cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comic turn
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: You don't have to be a teenager - or even young - to enjoy The Edge of Seventeen. In her debut feature, director Kelly Fremon Craig has maintained a sharply intelligent, no-nonsense approach to the late teens, before adulthood and its challenges displace their joys and sorrows. This movie will have special resonance for those who remember the teen hits of the 1980s, when names like John Hughes (director) and Molly Ringwald (female lead) were on everybody's lips, especially lips of a certain age. I'm not sure how well the teen movies of that period have aged, but on the evidence of Craig's new film I’d say the genre, if Seventeen is typical, has come a long way since the 1980s. Not only is there a startling increase in four-letter-word incidence and a predictable preoccupation with social media (especially non-stop texting), but there is also a tough-mindedness in dealing with the coming-of-age theme that I don’t remember from the days when Ringwald was queen. Though there is plenty of wit in Craig's screenplay and direction, the film also canvasses, without didacticism, some of the more painful rites of passage that "seventeen" may have to deal with. And she wastes no time in establishing this theme or, indeed, the wit with which she will enliven it. The youthful protagonist, Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), strides into a classroom and announces to the teacher, Mr Bruner (Woody Harrelson), seated at his desk: "I’m going to kill myself." She felt she should tell someone about her plan, she adds, to which Bruner replies that he was just writing a suicide note of his own because he'd rather face "the dark emptiness than deal with badly dressed students." On film, the black comedy of this opening exchange is highly effective.
Alzheimer’s Amyloid Beta: Preparations, Conformations, and Neurophysiology
Creators: name: Karelis, Jason
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Alzheimer's Disease
Amyloid Beta
A-beta
Globulomer
Dimers
Neurodegenerative
fEPSP
LTP
Long Term Potentiation
Dementia

description: Soluble oligomers of human amyloid beta (Aβ) have been implicated in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Applications of dimeric and globular-oligomeric human Aβ1-42 via perfusions in artificial cerebral spinal fluid (aCSF) to slices of rat hippocamppi have consistently resulted in early and late LTP decreases in CA1 relative to vehicular controls, as measured by electrophysiological field excitatory postsynaptic potential (fEPSP) recordings (Selkoe, 2008). A current theory explaining LTP in CA1 synapses of hippocamppi is that calcium influx initiates a signal transduction pathway that activates the catalytic domain of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMKII), which then translocates to the synapse and facilitates LTP (Lisman et al., 2012). Several studies have suggested a role of CaMKII in cognitive dysfunction during AD (Ly and Song, 2011). However, this role is unclear, as is how CaMKII activity is affected by Aβ. In addition, many studies testing the neurodegenerative effects of Aβ have not identified the biochemical states of the peptide. In this thesis, novel methods were developed that consistently produced both dimers and globular oligomers in high relative concentrations from synthetic Aβ1-42. Western Blot was used to characterize the Aβ preparations. Field EPSP recordings of CA1 in acute slices of rat hippocamppi perfused with aCSF demonstrated that the LTP induction protocol indeed induced LTP in the rat model in the absence of both Aβ and vehicle. Preliminary Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) lifetime measurements with Camui quantified the activation levels of dendritic CaMKII under basal conditions in the presence of prepared Aβ. The FRET signal decreased gradually at three (3) dendritic locations under basal conditions during Aβ application (Figure 21), indicating activation of CaMKII in response to Aβ. In summary, potentially neurotoxic species of Aβ were produced that may be used to probe potential downstream targets of Aβ, as well as to test the effects of anti-AD chemotherapeutic agents.
POPD-H-Requirement N.1
Creators: name: Venier, Chiara
name: Barbante, Carlo
name: Cester, Valentina
name: Cozzi, Giulio
name: Dreossi, Giuliano
name: Stenni, Barbara
name: Turetta, Clara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This document provides guidance on how the Beyond EPICA project will implement informed consent procedures for human participation in the project. These procedures will be adopted, in particular, to collect and process personal data1 of both the researchers/stakeholders involved in the workshops and conferences related to the Beyond EPICA Project and the Early Career Scientists.
Synaptic Plasticity Governs the Specificity and Generalization of CTA Memory
Creators: name: Ramos, Raul Arturo
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Conditioned Taste Aversion
Generalization
Gustatory Cortex
Learning
Memory
Synaptic Plasticity

