cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Type I Interferon-Mediated Killing of Cancer Cells with IAP-Targeted Combination Immunotherapy
Creators: name: Beauregard, Caroline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cancer
Immunotherapy
SMAC Mimetics
Interferon

description: SMAC mimetic compounds (SMCs) are small molecule antagonists of the Inhibitor of Apoptosis (IAP) family of proteins. Binding of SMCs to the IAPs results in the sensitization of cancer cells to apoptosis in the presence of death ligands, such as tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα). I hypothesize that type I interferon (IFN) stimulation in cancer cells and in immune cells leads to the production of TNFα, which can then synergize with SMCs to kill cancer cells. The combined treatment of SMC and IFNα induces tumour regression in mice, and this effect is completely abrogated upon treatment with TNFα-neutralizing antibody. The synergistic effects are mediated by tumour cells and by contribution of immune cells, particularly macrophages and dendritic cells, as the systemic depletion of phagocytic innate immune cells results in an increase in tumour volume following combination treatment. The characterization of immune cell contribution will aid in the translation of the SMC combination therapy into clinical applications for the treatment of cancer.
Conversation with Meir Sternberg
Creators: name: Pianzola, Federico
name: Passalacqua, Franco
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Below are the videos of the interview recorded the 21st May 2011 in Fribourg (CH), in occasion of the first RRN conference.Conversation with Meir Sternberg.Part 1 of 8 - Narratology: classical and postclassical studies. Part 2 of 8 - The development of an original theoretical framework. Part 3 of 8 - Sternberg and Genette: different ways for the same problems. Part 4 of 8 - «There are no forms except in terms of functions». Part 5 of 8 - A life writing articles: so many papers and just four books. Part 6 of 8 - Two arguments against mimetical approaches to narrative. Part 7 of 8 - «Narrative is not given, it is a construct». Part 8 of 8 - The proteus principle. the many-to-many correspondence between forms and functions.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
The Role of School Principals in Activating the Community Partnership, in Light of Total Quality Standards
Creators: name: Bassam Mahmoud Bany Yassien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Role of School Principals, Activating, Community Partnership

description: The school principals should take numerous and tangible leadership roles, which include the activation of community partnership, since they are the one capable of attracting the local community members to actively participate in all school activities, and they are also capable of bringing the society in its political, economical, social, health, and cultural aspects closer to the educational process, therefore this partnership help to support the school activities, shows its effective role in serving the local community members, and increase the level of interest in the educational process from the external society with all its classes and concerns.

The aim of this study is to identify the role of school principals in Irbid city educational directorate in activating the community partnership, in the light o total quality standards. The sample of the study consisted of (422) male and female teachers selected using random sampling in the academic year 2019/2020. . The result shows that in all three dimension," the practices of parent nurturing and education in the home environment, the volunteer programs and the partnership with local community institutions, the communication processes and participation in the decision making: came at the moderate level. The result shows that there is no significant differences in all three dimension  at the level ((α=0.05)
Relationships among provision of care, health and well-being, and engagement in health promoting activity of older adults who are the primary caregivers for spouses with cancer.
Creators: name: Keizer, Mary C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Gerontology.

