cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Metrics for evaluating translation memory software
Creators: name: Gow, Francie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.
subject: Computer Science.

description: Translation memory (TM) tools help human translators recycle portions of their previous work by storing previously translated material. In conventional TM tools, the aligned texts are divided into sentence-level source and target translation units for storage in the database. Each sentence of a new source text is compared with the units stored in the database, and the tool proposes matches that are exact or similar. This is referred to as a sentence-based approach to search and retrieval. A different and more recently developed approach involves storing full source- and target-text pairs (known as bitexts) in the database and identifying identical character strings of any length. This is referred to as a character-string-within-a-bitext (CSB)-based approach to search and retrieval. Because the second approach is more recent, traditional techniques for evaluating TM tools do not take into account this fundamental difference. Therefore, the goal of this thesis is to design and develop a new evaluation methodology that can be used to compare the two approaches to search and retrieval fairly and systematically, first by defining "usefulness" as a measurable attribute, then by measuring the usefulness of the output of each approach in an identical translation context. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Nuovi strumenti di pianificazione comunale per la città storica
New urban planning tools for the historic city
Creators: name: Evangelisti, Francesco; Comune Di Bologna
name: Manaresi, Chiara; Comune Di Bologna
name: Legnani, Federica; Comune Di Bologna
name: Ginocchini, Giovanni; Comune Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Dalla metà degli anni ‘60 del secolo scorso l’Amministrazione ha affrontato il tema della rigenerazione del centro storico attraverso piani urbanistici e altri programmi (il “Piano del centro storico” del 1969, un piano di edilizia sociale nel centro storico adottato nel 1973, il “Piano d’intervento pubblico per la riorganizzazione e ristrutturazione dei servizi” del 1973-75) che nel loro insieme hanno realizzato significativi successi per quanto riguarda il risanamento igienico, strutturale e ambientale degli edifici, mentre hanno raggiunto solo parzialmente gli obiettivi di carattere funzionale, sociale e tipologico. Nel 1989 la Variante generale al Piano Regolatore Generale, ha confermato sostanzialmente le scelte di tutela del centro storico contenute nella precedente pianificazione, riservando attenzione a tutti gli edifici, estendendo la tutela dei singoli manufatti anche fuori dalle vecchie mura. Nel 2000 la Regione Emilia-Romagna emana la nuova legge sul governo del territorio, che riforma in maniera significativa i modi di pianificare, considerando le nuove esigenze di sostenibilità e la nuova stagione dello sviluppo urbano, più orientato alla riqualificazione dell’esistente che alla realizzazione di nuove addizioni urbane. Tra il 2005 e il 2009 la città di Bologna progetta e approva i nuovi strumenti di pianificazione e regolazione urbanistica comunale: il Piano Strutturale Comunale (approvato nel 2008), il Regolamento Urbanistico Edilizio e il Piano Operativo Comunale (approvati nel 2009).
Additional file 1 of Nurses’ burden caused by sleep disturbances of nursing home residents with dementia: multicenter cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Wilfling, Denise
name: Dichter, Martin N.
name: Trutschel, Diana
name: Köpke, Sascha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Supplementary document for Daylight window based on the nano-disorder inspired by Morpho butterflies’ coloration - 5154299.pdf
Creators: name: Saito, Akira
name: Yamashita, Kazuma
name: Shibuya, takuto
name: Kuwahara, Yuji
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplement 1
TEA como sintomatología principal en Síndromes genéticos
Creators: name: Usuna Sosa,, Estefania Paula
name: Liaño Arriola, Cristina
name: Barana, Jose
name: Rodrigo Gutierrez, Ana Cristina
name: Ruiz Sanz, Francisco Carlos
name: Emeterio Delgado, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Por medio de este póster realizaremos una pequeña revisión de diferentes Sdr Genéticos atendidos en nuestro servicio de Psiquiatría Infanto Juvenil en los que el TEA representa la sintomatología central de los mismos; razón por la cual resulta de interés su conocimiento. Los síndromes valorados serán: Sdr. GEN CDK-13, Sdr. de microdeleción Loci 20Q13.33, Sdr. HECW2
Supplementary document for Daylight window based on the nano-disorder inspired by Morpho butterflies’ coloration - 5154299.pdf
Creators: name: Saito, Akira
name: Yamashita, Kazuma
name: Shibuya, takuto
name: Kuwahara, Yuji
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplement 1
Holi colours contain PM10 and can induce pro-inflammatory responses
Creators: name: Bach, Sabine
name: Bossmann, Katrin
name: Heinze, Rita
name: Höflich, Conny
name: Neumann, Anett
name: Straff, Wolfgang
name: Süring, Katrin
name: Valtanen, Kerttu
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: PM10

description: Background
At Holi festivals, originally celebrated in India but more recently all over the world, people throw coloured powder (Holi powder, Holi colour, Gulal powder) at each other. Adverse health effects, i.e. skin and ocular irritations as well as respiratory problems may be the consequences. The aim of this study was to uncover some of the underlying mechanisms.
