cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integrating Business Process Management To Model Context In Healthcare: A Case Study Using Perioperative Processes
Creators: name: Harris, Amos
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Business Process Management
Context
Context Modeling
Integration

description: A growing number of initiatives in recent studies have continued to pursue improvements in e-business through the use of Business Process Management (BPM) methods and tools. However there are still some limitations that need to be addressed. While BPM has been beneficial in healthcare, there are issues around context. These involve a clear need for approaches that facilitate the understanding of context when implementing healthcare processes. This thesis introduces a BPM framework and its supporting methodology for representing and modeling context for information systems design. Scenario compositions are developed as a mechanism for linking descriptive workflow information and graphical models representing many viewpoints involved in the system development and use processes. Design patterns are used as a common information platform to bridge different context representation formats. By combining scenarios and design patterns representing context, chains of relations between context, their triggering factors, and their influences on user actions can explicitly be described and modeled.
A nationwide assessment of lifestyle medicine counseling: knowledge, attitudes, and confidence of Israeli senior family medicine residents
Creators: name: Malatskey, Lilach
name: Bar Zeev, Yael
name: Polak, Rani
name: Tzuk-Onn, Adva
name: Frank, Erica
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background Non-communicable diseases are the leading causes of death, largely due to the last century’s often-unhealthy lifestyles. Family medicine (FM) and other physicians can improve patients’ lifestyle behaviors, yet FM residency programs in Israel and other countries do not uniformly deliver lifestyle medicine (LM) training. The readiness of FM residents to counsel on lifestyle issues is not known. The purpose of this study is to assess knowledge, attitudes, and confidence levels of senior Israeli FM residents regarding LM counseling, and to evaluate the influence of LM training and personal health behaviors on residents’ LM knowledge, attitudes, and confidence. Methods From May to June 2017, we surveyed all senior Israeli FM residents regarding their knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and personal health behaviors. We compared health behaviors, attitudes, and confidence in counselling between: 1) trained residents vs. untrained residents; 2) physically active residents vs. not physically active residents; 3) residents with a BMI < 25 vs. those with a BMI > 25; and 4) residents who eat a Mediterranean diet vs. those who do not. Results A total of 169 senior Israeli FM residents were surveyed, and 143 completed the survey, a response rate of 84.6%. Senior FM residents said they considered LM counseling to be an integral part of their role and an effective tool by which to improve a patient’s health. Yet, their knowledge of LM and their confidence in delivering LM counseling are low. Compared with untrained residents (n = 84), LM-trained residents (n = 55) had higher knowledge scores (30.9% vs. 13.1%, p = 0.016) and were more confident in their ability to impact their patients’ behaviors (53.7% vs. 34.5%, p = 0.004). Residents’ positive personal health behaviors correlated with a higher level of confidence to provide LM counseling. Conclusions FM physicians can play a key role in the management of patients with chronic diseases. Israeli FM residents consider counseling patients about a healthy lifestyle to be an integral part of their work, but do not feel well prepared to do so. Dedicated LM training and resident’s personal health promotion may improve critically important levels of LM counseling and patient outcomes, and this training should therefore become a higher priority.
Assessment of contaminants of emerging concern in European apex predators and their prey by LC-QToF MS wide-scope target analysis
Creators: name: Badry, Alexander
name: Gkotsis, Georgios
name: Claßen, Daniela
name: Nika, Maria-Christina
name: Drost, Wiebke
name: Nikolopoulou, Varvara
name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Treu, Gabriele
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Arzneimittel
Bioakkumulation
Chemikalienmanagement
Flüssigkeitsanalyse
Persistenz
Schadstoffbelastung
Toxizität

description: Apex predators are good indicators of environmental pollution since they are relatively long-lived and their high trophic position and spatiotemporal exposure to chemicals provides insights into the persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) properties of chemicals. Although monitoring data from apex predators can considerably support chemicalsâ€Ì management, there is a lack of pan-European studies, and longer-term monitoring of chemicals in organisms from higher trophic levels. The present study investigated the occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in 67 freshwater, marine and terrestrial apex predators and in freshwater and marine prey, gathered from four European countries. Generic sample preparation protocols for the extraction of CECs with a broad range of physicochemical properties and the purification of the extracts were used. The analysis was performed utilizing liquid (LC) chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), while the acquired chromatograms were screened for the presence of more than 2,200 CECs through wide-scope target analysis. In total, 145 CECs were determined in the apex predator and their prey samples belonging in different categories, such as pharmaceuticals, plant protection products, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, their metabolites and transformation products. Higher concentration levels were measured in predators compared to prey, suggesting that biomagnification of chemicals through the food chain occurs. The compounds were prioritized for further regulatory risk assessment based on their frequency of detection and their concentration levels. The majority of the prioritized CECs were lipophilic, although the presence of more polar contaminants should not be neglected. This indicates that holistic analytical approaches are required to fully characterize the chemical universe of biota samples. Therefore, the present survey is an attempt to systematically investigate the presence of thousands of chemicals at a European level, aiming to use these data for better chemicals management and contribute to EU Zero Pollution Ambition. © 2022 The Authors.
Das polychrom gefasste Sandsteinportal im Flaschenturm des Schlosses Hartenfels zu Torgau in Sachsen: Eine exemplarische Untersuchung zur polychromen Bauplastik und zu ihrer Erhaltungsproblematik
Creators: name: Silligmann, Stephanie
Publisher: name: HAWK Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen
Year: 2007
Subjects: Conservation science

