cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parabens in 24 h urine samples of the German Environmental Specimen Bank from 1995 to 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring
Biobank

description: Parabens are widely used as antimicrobial preservatives in personal care and consumer products, food and pharmaceuticals. Due to their ubiquity, humans are constantly exposed to these chemicals. We assessed exposure to nine parabens (methyl-, ethyl-, n- and iso-propyl-, n- and iso-butyl-, benzyl-, pentyl- and heptyl paraben) in the German population from 1995 to 2012 based on 660 24 h urine samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) using on-line HPLC coupled to isotope dilution tandem mass spectrometry. The limit of quantification (LOQ) was 0.5 ìg/L for all parabens. We detected methyl-, ethyl- and n-propyl paraben in 79-99% of samples, followed by n-butyl paraben in 40% of samples. We infrequently detected iso-butyl-, iso-propyl- and benzyl paraben in 24%, 4% and 1.4% of samples, respectively. Urinary concentrations were highest for methyl paraben (median 39.8 ìg/L; 95th percentile 319 ìg/L) followed by n-propyl paraben (4.8 ìg/L; 95th percentile 74.0 ìg/L) and ethyl paraben (2.1 ìg/L; 95th percentile 39.1 ìg/L). Women had significantly higher urinary levels for all parabens than men, except for benzyl paraben. Samples from the ESB revealed that over the investigation period of nearly 20 years urinary paraben levels remained surprisingly constant; only methyl paraben had a significant increase, for both men and women. We found strong correlations between methyl- and n-propyl paraben and between n- and iso-butyl paraben. These results indicate that parabens are used in combination and arise from common sources of exposure. Urinary excretion factors are needed to extrapolate from individual urinary concentrations to actual doses.Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
title: Lipoma pancreático y su diagnóstico diferencial.
Creators: name: Quintana de la Cruz, Rosa
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir las características radiológicas del lipoma pancreático y su diagnóstico diferencial con los distintos trastornos grasos del...
title: The main pulmonary artery in adults
title: a controlled multicenter study with assessment of echocardiographic reference values, and the frequency of dilatation and aneurysm in Marfan syndrome
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sheikhzadeh, Sara
name: Backer, Julie De
name: Gorgan, Neda Rahimian
name: Rybczynski, Meike
name: Hillebrand, Mathias
name: Schüler, Helke
name: Bernhardt, Alexander M.
name: Koschyk, Dietmar
name: Bannas, Peter
name: Keyser, Britta
name: Mortensen, Kai
name: Radke, Robert M.
name: Mir, Thomas S.
name: Kölbel, Tilo
name: Robinson, Peter N.
name: Schmidtke, Jörg
name: Berger, Jürgen
name: Blankenberg, Stefan
name: Kodolitsch, Yskert Von
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Echocardiographic upper normal limits of both main pulmonary artery (MPA) diameters (MPA-d) and ratio of MPA to aortic root diameter (MPA-r) are not defined in healthy adults. Accordingly, frequency of MPA dilatation based on echocardiography remains to be assessed in adults with Marfan syndrome (MFS). Methods We enrolled 123 normal adults (72 men, 52 women aged 42 ± 14 years) and 98 patients with MFS (42 men, 56 women aged 39 ± 14 years) in a retrospective cross-sectional observational controlled study in four tertiary care centers. We defined outcome measures including upper normal limits of MPA-d and MPA-r as 95 quantile of normal persons, MPA dilatation as diameters > upper normal limits, MPA aneurysm as diameters >4 cm, and indication for surgery as MPA diameters >6 cm. Results MPA diameters revealed normal distribution without correlation to age, sex, body weight, body height, body mass index and body surface area. The upper normal limit was 2.6 cm (95% confidence interval (CI) =2.44-2.76 cm) for MPA-d, and 1.05 (95% CI = .86–1.24) for MPA-r. MPA dilatation presented in 6 normal persons (4.9%) and in 68 MFS patients (69.4%; P 1.05 were equally frequent in 7 normal persons (5%) and in 8 MFS patients (10.5%; P = .161). MPA-r related to aortic root diameters (P = .042), reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (P = .006), and increased pulmonary artery systolic pressures (P = .040). No clinical manifestations of MFS and no FBN1 mutation characteristics related to MPA diameters. Conclusions We established 2.6 cm for MPA-d and 1.05 for MPA-r as upper normal limits. MFS exhibits a high prevalence of MPA dilatation and aneurysm. However, patients may require MPA surgery only in scarce circumstances, most likely because formation of marked MPA aneurysm may require LV dysfunction and increased PASP.
title: Ecografía doppler de las arterias renales. ¿Es una técnica obsoleta?
Creators: name: Sanchez Perez, Maria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Artifacts

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar las indicaciones del doppler arterial renal,
haciendo especial énfasis en la estenosis de arteria renal.
