cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Motivations d'engagement politique des femmes parlementaires rwandaises
Creators: name: De Montigny Gauthier, Pascale
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: autoritaire
femmes
rwanda
démocratie
parlementaires
motivations
engagement

description: La thèse « Motivations d’engagement politique des femmes parlementaires rwandaises » a pour objectif principal d’apporter un éclairage sur le parcours politique des femmes parlementaires au Rwanda, notamment en identifiant leurs motivations à la base de leur engagement. Pour y parvenir, des entrevues de type semi-directif ont été effectuées entre octobre et novembre 2011 auprès de 11 députées et sénatrices. Les résultats de recherche démontrent que les femmes s’engagent en politique selon les trois principes de justice de Nancy Fraser: la reconnaissance, la redistribution et la représentation. Deux autres motivations se rajoutent, soit les mesures institutionnelles et la reconstruction du pays. Plus précisément, les parlementaires désirent pallier les injustices sociales, économiques et politiques liées au genre et à l’ethnie. Cette thèse est une contribution à la capacité de la science politique d’analyser les rôles des femmes au sein des parlements des pays non occidentaux et autoritaires.
Additional file 5 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Depression level of patients and family caregivers. Depression was evaluated with the PHQ-9 instrument and is depicted as absolute numbers of patients and caregivers in groups for no, minimal, mild, moderate and severe depression. The portion of mild to severe depressed patients or caregivers did not significantly differ between patients (65.0%) and caregivers (66.9%).
Forced Displacement and Migration: Introduction and Overview
Creators: name: Preuß, Hans-Joachim A.
name: Messner, Dirk
name: Beier, Christoph
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: In this first chapter, the editors introduce the topic and the related challenges for politics and society in countries of origin, transit and destination of migrants, give an overview of basic concepts and the extent of migration movements and present the contributions of the book. © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022
The Management of Gonococcal Infections and the Development and Use of Treatment Guidelines
Creators: name: Dickson, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gonorrhea
STI
Clinical guidelines
Antibiotic use

description: N. Gonorrhoeae is a major public health concern due to its capacity to develop antibiotic resistance and its potential complications including pelvic inflammatory disease, epididymitis, infertility, and disseminated infection. In order to keep up with resistance trends, the treatment recommendations for gonorrhea have changed frequently. In other areas of medicine, guideline adherence has been shown to be limited, even without frequent guideline changes. In the case of gonorrhea, inappropriate treatment can have serious individual and public health implications, making the quality of and compliance with clinical guidelines critical. This thesis is a three-part mixed methods research project assessing the development and uptake of gonorrhea treatment guidelines. We conducted a systematic review of current gonorrhea treatment guidelines and used the AGREE II tool to assess the quality of guideline development (Chapter 2). We observed that guideline quality varied greatly with many guidelines having weaknesses in their use of existing evidence to develop recommendations, their reporting of potential conflicts of interest and how they were addressed, and their consideration of barriers to the implementation of their recommendations. We then assessed physician adherence to first-line treatment recommendations in Ontario by conducting a segmented time series analysis of Ontario gonorrhea treatment data from iPHIS, the province’s reportable disease database (Chapter 3). Following the introduction of new guidelines that recommended substantial changes from current practice, we found very dramatic drops in guidelines adherence that then improved slowly over time. We then explored the use of process mapping as a tool to look at the local management of cases in the City of Ottawa by following them across the various possible treatment pathways (Chapter 4). Here, we noted differences in practice between the management of cases at Ottawa Public Health’s Sexual Health Clinic and the management of cases elsewhere in the community.
Exploring the role of education in the economy of the Northern Territory
Creators: name: Raut, Megha
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Northern Territory
economy
education
exploring

