cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Explanation and elaboration of the standards of reporting of neurological disorders checklist: A guideline for the reporting of incidence and prevalence studies in neuroepidemiology
Creators: name: Bennett, Derrick A.
name: Brayne, Carol
name: Feigin, Valery L.
name: Barker-Collo, Suzanne
name: Brainin, Michael
name: Davis, Daniel
name: Gallo, Valentina
name: Jetté, Nathalie
name: Karch, André
name: Kurtzke, John F.
name: Lavados, Pablo M.
name: Logroscino, Giancarlo
name: Nagel, Gabriele
name: Preux, Pierre-Marie
name: Rothwell, Peter M.
name: Svenson, Lawrence W.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroepidemiology
subject: Reporting quality
subject: Guideline
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Nervous system diseases; Epidemiology
subject: Epidemiologic methods
subject: Prevalence
subject: Incidence
subject: Neuropathologie
subject: Epidemiologie

description: Background: Incidence and prevalence studies of neurological disorders play an extremely important role in hypothesis-generation, assessing the burden of disease and planning of health services. However, the assessment of disease estimates is hindered by the poor quality of reporting for such studies. We developed the Standards of Reporting of Neurological Disorders (STROND) guideline in order to improve the quality of reporting of neurological disorders from which prevalence, incidence, and outcomes can be extracted for greater generalisability. Methods: The guideline was developed using a 3-round Delphi technique in order to identify the ‘basic minimum items' important for reporting, as well as some additional ‘ideal reporting items.' An e-consultation process was then used in order to gauge opinion by external neuroepidemiological experts on the appropriateness of the items included in the checklist. Findings: The resultant 15 items checklist and accompanying recommendations were developed using a similar process and structured in a similar manner to the Strengthening of the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology checklist for ease of use. This paper presents the STROND checklist with an explanation and elaboration for each item, as well as examples of good reporting from the neuroepidemiological literature. Conclusions: The introduction and use of the STROND checklist should lead to more consistent, transparent and contextualised reporting of descriptive neuroepidemiological studies that should facilitate international comparisons, and lead to more accessible information for multiple stakeholders, ultimately supporting better healthcare decisions for neurological disorders. © In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
"Out of Ireland": Towards a history of the Irish in pre-confederation Canadian literature
Creators: name: Deziel, Angela J
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Canadian (English).
subject: Literature, English.

