cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Changes in gene expression patterns in the tumor microenvironment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma under chemoradiotherapy depend on response
Creators: name: Doescher, Johannes
name: Von Witzleben, Adrian
name: Boukas, Konstantinos
name: Weissinger, Stephanie E.
name: Thomas, Gareth J.
name: Laban, Simon
name: Thomas, Jaya
name: Hoffmann, Thomas K.
name: Ottensmeier, Christian H.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
subject: tissue resident memory T cells
subject: gene set enrichment
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck
subject: Chemoradiotherapy
subject: Tumor microenvironment
subject: Memory T cells
subject: Plattenepithelcarcinom
subject: Kopf
subject: Hals
subject: Gedächtniszelle
subject: Radiochemotherapie

description: Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is a standard treatment for advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Unfortunately, not all patients respond to this therapy and require further treatment, either salvage surgery or palliative therapy. The addition of immunotherapy to CRT is currently being investigated and early results describe a mixed response. Therefore, it is important to understand the impact of CRT on the tumor microenvironment (TME) to be able to interpret the results of the clinical trials. Paired biopsies from 30 HNSCC patients were collected before and three months after completion of primary CRT and interrogated for the expression of 1392 immune- and cancer-related genes. There was a relevant difference in the number of differentially expressed genes between the total cohort and patients with residual disease. Genes involved in T cell activation showed significantly reduced expression in these tumors after therapy. Furthermore, gene enrichment for several T cell subsets confirmed this observation. The analysis of tissue resident memory T cells (TRM) did not show a clear association with impaired response to therapy. CRT seems to lead to a loss of T cells in patients with incomplete response that needs to be reversed. It is not clear whether the addition of anti-PD-1 antibodies alone to CRT can prevent treatment failure, as no upregulation of the targets was measurable in the TME.
Admux: An Adaptive Multiplexing Framework for Haptic-Audio-Visual Communication
Creators: name: Eid, Mohamed Ahmad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Recent trends in multimedia applications strive to incorporate multi-modal media, such as audio, video, graphics, and haptics to enhance the user's experience. Traditionally, graphic images, audio, video, text and animations define the contents used in a multimedia system. Recently, researchers have made significant progress in advanced multimedia systems by incorporating virtual reality environments, haptics, and scent into the human computer interaction paradigm. However, each media is characterized by different and sometimes conflicting communication requirements (QoS requirements) that make the communication of multiple media data a real challenge. This thesis proposes Admux, an adaptive multiplexing framework and communication protocol for multimedia applications incorporating haptic, visual, auditory, and scent data for non-dedicated networks. First, Admux provides a standard description scheme for haptic-audio-visual applications using the Haptic Applications Meta Language (HAML) to grant the application an abstract access to the networking resources. Second, Admux uses a highly adaptive multiplexing scheme that adapts according to the application requirements, the media type (haptic, audio, video, etc), and the network conditions. Finally, the proposed framework enables dynamic media prioritization based on the application requirements and events. The simulation, as well as the implementation, evaluations have shown that Admux provides dynamic bandwidth allocation based on the network conditions, media type, and application events.
title: Giardia's Epithelial Cell Interaction In Vitro
title: Mimicking Asymptomatic Infection?
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kraft, Martin R.
name: Klotz, Christian
name: Buecker, Roland
name: Schulzke, Joerg-Dieter
name: Aebischer, Toni
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Giardia
subject: giardiasis
subject: TEER
subject: barrier function, Caco-2
subject: transwell
subject: permeability
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The protozoan parasite Giardia duodenalis is responsible for more than 280 million cases of gastrointestinal complaints (“giardiasis”) every year, worldwide. Infections are acquired orally, mostly via uptake of cysts in contaminated drinking water. After transformation into the trophozoite stage, parasites start to colonize the duodenum and upper jejunum where they attach to the intestinal epithelium and replicate vegetatively. Outcome of Giardia infections vary between individuals, from self-limiting to chronic, and asymptomatic to severely symptomatic infection, with unspecific gastrointestinal complaints. One proposed mechanism for pathogenesis is the breakdown of intestinal barrier function. This has been studied by analyzing trans-epithelial electric resistances (TEER) or by indicators of epithelial permeability using labeled sugar compounds in in vitro cell culture systems, mouse models or human biopsies and epidemiological studies. Here, we discuss the results obtained mainly with epithelial cell models to highlight contradictory findings. We relate published studies to our own findings that suggest a lack of barrier compromising activities of recent G. duodenalis isolates of assemblage A, B, and E in a Caco-2 model system. We propose that this epithelial cell model be viewed as mimicking asymptomatic infection. This view will likely lead to a more informative use of the model if emphasis is shifted from aiming to identify Giardia virulence factors to defining non- parasite factors that arguably appear to be more decisive for disease.
