cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Making Open Science Sustainable for Chemistry
Creators: name: Hicks, Martin
name: Bruno, Ian
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry
open science
databases

description: doi:10.5446/50285
description: Interview with Ian Bruno: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK, recorded at the BEILSTEIN OPEN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (22 – 24 May 2017). Ian Bruno is discussing making open science sustainable with Martin Hicks. Ian makes the point that simply making data sets available is not sufficient, they need to be discoverable and re-usable. He outlines how the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) started producing the Cambridge Structure Database over 50 years ago, and over time have had different models to ensure its sustainability. In the internet era, the challenge has been to provide a level of free access, whilst generating income through the value added services and software that work on top of the database. Sustainability is not just an issue of financial support, but is also driven by the user base. Here the CCDC set up a network of national affiliated centers, responsible originally for the distribution of the database – then on tapes. Nowadays this network helps in attracting funding for local academics to receive the value added services. The driver of sustainability of a resource is its scientific value. Ian discussed the idea of the scholarly commons and different ways of communicating science, in particular looking at the underlying research objects that contribute to a story. To improve discoverability we need to address the issues of publish and perish paradigm, and develop workflows that are much more closely related to the research that people are doing. Here we need the appropriate levels of documentation or meta-data associated with those research objects so that people are able to find them. In terms of standards for chemical structures, Ian notes that people are currently using de-facto standards and have built workflows around them, and thus they will be reluctant to change. There are currently discussions underway, to ensure that the specification of these formats and extensions are made openly accessible.
Marco Mariano, L'America nell'"Occidente". Storia della dottrina Monroe (1823-1963)
Creators: name: Sanfilippo, Matteo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: review

description: Review of L'America nell'"Occidente". Storia della dottrina Monroe (1823-1963) by Marco Mariano
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Service discovery suite for user-centric service creation
Creators: name: Baladron, Carlos
name: Aguiar, Javier
name: Carro, Belen
name: Sienel, Juergen
name: Trapero, Ruben
name: Yelmo, Juan Carlos
name: del Alamo, Jose Maria
name: Yu, Jian
name: Falcarin, Paolo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Two emerging trends are impacting the CIT world: service orientation and user centricity. The OPUCE project aims at developing a platform to mix together both philosophies into an environment where end-users are capable of building highly personalized services integrating Information Technologies and communication capabilities. Such a platform has the potential to become an open marketplace in order for telco operators to implement innovative business models, and as such imposes specific requirements over the discovery mechanisms to help users locate services fitting their needs. This paper presents the discovery suite implemented in the OPUCE platform.
Development of reverse osmosis low-pressure membranes.
Creators: name: Nurlaila, Gita G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Thin film composite (TFC) membranes were developed for reverse osmosis (RO) under low pressure. Three commercial membranes, i.e. one type of polyvinylidene fluoride, namely AP-10, and two types of polyethersulfone, namely HW-18 and E-500, were used as substrate membranes. Sulfonated poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenyleneoxide), known as SPPO, was used as the ultrathin barrier layer of the composite membranes. The performances of the three substrate membranes were compared. The pore size and the pore size distribution of the substrate membranes were studied. Then the RO performances of the substrate membranes coated with SPPO were compared. It was observed that a high electrolyte separation without scarification of permeate flux was attained when membrane E-500 was used as the substrate membrane. Afterwards, the effects of the number of coating layers and the coating solution concentrations on RO performance of the TFC membranes, using E-500 membrane as the substrate membrane, were studied. The optimum coating solution concentration and the number of coating layers for maximum electrolyte separation were determined. The TFC membrane was then subjected to post-treatments, i.e. annealing and heat treatment under water, to improve the permeate flux. The final post-treated TFC membrane performance was concluded to be close to the targeted value.
Intervista a Richard Ford
Creators: name: Libedinski, Juana
name: De Rossi, Valentina
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Interview

description: Intervista a Richard Ford
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
"I'm Not a Loser, I'm Just Drawn That Way:" Comix, Graphic Novels, and the Ethos of the Anti-Hero
Creators: name: Iuliano, Fiorenzo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: American comics