description: This thesis examines the works of five Irish-born writers who came to Canada between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Donnchadh Ruadh MacConmara, Isaac Weld Junior, Thomas Moore, Anna Brownell Jameson, and Adam Kidd. Collectively, these writers helped formulate, establish, and solidify impressions of the eventual Dominion. In turn, they played an invaluable role in encouraging immigration to Canada by providing would-be emigrants with valuable insight and information that would aid in their impending decision about where to seek a new home once they crossed the Atlantic: America or Canada. Essential to their respective experiences was the discovery that Canada could offer not only respite from the instability sweeping the British Isles but also that it was superior to the American Republic. To illustrate this point, the Dantean concepts of inferno, purgatorio, and paradiso, first suggested in Weld's work, are equated with America, Canada, and the Old World respectively. This paradigm is used both to conceptualize and assess the New World in relation to the Old, to compare Canada and America invidiously, as well as to encourage immigration to the former and divertit from the latter. In addition to providing a survey of the heretofore unrecognized contribution of five foundational Irish writers to the beginnings of Canadian literature, the thesis also exposes and challenges the early and present-day critical reception of their respective works in reviews and criticism that frequently propagate unfavourable stereotypes of the Irish. Its aim is partly to counter these falsely imposed myths and harmful stereotypes by drawing attention to the unsound practices of many biographers and critics.
Process philosophy and ecological ethics
Creators: name: Gare, Arran
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have now reached a peculiar state in the debate on ethics and ecology. In one sense the environmentalists are winning. Although there are powerful dissidents, there is now a general consensus that ecological destruction on a global scale is a major threat to the future of civilization, if not of humanity. While this has been brought home by global warming and its effects, there is a growing awareness that this is only the. most threatening symptom of the destructive trajectory we are on. It is also appreciated as never before that it will be poorer people who will suffer most from this destruction, at least to begin with, and that any ethics which does not take this into account is defective, if for no other reason than that the poor of the world will respond to environmental problems in ways that threaten the lifestyles of the affluent. Finally, it is being recognized that our present crisis has been brought about by a failure to comprehend the dynamics and intrinsic significance of life, both human and non-human. [Introduction]
An allied research paradigm for epidemiology research with Indigenous peoples
Creators: name: Jaworsky, Denise
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: There is no shortage of epidemiology research describing the ill health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and globally and many of these studies have had negative repercussions on Indigenous communities. However, epidemiology can also be a helpful tool for supporting the health and health services of communities. This paper challenges the reader to consider the harms of epidemiology which essentialize Indigenous communities as sick and in need of help. It then discusses, from the perspective of a settler physician and clinical epidemiology student, how we may be able reconcile the field of epidemiology research with the needs of Indigenous communities. In doing so, it describes an allied research paradigm for epidemiology. Results: Although qualitative research has been substantially informed by critical feminist theories, uptake in quantitative research has been sparser. It is even more rare for Indigenous methodologies to be used to inform quantitative research. This paper is written from a personal perspective, reflecting on the author’s prior experiences as well as existing literature on critical feminist theory and Indigenous methodologies, to describe an allied research paradigm. This allied research paradigm follows an ontology that explores the subjectivity within epidemiology and the influence of the positionality of the researcher. It follows an epistemology that understands that knowledge can be generated through many ways including, but not limited to statistical analyses. It follows an axiology that research aims to affect social change and improve the lives of the communities participating in the research. It follows a methodology that is participatory and empowers community partners to meaningfully contribute to statistical research. This allied research paradigm, which makes no claims to universality, describes several important principles: reconciliation, relationships, perspective, positionality, self-determination and accountability. Conclusion: Researchers who wish to engage in research in allyship with Indigenous communities must understand the colonial history embedded in health research, commit to a process that honours meaningful relationships with community partners, and carefully consider the implications of their work.
A true-time delay beamforming system incorporating a wavelength tunable optical phase-lock loop
Creators: name: Rideout, Howard
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents the study of a frequency-discriminator-aided optical phase-lock loop (OPLL) and its application to a fiber-Bragg-grating-based true-time delay (TTD) module for the purpose of phased-array antenna (PAA) beamforming. The TTD module uses uniform fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) to form the delay lines of an FBG prism. The wavelengths from two external cavity laser diodes are phase-locked by the OPLL and applied to the FBG prism to achieve tunable time delays. The performance of the system is evaluated using a time-delay measurement experiment. The experimental time delays generated are compared with the theoretically designed values and are found to be in close agreement. Simulations of the radiation patterns generated from the measured time delays are found to closely match the steering angle designed for the system. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time an OPLL has been used in conjunction with an FBG-based TTD beamforming module.
Trois générations de femmes: La quête identitaire dans l'écriture des femmes migrantes du Québec
Creators: name: Prud'homme, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: La littérature canadienne-française s'enrichit de plus en plus au fil des années grâce à l'émergence d'un grand nombre d'écrivaines migrantes venues de tous les horizons: parmi elles, Marie-Célie Agnant avec La dot de Sara et Abla Farhoud avec Le bonheur à la queue glissante. Les deux oeuvres de ces écrivaines exilées dépeignent des relations intergénérationnelles, entre la grand-mère, la mère et la petite-fille. Très souvent, dans le contexte de l'exil, ces liens entre les générations de femmes sont la source de conflits, de difficultés et de ruptures identitaires. Nous souhaitons donc montrer dans cette thèse comment se reconstruit et se maintient l'équilibre entre les trois générations et comment se résolvent et se résorbent les conflits liés à la quête identitaire; pour ce faire, nous prendrons appui sur les avenues théoriques féministes et sur les recherches portant sur l'identité et l'alterité.
Coping strategies in young men with and without drinking problems.
Creators: name: Fradet, Christiane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Social learning theory (Abrams & Niaura, 1987) assumes that individuals who lack effective coping strategies are more likely to drink in response to stressful situations. A review of the literature suggests that coping strategies have not typically been studied in the context of a specific theory of alcohol abuse. Consequently, little progress has been made in the understanding of possible links between alcohol abuse and the use of coping strategies. The primary objective of the present study was to assess whether drinking problems are associated with specific coping strategies. Coping strategies were defined according to the coping models of Lazarus and Folkman (1984), Tobin, Holroyd, Reynolds and Wigal (1989) and Rosenbaum (1980). It was hypothesized that students with drinking problems, in comparison to students with no drinking problems, would report engaging less in self-control and problem-focused strategies and more in avoidant coping strategies. A secondary objective was to determine whether these coping characteristics are associated with a family history of drinking problems, a risk factor for drinking problems. One hundred and eighty-nine male university students completed screening questionnaires about their alcohol and drug consumption and about the drinking behaviors of their family members. Students accepted for this study met the criteria for one of the following groups: (a) no family history of drinking problems (FH$-$) and no drinking problems, (b) FH$-$ and drinking problems, (c) family history of drinking problems (FH+) and no drinking problems, or (d) FH+ and drinking problems. Students completed self-report questionnaires on the reactions they experience in stressful situations. Self-control strategies were assessed by the Self-Control Schedule (Rosenbaum, 1980), and task-oriented and avoidant strategies by the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (Endler & Parker, 1990a). The last questionnaire was repeated for three different situations: (a) negative emotion, (b) interpersonal conflict, and (c) pressure to drink. Multivariate analyses of variance showed that students with drinking problems, in comparison to students without drinking problems, reported engaging less in self-control and task-oriented coping strategies. However, students with drinking problems did not report engaging more in avoidant strategies. This finding was contrasted with the results of other studies in which avoidant strategies were found to be related to alcohol abuse. Finally, there were no significant differences in coping between FH+ students and FH$-$ students. The potential relevance of coping to a model of alcohol abuse was discussed as well as its practical implications. For example, students with drinking problems might benefit from being taught task-oriented strategies and self-control skills, in addition to specific skills to reduce drinking.
Kunststoffhaltige Tretschichten auf Reitplätzen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: LANUV
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mikroplastikpartikel
Landschaftsbau

