cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Individualist versus collectivist antecedents and consequents of work and personal values of Canadian Anglophone and Francophone managers.
Creators: name: Major, Marlene.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: The goal of this two-part study was to investigate the associative logic, or connotative meaning, of certain values to Canadian Anglophone and Francophone male middle managers in the public and private sectors. Past value-ranking studies of Canadian managers and university students have tended to explain value-ranking differences between these ethnolinguistic groups in terms of individualism and collectivism. Specifically, Francophones have been described as more collectivist (e.g. more concerned with affiliation and family concerns) and Anglophones as more individualist (e.g. more achievement-oriented in the business world). In the present study, this individualist-collectivist explanation served as a testable hypothesis, rather than as an ex post facto explanation. This was done using a modified version of Triandis' (1972) antecedent-consequent method. Subjects gave associations to 21 work and personal values, reporting antecedents (what leads to) and consequents (what results from) for each value. In Study 1, 86 Anglophone and 82 Francophone managers provided antecedents and consequents to the values in a free-response questionnaire. In Study 2, a different but comparable group of 80 Anglophone and 94 Francophone managers completed a multiple-choice questionnaire based on high-frequency responses given in Study 1. These four groups were simultaneously matched on age, years work experience, SES, fathers' SES and quality of "other-ethnic" contact. Chi-square results indicated that for 36 out of 42 value comparisons (21 antecedents and 21 consequents) or 86% of the value stimuli, no replicated significant differences (across Study 1 and 2) were found in the number of individualist-collectivist responses given by Anglophone and Francophone managers. Moreover, a Pearson's correlation calculated on the overall frequency of individualist and collectivist responses across the value set showed that the two managerial groups had a similar individualist-collectivist understanding (r =.92, p .01). It was thus concluded that, in general, Anglophone and Francophone managers in this study shared a similar individualist-collectivist understanding of most of the 21 values. This overall similarity was discussed primarily in terms of the social change that has occurred in Quebec over the past 15 years, such as the greater presence of Francophones in business schools and in the ranks of management. With growing similarity in managerial experience, Anglophone and Francophone managers may have become more similar in their individualist-collectivist understanding, compared with 10 to 15 years ago, when value-ranking studies observed group differences.
Huellas y nostalgias: la presencia elíptica de Andalucía en el segundo «Quijote» y en el «Persiles»
Creators: name: Lozano-Renieblas, Isabel
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: La presencia de Andalucía tanto en el segundo «Quijote» como en el «Persiles» no viene dada por la geografía de sus novelas sino que sigue una derrota más compleja, acaso porque Andalucía no fue para Cervantes una atracción pasajera. Moraba en lo más profundo de su alma y ni siquiera la ausencia de un escenario geográfico pudo borrarla del mapa de sus dos últimas novelas. Y aunque Cervantes no situó las andanzas de don Quijote ni las de los devotos peregrinos del «Persiles» en escenario andaluz, Andalucía aflora en ambas obras a través de una concepción del espacio que consiste en crear vínculos entre el contenido temático y el espacio en el que acaece una historia dada. Esta concepción del espacio ahonda en aquello que definía culturalmente la Andalucía del siglo de oro: minorías religiosas y marginados, atraídos, precisamente, por la prosperidad económica.

The presence of Andalusia in both the second part of the ‘Quixote’ and in the 'Persiles' is not given by the geography of these novels. It follows a more complex path, perhaps because, for Cervantes, Andalusia was not for a fleeting attraction. Andalusia dwelt in the depth of his soul and nor even the absence of a geographic scenario could wipe it out his last two novels. Although Cervantes did not put the adventures of Don Quixote or of the devout pilgrims of ‘Persiles’, the presence of Andalusia rises in both works. It is linked to a conception of space that consists of creating links between the thematic content and space in which a given story happens. This concept of space delves into that culturally defined Andalusia’s golden age: religious minorities and marginalized, attracted by its economic prosperity.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
A Multi-Site Feasibility Assessment of Implementing a Best-Practices Meet-And-Greet Intervention in Animal Shelters in the United States
Creators: name: Protopopova, Alexandra
name: Brown, Kelsea M.
name: Hall, Nathaniel J.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Animal shelters must incorporate empirically validated programs to increase life-saving measures; however, altering existing protocols is often a challenge. The current study assessed the feasibility of nine animal shelters within the United States to replicate a validated procedure for introducing an adoptable dog with a potential adopter (i.e., “meet-and-greet”) following an educational session. Each of the shelters were first entered into the “baseline” condition, where introduction between adoptable dogs and potential adopters were as usual. After a varying number of months, each shelter entered into the “experimental” phase, where staff and volunteers were taught best practices for a meet-and-greet using lecture, demonstration, and role-play. Data on the likelihood of adoption following a meet-and-greet were collected with automated equipment installed in meet-and-greet areas. Data on feasibility and treatment integrity were collected with questionnaires administered to volunteers and staff followed by a focus group. We found that a single educational session was insufficient to alter the meet-and-greet protocol; challenges included not remembering the procedure, opposing opinions of volunteers and staff, lack of resources, and a procedural drift effect in which the protocol was significantly altered across time. In turn, no animal shelters increased their dog adoptions in the “experimental” phase. New research is needed to develop effective educational programs to encourage animal shelters to incorporate empirical findings into their protocols.
