cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Making Music in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Creators: name: Acker, Yolanda
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis offers the first in-depth critical account of the performance of art and concert music in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). It debunks the view—still held by many—that concert life ground to a halt as a result of the outbreak of war and resumed after the victory of Franco’s Nationalist troops. It argues that music played an active and important role throughout the conflict and was inseparably tied to the politics and propaganda of war as well as to the preservation and defence of the legitimately founded Republic. It demonstrates how the horrors of war were reconciled with the day-to-day reality and how music and culture were used for leisure and entertainment. It considers the modalities the relationship between music and propaganda acquired and discusses the political and social uses of music directly related to the war. In reconstructing music-making in Madrid during this period, this thesis documents the existence of a vibrant musical culture during the conflict for the very first time. This activity embraced many forms, from stage music to band and instrumental music and is presented thematically, rather than chronologically. Following an explanation of the Republican entities set up to administer and control music, individual chapters are devoted to zarzuela and revista, opera and incidental music, band music, orchestral music and chamber music (incorporating radio and political song). Together, these six chapters reflect the breadth and depth of music making in Madrid and combine to give a rich overview of the city’s musical soundscape during the war. They reveal the range and extent to which music was used, whether as pure entertainment and distraction or as a weapon, for political, propagandistic or educational purposes. Ultimately, each chapter underscores the Republican government’s involvement in the defence and promotion of art music—irrespective of genre—and music’s role in harbouring the strength of the population in the fight against fascism. The documentation of music making in Madrid during the war, as established in this thesis, is primarily based on a granular examination of the vast left-wing press published in the city during this period. By scouring through all of the city’s daily newspapers and numerous journals, I provide a wealth of documentary evidence of the continuation of concert life in Madrid, thus filling a major lacuna in the scholarly literature. The thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge of music and the Spanish Civil War, both for a Spanish and an international audience. It also furthers the study of cultural production in a conflict zone as well as the area of music, war and politics in general.
title: Gardening the Australian Landscape
Creators: name: Willoughby, Sharon
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: The Australian Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, an annex of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne was first conceived in the 1930s. Land to create the gardens was purchased in the 1970s and the site opened to the public in the 1980s. The final and second stage of the Australian Garden was completed in 2012. Traditionally garden histories have concentrated on garden designers, head gardeners or directors as the sole actors in the exploration of the history of gardens or gardening. In contrast this thesis argues that a much richer and deeper history can be told by exploring the garden through the lens of environmental history, where the landscape and soils are agents, along with human actors. This is not a 76-year story of a garden in isolation. It tells the millennial story of the whole garden landscape across deep time. A botanic garden, its staff, visitors, plants, animals, soil, climate and designers all are shaped by a matrix of relationships that are temporal, ecological and cultural. The American environmental historian William Cronon wrote, "This creates "a theoretical vocabulary in which plants animals, soil, climate and other nonhuman actors become the co-actors and co-determinants' of this history". This thesis reads the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne as a cultural document. The garden is a living palimpsest that reveals the contribution of gardening to the Australian landscape and to the development of a sense of place in a particular location. Like other cultural artifacts, a botanic garden reflects the concerns of its times and the human aspirations for its future. It can be read through a number of different lenses personal, political, environmental, scientific, aesthetic, economic and social, and this thesis brings these all together, spanning geological and human time. The Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne are explored through a variety of sources: the archive of key documents and plans, the recollections and writings of staff, volunteers, philanthropists and contractors and the body of academic and practitioner discourse on botanic gardens and gardening in Australia. This thesis is enriched by my own long practice of interpreting the landscape for the visiting community. In this way this work brings together the dialogue of research and practice. A botanic garden is both a palimpsest and a prism refracting and reflecting back to us many layers of meaning, illuminating the environmental sensibilities of the times in which it was created. Gardens are not mere mirrors of society. They can act as engines for future change in the landscape. The Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne has a particular role in exploring future Australian landscapes, urban and wild. Many different possible futures have been envisaged over the eight decades of its history, and these reflect changing Australian sensibilities about gardens and the environment.
