cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
“Villa Salus” and  Quartiere Savena. The scholastic and social integration of a group of young foreigners in the Bologna area.
“Villa Salus” e il Quartiere Savena. Inserimento scolastico e sociale di un gruppo di minori stranieri nel territorio bolognese.
Creators: name: Scandurra, Giuseppe
name: Antonelli, Fulvia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The stories brought together in this work refer to a group of Rom. They were the subject of research carried out between march 2006 and July 2007 at Villa Salus, in the Savenna neighbourhood of Bologna, where 146 Romanian citizens lived with their families from the winter of 2005 onwards.The stories collected from a group of young Romanians , living at Villa Salus were compared with the ideas and opinions of a workgroup of teachers from the local educational service who reflected openly with us on the presence of foreign pupils in local schools. It was only by comparing the expectations and needs of the pupils (the majority being young Romanians from Villa Salus) on one hand with those of the teachers that we could approach the evocative concept of a “multicultural school”
description: Le storie riportate in questo saggio si riferiscono a un gruppo di rom protagonisti di una ricerca condotta tra il marzo 2006 e il luglio 2007 a Villa Salus, nel quartiere Savena, dove 146 cittadini romeni hanno abitato a cominciare dall’inverno 2005 insieme alle loro famiglie. Le storie raccolte di una decina di minori rom romeni residenti a Villa Salus sono state fatte dialogare con le voci e le rappresentazioni di un gruppo di insegnanti degli istituti scolastici del quartiere Savena che insieme a noi hanno riflettuto a voce aperta sulla presenza di alunni stranieri nelle scuole del territorio. Solo mettendo a confronto gli immaginari, le aspettative, i bisogni degli alunni da una parte, in grande parte minori romeni di Villa Salus, e delle insegnanti dall’altra abbiamo pensato si potesse analizzare un termine fin troppo evocativo come “scuola multiculturale”, a partire da un caso specifico come quello dell’inserimento scolastico e sociale di un gruppo di minori stranieri in un circoscritto territorio bolognese.
Neuartige Materialien
Creators: name: Schwirn, Kathrin
name: Völker, Doris
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuartige Materialien
subject: Chemikaliensicherheit
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Früherkennung
subject: Lebenszyklus
subject: transformation
subject: Zielkonflikte
subject: Risikofrüherkennung
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Neuartige Materialen versprechen technische Lösungen zur Unterstützung der nachhaltigen Transformation. Sie spielen eine wichtige Rolle für eine Vielzahl der am âĄ UBAâĄ bearbeiteten Umweltthemen wie beispielsweise die Energiewende, Kreislaufwirtschaft und Chemikaliensicherheit. Dabei können die verschiedenen Bereiche durch den Einsatz neuartiger Materialien profitieren, aber auch vor Herausforderungen gestellt werden. Das UBA-Positionspapier beschreibt das Spannungsfeld zwischen dem vielversprechenden Einsatz und möglichen Herausforderungen für den Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz und anderen Nachhaltigkeitsdimensionen, verdeutlicht dies an verschiedenen Beispielen und leitet Eckpunkte für ein sicheren und nachhaltigen Lebenszyklus von neuartigen Materialien ab. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Neuartige Materialen versprechen technische Lösungen zur Unterstützung der nachhaltigen Transformation. Sie spielen eine wichtige Rolle für eine Vielzahl der am ⁠UBA⁠ bearbeiteten Umweltthemen wie beispielsweise die Energiewende, Kreislaufwirtschaft und Chemikaliensicherheit. Dabei können die verschiedenen Bereiche durch den Einsatz neuartiger Materialien profitieren, aber auch vor Herausforderungen gestellt werden. Das UBA-Positionspapier beschreibt das Spannungsfeld zwischen dem vielversprechenden Einsatz und möglichen Herausforderungen für den Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschutz und anderen Nachhaltigkeitsdimensionen, verdeutlicht dies an verschiedenen Beispielen und leitet Eckpunkte für ein sicheren und nachhaltigen Lebenszyklus von neuartigen Materialien ab.
Harnessing Induced Essentiality: Targeting Carbonic Anhydrase IX and Angiogenesis Reduces Lung Metastasis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Xenografts
Creators: name: Hedlund, Eva-Maria E.
name: McDonald, Paul C.
name: Nemirovsky, Oksana
name: Awrey, Shannon
name: Jensen, Lasse D.E.
