cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'État du Québec, les législations linguistiques et les positions des minorités ethnique et linguistique (1968-1980).
Creators: name: Khoubbane, Abderrazzak.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: À l'origine, la francisation de l'immigration et la francophonisation de l'entreprise au Québec, dans le projet d'affirmation tel que validé par les recherches de la Commission royale d'enquête sur la situation de la langue française, la Commission Gendron, devaient servir à garantir la pérennité du fait français en Amérique du Nord. C'est aussi un cocktail qui permet d'expliquer le phénomène de polarisation du vote des minorités ethnique et linguistique au Québec observé lors du référendum du 20 mai 1980. Ces dernières, à l'échelle des deux majorités, ne sont pas restées muettes, mais leur point de vue demeurera ignoré tant et aussi longtemps qu'elles seront définies comme telles. L'histoire nationale, comme son nom l'indique, n'a que faire d'appendices, d'excroissances et d'immigrants. Elle se veut un socle et un promontoire sur lequel s'arrime l'identité d'une majorité et trône un aréopage d'ancêtres. Au Canada, il y en a, que, et seulement deux. Pour se faire, notre tentative d'explication est formée de trois parties qui correspondent aux deux mandats successifs des libéraux de Bourassa et le premier des péquistes de Lévesque. Lors du premier mandat du gouvernement libéral, que nous pouvons qualifier aussi de pré-crise, le débat se limite aux droits acquis en matière de langue d'instruction que semblent ne plus détenir certains anglophones d'adoption et au sujet de la francophonisation de l'entreprise privée. Durant son second mandat, les suggestions de la Commission Gendron deviennent des réalités concrètes. Elles donnent lieu à la Loi sur la langue officielle, la Loi 22. C'est le cadre d'un nouvel ordre économique et social au Québec. Elle sera décisive dans la position que prendront les minorités linguistique et ethnique à l'égard du gouvernement du Québec. Dans la troisième partie, la position des belligérants est tranchée. Le 15 novembre 1976, la province venait d'élire un gouvernement dont le dessein est l'indépendance du Québec, appelée souveraineté-association. La Loi 22 est suspendue. Elle est remplacée par la fameuse Loi 101. Les mêmes objectifs que visait la Loi sur la langue officielle (la Loi 22) sont reconduits et qualifiés de projet de société. Ils se distinguent cependant de leurs précédents par leur radicalisme. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The effect of transient flow on contaminant dispersion in porous media.
Creators: name: Richard, François A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Hydrology.

description: Our ability to predict solute transport in groundwater is limited by our imperfect understanding of the physical processes governing the spreading of underground contaminant plumes beneath the surface. Inaccurate prediction of solute migration can in turn result in unreliable risk analyses, or higher costs for groundwater decontamination. It is generally accepted that spatial variations in the hydraulic conductivity of porous materials largely contributes to the spreading of solutes dissolved in groundwater. Unsteady hydraulic gradients can also enhance this dispersion by imposing an additional source of variability on the flow field. Most field and numerical studies assume steady state groundwater flow, despite compelling field evidence suggesting that flow transience may be ubiquitous. This study characterizes the effects of transient groundwater flow on contaminant migration in both homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media. The macroscopic dispersion of miscible solutes subjected to unsteady flow fields is assessed quantitatively through a series of laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. An innovative laboratory model is presented, which consists of a two-dimensional flow cell and coupled hydraulic control system that allow the construction of spatially homogeneous or heterogeneous porous media of prescribed statistical properties, and to impose deterministic flow transients on the system. A monitoring procedure combining image processing with spatial moment analysis is used to characterize with great spatial and temporal resolution the evolution of contaminant plumes, as measured from sequences of digital images acquired during the course of laboratory experiments. Results suggest that the influence of flow transience on solute dispersion compares well with results reported in the literature, based on theoretical or numerical investigations. Changes in the mean flow direction significantly increase transverse dispersion in proportion to the rotation angle; conversely, longitudinal dispersivity decreases in response to variations in the flow direction, but to a lesser extent. Reversing hydraulic gradients can cause a reduction in the plume extents, or plume "shrinking". Although both the spatial and temporal variability enhance solute spreading, heterogeneity of the porous medium can mask the temporal variations in the flow field. The increased complexity introduced by the spatial and temporal variability can lead to inconsistencies between experimental and numerical models.
