cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Women diagnosed with depression: making meaning and decisions about electroconvulsive therapy. A feminist analysis
Creators: name: Clarke, Karen-Ann
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: women
depression
electroconvulsive therapy
ECT
memory loss
quality of life
feminist

description: This study addresses a significant issue occurring within contemporary societies such as Australia and within the larger international body of literature: the silencing of women's experiences with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Much of the existing literature in relation to ECT is quantitative in nature, which has produced large amounts of technical knowledge, describing ways in which to either maximise efficacy of the procedure or minimise possible side effects such as memory loss. Yet there remains little in the way of qualitative research to explore the ways in which people experience ECT, and even less work to specifically examine the experience of the procedure from women's perspectives.
Additional file 1 of Representativeness of personality and involvement preferences in a web-based survey on healthcare decision-making
Creators: name: Birkeland, Søren
name: Linkhorst, Thea
name: Haakonsson, Anders
name: Barry, Michael John
name: Möller, Sören
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. BFI personality trait ratings in sample and norm data.
Dangerousness and Difference: The Representation of Muslims within Canada's Security Discourses
Creators: name: Slonowsky, Deborah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis
Security
Securitization
Security Discourse
Terrorism
Minority Groups
Misrepresentation
Negative Representation
Diversity
Multiculturalism
Muslims
Islam
Inequality

description: This paper presents the results of a critical discourse analysis of a selection of Canada’s security texts and argues that the country’s security discourses construct Muslims as dangerous and different from the normative Canadian. The research relies on a social constructionist understanding of discourse and the recognition that our state’s representatives and agents, operating from positions of discursive power, wield disproportionate influence in directing the national conversation and managing the signals that shape our social attitudes and imaginaries. By persistently qualifying terrorism with Islam, portraying the terrorist figure as a religiously and ideologically-motivated actor opposed to ‘Western values’ and by casting suspicion on the ordinary behaviour of Muslims, Canada’s security discourses produce a mental model in which Islam and its followers are associated with a propensity for terrorist violence. The discourses also naturalize the idea that Muslims are in need of surveillance, not only by the state’s agents, but by the public itself. When examined alongside a body of research illustrating Canada’s ‘visible minority’ population continues to be negatively affected by dominant group discrimination, the results of the study raise questions about the culpability of state representatives in the reproduction of ideas of difference which continue to inform the country’s social imaginary and hinder the equality and inclusivity of minority groups within the national collective.
Invisible information systems
Creators: name: Waller, Vivienne
name: Johnston, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article introduces the concept of ‘invisible information systems’, information systems that seamlessly integrate with and support collective work activity especially in routine operational contexts. Systems designed by traditional methods and implemented with traditional computing technology tend to ‘get in the way’ of skilful time-constrained performance in these work domains. We argue that the way to create invisible information systems is to incorporate an alternative approach to the design of computing technologies (ubicomp) into our own alternative approach to the design of information systems (situated analysis and design methodology). The situated analysis and design methodology provides a conceptual framework for information systems that support rather than get in the way of collective action in pursuit of operational goals. Developments in ubicomp, which aims to seamlessly support the actions of an individual user, provide the technical means for the physical realisation of such system designs. The resulting invisible information systems are lightweight, and more effective and efficient than traditionally- designed information systems based on traditional models of computing.
Additional file 1 of A botanical from the antiproliferative Cameroonian spice, Imperata cylindrica is safe at lower doses, as demonstrated by oral acute and sub-chronic toxicity screenings
Creators: name: Nayim, Paul
name: Mbaveng, Armelle T.
name: Ntyam, Arsene M.
name: Kuete, Victor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Dynamic Regulation of Synaptic Transmission onto Serotonin Neurons by Antidepressants
Creators: name: Geddes, Sean D
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Electrophysiology
Glutamate
NMDAR
AMPAR
Serotonin
SSRI
Whole-Cell Recording