name: Dedhar, Shoukat
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is aggressive, metastatic and drug-resistant, limiting the spectrum of effective therapeutic options for breast cancer patients. To date, anti-angiogenic agents have had limited success in the treatment of systemic breast cancer, possibly due to the exacerbation of tumor hypoxia and increased metastasis. Hypoxia drives increased expression of downstream effectors, including Carbonic Anhydrase IX (CAIX), a critical functional component of the pro-survival machinery required by hypoxic tumor cells. Here, we used the highly metastatic, CAIX-positive MDA-MB-231 LM2-4 orthotopic model of TNBC to investigate whether combinatorial targeting of CAIX and angiogenesis impacts tumor growth and metastasis in vivo to improve efficacy. The administration of a small molecule inhibitor of CAIX, SLC-0111, significantly reduced overall metastatic burden, whereas exposure to sunitinib increased hypoxia and CAIX expression in primary tumors, and failed to inhibit metastasis. The administration of SLC-0111 significantly decreased primary tumor vascular density and permeability, and reduced metastasis to the lung and liver. Furthermore, combining sunitinib and SLC-0111 significantly reduced both primary tumor growth and sunitinib-induced metastasis to the lung. Our findings suggest that targeting angiogenesis and hypoxia effectors in combination holds promise as a novel rational strategy for the effective treatment of patients with TNBC.
Test compaction technique for built-in self-test in VLSI circuits.
Creators: name: Ho, Thanh Huong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In recent years, many test output data compression techniques have been introduced, which reduce the storage requirements of reference signatures for the circuit under test. A major problem, however, is that the compression always results in loss of error coverage. This work proposes a space compression technique for digital circuits with the objective of minimizing the storage for the circuits under test while maintaining the fault coverage information. The technique introduced is called a Modified Dynamic Space Compression method. For a circuit under test, a compaction tree is generated based on its structure. The detectable error probability was calculated by using the Boolean Difference Method. The output data modification was employed to minimize the number of faulty output data patterns which have the same compressed form as the fault free patterns. The compressed outputs were then fed into a syndrome counter to derive the signature for the circuit. A design program is written in C language and executed on PC which combines the space compression, output data modification, and faults testing. Simulations were performed on known combinational circuits and the results indicate that the loss in fault coverage caused by compression is rather small.
Evaluating  the quality of distance learning.. The case of the seminar on methodologies for  distance learning in the degree course for trainers at the University of Bologna. With closing reflections from Ira Vannini
Valutare la qualità della formazione a distanza. Il caso del Seminario di Metodologie della FaD del corso di Laurea in Formatore dell’Università di Bologna. Con alcune riflessioni conclusive di Ira Vannini.
Creators: name: Trentini, Graziella
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Beginning with the academic year 1999/2000, following the reorganisation of degree courses according to the decree 509/99. The Education Faculty at the university of Bologna instituted a new degree course  in Training . The course combined theoretical lectures with seminars, workshops and practical experience. The seminar entitled  “Methodologies for Distance Learning”  was offered over a  5 year period ending in the 2006/7 academic year. It was considered  important  to evaluate  this particular experience.
description: A partire dall’a.a. 1999/2000, in seguito al riordino dei corsi di laurea in base al De-creto 509/99 (“Regolamento recante norme concernenti l’autonomia didattica degli Atenei”) la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università di Bologna istituiva il nuovo Corso in Formatore con un piano di studi dove, insieme ai corsi teorici, partecipavano alla formazione del nuovo laureato triennale attività seminariali, labo-ratoriali e di tirocinio. Il seminario denominato “Metodologie della FaD” è stato ri-proposto nel corso di laurea con diverse modifiche per 5 anni: la sua ultima edizione è stata nell’anno accademico 2006-07. A fronte di questa esperienza pluriennale, si è ritenuto dunque importante fare un bilancio di questa specifica attività formativa.
Experiences with ontology development for value-added publishing
Creators: name: Hristozova, Maia
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents our practical experience of developing an ontology using the EXPLODE method for Value-Added Publishing. Value-Added Publishing is a relatively new area of electronic information distribution that extends beyond the established simple modes of online publishing. VAP considers the needs of the user as a primary measure of effectiveness of an online document by evaluating various metrics such as author reputation and number of citations. At implementation level the features of VAP can be achieved by customised information extraction agents. The domain of VAP raises many challenges. VAP is being developed by different groups of researchers, the requirements for the ontology come from many different places, not necessarily consistent with each other. Since VAP is still not a strongly established field, its borders and the issues that it addresses often change. EXPLODE is a method which is suitable for a dynamic environment. In this paper we give an overview of EXPLODE and describe the issues that we encountered and the decisions we had to make regarding the ontology design, structure and content.
The effect of piscivorous fish and nutrient availability on the biomass and community size structure of phytoplankton and zooplankton in 29 temperate lakes.
