cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La percezione antica dell'Orientalizzante
Creators: name: Cordano, Federica
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2009

description: This article analyzes the perceptions that the ancients had about two key objects of the Orientalizing period, the throne and the crater, considering literary traditions, both contemporary (Homer and the first lyric poets) and later (Atheneus of Naukratis, who quotes Dioscoris and Philochorus, Herodotus, Duris of Samos,…), as well as archaeological finds coming also from Etruscan and Latial areas (e.g. Nestor’s Cup). Both these objects characterized the royal, or at least princely, banquet (daís), until the middle VII century B.C., when the substitution of the usage of the throne (klismoi or thronoi, the latter already present in Mycenaean tablets) with that of the couch (kline) testifies to social evolution. The kline is just one of the ritual elements which differentiates daís (banquet) and symposion. If then, in the case of the throne and of related convivial habits it is possible to envisage an innovation from the Oriental world, datable with sufficient precision but diffused unevenly  (e.g. Crete). In the case of the kratér or depas we can identify a continuity in usage as ritual gift (e.g. Sidonians’ bowl), votive offerings (e.g. Lydian kings’ craters) or reuse (sometimes with deceptive goals, as done by King Pausanias in Platea and Byzantium). Such an usage demonstrates how the awareness of the social preciousness of the apparatus described in these pages was crucial for its acceptance and utilization until the time of the Hellenistic courts.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 3 (2008): Aspetti nell’orientalizzante nell’Etruria e nel Lazio
Comunicare per immagini: una questione di alfabeto
Creators: name: Bagnasco Gianni, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico
Year: 2009

description: This contribution presents a new hypothetical interpretation of the use of alphabetical signs during the first phase of the spread of writing in Etruria. Several pieces of the first half of the seventh century B.C. seem to show evidence that the form of the letters might be considered as a system of remarkable and recognisable signs with a function other than writing texts. This same function seems to continue in a specific use of the alphabetical sequence up to the end of the seventh century B.C. In the case of the spread of writing to other regions of the Italian peninsula, the alphabetical sequence seems to function as dynamic architecture that makes it possible to create multifaceted sequences of letters and sounds.
This contribution examines groups of inscribed objects such as the red dishes (with the inscription spanti) and the kyathoi disseminated in Northern Etruria and present at Cerveteri, according to the same interpretation. These objects are considered as having a special relationship between sign and image in the framework of sacred ceremonies and as vehicles of long distance contacts.
description: Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, No 3 (2008): Aspetti nell’orientalizzante nell’Etruria e nel Lazio
Investigation of the use of Web-centric collaborative product development techniques and methods: The case of software industry
Creators: name: Hwang, Lihsin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.
subject: Computer Science.

description: This research investigated the use of web-centric collaborative techniques and methods for the software industry new product development (NPD) process. After carefully reviewing previous literature, a questionnaire was designed targeting individuals who currently work on or previously participated in the software new product development (NPD) process for the past six months. The survey was launched through the third-party web researching company, InsightExpress, where 200 completed surveys were collected. As the observation from the results of this research indicates, the web-based level of collaborative tools does increase the level of integration between different departments in the NPD process. However, the impact of web-based collaborative tools on either overall performance or performance elements (technical success, financial success, budgetary, time-to market or schedule) is not evident. Moreover, the level of adapting web-based collaborative tools in the software industry is still not as popular as it was anticipated to be.
From individual to social foresight
Creators: name: Hayward, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: To this point in time humanity has successfully responded to the challenges to its existence. A viewpoint becoming widespread is that humanity will have to respond to even greater challenges to its existence in the future. If adequate responses are not formulated to these emerging challenges then a dystopian future for humanity is a strong possibility. While experience can teach us how to act in the future it is the express intent of this research that we should not have to experience dystopia in order to learn how to prevent it. The innate human capacity for foresight has played a pivotal role in responding to past challenges, however, a more extensive form of foresight will need to be developed to respond to these future challenges. That form of foresight will need to be both individual and social in nature. Part I of this thesis generates an original theory of how foresight could develop in individuals beyond our innate capacities. The theory argues that foresight capacities develop through the expansion of individual consciousness, particularly the individual's sense of 'self'. The theory is synthesised from the work of a num- ber of psychological researchers including Jean Piaget, Jane Loevinger, Lawrence Kohlberg, Clare Graves, Susan Cook-Greuter and Ken Wilber. Part II is a two year study of students undertaking a postgraduate course in strategic foresight. The study is utilised to add preliminary empirical support to the theory proposed in Part I. Part III integrates the previous two parts to further elaborate the attributes and dynamics of individual foresight development before describing how social foresight capacity can emerge from individual development. Expanded individual and social foresight capacities are achievable, but cannot be assumed. The contribution of this thesis is to give a theoretical base to such development and to outline further research. The development of individual foresight and the emergence of social expressions of foresight can offer preferable, and not dystopian, futures for both current and future generations.
