cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agricultural fast food: bats feeding in banana monocultures are heavier but have less diverse gut microbiota
Creators: name: Alpízar, Priscilla
name: Risely, Alice
name: Tschapka, Marco
name: Sommer, Simone
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Co-occurrence networks
subject: Glossophaga soricina
subject: Habitat alteration
subject: Management intensity
subject: Organic agriculture
subject: Pesticide use
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 590 / Animals (Zoology)
subject: Enterobacteriaceae
subject: Pallas’s long-tongued bat
subject: Organic farming
subject: Pesticide waste
subject: Spitzmaus-Langzüngler

description: Habitat alteration for agriculture can negatively affect wildlife physiology and health by decreasing diet diversity and increasing exposure to agrochemicals for animals foraging in altered landscapes. Such negative effects may be mediated by the disruption of the gut microbiota (termed dysbiosis), yet evidence for associations between habitat alteration, wildlife health, and the gut microbiota remains scarce. We examine the association between management intensity of banana plantations and both the body condition and gut microbiota composition of nectar-feeding bats Glossophaga soricina, which commonly forage within banana plantations across Latin America. We captured and measured 196 bats across conventional monocultures, organic plantations, and natural forests in Costa Rica, and quantified gut microbiome bacterial phylogenetic diversity using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. We found that gut microbiota from bats foraging in conventional monocultures were overall less phylogenetically diverse than those from bats foraging in organic plantations or natural forests, both of which were characterized by diverse bacterial assemblages and individualized microbiota. Despite lower diversity, co-occurrence network complexity was higher in conventional monocultures, potentially indicating altered microbial interactions in agricultural landscapes. Bats from both organic and conventional plantations tended to be larger and heavier than their forest counterparts, reflecting the higher food supply. Overall, our study reveals that whilst both conventional monocultures and organic plantations provide a reliable food source for bats, conventional monocultures are associated with less diverse and potentially dysbiotic microbiota, whilst organic plantations promote diverse and individualized gut microbiota akin to their natural forestforaging counterparts. Whilst the long-term negative effects of anthropogenically-altered microbiota are unclear, our study provides further evidence from a novel perspective that organic agricultural practices are beneficial for wildlife health.
Coastal Community-based Protocols and Guidelines for Adaptation Planning
Creators: name: Nadimi, Ilghelich
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: climate change
coastal communities
adaptation planning
planning protocols
Canada and the Caribbean

description: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, “Adaptation to climate change is defined as, an adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities” (IPCC 2007). Adaptation is required due to the increase in the number of natural disasters and extreme changes in environmental conditions in coastal areas that are a function of sea level rise, floods, extreme heat, drought, and coastal storm surge from severe storms. To reduce the impacts of climate change risks in the future, coastal communities through local government initiatives are compelled to develop and implement grass roots community plans. This study is part of an International Community-University Research Alliance (ICURA), “C-Change” that aims to develop community-based adaptation protocols based on best practices and through the evaluation of the scientific method of problem solving designed to help coastal communities be sustainable and to protect their local coastal environments. To this end, the thesis reviews the international development and application of adaptive strategies related to climate change and evaluates these global strategies for identification of best practices and application to coastal communities. The objective of this research is to design and develop improved C-Change community adaptation frameworks by analyzing the applications of international protocols and local action plans with respect to the scientific method and of problem solving through using AHP (Analytic hierarchy process) as a tool, and by choosing best practices to provide guidelines for communities’ climate adaptation plans for the C-Change ICURA coastal communities in Canada.
Supplementary document for Magneto-optical effects in high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonator with large Verdet constant - 5194430.pdf
Creators: name: Danilin, Andrey
name: Slinkov, Grigory
name: Lobanov, Valery
name: Minkov, Kirill
name: Bilenko, Igor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, «Largo noviembre de Madrid», «La tierra será un paraíso», «Capital de la gloria», edición de Israel Prados, Madrid, Cátedra, 2007, 487 pp.