description: Schloss Hartenfels zu Torgau wandelte sich unter Beteiligung bekannter Baumeister und Künstler seit Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts von einer heterogenen spätmittelalterlichen Burganlage zum neuzeitlichen Wohnschloss. Nach dem Ende der höfischen Nutzung im 18. Jahrhundert erlebte es eine wechselvolle Geschichte. Trotz erheblicher baulicher Veränderungen hat sich im Flaschenturm von der repräsentativen Ausstattung des Schlosses der größte Bestand erhalten: ein reich verziertes, polychrom gefasstes Sandsteinportal sowie Wandmalereien. Der Flaschenturm soll restauriert und anschließend museal genutzt werden. Die Ergebnisse der seit 2005 laufenden sondierenden Untersuchungen dienen der Konzeptfindung. Die vorliegende Master-Thesis soll hierzu einen Beitrag leisten. Die Nutzungs- und Restaurierungsgeschichte des Turmes insbesondere des Portals wurde so umfassend wie möglich erforscht und die Befundsicherung am Portal mit verschiedenen Untersuchungen vertieft. Für einen restauratorischen Vergleich polychromer Bauplastik des 16. Jahrhunderts wurden in den Städten Torgau und Dresden insgesamt elf Referenzobjekte ausgewählt und im Hinblick auf Fassungsbestand sowie denkmalpflegerischen Umgang mit dem Portal im Flaschenturm verglichen. Die Arbeit endet mit Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit dem Portal unter Berücksichtigung konservatorischer, historischer, ästhetischer sowie allgemein denkmalpflegerischer Aspekte. Zur Überprüfung und Veranschaulichung wurde eine Musterfläche angelegt.
Thermochronology of Early Jurassic Exhumation of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, West-central Yukon
Creators: name: Knight, Eleanor
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cordillera
Yukon-Tanana terrane
geochronology
thermochronology
Jurassic
exhumation
extension

description: This study utilised U-Pb geochronology, and 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochro-nology to delineate arc magmatism, metamorphism, and exhumation of the pericratonic Yukon-Tanana terrane in the McQuesten map area of west-central Yukon, Canada. SHRIMP U-Pb ages delineate Mid to Late Paleozoic arc magmatism and fit key units into the regional lithotectonic framework of the terrane. The juxtaposition of unmetamorphosed and predomi-nantly undeformed Devono-Mississippian rocks in the northwest of the study area with polydeformed and up to amphibolite facies metamorphosed rocks in the southwest suggests a crustal-scale discontinuity, the Willow Lake fault, bounds the two domains. The asymmetric distribution of 40Ar/39Ar ages across the fault suggest it is extensional, and was active in the Early Jurassic. Zircon (U-Th)/He ages delineate erosion of rocks in the northwest through the upper crust during the Late Triassic and Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous followed by Mid-dle Cretaceous erosion of the southwestern domain and possibly fault reactivation.
Heat in Germany: Health risks and preventive measures
Creators: name: Winklmayr, Claudia
name: Mücke, Hans-Guido
name: Matthies-Wiesler, Franziska
name: Muthers, Stefan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Morbidität
Sterblichkeit
Vulnerabilität
Gesundheitsvorsorge
Schadensvorsorge

