cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The expression of thrombospondin-4 correlates with disease severity in osteoarthritic knee cartilage
Creators: name: Maly, Kathrin
name: Schaible, Inna
name: Riegger, Jana
name: Brenner, Rolf E.
name: Meurer, Andrea
name: Zaucke, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Thrombospondin-4
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Extracellular matrix
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Extrazelluläre Matrix
subject: Biomarker

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive joint disease characterized by a continuous degradation of the cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM). The expression of the extracellular glycoprotein thrombospondin-4 (TSP-4) is known to be increased in injured tissues and involved in matrix remodeling, but its role in articular cartilage and, in particular, in OA remains elusive. In the present study, we analyzed the expression and localization of TSP-4 in healthy and OA knee cartilage by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), immunohistochemistry, and immunoblot. We found that TSP-4 protein expression is increased in OA and that expression levels correlate with OA severity. TSP-4 was not regulated at the transcriptional level but we detected changes in the anchorage of TSP-4 in the altered ECM using sequential protein extraction. We were also able to detect pentameric and fragmented TSP-4 in the serum of both healthy controls and OA patients. Here, the total protein amount was not significantly different but we identified specific degradation products that were more abundant in sera of OA patients. Future studies will reveal if these fragments have the potential to serve as OA-specific biomarkers.
The Importance Of Using The Computer In Acquiring Mathematical Notions At The Pre-School Education Level
Creators: name: Caprioara, Daniela
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: At the pre-school age, children get acquainted with the first mathematics notions on which the mathematics knowledge is going to be built later, throughout the school years age. At this level, the focus is first and foremost placed on the formative aspect, envisaging the operating structures of thought, and less on the informative one, represented by the cognitive structures.
Challenges of creating a network-level performance measurement system for SME networks
Creators: name: Varamaki, Elina
name: Jarvenpaa, Marko
name: Kohtamaki, Marko
name: Tuominen, Tommi
name: Vuorinen, Tero
name: Sorama, Kirsti
name: Laitinen, Erkki. K.
name: Wingren, Tom
name: Helo, Petri
name: Vesalainen, Jukka
name: Pihkala, Timo
name: Tenhunen, Jarkko
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There has been hardly any research about the management tools and the holistic performance measurement systems which are very important when managing SME networks. The present study is based on two different perspectives to produce added value to discussion on networking. These perspectives are a system view and a view that considers networks as entities. In the present study, the main objective is to create and operationalise a network-level performance measurement system for SME networks. The second objective is to analyse a case network by the means of this performance measurement system. The third objective is to discuss the challenges of building this kind of network-level performance measurement system.
Seismic retrofitting of concrete bridge columns by external prestressing.
Creators: name: Mes, Derek.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: Due to recent earthquakes and the ensuing damage, there has been some concern regarding the adequacy of older structures. In particular, there is apprehension as to the adequacy of bridges that were erected prior to the early 1970's. Before this time there was little or no design process which considered seismic behaviour of bridges. Recent codes have been adjusted to compensate for these earlier problems. However, it is not feasible to remove and rebuild all of the previously built bridges. Hence, the only remaining viable approach to improving seismic adequacy of existing bridges is seismic upgrading or retrofitting these structures to improve their strength and/or deformability. The research program presented in this thesis addresses the problem of reinforced concrete bridge column retrofitting. More specifically, the applicability of a new retrofitting technique, developed at the University of Ottawa for columns of different aspect ratios and reinforcement arrangements, will be verified in terms of concrete confinement and shear resistance. The retrofitting technique consists of wrapping and prestressing high strength steel 7-wire strands around the test columns in order to increase their ductility. The specimen's tested were based on pre-1971 design, and hence had larger transverse reinforcement spacing than the present practice. This results in a lack of concrete confinement which translates into columns with poor shear resistance which tend to have a brittle failure mode. By retrofitting with prestressing strands, placed at closer spacing than the original hoops, the concrete confinement is increased, diagonal tension resistance is improved and a more ductile response is attained. Experiments from the first phase of this research program, performed by Yalcin (1997), gave very favourable results for a given aspect ratio and reinforcement arrangement. The present experimental research, forming the second phase, examined columns with different aspect ratios and reinforcement arrangements and also gave favourable results.
ANALISIS DE CONDUCTA SUICIDA EN URGENCIAS EN HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA
Creators: name: Domíguez Álvarez, Elena
name: Andrés Olivera, Pilar
name: Ligero Argudo, Marina
name: Peso Navarro, Isabel María
name: García Cerdán, Carmen
name: Munaiz Cossio, Clara
name: González Bolaños, Ramón Kristofer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCCIÓN:En la actualidad la prevención del suicidio es una de las áreas de salud mental que más interés despiertan, considerándose uno de los retos más importantes que abordar en nuestra especialidad, creándose hace unos años a nivel nacional los protocolos de atención al suicidio.

 MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS:

Se realiza un estudio observacional, recopilando y analizando los datos recogidos durante el mes de julio de 2024 en Urgencias del Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, viendo del total de urgencias realizadas cuales estaban en relación con ideas de muerte o intentos autoliticos, así mismo de esos pacientes cuales fueron las diferentes intervenciones que se realizaron al alta del paciente.

RESULTADOS:De un total de 201 paciente atendidos en el Servicio de Urgencias por Psiquiatría de guardia, 64 pacientes (31,8%) presentaban ideas de muerte o intentos autoliticos. De los cuales fueron ingresados en UHB 17 pacientes (26,5%) y 47 pacientes fueron dados de alta (73,5 %). De las altas, se realizaron 14 protocolos de suicidio (29,7%), 9 pacientes recibieron cita de forma preferente en su ESM (19,1), 4 pacientes fueron citados con su medico de atención primaria (8,5%), 19 pacientes fueron derivados a su ESM para un seguimiento ordinario (40,4%) y un paciente se fugó del Servicio de Urgencias antes de poder ser valorado (4,7%). De los protocolos realizados, 9 pacientes fueron derivados por ideación autolitica (64,2%) y 5 pacientes por una autointoxicación medicamentosa (35,2%).

CONCLUSIONES:Ante una realidad que ha ido en aumento en los últimos años, como es el suicidio a nivel mundial y en nuestro país, la evidencia nos indica la importancia de instaurar recursos que nos ayuden en la prevención, así como pararnos a analizar dichos recursos, en busca de mejoras más ambiciosas en la atención al paciente con riesgo suicida.
Supplementary document for Using thermo-optical nonlinearity to robustly separate absorption and radiation losses in nanophotonic resonators - 5052394.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, MingKang
name: Perez, Diego
name: Aksyuk, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information, the added section is highlighted
ZFP57 regulation of transposable elements and gene expression within and beyond imprinted domains
Creators: name: Shi, Hui
name: Strogantsev, Ruslan
name: Takahashi, Nozomi
name: Kazachenka, Anastasiya
name: Lorincz, Matthew C
name: Hemberger, Myriam
name: Ferguson-Smith, Anne C
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: KRAB zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) represent one of the largest families of DNA-binding proteins in vertebrate genomes and appear to have evolved to silence transposable elements (TEs) including endogenous retroviruses through sequence-specific targeting of repressive chromatin states. ZFP57 is required to maintain the post-fertilization DNA methylation memory of parental origin at genomic imprints. Here we conduct RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analyses in normal and ZFP57 mutant mouse ES cells to understand the relative importance of ZFP57 at imprints, unique and repetitive regions of the genome. Results: Over 80% of ZFP57 targets are TEs, however, ZFP57 is not essential for their repression. The remaining targets lie within unique imprinted and non-imprinted sequences. Though the loss of ZFP57 influences imprinted genes as expected, the majority of unique gene targets lose H3K9me3 with little effect on DNA methylation and very few exhibit alterations in expression. Comparison of ZFP57 mutants with DNA methyltransferase-deleted ES cells (TKO) identifies a remarkably similar pattern of H3K9me3 loss across the genome. These data define regions where H3K9me3 is secondary to DNA methylation and we propose that ZFP57 is the principal if not sole methylation-sensitive KZFP in mouse ES cells. Finally, we examine dynamics of DNA and H3K9 methylation during pre-implantation development and show that sites bound by ZFP57 in ES cells maintain DNA methylation and H3K9me3 at imprints and at non-imprinted regions on the maternally inherited chromosome throughout preimplantation development. Conclusion: Our analyses suggest the evolution of a rare DNA methylation-sensitive KZFP that is not essential for repeat silencing, but whose primary function is to maintain DNA methylation and repressive histone marks at germline-derived imprinting control regions.
FAQs für Recyclingpapier
Creators: name: Reichart, Almut
name: Spies, Susanne
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: Recyclingpapier
Abfallverwertung

description: Das Hintergrundpapier fasst die häufigsten Fagen und Antworten rund um Recyclingpapier zusammen: Welche Vorteile hat es, kann man es archivieren, wie ist die Optik, welches ist empfehlenswert oder ist es teurer? Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
From tales of enchantment to tales of empowerment: Finding women's voices through fairy tale narratives.
Creators: name: Zigman, Jane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Folklore.

description: Research suggests that fairy tales permeate society and affect subjective identity through old and new versions that serve to domesticate desire. While some researchers suggest that fairy tales have negative effects on how women construct their lives, others claim that women resist or subvert their restrictive meanings and gender roles. From a cultural studies perspective, this case study investigates the perceived impact of fairy tales on subjectivity, as well as on past and present life choices. Feminist, poststructuralist, and psychoanalytic analyses uncover how subjective identities may be produced and resisted through cultural influences like fairy tales. Thematic analysis of group discussions and written responses by mature women show that fairy tales are instrumental in forming subjective identities and influencing the life choices of participants. The findings of this study indicate that some participants perceive fairy tales to be influential in constituting the life stories that they were able to imagine, while group discussions and written responses of other participants also demonstrate possible influences of fairy tales in their lives. This research may help educators understand how this process occurs in order to create programs that effectively resist or subvert messages internalized in this way.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Electro-Optic Modulator Combining Silicon Photonic Slot Waveguides with High-k Radio-Frequency Slotlines - 5053736.pdf
Creators: name: Ummethala, Sandeep
name: Kemal, Juned
name: Alam, Ahmed Shariful
name: Lauermann, Matthias
name: Kuzmin, Artem
name: Kutuvantavida, Yasar
name: Nandam, Sree Harsha
name: Hahn, Lothar
name: Elder, Delwin
name: Dalton, Larry
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
title: The Invasion of Civic Education into the Armenian Education System
Creators: name: Tovmasyan, Tigran
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Education

