cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NK cell-derived IL-10 is critical for DC-NK cell dialogue at the maternal- fetal interface
Creators: name: Blois, Sandra M.
name: Freitag, Nancy
name: Tirado-Gonzalez, Irene
name: Cheng, Shi-Bin
name: Heimesaat, Markus M.
name: Bereswill, Stefan
name: Rose, Matthias
name: Conrad, Melanie L.
name: Barrientos, Gabriela
name: Sharma, Surendra
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Infertility
subject: Reproductive disorders
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: DC-NK cell interactions are thought to influence the development of maternal tolerance and de novo angiogenesis during early gestation. However, it is unclear which mechanism ensures the cooperative dialogue between DC and NK cells at the feto-maternal interface. In this article, we show that uterine NK cells are the key source of IL-10 that is required to regulate DC phenotype and pregnancy success. Upon in vivo expansion of DC during early gestation, NK cells expressed increased levels of IL-10. Exogenous administration of IL-10 was sufficient to overcome early pregnancy failure in dams treated to achieve simultaneous DC expansion and NK cell depletion. Remarkably, DC expansion in IL-10−/− dams provoked pregnancy loss, which could be abrogated by the adoptive transfer of IL-10+/+ NK cells and not by IL-10−/− NK cells. Furthermore, the IL-10 expressing NK cells markedly enhanced angiogenic responses and placental development in DC expanded IL-10−/− dams. Thus, the capacity of NK cells to secrete IL-10 plays a unique role facilitating the DC- NK cell dialogue during the establishment of a healthy gestation.
The Ottawa SAH search algorithms : protocol for a multi- centre validation study of primary subarachnoid hemorrhage prediction models using health administrative data (the SAHepi prediction study protocol)
Creators: name: English, S. W
name: McIntyre, L.
name: Saigle, V.
name: Chassé, M.
name: Fergusson, D. A
name: Turgeon, A. F
name: Lauzier, F.
name: Griesdale, D.
name: Garland, A.
name: Zarychanski, R.
name: Algird, A.
name: Van Walraven, C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Conducting prospective epidemiological studies of hospitalized patients with rare diseases like primary subarachnoid hemorrhage (pSAH) are difficult due to time and budgetary constraints. Routinely collected administrative data could remove these barriers. We derived and validated 3 algorithms to identify hospitalized patients with a high probability of pSAH using administrative data. We aim to externally validate their performance in four hospitals across Canada. Methods: Eligible patients include those ≥18 years of age admitted to these centres from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013. We will include patients whose discharge abstracts contain predictive variables identified in the models (ICD-10-CA diagnostic codes I60** (subarachnoid hemorrhage), I61** (intracranial hemorrhage), 162** (other nontrauma intracranial hemorrhage), I67** (other cerebrovascular disease), S06** (intracranial injury), G97 (other postprocedural nervous system disorder) and CCI procedural codes 1JW51 (occlusion of intracranial vessels), 1JE51 (carotid artery inclusion), 3JW10 (intracranial vessel imaging), 3FY20 (CT scan (soft tissue of neck)), and 3OT20 (CT scan (abdominal cavity)). The algorithms will be applied to each patient and the diagnosis confirmed via chart review. We will assess each model’s sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive value across the sites. Discussion: Validating the Ottawa SAH Prediction Algorithms will provide a way to accurately identify large SAH cohorts, thereby furthering research and altering care.
Neodymium-doped nanoparticles for infrared fluorescence bioimaging: The role of the host
Creators: name: Del Rosal Rabes, Blanca
name: Pérez-Delgado, Alberto
name: Misiak, Małgorzata
name: Bednarkiewicz, Artur
name: Vanetsev, Alexander S.
name: Orlovskii, Yurii
name: Jovanović, Dragana J.
name: Dramićanin, Miroslav D.
name: Rocha, Ueslen
name: Upendra Kumar, K.
name: Jacinto, Carlos
name: Navarro, Elizabeth
name: Martín Rodríguez, Emma
name: Pedroni, Marco
name: Speghini, Adolfo
name: Hirata, Gustavo A.
name: Martín, I. R.
name: Jaque, Daniel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The spectroscopic properties of different infrared-emitting neodymium-doped nanoparticles (LaF3:Nd3+, SrF2:Nd3+, NaGdF4: Nd3+, NaYF4: Nd3+, KYF4: Nd3+, GdVO4: Nd3+, and Nd:YAG) have been systematically analyzed. A comparison of the spectral shapes of both emission and absorption spectra is presented, from which the relevant role played by the host matrix is evidenced. The lack of a "universal" optimum system for infrared bioimaging is discussed, as the specific bioimaging application and the experimental setup for infrared imaging determine the neodymium-doped nanoparticle to be preferentially used in each case.
Biotransport of marine-derived trace elements to a coastal ecosystem in the Canadian High Arctic
Creators: name: Brimble, Samantha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.
subject: Biology, Oceanography.

