cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Salinity and Nitrogen Nutrition Influence Growth and Quality of Edible Halophytes
Creators: name: Farzana, Tania
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Halophytes
NaCI Salinity
Nitrate and ammonium nitrogen
Biomass
Nutrient accumulation
Anti-nutritional factor

description: Saline agriculture may contribute to food production in the face of the declining availability of fresh water and an expanding area of salinized soils worldwide. We need to identify and characterise alternative crops for farming in salt-affected areas because the majority of modern agricultural crops are salt sensitive. The use of edible halophytic species (salt-loving plants) may be a viable alternative to increase the productive use of land degraded by salinity.
description: The identification of suitable halophyte species for crop production is in the early stages. This thesis examines the effect of salinity and nitrogen sources on the biomass yield, mineral nutritional quality, and antinutritional compound accumulation of promising edible native and naturalised halophyte species, including Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (Ice Plant), Salsola komarovii (Land seaweed), Enchylaena tomentosa (Ruby Saltbush), Crithmum maritimum (Rock Samphire), Crambe maritima (Sea Kale) and Mertensia maritima (Oyster Plant).
description: Two glass house experiments were carried out. The first was to study the shoot biomass, and nutrient accumulation response of the selected halophytes under increasing levels of salinity (0 to 800 mM). The second experiment studied the effects of nitrogen source combined with salinity, on levels of oxalate and nitrate in Ice Plant and Ruby Saltbush.
description: Species differences for biomass and sodium (Na), potassium (K), chloride (Cl), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) accumulation were observed across the range of salt treatments (0 to 800 mM NaCl in the irrigation water). Moderate salinity levels (100 or 200 mM) stimulated the growth of most halophytes (Ice plant, Land seaweed, Ruby saltbush and Rock samphire) without reduction in the concentration of key dietary minerals (Cu, Zn, Fe, Ca and Mg). The survival of all six halophyte species at higher salinity levels (up to 600- 800 mM) indicates that they would all be suitable for cultivation as food crops in saline environments.
description: Shoot concentrations of the anti-nutrient oxalate decreased significantly in ice plant and ruby saltbush with an increase in the proportion of N provided as NH4+ (up to 100%), while shoot oxalate concentrations in ice plant and ruby saltbush grown in the absence of NaCl were not significantly different to oxalate concentrations in plants treated with 200 mM or 400 mM NaCl. However, the lower shoot oxalate concentrations observed with the increase in NH4+ came with concurrent reductions in shoot biomass. There will need to be a calculated tradeoff between oxalate levels and biomass when growing these plants for commercial purposes.
The role of meiofauna in the nitrogen cycle of a cold marine mesocosm.
Creators: name: Parent, Serge.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: The nitrogen cycle is the key process in marine mesocosms. This cycle involves mineralizing and nitrifying bacteria which are preyed upon by meiofauna. Large populations of meiofauna (20--40 g·m--2 in the top 2.5 cm of sand) are found in the sand filters of the St. Lawrence marine mesocosm at the Montreal Biodome. A nitrogen budget was prepared for 1995 to quantify the importance of mineralization and nitrification in the mesocosm. Of the input nitrogen, 15% to 31% were transformed into ammonia through bacterial mineralization, and 71% passed through the nitrification process. Filtration and cleaning removed 20% of the input nitrogen, and only 5% were transformed into animal biomass. Experiments were then conducted in microcosms to see how filter meiofauna affect the apparent mineralization rate (AMR) and apparent nitrification rate (ANR). Microfauna and meiofauna abundances were manipulated to quantify their effect on AMR and ANR by linear regression analysis. Harpacticoid copepods dominated in number (87%) and biomass (98%). Neither AMR nor ANR were related to microfauna densities. AMR was inversely related to meiofaunal mass. Particle size affected the effect of meiofauna whereas the C:N ratio affected the AMR0, i.e. the AMR in absence of meiofauna. Meiofauna biomass had no effect on nitrition but had a variable effect on nitration. This effect varied from --20% to +571%. The slope of the ANR vs Meiofauna regression was related to the particulate organic nitrogen content of the sediment. Meiofauna seems to exert a direct action by preying on nitrifiers and an indirect action by reducing the mineralizing bacteria through grazing. Results suggest that meiofauna plays an important role in water treatment by reducing the production of nitrate and more rapidly eliminating nitrite which are toxic to fish.
File fragmentation over an unreliable channel
Creators: name: Nair, Jayakrishnan
name: Andreasson, Martin
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Low, Steven H.
name: Doyle, John C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It has been recently discovered that heavy-tailed file completion time can result from protocol interaction even when file sizes are light-tailed. A key to this phenomenon is the RESTART feature where if a file transfer is interrupted before it is completed, the transfer needs to restart from the beginning. In this paper, we show that independent or bounded fragmentation guarantees light-tailed file completion time as long as the file size is light-tailed, i.e., in this case, heavy-tailed file completion time can only originate from heavy-tailed file sizes. If the file size is heavy-tailed, then the file completion time is necessarily heavy-tailed. For this case, we show that when the file size distribution is regularly varying, then under independent or bounded fragmentation, the completion time tail distribution function is asymptotically upper bounded by that of the original file size stretched by a constant factor. We then prove that if the failure distribution has non-decreasing failure rate, the expected completion time is minimized by dividing the file into equal sized fragments; this optimal fragment size is unique but depends on the file size. We also present a simple blind fragmentation policy where the fragment sizes are constant and independent of the file size and prove that it is asymptotically optimal. Finally, we bound the error in expected completion time due to error in modeling of the failure process.
The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization by Glomus intraradices on the susceptibility of maize (Zea mays L.) to damage caused by the western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte).
Creators: name: Boucher, Alain E. Y.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Botany.

