cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Large Multicountry Outbreak of Invasive Listeriosis by a Listeria monocytogenes ST394 Clone Linked to Smoked Rainbow Trout, 2020 to 2021
Creators: name: Halbedel, Sven
name: Sperle, Ida
name: Lachmann, Raskit
name: Al Dahouk, Sascha
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Epidemiologie
Europa

description: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has revolutionized surveillance of infectious diseases. Disease outbreaks can now be detected with high precision, and correct attribution of infection sources has been improved. Listeriosis, caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, is a foodborne disease with a high case fatality rate and a large proportion of outbreak-related cases. Timely recognition of listeriosis outbreaks and precise allocation of food sources are important to prevent further infections and to promote public health. We report the WGS-based identification of a large multinational listeriosis outbreak with 55 cases that affected Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Switzerland during 2020 and 2021. Clinical isolates formed a highly clonal cluster (called Ny9) based on core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST). Routine and ad hoc investigations of food samples identified L. monocytogenes isolates from smoked rainbow trout filets from a Danish producer grouping with the Ny9 cluster. Patient interviews confirmed consumption of rainbow trout as the most likely infection source. The Ny9 cluster was caused by a MLST sequence type (ST) ST394 clone belonging to molecular serogroup IIa, forming a distinct clade within molecular serogroup IIa strains. Analysis of the Ny9 genome revealed clpY, dgcB, and recQ inactivating mutations, but phenotypic characterization of several virulence-associated traits of a representative Ny9 isolate showed that the outbreak strain had the same pathogenic potential as other serogroup IIa strains. Our report demonstrates that international food trade can cause multicountry outbreaks that necessitate cross-border outbreak collaboration. It also corroborates the relevance of ready-to-eat smoked fish products as causes for listeriosis. IMPORTANCE Listeriosis is a severe infectious disease in humans and characterized by an exceptionally high case fatality rate. The disease is transmitted through consumption of food contaminated by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Outbreaks of listeriosis often occur but can be recognized and stopped through implementation of whole-genome sequencing-based pathogen surveillance systems. We here describe the detection and management of a large listeriosis outbreak in Germany and three neighboring countries. This outbreak was caused by rainbow trout filet, which was contaminated by a L. monocytogenes clone belonging to sequence type ST394. This work further expands our knowledge on the genetic diversity and transmission routes of an important foodborne pathogen. Quelle: journals.asm.org
Ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures
Creators: name: Wen, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Semiconductor nanostructures exhibit many remarkable electronic and optical properties. The key to designing and utilising semiconductor quantum structures is a physical understanding of the detailed excitation, transport and energy relaxation processes. Thus the nonequilibrium dynamics of semiconductor quantum structures have attracted extensive attention in recent years. Ultrafast spectroscopy has proven to be a versatile and powerful tool for investigating transient phenomena related to the relaxation and transport dynamics in semiconductors. In this thesis, we report investigations into the electronic and optical properties of various semiconductor quantum systems using a variety of ultrafast techniques, including up-conversion photoluminescence, pump-probe, photon echoes and four-wave mixing. The semiconductor quantum systems studied include ZnO/ZnMgO multiple quantum wells with oxygen ion implantation, InGaAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots with different doping, InGaAs/InP quantum wells with proton implantation, and silicon quantum dots. The spectra of these semiconductor nanostructures range from the ultraviolet region, through the visible, to the infrared. In the UV region we investigate excitons, biexcitons and oxygen implantation effects in ZnO/ZnMgO multi-quantum wells using four-wave mixing, pump-probe and photoluminescence techniques. Using time-resolved up-conversion photoluminescence, we investigate the relaxation dynamics and state filling effect in InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots with different doping, and the implantation effect in InGaAs/InP quantum wells. Finally, we study the optical properties of silicon quantum dots using time-resolved photoluminescence and photon echo spectroscopy on various time scales, ranging from microseconds to femtoseconds.
Don't Walk So Close to Me : Physical Distancing and Adult Physical Activity in Canada
Creators: name: Di Sebastiano, Katie
name: Chulak-Bozzer, Tala
name: Vanderloo, Leigh M.
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
Publisher: name: Frontiers in Psychology
Year: 2021

