cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Contribution of MRI in cervical cancer
Creators: name: ELFAKIR, sophia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of female cancer in the world. Its incidence is increasing rapidly in developing countries, typically seen in younger women. It is a potentially severe disease especially in case of locally advanced...
Murderous Visions of Relativity In the Novels Das Parfum and Oceano mare
Creators: name: Marino, Mattia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: violence ; essentialism ; intersectionality ; post-structuralism ; otherness ; identity.

description: Social rites attempt to fill in the bodily gaps left by death. The aesthetic rituals of the novels Das Parfum (1985) by Patrick Süskind and Oceano mare (1993) by Alessandro Baricco come to terms with death in representations of murder which convey a relativist conception of being as presence, based on creative and critical dissent from the social resentment revolving around the dualist consent of life as absolute essence and death as absence. Both novels present death in ways which dissent from the resentful mourning conventions derived from the consensual distinction between life and death. An interdisciplinary approach, where philosophical perspectivism and post-structuralism, sociological intersectionality, and historical hybridity are integrated, suits to the intercultural analysis of the intertextual relations between these literary works. Their metaphors of dissenting serial murders and murderous social resentment converge in aesthetic rituals which celebrate the cycle of being in death.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
The influences of skeletal muscle mitochondria and sex on critical torque and fatigue in humans
Creators: name: McDougall, Rachel M.
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human physiology
subject: muscle physiology
subject: muscle fatigue
subject: Biology--Physiology

description: Mitochondria provide ATP through oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) to generate muscular force and maintain cellular homeostasis during exercise. The critical torque (CT) represents the highest intensity of intermittent isometric contractions that can be supported entirely by aerobic metabolism as well as a phase transition between distinct profiles of performance muscle fatigability (PMF) development. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether skeletal muscle mitochondrial content and sex were related to variation in CT and the magnitude of PMF induced by aerobic, small muscle mass exercise. Twelve females and 12 males matched for aerobic fitness underwent vastus lateralis muscle biopsy sampling to determine their myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition (i.e., fibre type), mitochondrial protein content, and citrate synthase (CS) activity. Once recovered, participants completed 3-4 intermittent isometric knee extension trials to task failure, including one trial at a fixed intensity for all participants, to determine CT and the curvature constant (W’), and two 30-min trials of intermittent isometric knee extensor exercise 10% below CT to assess PMF. The absolute CT and relative CT were not significantly different between males and females (p>0.05). There was no significant difference across sexes for the content of any OXPHOS proteins or CS activity (p>0.05); however, males had significantly lower proportions of MHC I compared to females (p=0.021). Multiple biomarkers of mitochondrial content were correlated with CT, and a few of these markers correlated with indices of fatigability at exercise intensities above CT, but none correlated with indices of fatigue below CT. Thirty minutes of isometric knee extensor exercise 10% below CT caused peripheral and central fatigue (p<0.05) for all variables, but males and females demonstrated similar declines in maximum voluntary contraction, potentiated twitch force, low- frequency fatigue, and voluntary activation (p>0.05). Results were similar for exercise performed above the CT. In summary, CT was correlated with skeletal muscle properties related to mitochondrial content in fitness-matched males and females, but CT and mitochondrial content were not different across sexes. Furthermore, the magnitude of PMF induced by exercise near the CT was also similar between sexes, and PMF was only related to skeletal muscle properties for exercise above the CT.
Turbulent characteristics in the intensity fluctuations of a solar quiescent prominence observed by the \textit{Hinode} Solar Optical Telescope
Creators: name: Leonardis, Ersilia
name: Chapman, Sandra C.
name: Foullon, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We focus on Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) calcium II H-line observations of a solar quiescent prominence (QP) that exhibits highly variable dynamics suggestive of turbulence. These images capture a sufficient range of scales spatially ($\sim$0.1-100 arc seconds) and temporally ($\sim$16.8 s - 4.5 hrs) to allow the application of statistical methods used to quantify finite range fluid turbulence. We present the first such application of these techniques to the spatial intensity field of a long lived solar prominence. Fully evolved inertial range turbulence in an infinite medium exhibits multifractal \emph{scale invariance} in the statistics of its fluctuations, seen as power law power spectra and as scaling of the higher order moments (structure functions) of fluctuations which have non-Gaussian statistics; fluctuations $δI(r,L)=I(r+L)-I(r)$ on length scale $L$ along a given direction in observed spatial field $I$ have moments that scale as $\sim L^{ζ(p)}$. For turbulence in a system that is of finite size, or that is not fully developed, one anticipates a generalized scale invariance or extended self-similarity (ESS) $\sim G(L)^{ζ(p)}$. For these QP intensity measurements we find scaling in the power spectra and ESS. We find that the fluctuation statistics are non-Gaussian and we use ESS to obtain ratios of the scaling exponents $ζ(p)$: these are consistent with a multifractal field and show distinct values for directions longitudinal and transverse to the bulk (driving) flow. Thus, the intensity fluctuations of the QP exhibit statistical properties consistent with an underling turbulent flow.
title: Definition of indicators bone mineral density of femur in young children using X-ray densitometry
Creators: name: ARSENIDZE, Tetiana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dysplasias
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Education
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Paediatric
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones
subject: Osteoporosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: ...
Exploring Perceptions of Using Preference-Based Methods to Inform Clinical Trials for Rheumatic Diseases
Creators: name: Thomas, Megan
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Patient preferences
subject: Preference-based methods
subject: Rheumatology
subject: Clinical trials
subject: Health Sciences--Medicine and Surgery

