cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La reconstruction du processus institutionnel d'enquête et de prise de décision dans le domaine de l'inspection du travail dans l'Outaouais.
Creators: name: Girard, Sylvie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.

description: Cette recherche, de type qualitatif, a pour but la reconstruction du processus institutionnel d'enquete et de prise de decision dans le domaine de l'inspection du travail au Quebec. Plus precisement, nous voulons regarder le cheminement quotidien de l'inspecteur de la Commission de la sante et de la securite du travail (CSST) en ce qui a trait a son role dans les enquetes d'accidents et a son mandat au niveau de la prise en charge par le milieu "employeurs et travailleurs", lui permettant de proteger les travailleurs, des risques de sante de securite, dans les lieux de travail. Cette recherche nous a permis de conclure que les exigences du mandat, que l'on a confie a la CSST, est de proteger le travailleur, se trouvant, en permanence, module par une autre exigence, sans aucun doute, aussi forte; "celle de la survie economique, des entreprises, qu'elle controle". (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Leitfaden zum Umgang mit "kurzzeitigen Verschmutzungen" in Flussbadegewässern
title: Leitfaden zum Umgang mit "kurzzeitigen Verschmutzungen" in Flussbadegewässern
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rouault, Pascale
name: Schmidt, Alexandra
name: Seis, Wolfgang
name: Tatis-Muvdi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Badegewässerrichtlinie [EU]
subject: Gewässerverunreinigung
subject: Badegewässer
subject: Flussbadegewässer
subject: EG-Badegewässerrichtlinie
subject: Gewässerverschmutzung
subject: Flussbaden
subject: Wasser

description: Der Leitfaden ist aus dem Verbundprojekt "FLUSSHYGIENE" (2015-2019) im Rahmen des BMBF-ReWaM -Vorhabens "Regionales Wassermanagement" entstanden. Mit interdisziplinären Beiträgen aller Projektbeteiligten zeigt der Leitfaden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen auf, um Flussbadegewässer einzurichten und zu bewirtschaften. Insbesondere dient er als Hilfestellung im Umgang mit kurzzeitigen Verschmutzungen nach EG-Badegewässerrichtlinie (2006/7/EG) in Flussbadegewässern. Es werden Möglichkeiten vorgestellt, die Badenden während mikrobiologischer Verschmutzungsereignisse in Fluss(Badegewässern) zu schützen und Maßnahmen beschrieben, um längerfristig eine bessere hygienische Wasserqualität zu erreichen. Entwickelt wurde der Leitfaden speziell für Behörden und Institutionen sowie für Interessensverbände, die sich mit dem Thema des Flussbadens beschäftigen. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Der Leitfaden ist aus dem Verbundprojekt „FLUSSHYGIENE“ (2015-2019) im Rahmen des ⁠BMBF⁠-ReWaM -Vorhabens „Regionales Wassermanagement“ entstanden.Mit interdisziplinären Beiträgen aller Projektbeteiligten zeigt der Leitfaden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen auf, um Flussbadegewässer einzurichten und zu bewirtschaften. Insbesondere dient er als Hilfestellung im Umgang mit kurzzeitigen Verschmutzungen nach EG-Badegewässerrichtlinie (2006/7/EG) in Flussbadegewässern. Es werden Möglichkeiten vorgestellt, die Badenden während mikrobiologischer Verschmutzungsereignisse in Fluss(Badegewässern) zu schützen und Maßnahmen beschrieben, um längerfristig eine bessere hygienische Wasserqualität zu erreichen. Entwickelt wurde der Leitfaden speziell für Behörden und Institutionen sowie für Interessensverbände, die sich mit dem Thema des Flussbadens beschäftigen.
Molecular mechanisms underlying platelet activating factor-mediated neuronal death
Creators: name: Ryan, Scott D
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Aberrant glycerophosphocholine metabolism is associated with neuronal loss in multiple neurodegenerative diseases. In addition to being central to activation of apoptosis, aberrations in steady state levels of the platelet activating factor (PAF) family of glycerophospholipids influence production and degradation of multiple other bioactive lipids making PAF a promising target for disease intervention. In this thesis, I show that concentrations of C16-PAF, and its immediate metabolite C16- lyso-PAF, are elevated in post-mortem Alzheimer disease and transgenic (TgCRND8) mouse temporal cortex. It has been assumed that activation of the PAF G-protein coupled receptor (PAFR) was required for PAF-induced apoptosis. Here, I show that C16-PAF triggers neuronal apoptosis in neurons devoid of PAFR and that PAFR expression protects neurons from C16-PAF but not C18-PAF demonstrating that carbon chain length at the sn-1 position has significant impact on biological activity. As PAFR is only expressed in discrete neuronal populations yet PAF-induced neuronal loss is widespread, both PAFR-dependent and PAFR-independent mechanisms must be involved. This thesis sought to elucidate downstream PAFR-independent signalling pathways in neurodegenerative disease. I delineated a novel signal transduction pathway whereby rising concentrations of C16-PAF induce endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and activate Cdk5 and Gsk3beta, resulting in the phosphorylation of microtubule associated proteins that elicits apoptosis in human neurons devoid of PAFR. Finally, to intervene in PAF toxicity, I identified a novel PAF inhibitor (orsellinic acid) that protects neurons from C16-PAF without impacting on PAFR-mediated neuroprotection. Together, these data provide new mechanistic insight into how aberrant lipid metabolism compromises neuronal function in Alzheimer disease.
