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Il processo di laicizzazione delle religious offences in Inghilterrae Galles: tra prospettiva storica e comparazione
Creators: name: Gianfreda, Anna
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazioneSOMMARIO. 1. Introduzione. I diversi modelli dell’attuale tutela penale della religione negli ordinamenti italiano e britannico – 2. Rapporti Stato-Chiesa e secolarizzazione delle fonti delle religious offences: l’età delle riforme religiose – 3. Il Settecento: tra laicizzazione del diritto penale ed “istituzionalizzazione” della religione dominante – 4. L’avvio di una laicizzazione dei contenuti delle religious offences nel XIX secolo – 5. Tutela penale, rapporti tra Stato e Chiese e pluralismo religioso nel XX secolo – 6. Osservazioni conclusive.:Abstract The path of secularization of religious Offences in England and Wales: between historical and comparative perspective In recent years in Italy and England some important reforms concerning the traditional criminal offences against religion have been introduced: in Italy, Law 85/2006 regarding crimes against religious denominations that has changed the offence of vilifying, without changing the blasphemy offence; in England and Wales, the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, the repeal of the common law of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in 2008 and the offences of defamatory, seditious and obscene libel in 2009. The historical perspective allows us to contextualize the hallmarks by which the two nations deal with the problem of offences against religion. The historical path that led to the current British reforms, in fact, was characterized by the transition from the institutionalized model of protection under criminal law of the Church of England, as established Church, to the formal and substantive secularization of religious Offences, which finally led to their abolition, without questioning - at least formally - the general system of the Established Church of England. The differences between the two models of criminal protection of religion are rooted in that path and are reflected in the more general legal treatment of religion and in the state/churches/religions relations in the two countries
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 1 ottobre
Osservazioni sul principio di legalità come idea e come metodo nell’esperienza giuridica della Chiesa
Creators: name: Serra, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazioneSOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. – La struttura essenziale del concetto di legalità e la sua realizzazione radicale nel diritto della Chiesa. - 3. L’idea di legalità come “regola che sta prima” nel ius commune e la sua coesistenza con un approccio empirico, essenzialmente giurisprudenziale e dottrinale, di costruzione del diritto. Il principio di legalità come metodo di produzione del diritto nel pensiero giuridico moderno- 4. Il legame storico-concettuale fra il principio di legalità e i Codici moderni - 5. Il Codex iuris canonici del 1917 e il principio di legalità come metodo di costruzione del ius ecclesiae in funzione della certezza del diritto - 6. (segue)Ulteriori riflessi della prima codificazione canonica sul principio di legalità.:
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 1 ottobre
title: A Curriculum Design for a Course in Gender Issues In Development
Creators: name: Kane, Sheryl L.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Curriculum and Instruction
subject: Education

description: What follows is an attempt to document the Gender Issues in Development course in an effort to give those who wish to teach it a base from which to draw upon. The teaching of the course is an organic process, in which the roots remain similar (using a feminist analysis to look at development and education, looking at the interplay between theory and practice, including traditionally marginalized voices and knowledges, and acknowledging the wealth of knowledges about the development process available from class participants) while the branches are dependent upon facilitators expertise and interests. Having taken the course in 1991, and taught it in 1992 and 1994, I have some historical perspective on the process. I have most thoroughly documented its last rendition given in the Spring of 1994. Included here is a syllabus, notes on each class session (including what was planned, what actually happened and my suggestions for improvement), and recommendations for the next course facilitators. The appendix contains course syllabi from each year the class was taught, alternate class sessions from 1992 (as content areas are continually modified, class sessions differ from one semester to the next), and the Collected Readings from 1994.
I cattolici tra obbedienza religiosa e bisogno di libertà.
Creators: name: Zannotti, Luciano
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazioneSOMMARIO: 1. Cattolici e appartenenza religiosa - 2. Cattolici e politica - 3. Il cattolicesimo democratico – 4. Cattolici e libertà di coscienza – 5. Amare le contraddizioni:
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 1 ottobre
RNA splicing and editing of group II introns in flowering plant mitochondria.
