cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The relationship between competition and the use of technology in the English National Health Service
Creators: name: Sahdev, Anupa
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: This thesis explores the effect of competition on the use of technology amongst healthcare providers, in the English National Health Service, who have been incentivised to compete through the imposition of pro-market reforms. It proposes that health technologies could represent one type of non-price domain standing as a perceived signal of quality through which providers in this publicly funded system can compete for customers. It focuses on one possible mechanism through which providers could respond to competition. Three data sets covering secondary and primary care contexts are constructed and analysed, spanning three clinical domains and technologies. The first study uses hospital admission data to assesses whether elective hernia patients’ choice of hospital provider is a function of the provision of advanced surgical procedures, hypothesising that technology stands as a perceived signal of quality to patients. Estimating a discrete choice model reveals that technology has a positive and significant effect on patient choice, translating to non-trivial demand effects. The second study explores the provision of a high capital technology (CT machines) using a constructed and unique panel data set. It tests whether competitor adoption impacts own firm adoption. Implementation of a fixed effect logit model reveals insignificant results suggesting competition effects in this domain could be weak. The third study turns to the primary care setting and assesses whether competition amongst GP practices in England impacts their use of pharmaceutical innovations. A rich data set containing practices’ prescribing behaviour, GP and patient characteristics is constructed. It is postulated that the provision of new drugs could stand as perceived quality signals to patients and hence in more competitive areas the uptake of these drugs will be faster. Duration analysis reveals, for one of the new drugs considered, competition slows the rate of adoption whilst for the other it shows no significant effect.
Motivational Beliefs of Parents Involved in Ottawa’s Healthy Active Schools
Creators: name: Jackson, Sarah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: motivation
Comprehensive School Health
Health Promotion and Education
Parent Involvement

description: The purpose of this study was to examine parents’ motivational beliefs for involvement in a Comprehensive School Health approach (locally called Healthy Active Schools, or HAS) at their child’s school. Literature suggests that parents’ role construction and parents’ self-efficacy are the most salient influences on parents’ decision to become involved at their child’s school. Twelve parents involved at two urban public elementary schools were interviewed. Questions were based on Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler’s model of parental involvement (1995, 1997, 2005c). Qualitative multiple case study analysis additionally utilized Penner’s (2002) model of sustained volunteerism and Bandura’s collective efficacy theory (1997, 2000; Goddard, Hoy, & Woolfolk-Hoy, 2004) to clarify findings. Results suggest most parents’ strong active role construction and negative valence grounded their parent-focused role orientation. School case study analysis revealed that the principal’s leadership, the structure of the HAS committee and the school’s climate uniquely influenced parents’ beliefs. Individual parent case analysis revealed four distinct patterns of parents’ motivational beliefs for HAS involvement. Future research is warranted to further examine the decisive impact of parents’ health and prosocial values on their decision to become involved specific to a CSH approach type of involvement. Additional case studies in local schools, school districts and provinces are recommended to illuminate unique contextual influences and the potential for the emergence of collective efficacy; including consideration for parents’ belief construct general invitations from the school would contribute to gaining a deeper understanding within this domain. Finally, the link between parents’ motivational beliefs of empowerment and their sustained motivation for involvement needs to be explored further.
Trace Formulas, Invariant Bilinear Forms and Dynkin Indices of Lie Algebra Representations Over Rings
Creators: name: Pham, Khoa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Trace formula
Dynkin index
Invariant bilinear form

description: The trace form gives a connection between the representation ring and the space of invariant bilinear forms of a Lie algebra $L$. This thesis reviews the definition of the trace of an endomorphism of a finitely generated projective module over a commutative ring $R$. We then use this to look at the trace form of a finitely generated projective representation of a Lie algebra $L$ over $R$ and its representation ring. While doing so, we prove a few trace formulas which are useful in the theory of the Dynkin index, an invariant introduced by Dynkin in 1952 to study homomorphisms between simple Lie algebras.
A Suitability Analysis for Local Plant Species installed in Floating Treatment Wetland Systems
Creators: name: Roche, Nikeeta
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2016

description: A Floating Treatment Wetland System is a key sustainable method to aid in reducing and preventing nutrient rich stormwater from entering inland water channels and causing eutrophication. The nutrient uptake efficiency for local macrophytes species in Australia is limited, with many studies completed overseas. The research conducted in this project tested the TSS, TN, TP, Growth Rate, Root Biomass Ratio and Aesthetic Ranking of 6 different local plant species, and a control tank, for the Sunshine Coast region. The final outcome determined the two plants suitable for FTWS as the Ficinia Nodosa and Philydrum Lanuginosum with TSS reduction values of 100% each and TP removal of 63% for Nodosa and 52% Philydrum. Both species had the highest growth rate ranging between 15 - 18% over a seven day period and a biomass ratio of 1.55 and 1.56. Using the data analysed in the study, a correlation can be established between the growth rate, root biomass ratio and the nutrient uptake efficiencies of plant species, in order to provide guidelines for developers and Councils to design and install FTWS.
