cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'invenzione degli zingari. La questione rom tra antiziganismo, razzismo ed etnicizzazione
Creators: name: Bontempelli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In the public discourse, Roma people are usually described as an ethnic minority, and their collective identity is supposed to be rooted in a substantive “ethnos”. A critical assessment on the history of groups targeted as “gypsies”, however, shows that the s.c. “Roma ethnical identity” is a social construction: in early modern Europe, for instance, public authorities considered the Gypsies as vagrants and peripatetics, not as members of a particular ethnic group. This article tries to define “Roma identity” as a social, historical and political construction: racist theories, administrative procedures, public discourses, as well as ethnic mobilizations of the Roma activists, have contributed to define the collective identity of Romani.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Hydrogeochemical and isotopic characterization of groundwaters in the Myra-Price Hillsides and Thelwood Valley, Myra Falls mining camp, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Creators: name: Phipps, Graham Charles.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Chemical and isotope characteristics of surface and ground waters were investigated within portions of the Myra Falls (Zn-Cu-Pb) mining camp, Vancouver Island (49° 35' N, 125° 34' W). This site was selected to characterize ground waters, investigate metal mobility, develop ground water exploration methods, and to elucidate ground water circulation in mountainous terrain with high rainfall. A broad spectrum of water characteristics were found and have been subdivided into water facies which correspond to hydrologic regimes within the mining camp: (1) local precipitation and surface runoff have Ca2+-HCO 3-- composition. (2) Ca2+-HCO 3-- shallow ground waters are of recent meteoric origin, contain tritium, have low total dissolved solids (TDS) (<200 ppm), and are nearly saturated with respect to dissolved oxygen (DO). These ground waters are mainly limited to the fractured rock carapace of the Myra-Price ridge, and shallow zones within Thelwood Valley. Many of these waters contact sulphide mineralization but have near neutral pH and SO4 2' remains subordinate to HCO3--. (3) Ca2+-Na+-HCO3-- and Na+-Ca2+-HCO3 -- are meteoric waters occurring within the central core of the Myra-Price ridge. They have gained Na+ by cation exchange in rocks previously saturated with Na+-Ca2+-Cl -- water. These ground waters have TDS similar to Ca2+ -HCO3-- ground waters. (4) Na +-Ca2+-Cl-- saline ground waters (TDS >30,000 ppm) were discovered in areas undisturbed by mining operations. These waters are reducing, have alkaline pH, contain very low HCO3 --, are most likely 14C-free, and contain a high volume of helium. The unique chemical and isotope character of the Cl -- waters imply they are exotic to this setting. (5) Na +-Ca2+-SO42-- and Ca 2+-SO42-- ground waters, of meteoric origin, occur at intermediate depth in areas underlying previously mined areas and in areas where dissolution of anhydrite has dominated the anion chemistry. (6) Mg2+- SO42-- runoff waters result from intense weathering of mined waste-rock. Thelwood Valley is unaffected by mine development. Ground waters in this area exhibit a narrow mixing interface between modern Ca 2+-HCO3-- and saline waters, and have little cation exchange. The pH of ground waters related to the Myra Falls mineral deposits is generally near neutral, and acidic ground waters with high metal loads are extremely rare. Amorphous oxy-hydroxides composed primarily of Fe oxy-hydroxides but also including Mn and Al. Zinc displays the strongest and most reliable anomaly contrasts for hydrogeochemical exploration in the dominantly bicarbonate and sulphate ground waters associated with the Zn-Cu-Pb mineralization of the Price ore-deposit. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Deep-UV hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/BAlN distributed Bragg reflectors fabricated by RF-sputtering - 4983864.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Qiang
name: Zhang, Qifan
name: Bai, Yunhe
name: Zhang, Haoran
name: Hu, Peng
name: Li, Yufeng
name: Yun, Feng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: All the supplemental materials from Fig.S1 to Fig,S7
Synchronized failure of global crop production
Creators: name: Mehrabi, Zia
name: Ramankutty, Navin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Multiple breadbasket failure is a risk to global food security. However, there are no global analyses that have quantitatively assessed if global crop production has actually tended towards synchronized failure historically. We show that synchronization in production within major commodities such as maize and soybean has declined in recent decades, leading to increased global stability in production of these crops. In contrast, synchrony between crops has peaked, making global calorie production more unstable. Under the hypothetical event of complete synchronized failure we estimate simultaneous global production losses for rice, wheat, soybean and maize to lie between −17% and −34%. We find that offsetting these losses by reducing variation in production across all growing locations, and raising production ceilings in breadbaskets, are far more effective than strategies focused on reducing variability in breadbaskets alone or closing production gaps in low productive locations. Our findings suggest that maintaining asynchrony in the food system requires a central place in discussions of future food demand under mean climate change, population growth and consumption trends.
