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Complexity Patterning: A Patterns-based Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Complexity Competence
Creators: name: Brown, Shae L
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Complexity
Patterns-based knowledge
Transformational education
Futures

description: Relational thinking and understanding are vital capacities for engaging with the challenges of the 21st century. This project contributes to enabling such capacities, through the design and implementation of a patterns-based approach to the teaching and learning of embodied complexity thinking and understanding. The capacities and skills that are engaged and enabled are all together described as complexity competence. Called Complexity Patterning, this educational approach forms a language, process, and strategy for practical and co-generative engagement with and within complex phenomena. This includes understanding ourselves as complex and relationally emergent entities and identities, and as attractors within complex phenomena. Complexity Patterning contributes a novel, transformational identity emergence approach to learning, supporting respect for diversity, collaboration, and learning/becoming coherence. A distinctive contribution to the transformation of theory is presented in this thesis, through a diffractive patterning of Indigenous Knowledge, agential realism, and complexity. The result is a theoretical ecology that expresses the relationality of the materiality of all knowledge making practices and actions, the agency and knowledge emergence co-contribution of Country, and the usefulness of complexity as a language of concepts for dynamics and emergence. There is a focus on the primacy of Indigenous knowledge regarding pattern knowing and understanding, as a practice for mutual engagement with the complex and agentic more-than-human world. An indigenist perspective of knowledge is demonstrated in this project through enacting human/more-than-human co-generated knowledge. Initially emerging from attempts to disrupt reductive and linear educational temporality and enable engagement with time as a multitemporal and transtemporal complex phenomenon, the patterns-based design was implemented with secondary students over several years in the developmental phase. Complexity Patterning was then refined and implemented with four cohorts of undergraduate students in this project. Two undergraduate cohorts were from an American Liberal Arts Global Studies Degree Course and two cohorts from an Australian Bachelor of Science Degree, and Regenerative Agriculture Degree Course. Complexity Patterning has demonstrated generalisable efficacy in the teaching and learning of the skills of perceiving, understanding, articulating, and embodying and enacting co-generative relationality with and within the complex phenomenon of focus, through experience of pattern focused connectivity. This project is a contribution to the shift from a mechanistic paradigm to a deep complexity paradigm that expresses the relational co-generativity inherent within both Indigenous Knowledge and some of the latest views in complexity and quantum field theory.
Pre-Clinical Evaluation of Biopolymer Delivered Circulating Angiogenic Cells in Hibernating Myocardium
Creators: name: Giordano, Céline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Hibernation
Circulating angiogenic cells
Vasculogenesis
Cardiac PET
Matrix

description: Vasculogenic cell-based therapy combined with tissue engineering is a promising revascularization strategy for patients with hibernating myocardium, a common clinical condition. We used a clinically relevant swine model of hibernating myocardium to examine the benefits of biopolymer-supported delivery of circulating angiogenic cells (CACs) in this context. Twenty-five swine underwent placement of an ameroid constrictor on the left circumflex artery (LCx). After 2 weeks, positron emission tomography measures of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR) were reduced in the affected region (both p<0.001). Hibernation (mismatch) was specific to the LCx territory. Swine were randomized to receive intramyocardial injections of PBS control (n=10), CACs (n=8), or CACs + a collagen-based matrix (n=7). At follow-up, stress MBF and MFR were increased only in the cells+matrix group (p<0.01), and mismatch was lower in the cells+matrix treated animals (p=0.02) compared to controls. Similar results were found using microsphere-measured MBF. Wall motion abnormalities and ejection fraction improved only in the cells+matrix group. This preclinical swine model demonstrated ischemia and hibernation, which was improved by the combined delivery of CACs and a collagen-based matrix. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the mechanisms and effects of combining progenitor cells and biopolymers in the setting of myocardial hibernation, a common clinical condition in patients with advanced coronary artery disease.
Supplementary document for Room Temperature Atomic Frequency Comb Storage for Light - 5173488.pdf
Creators: name: Ledingham, Patrick
name: Hird, Thomas
name: Gao, Shaobo
name: Walmsley, Ian
name: Main, Dougal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Chloroplasts and Plant Immunity : Where Are the Fungal Effectors?