La propaganda come strumento di consenso di una dittatura: la Libia nelle immagini dell’esperienza coloniale italiana e nella Jamāhīriyya di Qaḏāfī
Creators: name: Massaro, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: La propaganda come strumento di consenso di una dittatura: la Libia nelle immagini dell’esperienza coloniale italiana e nella Jamāhīriyya di QaḏāfīScheda tesi di Elena Massaro
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
La sicurezza nazionale negli Stati Uniti dopo l’11 Settembre
Creators: name: Boca, Marina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: La sicurezza nazionale negli Stati Uniti dopo l’11 Settembre
Scheda tesi di Marina Boca
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Sexual Quality of Life in Young Gynaecological Cancer Survivors
Creators: name: Roussin, Melanie
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: sexual function
gynecologic oncology
sexual health
psychosexual distress
cancer patients
Public health
Other health sciences

description: Due to advances in treatment and early detection, most people who are diagnosed with a gynaecological (GYN) cancer survive. Consequently, there is now an estimated 4 million people living with the aftermaths of GYN cancer globally. A well-established survivorship issue relating to GYN cancer diagnosis and treatment is the impact on sexuality and quality of life. Young gynaecological cancer survivors (YGCS) are particularly at risk of a poor sexual quality of life (SQoL). Yet, evidence-based interventions dedicated to the SQoL of YGCS remain scarce.
description: In this thesis, existing research has been explored in detail and then complemented by in-depth qualitative research exploring the question: “How can we move YGCS towards greater sexual quality of life?” This thesis presents a pragmatic, salutogenic and person-centric approach to a) establishing the risk and protective factors of SQoL, b) identifying the strategies acceptable to YGCS to protect or improve SQoL, and c) developing an intervention approach to guide YGCS towards greater SQoL.
An ideal base station sequence for pattern recognition based handoff in cellular networks
Creators: name: Halgamuge, Malka N.
name: Vu, Hai
name: Kotagiri, Rao
name: Zukerman, Moshe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The significance of having a correct criterion for evaluating handoff methods is that telecommunication providers can choose the right handoff algorithm in a cost effective way. In cellular or micro cellular environments in cities, users often move on predetermined paths. As the built environment is not changed often, this regularity can be exploited in a pattern recognition based handoff method. The most suitable sequence of assigned base stations or the Best Handoff Sequence (BHS) can provide the basis for pattern recognition based handoff methods. This paper describes in detail a computationally simple method to estimate BHS which can also be used as a benchmark for comparing different handoff algorithms. Further, it uses the recent work in Call Quality Signal Level (CQSL) evaluation to compare various well known handoff methods.
Evaluating Recycled Waste Plastic as an Extender and Modifier of Bitumen for Asphalt Production
Creators: name: Hall, Finn
Publisher: name: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: plastic
subject: asphalt
subject: bitumen
subject: modification
subject: construction
subject: sustainability
subject: materials
subject: recycled
subject: pavements
subject: engineering
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Plastic, once hailed as the ‘miracle material’ for its convenience and versality in manufacturing is now at the heart of consumer pollution and epitomises the throwaway culture of the 21st century. Plastic pollution is one of the most talked about challenges facing the environment and demands addressing from local councils and governments. Separately, the civil engineering industry has seen a dramatic shift focussing on environmental sustainability. One proposed method of promoting environmentally friendly construction is the use of recycled construction materials. An application of this that initially appears to directly combat the issues associated with plastic pollution is the incorporation of waste plastic to the bituminous binder portion of an asphalt mixture, for road construction. Previous research has associated waste plastics with an increased resistance to asphalt rutting and an in some cases, an improvement in asphalt mixture fatigue properties – supporting the use of waste plastics to improve some engineering properties of roads. Despite the demonstrated performance improvements associated with waste plastics in asphalt, significant gaps in existing research were identified on the practicalities of implementing this technology, preventing widespread and universal application of ‘plastic roads’.