description: This exploratory study investigated the relationships among the provision of care, physical and emotional health, and exercise and socialization among spousal caregivers of older adults with cancer. The Pender Health Promotion Model formed the conceptual framework for the study. Face to face interviews were conducted with sixty spousal caregivers of elderly individuals with cancer who were being cared for in their home. Findings indicated that the majority of respondents participated in health promoting activities (exercise and socialization) both prior to and following spouses' diagnosis of cancer. There was, however a decline in participation in all forms of physical exercise inquired about, particularly those requiring absence from the home, following spouses' diagnosis. With respect to socialization, face to face interactions with family, friends and others remained unchanged, however, social outings declined dramatically. Caregivers perceived their overall health to have declined since their spouse's diagnosis of cancer. Caregivers provided a substantial amount of assistance to their spouse in the form of personal and instrumental activities of daily living. This study also examined the strength of the major variables as predictors of participation in health promoting activity as hypothesized by the Pender model. Correlational analysis revealed a significant relationship between engagement in exercise and self rated health. Indeed, the greatest predictor of health-promoting activity was prior levels of participation in exercise and socialization, which is not identified as an important predictor of health-promoting activity in the Pender Health Promotion Model. Consequently, alterations to the Pender Model were proposed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Improving occupational stress through emotional intelligence development
Creators: name: Hansen, Karen
name: Gardner, Lisa
name: Stough, Con
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Statistics imply that occupational stress is increasing. Whilst certain stressors may transcend individual differences, it is now generally accepted that the experience of stress or negative emotions is moderated by the way in which individuals appraise and perceive their relationship with the environment. Attention is directed to the concept of EI as a moderating variable in the stress process with emerging interest in the role emotions play in the way individuals appraise and respond to potentially threatening events or situations. Theoretically, a higher level of EI results in less occupational stress and better psychological and physical health. The authors developed a stress management programme combining traditional aspects of stress management with EI development (SSMP). The SSMP is described in its use as a training tool that incorporates modification of the stress-causing environment, and skill training in emotional self-management.
Supplementary document for Rapid multi-plane phase-contrast microscopy reveals torsional dynamics in flagellar motion - 5191243.pdf
Creators: name: Mojiri, Soheil
name: Isbaner, Sebastian
name: Mühle, Steffen
name: Jang, Hongje
name: Bae, Albert Johann
name: Gregor, Ingo
name: Gholami, Azam
name: Enderlein, Joerg
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Supplementary information
Conversation with Thomas Pavel
Creators: name: Sotgiu, Antonio
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Below are the videos of the interview recorded in Paris in May 2011.Conversation with Thomas Pavel.Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Northrop Frye, Verso e prosa
Creators: name: Sullam, Sara
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: ﻿La voce Verso and Prosa, compilata da Northrop Frye per la Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1974), riprende le riflessioni del «Manuale di stile» ne Il Critico ben temperato (1963) e può essere letta come appendice al quarto saggio dell’Anatomia della critica (1957).
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 5 (2011)
Towards homo digitalis: important research issues for Psychology and the Neurosciences at the dawn of the internet of things and the digital society
Creators: name: Montag, Christian
name: Diefenbach, Sarah
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: fragmentation of everyday life
subject: Internet and smartphone addiction
subject: primary emotional systems
subject: productivity
subject: future work places
subject: digital depression
subject: digital etiquette
subject: homo digitalis
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Human-computer interaction
subject: Digital communications; Psychological aspects
subject: Internet addiction
subject: Neuroplasticity
subject: Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
subject: Neuronale Plastizität
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Online-Sucht

description: The present article gives an overview on central challenges humans face at the dawn of complex digital societies and the Internet of Things (IoT), i.e., a world completely connected to the Internet. Among the many challenges to be handled in digital societies is a growing fragmented life style leading to loss of productivity as well as moments for self-reflection. In all this, it is of tremendous importance to understand the impact of digital worlds on our brains and psyches and to reveal possible unintended side-effects of technology use. Does human nature change due to constant interactions with virtual realities? In this context, we also face the challenge to design digital worlds according to our mammalian-emotional heritage deeply anchored in subcortical areas of the human brain. Here, we refer to emotional needs as carved out by Panksepp’s Affective Neuroscience Theory and how they can or cannot be fulfilled in digital worlds. Aside from a review of several key studies dealing with the raised challenges, some first solutions to successfully meet the mentioned problems are provided to achieve sustainable and healthy digital worlds, with whom humans can interact carefree on a daily basis.
Supplementary document for Rapid multi-plane phase-contrast microscopy reveals torsional dynamics in flagellar motion - 5191243.pdf
Creators: name: Mojiri, Soheil
name: Isbaner, Sebastian
name: Mühle, Steffen
name: Jang, Hongje
name: Bae, Albert Johann
name: Gregor, Ingo
name: Gholami, Azam
name: Enderlein, Joerg
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Supplementary information
title: Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen und dem Kyoto-Protokoll 2014
title: NIR 2014 (deutsch)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Gemäß der Entscheidung 15/CMP.1 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten, die auch Mitgliedsstaaten des Kyoto-Protokolls sind, ab dem Jahr 2010 jährliche Inventare vorlegen, um die flexiblen Mechanismen nach Artikel 6, 12 und 17 des Kyoto-Protokolls in Anspruch nehmen zu können.
Deutschland legt zusammen mit den Inventartabellen den Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) vor, der sich auf den Zeitraum der Inventartabellen bezieht und die Methoden sowie die Datenquellen beschreibt, auf denen die Berechnungen basieren.
Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Gemäß der Entscheidung 15/CMP.1 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten, die auch Mitgliedsstaaten des Kyoto-Protokolls sind, ab dem Jahr 2010 jährliche Inventare vorlegen, um die flexiblen Mechanismen nach Artikel 6, 12 und 17 des Kyoto-Protokolls in Anspruch nehmen zu können.Deutschland legt zusammen mit den Inventartabellen den Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) vor, der sich auf den Zeitraum der Inventartabellen bezieht und die Methoden sowie die Datenquellen beschreibt, auf denen die Berechnungen basieren.
It's never too late: documenting trans* and gender diverse people’s experiences of gender affirmation in mid - later life in the Northern Rivers of NSW
Creators: name: Curmi, Gyps Jesse Jae
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Trans*
Trans and gender diverse
TGD
Older
Northern Rivers
Narrative inquiry
Cultural studies
Gender euphoria