D'un siècle à l'autre : les inflexions de la pensée morale chez Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720-1805)
Creators: name: Pomminville, Shanon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Madame d'Arconville
Littérature française du XVIIIe siècle
Réflexion morale

description: Auteure et scientifique française du siècle des Lumières, Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720-1805) contribue largement à la circulation des savoirs de son temps en publiant près de 70 ouvrages (littéraires, historiques et scientifiques), en plus de laisser à sa mort douze cahiers manuscrits rédigés à la toute fin de sa vie (1801-1805). Pourtant, cette auteure prolifique demeure, encore aujourd’hui, méconnue dans le milieu universitaire. Son œuvre représente une pensée complexe qui se déploie à travers quatre lignes de force, à savoir la fiction, la morale, l’histoire et les sciences. Dans le but de mieux comprendre son discours, cette thèse étudie l’une de ces lignes directrices : la morale. L’objectif de ce travail consiste donc à saisir l’évolution de la réflexion morale de Madame d’Arconville à travers un corpus formé d’ouvrages publiés dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle et des textes manuscrits rédigés au tout début du siècle suivant. Nous cherchons à voir comment la réflexion morale de Madame d’Arconville, qui est à la fois portée par le pessimisme augustinien hérité des moralistes du XVIIe siècle et par l’idéologie progressiste des Lumières, s’infléchit graduellement au sein de ses manuscrits de fin de vie en une morale plus réflexive.
Supplementary document for Curved Waveguides in Silicon Written by a Shaped Laser Beam - 5191929.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Xinya
name: Yu, Xiaoming
name: Berg, Matthew
name: Chen, Pingping
name: Lacroix, Brice
name: Fathpour, Sasan
name: Lei, Shuting
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
title: European anthropogenic AFOLU greenhouse gas emissions: a review and benchmark data
title: European anthropogenic AFOLU greenhouse gas emissions
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana
name: Peters, Glen P.
name: Kiesow, Anja
name: Janssens-Maenhout, Greet
name: Günther, Dirk
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and removals from land, including both anthropogenic and natural fluxes, require reliable quantification, including estimates of uncertainties, to support credible mitigation action under the Paris Agreement. This study provides a state-of-the-art scientific overview of bottom-up anthropogenic emissions data from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) in the European Union (EU281). The data integrate recent AFOLU emission inventories with ecosystem data and land carbon models and summarize GHG emissions and removals over the period 1990-2016. This compilation of bottom-up estimates of the AFOLU GHG emissions of European national greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs), with those of land carbon models and observation-based estimates of large-scale GHG fluxes, aims at improving the overall estimates of the GHG balance in Europe with respect to land GHG emissions and removals. Whenever available, we present uncertainties, its propagation and role in the comparison of different estimates. While NGHGI data for the EU28 provide consistent quantification of uncertainty following the established IPCC Guidelines, uncertainty in the estimates produced with other methods needs to account for both within model uncertainty and the spread from different model results. The largest inconsistencies between EU28 estimates are mainly due to different sources of data related to human activity, referred to here as activity data (AD) and methodologies (tiers) used for calculating emissions and removals from AFOLU sectors. The referenced datasets related to figures are visualized at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3662371 (Petrescu et al., 2020). © Author(s) 2020
Joseph Slaughter, Lettura umanitaria
Creators: name: Zangari, Sostene
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Nell’ambito della discussione sulle potenzialità della lettura e dello studio letterario come strumento di alfabetizzazione nei diritti umani, il saggio intende proporre un’alternativa alle strategie di lettura proposte da Richard Rorty e Martha Nussbaum, le quali pongono l’accento sull’identificazione tra lettore e vittime. Prendendo a oggetto di analisi Un ricordo di Solferino, opera di Henry J. Dunant, il saggio esplora la possibilità di identificazione tra lettore e il volontario impegnato nella cura dei feriti e dei bisognosi, sostituendo all’empatia metaforica proposta da Rorty e Nussbaum un rapporto metonimico di contiguità. La sostituzione consente di superare la divisione lettore/vittima, che ripropone una relazione asimmetrica di potere tra l’Occidente e il resto del mondo, e avviare un discorso diretto a tutta l’umanità senza distinzione.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
The financial importance of audience involvement for media survival
Creators: name: Cokley, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Improving audience involvement in media production enhances the democratization potential within a community and enhances the capacity building potential within that community. Both democratization and capacity building have been identified as factors which enhance a community's ability to thrive. While profitability and return on investment (ROI) are legitimate goals for media organisations insofar as they allow and encourage audience involvement, these goals must remain subordinate to the goal of democratization, since without that key element, the environment which maintains the media disappears. A formula is proposed whereby media owners, workers and audiences can fine-tune their relationship to enhance financial as well as community outcomes.