Identifying host-pathogen interactions which cause severe malaria
Creators: name: Georgiadou, Athina
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Infectious diseases pathogenesis is dependent on the interactions between the host and the pathogen. Being able to simultaneously assess the transcriptomes of both host and pathogen as we have shown here, using dual RNA sequencing of whole blood from Plasmodium falciparum malaria patients, can reveal these crucial interactions. Using Gambian children samples we tried to unravel the mechanisms leading to severe malaria. The main finding was the clear involvement of neutrophil related genes in severe malaria while host gene expression was mainly dependent on pathogen load. Identifying that parasite load imposes a huge effect on host gene expression while being a key determinant of severe disease, we aimed to develop a new method to identify the host mechanisms which constrain parasite growth. Using a mathematical model and RNA sequencing to discover genes positively associated with parasite growth inhibition, we identified Cathepsin G and matrix metallopeptidase 9 (MMP9). Using in vitro validation, I showed that both Cathepsin G and MMP9 decrease parasite growth. They do that using different mechanisms, cathepsin G cleaves red cell surface receptors crucial for the parasite invasion while MMP9 acts directly on the parasite. Our findings underline the importance of accounting for the interaction between host and pathogen when seeking to identify correlates of protection, and reveal novel mechanisms controlling parasite growth in humans. Finally, I used five different parasite strains P. berghei ANKA, P. berghei NK65, P. yoelii 17XL, P. yoelii 17XNL, and P. chabaudi AS to infect C57BL/6 mice and compare the transcriptome of these different malaria models with our human RNA dataset. This experiment revealed a new malarial hyperlactataemia model (P. yoelii 17XL). The mouse hyperlactataemia model also showed the greatest similarity of all the mouse models to the human hyperlactataemia phenotype at a transcriptional level.
A bridging methodology for Internet protocols standards development.
Creators: name: Sales, Igor Saturno Agra.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: An Internet protocol must follow a certain standard set by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Internet Standards are plain text documents that are often hard for implementers to interpret. Hence, IETF requires at least two distinct, interoperable implementations before accepting a proposal as an Internet standard. To improve the quality of the IETF standards, we propose a bridging methodology which uses a semi-formal and a formal description technique to bridge from English to a more precise specification. Our bridging methodology (denoted USHLTD) uses UCMs (Use Case Maps) as the requirements source notation (a semi-formal description technique) and SDL (Specification and Description Language, an executable international standard formal description technique) as the design destination notation. To validate USHLTD, we conduct a case study on a widely deployed Internet routing protocol of great current interest called OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) and a key function, LSA (Link State Advertisement) refreshment. We analyse the results of applying our approach to the case study, and make recommendations for further research and validation.
Fabrication of SnO2 Composite Nanofiber-Based Gas Sensor Using the Electrospinning Method for Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) Detection
Creators: name: Mehrabi, Pouria
name: Hui, Justin
name: Janfaza, Sajjad
name: O’Brien, Allen
name: Tasnim, Nishat
name: Najjaran, Homayoun
name: Hoorfar, Mina
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: This paper presents the development of a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) sensor for the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are of great importance in many applications involving either control of hazardous chemicals or noninvasive diagnosis. In this study, the sensor is fabricated based on tin dioxide (SnO₂) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) using electrospinning. The sensitivity of the proposed sensor is further improved by calcination and gold doping. The gold doping of composite nanofibers is achieved using sputtering, and the calcination is performed using a high-temperature oven. The performance of the sensor with different doping thicknesses and different calcination temperatures is investigated to identify the optimum fabrication parameters resulting in high sensitivity. The optimum calcination temperature and duration are found to be 350 °C and 4 h, respectively and the optimum thickness of the gold dopant is found to be 10 nm. The sensor with the optimum fabrication process is then embedded in a microchannel coated with several metallic and polymeric layers. The performance of the sensor is compared with that of a commercial sensor. The comparison is performed for methanol and a mixture of methanol and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is the primary psychoactive constituent of cannabis. It is shown that the proposed sensor outperforms the commercial sensor when it is embedded inside the channel.
