cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Study of Auditory Speech Processing Using Brainstem Evoked Responses Under the Effects of Stressors
Creators: name: Al Osman, Rida
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Brainstem evoked responses
Effects of stressors
Noise
Reverberation
Fast stimulus rate

description: This work investigated the effects of various stressors on auditory speech processing using speech-evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR). This work was carried out in three distinct studies: (1) the effects of stimulus rate and noise on the speech-evoked ABR, (2) the effects of direct, early, and later-arriving speech reflections on the speech-evoked ABR, and (3) the effects of self-masking and overlap masking in a reverberant environment using speech-evoked ABR. Results from the first study indicate a complex interaction of fast stimulus rate and noise on the speech-evoked ABR. In particular, dissociation was found between electrophysiological responses to the envelope and the responses to the temporal fine structure or transient waves. The main finding from the second study is that direct sound and early reflections produce similar speech-evoked ABR, while the response to late reverberation shows different characteristics. Results from the third study indicate that severe reverberation significantly weakened the ABR when compared to anechoic or moderate reverberation, while moderate reverberation significantly enhanced the ABR when compared to anechoic speech. Overall, the new findings from this research shed light on the effects of stressors such as noise, increased stimulus rate, and reverberation. Up until now, these effects have mostly been studied perceptually. Our research demonstrates that these effects can be studied electrophysiologically using speech-evoked brainstem responses. This method of investigation permits the probing of particular stages of the auditory pathway and evaluating how neural activity in response to specific elements of speech, such as the fundamental frequency and formants, is affected by different stressors.
Laboratory Evaluation of Marginal Materials for Foamed Bitumen Stabilisation
Creators: name: Espinosa, Roberto
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: marginal
gravel
foamed bitumen
stabilisation

description: Foamed bitumen stabilisation is a unique pavement treatment option for treating new materials or rehabilitating pavements that have exceeded their serviceable life. It relies on the foaming of a stream of hot bitumen upon contact with water, ideal for mixing with fine particles in road base materials to produce a flexible pavement material.
description: The use of foamed bitumen stabilisation in pavement construction is not limited to good quality materials alone. The purpose of this research is to determine if non-standard and marginal materials can be improved to make it perform better. Under many current specifications, a material can be considered non-standard for a variety of reasons - such as improper gradation or inadequate plasticity.
description: Performance-based assessment method rather than categorical acceptance /rejection is the appropriate approach to use in order to maximise the potential of marginal and non-standard materials. New findings suggest that performance-based assessment can provide additional understanding into the potential performance of marginal and non-standard materials. Correcting the particle size distribution by blending and improving the plasticity by pre-treatment are two of the most effective corrective measures to improve the performance of marginal and non-standard materials.
description: A detailed laboratory investigation was undertaken to evaluate the properties of marginal materials and the corresponding resilient modulus after stabilisation. Four different types of materials were evaluated: a standard ‘reference’ material, which was used as the benchmark for evaluation; and three types of marginal or non-standard materials. This study included a literature review and comprehensive laboratory testing procedures. The key outcome of this study determines marginal materials can be successfully stabilised using foamed bitumen.
description: It was found that by blending with good quality virgin materials to correct the particle size distribution, the performance of marginal materials could be improved. The compaction moisture content was also found to be crucial in achieving an optimum performance. For most marginal materials, 85% of the optimum moisture content of the host material was found to be adequate.
description: The performance of foamed bitumen stabilised marginal materials was found to be comparable to standard material only after improving the grading and by using a correct compaction moisture. Test results show that marginal materials and non-standard materials can be used for foamed bitumen stabilisation with good results. It is possible and cost-effective to use marginal materials as a substitute for good-quality material without necessarily compromising the quality and integrity of the structure.
A Middleware for Targeted Marketing in Spontaneous Social Communities
Creators: name: Tian, Zhao
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: social communities
marketing activities
mobile ad hoc networks
middleware
profile similarity