Entrepreneurial orientation of Malaysian Bumiputera small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs): some preliminary findings
Creators: name: Ismail, A.
name: Gillin, M.
name: Yencken, J.
name: Majid, I.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper highlights the concept of double embeddedness in which the gamut of firm-level entrepreneurship studies in the developing economies can be analysed through the synergy between the role of states in fostering industrial transformation to the spawning-off entrepreneurial activities and subsequently, the growth of resilient local small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs). In this context - Malaysia which is the setting of this study was often portrayed as a leading model among the developing economies since the state actively intervened to diversifying its industrial base along side the policy of addressing the inter-ethnic economic disparities by cultivating the indigenous population (Bumiputera) as manufactures. Hence, this paper addresses a holistic view of the Bumiputera manufacturing firms' proclivity towards entrepreneurial orientation in this distinctive framework that demonstrated a strong government patronage and firm linkages initiatives. The constructs involved include entrepreneurial orientation, firm structural organicity, environmental context, extensiveness and utilization of firm linkages usage, firm absorptive capacity as well as firm performance.
Chemical mixtures in the EU population: composition and potential risks
Creators: name: Socianu, Sebastian
name: Bopp, Stephanie
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Govarts, Eva
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring

description: Regulating chemical mixtures is a complex scientific and policy task. The aim of this study was to investigate typical mixtures and their potential risks based on internal exposure levels in the European population. Based on human biomonitoring (HBM) data made available via the HBM4EU project, we derived generic mixtures representative of a median (P50) and a worst-case scenario (P95) for adults and children. We performed a mixture risk assessment based on HBM concentrations, health-based guidance values (HBGVs) as internal thresholds of concern, and the conservative assumption of concentration addition applied across different toxicological endpoints. Maximum cumulative ratios (MCRs) were calculated to characterize the mixture risk. The mixtures comprise 136 biomarkers for adults and 84 for children, although concentration levels could be quantified only for a fraction of these. Due to limited availability of HBGVs, the mixture risk was assessed for a subset of 20 substance-biomarker pairs for adults and 17 for children. The mixture hazard index ranged from 2.8 (P50, children) to 9.2 (P95, adults). Six to seven substances contributed to over 95% of the total risk. MCR values ranged between 2.6 and 5.5, which is in a similar range as in previous studies based on human external exposures assessments. The limited coverage of substances included in the calculations and the application of a hazard index across toxicological endpoints argue for caution in the interpretation of the results. Nonetheless the analyses of MCR and MAFceiling can help inform a possible mixture assessment factor (MAF) applicable to single substance risk assessment to account for exposure to unintentional mixtures. © 2022 by the authors
Individual differences in importance ratings of Chinese values and their associations with the Big Five of personality in Western and Eastern populations
Creators: name: Montag, Christian
name: Ko, Huei‑Chen
name: Sindermann, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chinese value survey
subject: CVS
subject: Big Five
subject: Confucian values
subject: Cross-cultural
subject: Eastern
subject: Western
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Big five model
subject: Cross-cultural orientation
subject: Personality
subject: Fünffaktorenmodell der Persönlichkeit
subject: Values

description: Given the worldwide importance of Chinese culture, the present work revisited a questionnaire assessing individual differences in importance ratings of Chinese values and their associations with well-established personality traits in Western and Eastern populations. Three samples were recruited and completed German (N = 813), English (N = 404), and Taiwanese/Chinese (N = 331) language versions of the Chinese Value Survey (CVS) and the Big Five Inventory. After examining the factorial structure of the CVS in the three samples, we came up with a shortened—and although better than other factor models, still not optimal—version of the CVS consisting of 29 items and two factors. The factors were named Chinese Traditionalism and Moral Integrity/Striving for Harmony. Openness, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness were positively linked to Moral Integrity/Striving for Harmony in each sample. Conscientiousness was positively linked to Chinese Traditionalism in all samples. Openness was inversely associated with Chinese Traditionalism in the two Western samples only. Frequently, effect sizes of correlations of Big Five domains with the Moral Integrity/Striving for Harmony scale were stronger than those with the Chinese Traditionalism scale. In summary, across culturally diverse samples, the present study demonstrates a novel factorial structure of the CVS. However, the psychometric properties of the new-found CVS factor structure are not satisfactory. Given the heterogeneous findings on the CVS-factor structure across this and other studies, we suggest using other measures in future research to receive more in-depth knowledge on individual differences in importance ratings of Chinese values. Beyond discussing issues related to the CVS factorial structure, we provide first insights into associations between Big Five personality traits and importance ratings of Chinese values.
