cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Association of Acute and Chronic Postpartum Pain with Postpartum Depression in a Nationally Representative Sample of Canadian Women
Creators: name: Gaudet, Caroline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Pospartum Depression
Chronic pain
Childbirth
Maternal Health
Risk factors

description: The association between pain and depression is well documented across various populations, but not in puerperal women. This study examined the association of childbirth pain with postpartum depression (PPD) in a nationally representative sample of Canadian women. Data from the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey (n=6421) was used. Multivariate logistic regressions and partial proportional odds models were fitted and included socio-demographic, obstetric, health, psychological, and psychosocial factors. Chronic pain sufferers at mean 7.3 months postpartum had adjusted odds of PPD of 2.4 (95% CI: 1.6, 3.6) compared to women without pain. Adjusted odds of PPD increased with the number of areas of chronic pain, reaching 4.2 (95% C.I.: 0.7, 25.0) for 3 or more areas. Immigration, obesity, cesarean section and social support increased the strength of the association while smoking and the use of pain relief were protective effect modifiers. Persistent postpartum pain is a major risk factor for PPD.
Evolution of Pollutant Removal Process in Floating Treatment Wetlands
Creators: name: Malhotra, Chandan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this study was to determine if the Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWs) were successful in reducing total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus and total suspended solids (TSS) effluent concentrations to less than 10 mg/L. The FTW was located at Dilli Village, Fraser Island (Australia) and was studied over 9 months during 2016. Floating geo-synthetic mats in 8 separate above ground tanks supported the growth of plants (Lepironia articulata, Isolepsis kraussi and Baumea Juncea). The total area of the system was 60 m2. The FTW system was designed to remove TN and TP from sewage effluent outflow from an existing sewage treatment plant located at Dilli Village, Fraser Island (Australia).
Madri cattive: ne esistono altre?
Creators: name: Bignami, Marialuisa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Madri cattive: ne esistono altre?   (Nicoletta Vallorani, Madri cattive, Milano, Salani, 2011, p. 272, EAN 9788862562058)
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
A review on Godel's incompleteness theorem, its simple proof and connection to quantum gravity
Creators: name: Amirhossein Rezaei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 20603 Quantum Information, Computation and Communication
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper contains a simple proof of Godel's incompleteness theorems, a review on Godel's completeness theorem and their connection to quantum gravity, spectral gap problem, Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem and generally to physics.
Open Science in Horizon Europe. How and (mostly) why.
Creators: name: Giglia, Dr Elena
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7501260
description: This presentation is from the CIVICA Research Open Science for the Social Sciences workshop on Open Science in Horizon Europe: how and (mostly) why.     New rules apply in Horizon Europe which seek to open up every step of the research process according to the principle 'as open as possible, as closed as necessary'. Is it only a constraint? The umpteenth administrative burden? Or, both a fair principle, as publicly funded research ought to be publicly available, and a powerful leverage for a more transparent and effective science as COVID-19 clearly showed? In this workshop  Dr Elena Giglia  (Turin University) set out the reasons, tools and rules to practice Open Science in the daily research workflow.   In the second part of the workshop,  Professor Guido Alfani  and  Professor Dirk Hovy , both from Bocconi University, then discussed the practice of Open Science from research experience drawn from their own ERC projects. Please visit the CIVICA Research Open Science Youtube channel to view this presentation on Open Science in Horizon Europe: how and (mostly) why .
Supplementary document for Enhancing high-order harmonic generation by controlling the diffusion of the electron wavepacket - 5244706.pdf
Creators: name: Severt, Travis
name: Tross, Jan
name: Kolliopoulos, Georgios
name: Ben-Itzhak, Itzik
name: Trallero, Carlos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information + Redline
Uncovering genomic and transcriptomic complexities in two important Australian aquaculture species; the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) and the banana shrimp (Fenneropenaeus merguiensis)
Creators: name: Powell, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: oyster
shrimp
aquaculture
genomics
transcriptomics

