cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Du corps extrêmal dans la littérature de 1980 à nos jours : altérité et parole de mort
Creators: name: Bessette, Ariane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Représentation
littérature
Corps
Sida
Anorexie
Stéréotype

description: Dans la littérature de l’extrême contemporain, la figure du corps cristallise la tendance extrême de nos sociétés occidentales (conduites à risque, sport, sexualité), un rapport à la mort marqué par l’évitement et la désymbolisation, l’individualisme croissant et une forte présence du dévoilement de l’intime. En outre, elle se caractérise par une poussée des limites de la représentation et une importante exposition du phénomène de la douleur. À travers le concept de corps extrêmal, épithète renvoyant aux traits contextuels décrits plus haut et à l’altération physique et psychologique qu’expérimente le sujet confronté à des expériences extrêmes comme la maladie et l’anticipation de la mort, cette thèse soutient l’étude de deux figures littéraires : le corps atteint du sida et celui souffrant d’anorexie. Apparues au tournant des années 1980, ces figures bouleversent de manière significative la représentation du réel et du corps. Par l’observation de six œuvres parues entre 1978 et 2009, nous analysons leurs conditions de possibilité et d’émergence, leurs modalités d’inscription dans le texte littéraire, les diverges stratégies de représentation déployées (division et morcellement de l’unité corps, déconstruction de ses attributs biologiques), la mise en discours du phénomène d’altération (description, comparaison, métaphorisation) et le rapport entre le corps et le stéréotype. Le premier chapitre cerne les balises conceptuelles et théoriques de la représentation du corps souffrant du sida et d’anorexie par un alliage théorique formé de trois approches : les travaux sur la représentation ; les recherches sur le stéréotype dans le champ de l’analyse du discours; la sociologie de la littérature, mise en relation avec les sociologies du corps et du risque. Dans le second chapitre, nous observons les représentations du corps atteint du sida dans Ève de Guy Hocquenghem, À l’ami qui ne m’a pas sauvé la vie d’Hervé Guibert et Serial fucker. Journal d’un barebacker d’Érik Rémès. Le troisième chapitre, portant sur Le pavillon des enfants fous de Valérie Valère, Les murs d’Olivia Tapiero et Putain de Nelly Arcan, étudie deux types d’anorexie venant infléchir la représentation du corps : une crise identitaire et une posture de soumission aux normes ambiantes.
Mikroplastik in der aquatischen Umwelt
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Wasserwirtschaft
Kunststoff
Mikroplastikpartikel
Umwelt
Analytik

