cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Probabilistic Medium-Range Temperature Forecasts from the North American Ensemble Forecast System.
Creators: name: McCollor, Doug
name: Stull, Roland B., 1950-
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2011

description: Ensemble temperature forecasts from the North American Ensemble Forecast System were assessed for quality against observations for 10 cities in western North America, for a 7-month period beginning in February 2007. Medium-range probabilistic temperature forecasts can provide information for those economic sectors exposed to temperature-related business risk, such as agriculture, energy, transportation, and retail sales. The raw ensemble forecasts were postprocessed, incorporating a 14-day moving-average forecast–observation difference, for each ensemble member. This postprocessing reduced the mean error in the sample to 0.68C or less. It is important to note that the NorthAmerican Ensemble Forecast Systemavailable to the public provides bias-corrected maximum and minimum temperature forecasts. Root-mean-square-error and Pearson correlation skill scores, applied to the ensemble average forecast, indicate positive, but diminishing, forecast skill (compared to climatology) from 1 to 9 days into the future. The probabilistic forecasts were evaluated using the continuous ranked probability skill score, the relative operating characteristics skill score, and a value assessment incorporating cost–loss determination. The full suite of ensemble members provided skillful forecasts 10–12 days into the future. A rank histogram analysis was performed to test ensemble spread relative to the observations. Forecasts are underdispersive early in the forecast period, for forecast days 1 and 2. Dispersion improves rapidly but remains somewhat underdispersive through forecast day 6. The forecasts show little or no dispersion beyond forecast day 6. A new skill versus spread diagram is presented that shows the trade-off between higher skill but low spread early in the forecast period and lower skill but better spread later in the forecast period. Copyright 2009 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
The extent of TQM Implementation in Manufacturing Industry: The case of MOHA Soft Drinks Industry S.C.
Creators: name: Seifemichael, Minasie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: In Ethiopia, the manufacturing sector accounts for 70% of the industrial sector. However, almost all products of the manufacturing have been blamed for inadequacy of quality. Researchers argued that firms in Ethiopia are not practicing the complete, and comprehensive components of TQM for quality improvement. This research investigates the extent of TQM implementation in Ethiopian manufacturing industry specifically in MOHA Soft Drinks Industry S.C. This research used quantitative research approach and descriptive research method. The six critical success factors (Top Management commitment, Customer focus, People management, Supply quality management, Process Management and Continuous Improvement) were assessed using a five point Likert scale questionnaires. Based on the result of the analysis, it is concluded that the company is on a good track while implementing TQM. All the six critical success factors mean value falls between high and very high. When comparing the company TQM practice mean value with a survey done on Ethiopian manufacturing firms, MOHA Soft Drinks Industry S.C. mean value is greater by 0.91. In addition, the research concluded, there is a positive relationship between critical success factors of TQM. However, the significance level of the factors vary. Unlike other two researches conducted in Ethiopia with similar critical success factors, the research came up with a minimal relationship between Top Management Commitment and other critical success factors. It is recommended for future research to study further on the effects of TQM on organization performance of MOHA Soft Drinks Industry S.C
The effects of the menstrual cycle on muscle activation patterns and fuel utilization in cold exposure
Creators: name: Maneshi, Anali
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.
subject: Biology, Physiology.

description: Cold-induced shivering is characterized by two distinct muscle contraction patterns: continuous low-intensity shivering [at ∼1 to 5% of maximal voluntary contraction (MVC)] and bursts of high-intensity shivering (at 10 to 35% MVC) (Meigal, 2002, Haman et al., 2004). In this context, Haman et al. (2004) showed that carbohydrate (CHO) oxidation rate is directly related to burst shivering rate which increases the proportional recruitment of glycolitic type II fibers. Because most of these studies have been carried out in men, little is still know on the effects of hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle on the dual shivering pattern and energy metabolism in women. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to quantify differences in muscle recruitment pattern and fuel selection in two phases of the menstrual cycle. Muscle recruitment in eight muscles and whole body fuel selection were monitored in women exposed to 120 min of cold exposure (5°C liquid-perfusion suit) during FP and LP. Results show that there is no difference in the onset of shivering, shivering intensity, burst duration and burst shivering rate between LP and FP during steady state shivering (in last 15 min). Similarly, during steady state shivering (T=105-120 min), absolute rates and relative contributions of metabolic fuels to total heat production did not differ between FP and LP. We conclude that hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle do not affect muscle recruitment patterns or substrate utilization in the cold. Whether this important difference in fuel selection modifies muscle shivering activity and/or confers a survival advantage remains to be established.