description: The purpose of the study is to explore how different civic education initiatives implemented over the last six to eight years in Armenia reference one another and meet the needs of the Armenian educational environment. The comparative analysis of two sets of civic standards, one developed in the U.S. by the Center for Civic Education (National Standards for Civics and Government) and the other for Armenia by the Armenian National Institute for Education (Individual and Society), draws parallels between those sets of standards portrayed by the Armenian and American education policy-makers. The study then focuses on the implementation process of three major civics projects initiated and administered by the Junior Achievement Armenia, Institute for Training and Development, and College of Education in the University of Iowa. As a result of those initiatives, the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science has introduced a civic education course into the Armenian schools based on the demand from the society and support from international agencies. All three projects were developed according to the American civics standards and, subsequently, introduced elements of Armenian culture as a result of interaction with and involvement of Armenian participants. The civic initiatives have had enormous influence on the Armenian education milieu and the society overall. However, to achieve better results, the civics supporters should seek ways to incorporate civics curriculum with Armenian communities and the society. The Ministry should take the leadership role of facilitating, maintaining, and improving the civic movement in Armenia.
Die rätselhafte Größe E. Was kann man sich unter Entropie vorstellen?
Creators: name: Kreiner, Welf A.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Brownsche Molekularbewegung
subject: Makrozustand
subject: Mikrozustand
subject: Reversibler Vorgang
subject: Statistisches Gewicht
subject: Zustandsfunktion
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Brownian motion process
subject: Clausius, R. (Rudolf) 1822-1888
subject: Entropy
subject: Thermodynamics
subject: Boltzmann-Konstante
subject: Brownsche Bewegung
subject: Entropie
subject: Isotherme
subject: Thermodynamischer Zustand
subject: Statistische Thermodynamik
subject: Wahrscheinlichkeit
subject: Zustandsgleichung

description: Frei bewegliche Moleküle breiten sich spontan und gleichmäßig über den gesamten zur Verfügung stehenden Raum aus. Dies wird damit erklärt, dass es dafür wesentlich mehr Aufteilungsmuster gibt als wenn sich die Moleküle auf einen kleinen Raum beschränkten. Eine einzelne räumliche Anordnung von Molekülen heißt ein „Mikrozustand“. Eine Anzahl W von Mikrozuständen, die in definierter Weise ähnlich sind, bilden zusammen einen „Makrozustand“, mit W als seinem statistischen Gewicht. Auf Boltzmann geht es zurück, den Entropiebegriff mit dem Logarithmus einer bestimmten Verteilung zu verknüpfen. Die Entropie ist ein Maß für die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Makrozuständen. Andererseits führte Clausius den Entropiebegriff als Zustandsfunktion in der Form dS= δQrev/T ein. Er beobachtete, dass die im Carnot-Prozess entlang einer Isothermen reversibel zugeführte Wärmemenge proportional ist zur absoluten Temperatur, also Qrev/T temperaturunabhängig ist. Auch diese Form des Entropiebegriffs kann mit der Vorstellung einer Ausbreitung von Molekülen über einen bestimmten Raum in Verbindung gebracht werden. Während nach der mikroskopischen Vorstellung (Verteilung einzelner Moleküle) die Entropie der Logarithmus eines statistischen Gewichts – also eine dimensionslose Größe – ist, hat nach Clausius das ΔS= Qrev/T die Dimension Joule/Kelvin. Um nun sowohl in der Dimension wie auch im Zahlenwert eine Äquivalenz der beiden Entropiebegriffe zu erreichen, wird, nach Planck, das lnW mit der Boltzmann-Konstanten k multipliziert, so dass man die Entropie zu S= k·lnW erhält. Diese ist ein Absolutwert für die Entropie in einem bestimmten Zustand. Thermodynamisch kann mit ΔS=Qrev/T jedoch nur eine Entropiedifferenz gemessen werden.
Étude des trois axes de l'assistance éducative parentale auprès des parents d'élèves en difficulté d'apprentissage à l'élémentaire
Creators: name: Bédard, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Education, Special.

