cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cuffless Single-Site Photoplethysmography for Blood Pressure Monitoring
Creators: name: Hosanee, Manish
name: Chan, Gabriel
name: Welykholowa, Kaylie
name: Cooper, Rachel
name: Kyriacou, Panayiotis A.
name: Zheng, Dingchang
name: Allen, John
name: Abbott, Derek
name: Menon, Carlo
name: Lovell, Nigel H.
name: Howard, Newton
name: Chan, Wee-Shian
name: Lim, Kenneth
name: Fletcher, Richard
name: Ward, Rabab Kreidieh
name: Elgendi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: One in three adults worldwide has hypertension, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Consequently, there is a global demand for continuous and non-invasive blood pressure (BP) measurements that are convenient, easy to use, and more accurate than the currently available methods for detecting hypertension. This could easily be achieved through the integration of single-site photoplethysmography (PPG) readings into wearable devices, although improved reliability and an understanding of BP estimation accuracy are essential. This review paper focuses on understanding the features of PPG associated with BP and examines the development of this technology over the 2010–2019 period in terms of validation, sample size, diversity of subjects, and datasets used. Challenges and opportunities to move single-site PPG forward are also discussed.
66. Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar
Creators: name: Bertelmann, Roland
name: Möller, Lutz
name: Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje
name: Castell, Wolfgang zu
name: Office, Helmholtz Open Science
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023
Subjects: Information Science
Open Science
Policy
Data
Research
Open Access
Software
UNESCO

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5446/60525
description: The 66th Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar was dedicated to the topic of the creation, design, and implementation of Open Science Policies with contributions from CERN and the Helmholtz Open Science Office, and was opened with a welcome address by Lutz Möller, Deputy Secretary-General of the German Commission for UNESCO.
Il paese dei balocchi: Pinocchio tra Paradiso e Inferno
Creators: name: Pentucci, Maila
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: "What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country! Oh--h--h!!",says Pinocchio at the end of the  Chapter XXX of “The Adventures”, after Lamp-Wick explained him the amazing features of  the "real country--the best in the world--a wonderful place!": the Land of Toys, also named “blessed place” and portrayed as a sort of heaven on heart for lazy boys.
In reality, the approaching road to the Land of Toys, before as a mental process,  - a persuasion of himself – and then as real journey, it’s like a fall to hell.
The master of ceremonies of this fall to hell is just the fellow Lamp-Wick,in fact in the original version of the book Lamp-Wick is “Lucignolo”, a name reminiscent of Lucifer, the famous fallen angel.
Lamp-Wick and Pinocchio work up to the Land of Toy in a wagon conducted by a spineless, shifty driver: “a little, fat man, muchwiderthan he was long, round and shinyas a ball of butter, with a face beaminglike an apple, a little mouth that always smiled, and a voice small and wheedling like that of a catbegging for food”.
This “little, fat man” is a sort of  Charon, and the wagon: “wasdrawn by twelve pair of donkeys, all of the same size, but all of different color. Some weregray, otherswhite, and still others a mixture of brown and black. Here and there were a few with large yellow and blue stripes.”.
These queerd on keys, recurring frequently in the fairytale and they are full of double meaning: in half way point between the numinoso Christ’s whitehorse and the demonic Cambridge Bestiary.
Pinocchio and Lamp-Wick glorify the life in the Land of Toys: they feel free and happy like in heaven, but the hard truth is very different: this land looks like the Hell, everywhere is noise, disorder, insecurity.
During the development of the story,  it’s possibile to detect different elements of the Pinocchio’s rise and fall between Heaven and Hell. For example the double nature of the Fairy: during the tale she can be the ghost of the little girl (de facto an angel) or she can be a goat (a devil’s mark).
Talking about rise and fall, the end of the story is paradigmatic: Pinocchio will get a real boy. Acquiring the human nature, he will be able to find the Heaven on earth, after a long series of ups and downs, starting with  a “badhell night”.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
More than People, Equipment and Environment: Developing a Systems Thinking Approach to Risk Assessment in the Led Outdoor Activity Context
Creators: name: Dallat, Clare
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: risk assessment
systems thinking
led outdoor activities