description: American comics are, still today, often regarded as undemanding books starring a few well-known superheroes wearing masks and costumes. This is only partially true: comics are not necessarily about superheroes, the latter being starred, in fact, only in a limited amount of the comics ever published and circulated in the US. The golden age of comics, which saw superhero comics gain immense popularity, reached its momentum in the 1930s, when Superman, Captain America and Wonder Woman were created in order to give a body and a face to traditional American values (like freedom and democracy), and, thus, to symbolically vilify the European dictatorships of the time. Before the 1930s, however, comic strips published in magazines and newspaper chiefly featured ordinary people (or sometimes animals), often portrayed in surreal and paradoxical contexts. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, superheroes were not the only protagonists of comic stories, horror and science fiction comics being, at the time, as much as popular as the stories about superheroes. The supremacy of superheroes in American comics was sanctioned during the Cold War. When the Comics Code Authority, established in order to prevent young people from reading those comics that would encourage bad behavior, imposed its ban upon a high number of publications, only superheroes were spared, since they clearly met at least one of the Authority’s requirements: “in every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds” (Johnson 81). From the 1960s, the traditional superhero’s features started to change: no longer an exclusively “positive” figure, the new superhero was “the psychologically torn hero-villain” (Witek 49). The late 1960s and (especially) the 1970s, saw the increasing popularity of independent and underground comics, which in few years secured their niche in the comics industry: stories of antiheroes, as well as parodies of the most celebrated comics heroes, gained an almost immediate following. The era of graphic novel (from the late 1970s on), finally, witnessed the birth of art comics, radically different, on the whole, from old superheroes magazines, and the growing importance of authorship over marketability.
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Affective network neuroscience
Creators: name: Markett, Sebastian
name: Wudarczyk, Olga Anna
name: Biswal, Bharat B.
name: Jawinski, Philippe
name: Montag, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Affective neurosience
subject: Network neuroscience
subject: Resting-state functional MRI
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Neural networks (Neurobiology)
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroimaging
subject: Connectome
subject: Personality
subject: Neuropsychologie
subject: Nervennetz

description: The last years have seen the rise of a new paradigm in human neuroimaging: network neuroscience (Bassett and Sporns, 2017). Network neuroscience conceptualizes the brain as a connectome—an intricate network map of the brain where brain regions synchronize their activity via myriads of interconnecting nerve fibers. Network neuroscience is an interdisciplinary endeavor whose potential for cognitive science, the study of individual differences, and clinical research has been highlighted in several recent articles (Braun et al., 2015; Medaglia et al., 2015; Markett et al., 2018; Tompson et al., 2018). In the following, we will argue that network neuroscience provides an innovative toolbox that can also advance our understanding of affective processes in the brain, particularly when guided by (neuro)psychological theory.
Grüne Software
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software
subject: Ressourceneffizienz
subject: Ressourcenschonung
subject: Grüne Informationstechnik
subject: Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik
subject: Soziale Netze
subject: Rechenzentrum
subject: open source Software
subject: Endenergieverbrauch
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Obwohl Softwareprodukte immaterielle Güter sind, kann die Nutzung von Software erhebliche Stoff und Energieströme auslösen. Eigenschaften der Software entscheiden, welche Hardwarekapazitäten vorgehalten werden und wieviel elektrische Energie in Endgeräten, Netzwerken und Rechenzentren verbraucht wird. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Softwareeigenschaften und dem Bedarf an natürlichen Ressourcen, der durch Herstellung und Betrieb von IKT-Systemen ausgelöst wird, ist bisher wissenschaftlich noch wenig untersucht. Die vorliegende Studie betritt Neuland, indem sie explorativ den Einfluss von Software auf die indirekte Inanspruchnahme natürlicher Ressourcen durch Hardware untersucht. Die Ressourceneffizienz von Software wird dabei im Kontext neuer Nutzungsformen wie mobiler Internetnutzung und neuer Software-Architekturmuster wie Cloud Computing betrachtet.
Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Obwohl Softwareprodukte immaterielle Güter sind, kann die Nutzung von Software erhebliche ⁠Stoff⁠ und Energieströme auslösen. Eigenschaften der Software entscheiden, welche Hardwarekapazitäten vorgehalten werden und wieviel elektrische Energie in Endgeräten, Netzwerken und Rechenzentren verbraucht wird. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Softwareeigenschaften und dem Bedarf an natürlichen Ressourcen, der durch Herstellung und Betrieb von IKT-Systemen ausgelöst wird, ist bisher wissenschaftlich noch wenig untersucht. Die vorliegende Studie betritt Neuland, indem sie explorativ den Einfluss von Software auf die indirekte Inanspruchnahme natürlicher Ressourcen durch Hardware untersucht. Die Ressourceneffizienz von Software wird dabei im Kontext neuer Nutzungsformen wie mobiler Internetnutzung und neuer Software-Architekturmuster wie Cloud Computing betrachtet.
Marcella De Marco, Audiovisual Translation Through a Gender Lens
Creators: name: Pigozzi, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: review

