cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stability of mild cognitive impairment in newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease
Creators: name: Lawson, Rachael A.
name: Yarnall, Alison J.
name: Duncan, Gordon W.
name: Breen, David P.
name: Khoo, Tien K.
name: Williams-Gray, Caroline H.
name: Barker, Roger A.
name: Burn, David J.
name: Rochester, Lynn
name: Johnston, Fionnuala
name: McDonald, Claire
name: Sleeman, Isobel
name: Chinnery, Patrick F.
name: O'Brien, John T.
name: Robbins, Trevor W.
name: Cummins, Gemma A.
name: Evans, Jonathan
name: Brooks, David J.
name: Wesnes, Keith A.
name: Rowe, James B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is common in early Parkinson's disease (PD). We evaluated the stability of PD-MCI over time to determine its clinical utility as a marker of disease. Methods: 212 newly diagnosed participants with PD were recruited into a longitudinal study and reassessed after 18 and 36 months. Participants completed a range of clinical and neuropsychological assessments. PD-MCI was classified using Movement Disorders Society Task Force level I (Montreal Cognitive Assessment < 26) and level II (using cut-offs of 1, 1.5 and 2SD) criteria. Results: After 36 months, 75% of participants returned; 8% of patients had developed a dementia all of which were previously PD-MCI. Applying level I criteria, 70% were cognitively stable, 19% cognitively declined and 11% improved over 36 months. Applying level II criteria (1, 1.5 and 2SD), 25% were cognitively stable, 41% cognitively declined, 15% improved and 19% fluctuated over 36 months. 18% of participants reverted to normal cognition from PD-MCI. Discussion: Cognitive impairment in PD is complex, with some individuals' function fluctuating over time and some reverting to normal cognition. PD-MCI level I criteria may have greater clinical convenience, but more comprehensive level II criteria with 2SD cut-offs may offer greater diagnostic certainty.
América: de línea de frontera a líneas de figura, de poesía, de memoria
Creators: name: Ferreira, Cándida
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The lines, the simplest way to represent borders, take part in the construction of power relations in the Western world, transformed into images and metaphors of poetic and narrative discourse. This paper aims to transcend this conception, starting from the traditional use -in western culture- as marks of the borders to underline its importance in the construction of visual and scriptural narratives, redrawn as symbols in the representations of non-western communities. Through a single case study - the allegory of America as a woman - the paper examines the transformation of this image from the sixteenth century cartography to the foundational national discourse of the nineteenth century.

Las líneas, los trazados más sencillos que configuran representativamente las fronteras, participan sinuosas de la construcción de las relaciones de poder en el mundo occidental, transformándose en imágenes y metáforas del discurso poético y narrativo. Este ensayo pretende traspasar este trayecto, partiendo del uso tradicional en la cultura occidental de las líneas como marcas de frontera para su actuación en la construcción de narrativas visuales y escriturales, redibujadas como símbolos en las representaciones de las comunidades no-occidentales. Por medio de un único ejemplo  – la alegoría de América como mujer –, perseguiré las transformaciones de esta imagen desde la cartografía del siglo XVI hasta el discurso de fundación nacional del siglo XIX.
Towards conceptually-oriented software requirements analysis and design.
Creators: name: Wang, Xia-Cheng.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Software developers currently do not have sufficient machine support for knowledge management. This thesis describes a partial solution to some of these knowledge management problems in software development, emphasizing conceptually-oriented requirements analysis and design, which we believe is fundamental to the software development process. We propose an ontological framework which consists of a domain-independent ontology, a methodology ontology, and an application ontology. This framework permits multiple methodologies and applications to be integrated. The domain-independent ontology provides knowledge common to all domains, while the methodology ontology assists the designer to capture essential design knowledge following a specific methodology. The top level of the application ontology provides common structure over multiple applications. Lower levels of the application ontology correspond to each specific application, consistent with the domain-independent ontology and methodology ontology. This ontological framework is supported by a generic knowledge management system known as CODE, which manages all knowledge in a knowledge base. A telecommunication example is developed to illustrate the approach. ObjecTime, an object-oriented commercial design CASE tool, is used to derive an executable design. Thus, we demonstrate that a knowledge management system (KMS) like CODE can be a powerful tool to provide intelligent machine support for conceptually-oriented analysis and design.
Spin: Lance Armstrong's confession and Livestrong's future
Creators: name: Baker, Christopher
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In his much anticipated interview with Oprah, Lance Armstrong surprised many by the extent to which he confessed to cheating, arrogant denial and bullying. But is this enough to protect the Livestrong Foundation, which is so intrinsically associated with the name and the reputation of its founder?
The Honoris Causa Degree in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali to Friedrich Krinzinger. Considerations on the conservation on the spot of excavation finds
La laurea honoris causa in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali a Friedrich Krinzinger. Considerazioni sulla conservazione in situ dei reperti di scavo
Creators: name: Russo, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2004