description: Dieses Arbeitsblatt richtet sich an Besitzer und Betreiber von Reitplätzen im Freien sowie in Hallen, die Reitplätze neu anlegen, pflegen oder sanieren und dabei kunststoffhaltige Tretschichten einsetzen. Außerdem wendet sich das Arbeitsblatt an Hersteller und Lieferanten von Kunststoffmaterialien zur Nutzung in Tretschichten sowie an Reitplatzbauer, die kunststoffhaltige Tretschichten auf Reitplätzen einbauen. Das Arbeitsblatt beschreibt Anforderungen an die Verwendung kunststoffhaltiger Tretschichten auf Reitplätzen, insbesondere in Hinsicht auf den Umweltschutz und das Abfallrecht sowie die Entsorgung nach Gebrauch. Dabei sind sowohl Sand-Kunststoffgemische als auch vollsynthetische Tretschichten, z. B. aus aufbereiteten Teppichresten, als kunststoffhaltige Tretschichten zu verstehen. In einem separaten Hintergrundpapier wird erläutert, wie die in diesem Arbeitsblatt festgelegten, vorläufigen Beurteilungs- und Orientierungswerte in Bezug auf die in relevanten Kunststoffen enthaltenen Chemikalien abgeleitet worden sind. Quelle: https://www.lanuv.nrw.de/
Isolation of the spinal muscular atrophy candidate gene: The neuronal apoptosis inhibitor protein.
Creators: name: Roy, Natalie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Genetics.

description: The childhood spinal muscular atrophies (SMA) are neurodegenerative disorders characterised by progressive spinal cord motor neuron depletion and are among the most common autosomal recessive disorders. Type I SMA is the most frequent monogenic cause of death in infancy. The loss of motor neurons in SMA, has led to suggestions that an inappropriate continuation or reactivation of normally occurring motor neuron apoptosis may underlie the disorder. The gene resonsible for the SMA's was mapped to a region of 5q13 Banked proximally by the marker CMS-1 and distally by the marker D5S557. In keeping with the hypothesis that a mechanism of apoptosis may underlie the disorder, we have isolated a gene encoding the neuronal apoptosis inhibitor protein (NAIP), which is homologous to baculoviral inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAP) and is partially deleted in individuals with Type I SMA. Concurrently, a second candidate gene encoding survival motor neuron (SMN), which is contiguous with the NAIP locus on 5q13.1 was also reported (Levebre et al., 1995. Cell 80, 155). SMN is deleted in a significant majority of SMA individuals, leaving unclear the precise role of the two genes in SMA causation. In an effort to delineate the role of NAIP in SMA pathogenesis, we have studied the effect of NAIP on cell death induced by different apoptotic triggers and determined the cellular distribution of the protein in human spinal cord. We report that overexpression of NAIP in Rat-1, HeLa and CHO cells suppresses apoptosis induced by menadione, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-$\alpha$) and serum withdrawal. Immunocytochemistry employing polyclonal antiserum raised against human NAIP demonstrates immunoreactivity in motor neurons. NAIP mediated inhibition of cell death and the immunolocalization of the protein to motor neurons are consistent with a role for NAIP both in the naturally occurring programmed motor neuron death. and when defective, in the pathogenesis of SMA. Moreover, NAIP appears to be the first member of a novel family of human genes with anti-apoptotic activity. Three novel human IAPs have subsequently been identified and shown to suppress apoptosis (Liston et al. 1996. Nature 379, 349). Two of these were also identified based on their ability to associate with the tumor necrosis factor receptor II (TNFRII) via a TNF receptor associated factor 1 and 2 (TRAF1-TRAF2) heterocomplex (Rothe et al., 1995. Cell 83, 1243) These data provide evidence for a central role of NAIP and IAPs not only in apoptosis but as regulators in these signalling pathways. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Immortalizing death on the battlefield: US iconography of war from the American Revolution to the Civil War
Creators: name: Paladin, Nicola
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Photography; Death; Iconography; War