description: Background: Patients with rheumatic diseases must make trade-offs when deciding between treatment options. Their preferences can be elicited through quantitative preference-based methods, and the knowledge gained may help inform critical decisions when designing clinical trials. Aim: To identify ways preference-based methods have been used to design clinical trials, and to explore perceptions of stakeholders, including patients and clinicians/researchers, on the use of preference-based methods in rheumatological clinical trials.Methods: A stakeholder engagement session was held to understand broad perceptions of including patient preferences in clinical trial design from patients, rheumatologists, and researchers. We then conducted a scoping review to determine how preference-based methods have been used to inform clinical trial design. Finally, we conducted semi-structured interviews with patients and clinicians/researchers within rheumatology to explore their perceptions of using preference-based methods to design clinical trials, using thematic analysis to develop themes. Results: The stakeholder engagement session identified that participants consider including patient preferences in trial design a priority, with an emphasis on outcome selection. The scoping review identified 18 studies using preference-based methods across various aspects of clinical trial design, often leading to different decisions, and influencing the evidence generated from trials. After interviewing 26 participants (17 patients, 9 clinicians/researchers), three overarching themes were developed: Overall perceptions, Barriers, and Facilitators. Patients and clinicians/researchers generally agreed that patient preferences are important to consider, but the distinction between patient preferences and preference-based methods was unclear. Barriers identified were the additional work required, and the diverse nature of preferences. Patient engagement was perceived as a key facilitator for including patient preferences in the design of clinical trials. Conclusion: Including patient preferences in clinical trial design for rheumatic diseases was viewed as a high priority by patients, clinicians, and researchers, because of the potential impact on decisions made when designing a clinical trial. Furthermore, using preference-based methods to design clinical trials has substantial promise for making the results more meaningful to patients. Robust patient engagement is a requisite for this work, and appropriate guidance on including patient preferences when designing clinical trials is essential.
Self-similar solutions with fat tails for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with locally bounded kernels
Creators: name: Niethammer, Barbara
name: Velazquez, Juan J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 45K05, 82C05