description: Despite some recent progress towards sustainable harvesting, the world's marine fisheries continue in a state of decline. World food fish production from aquaculture has expanded almost 12 fold over the last three decades as a response, though aquaculture production is vulnerable to adverse impacts such as changing environmental conditions and disease. Methods to secure and improve production and quality are desperately needed if aquaculture is to continue to enhance the world's available food fish supply. The application of biotechnology in aquaculture is one of the most promising avenues for developing solutions to these challenges. However, a major factor affecting its advancement is the lack of molecular resources. The recent revolution in high-throughput, next-generation sequencing technologies has placed the development of such resources within the reach of most research groups. This PhD study aims to develop new resources for two important species to the Australian aquaculture industry using these next-generation technologies. The first in-depth examination of the transcriptional content of 8 different tissues from cultured banana shrimp was undertaken using RNA-Seq technologies. A combination of Roche 454FLX and illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing data was used to produce a reference assembly of 124,631 transcripts from which a total of 59,179 protein sequences were predicted. Further analysis revealed a rich set of transcript sequences exhibiting homology with genes associated with reproduction, sex determination and development and distinguished the tissues responsible for this expression. These data add a substantial contribution to the sequence information made available for F. merguiensis.
A_review_on_Godels_incompetence_theorem_its_simpl.pdf
Creators: name: Amirhossein Rezaei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 20603 Quantum Information, Computation and Communication
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper contains a simple proof of Godel's incompleteness theorems, a review on Godel's completeness theorem and their connection to quantum gravity, spectral gap problem, Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem and generally to physics.
Bernardo Subercaseaux, Historia de las ideas y de la cultura en Chile. Desde la Independencia hasta el Bicentenario
Creators: name: Borri, Claudia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Bernardo Subercaseaux,  Historia de las ideas y de la cultura en Chile.  Desde la Independencia hasta el Bicentenario  (3 voll., Editorial Universitaria, Santiago 2011)
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
DEP Bulletin - 2022 - Volume 46 Issue 20
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Traduzioni argentine in Italia con il Prosur (2010-2012)
Creators: name: Cattarulla, Camilla
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Traduzioni argentine in Italia  con il Prosur (2010-2012)         di Camilla Cattarulla
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Fragticulture: Reconfiguring agricultural systems to enhance resilience and sustainability in fragmented coastal peri‐urban catchments
Creators: name: Stockwell, Brian
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: peri-urban
sustainable agriculture
sustainability
resilience
complex systems
chaos
patch

description: This research aims to answer the question: How can fragmented peri-urban agricultural systems which currently adversely influence the health of catchments and receiving waters be reconfigured in order to achieve integrated social, economic and environmental outcomes in coastal catchments? It uses a systems approach and a mix of methodologies including action research (participatory rural appraisal) and multiple case studies. It was conducted as part of a larger body of work investigating rural futures and water quality improvement in South East Queensland. The sub-questions include: - Are there different conceptual constructs derived from the application of complexity, chaos and network theory that can guide the prioritisation and design of interventions seeking sustainable future scenarios for peri-urban agriculture? - Can an enhancement of the principles and processes underpinning Integrated Catchment Management in coastal peri-urban catchments increase the vigour and rigour of processes seeking sustainable futures for agriculture in these zones? - What processes maximise the likelihood of achieving systems reconfiguration by influencing decisions and priorities within policy, planning, research, development, extension and agricultural management?
Politiche Europee sull'Open Science: Parte 2, Accesso Aperto ai Dati della Ricerca
Creators: name: Lazzeri, Emma
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2019
Subjects: Open Access
Research Data
Open Science
European Commission

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.2791800
description: Presentation given at 'Course Open Science, Open Access, Fair Data', CNR, Pisa,  8-9 May 2019 Presentazione del 'Corso Open Science, Open Access, Fair Data', CNR, Pisa,  8-9 Maggio 2019 Contenuto:  Politiche Europee sull'Open Science: Parte 2, Accesso Aperto ai Dati della Ricerca (Emma Lazzeri) Servizi e strumenti pratici per la condivisione dei dati : OpenAIRE e RDA (Emma Lazzeri)
Cultivating Seeds: toward a permaculture writing practice
Creators: name: Gartrell, Nina
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: memoir
nature writing
travel writing
permaculture
ecocriticim
creative practice
environmental literature
gardening

description: This research addresses the question: How might a travel memoir embody permaculture principles in its form and method of production? The concept is to analyse, contextualise and create an innovative permaculture travel memoir through the twelve principles of applied permaculture design. The twelve principles I apply are articulated by David Holmgren (2002) in Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability.
Marcelo Britos, Empalme; Iosi Havilio, Opendoor
Creators: name: Magnani, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Marcelo Britos, Empalme (Rosario, Editorial Municipal de Rosario 2010, pp.144, ISBN 978-987-9267-75-2) Iosi Havilio, Opendoor (traduzione di Vincenzo Barca, Roma, Caravan Edizioni 2011, pp. 256, ISBN 978-88-9671-709-7)    di Ilaria Magnani
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
Role of Electron-Hole Recollisions in High Harmonic Generation from Bulk Crystals
Creators: name: Vampa, Giulio
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: High harmonic generation
crystals
electron-hole pair