description: Military iconography has always been a crucial aspect in the relationship between consensus and the outcome of US military interventions. A recurrent and elastic visual component of war master narratives is the representation of death on the battlefield, a classic trope in Western tradition whose first American photographic stage was the Civil War. By focusing on Civil war photography observed against the grain of early republic paintings of the American Revolution, I intend to analyze the cultural transformations determined by the advent of photography on the US perception of war in contrast with the pictorial tradition. My purpose is to demonstrate how such a shift implied a radical reshaping of the visual (and cultural) paradigm of death on the battlefield in the way it was represented and perceived by the audience. I propose a comparison of the aesthetics and the ethos of the most well-known Civil war photos of dead soldiers with one of the most famous paintings of the American Revolution representing death on the battlefield, John Trumbull’s The Death of Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and significant literary counterparts from the Revolution (Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s homonymous tragedy which inspired Trumbull's paintings), and the Civil war literature (with particular reference to Stephen Crane).
description: Iperstoria, No 11 (2018): American Constructions of Photography / Photographic Constructions of America
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 329 (44. Jg.), August 2014
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Universität Ulm

description: uni ulm intern, Heft Nr. 329 (44. Jg.), August 2014
Reconciling efficiency and democracy: the challenges at the local government level
Creators: name: Brackertz, Nicola
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates community services policy implementation in local government in the State of Victoria, Australia. It focuses on the tensions between the requirement that councils implement the policies and objectives of the State and Federal governments, which frequently aim to increase efficiency, and the obligation to uphold the integrity of the democratic processes necessary to fulfil its local mandate and responsibilities to constituents. I argue that successive reforms to Victorian local government and the concomitant adaptations to its governance structures are manifest in varying approaches to public accountability and performance criteria for services provided. These changes reflect evolving policy ideas about the role of local government, citizens and the private sector in the governance balance. The shift from government to governance has been a central feature of public sector reform in Australia and internationally over the past 20 years. Public services are no longer delivered centrally by the state, but rather by a network of actors (the private, notfor- profit and community sectors). Accountability no longer relies on traditional hierarchical structures of authority, but on contracts and complex interrelationships between multiple parties. The 'new governance' is seen to be beneficial because it increases the system's ability to deliver services efficiently and effectively, but has been criticised for a lack of transparency, accountability and weak democratic legitimacy. A proliferation in policy tools used to tackle a range of social and economic issues has accompanied the shift from government to governance. Public participation is singled out as a tool that can counter the legitimacy deficits of the new governance. The reasoning is that if there is no easily identifiable group of people that can be held accountable and if traditional liberal democratic processes have become weakened, then civic culture must take on functions of responsibility, accountability and authority through involvement beyond the electoral cycle. Local government is identified as the place where public participation will be most beneficial because it is 'closest to the people'. The study uses three cases with councils in the greater Melbourne area and presents evidence that under the new governance there is a tension in justifications for legitimacy. I argue that the policy tools used to effect public sector reforms in Victorian local government embody tensions between the efficient provision of community services, the need to maintain democratic legitimacy and a desire to strengthen the role of civil society in governance. The thesis shows how local councils seek to resolve these contradictions, how the local context affects outcomes, and points to possible alternative models for strengthening local governance.
title: CORALIE ET Cie
Creators: name: Misraki, Paul
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Musique de film

description: Manuscrits des partitions musicales et relevé de minutage du film réalisé par Cavalcanti : CORALIE ET Cie. 63 grandes paysages, 17 petites, 1 f. de notes
description: Temporal: XXème siècle
An object-oriented environment for linear feature extraction from aerial images.
Creators: name: Sasarman, Michael Mihai A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: We propose a new method for the detection of road networks in SPOT$\sp1$ images, with possible applications in automated cartography. This method is based on the integration of image segmentation techniques, in particular the watershed and Duda transformations, in a parallel Single Instruction Stream Multiple Data Stream (SIMD) environment. The Duda Road Operator provides the marking function for the watershed transformation of the image. Examples involving SPOT images are used and the resulting road networks are shown. ftn$\sp1$Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre.
Übersetzung in Russisch: COPD. Verschlechterung bei COPD – Was kann ich tun?
Creators: name: Ärztliches Zentrum Für Qualität In Der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Publisher: name: Bundesärztekammer (BÄK); Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV); Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Kurzinformation für Patienten
Readings in the (un)divided self: Edwards, Emerson, Frost and Cummings.
Creators: name: Howley, Ashton D.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Literature, American.