description: Kunststoffe sind wichtige Werkstoffe und heutzutage aus Haushalt und Wirtschaft nicht mehrwegzudenken. Seit Anfang der 1970er-Jahre wird das Vorkommen von Kunststoffpartikeln inKüstengewässern beschrieben. Inzwischen ist Mikroplastik nicht nur im marinen Bereich,sondern auch in weiteren Umweltkompartimenten, Biota und technischen Einrichtungen derWasserwirtschaft nachgewiesen worden. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Überblick über das Vorkommenvon Mikroplastik in der aquatischen Umwelt und ersten bekannten Auswirkungengegeben. Darüber hinaus werden die aktuellen Untersuchungsverfahren von Probenahme,Probenaufbereitung und Analytik betrachtet und offene Fragen diskutiert. Zentral erscheint indiesem Zusammenhang die Entwicklung einer harmonisierten medienübergreifenden Untersuchungsmethodik,die eine Auswertung relevanter Stoffströme ermöglicht und auf notwendigeBewertungskonzepte abgestimmt ist.Quelle: Bannick, Claus Gerhard et al.: Mikroplastik in der aquatischen Umwelt : ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion in Deutschland / Claus Gerhard Bannick ; Reinhard Bierl ; Ulrike Braun ; Kathrin Brand ; Erik Dümichen ; Martin Jekel ; Sascha Klein ; Thomas P. Knepper ; Fabian König ; David Miklos ; Bettina Rechenberg ; Ina Steffens. - Ill., graph. Darst. In: Vom Wasser : das Journal. - 113 (2015), H. 1, S. 7
description: Plastics are important materials in households and industry and therefore a crucial part of oureveryday life. Since the beginning of the 1970s the occurrence of plastic particles in coastal watershas been explicitly described. Meanwhile, besides the marine environment, microplasticswere also detected in other environmental media, biota and water management facilities. Thiswork gives an overview of the occurrence and first known effects of microplastics in the environment.Furthermore, current scientific proceedings are considered and pending issues arediscussed. In this regard it is of central importance to develop an environmentally comprehensive,harmonized scientific proceeding for microplastics, which enables an evaluation of relevantmaterial flows in adaptation to necessary assessment concepts.Quelle: Bannick, Claus Gerhard et al.: Mikroplastik in der aquatischen Umwelt : ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion in Deutschland / Claus Gerhard Bannick ; Reinhard Bierl ; Ulrike Braun ; Kathrin Brand ; Erik Dümichen ; Martin Jekel ; Sascha Klein ; Thomas P. Knepper ; Fabian König ; David Miklos ; Bettina Rechenberg ; Ina Steffens. - Ill., graph. Darst. In: Vom Wasser : das Journal. - 113 (2015), H. 1, S. 7
Profili giuridici collegabili alla carta di identità elettronica. Aspetti ecclesiasticistici connessi all’introduzione della carta di identità elettronica
Creators: name: Carmignani Caridi, Settimio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Relazione tenuta al Convegno su “Profili giuridici della carta di identità elettronica” (Roma 3, marzo 2005).SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. Funzione della Carta di identità – 3. Appartenenza religiosa ed identificazione del soggetto – 4. Funzione della fotografia – 5. Conclusione.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 26 maggio
Un episodio inedito della biografia di Francesco Scaduto
Creators: name: D'Arienzo, Maria
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo è destinato agli Studi in onore di Generoso Melillo.SOMMARIO: 1. Francesco Scaduto candidato al Parlamento e gli studenti dell’Università di Napoli – 2. Il significato politico del numero unico in omaggio a Scaduto – 3. La vicenda elettorale – 4. Sospensione del non expedit contro Scaduto – 5. Clima politico nel Collegio – 6. Il sostegno alla candidatura di Scaduto – 7.
Sconfitta e aspettative politiche.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 3 giugno
L’insegnamento della religione sotto il controllo della Corte Europea dei Diritti umani
Creators: name: Belgiorno De Stefano, Maria Gabriella
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Testo della relazione per la Giornata di Studio su “Libertà della scuola e libertà nella scuola” (Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Perugia, Dipartimento Istituzioni e Società - Diritto Ecclesiastico - Diritto Comparato delle Religioni, 30
maggio 2008), destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti.SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. La Corte Europea, il diritto all’istruzione ed il confessionismo statale - 3. Il Caso “Folgero” contro Norvegia – 4. La Norvegia e la clausola di vocazione cristiana – 5. Il Caso “Hasan e Eylem Zengin contro Turchia”
– 6. La Sentenze della Corte europea e la laicità degli Stati membri – 7. L’Italia e “la ex religione dello Stato”.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 3 giugno
Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Activation in the Subfornical Organ Mediates Sodium-induced Pressor Responses In Wistar Rats
Creators: name: Tiruneh, Missale
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Angiotensin II
Subfornical Organ
Sodium
Hypertension
Wistar rats
Ouabain
Aldosterone

description: Na+ sensitive hypertension in Dahl salt sensitive rats (Dahl S) or spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) is linked to intrinsic changes in the brain that favour increased Na+ entry into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) followed by increases in sympathetic hyperactivity and hypertension (Huang et al 2004). Similar responses are observed in salt resistant and Wistar rats that receive an intracerebroventricular (icv) infusion of Na+ rich artificial cerebrospinal fluid (aCSF) (Huang et al 2001, 2006). Downstream to increased CSF[Na+], a pathway has been described involving mineralocorticoid receptors (MRs), benzamil sensitive Na+ channels, “ouabain”, and angiotensin II type 1 receptors (AT1-R) (Huang et al 1998, Zhao et al 2001, Wang and Leenen 2003, Huang et al 2008). Blood pressure (BP) responses to increased CSF[Na+] may involve activation of AT1-R in the subfornical organ (SFO) as the BP response to injection of NaCl into a lateral ventricle can be blocked by AT1-R blockade in the SFO (Rohmeiss et al 1995a). The role of aldosterone and AT1-R in the SFO was investigated in mediating the BP and heart rate (HR) response to increases in CSF[Na+] and local [Na+]. Results show that infusion of 0.45M and 0.6M Na+ rich aCSF into the SFO increases BP but not HR. The BP is unchanged by infusion of a mannitol solution osmotically equivalent to 0.6M Na+ rich aCSF indicating that the SFO is Na+ sensitive. The BP response to a lower concentration of Na+ (0.45M) is enhanced by prior infusion of aldosterone while BP response to 0.6M is not further enhanced suggesting that the SFO may have maximal responsiveness to acute increases in [Na+] at 0.6M. The BP responses to Na+ rich aCSF in the SFO and the enhancement of those responses by aldosterone can be blocked by infusion of the AT1-R blocker Candesartan in the SFO. This response appears therefore to be mediated in the SFO through AT1-R activation, likely through Ang II release in the SFO. ICV infusion of Na+ rich aCSF increases BP but not HR and this response is partially blocked by infusion of the AT1-R blocker Candesartan in the SFO. This indicates that nearly half the BP responses to icv infusion of Na+ rich aCSF is mediated through AT1-R activation in the SFO. Lastly, contrary to icv, PVN and MnPO studies (Huang and Leenen 1996, Budzikowski and Leenen 2001, Gabor and Leenen 2009) ouabain in the SFO does not increase BP or HR. In conclusion, these results show that the SFO is Na+ sensitive and mediates half the BP responses to changes in CSF[Na+] through a mechanism that involves AT1-R activation. The SFO is further sensitized to Na+ by aldosterone presumably through its genomic effects. Lastly, ouabain in the SFO does not increase BP or HR suggesting that endogenous ouabain in the SFO is not involved in modulating BP or HR responses.
Movement competency in youth athletic development : exploring assessment and training delivery
Creators: name: Rogers, Simon
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Youth athlete
Strength and conditioning
Movement screen
Self-directed training