description: Given its large land mass and small population, the Northern Territory (NT) has an economic structure very different from that of the rest of Australia. The main sectors that contribute to the economy of the NT include construction, mining and defence. The national reform agenda of the Australian government has identified education and training as critical factors in increasing national productivity as well as opportunities for individual workers. While some studies have focused on how educational outcomes influence socio-economic disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous population groups at the national level, only few studies have focused on the NT. Consequently, the work undertaken for this thesis aims to fill this gap in the literature. Specifically, I have focused on the role of education, which also contributes to human capital growth, in the NT, and have empirically examined (i) the link between government spending on education and economic growth in the NT, as well as Australia as a whole, and (ii) how the effect on income of educational qualifications varies across the regions of Australia, particularly to observe if there is a premium on education in the NT. Existing studies that explore the role of education on economic performance have focused either on macroeconomic or microeconomic aspects, while this study explores both.
Family History in the Assessment of Risk for Common Complex Diseases: Current State of Evidence
Creators: name: Hasanaj, Qendresa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: risk assessment
family history
chronic diseases
coronary heart disease
clinical discrimination factors

description: Family history (FH) is a risk factor for many diseases. Disease guidelines often include family history as important in assessing chronic disease risks, but the empirical evidence base to inform the routine use of family history in primary care in practice appears largely lacking. An environmental scan of how family history is represented in prevention guidelines for five conditions showed that, while family history is often included in guidelines, there is variation in the definition used, recommendation given and evidence cited. A dataset on cardiovascular health in women was analyzed to examine whether family history offers useful discrimination value above standard risk factors. Regression results showed that family history is an independent risk predictor for coronary heart disease which improves discrimination beyond classical clinical factors. However, the absolute amount of discriminatory ability alone or with other factors is moderate at best, raising issues regarding clinical utility.
Identité projective et apprentissage : impacts des représentations physiques et psychologiques des avatars dans les activités d’apprentissage collaboratif de Second Life
Creators: name: Hamroun, Tamara N.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Identité
Apprentissage collaboratif
Second Life
Avatar

description: Cette étude exploratoire examine comment l’exploration identitaire entre en jeu dans l’utilisation d’un avatar et dans la participation aux activités d’apprentissage collaboratif dans un monde virtuel. Nous inspirant de l’ethnographie virtuelle, nous avons participé à douze activités collaboratives et nous avons ensuite interrogé treize utilisateurs du monde virtuel Second Life qui y collaborent pour apprendre. Les participants ont démontré une volonté ou un désintérêt à collaborer avec les autres utilisateurs dans Second Life non principalement pas selon le sexe, l’ethnicité ou le degré d’anthropomorphisme de leurs avatars comme l’indique la littérature, mais plutôt selon leur niveau d’expertise. Cette étude suggère que le travail identitaire des utilisateurs peut exercer une grande influence sur leurs collaborations et que le travail identitaire est capable d’aider les utilisateurs à renforcer, à repenser et à améliorer leurs identités et pratiques professionnelles sur les plans virtuels et non virtuels.
Molecular pathogenesis of Escherichia coli in septicaemia and urinary tract infection
Creators: name: Vollmerhausen, Tara L
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: urinary tract infection
Escherichia coli
bacterial translocation
uropathogenic E. coli