Creators: name: Dilworth-Christine, Pamela M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: It has been hypothesized that the trophic structure of aquatic ecosystems is controlled by two sets of processes, often referred to as bottom-up and top-down. The bottom-up hypothesis postulates that nutrient limitation, and various physical-chemical factors directly or indirectly regulate the biomass and community structure of organisms at all levels of the food web. The top-down hypothesis postulates that predation by upper levels of the food web (specifically piscivorous fish) strongly influence the biomass, community size structure and productivity of organisms in the lower trophic categories. In this study we attempt to determine the strength of both bottom-up and top-down control on lower trophic level biomass and community size structure, in lakes of varying trophic status. During summer stratification, 29 temperate lakes of varying trophic status and fish species composition were sampled in Quebec and Ontario. This study found a strong relationship between nutrient availability and phytoplankton biomass, and between nutrient availability and zooplankton size structure. Bottom-up effects were quite strong at both the phytoplankton and zooplankton levels. Neither piscivorous fish presence nor indices of piscivorous fish abundance had a detectable effect on most indices of phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass and community size structure. Only cladoceran biomass and the variance in individual dry weight were higher in lakes where piscivorous fish were present. Piscivorous fish predation-effects were not evident at the phytoplankton level and were relatively weak at the zooplankton level. Total zooplankton biomass, crustacean biomass and cladoceran biomass were significant in explaining residual variation in the TP-Chl a model and improved this model's predictive ability by 24%, 18% and 22%, respectively. This study found that the effect of piscivorous fish did not depend on the concentration of total phosphorus in the 29 lakes. No evidence of interaction between trophic status and predation was determined. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Les voyes de douceur et d'insinuation: French-Amerindian policy on New France's western frontier, 1703-1725.
Creators: name: Cook, Peter Laurence.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: During the term of Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil as governor of New France (1703-1725), diplomacy involving the French and the Amerindian nations to the west of Montreal was conducted in accordance with diplomatic protocols of Amerindian origin. Diplomatic relations between the Amerindians and the French were predicated on the basis of a fictive kinship relationship, wherein the French governor assumed the Amerindian title Onontio and the role of a "father" to his Amerindian "children." The forum for formal intercultural encounters was the council, an Amerindian institution that consisted of a structured dialogue between two parties, punctuated by the exchange of validating gifts. The diplomatic culture of the French made few inroads into the intercultural diplomacy of the period. Neither the Amerindian nor the French diplomats of the period acted as comprehensive cultural mediators during diplomatic encounters. Vaudreuil's corps of diplomatic agents was largely made up of military officers, seconded by interpreters. All of these agents were ethnic Frenchmen, although many interpreters benefited from intermarriage with synethnic and Amerindian women. Few agents cultivated long-term ties with Amerindian groups, or mastered Amerindian languages; those that did were to be found in the lower ranks of colonial society. In general, French agents were primarily interested in exploiting diplomatic ties with Amerindians in order to advance both French interests and their personal careers. French diplomatic agents adopted and learned to manipulate selected Amerindian diplomatic protocols in order to fulfill these goals. Although the French made extensive cultural adaptations in the realm of diplomacy, their motives were pragmatic, and their acculturation limited. The value and meaning with which they invested these alien diplomatic institutions were different form those the Amerindians accorded to the same forms. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Nuclear transport of parathyroid hormone (PTH)-related protein is dependent on microtubules
Creators: name: Gillespie, Matthew T.
name: Gu, Min
name: Jans, David A.
name: Lam, Mark H. C.
name: Loveland, Kate Lakoski
name: Martin, T. John
name: Schilders, Steven
name: Thomas, Rachel J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: PTH-related protein (PTHrP) was first discovered as a circulating factor secreted by certain cancers and is responsible for the syndrome of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy induced by various tumors. The similarity of its N terminus to that of PTH enables PTHrP to share the signaling properties of PTH, but the rest of the molecule possesses distinct functions, including a role in the nucleus/nucleolus in reducing apoptosis and enhancing cell proliferation. PTHrP nuclear import is mediated by importin beta1. In this study we use the technique of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching to demonstrate the ability of PTHrP to shuttle between cytoplasm and nucleus and to visualize directly the transport of PTHrP into the nucleus in living cells. Endogenous and transfected PTHrP was demonstrated to colocalize with microtubule structures in situ using various high-resolution microscopic approaches, as well as in in vitro binding studies, where importin beta1, but not importin alpha, enhanced the microtubular association of PTHrP with microtubules. Significantly, the dependence of PTHrP nuclear import on microtubules was shown by the inhibitory effect of pretreatment with the microtubule-disrupting agent nocodazole on nuclear-cytoplasmic flux. These results indicate that PTHrP nuclear/nucleolar import is dependent on microtubule integrity and are consistent with a direct role for the cytoskeleton in protein transport to the nucleus.
Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction over Supported Cu-Ni Nanoparticle Catalysts
Creators: name: Lortie, Maxime
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Reverse Water Gas Shift
Catalysis
Nanoparticle
Copper Nickel Alloy
Oxygen Vacancy
Samarium-Doped Ceria

description: CuNi nanoparticles were synthesized using a new polyol synthesis method. Three different CuxNi1-x catalysts were synthesized where x = 20, 50 and 80. The nanoparticles were deposited on carbon, C, gamma-alumina, γ-Al2O3, yttria-stabilized zirconia, YSZ, and samariumdoped ceria, SDC. Each set of catalysts was tested using the Reverse Water Gas Shift, RWGS, reaction under atmospheric pressure and at temperatures ranging from 400°C-700°C. The experiments were repeated 3 times to ensure stability and reproducibility. Platinum nanoparticles were also deposited on the same supports and tested for the RWGS reaction at the same conditions. The CuNi nanoparticles were characterized using a variety of different techniques. Xray diffraction, XRD, measurements demonstrate the resence of two CuNi solid solutions: one Cu rich solid solution, and the other a Ni rich solid solution. X-ray photo electron spectroscopy, XPS, measurements show Cu enrichment on all catalytic surfaces. Scanning electron microscopy, SEM, measurements show CuNi nanoparticles ranging in size from 4 nm to 100 nm. Some agglomeration was observed. SDC showed the best yield with all catalysts. Furthermore, high oxygen vacancy content was shown to increase yield of CO for the RWGS reaction. Cu50Ni50/SDC shows the combination of highest yield of CO and the best stability among CuNi catalysts. It also has similar yields (39.8%) as Pt/SDC at 700°C, which achieved the equilibrium yield at that temperature (43.9%). The catalyst was stable for 48 hours when exposed to high temperatures (600-700°C). There was no CH4 observed during any of the experiments when the partial pressure of the reactant gases was fed stoichiometrically. Partial pressure variation experiments demonstrated the presence of CH4 when the partial pressure of hydrogen was increased to twice the value of the partial pressure of CO2.
Implementation of power and force adaptive control of the end milling process.
Creators: name: Han, Zhixin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This thesis explores the application of adaptive control for power and force control in the end milling process. The spindle power and cutting force are maintained at desired levels despite the variations in the depth of cut and the workpiece properties. A first-order discrete model is used to represent the relationship between the process output (spindle power or cutting force) and the feedrate input. By open-loop experiments, the model is validated and the process parameters of the spindle power and cutting force systems are identified. The process is found to have pure time delay and can be a non-minimum phase system. A Deadbeat (DB) Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) algorithm is compared with modified MRAC, a typical scheme in existing adaptive control systems for non-minimum phase end milling processes. The design of the two controllers is described and simulations are presented. It is shown that the DB MRAC has less design complexity and superior control performance in simulation studies than the modified MRAC. Actual cutting tests of spindle power and cutting force control in the end milling process using the DB MRAC algorithm are carried out for a variety of cutting conditions. The control systems are stable with good transient and steady-state performance. The successful experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the DB MRAC scheme for spindle power and cutting force control of the end milling process and the feasibility of spindle power control in adaptive control of end milling processes.
The Identity and integration of young people of foreign origin from the point of view of intercultural pedagogy.
Identità e integrazione dei minori di origine straniera. Il punto di vista della pedagogia interculturale.
Creators: name: Bolognesi, Ivana
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The processes of building an identity in second generation immigrants are closely linked to intercultural pedagogy. Through reflections on the plurality of belonging, the discipline seeks methodologies and projects that are able to take into account the profound transformations that young children and adolescents of foreign origin are subject to.
description: I processi di costruzione dell’identità delle seconde generazioni interessano da vicino la pedagogia interculturale che, ponendo al centro della sua riflessione la pluralità delle appartenenze, è rivolta alla ricerca di progettualità e metodologie in grado di tener conto delle profonde trasformazioni a cui sono soggetti bambini e
adolescenti di origine straniera.
Umweltmanagementsysteme und Klimarisiken
Creators: name: Glatzner, Ludwig
name: Loew, Thomas
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: Klimarisiko
Umweltmanagementnorm ISO 14001
EMAS

description: Weltweit verfügen etwa eine halbe Million Standorte von Unternehmen und anderen Organisationen über ein Umweltmanagementsystem gemäß ISO 14001. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde der Frage nachgegangen, wie zukünftig mit Standards für Umweltmanagementsysteme ein systematisches Management von klimabezogenen Risiken gefördert oder gar sichergestellt werden kann. Dazu wurden mehrere Optionen wie beispielsweise eine Anpassung der ISO 14001 oder eine klimaspezifische Ergänzung der ISO 14002er-Reihe geprüft. Die Ergebnisse dienen insbesondere, aber nicht nur, als Diskussionsbeitrag zur Novellierung der ISO 14001. Ergänzend wurden 40 EMAS-Umwelterklärungen von mittelständischen Unternehmen und Behörden auf klimabezogenen Angaben gemäß TCFD analysiert. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
Hutu Rwandan Refugees of Dzaleka: Double-exile and Its Impact on Conceptions of Home and Identity
Creators: name: Sievert, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Home
Identity
Refugees
Double-exile
Belonging
Rwanda

description: The majority of empirical literature on refugee identity and homeland attachment focuses on single exile trajectories: one migratory movement out of the homeland and possibly repatriation. It largely neglects more complex experiences of exile and their implications. Double-exile, a second fleeing of one’s homeland after repatriation, adds complexity to our conventional understanding of refugee perceptions of home and identity. This study explores double-exile experiences of the Rwandan Hutu refugee population of Dzaleka refugee camp to examine its impacts on notions of home and identity construction. This ethnographic study found that the Rwandan Hutu refugees have a unique relationship to home and identity. Double-exile ended their sense of belonging to Rwandan society. Thus causing a break in the conventional longing for home and deterritorializing their identity. These impacts are apparent through the juxtaposition of study participants’ notions of home and their experiences of return and double-exile, a lack of connection or desire to return to Rwanda, and an absence of pride in their Rwandan identity and cultural practices. These findings suggest that more importance must be placed on the role of pre-flight experience of refugees as an integral element to their construction of notions of home. It also indicates that, contrary to more conventional exile trajectories where refugee identity is derived from a historical consciousness, double-exile refugees construct identity through a present-focus.