Supplementary document for Deriving high contrast fluorescence microscopy images through low contrast noisy image stacks - 5225290.pdf
Creators: name: Maldonado, Sebastián Acuña
name: Roy, Mayank
name: VILLEGAS, LUIS
name: Dubey, Vishesh Kumar
name: Ahluwalia, Balpreet
name: Agarwal, Krishna
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary notes
Molecular mechanisms and impact of anaesthetics on cancer cell biology
Creators: name: Datoo, Tanweer
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Surgery remains the first-line treatment for patients with localised solid tumours. However, despite the intent to be curative, by removing or reducing the tumour mass, surgery inadvertently opens a window of opportunity for metastatic outbreak that can be fatal. The perioperative period is considered to be a critical phase in influencing long-term cancer outcomes. Anaesthetic agents and/or techniques used during surgery have been suggested to influence postoperative metastatic spread by directly interfering with cancer cell biology, but research remains limited in this area. In this project, the impacts of the volatile inhalational anaesthetic sevoflurane and the intravenous anaesthetic propofol, both used for induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia, were investigated on ovarian cancer cells in vitro. In addition, the effects of two widely used sedatives, dexmedetomidine and midazolam, were investigated on neuroglioma and lung cancer cells in vitro and in a xenograft model of lung carcinoma. The data show that sevoflurane and dexmedetomidine enhanced the metastatic potential of cancer cells, as observed by increased proliferation and migration. Sevoflurane modulated the hypoxia signalling pathway, while dexmedetomidine exerted its effects largely through α2-adrenoceptor activation. Conversely, propofol and midazolam were found to possess anti-cancer properties, particularly through the induction of cancer cell death. Furthermore, midazolam substantially decreased tumour growth in the xenograft model. The data presented in this thesis has important clinical implications, suggesting caution in the use of sevoflurane and dexmedetomidine during the perioperative period, but encouraging the administration of propofol and midazolam, although further studies, in particular clinical trials, are urgently needed. This thesis expands the field of research into anaesthetics and cancer cell biology significantly, likely contributing to the foundation required for further in vivo work and clinical trials to be carried out in order to identify the most appropriate anaesthetic regime(s) to maximise patient survival after cancer surgery.
Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Creators: name: Emanuele Monegato, (A Cura Di)
name: Agnese Visconti, (A Cura Di)
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Call for papers/Convocatoria/Appel à contribution
n.10-11/2013
Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
a cura di Emanuele Monegato e Agnese Visconti
description: Altre Modernità, N° 8 (2012): Orientalismi
Policy-based management of Service Level Agreements in dynamic environments
Creators: name: Baruwal Chhetri, Mohan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis proposes a unified policy-based framework for the adaptive automation of Service Level Agreement (SLA) establishment in diverse and dynamic service provisioning environments such as the cloud. SLA establishment is the process by which, service consumers and providers, with varying and potentially conflicting requirements and capabilities, interact with one another, in order to find mutually acceptable agreements over the service usage terms and conditions prior to its provision and consumption. Adaptive automation of the interaction and decision-making process allows service entities to participate more efficiently and effectively in the quality-aware and quality-assured service provision of services.
Acceleration feedback in model predictive control of electromechanical drive systems.
Creators: name: Ceru, Maricel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This thesis discusses the use of acceleration measurements in predictive control schemes for electromechanical positioning systems. The proposed method is intended to improve the tracking error while maintaining the controllability and the robustness of the' controllers. The influence of acceleration feedback on controllers and observers of predictive type is evaluated, and the results are compared with those obtained by classical control schemes, without this type of feedback. Multiple approaches are subsequently compared, from the classical PID, Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control, to Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) with state feedback and DMC with acceleration feedback (DMC/AF) as well. The simulations and the experiments are done using the framework of MATLAB/Simulink and dSPACE computer packages, on an electromechanical positioning system (EMPS) with friction wheel used at the Cologne Laboratory of Mechatronics (CLM). A controller design suite using GUI developed to facilitate industrial implementation has been used for rapid testing of diverse schemes. The observers for non-measured states were of Kalman filters type. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
(Re)Figuring Pedagogical Flesh: Phenomenologically (Re)Writing the Lived Experiences of Tattooed Teachers
Creators: name: Howard, Tanya K
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: teacher identity
tattoos
tattooed teachers
tattoos in the workplace
body art
body modification
education
phenomenology

description: This hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry describes the lived experiences of three visibly tattooed teachers and what it is like to sense their tattooed flesh while they are at school. Lived experience descriptions were collected during in-depth interviews and from personal reflective writings conducted by the study author, who is also a tattooed teacher. Using hermeneutic research approaches outlined by Max van Manen and Linda Finlay, lifeworld descriptions of visibly tattooed teachers are presented in the form of anecdotal passages that urge readers to ‘step into tattooed skin’. Drawing from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, Luce Irigaray’s work on intersubjectivity, Michel Foucault’s notion of the disciplinary gaze, theories of the look in education forwarded by Madeline Grumet, and Judith Butler’s notion of subversive bodies, meanings are made of tattooed teachers’ experiences of adopting uncomfortable teacher identities and then growing comfortable in their professional roles. Through hermeneutic analysis, five main themes are presented, constituting the “essences” of the phenomemon of living as a visibly tattooed teacher: Trying to Fit; Mis-fit; Fit. You? Fit You!; Fitting In; and One Size Does Not Fit All.