description: Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterium that can extend from being a commensal inhabitant of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to causing life threatening diseases such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) and septicaemia. To understand the pathogenesis of E. coli causing UTI this study investigated virulence factors that contribute to the survival and persistence of E. coli causing extraintestinal diseases. In view of a majority of E. coli causing UTI originating from the GI tract, this thesis questioned the assumption that the urinary tract is the only source of bacterial translocation in patients with urosepsis, and investigated the potential for translocation from the GI tract. PhP typing of the strains isolated from urine and blood of patients showed that 44 out of 47 (94%) patients had identical strains in their blood and urine. Blood isolates adhered to both renal i.e. A-498 cell line and GI i.e. HT-29 cell line, although their rate of adhesion and translocation in A-498 cells was significantly higher. The three non-identical blood isolates were unable to translocate through HT-29 cells, indicating other factors such as weakened immune response of hospitalised patients may play a role in this process. To further investigate the importance of bacterial virulence in causing nosocomial infections, this thesis investigated the genetic relatedness and virulence gene (VG) profiles of uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) in hospitalised children and adults. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) typing resolved 6 major clusters, with two clusters consisting almost exclusively of E. coli from children. There was a higher prevalence of the genes encoding for alpha-haemolysin and capsule synthesis among the strains in this group, a factor that may be associated with renal scarring among children. E. coli isolated from adults had a higher prevalence of genes encoding for invasion and antigen 43, and were able to produce biofilm significantly more than children isolates. These results suggest that pathogenesis of UPEC in children and adults is exacerbated by the presence of specific genes.
Billing fees for various common allergy tests vary widely across Canada
Creators: name: Protudjer, Jennifer L. P.
name: Soller, Lianne
name: Abrams, Elissa M.
name: Chan, Edmond S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The prevalence of food allergy in Canada is high and has increased over time. To date, there are no Canadian data on the healthcare costs of visits to allergists. Methods: We sent an anonymous survey to allergist members of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI) between October and December 2019. Survey questions included demographic information and billing fees for various types of allergy visits and diagnostic testing. Results: Of 200 allergists who are members of CSACI, 43 allergists responded (21.5% response rate). Billing fees varied widely. The greatest ranges were noted for oral immunotherapy (OIT; both initial consultation [mean $198.70; range $0 to $575] and follow up/build up visits [mean $125.74; range: $0 to $575]). There were significant provincial differences in billing fees, as well as significant billing fee differences between hospital versus community allergists (e.g. oral food challenge [OFC]: $256.38 vs. $134.94, p < 0.01). Billing fees were higher outside of Ontario, with the exception of specific Immunoglubulin E (sIgE) testing and OIT visits. Conclusions: Greater standardization of billing fees across provinces and between hospital versus community allergy could result in more consistency of billing fees for OFC and OIT across Canada. Further knowledge of exact costs will help inform practice and policy in the diagnosis and management of food allergy.
Supplementary document for Suppression of four-wave mixing in optical fiber bundle for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering endomicroscopy - 5287458.pdf
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Mamoru
name: Ogawa, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medical Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)

description: CARS imaging and polarization characteristics
Aotearoa New Zealand Māori Gang Member Perspectives on Life in the Community of the Fist
Creators: name: Whitfield, Haley
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: sub-cultural theory
subject: gang
subject: gang community
subject: Black Power
subject: Māori
subject: phenomenology
subject: whānau
subject: community of the fist
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy
subject: Human geography
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Gangs in New Zealand (NZ) operate as non-normative, highly secretive, subcultural groups that resist cultural hegemony, favouring their own practices and ideologies. The need for greater exploration into the lived experience of subcultures has shaped contemporary uses of subcultural theory and is highly relevant to gang research in countries such as NZ. A call for more research into understanding NZ gangs has been raised by government service organisations and academics. Currently NZ has one of the highest gang member per capita populations in the world with an overrepresentation of Māori, yet there is limited research in this field. Unlike the urban youth gangs of the USA, New Zealand’s Māori gangs, such as Black Power and Mongrel Mob, tend to be intergenerational, older, and distributed throughout rural areas. In the absence of localised research, NZ’s responses to gangs relies on research of urban youth gangs from the USA to inform policy aimed at gang suppression. This study responds to an identified need for better understanding of the lived experiences of gang subcultures, and the call for more localised research into NZ gangs.
description: Using subcultural theory as a theoretical framework, and drawing upon a constructivist epistemology, this study used a phenomenological methodology to investigate the lived experiences of gang members and gang community members in a rural NZ gang community. Semi-structured interviews, observations and intentional conversations were conducted over a one-year period. Phenomenological data analysis was used to identity themes and categories that are presented in four findings chapters in this thesis. In this PhD study, phenomenological research has yielded deeper understandings of the perceptions of Māori gang members and gang connected adults about life in the Community of the Fist.
Étude de la relation entre le déni de la maladie et l'observance thérapeutique auprès de personnes atteintes de trouble bipolaire.
Creators: name: Popiea, Elena.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Mental Health.