description: All associative learning is a balance between the specific details of a memory and what can be generalized to future scenarios. While the mechanisms for memory acquisition have been studied for decades, the synaptic plasticity that shapes the generalization of memory is less well characterized. In this thesis, I present results that define the underlying synaptic plasticity mechanisms that govern two distinct types of aversive memory generalization: a transient and a long-lasting generalized aversion. Using conditioned taste aversion (CTA) as a model learning paradigm, my collaborators and I found that following moderate CTA conditioning (0.15M LiCl) animals form a transient generalized aversion that dissipates within 24 hours. This momentary generalized aversion is supported by a transient increase in post-synaptic strengths that is homeostatically scaled down. On the other hand, the long-lasting generalized aversion resulting from strong CTA conditioning (0.30M LiCl) persists up to two-weeks post-conditioning. This persistence is supported by a parallel long-lasting increase in post-synaptic strength. Exposure to the generalized tastant drives reversal of both the generalized aversion and the increase in post-synaptic strength. Finally, these dynamic changes in synaptic strength take place within the conditioning-active ensemble without impacting the retrieval of CTA memory, suggesting that the maintenance of CTA memory may rely on a different population of cells following acquisition. These results highlight novel synaptic plasticity mechanisms of memory generalization.
POLÍTICA CRIMINOLÓGICA DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA DE LOS  DERECHOS HUMANOS
Creators: name: Wael Hikal
name: Eduardo Martínez Bastida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description:  Resumen: Los Derechos Humanos son un tema identificado pero poco revisado dentro de la Criminología. Desde un doble enfoque estos aplican tu campo de acción tanto para la identificación de conductas antisociales al reconocer su violación, como para la prevención social del delito. Sin duda en la actualidad, los gobiernos han puesto mucha atención al respeto de los Derechos Humanos, pero a la vez son lo más concurrido en cuanto a su violación y falta de respeto. Dicho doble enfoque ofrece una perspectiva interesante en cuanto a visualizar al Estado cuando reconoce la esencia básica del ser humano, así como principalmente las normas que deben cumplir los servidores públicos, en especial, por actos policiacos y en tiempo de guerra; por otro lado, da a conocer la ausencia del Estado cuando ofrece una serie de Derechos a los que todos deberían tener acceso para su sano desarrollo (educación, salud, vivienda), pero que no todos logran alcanzar.
Herausforderungen beim Umgang mit ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Daten — Überlegungen aus Sicht des Forschungsdatenmanagements
Creators: name: Boelter, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Diese Präsentation wurde im Rahmen des "Tags der Ingenieurwissenschaften" an der Hochschule Schmalkalden am 12. Juni 2024 gehalten. Es ist ein Beitrag, der die Teilnehmenden des "Tag der Ingenieurwissenschaften" dazu auffordert, über den Umgang mit Ihren Forschungsdaten und den dabei erlebten Herausforderungen zu reflektieren. 

 

* FDM-HAWK ist finanziert durch die Europäischen Union – NextGenerationEU und gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (FKZ 16FDFH107A-D)
QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF SIMULTANEOUS SELECTIVE ION CLUSTERING AND HYDROGEN/DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE
Creators: name: Schramm, Haley M.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Hydrogen/deuterium exchange
quantitative evaluation

description: Recent efforts in ion mobility coupled to mass spectrometry have enhanced the confidence in describing gas-phase ion structures. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange is highly studied in condensed phases as a chemical tool for indirect structural analysis, but wider adoption of gas-phase methods is hindered by low deuterium incorporation and restrictions of in vacuo experiments. To combine the chemical tools of ion clustering and isotope exchange with the physical separation tool of ion mobility, an atmospheric pressure drift cell was used as a reaction vessel. The increased collision rate of ions and neutrals at ambient conditions enabled increased exchange for amino acids and peptides and comparable exchange levels in proteins in millisecond reactions times. The multimodal data obtained from this method shows a direct link between localized ion solvation and exchange kinetics. Multiple distinctly reactive ion populations are detected in all the analytes studied with unprecedented speed and selectivity. These experiments elucidated new insights into the structure and solvation of single amino acids, peptide, and protein ions currently unattainable with commercial instrumentation.
Molecular and neuronal mechanisms underlying context-dependent processing of odor valence in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Khan, Munzareen
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Olfaction or Smell

description: The survival of all animals is critically dependent on their ability to detect and respond appropriately to environmental cues. It is particularly important for animals to integrate information such as internal state and contextual cues in order to generate flexible and adaptive behaviors. One of the most important sensory modalities is olfaction; animals rely on olfaction to locate food sources, avoid pathogens and predators, and communicate with each other. However, a given odorant can elicit attractive or repulsive responses depending on context, intensity, and experience. How odor valence is robustly but flexibly encoded in neural circuits remains to be fully explored. Using the small nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, I have characterized a context- and concentration-dependent olfactory plasticity paradigm to a subset of bacterial food-produced medium-chain alcohols such as 1-hexanol. Specifically, I show that the behavioral response of C. elegans to 1-hexanol is inverted from attraction to avoidance in the presence of saturating levels of a second attractive bacteria-produced chemical. I have found that, by engaging distinct intracellular signal transduction pathways, the single AWC sensory neuron pair can invert its odorant response sign and drive context-dependent changes in behavioral preference to an odorant. In addition, I have also described a push-pull opposing component circuit that drives concentration-dependent behavioral preference to hexanol. The results described in this dissertation suggest that sensory neurons can dynamically encode the hedonic valences of stimuli and that odor discrimination can take place at the level of sensory neurons.
Datenmanagementplan. Gut strukturiert durch die Promotion
Creators: name: Sarah Boelter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdaten
Datenmanagementplan
DMP
Forschungsdatenlebenszyklus
FAIRe Daten
Metadaten

description: In diesem Vortrag wird der Datenmanagementplan als Planungs- und Dokumentationshilfe für einen strukturierten Umgang mit Forschungsdaten im Rahmen eines Promotionsprojektes vorgestellt. Gehalten hat diesen Vortrag Sarah Boelter beim Doktorand:innen Kolloquium des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen an der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena am 23. April 2023.