description: The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization by Glomus intraradices on the susceptibility of maize, Zea mays L., to damage caused by a major North American corn pest, the western corn rootworm larvae, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, was assessed under greenhouse and laboratory conditions. This is one of the few studies evaluating the potential effect of arbuscular mycorrhizae on macroscopic soil-borne pests. Two separate greenhouse trials (1998 & 1999) were done in order to compare the performance of the maize hybrid Pioneer 3921 under western corn rootworm feeding stress with and without mycorrhizal association. The biochemical profiles of maize roots grown for 2 and 4 weeks under greenhouse conditions were determined using HPLC to test for the possible mycorrhizal induction of the major hydroxamic acid found in maize, 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-(4H)-one (DIMBOA) and its degradation product 6-methoxybenzoxazolinone (MBOA). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Life-history characteristics of three subtropical cuttlefishes : reproduction, growth, life span and behaviour
Creators: name: Beasley, Amanda Lee
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cephalopods
Cuttlefish
Growth
Life history
Life span
Reproductive behaviour
Reproductive biology

description: Cuttlefish are renowned for rapid growth rates and complex behaviours, and many species are important in worldwide fisheries. However, fundamental life-history information for many cuttlefishes remains poorly known. This study explored the reproductive biology, life span and growth of S. opipara, S. plangon and S. rozella, and the reproductive behaviour of S. plangon. Overall, this research shows interesting contrasts to existing life-history patterns in cephalopods and provides the first information for the management of these commercially important species.
Science and design: surface modification for timber window frames
Creators: name: Kuys, Blair
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this project is to promote timber as the sustainable material of choice for outdoor use in the window construction industry through a unique combination of interlinked investigations: 1. A new product development process for timber window frames; 2. Scientific advancement of surface modification technology; 3. Replacement of non-sustainable materials. This research is an investigation utilising material and product development for the timber construction industry, promoting scientific advances in surface engineered timber. The scientific method of modifying the surface of timber consists of a spray application of water-based graft chemicals that remove natural extractives, chemically bonding molecular chains to increase the surface potential for an adhesion bond. This method of modification is done: ▪ to increase the tensile strength of an adhesion bond; ▪ to promote the durability of paint on a timber surface. Results of adhesion bonding tests demonstrate, on average, a four-fold increase in tensile strength compared to unmodified samples, with two species achieving an overall increase, 10-fold that of an unmodified sample of the same species. The success of this practical testing is applied in the development of a timber window frame that will utilise this new technology to create an environmentally friendly product outcome. Surface-engineered sustainably produced regrowth timber is used and is comparable, and in some cases better, than unsustainable hardwoods which currently dominate the timber window frame market. The next step is engineering timber to advance past its current state, improving characteristics to compete with aluminium and unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (uPVC), which are popular materials in the manufacture of window frames and are toxic burdens for our environment. The importance of ensuring engineered plantation timber is at the same quality of unsustainable hardwoods, uPVC and aluminium, is paramount in guaranteeing an improved, sustainable future.
Uncoupling protein 2 and mitochondrial bioenergetics in drug-sensitive and drug-resistant leukemic cells.
Creators: name: Antoniou, Andreas.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: The overall objective of this research was to characterize the differences in the metabolic control of oxidative phosphorylation in drug sensitive and drug resistant leukemic cells. Anti-cancer agents may function to promote tumor cell death in a number of ways, however acquired or inherent drug resistance is a major problem in successful cancer treatment. The role of mitochondria in apoptosis has received a great deal of attention from a variety of biochemical perspectives in the past few years. Based on evidence that mitochondrial metabolism is altered during apoptotic processes, this research built on the hypothesis that an alteration in mitochondrial energy metabolism which decreases the production of reactive oxygen species plays a significant role in the protection of tumor cells from cytotoxic therapies. Two pairs of sensitive and resistant leukemic cell lines were studied: the mouse L1210 cell line and its drug resistant L1210/DDP subline, as well as the human HL60 cell line and the HL60/MDR resistant cell line. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Long-term Habitat Trends in Barren-ground Caribou
Creators: name: White, Lori
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: climate
INDVI
NDVI
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
phenology
population
Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus caribou
remote sensing