Winx, Orzowei, Pik e altre rappresentazioni della razza. Una prospettiva comparata sui libri per l'infanzia in Italia
Creators: name: Morresi, Renata
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Children’s literature seems to occupy a secondary position compared to general literature in terms of relevance for the cultural debate. Actually, being on the margins of ‘serious’ literature allows it to avoid the canonical control over literary appropriateness and to introduce “subversive” elements. As an academic subject, a commercial business and a cultural phenomenon, children’s books move more freely between mass culture, entertainment, and educational environments: they can become the symbol of transnational cultural struggles, as well as unconsciously embodying the functioning of dominant stereotypes and taboos. They can certainly bring to our attention the material factors of their production, distribution and reception, and the ways these are enmeshed in contemporary debates over race and gender. This paper discusses ‘race’ in Italian children’s literature in a comparative perspective, taking into account mainly books and characters, but also cartoons, merchandising, and textbooks. I analyze different processes of racialization: how ‘race’ tends to be suppressed and normalized in commercial products such as The Winx, how it is idealized in works with an educational purpose like the novel Orzowei, by Alberto Manzi, how it is reduced to an easily recognizable stereotype in picturebooks like Pic Badaluk, which borrows the language and images of the colonial fascist era trying to obliterate their implications; and then, how anything that has to do with ‘race’ tends to be identified with social issues and trauma, erasing, for example, the whole post-migrant experience, and limiting access to more interculturally nuanced stories of adventure, experiment and personal growth.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Stress perceptions and leadership orientation of Malaysians: exploring their similarities and differences with Americans
Creators: name: Tajaddini, Reza
name: Mujtaba, Bahaudin G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To explore the management orientation of employees in Malaysia and the United States, this paper focuses on comparing the leadership and stress perception of respondents in these two different countries. It appears that Malaysians and Americans have a significantly higher score on the relationship-orientation than task-orientation. Similarly, the female respondents in Malaysia had a significantly higher score on the relationship orientation. Finally, the responses of these 216 Malaysian respondents were compared with the 87 Americans, demonstrating significantly higher scores for respondents from the U.S. on both orientations. For management and practical application, suggestions and implications for future studies are presented.
Yasemin Bayyurt e Sumru Akcan (a cura di), Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca
Creators: name: Franceschi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Stefano Tani, Lo schermo, l'Alzheimer, lo zombie: tre metafore del XXI secolo
Creators: name: Pitozzi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Lo schermo, l'Alzheimer, lo zombie: tre metafore del XXI secolo.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
In vitro inhibition of HIV-1 by cyclotide-enriched extracts of viola tricolor
Creators: name: Conzelmann, Carina
name: Muratspahić, Edin
name: Tomašević, Nataša
name: Münch, Jan
name: Gruber, Christian W.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Viola tricolor
subject: anti-HIV
subject: antiviral
subject: cysteine-rich peptides
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Communicable diseases
subject: Virus diseases
subject: Anti-infective agents
subject: Cyclotides
subject: Plant extracts
subject: Peptides; Therapeutic use
subject: Infektionskrankheit
subject: Virusinfektion
subject: Antimikrobieller Wirkstoff
subject: Viruzid
subject: Pflanzeninhaltsstoff

description: Since viral infectious diseases continue to be a global health threat, new antiviral drugs are urgently needed. A unique class of therapeutic compounds are antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). They can be found in humans, bacteria and plants. Plants express a wide variety of such defense peptides as part of their innate immune system to protect from invading pathogens. Cyclotides are non-classical AMPs that share a similar structure. Their unique topology consists of a circular peptide backbone and disulfide bonds. In previous studies they have been attributed to a wide range of biological activities. To identify novel cyclotides with antiviral activity, we established a library of plant extracts largely consisting of cyclotide-rich species and screened them as inhibitors of HIV-1 infection. Subsequent extraction and fractionation revealed four cyclotide-containing subfractions from Viola tricolor with antiviral activity. These subfractions inhibited HIV-1 infection with IC50 values between 0.6 and 11.2 μg/ml, and selectivity indices of up to 8.1. The identification and characterization of antiviral cyclotides and the determination of the antiviral mechanisms may allow to develop novel agents to combat viral infections. Therefore, cyclotides represent a natural source of bioactive molecules with prospects for development as therapeutics.