Édition critique des "Avantures du Sieur Claude Le Beau Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale"
Creators: name: Vallée, Andréanne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: La relation des Avantures, ou le Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale, de Claude Le Beau, fait partie des écrits coloniaux de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Considéré comme un ouvrage "oublié" du patrimoine littéraire de la Nouvelle-France, le texte est peu et mal connu. Ce désintérêt est en grande partie attribuable à la réception critiqué de l'oeuvre. En 1738, au moment de la publication des Avantures, Claude Le Beau prétend offrir aux lecteurs une relation de voyage "conforme à la plus exacte vérité". En dépit des efforts déployés par ce dernier pour créer l'illusion du témoignage personnel et du récit "véritable", la critique condamne l'ouvrage. On ne pardonne pas au relationnaire les erreurs inhérentes à la chronologie, les égarements géographiques, les emprunts faits aux textes des prédécesseurs et l'enchevêtrement du réel et de la fiction dans le récit de ses aventures personnelles. Après avoir été jugée peu fiable, voire invraisemblable, par plusieurs générations de chercheurs, la relation des Avantures de Claude Le Beau est tombée dans un oubli presque complet. Notre édition critique entend rehabiliter l'ouvrage de Le Beau en jetant un éclairage nouveau sur la genèse et les caractéristiques particulières du texte. Nous retraçons les sources du relationnaire, nous précisons la nature des emprunts faits aux textes des prédecesseurs et nous départageons fiction et réalite historique. Notre annotation produit des renseignements sur la vie de l'auteur, le contexte historique, les patronymes, les toponymes, les tribus amérindiennes, la géographie, le vocabulaire, la faune et la flore. En somme, notre thèse s'inscrit dans la foulée des plus récentes éditions critiques qui exhument les écrits de la Nouvelle-France en rendant disponible à la communauté scientifique un texte devenu rare.
Uptown, downbeat: Mobility, masculine self-fashioning and occupations of space in African American urban narrative discourse (1962--1972)
Creators: name: Godin, Julie Cecilia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Black Studies.
subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: This project examines neglected African American urban narratives produced by male writers from the mid-1960s to mid 1970s, in order to document and interrogate how the production of subjectivities and masculinities are shown to intersect, in these works, with vectors of mobility and modalities of spatial occupation. The study begins with the mobile culture of the Blues, and highlights sophisticated Blues stylings to trace the operation of a language of vagrancy---a discourse of malleability that opens the masculine subject to multiplicity and detachment. It then examines the spectacular, transient, and materialistic player of the urban "barbershop books," and details, in Robert Beck's Pimp: The Story of My Life, and in Donald Goines's Whoreson and Daddy Cool, the exhausting, destructive experiments that permit display and re-invention on the "street." This vision is supplemented with urban texts that address the subject's inhabitation of densely peopled space and the enigma of fleshly occupation in urban arrangements of troubling proximity. The work examines Chester Himes's Blind Man With a Pistol, Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, and Down these Mean Streets, by Piri Thomas, in order to consider the excessive traces of bodily inhabitation and the provocative yet repulsive closeness of an enigmatic neighbour. It then turns to George Cain's poetic Blueschild Baby and Robert Beck's Mama Black Widow, to interrogate how these texts address the death drive and delineate the possibility of inhabiting the ruined ghetto with an insistent impulse to endure and resist. Finally, the work considers two texts, Robert Deane Pharr's S.R.O. and Herbert Simmons's Man Walking on Eggshells, in which segmented space, proliferating multiplicities, and emergent subjects invite a reading informed by the vocabularies of Gilles Deleuze. The project ends by reading the urban subject as a stylish, agile principle of released motion, creative doubt and active engagement with differences and potentialities.