Ilustrar la técnica ecográfica y revisar los parámetros que deben tenerse en cuenta en la evaluación ecográfica de la patología...
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Creators: name: Zhu, Jiangang
name: Zohrabi, Mo
name: Bae, Kyuyoung
name: HORNING, THOMAS
name: Grayson, Michael
name: Park, Wounjhang
name: Gopinath, Juliet
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Additional details on experiments and theory
La télédétection et les ressources en eau : analyse du transfert de technologie.
Creators: name: Scantland, Sylvie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Geography.

description: The demonstration of effective information gathering and resource management tools made possible through the operational use of remote sensing technology is the problem investigated in this research. The context of the investigation is technology transfer. Remote sensing offers a practical source of continuous spatial information which exists in developing nations and which can be applied to address the problem of lack of adequate resource information. The key to successful use of remote sensing is its operational transfer to resource managers and agencies in developing nations themselves. The methods which are employed in this research are used to demonstrate that remote sensing data can be applied under operational constraints common to managers in developing nations. The demonstrations have been carried out using LANDSAT MSS and TM imagery of Burkina Faso in West Africa and applying both digital and optical/mechanical equipment to aid visual interpretation and compilation of information relevant to water resource concerns in the region. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: HIPERTROFIA OLIVAR DEGENERATIVA: causas y hallazgos radiológicos
Creators: name: De Antonio Sanz, Esther
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
OBJETIVOS: Los objetivos del presente trabajo son: 1º- Recordar una entidad clásica y poco frecuente,
la hipertrofia olivar degenerativa,
así como las causas que lo pueden producir. 2º- Describir los signos radiológicos que se dan en esta...
3938957.pdf
Creators: name: Zhu, Jiangang
name: Zohrabi, Mo
name: Bae, Kyuyoung
name: HORNING, THOMAS
name: Grayson, Michael
name: Park, Wounjhang
name: Gopinath, Juliet
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Additional details on experiments and theory
Konzept zur zukünftigen Beurteilung der Effizienz von Kraftfahrzeugen
Creators: name: Helms, Hinrich
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Kraftfahrzeug
subject: Effizienz
subject: Beurteilungskriterium
subject: Abgas
subject: Elektroauto
subject: Verkehr
subject: Transport

description: Zur Bewertung von Fahrzeugen (z.B. beim Pkw-Effizienzlabel und der Kfz-Steuer) wird heute vor allem deren direkterCO2-Ausstoß herangezogen und ab 2015 auch europaweit begrenzt (EU-Flottengrenzwerte). In jüngerer Zeit werden jedoch zunehmend alternative Antriebssysteme erforscht, deren CO2-Emissionen teilweise (Plug-In Hybride) oder vollständig (Elektrofahrzeuge) vom Auspuff in die Energiebereitstellung verlagert werden. Eine Bewertung der sogenannten 'Nullemissionsfahrzeuge´ auf Basis ihres direkten CO2-Ausstoßes ist dann nicht mehr aussage-kräftig und auch Mischkonzepte (wie Plug-In Hybride) werden auf dieser Basis nur unzu-reichend bewertet. Ein Paradigmenwechsel von einer emissionsseitigen (Output-)Bewertung zu einer energieseitigen (Input-)Bewertung ist daher notwendig.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Zur Bewertung von Fahrzeugen (z.B. beim Pkw-Effizienzlabel und der Kfz-Steuer) wird heute vor allem deren direkter ⁠CO2⁠-Ausstoß herangezogen und ab 2015 auch europaweit begrenzt (EU-Flottengrenzwerte). In jüngerer Zeit werden jedoch zunehmend alternative Antriebssysteme erforscht, deren CO2-Emissionen teilweise (Plug-In Hybride) oder vollständig (Elektrofahrzeuge) vom Auspuff in die Energiebereitstellung verlagert werden. Eine Bewertung der sogenannten ‚Nullemissionsfahrzeuge‘ auf Basis ihres direkten CO2-Ausstoßes ist dann nicht mehr aussage-kräftig und auch Mischkonzepte (wie Plug-In Hybride) werden auf dieser Basis nur unzu-reichend bewertet. Ein Paradigmenwechsel von einer emissionsseitigen (Output-)Bewertung zu einer energieseitigen (Input-)Bewertung ist daher notwendig.