description: Review of Audiovisual Translation Through a Gender Lens by Marcella De Marco
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Anthony S. Parent Jr. e Ulrike Wiethaus (a cura di), Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History
Creators: name: Mancini, Arianna
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: review

description: Review of Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History edited by Anthony S. Parent Jr. e Ulrike Wiethaus
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Manuel Ramos, Desperado: A Mile High Noir
Creators: name: Segato, Giulio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: review

description: Review of Desperado: A Mile High Noir by Manuel Ramos
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Transfer of Metadata from the Bench to Databases
Creators: name: Rzepa, Henry
name: Kettner, Carsten
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry
open science
metadata

description: doi:10.5446/50284
description: Interview with Henry Rzepa: Imperial College London, UK, recorded at the BEILSTEIN OPEN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (22 – 24 May 2017). Henry Rzepa discusses metadata in chemistry with Carsten Kettner. Before the interview moves on to things chemical, Henry recounts his over 300000 miles of motorbike riding in London visiting the many rivers. The discussion started with the meaning of the term “meta”; in this context metadata refers to the data that are needed to describe data, thus metadata are actually more important and more interesting than the data. The question of format for metadata was raised; whilst the format is not so important, one still needs to query it, so it is necessary to know how to ask the right question. It is important to remember that when building a repository, any mistakes would be permanent. But here, good metadata can help; in the curation of data – correcting errors, bringing it up to date, putting it in a more modern form, and hence giving the data a longer life. Metadata helps make data FAIR; Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and tells you how you can Reuse it. When discussing standards for metadata, Henry raised the issue of understanding what a bond is. Most chemists think they know what a bond is, but in reality probably don’t really know, which means that they are going to need to reach an agreement on how to describe them. In Henry’s view, chemists are like cats, it is very difficult to get more than 4 chemists to agree on anything. But to make things work we need open community efforts. Henry is interested in chemical reactions and their transition states and has modeled them in InChI. For him it is import not to discuss hypothetical or abstract descriptions of how to do something but to actually to try things out, get an example out for the community to use. You have to build real things, and take them a part again – that is how science works.
Is there consensus among Canadians about the state's responsibility for health care and education? An analysis of the 1996 ISSP survey
Creators: name: Boucetta, Dalila
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Education, Administration.
subject: Political Science, Public Administration.
subject: Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.
subject: Health Sciences, Health Care Management.

description: This study intended to discover whether there was consensus among Canadians about the state's responsibility for health care and education from an analysis of the 1996 International Social Survey Programme, Role of Government. The weighted sample size was 1239. Ornstein's and Stevenson's 1977--81 study was also partially replicated. Results showed that welfare state retrenchment in health care and education during the '90s and state ruling by coercion led to dissent among Canadians about government intervention in health care and education. Drawn upon the competing region-class struggle theories, findings indicated that high public support for government intervention in health care was an interaction of regional---Prairie and Alberta---and class struggle---lower, working and middle classes, differences. Quebec showed the lowest increase in support for government role in health care over time. Women favoured much greater government role in health care than men. Younger and low-income people were more favourable to government intervention in education.
Effects of the mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 on fuel substrate oxidation and reactive oxygen species formation in rat L6 muscle cells
Creators: name: MacLellan, James Darcy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.
subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is an integral mitochondrial membrane protein thought to disassociate fuel substrate oxidation by allowing proton re-entry into the mitochondrial matrix. Expression of UCP3 has been correlated with fatty acid and glucose metabolism, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. To improve our understanding of the potential involvement of UCP3 in such pathways we investigated the effects of a UCP3 overexpression (2.2-2.5 fold) in the L6 muscle cell line. These findings were compared to those of UCP2 overexpression and DNP exposure. Palmitate oxidation was significantly increased by overexpressing UCP3 but unaffected by the other treatment conditions. Both glucose oxidation and oxygen consumption were unaffected by UCP2 and UCP3 overexpression but were significantly increased by DNP treatment. ROS production was decreased by UCP2, UCP3 and DNP treatment. These findings suggest a role for UCP3 in the regulation of fatty acid oxidation and ROS formation but not in glucose oxidation.
STUDYING THE MORROSQUILLO GULF TINTIPAN ISLAND A FANTASTIC BLUE SPACE
Creators: name: Payares, Juan J.
name: Combariza, Aldo F.
name: Alvarez, Maria J.
name: Dinais Alvarez
name: Padilla, Carlos A.
name: Blanco, Andres F.
name: Dairo Marin
name: Perdomo, Carlos
name: Garcia, Paulo A.
name: Alvarez, Jan C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: species
tintipan island
prototypes