description: When intense laser pulses interact with an atomic or solid target, high order harmonics of the fundamental laser frequency are generated. In the case of atoms, this highly nonlinear optical process is initiated by ionization and terminated by the energetic recollision and recombination of the ionized electron with its correlated ion. In this thesis I demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, that high harmonics from bulk crystals can originate from the recollision of electrons with their associated holes, similarly to the atomic case, but where ionization is replaced by excitation of electron-hole pairs that accelerate within the material. This model is first derived from a quantum-mechanical theory of the solid-laser interaction, and then confirmed experimentally in ZnO and Si crystals. Despite the link I establish between high harmonic generation in solids and gases, there are notable dissimilarities. These include: a generalized motion of electrons and holes in their respective bands and its consequences, a more prominent role of dephasing and enhanced sensitivity to perturbing fields. These aspects are investigated throughout this thesis. Finally, I develop a method that exploits the recollision mechanism to reconstruct the momentum-dependent band structure of solids.
A new method for predicting the behavior of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy
Creators: name: Amirhossein Rezaei
name: Parsa Mokhtari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV has taken the interest of researchers in a variety of fields of study. Similar to other pandemics, growth models were employed to predict its effect on society. Growth models, regardless of their complexity, always include an error that is-in most cases-noticeable. Besides, they can only estimate the effect of the epidemic and not much to decrease it. We instead, provided a method of analyzing the effects of epidemic in the sample country, Italy both as a whole and each of the regions and provided a comparison between predictions of country-level and the summation of regional-level data to conclude weights for each of the regions, corresponding to their effect in the spread of the disease, Therefore the regions of high weight can be under special restrictive protocols to avoid further effects of them. Since the result solely provides weights corresponding to the effect of the region and not predictions of the future, it is believed to be more accurate.
Testing the bioaccumulation potential of manufactured nanomaterials in the freshwater amphipod Hyalella azteca
Creators: name: Kühr, Sebastian
name: Kaegi, Rälf
name: Maletzki, Dirk
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bioakkumulation
Nanomaterialien
Risikoanalyse

description: Standardized experimental approaches for the quantification of the bioaccumulation potential of nanomaterials in general and in (benthic) invertebrates in particular are currently lacking. We examined the suitability of the benthic freshwater amphipod Hyalella azteca for the examination of the bioaccumulation potential of nanomaterials. A flow-through test system that allows the generation of bioconcentration and biomagnification factors was applied. The feasibility of the system was confirmed in a 2-lab comparison study. By carrying out bioconcentration and biomagnification studies with gold, titanium dioxide and silver nanoparticles as well as dissolved silver (AgNO3) we were able to assess the bioaccumulation potential of different types of nanomaterials and their exposure pathways. For this, the animals were examined for their total metal body burden using inductively coupled mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) and for the presence of nanoparticulate burdens using single-particle ICP-MS. The role of released ions was highlighted as being very important for the bioavailability and bioaccumulation of metals from nanoparticles for both examined uptake paths examined (bioconcentration and biomagnification). In 2018 a tiered testing strategy for engineered nanomaterials was proposed by Handy et al. that may allow a waiver of bioaccumulation fish studies using inter alia invertebrates. Data gained in studies carried out with invertebrates like the developed Hyalella azteca test may be included in this proposed tiered testing strategy. © 2020 The Author(s)
El Siglo de las Luces di Alejo Carpentier: alla ricerca di un Mondo Migliore, tra lampi rivoluzionari e frammenti di paradiso
Creators: name: Scarabelli, Laura
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In El siglo de las luces, an apparently historical novel, Alejo Carpentier analyzes the American experience of European modernity through the dislocation of both French Revolution objects and ideas.
In this novel, the writer considers the Caribbean (and, so, Latin America) as a paradisiac place coping with theories and ideologies generated in Other centres. Therefore, the Revolution movements towards the suburbs, the intersections of perspectives, visions and translations, organized as a network without a proper centre, lead to a new interpretation of the "American contradistinction" based on accumulation, contradiction and paradox.
This article illustrates the challenges to the Revolution paradigm as proposed by Alejo Carpentier, the essential starting point to consider the construction of the “American Being" and the myth of the Promised Land.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
The association between the balanced scorecard perspectives and corporate sustainability within a sustainability balanced scorecard framework
Creators: name: Rae, Kirsten
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: balanced scorecard
corporate social responsibility
corporate sustainability
customer
empowerment
environmental
financial
human capital
human resource management
internal process
organisational commitment
Sustainability Balanced Scorecard