Creators: name: Carrillo, Catherine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The focus of this study is on examining the features and splicing of unusual group II introns observed in plant mitochondria. Plant mitochondrial group II introns contain a number of mispairs within the helical regions of D5 and D6 which are normally among the most highly conserved structures of classical group II introns. In introns within the wheat gene encoding subunit 7 of the NADH dehydrogenase (nad7), six AC mispairs; in these domains were predicted to be corrected to Watson-Crick AU pairs by RNA editing to restore helical structures. The editing status of these regions was determined by direct sequencing of RT-PCR products from partially-spliced and excised intron molecules. Editing was observed at only two of the six predicted sites and it was not conserved among angiosperms. Editing of AC mispairs within intron sequences was unexpectedly low and did not restore the normally highly conserved D5 helical structures. The 3' regions of several group II introns within the mitochondrial nad1, nad4 and nad7 genes show unexpected sequence divergence among flowering plants. The D6 structures of nad1 intron 1 and nad4 intron 2 are highly variable in sequence among plants and, for nad1 intron 1, editing actually reduces similarity among plants. These observations suggest that the core structures and sequences of certain mitochondrial introns in flowering plants are under reduced or different evolutionary constraint compared to conventional group II introns. Steady state levels of nad7 intron-containing precursors and excised intron RNAs were higher in 24 hr germinating embryos than in 6 day etiolated seedlings, suggesting different RNA processing pathways or RNA stabilities. Moreover, excised intron molecules have differing electrophoretic mobilities, indicating the presence of several forms of this intron RNA. Nevertheless, RT-PCF, northern and S1 nuclease protection analyses demonstrate the presence of an abundant lariat form of excised nad7 introns 3 and 4 in 24 hr wheat mt RNA whereas linear forms of excised intron were not detected by these methods. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Mental strategies of elite Mount Everest climbers
Creators: name: Burke, Shaunna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Elite athletes use mental strategies in a wide variety of sports to enhance performance (Cancio, 1993; Orlick & Partington, 1999; Schomer, 1987; Tammen, 1996). High-level athletes have been found to use mental strategies before, during, and after competition (Orlick, 2000). Little research has been conducted to explore the mental strategies used by high altitude climbers. Elite high altitude climbers are a special population of athletes who perform in extremely adverse situations. The question of how these climbers prepare for the climb and what types of mental strategies they use to overcome obstacles on the mountain has not been addressed in the literature. The objectives of this study on the use of mental strategies by elite Mount Everest climbers were twofold: (a) to explore how elite Mount Everest climbers mentally prepared for the climb and (b) to explore the mental strategies they utilized to overcome obstacles on the mountain to successfully reach the summit. The main areas addressed include detailed planning, mental toughness, imagery, focus, short-term goal setting, drawing on past experiences, feeling support from other climbers, belief in personal capacities, and connecting with one's body. There were commonalities among the participants in terms of the application of these strategies but also uniqueness in the way each participant described the various mental strategies. The findings of this study provide valuable information that could help future high altitude climbers reach their goals, as well as expedition leaders and sport psychologists to work more effectively with climbers to prepare them for the climb and the potential obstacles that can hinder success on the mountain.
Opening up the open access archive: Australian Policy Online
Creators: name: Lawrence, Amanda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While academic libraries provide access to journals and books for their constituents there are large numbers of organisations and individuals without easy access to the latest research articles and reports. Meanwhile many academics and research centres are bypassing journals in order to publish their work immediately on their website - accessible to anyone, if you can find it. In 2002 Australian Policy Online (www.apo.org.au) was established to overcome these dual problems, providing free and open access to Australian public policy research. In this paper I will firstly contextualise the role of a popular digital library such as APO, and show how it differs from library based services and other information providers. From there I will look at the process of upgrading the site which was undertaken in 2008. In particular I will discuss the applicability of web 2.0 tools and technologies in this context and the results of research undertaken in order to select a new content management system, improve the browsing classifications, and understand which tools and services our readers might find relevant. Tools examined include personal libraries, shared tagging, wikis, blogs, and reader comentary and contributions. Underlying the discussion will be the relationship between the editors and readers of APO and the need to provide simplicity and relevance in the face of vast amounts of information. In terms of the main conference streams, this paper covers the ideas underpinning information architecture, usability and web 2.0 technologies.