description: There is little research on mid-life and older trans* and gender diverse (TGD) people living in regional areas. This study documents the experiences of eight mid-life and older TGD people making the decision to begin gender affirmation in later life in the Northern Rivers of NSW. Employing a cultural studies approach, the study uses narrative inquiry interviews with seven participants alongside autoethnographic reflections of the researcher from journaling and field notes on the research processes. As a small study of situated knowledges, the stories told are unique and timely. Indeed, the interviews took place in early 2018, a pivotal moment politically, in the aftermath of the Marriage Equality plebiscite, and mainstream media’s scaremongering about gender identity, and promotion of citizen policing of public toilets.
description: Many of the participants’ narratives explore their childhood gender identities, lack of knowledge or access to role models in conservative small-town places, and feelings of ‘wrongness,’ internalised transphobia, and poor mental health, including suicidal ideation and attempted suicide when these feelings of unbelonging were carried into adulthood. The narratives’ sociocultural contexts contrast with those of younger TGD people, with participants having little access in their youth to gender diverse media representations or puberty blockers that would have allowed them to carefully consider their gender identities before the irrevocable changes of puberty. The small body of literature on older TGD people focuses on medicalisation, lack of knowledgeable service providers, gatekeeping, resilience, gender dysphoria and poor mental health. This study fills a gap by also documenting participants’ feelings of comfort, joy, happiness, and gender euphoric moments once they begin gender affirmation – something which has received little attention in comparable studies thus far. Unlike the few existing rural studies that note intolerance or conditional acceptance based on cisnormative stereotypes, this study finds a significant degree of community acceptance of gender diversity in the Northern Rivers.
'JazZinG uP' the teaching in a re-newing poly-versity centre for innovation and entrepreneurship
Creators: name: Mellalieu, Jeanne-Pierre
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The article responds to the apposite questions: What new key initiatives could be adopted by a newly-reformed, tertiary-sector, dual-mode school of business, innovation, and enterprise (sbie) to 'jazz up' its practical application of modern information and communication technologies, and other innovations in teaching and learning? How should the new initiatives be deployed in order to embrace not only the school's current core teaching activities, but also the school's need to create and introduce risk-managed learning environments and learning adventures that give credence to sbie's aspiration to deliver 'real world' and research-informed learning?
Representation of Marriage and Relationships in Romantic Comedies from 2010
Creators: name: Mulawka, Natalia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: marriage
singles
singlims
romantic comedies
mass media

description: The mass media portrays traditional forms of marital status in contemporary films despite changing demographics. This thesis argues that romantic relationships are presented as a normative and significant part of completing a predetermined life course in adulthood. Specifically, recent films are entrenched with ideological messages regarding heterosexual marriage and fail to represent singles adequately. In Canadian society, legal marriage is becoming less frequent, common law relationships are increasing, family formations are more diverse, and individuals are happily choosing to be single. Therefore, it is crucial to explore if the media, a powerful socializing agent, communicates a preference for marriage by promoting the ideology of marriage. A content analysis was performed on nine top grossing films that were released in 2010. Overall, the findings demonstrate that regardless of changing demographics, the media privileges marriage and marginalizes singlehood. These films contribute to strengthening traditional ideologies of marriage and family and reinforce discrimination against singles.
The Device Discovery in Bluetooth Scatternet Formation Algorithm
Creators: name: Jedda, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: device discovery
distributed algorithms
Bluetooth Scatternet Formation
Bluetooth