description: Seabirds are an important link between their marine feeding areas and their terrestrial breeding environments, transporting both marine-derived nutrients and contaminants to land via their excreta, feathers and carcasses. The importance of seabird-derived nutrients is particularly apparent in nutrient poor regions like the Canadian High Arctic, where biological oases form in the area surrounding a colony. While providing the nutrient subsidies that shape the terrestrial ecosystem of many Arctic sites, seabirds may focus contaminants into their nesting sites at potentially toxic levels. Here, we investigated the impact of a large northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) colony on nearby ponds spanning a broad gradient of seabird influence at Cape Vera, Devon Island. Nutrient concentrations were significantly higher in ponds receiving guano than in reference ponds. The ponds closest to the cliffs, and thus receiving the highest seabird subsidies, were the most contaminated, and in some cases exceeded Canadian Sediment Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life for As, Cd and Zn. This study demonstrates that seabirds can transport contaminants bioaccumulated from the ocean and funnel them into receptor sites to potentially toxic levels thousands of kilometers from industrial centers.
Coping With Stigmatisation and Discrimination Related to Blindness or Low Vision
Creators: name: Partow, Sara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: People who are blind or have low vision are reportedly affected by negative consequences of stigmatisation or discrimination. This doctoral research makes a unique contribution by identifying gaps in the coping with stigma literature, such as under-representation of people who are blind or have low vision. It further highlights a significant lack of research examining the role of context in how stigmatised individuals cope with stigma-related stress. This work gives voice to people who are blind or have low vision and contextualises their coping with stigma responses, and offers important implications for future research, policy and practice.
Supplementary document for Flexible SERS platform based on Ti3C2Tx modified filter paper: preparation and SERS application - 4706292.pdf
Creators: name: Jiang, Li
name: Liu, Rongyang
name: Yu, Li
name: Chen, Yi
name: Xu, Rui
name: Jin, Shangzhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information (additional figure and calculations)
Quellensteuern auf Rechteüberlassungen, Rechteübertragungen und Dienstleistungen bei digitalen Geschäftsmodellen Gebietsfremder in Deutschland de lege lata und de lege ferenda
Creators: name: Kloß, Katrin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: § 50a EStG
subject: Reform
subject: Immaterielle Wirtschaftsgüter
subject: Online-Werbung
subject: Robo Advice
subject: DDC 330 / Economics
subject: Tax deductions
subject: Taxation
subject: Cloud computing; Law and legislation
subject: Copyright; Databases
subject: Source code (Computer science); Law and legislation
subject: Steuerabzug
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Beschränkte Steuerpflicht
subject: Internationales Steuerrecht
subject: Nutzungsrecht
subject: Urheberrecht
subject: Cloud Computing
subject: Software
subject: Datenbank
subject: Quellcode

description: In der analogen Welt lassen sich klare Grenzen zwischen der Übertragung und der Überlassung der Nutzung einer Sache beschreiben. Das internationale Steuerrecht knüpft an diese Grenzen an, etwa in den Vorschriften über Quellensteuern auf Entgelte für Nutzungsüberlassungen. Während das Nutzungsentgelt im Schuldnerstaat belastet wird, trifft das Erwerbsentgelt diese Belastung nicht. In der digitalen Welt fällt es schwer, zwischen Übertragung und bloßer Nutzungsüberlassung beliebig zu teilbarer und vervielfältigbarer immaterieller Werte zu unterscheiden. Hinzu kommt die Frage, ob Eigenschaftserweiterungen, als Dienstleistung oder Rechteüberlassung zu qualifizieren sind. Die Arbeit von Frau Kloß widmet sich diesen Kernfragen der Besteuerung grenzüberschreitender digitaler Geschäftsmodelle. Sie strukturiert bestehende Anknüpfungsmerkmale und Verteilungsregeln im nationalen und internationalen Steuerrecht und diskutiert exemplarisch einige bedeutsame Anwendungsfälle im geltenden Recht. Dort endet ihre Arbeit aber nicht, sondern sie greift, meinungsstark, darüber hinaus aktuelle rechtspolitische Diskussionen auf. Wer den Einstieg in diese höchst praxisrelevante Problematik sucht, liest diese im 2. Halbjahr 2019 enstandene Masterarbeit mit großem Gewinn.