description: Inadequate risk assessment has frequently been implicated in the injuries and deaths of participants on led outdoor activity (LOA) programs in Australia and internationally. It is unclear whether systems thinking, the currently accepted understanding to accident causation within the LOA domain and other safety-critical domains, has been applied in LOA risk assessment methods. This thesis addresses this gap by (1) assessing current approaches to risk assessment in the LOA context and other safety-critical domains in general and by (2) developing and evaluating a systems thinking-based risk assessment method for the LOA context. First, a survey study and literature review were conducted to understand the existing methods and approaches currently being used in risk assessments in both the LOA domain and across safety-critical domains generally. The findings indicated that contemporary risk assessments methods largely focus on the sharp end: the immediate context of the work environment or hazardous process. Within an LOA context, this sharp end reflects the individuals associated with the delivery of the activity or the likely equipment and/or environmental conditions. This focus prevents the identification of other risks that may be associated with the design and planning phases of the same LOA program, exactly the areas previously identified as contributory in LOA accident analyses. In addition, the literature review revealed that few existing risk assessment methods align with systems thinking. Further, and echoing LOA practitioners' concerns from the survey study, the few existing risk assessment methods that do align with systems thinking have limitations (e.g., complexity, usability) that prevent their application by practitioners in the LOA context. Part 2 of this thesis addresses the limitations of current risk assessment methods by designing and developing a new systems thinking-based risk assessment method, the NETworked Hazard Analysis and Risk Management System (NETHARMS). A case study application of NET-HARMS to the design and delivery of a fiveday camping and rafting LOA program demonstrated that NET-HARMS is capable of identifying both task and emergent risks across LOA systems, as well as risks at the sharp end (delivery of the LOA). Part 3 of this thesis involves formally evaluating NET-HARMS by assessing its reliability and validity when used by both LOA practitioners and human factors researchers. Results showed that a multi-analyst approach is central to the identification and assessment of the highest number of credible risks. Finally, the strengths and limitations of the program of research and recommendations for future research are discussed.
Glacial sediments and landforms, southern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Creators: name: Sharpe, David Robert.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Wollaston Peninsula and most of southern Victoria Island comprise Palaeozoic carbonate lowlands, scarps, and tableland situated between rises and arches of underlying Precambrian sedimentary and igneous rocks. Quaternary sediments are hummocky, thick and ice-cored near escarpments where ice flow resistance, thrusting and meltwater concentrated glacial debris; thinner, streamlined drift occurs in lowlands. Quaternary sediments are mainly Late Wisconsinan in age. Glacial sediments predominate but surficial raised marine and periglacial sediments are noted. Fluvial modification of the landscape is minor. Many of the spectacular glacial landforms on Wollaston Peninsula are streamlined and indicate formation under thick, warm-based (i.e. free subglacial water) glaciers. A set of distinctive landforms, including ground moraine (with small moraines and marginal channels), hummocky moraine, lateral moraines, and streamlined forms, relates to varying flow conditions within one major glacial advance. Stratified drift within moraines indicates the importance of glaciofluvial processes in addition to ice action. Collectively, these landforms record ice-marginal retreat, marginal stagnation following compressional flow, surging, flooding and regional stagnation during deglaciation. Freeze-on and ice stagnation trapped extensive bodies of drift-rich ice in zones of hummocky moraine. Arborescent networks of narrow eskers record subglacial meltwater drainage beneath major ice lobes and long broad eskers record subaerial deposition by meltwater of mainly supraglacial derivation. Late glacial events are dated relative to the incursion of the sea during deglaciation of northwest areas of Wollaston Peninsula by about 12 000 BP. Active ice-marginal conditions existed just before 10 000 BP, during formation of the large Colville moraines. Ice downwasted in the area causing glacier thinning. Prominent ground-ice features include pingos, thermokarst scars, and debris-flow lobes. Ground ice occurs as massive icy bodies, ice-wedge ice, and buried pingo ice. Based on its setting in hummocky moraine, its stratigraphy, debris content, and isotopic composition, the massive ice is likely buried glacial ice. Landscape modification by thermokarst erosion has produced ubiquitous diamictons similar to till, and landforms similar to glacial forms. Thick ground ice bodies exist only above marine limit and the limits of streamlined landforms because permafrost degradation occurred below these limits. Widespread thaw slumps and large-scale thermal contraction cracks also indicate ice-cored terrain.
Muerte en el paraíso: una vista a la representación del jardín en la obra de María Luisa Bombal (1910-1980)
Creators: name: Schoennenbeck, Sebastián
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In the work of the Chilean narrator Maria Luisa Bombal, the representation of the garden mentions the biblical paradise. Nevertheless, this dialogue with the tradition presents/displays some variations that repel in the constructed feminine subjectivities in this ethos paradisiac that we have defined as landscape. Thanks to certain rhetorical figures like the elipsis and to the suspension of the perspective in the landscaping composition, the feminine personages of Maria Luisa Bombal merge in the nature and rather happen telluric forces that are identified not like subjects founded on Metaphysical values, but like ghostly voices. The entailment of the subject, understood like an historical construction, with the paradisiac space that lives or longs for is given by the notion of landscape, resource that allows to establish interdisciplinary bridges between the narrative of the Chilean author and the plastic one.

