cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Alpharetroviral self-inactivating vectors produced by a superinfection-resistant stable packaging cell line allow genetic modification of primary human T lymphocytes
Creators: name: Labenski, Verena
name: Suerth, Julia
name: Barczak, Elke
name: Heckl, Dirk
name: Levy, Camille
name: Bernadin, Ornellie
name: Charpentier, Emanuelle
name: Williams, David
name: Fehse, Boris
name: Verhoeyen, Els
name: Schambach, Axel
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Alpharetrovirus/*metabolism
subject: Base Sequence
subject: CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics
subject: Clone Cells
subject: Genes, Reporter
subject: *Genetic Techniques
subject: Genetic Vectors/*metabolism
subject: HEK293 Cells
subject: Humans
subject: Jurkat Cells
subject: Reproducibility of Results
subject: T-Lymphocytes/immunology/*metabolism
subject: Transduction, Genetic
subject: Transgenes
subject: *Virus Assembly
subject: 610

description: Primary human T lymphocytes represent an important cell population for adoptive immunotherapies, including chimeric-antigen and T-cell receptor applications, as they have the capability to eliminate non-self, virus-infected and tumor cells. Given the increasing numbers of clinical immunotherapy applications, the development of an optimal vector platform for genetic T lymphocyte engineering, which allows cost-effective high-quality vector productions, remains a critical goal. Alpharetroviral self-inactivating vectors (ARV) have several advantages compared to other vector platforms, including a more random genomic integration pattern and reduced likelihood for inducing aberrant splicing of integrated proviruses. We developed an ARV platform for the transduction of primary human T lymphocytes. We demonstrated functional transgene transfer using the clinically relevant herpes-simplex-virus thymidine kinase variant TK.007. Proof-of-concept of alpharetroviral-mediated T-lymphocyte engineering was shown in vitro and in a humanized transplantation model in vivo. Furthermore, we established a stable, human alpharetroviral packaging cell line in which we deleted the entry receptor (SLC1A5) for RD114/TR-pseudotyped ARVs to prevent superinfection and enhance genomic integrity of the packaging cell line and viral particles. We showed that superinfection can be entirely prevented, while maintaining high recombinant virus titers. Taken together, this resulted in an improved production platform representing an economic strategy for translating the promising features of ARVs for therapeutic T-lymphocyte engineering.
Supplementary document for Fast and accurate spectral estimation axial super resolution optical coherence tomography - 5406924.pdf
Creators: name: de Wit, Jos
name: Angelopoulos, Konstantinos
name: Kalkman, Jeroen
name: Glentis, George Othon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plant Physiology
subject: Dermatology
subject: Biomedical Instrumentation
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary document that explains the details of the fast iterative adaptive approach. First the Gohberg-Semencul factorization is explained, which is subsequently used in the computationally efficient IAA implementation.
Public Opinion and Communicative Action Around Renewable Energy Projects
Creators: name: Fast, Stewart
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: renewable energy
rural
Habermas
public opinion
communicative action
wicked problems
deliberation
eastern ontario

description: This thesis investigates how rural communities negotiate the development of renewable energy projects. Public and local community acceptance of these new technologies in rural areas around the world is uncertain and spatially uneven and represents an area of emerging public policy interest and one where scholarly theory is rapidly developing. This thesis uses Habermasian concepts of public sphere, communicative action and deliberative democracy, as well as the concept of “wicked problems” from the planning studies literature combined with geographical concepts of place and scale to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of how public opinion on renewable energy technologies is formed in place. It documents energy use patterns, attitudes and sociopolitical relations at a time when considerable state and business efforts are directed at the construction of solar, wind, biomass and small-hydro technologies in rural regions. These concepts and theories are applied in a case study of rural communities in the Eastern Ontario Highlands, an impoverished area undergoing rapid restructuring driven by centralization of services and amenity migration but with abundant natural resources in form of forests, numerous waterways and open space which have attracted a broad range of new energy developments. Overall high levels of support for alternative energy development particularly for solar power were found, albeit for reasons of local energy security and not for reasons of preventing climate change. There was some evidence that seasonal residents are less supportive of hydro and biomass projects than permanent residents possibly reflecting broader trends in rural economies away from productive uses of land to consumptive appreciation of rural landscapes. The thesis suggests that collective action to advance energy projects in the case study area require agreement along three world-claims (truth, rightness and truthfulness) and that communication leading to discourse which uncovers hitherto hidden reasons for action is possible. These findings offer rare empirical evidence of the predictions of deliberative democratic theory in environmental planning settings. However, multiple barriers to communicative action were also identified and there is evidence that the state’s reliance on market incentives may have long term costs in terms of diminished public reasoning around renewable energy.