Retrospective, controlled observational case study of patients with central retinal vein occlusion and initially low visual acuity treated with an intravitreal dexamethasone implant
Creators: name: Winterhalter, Sibylle
name: Vom Brocke, Gerrit Alexander
name: Pilger, Daniel
name: Eckert, Annabelle
name: Schlomberg, Juliane
name: Ruebsam, Anne
name: Klamann, Matthias Karl
name: Gundlach, Enken
name: Dietrich-Ntoukas, Tina
name: Joussen, Antonia Maria
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Central retinal vein occlusion
subject: Corticosteroids
subject: Intravitreal dexamethasone implant Macular edema
subject: Visual acuity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Patients with initially low visual acuity were excluded from the therapy approval studies for retinal vein occlusion. But up to 28 % of patients presenting with central retinal vein occlusion have a baseline BCVA of less than 34 ETDRS letters (0.1). The purpose of our study was to assess visual acuity and central retinal thickness in patients suffering from central retinal vein occlusion and low visual acuity (<0.1) in comparison to patients with visual acuity (≥0.1) treated with Dexamethasone implant 0.7 mg for macular edema. Methods Retrospective, controlled observational case study of 30 eyes with macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion, which were treated with a dexamethasone implantation. Visual acuity, central retinal thickness and intraocular pressure were measured monthly. Analyses were performed separately for eyes with visual acuity <0.1 and ≥0.1. Results Two months post intervention, visual acuity improved only marginally from 0.05 to 0.07 (1 month; p = 0,065) and to 0.08 (2 months; p = 0,2) in patients with low visual acuity as compared to patients with visual acuity ≥0.1 with an improvement from 0.33 to 0.47 (1 month; p = 0,005) and to 0.49 (2 months; p = 0,003). The central retinal thickness, however, was reduced in both groups, falling from 694 to 344 μm (1 month; p = 0.003,) to 361 μm (2 months; p = 0,002) and to 415 μm (3 months; p = 0,004) in the low visual acuity group and from 634 to 315 μm (1 month; p
title: Paragangliomas abdominales: Presentación clínica y hallazgos radiológicos
Creators: name: Santos Magadán, Sara
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Hypertension
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Localisation
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Los paragangliomas son tumores infrecuentesqueen el 98%presentan localización subdiafragmática,
con origen en las células cromafines de la médula suprarrenal (feocromocitomas) o ectópicas extraadrenales (paragangliomas extraadrenales). Fig. 11...
title: Cómo ayudar al intensivista pediátrico en la patología neurológica.
Creators: name: Doménech Abellán, Ernesto
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Establecer las ventajas e inconvenientes de las técnicas de imagen disponibles para el estudio de la patología neurológica que afecta a niños ingresados en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos (UCIP). Describir los hallazgos...
Submission under the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol 2021
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Treibhausgasinventar
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: UNFCCC
subject: emissions inventory
subject: greenhouse gas emission
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Als Vertragsstaat der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen (UNFCCC) ist Deutschland seit 1994 dazu verpflichtet, Inventare zu nationalen Treibhausgasemissionen zu erstellen, zu veröffentlichen und regelmäßig fortzuschreiben. Gemäß Entscheidung 24/CP.19 müssen alle im ANNEX I der Klimarahmenkonvention aufgeführten Staaten jährlich einen Nationalen Inventarbericht (NIR) erstellen und übermitteln, der detaillierte und vollständige Angaben über den gesamten Prozess der Erstellung der Treibhausgasinventare bereitstellt. Durch diesen Bericht soll die Transparenz, Konsistenz und Vergleichbarkeit der Inventare sichergestellt und der unabhängige Überprüfungsprozess unterstützt werden. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.19, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the UNFCCC are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (⁠UNFCCC⁠), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.19, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the ⁠UNFCCC⁠ are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process.
Innovative NRO-Unternehmens-Kooperationen für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
Creators: name: Sperfeld, Franziska
name: Blanke, Moritz
name: Mohaupt, Franziska
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Zusammenarbeit
subject: Nachhaltige Wirtschaft
subject: Umweltschutzmaßnahme
subject: Umweltpolitik
subject: Fallbeispiel
subject: Unternehmenskooperation
subject: Nichtstaatliche Organisation
subject: Umweltschutzorganisation
subject: Bürgerbeteiligung
subject: FuE-Bedarf
subject: Kooperation
subject: Umweltorganisationen
subject: Nichtregierungsorganisation
subject: nachhaliges Wirtschaften
subject: Unternehmen
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Das Forschungsvorhaben untersuchte NRO-Unternehmens-Kooperationen mit dem Ziel, Rahmenbedingungen und Potentiale von Kooperationen im Umweltbereich zu identifizieren und damit zu einem besseren Verständnis sowohl der positiven wie der negativen Effekte solcher Kooperationen zu gelangen. Eine wichtige Forschungsfrage war dabei die nach dem konkreten Nutzen von NRO-Unternehmens-Kooperationen für die Umwelt. Zur Abschätzung des Umweltnutzens einer Kooperation bedarf es immer einer individuellen Wirkungsbetrachtung, die sich auf die konkret durchgeführten Maßnahmen und deren Ergebnisse bezieht. NRO-Unternehmens-Kooperationen können dann einen Beitrag auf dem Weg zum gesellschaftlichen Wandel hin zu einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsweise leisten, wenn durch sie tatsächlich ein Umweltnutzen erzielt wird.