Creators: name: Manera, Danilo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Influence of Neuromuscular Fatigue of the Lower Limb on Postural Control and Associated Central Processes in Young and Older Adults
Creators: name: Bisson, Etienne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: muscle fatigue
postural control
aging
proprioception

description: This thesis investigates the differential effects of muscle fatigue on center of pressure (COP) sway and associated central processes (attentional demands and sensory re-weighting) in older compared with young adults. More specifically, we first sought to determine whether the effect of muscle fatigue on unipedal stance was greater during a dual-task in older versus young adults, and second, to determine whether the effect of muscle fatigue on bipedal stance was greater in a condition with less reliable proprioceptive information in older versus young adults. Our main results show that with different muscle groups fatigued (ankle or hip) and postural tasks with varying difficulty (unipedal stance or bipedal stance on compliant surface), young adults increased their COP sway displacement and velocity with muscle fatigue, but not the associated attentional demands. When the central nervous system needed to increase the weight of the vestibular inputs due to sensory information being less reliable at the ankle joints from standing on a compliant surface (peripheral somatosensory information), COP sway displacement and velocity in young adults were greater with ankle muscle fatigue. We also found that healthy older adults were able to compensate for muscle fatigue just as well as young adults when visual information was available during a unipedal stance or when visual information was not available during a bipedal stance on a firm surface. However, when standing on a compliant surface, older adults showed a greater increase in COP sway displacement compared to young adults and increased attentional demands when visual information was not available during a bipedal stance. Our results suggest that healthy young and older adults are able to compensate for ankle muscle fatigue to limit postural control alterations during quiet standing under different conditions, and that the extent of postural control alterations largely depends on the tasks performed. The compensation strategies may be less efficient for older adults with less reliable proprioceptive information and without vision. Thus, a frailer group of older adults, with already reduced proprioception and/or reduced vision could possibly have more difficulty to efficiently use the same compensation strategies, and may be more at risk of falling when fatigued.
MPEC 2024-K122 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 May 29)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Assisting children affected by parental separation and exposure to parental conflict
Creators: name: Cook, Fallon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There has been some evidence to support the use of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (TF-CBT) in children who have experienced sexual assault, traumatic grief, physical abuse or an array of single incident traumas. To the author‘s knowledge, there has been no research examining the efficacy of CBT in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following a conflictual parental separation. The study described in this thesis examined the efficacy of a 7-week TF-CBT program (n = 15) in comparison to a Bibliotherapy control group (n = 14), where parents received a self-help handbook. The TF-CBT condition involved a combination of individual child therapy sessions, group child therapy, and one parent of each child took part in a concurrent parent group session. Assessments were taken at intake in to the program, following treatment (or following reading of the book), and at a three-month follow-up session. Several hypotheses were tested: 1. It was hypothesised that children taking part in the CBT program would show significantly better improvement over children taking part in the Bibliotherapy condition, on measures of PTSD, depression, anxiety, perceptions of interparental conflict, internalising behaviour, externalising behaviour, feelings of being sad/depressed and feelings of being happy/content, from intake to post-treatment assessment. 2. It was hypothesised that these therapeutic gains made by children taking part in the CBT program, would be maintained at a three-month follow-up assessment. 3. It was further hypothesised that therapeutic gains observed in children taking part in the CBT condition, would not only be of statistical significance, but of clinical significance also. 4. It was hypothesised that parental ratings of happiness with their relationship with their child, would be related to more positive outcomes at post and three-month follow-up assessments. 5. It was hypothesised that children from conflictual parental separation, would be significantly worse at accurately identifying facial emotions on the Pictured Feelings Instrument, in comparison to the normative sample statistics reported in the Pictured Feelings Instrument manual (Schack Stone, 2004). Findings indicated that the TF-CBT condition was significantly better at ameliorating symptoms than the Bibliotherapy condition, on several main outcome measures. However, reoccurring parental conflict had an unwanted influence on results at follow-up assessment, indicating that children showing fear symptoms following conflictual parental separation require continued support in the face of new interparental conflict.
Supplementary document for Magneto-optical effects in high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonator with large Verdet constant - 5194430.pdf
Creators: name: Danilin, Andrey
name: Slinkov, Grigory
name: Lobanov, Valery
name: Minkov, Kirill
name: Bilenko, Igor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Carmen Riera, «La mitad del alma», Madrid, Alfaguara, 2005, 224 pp. (trad. it. di Urusla Bedogni, «La metà dell'anima», Roma, Fazi, 2007, 231 pp.)
Creators: name: Cancellieri, Natalia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Water and sodium intake habits and status of ultra-endurance runners during a multi-stage ultra-marathon conducted in a hot ambient environment: An observational field based study
Creators: name: Costa, Ricardo J. S.
name: Teixeira, Ana
name: Rama, Luis
name: Swancott, Abigail J. M.
name: Hardy, Lisa D.
name: Lee, Benjamin
name: Ladeira Camoes Soares Da Costa, Vera
name: Gill, Samantha
name: Waterman, Jessica P.
name: Freeth, Emily C.
