cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Land degradation neutrality
Creators: name: Caspari, Thomas
name: Lynden, Godert Van
name: Bai, Zhanguo
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: land degradation neutrality
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Soil | Land

description: Land degradation is a global issue with local solutions. Therefore, a concerted global effort on the post-2015 development agenda should also include the many promising SLM technologies and ap-proaches that are already applied. This would help empower the global community to learn from each other, and contribute to building resilience at local, national, and regional levels. This document portrays the major land and soil degradation assessments of the past and critically evaluates their results. Another section is devoted to the various methodologies that can be applied, including their strengths and weaknesses. It finally explores promising potential corner stones of future assessments, with particular reference to the SDG target of Land Degradation Neutrality. Despite the numerous challenges involved, the document is making the case for global assessments of land and soil quality. And it suggests that besides an agreed conceptual framework it is awareness, respect for complexity and diversity, an ecosystem approach and last but not least adequate funding that will make future endeavours a success.
Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats
Creators: name: Brook, Cara E.
name: Phelps, Kendra L.
name: Blehert, David S.
name: Kading, Rebekah C.
name: Peel, Alison J.
name: Sleeman, Jonathan M.
name: Frick, Winifred F.
name: Lorch, Jeffrey M.
name: Streicker, Daniel G.
name: Epstein, Jonathan H.
name: Calisher, Charles H.
name: Castle, Kevin T.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn M.
name: Field, Hume
name: Powright, Raina K.
name: Ip, Hon S.
name: Cryan, Paul M.
name: Baric, Ralph S.
name: Daszak, Peter
name: Towner, Jonathan S.
name: Kingston, Tigga
name: Gilbert, Amy T.
name: Karesh, William B.
name: Olival, Kevin J.
name: Coleman, Jeremy T.H.
name: Mendenhall, Ian H.
name: Amman, Brian R.
name: Wang, Lin-Fa
name: Hayman, David T.S.
name: Richard, Jonathan D.
name: Johnson, Christine K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the substantial public health, economic, and societal consequences of virus spillover from a wildlife reservoir. Widespread human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also presents a new set of challenges when considering viral spillover from people to naïve wildlife and other animal populations. The establishment of new wildlife reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2 would further complicate public health control measures and could lead to wildlife health and conservation impacts. Given the likely bat origin of SARS-CoV-2 and related beta-coronaviruses (β-CoVs), free-ranging bats are a key group of concern for spillover from humans back to wildlife. Here, we review the diversity and natural host range of β-CoVs in bats and examine the risk of humans inadvertently infecting free-ranging bats with SARS-CoV-2. Our review of the global distribution and host range of β-CoV evolutionary lineages suggests that 40+ species of temperate-zone North American bats could be immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2. We highlight an urgent need to proactively connect the wellbeing of human and wildlife health during the current pandemic and to implement new tools to continue wildlife research while avoiding potentially severe health and conservation impacts of SARS-CoV-2 "spilling back" into free-ranging bat populations.
A Qualitative Investigation of an Educational Reform Initiative in Pakistan
Creators: name: Shaukat, Rumaisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: change
resistance
reforms
higher education

description: The main purpose of this study was to explore, analyze and reflect on the meaning, nature, causes and associated dynamics of change in higher education within a Pakistani cultural context. Resistance was a major component of understanding this change. I focused on multiple factors that induced individual/group tendencies to resist or avoid making changes and to devalue change generally. This study employed a multiple case study approach. Semi-structured interviews with designated stakeholders of the planned change initiative were the primary data-collection method. Document analysis, members check and observations were used to triangulate the interview data. The data were analyzed on an ongoing basis. The findings revealed the complex dimensions of participants’ compliance and/or resistance with respect to change at the beginning of the twenty-first century when the Pakistani higher education system was shifting dramatically from a local to global perspective. Despite serious issues and weaknesses, change was gradual over time and the most strongly contested reforms were those that did not align with existing practices. In sum, the findings support the notion that change is complicated, and that the reasons for this complexity stem from factors that are structural, emotional, political and personal. The results of this study will be of interest to administrators and educators as they prepare for future challenges within the Pakistani context. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed, and directions for future research are identified.
Internal and external alignment of the shapes and angular momenta of ΛCDM halos
Creators: name: Bailin, Jeremy
name: Steinmetz, Matthias
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate how the shapes and angular momenta of galaxy and group mass dark matter halos in a ΛCDM N-body simulation are correlated internally and how they are aligned with respect to the location and properties of surrounding halos. We explore these relationships down to halos of much lower mass (1011 h-1 M ) than previous studies. The halos are triaxial, with c/a ratios of 0.6±0.1 and a mean two-dimensional projected ellipticity of e=0.24. More massive halos are more flattened. The axis ratios rise out to 0.6rvir, beyond which they drop. The principal axes, in particular the minor axes, are very well aligned within 0.6 rvir. High-mass halos show particularly strong internal alignment. The angular momentum vectors are also reasonably well aligned except between the very outermost and very innermost regions of the halo. The angular momentum vectors tend to align with the minor axes, with a mean misalignment of 25°, and lie perpendicular to the major and intermediate axes. The properties of a halo at 0.4 rvir are quite characteristic of the properties at most other radii within the halo. There is a very strong tendency for the minor axes of halos to lie perpendicular to large-scale filaments, and a much weaker tendency for the major axes to lie along the filaments. This alignment extends to much larger separations for group and cluster mass halos than for galaxy mass halos. As a consequence, the intrinsic alignments of galaxies are likely weaker than previous predictions, which were based on the shapes of cluster mass halos. The angular momenta of the highest concentration halos tend to point toward other halos. The angular momenta of galaxy mass halos point parallel to filaments, while those of group and cluster mass halos show a very strong tendency to point perpendicular to the filaments. This suggests that group and cluster mass halos acquire most of their angular momentum from major mergers along filaments, while the accretion history of mass and angular momentum onto galaxy mass halos has been smoother.
Floating Treatment Wetlands: An evaluation of the effectiveness of a Floating Treatment Wetland
Creators: name: Melis, Renee
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015

