cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors Associated with Worse Lung Function in Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Persistent Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Junge, Sibylle
name: Görlich, Dennis
name: Reijer, Martijn Den
name: Wiedemann, Bärbel
name: Tümmler, Burkhard
name: Ellemunter, Helmut
name: Staab, Doris [U.V.M.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen in cystic fibrosis (CF). However, it is not clear which factors are associated with worse lung function in patients with persistent S. aureus airway cultures. Our main hypothesis was that patients with high S. aureus density in their respiratory specimens would more likely experience worsening of their lung disease than patients with low bacterial loads. Methods Therefore, we conducted an observational prospective longitudinal multi-center study and assessed the association between lung function and S. aureus bacterial density in respiratory samples, co-infection with other CF-pathogens, nasal S. aureus carriage, clinical status, antibiotic therapy, IL-6- and IgG-levels against S. aureus virulence factors. Results 195 patients from 17 centers were followed; each patient had an average of 7 visits. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and generalized linear mixed models. Our main hypothesis was only supported for patients providing throat specimens indicating that patients with higher density experienced a steeper lung function decline (p<0.001). Patients with exacerbations (n = 60), S. aureus small-colony variants (SCVs, n = 84) and co-infection with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (n = 44) had worse lung function (p = 0.0068; p = 0.0011; p = 0.0103). Patients with SCVs were older (p = 0.0066) and more often treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (p = 0.0078). IL-6 levels positively correlated with decreased lung function (p<0.001), S. aureus density in sputa (p = 0.0016), SCVs (p = 0.0209), exacerbations (p = 0.0041) and co-infections with S. maltophilia (p = 0.0195) or A. fumigatus (p = 0.0496). Conclusions In CF-patients with chronic S. aureus cultures, independent risk factors for worse lung function are high bacterial density in throat cultures, exacerbations, elevated IL-6 levels, presence of S. aureus SCVs and co-infection with S. maltophilia. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00669760
Surnia robusta Janossy 1977
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Strigiformes
Strigidae
Surnia
Surnia robusta

description: † Surnia robusta Jánossy, 1977
Location and age: Beremend 38; Lower Pliocene (MN16).
Material: 1 distal right tarsometatarsus (Figure 2 /9).
Dimensions (in mm): E—8.3, F—11.5, G—9.2.
Description: In particular, the tarsometatarsus varies between owl species. Morphological differences are mostly found in the distal epiphysis. In this case, the diaphysis is rather short and stout and the trochlea metatarsi II is clublike.
Previous records of the taxon—sites and their age: Known from the Upper Miocene of the Carpathian Basin (MN 13)—Polgárdi 4, 5 (Hungary) (Kessler 2010); MN16—Ostramos 7, Beremend 4, Villány 3 (all in Hungary) (Jánossy 1977); Q1–2—Nagyharsányhegy 1–4, Somssich hill 2 (all in Hungary) (Jánossy 1977, 1982, 1983, 1986; Kessler 2017).
Comparative material: Asio otus (2010.502.1); Asio flammeus (2010.487.1); Aegolius funereus (2010.1624.1); Surnia ulula (2010.1640.1).
This material is catalogued number: B.38.2020.07.07; and belongs to the Chapel of Reconciliation in Beremend.
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 334, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
Efficient cycle algorithms for capacitated optical network design
Creators: name: He, Dong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis studies the cycle-based protection schemes for DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) networks. We first present the MSCC (Min-Sum Cycle Cover) Algorithm for simultaneous detection and protection using the Eulerian graph theory, and then analyze the performance of the algorithm through making comparison of it with other algorithms. By extending the features of algorithm SLA (Straddling Link Algorithm) and initial ideas for p-cycle candidate generation (operations called Add and Join), we formulate more advanced cycle-generation algorithms: SP-Add, SP-Join and SP-Merge. We then use the developed heuristic spare capacity planning algorithms based on weighted or unity capacity efficiency of p-cycles, WCIDA, to test the fully restorable p-cycle network design. In addition, two capacitated algorithms will be presented and compared with each other.
20,000 pissed off women online: Challenging gendered representations of women in Australia's mainstream media through social media platforms
Creators: name: Gleeson, Jessamy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis analyses how contemporary feminist and women’s-based campaigns have used social media platforms to challenge and resist dominant gendered discourses of women in the Australian mainstream media. Informed by post-structural feminist theories of discourse and power within a wider media studies approach, this thesis uses qualitative interviews and three separate case studies to analyse and contrast the assorted methods used by each case study to resist gendered discourses. It then contends that feminist and women’s-based campaigns can use social media to effect change, but that groups also need to be aware of issues related to intersectionality, and understandings of change within and outside of structural organisations.
