cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Knee Muscle Activation Characteristics During Closed Kinetic Chain Directional Loading in Healthy Young Males and Females
Creators: name: Flaxman, Teresa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Knee
Muscle Activity
Joint Stabilisation
Sex Differences
Cocontraction
Closed Kinetic Chain
Isometric

description: Neuromuscular control is believed to play an essential role during dynamic knee joint stabilisation. Evaluation of voluntary muscle action can be delineated as support strategies against external loading moments (Lloyd & Buchanan, 2001). The aim of this study was to determine if males and females exhibit differences in knee muscle action and cocontraction during voluntary isometric closed kinetic chain force generation in various directions in the horizontal plane representative of applied loads transverse to the long axis of the shank. Twenty-six healthy young adults (13 male, 13 female) stood with their dominant leg in a boot fixed to a force platform. A force target matching protocol required subjects to position a cursor (projected on a video screen) over a target and maintain the position for one second. To control the cursor, loads were applied against the force platform with their dominant leg to produce various combinations of anterior-posterior, medial-lateral loads while maintaining constant inferior-superior loads. A successful target match required a normalised force magnitude of equal effort for each subject and target location which triggered the recording of electromyography (EMG) for eight muscles crossing the knee joint. EMG was normalised to percent maximum voluntary isometric contraction. A mean magnitude of muscle activation, mean direction of muscle activation and a muscle specificity index was determined using EMG vectors. In addition, cocontraction indices were also computed for antagonist muscle pairs. Based on similar previous research, it was hypothesised that females would have greater quadriceps and hamstrings coactivation, greater muscle activation magnitudes, lower specificity for the quadriceps than males and no difference in hamstring characteristics. In our study, females significantly cocontracted their vastus lateralis and lateral gastrocnemius muscles to a greater degree than males (p=0.001). No significant differences were observed across sexes for the cocontraction of quadriceps and hamstrings or the lateral quadriceps and gastrocnemius muscles. Females displayed significantly lower specificity than males in their semitendinosus (p=0.025) and tensor fascia lata (p=0.012) activity patterns, greater magnitude of muscle activation in their lateral gastrocnemius (p=0.002) and tensor fascia lata (p<0.003) and no statistical difference in the other muscles. Furthermore, the activation patterns in our study grossly differed from previous open kinetic chain force target matching. These findings indicate that healthy young males and females have differences in their knee muscle control strategies and that knee muscle recruitment patterns differ during weight bearing and non-weight bearing tasks.
Statistical modelling of cognitive function at early stages of Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Gramotnev, Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: Parkinson
cognition

description: Cognitive deficit is a common non-motor manifestation of Parkinson's disease (PD), even at the early stages. While links between some clinical or pathological measures and cognition in early PD have been established, adequate identification and prediction of cognitive deficits and decline in patients are limited due to the significant heterogeneity of cognition in PD, as well as a substantial overlap with other neurodegenerative conditions and healthy individuals. As a result, there has been an increased recognition of the need for an approach which would involve simultaneous evaluation of a combination of multiple measures to adequately identify and predict cognitive deficits and decline in PD patients. The aim of this Thesis was to identify and characterise networks of significant direct and indirect effects of the commonly measured clinical and pathological parameters affecting cognition in early PD at baseline.
From Agriculture to Ecotourism: Socio-economic Change, Community Development and Environmental Sustainability in a Costa Rican Village
Creators: name: Howitt, Josephine B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: ecotourism
agrarian change
rural development
protected areas
Costa Rica

description: This research is an ethnographic case study of the emerging ecotourism economies in the agricultural village of San Gerardo de Rivas, Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. Due to the village’s location as the main entry point to climb the country’s tallest mountain within Chirripó National Park, the majority of households in San Gerardo now derive some income from tourism. I conducted twenty household surveys, followed by twenty-one semi-structured interviews with male and female heads of households and representatives of local organizations and tourism businesses. Drawing on local perspectives, I found that ecotourism was a complementary income source to agriculture and that men and women were engaging differently in ecotourism employment. Local organizations were involved in the participatory management of ecotourism activities within Chirripó National Park. Ecotourism has affected environmental practices and local people are strategically negotiating the direction of tourism development, including through using environmental discourses, to optimize the benefits to their community.
Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche, eds, Mamluk Cairo, A Crossroads for Embassies. Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics, Leiden: Brill, 2019
Creators: name: Van Steenbergen, Jo
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: .
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Intelligent Pavement Management and Maintenance Intervention
Creators: name: Azawi, Khaldoon
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: pavement
instrumentation
monitoring
management