description: Young people competing in sport require many opportunities to prepare to excel as a senior athlete. Development strategies for physical preparation across the sporting pathway include acquiring and advancing competency across a range of foundational athletic movements. Novel and effective delivery of such strategies need further exploration, to enable a greater understanding of holistic training methods. The overarching aims of this thesis were to address the questions of best practice assessment strategies of youth athlete movement competencies (MC), and explore methods to provide training support to develop and improve MC.
Nikolaj I. Nikolaev, La critica non ufficiale al «metodo formale» nella cultura russa degli anni '20
Creators: name: Larocca, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: Il brano che presentiamo in traduzione è tratto dall’articolo M. M. Bachtin, Nevel’skaja škola filosofii i kul’turnaja istorija ’20-ch gg. (M. M. Bachtin, La scuola filosofica di Nevel’ e la storia culturale degli anni ’20), uscito nella curatela di V. L. Machlin intitolata Bachtinskij sbornik (Moskva 2004). Esso intende ricostruire la storia della critica non ufficiale (e quindi non marxista) al metodo formale nel corso degli anni ’20 attraverso una ricca documentazione bibliografica fra cui spiccano i carteggi, gli articoli e le recensioni pubblicate fra il 1921 e il 1930 da parte di numerosi intellettuali del periodo, come il poeta e critico Vladislav Chodasevič (1886-1939), il teorico simbolista Vjačeslav Ivanov (1866-1949), il poeta Andrej Belyj (1880-1934) e il filosofo Michail Bachtin (1895-1975). A questo composito materiale si aggiungono le testimonianze e i saggi di coloro che invece hanno gravitato attorno agli ambienti formalisti e che poi ne hanno preso le distanze; è questo il caso di Viktor Žirmunskij (1891-1971), dei membri del gruppo della rivista «Hermes» legati all’ermeneutica filosofica di Gustav Špet, e dello studioso Viktor Vinogradov (1894-1970).
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 2 (2010)
Phenotyping sexual pain in endometriosis using the Central Sensitization Inventory
Creators: name: Orr, Natasha L.
name: Wahl, Kate
name: Noga, Heather
name: Allaire, Catherine
name: Williams, Christina
name: Bedaiwy, Mohamed Ali, 1968-
name: Albert, Arianne
name: Smith, Kelly
name: Yong, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Journal of Sexual Medicine
Year: 2021

description: Background. Deep dyspareunia, a common symptom in endometriosis, has previously been associated with bladder or pelvic floor tenderness (BPFT), which suggests a role for central nervous system sensitization. The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI, 0-100) is a validated self-reported scale for patients with central sensitization. The objective of this study was to phenotype deep dyspareunia using BPFT and the CSI.
Ol'ga Slivickaja, «L'uomo di Tolstoj» come unità dinamica
Creators: name: Illarionova, Elizaveta
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: L’articolo indaga l’antropologia letteraria di Tolstoj, che vede l’uomo come carattere stabile ma, in questa stabilità, anche soggetto a mutamenti. Utilizzando diversi concetti della critica letteraria e della psicanalisi (dalle idee di M. L. Gasparov sui due approcci alla letteratura, filosofico e filologico, all’immagine di S. Frank che paragona il subconscio umano a una profonda «miniera», dal concetto di «acte gratuit» di W. H. Auden a quello di «epifania» di J. Joyce e U. Eco) e soffermandosi sull’esempio dell’episodio di Guerra e pace di Pierre a Borodino, l’autrice mostra come lo scrittore sia capace di dotare i personaggi dei suoi grandi romanzi tanto di una psicologia della profondità, quanto di una psicologia dell’altezza.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 2 (2010)
Cosa fa vivere gli uomini? di Lev Tolstoj. Anatomia di un successo
Creators: name: Rebecchini, Damiano
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: In questo studio ricostruiamo la storia di un racconto poco noto di Lev Tolstoj, Che cosa fa vivere gli uomini? (1881). In quest’opera Tolstoj volle rappresentare alcuni elementi chiave della sua nuova visione etico-religiosa maturata nel corso degli anni ’70 dell’Ottocento. Lo scrittore, inoltre, si impegnò nel distribuirla tra i ceti popolari urbani e nelle campagne e, grazie ad un’efficace opera di diffusione, l’opera fu letta da milioni di lettori popolari. Nell’articolo analizziamo da una parte le strategie narrative ed editoriali messe in gioco da Tolstoj nel suo racconto per conquistare i nuovi lettori; dall’altra, le tattiche di appropriazione, di adattamento e di trasformazione del testo tolstoiano da parte dei suoi lettori popolari.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 2 (2010)
Supplementary document for A Fiber Bragg Grating - Electromagnetically Induced Transparent Fast Optical Switch - 5204177.pdf
Creators: name: Mousavi, Narges Shafii
name: Parvin, Parviz
name: Ilchi-Ghazaani, Maryam
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary section
Aussie Aussie Aussie: is the Australian citizenship test fair?
Creators: name: Ryan, Kerry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Australian citizenship test has just turned four. Its birthday passed without fanfare but this is not surprising. Soon after its introduction, a Labor government review addressed early concerns that it was irrelevant as a requirement for solid citizenship, as well as being unfair and discriminatory toward certain groups. Since then it has had a charmed run. As a result of that review the test was revised and in October of 2009 the Australian Citizenship Test Mark II took over. We’ve heard barely a peep since. It was fixed up, you see. Or was it?
Tool Support and Data Management for Business Analytics
Creators: name: Azarm, Mana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: data lineage
meta-data
business anaylitics
enterprise reporting

