cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Whole-Body Cooling Following Exercise-Induced Hyperthermia: Biophysical Considerations
Creators: name: Friesen, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: cold water immersion
temperate water immersion
core temperature cooling rates
exertional heat stroke

description: This thesis examined the effect of differences in body surface area-to-lean body mass ratio (AD/LBM) on core temperature cooling rates during cold water immersion (2°C, CWI) and temperate water immersion (26°C, TWI) following exercise-induced hyperthermia (end-exercise rectal temperature of 40°C). Individuals with a High AD/LBM (315 cm2/kg) had a ~1.7-fold greater overall rectal cooling rate relative to those with Low AD/LBM (275 cm2/kg) during both CWI and TWI. Further, overall rectal cooling rates during CWI were ~2.7-fold greater than during TWI for both the High and Low AD/LBM groups. Study findings show that AD/LBM must be considered when determining the duration of the immersion period. However, CWI provides the most effective cooling treatment for EHS patients irrespective of physical differences between individuals.
Community Guidelines Intervention Protocol MetaDocencia
Creators: name: Ascenzi, Laura
name: Lefer, Paola
name: Pendino, Romina
name: Poggio, Iván Gabriel
name: Xhardez, Verónica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document aims to establish a working guide for the team and the principles for acting in situations related to the Community Guideline (CG)
Characterization and Performance Analysis of High Efficiency Solar Cells and Concentrating Photovoltaic Systems
Creators: name: Yandt, Mark
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: high efficiency
solar cell
photovoltaic systems
CPV
concentrating photovoltaics

description: As part of the SUNRISE project (Semiconductors Using Nanostructures for Record Increases in Solar-cell Efficiency), high efficiency, III-V semiconductor, quantum-dot-enhanced, triple-junction solar cells designed and manufactured by Cyrium Technologies Inc. were integrated into OPEL Solar, MK-I, Fresnel-lens-based, 550x concentrating modules carried on a dual axis tracker. Over its first year of operation 1.8 MWh of AC electrical energy was exported to the grid. Measurements of the direct and indirect components of the insolation, as well as the spectral irradiance of light incident on the demonstrator in Ottawa, Canada are presented. The system efficiency is measured and compared to that predicted by a system model to identify loss mechanisms so that they can be minimized in future deployments.
Supplementary document for Micro-optics assembly for fast axis collimation by means of convolutional neural network - 5356035.pdf
Creators: name: Khachikyan, Alexander
name: Pippione, Giulia
name: Sengünes, Mehmet
name: Paoletti, Roberto
name: Seyfried, Moritz
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
title: Высшая философская школа V—VI вв. в Александрии и комплекс ее зданий (Ком эль-Дикка)
Creators: name: Болгова, Анна
name: Болгов, Николай
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: В позднеантичное время Александрия сохраняла свою роль ведущего интеллектуального центра. Главное место в интеллектуальной жизни города занимала философская школа неоплатонизма. Несмотря на плотную застройку современного города, польским археологам удалось найти место нахождения этой школы в квартале Ком эль-Дикка. Это был комплекс из 20 аудиторий и одеона, в котором могло обучаться не менее 500 студентов.
A new magnetic polishing liquid (MPL) proposed for contact force-free surface finishing, part 1: behaviour under magnetic field and fundamental performance in metal surface finishing
Creators: name: Wu, Yongbo
name: Tetsuka, Kenji
name: Kato, Masana
name: Shimada, Kunio
name: Wong, Yat
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Magnetic polishing liquid (MPL), a mixture of MF (magnetic fluid), MRF (magneto-rheological fluid), abrasive particles and cellulose fibbers, was proposed newly for surface finishing. Its behaviour under the magnetic field and fundamental performance in contact force-free surface finishing were investigated. This article describes the experimentally obtained results involving the behaviours of MPL under different magnetic fields and the surface quality improvement in metal surface polishing using the new MPL.
Associations between Activity Pacing, Fatigue, and Physical Activity in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross Sectional Study
Creators: name: Abonie, Ulric S.
name: Hoekstra, Femke
name: Seves, Bregje L.
name: Woude, Lucas H. V. Van Der
name: Dekker, Rienk
name: Hettinga, Florentina J.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Fatigue is common in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Activity pacing is a behavioral way to cope with fatigue and limited energy resources. However, little is known about how people with MS naturally pace activities to manage their fatigue and optimize daily activities. This study explored how activity pacing relates to fatigue and physical activity in people with MS. Participants were 80 individuals (60 females, 20 males) with a diagnosis of MS. The participants filled in questionnaires on their activity pacing, fatigue, physical activity, and health-related quality of life, 3–6 weeks before discharge from rehabilitation. The relationships between the variables were examined using hierarchical regression. After controlling for demographics, health-related quality of life, and perceived risk of overactivity, no associations were found between activity pacing and fatigue (β = 0.20; t = 1.43, p = 0.16) or between activity pacing and physical activity (β = −0.24; t = −1.61, p = 0.12). The lack of significant associations between activity pacing and fatigue or physical activity suggests that without interventions, there appears to be no clear strategy amongst people with MS to manage fatigue and improve physical activity. People with MS may benefit from interventions to manage fatigue and optimize engagement in physical activity.
title: The silent spring - on the need for sustainable plant protection
title: Der stumme Frühling - Zur Notwendigkeit eines umweltverträglichen Pflanzenschutzes
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schäffer, Andreas
name: Frische, Tobias
name: Filser, Juliane
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Chemikalien können unbeabsichtigt oder absichtlich in die Umwelt gelangen. Pflanzenschutzmittel, für die nachfolgend das Synonym Pestizide verwendet wird, stellen dabei den quantitativ bedeutendsten Anteil willentlich ausgebrachter Schadstoffe. Chemische Pestizide werden zum Schutz von Nutzpflanzen und Pflanzenprodukten vor Schadorganismen und durch sie ausgelöste Krankheiten angewendet und enthalten einzelne oder mehrere chemische, i.d.R. synthetisch hergestellte Wirkstoffe. Pestizide bekämpfen als Schadorganismen Tiere, z.B. Insekten (Insektizide) oder Nagetiere (Rodentizide), schützen vor Krankheiten wie Pilzbefall (Fungizide) oder dienen auch vereinfachten Produktionsverfahren und entsprechender Kostensenkung durch Arbeitszeitreduktion. Herbizide, die zur Bekämpfung von Unkräutern eingesetzt werden, zählen ebenfalls zu den Pestiziden. Weitere Anwendungen dienen der Wachstumsregulation von Pflanzen und der Konservierung von Pflanzenerzeugnissen. Einträge von Pestiziden sind neben dem Klimawandel, massiven Veränderungen der globalen Nährstoffkreisläufe, der Zerstörung von Lebensräumen und weiteren Faktoren eine wesentliche Größe im Konzept der planetaren (Belastungs-)Grenzen, wonach das Überschreiten kritischer Grenzwerte zu tiefgreifenden Störungen im Erdsystem führt. Quelle: Verlagsinformation
A Numerical Modelling Study of a Planar Holographic Antenna
Creators: name: Yu, Esther Ler-Yen
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: Planar holographic antennas composed of printed dipole or conducting ring elements offer the promise of both low-profile and freedom from the losses associated with conventional printed beamforming networks at Ka-band frequencies and above. While some advances have been made, the aperture efficiencies achieved thus far have been unexpectedly low. These antennas are electrically quite large and materially inhomogeneous, which has prevented their rigorous analysis using computational electromagnetic (CEM). In this thesis we use CEM to study their operation, and point to several (and possibly unavoidable) reasons for the above-mentioned low aperture efficiency.
Developing Consumer Adoption Model on Mobile Wallet in Canada
Creators: name: Zarrin Kafsh, Sanaz
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Mobile Wallet
Digital Wallet
TAM
Adoption