Creators: name: Kretschmer, Matthias
name: Damoo, Djihane
name: Djamei, Armin
name: Kronstad, James Warren
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Chloroplasts play a central role in plant immunity through the synthesis of secondary metabolites and defense compounds, as well as phytohormones, such as jasmonic acid and salicylic acid. Additionally, chloroplast metabolism results in the production of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide as defense molecules. The impact of viral and bacterial infections on plastids and chloroplasts has been well documented. In particular, bacterial pathogens are known to introduce effectors specifically into chloroplasts, and many viral proteins interact with chloroplast proteins to influence viral replication and movement, and plant defense. By contrast, clear examples are just now emerging for chloroplast-targeted effectors from fungal and oomycete pathogens. In this review, we first present a brief overview of chloroplast contributions to plant defense and then discuss examples of connections between fungal interactions with plants and chloroplast function. We then briefly consider well-characterized bacterial effectors that target chloroplasts as a prelude to discussing the evidence for fungal effectors that impact chloroplast activities.
title:  La nazione cristiana nuova portoghese a Roma (1532-1668)
Creators: name: Novoa, James W. Nelson
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: L’articolo tratta della presenza dei ‘cristiani nuovi’ portoghesi a Roma nel XVI e XVII secolo, e dei diversi modi in cui essi hanno elaborato un’identità privata e pubblica. Il carattere unico della città eterna, ad un tempo capitale di uno Stato e sede della Chiesa cattolica, ne fece durante il periodo in esame un teatro speciale per l’elaborazione delle identità collettive e individuali. Tra i ‘cristiani nuovi’ portoghesi hanno scelto di presentarsi attivamente come portoghesi di origine ebraica e si sono accreditati come veri e propri rappresentanti del loro gruppo in quanto nação, nazione distinta, simile ad altri gruppi nazionali presenti nella città. Altri hanno invece preferito non attirare l’attenzione su queste origini, per fare di Roma un luogo in cui mettere radici per sé stessi e per le loro famiglie o dove costruirsi una reputazione attraverso la carriera ecclesiastica, prima di trasferirsi altrove. La varietà delle opzioni che le loro storie di vita hanno mostrato testimonia la loro variegata identità come gruppo e come individui.
description: Venire a Roma, restare a Roma. Forestieri e stranieri fra Quattro e Settecento
Developing communities and collections with new media and information literacy
Creators: name: Watkins, Jerry
name: Russo, Angelina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As part of its many functions, the reference library is charged with developing both its collection and its user community. These two functions are sometimes pursued as separate initiatives (with separate funding) by library managers. In Australia, the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is committed to an exciting policy of simultaneous collection development and community engagement by integrating new media technologies with public programs. SLQ’s Mobile Multimedia Laboratory is a purpose-designed portable digital creativity workshop which is made available to communities as a powerful platform to capture and disseminate local digital culture, and also to promote and train community members in information literacy. The Mobile Multimedia Laboratory facility operates in conjunction with SLQ’s Queensland Stories project, an innovative portal for the display and promotion of community co-created multimedia. Together, the Mobile Multimedia Laboratory and the Queensland Stories initiatives allow SLQ to directly engage with existing and new communities, and also to increase its digital collection with community created content. Not only are both initiatives relatively cost-effective, they have a positive impact upon information literacy within the state.
The role of professional capital theory and school leadership for international school climate transformation
Creators: name: Sell, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Professional capital
School leadership
Climate
Transformation
Professional capital theory
International school
Receptive school leadership
PCT
School climate development
School climate transformation
School principals

description: Transforming a school's dysfunctional climate is challenging for a school principal. A dysfunctional climate, as characterised by poor working relationships and weak system coherence, inhibits the school's capacity to provide an optimal environment for school staff to work effectively. Compounding the international school principals' challenge is the lack of a credible, validated and theoretically sound guide that accounts for the unique context and cultural complexities evident in international schools. This thesis examines the role of Hargreaves and Fullan's (2012) professional capital theory in relation to an intervention to transform an international school's dysfunctional climate.
description: Set in a small Type C international school in Europe, design experiment methodology guided an action research project over three years. As the school principal and adopting a reflective practitioner’s stance, the research project examined a school climate intervention. This was informed by an autopoietic ontological position and pragmatic epistemology. A qualitative study applying conventional, direct and summative content analysis techniques and inductive coding methods examined the relationship between Hargreaves and Fullan's professional capital theory (PCT), the intervention's efficacy, and the principal's practices.
description: Embracing abductive reasoning to examine further the associations between the intervention experiences, the principal's practices, and several components and elements of PCT led to several insights informing the identification of new design knowledge. New forms of design patterns and the creation of two localised relational theories materialised. School climate development (SCD) and receptive school leadership (RSL) theories emerged to supplement and support PCT as the relational theory guiding the application of a school climate intervention.
description: The study revealed PCT as a helpful reference for guiding school principals to transform an international school's dysfunctional climate. The research also contributes to contemporary international school literature; however, more research is required to increase our understanding of PCT effectiveness in guiding international school climate transformation. Additionally, the efficacy of aligning the three relational theories in a school setting is yet to be determined. Further testing and examination of the practical application of the theories are needed to verify its credibility and dependability to support school climate transformation.