Perceptions of injury risk associated with booster seats and seatbelts : the ejection stereotype hypothesis
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Takuro
name: Jiang, Andy
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Reyna, Valerie
name: Weldon, Rebecca
name: Bruce, Beth
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: Hypothesis
Year: 2021

description: When children do not have sufficient height or weight to use seatbelts, the straps tend to rest on the wrong places: the lap belt on their bellies and the shoulder belt across their necks. As a result, in the event of a motor vehicle crash, there may be injuries to internal organs and the spine. Thus, it is recommended that children use booster seats to ensure correct fit of the seatbelt. Unfortunately, research indicates that: (a) rates of booster seat use are low even in jurisdictions where it is mandatory, and (b) many parents believe that booster seats are not necessary. Using fuzzy-trace theory, we propose that injuries to children riding in automobiles are stereotypically (and incorrectly) seen as ejection related. This ejection stereotype undermines the perceived safety benefit of booster seats, because seatbelts alone can prevent ejection and, therefore, are thought to provide adequate protection. Interventions to promote booster seat use can be improved, if they include mechanisms to diffuse the ejection stereotype.
Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Structural Proteins Are the Primary Viral Determinants of Non-Viraemic Transmission between Ticks whereas Non-Structural Proteins Affect Cytotoxicity
Creators: name: Khasnatinov, Maxim A.
name: Tuplin, Andrew
name: Gritsun, Dmitri J.
name: Slovak, Mirko
name: Kazimirova, Maria
name: Lickova, Martina
name: Havlikova, Sabina
name: Klempa, Boris
name: Labuda, Milan
name: Gould, Ernest A.
name: Gritsun, Tamara S.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Over 50 million humans live in areas of potential exposure to tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). The disease exhibits an estimated 16,000 cases recorded annually over 30 European and Asian countries. Conventionally, TBEV transmission to Ixodes spp. ticks occurs whilst feeding on viraemic animals. However, an alternative mechanism of non-viraemic transmission (NVT) between infected and uninfected ticks co-feeding on the same transmission-competent host, has also been demonstrated. Here, using laboratory-bred I. ricinus ticks, we demonstrate low and high efficiency NVT for TBEV strains Vasilchenko (Vs) and Hypr, respectively. These virus strains share high sequence similarity but are classified as two TBEV subtypes. The Vs strain is a Siberian subtype, naturally associated with I. persulcatus ticks whilst the Hypr strain is a European subtype, transmitted by I. ricinus ticks. In mammalian cell culture (porcine kidney cell line PS), Vs and Hypr induce low and high cytopathic effects (cpe), respectively. Using reverse genetics, we engineered a range of viable Vs/Hypr chimaeric strains, with substituted genes. No significant differences in replication rate were detected between wild-type and chimaeric viruses in cell culture. However, the chimaeric strain Vs[Hypr str] (Hypr structural and Vs non-structural genomic regions) demonstrated high efficiency NVT in I. ricinus whereas the counterpart Hypr[Vs str] was not transmitted by NVT, indicating that the virion structural proteins largely determine TBEV NVT transmission efficiency between ticks. In contrast, in cell culture, the extent of cpe was largely determined by the non-structural region of the TBEV genome. Chimaeras with Hypr non-structural genes were more cytotoxic for PS cells when compared with Vs genome-based chimaeras.
3320952.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Yi
name: Chen, Siming
name: Yu, Ying
name: Zhou, Lidan
name: Liu, Lin
name: CHUAN, YANG
name: liao, Mengya
name: Tang, Mingchu
name: Liu, Zizhuo
name: Wu, Jiang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Stochastic Generalized Transportation Problem with discrete distribution of demand
Creators: name: ANHOLCER, Marcin
Publisher: name: Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society
Year: 2013
Subjects: Stochastic Generalized Transportation Problem, Stochastic Programming, Equalization Method

description: OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS; ISSN 2081-8858
Einfluss des Abstands zwischen Windenergieanlagen und Wohnbauflächen auf das Potenzial der Windenergie an Land
Creators: name: Lütkehus, Insa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Klima
subject: Windenergie
subject: Windenergieanlage
subject: Schattenwurf von Windenergieanlagen
subject: Lärmbelästigung
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Das Leistungs- und Ertragspotenzial der Windenergie an Land hängt maßgeblich davon ab, wie hoch der Abstand zwischen Windenergieanlagen und Wohnbauflächen ausfällt. Während das bundesweite Leistungs-potenzial bei einem Abstand von 600 m zwischen Windenergieanlagen und Wohnbauflächen 1.188 Gigawatt (GW) beträgt, verbleibt bei einem Abstand von 2.000 m lediglich ein Potenzial in Höhe von 36 GW. Eine Erhöhung des Abstands wirkt sich in den Bundesländern unterschiedlich auf das Leistungs- und Ertragspotenzial aus. Das hängt von der Besiedlungsdichte und -struktur des Bundeslandes ab.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: Das Leistungs- und Ertragspotenzial der Windenergie an Land hängt maßgeblich davon ab, wie hoch der Abstand zwischen Windenergieanlagen und Wohnbauflächen ausfällt. Während das bundesweite Leistungs-potenzial bei einem Abstand von 600 m zwischen Windenergieanlagen und Wohnbauflächen 1.188 Gigawatt (GW) beträgt, verbleibt bei einem Abstand von 2.000 m lediglich ein Potenzial in Höhe von 36 GW. Eine Erhöhung des Abstands wirkt sich in den Bundesländern unterschiedlich auf das Leistungs- und Ertragspotenzial aus. Das hängt von der Besiedlungsdichte und -struktur des Bundeslandes ab.
