cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Postural Stability of Old Tai Chi Practitioners During Obstacle-crossing
Creators: name: Li, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Dynamic postural stability
TaiChi
obstacle crossing
blalance

description: Falls are the leading cause of injuries among Canadians who are aged at 65 years and over. The assessment of dynamic stability has been proved as an effective method to identify fall-prone elderly individuals, which is essential to fall prevention. Tai Chi has been recommended as an effective exercise to prevent falls by the American Geriatric Society and British Geriatric Society. It is important to examine dynamic stability among Tai Chi practitioners and to explore the mechanisms of the effects of Tai Chi practice on fall prevention. This study examined the dynamic postural stability which is assessed by center of mass (COM) range of motion, COM - center of pressure (COP) separation, and temporospacial measures of gait during obstacle-walking in two groups: Tai Chi group and healthy controls. Fifteen participants in each group were asked to complete two walking conditions, level walking and 20cm-obstacle walking. Results showed that when compared with Tai Chi group, control group adopted a conservative crossing strategy with a significantly smaller crossing stride, higher heel clearance, and smaller pre horizontal distance to make obstacle crossing as safe as possible. This conservative strategy indicates the inability to cross obstacle casually and it may be associated with the decline in muscle strength and proprioception. It also showed that Tai Chi practitioners displayed a significantly larger COM range of motion in both anteroposterior (AP) and mediolateral (ML) direction (p<0.05) and a significantly larger COM-COP separation in ML direction (p <0.01), as compared with control group. The larger range of motion of COM and distance between COM and COP indicates that Tai Chi practitioners have a better ability to tolerate unsteadiness, which means if perturbation occurs, Tai Chi practitioners have a larger range to shift COM in the boundary of base of support.
Hemaglobinopathy and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Historical Cohort Study
Creators: name: Liu, Song
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hemaglobinopathy
sickle cell disease
thalassemia
pregnancy outcomes
pre-eclampsia
preterm labor
cesarean delivery

description: Pregnancy in women with hemoglobinopathy has been associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. We conducted a historical cohort study using Discharge Abstract Database for the fiscal year 1991-1992 through 2007-2008. We estimated the frequency of pregnant women with hemoglobinopathy and examined their associations with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Women with sickle cell disease are more likely to develop pre-eclampsia and preterm labor, and to undergo cesarean delivery than women with nutritional deficiency anemia, suggesting that there are other mechanisms beyond anemia that may be responsible for an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The data suggested a synergistic effect of hemoglobinopathy and pre-eclampsia on preterm labor and cesarean delivery. Prediction models for pre-eclampsia, preterm labor and cesarean delivery were created and internally validated for women with hemoglobinopathy, with satisfactory discrimination and calibration.
Additional file 3 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Patients’ need for referral to psychooncology care in relation to patient age, WHO grade and education level. A3a: Patients’ need for referral to psychooncology care depending on age. A3b: Patients’ need for referral to psychooncology care depending on diagnosis. A3c: Patients’ need for referral to psychooncology care depending on education level. The mean score for all items was derived from Hornheider Screening Instrument, HIS.
Putative mechanisms of cortical spreading depression-induced neuroprotection.
Creators: name: Chow, Ava Kalyca.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: Cortical spreading depression (CSD) has been shown to infer protection against ischemia, though the mechanism by which it acts has yet to be determined. It is hypothesized that the reversal of the glial glutamate transporters are primarily responsible for the majority of glutamate release in an ischemic situation and that the down regulation of these glutamate transporters induced by CSDs would lead to a neuroprotective effect. To determine whether or not the metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) play a role in the CSD-induced down regulation of the glutamate transporters, we have pharmacologically antagonized the specific groups of mGluRs prior to the elicitation of CSD. Neither group I antagonism with AIDA, group I and II antagonism with MCPG nor group III antagonism with MAP4 prior to CSD induction revealed any effect on the plasma membrane content of GLT-1. These studies have also revealed that no down regulation of the GLT-1 transporter was seen three days post-CSD, as was previously reported (Douen et al., 2000). Though a number of factors may have contributed to these differing results, our examination of our techniques could find no conclusive evidence to either support or refute the CSD-induced down regulation of GLT-l. An examination of the molecular mechanisms that may underlie the neuroprotective effect of CSD has revealed that immediately after 2 hours of CSD, there is a significant increase in ERK phosphorylation while at the same time, no MEK, c-raf or SAPK phosphorylation was observed. These findings may lead to greater insight into the pathway by which CSD may mediate its neuroprotective effect, especially in light of the fact that ERK phosphorylation has been seen to be neuroprotective in both in vivo (Shamloo et al., 1999) and in vitro (Parrizas et al., 1997) models of neuroprotection.
Women Birthing in Paramedic Care
Creators: name: Flanagan, Belinda
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: childbirth
paramedic
ambulance
EMT
BBA