description: The Bluetooth Scatternet Formation (BSF) problem can be defined as the problem of forming wireless networks of Bluetooth devices in an efficient manner. A number of restrictions imposed by the Bluetooth specifications make the BSF problem challenging and unique. Many interesting solution algorithms have been proposed in the literature to solve this problem. In this thesis, we investigate the BSF problem. We concentrate on problems introduced by the procedures of device discovery of the Bluetooth specifications and on the different solutions used by BSF algorithms to deal with these problems. We study also in this thesis problems introduced by the specifications of link establishment in Bluetooth due to their close interaction with the device discovery specifications. We survey and categorize the different device discovery techniques used by BSF algorithms. This categorization is then used as a basis to identify the different theoretical computational models used to study BSF algorithms. We argue, in this thesis, that the currently available models for Bluetooth wireless networks do not model adequately, in most cases, the complexities of the Bluetooth specifications and we show that these models were oversimplified in many cases. A general computational model will be useful as a starting point to design BSF algorithms and to compare the different and numerous BSF algorithms – especially in term of the execution time efficiency. In this thesis, we provide a set of suggestions that will help in the creation of such model. We survey a number of studies that examined in more depth the specifications of device discovery in Bluetooth. We survey also other studies that attempted to simplify the Bluetooth network model, either by suggesting modifications on the Bluetooth specifications or by the use of communication technologies other than Bluetooth. Finally, we present some experiments accompanied with analyzes to show the complexities of the Bluetooth specifications and their sensitivity to minor changes (whether in the specifications or in their implementation).
Hélia Correia, «Lillias Fraser», traduzione dal portoghese di Guia Boni, Roma, Cavallo di Ferro, 2010, 254 pp.
Creators: name: Bennici, Milani
name: Milani, Ada
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Electrothermally Driven Hydrogel-on-Flex-Circuit Actuator for Smart Steerable Catheters
Creators: name: Selvaraj, Madeshwaran
name: Takahata, Kenichi
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: This paper reports an active catheter-tip device functionalized by integrating a temperature-responsive smart polymer onto a microfabricated flexible heater strip, targeting at enabling the controlled steering of catheters through complex vascular networks. A bimorph-like strip structure is enabled by photo-polymerizing a layer of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel (PNIPAM), on top of a 20 x 3.5 mm² flexible polyimide film that embeds a micropatterned heater fabricated using a low-cost flex-circuit manufacturing process. The heater activation stimulates the PNIPAM layer to shrink and bend the tip structure. The bending angle is shown to be adjustable with the amount of power fed to the device, proving the device’s feasibility to provide the integrated catheter with a controlled steering ability for a wide range of navigation angles. The powered device exhibits uniform heat distribution across the entire PNIPAM layer, with a temperature variation of <2 °C. The operation of fabricated prototypes assembled on commercial catheter tubes demonstrates their bending angles of up to 200°, significantly larger than those reported with other smart-material-based steerable catheters. The temporal responses and bending forces of their actuations are also characterized to reveal consistent and reproducible behaviors. This proof-of-concept study verifies the promising features of the prototyped approach to the targeted application area.
Stoffstromorientierte Lösungsansätze für eine hochwertige Verwertung von gemischten gewerblichen Siedlungsabfällen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abfallzusammensetzung
subject: Feste Siedlungsabfälle
subject: Abfallverwertung
subject: Gewerblicher Abfall
subject: Abfallsortieranlage
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Das Projekt untersucht mittels ökobilanzieller Methoden, wie sich eine stärker an der Abfallhierarchie des Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes ausgerichtete Entsorgung von ca. 6 Mio. Mg/a gemischter gewerblicher Siedlungsabfälle auf verschiedene umweltbezogene Wirkungskategorien auswirkt. Auf der Grundlage von durchgeführten Sortieranlagenbilanzierungen werden drei Untersuchungsvarianten erstellt, bei denen die aussortierten Wertstoffmengen und der damit verbundene Aufbereitungsaufwand ansteigt.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Das Projekt untersucht mittels ökobilanzieller Methoden, wie sich eine stärker an der Abfallhierar-chie des Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetzes ausgerichtete Entsorgung von ca. 6 Mio. Mg/a gemischter gewerblicher Siedlungsabfälle auf verschiedene umweltbezogene Wirkungskategorien auswirkt. Auf der Grundlage von durchgeführten Sortieranlagenbilanzierungen werden drei Untersuchungsva-rianten erstellt, bei denen die aussortierten Wertstoffmengen und der damit verbundene Aufberei-tungsaufwand ansteigt.
Unearthing the axe heads: Hearing about Indigenous-led Evaluation from Aboriginal survivors of The Stolen Generations
Creators: name: Tujague, Nicole
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Indigenous Evaluation
Stolen Generations
Survivor-led
Intergenerational-Trauma