Frontline learning of medical teaching: “you pick up as you go through work and practice”
Creators: name: Hartford, W.
name: Nimmon, L.
name: Stenfors, T.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of physicians away from major teaching centers have increased the difficulty of attendance. Furthermore, it is not known if traditional faculty development formats are the optimal learning options given findings from existing studies document both positive and negative outcomes. There is a gap in research that explores how medical teachers learn to teach and also limited research regarding how medical teachers actually teach. The purpose of this study was to provide insight into how physicians describe their teaching of trainees, and the nature of their teaching development and improvement to inform faculty development programs. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 36 physicians, with a broad range of teaching experience, purposefully selected from five disciplines: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery, and Family Medicine. A qualitative, inductive approach was used to analyse the data. Results: Teaching was described as being centered on the needs of individual trainees, but was dependent on patient presentation and environmental context. For this group of physicians learning to teach was perceived as a dynamic and evolving process influenced by multiple life experiences. The physicians had not learnt to teach through formal education and then put that learning into practice, but had learnt to teach and improve their teaching through their trial and errors teaching. Life experiences unconnected with the medical environment contributed to their knowledge of teaching along with limited formal learning to teach experiences. Teaching practice was influenced by peers and trainees, feedback, and observation. The findings suggest these medical teachers learn to teach along a continuum largely through their teaching practice. Conclusion: The findings suggested that the participants’ major resource for learning how to teach was informal experiential learning, both in and out of the workplace. This may have implications for faculty development strategies for medical teaching education.
Bioeconomic modelling: An application to fisheries.
Creators: name: Reinhardt, Gilles.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis presents a bioeconomic model of a commercial fishery. Emphasis is on the decision making processes of the harvesting sector. A model of dynamic decision making by fishermen is developed to study the biological and economic impact of the commercial exploitation of the Georges Bank scallops fishery (Placopecten Magellanicus). Stock biomass abundance dynamics are modelled using Deriso's age structured population model. Growth rate, mortality rates and recruitment are included as part of the biological component of the model. Decision making by fishermen is modelled using two discrete decision algorithms, myopic and adaptive. The myopic model provides the fisherman with the area yielding the highest immediate expected return on the basis of cost, expected catch and the current measure of biomass abundance. A computer model simulates the application of both the myopic and adaptive algorithms by a single fisherman as well as by a fleet of fishermen. In the later case, each fisherman is assumed to be initially identical and independent of the others in the fleet with respect to landings and catch information compiled. Vessel performance is measured in terms of total catch, total costs, landed values and net incomes. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Why are nanomaterials different and how can they be appropriately regulated under REACH?
Creators: name: Beer, Inga
name: Schwirn, Kathrin
name: Tietjen, Lars
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Nanomaterialien

description: BackgroundFor nanomaterials, not only their chemical composition but also their morphological properties and surface properties determine their characteristics. These properties do not only differ in comparison to the corresponding bulk material but also between different nanoforms of the same substance. Changes in these physico-chemical characteristics can cause changes in chemical properties, reactivity, (photo-) catalytic activities and energetic properties and in turn alter their (eco-) toxicity, fate and behaviour in environmental media and toxico-kinetics. Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) deals with chemical substances in general and although there are no special provisions that explicitly refer to nanomaterials, they are principally covered by REACH. In October 2012, the European Commission published the Second Regulatory Review on Nanomaterials. In February 2013, the REACH Review from the European Commission was published. Both papers address questions about the regulation of nanomaterials in REACH. The Commission proposes to improve the future situation by adaptation of the REACH Regulation. However, the European Commission plans to revise the annexes only and not the main text of the regulation. Results and conclusionsIn this publication, the authors present their considerations and recommendations on how REACH can adequately be adapted to nanomaterials. In the author's view, the bulk form and nanoforms of the same chemical composition should be treated as the same substance in the context of REACH. However, the regulation of nanomaterials under REACH has to meet specific requirements. Taking into account the plurality of physico-chemical characteristics and resulting changes in the hazard profile, an approach must be found to adequately cover nanomaterials under REACH. Accordingly, the REACH information requirements have to be adapted. This includes lower tonnage thresholds for different REACH obligations (e.g. registration, chemical safety report) which are justified by highly dispersed use together with low mass application, linked with the uncertainties regarding (eco-) toxicity, environmental fate and exposure. If the physico-chemical characteristics of different nanoforms of the same substance differ in a relevant manner they have to be considered separately for further test performance and REACH requirements.