Der Vortrag wurde als Sensibilisierungsmaßenahme zum verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Forschungsdaten im Rahmen des Projekt FDM-HAWK (Förderkennzeichen 16FDFH107A) durchgeführt, welches vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefördert und von der Europäsischen Union NextGenerationEU finanziert wird.
The Malleable Representation of Medea
Creators: name: Hurley, Angela
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medea
Tragedy
Myth
Representation
Seneca
Euripides
Witch
Witchcraft
Faded Goddess
Hecate
Masculinity
Femininity
Gender
Gender Roles

description: As a persistent character in myth from early Greek epic to Imperial Rome and still into modern times, Medea’s representation shifts as a reflection of the society and author representing her. This thesis surveys the earliest versions of Medea’s myth to establish a basic narrative and furnish a range of variations. In particular, I examine the use of similar scenes in tragedies by Euripides and Seneca for contrasting representations of Medea. Individual analyses of Medea’s representation by each playwright demonstrate how her character is altered and what the activation of different mythical variants means in their cultural contexts. Medea’s gender plays a prominent role in her myth and this thesis analyzes its affect on her representation and perception. By demonstrating the manipulability of a specific mythical character based on a playwright’s preference or societal perception, this thesis explores the organic and dynamic nature of myth.
Builders All: Educational Urbanism in an Elite Minority Enclave of St. Louis
Creators: name: Acker, Davis
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Urbanism
African American History
Segregation
Urban History

description: Modern St. Louis, Missouri reflects the myriad challenges faced by many American cites in the decades following World War II. Economic and contributed greatly to the radical social and economic transformation of cities like St. Louis across the industrial North and Midwest. In particular, communities of color have been disproportionately affected by the development of urban crisis issues. The Ville neighborhood of St. Louis thrived as a center of black culture for the first half of the twentieth century before feeling the full effects of urban decline. My study seeks to resurrect a few of the potentially beneficial historical lessons from the often told pessimistic narrative of the urban crisis. The primary issues dealt with in my study are: ghettoization, racial hierarchies, black self-reliance, urbanism, and the social implications of the built environment. \r In addition to tracing the history of this exceptional neighborhood, I seek to analyze the specific effect that the neighborhood’s varied educational institutions had on it’s prosperity and eventual decline. Also, I aim to determine the source of the Ville’s uniquely prosperous and civically engaged citizenry. In doing so, I hope to extract the lessons modern urban society can learn from this community in fostering the growth of the twenty-first century’s civic vitality. As modern urban society faces the task of effective urban renewal, what historically successful institutions and dynamics should it seek to mimic in order to create a dense civic culture. My work is also informed by modern “new urbanist” planning theory and its emphasis on the social implications of the built environment. \r The Ville, as a center of black educational opportunity, provided its residents with an unrivaled level of training and the self-contained neighborhood’s culture. The neighborhood’s talented and active residents were well equipped to dismantle the far-reaching system of Jim Crow racism which had confined them to The Ville’s simple housing stock and segregated schools in the first place. Leaders from the various community institutions which led to The Ville’s rise to prominence in St. Louis’s black community ultimately contributed to its decline as well. The very nature of The Ville as an elite minority enclave compounded the negative impact of deindustrialization, decentralization, and suburbanization which radically transformed St. Louis in the 1960s and 70s. The neighborhood today, with its many abandoned homes and vacant institutional buildings, stands as a monument to its past achievements.
title: A neglected part of the mammalian skull: The outer nasal cartilages as progressive remnants of the chondrocranium
Creators: name: Maier, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Year: 2020