De novo intrachromosomal gene conversion from OPN1MW to OPN1LW in the male germline results in Blue Cone Monochromacy
Creators: name: Buena-Atienza, Elena
name: Ruether, Klaus
name: Baumann, Britta
name: Bergholz, Richard
name: Birch, David
name: De Baere, Elfride
name: Dollfus, Helene
name: Greally, Marie T.
name: Gustavsson, Peter
name: Hamel, Christian P.
name: Heckenlively, John R.
name: Leroy, Bart P.
name: Plomp, Astrid S.
name: Pott, Jan Willem R.
name: Rose, Katherine
name: Rosenberg, Thomas
name: Stark, Zornitza
name: Verheij, Joke B. G. M.
name: Weleber, Richard
name: Zobor, Ditta
name: Weisschuh, Nicole
name: Kohl, Susanne
name: Wissinger, Bernd
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: X-linked cone dysfunction disorders such as Blue Cone Monochromacy and X-linked Cone Dystrophy are characterized by complete loss (of) or reduced L- and M- cone function due to defects in the OPN1LW/OPN1MW gene cluster. Here we investigated 24 affected males from 16 families with either a structurally intact gene cluster or at least one intact single (hybrid) gene but harbouring rare combinations of common SNPs in exon 3 in single or multiple OPN1LW and OPN1MW gene copies. We assessed twelve different OPN1LW/MW exon 3 haplotypes by semi-quantitative minigene splicing assay. Nine haplotypes resulted in aberrant splicing of ≥20% of transcripts including the known pathogenic haplotypes (i.e. ‘LIAVA’, ‘LVAVA’) with absent or minute amounts of correctly spliced transcripts, respectively. De novo formation of the ‘LIAVA’ haplotype derived from an ancestral less deleterious ‘LIAVS’ haplotype was observed in one family with strikingly different phenotypes among affected family members. We could establish intrachromosomal gene conversion in the male germline as underlying mechanism. Gene conversion in the OPN1LW/OPN1MW genes has been postulated, however, we are first to demonstrate a de novo gene conversion within the lineage of a pedigree.
title: World History Connected, Vol. 10 No. 3: Fall 2013
title: Fall 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: World History Connected
Publisher: name: World History Connected
Year: 2025

description: William Kelleher Storey, The First World War: A Concise Global History
Eric Vanhaute, World History: An Introduction
Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Third Edition
Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan, eds., The Oxford Handbook of The Atlantic World 1450-1850
Richard H. Wilkinson, Editor. Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt
Wolfgang Reinhard, A Short History of Colonialism
Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History
Some Approaches to the Ottoman Empire as part of a World History Curriculum
Selecting History's Lessons: Deciding and Justifying What We Teach
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in World History: Using the Voyages Database in the Classroom
Go-Betweens and the Greek Cities of the Black Sea
Jesuit Missionaries as Agents of Empire: The Spanish-Chamorro War and Ecological Effects of Conversion on Guam, 1668–1769
Religion and Trade through Jesuit Eyes: Bringing Early Modern Central Asia into the World History Classroom
Passage Denied! Dangers and Limitations of Jesuit Travel Throughout Eurasia During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola's Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents
The Jesuits in Korea: Influence without Presence
"The Mission" That Wasn't: Yucatan's Jesuits, the Mayas, and El Petén, 1703–1767
Introduction to the Forum on Jesuits in World History: Scholarly Approaches and Classroom Resources
Editor's Message
La coopération policière en matière de renseignement criminel entre le Canada et les États-Unis.
Creators: name: Dubuc, Stéphane Patrick.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: L'objet de cette these de mai trise est la cooperation policiere entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis en matiere de renseignement criminel. L'etude se veut exploratoire et cherche avant tout a comprendre le fonctionnement et les mecanismes de cette meme cooperation. Ainsi, dans le premier chapitre l'auteur avance que la cooperation policiere internationale prend place dans un cadre beaucoup plus vaste que les simples echanges de bons procedes entre deux pays voisins. Depuis deja plusieurs annees, d'autre auteurs en sciences sociales affirment que les societes occidentales sont dans une periode transitoire au niveau historique. Le paradigme de la modernite serait a sa fin. En consequence, l'Etat moderne et ses institutions connaissent des transformations majeures. Pafini celles-ci la police. La question postmoderne est donc au coeur de nos preoccupations dans cette these. Dans un premier temps nous nuus sommes efforces de faire certaines distinctions conceptuelles entre le postmodernisme, la postmodernite et le postmoderne. Par la suite, nous nous sommes attardes a difinir l'institution policiere. Ainsi nous avons effectue une analyse de l'histoire de la police moderne. Dans le deuxieme chapitre nous avons aborde la question methodologique de notre etude. Dans le troisieme chapitre nous avons developpe sur le cadre legal a l'interieur duquel s'effectue les echanges de renseignements entre les corps policiers canadiens et americains. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Supplementary document for Flexible SERS platform based on Ti3C2Tx modified filter paper: preparation and SERS application - 4706292.pdf
Creators: name: Jiang, Li