Quelle: http://www.enveurope.com/
The importance of major mergers in the build up of stellar mass in brightest cluster galaxies at z = 1
Creators: name: Lidman, C.
name: Iacobuta, G.
name: Bauer, A. E.
name: Barrientos, L. F.
name: Cerulo, P.
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Delaye, L.
name: Demarco, R.
name: Ellingson, E.
name: Faloon, A. J.
name: Gilbank, D.
name: Huertas-Company, M.
name: Mei, S.
name: Meyers, J.
name: Muzzin, A.
name: Noble, A.
name: Nantais, J.
name: Rettura, A.
name: Rosati, P.
name: sánchez-Janssen, S.
name: Strazzullo, V.
name: Webb, T. M.A.
name: Wilson, G.
name: Yan, R.
name: Yee, H. K.C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent independent results from numerical simulations and observations have shown that brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) have increased their stellar mass by a factor of almost 2 between z ∼ 0.9 and z ∼ 0.2. The numerical simulations further suggest that more than half this mass is accreted through major mergers. Using a sample of 18 distant galaxy clusters with over 600 spectroscopically confirmed cluster members between them, we search for observational evidence that major mergers do play a significant role. We find a major merger rate of 0.38 ± 0.14 mergers per Gyr at z ∼ 1. While the uncertainties, which stem from the small size of our sample, are relatively large, our rate is consistent with the results that are derived from numerical simulations. If we assume that this rate continues to the present day and that half of the mass of the companion is accreted on to the BCG during these mergers, then we find that this rate can explain the growth in the stellar mass of the BCGs that is observed and predicted by simulations. Major mergers therefore appear to be playing an important role, perhaps even the dominant one, in the build up of stellar mass in these extraordinary galaxies.
Imagined Continuities: Settler Mythologies, Indigenous Histories, and the Contest over New England’s Past
Creators: name: Hynick, Jack
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024

description: Interpretations of New England’s Native past are fought on a highly contested landscape. This project examines the region’s historical memory by taking two approaches: interpreting the imagery and discourse around Indigenous northeasterners at the College of the Holy Cross across the early twentieth century; and examining how Native intellectuals, from the Early Republic to the rise of Red Power, framed their communal histories in the region. These interpretations of the Indigenous past, I show, are a critical thread in binding social identities in the region. For Holy Cross students, erasing Native history allowed the largely Catholic student mody to imagine themselves as the rightful inheritors of the region. Indigenous intellectuals, on the other hand, made clear that the past had more instructive qualities. By recording their histories, these thinkers hoped to defend their communities from removal, revitalize their cultures, challenge comfortable settler narratives, and reassert their sovereignty in the Northeast.
Satellitenbasierte Dienste und mobile Anwendungen für Luftqualität
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Immissionsdaten
Luftgüte
Messdaten
In-Situ
Luftmessnetz
Satellitendaten
Copernicus-Programm
Globale Umwelt- und Sicherheitsüberwachung (GMES)

description: Im Rahmen des Projektes sollen durch In-Situ-Messungen ermittelte Luftqualitätsdaten der Messnetze von Bund und Ländern mit Copernicus Modelldaten unter Verwendung weltweiter Satelliten- und In-Situ Daten kombiniert werden. Hierdurch können flächendeckende Informationen, insbesondere auch für Gebiete mit geringer Stationsdichte in Deutschland gewonnen werden, aber auch Daten und Informationen für Gebiete außerhalb Deutschlands sowie Prognosen. Zudem sollen Satellitendaten für die Ermittlung von Ursachen (Quellen) von Ereignissen hoher Luftschadstoffbelastung herangezogen werden. Die Ergebnisse des Projektes dienen der besseren Information der Bevölkerung durch flächendeckende Luftqualitätskarten und -vorhersagen und Information über die Ursachen vorübergehend hoher Luftschadstoffbelastungen. Hierzu soll eine Einbindung in die UBA-Internetseiten erfolgen sowie mobile Anwendungen entwickelt werden. Quelle: Bericht
3281405.pdf
Creators: name: Moody, Galan
name: Segnon, Mawussey
name: SAGNES, ISABELLE
name: BRAIVE, Rémy
name: Beveratos, Alexios
name: Robert-Philip, Isabelle
name: Belabas, Nadia
name: Jahnke, Frank
name: Silverman, Kevin
name: Mirin, Richard
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
The Prince George Community Social Development Board: A case study of municipal inter-agency crime prevention.
Creators: name: Koch, Brigitte.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Political Science, Public Administration.