Intracellular signalling involved in the regulation of atrial natriuretic factor secretion
Creators: name: Chang, Astra I
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a hormone that helps maintain fluid homeostasis and has many other physiological roles. Understanding of its regulation may have immense impacts in the treatment and understanding of cardiac diseases. Despite the recent and continuing unravelling of signalling cascades, the intracellular signalling governing ANF secretion from atrial cardiocytes remains mostly unknown. Following recent evidence of the involvement of G proteins in modulating ANF secretion, the role of Gq effector phospholipase C (PLC) and its proximal effectors was investigated in spontaneously beating rat atria. Phospholipase C and protein kinase C inhibitors dramatically increased basal secretion of ANF. Furthermore, although stretch is a potent stimulus for secretion, these inhibitor-mediated increases fell to baseline levels when the stretch of the atria was subsequently introduced. Inositol trisphosphate receptor inhibition did not appear to affect basal secretion but dose-dependently blocked stretch secretion coupling. These results reveal interesting novel phenomena and demonstrate key participation of the PLC cascade in the regulation of ANF secretion.
title: The Informal Life Politics of Community-based Organic Farming Movements in South Korea
Creators: name: Paik, Yon Jae
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis presents the history of the organic farming movement in South Korea as an example that shows the significance of community as an alternative polity. The key questions I examine in the thesis are: In what contexts did organic farming become political? How has politics been defined and practiced in the organic farming movement? To explore these questions, I focus on the history of two of the most important organic farming movement groups in South Korea: Chongnonghoe, an organic farming movement group created in 1976, and Hansalim, the first organic cooperative, created in 1986. Chongnonghoe started organic farming as a social movement based on self-sufficient farming communities autonomous from the military government's Green Revolution project in the 1970s, and Hansalim expanded the movement by introducing consumer-supported agriculture (CSA) to deal with the decline of rural communities and the liberalisation of the food system in the 1980s. By examining the origins and the ideological aspects of the communal tradition in the organic farming movement, I argue that organic farming is a community-based social movement embedded in the tradition of community as an alternative space. I show how organic farming communities serve as alternative spaces - spaces of living politics (or informal life politics) where people enact communal self-help to solve the challenges of their livelihood by themselves. For Chongnonghoe, this communal space took the form of self-sufficient farms inspired by the Danish-style rural movement of the 1920s, in which Korean Christian nationalists endeavoured to build autonomous communities under Japanese colonial rule. In the case of Hansalim, the 'urban-rural community' of consumers and organic farmers presented community as an alternative within the capitalist social formation. By showing the vibrancy of small-scale communities as alternative polities in the organic farming movement, I demonstrate the resilience of such communities as sites of living politics, which repeatedly emerges and fades as people strive to deal with challenges caused by the dominance of the nation-state and the capitalist market. This work on the history of the organic farming movement expands the scope of religious and social movement history in rural Korea, and opens new perspectives for exploring the significant social changes in Korean society achieved by people's small-scale but widespread communal efforts.
Rhipidura rufifrons subsp. ugiensis Mayr 1931
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Rhipiduridae
Rhipidura
Rhipidura rufifrons
Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis mayr

description: Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis Mayr
 Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis Mayr, 1931b: 19 (Ugi Island, British Solomon Islands).
 Now Rhipidura rufifrons ugiensis Mayr, 1931. See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.
 HOLOTYPE: AMNH 217586, adult male, collected on Uki ni Masi (5 Ugi) Island, 10.10S, 161.40E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 13 April 1927, by Rollo H. Beck, Frederick P. Drowne, and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 25803).
COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements based on 12 specimens. The 11 paratypes are: AMNH 217584, 217585, 217587–217594, and 225348.
 The Whitney Expedition ship France anchored in Selwyn Bay, on the west coast of Uki ni Masi (unpublished journal of Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives).
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 235, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Object Tracking Sensor Networks using Sequential Patterns in an Energy Efficient Prediction Technique
Creators: name: Al-Hajri, Muhannad Khaled
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Wireless Sensor Networks applications are attracting more and more research, especially in energy saving techniques/architectures which is the focal point of most researchers in this area. One of the most interesting applications of Wireless Sensor Networks is the Object Tracking Sensor Networks which are used mainly to track certain objects in a monitored area and to report its location to the application's users. This application is a major energy consumer among other Wireless Sensor Networks applications. There have been many techniques that assist in delivering the required data while maintaining a lower energy consumption than the early approaches. Our approach revolves around the ability to predict the objects' future movements in order to track it with the minimum number of sensor nodes, while keeping the other sensor nodes in the network in a sleep mode. Thus, achieving our goals while reducing significantly the network's energy consumption. The prediction technique used in our proposed solution is based on the inherited patterns of the objects' movements in the network and how to utilize data mining techniques, such as Sequential Patterns, in order to predict which sensor node the moving object will be heading next. We propose the Prediction-based Tracking technique using Sequential Patterns (PTSP), which is designed to achieve significant reductions in the energy dissipated by the OTSN network, while maintaining an acceptable missing rate levels. PTSP is tested against basic tracking techniques in order to determine the appropriateness of PTSP in various circumstances. We also test PTSP against some OTSN impacting factors, such as number of tracked objects, object speed, sampling duration and sampling frequency. We also test 3 different missing object recovery mechanisms implemented in PTSP to determine which is the most energy conservative. The experimental results had shown that PTSP outperformed all the other basic tracking techniques and contributed remarkable amounts of savings in terms of energy consumption of the entire network even through different circumstances.