description: Global and local climate patterns may affect barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) populations. I predicted global climate changes to be correlated with periods of population decline, and local changes to be more pronounced on the habitat of caribou with a declining population. In chapter 1, the Arctic Oscillation (AO), changes in normalized difference vegetation index and phenology were used as measures of global and local climate. In chapter 2 environmental variables and caribou presence points were used to build Maxent habitat models. There was no consistent correlation with the positive AO phase and periods of population decline, or phenology trends and the habitat of caribou with a declining population. Maxent models underestimated the amount of suitable habitat spatially and failed to model suitable habitat temporally. This thesis is the first to look at a range of density-independent variables over a long time period and model suitable habitat for multiple herds.
Job Scheduling Considering Both Mental Fatigue and Boredom
Creators: name: Jahandideh, Sina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: job scheduling
Mental Fatigue
Boredom
AHP
Job Assignment
Manufacturing System
job rotation
manufacturing productivity

description: Numerous aspects of job scheduling in manufacturing systems have been the focus of several studies in the past decades. However, human factors in manufacturing systems such as workers’ mental conditions are still neglected issues and have not received adequate attentions. Job boredom and mental fatigue are both aspects of workers’ mental condition. They affect work performances by increasing sick leave duration and decreasing work productivity. On the other hand, job rotation could be an alternative strategy to cope with such human issues at work. The benefits of job rotation for both employees and firms have been widely recognized in the literature. Although some studies found job rotation as a means to reduce workers' physical work-related traumas, they did not consider the effect of variable mental conditions on workers. Despite the proven importance of boredom and mental fatigue at the workplace, they have not been a combined precise objective of any job rotation problem in current literature. The study of mental conditions proposed in this paper attempts to extend the previous works by addressing new methods and developing a feasible solution to increase manufacturing productivity. A new job scheduling program has been designed specifically which combines a new job rotation model and a job assignment method.
Moses revisited. August Strindberg’s and Edvard Munch’s dramatic use of the figure of Moses
Creators: name: Storskog, Camilla
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: In this essay I explore the literary interpretation of the figure of Moses in August
Strindberg’s and Edvard Munch’s contemporary plays, Genom öknar till arvland (Through Deserts to Ancestral Lands,
 1903) and Den fri Kjærligheds By (The City of Free Love, ca. 1905). In the first case, the focus is on the
examination of Moses as an archetypical character. Analogies are subsequently drawn between the biblical
hero and other dramatic characters in the production of the Swedish playwright, such as Gustav Vasa or Birger
jarl. In the latter case, I outline the strategy for a parodic reuse of the biblical source in Munch’s
invention of a modern Moses created to mock his fellow painter and maestro Christian Krohg and the bohemian
ideal of free love. Although the qualities of the Moses character take on different and opposite meanings
in the two authors, it is of interest that the issue of a return to the common heritage of biblical culture
should make itself evident in the years following both Strindberg’s and Munch’s farewell to the secular
milieus of the Bohème.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
”Tous les démons de la Judée m’habitent”: ispirazione biblica in alcuni drammi di André Gide
Creators: name: Mazzocchi Doglio, Mariangela
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The aim of this paper is to explore two biblical plays written by André Gide between 1898 and 1902, namely "Bethsabé" and "Saül". A particular attention will be devoted to the second drama, mostly to its complicate hero, King Saul.
The strong connection between these works and the literary figure of André Gide will be also hightlighted.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
MPEC 2024-N139 : 2024 BD7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Navigating Atheist Identities: An Analysis of Nonreligious Perceptions and Experiences in the Religiously Diverse Canadian City of Ottawa
Creators: name: Tomlins, Steven
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Atheism
Canada
Ethnography
Identity
Nonreligion