description: The widespread use of smartphones and technological advances in near-field communication technologies are quickly transforming mobile payment systems. These technologies have made it possible for consumers to use their smartphones to pay for their purchases through various payments systems such as Apple’s iPay, MasterPass and V.me. These mobile payment systems, commonly referred to as mobile wallets, are designed to eliminate the need for consumers to carry multiple credit cards in their wallets, thereby making it more convenient for consumers to shop. Mobile wallets represent a major advance in mobile marketing because they are another major channel through which marketers can better reach and serve customers in a very personalized way. Realizing the potential benefits of mobile wallets for both marketers and consumers depends on the speed of adoption of this new technology. This study examines the factors that influence consumers’ decision to adopt mobile wallets. Drawing on the theoretical technology adoption and diffusion literatures, a model of the factors that influence mobile wallet adoption is proposed and tested with data collected from 530 respondents. The purpose of this study was to develop a new technology acceptance model by combining TAM with IDT and exploring the factors that affect people’s behavioral intentions to use Mobile Wallet. Based on our proposed model, we explored the relationships among three innovative characteristics with PU and PEU with subjective norm which affect individuals’ intention for using Mobile Wallet. The results of this study show that some factors significantly influenced people behavioral intention to use Mobile Wallet. The effect of the trialability on the perceived usefulness is supported in this study. Subjective norm and awareness are correlated with the users’ perceived ease of use in Mobile Wallet. The findings suggest extended model of TAM for the acceptance of the Mobile Wallet can help industry players who are looking to build public demand and increase usage of Mobile Wallet.
Ketamine and its metabolite, (2R,6R)-HNK, restore hippocampal LTP and long-term spatial memory in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of depression
Creators: name: Aleksandrova, Lily R.
name: Wang, Yu Tian
name: Phillips, Anthony G.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Accumulating evidence implicates dysregulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in the pathophysiology of depression. However, the effects of ketamine on synaptic plasticity and their contribution to its mechanism of action as an antidepressant, are still unclear. We investigated ketamine’s effects on in vivo dorsal hippocampal (dHPC) synaptic plasticity and their role in mediating aspects of antidepressant activity in the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) model of depression. dHPC long-term potentiation (LTP) was significantly impaired in WKY rats compared to Wistar controls. Importantly, a single low dose (5 mg/kg, ip) of ketamine or its metabolite, (2R,6R)-HNK, rescued the LTP deficit in WKY rats at 3.5 h but not 30 min following injection, with residual effects at 24 h, indicating a delayed, sustained facilitatory effect on dHPC synaptic plasticity. Consistent with the observed dHPC LTP deficit, WKY rats exhibited impaired hippocampal-dependent long-term spatial memory as measured by the novel object location recognition test (NOLRT), which was effectively restored by pre-treatment with both ketamine or (2R,6R)-HNK. In contrast, in WKYs, which display abnormal stress coping, ketamine, but not (2R,6R)-HNK, had rapid and sustained effects in the forced swim test (FST), a commonly used preclinical screen for antidepressant-like activity. The differential effects of (2R,6R)-HNK observed here reveal a dissociation between drug effects on FST immobility and dHPC synaptic plasticity. Therefore, in the WKY rat model, restoring dHPC LTP was not correlated with ketamine’s effects in FST, but importantly, may have contributed to the reversal of hippocampal-dependent cognitive deficits, which are critical features of clinical depression. Our findings support the theory that ketamine may reverse the stress-induced loss of connectivity in key neural circuits by engaging synaptic plasticity processes to “reset the system”.
La lutte intégrée contre l'acarien vert (Mononychellus Tanajoa (Bondard) du manioc (Manihot asculenta Crantz) au Burundi.
Creators: name: Ndayiragije, Pascal.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Agriculture, Agronomy.