Watching, writing and control: 'Atonement'
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: When it comes to the film version of an admired noveI, I want to suggest that it is easy to make unreasonable demands, such as a dogged adherence to character, event and idea, when it might be more reasonable to ask: what makes an exciting adaptation? How far has this particular film made something new and stimulating from the original novel? How far does it make us reconsider that original, whose quality (and qualities) remain(s) unchanged by any number of adaptations? These thoughts are suggested by the British film version of 'Atonement' (Joe Wright, 2007) and its relation to Ian McEwan's award-winning novel.
Journeys of Identity Construction After Traumatic Brain Injury: Elite Athletes Perform Their Stories of Healing
Creators: name: Smith, Claire
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapy.
subject: Education, Physical.
subject: Education, Educational Psychology.

description: It takes time and effort for individuals to construct their identities after a traumatic brain injury. As a former elite athlete who sustained a head injury in 1997, I was interested in listening to the stories told by other former elite athletes who had also suffered head injuries. The purpose of this autoethnographic study was to explore how these athletes have constructed their identities after such a life-altering event. I asked: When elite athletes sustain traumatic brain injuries, what do the athletes' performances reveal about their journeys of identity construction? To collect data, I listened to four athletes' stories, two of whom, like myself, are Olympians, and two are former professional athletes. I talked to each of the athletes over four consecutive days, carefully observing their performances as they told me stories about their lives as athletes, their accidents, their journeys of recovery after their head injuries, and their lives now. On these four days, the athletes took photos with a digital camera to illustrate their perceptions of the lives they now live. I composed illness narratives from my observations, the athletes' performances, and their photos. These illness narratives were then analysed using a lens composed of Riessman's dialogic/performance analysis and Goffman's dramaturgy. The illness narratives and their analyses provide an in-depth study of these athletes' lives after head injury. The analysis revealed that the athletes, unsurprisingly, are still performers, their identities continue to evolve, and that, for the most part, they are comfortable coping with the consequences of their head injures and content with their current lives. My hope is that these stories and the study of them offer inspiration for all survivors of head injury and their supporters.
title: Papilomas de mama: Espectro de los hallazgos en imagen con correlación radiopatológica
Creators: name: Martín Pérez, Samuel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Mammography
subject: MR
subject: Galactography
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo del trabajo es mostrar el espectro en los hallazgos de imagen de los papilomas de mama y correlacionarlos con sus rasgos...
Biodiesel production from canola oil using a membrane reactor
Creators: name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.
subject: Energy.

description: Biodiesel, a transesterified product of vegetable oil and animal fats, is considered as the most promising diesel fuel substitute because of its similar properties to petroleum-based diesel fuel. In this thesis, the miscibility of canola oil and fatty acid methyl esters (FAME or biodiesel) in methanol was determined. Results showed that FAME is miscible in pure methanol under a broad range of conditions. On the other hand, canola oil is not miscible in methanol under normal conditions. These findings led to the development of a two-phase membrane reactor to produce FAME from canola oil and methanol. The transesterification of canola oil was performed via both acid- or base-catalysis. The novel reactor enabled the separation of a FAME and methanol solution from canola oil/methanol/FAME mixtures. The two-phase membrane reactor was particularly useful in removing unreacted canola oil from the FAME product yielding high purity biodiesel. A kinetic study of the acid- and base-catalyzed transesterification of canola oil to FAME was carried out to investigate reaction rates under different temperatures and catalyst concentrations in the two-phase membrane reactor. Results showed that increases in temperature, acid concentration and feedstock (methanol/oil) flowrate significantly increased the conversion of oil to biodiesel. However, the base-catalyzed reaction resulted in the production of soaps and slight damage to the carbon membrane used in the reactor. The kinetics of the reaction were more sensitive to temperature at high acid concentration.
Use of mobile and cordless phones and change in cognitive function: A prospective cohort analysis of Australian primary school children
Creators: name: Bhatt, Chhavi Raj
name: Benke, Geza
name: Smith, Catherine L.
name: Redmayne, Mary
name: Dimitriadis, Christina
name: Dalecki, Anna
name: Macleod, Skye
name: Sim, Malcolm R.
name: Croft, Rodney J.