Correction to: Common ancestry of heterodimerizing TALE homeobox transcription factors across Metazoa and Archaeplastida
Creators: name: Joo, Sunjoo
name: Wang, Ming H
name: Lui, Gary
name: Lee, Jenny
name: Barnas, Andrew
name: Kim, Eunsoo
name: Sudek, Sebastian
name: Worden, Alexandra Z
name: Lee, Jae-Hyeok
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Upon publication of the original article [1], it was noticed that Alexandra Z. Worden’s affiliation is not complete. The full affiliation information for Alexandra Z. Worden is can be found below and in the complete affiliation list of this Correction article.
L'oggetto del desiderio ha il colore del vuoto
Creators: name: Bottiroli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L’oggetto del desiderio non è semplicemente un oggetto empirico; su ciò, con qualche esitazione, potrebbe esistere un consenso generale. Resta la difficoltà di indicare le caratteristiche dell’oggetto del desiderio: che non sono banalmente delle proprietà, e neanche solo delle parti (in senso empirico, come si potrebbe nominarle da un punto di vista mereologico). L’oggetto del desiderio ha uno statuto modale: è un oggetto modalmente diviso, nei registri e nei regimi. Nella dimensione del desiderio, tanto il soggetto quanto l’oggetto sono abitati dal conflitto tra il diviso e l’indiviso. La spinta verso l’indiviso corrisponde a ciò che Freud ha introdotto con la nozione enigmatica di «pulsione di morte». In termini lacaniani, è l’attrazione verso la Cosa (das Ding). E la Cosa vuole coincidere con se stessa, abolendo ogni distinzione. L’oggetto del desiderio non è un dato o una forma empirica, per attraente che sia: l’attrazione che esercita proviene dal caos. Alla pericolosa coincidenza del «vuoto-pieno» (das Ding) il desiderio oppone il vuoto logico della non-coincidenza. Una teoria del desiderio non può fare a meno di una riflessione sui differenti significati del vuoto.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
There isn’t any Real you in you: il personaggio come sguardo sull’identità. Il caso di Invisible Monsters
Creators: name: De Blasio, Serena
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: A partire dai modelli identitari proposti dalla psicoanalisi, e in particolare dalla teoria lacaniana dei registri, descriverò una modalità di studio del personaggio basata sui processi di identificazione, illustrati dallo schema L.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Supplementary document for Curved Waveguides in Silicon Written by a Shaped Laser Beam - 5191929.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Xinya
name: Yu, Xiaoming
name: Berg, Matthew
name: Chen, Pingping
name: Lacroix, Brice
name: Fathpour, Sasan
name: Lei, Shuting
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
Regional variation in probabilistic grammars: A multifactorial study of the English dative alternation
Creators: name: Röthlisberger, Melanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: dative alternation
World Englishes
language variation and change
language
linguistics

description: This thesis grew out of the project "Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the World" and explores the underlying constraints that shape syntactic variation in new varieties of English around the World. More precisely, the research is concerned with the probabilistic constraints that influence the choice between a ditransitive (e.g. "Mary gives John the apple") and a prepositional dative (e.g. "Mary gives the apple to John") and the extent to which these constraints are socially or regionally malleable. Situated thus at the cross-roads of research in Cognitive Sociolinguistics, the probabilistic grammar framework and World Englishes, the study aims to tease apart the extent to which speakers' grammatical knowledge differs across a wide set of different varieties of the same language. Using mixed-effects modeling, conditional random forests, collexeme analysis and multidimensional scaling techniques, the study shows that probabilistic grammars are not as stable as hitherto assumed and that their presumed stability or variability is dependent on the lexical items and the syntactic alternation included in one’s analysis.