description: A rostrum equipped with a rhinarium, diverse mechanoreceptors and a set of vibrissae are apomorphic characters of therian mammals. Together, they constitute a tactile sensory organ that has also been named ‘rostral organ’. The rhinarium and the outer nasal openings are supported by a well-defined system of outer nasal cartilages; these cartilages can be actively moved by facial muscles. Because the structures of the rostrum are mainly composed of cartilage and soft tissues, fossils cannot contribute much information on its phylogenetic origin. Therefore, one has to rely on comparative anatomy of extant mammals. Because the cartilages are known to grow and differentiate well into juvenile and even subadult stages, embryological evidence is not too rewarding either. However, the microscopic anatomy of the rostrum of postnatal stages is difficult to study for various technical reasons, and it is hoped that modern imaging techniques will improve our knowledge.
Here, I provide a preliminary overview of the structural diversity of the outer nasal cartilages in selected taxa of placental mammals. The outer nasal cartilages of moles (Talpidae) and shrews (Soricidae) are relatively well-known and can serve as references. The soricids present a unique mode of retracting and telescoping the nasal cartilages; these peculiar structures are differentiated only postnatally by a sort of apoptosis. Several Afrotheria show a peculiar commissura alatransversalis and a specialized processus alaris superior, which are considered to be synapomorphies of Afroinsectiphilia (Afrotheria) at least. The peculiar trachea-like structure of the outer nasal cartilage of macroscelidids is also postnatally realized by an apoptotic morphogenetic mode.
Finally, the presented data are interpreted within the context of evolutionary biology of early mammals: First it is shown, that the paired outer nares of early synapsids fuse into a wide nasal aperture within true mammaliaforms, but only after the reduction of the prenasal processes of the premaxillaries. It is important to note that hatchlings of the monotreme Tachyglossus still retain the prenasal process, because it supports the egg-tooth. It is only after the reduction of this membrane bone, that the rostral organ could expand and diversify – and to become the new and functionally important tactile organ (‘rostral organ’) of therian mammals. Whereas small arboreal mammals show relatively simple outer nasal cartilages, they tend to become a specialized probe in terrestrial and fossorial taxa.
WARC Thunderbird, Volume 5
Creators: name: Croes, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 1984
Subjects: Washington Archeological Research Center
Archaeology

description: 1980's WARC (Washington Archeological Research Center) was an experiment in communitarianism for Northwest Archaeology--and it did WARC (Work). This is Volume 5 of our News Bulletin, the WARC Thunderbird, with Issues 1-9, 1984-1985. The WARC Thunderbird provided a platform for communications across the region and contains a wealth of information about this formative period of Archaeology in Washington State. The Washington Archaeological Research Center was established in 1972 at Washington State University as a contract clearinghouse, mainly for Federal and State funded archaeological field projects, with the goal of assigning field projects throughout the state through a Scientific Committee with archaeologists at the six four-year universities and colleges. The founder of this phase of WARC’s operations was Dr. Richard D. Daugherty, Director, and most field projects were coordinated by his Assistant Harvey Rice. In 1980 the WARC Administrative Board, the Graduate Deans at the six four-year Washington colleges, and the Scientific Committee, felt each institution should be allowed to take their own directions as archaeological field contract programs, and decided to keep the general framework of WARC intact, to coordinate and maintain, with the State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP), the State’s site records, contract/research reports library, and facilitate communications and coordination of general records-based research at the six WARC institution. Dr. Dale R. Croes was assigned Acting Director (a 1/2-time position) and he recruited Steven Hackenberger as his able Assistant Director. This revised structure continued to bring together the WARC Administrative Board, the Scientific Committee and the establishment of a broad Advisory Council representing private contract archaeologists; professional archaeologists from Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia, Canada; Native American Representatives; Federal/State agencies; and Archaeological/Historical Societies. In many ways it was an effort to work together, using our limited resources, to promote archaeological interests (especially digitizing, standardizing and updating our paper-based archaeological site forms)—a coordinating of our discipline, in a form of communitarianism, based on the idea that those involved in archaeology were essentially cooperative (“good”) people who wanted to work together for our common goals
Slavery in Early Roman Palestine
Creators: name: Chase, Scott
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2019
Subjects: slavery
ancient slavery
classical slavery
Roman Palestine
Roman Israel
slavery in the bible
slavery in the New Testament
archaeology of Israel

description: This project examines the epigraphic, archaeological and literary evidence for slavery in first century CE Palestine. Detailed knowledge of slavery practices in this period is critical for the understanding of historical and religious texts of the second temple period, as slavery in Palestine differed from other parts of the empire. When taken together, extant evidence shows that first century Palestinian slavery served to reinforce the political, military and religious status quo by providing autonomy from the broader subjugated population.
Handing the initiative to China
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Donald Trump’s phone conversation with Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen shortly after the US presidential election ruffled feathers in Beijing, and his occasional policy tweets about China since then, touching on tariffs, currency manipulation, and actions in the South China Sea, have aroused further concern. Still, ask leading cadres in Beijing what they think of Trump’s election and they can barely conceal their glee.
circRNAs in Health and Disease
Creators: name: Nie, Xinyu
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: circRNA
circMbl
Parkinson' Disease
Translation