Oskar Gans; Elke Friedewald (Hrsg.): Die südostasiatische Wirtschaftskrise. Diagnosen, Therapien und Implikationen für Südasien
Creators: name: Diehl, Markus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Bernhard Dahm, Roderick Ptak (Hrsg.): Südostasien-Handbuch. Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur
Creators: name: Mols, Manfred
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Thomas Döhne: Zwischen Bildungsgewinn und Erfahrungsverlust: Schulerziehung in einem Bergdistrikt Nepals
Creators: name: Krämer, Karl-Heinz
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Introduction to the concept of Open Access and Digital Preservation
Creators: name: Thorpe, Deborah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: open access
digital preservation

description: This presentation by Deborah Thorpe was part of the session "Introducing the Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository" at the Open Scholarship Week 2020 organised by NUI Galway. It can be viewed at https://nuigalway.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Introducing+the+Arts+and+Culture+in+Research+Repository/1_qme2occv/121659351. The introduction to the recently launched Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository (ACERR) is geared towards existing and potential digital collections researchers or curators who may be interested in depositing those collections into the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Although developed for ACERR it is open to all who may be interested in depositing their work with a national platform and storing their digital collections video, audio as well as datasets and text. Groups who may be interested include researchers, academics, librarians and archivists. Deborah Thorpe is Education and Outreach Manager for the Digital Repository of Ireland. She has published extensively in the fields of medieval studies, palaeography, and the medical humanities. She has a particular interest in the interdisciplinary humanities, especially research that creates unusual synergies between disciplinary approaches.Her most recent position prior to joining DRI was as Training and Education Officer for DARIAH-EU. Before that, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow at Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
Manfred Domroes & Helmut Roth (eds.): Sri Lanka: past and present; archeology, geography, economics; selected papers on German research
Creators: name: Aßmann, Kersti
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Acanthiza uropygialis subsp. ruthergleni Mathews
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Acanthiza
Acanthiza uropygialis
Acanthiza uropygialis ruthergleni mathews

description: Acanthiza uropygialis ruthergleni Mathews
 Acanthiza uropygialis ruthergleni Mathews, 1912a: 350 (Victoria (Rutherglen)).
 Now Acanthiza uropygialis Gould, 1838. See Mayr, 1986b: 439, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 206.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600832, adult male, collected at Rutherglen, 36.03S, 146.28E (USBGN, 1957b), Victoria, Australia, on 23 May 1899, by A.G. Campbell (no. 208). From the Mathews Collection (no. 2210) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It is the only specimen from Rutherglen that came to AMNH and it bears Campbell’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, British Columbia: a growing epidemic
Creators: name: McInnes, Colin W.
name: Druyts, Eric
name: Harvard, Stephanie S.
name: Gilbert, M.
name: Tyndall, Mark
name: Lima, Viviane D.
name: Wood, Evan
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Hogg, Robert S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: The prevalence of HIV in Vancouver, British Columbia was subject to two distinct periods of rapid increase. The first occurred in the 1980s due to high incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM), and the second occurred in the 1990s due to high incidence among injection drug users (IDU). The purpose of this study was to estimate and model the trends in HIV prevalence in Vancouver from 1980 to 2006. HIV prevalence data were entered into the UNAIDS/WHO Estimation and Projection Package (EPP) where prevalence trends were estimated by fitting an epidemiological model to the data. Epidemic curves were fit for IDU, MSM, street-based female sex trade workers (FSW), and the general population. Using EPP, these curves were then aggregated to produce a model of Vancouver's overall HIV prevalence. Of the 505 000 people over the age of 15 that reside in Vancouver, 6108 (ranging from 4979 to 7237) were living with HIV in the year 2006, giving an overall prevalence of 1.21 percent (ranging from 0.99 to 1.43 percent). The subgroups of IDU and MSM account for the greatest proportion of HIV infections. Our model estimates that the prevalence of HIV in Vancouver is greater than one percent, roughly 6 times higher than Canada's national prevalence. These results suggest that HIV infection is having a relatively large impact in Vancouver and that evidence-based prevention and harm reduction strategies should be expanded.
Regularized image up-sampling
Creators: name: Aly, Hussein A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis addresses the problem of performing image magnification to achieve higher perceived resolution for grey-scale and color images. A new perspective on the problem is introduced through the new concept of a theoretical camera that can acquire an ideal high resolution image. A new formulation of the problem is then introduced using two ingredients: a newly designed observation model and the total-variation regularizer. An observation model, that establishes a generalized relation between the desired magnified image and the measured lower resolution image, has been newly designed based on careful study of the physical acquisition processes that have generated the images. The result is a major contribution of this thesis: a closed-form solution for obtaining the observation model. This closed form has been implemented and observation models were obtained for different typical scenarios, and their performance was shown to outperform observation models used in the literature. Two new theorems for designing the theoretical camera, adapted to the display device used, on arbitrary lattices have been developed. The thesis presents new analysis with a signal processing perspective that justifies the use of the total-variation regularizer as a priori knowledge for the magnified image; this analysis is defined on both the low and the high resolution lattices simultaneously. The resulting objective function has been minimized numerically using the level-set method with two new motions that interact simultaneously, leading to a solution scheme that is not trapped in constant-image solutions and converges to a unique solution regardless of the initial estimate. For color images, the human visual system characteristics were involved in the choice of the color space used in the implementation. It was found that a proper color space such as YCbCr that focuses on magnifying a better luminance channel provided the same result as a vectorial total-variation formulation, but at a reduced computational cost. The quality of the magnified images obtained by the new approaches of this thesis surpassed the quality of state-of-the-art methods from the literature.
Is parental coping associated with quality of life in juvenile idiopathic arthritis?
