cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prolonged hypothyroidism severely reduces ovarian follicular reserve in adult rats
Creators: name: Meng, Li
name: Rijntjes, Eddy
name: Swarts, Hans J. M.
name: Keijer, Jaap
name: Teerds, Katja J.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ovary
subject: Hypothyroidism
subject: Growing follicle population
subject: Primordial follicle reserve
subject: Follicular atresia
subject: AMH
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background There is substantial evidence both in humans and in animals that a prolonged reduction in plasma thyroid hormone concentration leads to reproductive problems, including disturbed folliculogenesis, impaired ovulation and fertilization rates, miscarriage and pregnancy complications. The objective of the present study is to examine the consequences of chronic hypothyroidism, induced in adulthood, for the size of the ovarian follicle pool. In order to investigate this, adult female rats were provided either a control or an iodide deficient diet in combination with perchlorate supplementation to inhibit iodide uptake by the thyroid. Sixteen weeks later animals were sacrificed. Blood was collected for hormone analyses and ovaries were evaluated histologically. Results At the time of sacrifice, plasma thyroid-stimulating hormone concentrations were 20- to 40-fold increased, thyroxine concentrations were negligible while tri-iothyronin concentrations were decreased by 40% in the hypothyroid group, confirming that the animals were hypothyroid. Primordial, primary and preantral follicle numbers were significantly lower in the hypothyroid ovaries compared to the euthyroid controls, while a downward trend in antral follicle and corpora lutea numbers was observed. Surprisingly the percentage of atretic follicles was not significantly different between the two groups, suggesting that the reduced preantral and antral follicle numbers were presumably not the consequence of increased degeneration of these follicle types in the hypothyroid group. Plasma anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels showed a significant correlation with the growing follicle population represented by the total ovarian number of primary, preantral and antral follicles, suggesting that also under hypothyroid conditions AMH can serve as a surrogate marker to assess the growing ovarian follicle population. Conclusions The induction of a chronic hypothyroid condition in adult female rats negatively affects the ovarian follicular reserve and the size of the growing follicle population, which may impact fertility.
Measurements of the transverse emittance at the VUV-FEL
Creators: name: Loehl, Florian
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: thesis
electron: linear accelerator
free electron laser
beam emittance: transverse
beam monitoring: beam emittance
transition radiation detector
DESY FLASH

description: Universität Hamburg, Diplomarbeit, 2005; 56 pp., (2005). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2005-014
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Elements for a successful gTLD: Lessons from the .cat experience for new community gTLDs
Creators: name: Iparraguirre, Jordi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'Cat', the generic top level domain (gTLD) designed to fulfil the needs of the worldwide Catalan speaking community on the Internet, has been praised as a success in the Internet domain name sector after seven years of operation. So much so that some long established TLDs have started to develop a similar community approach and use language as a market segmentation tool to engage new registrants. It has been also an inspiration for new geographical and community based gTLD applications. This paper discusses what led to .cat's success, including its governance arrangements, and how some new gTLDs that will soon be delegated by ICANN could benefit from its business strategy.
Two-phase system and transition metal catalyzed reactions.
Creators: name: Falicki, Slawomir.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: The first examples of the application of biphasic and phase transfer catalysis to early-transition-metal organometallic chemistry are described. These include very efficient and convenient syntheses of the ($\eta\sp5$-cyclopentadienyl)tricarbonylhydridovanadate anion under remarkably mild biphasic conditions. The latter is capable of effecting, under phase transfer conditions, the reduction of halides, sterically encumbered nitro compounds, and the cyclodehydration of $\alpha,\beta$-unsaturated ketones. The reactions may proceed via electron transfer pathways. The use of nickel cyanide under biphasic or phase transfer conditions converts vinyl epoxides to the unsaturated ketones and/or unsaturated $\delta$-hydroxyacids. These results represent the first examples of the use of transition-metal complexes in catalytic-two-phase isomerization of vinyl epoxides. The key catalytic species is believed to be the cyanocarbonylnickel anion, participation of which has been proposed in the reaction mechanism. O-Benzyl oxime ethers were obtained in modest yields by the exposure of benzylic bromides to nitric oxide, a palladium(0) or ruthenium complex as the catalyst, aqueous sodium hydroxide, benzene as the organic phase and a quarternary ammonium salt as phase transfer agent. This provides the first example of a catalytic reaction of halides which involves free or co-ordinated nitric oxide and is also a novel process in the area of a phase transfer catalysis utilizing nitric oxide as a reactant.