description: Antidepressants are generally believed to exert their clinical efficacy by enhancing 5-HT transmission. Interestingly, sustained administration of selective serotonin (5-HT) reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) strongly suppresses in the first few days the firing activity of 5-HT neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), thereby severely hampering the increase of 5-HT in target regions. Remarkably, the firing activity of 5-HT neurons gradually recovers over the time course of treatment and this recovery is believed to be accounted for by the desensitization of 5-HT1A somatodendritic autoreceptors. Here, we sought to investigate whether additional mechanisms might contribute to the dynamic regulation of excitability of 5-HT neurons during the course of SSRI treatments. Borrowing from the well-described homeostatic strengthening of glutamatergic synapses onto cortical pyramidal neurons following prolonged periods of inactivity, we hypothesized that a similar homeostatic-like regulation of synaptic strength might be operant on 5-HT cells during an SSRI treatment. To test this possibility, we used whole-cell electrophysiological recordings on acute midbrain slices to monitor glutamatergic synapses onto 5-HT neurons. We found that a two-day treatment with the SSRI citalopram induced a robust reduction in both the amplitude and frequency of AMPAR-mediated mEPSCs. We also show that this depression in synaptic strength, induced by an SSRI, is transient since excitatory drive onto 5-HT neurons was enhanced by 7 days of treatments. Altogether, these results document a dynamic regulation of glutamatergic synaptic transmission during the time course of a prolonged treatment with an SSRI. Further elucidation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms driving this synaptic plasticity might identify novel pharmacological target to shorten the delay of antidepressant action.
Das Inventar der Werkstatt von Filippino Lippi aus dem Jahre 1504
Creators: name: Carl, Doris
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31, Nr. 2./3. (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Europäische Mobilitätswoche
title: EMW-Leitfaden 2018
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kiso, Claudia
name: Zarske, Maja
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltige Mobilität
subject: Europäische Mobilitätswoche
subject: EMW
subject: Verkehr

description: Die EUROPÄISCHE MOBILITÄTSWOCHE (kurz EMW) ist eine Kampagne der Europäischen Kommission. Jedes Jahr vom 16. bis 22. September bietet sie Kommunen aus ganz Europa die perfekte Möglichkeit, ihren Bürgerinnen und Bürgern die komplette Bandbreite nachhaltiger Mobilität vor Ort näher zu bringen. Der neue EMW-Leitfaden 2018 für Deutschland fasst auf 36 Seiten alle wichtigen Informationen rund um die EMW zusammen und bietet außerdem durch viele neue Praxisbeispiele aus Deutschland und dem europäischen Ausland Inspirationen für die eigene Teilnahme.
What drives the end user to build a feral information system?
Creators: name: Spierings, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: feral information system
workarounds
shadow systems
end user computing
enterprise system
Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP
modes of operations
Structuration Theory
Five Roles of an Information System

description: The purpose of this research is to explore what is driving the end user to deviate from the mandated approach to using an Enterprise Systems (ES). This deviation is the form of the development of workarounds using ad hoc information technology (IT) tools. These tools, which this dissertation calls a feral information system (FIS), are used in conjunction with, or instead of, the mandated IS (Houghton and Kerr, 2006). The research questions for this dissertation were to: A) determine how end users acquired the skills to build a feral information system; B) explore how end users (as knowledgeable agents) appropriated and allocate available resources, be this for an ES or FIS, to fulfil the demands for information; and C) determine the circumstances of an agent's deployment of resources as an interposing mechanism to defend the FIS and parry away ES proponents.
Montorsolis Entwürfe Für das Siegel der "Accademia del Disegno" in Florenz
Creators: name: Laschke, Birgit
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31, Nr. 2./3. (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Regional Variability of the Romanian Main Tree Species Growth Using National Forest Inventory Increment Cores
Creators: name: Marin, Gheorghe
name: Strimbu, Vlad C.
name: Abrudan, Ioan V.
name: Strimbu, Bogdan M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: In many countries, National Forest Inventory (NFI) data is used to assess the variability of forest growth across the country. The identification of areas with similar growths provides the foundation for development of regional models. The objective of the present study is to identify areas with similar diameter and basal area growth using increment cores acquired by the NFI for the three main Romanian species: Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst), European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), and Sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.). We used 6536 increment cores with ages less than 100 years, a total of 427,635 rings. The country was divided in 21 non-overlapping ecoregions based on geomorphology, soil, geology and spatial contiguousness. Mixed models and multivariate analyses were used to assess the differences in annual dimeter at breast height and basal area growth among ecoregions. Irrespective of the species, the mixed models analysis revealed significant differences in growth between the ecoregions. However, some ecoregions were similar in terms of growth and could be aggregated. Multivariate analysis reinforced the difference between ecoregions and showed no temporal grouping for spruce and beech. Sessile oak growth was separated not only by ecoregions, but also by time, with some ecoregions being more prone to draught. Our study showed that countries of median size, such as Romania, could exhibit significant spatial differences in forest growth. Therefore, countrywide growth models incorporate too much variability to be considered operationally feasible. Furthermore, it is difficult to justify the current growth and yield models as a legal binding planning tool.
A multi objective fuzzy-based controller for front differential vehicles by electrical traction system on non-driven wheels
Creators: name: Naderi, Peyman
name: Bathaee, S. M. T.
name: Hosseinnezhad, Reza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Using electrical machine in conventional vehicles, also called hybrid vehicles, has become a promising control scheme that enables some manners for fuel economy and driver assist for better stability. In this paper, vehicle stability control, fuel economy and Driving/Regeneration braking for a 4WD hybrid vehicle is investigated by using an electrical machine on each non-driven wheels. Fourteen degree of freedom vehicle body modeling and ADVISOR power-train/electrical components model will be used for modeling. Driving/Regeneration and stability enhancement are important in low and high speed respectively. The unequaled independent torques applied to the non-driven wheels provides the ability of vehicle dynamic control to assist the driver with path correction, thus enhancing cornering and straight-line stability and providing enhanced safety. So power managing between engine and electrical machines will be provided the fuel economy and regeneration in braking condition. For these goals, power management and Yaw moment control will be down in low and high speed respectively by proper fuzzy controller. Finally, a series of MATLAB/SIMULINK simulation will carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed structure.
Saggio per un "Corpus" pittorico e grafico di Bartolomeo Salvestrini
Creators: name: Matteoli, Anna
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31, Nr. 2./3. (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Gamechange(H)er: Exploring The Video Game Design Elements That May Impact The Agency And Identity Of Adolescent Girls
Creators: name: Starks, K
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: identity
agency
video games
girls
adolescents
women
female protagonists
self-efficacy