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In search of the Holy Grail of Rodent control: step-by-step implementation of safe and sustainable-by-design principles on the example of rodenticides
Creators: name: Friesen, Anton
name: Hohenberger, Johannes
name: Wieck, Stefanie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Antikoagulans
Schädlingsbekämpfung
Nachhaltige Chemie

description: The field of chemical rodent control has seen no major developments in the last decades, even though anticoagulant rodenticides (AR), the mainly used substances to manage mice and rats, are known environmental pollutants and candidates for substitution under the European Biocidal Products Regulation 528/2012. Moreover, recent political developments in Europe and the USA demand more safety and sustainability in the management of chemicals, reinforcing the need for environmentally friendly substances. In this concept study, we present a step-by-step approach to improve the environmental properties of rodenticides. Repurposing of existing pharmaceuticals, the use of enantiomerically pure rodenticides, or the improvement of the formulation by microencapsulation can help to alleviate environmental problems caused by AR in the short term. Modification of the chemical structures or the development of prodrugs as medium-term strategies can further improve environmental properties of existing compounds. Ultimately, the development of new substances from scratch enables the utilisation of so far ignored modes of actions and the application of modern safe and sustainable-by-design principles to improve target specificity and reduce the negative impact on non-target organisms and the environment. Overall, our concept study illustrates the great potential for improvement in the field of chemical rodent control when applying available techniques of green and sustainable chemistry to known or potential rodenticides. Most promising in the medium term is microencapsulation that would allow for the use of acutely acting substances as it could circumvent bait shyness. On a longer timescale the de novo design of new rodenticides, which is the only method that can combine a high target specificity with good environmental properties, is the most promising approach. © 2022 The Authors
Paradisi impossibili. Spazi vegetali nel romanzo fin-de-siècle
Creators: name: Carmagnani, Paola
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This essay discusses the modern novel’s attempt to create edenic spaces of natural innocence. It focuses on two French novels, La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret by Emile Zola (1875) and Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti (1880), which both unsuccessfully try to build an edenic chronotope : a vegetal Paradise where time stops being a source of distruction, and where life seems to recover its lost signification. The analysis of these narratives will show that the construction of this kind of space has become, in the modern novel, a difficult and contradictory operation. Moreover, this renewed natural Eden appears incapable of containing the plot : it closes up on itself , expelling the heroes who inhabited it and rejecting them  into the conflictual and incoherent space of Culture to which they belong. This unsuccessful construction leads the narratives to a contradictory representation of Nature, which becomes an uncanny space where the dark figures of the unconscious reveal the unsatisfactory illusion of the edenic chronotope. In this respect, these two narratives significatively rejoin the literary model which will dominate the representation of Natural spaces in the European novel by the end of the nineteenth century.

description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Reliable and Secure Geocasting in VANETs
Creators: name: Prado Bernia, Antonio
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: VANET
Geocast
Privacy
Reliability
Probabilistic Forwarding
Deterministic Forwarding
Transmission-Coverage
Direction-Based

description: Current geocasting algorithms for VANETs are being designed to enable either private or reliable communications, but not both. Existing algorithms preserve privacy by minimizing the information used for routing, and sacrifice message delivery success. On the other hand, reliable protocols often store node information that can be used to compromise a vehicle's privacy. We have designed two private and reliable geocasting protocols for VANETs that ensure confidentiality. One is a probabilistic algorithm that uses direction-based dissemination, while the other is a deterministic algorithm that uses transmission-coverage dissemination. To preserve privacy, we create unlinkable and pseudonymous channels of communication with geocasting. For encryption and authentication, we use a public key technique. Our probabilistic forwarding model depends on message rate and cumulative payload, as well as the value of the angle of spreading of the direction-based scheme. To reduce message duplication, we apply dynamic traffic restriction and probabilistic forwarding techniques. The deterministic forwarding algorithm delays forwarding messages based on its uncovered transmission area after neighbouring nodes have broadcast the message. We prove that both algorithms ensure node privacy with appropriate message encryption security, and we ran simulations to demonstrate that both meet the message delivery requirements. From the gathered data, we observe that both algorithms behave differently depending on the scenario, with node density affecting the deterministic algorithm, while the angle of spreading does have a significant impact on the probabilistic protocol.
Settlement experiences of Bangladeshi migrants in Australia
Creators: name: Shafiq, Salma Bint
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research has examined the settlement experiences of Bangladeshi Migrants, who are one of the fastest growing communities in Australia. Based on 210 surveys and 52 semi-structured interviews conducted among the Bangladeshi skilled migrants living in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, this study reveals the challenges Bangladeshi migrants face in Australia. Special attention has been paid to the reasons behind migration, migrants' attachment with home and host culture, and also women's role and attainment in the migration and settlement process. The study concludes with policy recommendations which include the need for additional support to be given to the newly arrived to help to minimise unnecessary dislocation. Furthermore, proper and effective government support is required for migrants to integrate into the labour market.
65. Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar
Creators: name: Waltman, Ludo
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Information Science
open science
research assessment
research data
PID
indicator
openness
science
metadata
open access
publication