description: The Research Title
description: Unearthing the axe heads – Hearing about Indigenous-led evaluation from Aboriginal survivors of the Stolen Generations
description: The Research Question
description: What can we learn about Indigenous Evaluation (IE) through understanding what works in an Aboriginal, survivor-led project that interrupts intergenerational trauma and supports healing the wounds of colonisation?
description: For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, barriers exist that make it difficult or even impossible to access services that are designed to improve our lives. Over six billion dollars are spent each year in Australia on projects and programs that affect our lives, yet less than 7% of these programs go through an evaluation process. Those that are evaluated are done so through a Western lens. This lack of meaningful evaluation perpetuates the non-Indigenous view or stereotype that “nothing works” in Aboriginal communities.
description: In this research, I wanted to understand what Aboriginal Peoples feel is important when evaluating projects and programs that impact their lives. I wanted to understand what it is Aboriginal Peoples care about when measuring the worth of projects, programs and policies that affect their lives.
description: I worked with the survivors of one of Australia’s most cruel institutions that operated during Australia’s era of The Stolen Generations. I yarned with 20 Aboriginal people: the survivors; their descendants; and the staff of their organisation.
description: The Indigenous data methodologies of yarning, Thought Rituals and Collaborative Story Analysis, to uncover the key messages from the stories I heard, were used.
description: The yarns that revealed that ‘healing’ was the single most important indicator that needs to be measured when evaluating projects and programs that affect Aboriginal Peoples. I also learned that projects and programs should interrupt intergenerational trauma, successfully build safe spaces (both culturally safe and trauma-informed), create opportunities for Aboriginal voices to be heard and help close the equity gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
description: I found that Indigenous Evaluation has the potential to be a healing tool for Aboriginal Peoples. The social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Peoples in Australia can be supported by ensuring policies and programs are more culturally safe, trauma-informed and effective. This means Indigenous Evaluations must incorporate the values and things that matter to Aboriginal Peoples. This includes the way evaluations are carried out and most importantly, what we consider to be ‘success’ when we evaluate these programs. Finally, the design and facilitation of Indigenous Evaluations should be done by Indigenous Peoples.
Supplementary document for Supercontinuum generation in single-crystal YAG fibers pumped around the zero-dispersion wavelength - 5191516.pdf
Creators: name: Tripepi, Michael
name: Barrette, Andrew
name: Ferdinandus, Manuel
name: Eshel, Ben
name: Averett, Kent
name: Chowdhury, Enam
name: Liebig, Carl
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Armando Baptista-Bastos, «José Saramago. Un ritratto appassionato», traduzione di Daniele Petruccioli, Roma, L’Asino d’Oro Edizioni, 2011, 162 pp.
Creators: name: Scaramucci, Marianna
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
D4.1 - Design of protocols for key, firmware and workload management in ITEEs for medical devices
Creators: name: RISE Research Institutes Of Sweden AB
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Document describing software and hardware features necessary to implement ITEEs that support efficient and scalable execution of workloads, isolated from powerful adversaries. This deliverable will further contain a set of protocols for key, firmware and workload management in ITEEs.
The NANOGrav 11-year data set: High-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars
Creators: name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Brazier, Adam
name: Burke-Spolaor, Sarah
name: Chamberlin, Sydney
name: Chatterjee, Shami
name: Christy, Brian
name: Cordes, James M.
name: Cornish, Neil J.
name: Crawford, Fronefield
name: Cromartie, H. Thankful
name: Crowter, Kathryn
name: DeCesar, Megan E.
name: Demorest, Paul B.
name: Dolch, Timothy
name: Ellis, Justin A.
name: Ferdman, Robert D.
name: Ferrara, Elizabeth C.
name: Fonseca, Emmanuel
name: Garver-Daniels, Nathan
name: Gentile, Peter A.
name: Halmrast, Daniel
name: Huerta, E. A.
name: Jenet, Fredrick A.
name: Jessup, Cody
name: Jones, Glenn
name: Jones, Megan L.
name: Lam, Michael T.
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Levin, Lina
name: W. Lazio, T. Joseph
name: Lommen, Andrea
name: Lorimer, Duncan R.
name: Luo, Jing
name: Lynch, Ryan S.
name: Madison, Dustin
name: Matthews, Allison M.
name: McLaughlin, Maura A.
name: McWilliams, Sean T.
name: Mingarelli, Chiara
name: Ng, Cherry
name: Nice, David J.
name: Pennucci, Timothy T.
name: Ransom, Scott M.
name: Ray, Paul S.
name: Siemens, Xavier
name: Simon, Joseph
name: Spiewak, Renée
name: Stairs, Ingrid H.
name: Stinebring, Daniel R.
name: Stovall, Kevin
name: Swiggum, Joseph K.
name: Taylor, Stephen R.
name: Vallisneri, Michele
name: van Haasteren, Rutger
name: Vigeland, Sarah J.
name: Zhu, Weiwei
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present high-precision timing data over time spans of up to 11 years for 45 millisecond pulsars observed as part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) project, aimed at detecting and characterizing low-frequency gravitational waves. The pulsars were observed with the Arecibo Observatory and/or the Green Bank Telescope at frequencies ranging from 327 MHz to 2.3 GHz. Most pulsars were observed with approximately monthly cadence, and six high-timing-precision pulsars were observed weekly. All were observed at widely separated frequencies at each observing epoch in order to fit for time-variable dispersion delays. We describe our methods for data processing, time-of-arrival (TOA) calculation, and the implementation of a new, automated method for removing outlier TOAs. We fit a timing model for each pulsar that includes spin, astrometric, and (for binary pulsars) orbital parameters; time-variable dispersion delays; and parameters that quantify pulse-profile evolution with frequency. The timing solutions provide three new parallax measurements, two new Shapiro delay measurements, and two new measurements of significant orbital-period variations. We fit models that characterize sources of noise for each pulsar. We find that 11 pulsars show significant red noise, with generally smaller spectral indices than typically measured for non-recycled pulsars, possibly suggesting a different origin. A companion paper uses these data to constrain the strength of the gravitational-wave background.
Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, «La verdadera historia de Aladino», Santo Domingo, Alfaguara Juvenil y Editora Nacional, 2008, 112 pp.; «Las bodas de Caperucita», Santo Domingo, Fundación Educarte - Mediabyte, 2008, 52 pp.
Creators: name: Manera, Danilo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Imagined Communities: The Role of the Churches During and After Apartheid in Sophiatown
Creators: name: Mafuta, Willy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Identity Politics
Dutch Reformed Church
African Independent Churches
Race and Ethnicity in south Africa
South Africa Post-Apartheid
Role of the Churches
Rainbow Nation
Group Area Act
Group Resettlement Act
Sophiatown
Triomf
Trevor Huddleston