Design and implementation of an optical receiver for angle-of-arrival-based positioning
Creators: name: Jin, Xian
name: Guerrero, Daniel
name: Bergen, Mark Henry
name: Chaves, Hugo A. L. F.
name: Freeden, Naomi V.
name: Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
Year: 2018

description: Optical wireless (OW) technology has attracted significant interest for indoor positioning in the past decade. An emerging form of this technology makes use of angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurements to carry out positioning via triangulation off of an optical beacon grid. Such AOA-based OW positioning systems can yield accurate position estimates—but only given sufficient attention to the optical receiver. The design, operation, and implementation of such a receiver is presented in this work. The optical receiver is designed to have a sufficiently small AOA error, being σAOA = 1°, over a wide angular field-of-view (FOV), being 100°. The design allows the optical receiver to carry out positioning based off a 3 × 3 grid of optical beacons, where each optical beacon is uniquely identified using multiple frequency and colour channels. The optical beacons are widely spaced to fully utilize the optical receiver's wide angular FOV. The overall AOA-based OW positioning system exhibits a position error of 1.7 cm, which is comparable to those obtained by more complex positioning systems. Thus, the presented AOA-based technologies can play a role in emerging indoor positioning systems.
title: How do we achieve a harmonised European regulation of materials in contact with drinking water?
title: How do we achieve a harmonised European regulation of materials in contact with drinking water?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2017
Subjects: Trinkwasser

description: On its way from the source to the tap, drinking water is exposed to myriad materials. Those can leach substances into the water which can alter its odour or taste, have human health relevance (e.g. bisphenol A, lead), or enhance microbial growth. Most components used for the abstraction, treatment and distribution of drinking water are permanently installed and have a long service life. It is therefore essential that they satisfy a high level of safety in order to keep our most vital food item clean and pure and protect human health. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
Mental ability and event-related potentials in an auditory oddball task with backward masking: From description to explanation
Creators: name: Beauchamp, Chris M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Cognitive.

description: The relation between mental ability and speed of auditory discrimination was investigated during an auditory oddball task with backward masking. Behavioural and electrophysiological data were collected from 58 females. Across target discrimination conditions that varied in the interval between the target and the masking stimuli and in the tonal frequency of the target and masking stimuli, HA participants displayed faster RT and more accurate discriminations than LA participants. HA participants also had shorter P300 and MMN latency and larger P300 amplitude than LA participants. The effects suggest that the speed of accessing STM is faster for HA than LA participants. Moreover, the pattern of results obtained with these data eschews task difficulty effects that would endorse a sensory discrimination hypothesis.
3939571.pdf
Creators: name: Junaid, Saher
name: Suddapalli, Chaitanya Kumar
name: Mathez, Morgan
name: Hermes, Michael
name: Stone, Nicholas
name: Shepherd, Neil
name: Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid
name: Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Peter
name: Pedersen, Christian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
Recipe for IBD: can we use food to control inflammatory bowel disease?
Creators: name: Witkowski, Mario
name: Witkowski, Marco
name: Gagliani, Nicola
name: Huber, Samuel
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: The mucosal immune system and the microbiota in the intestinal tract have recently been shown to play a key role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Both of these can be influenced by food. Thus, we propose dietary intervention as a therapeutic option for IBD. In this review, we discuss the interaction of the intestinal mucosal immune system and the intestinal microbiota in the context of IBD. In addition, we discuss the impact of food components on immune responses in IBD. Finally, we address the current evidence of how this interaction (i.e., immune system–microbiota) can be modulated by food components, pre/probiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and how these approaches can support intestinal homeostasis. By gathering the vast amount of literature available on the impact of food on IBD, we aim to distinguish between scientifically sound data and theories, which have not been included in this review.
Investigating owner relinquishment to animal shelters through data practices, self-rehoming outcomes, and community surrender pathways
Creators: name: Ly, Lexis Huyanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Relinquishment of dogs and cats to animal shelters remains a concern due to overcrowding in shelter facilities and separation of multispecies families, which impacts animal welfare and human wellbeing. As such, animal shelters aim to divert intake from facilities through more proactive, community-based solutions. However, investigation of pet surrender outside of shelter facilities remains understudied, despite the potential to provide insight for community-based solutions. The overall objective of this thesis was to analyze the circumstances that lead to owner relinquishment through investigation of animal shelter data and community-based alternatives to relinquishment. Chapter 1 introduces the context for this research. Chapter 2 reviews the literature about owner relinquishment and intake diversion strategies. As current research within animal shelters relies largely on data collected at intake to inform diversion strategies, Chapter 3 evaluates the consistency of data collection practices related to owner relinquishment. Chapter 4 investigates the outcomes of an online self-rehoming website to understand characteristics that predict adoption, retention, and subsequent relinquishment after being posted on the platform. Chapter 5 surveys pet owners who surrendered an animal within the past five years (through self-rehoming or shelter relinquishment) to understand patterns of surrender circumstances that were related to support seeking and use of community surrender pathways. Lastly, Chapter 6 presents a general discussion that proposes the use of an ecological systems model to conceptualize owner relinquishment. This thesis contributes to the literature on owner relinquishment and intake diversion and provides recommendations for organizations to adapt in-shelter and community programming to support the human-animal bond.