description: There is very little research that is empirically-based about atheism in Canada; this thesis seeks to contribute foundational knowledge in this area. It begins with a historical and contemporary overview of atheism in Canada by examining its appearance in government, law, and media. It then addresses the question: “How do atheists construct their identities in the context of a religiously diverse Canada?” through an analysis of data collected from participant-observation with an atheist university club, the Atheist Community of the University of Ottawa (ACUO), followed by an analysis of five significant themes which arose from forty life history interviews (twenty with ACUO members; twenty with Ottawa-area atheists who did not belong to an atheist community that met in person). These themes are: loss of religious identity and/or development of atheist identity; group belonging; perceptions of media and public understanding of atheism; the use of the United States for narrative or comparative purposes; and the frequency of receiving a negative reaction simply for being an atheist. This study found that most interviewees perceived the Canadian public and the media as not understanding atheism because the subject is not commonly reported on or discussed, and many said that (ir)religiosity rarely came up in conversations with strangers, acquaintances, or co-workers. These notions were often seen as resulting from a Canadian social etiquette which dictates that controversial subjects should be avoided in order to minimize the risk of causing offense. Moreover, members of the ACUO often said that they joined an atheist community because they wanted a safe space to meet like-minded people with whom they could freely discuss religion without causing offense to religious others. Unlike in findings from the United States, interviewees did not speak of their atheist identities as being considered ‘un-Canadian’ or as excluding them from their conception(s) of Canadian society. While interviewees often said they were selective with whom they decided to express their atheism, most felt quite positive about living as an atheist in Canada, especially compared to the plight of atheists living in other countries, and atheism came across as being ‘just’ another ‘idea’ in a mosaic of cultural ideas.
Determination of microplastic mass content by thermal extraction desorption gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Wiesner, Yosri
name: Altmann, Korinna
name: Braun, Ulrike
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Analysenverfahren
Massenspektrometrie
Mikroplastikpartikel
Spektralanalyse

description: The scientific and practical challenge of detecting microplastics (MPs) in the environment in a targeted and rapid manner is solved by innovative coupling of thermogravimetric analysis with mass spectrometric methods. Fast identification and quantitative determination of most thermoplastic polymers and elastomers is possible by using thermal extraction desorption gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (TED-GC-MS). © Authors
UniSet: An object-oriented, knowledge-based environment for computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM).
Creators: name: Choi, Kyunghyun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Industrial.

description: Flexible Manufacturing Cells (FMC) may be considered the most significant development in small batch manufacturing. Setting up and operating costs prove to be the most major hindrance to large scale implementation and use of the FMCs, particularly by small and medium size industries. Incompatibility between the different components constituting the cells, and the lack of a unified language/approach to programming and coordinating them, are cited as the cause of the complexity of setting up and subsequently operating the cells. In order to eliminate these difficulties, a new philosophy for setting up, programming, and control of FMCs has been developed. This thesis reports part of the effort for developing the new "UniSet" philosophy and the components of the UniSet Environment. UniSet has been developed as a Unified Manufacturing Instruction Set based on a comparison of machine tool and programming primitives. UniSet allows programmers, if they so desire, to concentrate on only one instruction set rather than numerous machine programming languages. Task level UniSet has been designed using an object-oriented and a knowledge based approach to eliminate cell programming difficulties. An expert cell programmer can be replaced by a less experienced manufacturing operator. A software environment for Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), called UniSet Environment, has been developed to address the shortcomings of setting up and operating FMCs comprising incompatible components from the different suppliers. The UniSet Environment provides the users with a consistent platform to configure, program, simulate, and control an FMC irrespective of the nature of its constituents. The Environment is coded an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language, Smalltalk. The Environment consists of four modules which capture complete information about the cell program, existing cell facilities and databases, and distribute the information into the corresponding Object Models. Each of the module is responsible for a specific function. The Setup module is primarily used for defining the cell, its components and their functionalities, and reconfiguring a cell or building preparation databases. The Programming module allows the user to edit cell programs which may be developed in UniSet, Task level UniSet, or native machine languages. The programs written in Task level UniSet are used to generate detailed UniSet codes which are translated into specific machine codes by the generation and translation module. The Simulation/Compilation module is used for generating the control structure--Task Initiation Diagram (TID)--for the operation of the cell according to the user program as well as knowledge contained in the databases. The Control module is used to coordinate the workstation, as well as carry out the task of harmonizing between the different communication protocols of the devices.
Integrative and instrumental reminiscence therapies for the treatment of depression in older adults.
Creators: name: Watt, Lisa Maureen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Gerontology.