description: Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, physical distancing measures have been implemented globally. Canadians have been instructed to stay at home, which has likely resulted in significant changes in their physical activity. Using data from a national physical activity tracking app (PAC app), we aimed to determine device-measured physical activity levels immediately prior to and following the implementation of physical distancing measures in Canada to provide evidence for the development of physical activity recommendations for future pandemics or second wave infections. Methods: Demographic and physical activity data were extracted from the ParticipACTION app (PAC app), using a 10-week (10 February to 19 April 2020) quasi-experimental design to determine changes in physical activity 4 weeks pre-pandemic and 6 weeks postpandemic declaration. Weekly physical activity levels were monitored through wearable fitness trackers and health apps linked to the PAC app, to record moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light physical activity (LPA), and steps. Repeated measure ANOVA was used to determine changes over time (mean ± SE). Findings: A total of 2,338 Canadians who were mostly 35–44 years old (26.6%) and female (90.2%) were included in the analysis. MVPA, LPA, and steps significantly declined immediately following the declaration of the pandemic (MVPA: pre-pandemic: 194.2 ± 5.2 min, post-pandemic: 176.7 ± 5.0 min, p < 0.001; LPA: pre-pandemic: 1,000.5 ± 17.0 min, post-pandemic: 874.1 ± 15.6 min, p < 0.001; steps: pre-pandemic: 48,625 ± 745 steps, post-pandemic: 43,395 ± 705 steps, p < 0.001). However, 6 weeks following pandemic declaration, MVPA (week 6: 204.4 ± 5.4 min, p = 0.498) had returned to pre-pandemic levels. LPA (week 6: 732.0 ± 14.3 min, p = < 0.001) and steps (week 6: 41,946 ± 763, p < 0.001) remained significantly lower than pre-pandemic levels at week 6. Interpretation: Although MVPA returned to pre-pandemic levels, significant and sustained declines in incidental LPA and steps were observed. Attenuating the loss of incidental physical activity should be a public health priority in response to future pandemics or a second wave of a COVID-19 infection, as it may have significant long-term implications for the physical and mental health of Canadians.
Reconstruction of ECG Signals Acquired with Conductive Textile Eletrodes
Creators: name: Taji, Bahareh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: ECG signal
Skin-Electrode interface
Acquired ECG

description: Physicians’ understanding of bio-signals, measured using medical instruments, becomes the foundation of their decisions and diagnoses of patients, as they rely strongly on what the instruments show. Thus, it is critical and very important to ensure that the instruments’ readings exactly reflect what is happening in the patient’s body so that the detected signal is the real one or at least as close to the real in-body signal as possible and carries all of the appropriate information. This is such an important issue that sometimes physicians use invasive measurements in order to obtain the real bio-signal. Generating an in-body signal from what a measurement device shows is called “signal purification” or “reconstruction,” and can be done only when we have adequate information about the interface between the body and the monitoring device. In this research, first, we present a device that we developed for electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition and transfer to PC. In order to evaluate the performance of the device, we use it to measure ECG and apply conductive textile as our ECG electrode. Then, we evaluate ECG signals captured by different electrodes, specifically traditional gel Ag/AgCl and dry golden plate electrodes, and compare the results. Next, we propose a method to reconstruct the ECG signal from the signal we detected with our device with respect to the interface characteristics and their relation to the detected ECG. The interface in this study is the skin-electrode interface for conductive textiles. In the last stage of this work, we explore the effects of pressure on skin-electrode interface impedance and its parametrical variation.
Megacorminae Kraepelin 1905
Creators: name: Soleglad, Michael E.
name: Fet, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Euscorpiidae

description: Subfamily Megacorminae Kraepelin, 1905   Type Genus. Megacormus Karsch, 1881.
 Composition. The subfamily includes two tribes, Chactopsini and Megacormini, introduced by Soleglad & Sissom (2001).
 Distribution. North America (Mexico), South America.
 Taxonomic history. This taxon was originally introduced as a subfamily of Chactidae. Soleglad (1976b) and Francke (1979) suggested that megacormines are closely related to euscorpiines. It was listed in Chactidae by Sissom (1990), and considered a synonym of Euscorpiidae by Fet & Sissom (2000a).
 Biogeographic history. The megacormines are a New World subfamily with a disjunct distribution of tribes Chactopsini (South America) and Megacormini (Mexico).
 Diagnosis. See Soleglad & Sissom (2001) for details.
description: Published as part of Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2003, High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni), pp. 1-175 in Euscorpius 2003 (11) on page 105, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13237351
Non-destructive Testing of Concrete by Interpreting Ultrasound Signals via Linear Optimization
Creators: name: Shalayel, Sami
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Nondestructive testing
NDT
concrete
ultrasonic