description: Cette étude descriptive-corrélative vérifie la relation entre le déni de la maladie et l'observance thérapeutique auprès de 44 hommes et femmes atteints de trouble bipolaire vivant dans la communauté et tous membres du groupe de soutien Les Bipos Inc. Les instruments de mesure comprennent: Perception de l'Impact de la Maladie Mentale (PIMM), des échelles analogues pour l'observance et un questionnaire sur l'histoire de la maladie (hospitalisation et rechute). Les résultats démontrent des corrélations fortes entre la dimension espoir du PIMM et la cessation partielle des médicaments; entre la cessation partielle des médicaments et le nombre de rechutes; entre l'observance des rendez-vous thérapeutiques et la cessation totale du traitement pharmacothérapeutique. Plusieurs coefficients de corrélation d'ordre moyen sont démontrés entre les autres dimensions du PIMM et l'observance. L'influence significative (p < 0.05) du groupe de soutien sur quelques dimensions du PIMM est aussi démontrée.
L’impercettibile confine a quasi venticinque anni dalla sentenza n. 203 del 1989 della Corte costituzionale
Creators: name: Tavani, Angela Patrizia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, è destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti del Convegno di studio organizzato dall’ADEC sul tema “Dimensione pubblica e fattore religioso – Stato attuale e prospettive” (Bari, Aula Magna “Aldo Moro”, 17-18 settembre 2009), in corso di stampaSOMMARIO: 1. La posizione del Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano – 2. Laicismo e anticlericalismo – 3. Un’auspicabile prospettiva circa la laicità.ABSTRACT An event that has sparked discussions on neutrality and assumed centrality in the debate on the public dimension of the religious factor is related to the non-participation of Benedict XVI at the inauguration of the academic year at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", scheduled for January 17, 2008. In its judgment no. 203/1989, the Constitutional Court stated that neutrality "does not imply indifference to religion but the state guarantee for the protection of freedom of religion, under the religious and cultural pluralism." The debate on the issue of the University "La Sapienza" has fueled confusion about the meaning of the word to make the invisible boundary between neutrality, laicism and anti-clericalism. Decisive contribution to the construction of some carefully sentinels, among which there are those who have authoritatively explained that neutrality is to be understood: "... not as an attitude of estrangement, indifference or hostility of the state and its elites, with respect to the religious consciousness of the people, under the confessional pluralism, atheism is not excluded, but the protection of the equal freedom of all faiths (...) The true neutrality and the true faith are made to compete fairly in the conduct man to the full meaning of the days that are given to live".KEYWORDS: Neutrality, public dimension of the religious factor, laicism, anti-clericalism
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 5 novembre
Additional file 7 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7. Patient characteristics according to depression level. Absolute and relative distributions of demographic factors, tumor-related factors, information levels and psychooncologic need in relation to depression level 5+ vs. 0–4 derived form PHQ-9 score are shown. N = 160 PHQ-9 scores were collected; missing scores were excluded from the analysis; significant levels are shown in bold.
An Examination of Factors Contributing to Resilience among Children and Youths in Out of Home Care in Ontario
Creators: name: Barnsley, Shannon E.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resilience
Out of home care
Foster care