description: This research examines the planning and organization of municipal inter-agency crime prevention through a case study of Prince George's Community Social Development Board. The focus of the Board is on social development: it attempts to tackle the social causes of crime. The methodology for the study includes an analysis of available documentation, including letters, memorandums and reports; interviews in Prince George with the ten members of the Community Social Development Board and the RCMP officer who initiated the Board and; observation of one Board meeting (May 1, 1991). Results of the interviews show that although the Board did have some benefits, it did not have clear objectives, it lacked leadership and it desperately needed a full-time executive director. In conclusion, municipal inter-agency crime prevention is a promising strategy to lower crime, and deserves to be given a second chance. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
3281405.pdf
Creators: name: Moody, Galan
name: Segnon, Mawussey
name: SAGNES, ISABELLE
name: BRAIVE, Rémy
name: Beveratos, Alexios
name: Robert-Philip, Isabelle
name: Belabas, Nadia
name: Jahnke, Frank
name: Silverman, Kevin
name: Mirin, Richard
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
title: How does age affect the care dependency risk one year after stroke?
title: A study based on claims data from a German health insurance fund
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schnitzer, Susanne
name: Knesebeck, Olaf Von Dem
name: Kohler, Martin
name: Peschke, Dirk
name: Kuhlmey, Adelheid
name: Schenk, Liane
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Age
subject: Stroke
subject: Post-stroke care dependency
subject: Geriatric multimorbidity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of age on care dependency risk 1 year after stroke. Two research questions are addressed: (1) How strong is the association between age and care dependency risk 1 year after stroke and (2) can this association be explained by burden of disease? Methods The study is based on claims data from a German statutory health insurance fund. The study population was drawn from all continuously insured members with principal diagnoses of ischaemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, or transient ischaemic attack in 2007 who survived for 1 year after stroke and who were not dependent on care before their first stroke (n = 2864). Data were collected over a 1-year period. People are considered to be dependent on care if they, due to a physical, mental or psychological illness or disability, require substantial assistance in carrying out activities of daily living for a period of at least 6 months. Burden of disease was assessed by stroke subtype, history of stroke, comorbidities as well as geriatric multimorbidity. Regression models were used for data analysis. Results 21.6 % of patients became care dependent during the observation period. Post-stroke care dependency risk was significantly associated with age. Relative to the reference group (0–65 years), the odds ratio of care dependency was 11.30 (95 % CI: 7.82–16.34) in patients aged 86+ years and 5.10 (95 % CI: 3.88–6.71) in patients aged 76–85 years. These associations were not explained by burden of disease. On the contrary, age effects became stronger when burden of disease was included in the regression model (by between 1.1 and 28 %). Conclusions Our results show that age has an effect on care dependency risk that cannot be explained by burden of disease. Thus, there must be other underlying age- dependent factors that account for the remaining age effects (e.g., social conditions). Further studies are needed to explore the causes of the strong age effects observed.
Legal framework for the international transfer of technology.
Creators: name: Liu, Yunhai.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: The thesis deals with the interaction between the legal controls systems and commercial dimensions of technology transfer. The primary purpose is to undertake a comprehensive examination of the current legal framework which plays an important role in regulating the international transfer of technology. The legal framework for technology transfer is viewed as an overall and integrated concept which consists of major national, regional and international legislation. The focus is upon those which have direct regulatory effects on the proprietary rights over technology, contractual conditions of technology transactions, behaviour of parties concerned, and the inflow and outflow of technology. Emphasis is also consciously placed on the traditional forms of legal regulation in developed countries and on special laws and regulations adopted by developing countries. The main issues are raised and discussed within the context of the North-South relations with respect to international technology transfer. The bilateral and multilateral treaties for the legal protection and legal control of industrial property rights and their transfer are dealt with in an attempt to explore their role and generic characteristics as well as the related issues. The thesis finally examines various aspects of the Draft Code of conduct for the international transfer of technology. The background and the current status of the code negotiations are studied and the outstanding issues are discussed. The Focus is placed upon the disagreement and the conflicting interests between different groups. The legal nature and the future of the Draft code are also observed. The Thesis concluded that the present legal framework is incomplete because of a lack of direct international regulation of technology transactions. The establishment of legally binding rules controlling technology transfer will likely depend upon the future developments in the national and regional legislation and the possible changes to the international political and economic structure.
JADID VIEWS ON FAMILY MATTERS
Creators: name: Artikov, Zafar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada XX asr boshlarida jadidchilik harakatining yetakchi vakillarining oila muassasasi haqidagi qarashlari tahlil qilingan. Fitrat, Behbudiy, Said Ahroriy kabi jadid ma'rifatparvarlarining asarlari asosida ularning oila tushunchasi, oilaviy munosabatlar, xotin-qizlar maqomi, nikoh va ta'lim-tarbiya haqidagi g'oyalari o'rganilgan. Tadqiqot natijalariga ko'ra, jadidlar an'anaviy oila tushunchasini tanqid qilish bilan birga, uni zamonaviy ta'lim va tarbiya asosida isloh qilish tarafdorlari bo'lganlar. Jadidlarning oila haqidagi qarashlari milliy uyg'onish davrining muhim tarkibiy qismi sifatida baholanadi.
