cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effect of cyclosporin A (CsA) on antioxidant status in the male Wistar rat.
Creators: name: Hodgkinson, Brent C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.

description: Antioxidant utilization potentially is an excellent index of oxidative stress. These studies assessed the effects of two doses of CsA (10 mg/kg/day and 20 mg/kg/day for 14 days) on antioxidant status in numerous tissues, and on the function and structure of testis and kidney in male Wistar rats. Animals were placed on either vitamin E sufficient or deficient diets and injected subcutaneously with either CsA or vehicle. Vitamin E levels in various tissues were measured using the very sensitive technique of gas chomatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to determine the effect of CsA on vitamin E status and the protective extent of vitamin E on CsA toxicity. Oxidative damage was also assessed by measuring levels of GSH and protein sulfliydryl (PSH) content using colorimetric methods. In addition, frozen sections of kidney and testes were subjected to standard Hematoxylin and Eosin staining to examine these tissues for structural alterations following CsA treatment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
LA DIAGNOSI DELLE COMPETENZE LINGUISTICHE IN UN CONTESTO MULTILINGUE: UN PROCESSO CONTINUO CHE FAVORISCE L’INSEGNAMENTO E L’APPRENDIMENTO INDIVIDUALIZZATO
Creators: name: Lengyel, Drorit
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Il presente studio affronta il problema della valutazione diagnostica delle competenze linguistiche in contesti educativi multilingui, con particolare attenzione ai bisogni dei bambini e degli adolescenti immigrati. Vengono brevemente esposti gli obiettivi, le funzioni e i principi della valutazione diagnostica e della valutazione formativa considerate parte integrante di una educazione linguistica continua che prevede un insegnamento-apprendimento individualizzato. Sul piano teorico le procedure della valutazione diagnostica delle competenze linguistiche in contesti multilingui fanno riferimento all’apprendimento delle lingue inteso come attività socio-culturale.     Language diagnostics in multilingual settings with respect to continuous procedures as accompaniment of individualized learning and teaching   This study provides an introduction to language diagnostics in multilingual educational settings, with particular reference to the needs of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds. It summarises the objectives and functions of language diagnostics and the principles that govern diagnostics including formative assessment, considered to be an integral part of continuous language education that emphasises individualised teaching and learning. From a theoretical perspective, diagnostic procedures in multilingual settings treat language learning as a socio-cultural activity.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Emerging Optical Techniques for the Diagnosis of Onychomycosis
Creators: name: Petrokilidou, Chrysoula
name: Gaitanis, Georgios
name: Bassukas, Ioannis D
name: Velegraki, Aristea
name: Guevara, Edgar
name: Vardaki, Martha Z
name: Kourkoumelis, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Onychomycosis is the most prevalent nail infection. Although it is not a life-threatening condition, it impacts the quality of life for many patients and often imposes a challenging diagnostic problem. The causative agents are dermatophytes, yeasts and non-dermatophytic moulds. Accurate and early diagnosis, including the identification of the causative species, is the key factor for rational therapy. Still, early diagnosis is not optimal as the current gold standard for the differentiation of the infectious agents is culture-based approaches. On the other hand, noninvasive optical technologies may enable differential diagnosis of nail pathologies including onychomycosis. When light penetrates and propagates along the nail tissue, it interacts in different ways with the components of either infected or healthy nail segments, providing a wealth of diagnostic information upon escaping the tissue. This review aims to assess alternative optical techniques for the rapid diagnosis of onychomycosis with a potential to monitor therapeutic response or even identify the fungal agent non-invasively and in real time in a clinical setting.