Creators: name: Cavallo, Sabrina
name: Feldman, Debbie E
name: Swaine, Bonnie
name: Meshefedjian, Garbis
name: Malleson, Peter N
name: Duffy, Ciarán M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract: Parents of children with a chronic condition such as juvenile arthritis must cope with greater demands than those living with a healthy child. They must adopt different behaviours in order to lessen the impact on the family structure. Parental coping refers to the parent's specific cognitive and behavioural efforts to reduce or manage a demand on the family system. The aims of this study were: to describe coping in a cohort of parents of children with JIA; to determine whether quality of life is associated with parental coping; to explore whether socio-demographic factors such as child's age, family socioeconomic status and family structure are associated with parental coping. One hundred eighty-two parents caring for a child with JIA completed a postal survey at three times over a one-year period, which included the Juvenile Arthritis Quality of Life Questionnaire (JAQQ), the Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) and questionnaires describing socio-demographic characteristics. Linear mixed models were employed to analyse the association between the child's quality of life and parental coping. Mean total QoL scores (JAQQ) showed that children experienced difficulty in completing specified activities at most just below 25% of the time and results fall off slightly following the 6 month time point. Mean parental coping scores for the CHIP subscales at baseline were 38.4 ± 9.0, 33.4 ± 11.6, 16.5 ± 6.1, for Maintaining Family Integration (maximum score 57), Maintaining Social Support (maximum score 54) and Understanding the Medical Situation (maximum score 24), respectively. Understanding the Medical Situation was deemed most useful. The child's QoL was associated with parental coping. Parents of children with greater psychosocial dysfunction used more coping behaviours related to Understanding the Medical Situation (β coefficient, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.01, 1.45). These findings underscore the importance of helping parents of children with JIA better understand their child's medical situation.
Abiotic pathways of mercury methylation in the aquatic environment
Creators: name: Celo, Valbona
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biogeochemistry.
subject: Chemistry, General.

description: This thesis studies the chemical reactions of mercury in different oxidations states with several natural methyl-donors present in the aquatic environment. The importance of the abiotic pathway of mercury methylation was assessed by a thorough examination of the kinetics of these reactions in various experimental conditions, relevant to environmental situations. The amount of methylmercury formed in the course of the chemical reactions studied herein shows that the abiotic mercury methylation can be a very significant source of this compound in the environment. The thesis comprises three main chapters which describe the reactions of three major methyl-donors: methyl iodide, methycobalamine and methyl tin compounds with mercury. Reaction of mercuric ions with methyl iodide yields HgI+ and HgI2 as inorganic products and MeOH as the only organic product. The reaction kinetics are biphasic and the reaction rate decreases with pH, increases with temperature and the reaction stops in the presence of complexing agents such as iodide ions. Meanwhile, the reaction of Hg0(aq) with methyl iodide yields 1.1% methylmercury which is a relatively high yield for environmental reactions. We show that the role of methyl iodide in the geochemical cycle of mercury in the aquatic environment is two-fold: it promotes the formation of compounds such as HgI + and HgI2 which are less reactive towards chemical and biological methylation and it methylates Hg0 which is present when Hg2+ is reduced by reducing agents found in the aquatic environment. The reaction of mercuric ions with methylcobalamine is studied using methylaquacobaloxime as a model compound. The mechanism is an electrophilic attack of Hg2+ to the Co-C bond. It results in the cleavage of this bond and formation of Hg-C bond in the structure of methyl mercury. The reaction is first order to mercury and methylcobaloxime concentration and the value of the second-order rate constant is k = (6.8 +/- 0.2) M-1 s-1 at 21.1°C, at a pH of 1.5 and an ionic strength of 0.030 M (HNO3). The reaction rate decreases with pH, and increases with temperature and ionic strength. The yield of methyl mercury formation is as high as 75%. The presence of chloride completely shuts down the reaction. So, abiotic methylation of mercury by methylcobalamin could be a source of methylmercury formation in fresh waters which have low pH and low chloride concentrations. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Sozialwissenschaftliche Koreaforschung in Deutschland: Bestandsaufnahme, Inhalte und Perspektiven
Creators: name: Scholz, Anton
name: Köllner, Patrick
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
TFCat: the curated catalog of mouse and human transcription factors
Creators: name: Fulton, Debra L.
name: Sundararajan, Saravanan
name: Badis, Gwenael
name: Hughes, Timothy R.
name: Wasserman, Wyeth W.
name: Roach, Jared C.
name: Sladek, Rob
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Unravelling regulatory programs governed by transcription factors (TFs) is fundamental to understanding biological systems. TFCat is a catalog of mouse and human TFs based on a reliable core collection of annotations obtained by expert review of the scientific literature. The collection, including proven and homology-based candidate TFs, is annotated within a function-based taxonomy and DNA-binding proteins are organized within a classification system. All data and user-feedback mechanisms are available at the TFCat portal http://www.tfcat.ca .