The Effect of Correlation on Spectra of the Lanthanides: Pr3+
Creators: name: Froese Fischer, Charlotte
name: Gaigalas, Gediminas
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The effect of correlation on the spectra of lanthanide ions has been investigated using variational methods based on multiconfiguration Dirac–Hartree–Fock (MCDHF) theory. Results from several computational models are reported for Pr³⁺. The first assumes an inactive Cd-like 4d¹⁰ core with valence electrons in 4f²5s²5p⁶ subshells. Additional models extend correlation to include core effects. It is shown that, with such models, the difference between computed energy levels and those from observed data increases with the energy of the level, suggesting that correlation among outer electrons should also be based on the correlated core of excited configuration state functions (CSFs). Some M1 transition probabilities are reported for the most accurate model and compared with predictions obtained from semi-empirical methods.
Aktualisierte EMAS-Umwelterklärung des Umweltbundesamtes (UBA) 2016
Creators: name: Huckestein, Burkhard
name: Schindler, Antje
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Umweltmanagement
Umweltmanagementsystem

description: Seit 2001 nimmt das Umweltbundesamt am freiwilligen europäischen Umweltmanagement- und Auditsystem EMAS teil. In dieser aktualisierten Umwelterklärung fassen wir die wichtigsten Entwicklungen unseres Umweltmanagements seit Herbst 2015 zusammen. In einigen Feldern können wir auf Fortschritte verweisen, insbesondere in Bezug auf unsere erneuerbare Energieerzeugung. In anderen Feldern gibt es neue Herausforderungen, um auch künftig Vorreiter und Vorbild für andere Organisationen zu bleiben. Quelle: umweltbundesamt.de
Rights protection in new gTLDs: The multi-stakeholder Internet governance model at work
Creators: name: Forrest, Heather Ann
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In June 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) embarked upon an ambitious program of expansion at the top-level of the DNS. The policy underpinning expansion is notable for its adoption of new mechanisms that target the unauthorised use in new gTLDs of names the subject of legal - in particular trademark - rights. These mechanisms are the product of several years of policy development and implementation; they are proof of the functioning of ICANN's unique multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. Yet even as new top-level domains near the launch phase, questions remain as to the scope and mechanics of rights protection offered by agreed-upon mechanisms. A 'strawman solution' emerged at the end of 2012 to address these questions. This article examines the 'strawman solution', the rights protection mechanisms it seeks to clarify, and the ICANN organisational structure and operational processes into which it does not perfectly fit.
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title: ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¸Ðµ
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ð¡ÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾Ð², ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ
name: ÐÐ°ÑÐ²ÐµÐµÐ², Ð®ÑÐ¸Ð¹
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ð Ð¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½ÑÐµ Ð¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð½Ñ
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description: ÐÐ°ÑÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµÐµ ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð¸Ðµ Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¾ ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð½Ð¾-Ð½Ð°ÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¼Ñ ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð´Ñ, ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð»ÑÐµÑ ÑÐµÑÐ°ÑÑ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐ¹ ÑÐ¿ÐµÐºÑÑ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ñ Ð²Ð¸Ð±ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð´Ð¸Ð°Ð³Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ÐºÐ¸ ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð² ÑÑÑÐ±Ð¾Ð¼Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð½. Ð ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ñ Ð²Ð¸Ð±ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð´Ð¸Ð°Ð³Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ÐºÐ¸ Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÑ Ð±ÑÑÑ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐµÐ½Ñ Ð½Ð° ÑÐ¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÑ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»ÑÑ, Ð² ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸, Ð½Ð° Ð¼ÐµÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»ÑÑ ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð². ÐÐ¾ÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´ÑÐ¾Ð´ ÑÐµÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½ Ð² ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÑÐ¸Ð²Ð°ÐµÐ¼Ð¾Ð¼ ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð½Ð¾-Ð½Ð°ÑÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¼ ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð´Ðµ ÑÐ¸Ð¼ÑÐ»ÑÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð½ÐµÐ¸ÑÐ¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð² ÑÑÑÐ±Ð¸Ð½. Ð Ð½Ð°ÑÑÐ¾ÑÑÐµÐ¹ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¼Ð°ÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð°Ð»Ð° Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½Ð¾ Ð¾Ð¿Ð¸ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð´Ð° Ð² Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾Ð´Ð½Ð¾Ð¼ (Â«Ð¸ÑÐ¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð¼Â») ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð¸, Ð° ÑÐ°ÐºÐ¶Ðµ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¼Ð¾ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° ÑÐ¾Ð¾ÑÐ²ÐµÑÑÑÐ²ÑÑÑÐ°Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ð° Ð²Ð¸Ð±ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½ÑÑ Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹.
3727197.pdf
Creators: name: Boniface, Antoine
name: Gusachenko, Ivan
name: Dholakia, Kishan
name: Gigan, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ID 346381 - This supplementary materials bring more details on two important points of our manuscript: 1- Hyperspectral imaging calibration and 2- Temporal focusing
title: Things that drift ashore
title: concerto for piano and ensemble
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mason, Matthew A.