description: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) grant no. G.0C59.13N
Testo e narrazione: uno sguardo secondo il desiderio
Creators: name: Diazzi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il presente saggio propone una sintetica analisi del concetto di desiderio inteso quale strumento utile per un’analisi critico-teorico delle opere letterarie; partendo dalla visione di Peter Brooks di desiderio quale lente d’ingrandimento per comprendere a fondo le dinamiche testuali e i movimenti delle trame ci si muove verso una proposta più fluida e dinamica che permetta di avvicinarsi alla complessità eterogenea del discorso letterario, superando un certo tipo di strutturalismo eccessivamente rigido. Dopo un breve excursus sulla nozione di desiderio il concetto viene utilizzato per una descrizione del testo che cerca di considerarne, a tutto tondo, gli aspetti che lo rendono fruibile da uno sguardo secondo il desiderio.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Comprehensiveness of the RUG-III Grouping Methodology in Addressing the Needs of People with Dementia in Long-term Care
Creators: name: Cadieux, Marie-Andrée
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: long-term care facilities
Ontario
funding formula
nursing care
personal care
funding component
grouping methodology
RUG-III
Resource Utilization Groups-III (34 Group)
dementia
needs
MDS
Minimum Data Set

description: Funding of services to residents in publicly funded long-term care (LTC) facilities has historically rested upon a list of physical needs. However, more than 60% of residents in nursing homes have dementia; a condition in which physical needs are only a part of the overall clinical picture. Since past funding formulas focused primarily on the physical characteristics of residents, the Ontario government has adopted the RUG (Resource Utilization Groups)-III (34 Group) for use in LTC facilities which follows the adoption of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 2.0 assessment instrument. Some still question whether the newer formula adequately reflects the care needs of residents with dementia despite its validation in many countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the comprehensiveness of the RUG-III (34 Group) in addressing the needs of residents with dementia living in LTC. First, a critical systematic review of the literature was conducted to determine the needs of residents with dementia. Numerous electronic databases were searched for articles published between January 2000 and September 2010, and later cross-referenced. Second, needs identified from the literature were matched to the items of the RUG-III which are selected variables of the MDS 2.0. Third, the priority of the items in the RUG-III was analysed in accordance with the importance of the identified needs. The documented needs were taken from 68 studies and classified into 19 main categories. The needs most supported by the literature were the management of behavioural problems, social needs, the need for daily individualized activities/care and emotional needs/personhood. Among the needs identified, activities of daily living (ADLs), cognitive needs and general overall physical health met the most RUG-III items. These needs were found to be well represented within the system. Other needs of importance such as social needs are not thoroughly considered in the grouping methodology though matched to MDS variables. The fact that these needs are not well addressed in the RUG-III poses concerns. Future research is needed to validate the significance of these needs. Considerations should be made as to the adequacy of the funding system and the allocation of funding.
Collodi, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Carlo Lorenzini, Volume II
Creators: name: Paone, Pina
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Presentiamo il secondo volume della collana, Collodi, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Carlo Lorenzini, Giunti, Firenze, 2010. Corredato da una Prefazione di Ernesto Ferrero e da un’Introduzione di Renato Bertacchini, il volume contiene l’opera Macchiette, una raccolta di sette racconti scritti dall’autore toscano nell’arco di vent’anni. Esaminando i principali tratti dell’opera, attraverso molteplici rimandi al precedente volume della collana, si forniranno ulteriori elementi per arricchire e colorare con nuove sfumature il profilo di uno scrittore che ha segnato la storia della letteratura italiana.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Disegni, bizze e fulmini. I racconti di Carlo Emilio Gadda e Frammenti e meraviglie. Gadda e i generi della prosa breve di Giuliano Cenati
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Rinaldo
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Si recensiscono due pubblicazioni in cui Giuliano Cenati analizza il carattere frammentario, ossimorico, metamorfico della prosa breve gaddiana.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Presence, Bioconcentration and Fate of Galaxolide and Tonalide Fragrances in the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Claudine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Galaxolide
Tonalide
Bioconcentration
Fate

description: Synthetic musks are incorporated extensively in personal care products to improve their scent, increase their fragrance stability, and prolong their shelf-life. As a consequence, these persistent musks are being released at a considerable rate by wastewater treatment plants and are frequently detected in surface water, bottom sediment, air, and aquatic biota near urban areas. In addition to their hydrophobicity, two synthetic musks, Galaxolide (HHCB) and Tonalide (AHTN), were reported to cause endocrine disruption in fish species. Although most of the toxic effects in past studies were observed at high doses, HHCB and AHTN were shown to bioaccumulate very differently depending on the aquatic species tested. As bioaccumulation and fate of contaminants are important considerations when regulating persistent chemicals, an improved understanding of the bioaccumulation potential of these chemicals is needed. In this thesis, an assessment of the presence, bioconcentration and fate of HHCB and AHTH was provided in an area exposed to the effluent of the Gold Bar wastewater treatment plant in the North Saskatchewan River (Edmonton). HHCB and AHTN were quantified in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposed downstream of the effluent, with an adapted method for analysis of musks in fish, using PAHs as recovery standards. Method development and recoveries are summarized. Highest bioconcentration factors were 24,500 and 22,300 for HHCB and AHTN respectively, and were observed 1 km downstream of the outfall. Musks were found in most fathead minnows exposed at reference sites upstream as well as at the furthest site, 9.9 km from the outfall. Musk concentrations in water at these sites were used in the assessment of the fate of HHCB and AHTN by fugacity modeling with QWASI software. In order to assess fate, a contaminated portion of the North Saskatchewan River was divided in a series of compartments that were each treated as connected individual water bodies. HHCB and AHTN losses were mostly due to water advection and sedimentation fluxes. Model fit was assessed by comparing predicted to measured data.