description: Paramedics are a fundamental part of the Australian healthcare system; they deal with life and death situations and independently utilise a range of skills and pharmacology which may require complex clinical decisions. The paramedic is often the first point of contact in the patient's entry to the healthcare system and their primary role is to deliver out-of-hospital emergency care, medical retrieval and inter-facility patient transport services. Paramedics also assess, treat and transport labouring women who require intrapartum care in the out-of-hospital setting, yet very little is known about the frequency, outcome or circumstances surrounding these cases at a national level, or the experience of mothers who birth their babies whilst being supported by paramedics. Internationally, the healthcare literature describes predisposing factors, clinical risk and maternal and neonatal clinical outcome of unplanned out-of-hospital birth. However, there is little quality research available that explores the care provided by paramedics or describes the views of women with recent experience of birth involving paramedic care. This thesis seeks to address this gap.
Essai sur l'inculturation de l'Évangile à Madagascar : du famadihana à la christologie pascale.
Creators: name: Randriamanalina, François De Paule.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Theology.

description: Notre hypothèse de travail est celle-ci: démontrer que le sens du famadihana se dévoile ultimement dans la vie apportée et proposée par le Christ mort et ressuscité. Cette hypothèse se situe dans un cadre précis du dialogue entre le fihavanana (communion) dans le famadihana , et la christologie pascale. Pendant longtemps, le famadihana , a servi d'exemple, aux ancien(ne)s Missionnaires et aux Occidentaux (les), pour exprimer le paganisme malgache. Car pour les Occidentaux (les), ce rituel est considéré comme un rite étrange, exotique, dispendieux, immoral, voire même superstitieux et idolâtrique, puisque facilement perçu comme une adoration des ancêtres. Le famadihana , apparaît donc comme un rite riche de significations. Mais si celles-ci sont multiples, elles se ramènent toutes à l' aina et au fihavanana . L'aina constitue le but du fihavanana et le fihavanana forme les conditions actuellement nécessaires de l' aina . Bref, l'un et l'autre sont inséparables pour vaincre la mort sous toutes ses multiples formes. La foi pascale purifie et émonde toutes les cultures, en l'occurrence le famadihana , et toutes entreprises humaines de leurs éléments mortuaires et de leurs visions égocentriques. Grâce à cette force nouvelle de la foi pascale, l'être humain, plus particulièrement les disciples du Ressuscité, peuvent transformer le monde ancien, ancestral et traditionnel en un monde nouveau (cf 2 Co 5, 17) où règnent la vie, la joie et l'amour du Christ. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Exploring the Relationship between Organizational Learning Capability, Trust, and Politics: An Empirical Study
Creators: name: Tirelli, Andrew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Organizational Learning
Organizational Trust
Organizational Politics
Employee Commitment
Turnover
The Learning Organization

description: A lack of research surrounding the contextual factors that either facilitate or impede the progress of developing learning capabilities in organizations suggests that researchers have yet to examine such issues. Indeed, despite a plethora of information on the trust, politics, and learning constructs, researchers have yet to explore these variables in conjunction with one another. While literature regarding organizational learning has grown substantially over the last decade, studies continue to investigate a common set of established factors that support the development of this practise. This study will explore the complex relationships between trust, politics, and learning, as well as the influence on building employee commitment and reducing turnover intentions. Results from the study provide the basis for the development of an integrative framework that illustrates how contextual factors influence organizational learning capability and in turn, the effects that developing learning capability can have on other organizational processes.
The Use of Coercive Diplomacy against Violent Non-State Actors
Creators: name: Harris, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: coercion
IRA
ISIS
diplomacy
terrorism
prospect theory