Supplementary document for Efficient simulation of bi-periodic, layered structures based on the T-matrix method - 5169670.pdf
Creators: name: Beutel, Dominik
name: Groner, Achim
name: Rockstuhl, Carsten
name: Fernandez-Corbaton, Ivan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Details on the computation
Freedom of religion, freedom of expression and the United Nations: recognizing values and rights in the “defamation of religions” discourse
Creators: name: Angeletti, Silvia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione.SOMMARIO: 1. Limits to free speech, incitement to hatred and a “third case” - 2. UN Resolutions on Defamation of Religions (1999 – 2010). The role of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation - 3. Recognizing values and rights in the defamation of religions discourse - 4. The interplay between racial and religious offences and its effect on limitations to free speech - 5. Balancing freedom of expression and freedom of religion in the work of the UN Human Rights Committee - 6. Concluding Remarks.ABSTRACT:Freedom of religion, freedom of expression and the United Nations: recognizing values and rights in the “defamation of religions” discourse (Lecturer in Law and Religion, University of Perugia)The article focuses on the issue of religious freedom and freedom of expression from the point of view of the United Nations. In particular, it examines the so called Defamation of religions, which has been the topic of a series of Resolutions voted by the Human Rights Commission, the Human Rights Council and the Assembly General, from 1999 to 2010. In the Defamation of religions debate, the UN institutions appear to tend to highlight the conflict between rights rather than the positive interrelation between them. Nonetheless, it has been repeatedly argued that it should be possible for political institutions and religious majorities to use anti-defamatory legislation in order to stem the activities of religious minorities. Applying penal anti-defamation laws might not be the best way to deal with the potential conflict between two fundamental rights. The more recent trends show a shift toward what seems to be a more suitable accommodation of the interests at stake. In this regard, the article will consider the Human Rights Council’s Resolution about discrimination on religious grounds (2011), the Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards to the ICERD and the new General Comment on article 19 of the ICCPR.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 8 ottobre
Conclusions présentées le 19 avril 2012 [Affaires jointes C-71/11 et C-99/11 Bundesrepublik Deutschland contre Y (C-71/11), Z (C-99/11)
Creators: name: Bot, Yves
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Le texte est placé dans la Revue Droitdesreligions.net; est placé aussi en accès libre sur le site de la Cour de Justice de l’Union Européenne (http://bit.ly/V7A6b6). À suivre le texte de l’arrêt de Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (grande chambre) 5 septembre 2012.SOMMARIO: Directive 2004/83/CE – Normes minimales relatives aux conditions que doivent remplir les ressortissants des pays tiers ou les apatrides pour pouvoir prétendre au statut de réfugié – Conditions de l’octroi du statut de réfugié – Article 9 – Notion d’ «actes de persécution» – Existence d’une crainte fondée d’être persécuté – Atteinte grave à la liberté de religion – Ressortissants pakistanais membres de la communauté religieuse Ahmadiyya – Actes des autorités pakistanaises visant à limiter le droit de manifester sa religion en public.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 8 ottobre
Comparison of Monte Carlo simulations with exact Maxwell solutions for polarized light scattering by multiple absorbing spheres
Creators: name: Hohmann, Ansgar
name: Voit, Florian
name: Schäfer, Jan
name: Kienle, Alwin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Monte Carlo method
subject: Müller-Matrix

description: The goal of this study was to investigate the differences between radiative transfer theory and Maxwell theory for simulation of light propagation in a turbid medium. Polarization effects as well as absorbing scatterers with complex index of refraction are taken into account. The simulation volume contained different numbers of scattering and absorbing spheres (radius: 1 μm) and was irradiated from one side with a plane electromagnetic wave (λ = 600 nm). The absorption was varied as well as the concentration of the scatterers. The resulting 16 Müller matrix elements were compared for the Monte Carlo method as well as for the Maxwell method for all scattering angles. An increasing absorption of the spheres resulted in larger differences especially for the intensity results (M11 Müller matrix element) between the two solution methods, while increasing scatterer concentrations led generally to larger differences for all Müller matrix elements. That means that the results of radiative transfer theory have to be treated with care for high scatterer concentrations and large absorption. By using the presented method, differences between the two theories can be investigated for arbitrary particle size parameters (spheres) and optical properties of the scatterers.
Supplementary document for Efficient simulation of bi-periodic, layered structures based on the T-matrix method - 5169670.pdf
Creators: name: Beutel, Dominik
name: Groner, Achim
name: Rockstuhl, Carsten
name: Fernandez-Corbaton, Ivan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Details on the computation
Characterising the recovery of Palauan coral reefs following large-scale disturbances
Creators: name: Gouezo, Marine
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Coral reefs
Recovery
Disturbances
Recruitment
Spawning
Palau

description: The six chapters of this thesis demonstrate how data from reef monitoring, coral recruitment, and larval dispersal models provide insights into the drivers of reef recovery and be used to support the conservation management of coral reefs. While 9-12 years was needed for coral reefs to recover from 1998-mass bleaching event, the recovery of the eastern outer reefs following typhoon disturbances is predicted to be slower due to overall low larval supply within this habitat. Following larval supply, high reef structural complexity, suitable substrata availability and high herbivory facilitated the recovery of dominant coral taxa following both types of disturbances.
Crossing the technological line: Blood transfusion and the art and science of nursing, 1942-1990.