description: Of 40 identified phytoseiid mites which occur in Burundi, only Eseius fustis was regularly observed on cassava, whereas E. talinga and E. bwende were rarely present. Iphiseius degenerans was also observed but not as frequently as E. fustis. Predatory insects (Holobus fageli, H. pallidicornis, Stethorus aethiops, S. fujunus and some families like Chrysopidae, hemerobiidae and Anhocoridae) were recorded on cassava during CGM outbreaks. Of two predatory phytoseiids introduced (Typhlodromalus limonicus and Neoseiulus idaeus) and released twice during the study period on two varieties of cassava (Nakarasi and Mpambayabashengera), only one was recovered in the rainy season when the CGM population is normally low. This may indicate its potential use as a biological control agent. Mean mite densities, leaf damage, pubescence and leaf cyanide content of twenty cassava varieties were evaluated for resistance. Pubescence was negatively correlated with leaf damage (r = $-$0,46; p 0.05) whereas no relation was found between cyanide and leaf damage. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Joint allocation of transmit power levels and degrees of freedom to links in a wireless network
Creators: name: Thanabalasingham, Thaya
name: Hanly, Stephen V.
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we study a wireless network that has constant or slow-varying data rate requirements. The transmitters transmit to multiple receivers. The allocation of degrees of freedom (orthogonal codes, spectrum or time-slots) is based on a weight vector that is associated with each transmitter. The weight vector will specify how the degrees of freedom should be shared between the receivers associated with the transmitter. This model applies not only to the downlink of a cellular network, but also to more general wireless networks, including multi-hop networks. We devise two distributed algorithms in order to determine the minimal power allocation for the transmitters that will meet the data rate requirement between each transmitter-receiver pair. The main feature of our algorithms is that they can be executed at each transmitter independently with local information.
title: Восприятие европейских традиций университетского образования гуманистом Петраркой
Creators: name: Девятайкина, Нина
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: В статье на материале писем и диалогов анализируются представления первого ренессансного гуманиста и поэта Франческо Петрарки (1304—1374) о традиционном образовании его времени и роли этой традиции в его собственном образовании. Выявлено, что в памяти Петрарки опыт его университетской молодости (Монпелье, Болонья, 1316—1320-е гг.) оставил большой след живой, насыщенной римской древностью образовательной средой, познаниями и «величавостью» профессоров, университетской дружбой. Этому времени гуманист противопоставляет практики тех университетов, с которыми жизнь столкнула его в 1350—1360-е гг., критикуя падение уровня ученого звания, требований экзаменаторов, в диалоге «О мудрости». Его анализ показал, что Петрарка считает образование «новых мудрецов» лоскутным. Петрарка, с одной стороны, впитал традиционное крепкое знание, с другой перерос его. Его век обнаруживает разнонаправленные пути развития образования, не только расхождение, но и сопряжение традиционного нового знания, сохранения его авторитета.
Les extrêmes chez Rabelais en tant que réponse à l'ambiguïté du juste milieu : Pantagruel, Gargantua, le Tiers livre et le Quart livre comme éléments d'une quête oscillatoire de la vertu
Creators: name: Deveault, Jean-Simon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Juste milieu
Rabelais
Renaissance
Humanisme
Rhétorique
Littérature française