description: This thesis presents some mathematical models to represent ultrasound measurements in an attempt to automatically interpret ultrasound measurements. It is a multidisciplinary work mixing ultrasound non-destructive testing and linear optimization. Assumptions on the specimen are formulated, modeled and finally verified using linear optimization. The formulated assumptions include position, size and certain types of reflecting surfaces, and are modeled such that they can be fitted to a measurement using the linear optimization technique column generation. For the fit, a reference signal is used to find reflectors in the measurement and to simulate a set of reflectors with different strengths of reflection. Some parameters, like position and size of the reflectors, are optimized and determined during the fit. Finally, after the fit is obtained, the fitted simulation of the reflectors is compared to the measurement, and the L1-distance between both is used to verify or dismiss the assumptions in the model. If, e.g., a surface-like reflector was able to be fitted at the right position in the specimen, then the L1- distance will be reduced as the amount of non-explainable signal is shrunk by the found reflector. Otherwise, the reflector will be discarded from the fit and the L1-distance will be unchanged due to the unchanged amount of non-explainable signal. While the reference signal is crucial for the fit, it is usually not available on real measurements. Three different parametrized approximation-techniques will be developed and compared. The first one consists of a part cut from the measurement and the two other ones will model the reference signal, once as a Gaussian wave and once from the Fourier transform. Parameters to the references will be obtained using tools like Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm or linear regression.
title: Структурные элементы данных: алгоритмы поиска и сортировки
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: В учебном пособии приведено описание наиболее известных алгоритмов обработки данных: алгоритмов поиска и сортировки. Подробно рассмотрены алгоритмы последовательного, бинарного поиска, поиск методом хеширования, а также алгоритмы внутренней и внешней сортировки, которые являются основой компьютерного программирования и разработки сложных программ. В конце пособия даны задания по пройденным темам. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по укрупненной группе профессий и специальностей «Информатика и вычислительная техника», изучающих дисциплину «Базы данных».
Chactopsini Soleglad & Sissom 2001
Creators: name: Soleglad, Michael E.
name: Fet, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Chactidae

description: Tribe Chactopsini Soleglad & Sissom, 2001   Type Genus. Chactopsis Kraepelin, 1912.
 Composition. This monotypic tribe includes a single genus, Chactopsis (Soleglad & Sissom, 2001).
 Distribution. South America (Brazil, Peru, Venezuela).
 Taxonomic history. Chactopsis was transferred from Chactidae to Euscorpiidae by Soleglad & Sissom (2001) who established a separate tribe for this genus.
 Diagnosis. See Soleglad & Sissom (2001) for details.
description: Published as part of Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2003, High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni), pp. 1-175 in Euscorpius 2003 (11) on page 105, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13237351
Ethically Authentic: Escaping Egoism Through Relational Authenticity
Creators: name: Malo-Fletcher, Natalie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Authenticity
Egoism
Ethics
Moral Responsibility
Individualism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Charles Taylor
Charles Guignon

description: Philosophers who show interest in authenticity tend to narrowly focus on its capacity to help people evade conformity and affirm individuality, a simplistic reduction that neglects authenticity’s moral potential and gives credence to the many critics who dismiss it as a euphemism for excessive individualism. Yet when conceived ethically, authenticity can also allow for worthy human flourishing without falling prey to conformity’s opposite extreme—egoism. This thesis proposes a relational conception of authenticity that can help prevent the often destructive excess of egoism while also offsetting the undesirable deficiency of heteronomy, concertedly moving agents towards socially responsible living. It demonstrates how authenticity necessarily has ethical dimensions when rooted in existentialist and dialogical frameworks. It also defines egoism as a form of self-deception rooted in flawed logic that cannot be considered “authentic” by relational standards. Relational authenticity recognizes the interpersonal relationships and social engagements that imbue meaning into agents’ lives, fostering a balance between personal ambitions and social obligations, and enabling more consistently moral lifestyles.
Biocatalytic conversion of vanillin to 3-carboxy muconate
Creators: name: Gosling, Aaron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The organic chemical industry permeates our daily lives, giving us products such as pharmaceuticals, plastics, adhesives and paints. 90 to 95% by mass of all organic chemicals produced are derived from petroleum oil or natural gas [1]. To move towards a more sustainable chemical industry, processes which transform renewable feed stocks need to be discovered and developed. Plant biomass is renewable, and typically contains 30% (w/w) lignin [2]. Lignin can be dismantled to yield a smaller and simpler compound, vanillin [3]. This project investigated the construction of a synthetic metabolic pathway to transform vanillin into the novel polymer building block 3-carboxy muconate (3CM). The metabolic pathway which performs this transformation consists of three enzymes; 4-hydroxy benzaldehyde dehydrogenase (HBD), vanillate monooxygenase (VMO) and protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase (P34O). These enzymes were cloned from Acinetobacter baylyi, expressed in Escherichia coli, and purified. Characteristics pertinent to the behaviour of these enzymes acting in a pathway, such as kinetics, had been reported for only P34O. This information for HBD and VMO was gained by characterising these enzymes for kinetic behaviour, substrate specificity and stability. The genes for all three enzymes were then combined within a single recombinant E. coli host. This whole cell biocatalyst transformed 1 mM vanillin into 1 mM 3CM. Evidence was gathered to show the rate limiting factor for the conversion was the expression level of VMO. In vitro characterisation had identified that this enzyme had markedly lower intrinsic activity than the other two enzymes, and required higher relative expression. The usefulness of 3CM as a polymer building block was explored. The butadiene system of 3CM was chemically isomerised during conversion to a trimethyl ester form. This trimethyl ester was found to copolymerise with styrene. The composition of the copolymer could be varied by varying the concentrations of monomers in the feed. This project increased the body of knowledge of the enzymology of the vanillin to 3CM pathway, demonstrated that 3CM can be made by biocatalytic transformation of the renewable compound vanillin, and that 3CM is a useful polymer building block.
Denoising and Demosaicking of Color Images
Creators: name: Rafi Nazari, Mina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Demosaicking
Denoising
CFA
RGBW CFA
Color Images