Creators: name: Toman, Cynthia.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: This thesis examined the process by which blood transfusion was incorporated into nursing practice at the Ottawa Civic Hospital after 1942. Oral history, archival sources, professional literature, and popular literature provided data for an analysis which used social history as the framework. Three themes emerged from the data, based on the manner in which nurses were involved with blood: the construction of knowledge related to transfusion; the manner in which transfusion complicated care giving; and the influence of changing work patterns on nursing expertise. Discussion was organized by three time periods: 1924-1949, 1950-1970, and 1970-1990. I have argued that nurses take on a variety of technological roles, incorporating them into practice, and transforming them. In doing so, the art and science of nursing became integrated and seamless--'knowing' and 'doing' became a unified whole. This study contributes to knowledge in Canadian history, medical and nursing history, women's history, and the history of technology--through a complementary understanding of blood transfusion and nurses' roles in adopting medical technology. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Alcune considerazioni sulla regolamentazione dei movimenti a carattere settario nell’ordinamento francese
Creators: name: Ivaldi, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, è destinato alla pubblicazione sulla rivista Diritto e Religioni, i Quaderni 2012.SOMMARIO: 1. Considerazioni introduttive – 2. I precedenti – 3. Le previsioni della legge 12 giugno 2001, n. 2001-504 – 4. Cenni alle reazioni sovranazionali e internazionali – 5. La successiva attività governativa e parlamentare – 6. Conclusioni interlocutorie guardando all’apporto giurisprudenziale.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 8 ottobre
Libertà religiosa e libertà di educazione di fronte alla Corte di Strasburgo
Creators: name: Turchi, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazioneSOMMARIO: 1. Libertà religiosa e libertà di educazione: note preliminari – 2. Consiglio d’Europa ed Unione Europea: la salvaguardia dei diritti dell’uomo e delle libertà fondamentali – 3. La Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo – 4. La funzione interpretativa della Corte nel diritto interno. In particolare, quale fonte integratrice del parametro interposto di costituzionalità ex art. 117, comma 1° Cost. – 5. Educazione e religione nella giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo. I rapporti familiari – 6. Libertà religiosa e libertà di educazione nel prisma della struttura scolastica. Le scuole confessionalmente orientate – 7. Gli insegnamenti obbligatori di religione – 8. I simboli religiosi – 9. In particolare, la “questione” del crocifisso (caso Lautsi c. Italia) – 10. Sintesi conclusiva.ABSTRACT:The purpose of the paper consists in examining the cases submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in which religious freedom (art. 9 of European Convention of Human Rights) is, in a specific way, related to the right to education (art. 1 of Protocol 1). The fields where arise most important problems are as follows: family relationship, denominational Schools, compulsory denominational (confessional) instruction in Schools, religious symbols in State Schools. From the latest judgments at Strasbourg Court, it seems to emerge a new perspective of the principle of laicità, clearly open to social pluralism. As the Court stated concerning educative pluralism: “the possibility of pluralism in education […] is essential for the preservation of the “democratic society” as conceived by the Convention”.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 8 ottobre
Empirical determination of the compression behaviour of miscanthus round bales
Creators: name: Bargen-Herzog, Niklas
name: Knapp, Johannes
name: Geimer, Marcus
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bioenergy
Renewable raw material
Miscanthus
Material properties
Compression tests

description: Miscanthus x giganteus (miscanthus) is a renewable raw material and a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels. However, to utilise the energy crop economically, technical prerequisites are required to cultivate, harvest and transport miscanthus in large quantities. As there is little knowledge about the material behaviour of miscanthus, tests were carried out on miscanthus round bales. The test results provide information about the compression behaviour of miscanthus and thus form the basis for optimising large-scale processing of miscanthus. 
During the tests, conventional round bales of miscanthus were compressed in a customised pressing box by a descending hydraulic pressing plunger. In each of five test series, a round bale of miscanthus was first compressed up to a pressure of 4 MPa and then up to a pressure of 8.5 MPa. 
The pressure increases approximately linearly to the density of the bale at the beginning of the pressing process. The linear increase in force is transitioning into a nonlinear compaction behaviour as soon as the bale has reached the density of the previous maximum compaction. The measuring points of all test series in this range can be described by a single trend line, which can be approximated by a quadratic function. 
When the plunger is lifted, the bale is relieved and its density decreases. The decompression of the bale corresponds to the linear curves that describe the compression behaviour at the start of the subsequent pressing process. 