Measurement and Analysis of Flow in 3D Preforms for Aerospace Composites
Creators: name: Stewart, Andrew L
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Composites
Advanced Materials
Carbon fibre
Glass fibre
Permeability
Aerospace

description: Composite materials have become viable alternatives to traditional engineering materials for many different product categories. Liquid transfer moulding (LTM) processes, specifically resin transfer moulding (RTM), is a cost-effective manufacturing technique for creating high performance composite parts. These parts can be tailor-made to their specific application by optimizing the properties of the textile preform. Preforms which require little or no further assembly work and are close to the shape of the final part are critical to obtaining high quality parts while simultaneously reducing labour and costs associated with other composite manufacturing techniques. One type of fabric which is well suited for near-net- shape preforms is stitched non-crimp fabrics. These fabrics offer very high in-plane strength and stiffness while also having increased resistance to delamination. Manufacturing parts from these dry preforms typically involves long-scale fluid flow through both open channels and porous fibre bundles. This thesis documents and analyzes the flow of fluid through preforms manufactured from non-crimp fabrics featuring through-thickness stitches. The objective of this research is to determine the effect of this type of stitch on the RTM injection process. All of the tests used preforms with fibre volume fractions representative of primary and secondary structural parts. A series of trials was conducted using different fibre materials, flow rates, fibre volumes fractions, and degrees of fibre consolidation. All of the trials were conducted for cases similar to RTM. Consolidation of the fibres showed improvements to both the thoroughness of the filling and to the fibre volume fraction. Experimentally determined permeability data was shown to trend well with simple models and precision of the permeability data was comparable to values presented by other authors who studied fabrics which did not feature the through-thickness stitches.
A policy analysis of the Australian water industry : relevance to physical asset management and organisational performance
Creators: name: McGeoch, Mary
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Policy
Analysis
Asset
Water
Organisational
Performance
Australia

description: This thesis examines the effectiveness of policy development within the Australian Water Industry and the relationship between the development of public and organisational policy in relation to asset management. This thesis analyses the synergy between public policy and organisational polices in relation to the management of public water assets. Effective policy planning is increasingly being recognised as a vital part of a public organisation’s responsibility to mitigate threats and maximise life-cycle income and cost-effectiveness of their assets. An effective water policy provides a blueprint from which a more effective management of water assets in Australia is possible.
description: In order to achieve the aims of the research, a case study approach was adopted to investigate three water enterprises. The methods used to analyse data were document and template analysis guided by ISO55000 standard, policy cycle analysis and policy delphi, as well as the Balanced Scorecard (BSc) framework. Some papers have already been published from this thesis, including (a) Brown, Keast, McGeoch and Wiewiora (2012); (b) McGeoch, Brunetto and Brown, (2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013); (e) McGeoch and Godau (2016). Additionally, the thesis includes work from McGeoch et al. (2014) that supports the utilisation of policy delphi in the development of organisational policy.
description: This thesis examined the way in which federal policy cascades into the state policies for water management and are then implemented in some form in at the organisational level. This thesis is specially, about the ways in which the different states interpret these policies in making organisational policies. The outcome is that unless there is synergy, the water asset management is not sustainable. The outcomes of the research were supported through a link between the development of public and organisational policy in relation to engineering asset management within the water industry, with evidence of some translation of public policies to organisational policies. The research further provided a platform of evidence that demonstrated the need for synergy between federal and state government policy, and organisational policies. It validated the theory that asset management achieves sustainability; and when it does not.