description: Objective – Some of the most vulnerable children and youths in our country are those in out of home care, and these children demonstrate higher rates of psychopathology and fare more poorly in school and in social relationships than their peers. Typically, when studying at risk populations, negative outcomes are examined, thereby ignoring those who do well despite their vulnerability. These children, who demonstrate positive patterns of functioning and development despite their exposure to adversity, are considered resilient. The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with a resilient outcome among children and youths in out of home care. Method – The study sample was comprised of 417 children 10 to 15 years old in Ontario who had been removed from their homes of origin and placed in out of home care. Predictor variables were selected based on previous research findings in the area of resilient outcome. In the cross-sectional study, a series of sequential logistic regression analyses were conducted to identify factors associated with a resilient outcome among children in out of home care. These children were then followed one year later. In the longitudinal study, another series of sequential logistic regression analyses were used to identify variables that were related to future resilient outcomes among the same children in out of home care. Results – The findings showed that many of the independent variables predicted resilient outcome on the different dimensions. Furthermore, overall resilient outcome was best predicted by the foster parental report of high sociability. Conclusion – The findings in the present study confirmed that there exists a subset of resilient children among children in out of home care. The findings allowed for the identification of some factors related to resilient outcome among this population. The practical implications of these findings are discussed.
Sana laicità o laicità positiva?
Creators: name: Dalla Torre, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Il saggio, accettato dal Direttore, è destinato agli Studi in onore del Cardinale Zenon Grocholewski.SOMMARIO: 1. Per superare la polisemia del termine “laicità” - 2. Cenni sulla dottrina cattolica in tema di laicità - 3. Una aggettivazione risalente: la “sana” laicità - 4. Le più moderne espressioni della “laicità positiva” - 5. Note conclusive
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 12 novembre
Multimodal Photoplethysmography-Based Approaches for Improved Detection of Hypertension
Creators: name: Welykholowa, Kaylie
name: Hosanee, Manish
name: Chan, Gabriel
name: Cooper, Rachel
name: Kyriacou, Panayiotis A.
name: Zheng, Dingchang
name: Allen, John
name: Abbott, Derek
name: Menon, Carlo
name: Lovell, Nigel H.
name: Howard, Newton
name: Chan, Wee-Shian
name: Lim, Kenneth
name: Fletcher, Richard
name: Ward, Rabab Kreidieh
name: Elgendi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a major cause of death, yet hypertension commonly goes undetected. Owing to its nature, it is typically asymptomatic until later in its progression when the vessel or organ structure has already been compromised. Therefore, noninvasive and continuous BP measurement methods are needed to ensure appropriate diagnosis and early management before hypertension leads to irreversible complications. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a noninvasive technology with waveform morphologies similar to that of arterial BP waveforms, therefore attracting interest regarding its usability in BP estimation. In recent years, wearable devices incorporating PPG sensors have been proposed to improve the early diagnosis and management of hypertension. Additionally, the need for improved accuracy and convenience has led to the development of devices that incorporate multiple different biosignals with PPG. Through the addition of modalities such as an electrocardiogram, a final measure of the pulse wave velocity is derived, which has been proved to be inversely correlated to BP and to yield accurate estimations. This paper reviews and summarizes recent studies within the period 2010–2019 that combined PPG with other biosignals and offers perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of current developments to guide future advancements in BP measurement. Our literature review reveals promising measurement accuracies and we comment on the effective combinations of modalities and success of this technology.
Investigating the ground energy distribution of particles produced in extensive air showers
Creators: name: Hussein, Itab F.
name: Al-Rubaiee, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy spectra of particles arriving at the ground is a significant observable in the analysis of extensive air showers (EAS). Energy distributions at ground were studied for primary particles (12C,56Fe, p, and 28Si) with high primary energies (10^17, 10^18, 10^19, and 10^20 eV) from two zenith angles (0 and 30 Deg.). 960 EAS were simulated using the Monte-Carlo program Aires (version 19.04.00) with three models of hadronic interaction (EPOS-LHC, QGSJET-II-04, and Sibyll2.3c). Good agreement was obtained by comparing the present results with results simulated using CORSIKA for primary iron at an energy of 10^20 eV. In this study we investigated various secondary particles that arrive at the ground and deposit a portion of their energy on ground detectors. These results show that the distinction in energy distribution at ground is greater for primary protons than carbon, iron, or silicon nuclei at higher energies and steeper zenith angles.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, Malaysian Journal Of Science 69
The Psychometric Properties of Instruments Used to Assess Anxiety in Older Adults
Creators: name: Therrien-Poirier, Zoé
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Anxiety
Meta-analysis
Older Adults
Assessment