The provisioning of the Ten Thousand.
Creators: name: Lang, Alice.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: History, Ancient.

description: Imagine finding yourself and a group of thousands of fellow citizens stranded in the middle of a strange country, thousands of kilometres away from home. You have just lost your military leader in a battle. You have no provisions and little hope of finding any. There are no maps available and none of you have knowledge as to what type of terrain lies ahead. To complicate matters, you are surrounded by the army of the King whose territory you came to conquer. You are badly outnumbered and you have no cavalry to support you. This is exactly the situation in which the Ten Thousand found themselves in 401 B.C. The account of the courage and success of the Ten Thousand is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis. While much has been written in terms of literary criticism of Xenophon and his Anabasis, not much has been produced regarding the actual logistics of the retreat of the Ten Thousand. The purpose of this thesis is to address that lack by examining one aspect of the Anabasis, namely, the provisioning of the Ten Thousand. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Tabanus lutzi Krober 1934
Creators: name: Dutra, Maria Carolina Pimenta
name: Amorim, Dalton De Souza
name: Carmo, Daniel Dias Dornelas Do
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Tabanus
Tabanus lutzi

description: Tabanus lutzi Kröber
(Figs 35 A–D, 36)
Tabanus lutzi Kröber, 1934: 296 (cat.; Tabanus (Lophotabanus), nom. nov. para macquarti Kröber, 1930); Pechuman, 1942: 56 (Tabanus (Lophotabanus )) (list of species); Stone, 1944: 136 (Tabanus (Tabanus )) (list of species); Fairchild, 1967b: 362 (list of species), 1971: 96 (cat.); Moucha, 1976: 120 (cat.); Fairchild, 1984: 26, fig. 16, map 5 (rev.); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 141 (cat.); Ríos et al., 2004: 61, 62 (list of species); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 134 (cat.).
Tabanus macquarti Kröber, 1930b: 83 (Tabanus (Lophotabanus); preocc. Schiner, 1868); Fairchild 1967b: 362 (list of species).
Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela.
Type-locality: “ Venezuela ”.
Diagnosis: Large specimens (19.7 mm). Frons narrow (FI: 6.0), parallel or convergent at base (DI: 1.2). Scutum and scutellum integument reddish-brown and mostly yellowish pruinose and setulose. Pleura with a slightly evident tuft of dark setulae below the wing base. Wing light brown tinged at cells br and bm and costal cell. Legs integument ranges from light brown to black, with setulae exhibiting the same color variation. Abdomen integument yellowish-brown without well-defined setulae spots, yellowish setulae on dorsolateral and central portion darker (tergite I to IV), from tergite IV onwards only dark setulae.
Remarks: Our illustrated specimen of Tabanus lutzi (Figs. 35A–D) has the thorax and legs darker than the holotype. This color range has also been documented by Fairchild (1984). T. lutzi is easily distinguished from other species of the T. nebulosus group due to the absence of any dorsal spots, triangles or stripes on the abdomen. This in some extension resembles T. punctipleura, but these species can be easily separated by the long antennal tooth (which is absent in T. lutzi) and a tuft of evident dark setulae on the pleura, which is less noticeable in T. lutzi. Fairchild (1984) suggested that T. lutzi might belong to the T. nebulosus group, but he was uncertain of the species placement. We decided to keep the species in the T. nebulosus group due to the presence of the pre-scutellar black setulae spot and frons similar to other species of the group. The male is unknown. The localities in Colombia with T. lutzi fits the Andean/Mesoamerica distribution pattern of Amorim & Pires (1996). If this is correct, it is likely that this species should also be found in Panama and Costa Rica, for example.
description: Published as part of Dutra, Maria Carolina Pimenta, Amorim, Dalton De Souza & Carmo, Daniel Dias Dornelas Do, 2025, Taxonomic revision of the Tabanus nebulosus species group (Diptera: Tabanidae), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 5588 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14895899
Woman as subject/object: A critique of feminist writings on prostitution and pornography.
Creators: name: Bruckert, Chris.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.