title: Adapting polymerisation techniques for small molecule synthesis
Creators: name: Fung, Alfred
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: Atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) is an industrially important methodology for controlled radical polymerisation. Copper catalysed ATRP remains the most developed variant, with advancements enabling air tolerance and ppm-level catalyst loadings. At its core ATRP depends upon a mediator complex to reversibly generate the propagating radical. In this thesis, we bridge the gap between atom transfer radical polymerisation and small molecule synthesis; by strategically applying ATRP mediators and methodology to cross-coupling chemistry. First, via the development of a copper-catalysed C-N bond cross-coupling, using a cheap and accessible ATRP mediator. Followed by the introduction air tolerance into Cadiot-Chodkiewicz and Sonogashira cross couplings via the introduction of sodium ascorbate and ascorbic acid. Finally, we attempt to extend the scope of ATRP through the development of a model synthesis towards new generation of capped ATRP ligands Previously computationally evaluated to be far more active than the current generation of ATRP mediators. Together these developments further connects ATRP to small molecule synthesis, highlighting the generalisability of ATRP methodology. Furthermore, significant progress has been made towards a new generation of ATRP catalysts.
Comparing the content of participation instruments using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Creators: name: Noonan, Vanessa K.
name: Kopeć, Jacek A.
name: Noreau, Luc
name: Singer, Joel
name: Chan, Anna
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
name: Dvorak, Marcel F.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The concept of participation is recognized as an important rehabilitation outcome and instruments have been developed to measure participation using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). To date, few studies have examined the content of these instruments to determine how participation has been operationalized. The purpose of this study was to compare the content of participation instruments using the ICF classification. Methods A systematic literature search was conducted to identify instruments that assess participation according to the ICF. Instruments were considered to assess participation and were included if the domains contain content from a minimum of three ICF chapters ranging fromChapter 3 CommunicationtoChapter 9 Community, social and civic lifein the activities and participation component. The instrument content was examined by first identifying the meaningful concepts in each question and then linking these concepts to ICF categories. The content analysis included reporting the 1) ICF chapters (domains) covered in the activities and participation component, 2) relevance of the meaningful concepts to the activities and participation component and 3) context in which the activities and participation component categories are evaluated. Results Eight instruments were included: Impact on Participation and Autonomy, Keele Assessment of Participation, Participation Survey/Mobility, Participation Measure-Post Acute Care, Participation Objective Participation Subjective, Participation Scale (P-Scale), Rating of Perceived Participation and World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II). 1351 meaningful concepts were identified in the eight instruments. There are differences among the instruments regarding how participation is operationalized. All the instruments cover six to eight of the nine chapters in the activities and participation component. The P-Scale and WHODAS II have questions which do not contain any meaningful concepts related to the activities and participation component. Differences were also observed in how other ICF components (body functions, environmental factors) and health are operationalized in the instruments. Conclusion Linking the meaningful concepts in the participation instruments to the ICF classification provided an objective and comprehensive method for analyzing the content. The content analysis revealed differences in how the concept of participation is operationalized and these differences should be considered when selecting an instrument.
title: A Fair Trial for Whom? Due Process Given Indigenous Males in NSW Criminal District Courts
Creators: name: Emory, Rick
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: This project is a mixed methods, sociolegal inquiry into whether the NSW District Court criminal litigation system negatively impacts and/or potentially racially discriminates against Indigenous males accused of indictable offences. Its primary research questions are (1) Do race or Indigenous status of Aboriginal defendants, as a class, negatively impact Indigenous accused persons in New South Wales at trial? And (2) If so, do those negative impacts potentially 'racially discriminate' in a general, sociolegal sense of the term? The project uses a number of interrelated methodological components including: (a) the 'Rombauer Method of (doctrinal) legal research,' (b) statistical antidiscrimination testing using both freely available datasets and datasets purchased from NSW BOCSAR, (c) observational-ethnographic data collection using a single blind random sample of an equal number of matters involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous accused males, (d) practitioner interviews, and (e) multisite photographic analysis. Notably, this methodology won the inaugural Simon Fenwick Award for Indigenous research, and the Simon Fenwick Foundation largely funded fieldwork. With regards to findings, this research uncovers that statistically, in NSW District Court criminal litigation, an accused's race can objectively detriment Indigenous males. The NSW pretrial detention system is arguably racially discriminatory, as is how the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions exercises its non-reviewable prosecutorial discretion to withdraw charges. However, race is a complex social phenomenon, as is racism. In certain instances, this project observed that an accused's race and/or the alleged victim's objective racism can also benefit Indigenous males. Similarly, other aspects of NSW District Court criminal litigation negatively impact Indigenous males in ways falling outside the scope of present legal understandings of racial discrimination. For example, introducing tendency and coincidence evidence using convictions obtained prior to the RCADIC and Wood RC allows the possibility of extant legal injuries caused by prior events occurring during a demonstrably racist and corrupt period in NSW history. Likewise, colonial era courthouses are more likely to affect compound trauma responses amongst Indigenous accused persons and overlap with insufficient judicial infrastructure in western NSW in a manner that disparately impacts criminal legal proceedings in localities with elevated per capita Indigenous populations.