description: The rise of violent non-state actors (VNSAs) has become a feature of international security in the past few decades. Despite enormous efforts from the academic, policy and intelligence community, VNSAs have proven remarkably difficult actors to engage with or defeat. This thesis applies the strategy of coercive diplomacy to the VNSA problem and argues it provides policymakers a useful option for countering VNSAs. The thesis incorporates findings from fields as diverse as international relations, history, psychology and behavioural economics to provide an understanding of coercer and VNSA behaviour under coercive diplomacy situations. The primary aim of this thesis is to construct a framework of factors that heighten coercive diplomacy's probability for success against VNSAs. These factors are (1) an asymmetry of motivation in favour of the coercer; (2) credible threats and objectives; (3) the support of others and (4) incentives. Implementation of the framework does not guarantee a successful outcome as coercive diplomacy is a highly contextual strategy that can deliver vastly different results in varying circumstances. To demonstrate the importance of context this study tests the framework against two case studies. The first considers the British government's coercive diplomacy strategy against the Provisional Irish Republican Army and argues that coercive diplomacy was successful owing to a strategy that conformed to the framework. The second is a test-case that examines the feasibility of a US led coercive diplomacy strategy against the Islamic State, arguing that it is an example of the limitation of coercive diplomacy against VNSAs. These case studies demonstrate that coercive diplomacy has important implications for countering VNSAs in the future. While coercive diplomacy will not be a suitable strategy in some circumstances, to date it has been vastly underutilised.
Estimation of Survival with a Combination of Prevalent and Incident Cases in the Presence of Length Bias
Creators: name: Makvandi-Nejad, Ewa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Survival
Length-bias
Estimation

description: In studying natural history of a disease, incident studies provide the best quality estimates; in contrast, prevalent studies introduce a sampling bias, which, if the onset time of the disease follows a stationary Poisson process, is called length bias. When both types of data are available, combining the samples under the assumption that failure times in incident and prevalent cohorts come from the same distribution function, could improve the estimation process from a revalent sample. We verify this assumption using a Smirnov type of test and construct a likelihood function from a combined sample to parametrically estimate the survival through maximum likelihood approach. Finally, we use Accelerated Failure Time models to compare the effect of covariates on survival in incident, prevalent, and combined populations. Properties of the proposed test and the combined estimator are assessed using simulations, and illustrated with data from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 59 Nr. 1 (2017): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2021

description: Band LIX (2017), Heft 1
description: Defining Self by Collecting the Other: Mussolini’s Museums at the EUR World’s Fair Site...124-142
Aeropittura futurista e colonialismo fascista: il paesaggio africano senza l’uomo...108-123
Staging Colonialism in the ‘Other’ Italy...86-108
Bringing the ‘Other’ Home: The Islamicate Residential Spaces of the Castello D’Albertis in Genoa, Italy, 1890–1930...62-85
Reassembling the Sala Araba in Palermo’s Museo Nazionale...40-61
La Mesopotamia nei musei italiani: collezioni ed esposizioni...26-39
Il Vicino Oriente a Firenze: la formazione della collezione vicinorientale del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze...10-25
Introduction...2-9
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Health workers’ views on factors affecting caregiver engagement with bubble CPAP
Creators: name: Salimu, Sangwani
name: Kinshella, Mai-Lei W.
name: Vidler, Marianne
name: Banda, Mwai
name: Newberry, Laura
name: Dube, Queen
name: Molyneux, Elizabeth M.
name: Goldfarb, David M.
name: Kawaza, Kondwani
name: Nyondo-Mipando, Alinane L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background Severe respiratory distress is a leading cause of mortality among neonates in Malawi. Despite evidence on the safety, cost effectiveness and efficacy of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in managing the condition, its use in Malawian health facilities is limited and little is known about caregivers’ engagement with perspectives of bubble CPAP. The purpose of this study was to explore caregiver perspectives for bubble CPAP at both central and district hospitals and key factors that enable effective caregiver engagement in Malawi. Methods This was a descriptive qualitative study employing secondary analysis of 46 health care worker in-depth interviews. We interviewed the health workers about their thoughts on caregiver perspectives regarding use of bubble CPAP. We implemented the study at a tertiary facility and three district hospitals in southern Malawi. This was a part of a larger study to understand barriers and facilitators to implementing neonatal innovations in resource-constrained hospitals. Interviews were thematically analysed in NVivo 12 software (QSR International, Melbourne, Australia). Health workers were purposively selected to include nurses, clinicians and district health management involved in the use of bubble CPAP. Results Emerging issues included caregiver fears around bubble CPAP equipment as potentially harmful to their new-borns and how inadequate information provided to caregivers exacerbated knowledge gaps and was associated with refusal of care. However, good communication between health care providers and caregivers was associated with acceptance of care. Caregivers’ decision-making was influenced by relatives and peer advocates were helpful in supporting caregivers and alleviating fears or misconceptions about bubble CPAP. Conclusions Since caregivers turn to relatives and peers for support, there is need to ensure that both relatives and peers are counselled on bubble CPAP for improved understanding and uptake. Health workers need to provide simplified, accurate, up-to-date information on the intervention as per caregivers’ level of understanding. Notably, contextualised comprehensible information will help alleviate caregivers’ fear and anxieties about bubble CPAP.
Additional file 9 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9. Patient questionnaire.
Organisational and occupational commitment in Australian public Universities
Creators: name: Corcoran, Paul
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2006