description: In this thesis I have tried to evaluate the literary affiliation shared by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jonathan Edwards, Robert Frost and E. E. Cummings. In his ethics of mental self-reliance Emerson recapitulates some of Edwards's Puritan ideas on the relation of self to reality. The tension that emerges as the self-relying/self-denying dialectic in Emerson's writing is an extension of Edwards's prescriptions to try to attain contact with the immanent presence of divinity in the individual soul. This dualism of nature and consciousness and the self's attempts to overcome it become the fissure in the foundations of American individualism laid by Emerson and his principal New England forbear. The intellectual inheritance received by Frost and Cummings is thus ambiguous between transcendental idealism and a tough-minded realism: their struggle with the question of causality gives way to existential concerns. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The Ink of Melancholy. Faulkner’s Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August. André Belikasten
Creators: name: Melodia Festa, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: William Faulkner; literary critique

description: Review on the volume written by André Belikasten, analyzing Faulkner's novels.
description: Iperstoria, No 11 (2018): American Constructions of Photography / Photographic Constructions of America
Fate in his Eye and Empire on his Arm. La nascita e lo sviluppo della letteratura epica statunitense. Enrico Botta
Creators: name: Paladin, Nicola
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: American epic literature

description: Review on the volume, written by Enrico Botta, about the rise and development of American epic literature.
description: Iperstoria, No 11 (2018): American Constructions of Photography / Photographic Constructions of America
Body temperature and activity adaptation of short photoperiod-exposed djungarian hamsters (phodopus sungorus): timing, traits, and torpor
Creators: name: Haugg, Elena
name: Herwig, Annika
name: Diedrich, Victoria
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Siberian hamster
subject: spontaneous daily torpor
subject: DDC 590 / Animals (Zoology)
subject: Circadian rhythms
subject: Metabolism
subject: Phenotype
subject: Radio telemetry
subject: Tagesrhythmus
subject: Stoffwechsel

