cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Suppressive and Gut Reparative Functions of Human Type 1 T-regulatory Cells
Creators: name: Cook, Laura
name: Stahl, Martin
name: Han, Xiao
name: Nazli, Aisha
name: MacDonald, Katherine N.
name: Wong, May Q.
name: Tsai, Kevin
name: Dizzell, Sara
name: Jacobson, Kevan
name: Bressler, Brian
name: Kaushic, Charu
name: Vallance, Bruce A.
name: Steiner, Theodore S.
name: Levings, Megan K.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: Background & Aims. T-regulatory (Treg) cells suppress immune responses to maintain homeostasis. There are two main subsets of Treg cells, FOXP3-positive Treg cells that do not produce high levels of effector cytokines and Type 1 Treg (Tr1) cells that are FOXP3-negative and secrete interleukin 10 (IL10). IL10 is an important anti-inflammatory cytokine, therefore Tr1 cells might be uniquely suited for development as a treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases. We aimed to develop methods to isolate and expand human Tr1 cells and define their functions. Methods. We obtained blood samples and colon biopsies from patients with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis or healthy individuals (controls). CD4+ T cells were isolated from blood samples, stimulated with anti-CD3/CD28 beads and Tr1 cells purified using an IL10 cytokine capture assay and cell sorting. FOXP3-positive Treg cells were sorted as CD4+CD25highCD127low cells from unstimulated cells. Tr1 and FOXP3-positive Treg cells were expanded, and phenotypes and gene expression profiles were compared. T cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy donors were stimulated with anti-CD3/CD28 beads and the suppressive abilities of Tr1 and FOXP3-positive Treg cells were measured. Human colonic organoid cultures were established then cultured with Tr1 or FOXP3-positive Treg cell culture supernatants and analyzed by immunofluorescence and flow cytometry. T84 cells (human colonic adenocarcinoma epithelial cells) were incubated with Tr1 or FOXP3-positive Treg cell culture supernatants and trans-epithelial electrical resistance was measured to determine epithelial cell barrier function. Results. Phenotypes of Tr1 cells isolated from healthy subjects or patients with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis did not differ significantly following expansion. Tr1 cells and FOXP3-positive Treg cells suppressed proliferation of effector T cells, but only Tr1 cells suppressed secretion of IL1beta (IL1B) and TNF from myeloid cells. Tr1 cells, but not FOXP3-positive Treg cells, isolated from healthy subjects and IBD patients secreted IL22, which regulated repair of the epithelium and promoted barrier function of human intestinal epithelial cells. Tr1 cell culture supernatants promoted differentiation of mucin-producing goblet cells in intestinal organoid cultures. Conclusion. Human Tr1 cells suppress proliferation of effector T cells (adaptive immune response) and production of IL1B and TNF by myeloid cells (innate immune response). They also secrete IL22 to regulate repair of the epithelium and promote barrier function. They might be developed as a cell-based therapy for intestinal inflammatory disorders.
Supplementary document for Enhancing the Efficiency of Solution-Processed Inverted Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes via Ligand Modification with 6-mercaptohexanol - 5094786.pdf
Creators: name: Chae, Heeyeop
name: Lee, Woosuk
name: Lee, Changmin
name: KIM, BO
name: Choi, Yonghyeok
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications

description: Supplemental data
The untold love story: Chinese immigrant women entrepreneurs in Australia and in Canada
Creators: name: Low, Angeline
name: Chiang, Frances
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Research on women's entrepreneurship is often conceptualized in motivational theories embedded in social and economic opportunity structures set in a male-dominant terrain. However, there are interplays of human agency and structure to entrepreneurship and of late researchers, especially of women's entrepreneurship, are interested in recognizing entrepreneurship as an individual strategy; but what drives the individual strategy? This paper attempts to reveal 'love' as an emotional capital that adds to explain an individual's strategy to entrepreneurship amongst two groups of Chinese women in Australia and Canada. Love that is embedded in the relations of marriage and family, which has historically been understood as passionate and confined only to the private sphere and deems irrelevant to the instrumental public world, is found to be one of the important motivators and incentives that drives some women into business.
Conceptualizing patient-centered care for substance use disorder treatment: findings from a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Marchand, Kirsten
name: Beaumont, Scott
name: Westfall, Jordan
name: MacDonald, Scott
name: Harrison, Scott
name: Marsh, David C.
name: Schechter, Martin T.
name: Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Despite ongoing efforts aimed to improve treatment engagement for people with substance-related disorders, evidence shows modest rates of utilization as well as client-perceived barriers to care. Patient-centered care (PCC) is one widely recognized approach that has been recommended as an evidence-based practice to improve the quality of substance use disorder treatment. PCC includes four core principles: a holistic and individualized focus to care, shared decision-making and enhanced therapeutic alliance. Aims: This scoping review aimed to explore which PCC principles have been described and how they have defined and measured among people with substance-related disorders. Methods: Following the iterative stages of the Arksey and O’Malley scoping review methodology, empirical (from Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and ISI Web of Science) and grey literature references were eligible if they focused on people accessing treatment for substance-related disorders and described PCC. Two reviewers independently screened the title/abstract and full-texts of references. Descriptive analyses and a directed content analysis were performed on extracted data. Findings: One-hundred and forty-nine references met inclusion from the 2951 de-duplicated references screened. Therapeutic alliance was the most frequent principle of PCC described by references (72%); this was consistently defined by characteristics of empathy and non-judgment. Shared decision-making was identified in 36% of references and was primarily defined by client and provider strategies of negotiation in the treatment planning process. Individualized care was described by 30% of references and included individualized assessment and treatment delivery efforts. Holistic care was identified in 23% of references; it included an integrated delivery of substance use, health and psychosocial services via comprehensive care settings or coordination. Substance use and treatment engagement outcomes were most frequently described, regardless of PCC principle. Conclusions: This review represents a necessary first step to explore how PCC has been defined and measured for people accessing substance use disorder treatment. The directed content analysis revealed population and context-specific evidence regarding the defining characteristics of PCC-principles that can be used to further support the implementation of PCC.
Open Science nelle Scienze Umane
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science, open access, humanities