description: The data delivery architectures in most enterprises are complex and under documented. Conceptual business models and business analytics applications are created to provide a simplified, and easy to navigate view of enterprise data for analysts. But the construction of such interfaces is tedious, manually intensive to build, requiring specialized technical expertise, and it is especially difficult to map exactly where data came from in the organization. In this paper we investigate how two aspects (lineage and requests for data i.e. semantics and new reports) can be addressed by tying metadata documentation to a systematic data delivery architecture in order to support business analytics applications. We propose a tool framework that includes a metadata repository for each step in the data delivery architecture, a web based interface to access and manage that repository and mapping tools that capture data lineage to support step by step automation of data delivery.
Supplementary document for A Fiber Bragg Grating - Electromagnetically Induced Transparent Fast Optical Switch - 5204177.pdf
Creators: name: Mousavi, Narges Shafii
name: Parvin, Parviz
name: Ilchi-Ghazaani, Maryam
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary section
Evaluation of a Multifactorial Falls Intervention in Regional Acute Hospital Settings (Abstract and citation only)
Creators: name: Wallis, Allison
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Multifactorial
Falls
Interventions
Acute hospital
Quality improvement

description: Falls are the most reported patient-safety incident for patients > 65 years in acute hospital settings worldwide. The correct suite of multifactorial falls interventions (MFI) for application in the acute hospital setting is unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of MFI with several outcome measures being the number of falls, injurious falls, completion of falls risk screening and assessment and improvement of staff and patient education in 12 regional acute hospital settings within one Local Health District.
description: The MFI targeted staff, patients, and the environment. To our knowledge, this is the first study that includes the collaboration of the bedside nurse and patient in the design of educational resources and provides staff with the quality improvement (QI) skills to undertake projects targeting falls prevention.
description: Method
description: A QI approach using a quasi-experimental, pre-post-test design with a non-equivalent group, was conducted. For patients that had fallen during the pre-post intervention period audit, data was reviewed in the incident management system, and manual review of individual patient progress notes for determine variables related to the fall. MFI were implemented June 2019 and were continued during and beyond the post intervention data collection period.
description: Results
description: The number of falls and injurious falls was observed to have reduced (p < 0.001) and patients were 1.2 times less likely to fall (p = 0.038) in this pre-post study. Pre-data collection was undertaken April-June 2019, and post intervention data collection April-June 2021. Patient groups during pre-post intervention were different, however all hospitals, wards, departments, and specialties were unchanged. There was significant improvement in fall assessments (p < 0.001), delirium risk screening (p < 0.001), the provision of falls information (p < 0.001) and documentation of risk at shift handover (p < 0.001) in the post intervention period.
description: Conclusion
description: The use of the QI approach was an effective framework to assess the impact of a MFI, which resulted in a reduction in the number of falls and injurious falls. These findings are important because falls continue to have a significant economic impact for hospitals, and we have demonstrated that MFI that includes the staff and patient in its development can reduce falls. This study makes a significant and important contribution to new knowledge because it demonstrated that using a QI approach and MFIs that target the staff, patient and environment may influence a reduction in the number of falls and severity of falls in the acute hospital setting.
Social Drivers of Transitions to Regenerative Agriculture
Creators: name: Alexanderson, Mathew Stephen
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Rgenerative agriculture
Land management
Alternative agriculture
Agriculture
Sustainability