description: Pavements are designed and built to protect the subgrade by minimising rutting and to withstand weather conditions such as temperature and moisture. The current main challenges with pavement management are; accelerated deterioration due to the impacts of moisture ingress into the pavement layers, in particular due to high rainfall events, deterioration due to age, continued usage and traffic growth, continued increase in heavy transport, and quality of materials. Queensland has 25% of all Australian state-controlled roads, they are the state's largest publicly owned infrastructure asset. The road network is deteriorating due to age, continuous usage and the accelerating impacts of high rainfall and cyclonic events, in recent floods almost two thirds of roads were under water. Pavement instrumentation is being increasingly used in monitoring the performance of pavements and provides inputs to refine the design parameters to better reflect the local conditions and traffic loading. This research provides a base for long-term monitoring of the performance of in-service constructed pavements (asphalt surface on unbound granular base, asphalt surface on cement stabilised base, and chip seal surface on unbound granular base) under local conditions rather than relying on overseas research and/ or simulated environments. This will provide results reflecting local conditions in terms of design, materials, construction, traffic configuration and the environment including occasional pavement inundation. Consequently, there will be no need to utilise global calibration or adjustment factors.
Enhancing TCP Congestion Control for Improved Performance in Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Francis, Breeson
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: TCP
fast retransmission
fast recovery
retransmission timeout
congestion window
duplicate acks

description: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) designed to deliver seamless and reliable end-to-end data transfer across unreliable networks works impeccably well in wired environment. In fact, TCP carries the around 90% of Internet traffic, so performance of Internet is largely based on the performance of TCP. However, end-to-end throughput in TCP degrades notably when operated in wireless networks. In wireless networks, due to high bit error rate and changing level of congestion, retransmission timeouts for packets lost in transmission is unavoidable. TCP misinterprets these random packet losses, due to the unpredictable nature of wireless environment, and the subsequent packet reordering as congestion and invokes congestion control by triggering fast retransmission and fast recovery, leading to underutilization of the network resources and affecting TCP performance critically. This thesis reviews existing approaches, details two proposed systems for better handling in networks with random loss and delay. Evaluation of the proposed systems is conducted using OPNET simulator by comparing against standard TCP variants and with varying number of hops.
The envy reflex as a driver of the engagement intentions of positional service consumers
Creators: name: Boardman, Darren
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: consumer engagement
consumer perceived value
consumption goals
envy reflex
positional services
status attainment

description: Consumers with status attainment goals seek out services they perceive to offer social positioning benefits (or 'positional' value), which they then use to attain an advantageous position relative to others within a given status hierarchy. However, consumers' ongoing engagement with the offerings of such 'positional services' (e.g. university education) is regulated by the emotion they experience when the status attainment goal is threatened (Higgins & Scholer 2009). During consumption, consumers recognise that their status attainment goals are threatened when they are outperformed by another consumer and experience envy as a result. Consumers' experience of envy can be either benign (i.e. motivating) or malicious (i.e. negative), and these experiences can drive increased and decreased engagement respectively in a goods context (Belk 2011; Van de Ven et al. 2011), but how the different envy experiences drive consumer engagement outcomes in a services context is not well understood. As such, the research question driving this thesis is: How does envy influence consumer engagement with positional services?
Study of the specific/non thermal effects of microwave radiation on bacteria
Creators: name: Shamis, Yury
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The overall aim of this thesis was to generate understanding as to whether the so-called 'non-thermal' microwave effects exist and to use this knowledge to advance microwave application technologies. The obtained results advocate that the decontamination of pathogenic bacteria in raw meat and on the surface of transplant biomaterial is possible using 18 GHz microwave radiation at sub-lethal temperatures. It was also discovered that microwave radiation causes the formation of reversible pores within the bacterial cell membrane. Furthermore, increased enzyme activity was also demonstrated to occur for microwave processed bacteria. The implications of this research include the adaptation of microwave radiation to the non-thermal sterilisation of raw produce and biomaterials. Secondly, microwave radiation using our optimised settings could be further refined for the development of new drug delivery systems. Finally, industrial laboratories aimed at enzyme production can also utilise the microwave technique to attain prompt and higher yields of products at much lower activation temperatures thereby reducing production costs.
Supplementary document for Distributed Silicon Nanoparticles: an Efficient Light Trapping Platform toward Ultrathin-Film Photovoltaics - 5305230.pdf
Creators: name: Shameli, Mohammad
name: Mirnaziry, Sayyed Reza
name: Yousefi, Leila
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The generalized Mie theory
Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Decision Support Systems by General Practitioners
Creators: name: Shibl, Rania
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2008
Subjects: decision support systems
UTAUT
general practitioner