Methods
We analysed four different Holi colours regarding particle size using an Electric field cell counting system. In addition, we incubated native human cells with different Holi colours and determined their potential to induce a pro-inflammatory response by quantifying the resulting cytokine production by means of ELISA (Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay) and the resulting leukocyte oxidative burst by flow cytometric analysis. Moreover, we performed the XTT (2,3-Bis-(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium-5-carboxanilide) and Propidium iodide cytotoxicity tests and we measured the endotoxin content of the Holi colour samples by means of the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test (LAL test).
Results
We show here that all tested Holi colours consist to more than 40 % of particles with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 10 ìm, so called PM10 particles (PM, particulate matter). Two of the analysed Holi powders contained even more than 75 % of PM10 particles.
Furthermore we demonstrate in cell culture experiments that Holi colours can induce the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-á(Tumor necrosis factor-á), IL-6 (Interleukine-6) and IL-1â(Interleukine-1â). Three out of the four analysed colours induced a significantly higher cytokine response in human PBMCs (Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells) and whole blood than corn starch, which is often used as carrier substance for Holi colours. Moreover we show that corn starch and two Holi colours contain endotoxin and that certain Holi colours display concentration dependent cytotoxic effects in higher concentration. Furthermore we reveal that in principle Holi colours and corn starch are able to generate an oxidative burst in human granulocytes and monocytes. In Holi colour 1 we detected a fungal contamination.
Conclusions
Some of the observed unwanted health effects of Holi colours might be explained by the high content of PM10 particles in conjunction with the possible induction of a pro-inflammatory response and an oxidative leukocyte burst.
Quelle: http://occup-med.biomedcentral.com
Observations on the development and code of the pre-elegiac paraklausithuron.
Creators: name: Cummings, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Literature, Classical.

description: This dissertation surveys and analyzes the development of the Greek and Latin paraklausithuron (paraclausithyron) from its earliest origins through to Horace, but omits detailed discussion of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. It examines not only true paraklausithura, the actual songs or speeches of excluded lovers at their beloveds' doors, but also paraklausithuric situations, where reference is made to a paraklausithuron or to a situation in which a paraklausithuron can easily be presumed to have been sung or said. The survey occupies Chapters 2 and 3 and shows that the paraklausithuron was more popular and pervasive than has been previously recognized. In Chapter 2, paraklausithuric passages are identified in early Greek lyric; it is suggested that Gnesippus was a possible major early influence on the development of the literary paraklausithuron; paraklausithuric parodies are found as early as Aristophanes. Other authors discussed in depth include Euripides and Theocritus. Chapter 3 surveys the paraklausithuron from Plautus through Lucretius, Catullus, and Horace. Throughout, the occurrence and manipulation of topoi are noted and discussed briefly. For the more important topoi, cross-listings are given for occurrences in other paraklausithura. Chapter 1 analyses and defines what is meant by the word "paraklausithuron", supports its utility against the word "komos", states this paper's definitions of "genre" and "topoi", and discusses the connection between the pasaklausithuron and the komos. The survey of the genre before Latin elegy is followed in Chapter 4 by an analysis of several of the most prominent aspects of the relationship between paraklausithura before and in Latin elegy. The identity and status of the paraklausithuric beloved is discussed first, followed by some of the possible religious implications of Greek versus Roman paraklausithura. Finally, by using primary sources from other cultures of antiquity, it is shown that the continued popularity of the paraklausithuron is due to the paraklausithuric situation's essential grounding in reality. Appendix 1 provides a listing, with texts, of paraklausithuric passages after Latin elegy. Appendix 2 contains a word list extracted from the texts presented in Chapters 2 and 3, and Appendix 1.
Additional file 1 of A qualitative study reporting maternal perceptions of the importance of play for healthy growth and development in the first two years of life
Creators: name: Prioreschi, Alessandra
name: Wrottesley, Stephanie Victoria
name: Wiedaad Slemming
name: Cohen, Emmanuel
name: Norris, Shane Anthony
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Exploratory guide for focus group discussions.