description: This research explores the roles of gender, protagonist agency, and video game design elements on the effects of agency experience, general self-efficacy, and gender stereotypes via the mechanisms of identification and immersion. This research focuses on female players, and the goal is to establish differing agency and identity effects from playing female-led adventure games as opposed to other video games, such as male-led games and casual games. The overall project is grounded theory, however it is informed by several theories which cover social cognitive and self-efficacy as well as identity, identification, game design, and immersion. This mixed-methods project contains four studies, which (1) establish agency, identification and immersion effects from long-term play of a single female-led adventure game series (Nancy Drew), (2) identify the primary game design elements within the games in the Nancy Drew series, (3) categorise a panel of video games based on those elements and measure short-term play effects on agency, identification and immersion, and (4) explore the player's expressions of their video game experience using their own words. The participant cohort consists of female players in two age groups (youth and young adult). Results of this research include a FLIA score that can be applied to video games as a measure of the agency experience and identification that female youth will experience while playing. Games with high FLIA scores contain the types of observational learning models and enactive experiences that can help facilitate self-efficacy with long-term play.
Additional file 1 of The effect on work presenteeism of job retention vocational rehabilitation compared to a written self-help work advice pack for employed people with inflammatory arthritis: protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (the WORKWELL trial)
Creators: name: Hammond, Alison
name: Sutton, Chris
name: Cotterill, Sarah
name: Woodbridge, Sarah
name: O’Brien, Rachel
name: Radford, Kate
name: Forshaw, Denise
name: Verstappen, Suzanne
name: Jones, Cheryl
name: Marsden, Antonia
name: Eden, Martin
name: Prior, Yeliz
name: Culley, June
name: Holland, Paula
name: Walker-Bone, Karen
name: Hough, Yvonne
name: O’Neill, Terence W.
name: Ching, Angela
name: Parker, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. WORKWELL Trial: contents of the: Work Self-help Information Pack; WORKWELL Job Retention Vocational Rehabilitation intervention; Participant Information Sheet and Consent Form.
How do Australian Midwives conceptualise intrapartum risk?
Creators: name: Gabriel, Laura
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Risk
Phenomenography

description: Midwifery care is increasingly viewed as an inherently risky area. Organisational risk management, and clinical governance have a significant impact on contemporary midwifery practice. Intrapartum risk amplification is often managed by inordinate surveillance and intervention. However, increasing the focus on risk management does not necessarily facilitate the safety of the woman and her baby and may introduce iatrogenic risk. While intrapartum care may be at times obstetric led, or in collaboration with obstetricians, midwives are the overall primary care givers to birthing women. Obstetrics has a distinct professional philosophy which is often more risk focused, and as such, may not align with midwifery philosophy. As key care providers in the intrapartum period, it is important to gain an understanding of how midwives conceptualise and work within this risk discourse.
Zu einigen toskanischen Terrakotta-Madonnen der Frührenaissance
Creators: name: Passavant, Günter
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31, Nr. 2./3. (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
A new finite-difference time-domain method applied to an open waveguide structure.
Creators: name: Fitzmaurice, Michael G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Applied Mechanics.