description: The existence of self-similar solutions with fat tails for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation has so far only been established for the solvable and the diagonal kernel. In this paper we prove the existence of such self-similar solutions for continuous kernels $K$ that are homogeneous of degree $γ\in [0,1)$ and satisfy $K(x,y) \leq C (x^γ + y^γ)$. More precisely, for any $ρ\in (γ,1)$ we establish the existence of a continuous weak self-similar profile with decay $x^{-(1{+}ρ)}$ as $x \to \infty$.
title: Imaging of usual and unusual ERCP-related complications
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Filipa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Complications
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Become familiar with the possible adverse events following ERCP. Understand the role of CT imaging in the diagnosis of ERCP-induced...
No need for dark-matter, dark-energy or inflation, once ordinary matter is properly represented?
Creators: name: Knoll, Yehonatan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent Foundations of Physics paper [5] by the current author it was shown that, when the self-force problem of classical electrodynamics is properly solved, it becomes a plausible ontology underlying the statistical description of quantum mechanics. In the current paper we extend this result, showing that ordinary matter, thus represented, possibly suffices in explaining the outstanding observations currently requiring for this task the contrived notions of dark-matter, dark-energy and inflation. The single mandatory `fix' to classical electrodynamics, demystifying both very small and very large scale physics, should be contrasted with other ad hoc solutions to either problems. Instrumental to our cosmological model is scale covariance (and `spontaneous breaking' thereof), a formal symmetry of classical electrodynamics treated on equal footing with its Poincare covariance, which is incompatible with the (absolute) metrical attributes of the GR metric tensor.
description: Section 5 spined-off to a separate preprint DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36416.76805/2 ; The "tentative ontology" in sec. 3.1 now covers neutral particle oscillations. The stage is set, I believe, to try solving the ECD equations, which is a formidable numerical task
Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Puntos de fuga, ritual de muerte y conmemoración en Réquiem por un campesino español de Ramón J. Sender
Creators: name: Minardi, Adriana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: rituales de muerte; conmemoración, Réquiem por un campesino español; externalización; exemplum; guerra civil española

description: The present article tries to explain the narrative functions of the rituals of death and conmemorative acts in Réquiem por un campesino español. In that text we find the conflict of the spanish civil war taking the scene of a requiem mise, where the time of the main character´s narration in the first person recovers in an anleptical way the past memory before the antagonist character´s death whom that requiem mise is given to. In the scene, although, four points of fuge are taking in order to break the superficial monological discourse of the main character, a priest, and make the testimonial relation, not a ritual of death, but a rit of mea culpa. As a testimonial relation, moreover, this text allows us to discuss the function of the death as a moral exemplum and as a defense of the statu quo, as far as the use of externalization that, since Antígona, the died subject figure determines in the social relationships.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
A Subjective and Objective Assessment of Sound Insulation in Newly Converted Dwellings
Creators: name: Anani, J K.
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 1992

description: The results are presented of a programme of measurement and analysis concerning the physical performance and subjective assessment of a range of sound insulating techniques commonly used in housing conversions. The work is underpinned by: 1. A comprehensive review of sound insulation prediction models which are used for comparison with field measurements, 2. A critical discussion of the measurement techniques and criteria used, and 3. A full account of legislative matters concerning sound insulation of relevance to those concerned with minimising disturbance due to noise intrusion. The field measurements are used to compare five general classes of sound insulation, drawing data from 224 self-contained dwellings. They provide statistical information on those factors which affect performance such as ceiling drop, surface density, fibre infill and floor covering. Details are given of a complimentary subjective survey of performance based on a questionnaire. A comparison of the results with field measurements shows that there is only a small correlation between them and that such subjective assessment cannot be used as a substitute for direct measurement. The work concludes with the construction details of the insulation techniques examined and a review of their performance comparing such factors as ease of installation, disturbance to the household and cost.
title: Pediatric neck masses: review of MR imaging features of common and uncommon lesions
Creators: name: Fonseca, Diogo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review and illustrate Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging features of common and uncommon neck masses in the pediatric age...
Milk (2008) and The Times of Harvey Milk (1984): The Double Filmic Resurrection of the Mayor of Castro Street
Creators: name: Villa, Sara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: Harvey Milk, Milk (2008), The Times of Harvey Milk (1982), Contemporary American Film, Documentary, Biopic