Increasing mean age of head and neck cancer patients at a german tertiary referral center
Creators: name: Vahl, Julius M.
name: Wigand, Marlene C.
name: Denkinger, Michael
name: Dallmeier, Dhayana
name: Steiger, Chiara
name: Welke, Claudia
name: Kuhn, Peter
name: Idel, Christian
name: Doescher, Johannes
name: Von Witzleben, Adrian
name: Brand, Matthias
name: Marienfeld, Ralf
name: Möller, Peter
name: Theodoraki, Marie-Nicole
name: Greve, Jens
name: Schuler, Patrick J.
name: Brunner, Cornelia
name: Hoffmann, Thomas K.
name: Laban, Simon
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: head and neck cancer
subject: HPV
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Head and neck neoplasms; Epidemiology
subject: Germany
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Aging
subject: Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Tumor
subject: Deutschland
subject: Epidemiologie
subject: Demographie
subject: Alter

description: Background: The impact of demographic change on the age at diagnosis in German head and neck cancer (HNC) patients is unclear. Here we present an evaluation of aging trends in HNC at a tertiary referral center. Methods: Retrospective cohort study on aging trends at the initial diagnosis of newly diagnosed patients with HNC between 2004 and 2018 at the head and neck cancer center Ulm in relation to demographic data of the catchment area. Results: The study population consisted of 2450 individuals diagnosed with HNC with a mean age of 62.84 (±11.67) years. We observed a significant increase in annual incidence rates and mean age over time. Mean age among HNC patients increased significantly more than among the population in the catchment area. Whereas the incidence rate of patients <50 years did not change, the incidence of HNC patients aged ≥70 years increased the most. The mean patient age in the main tumor sites increased significantly. Surprisingly, HPV-positive patients were not younger than HPV-negative patients, but showed a non-significant trend towards a higher mean age (63.0 vs. 60.7 years). Conclusions: Increasing incidence rates in older patients pose a challenge for health care systems. A nationwide study is needed to assess the dynamics and impact of aging on the incidence of HNC.
School twinning. A cultural way to enhance cooperation for development.
Il gemellaggio scolastico: un contributo culturale alla cooperazione allo sviluppo.
Creators: name: Musarò, Samanta
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: School twinning represents one of the most meaningful way to aim cooperation and cooperative organization. E-Twinning, currently one of the most common practice of twinning, aims to encourage European schools to collaborate using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in order to develop and share educational projects. Being “twinned” with southern countries schools is nevertheless more difficult, and links become not so direct: that is why school twinning works best when there is a co-ordinator, an organization that takes commitment. The Nafamba Xikolwene – I go to school project aims to encourage and develop cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge between Italian and Mozambican schools, students' intercultural awareness and education to justice, in order to dismantle any structure of prejudices and stereotypes.
description: I gemellaggi scolastici costituiscono una delle pratiche più significative di cooperazione e collaborazione a distanza. La forma di gemellaggio più diffusa è l'e-Twinning, il gemellaggio elettronico tra scuole europee che prevede l’utilizzo delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione per la realizzazione di progetti educativi. Ma quando si vuole cercare una scuola partner nei paesi del sud del mondo, il contatto diviene meno diretto e il rapporto a distanza deve essere mediato da un terzo soggetto. L'iniziativa di gemellaggio tra scuole italiane e mozambicane, Nafamba Xikolwene – Vado a scuola, promuove la costruzione di un percorso di crescita comune tra i ragazzi del mondo e una pedagogia della giustizia che si propone la destrutturazione dei pregiudizi e degli stereotipi.
The physiology of the entrepreneurship in transitional economies
Creators: name: Tanas, Janusz
name: Yamin, Shahid
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper delivers a panoramic snapshot of recent changes within the transitional economies with a particular focus on Poland. It examines Poland’s background, its impact and influence on people, which delivered the unique principals that support and naturally encourage the entrepreneurial approach carried out to date. Furthermore, it inspects the role and influence of the gradual development of entrepreneurship, which has stimulated economic growth, and the subsequent struggles and prosperity of this society.
Migration in Adolescence. Social psychological factors of reuniting families in Italy
Migrare in adolescenza. Aspetti psicosociali del ricongiungimento familiare in Italia.