description: The construction of woman as object/other in the dominant discourse is an accepted problematic in feminist scholarship. This is understood to be a function of the androcentric nature of the academic, linguistic and social spheres that mediate our understanding/experience. In this context, reality is dichotomized, and woman is the object/other against which man identifies himself as subject. This consciousness poses a fundamental epistemological challenge to feminist scholars: how to construct woman as the subject of discourse and overcome woman's deeply rooted social definition and consciousness of object/other. The positions and understandings of contemporary feminist theory on how to actualize this understanding in praxis are reviewed and a typology considered that assesses feminist thought in relation the conceptualization of woman and strategies to construct woman as the subject in discourse. A sample of feminist writings on prostitution and pornography are analyzed to determine if the ideological and epistemological assumptions of the dominant discourse, rejected in feminist theory, are reproduced in substantive applications of feminism. It is argued that in much of the feminist prostitution and pornography literature reviewed, skin and sex trade workers are denied legitimacy and voice; they are the deconstructed subject who is symbol/victim/object. Further there is a failure to transcend the conceptual boundaries of androcentric thought and therefore the dominant constructs are implicitly legitimated. It is concluded that some of the current applications of feminist theory contravenes the established political/personal mandate of feminism to redefine woman as the subject of discourse. It is suggested that a feminist framework is required that is conscious of itself, its own ideology, socially imposed parameters and its relation to the dominant discourse against which it defines itself.
German Translation and Validation of the Cognitive Style Questionnaire Short Form (CSQ-SF-D)
Creators: name: Huys, Quentin J. M.
name: Renz, Daniel
name: Petzschner, Frederike
name: Berwian, Isabel
name: Stoppel, Christian
name: Haker, Helene
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background The Cognitive Style Questionnaire is a valuable tool for the assessment of hopeless cognitive styles in depression research, with predictive power in longitudinal studies. However, it is very burdensome to administer. Even the short form is still long, and neither this nor the original version exist in validated German translations. Methods The questionnaire was translated from English to German, back-translated and commented on by clinicians. The reliability, factor structure and external validity of an online form of the questionnaire were examined on 214 participants. External validity was measured on a subset of 90 subjects. Results The resulting CSQ-SF-D had good to excellent reliability, both across items and subscales, and similar external validity to the original English version. The internality subscale appeared less robust than other subscales. A detailed analysis of individual item performance suggests that stable results could be achieved with a very short form (CSQ-VSF-D) including only 27 of the 72 items. Conclusions The CSQ-SF-D is a validated and freely distributed translation of the CSQ-SF into German. This should make efficient assessment of cognitive style in German samples more accessible to researchers.
Mondialisation, libéralisme et transitions : les politiques sociales en Europe de l'Est.
Creators: name: Langelier, Jean-Sébastien.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: La problématique générale aborde la question de la convergence nécessaire des rôles et fonctions de l'État associée à la mondialisation du système capitaliste libéral international. Elle cherche à savoir si les pressions inhérentes à la mondialisation agissent dans le sens d'une réduction du rôle de l'État à celui de facilitateur des mécanismes du marché dans un nouvel ordre international dominé par les normes de la gouvernance dite globale, dont les institutions financières internationales sont les principaux vecteurs. Â l'aide d'une perspective inspirée de l'oeuvre de Karl Polanyi, la thèse propose d'étudier la notion d'autonomie de l'État dans le domaine des politiques sociales pour le cas des pays en transition d'Europe de l'est. Une étude sur les réformes des pensions en Pologne et sur les réformes de la santé en Hongrie permettra d'envisager une possibilité de divergence par rapport aux limites imposées par le cadre idéologique libéral, divergence que l'on associera à une possibilité d'autonomie pour l'État dans le cas polonais.
Co-orbiting satellite galaxy structures are still in conflict with the distribution of primordial dwarf galaxies
Creators: name: Pawlowski, Marcel S.
name: Famaey, Benoit
name: Jerjen, Helmut
name: Merritt, David
name: Kroupa, Pavel
name: Dabringhausen, Jörg
name: Lüghausen, Fabian
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Hensler, Gerhard
name: Hammer, François
name: Puech, M.
name: Fouquet, Sylvain
name: Flores, Hector
name: Yang, Yanbin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: Both major galaxies in the Local Group host planar distributions of co-orbiting satellite galaxies, the Vast Polar Structure (VPOS) of the Milky Way and the Great Plane of Andromeda (GPoA). The I > cold dark matter (I > CDM) cosmological model did not predict these features. However, according to three recent studies the properties of the GPoA and the flattening of the VPOS are common features among subhalo based I > CDM satellite systems, and the GPoA can be naturally explained by satellites being acquired along cold gas streams. We point out some methodological issues in these studies: either the selection of model satellites is different from that of the observed ones, or an incomplete set of observational constraints has been considered, or the observed satellite distribution is inconsistent with basic assumptions. Once these issues have been addressed, the conclusions are different: features like the VPOS and GPoA are very rare (each with probability a parts per thousand(2)10(-3), and combined probability < 10(-5)) if satellites are selected from a I > CDM simulation combined with semi-analytic modelling, and accretion along cold streams is no natural explanation of the GPoA. The origin of planar dwarf galaxy structures remains unexplained in the standard paradigm of galaxy formation.
