cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phytochemical and pharmacological properties of northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum Mill (Rutaceae)
Creators: name: Bafi-Yeboa, Nana Fredua A
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Pharmacology.

description: This thesis examines the pharmacological basis for the traditional phytomedicinal uses of Zanthoxylum americanum Mill. (Rutaceae). The antifungal activity of six crude extracts was evaluated against 11 clinically relevant pathogenic fungi including Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans. All extracts demonstrated light-activated antimicrobial action and broad spectrum of activities against at least eight fungal species. A positive correlation was observed between total furanocoumarin content and antifungal activity (r2 = 0.88, P < 0.001). Antiviral activity towards Herpes simplex virus type-1 was linked to various phytochemical constituents, including three isolated pyranocoumarins suitable for authentication and standardization of commercial raw materials. Anti-HSV activity was significantly enhanced with light treatment (L), for phytochemical fractions rich in polyphenols (+L, MIC = 9.4; -L, MIC > 500) or pyranocoumarins (+L, MIC = 31; -L, MIC > 500), but not in the case of furanocoumarins (+L, MIC = 62; -L, MIC = 94). Phytochemical profiles and average content for phenolic acids and flavonoids contributing to antiviral activity of Z. americanum were reported here for the first time.
Exploring surface water as a transmission medium of avian influenza viruses - systematic infection studies in mallards
Creators: name: Ahrens, Ann Kathrin
name: Selinka, Hans-Christoph
name: Mettenleiter, Thomas C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vogelgrippe
Transmission
Oberflächengewässer
Wildente

description: Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) are an abundant anseriform migratory wild bird species worldwide and an important reservoir for the maintenance of low pathogenicity (LP) avian influenza viruses (AIV). They have also been implicated in the spread of high pathogenicity (HP) AIV after spill-over events from HPAIV-infected poultry. The spread of HPAIV within wild water bird populations may lead to viral contamination of natural habitats. The role of small shallow water bodies as a transmission medium of AIV among mallards is investigated here in three experimental settings. (i) Delayed onset but rapid progression of infection seeded by two mallards inoculated with either LP or HP AIV to each eight sentinel mallards was observed in groups with access to a small 100 L water pool. In contrast, groups with a bell drinker as the sole source of drinking water showed a rapid onset but lengthened course of infection. (ii) HPAIV infection also set off when virus was dispersed in the water pool; titres as low as 102 TCID50 L-1 (translating to 0.1 TCID50 mL-1) proved to be sufficient. (iii) Substantial loads of viral RNA (and infectivity) were also found on the surface of the birds' breast plumage. "Unloading" of virus infectivity from contaminated plumage into water bodies may be an efficient mechanism of virus spread by infected mallards. However, transposure of HPAIV via the plumage of an uninfected mallard failed. We conclude, surface water in small shallow water bodies may play an important role as a mediator of AIV infection of aquatic wild birds. © 2022 The Author(s)
Minimizing state error propagation in low-bit rate speech codec for voice over IP
Creators: name: Boisvert, Mario
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Today's Internet and intranets are packet-switched networks where the Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widespread of all network protocols in use. Such network protocol poses serious constraints on the real-time transmission of packets such as in the case of voice applications, namely Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. The "best effort" delivery mechanism and the lack of guarantee of Quality of Service (QoS) of packet networks are known to cause packet arrival problems that result in packet losses. Obviously, the loss of packets impairs the quality of the speech at the receiving end. In this thesis, we focus on two main areas in the implementation of VoIP systems. Initially, we review speech compression techniques to better understand the operation and characteristics of speech codecs. This allows us to select a promising speech codec, namely, the ITU-T G.729A speech codec that will be used during our demonstrations and investigations. Secondly, we review the operation of packet-switched networks, more specifically IP networks, for the purpose of understanding the degradation effects they cause to VoIP systems. With this knowledge, we formalize a set of constraints and requirements that allows us to properly analyze the effect of packet losses over IP networks. Finally, we propose a closed-loop over the network method to assist the codec in improving its speech quality performance in periods of packet losses. The method, named State Error Correction (SEC), is described in detail and its performance is assessed through simulations.
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Ed. by Ruha Benjamin
Creators: name: Romanzi, Valentina
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Prison Studies; Technology; Ethnic Studies

description: Review of Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Ed. by Ruha Benjamin
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
Who voted green? A review of the Green vote in the 2002 Victorian State election
Creators: name: Economou, Nick
name: Reynolds, Margaret
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the 2002 Victorian State election the Greens achieved a 9.7 per cent vole for their Legis/ative A.ssembly candidates and J0.8 per cent for their Legislative Council candidates. These results far exceeded those of Green candidates in earlier Stale elections, This article examines the factors contributing to this performance and the prospectsfor anyfurther advance in voter support/or Greens candidates.
Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders. A cura di Peter Rosenberg, Konstanze Jungbluth e Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes
Creators: name: Taronna, Annarita
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Linguistics; Ethnic Borders

description: Review of Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders. Ed. by Peter Rosenberg, Konstanze Jungbluth and Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
Public participation in the development of a tobacco control policy: The case of a municipal smoke-free bylaw
Creators: name: Dyke, Julie C
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.
subject: Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.

description: Background. In Ontario, the 1994 Tobacco Control Act allowed municipalities to legislate on second-hand smoke in public places. Public health departments were then mandated to promote the passage of smoke-free bylaws in various municipalities. Their efforts have met with varying degrees of success. However, in 2001, the city of Ottawa public health department successfully promoted the adoption of one the cornerstone 100% smoke-free bylaw in Canada. Objective. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influenced the process of municipal councillors' adoption of the Ottawa smoke-free bylaw. Methods. This mixed-methods case study focused on the public participation aspect of the case through the analysis of interviews, public opinion surveys and newspaper articles using qualitative, quantitative and triangulation methods. Findings. The study identified four critical elements in the passage of the smoke-free bylaw: (1) Initiation of the bylaw development process, (2) Municipal councillors' position before the final vote, (3) Municipal councillor's final vote and (4) Municipal councillors' position after the final vote. Five lever factors (1) Perceptions of public opinion, (2) Public participation, (3) Dynamics of the democratic process, (4) Context of the smoke-free bylaw development and (5) Context of newness were found to have influenced the critical elements, each in a particular way. Lever factors are presented as characteristics of the context of the bylaw adoption that increased the effect of the strategies and interventions conducted by the groups supporting the passage of the bylaw. Discussion. This case study identifies conditions that enhance the leverage of tobacco control strategies and highlights how the convergence of factors is key to successful tobacco control policy change at the municipal level.
Verse-scraps on attic containers and the practice of the 'skolion': The material evidence in its literary context.
Creators: name: Anderson, Peter John.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Literature, Classical.

description: The symposion is the most frequently represented artistic theme on Attic red-figure containers of the Archaic period. Within this fundamental theme lie several sub-themes, many of which we know from literary sources--of this period and later--to have been the defining activities of the symposion: wine, entertainment (dancing, music and song), conversation and last, but certainly not least, sex. One activity in particular portrayed on these containers is the singing of a poem, a practice which soon came to be known as singing the $\sigma\kappa\acute o\lambda\iota o\nu,$ or $\acute\eta\ \pi\alpha\rho o\acute\iota\nu\iota\alpha\ {\buildrel{,}\over{\\omega}}\grave o\acute\eta,$ a term which, it is argued, we can properly extend back to the Archaic period. These visual representations of sympotic singing offer a valuable record of the public performance of poetry in Archaic Greece, and offer a glimpse into the mechanics of the practice of the $\sigma \kappa \acute o \lambda\iota o\nu$. A small group of containers (numbering about fourteen) also record the song itself--at least in part--by means of dipinto (or once, incised) inscriptions; some of these verse-scraps have been paralleled to surviving poetry of the period. This thesis catalogues and examines these containers and their inscriptions as evidence, after examining in detail the surviving literary record, for the practice of the $\sigma\kappa\acute o\lambda\iota o\nu$. Original solutions for previously misunderstood verse-scraps are proposed and two containers preserving verse-scraps are identified for the first time as records of $\sigma\kappa o\lambda\acute\iota\alpha.$ It is concluded that, while this small group of containers cannot be entirely representative of the total body of surviving material evidence for the practice of the $\sigma\kappa\acute o\lambda\iota o\nu$, there are striking parallels between the artistic and literary records which call for attention of a wider scope.
title: Checklist System for Safety Reports
title: Checklist System for Safety Reports - Sectoral Checkl.(Triple C)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Industrie
subject: Anlagenbetrieb
subject: Leitfaden
subject: Seveso
subject: Triple S
subject: UNECE
subject: safety report
subject: industrial accident
subject: industrial accidents
subject: safety management
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Basierend auf dem UNECE-Übereinkommen über die grenzüberschreitenden Auswirkungen von Industrieunfällen und der EU-Richtlinie 96/82/EG (SEVESO II) bietet dieser sektor- und gebietsspezifische Leitfaden verschiedene Checklisten zur Erstellung und Überprüfung von Sicherheitsberichten. Quelle: Bericht
description: Based on the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and EU Directive 96/82/EC (Seveso II), this sector- and region-specific guideline provides checklists for drawing up and reviewing safety reports. Quelle: Bericht
description: Based on the ⁠UNECE⁠ Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and EU Directive 96/82/EC (Seveso II), this sector- and region-specific guideline provides checklists for drawing up and reviewing safety reports.