A robotic hoof to enhance slip resistance
Creators: name: Abad Guaman, Sara Adela
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Slippage occurs when the tangential reaction forces cannot counteract the transverse force at the contact point. Slip is a critical challenge in robotic locomotion because it affects the stability and energy efficiency of the robots. To solve this problem, some approaches detect slip by using sensors near or at the bottom of the feet to measure the ground reaction forces or kinematic variables. Nevertheless, the control complexity, the low robustness to noise, and the price of sensors limit the application of these approaches. Recently, bio-inspired designs have shown that the natural dynamics of the body can be used to simplify the control complexity of robots, increment its robustness to perturbations, and improve its energy efficiency. Therefore, this thesis studies how the natural dynamics of a bio-inspired robotic hoof enhance slip resistance. The first analysis comprises designing the robotic hoof and evaluating its slip resistance against that of the conventional approach in robotic feet. Since the robotic hoof exhibits a significantly higher slip resistance than that of the conventional robotic foot, the anisotropy of its slip resistance is analyzed. The results reveal that the slip resistance of the hoof is maximum when the external force and the forward direction of the symmetry axis of the hoof are aligned. Then, by running numerical analysis and experiments, it was found that compliant yaw and pitch and stiff roll are essential for the emergence of the Anti-lock braking system-like behavior and the energy absorbing behavior of the hoof. Depending on the compliance level at the joints, the hoof can store part of the kinematic energy as potential energy. Therefore, these behaviors contribute to improving slip resistance. These findings reveal the importance of the natural dynamics of the body for solving challenging problems such as slippage in robotics.
Additional file 1 of Patient safety culture and associated factors of regional public hospitals in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Yayehrad, Teshome
name: Getachew, Yeneneh
name: Muluken, Workineh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Reintroducing Communication as a Strategy in Printed Evidence-based Medical Materials. Model to Assess Effectiveness
Creators: name: Genova, Juliana
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: evidence-based medicine
printed education materials
Cochrane Collaboration
risk communication
health communication
Gabriel Tarde
readability
usability
plain language

description: Hypotheses on the efficiency of evidence-based printed materials can be directed by health communication concepts. These concepts can provide a general framework that goes beyond the traditional vulgarization point of view: instead, it points towards a strategy to obtain health outcomes and provoke behavior change, from a disease prevention, management and health promotion perspective. The present study proposes a comprehensive framework based on concepts from health risk communication, Tarde's theory of social values, usability, readability and plain language. Using the mapping approach, an evaluation grid was applied to printed evidence-based materials with proven effectiveness, in order to reveal the underlying strategy and isolate the characteristics of effective materials. The results allowed us to define two types of printed evidence-based materials, according to the robustness of the evidence they contain and the target audience. It was also possible to identify indicators of notions that are translated into operationalized items, frequent in those materials that might be responsible for their efficiency: clear purpose of the documents, limited scope, learning motivation and correspondence to the logic, experience and language of readers. Effectiveness of printed evidence-based materials could also be correlated to numeracy, objectiveness, standard definitions, constant timeframes and denominators, risks enumerated in order of importance, effective response, and high degree of threat, urgency, novelty and visibility of the disease. It was also possible to identify some missing communication concepts: cultural diversity, narrative, increased easiness of procedures and aesthetic advantage for the patient. In the process of work, the theory of social values emerged as a dynamic component that can bring together and explain many concepts, as well as physician’s acceptance of the guidelines. Value in terms of usefulness and truth plays a major role in cognitive appreciation of the documents. This concept gives a strategic meaning to the whole work and allows us to better understand attitude and behavior change.
Supplementary document for Deriving high contrast fluorescence microscopy images through low contrast noisy image stacks - 5225290.pdf
Creators: name: Maldonado, Sebastián Acuña
name: Roy, Mayank
name: VILLEGAS, LUIS
name: Dubey, Vishesh Kumar
name: Ahluwalia, Balpreet
name: Agarwal, Krishna
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary notes
Il monolinguismo dell'altro: subalternità, voce e migrazione
Creators: name: Russo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: L'analisi muove dalla produzione narrativa e poetica di autori brasiliani - che scrivono in italiano e portoghese - in un certo senso già consacrati dal canone (se canone esiste) della Letteratura della Migrazione italiana o italofona. Mi piacerebbe indagare maggiormente gli aspetti teorici legati alle questioni della lingua, della voce e del subalterno, e alle rappresentazioni che esse innescano nel campo letterario.
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
L'éducation des élèves réfugiés du niveau secondaire en Ontario : vers un modèle inclusif de prestation de programmes et services?
