cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document for Compact high flux hard X-ray source driven by femtosecond mid-infrared pulses at a 1 kHz repetition rate - 4943756.pdf
Creators: name: Koç, Azize
name: Hauf, Christoph
name: Woerner, Michael
name: von Grafenstein, Lorenz
name: Ueberschaer, Dennis
name: Bock, Martin
name: Griebner, Uwe
name: Elsaesser, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
title: Hallazgos en Resonancia Magnética en la Hipertermia Maligna
Creators: name: Sanchez Cordon, Borja
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos característicos que pueden observarse en el estudio con resonancia magnética(RM) cerebral en la hipertermia...
Prozesskettenorientierte Ermittlung der Material- und Energieeffizienzpotenziale in der Glas- und Mineralfaserindustrie
Creators: name: Platzbecker, Esther
name: Schwarz, Marcel
name: Rhiemeier, Jan-Martin
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Glasindustrie
subject: Energieeffizienz
subject: Wärmerückgewinnung
subject: Abwärmepotenziale
subject: Mineralfaserindustrie
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Die deutsche Bundesregierung hat in ihrem Energiekonzept beschlossen, den Primärenergieverbrauch gegenüber 2008 bis zum Jahre 2050 auf 50 % zu reduzieren. Dies erfordert u. a. zwingend eine strukturelle Implementierung geeigneter Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen in allen Sektoren, insbesondere in den (energieintensiven) Industrien. - In diesem Zusammenhang setzt sich das Forschungsvorhaben "Prozesskettenorientierte Ermittlung der Material- und Energieeffizienzpotenziale in der Glas- und Mineralfaserindustrie" zum Ziel, unter Berücksichtigung aktueller sowie zukünftig zu erwartender Abwärmerückgewinnungstechnologien das Abwärmenutzungspotenzial für die gesamte Glas- und Mineralfaserindustrie bis zum Jahr 2050 abzuschätzen. Durch die Realisierung dieses Potenzials kann die Effizienz des Energieeinsatzes maßgeblich gesteigert werden. Gleichzeitig sollen mögliche Hemmnisse identifiziert sowie optimale Rahmenbedingungen definiert werden, die für einen breiten Einsatz der Abwärmerückgewinnungstechnologien vorliegen müssen. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The German government has decided in its energy plan to reduce the primary energy consumption by 50% by 2050 compared to 2008. This requires, inter alia, a structural implementation of appropriate energy efficiency measures in all sectors, especially in the (energy-intensive) industry. - In this context, the research project "process chain-oriented determination of material and energy efficiency potentials in the glass and mineral wool industry" aims to estimate current and future waste heat recovery potentials for the entire glass and mineral wool industry by the year 2050. Through the realization of this potential, the energy efficiency of energy use can be increased significantly. At the same time, possible barriers are identified, and optimal conditions are defined which must be available for widespread use of waste heat recovery technologies. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Um das Ziel der deutschen Bundesregierung zu erreichen, den ⁠Primärenergieverbrauch⁠ bis zum Jahr 2050 um 50% im Vergleich zu 2008 zu senken, bedarf es deutlicher Effizienzsteigerungen im ⁠Endenergieverbrauch⁠, auch in der energieintensiven Industrie.In der vorliegenden Studie wird unter Berücksichtigung aktueller sowie zukünftig zu erwartender Abwärmerückgewinnungstechnologien das Abwärmenutzungspotenzial für die gesamte deutsche Glas- und Mineralfaserindustrie bis zum Jahr 2050 ermittelt. Es werden mögliche Hemmnisse identifiziert sowie optimale Rahmenbedingungen definiert, die für einen breiten Einsatz der Abwärmerückgewinnungstechnologien vorliegen müssen.
No tears for spilt milk : temporal neutrality and the rationality of future-bias
Creators: name: Nguyen, Anh-Quân
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ethics
subject: Rationality theory
subject: Time-bias
subject: Future-bias
subject: Temporal neutrality
subject: Discounting
subject: Narrativity
subject: BC177.N4
subject: Practical reason
subject: Time
subject: Planning

description: Temporal neutrality has become widely accepted as a rational requirement for agents, due to recent arguments from Sullivan (2018), Greene and Sullivan (2015), Dougherty (2011, 2015) and Brink (2010), which build on older remarks from Rawls (1971), Parfit (1984), and Sidgwick (1874). According to Brink, an agent is temporally neutral if she does not prefer an event over another solely based on temporal location and gives equal significance to all parts of life. Temporally neutral agents are required not to be time biased. There are two forms of time-biases in the debate, near-bias and future-bias. An agent is near-biased if she prefers positive events to be closer to her and negative events to be further away in the future. An agent is future-biased if she prefers positive events to be future rather than past, and negative events to be past rather than future. Both forms of time-biases are seen as irrational by proponents of temporal neutrality due to (1) concerns of arbitrariness, (2) concerns around pragmatic loss, and (3) irrelevant influences. While I accept near-bias as rationally impermissible, I develop a systematic defence of the rationality of future-bias in this thesis. My thesis provides defences against all types of arguments from temporal neutralists and aims to set out rational grounds for being future-biased based on rational agency, control-asymmetry, and emotional prudence. Additionally, I explore implications of future-bias for some moral theories. argue that we should understand future-bias as a comprehensive preference pattern that includes all evaluative aspects of life. If we accept a comprehensive reading of future-bias, this undermines some moral theories by making it permissible to focus moral evaluation on the present and future. In short, my thesis argues that we are permitted to, and sometimes should be future-biased, and should reassess our moral theories accordingly.
