cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Engagement for (climate?) change: The movement against unconventional gas in Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Hill, Garrity
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Engaging citizens with climate change involves a difficult balance between appealing to people's existing values, while also addressing climate change's systemic causes. The unconventional gas (UCG) industry sparked widespread citizen engagement and a grassroots campaign that achieved a ban on UCG extraction for Victoria. Data is analysed from news discourse, participant observation, and interviews with movement organisers. The campaign appealed to people's common values such as honesty, fairness, farmer custodianship, and clean air, water and soil - but deliberately avoided a climate narrative to sustain citizen engagement. The thesis asks, can this movement show how to engage citizens with climate change?
title: Closing the gender leadership gap
title: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Ellen
name: Ovseiko, Pavel V.
name: Kurmeyer, Christine
name: Gutierrez-Lobos, Karin
name: Steinboeck, Sandra
name: Von Knorring, Mia
name: Buchan, Alastair M.
name: Brommels, Mats
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Women in medicine
subject: Women in science
subject: Gender equality
subject: Leadership
subject: Medical management
subject: Academic medicine
subject: Academic health centres
subject: European Union
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Women’s participation in medicine and the need for gender equality in healthcare are increasingly recognised, yet little attention is paid to leadership and management positions in large publicly funded academic health centres. This study illustrates such a need, taking the case of four large European centres: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Medizinische Universität Wien (Austria), and Oxford Academic Health Science Centre (United Kingdom). Case The percentage of female medical students and doctors in all four countries is now well within the 40–60% gender balance zone. Women are less well represented among specialists and remain significantly under-represented among senior doctors and full professors. All four centres have made progress in closing the gender leadership gap on boards and other top-level decision-making bodies, but a gender leadership gap remains relevant. The level of achieved gender balance varies significantly between the centres and largely mirrors country-specific welfare state models, with more equal gender relations in Sweden than in the other countries. Notably, there are also similar trends across countries and centres: gender inequality is stronger within academic enterprises than within hospital enterprises and stronger in middle management than at the top level. These novel findings reveal fissures in the ‘glass ceiling’ effects at top- level management, while the barriers for women shift to middle-level management and remain strong in academic positions. The uneven shifts in the leadership gap are highly relevant and have policy implications. Conclusion Setting gender balance objectives exclusively for top-level decision-making bodies may not effectively promote a wider goal of gender equality. Academic health centres should pay greater attention to gender equality as an issue of organisational performance and good leadership at all levels of management, with particular attention to academic enterprises and newly created management structures. Developing comprehensive gender-sensitive health workforce monitoring systems and comparing progress across academic health centres in Europe could help to identify the gender leadership gap and utilise health human resources more effectively.
Shock-enhanced C+ emission and the detection of H2O from the Stephan's Quintet group-wide shock using Herschel
Creators: name: Appleton, P. N.
name: Guillard, P.
name: Boulanger, F.
name: Cluver, Michelle
name: Ogle, P.
name: Falgarone, E.
name: O'Sullivan, E.
name: Pineau des Forets, G.
name: Duc, P. A.
name: Gallagher, S.
name: Gao, Yi
name: Jarrett, Thomas
name: Konstantopoulos, I.
name: Lisenfeld, U.
name: Lord, S.
name: Lu, N.
name: Peterson, B. W.
name: Struck, C.
name: Sturm, E.
name: Tuffs, R.
name: Valchanov, I.
name: van der Werf, P.
name: Xu, K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the first Herschel spectroscopic detections of the [O I] 63 μm and [C II] 158 μm fine-structure transitions, and a single para-H2O line from the 35 × 15 kpc2 shocked intergalactic filament in Stephan's Quintet. The filament is believed to have been formed when a high-speed intruder to the group collided with a clumpy intergroup gas. Observations with the PACS spectrometer provide evidence for broad (>1000 km s-1) luminous [C II] line profiles, as well as fainter [O I] 63 μm emission. SPIRE FTS observations reveal water emission from the p-H2O (111-000) transition at several positions in the filament, but no other molecular lines. The H2O line is narrow and may be associated with denser intermediate-velocity gas experiencing the strongest shock-heating. The [C II]/PAHtot and [C II]/FIR ratios are too large to be explained by normal photo-electric heating in photodissociation regions. H II region excitation or X-ray/cosmic-ray heating can also be ruled out. The observations lead to the conclusion that a large fraction the molecular gas is diffuse and warm. We propose that the [C II], [O I], and warm H2 line emission is powered by a turbulent cascade in which kinetic energy from the galaxy collision with the intergalactic medium is dissipated to small scales and low velocities, via shocks and turbulent eddies. Low-velocity magnetic shocks can help explain both the [C II]/[O I] ratio, and the relatively high [C II]/H2 ratios observed. The discovery that [C II] emission can be enhanced, in large-scale turbulent regions in collisional environments, has implications for the interpretation of [C II] emission in high-z galaxies.
