Trend highlight the financial crisis facing public housing in Australia. One way in which policy makers can respond to this crisis is by increasing rents. But are such increases justified? This paper locates the current dual rental system within the Australian social housing finance system, comparing it with finance systems operating in other countries. It will show that financial viability is the objective of the social housing finance system. As such it is not an objective of social housing but it is a necessary prerequisite for the functioning of social housing and the ongoing achievement of the objective of social housing. The paper will also explore the relationship between affordability and the objective of social housing. It will argue that this objective is ‘to ensure that all households have access to housing which is adequate and appropriate as a key component of an equitable standard of living’. While affordability is not an objective of social housing, it is a key indicator of whether social housing is achieving its objective and thus integral to social housing. On this basis, the paper argues that there can be no trade-off between financial viability and affordability. It concludes by proposing a solution to the current financial crisis. Abstract not available.
Hepatic insulin removal following oral glucose loading in nonobese subjects with mild Type II diabetes mellitus.
Creators: name: Wasilewska, Miroslawa.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: This study has concentrated on evaluating the possible contributions of changes in liver uptake to glucose intolerance. Insulin secretion was simultaneously monitored. The level of hepatic uptake of insulin during basal conditions and after glucose loading was assessed in non-obese subjects with mild diabetes and compared to that of a healthy control group. It was demonstrated that metabolic clearance of insulin was identical under basal conditions (13.1 $\pm$ 1.5 ml kg$\sp{-1}$ml$\sp{-1}$--controls and 13.6 $\pm$ 2.0 ml kg$\sp{-1}$ml$\sp{-1}$--subjects with mild diabetes). Both the metabolic clearance rate and hepatic extraction of insulin fell by 20% in the control group following the glucose load (10.5 $\pm$ 1.5 ml kg$\sp{-1}$ml$\sp{-1}$ 139 $\pm$ 9%, n.s). However, the decrease in the group of subjects with mild diabetes was found to be approximately 50% (p 0.05). The ratios of the integrated insulin to C-peptide concentrations (in arbitrary units) showed a close relationship to the decline in the fractional hepatic extraction after glucose loading. It was found to be 0.21 $\pm$ 0.03 for the control group and 0.38 $\pm$ 0.05 for the subjects with mild diabetes (p 0.05). These ratios also demonstrated a correlation with a degree of glucose intolerance expressed as the integrated glucose concentrations for each subject (r = 0.6). The increase in the levels of circulating insulin resulted primarily from the fall in the hepatic insulin extraction, because based on the C-peptide data, there was no significant increase in the insulin secretion. The integrated insulin concentrations were 100% greater in the glucose intolerant group when compared with controls (137 $\pm$ 24 vs. 73 $\pm$ 12), while there was no significant difference in the integrated C-peptide concentrations (369 $\pm$ 51 vs. 340 $\pm$ 28). It is suggested, therefore that the decrease in insulin removal by the liver, and not hypersecretion can explain the hyperinsulinemia seen in the patients with mild diabetes which were studied here and therefore could be one of the early defects in this disease. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Quando Dio parla (medio-)francese: Prologue e Fin nei Mystères de la Procession de Lille (XV secolo)
Creators: name: Colombo Timelli, Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Within the Mystères de la Procession de Lille, Prologue and Fin take on a specific extratextual  function: they introduce, comment and make topical the biblical episodes they stage. Appearing  regularly and according to a recurrent and repeated pattern, they prove essential as a tool to ensure the authenticity of the text and the effectiveness of the moral they posit.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Il “Saul” di Vittorio Alfieri
Creators: name: Trivero, Paola
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description:
My paper analyzes Vittorio Alifieri’s tragedy Saul. The author writes the tragedy after reading
the Bible, and particularly Samuel’s first book. Alfieri is enthusiastic about the biblical text,
thanks to its “sublime” theme and style, very useful for adapting the story as a tragedy. Alfieri
creates Saul without betraying the spirit of the source text – he underlines the king of Israel’s
ambivalent behavior toward his son-in-law David, whom he loves and hates at the same time.
From this perspective, Saul is quite a different character from the other “tyrants” from Alfieri’s
other tragedies. In his own words, the author finds in Saul «that uncertainty of the human heart,
so magical; so, a man loving two loves opposite to one another, wants and does not want the very
same thing. This uncertainty is one of the major secrets for generating emotion and suspension in
a theatre». And Alfieri makes it. He himself plays Saul on stage, many times, since he considers
him his “dearest” character – according to the author, in this character there is «everything,
absolutely everything». Moreover, Saul has been staged with the most famous actors all along the
Nineteenth and Twentieth century.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Triheptanoin: First Approval
Creators: name: Shirley, Matt
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110107 Metabolic Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Conflict of interest  During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from comments received were made by the author on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Matt Shirley is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here.