name: Wolfe, Rory
name: Kaufman, Jordy
name: Abramson, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520101
subject: Child and adolescent development
classificationCode: 520106
subject: Psychology of ageing
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition

description: Background: Some previous studies have suggested an association between children’s use of mobile phones (MPs)/cordless phones (CPs) and development of cognitive function. We evaluated possible longitudinal associations between the use of MPs and CPs in a cohort of primary school children and effects on their cognitive function. Methods: Data on children’s socio-demographics, use of MPs and CPs, and cognitive function were collected at baseline (2010–2012) and follow-up (2012–2013). Cognitive outcomes were evaluated with the CogHealth™ test battery and Stroop Color-Word test. The change in the number of MP/CP voice calls weekly from baseline to follow-up was dichotomized: “an increase in calls” or a “decrease/no change in calls”. Multiple linear regression analyses, adjusting for confounders and clustering by school, were performed to evaluate the associations between the change in cognitive outcomes and change in MP and CP exposures. Results: Of 412 children, a larger proportion of them used a CP (76% at baseline and follow-up), compared to a MP (31% at baseline and 43% at follow-up). Of 26 comparisons of changes in cognitive outcomes, four demonstrated significant associations. The increase in MP usage was associated with larger reduction in response time for response inhibition, smaller reduction in the number of total errors for spatial problem solving and larger increase in response time for a Stroop interference task. Except for the smaller reduction in detection task accuracy, the increase in CP usage had no effect on the changes in cognitive outcomes. Conclusion: Our study shows that a larger proportion of children used CPs compared to MPs. We found limited evidence that change in the use of MPs or CPs in primary school children was associated with change in cognitive function.
title: Impacto en la visión de la utilización prolongada de  terminales de imagen
Creators: name: Viteri, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar la patología ocular más frecuente en la población expuesta de manera prolongada a terminales de imagen,
así como en los factores implicados en su aparición y las medidas disponibles para disminuir su frecuencia e...
title: Utilización de los criterios RECIST en el seguimiento de tumores sólidos
Creators: name: Guijo Hernandez, Teresa
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Oncology

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Conocer y aplicarlos criterios RECIST 1.1 en la valoración de la respuesta tumoral a través de pruebas de...
Supplementary document for Practical sensorless aberration estimation for 3D microscopy with deep learning - 4780517.pdf
Creators: name: Weigert, Martin
name: Schmidt, Uwe
name: Zhang, Qinrong
name: Barbotin, Aurélien
name: Hu, Qi
name: Ji, Na
name: Booth, Martin
name: Myers, Eugene
name: Saha, Debayan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Notes, Tables, and Figures
The erasure of technology in cultural critique
Creators: name: Barnet, Belinda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: How can we think technology in its material specificity? Contemporary critical theory treats technology as a trope or representation rather than a physical reality in the world. The 'machine' is not just a metaphor for a particular technology, but for technology itself. And at a deeper level, this metaphor enframes technology within a semiotically constituted field. US critic Mark Hansen argues that this perspective gives us no access to the materiality of technology itself, to its impact on our embodied lives. We should abandon the systemic-semiotic approach, or at least find an alternative. In this essay I explore Hansen's argument and claim that it constructs this as a choice---we either approach technology through the body, or we approach it through language. I argue for a different reading: a reading which does not create a choice between text and materiality, text and technology---but at the same time, a reading which does not depend entirely on cognition and representation, which does not dissolve materiality into thought. I want to think technology as at once material opacity and as representation. And I believe that the elements for this can actually be found in the work of Bernard Stiegler and Jacques Derrida. I want to extricate a politics of technology that sacrifices neither side of the equation, that addresses the specificities of new media technology through the concept of the archive.
title: Evaluación prequirúrgica mediante TCMD de la atrésia del conducto auditivo externo
Creators: name: de la Pedraja Gómez-Ceballos, Iñigo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los aspectos etiológicos,
clínicos y epidemiológicos de la atresia del conducto auditivo externo. Conocer las bases fundamentales para su diagnostico radiológico y la técnica quirúrgica habitualmente empleada para su corrección...
Capillary gas chromatography of polychlorinated benzonitriles (PCBN)
Creators: name: Mittermaier, Bernhard
name: Ballschmiter, Karlheinz
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Environmental chemistry
subject: Chromatographic analysis
subject: PCBN
subject: Kapillargaschromatographie
subject: Ökologische Chemie

description: Polychlorinated benzonitriles (PCBN) are products of combustion chemistry and can be emitted from municipal waste incinerators. Their possible relevance to environmental chemistry has not previously been described, with the exception of the herbicide 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile. The isomer-specific separation and detection of the 19 PCBN congeners is performed by HRGC-ECD and HRGC-MSD. Commercially unavailable congeners were synthesized from chlorinated anilines and benzaldehydes. Retention data on three different stationary phases are given. Structure-retention relationships are discussed. A structure-specific systematic numbering of the 19 PCBN congeners is suggested.