description: With few exceptions the research on commitment has, to date, considered or been allocated to either an attitudinal approach or a calculative approach. This is particularly true of research on commitment in the workplace. Workplace commitment has largely concentrated on commitment to the organisation, particularly attitudinal commitment, with some studies on commitment to the occupation. This study has used a new conceptualisation of the bases of both attitudinal and calculative commitment and applies this new conceptualisation to both organisational commitment and occupational commitment. It is believed that these concepts together represent the constituent elements of workplace commitment. The study considers the relationship between workplace commitment and withdrawal behaviours (represented by turnover intentions, absenteeism and lateness). It also examines a range of characteristics to determine whether they may be antecedents of workplace commitment.
Agent-based ontology integration for ontology-based applications
Creators: name: Li, Li
name: Wu, Baolin
name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, a novel agent-based ontology integration framework is developed for agents which consume ontologies in ontology-based applications as well as engage in tasks of ontology integration. The corresponding ontology integration mechanism is discussed. Derived ontologies can be reused in the system. A prototype is built by using the JADE agent platform for evaluation.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness. The Philosophical Problem of the Applicability of Mathematics
Creators: name: Ginammi, Michele
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2011

description: In this article I will sketch a general introduction to the problem of the applicability of mathematics as it is conceived in contemporary philosophy of mathematics. After some brief considerations concerning the historical reason why this problem was dismissed by the philosophical analysis during the first half of 20th century, I will expound Wigner’s puzzle, and I will make some theoretical considerations about it. In particular, I will show that the problem of applicability is independent from the ontological framework we can eventually assume and that it depends rather on the existence of an epistemological gap between mathematics and physics. Finally, I will try to sketch a possible line of inquiry for understanding the applicability of mathematics in physics.
description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 2, N° 2 (2011): Filosofia della Matematica
If the Sky Should Fall
Creators: name: Hopper, Belinda
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: death
grief
worldviews

description: The experience of grieving my brother-in-law's murder led me to make two observations: that we grieve the death of a loved one based upon our own worldview's set of beliefs and assumptions, not theirs, and, that something is true-regarding what happens to someone when they die-whether or not we believe it, although we cannot prove it, and despite the juxtaposition of our acceptance or rejection of it as a belief. These observations led me through what I term a Secondary Grief: a crisis of faith. This research explores the theory of worldviews and their different suppositions on death and dying, and the nature of belief-how we arrive at our beliefs and whether or not they moderate the experience of grief and loss. The cornerstone of this research is a quote from J.W. Sire (1994): "But ask us to prove even to ourselves that we are right in our belief and we are in a quandary." The outcome of this research is a creative artefact, a novella that depicts one family's shared primary and secondary grief experience. The purpose of the artefact is to explore grief from a comparative worldviews perspective and to explore worldviews through the lens of grief. The title of the creative artefact is, If the Sky Should Fall.
Coastal and fresh waters
Creators: name: Ashbolt, Nicholas J.
name: Backer, Lorraine C.
name: Brandão, João
name: Fastner, Jutta
name: Szewzyk, Regine
Publisher: name: WHO
Year: 2021