description: Hintergrund: Der Klimawandel hat in Deutschland bereits zu einer deutlichen Temperaturzunahme geführt. So lag die Mitteltemperatur im vergangenen Jahrzehnt rund 2˚C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau und acht der zehn heißesten Sommer seit Beginn der systematischen Wetteraufzeichnungen im Jahr 1881 wurden in den letzten 30 Jahren verzeichnet. Methode: Der Artikel fasst, basierend auf einer selektiven Literaturrecherche und eigenen Auswertungen, den aktuellen Wissensstand zu Hitze und ihren gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen für Deutschland zusammen, geht auf Anpassungsmaßnahmen ein und gibt einen Ausblick auf Umsetzungs- und Forschungsfragen. Ergebnisse: Hitze kann bestehende Beschwerden wie Erkrankungen des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems, der Atemwege oder der Nieren verschlimmern und bei zahlreichen Medikamenten teils schwerwiegende Nebenwirkungen auslösen. Während Hitzeperioden wird regelmäßig ein deutlicher Anstieg der Sterbefälle beobachtet. Bisherige Ansätze zur Abmilderung gesundheitlicher Auswirkungen hoher Temperaturen umfassen z.B. die Hitzewarnungen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes sowie Handlungsempfehlungen für die Erstellung von Hitzeaktionsplänen. Schlussfolgerungen: Die Evidenz zu Gesundheitsauswirkungen von Hitze und das Bewusstsein für die Notwendigkeit von gesundheitsbezogenem Hitzeschutz sind in den letzten Jahren gewachsen, dennoch besteht weiterer Handlungs-und Forschungsbedarf. Quelle: © Robert Koch Institut
description: Background: Climate change has already led to a significant temperature increase in Germany. The average temperature in the past decade was approximately 2˚C above the pre-industrial level and eight of the ten hottest summers since the beginning of systematic weather records in 1881 were recorded in the last 30 years. Methods: Based on a selective literature search and authors' evaluations, the article summarises the current state of knowledge on heat and its health impacts for Germany, addresses adaptation measures, and gives an outlook on implementation and research questions. Results: Heat can aggravate pre-existing conditions such as diseases of the cardiovascular system, the respiratory tract, or the kidneys and trigger potentially harmful side effects for numerous medications. A significant increase in mortality is regularly observed during heat events. Previous approaches to mitigate the health impact of high temperatures include, for example, the heat alerts of the German Meteorological Service and recommendations for the preparation of heat-health action plans. Conclusions: Evidence on health impacts of heat and awareness of the need for heat-related health protection have grown in recent years, but there is still a need for further action and research. Source: © Robert Koch Institute
Genetic Ablation of cIAP2 Results in a Protection Against Denervation-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy
Creators: name: Timusk, Kristen S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011

description: Skeletal muscle atrophy occurs as a secondary result from a number of conditions such as cancer cachexia, prolonged bed rest, and AIDS. Unfortunately, the cellular and molecular mechanisms behind atrophy are still poorly understood. It was recently found that the cellular inhibitors of apoptosis (cIAP1 and cIAP2) proteins play vital, yet redundant roles in the regulation of the NF-κB pathway, which is one of the most significant signalling pathways correlated with the loss of skeletal muscle mass in a number of conditions. I asked whether cIAP2 plays a role in skeletal muscle atrophy, using a denervation model which results in a consistent and rapid loss of muscle mass over a matter of days. cIAP2-/- and wild-type mice were denervated by removing a small portion of the sciatic nerve in the mid-thigh region of one limb, while the opposite limb was used as control. Fourteen days following sciatic nerve denervation, muscle tissue was harvested and the fibre cross-sectional area measured. I demonstrate that in the cIAP2-/- mice, muscle fibre size was spared when compared with their wild-type counterparts. To further support this phenotype, western blot analyses were performed with the muscles collected, which indicated a reduction in various muscle atrophy markers in the cIAP2-/- mice compared to wild-type, further supporting the observed protective phenotype. These data suggest that cIAP2 is a key regulator of skeletal muscle atrophy.
Brain electrical activity topography in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Creators: name: Farrow, Maree J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood psychiatric disorder characterized by developmentally inappropriate levels of inattentiveness, impulsivity and hyperactivity. Current theories of ADHD cite evidence from neuropsychological and brain imaging studies suggesting that abnormalities in the structure and function of the frontal lobes and connected brain regions are associated with impaired behavioural inhibition, constituting the primary deficit in ADHD. While most reviewers conclude that neuropsychological studies have failed to find specific deficits in various aspects of attention in ADHD, poor performance on attentional tasks, including the continuous performance task (CPT), is a common finding and previous electrophysiological studies suggest evidence of impaired attentional processing. This study aimed to investigate the cortical activity associated with attentional processes in children with and without ADHD, using steady-state probe topography (SSPT). Seventeen boys diagnosed with ADHD and seventeen age matched control boys participated. Changes in the amplitude and latency of the steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) associated with correct responses to targets in the ‘X’ and ‘AX’ versions of the CPT were examined. At critical time points in both tasks, the control group demonstrated SSVEP changes suggesting increased activation and increased speed of neural processing. These effects occurred predominantly in medial frontal, right prefrontal, right parietal and occipital regions, suggesting enhanced activity in regions previously shown to be involved in attentional processes. The ADHD group demonstrated much smaller increases in activation and processing speed in frontal regions and predominantly reduced activation and slower processing in parieto-occipital regions. Group differences suggesting reduced activity in the ADHD group were observed in response to the presentation of both cues and targets, as well as in the intervals leading up to target presentation, especially in the cued CPT-AX. These results suggest that processing of task relevant stimuli as well as preparatory and motor processes may be associated with dysfunctional activation of brain networks of attention in ADHD, involving deficits in both frontal and parietal cortical regions. These regions may also be involved in the maintenance of information required for correct task performance and the results also suggest possible deficits in these processes in ADHD. The findings are consistent with others of reduced activation and cognitive deficits in ADHD involving these brain regions and networks, and with the idea that ADHD may be associated with a diminished ability to regulate levels of arousal and activation appropriate to task demands.
Additional file 1 of Implementation of three innovative interventions in a psychiatric emergency department aimed at improving service use: a mixed-method study
Creators: name: Gabet, Morgane
name: Grenier, Guy
name: Zhirong Cao
name: Fleury, Marie-Josée
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