title: Sexual behavior and factors associated with young age at first intercourse and HPV vaccine uptake among young women in Germany
title: implications for HPV vaccination policies
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Remschmidt, Cornelius
name: Fesenfeld, Michaela
name: Kaufmann, Andreas M.
name: Deleré, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background In Germany, immunization against human papillomaviruses (HPV) is free of charge for all females aged 12 to 17 years. Since HPV infection rates rise soon after first intercourse, immunization against HPV should be completed before sexual debut. Knowledge of country-specific data on age at first intercourse and related risk factors is important to optimize prevention of HPV and other sexually transmitted infections. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to describe sexual behavior in young women in Germany. Secondary aims were to identify factors that are (i) associated with younger age at first intercourse and (ii) with HPV vaccine uptake. Methods Between 2010 and 2012, we conducted a cross-sectional study among randomly selected women aged 20 to 25 years in Germany. We used a structured, self-administered questionnaire to collect sociodemographic data, information on sexual habits such as age at first intercourse, and information on HPV vaccine uptake. We used univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses to identify factors associated with younger age at first intercourse and with HPV vaccine uptake. Results A total of 823 women (response rate: 14.2%) participated, 785 (95.4%) of which reported having had intercourse already. 70% of these women experienced first intercourse before the age of 18 years. However, less than 5% were younger than 14 years at sexual debut. Younger age at first intercourse was independently associated with a higher number of sexual partners, smoking, and past pregnancies. HPV vaccine uptake was associated with higher education, whereas smoking and a migrant background reduced the chance of being vaccinated. Conclusion In Germany, only a small proportion of women experienced first intercourse before the age of 14 years. Younger age at first intercourse was associated with behavior that might increase the risk of HPV infections or other sexually transmitted infections. Therefore, to optimize the HPV vaccination strategy, HPV vaccination series should be completed before the age of 14 years in Germany.
title: Que hay en el menú?: Signos radiológicos comestibles.
Creators: name: bañales arnaiz, itziar
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Conocer aquellos signos radiológicos que por su prevalencia,
su asociación con patologías clinicamente relevantes,
y similitud con distintos productos comestibles,
son de fácil memorización y ayudan al residente a llevar a cabo un diagnostico...
Supplementary document for Blue-excitable orange-red-emitting M3Y(PO4)3:Pr3+ (M = Ba, Sr, Ca) phosphors for multifunctional applications - 7014478.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Benchun
name: sun, Haojie
name: Ding, Qingyang
name: chen, fayi
name: Zhang, Xiaoshan
name: Huang, Saifang
name: zhuang, songlin
name: Zhang, Dawei
name: Yu, Dechao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: XRD patterns, spectra, XPS spectrum, QY measurements
The gene SMART study: Method, study design, and preliminary findings
Creators: name: Yan, Xu
name: Eynon, Nir
name: Papadimitriou, Ioannis D.
name: Kuang, Jujiao
name: Munson, Fiona
name: Tirosh, Oren
name: O'Keefe, Lannie
name: Griffiths, Lyn R.
name: Ashton, Kevin J.
name: Byrne, Nuala
name: Pitsiladis, Yannis P.
name: Bishop, David J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The gene SMART (genes and the Skeletal Muscle Adaptive Response to Training) Study aims to identify genetic variants that predict the response to both a single session of High-Intensity Interval Exercise (HIIE) and to four weeks of High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). While the training and testing centre is located at Victoria University, Melbourne, three other centres have been launched at Bond University, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and the University of Brighton, UK. Currently 39 participants have already completed the study and the overall aim is to recruit 200 moderately-trained, healthy Caucasians participants (all males 18-45 y, BMI
How Blockchain Can Shape Sustainable Global Value Chains: An Evidence, Verifiability, and Enforceability (EVE) Framework
Creators: name: Nikolakis, William
name: John, Lijo
name: Krishnan, Harish
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Law, regulation, and private standards have evolved to enhance sustainability in value chains. However, the volume of hard and soft laws has created complexity and fragmentation for consumers and firms. In addition, global value chains are increasingly disaggregated, making it difficult for consumers to enforce breaches of sustainability representations. Blockchain, as an immutable and digital record keeping system, is a tool that can deal with this growing complexity in global value chains. Documents verifying sustainability that were once in the private domain and stored in paper copy can now be made accessible in a secure and transparent blockchain platform. Despite a growing interest in the potential of blockchain to transform businesses, there are few concrete examples or scholarly literature showing how blockchain is operationalized in practice. Using a “conceptual framework analysis” approach, we develop an Evidence, Verifiability, and Enforceability (EVE) framework to illustrate how blockchain can enhance sustainability by providing information to consumers on the origin of products, assurances as to the veracity of the information, and a mechanism to enforce representations through the blockchain smart contract function. However, there need to be safeguards put in place for blockchain technology to meet its promise and we discuss some of these challenges.