Supplemental Files 1a and 1b
Creators: name: Moore, Lisa R.
name: Caspi, Ron
name: H Boyd, Dana
name: Berkmen, Mehmet
name: Mackie, Amanda
name: Paley, Suzanne
name: Karp, Peter D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: These two supplemental files accompany the manuscript Revisiting the y-ome of Escherichia coli that is submitted to the journal Nucleic Acid Research.Supplemental File 1a indicates the criteria used to compute Uncharacterized genes in EcoCyc.Supplemental File 1b lists the keywords for computing genes categorized as Partial Characterized.
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison. Shaka Senghor
Creators: name: Melodia Festa, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020
Subjects: Prison Studies; American Prison

description: Review of Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
Study of hybrid permutation frequency phase modulation.
Creators: name: Li, Wensheng.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In future communication applications, it is desirable to provide good system performance and more services to a number of users using the minimum resources. These expectations pose challenges in the design of modulation and coding. This thesis presents and studies the hybrid permutation frequency phase modulation (HPM) communication systems. By combining FSK and PSK, the signal energy per symbol is increased. Applying this type of signals to permutation modulation, the concept of HPM is presented and its signal properties have been mathematically analyzed. The expression for bandwidth efficiency is derived. The performance of transmission systems is related with channel characteristics. The behavior of HPM is appraised in the case of AWGN and frequency selective fading channels. The coherent and noncoherent detection have been considered respectively. Our performance analysis are based on the measures of bit error performance and bandwidth efficiency. It is shown that a large set of waveforms can be easily obtained in HPM. For uncoded HPM, most of the possible waveforms are used, and the system power and bandwidth efficiency can be greatly improved in AWGN channels. The nature of permutation modulation indicates an implicit diversity in frequency selective fading channels. By using a small portion of waveforms, which leads to coded HPM, the effective diversity increases. The rule of selecting waveforms is worth studying. We propose t-designs as the candidate. The results show that coded HPM is a power efficient scheme and is robust in fading environments.
Role of the SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase in the regulation of oocyte growth and follicle development.
Creators: name: Papademetriou, Suzanne Andrea.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: The tyrosine kinase Kit is expressed in oocytes and is involved in primordial germ cell (PGC) proliferation and oocyte growth. Our goal was to determine the involvement of the SHP-1 phosphatase in regulating PGC proliferation and oocyte growth by examining SHP-1 deficient motheaten mice. Ovaries from wild-type and motheaten mice were observed at 10--13 days of age and after transplantation under the kidney capsule of SCID mice. Ovaries were analyzed by histological and western analyses. SHP-1 was expressed in all ovarian cell types throughout follicle development. At 10--13 days, motheaten animals had smaller ovaries, increased numbers of PGCs and decreased granulosa cell proliferation compared to controls. After transplantation, both groups had formed large antral follicles in similar proportions. Interestingly, motheaten oocytes achieved larger sizes than controls. These results suggest that SHP-1 may interact with Kit to regulate PGC proliferation and oocyte growth, however, the loss of SHP-1 does not impair granulosa cell proliferation and follicle development.
Incommensurability revisited.