Alcune riflessioni sulle trasformazioni in atto nella città storica
Considerations on urban transformation of the historic city
Creators: name: Piccinini, Mario; Istituto Nazionale Di Urbanistica
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Quali sono le questioni chiave, le criticità che interessano la città storica di Bologna? Cosa succede, cosa cambia nella città storica? Una città nota nel mondo per la valorizzazione del suo centro storico e per le politiche sociali rivolte ai suoi abitanti. Una prima considerazione riguarda il superamento del concetto di centro storico e l’allargamento alla città storica che comprende anche la città consolidata otto-novecentesca rappresentata dal Quartiere della Bolognina e dalla città giardino pedecollinare. Questo cambiamento dello sguardo dell’urbanistica sulla città storica - dal centro storico alla città storica - ha comportato un criterio di dilatazione della storicità. Sono infatti da comprendere nella città storica anche le testimonianze architettoniche del moderno che hanno contribuito alla trasformazione urbana.
More Cunning Than Folk: An Analysis of Francis Barrett's 'The Magus' as Indicative of a Transitional Period in English Magic
Creators: name: Priddle, Robert
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: History
Occultism
Francis Barrett
Western Esotericism
Magic
Eighteenth Century
England

description: This thesis seeks to define how Francis Barrett’s The Magus, Or Celestial Intelligencer is indicative of a transitional period (1800–1830) of English Magic. The intention and transmission of Barrett’s The Magus is linked to the revival of occultism and its use as a textbook for occult philosophy. This thesis provides a historical background preceding this revival. The aim of the thesis is to establish Barrett’s text as a hybrid interpretation of Renaissance magic for a modern audience. It is primarily by this hybridization that a series of feedback loops would begin to create the foundation for modern occultism. This study utilizes a careful study of primary sources, including a systematic examination of The Magus within its intellectual and social contexts.
The Role of Farnesyltransferase β-subunit in Neuronal Polarity in Caenorhabditis Elegans
Creators: name: Carr, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: fntb-1
prkl-1
farnesyltransferase
prickle
Planar Cell Polarity
neuronal polarity
C. elegans

description: Little is known about the molecular components and interactions of the planar cell polarity pathway that regulate neuronal polarity. This study uses a prkl-1 induced backwards locomotion defect as an array to perform a prkl-1 suppressor screen in C. elegans looking for new components of the planar cell polarity pathway involved in the neuronal polarization of VC4 and VC5. The screen discovered twelve new alleles of vang-1, one new allele of fntb-1 and five new mutations in unknown polarity genes. fntb-1 encodes for the worm ortholog of Farnesyltransferase β-subunit and is important for neuronal polarization. Acting cell and non-cell autonomously, fntb-1 regulates the function and localization of prkl-1 through the recognition of a CAAX motif. Therefore, fntb-1 modifies prkl-1 to regulate the neuronal polarity of VC4 and VC5.
Determining a Threshold to Delimit the Amazonian Forests from the Tree Canopy Cover 2000 GFC Data
Creators: name: Gasparini, Kaio Allan Cruz
name: Silva Junior, Celso Henrique Leite
name: Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir
name: Arai, Egidio
name: Aragão, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira Cruz E
name: Silva, Carlos Alberto
name: Marshall, Peter Lawrence, 1953-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Open global forest cover data can be a critical component for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) policies. In this work, we determine the best threshold, compatible with the official Brazilian dataset, for establishing a forest mask cover within the Amazon basin for the year 2000 using the Tree Canopy Cover 2000 GFC product. We compared forest cover maps produced using several thresholds (10%, 30%, 50%, 80%, 85%, 90%, and 95%) with a forest cover map for the same year from the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Project (PRODES) data, produced by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). We also compared the forest cover classifications indicated by each of these maps to 2550 independently assessed Landsat pixels for the year 2000, providing an accuracy assessment for each of these map products. We found that thresholds of 80% and 85% best matched with the PRODES data. Consequently, we recommend using an 80% threshold for the Tree Canopy Cover 2000 data for assessing forest cover in the Amazon basin.
An exploration of the components of relational bonds to an arts festival brand
Creators: name: Harrison, Paul
name: Shaw, Robin N.
name: McDonald, Heath
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research investigates the nature of the bonds that consumers form with a brand that provides highly uncertain outcomes, and is only available intermittently. The research model draws upon elements of Keller's (2001) conceptualisation of brand resonance, and extends McAlexander, Kim, and Roberts' (2003), and Muniz and O'Guinn's (2001) brand community construct, testing these in an atypical service environment. Qualitative research suggested the need for a broader view of the bond formed in these circumstances, specifically one comprising measures of anticipation of usage, social attraction, commitment, loyalty, and trust. This paper reports on analysis undertaken to develop such a construct, which has been labelled 'brand affinity'. Tests for discriminant validity suggest that the brand affinity construct is a distinct construct that can be used to measure consumer attitudes toward a highly uncertain, intermittently available product.