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5446/59552
description: The 65th Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar took place on Friday, October 21, 2022 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (CEST). Our speaker Ludo Waltman explained why openness of research information is a crucial prerequisite for more responsible approaches to research assessment. He discussed various initiatives promoting openness of research information, both in the Netherlands and globally, with a special focus on the metadata of scientific publications. He also discussed how organizations can support these initiatives and participate in them. Ludo Waltmann's presentation was followed by a question and discussion slot. The 60-minute event was held in English via the video conferencing tool Zoom. Ludo Waltmann's presentation was recorded.
Supplementary document for Untrained networks for compressive lensless photography - 5245911.pdf
Creators: name: Monakhova, Kristina
name: Tran, Vi
name: Kuo, Grace
name: Waller, Laura
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Image Processing

description: Supplemental Document
Climate-related Stresses on Human Health in a Remote and Rural Region of Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Clarke, Kaila-Lea
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: human health
climate change
adaptation
assessment
vulnerability
adaptive capacity
rural
public health
health geography
extreme weather
environmental health

description: This thesis examines the susceptibility of human health to climate-related stresses in the rural municipality of Addington Highlands, Ontario. Human health is sensitive to climatic variations and change, and public health systems play a role in managing climate-related risks. Canada is generally deemed to have considerable capacity to adapt to vulnerabilities associated with climate change, yet there is variability among communities in their exposure and ability to manage health risks. This thesis examines the health-related vulnerability of the community of Addington Highlands. Drawing upon data gained from key informant interviews and newspaper articles, as well as other secondary data sources, the thesis documents climate-related health risks, outlines the programs and services available to deal with those risks, and assesses the capacity of the community to adapt to future climate conditions and risks. Conditions such as storms, heat stress and forest fires currently present health risks in the area, and they are expected to become more prevalent with climate change. The health risks of Lyme disease, West Nile virus and algal blooms are likely to increase in the future as the climate continues to change. Adaptation to these risks is evident in several of Addington Highlands public health and emergency management programs. The community’s adaptive capacity is strengthened by its social networks and institutional flexibility, but it is constrained by its aging population, limits to the availability and access to health care services, and challenges relating to the retention of service providers. An important strategy to assist adaptation to climate change risks to health is the promotion of public awareness, a strategy to which this research contributes. This thesis research serves to identify and better understand vulnerabilities, and help stimulate actions toward preparing Addington Highlands for possible future climate-related risks.
Value pluralism as a support to liberalism: Rebuilding Berlin's bridge.
Creators: name: Lamey, Andy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Isaiah Berlin's notion of value pluralism has traditionally been seen as supportive to liberal political theory. In recent years, however, the idea of an implicit link between pluralism and liberalism has come into question, with some commentators arguing that pluralism in fact presents obstacles to liberalism. In the wake of such criticisms, this thesis proposes a new version of value pluralism, and argues that it is supportive of liberalism. In chapter one, the different strands of pluralism in Berlin's thought are discussed. In chapter two the case is made for "internal pluralism," (the notion that values can come into incommensurable conflict within the self, but not, as Berlin and others believed, on a social level), and how it can support liberalism. Chapter three engages Berlin's critics and arguing that internal pluralism does not suffer from the failings that the traditional notion of value pluralism does.
‘Seer’ and ‘Seen’: an investigation of the ‘lived experience’ of drawing, ideation and praxis
Creators: name: Ashton, Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: practice-based research
phenomenology
drawing