name: Barrett, Edel
name: Hankey, Joanne
name: Marczak, Slawomir
name: Valero-Burgos, Encarna
name: Scheer, Volker
name: Murray, Andrew
name: Thake, Charles D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Anecdotal evidence suggests ultra-runners may not be consuming sufficient water through foods and fluids to maintenance euhydration, and present sub-optimal sodium intakes, throughout multi-stage ultra-marathon (MSUM) competitions in the heat. Subsequently, the aims were primarily to assess water and sodium intake habits of recreational ultra-runners during a five stage 225 km semi self-sufficient MSUM conducted in a hot ambient environment (T max range: 32°C to 40°C); simultaneously to monitor serum sodium concentration, and hydration status using multiple hydration assessment techniques. Methods: Total daily, pre-stage, during running, and post-stage water and sodium ingestion of ultra-endurance runners (UER, n= 74) and control (CON, n
= 12) through foods and fluids were recorded on Stages 1 to 4 by trained dietetic researchers using dietary recall interview technique, and analysed through dietary analysis software. Body mass (BM), hydration status, and serum sodium concentration were determined pre- and post-Stages 1 to 5. Results: Water (overall mean (SD): total daily 7.7 (1.5) L/day, during running 732 (183) ml/h) and sodium (total daily 3.9 (1.3) g/day, during running 270 (151) mg/L) ingestion did not differ between stages in UER (p< 0.001vs.CON). Exercise-induced BM loss was 2.4 (1.2)% (p
< 0.001). Pre- to post-stage BM gains were observed in 26% of UER along competition. Pre- and post-stage plasma osmolality remained within normal clinical reference range (280 to 303 mOsmol/kg) in the majority of UER (p>0.05
vs. CON pre-stage). Asymptomatic hyponatraemia (<135 mmol/L) was evident pre- and post-stage in n=8 UER, corresponding to 42% of sampled participants. Pre- and post-stage urinecolour, urine osmolality and urine/plasma osmolality ratio increased (p< 0.001) as competition progressed in UER, with no change in CON. Plasma volume and extra-cellular water increased (p< 0.001) 22.8% and 9.2%, respectively, from pre-Stage1 to 5 in UER, with no change in CON. Conclusion: Water intake habits of ultra-runners during MSUM conducted in hot ambient conditions appear to be sufficient to maintain baseline euhydration levels. However, fluid over-consumption behaviours were evident along competition, irrespective of running speed and gender. Normonatraemia was observed in the majority of ultra-runners throughout MSUM, despite sodium ingestion under benchmark recommendations.
TGF-β1 Increases GDNF Production by Upregulating the Expression of GDNF and Furin in Human Granulosa-Lutein Cells
Creators: name: Yin, Jingwen
name: Chang, Hsun-Ming
name: Yi, Yuyin
name: Yao, Yuanqing
name: Leung, P. C. K.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is expressed at a high level in the human ovary and GDNF signaling is involved in the direct control of follicular activation and oocyte maturation. Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) plays an important role in the regulation of various ovarian functions. Furin is an intracellular serine endopeptidase of the subtilisin family that is closely associated with the activation of multiple protein precursors. Despite the important roles of GDNF and TGF-β1 in the regulation of follicular development, whether TGF-β is able to regulate the expression and production of GDNF in human granulosa cells remains to be determined. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of TGF-β1 on the production of GDNF and its underlying mechanisms in human granulosa-lutein (hGL) cells. We used two types of hGL cells (primary hGL cells and an established immortalized hGL cell line, SVOG cells) as study models. Our results show that TGF-β1 significantly induced the expression of GDNF and furin, which, in turn, increased the production of mature GDNF. Using a dual inhibition approach combining RNA interference and kinase inhibitors against cell signaling components, we showed that the TβRII type II receptor and ALK5 type I receptor are the principal receptors that mediated TGF-β1-induced cellular activity in hGL cells. Additionally, Sma- and Mad-related protein (SMAD)3 and SMAD4 are the downstream signaling transducers that mediate the biological response induced by TGF-β1. Furthermore, furin is the main proprotein convertase that induces the production of GDNF. These findings provide additional regulatory mechanisms by which an intrafollicular factor influences the production of another growth factor through a paracrine or autocrine interaction in hGL cells.