A dynamic gesture interface
Creators: name: Metais, Thierry
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Technological advancements during the last years made three dimensional virtual environments ubiquious computer applications. The traditional input devices such as keyboards and mice have reached their limits for they are no longer intuitive to manage 3 dimensional interactions. During the last decades, digital gloves were invented in an attempt to capture hand gestures. The work presented in this thesis is about recognizing hand shape based gestures for virtual environment navigation. We addressed this issue in two steps: first, we look for gesture representations that would allow a good discrimation between gestures; second, we have examined three strategies namely template matching, neural network and hidden Markov models to classify inputs suitably formatted. Experiments on classifying gesture samples with the three methods seem encouraging (more than 90 percent recognition), but when looking at real time gestural sequencee we conclude that only the Viterbi and neural network approaches should be used for a gesture interface.
title: Dream it, shape it, create it sustainably
title: the power of 3D design thinking
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Tawiah-Quashie, Reynold
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2024

description: Since the beginning of time, development and advancement have been key pillars of our world since the inception of time. Though gradual, design has progressed with these key elements playing an important role in this effect. The rapid pace of the 21st century has pushed the design industry from beautification to sustainability and problem-solving. Hailing from Ghana, I have been exposed to the importance of sustainability, design, and production critical considerations for any modern designer before creating a product. My background has also impressed me with the value of blending modern and contemporary design.
description: For my thesis, I am driven to combine repetition and organic shapes to build new design products with the aid of technology software, and problem-solving, while being sustainable and implementing the knowledge and experience I've gained studying 3D design. Through my thesis, I intend to demonstrate how contemporary design aesthetics can be integrated into forward-thinking pieces while considering the concept and the use of software. I aim to synthesize my heritage with my expertise in sculpture and prototyping to produce creative, useful products reflecting both my culture and my commitment to responsible innovation.
B Cells Negatively Regulate the Establishment of CD49b+T-bet+ Resting Memory T Helper Cells in the Bone Marrow
Creators: name: Hojyo, Shintaro
name: Sarkander, Jana
name: Männe, Christian
name: Mursell, Mathias
name: Hanazawa, Asami
name: Zimmel, David
name: Zhu, Jinfang
name: Paul, William E.
name: Fillatreau, Simon
name: Löhning, Max
name: Radbruch, Andreas
name: Tokoyoda, Koji
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: resting memory
subject: CD4 T helper cells
subject: B cells
subject: bone marrow
subject: T-bet
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: During an immune reaction, some antigen-experienced CD4 T cells relocate from secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) to the bone marrow (BM) in a CD49b-dependent manner and reside and rest there as professional memory CD4 T cells. However, it remains unclear how the precursors of BM memory CD4 T cells are generated in the SLOs. While several studies have so far shown that B cell depletion reduces the persistence of memory CD4 T cells in the spleen, we here show that B cell depletion enhances the establishment of memory CD4 T cells in the BM and that B cell transfer conversely suppresses it. Interestingly, the number of antigen-experienced CD4 T cells in the BM synchronizes the number of CD49b+T-bet+ antigen-experienced CD4 T cells in the spleen. CD49b+T-bet+ antigen-experienced CD4 T cells preferentially localize in the red pulp area of the spleen and the BM in a T-bet-independent manner. We suggest that B cells negatively control the generation of CD49b+T-bet+ precursors of resting memory CD4 T cells in the spleen and may play a role in bifurcation of activated effector and resting memory CD4 T cell lineages.