Copenhague, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 380 folio, fol. 22v-23v, transcription diplomatique (Gregorius Digital L2-2)
Creators: name: Andersen, Peter
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Ce document PDF est une transcription diplomatique du manuscrit Copenhague, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 380 folio, fol. 22v-23v, contient le récit du Bon Pécheur et est édité dans le cadre du projet Gregorius Digital sous le sigle L2-2 (dir. Peter Andersen – ARCHE UMR 3400 – Université de Strasbourg)
Effects of neutrophils and reactive nitrogen oxide species in tumors as determined by genetic manipulation of the Mutatect mouse tumor model
Creators: name: Haqqani, Arsalan S
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Biology, Cell.
subject: Health Sciences, Oncology.

description: Most human tumors exhibit accumulation of mutations throughout their progression. In addition, many human tumors are infiltrated with inflammatory cells, such as neutrophils and macrophages. These cells can generate potentially mutagenic species, including nitric oxide-derived species. We hypothesize that these species contribute to the accumulation of mutations in tumors. Our lab previously developed the 'Mutatect' mouse tumor model to study this hypothesis. Mutatect fibrosarcoma cells can form solid tumors in C57BL/6 mice when injected subcutaneously. These tumors are variably infiltrated with neutrophils. The neutrophils contain inducible nitric oxide synthase, and tumor cells contain nitrotyrosine, an indicator of nitric oxide-derived damage. Neutrophil number correlates with mutation arising in vivo in Mutatect cells at the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) locus, a marker of genetic damage. Dietary vitamin E significantly lowers the hprt mutations. I genetically engineered Mutatect cells to produce interleukin-8, a neutrophil attractant. Cells expressing high levels of interleukin-8 formed small tumors, whereas cells expressing lower levels produced large tumors. A biochemical assay was developed to quantify neutrophil content in tumors. Interleukin-8-expressing tumors had a significantly higher neutrophil content and hprt mutations than non-expressing tumors. Interleukin-8 gene instability was observed in high interleukin-8-expressing tumors. Dietary vitamin E dramatically inhibited both hprt mutations and interleukin-8 instability. It also affected neutrophil distribution in tumors. High level of protein nitrotyrosine was seen in tumors with high neutrophil content (and mutations). Using proteomics tools, a significant amount of nitrotyrosine could be identified in histones, the major nuclear proteins associated with DNA. Mechanism of nitric oxide-derived mutagenicity was also examined. Previous studies implicate the role of intracellular S-nitrosoglutathione, which was recently found to be detoxified by formaldehyde dehydrogenase. I developed several cell-lines with down-regulated formaldehyde dehydrogenase levels using RNA interference and antisense techniques. A metabolic cycle, involving formaldehyde dehydrogenase, capable of regulating protein S-nitrosation was identified. This thesis has contributed significantly towards understanding the role of inflammatory cells and the nitric oxide-derived factors in solid tumors. It has also allowed us to understand the mechanism(s) of S-nitrosation and tyrosine nitration in proteins, both of which may have physiological and pathological relevance.