description: To survive the Siberian winter, Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) adjust their behavior, morphology, and physiology to maintain energy balance. The reduction of body mass and the improvement of fur insulation are followed by the expression of spontaneous daily torpor, a state of reduced metabolism during the resting phase to save additional energy. Since these complex changes require time, the upcoming winter is anticipated via decreasing photoperiod. Yet, the extent of adaptation and torpor use is highly individual. In this study, adaptation was triggered by an artificially changed light regime under laboratory conditions with 20°C ambient temperature and food and water ad libitum. Two approaches analyzed data on weekly measured body mass and fur index as well as continuously recorded core body temperature and activity during: (1) the torpor period of 60 hamsters and (2) the entire adaptation period of 11 hamsters, aiming to identify parameters allowing (1) a better prediction of torpor expression in individuals during the torpor period as well as (2) an early estimation of the adaptation extent and torpor proneness. In approach 1, 46 torpor-expressing hamsters had a median torpor incidence of 0.3, covering the spectrum from no torpor to torpor every day within one representative week. Torpor use reduced the body temperature during both photo- and scotophase. Torpor was never expressed by 14 hamsters. They could be identified by a high, constant body temperature during the torpor period and a low body mass loss during adaptation to a short photoperiod. Already in the first week of short photoperiod, approach 2 revealed that the hamsters extended their activity over the prolonged scotophase, yet with reduced scotophase activity and body temperature. Over the entire adaptation period, scotophase activity and body temperature of the scoto- and photophases were further reduced, later accompanied by a body mass decline and winter fur development. Torpor was expressed by those hamsters with the most pronounced adaptations. These results provide insights into the preconditions and proximate stimuli of torpor expression. This knowledge will improve experimental planning and sampling for neuroendocrine and molecular research on torpor regulation and has the potential to facilitate acute torpor forecasting to eventually unravel torpor regulation processes.
Raman spectroscopy detects metabolic signatures of radiation response and hypoxic fluctuations in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Van Nest, Samantha J
name: Nicholson, Leah M
name: Pavey, Nils
name: Hindi, Mathew N
name: Brolo, Alexandre G
name: Jirasek, Andrew
name: Lum, Julian J
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Radiation therapy is a standard form of treating non-small cell lung cancer, however, local recurrence is a major issue with this type of treatment. A better understanding of the metabolic response to radiation therapy may provide insight into improved approaches for local tumour control. Cyclic hypoxia is a well-established determinant that influences radiation response, though its impact on other metabolic pathways that control radiosensitivity remains unclear. Methods: We used an established Raman spectroscopic (RS) technique in combination with immunofluorescence staining to measure radiation-induced metabolic responses in human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumour xenografts. Tumours were established in NOD.CB17-Prkdcscid/J mice, and were exposed to radiation doses of 15 Gy or left untreated. Tumours were harvested at 2 h, 1, 3 and 10 days post irradiation. Results: We report that xenografted NSCLC tumours demonstrate rapid and stable metabolic changes, following exposure to 15 Gy radiation doses, which can be measured by RS and are dictated by the extent of local tissue oxygenation. In particular, fluctuations in tissue glycogen content were observed as early as 2 h and as late as 10 days post irradiation. Metabolically, this signature was correlated to the extent of tumour regression. Immunofluorescence staining for γ–H2AX, pimonidazole and carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) correlated with RS-identified metabolic changes in hypoxia and reoxygenation following radiation exposure. Conclusion: Our results indicate that RS can identify sequential changes in hypoxia and tumour reoxygenation in NSCLC, that play crucial roles in radiosensitivity.
title: The Role of Ferritin in Iron Regulation
Creators: name: Obray, Rick White
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Iron plays a critical role in biological systems. Its variable redox properties make it a tremendously versatile element. It is involved in numerous cellular processes including; oxygen transport, nucleotide synthesis, nitrogen fixation, electron transport and a host of metabolic reactions. Without it, nearly all life would cease to function. However, under certain circumstances iron can be extremely detrimental to biological systems and has been linked to numerous pathologies, including cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and atherosclerosis. In the presence oxygen, Fe(II) is rapidly oxidized to Fe(III), and oxygen is reduced to potentially deleterious oxygen radicals (1). These radicals, especially the hydroxyl radical, are powerful oxidants, capable of oxidizing DNA, lipids and proteins (2). As a result, biological systems have developed intricate methods for maximizing the benefits of iron utilization while at the same time minimizing its destructiveness.
Rasch model analysis of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS)
Creators: name: Shea, Tracey L.
name: Tennant, Alan
name: Pallant, Julie F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is a growing awareness of the need for easily administered, psychometrically sound screening tools to identify individuals with elevated levels of psychological distress. Although support has been found for the psychometric properties of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS) using classical test theory approaches it has not been subjected to Rasch analysis. The aim of this study was to use Rasch analysis to assess the psychometric properties of the DASS-21 scales, using two different administration modes. The DASS-21 was administered to 420 participants with half the sample responding to a web-based version and the other half completing a traditional pencil-and-paper version. Conformity of DASS-21 scales to a Rasch partial credit model was assessed using the RUMM2020 software. To achieve adequate model fit it was necessary to remove one item from each of the DASS-21 subscales. The reduced scales showed adequate internal consistency reliability, unidimensionality and freedom from differential item functioning for sex, age and mode of administration. Analysis of all DASS-21 items combined did not support its use as a measure of general psychological distress. A scale combining the anxiety and stress items showed satisfactory fit to the Rasch model after removal of three items. The results provide support for the measurement properties, internal consistency reliability, and unidimensionality of three slightly modified DASS-21 scales, across two different administration methods. The further use of Rasch analysis on the DASS-21 in larger and broader samples is recommended to confirm the findings of the current study.
Deliverable D7.7_Sustainability protocol in olive oil production (SOIL O-LIVE_HORIZON EUROPE ID 101091255)
Creators: name: DEOLEO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: soil o-live
D7.7
olive grove
sustainability
protocol
olive oil production

description: D7.7. Sustainability protocol in olive oil production. T7.3.
title: Step-by-step guide to sustainable supply chain management
title: Step-by-step guide to sustainable supply chain management
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Weiss, Daniel
name: Hajduk, Thomas
name: Knopf, Jutta
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Lieferkette