description: With the growing number of older adults in the general population, there is also a concomitant rise in the number of older adults who require mental health services, making the measurement of psychological conditions in later life a priority. However, due to a lack of measures created for older adults, researchers and clinicians must often rely on measures created for younger populations. Three studies were designed to add to the field of evidence-based assessment and determine which anxiety measures possess strong evidence when used with older adults to warrant their use with this specific population. In the first study, I systematically reviewed the literature to identify the anxiety measures most commonly used with older adults. I reviewed each measure to examine its psychometric properties (e.g., internal consistency, test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability, concurrent and discriminant validity) and the availability of age-appropriate norms in order to evaluate whether the instruments are appropriate for use with older adults. In the second study, I conducted a reliability generalization meta-analysis to estimate the mean reliability of each commonly used anxiety measure identified in the first study. Finally, in the third study, I examined whether the anxiety measures commonly used with an older population can be consistently and accurately categorized as evidence-based. The literature review and the reliability generalization study both revealed that most of the most commonly used measures lacked sufficient evidence to warrant their use with older adults. However, three measures (Beck Anxiety Inventory, Penn State Worry Questionnaire, and Geriatric Mental Status Examination) showed psychometric properties sufficient to justify the use of these instruments when assessing anxiety in older adults. In addition, two measures developed specifically for older adults (Worry Scale and Geriatric Anxiety Inventory) were also found to be appropriate for use with older adults. This suggests that based on their overall level of reliability and previous psychometric evidence, both researchers and clinicians assessing anxiety in a geriatric population should consider these measures as likely to be the best currently available.
ECAP7 - Seventh European Congress of Analytic Philosophy
Creators: name: Cozzi, Mattia
name: Herbstritt, Michele
name: Lini, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2011

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 2, N° 2 (2011): Filosofia della Matematica
Mechanical Design for Track Robot Climbing Stairs
Creators: name: Rastan, Homayoun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Track robot
Stair climbing

description: The purpose of this study was to find the best robot configuration for climbing and descending stairs, in addition to traveling on flat surfaces. Candidate robot types were analyzed to find the most suitable one for further study, based on stability, size, and energy consumption. Based on these considerations, the non-variable configuration tracked robot type was selected. The basic robot parameters (minimum track size, comparison of tracks with grousers vs. tracks without grousers, track angle of attack) were determined using static analysis methods and using North American standards for the stair geometry. Dynamic analysis methods were then employed to refine the geometry and ensure the stability of the robot when climbing and descending stairs. The final design was then simulated in Matlab to profile the device's velocity, acceleration, and power consumption during the stair climbing and descending phases. A prototype robot was constructed. The results of this study show that a non-variable tracked robot can be constructed for the purpose of climbing stairs by applying static and dynamic analysis techniques to optimize a design. This study provides the groundwork for this design, which can also serve as a basis for designing robots with other configurations.
HBM4EU from the coordinator's perspective: lessons learnt from managing a large-scale EU project
Creators: name: Hülck, Kathrin
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Pack, Kim Laura
name: Gehring, Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring

description: We discuss some important management issues of the Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) from theperspective of the Coordinator that may be valuable for the design and management of similar projects. As alarge-scale international collaborative project, HBM4EU comprised 118 institutions from 30 countries and theEuropean Environment Agency and had a budget of about âą 74 million. It has set up an innovative cooperativenetwork of national and EU authorities and scientific institutions at the science-policy interface. A project of thisscale raises major management challenges and requires transparent, efficient, and well-organized administrativeand scientific steering structures. We present four major points: First, prior to the beginning of the project, theConsortium Agreement needs to be well elaborated to prevent conflicts during the project lifetime. Second, astrong role for national and EU policy-making authorities in the administrative governance structure enhancesthe interest of recipients of project results. Third, large-scale international collaborative projects need an elab-orate and well-financed scientific governance structure. Fourth, a differentiation of funding rates among projectactivities threatens to create conflicts. HBM4EU provides a prototype for EU funded large-scale projects targetingfuture policies for realizing the Green Deal and Zero Pollution Ambition in the field of chemicals, health, andenvironment. © 2022 The Authors
Successful Primary Literacy Development
Creators: name: Moore, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: consistency
high performing
literacy
primary school
successful learning
teacher practice.