description: Friedrich Krinzinger, Professor of Classic Archaeology at the Vienna University and director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute has been interested in the techniques and in their applications in archaeology since he was young and he funded and ran IDEA in Vienna, Center of interdisciplinary research for the application of natural sciences to archaeology. He was director of the Austrian archaeological mission in Ephesus and worked at a large covering of a housing complex in Hefesus, that was unearthed in the Sixties of the XX century, full of frescoes, mosaics, stuccoes and marbles, the so-called “Hanghaus 2”. In this way he solved the problem of safeguarding on the spot the manufactures that were found in the excavations and he adopted a new system, in terms of size and ideas, in the field of conservation. If an archaeological site with ruins, that is the product of the work of archaeologists and restorers, is placed under a large covering with highly modern materials there are new problems for the viewer and this gives food for thought on the past and on the conservation of the site.
MPEC 2024-V79 : 2007 VY137
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Luftqualität 2020/2030: Weiterentwicklung von Prognosen für Luftschadstoffe unter Berücksichtigung von Klimastrategien
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Schwefeloxid
subject: Staub
subject: Feinstaub
subject: Luftgüte
subject: Luftqualität
subject: Luftschadstoff
subject: Änderung des Klimas
subject: Luft
subject: Air

description: Ziel des Vorhabens LUFT 2030 war die Entwicklung aktualisierter Emissionsszenarien für die Schadstoffe NOx, SO2, NMVOC, NH3, PM10 und PM2,5 bis zum Jahr 2030 sowie, daraus abgeleitet, die Berechnung von Immissionsszenarien fürFeinstaubund NO2. Als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von Emissionsszenarien für Deutschland waren dazu die Ergebnisse des vomUBAbeauftragten Vorhabens "Politikszenarien für denKlimaschutzVI" [Öko-Institut 2013] heranzuziehen. Für die immissionsseitige Bewertung der Emissionsszenarien wurde das im PARESTVorhaben
[Builtjes et al. 2010] entwickelte Auswerteinstrumentarium genutzt. Dazu gehören auch die räumliche Verteilung der deutschen Emissionen sowie die Berücksichtigung eines europäischen Emissionsszenarios. Basierend auf den Immissionsszenarien, die auf Jahresmittelwerte fokussieren, werden darüber hinaus Betrachtungen zu NO2- und PM10- Grenzwertüberschreitungen an verkehrsnahen Stationen angestellt.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: Ziel des Vorhabens LUFT 2030 war die Entwicklung aktualisierter Emissionsszenarien für die Schadstoffe NOx, SO2, ⁠NMVOC⁠, NH3, ⁠PM10⁠ und ⁠PM2,5⁠ bis zum Jahr 2030 sowie, daraus abgeleitet, die Berechnung von Immissionsszenarien für Feinstaub und NO2. Als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von Emissionsszenarien für Deutschland waren dazu die Ergebnisse des vom ⁠UBA⁠ beauftragten Vorhabens „Politikszenarien für den ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ VI“ [Öko-Institut 2013] heranzuziehen. Für die immissionsseitige Bewertung der Emissionsszenarien wurde das im PARESTVorhaben[Builtjes et al. 2010] entwickelte Auswerteinstrumentarium genutzt. Dazu gehören auch die räumliche Verteilung der deutschen Emissionen sowie die Berücksichtigung eines europäischen Emissionsszenarios. Basierend auf den Immissionsszenarien, die auf Jahresmittelwerte fokussieren, werden darüber hinaus Betrachtungen zu NO2- und PM10- Grenzwertüberschreitungen an verkehrsnahen Stationen angestellt.
Les relations entre évêques diocésains et instituts religieux cléricaux de droit pontifical du Concile Vatican II à l'exhortation apostoloique post-synodale Vita consecrata.
Creators: name: Malvaux, Benoît.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Religion, Clergy.

description: Cette these entend degager l'evolution de la problematique des relations entre eveques diocesains et instituts religieux clericaux de droit pontifical dans les documents romains depuis Vatican II jusqu'au Synode des eveques sur la vie consacree, et voir quelles conclusions en tirer d'un point de vue canonique. Le premier chapitre examine d'abord le traitement de cette problematique dans les documents du Concile Vatican II. Sont particulierement etudies la constitution Lumen gentium et les decrets Christus Dominus, Perfectae caritatis et Ad gentes. Ce meme chapitre retrace ensuite l'evolution de cette question dans les documents romains post-conciliaires anterieurs au Code de droit canonique de 1983. Sont notamment etudies le motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae et les directives Mutuae relationes. Le second chapitre examine d'abord le traitement de la problematique des relations entre eveques et instituts par le Code de droit canonique de 1983. La seconde partie de ce chapitre examine differents documents posterieurs au Code de 1983, dont le Code des canons des Eglises orientales. Le troisieme chapitre est consacre a l'analyse des etapes du processus synodal, des Lineamenta a l'exhortation apostolique post-synodale Vita consecrata. Le quatrieme chapitre degage d'abord les principaux enseignements a retirer du Synode: la necessite d'approfondir le climat de collaboration entre eveques et instituts; l'importance d'etre attentif a la sauvegarde de la specificite des instituts, dans le cadre de leur insertion dans l'Eglise particuliere; le caractere regional d'un certain nombre de problemes souleves au Synode. Ce meme chapitre propose ensuite differentes mesures pour traduire en termes canoniques les orientations synodales.
Likelihood Inference for Generalized Integer Autoregressive Time Series Models
Creators: name: Joe, Harry
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: For modeling count time series data, one class of models is generalized integer autoregressive of order p based on thinning operators. It is shown how numerical maximum likelihood estimation is possible by inverting the probability generating function of the conditional distribution of an observation given the past p observations. Two data examples are included and show that thinning operators based on compounding can substantially improve the model fit compared with the commonly used binomial thinning operator.
Fronteras internacionales e intranacionales ante el Bicentenario. Poesía y cultura en Argentina
Creators: name: Parfeniuk, Aldo
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The image of 'lo argentino' resulting from the anonymous-popular poetry of the period of May Revolution's Centennial and of  the Declaration of Independence of Argentine from the Kingdom of Spain is an image of national identity that, thanks to the figures of the Gaucho and Creole, protagonists of some fundamental works of Argentinean literature, receives a strong Christian-Hispanic heritage. In such construction of identity, the components of the indio and the negro were hidden as discard material that had to be excluded, although they both fight side by side, for a new homeland with the Creoles who rejected the English and then became independent of Spain.