description: Most digital cameras capture images through Color Filter Arrays (CFA), and reconstruct the full color image from the CFA image. Each CFA pixel only captures one primary color component at each pixel location; the other primary components will be estimated using information from neighboring pixels. During the demosaicking algorithm, the unknown color components will be estimated at each pixel location. Most of the demosaicking algorithms use the RGB Bayer CFA pattern with Red, Green and Blue filters. Some other CFAs contain four color filters. The additional filter is a panchromatic/white filter, and it usually receives the full light spectrum. In this research, we studied and compared different four channel CFAs with panchromatic/white filter, and compared them with three channel CFAs. An appropriate demosaicking algorithm has been developed for each CFA. The most well-known three-channel CFA is Bayer. The Fujifilm X-Trans pattern has been studied in this work as another three-channel CFA with a different structure. Three different four-channel CFAs have been discussed in this research: RGBW-Kodak, RGBW-Bayer and RGBW- $5 \times 5$. The structure and the number of filters for each color are different for these CFAs. Since the Least-Square Luma-Chroma Demultiplexing method is a state of the art demosaicking method for the Bayer CFA, we designed the Least-Square method for RGBW CFAs. The effect of noise on different CFA patterns will be discussed for four channel CFAs. The Kodak database has been used to evaluate our non-adaptive and adaptive demosaicking methods as well as the optimized algorithms with the least square method. The captured values of white (panchromatic/clear) filters in RGBW CFAs have been estimated using red, green and blue filter values. Sets of optimized coefficients have been proposed to estimate the white filter values accurately. The results have been validated using the actual white values of a hyperspectral image dataset. A new denoising-demosaicking method for RGBW-Bayer CFA has been presented in this research. The algorithm has been tested on the Kodak dataset using the estimated value of white filters and a hyperspectral image dataset using the actual value of white filters, and the results have been compared. The results in both cases have been compared with the previous works on RGB-Bayer CFA, and it shows that the proposed algorithm using RGBW-Bayer CFA is working better than RGB-Bayer CFA in presence of noise.
Data-Driven and Rule-Based Approaches to Improving Bavarian Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Bystrich, Tobias
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022

description: In this work we explored different approaches to improving the automatic speech recognition for the German dialect Bavarian for which little transcribed training data exists. The aim was to transcribe Bavarian dialect to written Standard High German. From the annotated data we could gather, we created datasets for training and testing. This resulted in approximately 24 hours of annotated training data, while the three test sets amount to approximately 6.7 hours in total. Our Bavarian models were based on the Fraunhofer IAIS hybrid model and two end-to-end models based on wav2vec 2.0. The experiments in this work may be classified using two categories: Rule-based approaches and data-driven approaches. While the wav2vec 2.0 models were trained in a purely data-driven manner, both approaches were applied to the hybrid model. The data-driven approach for the hybrid model also included training on approximately 24 hours of Bavarian speech. Additionally, a language model was trained on a larger set of transcriptions and subtitle data: a text corpus of annotations from the annotated training set and subtitles of a Bavarian television series. The rule-based approach was conducted via lexicon modifications using phonetic mapping rules. We found promising results and a relative -30% difference of WER compared to the hybrid baseline model. We find that despite Bavarian being a low-resource language, the greatest potential for improving Bavarian speech recognition lies in data-driven training of the acoustic modeling even though all approaches show promise.
eResearch training for research higher degree students
Creators: name: Sterling, Leon
name: Warburton, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research environment is experiencing significant change driven by advances in technology. At the University of Melbourne we have recognised that our research higher degree (RHD) students need to be proficient in that environment. They should be able to use a range of information and communication technologies (ICT) and understand key issues related to these technologies to enable them to embrace new research methodologies. Key university stakeholders from the Melbourne Research Office, the Melbourne School of Graduate Research, the Library, and Information Technology Services have collaborated to deliver a stimulating 'e-Research' seminar series that aims to familiarise graduate researchers with methodologies, tools and key issues to enable them to participate effectively in the eResearch environment. As not everyone is familiar with eResearch, the University of Melbourne program has been designed to hold appeal for students in both the humanities and the sciences, both the novice and the technically-savvy. Now being run for the fourth time, the program has hit a chord with the RHD student community with all sessions fully subscribed demonstrating perceived relevance. Aggregated data from program evaluations has provided evidence of student satisfaction with course content. Experience learnt from providing eResearch training to our research student cohort is now helping to shape the planning of future research training for our Melbourne Model undergraduate and professional graduate degree program students, and to understand how eResearch skills development can be delivered to the entire student population.
Infrared Thermographic Data Processing with Deep Learning and Explainable AI
Creators: name: Wei, Ziang
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: Infrared Thermography
Deep Lerning
Artificial Intelligence
defect detection