description: Many around the world have come to know South Africa as the rainbow nation, yet this notion has been subject to enormous critiques in the political discourse. The rainbow nation was conceived by the Government of National Unity that came to power in 1994, but it failed to materialize. What post-apartheid South Africa has yielded instead is a nation, or an imagined community, where race and ethnicity never receded. Although they are no longer pathological, race and ethnicity have become normative typifications of an overarching identity. Churches in particular have played a major role in creating a new identity. Churches have managed to move beyond the yoke of race and ethnicity enforced during the Apartheid under the Group Areas Act and the Resettlement Acts, and epitomized by the destruction of the vibrant city of Sophiatown and, in its place, the building of Triomf, an Afrikaner imagined community. Churches have led the way in deconstructing the perceived or realized power or disempowerment that is residual to the Apartheid. In reconstructing the community, they have re-imagined an environment where race and ethnicity remain the standard component of the South African national identity. This re-imagining requires that race and ethnicity be constructed as relational rather than hierarchical. Moreover, it requires that one acknowledge the woundedness (e.g., shame, anger, guilt, hurt, humiliation, betrayal, fear, resentment) that racial typifications create. As a social construction, Churches in Sophiatown are fostering this ethical environment where these values are embraced.
Mega Event Organizing Committees: Investment in Anti-Doping Personnel
Creators: name: Koop, Matthew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Doping Control Officer
Mega Sport Event
Mega Event Organizing Committee
Anti Doping
2015 Toronto Pan American Games

description: Peer reviewed literature currently provides little knowledge of how to recruit and train Doping Control Officers (DCOs) for Mega Sport Events. This study adds to the existing body of literature on creating knowledge transfer and legacy for future Mega Event Organizing Committees. A phenomenological designed study was conducted through the use of a qualitative on-line survey during the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games. A survey response rate of 58% was achieved. Survey responses by DCOs were analyzed using inductive coding to identify four main themes; i) DCO motivations, ii) training program design, iii) engagement and support, and iv) barriers to participation in the results. Recommendations include using mixed methods for future studies, provide DCOs with training and evaluation opportunities prior to the Mega Sport Event, and developing mentorship opportunities during games operations. Additional research is needed to create greater understanding of DCO motivations and perceptions beyond this study.
From existence to survival: evaluating sustainability factors in a new social entrepreneurship venture
Creators: name: Gillin, Loris O.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It is uncommon to have a 'start-up' in entrepreneurship documented and critically evaluated while still a fledgling. This is even less likely to occur when a venture into social entrepreneurship has come into existence and is growing to the survival stage (Churchill and Lewis 1983). Such an occurrence and the associated transition forms the topic of this paper. Where people congregate together in a given community or community of interest, it is a truism that there is no shortage of good ideas. But the non-profit sector in Australia has traditionally paid scant attention to sustainability. It has also relied heavily upon a culture of fundraising to support whatever form a single good idea takes. Now that a model exists to give a more certain functional structure to a social entrepreneurship venture (Gillin, 2006), it is possible to identify a genuine social entrepreneur and goodwill support team, and cluster of support processes to grow a venture from its inception. The social venture of this study is a membership organization, raising the consciousness of diverse sectoral interests of change for the better which can occur at the grass roots in the community. It provides interactive information across a spectrum of usefulness; and sees itself in a secondary role to the primary role of existing social enterprises and future partnerships.
Francisco Zamora Loboch, «Conspiración en el green (El informe Abayak)», Madrid, Sial / Casa de África, 2009, 415 pp.
Creators: name: Marmonti, Alessia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Modelling the spread of Covid19 in Italy using a revised version of the SIR model
Creators: name: Palladino, Andrea
name: Nardelli, Vincenzo
name: Atzeni, Luigi Giuseppe
name: Cantatore, Nane
name: Cataldo, Maddalena
name: Croccolo, Fabrizio
name: Estrada, Nicolas
name: Tombolini, Antonio
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2020