La imagen de lo argentino que se destila de la poesía anónimo-popular  en las proximidades del Centenario de la Revolución de Mayo y la declaración de la Independencia de nuestro país del Reino de España es una imagen de identidad nacional que, tras la figura del gaucho y de lo criollo, protagonistas de obras fundamentales de nuestra literatura, acoge y consagra una poderosa herencia cristiano-hispánica.  Lo cierto es que en tal construcción identitaria, los componentes propios de lo indio y de lo negro fueron ocultados como material de descarte que había que excluir, a pesar de que unos y otros pelearan codo a codo, por una nueva patria que los contuviera a todos, con los criollos que rechazaron a los ingleses y luego se independizaron de los españoles.
Paisagem, historicidade e ambiente: as várias naturezas da natureza
Creators: name: De Moura Carvalho, Isabel Cristina
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: This article analyzes, from a hermeneutic perspective, the historical production of meanings about the nature and the environment in order to think what could be called an environmental tradition in the context of modernity in the West. This tradition refers to a long duration history of the senses of the environment which are located within the (re) interpretations of contemporaneity and from where one (re) construct the meanings of the actual experience of nature and the environment. In this environmental tradition is possible to detach: enlightened understanding of nature controlled by reason, the vision of the idyllic pastoral; the english naturalism of the seventeenth century; the new bourgeois sensibilities of the eighteenth century; the european romanticism of the XVIII-XIX centuries; the imaginary about America like a Eden. Go along with to these different historical landscapes evoke different kinds of nature as fields of meaning, memories and experiences that are constantly renegotiated in contemporary modes of experiencing the environment. This is the case of the ecological movement and its intersections with the counterculture and new left movements. By drawing this line of analysis the article highlights the elements of a historicity that is (re) update in permanent renegotiation of meanings in contemporary experience.