description: Pulsed thermography (PT), as an important nondestructive testing method, has attracted increasing attention in recent years, due to its rapid measurement speed, excellent mobility, and high resolution. Its applicability spans across various materials, such as metal and composite materials. The thermographic data consist of two-dimensional infrared sequences representing the evolution of the surface temperature of the test specimen. Even for skilled professionals, it is challenging to accurately identify all kinds of defects. Furthermore, the characterization for the defects can be even more difficult to decide. Although deep learning has become a popular automated data processing approach in recent years, there are some common issues when they are applied to the analysis of thermographic image sequences. First, deep learning approaches are typically data-hungry, whereas thermographic data are scarce as the preparation for testing is usually tedious. Second, as PT focuses on the detection of subsurface defects, it is often quite challenging to obtain the exact location of the defects. However, the accurate characterization of the defects is crucial for the training of deep neural networks. Third, unlike the computer vision field, where there are numerous well-prepared datasets for benchmarking different algorithms, there are only a few such publicly accessible PT datasets. However, these datasets are fundamental for advancing algorithms in thermographic data processing. Fourth, the deep learning models, despite their good performance, are often considered "black boxes". This presents an obstacle to their deployment in the industry for quality assurance due to the significant challenge of learning the trust of the end user who bears the responsibility for the product’s quality. This study investigates the aforementioned issues. To address the scarcity of data and the limited benchmark datasets, two PT datasets are prepared and made publicly available, one is for defect segmentation and the other is for defect depth estimation and localization. The latter dataset is labeled using the corresponding CAD images. This enhances the accuracy of the labeling information. Furthermore, to enhance the explainability of the deep models used for infrared data processing, three explainable AI methods are investigated, including the activation map visualization method, feature attribution method, and feature occlusion method. The activation map visualization method shows the decision-making process of the deep model, which is similar to human perception. The feature attribution method and feature occlusion method generated similar heat maps, demonstrating that the models use the correct features to make final decisions. The trust crisis of the deep model can therefore be mitigated.
Megacormini Kraepelin 1905
Creators: name: Soleglad, Michael E.
name: Fet, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Euscorpiidae

description: Tribe Megacormini Kraepelin, 1905   Type Genus. Megacormus Karsch, 1881.
 Composition. This tribe includes two genera: Megacormus and Plesiochactas (Soleglad & Sissom, 2001).
 Distribution. North America (Mexico).
 Taxonomic history. The tribe was established by Soleglad & Sissom (2001).
 Diagnosis. See Soleglad & Sissom (2001) for details.
description: Published as part of Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2003, High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni), pp. 1-175 in Euscorpius 2003 (11) on page 105, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13237351
"I'le Tell My Sorrowes Unto Heaven, My Curse to Hell": Cursing Women in Early Modern Drama
Creators: name: Templin, Lisa Marie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Early modern drama
Cursing
Speech act theory
Performative utterances
Gender performativity
Female characters

description: The female characters in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI and Richard III; Rowley’s All’s Lost by Lust; Fletcher’s The Tragedy of Valentinian; Rowley, Dekker, and Ford’s The Witch of Edmonton; and Brome and Heywood’s The Late Witches of Lancashire curse their enemies because, as women, they have no other way to fight against the injustices they experience. At once an extension of the early modern belief that words are “women’s weapons,” and dangerously beyond the feminine ideal of silence, the curse, as a performative speech act, resembles the physical weapons wielded by men in its potential to cause serious harm. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender as performative and J. L. Austin’s theory of performative utterances, this thesis argues that curses function as part of the cursing woman’s performative identity, and by using speech as a weapon, the cursing woman gains a measure of social agency within the social order even if she cannot change her place within it.
Glucose Kinetics of Hyperglycemic Rainbow Trout: Effects of Exogenous Glucose and Exercise
Creators: name: Choi, Kevin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hepatic glucose production
Glucoregulation
Exogenous glucose
Carbohydrate metabolism
Swimming
Continuous tracer