LINGUA E DISCIPLINE SCOLASTICHE. DIMENSIONI LINGUISTICHE NELLA COSTRUZIONE DELLE CONOSCENZE NEI CURRICOLI
Creators: name: Beacco, Jean-Claude
name: Coste, Daniel
name: Van De Ven, Peit-Hein
name: Vollmer, Helmut
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Ogni costruzione delle conoscenze in un contesto scolastico, quali che siano le discipline prese in considerazione, passa attraverso un lavoro linguistico. Il presente contributo mira a proporre un approccio generale che permetta di definire, attraverso categorie descrittive e trasversali, differenti livelli di specificazione di questa dimensione linguistica. Si tratta di descrivere il percorso che, a partire da unità di analisi di usi effettivi, porti alla identificazione di forme,  di attività e di azioni linguistiche appropriate a questi usi. Più specificamente, in questo testo l’accento  viene posto sul rapporto tra conoscenze  e lingua di scolarizzazione. L’approccio proposto si fonda sull’assunto che la costruzione delle conoscenze nelle diverse discipline dipende in larga misura da una migliore padronanza dei discorsi scientifici, artistici e tecnici prodotti nella lingua di scolarizzazione.     Language and school subjects. Linguistic dimensions of knowledge building in school curricula   Whatever the subject, all knowledge building in the school context involves working with language. The purpose of this text is to suggest a general approach enabling different levels of specification of these language dimensions to be classed in transversal descriptive categories. The aim is to describe the process leading from units for analysis of actual uses to the identification of linguistic forms and mechanisms appropriate to those uses. The emphasis here is more specifically on the relationship between knowledge and the language of schooling. The underlying assumption for such an approach, therefore, is that knowledge building in the different subjects depends to a great extent on a better command of the scientific, artistic and technical discourses produced in the language of schooling.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
CONFRONTI SOCIO-CULTURALI TRA ITALIA E CINA: UN PERCORSO ILLUSTRATO
Creators: name: Bonaffini, Gea
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: La lontananza, sia nello spazio che nel tempo, fra la cultura cinese e quella italiana, è un elemento da non sottovalutare dal punto di vista degli sforzi che, nel processo di acquisizione e conoscenza della lingua e cultura italiana, lo studente di madrelingua cinese deve compiere. Il presente articolo propone un confronto tra le culture dei due Paesi; lo scopo è fornire una serie di informazioni su argomenti socio-culturali di vario genere “illustrandone” punti in comune e divergenze affinché lo studente cinese possa, nel percorso di apprendimento della L2, conoscere non soltanto gli aspetti tipici di una lingua intesa come sistema di comunicazione, ma anche e soprattutto gli aspetti extralinguistici e pragmatici che fanno di una lingua un insieme con la cultura, la storia, le usanze e il modo di pensare di un popolo. L’articolo utilizza il disegno illustrativo come mezzo esplicativo dell’analisi contrastiva e costituisce in tal modo una risorsa di studio diretta e incisiva per lo studente sinofono.     A socio-cultural compariosn between italy and china: an illustrated process   Distance, in space and time, between Italian and Chinese culture is not to be underestimated in the process of acquiring and learning Italian language and culture for mother-tongue Chinese students. This article compares the cultures of the two countries.  The purpose is to supply a series of information on socio-cultural topics of various types to “illustrate” the similarities and differences so that Chinese students studying Italian L2 can learn about both the typical aspects of language as a communication system, but above all the extra-linguistic and pragmatic aspects that make a language one with its culture, history, customs and the way people from a give culture think. The article uses illustrations in the comparative analysis and is this a study resource for Chinese-speaking students.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
IMPARARE L’ITALIANO L2 CON LE CANZONI. UN CONTRIBUTO DIDATTICO
Creators: name: Mauroni, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Il presente contributo si inserisce nel filone degli studi che hanno messo in evidenza la potenziale ricchezza della canzone come strumento di facilitazione dell’apprendimento della L2, e come mezzo per l’approccio al testo letterario per studenti di italiano L1, additandone il carattere di attività particolarmente efficace e ‘consonante’ con una prospettiva umanistico-affettiva, comunicativa, nonché socio-costruttivista. In queste pagine sono presentate alcune attività didattiche (pensate ora per gli apprendenti di italiano L2, ora per gli studenti di italiano L1) formulate a partire da alcuni testi del cantautore Claudio Baglioni (Io sono qui, Le vie dei Colori, Bolero, Fammi andar via tratti dall’album Io sono qui, 1995, edizioni CBS). I testi qui didattizzati sono utilizzabili in diverse prospettive: grammaticale, lessicale, retorica, socio-culturale, ecc.; e per diversi livelli di competenza linguistica (L2: A1-C1; L1).     Learning italian l2 through song.  A didactic contribution   This article is part of a series of studies which focus on the potential richness of songs as tools for facilitating L2 learning, as well as being a way to approach literary texts for L1 Italian students, being a particularly effective activity from a humanistic-affective, communicative and socio-constructivist point of view.  A few didactic activities are presented (designed for L2 Italian learners, or for L1 Italian learners) based on songs by Claudio Baglioni (Io sono qui, Le vie dei Colori, Bolero, Fammi andar via from the album Io sono qui, 1995, edizioni CBS).  The texts were adapted for diverse didactic uses: grammatical, lexical, rhetorical, socio-cultural, etc and for different levels of linguistic competence (L2: A1-C1, L1)
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Multiple higher-order stop gaps in infrared polymer photonic crystals
Creators: name: Gu, Min
name: Straub, Martin Hermann
name: Ventura, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Engineering of stop gaps between higher photonic bands provides an alternative to miniaturization of photonic crystals. Femtosecond laser microfabrication of highly correlated void channel polymer microstructures results in photonic crystals with large stop gaps and a multitude of higher-order gaps in the mid- and near-infrared spectral regions. The gap wavelengths obey Bragg's law. Consistent with theory, varying the woodpile structure unit cell allows for tuning the number of higher-order gaps, and transitions from mere resonant Bragg scattering to stop band total reflection are observed.