title: Natural Killer (NK) Cell Functionality after human Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
title: protocol of a prospective, longitudinal study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Laginha, Ines
name: Kopp, Marcel A.
name: Druschel, Claudia
name: Schaser, Klaus-Dieter
name: Brommer, Benedikt
name: Hellmann, Rick C.
name: Watzlawick, Ralf
name: Ossami-Saidi, Ramin-Raul
name: Pruess, Harald
name: Failli, Vieri
name: Meisel, Christian
name: Liebscher, Thomas
name: Prilipp, Erik
name: Niedeggen, Andreas
name: Ekkernkamp, Axel
name: Grittner, Ulrike
name: Piper, Sophie K.
name: Dirnagl, Ulrich
name: Killig, Monica
name: Romagnani, Chiara
name: Schwab, Jan M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Spinal cord injury
subject: NK cells function
subject: Immune paralysis
subject: Lesion height dependency
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Natural killer (NK) cells comprise the main components of lymphocyte-mediated nonspecific immunity. Through their effector function they play a crucial role combating bacterial and viral challenges. They are also thought to be key contributors to the systemic spinal cord injury-induced immune-deficiency syndrome (SCI-IDS). SCI-IDS increases susceptibility to infection and extends to the post-acute and chronic phases after SCI. Methods and design The prospective study of NK cell function after traumatic SCI was carried out in two centers in Berlin, Germany. SCI patients and control patients with neurologically silent vertebral fracture also undergoing surgical stabilization were enrolled. Furthermore healthy controls were included to provide reference data. The NK cell function was assessed at 7 (5–9) days, 14 days (11–28) days, and 10 (8–12) weeks post-trauma. Clinical documentation included the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale (AIS), neurological level of injury, infection status, concomitant injury, and medications. The primary endpoint of the study is CD107a expression by NK cells (cytotoxicity marker) 8–12 weeks following SCI. Secondary endpoints are the NK cell’s TNF-α and IFN-γ production by the NK cells 8–12 weeks following SCI. Discussion The protocol of this study was developed to investigate the hypotheses whether i) SCI impairs NK cell function throughout the post-acute and sub-acute phases after SCI and ii) the degree of impairment relates to lesion height and severity. A deeper understanding of the SCI-IDS is crucial to enable strategies for prevention of infections, which are associated with poor neurological outcome and elevated mortality. Trial registration DRKS00009855.
Vocal cues in the cross-cultural communication of emotion.
Creators: name: Hollander, Lynne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: This study is concerned with the accuracy of affective communication by means of voice qualities, with a special focus on cross-cultural affective transmission. Spontaneous expressions of love, anger, sadness, and happiness, elicited from three English- and three French-speaking amateur actresses, were tape-recorded. The resulting tape was passed through an electronic filter to render it content-free. The subjects were 17 English-Canadian and 17 French-Canadian female Introductory Psychology students chosen from a larger group of volunteers on the basis of specific criterion responses to a biographical questionnaire, who received two marks for participation. Using the facilities of a language laboratory, the two groups of subjects were each exposed to the instrument on two occasions, in order to ensure its reliability. Subjects recorded their judgments concerning the affective stimuli on multiple-choice response forms, and the contrasts between the responses of the two groups were compared. The significantly greater accuracy of the English subjects on overall judgment of the emotions expressed by all speakers was in a direction contrary to the first hypothesis, which predicted a superiority in the decoding ability of the French-Canadian subjects for both English- and French-language affective stimuli. The second hypothesis, which postulated the superiority in encoding of emotions by the French-Canadian speakers, was also called into question by the finding that, while the French affective stimuli were identified by both English and French subjects with a similar level of accuracy, the English-speaking subjects were significantly more accurate than the French-speaking in judgments of the English emotional expressions. Sources of significant variations are discussed, with specific consideration of the contributions of differential efficacy of vocal cues in expressing specific emotions; individual differences in ability to encode affective communications by means of voice; and the possible influence of stereotypical modes of vocal communication of emotions, either innately formed or linked to socially learned cultural expressive modes, which may differentially influence the accuracy of affective communication across cultural/linguistic barriers.
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships
Creators: name: Vetere, Frank
name: Gibbs, Martin R.
name: Kjeldskov, Jesper
name: Howard, Steve
name: Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'
name: Pedell, Sonja
name: Mecoles, Karen
name: Bunyan, Marcus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life, and many interactive technologies designed for other purposes have been appropriated for use within intimate relationships. However, there is a deficit in current understandings of how technologies are used within intimate relationships, and how to design technologies to support intimate acts. In this paper we report on work that has addressed these deficits. We used cultural probes and contextual interviews and other ethnographically informed techniques to investigate how interactive technologies are used within intimate relationships. From this empirical work we generated a thematic understanding of intimacy and the use of interactional technologies to support intimate acts. We used this understanding to inform the design of intimate technologies. A selection of our design concepts is also presented.