description: Reminiscence has been identified as an important contributor to adaptation in later life by gerontologists (e.g., Birren, 1991), developmental theorists (e.g., Erikson, 1980), and clinical practitioners (e.g., Haight, 1991). Despite its wide acceptance as a therapeutic intervention, little is known about how, and for whom, reminiscence acts to produce therapeutic gains. To understand and to evaluate the therapeutic value of reminiscence for a specific clinical problem, contemporary cognitive theories of depression were integrated with reminiscence theory to develop a model that: (a) identifies the key therapeutic content of two types of reminiscence theory to interventions (integrative and instrumental); and, (b) elucidates the cognitive and emotional change processes evoked in participants of reminiscence therapy that can treat depression. Based on this model, standardized integrative and instrumental reminiscence interventions were developed and implemented with 26 older adults with moderate to severe depression. Using a clinical intervention single case study replication design, results support the utility of the model developed to explain how reminiscence contributes to the treatment of depression. In the Integrative group, constructive reappraisal of initial interpretations and emotional reactions to past self-defining events led to an improvement in self-esteem, purpose, and personal meaning, and a decline in hopelessness and internal, stable, and global attributions for the causes of negative events. In the Instrumental group, memories were used to remove emotional and cognitive barriers to coping by normalizing stress, identifying important needs at stake in current coping, providing evidence of successful past coping, and identifying appropriate coping strategies. As a result, self-esteem, life control, and problem-focused coping increased, and appraisals of stressors as threatening and unchangeable, and escape-avoidance coping decreased. Evaluation of the effectiveness of integrative and instrumental reminiscence interventions demonstrated greater clinically significant improvement in symptoms of depression in the Integrative and Instrumental groups compared with the Active Socialization Control group. In the Integrative group, 58% of clients demonstrated clinically significant improvement at post-test, yielding an effect size (ES) of.86. At follow-up, 100% of Integrative subjects improved clinically (ES =.96). In the Instrumental group, 56% of clients demonstrated clinically significant improvement at post-test (ES =.81) and 88% improved at three-month follow-up (ES =.89).
title: Private Flugreisen - Umweltbewusstsein und CO2-Kompensation
title: Private Flugreisen - Umweltbewusstsein und CO2-Kompensation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Flugreisen und Kompensation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Umweltbewusstsein
subject: Flugreisen
subject: Fliegen
subject: Umweltverhalten
subject: CO2-Kompensation
subject: freiwillige Kompensationszahlungen
subject: sozio-demografische Unterschiede
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Dieser Flyer stellt Befragungsergebnisse aus der Umweltbewusstseinsstudie 2018 zum Thema Flugreisen und freiwillige Kompensationszahlungen vor. Die Angaben der Befragten zur Häufigkeit privater Flugreisen in den vergangenen 12 Monaten werden nach sozio-demografischen Merkmalen differenziert. Es zeigen sich deutliche Unterschiede in Hinblick auf das Alter und das Einkommen der Befragten: jüngere Personen sowie Personen aus einkommensstarken Haushalten sind häufiger geflogen. 30 Prozent der Befragten kennen die Möglichkeit zur freiwilligen Kompensation von Treibhausgasemissionen, die durch das Fliegen verursacht werden. Acht Prozent aller Befragten geben an, schon einmal einen derartigen Ausgleich für ihre durch Flugreisen verursachten CO2-Emissionen geleistet zu haben. Die Daten beruhen auf einer internetbasierten Repräsentativerhebung mit rund 2.000 Personen. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Dieser Flyer stellt Befragungsergebnisse aus der Umweltbewusstseinsstudie 2018 zum Thema Flugreisen und freiwillige Kompensationszahlungen vor.Die Angaben der Befragten zur Häufigkeit privater Flugreisen in den vergangenen 12 Monaten werden nach sozio-demografischen Merkmalen differenziert. Es zeigen sich deutliche Unterschiede in Hinblick auf das Alter und das Einkommen der Befragten: jüngere Personen sowie Personen aus einkommensstarken Haushalten sind häufiger geflogen. 30 Prozent der Befragten kennen die Möglichkeit zur freiwilligen Kompensation von Treibhausgasemissionen, die durch das Fliegen verursacht werden. Acht Prozent aller Befragten geben an, schon einmal einen derartigen Ausgleich für ihre durch Flugreisen verursachten ⁠CO2⁠-Emissionen geleistet zu haben.Die Daten beruhen auf einer internetbasierten Repräsentativerhebung mit rund 2.000 Personen.
Automatic Analysis for efficient and reproducible neuroimaging pipelines
Creators: name: Auer, Tibor
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Automatic analysis (aa) is a MATLAB-based pipeline system, that provides reproducibly configurable access to major software packages (e.g. SPM, FSL, FreeSurfer) and several other tools (e.g. BrainWavelet, FaceMasking, CoSMoMVPA, EEGLAB, Fieldtrip) to process a wide range of modalities (e.g. sMRI, fMRI, dMRI, M/EEG).