Umgebungslärm und Gesundheit am Beispiel Bremen
Creators: name: Greiser, Eberhard
name: Greiser, Claudia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lärm
subject: Lärmbelastung
subject: Straßenverkehrslärm
subject: Schienenverkehrslärm
subject: Fluglärm
subject: Morbidität
subject: Sterblichkeit
subject: Bremen
subject: Umgebungslärm
subject: Erkrankungshäufigkeit
subject: Mortalität
subject: Lärm
subject: Transport

description: Die Bremische Bevölkerung ist von Schienen- und Straßenverkehrslärm, sowie von Fluglärm betroffen. Die Gesamtsterblichkeit steigt durch die Belastung mit Schienenoder Straßenverkehrslärm an. Der Anstieg unterscheidet sich nach der Länge des Wohnens in Bremen. Bei Straßenverkehrslärm ist die Gesamtsterblichkeit ab einer Wohndauer von 15 Jahren statistisch signifikant erhöht. Der Anstieg der Gesamtsterblichkeit durch die Belastung mit Schienenverkehrslärm ist statistisch signifikant erhöht bei einer Wohndauer unter 10 Jahre sowie bei einer Wohndauer ab 15 Jahren. Bei der Analyse von Krebserkrankungen finden sich starke Kombinationswirkungen zwischen Straßen- und Schienenverkehrslärm für Leukämien und maligne Lymphome sowie für Brustkrebs der Frau. Neuartig an den vorliegenden Ergebnissen ist die Erhöhung der Gesamtsterblichkeit durch Straßen- oder Schienenverkehrslärm, sowie die Beobachtung starker Interaktionseffekte bei spezifischen Krebserkrankungen.
The 8-channel dynamic channel equalizer and its adaptation as a "smart amplifier solution"
Creators: name: Qela, Blerim
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: In this thesis, design of the 8-channel DCE (Dynamic Channel Equalizer) for use in WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) systems in general and in particular its adaptation as a "Smart Amplifier Solution" is presented. The innovative Optimized C-band Gain Flattened EDFA (Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier) design without GFF (Gain Flattening Filter) and its integration with the DCE and embedded control electronics into a Smart Amplifier is proposed. Further improvement of the Smart Amplifier is suggested. The systems design approach, where all subsystems are taken into account to optimize the WDM network was adopted. Hence, the Post and In-Line Amplifiers with APC (Automatic Power Control) are also considered and designed accordingly to achieve the optimized amplification and equalization results for the dynamic WDM networks. The experimental results and discussion for each design are presented and simulation data are provided for comparison and confirmation of the proposed Smart Amplifier design. In addition, simulation results with respect to feasibility of the Optimized C+L band EDFA and conditions under which it can be used as a broadband ASE source are discussed.
Discovery of PSR J1227-4853: A transition from a low-mass X-Ray binary to a redback millisecond pulsar
Creators: name: Roy, Jayanta
name: Ray, Paul
name: Bhattacharyya, Bhaswati
name: Stappers, B.
name: Chengalur, Jayaram
name: Deneva, Julia
name: Camilo, Fernando
name: Johnson, Tyrel
name: Wolff, Michael
name: Hessels, J.
name: Bassa, C.
name: Keane, Evan
name: Ferrara, Elizabeth
name: Harding, Alice
name: Wood, Kent
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: XSS J12270−4859 is an X-ray binary associated with the Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 1FGL J1227.9−4852. In 2012 December, this source underwent a transition where the X-ray and optical luminosity dropped and the spectral signatures of an accretion disk disappeared. We report the discovery of a 1.69 millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J1227−4853, at a dispersion measure of 43.4 pc cm −3 associated with this source, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 607 MHz. This demonstrates that, post-transition, the system hosts an active radio MSP. This is the third system after PSR J1023+0038 and PSR J1824−2452I showing evidence of state switching between radio MSP and low-mass X-ray binary states. We report timing observations of PSR J1227−4853 with the GMRT and Parkes, which give a precise determination of the rotational and orbital parameters of the system. The companion mass measurement of 0.17–0.46 M ⊙ suggests that this is a redback system. PSR J1227−4853 is eclipsed for about 40% of its orbit at 607 MHz with additional short-duration eclipses at all orbital phases. We also find that the pulsar is very energetic, with a spin-down luminosity of ∼10 35 erg s −1 . We report simultaneous imaging and timing observations with the GMRT, which suggests that eclipses are caused by absorption rather than dispersion smearing or scattering.
The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment : An illustrative case study in Canada
Creators: name: Murray, Cathryn Clarke
name: Wong, Janson
name: Singh, Gerald
name: Mach, Megan
name: Lerner, Jackie
name: Ranieri, Bernardo
name: St-Laurent, Guillaume Peterson
name: Guimaraes, Alice
name: Chan, Kai Ming Adam, 1975-
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2021

description: Environmental assessment is the process that decision-makers rely on to predict, evaluate and prevent biophysical, social and economic impacts of potential project developments. The determination of significance in environmental assessment is central to environmental management in many nations. We reviewed ten recent environmental impact assessments from British Columbia, Canada and systematically reviewed and scored significance determination and the approaches used by assessors, the use of thresholds in significance determination, threshold exceedances and the outcomes. Findings of significant impacts were exceedingly rare and practitioners used a combination of significance determination approaches, most commonly relying upon reasoned argumentation. Quantitative thresholds were rarely employed, with less than 10% of the valued components evaluated using thresholds. Even where quantitative thresholds for significance were exceeded, in every case practitioners used a variety of rationales to demote negative impacts to non-significance. These reasons include combinations of scale (temporal and spatial) of impacts, an already exceeded baseline, model uncertainty and/or substituting less stringent thresholds. Governments and agencies can better protect resources by requiring clear and defensible significance determinations, by making government-defined thresholds legally enforceable and accountable, and by requiring or encouraging significance determination through inclusive and collaborative approaches.
