cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pollination effects on strawberry fruit quality
Creators: name: Cao, Dinh Dung
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: berry
calcium
cross-polination
fruit quality
near-infrared spectroscopy
nutrients
pollen parent
self-compatibility
xwnia

description: Cross-pollination affects the fruit characteristics of many crops, but little was known previously about the effects of cross-pollination on strawberry fruit quality. This thesis aimed to evaluate the effects of cross-pollination on yield and fruit quality of the strawberry cultivar, Redlands Joy. The thesis also evaluated the potential of hyperspectral imaging to estimate plant nutrient status and predict fruit yield. In particular, the thesis aimed to:
description: (1) evaluate the effects of manual cross-pollination with either Rubygem or Sugarbaby pollen, when compared with manual self-pollination or unassisted selfpollination (autogamy), on fruit yield and fruit quality when all flowers on each plant received either cross-pollen or self-pollen;
description: (2) evaluate the effects of cross-pollination on fruit mass and fruit quality when both cross-pollinated and self-pollinated fruit developed on the same plant;
description: (3) determine the consistency of cross-pollination effects on fruit mass and fruit quality across different levels of plant calcium nutrition;
description: (4) identify at what developmental stages cross-pollinated fruit differ in mass and quality from self-pollinated fruit, and whether differences in the mass of fruit are caused by differential accumulation of mineral nutrients; and
description: (5) assess hyperspectral imaging as a technique to rapidly estimate macronutrient concentrations in strawberry leaves, flowers and fruit and to predict yield.
description: Cross-pollination by either Rubygem or Sugarbaby did not affect Redlands Joy fruit yield or individual fruit mass significantly when cross-pollinated fruit and selfpollinated fruit developed on different plants. However, cross-pollinated fruit were 4.2– 7.5 % heavier than self-pollinated fruit when both types of fruit competed for resources on the same plant. Differences in mass and size between cross-pollinated and selfpollinated fruit occurred temporarily during early fruit development but emerged mainly during the final week of fruit ripening. The effects of cross-pollination on fruit mass and size were not the result of differences in mineral nutrient accumulation between crosspollinated and self-pollinated fruit.
Additional file 3 of Repeated measures of Heparin-binding protein (HBP) and procalcitonin during septic shock: biomarker kinetics and association with cardiovascular organ dysfunction
Creators: name: Tverring, Jonas
name: Nielsen, Niklas
name: Dankiewicz, Josef
name: Linder, Adam
name: Kahn, Fredrik
name: Åkesson, Per
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Stata code.
The Serotonergic System as a Target for Neuroendocrine Disruption in the Brain of Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Creators: name: Mennigen, Jan A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: neuroendocrinology
goldfish
serotonin
reproduction
SSRI
pharmaceutical
aquatic toxicology
growth
feeding

description: Serotonin stimulates reproduction and inhibits feeding/growth in the neuroendocrine brain of goldfish. The objective of this thesis is to study the effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor pharmaceuticals (SSRIs) on these systems, as SSRIs, such as fluoxetine, are detected in effluent and bioconcentrate in the brain of wild fish. Genes of the serotonin system were cloned to identify molecular conservation, seasonal expression, and tissue distribution. The serotonin transporter, the target molecule of fluoxetine, was highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed in goldfish. Seasonal changes of hypothalamic gene expression of the serotonin transporter support a role in the seasonal modulation of both processes. Fluoxetine injection experiments were used to assess effects on reproductive endpoints and to identify molecular mechanisms in the neuroendocrine brain. Fluoxetine inhibited serum estradiol concentrations in female goldfish and decreased isotocin mRNA abundance in the hypothalamus and telencephalon. Isotocin injections stimulated circulating estradiol concentrations, providing a causal link. Evidence for an involvement of serotonin in isotocin regulation was investigated using immunocytochemistry and 5-HT1A receptor agonists and antagonists. A close proximity of serotonin fibers and isotocin cell bodies and fibers was found in the telencephalon and pituitary,respectively. Injection of a 5-HT1A receptor antagonist inhibited isotocin mRNA expression in the telencephalon. Identified gene targets were investigated in waterborne fluoxetine exposures,including environmental concentrations. Waterborne fluoxetine led to a reduction in basal and pheromone-stimulated milt volume in male goldfish. Gene expression evidence indicated a central inhibitory effect of fluoxetine through the decrease in mRNA abundance of follicle-stimulating hormone in the pituitary and isotocin in the telencephalon. Feeding rate and weight decreased in fluoxetine-injected goldfish, indicating an anorexigenic effect. Fluoxetine induced changes in the gene expression of the feeding peptides neuropeptide Y, corticotropin-releasing factor, and cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript-I in the hypothalamus and telencephalon. Waterborne exposure to fluoxetine validated the anorexigenic effect in goldfish and was correlated with increased expression of corticotropin-releasing factor mRNA, an anorectic peptide. The thesis provides evidence for disrupting effects of fluoxetine on neuroendocrine control of reproductive function and feeding/growth in goldfish, partially at environmental concentrations. The thesis provides the framework for the investigation of existing aquatic contaminants which modulate the serotonin system.
Integration of Cu extraction and Zn electrowinning processes for energy storage
Creators: name: Deen, K. M.
name: Asselin, Edouard
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: The main objective of this study is to integrate two energy-intensive metallurgical processes, Cu extraction from CuFeS₂ and Zn electrowinning, into a battery-like device that could incentivize renewable energy use at remote mining locations. In this device, Cu extraction and Zn electrowinning occur simultaneously during the charge cycle. During discharge, the device, referred to as a trifunctional battery (TFB), can supply back to an electrical circuit a portion of the stored energy. The re-dissolution of Zn during discharge and reversible reactions at a chalcopyrite slurry electrode are responsible for this energy release. The high initial specific energy (388 Wh– g –¹ at 0.5 C discharge rate) registered by this setup decreased to ≈50 Wh–g –¹ during the initial 15 galvanostatic charge ̸discharge cycles and remained almost constant in the subsequent 85 cycles. The low coulombic (≈50%) and energy efficiencies (≈40%) demonstrated by the TFB occurred at maximum (23%) Cu extraction from CuFeS₂. A feature of the TFB is that the normally unwanted irreversible reactions that occur in traditional batteries are in fact desirable in the TFB, i.e., they lead to valuable Cu extraction in addition to energy storage.
Giovanni Boniolo - Il pulpito e la piazza. Democrazia, deliberazione e scienze della vita
Creators: name: Cozzi, Mattia
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2012