description: The practice of medicine is very information intensive, and this information will continue to increase. Researchers argue that general practitioners (GPs) are not able to keep up to date with best practice without some assistance in their decision making; this may be achieved using decision support systems (DSS). However, in the medical field the use of DSS is limited. Thus this research addresses the research question of: How and why do general practitioners use decision support systems? Based on this research question, three research issues were developed: 1) Why do GPs use DSS? 2) Why do GPs not use DSS? and 3) How can GPs' use of DSS be increased? To address the research question and research issues, a review of the technology acceptance literature and decision support literature was undertaken. This review identified gaps in the body of knowledge for decision support system acceptance and context specific technology acceptance. A theoretical model was developed consisting of four constructs (performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions) from the UTAUT (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) and two additional factors identified from the literature, workflow and involvement in the development of DSS.
Determining the Relationship Between Urban Form and the Costs of Public Services
Creators: name: Lieske, Scott
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2010
Subjects: fiscal modeling
urban form
public service costs

description: Documentation of the need for the evaluation of the influence of urban form on the provision of local government services dates back to the 1950s. The literature indicates low-density developments distant from centers of service provision are more expensive to serve than more proximate and high-density developments. Areas diverge from optimal patterns of land use because of information asymmetries and the ability to pass the costs of growth on to the general public. Inefficiencies occur due to average cost user charges which undercharge outlying low-density areas while overcharging interior or high-density areas. There are two potential corrective actions: 1) incorporating information on the fiscal consequences of development, including the spatial component of public service costs, in planning and decision making; and 2) charging each location the full marginal costs of providing services to that location. With the latter action, a subsidy is then eliminated, and efficient development follows. Both approaches require actionable information on the spatial component of public services costs. In order to develop this information, this thesis extends emerging methods in fiscal modeling where government service provision may be modeled with a production function. In this framework the level of service outputs are determined by local government expenditures on inputs and neighborhood (socioeconomic and demographic) characteristics. A corresponding allocation function may be developed where local government expenditures on inputs are determined by socioeconomic and demographic traits, often referred to as neighborhood characteristics. The allocation function is built on a hedonic framework where expenditures are determined by production attributes and neighborhood characteristics may be incorporated as amenity attributes. The research presented here extends previous econometric modeling of public service provision to include a spatial index representing urban form as an explanatory variable in the allocation function. The inclusion of urban form in the allocation function offers the opportunity to determine the spatial component of development costs, enabling more informed decision making.
Supplementary document for An analysis of correlations between local geographic atrophy growth rates and local OCT angiography-measured choriocapillaris flow deficits - 5305807.pdf
Creators: name: Moult, Eric
name: Shi, Yingying
name: Zhang, Qinqin
name: Wang, Liang
name: Mazumder, Rahul
name: Chen, Siyu
name: Chu, Zhongdi
name: Feuer, William
name: waheed, Nadia
name: Gregori, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary
title: The spillover effect of domestic climate action
title: The spillover effect of domestic climate action
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ancygier, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: spillover effect
subject: domestic climate action
subject: Climate | Energy