description: The ability to read is an essential skill that forms the basis for learning. All students have the ability to learn and achieve their own personal best if they are supported by teachers and schools that successfully foster literacy learning; however, for a variety of reasons not all students achieve literacy success. The purpose of this research was to explore the successful literacy learning practices achieved across a whole primary school. The research question asked 'How do teachers facilitate successful literacy learning in a high performing primary school in South East Queensland?' This research project presents a case study of one school's ongoing practices that contribute to achieving successful literacy learning for all students. The research was conducted through three separate phases, using interviews, classroom observations and an online survey. Phase 1 aimed to identify the ethos and expectations that govern whole school practices, through semi-structured interviews with various members of the school's leadership team. Classroom observations of one teacher from each year level (Prep to Year 6) were conducted in Phase 2, in order to identify individual teacher literacy practices. Finally Phase 3 sought to consolidate findings accumulated from across the research project through an anonymous online survey. Teachers who had previously participated in classroom observations, took part in the online survey to confirm and reinforce the successful literacy practices being implemented across the school. The results identify eight practices that occur consistently across whole school and classroom practice. First, striving for continual self-improvement on both a whole school and individual level is supported through the second practice of open communication and a united goal for success. Third, accompanied by a plethora of stimulating resources and fourth, appropriate support systems, the fifth practice of meaningful literacy learning is achieved. Thus the sixth practice of fostering positive mindsets within staff and students is achieved, as well as the seventh, developing personal and professional growth across the school. The implications of these findings demonstrate that through the eighth practice of consistent individual teacher practice, which reflects School ABC's ethos, successful literacy learning is attainable. Additional research could be undertaken to explore these findings with a broader scope of teachers within the same school. Further a comparison could be conducted to see how these findings align with literacy practices being implemented within other high performing schools.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 59 Nr. 2 (2017): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2021

description: Band LIX (2017), Heft 2


 
description: New Evidence for a Scribal-Nun’s Art: Maria di Ormanno degli Albizzi at San Gaggio...271-279
Familienbande...262-270
“Le tems revient” dans le Voyage vers la Terre promise de Bronzino...234-261
“Donna bella e crudele”: Michelangelo’s “Divine Heads” in Light of the Rime...202-233
Charles V, Bartolomé Ordóñez, and the Tomb of Joanna of Castile and Philip of Burgundy in Granada: An Iconographical Perspective of a Major Royal Monument of Renaissance Europe...174-201
“My Friend Ficino”...146-173
Inhalt | Contenuto
Autofrictions: the fictopoet, the critic and the teacher
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The dissolution of boundaries between creative and essay writing overtly or implicitly advocated some thirty years ago in the USA by the 'language poets' and in France by feminist writers has been confirmed by the more recent adoption of the term 'fictocriticism' in Australia. One of the lessons to be learned from such radical works as those gathered in Heather Kerr and Amanda Nettlebeck’s edited collection, 'The Space Between' (1998), is that neither poetic nor critical language can any longer claim to be impervious to the debates that have dominated academic and philosophical thought for the last thirty years. The theoretical and political concerns that inform the speculative and often poetic prose of the women whose work figure in The Space Between, for instance, proves congenial to academics engaged in deconstruction, cultural studies and interdisciplinary approaches to art and literature as well as to teachers of creative writing at tertiary level. The paucity of critical material on this kind of work, however, has the disquieting effect of reminding us that we still lack the critical vocabulary to re-examine the paradoxes built into some of the most exciting work done in Australia over the past few decades, let alone to teach them. This paper investigates the literal, metaphorical and ideological implications of 'hybrid' texts/genres for criticism in general, and for the workshopping of creative work in particular. The question underlying this investigation concerns the place of poetic discourse in fictocriticism. This is consonant with my understanding of genre as 'index and mark' representing ‘the site of the nonsubstitutable positioning of the I and the you and of their modalities of expression’ and of poetic discourse as 'an unsettling process ... of identity of meaning and speaking subject'.
Additional file 6 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Depression level in relation to age, WHO grade and education level. Depression was evaluated with the PHQ-9 instrument. A6a: Mean PHQ-9 score for depression depending on age. A6b: Mean PHQ-9 score for depression depending on WHO grade. A6c: Mean PHQ-9 score for depression depending on education level. The depression level is depicted as mean PHQ-9 score for all items.
Additional file 8 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8. Patient characteristics according to information need. Absolute and relative distributions of demographic factors, tumor-related factors, information levels and depression level in relation to current information need are shown. Information need is depicted as informed vs. not informed; N = 172 information need questionnaires were collected; missing scores were excluded from the analysis; significant levels are shown in bold.
Exploring the social enterprise: Factors important to sustainability
Creators: name: Jenner, Peter
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: social enterprise
sustainability
social capital