Supplementary document for Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice - 5179022.pdf
Creators: name: Pieczarka, Maciej
name: Estrecho, Eliezer
name: Ghosh, Sanjib
name: Wurdack, Matthias
name: Steger, Mark
name: Snoke, David
name: West, Kenneth
name: Pfeiffer, Loren
name: Liew, Timothy
name: Truscott, Andrew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Development and testing of a fractionated filtration for sampling of microplastics in water
Creators: name: Bannick, Claus Gerhard
name: Obermaier, Nathan
name: Ricking, Mathias
name: Schniegler, Sara
name: Szewzyk, Regine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Probenahme
Wasser

description: A harmonization of sampling, sample preparation and detection is pivotal in order to obtain comparable data on microplastics (MP) in the environment. This paper develops and proposes a suitable sampling concept for waterbodies that considers different plastic specific properties and influencing factors in the environment. Both artificial water including defined MP fractions and the discharge of a wastewater treatment plant were used to verify the derived sampling procedure, sample preparation and the subsequent analysis of MP using thermal extraction-desorption gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (TED-GC-MS). A major finding of this paper is that an application of various particle size classes greatly improves the practical handling of the sampling equipment. Size classes also enable the TED-GC-MS to provide any data on the MP size distribution, a substantial sampling property affecting both the necessary sampling volume and the optimal sampling depth. In the artificial body of water with defined MP fractions, the recovery rates ranged from 80-110%, depending on the different MP types and MP size classes. In the wastewater discharge, we found both polyethylene and polystyrene in different size classes and quantities. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Supplementary document for Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice - 5179022.pdf
Creators: name: Pieczarka, Maciej
name: Estrecho, Eliezer
name: Ghosh, Sanjib
name: Wurdack, Matthias
name: Steger, Mark
name: Snoke, David
name: West, Kenneth
name: Pfeiffer, Loren
name: Liew, Timothy
name: Truscott, Andrew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Exercise and Horticultural Programs for Older Adults with Depressive Symptoms and Memory Problems: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Makizako, Hyuma
name: Tsutsumimoto, Kota
name: Doi, Takehiko
name: Makino, Keitaro
name: Nakakubo, Sho
name: Liu-Ambrose, Teresa
name: Shimada, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Depressive symptoms and memory problems are risk factors for dementia. Exercise can reduce these in older people, and horticultural activity can benefit people with dementia. This study assessed the efficacy of exercise and horticultural interventions for community-dwelling older adults with depressive symptoms and mild memory decline. In this randomized controlled trial, older adults (n = 89) were assigned to exercise, horticultural, or control groups. Exercise and horticultural programs included 20 weekly 90-min sessions. The control group attended two 90-min classes. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, and then 6- and 12-months post-intervention. Primary outcome measures were the Geriatric Depression Scale-15 (GDS-15) and Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised. Walking speed, two-minute walking test scores, social network, life space, and subjective daily physical activity were secondary outcome measures. Compared with the control group, the exercise group obtained higher immediate and delayed recall logical memory scores, and the increase in immediate recall scores remained 12-months post-intervention. Two-minute walking performance improved in the exercise group, but not after 12 months. GDS-15 scores showed no significant improvements. The horticultural and control groups showed no differences. Exercise may improve memory, while horticultural activity may not. The effects of exercise and horticultural interventions on depressive symptoms remain unclear.
Su alcuni episodi ricorrenti di infiltrazione criminale a margine di espressioni collettive della pietà popolare nel mezzogiorno
Creators: name: Zanchini Di Castiglionchio, Francesco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Gli anni ’70 a Gioiosa Jonica e la mafia di Africo - 3. Recenti pressioni mafiose sul nuovo parroco di S. Rocco a Gioiosa - 4. Un nuovo caso sospetto nella Sicilia meridionale – 5. Una vittoria delle cosche?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 17 ottobre
Funzione amministrativa ed uffici ecclesiastici
Creators: name: Berlingò, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Relazione tenuta al XIV Congresso internazionale di diritto canonico svoltosi a Varsavia dal 14 al 18 settembre 2011 e destinata alla raccolta di scritti in onore di P.A. BonnetSOMMARIO: 1. Una scelta di metodo – 2. Gli orientamenti magisteriali – 3. Il rapporto fra ministerium e officum – 4. Istituzione e costituzione degli officia – 5. La pluriforme costituzione degli officia – 6. La concretizzazione degli officia tipici dei laici e dei religiosi – 7. Sulla titolarità degli officia – 8. Un’organizzazione articolata per officia – 9. Autonomia e responsabilità nella gestione degli officia.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 24 ottobre
Imaginative democracies : mapping representations of democracy in Turkey’s press
Creators: name: Vatansever, Fulya
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Turkish press
Spatiality
Democracy
Critical spatial discourse analysis
Imaginative democracies

description: Positioned between Europe, Russia and the Middle East, and between East and West, Turkey occupies a strategic geopolitical space. The relationship between Turkey’s space, media, democracy and identity is the focus of this thesis. Using contemporary sociospatial theory as a backdrop, this research explores how Turkey’s unique geocultural and geopolitical position has impacted imaginings and representations of its democracy. It interrogates how the media is positioned within this space and the role of the media in constructing and projecting imagined democracies. It also investigates appropriate frameworks that can effectively foreground the spatial dimension in the critical discourse analysis of media texts within this context, and proposes a new approach, Critical Spatial Discourse Analysis (CSDA), to achieve this end. The content of two newspapers at contrasting ends of the political spectrum is examined: Cumhuriyet and Sabah. Critical Spatial Discourse Analysis is developed and applied as an innovative, space-sensitive analysis of media texts, with a focus on representations of democracy in the Turkish press from 2005–2016.