description: Urbanisation has created many issues in Australian environments (Skwirk, 2005). Urban stormwater increases flash flooding and affects water chemistry by changing levels of heavy metals and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus (Morse et al., 2003). Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) was introduced as a stormwater management strategy that has evolved in response to increasing urban development and decreasing water quality. The general aim of WSUD is to protect and improve the health of waterways by imitating the natural water cycle as closely as possible (Melbourne Water, 2015). There are a range of stormwater treatment devices used under WSUD; these include gross pollutant traps (GPTs), bioretention systems for streetscapes, swales and buffer strips, sedimentation basins and constructed wetlands (DPLG, 2010). This project evaluated the effectiveness of a new type of WSUD treatment device, the Floating Treatment Wetland (FTW). FTWs are described as as cultivated plants growing on floating mats in open water, which can be used to remove pollutants from runoff (Wang et al., 2015). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the FTW in treating the urban runoff from the development site at Bribie Lakes, Bribie Island. The project entailed the collection of water samples from the FTW to enable the treatment efficiency to be evaluated. The water samples were delivered to the USC NATA accredited laboratory and analysed by Analytical Chemists, as well as, by the project investigator. The three main parameters which the study focused on were total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and (TP) total phosphorus.
Phenomenography as seen by an action researcher
Creators: name: Cherry, Nita
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Action research processes generate a very wide variety of data in very diverse ways – and that once generated, they bear examination in diverse ways, provided that the processes of reflection on data are collaborative, socially contested, involve 'critical' subjectivity, and lead to further action as well as the development of theory. Can phenomenography be used as a method for engaging with data in the context of action research? My answer to that question would be 'certainly'. And this chapter really describes how I came to that conclusion.
Supplementary document for High responsivity Graphene-InGaAs near-infrared photodetector realized by hole trapping and its response saturation mechanism - 5303728.pdf
Creators: name: Hu, Liangchen
name: Dong, Yibo
name: Deng, Jun
name: Xie, Yiyang
name: Ma, Xiaochen
name: Qian, Fengsong
name: Wang, Qiuhua
name: Fu, Pan
name: Xu, Chen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information
Silencing the Voices: Exploring Female Sexuality & Desire through Young Adult Literature
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Sara
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: young adult literature
female sexuality
sexting
ekphrasis
sexual double standards
transactional reader response theory
performative exegesis