title: Towards harmonized biobanking for biomonitoring: A comparison of human biomonitoring-related and clinical biorepositories
title: Towards harmonized biobanking for biomonitoring: A comparison of human biomonitoring-related and clinical biorepositories
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lermen, Dominik
name: Fiddicke, Ulrike
name: Gwinner, Frederik
name: Bartel-Steinbach, Martina
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Human biomonitoring (HBM) depends on high-quality human samples to identify status and trends in exposure and ensure comparability of results. In this context, much effort has been put into the development of standardized processes and quality assurance for sampling and chemical analysis, while effects of sample storage and shipment on sample quality have been less thoroughly addressed. To characterize the currently applied storage and shipment procedures within the consortium of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU), which aims at harmonization of HBM in Europe, a requirement analysis based on data from an online survey was conducted. In addition, the online survey was addressed to professionals in clinical biobanking represented by members of the European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB) to identify the current state-of-the-art in terms of sample storage and shipment. Results of this survey conducted in these two networks were compared to detect processes with potential for optimization and harmonization. In general, many similarities exist in sample storage and shipment procedures applied by ESBB members and HBM4EU partners and many requirements for ensuring sample quality are already met also by HBM4EU partners. Nevertheless, a need for improvement was identified for individual steps in sample storage, shipment, and related data management with potential impact on sample and data quality for HBM purposes. Based on these findings, recommendations for crucial first steps to further strengthen sample quality, and thus foster advancement in HBM on a pan-European level are given. © Dominik Lermen et al., 2020
Recenti edizioni di Daniil Charms e Aleksandr Vvedenskij
Creators: name: Illarionova, Elizaveta
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Recensiamo qui i seguenti volumi: Daniil Charms, Sobranije sočinenij v dvuch tomach [Raccolta di opere in due tomi], a cura di Vladimir Vesterman, Moskva, AST e Zebra E, 2010; Daniil Charms, Sobranije sočinenij v trëch tomach [Raccolta di opere in tre tomi], a cura di Valerij Sažin, Sankt-Peterburg, Azbuka, 2011; Aleksandr Vvedenskij, Vsë [Tutto], a cura di Anna Gerasimova, OGI, Moskva, 2010.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Multipump flattened-gain Raman amplifiers based on photonic-crystal fibers
Creators: name: Poli, Federica
name: Rosa, Lorenzo
name: Bottacini, Michele
name: Foroni, Matteo
name: Cucinotta, Annamaria
name: Selleri, Stefano
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Raman amplifiers based on photonic crystal fibers, whose cross section can be designed to enhance the nonlinear properties, have been investigated in this work. The use of multiple pumps is studied in order to flatten the amplifier gain spectrum, by varying their number, power, and wavelength, yielding a flatness as low as 0.5 dB in the wavelength range between 1540 and 1572 nm.
Supplementary document for Evaluation of the changes in human milk lipid composition and conformational state with Raman spectroscopy during a breastfeed - 5192190.pdf
Creators: name: de Wolf, Johanna
name: Lenferink, Anki
name: Lenferink, Aufried
name: Otto, Cees
name: Bosschaart, Nienke
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Raman spectra of pure samples
The Cyanotoxin Anatoxin-a: Factors Leading to its Production and Fate in Freshwaters
Creators: name: Gagnon, Alexis
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Anatoxin-a
cyanobacteria
nitrogen
carbon-nutrient hypothesis
LC-MS/MS
fugacity
microcystin
accelerated solvent extraction
cyanotoxin

description: Anatoxin-a (ANTX) is a neurotoxin produced by several freshwater cyanobacteria and has been implicated in the death of livestock and domestic animals from consumption of tainted surface waters. ANTX is unstable under normal conditions and is somewhat problematic to extract and study. Accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) combined with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS) was used to develop an efficient extraction and analytical method for both ANTX and the more commonly encountered hepatotoxic microcystins produced by cyanobacteria. The effects of nitrogen supply on the cellular production and release of ANTX was investigated in Aphanizomenon issatschenkoi (Ussaczew) Proschkina-Lavrenko (Nostocales). In contrast to the predictions of the carbonnutrient balance hypothesis, the maximum production was observed under moderate N stress. In addition, steady state fugacity-based models were employed to investigate ANTX’s distribution and fate in freshwater ecosytems. ANTX was not found to be very persistent in aquatic ecosystems and did not appear to bioaccumulate in fish, at least not from the dissolved phase.