Creators: name: Dessureault, Marylene
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Réfugiés
Immigrants
Education
Education inclusive
Equité
Ontario
ESL
ELD
ELL
Programmes
Politiques

description: Par le biais d’une étude de cas portant sur un conseil scolaire anglophone ontarien, la recherche entreprise avait pour objectif l’analyse de la mise en œuvre de politiques touchant l’éducation des élèves réfugiés du niveau secondaire en Ontario, soit la politique à l’égard des élèves English language learners de 2007 ainsi que la Stratégie ontarienne d’équité et d’éducation inclusive de 2009. La réalisation d’entrevues semi-dirigées auprès d’informateurs clés du conseil scolaire, du ministère de l’Éducation de l’Ontario et d’un organisme local d’aide à l’établissement des nouveaux arrivants, l’analyse de documents publiés par les deux premières entités ainsi que l’observation non participante à des réunions de comités consultatifs du conseil scolaire ont permis l’exploration de l’impact constaté ou potentiel de la mise en œuvre de ces politiques sur la mise en place d’un modèle de système inclusif de prestation de programmes et services en matière d’éducation des élèves réfugiés du niveau secondaire.
Publicar... ¿En libertad? Notas sobre las editoriales cubanas en el exilio
Creators: name: Bajini, Irina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Publicar... ¿En libertad? Notas sobre las editoriales cubanas en el exilio
description: Altre Modernità, N° 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Literacy acquisition: A developmental study of phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge and working memory.
Creators: name: Amini Baghbadorani, Afsaneh.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This study generally endeavoured to explore the development of literacy acquisition in Persian first language learners. To achieve this goal, the study did not focus on a narrow range of variables. There was a strong need for multivariate research taking into consideration phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge and working memory. The study comprised five phases. Phase One addressed the interrelation and development of two levels of phonological awareness: syllable awareness and phoneme awareness. Phase Two focused on the interrelation and development of various levels of orthographic knowledge including alphabetic knowledge, reading words, reading nonwords, spelling words, spelling nonwords, orthographic choice as well as the use of analogy and phonology in reading and spelling of nonwords. An attempt was made in Phase Three to examine the development of working memory. In Phase Four, the interrelation and contribution of phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge and working memory to reading and spelling achievement were surveyed jointly and individually. In the final phase, Phase Five, the factoring of all variables together and their functions in group distinction were determined. The sample consisted of 156 Persian-speaking students: 21 kindergartners, 121 elementary students enrolled in Grades one to five, and 14 undergraduate university students. This study offers several suggestions for further research and important educational implications for teachers, material developers as well as test and curriculum designers working with Persian language learners. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Upstream traceability of medicinal and aromatic plants from Morocco
Creators: name: Ennabili, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70307 Crop and Pasture Post Harvest Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70304 Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts
subject: 70502 Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts
subject: 70506 Forestry Product Quality Assessment
subject: 70605 Post Harvest Horticultural Technologies (incl. Transportation and Storage)

description: Unlike the colonial era in the Maghreb, where the field of applied botany was oriented towards the inventory of flora useful for their exploitation and mobilization, the ethnobotanical approach is focused on preserving the national cultural heritage since the Moroccan Independence. Traceability is a topical subject that covers different concepts : security, transparency of the products origin, fairness of commercial transactions, and quality in general. It considers recent regulatory developments as well as the development of new tools of products identification. This paper defines the context of upstream traceability of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants from Morocco, and highlights its scientific and socio-economic interest, and proposes a technical approach to be integrated into the national legal arsenal.
Historical Deposition and Microbial Redox Cycling of Mercury in Lake Sediments from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Brazeau, Michelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: mercury
organic matter
bacterial mercury resistance
mer operon
lake sediment
Hudson Bay Lowlands

description: The repercussions of climate change are felt worldwide, but Arctic and subarctic regions, where climate warming is expected to be amplified, are especially vulnerable. An episode of mass fish mortality in the Sutton River in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) of Northern Ontario has elicited the interest of the scientific community. Several lakes were sampled over three years in an effort to better understand and document the changes that may be occurring in these lakes. This study uses sediment cores to assess the history of mercury (Hg) deposition and to assess changes occurring in autochthonous productivity in these lakes. Sediments deposited after the onset of the industrial revolution contained significantly higher concentrations of Hg, with the highest concentrations found in the most recently deposited sediments. Hg concentrations in these pristine lakes rival those of lakes in heavily urbanized areas, indicating that they are in fact subjected to atmospheric deposition of Hg. There was a large variation in [Hg] of the surface sediments of 13 lakes; underscoring the importance of in situ processes in the fate of atmospherically deposited Hg. Methylmercury (MeHg) concentrations were not correlated with total mercury concentrations (THg), demonstrating how THg is a poor predictor of MeHg; the bioaccumulative neurotoxic form of mercury. The S2 fraction of Rock-Eval® Pyrolysis, C:N ratios and ∂13C signatures were used as proxies of autochthonous carbon and all indicated that the lakes have become increasingly productive, presumably due to warmer water temperatures and longer ice-free seasons. Additionally, I use molecular techniques to detect and quantify the merA gene in the sediment; a proxy of bacterial mercury resistance involved in redox transformations. In Aquatuk, Hawley and North Raft Lakes, I observed a subsurface increase in merA genes in the sediment core, independently of a control gene and the [THg]. While I have not been able to explain the driving variables of this subsurface increase, I believe that the role of merA within remote lake sediments deserves further work. Lastly, microcosms were used to measure the production of volatile elemental mercury (Hg(0)) from surface sediments of Aquatuk Lake. I used a combination of analytical and molecular techniques to show that the production of Hg(0) is biogenic and tested the effect of nutrients, pH and ionic strength on the Hg(0) production rates. Ionic strength alone had the greatest impact on Hg(0) production rates, with increased Hg(0) production as ionic strength increases.