Creators: name: Li, Chuang Tong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: In the dissertation, I propose to consider the vicissitudes of Thomas Kuhn's historical approach to science with an eye to clarifying his controversial notion of incommensurability. Although the notion of incommensurability, one of the most significant results of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, has been much criticized in recent Anglo-American philosophy, I argue that it incorporates insights that are still worth reviving and defending. Moreover, since these insights derived from Kuhn's syntheses of the ideas of thinkers such as L. Fleck, A. Koyre, L. Wittgenstein, N. Hanson, M. Polanyi, H. Gadamer and P. Feyerabend, my defence of Kuhn's concept of incommensurability provides a review of some profound issues in recent Anglo-American philosophy. Also in this connection, I assume that the"Kuhnian Revolution" in philosophy of science in the 1960s did not occur by chance in the avenue of contemporary American philosophy. Rather, the appearance, the reception and the subsequent criticism of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, including Kuhn's later conversion to the "analytical tradition", must be interpreted in their respective philosophical contexts. I maintain that the debate between the Kuhnian school and its opponents should be examined historically in the light of the deeper and broader cultural and philosophical issues involved, issues that even Kuhn seems not to have fully appreciated. Through investigating the debate, I argue that the critiques of Kuhn's original ideas, including his own later objections to the ideas, presuppose as well as impose the analytical standard of legitimatization that underlies present-day Anglo-American ways of reasoning. It is this standard, however, that presupposes the very requirement whose feasibility Kuhn's notions of paradigms and incommensurability put into question. More specifically, I defend Kuhn's historical approach to philosophy of science in 1962 against those criticisms which are guided merely by ahistorical and linguistic requirements of analyzability, and criticize Kuhn's acceptance of the precepts of the analytical tradition since 1969. Central to this research is the view that there are phenomena of incommensurability in the process of communication and understanding and that no account of rationality is valid unless it recognizes the development of reason in history. In light of this, I hold, the analytical approach should always allow a historically-oriented vision in order to detect the real picture of our everyday thinking. To understand different rationalities in history and culture, philosophy must go to the history of sciences and to the real process of our everyday thinking. Methodologically, I approach the vicissitudes of Thomas Kuhn's notion of incommensurability in two ways: in Part I by historical case studies of Kuhn's changing views, and in Part II by philosophical reflections on those consequences of the historical case studies. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Brassen - die Trendmacher
Creators: name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Rüdel, Heinz
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässergüte
subject: Süßwasserfisch
subject: Wasserschadstoff
subject: Umweltprobenbank
subject: Schadstoffüberwachung
subject: Gewässerqualität
subject: Binnenfisch
subject: Brassen
subject: Umweltproben
subject: Umweltprobenbank des Bundes
subject: Schadstoffmonitoring
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wasser

description: Die Umweltprobenbank hat die Fischart Brassen als Bioindikator für Binnengewässer ausgewählt. Die Fische werden seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre in größeren Flüssen gefangen, eingelagert und auf Umweltgifte untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, ob die Chemikalienbelastung in den Proben mit der Zeit zu- oder abnimmt. Die Ergebnisse können dann die Verwendung einer Chemikalie in Frage stellen und die Politik zum Handeln auffordern – oder Entwarnung geben. Diese Broschüre stellt die Arbeit der Umweltprobenbank anhand des Brassen vor.
Soil governance at the international, regional and national level
Creators: name: Ginzky, Harald
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biologische Vielfalt
Klima
Abbau

description: The chapter first analyses what is meant by the term soil governance and what the particular challenges are. It addresses the national and regional levels of soil governance, together with an explanation of the existing regulatory structure at the international level. As sustainable management of soils is inextricably linked to and carried out based on the conditions specific to a location, national regulation is most essential. To provide more specific insights, this chapter also explores - in an excursus - soil governance in Germany and an assessment of the tools and sources of information, including databases. The interlinkage of international trade law and sustainable soil management is also explained. © 2022 Elsevier
Prison Photography as Dialogue
Creators: name: Fusco, Serena
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In this essay, I consider prison photography, in broad terms, as a rhetorical and social network that potentially or actually brings together agents from both sides of the prison walls. I attempt to discuss prison photography as a practice that exposes the stark border separating the inside and outside of prisons, while creating communication channels attempting to bridge such divide. If, on the one hand, photographic initiatives centered on prisons, and the increased visibility they entail, contribute to blur the divide between inside and outside, on the other hand, photography retains and amplifies the stark quality of this divide – both because of the inescapable realism and documentary value of photographic images and because photographic images make present, and materialize, the starkly uneven distribution of the technological means for crafting them. Because of its fluid, yet inescapably asymmetrical nature, prison photography requires, and simultaneously fosters, a nuanced reflection on what separates the world within prison walls from the world without.
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
Assessment and treatment of sexual offenders in Saskatchewan
Creators: name: Hills, Amber L.
name: Pfeifer, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The sexual abuse of children is a serious social concern. Thus, sexual offenders must receive accurate assessments and effective treatment programming to minimise re-offence rates. There is ample evidence in the literature to support the assertion that treatment strategies need to be matched to an offender’s level of risk for re-offence, and his or her specific risk factors for re-offence. In terms of males, extra-familial sexual offenders are reportedly more likely to re-offend than are intra-familial sexual offenders. If recidivism rates are indeed higher for extra-familial offenders it follows that the assessment and treatment protocols should be reflective of such. In addition, cultural specificity of assessment and treatment strategies is of great import, especially with respect to Canadian Aboriginal peoples given the rates of Aboriginal peoples in Canadian correctional institutions. Based on this preliminary review of the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders in the Saskatchewan correctional system, potential culture-specific assessment and treatment needs do not appear to be differentially addressed. Additionally, differences in assessment and treatment practices relevant to level of risk do not appear to be present at the provincial level in Saskatchewan. In this paper it is argued that these potential inconsistencies must be examined and empirically investigated in future research and, if indeed present, appropriately addressed in order to provide effective rehabilitation services and to ensure ongoing public safety.