description: In the archipielago of San Bernardo we submerge to study tintipan island from biology and physic chemical point view. In this work, we present some species diversity in Tintipán island and development of prototypes for the measurement of physical and chemical parameter using microcontrollers and electrical sensors.
The role of moderating factors in mobile coupon adoption: an extended TAM perspective
Creators: name: Jayasingh, Sudarsan
name: Eze, Uchenna Cyril
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research represents a theoretical extension of the extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to study the consumer adoption of mobile coupons. We developed a model to test the relationship between theoretical constructs spanning technological and cognitive influence processes and their impact on Behavioural Intention. This study aims to integrate price consciousness and value consciousness into the promotional effectiveness framework. The results of the study indicate that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use influence attitude, which in turn influences the intention to use m-coupons. Social influence and compatibility play a major role in influencing the intention to use mobile coupons. The key objective of this research paper is to study the role of value consciousness and price consciousness as moderating variable in predicting the customer intention to use mobile coupons. The high value conscious and price conscious customers indicate more interest in redeeming m-coupons than other customers. This result confirms that in the mobile technology context, traditional adoption models such as TAM could be applied but needs to be modified and extended in order to increase their prediction and explanation power
Molecular characterization and functional analysis of a pollen-specific gene in Brassica napus.
Creators: name: Treacy, Brian K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: cDNA and genomic clones a new pollen-specific gene, Bnm1, have been isolated of from Brassica napus L. cv. Topas. The gene contains an open reading frame of 546 bp and a single intron of 362 bp. A comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence with sequences in data banks did not show similarity with known proteins. Northern blot analysis of developing pollen showed that Bnm1 mRNA was first detected in bicellular pollen and accumulated to higher levels in tricellular pollen: Bnm1 mRNA was not detected in leaves, stems, roots, pistils, seeds or pollen-derived embryos. RNA in situ hybridization of whole flower buds confirmed that Bnm1 was pollen-specific and expressed late in development. A promoter fragment of the Bnm1 gene fused to the gusA reporter gene yielded similar patterns of tissue specificity and developmental regulation in transgenic B. napus cv Westar plants; however, the promoter was also active during the early stages of pollen development. The Bnm1 gene, cloned in this study, was derived from the A genome of the allotetraploid species B. napus (AACC). Southern blot analysis indicated that sequences similar to the Bnm1 gene were found in both A and C Brassica genomes. Related sequences were found in all 10 members of the Brassiceae tribe examined, but were not present in all tribes of the Brassicaceae family. Antisera raised against the BNM1 protein detected a single band of predicted size in tricellular and germinating pollen. BNM1 protein was not detected in other developmental stages including; tetrad, unicellular microspores and bicellular pollen. Protein samples extracted from somatic tissues, leaf and stem were not recognized by the anti-BNM1 primary antibody. To investigate the function of BNM1 in pollen, B. napus plants were transformed with a construct containing the Bnm1 promoter, fused to the complete cDNA in reverse orientation. Seven transgenic plants showed lower levels of Bnm1 when compared with wild-type. No obvious morphological lesions in transgenic antisense plants were observed. No differences in viability or in vitro germinations were observed between these downregulated plants and wild-type. In vivo germination assays suggested that, although BNM1 is not essential to germination and pollen tube growth, BNM1 may modulate the growth/guidance of the pollen tube towards the ovule.
Étude de la relation entre la perception d'un événement traumatique et le fonctionnement familial auprès de familles de militaires déployés.
Creators: name: Roussin, Isabel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Cette etude descriptive-correlative vise a explorer les relations entre la perception d'un evenement psychologiquement traumatique et le fonctionnement familial des familles au retour du militaire apres un deploiement de 6 mois pour une mission humanitaire. L'echantillon se compose de 23 familles, selectionnees dans une base des Forces canadiennes. Le questionnaire "Revised Impact of Event Scale" et le "Family Assessment Device III" ont permis de quantifier les resultats. D'une part, des resultats ont demontre de fortes interrelations entre les dimensions resolution de problemes, communication et roles chez le couple militaire et d'autre part, une relation d'ordre moyen entre la dimension expression affective du militaire et la perception d'un evenement psychologiquement traumatique. Plusieurs relations ont ete demontrees entre les dimensions du fonctionnement familial du couple et l'age, la scolarite, le nombre d'enfants, le nombre de missions ainsi que le grade. Les resultats fournissent des pistes fort interessantes pour la planification d'interventions aupres de familles militaires et pour des recherches ulteieures.
John E. Williams, Butcher's Crossing
Creators: name: Bosco, Stefano
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: review