description: Use of coastal, estuarine and freshwater recreational environments has significant benefits for health and well-being, including rest, relaxation, exercise, cultural and religious practices, and aesthetic pleasure, while also providing substantial local, regional and national economic benefits. These guidelines focus on water quality management for coastal and freshwater environments to protect public health. The guidelines: describe the current state of knowledge about the possible adverse health impacts of various forms of water pollution; and set out recommendations for setting national health-based targets, conducting surveillance and risk assessments, putting in place systems to monitor and control risks, and providing timely advice to users on water safety. These guidelines are aimed at national and local authorities, and other entities with an obligation to exercise due diligence relating to the safety of recreational water sites. They may be implemented in conjunction with other measures for water safety (such as drowning prevention and sun exposure) and measures for environmental protection of recreational water use sites. Quelle: https://www.who.int/
The emergence of syntax: The acquisition of transitivity.
Creators: name: Balcom, Patricia Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis examines the hypothesis that children attend to and encode events of cardinal transitivity in their early utterances. It is argued that Hopper and Thompson's 1980 parameters of cardinal transitivity can lead to a clear and concise description of what kinds of events allow children to "bootstrap" their way into syntax. A transitivity grid is developed, based on research in infant and child perception and cognition, by which utterances can be rated in terms of cardinal transitivity. This grid is applied to selected verbs in a corpus taken from a diary study. It is shown, based on the analysis of the data, that this hypothesis cannot be disproved. The knowledge the child can be assumed to have to generate the utterances he does is represented formally in terms of Conceptual Semantics, which is shown to be a promising theory in accounting for children's early acquisition of semantic and syntactic knowledge.
Mitigating email spam by statistical rejection of TCP connections using recent sender history
Creators: name: Tran, Minh H.
name: Armitage, Grenville
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Email spam is a significant problem for ISPs and Internet users. While part of the solution is legislative, there remains many avenues for innovative technological spam mitigation techniques. We propose a novel TCP-layer algorithm that statistically accepts or rejects in-bound TCP connection requests based on the recent past history of spam injection from particular source IP addresses. Our scheme allows for the automatic rehabilitation of legitimate senders and cuts the operating cost of manually updated blacklists and whitelists. It also reduces the consequences of falsely categorising emails and reduces the last-hop network resource consumption caused by spammers. Our scheme sits transparently in front of the existing SMTP server, so it will supplement (rather than replace) existing spam-filters operating inside existing SMTP servers or at the end-user’s mail client.
Synrift sedimentation in the Upper Carboniferous Canyon Fiord Formation, SW Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic.
Creators: name: Thériault, Pierre.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Upper Carboniferous Canyon Fiord Formation is genetically related to continental rifting during the early history of Sverdrup Basin. The basal part of the formation, on southwestern Ellesmere Island, has been subdivided into five distinct facies assemblages: (i) a lower sandstone assemblage, deposited in the floodplain environment of high sinuosity streams, and locally in lacustrine and paludal environments; (ii) a conglomerate assemblage, deposited in the alluvial fan to proximal braided stream environment; (iii) an upper sandstone assemblage, deposited in braided stream and coastal plain environments; (iv) an evaporite assemblage, deposited in a local coastal playa and hypersaline lagoon; and (v) a limestone assemblage, deposited in restricted to relatively open, shallow marine environments. These assemblages are exposed within two N-S-oriented outcrop belts, informally called the Trold Fiord belt and the Blind Fiord belt. The outcrop belts are separated by a N-S oblique strike-slip fault of Tertiary age, and are associated with two distinct, Late Carboniferous half-grabens of opposite polarity: (i) the Trold Fiord Depression, situated in the northeastern part of the study area; and (ii) the Blind Fiord Depression, situated in the southwestern part of the study area. The characteristics of the Trold Fiord and Blind Fiord basin-fill successions indicate that sedimentation was controlled by at least two tectono-sedimentary episodes (TSE-1 and TSE-2). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Using the Osteoarthritic Femur to Identify Impairment Potential in Archaeological Populations
Creators: name: Young, Janet
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: ICF
ICD-10
paleopathology
disease
degeneration
osteoarthritis
knee
impairment
MRI
bioarchaeology
osteoarthritis initiative
intercondylar notch
determinants of health
physical environment
social environment
Huron
Inuit
mobility
disability