Additional file 2 of Call order within vocal sequences of meerkats contains temporary contextual and individual information
Creators: name: Rauber, Ramona
name: Kranstauber, Bart
name: Manser, Marta B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Five 30 call type long cut-outs of examples sequences produced by five different sentinels (A-E).
Disordine e degrado
Disorder and decay
Creators: name: Orlandi, Piero; Istituto Per I Beni Artistici, Culturali E Naturali Della Regione Emilia-Romagna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: I problemi attuali della vivibilità e sostenibilità del centro antico sono in parte gli stessi del 1969, del piano per il centro storico firmato Cervellati, in parte nuovi: le scritte, i cassonetti, la sosta selvaggia, i motorini ovunque, le pavimentazioni rovinate dei portici, le arenarie semidistrutte, gli schiamazzi notturni, la sporcizia per terra, la mancanza di bagni pubblici, i dehors, la mancanza di parcheggi interrati, la scarsa cura del verde, la mancanza di arte pubblica, la mancanza di piste ciclabili, la interminabile discussione sul civis e la metropolitana, una stazione deprimente, l’architettura contemporanea sostituita da edifici mimetici, la pubblicità invasiva.
Finding values for a cultural renaissance
La ricerca di valori per una rinascita culturale
Creators: name: Gianotti, Anna; Istituto Per I Beni Artistici, Culturali E Naturali Della Regione Emilia-Romagna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Negli ultimi trenta anni Bologna ha perso un quarto dei suoi cittadini, perlopiù artigiani, pensionati e famiglie a basso reddito. Per i primi ci sono pesanti restrizioni nell’utilizzo dei mezzi di trasporto e le politiche di accesso al centro si sono dimostrate sempre più miopi per chi deve lavorare; i “meno abbienti” se ne sono dovuti andare perché i valori immobiliari sono diventati proibitivi per una politica di restauro e di conservazione di quell’area definita “centro storico” che ha favorito un aumento artificioso dei valori immobiliari. Tutti e due sono la conseguenza di una politica parossistica di valorizzazione degli edifici entro le mura. Per queste categorie infine - e forse anche per altre - l’irragionevole aumento dei costi degli spazi urbani è stata dunque la logica conseguenza – probabilmente non voluta ma implicita - dell’eliminazione delle attività umane a favore della conservazione della facciata della città che l’ha trasformata via via in un luogo privo di quella cultura “vera” che derivava dai traffici, dai commerci, dal lavoro degli artigiani.
Additional file 3 of Call order within vocal sequences of meerkats contains temporary contextual and individual information
Creators: name: Rauber, Ramona
name: Kranstauber, Bart
name: Manser, Marta B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Spectrogram showing a 15 second cut-out of an example sequence consisting of single note and double note calls with silence intervals between them.
An architecture for recording and playback of MPEG4-based collaborative virtual environments.
Creators: name: Hosseini, Mojtaba.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: A collaborative virtual environment provides the means for different parties to interact with one another and the virtual environment in which they preside and share its space, despite each participant being at a geographically distant location. The development of such an application delves into many areas of research and requires the integration of various technologies some of which are content compression, efficient updating, timely, reliable and efficient transport of content, event synchronization and many more. MPEG4 is an international standard that deals with some of these issues by putting forward a binary specification of scenes, the updates needed to change the scene, multiplexing natural and synthetic content, synchronization of events and other features that may be used in developing collaborative virtual environments. This thesis is extending a collaborative framework based on MPEG4 to allow for recording and playback of entire sessions carried out in a collaborative virtual environment and also presents the implementation of an application utilizing such a framework. The work involves the development of a framework supporting MPEG4's Synchronization Layer (SL) to capture events and their temporal characteristics, storing the information according to the standard specification of MPEG4, as well as providing the capability to of playing back the events as they had originally unfolded. The collaborative framework that will be extended is COSMOS (Collaborative System framework based on MPEG4 Objects and Streams) which provides a basic framework for the development of collaborative virtual environments. Before extending this framework for recording and playback capabilities, there is a need to complement it with additional interaction capabilities so as to have a meaningful recording session. Such additions include new human-computer interfaces, the ability to manipulate arbitrary objects, adding new objects to the scene, and loading and triggering and sharing predefined animation.