Synthesis, DFT, electrochemical, biological and DNA-interaction studies of a novel copper(II) complex of salicylic acid and N-tosyl substituted benzimidazole
Creators: name: Rashid, Naghmana
name: Kiran, Almas
name: Ahmad, Iqbal
name: Ashraf, Zaman
name: Yamin, Bohari Mohd.
name: Rafiq, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Sulfonylbenzimidazoles and their copper complexes have tremendous applications in drug development. In the present work, bis(2-hydroxylbenzoato-κ2O,O′)bis(2-methyl-1-(toluene-4-sulfonyl)-1H-benzimidazole) copper(II) complex [Cu(L1)(L2)] has been synthesized and structurally characterized by Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD). The complex formed a distorted octahedral geometry with the benzimidazole ligands occupying the axial position and the hydroxylbenzoato ligands in the equatorial positions. The latter ligands coordinated in an isobidentate manner with a Cu–Odeprotenated bond length of 1.955(18) Å and a long range Cu–Ocarbonyl of 2.574(2) Å. An excellent correlation was found between bond lengths and bond angles obtained experimentally from single-crystal XRD analysis and that obtained from density functional theory. Electrochemical behavior of [Cu(L1)(L2)] has been probed by cyclic voltammetry (CV). CV studies revealed that it undergoes one-electron reduction followed by one-electron oxidation process. In vitro tyrosinase inhibitory activity of the complex was evaluated and it was observed that it exhibited good inhibitory potential with IC50 value 56.8 ± 11.4 μM. Complex-DNA-interaction studies were performed by CV, electronic and florescence spectroscopic titrations and it has been inferred that the [Cu(L1)(L2)] binds with DNA through intercalation and the value of binding constant was 3.6 × 104 M−1.
Pannexin 2 Localizes at ER-Mitochondria Contact Sites
Creators: name: Le Vasseur, Maxence
name: Chen, Vincent C.
name: Huang, Kate
name: Vogl, Wayne A.
name: Naus, Christian C.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Endomembrane specialization allows functional compartmentalization but imposes physical constraints to information flow within the cell. However, the evolution of an endomembrane system was associated with the emergence of contact sites facilitating communication between membrane-bound organelles. Contact sites between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria are highly conserved in terms of their morphological features but show surprising molecular diversity within and across eukaryote species. ER-mitochondria contact sites are thought to regulate key processes in oncogenesis but their molecular composition remains poorly characterized in mammalian cells. In this study, we investigate the localization of pannexin 2 (Panx2), a membrane channel protein showing tumor-suppressing properties in cancer cells. Using a combination of subcellular fractionation, particle tracking in live-cell, and immunogold electron microscopy, we show that Panx2 localizes at ER-mitochondria contact sites in mammalian cells and sensitizes cells to apoptotic stimuli.
Towards interactive search: investigating visual search in a novel real-world paradigm
Creators: name: Sauter, Marian
name: Stefani, Maximilian
name: Mack, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: interactive search
subject: visual search
subject: action intentions
subject: haptic
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Real world
subject: Touch
subject: Computerunterstütztes Verfahren

description: An overwhelming majority of studies on visual search and selective attention were conducted using computer screens. There are arguably shortcomings in transferring knowledge from computer-based studies to real-world search behavior as findings are based on viewing static pictures on computer screens. This does not go well with the dynamic and interactive nature of vision in the real world. It is crucial to take visual search research to the real world in order to study everyday visual search processes. The aim of the present study was to develop an interactive search paradigm that can serve as a “bridge” between classical computerized search and everyday interactive search. We based our search paradigm on simple LEGO® bricks arranged on tabletop trays to ensure comparability with classical computerized visual search studies while providing room for easily increasing the complexity of the search environment. We found that targets were grasped slower when there were more distractors (Experiment 1) and there were sizable differences between various search conditions (Experiment 2), largely in line with classical visual search research and revealing similarities to research in natural scenes. Therefore, our paradigm can be seen as a valuable asset complementing visual search research in an environment between computerized search and everyday search.