In summary, three key characteristics of the pressing process were identified from the pressing tests: The initial linear increase of the pressing force, the subsequent quadratic progression and the relaxation behaviour. The approximated curves for describing these findings describe the measurement results with a normalised absolute deviation of 8.8 % and make it possible to describe the pressing process schematically.
title: Nanotechnologie
title: Nano-Forschungsstrategie Gesundheits- und Umweltrisiken 1. Bilanz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nanotechnologie
subject: Nanotechnik
subject: Nanomaterialien
subject: Umweltrisiken
subject: Gesundheitsrisiken
subject: Chemikalien

description: 2007 veröffentlichten die drei deutschen Bundesoberbehörden Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA), Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (⁠BfR⁠) und Umweltbundesamt (⁠UBA⁠) unter der Federführung der BAuA die gemeinsame Forschungsstrategie „Nanotechnologie: Gesundheits- und Umweltrisiken von Nanomaterialien“. In diesem  Papier werden strategische Ziele bei der Konzeption von Forschungsaktivitäten genannt, nanospezifische Forschungs- und Arbeitsgebiete zu Umwelt- und Gesundheitsfragen identifiziert und dringender Forschungsbedarf getrennt nach den Schutzgütern Arbeiter, Verbraucher und Umwelt aufgeführt.In der 2013 vorgelegten Bilanz stellten die Bundesoberbehörden zusammen mit der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (PTB) und der Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) den Stand und die wichtigsten Ergebnisse von 85 Forschungsprojekten zusammen, die durch die gemeinsame Forschungsstrategie angestoßen oder begleitet wurden. Die Ergebnisse belegen eine große Vielschichtigkeit der Fragestellungen, ermöglichen aber auch eine erste Eingrenzung von Risikoschwerpunkten. Die zukünftige Forschung soll dazu beitragen, aufwändige Untersuchungen vieler einzelner Nanomaterialien zu vermeiden und trotzdem belastbare Aussagen zum Schutz von Beschäftigten, Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern und der Umwelt abzuleiten.
Optimising SMART drumlines to reduce the risk of shark bites on people while minimising deleterious impacts on marine fauna
Creators: name: Tate, Rick
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2022
Subjects: SMART drumlines
Shark bite management
Shark management plan
White shark

description: Despite increasing global numbers of shark bites around popular coastal locations, shark bite management strategies have been largely unaltered since the 1930s. Common methods like mesh nets and traditional drumlines are indiscriminate in what they catch and, therefore, can negatively impact populations of non-threatening bycatch. In contrast, Shark-Bite- Management-in-Real-Time (SMART) drumlines facilitate effective shark-bite management without significant shark mortality. My thesis explores the use of SMART drumlines to reduce the risk of shark bites to people. To do this, data were collected over 18 months throughout the field program associated with the New South Wales (NSW) Shark Management Strategy implemented in 2016 over ~ 990 km of coast between Ulladulla and Lennox Head, NSW, Australia. A total of 500 animals were caught on the SMART drumlines, 70.0 % of which were shark species associated with most bites worldwide, and therefore the target species for my research. These target species were white (298), bull (9, Carcharhinus leucas), and tiger (43, Galeocerdo cuvier) sharks. The remaining 30 % mostly comprised of non-target shark species (144), and 5.4 % were threatened species; greynurse sharks (26, Carcharias taurus) and a loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). Juvenile and sub- adult white sharks experienced minimal acute physiological stress responses following capture. Video observations revealed > 18,000 animals from 7 classes and 28 families in close vicinity to SMART drumlines. Schooling bait fish (Carangidae and Clupeidae/Engraulidae) accounted for most of the abundance, with endangered or protected species comprising < 1 % of observed fauna. Overall, my research revealed that SMART drumlines successfully targeted the shark species most often associated with bites on people and resulted in low bycatch and minimal mortality of non-threatening species. Additionally, capture by SMART drumlines had minimal acute physiological impacts on the threatened population of white sharks. In conclusion, my thesis highlights the potential for SMART drumlines to provide critical research data needed to build evidence-based shark bite management strategies while offering utility to selectively target, catch, and relocate the shark species most often implicated in bites on people with relatively low associated environmental impacts.
title:  La presenza degli artisti nordici a Roma (1530-1630). Alcune osservazioni su costanti e variabili
Creators: name: Sapori, Giovanna
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: È possibile  esaminare i dati sugli artisti nordici forniti da documenti e fonti anche per mettere in rilievo costanti e variabili nella  vita e nell’attività a Roma. La biografia di Spranger esemplifica le difficoltà di ricerca del lavoro; i documenti sulla bottega di  Santvoort un apice dell’uso di dare alloggio in cambio di lavoro; quelli sulla vita sociale  di Francesco da Castello o Bril un aspetto del processo di integrazione e nello stesso tempo della importanza del legame fra connazionali. La necessità di imparare a dipingere ad affresco è un esempio  dei tanti  ostacoli e difficoltà che limitano il tempo di soggiorno degli artisti  stranieri. Pochi fanno fortuna e restano  a Roma. Rispetto a  questa situazione il caso di Rubens è una eccezione. Ugualmente esso è indicativo per il tema dell’incontro fra cultura nordica e italiana.  La   piccola cerchia di scienziati, umanisti e artisti, di cui Rubens fa parte, si presenta a Roma nel primo Seicento come  il risultato più vitale  della ricerca di dialogo e di sperimentazione tra nord e sud.
description: Venire a Roma, restare a Roma. Forestieri e stranieri fra Quattro e Settecento
Stanley Fish on Augustine: Reader-response theory as rhetorical faith.