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Unsupervised and supervised data classification via nonsmooth and global optimization
Creators: name: Bagirov, A. M.
name: Rubinov, A. M.
name: Soukhoroukova, N. V.
name: Yearwood, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We examine various methods for data clustering and data classification that are based on the minimization of the so-called cluster function and its modications. These functions are nonsmooth and nonconvex. We use Discrete Gradient methods for their local minimization. We consider also a combination of this method with the cutting angle method for global minimization. We present and discuss results of numerical experiments.
title: Bottleneck Analysis of Cports
Creators: name: Kajuluri, SreeKalyana Chakravarthy
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2004

description: CPortS is a transportation logistics simulation that models the flow of military cargo through a seaport and the interaction of the cargo with the port resources and infrastructure. It provides information about the seaport's capabilities, how the cargo has been handled, how many days the cargo took to clear a particular port area, and the overall throughput of the seaport. The model is highly data intensive since it models the huge traffic in a real seaport.

Bottlenecks reduce system performance. Systems that are traffic intensive or simulations of systems, which are data intensive, encounter bottlenecks, which reduce their performance. In order to improve the system performance it is necessary to study the cause of the system bottlenecks and find a way to overcome them. This thesis provides support for Bottleneck analysis of CportS. The thesis stresses mainly on the "Shifting Bottleneck Detection Method" which considers system bottlenecks to be dynamic (shifting from one system component/aspect to another) rather than being static. In addition, a comparative study of the various bottleneck detection strategies will be made by applying them to the CPortS model to uphold the dominance of the shifting bottleneck detection method.

The following study deals in depth with the various bottleneck detection strategies and comes out with a suitable bottleneck detection methodology applicable to the CPortS model. It concludes with the testing results for the proposed methodology.
Uncertainty in Real-World Vehicle Routing: Appendix
Creators: name: Sobotka, Václav
name: Rudová, Hana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The document is a technical appendix of the paper Uncertainty in Real-World Vehicle Routing presented at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024 (ECAI). The appendix is divided into four sections. Appendix A presents a full formal model of the real-world vehicle routing problem addressed in the paper. Appendix B describes the technical concepts allowing for computationally efficient implementation of the described penalty and chance constraint strategies in pickup and delivery problems. Appendix C discusses general guidelines and observations related to parameterization. Appendix D presents detailed runtime tables from the scaling experiments.
Überarbeitung und Aktualisierung des Leitfadens zur Emissionsüberwachung nicht genehmigungsbedürftiger Anlagen im Sinne der 1. BImSchV
Creators: name: Wilbring, Peter
name: Schroers, Stefanie
name: Steinhagen, Ruth
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kleinfeuerungsanlage
subject: Erste BImSchV
subject: Schornsteinfeger
subject: Emissionsüberwachung
subject: Messeinrichtung
subject: Eignungsprüfung
subject: Qualitätssicherung
subject: 1. BImSchV
subject: Überwachungsmessung
subject: Emissionsmessung
subject: Luft