One down, two to go: public policy in service of an available, affordable and accessible National Broadband Network for people with disability
Creators: name: Morsillo, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'What may be gained from thinking about disability and technology differently is potentially a great deal more than commonly thought' (Goggin & Newell 2004, 419). Almost all the policy and politics surrounding the NBN to date has been concerned with supply-side issues pertinent to building the network to ensure the universal availability of broadband services. However, there has not been any specific affordability or accessibility policy considerations to address the needs of people with disability as a particularly interested user group. People with disability can showcase and lead consumer demand for the high capacity broadband capabilities of the NBN given their desire and need for immersive multi-media based communications. This paper suggests some options to address these issues utilising current policy levers available to the Australian Government, including the Universal Service Obligation and the National Disability Strategy.
Supplementary document for Compact high flux hard X-ray source driven by femtosecond mid-infrared pulses at a 1 kHz repetition rate - 4943756.pdf
Creators: name: Koç, Azize
name: Hauf, Christoph
name: Woerner, Michael
name: von Grafenstein, Lorenz
name: Ueberschaer, Dennis
name: Bock, Martin
name: Griebner, Uwe
name: Elsaesser, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Binuclear chiral Ni(II) complex of tridentate OON chiral Schiff base ligand, 1-((E)-(((1S,2R)-2-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)imino)methyl)naphthalen-2-ol
Creators: name: Maiti, Subir Kr
name: Bora, Aditi
name: Barman, Pranjit
name: Chandra, Asit K.
name: Baidya, Bidisha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Binuclear Ni(II) chelating complex with chiral Schiff base 1-((E)-(((1S,2R)-2-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)imino)methyl)naphthalene-2-ol [Ni2L2] has been synthesized. The structure of [Ni2L2] was elucidated with single-crystal X-ray diffraction, spectroscopic (UV–vis, FTIR, mass) analysis and substantiated with computational (DFT) method. The crystal system of binuclear complex is monoclinic with space group P21/c. The asymmetric unit having two tridentate OON-donor sets are in slightly distorted square-planar geometry around each Ni(II) center. The distortion is due to strong coordination between two Ni(II) ions. The stabilization of complex [Ni2L2] occurs due to noncovalent interactions and hydrogen bonding (C–H…C and C–H…O), H…H, O…H, C…H, and C–H…π stacking interactions, and van der Waals interactions. DFT optimization, with little acceptable discrepancies, correlate with the X-ray diffraction data as well as TD DFT optimization for electronic transitions of the complex showing acceptable alignment with spectroscopic data. The complex displays appreciable inclination towards DNA-binding with calf-thymus DNA (CT DNA) and the DNA-binding studies were carried out by UV–visible spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, viscosity measurements, and CD spectroscopy. The DNA-binding study reveals that the order of binding constant value is in 105
 M−
1, supporting the effective efficiency of binding and the modes of binding are intercalation and groove.
Interfaces for pipe network design and simulation with Visual Basic.
Creators: name: Zhou, Litian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: A more user-friendly program is provided here instead of the old one which is a network design for pipe lines. After a brief introduction to the pipe network, a comparison has been done between the old program and the new program. Then, a concept model of the new program is set up. Details of the interface design are given in succession. Finally, a manual and an example of the implementation of the interface are provided.
title: Architekturpläne des Hans-Scharoun-Archivs
title: Abschlussbericht des KUR-Projektes
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Glück, Eva
name: Barkhofen, Eva-Maria
Publisher: name: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: Conservation

description: Innerhalb des vierjährigen Projekts wurden rund 5000 Architekturpläne aus dem Hans Scharoun-Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin erschlossen, konserviert und digitalisiert. Das Projekt beinhaltete drei forschungsbezogene Schwerpunkte:
Der erste Schwerpunkt lag auf der materialtechnischen Identifizierung der für das Projekt ausgewählten Architekturpläne, insbesondere der Lichtpausen. Zwischen 2008 und 2010 erfolgten die damit im Zusammenhang stehenden technologischen Untersuchungen.
Zweitens wurden im Jahr 2009 die Methoden für die konservatorischen Behandlungen, vor allem die Planlegung und die Sicherung von Einrissen, entwickelt. Diese kamen 2010 innerhalb der zwölfmonatigen Bearbeitung des Konvoluts zum Einsatz.
Drittens wurden 2009 die Untersuchungen zur Auswahl von adäquaten Hüllmaterialien für die Neulagerung der Architekturzeichnungen und Lichtpausen durchgeführt.

Das neue Lagerungssystem wurde 2010 konzipiert, 2011 angefertigt und am Bestand eingesetzt. Zuletzt wurden die Pläne im Rahmen von einer Forschungskooperation mit dem Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin digitalisiert. Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte waren hierbei, ein geeignetes Verfahren zur originalgetreuen Farbwiedergabe zu entwickeln und dieses innerhalb eines effizienten Workflows bei der Digitalisierung der großformatigen Pläne einzusetzen.