description: Ein Großteil der Umweltbelastungen entsteht in der Lieferkette. Daraus ergeben sich hier große Reduktionspotenziale für kleinere und mittelständische Betriebe. Die Broschüre ist insbesondere für mittelständische Unternehmen interessant, die bereits ein solides Fundament an Umwelt- oder Nachhaltigkeitspraktiken in ihren Werkshallen und Büros gelegt haben und nun beim nachhaltigen Lieferkettenmanagement erste Schritte gehen möchten. Für Unternehmen, die bereits ein Umweltmanagementsystem nach EMAS oder ISO 14001 eingeführt haben, bietet der Leitfaden Ansatzpunkte für das Management indirekter Umweltaspekte und die Betrachtung des Lebensweges von Produkten und Dienstleistungen. Quelle: Verlagsinformation
Experimental evaluation of IEEE 802.11b and mobile IPv6 hand-off times
Creators: name: Banh, Mai
name: Armitage, Grenville
name: Stewart, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reviews the use of MIPv6 to support mobility between independent 802.11b-attached IPv6 subnets, and uses a wireless testbed to experimentally measure how long an end-to-end IP path is disrupted when a MIPv6 node shifts from one subnetwork to another (handoff latency). We also measure 802.11b handoff independent of MIPv6. Using out results, we evaluate the likely performance impact of MIPv6 handoff on a common webcam application and bulk TCP data transfers.
Made in Italy Provides the American Market with Added Value: A Linguistic Analysis of Wine Websites
Creators: name: Corrizzato, Sara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: tourism; wine industry; Italy; United States

description: The various programmes promoted by the Italian government in the last two decades have strongly contributed to disseminating agri-food Italian products around the world, forcing Italian producers to review locally-based assumptions and set new plans of action that aim at presenting their products to foreign audiences and convince them to buy. Among the many strategies that have emerged, recent approaches have generated what nowadays is popularly known as the “Made in Italy” component. The contribution aims at analysing the official websites of sixteen Italian Wineries to investigate whether, and to what extent, the promotional representation of the products - and its intrinsic image given by their origins – faithfully reproduces the Made in Italy conceptual framework, contributing to transmitting the aforementioned values associated with Italy and its socio-linguistic habits. Therefore, a pervasive use of words related to the concepts of authenticity, quality and artisan craftsmanship should be present. Data were collected from sixteen official Italian winery websites, chosen from the 2017 Wine Spectator’s top 100 wines list.
description: Iperstoria, No 11 (2018): American Constructions of Photography / Photographic Constructions of America
Design quality: evaluating quality as a tool and the potential impact upon design outcomes of quality frameworks
Creators: name: Summons, Dianne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Australian Government has introduced a policy that requires universities to comply with quality and excellence programs to receive institutional funding. In this thesis I report on my research, which examined this policy agenda. In carrying out the research I focused on three issues. The first was the history of quality assurance and its use as a tool for managing organisational outcomes. The second was whether design school academics believe design can be measured within a quality framework and, if so, what they thought the impact of such measures might be on innovation. The third was where quality assurance frameworks have been an effective governmental monitoring tool. In response to these issues, I have discussed the term 'quality' and its transformation into complex frameworks with rigorous assessment metrics that demand institutional and organisational compliance. Within the duration of this study, I used surveys of design school academics to gain insight into what quality mean to designers. The findings suggest that, in its purest form, quality has increasingly evolved into a fit-for-purpose model and has emerged from manufacturing requirements to ensure product reliability; however, quality has become more sophisticated and pervasive in organisational and institutional processes. This has provided a context for the evolution of quality as a component of the Rudd government’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. This research is important, as it fills a gap in knowledge concerning the capacity for design and design research to be measured within a quality framework. It is particularly relevant, as design research can be electronic, written, an artefact or a combination of all, which increases problems of assessment, measurement and ranking. Design’s symbiotic relationship with its resulting object, structure, communication or artefact raises difficulties when metrics-based quality formulae are adopted for design and design research comparisons. This is because judgements about design are often deeply personal and are the result of cultural, gender and socioeconomic influences. Unlike the sciences they cannot be clinically or statistically measured with regard to process improvement or intended outcomes and are open to individual interpretation. While arguments for accountability persist, adherence to time frames and structural processes will impact upon tardiness and disorganisation. I argue, however, that quality improvements are obtainable and will be identifiable in the second generation of design. Improved research will enable greater scholarly knowledge and the provision of opportunities for more informed designers to produce a greater quality outcome.
In Their Own Words: Prefaces and Other Sites of Editorial Interaction in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Magazines
Creators: name: Bowness, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: nineteenth-century Canadian magazines
magazine history
Canadian magazines
Canadian periodicals
publishing history Canada
Canadian magazine history