description: The study makes use of a variation of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method as first proposed by Yee to simulate electromagnetic field distribution and propagation in an open waveguide structure. In order to prove that this new method is valid, a reflection coefficient is calculated with simulation data and compared to measurements. The agreement between measurement and simulation data, while not exact, is enough to establish the veracity of the new method. This study contains a detailed discussion of the discrepancies which were observed. Also presented are colour images of the simulation which give the reader an idea as to the nature and level of detail of the information which can be obtained from the simulation.
Supplementary document for A method for studying cell injury using Quantitative Phase Microscopy - 5275259.pdf
Creators: name: Pouladian, Pegah
name: Yamauchi, Toyohiko
name: Wakida, Nicole M.
name: Gomez-Godinez, Veronica
name: Berns, Michael
name: Preece, Daryl
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cellular Interactions (incl. Adhesion, Matrix, Cell Wall)

description: Supplemental material
Additional file 1 of The title: serum neutrophil Gelatinase-associated Lipocalin at 3 hours after return of spontaneous circulation in patients with cardiac arrest and therapeutic hypothermia: early predictor of acute kidney injury
Creators: name: Choi, Yoon Hee
name: Lee, Dong Hoon
name: Lee, Jae Hee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. General and clinical characteristics of study patients according to AKI stages
Four New Works by Antonio Minello
Creators: name: Schulz, Anne Markham
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31, Nr. 2./3. (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Investigation of the molecular basis of chemosensory communication in aquatic environments using a host (Biomphalaria) and parasite (Schistosoma) system
Creators: name: Liang, Di
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: schistosoma mansoni
biomphalaria glabrata
miracidia
GPCRs
olfaction

description: In aquatic environments, the vast majority of invertebrate animals live in darkness, and therefore the chemosensory sense is of critical importance. To date, limited information is known about the molecular regulatory systems involved in aquatic chemosensation. Host-parasite interactions provide an ideal experimental model system for investigation into the molecular basis of chemosensory communication in aquatic environments, where the parasite seeks out a host whilst the host attempts to evade the parasite; these two behaviors are driven by chemosensory mechanisms. In this thesis research, we chose a focus on the interplay between the intermediate snail host, Biomphalaria glabrata, and the parasitic trematode, Schistosoma mansoni, providing us with the supreme host-parasite interplay for studies to elucidate aquatic olfactory signaling. Besides, new findings in this area may help to ameliorate the associated human disease, schistosomiasis, which kills up to 200,000 people annually. We first analyzed the B. glabrata genome database to explore putative chemosensory receptors, and report that there are up to 242 intact chemosensory G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) genes that belong to 14 subfamilies and ionotropic glutamate receptor (IR) supergene families. An animal's ability to smell is dependent on a set proteins (encoded in the genes) that must be produced and housed within anatomical structures (chemosensory organs) that allow for external detection and neural processing to the higher brain centers. In situ hybridization was used to reveal that at least some candidate chemosensory receptors are expressed within sensory epithelia of the tentacle, strongly suggestive of a role in odorant perception.
Additional file 2 of Moonlight is a key entrainer of lunar clock in the brain of the tropical grouper with full moon preference
Creators: name: Kodai Fukunaga
name: Fumika Yamashina
name: Takeuchi, Yuki
name: Yamauchi, Chihiro
name: Takemura, Akihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Summary of the primer check analysis in each assay of real-time PCR.
Application of modern quantitative and molecular genetic tools in enhancing efficiency of Portuguese oyster (Crassostrea angulata) selective breeding in VIetnam
Creators: name: Vu, Van Sang
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: molecular genetics
subject: quantitative genetics
subject: traits
subject: oysters
subject: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: FOS: Agricultural biotechnology
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Portuguese oyster (Crassostrea angulata) is one of the most economically important mollusc species in Vietnam with a production of 50 000 tonnes in 2018. However, sustainable development of the Portuguese oyster culture industry requires the establishment of a selective program for this species. This is essential to improving spat quality to satisfy the increasing demand from aquaculture farmers and business enterprises. Therefore, in my PhD thesis, I have combined quantitative and molecular tools in a genetic program for this species aimed at improving spat quality.
Die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen in Deutschland. Ressourcenbericht 2022
Creators: name: Lutter, Stephan
name: Kreimel, Julia
name: Giljum, Stefan
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ressourceneffizienz
subject: Berichtswesen
subject: Kreislaufwirtschaft
subject: Umweltberichterstattung
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Luft
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Verkehr
subject: Lärm
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Wasser
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Digitalisierung