Paolo Granata, Ecologia dei media: protagonisti, scuole, concetti chiave
Creators: name: Sanfilippo, Matteo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Ecologia dei media: protagonisti, scuole, concetti chiave.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Welchen Beitrag können Satellitenfernerkundung und insbesondere Copernicus-Daten und -Dienste für die Ermittlung ausgewählter Indikatoren des Indikatoren-Sets der Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel (DAS) leisten
Creators: name: Schönthaler, Konstanze
name: Andrian-Werburg, Stefan Von
name: Zebisch, Marc
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
subject: Copernicus-Programm
subject: Satellitengestützte Fernerkundung
subject: eutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
subject: Satellitenfernerkundung
subject: DAS
subject: Klima | Energie

description: Zur Erprobung von Schnittstellen zwischen dem Erdbeobachtungsprogramm Copernicus der EU-KOM und dem Umweltmonitoring wurde untersucht, inwieweit sich das Indikatorensystem zur Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel (DAS) mithilfe von Satellitendaten weiterentwickeln lässt. Das Ergebnis sind konkrete Vorschläge für zusätzliche und weiterentwickelte DAS-Indikatoren sowie Ansätze für perspektivische Weiterentwicklungen. Bedeutende Potenziale des Copernicus-Programms für das DAS-Indikatorensystem liegen neben den allgemein zugänglichen Copernicus-Services in der Nutzung und Entwicklung von Value adding-Services, die auf die DAS-Fragestellungen fokussierte Auswertungen zulassen. Quelle:http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Zur Erprobung von Schnittstellen zwischen dem Erdbeobachtungsprogramm Copernicus der EU-KOM und dem Umweltmonitoring wurde untersucht, inwieweit sich das Indikatorensystem zur Deutschen ⁠Anpassungsstrategie⁠ an den ⁠Klimawandel⁠ (⁠DAS⁠) mithilfe von Satellitendaten weiterentwickeln lässt. Das Ergebnis sind konkrete Vorschläge für zusätzliche und weiterentwickelte DAS-Indikatoren sowie Ansätze für perspektivische Weiterentwicklungen. Bedeutende Potenziale des Copernicus-Programms für das DAS-Indikatorensystem liegen neben den allgemein zugänglichen Copernicus-Services in der Nutzung und Entwicklung von Value adding-Services, die auf die DAS-Fragestellungen fokussierte Auswertungen zulassen.
In vitro interactions of natural health products with P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4): Relevance to HIV therapies
Creators: name: Budzinski, Jason William
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.
subject: Health Sciences, Nutrition.

description: This thesis examines the mechanisms by which natural health products (NHP)s may affect drug disposition pathways. Adverse reactions from concomitant NHP-drug use may result from competing interactions at the level of the metabolic enzyme cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) or the xenobiotic efflux pump P-glycoprotein (P-gp). NHPs and drugs relevant to HIV were assessed for their ability to affect these drug disposition pathways. NHP extracts were examined for their ability to inhibit CYP3A4 and stimulate P-gP ATPase. Goldenseal (GS) NHPs were the most inhibitory of CYP3A4; GS and milk thistle (MT) teas stimulated P-gp ATPase more than the positive control verapamil. GS and MT extracts, related phytochemicals, and several HIV drugs were screened for their ability to modulate CYP3A4 and P-gp ( ABCB1 gene product) expression in caco2 cell monolayers. ABCB1 expression did not change from control levels; CYP3A4 expression was more responsive, and thus a better marker for cellular response.
The Marginalizing Effect of Ethnic Expectations: John Fante's 'Asian' Writings
Creators: name: Bordin, Elisa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In this essay, I consider Italian-American writer John Fante’s ‘Asian’ writings, namely The Little Brown Brothers (1930s) and “The Dreamer” (1947), and the role these works had in defining Fante’s success alternatively as an American and an Italian American writer. The focus on ethnic consciousness, which has prevailed in ethnic studies for a long time, has, in Fante’s case, limited the analysis of his works, excluding them from broader and transethnic literary movements, contexts, and practices. Even though an ‘ethnic’ approach has been seminal to tackle Fante’s works, the focus on his italianità has also obscured other topics present in his literary work, reducing Fante’s complexity and potentiality as a writer with consequences on his place in the American literary landscape. This is what I try to prove by analyzing his ‘Asian’ writings, which show an interest outside his heritage of descent which was, however, unable to develop in the American publishing market of the time.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
"Some Sort of Need for Biblical Atonement." Breaking Bad e altre variazioni sul tema di Giobbe
Creators: name: Izzo, Donatella
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Questo saggio fa parte di un progetto più ampio, incentrato – in estrema sintesi – sullo studio dei modi in cui una serie di questioni di filosofia politica relative al rapporto fra cittadino e sovranità dello Stato, e di questioni teologiche relative all’esistenza del male e alla giustizia divina e mondana, si saldano – fin dalle origini– nelle narrazioni del genere poliziesco. La mia ipotesi generale è che la narrativa poliziesca sia uno dei grandi generi della modernità perché è legata alla nascita dello Stato secolare, e perché assolve alla funzione di consolidare l’adesione emotiva e intellettuale dei cittadini allo Stato (non più dotato di una legittimazione trascendente attraverso il diritto divino dei re, e quindi bisognoso di nuovi puntelli) presentandolo come il garante del finale trionfo della giustizia. In questo, la funzione assolta dal