Aerodynamic damping in lateral buffeting.
Creators: name: Dwivedi, Tashi.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Using the balanced cantilever method of erection, the cable-stayed bridge during its critical construction phase resembles a long overhanging cantilever structure. This type of structure is particularly vulnerable to wind-induced buffeting instabilities because of its low natural frequencies and low overall stiffness. In the past, the critical buffeting case for both vertical and horizontal excitation was assumed to occur when the wind was incident perpendicular to the bridge's axis. Recent observations in some cable-stayed bridges during construction revealing higher lateral responses at yaw angles other than perpendicular have triggered interest in the lateral vibration case. Buffeting instabilities are affected mainly by the aerodynamic damping term. Experimental research for the vertical aerodynamic damping resulted in the cosine approximation. In the absence of available experimental data for lateral vibration, the cosine approximation is extended from the vertical case and assumed to be valid for the lateral aerodynamic term. The experimental section of this thesis attempts to clarify the validity of the cosine approximation for the lateral aerodynamic damping case. Cantilever-type section models are triggered into vibration under various wind speeds and over a range of yaw angles, the aerodynamic damping is calculated, and the results are studied.
Focus on the future: 3D printing
Creators: name: Kepper, Benno
name: Kahlenborn, Walter
name: Richter, Stephan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Druckerei
subject: Gesundheitsgefährdung
subject: 3D printer
subject: human health
subject: environmental impact
subject: market trend
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: Dental bridges, aircraft components, bodies and spare parts already come from the 3D printer. 3D printers are conquering more and more industries. Many people even think that 3D printing will usher in a new era of production. This trend report systematically deals with the developments in 3D printing and examines the opportunities and risks to the environment for the various fields of application, printing methods, materials used, etc. The report shows that environmental measures are necessary, such as, for example, 3D printing involves various pressures on human health that should be regulated.
Australia's National Broadband Network: How it came to be and where it might be heading
Creators: name: Corner, Stuart
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Australian Government has committed to build a fibre-to-the-premises network serving 90 percent of Australian homes at an estimated cost of $43b. This article looks at how it came to abandon an earlier plan for fibre-to-the-node network at a fraction of the cost, at how the technical development and rollout plans for the project are progressing, at the political hurdles it must still surmount and at what the Federal Opposition might do should an election derail the Government's plan. The article also examines legislation the government is trying to push through that would drastically restructure Telstra and which it is using this to try and negotiate Telstra's participation in the new network.
Analysis and exploitation of resource efficiency potentials in industrial small and medium-sized enterprises - Experiences with the EDIT Value Tool in Central Europe
Creators: name: De Graaf, Daniel
name: Dobes, Vladimir
name: Fresner, Johannes
name: Dorer, Conrad
name: Krenn, Christina
name: Grevenstette, Philipp
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ressourceneffizienz
Cleaner Production [benutze Unterbegriffe]

description: Material and energy costs represent about 50% of the operating costs incurred by European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although the potential for resource efficiency improvements is high, the necessary awareness and human resource capacities to explore this potential are limited. Existing tools for exploration of resource efficiency improvement potentials have several shortcomings: they are either tool-driven, of a solely qualitative nature or do not address all levels of a business. Users of such tools therefore miss important improvement opportunities. In order to overcome these limitations and to systematically identify, quantify and fully explore resource efficiency improvement potentials, an international team developed and tested a new comprehensive, needs-driven and quantitative diagnosis tool named the ĺEDIT Value Tool.̷ This tool can be used to perform initial diagnoses for companies. The EDIT Value Tool was piloted in eighteen manufacturing SMEs in six Central European countries. Evaluation of the test results showed that the tool is effective in helping company personnel to identify the main weaknesses and the potentials for company improvements. The tool achieves this by evaluating a business's characteristics: its stakeholder values, the corporate strategy to implement its mission and vision, assessment of the effectivity of the company's management systems, processes and products. The benefits of using the EDIT Value Tool that were of most benefit to the companies were the proposed changes to corporate technology and management. The collection of quantitative and qualitative data helped company personnel to develop new perspectives on how to monitor and to improve resource efficiency and to increase awareness of and commitment to more sustainable manufacturing systems. Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
3939571.pdf
Creators: name: Junaid, Saher
name: Suddapalli, Chaitanya Kumar
name: Mathez, Morgan
name: Hermes, Michael
name: Stone, Nicholas
name: Shepherd, Neil
name: Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid
name: Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Peter
name: Pedersen, Christian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
title: Variantes anatómicas de la circulación cerebral
Creators: name: De Antonio Sanz, Esther
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Los objetivos del presente estudio son: 1º -Estudiar las diversas categorías en las que se pueden englobar las variantes de la circulación cerebral: anastomosis persistentes carotídeo-basilares,
variantes del polígono de Willis,
y...