description: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are closed and stable RNA molecules, generated by back-splicing. On one hand, circRNA may be important in response to cell stress. Because of their circular structure, circRNAs are translated via cap-independent mechanisms, that are generally upregulated during cellular stress. circMbl is the most abundant circRNA in D. melanogaster heads and it is translated into a 10 – 37 KDa protein. Accordingly, circMbl protein accumulates during starvation. In the first project, to investigate the function of circMbl protein in starvation response, I monitored the survival of circMbl knockdown and overexpression flies upon food deprivation. Results show that there is no significant difference of survival time between the circMbl knockdown, overexpression, and control. Second, to study weather circMbl protein expression changes upon certain physiological conditions, such as starvation or aging, I prepared plasmids for generating two new fly-lines expressing either a circMbl-V5 (a tagged version of circMbl) or a super-foldGFP (that generates a circular GFP RNA containing the Internal Ribosome Entry Site of circMbl). On the other hand, they are evolutionary conserved, widely expressed in the neural tissue. miR-7, a microRNA regulated by CDR1as was mainly expressed in neurons and inhibited α-synuclein protein levels, suggesting CDR1as regulation by miR-7 might be associated with Parkinson’s Disease. In the second project, I aimed to see whether circRNAs in blood could be used to biomark the presence and progression of the diseases. So, the general aim of this part of my thesis was to determine whether the levels of specific circRNAs correlate with well-established physiological and behavioral defects observed in PD individuals. Before analyzing circRNA data, I started with linear RNA sequencing data analysis to solidify my sequencing data analysis skills and coding skills. In this project, I identified 13 progressive brain imaging markers, such as the left caudate density in striatum, which can be used to find correlation between both circRNAs and linear RNAs.
Forum on S. Zabala, "Why only art can save us"
Creators: name: Ed. By D. Angelucci
name: With S. Zabala, D. Angelucci
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2019

description: ...
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 15 (2019)
Research Data Management to support Your own work. Grundlegendes zum Forschungsdatenmanagement
Creators: name: Stefan Kirsch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdaten
FDM-HAWK
Metadaten
Forschungsdatenlebenszyklus

description: In diesem Vortrag grundlegende Begriffe und Motivationen zum Forschungsdatenmanagement vorgestellt. Gehalten hat diesen Vortrag Stefan Kirsch bei der Veranstaltung "Treasure your data - Datenschätze finden, pflegen und teilen" am 23. März 2023 an der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena.

Dieser Vortrag wurde im Rahmen des Projekts FDM-HAWK (Förderkennzeichen 16FDFH107A) erstellt, welches vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefördert und von der Europäsischen Union NextGenerationEU finanziert wird.

 

Zyklus-Phasen auf den Folien 18-20: Punkte ergänzend inspiriert von Wilbrandt, J. (2022). Love your Data! [Poster] (1.1) Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7101626
La politique chez le jeune Aron: Essai sur la justification du telos
Creators: name: Zuniga-Buitrago, Javier
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: Cette thèse cherche à montrer que dans les écrits de jeunesse d'Aron une démarche qui vise la justification rationnelle des jugements politiques s'exprime de façon implicite. Elle s'origine dans un moi en quête de telos qui s'exprime dans la philosophie de l'actualité politique. D'après nous, cette quête mène Aron à entamer un dialogue avec trois sources qui ont particulièrement influencées la constitution de sa pensée: le pacifisme d'Alain, le kantisme de Brunschvicg et le positivisme sociologique. L'irréalisme politique de la premiere, l'intellectualisme de la seconde et le fait que la troisième rejette toute forme de connaissance historique, l'empêchent d'atteindre son objectif. Nous défendons l'idée qu'Aron surmonte ces difficultés grâce à des outils théoriques qu'il trouve chez Weber: une éthique de la responsabilité, une conception de la connaissance comme synthèse de compréhension et de causalité et une philosophie du choix. Cette reprise de Weber n'est pas mécanique, elle est créative. Aron explicite le probabilisme de la connaissance causale, il démontre le caractère scientifique de la compréhension et par ce biais il arrive à surmonter le "décisionnisme" politique qui forme l'arrière-plan de la position wébérienne.
Religious and Gender Dimension of HIV/AIDS Risk Among Women in Nigeria
Creators: name: Durojaiye, Modupeoluwa
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Religion
HIV/AIDS
Women
Nigeria