description: Over recent centuries, agriculture has evolved from horse-drawn carts, through the Green Revolution, to new technologies increasing yields and efficiencies. Ultimately, this is impacting Earth's planetary boundaries, with various forms of alternative agriculture seeking to reduce ecological impacts and reduce synthetic inputs. Today, regenerative agriculture (RA) is emerging as a transformative and multifaceted solution that its proponents hope will combat land degradation, enhance soil health, and address climate challenges. However, little is understood about regenerative farmers, who they are, why they do what they do, and how they are sharing and taking up knowledge about current and intended practice change.
description: This thesis addresses these issues through the implementation of survey research. Questions were integrated within the Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils’ (Soil CRC) Social Benchmarking Study, with a second, online survey distributed through the social media sites of multiple regenerative agricultural organisations. From this, five stakeholder groups (conventional farmers, best-practice farmers, regenerative farmers and both conventional and regenerative consultants) were assessed to better understand the drivers, opportunities and limitations of RA.
description: The findings provide evidence that a belief in anthropogenic climate change and education levels most strongly differentiate these farming groups, while adding that many farmers implementing associated best-practices may not currently identify as regenerative. The research culminates in a cross-phase comparison of themes among the five stakeholder groups, with the findings underscoring similarities in knowledge acquisition and pathways between regenerative farmers and consultants, which are quite different to those operating in the conventional space. Moreover, the thesis identifies broader limitations for investment or acceptance of regenerative agriculture due to method and mindset, including challenges associated with terminology, worldview, economics, governance, environmental factors, and time constraints. It suggests that while a trauma induced paradigm shift is a known way to change mindsets, a trojan horse approach of shifting practices, and perhaps later, mindsets, can also be an effective way to transition farmers, and our farming systems. The thesis adds to the growing body of knowledge on RA, while providing recommendations to assist with education, knowledge dissemination, future planning and governance around RA, to support the building of resilience in a changing climate.
Access to Health Care Services and Self-Perceived Health of Canada’s Official-Language Minorities
Creators: name: Gagnon-Arpin, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Minority
Language
Access
Self-perceived health
Health service
Epidemiology
Social determinants of health

description: Official-language minorities in Canada may face specific issues in accessing health care services that can lead to negative consequences on their health, utilization of health care services and satisfaction with the health care system. A secondary data analysis of the 2006 Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities revealed significant differences between the Anglophone minority (n=5,161) and the Francophone minority (n=12,029) with regards to general health, and access to and use of health care services. Important predictors of these outcomes included age, education level, household income, marital status and place of residence (urban/rural). Access to health care services in the minority language was associated with self-perceived health in the Anglophone minority only. Health policy recommendations elaborated in light of the findings include working on both the supply and the demand of health care services offered in the two official languages, while taking into consideration important contextual differences between regions.
Supplementary document for Simulating the Unruh Effect through Leaky Radiation of Tapered Fiber - 5204271.pdf
Creators: name: Hui, Ge
name: Sheng, Chong
name: Zhu, Shining
name: Liu, Hui
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Theoretical calculation and experimental measurement
La Collection Baby et la correspondance de l'élite : la vie de marchands canadiens décrite dans leurs propres mots, 1760-1804
Creators: name: Bernard, Cassandra
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: marchands canadiens
bourgeoisie
traite de fourrures
familles canadiennes
post-conquête

description: Les familles marchandes canadiennes (donc de langue française) en Amérique du Nord Britannique vécurent plusieurs événements locaux, nationaux et même internationaux suivant la chute de la Nouvelle-France entre 1760 et 1804. Une analyse de la correspondance entre certains membres de la société francophone marchande sous dominance britannique en révèle beaucoup sur l’aspect économique et commercial de leur vie, sans oublier leurs familles, communautés et plus intimement, leurs réactions face aux changements qu’ils vécurent. La correspondance nous renseigne sur les habiletés des marchands canadiens à s’adapter au système commercial britannique introduit en Amérique du Nord. Ces lettres témoignent d’associations variées entre marchands de régions diverses, mais aussi entre marchands canadiens et marchands français et britanniques. De façon plus personnelle, les lettres que s’écrivaient les membres d’une famille commerciale élargie s’avèrent une mine d’or d’informations sur l’interaction des individus liés par le sang ou le mariage, et souvent par le commerce également, lorsqu’ils habitaient des régions différentes. On voit des préoccupations de base, telle la santé, l’état financier, l’éducation des enfants, des voyages pris et des nouvelles communautaires, tout sur un arrière-plan de période de conflits et d’incertitude économique et politique. En somme, l’analyse de cette correspondance, qui provient de la Collection Baby, permet une vue plus globale de la vie des familles marchandes canadiennes, comment elles sont reliées, comment elles géraient les changements dans la colonie et ailleurs dans le monde, bref, comment cette communauté dynamique vit le monde qui les entourait.
Characterization of Bacterial Community Structure in Deep Subsurface Sedimentary Core Samples from Michigan Basin, Ontario
Creators: name: Ilin, Dimitri
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: deep
subsurface
molecular
biology
geology
geochemistry
chemistry
PCR
microorganisms
core samples
16S
bacteria
archaea
methanogens
methane
Ordovician
Michigan Basin
biogenic
DNA
cloning