description: Review of Butcher's Crossing by John E. Williams
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, Cold Lake, Alberta.
Creators: name: McCrimmon, G. Glen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The lower Cretaceous (Aptian to Albian) CLearwater Formation at Cold Lake, Alberta contains a complex assemblage of silicicastic strata. On the basis of detailed core analyses, Clearwater Formation strata have been subdivided into eight lithofacies and six recurring, facies associations. These facies associations are: (1) Tidal bar, (2) Sand flat, (3) Tidal-fluvial channel, (4) Fluvial channel, (5) Shoreface to foreshore, and (6) Offshore. Correlation of the facies associations and their bounding time-significant surfaces has led to the interpretation that Clearwater Formation strata are marine and tidally-influenced coastal embayment deposits that comprise four unconformity-bounded depositional sequences (1 to 4). Each sequence is made up of one or more incised valley-fill deposits within a backstepping parasequence set, indicating deposition in the transgressive system tract. The incised valley-fill deposits of each sequence, however, are interpreted a basinward shift of deltaic facies within a larger-scale marine transgression. Together, the four depositional sequences of the Clearwater Formation therefore compose a progradational sequence set. The Clearwater Formation is the primary reservoir unit at the Cold Lake heavy oil sands area with reserves estimated at $11,050\times 10\sp6$ m$\sp3$ of heavy crude bitumen. The distribution of hydrocarbons is related primarily to the distribution of reservoir quality strata and positive structure. Strata of facies associations 2 (sand flat) and 4 (fluvial channel) are observed to have the best reservoir quality. In the study area these strata occur in each of the upper three depositional sequences but are most abundant in sequences 3 and 4. The spatial distribution of reservoir-quality strata in Sequence 2 is such that additional hydrocarbon deposits are inferred to exist south of the study area, along the axis of the incised valley trend. Furthermore, northwest of the study are, Sequence 4 probably contains additional reservoir-quality strata along the trend of its incised valleys.
Problématique entourant la confection d'un manuel de traduction administrative.
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Matthieu.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

description: La presente these a por objet de presenter la problematique entourant la confection d'un manuel de traduction administrative. Plus specifiquement, elle vise a decrire toutes les etapes prealables et necessaires a la redaction proprement dite du manuel, depuis la presentation materielle jusqu'a la confection des exercises. La these comporte trois parties. Le premier chapitre porte sur la place des manuels a l'universite. Sont examines leur utilite a ce niveau d'enseignement, les criteres qui s'appliquent a leur evaluation et a leur selection, ainsi que les divers types de manuels de traduction qui existent. Cette etape nous a permis d'etablir les criteres de confection de notre manuel et de choisir la formule qui convient a l'enseignement de la traduction administrative. Le deuxieme chapitre est consacre au manuel de traduction administrative a proprement parler. Nous y traitons de la delimitation de la matiere, des fondements theoriques de l'ouvrage et de l'approche pedagogique adoptee, en l'occurrence la methode par objectifs d'apprentissage. Enfin, le chapitre principal de la these, le Chapitre 3, consiste a presenter le contenu du manuel, c'est-a-dire ses objectifs generaux et specifiques. Ce chapitre se termine par une dizaine d'exemples d'exercises pratiques, qui viennent etayer ces objectifs.
Collaborative curriculum development in public relations: applying Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Creators: name: Galloway, Chris
name: Weaver, Debbi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper uses Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to interpret the experience of an academic and an academic development advisor working together on the high-pressure development of new public relations curriculum. SFBT is a counselling approach focused on helping people make improvements in relation to given problems. In an academic development setting, it provides a framework for considering the way collaborative relationships can operate in the process of building curricula and enhanced teaching practices. In the case discussed here, a teaching academic and an academic development advisor found that SFBT provided a useful model for reflection on an extended collaboration. The paper proposes SFBT as a potentially valuable tool for academics and their advisors in other curriculum projects.
Challenges for Scientific Databases
Creators: name: Lisacek, Frédérique
name: Kettner, Carsten
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry
open science
databases