Creators: name: Donnelly, Phillip Johnathan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Theology.

description: This thesis examines how Stanley Fish presents an apologia for his theory of reader-response by privileging the notion of "faith." Although Fish ultimately rejects the interpretive approaches of Saint Augustine and John Milton, his own conception of "faith" is itself drawn from a conflation of Augustinian and Miltonic theological discourse. Fish argues that because all readers (as members of interpretive communities) must always employ some kind of interpretive strategy which actually constitutes their perceptions, the notion of an objective "fact" or "text" is illusory. Part of the strength in Fish's position derives from structuring each of his arguments in such a way that all attempts to challenge his specific literary or historical claims only serve to support his more general conclusion that such issues are always debatable. As a result, his arguments consistently end up making claims that are somehow independent of their specific literary or historical content. This thesis attempts an extremely "slow" reading of Fish's use of Augustine, in order to understand precisely how Fish extricates his position from any dependence upon the actual content of his own interpretation of Augustine. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Hubble Space Telescope observations of the white dwarf cooling sequence of M4
Creators: name: Hansen, Brad M.
name: Richer, Harvey B.
name: Fahlman, Greg G.
name: Stetson, Peter B.
name: Brewer, James
name: Currie, Thayne
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Ibata, Rodrigo A.
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Shara, Michael M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate in detail the white dwarf cooling sequence of the globular cluster Messier 4. In particular, we study the influence of various systematic uncertainties, both observational and theoretical, on the determination of the cluster age from the white dwarf cooling sequence. These include uncertainties in the distance to the cluster and the extinction along the line of sight, as well as the white dwarf mass, envelope, and core compositions and the white dwarf-main-sequence mass relation. We find that fitting to the full two-dimensional color-magnitude diagram offers a more robust method for age determination than the traditional method of fitting the one-dimensional white dwarf luminosity function. After taking into account the various uncertainties, we find a best-fit age of 12.1 Gyr, with a 95% lower limit of 10.3 Gyr. We also perform fits using two other sets of cooling models from the literature. The models of Chabrier et al. yield an encouragingly similar result, although the models of Salaris et al. do not provide as good a fit. Our results support our previous determination of a delay between the formation of the Galactic halo and the onset of star formation in the Galactic disk. Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. These observations are associated with proposal GO-8679.
Stakeholder's perceptions of the impacts of golf course development in central Thailand
Creators: name: Korn, Bruce
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Stakeholder
Perceptions
Impacts
Golf
Course
Golf course
Development
Thailand

description: This thesis examines stakeholders’ perceptions of the impacts of golf course development on two communities in Central Thailand. The communities examined (i) Thammasala, near Nikanti Golf Club and (ii) Bang Khaem/ Wang Yen, near Uniland Golf Club. Significant employment opportunities have been created, particularly for caddies, through the golf course developments leading to increased business. This has resulted in family reunification through community employment. However, farmers have suffered land loss and residents were given no input into the development of the projects. Community stakeholders, government and developers need to discuss projects to devise strategies that will assist the community to adjust to the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts that flow through such developments.
Report on dissemination activities (including cooperation with other projects). Second release.
Creators: name: Dziabenko, Olga
name: Meyer, Mark
name: Thijs, Juliette
name: Pandit, Lakshya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: D8.7 report on dissemination activities presents cooperation with other sister projects and reviews the progress achieved from month 19 (March 2023) to month 39 (November 2024) of the TANGENT project. Chapter 1 introduces the objectives and intended audience of the project. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 present the updated and newly created physical and digital project identity, which includes the sister projects and project marketing and promotional materials, such as video, newsletters, website and social media channels. Then, the report breakdowns the publications (Chapter 4), events and conferences (Chapter 5), which showcased the project’s outcomes, results and findings. Chapter 6 is devoted to collaborations with external partners. It describes the activities of the 4FRONT Cluster and Multimodal Traffic Management (MTM) Cluster ((sister projects) as well as the TANGENT Advisory Board and Forum. Finally, the report gives a brief overview of the upcoming dissemination activities planned for the post-project period.
The effects of pine phenolics on gypsy moth and a pathogenic nuclear polyhedrosis virus.
Creators: name: Beninger, Clifford W.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Biology, Entomology.