description: Three million Nigerians are currently estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, making it the third largest country with number of infected persons (USAID, 2010). Prevalence among young women ages 15 to 24 is nearly four times higher than the prevalence among young men, at 2.3% compared to 0.8% (USAID, 2010). This study sought to examine some of the social factors that predispose women in Nigeria to HIV/ AIDS, by focusing on both the religious and gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS risk. For the majority of Nigerians, religion is more than an organized system of beliefs. Nigerians, on average, attend a church, mosque or other religious service more often than most other nationalities (Oluduro, 2010). Therefore, any HIV/AIDS prevention program that does not recognize the effect of religion on Nigerians could fail.\r Also, Gender inequality is marked in Nigeria: the nation is ranked 120th in the 2011 Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum. As shown below, gender inequality relegates women to the background in terms of access to economic and social freedoms, and poses a major threat to public health issues such as the HIV/AIDS.\r Christianity and Islam, the two major religions in Nigeria, have similar and different views on factors that predispose women to HIV/AIDS. This study compared and contrasted the effect of Christianity and Islam on HIV/AIDS risk among women across the regions. From the results below, the role of religion in HIV/AIDS prevention and risk is multifaceted. For example, direct effect of religious doctrines like abstinence could have a positive or negative effect on HIV/AIDS risks. While it is clear from the results below that factors like education, wealth/ income and healthcare access play an important role in the HIV/AIDS risks, it was also clear that gender inequality and religion influences these factors.
Heck-Mizoroki reaction using palladium and nickel on yttria stabilized zirconia
Creators: name: Poulin, Carl
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: This work was composed of studies analysing the capacity of Pd-YSZ and Ni-YSZ as a heterogeneous catalyst for the Heck-Mizoroki reaction. Following an optimization, mechanistic studies were undertaken with Pd-YSZ. P-XRD measurements showed a decrease in the amount of metal present in the catalyst after a cycle of Heck reaction. Also, two triple phase test were done. Using a resin supported reactant, it was showed that palladium leaches into solution and reacts through a homogeneous cycle. Also, the contribution of true heterogeneous surface catalysis was examined by means of a thiol-based palladium scavenger that neutralised homogeneous catalysis. While it is impossible to completely dismiss true surface catalysis, the negative result showed that surface catalysis did not contribute significantly to the overall reactivity. Reactions showed reactivity up to 770'000 TON with mesoporous 5% Pd-YSZ calcinated to 600°C. Using the self-assembly and the co-precipitation method, Ni-YSZ catalysts of 1%, 5% and 10% were synthesized and calcinated to 400°C, 600°C and 950°C. Catalyst characterization through p-XRD, physisorption and chemisorption allowed knowledge of the crystallite size surface area and metallic surface area. A structure-reactivity relationship study showed a limited effect in the ability of high surface area and low particle sizes to accelerate catalysis.
Influence de la langue première sur la performance en lecture chez des apprenants de langue minoritaire en immersion française précoce
Creators: name: Reyes, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: Cette étude vise à explorer l'influence de la langue première (L1) sur la performance en lecture en français chez des apprenants trilingues de langue minoritaire (LM) en immersion françcaise précoce vers la fin de leurs études secondaires. Des données ont été obtenues à partir d'un questionnaire portant sur les antécédents linguistiques des participants et d'un test de compétence en lecture. L'étude a permis de constater que dans les niveaux avancés de l'acquisition, l'influence de la Li sur la troisième langue ne se limite pas aux habiletés de littératie. Des facteurs tels que l'identité linguistique, le statut de la LM et l'utilisation familial de la L1 peuvent jouer un rôle important au moment du transfert des connaissances linguistiques. Cette étude contribue à une meilleure compréhension du phénomène du trilinguisme dans les programmes canadiens d'immersion française et du domaine du transfert translinguistique en milieu minoritaire.
The Relation between Parent-Child Attachment, Child-Rearing Behaviors, and Aggression in Childhood and Adolescence
Creators: name: Pei, Meng
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Child-rearing
Attachment
Aggression

description: This paper reviews studies of the link between aggression and two family factors: attachment and parenting behavior. Children with a history or presence of avoidant or disorganized attachment are likely to exhibit more aggression. Lack of parental warmth and use of power-assertive discipline are positively associated with aggression. Attachment and parenting have their unique contributions to aggression. Specifically, the role of parental control is addressed in several studies. The patterns of results are generally stable across toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged children and adolescents. Boys are influenced more strongly by the father’s parenting practices and girls by the mother’s. Attachment also influences boys and girls to different extents. These results provide support to early theories and also have novel implications for improving extant theories and for prevention and intervention of child aggression.
Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flatfish genus Trinectes (Pleuronectiformes: Achiridae)
Creators: name: Duplain, Rene R
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Evolution and Development.