description: Im vorliegenden Leitfaden werden die Vorschriften, Messverfahren und gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen der 1. ⁠BImSchV⁠ zusammenfassend dargestellt. Neben der Beschreibung der Messaufgaben wird zusätzlich auf die eingesetzte Messtechnik eingegangen. Darüber hinaus wird der Ablauf einer Emissionsmessung und die Einbindung und Verantwortlichkeit der zuständigen Stellen beschrieben. Die Maßnahmen zur Qualitätssicherung werden dargestellt und ein Einblick in das Verfahren der Eignungsprüfung von Messeinrichtungen mit den zugehörigen Mindestanforderungen und Prüfplänen gegeben.
A pilot trial of 'Panic Online' as a self-guided treatment for panic disorder
Creators: name: Klein, Britt
name: Shandley, Kerrie
name: Austin, David
name: Nordin, Sara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Panic Online (PO) is a well-established evidence-based internet intervention program for panic disorder (PD) (with or without agoraphobia), when supported by a therapist (email or face-to-face). However, there has been no exploration to date as to whether PO is also effective when administered in a self-guided format (i.e. with no therapist assistance provided). The objective of this pilot trial was to examine whether PO as a self-guided program was effective at reducing panic symptomatology and furthermore, whether participants found the program format satisfactory. Pre- and post-treatment clinical interviews were conducted by telephone with six participants and experience of using the self-guided PO program was also explored. Paired samples t-tests revealed that PD and agoraphobia were significantly reduced by post-treatment, but panic frequency (over the previous month) did not significantly change. Qualitatively, all participants reported being satisfied with the program, however all participants reported that access to human support during the intervention (e.g. to answer questions, to be heard, to help motivate) was preferable. Initial pilot data suggests that PO self-guided works effectively as a stand-alone clinical internet-based treatment program for PD, however additional research is required to definitively establish its efficacy.
Additional file 1 of Alpha-enolase in viral target cells suppresses the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integration
Creators: name: Kishimoto, Naoki
name: Yamamoto, Kengo
name: Iga, Nozomi
name: Kirihara, Chie
name: Towa Abe
name: Nobutoki Takamune
name: Misumi, Shogo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Effects of untagged ENO1 in HIV-1 target cells.
Modelling and Optimization of Batch Manufacturing Systems under Environmental and Economic Considerations
Creators: name: Jafartayari, Saman
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Batch Manufacturing
Taguchi
Optimization
Sustainability
Environment
Mathematical Modelling

description: Nowadays, minimization of the negative environmental impact of manufacturing processes is considered one of the most challenging problems in various industrial fields. Research communities and environmental legislators are continuously working to address these problems by placing significant efforts in devising new strategies to increase environmental sustainability. One of these problems is the lack of a comprehensive framework that can simultaneously improve economic aspects and lessen the impact on the environment. The need for a mathematical model that can assist firms in reaching suitable investment decisions has become of paramount importance. In this context, this study aims at optimizing the environmental and economic sustainability of batch production systems (i.e. a series of workstations where products are manufactured in batches). To this end, a profit maximization model was created by incorporating constraints such as budget, demand, greenhouse gas emissions and hazardous wastes within the manufacturing stage of product life cycle. Moreover, the model provides detailed guidelines on required improvements in a specific manufacturing system and calculates the investment associated with such implementations. This new approach was tested by using two different software packages and results were probed and discussed in different scenarios to investigate its validity. Sensitivity analysis and simulation results proved the consistency of the proposed mathematical model. In particular, in order to further assess the validity of the model, a pharmaceutical plant was selected as a case study, which also permitted discussion on additional aspects of the problem.
Development and Environmental Application of Microbial Bioreporters of Oxidative Stress
Creators: name: Morin, Felix
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Bioreporter
E.coli
Oxidative Stress
Inorganic Toxicants
Environmental Samples

description: There is a need for a sensitive, specific, rapid and cost-effective assay that can be used as an early warning signal of contamination of aquatic ecosystems. The purpose of this work was to develop a sensitive stress-specific microbial bioreporter responsive to pro-oxidants. Furthermore, the bioreporter was designed to be applicable in environments possibly affected by metal processing activities. An E.coli bioreporter was developed containing a plasmid with the katG promoter sequence as the sensing sequence and with mCherry as the reporter protein. The bioreporter responded to metal pro-oxidants (Cd, As, Zn, Pb, Ag and Ag nanoparticles). A new assay growth-medium was developed and contributed to improve the sensitivity of our assay that has the best detection limit to inorganic pro-oxidants compared to other oxidative-stress sensitive bioreporters in the literature. The bioreporter detected pro-oxidants in environmental samples. The assay has a reasonable sensitivity, however, it still lacks sensitivity to detect pro-oxidants at concentrations lower than those shown to be toxic to many aquatic species. Within-lab reproducibility and robustness were determined to be acceptable. For stress-specific bioreporters to be incorporated in regulative legislations and industrial monitoring programs there is a need to improve the sensitivity of these assays, they need to be calibrated with other relevant pro-oxidants, inter-lab reproducibility needs to be established and robustness to environmental samples needs to be further tested. To further validate the sensitivity and ecotoxicological relevance of the bioreporter as a relevant predictive tool, stress-specific bioreporter assays need to be performed in parallel with traditional ecotoxicological assays using contaminated environmental samples.
Nonuniform Coverage with Time-Varying Risk Density Function
Creators: name: Yazdan Panah, Arian
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Nonuniform coverage
Risk density function
Agents
Asymptotic stability
Co–operative control
Optimization problems
Voronoi tessellation
State feedback