Heuristic program reorganization guided by object-oriented metrics.
Creators: name: Israel, Mark Abraham.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: The benefits of increased reusability and maintainability afforded by object-oriented programming are now widely recognised, but there is a vast legacy of procedural code that it may be more desirable to attempt to transform into object-oriented form than to redesign from scratch. A system is here presented that will assist a human programmer in performing such a transformation, by identifying potential objects in C code: the system produces a clustering of the procedures and global variables in the C code, which are to be considered as the methods and the data members respectively of a C++ object. Three different clustering techniques are compared: AGGLOM by Fisher, a bottom-up clustering technique by Basili, and a novel matrix diagonalization technique for simultaneously clustering entities and their attributes. A suite of object-oriented metrics proposed by Kemerer and experimentally found to correlate to maintainability is used to guide the clustering; metrics scores for a particular clustering are compared with scores for randomly constructed objects of the same size. The resulting objects, which are customizable according to which metric the user favours, are also compared against the objects produced when humans transform the C code to C++. The tool constructed is deemed to find useful candidate objects in several C test programs, and some novel refinements of the object-oriented metrics are demonstrated by the experimental results to be improvements.
Extent of magma mixing as determined from pumice fragments, Tenerife, Canary Islands: An electron microprobe and Nomarski interference study of feldspar and host glass.
Creators: name: Scott, Craig Russell.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Feldspar and glass from two ignimbrite deposits from pre-calderan rocks of the Diego Hernandez Formation, Tenerife, Canary Islands are studied in detail using electron microprobe (EMP) and Nomarski Differential Interference Contrast (NDIC) to better understand magma mixing events. Banded pumice fragments contain contrasting magma compositions from basaltic trachyandesite (mafic) to phonolite (felsic) recognized by their black to green color, respectively. Both physical and chemical magma mixing are identified in banded pumice based on EMP and NDIC. Phonolitic magma is homogenous with a distinctive feldspar population ($\approx$Or$\sb{40}$), whereas the magic member ranges from basaltic trachyandesite to trachyandesite, with two feldspar populations (An$\sb{40}$ and An$\sb{70}$). A chemical mixing event is proposed between an alkali basalt (with feldspar An$\sb{70}$) and a trachyandesite (feldspar An$\sb{40}$) to form a hybrid melt of trachyandesite. Physical mixing between the hybrid and phonolite melts occurs just prior to or during the eruptive event forming banded pumice fragments. Both ignimbrites studied show evidence of injection of mafic magma with the presence of calcic plagioclase ($\approx$An$\sb{70}$) and other mafic minerals, but only one is associated with caldera collapse of Diego Hernandez. Incomplete reaction textures and wider range in glass chemistry indicate incomplete mixing between pre-existing trachyandesite and injected alkali basalt for the collapse event suggesting a more violent injection and subsequent eruption of this ignimbrite leading to collapse of the magma chamber. Distal deposits of collapse event are more widespread as compared to the ignimbrite not associated with collapse which also indicates the larger scale related to caldera collapse.
L'hégémonie américaine au sein de l'OTAN et la problématique de la sécurité en Europe : 1990-1995.
Creators: name: Kendeck, Esther O.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: Au moment ou la menace sovietique venant de l'Est a disparu, beaucoup d'observateurs se seraient attendus sinon a la disparition, du moins a une restructuration profonde de l'OTAN qui tienne compte de la nouvelle configuration des forces en Europe. Certains paradigmes ont meme affirme que la guerre froide etant terminee, l'element militaro-securitaire n'est plus aussi important qu'avant, surtout avec la globalisation de l'economie mondiale. Selon eux, l'Ordre post-guerre froide n'est pas un ordre domine par l'hegemonie americaine, c'est-a-dire ou la securite militaire, politique et eonomique internationales en general, et europeennes en particulier, restent structurees par le leadership americain. Pourtant, notre these arrive a la conclusion que la transition de la guerre froide au nouvel ordre mondial n'est pas aussi radicale qu'on pourrait le penser. L'OTAN tout en se renouvelant, reste l'organisation principale de la securite europeenne. Ce qui, a notre avis, consolide le leadership hegemonique des Etats-Unis de par leur statut nucleaire et leur immense capacite militaire. Par ailleurs, notre these demontre que ce leadership americain est aussi rendu possible par l'absence de consensus entre les pays de l'Europe occidentale sur le projet de securite et de defense europeen. Cette absence de consensus permet aux Etats-Unis, malgre la disparition de la menace venant de l'Est, de continuer a exercer un leadership hegemonique dans la gestion de la securite et de la defense europeennes.
Endcapped antisense oligonucleotides decrease chromaffin cell scinderin expression and stimulation-evoked F-actin disassembly and exocytosis.