Understanding the behaviour of design thinking in complex environments
Creators: name: Di Russo, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The objective of this dissertation is to contribute empirical evidence on the behavior and effectiveness of design thinking for tackling problems in complex environments. This thesis aims to make three contributions: first, it seeks to identify and explore the history and evolution of design thinking to date, synthesizing common definitions. Second, it seeks to contribute empirical evidence on the behavior of design thinking in highly complex environments. Third, the investigation aims to explain the underlying mechanisms that enable emergent behaviors to occur in the design process, contributing knowledge and understanding on how to apply design thinking in complex environments. This research will explore the behavior of design thinking as it tackles complex problems and examine how design thinking shapes, and is being shaped by, complex environments.
Supplementary document for Centrifugal motion of an optically levitated particle in a rotating beam - 5408008.pdf
Creators: name: Zeng, Kai
name: Pu, Junji
name: Wu, Yulie
name: Xiao, Dingbang
name: Wu, Xuezhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Derivation of the particle motion.
Bone Marrow Microenvironment in Acute Myleoid Leukemia
Creators: name: Chandran, Priya
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Bone Marrow niche
Mesenchymal Stromal cells

description: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often remains refractory to current chemotherapy and transplantation approaches despite many advances in our understanding of mechanisms in leukemogenesis. The bone marrow “niche” or microenvironment, however, may be permissive to leukemia development and studying interactions between the microenvironment and leukemia cells may provide new insight for therapeutic advances. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are central to the development and maintenance of the bone marrow niche and have been shown to have important functional alterations derived from patients with different hematological disorders. The extent to which MSCs derived from AML patients are altered remains unclear. The aim of this study was to detect changes occurring in MSCs obtained from human bone marrow in patients with AML by comparing their function and gene expression pattern with normal age-matched controls. MSCs expanded from patients diagnosed with acute leukemia were observed to have heterogeneous morphological characteristics compared to the healthy controls. Immunohistochemistry and flow data confirmed the typical cell surface immunophenotype of CD90+ CD105+ CD73+ CD34- CD45-, although MSCs from two patients with AML revealed reduced surface expression of CD105 and CD90 antigens respectively. Differentiation assays demonstrated the potential of MSCs from AML patients and healthy donors to differentiate into bone, fat and cartilage. However, the ability of MSCs from AML samples to support hematopoietic function of CD34+ progenitors was found to be impaired while the key hematopoietic genes were found to be differentially expressed on AML-MSCs compared to nMSCs. These studies indicate that there exist differences in the biologic profile of MSCs from AML patients compared to MSCs derived from healthy donors. The results described in the thesis provide a formulation for additional studies that may allow us to identify new targets for improved treatment of AML.
Multiple citizenships: two reports and some implications
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article looks at the issue of dual citizenship as outlined in the reports: 'Canadian citizenship: a sense of belonging' and 'Australians all: enhancing Australian citizenship'. The author discusses the problems that Canada has had to face in dealing with dual citizenship and looks at conflicts of interest and allegiance that may arise. She states that Australia is now moving to embrace dual citizenship. While some naturalised immigrants in Australia, have a de facto dual citizenship because their country of origin does not withdraw their original citizenship when they become Australians, Australian law does not recognise dual citizenship. However, the author points to research that argues that Australian law ought to recognise dual citizenship.
LA VALUTAZIONE DEL PARLATO DEGLI STUDENTI: IMPLICAZIONI SUL TESTING LINGUISTICO
Creators: name: Varcasia, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: In questo contributo viene affrontato il tema della valutazione del parlato. In particolare ci si sofferma, nell’ambito del testing linguistico, sugli aspetti metodologici primari nel processo di elaborazione di un test, quali la definizione del costrutto e la scrittura delle specifiche. Le prove orali delle principali certificazioni della lingua italiana per i livelli avanzati vengono prese in considerazione. Viene presentato infine un test elaborato presso la Libera Università di Bolzano per la valutazione dell’abilità orale.  Evaluating student speaking: implications on language testing  This paper focuses on the assessment of speaking in language testing. In particular, attention is drawn to the primary steps in test development, such as definition of constructs and writing the specifications. The speaking sections of the main certifications for Italian are taken into consideration. A test to evaluate oral ability developed at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is presented.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
DNA Damage Signalling in BRCA1-Deficient Mammary Progenitor Cells Activates Autologous p52/RelB NF-κB
Creators: name: Sau, Andrea
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: BRCA1
NF-κB

description: Understanding the biological mechanisms underlying the initiation and progression of breast cancer is an important step for its prevention and treatment. We used an in vitro and in vivo model to demonstrate that p100/p52 and RelB are strongly activated in BRCA1-deficient mouse mammary progenitor cells and human BRCA1-mutation carriers. We found that NF-κB activation induces stem and progenitor cell expansion and inhibits differentiation. Knockdown and pharmacological inhibition showed that the progesterone-independent growth of BRCA1-deficient progenitor cells requires the alternative NF-κB activation mediated by ATM. Remarkably, treatment of mice with the NF-κB inhibitor dimethylaminoparthenolide (DMAPT) resulted in prolonged repression of BRCA1-deficient progenitor cell proliferation, revealing a possible approach to cyclic chemoprevention.