description: The taxonomic status of the 16 nominal species of the genus Trinectes (Pleuronectiformes: Achiridae) Rafinesque 1832 was revised based on a morphological study of 647 type and non-type specimens. Nine species were recognized as valid Trinectes inscriptus, T. maculatus, T. microphthalmus, and T. paulistanus are found in the Atlantic Ocean, from the Northern United States to Southern Brazil, whereas T. fimbriatus, T. fluviatilis, T. fonsecensis, T. opercularis, and T. xanthurus are found in the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico to Peru. An identification key to species is provided. The phylogenetic relationships of the species recognized were hypothesized based on a cladistic analysis of 22 morphological, meristic, and osteological characters. The analysis resulted in one most parsimonious tree with a length of 39 steps (CI = 0.69; RI = 0.79). The tree showed that Trinectes is monophyletic on the basis of two synapomorphies: an unpierced interbranchial septum, and seven to nine pterygiophores anterior to the neural spine of the third precaudal vertebra. Trinectes inscriptus is the most plesiomorphic species of the genus, and all other species form a monophyletic group subdivided into two clades. The first contains (from most plesiomorphic to recent): T. paulistanus, T. fonsecensis, and the T. fluviatilis-T. xanthurus clade. The second clade includes (from most plesiomorphic to recent): T. maculatus, T. opercularis, and the T. fimbriatus- T. microphthalmus clade. The resulting cladogram depicts a sequence of speciation events and provides an opportunity to propose a biogeographical hypothesis on the evolution of Trinectes.
THE EFFECT OF MAGNESIUM ON PREGNANT WOMEN
Creators: name: Nodira Fayziyeva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article comprehensively covers the effect of magnesium on the health of pregnant women. The biological significance of magnesium, the increased need for it during pregnancy, clinical signs of magnesium deficiency and its consequences are analyzed on a scientific basis. Magnesium-rich foods, dietary and preventive recommendations are also presented. The article focuses on the issue of ensuring the health of the mother and child by maintaining magnesium balance during pregnancy. The results of the study show that timely and sufficient intake of magnesium plays an important role in the healthy course of pregnancy.
Naissance et développement de l'affaire du sang contaminé au Canada.
Creators: name: Vallée, Stéphane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: Ce travail de recherche porte sur la description de la multiplicité des voies de la justice lors d'un illégalisme défini comme une affaire. L'illégalisme qui est étudié dans cette thèse appartient au domaine de la santé publique. Notre recherche de type qualitatif descriptif a pour objet la description de l'application des voies de la justice canadienne en ce qui a trait aux crimes du domaine de la santé publique. Une étude de cas portant sur l'affaire du sang contaminé au Canada nous aide à cerner la provenance de la multiplicité des voies de la justice lors d'un tel illégalisme. Pour ce faire, nous percevons l'affaire du sang contaminé au Canada comme un illégalisme privilégié. C'est cette définition qui démontre le mieux l'éclatement des voies de la justice dans l'affaire du sang contaminé au Canada. L'étude démontre qu'il n'existe pas de mode de règlement de conflit prédéterminé dans un illégalisme comme l'affaire du sang contaminé. Le sang distribué durant les années 80 et le début des années 90 est la cause des illégalismes traités dans cette thèse. Toutes les actions et inactions ayant menés, durant cette période, à la distribution du sang contaminé font partie de l'affaire du sang contaminé au Canada.
Variable block-size disparity estimation in stereo imagery
Creators: name: Sodagari, Shabnam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis addresses the problem of developing and implementing in software a variable block size (quadtree splitting) disparity estimation algorithm that is optimized for use in compression of stereo image pairs and studying its performance over a range of rate/distortion values for a variety of images. First the constrained optimization problem is converted to an unconstrained one using the Lagrange multiplier approach. Then by solving the optimization problem using dynamic programming, the optimal variables representing the optimal quadtree structure and the quantizer for each node are determined. The experimental results show the improvements of this method over simple intraframe JPEG coding and over fixed block-size disparity estimation.
"Now, where were we…?"
Creators: name: Dodd, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In 2013, one of Australia's more exclusive schools was compiling profiles of its most notable alumni for a book. It asked me whether I'd write a few chapters and showed me a list of businessmen, sportsmen, scientists and even prime ministers to choose from. They were all interesting people, but to my mind there was only one criterion. Who did I want to meet? There he was, James Oswald Fairfax AC, the one-time heir to a media empire and among Australia’s greatest philanthropists. This was the person who usurped his father to take control of the country's oldest broadsheet newspapers and who, in turn, was forced out by his half-brother, in part to avenge the way their father was treated. It's one of the epic sagas of Australian media history, involving a supposedly scheming wife who raised a son to resent his cousins and half-brother. It reads like the plot for a tragic opera, and the events shaped much of Australia’s modern media landscape.
Get started! Tipps für einen gelungenen Start ins Forschungsdatenmanagement
Creators: name: Sarah Boelter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdaten
FDM-HAWK
EAH Jena
Metadaten
Backup
offene Formate
Beratung

description: In diesem Vortrag werden sechs einfache aber wirkungsvolle Tipps für einen gelungenen Start ins Forschungsdatenmanagement vorgestellt. Gehalten hat diesen Vortrag Sarah Boelter bei der Veranstaltung "Treasure your data - Datenschätze finden, pflegen und teilen" am 23. März 2023 an der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena.