description: Deep subsurface rock samples from Upper Ordovician strata in the Michigan Basin were analyzed for the presence of microbial communities. High concentrations of biogenic methane were observed in the Upper and Middle Ordovician formations. Total porosity values for the shale, shale hard bed and limestone samples were 7.4%, 2.5% and 1.9%, respectively. Hydrocarbon presence ranged from petroliferous shale, to bituminous layering in shale hard beds, to hydrocarbon odour in limestone. Organic carbon content ranged from 0.5 to 2.5%, highest amount being present in the shale. Environmental DNA was extracted from core samples and PCR amplified using 16S rDNA bacterial primers. PCR performed with archaeal 16S rDNA and methanogen-specific (mcrA) primers did not yield DNA amplification. Gene analysis indicated that bacterial sequences similar to Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria were present. Most sequences were not related to known cultivated species. Proteobacteria was the most dominant phyla at all depths and included heterotrophic, lithotrophic, acidophilic, radiotolerant, and sulphate-reducing species of bacteria. This study concludes that the observed biogenic methane is a product of ancient methanogenesis.
title: Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen und dem Kyoto-Protokoll 2021
title: Berichterstattung unter der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen und dem Kyoto-Protokoll 2021
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Treibhausgasinventar
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: UNFCCC
subject: Entwicklung der Treibhausgasemissionen
subject: Treibhausgasausstoß
subject: Klima | Energie

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: 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.
The development of an internet marketing adoption framework for small business enterprises: results from an online focus group
Creators: name: Mokhtar, Noor Fadhiha
name: Burgess, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents the development of an Internet Marketing Adoption Framework for Small Business Enterprises based on the result gathered from an online focus group. The expert panels for this online focus group consist of academics from a variety of disciplines. The main areas of expertise sought were: e-commerce and small businesses, marketing, ICTs, and small business in developing countries (or cross-section of these areas) and it provided different thoughts and perspectives which covered all aspects for the framework. As the results from the discussion, a number of changes were suggested to be made on initial framework, in terms of the structure and its components. Based on the discussion, two new indicators were suggested to be added as new antecedent to Internet marketing; the customer and competitor indicators which it will becomes the external forces that pressure small businesses to adopt the Internet marketing as a marketing tool. The pressures and demand from customers and competitors will indicate small businesses to diverse their marketing activities via the Internet. Besides, the experts suggested considering the business strategies into more micro perspectives which appropriate to comply the uniqueness of small business nature.
Cartografia e corporeità: strategie narrative  nella letteratura ebraico-americana
Creators: name: Zangari, Sostene Massimo
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: Un percorso di evoluzione interessa la letteratura etnica americana nei primi decenni del Ventesimo secolo. A una prima generazione che si rifà a schemi narrativi e ideologici presi a prestito dalla letteratura mainstream, succede una seconda generazione che guarda con interesse alla sperimentazione modernista e vuole portare alla luce aspetti problematici legati ai cambiamenti sociali provocati dall’immigrazione di massa. Nell’ambito della letteratura degli ebrei americani, l’analisi parallela dei romanzi The Rise of David Levinsky di Abraham Cahan, rappresentante del primo gruppo, e Jews Without Money di Michael Gold, appartenente al secondo, illustra le differenze di ordine strutturale e ideologico tra i due momenti. Il testo di Cahan, riscrittura polemica della forma rags to riches, propone un percorso narrativo incentrato sulla costruzione dell’individuo e sul tentativo di assimilazione all’ordine dominante, mentre il romanzo di Gold propone una segmentazione del punto di vista che trasforma il narratore in un testimone passivo delle vicende di altri personaggi, fornendo una prospettiva collettiva rappresentativa dei destini della comunità.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 2 (2010)
Modifying the photobehaviour of guest molecules by inclusion within zeolites.
Creators: name: Corrent, Sonia.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: This thesis gives a detailed account of photochemical processes that occur upon excitation of guest species included inside zeolite host cavities. The use of zeolites, which contain an internal pore structure, as 'microreactors' that can house a variety of molecules differing in size and shape has a remarkable influence on the outcome of photochemical processes, as well as on the behaviour of the transient species formed. The work presented in the various chapters all have an underlying theme: to acquire an understanding of the photochemical and photophysical processes of guest species encapsulated in a constricted medium, and to use this knowledge in the development of new applications of zeolite materials. Thus, the work presented in this thesis explores many different probe molecules in order to acquire a broad view of how the intrazeolite environment influences the photochemical behaviour of encapsulated species. The topics investigated range from the acid-base properties of coumarin 6 in a series of zeolites, to the effect of spectators on the transient and product formation of encapsulated carbonyl compounds, to the characterization of transparent zeolite films. The relevance of these results in context with other work in the field will also be discussed.
Targeting Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Natural Products Derived from Maya Traditional Medicine
Creators: name: Taylor, Matthew W
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Ethnobotany
Maya
Neurodegeneration
Traditional medicine
Platelet activating factor
Platelet activating factor receptor
Excitotoxicity
Phospholipase A2
Dementia

