cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multi-source fusion operations in subjective logic
Creators: name: Van Der Heijden, Rens Wouter
name: Kopp, Henning
name: Kargl, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fusion
subject: Subjective logic
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations

description: The purpose of multi-source fusion is to combine information from more than two evidence sources, or subjective opinions from multiple actors. For subjective logic, a number of different fusion operators have been proposed, each matching a fusion scenario with different assumptions. However, not all of these operators are associative, and therefore multi-source fusion is not well-defined for these settings. In this paper, we address this challenge, and define multi-source fusion for weighted belief fusion (WBF) and consensus & compromise fusion (CCF). For WBF, we show the definition to be equivalent to the intuitive formulation under the bijective mapping between subjective logic and Dirichlet evidence PDFs. For CCF, since there is no independent generalization, we show that the resulting multi-source fusion produces valid opinions, and explain why our generalization is sound. For completeness, we also provide corrections to previous results for averaging and cumulative belief fusion (ABF and CBF), as well as belief constraint fusion (BCF), which is an extension of Dempster's rule. With our generalizations of fusion operators, fusing information from multiple sources is now well-defined for all different fusion types defined in subjective logic. This enables wider applicability of subjective logic in applications where multiple actors interact.
VINEYARD VULNERABILITY: ANALYZING THE CLIMATE IMPACT ON GRAPEVINE CULTURE IN MADEIRA, PORTUGAL
Creators: name: Sofia Oliveira, Rodrigues
Publisher: name: continental journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Grapevine, Vitaceae family, Eurasian group, phenological stages, agroecological conditions.

description: Grapevines, belonging to the Vitaceae family, are of paramount significance in the world of viticulture. This family encompasses a diverse array of species, predominantly tropical or subtropical, spanning across 14 to 16 genera and comprising over 900 species. Within the Vitis genus, we encounter a notable diversity of 80 species classified into two subgenera: Muscadinia and Euvitis. The Euvitis subgenus, particularly, garners attention as it encompasses three distinct groups—American, Asian, and Eurasian. The Eurasian group, dwelling in the Mediterranean basin, holds global prominence in viticulture, with widespread distribution in temperate regions of Europe, North America, and Asia. These grapevines undergo an annual developmental cycle, encompassing nine distinct growth stages, commencing from bud break and culminating in leaf fall, heralding winter dormancy. The productivity of grapevines hinges on the interplay of genetic attributes specific to vine varieties and the influence of agroecological factors on the phenological phases of development. This paper delves into the intricate world of grapevines, their taxonomic diversity, and annual growth cycle, shedding light on the pivotal factors that shape their productivity.
title: Anatomía y patología de la base del cráneo, estudio mediante TC y RM
Creators: name: Sarbu, Nicolae
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Conocer la anatomía de la base del cráneo en los estudios de imagen TC y RM. Analizar los diferentes procesos patológicos que pueden afectar a esta región...
title: Dolor abdominal agudo. ¿Qué aporta la radiografía simple?
Creators: name: Munoz Hernandez, Araceli
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar las causas frecuentes e infrecuentes de dolor abdominal,
ilustrándolas con los hallazgos encontrados en RX simple de abdomen y su comparación con otras técnicas de imagen: ecografía y TC...
HDUV: The Hubble Deep UV Legacy Survey
Creators: name: Oesch, P. A.
name: Montes, M.
name: Reddy, N.
name: Bouwens, R. J.
name: Illingworth, G. D.
name: Magee, D.
name: Atek, H.
name: Carollo, C. M.
name: Cibinel, A.
name: Franx, M.
name: Holden, B.
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Nelson, E. J.
name: Steidel, C. C.
name: Van Dokkum, P. G.
name: Morselli, L.
name: Naidu, R. P.
name: Wilkins, S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the Hubble Deep UV Legacy Survey (HDUV), a 132-orbit imaging program with the WFC3/UVIS camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The HDUV extends and builds on the few previous UV imaging surveys in the two GOODS/CANDELS-Deep fields to provide deep images over a total area of similar to 100 arcmin(2) in the two filters F275W and F336W. Our release also includes all the F275W imaging data taken by the CANDELS survey, which were aligned using a novel approach and combined with the HDUV survey data. By reaching depths of 27.5-28.0 mag (5 sigma in 0."4apertures), these are the deepest high-resolution UV data over such a large area taken to date. Such unique UV imaging enables a wide range of science by the community. A few of the main goals of the HDUV survey are as follows: (1) to provide a complete sample of faint star-forming galaxies at z similar to 1-3; (2) to constrain the ionizing photon escape fraction from galaxies at z similar to 2-3; and (3) to track the build-up of bulges and the disappearance of clumpy disk galaxies through reliable internal stellar population properties at sub-kiloparsec resolution out to z similar to 3. The addition of the HDUV data further enhances the legacy value of the two GOODS/CANDELS-Deep fields, which now include deep 11-band HST imaging, as well as very deep ancillary data from X-ray to radio, enabling unique multi-wavelength studies. Here, we provide an overview of the survey design, describe the data reduction, and highlight a few basic analyses of the images that are available to the community as high-level science products, via the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
Pathophysiology of right ventricular failure in acute pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a pictorial essay for the interventional radiologist
Creators: name: Bryce, Yolanda C
name: Perez-Johnston, Rocio
name: Bryce, Errol B
name: Homayoon, Behrang
name: Santos-Martin, Ernesto G
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2019