description: The global climate crisis calls for swift and bold implementation of climate mitigation measures globally and domestically. A short study, commissioned within a research project on the implications of the Paris Agreement at the German Environment Agency, looks at the main mechanisms and drivers for the uptake of climate policies beyond just the borders of the individual countries implementing them. This factsheet summarizes results of this study. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: The global climate crisis calls for swift and bold implementation of climate mitigation measures globally and domestically. A short study, commissioned within a research project on the implications of the Paris Agreement at the German Environment Agency, looks at the main mechanisms and drivers for the uptake of climate policies beyond just the borders of the individual countries implementing them. This factsheet summarizes results of this study.
Extension of linear quadratic regulator theory and its applications.
Creators: name: Mouadeb, Abdu-Nasser R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: Linear Quadratic Regulatory theory (L.Q.R.) has received widespread application due to its simplicity and also due to the fact that the control provided this by theory is linear in form. These features make the implication of feedback control and easy task. In contrast, nonlinear regulation lack those attractive features enjoyed by the linear regulator. Moreover, in order to obtain the feedback control, one has to solve Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation which is not an easy task. Also, if solution can be obtained, implementation is not always practical. In this work, we extend the Linear Quadratic Regulatory theory to the following; (I) LQR theory is modified for the case when there is no control contribution to the cost functional. (II) LQR is used to regulate or fine-tune a nonlinear system around a nominal trajectory through linearization of nonlinear systems. (III) Applying the LQR theory for the regulation of angular velocities of a three-axes satellite around a nominal point. (IV) Applying the LQR for the regulation of the movement of a robot around a time-optional trajectory. (V) The limitation of the control obtained through linearization is indicated.
An Interview with Steven Nadler
Creators: name: Biasiori, Lucio
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: Steven Nadler (Columbia, Ph.D. 1986) is William H. Hay II Professor & Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and the University of Amsterdam (where he was the holder of the Spinoza Chair in 2007). Most of his research has been devoted to the study of philosophy in the seventeenth century, including Descartes and Cartesianism, Spinoza, and Leibniz. He has also examined antecedents of early modern thought in medieval Latin philosophy and (especially with respect to Spinoza) medieval Jewish philosophy, and has written on medieval Jewish rationalism (especially Saadya ben Joseph, Maimonides, and Gersonides). His publications include Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008; paperback, Princeton 2010); The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (2009), co-edited with Tamar Rudavsky; A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth ofthe Secular Age (Princeton, 2011) and The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes (Princeton, 2013). Heretics: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (Princeton University Press), a graphic book (with Ben Nadler), was published in 2017. His most recent books are Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018) and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook to Descartes and Cartesianism.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Serum omentin-1 level in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia
Creators: name: He, Haiqing
name: Wu, Shuiqing
name: Hao, Jun
name: Wang, Long
name: Ai, Kai
name: Zhu, Xuan
name: Xu, Ran
name: Zhao, Xiaokun
name: Wang, Yinhuai
name: Zhong, Zhaohui
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Backgroud: To evaluate the relationship between omentin-1 and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). BPH is the most common urological disease in elderly men worldwide. Lower serum omentin-1 levels were reported to be negatively associated with the incidence of inflammation, diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome, which all play a role in the development of BPH. To the best of our knowledge, the relationship between omentin-1 and BPH has not been investigated previously. Methods: A total of 70 males participated in this study, including forty patients diagnosed with BPH and thirty healthy males. The anthropometric measurements and the biochemical parameters were measured in this study. We evaluated serum omentin-1 levels and the correlation with those data. We also test the gene expression of IL-8, IL-18 in BPH group using the TURP tissues. Results: The serum omentin-1 levels were lower in the BPH patients than in the control group (27.95 ± 4.18 versus 32.03 ± 5.46, p < 0.001). The general characteristics and biochemical parameters were investigated, and a negative correlation was found between serum omentin-1 levels and BMI in the BPH group (r = − 0.391, p = 0.013) as well as the whole group (r = − 0.457, p < 0.001). Multiple-factor binary regression analysis revealed that serum omentin-1was a protective factor of BPH development. Furthermore, lower serum omentin-1 levels were associated with higher mRNA expression of IL-8 or IL-18 in the BPH group. Conclusion: Omentin-1 may suppress the development of BPH and Lower serum omentin-1 levels in BPH patients might associated with higher prostate volume and higher IL-8 and IL-18 expression levels in their prostatic cells.
Nutritional and molecular approaches to optimize feed for farmed Yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi): The impacts of alternative feed raw material on digestion, gut microbiota and transcriptomes response
Creators: name: Dam, Chinh
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2020
Subjects: yellowtail kingfish
digestibility
microbiomes
transcriptomes

description: The Yellowtail kingfish (YTK) Seriola lalandi aquaculture industry relies on the availability and efficient delivery of cost-effective diets that have been formulated with alternative feed raw materials that reduce the use of fish meal (FM). There are however many feed raw materials used in commercial aquafeeds for which there is little known concerning their effect on the digestibility, gut microbiota and molecular mechanisms in YTK. Therefore, this PhD thesis aims to broaden our knowledge on the use and selection of alternative feed raw materials using nutritional and molecular approaches.
Testing and Measuring Teamwork and Distributed Situation Awareness in Australian Rules Football Field Umpiring Teams
Creators: name: Neville, Timothy
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: distributed situation awareness
teamwork
decision making
AFL
umpires
officiating

description: Professional sport is a complex sociotechnical system, involving multiple actors participating in a billion dollar industry. Technology is used to enhance safety, physical and cognitive performance, improve training and coaching regimes, and to support officiating. One facet of sports systems that is currently experiencing significant levels of technology insertion and redesign is Officials in Sport (OiS) which includes the umpires and referees who control the game. Historically, when the performance of officials has been questioned, it was almost exclusively based on their ability to make an accurate decision under pressure in a high stakes situation.
The future of Islamic banking in the Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC]
Creators: name: El-Ghattis, Nedal
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016
Subjects: causal layered analysis (CLA)
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Fiqh
futures studies
Islamic banking