Effet de la privation de sommeil sur des fonctions cognitives peu complexes et sur leurs concomitants electrophysiologiques
Creators: name: Gosselin, Anik
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Psychobiology.
subject: Psychology, Clinical.
subject: Psychology, Cognitive.

description: Cette these visait a verifier l'hypothese selon laquelle le CPF est particulierement vulnerable a la privation de sommeil (PS) par l'utilisation du potentiel evoque P3. Malgre la litterature grandissante sur le sujet, les etudes effectuees jusqu'a maintenant ne permettaient pas de confirmer cette hypothese car elles utilisaient soit des taches cognitives complexes ne permettant pas de departager l'effet de la PS sur le CPF de l'effet de complexite de la tache ou des taches peu complexes de vigilance psychomotrice qui impliquent peu le CPF. Les paradigmes du novel oddball et du Go/NoGo ont ete choisis car ils permettaient d'eliciter un P3 avec une distribution corticale differente selon la tache effectuee, une distribution plus anterieure impliquant des regions prefrontales et une distribution posterieure impliquant des regions mediales/posterieures du cortex, et de lier les variations du P3 pendant la PS avec la performance. Dans la premiere etude qui compose cette these, utilisant le paradigme du novel oddball, le novel P3 etait diminue en chez les participants prives de sommeil comparativement au groupe controle. De plus, chez le groupe prive de sommeil, une seconde positivite est apparue en parietal apres 550-600 ms. Finalement, le P3 cible etait diminue en amplitude pour toutes les regions corticales chez les participants prives de sommeil comparativement au groupe controle. Apres recuperation, le novel P3 du groupe prive de sommeil etait comparable a celui du groupe controle et la seconde positivite avait disparue. Dans la seconde etude qui compose cette these, utilisant le paradigme du Go/NoGo, le NoGo P3 diminuait progressivement a mesure que l'eveil se prolongeait. Plus le NoGo P3 anterieur etait diminue, plus les participants prives de sommeil eprouvaient des difficultes a inhiber leur reponse. En contraste, le Go P3 a diminue rapidement dans les 12 premieres heures d'eveil et a peu varie par suite. Finalement, le NoGo P3 en central etait augmente apres recuperation comparativement a 24 h et 37 h de PS. Ces resultats suggerent que la PS totale compromet la reponse d'orientation aux stimuli nouveaux et la capacite d'inhibition motrice probablement a cause d'une deactivation frontale, reversible par la recuperation du sommeil.
Bringing back the saints: The contribution of the Roman edition of the Ruthenian liturgical books ("Recensio Ruthena", 1940--1952) to the commemoration of Slavic saints in the Ukrainian Catholic Church
Creators: name: Petrowycz, Michael
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Theology.

description: The sanctorale of the Ruthenian (Kyivan) Catholic Church, as represented by the 1929 Lviv Liturgicon of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsy counted six saints of ancient Kyivan Rus' (tenth-eleventh centuries), three Lithuanian martyrs of the later medieval Kyivan Metropolitanate (fourteenth century), and Josaphat, martyred in 1623 for the cause of Union with Rome, canonized by Rome in 1867. In addition, there were Cyril and Methodius, and Parasceve (of Tarnovo, Bulgaria)---without the geographical identification. Previously there had also been authoritative Ruthenian Catholic calendars with only Josaphat. At the same time, the Ruthenian Orthodox calendar developed in the seventeenth century a Slavic sanctorale of many dozen, sometimes close to a hundred Slavic saints. In the course of a general revision of the Ruthenian liturgical books---the Recensio Ruthena (RR) editions (1940-1952), performed by the Congregation for the Eastern Church at the request of the Ruthenian bishops---the RR Commission admitted that from the historical perspective, and in the eyes of the Orthodox, this was a severe distortion of the Ruthenian sanctorale, and resolved to "restore to the Ruthenians their ancient saints." The present study investigates the deliberation process behind the RR Slavic sanctorale on two levels. First, it researches the motivations, the principles, and the sources of the work of the RR Commission on the basis of hitherto unpublished archival material---the two principal source documents of the Commission: the Osservatzioni, or preliminary commentary and suggestions prepared by Korolevskij, and the Minutes of the sessions of the RR Commission. Second, in order to fully appreciate the choices and the work of the RR Commission, the present study surveys both the Western theological discussion on the question of Eastern Slavic saints, and the development of diverse positions in the Ruthenian (and Russian) Catholic Church to these questions, whether in theological speculation or liturgical practice. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Guh, Daphne P.