description: Multi-agent systems are extensively used in several applications. An important class of applications involves the optimal spatial distribution of a group of mobile robots on a given area, where the optimality refers to the assignment of subregions to the robots, in such a way that a suitable coverage metric is maximized. Typically the coverage metric encodes a risk distribution defined on the area, and a measure of the performance of individual robots with respect to points inside the region of interest. The coverage metric will be maximized when the set of mobile robots configure themselves as the centroids of the Voronoi tessellation dictated by the risk density. In this work we advance on this result by considering a generalized area control problem in which the coverage metric is non-autonomous, that coverage metric is time varying independently of the states of the robots. This generalization is motivated by the study of coverage control problems in which the coordinated motion of a set of mobile robots accounts for the kinematics of objects penetrating from the outside. Asymptotic convergence and optimality of the non-autonmous system are studied by means of Barbalat's Lemma, and connections with the kinematics of the moving intruders is established. Several numerical simulation results are used to illustrate theoretical predictions.
Centering the Complexity of Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons Learned from a Critical Occupational Science Inquiry
Creators: name: Aldrich, Rebecca M.
name: Rudman, Debbie Laliberte
name: Park, Na  Eon (Esther)
name: Huot, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2020

description: Inquiries that rely on temporal framings to demarcate long-term unemployment risk generating partial understandings and grounding unrealistic policy solutions. In contrast, this four-phase two-context study aimed to generate complex understandings of post-recession long-term unemployment in North America. Grounded in a critical occupational perspective, this collaborative ethnographic study also drew on street-level bureaucracy and governmentality perspectives to understand how social policies and discursive constructions shaped people’s everyday ‘doing’ within the arena of long-term unemployment. Across three phases, study methods included interviews with 15 organizational stakeholders who oversaw employment support services; interviews, participant observations, and focus groups with 18 people who provided front-line employment support services; and interviews, participant observations, time diaries, and occupational mapping with 23 people who self-identified as being long-term unemployed. We draw on selected interviews and mapping data to illustrate how participants’ definitions and experiences of long-term unemployment reflected and moved beyond dominant temporally based framings. These findings reinforce the need to expand the dominant conceptualizations of long-term unemployment that shape scholarly inquiries and policy responses. Reflections on the benefits and challenges of this study’s design also reinforce the need to use multiple, flexible methods to center the complexity of long-term unemployment as it is experienced in everyday life.
Additional file 1 of Identification of motives and barriers to physical activity of polish young mothers
Creators: name: Soroka, Andrzej
name: Godlewska, Agnieszka
name: Elżbieta Krzęcio-Nieczyporuk
name: Kozioł, Paulina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

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Novel P2Y12 Receptor Antagonists - Prasugrel and Ticagrelor. Systematic Review, Indirect Comparison to Clopidogrel in Cardiovascular Disease, Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Steiner-Boeker, Sabine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: Antiplatelet therapy
ADP antagonists
Indirect treatment comparison
Meta-analysis

description: Antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel is widely used in patients with coronary artery disease, but the recent development of the new P2Y12 receptor antagonists prasugrel and ticagrelor will increase treatment options. An overview of systematic reviews was performed to summarize available evidence on clopidogrel. Current data on prasugrel and ticagrelor were identified by a systematic review and used for an indirect treatment comparison (ITC) of the drugs against each other and versus placebo in the absence of head-to-head clinical trials. Adjusted indirect comparison according to Bucher, Bayesian methods for mixed treatment comparisons using Winbugs, and generalized linear mixed models using SAS were employed for ITC, yielding almost identical results: prasugrel was favored regarding stent thrombosis and ticagrelor regarding major bleeding. However, substantial differences in trial design were identified, demanding caution when interpreting these results. On the basis of the obtained results, a randomized controlled trial was designed within the gap of current evidence.
Nonlinear tracking control for a hard disk drive dual-stage actuator system
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinchuan
name: Fu, Minyue
name: Wang, Youyi
name: Du, Chunling
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a nonlinear tracking control method for a hard disk drive dual-stage actuator (DSA) system that consists of a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator and a piezoelectric (PZT) microactuator. Conventional track seeking controllers for DSA systems were generally designed to enable the VCM actuator to approach the target track without overshoot. However, we observe that this strategy is unable to achieve the minimal settling time when the target tracks are beyond the PZT actuator stroke limit. To further reduce the settling time, we design the VCM actuator controller to yield a closed-loop system with a small damping ratio for a fast rise time and certain allowable overshoot. Then, a composite nonlinear control law is designed for the PZT actuator to reduce the overshoot caused by the VCM actuator as the system output approaches the target track. Experimental results show that the proposed dual-stage servo outperforms the conventional dual-stage servo in short-span seeking and, additionally, achieves better track following accuracy than the VCM only single-stage servo.
Additional file 1 of Study of laboratory staff’ knowledge of biobanking in Côte d’Ivoire
Creators: name: Kintossou, Ambroise Kouamé
name: N’dri, Mathias Kouamé
name: Money, Marcelle
name: Souleymane Cissé
name: Simini Doumbia
name: Man-Koumba Soumahoro
name: Amadou Founzégué Coulibaly
name: Djaman, Joseph Allico
name: Dosso, Mireille
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire.
Seismic Retrofit of Concrete Columns by Transverse Prestressing
Creators: name: Sabri, Amirreza
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Seismic
Retrofit
Concrete
Column
Transverse
Prestressing
building
bridge
earthquake
reinforced concrete
seismic retrofit
high-strength packaging straps
transverse reinforcement
RetroBelt
transverse prestressing
simulated seismic loading