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the leading cause of disability in North American and has major economic consequences for society. People with knee OA experience the worst quality of life, among musculoskeletal conditions, with function and mobility being influenced by symptoms such as pain and stiffness. However, the impact of OA symptoms varies due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors, leading many researchers to employ biopsychosocial and other population health frameworks to study the disease. These population health approaches have not been adopted when studying knee OA outcomes in bioarchaeology, where a limited biological lens prevails due to the sole reliance on skeletal remains. The purpose of this research was to explore methods for identifying the impairment potential of knee OA in archaeological populations using a clinical sample and population health approaches. Clinical studies have the advantage of assessing not only the biological implications of knee OA but also the functional outcomes. By creating a knee OA grading system applicable for both MRI and dry bone femora samples (Clinical Archaeological Osteoarthritis Score) a link between clinical and archaeological populations was proposed. Using this link to infer functional deficits onto archaeological populations using population health frameworks, a theoretical analysis was performed with two populations; the 17th century Huron and the 19th century Inuit from the Igloolik region of Nunavut. The results demonstrated the increased impairment potential of knee OA in the Inuit population versus the Huron population, produced by contrasting factors captured by the determinants of health, including social and physical environments.
Supplementary document for A Nonlinear Enhanced Microresonator Gyroscope - 5288323.pdf
Creators: name: Silver, Jonathan
name: Del Bino, Leonardo
name: Woodley, Michael
name: Ghalanos, George
name: Svela, Andreas
name: Moroney, Niall
name: zhang, Shuangyou
name: Grattan, K.
name: Del Haye, Pascal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Responsivities of DM circulating power in general asymmetric case
Detecting, forecasting and projecting quality-deteriorating parasites in broadbill swordfish for fisheries climate adaptation
Creators: name: Bolin, Jessica
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Billfish
subject: Kudoa
subject: Myxozoa
subject: ecological modelling
subject: molecular biology
subject: climate adaptation
subject: predictive decision making
subject: seafood wastage
subject: sustainability
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecological applications

description: Anecdotal reports from Australia’s Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery suggest that fishing for broadbill swordfish (Xiphias gladius; hereafter ‘swordfish’) in anomalously warm waters is linked with a condition known as myoliquefaction (colloquially, “jellymeat”). Myoliquefaction affects the marketability of fish by turning the meat into a soft, mushy texture post-mortem, reducing profits and increasing wastage, and has been associated in other fish species with parasites of the genus Kudoa. A thermally sensitive mechanism underpinning myoliquefaction may increase the likelihood of the condition’s incidence as oceans warm due to marine climate change. However, the links between physical seascape conditions and the mechanisms underpinning myoliquefaction are unknown, increasing uncertainty in understanding the frequency and intensity of future events, and the associated consequences for industry.
Activity of Dlx Transcription Factors in Regulatory Cascades Underlying Vertebrate Forebrain Development
Creators: name: Pollack, Jacob N.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: zebrafish
forebrain
Dlx
development
regulatory cascade

description: The temporal and spatial patterning that underlies morphogenetic events is controlled by gene regulatory networks (GRNs). These operate through a combinatorial code of DNA – binding transcription factor proteins, and non – coding DNA sequences (cis-regulatory elements, or CREs), that specifically bind transcription factors and regulate nearby genes. By comparatively studying the development of different species, we can illuminate lineage – specific changes in gene regulation that account for morphological evolution. The central nervous system of vertebrates is composed of diverse neural cells that undergo highly coordinated programs of specialization, migration and differentiation during development. Approximately 20% of neurons in the cerebral cortex are GABAergic inhibitory interneurons, which release the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Diseases such as autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy are associated with defects in GABAergic interneuron function. Several members of the distal-less homeobox (Dlx) transcription factor family are implicated in a GRN underlying early GABAergic interneuron development in the forebrain. I examined the role played by orthologous dlx genes in the development of GABAergic interneurons in the zebrafish forebrain. I found that when ascl1a transcription factor is down-regulated through the micro-injection of translation – blocking morpholino oligonucleotides, Dlx gene transcription is decreased in the diencephalon, but not the telencephalon. Similarly, gad1a transcription is also decreased in this region for these morphants. As gad1a encodes an enzyme necessary for the production of GABA, these genes are implicated in a cascade underlying GABAergic interneuron development in the diencephalon.
God's harvest: a social and agricultural history of the German mission to the aboriginal people of Moreton Bay
Creators: name: Ford, Roger
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2007
Subjects: missions - Queensland
history - Queensland
agriculture
Aboriginal Australian's