title: The United States and the International Law of Global Security
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Malcolm
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: For the United States the ‘international law of global security’ is, in a unique sense, synonymous with the entire project of constructing global legal order. Uniquely preponderant power enjoyed since the end of the Second World War has allowed US preferences to manifest not merely in specific rules and regimes, but in purposive development of the entire structure of global legal order to favour American security interests. Perceptions of a recent decline in this order now find expression in advocacy for a ‘liberal’ or ‘rules-based’ international order, as the claimed foundation for global prosperity and security. This working paper seeks to map out the parameters of US contributions to the global security order by uncovering the strategic and political foundations of its engagement with the international law of global security. The paper begins by reflecting on competing US conceptions of the relationship between national security and global order as they evolved across the twentieth century. The focus then turns to three significant trends defining the contemporary field. First are US attitudes toward multilateral institutions and global security, and the ongoing contest between beliefs that they are mutually reinforcing versus beliefs that US security and global institutions sit in zero-sum opposition. Second is the impact of the generational ‘War on Terror’, which has yielded more permissive interpretation and development of laws governing the global use of violence. The final trend is that towards competitive geopolitical interests restructuring international law, which are evident across diverse areas ranging from global economics, to cybersecurity, to the fragmentation of global order into spheres of influence. Looking ahead, a confluence of rising geopolitical competitors with divergent legal conceptions, and conflicted domestic support for the legitimacy and desirability of US global leadership, emerge as leading forces already reshaping the global security order.
description: KFG Working Paper Series, 43
Scalable Continuous Learning for Visual Object Detection
Creators: name: Yuwono, Elizabeth Irenne
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Object detection
Knowledge transfer
Continuous learning
Deep learning
Transfer learning
Knowledge distillation

description: Object detection is a subset of artificial intelligence that enables machines to automatically segment and classify objects in an image or video based on visual appearance. The deep learning approach uses a large quantity of data to autonomously capture the scope of object classes and samples per class. The use of big data raises a scalability issue in deep learning, which is the need for long computation time, a large amount of storage to store the data, and a large random-access memory (RAM) to process the image data in batches. Another scalability issue is the need to support continuous learning for expanding the scope of classifiable object classes and adding more samples for the existing classes to improve the robustness and accuracy.
description: This thesis investigates how continuous learning can be accomplished by a knowledge transfer method to fine-tune the existing deep learning models using only new training data. The experimental results demonstrate that the knowledge transfer method can support a more scalable deep learning that allows for better retention of learned knowledge without the need to reprocess past data, which consequently reduces the requirement for storage and computing memory while increasing the processing time. Thus, this thesis provides both theoretical and practical contributions to promote the future use of knowledge transfer for scalable, deep learning, real-world object detection applications that naturally need to continuously expand the scope of classifiable objects and increase the accuracy by increasing the samples per class. Further, knowledge transfer will also support faster fine-tuning of generic object detection models for domain-specific deployments.
Supplementary document for Observation of Nodal Surfaces and their Associated Surface Mode Arcs in Electromagnetic Metacrystals - 5194628.pdf
Creators: name: Chang, Mingli
name: Xiao, Meng
name: Chan, Che Ting
name: Dong, Jianwen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supporting information
Women's Work as Painting Practice
Creators: name: Kennedy, Darcie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Painting
Domestic
Women
Gender
Feminism
Feminine
Control
Chance
Process
Pattern
Art
Artist
Rules
Methodology

description: Gender, along with cultural, and societal limitations and their respective histories have affected women artists as they were consistently prevented from a career in art through the denial of training and education. As a female artist, I work within these discriminatory practices while continually exploring the realm of low art techniques and everyday tools embracing the repetitive nature of complex patterning associated with domestic environments. My considerations and explorations of predetermined methodologies, rules, and systems in relation to feminism, Process and Procedural Art, Pattern and Decoration, women’s work, and their respective histories are embedded in my painted surfaces and my practice. Working within controlled systems, yet embracing the element of chance, I negotiate mechanical processes of paint application and the struggle that ensues. By creating my paintings in defined, layered stages and manipulating low art tools and their functionality, I repetitively play with control and struggle while leaving room for interruption and possibility.
Juan Marsé, «Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club», Barcelona, Editorial Lumen Areté, 2005, 264 pp. (trad. it. di Hado Lyria, «Canzone d'amore al Lolita's Club», Milano, Frassinelli, 2006, 272pp.)
Creators: name: Marchesoni, Morgana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Apprivoiser les monstres par le théâtre : analyse du traitement des sujets difficiles dans le théâtre jeune public contemporain au Québec
Creators: name: Turgeon Charest, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013

description: Cette thèse propose une analyse des représentations de sujets considérés difficiles, tels que la violence et la mort, dans la dramaturgie jeune public des années 1990 au Québec. De nombreux dramaturges de l’époque souhaitent parler de tout à l’enfant et établir une relation égalitaire avec lui, tout en s’éloignant du « théâtre à message » des années 1980. Nous cherchons plus particulièrement à mettre en lumière la poétique de l’évocation que partagent les auteurs du corpus (Michel Marc Bouchard, Suzanne Lebeau et Jasmine Dubé), de même que la façon dont ils s’appuient sur un imaginaire tant mythologique que propre à l’enfance afin d’inclure le jeune spectateur, sans négliger leurs ambitions artistiques et dramaturgiques.