description: Corporate sustainability is a business approach currently being adopted by organisations in industry and government that requires management to consider not only economic needs of shareholders, but also environmental and social needs of other stakeholders. It has been argued that the adoption of the corporate sustainability business approach is the opportunity for businesses to improve profitability, competitiveness, and market share without compromising resources for future generations (Wilson, 2003). The present study examines corporate sustainability performance outcomes within the balanced scorecard framework. In particular, the study seeks to understand how the three lower level balanced scorecard perspectives may contribute to organisations achieving corporate sustainability outcomes. Corporate sustainability involves three main outcomes: performance on economic (financial), environmental and social issues (Carroll, 1991; Figge, Hahn, Schalteffer and Wagner, 2002). The theoretical model developed in Kaplan and Norton's (2004a) balanced scorecard argues for an indirect relationship between learning and growth and financial performance. Kaplan and Norton suggest that the relationship between learning and growth and financial performance is sequentially mediated firstly by the internal process and secondly, by the customer perspective; and that there may also be a direct association between the internal process and financial performance. Prior studies have produced mixed and inconclusive results because they have examined either the indirect association between the balanced scorecard perspectives and financial performance or the direct association between the internal process and financial performance.
Ipazia: reinterpretazioni teatrali e romanzesche francesi del ventesimo secolo
Creators: name: Thulard, Adeline
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The fictions about Ipazia aim to answer the questions that history left unanswered. The authors create their own Ipazia according to the rules of the literature genre they choose, or to the characteristics they want to highlight. They often adopt anachronistic interpretations to develop a dialogue between past and present.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Conservation genetics and population viability of the endangered swamp orchid Phaius australis (Orchidaceae) in a changing world
Creators: name: Simmons, Laura
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: orchid
conservation genetics
population viability analysis
climate change

description: Human interference on the natural environment including habitat loss and fragmentation has resulted in a great loss of biodiversity and a major extinction crisis. The swamp orchid Phaius australis F.Muell. has a disjunct distribution along Australia's east coast in occurring in the ecotones of coastal wetlands and springs. The orchids are endangered due to past and current illegal collection, continued habitat loss, limited connectivity between populations and because they are an ecological specialist that occurs in ecosystems that are vulnerable to climate change. This study combines the use of genetic and demographic analysis across a 2 000 km latitudinal range to investigate the viability and persistence of P. australis. Population genetic samples were collected at 34 locations from tropical north Queensland to the southern edge of the subtropics in New South Wales. Paired population demographic assessments were undertaken at 25 of these locations over three years to examine population dynamics, estimate population growth rates and determine a representative lifecycle for the species. A pollination experiment was carried out in a large stable population to test for evidence of self-pollination. Current population vulnerability and vulnerability to future rainfall and temperature changes have been modelled through population viability analysis (PVA) based on climate related vital rates and SimCLIM generated climate change predictions for two emissions scenarios.
Pour une approche sémiologique de la réception postdramatique
Creators: name: Thulard, Adeline
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Notes de lecture sur : Catherine Bouko, Théâtre et réception : le spectateur postdramatique, Éd. Peter Lang, Bruxelles 2011.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
The Kaleidoscopers: An Interactive Novel
Creators: name: McGuire, Jill
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2004

description: Being an interactive novel for young adults presented as my thesis for Masters of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Synopsis: The uneventful teenage life of Kit Sparkes is turned upside down when her newly arrived Indian neighbours crash into her father's ute. The collision hurtles Kit into the mysterious and perplexing lives of Manji Maranjala and his family: a world of mathematical formulas, mythical philosophers and spiritual gurus. A reality where human destiny is ruled by an ancient, sacred force: the power of the Kaleidoscopers. The format of the Kaleidoscopers is interactive, inspired by the concept of the 'choose-your-adventure' novel. However in this instance, the interactivity is based upon the plurality of reading the novel both in print text and online (internet or CD/DVD-ROM).
Elegy for the internet
Creators: name: Lobato, Ramon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ramon Lobato reviews two manifestos responding to the commercialisation of the web. Review of the books 'Digital disconnect: how capitalism is turning the internet against democracy', by Robert W. McChesney, published by The New Press, 2013; and 'Who owns the future?', by Jaron Lanier, published by Penguin, 2013.
Fantasie sulla phantasia
Creators: name: Bonometti, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensione: Jackie Pigeaud, Tre fantasie sulla phantasia. Filostrato, Poussin, Winckelmann, tr. it. di Giovanni Lombardo, Edizioni di Passaggio, Palermo 2010.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Raman Spectroscopy from Laboratory and Proximal to Remote Sensing: A Tool for the Volcanological Sciences
Creators: name: Giordano, Daniele
name: Russell, James K.
name: González-García, Diego
name: Bersani, Danilo
name: Dingwell, Donald B.
name: Del Negro, Ciro
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Here we explore and review some of the latest ideas and applications of Raman spectroscopy to the volcanological sciences. Firstly, we provide a brief overview of how Raman spectral analysis works and how spectra from silicate glasses are interpreted. We then look at specific applications of Raman spectral analysis to the volcanological sciences based on measurements on and studies of natural materials in the laboratory. We conclude by examining the potential for Raman spectral analysis to be used as a field based aid to volcano monitoring via in situ studies of proximal deposits and; perhaps; in remote sensing campaigns.
Functional Studies of Dopamine-D2S Receptor Signaling through the RASA3 Pathway
Creators: name: Chang, Chao
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Dopamine D2S Receptor
RASA3
Tyrosine Hydroxylase