description: This study evolved from a need, as practitioner and teacher, to understand the foundations of my drawing practice. It examines a series of questions including what, how and why do I draw? Throughout the enquiry I sought to understand the nature of drawing practice and how the strands of thinking and making contained within drawing intersect. The research project considers how drawing, operating as knowledge and experience, represents a particular way of coming to know the world. This is reflected in an overarching question: What is the relationship between experience and its interpretation through drawing? The study examines drawing in the landscape and the studio through a series of drawing cycles which relate to particular landscapes in Europe and Australia. The research questions were examined through three cycles of enquiry which built on prior findings as the project progressed. The study draws on phenomenology, and particularly the writings of Merleau-Ponty, to examine shifts that occur between drawings in-situ and their interpretation in the studio, in order to reflect the memory and experience of particular landscapes. Merleau-Ponty's (1964a) notion of the 'Seer' and 'Seen' was employed to balance the subjective viewpoint of the artist with the objective stance of the researcher. Drawing was used as a research methodology in order to consider creative outputs that were both descriptive and interpretive. A variety of methods, emanating from personal practice, were used to gain an understanding of my drawing practice from different perspectives. These included descriptive and reflective writing, descriptive and interpretive drawings, photographs, video and audio. The research contributes to understandings of the complex ways that the lived experience of the landscape influences and informs drawing activity. The iterations of the research cycle revealed that as my drawings moved from description to interpretation a phase of 're-drawing' occurred which conjoined the immersed experience of the landscape and drawing activity. The process of re-drawing bridged the gap between in situ and the studio and synthesised experiences which led to an understanding of differing modes of thinking within drawing practice. My experience was mediated through processes that I have termed noticing, awareness and consciousness. These modes of thinking are manifest in the creative outcomes and reveal glimpses of the artist's experiential world, contributing to wider understandings of the nature of ideation and praxis in the domain of drawing.
La foresta tropicale come paradiso perduto: Green Mansions di W.H. Hudson
Creators: name: Brazzelli, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In W.H. Hudson’s Green Mansions (1904) the mysterious and enchanting quality of the natural world is represented through the writer’s powerful imagination, and the exotic landscape of the South American rainforest is related to British territorial expansion: according to a long-standing literary tradition, the European colonial desire is projected onto remote, unknown places. On the one hand, the pristine forest appears a pure space, a site unspoiled by colonial expansion, the primitive and sacred world nourishing Western exotic dreams. On the other hand, by revisiting the myth of the lost paradise, Hudson conveys the late nineteenth-early twentieth century European perception of the tropical world, a patchwork of Charles Darwin’s theories, Biblical echoes and colonial ideology. Abel surrenders to the influence of the wild, ventures into the weird and entangled forest, seemingly refusing male invasion and domination. Rima’s subsequent death symbolizes the ecological catastrophe brought about by the Europeans in the primitive world of South America: the feathered bird-girl is assimilated to an Edenic being at the mercy of destructive forces. At the same time, Abel’s wish to possess the land reinforces the colonial viewpoint of the narration, while the movement from civilization to the wilderness implies the representation of a Darwinian struggle. Hudson frames the tropical space as substantially ambiguous, attractive and destructive for both colonizers and colonized, and through his narrative he introduces the fear of natural loss in the extreme form of the extinction of the green world.

description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Supplementary document for Optimizing methods to isolate melanopsin-directed responses - 5245989.pdf
Creators: name: Uprety, Samir
name: Zele, Andrew
name: Feigl, Beatrix
name: Cao, Dingcai
name: Adhikari, Prakash
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 5-primary spectra
Jacques Lavigne : une philosophie de l'institution du sujet
Creators: name: Devette, Pascale
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jacques Lavigne
Philosophie québécoise
Inquiétude
Médiations symboliques
Exigences psychiques
Psychanalyse
Institution du sujet

description: Notre thèse a pour objectif d’analyser et de commenter les deux premiers livres de Jacques Lavigne (1919-1999), philosophe québécois peu connu. Considéré par plusieurs comme le « premier de nos philosophes », nous considérons essentiel de faire connaître la pensée de cet auteur. Dans son premier livre, L’inquiétude humaine, Lavigne aborde le rapport de l’homme à l’inquiétude et l’influence de ce rapport sur le développement de la société. Pour ce faire, Lavigne analyse certaines « médiations symboliques », ce terme recouvrant les éléments par lesquels l’homme interprète le monde et lui donne un sens. Le second livre, L’objectivité, ses conditions instinctuelles et affectives, tente de comprendre les mécanismes d’institution du sujet qui soit écartent ce dernier de l’inquiétude et l’installent dans l’illusion, soit l’aident à accéder à une posture humble et objective face au réel. Le questionnement ultime de Lavigne concerne les exigences psychiques de l’avènement d’un sujet authentique.
“Maurice est si loin qu’on ne peut qu’en rêver”: le Paradis perdu de J.M.G. Le Clézio entre mythe et mémoire
Creators: name: Mootoosamy, Vidoolah
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The theme of paradise or better the paradise lost, understood as the Garden of Eden where natural harmony, innocence and principles of liberty reigned, is developed by the writer J.M.G. Le Clézio with a certain obsession. Different within his work are the geographical points which from time to time adapt to represent this topos; but one in particular repeats consistently: it is the island of Mauritius. A curious relationship unites the author to this island – from which his parents and relatives were unjustly exiled – beginning from the typical Mauritian education he received, even though born and grown up in France. The feeling with which Le Clézio approaches the island, until today by the majority considered a paradise on Earth, differs indeed from the search of an exotic place  (even though his novels do not miss descriptions of breathtaking landscapes and pure nature) and it identifies itself as a contemplation of the homeland – cradle to which he and his family remained bound despite the forced distance. Starting by detecting some factors that various Leclezian novels have in common, this article offers itself to bring to light an attempt of the author to regain through writing his own Mauritian paradise. A research which passes for Le Clézio as will be seen across a miscellanea of elements of a Biblical myth involved in the genesis of man with stories, memories, dreams and family hopes.