description: This study proposes the concept of imaginative democracies as an emplaced, spatialised view of democracy. This highlights the variety in the ideation of democracies that are as inherently and inescapably bound to spatial contexts as they are to specific historical and social ones. Using Edward Soja’s critical geographical imagination and Thirdspace perspective as an overarching lens, it advances a re-location of the idea and practice of democracy, in which the same critical insight is given to the conceptualisations and cultures of democracy as has been devoted to its institutions and procedures. Several key arguments are developed. First, it makes more sense to speak of Turkey’s democracies rather than its democracy. Like its shifting geocultural and geopolitical imaginations, the Turkish democratic imaginary is an arena of competing stories. Second, like its political system, Turkey’s media system has demonstrated its own culture that is firmly emplaced in unique spatiotemporal settings. The spatialities of Turkey’s society, culture, politics and media are actively constitutive of its own unique configurations. This thesis finds that not only Turkey, but its media can be thought of as a Thirdspace. The contemporary Turkish social, cultural and political landscape is a site of constant negotiations between ‘actual’ and ‘imagined’, involving alternative and simultaneous modes of spatial configurations. Turkey’s media is also a strategic location from which alternative, concurrent, and often colliding perceptions of the world and Turkey’s place within it are articulated. Infusing the imaginings of Turkey’s democracy are these very representations of culture, place and space.
Chronic aromatase inhibition increases ventral hippocampal neurogenesis in middle-aged female mice
Creators: name: Chaiton, Jessica A.
name: Wong, Sarah J.
name: Galea, Liisa A. M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Letrozole, a third-generation aromatase inhibitor, prevents the production of estrogens in the final step in conversion from androgens. Due to its efficacy at suppressing estrogens, letrozole has recently taken favor as a first-line adjuvant treatment for hormone-responsive breast cancer in middle-aged women. Though patient response to letrozole has generally been positive, there is conflicting evidence surrounding its effects on the development of depression. It is possible that the potential adverse effects of letrozole on mood are a result of the impact of hormonal fluctuations on neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Thus, to clarify the effects of letrozole on the hippocampus and behavior, we examined how chronic administration affects hippocampal neurogenesis and depressive-like behavior in middle-aged, intact female mice. Mice were given either letrozole (1mg/kg) or vehicle by injection (i.p.) daily for 3 weeks. Depressive-like behavior was assessed during the last 3 days of treatment using the forced swim test, tail suspension test, and sucrose preference test. The production of new neurons was quantified using the immature neuronal marker doublecortin (DCX), and cell proliferation was quantified using the endogenous marker Ki67. We found that letrozole increased DCX and Ki67 expression and maturation in the dentate gyrus, but had no significant effect on depressive-like behavior. Our findings suggest that a reduction in estrogens in middle-aged females increases hippocampal neurogenesis without any adverse impact on depressive-like behavior; as such, this furthers our understanding of how estrogens modulate neurogenesis, and to the rationale for the utilization of letrozole in the clinical management of breast cancer.
Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene Oxide-modified Bi2WO6 and Its Use as Photocatalyst
Creators: name: Hu, Xiaoyue
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Photocatalyst
Bi2WO6
Graphene oxide
Hydrothermal method

description: The control of environmental pollution, particularly in wastewater treatment, is one of the major concerns of the 21st century. Among the currently available pollution control technologies, photocatalysis is one of the most promising and efficient approaches to the reduction of pollutants. Graphene, a carbon nanomaterial with specific physical and chemical properties, has been reported as a promising potential new catalyst material in this field. A Bi2WO6 photocatalyst modified with graphene oxide was synthesized in a two-step hydrothermal process. Compared with pure Bi2WO6, the modified photocatalyst with 1.2 wt% graphene oxide improved photoactivity during the degradation of rhodamine-B (RhB) dye pollutant, by facilitating the dissociation of photogenerated excitons, which in turn results in more O2- radicals. XRD characterization showed that the modification of Bi2WO6 with graphene oxide does not affect its structure or morphology. The adsorption properties of graphene also contribute to the improvement of photoactivity. Other parameters such as catalyst dosage, temperature and solution pH are studied, with the aim to improve the efficiency of RhB removal.
Modified LMS and NLMS algorithms with a new variable step size
Creators: name: Zhao, Shengkui
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Suiyang, Khoo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, the modified LMS and NLMS algorithms with variable step-size are presented. It is shown that the variable step size is computed using a ratio of the sums of weighted energy of the output error with two exponential factors alpha and beta, thus the fast error convergence of the modified LMS and NLMS algorithms can then be achieved. Also, by properly choosing the values of alpha and beta, the misadjustment can be further improved. A few simulation results are presented in support of the good performance of the proposed algorithms by comparing with other LMS-type algorithms
Nursing the ‘Other’: Exploring the Roles and Challenges of Nurses Working within Rural, Remote, and Northern Canadian Aboriginal Communities
Creators: name: Rahaman, Zaida
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community Health Nursing
Rural, Remote, and Northern Nursing
Aboriginal Health
Health Equity
Community-Based Research
Advanced Nursing Practice

description: State dependency and the lingering impacts of colonialism dancing with Aboriginal peoples are known realities across the Canadian health care landscape. However, delving into the discourses of how to reduce health disparities of a colonized population is a sophisticated issue with many factors to consider. Specifically, nurses can play a central role in the delivery of essential health services to the ‘Other’ within isolated Northern Aboriginal communities. As an extension of the state health care system, nurses have a duty to provide responsive and relevant health care services to Aboriginal peoples. The conducted qualitative research, influenced by a postcolonial epistemology, sought to explore the roles and challenges of nurses working within rural, remote, and Northern Canadian Aboriginal communities, as well as individual, organizational, and system level factors that supported or impeded nurses’ work in helping to meet Aboriginal peoples’ health needs with meaningful care. Theorists include the works of Fanon on colonization and racial construction; Kristeva on semiotics and abjection; and Foucault on power/knowledge, governmentality, and bio-power were used in providing a theoretical framework to help enlighten the research study presented within this dissertation. Critical Discourse Analysis of twenty-five semi-structured interviews with nurses, physicians, and regional health care administrators was deployed to gain a better understanding of the responsibilities and challenges of nurses working in Northern Canada. Specifically, the research study was conducted in one of the three health regions within Northern Saskatchewan. Major findings of this study include: (1) the Aboriginal person did not exist without being in a relation with their colonial agent, the nurse, (2) being ‘Aboriginal’ was constructed as a source of treating illnesses and managing diseases, and (3) as a collective force, nursing was utilized as means of governmentality and as provisions of care situated within colonial laws. Historically, nurses functioned as a weapon to ‘save’ and ‘civilize’ Aboriginal peoples for purposes of the state. Primarily, present day nursing roles focused on health care duties to promote a decency of the state, followed by missionary tasks. In turn, the findings of this research study indicate that nurses must have a better understanding of the impact of colonialism on Aboriginal peoples’ health before they engage with local communities. Knowledge development through postcolonial scholarship in nursing can help nurses and health service providers to strengthen their self-reflective practice, in working towards de-signifying poor discourses around Aboriginal peoples’ health and to help create new discourses.
Supplementary document for Selective Excitation of Plasmon Resonances with Cylindrical Vector Beams - 5179588.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Bo
name: Heffernan, Brendan
name: Bae, Kyuyoung
name: Siemens, Mark
name: Gopinath, Juliet
name: Park, Wounjhang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications)

description: Supplementary information
Usage behaviour of a personal carbon monitoring system
Creators: name: Hendry, Alexander David
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Personal carbon trading
PCT
Personal carbon trading system
PCTS,
TAM2
Carbon emissions
Climate change

description: The theory behind anthropogenic climate change and its connection with the carbon emissions associated with fossil fuel usage has been well documented. Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) is a generic term used to describe several similar conceptual downstream schemes that aim to reduce carbon emissions at an individual level. However, the literature surrounding PCT is theoretical in nature, and there does not appear to be any evidence outside of the current research of a Personal Carbon Trading System (PCTS) or a Personal Carbon Monitoring System (PCMS) having been evaluated across a whole community. This research seeks to fill the gap in the literature in this respect.
description: The voluntary Norfolk Island Carbon and Health Evaluation (NICHE) PCMS was designed and developed by the author based on the most detailed conceptual PCT schemes. For 15 months, the NICHE PCMS monitored the carbon emissions produced by the fossil fuel usage (petrol, diesel, electricity, and gas) for 219 households on Norfolk Island (27% of total households) and provided a carbon emission reduction target based on household size. Survey instruments that were open to all households on Norfolk Island were administered before and after the NICHE PCMS trial to gather attitudinal and behavioural data across a range of areas. The conceptual model underpinning the research was adapted from the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM2) that measures user acceptance and usage behaviour of information systems. Additional constructs included in the model were identified in the review of the literature covering attitudes and behaviours towards the environment, carbon emissions, climate change, health, and PCT.
description: Findings from the research show that there were significant changes in attitudes and behaviours towards the environment, carbon emissions, and climate change following the NICHE PCMS trial, and these attitudes and behaviours predicted higher levels of variance in attitudes toward PCT. Individuals who participated in the trial (PCMS users) were significantly more likely to believe in anthropogenic climate change and display positive attitudes towards PCT than those that did not participate (non-PCMS users). For PCMS users, their attitudes towards PCT were predicted by their attitudes towards the environment, carbon emissions, and climate change, whereas the predictors in attitudes towards PCT for non-PCMS users were attitudes regarding their health and body weight. Finally, the significant factors that predicted the usage of the NICHE PCMS were Carbon Consciousness, Consumer Consciousness, Voluntariness, Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and Intention to Use.
L’Albania apre agli accordi di collaborazione con i “nuovi culti”
Creators: name: Cimbalo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Gli evangelici albanesi a favore della lingua, della cultura, dell’identità e dell’indipendenza - 2. La nuova Costituzione albanese e il ripristino della libertà religiosa - 3. Le trattative per la stipula dell’accordo di cooperazione - 4. I contenuti dell’accordo e i suoi effetti nel rapporto con la legislazione ordinaria a tutela della libertà religiosa - 5. La proiezione dell’efficacia degli accordi nell’area dell’Albania etnica – 6. Gli accordi di cooperazione: un modello esportabile?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 24 ottobre
East of the west
Creators: name: Neumann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: 'The impossible border' brings an important period in German history out of the shadow of the Nazi era, writes Klaus Neumann in his review of the book 'The impossible border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922', by Annemarie H. Sammartin, published by Cornell University Press, 2010.
Development of a high-temperature gas-phase solar receiver with optimum thermal performance
Creators: name: Sedighi, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Concentrated Solar Power/Thermal
Volumetric Solar Thermal Receiver
Packed Bed
Porous Medium
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Optical Ray Tracing Analysis

description: In the process of a complete transition to renewable energies, concentrated solar thermal/power is considered a necessary part of a diverse energy portfolio according to IEA energy transition scenarios, due to its dispatchability. However, it needs to evolve to operate at higher temperatures (~1000 K) to enable advanced thermodynamic cycles. As the highest temperature point in the system, the receiver represents the key to this evolution. However, there is a classic trade-off between mean operation temperature and thermal efficiency of a solar receiver (due to radiation heat loss which is proportional to T4). In addition, conventional heat transfer fluids (e.g., oils and molten salt) are not stable at such high temperatures. To address these issues, this thesis proposed an innovative gas-phase receiver utilising transparent/absorbing spheres as a volumetric absorption medium. The motivation behind this design is to reduce the reradiation losses by maximising radiation penetration through the absorber in order to break the long-standing trade-off. Four stages of research activities were identified. For Stage I, an optical model and a 1-D heat transfer model were developed to preliminarily design a novel semi-transparent packed-bed receiver, and compared with the classic opaque ceramic packed-bed absorber. The designs showed a potential to obtain the elusive "volumetric effect" and demonstrated that the proposed design could potentially compete with the most successful gas-phase receivers developed. Next, the efficiency limits of the proposed design were extensively investigated by exploring a wide range of geometrical (e.g., ~0.01 to ~1.45 spheres per cm3) and operational parameters. The optimal holistic performance of the receiver was achieved with 18 rows of transparent spheres (i.e., ~0.3 spheres per cm3). While the thermal emission losses were addressed by this design, the reflection losses were identified as the most effective limiting factors. For Stage III, using the obtained optimal range of the parameters, the identified limiting factors were addressed by the 3-D pore-scale modifications using linked TracePro ray-tracing optical and ANSYS Fluent CFD models. The enhanced proposed designs showed a peak efficiency of ~90 % at a hot air outlet temperature above 1000 K. As the final stage (Stage IV), an experimental optical study was conducted to verify the concept by investigating the transmission versus absorption within a prototype semi-transparent absorber. Overall, this proposed receiver demonstrated a new pathway towards an inexpensive and efficient solar receiver providing an outlet temperature over 1000 K—a receiver which can enable advanced thermodynamic power cycles.
La mediación y la actividad administrativa eclesiástica: su recepción por el Derecho Canónico
Creators: name: Morán García, Gloria M.
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SUMARIO: 1. Premisa metodológica – 2. Presupuestos teológicos y jurídicos: justicia, caridad y mediación – 3. El episcopado y la tutela de los fieles: la mediación episcopal – 4. La canonización jurídica y la mediación en el ámbito canónico – 5- La actividad administrativa en la Iglesia Católica y la figura del Defensor del fiel – 6. Los conflictos en la comunidad católica y las vías alternativas al proceso canónico.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 24 ottobre
Complement activation and organ damage after trauma—differential immune response based on surgical treatment strategy
Creators: name: Lackner, Ina
name: Weber, Birte
name: Baur, Meike
name: Fois, Giorgio
name: Gebhard, Florian
name: Pfeifer, Roman
name: Cinelli, Paolo
name: Halvachizadeh, Sascha
name: Lipiski, Miriam
name: Cesarovic, Nikola
name: Schrezenmeier, Hubert
name: Huber-Lang, Markus
name: Pape, Hans-Christoph
name: Kalbitz, Miriam
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cardiac dysfunction
subject: femoral nailing
subject: conventional reaming
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Multiple trauma
subject: Inflammation
subject: Fracture fixation, Intramedullary
subject: Complement activation
subject: Myocytes, Cardiac
subject: Trauma
subject: Entzündung
subject: Komplement

description: Background: The complement system is part of the innate immunity, is activated immediately after trauma and is associated with adult respiratory distress syndrome, acute lung injury, multiple organ failure, and with death of multiply injured patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the complement activation in multiply injured pigs as well as its effects on the heart in vivo and in vitro. Moreover, the impact of reamed vs. non-reamed intramedullary nailing was examined with regard to the complement activation after multiple trauma in pigs. Materials and Methods: Male pigs received multiple trauma, followed by femoral nailing with/without prior conventional reaming. Systemic complement hemolytic activity (CH-50 and AH-50) as well as the local cardiac expression of C3a receptor, C5a receptors1/2, and the deposition of the fragments C3b/iC3b/C3c was determined in vivo after trauma. Human cardiomyocytes were exposed to C3a or C5a and analyzed regarding calcium signaling and mitochondrial respiration. Results: Systemic complement activation increased within 6 h after trauma and was mediated via the classical and the alternative pathway. Furthermore, complement activation correlated with invasiveness of fracture treatment. The expression of receptors for complement activation were altered locally in vivo in left ventricles. C3a and C5a acted detrimentally on human cardiomyocytes by affecting their functionality and their mitochondrial respiration in vitro. Conclusion: After multiple trauma, an early activation of the complement system is triggered, affecting the heart in vivo as well as in vitro, leading to complement-induced cardiac dysfunction. The intensity of complement activation after multiple trauma might correlate with the invasiveness of fracture treatment. Reaming of the femoral canal might contribute to an enhanced “second hit” response after trauma. Consequently, the choice of fracture treatment might imply the clinical outcome of the critically injured patients and might be therefore crucial for their survival.
Concurrent nitrate and atrazine retention in bioreactors of straw and bark mulch at short hydraulic residence times
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Atrazin
Stroh
Denitrifikation

description: The present laboratory study tests the hypothesis that straw-bark mulch bioreactors are capable of concurrently retaining nitrate (NO3-) and the herbicides atrazine or bentazone at short hydraulic residence times (HRT). In a 1 year column experiment at HRT of ~4 h three organiccarbon sources, straw of common wheat (Triticum aestivumL.), bark mulch of pine tree (Pinus sp.) and a mixture of both materials, showed high reduction of continuously dosed NO3-(100 mg L-1) with average denitrification rates of 23.4 g-N d-1 m-3, 8.4 g-N d-1 m-3and 20.5 g-N d-1 m-3, respectively. Under denitrifying conditions, fast and substantial retention of continuously dosed atrazine (20 ìg L-1) was observed with estimated dissipation times (DT50) between 0.12 and 0.49 days in the straw-bark mulch bioreactor. In parallel batch experiments, it could be confirmed that atrazine retention is based on adsorption to bark mulch and on degradation processes supplied by the organic materials as continual sources of carbon. In contrast, bentazone was not significantly reduced under the experimental conditions. While aging of materials was clearly observed in a reduction of denitrification by 60-70% during the experiment, systems still worked very well until the end of the experiment. The results indicate that the combined use of straw and bark mulch could increase the efficiency of mitigation systems, which are installed to improve the quality of drainage water before its release to surface waters. Further, the addition of these materials has the potential of parallel retention of NO3- and less mobile herbicides like atrazine, even during high flow events, as expected at the outlet of agricultural drainage systems. High removal is expected for mitigation system designed to remain saturated most of the time, whereas bioreactors that run periodically dry are not covered by this study. However, further experiments with the tested materials at technical or field scale under more realistic climate conditions need to be carried out.
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Entrepreneurs' resilience and its relationship with entrepreneurial type: a study of national Chinese entrepreneur sample
Creators: name: Sun, Jing
name: Buys, Nicholas
name: Wang, Xin Chao
name: Stewart, Donald
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Introduction: Entrepreneurial resilience characteristics are core contributors to the early development stage of business enterprises. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings on resilience among Chinese entrepreneurs, and its relationship with business types. Methods: A cross-sectional cohort study design and multilevel random sampling approach was used. 50,000 entrepreneurs were randomly selected from 228 cities across 30 provinces in China, of which 38,890 agreed to participate, representing a 78% response rate. Questionnaires on resilience characteristics were developed. The reliability and validity of these questionnaires were tested using factor analysis. The effects of demographic factors, locus of control and the type of business on the relationship between resilience and type of business were analysed using a binomial regression model. Results: Results indicated that the questionnaires are valid and reliable. Entrepreneurs who commenced a resource based business type had a three fold likelihood of matching their resilience characteristics to the business type than other entrepreneurial types. They also had higher resilience scores than those who are risk based and knowledge based venture. Resource based and skill based entrepreneurs were similar in terms of creativity and innovation, knowledge seeking and flexibility. Creativity and innovation, knowledge seeking, flexibility were important resilient characteristics that distinguished the resource and skill based group from the risk taking and knowledge based entrepreneurs. Guanxi Self-efficacy did not differ across the four groups, suggesting that this characteristic may serve a less important role in the development of competence in the face of challenges entrepreneurs face in establishing business enterprise in China. Conclusions: Resilience factors are important to resource based and skill-based entrepreneurs in terms of business success. Further investigation is needed to look at longitudinal correlations between resilience and the performance of entrepreneurs.
La crisi economica e la reciproca collaborazione tra le Chiese e lo Stato per “il bene del Paese”
Creators: name: Casuscelli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. I principi in gioco – 2. I trattamenti preferenziali e le situazioni di vantaggio selettivo: ICI e otto per mille – 3. Per una lettura costituzionalmente orientata delle norme pattizie - 4. Il peculiare impegno della Chiesa cattolica e dello Stato alla reciproca collaborazione … – 5. (segue) … per “il bene del Paese” – 6. Il finanziamento pubblico delle Chiese nei nuovi accordi … - 7. (segue) e le “eventuali modifiche” dell’otto per mille – 8. Le vicende delle festività religiose "concordatarie" – 9. Il pluralismo confessionale, la laicità e l’uso controllato delle azioni positive – 10. Il magistero e la “profonda liberazione della Chiesa da forme di mondanità”.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 31 ottobre
Performance improvement schemes for the transport of MPEG video streams over ATM networks.
Creators: name: Han, Taeseop.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis, the use of three different schemes are studied to overcome the loss of information when transferring MPEG video sequences through ATM networks. In the first scheme, the prioritization algorithm assigns different priorities to the video stream based on the different types of video frames. In the second scheme, the use of dummy cells to replace lost ATM cells is investigated in the ATM adaptation layer. For this second scheme, different patterns to be used for the dummy cells are investigated. In the third scheme, the data size of slices and the number of slices are controlled based on the different types of video frames and the order in a group of pictures. The experimental results show the effectiveness of these schemes to overcome the loss of information when transferring packetized video streams. Statistics of the signal to noise ratio (SNR) for different cell loss ratios (CLR) in each case are presented. Statistics gathered from the three types of schemes can be applied in several ways for network design and operation.
La sentenza Lautsi e altri c. Italia della Corte europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo.
Creators: name: Toscano, Marcello
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: uno strano silenzio – 2. Il ricorso governativo e il suo se-guito – 3. La sentenza della Grande Camera – 4. La ‘fuga’ dalla laicità e la regressio-ne del principio di neutralità – 5. Simboli “forti” e simboli “passivi” – 6. Considera-zioni conclusive.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 31 ottobre