description: Pulmonary embolus (PE) is the third most common cause of cardiovascular death with more than 600,000 cases occurring in the USA per year. About 45% of patients with acute PE will have acute right ventricular failure, and up to 3.8% of patients will develop chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) with progressive, severe, chronic heart failure. The right ventricle (RV) is constructed to accommodate a low-resistance afterload. Increases in afterload from acute massive and submassive PE and CTEPH may markedly compromise the RV function leading to hemodynamic collapse and death. The purpose of this educational manuscript is to instruct on the pathophysiology of RV failure in massive and submassive PE and CTEPH. It is important to understand the pathophysiology of these diseases as it provides the rationale for therapeutic intervention by the Interventional Radiologist. We review here the pathophysiology of right ventricular (RV) failure in acute massive and submassive PE and CTEPH.
Multi-criteria group decision making methods using AHP and integrated Web-based decision support systems
Creators: name: Ozer, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, System Science.

description: This thesis explores different group decision making methods using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) applied to the multi-criteria decision making problem of selecting a preferred "site" and develops a support system for group decision making. The group members consider sites to have alternative and often conflicting uses. It is imperative for decision makers in the responsible group to have an appropriate combination of tools, computer software and decisions support systems in order to make the most preferred decisions as a group despite potential inherent conflict among members of the decision making group. To support this idea and facilitate decision making, alternative group multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) evaluation techniques are examined. These include; AHP, Weighted Sum Method (WSM), Weighted Product Method (WPM), AHP Combined Method, Group Evaluation Method, Fuzzy AHP, Fuzzy AHP Combined, and Fuzzy AHP Group. A web-based comparison framework is developed as a prototype to facilitate model use. These methods are applied to the evaluation of coastal zone sites for alternate marine use including aquaculture or fish farming. Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing activities among coastal nations. At the same time, companies, researchers, and coastal communities are seeking assistance in identifying appropriate coastal zone sites for commercial fishing and aquaculture activities, habitat reserves, and marine recreation. The aquaculture case study evaluates four possible fish sites in the Grand Marian Island area of Atlantic Canada.
Biokohle und Biokohlesubstrate zur nachhaltigen und klimafreundlichen Sanierung und Inwertsetzung militärischer Konversionsflächen und ertragsschwacher Standorte
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Shaker Verlag
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biokohle
Bodensanierung

description: Biokohle und vor allem Biokohlesubstrate bieten vielseitige Möglichkeiten Böden zu verbessern, bei denen Störungen der Bodenfunktionen vorliegen. In der vorliegenden Handlungsanleitung wird exemplarisch der Einsatz auf schadstoffbelasteten Flächen, in der Rekultivierung von Bergbaufolgelandschaften und der Wiederbepflanzung von Windbruchflächen vorgestellt. Über die Verbesserung der Böden hinaus bietet der Einsatz von Biokohle eine praktikable Option, Kohlenstoff in Böden nachhaltig zu speichern und Treibhausgas-Emissionen zu verringern. Quelle: Verlagsinformation
Supplementary document for Light management in ultra-thin solar cells: a guided optimisation approach - 4915270.pdf
Creators: name: Abad, Eduardo Camarillo
name: Joyce, Hannah
name: Hirst, Louise
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: TMM implementation, resonant pitches in Fig. 2, 3, 4 and 5, impact of grating and ARC thickness on bound mode coupling, algorithm for the design of quasi-random gratings, grating absorption in Fig. 7 devices, and TMM applicability with QR structures
title: Make your own Sun
Creators: name: Escobar, Carolina
Publisher: name: AstroEdu
Year: 2024