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Composition
Concerto
Embodied Performance
Piano
Sinfonietta
public abstract
Music

description: The concerto, as a musical genre, exists as a dialogue between compositional experimentation and musical tradition. While the formal structures of concerti have expanded and developed, the relationship between soloist and ensemble (that the concerto represents) has remained stable. I sought to utilize three points of interaction within the concerto form to explore the changing relationships between those two musical bodies. The main interactions outlined in Things that Drift Ashore (concerto for piano and ensemble) are between the piano and soloist, the piano and ensemble, and the piano with itself, which allowed me to explore my own relationship with the piano as the large-scale narrative. These are accomplished through concepts of orientation, disorientation, and initiation to represent the interactions of the ensemble and the soloist. Using phenomenological ideas of consciousness and conscientiousness, I sought to explore how the ensemble and the soloist are two objects that orient towards each other and the dialogue that orientation created. The use of the piano concerto and the situation of the piano within the ensemble, both as contributor and outcast, allows for the innate narrative of this piece to work introspectively as well. The soloist as a body that exists both within the ensemble and outside it invites embodiment as a core method of delivering the piece’s narrative structure. The piano acts as an intermediary device between the performer and the audience, with the performer’s gestures and movements initiating the sound in the piano. The connection of gesture and sound represented a metamorphosis of the body, inspired by the music of Clara Iannotta and Simon Steen-Andersen and the art of Junji Ito. The titles of these movements are nods to Junji Ito’s collected works, as well as Arnold Schoenberg’s Book of the Hanging Gardens. Ito’s grotesque and macabre art includes characters whose visible disfigurement represents a flaw of the body. The concept of the body, and its disfigurement, is represented sonically through the piano and the visual contortions of the performer. Lastly, the relationship between the piano and itself stem from the use of a second piano that uses internal performance methods, such as metal singing bowls, glass tumblers, and horsehair and fishing line bows, modeled after C. Curtis Smith and Stephen Scott. The pitch material of the piece, though not immediately evident sonically, is built on a resynthesis of a combined spectral analysis of my own voice and a bowed piano. As a pianist, this allowed me to further engage with the relationship between the soloist and the piano as a combined musical entity. Then, through traditional orchestration techniques, this harmonic language has been spatialized and stratified within the confines of the sinfonietta, rearticulating the dialogue between modern composition and musical tradition.
Bunch length measurements using a Martin-Puplett interferometer at the VUV-FEL
Creators: name: Fröhlich, Lars
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: thesis
free electron laser
electron: linear accelerator
bunching: length
beam monitoring: length
bending magnet: synchrotron radiation
synchrotron radiation: coherence
laser: interferometer
DESY Lab

description: Universität Hamburg, Diplomarbeit, 2005; 60 pp., (2005). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2005-011
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Experimental investigation of the interatomic Coulombic decay in NeAr dimers
Creators: name: O'Keeffe, P.
name: Ciavardini, A.
name: Ripani, E.
name: Bolognesi, P.
name: Coreno, M.
name: Avaldi, L.
name: Devetta, M.
name: Di Fraia, M.
name: Callegari, C.
name: Prince, Kevin
name: Richter, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The kinetic-energy distribution of interatomic and -molecular Coulombic decay (ICD) electrons emitted following photoionization of 2s electrons from Ne atoms in NeAr dimers has been measured in a synchrotron radiation experiment with a velocity-map-imaging photoelectron-photoion-coincidence spectrometer. The position of the peak of the experimental distribution agrees well with calculations. The broadening of the distribution to high energies with respect to calculations of the ICD spectrum of the NeAr v = 0 ground state is explained by the contribution to the spectrum due to the population in the excited vibrational states v = 1 and v = 2 of the electron ground state. On the other hand, the broadening on the low-energy side of the measured distribution may be explained by the dimer contracting in the intermediate state before ICD occurs, electrons coming from the ICD to spin-orbit split excited ion states, or a combination of these effects.
Die Novellierung des Elektro- und Elektronikgerätegesetzes (ElektroG II)
Creators: name: Odendahl, Guido
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Die als Referentenentwurf vorliegende Novelle des ElektroG lässt eine Vielzahl praxisrelevanter Änderungen erwarten. Neben moderaten Angleichungen und Anhebungen ökologischer Mindeststandards sind hierin auch sehr ambitionierte Zielvorgaben sowie neue Rechtsinstitute und Regelungssystematiken vorgesehen.