description: The economic engine that has driven the development of Islamic banking during its formative years has been the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This current condition will change, and already has to a significant degree. Although the industry's performance has seemed remarkable for the last 30 years, Islamic banking still has many things requiring improvement, such as professionalism, compliance with Shari'a law in terms of substance rather than just form, and playing a larger role in economic development in order to fulfil public expectation. To understand the phenomenon of Islamic banking and to anticipate the type of change that may result from its adoption, it is important to take stock of what has been broadly achieved in the field of Islamic banking to date, and to look further into what may lie ahead.
The relationships of lifetime physical activity and diet to telomere length in current ultra-endurance exercisers
Creators: name: Birkenhead, Karen
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2018
Subjects: ultra-endurance exercise
ultra-running
ultra-cycling
lifetime physical activity
lifetime diet
telomere
ageing

description: Ultra-endurance exercise involves prolonged periods of physical activity covering a distance of more than the standard marathon (42.195 km) or greater than 6 hours in duration. 1 Worldwide participation in ultra-endurance exercise continues to increase, yet there is minimal research on the individuals who engage in this form of physical activity. Specifically, there is little information on the physical activity and dietary habits of ultra-endurance exercisers or how this form of extreme exercise influences the ageing process. Ageing at the cellular level is frequently assessed through the measurement of telomere length. Telomeres are repeating segments of DNA located at the end of chromosomes that help promote genomic stability. This project consisted of a series of three separate but related investigations designed to determine the relationships between physical activity and diet on telomere length in current ultra-endurance exercisers.
Site-specific iron-57 Moessbauer recoilless fractions in true trioctahedral micas.
Creators: name: Royer, Michel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: The accurate determination of site populations from $\sp{57}$Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy requires that spectra be corrected for absorber thickness effects and that site-specific Mossbauer recoilless fractions (f-factors) be known. This thesis uses a novel method to perform thickness-effect corrections, then uses the temperature dependence of the thickness-corrected spectral areas of selected peaks to obtain site-specific f-factors at 80 K and 300 K for the iron sites in true trioctahedral micas. A preliminary study of a biotite single crystal showed the site-specific nature of the f-factors. Five samples--three biotites rich in octahedral Fe$\sp{3+}$, a phlogopite rich in tetrahedral Fe$\sp{3+}$, and a synthetic annite--were then studied to quantify the site-specific f-factors. Our final values, taken to be representative of all true trioctahedral micas, are:++$$\vbox{\halign{#\hfil&&\quad#\hfil\cr&octahedral Fe$\sp{2+}$ sites&f$\sp{\lbrack 2+\rbrack}$ (300 K)&= 0.56 $\pm$ 0.06\cr&&f$\sp{\lbrack 2+\rbrack}$ (80 K)&= 0.82 $\pm$ 0.02\cr&octahedral Fe$\sp{3+}$ sites&f$\sp{\lbrack 3+\rbrack}$ (300 K)&= 0.69 $\pm$ 0.07\cr&&f$\sp{\lbrack 3+\rbrack}$ (80 K)&= 0.87 $\pm$ 0.07\cr&tetrahedral Fe$\sp{3+}$ sites&f$\sp{\langle 3+\rangle}$ (300 K)&= 0.75 $\pm$ 0.10\cr&&f$\sp{\langle 3+\rangle }$ (80 K)&= 0.90 $\pm$ 0.03\cr}}$$(TABLE/EQUATION ENDS)These f-factors are used in conjunction with thickness-corrected sub-spectral areas to obtain the first accurate iron site populations for annite:$$\eqalign{\rm\lbrack Fe\sp{2+}\rbrack /Fe&= (90.5 \pm 1.0)\ \%\cr \lbrack\rm Fe\sp{3+}\rbrack /Fe&= (5.3 \pm 1.0)\ \%\cr \langle\rm Fe\sp3+\rangle /Fe&= (4.2 \pm 0.3)\ \%\cr}$$Experimental uncertainties related to each part of the work are considered in detail, and evaluated where possible.
The Illustrator and the Global Wars to Come: Albert Robida, La guerre infernale, and the Long History of Imagined Warfare
Creators: name: Iannuzzi, Giulia
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: This essay, accompanying and drawing on the publication of seven original sketches made by Albert Robida for Pierre Giffard’s feuilleton La guerre infernale (1908), locates Robida’s work within a broader history of imagined future wars between the late modern and the early contemporary age. To foster a better understanding of Robida’s case and of the future-war sub-genre in coeval times, attention is devoted to the birth and establishment of a malleable future as a fictional setting for reflections on technology, warfare, and society. Furthermore, a close reading of Robida’s work helps to shed new light on the ideological strategies and representation practices shared by great international exhibitions and fiction narratives in the building of a hierarchized historical time, and the role of future-war narratives in shaping a globalized mind-set near the end of the nineteenth century. La guerre infernale case study is thus located against the backdrop of coeval representations of war and violence in European mass media, and as part of the long history of wars to come.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Fundamental physics asks philosophers new questions
Creators: name: Panov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern fundamental physics poses new questions for philosophy, which, as it seems to us, have not yet received appropriate attention from philosophers of science. This paper formulates a number of such questions in order to present them to the attention, first of all, of professional philosophers. A rough list of the main themes is as follows: 1) Cosmic variance problem and the meaning of theoretical cosmology; 2) Epistemological status of the concept of Multiverse in cosmology; 3) The operational status of quantum macrostates and the relation of this problem to cosmology; 4) The meaning of the physical reality in the ``final theory''; 5) Criticism of the string theory in the relation with the item 4 above.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Preferential Estrogen Receptor β Ligands Inhibit Proliferation and Reduce Bcl-2 Expression in Fulvestrant-resistant Breast Cancer Cells
Creators: name: Ruddy, Samantha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Bcl-2
Estrogen receptor beta
autophagy
antiestrogen-resistant breast cancer
chloroquine