Transformationsprozesse in Recht und Wirtschaft der Mongolei seit 1990
Creators: name: Nelle, Dietrich
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: Die bis Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts von der Außenwelt abgeschottete Mongolei hat in der Zeit der sowjetischen Vorherrschaft bis 1990 grundlegende Wandlungen durchlebt, welche allerdings die traditionellen, auf nomadischer Viehwirtschaft basierenden Lebensformen für einen großen Teil der Bevölkerung erstaunlich weit gehend intakt ließen. Im aktuellen Transformationsprozess nach der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Wende von 1990 ist die Mongolei nunmehr bestrebt, sowohl den Anforderungen der neuen Zeit möglichst rasch und umfassend Rechnung zu tragen, als auch dabei zugleich die gewachsene kulturelle Identität zu bewahren.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 87 (2003): ASIEN (April)
title: Sistemi ad eventi discreti
Creators: name: Di Febbraro, Angela
name: Giua, Alessandro
Publisher: name: UNICApress
Year: 2025

description: I sistemi ad eventi discreti sono caratterizzati da uno spazio di stato discreto e non necessariamente numerico. Il comportamento dinamico di tali sistemi è guidato dall’occorrenza di eventi anch’essi discreti che, verificandosi con cadenzamento irregolare non necessariamente noto a priori, determinano istantanei cambiamenti di
stato. Le attività individuate dagli eventi sono tipicamente concorrenti e richiedono strategie di sincronizzazione e controllo. Esempi significativi si ritrovano nei processi produttivi, nelle reti di elaboratori elettronici, di trasporto, di comunicazioni.
Sistemi ad eventi discreti è stato concepito come un libro di testo adatto a corsi di laurea e laurea magistrale. Esso introduce e guida il lettore, presentando una panoramica sui diversi modelli usati in questo campo (automi, catene di Markov, code, reti di Petri, algebra max-plus) e sulle diverse metodologie di simulazione, analisi e controllo sviluppate per tali modelli. I vari capitoli, essendo sufficientemente indipendenti l’uno dell’altro, possono anche essere singolarmente usati in un ampio spettro formativo, per esempio quale supporto didattico per un progetto o una tesi di laurea, o come lettura introduttiva per gli studenti di dottorato. Benché gli argomenti trattati siano affrontati da un punto di vista prettamente sistemistico, il libro risulta di interesse non solo per gli studenti dei corsi di studio nell’area dell’Ingegneria dell’Informazione (automazione, telecomunicazioni, elettronica, informatica) ma anche per gli studenti delle aree dell’Ingegneria Civile e dell’Ingegneria Industriale (chimica, trasporti, gestionale, meccanica), nonché della Matematica (informatica, ricerca operativa), in cui lo studio dei sistemi ad eventi discreti assume particolare rilevanza.
Anti-viral properties and mode of action of standardized Echinacea purpurea extract against highly pathogenic avian Influenza virus (H5N1, H7N7) and swine-origin H1N1 (S-OIV)
Creators: name: Pleschka, Stephan
name: Stein, Michael
name: Schoop, Roland
name: Hudson, James B
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Influenza virus (IV) infections are a major threat to human welfare and animal health worldwide. Anti-viral therapy includes vaccines and a few anti-viral drugs. However vaccines are not always available in time, as demonstrated by the emergence of the new 2009 H1N1-type pandemic strain of swine origin (S-OIV) in April 2009, and the acquisition of resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors such as Tamiflu® (oseltamivir) is a potential problem. Therefore the prospects for the control of IV by existing anti-viral drugs are limited. As an alternative approach to the common anti-virals we studied in more detail a commercial standardized extract of the widely used herb Echinacea purpurea (Echinaforce®, EF) in order to elucidate the nature of its anti-IV activity. Results: Human H1N1-type IV, highly pathogenic avian IV (HPAIV) of the H5- and H7-types, as well as swine origin IV (S-OIV, H1N1), were all inactivated in cell culture assays by the EF preparation at concentrations ranging from the recommended dose for oral consumption to several orders of magnitude lower. Detailed studies with the H5N1 HPAIV strain indicated that direct contact between EF and virus was required, prior to infection, in order to obtain maximum inhibition in virus replication. Hemagglutination assays showed that the extract inhibited the receptor binding activity of the virus, suggesting that the extract interferes with the viral entry into cells. In sequential passage studies under treatment in cell culture with the H5N1 virus no EF-resistant variants emerged, in contrast to Tamiflu®, which produced resistant viruses upon passaging. Furthermore, the Tamiflu®-resistant virus was just as susceptible to EF as the wild type virus. Conclusion: As a result of these investigations, we believe that this standard Echinacea preparation, used at the recommended dose for oral consumption, could be a useful, readily available and affordable addition to existing control options for IV replication and dissemination.