title: ERGO: Breaking down the wall between human health and environmental testing of endocrine disrupters
title: Breaking down the wall between human health and environmental testing of endocrine disrupters
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Arning, Jürgen
name: Holbech, Henrik
name: Matthiessen, Peter
name: Hansen, Martin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Endokrine Wirkung
OECD
Interspeziesextrapolation

description: ERGO (EndocRine Guideline Optimization) is the acronym of a European Union-funded research and innovation action, that aims to break down the wall between mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrate regulatory testing of endocrine disruptors (EDs), by identifying, developing and aligning thyroid-related biomarkers and endpoints (B/E) for the linkage of effects between vertebrate classes. To achieve this, an adverse outcome pathway (AOP) network covering various modes of thyroid hormone disruption (THD) in multiple vertebrate classes will be developed. The AOP development will be based on existing and new data from in vitro and in vivo experiments with fish, amphibians and mammals, using a battery of different THDs. This will provide the scientifically plausible and evidence-based foundation for the selection of B/E and assays in lower vertebrates, predictive of human health outcomes. These assays will be prioritized for validation at OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) level. ERGO will re-think ED testing strategies from in silico methods to in vivo testing and develop, optimize and validate existing in vivo and early life-stage OECD guidelines, as well as new in vitro protocols for THD. This strategy will reduce requirements for animal testing by preventing duplication of testing in mammals and non-mammalian vertebrates and increase the screening capacity to enable more chemicals to be tested for ED properties. © 2020 by the authors
Improved genetic distance-based spatial deployment can effectively minimize inbreeding in seed orchard
Creators: name: Yang, Boning
name: Sun, Haihong
name: Qi, Jiandong
name: Niu, Shihui
name: El-Kassaby, Yousry A.
name: Li, Wei
Publisher: name: Springer Singapore
Year: 2020

description: Background: Inbreeding in seed orchards is expected to increase with the advancement of breeding cycles, which results in the delivery of crops with suboptimal genetic gain, reduced genetic diversity, and lower seed set. Here, a genetic distance-dependent method for clonal spatial deployment in seed orchards was developed and demonstrated, which reduced the inbreeding levels. The method’s main evaluation parameter of inbreeding is the genetic distance among individuals and the deployment method used an improved adaptive parallel genetic algorithm (IAPGA) based on Python language. Using inbreeding-prone Chinese Mongolian pine breeding population material originating from a single natural population, the proposed method was compared to a traditional orchard design and a distance-based design; namely, complete randomized block (RCB) and optimum neighborhood (ONA) designs, respectively. Results: With the advancement of selective breeding cycles, group separation among orchard related individuals is expected to increase. Based on the genetic distance among individuals, the IAPGA design was superior in significantly reducing the inbreeding level as compared to the two existing designs, confirming its suitability to advanced-generation orchards where relatedness among parents is common. In the 1st, 2nd, and mixed generations clonal deployment schemes, the IAPGA design produced lower inbreeding with 87.22%, 81.49%, and 87.23% of RCB, and 92.78%, 91.30%, and 91.67% of ONA designs, respectively. Conclusions: The IAPGA clonal deployment proposed in this study has the obvious advantage of controlling inbreeding, and it is expected to be used in clonal deployment in seed orchards on a large-scale. Further studies are needed to focus on the actual states of pollen dispersal and mating in seed orchards, and more assumptions should be taken into account for the optimized deployment method.