Impact of climate change on non-communicable diseases due to increased ambient air pollution
Creators: name: Breitner-Busch, Susanne
name: Mücke, Hans-Guido
name: Schneider, Alexandra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gesundheit
Lufttemperatur

description: Hintergrund: Die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von Luftschadstoffen reichen von kurzfristigen Gesundheitseinschränkungen über Krankenhauseinweisungen bis hin zu Todesfällen. Der Klimawandel führt zu einer Zunahme von Luftverschmutzung. Methode: Dieser Beitrag adressiert, auf der Basis ausgewählter Fachliteratur, den Zusammenhang zwischen Klimawandel und Luftschadstoffen, die gesundheitlichen Effekte von Luftschadstoffen sowie deren Modifikation durch die Lufttemperatur, mit einem Fokus auf Deutschland. Ergebnisse: Schlechte Luftqualität erhöht das Risiko für viele Erkrankungen. Durch den Klimawandel kommt es unter anderem zu einer Zunahme von Perioden extremer Hitze mit gleichzeitig erhöhten Konzentrationen von Luftschadstoffen. Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Lufttemperaturen und Luftschadstoffen sowie ihre kombinierten Auswirkungen auf den Menschen sind noch nicht ausreichend erforscht. Zum Schutz der Gesundheit sind Grenz-, Ziel- und Richtwerte von besonderer Bedeutung. Schlussfolgerungen: Maßnahmen zur Minderung von Luftschadstoffen und klimawirksamen Gasen müssen verstärkt umgesetzt werden. Als ein wesentlicher Schritt zur Verbesserung der Luftqualität sollten in Europa strengere Grenzwerte zur Luftreinhaltung festgelegt werden. Notwendige Präventions- und Anpassungsmaßnahmen sollten in Deutschland zeitnah, auch in Hinblick auf klimaresiliente und nachhaltige Gesundheitssysteme, vorangetrieben werden. © Robert Koch Institut
description: Background: The impacts of air pollutants on health range from short-term health impairments to hospital admissions and deaths. Climate change is leading to an increase in air pollution. Methods: This article addresses, based on selected literature, the relationship between climate change and air pollutants, the health effects of air pollutants and their modification by air temperature, with a focus on Germany. Results: Poor air quality increases the risk of many diseases. Climate change is causing, among other things, more periods of extreme heat with simultaneously increased concentrations of air pollutants. The interactions between air temperature and air pollutants, as well as their combined effects on human health, have not yet been sufficiently studied. Limit, target, and guideline values are of particular importance for health protection. Conclusions: Measures to reduce air pollutants and greenhouse gases must be more strictly implemented. An essential step towards improving air quality is setting stricter air quality limit values in Europe. Prevention and adaptation measures should be accelerated in Germany, as they contribute to climate-resilient and sustainable healthcare systems. This is part of a series of articles that constitute the German Status Report on Climate Change and Health 2023. © Robert Koch Institute
Omosessualità, omofobia, diritto penale. Riflessioni a margine del volume di M. Winkler e G. Strazio. L’abominevole diritto. Gay e lesbiche, giudici e legislatori, 2011
Creators: name: Dolcini, Emilio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Diritto penale e morale – 2. Comportamenti omosessuali e repressione – 3. L’abolizione del crimine di sodomia negli USA – 4. … in Europa – 5. … in Italia – 6. Il rifiuto della decriminalizzazione dei comportamenti omosessuali – 7. Gli atti di discriminazione motivati da omofobia – 8. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 14 maggio
The role of active leisure events in positive lifestyle transformation
Creators: name: Hillman, Peita Rae
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Physical inactivity
Active leisure
Participatory sports events
Mass participation events

description: Active Leisure Events (ALEs) are organised events focused on fostering a broad range of participation in individualised active leisure. ALEs have increased in popularity and now attract large numbers of entrants in multiple countries around the world. Concurrently, physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of non-communicable diseases worldwide. Governments in many western countries have developed policies and programs to curb increasing levels of preventable diseases resulting from inactive lifestyles. This study adopted a phenomenological perspective to explore the experiences of 30 previously physically inactive adults who had negotiated a positive lifestyle transformation to lead renewed lifestyles characterised by self-directed physical activity and regular participation in ALEs.
description: A social-psychological theoretical framework was adopted, synthesising self-determination theory, along with the concepts of leisure constraints, facilitators, constraint negotiation and social worlds. This study assumed a subjective stance in examining each individual’s unique experience with positive lifestyle transformation. Qualitative methods encompassing semi-structured, in-depth interviews and photo elicitation were deployed to comprehensively explore each person’s lived experience.