Influence of turbidity and aeration on the albedo of mountain streams
Creators: name: McMahon, A.
name: Moore, R. Daniel
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2021

description: Stream surface albedo plays a key role in the energy balance of rivers and streams that are exposed to direct solar radiation. Most physically based analyses and models have incorporated a constant stream albedo between 0.03 and 0.10, based primarily on measurements from low-gradient streams with low suspended sediment concentrations. However, albedo should vary with solar elevation angle, suspended sediment concentration, aeration, and fraction of direct vs diffuse radiation. The objective of this study was to quantify the dependence of albedo of mountain streams on the controlling factors and to develop a predictive model for use in physically based analysis and modelling of stream temperature, especially for future climate and land use scenarios. Stream surface albedo was measured at nine sites with a variety of gradients and suspended sediment characteristics in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. As expected, albedo of low-gradient, non-whitewater (flatwater) streams increased with solar zenith angle, suspended sediment concentration, and proportion of diffuse to direct solar radiation, ranging between 0.025 during cloudy periods over clear water to 0.25 for turbid water at zenith angles of less than 20 degrees. Albedo was enhanced in steep reaches or at channel steps and cascades where flow was visibly aerated, with a range of 0.09 to 0.33. In clear weather, albedo exhibited notable diurnal variability at flatwater sampling sites. For example, during late summer, surface albedo typically fluctuated between 0.08 and 0.15 on a daily basis at a flatwater site on the highly turbid, glacier-fed Lillooet River. Multiple regression models explained approximately 60% and 40% of the variance under cross validation for flatwater and whitewater data subsets, respectively, with corresponding root-mean-square errors of approximately 0.02 and 0.06.
Durch Umweltschutz die biologische Vielfalt erhalten
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Umweltbundesamt
subject: Umweltschutz
subject: Biologische Vielfalt
subject: Luft
subject: Wasser
subject: Air
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Water
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Landwirtschaft

description: Die in Deutschland vielleicht größten Programme zum Schutz der Biologischen Vielfalt waren die flächenhafte Einführung kommunaler und industrieller  Kläranlagen und die Großfeuerungsanlagenverordnung,  mit der die Industrie Ende der siebziger Jahre zur dramatischen Reduktion ihrer Schwefeldioxidemissionen gezwungen wurde. Die Kläranlagen haben dazu geführt, dass Deutschlands Flüsse wieder so sauber geworden sind, dass beispielsweise im Rhein wieder viele Fischarten vorkommen, die es dort auch vor der Industrialisierung gab.
CORBA-based test architecture for e-commerce application.
Creators: name: Li, Wujun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: E-Commerce systems are specialized instances of distributed processing systems that involve critical financial transactions. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is an industrial standard framework to provide sophisticated infrastructure to develop and deploy distributed objects in an open environment. Using CORBA to facilitate the development and testing of e-commerce system can greatly improve the test effectiveness, and shorten the time-to-market cycle. This thesis proposes a cost-effective generic testing architecture for function and performance testing of e-commerce applications. We relate this architecture to middleware standards such as CORBA. We show how the CORBA framework support testing of e-commerce system for robustness and reliability with the testing architecture which is open, highly distributed, and scalable. We also give a high-yield strategy to testing e-commerce system and demonstrate how our testing architecture supports this strategy. We also provide an assessment of the approach by a small, but realistic case study (Online Currency Exchange) involving design, implementation and function testing in detail. During testing a significant design error was detected. Finally we conclude this thesis by summarizing our results and giving some recommended future work.
Fabrication of Hierarchical Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for the Supercapacitor Electrode
Creators: name: Kshetri, Tolendra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Carbon materials with different forms and structures have been extensively studied for electrode applications in electrochemical energy storage devices. The development of new hierarchical carbon nanostructures by combining different carbon nanomaterials to increase the performance of electrode materials is of great importance in developing high performance energy storage devices. In this context, various types of hierarchical carbon structures using carbon nanomaterials including graphene, carbon nanofibers, and carbon nanotubes have been fabricated to serve as electrode application in supercapacitor. The prepared hierarchical carbon materials exhibit promising electrochemical properties for electrode application.