description: The Sun is the nearest star and generates great interest in children and young people. Knowing its structure is important to understand how it works, its influence on our planet and to understand more about other stars in the Universe. In this activity, by building a model of the Sun with plasticine of different colors, children will learn about its structure in a playful and educational way.
description: AstroEdu, No. 9 (2022)
Logic-based pattern discovery
Creators: name: Sim, Alex Tze Hiang
name: Indrawan, Maria
name: Zutshi, Samar
name: Srinivasan, Bala
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the data mining field, association rules are discovered having domain knowledge specified as a minimum support threshold. The accuracy in setting up this threshold directly influences the number and the quality of association rules discovered. Often, the number of association rules, even though large in number, misses some interesting rules and the rules' quality necessitates further analysis. As a result, decision making using these rules could lead to risky actions. We propose a framework to discover domain knowledge report as coherent rules. Coherent rules are discovered based on the properties of propositional logic, and therefore, requires no background knowledge to generate them. From the coherent rules discovered, association rules can be derived objectively and directly without knowing the level of minimum support threshold required. We provide analysis of the rules compare to those discovered via the a priori.
НАРУШЕНИЕ ФУНКЦИИ МИТОХОНДРИИ У ЖЕНЩИН С РЕПРОДУКТИВНЫМИ НАРУШЕНИЯМИ.
Creators: name: Иргашева, Ойдин
name: Халимова, Замира
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Репродуктивные заболевания являются одной из серьезных проблем женского здоровья, поражающих репродуктивную систему женщины. Эти заболевания связаны со многими факторами, включая генетические, гормональные, иммунологические и метаболические факторы. В последние годы митохондриальная дисфункция признана важным аспектом репродуктивных нарушений. Митохондрии, как энергопроизводящая органелла клетки, играют важную роль в поддержании нормального функционирования репродуктивной системы.
Bericht zur Tagung Iconoscape (II) - Zu Bildlichkeit und Bildungen spätmoderner Landschaften
Creators: name: Patz, Robert
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Tagung
subject: Iconoscape
subject: 702 Verschiedenes zur bildenden und angewandten Kunst

description: Rezension Tagung
Effects of adherence to a higher protein diet on weight loss, markers of health, and functional capacity in older women participating in a resistance-based exercise program
Creators: name: Galbreath, Melyn
name: Galvan, Elfego
name: Jagim, Andrew
name: Greenwood, Lori
name: Cooke, Matthew
name: Greenwood, Mike
name: Rasmussen, Chris
name: Kreider, Richard B.
name: Campbell, Bill
name: Labounty, Paul
name: Bunn, Jennifer
name: Dove, Jacqueline
name: Harvey, Travis
name: Hudson, Geoffrey
name: Gutierrez, Jean L.
name: Levers, Kyle
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Resistance training and maintenance of a higher protein diet have been recommended to help older individuals maintain muscle mass. This study examined whether adherence to a higher protein diet while participating in a resistance-based exercise program promoted more favorable changes in body composition, markers of health, and/or functional capacity in older females in comparison to following a traditional higher carbohydrate diet or exercise training alone with no diet intervention. In total, 54 overweight and obese females (65.9 ± 4.7 years; 78.7 ± 11 kg, 30.5 ± 4.1 kg/m2, 43.5 ± 3.6% fat) were randomly assigned to an exercise-only group (E), an exercise plus hypo-energetic higher carbohydrate (HC) diet, or a higher protein diet (HP) diet. Participants followed their respective diet plans and performed a supervised 30-min circuit-style resistance exercise program 3 d/wk. Participants were tested at 0, 10, and 14 weeks. Data were analyzed using univariate, multivariate, and repeated measures general linear model (GLM) statistics as well as one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) of changes from baseline with [95% confidence intervals]. Results revealed that after 14 weeks, participants in the HP group experienced significantly greater reductions in weight (E −1.3 ± 2.3, [−2.4, −0.2]; HC −3.0 ± 3.1 [−4.5, −1.5]; HP −4.8 ± 3.2, [−6.4, −3.1]%, p = 0.003), fat mass (E −2.7 ± 3.8, [−4.6, −0.9]; HC −5.9 ± 4.2 [−8.0, −3.9]; HP −10.2 ± 5.8 [−13.2, –7.2%], p < 0.001), and body fat percentage (E −2.0 ± 3.5 [−3.7, −0.3]; HC −4.3 ± 3.2 [−5.9, −2.8]; HP −6.3 ± 3.5 [−8.1, −4.5] %, p = 0.002) with no significant reductions in fat-free mass or resting energy expenditure over time or among groups. Significant differences were observed in leptin (E −1.8 ± 34 [−18, 14]; HC 43.8 ± 55 [CI 16, 71]; HP −26.5 ± 70 [−63, −9.6] ng/mL, p = 0.001) and adiponectin (E 43.1 ± 76.2 [6.3, 79.8]; HC −27.9 ± 33.4 [−44.5, −11.3]; HP 52.3 ± 79 [11.9, 92.8] µg/mL, p = 0.001). All groups experienced significant improvements in muscular strength, muscular endurance, aerobic capacity, markers of balance and functional capacity, and several markers of health. These findings indicate that a higher protein diet while participating in a resistance-based exercise program promoted more favorable changes in body composition compared to a higher carbohydrate diet in older females.
MPEC 2024-V74 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 November 5)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
What innovations in medicine do we need after COVID-19 to guarantee fair access but also the safety and efficacy of health services
Creators: name: Manca, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The abstract and slideset presented at ESOF2020 (in Trieste) on Saturday the 5th of September 2020.
 A link to the recorded lecture will be shared ASAP.