description: Cette recherche examine l'assistance éducative des parents auprès d'élèves en difficulté d'apprentissage à l'élémentaire. L'assistance éducative parentale se définit comme l'assistance que les parents offrent à leur enfant au plan des tâches scolaires. Elle est étudiée au regard de trois axes et de leur relation: l'axe des parents comme gestionnaires de l'encadrement éducatif, l'axe des parents comme modèles au plan de l'apprentissage scolaire et l'axe des parents comme médiateurs des habiletés sociales et affectives. Trente-six (36) parents répondent à un questionnaire sur leurs attitudes et leurs représentations par rapport aux composantes de ces trois axes. Les résultats suggèrent que les parents d'élèves en difficultés d'apprentissage accordent une importance certaine à chacun des axes étudiés et que ces axes entretiennent entre eux des rapports de dépendance qui offrent un éclairage utile à quiconque souhaite accompagner des parents d'élèves en difficultés dapprentissage.
Her brilliant career: Gillian Armstrong on four decades of filmmaking
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Gillian Armstrong belongs to that 'first generation' of Australian filmmakers, which also includes Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford. Like them, she has also gone on to a successful international career. She spoke to Brian McFarlane about her most recent film, 'Death Defying Acts' (2008), and other aspects of her career.
Supplementary document for Experimental demonstration of SHG in high χ² metasurface - 5054500.pdf
Creators: name: Soun, Lena
name: Fix, Baptiste
name: Ouazzani, Hasnaa El
name: Héron, sébastien
name: Bardou, Nathalie
name: Dupuis, Christophe
name: Derelle, Sophie
name: Jaeck, Julien
name: Haidar, Riad
name: Bouchon, Patrick
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Properties of Materials

description: Resonance behavior, calibration of the infrared camera, SHG and extraction ratio computations
Cataract Development by Exposure to Ultraviolet and Blue Visible Light in Porcine Lenses
Creators: name: Haag, Robin
name: Sieber, Nicole
name: Hessling, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: cataract
subject: blue light
subject: UV radiation
subject: porcine lens
subject: UVA
subject: UVB
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Background and Objectives: Cataract is still the leading cause of blindness. Its development is well researched for UV radiation. Modern light sources like EDs and displays tend to emit blue light. The effect of blue light on the retina is called blue light hazard and is studied extensively. However, its impact on the lens is not investigated so far. Aim: Investigation of the impact of the blue visible light in porcine lens compared to UVA and UVB radiation. Materials and Methods: In this ex-vivo experiment, porcine lenses are irradiated with a dosage of 6 kJ/cm2 at wavelengths of 311 nm (UVB), 370 nm (UVA), and 460 nm (blue light). Lens transmission measurements before and after irradiation give insight into the impact of the radiation. Furthermore, dark field images re taken from every lens before and after irradiation. Cataract development is illustrated by histogram linearization as well as faults coloring of recorded dark field images. By segmenting the lens in the background’s original image, the lens condition before and after irradiation could be compared. Results: All lenses irradiated with a 6 kJ/cm2 reveal cataract development for radiation with 311 nm, 370 nm, and 460 nm. Both evaluations reveal that the 460 nm irradiation causes the most cataract. Conclusion: All investigated irradiation sources cause cataracts in porcine lenses—even blue visible light.
Supplementary document for High-Resolution, Depth-Resolved Vascular Leakage Measurements Using Contrast-Enhanced, Correlation-Gated Optical Coherence Tomography in Mice - 5054998.pdf
Creators: name: Merkle, Conrad
name: Augustin, Marco
name: Harper, Danielle
name: Gesperger, Johanna
name: Lichtenegger, Antonia
name: Eugui, Pablo
name: Garhofer, Gerhard
name: Glösmann, Martin
name: Baumann, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Figures
Book review: 'The media and communications in Australia, 3rd ed.', edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner
Creators: name: Wilson, C. K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Review of the book 'The media and communications in Australia, 3rd ed.', edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010.
Optically induced dynamic nuclear spin polarisation in diamond
Creators: name: Scheuer, Jochen
name: Schwartz, Ilai
name: Chen, Qiong
name: Schulze-Suenninghausen, David
name: Carl, Patrick
name: Hoefer, Peter
name: Retzker, Alexander
name: Sumiya, Hitoshi
name: Isoya, Junichi
name: Luy, Burkhard
name: Plenio, Martin B.
name: Naydenov, Boris
name: Jelezko, Fedor
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: nitrogen-vacancy (NV)
subject: dynamical nuclear polarisation (DNP)
subject: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Polarization (Nuclear physics)
subject: Diamonds
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Spinpolarisation
subject: Kernspintomografie
subject: Diamant