Im Mittelpunkt der Novelle stehen die Ausweitung des bislang kategorienbasierten sachlichen Geltungsbereichs zu einem offenen Anwendungsbereich, die ebenso zur Erreichung der erhöhten Sammelziele für Elektroaltgeräte beitragen soll, wie die kontrovers diskutierten neuen Rücknahmepflichten des Handels. Daneben steht die Einführung des in diesem Zusammenhang neuen Rechtsinstituts des Bevollmächtigten bevor, der die Rechtspflichten nicht niedergelassener Hersteller quasi stellvertretend wahrnehmen soll. Zudem sind Neuregelungen hinsichtlich der Mengenmeldungen der Hersteller und Vertreiber von Elektrogeräten und der Mitteilungspflichten der öffentlich-rechtlichen Entsorgungsträger (örE) vorgesehen. Auch die Behandlung des Elektroschrotts wird zusätzlichen Anforderungen unterworfen. Schließlich sind weitere Maßnahmen gegen den illegalen Export von Elektroaltgeräten geplant. Das ElektroG II wird aber voraussichtlich auch einzelne offene Rechtsfragen weiterhin nicht oder nur mit einem weiten Gestaltungsspielraum für die Akteure regeln. Dies gilt insbesondere für Definitionen einzelner Rechtsbegriffe und die Produktanforderungen zur Entnehmbarkeit von Batterien und Akkumulatoren.Quelle: http://www.forumz.de
Simulation of heavy neutralinos at the International Linear Collider
Creators: name: Wendt, Oliver
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: thesis
electron positron: annihilation
polarized beam
neutralino: associated production
neutralino: heavy
neutralino: LSP
supersymmetry: symmetry breaking
R parity: invariance
neutralino: decay modes
Z0: leptonic decay
final state: ((n)lepton)
background
cross section
colliding beam detector: proposed
numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
DESY TESLA Linac
electron positron --> 2neutralino
neutralino --> Z0 chargino
neutralino --> Z0 neutralino
neutralino --> slepton lepton
Z0 --> lepton+ lepton-
500 GeV-cms

description: Universität Hamburg, Diplomarbeit, 2005; 88 pp., (2005). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2005-013
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Experimental designs for microarray experiments
Creators: name: Sun, Limei
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: When more than two treatments are compared for each gene in microarray experiments, a good design should allocate the treatments in such a way as to collect more information on treatment comparisons of interest. We compared a balanced incomplete block design, a loop design, and a reference design in terms of power to detect a single differentially expressed gene, where each design uses the same number of slides to compare the same number of treatments. A simple 2-way model is applied. Using a standard F test statistic for each single-gene analysis, the efficiency of each design was related to the size of the non-centrality parameter of the F distribution under a specified alternative. In preparation for the simultaneous analysis of multiple genes, the exact density function of the p-values under the alternative hypothesis was computed. Microarray experiments consider thousands of genes simultaneously and thus the multiple testing issue arises. We can compute individual p-values for each gene, and both the False Discovery Rate (FDR) method and the Westfall-Young resampling method are multiple testing procedures based on ordered p-values. For the FDR method, we derive lower bounds for the probability of rejecting more than k genes, and for the probability that more than j out of m1 truly differentially expressed genes are rejected using the FDR method. We simplify the expression of the lower bound under certain conditions by applying results from the weak convergence of extremal processes: the number of p-values falling into a small neighborhood of 0 has an asymptotic Poisson distribution. These probability estimates can be used to estimate the number of slides needed in experiments. The Westfall-Young method adjusts the observed p-values which are then compared with a pre-determined alpha. Under the independence assumption, the Westfall-Young method is equivalent to the step-down Sidak method. It involves time consuming simulations to use the step-down Sidak method in experimental designs. We apply results from the weak convergence of extremal processes and propose a way to speed up the simulation for the first few k adjusted p-values (where k is a small number relative to the total number of p-values). Their asymptotic distributions are evaluated analytically. An alternative method to adjust p-values suggested by an anonymous reader is also discussed. We numerically illustrate the applications of the procedures discussed in this thesis on a small data set from a spotted microarray experiment. These results are also illustrated in planning a non-spotted Affymetrix array experiment where they help determine the sample size needed to achieve a given level of performance in the FDR or Westfall-Young approaches.
Adaptable 3d range geometry compression techniques with an assistive mobile application toward improving navigational independence via real-time 3d spatial audio soundscapes
Creators: name: Schwartz, Broderick S.
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2023
Subjects: 3D compression
3D geometry
3D range geometry
Assistive Technology
Depth compression
Navigation Assistance
public abstract
Engineering

description: Technological improvements in the fields of optics and computing have prompted commensurate gains in the fields of three dimensional (3D) range geometry capture and compression. These improvements have enabled an ever-growing array of applications to make increasingly effective use of 3D data, applications such as telepresence, medicine, metrology, the visual arts, among many others. However, even with the marked improvements that have been made in recent decades, there are still opportunities for additional enhancements. This dissertation describes two adaptable compression methods which offer improved customization to their users, one allowing modest reductions in accuracy to be traded for increases in compression ratio, the other permitting precision (and therefore file size) to be focused in a customizable region of interest, reducing overall file size. Also presented is a novel software application that uses 3D capture technologies available on modern mobile devices to assist individuals with visual impairments navigate their surroundings with safety, efficiency, and independence. All of the methods proposed by this dissertation, two compression techniques and an assistive mobile application, aim to increase the effectiveness with which users accomplish their goals by providing tools for the improved usability of 3D range geometry.