 The event served as the opportunity to launch the Trieste Charter: https://zenodo.org/record/4016328
Supplementary document for Light management in ultra-thin solar cells: a guided optimisation approach - 4915270.pdf
Creators: name: Abad, Eduardo Camarillo
name: Joyce, Hannah
name: Hirst, Louise
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: TMM implementation, resonant pitches in Fig. 2, 3, 4 and 5, impact of grating and ARC thickness on bound mode coupling, algorithm for the design of quasi-random gratings, grating absorption in Fig. 7 devices, and TMM applicability with QR structures
Effects of adherence to a higher protein diet on weight loss, markers of health, and functional capacity in older women participating in a resistance-based exercise program
Creators: name: Galbreath, Melyn
name: Campbell, Bill
name: Labounty, Paul
name: Bunn, Jennifer
name: Dove, Jacqueline
name: Harvey, Travis
name: Hudson, Geoffrey
name: Gutierrez, Jean L.
name: Levers, Kyle
name: Galvan, Elfego
name: Jagim, Andrew
name: Greenwood, Lori
name: Cooke, Matthew
name: Greenwood, Mike
name: Rasmussen, Chris
name: Kreider, Richard B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Resistance training and maintenance of a higher protein diet have been recommended to help older individuals maintain muscle mass. This study examined whether adherence to a higher protein diet while participating in a resistance-based exercise program promoted more favorable changes in body composition, markers of health, and/or functional capacity in older females in comparison to following a traditional higher carbohydrate diet or exercise training alone with no diet intervention. In total, 54 overweight and obese females (65.9 ± 4.7 years; 78.7 ± 11 kg, 30.5 ± 4.1 kg/m2, 43.5 ± 3.6% fat) were randomly assigned to an exercise-only group (E), an exercise plus hypo-energetic higher carbohydrate (HC) diet, or a higher protein diet (HP) diet. Participants followed their respective diet plans and performed a supervised 30-min circuit-style resistance exercise program 3 d/wk. Participants were tested at 0, 10, and 14 weeks. Data were analyzed using univariate, multivariate, and repeated measures general linear model (GLM) statistics as well as one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) of changes from baseline with [95% confidence intervals]. Results revealed that after 14 weeks, participants in the HP group experienced significantly greater reductions in weight (E −1.3 ± 2.3, [−2.4, −0.2]; HC −3.0 ± 3.1 [−4.5, −1.5]; HP −4.8 ± 3.2, [−6.4, −3.1]%, p = 0.003), fat mass (E −2.7 ± 3.8, [−4.6, −0.9]; HC −5.9 ± 4.2 [−8.0, −3.9]; HP −10.2 ± 5.8 [−13.2, –7.2%], p < 0.001), and body fat percentage (E −2.0 ± 3.5 [−3.7, −0.3]; HC −4.3 ± 3.2 [−5.9, −2.8]; HP −6.3 ± 3.5 [−8.1, −4.5] %, p = 0.002) with no significant reductions in fat-free mass or resting energy expenditure over time or among groups. Significant differences were observed in leptin (E −1.8 ± 34 [−18, 14]; HC 43.8 ± 55 [CI 16, 71]; HP −26.5 ± 70 [−63, −9.6] ng/mL, p = 0.001) and adiponectin (E 43.1 ± 76.2 [6.3, 79.8]; HC −27.9 ± 33.4 [−44.5, −11.3]; HP 52.3 ± 79 [11.9, 92.8] µg/mL, p = 0.001). All groups experienced significant improvements in muscular strength, muscular endurance, aerobic capacity, markers of balance and functional capacity, and several markers of health. These findings indicate that a higher protein diet while participating in a resistance-based exercise program promoted more favorable changes in body composition compared to a higher carbohydrate diet in older females.
Adaptive fuzzy multi-surface sliding mode for control for a class of nonlinear systems
Creators: name: Khoo, Suiyang
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Zhao, Shengkui
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An adaptive fuzzy multi-surface sliding mode control is proposed for a class of nonlinear systems with mismatched uncertainties. It is shown that the Mamdani fuzzy logic-based function approximator is used to learn the system uncertainties first, and the iterative multi-surface sliding mode design is then carried out. Using the concept of terminal sliding mode to design the baseline controller, not only strong robustness with respect to approximation errors and nonlinearities can be obtained, but also the tracking error can be proven to converge to a small neighborhood of the origin in finite time. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Condom use among heterosexual couples.
Creators: name: Edgley, Krista.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Behavioral.