name: Liu, Rongyang
name: Yu, Li
name: Chen, Yi
name: Xu, Rui
name: Jin, Shangzhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information (additional figure and calculations)
Does attentional focus influence psychophysiological responses to an acute bout of exercise? evidence from an experimental study using a repeated-measures design
Creators: name: Meixner, Friedrich
name: Herbert, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: aerobic exercise
subject: cycling exercise
subject: attentional focus
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Psychophysiology
subject: Exercise
subject: Cardiac output; Physiology
subject: Cardiography, Impedance
subject: Physiologische Psychologie
subject: Körperliche Belastung
subject: Leistungsphysiologie
subject: Impedanzkardiografie

description: Attentional focus during aerobic exercise has been studied in the context of sports performance, injury prevention and affective experience. Previous research suggests that an additional mental task parallel to the physical activity might influence exercise experience and performance. It has been tested if attentional focus influences cardiovascular activity, positive/negative affect, and subjective exertion during a cycling exercise. Data from N = 30 female participants has been collected using a repeated measures design, with the following experimental manipulations: (A) an internal attention focus (i.e., paying attention to force production of the quadriceps muscles), (B) an external attention focus (i.e., paying attention to changes in brightness in the cycling track simulation), and as control conditions, (C) exercise without attention focus (i.e., no specific instruction was given) and (D) no exercise, no attention focus. Subjective affect and subjective exertion were assessed, and changes in cardiovascular activity were recorded via mobile impedance cardiography (ICG) at rest, during and after the exercise, including HR, HRV (RMSSD, HF), PEP, CO, SV, LVET, and RSA. Exercise was associated with adaptations in cardiovascular activity, positive/negative affect, and subjective exertion. However, this did not interact with attentional focus. The original hypothesis could not be supported: instructed attentional focus does not influence affect, exertion, or cardiovascular activity during a cycling exercise. Therefore, attentional focusing during exercise does not appear to put notable additional mental demands on the physically active participant. Nonetheless, impedance cardiography delivered reliable measurements even during the cycling exercise.
Agroecology in Canada: Towards an Integration of Agroecological Practice, Movement, and Science
Creators: name: Isaac, Marney E.
name: Isakson, S. Ryan
name: Dale, Bryan
name: Levkoe, Charles Z.
name: Hargreaves, Sarah K.
name: Méndez, V. Ernesto
name: Wittman, Hannah
name: Hammelman, Colleen
name: Langill, Jennifer C.
name: Martin, Adam R.
name: Nelson, Erin
name: Ekers, Michael
name: Borden, Kira A.
name: Gagliardi, Stephanie
name: Buchanan, Serra
name: Archibald, Sarah
name: Gálvez Ciani, Astrid
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This article surveys the current state of agroecology in Canada, giving particular attention to agroecological practices, the related social movements, and the achievements of agroecological science. In each of these realms, we find that agroecology emerges as a response to the various social and ecological problems associated with the prevailing industrial model of agricultural production that has long been promoted in the country under settler colonialism. Although the prevalence and prominence of agroecology is growing in Canada, its presence is still small and the support for its development is limited. We provide recommendations to achieve a more meaningful integration of agroecology in Canadian food policy and practice.
Heat in optical tweezers
Creators: name: Del Rosal Rabes, Blanca
name: Haro-González, P.
name: Ramsay, W. T.
name: Maestro, L. M.
name: Santacruz-Gómez, K.
name: Iglesias-De La Cruz, M. C.
name: Sanz-Rodríguez, F.
name: Chooi, J. Y.
name: Rodríguez-Sevilla, P.
name: Choudhury, D.
name: Kar, A. K.
name: García-Solé, J. G.
name: Patterson, L.
name: Jaque, D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Laser-induced thermal effects in optically trapped microspheres and single cells have been investigated by Luminescence Thermometry. Thermal spectroscopy has revealed a non-localized temperature distribution around the trap that extends over tens of microns, in agreement with previous theoretical models. Solvent absorption has been identified as the key parameter to determine laser-induced heating, which can be reduced by establishing a continuous fluid flow of the sample. Our experimental results of thermal loading at a variety of wavelengths reveal that an optimum trapping wavelength exists for biological applications close to 820 nm. This has been corroborated by a simultaneous analysis of the spectral dependence of cellular heating and damage in human lymphocytes during optical trapping. Minimum intracellular heating, well below the cytotoxic level (43 °C), has been demonstrated to occur for optical trapping with 820 nm laser radiation, thus avoiding cell damage.
Anti-diabetic and neuroprotective activities of phytochemicals in traditionally used boreal plants
Creators: name: Harris, Cory S
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Botany.
subject: Biology, Neuroscience.
subject: Health Sciences, Alternative Medicine.