Archives of Loss: David Antin, Susan Howe, Vanessa Place
Creators: name: Aji, Hélène
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Through considerations about poetic work, from three very different authors, David Antin, Susan Howe and Vanessa Place, the article reconsiders the significance of the archive in contemporary poetic creation. Archival preoccupation signals a concern with the present, and its flitting quality: the modes of improvisation in Antin thus offer formal options for a recording of the present as the locus of loss. In Howe, the archival impulse seems to stem from a desire to rewrite history and put forward the issues of historiography: manuscript material from intractable archives generates poetic constructions that become archival material in turn: chaotic typographies evidence what is lost in archivization, rather than focus on what is preserved. Archival gestures might eventually emerge as part of our (lost) fight against radical loss and death: Place’s expansive work on documenting death and the morbidity of social practices is nodal, reaching a paroxystic dimension in Last Words, a project centered on the death penalty, and the electronic archive of the last words of the executed inmates of Texas. In the dialectics outlined by the works of these three poets, the paradox of the archive unfolds as it grows exponentially while remaining incomplete and defective, a sign of the fault in the dialectics of “archive fever” as it inexorably fails to counter our mortal condition.
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
Mechanistic Insights into Necroptosis of Macrophages
Creators: name: Cessford, Erin Lauren
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cell Death
Necroptosis
Macrophages
Inflammation
Innate Immunity
Type I Interferons

description: Cell death is an imperative mechanism for the development, homeostasis and survival of an organism. Various forms of cell death have been documented and recent reports indicate that the mode of cell death elicited can have a profound influence on the development and perpetuation of inflammation. Apoptosis is the predominant, programmed pathway of cell death, which ensures physiological elimination of unwanted cells. On the other hand, another cell death pathway described as programmed necrosis (necroptosis), has recently been revealed. The induction of necroptosis and its impact in host biology is not clear. Herein I have evaluated the mechanisms of necroptosis in macrophages, an important cell type of the immune system. My experiments indicate that type I interferon (IFN-I) signaling through transcription factors STAT1, STAT2 and IRF9, collectively described as the ISGF3 complex, is indispensable for necroptosis of macrophages. Furthermore, my results indicate that IFN-I signaling promotes the sustained phosphorylation of receptor interacting protein kinase 3 (Rip3), a key protein required for the execution of necroptosis. My findings also reveal that dynamin-dependent endocytosis following IFNβ stimulation and caspase inhibition is necessary for the induction of necroptosis. The results presented in this thesis provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms of necroptosis and therefore contribute to a deeper understanding of multiple inflammatory pathologies.
The making of a market: conceptions of control in the genetic paternity industry in Australia
Creators: name: Gilding, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper addresses the emergence of a new market in genetic paternity testing in the Australian context, drawing on the work of the US economic sociologist Neil Fligstein. In particular, it addresses Fligstein’s concept of ‘conceptions of control’, namely the claims made by entrepreneurs and managers so as to avoid price competition and stabilize their position in relation to competitors. The paper identifies an array of strategies directed towards the stabilisation of the genetic paternity testing market, and identifies three conceptions of control in the industry – an ‘incumbent conception of control’, a ‘niche conception of control’ and a ‘challenger conception of control’. The paper argues that the concept provides a useful grip on real world markets, but does not provide a model in a way that is comparable to that of the neo-liberal paradigm. On this account economic sociology still struggles to ‘go beyond’ critique of the neo-liberal paradigm and develop a more proactive sociological model of economic behaviour.