description: To further understand the predictors of condom use for HIV prevention, this cross-sectional study surveyed 276 heterosexually active couples, between the ages of 16 and 29, who had been dating for less than one year. Each partner completed a self-report, multidimensional survey package and returned it via mail. Study objectives were to examine: (1) whether variables previously associated with condom use in studies of individuals (i.e., communication, attitudes toward condoms, knowledge, relationship variables), were associated with condom use in the context of the couple relationship; (2) whether there were paired-gender differences on the predictor variables; and (3) whether attachment style was associated with condom use among the couples sampled. The unique and innovative aspects of the study were its focus on couples and its exploration of the influence of attachment. The study yielded several important results. First, congruence of partner scores regarding the perception of need for condoms safe relationships was of particular importance in predicting the likelihood of condom use. Consistent condom use was more likely to occur if both partners held a positive perception; inconsistent or non-condom use was more likely if both partners held a negative view. Second, the variables that had been previously identified as predictors in studies of individuals, taken together, helped to correctly classify inconsistent/no-condom use, but did not do so for consistent use. Third, although females reported asking questions about their partner's sexual history more often than did males, and also reported carrying the burden of the decision to use condoms, their decision was ultimately influenced by their male partner's perception of whether condoms should be used. Finally, although there were no significant relationships between attachment style and condom use, it is not possible to rule out the absence of an association owing to the inadequate representation of all attachment styles in this sample. Furthermore, significant correlations were observed between condom use predictor variables and attachment working models that represent the individual's image of other people, and the individual's image of self. Results are discussed with respect to decision-making heuristics and optimistic bias regarding HIV/STD risk perceptions, and implications for intervention strategies are suggested.
Benacerraf's dilemma and natural realism for arithmetic.
Creators: name: Gupta, Anoop K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: A natural realist approach to the philosophy of arithmetic is defended by way of considering and arguing against contemporary attempts to solve Paul Benacerraf's dilemma (1973). The first horn of the dilemma concerns the existence of abstract mathematical objects, which seems necessitated by a desire for a unified semantics. Benacerraf adopts an extensional semantics whereby the reference of terms for natural numbers must be abstract objects. The second horn concerns a desirable causal constraint on knowledge, according to which "for X to know that S is true requires some causal relation to obtain between X and the referents of the names, predicates, and quantifiers of S". Within the philosophical tradition, Benacerraf's dilemma crystallizes the tension between realists (roughly the first horn) and empiricists (roughly the second horn). It is shown that natural realism and naturalism meet. Both horns of the dilemma are amended. Abstract objects are conceived along conceptualist lines such that their existence is not mind-independent. The causal constraint is refined by drawing upon the work of Mark Steiner (1973). Natural realism is the notion that the truth-values of arithmetical statements are recognition-transcendent. Natural realism explains why one and only one arithmetic is applicable. It is in some sense discovered, which is captured by the idea that arithmetical statements have truth-values even if one is not able to adduce what they are. It is argued that with proper emendation, like that of Philip Kitcher (1984), empiricism as envisioned by J. S. Mill is defensible. Furthermore, the epistemology of arithmetical knowledge is divided into two tiers. The first principles of arithmetic are acquired by causal interaction with physical objects. As Kitcher has shown, empiricism functions at the first-tier. The a priori is revised such that arithmetical knowledge generated from the first-tier is considered non-empirical. It is argued that pragmatists' indispensability argument, once qualified, allows that arithmetic's applicability is one reason to consider natural realism for that domain (Putnam 1979a). Furthermore, this thesis provides a case where aspects of Hilary Putnam's early and later views are rendered consistent. By way of utilizing both Putnam's writing in favour of realism (1979a), and those that break with them (e.g., 1981), it is suggested that he should not have abandoned his earlier view. In a nutshell, the realization of knowledge can depend upon agents' values, methods, and so on, without forcing the abandonment of realism (provided one has the correct values and methods). Putnam's early view sets the criteria for when one can be a realist about a given domain.
Signature-tagged mutagenesis in Haemophilus ducreyi
Creators: name: Yeung, Angela
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: Signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) is an in vivo mutation-based genetic screen that allows for the identification of virulence genes. A working model of STM in the temperature-dependent rabbit model (TDRM) of Haemophilus ducreyi has been established. A unique signature-tag (ST) was inserted upstream of the aphA-3 gene in the transposon Tn1545-Delta3. Eleven different ST were used, each consisting of 21 unique nucleotides that were designed for PCR. A library of ST transposon H. ducreyi 35000 mutants was generated. A STM pool consisted of 10 unique ST-mutants that were inoculated intraepithelially into the TDRM. Ulcer development and histopathology of the lesions produced by the STM mutants inoculated at 105 CFU showed the same morphology as those produced by wild-type inoculated at 105 CFU. Ulcers that developed by day 4 were excised and recovered mutants in the output pool were screened by PCR. A previously characterized attenuated hemoglobin (HgbA) mutant was ST to serve as a positive control and was not recovered in the output pool. A total of 176 STM mutants were screened and 26 attenuated H. ducreyi mutants were recovered. The 26 candidate genes were grouped according to their functional categories: classical virulence factors, cell surface components, stress response, DNA recombination and repair, transport, metabolism, regulation and hypothetical genes. This STM study resulted in the identification of known virulence genes such as the cdtA, hgbA and lspAl which validated the STM approach. The identification of a heat shock protein and genes involved in DNA repair, emphasize the importance of stress response genes in vivo. Many novel genes were discovered that had not been previously identified as having a role in pathogenesis. Genes involved in metabolism were identified which highlight the fitness contribution these factors play within a hast. Two of these genes (frdA and sucA) may facilitate the ability of H. ducreyi to grow anaerobically. As in other STM studies, genes with hypothetical functions were identified. One gene, hicB, is suggested to encode an RNA toxin-antitoxin cassette. This study provides proof-of-principle for the STM approach for the recovery of genetic determinants in H. ducreyi responsible for the pathogenesis of chancroid.
title: Sky at your Fingertips
Creators: name: Guštin, Andrej
Publisher: name: AstroEdu
Year: 2024