description: This thesis investigated the phytochemistry and pharmacology of boreal plant species used traditionally as treatments for symptoms and complications of diabetes and was completed in collaboration with the Team in Aboriginal Anti-Diabetic Medicine and the Cree of Eeyou Istchee in northern Quebec. Using a novel metabolomic-based approach, we first developed methods of phytochemical analysis to characterize Vaccinium angustifolium extracts and then other medicinal Ericaceae, identifying and quantifying an abundance of phenolic compounds. These methods were then employed to profile the phenolics in anti-diabetic species identified by Cree Elders. Pharmacological assays of extracts focused primarily on in vitro inhibition of mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of diabetic neuropathy, associated diabetic complications and neurodegenerative conditions. Upon testing for cytoprotective effects in two models of diabetic neuropathy, few extracts prevented cell loss mediated by serum/glucose deprivation but 10 of 18 significantly reduced glucotoxic cell death. The activities of Picea glauca needles, which was cytoprotective in both models, and Sarracenia purpurea leaves were of particular interest as observed organ-specific effects correlated with medicinal uses identified by Cree Elders. Cytoprotection, however, did not correlate with extract phenolic content or anti-oxidant activity. Active principles were therefore sought through assay-guided fractionation of S. purpurea extract, identifying quercetin-3- O-galactoside, which inhibited glucotoxicity at low micromolar concentrations. Extracts were then tested for effects on formation of advanced glycation endproducts. Most displayed concentration-dependent inhibition with IC50 values ranging from 0.4-38.6 mug/ml. Anti-glycation activity was significantly correlated with extract phenolic content and anti-oxidant capacity. The bioactivities of individual phenolic metabolites were then evaluated at physiologically relevant concentrations using molecular tools to determine cell proliferation, survival and death. A wealth of anti-apoptotic and mitogenic effects were observed and structure-activity relationships were separately identified among benzoic acid derivatives and flavonoids. To explore the neuroprotective potential of these two phenolic classes, collections of each were tested for the ability to inhibit platelet-activating factor (PAF) neurotoxicity. Three novel PAF inhibitors were identified, orsellinic acid, hesperetin and quercetin, and all prevented PAF-mediated executioner caspase activation. Together, these results validate the traditional knowledge shared by our Cree collaborators and highlight the multidimensional therapeutic potential of boreal plants as culturally appropriate complementary anti-diabetic therapies.
Marktbeobachtung Nachhaltiger Konsum: Entwicklung eines Instrumentes zur Langzeit-Erfassung von Marktanteilen, Trends und Treibern nachhaltigen Konsums
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ernährung
subject: Marktentwicklung
subject: Nachhaltiger Konsum
subject: Marktanalyse
subject: Nachhaltiges Konsumverhalten
subject: Konsumgut
subject: Bildung zu einer nachhaltigen Mobilität
subject: Umweltbewusstsein
subject: Umweltzeichen
subject: wohnen
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Es wurde ein Instrument für die systematische Marktbeobachtung nachhaltigen Konsums entwickelt. Dieses soll die Entwicklung nachhaltigen Konsums abschätzen und das Verständnis für Kaufbereitschaften, relevante Treiber und Barrieren des nachhaltigen Konsums fördern. Die konzeptionellen Grundlagen des Instruments umfassen einen Index Marktdaten zur Abschätzung der Nachfrage nach nachhaltigen Produkten, einen Index Kaufbereitschaften zur Darstellung der Entwicklung von Kaufbereitschaften sowie ein Prüfraster zur Analyse relevanter Treiber und Barrieren. Das Instrument wurde in zwei Runden für die Jahre 2011 und 2012 umgesetzt.
Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Es wurde ein Instrument für die systematische Marktbeobachtung nachhaltigen Konsums entwickelt. Dieses soll die Entwicklung nachhaltigen Konsums abschätzen und das Verständnis für Kaufbereitschaften, relevante Treiber und Barrieren des nachhaltigen Konsums fördern. Die konzeptionellen Grundlagen des Instruments umfassen einen Index Marktdaten zur Abschätzung der Nachfrage nach nachhaltigen Produkten, einen Index Kaufbereitschaften zur Darstellung der Entwicklung von Kaufbereitschaften sowie ein Prüfraster zur Analyse relevanter Treiber und Barrieren. Das Instrument wurde in zwei Runden für die Jahre 2011 und 2012 umgesetzt.
An Empirical Investigation of Australian Bank Stability and Profitability
Creators: name: Roky, Reza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Australian banking sector has withstood negative shocks for the past 29 years and the sector remains one of the most profitable banking sectors in the world. This study examines the major factors that influenced Australian banks’ stability and profitability for the period 1991-2019. We used comprehensive bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic factors to investigate bank stability and profitability and compared the differences in determinants of the big four and other big banks. The findings from this study will help to design better policy measures for improving the stability and performance of the Australian banking industry.
Design and Development of an Image Classification Model for Wafer Defects using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Phua, Charissa Han Ming
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: From production standpoint, the semiconductor industry benefits from AI adoption at various process points to improve production efficiency and yield management. Implementation of defects auto-classification allows the offload of previously required manual operations. This research proposes an Automatic Defect Classification (ADC) system based on deep learning for the automation in wafer surface defects classification which focuses on defects identified at the metal layers. It adopts a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) object detection architecture as the model for defect detection and classification using only SEM images as inputs. This research produces a model which achieves industrially pragmatic defect classification performance.
title: Estudio ecográfico de lesiones mamarias no neoplásicas con sombra acústica posterior
Creators: name: Hernandez Castro, Antonio
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Pathology

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Un reto de la ecografía mamaria es diferenciar lesiones benignas de malignas.