Additional sex combs interacts with enhancer of zeste and trithorax and modulates levels of trimethylation on histone H3K4 and H3K27 during transcription of hsp70
Creators: name: Li, Taosui
name: Hodgson, Jacob W
name: Petruk, Svetlana
name: Mazo, Alexander
name: Brock, Hugh W
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Maintenance of cell fate determination requires the Polycomb group for repression; the trithorax group for gene activation; and the enhancer of trithorax and Polycomb (ETP) group for both repression and activation. Additional sex combs (Asx) is a genetically identified ETP for the Hox loci, but the molecular basis of its dual function is unclear. Results: We show that in vitro, Asx binds directly to the SET domains of the histone methyltransferases (HMT) enhancer of zeste [E(z)] (H3K27me3) and Trx (H3K4me3) through a bipartite interaction site separated by 846 amino acid residues. In Drosophila S2 cell nuclei, Asx interacts with E(z) and Trx in vivo. Drosophila Asx is required for repression of heat-shock gene hsp70 and is recruited downstream of the hsp70 promoter. Changes in the levels of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 downstream of the hsp70 promoter in Asx mutants relative to wild type show that Asx regulates H3K4 and H3K27 trimethylation. Conclusions: We propose that during transcription Asx modulates the ratio of H3K4me3 to H3K27me3 by selectively recruiting the antagonistic HMTs, E(z) and Trx or other nucleosome-modifying enzymes to hsp70.
Temperature dependent transport properties of aluminum chloride in thionyl chloride solutions: A non-aqueous battery electrolyte study.
Creators: name: Pell, Wendy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: This thesis is a physical chemical study of the AlCl$\sb3$/SOCl$\sb2$ system. Conductivity, viscosity, and density were determined for AlCl$\sb3$ concentrations ranging from 0 to 35 weight percent in SOCl$\sb2$, and over the temperature range $-$35 to 20$\sp\circ$C. The measured conductivity was in the $\mu$Scm$\sp{-1}$ range, indicating the solution to be a weak electrolyte. Viscosities ranging from 0.7 cP for pure SOCl$\sb2$, to 3.0 cP for 4.0M AlCl$\sb3$ were found, with viscosity increasing with increasing salt concentration. The solution densities for all concentrations considered were approximately 1.7g/ml, and thermal expansivity, $\alpha\sb{\rm TE}$, was approximately 1000$\sp\circ$K$\sp{-1}$, (5 times greater than $\alpha\sb{\rm TE}$ of water). Experimental results indicate that no abrupt change in the distribution of species in solution occurs, either as a function of solute concentration or temperature. The physical properties of these solutions were observed to change gradually and smoothly with both solute concentration and temperature indicating that a mechanistic change in the Li/SOCl$\sb2$ cell operation does not likely occur as a result of changes in bulk electrolyte properties. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Artificial light and nocturnal activity in gammarids
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Akklimatisation
Lichtverschmutzung

description: Artificial light is gaining attention as a potential stressor to aquatic ecosystems. Artificial lights located near streams increase light levels experienced by stream invertebrates and we hypothesized light would depress night drift rates. We also hypothesized that the effect of light on drift rates would decrease over time as the invertebrates acclimated to the new light level over the course of one months exposure. These hypotheses were tested by placing Gammarus spp. in eight, 75 m Ž 1 m artificial flumes. One flume was exposed to strong (416 lx) artificial light at night. This strong light created a gradient between 4.19 and 0.04 lx over the neighboring six artificial flumes, while a control flume was completely covered with black plastic at night. Night-time light measurements taken in the Berlin area confirm that half the flumes were at light levels experienced by urban aquatic invertebrates. Surprisingly, no light treatment affected gammarid drift rates. In contrast, physical activity measurements of in situ individually caged G. roeseli showed they increased short-term activity levels in nights of complete darkness and decreased activity levels in brightly lit flumes. Both nocturnal and diurnal drift increased, and day drift rates were unexpectadly higher than nocturnal drift.