Examination of the Pulsating Detonation Instability in a Two-Step Model using Characteristics
Creators: name: Leung, Carlos
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The nonlinear dynamics of one-dimensional pulsating detonations were studied numerically using a simple two-step chain branching model with separate induction and exothermic reaction zones. The stability boundary was found for a wide range of non-dimensional activation energy and heat release. The wave dynamics within the detonation structure responsible for non-linear pulsating instability were studied using the three families of characteristic curves on x-t diagrams, representing the trajectories of pressure waves and particle paths. This clarified the dynamics responsible for loss of stability and the period of the pulsating instability. Four main regimes of pulsations were observed: the high frequency, very high frequency, low frequency and transition regimes. The high and very high frequency modes tend to manifest itself for low values of activation energy, while the low frequency mode tends to appear for higher activation energy. The very high frequency pulsations are governed by a cycle of expansion waves traveling across the induction zone along the C- characteristics coupled with the compression waves traveling across the induction zone along the C+ characteristics. The high frequency pulsations are controlled by a coupling between the particle path originating from the leading shock traveling across the induction zone and the compression wave traveling across the induction zone via the C+ characteristics. The low frequency oscillations involve the C- characteristics or particle paths traveling across the entire detonation from the shock followed by the C+ characteristics traveling toward the leading shock. The mechanisms governing the pulsating instability and the periods of oscillation were found to be in good qualitative agreement with Toong's phenomenological model based on the wave dynamics in a square wave model.
Understanding the Management of IntraInter Professional Aggression: A Critical Nursing Ethnography
Creators: name: St-Pierre, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.
subject: Sociology, Organizational.

description: As the link between a healthy workforce and better patient outcomes is becoming more evident, creating healthy and safe workplaces for health care providers is now a concern for many employers. While a safe work environment includes being exempt from aggression, workplace aggression continues to be identified as a serious problem by health care professionals. Notwithstanding the importance and obligation of addressing all types of workplace aggression and all groups of perpetrators, dealing with instances of intra/inter professional aggression is essential since this type of aggression is often insidious and can be more disturbing to the victim than any other type of aggression. While nurse managers were identified as playing a central role in the management of workplace aggression, it is not clear how they deal with instances of intra/inter professional aggression given their current work environment and working conditions. The purpose of this study is to broaden the understanding of how nurse managers respond to intra/inter professional workplace aggression. Based on a theoretical framework developed from the work of Girard, Foucault and Weber, this study focuses on aspects of the social/cultural work environment influencing nurse managers' responses to intra/inter professional aggression as well as strategies deployed by nurse managers to deal with such aggression. Using principles from critical nursing ethnography, the research was conducted in both a university affiliated psychiatric hospital and a community hospital located in a large metropolitan city in Ontario. Data collection included 23 semi-structured interviews, collection of mute evidence and observations. The major study findings are that 1) aggression management is a non linear process involving managing perceptions, emotions and the actual aggressive act, which are all influenced by omnipresent and insidious power relations; 2) aggression management is not solely the responsibility of managers but must involve several actors including the aggressive individual, peers, human resources department and unions; and 3) each individual needs to play an active role in aggression management and be held responsible and accountable for his/her actions.
Corvus harkanyensis Kessler 2010
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Corvidae
Corvus
Corvus harkanyensis

description: † Corvus harkanyensis Kessler, 2010
Location and age: Beremend 26; Lower Pliocene (MN15).
Material: 1 distal left humerus (Figure 2 /10), 1 proximal right scapula (Figure 2 /11).
Dimensions (in mm): humerus: F—13.3, G—5.5; scapula: B—5.8, C—5.1/4.2.
Previous records of the taxon—sites and their age: The holotype is from the Upper Pliocene (MN15–16) of Csarnóta 2, with humerus dimensions: E—4.9, F—11.5, G—5.9, H—6.2. The dimensions of the modern species Corvus monedula are: humerus E—4.1–4.6, F—9.4–11.1, G—5.4–6.1, H—5.5–6.46. It was described as a species of crow of the size of a corvid species, in which the condylus ventralis on the distal epiphysis of the humerus is not ovate but rounded; the epicondylus ventralis is much wider and more iron-shaped; the processus flexorius is more prominent; processus supracondylaris dorsalis and epicondylus dorsalis lack the concave indentation present in the jackdaw (Kessler 2010). The scapula is heavily damaged, but has crow-like features and its dimensions are similar to those of the jackdaw.
It takes its name from the nearby town of Harkány. This fossil species, with the characteristics and size of a modern jackdaw, may have been the ancestor of the present form of Corvus in the Carpathian Basin.
A small-sized Corvus species is known from the Upper Pliocene (Corvus cf. monedula: Văršec Bulgaria, MN17 (Boev 2000), which is the only small-sized species of the genus from the recent avifauna of Europe (although presently renamed as Coloeus monedula). From the Early Pleistocene of the Stránská scale in the Czech Republic, Corvus moravicus Mlíkovsk ỳ, 1995 was described as an extinct taxon, but this species was later revised by the author himself and the material was assigned to the modern jackdaw (C. monedula Linnaeus, 1758) (Mlíkovskỳ 2002). The latter species has also been identified from several Lower, Middle and Upper Pleistocene sites (Jánossy 1979a,b; Gál 2002). Apart from the species of Corvidae mentioned above, only Miocene finds from North America have been described; Olson and Rasmussen (2001) reported the taxon Corvus aff. ossifragus Wilson, 1812 from the Lee Creek Mine site, based on a tibiotarsus.