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with limited treatment options. Previous research has shown that metabolism of the platelet activating factor (PAF) family of lipid second messengers is impaired in AD. While PAFs are known to exacerbate glutamate excitotoxicity, signal tau hyperphosphorylation, and mediate amyloid β neurotoxicity, it is not yet clear whether cognitive decline can be ascribed to activation of the G-protein-coupled PAF receptor (PAFR). Here, I assessed whether loss of PAFR would alter Morris water maze performance in the TgCRND8 (Tg) mouse model of AD. I show that learning is impaired in Tg PAFR+/+ but not in Tg PAFR-/- mice. Together, these findings suggested that blocking PAFR-mediated glutamate overload or inhibiting PAF-synthesizing enzymes are two relevant therapeutic strategies. As traditional medicine is a major form of health care in regions like Mesoamerica, I conducted an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by Q’eqchi’ Maya healers of southern Belize to treat symptoms relevant to AD. I collected a total of 22 plants, 19 of which were identified to the species level. None of the plant extracts used for symptoms of AD were neurotoxic when tested on cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs). I found that extracts of Margraviaceae gentlei and Gonzalagunia panamensis protected CGNs from glutamate-induced excitotoxicity, in vitro, and Peperomia hirta inhibited sPLA2 activity. These results demonstrate a pharmacological basis for Q’eqchi’ Maya traditional medicine used to treat symptoms relevant to AD, and highlight several plants with potential for future development into natural products for the treatment of AD.
Significance thresholds for the assessment of contaminated groundwater: perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals
Creators: name: Biegel-Engler, Annegret
name: Von Der Trenck, Karl Theo
name: Konietzka, Rainer
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Grundwasser