description: Abstract The sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) depends strongly on nuclear spin polarisation and, motivated by this observation, dynamical nuclear spin polarisation has recently been applied to enhance MRI protocols (Kurhanewicz et al 2011 Neoplasia 13 81). Nuclear spins associated with the 13C carbon isotope (nuclear spin I = 1/2) in diamond possess uniquely long spin lattice relaxation times (Reynhardt and High 2011 Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc. 38 37). If they are present in diamond nanocrystals, especially when strongly polarised, they form a promising contrast agent for MRI. Current schemes for achieving nuclear polarisation, however, require cryogenic temperatures. Here we demonstrate an efficient scheme that realises optically induced 13C nuclear spin hyperpolarisation in diamond at room temperature and low ambient magnetic field. Optical pumping of a nitrogen-vacancy centre creates a continuously renewable electron spin polarisation which can be transferred to surrounding 13C nuclear spins. Importantly for future applications we also realise polarisation protocols that are robust against an unknown misalignment between magnetic field and crystal axis.
Paper IV
Creators: name: DAILU GUAN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70201 Animal Breeding
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science

description: The agouti signaling protein (ASIP) gene has a crucial role in pigmentation by encoding a protein that binds the melanocortin 1 receptor and stimulates the synthesis of pheomelanin rather than eumelanin. Several studies have suggested that an increased copy number of the ASIP gene might explain the white pigmentation of certain goat breeds, as previously demonstrated in sheep. In the current work, we have identified the segregation of the ASIP CNV in Murciano-Granadina (black or brown coat), Malagueña (brown, blond or white coat) and Saanen (white coat) goats with available Illumina Goat SNP50 BeadChip (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) genotypes by using the PennCNV v1.0.5 and QuantiSNP v2 tools. This result shows that the ASIP CNV segregates in dark-colored breeds. To gain new insights into this issue, we have estimated the copy number of the ASIP gene in 83 goats from 8 breeds with different coloration patterns using a real-time quantitative PCR approach. Our results showed an increased ASIP copy number not only in Saanen (3.50 ± 0.23 copies relative to the calibrator) and white Malagueña (3.51 ± 0.51 copies) goats, but also in the Murciano-Granadina breed (3.33 ± 0.58 copies) as well as in blond/brown individuals from the Malagueña (3.58 ± 0.73 copies) breed. The number of ASIP copies was not significantly different in these four caprine populations (P value > 0.05). Moreover, we did not observe a trend towards increased ASIP copy number in breeds with predominantly white colors, such as Maltese (2.85 ± 0.28 copies), Jonica (2.82 ± 0.39 copies) and Blanca de Rasquera (2.37 ± 0.33 copies). Our results, combined with recent findings demonstrating the high structural complexity of the ASIP locus, indicate that additional functional and expression studies should be performed in order to fully understand the role of ASIP structural variation in goat pigmentation.
Le défi de l'est ontarien: La gestion de l'eau dans un contexte de changement
Creators: name: Deslauriers, Rachel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geography.
subject: Urban and Regional Planning.