description: The theoretical underpinning of social enterprise management remains limited, particularly in terms of the nature of the important relationships that are critical to their sustained success. This study incorporates Social Capital Theory as the principal lens to examine how the networks of social enterprise managers influence the sustainability of these ventures. The research for this thesis used a concurrent, convergent mixed methods approach on a sample of 93 social enterprise leaders using surveys and face-to-face interviews. The participants were sourced from a cross-section of social enterprise organisational types from urban and regional locations in Australia and Scotland, allowing for a cross-country comparative analysis.
title: The use of natural resources
title: The Use of Natural Resources. Report for Germany 2016.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lutter, Stephan
name: Giljum, Stefan
name: Lieber, Mirko
name: Manstein, Christopher
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: natural resources
subject: report
subject: 2016
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Soil | Land

description: With the report on "The Use of Natural Resources - Report for Germany 2016Ł, the German Environment Agency (UBA) sheds light upon the current situation regarding resource use in Germany. The first UBA resources report focuses on renewable and non-renewable raw materials. The themes covered range from raw material extraction and trade to the use of raw materials in the German economic system and raw material consumption. Other resources, such as water, land or flow resources, are the focus of a separate chapter. In order to provide a comprehensive picture, the report includes an in-depth account of aspects such as dependency on direct and indirect imports, thereby also addressing implications for supply security.
Source: Verlagsinformation
description: With the report on “The Use of Natural Resources - Report for Germany 2016”, the German Environment Agency (⁠UBA⁠) sheds light upon the current situation regarding resource use in Germany. The first UBA resources report focuses on renewable and non-renewable raw materials. The themes covered range from raw material extraction and trade to the use of raw materials in the German economic system and raw material consumption. Other resources, such as water, land or flow resources, are the focus of a separate chapter. In order to provide a comprehensive picture, the report includes an in-depth account of aspects such as dependency on direct and indirect imports, thereby also addressing implications for supply security.
Sandy beach ecosystem resilience and adaptation to sea level rise
Creators: name: Berry, Ashton
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: coastal development
ecological conservation
engineered options
protection
retreat
sea level rise
vulnerability
adaptation options
climate change
coastal management
coastal squeeze
development
ecosystem conservation
adaptive capacity

description: Coastal ecosystems are some of the most dynamic in the world. Often forming the interface between oceanic and terrestrial influences, they can be highly exposed environments repeatedly experiencing extremes of temperature, salinity, storms and tides. Climate change also has significant impact on coastal ecosystems through patterns of increasing temperature, decreasing rainfall and the growing frequency and intensity of storm events. However, it is widely considered in the scientific community that the impact of sea level rise (SLR) will prove the most critical to natural and human coastal systems. Increasing sea levels are likely to submerge many low-lying coastal areas and intensify other disturbances including storms and shoreline erosion and retreat. This is especially the case for ecosystems at the forefront of the impacts of SLR, such as sandy beach ecosystems (SBEs). The extent to which SLR will impact SBEs and, critically, how these systems will adapt and maintain their resilience to the resulting impacts is the basis for abundant coastal research globally. The resilience of SBEs to SLR forms the core research theme for this PhD thesis. SBEs, comprised of wave, intertidal and backshore zones, are formed from loose unconsolidated accumulations of sand that respond dynamically to the erosive action of waves, winds and currents. Due to their susceptibility to erosion, SBEs are highly vulnerable to SLR. Over millennia, sandy beaches have retreated landward over many kilometres due to historic fluctuations in sea level. As they move they form refugial habitat for those species able to track their migration. Sandy beaches that are unable to retreat are squeezed and eventually drown as sea levels continue to increase. Refugial habitats retain the requisite ecological, physiological, and environmental conditions conducive to the survival of individual species and ecosystems over ecological and climatic timescales. Refugia play an important role in the conservation of ecosystems and species as climates change, yet many habitats that function as refugia have yet to be recognised or protected.