description: On 18th November 1977, Milk recorded his will, "to be played only in the event of [his] death by assassination." In the first section of the tape, he declared his awareness of being the potential victim of such violence: "I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves." Both Milk (2008), the most recent biopic dedicated to him, and The Times of Harvey Milk (1982), a previous Academy Award winning documentary, open on this testimony, and immediately follow it with the repertoire scenes of the day of his
assassination.
However, in spite of this initial mourning tonality, neither of these mainstream movies ends up being the martyrography of their main character, who was killed after receiving an escalating series of death threats. They rather proceed by relying on a journalistic style which resurrects Milk through his own words, which were constantly developed around the theme of hope. After the tragic first scene, both feature films reconstruct the keystones of Milk's political achievements by directly quoting from his frequent speeches, public and private writings and constant activism for the Gay Liberation Front.  The first out-of-the-closet gay man elected to a political office in the United States is therefore alive again on screen, in two radically different occasions. Firstly, through the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, in a year when the anti-gay HIV backlash was leading to increasingly serious levels of homophobia throughout the country. Secondly, in a mainstream biopic of the years 2000, when the debate over gay marriage legislation is again dividing the United
States of America.
This paper aims at analyzing the ways in which this double filmic reappearance of Milk's political figure reactivates his piercing political activism in two different, but similarly crucial historical moments for the GLBT community, and contributes to the affirmation of an illuminated gay icon within the overall fight for human rights.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Geochronological and petrological constraints from the evolution in the Saxon Granulite Massif, Germany, on the Variscan continental collision orogeny
Creators: name: Rötzler, Jochen
name: Timmerman, Martin J.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2020

description: Controversy over the plate tectonic affinity and evolution of the Saxon granulites in a two- or multi-plate setting during inter- or intracontinental collision makes the Saxon Granulite Massif a key area for the understanding of the Palaeozoic Variscan orogeny. The massif is a large dome structure in which tectonic slivers of metapelite and metaophiolite units occur along a shear zone separating a diapir-like body of high-P granulite below from low-P metasedimentary rocks above. Each of the upper structural units records a different metamorphic evolution until its assembly with the exhuming granulite body. New age and petrologic data suggest that the metaophiolites developed from early Cambrian protoliths during high-P amphibolite facies metamorphism in the mid- to late-Devonian and thermal overprinting by the exhuming hot granulite body in the early Carboniferous. A correlation of new Ar–Ar biotite ages with published P–T–t data for the granulites implies that exhumation and cooling of the granulite body occurred at average rates of ~8 mm/year and ~80°C/Ma, with a drop in exhumation rate from ~20 to ~2.5 mm/year and a slight rise in cooling rate between early and late stages of exhumation. A time lag of c. 2 Ma between cooling through the closure temperatures for argon diffusion in hornblende and biotite indicates a cooling rate of 90°C/Ma when all units had assembled into the massif. A two-plate model of the Variscan orogeny in which the above evolution is related to a short-lived intra-Gondwana subduction zone conflicts with the oceanic affinity of the metaophiolites and the timescale of c. 50 Ma for the metamorphism. Alternative models focusing on the internal Variscan belt assume distinctly different material paths through the lower or upper crust for strikingly similar granulite massifs. An earlier proposed model of bilateral subduction below the internal Variscan belt may solve this problem.
Things as They Are: Essays
Creators: name: Jacobsen, Mikka K
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: autofiction
subject: essays
subject: creative nonfiction
subject: women's writing
subject: feminist theory
subject: creative writing
subject: Communications And The Arts
subject: Language, Literature, And Linguistics