Este artigo tematiza, desde uma perspectiva hermenêutica, cursos históricos de produção de sentidos sobre a natureza e o ambiente significativos para pensar o que se poderia chamar uma tradição ambiental no âmbito da modernidade no Ocidente. Esta tradição remete à uma história de longa duração dos sentidos do ambiental dentro da qual se localizam as (re)interpretações contemporâneas e a partir de onde se (re) constroem os sentidos atuais da experiência da natureza e do ambiente. Destacam-se nesta tradição ambiental  a compreensão iluminista de uma natureza controlada pela razão, a visão pastoral idílica do naturalismo inglês do século XVII; as novas sensibilidades burguesas do século XVIII; o romantismo europeu dos séculos. XVIII-XIX; e o imaginário edênico sobre a América. Ao percorrer estas diversas paisagens históricas são evocadas as várias naturezas da natureza enquanto campos de sentido, memórias e experiências que são renegociadas permanentemente nos modos contemporâneos de experienciar o  ambiente. Este é o caso dos movimentos ecológicos e suas intersecções com os movimentos contraculturais e a  nova esquerda. Ao traçar esta linha de análise o artigo destaca os elemento de uma historicidade que se (re)atualiza em permanente renegociação de sentidos na experiência contemporânea.
Supplementary document for Weakly-Supervised Individual Ganglion Cell Segmentation from Adaptive Optics OCT Images for Glaucomatous Damage Assessment - 5122281.pdf
Creators: name: Soltanian-Zadeh, Somayyeh
name: Kurokawa, Kazuhiro
name: Liu, Zhuolin
name: Zhang, Furu
name: Osamah, Saeedi
name: Hammer, Daniel
name: Miller, Donald
name: Farsiu, Sina
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Details and results of experiments and further details of the methodology.
Endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) in rat mesenteric artery.
Creators: name: Burnette, Ethan Williams.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The endothelium, a critical modulator of vascular resistance and blood pressure, can release at least three factors that relax vascular smooth muscle, including nitric oxide (NO), prostacyclin (prostaglandin I2, PGI 2), and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF). EDHF-induced relaxation is correlated with a strong hyperpolarization and may activate vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) K-channels. The research presented studied ACh-induced EDHF release from rat tail artery (TA) and superior mesenteric artery (SMA). Calcium-activated potassium (KCa) channels in the rat mesenteric resistance artery (MRA), putative targets of EDHF, were characterized. ACh-induced EDHF release from rat TA or SMA hyperpolarized target single TA VSMCs current-clamped with the nystatin perforated patch technique. In the absence of donor tissue, ACh induced depolarization. TA and MRA VSMCs were patch clamped in the whole-cell configuration and macroscopic K-currents were elicited by depolarizing pulses. Calcium-activated (KCa) and voltage-dependent (Kdr) potassium currents were observed in both TA and MRA VSMCs. Apamin (300 nM) significantly inhibited MRA (79% of control at +50 mV) but not TA whole-cell KCa Current. Iberiotoxin (IbTX) or charybdotoxin (ChTX) (150 nM) abolished KCa current in TA and MRA VSMCs. Single rat MRA VSMCs were patch clamped using the inside-out technique. Four KCa channels were observed and named: BK. IK, SK, and miniK (big, intermediate, small, and mini KCa channels). In symmetrical potassium (150 mM), the single channel conductances were linear (BK, 197: IK, 94; SK, 50; miniK, 31 pS) and similar to those observed in rat TA. ChTX (150 nM) completely blocked the BK, IK, and miniK channels, and dramatically inhibited the SK channel (inside-out. +40 mV, [Ca2+] i = 500 nM). IbTX (150 nM) completely blocked all MRA KCa channels. 4-AP (2 mM) completely blocked the BK and IK channels, partially blocked the SK channel, and dramatically inhibited the miniK channel. Apamin (300 nM) selectively blocked the BK channel. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Genetic Ablation of the Platelet Activating Factor Receptor Does Not Impair Learning and Memory in Wild-Type Mice or Alter Amyloid Plaque Number in a Transgenic Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Peshdary, Vian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: amyloid beta plaque
Alzheimer's disease
long term potentiation
platelet activating factor receptor
learning and memory

description: We have recently established that aberrant alkylacylglycerophosphocholine metabolism results in the increased tissue concentration of platelet activating factors (PAFs) in the temporal cortex of Alzheimer Disease (AD) patients and in TgCRND8 mice over-expressing mutant human amyloid precursor protein. PAF lipids activate a G-protein coupled receptor (PAFR) reported to be expressed by microglia and subsets of neurons in rat. It is not known whether this same expression pattern is recapitulated in mice however, as the expression has only been inferred by use of pharmacological PAFR antagonists, many of which impact on both PAFR-dependent and PAFR-independent signalling pathways. PAFR plays a role in long term potentiation (LTP) induction in rats. PAFR has also been implicated in behavioural indices of spatial learning and memory in rats. Contradictory reports using mice provide ambiguity regarding the role of PAFR in LTP induction in mice. To assess whether PAFR is expressed in murine neurons, I localized PAFR mRNA in wild-type C57BL/6 mice using PAFR KO mice as a negative control. I further showed that the loss of PAFR did not impair learning and memory although this assessment must be considered preliminary as the behavioural test employed was not optimized to detect changes in learning and memory of C57BL/6 mice over time adequately.Finally, I showed that the loss of PAFR in TgCRND8 mouse model of AD had no impact upon Aβ plaque number. My observations suggest that PAFR is restricted to microglial-like cells in mouse hippocampus and as such, it may not play a role in learning and memory.
The potential of genome editing for improving seed oil content and fatty acid composition in oilseed crops
Creators: name: Subedi, Udaya; Jayawardhane, Kethmi N.; Pan, Xue; Ozga, Jocelyn; Chen, Guanqun; Foroud, Nora A.; Singer, Stacy D.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2020

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Syntrophin regulates the subcellular localization of diacylglycerol kinase-zeta
Creators: name: Hogan, Angela
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: Syntrophins are scaffolding proteins that link signaling molecules to the dystrophin protein complex at the plasma membrane. To further understand the roles of syntrophins a yeast two-hybrid screen of a human brain cDNA library was done using the PDZ domain of the recently identified brain-specific gamma 1-syntrophin, an isoform for which no signaling ligands had yet been identified. This screen yielded ten overlapping clones coding for the C-terminal portion of diacylglycerol kinase-zeta (DGK-zeta), a kinase that phosphorylates the membrane lipid diacylglycerol (DAG) to phosphatidic acid (PA). Biochemical experiments and binding assays confirmed that this kinase's C-terminus, containing the consensus PDZ-binding motif Q-E-T-A-V-COOH, was both necessary and sufficient for the interaction. This complex can be immunoprecipitated from co-transfected Hela cells, and the C-terminal-PDZ interaction appears to be required for the distribution of this complex between both the cytosol and nucleus. In the brain, DGK-zeta and gamma1-syntrophin colocalize in cerebellar Purkinje fibres and pyramidal neurons of the hippocampus and cortex, areas where dystrophin is expressed, and DGK-zeta can be detected in dystrophin immunoprecipitates from mouse brain extracts. Furthermore, biochemical experiments also show that DGK-zeta binds to the PDZ domain of alpha- and beta-syntrophins, and, endogenous syntrophin can be detected in DGK-zeta immunoprecipitates from cultured C2C12 skeletal muscle cell extracts. In normal skeletal muscle, DGK-zeta and syntrophin co-localizes at the NMJ, and the sarcolemma of oxidative fibres. In mdx mouse skeletal muscle, DGK-zeta's localization at the NMJ appears unaffected, while sarcolemmal levels are decreased in degenerating fibres but not in regenerating or regenerated ones. Together, our data suggest that syntrophin binds to DGK-zeta and links it to dystrophin-associated protein complexes in neurons and muscle cells, thereby playing a role in regulating the subcellular localization and function of this lipid kinase.
title: Developing Strategic Partnerships to Impact Population Health: A Professional Development Module
Creators: name: Scano, Andra
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2020