description: Cette thèse a pour objectif d’étudier les modalités et les enjeux d’une quête du juste milieu proposée au sein des quatre « chroniques » publiées par François Rabelais, soit Pantagruel (1532), Gargantua (1535), le Tiers livre (1546) et le Quart livre (1552), et ce, en portant une attention particulière à ses aspects rhétoriques et stylistiques. Nous proposons que cette quête de la médiété tire profit de l’oscillation entre les « extrêmes » esthétiques, stylistiques et thématiques qui caractérisent l’œuvre rabelaisienne. Le premier chapitre est l’occasion d’étudier la subversion, par l’auteur, de certaines normes rhétoriques comme celles de l’aptum et du decorum, subversion qui peut mener, par exemple, à des jeux sur les niveaux de style qui font en sorte que le niveau de langue utilisé ne convient plus à l’objet qu’il sert à décrire. Nous examinerons, par le fait même, les effets que ces jeux rhétoriques ont sur la quête de la vertu. La question de l’ethos rabelaisien, qui ne peut avoir qu’un impact majeur sur la perception que le lecteur aura de ces chroniques, auxquelles nous attachons une fonction édifiante, constitue un autre élément crucial. En ne respectant pas les préceptes qui sont censés guider l’orateur exemplaire, le narrateur de Rabelais déstabilise sans cesse son lecteur et parvient, ainsi, à stimuler son élan réflexif. Les deuxième et troisième chapitres s’attachent directement à l’étude de figures de la mesure et de la démesure tirées d’épisodes provenant des quatre textes du corpus. En suivant une distinction établie par Georges Molinié, nous proposons que chacune des deux catégories de figures, les macrostructurales et les microstructurales, s’associe aussi respectivement à la représentation de la mesure et de la démesure.
Supplementary document for Micro-optics assembly for fast axis collimation by means of convolutional neural network - 5356035.pdf
Creators: name: Khachikyan, Alexander
name: Pippione, Giulia
name: Sengünes, Mehmet
name: Paoletti, Roberto
name: Seyfried, Moritz
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Proceedings of the SAP Academic Community Conference D-A-CH 2020
Creators: name: Gräslund, Karin
name: Kilian, Dietmar
name: Krcmar, Helmut
name: Turowski, Klaus
name: Wittges, Holger
Publisher: name: Technical University of Munich
Year: 2020
Subjects: SAP, SAP Curricula, SAP Lehre, SAP Academic Community, SAP University Competence Center, SAP University Alliances, SAP Academic Board, SAP User Group

description: In den Proceedings of the SAP Academic Community Conference D-A-CH 2020 befinden sich wissenschaftliche Paper und Abstracts zu Praxispräsentationen, die im Rahmen der virtuellen SAP Academic Community Conference D-A-CH 2020 am 7. und 8. September 2020 eingereicht und vorgestellt wurden. Neben dem Schwerpunkt Einsatz von SAP-Technologien in der Lehre werden Erfahrungen und Forschungsergebnisse mit SAP-Projekten aufgegriffen. Ebenso werden die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die digitale Transformation und die Zukunft der Arbeit thematisiert.
Nishida Kitaro and the Question of Japanese Fascism
Creators: name: Bastarache, Martin J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Nishida Kitaro
Modern Japanese Intellectual History
Fascism
Kyoto School of Philosophy

description: There has been considerable debate within the field of Japanese intellectual history with respect to the influence of Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945) on the ideological foundations and philosophical justification of Japanese fascism. One of the most influential Japanese thinkers of the twentieth century and widely considered to be the father of modern Japanese philosophy, his contemporary relevance is considered to be at risk should these accusations be true. As such, contemporary scholars have attempted to show how Nishida’s philosophy was decidedly anti-fascist, and that he was in fact opposed to the actions of the wartime regime. However, as this thesis will argue, by considering Nishida’s philosophy within the larger historical context of global modernity one can see that his contemporary relevance lies in just that which allows one to consider his thought as fascist, his critique of modernity. Nishida was reacting to the transforming social and cultural landscapes that had followed the modernization of Japan initiated by the Meiji Restoration (1868). As a result, he attempted to posit a transhistorical ideal of Japanese culture, embodied concretely in the Emperor that could withstand the social abstractions of modernity. However, it was ultimately his failure to grasp his own conditions of possibility in the very modernity that he was critiquing that pushed his thought increasingly to the right, helping to fuel and legitimize the emerging fascist ideology.
Supplementary document for Real-time monitoring of biomechanical activity in aphids by laser speckle contrast imaging - 5356065.pdf
Creators: name: Yordanov, Stoyan
name: Drucker, Martin
name: Butt, Hans-Jürgen
name: Koynov, Kaloian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Supplement 1
Stochastic modeling in fault testing of decomposable sequential circuits through computer simulation.
Creators: name: Choi, Seong Yeon.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The increasing complexity of today's digital devices has rendered the problem of fault detection, fault analysis, and test generation extremely difficult. Test generation for sequential circuits has been a difficult task. This is due to the large search space to be considered in test pattern generation. Different approaches have been taken in the past to solve the problem of fault detection and test generation in sequential circuits. A popular approach, called the scan design, is often used where the test generation problem in sequential circuits is transformed into one of combinational circuits. Unfortunately, this approach is mostly restricted to synchronous sequential circuits free of critical races. Moreover, when a circuit is very large and complex, the test generation can be quite involved, making the ad hoc approaches ineffective. Therefore, alternative methods should be considered. In this thesis, the detection of permanent faults in sequential circuits by random testing is analyzed utilizing the circuit partitioning approach together with a continuous parameter Markov model. Given a large decomposable sequential circuit, it is partitioned into several smaller partitions using either serial or parallel decomposition. For each partition with certain stuck faults specified, the original state table and its error version are derived from an analysis of the partition under fault-free and faulty conditions, respectively. Then by simulation of these two tables on a computer, the parameters of the desired Markov model are obtained. For a specified degree of confidence, it is easy to derive the parameters of the Markov model and to calculate the required lengths of random test patterns.
Reasoning Using Higher-Order Abstract Syntax in a Higher-Order Logic Proof Environment: Improvements to Hybrid and a Case Study
Creators: name: Martin, Alan J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: formal proof
higher-order abstract syntax
higher-order logic
Hybrid
interactive theorem proving
Isabelle/HOL
representational adequacy
set-theoretic semantics
variable binding

description: We present a series of improvements to the Hybrid system, a formal theory implemented in Isabelle/HOL to support specifying and reasoning about formal systems using higher-order abstract syntax (HOAS). We modify Hybrid's type of terms, which is built definitionally in terms of de Bruijn indices, to exclude at the type level terms with `dangling' indices. We strengthen the injectivity property for Hybrid's variable-binding operator, and develop rules for compositional proof of its side condition, avoiding conversion from HOAS to de Bruijn indices. We prove representational adequacy of Hybrid (with these improvements) for a lambda-calculus-like subset of Isabelle/HOL syntax, at the level of set-theoretic semantics and without unfolding Hybrid's definition in terms of de Bruijn indices. In further work, we prove an induction principle that maintains some of the benefits of HOAS even for open terms. We also present a case study of the formalization in Hybrid of a small programming language, Mini-ML with mutable references, including its operational semantics and a type-safety property. This is the largest case study in Hybrid to date, and the first to formalize a language with mutable references. We compare four variants of this formalization based on the two-level approach adopted by Felty and Momigliano in other recent work on Hybrid, with various specification logics (SLs), including substructural logics, formalized in Isabelle/HOL and used in turn to encode judgments of the object language. We also compare these with a variant that does not use an intermediate SL layer. In the course of the case study, we explore and develop new proof techniques, particularly in connection with context invariants and induction on SL statements.
Calcium Alleviates Symptoms in Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis by Reducing the Abnormal Sodium Influx
Creators: name: DeJong, Danica
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis
Voltage gated sodium channel
EMG

description: Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, HyperKPP, is an inherited progressive disorder of the muscles caused by mutations in the voltage gated sodium channel (NaV1.4). The objectives of this thesis were to develop a technique for measurement symptoms in vivo using electromyography (EMG) and to determine the mechanism by which Ca2+ alleviates HyperKPP symptoms, since this is unknown. Increasing extracellular [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]e) from 1.3 to 4 mM did not result in any increases in45Ca2+ influx suggesting no increase in intracellular [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]i) acting on an intracellular signaling pathway or on an ion channel such as the Ca2+sensitive K+ channels. HyperKPP muscles have larger TTX-sensitive22Na+ influx than wild type muscles because of the defective NaV1.4 channels. When [Ca2+] was increased from 1.3 to 4 mM, the abnormal 22Na+ influx was completely abolished. Thus, one mechanism by which Ca2+alleviates HyperKPP symptoms is by reducing the abnormal Na+ influx caused by the mutation in the NaV1.4 channel.
Developing Lab on a Chip Technology for the Detection and Characterisation of Giardia duodenalis cysts and Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts on Foods
Creators: name: Ganz, Kyle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Microfluidics
Giardia
Cryptosporidium
Food