Dostoevskij in Italia e nel mondo
Creators: name: Urussov, Aleksandre
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Dal 13 al 20 giugno dello scorso anno, eminenti studiosi, specialisti di Dostoevskij, si sono riuniti a Napoli per il «XIV Symposium Internazionale Dostoevsky: Dostoevskij. Mente filosofica e sguardo di scrittore», convegno organizzato dall’International Dostoevsky Society.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Supplementary document for Evaluation of the changes in human milk lipid composition and conformational state with Raman spectroscopy during a breastfeed - 5192190.pdf
Creators: name: de Wolf, Johanna
name: Lenferink, Anki
name: Lenferink, Aufried
name: Otto, Cees
name: Bosschaart, Nienke
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Raman spectra of pure samples
Social experiences of children with disabilities: resilience, social identity and bullying
Creators: name: Salmon, Louisa
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bullying
Resilience
Social Identity
Children with and without Disabilities
Disability Severity

description: Introduction. An evidence-gap was addressed by investigating perspectives of bullying among children with physical disabilities.
description: Method. In separate studies children with and without disabilities described their experience of, resilience to, and attitudes towards, bullying.
description: Results. Children with disabilities were bullied at similar rates to peers but found bullying more stressful. Neither age, gender nor school year predicted levels of bullying, although girls experienced more verbal bullying than boys. Children’s acceptability of bullying was influenced by attitudes towards bullying amongst in-groups and by disability severity of victims.
description: Conclusion. It is important to involve children with varying disability severities in future research.
Remo Ceserani, Convergenze. Gli strumenti letterari e le altre discipline
Creators: name: Iuli, Cristina
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Recensione di Remo Ceserani, Convergenze. Gli strumenti letterari e le altre discipline, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
An explanation for ergative versus accusative languages: An examination of Inuktitut.
Creators: name: Manga, Louise Schieberl.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This dissertation shows that when specific objects are checked accounts for a language being ergative or accusative. In ergative languages a specific object is checked at Spell-out by the object moving to (Spec, T) with the resultant Abs/Nom case marking of the object. This accounts for the wide scope only reading of Abs/Nom objects and native speakers interpretations of Abs/Nom objects as specific/referential. Since the object moves to (Spec, T) the subject remains inside the VP and is assigned Gen/Erg case by V. In accusative languages a specific object is not checked until after Spell-out and the subject moves to (Spec, T) where it gets Nom case and the object remains inside the VP where it gets Acc case. This accounts for the possibility of wide and narrow scope readings for Acc objects. Ergative languages are also characterized as having "split ergativity" whereby there is also a nominative-accusative case marking/agreement pattern. This is also explained. Specific objects move outside the VP at Spell-out with the resultant ergative case marking, while non-specific objects remain inside the VP are assigned Inst/Acc case through insertion of a postposition with the resultant accusative case marking pattern. This explanation for the existence of ergative and accusative languages eliminates the need for the stipulation in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, Chapter 4) that arguments have to move to have features checked while features on non-arguments could be checked in situ. It also illustrates the type of feature that is checked, and that features triggering movement for checking can be on the moved item. The analysis of ergativity is based on the North Baffin dialect of Inuktitut and uses field work data on sentences and nominals. The data on sentences shows that a speaker can make specific or non-specific reference to all types of objects: personal names, demonstratives, modified nouns, quantified nouns. It also shows that the audience interprets a specific object as the speaker intending to pick out an entity. Specificity is thus shown to be part of the semantic component (Donnellan 1966, 1978). The data on nominals supports the analysis of case assignment: arguments of derived and non-derived nominals have Erg/Gen case, and the subject and object arguments of gerunds have Erg/Gen and Inst/Acc cases respectively. Finally a discussion of agreement in Inuktitut supports the analysis of agreement being a relation rather than a functional projection, and the checking of specific objects at Spell-out.
La funzione testuale secondo Daniel Dubuisson. Fondamenti di etica letteraria in Anthropologie poétique
Creators: name: Lopopolo, Mariangela
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Nei tempi di crisi che stiamo attraversando, l’interrogativo sul ruolo e sull’utilità della opere letterarie sembra proporsi con una certa insistenza e rinnovarsi anche nel nostro paese. A cercare di rispondergli, sono, in particolare, gli studi dei rapporti tra l’etica e la letteratura, tradizionalmente concentrati su contenuti testuali espliciti, messaggi e ideologie. Tali studi, però, specie di recente, hanno mostrato di sapersi rivolgere anche al testo letterario in quanto forma artistica autonoma e dunque libera. Nella libertà del testo, l’etica della letteratura ha, quindi, scorto responsabilità cognitive, educative nonché orientative dei testi nei confronti degli uomini. Svolgendo ricerche in una chiave antropologico-metafisica, Daniel Dubuisson ha individuato proprio la conoscenza, l’educazione e l’orientamento come costitutivi della funzione testuale in generale e ha riservato alla questione il libro Anthropologie poétique (1996). Questo contributo ripercorre alcuni punti del lavoro dell’antropologo e storico delle religioni francese, con l’intento di presentare fondamenti di un’etica letteraria che si segnala all’attenzione della teoria e della critica della letteratura.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 78, February 15, 1966)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1966

description: The Alcoholism Treatment Digest was a subscription-based publication prepared for special clients by the editorial department of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol / Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 to 1973 with Mark Keller as editor. It was published in February, April, June, October, and December, summarizing scholarly content on four topics, available to republish with attribution. Some of the reviews were simultaneously published in the "Connecticut Review on Alcoholism" under the identical subtitle "Alcoholism Treatment Digest" every other month. The authors of the reviews were first noted in 1964, in the June issue.Contents, Release No. 781.Suiting Drugs to Types of Alcoholics2.Legislators and Alcoholism3.Factors Influencing Attendance at an Alcoholism Clinic4.Management of Alcoholism in the Soviet Union
The value buyers and sellers place on supply chain relationships: a relationship value continuum
Creators: name: Clements, Michael D. J.