Understanding the structure-property relationships of amino acids-the molecular building blocks of life
Creators: name: Ganesan, Aravindhan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Amino acids are significant molecular building blocks of proteins, whose structures only differ in their side chain 'R-' groups. This thesis revealed the significant electronic structures, properties and dynamics of the amino acids under isolated and defined environmental conditions. The state-of-the-art theoretical approaches, in collaboration with experiments, are employed. The results presented are useful for a more systematic understanding of the impacts of inter- and intra-molecular interactions on the structure-functionalities of the amino acids. Such details are fundamentally important for the design and development of novel molecular entities in different areas of science, from medicinal sciences to material sciences.
title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEMALE MANAGERS' COMMUNICATION MODELS AND THEIR LEVELS OF JOB SATISFACTION
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: TAMAM, Songül
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2020
Subjects: FEMALE MANAGERS
JOB SATISFACTION
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION MODELS

Abstract
Eugénio de Andrade, «Dal mare o da altra stella», a cura di F. Bertolazzi, Roma, Bulzoni, 2006, 348 pp.; Herberto Helder, «O la poesía continua», a cura di V. Arsillo, Roma, Donzelli, 2006, 190 pp.
Creators: name: Russo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Quantum carpets: a tool to observe decoherence
Creators: name: Kazemi, Parimah
name: Chaturvedi, S.
name: Marzoli, Irene
name: O'Connell, R. F.
name: Schleich, Wolfgang P.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Quantum theory
subject: Quantenmechanik

description: Abstract Quantum carpets—the spatio-temporal de Broglie density profiles—woven by an atom or an electron in the near-field region of a diffraction grating bring to light, in real time, the decoherence of each individual component of the interference term of the Wigner function characteristic of superposition states. The proposed experiments are feasible with present-day technology.
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, «África no feminino. As mulheres portuguesas e a guerra colonial», Porto, Afrontamento, 2007, 262 pp.
Creators: name: Becchi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Occurrence of the Persistent Antimicrobial Triclosan in Microwave Pretreated and Anaerobically Digested Municipal Sludges under Various Process Conditions
Creators: name: Kor-Bicakci, Gokce
name: Abbott, Timothy
name: Ubay-Cokgor, Emine
name: Eskicioglu, Cigdem
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Treatment of emerging contaminants, such as antimicrobials, has become a priority topic for environmental protection. As a persistent, toxic, and bioaccumulative antimicrobial, the accumulation of triclosan (TCS) in wastewater sludge is creating a potential risk to human and ecosystem health via the agricultural use of biosolids. The impact of microwave (MW) pretreatment on TCS levels in municipal sludge is unknown. This study, for the first time, evaluated how MW pretreatment (80 and 160 °C) itself and together with anaerobic digestion (AD) under various sludge retention times (SRTs: 20, 12, and 6 days) and temperatures (35 and 55 °C) can affect the levels of TCS in municipal sludge. TCS and its potential transformation products were analyzed with ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry. Significantly higher TCS concentrations were detected in sludge sampled from the plant in colder compared to those in warmer temperatures. MW temperature did not have a discernible impact on TCS reduction from undigested sludge. However, AD studies indicated that compared to controls (no pretreatment), MW irradiation could make TCS more amenable to biodegradation (up to 46%), especially at the elevated pretreatment and digester temperatures. At different SRTs studied, TCS levels in the thermophilic digesters were considerably lower than that of in the mesophilic digesters.
Mechanical performance of a PLA-based biodegradable plastic for liquid packaging application
Creators: name: Widiastuti, Indah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis proposed a methodology in evaluating new application of a biodegradable plastic, Polylactide, for chemical liquid packaging applications. Polylactide (PLA) is a kind of polymer derived from renewable resources, which used in packaging applications as an alternative solution to address the ecological problem of petrochemical-based plastic waste accumulation. By understanding the characteristics of liquid diffusion inside the material, the material properties can be modelled more accurately for precise prediction of mechanical performance under various loading condition over the service time. The study takes into account the importance of mass transport in packaging application related to mechanical behaviour and failure of the package due to sorption of liquid substances.
Pedro Laín Entralgo, «Il medico e il malato», edición e introducción de Armando Savignano, Caserta, Edizioni Saletta dell’Uva, 2007, 205 pp.
