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La gestion des risques comme cadre discursif de régulation politico-administrative : Étude des espaces de délégation et de décision dans l'instrumentation fédérale de l'action publique relative aux substances toxiques prioritaires au Canada
Creators: name: Nadeau, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gestion des risques
délégation politico-administrative
substances toxiques
régulation environnementale et sanitaire
Canada

description: La gestion des risques est centrale au discours contemporain relatif à la régulation sanitaire et environnementale. Or, en dépit de son aura scientifique et technique et de décennies de travaux relatifs au paradigme du risque, on comprend encore mal quelles en sont les dimensions opératoires au moment du choix d’instruments d’action publique. La façon dont cette approche façonne les espaces à l’intersection du contrôle et de l’expertise dans la délégation politico-administrative demeure particulièrement peu problématisée. Cette thèse a pour objectif de dénaturaliser la gestion des risques et d’en mettre en relief la nature et les contours dans le contexte de l’administration fédérale canadienne. À partir d’un ancrage dans les théories institutionnalistes critiques de la régulation, cette recherche qualitative s’appuie sur la documentation du processus décisionnel relatif à trois substances toxiques clés (bisphénol A, BNST, sulfate de diéthyle) dans le cadre d’une initiative récente de gestion des substances chimiques toxiques, soit le Défi à l’Industrie du Plan de gestion des produits chimiques. L’argument central de cette thèse est que contrairement à certaines intuitions partagées, la gestion des risques n’a pas constitué un concept formalisé au sein d’artefacts administratifs ou législatifs, ni plus largement un cadre significativement orientant sur le plan du processus ou des facteurs décisionnels. Elle s’est plutôt cristallisée sur le plan du discours, en fournissant un narratif performatif de priorisation de l’action publique dans un contexte complexe et fragmenté. Cette recherche montre que la portée opératoire d’une approche centrée sur la gestion des risques sociétaux doit être comprise à partir d’une mise en relation avec la gestion des risques institutionnels, telle qu’elle s’est formellement incarnée depuis 2001 au sein de l’administration fédérale canadienne sous l’égide de la gestion intégrée du risque. Le cadre discursif de la gestion des risques joue plus largement un ensemble de rôles-clés dans la gestion des substances toxiques (cadre de mise à l’agenda, vecteur de communication organisée, instrument de justification des agendas règlementaires) contribuant tant à amplifier certains espaces discrétionnaires qu’à en atténuer d’autres. La principale contribution de cette dissertation pour le champ de l’administration publique est de proposer une problématisation critique originale de la gestion des risques qui soit empiriquement ancrée dans le détail des cadres administratifs et législatifs, et sensible à ses dimensions productives pour le renouvellement des approches de régulation environnementale et sanitaire.
Methods for testing repellents against bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Creators: name: Krüger, Anne
name: Schmolz, Erik
name: Vander Pan, Arlette
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: Bed bug repellents should not only prevent humans from being bitten but impede an infestation of personal belongings. Only a few test proposals for evaluating the efficacy of repellents against bed bugs have been published so far. In the present study, two test systems were assessed for efficacy testing with five potential bed bug repellents (cinnamon oil, icaridin, N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET), permethrin, and margosa extract). The first test setup was a harborage choice test system that consisted of a crystallizing dish with a treated and an untreated harborage. Sixty minutes and 24 h after treatment, DEET, icaridin, and cinnamon oil showed the highest repellency with a median proportion of at least 99% repelled bed bugs. The second test system was a barrier test. Bed bugs were attracted by CO2 and heat to cross filter papers treated with the potential repellents. The repellency of substances was significantly lower in comparison to the harborage choice test, except for DEET. The latter showed the highest repellency (97%) against bed bugs 24 h after application compared to controls. Results show that bed bugs are less sensitive to repellents when searching for a bloodmeal than when searching for a shelter. © The Author(s) 2021
Preadolescent self-concept and self-concept/academic achievement relations: Investigating multidimensional and hierarchical structures within and across gender.
Creators: name: Larocque, Lisa.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Educational Psychology.

description: Using a confirmatory factor analytic approach, the aim of the study was to examine the construct validity of an academic expansion of the Marsh/Shavelson model of self-concept (SC; Shavelson & Marsh, 1986; Marsh, 1990d), and its relations with academic achievement (AA) within and across gender. Participants were Grades 5 and 6 girls (n = 220) and boys (n = 205) drawn primarily from middle-class suburban communities in and around Ottawa, Canada. Four nonacademic SCs (i.e., physical appearance, physical ability, parents, and peers), one general-academic SC, and 11 subject-specific academic SCs were measured with the Self-Description Questionnaires (Marsh, 1990d, 1992b) and the Self-Perception Profile for Children (Harter, 1985). Specific academic SCs were measured for four Language Arts (i.e., Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking), two mathematics (i.e., Arithmetic and Measurement), two science (i.e., Science and Social Studies), and three non-core (i.e., Religion, Art, and Physical Education/Gym) subjects. Grades and self-reported grades in eight of these subjects served as measures of AA. The hypothesized multidimensional SC measurement and structure was supported for both girls and boys. Tests of competing hierarchical SC structures provided support for five higher-order SCs (i.e., Nonacademic, Non-core Academic, and Verbal-, Mathematics-, and Science-Academic). Gym SC was better represented hierarchically under Nonacademic, rather than under Non-core Academic SC. Gender differences in the baseline hierarchical SC models related only to Parent SC, which was defined by only Non-core Academic SC for girls, but Verbal-Academic SC for boys. Reading, Writing, and Speaking in Language Arts AAs were not distinct, and thus, were represented as a single Language Arts Skills AA construct. A multidimensional pattern of relations in which SC and AA constructs were more highly correlated for corresponding than for non-corresponding academic subject areas was supported, albeit with two exceptions. A multidimensional pattern of SC/AA relations was not consistently found for the Language Arts constructs for both girls and boys, and was not found for Art AA for girls. An hierarchical pattern of SC/AA relations in which AA constructs were more highly correlated with first- than with second-order SCs was not consistently demonstrated for either girls or boys. Tests for the gender invariance of SC measurement and structure, and of SC/AA relations were generally tenable. Gender differences dud were of the largest magnitude indicated that, in comparison to girls, Art AA was more highly related to Art SC, but less correlated with both Speaking in Language Arts and Verbal-Academic SCs for boys.
Supplementary document for Mode-evolution-based TE mode magneto-optical isolator using asymmetric adiabatic tapered waveguides - 5219338.pdf
Creators: name: LIU, SHUYUAN
name: Shoji, Yuya
name: Mizumoto, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Performance analysis, layout design and measurement system
Auto-Ignition of Liquid n-Paraffin Fuels Mixtures as Single Droplets Using Continuous Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Sabourin, Shaun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Auto Ignition
n-paraffin fuels
mixtures
single droplets
continuous thermodynamics
chemical rate equation
arrhenius rate equation
droplet combustion
droplet ignition
model

description: This thesis reports a model to predict the auto-ignition time of single droplets of n-paraffin fuel mixtures using the method of continuous thermodynamics. The model uses experimental data for pure fuels to fit rate parameters for a single-step global chemical reaction equation; from this, correlations for rate parameters as a function of species molecular mass are derived, which are integrated to produce a continuous thermodynamics expression for mixture reaction rate. Experiments were carried out using the suspended droplet-moving furnace technique. The model was then tested and compared to experimental data for three continuous mixtures with known compositions: one ranging from ¬n-octane to n-hexadecane, the second ranging from n-dodecane to n-eicosane, and the third being a combination of the first two mixtures to produce a “dumbbell” mixture. Discrete and continuous mixture models of the ASTM standard distillation test were compared to design the experimental mixtures and provide the distribution parameters of the continuous mixtures intended to simulate them. The results of calculations were found to agree very well with measured ignition times for the mixtures.
Turbo Receiver for Spread Spectrum Systems Employing Parity Bit Selected Spreading Sequences
Creators: name: Mirzaee, Alireza
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: spread spectrum communication
CDMA
turbo receiver
MUD
error control coding
MIMO
soft input soft output detector

description: In spread spectrum systems employing parity bit selected spreading sequences, parity bits generated from a linear block encoder are used to select a spreading code from a set of mutually orthogonal spreading sequences. In this thesis, turbo receivers for SS-PB systems are proposed and investigated. In the transmitter, data bits are rst convolutionally encoded before being fed into SS-PB modulator. In fact, the parity bit spreading code selection technique acts as an inner encoder in this system without allocating any transmit energy to the additional redundancy provided by this technique. The receiver implements a turbo processing by iteratively exchanging the soft information on coded bits between a SISO detector and a SISO decoder. In this system, detection is performed by incorporating the extrinsic information provided by the decoder in the last iteration into the received signal to calculate the likelihood of each detected bit in terms of LLR which is used as the input for a SISO decoder. In addition, SISO detectors are proposed for MC-CDMA and MIMO-CDMA systems that employ parity bit selected and permutation spreading. In the case of multiuser scenario, a turbo SISO multiuser detector is introduced for SS-PB systems for both synchronous and asynchronous channels. In such systems, MAI is estimated from the extrinsic information provided by the SISO channel decoder in the previous iteration. SISO multiuser detectors are also proposed for the case of multiple users in MC-CDMA and MIMO-CDMA systems when parity bit selected and permutation spreading are used. Simulations performed for all the proposed turbo receivers show a signi cant reduction in BER in AWGN and fading channels over multiple iterations.
Obesity prolongs the inflammatory response in mice after severe trauma and attenuates the splenic response to the inflammatory reflex
Creators: name: Gärtner, Fabian
name: Gihring, Adrian
name: Roth, Aileen
name: Bischof, Joachim
name: Xu, Pengfei
name: Elad, Leonard Ekangwo
name: Wabitsch, Martin
name: Burster, Timo
name: Knippschild, Uwe
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immune response
subject: Severe trauma
subject: Inflammatory reflex
subject: Monocyte compartment
subject: Mass cytometry (CyTOF)
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Obesity
subject: Inflammation
subject: Immunity
subject: Wounds and injuries
subject: Mass spectrometry
subject: Übergewicht
subject: Trauma
subject: Immunreaktion

description: Thoracic traumas with extra-thoracic injuries result in an immediate, complex host response. The immune response requires tight regulation and can be influenced by additional risk factors such as obesity, which is considered a state of chronic inflammation. Utilizing high-dimensional mass and regular flow cytometry, we define key signatures of obesity-related alterations of the immune system during the response to the trauma. In this context, we report a modification in important components of the splenic response to the inflammatory reflex in obese mice. Furthermore, during the response to trauma, obese mice exhibit a prolonged increase of neutrophils and an early accumulation of inflammation associated CCR2+CD62L+Ly6Chi monocytes in the blood, contributing to a persistent inflammatory phase. Moreover, these mice exhibit differences in migration patterns of monocytes to the traumatized lung, resulting in decreased numbers of regenerative macrophages and an impaired M1/M2 switch in traumatized lungs. The findings presented in this study reveal an attenuation of the inflammatory reflex in obese mice, as well as a disturbance of the monocytic compartment contributing to a prolonged inflammation phase resulting in fewer phenotypically regenerative macrophages in the lung of obese mice.
Public sector auditing: Victoria's future direction
Creators: name: Houghton, Keith
name: Jubb, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In December 1997 the Government of Victoria enacted changes to the structure of public sector auditing in Victoria. These changes result in policy making decisions to remain with the Auditor-General of Victoria and the operational component moving to a new organization known as Audit Victoria. Both performance reviews and financial audits will be performed by Audit Victoria or any of the qualified private sector suppliers on behalf of the people of Victoria. Allocation of this audit work is subject to a competitive tender process. This process is said to drive competition between audit providers, enhancing etficiencies, lowering costs and increasing quality. This paper analyses these proposed benefits and discusses implications for audit quality and independence.
Seismic response of existing buildings constructed using semi-rigid riveted connections.
Creators: name: Chessman, Kevin Curtis.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The use of riveted semi-rigid connections was wide spread in building construction in the first half of the 20th century at a time when earthquake design was not required. It is therefore legitimate to question the seismic response of these historic buildings. Recent experimental work has shown that these connections can develop stable hysteretic moment rotation behavior, but must undergo large rotations in order to reach moderate moment capacity. This raises important concerns about the ability of buildings having such connections to withstand earthquakes while undergoing large drifts. An 18-story building located in Eastern Canada has been surveyed and modeled using a non-linear inelastic dynamic analysis program. It was investigated whether this type of building can survive major earthquakes in spite of having low-strength semi-rigid connections such as those described above. Other generic structures of different heights, based on this existing building, have also been considered and modeled. Seismic ground motions typical of Eastern and Western Canada have been used to generalize the results obtained. It was observed that old buildings of the type modeled in this study have much larger masses due to heavier floors and thicker cladding than their modern counterparts. The buildings also have considerably less rigidity, as a result of semi-rigid connections. The ensuing large period favorably impacts their seismic response. However, results demonstrate that small earthquakes cause considerable drifts, which can translate into non-structural damage in spite of the survival of the primary structure.
IJTIMOIY TARMOQLARDAN TA'LIM JARAYONIDA O'QITISH VOSITASI SIFATIDA FOYDALANISHNING YANGI YONDASHUVLARI
Creators: name: Sodikova, Nigora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada ta’lim jarayonida ijtimoiy tarmoqlarning o‘sib borayotgan roli batafsil ko‘rib chiqiladi. Ushbu platformalar o‘quv  muhitida o‘rganish va o‘zaro ta’sir qilish usullarini qanday o‘zgartirishini ta’kidlab, ijtimoiy media ta’siridan kelib chiqadigan innovatsion ta’lim usullarini tahlil qiladi.
Immanenza e trascendenza: Dal Pra, il medioevo e il problema di Dio
Creators: name: De Fortunato, Alice
name: Rossini, Marco
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La discussione delle grandi narrazioni storiografiche del pensiero medievale. Il definirsi di una prospettiva teorica e di una storiografica attraverso il confronto con Scoto Eriugena. La ricerca di un senso e il problema di Dio. Gli anni della guerra e l'importanza della prassi.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Time for bold choices. Road-STEAMer's second policy brief (Deliverable 7.5)
Creators: name: Addis, Annalisa
name: Silvestrini, Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Digital education
STEAM education

description: Education — and digital education in particular — has much to gain from embracing STEAM approaches. Drawing on Road-STEAMer’s preliminary results, this document outlines the main tenets of a STEAM framework, provides practical examples of what works well, and suggests key elements to incorporate into the ongoing review of the EU’s Digital Education Action Plan.
Dal Pra e la storia della filosofia come impegno teorico
Creators: name: Lanaro, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La storiografia filosofica italiana nella seconda metà del XX secolo. La fase della ";normalizzazione"; e il circolo di filosofia e storia della filosofia.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Il permanere della formazione cristiana nel percorso da Gentile a Preti
Creators: name: Rambaldi, Enrico I.
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: La tradizione cristiana e il ";trascendentalismo della prassi"; nella riflessione di Dal Pra. La presenza di Vasa e l'assenza di Martinetti.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Supplementary document for Mode-evolution-based TE mode magneto-optical isolator using asymmetric adiabatic tapered waveguides - 5219338.pdf
Creators: name: LIU, SHUYUAN
name: Shoji, Yuya
name: Mizumoto, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Performance analysis, layout design and measurement system
Dal Pra e lo scetticismo medievale
Creators: name: Fedriga, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Lo studio dello scetticismo medievale è in Dal Pra anche proposta di un pensiero critico che si pone come alternativa alla storiografia idealista e alle indagini puramente filologiche. Giovanni di Salisbury, Nicola d'Autrecourt e l'impossibilità di una fondazione teorica della filosofia.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
La valle di Giosafat e le crepe della metafisica
Creators: name: Selogna, Chiara
Publisher: name: Doctor Virtualis
Year: 2008

description: Il trascendentalismo della prassi per andare oltre lo scetticismo e oltre ogni pretesa da parte della filosofia di cogliere l'essere nella sua definizione universale e razionale. Una proposta anche storiografica.
description: Doctor Virtualis, N° 4 (2005): Dal Pra e il medioevo
Intraoperative Sodium-Fluorescence Imaging in Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors (PNST)—A New Additional Promising Diagnostic Tool
Creators: name: Pedro, Maria Teresa M. H.
name: Grübel, Nadja
name: Durner, Gregor
name: Pala, Andrej
name: Wirtz, Christian Rainer
name: Koenig, Ralph Werner
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Schwannoma
subject: Malignant peripheral nerve sheat tumor
subject: Sodium-fluorescein
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Neurilemmoma
subject: Neurofibroma
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Biopsy
subject: Optical imaging
subject: Peripheral nerves
subject: Fluorescein
subject: Neurinom
subject: Malignes Lymphom

description: Background: Through the development and implementation of specific fluorophore filters to microscopes in 2012, sodium fluorescein (SF) is currently experiencing a remarkable renaissance in neurosurgery. The present study examines its intraoperative application during surgical removal of peripheral nerve sheath tumors (PNST) and metastases. Methods: This single-center study includes 10 cases of benign and malignant tumors as well as metastases of peripheral nerves (in total 11 PNST). Their surgical resections were all performed under microscope-based fluorescence with SF, which was administered intravenously (0.5–1.0 mg/kg body weight) during anesthesia induction. Microsurgical tumor removals were filmed and the collected data were retrospectively analyzed via ImageJ. Results: Microsurgical tumor preparation was possible under the usage of fluorophore filter. In seven histological confirmed schwannoma (n = 6 patients) tissue differentiation between tumor mass and not involved fascicles was statistically significant for the colors green and red. Schwannoma maximum mean for green reached 254.7 pixel and 179.4 pixel for red, whereas passing healthy fascicles revealed a maximum mean for green 94.91 and for red 120.76 pixel. One case of neurofibroma achieved lower amount of pixel. Similar to schwannoma, the two MPNST cases showed a strong homogeneous fluorescence (max. mean green 215 pixel and red 124.51) involving the whole nerve segment. Subcutaneous tumor remnants were visualized and therefore resected. Via fascicular nerve biopsy a B-cell lymphoma of the tibial nerve could be detected. SF led to variable stain intensities in single fascicles. The resected fascicle revealed a max mean green of 100.54 pixel, whereas surrounding fascicles came up with max. mean green of 63.0 pixel. Conclusions: Intraoperative SF visualization for PNST is feasible and of low risk. During resection of benign PNST, enhanced tissue differentiation between affected and not affected nerve segments is very useful. Tumor remnants can be detected safely and effectively. Its application during resection of malignant PNST is limited. Due to the infiltrative nature of those tumors, intraneural tissue differentiation is not possible. “Fluorescence-guided” biopsy can be regarded as an additional advantage in PNST surgery. Due to the encouraging experience in our institution SF was established as standard visualization tool in PNST surgery.
The Social Cost of Informal Electronic Waste Processing in Southern China
Creators: name: Boardman, Anthony
name: Geng, Jeff
name: Lam, Bruno
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Large amounts of e-waste are processed “informally” in lower income countries. Such processing releases dangerous pollutants, which increase mortality and reduce cognitive functioning. This paper estimates the social cost of informal e-waste processing in Southern China. This parameter may be “plugged-in” to cost-benefit analyses that evaluate the economic efficiency of policies to reduce informal e-waste processing in China or other lower income countries. It may also be used in the estimation of the social benefits (or costs) of new or proposed e-waste processing policies in higher income countries. We estimate that the social cost of informal e-waste processing in Guiyu is about $529 million. This amount is equivalent to about $423 per tonne (in 2018 US dollars) or $3528 per person, which is over half the gross income per capita of the residents of Guiyu. We also perform sensitivity analysis that varies the estimated mortality outcomes, the value of a statistical life and the amount of e-waste processed.
Supplementary document for Multi-pinhole Fourier frequency-division multiplexing for optical biosensors based on interferometric phase detection - 5219903.pdf
Creators: name: Bläsi, Johannes
name: Gerken, Martina
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
Biomedical Instrumentation
Optical Technology

description: S1: Fourier transform of a 11-pinhole diffraction pattern. S2: Diffraction pattern computation.
L’arte occulta della cifra: la crittograﬁa moderna di Leon Battista Alberti / La kaŝita arto de la ĉifro: la moderna kriptograﬁo de Leon Battista Alberti
Creators: name: Rizzardini, Massimo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Attraverso l’analisi del cosiddetto sistema di cifratura polialfabetica, il saggio intende portare un ulteriore contributoalla questione storiograﬁca che riguarda le origini della crittograﬁa moderna. Composto fra il 1466 e il 1467, il De componendiscyfris di Leon Battista Alberti, emblema del genio rinascimentale, segna l’avvento del primo metodo razionale per l’oscuramentodei messaggi in chiaro e per la loro protezione dai tentativi illegittimi di decrittazione.Resumo Per la analizo de la tiel nomata polialfabeta ĉifradosistemo, la eseo intencas prezenti pluan kontribuon pri la historiograﬁa demando rilatanta la originojn de la moderna kriptograﬁo. Komponita inter 1466 kaj 1467, la De componendis cyfris de Leon Battista Alberti, emblemo de la renesanca genio, markas la alvenon de la unua racia metodo por la obskurigo de mesaĝoj kaj por sia protekto kontraŭ nelicaj provoj de elkodigo.
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Chronicles of a Pivot Language / Kronikoj de Pontolingvo
Experimental study exploring the factors that promote rib fragility in the elderly
Creators: name: Liebsch, Christian
name: Hübner, Shamila
name: Palanca, Marco
name: Cristofolini, Luca
name: Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Experimental models of disease
subject: Medical research
subject: Chest
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Wounds and injuries
subject: Fractures, Bone
subject: Bone density
subject: Risk factors
subject: Age factors
subject: Trauma
subject: Knochenbruch
subject: Brustkorb

description: Rib fractures represent a common injury type due to blunt chest trauma, affecting hospital stay and mortality especially in elderly patients. Factors promoting rib fragility, however, are little investigated. The purpose of this in vitro study was to explore potential determinants of human rib fragility in the elderly. 89 ribs from 13 human donors (55–99 years) were loaded in antero-posterior compression until fracture using a material testing machine, while surface strains were captured using a digital image correlation system. The effects of age, sex, bone mineral density, rib level and side, four global morphological factors (e.g. rib length), and seven rib cross-sectional morphological factors (e.g. cortical thickness, determined by μCT), on fracture load were statistically examined using Pearson correlation coefficients, Mann–Whitney U test as well as Kruskal–Wallis test with Dunn-Bonferroni post hoc correction. Fracture load showed significant dependencies (p < 0.05) from bone mineral density, age, antero-posterior rib length, cortical thickness, bone volume/tissue volume ratio, trabecular number, trabecular separation, and both cross-sectional area moments of inertia and was significantly higher at rib levels 7 and 8 compared to level 4 (p = 0.001/0.013), whereas side had no significant effect (p = 0.989). Cortical thickness exhibited the highest correlation with fracture load (r = 0.722), followed by the high correlation of fracture load with the area moment of inertia around the longitudinal rib cross-sectional axis (r = 0.687). High correlations with maximum external rib surface strain were detected for bone volume/tissue volume ratio (r = 0.631) and trabecular number (r = 0.648), which both also showed high correlations with the minimum internal rib surface strain (r =  − 0.644/ − 0.559). Together with rib level, the determinants cortical thickness, area moment of inertia around the longitudinal rib cross-sectional axis, as well as bone mineral density exhibited the largest effects on human rib fragility with regard to the fracture load. Sex, rib cage side, and global morphology, in contrast, did not affect rib fragility in this study. When checking elderly patients for rib fractures due to blunt chest trauma, patients with low bone mineral density and the mid-thoracic area should be carefully examined.
A comparative study of some manganese- and iron-based chalcopyrite semiconductor alloys: Basic properties and the effects of ordering.
Creators: name: Brun Del Re, Riccardo.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: Dilute magnetic semiconductor alloys based on I-III-VI$\sb2$ chalcopyrite structure compounds and containing either iron or manganese as the magnetic component, were investigated in the context of a comparative study. The implications and effects of crystallographic ordering were of particular interest to this research. As a result of these experimental investigations, the phase diagram of the CuIn$\sb{\rm 1-x}$Fe$\sb{\rm x}$S$\sb2$ system was proposed, and certain modifications to the previously accepted phase diagrams of the systems containing manganese were given. For the iron containing system, the magnetic behaviour was interpreted in terms of a Curie-Weiss law, and the applicability of ligand field theory was investigated as a theoretical basis for understanding the results so obtained. It was determined that a transition similar to the $\sp6$A$\sb1$-$\sp4$T$\sb1$ crossover of crystal field theory may occur as a function of iron concentration in this material. Various computer fits and simulations were carried out in order to analyze the diffraction, and magnetic susceptibility measurements made on the alloys containing manganese. Besides displaying the usual non-magnetic-ion type of cationic ordering as in the transition from zincblende to chalcopyrite structure, these systems have been shown to exhibit behaviour characteristic of magnetic-ion crystallographic ordering (Mn-ordering). These ordering properties have been shown to be highly sensitive to sample heat treatment. The diffraction techniques were found to be insensitive to the types of Mn- ordering suspected to occur, however these alloys yielded direct evidence for the Mn-ordering in the form of their static, low field magnetic susceptibility behaviour. Of particular interest, some of the low temperature annealed, high concentration magnetic ion materials were found not to display the low temperature spin-glass cusp characteristic of the rapidly cooled samples, and this was interpreted to be the clearest signature of the Mn-ordering. The manganese systems may deviate from the chalcopyrite structure in the low temperature region of the phase diagram. The magnetic behaviour of these alloys was shown to be consistent with a long-range exchange, mean-field analysis of the planar ordering model. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Aharonov-Bohm effect of excitons in nanorings
Creators: name: Hu, Hui
name: Zhu, Jia-Lin
name: Li, Dai-Jun
name: Xiong, Jia-Jiong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The magnetic field effects on excitons in an InAs nanoring are studied theoretically. By numerically diagonalizing the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the problem that can be separated into terms in center-of-mass and relative coordinates, we calculate the low-lying excitonic energy levels and oscillator strengths as a function of the ring width and the strength of an external magnetic field. It is shown that in the presence of Coulomb correlation, the so-called Aharonov-Bohm effect of excitons exists in a finite (but small) width nanoring. However, when the ring width becomes large, the non-simply-connected geometry of nanorings is destroyed, causing the suppression of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The analytical results are obtained for a narrow-width nanoring in which the radial motion is the fastest one and adiabatically decoupled from the azimuthal motions. The conditional probability distribution calculated for the low-lying excitonic states allows identification of the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The linear optical susceptibility is also calculated as a function of the magnetic field, to be compared with the future measurements of optical emission experiments on InAs nanorings.
Implied Volatility Calculator
Creators: name: Tim Xiao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: implied volatility, option price, calculator

description: An implied volatility is the volatility implied by the market price of an option based on the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Given an option price, the model can calculate implied volatility.
description: https://osf.io/xp5s6/download
The impossibility of an Esperanto linguistics / La neebleco de priesperanta lingvoscienco
Creators: name: Miner, Ken
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Abstract The task of linguistics is to reveal the principles which relate sen-tences to meanings. One cannot work out these principles if one does notknow (1) the grammatical sentences of the language and (2) their meanings. Due to absence of native speakers (the usual source of grammaticality and ofmeanings), sentence-meanings and grammaticality in Esperanto are radicallyimprecise in comparison with those of ethnic languages. Due to this impreci-sion it is not possible to construct linguistic arguments regarding Esperanto:esperantology is possible, but not a linguistics of Esperanto. The article examines in detail a concrete example of the kind of linguistic argument which is not possible in the case of our language. Any successful planned language, not only Esperanto, would present the same difﬁculties to linguistic science.The nature of crucial data and the somewhat famous declaration of Noam Chomsky that “Esperanto is not a language” are considered. Resumo La tasko de la lingvistiko estas malkovri la principojn, kiuj  kunligas frazojn kaj signifojn. Ne eblas ellabori tiujn principojn, se oni ne scias (1) la gramatikajn frazojn de la lingvo kaj (2) iliajn signifojn.  Pro manko de indiĝenaj parolantoj (la kutima datenfonto por  gramatikeco kaj por signifoj), frazosignifoj kaj gramatikeco en  Esperanto radikale malprecizas kompare kun la etnolingvoj. Pro tiu  malprecizo ne eblas konstrui lingvistikajn argumentojn pri  Esperanto: esperantologio eblas, sed ne  priesperanta lingvistiko. La artikolo detale ekzamenas konkretan  ekzemplon de la speco de lingvistika  argumento, kiu ne eblas en la kazo de nia lingvo. Iu ajn sukcesa  planlingvo, ne nur Esperanto,  prezentus al la lingvistiko la samajn malfacilaĵojn.   La naturo de krucaj decidaj datenoj kaj la iom  famiĝinta eldiro de Noam Chomsky, ke "Esperanto ne estas  lingvo", estas konsiderataj.
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Chronicles of a Pivot Language / Kronikoj de Pontolingvo
Normalization and Informed Decision-making in Public Health Programs: A Case Study of HPV Vaccination in Canada
Creators: name: Navaneelan, Tanya
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Human papillomavirus vaccine
Informed decision-making
Normalization
Immunization policy

description: This thesis examined the evidence, policy decision-making, and implementation of HPV vaccination in Canada as a case study to explore normalization versus individualized decision making in public health programs. Mixed methods were used: a systematic review, content analyses and policy document analysis. Overall, the scientific evidence supported an effect of vaccination against HPV infection and precancerous cervical lesions, but evidence regarding cervical cancer incidence or mortality is lacking. Scientific and medical communities appeared optimistic about the vaccine, but cautious about its readiness for routine implementation. Policy decision-making was initially cautious, but shifted towards active program implementation, possibly related to the availability of federal funding. The educational materials and media coverage both sent clearly normalizing messages about HPV vaccination. The discussion suggests that HPV vaccination might be more suited to an individualized than population approach, but many factors coincided to promote its implementation, in Canada, within a traditional public health model.
Supplementary document for Multi-pinhole Fourier frequency-division multiplexing for optical biosensors based on interferometric phase detection - 5219903.pdf
Creators: name: Bläsi, Johannes
name: Gerken, Martina
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
Biomedical Instrumentation
Optical Technology

description: S1: Fourier transform of a 11-pinhole diffraction pattern. S2: Diffraction pattern computation.
PPARγ/SOD2 protects against mitochondrial ROS-dependent apoptosis via inhibiting ATG4D-mediated mitophagy to promote pancreatic cancer proliferation
Creators: name: Nie, Shuang
name: Shi, Zhao
name: Shi, Mengyue
name: Li, Hongzhen
name: Qian, Xuetian
name: Peng, Chunyan
name: Ding, Xiwei
name: Zhang, Shu
name: Lv, Ying
name: Wang, Lei
name: Kong, Bo
name: Zou, Xiaoping
name: Shen, Shanshan
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: PPARγ
subject: SOD2
subject: ATG4D
subject: pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Adenocarcinoma
subject: Mitophagy
subject: PPAR gamma
subject: Adenocarcinom
subject: Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs

description: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extremely aggressive disease with poor prognosis. Our previous study found that peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) was capable of enhancing glycolysis in PDAC cells. However, whether PPARγ could promote PDAC progression remains unclear. In our present study, PPARγ was positively associated with tumor size and poor prognosis in PDAC patients. Functional assays demonstrated that PPARγ could promote the proliferation of pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Additionally, flow cytometry results showed that PPARγ decreased mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mitochondrial ROS) production, stabilized mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and inhibited cell apoptosis via up-regulating superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2), followed by the inhibition of ATG4D-mediated mitophagy. Meanwhile, the activation of PPARγ might reduce pancreatic cancer cell stemness to improve PDAC chemosensitivity via down-regulating ATG4D. Thus, these results revealed that PPARγ/SOD2 might protect against mitochondrial ROS-dependent apoptosis via inhibiting ATG4D-mediated mitophagy to promote pancreatic cancer proliferation, further improving PDAC chemosensitivity.
The Effect of Unilateral Load Carriage on the Muscle Activities of the Trunk and Lower Limbs of Young Healthy Males during Gait
Creators: name: Corrigan, Liam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: unilateral load carriage
electromyography
hockey bag

description: The aim of the study was to examine the muscle activities of fifteen male participants (23.44 ±2.63 years) during unilateral hockey bag load carrying of different weights (10%, 20%, and 30% bodyweight) and sizes (small and large). Walking without a hockey bag was the control condition. The results showed that increased peak and integrated EMG occurred with an increased load weight in the semitendinosus, gastrocnemius, rectus abdominis, and vastus medialis. The left rectus femoris and left semitendinosus were both significantly greater than the right corresponding muscle. Carrying the large hockey bag produced greater peak EMG in the right rectus abdominis and the right rectus femoris, whereas the right vastus medialis showed a larger peak EMG in the small hockey bag. It was concluded that the posterior-lateral carrying style of hockey bag load carriage explained the results being similar to both backpack and side pack load carriage studies.
Supplementary document for Temporally-averaged speckle noise in wavefront sensors for beam projection in weak turbulence - 5220036.pdf
Creators: name: Allan, Gregory
name: Allured, Ryan
name: Ashcom, Jonathan
name: Liu, Lulu
name: Cahoy, Kerri
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
The molecular phylogeny of aquatic hyphomycetes with affinity to the Leotiomycetes
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biologische Vielfalt
Evolution
Taxonomie

description: Aquatic hyphomycetes play a key role in decomposition of submerged organic matter and stream ecosystem functioning. We examined the phylogenetic relationships among various genera of aquatic hyphomycetes belonging to the Leotiomycetes (Ascomycota) using sequences of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and large subunit (LSU) regions of rDNA generated from 42 pure cultures including 19 ex-types. These new sequence data were analyzed together with additional sequences from 36 aquatic hyphomycetes and 60 related fungi obtained from GenBank. Aquatic hyphomycetes, characterized by their tetraradiate or sigmoid conidia, were scattered in nine supported clades within the Helotiales (Leotiomycetes). Tricladium, Lemonniera, Articulospora, Anguillospora, Varicosporium, Filosporella, and Flagellosporaare not monophyletic, with species from the same genus distributed among several major clades. The Gyoerffyellaclade and the Hymenoscyphusclade accommodated species from eight and six different genera, respectively. Thirteen aquatic hyphomycete taxa were grouped in the Leotia-Bulgaria clade while twelve species clustered within the Hymenoscyphusclade along with several amphibious ascomycetes. Species of Filosporellaand some species from four other aquatic genera were placed in the Ascocoryne-Hydrocina clade. It is evident that many aquatic hyphomycetes have relatives of terrestrial origin. Adaptation to colonize the aquatic environment has evolved independently in multiple phylogenetic lineages within the Leotiomycetes.Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
Written in the wind: Francesca Phillips & el Silbo of La Gomera
Creators: name: Carfì, Alessandra Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: A few months ago, I had two great chances on a single day: I found out and learnt about Silbo, a whistled languagce spoken in a Canary Island, and met Francesca Phillips, ﬁlm maker and photographer, who's recently written and directed a documentary about it. This article will try to recreate that day - on a small scale and unfortunately silently. In the following pages you will ﬁnd a report of the event, as well as an interview with the director.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Chronicles of a Pivot Language / Kronikoj de Pontolingvo
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 325 (43. Jg.), Dezember 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Universität Ulm

description: uni ulm intern, Heft Nr. 325 (43. Jg.), Dezember 2013
A meta-model for intelligent adaptive multi-agent systems in open environments
Creators: name: Juan, Thomas
name: Sterling, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we introduce the ROADMAP meta-model, designed to describe intelligent adaptive multi-agent systems in open environments. The meta-model captures our understanding of the properties of such systems and our perspective on organizational concepts such as roles. It defines agent constructs such as agents and roles, and their inter-relationships such as aggregation, in a way that best facilitates the development of intelligent adaptive systems in open environments. We intend to use the meta-model for knowledge sharing. We expect developers of AOSE methodologies, tools, programming languages and frameworks to benefit from understanding the design and structure of the ROADMAP meta-model. By adopting the meta-model, the resulting methodologies, tools and languages should inherit its desirable characteristics and better support the development of intelligent adaptive systems in open environments.
Language Whistling: a Comparison between Silbo and Solresol / Lingva fajfado: komparo inter Silbo kaj Solresol
Creators: name: Gobbo, Federico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Abstract The idea that natural languages can be whistled, in  order to be more perfect than ordinary, spoken ones, has always been  fascinating. This short communication presents a comparison between  one of the most important actual whistled languages in use, i.e.,  Silbo, and one of the most important a-priori languages  proposed in the past, i.e., Solresol. A series of theoretical  reflections about the very concept of language are then offered.Resumo La ideo, ke ekzistas homaj lingvoj fajfitaj, kiuj  estas pli perfektaj ol la normalaj, parolitaj, ĉiam enhavis  propran ĉarmon. Ĉi tiu mallonga artikolo prezentas komparon inter unuela nune uzita fajfa lingvo, nome Silbo, kaj unuela plej  grava apriora lingvo de la pasinteco, nome Solresol. Serio da teoriaj konsideroj estas donitaj poste
description: InKoj. Interlingvistikaj Kajeroj, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Chronicles of a Pivot Language / Kronikoj de Pontolingvo