Differentiating coping patterns for illness-related and other types of stressors in adolescents with chronic illness
Creators: name: Pontefract, Amanda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the personal stressors and patterns of coping in adolescents living with a chronic illness. Primary objectives were to: (1) identify salient stressors and to determine the relation between cognitive appraisals and the degree to which a stressor is perceived as illness-related or typical of adolescence; (2) assess differences in coping strategies used for illness-related and other types of stressors; (3) investigate if gender or age influences the frequency, cognitive appraisals or types of stressors reported, or the nature and the overall number of coping strategies reported. A secondary objective was to assess the extent to which health-related quality of life is related to stressors, coping strategies and coping in general. In the current study, 193 chronically ill adolescents listed up to 20 personal stressors and rated the frequency, control over the cause, perceived impact, control over the outcome, and the extent to which each stressor was related to the chronic illness, and typical of adolescence. Adolescents reported coping strategies (Kidcope) for one self-identified illness related and one non-illness related stressor and for two stressors standardized for the entire sample. Participants also completed a global measure of adolescent coping (A-COPE) and a health-related quality of life measure (Rand 36-item Health Survey). Results showed that the most frequently identified stressors were similar to those reported for healthy adolescents. Moreover, stressors were rated as more typical of adolescence than they were illness-related. Although perceived control over the cause was negatively related to stressor impact for self-identified stressors, neither controllability ratings nor impact were significantly correlated with illness or typical ratings. Considerable consistency in coping was found across self-identified stressors only. Females employed more social support and emotional regulation than did males. Although the number of stressors and the perceived impact of stressors increased with age, consistent age differences in coping were not obtained. Poorer general health perception was associated with greater impact for illness stressors. Perceived controllability over the outcome was associated with increased approach coping for both self-generated and standard stressors. Study limitations, suggestions for future research, and clinical implications are discussed.
Detection of pathogenic copy number variants in children with idiopathic intellectual disability using 500 K SNP array genomic hybridization
Creators: name: Friedman, J. M. (Jan Marshall), 1947-
name: Adam, Shelin
name: Arbour, Laura
name: Armstrong, Linlea
name: Baross, Agnes
name: Birch, Patricia
name: Boerkoel, Cornelius
name: Chan, Susanna
name: Chai, David
name: Delaney, Allen D.
name: Flibotte, Stephane
name: Gibson, William T.
name: Langlois, Sylvie
name: Lemyre, Emmanuelle
name: Li, H. I.
name: MacLeod, Patrick
name: Mathers, Joan
name: Michaud, Jacques L.
name: McGillivray, Barbara C.
name: Patel, Millan S.
name: Qian, Hong
name: Rouleau, Guy A.
name: Van Allen, Margot I.
name: Yong, Siu-Li
name: Zahir, Farah R.
name: Eydoux, Patrice
name: Marra, Marco, 1966-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Array genomic hybridization is being used clinically to detect pathogenic copy number variants in children with intellectual disability and other birth defects. However, there is no agreement regarding the kind of array, the distribution of probes across the genome, or the resolution that is most appropriate for clinical use. Results We performed 500 K Affymetrix GeneChip® array genomic hybridization in 100 idiopathic intellectual disability trios, each comprised of a child with intellectual disability of unknown cause and both unaffected parents. We found pathogenic genomic imbalance in 16 of these 100 individuals with idiopathic intellectual disability. In comparison, we had found pathogenic genomic imbalance in 11 of 100 children with idiopathic intellectual disability in a previous cohort who had been studied by 100 K GeneChip® array genomic hybridization. Among 54 intellectual disability trios selected from the previous cohort who were re-tested with 500 K GeneChip® array genomic hybridization, we identified all 10 previously-detected pathogenic genomic alterations and at least one additional pathogenic copy number variant that had not been detected with 100 K GeneChip® array genomic hybridization. Many benign copy number variants, including one that was de novo, were also detected with 500 K array genomic hybridization, but it was possible to distinguish the benign and pathogenic copy number variants with confidence in all but 3 (1.9%) of the 154 intellectual disability trios studied. Conclusion Affymetrix GeneChip® 500 K array genomic hybridization detected pathogenic genomic imbalance in 10 of 10 patients with idiopathic developmental disability in whom 100 K GeneChip® array genomic hybridization had found genomic imbalance, 1 of 44 patients in whom 100 K GeneChip® array genomic hybridization had found no abnormality, and 16 of 100 patients who had not previously been tested. Effective clinical interpretation of these studies requires considerable skill and experience.
Słownik synonimów dla muzyków
Creators: name: Kawiorski, Marek
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
Year: 2021

description: Słownik synonimów dla muzyków stanowi pierwszą, nie tylko w Polsce, próbę stworzenia tego rodzaju narzędzia umożliwiającego przekazanie odbiorcy intencji twórców oraz treści dzieła, jego struktury i rozwiązań warsztatowych. Zawiera blisko dwa i pół tysiąca haseł – słów i zwrotów równoznacznych i bliskoznacznych pogrupowanych alfabetycznie, w tym rzeczowników, czasowników, przymiotników i przysłówków niezbędnych w opisie zjawisk muzycznych. Prócz haseł stricte muzycznych obejmuje bogaty zasób form korespondujących ze sferą ekspresyjno-emocjonalną i brzmieniową. Czytelnik odnaleźć może także słowa i zwroty w językach obcych, głównie włoskim i łacińskim, utrwalone w piśmiennictwie muzykologicznym. Słownik powstał z myślą o uczniach szkół muzycznych, studentach kierunków muzycznych, teoretykach muzyki, krytykach muzycznych, jak również melomanach.