Creators: name: Skolnik, Katarina.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: We have recently designed a 20-mer scinderin phosphorothioate endcapped substituted antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) sequence, which encompasses the scinderin initiation (ATG) site, and evaluated its impact on scinderin expression and amine output from cultured chromaffin cells. Chromaffin cells cultured for 48 hours in serum-free medium were treated with 2$\mu$M 20-mer scinderin phosphorothioate endcapped antisense ODN or a 20-mer mismatch phosphorothioate endcapped ODN sequence for 2-4 days. Cellular viability was not compromised when chromaffin cells were plated in serum-free medium or in serum-free medium containing antisense. Uptake of the antisense was evident when 5$\sp\prime$-fluorescein labelled 20-mer scinderin phosphorothioate endcapped antisense ODN entered chromaffin cells within 1 hour of treatment and remained highly concentrated in the nucleus for 24 hours post-treatment suggesting that the antisense was targeting gene expression. Moreover, a 60% decrease in scinderin mRNA levels was accompanied by a decrease of 50% in scinderin levels when chromaffin cells were treated with the 20-mer scinderin phosphorathioate endcapped antisense ODN compared to those chromaffin cells treated with the 20-mer mismatch phosphorothioate endcapped ODN sequence. Furthermore, stimulation of chromaffin cells with a depolarizing concentration of K$\sp+$ showed that both F-actin disassembly and evoked release of amines in 20-mer phosphorothioate endcapped scinderin antisense treated chromaffin cells was 50% lower than those chromaffin cells untreated or treated with the 20-mer phosphorothioate endcapped mismatch sequence. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Polymicrobial vertebral osteomyelitis after oesophageal biopsy
title: a case report
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Giger, Aude
name: Yusuf, Erlangga
name: Manuel, Oriol
name: Clerc, Olivier
name: Trampuz, Andrej
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Spondylodiscitis
subject: Postinterventional osteomyelitis
subject: Mixed infections
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background While most cases of polymicrobial vertebral osteomyelitis are secondary to hematogenous seeding, direct inoculation during spinal surgery and contiguous spread from adjacent soft tissue are also potential routes whereby pathogens may infect the spine. Case presentation A 74 year-old man presented with an exacerbation of back pain after a fall. His past medical history included hepatocellular and oesophageal carcinoma. Three months earlier he had undergone an endoscopic biopsy of the oesophagus for routine follow-up of his oesophagus carcinoma. He also underwent a vertebroplasty due to suspected pathologic fracture. On admission to hospital, magnetic resonance imaging revealed an infiltrative process at the level of the 5th and 6th thoracic vertebrae. Blood cultures were positive for both Streptococcus mitis and Gemella morbillorum. During his course of antibiotic therapy he developed an abscess at the level of 8th thoracic vertebrae and culture of this abscess grew Candida albicans. He was treated with antibiotics and antifungal drugs and recovered fully. Conclusion Vertebral osteomyelitis may be caused by direct spread following an oesophageal procedure. Microbiological diagnosis is essential to target the specific pathogen, especially in cases of polymicrobial infection.
Functional role of the exofacial end of transmembrane domain 6 of the human D1 and D5 dopaminergic receptors
Creators: name: Zamani, Nooshin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: The molecular basis underlying the distinct ligand binding and activation properties of the dopamine D1 and D5 receptors is not clearly understood. In the present study, I hypothesize that the variant residues of the exofacial end of the transmembrane 6 (TM6) region of Dl and D5 (Ile 294/Leu295 in D1 and Met318/Val 319 in D5) regulate the ligand binding affinity and activation of these two receptors. Chimeric D1R and D5R harboring wild type counterpart variant TM6 residues along with the entire third extracellular loop (EL3) were engineered using PCR and expressed in HEK293 cells. My results show that variant TM6 residues play an important role in controlling the phenotypic expression of EL3-mediated regulation of ligand binding and G protein coupling properties of the human D1 and D5 receptors. These studies may prove useful in the design of subtype-selective drugs for the treatment of pathologies displaying DI-like receptor abnormalities.
La technique et ses valeurs en milieu forestier canadien : perspectives théoriques et historiques.
Creators: name: Blais, René.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Anthropology, Cultural.