Supplementary document for Practical sensorless aberration estimation for 3D microscopy with deep learning - 4780517.pdf
Creators: name: Weigert, Martin
name: Schmidt, Uwe
name: Zhang, Qinrong
name: Barbotin, Aurélien
name: Hu, Qi
name: Ji, Na
name: Booth, Martin
name: Myers, Eugene
name: Saha, Debayan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Notes, Tables, and Figures
Wastewater refinery : Producing multiple valuable outputs from wastewater
Creators: name: Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid
name: Alsheyab, Mohammad A. T.
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Abwasserraffinerie
subject: Zirkulärwirtschaft
subject: Ressourcenrückgewinnung
subject: Materialflussanalyse
subject: Nährstoffrückgewinnung
subject: DDC 500 / Natural sciences & mathematics
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Abwasserreinigung
subject: Kreislaufwirtschaft

description: A wastewater refinery is a multifunctional solution that combines different technologies and processing schemes to recover a spectrum of valuable materials from municipal or industrial wastewater. The concept of wastewater refinery introduces a new perspective on wastewater treatment and management. It aims at making the most of wastewater constituents by co-producing different worthful outputs, such as water, energy, nitrogen, sulfide, and phosphorous. This can turn the treatment of wastewater from a major cost into a source of profit. The wastewater refinery approach is well aligned with the concept of the circular economy. A case study on Qatar’s wastewater revealed the potential recovery of significant quantities of valuable resources embodied in the country’s wastewater. Valorization of organic constituents and the recovery of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfide should be given priority. To facilitate the adoption of the wastewater refinery concept, research is required to explore technical and economic bottlenecks.
Supplementary document for Reconfigurable reflective arrayed waveguide grating with machine learning algorithms - 4782197.pdf
Creators: name: Vicente, Juan
name: Felip, Joan
name: Gargallo, Bernardo
name: Gomez, Jose David Domenech
name: Pastor, Daniel
name: Dominguez, Carlos
name: Munoz, Pascual
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Algorithm flow
Nobel committee honors tumor immunologists
Creators: name: Rotte, Anand
name: D’Orazi, Gabriella
name: Bhandaru, Madhuri
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: This commentary wishes to highlight the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to two cancer immunotherapy scientists, Prof James Allison and Prof Tasuku Honjo, for their discovery on unleashing the body’s immune system to attack cancer. Their studies have led to the development of an entire class of drugs that hopefully will bring lasting remissions to many patients who had run out of options.
Social mix and the cities
Creators: name: Arthurson, Kathy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The idea of balanced social mix, or creating communities with a blend of residents from different housing tenures and income levels, is of common concern for contemporary housing and planning policies in Australia, the UK and the USA. In Australia, the statebased Shelter organisations have run several workshops about the issue and in the UK the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has recently released a consultation paper on 'Planning for mixed communities'. Internationally, social mix and the related issue of neighbourhood effects have been the subject of much debate, which is reflected in the flurry of articles and special editions of major international journals. This interest is by no means new as the concept of ‘social mix’ has informed Australian, British and US new town planning policy since the post Second World War years. In general, this model of town planning anticipates benefits for disadvantaged residents of coexisting with homeowners and working residents, in balanced heterogenous communities. However, the importance placed on social mix has waxed and waned over time and the policy goals, expectations and meanings and values embedded in the concept of social mix have also varied. During the 1970s in Australia, for instance, the concept was tied to addressing poverty and achieving redistributive ideals and equity in the distribution of government resources and as a reaction against the development of mass public housing projects. At that time, social mix was thought to achieve better access to services for disadvantaged residents and also to build more stable communities.
L'étude du narrateur dans "Est-ce que je te dérange?" d'Anne Hébert
Creators: name: Després-Smyth, Dawn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: En posant au sujet d'Est-ce que je te dérange?, l'avant dernier roman d'Anne Hébert, la question " qui parle? ", nous somme rapidement forces de nous interroger sur la fiabilité et l'infaillibilité d'Édouard Morel comme narrateur. Par le biais de l'étude de la voix et du mode narratifs, ainsi que de l'aspectualisation du focalise, nous examinons le statut du narrateur et la relation corrosive qui existe entre Édouard Morel et Delphine, personnage principal du récit. Nous nous penchons également sur la position de Delphine dans le roman, à savoir si la jeune femme occupe uniquement le rôle de personnage ou si elle est également une narratrice. Nous tentons ultimement de résoudre la question posée par le titre, question que Delphine adresse à Édouard Morel dans le roman, mais à laquelle ce dernier n'a jamais la chance de répondre.