name: Zhang, Wei (Health Economist)
name: Bansback, Nick
name: Amarsi, Zubin
name: Birmingham, C. L.
name: Anis, Aslam H. (Aslam Hayat), 1959-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Overweight and obese persons are at risk of a number of medical conditions which can lead to further morbidity and mortality. The primary objective of this study is to provide an estimate of the incidence of each co-morbidity related to obesity and overweight using a meta-analysis. Methods A literature search for the twenty co-morbidities identified in a preliminary search was conducted in Medline and Embase (Jan 2007). Studies meeting the inclusion criteria (prospective cohort studies of sufficient size reporting risk estimate based on the incidence of disease) were extracted. Study-specific unadjusted relative risks (RRs) on the log scale comparing overweight with normal and obese with normal were weighted by the inverse of their corresponding variances to obtain a pooled RR with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results A total of 89 relevant studies were identified. The review found evidence for 18 co-morbidities which met the inclusion criteria. The meta-analysis determined statistically significant associations for overweight with the incidence of type II diabetes, all cancers except esophageal (female), pancreatic and prostate cancer, all cardiovascular diseases (except congestive heart failure), asthma, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis and chronic back pain. We noted the strongest association between overweight defined by body mass index (BMI) and the incidence of type II diabetes in females (RR = 3.92 (95% CI: 3.10–4.97)). Statistically significant associations with obesity were found with the incidence of type II diabetes, all cancers except esophageal and prostate cancer, all cardiovascular diseases, asthma, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis and chronic back pain. Obesity defined by BMI was also most strongly associated with the incidence of type II diabetes in females (12.41 (9.03–17.06)). Conclusion Both overweight and obesity are associated with the incidence of multiple co-morbidities including type II diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Maintenance of a healthy weight could be important in the prevention of the large disease burden in the future. Further studies are needed to explore the biological mechanisms that link overweight and obesity with these co-morbidities.
Creating New States in India: Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal
Creators: name: Rothermund, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2020

description: Indian federalism is a very flexible institution. Due to its centralist bias it can be easily used by the Government of India for its own ends. This has now been demonstrated by the present coalition government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has created three new states by means of "reorganisation" acts passed by the central parliament. The earlier round of such reorganisations in Nehru's times were based on the report of the States Reorganisation Commission of 1955 which followed the principle of linguistic boundaries. Nehru had only reluctantly agreed to this reorganisation, and as far as the separation of Gujarat and Maharashtra was concerned he postponed until 1960. When Goa was liberated from Portuguese rule in 1961 and the majority of its electorate voted for a party which advocated the merger of Goa with Maharashtra, he prevented the merger and saw to it that Goa remained a Union Territory. In subsequent years some small states were created in order to accommodate ethnic interests, particulary in the tribal belt of Northeastern India. The latest round of this kind was in 1987 when Mizoram became a state at the same time when Goa was promoted from the status of a Union Territory to a state.
description: Asien, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
References of Vietnamese States and the Mechanisms of World Formation
Creators: name: L Vuving, Alexander
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2020

description: The article provides a method of exploring ideational polities, which proceeds through highlighting the networks of discursive reference, which are made to argue for the nature or existence or right to existence of a given polity. This method enables a comparative study of the state. As case studies, four paramount conceptions of Vietnamese states in the 11th, 15th, and 20th centuries are explored and compared. They show how similarly'and differently geopolitical identity was defined by Vietnamese-speaking state-makers at four crucial junctures in Vietnam's history. They indicate that the state is cofigured but nonidentical with the world. The generation and construction of the world imagined in human mind involves the mechanism of coreference. Coreference is a two-level process complex by which a world is united via semiotic universalization at the level of the codes but remains (or becomes) heterogeneous via semantic reorientation at the level of the contents.
description: Asien, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Perry Report and US-North Korea Relations
Creators: name: Drifte, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2020

description: The Perry Report of 12 October 1999 has built a stronger foundation for the Agreed Framework of 1994 which aims at the elimination of North Korea's alleged nuclear weapons programme. This has been done by abandoning the initial premise that the North Korean regime would not last until the two Western Light Water Reactors would be completed in North Korea, by addressing the failure of the US to provide the incentives promised in the Agreed Framework, and by becoming more realistic about the constraints of any North Korea policy. However, the chances to carry through the Agreed Framework continue to be threatened by the wide discrepancy between North Korean and Western goals, by the US intention to deploy a Tactical Missile Defence system, and by difficulties of the US to maintain a common front with South Korea and Japan. The insistence of the US on greater North Korean reciprocity may also endanger the initial success of the Perry Report.
description: Asien, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Exploring the Introduction of Genetic Variation by Random Mutation: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 1
Creators: name: Kohn, Cory
name: Lark, Amy
name: Smith, Jim
name: Mead, Louise
name: Pennock, Robert
name: Johnson, Wendy
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2020

description: An introductory activity introducing the role of random mutation in generating genetic variation using the Avida-ED simulation.