Creators: name: Zuppiroli, Milena
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The statistics (www.istat.it, www.caritas.it) and research studied until now in relation to levels of migration, have evidenced an substantial increase in Italy of the presence of a young foreign population given mostly by those born to foreign parents on Italian territory, both boys and the girls, which for the most adolescent age moving, leaving their country, their suffering, their daily lives to be reunited with parents or part of the family, which earlier this year launched its own plan of life in the Italian context. These factors are clear indicators of the trend in Italy. Increasingly more consolidated by the part of migrants, to direction their migrating project, characterised by uncertainty and precarity of life with the view of the possibility of returning to their homeland, to propensity of stabilize permanently in the territory host, again forming a family through family reunification, while offering opportunities to those requesting them to overcome the migration process with his family now broken by migration, is characterized as a complex and not easy to implement, especially when to experience are young people.
description: I dati statistici e le ricerche fino ad oggi condotte in relazione ai flussi migratori, hanno evidenziato un incremento rilevante in Italia della presenza di una giovane popolazione straniera dato prevalentemente sia dall’aumento dei nati da genitori stranieri su territorio italiano, sia dai ragazzi e dalle ragazze, che per lo più in età adolescenziale, si spostano, lasciando il proprio paese, i propri affetti, la propria quotidianità per ricongiungersi ai genitori o a parte della famiglia che in precedenza ha avviato un proprio progetto di vita nel contesto italiano. Questi fattori sono chiari indicatori della tendenza in Italia, ormai sempre più consolidata da parte dei migranti, di orientare il proprio progetto migratorio a stabilizzarsi in modo definitivo sul territorio ospitante, formando nuovamente una famiglia o ricostruendola attraverso l’istanza del ricongiungimento familiare, che pur offrendo la possibilità a coloro che ne fanno richiesta di riunificare la propria famiglia, spezzata dalla migrazione, si connota come un percorso complesso e di non facile realizzazione, in particolare quando a sperimentarlo sono i giovani.
Design, Prototyping and Testing of a Tool for Intracardiac Delivery and Anchoring of a Prosthetic MitraI Valve
Creators: name: Marshall, Eli
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: mitral valve
intracardiac tool
mitral
tool design

description: The mitral valve in the heart sometimes struggles with diseases and complications, and needs to be replaced. This problem becomes more frequent with the ageing of the population in developed countries. The most common practice consists of suturing a prosthetic valve into place. However, newer methods are being devised and tested to make the surgery faster and less invasive. In particular, various types of new sutureless heart valve systems exist on the market. However, there is still a need for a tool designed for the intracardiac delivery and anchoring of a prosthetic mitral valve, as addressed here. A number of criteria and specifications were set by researchers at the Robarts Research Institute (London, ON) who came up with the design task. To address their request, ten conceptual designs of a sutureless, virtual-reality guided, self-anchoring, intracardiac system were developed to hold a prosthetic mitral valve, deliver it safely, and quickly affix it in position. The winning concept adequately met the design criteria. Two prototypes were manufactured. The attachment of a prosthetic valve to a simulated mitral valve annulus was tested with the first prototype to verify feasibility and measure leakage. The second prototype was pressure tested in a dynamic surgical phantom reproducing the circulatory conditions during surgery. While the preliminary feasibility of the concept was established, recommendations were made to develop a less bulky design.
Stereotypes and racial prejudice in children’s minds. Images, discussions, perspectives.
Stereotipi e pregiudizi etnici nei pensieri dei bambini. Immagini, discussioni, prospettive.
Creators: name: Zannoni, Federico
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of the following article is to share with the readers the most significant results gone out from an experience of little groups’discussions with kids 9-11 years old, in some Primary schools in the province of Reggio Emilia, during the school year 2003-04. The kids’ knowledge and ideas about different countries and people (in detail: China and Chinese people, Africa and African people, gypsies) and also their opinions and feelings about migrant people in our country were the topics of the discussions. Starting from the gathered facts and sentences, I would like to point out the stereotypes, the prejudices, how and why they grow, but also the knowledges, the necessities, the meanings and the abilities that can be exploited to the direction of the intercultural education.
description: L’intento di questo articolo è condividere i risultati più significativi emersi da un’esperienza di discussione a piccoli gruppi con bambini dell’ultimo biennio di alcune scuole primarie della provincia di Reggio Emilia, nell’anno scolastico 2003-04. Al centro delle discussioni erano poste tematiche relative alla conoscenza di Paesi e genti diverse (più specificamente, Cina e cinesi, Africa e africani, zingari), nonché opinioni e sentimenti nei riguardi degli immigrati presenti sul nostro territorio. La riflessione scaturita a partire dal materiale raccolto ha voluto mettere in evidenza da una parte gli stereotipi, i pregiudizi, gli elementi sui quali questi si formano e le modalità con cui si diffondono, e dall’altra le conoscenze, le esigenze conoscitive e le competenze su cui puntare nella direzione di un’educazione interculturale.