description: Cette recherche est une reflexion sur la technique. Elle met en lumiere sa dimension culturelle. Pour comprendre la technique il faut en effet faire appel au systeme de valeurs auquel toujours elle refere. Elle n'est jamais exterieure au domaine de sens. Cette facon de concevoir la technique permet de mettre en lumiere comment elle "fait sens" de differentes manieres a differents moments de l'histoire. La recherche montre les rapports entre le monde de la technique et celui du symbole dans le secteur forestier canadien. Les techniques de gestion forestieres font appel a differentes symboliques qui marquent l'exploitation de la foret. Aux premiers temps de la colonisation les techniques de controle de la foret sont reduites mais il existe une symbolique tres forte de l'espace forestier. La foret est a la fois obstacle et richesse mais surtout une ressource inepuisable. Les techniques mises en jeu pour controler cet espace traduisent ainsi ces visions symboliques. Avec les debuts de l'exploitation commerciale de la foret au XIXe siecle l'imaginaire forestier prend un tout autre contenu. La foret-richesse devient la symbolique dominante tandis que la foret-obstacle se vide lentement de son contenu dans l'esprit des gens. Avec l'utilisation de moyens techniques plus importants et la main mise etrangere sur cette exploitation se forme une vision d'une foret-alienee. L'orientation predatrice de l'exploitation de la foret va conduire finalement a une revision du grand mythe de la foret inepuisable. La gestion dans un but unique de profit conduit directement a la prise en consideration d'une foret-precieuse, puisque epuisable. Un grand mouvement pour la conservation des forets se dessine alors en Amerique. Une batterie de techniques de conservation vont etre suggerees et finalement mises en oeuvre. Enfin, les enchai nements de l'histoire poussent les gouvernements et les compagnies forestieres vers une gestion scientifique de la foret. Avec elle surgit une foret sur laquelle il devient de plus en plus difficile de symboliser. Les populations sont exclues de ce nouvel art de controle. Des reactions ne se font pas attendre. Les propos d'Esdras Minville traduisent ce malaise. Il suggere de redonner la foret aux populations par la creation de fermes forestieres pour des "paysans-proprietaires".
Models for predicting corrosion-induced cracking, spallingdelamination of rehabilitated RC bridge decks
Creators: name: Zhou, Kai
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The corrosion of reinforcing steel in reinforced concrete (rc) bridge decks due to the application of de-icing salts in winter has been recognized as one of the major causes of highway bridge deterioration in North America. Corrosion-induced damage is usually manifested by longitudinal cracking, spalling, and/or delamination of the concrete cover due to the expansion of corrosion products accumulating around the reinforcement. This damage leads to loss or reduction of serviceability, safety, and service life of rc bridge decks. This research presents an analytical model that describes the mechanism of damage initiation and accumulation to predict corrosion-induced cracking, spalling and delamination of rc bridge decks. This model assumed the concrete deck cover acts as a thick-wall cylinder subjected to a uniform internal pressure due to the expansion of corrosion products. The prediction of the damage caused by corroding reinforcing bars was established by calculating the induced stresses in the surrounding concrete. Corrosion-induced damage of rc bridge decks was also investigated using the finite element method. For this purpose, the commercial finite element package ABAQUS/Standard was used (Hibbit Karlsson & Sorensen Inc. 2004). The finite element analysis was to simulate three main failure modes of corrosion-induced damage of rc bridge decks: longitudinal cracking, delamination and spalling of the concrete. In this study, a finite element model that was independent to parameters defining boundary locations was used. Based on this model, parametric investigations of the influence of various design variables on the concrete deck failure modes were conducted for both unprotected and overlaid rc bridge decks. Finally, propagation models were proposed by comparing the analytical models with the results obtained from the finite element modelling. These propagation models are formulated by correcting the analytical models with factors obtained from the comparison of both sets of results.
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the large-scale structure of galaxies and comparison to mock universes
Creators: name: Alpaslan, Mehmet
name: Robotham, Aaron S. G.
name: Driver, Simon
name: Norberg, Peder
name: Baldry, Ivan
name: Bauer, Amanda E.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Brown, Michael
name: Cluver, Michelle
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Foster, Caroline
name: Hopkins, Andrew
name: Van Kampen, Eelco
name: Kelvin, Lee
name: Lara-Lopez, Maritza A.
name: Liske, Jochen
name: Lopez-Sanchez, Angel R.
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Mcnaught-Roberts, Tamsyn
name: Merson, Alexander
name: Pimbblet, Kevin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: From a volume-limited sample of 45 542 galaxies and 6000 groups with z ≤ 0.213, we use an adapted minimal spanning tree algorithm to identify and classify large-scale structures within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. Using galaxy groups, we identify 643 filaments across the three equatorial GAMA fields that span up to 200 h-1 Mpc in length, each with an average of eight groups within them. By analysing galaxies not belonging to groups, we identify a secondary population of smaller coherent structures composed entirely of galaxies, dubbed `tendrils' that appear to link filaments together, or penetrate into voids, generally measuring around 10 h-1 Mpc in length and containing on average six galaxies. Finally, we are also able to identify a population of isolated void galaxies. By running this algorithm on GAMA mock galaxy catalogues, we compare the characteristics of large-scale structure between observed and mock data, finding that mock filaments reproduce observed ones extremely well. This provides a probe of higher order distribution statistics not captured by the popularly used two-point correlation function.