Additional file 1 of Hospital admissions for non-communicable disease in the UK military and associations with alcohol use and mental health: a data linkage study
Creators: name: Goodwin, L.
name: D. Leightley
name: Z. E. Chui
name: S. Landau
name: P. McCrone
name: R. D. Hayes
name: M. Jones
name: S. Wessely
name: N. T. Fear
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Comparing personnel who were matched and unmatched to English, Scottish or Welsh electronic healthcare records. Supplementary Table 2. Cox proportional hazards models examining the associations with mental health, alcohol misuse, smoking for the top 5 NCDs (restricted to the matched sample).
DIDATTICA PROCESS DRAMA: PRINCIPI DI BASE, ESTETICA E COINVOLGIMENTO
Creators: name: Piazzoli, Erika
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Questo articolo descrive un progetto di ricerca sull’estetica del process drama per l’insegnamento delle lingue straniere. La ricerca si basa sulla metodologia reflective practitioner, rivolta a tre casi di studio analizzati con metodi sia qualitativi che quantitativi. L’articolo costituisce un’introduzione alla ricerca, nonché alla didattica process drama, ai suoi principi di base, l’estetica e i vari tipi di coinvolgimento che può suscitare. In particolare, prende in considerazione il primo caso di studio del progetto, condotto presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, con sedici apprendenti di Italiano L2 e tre tirocinanti in qualità di osservatrici. I risultati preliminari dell’analisi puntano a un’aumentata motivazione comunicativa e consapevolezza interculturale degli apprendenti. I risultati puntano anche a una complessa relazione multilaterale fra vari tipi di coinvolgimento nel laboratorio process drama L2.     Process drama didactics: basic principles, esthetics and involvement   This paper outlines a doctoral research project on the aesthetics of process drama for intercultural language learning. The project was framed by a reflective practitioner paradigm, using multiple case studies with a mixed methods approach. This paper introduces process drama as an approach, discussing its principles, aesthetics and underpinning theory; it focuses on process drama for additional language learning and the kinds of engagement it can generate. It illustrates the first case study, conducted at the University of Milan with sixteen learners of L2 Italian and three observing teachers. Preliminary findings suggest that process drama was beneficial to support motivation to communicate and to foster intercultural awareness in the learners. Findings also suggest a complex, intertwined relationship between types of engagement in the L2 process drama classroom.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Supplementary document for Spatio-temporal performance enhancement in an incoherent holography lattice light-sheet microscope (IHLLS) - 5267805.pdf
Creators: name: Potcoava, Mariana
name: Mann, Christopher
name: Art, Jonathan
name: Alford, Simon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Instrumentation
Optical Technology

description: Supplementary materials
PROCESS DRAMA E L’AFFASCINANTE RUOLO DELL’INSEGNANTE: COME INSEGNARE UNA LINGUA FACENDO TEATRO
Creators: name: Pirola, Chiara
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo verte su un interessante approccio didattico chiamato process drama il quale utilizza tecniche teatrali a fini educativi, in particolare in relazione alla sua efficacia nell’insegnamento di una lingua straniera. L’aspetto sul quale viene posta gran parte dell’attenzione riguarda la figura dell’insegnante nel process drama, il suo ruolo, le sue funzioni ed il suo carattere estremamente innovativo. Le riflessioni personali avanzate sul metodo sono frutto di due esperienze professionali al riguardo, una di osservazione e l’altra di applicazione pratica. Da entrambe le esperienze sono scaturite idee, impressioni e riflessioni personali rispetto all’utilità dell’immedesimazione a scopo didattico; inoltre, è stato possibile accertare buoni risultati in campo linguistico derivanti dall’incontro dell’insegnamento con il mondo del teatro e delle arti drammatiche.     Process Drama and the fascinating role of the teacher: How to teach a language using theater   This article investivages the process drama which uses theater techniques for educational puposes, especially in relation to the effective teaching of a foreign language. The aspect focused on is the figure of the teacher in the process drama approach: on his or her innovative role and function. The personal reflections regarding the method are the fruit of two professional exoeriences, one based on observation and the other a practical experience.  Both of these experiences gave rise to personal ideas, impressions and reflections regarding the usefulness of identification in the learning process.  Good results were reached in terms of learning thanks to the union between teaching and the world of drama.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
Study of Small Hydraulic Diameter Media for Improved Heat Exchanger Compactness
Creators: name: Corbeil, Antoine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: screen
recuperator
compact heat exchanger

