cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The role of corticosterone in the defective control of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in mice with gold thioglucose-induced obesity.
Creators: name: Villemure, Christiane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Gold thioglucose (GTG) leads to hypothalamic obesity in mice. The purpose of this study was to determine if hypersensitivity to corticosterone is present in mice with hypothalamic obesity. Mice were injected with either saline or GTG and sham-adrenalectomized or adrenalectomized (adx). The adx animals received cholesterol implants containing corticosterone. Certain abnormalities of GTG-mice, namely hyperphagia, increased white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue (BAT) weights and hyperinsulinemia are normalized by adrenalectomy and returned in virtually full force at low levels of corticosterone. Other abnormalities like high body weight and reduced BAT mitochondrial GDP binding are not affected. BAT protein was not affected by adrenalectomy in either lean or obese animals and was reduced by corticosterone replacement in both. It is concluded that GTG-mice are hypersensitive to an action of corticosterone which plays an important role in the development of their obesity. However, some abnormalities, like the suppressed BAT thermogenesis, persist in the adx state and seem to be due to metabolic defects primarily caused by the GTG lesions that are not dependent on corticosterone. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Canada's telecommunications policy environment
Creators: name: Middleton, Catherine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper provides an overview of the telecommunications policy environment in Canada. Like Milner's (2009) article on New Zealand, this paper offers insights on international approaches to telecommunications policy. Canada's telecommunications history reveals a mix of private and public sector investment in regionally-based service providers. Canada did not have a single, publicly owned telecommunications carrier as was the case in Australia. Liberalisation of the telecommunications marketplace encouraged the development of competing infrastructures, with cable companies (traditionally focused on broadcasting distribution) and telephone companies now both providing wireline and wireless, voice, Internet and television services. Competition for wireline services remains regionally based, while wireless providers compete nationally. Although competition is intense, the broadband and wireless markets are highly concentrated. Competition in these markets has not resulted in extensive consumer choice, low prices or innovative services. Most Canadian consumers have access to broadband connectivity, but uptake rates now lag other OECD countries, for services that are slower and more expensive than those available in many other locations. Mobile phone penetration in Canada is on par with that of developing nations. The paper explores the characteristics of Canada's telecommunication markets, discusses the policy environment and notes that government has not offered a vision of a digital future for Canada.
Revising Estimates of Aquatic Gross Oxygen Production by the Triple Oxygen Isotope Method to Incorporate the Local Isotopic Composition of Water
Creators: name: Manning, Cara C.
name: Howard, Evan M.
name: Nicholson, David P.
name: Ji, Brenda Y.
name: Sandwith, Zoe O.
name: Stanley, Rachel H. R.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2018

description: Measurement of the triple oxygen isotope (TOI) composition of O₂ is an established method for quantifying gross oxygen production (GOP) in natural waters. A standard assumption to this method is that the isotopic composition of H₂O, the substrate for photosynthetic O₂, is equivalent to Vienna standard mean ocean water (VSMOW). We present and validate a method for estimating the TOI composition of H₂O based on mixing of local meteoric water and seawater H₂O end-members, and incorporating the TOI composition of H₂O into GOP estimates. In the ocean, GOP estimates based on assuming the H₂O is equivalent to VSMOW can have systematic errors of up to 48% and in low-salinity systems, errors can be a factor of 2 or greater. In future TOI-based GOP studies, TOI measurements of O2 and H₂O should be paired when the H₂O isotopic composition is expected to differ from VSMOW.
3331111.pdf
Creators: name: Ozturk, Hande
name: Yan, Hanfei
name: He, Yan
name: Ge, Mingyuan
name: Dong, Zhihua
name: Lin, Meifeng
name: Nazaretski, Evgeny
name: Robinson, Ian
name: Chu, Yong
name: Huang, Xiaojing
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
Campylobacter jejuni infection of conventionally colonized mice lacking nucleotide-oligomerization-domain-2
Creators: name: Bereswill, Stefan
name: Grundmann, Ursula
name: Alutis, Marie E.
name: Fischer, Andre
name: Heimesaat, Markus M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Campylobacter jejuni
subject: Nucleotide-oligomerization-domain-2 (NOD2)
subject: In vivo infection
subject: Intestinal microbiota
subject: Colonization resistance
subject: IL-23/IL-22/IL-18 axis
subject: Pro-inflammatory immune responses
subject: Bacterial translocation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The nucleotide-binding oligomerisaton protein 2 (NOD2) constitutes a pivotal sensor of bacterial muramyl dipeptide and assures expression of distinct antimicrobial peptides and mediators produced by enterocytes and immune cells directed against pathogens including Campylobacter jejuni. We here elucidated the role of NOD2 during murine C. jejuni infection in more detail. Results Conventionally colonized NOD2 deficient (NOD2−/−) mice and corresponding wildtype (WT) counterparts were perorally infected with C. jejuni strain 81–176 on three consecutive days. The pathogen colonized both WT and NOD2−/− mice only sporadically until day 14 post infection (p.i.). However, the slightly higher prevalence of C. jejuni in NOD2−/− mice was accompanied by higher intestinal Escherichia coli loads known to facilitate C. jejuni colonization. Neither overt macroscopic (clinical) nor microscopic sequelae (such as colonic epithelial apoptosis) could be observed upon murine C. jejuni infection of either genotype. Innate immune responses were less distinctly induced in C. jejuni infected NOD2−/− versus WT mice as indicated by lower colonic numbers of neutrophils in the former. Conversely, adaptive immune cell counts including T lymphocytes were higher in large intestines of NOD2−/− as compared to WT mice that were paralleled by increased colonic IL-6 secretion and higher TNF and IL-18 mRNA expression levels in large intestines of the former. Only in NOD2−/− mice, however, colonic IL-22 mRNA expression was down-regulated at day 14 p.i. Whereas viable commensal intestinal bacteria could exclusively be detected in mesenteric lymph nodes and livers of NOD2−/− mice, bacterial translocation rates to kidneys and spleen were NOD2 independent. Notably, large intestinal mRNA expression levels of mucin-2, constituting a pivotal factor involved in epithelial barrier integrity, were comparable in naive and C. jejuni infected mice of either genotype. Conclusion NOD2 is involved in the well-balanced regulation of innate and adaptive pro- inflammatory immune responses of conventional mice upon C. jejuni infection.
title:  Allusive name forms in Cynewulf’s poems
Creators: name: Lozzi Gallo, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: This study focuses on Cynewulf’s signed poems (Fates of Apostles, Christ II, Elene and Juliana). It aims to investigate the Cynewulfian use of proper names derived from Christian culture and considers the possibility that the poet may have interpreted some of the names of the characters in his historical texts to better suit their personality, following Medieval theory of the name as integral to the very nature of the thing, selecting the name forms or even adapting them to his purpose. This study focuses on Elene and Juliana, where some interpretations are proposed.

A partire dai poemi firmati, si analizzano alcuni casi di nomi propri cristiani nella poetica cynewulfiana, esaminando la possibilità che Cynewulf abbia interpretato alcuni di questi nomi storici reinterpretandoli per armonizzarli al carattere dei personaggi, secondo la sensibilità medievale sul rapporto tra i nomi e le cose. L’analisi si concentra in particolare su Elene e Juliana.

description: ἀγλαὰ δῶρα. Studi miscellanei in onore di Dora Faraci
A prediction model of PM2.5 in Central Taiwan
Creators: name: Lai, Yu-Chen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: PM2.5
subject: Air pollution
subject: Regression model
subject: PM2.5 forecasting
subject: Variable selection
subject: Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)
subject: Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC)
subject: Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm (OGA)
subject: Recursive updating forecast
subject: Parametric Bootstrap Method
subject: High-dimensional regression
subject: Model selection
subject: Mean Squared Error (MSE)
subject: Data Science / Predictive Analytics
subject: Statistical Forecasting
subject: Air Pollution Modeling
subject: Environmental Pollution/statistics & numerical data
subject: Environmental Statistics

description: AbstractDue to the growing concern over the health risks posed by air pollution, this study focuses on developing an accurate prediction model for PM2.5 concentration in Central Taiwan. The core objective is to identify the most effective variable selection methods that minimize forecasting errors. This research utilizes recursive updating forecasts to generate predictive values and compares the performance of three variable selection criteria: Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), and Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm (OGA).

The model is validated using both real and simulated datasets. The simulations are conducted via the Parametric Bootstrap Method to repeatedly generate parameterized observations. The model performance is assessed using mean squared error (MSE) across 500 iterations. The results indicate that OGA often achieves the lowest MSE and outperforms AIC and BIC in predictive accuracy, although BIC selects fewer variables. Notably, some seemingly irrelevant variables, when included in the model, contribute to improved forecasts—suggesting further research potential.
Diet quality and Body Mass Index in 4 and 6 year old children: A prospective study using data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development
Creators: name: Yonadam, Lilianna
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nutrition.
subject: Health Sciences, Epidemiology.

description: The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. The diets of children have shifted from nutrient-dense foods to energy-dense, nutrient-dilute foods. Using data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, this study aims to identify the nutritional factors related to BMI at 4 and 6 years and weight change from 4 to 6 years. This study also compares the diets of normal and overweight/obese children according to the DRI standards set by Health Canada. Associations were examined using chi-square tests, and multivariate linear and logistic regressions. The nutrition variables which appear to consistently be associated with overweight and/or BMI are linolenic acid, saturated fat and grain products. A significant difference in linolenic acid, phosphorous and iron was found between healthy weight and overweight/obese children. Also, meeting the DRI recommendations of various nutrients differs among children from various demographic and socioeconomic groups.
Diagnosis of Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS)
Creators: name: Catassi, Carlo
name: Elli, Luca
name: Bonaz, Bruno
name: Bouma, Gerd
name: Carroccio, Antonio
name: Castillejo, Gemma
name: Cellier, Christophe
name: Cristofori, Fernanda
name: Magistris, Laura De
name: Dolinsek, Jernej
name: Dieterich, Walburga
name: Francavilla, Ruggiero
name: Hadjivassiliou, Marios
name: Holtmeier, Wolfgang
name: Körner, Ute
name: Leffler, Dan A.
name: Lundin, Knut E. A.
name: Mazzarella, Giuseppe
name: Mulder, Chris J.
name: Pellegrini, Nicoletta
name: Rostami, Kamran
name: Sanders, David
name: Skodje, Gry Irene
name: Schuppan, Detlef
name: Ullrich, Reiner
name: Volta, Umberto
name: Williams, Marianne
name: Zevallos, Victor F.
name: Zopf, Yurdagül
name: Fasano, Alessio
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: non-celiac gluten sensitivity
subject: diagnosis
subject: double-blind placebo-controlled challenge
subject: gastrointestinal symptom rating scale
subject: irritable bowel syndrome
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) is a syndrome characterized by intestinal and extra-intestinal symptoms related to the ingestion of gluten-containing food, in subjects that are not affected by either celiac disease or wheat allergy. Given the lack of a NCGS biomarker, there is the need for standardizing the procedure leading to the diagnosis confirmation. In this paper we report experts’ recommendations on how the diagnostic protocol should be performed for the confirmation of NCGS. A full diagnostic procedure should assess the clinical response to the gluten-free diet (GFD) and measure the effect of a gluten challenge after a period of treatment with the GFD. The clinical evaluation is performed using a self-administered instrument incorporating a modified version of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale. The patient identifies one to three main symptoms that are quantitatively assessed using a Numerical Rating Scale with a score ranging from 1 to 10. The double-blind placebo-controlled gluten challenge (8 g/day) includes a one-week challenge followed by a one-week washout of strict GFD and by the crossover to the second one-week challenge. The vehicle should contain cooked, homogeneously distributed gluten. At least a variation of 30% of one to three main symptoms between the gluten and the placebo challenge should be detected to discriminate a positive from a negative result. The guidelines provided in this paper will help the clinician to reach a firm and positive diagnosis of NCGS and facilitate the comparisons of different studies, if adopted internationally.
Les apports de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés à la problématique de la détermination de la peine.
Creators: name: Lapointe, Manon.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: La determination de la peine est une composante importante du systeme de justice penale. Des 1982, la Charte canadienne apportait la promesse d'une reconnaissance accrue de certaines valeurs souhaitables dans le systeme de justice penale, telles que la moderation, l'equite et la proportionnalite. L'hypothese de base voulant que la Charte canadienne proposait des solutions au probleme de l'incoherence dans le prononce des peines n'a pas ete verifiee. Au contraire, il s'est avere qu'elle avait servi a confirmer des elements a la base de la problematique. Pourtant, l'art. 7 de la Charte canadienne avait permis la reconnaissance de la proportionnalite entre la culpabilite morale et la severite de la peine, une avancee interessante vers une plus grande coherence dans le prononce des peines. Cependant, le principe n'a pas recu d'application concrete. La reconnaissance de la protection du public comme principe fondamental est capable d'ecarter la proportionnalite lorsqu'elle est un facteur preponderant. La norme de la peine "exagerement disproportionnee", qui doit etre rencontree pour qu'une violation de l'art. 12 soit constatee, constitue une norme de proportionnalite plus exigeante que celle de la proportionnalite simple reconnue pour l'art. 7. La jurisprudence des art. 9 et 15 n'apporte quant a elle aucune solution originale au probleme de l'incoherence dans le prononce des peines, en ce qu'elle se borne a reprendre les conclusions applicables aux art. 7 et 12 ou a confirmer la jurisprudence anterieure a la Charte canadienne. Dans sa jurisprudence, la Cour supreme a meme cautionne certains elements de la theorie de la peine qui favorisent l'absence de coherence tels que la theorie plurifonctionnelle de la peine, le maintien d'une discretion peu contenue des divers intervenants dans le domaine et la conservation du bareme actuel des peines. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Gute fachliche Anwendung von Nagetierbekämpfungsmitteln
Creators: name: Friesen, Anton
name: Geduhn, Anke
name: Hein, Susanne
name: Jahn, Barbara
name: Kehrer, Anja
name: Riedhammer, Caroline
name: Schmolz, Eric
name: Schwarz-Schulz, Beatrice
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Rodentizid
subject: Nagetier
subject: Schädlingsbekämpfung
subject: Nagetierbekämpfung
subject: Nagetierbekämpfungsmittel
subject: Mittel gegen Nagetiere
subject: Rodentizide
subject: antikoagulante Rodentizide
subject: Antikoagulanzien
subject: Rattengift
subject: Rattenbekämpfung
subject: Rattenbekämpfungsmittel
subject: Chemikalien

description: Dieses Handbuch richtet sich an Personen, die im Rahmen ihrer beruflichen Tätigkeit, Ratten und Mäuse mit antikoagulanten Rodentiziden bekämpfen und dafür entweder geschult wurden oder über eine entsprechende Ausbildung oder Sachkunde verfügen. Das Handbuch enthält Anwendungsbestimmungen, die für eine rechtskonforme, sichere und wirksame Verwendung dieser Biozid-Produkte einzuhalten sind.
Classical vs. Quantum Plasmon-enhanced Spectroscopy and Nano-optical Applications in Two-dimensional Materials
Creators: name: Mantilla, Alexander Benjamin Conrad
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: 2D Materials
Ferroelectrics
Nano-optics
Plasmonics
Microscopy

description: The development of technology follows closely behind novel discoveries in scientific research. With each discovery, modern research and development has been increasingly pushed toward the nanoscale. Increasing interest in materials existing at the nanoscale for technological components has highlighted increasingly prevalent practical limitations within conventional measurement techniques. One such limitation has been the inability to perform nanoscale spatial characterization of functional materials from optical diffraction limits. To address this, the growing field of nanoscale plasmonics has demonstrated super-resolved spectroscopic microscopy through near-field optical field enhancement.
description: This dissertation focuses on two novel research directions, designated as Part II and Part III within the text. Part II focuses on advancements in our fundamental understanding of plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions through AFM-coupled, plasmon-enhanced optical microscopy. In Chapters 4 and 5 we will elucidate fundamental phenomena from nanoscale plasmons and enhanced optical fields, and then follow up in Chapters 6 and 7 with demonstrations of the practical considerations when conducting near-field spectroscopy. These studies will lay the groundwork for Part III, which focuses on applying plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions towards 2D materials – nanoscale materials of increasing interest for electronic component miniaturization. In Chapter 8, we will demonstrate a novel technique for nanoscale characterization of domain boundaries in a thin film ferroelectric. Then, in Chapter 9 we will demonstrate how plasmon-mediated charge transfer and injection can be used for optoelectronic control of thin film semiconductor/ferroelectric heterostructures and devices.
description: Additionally, we will discuss the fundamentals of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy as well as 2D materials in the background information of Part I. Finally, we will end the dissertation by discussing possible future research directions in Part IV.
title: Early-stage heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the pig
title: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reiter, Ursula
name: Reiter, Gert
name: Manninger, Martin
name: Adelsmayr, Gabriel
name: Schipke, Julia
name: Alogna, Alessio
name: Rajces, Alexandra
name: Stalder, Aurelien F.
name: Greiser, Andreas
name: Muehlfeld, Christian
name: Scherr, Daniel
name: Post, Heiner
name: Pieske, Burkert
name: Fuchsjaeger, Michael
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Diastolic dysfunction
subject: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
subject: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
subject: Dobutamine stress
subject: Porcine model
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The hypertensive deoxy-corticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt-treated pig (hereafter, DOCA pig) was recently introduced as large animal model for early-stage heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The aim of the present study was to evaluate cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) of DOCA pigs and weight-matched control pigs to characterize ventricular, atrial and myocardial structure and function of this phenotype model. Methods Five anesthetized DOCA and seven control pigs underwent 3 T CMR at rest and during dobutamine stress. Left ventricular/atrial (LV/LA) function and myocardial mass (LVMM), strains and torsion were evaluated from (tagged) cine imaging. 4D phase-contrast measurements were used to assess blood flow and peak velocities, including transmitral early-diastolic (E) and myocardial tissue (E’) velocities and coronary sinus blood flow. Myocardial perfusion reserve was estimated from stress-to-rest time-averaged coronary sinus flow. Global native myocardial T1 times were derived from prototype modified Look-Locker inversion-recovery (MOLLI) short-axis T1 maps. After in-vivo measurements, transmural biopsies were collected for stereological evaluation including the volume fractions of interstitium (VV(int/LV)) and collagen (VV(coll/LV)). Rest, stress, and stress-to-rest differences of cardiac and myocardial parameters in DOCA and control animals were compared by t-test. Results In DOCA pigs LVMM (p
Vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean.
Creators: name: Song, Jung-Sook.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: In this study, I will try to show that vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean can be described as a (-ATR) spreading rule. The assumption that the harmonizing feature is (-ATR) is based on Hall and Hall (1980) in the case of Nez Perce, and on Hwang's formant analysis (1983) in the case of Korean. By using radical underspecification and a hierarchical theory of feature structure as the framework of analysis, vowel harmony will be described as a feature spreading rule: spread (-ATR), and the transparency of neutral vowels in the harmonizing process will be accounted for. On the other hand, I will show that in Korean there was a historical change in the type and nature of vowel harmony.
PEACE: Pulsar evaluation algorithm for candidate extraction-a software package for post-analysis processing of pulsar survey candidates
Creators: name: Lee, K. J.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Jenet, F. A.
name: Martinez, J.
name: Dartez, L. P.
name: Mata, A.
name: Lunsford, G.
name: Cohen, S.
name: Biwer, C. M.
name: Rohr, M.
name: Flanigan, J.
name: Walker, A.
name: Banaszak, S.
name: Allen, B.
name: Barr, Ewan
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Bogdanov, S.
name: Brazier, A.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Champion, D. J.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Cordes, J.
name: Crawford, F.
name: Deneva, J.
name: Desvignes, G.
name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Freire, P.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Karuppusamy, R.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Knispel, B.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: Lynch, R.
name: Lyne, A.
name: McLaughlin, M.
name: Ransom, S.
name: Scholz, P.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Spitler, L.
name: Stairs, I.
name: Tan, M.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Modern radio pulsar surveys produce a large volume of prospective candidates, the majorityof which are polluted by human-created radio frequency interference or other forms of noise. Typically, large numbers of candidates need to be visually inspected in order to determineif they are real pulsars. This process can be labour intensive. In this paper, we introducean algorithm called Pulsar Evaluation Algorithm for Candidate Extraction (PEACE) whichimproves the efficiency of identifying pulsar signals. The algorithm ranks the candidates basedon a score function. Unlike popular machine-learning-based algorithms, no prior training datasets are required. This algorithm has been applied to data from several large-scale radiopulsar surveys. Using the human-based ranking results generated by students in the AreciboRemote Command Center programme, the statistical performance of PEACE was evaluated. It was found that PEACE ranked 68 per cent of the student-identified pulsars within the top0.17 per cent of sorted candidates, 95 per cent within the top 0.34 per cent and 100 per centwithin the top 3.7 per cent. This clearly demonstrates that PEACE significantly increases thepulsar identification rate by a factor of about 50 to 1000. To date, PEACE has been directlyresponsible for the discovery of 47 new pulsars, 5 of which are millisecond pulsars that maybe useful for pulsar timing based gravitational-wave detection projects.
title: Air Quality 2020
title: Air Quality 2020
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dauert, Ute
name: Feigenspan, Stefan
name: Kessinger, Susan
name: Minkos, Andrea
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Luftgüte
subject: Stickstoffdioxid
subject: PM10
subject: air quality
subject: Corona
subject: Lockdown
subject: NO2
subject: Air

description: The publication describes the preliminary status of German air quality in 2020. Regarding PM (particulate matter) the reduction of pollution has continued. Consistently to this development, there are hardly any exceedances of the EU annul limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). And there was less ozone pollution than in both previous years. The second part of the reports deals with the influence of the measures to contain the Corona pandemic in Germany and Europe, as well. Therefore, assessments of the German Federal states, the German Weather Service and the European Environment Agency and the UBA have been included. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: The publication describes the preliminary status of German air quality in 2020. Regarding PM (particulate matter) the reduction of pollution has continued. Consistently to this development, there are hardly any exceedances of the EU annul limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). And there was less ozone pollution than in both previous years. The second part of the reports deals with the influence of the measures to contain the Corona pandemic in Germany and Europe, as well. Therefore, assessments of the German Federal states, the German Weather Service and the European Environment Agency and the ⁠UBA⁠ have been included.
Tabanus punctipleura Hine 1920
Creators: name: Dutra, Maria Carolina Pimenta
name: Amorim, Dalton De Souza
name: Carmo, Daniel Dias Dornelas Do
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Tabanus
Tabanus punctipleura

description: Tabanus punctipleura Hine
(Figs 48 A–D, 49)
Tabanus punctipleura Hine, 1920: 314 (list of species); Kröber, 1930a: 261 (Tabanus (Lophotabanus )) (Tax. Tabanini), 1934: 296 (cat.; Tabanus (Lophotabanus )); Fairchild, 1947: 569, figs. 4, 4a, 4b (list of species), 1961c: 32 (list of species), 1971: 100 (cat.); Hogue & Fairchild, 1974: 26 (list of species); Moucha, 1976: 134 (cat.); Fairchild, 1984: 33, map 4, 1986: 123 (rev.); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 147 (cat.); Cambra, 2006: 124–125, table 2 (list of species); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 140 (cat);
Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama.
Type-locality: Costa Rica, San Carlos.
Diagnosis: One of the largest species of Tabanus in the Americas (Fairchild, 1984) (reaching 23mm). Frons narrow (FI: 5.6), parallel or divergent at the base (DI: 1.0). Postpedicel with a long dorsal tooth, larger than one-third of the postpedicel’s size. Scutum and scutellum integument purplish-brown with gray pruinosity and black setulae. Pleura yellowish-brown setulose except for a well-defined tuft of dark setulae below the wing base. Wing light brown infuscated. Abdomen integument darker than thorax, without any dorsal setulose or integument well-defined spots, triangles or stripes, except for pale yellow setulose tufts on the posterolateral margin of tergites I to IV or V.
Remarks: We had no specimens of T. punctipleura available for examination in this study. The species diagnosis presented here is based on Hine’s (1920 b) description, on Fairchild’s (1947, 1984, 1986) comments, and on photos of the holotype made available in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History database. T. punctipleura is easily distinguished from other species in the T. nebulosus group due to the absence of any dorsal spots, triangles or stripes on the abdomen, whether it integumental or setulose, the long postpedicel tooth, and the well-defined setulose dark tuft on the pleura (see T.lutzi). The male is similar to the female except for the reduced mouthparts, slender antenna lacking the ventral angle found in females, holoptic eyes with the facets poorly-demarcated, and the largest ones occupying less than a half of the upper eye areal (Fairchild, 1986). T. punctipleura has part of the Andean/Mesoamerican components of Amorim & Pires (1996, Fig. 27), and it would not be a surprise to find the species further north in Central America and in Colombia west to the Andes in the areas of Cauca, Bojayá etc.
description: Published as part of Dutra, Maria Carolina Pimenta, Amorim, Dalton De Souza & Carmo, Daniel Dias Dornelas Do, 2025, Taxonomic revision of the Tabanus nebulosus species group (Diptera: Tabanidae), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 5588 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14895899
Stress and coping near the end of life.
Creators: name: De Faye, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The stressors facing people who must deal with a terminal diagnosis and palliative care are complex and varied. However, relatively little is known about the manner in which people cope with these stressors. Additionally, there has been little research into those characteristics that may predispose individuals to cope in particular ways. Therefore, this study investigates the process of coping with various end-of-life stressors, while also considering individual differences in how people prefer to cope. Fifty-two people who were receiving palliative care for advanced cancer underwent in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The interviews considered the tendency to monitor (focus on) or blunt (avoid) threat-relevant cues when dealing with stress, and whether this tendency was predictive of variations in actual coping behaviour, or variations in the experience of distress. Stress and coping were examined within three distinct conceptual dimensions comprising physical symptoms, social issues, and existential concerns. Specifically, participants were asked to identify their most significant problem in each dimension, and then to report how they coped with those problems. Their coping responses were then coded as reflecting either "problem-focused," "emotion-focused approach" or "emotion-focused avoidance". The results revealed that, unlike other health-related research, the tendency to "monitor" or "blunt" did not predict variations in the experience of psychological distress or variations in self-reported coping behaviour. Across the three dimensions of stress, physical symptoms received the highest severity ratings, but the dimensions were significantly intercorrelated with one another. A consistent individual difference was also noted in terms of the numbers of coping strategies participants generated to manage stressors. That is, participants who reported using a high number of coping strategies to manage a social stressor also reported using a high number of strategies in response to stressors in the other two dimensions. Participants generally used a combination of specific coping strategies to deal with their stressors. However, there were clear differences across dimensions of stress in the relative use of problem-focused versus emotion-focused strategies. Problem-focused coping was uncommon for existential issues while emotion-focused approach and emotion-focused avoidance strategies were used less frequently for physical stressors. Coping efforts were not related to psychological distress or to discrete anxiety and depressive disorders, which were diagnosed in 44.2% of the participants.
Des projets fondationnels de Husserl et de Frege à la perspective de Wittgenstein.
Creators: name: Djibo, Mamadou.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Cette these divisee en trois parties, comporte deux caracteristiques essentielles: (1) Elle comporte une teneure mathematique: des progres accomplis entre 1870 et 1914 par les mathematiciens au sein des savoirs que sont l'analyse infinitesimale, l'algebre, la geometrie etc. ont conferre une place sui generis a l'algebre. Sa redefinition va integrer des objets quelconques et non plus seulement les simples techniques du calcul litteral. Aussi certains mathematiciens observerent un desinteret pour ces calculs au profit d'une reflexion theorique autour du mot d'ordre de Dirichlet de "substituer les idees au calcul" (Lecons sur la Theorie des nombres (1871). L'enjeu consistait a donner un fondement sur au concept de nombre. (2) Historiquement, c'est entre 1891 et 1906 que Frege et Husserl ont entretenu un echange epistolaire sur la question. Pour Husserl, eleve de Brentano, ce fondement est a trouver dans le sujet connaissant, pole constitutif de tous les ordres du savoir. Sa Philosophie de l'Arithmetique (1891) en donne les contours. Critique et oppose a cette base psychologiste, Frege va presenter son approche qui privilegie la logique. Dans les Fondements de l'arithmetique (1884), Frege estime que l'arithmetique entiere peut etre reduite aux lois de logique generale. Cette reduction de l'arithmetique a la logique donna naissance a la tradition logiciste qui fut mortellement ebranlee par le paradoxe de Russell (1902) et inaugura la crise des fondements de type ensembliste. Aux alentours de 1894, Husserl abandonna le psychologisme. Faut-il y voir l'influence de Frege? Cette question est debatue dans la 2e partie de la these par Mohanty et Dummett. Ils ne s'entendent ni sur la date de l'abandon par Husserl du psychologisme ni sur l'influence que Frege aurait pu exercer sur lui. La troisieme partie est un recours a Wittgenstein. Elle porte sur ce qu'on peut percevoir comme esquisse d'une solution qui passe par le renoncement de la philosophie a fonder les objets mathematiques qui ne sont que des conventions, brisant ainsi 2000 ans de domination platoniste. D'aucuns taxent la position de Wittgenstein de strict finitisme. Si cela s'averait juste, n'y-a-t-il pas la un lien possible entre Wittgenstein et le constructivisme de Kronecker?
The role of geographic factors in development initiatives: Lake Victoria Region of Uganda.
Creators: name: Butera Bazimya, Peter.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: This research study investigates the role of geographic factors in development initiatives in the Lake Victoria Region of Uganda. The empirical component of the study is based on two informational activities. First, almost 300 development initiatives identified through an extensive review of public documents are evaluated by means of on-site investigations and consultations with research contacts. Second, and in order to document the perceptions or opinions of those for whom development initiatives are (purportedly) undertaken, responses to interviews with community elders are part of the thesis data base. The central findings of the research are that the failure of development initiatives to date can be traced in part to lack of regard for geographic factors in development programs and projects. The study concludes with suggestions on how to better incorporate geographic factors into the design and implementation of development policies, principles and practices that are required to attain sustainable development in the Lake Victoria Region of Uganda.
CD4 expression on human monocytes and lymphocytes from HIV seropositive patients. A flow cytometric analysis.
Creators: name: Nowak, Monika.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: Mononuclear phagocytes are one of the targets for HIV-1 infection. We wished to study the HIV receptor, CD4, on fresh blood monocytes, as well as a group of cell adhesion molecules (CD11/CD18) on cultured monocytes. The objectives were: (1) to determine the frequency and antigenic density of surface CD4 on blood monocytes, (2) to establish the effect of HIV infection on CD4 density on T cells and monocytes and (3) to determine the effect of growth factors on the expression of CD11/CD18 molecules on cultured monocytes. We found that all monocytes are CD4+ in normal donors and HIV infected patients. The relative concentration of monocytes was not affected in HIV infected patients in contrast to the decline in T cells. In HIV+ patients, the CD4 density on monocytes is increased (p 0.05) but is decreased on T cells (p 0.05). The lower CD4 antigenic density in T cells correlated with the decreased frequency of CD4+ T cells (p 0.03). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Cochlear Implantation of Bilaterally Deafened Patients with Tinnitus Induces Sustained Decrease of Tinnitus-Related Distress
Creators: name: Knopke, Steffen
name: Szczepek, Agnieszka J.
name: Häussler, Sophia Marie
name: Gräbel, Stefan
name: Olze, Heidi
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: cochlear implantation
subject: hearing impairment
subject: health-related quality of life
subject: tinnitus-related distress
subject: depressive symptoms
subject: anxiety
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: Tinnitus is a common symptom of hearing impairment. Patients who are bilaterally hard of hearing are often affected by tinnitus. However, they cannot undergo any of the standard tinnitus therapies, since they rely on hearing. Cochlear implantation (CI) used to treat severe hearing disabilities, such as bilateral hearing loss, was also shown to reduce tinnitus. Our goal was to determine if CI induces sustained reduction of tinnitus. We performed prospective, longitudinal analyses of tinnitus-related distress in a uniform group of bilaterally deafened patients after CI. Patients and Methods: The homogenous sample consisted of 41 patients who met the inclusion criteria and were consecutively included in this study. The impact of unilateral CI on tinnitus-related distress, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and hearing abilities was studied with validated instruments. The follow-up appointments were scheduled at 6, 12, and 24 months after CI surgery. During the appointments, hearing abilities were estimated with monosyllabic Freiburg test, whereas the tinnitus-related distress, the HRQoL, and the subjective hearing were measured with standard questionnaires [Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ), Nijmegen Cochlear Implantation Questionnaire, and Oldenburg Inventory, respectively]. Results: Tinnitus-related distress decreased significantly from the mean TQ score of 35.0 (SD = 19.6) prior to surgery to the mean TQ = 27.54 (SD = 20.0) 6 months after surgery and remained sustained low until the end of follow-up period. In addition, CI significantly improved the hearing abilities and the HRQoL of all patients. Conclusion: The results from our prospective study suggest that in a homogenous sample of bilaterally deafened, implanted patients who report having tinnitus prior to surgery, CI alone not only improves the hearing abilities but also significantly reduces the tinnitus- related distress and improves the HRQoL in a sustained way.
Software test generation based on flow models.
Creators: name: Yang, Bo.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Software testing is one of the most widely used quality assurance methodologies. A large software system usually has a hierarchical structure: for example, system, subsystems (programs), subprograms, and procedures, where a subsystem is composed of a number of subprograms, each of which in turn is composed of a number of procedures. Testing of a system can be done at different levels with different emphases. In this thesis, we focus on testing at the two lowest levels, namely procedure and subprogram levels. Until recently, many testing techniques used control flow graph or its variants for selecting the tests. It is known that such a flow model is only capable of capturing the control flow. For data flow oriented testing, the def-use graph is used to represent both control flow and data flow. Based on this model, we propose a class of data flow oriented test selection criteria using input-output and input-predicate relations. These criteria are shown to have certain merits over the existing test selection criteria. However, a def-use graph can be only used to capture control flow and data flow within a procedure. Since control flow and data flow also exist among interacting procedures in a subprogram, a more expressive model is necessary in order to perform testing at subprogram level. Such a model is proposed by extending the def-use graph model. By using this model, the tests generated using a test selection criterion are shown to be more meaningful and, likely, more effective in detecting errors.
Association between Diet Quality and Adiposity in the Atlantic PATH Cohort
Creators: name: DeClercq, Vanessa
name: Cui, Yunsong
name: Forbes, Cynthia
name: Grandy, Scott A.
name: Keats, Melanie
name: Parker, Louise
name: Sweeney, Ellen
name: Yu, Zhijie Michael
name: Dummer, Trevor J. B.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The aim of this study was to examine diet quality among participants in the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (PATH) cohort and to assess the association with adiposity. Data were collected from participants (n = 23,768) aged 35–69 years that were residents of the Atlantic Canadian provinces. Both measured and self-reported data were used to examine adiposity (including body mass index (BMI), abdominal obesity, waist-to-hip ratio and fat mass) and food frequency questionnaires were used to assess diet quality. Overall, diet quality was statistically different among provinces. Of concern, participants across all the provinces reported consuming only 1–2 servings of vegetables and 1–2 servings fruit per day. However, participants also reported some healthy dietary choices such as consuming more servings of whole grains than refined grains, and eating at fast food restaurants ≤1 per month. Significant differences in BMI, body weight, percentage body fat, and fat mass index were also observed among provinces. Adiposity measures were positively associated with consumption of meat/poultry, fish, snack food, sweeteners, diet soft drinks, and frequenting fast food restaurants, and inversely associated with consumption of whole grains and green tea. Although all four provinces are in the Atlantic region, diet quality vary greatly among provinces and are associated with adiposity.
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Creators: name: Baboux, Florent
name: De Bernardis, Daniele
name: Goblot, Valentin
name: Gladilin, Vladimir
name: Gomez, Carmen
name: galopin, elisabeth
name: Le Gratiet, Luc
name: Lemaitre, Aristide
name: SAGNES, ISABELLE
name: Carusotto, Iacopo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplemental document.
Smoking, Gender, and Overweight Are Important Influencing Factors on Monocytic HLA-DR before and after Major Cancer Surgery
Creators: name: Lachmann, Gunnar
name: Von Haefen, Clarissa
name: Kurth, Johannes
name: Yuerek, Fatima
name: Wernecke, Klaus-Dieter
name: Spies, Claudia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background. Monocytic human leukocyte antigen D related (mHLA-DR) is essential for antigen-presentation. Downregulation of mHLA-DR emerged as a general biomarker of impaired immunity seen in patients with sepsis and pneumonia and after major surgery. Influencing factors of mHLA-DR such as age, overweight, diabetes, smoking, and gender remain unclear. Methods. We analyzed 20 patients after esophageal or pancreatic resection of a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial (placebo group). mHLA-DR was determined from day of surgery (od) until postoperative day (pod) 5. Statistical analyses were performed using multivariate generalized estimating equation analyses (GEE), nonparametric multivariate analysis of longitudinal data, and univariate post hoc nonparametric Mann–Whitney tests. Results. In GEE, smoking and gender were confirmed as significant influencing factors over time. Univariate analyses of mHLA-DR between smokers and nonsmokers showed lower preoperative levels () and a trend towards lower levels on pod5 () in smokers. Lower mHLA-DR was seen in men on pod3 () and on pod5 (). Overweight patients (BMI > 25 kg/m2) had lower levels of mHLA-DR on pod3 () and pod4 (). Conclusion. Smoking is an important influencing factor on pre- and postoperative immune function while postoperative immune function was influenced by gender and overweight. Clinical trial registered with ISRCTN27114642.
Development of pavement crack analysis algorithms using deep learning techniques to analyze UAV images
Creators: name: Moon, Byungkyu
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Image processing
Pavement
public abstract
Machine Learning

description: The pavement condition is periodically evaluated by publics agencies, where the collected data are used to determine how to distribute limited funds to maintain pavements. Because the traditional pavement condition survey method using cameras mounted on a vehicle suffers from the lack of repeatability with a high cost, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is considered as a promising tool to evaluate pavement conditions at a significantly lower cost. Inspired by current achievements of deep learning technology in various computer vision applications, this thesis presents automated crack detection algorithms using deep learning for UAV images of roads.
description: In order to develop pavement extraction and crack segmentation algorithms, U-Net was selected as a base model, and contracting encoder path of the U-Net model was modified with four different feature extraction deep learning models (VGG 16, Inception V3, ResNet 50, DenseNet 169). A tile-based pavement crack analysis system was then developed and applied to measure percent cracking and crack widths from the asphalt pavement sections. The developed crack analysis system can help public agencies manage pavements in a systematic and cost-effective manner.