description: Silencing the Voices: Exploring Female Sexuality & Desire through Young Adult Literature' seeks to explore how sexuality - not solely sexual orientation, but rather the emotional understanding of sexual attraction, desire, and intimacy - can be expressed in young adult literature in an age of technological communication where young people are encouraged to 'come of age' online. The focus is on normalising female desire with the intention to explore 'discourses of desire' (Fine and McClelland 1998, 2006; Tolman 2002, 2012; Lamb 2010) with an emphasis on healthy female sexuality while addressing the sexual double standard still prevalent in contemporary society. Combining two linear story lines, Silencing the Voices explores the use of sexting and the impacts of nude imagery going viral, as well as the developing sexual relationship of the protagonist told through her perspective in diary excerpts.
Michel Foucault : vers une recréation de la pensée critique : pouvoir, fragmentation et uniformisation.
Creators: name: Aureano, Guillermo R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Le point de depart global de ma recherche est la crise de la pensee sociale critique dans les societes dites avancees. Confronte a l'ampleur de ce probleme, j'ai choisi de considerer un theme particulier, a savoir le processus parallele d'uniformisation et de fragmentation sociales; et ce, grace a l'analyse de l'oeuvre d'un auteur contemporain, Michel Foucault. Cette analyse comporte quatre parties: dans la premiere, il est question du concept foucaldien de pouvoir; dans la deuxieme et la troisieme, des formes concretes du pouvoir moderne--ce que l'auteur appelait "des pratiques divisantes"--; enfin, dans la quatrieme partie, le morcellement du temps, de l'espace et des forces humaines opere par l'exercice du pouvoir est reinterprete dans le cadre centralisateur et homogeneisant de l'Etat. De cette maniere, l'oeuvre foucaldienne, en elucidant une situation devenue "paradoxale" pour les deux grands corpus ideologiques de notre temps--le liberalisme et le marxisme--, permet d'envisager certains elements pour une recreation de la pensee critique. L'un d'entre eux est justement d'exiger une activite intellectuelle exempte de tours de force comme celui-ci, un resume violent, forcement biaise, une facilite qui epargne l'effort d'une lecture soigneuse et d'une critique attentive.
Toward a politics of possibility: charting shifts in utopian imagination through the World Social Forum Process
Creators: name: Ramos, Jose M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, the World Social Forum Process (WSFP) is situated within contemporary and historical utopian contexts. In so doing the article puts forth the proposition that the WSF sits toward the end of two great utopian projects of the West, state socialism and economic liberalism. Through its tacit and explicit critique of both, the WSF re-configures utopianism around the principle of diversity. In counter-distinction to this, however, a number of forces are articulating totalities, utopian conceptions of alternatives to corporate globalisation. The WSF process is therefore becoming the site of a commingling between a utopianism of diversity and a utopianism of totality, in the movement toward alternative globalization.
Strategic Doing: A Strategy Model for Open Networks
Creators: name: Morrison, Edward
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: strategic doing
collaboration
strategy-as-practice
open strategy

description: This thesis presents a new model for developing and implementing strategy in open networks. Most of the strategy literature, indeed virtually all of it, addresses the challenge of one organization attempting to survive and thrive in the world. Over the last 30 years, since the 1990s, strategic management has had to make two big adjustments. First, the environments in which we operate have become far more turbulent. Second, our organizations have become more porous, more networked, and less hierarchical. The enormous impact of the Internet has accelerated both trends.
Different types of urban natural environments influence various dimensions of self-reported health
Creators: name: Jarvis, Ingrid
name: Koehoorn, Mieke, 1966-
name: Gergel, Sarah E.
name: Bosch, Matilda Van Den
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: Background: Growing evidence suggests health benefits of natural environments. Yet, the effects of different types of natural environments (vegetation and water features) and forms of human-nature contact (access versus exposure) remain relatively unexplored. Methods: A cross-sectional observational survey was used to analyse the relationship between both access and exposure to different types of urban natural environments and health outcomes in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Data for health outcomes (self-reported general health, mental health, and common mental disorders) and key confounders were obtained from the 2013-2014 Canadian Community Health Survey. Natural environments were quantified using local land use and land cover data, and linked to survey respondents by six-digit postal code. Access was defined as living within 300 m of a public greenspace (≥ 1 hectare) and exposure as the percentage of different land cover types within multiple buffer distances of postal code centroids. Separate logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations of the access and exposure metrics with the three health outcomes. Results: Exposure to water within 1,000 m buffers was associated with a reduced odds of reporting poor general health (OR = 0.982, 95% CI = 0.965, 0.999). A similar association was found for exposure to shrub and grass-herb vegetation types for reported mental health and common mental disorder, respectively (OR = 0.741, 95% CI = 0.576, 0.953 for shrubs in 250 m; OR = 0.737, 95% CI = 0.577, 0.942 for shrubs in 500 m; OR = 0.731, 95% CI = 0.570, 0.938 for shrubs in 1,000 m; OR = 0.980, 95% CI = 0.965, 0.995 for grass-herbs in 250 m). Neither access to public greenspace nor aggregated greenspace exposure were associated with self-reported health. Results from stratified analyses suggest that observed associations between human-nature contact and self-reported health differ according to gender. Conclusions: Results suggest that type of natural environment should be considered in future research studying the health-promoting aspects of natural environments, and that positive health effects may be more consistent for daily life exposure than for access to public greenspace.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 63 Nr. 2 (2021): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2022