Morphology, mobility and urban aesthetics
Morfologia, mobilità ed estetica urbana
Creators: name: Pezzoli, Stefano; Istituto Per I Beni Artistici, Culturali E Naturali Della Regione Emilia-Romagna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Per cogliere i problemi del centro storico di Bologna bisogna comprendere e avere ben presente un fatto strutturale ineludibile: la città è nata e cresciuta al piede delle colline, da subito fortemente acclivi e non suscettibili di un transito agevole. Questo per dire che Bologna è priva del tutto di una possibilità di percorso circolare attorno al nucleo storico (salvo ipotesi di tunnel) con precise conseguenze sul traffico veicolare. Ricordo che nel 1988 la questione urbana di Bologna e il piano del traffico vennero affidate dall’amministrazione comunale all’urbanista tedesco professor Bernard Winkler, sostenendo un’affinità con Monaco di Baviera, cosa del tutto inesatta sia sotto il profilo dimensionale che strutturale (la viabilità della città bavarese è assai facilitata dall’ampiezza delle strade), ma soprattutto per l’impossibilità per Bologna di una compiuta radialità, per la situazione che costringe i carichi di traffico da est a ovest a muoversi obbligatoriamente sui quadranti settentrionali.
Historical center and present city
Centro storico e città attuale
Creators: name: Monti, Carlo; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: La nostra regione nel passato è stata considerata un vero e proprio laboratorio per l’intervento nei centri storici, dall’esperienza pilota del Piano PEEP di Bologna alla successiva applicazione generalizzata della “disciplina particolareggiata” introdotta dalla legge regionale del 1978, che ha consentito l’intervento diffuso dei privati in un quadro di regole fissato dagli strumenti urbanistici comunali. Da un punto di vista fisico il recupero è certamente riuscito: l’esperienza bolognese ed emiliano-romagnola è stata replicata in varie parti d’Italia e studiata in tanti paesi europei; in complesso nel nostro paese i centri storici sono stati salvati dal degrado. Sostanzialmente, quindi, il recupero fisico delle pietre ha avuto successo, ma non sempre è stato accompagnato da un’organica riqualificazione di interi tessuti antichi, e, soprattutto, non è stato inserito in una prospettiva di sviluppo delle città attuali.
MPEC 2024-N136 : 2024 LY4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Impact of descriptive versus evaluative constructive feedback on public speakers' performance self-efficacy.
Creators: name: Donohue, John J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Speech Communication.

description: The main study consisted of a randomized treatment comparison group design with pre- and posttest intervals. The purpose was to assess the differential impact of two different forms of constructive feedback---descriptive and evaluative---on participants' performance self-efficacy within a growth-oriented appraisal context. It was hypothesized that descriptive constructive feedback would lead to higher observed growth in performance self-efficacy. The results of the main study revealed that although all participants showed evidence of significant improvement from having participated in the study, there was no differential effect between participants in different treatment conditions. Post hoc analysis of qualitative data revealed contamination between the treatment conditions suggesting that the main effect for feedback condition was confounded. The results are discussed in terms of the methodological challenges facing researchers interested in testing the hypothesis that descriptive feedback is superior to evaluative feedback in enhancing performance self-efficacy. The failure of the randomized treatment group design to yield valid results is framed as a basis for considering developing methodologies in this area.
Churches in Bologna
Bologna delle chiese
Creators: name: Praderio, Giorgio; Università Di Bologna
name: Bartolomei, Luigi; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: E’ opportuno riconoscere, quando già non sia evidente, che la gran parte del patrimonio testimoniale architettonico ed artistico che il centro storico della nostra città può vantare, è costituito dalle chiese e dagli edifici ecclesiali, convenutali e religiosi. Bologna, tuttavia, è nata tardi alla pianificazione del turismo, e pare altrettanto restia ad aprirsi ad una gestione programmatica del territorio per la promozione di turismi culturali e consapevoli fuori dagli itinerari comuni, ormai asseverati storicamente. Si ha quasi l’impressione che si preferiscano lasciare tesori assoluti dell’arte quasi nascosti, patrimonio di pochi, dei soli iniziati che conoscono le vie d’accesso, le posizioni degli interruttori, gli eventuali custodi o gli orari di loro reperibilità: il patrimonio segreto della città si rivela così solo a chi ne possieda la combinazione, enfatizzando il raggiungimento di una meta quasi fosse una scoperta, come agli albori del “viaggio in Italia”.
Social housing and participatory policies
Edilizia sociale e politiche partecipative
Creators: name: Morpurgo, Andrea; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2010

description: La visibilità nazionale ed internazionale del modello urbanistico bolognese è ancora oggi riconducibile al Piano di Edilizia Economica e Popolare per il centro storico, che risale alla fine degli anni ’60, sebbene le condizioni strutturali dell’assetto urbano siano profondamente mutate. A partire dagli anni ’90, si registra la progressiva perdita di credibilità del modello della “città chiusa”, premessa alle politiche della casa per il centro storico, rispetto alle problematiche di “area vasta”. L’amministrazione locale ha progressivamente ridotto la propria responsabilità alla promozione e gestione della rete infrastrutturale, facendo perdere a Bologna la consapevolezza del proprio rapporto tra centro storico e dimensione metropolitana. Ripensare il ruolo delle espansioni urbane e del tessuto consolidato tra centro e periferia assume pertanto un valore strategico, ancor più con la crescente preoccupazione per il consumo di suolo indotta dai fenomeni di dispersione insediativi.