You can construct complex workflows with great flexibility and convenience because aa automatically connects the various steps (called modules in aa) based on its intuitive streaming concept. A recent introduction of toolboxes also aims to reduce the burden of configuring the various tools required by the workflow.

aa also offers an extended QA capability by providing diagnostics for certain modules on several levels. All these diagnostics reports (texts, images, videos) are summarised on interlinked HTML documents providing both within- and between-subject descriptions for easier detection of suboptimal/erroneous steps or outlying participants.

aa supports parallel processing on most HPC scheduling systems (e.g. SLURM, Torque, LSF, SGE) with minimum configuration. It can also process anatomical, functional, and diffusion BIDS datasets and can be deployed as a standalone also in the format of BIDS Apps.
Nonlocal intuition and the performance of serial entrepreneurs
Creators: name: La Pira, Frank
name: Gillin, Murray
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Understanding how and why entrepreneurs decide to pursue one venture as opposed to another has managed to elude entrepreneurship researchers. Of late, there has been a renewed interest in the role and importance of intuition to the entrepreneur. Two recent publications concerning electrophysiological evidence of intuition (McCraty et al., 2004a–b) and the relationship of motivations with spiritual intelligence (Zohar and Marshall, 2000) suggest the need to evaluate how we access our deepest meanings, values, purposes and highest motivations in recognising opportunities. This has shed some light on how we interpret meaning in the world around us and its impact on decision-making. This paper argues that entrepreneurs use all three levels of intelligence: namely intellectual, emotional and spiritual intelligence. Using intuition and value driven motivations, the serial entrepreneur can change a business-as-usual paradigm to a creative business of high growth and spiritual worth. It will be shown that the heart autonomic nervous system is involved in the processing and decoding of intuitive information.
Il teatro di Edna Mazya: dal dramma famigliare a quello storico-politico
Creators: name: Steindler Moscati, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: A macroscopic trend in contemporary Israeli literature concerns the growing success and increase of women writers. Even in theatre - a genre which, in current Jewish culture, is new in many aspects -, many women dramatists are  gaining considerable achievements. The incidence of this phenomenon may be valued in the light of some innovative contributions, such as the elaboration of various female - or feminist - themes. The dramatic writings of Edna Mazya are particularly eloquent if read according to this analysis. In this article we will deal with some of her literary topics, which recur especially in her drama Herod (May 2000): on the one hand, the biblical inspiration and the actualization of biblical features and Mazya's leitmotif, i.e. the representation of marginalized characters and their stories in contrast to the “main stream”.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Oltre la Bibbia. Il cinema tra narrazione e redenzione
Creators: name: Chamla, Mino
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: In the Jewish tradition, the Bible is the origin of any possible interpretative and narrative development.
Thus, starting from this statement and in the belief that film is, in its essence, narration and not
representation, the author makes some remarks on the close and intimate relationship among Judaism, Jews
and film, but also on the difficulty that movies have always experienced in the direct confrontation with
the Bible while pretending to “represent it”. Moreover, if the cinema is mainly narrative and creative
development of reality, we have to speak, with Walter Benjamin and Sigfried Kracauer, as for the Seventh art,
about a sort of redemption of reality, in assonance, here again, with some profound and important trends of
Judaism, and especially of the modern Jewish thought.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Il serpente come Messia. Rappresentazione alla rovescia del Paradiso nel teatro e nel cinema del XX secolo
Creators: name: Moraly, Yehuda
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: This paper analyses the way Paradise appears in different Theatre or Film productions of the XXth century: a biblical epos by the Israelian director Rina Yerushalmi, a film that became a classic, Children of Paradise (Carné, Prévert, 1943), the last show of the Living Theater, Paradise now (1968), and a film by Peter Weir, Truman Show (1998). In all of these productions, the Serpent, deeply negative in the biblical text appears like a positive figure, a kind of Messiah.
description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Entwicklung der spezifischen Kohlendioxid-Emissionen des deutschen Strommix in den Jahren 1990 bis 2015
Creators: name: Icha, Petra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Elektrizitätserzeugung
subject: Strommix
subject: Spezifische Kohlendioxid-Emissionen
subject: Stromerzeugung
subject: CO2-Emissionen
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht jährlich seine Berechnungsergebnisse zur Entwicklung des Kohlendioxid-Emissionsfaktors des deutschen Strommix in der Zeitreihe ab 1990, der als Indikator für die Klimaverträglichkeit der Stromerzeugung angesehen werden kann. Bei der Erzeugung einer Kilowattstunde Strom für den Endverbrauch ohne Berücksichtigung des Stromhandelssaldos wurden in Deutschland im Jahr 2013 durchschnittlich 579 Gramm Kohlendioxid als direkte Emissionen aus der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger emittiert. Das sind ca. 182Gramm pro Kilowattstunde oder ca. 24 Prozent weniger als im Jahr 1990. Für das Jahr 2014 auf der Basis vorläufiger Daten sind dies 560 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde. Hochgerechnete Werte für das Jahr 2015 ergeben 535 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde und somit 226 Gramm oder ca. 29 Prozent weniger als 1990. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht jährlich seine Berechnungsergebnisse zur Entwicklung des Kohlendioxid-Emissionsfaktors des deutschen Strommix in der Zeitreihe ab 1990, der als ⁠Indikator⁠ für die Klimaverträglichkeit der Stromerzeugung angesehen werden kann. Bei der Erzeugung einer Kilowattstunde Strom für den Endverbrauch ohne Berücksichtigung des Stromhandelssaldos wurden in Deutschland im Jahr 2013 durchschnittlich 579 Gramm Kohlendioxid als direkte Emissionen aus der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger emittiert. Das sind ca. 182Gramm pro Kilowattstunde oder ca. 24 Prozent weniger als im Jahr 1990. Für das Jahr 2014 auf der Basis vorläufiger Daten sind dies  560 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde. Hochgerechnete Werte für das Jahr 2015 ergeben 535 Gramm pro Kilowattstunde und somit 226 Gramm oder ca. 29 Prozent weniger als 1990.
The Ten Commandments tra Vecchio e Nuovo Testamento
Creators: name: Raffaele, De Berti
name: Subini, Tomaso
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Cecil B. DeMille adapted for the screen the biblical text of Exodus twice, and in both cases he devised
sophisticated strategies for intersemiotic translation with the aim to create a great show for a popular
Christian audience. This is the reason why The Ten Commandments cannot be considered a mere illustration of
the biblical story but instead a complex fiction film, which uses the Bible only as a starting point.