Comparative material: Corvus monedula (61.9.1); Pica pica (58.I.17); Garrulus glandarius (48.VIII.24); Nucifraga caryocatactes (71.10.27).
This material is not catalogued, it belongs to the Chapel of Reconciliation in Beremend and will be catalogued in their collection.
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on pages 334-335, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
title: Treatment of Antibody-Mediated Renal Allograft Rejection
title: Improving Step by Step
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lachmann, Nils
name: Duerr, Michael
name: Schoenemann, Constanze
name: Pruss, Axel
name: Budde, Klemens
name: Waiser, Johannes
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Throughout the past years we stepwise modified our immunosuppressive treatment regimen for patients with antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR). Here, we describe three consecutive groups treated with different regimens. From 2005 until 2008, we treated all patients with biopsy-proven ABMR with rituximab (500 mg), low-dose (30 g) intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG), and plasmapheresis (PPH, 6x) (group RLP, ). Between 2009 and June 2010, patients received bortezomib (1.3 mg/m2, 4x) together with low-dose IVIG and PPH (group BLP, ). In July 2010, we increased the IVIG dose and treated all subsequent patients with bortezomib, high-dose IVIG (1.5 g/kg), and PPH (group BHP, ). Graft survival at three years after treatment was 73% in group BHP as compared to 45% in group BLP and 25% in group RLP. At six months after treatment median serum creatinine was 2.1 mg/dL, 2.9 mg/dL, and 4.2 mg/dL in groups BHP, BLP, and RLP, respectively (). Following treatment, a significant decrease of donor-specific HLA antibody (DSA) mean fluorescence intensity from to () was observed in group BHP, but not in the other groups. Our results indicate that graft survival, graft function, and DSA levels could be improved along with stepwise modifications to our treatment regimen, that is, the introduction of bortezomib and high-dose IVIG treatment.
Développement de membranes inorganiques à partir de minéraux tubulaires, lamellaires et zéolitiques.
Creators: name: Rutinduka, Eliane M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: A new approach to prepare inorganic membranes has been developed. Those inorganic membranes are used in cation exchange, gas separation and in ultrafiltration processes. Clay and zeolite materials are used in the preparation of the inorganic membranes. First organic polymers are intercalated in kaolinite in order to improve the flexibility and to reduce cracks in the membranes. Sepiolite which is a natural hydrated magnesium silicate mineral with an interesting fibrous and porous morphology gives crack free membranes. The thickness of those unsupported membranes was 100-150$\mu$m. The main objective of this work was to prepare membranes with high percentages of microporosity in order to ensure a high selectivity in gas separation. For this purpose, zeolite was incorporated in the membrane together with sepiolite. The new inorganic membranes were tested and characterized using BET by adsorption-desorption of nitrogen to determine the microporosity, average pore diameter and pore size distribution. The porosity of these membranes were found to give a high surface area dominated by micropores. The membranes showed a good mechanical and thermal resistance. The liquid phase operation with microporous zeolitic materials is affected by the low diffusion rates of the liquids through the micropores. In cation exchange we have the diffusion through preferential pathways. Nevertheless, gas separation tests showed that although zeolitic membranes contained some connecting-through large pores, the relative fast diffusion of gaseous molecules through the zeolite micropores prevented their search for preferential diffusion pathways as in the case of liquid diffusing molecules.
Crowdsourcing: Toward innovation of project management and mass customization
Creators: name: Wilson, Kathleen
name: Samson, Daniel
name: Bhakoo, Vikram
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores how mass customization process and delivery is improved through crowdsourcing firms’ innovative project practices and processes. Five firm-based case studies were conducted in Australia and the United States of America of firms which operationalised crowdsourcing projects. This included 31 firm executive and crowd participant interviews. Findings suggest that crowdsourcing injects dynamism, huge crowd size, up-down scaling of resources, earlier customer involvement and participation as well as improved delivery speed in project management (PM) practices and mass customization processes. Crowdsourcing brings mass resources at low cost and applies the crowd in a fluid manner for agile and speedy delivery results in PM and mass customization. This study challenges conventional processes and practices concerning project management and mass customization and provides a new and enhanced understanding via crowdsourcing mechanisms. Crowdsourcing firms and characteristics that are important to PM practices and delivery of mass customized outcomes are explored as a way to achieve cost efficiency, scale, flexibility, and risk reduction.