Creators: name: Addolorato, Annelisa
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 31 (2007)
Supplementary document for Field-Based Design of a Resonant Dielectric Antenna for Coherent Spin-Photon Interfaces - 5195045.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Linsen
name: Choi, Hyeongrak
name: Heuck, Mikkel
name: Englund, Dirk
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document revise
Infrared and solid state NMR studies of the adsorption of phosphorus compounds on oxides.
Creators: name: Lang, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: Infrared and Solid State NMR spectroscopies have been used to study the reactions of $\rm PMe\sb{n}Cl\sb{3-n}$ (n = 0 to 2) with silica, the reactions of P(OMe)$\sb3$ and related compounds with alumina, as well as the adsorption of PMe$\sb3$ on a variety of oxides. PMe$\sb3$ interacts with silica activated at moderate temperatures via hydrogen bonding or physisorption only. PCl$\sb3$ interacts with silica at room temperature via a weak hydrogen bonding interaction. Previous assignments in the literature of two kinds of hydrogen bonded complex are shown to be in error. OPCl$\sb3$, often present as an impurity in PCl$\sb3$, is shown to be responsible for the infrared peaks that had previously been incorrectly assigned to a second type of adsorbed PCl$\sb3$. Prolonged room temperature reaction led to the formation of small amounts of $\equiv$Si-O-PCl$\sb2$, ($\equiv$SiO)$\sb2$P(H)=O, $\equiv$SiOP(H)OH, and another unidentified product. vskip18pt PMe$\sb2$Cl was much more reactive. It reacts to form $\equiv$Si-O-P(O)Me$\sb2$, removing most of the surface silanol groups in the process. The identity of this species could be verified by both IR and NMR. IR spectra of a thin film of $\sp $O exchanged silica showed that this compound definitely does extract oxygen from the silica surface. PMeCl$\sb2$ shows intermediate reactivity towards silica. Most of the surface silanol groups are consumed after four or five hours reaction time. The dominant phosphorus containing surface species is $\equiv$Si-O-P(O)(H)Me. Dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) reacts with $\rm Al\sb2O\sb3$ by losing its methoxy groups in a sequential manner. For room temperature interaction molecular DMMP, either hydrogen bonded to the surface or coordinated to Lewis acidic aluminium atoms, is the predominant species. After reaction at 100$\sp\circ$C most of the DMMP molecules have lost one methoxy group. After 300$\sp\circ$C reaction all of the DMMP has lost both of its methoxy groups. Dimethyl phosphite (DMP) reacts in a similar manner to DMMP, although some P-Me groups form during the reaction, indicating that $\rm Al\sb2O\sb3$ can cleave the P-H bond of dialkyl phosphites. Trimethyl phosphite reacts with $\rm Al\sb2O\sb3$ to give all of the products observed in the reactions of DMMP and DMP with $\rm Al\sb2O\sb3$. Many of the magic-angle-spinning NMR spectra presented in this thesis were acquired with pulse sequences that result in the Total Suppression of Sidebands (TOSS). For completeness, a similar mathematical treatment of pulse sequences that produce Phase Adjusted Spinning Sidebands (PASS) is also presented. Two interesting new pulse sequences that produce Hahn echoes in rotating samples are demonstrated. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Telecommunications call processing on a linear processor array.
Creators: name: Knox, David.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: New telephone features and their increasingly complex interactions with one another requires better performance from Telecommunication Switching systems. Since call processing is the most computationally expensive task in a switch, multi-processor systems are being considered for the call processing cores of many commercial switch architectures. In this thesis, the design criteria for such a call processing system have been generated and analyzed. A new approach, the heterogeneous linear pipelined array is proposed and compared with a common load sharing architecture. The linear pipelined array has been simulated using a detailed Verilog Hardware Description Language model, to further verify its suitability for call processing applications. Several fixed assignment schemes and three simple heuristic assignment schemes have been simulated and the resulting throughput and processor utilizations has been studied. A semi-static approach has been tested, where an optimal schedule is determined based on the relative quantities of calls in specific states. The performance of the array for the call processing task is shown, for a variety of cases, to be dependent on the degree of load balancing which can be achieved in the array and the extent to which processing bottlenecks can be avoided. The results for the semi-static schedules are significantly better than for the fixed schemes. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A validation study of the Physician Notices of Birth database in the regional municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.
Creators: name: Henderson-Tadeson, Beth.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biology, Biostatistics.