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
The Nature of the Relationship between American Multinational Corporations and Chinese Businesses and Its Effect on the Problem of Intellectual Property Law
Creators: name: Radonjic, Katarina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Intellectual property rights
China
Globalization
Developing Countries

description: Intellectual property rights (IPR) have become a major problem in the relationship between the industrialized West and the developing South, primarily because the West demands that developing countries adopt and enforce Western IPR. Since the relationship between US corporations and Chinese businesses is among the most successful and at the center of the current process of globalization, IPR have been a major cause of conflict and controversy between them and serve as an exemplar for this thesis. I argue, first, that the reason that a large number of Chinese businesses, especially privately-owned small and medium-sized enterprises, infringe foreign IPR lies in the nature of the difference between what have been mostly low-tech traditional Chinese businesses and high-tech industrial economies, to which intellectual property laws belong. Second, I demonstrate that the steady improvement of intellectual property protection in the more successful areas of development in the Chinese economy suggests that the solution for improved IPR protection in China and perhaps other emerging nations will follow, not precede, the development and transformation of a low-tech pre-industrial economy into an industrial high-tech economy.
Le controfigure di Dio. Da Blade Runner ad Avatar
Creators: name: Vallorani, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The issue of the relationship between the creator and his/her creature has been often dealt with  in dystopia and science fiction films, and in recent times it has taken on a specific flavor, less related to the implications of science and more connected to a symbolic dimension that goes  back to the Bible as a fruitful reservoir of myths and archetypes. The Biblical parable of the creation  in particular flows into narratives recalling familiar names and places, but deeply revising the  creator/creature relationship, that is unfolded through the poetic unacceptability of death in Blade  Runner (1982) and the possibility of a new life in a new body dwelling in the fictional Eden of Avatar (2010).

description: Altre Modernità, 2011: La Bibbia in Scena
Comprehensive Musicianship and Beginner Piano Method Books: A Content Analysis
Creators: name: Sundell, Kimberley
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: piano
PIano pedagogy
piano teaching
comprehensive musicianship
beginner piano
piano method books
content analysis
comprehensive piano

description: Comprehensive Musicianship (CM) is a philosophy that developed in the 1960s to encourage the study of contemporary music and student creativity. It expanded in the 1970s to describe the interdisciplinary study of music. Its goal was to encourage teachers to go beyond technical and performance aspects of music and start integrating theory, history, composition, improvisation and aural skills instruction to their curriculums. However, while CM has had a strong influence on many music programs, it is not clear whether this trend has influenced the field of private piano instruction, and whether CM elements have been included and integrated in beginner piano method books. To address this question, categories that constitute the core elements of CM were selected to conduct a content analysis of 12 piano method series. Analysis showed that the focus tends to be on aural skills (as teacher duets), and theory, with a noticeable lack of the more creative activities of improvisation and composition.
Infomobility and technics: some travel notes
Creators: name: Barnet, Belinda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The technical artefacts that surround us are more than just extensions of ourselves; they shape and mediate our experience of life and the taking place of space and time. Each technology has its own material genealogy that exceeds human evolution, and some developments have had more impact on human life than others. For French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, one of the most important developments in recent times is the convergence between the industrial technical system, globalisation, and mnemotechnical systems like writing and photography, to form a global mnemotechnical system. This system incorporates digital information networks like the internet as well as the real-time information events of individuals. The human of the information age is dependent on this global digital retention system; they invent themselves within it. More recently, with the development of geosynchronous satellite applications like GPS, there has been an 'interweaving' of this global system with real space; the human experience of countries and regions is shaped in advance by its representations. The global mnemotechnical system reterritorialises real space.
Implementation and optimization of a modulated filter bank based on allpass filters.
Creators: name: Chen, Min.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: A filter bank based on an allpass IIR filter with brick-wall response was designed by A. J. Van Leest in [17]; however, the delay in the filter bank is too long to be used in real time applications. In order to reduce the delay, the orders of coefficients, transition bandwidth and filter bank structures must be optimized. The order of coefficients can be reduced by increasing the stopband attenuation. In order to further reduce the delay, the sharpness of the filter bank has to be reduced. This thesis also discussed the number of band and filter bank structure against to filter bank delay. The filter bank can be used in non-real time application such as CD compression with high order coefficient. The minimum transition bandwidth can be reached at 0.03257pi/number of band. This thesis expands upon DCT modulations of IIR based modulated filter banks and investigate the Hartley transformation in filter bank modulation as a new modulation technique. These modulation techniques generate the real output signal with real input signals. The quantization errors from quantizing the coefficient are studied. It is concluded that at least 16 bits are required in order for a filter bank to give a good performance as designed without quantization.
The standard involution of SQ(,n)
Creators: name: Eisenhauer, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: On the rational group algebra QSn , the map given by g* = g -1, for g ∈ Sn, and extended linearly, is an involution. Since QSn is a semisimple algebra, it has a unique decomposition into simple two-sided ideals. We determine, for 3 ≤ n ≤ 5, the restriction of * to these simple two-sided ideals. This is accomplished using a positive definite symmetric bilinear form. Also, we construct a counterexample to part of a theorem found in The Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group by James and Kerber.
Voice performance evaluation of BLUETOOTH system in the presence of IEEE80211b WLAN system
Creators: name: Jiang, Bo
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis uses the protocols of IEEE 802.15 (BLUETOOTH) and IEEE 802.11b (WLAN) to develop a BLUETOOTH radio system model on an OPNET platform. Typically, the wireless model is a simple model of BLUETOOTH technology implemented in C programming language, and assisted by the MATLAB programming language. In the environment, the WLAN, piconets, medical or microwave facilities may affect the performance of the BLUETOOTH system. In this thesis, IEEE 802.11b WLAN and piconets will be investigated and implemented as the interference sources in the simulation environment. The goal of the radio simulation is to explore the voice performance, under the limitations and restrictions of the current BLUETOOTH technology specifications. The performance is evaluated in terms of packet throughput, which is the packet loss rate of BLUETOOTH, and the quality of voice in terms of the MOS rating. This simulation will hopefully help the BLUETOOTH system designers and decision-makers in gaining insight into the system performance analysis and enable them to get a better solution for some designing issue.
Modelling migration of substances from polymers into drinking water
Creators: name: Mercea, P.V.
name: Kalisch, A.
name: Schuster, Ramona
name: Ulrich, M.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diffusion
Migration
Permeabilität
Trinkwasser

description: In a first part of this work the permeation through and diffusion/migration from high density polyethylene,polybutylene, polypropylene and cross linked polyethylene films was investigated experimentally with three different methods to determine diffusion coefficients in these polyolefins for a series of additives, their degradation products and other organic substances in the 20-60 ˚C temperature range. The experimental methods used were dynamic permeation through additive free the polymer films, kinetic desorption from additivated films into water and kinetic migration from additivated into additive free polymer films. It was found that in general the temperature dependence of the obtained diffusion coefficients was well represented by the Arrhenius law. Some of these results also suggested that the contact of the polyolefins with water had an influence on the magnitude of the diffusion coefficients and on their apparent activation energy of diffusion.In the second part of this work the obtained pools of diffusion coefficients for each of the investigated polymers were used to develop an approach to estimate theoretically and without any further experimentation "conservative" diffusion coefficients for any organic substance, with molecular mass ranging from 50 to 1250 g/mol, diffusing in these polymers at temperatures between 15 and 85 ˚C. The possibility to estimate such conservative diffusion coefficients is very important when it comes to use efficiently migration modelling as an alternative method to test the compliance of polymeric articles with the existing national and/or European standards for drinking water. The use of polymer specific diffusion coefficients in migration modelling is required in the framework of the "Migration modelling guideline" recommendation of the German Environment Agency. Quelle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/