3726203.pdf
Creators: name: zhang, Shuangyou
name: Silver, Jonathan
name: Del Bino, Leonardo
name: Copie, Francois
name: Woodley, Michael
name: Ghalanos, George
name: Svela, Andreas
name: Moroney, Niall
name: Del'Haye, Pascal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
The NBN Broadband Applications Canvas: An early overview of the NBN’s potential applications through R&D and case studies
Creators: name: Casey, Sean
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The National Broadband Network (NBN) is a national digital infrastructure project being constructed over the next decade to deliver high-speed broadband services to all Australian premises. Much of the discussion on the NBN to date has been on the physical construction ramp and rollout progress of the project. Thousands of engineering and construction people are building the physical network; there are equally thousands of people developing the applications and new services that will run over the NBN. This article on the NBN Broadband Applications Canvas explores the investment and activity in Australia happening around the NBN in research, broadband application development and case studies of people using the national broadband network and future possibilities to exploit the full potential of the NBN.
Alkohol und Spielen - same same but different
Creators: name: Mick, Inge Maria
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: pathological gambling
subject: alcohol dependence
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Mit Hilfe der vorliegenden sechs Arbeiten dieser Habilitationsschrift sind neue Erkenntnisse zu Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschieden zwischen stoffgebundenen und stoffungebundenen Süchten erbracht worden. Alkohol und Spielen - same same but different. Hierzu wurden Studien bezüglich Familienanamnese für Alkoholabhängigkeit, Folgen von Rauschtrinken bei Jugendlichen, Nalmefen, einer pharmakologischen Behandlungsmöglichkeit, sowie PET-Studien mit unterschiedlichen Radioliganden zu pathologischem Glücksspiel herangezogen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass Probanden mit einer positiven Familienanamnese für Alkoholabhängigkeit im experimentellen i.v.-Alkohol-Selbstverabreichungsverhalten höhere Spiegel als Probanden mit negativer Familienanamnese präferieren. Auch auf Grundlage früherer Studien kann dies ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt zur Klärung von Faktoren für die spätere Entwicklung einer alkoholbezogenen Störung sein. Eine retrospektive Aktenrecherche zu alkoholintoxikationsbedingten stationären Aufnahmen bei Jugendlichen erbrachte einen Geschlechterunterschied bezüglich alkohol-bedingter Beeinträchtigung (ABB), ein Maß, das einfach aus zwei klinischen Parametern (BAC und GCS) berechnet werden und zur möglichen Beurteilung der Entwicklung einer späteren Alkoholabhängigkeit herangezogen werden kann. Verändertes Belohnungsverhalten als ein Merkmal von Abhängigkeitserkrankungen konnte in einer fMRT-Studie unter Alkoholeinfluss nach einer Einzeldosis Nalmefen bei alkoholabhängigen Probanden ohne Therapiemotivation modifiziert werden. Dies liefert erste Erklärungen für zugrundeliegende neurobiologische Nalmefen-Effekte. Eine 11C-Carfentanyl-PET-Replikations-Studie erbrachte die Bestätigung, dass eine orale pharmakologische Amphetamin-Challenge in Kombination mit 11C-Carfentanyl-PET eine gute Möglichkeit bietet, psychiatrische Erkrankungen, bei denen das Opiatsystem eine zentrale Rolle einnimmt, zu charakterisieren. Auf Grundlage derer konnte mit einer 11C-Carfentanyl-PET-Studie mit Amphetamin-Challenge bei Probanden mit pathologischem Glücksspiel eine gedämpfte endogene Opioid-Freisetzung bei zugleich im Gegensatz zu stoffgebundene Süchten fehlender erhöhter Baseline μ-Opiatrezeptor-Verfügbarkeit nachgewiesen werden. Auch im GABAergen System bei Probanden mit pathologischem Glücksspiel konnten mithilfe von 11C-Ro15-4513-PET Unterschiede zu stoffgebundenen Süchten gezeigt werden. Bei gleichzeitig positiver Korrelation mit stimmungsbezogener Impulsivität zeigte sich im rechten Hippocampus eine erhöhte 11C-Ro15-4513-Bindungsaffinität im Vergleich zu gesunden Probanden. In früheren Studien zu stoffgebundenen Süchten war eine verminderte 11C-Ro15-4513-Bindungsaffinität nachgewiesen worden.
Three essays dealing with open economy models based on the portfolio balance tradition
Creators: name: Zhao, Jun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.