description: Background Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFC) do not occur naturally in the environment and are, therefore, of anthropogenic origin. As a consequence of their wide range of everyday applications and their extreme persistence in the environment, PFC have become ubiquitous in nature and can, therefore, be detected in groundwater as well as in many other environmental matrices. The German States' Water and Soil Consortia have compiled 'significance thresholds' (GFS) to assess groundwater contaminated with PFC. The GFS serve as criteria for the decision whether actions to remediate polluted groundwater are necessary. Thirteen of these PFC had been detected in groundwater at levels above their limit of quantitation and were assigned first priority. Results The data regarding human health effects were sufficient to derive guide values according to the criteria of the German Drinking Water Ordinance for 7 of the 13 first-priority PFC. With regard to available ecotoxicological data, predicted no-effect concentration values from official risk assessments existed for 2 of the 13 first-priority PFC. A predicted no-effect concentration for protection of the aquatic biocenosis could be derived for eight more substances. Conclusions After evaluation of data from available literature regarding both human health and ecotoxicological effects, significance thresholds ranging from 0.06 to 10.0 ng/L could be derived for 7 of the 13 priority PFC in groundwater. As a practical guide valid solely for human health-based values, a summation rule was proposed for exposures to mixtures of these seven PFC.
Scritto sul vento. Aspetti della questione retorica in Ulysses
Creators: name: Patey, Caroline
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: Nel capitolo in cui Joyce rilegge e riscrive l’incauta liberazione omerica dei venti contrari, foriera di ulteriori ostacoli al ritorno dei navigatori, il gioioso e scanzonato avvicendamento di tropi e figure – entimema e paranomasia, palindromo e metatesi – capovolge il segno negativo dell’ipotesto e invita a riconsiderare Ulysses alla luce di dialettiche e strategie testuali che ne moltiplicano i sensi e interrogano in modo impellente la forma stessa del genere.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 2 (2010)
Direct Assembly of Vertically Oriented, Gold Nanorod Arrays
Creators: name: Zhang, Heyou
name: Liu, Yawei
name: Shahidan, Muhammad Faris Shahin
name: Kinnear, Calum
name: Maasoumi, Pegah
name: Cadusch, Jasper
name: Akinoglu, Eser Metin
name: James, Timothy D.
name: Widmer‐Cooper, Asaph
name: Roberts, Ann
name: Mulvaney, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Although many nanoscale materials such as quantum dots and metallic nanocrystals exhibit size dependent optical properties, it has been difficult to incorporate them into optical or electronic devices because there are currently no methods for precise, large-scale deposition of single nanocrystals. Of particular interest is the need to control the orientation of single nanocrystals since the optical properties are usually strongly anisotropic. Here a method based on electrophoretic deposition (EPD) is reported to precisely assemble vertically oriented, single gold nanorods. It is demonstrated that the orientation of gold nanorods during deposition is controlled by the electric dipole moment induced along the rod by the electric field. Dissipative particle dynamics simulations indicate that the magnitude of this dipole moment is dominated by the polarizability of the solution phase electric double layer around the nanorod. The resulting vertical gold nanorod arrays exhibit reflected colors due to selective excitation of the transverse surface plasmon mode. The EPD method allows assembly of arrays with a density of over one million, visually resolvable, vertical nanorods per square millimeter.
Picking up STEAM. Road-STEAMer First Policy Brief (v2)
Creators: name: Addis, Annalisa
name: Silvestrini, Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This policy brief outlines all the challenges faced in STEM sectors in Europe such as lack of skilled employees and the persistent underrepresentation of women and marginalised groups in these fields of employment. During the first project year, we identified four main areas for policy recommendations to address these STEM-related issues. Key areas to prioritise are encouraging the uptake of STE(A)M careers, increasing diversity in these sectors, enhancing science and arts literacy, and aligning education with tomorrow’s societal needs.
The neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein (NAIP) analysis of human and murine genetics.
Creators: name: Yaraghi, Zahra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs), characterized by the degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons resulting in muscular atrophy, are among the most common autosomal recessive disorders. All forms of SMA map to chromosome 5 at 5q13. The interval containing the SMA gene was defined by linkage analysis and the identification of recombination events to an approximately 1.1 Mb region flanked centromerically by the DNA marker D5S629 and telomerically by the DNA marker D5S557. In the first part of this study I describe a recombination event on an SMA chromosome from a type I SMA family, occurring between different subloci of two complex microsatellite repeats (MSR), CMS-1 and 7613. This new proximal boundary reduced the minimal region harboring the SMA locus from ∼1.1 Mb to approximately 600 kb. It was within this newly defined SMA interval that an SMA associated gene, designated NAIP (Neuronal Apoptosis Inhibitory Protein), was cloned in 1995. NAIP exists in multiple copies in the SMA region at 5q13. Deletions in the first two coding exons of the only intact copy of NAIP are associated with approximately 66% of type I SMA cases and a lower percentage of the milder cases. The NAIP protein is homologous to the baculoviral inhibitor of apoptosis proteins, and is present in motor neurons and other neuronal populations affected in type I SMA. In the second part of this study I report the cloning and characterization of multiple copies of the mouse homologue of NAIP, all of which map to mouse chromosome 13, region D1-D3, which is syntenic to the human chromosome 5q11-q23. The analysis of the genomic organization of Naip indicated the existence of a minimum of six distinct Naip loci in the mouse. The original reason for the cloning of the mouse homologues of NAIP was to generate a knockout mouse model for SMA. Thus, as a first step toward this goal, I describe the targeted disruption of the CNS locus, Naip1, in ES cells. A report on the mapping of the multiple Naip loci to the critical region of Lgn1, a locus modulating the intracellular replication of Legionella in macrophages and therefore its pathogenicity, made Naip a candidate gene for murine Legionella resistance. Here I report further characterization of Naip2, as the locus most suited for this candidacy. Taken together, my data reveal that in contrast to the human case where there is one intact NAIP gene and multiple unprocessed truncated and deleted pseudogenes, the mouse possesses multiple potentially functional Naip loci representing a gene family. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Periodic Plasmonic Nanoantennas in a Piecewise Homogeneous Background
Creators: name: Siadat Mousavi, Saba
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Plasmonic nanoantenna
nanoantenna
nanomonopole
nanodipole
optical antenna

description: Optical nanoantennas have raised much interest during the past decade for their vast potential in photonics applications. This thesis investigates the response of periodic arrays of nanomonopoles and nanodipoles on a silicon substrate, covered by water, to variations of antenna dimensions. These arrays are illuminated by a plane wave source located inside the silicon substrate. Modal analysis was performed and the mode in the nanoantennas was identified. By characterizing the properties of this mode certain response behaviours of the system were explained. Expressions are offered to predict approximately the resonant length of nanomonopoles and nanodipoles, by accounting for the fringing fields at the antenna ends and the effects of the gap in dipoles. These expressions enable one to predict the resonant length of nanomonopoles within 20% and nanodipoles within 10% error, which significantly facilitates the design of such antennas for specific applications.