description: Endocrine resistance is a significant clinical problem in the treatment of estrogen (E2) receptor positive breast cancers. There are two ER subtypes, ERα and ERβ, which promote and inhibit breast cancer cell proliferation respectively. While ER positive breast cancers typically express a high ratio of ERα to ERβ, the acquisition of antiestrogen resistance in vitro and in vivo is associated with increased relative expression of the ERβ. On some gene enhancers ERβ has been shown to function in opposition to the ERα in the presence of E2. Here we demonstrate that exposure to two different ERβ agonists results in decreased cell viability, and produced a marked reduction in G2/M phase in antiestrogen resistant breast cancer cell line in conjunction with altered cyclin D1, and cyclin E expression relative to E2. ERβ agonists also strongly downregulated Bcl-2 expression and recruited both ERs to the Bcl-2 and pS2 E2-response elements resulting in a reduction in mRNA transcripts from both of these genes. Bcl-2 reduction correlated with increased lipidation of LC3-I to LC3-II, indicative of increased autophagic flux. Although ERβ agonist treatment alone did not induce apoptosis, remarkably, the coaddition of ERβ agonist and the autophagy inhibitor, chloroquine, resulted in robust cell death. Lastly, in vivo studies demonstrate that preferential-ERβ agonists are not estrogenic in the uterus or mammary gland. Together, these observations suggest that combined therapies including an ERβ agonist and an autophagy inhibitor may provide the basis for a safe, novel approach to the treatment of antiestrogen-resistant breast cancers.
Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Vulnerability of the Garífuna Women in Guatemala; An Exploratory Study on Underlying Causes
Creators: name: Mulongoy, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Garífuna
Garinagu
women
gender
Central America
Guatemala
human development
development
Sustainable development
afro descendent
ethnicity
Exclusion
race
Marginalisation

description: The Garífuna are the smallest ethnic minority group in Guatemala, living primarily in the city of Livingston (known as Labuga, Wadimalu in Garífuna) located along the Caribbean coastline. Their unique history, ethnicity and culture has allowed them to preserve their way of life for centuries on the one hand but has also separated them from mainstream Guatemalan society on the other hand. The afro-descendent Garífuna community forms a small part of the overall indigenous group in Guatemala alongside the Maya and the Xinca groups; however unlike the larger indigenous groups and the remaining non-indigenous population, the Garífuna are ignored and are not included in the groups in need of development assistance for education, health, employment and security. The exclusion is even more pronounced for Garífuna women. This study was conducted to understand the reasons for the discrimination, socio-economic exclusion and vulnerability of Garífuna women within the Guatemalan society, what is currently being done to address the challenges and barriers Garífuna women are facing, and what further changes need to take place to bring about a transformation in their situation.
Mitigation of Oxygen Stress and Contamination-free Cultivation in Microalga Cultures
Creators: name: Peng, Licheng
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mitigation
Oxygen stress
Localized oxygen remover
Contamination-free cultivation
Freshwater microalga
Neochloris oleoabundans