description: Massive organizational changes occurring in our health care delivery system have provided opportunities for nurse leaders who think in terms of population health, to develop new skills needed to impact the populations they serve. Aspects of these changes include a focus on the delivery of primary and community-based care and the development of partnerships, alliances, and other linkages across settings to build integrated systems (Williams, 2020, p. 17). Turner (2020) asserts that population-focused nurse leaders are charged with creating a new future for healthier communities which often involves strategic partnership development. However, strategic partnership development is a complex task that requires much time, energy, and thoughtful attention (p. 881).

The purpose of this Doctoral of Nursing (DNP) project was to develop, implement, and evaluate an online module for nurse leaders to increase knowledge and self-efficacy related to developing, growing, and sustaining strategic partnerships to impact population health. An online module was designed by this DNP student that includes five major content areas; 1) Understanding the importance of strategic partnership development to impact population health in the current health care environment, 2) The foundations of successful partnerships that can be used across multiple disciplines, 3) How to examine potential partnerships for fit, relevancy, and achieving established goals, 4) How to grow and sustain partnerships that have been successfully implemented, and 5) The importance of continuous evaluation of strategic partnerships that have been implemented. The module was delivered in an online format that offered 1.5 hours of continuing education for busy nurse leaders who work in various healthcare settings.
Supplementary document for Weakly-Supervised Individual Ganglion Cell Segmentation from Adaptive Optics OCT Images for Glaucomatous Damage Assessment - 5122281.pdf
Creators: name: Soltanian-Zadeh, Somayyeh
name: Kurokawa, Kazuhiro
name: Liu, Zhuolin
name: Zhang, Furu
name: Osamah, Saeedi
name: Hammer, Daniel
name: Miller, Donald
name: Farsiu, Sina
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Details and results of experiments and further details of the methodology.
Étude de l'écriture du corps dans l'oeuvre d'Alain Bernard Marchand
Creators: name: Labrosse, Claudia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: D'aucuns s'accordent à dire que l'écriture correspond à la mise en discours des idées d'un auteur. Or, nous ne pouvons que constater que le corps écrit et vit lui aussi à travers les romans, la poésie, les essais et le théâtre. À l'occasion, nous pouvons parler "d'écriture du corps" pour certains de ces textes dans lesquels la chair, plus qu'un simple thème, se fait langage et devient littérature. C'est le cas notamment de l'oeuvre d'Alain Bernard Marchand. Chez cet écrivain, il apparaît que le corps constitue à la fois l'objet et le sujet de l'écriture---constat qui forme le noeud de notre étude. C'est ce que nous révèle notre analyse du mode de construction du corps dans les textes, analyse qui nous montre que celui-ci s'inscrit dans l'interaction qu'il entretient avec autrui. Cette révélation nous transmet l'image d'un corps en situation. Les corps ludique, lecteur, amoureux et malade qu'il nous est possible d'observer dévoilent une enveloppe charnelle en constante évolution qui trouve son ultime transformation dans le voyage initiatique qu'entreprennent certains personnages. Bref, il apparaît que le corps, tant par son rôle de médiateur que par la place qu'il occupe dans l'écriture, constitue véritablement le pivot de l'oeuvre.
Characterization of a Type‐2 Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase from Haematococcus pluvialis Reveals Possible Allostery of the Recombinant Enzyme
Creators: name: Nguyen, Trinh; Xu, Yang; Abdel-Hameed, Mona; Sorensen, John L.; Singer, Stacy D.; Chen, Guanqun
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2019