description: A Creative Writing thesis, Things as They Are is a collection of essays about the search for romantic love in the digital age. As a whole, the collection challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is simply desperate. Instead, the essays consider what culturally-induced phenomena might derail romantic fulfillment: self-loathing, feminine beauty standards, toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, sexual double standards, fantastical thinking, depression, addiction, ambition, the advice of self-help gurus. At the same time, the collection holds fast to the idea that loving profoundly is a fundamental task of human being. Things as They Are explores the broader cultural realm, but the action unfolds primarily in Alberta, where the narrator both celebrates and critiques prairie culture. For instance, “Promotional Material” addresses the WHL and the Calgary Stampede, “The Wake” considers addiction among Calgary youth, “Parlour Tricks” examines the history of Treaty 7, and “The Wedding Plot” compares literary marriage plots with contemporary Albertan weddings. Twined with timely cultural explorations are the narrator’s romantic and sexual mistakes. Blending the formal structure of memoir with the analytical style of the essay, the collection elevates singledom as a legitimate lifestyle choice and unpacks the misogyny lurking in the heart of hetero-romantic coupling. Things as They Are is followed by a critical exegesis, “‘The visions men have offered us:’ On Love, Genre, and Definitional Confusions,” that explores women’s love writing and autobiography more broadly.
MOESM7 of Systems analysis of phosphate-limitation-induced lipid accumulation by the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides
Creators: name: Wang, Yanan
name: Zhang, Sufang
name: Zhu, Zhiwei
name: Shen, Hongwei
name: Lin, Xinping
name: Jin, Xiang
name: Jiao, Xiang
name: Zhao, Zongbao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S1. Comparative metabolomic analyses of R. toruloides samples prepared under Pi-limited (P0) and Pi-replete (F3) conditions. a Total ion chromatogram of quality control (QC) sample (positive). b Total ion chromatogram of QC sample (negative). c Changes of some cellular nucleoside derivatives and bases. Figure S2. Metabolomic analysis of R. toruloides during phosphate-limitation. a Score plot of PCA in P0 vs F3 (positive). b Score plot of PLS-DA in P0 vs F3 (positive). c Sorting plot of PLS-DA in P0 vs F3 (positive). d Score plot of OPLS-DA in P0 vs F3 (positive). Figure S3. Metabolomic analysis of R. toruloides during phosphate-limitation. a Score plot of PCA in P0 vs F3 (negative). b Score plot of PLS-DA in P0 vs F3 (negative). c Sorting plot of PLS-DA in P0 vs F3 (negative). d Score plot of OPLS-DA in P0 vs F3 (negative).
A note about invariant polynomial transformations of integer sequences
Creators: name: Bedratyuk, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an algorithm to find invariant poynomial transformations of integer sequences, using the classical invariant theory approach.
description: 8 pages
Vivre et écrire dans l’odeur de la mort (“L’Afrique au-delà du miroir” et “Murambi, le livre des ossements” de Boubacar Boris Diop)
Creators: name: Nissim, Liana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: romanzo; Boubacar Boris Diop; genocidio; Rwanda

description: The essay provides an analysis of the emotional and intellectual experience lived by the Senegalese novestist Boubacar Boris Diop in Rwanda in 1998, when he, among other writers, was involved in the initiative "écrire par devoir de mémoire", an initiative aiming at reflecting upon the terrible events of the 1994 genocide.
In his collection of essays, L'Afrique au-delà du miroir, Boubacar Boris Diop offers an intense reflection upon this experience which also iaugurated for him a new conception of history and a new notion of literary writing. As a testimony of this change, the novel Murambi, le livre des ossements reads like a funerary monument to celebrate the memory of the hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people  massacred during the genocide.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Investigation of Interfacial Behavior in Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Applications
Creators: name: Gholinezhad, Sajjad
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: This thesis focuses on interfacial phenomena in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 sequestration (CS) applications. In particular, we are interested in controlling the interfacial behavior through controlling immiscible viscous fingering and by using nanoparticles to alter the interfacial behavior of liquid-liquid and solid-liquid systems.A combination of theoretical and experimental techniques is employed. The study is carried out at three stages. In the first stage, theoretical and numerical techniques are employed to study viscous fingering. Numerical simulations based on a complex-variable formulation of Cauchy-Green barycentric coordinates are conducted to simulate immiscible viscous fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell. Two different geometries are considered: circular Hele-Shaw cell with open outer boundary and rectangular Hele-Shaw cell with confined outer boundary. The governing parameters of the system are identified, and variable injection flow rate is selected as the controlling method of interest. Then nonlinear behavior of interfacial instabilities in a circular Hele-Shaw cell under the action of different time-dependent injection flow rate schemes is assessed numerically. In the second stage, the effect of surface-functionalized silica nanoparticles (EOR-12) on interfacial phenomena is investigated experimentally. Wettability alteration, interfacial tension (IFT) and emulsification characteristics are focused on in this stage. In the third stage, as another aspect of nanoparticles interfacial activity, 1D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and low-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxation characteristics of EOR-12 nanofluid is investigated. Our numerical results show that viscosity of the displacing and the displaced fluids, interfacial tension, injection flow rate and thickness of the Hele-Shaw cell are the main governing parameters of the system. Additionally, we show that as long as the flow regime is linear, the existing flow rate controlling schemes work very well and suppress the fingering phenomenon remarkably, but once the nonlinear effects dominate the process, the efficiency of these protocols reduces considerably. Our experimental results show that EOR-12 nanoparticles have excellent water-wetness properties and emulsification characteristics but do not necessarily change the IFT in a water-n-octane system. Adsorption of the nanoparticles at the liquid-solid and liquid-liquid interface was identified as the underlying mechanism for the wettability alteration and emulsification characteristics of the nanoparticles, respectively. Finally, it is shown that presence of silica nanoparticles increases the MRI signal intensity and influences the NMR relaxation by reducing both longitudinal and transverse relaxation times compared to deionized water.
Ciudad, muerte y transformación social. La Barcelona de ayer y hoy en tres películas del III milenio.
Creators: name: Addolorato, Annelisa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: ciudad; Barcelona; Raval; documental; cine; sociedad.