description: Microalgae are promising candidates for biofuel production, CO2 biomitigation, and production of a variety of value-added products. However, high production costs and large energy consumption have been a major concern hindering the commercialization of microalgal products and processes. In addition, biological contamination and oxygen stress are two of the major contributors to these challenges. The objective of this project was twofold: 1) developing a novel strategy for control of biological contamination to enable non-sterile cultivation of microalgae such as N. oleoabundans, and 2) developing advanced deoxygenation mechanisms to reduce oxygen accumulation in the culture. It was found that addition of appropriate amount of NaHCO3 could effectively inhibit the growth of protozoa while its inhibition on microalgae was much less and could be alleviated by increasing pH to an appropriate level. It was also found that adding 160 mM NaHCO3 in media or decreasing incident light intensity to 100 W/m2 would help alleviate the oxidative stress to cells at 400% of air saturation. The feasibility of contamination-free non-sterile cultivation of freshwater green alga N. oleoabundans was verified using long-term continuous cultivation in a 15-liter TPBR with non-sterile medium and aeration. Furthermore, localized oxygen removal using hydrophobic hollow membranes was found to effectively reduce dO2 and increase lipid accumulation. These results have the potential to be translated into low-cost cultivation of freshwater microalgae processes for production of value-added microalgal products. At a more fundamental level, the mechanisms of the inhibition of NaHCO3 on microalgae and protozoa were discussed. Efforts were also made to simulate the effects of incident light intensity on light distribution, cell growth kinetics, and lipid accumulation of N. oleoabundans under non- sterile cultivation conditions.
Blood Pressure Estimation Using Oscillometric Pulse Morphology
Creators: name: Mafi, Majid
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: blood pressure
Oscillometric
Morphology

description: This thesis work presents the analysis of Oscillometric blood pressure pulse waveform under different pressure points (Systolic, Mean Arterial, and Diastolic Pressures). Pulse waveforms' characteristics were determined from the waveforms at three different pressures and are compared for subjects at three different age groups. Estimation of blood pressure using a morphology based approach was done by using the change of pulse waveform characteristics at different pressure points. Pulse waveforms' characteristics that were obtained from pulse waveforms are utilized to estimate SBP, MAP, and DBP. The estimates obtained with pulse morphology based technique are compared with a BP measurement device and Maximum Amplitude Algorithm. Maximum slope of the pulse was also used for blood pressure estimation. The effect of movement and breathing on proposed method and MAA were compared and it was observed that breathing artifacts affect less the proposed method.
title: Lookingglass Fish Hatchery Intake and Passage Facility Improvements Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Consultation Lookingglass Fish Hatchery Intake and Passage Facility Improvements Project
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2024

description: WCRO-2023-02810
Post-Human Cyborg
Creators: name: Lung, Chi Hao
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2011
Subjects: hyper body
big bang
virtual space
cyber space
digital
body without organs
post-human
stream of consciousness
perception

description: This thesis investigates a number of contemporary trends that are leading towards the creation of what the author calls a cyborg virtual corporeality. A cyborg is typically thought of as a hybrid being made up of biological and artificial or technological elements. Cyborgs have long been imagined in literature, popular culture, scientific, medical and military contexts and represent a form of human-machine existence which can be manifest in a wide range of physical or virtual forms. This research is concerned, in particular, with how the consciousness of a cyborg-in this case, a human-computer entity designed to exist and operate entirely within a virtual environment-might be understood. It also explores the emerging new realities that are only just beginning to intersect with our familiar, physical world-realities that are created when elements from the virtual and the natural worlds are combined.
The effect of tourism on the lived experiences of marginalised children and young people in Sienm Reap Cambodia
Creators: name: Miller, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cambodia
children
tourism
Siem Reap
street children
orphanage tourism
UNCRC
public transcript