Quelle: https://peerj.com/
Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada
Creators: name: Contandriopoulos, Damien
name: Benoît, François
name: Bryant-Lukosius, Denise
name: Carrier, Annie
name: Carter, Nancy
name: Deber, Raisa
name: Duhoux, Arnaud
name: Greenhalgh, Trisha
name: Larouche, Catherine
name: Leclerc, Bernard-Simon
name: Levy, Adrian
name: Martin-Misener, Ruth
name: Maximova, Katerina
name: McGrail, Kimberlyn M.
name: Nykiforuk, Candace
name: Roos, Noralou
name: Schwartz, Robert
name: Valente, Thomas W.
name: Wong, Sabrina T.
name: Lindquist, Evert
name: Pullen, Carolyn
name: Lardeux, Anne
name: Perroux, Melanie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Health systems worldwide struggle to identify, adopt, and implement in a timely and system-wide manner the best—evidence-informed—policy-level practices. Yet, there is still only limited evidence about individual and institutional best practices for fostering the use of scientific evidence in policy-making processes The present project is the first national-level attempt to (1) map and structurally analyze—quantitatively—health-relevant policy-making networks that connect evidence production, synthesis, interpretation, and use; (2) qualitatively investigate the interaction patterns of a subsample of actors with high centrality metrics within these networks to develop an in-depth understanding of evidence circulation processes; and (3) combine these findings in order to assess a policy network’s “absorptive capacity” regarding scientific evidence and integrate them into a conceptually sound and empirically grounded framework. Methods: The project is divided into two research components. The first component is based on quantitative analysis of ties (relationships) that link nodes (participants) in a network. Network data will be collected through a multi-step snowball sampling strategy. Data will be analyzed structurally using social network mapping and analysis methods. The second component is based on qualitative interviews with a subsample of the Web survey participants having central, bridging, or atypical positions in the network. Interviews will focus on the process through which evidence circulates and enters practice. Results from both components will then be integrated through an assessment of the network’s and subnetwork’s effectiveness in identifying, capturing, interpreting, sharing, reframing, and recodifying scientific evidence in policy-making processes. Discussion: Knowledge developed from this project has the potential both to strengthen the scientific understanding of how policy-level knowledge transfer and exchange functions and to provide significantly improved advice on how to ensure evidence plays a more prominent role in public policies.
Crime prevention for primary school-aged children: Towards a strategy for Nanaimo.
Creators: name: Manj, Jindy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Education, Guidance and Counseling.

description: This thesis provides recommendations for a crime prevention strategy focusing on primary school aged children (5 to 12 age range) within the municipality of Nanaimo. These recommendations are reached by reviewing and analyzing research related to the causes and correlates of crime prevention, and by conducting interviews with key representatives of organizations providing services to primary school aged children at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. Research is reviewed that identifies various factors that place individuals at risk of becoming delinquent. Recent crime prevention research is then reviewed which identifies the need to look beyond the traditional approaches of crime prevention involving "cops, courts, and corrections." These studies suggest the need for a crime prevention approach in which social policy works with criminal justice policy in preventing crime. The writer refers to this approach as the crime prevention through social development for safer communities approach. The approach recognizes the need to incorporate primary school age experiences within a crime prevention strategy. Summaries of interviews with representatives of government at all levels, and with administrators and members of non-government organizations, describe policies, programs, and services for primary school aged children. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The 1970 All-Union Conference on Programming: Problems and Prospects of Soviet Computing
Creators: name: Wallner, Danielle Nicole
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: History of Computing
Soviet Computing
Soviet History
Soviet Science
Science history
History
Russian History

description: This thesis examines the state of Soviet computing development lag through a case study of the Second All-Union Conference on Programming (VKP-2) in February 1970. Using an extensive historiography consisting of the technical history of computing, the history of Soviet computing, and specific literature foregrounding the Novosibirsk Computing Center which hosted VKP-2, this thesis aims to be in conversation with both historical and technical works. By analyzing VKP-2 via its technical program, as well as the common themes of Soviet computing, such as bureaucratic hurdles and inadequate levels of training, it notes that while the event of VKP-2 was quite remarkable for its work on computer networks, time-sharing, and intra-Soviet computing collaboration, it did very little to reverse the tides of the Soviet computing gap ahead of the release of the Soviet Unified Computing System in 1973.
Characterization of the CD8 T cell response to Salmonella typhimurium infection in mice
Creators: name: Luu, Rachel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: Salmonella typhimurium (ST) causes gasteroenteritis in humans and typhoid-like disease in mice. Since CD8 T cells facilitate acquired immunity, we evaluated the development and function of the CD8 T cell response against ST. Responses were compared to the acute intracellular pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes (LM). Because ST replicates within phagosomes and causes chronic infection, it was hypothesized that CD8 T cell priming may be muted and dysfunctional. While LM-induced CD8 T cells differentiated rapidly and displayed a mainly central-memory phenotyope in the long-term, CD8 T cells failed to become activated rapidly during ST infection and differentiated mainly into an effector/effector-memory phenotype. While the CD8 T cells induced against ST were functional, owing to the delay in CD8 T cell activation during ST infection, even conventional memory CD8 T cells failed to respond rapidly. Thus, the phagosomal lifestyle may allow escape from CD8+ T cells, conferring a survival advantage to the pathogen.