description: This thesis focuses upon the context of change: change in water demand relating to population fluctuations and climatic change affecting the supply and demand of the water resource. This ultimately leads to the understanding of the challenges encountered by Eastern Ontario communities in water management. To do so, it is necessary to study supply and demand relations on water and their impacts upon the changes mentioned above. A literary review has been conducted to identify sustainable water indicators. These indicators will be used to evaluate available information to rural communities with which they can make enlightened decisions regarding these changes. These indicators have also been presented to the decision makers through a questionnaire, allowing them to evaluate their usefulness. In doing so, the decision makers are involved in the identification of environmental, economical and social concerns that could affect their communities. These concerns are further analyzed and explained in making a statement of the current conditions of water management in the area. This will further help to identify challenges that decision makers will face in the future.
Accurate ethnicity prediction from placental DNA methylation data
Creators: name: Yuan, Victor
name: Price, E. M.
name: Del Gobbo, Giulia
name: Mostafavi, Sara
name: Cox, Brian
name: Binder, Alexandra M.
name: Michels, Karin B.
name: Marsit, Carmen
name: Robinson, Wendy P.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: The influence of genetics on variation in DNA methylation (DNAme) is well documented. Yet confounding from population stratification is often unaccounted for in DNAme association studies. Existing approaches to address confounding by population stratification using DNAme data may not generalize to populations or tissues outside those in which they were developed. To aid future placental DNAme studies in assessing population stratification, we developed an ethnicity classifier, PlaNET (Placental DNAme Elastic Net Ethnicity Tool), using five cohorts with Infinium Human Methylation 450k BeadChip array (HM450k) data from placental samples that is also compatible with the newer EPIC platform. Results: Data from 509 placental samples were used to develop PlaNET and show that it accurately predicts (accuracy = 0.938, kappa = 0.823) major classes of self-reported ethnicity/race (African: n = 58, Asian: n = 53, Caucasian: n = 389), and produces ethnicity probabilities that are highly correlated with genetic ancestry inferred from genome-wide SNP arrays (> 2.5 million SNP) and ancestry informative markers (n = 50 SNPs). PlaNET’s ethnicity classification relies on 1860 HM450K microarray sites, and over half of these were linked to nearby genetic polymorphisms (n = 955). Our placental-optimized method outperforms existing approaches in assessing population stratification in placental samples from individuals of Asian, African, and Caucasian ethnicities. Conclusion: PlaNET provides an improved approach to address population stratification in placental DNAme association studies. The method can be applied to predict ethnicity as a discrete or continuous variable and will be especially useful when self-reported ethnicity information is missing and genotyping markers are unavailable.
Supplementary document for Using thermo-optical nonlinearity to robustly separate absorption and radiation losses in nanophotonic resonators - 5052394.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, MingKang
name: Perez, Diego
name: Aksyuk, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information, the added section is highlighted
Impact of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase C677T Polymorphism on the Risk of Gastric Cancer and Its Interaction with Helicobacter pylori Infection
Creators: name: Samaneh Saberi
name: Zendehdel, Kazem
name: Jahangiri, Sahar
name: Yeganeh Talebkhan
name: Abdirad, Afshin
name: Mohajerani, Nazanin
name: Bababeik, Maryam
name: Najmeh Karami
name: Esmaili, Maryam
name: Oghalaie, Akbar
name: Hassanpour, Parisa
name: Amini, Neda
name: Mohagheghi, Mohammad Ali
name: Hossieni, Mahmoud Eshagh
name: Mohammadi, Marjan
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
High Intensity Violet Light (405 nm) Inactivates Coronaviruses in Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS) and on Surfaces
Creators: name: Lau, Bernhard
name: Becher, Dietmar
name: Hessling, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019)
subject: bovine coronavirus (BCoV)
subject: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
subject: surrogate
subject: photoinactivation
subject: photosensitizer
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: It has been proven that visible light with a wavelength of about 405 nm exhibits an antimicrobial effect on bacteria and fungi if the irradiation doses are high enough. Hence, the question arises as to whether this violet light would also be suitable to inactivate SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses. Therefore, a high-intensity light source was developed and applied to irradiate bovine coronaviruses (BCoV), which are employed as SARS-CoV-2 surrogates for safety reasons. Irradiation is performed in virus solutions diluted with phosphate buffered saline and on steel surfaces. Significant virus reduction by several log levels was observed both in the liquid and on the surface within half an hour with average log reduction doses of 57.5 and 96 J/cm2, respectively. Therefore, it can be concluded that 405 nm irradiation has an antiviral effect on coronaviruses, but special attention should be paid to the presence of photosensitizers in the virus environment in future experiments. Technically, visible violet radiation is therefore suitable for coronavirus reduction, but the required radiation doses are difficult to achieve rapidly.
Baseline psychological inflexibility moderates the outcome pain interference in a randomized controlled trial on internet-based acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain
Creators: name: Probst, Thomas
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: McCracken, Lance M.
name: Lin, Jiaxi
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Psychological inflexibility
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Rigidity (Psychology)
subject: Chronic pain
subject: Acceptance and commitment therapy
subject: Emotional adjustment
subject: Rigidität
subject: Akzeptanz- und Commitment Therapie
subject: Chronischer Schmerz

description: This study re-investigated data of a randomized controlled trial on Internet-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain (ACTonPain). Baseline psychological inflexibility was examined as a moderator of the outcome pain interference. In the ACTonPain trial, participants with chronic pain were randomized to one of three conditions: guided Internet-based ACT (n = 100), unguided Internet-based ACT (n = 101), and waitlist (n = 101). Moderation analyses were performed with the SPSS macro PROCESS. Pain interference according to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) was the primary outcome in this trial, and the potential moderator psychological inflexibility was measured with the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II). Psychological inflexibility at baseline moderated the outcome between guided Internet-based ACT and waitlist 9-weeks as well as 6-months after randomization. (both p < 0.05). Between unguided Internet-based ACT and waitlist, psychological inflexibility moderated the outcome 6-months after randomization (p < 0.05). Internet-based ACT was superior to waitlist for participants with less psychological inflexibility at baseline, but Internet-based ACT became increasingly comparable to waitlist at higher AAQ-II baseline values. Future research should investigate whether the results can be replicated in more individualized and tailored face-to-face settings.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Electro-Optic Modulator Combining Silicon Photonic Slot Waveguides with High-k Radio-Frequency Slotlines - 5053736.pdf
Creators: name: Ummethala, Sandeep
name: Kemal, Juned
name: Alam, Ahmed Shariful
name: Lauermann, Matthias
name: Kuzmin, Artem
name: Kutuvantavida, Yasar
name: Nandam, Sree Harsha
name: Hahn, Lothar
name: Elder, Delwin
name: Dalton, Larry
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Supplementary document for Experimental demonstration of SHG in high χ² metasurface - 5054500.pdf
Creators: name: Soun, Lena
name: Fix, Baptiste
name: Ouazzani, Hasnaa El
name: Héron, sébastien
name: Bardou, Nathalie
name: Dupuis, Christophe
name: Derelle, Sophie
name: Jaeck, Julien
name: Haidar, Riad
name: Bouchon, Patrick
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Optical Properties of Materials