description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht seit dem Jahr 2016 einen Bericht "Die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. Ressourcenbericht für Deutschland". In diesem Ressourcenbericht werden die vielfältigen Zusammenhänge zwischen Ressourcenentnahme, Ressourcenkonsum und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung untersucht und aufbereitet. Nach den ersten beiden Ressourcenberichten aus den Jahren 2016 und 2018 (UBA 2016, 2018) wurde im Jahr 2022 die dritte Ausgabe veröffentlicht (UBA 2022). Ziel der vorliegenden Begleitmaterialien, bestehend aus einem Begleittext und einer Power Point Präsentation, ist es, ausgewählte Inhalte aus dem Ressourcenbericht zusammenzufassen, um z. B. die Nutzung im Lehrbetrieb oder Bildungseinrichtungen zu unterstützen. Quelle: Umweltbundesamt.de
description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht seit dem Jahr 2016 einen Bericht „Die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. Ressourcenbericht für Deutschland“. In diesem Ressourcenbericht werden die vielfältigen Zusammenhänge zwischen Ressourcenentnahme, Ressourcenkonsum und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung untersucht und aufbereitet.Nach den ersten beiden Ressourcenberichten aus den Jahren 2016 und 2018 (⁠UBA⁠ 2016, 2018) wurde im Jahr 2022 die dritte Ausgabe veröffentlicht (UBA 2022).Ziel der vorliegenden Begleitmaterialien, bestehend aus einem Begleittext und einer Power Point Präsentation, ist es, ausgewählte Inhalte aus dem Ressourcenbericht zusammenzufassen, um z. B. die Nutzung im Lehrbetrieb oder Bildungseinrichtungen zu unterstützen.
Die Altarretabel des Giovanni di Paolo aus S. Domenico in Siena. Überlegungen zu den Auftraggebern
Creators: name: Bähr, Ingeborg
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31, Nr. 2./3. (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Application of Landscape Approach Principles Motivates Forest Fringe Farmers to Reforest Ghana’s Degraded Reserves
Creators: name: Acheampong, Emmanuel O.
name: Sayer, Jeffrey
name: Macgregor, Colin
name: Sloan, Sean
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Research Highlights: Landscape approach principles were developed to address competing claims on resources at local scales. We used the principles to address agricultural expansion in Ghana’s forest reserves. Background and Objectives: Agricultural expansion is a major cause of Ghana’s forest-cover loss. Cultivation has totally deforested some forest reserves. The situation in Ghana illustrates the trade-off between attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 1—reduction of poverty, and 2—achieving food security, are in conflict with SDG 15—protecting and restoring forests. We examined how farmers in forest fringe communities could be engaged in restoring degraded forests using the landscape approach and whether their livelihoods were improved through the use of this approach. Materials and Methods: The Ongwam II Forest Reserve in the Ashanti region of Ghana is encroached by farmers from two communities adjacent to the reserve. We employed the 10 principles of the landscape approach to engage farmers in restoring the degraded reserve. The flexibility of the landscape approach provided a framework against which to assess farmer behaviour. We encouraged farmers to plant trees on 10 ha of the degraded reserve and to benefit through the cultivation of food crops amongst the trees. Results: Access to fertile forest soils for cultivation was the main motivation for the farmers to participate in the reforestation project. The farmers’ access to natural and financial capital increased and they became food secure in the first year of the project’s operation. Conclusions: Effective implementation of several small-scale reforestation projects using the landscape approach could together lead to a forest transition, more trees in agricultural systems and better protection of residual natural forests while improving farmers’ livelihoods, all combining to achieve the SDGs.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 31 Nr. 2/3 (1987): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: Band XXXI (1987), Heft 2/3
description: Saggio per un "Corpus" pittorico e grafico di Bartolomeo Salvestrini...403-433
Montorsolis Entwürfe Für das Siegel der "Accademia del Disegno" in Florenz...392-402
Das Inventar der Werkstatt von Filippino Lippi aus dem Jahre 1504...373-391
Die Altarretabel des Giovanni di Paolo aus S. Domenico in Siena. Überlegungen zu den Auftraggebern...357-366
Four New Works by Antonio Minello...291-326
Zu einigen toskanischen Terrakotta-Madonnen der Frührenaissance...197-236
Être-sur-Facebook : la technique et l'habitation chez Martin Heidegger et Peter Sloterdijk
Creators: name: Marcotte, Bruno
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Martin Heidegger
Peter Sloterdijk
Facebook
habitation
phénoménologie