description: This work is a comparative analysis of three films on Barcelona. The movies look like a portrait of the Catalan society of XXI Century and show the relationship among the idea of death and the city in the third millennium, through a code between the filmic language of fiction and documentary. Death appear as part of life, and has several meanings. Different definitions were detected by 'death': as an event and social and social and anthropological change, natural transformation of neighborhood, city, but also as opportunity to preserve the memory; or is social evil, violence and personal tragedy. The three filmmakers witness the ebb and death of an era in a city, in a Barcelona neighborhood to make way for the future. Art represents a possibility of urban survival. The work investigate relations among transformation, death and society in the three movies. The preservation and maintenance of memory is realized through the eyes of the camera too. The three artists focus their attention in Barcelona, its suburbs and especially in the central neighborhood of Raval, or Barrio Chino", in recent decades  of remodeling this part of the city. Their aesthetics could be compared to the one aesthetics of others Spanish artists of XX Century. Development concerning the passage of time in urban areas are interwoven with personal stories that define individual to society today and through chronic feature. Death is also a mutation of a social model of manners, which leaves room for the development of a different society: multi-ethnic and open.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Local-channel-induced rise of quantum correlations in continuous-variable systems
Creators: name: Ciccarello, Francesco
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently discovered that the quantum correlations of a pair of disentangled qubits, as measured by the quantum discord, can increase solely because of their interaction with a local dissipative bath. Here, we show that a similar phenomenon can occur in continuous-variable bipartite systems. To this aim, we consider a class of two-mode squeezed thermal states and study the behavior of Gaussian quantum discord under various local Markovian non-unitary channels. While these in general cause a monotonic drop of quantum correlations, an initial rise can take place with a thermal-noise channel.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Evaluation of the motion correction algorithm vendor specific SnapShot Freeze® for the accuracy and image quality of coronary CT angiography: an experimental study on dynamic phantom.
Creators: name: DELACOUR, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Artifacts
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Since the years 2000 and the use of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography, cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) has been widely utilized as a noninvasive diagnostic modality for visualizing the coronary arteries to detect coronary...
Cornici di tortura Lo scandalo di Abu Ghraib come rituale mediatizzato tra fotogiornalismo e arte contemporanea
Creators: name: Solaroli, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: Abu Ghraib; public scandal; mediatized ritual; photojournalism; contemporary arts; visual culture

description: This paper deals with the scandal of Abu Ghraib. The diffusion of the torture photographs is analyzed as a peculiar form of mediatized ritual, which has cristallized them in the public memory and performatively activated a number of practices of creative re-contextualization and symbolic re-articulation. In particular, the paper problematizes a wide range of forms of artistic representations of the torture photographs, according to three main analytical dimensions: inter-iconic translation, authorial intentions, degree of institutionalization.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Epsilon expansion for infrared Yang-Mills theory in Landau gauge
Creators: name: Weber, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the Dyson-Schwinger equations of Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory has revealed two types of solutions for the gluon and ghost propagators, with a scaling and a massive (decoupling) behavior in the extreme infrared, respectively. We show that both types of solutions are quantitatively reproduced by applying renormalization group equations of Callan-Symanzik type in an epsilon expansion to the infrared limit of Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory when a mass term for the gluons is added to the action. Only the decoupling solution corresponds to an infrared-stable fixed point in three and four space-time dimensions and is hence expected to be physically realized, in agreement with the results of recent lattice calculations.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX; several short comments and references added; to be published in Phys. Rev. D
title: Parotid enlargement: What radiologists should know
Creators: name: Flor de Lima, Beatriz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Salivary glands
subject: Management
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the most important anatomical and histological features of the normal parotid gland. To describe the imaging findings of common causes of parotid enlargement in different radiologic modalities, highlighting the major keys to a correct...
Queer Bodies in Catholic Schools: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Individuals Who Attended Catholic Schools in Alberta
Creators: name: Araujo, Maria M
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Alberta Catholic schools
subject: LGBTQ+ people
subject: homophobia
subject: heteronormativity
subject: social determinants of health.
subject: Education