description: The thesis presents a historical study of Zion Hill, the first Aboriginal Mission in colonial Queensland, addressing the subject from an agricultural and social perspective. The Presbyterian clergyman Rev. Lang, a vocal critic of existing missions in the colony, founded the mission in 1838. Lang organised the establishment of a Moravian style mission settlement in convict Moreton Bay, administered by twenty Protestant volunteers from Germany. Upon arrival Lang's missionaries took up a section of land seven miles to the north of the convict settlement, and cleared the area for arming and the construction of houses. The resulting settlement, Zion Hill, reflected the German origins of the missionaries in both design and arrangement of its fields and buildings.The early years of the mission were marked by hardships and difficulties, including the absence of Lang from the colony, the subsequent neglect of the mission committee and Aboriginal raids on the crops. Lang's return in 1842 revitalised the mission, with the Germans gaining farming equipment and additional livestock. An economic downturn resulted in the withdrawal of Government funding from all colonial missions and the Zion Hill community made the decision to support itself through market gardening. The strategy enjoyed immediate success, with the missionaries finding strong demand for their produce. The German missionaries consolidated their position in North Brisbane during the 1850s, with the purchase of freehold land, the expansion of agricultural production and the utilisation of hired labour. In the remaining decades of the 19th century, the missionaries made substantial contributions to the development of the pineapple, viticulture and dairying industries in colonial Queensland. The thesis presents the argument that skilled farming practice, personal qualities of industry, a communal settlement design and a strong group ethos of cooperation, enabled the missionaries to achieve an enduring legacy of agricultural achievement.
The ABCS of Sport-related Concussion in Junior Rugby Union: An Analysis of Antecedents, Behaviours, Consequences, and Sociotechnical Systems
Creators: name: Clacy, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: concussion
sport injury
community sport
junior sport

description: Participating in any contact sport comes with an obvious increased risk of injury. The aim of this project was to explore the possible individual differences that may pre-dispose junior (11-17 years old) rugby union players to both sustaining a sport-related concussion, as well as the characteristics and behaviours which may lead them to experience a longer recovery profile following injury. Using a biopsychosocial framework, this research comprised of four major studies; the antecedents which may predict concussion; the behaviours that may increase a player's risk of sustaining a concussion; the cognitive and emotional consequences of concussion; and a systems analysis of how people within different roles prevent, identify, and treat sport-related concussion.
Additional file 1 of Correlation between bone turnover and metabolic markers with age and gender: a cross-sectional study of hospital information system data
Creators: name: Shao, Ju
name: Zhou, Shao-Song
name: Qu, Yuan
name: Liang, Bi-Bo
name: Yu, Qing-Hong
name: Wu, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. General characteristics of the 36 kinds of diseases.
Effects of developmental diet, life stage and thermal acclimation on thermal tolerance of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda
Creators: name: Phungula, Siphephelo
name: Krüger, Kerstin
name: Nofemela, Robert
name: Weldon, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Pretoria
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310303
subject: Ecological physiology
classificationCode: 310907
subject: Animal physiological ecology
classificationCode: 310913
subject: Invertebrate biology