description: In the present study methods which can be integrated into a complete lab on a chip system for the detection and characterisation of Giardia duodenalis cysts and Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts from foods were developed and tested. Microfluidic chips, which make use of inertial separation, were designed and fabricated for the concentration and separation of either cysts or oocysts from food particles. These chips were highly specific for their intended target and were shown to be effective when used for artificially contaminated lettuce samples. The quantification by real-time PCR of Cryptosporidium spp. hsp70 mRNA, expressed in response to a heat stress, was assessed as a potential lab on a chip method for the detection of viable oocysts from foods. This method proved to be effective in determining the viability of oocysts in apple cider and the effects of high hydrostatic pressures on the viability of oocysts.
Supplementary document for Real-time monitoring of biomechanical activity in aphids by laser speckle contrast imaging - 5356065.pdf
Creators: name: Yordanov, Stoyan
name: Drucker, Martin
name: Butt, Hans-Jürgen
name: Koynov, Kaloian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Supplement 1
title: Иезуитские университеты монархии Габсбургов: судьба выпускников
Creators: name: Жаров, Дмитрий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Анализируется судьба выпускников двух иезуитских университетов монархии Габсбургов: Грацского и Надьсомбатского (Трнавского). Хронологические рамки исследования — 1586—1645 гг. Источник, на основании которого выполнено исследование — матрикулы иезуитских университетов, в случае с Грацским университетом — списки аффилированного с университетом пансиона для бедных учащихся («Каталог Фердинандуема»), где представлена информация о будущем выпускников. Задача — определить профессиональный путь выпускников и те территории, куда они направлялись после обучения, учитывая роль воспитанников иезуитских университетов в процессе рекатолизации. Мы выяснили, что выпускники двух выбранных университетов оказывались в сферах, необходимых для рекатолизации (священники, учителя, монахи, члены ордена иезуитов), а также то, что студентов после окончания учебы направляли в регионы с сильным влиянием протестантизма. Это подтверждает тезис о важной роли иезуитского образования в конфессиональной борьбе.
Traditional Crime vs. Corporate Crime: A Comparative Risk Discourse Analysis
Creators: name: Condirston, Erin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Risk
Corporate Crime
Traditional Crime
Discourse

description: With the knowledge that risk has become an omnipresent concept used to understand various social problems, this study aims to fill a perceived gap in literature by investigating the way in which risk discourse is applied to understand different categories of crime, namely traditional crime and corporate crime. It is hypothesized that risk logic is heavily applied to the understanding of traditional crime, with minimal attribution to conversations surrounding corporate crime. The pervasiveness of risk as a technique or tactic of government renders the study of its application to different types of crime an important addition to the existing risk literature. Using the method of a comparative content analysis, the parallels and discrepancies between the ways in which risk is used to discuss traditional and corporate crime by Canadian federal criminal justice organizations are explored. The results indicate a lack of focus on risk logic with respect to corporate crime, but demonstrate that risk discourse is perhaps not altogether absent from corporate crime discussions.
Adaptive deterministic packet marking
Creators: name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Hanly, Stephen V.
name: Chan, Sammy
name: Cui, Tony
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An efficient method is presented for signaling link price information using single-bit marks. It exploits side information in the IPid field of the IP header to allow the maximum price on a flow's path to be estimated. It automatically adapts the resolution with which the price is quantized, depending on how quickly the price changes. The algorithm does not depend on the number of hops in a link. A marking scheme with improved compatibility with current ECN (RFC 3168) is also proposed.
title: Внеинституциональные формы духовного образования в Речи Посполитой XVII—XVIII вв.: избранные примеры
Creators: name: Корзо, Маргарита
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2020

description: Анализируются избранные примеры внеинституциональных форм духовного образования в Речи Посполитой XVII—XVIII вв.: у католиков (пастырские послания и деканальные конгрегации) и Общины «чешских братьев» (система домашнего обучения, подражающая практикам раннехристианской общины). Подобные внешкольные институции создавались как из-за недостаточной доступности традиционных учебных учреждений (пример католического приходского духовенства), так и в силу репрессий или ограничений, налагаемых на деятельность отдельных христианских деноминаций на территории Речи Посполитой («чешские братья»).
Supplementary document for Machine learning for real-time optical property recovery in interstitial photodynamic therapy – A simulation-based study - 5356662.pdf
Creators: name: Yassine, Abdul-Amir
name: Lilge, Lothar
name: Betz, Vaughn
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document to the manuscript
title: Dynamics of the magnetoelastic phase transition and adiabatic temperature change in Mn1.3Fe0.7P0.5Si0.55
Creators: name: Fries, Maximilian
name: Gottschall, Tino
name: Scheibel, Franziska
name: Pfeuffer, Lukas
name: Skokov, Konstantin P.
name: Skourski, Yurii
name: Acet, Mehmet
name: Farle, Michael
name: Wosnitza, Joachim
name: Gutfleisch, Oliver
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2019

description: The adiabatic temperature change ΔTad of a Mn1:3Fe0:7P0:5Si0:55 Fe2P-type alloy was measured under different magnetic field-sweep rates from 0:93 Ts-1 to 2870 Ts-1. We find a field-sweep-rate independent magnetocaloric effect due a partial alignment of magnetic moments in the paramagnetic region overlapping with the magnetocaloric effect of the first-order phase transition. Additionally, the first-order phase transition is not completed even in fields up to 20T leading to a non-saturating behavior of ΔTad. Measurements in different pulsed fields reveal that the first-order phase transition cannot follow the fast field changes as previously assumed, resulting in a distinct field-dependent hysteresis in ΔTad.
Investigating the role of the gut metabolome in appetite regulation and obesity
Creators: name: Stephens, Hannah Jane
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: The rising incidence of obesity results from an innate predisposition to weight gain in an increasingly obesogenic environment. Long-term treatments are limited, with the only effective method being bariatric surgery. Appetite regulation is considered a crucial factor in obesity progression and treatment evasion. Post-prandial satiation and satiety are mediated by a combination of sensory cues, gastric distension, and sensing of specific nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract by enteroendocrine cells. These then secrete anorexigenic peptide hormones in response to the caloric and macronutrient content of food. There is mounting evidence that the post-prandial satiety response is impaired in obesity as a result of blunted gut hormone secretion. Indeed, the therapeutic effects of bariatric surgery are thought to be in part mediated by restoring levels of these satiating hormones. Therefore, a promising avenue for treatment of obesity is to mimic the post-operative hormonal profile by increasing intrinsic gut peptide secretion. This PhD project will further knowledge of nutrient-modulated gut hormone secretion. A combination of different targeted and untargeted metabolomic approaches were employed on intestinal content from different regions of the human gut, collected using nasointestinal tubes following the consumption of different meals. Gastric and duodenal content was analysed from healthy weight and obese participants following consumption of three meals (high-carbohydrate, high-protein and high-fat), and ileal and colonic content from individuals following a high-protein high-fibre meal. In addition, subjective appetite and plasma levels of gut and pancreatic peptides were measured. This work enabled the study of the metabolic events leading up to gut hormone release and satiety in humans. It demonstrated associations between metabolic changes and circulating hormonal and metabolic markers, and deepens understanding in the role of nutrient sensing in appetite regulation, and how this might be perturbed in obesity. This will pave the way for the development of novel antiobesity strategies.
A knowledge-based view on start-ups' export activities: the effect of business owner human and social capital
Creators: name: Debrulle, Jonas
name: Maes, Johan
name: Sels, Luc
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates the influence of a business owner’s human and social capital on the starting venture’s export activities. We examine general human capital, in terms of formal education and management experience, specific human capital, in terms of industry and start-up experience, and bonding and bridging social capital. Furthermore, building on the knowledge based view of the firm, we assume the relationships between the owner’s characteristics and the firm’s export activities to be moderated by the organization’s ability to acquire, assimilate, and exploit external knowledge – its absorptive capacity. Flemish start-ups form this study’s empirical setting. Our results indicate that a start-up’s export activities (1) are driven by the business owner’s formal education and start-up experience, and (2) are hampered by his or her management experience and bonding social capital. Moreover, the organization’s absorptive capacity appears to excavate the direct effect of any experience-related human capital variable (e.g. management, industry, start-up). Implications and opportunities for future research are suggested.
Lorenzo Veracini's response to the scepticism of Tequila Sovereign
Creators: name: Veracini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Tequila Sovereign ('a Native, progressive, forty-something, anti-racist, feminist, woman') has recently reflected in a series of blog postings on her dissatisfaction with settler colonialism as an interpretative paradigm. As she engages with settler colonial studies as a consolidating field and methodology, a debate I am actively contributing to, I feel I should engage with her concerns.
Trace Metal Budgets for Forested Catchments in Europe̶Pb, Cd, Hg, Cu and Zn
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: Input/output budgets for cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and mercury (Hg) in the years 1997-2011 were monitored and determined for 14 small forest-covered catchments across Europe as part of the Integrated Monitoring program on the effects of long-range pollutants on ecosystems. Metal inputs were considered to derive from bulk deposition, throughfall and litterfall. Outputs were estimated from run-off values. Litterfall plus throughfall was taken as a measure of the total deposition of Pb and Hg (wet?+?dry) on the basis of evidence suggesting that, for these metals, internal circulation is negligible. The same is not true for Cd. Excluding a few sites with high discharge, between 74 and 94 % of the input Pb was retained within the catchments; significant Cd retention was also observed. High losses of Pb (>1.4 mg?m-2?year-1) and Cd (>0.15 mg?m-2?year-1) were observed in two mountainous Central European sites with high water discharge. All other sites had outputs below or equal to 0.36 and 0.06 mg?m-2?year-1, respectively, for the two metals. Almost complete retention of Hg, 86-99 % of input, was reported in the Swedish sites. These high levels of metal retention were maintained even in the face of recent dramatic reductions in pollutant loads.Quelle: Internet, 27.03.2013
 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11270-013-1502-8
Validity of Administrative Database for Reporting Pre-eclampsia
Creators: name: Shachkina, Svetlana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICD-10 code
pregnancy
pre-eclampsia
pregnancy-induced hypertension
administrative database

description: Background: Pre-eclampsia (PET) is one of the major causes of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality1. Misclassification of PET can lead to biased or erroneous results in epidemiologic studies resulting in false conclusions. Objectives: The objectives of this thesis are to determine the validity of PET diagnosis in pregnant women in administrative database using the ICD-10-CA codes, to explore the nature of misclassification, and to estimate whether misclassification of PET diagnosis in administrative database may result in biased conclusions. Methods: Pregnant women who participated in the Ottawa and Kingston (OaK) Birth Cohort study and delivered in the Ottawa Hospital were included in the study. All cases with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy in the study population were adjudicated to confirm diagnosis of PET. This adjudicated dataset was used as a reference standard. The PET incidence in hospital discharge database was compared with PET incidence calculated from the reference standard database. Results: 2887 of the requested charts were available for review. The PET incidence was much lower in administrative database (1.47%) than in the OaK Birth Cohort Study (3.6%). The results of the study demonstrated that hospital discharge database via ICD-10-CA was not very sensitive to determine incidence of PET since sensitivity of ICD-10-CA diagnostic codes for PET was low (35.92% with 95% Confidence Intervals (CI): 26.7; 45.9) but specificity, PPV, and NPV were high. The majority of misclassified cases belonged to the category (according to the proposed classification) “PET pregnancies coded with incorrect ICD-10-CA code” (78.88%) followed by the category “Pregnancies affected by PET coded as normal” (14.08%). Conclusion: Using hospital discharge database and ICD-10-CA coding to determine incidence of PET in certain settings may yield low sensitivity. Researchers should validate the results when using the hospital discharge database for PET research to ensure that the findings based on analyses of such data demonstrate what they claimed to demonstrate.
Refining sleep measurement using the Motionwatch8©: how many days of monitoring do we need to get reliable estimates of sleep quality for older adults with mild cognitive impairment?
Creators: name: Falck, Ryan S.
name: Barha, Cindy K.
name: Chan, Patrick C. Y.
name: Liu-Ambrose, Teresa
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Poor sleep is common among older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)—a transition stage between healthy cognition and dementia. Objective, reliable, and low-burden field methods to measure older adult sleep are also currently needed. The MotionWatch8© (MW8) wrist-worn actigraph provides estimates of sleep with 14 days of observation; however, there may be underlying differences in the reliability of sleep estimates based on MCI status. We therefore investigated the number of MW8 monitoring days required to estimate sleep in older adults with MCI and without. Methods: Older adults (55+ years; N = 151) wore the MW8 for ≥14 days. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment was used to categorize participants with probable MCI (scores of < 26/30) and participants without MCI (≥ 26/30). We calculated intra-class reliability coefficients for one, seven, and 14 days of wear-time, and performed Spearman-Brown predictions to determine the number of monitoring days needed for an ICC = 0.80. Results: Older adults with MCI were older (p < 0.01), more likely to be male (p = 0.03), and had shorter sleep duration (p < 0.01). Spearman-Brown analyses indicated that the number of monitoring days needed for an ICC = 0.80 in older adults with probable MCI was 7 days for sleep duration, 4 days for fragmentation, and 4 days for efficiency; adults without MCI required 4 days for duration, 6 days for fragmentation, and 3 days for efficiency. Conclusions: Our results indicate that while the reliability of MW8 estimates of sleep differs based on cognitive status, 7 days of MW8 monitoring provides reliable estimates of sleep for adults with MCI and those without.
O amor virtual como instância de empreendedorismo e de reificação (Virtual love as an instance of entrepreneurship and reification)
Creators: name: Castro, Julio Cesar Lemes De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: 220317 Poststructuralism
subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200203 Consumption and Everyday Life
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality

description: Several fronts in contemporary society show an appreciation of entrepreneurship, in the sense of an apparent strengthening of the subjective agency. The counterpart of this is a movement of reification, which relies on the engagement of the subject himself. These trends, which are also present in cyberculture in general, are illustrated by the phenomenon of virtual love: the multiplication of dating options and, in theory, the decline of standardized external models gives the individual more possibilities for taking the initiative, counterbalanced by the propensity for objectification of himself and the other. / Na sociedade contemporânea, observa-se em várias frentes uma valorização do empreendedorismo, no sentido de um aparente fortalecimento da agência subjetiva. A contrapartida disso é um movimento de reificação, que conta com o engajamento do próprio sujeito. Essas tendências, também presentes na cibercultura de modo geral, são ilustradas pelo fenômeno do amor virtual: a multiplicação de opções amorosas e o declínio de modelos externos padronizados dão, em tese, a cada um a possibilidade de maior iniciativa, contrabalançada pela propensão a objetivar-se e objetivar o outro.