description: This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century Canadian literary and general interest periodicals through the prefaces and other editorial missives written by the editors who created them. It seeks to demonstrate how these cultural workers saw their magazines as vehicles for promoting civic and literary development. While the handful of previous Canadian magazine dissertations take a “snapshot” approach to the genre by profiling a handful of titles within a region, this study attempts to capture the editorial impulse behind magazine development more widely. To do so, it examines multiple titles over a wider geographical and chronological span. To provide context for these primary documents, the dissertation begins with a chapter that summarizes the development of magazines as a genre and the history of publishing in nineteenth-century Canada. Subsequent chapters examine prefaces by theme as well as by rhetorical strategy. Themes such as nationalism, cultural development, and anti-Americanism emerge most prominently, alongside rhetorical techniques such as metaphor, imagery, analogy and personification. The dissertation also examines other sites of editorial interaction, most commonly the “correspondent’s columns,” where editors provided public feedback on topics ranging from versification to currency to prose style as a means of educating writers and readers alike. Finally, the dissertation relies on existing indexes to identify some of the most prolific contributors to the magazines, considering how these writers used the magazines to boost their literary careers. In the early century, these sources verify the productivity of canonical writers such as Susanna Moodie and Rosanna Leprohon, and call attention to obscure writers such as Eliza Lanesford Cushing, W. Arthur Calnek, James Haskins, and Mary Jane Katzmann Lawson. In the later century, the same approach is used again to examine the hive of writers who emerged to contribute to late century magazines like The Canadian Monthly and National Review and The Week, confirming the immense productivity of writers such as Agnes Maule Machar and drawing attention to now-obscure contributors like Mary Morgan. By recovering these overlooked editorial elements and figures, this dissertation draws scholarly attention to a more nuanced view of literary production and affirms the importance of magazines to literary development in nineteenth-century Canada.
“You’ve Heard It Now:” Traveling Through Stories While Teaching Indigenous Studies at a Polytechnic University in California’s Central Coast
Creators: name: Pulitano, Elvira
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: This essay makes the argument for the use of stories in the classroom as a pedagogical tool to help students decolonize some of the Eurocentric tenets of Western education and open up to differing epistemological orientations. Using Thomas King’s The Truth About Stories (2003), I argue that King’s predicament about storytelling, including the social and moral responsibilities that come with it, intersects with Walter Mignolo’s notion of “border thinking” and his overall theorization on decolonialialism. Using my experience of teaching Native American Studies in a California “Polytechnic” State University, against a campus demographic that remains predominantly white, I offer, at the end of my discussion, an example of a successful program that holds great promises for a future characterized by a shift toward that polycentric education increasingly (re)claimed by scholars in the global south.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Historical Sociolinguistics and Native American Studies: Prospects and Perspectives
Creators: name: Dossena, Marina
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: English historical linguistics has changed considerably over the last twenty years: not only has it devoted more attention to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but it has also developed new approaches to historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics by taking into consideration such genres as diaries, correspondence and schoolbooks. Within this framework, Native American studies can be shown to have great potential to contribute useful interdisciplinary takes on the investigation of Late Modern times; in particular, innovative insights and findings may derive from such connections in the study of vocabulary, of teaching materials, and of cultural representations.
description: Iperstoria, No 9 (2017): Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva comparata
Assessment of filtration efficiency and physiological responses of selected plant species to indoor air pollutants (toluene and 2-ethylhexanol) under chamber conditions
Creators: name: Brenske, Klaus-Reinhard
name: Hörmann, Vanessa
name: Ulrichs, Christian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Innenraumluft
Luftreinigung
Photosynthese

description: Three common plant species (Dieffenbachia maculata, Spathiphyllum wallisii, and Asparagus densiflorus) were tested against their capacity to remove the air pollutants toluene (20.0 mg m-3) and 2-ethylhexanol (14.6 mg m-3) under light or under dark in chamber experiments of 48-h duration. Results revealed only limited pollutant filtration capabilities and indicate that aerial plant parts of the tested species are only of limited value for indoor air quality improvement. The removal rate constant ranged for toluene from 3.4 to 5.7 L h-1 m-2 leaf area with no significant differences between plant species or light conditions (light/dark). The values for 2-ethylhexanol were somewhat lower, fluctuating around 2 L h-1 m-2 leaf area for all plant species tested, whereas differences between light and dark were observed for two of the three species. In addition to pollutant removal, CO2 fixation/respiration and transpiration as well as quantum yield were evaluated. These physiological characteristics seem to have no major impact on the VOC removal rate constant. Exposure to toluene or 2-ethylhexanol revealed no or only minor effects on D. maculata and S. wallisii. In contrast, a decrease in quantum yield and CO2 fixation was observed for A. densiflorus when exposed to 2-ethylhexanol or toluene under light, indicating phytotoxic effects in this species. Quelle: Verlagsinformation