AbstractTriheptanoin (Dojolvi™), a synthetic medium-chain triglyceride, is being developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical as a pharmaceutical-grade anaplerotic compound for use in the treatment of inherited metabolic disorders. In June 2020, triheptanoin received its first regulatory approval, in the USA, for use as a source of calories and fatty acids for the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with molecularly confirmed long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders (LC-FAOD). Triheptanoin has also been investigated for use as a treatment in a range of other metabolic disorders or other diseases where energy deficiency is implicated. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of triheptanoin leading to this first regulatory approval for use in the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with LC-FAOD.

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title: Animations as educational complements to NMSOP-2
Creators: name: Bormann, Peter
name: Wendt, Siegfried
name: Starke, Ute
Publisher: name: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Year: 2012
Subjects: Seismology

description: New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice 2 (NMSOP2)
The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU): Human biomonitoring guidance values for selected phthalates and a substitute plasticizer
Creators: name: Apel, Petra
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Lange, Rosa
name: Rousselle, Christophe
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bürgerinitiative
DINCH
Europapolitik
Exposition
Human-Biomonitoring
Phthalsäureester
Stoffwechselprodukt
Ubiquität
Wertermittlung

description: Ubiquitous use of plasticizers has led to a widespread internal exposure of the European population. Until today, metabolites are detected in almost every urine sample analysed. This raised the urgent need for a toxicological interpretation of the internal exposure levels. The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) contributes substantially to the knowledge on the actual exposure of European citizens to chemicals prioritised within HBM4EU, on their potential impact on health and on the interpretation of these data to improve policy making. On that account, human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) are derived for the general population and the occupationally exposed population agreed at HBM4EU consortium level. These values can be used to assess phthalate exposure levels measured in HBM studies in a health risk assessment context. HBM-GVs were derived for five phthalates (DEHP, DnBP, DiBP, BBzP and DPHP) and for the non-phthalate substitute Hexamoll® DINCH. For the adult general population, the HBM-GVs for the specific metabolite(s) of the respective parent compounds in urine are the following: 0.5 mg/L for the sum of 5-oxo-MEHP and 5-OH-MEHP; 0.19 mg/L for MnBP, 0.23 mg/L for MiBP; 3 mg/L for MBzP; 0.5 mg/L for the sum of oxo-MPHP and OH-MPHP and 4.5 mg/L for the sum of OH-MINCH and cx-MINCH. The present paper further specifies HBM-GVs for children and for workers. Quelle: © 2021 The Author(s)
Interactive Medical Record Visualization based on Symptom Location in a 2D Human Body
Creators: name: Jin, Yongji
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: EMR
ICD
IV
Human Body

description: An electronic medical record (EMR) is “an electronic record of health-related information on an individual.” EMRs are widely used in healthcare organizations and have many advantages over traditional paper-based medical records, such as their efficiency and reduced storage needs. However, the use of EMRs has not yet reached its full potential. The numerous items of medical data are always shown with redundant and complex text contained in various monotonous forms and tables. It is hard for users to obtain useful information in a short timeframe. We propose a prototype system to intuitively and interactively visualize patients’ medical records. Navigation is improved through graphics-based and interaction-based visualization. Our interface features clickable two-dimensional (2D) images of a human body, on which the symptom locations are the starting point of the navigation. In addition, interactive and classified history visualization is also provided. Finally, some pertinent suggestions and comments from medical professionals are discussed.
Differential evolution for RFID antenna design: a comparison with ant colony optimisation
Creators: name: Montgomery, James
name: Randall, Marcus
name: Lewis, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Differential evolution (DE) has been traditionally applied to solving benchmark continuous optimisation functions. To enable it to solve a combinatorially oriented design problem, such as the construction of effective radio frequency identification antennas, requires the development of a suitable encoding of the discrete decision variables in a continuous space. This study introduces an encoding that allows the algorithm to construct antennas of varying complexity and length. The DE algorithm developed is a multiobjective approach that maximises antenna efficiency and minimises resonant frequency. Its results are compared with those generated by a family of ant colony optimisation (ACO) metaheuristics that have formed the standard in this area. Results indicate that DE can work well on this problem andthat the proposed solution encoding is suitable. On small antenna grid sizes (hence, smaller solution spaces) DE performs well in comparison to ACO, while as the solution space increases its relative performance decreases. However, as the ACO employs a local search operator that the DE currently does not, there is scope for further improvement to the DE approach.
Detecting Communities in Networks and Performance Prediction Based on Relation Strength Measurement
Creators: name: Behera, Soom Satyam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Communities
Relation Strength Measurement
Community Threshold Parameter

description: Complex networks is an interdisciplinary research area which focuses on the study of properties of complex systems that have many functional or structural subunits. Community detection algorithms are one of the major approaches to analyse complex networks with multilevel or overlapping community structures. This research work focuses on constructing a novel community detection approach for simplification of a given complex demographic network. The general process of the abstraction from concrete problems as well as the general definition of communities have not been well defined and all the existing methods are derived from specific backgrounds, leaving the reliabilities in other fields open to ques- tion. This specificity of the existing methods reveals the need for a general approach for community definition and detection. Here, we devise a general procedure to find community structures in concrete problems by classifying the concrete networks into two basic types: Transmission networks and Similarity networks. The relation among nodes in transmission networks are constructed by material transmission and the ones in similarity network are constructed by the similarity in properties of the nodes. We show that both the types can be represented based upon an unified graph model. Based on the model, we propose a generic approach, Relation Strength Measurement (RSM), to define the communities. We have demonstrated that the Effective Resistance Function (ERF), from the Klein and Randic’s electrical network model, is applicable for quantifying the relation among nodes. We have also introduced a community threshold parameter (CP) based on which, the RSM algorithm categorizes the network nodes into communities. We have compared the performance of our algorithm with other well known community detection methods. The simulation results show that the algorithm accurately obtains the division of community structure both in real-world and synthetic networks.
L'imaginaire forestier : une géocritique de trois romans franco-ontariens
Creators: name: Noël, Martine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: géocritique
Hélène Brodeur
Daniel Poliquin
Jean Marc Dalpé
romans franco-ontariens
quête utopique
la littérature comme un espace imaginaire

description: Ma thèse s’inspire des possibilités d’analyses que permet l’évocation de l’espace forestier en littérature. En étudiant La quête d’Alexandre d’Hélène Brodeur, L’Obomsawin de Daniel Poliquin et Un vent se lève qui éparpille de Jean Marc Dalpé, je montre que la forêt du Nord ne sert pas exclusivement de cadre à la diégèse, mais elle participe tantôt à la structure sémiotique de l’œuvre en suscitant les émotions des personnages, devient parfois personnage, et symbolise ailleurs une quête utopique. Ce travail se fonde sur l’approche géocritique, cette « manière de concevoir [la littérature] comme un espace imaginaire » et les travaux de Gaston Bachelard, de Robert Harrison, de Catherine Addison et de Margaret Atwood qui ont exploré les liens entre l’espace forestier et les significations qui lui ont été associées.
title: Kontrol`nye cpiski dlja izucenija i ocenki sostojanija promyslennych ob'jektov, imejuscich vescestva, pregstavljajuscie opacnost' dlja vodnych resurcov
title: Контрольный список № 14: Оснащение ёмкостей
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: water protection
subject: installation-related
subject: water pollution
subject: water pollutants
subject: risk management
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Wasser
subject: Chemicals
subject: Economy | Consumption
subject: Water

description: Опираясь на рекомендации международных комиссий по речным бассейнам и водным ресурсам, была разработана концепция контрольных листов, позволяющая эффективно оценить состояние промышленных установок, содержащих вредные для водных ресурсов материалы и растворы. Она включает в себя обзор потенциальных сфер деятельности, а также специальные контрольные листы, распределенные по функциональным единицам, отраслям и областям риска.
The relationship between the tree-dweller dreamers and the little people: Shamans, power and spirit helpers in the Canadian Dakota religious tradition.
Creators: name: Ruml, Mark Francis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: One of the most profound expressions of Dakota religiousness is contained in the affirmation/prayer "Mitakuye Oyasin" ("All my relatives", "I am related to all"), a heart-felt, mystical awareness of the interrelatedness of all living things and a fundamental religious orientation. The significance of this and other expressions of relationship is indicated throughout the written literature. In fact, an examination of the dynamic of relationship is the best way to understand Dakota religiousness. The following dissertation will substantiate this perspective by examining the dynamic of relationship in the Canadian Dakota religious tradition. Although the relational orientation itself is hidden, its expression is observable. The following document is an exploration of how "correct relationship," as a religious orientation or way of being truly and fully human, is expressed in the Dakota religious tradition, in daily interactions with other people, with Wakan Tanka and the Wakan beings, with the animals and with the cosmos. The expression of relationship in myths, rituals, and other religio-cultural manifestations will be investigated. In particular, those expressions related to a discussion of the shamans and their spirit helpers will be focused on. As an exemplary model, the relationship between the tree dweller dreamers (a type of shaman) and the little people (a type of spirit helper) will be examined.
Proceedings of the 4th Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium 2012, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06-07 February 2012
Creators: name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Islam, Md.Saiful
name: Sabah, Shabnam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Proceedings of the 4th Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium 2012, held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 06 to 07 February 2012.
Implementation study of a 5-component pediatric early warning system (PEWS) in an emergency department in British Columbia, Canada, to inform provincial scale up
Creators: name: McElroy, Theresa
name: Swartz, Erik N
name: Hassani, Kasra
name: Waibel, Sina
name: Tuff, Yasmin
name: Marshall, Catherine
name: Chan, Richard
name: Wensley, David
name: O’Donnell, Maureen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: The rapid identification of deterioration in the pediatric population is complex, particularly in the emergency department (ED). A comprehensive multi-faceted Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) might maximize early recognition of clinical deterioration and provide a structured process for the reassessment and escalation of care. The objective of the study was to evaluate the implementation fidelity, effectiveness, and utility of a 5-component PEWS implemented in the ED of an urban public general hospital in British Columbia, Canada, and to guide provincial scale up. Methods: We used a before-and-after design to evaluate the implementation fidelity, effectiveness, and utility of a 5-component PEWS (pediatric assessment flowsheet, PEWS score, situational awareness, escalation aid, and communication framework). Sources of data included patient medical records, surveys of direct care staff, and key-informant interviews. Data were analyzed using mixed-methods approaches. Results: The majority of medical records had documented PEWS scores at triage (80%) and first bedside assessment (81%), indicating that the intervention was implemented with high fidelity. The intervention was effective in increasing vital signs documentation, both at first beside assessment (84% increase) and throughout the ED stay (> 100% increase), in improving staff’s self-perceived knowledge and confidence in providing pediatric care, and self-reported communication between staff. Satisfaction levels were high with the PEWS scoring system, flowsheet, escalation aid, and to a lesser extent with the situational awareness tool and communication framework. Reasons for dissatisfaction included increased paperwork and incidence of false-positives. Overall, the majority of providers indicated that implementation of PEWS and completing a PEWS score at triage alongside the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) added value to pediatric care in the ED. Results also suggest that the intervention is aligned with current practice in the ED. Conclusion: Our study shows that high-fidelity implementation of PEWS in the ED is feasible. We also show that a multi-component PEWS can be effective in improving pediatric care and be well-accepted by staff. Results and lessons learned from this pilot study are being used to scale up implementation of PEWS in ED settings across the province of British Columbia.
Phytophthora on Aesculus hippocastanum L. (horse chestnut)
Creators: name: Werres, Sabine
name: Akilli, Seçil
name: Maden, Salih
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Quedlinburg
Year: 2012

description: JKI Data Sheets Plant Diseases and Diagnosis; 2012/1; 3-12
Influence de la pratique réflexive sur le perfectionnement professionnel et l'évaluation axée sur l'apprentissage dans l'évaluation du rendement de la direction d'école
Creators: name: Charland, Julie M. L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: évaluation du rendement
direction d'école
pratique réflexive
school principal
évaluation axée sur l'apprentissage
perfectionnement professionnel
établissement scolaire
Ontario
assessment
leadership
performance
school administrator
reflective practice
performance evaluation
assessment for learning
French language schools
professional development