description: doi:10.5446/50283
description: Interview with Frédérique Lisacek: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland, recorded at the BEILSTEIN OPEN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (22 – 24 May 2017). Frédérique Lisacek is talking with Carsten Kettner about challenges for scientific databases. In Switzerland, at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics there are two groups responsible for setting up databases in bioinformatics; one in Geneva looking traditionally at protein data, for example SwissProt, and one in Lausanne looking into DNA data. The main challenge in hosting and maintaining data collections is infrastructure, both in terms of hardware and information curation, i.e. carried out by experts in the corresponding field. Financing curation is a big challenge as it does not traditionally fit in either research or infrastructure. Frédérique tells how important standards are. They need to be developed between people who have the scientific knowledge and people who have the technical knowledge. The coexistence of several standards for the same thing is probably an advantage as no one standard will be able to capture all aspects; however, we should narrow the number down
Performance of back-off algorithms
Creators: name: Lin, Hong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: A well known defect of the standard exponential back-off algorithm used in IEEE 802.11 is its short-term unfairness between users. A user will have high throughput shortly after a successful transmitting but the user will have a low throughput temporarily after backing off again and again because of multiple collisions. This variation of short-term throughput induces unacceptable delay variation for the users that have real-time service demands such as Audio or Video. Recently algorithms like Idle Sense [1] has been proposed to solve this problem by reducing the short-term unfairness between users. It lets each user adapt its probability p of accessing the channel to a predetermined optimal p* based on its observation of traffic on the channel. In this thesis, we discuss some improvements we made to Idle Sense by including a deterministic back-off of [(1 -- p)/p] time slots after a successful transmission. Our algorithm may be viewed as a combination of Idle Sense and Zero Collision [2]. Simulation results show the throughput our algorithm obtains is almost the same as that of Idle Sense but short-term unfairness is reduced. Packets of each user can be transmitted at much more regular intervals and in simulations for Voice over IP (VOIP), the number of VOIP users with a good Quality of Service (QoS) through a single access point can be substantially increased.
Il mantra del fuoco. Linguaggi, temi e simboli della protesta per l'indipendenza del Tibet
Creators: name: Mancuso, Claudio
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: American studies; Occupy Wall Street

description: Sin dalle prime esplorazioni del XVII secolo, l’immaginario collettivo occidentale ha rappresentato il Tibet come un luogo leggendario e misterioso, difficilmente accessibile non solo geograficamente ma anche culturalmente. L’esistenza di un’aura mitica così profonda e consolidata – favorita ancora oggi da un’ampia produzione letteraria e cinematografica, nonché dalle sempre più influenti mode esoteriche – ha inciso negativamente sull’attuale percezione delle dinamiche legate alla questione tibetana. Il concorso di questi fattori, unitamente alla censura operata dal governo cinese e alle ragioni della realpolitik, ha fornito all’Occidente un’immagine poco nitida del movimento indipendentista tibetano e delle forme assunte dalle sue rivendicazioni.
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Hostage negotiations: A survey of police negotiators trained at the Canadian police college.
Creators: name: Zatwarnitski, Todd A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: This thesis explores the interpersonal and situational dynamics of hostage negotiation situations through an analysis of responses to a survey. A brief historical overview is presented which provides the reader with information regarding hostage takings and the various responses employed by authorities in the past. Hostage negotiation tactics in North America were first developed by Frank Bolz and Harvey Schlossberg, veterans of the New York City Police Department. From these beginnings, police departments developed and trained their officers to become hostage negotiators. A review of the academic literature in Canada and the United States provides information on various approaches researchers have employed when studying hostage negotiations. Negotiation processes, efficacy of negotiations, and officer suitability are subjects included in the review. The findings indicate that 70% of hostage-takings are of a domestic nature and that the majority of hostages taken are women and children. The hostage-takers are predominantly male and are normally known or related to the hostage. In cases where poor communications, and/or an escalated threat developed, the outcome usually ended in an assault. In cases where there was a previous association between a hostage-taker and a member of the negotiating party, or when a suspect had a previous criminal record, negotiations had a higher probability of resulting in a peaceful outcome. A central problem in police negotiation strategies consists in identifying and classifying the hostage takers. Once this has been accomplished, an appropriate communication strategy can then be devised and implemented. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the results and recommendations for future negotiation strategies and training in the area of hostage-taking. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Identification of potential metabolic biomarkers of polycystic ovary syndrome in follicular fluid by SWATH mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Sun, Zhengao
name: Chang, Hsun-Ming
name: Wang, Aijuan
name: Song, Jingyan
name: Zhang, Xingxing
name: Guo, Jiayin
name: Leung, P. C. K.
name: Lian, Fang
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex disorder associated with multiple metabolic disturbance, including defective glucose metabolism and insulin resistance. The altered metabolites caused by the related metabolic disturbance may affect ovarian follicles, which can be reflected in follicular fluid composition. The aim of this study is to investigate follicular fluid metabolic profiles in women with PCOS using an advanced sequential window acquisition of all theoretical fragment-ion spectra (SWATH) mass spectrometry. Materials and methods: Nineteen women with PCOS and twenty-one healthy controls undergoing IVF/ET were recruited, and their follicular fluid samples were collected for metabolomic study. Follicular fluid metabolic profiles, including steroid hormones, free fatty acids, bioactive lipids, and amino acids were analyzed using the principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares to latent structure-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) model. Results: Levels of free fatty acids, 3-hydroxynonanoyl carnitine and eicosapentaenoic acid were significantly increased (P < 0.05), whereas those of bioactive lipids, lysophosphatidylcholines (LysoPC) (16:0), phytosphingosine, LysoPC (14:0) and LysoPC (18:0) were significantly decreased in women with PCOS (P < 0.05). Additionally, levels of steroid hormone deoxycorticosterone and two amino acids, phenylalanine and leucine were higher in the PCOS patients (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Women with PCOS display unique metabolic profiles in their follicular fluid, and this data may provide us with important biochemical information and metabolic signatures that enable a better understanding of the pathogenesis of PCOS.
Uncertainties in Chemistry
Creators: name: Frey, Jeremy G.
name: Kettner, Carsten
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry
open science
standards