Dyadic relationships and their impact on health and wellbeing
Creators: name: Koons-Beauchamp, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biopsychosocial
Body Image
Family Health
Family relationships
Intimate partners
public abstract
Mental Health

description: Mother–daughter and intimate partner dyads can create positive or negative emotional climates that impact both members of their family subsystem and can also impact other members of the family. Protective factors, such as developing trust through consistency, words of affirmation, and self-compassion can develop personal resilience to lower or regulate biobehavioral reactivity and prevent negative long-term mental health and disease outcomes.
description: To provide insight into how the relational environment relates to mental health and physical illness, the Biobehavioral Family Model and associated constructs are introduced. These constructs include the dyadic emotional climate, biobehavioral reactivity, and disease activity. In the first study a comprehensive search of the literature focuses on the powerfully influential mother–daughter dyad and asks the important question of what can be done to build a positive emotional climate through protective factors that can be implemented from mother to daughter. In the second study, the BBFM was tested with intimate partner dyads to determine if individual biobehavioral reactivity can mediate the dyadic emotional climate and disease activity.
Explainable AI: Interpreting and Understanding Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Blessing, Elisha
name: Robert, Abill
name: Potter, Kaledio
name: Frank, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460201
subject: Artificial life and complex adaptive systems
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a field of study that aims to provide transparency and interpretability to machine learning models. As AI algorithms become increasingly complex and pervasive in various domains, the ability to understand and interpret their decisions becomes crucial for ensuring fairness, accountability, and trustworthiness. This abstract provides an overview of the importance of explainable AI and highlights some of the key techniques and approaches used in interpreting and understanding machine learning models. The abstract begins by emphasizing the growing significance of explainability in AI systems. As machine learning models are deployed in critical applications such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous vehicles, it becomes essential to comprehend the reasoning behind their predictions. Explainable AI methods provide insights into how these models arrive at their decisions, enabling stakeholders to identify biases, diagnose errors, and gain actionable insights from the model's behavior.
Bounds on the length of test sequences for conformance testing of communication protocols.
Creators: name: Zhu, Keqin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: For the general case, we give lower bounds (i.e., approximations to the greatest lower bound (GLB)) on the length of test sequences generated by any D-method without overlapping test segments as well as by any method employing a W-set (W-method) without overlapping test segments. We then establish a lower bound (i.e., an approximation to the GLB) on the length of test sequences generated by any D-method (or W-method) that overlaps test segments. It is observed that the reduction in the length of test sequences generated by any D-method (or W-method) due to overlapping is significant. Thus, two types of efficient algorithms based on overlapping test segments are established for both a method employing a distinguishing sequence and a method employing a W-set. The first type of efficient algorithms utilize the maximum-cardinality minimum-cost matching algorithm. The second type of efficient algorithms utilize the rural Chinese postman tour algorithm. Moreover, the sufficiency conditions for the second type of algorithms to find a minimum length test sequence is polynomial time are indicated. Furthermore, the sufficiency conditions for the second type of algorithms to achieve the optimal length test sequences are discussed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Domestication of Animals in Prehistoric South America
Creators: name: Croes, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 1968
Subjects: Animal domestication
Cultural Anthropology
South America

description: Few domestic animals were found in South America at the time of the Spanish conquest. There were basically only three species domesticated. These were (a) dogs, (b) a group of Andean cameloids: the llama and alpaca, and (c) the Andean guinea pig. The early migrants into South America either brought these domestic animals along with them or domesticated them in South America. The dog appears to have been already domesticated and accompanied the early hunters and gatherers who first entered South America. The dog was almost certainly domesticated some time before man ever migrated across the Bering Straits. The domestic dog and man undoubtedly spread together over the Americas. The Andean cameloids or their progenitors were in South America long before man ever came onto the continent. For this reason the tamed llama and alpaca had to be domesticated independently in South America sometime between man's arrival there and the conquest. Archaeological evidence suggests that the domestication took place after the beginning of intensive sedentary agriculture. The center of domestication appears to be the Peruvian Andes. The third domesticated animal species in South America is the Guinea Pig. These rodents or their progenitors were also a native of South America long before man's arrival and therefore was domesticated there independently. Their center of domestication was in Peru and corresponds with that of the llama and alpacas.
Children's reception and uses of fairy tale narratives in a Greek second language learning environment.
Creators: name: Karagiozis, Nectaria
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: Children perceive stories in particular ways and they use the rules and the roles depicted in their content to negotiate and formulate their everyday world (Wolf and Heath, 1992). This qualitative research study investigates children's construction of meaning and use of fairy tale narratives in a Greek second language learning environment. Twenty-two participants from the Canadian Greek Heritage Language School participate in the study. The students are asked to reflect on their engagements with specific Greek fairy tales, and then to express the ideas and feelings produced through their interaction with these cultural texts. The study highlights the salient role of texts in processes of identity formation, their influence on the definition of values, and their contribution to the installation of notions regarding the community and the future. Many theorists argue that the analysis of cultural texts from this perspective can lead individuals to challenge social constructs.