description: This thesis investigates the ability of rainbow trout to modulate hepatic glucose production (Ra) and disposal (Rd). My goals were to determine: (1) if resting trout can modulate fluxes to cope with exogenous glucose; (2) how fluxes change during graded swimming; (3) how exogenous glucose affects swimming kinetics; and (4) if exogenous glucose affects cost of transport or performance. Results show that resting trout suppress Ra completely and stimulate Rd from 10.6 to 27.6 μmol kg-1 min-1. During swimming, fluxes increase from 15.6 to 21.9 μmol kg-1 min-1, but only at speeds >2.4 BL s-1. When given glucose, trout suppress Ra from 16.4 to 4.1 μmol kg-1 min-1 and stimulate Rd from 16.4 to 40.1 μmol kg-1 min-1. Glucose lowers metabolic rate but does not affect critical swimming speed. Therefore, this research shows that rainbow trout have a much better capacity for glucoregulation than generally suggested by current literature.
Architecture for a Fully Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Computing Platform
Creators: name: Wilson, Dany
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: peer-to-peer
distributed systems
cloud computing
paas

description: We present an architecture for a fully decentralized peer-to-peer collaborative computing platform, offering services similar to Cloud Service Provider’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model, using volunteered resources rather than dedicated resources. This thesis is motivated by three research questions: (1) Is it possible to build a peer-to-peer col- laborative system using a fully decentralized infrastructure relying only on volunteered resources?, (2) How can light virtualization be used to mitigate the complexity inherent to the volunteered resources?, and (3) What are the minimal requirements for a computing platform similar to the PaaS cloud computing platform? We propose an architecture composed of three layers: the Network layer, the Virtual layer, and the Application layer. We also propose to use light virtualization technologies, or containers, to provide a uniform abstraction of the contributing resources and to isolate the host environment from the contributed environment. Then, we propose a minimal API specification for this computing platform, which is also applicable to PaaS computing platforms. The findings of this thesis corroborate the hypothesis that peer-to-peer collaborative systems can be used as a basis for developing volunteer cloud computing infrastructures. We outline the implications of using light virtualization as an integral virtualization primitive in public distributed computing platform. Finally, this thesis lays out a starting point for most volunteer cloud computing infrastructure development effort, because it circumscribes the essential requirements and presents solutions to mitigate the complexities inherent to this paradigm.
Presenting your research
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Every year, research scholars in every discipline and professional practitioners in every field present their work to each other in conferences and seminars around the world. Today, several dozen of these conference cycles take place in design research and the allied fields of research-based professional practice. For the readers of Design Research Quarterly, regular conferences include the Design Research Society, the International Association of Societies of Design Research, The Design Society, the Japanese Society for the Science of Design, and the Korean Society for Design Science. Many also attend the conferences of the Design and Emotion Society, Design Forum, the Design History Society, the Nordic Design Research Conference, the European Academy of Design. Professional association conferences in every field of design practice increasingly sponsor research streams. Research papers at these conferences cover a range of issues as wide as the different fields of design process, design research, and design education, the physical, digital, and social artifacts they create, and the social issues they influence. One virtue of a conference is the opportunity to meet colleagues from different cultures and nations, representing a wide variety of schools, scholarly disciplines, and professional practices. Because of this, however, we speak many different languages: different working languages and dialects, and the different languages of our many disciplines and professions. Sharing ideas and learning from each other requires communicating our research effectively. This article is a simple guide to the basic elements of effective conference presentation for speakers who are still mastering presentation style.
Investigating Graph Representation Learning Methods for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
Creators: name: Ali, Mehdi
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023
Subjects: Knowledge Graphs
Machine Learning
Relational Learning
Knowledge Graph Embeddings