Abstract
Supplementary document for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Au–Cu Alloy Nanoparticles Enhances the Performance of Polymer Photovoltaic Devices for Outdoor and Indoor Applications - 5122432.pdf
Creators: name: Kumar, Gautham
name: Sharma, Ganesh
name: Chen, Fang-Chung
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: photovoltaic parameters
Demographics and Posterior Knee Capsule Histologic and Genetic Characterization in Patients with Severe Knee Osteoarthritis: Comparing Those with Contracture to Those Without Contracture
Creators: name: Campbell, Thomas Mark
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Contracture
subject: Demographics
subject: Histology
subject: Capsule
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microarray
subject: Immunohistochemistry

description: Introduction: Knee flexion contractures have a negative impact on function for patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Those with contracture treated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have more post-operative pain and worse outcome. Little knowledge is available about patient demographic factors or gene expression in the knee joint capsule in the setting of contracture and severe OA. // Methods: Subjects with primary severe knee OA awaiting a TKA were recruited. We collected subject demographic factors that may be associated with preoperative knee contracture. Subjects’ posterior knee capsule was harvested intraoperatively. Capsule histological analysis was performed using light microscopy. Gene expression analysis was performed using whole genome microarray and immunohistochemistry was used for protein production analysis comparing those with contracture to those without. // Results: Twenty subjects were recruited for the demographics portion of the study (13 contractures and 7 controls), and capsules from 12 subjects (6 contractures, 6 controls) were used for histology, microarray, and IHC analyses. Contracture subjects had longer duration of OA, reduced extension in the contralateral knee, and showed a trend toward elevated body mass index. Tissue cross-sectional areas of adipose, non-adipose and synovial tissues were not statistically different histologically between the two groups. There was increased expression in the contracture group for the genes CHAD, Cyr61, and Sox9. There was a corresponding increase in protein production for CHAD and Sox9. // Conclusions: Screening for OA duration and bilateral knee range of motion (ROM) could be functionally beneficial. When a knee joint contracture is present, correcting for the resulting leg length discrepancy pre- and post-operatively could improve patient outcome. Gene protein products linking capsular cells to the ECM can influence capsular fibrosis and potentially impact ROM.
The Development of Youth Soccer Coaches: An Examination Within the Unique Coaching Context of Recreational Youth Sport
Creators: name: Capstick, Andrea Lauren
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: coaching
learning
coach development
mixed-methods
youth sport
recreation
volunteer

description: The purpose of this research is to explore the context of youth recreational soccer, and to examine how coaches volunteering in this context learn to coach soccer. Framed within Jarvis’ (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) theory of lifelong learning and employing a mixed-methods approach, this dissertation research had two distinct phases. Phase One involved the collection of data via an on-line survey from 433 recreational youth soccer coaches from Eastern Ontario. The survey served to collect demographic information, as well as general information about their team, their role as a recreational coach, and their approach to learning. The data analysis for the on-line surveys was comprised of an analysis of descriptive statistics. Phase Two involved semi-structured interviews. Recruited through their participation in Phase One, 30 coaches were purposefully targeted and interviewed based on their varied biographies, experiences, and social contexts. Additionally, seven soccer administrators were interviewed. Interview data was analyzed according to the principles of thematic analysis (Braun & Clark, 2006). Findings examine the biographies of youth recreational coaches, their coaching context, how recreational coaches learn to coach, issues of shared responsibilities related to learning, as well as practical implications. It is suggested that recreational coaches differ from one-another on many factors, and that the context of recreational youth soccer is similarly diverse and presents unique challenges to coaches. Recreational youth coaches learn to coach through a variety of sources; mostly through informal learning situations. Responsibilities surrounding coach development fall on the shoulders of individual coaches and clubs, as well as regional, provincial, and national associations; and suggestions for increased engagement in this regard are provided.
Supplementary document for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Au–Cu Alloy Nanoparticles Enhances the Performance of Polymer Photovoltaic Devices for Outdoor and Indoor Applications - 5122432.pdf
Creators: name: Kumar, Gautham
name: Sharma, Ganesh
name: Chen, Fang-Chung
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: photovoltaic parameters
A PROPÓSITO DE UN CASO: ¿DEBERÍA SER LA TERAPIA ELECTROCONVULSIVA UN ÚLTIMO RECURSO EN TRASTORNO PSIQUIÁTRICO GRAVE O RESISTENTE?
Creators: name: Rodríguez Rincón, Manuela
name: Blanco Pericacho, Andrea
name: Orozco Quiroz, Laura
name: Nogales Raedo, Antonia
name: Menéndez Trillo, Patricia
name: Fernández López, María
name: De Dios Francos, Avelino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Introducción y objetivos:

La terapia electroconvulsiva (TEC) lleva en vigor desde hace más de 80 años, es un tratamiento que ha demostrado ser efectivo y seguro en múltiples patologías psiquiátricas graves y resistentes farmacológicamente; como depresión, trastorno bipolar, esquizofrenia y trastorno esquizoafectivo. Sin embargo, sigue siendo utilizada como último recurso, aun cuando hay evidencia de que la terapia combinada puede ser igual o mejor en el manejo de estas enfermedades mentales.