Enhanced region growing for brain tumor MR image segmentation
Creators: name: Biratu, Erena Siyoum
name: Schwenker, Friedhelm
name: Debelee, Taye Girma
name: Kebede, Samuel Rahimeto
name: Negera, Worku Gachena
name: Molla, Hasset Tamirat
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: brain MRI image
subject: tumor region
subject: skull stripping
subject: region growing
subject: U-Net
subject: BRATS dataset
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Brain neoplasms
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Medical informatics
subject: Deep learning
subject: Neuroimaging; Methods
subject: Hirntumor
subject: Computertomografie
subject: Medizinische
subject: Medizinische Informatik

description: A brain tumor is one of the foremost reasons for the rise in mortality among children and adults. A brain tumor is a mass of tissue that propagates out of control of the normal forces that regulate growth inside the brain. A brain tumor appears when one type of cell changes from its normal characteristics and grows and multiplies abnormally. The unusual growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, which can be cancerous or non-cancerous has been the reason for the death of adults in developed countries and children in under developing countries like Ethiopia. The studies have shown that the region growing algorithm initializes the seed point either manually or semi-manually which as a result affects the segmentation result. However, in this paper, we proposed an enhanced region-growing algorithm for the automatic seed point initialization. The proposed approach’s performance was compared with the state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms using the common dataset, BRATS2015. In the proposed approach, we applied a thresholding technique to strip the skull from each input brain image. After the skull is stripped the brain image is divided into 8 blocks. Then, for each block, we computed the mean intensities and from which the five blocks with maximum mean intensities were selected out of the eight blocks. Next, the five maximum mean intensities were used as a seed point for the region growing algorithm separately and obtained five different regions of interest (ROIs) for each skull stripped input brain image. The five ROIs generated using the proposed approach were evaluated using dice similarity score (DSS), intersection over union (IoU), and accuracy (Acc) against the ground truth (GT), and the best region of interest is selected as a final ROI. Finally, the final ROI was compared with different state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms and region-based segmentation algorithms in terms of DSS. Our proposed approach was validated in three different experimental setups. In the first experimental setup where 15 randomly selected brain images were used for testing and achieved a DSS value of 0.89. In the second and third experimental setups, the proposed approach scored a DSS value of 0.90 and 0.80 for 12 randomly selected and 800 brain images respectively. The average DSS value for the three experimental setups was 0.86.
Supplementary document for Reconfigurable reflective arrayed waveguide grating with machine learning algorithms - 4782197.pdf
Creators: name: Vicente, Juan
name: Felip, Joan
name: Gargallo, Bernardo
name: Gomez, Jose David Domenech
name: Pastor, Daniel
name: Dominguez, Carlos
name: Munoz, Pascual
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Algorithm flow
Endovascular versus open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms: A population-based evaluation of outcomes and resource utilization in Ontario
Creators: name: Jetty, Prasad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.
subject: Health Sciences, Surgery.

description: Objective. Two large randomized trials that compared elective EndoVascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) with open repair for non-ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) have demonstrated similar long-term mortality rates but increased costs associated with EVAR. Despite these data, the use of EVAR continues to increase in North America. There are currently very limited population-based adjusted data looking at long-term outcomes and resource utilization. Methods. All patients who underwent elective AAA repair between April 2002 and March 2007 in Ontario were identified using data from hospital discharge abstracts. ICD-10-CA and Canadian Classification of health Interventions (CCI) codes were used in a validated algorithm to identify patients who underwent either EVAR or open repair of non-ruptured AAAs. Pre-operative co-morbidities were measured using the Charlson co-morbidity index. Risk stratification into quintiles was performed using propensity score analysis. Results. Overall, 6461 patients underwent treatment of non-ruptured AAAs (N: EVAR 888; open 5573). Patients undergoing EVAR were older and had more comorbidities. The adjusted 30-day mortality was significantly lower in the EVAR group (adjusted OR= 0.34 [0.20-0.59]). The adjusted all-cause long-term mortality was similar in both groups (OR= 0.95 [0.81-1.05]). After adjustment for significant confounders, rates of imaging studies and both urgent and vascular readmissions were statistically higher in the EVAR group. However, the EVAR group had significantly shorter length of stay for the index hospitalization, all subsequent hospitalizations, and the intensive care unit. Discharge to a nursing home or other chronic care facility after the index procedure was also lower in the EVAR group (OR= 0.55 [0.41-0.0.74]). The durability of the repair of EVAR vs. open techniques as indicated by the rate of repeat interventions following the index procedure for EVAR (OR= 1.3 [0.98-1.75]) did not reach statistical significance. Conclusion. After adjusting for pre-operative risk factors, there was no difference in long-term mortality between EVAR and open repair in Ontario. The significantly lower 30-day mortality rate in EVAR patients was not sustained over longer-term follow-up. Although the utilization of imaging studies and hospitalizations was significantly higher in the EVAR group, patients undergoing open repair spent more days in hospital (including readmissions), more time in ICU, and were more likely discharged to a chronic care facility.