description: Data analysis revealed that, prior to commencing their positive lifestyle transformation, many participants held unenthusiastic feelings regarding exercise and feared exerting themselves. Crucially, all participants had an interpersonal facilitator in their family or social networks who encouraged them to be more active. Many participants recounted entering into social worlds bound together by shared interests in particular modes of active leisure, such as running or multisport. They extensively recalled receiving additional support from training partners, coaches and leaders within their specific social worlds. ALEs provided supportive, nurturing environments, goal-setting opportunities, a sense of purpose for their physical activity adherence and a reward for months of preparation.
description: As their involvement increased, each participant’s behavioural regulation began to shift away from external regulation towards more internally regulated behaviours, and physical activity became integrated into their lifestyles and as part of their self-concept. Further outcomes of this study suggest that policymakers should reframe public health messages away from physical activity as a strenuous pastime. The key to increasing levels of physical activity in society lies with changing perceptions of physical activity from undesirable and exhausting to being a form of fun and enjoyable movement that can assist with wellbeing, growing social connectivity and enhancing quality of life.
Comparative Evaluation of Mapping Accuracy between UAV Video versus Photo Mosaic for the Scattered Urban Photovoltaic Panel
Creators: name: Hwang, Young-Seok
name: Schlüter, Stephan
name: Park, Seong-Il
name: Um, Jung-Sup
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
subject: video stream
subject: urban photovoltaic panel
subject: ortho-mosaics
subject: mapping accuracy
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations

description: It is common practice for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight planning to target an entire area surrounding a single rooftop’s photovoltaic panels while investigating solar-powered roofs that account for only 1% of the urban roof area. It is very hard for the pre-flight route setting of the autopilot for a specific area (not for a single rooftop) to capture still images with high overlapping rates of a single rooftop’s photovoltaic panels. This causes serious unnecessary data redundancy by including the surrounding area because the UAV is unable to focus on the photovoltaic panel installed on the single rooftop. The aim of this research was to examine the suitability of a UAV video stream for building 3-D ortho-mosaics focused on a single rooftop and containing the azimuth, aspect, and tilts of photovoltaic panels. The 3-D position accuracy of the video stream-based ortho-mosaic has been shown to be similar to that of the autopilot-based ortho-photo by satisfying the mapping accuracy of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS): 3-D coordinates (0.028 m) in 1:217 mapping scale. It is anticipated that this research output could be used as a valuable reference in employing video stream-based ortho-mosaics for widely scattered single rooftop solar panels in urban settings.
Supplementary document for Laser induced injury of the skin: validation of a computer model to predict thresholds - 5174221.pdf
Creators: name: Jean, Mathieu
name: Schulmeister, Karl
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Table of laser induced injury thresholds for the skin
Creating acoustic space
Creators: name: Barbour, Jim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Perception of the acoustic environment places all sound events in a three-dimensional soundfield, surrounding us wherever we are and changing as we move through acoustic space. Creating music for electronic reproduction requires a detailed understanding of sound in space, how it evolves over time, how it interacts with the physical space and how acoustic space itself may become a compositional tool. This paper will review human spatial perception and the physical parameters that must be understood and controlled to create clarity, depth, spatial impression and envelopment in an electro-acoustic recording, with particular reference to multi-channel surround reproduction environments. Methods for creating natural, or even unnatural, acoustic spaces in a recording will be presented. It will consider why some listening environments significantly influence the creation or perception of acoustic space while others may be relatively benign.
The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the transition to large-scale cosmic homogeneity
Creators: name: Scrimgeour, Morag I.
name: Davis, Tamara
name: Blake, Chris
name: James, J. Berian
name: Poole, Gregory B.
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Contreras, Carlos
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Croom, Scott
name: Croton, Darren
name: Drinkwater, Michael J.
name: Forster, Karl
name: Gilbank, David
name: Gladders, Mike
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Jelliffe, Ben
name: Jurek, Russell J.
name: Li, I-hui
name: Madore, Barry
name: Martin, D. Christopher
name: Pimbblet, Kevin
name: Pracy, Michael
name: Sharp, Rob
name: Wisnioski, Emily
name: Woods, David
name: Wyder, Ted K.
name: Yee, H. K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have made the largest volume measurement to date of the transition to large-scale homogeneity in the distribution of galaxies. We use the WiggleZ survey, a spectroscopic survey of over 200 000 blue galaxies in a cosmic volume of ∼1 h−3 Gpc3. A new method of defining the ‘homogeneity scale' is presented, which is more robust than methods previously used in the literature, and which can be easily compared between different surveys. Due to the large cosmic depth of WiggleZ (up to z = 1), we are able to make the first measurement of the transition to homogeneity over a range of cosmic epochs. The mean number of galaxies N(< r) in spheres of comoving radius r is proportional to r3 within 1 per cent, or equivalently the fractal dimension of the sample is within 1 per cent of D2 = 3, at radii larger than 71 ± 8 h& 8722;1Mpc at z ∼ 0.2, 70 ± 5 h−1 Mpc at z ∼ 0.4, 81 ± 5 h−1 Mpc at z ∼ 0.6 and 75 ± 4& 8201;h−1 Mpc at z ∼ 0.8. We demonstrate the robustness of our results against selection function effects, using a Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) N body simulation and a suite of inhomogeneous fractal distributions. The results are in excellent agreement with both the ΛCDM N-body simulation and an analytical & 0923;CDM prediction. We can exclude a fractal distribution with fractal dimension below D2 = 2.97 on scales from ∼80 h−1 Mpc up to the largest scales probed by our measurement, ∼300 h−1 Mpc, at 99.99 per cent confidence.
Dimensione “pubblica” del magistero pontificio: frammenti di dottrina sociale sull’economia mondiale
Creators: name: Lillo, Pasquale
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Trasformazioni economiche e dinamiche sociali − 2. Centralità della persona umana nella dottrina sociale cattolica − 3. Luci ed ombre del sistema economico contemporaneo − 4. Esigenze di regolamentazione dei mercati internazionali − 5. Il primato del “bene comune” sugli interessi particolari.ABSTRACTSize "public" of the papal magisterium: fragments of social teaching on the world economyThe Catholic Church for several years devoted particular attention to the economic processes of the world, drawing on ideas that enrich the overall picture of its "social doctrine". In this case, the papal teaching proved to be quite sensitive to the phenomena of globalization that are investing also global economic system. This paper intends to analyze some key points of the papal reflection on the subject, highlighting the relevance "public", which is gradually to assume the contribution of Catholic social teaching around the overall dynamics of the global economy.PAROLE CHIAVE: Economia – Globalizzazione - Sistema economico mondiale - Dottrina sociale cattolica - Magistero pontificio
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 14 maggio
title: Nationaler Durchführungsplan der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zum Stockholmer Übereinkommen
title: Nationaler Durchführungsplan der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zum Stockholmer Übereinkommen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rauert, Caren
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Persistente organische Schadstoffe
subject: Stockholm Konvention
subject: Stockholmer Übereinkommen
subject: POPs
subject: Chemikalien

description: Mit dem Nationalen Umsetzungsplan beschreibt Deutschland die Maßnahmen, die zur Umsetzung der Verpflichtungen des Stockholmer Übereinkommens ergriffen wurden. Dies beinhaltet sowohl die rechtlichen Grundlagen auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene wie auch die getroffenen Maßnahmen. Zu diesen Maßnahmen gehört die Verringerung oder Verhinderung der Freisetzung von persistenten organischen Schadstoffen (POPs) aus beabsichtigter und unbeabsichtigter Produktion und aus Verwendung, und von Freisetzungen aus Lagerbeständen und Abfällen. Ebenso gehören Maßnahmen zur Information, Bewusstseinsbildung und Aufklärung dazu sowie zur Forschung, Entwicklung und Überwachung. Der Nationale Umsetzungsplan wird in Abständen von einigen Jahren überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Mit dem Nationalen Umsetzungsplan beschreibt Deutschland die Maßnahmen, die zur Umsetzung der Verpflichtungen des ⁠Stockholmer Übereinkommens⁠ ergriffen wurden. Dies beinhaltet sowohl die rechtlichen Grundlagen auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene wie auch die getroffenen Maßnahmen. Zu diesen Maßnahmen gehört die Verringerung oder Verhinderung der Freisetzung von persistenten organischen Schadstoffen (POPs) aus beabsichtigter und unbeabsichtigter Produktion und aus Verwendung, und von Freisetzungen aus Lagerbeständen und Abfällen. Ebenso gehören Maßnahmen zur Information, Bewusstseinsbildung und Aufklärung dazu sowie zur Forschung, Entwicklung und Überwachung. Der Nationale Umsetzungsplan wird in Abständen von einigen Jahren überarbeitet und aktualisiert.
Indigenous nascent entrepreneur self-efficacy and perceived individual success
Creators: name: Lindsay, Noel J.
name: Lindsay, Wendy A.
name: Jordaan, Anton
name: Mapunda, Gido
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Considerable research has examined the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and performance. ESE refers to the strength of the individuals' beliefs that they are capable of successfully performing the roles and tasks of entrepreneurs. Whereas prior ESE research has a non-Indigenous focus, this study addresses a gap in the literature by examining the relationship between ESE and perceived individual success in Indigenous nascent entrepreneurs. Whereas entrepreneurship from a non-Indigenous perspective is focused upon the commercialization of innovation and economic objectives, Indigenous entrepreneurship has both economic and non-economic objectives as desired outcomes. The research identified entrepreneurial experience- ESE and ESE-perceived individual success relationships. Education was inversely related to entrepreneurial experience.
Mechanisms of Recombinant Heat Shock Protein 27 Atheroprotection: NF-κB Signaling in Macrophages
Creators: name: Salari, Samira
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: HSP27
NF-κB
Atherosclerosis
Macrophages
IL-10
GM-CSF
qRT-PCR arrays
THP1 cells

description: The O’Brien lab has demonstrated that Heat shock protein 27 (HSP27)shows attenuated expression in human coronary arteries as the degree of atherosclerosis progresses. Moreover, over-expression of HSP27 reduces atherogenesis in mice. The precise mechanism(s) for HSP27-mediated "atheroprotection" are incompletely understood. Nuclear Factor-kappaB (NF-κB) is a key signaling modulator in atherogenesis. Hence, this project sought to determine if recombinant HSP27 (rHSP27) alters NF-κB signaling to affect atheroprotection. Treatment of THP1 macrophages with rHSP27 resulted in degradation of IκBα, coincided with nuclear translocation of the p65 subunit and produced transcriptional evidence of activation of NF-κB signaling. When the transcriptional profile of THP1 macrophages treated with rHSP27 was analyzed using NF-κB-pathway-specific qRT-PCR arrays, among the regulated genes, IL-10 and GM-CSF mRNA levels were markedly increased, as were parallel translational effects observed. These data provide new mechanistic insights into the atheroprotective effects of HSP27.
Ripartizione delle competenze e limiti costituzionali della previsione delle intese fra confessioni religiose diverse dalla cattolica e Stato italiano
Creators: name: Tozzi, Valerio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il fatto – 2. La categoria giuridica delle confessioni religiose non è definita normativamente – 3. Il discutibile sillogismo del Consiglio di Stato – 4. L'ambito della disciplina de ...i loro rapporti con lo Stato – 5. Sulla normazione contrattata fra le confessioni religiose e lo Stato – 6. Legittimità, necessità e urgenza della legge generale sulle libertà religiose.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 21 maggio
Le intese nella società multireligiosa: verso nuove disuguaglianze?
Creators: name: Colaianni, Nicola
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Testo, corredato con note essenziali, della relazione svolta al convegno di studi in onore di Giorgio Peyrot “Il Giurista delle minoranze religiose”, tenutosi a Genova, 8–9 aprile 2011, i cui Atti sono di prossima pubblicazioneSOMMARIO: 1. Il contributo di Giorgio Peyrot alla definizione delle intese – 2. Il suo impegno per l’attuazione delle intese – 3. La crisi dell’istituto… – 4. … e le sue ragioni: a) il passaggio alla società multi religiosa – 5. (Segue): b) la noncuranza della Costituzione – 6. Limiti e attualità del pensiero di Giorgio Peyrot sulle intese.ABSTRACTGiorgio Peyrot, one of the most eminent scholars of law and religions in Italy, was very committed, also as representative of the waldensian Church – therefore they called him “the jurist of the minorities” -, in the long struggle for the implementation of the “intese”, i.e. of the conventions between the state and the various religious fellowships different from the catholic Church. Yet, after the aim was acheaved at least in respect of a few communities, then the crisis of this legal institution began: first of all, for the transition to a multicultural and multireligious society, that faces the West with new and not traditional communities, and moreover for the disregard for the Constitution and its institutions, that especially, but not only, the italian Center-Right is spreading throughout Italy. This paper shows the limits and nevertheless the topicality of the legal thought of Peyrot about the “intese” in the context of these times.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 28 maggio
L'attività concordataria di Giovanni Paolo II
Creators: name: Dalla Torre, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Relazione tenuta in occasione del Convegno Internazionale organizzato dall'Istituto DiReCom di Lugano e dalla Fondazione Giovanni Paolo II, (Lugano, 22 e 23 marzo 2012), sul tema "Giovanni Paolo II: legislatore della Chiesa. Fondamenti, innovazioni e prospettive". Gli atti sono in corso di stampa per i tipi della LEVSOMMARIO: 1. Una tematica che ha suscitato interesse- 2. Novità formali e sostanziali dell’attività concordataria di Giovanni Paolo II - 3. Ragioni storiche di un fenomeno in espansione - 4. Un Papa giurista o un Papa pastore? - 5. Alcune considerazioni finali.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 4 giugno
La tutela dei beni culturali di interesse religioso tra Costituzione e convenzioni con le confessioni religiose
Creators: name: Colaianni, Nicola
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Il contributo è destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti del Convegno sul tema “Beni culturali di interesse religioso. Tutela ed esigenze di culto”, organizzato dall’Accademia nazionale di scienze lettere e arti di Modena e da Italia nostra, tenutosi a Modena il 17 maggio 2012.SOMMARIO: 1. La Costituzione culturale – 2. L’Accordo culturale - 3. Dalle esigenze di culto alle esigenze religiose – 4. L’armonizzazione della tutela – 5. La legificazione delle disposizioni armonizzate – 6. Il modulo procedimentale dell’accordo – 7. La differenza con gli accordi della p.a. con altri soggetti – 8. Implicazioni e limiti: a) delle esigenze religiose – 9. (Segue): b) delle esigenze di conservazione del patrimonio artistico – 10. Il principio di laicità come criterio di ripartizione delle competenze.ABSTRACT:The preservation of the cultural goods of religious interest according to the Italian Constitution and the Conventions with a few religious denominationsAccording to the Italian Constitution the preservation of the cultural goods falls within the authority of the State. Yet, when these goods assume a religious importance, according to the conventions with a few religious denominations – among witch mainly the Catholic Church –, the competence is also of those Organizations. This paper aims to demonstrate that the notion of “religious reasons” is broader than “cult reasons” and therefore the authority of the State is more limited than in the past time. The Author maintains that the constitutional principle of laicity must act as guide-line about the competence disposition and illustrates this theory with particular reference to a leading case of liturgical modification of a cathedral. Keywords: cultural goods – religious interest – cult reasons - Italian Constitution – Catholic Church - laicity
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 11 giugno
Redesign of tubular inlet geometry to reduce fiber accumulation in UF modules.
Creators: name: Chehab, Edgard.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: One of the processes used in the pulp and paper industry is the ultrafiltration (UF) of fiber suspensions using tubular membrane modules to control effluent composition and recover chemical products. Effluent treatment by UF includes bleach effluent treatment, deresining of the pulp wash water, whitewater processing for fiber recovery, and de-inking of effluent. However the behavior of the suspension in the entrance region of a tubular membrane is typically problematic. Modules having tubes with an inside diameter less than one inch are subject to blockage of the inlet tubes due to the accumulation of dewatered fiber within the module header. This study deals with the influence of the inlet geometry on the concentration build-up within a model tubular module. Hence a module was designed to achieve this purpose. The module cell consisted of a header and five impermeable tubes (of equal diameter less than one inch). The inlet geometry of the tubes was varied by changing the inlet angle of a disk lying on top of the tubes. In addition to the influence of the inlet geometry on the concentration build-up in the distribution header, the influence of the inlet flowrate and pumping time was studied. In addition to the transient flow experiments described above, several additional qualitative and quantitative factors were measured. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Laser induced injury of the skin: validation of a computer model to predict thresholds - 5174221.pdf
Creators: name: Jean, Mathieu
name: Schulmeister, Karl
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Table of laser induced injury thresholds for the skin
Alcoholism treatment digest (Release No. 74, April 14, 1965)
Creators: name: Keller, Mark
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1965

description: The Alcoholism Treatment Digest was a subscription-based publication prepared for special clients by the editorial department of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol / Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 to 1973 with Mark Keller as editor. It was published in February, April, June, October, and December, summarizing scholarly content on four topics, available to republish with attribution. Some of the reviews were simultaneously published in the "Connecticut Review on Alcoholism" under the identical subtitle "Alcoholism Treatment Digest" every other month. The authors of the reviews were first noted in 1964, in the June issue.Contents, Release No. 741.A New Conditioned-reflex Treatment of Alcoholism Using Electric Shock2.Group Therapy of Alcoholics in a State Hospital 3.How Important is the Alcoholic’s Motivation?4.Alcoholics in Psychiatric and Alcoholism Clinics
Developing social and cultural diversity as a pedagogical resource
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on a project, funded by the Higher Education Equity Program at La Trobe University in 2005, which sought to develop ways of transforming the cultural diversity that is often an obstacle to full participation in the intellectual dialogue of the social sciences into a pedagogical resource that could be used positively to enhance students’ ability to engage with the discipline. The paper situates the project in its socio-historical context, evaluates each of the strategies, draws some general conclusions and makes specific recommendations. The focus on concrete cultural traditions was received enthusiastically by students, because it spoke to their experiences and engaged them in the broader dialogue. Making the issue of cultural diversity a central point of reference provided a welcome experience of inter-cultural communication and a rich source of knowledge for the student body generally. Giving voice to a range of social and cultural experiences generated multiple perspectives, fostered engagement with the curriculum, and provided deeper insight into course content. The most culturally marginal students reported feeling ‘heard’ and ‘recognized’ in a way not encountered elsewhere at school or university, and repeatedly and forcefully indicate that this recognition greatly enhanced their learning experience.
Requirement of Peptidyl-Prolyl Cis/Trans isomerases and chaperones for cellular uptake of bacterial AB-type toxins
Creators: name: Ernst, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bacterial AB-type toxin
subject: chaperones
subject: peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerases
subject: toxin inhibitors
subject: clostridial binary toxins
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Bacterial toxins
subject: Molecular chaperones
subject: Pertussis toxin
subject: Cholera toxin
subject: Diphtheria toxin
subject: Peptidylprolyl isomerase
subject: Bakteriengift
subject: Chaperonine
subject: Keuchhusten-Toxin
subject: Diphtherietoxin
subject: Peptidylprolylisomerasen

description: Bacterial AB-type toxins are proteins released by the producing bacteria and are the causative agents for several severe diseases including cholera, whooping cough, diphtheria or enteric diseases. Their unique AB-type structure enables their uptake into mammalian cells via sophisticated mechanisms exploiting cellular uptake and transport pathways. The binding/translocation B-subunit facilitates binding of the toxin to a specific receptor on the cell surface. This is followed by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Then the enzymatically active A-subunit either escapes from endosomes in a pH-dependent manner or the toxin is further transported through the Golgi to the endoplasmic reticulum from where the A-subunit translocates into the cytosol. In the cytosol, the A-subunits enzymatically modify a specific substrate which leads to cellular reactions resulting in clinical symptoms that can be life-threatening. Both intracellular uptake routes require the A-subunit to unfold to either fit through a pore formed by the B-subunit into the endosomal membrane or to be recognized by the ER-associated degradation pathway. This led to the hypothesis that folding helper enzymes such as chaperones and peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerases are required to assist the translocation of the A-subunit into the cytosol and/or facilitate their refolding into an enzymatically active conformation. This review article gives an overview about the role of heat shock proteins Hsp90 and Hsp70 as well as of peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerases of the cyclophilin and FK506 binding protein families during uptake of bacterial AB-type toxins with a focus on clostridial binary toxins Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin, Clostridium perfringens iota toxin, Clostridioides difficile CDT toxin, as well as diphtheria toxin, pertussis toxin and cholera toxin.
The Role of Gender-Related Constructs in the Tolerance of Dating Violence: A Multivariate Analysis
Creators: name: MacLean, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Dating violence
Attitudes
Masculinity
Intimate partner violence
Rape myth acceptance
Gender role construction
Violence against women

description: Using a purposive sampling technique, this study employed an online questionnaire to assess the relationship between attitudes towards gender-related constructs (e.g. rape myth acceptance, shared power in relationships, the acceptability of dating violence and perceived seriousness of dating violence) and the tolerance of dating violence among undergraduate students in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Ottawa. Linear regression models were conducted to identify the most salient predictors of the tolerance of dating violence. A general/combined model was examined as well as three subtype-specific models (e.g. psychological, physical and sexual dating violence). A total of seven predictor variables were entered into each model in three blocks: sociodemographic variables were entered first, followed by sex and then gender-related constructs (e.g. rape myth acceptance, power in relationships, the acceptability and seriousness of dating violence). The results identify a number of variables that are associated with the tolerance of dating violence scales and some that led to a decrease in scores on these scales. Findings suggest that the link between gender-related constructs and the tolerance of dating violence is complex and multidimensional and warrants further research to explain the variation observed.
“How come you don’t call me?” Smartphone communication app usage as an indicator of loneliness and social well-being across the adult lifespan during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Wetzel, Britta
name: Pryss, Rüdiger
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Edler, Johanna-Sophie
name: Gonçalves, Ana Sofia Oliveira
name: Cohrdes, Caroline
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: social well-being
subject: passive data
subject: smartphone communication
subject: social media use
subject: public mental health
subject: mental health monitoring
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: COVID-19
subject: Mental health
subject: Loneliness
subject: Social media
subject: Cell phone use
subject: Medical informatics applications
subject: Age factors
subject: COVID-19
subject: Psychische Gesundheit
subject: Einsamkeit
subject: Smartphone
subject: Kommunikation
subject: App

description: Loneliness and lack of social well-being are associated with adverse health outcomes and have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smartphone communication data have been suggested to help monitor loneliness, but this requires further evidence. We investigated the informative value of smartphone communication app data for predicting subjective loneliness and social well-being in a sample of 364 participants ranging from 18 to 78 years of age (52.2% female; mean age = 42.54, SD = 13.22) derived from the CORONA HEALTH APP study from July to December 2020 in Germany. The participants experienced relatively high levels of loneliness and low social well-being during the time period characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from positive associations with phone call use times, smartphone communication app use was associated with social well-being and loneliness only when considering the age of participants. Younger participants with higher use times tended to report less social well-being and higher loneliness, while the opposite association was found for older adults. Thus, the informative value of smartphone communication use time was rather small and became evident only in consideration of age. The results highlight the need for further investigations and the need to address several limitations in order to draw conclusions at the population level.