description: Knowledge graphs (KGs) have become a fundamental approach to represent structured data and are employed in academic and industrial applications. KGs are used in various machine learning applications, such as question answering, dialogue systems, and recommendation systems. Although realworld KGs contain up to billions of links, they are usually still incomplete, which can severely impact downstream applications. Link prediction in KGs is the task of predicting missing links and can be performed in a transductive or inductive setting. In the past, a wide range of link prediction approaches have been proposed, encompassing rule-based and machine learning-based approaches. One promising line of research has been link prediction based on graph representation learning methods. In particular, a large number of knowledge graph embedding models (KGEMs) have been proposed and recently, also graph neural network (GNN) based approaches are used for link prediction within KGs. Despite the intensive research efforts in KGEMs, their capabilities are often not transparent. It has been shown that baseline models can obtain competitive results to the stateof-the-art models when configured appropriately, indicating that the performance of a KGEM may not merely depend on its model architecture, but on the interplay of various components. Link prediction within KGs has been investigated mainly within the transductive setting, prohibiting inference over unseen entities. However, lately, inductive link prediction approaches have obtained increased attention since they are capable of predicting links involving unseen entities. In this thesis, we propose an extensive ecosystem for investigating the performance of KGEM-based link prediction. We used the developed ecosystem to first perform a reproducibility study in which we investigated the reproducibility crisis of KGEM-based link prediction experiments. Second, we performed the most extensive KGEM-based link prediction study in which we investigated whether incremental performance improvements reported for KGEMs can solely be attributed to the model architectures or the combination of the KGEM’s components. After providing an in-depth analysis of transductive link prediction within triple-based KGs, we focus on inductive link prediction within hyper-relational KGs. We bridge the concepts of inductive link prediction and hyper-relational KGs and demonstrate that hyper-relational information improves semi- and fully-inductive link prediction. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of knowledge graph representation learning for addressing biomedical applications.
Infraschallunterstütztes Dornhonen
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Sascha
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Fertigungstechnik
Honen
Dornhonen
Oszillation
Simulation

description: Der Einsatz von Schwingungen bei Fertigungsverfahren ist seit Jahrzehnten ein allgegenwärtiges Thema in der Forschung. Die Vorteile lassen sich insbesondere an verringerten Bearbeitungskräften und damit an der Steigerung der Wirtschaftlichkeit und Ressourcenschonung erkennen. Die Komplexität des zielgerichteten Einsatzes, wie die Notwendigkeit zusätzlicher Aktuatoren und die konstruktive und schwingungstechnische Auslegung der Komponenten und Prozessbedingungen, verhindert jedoch den industriellen Einsatz. Innerhalb dieser Arbeit werden Dornhonprozesse untersucht, bei denen zusätzliche Schwingungen mit Hilfe der integrierten Antriebe eines Bearbeitungszentrums realisiert werden. Dafür werden realisierbare Schwingungsparameter und resultierende Veränderungen der Prozessparameter analysiert. Zur Identifikation von Prozessveränderungen dienen ein geometrisch kinematisches Durchdringungsmodell sowie Einkornritzversuche. An Werkstücken aus Gusseisen mit Lamellengraphit werden die Auswirkungen von erzwungenen Schwingungen beim Dornhonen technologisch untersucht. Die Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zum Verständnis sowie zur Auslegung und Nutzung der infraschallunterstützten Dornhonbearbeitung.
Fractal characteristics of lakes
Creators: name: Seekell, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Fractals
lake morphometry
lake size-distribution
lake depth
lake volume
ponds
fractal dimension

description: This is a scan of the book chapter titled "Fractal characteristics of lakes" originally published as a chapter in Thule: Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundets Årsbok 2018. This book had a limited production run, and the chapter is deposited here to facilitate wider distribution. Summary: Fractal geometry provides a framework for understanding lake morphometry at the global scale. Here, I summarize the successes and limitations of this approach. In general, fractal geometry contributes to limnological questions that consider large populations of lakes and not individual lakes. For example, constraints on the balance of small versus large lakes are readily derived, and the total abundance and surface area of lakes can be calculated based on this relationship. Additionally, the total volume and mean depth of a populations of lakes can be accurately estimated. The volume and mean depth of individual lakes cannot be estimated and this is a major limitation because most limnological questions involving these parameters are at the scale of the individual lake. In conclude by identifying some novel questions the fractal approach is suitable for addressing.
Vergleichende Bewertung von Raummodellen für die Gebäudesimulation anhand eines Reihenhauses
Creators: name: Schäfer, Benjamin
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022