Rhipidura rufifrons subsp. kuperi Mayr 1931
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Rhipiduridae
Rhipidura
Rhipidura rufifrons
Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi mayr

description: Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi Mayr
 Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi Mayr, 1931b: 18 (Santa Anna Island, British Solomon Islands).
 Now Rhipidura rufifrons kuperi Mayr, 1931. See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 231.
 HOLOTYPE: AMNH 217567, adult male, collected on Santa Ana (5 Santa Anna or Santa Ona) Island, 10.53S, 162.28E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 9 March 1927, by Rollo H. Beck, Frederick P. Drowne, and Joe Hicks on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 24903).
COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and measurements based on 13 specimens, noting that most were in molt. The 12 paratypes are: AMNH 217568–217577, 225343, and 227760.
 The Whitney Expedition ship France anchored at Port Mary, on the west side of Santa Ana (unpublished journal of Frederick P. Drowne, AMNH Department of Ornithology Archives). On some modern maps, Santa Ana is called Owa Rafa.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 235, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
ОЦЕНКА БИОБЕЗОПАСНОСТИ НАНОСТРУКТУРНОГО УГЛЯ КАК ВОЗМОЖНОГО КОМПОНЕНТА КОМПЛЕКСНОГО БИОПРЕПАРАТА
Creators: name: И. А. Дегтярева
name: Э. В. Бабынин
name: Т. Ю. Мотина
name: Р. Р. Газизов
Publisher: name: Агрохимический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: наноструктурный уголь
мутагенная активность
SOS-lux тест
биопрепарат
биобезопасность
nanostructured coal
mutagenic activity
SOS-lux test
biological product
biosafety

description: Представлен материал об оценке эффектов, вызванных наноструктурным углем на мутационный процесс у штаммов Salmonella typhimurium. В SOS-lux тесте установлено отсутствие у наноугля генотоксичности. и его безопасности в отношении мутагенной активности Исследовано, как наноуголь модифицирует ответ клеток на ДНК-повреждающую активность различных соединений – митомицина С, перекиси водорода, офлоксацина. При взаимодействии с митомицином С наноуголь оказывает слабое подавление SOS-индуцирующей активности этого соединения С перекисью водорода наноуголь не показал достоверного антимутагенного эффекта, а при взаимодействии с офлоксацином он усиливал в 1,5-2,0 раза эффект этого соединения. Таким образом, наноструктурный уголь в исследованиях на бактериальных тест-системах не проявил мутагенной активности, поэтому его можно считать безопасными для окружающей среды и использовать по агропромышленному назначению, в частности в качестве добавки к биопрепарату. Антимутагенные свойства наноугля неоднозначны, а механизм такого взаимодействия требует более детального изучения.
description: The article presents an assessment of the effects caused by nanostructured coal on the mutation process in Salmonella typhimurium strains. The SOS-lux test found that the nanocarb had no genotoxicity. and its safety in relation to mutagenic activity, it was Investigated how the nanocarbon modifies the response of cells to the DNA- damaging activity of various compounds-mitomycin C, hydrogen peroxide, and ofloxacin. When interacting with mitomycin with nanocarbon, it has a weak suppression of the SOS-inducing activity of this compound With hydrogen peroxide, nanocarbon did not show a significant antimutagenic effect, and when interacting with ofloxacin, it increased the effect of this compound by 1.5-2.0 times. Thus, nanostructured coal in studies on bacterial test systems did not show mutagenic activity, so it can be considered safe for the environment and used for agricultural purposes, in particular as an additive to a biological product. The antimutagenic properties of nanocarbon are ambiguous, and the mechanism of such interaction requires more detailed study.