E-learning and learning-E: reflections on training
E-learning e learning-e. Riflessioni sulla formazione.
Creators: name: Panciroli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The increase of the traditional limits of education towards dinamic teaching and learning enviroments, of a strongly constructive nature, is strictly related with an always increasing request of knowledge elements by a part of society who made the cognitive dimension one of the development challenge. Telematic technolo-gies, in particular those of e-learning, represents one of the possible interpretation that in this paper are going to be analysed with a problematicistic approach.
description: The increase of the traditional limits of education towards dinamic teaching and learning enviroments, of a strongly constructive nature, is strictly related with an always increasing request of knowledge elements by a part of society who made the cognitive dimension one of the development challenge. Telematic technolo-gies, in particular those of e-learning, represents one of the possible interpretation that in this paper are going to be analysed with a problematicistic approach.
Tourism we are all. A project and one of the best practices in Education.
Tourism we are all. A project and one of the best practices in Education.
Creators: name: Triola, Maria Carmen
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Marica Triola will trace the various steps used over an entire school year to help her students enrich their knowledge of their home town (Bologna, Italy). Her talk will highlight three itineraries: the most important monument, museums and tra-ditional dishes and ingredients. She will also present multi-media material made by the children themselves in this CLIL project.
description: Marica Triola will trace the various steps used over an entire school year to help her students enrich their knowledge of their home town (Bologna, Italy). Her talk will highlight three itineraries: the most important monument, museums and tra-ditional dishes and ingredients. She will also present multi-media material made by the children themselves in this CLIL project.
Response of the injured tendon to growth factors in the presence or absence of the paratenon
Creators: name: Müller, Sebastian A.
name: Quirk, Nicholas P.
name: Müller-Lebschi, Julia A.
name: Heisterbach, Patricia E.
name: Dürselen, Lutz
name: Majewski, Martin
name: Evans, Christopher H.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: paratenon
subject: tendon healing
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Achilles tendon
subject: Growth factors
subject: Tendons Wounds and injuries Healing
subject: Rats
subject: Achillessehne
subject: Wachstumsfaktor

description: Background: The paratenon is important for Achilles tendon healing. There is much interest in the use of exogenous growth factors (GFs) as potential agents for accelerating the healing of damaged Achilles tendons. Purpose/Hypothesis: The present study used a rat model to study the responses of the injured Achilles tendon to GFs in the presence or absence of the paratenon. The hypothesis was that responses of the injured tendon to GFs would be lower in the absence of a paratenon. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: A 4-mm defect was created in the right Achilles tendon of 60 skeletally mature rats, which were treated with a validated combination of GFs (bFGF, BMP-12, and TGF-β1). Animals were randomly assigned to the intact paratenon (IP) group or resected paratenon (RP) group. Healing was studied anatomically, mechanically, and histologically after 1, 2, and 4 weeks. Results: IP tendons showed improved healing compared with RP tendons. IP tendons were significantly stronger (32.2 N and 48.9 N, respectively) than RP tendons (20.1 N and 31.1 N, respectively) after 1 and 2 weeks. IP tendons did not elongate as much as RP tendons and had greater cross-sectional areas (18.0 mm2, 14.4 mm2, and 16.4 mm2, respectively) after 1, 2, and 4 weeks compared with RP tendons (10.5 mm2, 8.4 mm2, and 11.9 mm2, respectively). On histology, earlier collagen deposition and parallel orientation of fibrils were found for IP tendons. Conclusion: The paratenon is essential for efficient Achilles tendon healing. Healing with GFs in this Achilles tendon defect model was superior in the presence of the paratenon. Clinical Relevance: Biological approaches to tendon engineering using GFs are in vogue and have been shown to improve healing of the rat Achilles tendon, most likely by inducing progenitor cells located within the paratenon. Clinically, resection or incision of the paratenon has been proposed for wound closure. Our data demonstrate the fundamental importance of the paratenon, which therefore should be preserved during Achilles tendon repair, especially if augmented with products such as platelet-rich plasma or autologous conditioned serum that are rich in GFs.
La telematica per comunicare in modi nuovi ed incontrare mondi lontani.
Telematics: New Means of Communication and Meeting Distant Worlds
Creators: name: Caprara, Barbara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Ipotizziamo di costruire un sito Web per facilitare la comunicazione interscolastica:a quali argomenti dare spazio nella home-page e quali introdurre successivamente? Che relazione instaurare tra la didattica tradizionale e le novità telematiche? Come trasmettere agli alunni la continuità tra gli argomenti trattati a lezione e le chat “improvvisate” in laboratorio? Di seguito viene presentata una serie di riflessioni a conclusione di due lavori di ricerca-azione che hanno inteso proporre il Web come estensione degli strumenti tradizionalmente utilizzati dagli insegnanti:dalla sperimentazione in una realtà locale, a un gemellaggio tra scuole di due continenti.
description: We propose the creation of a site for facilitating communication between schools. What subjects should be given space in the home page and what should be introduced subsequently? What should be the relationship between traditional teaching methods and the latest technological novelties? How can we transmit to the students the continuity between the subjects treated in the lessons and the “improvised” chats in the laboratory? This paper presents a series of conclusions on two research studies which proposed the use of the Web as an extension to the tools traditionally used by teachers: from experiments in a local situation to twinning schools on two continents.