description: With the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless connectivity technologies, mobile social communities offer novel opportunities for targeted marketing by service or product providers. Unfortunately, marketers are still unable to realize the full potential of these markets due to their inability to effectively target right audiences. This thesis presents a novel middleware for identifying spontaneous social communities (SSCs) of mobile users in ad hoc networks in order to facilitate marketers' advertisements. The contributions of the presented work are two fold; the first is a novel model for SSCs that captures their unique dynamic nature, in terms of community structure and interest in different \textit{hot-topics} over time. These time-varying interests are represented through an inferred \textit{community profile prototype} that reflects dominant characteristics of community members. This prototype is then employed to facilitate the identification of new potential members. The selected community prototypes are also used by marketers to identify the right communities for their services or products promotions. The second contribution of this paper is novel distributed techniques for efficient calculation of the community prototypes and identification of potential community links. In contrast to traditional models of detecting fixed and mobile social networks that rely on pre-existing friendships among its members to predict new ones, the proposed model focuses on measuring the degree of similarity between the new user's profile and the profiles of members of each community in order to predict new users' relationships in the community. The adopted model of SSCs can foster many existing and new socially-aware applications such as recommender systems for social events and tools for collaborative work. It is also an ideal target for business-oriented applications such as short-message-service (SMS) advertisement messages, podcasting news feeds in addition to location/context-aware services. The performance of the proposed work was evaluated using the NetLogo platform where obtained experimental results demonstrate the achieved high degree of stability in the resulting communities in addition to the effectiveness of the proposed middleware in terms of the reduction in the number of routing messages required for advertisements.
Migrant Tests: The Experience of Migrant Cricketers in the Australian Cricket Pathway
Creators: name: Utting, David
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: migrants
sport
cricket
Australia
multiculturalism

description: This thesis examines the development of multiculturalism in Australia through the lens of Australian cricket, revealing the tensions between elements of Australian society which seek to retain links with an Anglo-Australian history (represented in this thesis by the Australian Cricket Board), and the growing numbers of migrants who seek to maintain their own cultural identity in a new country. It establishes the importance of cricket as an Australian cultural institution together with its historical positioning in Australian culture, and examines how the governing body of the sport addressed the apparent lack of cultural inclusiveness in its representative Test team. It lso reveals from the perspective of some migrants involved in the sport how they have dealt with the power of the cricket authority to manage the way they participate.
Innovation and the Development of the Canadian Wine Industry
Creators: name: Lord-Tarte, Evelyne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Innovation
Canada
rural development
small wineries
wine industry
collaboration

description: This thesis explores the innovation and development of the Canadian wine industry. The main objectives are to present the key development factors, innovation, and collaborations, with particular emphasis on collaborations with higher education institutes. It also empirically assesses the extent to which there are differences among the wine producing regions of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. The empirical analysis is based on a firm-level survey of 146 firms. The results show that the Canadian wine production is highly innovative and knowledge intensive. Despite that the wine industry in Canada has developed differently according to its regional context, the pattern of innovation is rather similar among firms.
Migrazioni al Río de la Plata e critica letteraria in Italia
Creators: name: Cattarulla, Camilla
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: In the last twenty-five years the transoceanic migrations have become object of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies (known as ";migrant studies";), by sociologits, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, demographers, economists, and - this is of particular interest to us - scholars of literature.In fact, the migration streams have produced on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean a literary corpus regarding all genres of writings, creative and factual. This corpus has attracted the attention of scholars specialized in Italian literature and in Latin-American literatures from countries particularly affected by this phenomenon, like Argentina and Uruguay. This essay will deal with developments and perspectives of this literary production in Italy.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
L’emigrazione italiana in Guatemala attraverso la letteratura
Creators: name: Spinato Bruschi, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: From different perspectives, the lecture means to focus on the peculiar experience and complications of Italian emigration in Guatemala, mostly at the beginning of the last century, and its literary reading. Contemporary writers have often approached the theme of desplacement and uprooting in America, but it's quite unusual to find a voice who tells stories about small communities of emigrants. This is the case of Italians in Guatemala, whose cultural identity has been represented in the latest novel of Dante Liano. By analyzing his work, we try to speculate about the links among history, biography, exile and literary creation.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
L'affirmation culturelle québécoise dans le mouvement du Jeune Théâtre : Grand Cirque Ordinaire et Théâtre du Même Nom (1969-1971)
Creators: name: Côté-Legault, Antoine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: création collective
Jeune Théâtre
Grand Cirque Ordinaire
Théâtre du Même Nom
affirmation culturelle québécoise
théâtre québécois
1960
1970