The caffeine-binding adenosine A2A receptor induces age-like HPA-axis dysfunction by targeting glucocorticoid receptor function
Creators: name: Batalha, Vania L.
name: Ferreira, Diana G.
name: Coelho, Joana E.
name: Valadas, Jorge S.
name: Gomes, Rui
name: Temido-Ferreira, Mariana
name: Shmidt, Tatian
name: Buee, Luc
name: Mueller, Christa E.
name: Hamdane, Malika
name: Outeiro, Tiago F.
name: Bader, Michael
name: Meijsing, Sebastiaan H.
name: Sadri-Vakili, Ghazaleh
name: Blum, David
name: Lopes, Luisa V.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Caffeine is associated with procognitive effects in humans by counteracting overactivation of the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR), which is upregulated in the human forebrain of aged and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. We have previously shown that an anti-A2AR therapy reverts age-like memory deficits, by reestablishment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis feedback and corticosterone circadian levels. These observations suggest that A2AR over-activation and glucocorticoid dysfunction are key events in age-related hippocampal deficits; but their direct connection has never been explored. We now show that inducing A2AR overexpression in an aging-like profile is sufficient to trigger HPA-axis dysfunction, namely loss of plasmatic corticosterone circadian oscillation, and promotes reduction of GR hippocampal levels. The synaptic plasticity and memory deficits triggered by GR in the hippocampus are amplified by A2AR over-activation and were rescued by anti- A2AR therapy; finally, we demonstrate that A2AR act on GR nuclear translocation and GR-dependent transcriptional regulation. We provide the first demonstration that A2AR is a major regulator of GR function and that this functional interconnection may be a trigger to age-related memory deficits. This supports the idea that the procognitive effects of A2AR antagonists, namely caffeine, on Alzheimer’s and age-related cognitive impairments may rely on its ability to modulate GR actions.
The role of Xist and CHD-1 in gene silencing.
Creators: name: Tai, Helen H.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Gene silencing is a stable and heritable form of repression of gene expression that is thought to be mediated by higher order chromatin structures. This thesis consists of two separate studies on gene silencing. The first chapter deals with X chromosome inactivation which is a particular case of gene silencing where almost all the genes one X chromosome are inactivated early in the development of female mammals. The Xist gene is a candidate gene for controlling X chromosome inactivation because the Xist gene resides on the X chromosome near the XIC (X inactivation center) and is expressed from the inactive X in female somatic cells. Chapter 1 describes an investigation of the expression of Xist in diploid P10 female embryonal carcinoma cells that have two active X chromosomes. The transcripts expressed from Xist alleles in P10 cells could be distinguished by restriction enzyme digestion of their cDNAs. It was found that both alleles Xist are expressed; thus, Xist transcripts are expressed prior to X chromosome inactivation and are not always derived from the inactive X chromosome. Therefore, Xist expression per se cannot be a sufficient signal to inactivate an X chromosome. The second chapter is a study of CHD-1, a mouse protein with two chromodomains, a helicase/ATPase domain, and a DNA binding domain. The chromodomain connects CHD-1 to gene silencing because the chromodomain, also present in the Drosophila proteins HP-1 and Polycomb, is required for the gene silencing function of these proteins. Therefore, CHD-1 was further examined in Chapter 11. In part A of Chapter 11, the finding that CHD-1 was associated with the nuclear matrix, a protein structure in the nucleus, is reported. Part B of Chapter 11 describes a study investigating proteins that interact with the chromodomain of CHD-1 in a yeast two hybrid screen. One of the protein identified as interacting with CHD-1 was N-CoR which is a protein that is associated with histone deacetylation. Since deacetylated histones are associated with chromatin containing silenced genes, it was concluded that CHD-1 can function in gene silencing as part of a complex with histone deacetylase.
Sedentary Behavior Is Independently Related to Fat Mass among Children and Adolescents in South China
Creators: name: Xue, Hongmei
name: Tian, Guo
name: Duan, Ruonan
name: Quan, Liming
name: Zhao, Li
name: Yang, Min
name: Libuda, Lars
name: Muckelbauer, Rebecca
name: Cheng, Guo
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: sedentary time
subject: physical activity
subject: body fat
subject: energy intake
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: We aim to explore the independent associations of sedentary behaviors (SB) with body mass distribution among Chinese children. Data on the screen-based sedentary time (television viewing and computer use) and doing homework, physical activities and dietary intake of 1586 Chinese children (50.3% girls) aged 7–15 years were obtained through validated questionnaires. Skin-fold thickness, body height, and weight were measured to calculate percent body fat (%BF), fat mass index (FMI), and fat-free mass index (FFMI). Parental characteristics were collected by questionnaires. Among girls, time of SB (screen time or doing homework) was positively related to %BF, FMI, and FFMI (p < 0.03) after adjusting for maternal overweight, the average annual income of family, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity energy expenditure, and energy intake: Girls in the highest tertile of screen time/homework had 16.7%/23.3% higher relative FMI and 2.9%/2.9% higher relative FFMI than girls in the lowest tertile. Among boys, screen time was positively associated with FFMI (p < 0.003), but not related to %BF and FMI (p > 0.09), while time of doing homework was positively related to %BF and FMI (p = 0.03). Sedentary behaviors might be positively and independently related to fat mass among Chinese children, and were more pronounced in girls.