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“A purgatory of clichés”: Elizabeth Costello and the Impossible Paradise for Writers
Creators: name: Mosca, Valeria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: “At the gate” is the closing piece in J. M. Coetzee’s collection of short stories Elizabeth Costello (2003). It depicts Costello, fictitious novelist and prominent character in Coetzee’s late production, and the Kafkaesque waiting-room for Paradise she finds herself in.
The first aim of this essay is an exploration of this ambiguous afterlife: surprisingly and disappointingly mundane, it defies traditional expectations. Costello’s afterlife is also a meta-literary construct, and explicitly so. It displays itself as a purgatory of clichés and poor literary imitations, and thus allows Coetzee to expose the limits of literary representation.
Costello stands before a gate to Paradise; she is required a statement of belief to pass through, but she feels unable to provide it. She is a writer and, as such, maintains beliefs only provisionally. More than once, though, she is confronted with the idea that having beliefs is what makes us humans. The resulting division between the human and the writing self, and the impossibility of Paradise for the latter, are dealt with in the second part of this essay.
Identity and its persistence are central themes in Coetzee's works. In the last part of this essay, "At the Gate" is compared to some of them – most notably, to some sections of Diary of a Bad Year (2007), since there, too, the main character is an author reasoning on the afterlife.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Mindful Gaming: How Digital Games can Improve Mindfulness
Creators: name: Sliwinski, Jacek
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: mindfulness
meditation
digital games
game design

description: In recent years, attention to the delivery of mindfulness interventions through new technology such as the smartphone has increased. However, few studies have investigated how digitalgames can enable and facilitate mindfulness training. This research investigates how mindfulness can be improved using technology such as digital games. For this thesis, mindfulness is defined as an inherent capacity in human beings that can be trained, and can be explored within the structure of an eight-factor model. Acknowledging the full value of traditional mindfulness meditation, this research proposed, developed, and evaluated a digital gamebased mindfulness program to complement and support meditation training for beginners. The overall goal was to make mindfulness practice more accessible to beginners, who experience severe challenges during meditation. In Study 1, a literature and software review were conducted. For each mindfulness factor, appropriate games and interactive approaches are presented with research evidence showing their efficacy for mindfulness training. Effective games were disaggregated according to their mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics to provide design recommendations for game developers who wish to develop mindfulness in their players. Study 2 broadens the eight-factor definition of mindfulness to include prosociality, emotion regulation, and selftranscendence, and identifies interactive technologies that are effective at promoting mindfulness.
Supplementary document for Optimizing methods to isolate melanopsin-directed responses - 5245989.pdf
Creators: name: Uprety, Samir
name: Zele, Andrew
name: Feigl, Beatrix
name: Cao, Dingcai
name: Adhikari, Prakash
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 5-primary spectra
Observation of bound solitons in a passively mode-locked fibre laser
Creators: name: Tang, D. Y.
name: Drummond, Peter
name: Man, W. S.
name: Tam, H. Y.
name: Demokan, M. S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recently B.A. Malomed theoretically predicted the existence of bound states of solitons in the dissipatively perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation. In this talk we report on the first experimental observation of bound soliton states in a passively mode locked fiber soliton laser. Multiple soliton operation is a generic feature of passively mode-locked fiber soliton lasers and has been reported by many authors.
An Evaluation of the Franchise Model in the Australian Automotive Industry
Creators: name: Fattah, Adiba
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: franchising
Australian automotive industry
power and control
operations manual
contracts
franchising code of conduct

description: The relational nature of franchising in the Australian automotive industry (AAI) has seen considerable disruption in recent years. With allegations of power abuse and questionable control mechanisms voiced by franchised dealers and their representatives, car manufacturers have recently undergone intense public scrutiny. Whilst two car manufacturers have disassociated from franchising in recent years, moving to a novel distribution model - the agent model, the remainder of car manufacturers remain dependent on franchising as the main marketing channel to distribute their products and services to consumers. This research examines the exercise of sources of power and control mechanisms by franchisors over their dealer network in the AAI, and evaluates the perception of the franchising regulatory framework in overseeing the commercial relationship in the AAI, and the contractual arrangements between car manufacturers and their dealer network.
What Is All the Hype About Height? A Semiotic Analysis of Sports Media, Smaller Athletes, and Ideology
Creators: name: Cameron, Paul
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Human Height
Masculinity
Ideology
Myth
Semiotics
Sports Media