description: Performance of buildings and bridges during past earthquakes has indicated that many of these structures are vulnerable to seismic damage and structural collapse. The deficiencies in pre-1970s design codes have resulted in poor performance of reinforced concrete structures during seismic excitations. The Richter Magnitude 6.6 - 1971 San Fernando Earthquake raised awareness for seismic retrofit needs of existing buildings for the first time. The majority of deficiencies of vulnerable concrete columns can be overcome through seismic retrofits that involve additional transverse reinforcement. This can be done either by providing reinforced concrete, steel, or fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) jackets around existing columns; or by applying transverse prestressing to columns (RetroBelt System). The research project presented in this thesis involves a seismic retrofit methodology for seismically deficient building and bridge columns, utilizing the use of high-strength packaging straps as external reinforcement for transverse prestressing. The emphasis in the project is placed on experimental research. Three seismically deficient full-size reinforced concrete columns, with a circular, a square and a rectangular cross- section, either critical in shear or flexure, were designed, built and tested under simulated seismic loading. The results indicate that external prestressing of columns in transverse direction with high-strength steel straps improves ductility and energy dissipation capacity of seismically deficient columns. They further indicate that current analytical techniques can be used to predict the force-displacement relationships of columns. A design approach is presented for the retrofit methodology investigated.
L'hybridité dans le roman autochtone: Le Bras coupé, Nipishish et Ourse bleue
Creators: name: Larocque, Melissa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Hybridité
Bernard Assiniwi
Michel Noël
Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau

description: Cette thèse porte sur la représentation du phénomène de l’hybridité dans la littérature autochtone du Québec. Ce travail s’intéresse particulièrement aux romans Le Bras coupé de Bernard Assiniwi, Nipishish de Michel Noël et Ourse bleue de Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau. À la lumière du concept d’hybridité proposé par Homi K. Bhabha, cette étude adopte une perspective sociocritique d’analyse du discours pour étudier la représentation de la langue et de l’identité dans ces récits de fiction. Dans un premier temps, pour l’étude de la langue sur le plan textuel, nous avons recours aux figures de style, à la narration, au plurilinguisme et à la dénomination. Par la suite, il sera question des identités personnelles et culturelles et des tensions qui y sont rattachées. Le choix de cette structure est basé sur le fait que ces éléments semblent être les facteurs principaux de la constance du phénomène de l’hybridation dans ces récits amérindiens.
Agrarian Transitions in Aquarian Contexts: Fisheries Transitions in Vietnam’s Tam Giang Lagoon
Creators: name: Wilkings, Ann Michelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Vietnam
Fisheries
Livelihoods

description: This thesis investigates agrarian transitions within aquarian contexts by investigating livelihood transitions in a small rural fishing village in central Vietnam. Examined are powers at play that inform livelihood transitions as fishers and fish farmers respond by moving in and out of different production systems in order to maintain their fishing and fish farming livelihoods. This research reveals that aquarian transitions in Vietnam could follow a similar trajectory of agrarian transitions whereby smaller, less efficient production systems make room for more efficient economies of scale. In conducting a thorough and detailed empirical analysis of production systems, the socio-economic relations that shape production systems, and natural resource governance within the Vietnamese context, this research contributes to a better understanding of the knowledge surrounding fishery resources and livelihood options.
Additional file 1 of Epidemiology of enuresis: a large number of children at risk of low regard
Creators: name: Ferrara, Pietro
name: Franceschini, Giulia
name: Castelbianco, Federico Bianchi Di
name: Bombace, Rachele
name: Villani, Alberto
name: Corsello, Giovanni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
title: Air Quality 2019
title: Air Quality 2019
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dauert, Ute
name: Feigenspan, Stefan
name: Kessinger, Susan
name: Minkos, Andrea
name: Mues, Andrea C.
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Luftgüte
subject: Stickstoffdioxid
subject: PM10
subject: Ozongehalt
subject: Feinstaub
subject: air quality
subject: NO2
subject: amount of ozone in the air
subject: nitrogen dioxide
subject: fine particulate matter
subject: Air