description: 11 pp. (2020).
description: In this paper, we present a model to predict the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic and apply it to the specific case of Italy. We started from a simple Susceptible, Infected, Recovered (SIR) model and we added the condition that, after a certain time, the basic reproduction number $R_0$ exponentially decays in time, as empirically suggested by world data. Using this model, we were able to reproduce the real behavior of the epidemic with an average error of 5\%. Moreover, we illustrate possible future scenarios, associated to different intervals of $R_0$. This model has been used since the beginning of March 2020, predicting the Italian peak of the epidemic in April 2020 with about 100.000 detected active cases. The real peak of the epidemic happened on the 20th of April 2020, with 108.000 active cases. This result shows that the model had predictive power for the italian case.
Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, «Il metrò», traduzione di Valeria Magnani, Siena, Edizioni Gorée, 2010, 432 pp.
Creators: name: Chiodaroli, Sara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
TRAVEL CHOICE MODELLING (SET OF MODELS, CODE). FIRST RELEASE
Creators: name: Konstantinou, Christos
name: Giouroukelis, Marios
name: Mantouka, Eleni
name: Vlahogianni, Eleni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Travel Behaviour Survey
Travel Choice Modelling
stated preference
CONEY
discrete choice analysis

description: This document represents the second deliverable, namely D3.2 “Travel Choice Modelling” from Task 3.3, “Travel choice modelling” which takes input from the data collection process of Task 3.2 “Surveys Design and Data Collection” of WP3 “Travel Behaviour Modelling”. The objective of the deliverable is to define the process and methodology to develop travel choice models based on preference data elicited through a structured survey.To collect data for creating and calibrating travel choice models, a travel behaviour survey was designed and disseminated through the CONEY toolkit, which employs a conversational approach to collect stated preference data by enhancing user experience. The scope of the survey was to determine how the introduction of new services, the new traffic management strategies or the alteration of strategic goals in a city may affect travellers’ choices. The survey targeted to collect information from 1,000 participants for each case study in all four cities, and it was disseminated online and on-site. Until M20, 1,859 questionnaires had been collected across all cities, with the collected sample being welldistributed and overall suitable for model development.Based on the collected sample, parametric (Multinomial Logit) and machine learning (Random Forest) models have been developed to predict the mode choice in an aggregated way. The results indicated that the Random Forest models outperformed parametric models in predicting the travel choice of each user in all cities. Moreover, the study investigated the factors that influence the choice among the available travel modes for each user. The most important factors for all cities studied were found to be the trip cost and the total duration of the journey, while other significant factors included age, income, and the degree of satisfaction with the current level of service of public transport.Overall, this study's findings aim to provide a basis for forecasting long-term demand shifts and provides valuable insights into travel mode choice which can inform future urban mobility planning efforts.
Not a Sob Story: Transitioning Out of Sex Work
Creators: name: Law, Tuulia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: sex work
transitioning
labour
transferable skills
exiting
indoor sex workers