description: This participatory research explores the impact of the growing tourism industry of Siem Reap, Cambodia on marginalised children living in the city, from the children's perspective. The research scrutinises the experiences of two groups of children who regularly interact with tourists: children living in tourist supported non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and orphanages; and street-connected children who sell goods to tourists on the streets and at tourist sites outside of the city, including Angkor Wat. The research identifies three different models of tourist supported child-based NGOs, and a range of issues related to child exploitation, child protection, and children's rights within them. The performance-based orphanage model raises some significant questions related to child protection but is perceived by poor Khmer as an opportunity for their children to access food and an education. The model is also popular with the "new moral tourist" on a "child saving mission" and who have created a demand for orphans and orphanages. The second model, the village-community NGO, is funded and supported by longer term and skilled voluntourists who seek to protect children's rights within an imposed Western childhood. Children in the third model, an NGO hospitality training school and restaurant, are supported by the patronage of the moral tourist. The children in all three models faced conflicting demands imposed by their traditional culture and Western cultural norms introduced by tourists and NGO staff, as they negotiated a Khmer modernity.
Invest in training green collar workers for a greener future
Creators: name: Bedi, Gitanjali
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australians are often presented with a choice---you can either have more jobs or you can look after the environment. At least, that's what some of the political rhetoric would have you believe. But what if you could have your cake and eat it too? What if you could grow the economy while improving the environment? As the government changes some key environmental policy settings, particularly around climate change, we will need to focus on changing industries through the green training we give future workers.
From Universal History to World History. Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) and the Shaping of New Historical Paradigms
Creators: name: Chiocchetti, Filippo
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: During his lifetime tenure at Georgetown University, from 1941 to 1976, Carroll Quigley played a significant role as historian, teacher and public intellectual. His ‘holistic’ approach to ‘macrohistory’ led him to build interpretative paradigms intended to explain how changes happen in history, and to provide new periodizations more apt to account for such changes. By analysing his works and connecting them to those of other historians and social scientists – which he absorbed, challenged, and finally recast to produce an original framework – Quigley can be singled out as a transitional figure from Universal History to World History. A case study about cultural diffusion and the worldwide dynamics of modernization is eventually provided to confirm such a thesis.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Muscle Fatigue in Peripheral Arterial Disease: The role of blood flow
Creators: name: Stefanovic, Brad
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2013
Subjects: Peripheral Arterial Disease
walking tolerance
intermittent claudication
plantar flexion
muscle function
muscle fatigue
exercise blood flow
test familiarisation
revascularisation
supervised exercise therapy

description: Plantar flexion muscle function and exercise tolerance are reduced in patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD). Despite PAD being a vascular disease, both haemodynamic and non-haemodynamic factors are postulated to play a role in this decrease in plantar flexion muscle function and exercise tolerance. This thesis aimed to determine the relationship between blood flow and plantar flexion muscle function, specifically, plantar flexion endurance and the rate of fatigue in patients with PAD. This was initially assessed through comparing patients with PAD with control subjects without PAD. As PAD predominately affects older individuals, it was also important to determine the effect of healthy ageing on these factors, separating the effects of age and PAD. Furthermore, this thesis also aimed to determine the effect of revascularisation (treatment aimed at improving haemodynamic factors) and supervised exercise therapy after revascularisation on walking tolerance, plantar flexion muscle function and blood flow.
Deaf-Mutism and Savagery Through the Lens of Animal Magnetism in France During the Early Nineteenth-Century
Creators: name: Ceci, Andrea
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2020

description: The scope of the paper is to examine the role that deaf-mutism and savagery had in the debate on animal magnetism, which occurred in France in the Early Nineteenth century. In order to legitimise artificial somnambulism, magnetisers turned their attention to the deaf-mutes claiming to be able to communicate with them through the somnambulic faculty of reading the mind. The successors of Mesmer did not develop a coherent medical theory concerning deaf-mutism and most of them aimed to extend research to the origins of magnetic healing by comparing deaf-mute subjects with savages. The paper also aims to show how the travel literature integrated this association and interpreted animal magnetism as a marker of the level of civilisation of the savage populations.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol 22 (2019)
Transcript of panel discussion: The comic book film adaptation: exploring modern hollywood's leading genre
Creators: name: Burke, Liam
name: Waid, Mark
name: Brevoort, Tom
name: Uslan, Michael
name: Kelly, Joe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A panel of industry experts will unmask the golden age of comic book filmmaking. Since the success of X-Men in the summer of 2000, filmgoers and comic fans have enjoyed an unprecedented number of comic book film adaptations. Drawing on the first book-length study of this frenzied period of production, The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre by Liam Burke (Swinburne University of Technology), this panel uncovers why, after more than a century of coexistence, comics and cinema have recently become so entwined. After considering the cause, the panel will then examine the effect of this trend. Topics will include how the language of comics has influenced the aesthetics of mainstream cinema, and the ways in which comic book fans, empowered by the web, facilitated the emergence of more faithful adaptations. Panel participants include Eisner Award-winning creator Mark Waid (Kingdom Come), Marvel Comics senior vice president of publishing Tom Brevoort, executive producer of the modern Batman films Michael Uslan (Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice), and Man of Action's Joe Kelly (Ben 10, I Kill Giants), who adapted his own comics into an animated films. Chaired and presented by Liam Burke. (Transcript)