description: LGBTQ+ students face specific challenges in Catholic school settings. Research to date has suggested, for example, that homophobic discrimination is embedded in these schools’ policies and curriculums. With a view toward augmenting the existing literature, I explored the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals who attended Catholic schools in the province of Alberta. I was interested in queer students’ school experiences in general but also specifically in relation to sex and physical education classes and curriculum. My study was informed by social determinants of health and of sexual health theories. Ten people participated in semi-structured interviews, which lasted on average 90 minutes, and were audio recorded. Narrative analysis of the interview transcripts led to the creation of five primary themes: (1) heteronormativity, (2) Catholic teachings, (3) locker rooms, (4) community during and post Catholic school, and (5) short and long-term health impacts. A summary of these themes was sent to participants for optional review and comment, with two of the 10 participants responding that they agreed with the themes based on their experiences. Like existing research, I found that heteronormativity and homophobia operate on cultural, institutional, and curricular levels in Catholic schools making schools a difficult and sometimes unsafe space for LGBTQ+ students. My study also contributes to knowledge about the negative impacts on queer students’ short- and long-term (sexual) health. I identify several areas where school experiences could be improved for LGBTQ+ students including: (1) inclusive policies, (2) curriculum reform, (3) anti-homophobia initiatives, (4) GSAs, and (5) partnerships with external organizations.
Lameness in dairy cattle in Alberta, Canada: Perceptions of dairy producers towards the prevention and control of lameness and the economic impact of two hoof trimming strategies
Creators: name: Knauss, Marlena
Publisher: name: Veterinary Medicine
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: qualitative research
subject: in-depth interview
subject: thematic analysis
subject: producer perception
subject: veterinary communication
subject: lameness
subject: dairy cow
subject: hoof lesion
subject: sole ulcer
subject: Markov model
subject: Biology--Veterinary Science

description: Lameness in dairy cattle is both an animal welfare issue as well as an economic problem in worldwide dairy production. In Alberta, Canada, despite mitigation efforts, lameness prevalence has not decreased over the last decade. Therefore, there are still missing links to prevent and control lameness effectively. For this thesis, producers’ perceptions of lameness prevention and control were studied. Qualitative interviews were conducted to garner an understanding about their attitudes and beliefs, along with their challenges in addressing lameness and support opportunities. Interviewed producers identified the same challenges; however, their attitudes in dealing with those differed. Moreover, an economic comparison between partial herd hoof trimming and whole herd hoof trimming was conducted utilizing a Markov model to support producers’ decision-making regarding implementing a hoof trimming strategy. Based on an economic comparison, there was a higher net benefit for partial herd hoof trimming when treating sole ulcers.
Le ex-colonie italiane nei racconti orali di Ribka Sibhatu e Kaha Mohamed Aden: I documentari La Quarta via. Mogadiscio, Italia e Aulò. Roma post-coloniale
Creators: name: Ramadhani Mussa, Kombola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Documentari, oralità, postcoloniale, Italia, memoria, Somalia, Eritrea, Kaha Mohamed Aden, Ribka Sibhatu

description: La recensione dei due documentari La quarta via: Mogadiscio, Pavia e Aulò: Roma Postcoloniale è finalizzata a metterne in luce il valore testimoniale. Il racconto orale di Kaha Mohamed Aden, originaria della Somalia, e Ribka Sibhatu, originaria dell’Eritrea, due scrittrici da tempo risiedenti in Italia, attraverso la memoria e la condivisione delle loro esperienze personali, permette di recuperare il passato coloniale italiano, mettere in discussione il presente e, in particolare, le questioni relative alla migrazione italiana. I due documentari, inoltre, forniscono interessanti chiavi di lettura per comprendere e prepararci con una nuova consapevolezza critica a quello che verrà.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
History and Trauma: Fictional Representations of Japanese-Canadian Children in Internment during World War II
Creators: name: Lei, Min
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Japanese-Canadian children
subject: World War II
subject: internment
subject: trauma
subject: Canadian Literature
subject: Social Sciences