description: RASA3 (Ras p21 GTPase Activating Protein 3) is required for D2SR (Dopamine D2 Short Receptor) induced ERK1/2 inhibition in pituitary lactotroph GH4ZR7 cells. We hypothesized that RASA3 may be important for D2SR signaling to inhibit ERK1/2 in dopamine neurons, and thus negatively regulate TH (Tyrosine Hydroxylase) expression and activity. We designed and made shRASA3 lentivirus and showed that it inhibits RASA3 expression. Lentivirus mediated RASA3 knockdown can partially reverse the D2SR mediated ERK1/2 inactivation in GH4ZR7 cells. We then showed that knockdown of RASA3 in dopamine-secreting PC12 cells increased NGF-stimulated ERK1/2 in cells expressing D2SR, but not in cells lacking D2SR, thus implicating RASA3 plays a role in D2SR-mediated inhibition of ERK1/2 signaling. We also found that knockdown of RASA3 increased TH protein levels in cells expressing D2R receptors but not those without D2SR, suggesting that D2SR tonically inhibits the synthesis of TH. We also found preliminary indication that mutant RASA3 mice show increased level of TH in SN compared to WT mice. RASA3 mutant mice showed no striking changes in basal locomotion, anxiety or depression phenotypes, but further studies are needed to specifically address dopamine-driven behaviors. In summary, our data support the role of RASA3 in mediating D2SR-induced inhibition of ERK1/2 in dopamine neurons to negatively regulate TH expression and activity.
Ethical interactivity: an aesthetics of intervention in videogames
Creators: name: Skolnik, Michael Ryan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis examines videogames as a medium for social, political, and ethical intervention in the world. It isolates a set of conditions in which intervention and ethical deliberation can occur through play, and proposes new ways of analysing, critiquing, and understanding interventionist gameplay, which can be used to create more impactful interventionist games and gameplay sections.
Adaptive Aid in Haiti? How Aid Organizations Learn and Adapt in Fragile States
Creators: name: BROUSE, KIRSTEN
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Organizational Adaptation
International Development
Organizational Learning
Haiti
International Aid Organizations
Complexity Theory

description: If we understand development as an emergent property of a complex system, then effective development assistance needs to adapt and evolve in-context. This thesis explores how learning and adaptation practices might help aid organizations apply complexity thinking to improve their effectiveness. Based on a new framework of organizational practices, this study uses a mixed methods approach to assess the extent to which 12 small and medium international aid organizations in Haiti learn and adapt. The study supports the assumption that learning and adaptation contribute to effectiveness, and finds that organizations vary significantly in their learning and adaptation practices. It finds that development organizations employ more learning practices than humanitarian assistance organizations, and that organizations are generally better at collecting information and adopting learning attitudes, than they are at establishing the structures and processes they need to be truly adaptive. The research also finds that the barriers that make learning and adaptation more difficult for organizations are largely structural and related to aid system dynamics, while organizations benefit from enablers that are largely attributed to individual agency. This thesis argues for the important role that aid organizations can, and must play in making aid more effective – at the project, organization, and aid system levels. However, the aid system itself does not encourage learning. International aid organizations will therefore need to actively engage in learning if they are to play an effective role in development, and be a meaningful part of the system-level aid effectiveness dialogue.
Where to enhance rural palliative care? Developing a spatial model to identify suitable communities most in need of service enhancement
Creators: name: Schuurman, Nadine
name: Martin, Michael E.
name: Crooks, Valorie A., 1976-
name: Randall, Ellen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: In Canada, access to palliative care is a growing concern, particularly in rural communities. These communities have constrained health care services and accessing local palliative care can be challenging. The Site Suitability Model (SSM) was developed to identify rural “candidate” communities with need for palliative care services and existing health service capacity that could be enhanced to support a secondary palliative care hub. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of implementing the SSM in Ontario by generating a ranked summary of rural “candidate” communities as potential secondary palliative care hubs. Methods: Using Census data combined with community-level data, the SSM was applied to assess the suitability of 12 communities as rural secondary palliative care hubs. Scores from 0 to 1 were generated for four equally-weighted components: (1) population as the total population living within a 1-h drive of a candidate community; (2) isolation as travel time from that community to the nearest community with palliative care services; (3) vulnerability as community need based on a palliative care index score; and (4) community readiness as five dimensions of fit between a candidate community and a secondary palliative care hub. Component scores were summed for the SSM score and adjusted to range from 0 to 1. Results: Population scores for the 12 communities ranged widely (0.19–1.00), as did isolation scores (0.16–0.94). Vulnerability scores ranged more narrowly (0.27–0.35), while community readiness scores ranged from 0.4–1.0. These component scores revealed information about each community’s particular strengths and weaknesses. Final SSM scores ranged from a low of 0.33 to a high of 0.76. Conclusions: The SSM was readily implemented in Ontario. Final scores generated a ranked list based on the relative suitability of candidate communities to become secondary palliative care hubs. This list provides information for policy makers to make allocation decisions regarding rural palliative services. The calculation of each community’s scores also generates information for local policy makers about how best to provide these services within their communities. The multi-factorial structure of the model enables decision makers to adapt the relative weights of its components.
On Language, Education and Identity: Minority Language Education Within the Canadian Context
Creators: name: Shadd, Deborah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: language
education
identity
First Nations