Dieser Vortrag wurde im Rahmen des Projekts FDM-HAWK (Förderkennzeichen 16FDFH107A) erstellt, welches vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefördert und von der Europäsischen Union NextGenerationEU finanziert wird.
Supplementary information from Feeding specialization and longer generation time are associated with relatively larger brains in bees
Creators: name: Sayol, Ferran
name: Collado, Miguel Á.
name: Garcia-Porta, Joan
name: Seid, Marc A.
name: Gibbs, Jason
name: Agorreta, Ainhoa
name: Mauro, Diego San
name: Raemakers, Ivo
name: Sol, Daniel
name: Bartomeus, Ignasi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplementary methods, figures (S1-S2), tables (S1-S5) and references
China: A Nation Shaped in Consumerism
Creators: name: Gan, Wit
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Conspicuous consumption
subject: Deng Xiaoping
subject: Market Economy
subject: China
subject: Advertising
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper seeks to provide an understanding of Chinese economic development during the post-reform period (after 1980) following the death of Mao Zedong, when China changed directions under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping into creating a controlled market economy, which has effected new ideas of consumption of goods and services in Mainland China. \r By drawing on historical analyses of the differences between Mao’s and Deng’s China, and by following along the initial phases of post-reform economic amends, it is clear to see that China has grown into one of the most formidable countries in the world. The evolution of China into adopting a market economy has created new consumer desires that many have never seen before. With the large growth of China’s population moving into the middle class that has produced more disposable income, new forms of consumption habits have risen.\r China’s post-reform historical, economical and cultural context has also shaped how foreigners perceive this new wealth, by heavily targeting the Chinese consumer class and creating goods with Chinese consumers in mind. By looking at Western theories on consumption as well as advertising, this paper provides a quantitative analysis and insight into how Chinese consumption fits into a globalized world of the 21st century.
Some aspects of plateau permafrost, Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China, and a comparison with the Mackenzie Delta region, Canada.
Creators: name: Wang, Baolai.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Differences in permafrost conditions between the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau and the Mackenzie Delta region primarily relate to their Quaternary histories and their current climates. For example, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced uplift of at least 3,000 m during the last 2 million years. Under the present climatic conditions, the lower altitudinal limit of the plateau permafrost in the north is at 4,150 m a.s.l. This suggests that if the Plateau were 1,000 m lower than its present elevation, there would be no permafrost. During the Quaternary, the Tibetan Plateau remained unglaciated. This has meant that little water was available for the formation of massive ground ice, in contrast to the Mackenzie Delta region. Located at 68-69$\sp\circ$N, the Mackenzie Delta region experiences a combination of low air temperature in winter, a long solar night and a short thaw period in summer. The result is a relatively thin active layer. Located at 30-34$\sp\circ$N, the Tibetan Plateau experiences much higher solar insolation, and a diurnal temperature rhythm. The thickness of the active layer is much greater than in the Mackenzie Delta region and varies between 1.3 and 3 m or more. Permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau is much warmer and thinner than that in the Mackenzie Delta region. One consequence is that it is more sensitive to any changes in climate and surface conditions. Deep ground temperatures in the Pleistocene Mackenzie Delta indicate a recent warming trend, while a cooling trend in the Modern Delta likely relates to local factors such as channel shifting and emergence and/or sedimentation in the Mackenzie River. Water bodies are a cause of geothermal disturbances common to both regions. Numerical simulation of rapid coastal retreat in the Mackenzie Delta region indicates that subsea permafrost is at least 3$\sp\circ$C warmer than adjacent terrestrial permafrost. On the Tibetan Plateau, faulting also disturbs the geothermal regime. Measurements of in situ permafrost creep in the Fenghuo Shan area are one indicator of the warmer permafrost temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau. The average creep velocity ranges from 0.16 cm/year at 2.8 m depth to 0.54 cm/year at 1.6 m depth. These velocities are greater than those recently obtained from the High Arctic of Canada and are approximately of the order of magnitude as those obtained in the Mackenzie Valley. Inter-continental comparison of creep data suggests that climate controls the regional (large scale) magnitude of creep, and that ground ice is a local factor controlling creep rate in a particular area or site. A constitutive relationship (secondary creep power flow law) was applied to the field creep data; and creep parameters A and n were determined for each of the three different depths in the West Valley, Fenghuo Shan area, Tibetan Plateau.
A Bishop in Chains: The Early Christian Response to Human Bondage
Creators: name: Reynolds, Camille
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Chrisitanity
slavery
Callistus
Hippolytus

description: In this thesis, I question the degree to which ancient Christians internalized the traditional social stigmas attached to Roman slaves and freedmen. Recent scholarship has suggested that Christians identified with Roman slave-holding practices without challenge. This paper examines the biographical account of freedman Bishop Callistus I (217-223 CE) by Hippolytus of Rome and argues that early Christians challenged the social prejudice against slaves and freedmen despite the continued practice of slave-owning in the congregation. His character study proves helpful in discussing the social transformation of slaves and freedmen in the early Roman church. I discuss the Christian master-slave relationship, as described by Hippolytus, in comparison with slave practices in Roman civic society, specifically in the areas of slave inferiority and slave punishment. I argue that Callistus’ biography reflects a broader trend of enfranchisement of marginal groups through Christian affiliation, an argument which conflicts with scholarly assumptions that early Christianity had no unique response to Roman slavery.