description: Although it has been argued that indoor workers in fact make up the majority of the sex industry, most of the literature on the transition out of sex work has looked at street-based workers. This interview-based qualitative research project aims to fill that gap. As such, this thesis examines the trajectories, challenges and strategies of women who transitioned or are in the process of transitioning from criminalized indoor sex work (escorting, erotic massage and domination) to the mainstream labour market. Using Ebaugh’s role exit theory and Goffman’s conceptualization of stigma, intersectional feminist analysis and labour theory, I position the transition as a re-negotiation of self, involving conflicts in identity and class location. My findings suggest that the transition out of sex work is characterized by multiple, parallel work trajectories, wherein the women were successfully able to transfer skills they had acquired in sex work to the mainstream labour market.
Elena Landone, «Los marcadores del discurso y la cortesía verbal en español», Berna, Peter Lang, 2009, 390 pp.
Creators: name: Uribe Mallarino, María Del Rosario
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Supplementary document for Supercontinuum generation in single-crystal YAG fibers pumped around the zero-dispersion wavelength - 5191516.pdf
Creators: name: Tripepi, Michael
name: Barrette, Andrew
name: Ferdinandus, Manuel
name: Eshel, Ben
name: Averett, Kent
name: Chowdhury, Enam
name: Liebig, Carl
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Supplementary document for A novel stress-matched laminated thin film of SiOxNy/SiO2/ SiOxNy for enhanced encapsulation of organic light-emitting devices - 5191658.pdf
Creators: name: chen, zheng
name: Wang, Zhenyu
name: Zhou, Yibin
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Li, Ze
name: Li, Chuannan
name: Chen, Ping
name: Duan, Yu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Nuria Pérez Vicente, «Traducción y contexto. Aproximación a un análisis crítico de traducciones con fines didácticos», Urbino, Quattro-Venti, 2010, 262 pp.
Creators: name: Cancellieri, Natalia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Improving Medication Adherence Post-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Creators: name: Schwalm, Jon-David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Adherence
Myocardial Infarction
Medication

description: ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a common presentation of acute myocardial infarction, constituting approximately 30% of all cases. Based on the highest level of evidence for improvement in both morbidity and mortality in these patients, clinical guidelines from around the world support the prolonged use of secondary preventative medications (e.g., acetylsalicylic acid, second antiplatelet [clopidogrel, prasugrel, and ticagrelor], statin, beta-blocker, and angiotensin blocker). While in-hospital and discharge prescription rates for these essential life-saving medications is excellent, adherence is known to decline within weeks of hospital discharge. This decline in evidence-based medication use was confirmed in a population of patients with coronary artery disease in Ontario (Chapter 3). Furthermore, it was demonstrated that this decline was consistent across all medication classes and subgroups of patients. We developed a protocol (Chapter 4) for a cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of repeated reminders sent by mail to the family physician and the patient, starting one month after the STEMI. The fifth chapter highlights the results of the cluster-randomized controlled trial, which demonstrates suboptimal persistence to all 4 of 4 cardiac medication classes at 12-months. There was no significant difference compared to usual care in the use of guideline-recommended medications post-STEMI when participants (and their family physicians) receive repeated postal reminders.
Factors that Influence Physical Activity Participation in Chinese Teenagers - from the Perspective of a Social Ecology Model (Abstract and citation only)
Creators: name: Hu, Donglin
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Physical activity
Adolescents
Social ecology model
Participation in sport and exercise

description: Recent surveys have indicated that three-quarters of adolescents worldwide do not meet the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended physical activity (PA) levels. Notably, this proportion in China closely mirrors this global trend. The overall objectives of the research presented in this thesis were to identify the key factors that influence adequate levels of PA participation in Chinese adolescents using the Social Ecological Model (SEM) suggested by McLeroy et al. (1988) as the theoretical framework. Five related studies were conducted and reported in the thesis.
description: Study One aimed to conduct a systematic review to investigate the application of the SEM in adolescents' PA and identify any existing issues. The review found no comprehensive research on the factors affecting adolescents’ PA in China that corresponded to the five levels of the SEM. Domestic studies lacked qualitative research and used self-compiled measurement tools without rigorous testing, leading to possible bias.
description: Study Two was a cross-sectional comparative analysis of the current guidelines on PA for children and adolescents from the WHO and four developed countries, including Australia, Canada, UK, and USA, compared with that from China, aiming to determine the similarities and differences and to provide a reference for the future revision of the guidelines for Chinese teenagers.
description: Study Three aimed to develop a survey for the factors influencing PA in adolescents in China, through semi-structured interviews of school teachers and principals, government officers and parents (n=25) and application of the grounded theory, through the theoretical framework of the SEM. The research identified 49 concepts and factors under 19 subcategories and 5 main categories that could influence PA among adolescents.
description: Study Four aimed to validate and apply the survey method developed in Study Three to explore the factors influencing PA in adolescents that are appropriate to the Chinese national context. The survey was conducted through local schools, with 744 valid returns. After two rounds of factor analysis, five subscales on the factors influencing PA were developed that met the criteria for reliability and validity.
description: Study Five aimed to construct a structural equation model of the factors influencing PA among adolescents in China based on the data collected in Studies Three and Four. It was found that the individual factors, school environment, community environment and policy all had direct impacts on youth PA level. Individual factors, family environment and school environment played a mediating chain effect and had significantly positive impacts on physical activity.