poliziesco è esattamente la stessa che, nella civiltà cristiana prima della secolarizzazione, era stata assolta dalla teodicea, cioè dalla riflessione teologica e filosofica volta a dimostrare la giustizia di Dio nonostante l’evidenza empirica del male e dell’ingiustizia nel mondo, un’evidenza difficile da conciliare con l’idea di un Dio definito giusto e al contempo onnipotente. Un po’ come succedeva con l’invito religioso a sopportare e a ben operare in attesa della sicura giustizia all’altro mondo, il poliziesco, con la sua messa in scena dell’efficace operare della legge attraverso i suoi rappresentanti (non importa se individuali o istituzionali), ci invita ad avere fede nell’immancabile giustizia finale. E così facendo svia l’attenzione da altri elementi del funzionamento dello Stato: il fondamento del suo potere nel monopolio sull’uso legittimo della forza, secondo una nota definizione di Max Weber, e il rinvio sine die della realizzazione della giustizia (sociale, e non soltanto penale). Tutte questioni che, come cerco di dimostrare in uno studio più ampio, tornano d’attualità nel decennio post-11 settembre, quando da un lato lo Stato stringe la presa sulle libertà individuali dei cittadini, mostrando l’aspetto repressivo della propria protezione, e dall’altro la combinazione di terrorismo, guerra e crisi finanziaria affievolisce la fiducia nel progresso perpetuo, tanto individuale quanto collettivo.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Dissemination & collaboration report & newsletter: deliverable 2.3.3
Creators: name: Papazachos, Zafeirios
name: Wesner, Stefan
name: Domaschka, Jörg
name: Sheridan, Craig
name: Stewart, Claire
name: Innes, Alasdair
name: Stier, Christian
name: Henß, Jörg
name: Ali-Eldin, Ahmed
name: Tsitsipas, Athanasios
name: Byrne, James
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dissemination
subject: Newsletter
subject: Social Media
subject: Websites
subject: Cactos Projekt
subject: Collaboration report
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Cloud computing
subject: Electric network topology
subject: Cloud Computing
subject: Datenmanagement

description: This deliverable will provide an update on the CACTOS Dissemination and Collaboration Report laid out in D2.3.2. It marks the final report of the CACTOS project concerning dissemination. Firstly, the objectives, intentions and targeted impact of CACTOS dissemination activities are presented, followed by the current dissemination strategy that the consortium is following in order to reach these goals. The strategy that was followed by the consortium throughout the project is outlined, followed by a breakdown of each partner’s individual efforts. Beyond the strategic elements, practical measures taken are detailed, including the current status of the CACTOS website and social media presences as well as other tools used including publications, blogs, videos, guides, poster, factsheet and flyers. The final section contains information concerning the specific activities each partner has undertaken in order to disseminate the project and its outcomes, as well as the efforts each partner has made towards collaboration with others.
Karolina Kalocsai, Communities of Practice and English as a Lingua Franca,
Creators: name: Vettorel, Paola
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Communities of Practice and English as a Lingua Franca.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
The potential of airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as a basic tool for stratigraphic investigations in forested areas: The Ordovician-Silurian carbonate succession of Anticosti Island, Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada
Creators: name: Gauthier, Eric L
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geology.
subject: Remote Sensing.

description: Anticosti Island, located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in eastern Canada, is one of the few places in the world where the Ordovician/Silurian boundary is well preserved and exposed. Its relatively undeformed shallow-water carbonate sequence of approximately 900 m in thickness is rich in fossils and is known to contain traces of hydrocarbons. The island has been for decades the subject of several geological studies, but its stratigraphic succession was never successfully mapped precisely because of its dense forest cover present over almost 95% of its vast territory. This study provides new mapping tools and techniques to support the geological representation of the island stratigraphic succession. Airborne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data acquired with the active radar system onboard of the former CCRS (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing) Convair-580 aircraft, in single and fully polarimetric modes and with different viewing geometry, were qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated by means of image interpretation and polarimetric analysis for their mapping potential over the densely forested study area. The airborne SAR data, supported with ancillary geoscience data sets and derivative topographic related products, have resulted in the availability of valuable and accurate terrain information such as topographic variations associated with the gently inclined recessive and resistant strata of the island succession. It also provided with information on the polarimetric scattering mechanism of the vegetation cover overlying the surface deposits and bedrock geology, suggesting a possible preferential distribution. With almost 50% of the Canadian territory covered by forest, radar remote sensing, as demonstrated by this study, is a cost-effective tool to produce more accurate regional structural and geological map in areas where traditional mapping campaigns failed due to the presence of an extensive vegetation cover.