description: Resonance behavior, calibration of the infrared camera, SHG and extraction ratio computations
Turkish transnational media in Melbourne: a migrant mediascape
Creators: name: Hopkins, Liza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The explosive rise in new forms of media and communications technologies has had a profound impact on the experiences of first-and second-generation migrants in multicultural societies. New possibilities for transcending old national understandings of community through the rise of globally linked networks of transnational ties invite closer examination. The globally dispersed Turkish diaspora uses a variety of new technologies to keep in touch with family, friends, acquaintances and colleagues across the globe. The networks arising through such activities have come to complement and sometimes to replace the traditional importance of face-to-face communities in the establishment of feelings of community, inclusion and belonging. A current research project in Melbourne has been investigating the Turkish community's use of both old and new media to establish, assert and consolidate their own sense of community, beyond the limiting national frames of Turkish, Australian or even Turkish-Australian identity constructs.
Correlates of Children’s Independent Mobility in Canada: A Multi-Site Study
Creators: name: Riazi, Negin A.
name: Blanchette, Sébastien
name: Trudeau, François
name: Larouche, Richard
name: Tremblay, Mark S.
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Globally, physical inactivity is a concern, and children’s independent mobility (CIM) may be an important target behavior for addressing the physical inactivity crisis. The aim of this study was to examine correlates of CIM (8–12 years old) in the Canadian context to inform future interventions. CIM was measured via parent surveys. Individual, social, and environmental correlates of CIM were examined using a social–ecological framework. 1699 participants’ data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and gender-stratified linear mixed-effects models while controlling for site, area-level socioeconomic status, and type of urbanization. Individual correlates including child grade (β = 0.612, p < 0.001), language spoken at home (β = −0.503, p < 0.001), car ownership (β = −0.374, p < 0.05), and phone ownership (β = 0.593, p < 0.001) were associated with CIM. For boys, parental gender (β = −0.387, p < 0.01) was negatively associated with CIM. Parents’ perceptions of safety and environment were significantly associated with CIM. Location (i.e., site) was significantly associated with CIM (ref: Trois-Rivières; Ottawa (β = −1.188, p < 0.001); Vancouver (β = −1.216, p < 0.001)). Suburban environments were negatively associated with boys’ independent mobility (β = −0.536, p < 0.05), while walkability (400 m β = 0.064, p < 0.05; 1600 m β = −0.059, p < 0.05) was significantly associated with girls’ independent mobility only. Future research and interventions should consider targeting “modifiable factors” like children’s and parents’ perceptions of neighborhood safety and environment.
Tableaux vivants. Museum’s representation in movies
Tableaux vivants. La rappresentazione del museo nel cinema
Creators: name: Tartarini, Chiara
Publisher: name: Dipartimento delle Arti Visive - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: museum; cinema; tableaux vivants; Jean-Marie Straub; Danièle Huillet
museo; cinema; tableaux vivants; Jean-Marie Straub; Danièle Huillet;

description: This article aims to highlight some aspects that mark the cinematographic representation of museum, in the belief that movies are profitable to comprehend the nature of museum institution and the way it acts on the imaginary. It will be considered some movies (Night at the Museum; Russian Ark; Belfégor; Bande à part; All the Vermeers in New York; Dressed to Kill, La Ville Louvre), with a focus on Straub-Huillet’s Une visite au Louvre, where the idea of narrative sequence is challenged, bringing back cinema to an intensive immobility and suggesting that museum can be a place of a shared poetics.
description: L’articolo si propone di evidenziare alcuni aspetti che contraddistinguono la rappresentazione cinematografica del museo, nella convinzione che il cinema sia utile per comprendere la natura dell’istituzione museale e il suo modo di agire sull’immaginario. Verranno considerati alcuni film (Una notte al museo; Arca russa; Belfagor; Bande à part; Tutti i Vermeer di New York; Vestito per uccidere, La Ville Louvre) e verrà prestata particolare attenzione a Une Visite au Louvre di Straub-Huillet, dove la nozione di sequenza narrativa viene messa in discussione per riportare il cinema a un’immobilità intensiva, e suggerire un’idea di museo come puro luogo di poetica condivisa.
Ajustement socio-affectif d'adolescentes d'origine libanaise selon les perceptions intergénérationnelles de l'identité ethnique.
Creators: name: Guay, Johanne Manon.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Developmental.