“You’re not Going to Let Some Silly Old Rule Stand in Your Way!” Alternative Visions of the Modern in Mid-Century American-Women-in-Italy Films
Creators: name: Bernardi, Debra
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: US popular culture was especially fascinated by the idea of visiting Italy during the post-World War II years, with numerous films of the period featuring American visitors to the peninsula. Playing off long-standing British and US images of Italy, such films frequently tout modern masculine American know-how aiding a primitive, if beautiful, nation. Thus, such narratives support US aid to defeated Italy during the years of the Marshall Plan. Think, for example, of It Started in Naples (1960), where Philadelphia businessman Clark Gable visits Capri and ultimately takes charge of gorgeous, if disheveled, Sophia Loren and his loveable “street urchin” nephew. Yes, Gable is seduced by the beautiful, if disorderly, place, but in the end his manly American savvy gives both his nephew and Loren a better life: the nephew will attend school regularly and Loren will stop dancing in nightclubs. Gable becomes the icon of the modern world: the 1950s “Organization Man,” who saves the day for poor old-world Italians in films like this. But this essay finds another strain of films that competes with this vision of a modern masculine American world. In a genre of US films I term “American-women-in-Italy films,” produced from 1953 until the early 1960s, travel to the Italian peninsula inspires white middle-class US women to rebel against the rigid structures, rules, and rationality of the modern “organization man” – a symbol of the patriarchy. “You’re not going to let some silly old rule stand in your way!” one young secretary in Rome urges another in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). The genre also includes the famous Roman Holiday (1953), Summertime (1955), The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), Gidget Goes to Rome (1961), Rome Adventure (1962), and Light in the Piazza (1962). While there are some differences in the post-1960s films discussed here, on the whole these films establish white middle-class US women in Italy as icons of an alternate modernity: one that is chaotic, rather than orderly; free, rather than rule bound; and feminine, rather than masculine. Taken together these films reveal a surprising anticolonial, feminist strain in 1950s/early 1960s popular culture.
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
Grundlagen für die Technische Regel für Anlagensicherheit (TRAS) 310
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hochwasser
subject: Sturm
subject: Sicherheitsmaßnahme
subject: Sicherheitstechnik
subject: Neuanlage
subject: Industrieanlage
subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Gefahrstoff
subject: Freisetzung
subject: Bundesimmissionsschutzgesetz
subject: Niederschlag
subject: Gefahrenabwehr
subject: Anlagensicherheit
subject: Grundlagen
subject: Technische Regeln
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Im Rahmen des Umweltforschungsplans des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (⁠BMU⁠), Vorhaben Nummer 203 48 362, haben Warm und Köppke den Bericht „Schutz von neuen und bestehenden Anlagen und Betriebsbereichen gegen natürliche, umgebungsbedingte Gefahrenquellen, insbesondere Hochwasser (Untersuchung vor- und nachsorgender Maßnahmen)“ vorgelegt.1 Ein wichtiges Ergebnis war, dass das Technische Regelwerk den Anforderungen in § 3 Störfall-Verordnung (StörfallV) bezüglich erforderlicher Maßnahmen und Vorkehrungen gegen umgebungsbedingte Gefahrenquellen wie z. B. Niederschläge und Hochwasser nur unzureichend gerecht wird.
Western Powers in 1920-1930 China: Focus on the Minutes of Meetings of Shanghai Municipal Council
Creators: name: Facchinetti, Roberta
name: Lu Hsu, Jane
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The paper focuses on the Minutes of the Meetings (MoMs) held by the Council of the Municipality of Shanghai between 1920 and 1930. The study has a two-folded aim; in the first place, by focussing on Shanghai MoMs from the early 20th century, we delve into the evolution of the Western (largely British) management of municipal affairs on Chinese territory, paying special attention to the relations between such Western powers and local Chinese citizens at the time. Secondly, the linguistic analysis of the MoMs allows us to shed light on this textual type, with special reference to their structural and linguistic distinctiveness. From the socio-historical point of view, the data testify to the evolving relations between the West and China; indeed, the Western ‘colonizing’ interest for China—which led to clashes between languages, cultures and powers—gradually gave way to a more collaborative attitude, increasing respect for the Chinese population and a growing sense of shared collectivity. From the linguistic point of view, the data give account of MoMs as a textual type that at the time under scrutiny had grown to be very similar to present-day MoMs, with lexical and structural specificities that position this textual type halfway between legal writing and news reporting.