Konditionierte Entwicklung? Politische Flexibilitat japanischer Entwicklungshilfe
Creators: name: Seitz, Christiane
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: Japans regionale Rolle in Asien ist entscheidend durch seine Entwicklungshilfe mit seinen asiatischen Partnerlandem geprägt. Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung Japans in der Region wird zwar schon allein dadurch deutlich, dass 70% des Bruttosozialproduktes (BSP) der Region von Japan erwirtschaftet werden. Zudem ist Japan aber fur die Lander Asiens der größte Entwicklungshilfegeber. 1996, also noch vor Ausbruch der asiatischen Wahrungs- und Finanzkrise, flossen 49,6% der japanischen Entwicklungshilfe in asiatische Länder. Nach dem Beginn der Asienkrise wurden bis September 1998 Zahlungen in Höhe von 42 Milliarden US-Dollar geleistet, die nicht als Entwicklungshilfe, sondem als einmalige Zahlungen bezeichnet wurden. Die finanziellen Zuschüsse, die Japan an die Region leistet, unterstreichen seine Rolle bei deren wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Abschied von China? - Eine politische Standortbestimmung Taiwans nach den Präsidentschaftswahlen im März 2000
Creators: name: Schubert, Gunter
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: Seit den zweiten direkten Präsidentschaftswahlen im März 2000 ist die Internationale Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber der Republik China auf Taiwan merklich gestiegen. Der unerwartete Sieg des Kandidaten der oppositionellen Demokratischen Fortschrittspartei (DFP) Chen Shuibian und die gleichzeitige verheerende Niederlage des Bewerbers der regierenden Guomindang (GMD) Lian Zhan hatten, so waren sich die Analysten weltweit einig, den taiwanesischen Demokratisierungsprozess zu seinem endgültigen Abschluss gebracht: Erstmals kam es zu einem Machtwechsel an der Staatsspitze, bei dem die Opposition das Zepter übemahm. Außenpolitisch war der Ausgang der Wahlen von weitreichender Bedeutung. Die Person Chen Shuibians, der sich seit den frühen 80er-Jahren als mutiger Regimekritiker und entschiedener Befürworter einer taiwanesischen Unabhängigkeit (taidu) einen Namen gemacht hatte, war vor allem für die VR China eine persona non grata. Hier kam ein Mann zum Zuge, dem aus der Sicht der Regierung in Beijing nicht zu trauen war und den man trotz aller seiner im Vorfeld des Umengangs in Richtung Festland ausgesandten Signale eigener Verhandlungsbereitschaft des Verrats an der chinesischen Einheit beschuldigte.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 79 (2001): ASIEN (April)
Operationalizing the good lives model: An examination of Holland's RIASEC theory and vocational congruence with offenders 2001--2008
Creators: name: Taylor, Kelly
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Industrial.
subject: Psychology, Personality.
subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: Lack of employment has been identified as a contributing factor to criminal behaviour (Andrews & Bonta, 2003). Canadian Correctional Services have responded accordingly through the provision of interventions directed toward addressing offender needs as they relate to employment issues. Nonetheless, critics have argued that intervention efforts are still largely based on the principles of risk reduction, with limited attention given to a theoretically integrated view of the rehabilitation process. Ward and Stewart (2003) proposed a "Good Lives" model of rehabilitation in hopes of moving toward an enhancement model rather than a strictly harm avoidance model. "Good lives" (Ward & Stewart, 2003) are referred to as methods of living that are beneficial and fulfilling for individuals, and it is argued that any conception of a possible "good life" should take note of an offender's capabilities, temperament, interests, skills, values and support networks. The current research operationalized a 'good lives' model by exploring the theoretical construct of vocational congruence as a protective factor, leading to greater success within correctional environments and upon release in the community. Two studies explored the relevance of Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments (1997) for offender populations. The first study examined the validity of Holland's RIASEC Structure for a convenience sample of 305 federally sentenced offenders. Three RIASEC models (i.e., Holland, 1997; Gati, 1982; Round & Tracey, 1996) were also examined in Study I. Results indicated that two of these models are valid for an offender population. The second study examined Holland's theory of vocational congruence (1997) with a convenience sample of 304 federally sentenced offenders. Results revealed minimal support for the statistical significance of vocational congruence for this sample of offenders. Nevertheless, post-hoc analyses showed interesting differences for Aboriginal and women offenders, as well as offenders over 30 years of age. Furthermore, vocational congruence emerged as a significant factor in predicting time to recidivism. The role of behavioural adaptability and relevance of career counselling are introduced. Theoretical and operational implications, as well as implications for the 'Good Lives' model are discussed. The author argues for the value of continued research regarding Holland's RIASEC typology and vocational congruence with offender populations.