Additional file 1 of Call order within vocal sequences of meerkats contains temporary contextual and individual information
Creators: name: Rauber, Ramona
name: Kranstauber, Bart
name: Manser, Marta B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The different diagonals of the constructed transition matrix, including call transitions between single note (sn), double note (dn), triple note (tn), multiple note (mn), dir-drr (didr), wheek (wh) and alarm calls (al). The central, zero diagonal (dark grey) represents the repetitions of the same call type, first order diagonal (light grey) indicate call transitions change one step up or down in the expected gradation hierarchy and so forth. In a graded system, the diagonals closer to the zero-diagonal are expected to be overrepresented, while the diagonals further away are expected to occur less frequently than by chance.
Space and mentality: a new frontier for the History of Architecture?
Spazio e mentalità: nuove frontiere per la storia dell’architettura?
Creators: name: Bettazzi, Maria Beatrice; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR18 - History of Architecture
ICAR18 - Storia dell'architettura

description: The PhD research has underlined cross-disciplinary topics that help to analyze the History of architecture with more open view, new for the Italian discipline. In particular I want to concentrate my essay on mental and cultural structures with which people elaborate the space that perceive, plan and live.The study case concerns Italian pictorial cycles in which the city is the main subject. These are often situated in buildings that were the seat of an authority, from XVI century to XVIII. The relationship between space possession, necessity to drawing its quantity and quality, and way to ostentation these artistic products, shows the particular ‘sentiment’ towards space in modern Italy.
description: La ricerca condotta per la tesi di dottorato ha evidenziato possibili linee di studio interdisciplinari che consentono di analizzare la storia dell’architettura con uno sguardo più ampio rispetto a quanto viene proposto oggi in Italia. In modo particolare lo studio si appunta sulle strutture mentali, cognitive e culturali con cui l’uomo elabora lo spazio che percepisce, progetta e abita. Il caso analizzato concerne gli affreschi di argomento urbano che a partire dalla metà del XVI secolo cominciano a decorare con una certa pervasività alcuni ambienti (e sempre quelli) degli edifici sede di potere. La relazione fra possesso dello spazio, necessità di graficizzarne quantità e qualità e il grado di ostentazione di tali prodotti artistici rivela il particolare "sentimento" dello spazio nell’Italia di ancien régime.
Supplementary document for Laser paintbrush as a new tool of modern art - 5154972.pdf
Creators: name: Veiko, Vadim
name: Andreeva, Yaroslava
name: Van Luong, Cuong
name: Lutoshina, Daria
name: Polyakov, Dmitry
name: Sinev, Dmitrii
name: Mikhailovskii, Vladimir
name: Kolobov, Yury
name: Odintsova, Galina
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Lasers and Quantum Electronics
Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplementary information for the manuscript
What Happened to the Phycobilisome?
Creators: name: Green, Beverley R.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The phycobilisome (PBS) is the major light-harvesting complex of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, red algae, and glaucophyte algae. In spite of the fact that it is very well structured to absorb light and transfer it efficiently to photosynthetic reaction centers, it has been completely lost in the green algae and plants. It is difficult to see how selection alone could account for such a major loss. An alternative scenario takes into account the role of chance, enabled by (contingent on) the evolution of an alternative antenna system early in the diversification of the three lineages from the first photosynthetic eukaryote.
Additional file 2 of Genome-wide association analysis of idiopathic epilepsy in the Belgian shepherd
Creators: name: J. M. Belanger
name: T. R. Famula
name: L. C. Gershony
name: M. K. Palij
name: Oberbauer, A. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. GWAS analyses of Belgian Tervuren whose IE was responsive to phenobarbital.