description: “The destiny of a people is intricately bound to the way its children are educated” (RCAP 1996, v. 3: 404). Firm in this belief, the current study undertakes an examination of language and education policy in Canada, seeking to understand how these two factors together impact the formation of identity, not only for individual students in a classroom, but more broadly for the linguistic and cultural communities of which they are a part, as these struggle to establish a place for themselves within the country’s social sphere. Despite the rhetoric of multicultural equality which predominates in Canadian public discourse, the examination of a corpus of historical legislation, carried out within the framework of narrative theory and critical discourse analysis, plainly demonstrates a clear hierarchy of languages and cultures in Canada – established and enforced in law, rooted and reflected in social institutions, reinforced and replicated through formal systems of schooling. As a result, even as speakers of minority languages are taught as students that to achieve success in schooling, they must translate their speech, thinking, and ways of knowing into the language and manners of the majority, so as members of their communities do they learn that, in order to gain a place of full participation in society, they must also translate their ways of acting, of relating to others, and of being in the world. In short, they must translate themselves. Recognizing that students are in this manner transformed in the very movement between classroom and community; and that as these transformed students return to their communities, these are likewise impacted in terms of their sense of belonging in society; we seek to discern what new insights might be gained from the consideration of education in light of a translational paradigm, ultimately identifying three productive methods of entry into such critical reflection: through the variety of significant questions that are raised, through the consideration of specific theoretical concepts reassessed and applied anew, and finally through the reframing and retelling of narratives in translation.
Supplementary document for Ultrahigh-definition volumetric light field projection - 5245215.pdf
Creators: name: JO, YOUNGJIN
name: Bang, Kiseung
name: Yoo, Dongheon
name: Lee, Byounghyo
name: Lee, Byoungho
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Image Processing

description: Supplemental document for detailed description and additional results
Nouveaux matériaux nanocomposites dérivés des polysilicates lamellaires.
Creators: name: Binette, Marie-Josée.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: The intercalation of polyethylene glycol (PEG) into the interlamellar region of magadiite was performed using leading two different methods, leading to interesting new nanocomposites materials. In the first approach, magadiite was acidified and pre-intercalated with DMSO before PEG was inserted in between the layers. In this approach, instead of dissolving the PEG in a solvent, a large excess of polymer was used. This was the first reported example of the intercalation of a polymer in the acidified derivative of magadiite. In the second approach, sodium ions of magadiite were first exchange with octadecylammonium ions (the three different derivatives obtainable were discussed extensively) before PEG was intercalated in the interlayer region. As in the first approach, the PEG intercalation was solvent-free. A pellet consisting of a 50:50 (w/w) mixture of the polymer and the silicate derivative was prepared and heated. In this case two different nanocomposites were formed depending on the temperature at which the pellets were heated. Both methods described lead to the formation of new intercalated nanocomposites. Finally, the synthesis of a polyrotaxane composed of PEG and alpha-cyclodextrin was achieved. The methylation of the polyrotaxane was also performed. The intercalation of both the polyrotaxane and the methylated polyrotaxane was not successful using the first approach described earlier.
Gioacchino Di Marzo e la nascita della storia dell’arte in Sicilia
Creators: name: Russo, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Gioacchino Di Marzo (1839-1916) was a extraordinarily productive polygrapher. His work represents the very first attempt to bring to Sicily an approach to the History of Art methodologically and scientifically grounded. Starting from the early Delle Belle Arti in Sicilia, Di Marzo declares his adhesion to the Post-Hegelian milieu, although highly contaminated with the still vital heritage of Eighteenth Century culture (Batteux, Winckelmann, Arteaga, etc.). This essay is the first accurate reading according to a aesthetological perspective of the Introduction to the text, as it highlights the essentially ambivalent position of the scholar between modernity and tradition.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Interprofessional Shared Decision Making in NICU: A Mixed Methods Study
Creators: name: Dunn, Sandra I.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: interprofessional
shared decision making
persuasive knowledge exchange