The moderating will in John Duns Scotus
Creators: name: Delahoossaye, Gerard
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: The thesis examines what counts as a moral act for John Duns Scotus when he considers the two innate affections (or propensities) of the will, the affection for the advantageous (affectio commode) and the affection for justice (affectio iustitiae). The affection for the advantageous inclines us to love an object as suitable to us. This affection tends naturally to produce excessive desires. The affection for justice inclines us to love its object for its own sake. In Scotus' various treatments of natural law, he does not indicate that the only moral motives are selfless motives. Selfless motives seem necessary only in certain circumstances. Friendship is one such circumstance. Scotus claims otherwise, however, in his various treatments of the will's two affections. We never act morally from self-interest alone---that is, on motives provided by the affection for the advantageous alone. But since we cannot long choose apart from the affection for the advantageous, living a moral life depends upon using the affection for justice to moderate (or order) the excesses of the propensity for the advantageous. The most sustained application of the will's two affections is found in Ordinatio II, distinction 6, question 2. The first half of the thesis provides a commentary on this crucial text. We discover that moral disorder has three basic moments. The first moment is the decision to love ourselves inordinately; the second, the decision to love a particular good inordinately; the third, the decision to hate God or neighbor as threats to our unjust desires. We also discover that Scotus has two ways of explaining each of the three moments of moral disorder. He can explain them in terms of the will's two affections, but he can also explain them in terms of the will's two positive acts, the love of desire (velle-concupiscentiae ) and the love of friendship (velle-amicitiae). By an act of the love of desire, we want or wish or choose an object for the sake of something else. By an act of the love of friendship, we want or wish or choose the good of an object for its own sake. This explanation better accounts for the first moment of moral disorder, in fact, than does the former. In Chapter Three, we examine the alterations that Scotus would need to make to his conception of natural law morality in order to accommodate it to the two affections. In Chapter Four, we flesh out Scotus' stipulation in Ordinatio II, distinction 6, question 2, that no sin proceeds from the affection for justice. The work done in this thesis is a necessary first step to further critical analysis of Scotus' treatment of the will's two affections.
Mathematical epidemiology is not an oxymoron
Creators: name: Brauer, Fred
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: A brief description of the importance of communicable diseases in history and the development of mathematical modelling of disease transmission is given. This includes reasons for mathematical modelling, the history of mathematical modelling from the foundations laid in the late nineteenth century to the present, some of the accomplishments of mathematical modelling, and some challenges for the future. Our purpose is to demonstrate the importance of mathematical modelling for the understanding and management of infectious disease transmission.
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN TEACHING MORALITY IN A DECLINING MORAL LANDSCAPE
Creators: name: Kehinde, Abiola Adebayo
name: Olufemi, Samuel Ajayi
Publisher: name: Continental Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Teaching, Morality, morally degenerated society, Implications, Social Studies Civic education

description: This paper examines the role of Social Studies in the teaching of morals to minimize the prevalence of moral degeneration in contemporary Nigerian society. The causes and consequences of moral degeneration in society were examined. The paper employed the descriptive survey research design and Social Learning Theory to explain that individuals tend to act based on their observations in society. The paper made use of both primary (questionnaire) and secondary (books, journals, and online materials) types of data. The paper was guided by three research questions. The findings revealed that social studies being a value and moral-laden subject can help minimize moral degeneration's prevalence in contemporary Nigerian society. It is recommended that there should be a national re-orientation of national values among Nigerians by Nigeria's federal, state, and local governments
Toward a General Theory of Institutional Autonomy
Creators: name: Abrutyn, Seth
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Institutional differentiation has been one of the central concerns of sociology since the days of Auguste Comte. However, the overarching tendency among institutionalists like Durkheim or Spencer has been to treat the process of differentiation from a macro, ‘outside in’ perspective. Missing from this analysis is how institutional differentiation occurs from the ‘inside out’, or through the efforts and struggles of individual and corporate actors. Despite the recent efforts of the “new institutionalism” to fill in this gap, a closer look at the literature will uncover the fact that (a) they have tended to conflate macro-level institutions and meso-level organizations and (b) this has led to a taken for granted approach to institutional dynamics. This paper seeks to develop a general theory of institutional autonomy; autonomy is a function of the degree to which specialized corporate units are structurally and symbolically independent of other corporate units. It is argued herein that the process by which these ‘institutional entrepreneurs’ become independent can explain how institutions become differentiated from the ‘inside out’. Moreover, this paper offers five dimensions that can be operationalized, measuring the degree to which institutions are autonomous.
Machine-aided Translation and Post-editing: The Need for Open Educational Infrastructure in the Arab World
Creators: name: Mohammed Hussein Ahmed Al-Rubai'i, Alya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: open access
open science
open research
machine-learning
open infrastructure

description: “This presentation, titled “Machine-aided Translation and Post-editing: The Need for Open Educational Infrastructure in the Arab World” was delivered by Alya Mohammed Hussein Ahmed Al-Rubai'i from University of Dohuk, Iraq, during the 3rd Annual Forum for Open Research in MENA, held both virtually and in-person in Doha, Qatar and in partnership with Qatar National Library between the 21-24th of October, 2024.