description: Alors que les gouvernements cherchent à améliorer le rendement des systèmes scolaires qu’ils financent, l’intérêt des dirigeants porte sur les résultats des élèves mais aussi sur le rendement des professionnels de l’éducation, dont les directions d’école. Cette étude a pour but de contribuer au développement de la connaissance sur l’évaluation du rendement de ces dernières en répondant à la question : Comment les directions d’école perçoivent-elles la pratique réflexive dans leur processus d’évaluation? La recension des écrits montre que les directions qui ont le plus de succès jouent un rôle actif dans leur amélioration et que la pratique réflexive accroît la pertinence du perfectionnement professionnel et par conséquent le rendement de la direction. L’étude propose un cadre conceptuel qui tient compte du perfectionnement professionnel, de l’évaluation axée sur l’apprentissage et de la pratique réflexive. Cette recherche suit une méthodologie mixte afin de déceler les tendances et les perceptions quant aux pratiques à l’étude. D’abord, un questionnaire à choix de réponses a été administré sur Internet et les réponses de 65 directions d’écoles de langue française de l’Ontario ont été traitées de façon quantitative. Ensuite, des entrevues semi-structurées avec dix des répondants ont permis d’approfondir le sujet par une méthode qualitative en offrant l’occasion aux participants de partager leur vécu. Les résultats dévoilent que le perfectionnement professionnel occupe peu de place dans l’évaluation du rendement bien que les participants se servent d’objectifs de croissance professionnelle. La pratique réflexive est souvent déclenchée par un inconfort, par un succès ou par une occasion de perfectionnement ou est provoquée par des situations extérieures transposées à la situation de l’école du participant. Les échanges structurés et les discussions franches entre collègues et avec le superviseur favorisent la pratique réflexive. La rétroaction spécifique du superviseur donne des pistes d’amélioration appuyées d’un soutien. Les participants reconnaissent qu’ils jouent un rôle actif dans leur évaluation et recherchent un encadrement orienté vers l’amélioration. Les participants perçoivent que la pratique réflexive occupe une grande place dans leur processus d’évaluation, qu’ils soient encadrés par le superviseur dans un processus axé sur leur amélioration ou qu’ils s’auto-évaluent quand le processus est flou.
Homogeneous Projective Varieties of Rank 2 Groups
Creators: name: Leclerc, Marc-Antoine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Lie Algebra
Root System
Weyl Group
Pieri Graph
Algebraic Group
Representation Theory
Chow Group

description: Root systems are a fundamental concept in the theory of Lie algebra. In this thesis, we will use two different kind of graphs to represent the group generated by reflections acting on the elements of the root system. The root systems we are interested in are those of type A2, B2 and G2. After drawing the graphs, we will study the algebraic groups corresponding to those root systems. We will use three different techniques to give a geometric description of the homogeneous spaces G/P where G is the algebraic group corresponding to the root system and P is one of its parabolic subgroup. Finally, we will make a link between the graphs and the multiplication of basis elements in the Chow group CH(G/P).
Disputa teologica in un mondo alla rovescia: il dramma su Abramo di Moshè Zacuto
Creators: name: Rathaus, Ariel
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Theological controversy in a reversed world;  Moshe Zacuto's drama on Abraham.
The foundation of the world (Yessod 'Olam) is believed to be the first Biblical drama written in Hebrew.  It was composed in the first half of the 17th century by the mystical and rabbinical author Moshe Zacuto, who immigrated to Italy from Amsterdam.  In fact the work is mostly based on rabbinic legends about Abraham and his struggle against idolatry, and includes many theological debates between the patriarch and King Nimrod, the pagan tyrant who condemns him to be burnt for his ideas. This paper deals with the ideological background of the drama and the peculiar and paradoxical atmosphere created by the theological debates.  As asserted by several scholars (Berliner, Schirmann. Levy), Zacuto, who was born in a refugees family of  Marrano origin,  alluded in his play to the persecutions of the Jews by the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal. On the other hand, it seems that the play also alludes to 17th Century materialistic philosophy and hedonism, symbolized by the words of Nimrod and his sages.  At any rate, the struggle between Abraham and Nimrod takes place in a highly absurd ideological frame, in which right and wrong are meaningless concepts and true faith is considered as a sort of moral perversion: a reversed world. The paper underlines this hidden and ironic aspect of the play and discusses it, on the basis of some classic works on Carnival reversion, like Cocchiara's Il mondo alla rovescia  and Bakhtin' s Rabelais and his world.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Harmonization of environmental exposure assessment for veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides
Creators: name: Düring, Rolf-Alexander
name: Wohde, Manuel
name: Junker, Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Tierarzneimittel
subject: Gülle
subject: Prüfvorschrift
subject: transformation
subject: Veterinärpharmaka
subject: Biozide
subject: Gülle
subject: Prüfrichtlinie
subject: veterinary medicinal
subject: products
subject: biocides
subject: manure
subject: test guideline
subject: Chemikalien