description: In this activity we will build a simple cross-staff to measure angles. We will show how angular distances can be measured using this simple self-made aid in order to determine the position of a celestial object on the celestial sphere. This activity can be followed by the activity: Observe the moon
description: AstroEdu, No. 11 (2024)
SfN policy & advocacy fellowship
Creators: name: Bankston, Adriana
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: This talk was given in the Science Policy & Advocacy Certificate Program for STEM Scientists (module on State and Federal Policy Fellowships for Policy & Advocacy), which is part of the Public Policy Prep (P3) Program of University of California Irvine's GPS-STEM (virtual presentation, September 8, 2020).
Reconstructing tumor evolutionary histories and clone trees in polynomial-time with SubMARine
Creators: name: Sundermann, Linda
name: Wintersinger, Jeff
name: Rätsch, Gunnar
name: Stoye, Jens
name: Quaid  Morris
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Tumors contain multiple subpopulations of genetically distinct cancer cells. Reconstructing their evolutionary history can improve our understanding of how cancers develop and respond to treatment. Subclonal reconstruction methods infer the ancestral relationships among the subpopulations by constructing a clone tree. However, often multiple clone trees are consistent with the data. Current methods do not effectively characterize this uncertainty, and cannot scale to cancers with many subclonal populations.

In this work we introduce a partial clone tree that defines a subset of the pairwise ancestral relationships in a clone tree, thereby implicitly representing the set of all clone trees that have these defined relationships. Also, we define a special partial clone tree, the Maximally-Constrained Ancestral Reconstruction (MAR), which summarizes all clone trees fitting the input data equally well. We describe SubMARine, a polynomial-time algorithm producing the subMAR, which approximates the MAR with specific guarantees. We also extend SubMARine to work with subclonal copy number aberrations.

We show, both on simulated and a real lung cancer dataset, that SubMARine runs in less than 70 seconds, and that the subMAR equals the MAR in > 99.9% of cases where only a single tree exists.

SubMARine is available at https://github.com/morrislab/submarine.
ACACIA Practical Guidelines for Public Engagement
Creators: name: Mosler, Gioia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Public Engagement
Community Engagement and Involvement

description: Public Engagement Guidelines for the ACACIA (Achieving Control of Asthma in Children in Africa) project. Practical guidance how to develop structured public engagement activities.
description: NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Global funded (UK)
Modeling the effects of sulphate and curing temperature on the strength of cemented paste backfill using artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Orejarena, Libardo Enrique
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: The effects of sulphate and curing temperature play an important role on the strength development and durability of Cemented Paste Backfill (CPBs). Depending on the application of the CPB, different strength values, measured as unconfined compressive strength (UCS), are targeted. There is a lack of proven theory to predict the UCS for a specific CPB mix due to the complexity of the interactions between the variables that affect the CPB strength. This thesis presents an approach to use the artificial neural network (ANN) methodology in order to develop two models that can predict the effects of sulphate and curing temperature on the UCS of CPBs. The ANN models here developed illustrate an outstanding accuracy in the UCS prediction for the simulation of sulphate and its coupled effect with curing temperature. The ANN models provide a better understanding of the effects of sulphate and/or temperature on the strength of CPBs.
Low-frequency pulse profile variation in PSR B2217+47: Evidence for echoes from the interstellar medium
Creators: name: Michilli, D.
name: Hessels, J. W.T.
name: Donner, J. Y.
name: Grießmeier, J. M.
name: Serylak, M.
name: Shaw, B.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Verbiest, J. P.W.
name: Deller, Adam
name: Driessen, L. N.
name: Stinebring, D. R.
name: Bondonneau, L.
name: Geyer, M.
name: Hoeft, M.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Oslowski, Stefan
name: Pilia, M.
name: Sanidas, S.
name: Weltevrede, P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have observed a complex and continuous change in the integrated pulse profile of PSR B2217+47, manifested as additional components trailing the main peak. These transient components are detected over 6 yr at 150MHz using the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), but they are not seen in contemporaneous Lovell observations at 1.5 GHz.We argue that propagation effects in the ionized interstellar medium (IISM) are the most likely cause. The putative structures in the IISM causing the profile variation are roughly half-way between the pulsar and the Earth and have transverse radii R ~ 30 au. We consider different models for the structures. Under the assumption of spherical symmetry, their implied average electron density is ne ~ 100 cm-3. Since PSR B2217+47 is more than an order of magnitude brighter than the average pulsar population visible to LOFAR, similar profile variations would not have been identified in most pulsars, suggesting that subtle profile variations in low-frequency profiles might be more common than we have observed to date. Systematic studies of these variations at low frequencies can provide a new tool to investigate the proprieties of the IISM and the limits to the precision of pulsar timing.
ISENÇÃO DE ICMS EM MATERIAIS DE CONSTRUÇÃO CIVIL: BENEFÍCIOS ECONÔMICOS E IMPACTOS SETORIAIS
Creators: name: Daniela Carvalho da COSTA
name: Sarah Jessaline Reis SILVA
name: Jocirley de OLIVEIRA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Isenção de ICMS
Materiais de Construção Civil
Benefícios Econômicos
Impactos Setoriais
Políticas Fiscais