description: doi:10.5446/50286
description: Interview with Jeremy G. Frey: University of Southampton, UK, recorded at the BEILSTEIN OPEN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (22 – 24 May 2017). Jeremy Frey discusses uncertainty in chemistry with Carsten Kettner. Uncertainty in what scientists have done, what you may have done yourself, uncertainty in the results that come out – essentially anything. His own approach to research is to find ways to minimize all types of uncertainty. The first step is of course to document oneself exactly what one did; the problem being that when one carries out an experiment for the first time, one does know what information is essential. On the one hand scientists need better training, but on the other it is sometimes very difficult to describe experiments and give a foolproof description of the method to allow reproducibility. A scientist, who is doing something completely new, pushing at the boundaries, will probably not be able to reproduce the results satisfactorily until the process is fully understood. And it is important for people in science and in the media to realize that at the cutting-edge of discovery, initial lack of reproducibility can be expected and is acceptable. Jeremy concludes that it is vital to correctly manage uncertainty in science.
Safety and parental satisfaction with early discharge of preterm infants on nasogastric tube feeding and outpatient clinic follow-up
Creators: name: Schuler, Rahel
name: Erhardt, Harald
name: Mihatsch, Walter A.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: preterm
subject: early-discharge
subject: tube-feeding
subject: parental satisfaction
subject: outpatient clinic follow-up
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Enteral nutrition
subject: Intubation, Gastrointestinal
subject: Infant, Premature
subject: Patient discharge
subject: Frühgeborenes
subject: Sondenernährung
subject: Krrankenhaus
subject: Entlassung

description: Aim: To evaluate our early discharge program of preterm infants with nasogastric tube feeding (NTF) and close outpatient clinic follow-up with regard to safety, parent satisfaction and parental stress level. Methods: 119 preterm infants were discharged on NTF from our tertiary care neonatal unit (median gestational age 31.0 weeks, median birthweight 1,650 g). Parental satisfaction was evaluated by a standardized questionnaire. For safety assessment growth until term equivalent age and re-hospitalizations within 2 months after discharge were evaluated. Results: Infants were discharged home at a median gestational age of 35.4 weeks after a median hospital stay of 22 days. Follow up was attained in 95 of 104 parent-infant dyads. The majority of parents (94%) reported that they had made the right decision in taking their infant home on NTF. At the time of discharge 86% of parents felt very well-prepared to perform NTF. 70% Of parents rated their stress level at home as low (≤2 out of 5). There were no NTF associated readmissions and no growth faltering until term equivalent age. Conclusion: Early discharge of preterm infants with NTF together with outpatient clinic follow-up is very well-accepted by parents and appears to be safe.
Libraries in Transformation
Creators: name: McEwen, Leah
name: Kettner, Carsten
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry
open science
metadata

description: doi:10.5446/50289
description: Interview with Leah McEwen: Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, recorded at the BEILSTEIN OPEN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (22 – 24 May 2017). Leah McEwen discusses libraries in transformation with Carsten Kettner. The Physical Sciences Library at Cornell dispersed stacks in 2009, so they are operating totally electronically since nearly 10 years. The library is becoming more digital and getting closer to research process, supporting scientists with publication preparation, data management, working with publishers and repositories. The Cornell University Library system has a technical team of database developers, ontologists, and other technical specialists working with librarians who have specific domain knowledge in various disciplines. A challenge for the Physical Sciences Library today is visibility, which means going out and getting to know the scientists and students, and also describing the value-add can be more difficult now that information access is no longer via printed works. Leah, who is the chemistry librarian at Cornell, enjoys getting beyond the formal aspects and getting to grips with the data. At the symposium Leah has described projects involving environmental health and safety – which necessitates working closely with researchers. In terms of health and safety, chemists look at chemistry on the molecular level; most issues which occur have to do with the transportation of chemicals on the macro level. Students do not generally have any lab background, so they need special consideration. Students are required to do risk assessment exercises during the course. Researchers are not yet required to do safety assessments in the US. Leah is hopeful that this will change.
Traduction commentée de textes de l'émir Moustapha Chéhabi.
Creators: name: Stephan, Romancia.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: The writings of Moustapha Chehabi (best known as author of the Dictionnaire francais-arabe des termes agricoles and of a book about Arabic scientific terminology, Al-mustalahat al-ilmiyyat fi al-lught al-arabiyyat fi al-qadim wal-hadi th) illustrate the continuing influence of the Arab lexicographic tradition, and the spirit of the nahpdat (Arab Awakening), as well as major contemporary problems facing the Arabic language. As witness to the opening of the Middle-East to Western culture following centuries of lethargy, Chehabi succeeded in making use of the linguistic achievement of the Arabs of the classical era in order to develop methods which are adapted to the new needs of Arabic technical and scientific terminology, especially in the fields of agriculture and botany. Thanks to his perceptiveness, he was able to address major issues of contemporary Arabic: the inadequacy of existing Arabic dictionaries, the need for a dynamic methodology of neologizing which is also respectful of the particular characteristics of Arabic, and the urgent need for Arabic terminology unification. The thesis includes a historical background, a biography of Moustapha Chehabi and three annotated and commented translations of excerpts from his works, as well as a bibliography of his publications and a biographical lexicon of lexicographers and others who are mentioned by Chehabi or in the commentary.
Intervista a Chiara Spallino sul Meridiano Mondadori dedicato a Toni Morrison
Creators: name: Bordin, Elisa
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: Interview

description: Intervista a Chiara Spallino sul Meridiano Mondadori dedicato a Toni Morrison
description: Iperstoria, No 3 (2014): Orizzonti di Occupy: il linguaggio di OWS e di altre forme odierne di protesta popolare
Application of surface fitting techniques for the representation of leaf surfaces
Creators: name: Loch, Birgit I.
name: Belward, J. A.
name: Hanan, J. S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Leaves play a vital role in the development of a plant, as they are major resource collectors. Adequate representations of leaves are therefore required for the modelling of plants. Such representations may be important to generate a realistic visualisation, or they may be used to study biological processes such as photosynthesis and canopy light environment. Accurate leaf surface representations are rarely found in the plant modelling community. This paper aims to show how detailed, accurate representations of leaf surfaces can be created from data; representations that may then be used as parts of virtual plants for applications in fields as diverse as the arts, agriculture or computer games. The techniques used here are mathematical methods of surface fitting applied to data that has been sampled from real leaves with a laser scanner (Polhemus FastSCAN 3D). These methods are interpolating finite element techniques, one using linear triangular elements, the other piecewise cubic triangles. The size of a laser scanned data set can be enormous and it may be important to represent the surface with significantly fewer points. An incremental algorithm is therefore used to identify significant points that result in a surface fit that approximates the entire data set to a pre-specified accuracy. The algorithms are applied to two examples, a Frangipani leaf and a Flame Tree leaf. Figure 1 visualises results for the Flame Tree leaf. The images represent (a) a photo of this particular leaf, (b) the complete set of more than 5000 digitised data points, (c) positions of data points after application of the incremental algorithm for the piecewise cubic approach with an accuracy of 1%, (d) the same rotated to show the shape of the surface represented by these points, (e) the resulting triangulation and (f) the surface fit. From these point locations, guidelines are deduced describing where data points should be positioned, for example for measurement by lower resolution devices such as a sonic digitiser. The reduced point sets contain about one tenth of the number of points in the original data set. The research presented in this paper is the first to model detailed and accurate leaf surfaces based on three-dimensional data points captured from real leaf surfaces. It provided a basis on which further research can be built. For example, detailed and accurate surface representations may be used in the simulation of pesticide deposition on leaf surfaces to determine the effectiveness of a treatment and help develop improved pesticide application techniques.