description: This thesis investigates the traumatic internment experiences of Japanese-Canadian children during World War II in Canadian fictional writings. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, many Canadian-born children of Japanese origin, together with their families, began to endure deeper racial prejudice and discrimination than what they had suffered in the past in Canada. Concentrating on the treatment of these children during World War II, this thesis examines the trauma these children have suffered as represented in three adults’ novels, Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981), Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field (1998), and Frances Itani’s Requiem (2011), and two children’s books, Shizuye Takashima’s A Child in Prison Camp (1971) and Kogawa’s Naomi’s Road (2005). These five texts give a fictional representation of personal as well as family histories during World War II with their focus on children’s traumatic experiences. The nature of these texts is a combination of fiction and facts. These fictional documents, so to speak, complement or even revise the one-dimensional official record of this segment of history by telling the stories that had been ignored for so long in the official history of Canada. This research considers both the content and the form through which Japanese Canadian children’s traumatic internment experiences are represented in the five texts aforementioned. The analysis and discussion in this thesis focus on children’s psychological trauma during the internment and their cultural trauma after the internment, as well as their coping mechanisms, that is, how they deal with racism, psychological trauma, and cultural trauma at different life stages. Meanwhile, the narrative form that holds the content is also examined, where the skilful use of narrative techniques in presenting children’s psychological and cultural trauma in both adults’ and children’s books is identified and analyzed.
Evaluation of engineered bacterial transferrin binding proteins as vaccine antigens
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Somshukla
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Vaccines
subject: Infectious diseases
subject: Bacterial pathogens
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Swine health
subject: Biology--Microbiology
subject: Health Sciences--Immunology
subject: Biology--Veterinary Science

description: Many important Gram-negative pathogens that cause disease in humans and food production animals have specifically evolved to colonize and reside in the mucosal surfaces of their hosts. A key enabling factor in the survival and the pathogenesis of these bacteria is the bacterial transferrin receptor, which is used by these organisms to acquire iron, an essential micronutrient, from their host environment. The bacterial transferrin receptor is composed of the transferrin binding protein A and B (TbpA and TbpB), which bind exclusively to host protein transferrin and thus, limits the niche for these bacteria exclusively to their host species. TbpA is an outer, transmembrane TonB-dependent transporter, which enables the internalization of iron into the periplasm. TbpB is a surface exposed lipoprotein anchored to the bacterial membrane and aids in capturing iron loaded transferrin in the extracellular milieu. The bacterial transferrin receptor has been considered as a prospective vaccine antigen against these pathogens hence the objective of this thesis is to evaluate these proteins as an antigen. Previous studies have shown that when a TbpB mutant from porcine pathogen Glaesserella parasuis engineered to be defective in binding to porcine transferrin (Y167A TbpB) was used as a vaccine antigen, superior protection was observed in a swine model compared to the wildtype TbpB control. For the first aim, findings from this thesis demonstrated that a murine model of sepsis can be used to evaluate different TbpB mutants, providing a tool to screen different mutants prior to evaluating in a swine model. For the second aim, new TbpB mutants defective in binding to porcine transferrin were generated and evaluated as vaccine antigens. For the third aim, the cross-reactivity of immunizations with either single or multiple TbpB antigens is explored. A combined vaccine formulation with two antigens elicited a broadly cross-reactive response raising the possibility that a final TbpB based vaccine limited to these two antigens may be sufficient in providing protection against the entire repertoire of TbpB variants. Finally, a method for generating chimeric/hybrid antigens using TbpB based scaffolds to display extracellular loops from membrane proteins like TbpA in order to take advantage of TbpA as a vaccine antigen is discussed. Overall, the findings of this thesis adds to our understanding of the bacterial transferrin receptor as a vaccine antigen and brings us closer to the final, optimal vaccine composition for eliciting efficacious and broadly cross-protective coverage.
title: The Atlanta Classification of Pancreatitis: A Radiological Perspective
Creators: name: Cannataci, Christine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Inflammation
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To demonstrate the imaging findings of acute pancreatitis based on the revised Atlanta Classification To illustrate the various vascular and non-vascular complicationsof pancreatitis To emphasise the role of the radiologist in the management of...