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
LKB1-AMPK-SIK2-CRTC2 Pathway in Beta Cells
Creators: name: Fu, Accalia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: pancreatic beta cells
LKB1
AMPK
insulin secretion
islets
diabetes

description: In 2011, Diabetes and prediabetes affected 9 million Canadians and 366 million people worldwide (Canadian Diabetes Website). The underlying pathophysiology of diabetes is beta cell dysfunction leading to loss of appropriate insulin secretion and resulting in hyperglycemia. I have focused on identifying critical molecular regulators of beta cell function and insulin secretion. The CRTC2-CREB pathway is required for maintaining beta cell mass and insulin secretion. I propose that identifying kinases that regulate CRTC-CREB activity will identify other important regulators of pancreatic beta cell survival and function. First, I have identified several AMP kinases as inhibitors of CRTC2-CREB that are activated by an upstream kinase, LKB1. I then went on to generate mice with a beta cell-specific deletion of LKB1 during adulthood. Loss of LKB1 increased insulin secretion and glucose clearance through enhanced beta cell mass and proliferation. The increased insulin secretion was largely the result of loss of AMPK activity and consequent constitutive mTor activity. AMPK is activated under starvation conditions and as such is thought to be a critical regulator of beta cell function. However, the decrease of AMPK activity in high glucose has been a strong argument against it being a critical effector of insulin secretion. I provide genetic evidence supporting the idea that AMPK activity attenuates insulin secretion. During periods of starvation where AMPK activity is high there is a chronic dampening effect on events that prepare beta cells for the next round of insulin secretion. Surprisingly, another downstream kinase of LKB1, SIK2, has opposing functions in the beta cell. I present evidence that the LKB1-AMPK axis attenuates beta cell functions and that targeting this pathway in beta cells may be of therapeutic benefit for T2D.
“I Have Heard the Land Sing:” (Re)reading American Landscapes in Shawn Wong’s Homebase and Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men
Creators: name: Bidlingmeier, Selma Siew Li
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: The myths of North America were born out of the imaginaries of the American landscape—the wilderness, the Frontier, the West, the Cultivated Garden. From Washington Irving’s New World folktales, the adventures of Davy Crockett, the landscape artists of the Hudson River School, Concord’s transcendentalists, to Jackson Turner’s thesis, Nature was conceived/perceived as a constant given, as an object, a resource bestowed to the White, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual male. The project of nation-building required the creation of national narratives and an American consciousness of progress, advancement, strength, and regeneration—through violence, to distinguish itself from the Old World and gain position within a geopolitical-geoeconomic colonial world order. These myths, imagineerings, and historical documentation of the American landscape have systematically silenced and erased the histories of Native Americans, Black slaves, Latino ranchers and Chinese coolie workers and at the same time dehistoricized and depoliticized thehistory of the material, natural world. This paper discusses Chinese American story-telling in Shawn Wong’s Homebase (1979) and Maxine Hong Kingston’s Chinamen (1980) as a means of (re)imagining a material history of the American landscapes in the negotiation of agency. Approaching the history of land(scaping) as material-cultural history formed during the colonial and industrial era, it seeks to understand and complicate the dialectic relationship between the material space of land and the body, the discursive space of American landscapes and identity, and the lived space of experience and memory.
description: Iperstoria, No 14 (2019): The USA as Penitentiary
De l'existence d'hypertores près d'une bifurcation de Hopf-Hopf avec résonance 1:2
Creators: name: Dupuis, Étienne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Nous considérons un système d'équations différentielles x = f ( x , α), où x ∈ [Special characters omitted.] , n ≥ 4 est une fonction du temps et où α ∈ [Special characters omitted.] , p ≥ 3 est un paramètre. Nous supposons que ce système est tel qu'à α = α 0 , f possède un point d'équilibre non-hyperbolique x 0 et que le jacobien de f évalué en ( x 0 , α 0 ) possède exactement deux paires de valeurs propres conjuguées strictement imaginaire, ± i ω et ±2 i ω. Ces conditions caractérisent la bifurcation de Hopf-Hopf avec résonance 1:2. Nous allons démontrer qu'arbitrairement près de cette bifurcation il peut se produire, selon la valeur de certaines dérivées de f , une bifurcation secondaire de type point limite/Hopf dans les équations d'amplitude de la forme normale tronqué, et que cette bifurcation induit la création d'un hypertore dans le système x = f ( x , α). Nous effectuons également des simulations numériques pour venir appuyer nos résultats théoriques.