description: RESUMO

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a isenção de ICMS (Imposto sobre Circulação de Mercadorias e Serviços) aplicada a materiais de construção civil, avaliando seus benefícios econômicos e impactos setoriais. A isenção de ICMS visa reduzir o custo dos materiais de construção, o que estimula o setor da construção civil e promover o crescimento econômico. A pesquisa foi bibliográfica e adotou uma abordagem qualitativa, revisando literatura relevante e estudos sobre o efeito da isenção em diferentes contextos. O estudo contextualiza a importância da construção civil para a economia e examina como a redução de impostos influencia os preços finais dos empreendimentos e o desenvolvimento do setor. A análise inclui a revisão das políticas de isenção em diversas e seus efeitos sobre o mercado e a economia local. Os resultados sugerem que a isenção de ICMS reduz custos de construção, expande projetos e estimula o crescimento econômico regional, além de gerar empregos e melhorar a infraestrutura. No entanto, também são identificados desafios na implementação e gestão da isenção, que podem impactar a eficácia.
The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): The origin of disc turbulence in z≈1 star-forming galaxies
Creators: name: Johnson, H. L.
name: Harrison, C. M.
name: Swinbank, A. M.
name: Tiley, A. L.
name: Stott, J. P.
name: Bower, R. G.
name: Smail, Ian
name: Bunker, A. J.
name: Sobral, D.
name: Turner, O. J.
name: Best, P.
name: Bureau, M.
name: Cirasuolo, M.
name: Jarvis, M. J.
name: Magdis, G.
name: Sharples, R. M.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Cortese, L.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Federrath, C.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Bryant, J. J.
name: Goodwin, M.
name: Konstantopoulos, I. S.
name: Lawrence, J. S.
name: Medling, A. M.
name: Owers, M. S.
name: Richards, S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We analyse the velocity dispersion properties of 472 z~0.9 star-forming galaxies observed as part of the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS). The majority of this sample is rotationally dominated (83 ± 5 per cent with vC/σ0 > 1) but also dynamically hot and highly turbulent. After correcting for beam smearing effects, the median intrinsic velocity dispersion for the final sample is σ0 =43.2 ± 0.8 kms-1 with a rotational velocity to dispersion ratio of vC/σ0 =2.6 ± 0.1. To explore the relationship between velocity dispersion, stellar mass, star formation rate, and redshift, we combine KROSS with data from the SAMI survey (z~0.05) and an intermediate redshift MUSE sample (z~0.5). Whilst there is, at most, a weak trend between velocity dispersion and stellar mass, at fixed mass there is a strong increase with redshift. At all redshifts, galaxies appear to follow the same weak trend of increasing velocity dispersion with star formation rate. Our results are consistent with an evolution of galaxy dynamics driven by discs that are more gas rich, and increasingly gravitationally unstable, as a function of increasing redshift. Finally, we test two analytic models that predict turbulence is driven by either gravitational instabilities or stellar feedback. Both provide an adequate description of the data, and further observations are required to rule out either model.
Thermo-optic variable optical attenuators using plasmon-polariton waveguides
Creators: name: Gagnon, Guy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: A plasmon-polariton waveguide is investigated for its thermo-optic capability for the first time in the context of variable optical attenuators. The optical waveguide's metal core embedded into thermo-optic materials can be heated due to ohmic losses when current is injected through it. Hence, the optical and electrical function is agglomerated into the same waveguide layer. Heat changes the surrounding materials' refractive index and affects light propagation. The variable optical attenuator's response time was shown to be as fast as 50mus. The 8mum x 20nm metal waveguide achieves 19dB extinction ratio with 222 mW of electrical power consumption. Many other waveguide's characteristics were obtained experimentally and through thermal, electrical and optical modeling. The metal waveguide was used as a non-invasive, direct and accurate temperature sensor. Electromigration and electrostatic discharge were investigated as the waveguide's degrading mechanisms. A novel optical method to study thin metal films' degradation due to electromigration is suggested.
Umweltgerechtigkeit und gesundheitsfördernde Stadtentwicklung
Creators: name: Böhme, Christa
name: Bunge, Christiane
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Gesundheit
Stadtentwicklung
Umweltgerechtigkeit
Natürliche Ressource