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 3, N° 2 (2012): Etica
Nitrogen Removal in a Prawn Farm Effluent Treatment System Containing Secondary Crops and Artificial Substrates
Creators: name: Erler, Dirk
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2004
Subjects: prawn farming
effluent treatment

description: Prawn farming effluent nitrogen is a potential polluter of coastal waterways. Consequently, environmental regulators are placing increasingly stringent discharge limitations on farmers, fuelling research into the development of cost-effective effluent treatment options. One such treatment option involves the cultivation of secondary, often detritivorous, crops (fish, prawns) in the presence of vertically deployed artificial substrates. Secondary crops could valuably assimilate effluent nutrients while the artificial substrate should improve bacterial effluent remediation processes, such as denitrification and nitrogen assimilation. Artificial substrates may also improve water quality and detritivore growth in systems containing detritivores. Furthermore, detritivorous secondary crops may improve substrate associated nutrient removal processes. The combination of substrates and secondary crops therefore, may enhance nutrient removal relative to their singular effects. The investigations outlined in this thesis have provided new knowledge regarding the cultivation of secondary crops in prawn farm effluent treatment systems containing artificial substrates. Detritivorous mullet assimilated effluent nutrients, and, artificial substrates improved both water quality and fish growth. At optimised C:N ratios, banana prawns were found to stimulate nitrogen assimilation and mullet enhanced substrate biofilm denitrification. Both grey mullet and banana prawns showed the potential to stimulate bacterial effluent remediation by increasing bacterial growth rates. The herbivorous S. Nebulosus, and to a lesser degree M. cephalus, showed they could be effective at harvesting, and assimilating, opportunistic macroalgae during effluent treatment.
Dynamic Jump Analysis and the Contributions of Lower Limb Kinematics
Creators: name: Eagles, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: ankle
athletic monitoring
biomechanics
concentric phase
counter movement jump
eccentric phase
ground reaction force
hip
kinematics
kinetics
knee
phase identification
rate of force development
standing broad jump
standing vertical jump
talen

description: Analysis of various dynamic jumping movements is a common modality used in a range of populations including patients with acute musculoskeletal injury, chronic disease conditions and elite athletes. There is confidence within the scientific community with regard to many of the variables extracted from the analysis of dynamic jumping movements. However considerable variation exists within the literature with respect to the methodologies used to extract these important variables. An understanding of the contributions of lower limb kinematics in dynamic jumping and the implications thereof on dynamic jump performance are limited. Therefore, the primary aim of this thesis was to assess the optimal method of dynamic jump analysis and the hip, knee and ankle kinematic contributions. To achieve this, simultaneous force platform and motion capture system analysis were performed to obtain detailed force, kinetic and kinematic data of the hip, knee and ankle in the execution of the standing vertical jump (SVJ) and the standing broad jump (SBJ). The secondary aims were to clarify the ambiguity surrounding the analysis of the SVJ (with a counter movement) when using force platform data and to compare the SVJ and SBJ movements. A series of four separate publications in peer-reviewed journals collectively address the aims of the thesis.
Sergio Filippo Magni - Il relativismo etico. Analisi e teorie del pensiero contemporaneo
Creators: name: Sbardolini, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2012

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 3, N° 2 (2012): Etica
Refocusing Prevention Practices: From Risk-Based Towards Social Developmental Measures
Creators: name: Sorinmade, Ibukun
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Risk factors
Crime prevention through social development
Risk-based prevention

description: In exploring current responses to crime, particularly youth involvement in gangs, this thesis examines two approaches: Crime Prevention through Social Development (CPSD) and risk-based prevention. The former is associated with the provision of socially-designed measures to address and eliminate the risk factor associated with persistent offending. The latter, however, refers to the implementation of risk management and statistical assessment to manage the risk factor associated with persistent offending. In light of these two approaches, this thesis examines a debate which purported that crime prevention practices has wholly shifted away from an emphasis on CPSD towards risk-based prevention. This thesis also examines the opposing debate which explains that CPSD and risk-based prevention have emerged into a balanced approach. Taking into account 19 youth gang prevention projects in Canada, the above debates are investigated. Drawing from the analysed project, this thesis concludes that, the crime prevention practices of the analyzed projects significantly rely on risk-based prevention. As a result, the approaches of CPSD still exist in rhetoric and in practice however, its influence on crime prevention initiatives is very limited. Hence, current approaches neither reflect a total shift away from CPSD nor a balanced approach.
Predictable Changes in Abundance, Composition, and Size Structure of Fish and Macroinvertebrates Along an Urbanization Gradient in the Ottawa-Gatineau Area
Creators: name: Duhaime, Johannie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Total imperviousness
Effective imperviousness
Urbanization
Land use changes
Macroinvertebrates
Fish
Periphyton chlorophyll a
Water Quality
Size spectra
Threshold

description: As land use transformations are the main driver of biological diversity loss at the global scale, it is essential to provide predictions and understanding of their impacts in order to improve the mitigation of ecosystem perturbations. The first objective of this project was to describe the response of biological assemblages along a gradient of urbanization and to compare metrics of watershed imperviousness in order to determine, as has been suggested in the literature, whether effective imperviousness, which represents the proportion of impervious area directly connected to the stream by storm sewers, is a better predictor of stream impairement than total imperviousness in the watershed. Decline in sensitive taxa abundance is initiated at 14% total imperviousness and 3% effective imperviousness in the Ottawa-Carleton region and, total and effective imperviousness have equivalent predictive power. The second objective of this project was to describe how the structure of metazoan assemblages in urban streams, as described by size spectra attributes (i.e. slopes, intercepts, number of logarithmic size classes occupied, and residual variance), varies with watershed size, land use and water quality. Streams size spectra of the Ottawa-Gatineau region have relatively shallow slopes, reflecting relatively higher densities of organisms in the larger size classes compared to other ecosystem types (e.g. lakes, oceans, soils, coastal waters). Size spectra slopes, density corrected for size, number of size classes, and residual variance vary predictably along gradients of watershed size, watershed proportion of natural land use and periphyton chlorophyll a. A systematic trend of declining spectra slopes with increasing periphyton biomass suggests that ecological efficiency declines in urban eutrophic streams.
Additional file 1 of Examining determinants of gender attitudes: evidence among Tanzanian adolescents
Creators: name: Palermo, Tia
name: Chzhen, Yekaterina
name: Balvin, Nikola
name: Lusajo Kajula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
Storming the reality studio: electrobricollage and popular culture
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Tofts attempts to redefine that which is commonly known as 'new media art', as he believes it is out of touch with what's actually going on in digital culture. He refers to a range of contemporary Australian artists utilising digital media to explore some of the ways old material is appropriated and remediated to present works that are new and unique. Amongst those are Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Murray McKeich, Ian Haig, Nicholas Negroponte, David Carson, James Widdowson, Gregory Baldwin, Elena Popa, Greg O'Connor,Troy Innocent, Rebecca Young, Andrew Trevillian and Tina Gonsalvas.
Additional file 2 of A novel positive feedback-loop between the HTLV-1 oncoprotein Tax and NF-κB activity in T-cells
Creators: name: Millen, Sebastian
name: Meretuk, Lina
name: Göttlicher, Tim
name: Schmitt, Sarah
name: Fleckenstein, Bernhard
name: Thoma-Kress, Andrea K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Expression of the NF-κB deficient Tax mutant M22 is rescued by co-expression of IKK2-EE in CCRF-CEM and Molt-4 T-cells.
Supplementary document for X-ray Source Translation Based Computed Tomography (STCT) - 5284217.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Haijun
name: Lei, Li
name: Chuandong, Tan
name: Liu, Fenglin
name: Zhou, Rifeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: S1. Analysis of maximum translation distance of source;S2. Analysis of the number of translations in mSTCT
Additional file 1 of A novel positive feedback-loop between the HTLV-1 oncoprotein Tax and NF-κB activity in T-cells
Creators: name: Millen, Sebastian
name: Meretuk, Lina
name: Göttlicher, Tim
name: Schmitt, Sarah
name: Fleckenstein, Bernhard
name: Thoma-Kress, Andrea K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. NF-κB deficient Tax mutants are functional and expressed on equal protein levels in HEK-293T cells.
Malachite Green in Suspended Particulate Matter and Surface Sediments in Germany
Creators: name: Ricking, Mathias
name: Schwarzbauer, Jan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: Malachitgrün wird neben der Verwendung als Farbstoff als Tierarzneimittel in der Zierfischzucht eingesetzt. Aufgrund seiner potenziellen Karzinogenität ist eine Anwendung in der kommerziellen Speisefischzucht in der EU verboten, dennoch sind Kontaminationen von Speisefisch publiziert. Aus diesem Grund wurden Schwebstoffe der Umweltprobenbank des Bundes (UPB-UBA) aus den Jahren 2007 und 2010 sowie Oberflächensedimente aus dem Berliner Raum, die dem Zeitraum 2010-11 entsprechen, hinsichtlich Malachtgrün und Leukomalachitgrün, dem reduzierten Metaboliten, untersucht. Es wurde nur Malachitgrün mit bis zu 543 ng/g Trockensubstanz bei insgesamt gestiegenen Gehalten in den Proben aus dem Jahre 2010 nachgewiesen. Die Proben aus dem Berliner Raum, die durch Klärwerkseinleitungen geprägt sind, wiesen moderate Kontaminationen auf. Die Arbeiten belegen eine Kontamination von Schwebstoffen und Oberflächensedimenten und eine Persistenz von Malachitgrün unter anoxischen Bedingungen.
Quelle: http://www.umweltprobenbank.de/
Filosofi del linguaggio a Gargnano
Creators: name: Casati, Pietro Angelo
name: Cepollaro, Bianca
name: Scotti, Davide
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior
Year: 2012

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica - Junior, Vol 3, N° 2 (2012): Etica
Additional file 4 of A novel positive feedback-loop between the HTLV-1 oncoprotein Tax and NF-κB activity in T-cells
Creators: name: Millen, Sebastian
name: Meretuk, Lina
name: Göttlicher, Tim
name: Schmitt, Sarah
name: Fleckenstein, Bernhard
name: Thoma-Kress, Andrea K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. NF-κB activity is important for Tax protein expression.
'Lepidoptera': An exploration of the relationship between narcissism, social networking and violence in teens
Creators: name: Maguire, Lynette
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: narcissism
social networking
violence
desensitisation
teen behaviour
teen bullying
teen suicide

description: The intent of this Doctorate of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) is to creatively address the research questions: What is the relationship between narcissism, social networking and violence? How can that relationship be evidenced in a young adult (YA) novella? An analysis into current YA fiction reveals that very few published Australian novels respond to how social networking affects teen narcissism and violence, or how these three components interact to foster maladaptive behaviours. The purpose of the creative artefact-the original novella 'Lepidoptera'-is to respond to this lacuna. The novella, set in Queensland's Sunshine Coast, portrays the complex trinity of social networking, narcissism and violence and its effects on teens. 'Lepidoptera' is a polyphonic, epistolary novella with disjunctive narratives and postmodern scraps underpinned by the extended metaphor of the butterfly.
A methodology for investigating evaluation models for functional programs.
Creators: name: Radonjic, Vojislav.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The central aspect of implementing a functional programming language is the design of an evaluation model: an abstract view of how the underlying machine executes functional programs. To make informed decisions in designing an evaluation model, the implementation designer needs to have a good understanding of mechanisms constituting the available evaluation models and their relationship to functional programming and computer architecture. This thesis provides one way of arriving at that understanding through analyzing the execution behavior of a set of functional programs on implementations based on two contrasting evaluation models: an environment one and a reduction one. The essential difference between the environment and reduction evaluation models, is that the former centralizes the dynamic context$\sp1$ while the latter distributes it. The consequences of choosing either to centralize or distribute the dynamic context are studied using data on execution behavior of functional programs. In the experimental part of the thesis, environment and reduction evaluators are built and instrumented to generate execution profiles, which contain measures of computational resource usage. It is demonstrated how the execution profiles can be used to compute costs incurred by the two evaluators. ftn $\sp1$In general, the dynamic context of a computation is that part of the overall context which changes during a computation and, therefore, reflects the progress of the computation.
Accessibility, cultural affiliation and Indian reserve labour force development in Canada.
Creators: name: Hoermann, Lesley.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Anthropology, Cultural.

description: The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the labour force development of Indian reserves in Canada and their physical accessibility to off-reserve communities designated as service centres. The second goal is to examine the relationship between the traditional cultural affiliation of reserves and their labour force development. The diffusionist and dependency development paradigms are considered to place the role of accessibility and cultural affiliation into the context of reserve development. A review of the literature investigating the influence of physical accessibility upon reserve development follows. The traditional Indian culture areas of Canada are introduced, as are the rationale for investigating the roles of these two factors in reserve development. The reserves were then classified into six samples representing cultural affiliation. These are the Iroquoian, Algonkian, Plains, Mackenzie River, Plateau, and Pacific Coast culture areas. Lastly, two culture areas are examined to gain further insight into the nature of differences amongst reserves falling into the same access category. Levels of education and mother tongues spoken in the Algonkian and Pacific Coast culture areas are compared to this end. In conclusion, the major differences amongst the samples are highlighted in terms of the hypotheses posed in this research. Some further avenues of inquiry are then suggested for future research. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for X-ray Source Translation Based Computed Tomography (STCT) - 5284217.pdf
Creators: name: Yu, Haijun
name: Lei, Li
name: Chuandong, Tan
name: Liu, Fenglin
name: Zhou, Rifeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: S1. Analysis of maximum translation distance of source;S2. Analysis of the number of translations in mSTCT
An innovative approach to the seismic assessment of non-structural components in buildings
Creators: name: Lam, Nelson
name: Gad, Emad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The analysis and design of structural systems to comply with life safety requirements have been the main thrust of earthquake engineering research. As community expectations increase, there has been increasing attention to address potential economic losses resulted from earthquakes. The economical impact associated with damage to non-structural building components in recent earthquake events has been found to exceed those associated with structural damage. In this paper, the economic significance of earthquake induced nonstructural damage and the limitations of current design methodology is discussed. An alternative assessment approach based on considering acceleration, velocity and displacement is introduced and explained by relating to fundamental principles. The merit of this approach in making simple and realistic assessments for regions of low and moderate seismic activity is demonstrated. Whilst the new methodology is yet to be fully developed, the innovative concept presented is original and has never been published previously.
Modeling SARS-CoV-2 infection and Covid-19 hospitalization rates for symptomatic pregnant women, Canada and British Columbia, 2020
Creators: name: Joseph, K. S.
name: Boutin, Amélie
name: John, Sid
name: Muraca, Giulia
name: Razaz, Neda
name: Lisonkova, Sarka
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

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Weaving the quilt: a qualitative study of mature age people’s perceptions and experiences of employment-related age discrimination
Creators: name: Redman, June
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: employment-related mature age discrimination
experience of workplace age discrimination
ageism at work
older workers
gender discrimination
stereotyping
workplace ageism
older job-seekers

description: In Australia the labour participation rate for people aged fifty to sixty-four years is much lower than that in other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including Japan, Sweden, the United States and New Zealand. A recent government report noted that, if Australia had the same mature-age participation rate of New Zealand in 2012, the gross domestic product (GDP) in Australia would have been 4% higher. Studies into the reasons behind Australia's low participation rate found age discrimination and negative stereotyping of older people can adversely affect the ability of mature age people to participate in the workforce. To address the issue of an ageing population and the low participation rate of older people in the workforce due to age discrimination, the Federal Parliament enacted the Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth) (the Act). The Act prohibits direct and indirect age discrimination in areas including work. Despite the Act workforce participation rates of mature age people have not increased significantly since 2004.
Quantum information theoretic approach to the hard problem of consciousness
Creators: name: Georgiev, Danko D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Functional theories of consciousness, based on emergence of conscious experiences from the execution of a particular function by an insentient brain, face the hard problem of consciousness of explaining why the insentient brain should produce any conscious experiences at all. This problem is exacerbated by the determinism characterizing the laws of classical physics, due to the resulting lack of causal potency of the emergent consciousness, which is not present already as a physical quantity in the deterministic equations of motion of the brain. Here, we present a quantum information theoretic approach to the hard problem of consciousness that avoids all of the drawbacks of emergence. This is achieved through reductive identification of first-person subjective conscious states with unobservable quantum state vectors in the brain, whereas the anatomically observable brain is viewed as a third-person objective construct created by classical bits of information obtained during the measurement of a subset of commuting quantum brain observables by the environment. Quantum resource theory further implies that the quantum features of consciousness granted by quantum no-go theorems cannot be replicated by any classical physical device.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures
Critiquing the Capacity of Local Government to Respond to Complex Sustainability Challenges: Two Food Security Case Studies
Creators: name: Slade, Christine
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2014
Subjects: food security
local government
capacity
capacity building partnerships
capacity assessment framework
task network
fit
problem of fit
adaptive institutional capacity
value-changing feedback loops
strategically-focused capacity building

description: A new agenda of non-mandated human service needs demand local government's attention. Food security exemplifies these complex and multi-level sustainability challenges that are not clearly defined, articulated or addressed. This research examines how the fit (or misfit) between government levels influences local government's capacity to respond to this challenge. A constructivism ontology and epistemology, explored through a case study methodology and corresponding qualitative data collection methods (in-depth interviews, primary document analysis and secondary data analysis), provides an appropriate platform to explore the multiple perceptions about this fit. The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation's Food For All program (2005-2010) and the Victorian Department of Health's Food Access and Food Security Policy Development project (2009-2011) are used as case study exemplars to explore these concerns. A heuristic capacity assessment framework, synthesised and expanded from scholarly literature, analyses the relationships between the external environment and internal organisational capacity of local government, as mediated by capacity building partnerships. The research found that while strategically designed capacity building partnerships can build local government capacity to respond to complex sustainability challenges, gains in capacity are significantly overshadowed by the lack of internal and external fit between government levels that limits local government's capacity to respond. This thesis argues that implementing feedback loops for local government to share its valuable experience and knowledge with higher government levels would improve fit and strengthen institutional capacity. It further argues that tensions between increasing capacity and role discovery need to be resolved so that local government can improve its performance and reinforce its identity as it adopts responsive roles. Such resolution requires the support of council leadership and senior management and the facilitation of integrated planning across departments. This research contributes new knowledge about the relationship between institutional capacity, local government and food security.
title: Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel für Textilien
title: Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel für Textilien
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jäger, Ismene
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Produktkennzeichnung
subject: Umweltzeichen
subject: Textilien
subject: Textilproduktion
subject: Naturfaser
subject: Kunstfaser
subject: Blauer Engel
subject: Vergabekriterien
subject: Textilherstellung
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Im Rahmen des durchgeführten Vorhabens (Teilleistung des Rahmenvorhabens "Weiterentwicklung des Umweltzeichens Blauer Engel, 2014-2018") wurde die bestehende Vergabegrundlage des Umweltzeichens "Textilien" im Rahmen einer Revision überprüft und neben einer Ausweitung und Konkretisierung des Geltungsbereiches gezielt in einzelnen Anforderungsbereichen weiterentwickelt. Die neue Vergabegrundlage wurde 2017 als DE-UZ 154 veröffentlicht. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Within the framework of the project carried out (partial service of the framework project "Advancement of the ecolabel Blue Angel, 2014-2018"), the existing award criteria for the eco-label "Textiles" were reviewed as part of a revision and, in addition to extending and specifying the scope of application, further developed in a target-oriented manner in specific requirement areas. The new award criteria were published in 2017 as DE-UZ 154. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Dieser Hintergrundbericht dokumentiert die Ableitung von Vergabekriterien für das Umweltzeichen Blauer Engel für Textilien (DE-UZ 154) im Rahmenvorhaben „Weiterentwicklung des Umweltzeichens Blauer Engel, Rahmenvorhaben 2014-2018“. Bei der Produktgruppe Textil handelt es sich um einen wichtigen Konsumartikel. Da es bei der Textilherstellung viele umweltrelevante Prozesse von der Rohstofferzeugung bis zur Endfertigung gibt, ist es besonders wichtig, Kriterien für Textilien zu entwickeln, um die nachhaltige Produktion zu fördern. Mit dem Blauen Engel steht ein Umweltzeichen zur Verfügung, dass neben Naturfasern auch Kunstfasern adressiert. Im Jahr 2016 betrug die Weltproduktion an Fasern 24 Prozent Baumwolle, 1 Prozent Wolle und 75 Prozent chemische Fasern. In Westeuropa betrug die Produktion chemischer Fasern rund 2,8 Millionen Tonnen, in Deutschland 641.000 Tonnen, davon entfielen 72 Prozent auf chemische Fasern. Die bisherigen Vergabekriterien wurden um Anforderungen an technische bzw. funktionelle Textilien, Bettwaren und Reinigungstextilien sowie Recyclingfasern erweitert. Auch gibt es nun Anforderungen an den Herstellungsprozess von Laminaten und Membranen, um dem wachsenden Markt der Funktionsbekleidung zu begegnen. Darüber hinaus wurden Kriterien für Füllmaterialien – Latex, Polyurethan, Polylactid sowie Daunen und Federn - definiert.
Additional file 3 of A novel positive feedback-loop between the HTLV-1 oncoprotein Tax and NF-κB activity in T-cells
Creators: name: Millen, Sebastian
name: Meretuk, Lina
name: Göttlicher, Tim
name: Schmitt, Sarah
name: Fleckenstein, Bernhard
name: Thoma-Kress, Andrea K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Expression of Tax and the NF-κB deficient Tax mutant M22 is not altered by induction of NF-κB signaling with TNF-α.
I progetti per l’introduzione del divorzio in Italia in epoca post-unitaria
Creators: name: Franceschi, Fabio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione.SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. Cenni sulla legislazione matrimoniale nell’Italia preunitaria – 3. L’introduzione del matrimonio civile nella codificazione unitaria del 1865 e la questione del divorzio – 4. I primi fermenti divorzisti: i progetti Morelli (1878-1880) – 5. Il progetto Villa del 1881 – 6. Il progetto Zanardelli del 1883 – 7. Il divorzio sul finire del XIX secolo: un problema aperto – 8. Il secondo progetto Villa (1892) – 9. Il terzo progetto Villa (1892-1893) – 10. L’inizio del nuovo secolo e il rinnovato entusiasmo divorzista. Il progetto Berenini-Borciani (1901) – 11. Il progetto Zanardelli-Cocco Ortu (1902) – 12. Il divorzio nel periodo giolittiano e il progetto Comandini (1914) – 13. Il progetto Marangoni-Lazzari (1920): fine di un’epoca – 14. Considerazioni conclusive.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 12 novembre
Ecological Responses to Threats in an Evolutionary Context: Bacterial Responses to Antibiotics and Butterfly Species’ Responses to Climate Change
Creators: name: Fitzsimmons, James
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: biodiversity
climate change
butterflies
Canada
antibiotic resistance
macroecology
Lepidoptera
phylogenetic signal
species range shifts