title: Colocación de vías centrales de inserción periférica mediante métodos de imagen. Experiencia en un hospital infantil
Creators: name: Albi Rodríguez, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Paediatric
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Catheters

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
OBJETIVOS PRINCIPALES: Describir las indicaciones de las vías centrales de inserción periférica (VCIP) Detallar la técnica de colocación mediante métodos de imagen que empleamos en nuestro centro Detallar nuestra experiencia en la...
Fracture analysis of bridges by spline finite strip method
Creators: name: Song, Zhaobin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The primary objective of this thesis is to develop crack strip method and verify the convergency of the method, finally to perform fracture analysis of bridge structures using spline finite strip method. In this thesis, combining the shape function of spline finite strip with the eigenfunction expansions at a crack tip, three types of crack strips, namely anti-plane shear crack strip, plane crack strip and bending crack strip, have been developed, in which cracks are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of strips and the stress intensity factors can be computed directly. Based on plane crack strips and bending crack strips, the flat shell crack strip is developed for the fracture analysis of box girder bridges. Several case studies have demonstrated the satisfactory convergence of the proposed method. The fracture analysis of different types of bridges have been successfully conducted using these crack strips. In Chapter 3, the basic model of the crack strip is farmed. Substructure technique and extra knots are employed to enhance the efficiency and the convergence of this model. Two Gaussian quadratures for improper integrals are introduced to calculate the singular integral in the crack strip. The efficiencies of these two methods are compared through case studies. On the basis of anti-plane eigenfunction expansion derived by Tilley (1978), plane eigenfunction expansion by Williams (1957) and bending eigenfunction expansion by Williams (1961) in the area around the crack tip, anti-plane shear crack strip, plane crack strip and bending crack strip are developed in Chapter 4 to 6, respectively. The convergence of the proposed models is generally good as shown by case studies. In Chapter 7, these crack strip models are applied to the fracture analysis of bridge structures. Based on the plane crack strip and the bending crack strip, flat shell crack strip is formed for the fracture analysis of box girder bridges. The fracture analysis of different types of bridges, such as slab bridge, continuous slab bridge, single - cell box girder bridge and continuous bridge with top-open box girder, are successfully conducted using these crack strips. The leading diagonal terms are replaced by large numbers to deal with those restraints in the continuous bridges. The present method, i.e., combining the spline finite strip method with the analytical solution for the area around crack tip, provides a new and efficient approach for fracture analysis of structures, especially for the fracture analysis of bridge structures.
Cross-cultural representations: The construction of "America" after September 11th in English Canadian, Quebec and French print media
Creators: name: Melvin, Catherine Eda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Literature, Comparative.
subject: Language, General.

description: The cultural turn in Translation Studies is the name given to the shift from an inter-lingual approach to the study of translation to an inter-cultural one. Since the cultural turn, meaning is no longer considered to be reducible to the level of word, sentence or even text within a specific situation of utterance. Instead, culture as a whole is considered to be the prime locus of meaning. Translators, then, are not expected to be simply bilingual, but to be bi-cultural. This thesis is a comparative discourse analysis that explores how pre-existing discourses in English Canada, Quebec and France affect the representation of the United States in print media coverage following terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11th, 2001. More specifically, the impact of the discourse of counter-Americanism in English Canada is analyzed in a corpus of newspaper articles selected from five major Canadian dailies. Similarly, articles from Le Devoir and La Presse are analyzed in relation to the discourse of americanite in Quebec and articles from Le Monde are analyzed in relation to the discourse of anti-Americanism in France. In each case, the construction of an American identity can be traced to the specific geographical, historical, political and economic relationships of each country to the U.S. This means that representations of an American Other serve primarily to support representations of self, thus revealing the relative and constructed nature of national identity. Drawing on scholars in both Cultural Studies and Communications, this study outlines how discourse constructs national identity. In addition, it illustrates how identity discourses affect the construction and interpretation of meaning, thus meriting attention in the field of Translation Studies. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Identificación y valoración de factores predisponentes a la luxación recidivante de rótula mediante RM.
Creators: name: Collantes Gonzalez, Ana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Extremities

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Ser capaces de reconocer y valorar mediante una serie de medidas radiológicas,
los diferentes factores que predisponen a la luxación recidivante de...