From restauration manuals to historical architecture atlases: recognition, knowledge and  awareness for the conservation
Dai manuali del recupero agli atlanti dell’architettura storica: riconoscimento, conoscenza e consapevolezza per il progetto di restauro
Creators: name: Conserva, Francesco; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR19 - Restauro
ICAR19 - Restoration

description: L’esigenza di superare il tracciato delineato dall’uso dei manuali di recupero, intesi quali cataloghi per soluzioni architettoniche di ripristino e ricostruzione, rende indispensabile una riflessione sul reale bisogno di questi strumenti e sulle loro ripercussioni operative. Se i manuali, molto spesso, esprimono una visione statica e totalizzante dell’edilizia storica, attraverso una ripetizione pericolosamente meccanica e pedissequa degli elementi raccolti e descritti, l’atlante dichiara una concezione dinamica e “sempre aperta”, in cui ogni elemento rilevato è caso a sé. L’atlante fa, quindi,  riferimento ad una concezione “geografica” in cui la catalogazione non è esaustiva e dogmatica ma, contrariamente da luogo ad un repertorio di casi criticamente analizzati nell’ottica della conoscenza e della conservazione.
description: The need to get over the path covered by restauration manuals, thought simply as architectural solutions collection, makes necessary a reflection about the real role of these instruments and about their operational impacts. While restauration manuals are often based on a static vision of historical architecture, through a dangerous mechanical repetition of technical elements, atlases are expression of a dynamic idea, where each architectural component is considered in itself and studied as a single case. Atlases, in fact, refer to a “geographic” and dynamic conception in which cataloging is not an exhaustive and dogmatic process but an “always open” and critical one in order to knowledge and conservation.
Mi’kmaq and Maliseet Tom Longboat Award Recipients’ Experiences in Sport in the Maritimes
Creators: name: Lodge, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal sport
Mi'kmaq
Maliseet
Maritimes
Postcolonialism

description: This thesis employs postcolonial theory, a case study methodology, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to understand Mi’kmaq and Maliseet peoples’ sporting experiences in the Maritimes region of Canada. Two publishable papers comprise this thesis. The first paper analyzes the obstacles the participants faced and the positive experiences they had in sport. The second paper examines the ways in which the concept of “difference” was reproduced and challenged through the participants’ involvement in mainstream and all-Native sporting environments. Together, these papers bring much needed scholarly attention to Mi’kmaq and Maliseet peoples’ involvement in sport in the Maritimes, while they also make a contribution to the existing body of literature concerning Aboriginal peoples’ sport participation in Canada.
The Biological and Behavioural Effects of Electroconvulsive Stimulus in Rodents: Investigation and Translational Implications of a Genetic Animal Model of Depression
Creators: name: Kyeremanteng, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Depression
Rodent models
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Electroconvulsive Stimulation
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Corticotropin Releasing Factor
Wistar Kyoto
Memory

description: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the oldest and most effective treatments for depression; however, its biological underpinnings are poorly understood. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are two chemical messenger systems implicated in the antidepressant action and cognitive side effects of ECT. The Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) strain is a genetic model of depression that shows biological, cognitive, behavioural, and treatment-response abnormalities, making it potentially a useful model in which to investigate the underpinnings of the action of electroconvulsive stimulus (ECS: the amimal model of ECT). In addition, the WKY presents a potentially useful model for translational research on depression. The WKY strain is particularly valuable for the measurement of serum BDNF protein, for which the association with antidepressant treatments is much less clear (mostly stemming from investigations in humans) than that between brain BDNF and antidepressant treatments in rodent studies. The three studies presented add insight into the biological and behavioural effects of ECS. The first study (chapter 2) found no evidence of increased (R)-[11C]rolipram binding (an indirect marker of cyclic-adenosine monophosphate, cAMP) in the brain, despite significant increases of brain BDNF protein expression after repeated ECS. The second study (chapter 3) demonstrated the validity of the WKY strain in the investigation of ECS. Relative to Wistar controls, WKY showed similar antidepressant and cognitive effects (despite some abnormal behavioural responses), immediate but not sustained increases in brain BDNF protein, and a novel finding of increased extra-hypothalamic CRF after 5 daily ECS. The final study (chapter 4) demonstrated baseline strain differences in serum (WKY < Wistar) but not brain BDNF and, in both strains, no change in serum BDNF despite significant changes in brain BDNF after repeated ECS treatment. Preliminary results from a human pilot study investigating similar measures in a small group of people receiving ECT for depression are also presented. The results of this body of work advance our understanding of the activation and role of brain and serum measures of BDNF and the HPA axis in ECS/ECT, and raise important issues in the translation of research from basic science to the human condition of depression.
Additional file 2 of Genetic polymorphism and natural selection of circumsporozoite protein in Myanmar Plasmodium vivax
Creators: name: Tuấn Cường Võ
name: Hương Giang Lê
name: Kang, Jung-Mi
name: Moe, Mya
name: Haung Naw
name: Myint, Moe Kyaw
name: Jinyoung Lee
name: Woon-Mok Sohn
name: Tong-Soo Kim
name: Byoung-Kuk Na
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Global pvcsp sequences analysed in this study.