description: À mesure que s’accroissent le temps passé en ligne et la richesse phénoménale des environnements web, ces « médias » doivent de moins en moins être pensés comme des canaux de communication et de plus en plus comme des espaces, voire des lieux d’habitation. Au même moment, les dispositifs de communications numériques, au premier chef www.facebook.com, sont constamment accusés d’être des espaces « irréels », de rendre les relations « superficielles », etc. Cette thèse cherche à qualifier l’être-au-monde lorsqu’il prend la forme de l’être-sur-facebook en mettant en relation les questions de l’habitation, de la technique et du numérique. De façon surprenante, bien que ceux-ci n’aient jamais écrit sur le web, les pensées de Martin Heidegger et de Peter Sloterdijk fournissent d’excellentes bases théoriques à partir desquelles penser l’habitation numérique. D’une part, Heidegger ne fait pas dériver la réalité d’une ontologie matérialiste, mais existentielle, ce qui correspond bien à la praxis numérique. D’autre part, il a cherché à établir des relations entre l’habitation et la technique, ainsi qu’entre l’authenticité et la publicité, ce qui se révèle fort utile pour penser ce que peut vouloir dire le fait d’habiter un environnement technique semi-public. Quant à Sloterdijk, ses notions de sphère et d’immunité sont intéressantes pour penser le nouveau genre d’espace créé par Facebook où l’usager contrôle lui-même l’accès à son réseau. Pensé avec les catégories de Sloterdijk, Facebook.com apparait comme un milieu s’acquittant de la double exigence d’immunité et de mobilisation où l’usager fait de son propre reflet sa « maison web ». Le projet guidant la trilogie « Sphères » – penser l’existence humaine à partir de ces lieux de production et d’installation – est ainsi poussé, par-delà son attachement à la concrétude, vers le web.
Literacy on Lockdown: An Ethnographic Experience in English Assessment
Creators: name: Toomey, Nisha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Education in Ontario
EQAO
Ethnography
Standardized testing
Critical literacy
Multiple literacies
Critical pedagogy

description: This research explores literacy as a medium for deepening student's awareness of their world and the impact of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT). Standardized testing is analyzed as a fundamental paradigm to our school culture. Ethnography is explored as a method for describing one group of students and their teacher as they prepare for the OSSLT. The findings conclude that the test occupies time, dominates definitions of literacy and undermines student and teacher agency. The conclusion considers reasons for why we seem to accept a testing paradigm that may be a direct affront to democratic practice in schools.
Additional file 1 of Moonlight is a key entrainer of lunar clock in the brain of the tropical grouper with full moon preference
Creators: name: Kodai Fukunaga
name: Fumika Yamashina
name: Takeuchi, Yuki
name: Yamauchi, Chihiro
name: Takemura, Akihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Nucleotide (top line) and deduced amino acid (bottom line) sequences (A), and multiple alignment of deduced amino acid sequence (B) of honeycomb grouper cry1. The number of nucleotide and amino acid are indicated on the right. Candidate region of FAD binding domain (PF03441) are underlined with single line. The asterisks indicate the fully conserved residues between proteins. Fig. S2. Nucleotide (top line) and deduced amino acid (bottom line) sequences (A), and multiple alignment of deduced amino acid sequence (B) of honeycomb grouper cry2. The number of nucleotide and amino acid are indicated on the right. Candidate region of FAD binding domain (PF03441) are underlined with single line. The asterisks indicate the fully conserved residues between proteins. Fig. S3. Nucleotide (top line) and deduced amino acid (bottom line) sequences (A), and multiple alignment of deduced amino acid sequence (B) of honeycomb grouper cry3. The number of nucleotide and amino acid are indicated on the right. Candidate region of FAD binding domain (PF03441) are underlined with single line and DNA photolyase domain (PF00875) is underlined with dotted line. The asterisks indicate the fully conserved residues between proteins. Fig. S4. RNA-seq analysis in the hypothalamus of honeycomb grouper. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the new and full moon period (A). Red and blue lines show upregulated and downregulated DEGs, respectively. Gene ontology (GO) annotation is indicated beside on the plots summarized (B). Venn diagram of the number of GO annotation in the upregulated and downregulated DEGs (C).
Los guiones del "ciclo hollywoodense" de Manuel Puig : copias, reescrituras y apropiaciones
Creators: name: Pollarolo, Giovanna R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Intertextualidad
Women's Film
Hollywood
Manuel Puig