description: La fin des années 1960 et le début des années 1970 au Québec sont marqués par une ample vague d’affirmation identitaire à laquelle participent les écrivains, dramaturges, chansonniers et monologuistes de l'époque. Durant leur premier cycle de créations (1969-1971), le Grand Cirque Ordinaire et le Théâtre du Même Nom, deux collectifs d’acteurs, chefs de file du Jeune Théâtre, prennent part à ce mouvement. Ce projet de recherche entend analyser la pratique des deux collectifs en tissant des liens avec les traditions théâtrales qui l'ont précédée. Avant l'émergence d'une conscience nationale québécoise durant la fin des années 1960 (québécité), les scènes du Québec sont marquées par deux courants : la francité et l'américanité. L'influence de ces derniers sur la pratique du Grand Cirque Ordinaire et du Théâtre du Même Nom peut être éclairée par les notions de culture première et de culture seconde (Dumont, 1968). Les acteurs des deux troupes sont formés dans les écoles de jeu montréalaises (École Nationale et Conservatoire de Montréal) selon les principes du théâtre d'art français. Au moment de se constituer en collectif, ils rejettent cette culture seconde – qui leur apparaît étrangère, élitiste, universaliste – et se revendiquent de la tradition locale et populaire du burlesque. Dans leur pratique, le GCO et le TMN s'inspirent de l'américanité et renouvellent globalement l'approche du jeu et du théâtre qui leur a été transmise à l'école. Ainsi, deux conceptions du jeu s'opposent, l'une dans laquelle l'acteur répond aux besoins du texte en sa qualité d'interprète, l'autre dans laquelle il apparaît davantage créateur et polyvalent. Sur le plan du contenu, les collectifs québécois renouvellent le réalisme canadien-français de Gratien Gélinas et de Marcel Dubé en questionnant et en critiquant la culture québécoise (famille, religion catholique, condition ouvrière) dans leurs spectacles. D'un point de vue scénique, ils développent une esthétique originale : le « nouveau réalisme québécois ». Largement inspirée des procédés brechtiens, elle se définit comme un condensé de réel, une version dessinée à gros traits de celui-ci. Finalement, cette esthétique scénique se caractérise par son aspect québécois, populaire et critique.
The Country of Origin (COO) effect on quality perceptions and willingness to pay in cosmetic products: An investigation of US and Colombian consumers
Creators: name: Burlefinger, Christof
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Country of Origin
Willingness to Pay
Cosmetics

description: With saturated domestic markets, brands are increasingly entering new international markets. Nielsen Media Research alone lists more than half a million brands (Incmagazine 2021), most of them unknown to the majority of consumers. Thus, the challenge to differentiate from competitive offers and target consumer groups who provide attractive margins also increases. One avenue international brands use to differentiate their product portfolio is to promote their country of origin (COO), which is an extrinsic product cue to assist consumers to evaluate products.
description: Research regarding COO effects in the domain of beautification products is scarce. So far, only a handful of studies have explored the applicability of COO and its effect on consumers evaluations of cosmetics (Kumar 2015; Ngoc 2013; Pilelienė & Šontaitė-Petkevičienė 2014). The cosmetics industry is one of the most resilient global market segments with a forecasted growth rate of 7% between 2018 and 2024 (Zion 2018). With more than US$530 bn turnover in 2017, it has grown into a sizeable and important industry sector, well ahead in size of, for example, the global wine and seafood market and even bigger than the global home appliances market, which recorded only slightly more than US$500 bn in worldwide sales (Allied Market Research 2019; Statista 2019; Zion 2018). Thus, this research seeks to extend marketing scholars understanding of COO in the under-researched area of beauty products.
Visual Storytelling, Intergenerational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty: Exploring Images and Stories amid a Contested Oil Pipeline Project
Creators: name: Spiegel, Samuel J.
name: Thomas, Sarah
name: O’Neill, Kevin
name: Brondgeest, Cassandra
name: Thomas, Jen
name: Beltran, Jiovanni
name: Hunt, Terena
name: Yassi, Annalee
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Visual practices of representing fossil fuel projects are entangled in diverse values and relations that often go underexplored. In Canada, visual media campaigns to aggressively push forward the fossil fuel industry not only relegate to obscurity indigenous values but mask evidence on health impacts as well as the aspirations of those most affected, including indigenous communities whose food sovereignty and stewardship relationship to the land continues to be affronted by oil pipeline expansion. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, based at the terminal of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada, has been at the forefront of struggles against the pipeline expansion. Contributing to geographical, environmental studies, and public health research grappling with the performativity of images, this article explores stories conveying health, environmental, and intergenerational justice concerns on indigenous territory. Adapting photovoice techniques, elders and youth illustrated how the environment has changed over time; impacts on sovereignty—both food sovereignty and more broadly; concepts of health, well-being and deep cultural connection with water; and visions for future relationships. We explore the importance of an intergenerational lens of connectedness to nature and sustainability, discussing visual storytelling not just as visual counter-narrative (to neocolonial extractivism) but also as an invitation into fundamentally different ways of seeing and interacting.
A Mixed Method Study Exploring First Year Paramedic Students’ Experiences of Stress Whilst Undertaking Their First Ambulance Placement
Creators: name: Warren-James, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: Paramedic
Student
Work Integrated Learning
Stress
Coping
Other health sciences