The fractured field of leadership development: a case study of stalled professionalisation
Creators: name: Martin, Amanda Jane
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Mounting global investment in the industry of leadership development ($366 billion US 2019) has reportedly not delivered corresponding improvements in leader or organisational performance. By establishing an industry model, this research identified influences on performance, including stalled professionalisation. Also important were the practitioners designing and delivering leadership development, whose client focus took precedence over evidence or industry change. Other impacts were disconnected theory, intense competition and differentiated client services. Furthermore, no industry group expressed interest in professionalising, measuring results, or improving industry performance. Through identifying these influences, this research provides the industry with strategies to improve leader and organisational performance.
title: Is There a Slate Here for Me?- A Look at the Inclusion of Children With Disabilities in BRAC Schools
Creators: name: Donaldson, David P.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disability and Equity in Education
subject: Education

description: The rights of people with disabilities have been outlined through many international policies. One specific right, which many of us take for granted, is the right to access public education. Many of these policies, which have been adopted by countries and non-governmental organizations (NGO) throughout the world, call for the inclusion of children with disabilities. One such organization, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, most commonly known as BRAC, is explored in this paper. In June of 2004, BRAC created a research team, which was made-up of two interns and a unit manger to conduct research over a period of one month. The team was to gather information through interviews and observations; specifically looking at the impact of inclusion on selected BRAC schools and the school community (children with disabilities; CWD, children without disabilities: CWOD, guardians of children with disabilities: GCWD, guardians of children without disabilities: GCWOD, and teachers). A total of 67 interviews were conducted, another thematically coded for analysis. The results indicated that the majority of CWD and CWOD played and worked together. CWOD were found to be very supportive of inclusive education, however, they questioned the academic ability of their CWD classmates. Some of the guardians said that CWD had promising futures, others indicated that they were surprised by how much a CWD could achieve. Lastly, the responses to the questionnaires indicated that teachers supported inclusion and adapted their instruction to meet the needs of CWD. Furthermore, teachers requested further training to learn about disability issues.
title: Building a European exposure science strategy
title: Building a European exposure science strategy
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Conrad, André
name: Fantke, Peter
name: Götz, Natalie Von
name: Schlüter, Urs
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Umweltbelastung
Expositionsabschätzung
Risikoanalyse

description: Exposure information is a critical element in various regulatory and non-regulatory frameworks in Europe and elsewhere. Exposure science supports to ensure safe environments, reduce human health risks, and foster a sustainable future. However, increasing diversity in regulations and the lack of a professional identity as exposure scientists currently hamper developing the field and uptake into European policy. In response, we discuss trends, and identify three key needs for advancing and harmonizing exposure science and its application in Europe. We provide overarching building blocks and define six long-term activities to address the identified key needs, and to iteratively improve guidelines, tools, data, and education. More specifically, we propose creating European networks to maximize synergies with adjacent fields and identify funding opportunities, building common exposure assessment approaches across regulations, providing tiered education and training programmes, developing an aligned and integrated exposure assessment framework, offering best practices guidance, and launching an exposure information exchange platform. Dedicated working groups will further specify these activities in a consistent action plan. Together, these elements form the foundation for establishing goals and an action roadmap for successfully developing and implementing a â€ÌEuropean Exposure Science Strategyâ€Ì 2020-2030, which is aligned with advances in science and technology. Quelle: https://www.nature.com
title: Definition of Sensitive Skin
title: An Expert Position Paper from the Special Interest Group on Sensitive Skin of the International Forum for the Study of Itch
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Misery, Laurent
name: Staeznder, Sonja
name: Szepietowski, Jacek C.
name: Reich, Adam
name: Wallengren, Joanna
name: Evers, Andrea W. M.
name: Takamori, Kenji
name: Brenaut, Emilie
name: Le Gal-Ianotto, Christelle
name: Fluhr, Joachim
name: Berardesca, Enzo
name: Weisshaar, Elke
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: sensitive skin
subject: itch
subject: definition
subject: SIG
subject: IFSI
subject: pruritus
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Sensitive skin is a frequent complaint in the general population, in patients, and among subjects suffering from itch. The International Forum for the Study of Itch (IFSI) decided to initiate a special interest group (SIG) on sensitive skin. Using the Delphi method, sensitive skin was defined as “A syndrome defined by the occurrence of unpleasant sensations (stinging, burning, pain, pruritus, and tingling sensations) in response to stimuli that normally should not provoke such sensations. These unpleasant sensations cannot be explained by lesions attributable to any skin disease. The skin can appear normal or be accompanied by erythema. Sensitive skin can affect all body locations, especially the face”. This paper summarizes the background, unresolved aspects of sensitive skin and the process of developing this definition.