Additional file 1 of Biochemical characterisation and production kinetics of high molecular-weight (HMW) putative antibacterial proteins of insect pathogenic Brevibacillus laterosporus isolates
Creators: name: Babar, Tauseef K.
name: Glare, Travis R.
name: Hampton, John G.
name: Hurst, Mark R. H.
name: Narciso, Josefina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Verso un'estetica della macchina. Le nozioni di oggetto e di reale nella produzione artistica postmoderna
Creators: name: Frangi, Simone
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il saggio esamina la pratica del ready-made nella scena artistica post-storica. Nel contesto di una ricodificazione del rapporto tra artistico e politico, i concetti di reale e oggetto veicolano una riflessione sul problema del realismo nella produzione Pop e Minimalista. Grazie ad una costellazione di autori (Lyotard, Deleuze e Guattari, Francastel, Lacan, Rancière) esploreremo il modo in cui il Postmoderno modula la propria impresa veritativa catturando atti extra-artistici e registrando l’emergenza di una dimensione macchinina. Towards an aesthetics of the machine.The notions of object and real in postmodernist artistic productionThis essay is conceived as a theoretical inquiry that seeks to examine ready-made practice as one of the most pertinent moments of the genesis of the post-historical artistic scene. In the framework of a recoded articulation of the art and the politics, concepts of Real and object will constitute the ground for a theoretical speculation on the question of realism in Pop Art and Minimalism. Thanks to a constellation of authors (Lyotard, Deleuze e Guattari, Francastel, Lacan, Rancière) we will explore how Postmodernism shapes its enterprise by “capturing” extra-artistic acts and how this intrusion implies the emergence of mechanical dimension.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Supplementary document for Optical Microlever Assisted DNA Stretching - 5225391.pdf
Creators: name: Andrew, Philippa-Kate
name: Avci, Ebubekir
name: Williams, Bill
name: Fan, Daniel
name: Raudsepp, Allan
name: Staufer, Urs
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Additional figures for lever tracking
“Altrove che nella verità?”. Filosofia, scienza e vita nel pensiero di Georges Canguilhem
Creators: name: Poccia, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Secondo Georges Canguilhem non c’è verità se non quella prodotta e non scoperta dalla scienza. È il valore stesso della filosofia ad essere “altrove che nella verità”. Questo valore non veritativo risiede forse, per il pensatore francese, in qualcosa che egli definisce come un senso o un concetto iscritto materialmente nella vita. È il vivente stesso, quel vivente di cui la scienza in quanto ricerca della verità è a sua volta una semplice espressione, a contenere il concetto, o meglio, ad essere il movimento stesso della concettualizzazione.“Elsewherethan in the truth?” Philosophy, science and life in Georges Canguilhem'sthought. Accordingto Georges Canguilhem thereis no truththan the oneyieldedbutnotdiscoveredby science. Being “Elsewherethan in the truth” is the valueitselfofphilosophy”. For the Frenchthinker, this no truthfulvaluemaylie in somethinghedefines a sense or conceptmateriallywritten in the life. It's the living phenomenaitself, ofwhich science assearchfor the truthis at sametime a simpleexpression, thatcontains the concept or evenbetter, thatis the movementofconceptualization.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità
Infant bouncing: Analysis of skilled and less-skilled behaviour.
Creators: name: Vallis, Lori Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Human Development.

description: This study examined joint kinematics and muscle activation patterns produced by infants of different bouncing skill levels as they bounced in a Jolly Jumper harness system. The relationship between three components of bouncing was also determined. The three components were: (i) the oscillation pattern of the mass-spring system which can be characterized as a harmonic oscillator; (ii) the baby's contribution to the bouncing behaviour which can be characterized in part as a forcing function and in part as a harmonic oscillator; and (iii) the combination of these two components which corresponds to the output or the bouncing behaviour. Infants (N = 9) were instrumented with five surface electrodes over the lower leg muscles and dressed in black tights and a black long-sleeved body suit with reflective markers placed on the tights over seven body landmarks. Infants were then supported in a modified Jolly Jumper harness and encouraged to bounce. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Diagramma e piegatura: (dis)funzioni di verità
Creators: name: Mazzocchi, Mauro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Nella pragmatica foucaultina, come nella metafisica di Leibniz, si intravedono delle prospettive di dislocazione e rivalutazione delle pratiche di verità, distribuite secondo due macchinazioni dominanti: la macchina informale diagrammatica e la piega infinita barocca. Installandosi nella venatura tracciata da Deleuze, si prova a mettere in luce i suddetti meccanismi e ad osservare quali riconfigurazioni intacchino un'ipotetica macchina di verità.Diagram and pleat: (mal)function of truthIn Foucault’s pragmatics, as in Leibniz’s metaphysics, it is possible to glimpse some possible dislocation and revaluation of truth-practices, distributed along two dominating machinations: the informal diagrammatic machine and the infinite baroque pleat. Setting ourselves on the trail blazed by Deleuze, we try to highlight the above mentioned mechanisms and to observe which configurations bear on an hypothetic truth-machine.
description: Nóema, N° 2 (2011): Oggettività e realismo: l'ultima impresa della verità