description: Solar radiation offers phenomenal potential for energy conversion with energy densities on the order of 1000W/m2 in locations with regularly clear skies. As always, the difficulty lies in finding a solar-electric conversion technology capable of producing electricity at a competitive cost. The SolarCAT (Solar Compressed Air Turbine) system produces electricity by releasing stored compressed air through a series of turbines with solar dish concentrators providing the required heat for efficient conversion to electricity. To minimize impact on capital cost, high recuperator effectiveness targets are sought but unlike typical fuel-fired micro-turbines, raising the recuperator effectiveness of the solar power system yields a benefit in overall system capital cost. Improving efficiency lowers the size and cost of the largest element of the system, namely the dish. In this study potential techniques for achieving a highly compact heat-transfer media were reviewed. Folded fin, packed beds, micro-tubes, lattice frame structures, metal foams, woven textile, and micro-machining techniques were assessed. Textile structures were selected as an appropriate medium to replace the internal folded fin of the SolarCAT recuperator. The relatively long flow (>150mm) path through the proposed screen wafers requires a model for fully-developed forced convective flow between parallel plates. A mathematical model was developed by integrating the results from the work of several authors in the field of textiles and porous media. #100 mesh sintered screen wafers were brazed between two 0.25mm stainless steel sheets and destructively tested to assess their tensile strength. Although iii optimization of the braze parameters was not completed, it was found that many samples survived exposure to internal pressures in excess of 50MPa. This study found that the use of sintered screen wafers to replace the internal folded fin of the SolarCAT recuperator would have advantages over the current design with respect to both overall recuperator effectiveness, size, and cost. Textile structures can be tailored to have wide range of fluid and heat-transfer properties depending on the application. The manufacturing process is relatively simple and could be cost-effective for high-volume production.
Geographies of the Liminal Dolphin: toward an understanding of the contested spaces of Dolphin-Assisted Therapy
Creators: name: Taylor, Clark S
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: dolphin
Dolphin-Assisted Therapy
animal geographies
proxemics
mutualism
animal-assisted therapy
interspecies ethics

description: Dolphin-Assisted Therapy (DAT) is a field of therapies that have been developed to enable humans with disabilities to achieve improved lives. DAT occurs in a range of places and environments, is theorised in various ways, and is both criticised and supported in a polarised discourse. Its various geographic situations and debates make a socio-spatial understanding of DAT problematic. Previous research on animal-human interactions, and in particular in the scholarship of animal geographies, explores similar challenges from the perspectives of 'the contact zone', reimagining zoos and geo-ethics, but have not explored how interspecies work in therapies can be of significant mutual benefit, and in particular in relation to DAT. This research explores the socio-spatial constructions of DAT to reveal how they affect the therapies and human-animal relations more broadly. Using a social-constructionist onto-epistemological paradigm, and drawing on nonrepresentational theory, Actor Network Theory, and Foucault-inspired analysis, three methods of analysis were used to categorise the data: a genealogy of DAT's history and development, a discourse analysis of academic and non-academic texts, and a case study of a DAT facility. Data was gathered by means of interviews, textual analysis, and personal observation. The findings showed that socio-spatial understandings of DAT are problematized by: varied degrees of proximity between humans and dolphins and the different regimes of knowledge produced by them; environments and their effects on relations between humans and dolphins; noninclusive ethical theories; and a lack of theorising about mutual effects.
Challenges for Australian Food Retail Franchise Brands Entering China
Creators: name: Qu, Mengnan
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: international franchising
franchising
Australia
China
international marketing

description: This thesis serves three major purposes: (1) to create new knowledge in the domain of international franchising research; (2) to assist future academic inquiry by providing a preliminary but comprehensive understanding of Australian food retail franchises' expansion in China; and (3) to serve Australian food retail franchises by providing applicable implications for their future success in China. Although both academic and industry research explicate the benefits associated with international franchising brands, currently, there is a lack of research into Australian food franchise expansion into the Chinese market. This PhD research aims to investigate critical factors influencing the success of Australian-based food retail franchises' expansion into the Chinese market.
IMPARARE IN RUOLO: UN’ESPERIENZA DI PROCESS DRAMA PER L’INSEGNAMENTO DELL’ITALIANO AGLI STUDENTI DEL PROGETTO STRANIMEDIA
Creators: name: Pezza, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo tratta di come, all’interno della metodologia process drama applicata all’insegnamento delle lingue straniere, l’immedesimazione nel ruolo drammatico influenzi la produzione linguistica degli studenti. Ad una prima parte teorica in cui il process drama  viene posto a confronto con i più tradizionali esercizi di role play, utilizzati da nell’approccio comunicativo segue una parte in cui si analizza un ciclo di lezioni condotte in base alla metodologia process drama, svoltosi all’Università degli Studi di Milano con una classe di studenti di madrelingua cinese nel mese di giugno 2010. L’analisi dell’esperienza mostra come le attività proposte secondo questa metodologia abbiano spinto gli studenti, durante la lezione, ad immedesimarsi ciascuno in un particolare personaggio e come questo abbia influenzato il coinvolgimento affettivo e comunicativo degli studenti, migliorandone la produzione linguistica e fungendo da stimolo a valorizzare le loro conoscenze pregresse.     Learning according to roles: a process drama exerience for the teaching of italian to students in the stranimedia project   This article discusses how, within the process drama methodology applied to foreign language teaching, the identification through the dramatic role influences the linguistic production of students.  After the first theoretical part where process drama is compared to more traditional roleplay activities used in the communicative approach, there is a second part which analyzes a cycle of lessons conduced using process drama, carried out at the University degli Studi di Milano with a class of Chinese mothertongue students in June 2010. The analysis of the experience shows how the activities proposed uing this method pushed the students to identify with their characters and this in turn influenced the emotional and communicative involvement of the students, improving their linguistic production and acting as a stimulus for giving value to their previous knowledge
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, N° 1 (2011)
The Virtual Village: A Qualitative Exploration of the Evolution of an Online Mothers’ Group
Creators: name: Gleeson, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: pregnancy
support
social media
childbearing
Facebook
mothers group

description: Pregnancy and the transition to motherhood signal a time in women’s lives in which their support needs are increased. Opportunities for childbearing women to access tangible, face-to-face support from traditional support systems are rapidly decreasing, and social isolation is becoming more commonplace. This has occurred secondary to increased geographical mobility, women’s earlier return to employment postpartum and the demise of the extended family. Such conditions are detrimental to women’s wellbeing and lead them to seek support from online forums and communities, primarily for information and advice. While there is a plethora of literature surrounding women’s use of large public mothering forums for short periods, there is an absence of research related to women’s ongoing engagement in private online mothers’ groups.
description: This study aimed to explore the experiences of participation and support for a group of childbearing women who transitioned from a large public forum to a small private online mother’s group over a period of 10 years. The three phases of this study explored women’s interactions within the group, the evolution of the group and women’s experiences of membership within the group, respectively.
Marangoni effect in refractory slag line dissolution
Creators: name: Chen, Y.
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Nightingale, S.
name: Coley, K.
name: Hamed, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Marangoni effect plays a significant role in slag line corrosion of refractories. Previous experimental studies for various refractory/slag systems and mathematical models are reviewed and show that Marangoni flow is important in slag line corrosion under static conditions. Recent work by the authors is presented which also shows significant slag-line corrosion of MgO refractory in Si02-CaO-FeOx-MgO slag. The rate of attack of the MgO was marginally slower in the case of slags containing alumina. A semi-empirical model developed by Hrma based on mass transfer control described reasonably well the observed progression of corrosion with time. Further work is proposed to evaluate this model.
High peak power frequency conversion of visible light into near-infrared laser radiation using a nonlinear lithium niobate crystal.
Creators: name: Parent, Robert Joseph.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Physics, Optics.

description: High peak power 10 ns near-infrared coherent radiation has been obtained from frequency conversion of a dye laser beam in a LiNbO$\sb3$ crystal. The observed tuning range spanned the 0.734 to 2.853 $\mu$m wavelength range. An examination of optical parametric oscillator frequency conversion revealed that the production of the monochromatic laser radiation at the signal wavelength was only obtainable for a limited portion of the accessible pump wavelengths. In contrast, optical parametric amplifier frequency conversion resulted in the production of bichromatic infrared radiation for the entire accessible pump wavelength range. It appears that the crystal pump acceptance bandwidth leading to reduce power conversion can be described by a model in which the signal wave is assumed to have zero bandwidth.
Global and local (GLO-CAL) visions of human habitation for 2100 and their defining cultural paradigms
Creators: name: Daffara, Phillip
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2006
Subjects: urban cultural dynamics
city futures
holistic city development and policy
city visions

description: There is a gap between contemporary urban planning theory and practice. Not only does this schism exist within the urban planning and design field, but also in regard to the social purpose and cultural meaning of the city. This problem persists in an era of increasing global urbanisation where, for the first time in human history, the majority of people will live in cities. The purpose of this research is to recover the key urban question from the milieu of urban literature and discourse, namely, what is the purpose of the city and its cultural meaning in the 21st century? New solutions require new thinking. To answer the above question the current research methodology formulates a futures-orientated, holistic teleology for the city. This teleology integrates multiple levels of reality to bridge the schism between revolutionary urban theory and practice. Consequently, both contemporary urban theory and practice of creating better city futures is examined, challenged, and re-formulated to provide greater clarity of purpose and social action when resolving current and emerging urban challenges. The research combines empirical, interpretative, critical and anticipatory action learning methods and integrates frameworks from three disciplines: (1) City Theory and Urban Planning and Design; (2) Models of Cultural Change including macrohistory; and (3) the field of Futures Studies. This process seeks to reframe the siloed intra-disciplinary urban discourses into an integrated, trans-disciplinary urban model with holistic meta-criteria for city development. In Chapter One, the inquiry begins with mapping the urban problem and its challenges using a futures studies method - the futures triangle of dialectic forces. The application of this method allows mapping of the forces affecting urban futures as drivers of change, resistors to change, and images that attract change. This futures-orientated dialectic establishes the context for the subsequent investigations.
L'exposition et la prévention de la réponse dans la thérapie cognitive comportementale du trouble obsessionnel-compulsif: Utilité et efficacité de la réalité virtuelle
Creators: name: Laforest, Mylène
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: anxiété
trouble obsessionnel-compulsif
réalité virtuelle
cyberpsychologie
traitement cognitif comportemental
exposition

description: Le trouble obsessionnel-compulsif (TOC) se caractérise par la présence de pensées, images ou impulsions qui provoquent une détresse (obsessions) qui est habituellement soulagée par des rituels mentaux ou comportementaux (compulsions). De nos jours, le traitement reconnu comme étant le plus efficace est la thérapie cognitive comportementale (TCC), et plus particulièrement la technique d’exposition et de prévention de la réponse (EX/PR). Dans la plupart des études ainsi que dans les contextes pratiques, les individus souffrant du TOC sont habituellement traités par l’exposition in vivo, c’est-à-dire qu’ils sont exposés à des stimuli contaminés réels. Toutefois, ce traitement comporte des limites. Les études récentes démontrent l’efficacité des environnements virtuels à induire une réaction d’anxiété chez les phobiques ainsi que son potentiel comme outil dans le cadre d’exposition dans le traitement de troubles anxieux (Robillard et al., 2003). Dans un premier temps, une recension des écrits portant sur la possibilité de l’utilisation de cette technologie dans le traitement du TOC est effectuée et la question de la contribution de la réalité virtuelle dans la TCC du TOC est explorée. Dans un deuxième temps, nous examinons l’efficacité d’un environnement virtuel à induire une détresse chez les personnes souffrant d’un TOC (n = 12) à sous-type de contamination en comparant les résultats aux mesures subjectives et objectives à ceux d’un groupe contrôle (n = 20). Les résultats aux ANOVAs à mesures répétées ont démontré une réaction d’anxiété significativement plus élevée chez le groupe souffrant du TOC comparé au groupe contrôle. Dans un troisième temps, nous examinons à l’aide d’un devis à niveaux de bases multiples en fonction des individus l’efficacité d’un traitement cognitif comportemental d’une durée de 12 sessions avec exposition in virtuo quant à la réduction des symptômes chez trois participantes souffrant d’un TOC à sous-type principal de contamination. Des analyses de séries chronologiques ont été menées sur les données et ont révélées une amélioration statistiquement significative chez les participantes. Ces études préparent le terrain pour des études contrôlées effectuées à partir d’un échantillon plus large en plus de montrer le potentiel de la réalité virtuelle dans le traitement de troubles anxieux chroniques et complexes.
Additional file 2 of Hospital admissions for non-communicable disease in the UK military and associations with alcohol use and mental health: a data linkage study
Creators: name: Goodwin, L.
name: D. Leightley
name: Z. E. Chui
name: S. Landau
name: P. McCrone
name: R. D. Hayes
name: M. Jones
name: S. Wessely
name: N. T. Fear
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary file 1. Developing a framework of non-communicable physical diseases.
Do Childhood Excess Weight and Family Food Insecurity Share Common Risk Factors in the Local Environment? An Examination Using a Quebec Birth Cohort
Creators: name: Carter, Megan Ann
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: social epidemiology
food insecurity
childhood obesity
longitudinal study
group-based trajectory modeling
mixed models regression
generalized estimating equations
social capital
residential characteristics

description: Background: Childhood excess weight and family food insecurity are food-system related public health problems that exist in Canada. Since both relate to issues of food accessibility and availability, which have elements of “place”, they may share common risk factors in the local environment that are amenable to intervention. In this area of research, the literature derives mostly from a US context, and there is a dearth of high quality evidence, specifically from longitudinal studies. Objectives: The main objectives of this thesis were to examine the adjusted associations between the place factors: material deprivation, social deprivation, social cohesion, disorder, and living location, with change in child BMI Z-score and with change in family food insecurity status in a Canadian cohort of children. Methods: The Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development was used to meet the main objectives of this thesis. Response data from six collection cycles (4 – 10 years of age) were used in three main analyses. The first analysis examined change in child BMI Z-score as a function of the place factors using mixed models regression. The second analysis examined change in child BMI Z-score as a function of place factors using group-based trajectory modeling. The third and final analysis examined change in family food insecurity status as a function of the place factors using generalized estimating equations. Results: Social deprivation, social cohesion and disorder were strongly and positively associated with family food insecurity, increasing the odds by 45-76%. These place factors, on the other hand, were not consistently associated with child weight status. Material deprivation was not important for either outcome, except for a slight positive association in the mixed models analysis of child weight status. Living location was not important in explaining family food insecurity. On the other hand, it was associated with child weight status in both analyses, but the nature of the relationship is still unclear. Conclusions: Results do not suggest that addressing similar place factors may alleviate both child excess weight and family food insecurity. More high quality longitudinal and experimental studies are needed to clarify relationships between the local environment and child weight status and family food insecurity.
"INFORMATIKA VA AXBOROT TEXNOLOGIYALARI" FANINI O'QITISH SAMARADORLIGINI OSHIRISHDA WEB-TEXNOLOGIYALARNING O'RNI
Creators: name: Kulidjanova, Yulduzxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada zamonaviy ta'limning dolzarb muammolaridan bo’lgan web texnologiyalarning ta’lim tizimidagi o’rni  masalasi tadqiq etilgan. Unda web texnologiya turlari va uning ta’lim sifat va samaradorligini oshirishdagi  o’rni va qo’llanilishidagi  usul va vositalar, zamonaviy ta'lim tizimini axborotlashtirish, uning ta'lim  imkoniyatlarini kengaytirishdagi o'rni, ayni damda dunyoni qamrab olayotgan raqamli ta'lim muhitini tashkil etish natijasida yuzaga keladigan muammolar, kiber tahdidlar hamda ularni bartaraf etishga qaratilgan yechimlar haqida so'z boradi.
Supplementary document for Spatio-temporal performance enhancement in an incoherent holography lattice light-sheet microscope (IHLLS) - 5267805.pdf
Creators: name: Potcoava, Mariana
name: Mann, Christopher
name: Art, Jonathan
name: Alford, Simon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomedical Instrumentation
Optical Technology

description: Supplementary materials
Synthesis, Kinetics and Mechanisms of Designer and Natural Product Antioxidants: From Solution to Cells
Creators: name: Li, Bo
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: radical-trapping antioxidant
lipid peroxidation
kinetics
mechanism
method

description: Lipid peroxidation has been implicated in the onset and progression of many degenerative diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Accordingly, for more than 50 years, considerable effort has been devoted to the design of synthetic compounds or the discovery of natural products that can slow lipid peroxidation. Despite the enormous investments made to date, no clear antioxidant strategies have emerged for the treatment and/or prevention of degenerative disease. We argue that this is because of a lack of fundamental understanding of the chemical reactivity of these compounds in relevant contexts. Herein, we describe studies of our optimized synthetic radical-trapping antioxidant (RTA) – the tetrahydronaphthyridinols (THNs). We first present the synthesis of a series of THN analogs of α-tocopherol (Nature’s premier lipid-soluble radical-trapping antioxidant) with varying sidechain substitution and then demonstrate how systematic changes in the lipophilicity of these potent antioxidants impact their peroxyl radical-trapping activities in lipid bilayers and mammalian cell culture. Their regenerability by water-soluble reductants in lipid bilayers, binding to human tocopherol transport protein (hTTP), and cytotoxicity were also evaluated to provide insight on whether this type of antioxidant can be potentially pushed toward animal studies. We also describe analogous studies of natural products such as the garlic-derived thiosulfinate allicin and the grape-derived polyphenol resveratrol. These compounds have attracted significant attention in the past 20 years due to their purported health benefits, which are often ascribed to their purported radical-trapping activities. To date, systematic studies on their radical-trapping activities in solution, lipid bilayers and mammalian cells have been lacking. We have determined that allicin and petivericin, while effective RTAs in solution, are not so in lipid bilayers. Moreover, the compounds are not antioxidants in cell culture, but instead kill the cells. Similarly, resveratrol and its dimers pallidol and quadrangularin A, are found to be inefficient RTAs in lipid bilayers. Our studies to date rather suggest that they autoxidize readily to produce hydrogen peroxide, which may induce expression of phase 2 antioxidant enzymes, affording cytoprotection. Our insights underscore the need for systematic studies of antioxidant activity in multiple contexts.
Efficiency Enhancement of Pico-cell Base Station Power Amplifier MMIC in GaN HFET Technology Using the Doherty Technique
Creators: name: Seneviratne, Sashieka
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Power Amplifier
Doherty
MMIC
GaN

description: With the growth of smart phones, the demand for more broadband, data centric technologies are being driven higher. As mobile operators worldwide plan and deploy 4th generation (4G) networks such as LTE to support the relentless growth in mobile data demand, the need for strategically positioned pico-sized cellular base stations known as ‘pico-cells’ are gaining traction. In addition to having to design a transceiver in a much compact footprint, pico-cells must still face the technical challenges presented by the new 4G systems, such as reduced power consumptions and linear amplification of the signals. The RF power amplifier (PA) that amplifies the output signals of 4G pico-cell systems face challenges to minimize size, achieve high average efficiencies and broader bandwidths while maintaining linearity and operating at higher frequencies. 4G standards as LTE use non-constant envelope modulation techniques with high peak to average ratios. Power amplifiers implemented in such applications are forced to operate at a backed off region from saturation. Therefore, in order to reduce power consumption, a design of a high efficiency PA that can maintain the efficiency for a wider range of radio frequency signals is required. The primary focus of this thesis is to enhance the efficiency of a compact RF amplifier suitable for a 4G pico-cell base station. For this aim, an integrated two way Doherty amplifier design in a compact 10mm x 11.5mm monolithic microwave integrated circuit using GaN device technology is presented. Using non-linear GaN HFETs models, the design achieves high effi-ciencies of over 50% at both back-off and peak power regions without compromising on the stringent linearity requirements of 4G LTE standards. This demonstrates a 17% increase in power added efficiency at 6 dB back off from peak power compared to conventional Class AB amplifier performance. Performance optimization techniques to select between high efficiency and high linearity operation are also presented. Overall, this thesis demonstrates the feasibility of an integrated HFET Doherty amplifier for LTE band 7 which entails the frequencies from 2.62-2.69GHz. The realization of the layout and various issues related to the PA design is discussed and attempted to be solved.
Medea theory
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To pursue poststructuralism to its limit is not to achieve closure, to culminate or come to the end of something. Rather, it is to acknowledge the force of the particulate; to no longer promise wholes, but to, rather, yield to the dissemination of bits. When Medea scatters the bits and pieces of her brother’s body on the Black Sea as a decoy to aid her escape with Jason and the Golden Fleece, she is the fugitive presence of deconstruction. Her means of evasion casts her as the emblem of a theory of medeation in which there is arrival at a destination, but at a price: the inevitability of contingency and entropy. Medea will do whatever is necessary to secure escape or advancement. She represents the extremes of promiscuous, miscreant behaviour that would befall writing in the Socratic theory of media. Towards the end of the play Medea appears to Jason in a chariot drawn by dragons with the bodies of her dead children. Having murdered them in a symbolic act of vengeance against her husband, she stands guilty of infanticide: the vulnerable child killed by its own parent. Long before Gerald Graff’s identification of the postmodern moment in literature, here was writing against itself.
Laura Lives on Cloud Nine: a reassertion of the validity of women and mental disorder in fiction
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Kate
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: creative writing
mental disorder
women and mental disorder
mental illness
hysteria
stigma
Shirley Jackson
the monstrous feminine
horror fiction
horror cinema
gothic fiction
abjection
the double
doppelganger
feminism

description: This Doctorate of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) reasserts the validity of women's mental disorder in fiction by addressing the question: 'How can creative writing practice simultaneously address and deconstruct stigma towards women with mental disorder?' Part I of this thesis comprises a creative artefact: an original novel entitled Laura Lives on Cloud Nine. Part II is an exegesis: For the Spectre of Shirley J. Laura Lives on Cloud Nine is an approximately 60,000-word novel. It is a bildungsroman told from the perspective of nineteen-year-old Alberta, who recalls an intense friendship with a girl named Laura who has since disappeared from her life. Alberta recounts the stigma she experienced with the burgeoning nature of her own mental disorder and a failure to identify a similar suffering in her friend. For the Spectre of Shirley J is an approximately 30,000-word exegetical dialogue between the original artefact, Laura Lives on Cloud Nine and my research into mental disorder in women. Multidisciplinary, research-led analyses are interspersed with letters to the late author Shirley Jackson. The latter function as epistolary literature reviews, exploring the prominent texts that informed the writing of Laura Lives on Cloud Nine. These letters to Jackson allow me to engage in an imaginary dialogue with the author, revealing a practice-led methodology that expounds the creative obstacles I face regarding my own mental health.
Additional file 3 of Retained primary teeth in STAT3 hyper-IgE syndrome: early intervention in childhood is essential
Creators: name: Meixner, Iris
name: Hagl, Beate
name: Kröner, Carolin I.
name: Spielberger, Benedikt D.
name: Paschos, Ekaterini
name: Dückers, Gregor
name: Niehues, Tim
name: Hesse, Ronny
name: Renner, Ellen D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 3. Dental findings in periapical radiographs.
Supplementary document for A study of some transform-based phase retrieval techniques from a single off-axis interferogram - 5268157.pdf
Creators: name: T, Bagath Chandraprasad
name: V, Pramitha
name: Bhattacharya, Shanti
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document provides the details of the simulation steps presented in the main manuscript. Also, this document gives extra results obtained for added noise for the methods under study.