description: Over 400 tree species are primary or secondary hosts of gypsy moth. Interactions between host plant compounds and a viral pathogen such as nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) in vivo may explain gypsy moth host preference in later instars. Phenolic extracts from pines negatively affected growth of 2nd and 3rd but not 4th instars when incorporated into artificial diet at low concentrations. The aglycone quercetin, and two of its glycosides found in pines, rutin and quercetin-3-O-glucoside, also reduced growth for 2nd and 3rd instars. When 3rd instars were dosed with NPV (60,000 PIBs/larva) and fed pine extract (0.1%) in diet, growth was reduced and mortality increased. Survivorship to adulthood was not significantly higher than control for 3rd instars fed pine extracts over a range of viral doses, nor was it higher for 4th instars dosed at 60,000 PIBs/larvae. The three flavonoids also tended to have negative and synergistic effects on growth and survivorship of 3rd and 4th instars does with 60,000 PIBs/larva. These results suggest that early instars of gypsy moth are quite sensitive to pine phenolics in diet, which may explain why they do not feed on pines in those instars. Gypsy moth is more tolerant of pine phenolics in later instars but these results do not support the hypothesis that gypsy moth later instars which feed on plant hosts such as pine, gain some protection from infectivity of NPV due to the phenolics present in those hosts.
Auf zum großen Ziel! Treibhausgasneutrale Kommune.
Creators: name: Sieck, Lizzi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Klimaneutralität
Kommunaler Klimaschutz
Emissionsminderung
Treibhausgas

description: Die Spannbreite im kommunalen Klimaschutz erstreckt sich von Städten und Gemeinden mit sehr ehrgeizigen Treibhausgasneutralitäts-Zielen bis zu solchen, die bisher kaum Wege gefunden haben, Klimaschutz zusätzlich zu ihren bestehenden Aufgaben zu berücksichtigen. Der Artikel schildert den Instrumentenkasten, der Kommunen zur Verfügung steht, um ihren Beitrag zur Netto-Null bis 2045 zu leisten. Zur umfassenden, schnellen Umsetzung braucht es aber nach Ansicht der Autorinnen qualitätsgesicherte Planung, wie man Treibhausgasneutralität erreichen kann. Außerdem mehr Ressourcen in den Verwaltungen sowie passende Weichenstellungen durch Bund und Länder. Quelle: https://repository.difu.de/
Supplementary document for Experimental Fock-state capability of non-ideal single-photon states - 5170980.pdf
Creators: name: Zapletal, Petr
name: Darras, Tom
name: Le Jeannic, Hanna
name: Cavaillès, Adrien
name: Guccione, Giovanni
name: LAURAT, Julien
name: Filip, Radim
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Assessing potential performance proxies in entrepreneurial firms
Creators: name: Gibson, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates the association between potentially alternate indicators of performance in small firms. Determination of the best measures of performance continues to be a vexing issue in the entrepreneurship literature. Data availability and accuracy bring into question some of the traditional measures of performance and it is argued that simpler indicators may be equally reliable. Accordingly, the analysis in this paper explores the strength of correlations between alternate performance indicators. The benchmark variables are overall measures of performance expressed in terms of sales and employment growth. A major alternative to these growth based performance measures is a variable that measures growth based on changes in the number of locations at which the business operates. The paper then explores, as potential proxies for performance, a range of other variables that, while not directly recognised as performance indicators, are likely to be associated with improved performance. These include indicators of engagement in innovative activities, growth intentions, major changes in key business processes, and the scale of operations.
Supplementary document for Experimental Fock-state capability of non-ideal single-photon states - 5170980.pdf
Creators: name: Zapletal, Petr
name: Darras, Tom
name: Le Jeannic, Hanna
name: Cavaillès, Adrien
name: Guccione, Giovanni
name: LAURAT, Julien
name: Filip, Radim
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Retrieving Foliar Traits of Quercus garryana var. garryana across a Modified Landscape Using Leaf Spectroscopy and LiDAR
Creators: name: Hacker, Paul W.
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: Townsend, Philip A.
name: Wang, Zhihui
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Understanding the ecological effects of human activities on an ecosystem is integral to the implementation of conservation management plans. The plasticity of plant functional traits presents an opportunity to examine the capacity for intraspecific functional trait variations to be indicators of anthropogenic landscape modifications. The presence of intraspecific trait variation would indicate that plants of a single species could to be used to evaluate and map functional diversity, a common metric used to measure biodiversity. This study uses leaf spectroscopy, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and partial least squares regression (PLSR) to examine the intraspecific variation of functional traits in a population of 40 Quercus garryana experiencing varying levels of anthropogenic influence at the site level (<0.3 km²) in Duncan, B.C., Canada. These individuals vary in their spatial relationship to roads, agricultural land use change and an encroaching Coastal Douglas-fir forest. A total of 14 functional traits were estimated using pre-determined PLSR coe cients from a multi-species dataset. LiDAR data for each tree and were organized into functional categories based on their influence of plant lifeform, leaf growth or leaf structure. Principal components analysis was performed on each functional category to determine the relative influence of each trait. Results show that leaf growth and lifeform functional trait categories express significant variation in relation to three anthropogenic landscape modifications, while traits associated to leaf structure only varied between land use types (p = 0.05). Diameter at breast height (DBH), mass-based chlorophyll and leaf mass per area (LMA) showed the strongest variation across treatments. These findings support the hypothesis that trait variation exists in small populations of the same species and illustrate that spectroscopy can be used to indirectly sense land use via the leaf functional traits of a single tree species.