description: Evidence suggests that paramedics experience significant stress whilst working in the ambulance setting, however little is known about the stress experiences of paramedic students when undertaking Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in the ambulance setting. This study was comprised of three distinct yet related parts in response to gaps identified in the current literature. It aimed to: (i) identify whether levels of stress, anxiety and depression experienced by first year paramedic students changed after ambulance placement compared to a control group, (ii) identify the main perceived and actual sources of stress around ambulance placement, and (iii) explore how first year paramedic students experience stress on their first ambulance placement.
description: The literature review, published as an integrative review in Australian Emergency Care, identified clinical and emotional sources which impact paramedic students’ experience of stress during WIL in the ambulance setting. Part 1 and Part 2 of this study were presented at the 999 EMS Research Forum in Wales (UK) and published in the Emergency Medicine Journal. Part 1 identified that levels of stress experienced by paramedic students significantly decreased after undertaking WIL in the ambulance setting when compared to a control group. Part 2 identified death and dying, and treating seriously ill children, as highly anticipated stressors, whereas insecurity about knowledge, competence and fear of failure were both highly anticipated stressors and, stressors that were experienced during WIL. Finally, Part 3 of this study, presented at the Australasian College of Paramedicine International Conference 2021 (ACPIC21) in Canberra, identified that students’ experiences of stress are being exacerbated by a paramedic curriculum that may fail to educate students about how to cope with their experiences in the ambulance setting. It also highlighted that what paramedic students experience as stress is culturally perpetuated by clinical placement supervisors’ undeveloped skills and through hierarchical relationships and a power imbalance between students and clinical placement supervisors.
Battling Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): A Phenomenological Study
Creators: name: Johnston-Devin, Colleen M
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: pain
complex regional pain syndrome
CRPS
qualitative
interviews

description: Background: Pain is a subjective experience but Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), which is reported to be the most intense pain 'known to man', has never been examined from the patients' lived experience perspective. First observed in 1864, CRPS is a rare condition and remains largely unknown. It is thought that CRPS is activated by the dysfunction of multiple systems. People living with CRPS often take years before being diagnosed and referred to a specialist pain cen re for treatment. Because there is no known cure, the goals of care are to reduce pain and improve function. CRPS can spread throughout the body and in extreme cases may require limb amputation. The consequences of living with CRPS can be debilitating. People with CRPS generally have a poorer quality of life and higher risk of suicide than people with other types of chronic pain. Methods: This research utilised a phenomenological approach to investigate the phenomenon of living with CRPS. Seventeen people iving with CRPS and four health professionals from 6 different countries were interviewed. Experiential material from internet blogs and a book containing patient stories were also included as data sources. Findings: The overarching essence of the phenomenon was that people living with CRPS face a daily battle to live with this condition. The battle can be broken into 5 themes which describe different aspects of the battle. These sub-themes are: Dealing with an unknown enemy; Building an armoury against a moving target; Battles within the war; Developing battle plans with allies; and Warrior or prisoner of war. Conclusion: This research suggests that people living with CRPS are facing a daily battle to live their lives. They face all the difficulties of living with a chronic pain condition alongside additional problems unique to CRPS. Support is not always forthcoming from the general community and some healthcare professionals are uninformed about the condition. The outcomes of this research will inform p tients, carers, health care professionals and the wider community of previously unknown aspects of living with CRPS. The experience of people living with CRPS could be improved by increased community awareness and support and health professional education.
Structured Resonance and the Übermensch_ A Phase-Locking Interpretation of Nietzsche
Creators: name: Bostick, Devin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Structured Resonance
subject: Phase-Locking
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Nietzsche
subject: Übermensch
subject: Dynamic Emergent Systems
subject: Chirality
subject: Systems Philosophy
subject: CODES Framework
subject: Existential Phase Transitions
subject: Coherence Fields

description: Main CODES Framework

Abstract

Nietzsche foresaw the collapse of inherited metaphysical scaffolds and intuited the necessity of a new kind of emergence — one that would transcend stochastic meaning drift. This paper reframes his notion of the Übermensch through the formal dynamics of CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems), establishing that structured resonance, not random flux, underlies lawful emergence. Within this framework, the Übermensch is not a mythic aspiration nor an isolated psychological achievement, but a phase transition event: the lawful stabilization of coherent will within the prime-structured field of reality. Structured resonance replaces stochasticity as the substrate of becoming, revealing the Übermensch as the inevitable crystallization of phase-locked intelligence across dynamic emergent systems. Nietzsche sensed the rupture; CODES formalizes the bridge.
Additional file 1 of Temporal relationship between hepatic steatosis and fasting blood glucose elevation: a longitudinal analysis from China and UK
Creators: name: Liu, Yujie
name: Liang, Xian
name: Hu, Yifan
name: Zhang, Ning
name: Zhu, Xingren
name: Feng, Yuemei
name: Qin, Zixiu
name: Wang, Zihao
name: Kangzhuo, Baima
name: Xiao, Xiong
name: Zhao, Xing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1
Por caminos migrantes hacia la conciencia de una identidad abierta
Creators: name: Magnani, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: The stifling Argentinean dictatorship has elicited a series of reflections on Argentineans's cultural roots and, at the same time, it has called into question the notion of Argentinean exceptionalism. All this has brought to re-think and to re-evaluate the migratory past of Argentina, especially in light of the economic policy of the country that lead to the 2001 default. The political and economic events have had their reflections on the literary production, in particular on memoirs and pseudo-memoirs. The object of my essay is the work of AntonioDal Masetto, mostly known for his novels about migration. In particular, I will focus on his most recent writing in which the condition of the migrant is no longer a personal and familial concern but it becomes a contemporary and universal paradigm. For the purpose of my essay, I will use the by-now classic theories of Edouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida and Loretta Baldassar about migration.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Additional file 2 of Analysis of six chloroplast genomes provides insight into the evolution of Chrysosplenium (Saxifragaceae)
Creators: name: Wu, Zhihua
name: Liao, Rui
name: Tiange Yang
name: Dong, Xiang
name: Deqing Lan
name: Qin, Rui
name: Liu, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional File 2. Supplementary Tables S1-S6.
La imagen del inmigrante en la novela española actual
Creators: name: Zovko, Maja
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: The latest generation Spanish writers portray in their novels the country's new context of the socio-cultural reality as a consequence of the great migration flow that affected Spain abruptly in the 1990's and that still keeps increasing progressively.  This article intends to analyze the immigration phenomenon in the present Spanish fiction as well as the image of the immigrant in the literary world taking into consideration different point of views: the reason for travelling, the legal and working situation, the encounter and the conflict with the customs and the shattered hopes.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
How to use human biomonitoring in chemical risk assessment: methodological aspects, recommendations, and lessons learned from HBM4EU
Creators: name: Santonen, Tiina
name: Apel, Petra
name: Mahiout, Selma
name: Alvito, Paula
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Lange, Rosa
name: Gerofke, Antje
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring
Risikoanalyse
Chemikalien
Umweltbedingte Krankheitslast [EBD]

description: One of the aims of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative, HBM4EU, was to provide examples of and good practices for the effective use of human biomonitoring (HBM) data in human health risk assessment (RA). The need for such information is pressing, as previous research has indicated that regulatory risk assessors generally lack knowledge and experience of the use of HBM data in RA. By recognising this gap in expertise, as well as the added value of incorporating HBM data into RA, this paper aims to support the integration of HBM into regulatory RA. Based on the work of the HBM4EU, we provide examples of different approaches to including HBM in RA and in estimations of the environmental burden of disease (EBoD), the benefits and pitfalls involved, information on the important methodological aspects to consider, and recommendations on how to overcome obstacles. The examples are derived from RAs or EBoD estimations made under the HBM4EU for the following HBM4EU priority substances: acrylamide, o-toluidine of the aniline family, aprotic solvents, arsenic, bisphenols, cadmium, diisocyanates, flame retardants, hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)], lead, mercury, mixture of per-/poly-fluorinated compounds, mixture of pesticides, mixture of phthalates, mycotoxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and the UV-filter benzophenone-3. Although the RA and EBoD work presented here is not intended to have direct regulatory implications, the results can be useful for raising awareness of possibly needed policy actions, as newly generated HBM data from HBM4EU on the current exposure of the EU population has been used in many RAs and EBoD estimations. © 2023 The Author(s)
Arterial Stiffness and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: The effect of acute exercise
Creators: name: Perissiou, Maria-Christina
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: exercise
vascular health
older adults
cardiovascular disease

description: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a localised dilatation of the abdominal aorta leading to an increase in normal diameter by >50%. AAA accounts for approximately 2% of all deaths worldwide (Upchurch and Schaub 2006). Surgical repair is the only current treatment option but only available for patients with large AAA (≥55mm) (Nordon, Hinchliffe et al. 2011) leaving patients with small AAA (≤55 mm) with no treatment options. Increased arterial stiffness is a key factor characterising the development and growth of an AAA (Raaz, Zollner et al. 2015) and likely contributes to elevated cardiovascular mortality in patients with small AAA (Golledge, Muller et al. 2006, Bath, Gokani et al. 2015). Therefore, arterial stiffness could be used as an important treatment target in order to delay aneurysm progression and reduce cardiovascular risk. Arterial stiffness is reduced with increased cardiorespiratory fitness (Gando, Murakami et al. 2016) and aerobic-exercise training in older adults (Fujie, Sato et al. 2014). These adaptations are attributed to the frequent, repetitive haemodynamic perturbations associated with each bout of exercise (Green, Hopman et al. 2017). A single bout of exercise transiently lowers arterial stiffness in healthy adults (Kingwell, Berry et al. 1997, Mutter, Cooke et al. 2017), is commonly accompanied by short-term improvements in arterial function and central blood pressure (Millen, Woodiwiss et al. 2016) and may be dependent on exercise intensity (Tordi, Mourot et al. 2010). However, in adults with cardiovascular comorbidities commonly observed in patients with AAA, excessive increases in arterial stiffness during and after exercise (Shim, Yang et al. 2011, Gkaliagkousi, Gavriilaki et al. 2014, Bunsawat, Ranadive et al. 2017) may transiently exacerbate cardiovascular risk (Schultz, La Gerche et al. 2017). To date, little is known about the haemodynamic effects of acute exercise in patients with AAA. Determining the arterial stiffness response to exercise would provide better understanding of the short-term risks and benefits of exercise in patents with AAA, and an insight into the potential efficacy of exercise for reducing arterial stiffness and cardiovascular risk. Hence, this thesis aimed to determine the effect of a single bout of exercise on the post-exercise arterial stiffness response between patients with AAA and healthy older adults. As patients with AAA are older and with low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, this thesis also explored the effects of cardiorespiratory fitness and exercise intensity on post-exercise arterial stiffness, in healthy older adults. Additionally, this thesis aimed to establish the reliability of its measurements by assessing the reliability of post-exercise changes in arterial stiffness in older healthy adults.
Human risk associated with exposure to mixtures of antiandrogenic chemicals evaluated using in vitro hazard and human biomonitoring data
Creators: name: David, Madlen
name: Ma, Yanying
name: Kiesow, Anja
name: Taxvig, Camilla
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Rodríguez-Carrillo, Andrea
name: Reiber, Lena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023

description: Background: Scientific evidence for underestimated toxicity from unintentional exposure to chemical mixtures is mounting. Yet, harmonized approaches on how to assess the actual risk of mixtures is lacking. As part of the European Joint programme 'Human Biomonitoring for European' we explored a novel methodology for mixture risk assessment of chemicals affecting male reproductive function. Methodology: We explored a methodology for chemical mixture risk assessment based on human in vitro data combined with human exposure data, thereby circumventing the drawbacks of using hazard data from rodents and estimated exposure intake levels. Human androgen receptor (hAR) antagonism was selected as the most important molecular initiating event linked to adverse outcomes on male reproductive health. Results: Our work identified 231 chemicals able to interfere with hAR activity. Among these were 61 finally identified as having both reliable hAR antagonist and human biomonitoring data. Calculation of risk quotients indicated that PCBs (118, 138, 157), phthalates (BBP, DBP, DIBP), benzophenone-3, PFOS, methylparaben, triclosan, some pesticides (i.e cypermethrin, Î2-endosulfan, methylparathion, p,p-DDE), and a PAH metabolite (1- hydroxypyrene) contributed to the mixture effect. The major chemical mixture drivers were PCB 118, BBP, PFOS, DBP, and the UV filter benzophenone-3, together contributing with 75% of the total mixture effect that was primarily driven by high exposure values. Conclusions: This viable way forward for mixture risk assessment of chemicals has the advantages of (1) being a more comprehensive mixture risk assessment also covering data-poor chemicals, and (2) including human data only. However, the approach is subjected to uncertainties in terms of in vitro to in vivo extrapolation, it is not ready for decision making, and needs further development. Still, the results indicate a concern for adverse effects on reproductive function in highly exposed boys, especially when considering additional exposure to data-poor chemicals and chemicals acting by other mechanisms of action. Quelle:© 2023 The Author(s)
Effects of pre-commercial thinning on growth and diversity of paper birch leading stands 25 years following thinning [Extension note]
Creators: name: Leclerc, Marie-Eve
name: Griess, Verena
name: Eskelson, Bianca N. I.
name: Simard, S. (Suzanne)
name: Harper, George
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

Abstract
Heat transfer in spouted beds.
Creators: name: Malek, M. A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The transfer of heat from spouted beds to verticle 6-in. and 3-in. columns was investigated. The bed materials consisted of polyethylene, polystyrene, wheat, rice, millet, Timothy seeds and Ottowa sands. The effect of bed temperature, particle diameter, density and heat capacity, bed height, mass velocity of air and orifice diameter were investigated and correlated. The value of the heat transfer codfficient varied fron 10-24 Btu/(hr.) (sq.ft.)(°F). During spouting, the heat transfer coefficient was found to be independent of mass velocity, cloumn diameter and orifice diameter, but increased with particle diameter and heat capacity, and decreased with bed height. Heat transfer data in the 6-in. column were collected from the transition bed for polythylene, and wheat with a 13-in. bed height, and 3/4-in. orifice diameter and the results were correlated. The heat transfer codffficient was found to increase with increase in mass celocity up to the point of spouting and at a fixed mass velocity it was found to decrease with increase in bed level. Experiments were also conducted to collect heat transfer data from a fluidized bed in the 6-in. column with wheat as bed material. It was found that the heat transfer coefficient was from 10-66% lower for a spouted bed than for a fluidized bed and the correspoinding mass velocity for spouting varied from 35-55% of that required for obtaining the maximum heat transfer in a fluidized bed under similar flow conditions. A generalized correlation is proposed to estimate the spout diameter in a spouted bed from literature data as well as from the data collected with the aid of a 6-in. and a 4-in. semicircular column. An attempt is made to predict the pressure drop for the transition bed and the spouted bed.
“Il n'y a que le présent": la maledizione dell’esilio nelle opere di Agota Kristof
Creators: name: Cavicchi, Manuela
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: “Il n'y a que le présent";: la maledizione dell’esilio nelle opere di Agota Kristof
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Luftqualität 2021
Creators: name: Dauert, Ute
name: Feigenspan, Stefan
name: Kessinger, Susan
name: Minkos, Andrea
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Stickstoffdioxid
subject: Feinstaub
subject: Ozon
subject: Luftgüte
subject: PM10
subject: Luft
subject: NO2
subject: WHO
subject: Weltgesundheitsorganisation
subject: Luft
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Verkehr

description: Diese Auswertung der Luftqualität im Jahr 2021 in Deutschland basiert auf vorläufigen, noch nicht abschließend geprüften Daten aus den Luftmessnetzen der Bundesländer und des Umweltbundesamtes, Stand 31. Januar 2022. Aufgrund der umfangreichen Qualitätssicherung in den Messnetzen stehen die endgültigen Daten erst Mitte 2022 zur Verfügung. Die jetzt vorliegenden Daten lassen aber eine generelle Einschätzung des vergangenen Jahres zu. Ausgewertet werden die Schadstoffe Feinstaub (PM10 und PM2,5), Stickstoffdioxid (NO2) sowie Ozon (O3). Betrachtet werden nicht nur geltende Ziel- und Grenzwerte, sondern auch die neuen Richtwerte der Weltgesundheitsorganisation. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Diese Auswertung der Luftqualität im Jahr 2021 in Deutschland basiert auf vorläufigen, noch nicht abschließend geprüften Daten aus den Luftmessnetzen der Bundesländer und des Umweltbundesamtes, Stand 31. Januar 2022. Aufgrund der umfangreichen Qualitätssicherung in den Messnetzen stehen die endgültigen Daten erst Mitte 2022 zur Verfügung. Die jetzt vorliegenden Daten lassen aber eine generelle Einschätzung des vergangenen Jahres zu. Ausgewertet werden die Schadstoffe Feinstaub (PM10 und PM2,5), Stickstoffdioxid (NO2) sowie Ozon (O3). Betrachtet werden nicht nur geltende Ziel- und Grenzwerte, sondern auch die neuen Richtwerte der Weltgesundheitsorganisation.
Biosimilars and Information Exchange in Australian Pharmaceutical Patent, Trade Secret and Data Exclusivity Arrangements
Creators: name: Henriksen, Teddy
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: biosimilar
biologic
biopharmaceutical
patent
trade secret
data exclusivity
pharmaceutical
Private law and civil obligations
International and comparative law
Law in context

description: The relevance and importance of biopharmaceuticals (biologics) as modern medical treatments is clear. This relatively new group of pharmaceuticals offers more effective treatment and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes and immune-modulated inflammatory conditions, including psoriasis, ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis due to their ability to provide targeted therapies. Biologics also provide safe and effective treatments for some types of cancer. One downside to biologic use is the cost of these treatments — biologics are expensive. Biosimilars are developed to mimic the safety and efficacy of originator biologics already approved for use at a reduced cost to that of the originator. Consequently, biosimilars are often seen as an answer to the problem of balancing access to biologic treatments and the costs of these medicines. As a result, governments actively promote biosimilars and biosimilar development to facilitate the cost savings biosimilars can achieve.
description: One difficulty governments encounter in promoting biosimilars is that biosimilars are produced as intended copies of an originator biologic’s safety and efficacy. This means that in providing monopolies to originator biologics, governments may be adversely affecting the development of biosimilars. It also means that understanding how information is exchanged between originator biologics and related biosimilars is crucial. The information exchange between originator biologic manufacturers and biosimilar manufacturers is the focus of this thesis.
description: More specifically, this thesis examines the information exchange between originator manufacturers and biosimilar manufacturers related to patents and data exclusivity, and how the information exchange affects biosimilars and biosimilar development. In addition, the information exchange in trade secrets is important and is examined in this thesis because it creates a monopoly that is utilised by manufacturers in the pharmaceutical industry. Significantly, patents, trade secrets and data exclusivity all involve some form of information exchange between the holder of the relevant right and the pharmaceutical industry at large, including potential competitors in the pharmaceutical market.
Supplementary document for Cellular-resolution monitoring of ischemic stroke pathologies in the rat cortex - 5268759.pdf
Creators: name: Chornyy, Sergiy
name: Das, Aniruddha
name: Borovicka, Julie
name: Patel, Davina
name: Chan, Hugh
name: Hermann, John
name: Jaramillo, Thomas
name: Machado, Andre
name: Baker, Kenneth
name: Dana, Hod
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental figures and visualization legends
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 32 Nr. 3 (1988): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2019

description: Band XXXII (1988), Heft 3
description: Inhalt
Francesco Vannis Magdalenenaltar für San Francesco in Siena...596-604
Maso di Bartolommeo und sein Kreis...537-546
A New Document on Andrea Orcagna in 1345...521-524
The Ubriachi at Santa Maria Novella...519-521
Il "Segretario di Stato" Francesco Seratti, collezionista di stampe a Firenze...439-478
Filippo Baldinucci Disegnatore...353-438
“Ne pas écrire couché”: Boubacar Boris Diop, l’écrivain tourné vers l’avenir
Creators: name: Nissim, Liana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: ";Ne pas écrire couché";: Boubacar Boris Diop, l'écrivain tourné vers l'avenir
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Additional file 1 of A systematic strategy for identifying causal single nucleotide polymorphisms and their target genes on Juvenile arthritis risk haplotypes
Creators: name: Jiang, Kaiyu
name: Liu, Tao
name: Kales, Susan
name: Tewhey, Ryan
name: Kim, Dongkyeong
name: Park, Yungki
name: Jarvis, James N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Seaweed as a functional ingredient in the diet of farmed fish
Creators: name: Thépot, Valentin
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: Seaweed
fish
disease
macroalgae
antibiotics
antimicrobial resistance
functional feeds
immunostimulants
intestinal microbiome
next-generation sequencing
stress
immunity
ecological-responsible
low trophic level
rabbitfish

description: Aquaculture provides 50% of the fish we eat today, however the growth and the sustainability of this industry is threatened by disease outbreaks claiming 10% of global aquaculture production and costing more than AU$8.2 billion/year. Current treatments, particularly antibiotics, are of increasing concern regarding both human and environmental health (e.g. antibiotic resistance) and climate change will only exacerbate the severity and frequency of disease outbreaks. Alternatives to traditional veterinary drugs are therefore a necessity to support the long-term sustainable development of aquaculture.
description: Functional ingredients are a promising alternative, because they can boost the immune system of fish and enhance their resistance to disease without posing a threat to human and environmental health. Seaweeds are one type of functional ingredient receiving increasing attention because of their diverse taxonomy (~11,353 species) and the array of bioactive compounds they produce, representing a unique and largely untapped source of potential functional ingredients. Since no synthesis of the work done on seaweed as a functional ingredient for fish had been done, I first conducted a systematic review of the dietary effects of seaweed on fish immunity, resistance to disease and growth (Chapter 2). In this meta-analysis review of 142 studies I found that dietary supplementation with seaweeds or their extracts had substantial positive impacts on the health and growth of fish, particularly when provided in combination with other immunostimulants. This review also highlighted two significant knowledge gaps: 1) only a very small number of seaweed species have been tested (42 species out of 11, 353) and 2) there was a clear underrepresentation of marine herbivores (2 studies out of 142) in feeding trials.
Key Factors Affecting Queensland Horticultural Farmers' Effective Use of Internet Based Extension Tools
Creators: name: Cooper, Sherrill
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: agriculture
case study
design science
extension
diffusion of innovations
human-centred design
horticulture
Internet based extension
rural
usability
user experience

description: Traditionally, farming has played an important role in Australia's economy but the challenges facing the Australian agricultural industry are immense. Australia's gross value of agricultural production in 2015-2016 was $56 billion with Queensland's gross value of agricultural production in this period being $13.2 billion. Australia's agricultural industry produces over ninety percent of the domestic food supply and contributes over thirteen percent of Australia's export revenue. Yet the complex and dynamic challenges facing Australian farmers this century have created a vastly different operating environment to that of the twentieth century. Climate change, biosecurity threats, increasing consumer demands, food safety, escalating costs, acute shortage of skilled labour, import tariffs and quotas, and relatively low levels of government subsidisation compared to Europe, the US, and Japan are some of these challenges. Further challenges include the increasing demand for maximising productivity, maintaining environmental sustainability and social responsibility and remaining economically viable. Agricultural policy reforms have also increased the components in the RD&E environment with services now spread across public, private and industry providers resulting in a pluralistic and decentralised collection of organisations engaged in RD&E.
Frontières du monde, attentes du coeur: la quête  de l’Eldorado dans quelques romans de migritude africains
Creators: name: Nuti, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Frontières du monde, attentes du coeur: la quête de l'Eldorado dans quelques romans de migritude africains
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni