cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document for Effective-Zero-Thickness Terahertz Slot Antennas Using Stepped Structures - 5285481.pdf
Creators: name: Yun, Hyeong Seok
name: Lee, Dukhyung
name: Kim, Dai-Sik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Learning to Teach-in-Relation: Community Service Learning, Phenomenology, and the Medicine Wheel
Creators: name: Streit, Desiree
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Learning to teach-in-relation
phenomenology
relational
embodied
community service learning
perception
Indigenous knowledge

description: The focus of this phenomenological research project is to delve into the question of ‘what it is like’ for teacher candidates to experience the phenomenon of learning to teach-in-relation in the context of a community service learning project. A sense of the phenomena of learning to teach-in-relation emerges as the five teacher candidates make and play with hula hoops beyond the initial intention of cultivating joyful physical activity on campus. This research is guided by van Manen’s (1997) phenomenological approach to researching lived experience, as well as an Indigenous research framework based on the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the medicine wheel. Within the relational and embodied framework of the medicine wheel, the following six significant themes shifted perceptions of what it means to teach: 1) waiting to learn; 2) shaping community; 3) learning in movement; 4) sitting with students; 5) learning with students; and 6) embodying a flexible practice.
Additional file 1 of Allelic diversity and patterns of selection at the major histocompatibility complex class I and II loci in a threatened shorebird, the Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus)
Creators: name: Cruz-López, Medardo
name: Fernández, Guillermo
name: Hipperson, Helen
name: Palacios, Eduardo
name: Cavitt, John
name: Galindo-Espinosa, Daniel
name: Angel, Salvador Gómez Del
name: Pruner, Raya
name: Gonzalez, Oscar
name: Burke, Terry
name: Küpper, Clemens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Graphical representation of nucleotide diversity and dN/dS ratios for MHC class I and MHC class II. Silhouettes represent Charadriiform species, i.e. MHC class I (from top to bottom: Red Knot, Black-tailed Godwit, Red-billed Gull and Snowy Plover) and MHC class II (from top to bottom: Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Black-legged Kittiwake, Atlantic Puffin, Common Murre, Snowy Plover, Great Snipe and Razorbill). Arrows represent strength of selection in both MHC classes for the Snowy Plover in comparison to the other species. Table S1. Results of generalized linear models testing the differences in the number of alleles per individual between populations for the MHC class I and class II in the Snowy Plover. Table S2. Results of generalized linear models testing the differences in the number of alleles between populations for the MHC class I and class II in the Snowy Plover. Table S3. Sequences ID list randomly drawn for the MHC class I and MHC class II species comparison.
Additional file 4 of Mechanical force-induced morphology changes in a human fungal pathogen
Creators: name: Puerner, Charles
name: Kukhaleishvili, Nino
name: Thomson, Darren
name: Schaub, Sebastien
name: Noblin, Xavier
name: Seminara, Agnese
name: Bassilana, Martine
name: Arkowitz, Robert A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Strains used in the study [61, 62]. Table S2. Oligonucleotides used in the study. Table S3. Synthesized DNA used in the study.
Microbial and functional diversity associated with hydrocarbon seeps in the tropical Timor Sea, Australia
Creators: name: Wasmund, Kenneth
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2009
Subjects: microbial diversity
functional genes
methane
oil
hydrocarbon seep
marine

description: Natural hydrocarbon seeps emit large quantities of methane (a strong greenhouse gas) and petroleum hydrocarbons (potential pollutants) to vast areas of the tropical Timor Sea, Australia. Microorganisms capable of oxidizing methane and petroleum hydrocarbons are expected to play an essential role in seep associated ecosystems by reducing fluxes of methane gas to the atmosphere, degrading and therefore reducing the potential negative impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons on marine ecosystem function and biodiversity, and by contributing to local and ecosystem wide energy and carbon cycles. This thesis applied molecular methods to investigate the overall diversity of microbial communities within sediments of hydrocarbon seeps in the tropical Timor Sea and specifically focused on functional microbial populations involved in methane and petroleum hydrocarbon oxidation.
Supplementary document for Effective-Zero-Thickness Terahertz Slot Antennas Using Stepped Structures - 5285481.pdf
Creators: name: Yun, Hyeong Seok
name: Lee, Dukhyung
name: Kim, Dai-Sik
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
The Effect of IFRS Adoption on Earnings Informativeness in Canadian Family Firms
Creators: name: Bleackley, Adam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: IFRS adoption
earnings informativeness
family firms

description: In recent years, there has been a global trend of adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In 2011, Canada joined this trend by implementing mandatory IFRS adoption for publicly traded firms. Proponents of IFRS adoption claim that it will benefit investors by improving comparability and transparency of firms. At the same time, research on family firms has seen increasing focus. Because of family ties to the firm, family firms can exhibit different motivations, behaviours and performance than do non-family firms. In this research, I attempt to gain insight on the effects of IFRS adoption for a unique set of firms, namely publicly traded family firms by examining the effect of IFRS adoption on earnings informativeness. Although previous literature examines the economic consequences of IFRS adoption, my study is the first to my knowledge that examines IFRS adoption effects on the unique set of family firms. I run a pooled regression to examine the effects of IFRS adoption on earnings informativeness. I find that IFRS adoption by Canadian family firms is associated with a statistically significant higher level of earnings informativeness. The findings of this research could have implications for standard setters, minority shareholders of family firms, and academic researchers.
Evolutionary and Physiological Adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Elevated Concentrations of Sodium Chloride
Creators: name: Taha, Mariam
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Bacteria
Sodium Chloride
Evolution
Adaptation
Pseudomonas aeruginosa

description: I have investigated the evolutionary response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to salt (NaCl) stress, and the physiological mechanisms responsible for this adaptation. Populations of P. aeruginosa founded from the same ancestral genotype were selected at three different concentrations of NaCl, low, moderate and high for about 660 generations with four independent replicates for each concentration. Adaptation was measured as the fitness of the evolved populations relative to the ancestor assessed in direct, head-to-head competition experiments conducted in the same environment in which they were selected (direct response) as well as in all alternative environments (correlated response). Results suggest that selection in each salt environment led to adaptation to that environment and a modest degree of specialization that evolved because correlated responses to selection were smaller than direct responses. In order to identify the physiological mechanisms contributing to the populations' adaptation in high NaCl concentration, I chose a sample of evolved lines that showed the strongest evidence for specialization to salt and competed them against the common ancestor in KCl and sucrose. Results suggested that increased Na+ /H+ antiporter activity is probably the primary mechanism behind adaptation to high NaCl concentration, however alternative mechanisms cannot be excluded. Tolerance curves, which measure the performance of a genotype across a gradient of salt concentrations, suggested no change in the high salt group’s ability to tolerate extreme concentrations of NaCl. We conclude that high salt evolved population showed improvements to its ionic/osmotic stress resistance strategies mainly to Na+ efflux strategies but with no changes to salt niche.
Comparison of Indwelling Pleural Catheters and Chemical Pleurodesis Through Tube Thoracostomy for the Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions
Creators: name: Srour, Nadim
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Malignant pleural effusions
Pleurodesis
Talc
Indwelling pleural catheter
Pleurx
Survival
Treatment

description: BACKGROUND: Malignant and paramalignant pleural effusions are important complications of many malignancies. The two main management options debated in the literature are: 1) insertion of an indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) to achieve chronic drainage of the effusion, or 2) hospitalization with tube thoracostomy and subsequent chemical pleurodesis (CP) with talc or doxycycline to prevent fluid reaccumulation. We aimed to describe a large series of patients with malignant pleural effusions managed with an IPC, identify and validate factors identified in the literature as predictors of spontaneous pleurodesis in the IPC group and compare the group managed with IPC to patients managed with CP. METHODS: We designed a retrospective cohort study comparing patients with malignant and paramalignant pleural effusions managed either with CP between March 1, 2003 and February 28, 2006 or IPC insertion between May 1, 2006 and April 1, 2009. The CP group was identified through the prescription of talc or doxycycline and the IPC group from the IPC clinic database. Data were collected from paper and electronic records and from the Government of Ontario. RESULTS: We identified 193 consecutive patients with an ECOG performance status of less than 4 (ECOG less than 4 means that the patient is not completely disabled and confined to bed or chair) having undergone IPC insertion and 168 who were managed with CP. None of the variables we tested were significant predictors of spontaneous pleurodesis in the IPC group. Pleural effusion control rates at 6 months were higher in the IPC group than in the CP group (52.7% vs 34.0%, p<0.01) but the rate of freedom from pleural effusion at 180 days and catheter removal at 90 days was not significantly different (25.8% in the IPC group and 34.0% in the CP group p=0.14). Patients in the IPC group had a significantly longer median survival (148 days measured from the date of catheter insertion vs 133 days in the CP group, log-rank p<0.05). CONCLUSION: We found an intriguing possible survival benefit favouring management of malignant or paramalignant effusions with an IPC. Given possible biases due to the design of this study and uncertain explanatory mechanism, this needs to be confirmed in a randomized controlled trial. Quality of life, an important measure of success for these palliative procedures, should also be measured.
Exploring patients’ experiences of non-conveyance after receiving an emergency ambulance service response
Creators: name: King, Robbie
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2024
Subjects: patient experience
non-conveyance
non-transport
paramedic
ambulance
emergency
healthcare
low-acuity
grounded theory
Clinical sciences
Paramedicine

description: This PhD project explored the patient experience of non-conveyance in an Australian jurisdictional ambulance service (JAS) setting. Non-conveyance is defined as a situation where an individual has received a response from an emergency ambulance service and paramedic-led healthcare, that results in a decision for the person to not be transported to a hospital emergency department (ED).
description: This is an outcome that differs from the traditionally expected concept that ambulance services attend acute medical emergencies in the community and transport patients to an ED for further assessment, and if necessary, treatment. From a health system perspective, responses that result in non-conveyance represent a considerable use of emergency ambulance service resources. Non-conveyance episodes also represent the provision of healthcare and complex decision-making by paramedics that may subsequently contribute to a reduction in avoidable presentations to EDs.
description: Previous literature exploring the topic of non-conveyance has investigated whether paramedics have the ability to make safe decisions when selecting which patients are suitable to not convey to ED. Often, variables used as measures of risk included mortality rates, re-presentation rates to emergency services, or subjective interpretation of the ability of paramedics to make appropriate non-conveyance decisions.
description: However, there is a scarcity of knowledge that explores how patients themselves experience the phenomenon and outcomes of non-conveyance. This is despite increasing recognition that better understanding of patient experience is associated with quality, safe, and effective healthcare, and can be beneficial to guiding health policy. Including patients in research provides important insight from the perspective of those who are the recipients of healthcare. This perspective can provide new knowledge to inform paramedic practice and education, as well as novel designs of emergency health service models of care.
Editors' introduction
Creators: name: Ramos, Jose M.
name: O'Connor, Allan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In approaching this Special Issue on Foresight, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FI&E) we considered that globalisation and rapid modernisation were increasingly creating the need for social reflexivity. We thought that in respect to the production and diffusion of innovations, both social and technical, that the landscape for new enterprise was characterised by widening change horizons and deeper ethical concerns. As a consequence of the greater demand for innovation to achieve economic prosperity, it was conceived that 'unforesightful' innovation may have irreparable affects on social and ecological systems and uncertain implications for our futures. Therefore, we considered a new intellectual alliance between FI&E was potentially a matter of human survival. New approaches to thinking about how and what we innovate, the choices we face for new enterprise creation and the influence of infrastructure for generating entrepreneurship, we considered, would need to emerge if we are to positively impact human and planetary sustainability in the 21st century. Hence this special issue was designed to bring together cross-disciplinary research aimed at exploring the synergies between foresight, innovation and entrepreneurship and the way in which these connections may be taking place in both the practical and theoretical sense.
IMPACTS OF INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION ON EMPLOYEES' INNOVATIVE BEHAVIORS: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF CONTINGENT REWARDS
Creators: name: Irfan Ullah Khan, Saqib Khan
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Intellectual stimulation
Contingent incentives
Organizational behavior
Transactional leaders
Leadership practices
Employee's innovative performance
Stimulated behaviors
Fair rewards.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12B: 1-13
The Intersection of Social Justice and the Arts
Creators: name: Power, Suzanne
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2015
Subjects: social justice
pedagogy
the Arts
arts-based pedagogy
socially-just teaching practices
social justice education
graphic elicitation

description: This study was constructed to respond to concerns about the ability of teachers within Queensland Christian Schools to promote student development, understanding and engagement in issues and actions of social justice and how their level of understanding and knowledge of the Arts and their familiarity with and confidence in utilising arts-based pedagogies impact this. An interpretive inquiry using semistructured interviews and arts-based graphic elicitation sought to understand the extent to which teachers within Queensland Christian Schools educate for social justice through the Arts. Discussion centred on the themes of social justice, the Arts and aesthetics, and factors that influence teachers to incorporate these into their programs and pedagogy. Six different elements of social justice engagement were identified. Major findings suggested that the extent to which teachers educate for social justice through the Arts is determined by the quality and level of engagement in the different elements of social justice, teacher knowledge, skills and attitudes towards the Arts, and different personal and professional motivating factors. Specific training and support in aesthetics, the different forms of art, social justice and educating for social justice, including the incorporation of social justice understandings and actions into learning programs, were identified as areas requiring action to support teachers in increasing their own and their student's capacities for social justice and to empower social justice actions. Further research is suggested to understand the connection teachers make in connecting social justice and the Arts.
Assessment of Impacts of a European Register of Products Containing Nanomaterials
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nanomaterialien
subject: Folgenabschätzung
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: The implementation of a nanoproduct register as an instrument to increase the transparency on the use of nanomaterials in the EU and to ensure the regulatory oversight on nanomaterials has been discussed for quite a time. Reasons to implement a register are the uncertainties concerning the evaluation of the possible risks of nanomaterials for human health and the environment and the lack of knowledge of consumers and authorities regarding the use and concentration of nanomaterials in products. In June 2012 the German Federal Environment Agency has published a "Concept of a European Register of Products Containing NanomaterialsŁ (ENPR). According to the concept the manufacturer and importer of nanomaterial containing products with a likely exposure of nanomaterials to human beings and the environment should notify them to a single European register. It is the aim of this study to analyze the impacts of such an ENPR. Therefore sectors and companies concerned by an ENPR were identified and the number of notifiers and notifications, categories of substances, concerned mixtures and articles were estimated. Based on that result the administrative costs for notifiers and the competent authority for an ENPR were quantified and the benefits of an ENPR for public authorities, consumers and notifiers described.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: The implementation of a nanoproduct register as an instrument to increase the transparency on the use of nanomaterials in the EU and to ensure the regulatory oversight on nanomaterials has been discussed for quite a time. Reasons to implement a register are the uncertainties concerning the evaluation of the possible risks of nanomaterials for human health and the environment and the lack of knowledge of consumers and authorities regarding the use and concentration of nanomaterials in products. In June 2012 the German Federal Environment Agency has published a “Concept of a European Register of Products Containing Nanomaterials” (ENPR). According to the concept the manufacturer and importer of nanomaterial containing products with a likely exposure of nanomaterials to human beings and the environment should notify them to a single European register. It is the aim of this study to analyze the impacts of such an ENPR. Therefore sectors and companies concerned by an ENPR were identified and the number of notifiers and notifications, categories of substances, concerned mixtures and articles were estimated. Based on that result the administrative costs for notifiers and the competent authority for an ENPR were quantified and the benefits of an ENPR for public authorities, consumers and notifiers described.
Supplementary document for A highly sensitive detecting system to precisely evaluate emission spectra and quantum efficiency of organic crystal light-emitting transistors - 5285612.pdf
Creators: name: Deng, Jian
name: Wang, Yan
name: Gu, Cheng
name: Ma, Yuguang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells

description: Supplementary figures and tables
Editorial: will thermal spray ever be the basis for a Nobel Prize?
Creators: name: Berndt, Christopher
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The article explores whether or not thermal spray and the researchers who work in the industry will ever win a Nobel Prize. The benefits of winning what is described as the pinnacle of a research scientist's career are given. Other topics include job shops that are spraying tool steel to rehab worn shafts and process zones which enable the creation of new materials.
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF TERMINOLOGY PHRASING IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH FOR SYNTHETIC RESIN PRODUCTION
Creators: name: L.M. Shatilova, O. A. Kasatkina
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Terminological systems
collocation
Special communication
Synthetic resins production in the chemical industry
Term formation.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 12, 11A12C: 1-15
Additional file 10 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 10. Caregivers questionnaire.
Additional file 1 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT diagram. Five hundred twenty-two patients entered the study, of these 78 were diseased at the timepoint of the acquisition of the questionnaires. Therefore, 444 patients and their relatives were approached; 50.7% of these responded, with a ratio of 35.4% of the total population with a valid informed consent.
Differences between Australian and Finnish school students' dispositions towards learning
Creators: name: Willis, Alison
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2009
Subjects: student dispositions
Australia
Finland
student performance
cultural capital

description: This study arose from questions surrounding the performances of school students in Australia and Finland in international comparative studies and the factors that contribute to the differences between these two countries. Specifically, investigation into student dispositions towards learning in Australia and Finland was pursued. Although Finnish students have consistently taken the lead in international academic comparative studies, this project found that as a group their dispositions towards learning are not necessarily more positive than those belonging to Australian students. Using the extensive datasets from OECD's 2000, 2003 and 2006 PISA studies, this project selected items that were specific to student dispositions and conducted quantitative statistical analysis to unearth posited information regarding student dispositions and performance. Research results found that within each country, increasingly positive dispositions were related to improved performance. However, when student dispositions towards learning in Australia and Finland were compared, more positive dispositions did not always equate to higher performance. This project examined these differences and the disparities between the students' dispositions and performance levels to find the crucial importance of cultural capital in the home and school environments. Accordingly, suggestions for improving Australian student performance and recommendations for further research were made with strong reference to the need to raise cultural capital in Australia.
Additional file 2 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Distribution of psychooncologic need of patients and family caregivers. A2a: Relative distribution of patients and relatives over the individual scores of the HSI. A2b: Differences in psychooncologic need in between patients and caregivers. Caregivers have significantly higher unmet need in two of the domains in comparison to patients. Psychoooncologic need was derived from Hornheider Screening Instrument, HIS.
Using Systems Theory to Identify the Components of an Evidence Based Framework for Allied Health Leadership Development
Creators: name: Turato, Gemma
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: allied health
public healthcare
morale
training
systems thinking
Leadership
Management

description: The overall aim of the research project was to explore, interpret and document the key factors that can support an evidence-based leadership development framework for allied health front-line managers working in a large public health organisation. Allied Health is an overarching term used to describe health professionals that are not part of medicine, dental and nursing. They provide specialised support for different patient needs across a diverse range of health services. Existing research indicates that allied health managers working in increasingly complex and challenging healthcare environments do not feel equipped to perform competently in leadership roles. Several respected management experts and scholars emphasised that businesses such as public health organisations are complex social systems and that management and leadership practices must change to be effective in these environments.
description: A qualitative research design using interpretive methodology and based on system’s theory was adopted to explore patterns and relationships within the data and to add in-depth insights into the key factors impacting leadership development in allied health. The study was conducted within a large Australian public hospital and health service situated in a regional area of South East Queensland. A total of 20 allied health front line managers from a variety of professional backgrounds participated in a semi-structured interview. Following the analysis of the interview data, two separate focus groups were held with expert leaders (n=17) from the same organisation to provide further insight into the research topic. The data from the 1:1 interviews and expert leaders focus groups was then presented to 30 (n = 13 male and n = 17 female) allied health front line managers (which included those managers who participated in the semi-structured 1:1 interviews) to review and discuss the findings and confirm their final thoughts and perceptions about the key factors that can support a leadership development framework.
The Effects of the Glyphosate-based Herbicide WeatherMax on Sexual Differentiation and Growth in the Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus)
Creators: name: Robertson, Courtney
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Herbicide
Amphibian
Glyphosate
Polyethoxylated tallowamine
Gene Expression (star, cyp19, cyp17, foxl2)
Wetland

description: Glyphosate-based herbicides are the dominant pesticide on the market and are utilized worldwide in both the agricultural and forestry industries. Their prevalence comes at a time when concern over the potential effects of pesticide application in amphibian spawning grounds is growing. The primary goal of this thesis was to determine if the glyphosate-based herbicide WeatherMax® has the potential to disrupt sexual differentiation and growth in the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) in a pulse exposure at the predicted maximal environmental concentration (PMEC) of 2.88 mg acid equivalent per liter. This was carried out in laboratory, mesocosm and in-situ field exposures, in an attempt to determine how a potential disruption might vary between experimental environments. In this study, tadpoles from three split-wetlands targeted at the PMEC for WeatherMax were found to display no significant change in survival or growth, however gene expression of several genes involved in steroidogenesis during sexual differentiation (cyp19, cyp17, star, foxl2) were found to be affected. The effects on these genes appeared to be dependant on the exposure concentration of WeatherMax in each wetland, which varied even though all three wetlands were meant to target the PMEC. The wetland that was measured as having the highest herbicide concentration (PMEC 13) was found to have a female biased sex ratio. The results found in the field varied from those found in the more artificial exposures. In the laboratory the PMEC of WeatherMax experienced complete mortality, whereas in the mesocosms survival was not significantly affected. Sex ratios were unaffected in the laboratory, however at the PMEC there was a significant male bias in the mesocosms. The discrepancies in the results obtained from the different exposure types highlights the importance of real world exposures. That the same concentration that caused complete mortality in the laboratory caused sublethal effects in the field is of importance as it denotes that these endpoints may not be easily investigated in these synthetic exposures. This project is a part of the Long Term Experimental Wetlands Area (LEWA) and contributes to the body of information amassed therein on the impact of a glyphosate-based herbicide on amphibians in a wetland ecosystem.
Le heavy metal érigé en contre-culture dans le cadre du Record Labeling Hearing : une sous-culture en émergence entre stigmatisation et reconnaissance
Creators: name: Gendreau, Marc-Antoine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: heavy metal
rock
hard rock
Record Labeling Hearing
PMRC
Parents Music Resource Centre
Parental advisory label
sous-culture
contre-culture
RIAA
Record Industry Association of America
United States Senate
Sénat des États-Unis
United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

description: La thèse analyse un document intitulé Record Labeling Hearing (RLH) (1985), qui reprend dans son intégralité une séance qui s’est tenue au Congrès des États-Unis à propos du contenu jugé problématique de certains albums de musique. Au cœur de cette séance, se retrouve le Parents Music Resource Centre (PMRC), un groupe de pression qui voit le jour en 1984. D’après le PMRC, les albums avec des paroles traitant de sexe, de violence, d’occulte, de drogues et d’alcool méritent l’autocollant du « Parental Advisory : Explicit Lyrics » afin d’avertir les parents des thématiques abordées. La séance réunit des sénateurs du Congrès américain, les membres du PMRC et des alliés de ces derniers, dont la National Parent/Teacher Association (NPTA), ainsi que des représentants de l’industrie de la musique et trois artistes. Nous verrons dans la thèse qu’en fait, c’est le heavy metal que le PMRC et ses alliés visaient lors du RLH et non par exemple certains contenus transversaux à divers types d’albums de musique. A cette époque, la sous-culture du heavy metal était encore en émergence et pour tout dire bien fragile. En 1985, elle était même menacée de fragmentation en raison de la popularité de certains de ses sous-genres. Or, en présentant le heavy metal comme une contre-culture, le RLH a aidé ce genre musical à se constituer en véritable sous-culture.
A blueprint for the economic sustainability of the small national airlines of the South Pacific
Creators: name: Taumoepeau, Semisi P
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2007
Subjects: essential airservices
South Pacific airlines
best practice
economic sustainability

description: This thesis aims to determine a blueprint for ensuring the economic sustainability of some small national airlines of the South Pacific countries, lessen the financial burden to governments and peoples of the region and yet deliver essential air services necessary for the economic well being of the region. The air transport sector continues to play a vital role in the economic growth of these sparsely populated islands, scattered across great expanses of the South Pacific Ocean. However, current costs of ownership and operation of small regional airlines in these limited markets and remote small Pacific communities are high and in most cases not economically sustainable. This study reviewed literature covering aviation industry background on the global and the South Pacific regional levels to identify concepts, status, trends and gaps between current airlines practices and acknowledged best practice. Based on this literature review, the study raised some research questions for the economic sustainability of these small airlines in the South Pacific. Firstly, should the islands own and operate a national air service? Secondly, what current airline practices contribute to airlines being not economically sustainable? Finally, how does an airline ensure economic sustainability for the future? The additional resources used were case studies of six regional airlines; experience and user surveys of stakeholders; a Delphi group session consisting of policy makers, stakeholders and practitioners; and analysis of best practice. This methodology allowed triangulation of the results of all this research to identify factors and their relative influence on economic sustainability of these airlines. Having analysed the need for air transportation in the smaller South Pacific nations, and reviewed the environment, history and difficulties of its provision, the study concludes with a blueprint for the future that advocates a managed and integrated strategy for economic sustainability of the independent South Pacific airlines of the region. This final outcome is a Managed Integrated Independent South Pacific Airlines (MIISPA) blueprint. Limitations of the thesis and areas for further research are described.
ЧАСТНАЯ МИКРОБИОЛОГИЯ
Creators: name: Ташкентский государственный стоматологический  институт (ТГСИ) Министерство здравоохранения Республики Узбекистан г.Ташкент Научный руководитель: Мухамедов Иламан Мухамедович Доктор медицинских наук , профессор кафедры микробиологии Таш ГосСИ Выполнила: Хакимова Парвина Саидхановна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Данная статья рассматривает частную микробиологию как многогранную область исследований и применений микроорганизмов. В этой статье обозревает основные подразделения частной микробиологии, такие как: медицинская, промышленная, сельскохозяйственная и экологическая микробиология, и подчеркивает их важность в различных сферах человеческой деятельности. Отмечается, что медицинская микробиология способствует борьбе с инфекционными заболеваниями, в то время как промышленная микробиология открывает новые возможности для производства полезных продуктов и процессов. Сельскохозяйственная микробиология улучшает методы сельского хозяйства, а экологическая микробиология помогает понять и сохранить биоразнообразие и устойчивость экосистем. Статья, подчеркивает значимость исследований и применения в частной микробиологии для прогресса и улучшения качества жизни человека.

Ключевые слова: Частная микробиология, промышленная микробиология, сельскохозяйственная микробиология, инфекционные заболевания, биоразнообразие, борьба с болезнями
Towards Folksonomy-based Personalized Services in Social Media
Creators: name: Rawashdeh, Majdi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Folksonomy
Social tagging
Collaborative tagging
Tag-based search
Tag Recommendation
Item Annotation
Social Media
Tag Annotation
Tag similarity
Item similarity

description: Every single day, lots of users actively participate in social media sites (e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Last.fm, Flicker, etc.) upload photos, videos, share bookmarks, write blogs and annotate/comment on content provided by others. With the recent proliferation of social media sites, users are overwhelmed by the huge amount of available content. Therefore, organizing and retrieving appropriate multimedia content is becoming an increasingly important and challenging task. This challenging task led a number of research communities to concentrate on social tagging systems (also known as folksonomy) that allow users to freely annotate their media items (e.g., music, images, or video) with any sort of arbitrary words, referred to as tags. Tags assist users to organize their own content, as well as to find relevant content shared by other users. In this thesis, we first analyze how useful a folksonomy is for improving personalized services such as tag recommendation, tag-based search and item annotation. We then propose two new algorithms for social media retrieval and tag recommendation respectively. The first algorithm computes the latent preferences of tags for users from other similar tags, as well as latent annotations of tags for items from other similar items. We then seamlessly map the tags onto items, depending on an individual user’s query, to find the most desirable content relevant to the user’s needs. The second algorithm improves tag-recommendation and item annotation by adapting the Katz measure, a path-ensemble based proximity measure, for the use in social tagging systems. In this algorithm we model folksonomy as a weighted, undirected tripartite graph. We then apply the Katz measure to this graph, and exploit it to provide personalized tag recommendation for individual users. We evaluate our algorithms on two real-world folksonomies collected from Last.fm and CiteULike. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms improve the search and the recommendation performance, and obtain significant gains in cold start situations where relatively little information is known about a user or an item
Supplementary document for Self-contained and modular structured illumination microscope - 5286253.pdf
Creators: name: Van Den Eynde, Robin
name: Vandenberg, Wim
name: hugelier, siewert
name: Bouwens, Arno
name: Hofkens, Johan
name: Müller, Marcel
name: Dedecker, Peter
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Understanding the fine-scale dynamics of agonistic behaviour in male Australian eastern water dragons, Intellagama lesueurii
Creators: name: Ball, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2021
Subjects: behaviour
agnostic
dominance
personality
repeatability

description: Agonistic behaviour is an important tool that animals utilise in a variety of different conflict situations such as disputes over resource ownership, social status and territory establishment. Agonistic behaviours can range in expression from signalling (e.g. an arm wave) to chasing and physical attacks (e.g. bites) and can have substantial energetic and physical (e.g. injury) costs. Winners of agonistic interactions can yield both resources and reproductive gains, while losers risk potential social penalties (e.g. group exclusion) or death. Agonistic behaviour, therefore, is an important fitness determining trait. As such, scientists have historically held an intense fascination with agonistic behaviour which has produced a vast body of work. Yet many questions still remain around the repeatable and plastic aspects of agonistic behaviour. Here, I aim to explore the fine-scale variation we observe in the repeatability and plasticity of agonistic behaviour using an extant social lineage of reptiles, the Australian eastern water dragon, Intellagama lesueurii (hereafter referred to as water dragons).
description: In this thesis, I have contributed to and utilized an ongoing 10-year longitudinal dataset of water dragon behaviour observed at Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane, Australia. Water dragons are a long-lived agamid with a polyandrous mating system. During the breeding season, males compete fiercely for territories and potential mates. The competitive nature of male water dragons and their extended lifespans make them the ideal candidate to examine the short- and long-term variation of agonistic behaviour as it interacts with a dynamic social environment.
title: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Bd. 59 Nr. 3 (2017): 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 LIX (2017), Heft 3


 
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Supplementary document for Self-contained and modular structured illumination microscope - 5286253.pdf
Creators: name: Van Den Eynde, Robin
name: Vandenberg, Wim
name: hugelier, siewert
name: Bouwens, Arno
name: Hofkens, Johan
name: Müller, Marcel
name: Dedecker, Peter
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Common cause failure analysis of redundant systems.
Creators: name: Hassan, Viswanath C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This study is concerned with the reliability analysis of commonly used repairable and non-repairable redundant systems (with common-cause failures) such as parallel, k-out-of-n and standby with identical and non-identical units. Formulas for steady state system availability, system reliability and system mean time to failure are developed. The variation of steady state system availability, system reliability and system mean time to failure with common-cause failures is shown by means of plots for the above mentioned configurations. This study clearly shows that the occurrence of common-cause failures has a negative effect on system reliability parameters.
Additional file 4 of Single-institution cross-sectional study to evaluate need for information and need for referral to psychooncology care in association with depression in brain tumor patients and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Reinert, Christiane
name: Gerken, Michael
name: Rathberger, Katharina
name: Krueger, Katharina
name: Klinkhammer-Schalke, Monika
name: Lindberg-Scharf, Patricia
name: Koelbl, Oliver
name: Proescholdt, Martin A.
name: Riemenschneider, Markus J.
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Bumes, Elisabeth
name: Hutterer, Markus
name: Hau, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Patient characteristics according to psychooncologic need. Absolute and relative distributions of demographic factors, tumor-related factors, information levels and depression score according to psychooncologic need yes vs no derived from Hornheider Screening Instrument, HSI. N = 160 HSI scores were collected; missing scores were excluded from the analysis; significant levels are shown in bold.
Supplementary document for Suppression of four-wave mixing in optical fiber bundle for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering endomicroscopy - 5287458.pdf
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Mamoru
name: Ogawa, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medical Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)

description: CARS imaging and polarization characteristics