Supplementary document for Fiber-based SORS-SERDS System and Chemometrics for the Diagnostics and Therapy Monitoring of Psoriasis Inflammatory Disease in vivo - 5031741.pdf
Creators: name: Schleusener, Johannes
name: Guo, Shuxia
name: Darvin, Maxim
name: Thiede, Gisela
name: Chernavskaia, Olga
name: Knorr, Florian
name: Lademann, Juergen
name: Popp, Juergen
name: Bocklitz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information
Virtual&Real: un’ipotesi per la realizzazione di un museo integrato.
Virtual and Real: a proposal for the creation of an integrated museum
Creators: name: Guerra, Luigi
name: Caprara, Barbara
name: Scala, Claudio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: Nonostante siano numerosi i musei italiani ad avere un sito Web di riferimento, l’analisi effettuata rileva un uso della rete e delle specificità della telematica assolutamente marginale. Il sito Web solo in rari casi si presenta come estensione del museo stesso, per lo più è una semplice vetrina che offre informazioni pratiche.
L’ipotesi presentata nell’articolo ipotizza un uso della rete più complesso, in grado di anticipare estendere e consolidare le conoscenze apprese durante la visita al museo reale.
description: In spite of the fact that many Italian museums have a reference web site, our analysis showed that use of the Web and its specific characteristics is totally marginal. The web site becomes an extension of the museum only in rare cases and, even then, becomes a simple showcase that offers practical information. This paper presents a more complex way to use the site, a way that can give a preview of what can be seen in the museum and expand and consolidate the knowledge obtained in the visit of the real museum.
Hiring, training, and supporting Peer Research Associates: Operationalizing community-based research principles within epidemiological studies by, with, and for women living with HIV
Creators: name: Kaida, Angela
name: Carter, Allison
name: Nicholson, Valerie
name: Lemay, Jo
name: O’Brien, Nadia
name: Greene, Saara
name: Tharao, Wangari
name: Proulx-Boucher, Karène
name: Gormley, Rebecca
name: Benoit, Anita
name: Bernier, Mélina
name: Thomas-Pavanel, Jamie
name: Lewis, Johanna
name: De Pokomandy, Alexandra
name: Loutfy, Mona
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: A community-based research (CBR) approach is critical to redressing the exclusion of women—particularly, traditionally marginalized women including those who use substances—from HIV research participation and benefit. However, few studies have articulated their process of involving and engaging peers, particularly within large-scale cohort studies of women living with HIV where gender, cultural and linguistic diversity, HIV stigma, substance use experience, and power inequities must be navigated. Methods: Through our work on the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS), Canada’s largest community-collaborative longitudinal cohort of women living with HIV (n = 1422), we developed a comprehensive, regionally tailored approach for hiring, training, and supporting women living with HIV as Peer Research Associates (PRAs). To reflect the diversity of women with HIV in Canada, we initially hired 37 PRAs from British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, prioritizing women historically under-represented in research, including women who use or have used illicit drugs, and women living with HIV of other social identities including Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ2S, and sex work communities, noting important points of intersection between these groups. Results: Building on PRAs’ lived experience, research capacity was supported through a comprehensive, multi-phase, and evidence-based experiential training curriculum, with mentorship and support opportunities provided at various stages of the study. Challenges included the following: being responsive to PRAs’ diversity; ensuring PRAs’ health, well-being, safety, and confidentiality; supporting PRAs to navigate shifting roles in their community; and ensuring sufficient time and resources for the translation of materials between English and French. Opportunities included the following: mutual capacity building of PRAs and researchers; community-informed approaches to study the processes and challenges; enhanced recruitment of harder-to-reach populations; and stronger community partnerships facilitating advocacy and action on findings. Conclusions: Community-collaborative studies are key to increasing the relevance and impact potential of research. For women living with HIV to participate in and benefit from HIV research, studies must foster inclusive, flexible, safe, and reciprocal approaches to PRA engagement, employment, and training tailored to regional contexts and women’s lives. Recommendations for best practice are offered.
Per un approccio pedagogico all’e-learning.
For a pedagogical approach to e-learning
Creators: name: Panciroli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: In recent years, along with progression of web based functionalities, new educa-tional methodologies have been realized, distinguished by high levels of connec-tivity with the learning community, in a context of learning environments integrat-ing new tools (web of second generation) for research, construction and diffusion of different knowledge.
description: In recent years, along with progression of web based functionalities, new educa-tional methodologies have been realized, distinguished by high levels of connec-tivity with the learning community, in a context of learning environments integrat-ing new tools (web of second generation) for research, construction and diffusion of different knowledge.