description: This study looks at how professional male athletes—particularly undersized athletes—are represented throughout televised sport. Based on the assumption that televised sport is a gendered and predominantly masculine genre, the focus of this analysis is to demonstrate whether or not professional male athletes are evaluated differently based on physical stature, and whether or not such representations reinforce a dominant—mythic—male ideology. Grounded mainly in Gramscian hegemony and Peircean semiotics, the subsequent analysis compares broadcast commentary and visuals taken from the 2010 men’s Olympic ice hockey tournament and the 2010 men’s FIFA World Cup. In both events, it was generally found that taller athletes were praised more positively than smaller athletes. These findings appear to support common sports-related stereotypes, such as, the apparent media-reinforced expectation that professional male athletes be almost inhuman, mythical representations of ordinary men, i.e., the best athletes should be large, intimidating, aggressive, and hyper-masculine symbols.
Metadata as Key?
Creators: name: Bertelmann, Roland
name: Information, Helmholtz
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Information Science
Open Science
Good Research Practice
Research Integrity

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5446/60350
description: Together we will discuss open science, good scientific practice and research integrity. After all, openness is a pillar for good scientific practice and contributes to research integrity. But how does metadata fit into this?
Paraísos ‘barrosos’: el éxtasis como foco central de la poética de Néstor Perlongher
Creators: name: Balletta, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The last period of Perlongher’s poetry has been considered with some ‘concern’ by criticswho have read the poet's interest in mysticism (especially the cult of the Santo Daime) as a consequence of the abrupt change in his life due to the discovery of seropositivity and, therefore, the impossibility of continuing with sexuality as an instrument of liberation and transcendence. Consequently his latter production (Aguas Aereas, El chorreo de las iluminaciones, El Auto Sacramental) has been considered in the line of ‘discontinuity’.
In this essay, on the contrary, I propose a reading of Perlongher’s mystical production based on the  idea of  continuity with his previous works to show how this perspective can help the critics to focus more clearly the core of his poetical experience.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Graham Greene’s real and imaginary French Riviera
Creators: name: Gallix, François
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: After living mostly in residential districs : St James’s street, Albany in  London, bd. Malesherbes in Paris, Capri where he had bought a house why did Graham Greene decide to spend almost twenty years, from 1966 to 1990, in the small French provincial town of Antibes ? The first answers, given by Greene himself are part of those “clouds of smoke“ that he created all his life so as to remain out of the public eye : health problems (he had had a bad pneumonia in Moscow, but had recovered long ago and lived until the age of eighty-six), the proximity in Juan les Pins of Yvonne Cloetta, the French married woman he had met in 1959 and who was his last loving companion.
 The reality is to be found in Greene’s answer to  a letter from Evelyn Waugh, written  in January 1966 to congratulate him for being made a Companion of Honour by the Queen and to thank him for sending him an inscribed copy of his novel, The Comedians. Greene wrote back  on January 5th : “1965 was bad for me too. Someone like Jones [in The Comedians], claiming a CBE did away with all my savings so I’ve had to leave England and establish myself in France.“

description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Metrics Literacies. On the importance of educating researchers and administrators about the appropriate use of scholarly metrics
Creators: name: Haustein, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Metrics literacies
scholary metrics
h-index
metrics culture
open educational resources
randomized controlled trial
bibliometrics

description: Presentation at the Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum Webinar on 11 September 2020. The BSPF 2020 Webinar's topic is "New Approaches to Evaluate Researchers' Impact" and Prof. Dr. Ed Constable from the University of Basel and co-chair of the BSPF 2020 will moderate the webinar.
BADIIY ASARLARDA INSON RUHIYATI TALQINI ("O'GAY ONA" ASARI MISOLIDA)
Creators: name: Qodirov, Abdulazizbek
name: Tursunaliyeva, Ominaxon
name: Ne'matullayeva, Mohlaroy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada badiiy asarlarning inson hayotidagi o’rni va ahamiyati, bugungi kunda yoshlarni kitobxonlikka keng targ’ib qilish masalalari, Ahmad Lutfi Qozonchining “O’gay ona” asaridagi ruhiyat chizgilari yoritilgan.
Supplementary document for Plasmonic optical fiber for bacteria manipulation—characterization and visualization of accumulation behavior under plasmo-thermal trapping - 5247158.pdf
Creators: name: Kim, Jang
name: Yeatman, Eric.
name: Thompson, Alex
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Powder and Particle Technology
Image Processing
Biomechanical Engineering
Optical Physics not elsewhere classified
Optical Technology