Mapping the Individual Trees in Urban Orchards by Incorporating Volunteered Geographic Information and Very High Resolution Optical Remotely Sensed Data: A Template Matching-Based Approach
Creators: name: Vahidi, Hossein
name: Klinkenberg, Brian, 1954-
name: Johnson, Brian A.
name: Moskal, L. Monika
name: Yan, Wanglin
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This paper presents a collective sensing approach that integrates imperfect Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) obtained through Citizen Science (CS) tree mapping projects with very high resolution (VHR) optical remotely sensed data for low-cost, fine-scale, and accurate mapping of trees in urban orchards. To this end, an individual tree crown (ITC) detection technique utilizing template matching (TM) was developed for extracting urban orchard trees from VHR optical imagery. To provide the training samples for the TM algorithm, remotely sensed VGI about trees including the crowdsourced data about ITC locations and their crown diameters was adopted in this study. A data quality assessment of the proposed approach in the study area demonstrated that the detected trees had a very high degree of completeness (92.7%), a high thematic accuracy (false discovery rate (FDR) = 0.090, false negative rate (FNR) = 0.073, and F₁ score (F₁) = 0.918), and a fair positional accuracy (root mean square error(RMSE) = 1.02 m). Overall, the proposed approach based on the crowdsourced training samples generally demonstrated a promising ITC detection performance in our pilot project.
A model of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter with two complex scalars
Creators: name: Abe, Tomohiro
name: Hamada, Yu
name: Tsumura, Koji
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: mixing: kinetic
symmetry: gauge
potential: scalar
symmetry: global
gauge boson
phase: rotation
freeze-out: thermal
dark matter: mass
dark matter: direct detection
U(1)
gauge field theory
spontaneous symmetry breaking
stability
dark matter: scattering
dark matter: annihilation
Goldstone particle

description: doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2023-08139
description: Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNG) dark matter (DM) is a promising DM candidate and able to explain the measured DM abundance by the thermal freeze-out mechanism evading the stringent bound from DM direct detection experiments. We propose a new model providing a pNG DM by introducing two Standard-Model-singlet complex scalars with the same charges of a dark $U(1)$ gauge symmetry. They are also charged under a $U(1)$ global symmetry corresponding to their relative phase rotations, which is explicitly broken by a soft-breaking term in the scalar potential. The both $U(1)$ symmetries are spontaneously broken by their vacuum expectation values, giving rise to one real pNG boson. We also introduce a discrete $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry exchanging the two scalars to stabilize the pNG boson as DM. It is shown that this model reproduces the DM abundance consistently with the current bound from the direct detection experiments. The model has a gauge kinetic mixing between the dark and $U(1)_Y$ gauge fields, which allows the dark gauge boson to decay even with a relatively light mass and prevents it from being an additional DM component. The Landau pole is avoided thanks to the small gauge coupling constant. In addition, a DM pair dominantly annihilates into a pair of the dark gauge bosons if the gauge boson mass is lighter than the DM mass, and thus its cross section has significantly different parameter dependence from other pNG DM models. We also calculate the DM-nucleon scattering cross section at the loop level. It turns out that it is necessary to probe region covered by the neutrino fog in order to test this model.
The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 4 subunit contains a functionally relevant SNP Haplotype
Creators: name: Eggert, Marlene
name: Winterer, Georg
name: Wanischeck, Mario
name: Hoda, Jean-Charles
name: Bertrand, Daniel
name: Steinlein, Ortrud
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CHRNA4
subject: Acetylcholine receptor
subject: ACh sensitivity
subject: Haplotype
subject: mRNA stability
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Non-coding single nucleotide polymorphisms within the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 4 subunit gene (CHRNA4) are robustly associated with various neurological and behavioral phenotypes including schizophrenia, cognition and smoking. The most commonly associated polymorphisms are located in exon 5 and segregate as part of a haplotype. So far it is unknown if this haplotype is indeed functional, or if the observed associations are an indirect effect caused by linkage disequilibrium with not yet identified adjacent functional variants. We therefore analyzed the functional relevance of the exon 5 haplotype alleles. Results Using voltage clamp experiments we were able to show that the CHRNA4 haplotype alleles differ with respect to their functional effects on receptor sensitivity including reversal of receptor sensitivity between low and high acetylcholine concentrations. The results indicate that underlying mechanisms might include differences in codon usage bias and changes in mRNA stability. Conclusions Our data demonstrate that the complementary alleles of the CHRNA4 exon 5 haplotype are functionally relevant, and might therefore be causative for the above mentioned associations.
Planungstool – Energiegemeinschaften (Factsheet)
Creators: name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Publisher: name: NEFI
Year: 2024
Subjects: NEFI
Innovationsnetzwerk
Energie
Industrie
New Energy for Industry
Klima- und Energiefonds
Vorzeigeregion
Energieunabhängigkeit
Gemeinschaft
Dezentral

description: Energiegemeinschaften sind ein entscheidender Schritt auf dem Weg zur Dekarbonisierung. Ihr Erfolg hängt maßgeblich davon ab, wie gut alle Beteiligten innerhalb der Gemeinschaft aufeinander abgestimmt sind. Nur durch diese enge Zusammenarbeit und Koordination können die Vorteile und das Potenzial einer Energiegemeinschaft voll ausgeschöpft werden, um eine nachhaltige und klimafreundliche Energiezukunft zu gestalten.