description: In Deutschland konzentrieren sich umweltbedingte Gesundheitsrisiken häufig in sozial benachteiligten Stadtquartieren. Auf Bundes-, Landes- und kommunaler Ebene gewinnt das Thema Umweltgerechtigkeit zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Das Deutsche Institut für Urbanistik (Difu) hat Empfehlungen zur integrierten Betrachtung von Umwelt, Gesundheit und Sozialem im kommunalen Handeln abgeleitet. Deren Umsetzung kann einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Entwicklung gesundheitsfördernder Städte leisten. Quelle: https://www.degruyter.com
description: In Germany, the health burden caused by environmental problems is often especially high in socially disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. The topic of environmental justice is increasingly attracting attention at Federal, States, and local level. The German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) developed recommendations for an integrated approach on the environment, health and social aspects for municipal practices. Their implementation can contribute to build health-promoting cities. Quelle: https://www.degruyter.com
The Meaning of the Earth and the Will of Men: Re-examining the Nietzschean in Wallace Stevens' "Harmonium"
Creators: name: Taylor, Gaye Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, American.

description: This dissertation is concerned with re-examining "the Nietzschean" in Wallace Stevens' first book of poems, Harmonium (1923). In the final decades of the twentieth-century, such critics as Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Joseph Riddell, Milton Bates, and B. J. Leggett discovered deep and abiding affinities between Nietzsche's thought and Stevens' poetry. While never denying the existence of a Nietzschean creative will in Stevens, my dissertation argues for significant zones of ambivalence towards Nietzsche's thought in Stevens' poetry, particularly towards the Nietzschean valuation of ''the meaning of the earth." Significantly guided by B. 1. Leggett's readings of Nietzschean intertexts in a number of Stevens' early poems, the second and third chapters of this dissertation seek to supplement---and to complicate---the idea of a Nietzschean will to creative power in Stevens by marking the ways in which these poems extend Nietzsche's mandate by assigning creative agency first to women, and then to "the common man." The last two chapters of the dissertation, however, strike a more independent course, arguing that a number of famous early poems, such as "Sunday Morning" and "The Snow Man," but especially the long poem, "The Comedian as the Letter C," demonstrate that working against an investment in a Nietzschean will to creative power was Stevens' adamant conviction that the limiting function of the earth itself in all its guttural materiality ensured that the outcome of the will to imagine could only ever be, at best, "sufficient"---never self-surpassing.
MeerTime - the MeerKAT Key science program on pulsar timing
Creators: name: Bailes, Matthew
name: Barr, E.
name: Bhat, N. D.R.
name: Brink, J.
name: Buchner, S.
name: Burgay, M.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Champion, D. J.
name: Hessels, J.
name: Jansseng, G. H.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: Karuppusamy, R.
name: Kaspi, V.
name: Keith, M. J.
name: Kramer, M.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Moodley, K.
name: Oslowski, Stefan
name: Possenti, A.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Rasio, F. A.
name: Sievers, J.
name: Serylak, M.
name: Stappers, B. W.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Theureau, G.
name: van Straten, Willem
name: Weltevrede, P.
name: Wex, N.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effective area ∼7500 m2), system temperature (T < 20K), high slew speeds (1-2 deg/s), large bandwidths (770 MHz at 20cm wavelengths), southern hemisphere location (latitude ∼ −30◦) and ability to form up to four sub-arrays. The MeerTime project is a five-year program on the MeerKAT array by an international consortium that will regularly time over 1000 radio pulsars to perform tests of relativistic gravity, search for the gravitational wave signature induced by supermassive black hole binaries in the timing residuals of millisecond pulsars, explore the interiors of neutron stars through a pulsar glitch monitoring programme, explore the origin and evolution of binary pulsars, monitor the swarms of pulsars that inhabit globular clusters and monitor radio magnetars. MeerTime will complement the TRAPUM project and time pulsars TRAPUM discovers in surveys of the galactic plane, globular clusters and the galactic centre. In addition to these primary programmes, over 1000 pulsars will have their arrival times monitored and the data made immediately public. The MeerTime pulsar backend comprises two server-class machines each of which possess four Graphics Processing Units. Up to four pulsars can be coherently dedispersed simultaneously up to dispersion measures of over 1000 pc cm− 3. All data will be provided in psrfits format. The MeerTime backend will be capable of producing coherently dedispersed filterbank data for timing multiple pulsars in the cores of globular clusters that is useful for pulsar searches of tied array beams. The first real-time pulsar profiles have been obtained as part of the MeerKAT commissioning process, and useful scientific data will start to come online through 2017. All MeerTime data will ultimately be made available for public use, and any published results will include the arrival times and profiles used in the results.
Book review: 'Picture perfect: landscape, place and travel in British cinema before 1930', edited by Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Review of the book 'Picture perfect: landscape, place and travel in British cinema before 1930', edited by Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon, published by University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2007.