description: The Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton maintains a database of information obtained from routinely assembled Physician Notices of Birth Forms. The validity of this database was called into question when it was discovered that substantial over-reporting of stillbirth existed when compared to the hospital caseroom logbooks. The literature shows that key variables in perinatal research, such as birthweight, gestational age, mother's age and sex of baby are generally reasonably accurate. To date, however, there is no piece of research investigating chance-corrected agreement of whether a baby was born alive or still. The study problem examined in this paper is the quality of the Ottawa-Carleton Health Department's Physician Notices of Birth (PNOB) database. All stillbirths and babies with unknown outcomes born in an Ottawa hospital to women residing in Ottawa-Carleton were included in the study in addition to a random sample of livebirths. Study variables were gestational age, mother's age, birthweight, number of previous livebirths, sex, postal code and whether the baby was born alive. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Field-Based Design of a Resonant Dielectric Antenna for Coherent Spin-Photon Interfaces - 5195045.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Linsen
name: Choi, Hyeongrak
name: Heuck, Mikkel
name: Englund, Dirk
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document revise
Personality Assessment Using Multiple Online Social Networks
Creators: name: Bhardwaj, Shally
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Online Personality assessment
Big five personality traits
Facebook
LinkedIn

description: Personality plays an important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is being used in many application scenarios such as i) personalized marketing and advertisement of commercial products, ii) designing personalized ambient environments, iii) personalized avatars in virtual world, and iv) by psychologists to treat various mental and personality disorders. Traditional methods of personality assessment require a long questionnaire to be completed, which is time consuming. On the other hand, several works have been published that seek to acquire various personality traits by analyzing Internet usage statistics. Researchers have used Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and various other websites to collect usage statistics. However, we are still far from a successful outcome. This thesis uses a range of divergent features of Facebook and LinkedIn social networks, both separately and collectively, in order to achieve better results. In this work, the big five personality trait model is used to analyze the five traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The experimental results show that the accuracy of personality detection improves with the use of complementary features of multiple social networks (Facebook and LinkedIn, in our case) for openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism. However, for extroversion we found that the use of only LinkedIn features provides better results than the use of only Facebook features or both Facebook and LinkedIn features.
Mandatory reporting? Issues to consider when developing legislation and policy to improve discovery of child abuse
Creators: name: Davies, Emma
name: Mathews, Ben
name: Read, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the United Kingdom, recent investigations into child sexual abuse occurring within schools, the Catholic Church and the British Broadcasting Corporation, have intensified debate on ways to improve the discovery of child sexual abuse, and child maltreatment generally. One approach adopted in other jurisdictions to better identify cases of severe child maltreatment is the introduction of some form of legislative mandatory reporting to require designated persons to report known and suspected cases. The debate in England has raised the prospect of whether adopting a strategy of some kind of mandatory reporting law is advisable. The purpose of this article is to add to this debate by identifying fundamental principles, issues and complexities underpinning policy and even legislative developments in the interests of children and society. The article will first highlight the data on the hidden nature of child maltreatment and the background to the debate. Secondly, it will identify some significant gaps in knowledge that need to be filled. Thirdly, the article will summarise the barriers to reporting abuse and neglect. Fourthly, we will identify a range of options for, and clarify the dilemmas in developing, legislative mandatory reporting, addressing two key issues: who should be mandated to report, and what types of child maltreatment should they be required to report? Finally, we draw attention to some inherently different goals and competing interests, both between and within the various institutions involved in the safeguarding of children and the criminal prosecution of some offenders. Based on this analysis we offer some concluding observations that we hope contribute to informed and careful debate about mandatory reporting.
Fabrication of 15NV− centers in diamond using a deterministic single ion implanter
Creators: name: Groot-Berning, Karin
name: Jacob, Georg
name: Osterkamp, Christian
name: Jelezko, Fedor
name: Schmidt-Kaler, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: deterministic implantation
subject: single ion implantation
subject: NV creation
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Diamonds
subject: Deterministische Optimierung

description: AbstractNitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are a platform for several important quantum technologies, including sensing, communication and elementary quantum processors. In this letter we demonstrate the creation of NV centers by implantation using a deterministic single ion source. For this we sympathetically laser-cool single N2+15 molecular ions in a Paul trap and extract them at an energy of 5.9 keV. Subsequently the ions are focused with a lateral resolution of 121(35) nm and are implanted into a diamond substrate without any spatial filtering by apertures or masks. After high-temperature annealing, we detect the NV centers in a confocal microscope and determine a conversion efficiency of about 0.6%. The 15NV centers are characterized by optically detected magnetic resonance on the hyperfine transition and coherence time.