description: Cette etude s'est penchee sur la relation entre les identites ethniques mere-fille et l'ajustement socio-affectif chez des adolescents d'origine libanaise. Il avait ete predit que la ressemblance des identites intergenerationnelles serait associee a un niveau superieur d'ajustement socio-affectif chez les filles tandis que la dissemblance des identites ethniques intergenerationnelles resulterait a un ajustement socio-affectif plus faible. En outre, il avait ete presume que la perception (a) de la presence de support parental et (b) de confort linguistique en arabe permettraient d'attenuer les effets negatifs d'une dissemblance mere-fille. Quatre-vingt douze paires de meres et de filles d'origine libanaise ont rempli des questionnaires sur leurs identites ethniques. En plus, les filles ont repondu a des questions portant sur le support maternel, le confort linguistique en arabe, le concept de soi, le bien-etre subjectif, la satisfaction de la vie familiale, la perception de conflits mere-fille et la qualite de la relation mere-fille. Des analyses de variance univariees et multivariees ont permis de refuter l'hypothese principale. La ressemblance ou la dissemblance des ecarts intergenerationnels d'acculturation ne serait pas un facteur important dans l'ajustement socio-affectif des adolescentes d'origine libanaise. Les analyses ont permis de montrer les roles essentiels du support maternel et du confort linguistique en arabe dans l'ajustement socio-affectif. Les adolescentes qui possedent un niveau eleve de support maternel rapportent un meilleur concept de soi, plus d'affects positifs, une plus grande satisfaction de la vie et moins de desaccords avec leur mere. Elles evaluent plus positivement la qualite de la relation avec leur mere que celles rapportant un bas niveau de support maternel. Un confort eleve en langue arabe favorise aussi un meilleur ajustement socio-affectif. Des comparaisons additionnelles, a partir des identites ethniques reflechies mere-fille et des identites ethniques veritables et reflechies des filles (seulement), n'ont pas revele de relation avec l'ajustement socio-affectif. Ces resultats corroborent a rejeter le postulat qui impute un role critique aux ecarts intergenerationnels d'acculturation sur l'ajustement socio-affectif des jeunes de familles immigrantes.
What is the debate around paid maternity leave really about? Using CLA to delve under the surface
Creators: name: Morrow, Rowena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One role for Futures Studies is the generation of alternative images of the future. These images can help shape the path an individual, group or society may choose to follow. In 2000, debate in Australia about the provisions for women taking maternity leave expanded into a heated debate about differing constructions of motherhood. Using Causal Layered Analysis to delve beneath the surface, it becomes clear that all sides of the debate share fundamental myths. Recasting these myths must occur before any changes can be made on the surface. Images from fictional societies are used as sources of alternative futures.
"Between the Flash and Fall of Turning": "New York" School Poets, American Pragmatism, and the Construction of Subjectivity
Creators: name: Schnier, Zachariah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Poetry
Pragmatism
Subjectivity
New York
Cold War

description: With my dissertation entitled “Between the Flash and Fall of Turning”: “New York” School Poets, American Pragmatism and the Construction of Identity, I seek to account for the depiction of the anti-foundational self which emerges time and again in the poetry of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch. While theorizing the self as a contingent, provisional, and shifting construct is hardly new to a theoretically oriented academy transiting into the present century, scholars and critics have tended to ground such interpretations in “structural linguistics” and so-called “French philosophy.” One of the goals of this project, therefore, is to propose that the philosophical skepticism toward the self as a site of stable and enduring meaning has always been felt and articulated by American Pragmatism, specifically in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James and John Dewey. While a handful of critics have looked to Pragmatism to account for the protean self in the work of “New York” School Poets, these commentators have tended to focus their attention largely on O’Hara’s and Ashbery’s poetry. This project seeks, on the one hand, to round out this work with close readings of all the major “New York” School Poets, and extend it, on the other, by looking beyond poetry to visual art and classroom pedagogy to examine evidence of a Pragmatist orientation across the disciplines, despite the apparent interpretive consensus that American Pragmatism “goes silent” at mid-century.
Supplementary document for High-Resolution, Depth-Resolved Vascular Leakage Measurements Using Contrast-Enhanced, Correlation-Gated Optical Coherence Tomography in Mice - 5054998.pdf
Creators: name: Merkle, Conrad
name: Augustin, Marco
name: Harper, Danielle
name: Gesperger, Johanna
name: Lichtenegger, Antonia
name: Eugui, Pablo
name: Garhofer, Gerhard
name: Glösmann, Martin
name: Baumann, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Figures
Greater Nitrogen Availability, Nitrous Oxide Emissions, and Vegetable Yields with Fall-Applied Chicken Relative to Horse Manure
Creators: name: Maltais-Landry, Gabriel
name: Nesic, Zoran
name: Grant, Nicholas
name: Thompson, Brianna
name: Smukler, Sean
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Optimal manure management can maximize agronomic benefits and minimize environmental impacts. Field experiments were conducted in the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver, Canada) to determine how chicken and horse manures that were fall-applied to meet nitrogen crop demand affect soil ammonium (NH₄⁺) and nitrate (NO₃ −), apparent net mineralization (ANM) and nitrification (ANN), crop biomass and nutrient concentration, and fluxes of nitrous oxide (N₂O), carbon dioxide (CO₂), and methane (CH₄). Relative to horse manure, chicken manure increased soil NH₄⁺ by 60-fold, ANM by 2-fold, and ANN by 4-fold. Emissions of N₂O (+600%) and CO₂ (+45%) were greater and growing season CO₂ emissions (−40%) were lower after application of chicken than horse manure. Productivity of cover crop (+30%), legume cover crop (−25%), and squash cash crop (+20%) were affected by chicken relative to horse manure. Overall, fall-applied chicken manure increased yields, N availability, and environmental impacts relative to horse manure.