Characterization data of reference industrial polycarboxylate superplasticizers used within Priority Program DFG SPP 2005 “Opus Fluidum Futurum - Rheology of reactive, multiscale, multiphase construction materials”
Creators: name: Lei, Lei
name: Chomyn, Claudia
name: Schmid, Marlene
name: Plank, Johann
Publisher: name: Technical University of Munich
Year: 2020

description: Two industrial polycarboxylate superplasticizer samples have been selected to be used within the Priority Program 2005 of the German Research Foundation (DFG SPP 2005). The PCE polymers were characterized via Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) to determine their molar masses (Mw, Mn), the polydispersity index (PDI) and the conversion rate which indicates the incorporation of the macromonomer into the polymer. The anionic charge amount of the PCE samples was assessed via charge titration employing a cationic polymer. Furthermore, the cement dispersing properties of the PCE polymers were captured via 'mini slump' tests so as to assess their ability to fluidize CEM I 42.5 R and CEM III/A 42.5 N samples, respectively. Also, interaction between the PCEs and the surface of the cements was investigated via adsorption and zeta potential measurements of aqueous cement suspensions. The results shall be used for the ongoing research within the Priority Program.
title: Feeling for Politics: the translation of suffering and desire in black queer performativity
Creators: name: Pilgrim, Anita
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2000

description: This thesis is a study based in the lived experience of those defined both black and gay. Through analyses of performance work, I explore the interplay which creates white/black, straight/gay identity. I offer fragments of a historical account of that interplay and a critique of academic theories which, like my participants' performance material, work to understand the politics and processes of identification. I look at a piece of work which draws on principles of feminist standpoint epistemology to engage us in political action - Patience Agbabi's performed poem The Black The White and The Blue, at the shift in feminism to queer theory and at drag, butch and femme experience and performance. In Valerie Mason- John aka Queenie's performance piece Brown Girl in the Ring, I see how race, class and gender politics are modulated together. I see the queer perspective as transcending standpoint epistemology in an analysis of work by the photographer Ajamu. Judith Butler's Foucauldian theory of gender and sexuality is fundamental to my research. I build on it with thinking about raced identity and Pierre Bourdieu's theories of class. I also explore work on ritual and performance. Theorising identification as a complex and contingent intersection of processes, I bring ideas that work with the body and emotions to postmodern thought.
Multi-period portfolio optimization of power generation assets
Creators: name: GLENSK, Barbara
name: MADLENER, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society
Year: 2013
Subjects: Multi-period rebalancing model, portfolios of power generation assets

description: OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS; ISSN 2081-8858
Social diversity and democratic society: A study of policing.
Creators: name: Nash, Sarah.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: The area of police reform provides an avenue for examining social diversity and the democratic functioning of society. A review of primary and secondary documents on public policing and a case study on policing in Toronto highlight the challenges of diversity for police practitioners in liberal democratic society. The study assesses the new reform movement in policing in light of philosopher Iris Young's theory of citizenship. Congruence between the defining features of community policing and the culturally pluralist ideal espoused by Young highlights the potential of police reform in diverse society.
Finite element method applied to modelling electromagnetic interference and compatibility problems on printed circuit boards.
Creators: name: Khan, Raouf Lawrence.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The finite element method is applied to compute the distributed capacitance and inductance matrices for multilayered dielectric, planar transmission media. The analysis involves the solution of the Laplace equation in two dimensions for multiconductor configurations in microstrip, triplate, or TEM Cell configurations of arbitrary cross section and utilizes a unique node allocation algorithm for automatic generation of the finite element mesh. The advantages, disadvantages, and difficulties encountered in application of the FEM for this problem are outlined and discussed. Several programs, based on multiconductor transmission line theory, are developed for application to Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility (EMI/C) problems for crosstalk and radiated emission analysis. To verify the model experimentally, a simple printed circuit board consisting of five parallel conductors in microstrip configuration was constructed and measured in both time domain and frequency domains. Radiation model results are compared for a multiconductor configuration with numerical results obtained using the Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC) moment method program.
A model for optimizing enterprise’s inventory costs. A fuzzy approach
Creators: name: KOSIŃSKI, Witold
name: MUNIAK, Rafał
name: KOSIŃSKI, Witold Konrad
Publisher: name: Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society
Year: 2013
Subjects: economic order quantity, optimization problem, ordered fuzzy numbers

description: OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS; ISSN 2081-8858
The distribution of satellites around massive galaxies at 1 z 3 in zfourge/candels: Dependence on star formation activity
Creators: name: Kawinwanichakij, Lalitwadee
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Quadri, Ryan F.
name: Tran, Kim-Vy H.