Torsion design of CFRP plated RC members
Creators: name: Hii, Adrian K. Y.
name: Al-Mahaidi, Riadh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Since 2001, there have been several experimental investigations in strengthening reinforced concrete members in torsion. However, available tools for torsion design of FRP plated reinforced concrete members are limited and unproven. A database of previous experimental data available in literature was compiled and compared against fib Bulletin 14. Modifications consistent with the space truss model were proposed to correct the poor accuracy in predictions of CFRP contribution to strength. Subsequently, a design tool consistent with several national design codes to analyze the full torsional capacity of CFRP plated reinforced concrete beams was validated against the experimental database.
Supplementary document for Laser paintbrush as a new tool of modern art - 5154972.pdf
Creators: name: Veiko, Vadim
name: Andreeva, Yaroslava
name: Van Luong, Cuong
name: Lutoshina, Daria
name: Polyakov, Dmitry
name: Sinev, Dmitrii
name: Mikhailovskii, Vladimir
name: Kolobov, Yury
name: Odintsova, Galina
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Lasers and Quantum Electronics
Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplementary information for the manuscript
La riscoperta della stereoscopia per la rappresentazione dello spazio architettonico
Rediscovering stereoscopy to represent the architectural space
Creators: name: Garagnani, Simone; Università Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
stereoscopia; rappresentazione digitale; disegno d’architettura;
ICAR17 - Drawing
stereoscopy; digital representation; architectural drawing;

description: Il progressivo sviluppo dei metodi della rappresentazione grafica nel corso della storia è stato possibile in virtù della scoperta di strumenti e tecniche appartenenti al loro tempo: questo continuo progresso delle modalità di “raccontare” l’architettura è tuttora in corso di evoluzione, costituendo il fondamento di ogni strategia informativa e di comunicazione del progetto. Il sempre più pervasivo trattamento digitale dell’informazione, sia essa grafica che testuale, ha condotto ad una progressiva riscoperta di approcci tradizionali nella descrizione dello spazio costruito, declinandoli alle nuove tecnologie informatiche per amplificarne possibilità e valenze.E’ il caso della stereoscopia, diffuso metodo ottocentesco adottato in fotografia per rendere spaziale la percezione dell’immagine sfruttando la visione binoculare; oggi i modelli tridimensionali e le immagini digitali catturate da apposite fotocamere rendono l’approccio stereoscopico di immediato utilizzo anche per i profani della rappresentazione, semplificando e rendendo trasparenti i concetti di geometria proiettiva alla base del metodo. Questo contributo intende indagare le funzionalità, i vantaggi e le criticità della tecnologia stereoscopica immersiva nella moderna comunicazione del progetto d’architettura.
description: The steady development of graphic representation’s methods has been possible due to tools and techniques mostly belonging to their time: the evolution of the architecture “story telling” is still in progress, establishing the foundation of every project information and communication strategy.The pervasive information processing operated by computers, through graphical and textual digital contents, led to a rediscovery of traditional approaches to depict the built space, declining them to new technologies in order to amplify their possibilities and values.This happened to stereoscopy, common method adopted in photography since the 19th century to render the spatial perception through the binocular vision and today easily consistent with threedimensional models and digital images captured by special cameras.This paper aims to investigate the features, benefits and criticality of stereoscopic immersive communication in the modern architecture of the project.
Predicting the Evolution of Influenza A
Creators: name: Sandie, Reatha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Influenza
Influenza A
Evolution
Predictive model

description: Vaccination against the Influenza A virus (IAV) is often an important and critical task for much of the population, as IAV causes yearly epidemics, and can cause even deadlier pandemics. Designing the vaccine requires an understanding of the current major circulating strains of Influenza, as well as an understanding of how those strains could change over time to become either less harmful or more deadly, or simply die out completely. An error in the prediction process can lead to a non-immunized population at risk of epidemics, or even a pandemic. Presented here is a posterior predictive approach to generate emerging influenza strains based on a realistic genomic model that incorporates natural features of viral evolution such as selection and recombination. Also introduced is a sequence sampling scheme to relieve the computational burden of the posterior predictive analysis by clustering sequences based on their pairwise similarity. Finally, the impact of “evolutionary accidents” that take the form of bursts of evolution and or of recombination on the predictive power of our procedure is tested. An analysis of the impact of these bursts is carried out in a retrospective study that focuses on the unexpected emergence of a new H3N2 strain in the 2007-08 influenza season. Measuring the R2 values of both pairwise and patristic distances, the model reaches a predictive power of ∼40%, but is not able to simulate the emergence of the target Brisbane/10/2007 sequence with a high probability. The inclusion of “evolutionary accidents” improved the algorithm’s ability to predict HA sequences, but the prediction power of the NA gene remained low.