description: This thesis consists of three papers on open economy models in the portfolio balance tradition. The first paper presents a dynamic stock-flow consistent model for three economies with both fixed and floating exchange rates. The model is applied to simulate the impact of internal and external shocks, and short-run and long-run effects of changes in the U.S. fiscal position on the economies of the three countries---the U.S., China and Euroland. The simulation results show that the compensation principle still holds in an open overdraft economy. The second paper investigates the effect of the diversification of China's foreign reserves using the three-country model. The simulation results show that with the diversification of China's foreign reserves, the euro appreciates against the dollar and the RMB. China and the U.S. can benefit from the diversification, while the Euroland economy slows down. What is interesting is that the model generates some kind of path dependence. How the central bank of China will achieve its target diversification rate has an impact on the steady state values of the model. The third paper examines the portfolio balance model for the determination of the nominal exchange rate of the Canadian dollar against the US dollar using the VAR model. One cointegration equation is found. Through the impulse response and the variance decomposition analyses, we find that the Canadian demand for the US bills and bonds play an important role in the dynamic changes of the exchange rate. The empirical test results indicate that it is difficult for the reduced form portfolio-balance models to consistently beat the random walk model.
"Les nôtres" : Franco-Américains, Canadiens français hors-Québec et Acadiens dans la grande presse montréalaise de langue française, 1905-1906.
Creators: name: Marcil, Jeffrey.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Au tournant du siecle, les Canadiens francais du Quebec sont preoccupes par des atteintes aux droits des minorites franco-catholiques ailleurs. Ce qui est moins evident est a savoir si cet interet se manifeste aussi a un niveau quotidien pour les communautes elles-memes. Nous avons examine des quotidiens de la grande presse montrealaise, La Presse, La Patrie et Le Canada, en 1905-1906. Quatre groupes emergent, en ordre d'importance: les Franco-Americains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, les Canadiens francais de l'Ontario, ceux de l'Ouest canadien, et les Acadiens des Maritimes. Ils ont une presence tres quotidienne et souvent en primeur. A l'exception de l'Ouest, les journaux expriment un optimisme pour les groupes et une solidarite envers leurs efforts de conserver leur identite nationale. Mais, la presse quebecoise demontre un sentiment de fraternite envers tous les groupes, y compris le peuple acadien, et surtout ceux d'origine canadienne-francaise qui, tout en etant hors-Quebec, restent "les notres". (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Understanding how emerging technologies impact pedestrian street-crossing behavior
Creators: name: Malik, Jeehan
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2023
Subjects: public abstract

description: There are ~1.3 million traffic-related deaths worldwide each year, with more than half of these deaths among vulnerable road users such as pedestrians. Furthermore, our road networks are rapidly changing because of the emergence and adoption of sophisticated vehicle technologies like self-driving cars and connected vehicles technology. One such technology is Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) communication, which allows vehicles to communicate their location to a pedestrian’s smartphone via Dedicated Short-Range Communications technology. This information can then be used to present traffic information to the pedestrian, but there is little research on how to present this information to pedestrians and how they would respond to this information on their personal devices (e.g., through smartphones or Augmented Reality glasses).
description: This thesis gives an overview of my research that explores how younger and older pedestrians respond to safety applications that present information to them using smartphones and a simulated Augmented Reality (AR) device. We use two different types of virtual reality systems (CAVE, Head-Mounted Display) to understand the impact of traffic safety interventions using smartphone alerts and warnings, AR alerts and warnings, and AR overlays on a two-way street, to guide pedestrian street-crossing behaviour.
Auflosungsstudien an einer Zeit-Projektions-Kammer (TPC) mit GEM Gasverstärkungssystem
Creators: name: Janssen, Matthias Enno
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2004
Subjects: thesis
electron positron: colliding beam detector
drift chamber: time projection
gas electron multiplier
argon: organic compounds
tracks: resolution
magnetic field
electron positron: linear collider
linear collider: proposed

description: Universität Dortmund, Diplomarbeit, 2004; 110 pp., (2004). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2004-049
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Experimental freshwater cage aquaculture: Short term effects on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus budgets and the metabolism of a boreal shield lake
Creators: name: Bristow, Corben Emerson
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.
subject: Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture.

description: We conducted an experiment to determine the effects of cage aquaculture on the functional properties of a lake. We installed a commercial aquaculture operation into a lake located within a pristine headwater region of the boreal shield. We used a before-after control-impact design to evaluate the weight of evidence for causal effects. We quantified sinks, sources and exchanges of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus to the lake and presented this information in a budget format. We then calculated retention rates for these chemicals and compared them to integral amounts of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus accumulating in the water column. We also measured removal rates (sedimentation) of these elements from the water column and transformation rates (primary production) within the water column. We found that the amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus retained in the lake increased dramatically during farm operation. With the exception of an increase in particulate carbon, we did not observe an accumulation of these chemicals in the water column. We did however observe lake wide increases in carbon and nitrogen sedimentation. Primary production increased significantly in the aquaculture-impacted lake and the period of peak productivity shifted to later in the summer. We discuss our results in the context of consequences to aquatic life and source water and we provide some recommendations for management.