description: Digital dataunderpinned the publication titled "Developmental diet, life stage and thermal acclimation affect thermal tolerance of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda". The information contained in the data file contains tables detailing the critical thermal minimum (CTmin) and maximum (CTmax) for different life stages of Spodoptera frugiperda when fed various developmental diets and exposed to three acclimation temperatures. 
Additional file 1 of Parents’ multi-layered expectations when requesting an Autism Spectrum Disorder assessment of their young child: an in-depth interview study
Creators: name: Jacobs, Delphine
name: Steyaert, Jean
name: Dierickx, Kris
name: Hens, Kristien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. COREQ Checklist. Consolidated criteria for Reporting Qualitative research Checklist.
The International Environmental Specimen Banks - let's get visible
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Environmental specimen banks (ESBs) are facilities that archive samples from the environment for future research and monitoring purposes. In addition, the long-term preservation of representative specimens is an important complement to environmental research and monitoring. Today, environmental specimen banking is experiencing a renaissance due to an increase in regulatory interest in ESB biota standards and trend data. The International Environmental Specimen Bank Group (IESB) promotes the worldwide development of techniques and strategies of environmental specimen banking and the international cooperation and collaboration among national ESBs. In order to provide a current and comprehensive overview on international environmental specimen banking activities, a questionnaire was sent to the national ESBs and asked for detailed information on the respective ESBs. The results show the rich diversity of national sampling programs, including more detailed information on archived samples, sampling strategies, and studies that have already been performed in the respective countries. All ESBs completing the survey expressed a strong interest in cooperating with other ESBs on a collaborative project. The collected information of national ESBs is intended to be made publicly available.Environmental specimen banks (ESBs) are facilities that archive samples from the environment for future research and monitoring purposes. In addition, the long-term preservation of representative specimens is an important complement to environmental research and monitoring. Today, environmental specimen banking is experiencing a renaissance due to an increase in regulatory interest in ESB biota standards and trend data. The International Environmental Specimen Bank Group (IESB) promotes the worldwide development of techniques and strategies of environmental specimen banking and the international cooperation and collaboration among national ESBs. In order to provide a current and comprehensive overview on international environmental specimen banking activities, a questionnaire was sent to the national ESBs and asked for detailed information on the respective ESBs. The results show the rich diversity of national sampling programs, including more detailed information on archived samples, sampling strategies, and studies that have already been performed in the respective countries. All ESBs completing the survey expressed a strong interest in cooperating with other ESBs on a collaborative project. The collected information of national ESBs is intended to be made publicly available.Quelle: http://www.scopus.com
Die Villa Acciaioli in Montegufoni. Zum Einfluß des römischen Barocks auf die Architektur in der Toskana
Creators: name: Hinterkeuser, Quido
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2020

description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 1995: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Cope-type Hydroamination of Alkenes with Hydroxylamines and Hydrazines - Scope and Mechanism
Creators: name: Loiseau, Francis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Synthesis
Hydroamination
Hydrohydrazination
Hydroxylamine
Hydrazine
Catalysis
Nitrogen
Cascade Reactions
Alkaloids

description: Hydroamination stands as a desirable approach to nitrogen-containing molecules, which have important applications ranging from pharmaceuticals (fine chemicals) to paints, coatings, insecticides and agrochemicals (bulk chemicals). It features the use of alkene and alkyne starting materials, which are abundant and rarely used in the formation of C-N bonds. This work aims at building on the improved Cope-type reactivity developed in the Beauchemin group by expanding the reach of the reaction and understanding its mechanistic complexities. The first part of this thesis describes the development of cascade reactions to provide a thermodynamic driving force for the intermolecular Cope-type hydroamination of alkenes. The methodology serves as a proof of concept that the dipolar reaction intermediates can be engineered to further react irreversibly to more stable products, and has shown potential in improving the syntheses of natural alkaloids. The second part of the thesis describes the expansion of Cope-type hydrazide hydroaminations through a systematic investigation of hydrazine analogs as reactants. Optimized reagents are featured in the first reported intermolecular Cope-type hydrohydrazidation of alkenes. Mechanistic investigations and isolation of ammonium ylide intermediates support a 5-membered concerted and planar mechanistic pathway for hydrazide hydroaminations, similar to that observed with hydroxylamines. The final section presents mechanistic data disproving a previously assumed difficult proton transfer step in the hydroamination using hydroxylamines. From such findings, early results are presented towards a hydrogen-bond catalyzed hydroamination, which has potential applicability across the field of Cope-type hydroaminations and beyond.
Integrated management of Pyrrhoderma noxium by selected Trichoderma and actinomycete strains
Creators: name: Panchalingam, Harrchun
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pyrrhoderma noxium
subject: Trichoderma
subject: actinomycetes
subject: biological control agent
subject: phytopathogen
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental biotechnology
subject: FOS: Environmental biotechnology

description: A wide range of phytopathogenic fungi exist causing various plant diseases, which can lead to devastating economic, environmental, and social impacts on a global scale. One such fungi is Pyrrhoderma noxium, causing brown root rot disease in over 200 plant species in the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe. The sub-tropical environmental conditions appear to have facilitated the establishment of this disease in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Several infection sites were identified in the suburbs of the capital city Brisbane, where large heritage trees in public spaces have been lost as the disease spread. This necessitated the need to identify suitable disease control measures to manage the spread of the disease. Accordingly, this PhD study undertook investigations aimed at understanding and controlling this pathogen under laboratory and field conditions.