Processing and fate of carbon and nitrogen in unvegetated estuarine sediments under future climate conditions
Creators: name: Simone, Michelle N
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Climate change
Ocean acidification
Carbon
Nitrogen
Unvegetated sediments
Estuaries

description: Estuaries make a disproportionately large contribution to global carbon cycling and support high rates of primary and secondary production through benthic recycling of nitrogen. However, it is unknown how estuaries will respond to the combination of ocean acidification (OA) and warming that will characterise the future climate. In this study, the interactive effects of warming and OA on estuarine carbon and nitrogen processing were investigated through short-term ex situ incubations of unvegetated estuarine sediments. It was found that ocean acidification and warming will likely increase estuarine dependence on microbial functioning, potentially reducing the resilience of estuaries to short-term perturbations.
Computational Disorder Analysis in Ethylene Response Factors Uncovers Binding Motifs Critical to Their Diverse Functions
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaolin
name: Malhis, Nawar
name: Zhao, Bi
name: Xue, Bin
name: Gsponer, Joerg
name: Rikkerink, Erik H. A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR transcription factors (AP2/ERFs) play crucial roles in adaptation to stresses such as those caused by pathogens, wounding and cold. Although their name suggests a specific role in ethylene signalling, some ERF members also co-ordinate signals regulated by other key plant stress hormones such as jasmonate, abscisic acid and salicylate. We analysed a set of ERF proteins from three divergent plant species for intrinsically disorder regions containing conserved segments involved in protein–protein interaction known as Molecular Recognition Features (MoRFs). Then we correlated the MoRFs identified with a number of known functional features where these could be identified. Our analyses suggest that MoRFs, with plasticity in their disordered surroundings, are highly functional and may have been shuffled between related protein families driven by selection. A particularly important role may be played by the alpha helical component of the structured DNA binding domain to permit specificity. We also present examples of computationally identified MoRFs that have no known function and provide a valuable conceptual framework to link both disordered and ordered structural features within this family to diverse function.
Does corporate diversification matter for Australian firms?
Creators: name: Stefanovic, Alex
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Australia
Corporate
Diversification
OPA
Risk

description: This study examined the impact of corporate diversification on performance and risk level among Australian firms between 2005 and 2015. An exploratory multiple case study research design was adopted and included six diversified ASX 200 listed companies that had undertaken a merger, demerger or acquisition. The results were mixed in terms of the impact of diversification on performance. However, diversification had a greater impact on corporate risk. The study found that corporate diversification does not automatically lower idiosyncratic risk. In order to lower risk, firms must have a greater post-event portfolio effect and plan for a diversification level increase.
Localization and Coverage in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Creators: name: Gribben, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Localization
Coverage
Wireless Ad Hoc Network
Wireless Sensor Network

description: Localization and coverage are two important and closely related problems in wireless ad hoc networks. Localization aims to determine the physical locations of devices in a network, while coverage determines if a region of interest is sufficiently monitored by devices. Localization systems require a high degree of coverage for correct functioning, while coverage schemes typically require accurate location information. This thesis investigates the relationship between localization and coverage such that new schemes can be devised which integrate approaches found in each of these well studied problems. This work begins with a thorough review of the current literature on the subjects of localization and coverage. The localization scheduling problem is then introduced with the goal to allow as many devices as possible to enter deep sleep states to conserve energy and reduce message overhead, while maintaining sufficient network coverage for high localization accuracy. Initially this sufficient coverage level for localization is simply a minimum connectivity condition. An analytical method is then proposed to estimate the amount of localization error within a certain probability based on the theoretical lower bounds of location estimation. Error estimates can then be integrated into location dependent schemes to improve on their robustness to localization error. Location error estimation is then used by an improved scheduling scheme to determine the minimum number of reference devices required for accurate localization. Finally, an optimal coverage preserving sleep scheduling scheme is proposed which is robust to localization error, a condition which is ignored by most existing solutions. Simulation results show that with localization scheduling network lifetimes can be increased by several times and message overhead is reduced while maintaining negligible differences in localization error. Furthermore, results show that the proposed coverage preserving sleep scheduling scheme results in fewer active devices and coverage holes under the presence of localization error.