description: Humans are generally having a strong, widespread, and negative impact on nature. Given the many ways we are impacting nature and the many ways nature is responding, it is useful to study responses in an integrative context. My thesis is focused largely (two out of the three data chapters) on butterfly species’ range shifts consistent with modern climate change in Canada. I employed a macroecological approach to my research, drawing on methods and findings from evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, conservation biology, and natural history. I answered three main research questions. First, is there a trade-off between population growth rate (rmax) and carrying capacity (K) at the mutation scale (Chapter 2)? I found rmax and K to not trade off, but in fact to positively co-vary at the mutation scale. This suggests trade-offs between these traits only emerge after selection removes mutants with low resource acquisition rates (i.e., unhealthy genotypes), revealing trade-offs between remaining genotypes with varied resource allocation strategies. Second, did butterfly species shift their northern range boundaries northward over the 1900s, consistent with climate warming (Chapter 3)? Leading a team of collaborators, we found that most butterfly species’ northern range boundaries did indeed shift northward over the 1900s. But range shift rates were slower than those documented in the literature for more recent time periods, likely reflecting the weaker warming experienced in the time period of my study. Third, were species’ rates of range shift related to their phylogeny (Chapter 3) or traits (Chapter 4)? I found no compelling relationships between rates of range shift and phylogeny or traits. If certain traits make some species more successful at northern boundary range expansion than others, their effect was not strong enough to emerge from the background noise inherent in the broad scale data set I used.
I diversi modelli di finanziamento pubblico: uno sguardo d’insieme
Creators: name: Pistolesi, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, riproduce, con l’aggiunta delle note, il testo della relazione svolta al Convegno organizzato dall'Istituto Internazionale di Diritto canonico e diritto comparato delle religioni della Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano sul tema “Il finanzamento pubblico delle Chiese: sguardi incrociati tra Svizzera ed Europa” (Lugano, 13-14 settembre 2012), ed è destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti.SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. Il sistema dell’imposta ecclesiastica – 3. L’assegnazione di una quota del gettito fiscale – 4. Erogazioni dirette a favore delle confessioni religiose - 5. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 12 novembre
Profiles of Teacher Burnout During One School Year and Relations to Student Classroom Experiences
Creators: name: Zhu, Bo
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The study was conducted to understand teacher’s experience of burnout and its course, in addition to how burnout is related to classroom factors and student experiences. I used a person-centered approach, which accounted for all three burnout dimensions (i.e., emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low perceived accomplishment), to characterize different patterns of burnout and investigate the various changes of burnout patterns from fall to spring over a school year. I conducted secondary analysis of survey data collected from 52 5th grade teachers and 693 of their students as part of a larger efficacy trial. The study’s results provide evidence that teachers experience burnout in various ways, as characterized by distinct profiles. Additionally, the results extend the existing evidence of teacher burnout stability at the sample level and indicate some degree of within-subject variability from fall to spring. Furthermore, the results add to the existing variable-centered literature on teacher burnout and provide evidence about the relations of teacher burnout patterns to teacher perceived conflict with students, student-reported teacher discipline, and student cognitive engagement. Moreover, the study’s results highlight four limitations in the research on teacher burnout, regarding the application of the three-dimensional model to teachers, appropriateness of burnout subscales and items, reliance on one-time point data, and reliance on survey methods, respectively. For all future interventions designed to address teacher burnout, the study’s person-centered approach to characterizing teacher burnout patterns can provide a useful tool that helps interventions tailor their supports to be responsive to the needs of teachers in specific profiles.
Young people and housing
Creators: name: Burke, Terry
name: Pinkney, Sarah
name: Ewing, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: For young people, more than any other household type, decisions about housing are closely linked to employment and education. We therefore need to know whether the housing market is working in a way that encourages or at least helps make it possible, for young people to continue their education or to gain work after commencing independent living.
Sur la reconnaissance de la compétence exclusive des groupements religieux afin d‘instaurer leur structure intrinsèque et les normes intérieures des relations en tant qu’une des garanties ...
Creators: name: Ryabykh, Philip
name: Ponkin, Igor
name: Ponkina, Alena
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Version étendue de la déclaration de l'Eglise orthodoxe russe, en tant que tierce partie dans l’affaire «Syndicat “Le Bon Pasteur” c. Roumanie» (requête 2330/09), envoyée à la Grande Chambre de la Cour européenne des droits de l'hommeSOMMAIRE: 1. Brève histoire de l’affaire – 2. Préambule – 3. Protection de la compétence exclusive des groupements religieux en vue d’instaurer leur structure intrinsèque et les normes intérieures des relations au point de vue de la législation de la Roumanie – 4. Application du principe de l’autonomie des groupements religieux et du principe de l’inadmissibilité d’intervenir pour l’État aux affaires intérieures des groupements religieux – 5. Non-contradiction de la Convention des exigences intérieures des groupements religieux sur la loyauté et la conformité des personnes se trouvant dans les relations de service avec le groupement religieux – 6. Absence des raisons fournies par les faits juridiques suffisantes et justifiant réellement l’assimilation (la mise au même niveau) des groupements religieux avec n’importe quelles autres organisations-employeurs dans la sphère de la réglementation des relations de travail – 7. Légalité de l’instauration des restrictions à la création et les activités des syndicats dans les certaines sphères des relations publiques – 8. Compétence de la Roumanie de fixer dans la législation les restrictions à la liberté des syndicats conformément à la sphère des relations religieuses – 9. Signification des résultats du jugement de l’affaire «Syndicat “Le Bon Pasteur” c. Roumanie» (requête 2330/09) pour L’Église Orthodoxe Russe- 10. Conclusion.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 12 novembre
Enti religiosi e fund raising: un binomio possibile (anzi, necessario)
Creators: name: Franceschi, Fabio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2012