Existen múltiples criterios que pueden ayudar a establecer esta diferenciación,
aunque si no hay un diagnóstico de certeza será necesario completar el estudio con...
title: RM mamaria en la estadificación preoperatoria del carcinoma de mama. Aplicación en subgrupos de pacientes
Creators: name: Carreira Gómez, Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Breast

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
OBJETIVO. Determinar si la edad,
el estado menopáusico,
la presencia de carcinoma intraductal en la biopsia previa y la densidad mamaria tienen un impacto sobre la rentabilidad de la RM en la estadificación preoperatoria del carcinoma de...
title: Radiología y embarazo. Riesgos y realidad.
Creators: name: Fernández Quintero, Rosa Mª
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Foetus
subject: Medico-legal issues
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Obstetrics

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Dar a conocer el efecto de la radiación ionizante en el embrión-feto según la edad gestacional y la dosis recibida. Dar a conocer la importancia del papel del/la radiólogo/a y su responsabilidad en la elección de la técnica de imagen a...
Supplementary document for Non-invasive single-shot recovery of point-spread function of a memory effect based scattering imaging system - 4706960.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Tengfei
name: Dong, Jonathan
name: Gigan, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Computational Physics

description: This document contains the experimental data of single-shot speckle of Digit 2 and Digit 3, respectively.
title: Hemorragia digestiva baja: Tratamiento mediante embolización arterial
Creators: name: Echenagusia Boyra, Miguel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Embolisation
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Emergency
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Presentar la experiencia de nuestro centro en el tratamiento de la hemorragia digestiva baja mediante embolización...
P-Ident2 - Persistence Assessment in Surface Waters - addressing uncertainties in OECD 309 and OECD 308 studies
Creators: name: Seller, Carolin
name: Kitching, Elizabeth
name: Fenner, Kathrin Barbara
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Persistenz
subject: Oberflächengewässer
subject: transformation
subject: OECD 308
subject: OECD 309
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Wasser
subject: Chemicals
subject: Water

description: Im Projekt P-Ident 2 geht es darum, das Transformationsverhalten/die Persistenz von Chemikalien in Oberflächengewässern besser zu verstehen und Unsicherheiten zu adressieren. Ziele des Projektes sind es existierende Labortestmethoden (OECD 308 und 309) und Auswertemethoden weiterzuentwickeln. Des Weiteren soll das Transformationsverhalten/die Persistenz von Chemikalien in einem realen Oberflächengewässer (Rhein) mittels Modellierung von Feldmessdaten quantifiziert werden. Die Ergebnisse aus den Labortests, aus vorliegenden Daten aus Zulassungsverfahren sowie aus der Modellierung für den Rhein erlauben einen Vergleich des Transformationsverhaltens zwischen Labor und einem realen Oberflächengewässer. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The project P-Ident 2 aims (i) for a better understanding of the transformation behavior/persistence of chemicals in surface waters, and (ii) to address uncertainties in (regulatory) persistence assessment. Therefore, existing laboratory test methods (OECD 308 and 309) and evaluation methods were modified and further evaluated. Alongside, the transformation behavior/persistence of chemicals in a real surface water body (Rhine) was quantified based on field measurements and modeling. The outcomes of the laboratory biotransformation tests, as well as the results compiled by the model framework describing compound transformation in the Rhine river catchment allow for a comparison of a chemicals transformation behavior in laboratory studies and a real surface water. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Plant protection products, human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, biocides and other chemicals can reach surface waters during their life cycles, by direct or diffuse entry routes or because they are in completely removed during waste water treatment. These chemicals may have harmful consequences for environmental organisms and also constitute a risk for raw water contamination for drinking water production. It is therefore crucial to assess persistence of chemicals in laboratory experiments. To characterize persistence in surface waters two test guidelines are relevant: ⁠OECD⁠ Test Guideline 308 ("Aerobic and Anaerobic Transformation in Aquatic Sediment Systems"), which aims to derive information on biotransformation at a water-sediment interface, and OECD Test Guideline 309 ("Aerobic mineralization in surface water - Simulation biodegradation test"), which measures biotransformation in a pelagic water body. The aim of the project was to be better able to separate characterizing biotransformation from the process of sorption. For this purpose, modified test designs and alternative evaluation of kinetic data were explored.