Instrumente zur ökologischen Verbesserung des Produktangebotes im Rahmen einer ökologischen Verbraucherpolitik
Creators: name: Horsch, Cornelia
name: Krauß, Ingrid
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ökodesign
subject: Bundespreis Ecodesign
subject: Umweltgerechte Produktgestaltung
subject: Verbraucherpolitik
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Gegenstand des Projektes war die Entwicklung, Durchführung und Auswertung eines bundesweiten Wettbewerbs, der die verschiedenen Dimensionen und Anwendungsbereiche ökologischen Designs widerspiegelt. Ausgangsthese dabei war, dass von der Durchführung des Wettbewerbs wichtige Impulse ausgehen, die dazu beitragen, ökologisches Design als Gestaltungsprinzip zu verankern, das ökologische Produktangebot zu verbessern und nachhaltigen Konsum zu fördern. Im Projektverlauf wurde zunächst das Handlungsfeld Ecodesign analysiert und ein umsetzungsfähiges Konzept zur Durchführung des Wettbewerbs erarbeitet. Die Kriterien und das Wettbewerbsverfahren wurden entwickelt und die Zieldimensionen für die Ausrichtung des Wettbewerbs festgelegt. Schließlich wurde die konkrete Umsetzung detailliert geplant, der Projektbeirat und die Jury konstituiert.
Negotiating curriculum constraints in ESOL through teacher research
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Curriculum is at the centre of the debate between educators and planners about appropriate models of teaching and learning. In vocational teaching contexts such as NZ Polytechnics competency-based assessment is the dominant curriculum and assessment paradigm. Curriculum policy and accreditation processes through the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) reflect this vocational, outcomes oriented approach to learning and teaching. Despite the fact that curriculum policy claims that educators have freedom to employ all methodologies that achieve curriculum assessment goals, from the perspective of educators, teaching methodologies and the beliefs underpinning them cannot be separated from curriculum policy. Teaching methodologies must be seen as an integral part of curriculum production and so the interaction and negotiation between policy and process still needs to be clarified. This clarification is especially important in fields where the vocational paradigm is contested by practitioners as a valid model for teaching, learning and assessment; transitional tertiary and vocational ESOL is one of these fields. Teacher research promises to deliver this clarification and negotiation by engaging practitioners in reflecting on syllabus and curriculum issues from the classroom environment. This paper looks at the development of a teacher research culture in a NZ Polytechnic as an example of the policy-methodology dialogue.
LA LINGUA DELLA LETTERATURA MIGRANTE: IDENTITÀ ITALIANA E MAGHREBINA NEI ROMANZI DI AMARA LAKHOUS
Creators: name: Groppaldi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: La letteratura dell’emigrazione in Italia è un fenomeno incidente, seppure ancora piuttosto giovane; si tratta di produzione conseguente al massiccio afflusso di migranti a partire dagli ultimi due decenni del XX secolo. Tra gli scrittori stranieri attivi in Italia, la componente arabofona pare preponderante.Amara Lakhous è uno degli autori della letteratura della migrazione provenienti dal mondo arabo, maghrebino in particolare, che con i suoi romanzi si è affermato nel panorama della letteratura italiana,  contribuendo a dare uno spaccato delle trasformazioni in senso multiculturale della nostra attuale società. Di grande interesse sono le sue scelte linguistiche che rivelano in maniera evidente l’intenzione di collocarsi come ponte tra la L1 e la L2; un desiderio di istituire un confronto linguistico, una dialettica tra codici in cui né quello di partenza né quello di arrivo siano più come erano prima dell’incontro; una reciproca influenza, un rapporto dinamico dal quale discende l’affermazione dell’identità dei migranti, come quella degli italiani.  The language of literature migrants:italian and maghreb identity in the novels of Amara Lakhous The literature of migration in Italy is an accidental phenomenon, still quite new; it is a result of the massive influx of migrants during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Among writers active in Italy, Arabic-speaking writers are especially numerous.Amara Lakhous is an author who focuses on the literature of migration from the Arab world, Maghreb in particular. His novels have emerged in the panorama of Italian literature, offering a glimpse of the transformation towards our current multicultural society. Of great interest are his linguistic choices that reveal an obvious intention to act as a bridge between L1 and L2, as well as to establish linguistic comparison, a dialectic between codes where neither the starting or ending points are the same as before the meeting. This mutual influence, this dynamic relationship derives from the assertion of both the identities of migrants and Italians.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
title: Mäuse- und Rattengift sicher und wirksam anwenden
title: Mäuse- und Rattengift sicher und wirksam anwenden
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Friesen, Anton
name: Geduhn, Anke
name: Hein, Susanne
name: Schmolz, Erik
name: Schwarz-Schulz, Beatrice
name: Stahr, Christiane
name: Wieck, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nagetier
subject: Rodentizid
subject: Schädlingsbekämpfung
subject: Ratte
subject: Nagetierbekämpfung
subject: Nagetierbekämpfungsmittel
subject: Mittel gegen Nagetiere
subject: Rodentizide
subject: antikoagulante Rodentizide
subject: Antikoagulanzien
subject: Rattengift
subject: Rattenbekämpfung
subject: Rattenbekämpfungsmittel
subject: Chemikalien

description: Dieser Ratgeber richtet sich an Personen, die einen Befall mit Ratten oder Mäusen im privaten häuslichen Umfeld mit giftigen Fraßködern bekämpfen wollen. Er enthält sowohl verbindliche Anwendungsbestimmungen als auch unverbindliche Empfehlungen, wie Sie Mäuse- und Rattengift sicher, wirksam und rechtskonform anwenden. Der Ratgeber informiert zudem über nicht-chemische Möglichkeiten der Nagetierbekämpfung und gibt Tipps, wie Sie einem Befall vorbeugen können. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Dieser Ratgeber richtet sich an Personen, die einen Befall mit Ratten oder Mäusen im privaten häuslichen Umfeld mit giftigen Fraßködern bekämpfen wollen. Er enthält sowohl verbindliche Anwendungsbestimmungen als auch unverbindliche Empfehlungen, wie Sie Mäuse- und Rattengift sicher, wirksam und rechtskonform anwenden. Der Ratgeber informiert zudem über nicht-chemische Möglichkeiten der Nagetierbekämpfung und gibt Tipps, wie Sie einem Befall vorbeugen können.