description: This evaluation of air quality in Germany in the year 2019 is based on preliminary data which has not yet been conclusively audited from the air monitoring networks of the federal states and the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), valid on January 2020. Due to the comprehensive quality assurance within the monitoring networks, the final data will only be available in mid-2020. The currently available data allows for a general assessment of the past year. The following pollutants were subject to consideration: particulate matter (PM10and PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3), since, the limit and target values/WHO recommendations for the protection of human health are still exceeded for such substances. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: This evaluation of air quality in Germany in the year 2019 is based on preliminary data which has not yet been conclusively audited from the air monitoring networks of the federal states and the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), valid on January 2020. Due to the comprehensive quality assurance within the monitoring networks, the final data will only be available in mid-2020. The currently available data allows for a general assessment of the past year. The following pollutants were subject to consideration: particulate matter (⁠PM10⁠ and PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3), since, the limit and target values/⁠WHO⁠ recommendations for the protection of human health are still exceeded for such substances.
Life in translation
Creators: name: Tumarkin, Maria
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: I don’t usually like cheery people – those full of gratitude for life’s little miracles and small blessings. I have crossed streets to avoid getting fried in the eternal sunshine of their minds. Not Anya though. Her optimism does not grate. Anya is the kind of person who loves things – life, kids of all ages and, remarkably for a girl from big, bad, bountiful Moscow, Australia. Not just the shiny and yummy parts of Australia, but the whole thing, including the small towns and regional centres. And it is from Bendigo that she comes to see me carrying a folder stuffed with documents. [Introduction]
De l’espace-diaspora indien à la confluence des rapports sociaux : cinéastes et héroïnes d'une communauté imaginée
Creators: name: Mesana, Virginie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Espace-diaspora
consubstantialité des rapports
communauté imaginée
pratiques sociales
cinéma
réalisatrices
festivals de films

description: Dans les industries filmiques majoritaires encore dominées par des voix et des regards masculins, la production des réalisatrices, notamment en diaspora, demeure souvent méconnue. Cette recherche étudie le cas des cinéastes en diaspora indienne et le regard que celles-ci portent sur leurs sociétés d’origine et hôte. L’objectif est d’examiner les mécanismes discursifs de production filmique et la circulation de leurs films en festival à l’occasion de leur premier visionnement. Nous cernons ainsi comment les réalisatrices participent de la formation de la diaspora indienne entendue comme une « communauté imaginée » et rendent compte de l’appartenance genrée à celle-ci. Notre thèse s’articule alors autour de la question suivante : comment la mise en scène d’héroïnes en diaspora contribue-t-elle à produire des récits alternatifs constitutifs d’un imaginaire de l’espace-diaspora indien? Alors que la production des réalisatrices n’appartient à aucune des industries filmiques majoritaires (Bollywood et Hollywood), tout en empruntant certains de leurs référents et influences, elle se situe dans un entredeux filmique que nous examinons à la lumière des dimensions « matérielle et idéelle » de leurs pratiques cinématographiques. Celles-ci étant comprises au titre d’« imagination comme pratique sociale », nous prêtons plus spécifiquement attention à l’exercice de monstration de rapports sociaux consubstantiels de sexe, ethniques et de classe, en et hors diaspora, au sein des sociétés hôtes nord-américaines qu’elles dépeignent. Pour ce faire, nous mobilisons une approche méthodologique qualitative articulant l’analyse de données de trois ordres : 1. l’analyse d’un corpus de dix films réalisés par des cinéastes en diaspora indienne en Amérique du Nord ; 2. une série de six entretiens semi-dirigés avec leurs auteures ; 3. une observation à dimension participative du festival de films de la diaspora indienne à New York (NYIFF) à deux reprises, en 2012 et en 2013. Notre encadrement théorique tire profit du croisement conceptuel de plusieurs contributions issues de trois champs d’étude, soit des apports théoriques en sociologie de la culture et des Cultural Studies, des contributions en sociologie des relations ethniques et des travaux féministes sur la consubstantialité des rapports sociaux. Cet encadrement théorique inusité nous permet d’analyser les pratiques des réalisatrices en diaspora indienne et d’entrevoir leurs (re)positionnements au sein de relations sociales majoritaires/minoritaires, donnant lieu à l’expression d’un « majoritaire idéalisé » en diaspora et à l’expérience d’un « entre-majoritaires ».
Additional file 1 of An exploratory assessment of the preference for eHealth interventions to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men in Hanoi, Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen, Long Hoang
name: Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi
name: Larsson, Mattias
name: Tran, Bach Xuan
name: Stein, Mart L.
name: Rocha, Luis E. C.
name: Strömdahl, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Focus Group Discussion Guide. A questionnaire that were used for guiding the focus group discussion