name: Dean, David L.
name: Cohen, David A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In a competitive market, a firm's ability to compete is strongly linked to its business-to-business relationships and their resourcefulness in creating sustainable competitive advantage. Stable buyer/seller cooperative relationships are therefore an essential tool for firms to enhance their organisational performance in the marketplace. To develop and maintain the levels of relationships, participating firms need to recognise the value created by their relationships. Whilst both academics and practitioners tentatively agree on the broad understanding of the term 'value', few studies have identified value from an organisational perspective in the relationship context, other than the single constant of relationship value itself.This research reviews value from both the customer and organisational perspective and proposes a typology of relationship values. This article provides a relationship value continuum identifying four types of relationship value constructs. This continuum contributes to understanding the worth of the buyer / seller relationships.
Stratigraphy, structure and metamorphic petrology of the Turner Lake area, Archean Slave Province, Northwest Territories.
Creators: name: Schaan, Susan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Lithological, metamorphic and structural relationships are established in the Turner Lake area of the Archean Hood River supracrustal domain. Four map units define a stratigraphic sequence of subvertical beds that appears to young eastward. Metamorphosed greywacke to mudstone turbidites (Unit 1) are overlain with local discordance by polymict conglomerate (Unit 2, James Falls Conglomerate) with clasts mainly of diorite, volcanic and sedimentary rocks interpreted to be of local origin. An intercalated metamorphosed sequence (Unit 3) of arenite, layered volcaniclastic rocks, breccia and conglomerate (including tonalite cobbles), pyroxenite and dioritic to gabbroic intrusions, is apparently overlain further east by a second sequence (Unit 4) of greywacke-mudstones. Sheet-like trondhjemitic to tonalitic intrusions, one with a U-Pb zircon age of 2607 $\pm$ 1.3 Ma, are common within Unit 3; minor tonalitic sheets intrude Unit 1. Larger plutons include the (2600 $\pm$ 2 Ma, U-Pb zircon) Pistol Lake granodiorite to tonalite in the south and the Fish-hook Lake monzogranite in the west. Proterozoic diabase dykes of at least three ages cross-cut the Archean rocks. Metagreywacke-mudstones of Units 1 and 4 have similar rare earth element signatures and may be derived from a similar source terrane. The signatures resemble those of Yellowknife Supergroup metasedimentary rocks in the Yellowknife area. Trace element signatures of epiclastic amphibolites and mafic tuffs suggest mixed ultramafic and felsic sources. They may be consanguineous with the metapyroxenite. Highly foliated tonalite sheets and less deformed trondhjemite sheets have similar whole rock and rare earth element signatures to the Pistol Lake pluton. The lack of negative europiom anomalies in the rare earth element signatures of the plutonic rocks is comparable to synkinematic granites in the Yellowknife area. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Europäischer Artenschutz im Blindflug - vorgezogene Ausgleichsmaßnahmen im nordrhein-westfälischen Straßenbau
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Die Aktivierung des Verbots der Beschädigung oder Vernichtung von Fortpflanzungs- und Ruhestätten EU-rechtlich geschützter Arten kann bei Eingriffen durch die Planung vorgezogener Ausgleichsmaßnahmen (CEF-Maßnahmen) verhindert werden. Die durchgeführte Erhebung bei Straßenbauvorhaben in NRW stellte für den Zeitraum von Januar 2006 bis Juli 2010 bei 42 von 251 Straßenbauvorhaben insgesamt 402 CEF-Maßnahmen fest. Sieht eine Straßenplanung CEF-Maßnahmen für eine Art vor, spielt der Gefährdungsgrad der Art für die Anzahl der Maßnahmen keine Rolle. Ausgewiesene Art-Experten bewerteten die grundsätzliche Eignung der Maßnahmen für die jeweilige Art auf einer fünfstufigen Skala. Die statistische Auswertung dieser Bewertungen zeigt, dass bei einer eingipfligen Verteilung der Median aller Bewertungen bei 3 liegt ("CEF-Maßnahmentypen funktionieren vielleicht - vielleicht aber auch nicht"). Zwischen einzelnen Artengruppen bestehen erhebliche Unterschiede. Deutlich unter 50 % aller CEF-Maßnahmen sind wahrscheinlich oder sicher geeignet, ihre Funktion zu erfüllen. Die Planungspraxis weicht damit in erheblichem Umfang von den rechtlichen Anforderungen ab. Quelle: http://www.nul-online.de
description: Planning measures that ensure a continuous ecological functionality (CEF-measures) can prevent deterioration or destruction of breeding sites or resting places of species protected under the EU Nature Directives (Birds and Habitats Directives). Between January 2006 and July 2010 the study surveyed road construction projects in North Rhine-Westphalia, assessing altogether 42 out of 251 road construction projects which included 402 CEF-measures. If the road planning included CEF-measures the conservation status of the species did not influence the number of measures. Selected experts assessed the general suitability of the measures for each species on a five stage scale. The statistical evaluation shows a unimodal allocation with a median of 3 ("The type of CEF-measure may or may not work"). Considerable differences exist between the suitability of measures for different groups of species. Clearly less than 50 % of all CEF-measures are probably or definitely suited to achieve their purpose. This leads to the conclusion that planning practice significantly deviates from the legal Şrequirements. Quelle: http://www.nul-online.de