Legitimating the “Fiasco”: Canadian State Justifications of CORCAN Prison Labour
Creators: name: Kleuskens, Shanisse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: prison labour
CORCAN
political economy of punishment
penal abolitionism
neoliberal capitalism

description: Since Kingston Penitentiary’s opening in 1835, prison labour has been an integral part of Canada’s penal history. With purported goals such as deterrence, rehabilitation, reintegration, and providing sustenance to the state, the practice of coercing or forcing a prisoner to work while serving a sentence of incarceration was further embedded in the penal landscape in 1980 with the inception of CORCAN, the Correctional Service of Canada’s prison labour program. Despite critiques of the prison as “a fiasco in terms of its own purposes” (Mathiesen, 2006, p. 141), prison labour continues as a mechanism of the state’s penal apparatus. Drawing on political economy of punishment and penal abolitionism literature, this study reveals and disrupts official discourses used to justify and perpetuate this modern form of slavery in Canada. Through a content analysis of 33 Solicitor General of Canada and CORCAN annual reports, I demonstrate how CORCAN’s prison labour program is legitimated as a “positive reform” (Mathiesen, 1974, p. 202) of Canada’s penal system, beneficial to the reintegration of prisoners into society, communities, and the needs of the Canadian state and economy. Underneath this benevolent mask such representations are found to reproduce neoliberal capitalism as the hegemonic form of economic organization, construing prisoners and prison labour as solutions to the gaps and shifts in the national economy and labour market. After outlining these contributions, I suggest ways that future research can reveal and discredit penal ‘solutions’ such as prison labour to eradicate the penal system as a means to address the harms inherent in our social and economic systems.
A Mass Spectrometry and XPS Investigation of the Catalytic Decompostion of Formic Acid
Creators: name: Selwyn, John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Formic Acid
Catalysis
XPS
Decomposition

description: This thesis examines the catalytic characteristics of two materials with respect to the decomposition of Formic Acid. The decomposition of formic acid proceeds via two principal reaction pathways: dehydration and dehydrogenation. Dehydrogenation is a valuable reaction producing Hydrogen suitable for use in fuel cells whereas the dehydration pathway produces carbon monoxide, a poison for many fuel cell materials. One of the surface species, the formate ion, is also implicated in other important chemical reactions, most notably the water gas shift and the decomposition of methanol. The author seeks to document various intermediate surface species associated with the two reaction pathways with hope to use this information to future tailoring of catalysts for greater selectivity.
«PALPITANTE, RIDENTE, NOSTALGICA, APPASSIONATA»: LA LINGUA DEI DIARI DI ANTONIA POZZI
Creators: name: Sergio, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: L’articolo prende in considerazione i diari della poetessa e fotografa Antonia Pozzi, nata nel 1912 e morta suicida nel 1938. Essi si presentano come particolarmente eterogenei, certo per la tipica “cavità” della forma diaristica, ma anche in ragione delle tre distinte tranches in cui vengono stesi: il Quaderno dal ’25 al ’27; le Note di viaggio nel 1933; il Diario intimo vero e proprio fra il ’35 e l’anno della morte. L’analisi si concentra sulle diverse fisionomie linguistiche dei diari e sulla funzione che Antonia Pozzi affida loro, funzione che è sia esistenziale che poetica. Nel Diario intimo, in particolare, la scrittura infatti si configura da un lato come pharmacon, pur elevandosi volentieri dalle contingenze a questioni filosofiche e letterarie, dall’altro come luogo in cui fissare immagini, riflessioni e impressioni in vista di una futura rielaborazione poetica, come dimostrano precise rispondenze fra gli uni e l’altra.  “Throbbing, laughing, nostalgic, passionate”language in the diaries of Antonia Pozzi The article studies the diaries of the poet and photographer Antonia Pozzi, born in 1912 and who committed suicide in 1938. They seem very heterogeneous due to their typical “cavity” form, but also because of their division into three separate sections: there are her notebooks from ’25 to ’27, travel notes from 1933, the intimate diary written between the '35 and the year of her death. The analysis focuses on the different language of the diaries and the functions that Antonia Pozzi gives them, functions that are both existential and poetic. In the intimate diary, in particular, the writing is on the one hand configured as a pharmacon, rising above contingencies to address philosophical and literary issues, but it is also a place to fix images, reflections and impressions in view of a future poetic revision, as shown by the precise correspondences present between them.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
Uropathogens Preferrentially Interact with Conditioning Film Components on the Surface of Indwelling Ureteral Stents Rather than Stent Material
Creators: name: Scotland, Kymora B.
name: Kung, Sonia H. Y.
name: Chew, Ben H.
name: Lange, Dirk
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Despite routine implementation in urology, indwelling ureteral stents pose as a nidus for infection. Conditioning film accumulates on stents, which prime pathogen adhesion, promoting infectious biofilm formation. However, the extent to which conditioning film components play a role in facilitating bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation remains largely unknown. Here, we examined the interaction of previously identified stent-bound conditioning film components (fibrinogen, uromodulin, and albumin) with bacterial uropathogens. Cytoscopically removed stents were incubated with common uropathogens (Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, and Staphylococcus aureus). Immunofluorescent double staining was performed to study the localization of uropathogens relative to stent-bound conditioning film proteins. Conditioning film components were identified on the external stent surface with some deposition in the inner lumen. Bacteria co-localized with fibrinogen, uromodulin, and albumin, suggesting a potential mechanism for stent-associated infections. Here, we determine strong co-localization between common uropathogenic bacterial species with prominent conditioning film components on ureteral stents. Further functional validation of interactions amongst these uropathogens and conditioning film proteins may enhance clinical management for stent-associated infections and development of improved stent technologies.
Perspectives and Impact of a Parent-Child Intervention on Dietary Intake and Physical Activity Behaviours, Parental Motivation, and Parental Body Composition: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Karmali, Shazya
name: Battram, Danielle S.
name: Burke, Shauna M.
name: Cramp, Anita
name: Johnson, Andrew M.
name: Mantler, Tara
name: Morrow, Don
name: Ng, Victor
name: Pearson, Erin S.
name: Petrella, Robert J.
name: Tucker, Patricia
name: Irwin, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Adults and children in Canada are not meeting physical activity guidelines nor consuming sufficient nutrient-rich foods. High engagement in these unhealthy behaviours can lead to obesity and its associated diseases. Parent-child interventions aimed at obesity prevention/treatment have assisted families with making positive changes to their nutrition and physical activity behaviours. Given that the home environment shapes early health behaviours, it is important to target both parents and children when addressing diet and physical activity. One method that has been shown to improve health outcomes is co-active coaching. The current study explored the impact of a three-month co-active coaching and/or health education intervention on the dietary intake and physical activity behaviours of parents with overweight/obesity and their children (ages 2.5–10; of any weight). Body composition (i.e., body mass index [BMI] and waist circumference), changes in parental motivation with respect to physical activity and dietary behaviours, and parental perceptions of program improvements were collected. A concurrent mixed methods study comprised of a randomized controlled trial and a descriptive qualitative design was utilized. Fifty parent-child dyads were recruited and randomly assigned to the control (n = 25) or intervention (n = 25) group. Assessments were completed at baseline, mid-intervention (six weeks), post-intervention (three months), and six-month follow-up. A linear mixed effects model was utilized for quantitative analysis. Inductive content analysis was used to extract themes from parent interviews. No significant results were observed over time for the dependent measures. Parents in both control and intervention groups reported varied program experiences, including developing changes in perspective, increased awareness of habits, and heightened accountability for making positive changes in themselves, and consequently, their families. Parents also shared barriers they faced when implementing changes (e.g., time, weather, stress). Qualitatively, both groups reported benefitting from this program, with the intervention group describing salient benefits from engaging in coaching. This research expands on the utility of coaching as a method for behaviour change, when compared to education only, in parents with overweight/obesity and their children.
LA LEZIONE
Creators: name: Bosc, Franca
name: Minuz, Fernanda
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Nella trasmissione del sapere istituzionalizzata nel sistema scolastico, la lezione tiene il posto centrale e attorno ad essa si organizzano le altre fonti di apprendimento.Vari studi sulla comunicazione in ambito scolastico condotti da diversi approcci disciplinari ne hanno esaminato forme e caratteristiche. Possiamo definire la lezione come un evento comunicativo complesso nel quale, attraverso l’interazione verbale e non verbale tra i partecipanti, si trasmettono conoscenze e si sviluppano competenze, insieme alla consapevolezza dei valori attribuiti socialmente a tali conoscenze e competenze. Nell’interazione della classe, inoltre, si producono e riproducono rapporti e ruoli sociali; si stabiliscono tra i partecipanti relazioni che concorrono alla costruzione delle identità individuali; in essa si attuano, infine, modelli pedagogici, anche se, una volta realizzati, essi possono risultare diversi dalle intenzioni iniziali.L’articolo esamina la lezione da diverse prospettive − la struttura interazionale, il piano organizzativo, gli aspetti linguistico-comunicativi – che contribuiscono a mettere in luce competenze e conoscenze necessarie ad allievi, allieve e insegnanti per partecipare alla lezione.  The lesson Lessons are at the center of the institutionalized transmission of knowledge within the school system and all other learning resources are organized around them.Several studies on communication in schools conducted following various disciplinary approaches have investigated their forms and characteristics. We can define the lesson as a communicative event where, through verbal and nonverbal interaction between participants, knowledge is transmitted and skills are developed, along with the awareness of the social values attributed to such knowledge and skills. Interaction during the lesson, moreover, produces and reproduces relationships and social roles between the participants that contributes to the construction of individual identities.  The implementation of pedagogical models may differ from the original intentions.The article examines the lesson from different perspectives - the interaction structure, the organization, the linguistic aspects of communication - that help to highlight skills and knowledge necessary for students and teachers to participate in class.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
Facial Expression Cloning with Fuzzy Membership Functions
Creators: name: Santos, Patrick John
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: facial expresisons
fuzzy logic
clustering
particle swarm optimization

description: This thesis describes the development and experimental results of a system to explore cloning of facial expressions between dissimilar face models, so new faces can be animated using the animations from existing faces. The system described in this thesis uses fuzzy membership functions and subtractive clustering to represent faces and expressions in an intermediate space. This intermediate space allows expressions for face models with different resolutions to be compared. The algorithm is trained for each pair of faces using particle swarm optimization, which selects appropriate weights and radii to construct the intermediate space. These techniques allow the described system to be more flexible than previous systems, since it does not require prior knowledge of the underlying implementation of the face models to function.
Preheating of hot briquetted iron
Creators: name: Galvez, A.
name: Dippenaar, R.
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In an earlier study we have shown that when Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) is pre-heated in an inert atmosphere, internal reduction of Fe0 occurs at temperatures above 500°C. In a carbon dioxide atmosphere at temperatures above 700°C, oxidation occurs only externally whilst the internal reduction reactions proceed simultaneously. In this investigation these simultaneous reduction and oxidation reactions have been studied in atmospheres resembling more closely the expected composition of the off-gas of an electric-arc furnace. Isothermal and non-isothermal thermogravimetry (TG) as well as differential thermal analysis DTA) techniques were used. The behaviour of HBI in oxidising atmospheres at elevated temperature is discussed and it is shown that simultaneous external and internal reduction occur even when the oxidation potential of the preheating gas is increased significantly. The optimum temperature for preheating is between 750°C and 800°C.
SPERIMENTAZIONE DI UNA PROVA INVALSI: PER COSTRUIRE UN CURRICOLO DI LETTURA
Creators: name: Campagnolo, Augusto
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Che cosa sono le prove INVALSI? Che cosa valutano e a che cosa servono? E ancora, quale contributo possono offrire alla didattica della lettura? Mentre la scuola italiana è investita da una fase di grandi cambiamenti, docenti e dirigenti devono confrontarsi anche con un nuovo sistema di valutazione che, attraverso le prove Invalsi, sta delineando la scuola del futuro. L’articolo offre un contributo di riflessione sul modello di valutazione proposto dalle prove e aiuta a chiarire il quadro teorico della lettura e comprensione del testo; analizza, infine, una prova di lettura e propone un possibile utilizzo delle prove somministrate di italiano nel curricolo scolastico. New INVALSI testing: building a curriculum for reading  What are INVALSI tests? What do they assess and what are they for? And again, what can they contribute to the teaching of reading? Italian schools are undergoing great change, and teachers and administrators are faced with a new evaluation system, the INVALSI tests, which are shaping the future of the school system. The article offers a reflection on the evaluation model proposed by the tests, helping to clarify the theoretical framework for reading and understanding texts and also analyzes a reading test.  Suggestions for a possible way to use the Italian language tests administered as part of the school curriculum are made.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
SAPER CONTESTUALIZZARE MATERIALI GENERICI PER L’INSEGNAMENTO DELLE LINGUE STRANIERE: UNA COMPETENZA FONDAMENTALE DEL DOCENTE D’ITALIANO COME LINGUA STRANIERA
Creators: name: Kuitche Talé, Gilles
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: L’editoria per la didattica dell’italiano come lingua straniera è costituita prevalentemente da materiali generici, ideati per l’insegnamento dell’italiano in varie parti del mondo. Tali strumenti richiedono necessariamente l’intervento del docente che deve mettere in atto determinate strategie per adattarli ai destinatari e al contesto didattico in cui si trova ad operare. Oltre a presentare le principali sfaccettature della contestualizzazione dei materiali didattici per l’insegnamento delle lingue straniere, il contributo analizza il saper contestualizzare, un’abilità necessaria per proporre un insegnamento costantemente ancorato nella mente degli apprendenti. Viene anche proposta una griglia integrata per l’analisi e la valutazione dell’adeguatezza dei manuali ai pubblici e ai contesti d’insegnamento dell’italiano all’estero.  Contextualizing generic materials for foreign language teaching: a key competence of teachers of italian as a foreign language Materials for teaching Italian as a foreign language are mainly generic, designed for teaching in various parts of the world. These tools require teacher intervention in order to adapt them for the students and the educational context where they are used. In addition to presenting the main aspects of the contextualization of teaching materials for foreign language teaching, the paper analyzes the skills necessary for contextualization so as to keep the teaching firmly anchored in the minds of the learners. An integrated analysis and evaluation grid for the appropriateness of materials for students and the contexts of teaching Italian abroad is also proposed.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
Lectures contemporaines de Machiavel: la question de l'interprétation chez Leo Strauss, Quentin Skinner et Claude Lefort
Creators: name: Marcotte Chénard, Sophie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Philosophie politique
Interprétation
Herméneutique
Machiavel
Leo Strauss
Quentin Skinner
Claude Lefort

description: Dans cette thèse, nous cherchons à penser les enjeux philosophiques de l’application de méthodes herméneutiques en histoire de la philosophie politique. À partir d’une étude comparative des interprétations de l’œuvre de Nicolas Machiavel offertes par Leo Strauss, Quentin Skinner et Claude Lefort, nous interrogeons le rapport que l’interprète institue avec le texte qu’il étudie. Nous montrons qu’il y a dans les trois cas un écart entre l’exposition théorique des principes herméneutiques et l’application effective de ces derniers. Nous soutenons que les divergences fondamentales entre les trois lectures des écrits machiavéliens ne trouvent pas leur fondement dans la différence des méthodes employées, mais proviennent en dernier lieu de la compréhension particulière qu’ils ont du rôle et du statut de la pensée de Machiavel. Autrement dit, nous cherchons à montrer que l’intérêt pour la signification de l’œuvre machiavélienne dépasse la simple analyse des écrits d’un auteur du passé; les trois interprètes entretiennent un rapport singulier à la pensée du secrétaire florentin. En ce sens, l’étude des herméneutiques de Strauss, Skinner et Lefort appliquées à Machiavel est indissociable d’une interrogation sur l’articulation entre interprétation et politique.
Supplementary document for Centrifugal motion of an optically levitated particle in a rotating beam - 5408008.pdf
Creators: name: Zeng, Kai
name: Pu, Junji
name: Wu, Yulie
name: Xiao, Dingbang
name: Wu, Xuezhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Derivation of the particle motion.
IL PORTFOLIO EUROPEO PER LA FORMAZIONE INIZIALE DEGLI INSEGNANTI (PEFIL) COME STRUMENTO DI INSEGNAMENTO/APPRENDIMENTO
Creators: name: Arcuri, Adriana
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Scopo di questo contributo è  descrivere il modo in cui il Pefil , Portfolio europeo per la formazione iniziale degli insegnanti di lingue. Uno strumento di riflessione (ECML, 2007) è stato usato nell’ambito del “Master in didattica dell’italiano come lingua non materna” dell’Università di Palermo non solo come strumento di autovalutazione, ma anche come strumento di insegnamento/apprendimento, valorizzando cioè  le potenzialità formative di questo Portfolio come auspicato dagli stessi autori.Il documento è impiegato, in una nuova prospettiva, come chiave di lettura dei contenuti della professione e ha fornito ai corsisti uno strumento per rintracciare le connessioni fra i diversi input formativi del Master. In questo modo è stato possibile per ciascuno di loro costruire un tessuto unitario di apprendimento delle competenze professionali di insegnanti di italiano L2 e LS  in un’ottica di life long learning, secondo un approccio riflessivo.  The Portfolio Europeo per la Formazione Iniziale degli Insegnanti (PEFIL) as a teaching/learning tool The aim of this paper is to describe how the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages - Portfolio Europeo per la Formazione Iniziale degli Insegnanti (PEFIL), A reflection tool for language teacher education (ECML, 2007) has been used in the Master Degree program in “Italian Foreign Language Teaching” at the University of Palermo. The PEFIL has not only been used as a tool for self-assessment, but by exploiting the educational potential of the portfolio, it has also become an important learning/teaching tool.The Portfolio was used as a way to interpret essential teaching contents. It gave students a tool for finding connections between the diverse educational elements of the Master program. Thus it was possible for each of them to create a coherent network of professional competences for teaching Italian as a second and foreign language within a life long learning perspective, following the reflexive approach.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
Psycho-Social, Work, and Marital Adjustment of Older Middle Aged Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia
Creators: name: Miletic, Blanka
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Refugees
Gender
War trauma
Growth
Interpersonal trust
Work stress
Work satisfaction
Support at work
Downward mobility
English language proficiency
Marital resilience
Marital adjustment
Acculturative marital hassles
Psycho-social adaptation
Former Yugoslavia
Context/life domain
Cross-cultural adaptation
Middle-aged

description: Adopting the Ecological Contextual Model of Acculturation and Adjustment (Birman, 1994; Trickett, 1996) and the Stress and Coping paradigm (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, 1986, 1991), the present thesis explored the psycho-social, work, and marital adjustment of 200 established older middle-aged refugees from the Former Yugoslavia living in the Ottawa area. More specifically, three studies were conducted to examine specific stressors and resources of relevance to the adjustment of Former Yugoslavian men and women, across the following three distinct life domains: psycho-social, work, and marital. Study I explored the potential buffering effects of interpersonal trust on the relational growth of Former Yugoslavian refugees. Results demonstrated that interpersonal trust moderated the negative effects of war-related trauma on the relational growth of Former Yugoslavian women. No such buffering effect was found for the men. Study II investigated Former Yugoslavians' work adjustment by exploring the influence of pre-migratory work-related expectations-outcome congruence, occupational mobility, work stress (general and discrimination), as well as personal (education, English language proficiency) and social resources (support at work) on their work satisfaction and distress. Results indicated that different factors emerged as significant predictors of work satisfaction and work distress for Former Yugoslavian men and women. Study III explored the potential moderating role of marital resilience on the relationship between marital stress (general and acculturative) and marital adjustment. Results showed that marital resilience moderated the negative effects of marital stress on the marital adjustment of Former Yugoslavian women. No protective effect of marital resilience was found for the men. Taken together, the results of the three studies provide support for the relevance and importance of studying the stress, resources, and adjustment of refugees across contexts and gender. Given that important gender differences were found in different adaptational domains, the need to study further the impact of gender in refugees is reinforced. The findings are discussed within the current gender and migration literatures as well as the multidimensional theories of cross-cultural adjustment. Theoretical, research, and clinical implications were presented, along with recommendations for future research.
IL CARAP, UN QUADRO DI RIFERIMENTO PER GLI APPROCCI PLURALI ALLE LINGUE E ALLE CULTURE. COMPETENZE E RISORSE
Creators: name: Candelier (Coordinatore), Michel
name: Camilleri-Grima, Antoinette
name: Castellotti, Véronique
name: De Pietro, Jean-François
name: Lőrincz, Ildikó
name: Meiẞner, Franz-Joseph
name: Noguerol, Arthur
name: Schröder-Sura, Anna
name: Molinié, Con La Collaborazione Di Muriel
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Gli Approcci plurali alle lingue e alle culture si basano su attività di insegnamento-apprendimento che coinvolgono contemporaneamente più (= più di una) varietà linguistiche e culturali. Il CARAP si propone come strumento che consente di sviluppare in un modo molto concreto la concezione della competenza plurilingue ed interculturale promossa dal Consiglio d’Europa con il Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue. La pubblicazione ed il sito web propongono un ampia lista di descrittori di competenze e risorse (saperi, sapere essere e saper fare), che si considera necessario sviluppare nella prospettiva di un’educazione plurilingue ed interculturale.  FREPA (Carap) A Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches. Competences and resourcesThe term pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures refers to didactic approaches which involve the use of several (or at least more than one) varieties of languages or cultures simultaneously during the teaching process. By abandoning the “compartmentalised” view of an individual’s linguistic and cultural competence(s), this publication is a valuable step towards implementing the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, in particular its rationale on plurilingual and intercultural competence. The publication and this website present a comprehensive list of descriptors (Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes) considered necessary within the perspective of a plurilingual and intercultural education.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, N° 2 (2012)
Inverse Heat Conduction Approach for Infrared Non-destructive Testing of Single and Multi-layer Materials
Creators: name: Borazjani, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: infrared non-destructive testing
quadrupole method
multi-layer materials

description: The focus of this thesis is to derive analytical tools for the design of infrared nondestructive tests in single and multi layer material bodies. This requires the predetermination of the parameters of the experiment such that the infrared image has the required resolution for defect detection. Inverse heat conduction in single and multi-layer materials is investigated to determine the required frequency of excitation in order to obtain a desired temperature at the observation point. We use analytical quadrupole representation to derive a polynomial relation to estimate the frequency of the periodic excitation as a function of the temperature amplitude at a given observation point within the body. The formula includes characteristic geometric and material parameters of the system. The polynomial formula can be an e ective design tool for quick frequency predetermination in the design of non-destructive testing experiments with infrared thermography. The convergence and accuracy of the formula is assessed by comparison with the analytical thermal quadrupole solution and experimental results. We also investigate the e ect of the nite length of the material domain in order to establish the range of applicability of a simpli ed formula based on semi-in nite domain assumption. The e ect of nite length is investigated analytically by using (i) Fourier series which accounts for transients and (ii) Time varying solution associated to the steady state solution when a purely periodic excitation is applied. These results are also compared with numerical solution obtained with commercial nite element software ANSYSTM.