description: In this dissertation I study Ball Cancelled, Summer Indoors and La tajada, the three early screenplays by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, who wrote these before his first novel and dismissing “copies of old movies”. My thesis investigates and refutes this harsh self-judgment and tries to show—through theories of the “copy” —, that the three screenplays establish a dialogue with one another as well as with the “old Hollywood movies”, through a subtle critique, a transgressive distance and complacency towards the model they represent. The first section examines Puig’s relationship to the conditions under which they were composed, and those films produced in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, in particular those classified as melodramas and “women’s films” under the genre system of that time, as well as with movie reception and the theories elaborated around the audiences, especially the female spectator. The second section is dedicated to the analysis of the three screenplays, from their conception as films to be made under the “Hollywood system” to their impossibility to adherence to the models required by that system, since they reelaborate and alter them, sometimes subtly, and on occassions openly. These three screenplays permit a comprehensive understanding of Puig's narrative, which is why they should be integrated as autonomous texts in the complete works of Manuel Puig.
L'Arco di Lorena: Habsburgische Propaganda in Florenz
Creators: name: Klein, Bruno
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 32, Nr. 1./2. (1988): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Un album inedito di metà ottocento: L' "illustrazione" di Palazzo Masetti sul Lungarno
Creators: name: Palma, Annelie De
name: Luciani, Paola
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 32, Nr. 1./2. (1988): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
The Secretome and Secretory Capabilities of the Marine Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica
Creators: name: Hammond, Michael
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: sponge
Proteome
Ependymin
secreted proteins
Metazoa
multicellularity

description: Sponges are an ancient group of animals that evolved more than 600 million years ago. They occupy an ecological niche as immobile filter feeders, which has not changed since their establishment. As such, they are thought to be the closest link to the universal metazoan ancestor from which all animals are descended. The study of sponges has the ability to elucidate the commonalities to all multicellular animals, regardless of complexity. The process of cell-cell communication is essential to the maintenance of multicellular bodies and the role that secreted proteins and peptides play in signalling between cells in early metazoa has been left largely unexplored. In this thesis, the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica was used to determine its peptide secretory capabilities and then commonalities with other members of metazoa.
nucMACC: An MNase-seq pipeline to identify structurally altered nucleosomes in the genome
Creators: name: Wernig-Zorc, Sara
name: Kugler, Fabian
name: Schmutterer, Leo
name: Räß, Patrick
name: Hausmann, Clemens
name: Holzinger, Simon
name: Längst, Gernot
name: Schwartz, Uwe
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften
subject: 540 Chemie
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Micrococcal nuclease sequencing is the state-of-the-art method for determining chromatin structure and nucleosome positioning. Data analysis is complex due to the AT-dependent sequence bias of the endonuclease and the requirement for high sequencing depth. Here, we present the nucleosome-based MNase accessibility (nucMACC) pipeline unveiling the regulatory chromatin landscape by measuring nucleosome accessibility and stability. The nucMACC pipeline represents a systematic and genome-wide approach for detecting unstable (“fragile”) nucleosomes. We have characterized the regulatory nucleosome landscape in Drosophila melanogaster, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and mammals. Two functionally distinct sets of promoters were characterized, one associated with an unstable nucleosome and the other being nucleosome depleted. We show that unstable nucleosomes present intermediate states of nucleosome remodeling, preparing inducible genes for transcriptional activation in response to stimuli or stress. The presence of unstable nucleosomes correlates with RNA polymerase II proximal pausing. The nucMACC pipeline offers unparalleled precision and depth in nucleosome research and is a valuable tool for future nucleosome studies.
Supplementary document for Organelle-specific phase contrast microscopy(OS-PCM) enables gentle monitoring and analysis of mitochondrial network dynamics - 5275861.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Siyue
name: Ma, Ying
name: Pan, Yang
name: Smith, Zachary
name: Chu, Kaiqin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Image Processing