Integration of Retinal and Extraretinal Information across Eye Movements
Creators: name: Ostendorf, Florian
name: Dolan, Raymond J.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Visual perception is burdened with a highly discontinuous input stream arising from saccad- ic eye movements. For successful integration into a coherent representation, the visuomo- tor system needs to deal with these self-induced perceptual changes and distinguish them from external motion. Forward models are one way to solve this problem where the brain uses internal monitoring signals associated with oculomotor commands to predict the visual consequences of corresponding eye movements during active exploration. Visual scenes typically contain a rich structure of spatial relational information, providing additional cues that may help disambiguate self-induced from external changes of perceptual input. We rea- soned that a weighted integration of these two inherently noisy sources of information should lead to better perceptual estimates. Volunteer subjects performed a simple percep- tual decision on the apparent displacement of a visual target, jumping unpredictably in sync with a saccadic eye movement. In a critical test condition, the target was presented together with a flanker object, where perceptual decisions could take into account the spatial dis- tance between target and flanker object. Here, precision was better compared to control conditions in which target displacements could only be estimated from either extraretinal or visual relational information alone. Our findings suggest that under natural conditions, inte- gration of visual space across eye movements is based upon close to optimal integration of both retinal and extraretinal pieces of information
L'émergence de la Floride canadienne-française L'exemple de la communauté de Palm Beach, 1910-2010
Creators: name: Dupuis, Serge
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: History, United States.
subject: Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
subject: Sociology, Demography.

description: The importance of Canadian and French Canadian demography in Florida, as well as the annual number of tourists that reaches two million in 1990, requires that researchers take a look at the significance of migrations to and, in many cases, settlement in Florida. This study explores the first days of Canadian visits to Florida in the early 20th century, the settlement of a mass of immigrants during the 1930s, and after the Second World War, through the case of Palm Beach County. This thesis describes the formation of an ethnic community, and the changes brought about by the arrival of many snowbirds during the 1970s, which strengthen its links with French Canadian society. The constant mobility between Canada and Florida, as well as the settlement of French Canadians in two communities, make Florida quite a particular francophonie that enlightens us on the very nature of French Canada.
Muscicapidae Fleming 1822
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Muscicapidae

description: Muscicapidae gen. et sp. indet.
Location and age: Beremend 26; Lower Pliocene (MN15).
Material: 1 ungual phalanx (Figure 3 /1).
Dimensions (in mm): ungual phalanx: A—3.9, B—1.9.
Description: the direction and the form of the tuberculum extensorium is straight and blunt; the form of the cotyla articularis is weakly concave; the shape of the tuberculum flexorium is concave and the concavity of the margo plantaris is strongly arched symmetrically. The form of the apex is missing.
Previous records of the taxon—sites and their age: Outside the Carpathian Basin, the family is only known from the late Pliocene by Ficedula sp. from Montoussé 5 in France (Clot et al. 1976), and from the Pleistocene by Oenanthe cf. oenanthe from Hundsheim in Austria the extant species (Tyrberg 1998); MN13—Polgárdi 5 (Kessler 2010); MN15—Csarnóta 2; Beremend 26 (Kessler 2010), as a preliminary indication of Oenanthe cf. oenanthe.
Comparative material: Oenanthe oenanthe (2010.1816.1).
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 335, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
Abfüllung von Getränken im Mehrweg- und ökologisch vorteilhaften Einweggetränkeverpackungen
Creators: name: Heinisch, Jürgen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Verpackungsabfall
subject: Getränkeverpackung
subject: Dose [Verpackung]
subject: Glasflasche
subject: Kunststoffflasche
subject: Ökologisch vorteilhafte Verpackungen
subject: Becher
subject: Blockpackungen
subject: Einweg-Getränkeverpackung
subject: Mehrweggetränkeverpackung
subject: Getränkedose
subject: MövE
subject: Pfand
subject: Schlauchbeutel
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Die vorliegende Studie bestimmt nach den Vorgaben des § 9 der VerpackV die in Deutschland abgesetzten Getränkevolumen für die verschiedenen Packmittelgruppen insgesamt und nach Getränkesegmenten. Dabei werden nur trinkfertig abgepackte und in Verkehr gebrachte Getränke bis zu einer Füllgröße von zehn Litern einbezogen. Im Ergebnis wurden 2014 46,1 % der in Deutschland verbrauchten Getränke in MövE-Verpackungenverpackt. Der Wert liegt nur um knapp 0,1 Prozentpunkte niedriger als der Anteil im Vorjahr. Wie gering der Unterschied zum Vorjahr ist, zeigt auch die Verteilung auf Mehrweg- und övE-Verpackungen, die sich vom Vorjahr mit 45,1 % für Mehrweggetränkeverpackung und 1,1 % für övE-Verpackung (rundungsbedingt) nicht unterscheiden.Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die vorliegende Studie bestimmt nach den Vorgaben des § 9 der VerpackV die in Deutschland abgesetzten Getränkevolumen für die verschiedenen Packmittelgruppen insgesamt und nach Getränkesegmenten. Dabei werden nur trinkfertig abgepackte und in Verkehr gebrachte Getränke bis zu einer Füllgröße von zehn Litern einbezogen. Im Ergebnis wurden 2014 46,1 % der in Deutschland verbrauchten Getränke in MövE-Verpackungenverpackt. Der Wert liegt nur um knapp 0,1 Prozentpunkte niedriger als der Anteil im Vorjahr. Wie gering der Unterschied zum Vorjahr ist, zeigt auch die Verteilung auf Mehrweg- und övE-Verpackungen, die sich vom Vorjahr mit 45,1 % für Mehrweggetränkeverpackung und 1,1 % für övE-Verpackung (rundungsbedingt) nicht unterscheiden.
Partial loss of VE-cadherin improves long-term outcome and cerebral blood flow after transient brain ischemia in mice
Creators: name: Gertz, Karen
name: Kronenberg, Golo
name: Uhlemann, Ria
name: Prinz, Vincent
name: Marquina, Ruben
name: Corada, Monica
name: Dejana, Elisabetta
name: Endres, Matthias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cerebral ischemia
subject: Stroke
subject: Endothelium
subject: Pericyte
subject: Adhesion molecule
subject: Angiogenesis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background VE-cadherin is the chief constituent of endothelial adherens junctions. However, the role of VE-cadherin in the pathogenesis of cerebrovascular diseases including brain ischemia has not yet been investigated. Methods VE-cadherin heterozygous (VEC+/-) mice and wildtype controls were subjected to transient brain ischemia by 30 min filamentous middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo)/reperfusion. Results Acute lesion sizes as assessed by MR-imaging on day 3 did not differ between genotypes. Unexpectedly, however, partial loss of VE-cadherin resulted in long-term stroke protection measured histologically on day 28. Equally surprisingly, VEC+/- mice displayed no differences in post-stroke angiogenesis compared to littermate controls, but showed increased absolute regional cerebral blood flow in ischemic striatum at four weeks. The early induction of VE-cadherin mRNA transcription after stroke was reduced in VEC+/- mice. By contrast, N-cadherin and β-catenin mRNA expression showed a delayed, but sustained, upregulation up to 28 days after MCAo, which was increased in VEC+/- mice. Furthermore, partial loss of VE-cadherin resulted in a pattern of elevated ischemia-triggered mRNA transcription of pericyte-related molecules α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), aminopeptidase N (CD13), and platelet-derived growth factor receptor β (PDGFR-β). Conclusions Partial loss of VE-cadherin results in long term stroke protection. On the cellular and molecular level, this effect appears to be mediated by improved endothelial/pericyte interactions and the resultant increase in cerebral blood flow. Our study reinforces accumulating evidence that long-term stroke outcome depends critically on vascular mechanisms.
Board diversity and interlocking directorates: Their association with readiness to adopt Integrated Reporting
Creators: name: Liu, Zihan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Integrated reporting, a new type of international voluntary corporate reporting, encourages corporations to think about their value creation stories over time. Dr Liu developed a comprehensive Integrated Reporting Disclosure Index and used it to provide a holistic understanding of the impact of three director characteristics (gender, interlocking directorates, female interlocking directorates), on companies' readiness to adopt integrated reporting. Her findings reveal the value of female social and relationship capital through director interlocks in diffusing reporting practices, and will increase awareness of the potential benefits females bring to the corporate boardroom and the benefits of integrated reporting.
Form and formation of flares and parabolae based on new observations of the internal shell structure in lytoceratid and perisphinctid ammonoids
Creators: name: Radtke, Gregor
name: Hoffmann, Rene
name: Keupp, Helmut
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Ammonoidea
subject: ultrastructure
subject: megastriae
subject: temporary aperture
subject: episodic growth
subject: Jurassic
subject: Cretaceous
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie

description: The ultrastructure of pristine shells of Jurassic and Cretaceous lytoceratid and perisphinctid ammonoids indicates that flares and parabolae represent homologous structures. Both mark an interruption of shell growth. We dismiss earlier interpretations of parabolae as actual aperture, relics of resorbed apophyses or superstructure of the musculature associated to a semi-internal shell. Instead we propose an episodic growth model including several growth stops at the aperture during the formation of a frill-like aperture for parabolae and flares. Such an aperture is composed of the outer prismatic layer, the nacreous layer and an apertural prismatic coating. Here, we observed the apertural prismatic coating for the first time as an integral part of flares and parabolae. The apertural prismatic coating covers only the inner surface of the frill and was secreted by a permanent mantle cover indicating a prolonged period without the production of new shell material. Parabolae differ from flares by their general shape and the presence of ventro-lateral parabolic notches and nodes. The notches were formed by folding of the frill and had the potential to form semi-open spines. The corresponding parabolic nodes are caused by an outward swelling of the shell-secreting mantle tissue producing new shell material at the position of the folding. New shell material that belongs to the conch tube is attached to the base of flares and parabolae after withdrawal of the mantle edge representing the continuation of shell growth. Usually, the frilled aperture associated with flares and parabolae were removed during lifetime. This study reports on flares in Argonauticeras for the first time. In this genus they are typically associated with varices.
Nachlass Joseph Anton Xaver von Balthasar
Creators: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Publisher: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachlass
Balthasar, Joseph Anton <>

description: Findbuch zum Nachlass Joseph Anton Xaver von Balthasar
Der Nachlass umfasst Unterlagen zur Person, Briefe, Notizbücher
Umfang: 0.4 Lfm
description: Standort: [ZHB] Sempacherstrasse / Luzern (Tresor BB), Signatur: Ms 253.4
Étude de la réception critique de l'oeuvre nouvellière de Maurice Henrie
Creators: name: Boudreau, Caroline G
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Le genre nouvellier, pour diverses raisons, semble parfois négligé par la critique en Ontario français au détriment des autres genres. Une des raisons pour cet écart est la méconnaissance de la nouvelle. Lorsqu'un recueil de nouvelles fait l'objet d'un compte rendu critique, est-ce que cette méconnaissance est présente? Quels critères sont valorisés dans le jugement d'un recueil? Sont-ils demeures les mêmes au fil des années? Par l'entremise de l'étude de la réception critique des recueils de nouvelles de Maurice Henrie, je cherche à déterminer s'il y a eu une évolution au sein du discours critique portant sur les recueils de nouvelles de l'Ontario français. Maurice Hernie est le nouvellier franco-ontarien le plus actif avec six recueils de nouvelles publiés entre 1988 et 2004 par des éditeurs franco-ontariens et québécois. Ce corpus offre diverses pistes d'analyse afin d'en apprendre plus au sujet de la réception critique des recueils de nouvelles franco-ontariens.
Bacillamidins A–G from a Marine-Derived Bacillus pumilus
Creators: name: Zhou, Si-Yu
name: Hu, Yi-Jie
name: Meng, Fan-Cheng
name: Qu, Shen-Yue
name: Wang, Rui
name: Andersen, Raymond J.
name: Liao, Zhi-Hua
name: Chen, Min
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Seven long-chain amides, including five previously undescribed bacillamidins A–E (1–5) and two previously reported synthetic analogs, bacillamidins F (6) and G (7), were isolated from extracts of the marine-derived Bacillus pumilus strain RJA1515. The structures of the new compounds were established by extensive analysis of 1D and 2D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data as well as high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), and the absolute configurations of the stereogenic carbons of 1–4 were established by comparison of the calculated and the experimental electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra. The cytotoxic and antimicrobial activities of 1–7 were evaluated.
Aves
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves

description: Aves indet.
Location and age: Beremend 26; Lower Pliocene (MN15)
Material: 1 radius proximal fragment (Figure 3 /4)
Dimensions (in mm): radius: C—3.1, D—1.9, E—1.6.
Description: This proximal radius cannot be identified to species, but judging by its size and character, may belong to a species of a songbird.
Location and age: Egyházasdengeleg, Late Miocene (MN 12–13)
Material:1 ungual phalanx (from Egyházasdengeleg) (Figure 3 /5)
Dimensions (in mm): ungual phalanx: A—7.7, B—5.0, C—3.0.
Location and age: Hidas, Middle Miocene (MN 7–8)
Material: pedal phalanx II.1(Figure 3 /6).
Dimensions (in mm): phalanges pedis: A—10.9, C—3.4, E—1.6, F—2.8, G—1.9, F—4.5, G—1.5.
Location and age: Alsótelekes; Late Miocene (MN 12–13).
Material: part ungual phalanx (Figure 3 /7)
Dimensions (in mm): A—11.7, B—5.1.
Location and age: Alsótelekes; Late Miocene (MN 12–13)
Material: partial manal phalanx proximalis digiti majoris (Figure 3 /8)
Dimensions (in mm): A—ca. 25.0, E—7.2.
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on pages 336-337, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
Importance of phosphorylation in PCSK9 processing, stability and function
Creators: name: Dewpura, Thilina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) is a secreted glycoprotein regulating the degradation of low density lipoprotein receptor. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in PCSK9 associate with both hyper- and hypo-cholesterolemia; studies show significant reduction in risk of coronary heart disease for 'loss of function' PCSK9 carriers. We used a combination of mass spectrometry and radiolabeling to report that PCSK9 is phosphorylated at two sites, Ser47 in its propeptide, and Ser688 in its C-terminus. Site directed mutagenesis (SDM) demonstrated that a Golgi casein kinase-like kinase was responsible for PCSK9 phosphorylation based on the consensus site, SXE/S(p). PCSK9 phosphorylation is cell-type specific; phosphorylation status did not affect PCSK9 processing or secretion. Phosphorylated PCSK9 propeptide is protected against proteolysis. Immunoblotting demonstrated that PCSK9 mutants engineered by SDM to prevent phosphorylation at either site (substitution to Ala) or in combination resulted in significantly increased LDLR levels in HuH7 cells by up to -25%. PCSK9 mutants engineered by SDM to mimick phosphorylation (substitution to Asp/Glu) at the N-terminus, but not at the C-terminus or in combination, promoted LDLR degradation significantly more than wild-type. Far western analysis demonstrated that preventing PCSK9 phosphorylation promoted its interaction with the endogenous inhibitor Annexin A2.
Gaston Miron et Manuel Bandeira: Une pragmatique de l'engagement
Creators: name: Soares Costa, Maria Do Carmo
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Literature, Comparative.
subject: Literature, Latin American.
subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: L'importance de l'oeuvre de Gaston Miron dans la littérature québecoise et celle de Manuel Bandeira dans la littérature brésilienne n'est plus a démontrer. Cependant, l'orientation qu'ont reçue ces oeuvres a été principalement de nature sémiotique et thématique. La présente étude vise a démontrer que par l'approche pragmatique---qui met en évidence les marques discursives pertinentes---la poésie se révèle porteuse d'un type d'engagement de nature socio-culturelle, comme chez le poète brésilien, ou politique, chez le poète québecois. Ainsi, la matérialité du discours, dont relèvent les ressources stylistico-rhétoriques (les déictiques, les pronoms personnels, les temps verbaux), ainsi que les éléments de l'oralite (la parataxe, l'ellipse et la repetition), manifestent une subjectivité sur le plan de l'énonciation discursive. En outre, ce plan est tissé par différents niveaux, que ce soit phonique, syntaxique, lexical, sémantique et rythmique; par la façon dont ils sont agencés, communique une plethore d'émotions, résultant en un éthos qui essaie de rejoindre le destinataire, de façon a susciter chez celui-ci une réaction et, par conséquent, une transformation culturelle et sociale.
title: Implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions
title: Zehn Länderstudien zu einer ambitionierteren Klimapolitik
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Viet Nam Country Report
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Vieweg, Marion
name: Fekete, Hanna
name: Luna, Lisa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: LULUCF [Kyoto-Protokoll]
subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Vietnam
subject: UNFCCC
subject: LULUCF
subject: mitigation potential
subject: Viet Nam
subject: Nationally Determined Contribution
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: The study analyses the country background, emissions trends, ongoing activities and barriers relating to the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of Viet Nam under the ⁠UNFCCC⁠. A special emphasis is laid on further mitigation potentials. Fields of mitigation assessed are efficiency, the setting of right incentives for the upscaled deployment of renewables and emissions reductions in the transport sector. The planned increase in coal use – contrary to mitigation ambition in other fields – is assessed in relevance and perspective.
Nachlass Joseph Eutych Kopp
Creators: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Publisher: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachlass
Kopp, Joseph Eutychius

description: Findbuch zum Nachlass Joseph Eutych Kopp
Der Nachlass umfasst Briefe, Manuskripte, Urkundensammlung
Umfang: 2.7 Lfm
description: Standort: [ZHB] Sempacherstrasse / Luzern (Tresor BB), Signatur: Ms.N.14
Impact of Resveratrol on Glucose Control, Hippocampal Structure and Connectivity, and Memory Performance in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Creators: name: Koebe, Theresa
name: Witte, A. Veronica
name: Schnelle, Ariane
name: Tesky, Valentina A.
name: Pantel, Johannes
name: Schuchardt, Jan-Philipp
name: Hahn, Andreas
name: Bohlken, Jens
name: Grittner, Ulrike
name: Floeel, Agnes
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: hippocampus
subject: memory performance
subject: MCI
subject: resting-state functional connectivity
subject: resveratrol
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In healthy older adults, resveratrol supplementation has been shown to improve long-term glucose control, resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) of the hippocampus, and memory function. Here, we aimed to investigate if these beneficial effects extend to individuals at high-risk for dementia, i.e., patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In a randomized, double-blind interventional study, 40 well-characterized patients with MCI (21 females; 50–80 years) completed 26 weeks of resveratrol (200 mg/d; n = 18) or placebo (1,015 mg/d olive oil; n = 22) intake. Serum levels of glucose, glycated hemoglobin A1c and insulin were determined before and after intervention. Moreover, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (3T) (n = 14 vs. 16) was conducted to analyze hippocampus volume, microstructure and RSFC, and neuropsychological testing was conducted to assess learning and memory (primary endpoint) at both time points. In comparison to the control group, resveratrol supplementation resulted in lower glycated hemoglobin A1c concentration with a moderate effect size (ANOVARM p = 0.059, Cohen's d = 0.66), higher RSFC between right anterior hippocampus and right angular cortex (p < 0.001), and led to a moderate preservation of left anterior hippocampus volume (ANOVARM p = 0.061, Cohen's d = 0.68). No significant differences in memory performance emerged between groups. This proof-of-concept study indicates for the first-time that resveratrol intake may reduce glycated hemoglobin A1c, preserves hippocampus volume, and improves hippocampus RSFC in at-risk patients for dementia. Larger trials with longer intervention time should now determine if these benefits can be validated and extended to cognitive function.
Testaufgaben zur BUF
Creators: name: Ibbeken, Sebastian
name: Kohl, Werner
name: Huber, Bernd
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Lärm
subject: Fluglärm
subject: Umgebungslärm
subject: Flugplätze
subject: Verkehr
subject: Lärm

description: Die EU-Umgebungslärmrichtlinie sieht die Einführung eines harmonisierten Berechnungsverfahrens für die Lärmkartierung in Europa entsprechend Artikel 6 (2) der Richtlinie 2002/49/EG vor. Die Europäische Kommission hat dazu mit CNOSSOS-EU (Common NOise aSSessment methOdS) gemeinsame Lärmbewertungsmethoden für alle relevanten Quellenarten, d. h. auch für Luftverkehrsgeräusche entwickelt. Am Beispiel eines fiktiven Flugplatzes (lokal, eben) wird anhand von Einzelszenarien und eines Gesamtszenariums für den Expositionspegel sowie die Beurteilungspegel LDEN und LN der Umgebungslärmrichtlinie überprüft, ob die rechnerische Umsetzung des Berechnungsverfahrens mit einer Präzision von mindestens +/- 0,5 dB erfolgt. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The EU environmental Noise Directive provides for the introduction of a harmonized calculation method for noise mapping in Europe in accordance with Article 6 (2) of Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC. For this purpose, the European Commission has developed common noise assessment methods for all relevant sources, including air traffic noise, with CNOSSOS-EU (Common NOise aSSessment methOdS). Using a fictitious airport (local, even), a single scenario and a total scenario for the exposure level as well as the assessment levels LDEN and LN of the Environmental Noise Directive are used to check whether the computational implementation of the calculation methods is achieved with a precision of at least +/- 0.5 dB. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Die Berechnung der Geräuschbelastung in der Umgebung von Flugplätzen im Rahmen der Umgebungslärmkartierung erfolgt nach der „Berechnungsmethode für den Umgebungslärm von Flugplätzen (2021)“ (BUF21). Die Qualitätssicherung von Softwareprodukten für diese Berechnungsmethode basiert auf Testaufgaben und Referenzergebnissen, die Gegenstand des Berichts sind.
A complexity measure for the specifications of distributed systems.
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiaogang.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: In software engineering, complexity measurement is a quantitative approach to estimating the degree of complication, organization and coding style of a computer program or system specification. Existing complexity metrics are mostly for non-distributed systems. This thesis extends them to distributed systems. It includes three contributions. Firstly, it proposes a Petri net model, called Interacting Petri nets (I-PN), for representing the behavior of distributed systems. This model provides a graph-based representation for LOTOS, which is necessary in order to derive methods for estimating the complexity of LOTOS. Secondly, a metric, called cyclomatic complexity, is proposed for measuring the complexity of I-NPs and LOTOS specifications. Two approaches are proposed for calculating such complexity. In the first approach, a LOTOS expression is first transformed to an I-PN and then Berge's formula in graph theory is applied to determine the cyclomatic complexity of the I-PN and the corresponding LOTOS specification. In the second approach, a set of formulas for calculating the cyclomatic complexity of all the primitive LOTOS operations is derived. Based on them, the complexity of any LOTOS expression can be calculated directly from the expression itself without going through any transformation. Thirdly, as an application of our I-PN model and complexity measure, a path-testing coverage criterion, called basis set coverage, is proposed. As an illustration, the above results are applied to the Transport Protocol (Class 0).
Nachlass Otto Schrafl
Creators: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Publisher: name: Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nachlass
Schrafl, Otto

description: Findbuch zum Nachlass Otto Schrafl
Der Nachlass umfasst Materialien zum Werk, Diversese, Akten, Arbeiten, Bildmaterial, Werke
Umfang: 1.9 Lfm
description: Standort: [ZHB] Sempacherstrasse / Luzern (Tresor BB), Signatur: Ms.N.28
Les contrôles américains à la frontière du Mexique: Le rôle symbolique
Creators: name: Dorais, Mario
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: "L'État n'a jamais mieux aidé une personne à entreprendre quelque chose qu'en étant hors de son chemin" - Henry Thoreau Le quotidien des événements à la frontière qui sépare le Mexique et les États-Unis interpelle plus d'un observateur de la scène politique depuis bon nombre d'années. On se questionne sur ce qui se passe à cette frontière. Des moyens hors du commun sont mis en branle pour contrôler les passages à cette frontière alors qu'à la même époque la mondialisation prône l'ouverture des frontières. Alors que des milliers de camions circulent sans être tracassés, tout est mis en oeuvre pour bloquer le passage des individus; au point tel que certains parlent de la "militarisation de la frontière" dans ce pays fondé sur l'immigration qui se clame des plus grandes libertés. Il y a là une dichotomie qui reste inexpliquée. Quels sont les vrais motifs de ce déploiement hors du commun pour contrôler cette frontière et des moyens extraordinaires mis en place, alors que malgré tout, les passages illicites perdurent et ne semblent pas vouloir se résorber au fil des années? Cette recherche se veut donc d'explorer et de tenter d'élucider la motivation non avouée de cette démarche entreprise par le gouvernement des États-Unis qui maintient une approche qui se veut de démontrer que la frontière américaine est une place forte.
The Canada-United States trade in softwood lumber.
Creators: name: Lynch, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Economics, Agricultural.

description: The thesis examines a long-standing North American trade dispute. At the centre of the conflict is the allegation by the U.S. softwood lumber industry that low provincial government stumpage fees constitute a subsidy to the Canadian softwood lumber industry. The thesis evaluates the subsidy allegation in the context of the British Columbia forest sector. The amount of Ricardin rent captured by the B.C. forest industry is decisive evidence leading to the conclusion that there is no provincial government subsidy to the softwood lumber industry. The argument is supported by evidence that lower stumpage fees in British Columbia only compensate for high costs in other areas of production. The outcome of the softwood lumber dispute is of critical importance to Canada.