cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Exploring (Anti-)Radicalism on TikTok: German Islamic Content Creators between Advocacy and Activism
Creators: name: Hotait, Nader
name: Ali, Rami
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: TikTok
subject: Islam
subject: Muslims
subject: Germany
subject: content creators
subject: extremism
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: The article processing charge was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491192747 and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: This study explores the representation of radical and anti-radical ideologies among German Islamic TikTok creators, analyzing 2983 videos from 43 accounts through qualitative content analysis. The results reveal two main content clusters: religious practice involving social/lifestyle issues and political activism around Muslim grievances. Victimization, found in 150 videos, was the most common indicator associated with radicalization and emerged as a source of political activism and subversive discourse. Overall, indicators of radicalism were scarce, suggesting that visible mainstream Islamic creators do not exhibit high levels of radical ideology. However, this also reflects a selection bias in the design of this study, which systematically overlooks fringe actors. In addition, religious advocacy was the most common topic (1144 videos), serving as a source of guidance and motivation, but was occasionally linked to sectarianism and rigid religious interpretations. Male creators posted more religious/theological videos; female creators posted more lifestyle videos. However, gender distinctions are limited due to the low representation of female creators (6). Some topics, such as the hijab, served as an intersection between religious practice and politicized narratives. This study highlights TikTok’s role in promoting diverse ideological views and shaping community engagement, knowledge sharing, and political mobilization within Germany’s Muslim digital landscape.
Building third generation land tools: Its4land, smart sketchmaps, UAVs, automatic feature extraction, and the GeoCloud
Creators: name: Bennett, Rohan
name: Gerke, Markus
name: Crompvoets, Joep
name: Ho, Serene
name: Schwering, Angela
name: Chipofya, Malumbo
name: Schultz, Carl
name: Zein, Tarek
name: Biraro, Mireille
name: Alemie, B.K.
name: Wayumba, Robert
name: Kundert, Kaspar
name: Crommelinck, Sophie
name: Stöcker, Claudia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A third generation of land tools is emerging: 'its4land' is part of the movement. The initiative aims to create seven new tools that further support faster, cheaper, easier, and more responsible land rights mapping. The tools are inspired by the continuum of land rights, fit-for-purpose land administration, and cadastral intelligence. The project is built around an ICT innovation process that incorporates a broad range of stakeholder groups with emergent geospatial technologies, including smart sketchmaps, UAVs, automated feature extraction, and geocloud services. By coupling the technologies, end-user needs and market forces, are better responded to. Backed by the European Commission, the work consists of a 4 year work plan, €3.9M in funding, and 8 consortium partners. The project is working with stakeholders from six case study locations in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda: tool development, prototyping, and demonstration is intended for local, national, regional, and international interest groups. The case locations include a mix of livelihoods and landscapes: urban, peri-urban, rural smallholder, and (former) pastoralist contexts are all included. This paper reports holistically on the first year of its4land activities: lessons from major achievements and barriers are outlined. Risks and future opportunities are also explored.
Carbon and nitrogen cycling in seagrass ecosystems
Creators: name: Camillini, Nicola
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biogeochemistry
Blue carbon
Nitrogen
Resuspension,
Seagrass

description: Coastal zones play an important role in the exchange of carbon and nutrients between the land and the open ocean, and typically comprise a mosaic of benthic habitats harbouring diverse faunal and plant communities. Seagrasses are the only vascular plants adapted to live in fully marine environments, and their presence in coastal habitats is associated with key ecosystem services. Most notably, seagrasses establish productive meadows in oligotrophic environments, thereby providing habitats for metabolically active and diverse benthic communities. Remarkable aspects of seagrass ecosystems include their impressive organic carbon binding capacity (blue carbon) and nutrient recycling efficiency. However, a recent surge in seagrass research and advances in the conceptual knowledge of coastal biogeochemistry have revealed a greater complexity of seagrass ecosystems than previously thought. In particular, there is growing consensus for better exploring the effects of site- and species-specific characteristics on seagrass biogeochemistry, rather than making generalized claims regarding their potential role as a sink or source for carbon and nutrients.
description: The aim of this thesis is to fill some of the crucial knowledge gaps on carbon and nitrogen cycling in seagrass ecosystems. The first component of this research investigated the effects of wave-induced sediment resuspension on benthic metabolism and carbon turnover of a temperate seagrass meadow (Finland). Resuspension largely stimulated reoxidation processes thus directly (instantaneous), and indirectly (following days), influencing benthic metabolism. These findings highlight the importance of accounting for the natural occurrence of resuspension events when assessing the carbon turnover in seagrass ecosystems. The second study investigated the influence of potent greenhouse gas (CH4 and N2O) evasion on seagrass blue carbon potential. Evasion of CH4 and N2O substantially offset seagrass blue carbon potential at the subtropical study site (Wallis Lake, Australia), thereby highlighting the importance of accounting for CH4 and N2O cycling in future seagrass blue carbon assessments. The third study targeted site- and species-specific effects on benthic nitrification and denitrification in the seagrass rhizosphere. The results indicated that coupled nitrification-denitrification, a key process in the removal of fixed nitrogen from the oceans, can be largely stimulated by seagrass species with high biomass, provided nitrogen is not rapidly immobilized. This research prompts to assess local hydrodynamic and benthic community characteristics to critically resolve carbon and nutrient cycling in seagrass ecosystems.
Endocannabinoid Modulation of Post-Ischemia Depression
Creators: name: Bonneville, Marika
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: post-ischemia depression
AM281
CB1R antagonist
forced swimming test
sucrose preference test
global ischemia
endocannabinoids

description: Post-ischemia depression (PID) is a condition that affects approximately 30% of survivors from stroke or cardiac arrest and has an important impact on patients’ quality of life. Previous studies support important roles of the endocannabinoid (eCB) system in depression and brain ischemia. This study attempts to link all three variables together by investigating the role and mechanism of eCB signaling in the development of PID. A global ischemia + hypotension model was used to induce a PID phenotype in CD1 mice. Three ischemic time frames were tested, and even though all three could induce significant cell death in the CA1 region of the hippocampus, only the 15-minute time point led to an increased immobility time on the forced swimming test (FST). The main goal of this study was to investigate the effect of a cannabinoid type-I receptor (CB1R) antagonist/inverse agonist, AM281, on the development of two depressive symptoms: anhedonia, measured with the sucrose preference test (SPT), and behavioral despair, measured with the FST. AM281 administration was able to significantly reduce the symptoms of anhedonia and behavioural despair. Subsequently, the mechanism behind this antidepressant-like effect was investigated. Administration of bicuculine with AM281 did not significantly affect the antidepressant effect on the FST, therefore suggesting that AM281 does not act on GABAergic synapses. A similar protocol was adopted with NVP-AM077, where its administration combined with AM281 was able to block the effect of AM281, thus confirming the importance of glutamatergic synapses for the antidepressant effect of AM281. Furthermore, the administration of a TAT-GLUR2 peptide did not significantly affect the effect of AM281, implying that the astroglial cell-mediated LTD (long-term depression) at glutamatergic synapses is not involved in the antidepressant effects of AM281. Finally, a bilateral intra-BLA (basolateral nucleus of the amygdala) administration of AM281 was able to reduce the immobility time on the FST. In conclusion, these results highlight the important contribution of BLA glutamatergic synapses to the antidepressant-like effect conferred by AM281.
Fiction e identità narrativa
Creators: name: Talamo, Roberto
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Nell’articolo si compie una ricognizione dei principali indirizzi di teoria del romanzo che leggono questo genere narrativo come forma della vita interiore svelata. Confrontando queste teorie con il concetto di “identità narrativa” sviluppato da Ricœur, si propone un’idea originale di analisi delle vite interiori narrate nella fiction, a partire dalla definizione auerbachiana di “realismo moderno” come tentativo di avvicinarsi alla realtà oggettiva tramite “molte impressioni soggettive avute da molte persone”.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
Berücksichtigung lokaler Randbedingungen bei globaler Zieloptimierung mit neuronalen Netzen am Beispiel Truck Backer-Upper
Creators: name: Hartmann, Boris
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Automatic control
subject: Neural networks (Computer science)
subject: Neuronales Netz
subject: Regelungssystem

description: N/A
Unaccountable Soldiers: Private Military Companies and the Law of Armed Conflict
Creators: name: McRae, Peter
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: private military companies
private security companies
international humanitarian law
law of armed conflict
law of war
non-state actors
unlawful combatants
enemy combatants
privatization of war
Geneva conventions
Richard Baxter

description: The use of Private Military Companies (PMCs) has become an increasingly common feature of contemporary armed conflict. Because of their autonomous contractual status, PMCs have presented governments with problems of accountability on several levels, including violations of international human rights and humanitarian law (IHL) standards. This thesis argues that PMCs should be considered to be non-state actors (NSAs), subject to international law from both an International Relations Theory and a Legal Theory perspective. This conclusion is linked to the issue of whether individual PMC employees can be treated as legitimate combatants according to IHL. State practice has not led to a clear understanding of the definition of combatant, a problem which has been compounded by a lack of government policy on the use of PMCs. Using Canadian experience as a case study, the thesis concludes that IHL suggests two options for regularizing the status of PMCs which would both strengthen accountability and uphold the rule of law.
Islands in the sky: the conservation ecology of an endangered mountain-top frog (Philoria kundagungan)
Creators: name: Bolitho, Liam J.
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conservation ecology
Amphibians
Bio-acoustics
Climate change
Philoria kundagungan

description: Earth's most threatened vertebrate group is the amphibians. Knowledge of their ecology is critical to their conservation, yet for many amphibians, we lack an understanding of their basic ecology and population dynamics. This thesis examines the conservation ecology of Philoria kundagungan, an endangered and poorly studied frog found only on a handful of isolated mountain ranges in eastern Australia's subtropical rainforests. Specifically, I examine calling phenology, genetic diversity, geographic range, disease prevalence, and the implications of climate change on its survival in the wild. This research aimed to increase the ecological understanding of this species to the level necessary to develop an effective conservation strategy for the species. To achieve this aim, I utilised a combination of extensive field sampling in remote locations, cutting-edge machine learning techniques and new quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) methods using synthetic DNA. Chapter two examines the diversity across three mitochondrial DNA genes in order to resolve uncertainty in the taxonomic classification of P. kundagungan populations on the fringes of the assumed range of P. kundagungan. In chapter three, machine learning is employed to examine the call phenology of this species and the implications of climate change on breeding. Chapter four presents detailed mapping of the geographic distribution of P. kundagungan and identifies the environmental factors that influence their distribution. Chapter four also serves as a baseline for future monitoring of populations across the species range. Chapter five examines the prevalence and intensity of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in P. kundagungan populations, making use of advanced synthetic DNA techniques. Chapter six evaluates the projected impact of future climate change on the distribution of P. kundagungan and its sister taxa P. richmondensis. It concludes that both species are expected to experience significant range reduction by 2055, even under a lower warming scenario. Finally, chapter seven summarises the thesis, draws overall conclusions, provides recommendations for conservation management, and identifies areas for future research. This project represents a substantial contribution to the ecological understanding of P. kundagungan and provides the necessary knowledge to develop an effective conservation strategy for the species.
Supplementary document for Compact intense extreme-ultraviolet source - 5187604.pdf
Creators: name: Major, Balazs
name: Ghafur, Omair
name: Kovács, Katalin
name: Varjú, Katalin
name: Tosa, Valer
name: Vrakking, Marc
name: Schuette, Bernd
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Extended methods
Deformed Soft Matter under Constraints
Creators: name: Bertrand, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Soft matter
Biophysics
Simulations
Polymers
Vesicles
biological membranes
lipid bilayers

description: In the last few decades, an increasing number of physicists specialized in soft matter, including polymers, have turned their attention to biologically relevant materials. The properties of various molecules and fibres, such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and filaments of all sorts, are studied to better understand their behaviours and functions. Self-assembled biological membranes, or lipid bilayers, are also the focus of much attention as many life processes depend on these. Small lipid bilayers vesicles dubbed liposomes are also frequently used in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. In this thesis, work is presented on both the elastic properties of polymers and the response of lipid bilayer vesicles to extrusion in narrow-channels. These two areas of research may seem disconnected but they both concern deformed soft materials. The thesis contains four articles: the first presenting a fundamental study of the entropic elasticity of circular chains; the second, a simple universal description of the effect of sequence on the elasticity of linear polymers such as DNA; the third, a model of the symmetric thermophoretic stretch of a nano-confined polymer; the fourth, a model that predicts the final sizes of vesicles obtained by pressure extrusion. These articles are preceded by an extensive introduction that covers all of the essential concepts and theories necessary to understand the work that has been done.
Driven geometric phase gates with trapped ions
Creators: name: Lemmer, A.
name: Bermudez, A.
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: quantum computation
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Quantum computing
subject: Dynamics
subject: Motion
subject: Memory
subject: Bewegung

description: Abstract We describe a hybrid laser–microwave scheme to implement two-qubit geometric phase gates in crystals of trapped ions. The proposed gates can attain errors below the fault-tolerance threshold in the presence of thermal, dephasing, laser-phase and microwave-intensity noise. Moreover, our proposal is technically less demanding than previous schemes, since it does not require a laser arrangement with interferometric stability. The laser beams are tuned close to a single vibrational sideband to entangle the qubits, while strong microwave drivings provide the geometric character to the gate, and thus protect the qubits from these different sources of noise. A thorough analytic and numerical study of the performance of these gates in realistic noisy regimes is presented.
title: Mehrweg für Speisen und Getränke zum Mitnehmen
title: Mehrweg für Speisen und Getränke zum Mitnehmen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Löw, Clara
name: Gröger, Jens
name: Neles, Camilla
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mehrwegverpackung
Produktkennzeichnung
Gastronomie

description: Der Trend verstärkt Speisen und Getränke zum Mitnehmen scheint unaufhaltsam zu sein. Mit der Wahl der Verpackung haben Gastronomiebetriebe einen großen Einfluss auf das Abfallaufkommen in Kommunen. Um Sie als Ausgabebetriebe von Speisen und Getränken "to-go" oder als kommunale Initiativen, die sich für Abfallvermeidung einsetzen, dabei zu unterstützen, vermehrt ökologisch sinnvolle Mehrwegverpackungen anzubieten, wurde diese Sammlung von Ratgebern, einem Plakat und Flyer erarbeitet. Es wird erläutert, wie das Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel als Orientierung dienen kann. Die Materialien stehen als Paket oder Einzeldownload zur Verfügung. Dieser Ratgeber "Mehrweg für Speisen und Getränke zum Mitnehmen" enthält Hintergrundinformationen speziell für die Gastronomie. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
Oscillations and Gain Control in Sensory Systems
Creators: name: Payeur, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sensory systems
Neural networks
Oscillations
Gain control
Linear response theory

description: Sensory neurons assemble to form networks that process inputs coming from the senses. Through synaptic connections neurons interact and create complex dynamical states in response to these inputs. Networks with different connectivity patterns are thought to display different states and therefore subserve different computational goals. In this thesis, we mainly study brain rhythms, a dynamical state that occurs in various neural structures. Rhythms are emergent oscillations that typically occur in homogeneous recurrent networks, whose neurons have identical properties and are densely interconnected. Many sensory systems comprise neurons with opposite ON and OFF responses to inputs. We show that homogenous recurrent networks fail to sustain rhythms when ON and OFF neurons are present in equal proportions. This happens even when the network is subjected to spatially correlated inputs, which are known to promote synchronized oscillations. In this context, we adapted the so-called linear response theory to include networks containing ON and OFF neurons with different intrinsic properties. In this asymmetric case, oscillations can be recovered. A simpler approach is to segregate the ON and OFF populations, thus producing two oscillating subnetworks. The dynamics of purely feedforward networks are studied next. These networks are composed of two or more populations. The populations are connected in a serial fashion, but neurons are unconnected within the populations. This connectivity scheme is drastically different from the fully recurrent network. Yet, this network is shown to display oscillatorylike properties when subjected to spatially correlated stimulation under certain conditions. We also find that this network can implement various types of gain control, depending on the noise in the system and the strength of synaptic interactions. These results establish some unexpected links between feedforward and recurrent networks. Along the way, we apply our results and conclusions to a well-characterized sensory network, the electrosensory system of weakly electric fish.
Angela Borghesi, Genealogie. Saggisti e interpreti del Novecento
Creators: name: Borghi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensiamo Angela Borghesi. Genealogie. Saggisti e interpreti del Novecento. Macerata: Quodlibet. 2012, pp. 257, 22 euro. Raccolta di saggi che propone una riflessione sul mestiere di critico e sull’analisi letteraria attraverso gli esempi di alcuni dei suoi più prestigiosi esponenti.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
D2.1 - Symmetric Searchable Encryption and Integration in Medical Devices
Creators: name: Tampere University
name: University Of Westminster
name: RISE Research Institutes Of Sweden AB
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Documentation that reveals advantages and limitations of Symmetric Searchable Encryption schemes. Furthermore, a detailed analysis on how and under which conditions such schemes could be used by healthcare services is provided.
Reclaiming Darug history : revealing the truths about settlement on Darug Ngurra through the lens of an Australian Aboriginal historical research methodology
Creators: name: Norman-Hill, Rosemary
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aboriginal
Country
Darug
Australian Aboriginal historical research methodology
Smallpox
Frontier wars
Parramatta Native Institution
Indigenous research paradigm
Tupia
Governor Macquarie
William Shelley
Black Kitty
Joseph Budsworth
Colebee
Thomas Rose
Jane Rose
Charles Cross
Rose Flood
Neptune
Aboriginal historiography
Aboriginal hermeneutics
Aboriginal Storywork
Storytelling
Textual analysis

description: This thesis focuses on the Darug nation as the first Aboriginal peoples in Australia impacted by the coming of the British in 1788. As a Darug woman and Aboriginal researcher I have written this thesis to expose the realities for the Darug as a legacy of the British settlement on Darug Ngurra (Country) and reaffirm our traditional place and space. The narrative gives a voice to Darug peoples and affirms that as an Aboriginal nation we have not just survived the settlement of our lands but continue to ‘be’ present both on and in Country to this day.
Adipose tissue immunometabolism and apoptotic cell clearance
Creators: name: Röszer, Tamás
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: meta-inflammation
subject: immunometabolism
subject: M2 macrophage
subject: efferocytosis
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Obesity
subject: Macrophages
subject: Phagocytosis
subject: Apoptosis
subject: Fettsucht
subject: Phagozytose

description: The safe removal of apoptotic debris by macrophages—often referred to as efferocytosis—is crucial for maintaining tissue integrity and preventing self-immunity or tissue damaging inflammation. Macrophages clear tissues of hazardous materials from dying cells and ultimately adopt a pro-resolving activation state. However, adipocyte apoptosis is an inflammation-generating process, and the removal of apoptotic adipocytes by so-called adipose tissue macrophages triggers a sequence of events that lead to meta-inflammation and obesity-associated metabolic diseases. Signals that allow apoptotic cells to control macrophage immune functions are complex and involve metabolites released by the apoptotic cells and also metabolites produced by the macrophages during the digestion of apoptotic cell contents. This review provides a concise summary of the adipocyte-derived metabolites that potentially control adipose tissue macrophage immune functions and, hence, may induce or alleviate adipose tissue inflammation.
Large-scale groundwater discharge modelling supported by innovative hydrogeological characterization
Creators: name: Shishaye, Haile A
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Aquifer characterization
subject: Contaminant transport
subject: Groundwater Modelling
subject: Groundwater dating
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Groundwater is an important source of freshwater in many parts of the world. The use of groundwater resources is projected to rise significantly, especially as traditional surface water resources become less available due to changing precipitation patterns. Groundwater can also be an important pathway for contaminant transport including nutrients and pesticides to coastal environments. In order to quantify groundwater resources and its movement, a comprehensive understanding of aquifer systems and the factors that control groundwater flow and quality is needed.
description: In this thesis, firstly, to test the effectiveness of different geological, hydrogeological and geophysical approaches to characterize aquifer settings, I compared and contrasted different methods in the Lake Haramaya watershed, Ethiopia (Chapter 2). The study used pumping test and vertical electrical sounding (VES) data to estimate aquifer transmissivity and hydraulic conductivity, where a 40% and 33% reduction in uncertainties were found, respectively, when the methods were combined rather than when VES data alone was used. Combining drill logs and geo-electrical resistivity data to develop the 3D geological setting of the aquifer system also identified lithologic units that were not detected using either method.
description: In much larger regional aquifer systems where extensive drill log data was available (the Great Barrier Reef catchment), 3D geological and hydrogeological models were then constructed (Chapter 3). These models revealed previously unknown faults and aquifer units in the catchment.
description: The fourth chapter then combined 3D geological and hydrogeological models with hydro-geochemical datasets to quantify the governing processes of groundwater flow and chemistry in the Raya Valley, Ethiopia. Evaluating the correlations between the ionic concentrations and the processes governing groundwater chemistry, the study showed that rock weathering, mineral dissolution, ion exchange and anthropogenic activities were the major processes governing the hydro-geochemical characteristics of the groundwater.
description: These improved hydrogeological and hydro-geochemical conceptualization approaches were then combined with isotope analysis and groundwater chemistry to determine the legacy effects and drivers of nutrient and pesticide pollution in agriculturally impacted aquifers (Chapter 5).
description: Overall, the thesis closes crucial knowledge gaps in the understanding of hydrogeological systems and provides groundwater managers with a much better understanding of the system to make more effective groundwater management decisions relating to issues such as groundwater sustainability and pollution issues.
Contribution à la validation d'une partie d'optimage auprès de personnes âgées hébergées atteintes de démence de type Alzheimer.
Creators: name: Lavoie, Anne Marise.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Gerontology.

description: Cette étude méthodologique est une validation d'une partie de l'activité s'habiller d'OPTIMAGE, la mise des chaussures, auprès de personnes atteintes de démence de type Alzheimer et hébergées en établissement de soins de longue durée. Un groupe d'experts a contribué à la validité de contenu d'une grille comprenant quatre tâches de 8 énoncés tirés du cadre conceptuel des fonctions exécutives de Lezak (1995); les tâches relèvent du choix des chaussures, de la préparation à l'enfilage, de l'enfilage et de la fermeture des chaussures. La fidélité inter-observateurs de la grille a été estimée auprès de 5 observateurs visionnant les bandes vidéo de 10 sujets filmés pendant la mise des chaussures; les estimés montrent que seuls les items du choix des chaussures avec un nombre plus élevé de coefficients acceptables de kappa pondéré sont prometteurs à une utilisation clinique.
Evaluation of Surgical Quality with a Focus on the Standardized Monitoring of Peri-Operative Morbidity and Mortality
Creators: name: Jelena, Ivanovic
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: surgical quality
thoracic surgery
morbidity and mortality
classification system
needs assessment

description: Objective: Evaluation of surgical quality ensures consistency of care and facilitates improvements in the quality of care delivered. Methods: An overview of surgical quality measurement is presented. A system for monitoring thoracic morbidity and mortality (TM&M) at the Ottawa Hospital is introduced and evaluated. Results of a needs assessment survey on the involvement in thoracic surgical research and quality improvement initiatives are presented. Results: Structure, process, and outcomes reflect different viewpoints on how to evaluate surgical quality. The feasibility of the TM&M system is evaluated using descriptive and univariate statistics, while its inter-rater reliability is assessed amongst the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons. Conclusions: Outcomes have been fundamental in the evaluation of surgical quality. TM&M classification system advocates for a practice of continuous quality improvement and provides standardized and reliable feedback on surgical outcomes. Results of the needs assessment have built a strong foundation of knowledge on prospective ways to enhance the monitoring of surgical quality.
Henry James, Novels 1903-1911 – The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Outcry
Creators: name: Trainini, Marco
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensiamo il libro Henry James, Novels 1903-1911 – The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Outcry. Ed. Ross Posnock. New York: The Library of America, 2011.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
Understanding choreographic practice in an artful, digital dance education
Creators: name: Cook, Peter
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Choreographic practice
Choreography
Dance education
A/r/tography
Online education
Initial teacher education

description: This a/r/tographic inquiry examined the intertwining of Dance, its teaching, and choreographic practice, focussing on engagement with digital technologies. The project documents the researcher’s development of choreographic practice using digital technologies and its influence on the teaching of Dance to generalist pre-service primary school teachers. It explored the application of digital technologies for the communication and development of their Dance experience. Outcomes of the study contribute to a deeper understanding of choreographic practice, dance education, and teaching and learning online. Of significance, the thesis posits Dance teaching and learning, and choreographic practice, as being non-linear, non-binary, and complexly rhizomatic.
Mothers of the Revolution: Barrio Women’s Social Activism and Agency in the Bolivarian Process
Creators: name: Caswell, Calais M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: women
water
community development
social organizing
Latin America
Venezuela
gender studies
resource management

description: This thesis examines women’s participation in community-based organizing within the barrios (slums) of Caracas, Venezuela specifically in regards to their involvement as voceras (spokeswomen) for local water management committees entitled the mesas técnicas de agua (MTAs or technical water committees) in the popular parish of Antímano. Through the Bolivarian Process—a state-led effort to promote participatory democracy within Venezuela that emphasizes the importance of women’s involvement in citizen-led development strategies—the voceras have engaged in a number of social programs that tackle salient problems in their respective communities. Moreover, their struggle for water services—in addition to their participation in other forms of social activism—provides a clear illustration of how women relate to the discourse of “revolutionary motherhood” as their motivation for community-based organizing. This thesis will argue that while this process has been an empowering experience that has allowed the voceras to develop political consciousness and agency in an ongoing dialogue with the state, it has also resulted in myriad challenges and gendered consequences including the creation of a triple burden of labour.
Cinzia Scarpino, US Waste. Rifiuti e sprechi d’America. Una storia dal basso
Creators: name: Mansutti, Pamela
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensiamo il libro di Cinzia Scarpino, US Waste. Rifiuti e sprechi d'America. Una storia dal basso. Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2011.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
Supplementary document for The Agnostic Sampling Transceiver - 5187718.pdf
Creators: name: MISRA, ARIJIT
name: Meier, Janosch
name: Preussler, Stefan
name: Singh, Karanveer
name: Schneider, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The agnostic sampling transceiver: supplement
Spectral energy distribution and radio halo of NGC 253 at low radio frequencies
Creators: name: Kapinska, A. D.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Crocker, R.
name: Meurer, G. R.
name: Bhandari, S.
name: Hurley-Walker, N.
name: Offringa, A. R.
name: Hanish, D. J.
name: Seymour, N.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Bell, M. E.
name: Callingham, J. R.
name: Dwarakanath, K. S.
name: For, B. Q.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Hancock, P. J.
name: Hindson, L.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Lenc, E.
name: McKinley, B.
name: Morgan, J.
name: Procopio, P.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Wu, C.
name: Zheng, Q.
name: Barry, N.
name: Beardsley, A. P.
name: Bowman, J. D.
name: Briggs, F.
name: Carroll, P.
name: Dillon, J. S.
name: Ewall-Wice, A.
name: Feng, L.
name: Greenhill, L. J.
name: Hazelton, B. J.
name: Hewitt, J. N.
name: Jacobs, D. J.
name: Kim, H. S.
name: Kittiwisit, P.
name: Line, J.
name: Loeb, A.
name: Mitchell, D. A.
name: Morales, M. F.
name: Neben, A. R.
name: Paul, S.
name: Pindor, B.
name: Pober, J. C.
name: Riding, J.
name: Sethi, S. K.
name: Shankar, N. Udaya
name: Subrahmanyan, R.
name: Sullivan, I. S.
name: Tegmark, M.
name: Thyagarajan, N.
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Trott, C. M.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Wyithe, S. B.
name: Cappallo, R. J.
name: Deshpande, A. A.
name: Dobie, Dougal
name: Lonsdale, C. J.
name: McWhirter, S. R.
name: Morgan, E.
name: Oberoi, D.
name: Ord, S. M.
name: Prabu, T.
name: Srivani, K. S.
name: Williams, Andrew
name: Williams, C. L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present new radio continuum observations of NGC 253 from the Murchison Widefield Array at frequencies between 76 and 227 MHz. We model the broadband radio spectral energy distribution for the total flux density of NGC 253 between 76 MHz and 11 GHz. The spectrum is best described as a sum of a central starburst and extended emission. The central component, corresponding to the inner 500 pc of the starburst region of the galaxy, is best modeled as an internally free-free absorbed synchrotron plasma, with a turnover frequency around 230 MHz. The extended emission component of the spectrum of NGC 253 is best described as a synchrotron emission flattening at low radio frequencies. We find that 34% of the extended emission (outside the central starburst region) at 1 GHz becomes partially absorbed at low radio frequencies. Most of this flattening occurs in the western region of the southeast halo, and may be indicative of synchrotron self-absorption of shock-reaccelerated electrons or an intrinsic low-energy cutoff of the electron distribution. Furthermore, we detect the large-scale synchrotron radio halo of NGC 253 in our radio images. At 154-231 MHz the halo displays the well known X-shaped/horn-like structure, and extends out to ∼8 kpc in the z-direction (from the major axis).
title: PAYMENT MODELS FOR HEMODIALYSIS SESSION AND COMPARISON OF PRICES IN EURO
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: SEZEN, Adem
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2020
Subjects: HEMODIALYSIS PACKAGE
HEMODIALYSIS PACKAGE PRICE
HEMODIALYSIS PACKAGE PRICE IN EURO

Abstract
Supp 4. The geology of the Shyok suture zone: evidence for Cretaceous extension of the southern Eurasian margin and Eocene India-Eurasia collision
Creators: name: Martin, C. R.
name: Van Buer, N. J.
name: Matchette-Downes, H.
name: Mueller, P. A.
name: Cruz-Uribe, A. M.
name: van Tongeren, J. A.
name: Hanchar, J. M.
name: Upadhyay, R.
name: Jagoutz, O.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary map.
Supplementary document for The Agnostic Sampling Transceiver - 5187718.pdf
Creators: name: MISRA, ARIJIT
name: Meier, Janosch
name: Preussler, Stefan
name: Singh, Karanveer
name: Schneider, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The agnostic sampling transceiver: supplement
Low-Noise 24 GHz 0.15μm GaAs pHEMT Gilbert Cell Mixer for Intelligent Transportation System Radar Receiver
Creators: name: Asad, Bashar Z.J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: Road traffic accidents are considered as the third cause of human deaths worldwide, while leaving many others with severe injuries and/or in psychological and economical fragile situations. Therefore, several research works have been achieved to improve the reliability of transportation systems. During the last few years, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have been developed, focusing on traffic-safety and traffic-assist systems, to name a few. One of the most common ITS, that integrate between communications and information technology, is the radar sensor working at 24 GHz. In this work, the first mixer stage of a modified ITS radar receiver was designed with an output intermediate frequency of 5.2 GHz, i.e., covering frequency bands accessible to emergency or police services, two of the front-line services involved in road accidents. The designed Gilbert cell mixer uses the 0.15 μm PHEMT GaAs technology. With a conversion gain of 8.7 dB, a single sideband noise figure of 7 dB, a linearity of -13.5 dBm as well as an isolation more than 30 dB, this mixer largely meets the Radar specifications.
Terahertz field depolarization and absorption within composite media
Creators: name: Bergen, Mark
name: Reich, Jason
name: Ho, Tyler
name: Clark, Flynn
name: Reid, Matthew
name: Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: In this work, we pursue a deeper understanding of the expression of the inclusion morphology and index contrast in the refraction and absorption characteristics of composites within the terahertz (THz) spectrum. The composites are composed of SiO₂ and Si nanoparticles as well as SiO₂ and Si microparticles functioning as deeply subwavelength inclusions in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) host. Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy is used for experimental characterization of the composites over a wide range of volumetric fractions, and the trends that emerge are contrasted to theoretical predictions from the Bruggeman model. It is found that the refraction characteristics have a heightened dependence on the inclusions' shape when their index contrast with respect to the host becomes sufficiently large. We attribute such a correlation to terahertz field depolarization that occurs within inclusions at high index contrasts and the dependence of the fields to the inclusions' shape—as defined by a depolarization factor in the generalized form of the Bruggeman model. Moreover, it is found that the absorption characteristics have a heightened dependence on the inclusions' size when that size becomes sufficiently small. We attribute this to the manifold of surface states that form in small inclusions, due to their high surface-to-volume ratio, which raises the absorption beyond that of the bulk. It is concluded that the Bruggeman model can accurately characterize the refraction and absorption of THz radiation within composites having deeply subwavelength inclusions if their (shape-dependent) polarization and (size-dependent) absorption are suitably defined.
1Q84: metarealtà e postmoderno
Creators: name: Giacone, Alessia
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: 1Q84, ultimo romanzo di Murakami Haruki, sembra esprimere il disagio dell’uomo contemporaneo, che è vittima dello smarrimento dovuto agli orrori delle società e alla perdita di ogni certezza. Trasceso il mondo reale e dunque abbandonato il 1984, l’anno in cui vivono i protagonisti, “1Q84” (dove la Q di question mark consente l’insinuarsi surrettizio di un dubbio sempre nuovo) è dunque una “metarealtà;” un distopico viaggio di sola andata, una deriva irreversibile dagli accenti postmoderni. La recensione che presentiamo vorrebbe offrire una chiave di lettura in questa direzione.

description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
title: DİFFERENCES BETWEEN HEALTH QUALİTY SYSTEM AND DİALYSİS QUALİTY SYSTEM
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: DİKMEN, Ahmet Cenk
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2020
Subjects: HEALTH QUALİTY SYSTEM
DİALYSİS QUALİTY SYSTEM
DİALYSİS CENTER
HEMODİALYSİS

Abstract
3D-printed testing plate for the optimization of high C-rates cycling performance of lithium-Ion cells
Creators: name: Carbonari, Gilberto
name: Scurtu, Rares-George
name: Waldmann, Thomas
name: Radloff, Sonja
name: Flügel, Marius
name: Hoffmann, Alice
name: Wohlfahrt-Mehrens, Margret
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Lithium-ion battery
subject: NMC811
subject: High power
subject: 3D printing
subject: Reference electrode
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Lithium ion batteries
subject: Three-dimensional printing
subject: Lithium-Ionen-Akkumulator
subject: 3D-Druck

description: Nowadays, long charging times have become one of the main limitations to a greater worldwide spread of electric vehicles (EV). Enabling high C-rates charging is a promising approach to eliminate this problem and alleviate range anxiety. When a battery is charged at high currents, several factors have to be taken into account. Temperature is certainly a key parameter because when it is too high this can lead to degradation of components (binder, electrolyte, active material, etc), however, when it is too low intercalation kinetics becomes sluggish. Using 3D-printed testing plates (PP3D plates) with Li-reference electrode, we developed a tool for electrochemical investigations of pouch cells. These plates enabled to build a new well-designed 3-electrode pouch cell. This setup allows the identification of the best high C-rate cycling procedure to improve the performance and cycling life of the lithium ion cells. We explored the electrochemical behavior of NMC811 cathodes and graphite anodes, during high discharge C-rates test up to 7 C and charge C-rates up to 2 C. Moreover, the temperature influence on charging performance and longtime cycling stability is investigated. The cells cycled at 25 °C using optimized procedures reached an 80% state of health after more than 1000 cycles.
Supplementary document for Field-resolved detection of the temporal response of a single plasmonic antenna in the mid infrared - 5187862.pdf
Creators: name: Fischer, Marco Patrick
name: Maccaferri, Nicolò
name: Gallacher, Kevin
name: Frigerio, Jacopo
name: Pellegrini, Giovanni
name: Paul, Douglas
name: Isella, Giovanni
name: Leitenstorfer, Alfred
name: Biagioni, Paolo
name: Brida, Daniele
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary figures
title: CONTRIBUTION OF CLINICAL GUIDELINES TO PATIENT CARE PRACTICES
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: YILDIRIM, Ayşe
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2020
Subjects: CLİNİCAL GUİDELİNES
HEALTH WORKER
ATTİTUDE OF HEALTH WORKERS
KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH WORKERS

Abstract
Jean Marie Schaeffer. Petite Écologie des Études Litté- raires. Pourquoi et comment étudier la littérature ?
Creators: name: Sotgiu, Antonio
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensiamo, Jean Marie Schaeffer. Petite Écologie des Études Littéraires. Pourquoi et comment étudier la littérature? Vincennes: Éditions Thierry Marchaisse, 2011.

description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
Oggetti, non domande: la proposta filosofica del Manifesto del nuovo realismo di Maurizio Ferraris
Creators: name: Feis, Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In questo articolo presento i contenuti del Manifesto del nuovo realismo di Maurizio Ferraris. Dopo una disamina dei contenuti e una illustrazione sia della pars construens sia della pars destruens del Manifesto, cerco di valutarlo criticamente. Alla pars destruens si può obiettare che la ricostruzione usa una definizione non neutrale di «ontologia» e, parlando di spettacolarizzazione, presenta un punto di vista troppo pessimista sull’accesso all’informazione. Per quanto riguarda la pars costruens pongo invece il seguente interrogativo: la proposta filosofica di Ferraris si può ancora considerare filosofia? Se è così, perchè è così difficile benificiare di que- sti insegnamenti in una facoltà di filosofia?
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 6 (2012)
The WAGGS project - I. the WiFeS Atlas of Galactic Globular cluster Spectra
Creators: name: Usher, Christopher
name: Pastorello, Nicola
name: Bellstedt, Sabine
name: Alabi, Adebusola
name: Cerulo, Pierluigi
name: Chevalier, Leonie
name: Fraser-McKelvie, Amelia
name: Penny, Samantha
name: Foster, Caroline
name: McDermid, Richard M.
name: Schiavon, Ricardo P.
name: Villaume, Alexa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the WiFeS Atlas of Galactic Globular cluster Spectra, a library of integrated spectra of Milky Way and Local Group globular clusters. We used the WiFeS integral field spectrograph on the Australian National University 2.3 m telescope to observe the central regions of 64 Milky Way globular clusters and 22 globular clusters hosted by the Milky Way's low-mass satellite galaxies. The spectra have wider wavelength coverage (3300-9050 angstrom) and higher spectral resolution (R = 6800) than existing spectral libraries of Milky Way globular clusters. By including Large and Small Magellanic Cloud star clusters, we extend the coverage of parameter space of existing libraries towards young and intermediate ages. While testing stellar population synthesis models and analysis techniques is the main aim of this library, the observations may also further our understanding of the stellar populations of Local Group globular clusters and make possible the direct comparison of extragalactic globular cluster integrated light observations with well-understood globular clusters in the Milky Way. The integrated spectra are publicly available via the project website.