description: In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit werden die Raummodelle AixLib.ThermalZones.HighOrder.Rooms.OFD.Ow1IwL2IwS1Gr1Uf1 (RWTH-EBC/AixLb, 2022) und Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.MixedAir (Modelica Buildings Library, 2022) untersucht. Anhand vorgegebener Materialdaten und vorgegebenem Bauteilaufbau wird exemplarisch dargestellt, wie diese in den Modellen umgesetzt und die Modelle parametrisiert werden. Zur Analyse des thermischen Verhaltens der Räume wird in Modelica eine Jahressimulation durchgeführt. Ebenfalls werden einzelne thermisch signifikante Monate und Tage betrachtet. Zur genaueren Analyse der Wärmeströme der Modelle werden wichtige Untermodelle der Räume und deren Interaktion untereinander verglichen und beschrieben. Es wird an den Bauteilinnenseiten der Umfassungsflächen der Räume eine detaillierte Wärmebilanz erhoben. Um die Interaktion der externen Bauteile mit den Umgebung zu untersuchen, wird eine Wärmesummendarstellung an den Außenflächen der externen Bauteile durchgeführt. Es wird gezeigt, dass in dem Modell der MBL die Wärmeströme weitaus detaillierter betrachtet werden können als in der AixLib. In den Raummodellen der beiden Bibliotheken werden zur Darstellung der Wärmeströme unterschiedliche Komponenten verwendet. Es werden Parameter - teilweise detailiiert, teilweise aber auch nur als Summe - betrachtet. Beides führt zu starken Abweichungen in den Wärmebilanzen. Diese Abweichungen finden sich vorallem bei der Berrechnung der Wärmeeinträge an den Fenstermodellen.
Scorpiopinae Kraepelin 1905
Creators: name: Soleglad, Michael E.
name: Fet, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Euscorpiidae

description: Subfamily Scorpiopinae Kraepelin, 1905   Type Genus. Scorpiops Peters, 1861.
 Composition. The subfamily includes two tribes, Scorpiopini and Troglocormini, and seven genera (Soleglad & Sissom, 2001).
 Distribution. North America (Mexico), Asia (south and southeast).
 Taxonomic history. This taxon was originally introduced as a subfamily of Vaejovidae (under Scorpiopsinae, incorrect original spelling) where it persisted for a long time (Stahnke, 1974), although this placement was considered not satisfactory (Sissom, 1990). The subfamily Scorpiopsinae was formally elevated to the family level by Stockwell (1992), confirmed by Lourenço (1998c), and listed as a family in Fet (2000h) who corrected the name spelling to Scorpiopidae. A revision of this family was published by Kovařík (2000a). Most recently, Scorpiopidae was downgraded to a subfamily of Euscorpiidae by Soleglad & Sissom (2001), who also introduced two tribes, so that the content of family Scorpiopidae as given in Fet (2000h) and Kovařík (2000a) now corresponds to the tribe Scorpiopini.
 Biogeographic history. The scorpiopines exhibit a spectacular disjunction between their main range in tropical Asia (a diverse tribe Scorpiopini), and the New World (Mexico) range of the tribe Troglocormini (which survives only as a cave genus Troglocormus). Such a disjunction could indicate an ancient age of Scorpiopinae, and could be explained by the Laurasian origin of both groups and subsequent differential extinction.
 Diagnosis. See Soleglad & Sissom (2001) for details.
description: Published as part of Soleglad, Michael E. & Fet, Victor, 2003, High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni), pp. 1-175 in Euscorpius 2003 (11) on page 106, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2003.vol2003.iss11.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13237351
Effects of age-targeted sequestration for COVID-19
Creators: name: Jamieson-Lane, Alastair
name: Cytrynbaum, Eric
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021

description: We model the extent to which age-targeted protective sequestration can be used to reduce ICU admissions caused by novel coronavirus COVID-19. Using demographic data from New Zealand, we demonstrate that lowering the age threshold to 50 years of age reduces ICU admissions drastically and show that for sufficiently strict isolation protocols, sequestering one-third of the countries population for a total of 8 months is sufficient to avoid overwhelming ICU capacity throughout the entire course of the epidemic. Similar results are expected to hold for other countries, though some minor adaption will be required based on local age demographics and hospital facilities.
First-order correction of tunneling and entropy in the Horndeski gravity-like hairy black hole
Creators: name: Ali, Riasat
name: Tiecheng, Xia
name: Babar, Rimsha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we apply tunneling formalism to analyze charged particles tunneling across a hairy black hole horizon. Such black hole solutions are essential for frameworks based on Horndeski's gravity theory. Applying a semi-classical technique, we examine the tunneling of charged particles from a hairy black hole and derive the generic tunneling spectrum of released particles, ignoring self-gravitational and interaction. It is studied to ignore the back-reaction impact of the radiated particle on the hairy black hole. We analyze the properties of the black hole, such as temperature and entropy, under the influence of quantum gravity and also observe that the first-order correction is present. We study tunneling radiation produced by a charged field equation in the presence of a generalized uncertainty effect. We modify the semi-classical technique by using the generalized uncertainty principle, the WKB approximation, and surface gravity.
description: Comments: 14 Pages, 5 figures
Productos y servicios de información en salud de BIREME y los retos de la transformación digital
Creators: name: Yano Suga, Sueli Mitiko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Productos y servicios de información en salud

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