Supplementary document for Displacement-agnostic coherent imaging through scatter with an interpretable deep neural network - 4984387.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Yunzhe
name: Cheng, Shiyi
name: Xue, Yujia
name: Tian, Lei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Materials
The Blue Angel
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Produktkennzeichnung
subject: Blue Angel
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: The Blue Angel is the German Government’s label for environmentally friendly products and services. As the first environmental label worldwide, it has stood for independence and credibility for over 35 years. It is an eco-label you can trust.
Corpus Linguistics and ELF
Creators: name: Facchinetti, Roberta
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Corpus Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth respectively CL and ELF) have been strongly interrelated since their early stages; this is largely due to the assumption shared by scholars in both fields that empirical analysis of natural text(s) is an indispensable prerequisite for theoretical discussion – and vice versa. Such prerequisite is even more cogent if we bear in mind that the majority of the world's English users are non-native speakers of English and largely exploit it as their working language. Hence, sheer intuition-based methodology cannot give adequate account of the manifold actualizations of a language that systematically trespasses its national borders, imposing deep sociological, ethnographic and cultural considerations on everyday real-world language use.
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title: Correlación entre los hallazgos de la Resonancia Magnética y la anatomía patológica en la enfermedad de Crohn. Puntos claves que permiten mejorar el manejo del paciente.
Creators: name: Macías Rodríguez, Napoleón Gabriel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Inflammation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
1) Revisar los hallazgos encontrados en la Resonancia Magnética (RM) de pacientes con enfermedad de Crohn (EC). 2) Ilustrar la correlación entre los hallazgos de la RM y la anatomía patológica,
con particular énfasis en los diferentes patrones...
Loren Kajikawa, Sounding Race in Rap Songs
Creators: name: Fascina, Camilla
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Sounding Race in Rap Songs.
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Jorge Díaz Cintas e Josélia Neves (a cura di), Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock
Creators: name: Corrizzato, Sara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Review of Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Enantioselective tandem oxy-copeene reaction
Creators: name: Gauvreau, Danny
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: The tandem oxy-Cope/ene reaction allows the rapid construction of complex structures in a few steps. It was notably used in the total synthesis of (+)-arteannium M where the cascade revealed to be highly diastereoselective and enantioselective. The hypothesis that the retention of chirality based on the rigidity of an intermediate atropisomer devoid of stereogenic centers was proposed. This document presents a study of the enantioselectivity of the tandem oxy-Cope/ene reaction and provides an explanation for the decrease in chirality observed during the cascade. Different variables of the reaction and of the starting material were analyzed to explain the retention of chirality.* The efforts of our group in the development of tandem reactions led to the discovery of a novel cascade that involves 4 pericyclic reactions: the oxa-Cope/Claisen/ene/Claisen cascade. This sequence of reactions was briefly investigated to determine its scope and limitations, notably by changing the substituent on the alkyne and on the tertiary alcohol of 150*. *Please refer to dissertation for diagrams.
Enhanced four-wave mixing in hybrid integrated waveguides with graphene oxide
Creators: name: Wu, Jiayang
name: Yang, Yunyi
name: Xu, Xingyuan
name: Jia, Linnan
name: Liang, Yao
name: Chu, Sai Tak
name: Little, Brent
name: Morandotti, Roberto
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Moss, David
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Owing to the ease of preparation as well as the tunability of its material properties, graphene oxide (GO) has become a rising star of the graphene family. In our previous work, we found that GO has an ultra-high Kerr nonlinear optical response - several orders of magnitude higher than that of silica and even silicon. Moreover, as compared with graphene, GO has much lower linear loss as well as nonlinear loss (two photon absorption (TPA)), arising from its large bandgap (2.4~3.1 eV) being more than double the photon energy in the telecommunications band. Here, we experimentally demonstrate enhanced four-wave mixing (FWM) in hybrid integrated waveguides coated with GO films. Owing to strong mode overlap between the integrated waveguides and the high Kerr nonlinearity GO films as well as low linear and nonlinear loss, we demonstrate significant enhancement in the FWM efficiency. We achieve up to ~9.5-dB enhancement in the conversion efficiency for a 1.5-cm-long waveguide with 2 layers of GO. We perform FWM measurements at different pump powers, wavelength detuning, GO film lengths and numbers of layers. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of introducing GO films into integrated photonic devices in order to enhance the performance of nonlinear optical processes.
The cloning of notch1 and groove in Notophthalmus viridescens, the red-spotted newt, and an examination of the expression profiles of both genes in the regenerating forelimb through real time RT-PCR
Creators: name: Sy, Candice
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biology, Genetics.

description: Limb regeneration in urodeles is a complex process that involves the reinduction of a number of genes that are expressed during limb development. Notch is an essential developmental gene that is likely to play a pivotal role in the genetic control of forelimb regeneration in the red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens. In this thesis, a partial cDNA of the newt homologue of notch1 was cloned, as well as a complete cDNA containing only 5 EGF repeats and a NIDO domain which also showed homology to notch1. This truncated version of notch1 is suspected, based on its functional domains, to act as a secreted dominant negative regulator of Notch signaling. Real time RT-PCR detection of expression of both genes revealed that notch is expressed at relatively high levels in both the 24 hour and the 2 week regenerate. This may point towards a functional role for Notch signaling in the wound healing process, through activation of cell migration and mobilization, and in the regeneration blastema, through induction of cell proliferation and repression of differentiation. The truncated notch isoform is expressed at low levels in all the tissues that express notch, but whether this results in dominant negative regulation of Notch signaling is currently unknown. Together, these data point towards a functional role for notch in epimorphic limb regeneration.
title: Evaluation von Patienten mit entzündlich-rheumatischen Erkrankungen unter Immunsuppressiva und ihrer Haltung zur Medikation im zeitlichen Verlauf der Covid-19 Pandemie
Creators: name: Schmeiser, Tim
name: Broll, Matthias
name: Dormann, Andreas
name: Fräbel, Christian
name: Heinmüller, Carl-Johannes
name: Hermann, Walter
name: Hoyer, Bimba F.
name: Keil, Ferdinand
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
name: Özden, Filiz
name: Pfeiffer, Ulrich
name: Saech, Jasemine
name: Schwarting, Andreas
name: Sluszniak, Marta
name: Specker, Christof
name: Stapfer, Gerald
name: Steinchen, Nicolai
name: Steinmüller, Mirko
name: Storck-Mueller, Katrin
name: Strunk, Johannes
name: Thiele, Astrid
name: Triantafyllias, Konstantinos
name: Vagedes, Daniel
name: Wassenberg, Siegfried
name: Wilden, Elke
name: Hasseli, Rebecca
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Seit 11.03.2020 spricht die WHO von einer Coronavirus Pandemie. Verursacht wird die Coronaviruserkrankung (COVID-19) durch das SARS-CoV-2 Virus. Die Erkrankung manifestiert sich als Infektion der Atemwege mit den Leitsymptomen Fieber und Husten. Bei 81% Patienten ist der Verlauf mild,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Distribution and Phylogeny of Erythrocytic Necrosis Virus (ENV) in Salmon Suggests Marine Origin
Creators: name: Pagowski, Veronica A.
name: Mordecai, Gideon J.
name: Miller, Kristina M.
name: Schulze, Angela D.
name: Kaukinen, Karia H.
name: Ming, Tobi J.
name: Li, Shaorong
name: Teffer, Amy K.
name: Tabata, Amy
name: Suttle, Curtis A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN) affects over 20 species of marine and anadromous fishes in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. However, the distribution and strain variation of its viral causative agent, erythrocytic necrosis virus (ENV), has not been well characterized within Pacific salmon. Here, metatranscriptomic sequencing of Chinook salmon revealed that ENV infecting salmon was closely related to ENV from Pacific herring, with inferred amino-acid sequences from Chinook salmon being 99% identical to those reported for herring. Sequence analysis also revealed 89 protein-encoding sequences attributed to ENV, greatly expanding the amount of genetic information available for this virus. High-throughput PCR of over 19,000 fish showed that ENV is widely distributed in the NE Pacific Ocean and was detected in 12 of 16 tested species, including in 27% of herring, 38% of anchovy, 17% of pollock, and 13% of sand lance. Despite frequent detection in marine fish, ENV prevalence was significantly lower in fish from freshwater (0.03%), as assessed with a generalized linear mixed effects model (p = 5.5 × 10⁻⁸). Thus, marine fish are likely a reservoir for the virus. High genetic similarity between ENV obtained from salmon and herring also suggests that transmission between these hosts is likely.
title: Valor de la RM en las neoplasias de partes blandas. Nuestra experiencia
Creators: name: Lozano Calero, Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Los tumores de partes blandas derivan del tejido mesenquimal y engloban un amplio espectro histológico. En la mayoría de las ocasiones corresponden a tumores benignos; se estima que su frecuencia es al menos cien veces mayor que los tumores...
title: Inzidenz und Verlauf der COVID-19 Erkrankung in einer universitären Rheumaambulanzkohorte
Creators: name: Braunisch, Matthias
name: Bachmann, Quirin
name: Hammitzsch, Ariane
name: Lorenz, Georg
name: Heemann, Uwe
name: Moog, Philipp
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Aufgrund der COVID-19 Pandemie entwickelt sich aktuell eine exponentielle Ausbreitung des Virus SARS-CoV-2 in Deutschland. Bisher sind zwar Daten zum Krankheitsverlauf in der Allgemeinbevölkerung vorhanden, jedoch fehlen aussagekräftige Daten für Patienten mit entzündlich-rheumatischen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
An investigation into how youth ice hockey coaches learn to coach and their use of the Internet
Creators: name: Wright, Trevor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.
subject: Psychology, Industrial.

description: This is a descriptive study into how youth ice hockey coaches learn to coach. Based on Sfard's (1998) two metaphors of learning (acquisition and participation), this study aims to investigate formal training programs as well as informal experiences in which youth ice hockey coaches are involved with. This study also attempts to present how coaches use the Internet, which is currently a timely topic. Semi-structured interviews with 59 male youth competitive (A, AA, AAA) ice hockey coaches provided in-depth responses into a number of different learning experiences. The results of this study have made reference to seven learning contexts for youth ice hockey coaches including (a) coach education programs, (b) coaching clinics/seminars, (c) formal mentoring, (d) books/videotapes, (e) individual experience, (f) face-to-face interactions with coaches, and (g) the Internet. It is concluded that all seven learning contexts play an important role in the development of youth ice hockey coaches.
Supplementary document for Optical anisotropy of self-organized gold quasiblazed nanostructures based on a broad ion beam - 4986175.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Yuheng
name: cai, Maoqi
name: Zang, Haofeng
name: Chen, Huoyao
name: Kroker, Stefanie
name: Lu, Yonghua
name: Liu, Ying
name: Frost, Frank
name: Hong, Yilin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1 Simulated the electric near-field distribution of the terraced nanostructures. 2 Simulated and measured transmittances of the terraced nanostructures using normal-incidence deposition of Au.
title: Auswirkungen von COVID-19 auf die rheumatologische Versorgung: Eine nationale Umfrage im April 2020
Creators: name: Vossen, Diana
name: Freudenberg, Stefanie
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Der Ausbruch des SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) und der von ihm verursachten Infektionskrankheit COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) in Wuhan, Provinz Hubei, China, begann im Dezember 2019. Am 11. März 2020 verkündete die WHO eine weltweite Pandemie,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
title: Hallazgos en TC de mucocele de los senos paranasales
Creators: name: Soriano Mena, Diego
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Head and neck

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Los mucoceles son lesiones de aspecto seudoquístico que tienen su origen en la inflamación crónica y posterior metaplasia de la mucosa que tapiza los senos paranasales debida a la obstrucción o estenosis de las vías naturales de drenaje de los...
The role of named entities in text classification
Creators: name: Armour, Quintin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Named entities, typically associated with names of people, places and organizations, constitute a group of textual elements present in almost any type of document. The general techniques used to extract them and their variable-length property also makes them an attractive type of attribute to study in text classification. In this thesis, several datasets are characterized as being either dependent or independent of named entities with a Naive Bayes based ranking technique. Using this characterization, results are presented which find named entities to be in fact useful in classification tasks, and that accuracy can be improved by considering them as a special type of attribute. Namely, the inclusion of regular terms, named entity representation and the frequency with which a classifier is retrained all have an impact on the classification of documents where named entities are important.
Ego-motion estimation using distributed single-channel radar sensors
Creators: name: Steiner, Maximilian
name: Hammouda, Omar
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Distributed sensors
subject: Motion estimation
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Radar in navigation
subject: Driver assistance systems
subject: Motor vehicles
subject: Doppler radar
subject: Radar
subject: Fahrerassistenzsystem
subject: Kraftfahrzeug
subject: Doppler-Radar
subject: Zielerkennung
subject: Netzwerk

description: The motion of a car has a vast impact on the relative measurements of all environmental sensors. Consequently, the precise knowledge of the ego-motion of a sensor equipped car is important for higher level signal processing like mapping or the estimation of the target parameters. This can be achieved by multiple simple radar sensors with a single measurement. The range and the velocity measurements conducted by multiple sensors that are observing a common field of view are jointly processed and filtered for stationary targets. This dataset is used to determine the velocity and the yaw rate of the vehicle in the x- and y-plane. An advantage of the proposed approach is the simplicity of the sensors which do not need the capability of angle estimation in the azimuth plane, while still providing comparable results. In addition, this approach works with a minimum number of two sensors.