Attack and Defence on PPG-Based Cybersecurity System
Creators: name: Li, Lin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the emerging field of Photoplethysmography-based biometric authentication, addressing the limitations of traditional biometric systems and proposing innovative solutions. It introduces a generic methodology for Photoplethysmography-based authentication, assesses its application in user authentication and secure communications, and highlights its unique advantages, such as ease of acquisition and liveness detection. The thesis also proposes an efficient authentication method for virtual reality environments, and critically analyzes the vulnerabilities of Photoplethysmography-based systems, especially against remote Photoplethysmography attacks. Further, it investigates the security of Photoplethysmography signals in communication protocols and suggests an active defence strategy against remote Photoplethysmography spoofing.
Rupatadine 20 mg and 40 mg are Effective in Reducing the Symptoms of Chronic Cold Urticaria
Creators: name: Abajian, Marina
name: Curto-Barredo, Laia
name: Krause, Karoline
name: Santamaria, Eva
name: Izquierdo, Iñaki
name: Church, Martin K.
name: Maurer, Marcus
name: Giménez-Arnau, Ana
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Chronic cold urticaria (ColdU) is a rare disease characterized by mast cell- mediated wheals and angioedema following cold exposure. Second-generation H1-antihistamines, such as rupatadine, are the recommended first-line therapy. As of yet, the effects of rupatadine up-dosing on development of ColdU symptom have only been partially characterized. Two-centre, randomized, double-blind, 3-way crossover, placebo-controlled study in patients with a confirmed ColdU was designed to assess the effects of up-dosing of rupatadine. A total of 23 patients were randomized to receive placebo, rupatadine 20 mg/day, and rupatadine 40 mg/day for 1 week. The primary outcome was change in critical temperature thresholds and critical stimulation time thresholds after treatment. Secondary endpoints included assessment of safety and tolerability of rupatadine. Both 20 and 40 mg rupatadine were highly effective in reducing critical temperature thresholds (p
Neutrino zeromodes on electroweak strings in light of topological insulators
Creators: name: Eto, Minoru
name: Hamada, Yu
name: Jinno, Ryusuke
name: Nitta, Muneto
name: Yamada, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: string
electroweak interaction
stability
Green function
hybrid
condensed matter
topological insulator
topological
topology

description: doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2023-08142
description: We examine neutrino zeromode solutions on the electroweak $Z$-string and their effect on the stability of the string in the standard model and its extensions. We propose using topological invariants constructed from the momentum (and real) space topology of Green's functions, often used for investigating edge modes in condensed matter physics. We analyze the standard model and then examine type-I and type-II extensions of the neutrino sector as well as their hybrid. Based on this analysis, we also comment on proposals in the literature to stabilize the $Z$-string.
Elemental, Morphological, and Corrosion Characterization of Different Surface States of Co-Cr Alloy for Prosthodontic Applications
Creators: name: Al Jabbari, Youssef S.
name: Ntasi, Argiro
name: Gaintatzopoulou, Mariana
name: Mueller, Wolf Dieter
name: Eliades, George
name: Sherif, El-Sayed M.
name: Zinelis, Spiros
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Co-Cr alloy
subject: corrosion
subject: profilome try
subject: SEM/EDX
subject: surface roughness
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In this study, four different groups were prepared in a cast model of an arch that received four implants made with a Co-Cr dental alloy. The surface of each group was prepared by four different surface treatments, including sandblasting with Al2O3 grains (SB), conventional finishing with dental burs (CF), milling with a CAD/CAM device (MIL), and electrodischarge machining (EDM). The characterization of the roughness parameters, morphology, elemental composition, and electrochemical properties of a dental Co-Cr alloy in different surface states exposed to an oral environment were reported. The electrochemical properties were tested with open-circuit potential (OCP) and anodic scan in Ringer’s solutions. The results of roughness parameters, elemental composition, OCP, corrosion potential and pitting potential were statistically analyzed by one-way ANOVA and the Tukey-Kramer multiple- comparison test at 95% confidence level. The roughness parameters classified the surfaces from smoothest to roughest according to the following order; CF, MIL, EDM, and SB. The CF group has the best corrosion resistance followed by the EDM, MIL, and SB groups.
Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen und dem Kyoto-Protokoll 2018
Creators: name: Gniffke, Patrick
name: Strogies, Michael
name: Martens, Kerstin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Treibhausgasinventar
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: UNFCCC
subject: Entwicklung der Treibhausgasemissionen
subject: Treibhausgasausstoß
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Als Vertragsstaat der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen (UNFCCC) Rahmenübereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen über Klimaänderungen (englisch: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC) ist Deutschland seit 1994 dazu verpflichtet, Inventare zu nationalen Treibhausgasemissionen zu erstellen, zu veröffentlichen und regelmäßig fortzuschreiben. Gemäß Entscheidung 24/CP.19 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten jährlich einen Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) erstellen und übermitteln, der detaillierte und vollständige Angaben über den gesamten Prozess der Erstellung der Treibhausgasinventare bereitstellt. Durch diesen Bericht soll die Transparenz, Konsistenz und Vergleichbarkeit der Inventare sichergestellt und der unabhängige Überprüfungsprozess unterstützt werden. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Als Vertragsstaat der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen (⁠UNFCCC⁠) ist Deutschland seit 1994 dazu verpflichtet, Inventare zu nationalen Treibhausgasemissionen zu erstellen, zu veröffentlichen und regelmäßig fortzuschreiben. Gemäß Entscheidung 24/CP.19 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten jährlich einen Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) erstellen und übermitteln, der detaillierte und vollständige Angaben über den gesamten Prozess der Erstellung der Treibhausgasinventare bereitstellt. Durch diesen Bericht soll die Transparenz, Konsistenz und Vergleichbarkeit der Inventare sichergestellt und der unabhängige Überprüfungsprozess unterstützt werden.
Business Continuity Management and Organisational Resilience: A Case Study of UAE Law Enforcement
Creators: name: Alsaedi, Abdulla
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Organizational performance after unexpected disasters remains challenging for law enforcement organizations. This study focuses on identifying organizational assets that contribute to business continuity (BC) and organizational resilience (OR). Through a literature review and survey of 301 officers from the Abu Dhabi Police force, it was found that situation awareness and transformative leadership had a positive impact on BC and transformative leadership, communication and social capital had a positive impact on OR. This research is beneficial to society because it can positively influence strategies and capabilities of law enforcement in the face of crises, leading to higher levels of safety.
title: Localizaciones atípicas del Sarcoma de Ewing: A propósito de dos casos
Creators: name: de Lara Bendahan, Victoria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Bones
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El Sarcoma de Ewing (SE) es el tumor óseo primario maligno más frecuente en la infancia después del osteosarcoma.
Es un tumor altamente agresivo y su pronóstico depende fundamentalmente de la presencia de metástasis. Sus localizaciones...
Effects of Caffeinated Pre-Workout on the Body's Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Post-Workout: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Ascencio, Arianna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Effects
caffeinated
pre-workout
blood pressure
heart rate
post-workout

description: Pre-workout drinks have become very popular throughout the years due to the claim thatpre-workout drinks enhance exercise and increase energy levels. However, many people areunaware of the potential side effects these drinks may have on the body’s ability to return to its resting blood pressure and heart rate post-workout. The primary purpose of this systematic review was to assess the effects of pre-workout drinks on the body’s ability to return to its resting state post-workout. In this systematic review, numerous articles were analyzed such as peer-reviewed articles, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Exclusion criteria consisted of articles that were not based in the US.
title: Diagnóstico por imagen del taponamiento cardíaco.
Creators: name: Mas Gelabert, Miguel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Acute
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Cardiac

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El taponamiento cardíaco es una condición patológica que puede aparecer de forma aguda en el ámbito de urgencias y por tanto ser un reto diagnóstico para el médico de guardia. Es en estos casos que el radiólogo puede desempeñar un papel...
title: Pancreatitis aguda: índice de severidad por TC.
Creators: name: Núñez Delgado, Yolanda
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Realizar un estudio descriptivo de pacientes ingresados en nuestro hospital por pancreatitis aguda,PA,
en un periodo deseis meses. Describir los principales hallazgos radiológicos encontradosen...
Enhancement of Biogas Production Using Co-Substrates In Anaerobic Digesters for Medium Size Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Sauve, Terrence
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Agricultural.
subject: Engineering, Environmental.

description: The use of co-substrates can significantly enhance biogas production from manure while helping to treat and dispose of high carbon organic wastes from the food processing industry and municipalities. This thesis will focus on the experimental setup and results collected at the University of Guelph -- Campus d'Alfred from a series of Biochemical Methane Potential assays and six 30 L semi-continuous anaerobic digesters operating under mesophilic conditions. The co-substrates investigated during the study include: corn silage, canola meal, whey, glycerine and dissolved air floatation sludge. The use of liquid dairy manure proved to be beneficial for the anaerobic digestion process by supplementing necessary buffering capacity, nitrogen, micro and macro elements for the co-digestion of high carbon organic wastes. Biochemical Methane Potential assays of the co-substrates increased the biogas yield from 5 to 250%. When these co-substrates were elaborated in semi-continuous pilot digesters, volumetric biogas production increased two to three-folds in relation to liquid dairy manure.