description: Background: The process of shared decision making (SDM), a key component of interprofessional (IP) practice, provides an opportunity for the separate and shared knowledge and skills of care providers to synergistically influence the client / patient care provided. The aim of this study was to understand how different professional groups perceive IPSDM, their role as effective participants in the process and how they ensure their voices are heard. Methods: A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used consisting of a realist review of the literature about IPSDM in intensive care, a survey of the IP team (n=96; RR-81.4%) about collaboration and satisfaction with the decision making process in NICU, semi-structured interviews with a sample of team members (n=22) working in NICU, and observation of team decision making interactions during morning rounds over a two week period. A tertiary care NICU in Canada was the study setting. Findings: The study revealed a number of key findings that are important to our increased understanding of IPSDM. Healthcare professionals’ (HCP) views differ about what constitutes IPSDM. The nature of the decision (triage, chronic condition, values sensitive) is an important influencing factor for IPSDM. Four key roles were identified as essential to the IPSDM process: professional expert, leader, synthesizer and parent. IPSDM involves collaboration, sharing, weighing and building consensus to overcome diversity. HCPs use persuasive knowledge exchange strategies to ensure their voices are heard during IPSDM. Buffering power differentials and increasing agreement about best options lead to well-informed decisions. A model was developed to illustrate the relationships among these concepts. Conclusions: Findings from this study improve understanding of how different members of the team participate in the IPSDM process, and highlight effective strategies to ensure professional voices are heard, understood and considered during deliberations.
Supplementary document for Ultrahigh-definition volumetric light field projection - 5245215.pdf
Creators: name: JO, YOUNGJIN
name: Bang, Kiseung
name: Yoo, Dongheon
name: Lee, Byounghyo
name: Lee, Byoungho
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Image Processing

description: Supplemental document for detailed description and additional results
Riti di passaggio: una lettura girardiana
Creators: name: Grazioli, Andrea
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Through the analisys of Rene Girard’s works, which develops Arnold Van Gennep’s thesis, it’s possible to provide a specific meaning to one of the most controversial phenomena of antropology, i.e. the violence which features the initiation rituals in the archaic societies. Following this we are led to the interpretation of some contemporary social issues and, with reference to the archaic initiation scheme, to the demonstration of how these are still present and predominant in our current social life.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
The Global Financial Crisis: Impacts on SMEs and Government Responses
Creators: name: Wan, Yue
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: SME
government program
public policy
global financial crisis
financing

description: This research examines the recent global financial crisis’ (GFC) impact on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and analyses governments’ responses. According to most literature, SMEs already faced obstacles prior to the GFC, such as paying high taxes, overcoming low profitability, being affected by rising business costs, finding qualified labour, dealing with increasing competition, etc. The GFC has had serious repercussions for SMEs with respect to financing, markets, and liquidity. In order to explore in depth the governments’ responses, qualitative methods are employed to test the following three research questions: 1) To what extent did governments aim to assist SMEs to survive the GFC? What types of programs have been implemented to address new and existing obstacles? 2) Did governments apply appropriate strategic initiatives to realize their goals? If the initiatives could not achieve the governments’ original goals, what obstacles did they address? 3) Did governments tend to help SMEs more after the GFC? Did governments give up on disadvantaged firms or did they try to help them survive the crisis? Analysis revealed that, as a result of the GFC, governments developed programs aimed at new obstacles and at some of the existing ones. The aims did not differ materially for developed and less-developed economies. Financing and taxation programs tended to be designed to achieve their goals directly, where other programs tended to achieve them in a more indirect manner. Overall, government initiatives covered most of the serious obstacles faced by SMEs and government assistance programs aimed at SMEs tended to have been augmented in light of the GFC.
S. K. Langer: simbolo artistico e sentimento
Creators: name: Silvestri, Letizia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: S. Langer captures the possibility of comprehension beyond symbolical logic and identifies symbols capable of expressing the richness of human experience. Art interprets our interior life and explores the image of external reality which we have developed thanks to rhythmic forms and “feeling”. Langer explores what she defines as “symbol”, “language”, “limits of language”, “vitality” and “expression” to clarify the nature of  art and her approach to emotions.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Regulation of RhoA Activation and Actin Reorganization by Diacylglycerol Kinase
Creators: name: Ard, Ryan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Actin
Diacylglycerol Kinase
Rho GTPase
RhoA
Stress Fibers
RhoGDI