Daily heterotrophic respiration model considering the diurnal temperature variability in the soil
Creators: name: Chen, J. A.
name: Huang, S. E.
name: Ju, W.
name: Gaumont-Guay, David
name: Black, T. Andrew
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2011

description: In daily, monthly, and annual respiration models for regional and global applications, the diurnal variation of temperature is generally ignored. As the effect of temperature on respiration is nonlinear, this ignorance may cause considerable errors in respiration estimation, but these errors have not yet been systematically investigated. This is in fact a central issue in temporal scaling of ecosystem models which are often applied in time steps equal to or larger than a day. In this study, we develop an integrated daily heterotrophic respiration model, and demonstrate first theoretically the importance of considering the diurnal amplitude of soil temperature and the vertical soil carbon distribution pattern in daily respiration estimation using the daily mean temperature. Measurements of soil respiration with roots exclusion made in a mature black spruce site in Saskatchewan, Canada, in July–September 2004 are used to validate the model. Daily heterotrophic respiration rates were underestimated by up to 15%, with a mean value of 4.5%, when only the mean daily temperature was used. This underestimation occurred under the conditions that the diurnal temperature amplitude in the forest was less than 12°C and the vertical distribution of organic carbon in the top 15–30 cm was uniform. Based on the integrated daily model, this underestimation at the same site would be 38% if the amplitude increases to 20°C, and in soils with steep vertical carbon distributions with a 20°C diurnal amplitude, it can increase to 44%. The magnitude of this underestimation is theoretically proportional to [ln(Q 10)]2. During the experimental period, the value of Q 10 for heterotrophic respiration was found to be 4.0–4.5. If Q 10 = 2.0, this underestimation is reduced to about 10% at a diurnal temperature amplitude of 20°C. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2009 American Geophysical Union.
Acanthiza uropygialis subsp. mellori Mathews
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Acanthizidae
Acanthiza
Acanthiza uropygialis
Acanthiza uropygialis mellori mathews

description: Acanthiza uropygialis mellori Mathews
 Acanthiza uropygialis mellori Mathews, 1912a: 350 (South Australia, Eyre’s Peninsula).
 Now Acanthiza uropygialis Gould, 1838. See Mayr, 1986b: 439, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 206.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 600898, male?, collected at Murray Flats, 14 [mi?] west of Blanchetown, 34.21S, 139.38E (Times Atlas), South Australia, Australia, on 30 May 1911, by J.B. Cleland (no. 72). From the Mathews Collection (no. 8938) via the Rothschild Collection.
 COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; he only cataloged the single specimen. In addition to Cleland’s label, it bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 450, one of the two left figs., opp. p. 444, text p. 451), where it is confirmed as the type of mellori. However, this type locality is not on the Eyre Peninsula, and I cannot explain the discrepancy. Mathews (1922a: 451) described the female as like the male and from the same locality, but a second specimen from Murray Flats did not come to AMNH.
The coordinates of Murray Flats are given as 34.43S, 149.47E (USBGN, 1957b), but this must be a misprint for 34.43S, 139.47E.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 160, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Examination of altered sympathetic nervous function in obesity and diabetes mellitus using [carbon-11]meta-hydroxyephedrine
Creators: name: Thackeray, James
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Abnormal sympathetic nervous system (SNS) signaling is a synergistic complication of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and congestive heart failure. In vivo biodistribution studies in rats using [11C] meta-hydroxyephedrine ([11C]HED) were performed in obese, lean, type I and type II diabetic animals to delineate deviations in sympathetic nervous integrity at the uptake-1 site (NET-1) as compared to healthy controls. Specific, blockable tracer accumulation was observed in myocardium, lung, brown adipose tissue and pancreas. Obese animals exhibit a time-dependent elevation in uptake-1 specific myocardial [11C]HED retention and time-independent depressed tracer accumulation in brown adipose tissue as compared to lean animals. Type II diabetic rats show a time- and hyperglycaemia-dependent reduction of myocardial tracer uptake and a time- and glycaemia-independent increase in brown adipose tissue uptake-1 specific [11C]HED retention. Positron emission tomography using [11C]HED may prove useful in examining alterations in SNS signaling before, during, and subsequent to therapy for obesity and/or DM.