description: The spread of veterinary medicinal products (VMPs) and biocides onto agriculturally used areas represents a very important path of entry into the environment for these product groups. Within this literature study public available transformation studies with liquid manure are summarized. Transformation studies were evaluated considering the transformation fate of tested substances, the origin and characteristics of used manure, the experimental setup, the measured parameters and the main outcome of the studies. Test duration throughout the studies ranges from 2 to 374 days and study temperature ranges from 5 °C to 55 °C. As main topics within the 34 found transformation studies the high dependency of transformation on temperature, redox potential, dry matter content and many other parameters is reported. It was further critically analyzed which basic information and parameters were neglected. Unfortunately only six publications give information on the redox potential of the manure. Further, the characterization of the matrix in many cases is inadequate due to missing parameters such as dry matter content, pH, and TOC.Additionally, public available monitoring data of VMPs in manure were collected and evaluated regarding the origin and characteristics of the manure, the minimum and maximum found concentrations, and percentage of identified compounds. Within the 27 found publications, 1568 manure samples were analyzed and 39 different active substances for VMPs and 11 metabolites and transformation products of VMPs could be found in manure. Mainly, the samples were analyzed for sulfonamides, tetracyclines and fluorquinolones. In no case a non-target approach was used. Single active substances were found in some studies with more than 100 analyzed samples in more than 50 % of the analyzed manure samples. This is the case for sulfadimidine, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline. It can be concluded that for both transformation studies and monitoring studies a standardized guidance would be beneficial for their applicability in regulatory contexts and also enhance the scientific outcome of these studies.
Purim e gli albori del teatro ebraico in Italia
Creators: name: Mayer Modena, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description:
The Jewish theatre in Hebrew has its very first beginning in Italy with the "Wedding Comedy" by Leone de Sommi (Mantua, floruit 1550), whose inspiration owes much to the Purim tradition. Jewish theatre, especially the Judaeo-Italian one, continues to flourish until XX century,  always maintaining a strong connection with the Purim celebration. This article will deal with the development of the Jewish theatre - both in Hebrew and in Jewish language -, with  particular emphasis on its relationship with the Purim. In examining the main phases of such  a relevant phenomenon we will rely on the documents currently known, with particular reference  to the Judaeo Italian corpus; one of the first objectives of this work will be to open new perspectives for further research in the field of Jewish dramatic literature.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Il Purim-shpil: origini e trasformazioni
Creators: name: Rosenzweig, Claudia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The Purim-shpil: Origins and Transformations
In this paper I consider the origins of the most venerable form of Yiddish theatre, the Purim-shpil. In particular, I note the first attestations of the term Purim-shpil, from its initial appearance in Yiddish texts from  16th-century Italy, to subsequent examples: 1. a Purim-shpil from Germany, from the years 1595-1605 and 2. Eyn sheyn Purim-shpil from Wagenseil’s collection (1697), both published by Chone Shmeruk in 1979. I endeavour to interpret these texts – which cannot yet be defined as fully theatral – within the rich parodic tradition of Purim in Ashkenazi society, and propose that this tradition should be seen not in terms of ‘popular’, but rather as the fruit of a skilled use of different registers, ‘high’ and ‘low’, in a way that parallels the parodies of sacred Christian texts in European Medieval literature. Indeed we know that the actors were often students of the Talmudic Academies, and thus among the most cultured intellectuals of Ashkenazi society. The use not only of quotations and references from the Hebrew Bible, but from Midrash and prayers in the Holy Tongue as well, prove that these texts are a refined product of a rooted patrimony that continues to bear its fruit to this very day.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Digital division to social inclusion: strategies for ‘vulnerable’ users facing isolation by the digital divide
Creators: name: Seton, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Older people
Public housing
Digital divide
Digital literacy
Digitally-enabled
Cognitive load theory
Human-computer interaction