description: Rho GTPases are critical regulators of actin cytoskeletal dynamics. The three most well characterized Rho GTPases, Rac1, RhoA and Cdc42 share a common inhibitor, RhoGDI. It is only recently becoming clear how upstream signals cause the selective release of individual Rho GTPases from RhoGDI. For example, our laboratory showed that diacylglycerol kinase zeta (DGKz), which converts diacylglycerol (DAG) to phosphatidic acid (PA), activates PAK1-mediated RhoGDI phosphorylation on Ser-101/174, causing selective Rac1 release and activation. Phosphorylation of RhoGDI on Ser-34 by PKCa has recently been demonstrated to selectively release RhoA, promoting RhoA activation. Here, I show DGKz is required for optimal RhoA activation and RhoGDI Ser-34 phosphorylation. Both were substantially reduced in DGKz-null fibroblasts and occurred independently of DGKz activity, but required a function DGKz PDZ-binding motif. In contrast, Rac1 activation required DGKz-derived PA, but not PDZ-interactions, indicating DGKz regulates these Rho GTPases by two distinct regulatory complexes. Interestingly, RhoA bound directly to the DGKz C1A domain, the same region known to bind Rac1. By direct interactions with RhoA and PKCa, DGKz was required for the efficient co-precipitation of these proteins, suggesting it is important to assemble a signalling complex that functions as a RhoA-specific RhoGDI dissociation complex. Consequently, cells lacking DGKz exhibited decreased RhoA signalling downstream and disrupted stress fibers. Moreover, DGKz loss resulted in decreased stress fiber formation following the expression of a constitutively active RhoA mutant, suggesting it is also important for RhoA function following activation. This is consistent with the ability of DGKz to bind both active and inactive RhoA conformations. Collectively, these findings suggest DGKz is central to two distinct Rho GTPase activation complexes, each having different requirements for DGKz activity and PDZ interactions, and might regulate the balance of Rac1 and RhoA activity during dynamic changes to the actin cytoskeleton.
Angels in America: uno spettacolo grande
Creators: name: Gennari, Alessia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensione: Angels in America, uno spettacolo di Ferdinando Bruni e Elio De Capitani; scene di Carlo Sala, costumi di Ferdinando Bruni; con Elio De Capitani, Elena Russo Arman, Cristina Crippa, Ida Marinelli, Cristian Giammarini, Edoardo Ribatto, Fabrizio Matteini, Umberto Petranca, Sara Borsarelli; Teatro dell’Elfo, Milano 22 maggio-3 giugno 2012.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Environmental Drivers of Change and the Ecological and Physical Consequences of Human Disturbance on Exposed Beaches
Creators: name: Thompson, Luke
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: beaches
morphodynamics
invertebrates
waves
macrofauna
macrobenthos
oceanic conditions
human disturbance
environmental impacts
community dynamics
recreation
vehicle
dunes
trampling
physical control
zonation
biological patterns
coasts

description: Exposed sandy beaches make up more of the globeâ€Ÿs coastline than any other littoral ecosystem. Their ecological structure is conventionally thought to be largely determined by physical limitations on individual speciesâ€Ÿ occurrences, while biological interactions are comparatively unimportant drivers of community dynamics. As coastal populations expand, demands for recreational opportunities on beaches and coastal dunes grow correspondingly. Because sandy beaches are prime sites for recreation, human alterations of the habitat are widespread and can have sizeable ecological ramifications. Arguably, these human disturbances act as a complementary mechanism to the widely-cited, physical control of beach ecosystems. Yet, specific effect sizes have not been measured for a number of disturbance and impact types. Consequently, this thesis quantifies environmental changes caused by recreational vehicle activity to the intertidal habitat matrix, frontal dune system, and documents the effects of human trampling on the intertidal macrobenthos.
La verità della percezione nella morfologia di Weizsäcker
Creators: name: Guareschi, Carlo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensione: Viktor von Weizsäcker, Forma e percezione, a cura di Valeria Costanza D’Agata e Salvatore Tedesco, Mimesis, Milano 2011.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)