Systemischer Vergleich von Wärmeversorgungstechniken in einem regenerativen Energiesystem
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gebäude
Elektrizitätsmarkt
Klimaneutralität
Kohlendioxid
Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung
Bundesrepublik Deutschland

description: Ziel dieses Forschungsprojektes ist es, langfristige strategische Fragen im Bereich Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung, effizienter Raumwärmebereitstellung und Klimatisierung sowie zukünftiger Versorgungs-sicherheit unter Berücksichtigung der mittel- und langfristigen Ziele der Bundesregierung im Bereich Klimaschutz und Effizienz durch die Ermittlung von charakteristischen Einflüssen der verschiedenen Techniken auf die Strom- und Wärmeversorgung zu klären. Integrierte, gegenseitig gekoppelte Simulationsmodelle werden eingesetzt, um in verschiedenen Szenarien erst die Entwicklung des Gebäudebestandes in Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2050 zu prognostizieren und anschließend den Raumwärme- und Klimatisierungsbedarf im Zieljahr 2050 abzuleiten. Darauf aufbauend wird die Deckung dieses Bedarfs durch verschiedene Heiz- und Klimatisierungstechniken im Rahmen einer kombinierten Strom- und Wärmemarktsimulation berechnet. Um in die Bewertung der Strom-Wärme-Kopplungstechnologien auch deren Beitrag zur Flexibilisierung des Energiesystems einfließen zu lassen, wird die Analyse mit einer zeitlich hoch aufgelösten Modellierung durchgeführt. Zum Verdeutlichen der charakteristischen Einflüsse wird von einem vollständigen regenerativen Energiesystem im betrachteten Jahr 2050 ausgegangen. Mit Hilfe von Sensitivitätsuntersuchungen werden durch verschiedene Technikkombinationen robuste Aussagen zur Bewertung stromverbrauchender und -erzeugender Raumwärmetechniken und deren systemischer Wirkung gewonnen.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The aim of this research project is to clarify long-term strategic issues in cogeneration, efficient space heating and cooling and the future security of supply, taking into account the medium and long-term goals of the government in the field of climate protection and efficiency by identifying characteristic influences of various techniques to the power and heat supply. Integrated mutually coupled simulation models will be used only to predict different scenarios of the development of the building stock in Germany until 2050, and then derive the space heating and air conditioning needs in the target year. Based on this the supply is calculated by different technologies in a combined heat and power market simulation. To account for the high flexibility that comes with increased coupling of heat and power market, the investigation is performed by an energy system model with temporal resolution. In order to show the characteristic influences, the authors assume a fully renewable energy system in the year 2050. To estimate the robustness of these results several sensitivity analyses are done for power consuming and producing space heating techniques and their systemic effect.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
Linking Fermented Foods to Microbial Composition and Valorisation: Blueprint for Kenya
Creators: name: Khayeka-Wandabwa, Christopher
name: Choge, Joseph K.
name: Linnemann, Anita R.
name: Schoustra, Sijmen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the world’s richest selections of indigenous fermented foods which constitute valuable cultural heritage with significant socio-economic impact. The review provides an in-depth examination of the diversity of indigenous fermented foods of Kenya in the cultural practices context, interlinked microbiome, associated nutritional and food security aspects while positing valorisation perspective. The traditional fermented foods are profiled into five clusters with significant valorisation potential for food systems in: (i) non-alcoholic cereal-based thin porridge (uji) and (ii) fermented milk products (mursik and suusac). This is informed by agro-productivity resilience and evolving consumption preferences. Whereas these foods are commonly processed via artisanal methods, often resulting in inconsistent products, locally tailored starter culture trials in uji and suusac have shown a promising model to guarantee microbiological safety, mitigate contamination and assure stable sensory characteristics. It is thus plausible to posit, that integrated microbial ecology of traditional fermentation and food systems policy-level research targeted at a reengineering of the unit operations with the intent of improving safety and nutritional quality while being cognizant of organoleptic traits and intertwined biocultural diversity is highly desirable. Particularly, with a broader foresight for promoting sustainable food systems at the base of the pyramid.
Identification of gifted students using a neuropsychophysiological paradigm: An exploratory study.
Creators: name: Shaffer, Dianna.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Tests and Measurements.

description: The development of an accurate assessment paradigm that identifies students as capable of high performance in a variety of areas is urgently needed in education. Current strategies tend to identify only those students who are intellectually or academically gifted. Gifted students who possess other strengths or pupils who exhibit atypical behavior are often overlooked or misidentified in the process. A few educational theorists/practitioners, believe that current practice should be supplemented by some of the testing protocols typically associated with the field of neuropsychophysiology (i.e. neurology, psychology, physiology). This study develops a neuropsychophysiological paradigm that differentiates high average, gifted, and gifted students with perceived behavior problems. Sixty-six students, 10--12 years of age, participated in the study. After being screened for incidents of psychopathology, each student completed 14 timed/untimed relaxation and performance conditions while being monitored by EEG and biofeedback technology. The data were analysed quantitatively using three non-parametric tests. The results of the data analysis suggest that high average, gifted, and gifted students with perceived behavior problems can be differentiated using a neuropsychophysiological paradigm. Foremost in the conclusions is the suggestion that gifted students may excel in two domains intellectual and psychophysiological, and that gifted students with perceived behavior problems may be a legitimate subgroup of the larger population.