description: This thesis examines the benefits for older Australians living in public housing that may result from being digitally-enabled. A series of on-site interventions, run over a seven-month period, investigated strategies to assist older people to become digitally-enabled. Strategies included access to technology, training and support, combined with social interaction and computer games, and Cognitive Load Theory principles were applied to instructional design. Participants reported positive improvements to their lives including self-efficacy in technology and feelings of connectedness with family and community. This was still evident in two participants interviewed more than four years after completing the interventions.
“Puisque Esther, elle aussi comédienne, sut jouer la comédie au roi”: la storia di Ester nel teatro giudeo-provenzale
Creators: name: Baricci, Erica
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The Judaeo-Provençal tradition of Purim celebrations is to be considered particularly interesting:  in fact, most Judaeo-Provençal texts - which constitute a comparatively small corpus - are  interpretations of the story of Esther, dating from XIV to XX century. In this article we will deal  with some dramatic aspects in the representations of the story of Esther: the Roman d'Esther (1327)  by Crescas du Caylar; the Tragediou de la Reine Esther by Mardoché Astruc and Jacob Lunel (1774); the  Esther de Carpentras (1928) by Armand Lunel. We will also discuss the incidence of both traditional  sources (with particular emphasis on the Midrashim) and contemporary culture in the theatrical inspiration of the three dramas.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Emulating enterprise software environments: enabling observation, analysis and assessment of the run-time properties of enterprise software systems
Creators: name: Hine, Cameron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates constructing test-bed environments suitable for testing enterprise software systems. Test-beds act as a kind of laboratory in which the quality of software systems can be studied. For credibility, it is important that laboratory conditions be as similar as possible to the real world. In the enterprise context, this means that test-beds must mimic interaction behaviour of tens-of-thousands of individual systems. Cameron's thesis introduces a method for creating suchlarge-scale test-beds. By modelling real system interactions and emulating those models test-beds are provided which mimic the behaviour and scale of real enterprise environments. This work enables a class of scalability and robustness testing not previously practical and ultimately enables development of more reliable software systems.
A Bona Kini: identifying a Tolai methodology for recovery from volcanic disruptions among the Tolai of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Lubett, Tandy Evah
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Indigenous
Methodology
Re-weaving
Holistic
Wellbeing
Re-settlement
Kinship
Community
Participatory research
Mapping
Story-telling
Epistemology
Knowledge sharing
Moieties
Varvateten

description: The Tolai people of the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, are a highly cohesive society noted for their strong kinship system. After the major volcanic eruptions of 1994, thousands of people were resettled on alienated land, far from their ancestral villages. The relocation meant that groupings of clans (vunatarai) were split up and resettled in different locations, where members of the same kinship group were resettled in more than one location. Twenty-seven years since the volcanic eruption, the impact on the resettled population from the worst affected villages is still felt today.
description: The aim of this research is to discover and validate a Tolai methodology for re-weaving the threads of vunatarai disrupted by the eruptions, through a process of kinship mapping and storytelling. Kinship mapping (varvatakodo na vunatarai) and sharing of stories through dialogue (varvapirpiriana) have the potential to be vital tools for social healing and societal wellbeing: a way for indigenous cultures such as the Tolai to know their extended families and an important vehicle for all to use for restoring bona kini (wellbeing). I argue that rebuilding and strengthening bona kini in this way has the potential to restore the fabric of Tolai society in a way that builds resilience to future volcanic disruptions and to improve recovery from such traumatic events. Bona kini is a holistic term encompassing mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, environment, economics, political, psychological, social, and cultural harmony within the communities. Using Community-Based Participatory Research tools of kinship mapping and shared story-telling, underpinned by an Indigenous epistemology, I worked with key members of two affected communities to determine whether varvateten can be an effective methodology of reweaving moieties and kinship lineage among the Tolai.
Optimization of a Menthol Energy Gel to Improve Endurance Performance, Cognition and Mood during Exercise in the Heat
Creators: name: Vogel, Rosanne Marie
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Athlete
Mint
Coolong
Supplement
Sports nutrition