A system-on-a chip testing methodology
Creators: name: Biswas, Dhruv
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis, we present a system-on-a chip testing methodology. The system consists of a wrapper, test access mechanism and the cores under test. The cores include the ISCAS sequential and combinational benchmark circuits. At the gate level, stuck at fault model is used to detect faults. The wrapper separates the circuit under test from other cores. The test access mechanism transports the test patterns or test vectors to the desired circuit under test and then transports the responses back to the output pin of the SOC. The faults are then injected using the fault simulator that generates test for the circuit under test. Out of the many TAM design methods, we implemented the TAM as a plain signal transport medium, which is shared by all the cores in the system-on-chip. Once the dedicated TAM lines are set to the circuit under test, fault simulation is done. Each circuit in an SOC is independently tested for its fault coverage. The isolation of the circuit under test from the others is taken care by the program running in the background. We were able to simulate the whole SOC testing and get satisfactory fault coverage for the circuits under tests.
Supplementary document for Non-invasive single-shot recovery of point-spread function of a memory effect based scattering imaging system - 4706960.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Tengfei
name: Dong, Jonathan
name: Gigan, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computational Physics

description: This document contains the experimental data of single-shot speckle of Digit 2 and Digit 3, respectively.
Detection of Optical Road Markings With Automotive Radar Sensors
Creators: name: Grebner, Timo
name: Torres, Lizette Lorraine Tovar
name: Janoudi, Vinzenz
name: Schoeder, Pirmin
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chirp sequence radar sensor
subject: Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
subject: Mapping
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Synthetic aperture radar
subject: Radar; Synthetische Apertur

description: Accurate environmental representations play a crucial role in trajectory planning for autonomous driving. In addition to localizing road users, obstacles, and road boundaries, the identification of optical road markings is vital for lane recognition. While optical systems, such as cameras and lidar sensors, are commonly employed for this task, they are susceptible to weather conditions. This letter introduces a novel approach that utilizes automotive chirp-sequence radar sensors exclusively for the detection of conventional road markings. This eliminates the need for additional particles or substances to be applied to the road markings, as demonstrated through an indicative analysis based on real-world measurements in public traffic.
Energy based seismic risk assessment for steel concentric braced frames
Creators: name: Al-Mashaykhi, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this study, displacement profile for direct displacement based design method (DDBD), an energy based damage index and fragility curves for steel concentric braced frames (CBFs) have been developed. Twelve CBFs with different characteristics subjected to thirty different seismic intensities are scoped. DDBD has been adopted in this study to ensure authentic performance of CBFs throughout seismic analyses. Non-linear time history analysis, incremental dynamic analysis and continuous wavelet transform are implemented to develop an energy based damage index. The proposed damage model compared with drift based damage index. Finally, seismic fragilities for CBFs are developed for different performance levels.
title: Ecografía ocular: claves de diagnóstico diferencial.
Creators: name: González Fernández, Margarita
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Pathology

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
La ecografía ocular,
debido a su accesibilidad,
bajo coste,
corto tiempo de exploración y alta rentabilidad diagnóstica,
se convierte en una herramienta eficaz en caso de opacidad de elementos anteriores del ojo,
traumatismo ocular o sospecha...
The goddess incarnate: A discourse on the body within one community of contemporary North American goddess worshippers
Creators: name: DuFresne, Lucie Marie-Mai
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: For the past 30 years, a feminist spirituality movement has been developing in North America. Variously called Goddess Worship, Goddess spirituality, or Women's spirituality, it derives in part from Neo-paganism and Contemporary Witchcraft, on the one side, and feminist liberation theology on the other. Continuing the questioning begun by Simone de Beauvoir on female self and other, on gender and its construction, and on the merits of a morality of indeterminacy, this ethnography of a community of like minded women who participate together in devotional circles to the Goddess in and around Ottawa, Ontario, Canada focuses on the ritual, textual and iconological means by which these women come to an embodied relationship with the divine apprehended as female. By deconstructing the actions, the words, and the images of the human body, as the locus of contact with the divine, and the divine body as the central cosmological metaphor of this spirituality produced and used by these women, the ritual and ethical discourses on identity, power and agency built around them are made evident. Compared and contrasted, they then are studied as charters for the construction of the self and community.