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Kacprzak, Glenn
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Straatman, Caroline M. S.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Allen, Rebecca
name: Cowley, Michael
name: Davé, Romeel
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Ferguson, Henry C.
name: Hartley, W. G.
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Koo, David C.
name: Lu, Yu
name: Mehrtens, Nicola
name: Nanayakkara, Themiya
name: Persson, S. Eric
name: Rees, Glen
name: Salmon, Brett
name: Tilvi, Vithal
name: Tomczak, Adam R.
name: van Dokkum, Pieter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We study the statistical distribution of satellites around star-forming and quiescent central galaxies at 1 < z < 3 using imaging from the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey and the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey. The deep near-IR data select satellites down to log (M/M ☉) > 9 at z < 3. The radial satellite distribution around centrals is consistent with a projected Navarro-Frenk-White profile. Massive quiescent centrals, log (M/M ☉) > 10.78, have ~2 times the number of satellites compared to star-forming centrals with a significance of 2.7σ even after accounting for differences in the centrals' stellar-mass distributions. We find no statistical difference in the satellite distributions of intermediate-mass quiescent and star-forming centrals, 10.48 < log (M/M ☉) < 10.78. Compared to the Guo et al. semi-analytic model, the excess number of satellites indicates that quiescent centrals have halo masses 0.3 dex larger than star-forming centrals, even when the stellar-mass distributions are fixed. We use a simple toy model that relates halo mass and quenching, which roughly reproduces the observed quenched fractions and the differences in halo mass between star-forming and quenched galaxies only if galaxies have a quenching probability that increases with halo mass from ~0 for log (Mh /M ☉) ~ 11 to ~1 for log (Mh /M ☉) ~ 13.5. A single halo-mass quenching threshold is unable to reproduce the quiescent fraction and satellite distribution of centrals. Therefore, while halo quenching may be an important mechanism, it is unlikely to be the only factor driving quenching. It remains unclear why a high fraction of centrals remain star-forming even in relatively massive halos.
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Creators: name: Hase, Eiji
name: Minamikawa, Takeo
name: Mizuno, Takahiko
name: Miyamoto, Shuji
name: ichikawa, ryuji
name: Hsieh, Yi-Da
name: Shibuya, Kyuki
name: Sato, Katsuya
name: Nakajima, Yoshiaki
name: Asahara, Akifumi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Saudi Societal Attitudes towards Gifted Females
Creators: name: Althobaiti, Adnan Matuq
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gifted girls -- Saudi Arabia -- Public opinion

description: There are a large number of gifted students from minority populations whose educational needs are unmet due to the fact that they are underrepresented in, or not identified for, gifted education programs (Borland, 2004; Donovan & Cross, 2002; Ford, Coleman, & Davis, 2014; McBee, 2006; Skiba et al., 2008). The issue of underrepresentation is gendered because the culture of gifted education is also gendered. For example, gifted females have been underrepresented in gifted summer programs (Petersen, 2013) because their teachers are less likely to refer them to such programs (Bianco, Harris, Garrison-Wade, & Leech, 2011) as some teachers view intelligence as more of a masculine characteristic (Lee, 2002). This work aims to explore Saudi societal attitudes toward gifted females' educational and social experiences by investigating the views and perceptions of teachers, parents, and Saudis in general. The research employed sequential explanatory mixed methods to answer the overarching question: What are Saudi societal attitudes toward gifted women and how do Saudis understand sexism? Two quantitative instruments, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) (Glick & Fiske, 1996) and the Three-Profile Scale (Kilianski & Rudman, 1998), were employed and qualitative interviews were conducted to explore seven additional research questions. The results and findings obtained through the use of the two methods were inconsistent, which led to the discovery of significant hidden meaning that might not have been noticed had only one methodology (e.g., either quantitative or qualitative) been utilized. Specifically, the quantitative phase showed that Saudi male participants identified as ambivalent sexist and preferred the benevolent sexist profile. Also, Saudi female participants identified as non-sexist and preferred the benevolent sexist profile. However, the themes of the qualitative phase showed more positive attitudes toward gifted females. This inconsistency stems from the dissimilarities between the cultural reality and societal consciousness of the participants and the epistemological and ontological foundations of the quantitative instruments. This study endeavors to re-conceptualize Saudi gifted women's reality and the societal perceptions in a context that does not involve universalized knowledge, but instead attends to localized meanings, perspectives, and philosophies. Implications and recommendations for future research are also discussed.