Environmental health surveillance in a future European health information system
Creators: name: David, Madlen
name: Joas, Anke
name: Schöpel, Miriam
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Schwedler, Gerda
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Umwelthygiene

description: Background To date Health information (HI) in the European Union does not comprise indicators or other information related to impacts of hazardous chemicals in consumer products, food, drinking water or air on the health status of the population. Therefore, we inventorised and evaluated the potential of environmental health surveillance and research data sources in the European population to provide HBM-based indicators of internal human exposure and health impact of relevant chemicals. Methods We established an up-dated inventory of European cross-sectional Human Biomonitoring (HBM) surveys and of birth cohorts, and compared chemicals and chemical groups addressed by HBM with indicators and health end points collected via European Core Health Indicators (ECHI), in birth registries, as well as in environmental and food data bases and health registries to see on how data collection could be aligned. Finally, we investigated study designs of HBM survey and health examination surveys for potential synergies. Results The inventory covers a total of 11 European cross-sectional national programmes and a large number of birth cohorts and includes information on study population, age groups, covered substances, sampled matrices, and frequency. The comparison of data collections shows that there are many overlaps between environmental chemicals with environmental and health reporting. HBM data could be linked with ECHI indicators for work-related risks, body mass index (BMI), and low birth weight, with perinatal disease, neurologic disorders, and some chronic diseases, or with data bases for e.g. indoor air, food, or consumer products. Existing initiatives to link data collections at European Environment Agency (EEA) and Joint Research Center (JRC) or at World Health Organization (WHO) are good options to further develop linkage of HBM with exposures sources and health end points. Conclusions There is potential to use HBM based information in a number of public health policies, and this would help to align reporting to international commitments. Environmental health surveillance based on HBM and HBM-based indicators, is an excellent tool to inform public health policies about risks from environmental chemicals, and the EU health information system would benefit from additional HBM-based indicators for monitoring exposure burden from environmental chemicals. Considerable efforts are needed to align and establish routine data collections and to develop a surveillance system and indicators which may inform public health policies. © The Author(s). 2018
Killing time: The experiences of Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers on leave in Britain, 1914-1919
Creators: name: Cozzi, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: History, European.

description: When Canada's entry into the First World War was announced on 4 August 1914, thousands of men rushed to volunteer. From October 1914 to late 1919 tens of thousands of Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) soldiers travelled overseas to Britain to await deployment to the Western Front. Dozens of camps were established, predominantly in southern England, where men spent time training for battle. During this time, leave was much sought after by soldiers who were eager to escape the tedium of camp life. Extended leave passes as well as weekend passes allowed men to frequent the local village and also travel to more remote locations. Men at the front were also eager to return to England, often wishing to earn a 'Blighty' in order to escape the fighting on the Western Front. Unable to journey back to Canada, for all of these men Britain became their 'home away from home.' Despite this isolation, neither the Canadian federal government nor the military authorities involved themselves in the men's off-duty time. It was left up to Canadian volunteers to help support the men. It was in this spirit that the King George and Queen Mary Maple Leaf Club was established. Founded by Lady Julia Drummond, a Montreal philanthropist, the Canadian-only Maple Leaf Club catered to the men's many social and recreational needs. Founded upon middle-class moral standards, and promoting the virtues of Canadian nationalism and British imperialism, this, and other privately funded clubs, embodied the notion of public patriotism of the time. As such, these social clubs also symbolize elements of early twentieth-century Canadian social and political culture. Soldiers' leave time also allowed some men an opportunity to reconnect with distant relatives. As a large percentage of CEF soldiers were of British ancestry, quite a number of men were able to visit family still residing in Britain. For others, leave was an occasion to travel the country as tourists. These soldier-tourists journeyed throughout the British Isles, visiting as many tourist sites and popular landmarks as possible, often returning to camp exhausted from their adventures. This off-duty time helped shape Canadian soldiers' experiences of the First World War, yet these experiences are overlooked in the Canadian historiography. Seeking to fill this void, this thesis aims to contribute to a more thorough understanding of the CEF men's time overseas.