A resource-efficient Europe - A programme for climate, competitiveness and employment
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Europäische Union
Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
Beschäftigungseffekt

description: An ambitious resource policy supports the development of an integrated, social and competitive Europe. Even though a global coordination for climate protection is economically, environmentally and socially necessary in the long term, theEU can provide a significant contribution to such a development singlehandedly. Doing so would even be of great economic advantage! The newest results of a comprehensive model show that. In separate scenarios they display a global solution, a European solo effort with predominantly market-based instruments, and the effects of an engaged civil society in the EU.Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
Integrated Pest Management, 2022 Quarter 3 Newsletter
Creators: name: Washington State University Extension
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: Highlights include:
description: Rootstocks a key topic in wine grapes
description: On-farm outreach to Olympic Peninsula
description: Biodegradable mulch degradation
description: Onion and potato field days
description: IPM resources for wheat growers
description: Hands-on IPM education for hop growers
description: Orchardists learn about pollinators
description: Videos focus on emerging spotted lanternfly
Verbesserung der Infektionsdiagnostik bei Endoprothesenwechseloperationen durch Sonikation
Creators: name: Janz, Viktor
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: sonication
subject: periprosthetic joint infection
subject: endoprosthetics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Diese Habilitationsschrift fasst die wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse zur Verbesserung der Diagnostik von Endoprotheseninfektionen mittels Sonikation zusammen. Die erste Hälfte dieser Arbeit umfasst die Erforschung der diagnostischen Validität und die methodische Optimierung der Sonikation. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Sonikation neben einer überlegenen diagnostischen Sensitivität gegenüber den konventionellen mikrobiologischen Proben eine verbesserte Diagnostik von polymikrobiellen Infektionen ermöglicht. Die zweite Hälfte dieser Arbeit befasst sich mit der Interpretation von Sonikationsbefunden im Kontext der Vielzahl von intraoperativen mikrobiologischen und histologischen Proben. Eine besondere Schwierigkeit bei dieser Interpretation entsteht dadurch, dass die Sonikation aufgrund ihres methodisch bedingten überlegenen Biofilm-Samplings den bisherigen mikrobiologischen Goldstandard, die periprothetischen Gewebeproben, übertrifft. Daher werden neue Referenzierungsmöglichkeiten benötigt, um singulär positive Sonikationsbefunde bei sonst negativen mikrobiologischen Proben zu interpretieren. In dieser Habilitationsschrift werden mehrere Referenzierungsmöglichkeiten präsentiert, z. B. die kombinierte Betrachtung der Sonikation und der histologischen Beurteilung der periprothetischen Membran oder die Entnahme von multiplen Sonikationsproben. Zusätzlich wurde eine methodische Optimierung der Sonikationsmethodik beschrieben, indem die Sonikationsflüssigkeit in Blutkulturflaschen statt in konventionellen Agarplatten bebrütet wird. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass dies zu einer signifikanten Steigerung der Bakteriennachweise und zu einer signifikanten Reduktion der Kulturzeit führt. Zukünftig werden weitere Studien benötigt, um einen möglichen therapeutischen Nutzen aus den diagnostischen Vorteilen der Sonikation zu beweisen. Durch die erhöhte diagnostische Sensitivität, die Reduktion von Kultur - negativen Endoprotheseninfektionen, den verbesserten Nachweis von polymikrobiellen Infektionen und dem schnelleren Bakterienachweis ist es möglich, eine Endoprotheseninfektion früher mit einer spezifischen antibiotischen Therapie zu behandeln. Ob dies zu einer Verbesserung der Sanierungsraten und einem optimierten klinischen Outcome führt, soll in weiterführenden Forschungsarbeiten untersucht werden.
3283332.pdf
Creators: name: Sinobad, Milan
name: Monat, Christelle
name: Luther-Davies, Barry
name: Ma, Pan
name: Madden, Stephen
name: Moss, David
name: Mitchell, Arnan
name: Allioux, David
name: orobtchouk, regis
name: Boutami, Salim
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material red-lined version
Models of change: strategies to make the socio-ecological transformation a success
Creators: name: Kristof, Kora
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sozialer Wandel

description: Climate change and many other problems show us more and more clearly that fundamental change is necessary. However, many good ideas get stuck in implementation. Therefore, the question is how we can change more successfully.We take sports courses or go tomusic lessons to learn, to get better quickly or to avoid hurting ourselves. Professionals in sport, art and other fields also receive intensive coaching from experts.However,when it comes to making successful progress towards sustainability, people often rely on â€Ìhome recipesâ€Ì. It is time to becomemore professional in this area as well. To achieve this, it is important to make targeted use of the findings of transformation research and key success factors as well as to develop transformation literacy. In this chapter, the models of change approach is presented, which focuses on central success factors for social change and shows ways to successful change. Quelle: Artikel