description: Band LXIII (2021), Heft 2
description: Manet’s Second Stay in Florence in the Fall of 1857: New Documentary Evidence...284-291
“Mai a bastanza” sull’Accademia di pittura di Carlo Maratti...274-283
New Evidence about the Patron, Date, and Original Location of Giovanni della Robbia’s Antinori Resurrection...262-273
Who Holds the Keys to the Chiostro dello Scalzo, “scuola di molti giovani”?...210-261
The Sistine Chapel’s Starry Sky Reconsidered...180-209
San Giovanni battezzato...162-179
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title: Chromium-Catalyzed Alkylation of Amines by Alcohols
Creators: name: Kallmeier, Fabian
name: Fertig, Robin
name: Irrgang, Torsten
name: Kempe, Rhett
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: alcohols, alkylation, borrowing-hydrogen reactions, chromium, hydrogen autotransfer
subject: 540

description: The alkylation of amines by alcohols is a broadly applicable, sustainable, and selective method for the synthesis of alkyl amines, which are important bulk and fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or agrochemicals. Here we report that Cr complexes can catalyze this C‐N bond formation reaction. We synthesized and isolated 35 examples of alkylated amines. Thirteen previously undisclosed products could be obtained and the use of amino alcohols as alkylating agents could be demonstrated. The catalyst tolerates numerous functional groups, among them hydrogenation sensitive examples. In comparison to many other alcohol‐based amine alkylation protocols where a stoichiometric amount of base is required, our Cr based catalyst system permits product isolation with yields higher than 90% for various alkyl amines with a catalytic amount of base only. Our study indicates that Cr complexes can catalyze borrowing hydrogen or hydrogen auto‐transfer reactions and, thus, could be an alternative to Fe, Co and Mn or noble metals in (de)hydrogenation catalysis.
title: Connecting Agile - A study on the contradiction of freedom and control in software development
Creators: name: Gugenberger, Oliver
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: agility in organisations
subject: agile teams
subject: transformation
subject: freedom and control
subject: project management

description: This thesis aims to evaluate the contradiction between freedom and control, when larger more traditional operating organizations implement agile concepts. The focus lies on the software development processes, but the results may also be applicable to other operational areas. The thesis describes how a connection between a larger organization and an agile operational team can be defined by evaluating areas, where interactions are required. This integration of an agile team is discussed without performing a company-wide agile transformation, which in many sources is recommended, but would often require a fundamental change for the structure of the organization. For this reason, state-of-the art literature is reviewed and key aspects are identified to provide a holistic overview of the topic and define how a connection between an operational team and a larger organization can be implemented by combining commonly used methodologies and best practices. Based on the analysis, an understanding is created of what freedom and control means in the context of software development in larger organizations. The trade-offs which must be made are worked out, and a discussion is held on how a good setup can be found and how it is possible for large organizations to manage agile teams efficiently. An empirical in-depth study with agile practitioners from ten different organizations has been performed to round off the analysis and identify gaps as well as consensuses. This thesis contributes to the disclosure on agile process implementation by proposing a new way of combining established project management standards and agile concepts to connect agile teams to larger organizations. Important considerations and aspects are discussed and the theoretical findings are consolidated with empirical evidence. Finally, the results are summarized in a comprehensive way, in order to have a practical use as easy-to-read recommendations for larger organizations, that are interested in using agile teams for their operations.
PROBIOTIC POTENTIAL OF MICROORGANISMS OBTAINED FROM THE INTESTINES OF WILD BIRDS
Creators: name: Albina Luneva, Andrei Koshchayev
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Lactobacilli
Antagonism
Opportunistic microorganisms
Pathogenic microorganisms
Test culture
Lactobacillus parabuchneri
Lactobacillus Brevis.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12E: 1-9
Construction of tight filter bank frames
Creators: name: Chai, Li
name: Zhang, Jingxin
name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Mosca, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we present an explicit and numerically efficient formulae to construct a tight (paraunitary) FB frame from a given un-tight (non-paraunitary) FB frame. The derivation uses the well developed techniques from modern control theory, which results in the unified formulae for generic IIR and FIR FBs. These formulae involve only algebraic matrix manipulations and can be computed efficiently and reliably without the approximation required in the existing literature.
Supplemental file Raden Argarini AJP Endo
Creators: name: Raden Argarini
name: McLaughlin, Robert A.
name: Simon Z, Joseph
name: Naylor, Louise H.
name: Carter, Howard
name: Haynes, Andrew
name: Marsh, Channa E.
name: Yeap, Bu B.
name: Jansen, Shirley
name: Green, Danny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111699 Medical Physiology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 100499 Medical Biotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary methods of the article with a title "Visualizing and quantifying cutaneous microvascular reactivity in humans using optical coherence tomography: Impaired dilator function in diabetes"
Exploring Sisterhood
Creators: name: Arena, Maria
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: sisterhood
Cultural Transformation Theory
androcracy
glyancy
dominator
partnership

description: Sisterhood' (Original Novel) is accompanied by an exegesis detailing the research undertaken to provide a historically and culturally relevant foundation for the concepts explored by the novel. Drawing upon Eisler's Cultural Transformation Theory as a framework, an in-depth literature review investigates the construction of relationships (human or otherwise) based on Eisler's theory of Androcracy, which exposes a system of ranking that privileges one aspect or participant in an interaction above another. Central to this investigation is the long-established practise of suppressing, confining and controlling female sexuality. Of particular interest, and of significance to the novel, is the participation of women in their own suppression; an issue approached through the analysis of philosophy, art, narrative, religion, family and Australia's colonial history. The power relationships exposed in these milieu are encapsulated in an exploration of the epistolary form and the influence of first person narration on the interaction between the writer and reader of fiction - a partnership that Sisterhood endeavours to foster in its audience.
Klimawirkung des Luftverkehrs
Creators: name: Dahlmann, Katrin
name: Matthes, S.
name: Plohr, M.
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Luftverkehr
subject: Klimawirkung
subject: Strahlungsbilanz
subject: Kraftstoff
subject: Kerosin
subject: Nicht-CO2-Klimaeffekte
subject: Strahlungshaushalt
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Verkehr

description: Luftverkehr beeinträchtigt das Klima. Durch die Verbrennung des Treibstoffs Kerosin entstehen Kohlendioxid (CO2), aber auch weitere klimawirksame Substanzen, deren Wirkung als "nicht-CO2-Klimaeffekte" bezeichnet werden. Welche Substanzen sind es und wie stark wirken sie? Wie stark würde die Klimawirkung des Luftverkehrs in Zukunft ausfallen, wenn das Fliegen weiterhin wächst wie bisher? Wie kann der Einfluss des Luftverkehrs aufs Klima durch technische, organisatorische und regulatorische Maßnahmen gemindert werden? Die Broschüre stellt den Kenntnisstand zur Klimawirkung des Luftverkehrs allgemeinverständlich dar. Sie zeigt Möglichkeiten auf technischer und gesetzlicher Ebene zur Verminderung der Klimawirkung, aber auch, was Passagiere tun können. Die Informationsschrift wurde im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes vom Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt erstellt. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Luftverkehr beeinträchtigt das ⁠Klima⁠. Durch die Verbrennung des Treibstoffs Kerosin entstehen Kohlendioxid (CO2), aber auch weitere klimawirksame Substanzen, deren Wirkung als „nicht-CO2-Klimaeffekte“ bezeichnet werden. Welche Substanzen sind es und wie stark wirken sie? Wie stark würde die ⁠Klimawirkung⁠ des Luftverkehrs in Zukunft ausfallen, wenn das Fliegen weiterhin wächst wie bisher? Wie kann der Einfluss des Luftverkehrs aufs Klima durch technische, organisatorische und regulatorische Maßnahmen gemindert werden?Die Broschüre stellt den Kenntnisstand zur Klimawirkung des Luftverkehrs allgemeinverständlich dar. Sie zeigt Möglichkeiten auf technischer und gesetzlicher Ebene zur Verminderung der Klimawirkung, aber auch, was Passagiere tun könnenDie Informationsschrift wurde im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes vom Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt erstellt.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 63 Nr. 1 (2021): Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes In Florenz
Publisher: name: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
Year: 2021

description: Band LXIII (2021), Heft 1


Die aktuellen Hefte der Mitteilungen können bei Centro Di, Florenz (Silvia Cangioli, E-Mail: silvia@centrodi.it) bezogen werden.
description: Inhalt | Contenuto
Understanding Climate Change and Advancing Adaptation in a Third Sector Sustainability Organisation
Creators: name: English, Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: climate change
adaptation
third sector
engagement

description: Climate change is a fundamental social challenge facing humanity. Given the reluctance of governments to take clear political action, the role of third sector sustainability organisations (TSSOs) working within civil society is increasingly recognised as being important. This thesis examines how the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Board of Directors (NBR Board) charged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to protect the Noosa Biosphere Reserve, understands climate change and adaptation. Working within a TSSO, the NBR Board develops and initiates community projects, including programs to build knowledge about climate change and to promote adaptive action to address local climatic impacts. Understanding this TSSO's shared perceptions, which may be considered social representations, of climate change and adaptation is important, as these representations influence the group's decision making on the types of community engagement projects to undertake.
Building and Mobilizing Social Capital: A Phenomenological Study of Part-Time Pofessors
Creators: name: Sarah, Jamieson
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Social capital
barriers to communication
phenomenology
qualitative methods
part-time professors

description: Social connections are the main determinant of a person’s quality and quantity of resources. A person uses social connections to access or use resources; the stronger and more extensive the social network, the greater the resources (i.e. social capital). Connections in social networks allow us to access and use social capital to achieve instrumental or expressive goals. Conversely, a lack of connection is central to many challenges in building social capital. Therefore, social connection is a beneficial concept to examine for those at risk of inadequate social capital. This research explores the experiences of part-time professors and their peer connections at the University of Ottawa. It discusses whether a lack of connection exists and how it may affect the social capital of part-time professors. Twelve part-time faculty members were purposively sampled and interviewed about their experience of being a part-time teacher at the University. One participant asked to be removed from the study. Participants were chosen on the basis that they had worked as a part-time teacher at the institution for five years or fewer. Using Moustakas’ (1994) phenomenological approach for collecting and analyzing data and Creswell’s (2007) approach for establishing validity, several thematic patterns were exhibited among part-time professors in relation to social capital and the barriers that they face. In conclusion, inadequate social capital among part-time professors may have problematic implications for students, the department, and the University as a whole.
Postharvest diseases of mango in Fiji
Creators: name: Lomavatu, Mereia Fong
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: postharvest
plant pathogens
anthracnose
colletotrichum asianum
mango

description: The mango industry in Fiji has become increasingly important in recent years as the Government and international donors seek to increase domestic fruit production, with the objective of improving food security and diversifying horticultural productivity. Currently, mango production in Fiji incurs high losses after harvest due to postharvest diseases. Such losses not only undermine industry profitability, but also create tangible disincentives for wider smallholder participation in the industry. To date, there have virtually been no studies done to determine the key pathogens causing postharvest disease of mango grown in Fiji, the susceptibility of local cultivars to postharvest disease, or the geographical differences in the incidence of postharvest diseases. Furthermore, even the most basic disease management practices are not implemented. This dearth of information currently impedes efforts to develop effective postharvest disease remediation in support of the Fiji mango industry.
Axl receptor tyrosine kinase is a regulator of apolipoprotein E
Creators: name: Zhao, Wenchen
name: Fan, Jianjia
name: Kulic, Iva
name: Koh, Cheryl
name: Clark, Amanda
name: Meuller, Johan
name: Engkvist, Ola
name: Barichievy, Samantha
name: Raynoschek, Carina
name: Hicks, Ryan
name: Maresca, Marcello
name: Wang, Qi
name: Brown, Dean G.
name: Lok, Alvin
name: Parro, Cameron
name: Robert, Jerome
name: Chou, Hsien-Ya
name: Zuhl, Andrea M.
name: Wood, Michael W.
name: Brandon, Nicholas J.
name: Wellington, Cheryl L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, is a chronic neurodegenerative disease. Apolipoprotein E (apoE), which carries lipids in the brain in the form of lipoproteins, plays an undisputed role in AD pathophysiology. A high-throughput phenotypic screen was conducted using a CCF-STTG1 human astrocytoma cell line to identify small molecules that could upregulate apoE secretion. AZ7235, a previously discovered Axl kinase inhibitor, was identified to have robust apoE activity in brain microglia, astrocytes and pericytes. AZ7235 also increased expression of ATP-binding cassette protein A1 (ABCA1), which is involved in the lipidation and secretion of apoE. Moreover, AZ7235 did not exhibit Liver-X-Receptor (LXR) activity and stimulated apoE and ABCA1 expression in the absence of LXR. Target validation studies using AXL−/− CCF-STTG1 cells showed that Axl is required to mediate AZ7235 upregulation of apoE and ABCA1. Intriguingly, apoE expression and secretion was significantly attenuated in AXL-deficient CCF-STTG1 cells and reconstitution of Axl or kinase-dead Axl significantly restored apoE baseline levels, demonstrating that Axl also plays a role in maintaining apoE homeostasis in astrocytes independent of its kinase activity. Lastly, these effects may require human apoE regulatory sequences, as AZ7235 exhibited little stimulatory activity toward apoE and ABCA1 in primary murine glia derived from neonatal human APOE3 targeted-replacement mice. Collectively, we identified a small molecule that exhibits robust apoE and ABCA1 activity independent of the LXR pathway in human cells and elucidated a novel relationship between Axl and apoE homeostasis in human astrocytes.
Mathematiques en francais, Math in English: Discourse in an Elementary School French Immersion Classroom
Creators: name: Engelbrecht Learned, Carrie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: French immersion
subject: discourse
subject: Sfard

description: French immersion is a program that some non-native French parents in Canada choose for their children. Some time allocation models for French immersion programs mean that students in French immersion classes will study mathematics in French and in English at different times during their educational careers. This study follows an elementary class of French immersion students from grade three, when the language of mathematics instruction is French, to grade four, when the language of mathematics instruction changes to English. Using Sfard’s four categories of discourse: routine, endorsement, visual mediators, and word use, transcripts of audio recordings of teacher and student language in the classroom were analysed. The characteristics of the teacher and student discourse, as well as the similarities and differences between mathematical discourse in the French language and English language mathematics classrooms were described. The data was characterised by two routines: a question-response-endorsement routine, and an exploratory routine. Although both routines were found in both the French language and the English language classrooms, there were differences as well as similarities in the routines, as well as in word use, visual mediators, and endorsement, between the teacher and the student language, as well as between the two language settings. Limitations to this study, as well as the role of talk in the mathematics classroom, are discussed.
DYNAMIC CONNECTEDNESS AMONG BOND MARKETS OF PAKISTAN AND ITS MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS
Creators: name: Muhammad Akram, Imran Riaz Malik
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Financial connectedness
Return & volatility spillover
Bond market
Net spillover index
Forecast error variance
Shock spillover
Directional spillover index
Pakistan's trading partners.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12F: 1-13
Defining Religion with Chinese Characters: Interrogating the Criticism of the Freedom of Religion in China.
Creators: name: Gunn, Torri Kenneth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Religion
China
Society
freedom of religion
definition of religion
defining religion
Human Rights
Orientalism
Edward Said

description: This thesis seeks to explore the points of dissonance and resonance around the understanding and deployment of the term 'religion' between Human Rights Watch, and the government of the People's Republic of China. In doing this, it is highlighted that a fundamental disjunction exists in the meaning of, and the boundaries of, the word 'religion' between these two groups. The space that this difference creates makes discussions on religion and religious freedom between these two groups extremely problematic, primarily because Human Rights Watch seeks to protect the right to religious freedom of groups and individuals that the Chinese government does not consider ‘religion’, but that Human Rights Watch demands they should. This thesis addresses the question of the role of social and cultural relativism in the defining, and the subsequent role in defending, of the term and contents of 'religion'.
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX (MPI) FOR URBAN AND RURAL REGIONS OF PAKISTAN
Creators: name: Rifat Mahmood, Ijaz Hussain
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Deprivation and poverty
MPI index, Poverty indicators
Multidimensional poverty measurement
Poverty assessment
Region-wise MPI
Education dimension
Basic needs dimension
Living standard
Housing quality
Health dimension.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12G: 1-10
ROLES OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL COORDINATION OF PRODUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE
Creators: name: GHAZI BEN SAAD
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Knowledge-based economy
Theory of practice
Epistemology of practice
Community of practice.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12H: 1-12
Organisational Adaptation Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Organisational Futures
Creators: name: Farrow, Elissa
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: Futures
Adaptation
Organisations
Futures Literacy
Scenarios
Change Management
Workplace Design
Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
Artificial intelligence
Other human society

description: Organisational environments are continually adapting and have done so since the advent of the first trading business models, thousands of years ago. Traditional approaches to organisational adaptation have often not been inclusive or reflective of a diverse range of perspectives. Strategy has been defined within a narrower and shorter-term band; traditionally a three to five year planning horizon. Many drivers for organisational adaptation have arisen as a result of technological advancements, combined with geo-political and socio-economic shifts. Enter artificial intelligence (AI) and its range of programming languages and applications. As AI technologies evolve and are applied to an expanded range of purposes in corporate and service organisational settings, organisations of the future will adapt form and function. Scenarios of the future may exist where the human will play a secondary role in the context of work. AI may become the leader or functional expert.
description: This research explores organisational adaptation scenarios and implications as a result of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It commences with investigating the genealogy of AI and the world-views that have supported decision making. The research approach was framed by Anticipatory Action Learning (AAL) (Stevenson, 2002; Inayatullah, 2006). AAL draws on futures research and action learning theories and methodologies. It had not yet been applied to an in-depth exploration of organisational adaptation and emerging AI technologies.
Electrophysiological Studies on the Impact of Repeated Electroconvulsive Shocks on Catecholamine Systems in the Rat Brain
Creators: name: Tsen, Peter
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: depression
ECT
electroconvulsive
ECS
antidepressant
electrophysiology
serotonin
dopamine
norepinephrine
facial
motor
nigra
psychomotor
electroshock

description: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) effectively treats depression by administration of repeated seizure-inducing electrical stimuli. Sprague-Dawley rats were administered 6 electroconvulsive shocks (ECS) over 2 weeks, and in vivo single unit extracellular electrophysiological activity was recorded after 48 hours. Overall firing activity in the locus coeruleus and ventral tegmental area was unchanged, suggesting the therapeutic efficacy of ECT may not be attributed to increased norepinephrine and dopamine release. There were more spontaneously active neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), indicating greater dopamine tone in the nigrostriatal motor pathway, which may contribute to alleviation of psychomotor retardation. In the facial motor nucleus (FMN), locally administered norepinephrine, but not serotonin, facilitated greater glutamate-induced firing, which may contribute to improved facial motricity. Current results indicate that repeated ECS enhances postsynaptic norepinephrine neurotransmission in the FMN and SNc dopamine neurotransmission, which could represent the mechanism behind the alleviation of depressive symptoms including psychomotor retardation.
Supplementary document for Polymer-coated moth-eye hybrid structure for broadband antireflection in the terahertz region - 5304480.pdf
Creators: name: YU, XI
name: Goto, Kazusa
name: Yasunaga, Yuki
name: SOEDA, JUNSHI
name: Ono, Shingo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: SN ratio of THz signal and noise
An Investigation into Biochemical Relationships Associated with Shell Reduction and Loss in Opisthobranch Molluscs
Creators: name: Furuhashi, Takeshi
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2004
Subjects: biomineralisation
mollusc
shell reduction

description: Shell loss in molluscs is considered to be a relatively recent evolutionary development, with the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) representing the full range of morphogenesis from obvious external shell to complete shell absence. The evolutionary progression from shell reduction to shell loss has been correlated with inhibition of the mineralisation process in shell formation. While it has been recognised that sugars play a principle role in biomineralisation through the provision for nucleation sites for crystallisation, the type and proportion of sugars involved in this process in molluscs has not been investigated. This study utilised a range of histological staining methods, along with the techniques of gas chromatography and colorimetric assay, to investigate the relationships between mucus sugars and shell biomineralisation status in 23 gastropod species. These species represent the full range of shell morphology from fully calcified shell to reduced shell and shell absence. Histological staining indicated that there are no clear differences in the types of sugars present in the mantle tissue across the spectrum of gastropods investigated. However, there were consistent differences in stain intensity that suggest a correlation between a decrease in the concentration of neutral sugars and shell reduction and loss. Analysis of the ratio of N-acetylated amino sugars to mannose sugars, and the ratio fo sulphated sugars to neutral sugars, revealed a positive relationship between low relative ratios of mannose sugars and progressive shell loss. It is hypothesised that this change need not be complicated. Simple changes in the ratio of sugars may render the mineralisation process ineffective, through a reduction in the acid macromolecules required for crystal nucleation. Alternatively, a decrease in mannose-rich glycoproteins could reduce the binding capacity of sulphated sugars or mineralisation proteins with the organic matrix, effectively decreasing the number of nucleation sites. Ultimately, changes in the ratios of sugars involved in the mineralisation process could result in shell thinning or complete shell loss. The elimination of the energy expensive process of shell biomineralisation is consistent with the requirement for optimisation of energy in organisms that exhibit rapid growth patterns, as occurs in the shell-loss molluscs. Hence, the evolution of mucus sugars in hypothesised to be related to rapid growth in mollusc species, and parallels the evolution of shell loss.
Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957) : Rethinking literary modernity in Colonial Punjab
Creators: name: Malhotra, Anshu
name: Murphy, Anne
Publisher: name: Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory
Year: 2021

description: For many Punjabis in India, as well as scholars of Punjab, the name Bhai Vir Singh is synonymous with Punjabi literary production and Sikh religious reform. He was a major force in shaping Sikh and Punjabi culture, language, and politics in the undivided Punjab, prior to the partition of the province in 1947 with the formation of the post-colonial states of India and Pakistan. He was a prominent exegete and scholar of Sikh scriptures and literatures, and a historian.
The concept of sustainable chemistry: Key drivers for the transition towards sustainable development
Creators: name: Blum, Christopher
name: Bunke, Dirk
name: Hungsburg, Maximilian
name: Stolzenberg, Hans-Christian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Nachhaltige Chemie
Chemikaliensicherheit
Chemikalienmanagement
Nachhaltige Entwicklung

description: To achieve and safeguard the chemicals management ̮2020 goalŁ of least possible adverse effects, we need broad and global transformation to a sustainable chemistry, which can provide the most adequate solutions contributing to sustainable development as set out in the Agenda 2030. As a basis for effective progress, a common understanding is required of sustainable chemistry, of its scope, characteristic elements, and specific objectives, as well are guidelines requisite for influencing the speed and direction of this complex and encompassing transformation. This article aims at stimulating this transition process towards a sustainable chemical sector by proposing ̮100 words for sustainable chemistryŁ, objectives and guiding principles as well as actions steps towards the further implementation of sustainable chemistry. Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
Supplementary document for Polymer-coated moth-eye hybrid structure for broadband antireflection in the terahertz region - 5304480.pdf
Creators: name: YU, XI
name: Goto, Kazusa
name: Yasunaga, Yuki
name: SOEDA, JUNSHI
name: Ono, Shingo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: SN ratio of THz signal and noise