Aerodynamic behaviour of rectangular prisms with sharp edges at high Reynolds number
Creators: name: D'Auteuil, Annick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: This research is aimed at depicting Reynolds number effect on bluff-body shapes with sharp edges. Nine rectangular prisms were tested: three fineness ratios (width-to-depth) of 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1 and three edge configurations, namely square edges, small chamfer and large chamfer. Tests were done in a pressurised wind tunnel for a Reynolds number range from 0.15 x 10 6 to 4 x 106 based on the depth of the prism and for a Mach number range from 0.075 to 0.3. The prisms were tested at angles of attack from -2° up to 10° in increments of 2°. The results from this study represent, to the author's knowledge, aerodynamic data at the highest Reynolds number reached for 2D rectangular prisms, in turbulent flow and for incompressible flow regime. Measurements of steady and unsteady wind loads were made using an external sidewall force balance and surface pressures. In addition, a wake survey was performed using a hot-wire probe. The fineness ratio, the edge treatment, the angle of attack of the prism, and the wind turbulence are shown to affect the aerodynamic characteristics of the prisms. These effects appear to be influenced by Reynolds number suggesting that there is a limit to the non-sensitivity of bluff-body shapes with sharp edges to Reynolds number.
Studies of avalanche photo diodes for a calorimeter readout at a linear collider detector
Creators: name: Meyer, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: thesis
electron positron: colliding beam detector
calorimeter: hadronic
scintillation counter: sandwich
optics: readout
semiconductor: optical
photoelectron: avalanche
effect: magnetic field
electron positron: linear collider
linear collider: proposed

description: Universität Hamburg, Diplomarbeit, 2005; 56 pp., (2005). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2005-002
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Development and reliability of a streetscape observation instrument for international use: MAPS-global
Creators: name: Cain, Kelli L
name: Geremia, Carrie M
name: Conway, Terry L
name: Frank, Lawrence D
name: Chapman, James E
name: Fox, Eric H
name: Timperio, Anna
name: Veitch, Jenny
name: Van Dyck, Delfien
name: Verhoeven, Hannah
name: Reis, Rodrigo
name: Augusto, Alexandre
name: Cerin, Ester
name: Mellecker, Robin R
name: Queralt, Ana
name: Molina-García, Javier
name: Sallis, James F
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Relationships between several built environment factors and physical activity and walking behavior are well established, but internationally-comparable built environment measures are lacking. The Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS)-Global is an observational measure of detailed streetscape features relevant to physical activity that was developed for international use. This study examined the inter-observer reliability of the instrument in five countries. Methods: MAPS-Global was developed by compiling concepts and items from eight environmental measures relevant to walking and bicycling. Inter-rater reliability data were collected in neighborhoods selected to vary on geographic information system (GIS)-derived macro-level walkability in five countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Hong Kong-China, and Spain). MAPS-Global assessments (n = 325) were completed in person along a ≥ 0.25 mile route from a residence toward a non-residential destination, and a commercial block was also rated for each residence (n = 82). Two raters in each country rated each route independently. A tiered scoring system was created that summarized items at multiple levels of aggregation, and positive and negative valence scores were created based on the expected effect on physical activity. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was computed for scales and selected items using one-way random models. Results: Overall, 86.6% of individual items and single item indicators showed excellent agreement (ICC ≥ 0.75), and 13.4% showed good agreement (ICC = 0.60–0.74). All subscales and overall summary scores showed excellent agreement. Six of 123 items were too rare to compute the ICC. The median ICC for items and scales was 0.92 with a range of 0.50–1.0. Aesthetics and social characteristics showed lower ICCs than other sub-scales, but reliabilities were still in the excellent range (ICC ≥ 0.75). Conclusion: Evaluation of inter-observer reliability of MAPS-Global across five countries indicated all items and scales had “good” or “excellent” reliability. The results demonstrate that trained observers from multiple countries were able to reliably conduct observations of both residential and commercial areas with the new MAPS-Global instrument. Next steps are to evaluate construct validity in relation to physical activity in multiple countries and gain experience with using MAPS-Global for research and practice applications.
Baukosten und Energieeffizienz von Mehrfamilienhäusern
Creators: name: Schuberth, Jens
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Seit 2001 prämiert der Deutsche Bauherrenpreis vorbildliche Neubauten und Sanierungen von Mehrfamilienhäusern. Eine Analyse der neueren Projekte zeigt, dass Wohnungswirtschaft und Planer ein überaus leistungsstarkes Team bilden, welches wirtschaftliches und energieeffizientes Bauen sehr gut vereinbaren kann. Eine hohe Energieeffizienz wirkt sich bei Mehrfamilienhäusern in höchstens geringem Umfang auf die Baukosten auswirken, sowohl bei Neubauten als auch bei Sanierungen. Bei Kaltmieten hat der Standort in einer Großstadt großen Einfluss; Häuser mit niedrigem Primärenergiebedarf werden sogar günstiger vermietet. Pauschale Behauptungen, Anforderungen an die Energieeffizienz von Gebäuden führten zu überhöhten Baukosten und Kaltmieten, erweisen sich vor dem Hintergrund dieser Auswertung anspruchsvoller Projekte als nicht haltbar. Gutachten über die Wirtschaftlichkeit von Energiestandards sollten nicht nur Materialpreise, sondern die Baukosten realisierter Projekte untersuchen und dabei stets mit statistisch abgesicherten Methoden (oder wenigstens mit Bandbreiten) arbeiten. © 2019 Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin
You really listened, didn’t you? How listener response strengthens workplace relationships by helping speakers feel heard
Creators: name: Mecham, Bradley R.