description: Endurance performance deteriorates in hot and humid environments, yet athletic competitions often occur in the heat. Coaches, athletes, and sport scientists continue to seek ways to improve performance under heat stress. L-menthol (menthol) is a novel, nonthermal approach to heat management, which is the aromatic and cooling component of mint plants. The sensory cooling effect of menthol is well-known, hence its use in pharmaceuticals, oral hygiene products, and confections. It has been recently established that the internal (oral) application of menthol can be beneficial for an athlete’s performance and thermal perceptions during exercise in warm/hot conditions. However, the ideal formula for a practical, menthol-enhanced sports nutrition product is currently unknown, and the effects of using menthol cooling during real-world endurance competitions are unexplored. As such, the aim of this thesis was to develop and evaluate a menthol-enhanced energy gel to provide perceptual cooling for athletes during exercise in hot environments. Chapter 1 introduces the problem statement and provides an overview of the structure of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides a review of the existing research on menthol in sport, highlighting the benefits of its internal application to improve endurance performance, perceptions, and cognitive outcomes. From this background, Study 1 set out to optimize a carbohydrate energy gel with menthol to provide a perceptual cooling effect during exercise in the heat (Chapter 3 – Vogel et al., 2022), and furthermore, to determine whether the menthol energy gel influenced endurance performance, thermal perceptions, cognition, and mood under laboratory conditions (Study 2/Chapter 4 –Vogel et al., 2023). Finally, the effects of the menthol gel were explored during real-world, sanctioned endurance events among competitive-elite athletes (Study 3/Chapter 5). The findings and broader implications of the body of work are discussed in Chapter 6, along with limitations and considerations for future research in this area. This thesis demonstrated that a menthol-enhanced energy gel with additional flavoring was optimized for acceptability at a 0.5% menthol concentration, and provided an instant, localized cooling sensation in the mouth, throat, and upper airways lasting ~10-20 minutes when ingested before and/or during exercise in warm-hot environments. However, this effect did not impact performance or global thermal perceptions among endurance athletes when assessed in a laboratory environmental or in real-world competition. As such, athletes may elect to include menthol sports nutrition products during competition when immediate, localized cooling sensations are desired, as part of a wider heat management strategy.
Sulle orme di Racine e Metastasio: Il castigo di Atalia di David Franco-Mendes
Creators: name: Callow, Anna Linda
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Atalia's Punishment by David Franco-Mendes is a biblical drama which belongs to the period of the  Hebrew Haskalah. The author declares openly that he was inspired by the works of Racine and Metastasio,  but although it is possible to identify many common features, there are also important differences.
The character of Atalia is deprived of a tragic stature which could inspire sympathy in the reader,  while all the elements of the text regarding the Temple of Jerusalem and the coronation of the legitimate  heir to the lineage of David are amplified. In this way, the drama, as compared to the works of Racine  and Metastasio, is brought back to be closer to the sensibility of a Jewish audience. Its being written  according to the canons of modern literature, and in pure Biblical Hebrew, however, makes it ideally  accessible to an educated audience of non-Jewish origin. The work can then be interpreted as an attempt  to mediate between the Jewish and non-Jewish European culture, in the spirit of the Haskalah.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
GLAMlab toolkit to access and analyse texts at the National Library of Estonia
Creators: name: Tinits, Peeter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: digital humanities
corpus building
newspapers
libraries
GLAM Workbench

description: This repository presents simple tools and a workflow to access the Digitized Newspaper Collections at the National Library of Estonia. See the repository for additional details: https://github.com/peeter-t2/RR_GLAMlab_pilot
“Un re non è un cetriolo”. La figura del re Davide in Keter ba-rosh di Yaakov Shabtai
Creators: name: Ferrari, Sara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The aim of this paper is to analyse King David’s character as it appears in the play Keter ba-rosh  written by Yaakov Shabtai in 1968-1969. In addition to the comparison with the original biblical  character, a deep survey of King David’s role in the play has been conducted in the order to explain  the different possible interpretations of the work. A particular attention is devoted to the affinity  between this play and the fictional work of the author.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena