cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
De l’exubérance végétale à la prédation animale
Creators: name: Libis, Jean
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: It is paradoxically reductive to summarize the bachelardian imaginary of the four fundamental elements. Not only the elements themselves are declined in a variety of materials, but also the bachelardian dynamic is open to the size of a cosmos that can not be reduced to the logic of a quadrangulation. In this context, for the philosopher, the vegetal world also seems to be an inexhaustible source of references and rêveries, which constitute a main pole of meditation. Naturally, references to the plant world appear dispersed in the work of the philosopher: the “aerial tree”, the root, the vine, the water lilies. They are not less multiplied and subtly recurring. Thus Bachelard talks about “notre végétalisme profond” (our deep vegetality). It is necessary to consider the meaning of this enigmatic formula. And this is even more important since the philosopher has always kept himself to the edge of the animal world, to which, after all, he rarely refers to, and in front of which he repeatedly expresses a kind of surprising reluctance. It may be possible that it is not adapted to what, for Bachelard, is more essential while he proceed with is work to a “philosophie du repos” (philosophy of rest). We can also make a disturbing hypothesis: is animality, full of the “Will to Live” that Schopenhauer placed at the heart of his system? Is it ontologically close to that troubled humanity the philosopher feels a very ambiguous sympathy for? Bachelardian vegetality would it be the opposite of what we might call problematic humanism?
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Open Science in Horizon Europe e la nuova Piattaforma ORE
Creators: name: Castelli, Donatella
name: Lazzeri, Emma
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
Open Research Europe
Horizon Europe

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4767347
description: Donatella Castelli e Emma Lazzeri, coinvolte in diversi progetti e iniziative per l'Open Science e la realizzazione dello European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), illustrano in un seminario interno all'Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Infromazione 'a. Faedo' del CNR, le novità del programma quadro Horizon Europe in materia di Open Science e la nuova piattaforma di pubblicazione Open Research Europe (ORE). Il webinar è riservato ai dipendenti ISTI.
Dynamic generation of Debye diffraction-limited multifocal arrays for direct laser printing nanofabrication
Creators: name: Lin, Han
name: Jia, Baohua
name: Gu, Min
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We propose a Debye-theory-based iterative method to produce accurate phase patterns for generating highly uniform diffraction-limited multifocal arrays with a high-NA objective. It is shown that by using the Debye method, the uniformity of the diffraction-limited focal arrays can reach 99%, owing to the critical consideration of the depolarization effect associated with high-NA objectives. The generated phase patterns are implemented in fast dynamic laser printing nanofabrication for the generation of individually controlled high-quality microvoid arrays in a solid polymer material by a single exposure of a femtosecond laser beam. As a result of the high-quality multifocal arrays, functional three-dimensional photonic crystals possessing multiple stopgaps with suppression up to 80% in transmission spectra are demonstrated.
Deciphering the Role of MEF2D Splice Forms During Skeletal Muscle Differentiation
Creators: name: Rakopoulos, Patricia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Myogenesis
Alternative splicing
Mef2
Muscle differentiation

description: Members of the Mef2 transcription factor family are extensively studied within the muscle field for their ability to cooperate with the myogenic regulatory factors MyoD and myogenin during muscle differentiation. Although it is known that Mef2 pre-mRNAs undergo alternative splicing, the different splice forms have not been functionally annotated. In this thesis, my studies aimed to characterize three Mef2D splice forms: MEF2Dα'β, MEF2Dαβ, MEF2Dαø. Our results show that MEF2D splice forms can be differentially phosphorylated by p38 MAPK and PKA in vitro. Gene expression analysis using cell lines over-expressing each Mef2D splice form suggests that they can differentially activate desmin, myosin heavy chain and myogenin expression. Mass spectrometry analyses from our pull-down assays reveal known and novel MEF2D binding partners. Our work suggests that Mef2D splice forms have overlapping but distinct roles and provides new insight into the importance of Mef2D alternative splicing during skeletal myogenesis.
Poétique de l’arbre et de la forêt. Une lecture bachelardienne de l’œuvre de Jean Giono
Creators: name: Pierron, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: By offering a reading and a perspective of Jean Giono's novel «L’homme qui plantait des arbres» (The Man Who Planted Trees), published in 1953, the following article would show what contributions Gaston Bachelard's philosophy might make to environmental imagination. As Jean Giono writes  “je crois qu’il est grand temps qu’on fasse une ‘politique de l’arbre’ bien que le mot politique semble bien mal adapté ”, we could say that it is time that this politic finds her poetic. The tree, as a primary image that emphasizes an upward dynamic in L’Air et les songes, and the forest, which rise a poetic of space in Bachelard (friend and reader of Gaston Roupnel, the historian of the French countryside), are precious figures in order to develop a poetic of nature. For this, however, there would be two defies. On the one hand, if the choice made by Gaston Bachelard to retain the tetralogy of the ancient cosmology produces a shift in thinking about the rêverie du végétal, an inadequacy in the valuation of the mineral on the organic, it doesn’t preclude it in principle. The phénoménologie du vegetal (phenomenology of plants) led to wonder what is about its relative neglected in the thinking of G. Bachelard, and about what may have close didactic reference to the four elements. On the other hand, it will be necessary to show how this apparently absent phenomenology, but legitimate in the work of philosopher, exceeds the critical ironic praise of the tree and of the forest that sees, in the best case, the mark of a naive romantic Arcadia (cf. Le Walden de Thoreau), and in the worst, a form of new obscurantism exiting, in a “nouvel order écologique” (new ecological order), the potential mark of an éco-fascism. Under these conditions, a poetic that dialectizes the tree and the forest can prepare an ecology of foundation.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Time trend of the exposure to geraniol in 24-h urine samples derived from the German Environmental Specimen Bank from 2004 to 2018
Creators: name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Pluym, Nikola
name: Stöckelhuber, Markus
name: Weber, Till
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Umweltprobenbank

description: Geraniol (trans-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadiene-1-ol) is an acyclic isoprenoid monoterpene with a widespread use as fragrance in consumer products, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. The class of terpene chemicals has been associated with varying sensitizing potencies. A recently developed sensitive LC- MS/MS method for the analysis of geraniol metabolites was further improved and validated for the two metabolites, 8-carboxygeraniol and Hildebrandt acid. The successfully validated method was applied to 250 urine samples derived from the Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) collected between 2004 and 2018. Both metabolites of this allergen of special concern were quantified in all urine samples of this study. Correlation analysis revealed that 8-carboxygeraniol appears to be the sole specific biomarker in urine for geraniol exposure. Overall, the excreted amounts of 8-carboxygeraniol remained unchanged in urine samples collected from 2004 to 2018. However, a significantly higher 8-carboxygeraniol excretion per 24 h was observed in females compared to males across the sampling years from 2004 to 2012. This trend equalized in the years 2015 and 2018. We could demonstrate that 8-carboxygeraniol may be a suited biomarker for assessing the geraniol exposure in the general population. Regardless of the fact that additional, preferably population representative studies combining HBM and health examination were helpful to further elucidate the risks of a geraniol exposure, the current study adds important data for identifying time trends and body burden of geraniol in the environment and shows the ubiquitous exposure towards mixtures of sensitizing chemicals. © 2021 Elsevier GmbH.
La fauna come inferno della psiche. Metamorfosi animali nelle interpretazioni lautréamontiane di Gaston Bachelard e Georges Bataille
Creators: name: Agnellini, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The article emphasizes the reading about the work of Lautréamont given by Gaston Bachelard and, in particular, the very important role that has in it the animal metamorphosis. In a second step, it would approach it through the analysis given by Georges Bataille in La Littérature et le Mal (Literature and Evil), but never fully expressed. In the Lautréamont, Bachelard identifies as the formal cause of the Chants de Maldoror the vitalistic dynamism expressed by the rapid succession of images in the unit of animal metamorphosis. The procedure followed in the course of the analysis is similar to the one previously used in La Psychanalyse du feu (The psychoanalyse of the fire): to stress the infantile, subjective and poetic dimension that precedes any objective knowledge. Rather than an happy rêverie, Lautréamont makes figuratively evident an incendiary fantasy focused on the uprising, and expression of a complex of animal life which gives rise to a phenomenology of aggression; as if the call of the embers presented in La Psychanalyse du feu as an example of the most serene philosophy of the rest, had a necessary prelude in the hell of the psyche, graphically represented by the cruelty of animals that inhabit the Chants. Similarly, Georges Bataille sees in Lautreamont the founder of a literature that expressed herself as intensive communication, based on the knowledge of evil, far from everyday life, and near to the dark zones, unconscious, regulated by taboos, which heterology designates as the accursed share. Therefore, the combination between the two authors is potentially really profitable, in the common vision of the ducassian work as a mental space animated by metamorphic images and expression of violent obsessions that translates the needs of animals and the desire of freedom of each person.
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
The incidence of depression and anxiety in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Park, Jamie Y.
name: Howren, Alyssa M.
name: Zusman, Enav Z.
name: Esdaile, John
name: De Vera, Mary
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: As awareness for the importance of mental health continues to expand in rheumatology, it is important to understand the epidemiology of psychiatric complications in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with the ultimate goal of future prevention and improved quality of care. This study aims to review evidence on the incidence and determinants of depression and/or anxiety among patients with AS. Methods: We searched Medline, Embase, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CINAHL Complete, and PsycINFO for full-length observational studies that involved a sample or population of patients with AS and assessed depression and/or anxiety. Primary outcomes extracted were: 1) risk estimates for depression and/or anxiety (e.g., relative risk [RR]); and 2) determinants or factors identified as independent predictors of depression and/or anxiety using multivariable regression approaches and corresponding estimates (e.g., odds ratios [OR]). Where relevant, we pooled estimates using random effects models. Results: Out of 783 titles from our search strategy, we reviewed 39 manuscripts. Four studies assessed the incidence of depression and meta-analyzing reported estimates from three of these studies yielded a pooled RR of 1.51 (95% CI 1.28 to 1.79). Differences in risk of depression among men and women with AS were inconclusive, suggesting need for further study. The incidence of anxiety was comparatively less studied with only one included study reporting a hazard ratio of 1.85 (95% CI 1.37 to 2.49). Education level was a key determinant, with lower levels associated with higher odds of depression (OR 6.65; 9% CI 1.36 to 32.51) and anxiety (OR 9.31; 9% CI 1.39 to 62.19) among AS patients. Conclusions: Our systematic review and meta-analysis shows an increased risk of depression and anxiety among patients with AS. These findings suggest the importance of monitoring and care for psychiatric conditions in AS.
Mimesis come rappresentazione: stare a cavalcioni sulla cornice dei mondi
Creators: name: Bertolini, Michele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensione: Alfonso M. Iacono, L’illusione e il sostituto. Riprodurre, imitare, rappresentare, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2010
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Allons au pays des merveilles : la construction des univers merveilleux dans les récits de voyage imaginaire pour la jeunesse
Creators: name: Durocher, Maryse
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: transfictionnalité
jeunesse
univers merveilleux
conte
transfiction
littérature
Lewis Carroll
intertextualité

description: Cette thèse étudie les récits de voyage dans l’imaginaire et les croisements entre divers contes et histoires, des éléments de plus en plus présents dans la littérature pour la jeunesse comme au cinéma. Quoiqu’il semble récent, ce type de récits existe, en fait, depuis longtemps. En nous intéressant à un corpus qui traverse différentes époques, nous cherchons à voir comment se construisent ces textes qui, comme dans Alice au pays des merveilles dont ils s’inspirent, transportent le personnage et le lecteur dans un monde merveilleux. Notre corpus se compose d’Alice au pays des merveilles (1865) et De l’autre côté du miroir (1871) de Lewis Carroll, de Sur les ailes de l’Oiseau bleu : l’envolée féerique et Une Révolte au pays des fées (1936) de Marie-Claire Dalevuy, de La bibliothécaire (1995) de Gudule et de l’album Il était une fois au pays des contes (2009) de Delphine Godard et Claire Degans. En observant les jeux de référence entre l’histoire principale et les fictions antérieures, nous examinons les liens entre les mondes fictionnels qui surgissent dans l’aventure et entre les différents textes évoqués (transfictionnalité et intertextualité). Nous nous intéressons également aux objectifs visés par ces textes qui proposent une initiation à la littérature et à la lecture littéraire.
Sensory Integration During Goal Directed Reaches: The Effects of Manipulating Target Availability
Creators: name: Khanafer, Sajida
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: sensory integration
sensory weighting
sensory reweighting
remembered visual target
maximum-likelihood estimation

description: When using visual and proprioceptive information to plan a reach, it has been proposed that the brain combines these cues to estimate the object and/or limb’s location. Specifically, according to the maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) model, more reliable sensory inputs are assigned a greater weight (Ernst & Banks, 2002). In this research we examined if the brain is able to adjust which sensory cue it weights the most. Specifically, we asked if the brain changes how it weights sensory information when the availability of a visual cue is manipulated. Twenty-four healthy subjects reached to visual (V), proprioceptive (P), or visual + proprioceptive (VP) targets under different visual delay conditions (e.g. on V and VP trials, the visual target was available for the entire reach, it was removed with the go-signal or it was removed 1, 2 or 5 seconds before the go-signal). Subjects completed 5 blocks of trials, with 90 trials per block. For 12 subjects, the visual delay was kept consistent within a block of trials, while for the other 12 subjects, different visual delays were intermixed within a block of trials. To establish which sensory cue subjects weighted the most, we compared endpoint positions achieved on V and P reaches to VP reaches. Results indicated that all subjects weighted sensory cues in accordance with the MLE model across all delay conditions and that these weights were similar regardless of the visual delay. Moreover, while errors increased with longer visual delays, there was no change in reaching variance. Thus, manipulating the visual environment was not enough to change subjects’ weighting strategy, further i
Il problema estetico del kitsch negli scritti di Gillo Dorfles
Creators: name: Zinelli, Anna
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Il kitsch costituisce uno dei temi chiave nel complesso percorso critico di Gillo Dorfles, in cui esso viene assunto quale aspetto fondamentale della contemporaneità e in qualità di nuova categoria estetica; contrapposto all’“artisticità” ma non assimilabile al “brutto” è concepito piuttosto come forma di depauperazione e versione degradata dell’arte diffusasi a partire dall’avvento dei mezzi di riproduzione meccanici e affermatasi progressivamente come gusto diffuso nel corso del ‘900. L’articolo si propone di ripercorrere le interpretazioni del kitsch proposte dall’autore a partire dagli anni ’50 e il modo in cui esse si sono rapportate ai temi cardine della sua analisi critica.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Lo spirito in figura
Creators: name: Farina, Mario
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensione: G. Garelli, Lo spirito in figura. Il tema dell'estetico nella «Fenomenologia dello spirito» di Hegel, Il Mulino, Bologna 2010.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
La voce e lo spazio
Creators: name: Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recensione: Carlo Serra, La voce e lo spazio. Per un’estetica della voce, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2011.
description: Itinera, N° 3 (2012)
Il segno politico di Ipazia nella poesia civile di Pallada
Creators: name: Beretta, Gemma
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The epigram of the Greek Anthology IX 400 has generated an age-old debate. The discussion is about its attribution to the Alexandrine poet Palladas – the last great exponent of the Hellenic civil poetry – and its dedication to the philosopher Hypatia. If we read the epigram in the context of Palladas’ poetics as well as in that of the Neoplatonic sources (in particular Synesius and Damascius) mentioning Hypatia, we are allowed to claim that this poem offers a precious evidence about the philosopher’s teachings and her political relevance between the end of the IV and the beginning of the V century A.D. The epigram, in fact, is to be considered one of the poems that Palladas dedicated to the debate on the ‘fair political practice’ that inflamed the Hellenic milieu. In relation to the betrayal of the Platonic political ideal by Themistius, the true philosopher Hypatia rises into the Eastern sky, as the earthly embodiment of the heavenly Virgin.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Motivational, demographic and contextual factors associated with digital inequality experienced by people with intellectual disability
Creators: name: Glencross, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: intellectual disabilty
digital inequality
digital divide

description: It is widely acknowledged that people with intellectual disability are less likely to have the same degree of internet access as people without intellectual disability. As a consequence of this digital inequality, people with intellectual disability can experience a digital divide. Individuals who experience a digital divide are at risk of becoming disadvantaged socially, economically, and civically as they do not have equitable access to online services, resources, and information. This inequality has the potential to compound the lack of control and opportunity that individuals with intellectual disability often experience in their everyday lives. This thesis examines internet use by people with intellectual disability with the following aims: (i) to identify what is currently known about digital inequality experienced by people with intellectual disability; (ii) to establish which demographic and contextual factors are associated with the digital inequality experienced by people with intellectual disability; (iii) to identify the extent to which internet use by people with intellectual disability can be explained by a motivational theory; and, (iv) to identify the strategies used by caregivers to support internet use by people with intellectual disability.
Ipazia d’Alessandria come anello della grande tradizione filosofica greca. Μῆτερ καὶ ἀδελφὴ καὶ διδάσκαλε
Creators: name: Teruel, Pedro Jesús
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In this paper we are moving from the analysis of the historiographical and literary aspects of the figure of Hypatia of Alexandria in order to get to the reconstruction of her personal and intellectual trajectory. We enunciate the guidelines of her thought, which we base on her methodological approach to mathematics, geometry and astronomy; on the basic beliefs of the cosmological model to which she would have given her support; and finally, on the global vision which defines her manner of philosophizing as search for theoretical unity as well as practical engagement.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Improving crustacean aquaculture production efficiencies through development of monosex populations using endocrine and molecular manipulations
Creators: name: Mareddy, Vijay R
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: androgenic gland
crustacean
insulin-like gene
Penaeus monodon
methltestosterone
monosex aquaculture
sex determination
sex differentiation

description: The androgenic gland (AG) is a unique gland present in male crustaceans and is known to influence male sexual differentiation. The separation of the AG with endocrine function and testis with gametogenic function offers a unique model for investigation into mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation in the animal kingdom. In this study, the role of the AG in sexual differentiation was investigated with the aim of achieving an all female population in Penaeus monodon. The AG in P. monodon was identified and localized as a gland attached to the sub terminal part of the terminal ampoule (TA) and extends to the coxal muscle of fifth pereopod. The activity of the AG is thought to be negatively regulated by the X-organ-sinus gland (XO-SG) in the eyestalk and its secretory product is believed to be proteinaceous. Elucidation of the ultrastructural changes within the AG cells upon XO-SG removal, shed light on its protein secretory nature and exocytotic mode of secretion.
Per un’altra retorica della φιλοτιμία: voci femminili, uomini politici e discorsi pubblici. Considerazioni sulla presenza dell’etera nell’opera di Platone
Creators: name: Bergomi, Mariapaola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of my paper is to express effective hypotheses on the charac­ter of the hetaira in some of Plato’s dialogues, particularly in the Sympo­sium – where its presence is implicit in the role of Alcibiades as the lover – and in the Menexenus, my starting point to investigate the character of Aspasia, the greatest courtesan of ancient Greece. I will also underline the relation between the courtesan and the sophistic rhetoric. My final remarks will provide some concise analysis of the history of women and of gender studies in Italy.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Il filosofo e la città
Creators: name: Colombo, Raffaella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: If the few sources at our disposal on the life and the works of Hypatia of Alexandria leave many unanswered questions about her role on the history of philosophy, her death, brought about a Christian mob, gives space to some possible analogies between the Alexandrine philosopher and Socrates, timeless paradigm of injustice against the wise. This paper, following Leo Strauss’s analyses on classical political philosophy, aims at inquiring this suggestion to reveal the hard, if not impossible, relationship between philosophy, place of an anarchist and irreligious search, and the city, place of an endless struggle between different traditions.
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
La “superficialità” del Pop. Dall’ironia di Duchamp all’umorismo di Warhol
Creators: name: Rozzoni, Claudio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Starting from Arthur Danto’s The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, we take into consideration two works of art – Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box – where the notion of interpretation, according to the American philosopher, plays a prominent role in the process of creation. By focusing on the legacy of Duchamp’s and Warhol’s works, in the light of the Deleuzian notions of Humor and Irony, this paper shows that the two artists can be considered as the first promoters of the “aesthetics of surfaces”. Particularly, Warhol seems to listen to the “superficial claim” of the artificial, that is to say a copy of a copy, that can be brought «to the point where is reversed into the simulacrum».
description: Itinera, N° 4 (2012)
Ausgestaltungsvorschläge für ein Ausschreibungsdesign für PV-Freiflächenanlagen
Creators: name: Schemm, Ralf
name: Brühl, Stefan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Photovoltaikanlage
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Die Studie erarbeitet und vergleicht zwei alternative Vorschläge, wie das Ausschreibungsmodell für den Piloten PV-Freiflächenanlagen ausgestaltet sein kann. Anschließend wird analysiert, welche Gründe den Erfolg eines Ausschreibungsmodells für PV-Freiflächenanlagen beeinflussen und welche Punkte bei der Übertragung der erarbeiteten Ausgestaltungsvorschläge auf andere erneuerbare Seg-mente und Technologien berücksichtigt werden sollten.
Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Die Studie erarbeitet und vergleicht zwei alternative Vorschläge, wie das Ausschreibungsmodell für den Piloten PV-Freiflächenanlagen ausgestaltet sein kann. Anschließend wird analysiert, welche Gründe den Erfolg eines Ausschreibungsmodells für PV-Freiflächenanlagen beeinflussen und welche Punkte bei der Übertragung der erarbeiteten Ausgestaltungsvorschläge auf andere erneuerbare Seg-mente und Technologien berücksichtigt werden sollten.
Intro to R and Open Science Practices for Biologists (Arabic)
Creators: name: Alezz, Monah Abou
name: Almarzouq, Batool
name: Rasel, Annajiat Alim
name: Dallak, Abdulrahman
name: Alsharif, Mona
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: open science
bioinformatics
open educational resources
communities
git
DOI
zenodo
Saudi Arabia's 2030 vision

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7274156
description: This is a 3-day hands-on Carpentries workshop delivered to sFDA staff by introducing R and Open Science. It focuses on data wrangling and visualisation with Tidyverse and ggplot2 and how to use packages from Bioconductor to analyse biological data .  It also introduces best practices in open science and Reproducibility using git and  GitHub .   The workshop is organised by the  Open Science Community Saudi Arabia  using materials from intro to R and RStudio for Genomics  and  Introduction to Open Data Science with R . The workshop was delivered by: Dr. Monah Abou Alezz, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Mona Alsharif and Abdulrahman Dallak. Date:  31st of October - 2nd of November 2022 (11:00 am - 2:00pm Riyadh time). The Slides are divided to 7 sections: 01- Introduction to the Workshop 02- Introduction to Open Science 03- Introduction to R and RStudio 04- Introduction to GitHub 05- Introduction to the VCF dataset 06- Introduction to ggplot2 07- RMarkdown and Summary The workshop materials associated with the workshop can be found here .
Kant and Moral Responsibility
Creators: name: Hildebrand, Carl H.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Kant
Moral Responsibility
Freedom
Compatibilism
Practical Reason
Moral Agency

description: This project is primarily exegetical in nature and aims to provide a rational reconstruction of the concept of moral responsibility in the work of Immanuel Kant, specifically in his Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (GR), and Critique of Practical Reason (CPrR). It consists of three chapters – the first chapter interprets the concept of freedom that follows from the resolution to the Third Antinomy in the CPR. It argues that Kant is best understood here to be providing an unusual but cogent, compatibilist account of freedom that the author terms meta-compatibilism. The second chapter examines the GR and CPrR to interpret the theory of practical reason and moral agency that Kant develops in these works. This chapter concludes by evaluating what has been established about Kant’s ideas of freedom and moral agency at that point in the project, identifying some problems and objections in addition to providing some suggestions for how Kantian ethics might be adapted within a consequentialist framework. The third chapter argues that, for Kant, there are two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions (in addition to a compatibilist definition of freedom) that must obtain for an individual to qualify as responsible for her actions.
Evolution of metabolic capabilities and molecular features of diplonemids, kinetoplastids, and euglenids
Creators: name: Butenko, Anzhelika
name: Opperdoes, Fred R.
name: Flegontova, Olga
name: Horák, Aleš
name: Hampl, Vladimír
name: Keeling, Patrick J. (Patrick John), 1969-
name: Gawryluk, Ryan M. R.
name: Tikhonenkov, Denis
name: Flegontov, Pavel
name: Lukeš, Julius
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: The Euglenozoa are a protist group with an especially rich history of evolutionary diversity. They include diplonemids, representing arguably the most species-rich clade of marine planktonic eukaryotes; trypanosomatids, which are notorious parasites of medical and veterinary importance; and free-living euglenids. These different lifestyles, and particularly the transition from free-living to parasitic, likely require different metabolic capabilities. We carried out a comparative genomic analysis across euglenozoan diversity to see how changing repertoires of enzymes and structural features correspond to major changes in lifestyles. Results: We find a gradual loss of genes encoding enzymes in the evolution of kinetoplastids, rather than a sudden decrease in metabolic capabilities corresponding to the origin of parasitism, while diplonemids and euglenids maintain more metabolic versatility. Distinctive characteristics of molecular machines such as kinetochores and the pre-replication complex that were previously considered specific to parasitic kinetoplastids were also identified in their free-living relatives. Therefore, we argue that they represent an ancestral rather than a derived state, as thought until the present. We also found evidence of ancient redundancy in systems such as NADPH-dependent thiol-redox. Only the genus Euglena possesses the combination of trypanothione-, glutathione-, and thioredoxin-based systems supposedly present in the euglenozoan common ancestor, while other representatives of the phylum have lost one or two of these systems. Lastly, we identified convergent losses of specific metabolic capabilities between free-living kinetoplastids and ciliates. Although this observation requires further examination, it suggests that certain eukaryotic lineages are predisposed to such convergent losses of key enzymes or whole pathways. Conclusions: The loss of metabolic capabilities might not be associated with the switch to parasitic lifestyle in kinetoplastids, and the presence of a highly divergent (or unconventional) kinetochore machinery might not be restricted to this protist group. The data derived from the transcriptomes of free-living early branching prokinetoplastids suggests that the pre-replication complex of Trypanosomatidae is a highly divergent version of the conventional machinery. Our findings shed light on trends in the evolution of metabolism in protists in general and open multiple avenues for future research.
Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten zu Hexabromcyclododecan (HBCD)
Creators: name: Apel, Petra
name: Beer, Inga
name: Bolland, Til
name: Debiak, Malgorzata
name: Dettling, Folke
name: Koch-Jugl, Juliane
name: Rauert, Caren
name: Stolzenberg, Hans-Christian
name: Wuttke, Joachim
name: Tietjen, Lars
name: Walther, Mareike
name: Wurbs, Johanna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: HBCD
subject: Gebäudewärmedämmung
subject: Styropor
subject: Flammschutzmittel
subject: HBCDD
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Für das Flammschutzmittel Hexabromcyclododecan (HBCD) gilt seit Frühjahr 2016 in der EU ein weitgehendes Handels- und Verwendungsverbot. HBCD war lange das wirtschaftlich wichtigste Flammschutzmittel für Polystyrol-Dämmstoffe Ń entsprechend gibt es für Dämmstoffe aus expandiertem Polystyrol (EPS) noch Übergangsregeln. Das weltweite Aus war 2013 eingeleitet worden, als HBCD unter der internationalen Stockholm-Konvention als in der Umwelt schwer abbaubarer organischer Schadstoff (POP) identifiziert wurde. Das Verbot wird zurzeit von allen an der Konvention beteiligten Staaten stufenweise eingeführt. In unserem aktualisierten Hintergrundpapier haben wir für Sie zusammengestellt, warum der Stoff nicht mehr verwendet werden soll, welche Verbote in der Europäischen Union (EU) bereits ab März 2016 gelten und wo es noch Übergangsfristen gibt. Wir erläutern, welche Alternativen vorliegen und wie HBCD-haltige Dämmstoffe zu entsorgen sind. Quelle: Umweltbundesamt
description: Für das Flammschutzmittel Hexabromcyclododecan (HBCD) gilt seit Frühjahr 2016 in der EU ein weitgehendes Handels- und Verwendungsverbot. HBCD war lange das wirtschaftlich wichtigste Flammschutzmittel für Polystyrol-Dämmstoffe – entsprechend gibt es für Dämmstoffe aus expandiertem Polystyrol (EPS) noch Übergangsregeln. Das weltweite Aus war 2013 eingeleitet worden, als HBCD unter der internationalen Stockholm-Konvention als in der Umwelt schwer abbaubarer organischer Schadstoff (⁠POP⁠) identifiziert wurde. Das Verbot wird zurzeit von allen an der Konvention beteiligten Staaten stufenweise eingeführt. In unserem aktualisierten Hintergrundpapier haben wir für Sie zusammengestellt, warum der ⁠Stoff⁠ nicht mehr verwendet werden soll, welche Verbote in der Europäischen Union (EU) bereits ab März 2016 gelten und wo es noch Übergangsfristen gibt. Wir erläutern, welche Alternativen vorliegen und wie HBCD-haltige Dämmstoffe zu entsorgen sind.
A Concept and Instruments for the Prediction and Measurement of Delayed Recovery in Musculoskeletal Injuries
Creators: name: Gabel, Charles P
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2012
Subjects: screening
outcome
prediction musculoskeletal
injury

description: Objectives: To develop, calibrate and validate questionnaires for musculoskeletal injuries that assess biopsychosocial screening and functional status. To determine the relationship between screening, function and recovery in defined working populations and whether these processes can be integrated.
Evidence for chimney breakout in the galactic supershell GSH 242-03+37
Creators: name: McClure-Griffiths, Naomi M.
name: Ford, Alyson
name: Pisano, Daniel J.
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Calabretta, Mark R.
name: Dedes, Leonidas
name: Kalberla, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present new high-resolution neutral hydrogen (H I) images of the Galactic supershell GSH 242-03+37. These data were obtained with the Parkes Radiotelescope as part of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS). GSH 242-03+37 is one of the largest and most energetic H I supershells in the Galaxy, with a radius of 565 ± 65 pc and an expansion energy of 3 × 10 53 ergs. Our images reveal a complicated shell with multiple chimney structures on both sides of the Galactic plane. These chimneys appear capped by narrow filaments about 1.6 kpc above and below the Galactic midplane, confirming structures predicted in simulations of expanding supershells. The structure of GSH 242-03+37 is extremely similar to the only other Galactic supershell known to have blown out of both sides of the plane, GSH 277+00+36. We compare the GASS H I data with X-ray and Ha images, finding no strong correlations.
Understanding Situation and Viewpoint Aspect in Polish through Dative Anticausative Constructions and Factual Imperfectives
Creators: name: Frackowiak, Ewelina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Dative Anticausative Constructions
Causation
Factual Imperfectives
Modality
Telicity
Atelicity
Polish

description: This dissertation examines the interplay of Situation Aspect and Viewpoint Aspect in two classes of constructions in Polish: i) anticausatives with and without Dative subjects, ex. (Jankowi) złamały się okulary John broke the glasses involuntarily / The glasses broke; and ii) Factual Imperfectives, ex. Jadłam obiad I have eaten my dinner. With the first type of construction, the concern is why the unintentional causer reading is obtainable only in telic contexts and how two classes of Polish anticausatives – one with prefixed verbs and one with unprefixed verbs – differ structurally. The question that arises with analyses of Factual Imperfective constructions (FIs) is about the untypical role of imperfective aspect: how is it possible that the imperfective morphemes that the Slavic literature (almost) unanimously pairs with English Progressives do not neutralize telicity as the Progressive does? The dissertation finds evidence supporting the view that Slavic lexical prefixes are telicity markers and secondary predicates (cf. Svenonius 2004, Žaucer 2009). It argues that imperfectives that lack any aspectual morpheme and have the accusative case assigned to a direct object, nonetheless possess a non-overt aspectual operator located in the domain of Viewpoint Aspect. The dissertation enriches the recent discussions concerned with the puzzle of how to account for various readings of the imperfective (Cipria & Roberts 2000, Hacquard 2006, Deo 2009) by providing a semantic analysis of an interpretation not attested in languages like French, Italian and Spanish on which the discussions have focused so far. I argue that the Russian and Polish patterns dubbed as Existential Factual Imperfectives (cf. Grønn 2003) carry a silent Epistemic Modal that selects the imperfective due to its right semantic type: in contrast to the type of the perfective. From a cross-linguistic perspective, this study is relevant for syntactic and semantic theories of aspect in natural language especially for the theory of imperfectivity. From a language specific perspective, this study aims to provide a deeper understanding of the particular aspect-related conditions that play a role in licensing oblique (Dative) causers in Polish.
Supplementary document for Enhancing high-order harmonic generation by controlling the diffusion of the electron wavepacket - 5244706.pdf
Creators: name: Severt, Travis
name: Tross, Jan
name: Kolliopoulos, Georgios
name: Ben-Itzhak, Itzik
name: Trallero, Carlos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information + Redline
Efficacy of Administrative Monetary Penalties in Compelling Compliance with Federal Agri-Food Statutes
Creators: name: Prabhu, Mohan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: The objective of the thesis is to determine whether the administratively imposed monetary penalty system established by the Canadian Parliament through the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act, 1995, an omnibus statute, has improved compliance with the Health of Animals Act and the Plant Protection Act. It does this by critically examining the purposes underlying the omnibus statute, which are to provide a fair and efficient alternative to the existing penal system and to supplement existing penal measures to enforce statutes brought within its ambit. A historical perspective on the use of criminal sanctions is provided in Part I, touching briefly on strict liability in regulatory prosecutions. The Part also describes decriminalization, and the developments in Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada that are were ostensibly aimed at decriminalizing less serious regulatory offences. Before analyzing the data, the thesis describes the role of field officials responsible for enforcing the statutes concerned, and the important contributions of compliance theorists, such as Ayres, Braithwaite and Sparrow. Data on prosecutions over a ten-year period from 1996/97 to 2005/06, and on administrative monetary penalties over the second half of that period, are analyzed through eight focus groups, graphs, and 21tables, compared, summarized, and assessed in order to draw conclusions on the issues of fairness and efficiency. The thesis cautions that enforcement data are not the sole indicator of compliance, and they do not translate into efficacy which is the raison d’être of the omnibus statute. Sanctions play a supportive role in the total regulatory scheme. The mere availability of these powers, and perhaps the threat of their use, often suffices to induce compliance. Ayres & Braithwaite’s Enforcement Pyramid emphasizes that point. The author makes some observations in Part III, setting the stage for a number of legislative reforms, such as allowing the defence of due diligence to individuals charged with serious violations, raising the burden of proof of violation from a balance of probabilities standard to a higher, intermediate standard, clarification of the term continuing violations, disgorgement of profits, and a legislative direction on the use of amps.
Explaining Inefficiency in an Ontario Bail Court: Perspectives of Criminal Defence Lawyers
Creators: name: Grech, Diana C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: bail
efficiency
courts

description: Some academics and government officials have implicated defence counsel as the primary ‘villains’ in lengthy case processing times in Ontario bail courts. It has been suggested that defence counsel contribute to increasing case processing time through their use of ‘unproductive’ adjournments. This study examines this allegation through semi-structured interviews with defence counsel who practise in one Eastern Ontario bail court. The findings put the evidence that blames defence counsel into context and show that the explanations for their conduct are more complex than they may initially appear. They also reveal several explanations for bail inefficiency which are unrelated to the role of defence counsel but correspond grosso modo to the traditional factors associated with lengthy case processing time in the broader court process. The study concludes that although defence counsel are partly responsible for lengthy case processing times in bail court, they are only one contributor among many others.
A new method for predicting the behavior of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy
Creators: name: Amirhossein Rezaei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV has taken the interest of researchers in a variety of fields of study. Similar to other pandemics, growth models were employed to predict its effect on society. Growth models, regardless of their complexity, always include an error that is-in most cases-noticeable. Besides, they can only estimate the effect of the epidemic and not much to decrease it. We instead, provided a method of analyzing the effects of epidemic in the sample country, Italy both as a whole and each of the regions and provided a comparison between predictions of country-level and the summation of regional-level data to conclude weights for each of the regions, corresponding to their effect in the spread of the disease, Therefore the regions of high weight can be under special restrictive protocols to avoid further effects of them. Since the result solely provides weights corresponding to the effect of the region and not predictions of the future, it is believed to be more accurate.
Ondate in successione. Per un barocco americano: Lezama Lima e l’avventura dell’immaginario
Creators: name: Varanini, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Ondate in successione. Per un barocco americano: Lezama Lima e l’avventura dell’immaginario    (Nota a: Lezama Lima, Paradiso, a cura di C. Vitier, Colección Archivos, ALLCA, Madrid, 1988; trad. it. a cura di G. Felici, Torino, Einaudi, 1995)
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi
title: Implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions
title: Zehn Länderstudien zu einer ambitionierteren Klimapolitik
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Kenya Country Report
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Luna, Lisa
name: Fekete, Hanna
name: Owino, Tom
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: LULUCF [Kyoto-Protokoll]
subject: UNFCCC
subject: LULUCF
subject: mitigation potential
subject: Nationally Determined Contribution
subject: Kenya
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 Kenya under the ⁠UNFCCC⁠. A special emphasis is laid on further mitigation potentials in the fields of reforestation, afforestation and decreasing deforestation as well as efficient biomass and renewable energy cookstoves and renewable energy. A chapter is dedicated to the relevance and perspectives of coal use.
Dante e il Paradiso (artificiale): il nuovo Dante di Barbara Reynolds
Creators: name: Caponi, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Dante e il Paradiso (artificiale):  il nuovo Dante di Barbara Reynolds    (Barbara Reynolds, Dante. La vita e l’opera, traduzione di Alessio Catania,  Milano, Longanesi, 2007, pp. 505, ISBN 078-88-304-2436-4)
description: Altre Modernità, N° 7 (2012): Paradisi