Supplementary document for Photochromism in a Hexagonal Boron Nitride Single Photon Emitter - 4943800.pdf
Creators: name: Feldman, Matthew
name: Marvinney, Claire
name: Puretzky, Alex
name: Lawrie, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental 1
Ginsenosides act as positive modulators of P2X4 receptors
Creators: name: Dhuna, Kshitija
name: Felgate, Matthew
name: Bidula, Stefan M.
name: Walpole, Samuel
name: Bibic, Lucka
name: Cromer, Brett
name: Angulo, Jesus
name: Sanderson, Julie
name: Stebbing, Martin J.
name: Stokes, Leanne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310110
subject: Receptors and membrane biology
classificationCode: 321401
subject: Basic pharmacology

description: We investigated the selectivity of protopanaxadiol ginsenosides from Panax ginseng acting as positive allosteric modulators on P2X receptors. ATP-induced responses were measured in stable cell lines overexpressing human P2X4 using a YOPRO-1 dye uptake assay, intracellular calcium measurements, and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings. Ginsenosides CK and Rd were demonstrated to enhance ATP responses at P2X4 by ∼twofold, similar to potentiation by the known positive modulator ivermectin. Investigations into the role of P2X4 in mediating a cytotoxic effect showed that only P2X7 expression in HEK-293 cells induces cell death in response to high concentrations of ATP, and that ginsenosides can enhance this process. Generation of a P2X7-deficient clone of BV-2 microglial cells using CRISPR/ Cas9 gene editing enabled an investigation of endogenous P2X4 in a microglial cell line. Compared with parental BV-2 cells, P2X7-deficient BV-2 cells showed minor potentiation of ATP responses by ginsenosides, and insensitivity to ATP2 or ATP1 ginsenoside-induced cell death, indicating a primary role for P2X7 receptors in both of these effects. Computational docking to a homology model of human P2X4, based on the open state of zfP2X4, yielded evidence of a putative ginsenoside binding site in P2X4 in the central vestibule region of the large ectodomain.
Screening of Celiac Disease Using Anti- Tissue Transglutaminase-IgG Test Among Helminths- Infected School Children in Ziway, Southeast Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekdes Alem
name: Kassu Desta
name: Biniyam Taye
name: Mussie Girma
name: Mistire Wolde
name: Aster Tsegaye
Publisher: name: The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development
Year: 2024

description: Abstract
Background: Celiac disease is a major health problem worldwide. It is a gluten-induced inflammation of the small intestine, marked by elevated levels of serum auto anti-bodies against tissue transglutaminase, including anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG (Anti-tTG). Anti-tTG anti-bodies are auto anti-bodies, highly sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of Celiac disease (CD). Celiac disease is an overlooked disease among school-aged children that account for a missed diagnosis in children’s morbidity and mortality.
Objective: To screen the prevalence of celiac disease - using an anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG anti-body among Helminths-infected school children in Ziway, South East Ethiopia.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Ziway, South-Eastern Ethiopia. Socio-demographic data and medical records were taken from a previous study. Left-over samples from that study that were stored at -800c were analyzed for anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG antibodies. The anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG measurement used the principle of Enzyme immunoassay (ELISA). Children samples positive for anti-tissue transglutaminase were further assessed for any differences between the Helminths infected and non-infected children by using Binary logistic regression. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 23, and descriptive analysis, Chi-square, and logistic regression were used to see any associations, and P- value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Result: This cross-sectional study involved 97 left-over samples of children between 6 and 14 years old. Among these, 18 (18.6%) of study participants tested positive for anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG, which suggests a positive celiac disease diagnosis. Females had a higher prevalence of anti-tTG IgG than males, 13/18 (72.2%). A significant association was found between Helminthes infection and anti-tTG IgG [COR 3.45 (95% CI:1.057,11.265), P= 0.033].
Conclusion: This study showed that prevalence of celiac disease as screened by anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG to be18.6% and was 3.45 times higher among Helminthes infected school children than non-infected ones. This screening test might suggest that children who acquired helminths infections had a high chance of developing Celiac Disease. To gain a better insight, further large-scale studies are strongly recommended. [Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 2024; 38(2): 00-00]
Keywords: Anti-tissue transglutaminase IgG, celiac disease, Helminthes
description: The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development , Vol. 38 No. 2 (2024)
Mining task analysis: Mechanical and metabolic considerations in a deep Canadian mechanized mine
Creators: name: Mate, Joseph E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.
subject: Engineering, Mining.

description: Purpose. The objective of this thesis was to examine work in mines. Specifically, part #1 performed in-situ time/motion analyses of common mining jobs and part #2 analyzed in-situ energy expenditures while working in a mine. Methodology. Part #1- task and sub-task duration and subjective work intensity were investigated for thirty eight subjects from six different mining jobs. These jobs were then organized into 4 groups for statistical analysis based on precedence: Group 1 (Bolting & Screening (attaching steel mesh to walls and ceiling), Group 2 (Conventional Mining (using a hand-held drilling carriage to drills holes in rock walls and ceiling)), Group 3 (Support Services (mechanic, welder, pipe layer)), Group 4 (Production Drill (using a machine mounted drilling unit), Scooptram(TM) (ore transport with no air conditioner), Shotcrete (concrete applied by spraying)). Part #2- In-situ metabolic energy expenditures were estimated through indirect open circuit calorimetry and deep tissue and skin temperatures were measured for those same groups. Results. Part #1- twenty three common mining tasks were identified with differences identified between various group for time and intensity. Part #2- metabolic requirements between groups were similar with one difference identified between groups 3 and 4 (P < 0.05). Deep tissue and skin temperatures did not change significantly through the course of a work day. Conclusion. Part #1- a variety of tasks is performed by each group and there is no uniform work protocol. Part #2- each mining group's metabolic energy expenditure requirements to perform various mining tasks are similar.
Dreifache Innenentwicklung
Creators: name: Eckert, Karl
name: Schröder, Alice
name: Dross, Miriam
name: Schubert, Susanne
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: Innenentwicklung
Nachhaltige Mobilität
Nachhaltige Entwicklung

description: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung muss die vielen unterschiedlichen Ansprüche an den urbanen Raum auf begrenzter Fläche koordinieren. Eine multifunktionale und flächeneffiziente Siedlungs-, Verkehrs-, Frei- und Grünraumplanung ist ein zentraler Schlüssel für mehr Umwelt- und Lebensqualität in Städten. Das Leitbild der dreifachen Innenentwicklung bietet eine neue Perspektive auf räumliche Auf- und Verteilung von Flächen für Bauen, Mobilität und Grün, die den Anforderungen an eine lebenswerte und resiliente Stadt gerecht wird. Das Hintergrundpapier leistet einen Beitrag zum weiteren Verständnis des planerischen Leitbilds der dreifachen Innenentwicklung. Es richtet sich richtet sich an Kommunen und Behörden sowie die Wissenschaft. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
Poverty, food insecurity and overweightobesity in the Canadian population
Creators: name: McGuire, Marissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Health Sciences, Epidemiology.

description: This study, based on the Canadian Community Health Survey (2004), examined the relationship between food insecurity and overweight/obesity among Canadian adults by sex and family type using logistic regression analysis; we also provided an environmental scan of policies, programs and initiatives to address food insecurity. In our final adjusted models, food insecure women with hunger were significantly more likely to be overweight/obese than food secure women [OR=2.3, CI=1.2, 4.3]. Our environmental scan revealed broad recognition of the importance of addressing food insecurity and concrete recommendations to do so. We found far less recognition of the implications of food insecurity for healthy weights within a policy context. The food insecurity/overweight/obesity relationship and its policy implications are complex; we need a better understanding of how underlying social and economic conditions, sex, and family type relate to income, food security and healthy weights.
A psychometric study of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale among families of children with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Gardiner, Emily
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
name: Iarocci, Grace
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: The family system represents a critical context within which children develop. Although raising a child with a disability may represent a challenge to this dynamic system, research demonstrates that families have the capacity to demonstrate both maladaptation and resilience in the face of related stressors. In the current study, we examined the psychometric properties of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS) among families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This tool is the only measure of family resilience that seeks to identify within-family protective factors, including the extent to which they rely on adaptive belief systems, organizational patterns, and communication processes. Identifying protective processes utilized by those who show resilience is critical within both clinical practice and research, as it aligns with a strength-based perspective that builds on what families are doing well. Methods: Participants included 174 caregivers of individuals with ASD (84% mothers). Caregivers completed the FRAS, as well as the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale. The 54-item FRAS was submitted to an exploratory factor analysis, using the iterated principal factor method with a promax rotation. Results: Fifty-one items across 3 factors (Family Communication and Problem Solving, Utilizing Social and Economic Resources, Family Spirituality) were retained, explaining 52% of the total variance. The final scale demonstrated convergent validity with the Family Quality of Life assessment tool. Conclusions: It is our hope that identifying the optimal scale structure will encourage other researchers to utilize this measure with families of children with ASD, thus continuing to advance the study of family resilience within this unique context.
title: The Natural Order: Race, Space, and Expansion in the Post-Civil War United States
Creators: name: Ping, Frederick
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2025

description: This cultural history of foreign relations examines how “natural” thinking influenced territorial and commercial U.S. expansion in the aftermath of the Civil War. It uses expansionist case-studies in three contrasting geographies (the Alaska Purchase, the Santo Domingo debates, and the 1871 Korean expedition) to argue that Americans formed their policy positions based on what was understood to be natural, both racially and spatially. In this thesis, natural thinking—or naturalism—is thought of in terms of space, and in terms of race. Regarding space, this thesis argues that a significant portion of Americans remained sceptical of the wisdom behind territorially expanding their nation into the abrasive Far North (Alaska) or the enervating tropics (Santo Domingo). A feature of its association with the construct of the Far North, Alaska was imagined by a meaningful number of Americans to offer little to the average “civilised” American—and perhaps, to exist outside of the national domain. Santo Domingo, meanwhile, unambiguously positioned within the tropics, tested Americans who still—despite mounting evidence to the contrary—viewed tropical climates as incubators of inferiority. The overlapping theme of race likewise played an important role in circumscribing, or sometimes licensing, post-Civil War expansionism. In the nineteenth century, there were two key ways in which Americans positioned race within nature, each being examples of racial naturalism. Climatic determinism posited that race was itself fashioned by climate, and that certain races were best suited to certain climatic spaces. Racial essentialism, meanwhile, which grew popular through the mid-century, posited that race was a biological, internal feature rather than an incident of environment. Americans across the political spectrum were influenced by these two, sometimes imbricating, ways of viewing race. Racial essentialism, positing “inferiority” as a fixed racial trait, influenced the palatability of welcoming new nonwhite populations into the body politic, and it shaped the way that Americans engaged with unfamiliar populations outside of the Western Hemisphere. As a whole, racial naturalism helped establish the geographical parameters of acceptable territorial expansion—namely temperate climates—and it conditioned the way that Americans interacted with non-white peoples. Situated after Appomattox, this thesis spotlights the historical continuity of climatic and racial ideas that historians have traced convincingly through the Civil War. It demonstrates that after the Civil War, climatic convictions continued to circumscribe expansion envisaged as “national.” Furthermore, in examining episodes in territorial and commercial expansion together, this thesis challenges the notion that racism consistently limited post-Civil War imperialism. It shows, rather, that racism—removed from its national constraints—underwrote commercial expansion.
Interactions of nitrogen-donor biomolecules with copper(II) complexes in Tris buffer
Creators: name: Selimović, Enisa
name: Komolkin, Andrei V.
name: Davletbaeva, Diana A.
name: Egorov, Andrei V.
name: Soldatović, Tanja V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Comprehensive mole-ratio, kinetic, EPR and X-ray studies were performed to investigate substitution reactions between square-planar [CuCl2(en)] (en = ethylenediamine) and square-pyramidal [CuCl2(terpy)] (terpy = 2,2’:6’,2”-terpyridine) complexes with bio-relevant nucleophiles at 295 K in 0.010 M Tris-HCl buffer (pH = 7.4) in the presence of 0.010 M NaCl. According to mole-ratio and EPR studies, Tris buffer reacts with [CuCl2(en)], and likely the complex geometry remains square-planar. Kinetic results have shown that the order of reactivity of nucleophiles towards [CuCl2(en)] in solution for both reaction steps is 1,2,4-triazole > imidazole > pyrazine. The order of reactivity of the azole and diazine ligands toward [CuCl2(terpy)] for the first reaction step is imidazole > 1,2,4-triazole > pyrazine, while for the second one is pyrazine > 1,2,4-triazole > imidazole. X-ray studies indicate great affinity of ethylenediamine toward Cu(II), which results in crystal structures of [Cu(en)2]Cl2·H2O and [Cu(en)2][ZnCl4], instead of dinuclear or heteronuclear complexes with a bridging pyrazine ligand. The recorded EPR spectra demonstrate that all ligands interact with Cu(II) complexes, except in the case of the [CuCl2(en)] complex, where the competition between ligand and Tris molecules might be observed.
Crime Prevention Ottawa as a responsibility centre: An interim analysis
Creators: name: Hurst, Christine E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: There is a growing international interest in the use of crime prevention responsibility centres (Re) as mechanisms for organizing crime prevention initiatives. One model of RC-based crime prevention is that used in England and Wales, where the creation of CDRPs (municipal RCs) was mandated by the Crime and Disorder Act of 1998. Themes gleaned from analyses of this experience form the basis for this thesis. In 2005, Crime Prevention Ottawa (CPO) was created to be an RC in Ottawa. This thesis examines whether and how CPO faced challenges similar to those in England and Wales. It concludes that many challenges met by the English experience are not present in the CPO case, in response to the challenges that are experienced, it recommends that CPO: define 'community', and its political 'role'; sustain project funding; increase project proposal expectations; and discuss what the organization 'does' versus 'should do'.
Supplementary document for Photochromism in a Hexagonal Boron Nitride Single Photon Emitter - 4943800.pdf
Creators: name: Feldman, Matthew
name: Marvinney, Claire
name: Puretzky, Alex
name: Lawrie, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental 1
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 269 (34. Jg.), Juli 2004
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Nonylphenol (NP) exposure in Germany between 1991 and 2021: urinary biomarker analyses in the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB)
Creators: name: Ringbeck, Benedikt
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Bury, Daniel
name: Weber, Till
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Nonylphenol
Human-Biomonitoring
Expositionsabschätzung
Risikoanalyse

description: Nonylphenol (NP) is a high production volume chemical with a wide range of uses, e.g. in NP ethoxylates (NPEO). NP and NPEO have become ubiquitous in the environment and are considered of concern due to their general ecotoxicity and endocrine disrupting properties. However, knowledge on human exposure is scarce. In this study, we analyzed novel NP metabolites (OH-NP and oxo-NP) as robust biomarkers of exposure in 24h-urine samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB). This enables us to reliably determine the individual NP body burden and to retrospectively evaluate NP exposure over the past 30 years. We analyzed 660 urine samples from eleven sampling years between 1991 and 2021. All samples were from young German adults between 20 and 29 years of age. OH-NP was quantifiable in all samples until 2017. In 2019 and 2021, the frequency of samples above the LOQ dropped to 90% and 77%, respectively. Median OH-NP concentrations significantly decreased from 4.32 (micro)g/L in 1991 to 0.70 (micro)g/L in 2021. OH-NP and oxo-NP levels correlated strongly, but oxo-NP concentrations and detections were considerably lower, in line with its known lower metabolic conversion. Reverse dosimetry back-calculated daily intakes (DI) of NP, based on OH-NP, decreased by almost a factor of four from medians of 0.16 (micro)g/(kg bw*d) in 1991 to 0.04 (micro)g/(kg bw*d) in 2021, respectively. The major drop took place only after 2012. This came as a surprise, because strict restrictions had been enacted much earlier in the EU, in 2003. All NP DIs were below the provisional tolerable daily intake of 5 (micro)g/(kg bw*d) from the Danish Environmental Agency. DIs back-calculated from the ESB biomonitoring data agree well with calculations from food. This indicates to contaminated foodstuff as a major source of exposure. The time lag of regulatory restrictions to decreasing human exposure levels, the general lack of knowledge on exposure levels in susceptible populations such as children, and the ongoing worldwide use of NP underline the urgent need to continue monitoring NP exposures in Germany and worldwide. With these novel NP biomarkers, we provide a robust and sensitive tool for exposure and risk assessments, complementing environmental monitoring. © 2022 The Authors
Unaccusative and unergative verbs in the Spanish interlanguage of French and English speakers.
Creators: name: Sikorska, Margaret P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: Esta tesis es un estudio de la morfo-sintaxis de los Ilamados verbos inacusativos e inergativos de la interlengua castellana de hablantes francofonos y anglofonos. La Hipotesis de la Unacusatividad (Perlmutter 1978) afirma que, en terminos sintacticos, la clase de los verbos intransitivos se divide en dos sub-clases: los verbos inergativos (dormir, cantar) y los verbos inacusativos (llegar, florecer) y que esta diferencia entre inacusatividad e inergatividad se plasma universalmente en et plano semantico. Sin embargo, las lenguas se diferencian en el grado de la representacion sintactica y morfologica de esta distincion. El objeto de nuestro estudio es investigar si nuestros aprendices conocen las consecuencias sintActicas de que un verbo pertenezca a una clase semantica u a otra. Dado que los verbos intransitivos no se clasifican del mismo modo en las lenguas maternas de nuestros aprendices, es de esperar que se enfrenten de distinta forma a los verbos del castellano. De hecho, vamos a explorar la hipotesis de que las semejanzas y diferencias entre sus lenguas maternas y et castellano nos permitan prever las dificultades con que habran de enfrentarse.
Supplementary document for Singlet oxygen phosphorescence imaging by superconducting single photon detector and time-correlated single photon counting - 4945355.pdf
Creators: name: Morozov, Pavel
name: Lukina, Maria
name: Shirmanova, Marina
name: Divochiy, Alexander
name: Goltsman, Gregory
name: Becker, Wolfgang
name: Shcheslavskiy, Vladislav
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Performance of the SSPD. System detection efficiency vs bias current (blue dots). Dark count rate vs bias current (black dots).
Littérature, langue et société : la quête identitaire des Québécois depuis 1980.
Creators: name: Michaud, Marie-Andrée.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education, Language and Literature.

description: Dans son roman Le Cassé paru en 1964, Jacques Renaud a donné droit de cité au français québécois non seulement dans le discours, comme le faisaient les auteurs auparavant, mais aussi dans la narration, atténuant ainsi la distance entre les deux modes. Cette oeuvre, fortement marquée par le contexte sociopolitique dans lequel elle s'est inscrite, sert de point de départ et d'outil de comparaison pour introduire l'analyse de cinq romans québécois qui couvrent la période de 1980 à 2000: La Vie en prose de Yolande Villemaire (1980), Encore une partie pour Berri de Pauline Harvey (1985), Cowboy de Louis Hamelin (1992), Cadavres de François Barcelo (1998) et On a raison de faire le caméléon de Jean-Marie Poupart (1999). L'étude de la langue dans la narration et dans le discours de ces oeuvres permet de constater quelle place les auteurs accordent au français québécois dans les deux modes depuis le grand saut fait par Renaud dans les années 1960. De plus, cette étude permet non seulement de déterminer si la société influence les auteurs dans leur écriture, mais elle permet aussi de constater s'il y a uniformisation ou distanciation des usages linguistiques entre narration et discours dans ces romans représentatifs de leur époque respective.
Body composition, muscle function, and physical performance in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Guler, Sabina A.
name: Hur, Seo A.
name: Lear, Scott A.
name: Camp, Pat
name: Ryerson, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD) are frequently physically inactive and many ILD subtypes are characterized by risk factors for myopathy; however, the importance of body composition, muscle strength, and physical performance in this population is largely unknown. Methods: Patients were prospectively recruited from a specialized ILD clinic, baseline characteristics were collected from the clinical record, pulmonary function tests were performed per established protocols, and dyspnea was measured using the University of California San Diego Shortness of Breath Questionnaire. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) was used to assess body composition; handgrip strength to determine muscle strength, and 4-m gait speed to measure physical performance. Results: One hundred and fifteen patients with fibrotic ILD including 40 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis were recruited. The mean age was 69+/− 10 years in men (62% of the cohort), and 66+/− 9 years in women, with mild and moderate reduction in FVC and DLCO, respectively, for both sexes. ILD severity (measured by FVC %-predicted, DLCO %-predicted, or the Composite Physiologic Index in separate models) significantly predicted muscle mass and percent body fat including with adjustment for age, sex, and weight. ILD severity was associated with grip strength and gait speed independent from body composition. Conclusions: ILD severity has an important impact on body composition, particularly in men. Future studies are needed to confirm and further explore the possibility of additional pathways through which ILD directly impacts limb muscle function and physical performance.
Signal estimators and noise reduction schemes for high-end binaural hearing aids
Creators: name: Kamkar-Parsi, A. Homayoun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: There is a variety of hearing aid models available in the marketplace, which vary in terms of size, shape and effectiveness. Due to size constraints, for certain types of hearing aids only a single microphone per hearing aid can be fitted, and only single-channel monaural noise reduction schemes can be integrated in them. In the near future, binaural hearing aids will become available, making use of a wireless link to shape information between the two ears. In this thesis, a binaural diffuse noise power spectral density estimator is first developed. The estimator does not require a voice activity detection algorithm, it provides an estimate at any time i.e. during speech activity or not, it has no noise tracking latency and it does not assume that the target speaker is in front of the binaural hearing aid user. An instantaneous binaural target speech power spectral density estimator is then developed, for conditions of speech corrupted by lateral interfering noise. The estimator does not require the knowledge of the direction of the noise source, and the noise source can be highly non-stationary or transient. Finally, a complete binaural noise reduction scheme is designed, by incorporating the two binaural estimators mentioned above. The proposed reduction scheme is designed for complex real-life environments composed of time-varying diffuse noise, multiple non-stationary directional noises and reverberant conditions. The proposed scheme also preserves the original interaural cues of both the target speech and the background noises. Simulations using recorded signals provided by a hearing aid manufacturer are performed in the thesis to validate the performance of the proposed estimators and the proposed noise reduction algorithm. The results indicate that the proposed binaural noise reduction scheme proves to be a good candidate for the noise reduction stage of upcoming binaural hearing aids.
Supplementary document for Singlet oxygen phosphorescence imaging by superconducting single photon detector and time-correlated single photon counting - 4945355.pdf
Creators: name: Morozov, Pavel
name: Lukina, Maria
name: Shirmanova, Marina
name: Divochiy, Alexander
name: Goltsman, Gregory
name: Becker, Wolfgang
name: Shcheslavskiy, Vladislav
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Performance of the SSPD. System detection efficiency vs bias current (blue dots). Dark count rate vs bias current (black dots).
Ten ways you can avoid being caught in the PRISM net
Creators: name: Hamlyn-Harris, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Last weekend, the Washington Post published a further four slides, leaked from the US National Security Agency (NSA), which outline how data is collected through the PRISM program. The process is fairly simple: after an NSA analyst identifies a new surveillance target and a supervisor endorses the analyst’s “reasonable belief” (defined as 51% confidence) that the target is a foreign national and overseas at the time, data collection can begin. Just say you’re one of these new targets, or you simply don’t want to be incidentally monitored. How can you minimise the amount of data you share?