description: Supplement Figures
Circulation of structural timber for structural purposes: a review of opportunities and challenges
Creators: name: Passarelli, Rafael Novais
name: De Oliveira Chiletto, Tatiana
name: Brandner, Reinhard
name: Ottenhaus, Lisa-Mareike
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The transition to a circular economy is gaining momentum as an alternative to the linear take-make-use-dispose model. Timber-based building materials have received renewed attention due to their role in both natural renewable and technical cycles, offering lower embodied energy than conventional materials, such as concrete, steel or masonry. Moreover, academics and practitioners are investigating methods to implement Design for Circularity strategies to extend material lifespans, reducing the need for virgin resources and minimizing environmental impact. The circulation of structural timber is, therefore, essential to maximize the long-term benefits of grey energy invested in harvesting, transporting and processing timber, as well as its CO₂ storage capacity. This study explored key prerequisites for the circulation of structural timber, including production processes, architectural and structural design concepts, dimensioning, and environmental considerations. These fundamentals were examined alongside a comprehensive literature review to identify opportunities, challenges, and critical knowledge gaps. The goal was to support increased and more effective circulation of structural timber in future construction practices.
An exploration of the professional identity of community health workers to practise in rural and remote settings of Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Pilang, Cathy Lepi
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: community health worker
aidpost orderly
nurse aide
rural and remote health
primary health care
professional identity
preparedness
continous preparedness model
competency based training
pragmatism
mixed methodology

description: Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being promoted as a potential solution to overcome critical shortages in the health workforce to deliver primary health care internationally. However, there is little research on the development of CHWs professional identity and preparedness in Low-Middle income countries such as Papua New Guinea (PNG). The work of CHWs is especially important in geographically remote communities and the formulation of professional identity determines the competence, effectiveness and longevity of CHWs to work in remote communities. Therefore, the purpose of this research project was to explore the construction of CHWs professional identity to practise in rural and remote settings of PNG. To achieve this purpose, four studies were conducted. The first study explored how CHWs' professional identity was developed in PNG historically. The second study explored and described the final year CHW students' perception on how professional identity of CHWs is constructed towards practice in rural and remote settings in PNG. The third study explored and described the CHW clinicians' perception on how the professional identity of CHWs is constructed as well as CHW clinicians' experiences of practice in rural and remote settings in PNG. The final study explored and described the stakeholders' perceptions on how professional identity of CHWs is constructed towards practice in rural and remote settings in PNG.
The effect of diet and seasonal variations on the gut microbiota of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.)
Creators: name: Neuman, Christina
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: atlantic salmon
gut microbiota
diet
temperature
fermentation
lactic acid bacteria

description: The Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry in Australia is of great importance due to the increased demand for fish and/or fish products, however outbreaks of disease, in particular gastrointestinal (GI) disruptions, can result in underweight fish and increased mortalities, leaving the industry with severe financial losses. The gut microbiota of salmon in other countries has been characterised previously revealing a dominance of Gram-negative bacteria such as Vibrio, Pseudomonas and Aeromonas species as well as Gram-positive bacteria, eg. lactic acid bacteria (LAB) important for GI health. The composition and change in the GI microbiota in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon has not been investigated, particularly in response to seasonal and diet variations. As the study of such changes often requires lengthy and expensive feed trials, the use of in vitro fermentation models, in particular a semi-continuous model, may offer an alternative. This thesis examined the changes in the bacterial composition of farmed Tasmanian Atlantic salmon in response to seasonal variations and different commercial diets, as well as varying fishmeal (FM) inclusion levels. This study also investigated the prevalence and persistence of some of the potential fish pathogens, the functional status, overall metabolic capacity (MC) as well as virulence genes (VGs) present in the gut microbiota of these fish. A semi-continuous fermentation model was also established as an in vitro tool to assess the impact of diet components on the microbiota of Atlantic salmon. Lastly this thesis identified LAB strains, isolated from healthy salmon, and characterised these against the existing selection criteria of a potential probiotic.