Assessing Parameter Importance in Decision Models. Application to Health Economic Evaluations
Creators: name: Milev, Sandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: health economics
importance analysis
value of information
EVPPI

description: Background: Uncertainty in parameters is present in many risk assessment and decision making problems and leads to uncertainty in model predictions. Therefore an analysis of the degree of uncertainty around the model inputs is often needed. Importance analysis involves use of quantitative methods aiming at identifying the contribution of uncertain input model parameters to output uncertainty. Expected value of partial perfect information (EVPPI) measure is a current gold- standard technique for measuring parameters importance in health economics models. The current standard approach of estimating EVPPI through performing double Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) can be associated with a long run time. Objective: To investigate different importance analysis techniques with an aim to find alternative technique with shorter run time that will identify parameters with greatest contribution to uncertainty in model output. Methods: A health economics model was updated and served as a tool to implement various importance analysis techniques. Twelve alternative techniques were applied: rank correlation analysis, contribution to variance analysis, mutual information analysis, dominance analysis, regression analysis, analysis of elasticity, ANCOVA, maximum separation distances analysis, sequential bifurcation, double MCS EVPPI,EVPPI-quadrature and EVPPI- single method. Results: Among all these techniques, the dominance measure resulted with the closest correlated calibrated scores when compared with EVPPI calibrated scores. Performing a dominance analysis as a screening method to identify subgroup of parameters as candidates for being most important parameters and subsequently only performing EVPPI analysis on the selected parameters will reduce the overall run time.
Longitudinal within-host evolution of HIV Nef-mediated CD4, HLA and SERINC5 downregulation activity: a case study
Creators: name: Sudderuddin, Hanwei
name: Kinloch, Natalie N.
name: Jin, Steven W.
name: Miller, Rachel L.
name: Jones, Bradley R.
name: Brumme, Chanson J.
name: Joy, Jeffrey
name: Brockman, Mark A.
name: Brumme, Zabrina L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: The HIV accessory protein Nef downregulates the viral entry receptor CD4, the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-A and -B molecules, the Serine incorporator 5 (SERINC5) protein and other molecules from the infected cell surface, thereby promoting viral infectivity, replication and immune evasion. The nef locus also represents one of the most genetically variable regions in the HIV genome, and nef sequences undergo substantial evolution within a single individual over the course of infection. Few studies however have simultaneously characterized the impact of within-host nef sequence evolution on Nef protein function over prolonged timescales. Here, we isolated 50 unique Nef clones by single-genome amplification over an 11-year period from the plasma of an individual who was largely naïve to antiretroviral treatment during this time. Together, these clones harbored nonsynonymous substitutions at 13% of nef’s codons. We assessed their ability to downregulate cell-surface CD4, HLA and SERINC5 and observed that all three Nef functions declined modestly over time, where the reductions in CD4 and HLA downregulation (an average of 0.6% and 2.0% per year, respectively) achieved statistical significance. The results from this case study support all three Nef activities as being important to maintain throughout untreated HIV infection, but nevertheless suggest that, despite nef’s mutational plasticity, within-host viral evolution can compromise Nef function, albeit modestly, over prolonged periods.
Time-reversal test for stochastic quantum dynamics
Creators: name: Dowling, Mark R.
name: Drummond, Peter
name: Davis, Matthew J.
name: Deuar, Piotr
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The calculation of quantum dynamics is currently a central issue in theoretical physics, with diverse applications ranging from ultracold atomic Bose-Einstein condensates to condensed matter, biology, and even astrophysics. Here we demonstrate a conceptually simple method of determining the regime of validity of stochastic simulations of unitary quantum dynamics by employing a time-reversal test. We apply this test to a simulation of the evolution of a quantum anharmonic oscillator with up to 6.022 x 10^23 (Avogadro's number) of particles. This system is realizable as a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice, for which the time-reversal procedure could be implemented experimentally.