Material y métodos:

Se trata de una mujer de 60 años, datos recogidos de historia clínica, con diagnóstico de trastorno esquizoafectivo tipo bipolar desde los 17 años. Antecedentes familiares de padre con esquizofrenia, hermano esquizofrenia hebefrenica y madre con enfermedad mental no diagnosticada. En seguimiento en unidad de Salud mental desde el 2012 con varios ingresos por persistencia de componente psicótico y múltiples ajustes medicamentos (Levopromazina, Clotiapina, Clozapina, Paliperidona, Quetiapina, Aripiprazol). Ultimo ingreso en la unidad de Hospitalización Psiquiátrica de Burgos en 2023 por descompensación, dada por discurso desorganizado con ideación delirante de perjuicio, alucinaciones auditivas, labilidad emocional e ideación tanáticas

Resultados:

Al ingreso paciente en manejo con Acido Valproico, Levopromazina, Quetiapina y Aripiprazol, requiriendo aumento de la quetiapina y dado componente depresivo se añadió Venlafaxina. Por falta de respuesta y viraje maniforme se cambia a Risperidona y retira Levopromazina y antidepresivo. Se decide tras revaluar historia clínica, con claro componente de resistencia farmacológica, suspender Acido valproico, iniciar manejo con Clozapina en combinación con TEC. Tras 12 sesiones se logra progresivamente estabilización psicopatológica, desapareciendo fenómenos sensoperceptivos y haciendo crítica de la ideación delirante.

Conclusiones:

La TEC es una estrategia terapéutica eficaz, que en combinación con un adecuado manejo farmacológico permite la mejoría de sintomatología psicótica e incluso remisión de esta. Se debería valorar la introducción precoz del TEC, ya sea como segunda o tercera línea, ante la clara efectividad, seguridad y validez de esta terapia.
A estética da fome: Glauber Rocha e a abertura de novos horizontes
Creators: name: Siega, Paula
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: In 1965, Glauber Rocha presents, in Genova, his Estética da fome, a thesis mining the European point of view on South American Art, by denouncing its longing for Primitivism. Lighting this crucial document about Cinema theory, in this article we try to understand in which way Rocha’s gaze goes over the lines that, in the international scene, distinguish us from European culture. That’s why, we tried to sketch out the expectation horizon with which critics receive the thesis, that adfirms new interpretation paradigms of Cinema Novo, over national borderlines.

Em 1965 Glauber Rocha apresenta, em Gênova, a Estética da fome, tese
com a qual questiona o ponto de vista do observador europeu sobre a arte latino-americana, denunciando a sua “nostalgia de primitivismo”. Lançando luzes sobre este documento cardeal do pensamento cinematográfico brasileiro, procuramos perceber de que modo o olhar do cineasta ultrapassa as linhas que, no cenário internacional, nos distinguem da cultura européia. Para isso, procuramos delinear o horizonte de expectativas com o qual os críticos acolhem  a tese, responsável pela afirmação de novos paradigmas de interpretação do Cinema Novo além das fronteiras nacionais.
Application of Direct-sequencing Peptide Proteomics to the Characterization of Antagonistic (Endogenous and Exogenous) Proteins in Cereal Grains
Creators: name: Koziol, Adam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: globulin
diabetes
starch granule-associated proteome
food security
translational medicine
plant/pathogen interactions

description: The cereal seed plays a crucial role in society – both in the “food as medicine” paradigm, but also in food security. It is the starch and proteins present in the seed that lend it importance in these dissimilar anthropomorphic activities. This thesis investigation first characterized the post-translational processing of the potential diabetogen, wheat globulin-3. Globulin-3-like peptides were observed primarily in the embryo. These peptides varied significantly in their molecular masses and isoelectric points, as determined by two dimensional electrophoresis and immunoblotting. Five major polypeptide spots were sequenced by mass spectrometry, allowing for the development of a model of the post-translational events contributing to the globulin-3 processing profile. Three separate investigations of starch granules from different cereal species were performed. In the first series of experiments, pathogen-susceptible maize kernels were injected with either conidia of the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum or sterile water controls. Proteins in the desiccated fungal remnants on the surface of the kernels as well as in the endosperm and embryo tissues of the control and infected kernels were isolated and these proteomes were sequenced using tandem mass spectrometry. Approximately 250 maize proteins were identified. These proteins were classified into functional categories. There was an increased representation of defense proteins in the both the embryo and endosperm tissues of infected maize samples. The proteome of the fungal remnants was composed of 18 proteins. Several of these proteins were categorized as being involved in the metabolism of plant-sourced molecules, or in stress response. The second series of experiments detail the investigation of commercially prepared rice and maize starches using tandem mass spectrometry. The majority of identified proteins, in both rice and maize samples, were involved in either carbohydrate metabolism or storage. Markers for seed maturity and for starch mobilization were also documented. Finally, the third series of experiments investigated the non-host proteomes present in commercially-prepared starches. Non-host proteins from a variety of species, including Homarus americanus were found in the starch samples. This documentation of H. americanus proteins in these starch samples may have food safety implications with regards to shellfish allergies.
Historical anamnesis and diagnostic investigation on the oil on panel painting “Madonna with Child and Saints Jerome and Catherine from Siena” ascribed to Domenico Beccafumi (1486-1551)
Creators: name: Lorusso, Salvatore
name: Vandini, Mariangela
name: Matteucci, Chiara
name: Tumidei, Stefano
name: Campanella, Luigi
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2003