Supplementary document for Dual slot-mode NOEM phase shifter - 5195541.pdf
Creators: name: Baghdadi, Reza
name: Gould, Michael
name: Gupta, Shashank
name: Tymchenko, Mykhailo
name: Bunandar, Darius
name: Ramey, Carl
name: Harris, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
title: Fehler korrigieren, nicht vermeiden – Oder: Wie kann verantwortliche Digitalisierung im öffentlichen Sektor gelingen?
Creators: name: Seibel, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ms06f06
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5.6
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Bei der Digitalisierung öffentlicher Leistungen zeigt sich exemplarisch, dass es nicht zielführend ist, wenn Vorhaben zwar formal absolut korrekt durchgeführt werden, aber nicht zu brauchbaren Ergebnissen führen. Faktoren wie Geschwindigkeit, Lernfähigkeit, Adaptivität und Fehlertoleranz sollten hingegen künftig an Bedeutung gewinnen. Es braucht ein neues Verständnis von verantwortungsvollem staatlichem Handeln.
Structural Behaviour of Self Consolidating Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams
Creators: name: Cohen, Michael I.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Steel Fiber
Self Consolidating Concrete
Mustafa Mohammed-Saeed
SFRC
SCFRC
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams
SCC
SFRC Beams
SCFRC Beams
Shear Behaviour of SFRC Beams
Slump Flow Test
Fiber Pullout Strength
Mohammed-Saeed
Mustafa
Michael
Cohen
Shear Behaviour of SCFRC Beams

description: When subjected to a combination of moment and shear force, a reinforced concrete (RC) beam with either little or no transverse reinforcement can fail in shear before reaching its full flexural strength. This type of failure is sudden in nature and usually disastrous because it does not give sufficient warning prior to collapse. To prevent this type of shear failure, reinforced concrete beams are traditionally reinforced with stirrups. However, the use of stirrups is not always cost effective since it increases labor costs, and can make casting concrete difficult in situations where closely-spaced stirrups are required. The use of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) could be considered as a potential alternative to the use of traditional shear reinforcement. Concrete is very weak and brittle in tension, SFRC transforms this behaviour and improves the diagonal tension capacity of concrete and thus can result in significant enhancements in shear capacity. However, one of the drawbacks associated with SFRC is that the addition of fibers to a regular concrete mix can cause problems in workability. The use of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is an innovative solution to this problem and can result in improved workability when fibers are added to the mix. The thesis presents the experimental results from tests on twelve slender self-consolidating fiber reinforced concrete (SCFRC) beams tested under four-point loading. The results demonstrate the combined use of SCC and steel fibers can improve the shear resistance of reinforced concrete beams, enhance crack control and can promote flexural ductility. Despite extensive research, there is a lack of accurate and reliable design guidelines for the use of SFRC in beams. This study presents a rational model which can accurately predict the shear resistance of steel fiber reinforced concrete beams. The thesis also proposes a safe and reliable equation which can be used for the shear design of SFRC beams.
title: A RESEARCH ON UNEMPLOYMENT ANXIETY OF SENIOR CLASS STUDENTS OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ACCORDING TO SOCIODEMOGRAPHICFEATURES
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: AYYILDIZ, Yasemin
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2020
Subjects: YOUTH
ANXİETY
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT ANXİETY

Abstract
Development of Cold Gas Dynamic Spray Nozzle and Comparison of Oxidation Performance of Bond Coats for Aerospace Thermal Barrier Coatings at Temperatures of 1000°C and 1100°C
Creators: name: Roy, Jean-Michel L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cold Spray
APS
CGDS
HVOF
Oxidation
Thermal Barrier Coating
TBC
Gas Turbine
Nozzle
Cold Gas Dynamic Spray
CoNiCrAlY
MCrAlY
Coating
Corrosion Protection
Bond Coat
Air Plasma Spray
High-Velocity Oxy-Fuel
Aerospace
1100C
1000C

description: The purpose of this research work was to develop a nozzle capable of depositing dense CoNiCrAlY coatings via cold gas dynamic spray (CGDS) as well as compare the oxidation performance of bond coats manufactured by CGDS, high-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) and air plasma spray (APS) at temperatures of 1000°C and 1100°C. The work was divided in two sections, the design and manufacturing of a CGDS nozzle with an optimal profile for the deposition of CoNiCrAlY powders and the comparison of the oxidation performance of CoNiCrAlY bond coats. Throughout this work, it was shown that the quality of coatings deposited via CGDS can be increased by the use of a nozzle of optimal profile and that early formation of protective α-Al2O3 due to an oxidation temperature of 1100°C as opposed to 1000°C is beneficial to the overall oxidation performance of CoNiCrAlY coatings.