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2024
Subjects: emotional support
feeling heard
functional support
listening
listening behavior
social exchange theory
public abstract
Business Administration

description: Listening perception, or the speaker’s subjective feeling of being heard by the listener, has been positively associated with many compelling outcomes. Evidence suggests, however, that speakers in the workplace still struggle to feel heard. Situating listening perception within a social exchange framework, I explore how listeners’ responses help speakers feel heard and subsequently strengthen the speaker-listener workplace relationship. I extend the traditional focus on listening behaviors—understood as a listener’s in-conversation observable actions that signal that they are actively taking in and understanding the speaker’s message—to also include listener responses of functional support—subsequent actions that address the speaker’s practical needs—and emotional support—subsequent actions that address the speaker’s emotional needs. I also use expectancy violations theory to extend social exchange theory and explore how speakers’ experience with listening perception is affected by the congruence between their own desires and listeners’ responses. In a classroom setting, I survey teammates regarding their experiences with each member of their course project team. Using linear and polynomial regression, I show that listening behavior and functional support, but not emotional support, positively contributed to listening perception. I also show that listening perception mediated the relationship between functional support and workplace relationship quality, but not between listening behavior nor emotional support and workplace relationship quality, as neither of the latter two exhibited a significant direct effect with workplace relationship quality. Despite the lack of a direct effect to be mediated between listening behavior and workplace relationship quality, listening behavior had a positive indirect effect on workplace relationship quality because of its relationship with listening perception. Additionally, the congruence of listener response and speaker desire for listening behavior predicted listening perception better than did a simple linear model. In all, results suggest that social exchange theory provides a suitable framework for listening perception, that in addition to listening behaviors, functional support may be necessary to help speakers feel heard, and that listeners should consider both speaker desires and the general benefits of listening behaviors when listening.
Thermische Observablen gekoppelten Felder im Casimir-Effekt
Creators: name: Kühn, Henning
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: thesis
effect: Casimir
field theory: scalar
finite temperature
field theory: coupling
two-point function

description: Universität Hamburg, Diplomarbeit, 2005; 70 pp., (2005). doi:10.3204/DESY-THESIS-2005-003
description: Published by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Dynamic analysis and position control of a single flexible-link flexible-joint robot manipulator using time delay
Creators: name: Dong, Yuan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: In this thesis, a position control system for a single flexible-link flexible-joint (FLFJ) manipulator has been developed. It is presented in three parts: dynamic modeling and analysis, control system design, and experimental analysis of the designed control system. The assumed modes method and the Lagrange approach were combined to derive a dynamic model of the single FLFJ manipulator and then this model was linearized about zero deflection for both the flexible joint and the flexible link. The resulting linear dynamic model was used for the dynamic analysis and control system design. Equations of motion and their analytical solutions were derived for the single FLFJ manipulator at any rotation angle. The effects of the relative stiffness of the joint with respect to the link on the dynamic characteristics and open-loop responses of the single FLFJ manipulator were investigated based on the linear model. It was found that the higher order frequencies of the manipulator increased monotonically with the increments of the joint stiffness, while the lower order ones kept almost unchanged. This demonstrates that the higher order frequencies were more sensitive to the interaction between the flexible link and the flexible joint. A time-Delayed Feedback Signal (DFS) controller was applied to the single FLFJ manipulator and the effect of the time delay on the stability of the system was examined. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Creators: name: Fang, Liang
name: LUO, ZHI-HAO
name: Cao, Xiaoping
name: Zheng, Shuang
name: Cai, Xinlun
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
ABC TV and multiplatform innovation in the era of high speed broadband
Creators: name: Baskaran, Arul
name: O'Donoghue, Sally
name: Brealey, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The television broadcasting industry in Australia (and around the world) is going through a period of rapid and fundamental change. As a publicly funded broadcaster the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) is playing an important role developing and implementing innovative content propositions across diverse delivery platforms. The growth of on-demand viewing, interactivity, social media and personalised data will significantly alter the traditional audio visual viewing experience and with it has the potential to radically change distribution, business and production models. The ABC is engaging with a range of innovative broadband enabled initiatives to ensure it can continue to deliver locally relevant content and services for its audiences. By taking risks which other media organisations might not be prepared to incur, the ABC is also playing a part in encouraging innovation more broadly across the industry. This is essential if the local media industry is to prosper and if demand for the distribution and creation of local content is to be maintained.