description: This supplementary file contains: 1. Reynolds number calculation 2. Solution of motion equations for calculation of the thermophoretic trapping force 3. Descriptions of supplementary videos 4. Supplementary figures 5. References
Offene Lizenzen für offene Wissenschaft
Creators: name: Brinken, Helene
name: Hauss, Jonas
name: Rücknagel, Jessika
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Information Technology
open access
Lizenzen
Creative Commons
CC-Lizenz

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5446/52864
description: Das Kurzvideo 'Offene Lizenzen für offene Wissenschaft' erklärt die Nutzung von Lizenzen für wissenschaftliche Werke. Es ist Teil der Videoreihe 'Das 1x1 der Creative-Commons-Lizenzen' und wurde im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network erstellt.
INSEGNARE L’ITALIANO L2 NELLA SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI PRIMO GRADO. IL LABORATORIO HOGWARTS: GIOCARE PER IMPARARE
Creators: name: Sala, Melissa
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: L’articolo propone un progetto didattico per l’insegnamento dell’italiano L2 nella scuola superiore di primo grado che prevede l’inserimento di studenti stranieri, provenienti da paesi diversi, in un gioco di ruolo didattico ispirato alla saga di Harry Potter.Particolare attenzione è data al laboratorio Hogwarts, un laboratorio specifico il cui obiettivo è quello di promuovere l’interazione, la socializzazione, ma soprattutto l’apprendimento dell’italiano come lingua di comunicazione. La didattica del laboratorio fonde insieme elementi del metodo comunicativo ed elementi del metodo audiolinguale richiamando la didattica ludica in quanto il gioco è assunto come modalità strategica di apprendimento. L’idea che sta alla base del laboratorio Hogwarts è quella di coinvolgere gli apprendenti, stimolarne l’interesse e la curiosità attraverso l’utilizzo di materiale video (visual stimuli) e attraverso l’attività ludica che mantiene viva la loro attenzione e la loro motivazione favorendone l’apprendimento linguistico attraverso il divertimento.TEACHING ITALIAN L2 IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE HOGWARTS LAB: LEARNNG BY PLAYINGThe article illustrates a project aimed at teaching Italian as a second language. The target audience is middle school students from different countries and with different L1 backgrounds. Students take part in didactic role-plays inspired by the Harry Potter series. Special emphasis is given to the Hogwarts Language Lab, which aims to promote interaction, socialization and second language acquisition. The Lab teaching strategy combines elements of the communicative approach and the audio-lingual method with role-playing. The principle behind the Hogwarts Lab is that the students have to be active participants rather than passive observers. Their involvement can be increased and their interest can be raised through the use of the video input (visual stimuli) and role-playing as a teaching strategy. Students are encouraged to carry out tasks and activities using cooperation and collaboration, using Italian to communicate. They take an active part and there is increased involvement as the students “learn while they are playing”.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 1 (2012)
Edible school gardens in the Pacific Islands: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Burkhart, Sarah
name: Harvey, Samantha
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast
Year: 2021
Subjects: food system
Pacific Islands
Garden
School

description: Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to identify and describe the use of edible school gardens in the Pacific Islands region. The scoping review will assess garden characteristics, what foods are commonly grown, and the barriers and enablers to sustainable school gardens.
Experimental Investigation of Lateral Torsional Buckling of Gerber Frames
Creators: name: Markiz, Nizar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: The objective of this thesis is to investigate the elastic lateral buckling resistance of Gerber frames based on full scale tests and finite element analyses. Three experiments were undertaken to obtain elastic buckling loads and the buckling modes were recorded. Shell finite element solutions were conducted to predict the elastic lateral buckling resistance of the frames tested. A comparison between the elastic buckling loads obtained from full scale experiments and those predicted by the FEA models provides an assessment of the ability of the finite element analysis model in predicting elastic lateral resistance and buckled mode shapes of Gerber frames. Conclusions and recommendations for future research are provided.
Open Access in 60 seconds
Creators: name: Brinken, Helene
name: Hauss, Jonas
name: Rücknagel, Jessika
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Information Technology
Open Access
Open Science
open-access.network

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5446/50832
description: What does open access mean? This video summarizes the main points: No costs and technical barriers for readers and libraries, but permanent access and possibilities for subsequent use, as well as the generation of new knowledge. This video was produced as part of the BMBF-funded project open-access.network.