Reduction of apoptosis and preservation of mitochondrial integrity under ischemia/reperfusion injury is mediated by estrogen receptor β
Creators: name: Schubert, Carola
name: Raparelli, Valeria
name: Westphal, Christina
name: Dworatzek, Elke
name: Petrov, George
name: Kararigas, Georgios
name: Regitz-Zagrosek
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Apoptosis
subject: Estrogen receptor β
subject: Ischemia/reperfusion
subject: Mitochondria
subject: Myosin light chain
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Estrogen improves cardiac recovery after ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) by yet incompletely understood mechanisms. Mitochondria play a crucial role in I/R injury through cytochrome c-dependent apoptosis activation. We tested the hypothesis that 17β-estradiol (E2) as well as a specific ERβ agonist improve cardiac recovery through estrogen receptor (ER)β-mediated mechanisms by reducing mitochondria-induced apoptosis and preserving mitochondrial integrity. Methods We randomized ovariectomized C57BL/6N mice 24h before I/R to pre-treatment with E2 or a specific ERβ agonist (ERβA). Isolated hearts were perfused for 20min prior to 30min global ischemia followed by 40min reperfusion. Results Compared with controls, ERβA and E2 treated groups showed a significant improvement in cardiac recovery, i.e. an increase in left ventricular developed pressure, dP/dtmax and dP/dtmin. ERβA and E2 pre- treatment led to a significant reduction in apoptosis with decreased cytochrome c release from the mitochondria and increased mitochondrial levels of anti-apoptotic Bcl2 and ACAA2. Protein levels of mitochondrial translocase inner membrane (TIM23) and mitochondrial complex I of respiratory chain were increased by ERβA and E2 pre-treatment. Furthermore, we found a significant increase of myosin light chain 2 (MLC2) phosphorylation together with ERK1/2 activation in E2, but not in ERβA treated groups. Conclusions Activation of ERβ is essential for the improvement of cardiac recovery after I/R through the inhibition of apoptosis and preservation of mitochondrial integrity and can be a achieved by a specific ERβ agonist. Furthermore, E2 modulates MLC2 activation after I/R independent of ERβ.
Comparing the Perceptual Abilities of Monolinguals, Bilinguals and Multilinguals: A Combined Behavioural and Event-Related Potential Experiment
Creators: name: Tremblay, Marie-Claude
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: The aim of the experiment was to determine whether multilingualism contributes to the development of greater perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech contrasts. Combining an AX discrimination task and an Event-Related Potential experiment using an oddball paradigm, monolinguals, bilinguals and multilinguals were compared in their ability to discriminate a non-native contrast before and after receiving training as well as in their ability to transfer this training to a new but similar contrast. The experiment was based on a "pre-test -- training -- post-test" design, with 4 to 5 days between sessions. At the behavioural level, the effect of Group was significant only at Post-Test for the experimental contrast. Post-hoc analyses indicated that multilinguals were significantly more accurate than all of the other groups except for late bilinguals who were also more accurate than the control group which did not receive training. Moreover, multilinguals and late bilinguals were the only groups which improved significantly from Pre-Test to Post-Test. At the neurophysiological level, the effect of Group reached significance at Pre-Test for the experimental contrast and at Post-Test for both the experimental and transfer contrasts. At Pre-Test and Post-Test, monolinguals, late bilinguals and the control group exhibited a Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in the midline and the right side electrodes, while multilinguals and early bilinguals exhibited a bilateral MMN. The increase in MMN amplitude from Pre-Test to Post-Test was greater for multilinguals and both groups of bilinguals, compared to monolinguals and the control group. As for the Test of Transfer, monolinguals and the control group exhibited a right lateralised MMN, while multilinguals and both groups of bilinguals exhibited a bilateral MMN. The results of the behavioural and ERP experiments indicate that multilinguals and bilinguals have enhanced perceptual sensitivity and a greater ability to learn a new contrast. Multilingualism seems to boost perceptual sensitivity and learning abilities. Moreover, the age at which a second language is learned may affect speech perception at both levels differently. Finally, since initial group differences were only found in the ERP data, the results indicate that differences at the neurophysiological level may transpire before or without any differences at the behavioural level.
title: Fístula periareolar recidivante: una extraña patología en el varón.
Creators: name: Rodríguez Muñoz, Sergio
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Galactography
subject: Biopsy
subject: Abscess
subject: Pathology
subject: Fistula

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Conocer esta entidad y describir los hallazgos radiológicos de la patología inflamatoria de la mama en el...
Supplementary document for New approaches for an aluminum deep-ultraviolet surface plasmon resonance sensor - 4707694.pdf
Creators: name: da Moreira, Cleumar
name: Wang, Yunshan
name: Blair, Steve
name: Chadwick, Ember
name: Oliveira, Leiva
name: Lima, Antonio Marcus
name: Cruz, Rossana
name: lee, Ji-Young
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
Analysis of Biomolecules Based on the Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Jia, Min
name: Li, Shenmiao
name: Zang, Liguo
name: Lu, Xiaonan
name: Zhang, Hongyan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Analyzing biomolecules is essential for disease diagnostics, food safety inspection, environmental monitoring and pharmaceutical development. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful tool for detecting biomolecules due to its high sensitivity, rapidness and specificity in identifying molecular structures. This review focuses on the SERS analysis of biomolecules originated from humans, animals, plants and microorganisms, combined with nanomaterials as SERS substrates and nanotags. Recent advances in SERS detection of target molecules were summarized with different detection strategies including label-free and label-mediated types. This comprehensive and critical summary of SERS analysis of biomolecules might help researchers from different scientific backgrounds spark new ideas and proposals.