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazioniSOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Il fund raising: inquadramento concettuale - 3. (segue) Strategie, strumenti e tecniche di fund raising - 4. Il fund raising come fattore di potenziale sviluppo delle organizzazioni non profit - 5. Enti religiosi e fund raising: un binomio che necessita di essere consolidato (e potenziato) - 6. Peculiarità dell’azione di fund raising degli enti religiosi - 7. Fund raising e aspetti economici e gestionali degli enti religiosi - 8. Considerazioni conclusive.Abstract:Religious organizations and fundraising: a possible combination (indeed necessary) Fund-raising activities represent the principal livelihood and sources of growth and development for non-profit organisations. Fund-raising is, also, an increasingly important part of religious organizations life. Almost each of them engages in some kind of fund-raising activity, with the purpose of generating income to sustain the organization’s programs and activities. The present study analyzes the relationship between religious organizations and fund-raising activities: a correlation that always existed, but now calls for consolidation and improvement in order to allow religious organizations to achieve economic sustainability. Therefore, religious organizations should develop competency and capacity to design and implement fund-raising activities, through appropriate policies, tools and methodologies. In this perspective, the author examines all the facets of fund-raising activities related to the religious organizations sector and, more in general, the possible applications of business administration principles to the management of religious bodies (so-called “church management”).Parole chiave: enti religiosi; fund raising; sostenibilità economica; management
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 19 novembre