description: The diagnostic analyses executed on the painting “Madonna con Bambino e Santi Girolamo e Caterina da Siena”, ascribed to Beccafumi by Zeri in 1995, and datable, for stylistic considerations, in the early thirty years in 1500, allowed to analyse the executive technique, to confirm the attribution to the Sienese painter and to evaluate the preservation conditions. Diagnostic analyses have been executed by: reflectography, videomicroscopy, X-rays radiography, X-rays fluorescence spectroscopy. Analyses with gas cromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) have been executed on micro-fragments to investigate the nature of binders. The painting, not in very good conservation conditions, shows a significant degradation process in act. Effects of old and radical cleanings appear evident: these, probably, intended to solve some problems in the Beccafumi’s pictorial technique: he used to paint very quickly, leaving typical colour drippings. The main damages, in any case, seem to be caused by old and significant wood deformation.
Gendered Bullying and Cyberbullying: Assessing Ontario’s New Legislation
Creators: name: Rebecca, Katz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: bullying
cyberbullying

description: This research considers gendered bullying and cyberbullying and assesses the ways Ontario's reformed Education Act confronts these challenges. This thesis reviews the problems of homophobic and sexist bullying, particularly sexist bullying of young women in the wake of sexting incidents, as well as protective factors to minimize gendered bullying in school and online. The new Education Act represents a significant step forward in encouraging schools to better respect the rights of sexual and gender minority students and female students. However, the Act nevertheless has several weaknesses in key areas such as concrete implementation measures.
Supplementary document for Investigating Local Interactions between Probe Tip and Sample using Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy - 5123588.pdf
Creators: name: Achmari, Panji
name: Siddiquee, Arif
name: si, guangyuan
name: Lin, Jiao
name: Abbey, Brian
name: Kou, Shan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Additional simulation results and fitting results
Abschaffung des § 13 b BauGB
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Baugesetzbuch
subject: KBU
subject: Kommission Bodenschutz
subject: Kommission Nachhaltiges Bauen
subject: KNBau
subject: Wohngebiet
subject: Wohnungsbau
subject: Flächenverbrauch
subject: Bauleitplanung
subject: Umweltprüfung
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Boden | Fläche

description: Seit dem 13. Mai 2017 ermöglicht der neue § 13 b Baugesetzbuch die Ausweisung neuer Wohngebiete im bisherigen Außenbereich im Anschluss an bebaute Ortsteile im vereinfachten Verfahren. Damit entfallen verschiedene Pflichten der Bauleitplanung, etwa die Umweltprüfung, die Eingriffs-/Ausgleichsregelung, die Entwicklung aus dem Flächennutzungsplan und die frühzeitige Behörden- und Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung. Die Kommission Bodenschutz beim Umweltbundesamt (KBU) und die Kommission Nachhaltiges Bauen am Umweltbundesamt (KNBau) empfehlen den Bundestagsparteien in diesem gemeinsamen Positionspapier, den Paragrafen schnell wieder abzuschaffen. Die Nachteile, wie ungesteuerter Flächenverbrauch an den Ortsrändern statt Entwicklung der Ortskerne, sind gravierend und irreversibel und rechtfertigen die von der Politik gewünschten Vorteile nicht. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Seit dem 13. Mai 2017 ermöglicht der neue § 13 b Baugesetzbuch die Ausweisung neuer Wohngebiete im bisherigen ⁠Außenbereich⁠ im Anschluss an bebaute Ortsteile im vereinfachten Verfahren. Damit entfallen verschiedene Pflichten der ⁠Bauleitplanung⁠, etwa die Umweltprüfung, die Eingriffs-/Ausgleichsregelung, die Entwicklung aus dem Flächennutzungsplan und die frühzeitige Behörden- und Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung.Die Kommission Bodenschutz beim Umweltbundesamt (KBU) und die Kommission Nachhaltiges Bauen am Umweltbundesamt (KNBau) empfehlen den Bundestagsparteien in diesem gemeinsamen Positionspapier, den Paragrafen schnell wieder abzuschaffen. Die Nachteile, wie  ungesteuerter Flächenverbrauch an den Ortsrändern statt Entwicklung der Ortskerne, sind gravierend und irreversibel und rechtfertigen die von der Politik gewünschten Vorteile nicht.
ForDemocracy - Bürgerbeteiligungsprototypen
Creators: name: Maas, Franzisca
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2024

description: Ein Katalog mit praktischen Beispielen (Prototypen) für lokalpolitische Bürgerbeteiligungstechnologien ergänzend zum "Technologieradar" aus dem Forschungsprojekt ForDemocracy
Emerging adulthood in Australia: an exploration of diverse psychosocial profiles
Creators: name: Lederman, Monica Shifra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Emerging adulthood, the period bridging adolescence and young adulthood, was examined for 323 Australian university educated 20-29 year olds via an online questionnaire. Six groups with differing profiles on the dimensions of emerging adulthood were identified using a clustering procedure. The six groups, labelled Emerging Adults, Idealist Achievers, Adults, Calm Carers, Foreclosed, and Conflicted Diffused, were then compared for differences in their identity formation, life goals and obstacles, loneliness, psychological distress and well being, and reckless behaviour. Implications for the counselling of young people during this life stage are considered with reference to diversity in the transition to adulthood.