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3601409
description: Seminario al Dipartimento di Studi Umanisitici, Univ. di Torino, 23 settembre 2019
Supplementary document for Photon-phonon spin-orbit interaction in optical fibers - 5094863.pdf
Creators: name: Yavorsky, Maxim
name: Vikulin, Dmitriy
name: Alexeyev, C.
name: Belotelov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Resonance perturbation theory
title: Thermal Switching of the Opacity of Polymer Films for the Use in Thermo-Responsive Papers
Creators: name: Möhle-Saul, Sunna
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: Thermal papers have become an integral part of everyday life: they are used in cash register receipts, parcel labels and admission tickets. Wherever information needs to be recorded quickly, cheaply and for a limited period of time. However, traditional thermal papers are subject to criticism because their color developer systems can contain substances that are potentially harmful to health and the environment.Therefore, there are already alternative papers based not on the chemical development of color, but on the physical effect of switching a highly light-scattering structure from opaque to transparent. The goal of this work is to find another alternative for an opaque-transparent film applied to paper that can be thermally switched. For this purpose, systems of crystalline low molecular weight substances in polymer matrices are investigated. The components are formulated in different configurations and coated onto substrates. The thermal switchability in the opacity of the resulting films is determined by measuring the optical density before and after thermal switching. Natural waxes such as fatty acids and tristearin and synthetic waxes as well as binary organic eutectic mixtures are investigated as low molecular weight crystalline substances. By measuring the scattering parameters, it is determined whether mixtures in a eutectic composition have a higher scattering effect than their non-eutectic compositions. In the course of the work, promising systems are identified that can serve as basis for possible thermally switchable coatings.
Open Science in Research Projects
Creators: name: Pavone, Gina
name: Lazzeri, Emma
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science, Research Data Management, Eosc, Horizon Europe

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.6412061
description: Series of three seminars on Open Science in research projects held at the University of Siena.  Day 1: Open Science and research assessment Day 2: Research Data Management Day 3: Horizon Europe, Eosc and Research Infrastructures
Strong feeling in psychotherapy: Therapist uses and methods of promotion.
Creators: name: Fairweather, David R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Despite the fact that many practitioners of varying theoretical stripes regard in-session strong client feeling as an important lever for psychotherapeutic change, there has been almost no research on how therapists can help bring about these strong feeling events in their sessions, or how they can use them once they have occurred. Nowhere in the current literature are there research-generated, unabridged, richly descriptive category systems designed to show practitioners precise methods for promoting strong feeling in the session, and precise ways of using it once it occurs. The present study aims to begin filling these conspicuous gaps in the literature by addressing two research questions: (1) What therapist methods, employed under what in-session client conditions, are judged as helpful in promoting strong client feeling? (2) When strong feeling occurs in the session, how do therapists use it? The research strategy will be an inductive, discovery-oriented approach, emphasizing knowledge generation, rather than explicit hypothesis-testing. The data will consist of audiotaped sessions of individual psychotherapy that contain multiple instances of strong feeling, and that are conducted by distinguished therapists representative of a broad range of therapeutic approaches. The potential value of the findings for psychotherapeutic practice is that they will offer a richly detailed collection of procedural, technical knowledge that practitioners can readily add to their therapeutic arsenals if they so wish. The findings may also enable theorizing about the relationships between therapist methods, occurrences of strong feeling, and subsequent therapist uses, and provide empirical data that future researchers may confirm and/or extend toward a more scientifically-based technology of how to promote and use strong feeling in the session.
Cross-cultural testing of James W. Fowler's model of faith development among Baha'is.
Creators: name: Drewek, Paula A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: James W. Fowler's contribution to psycho-social development offered a measurement for how individuals grow in faith which was applied to two populations of Baha'is in a cross-cultural study. The purpose of the study was two-fold: to test Fowler's model of faith development (FD) on a Western population of Baha'is in Canada; and, secondly, to apply the same test to an identical population of Baha'is in India. The overall purpose of the study was to cross-validate Fowler's model of faith development in an Eastern culture. In the very few previous cross-cultural studies of faith development, none had focused on two evenly-matched populations of individuals from the same faith tradition in widely varying cultures. The study consisted of 40 faith development interviews: 20 in Canada and 20 in India, with individuals matched according to four controlled variables which were thought to impact faith stage score. The pairing of respondents according to chronological age, sex, education level and Baha'i age was done to isolate the cultural variable and to highlight potential cultural differences. The research used a phenomenological, quasi-experimental approach. The faith development model was tested in the Canadian population using three measures of compatibility: range of stage scores, clustering of faith aspects, and codeability of the interviews corresponding to the faith stage descriptors. Results supported the model overall, but found difficulties in the clustering of Stage Aspects in Stage 4 interviews. Next, the model was tested on Indian Baha'is by comparing both the stage scores of the two populations and the responses of Canadians and Indians to the same interview questions. The results of the study were both quantitative and qualitative and confirmed the validity of the Fowler model overall but found problems in the stage descriptors in some of the Indian interviews. Quantitative findings showed no significant differences between Canadians and Indians in overall stage scores, but did show varying distributions of those scores which confirmed the hypotheses: there would be more Stage 4 Canadians and more Stage 3 and Stage 5 Indians. Both hypotheses affirmed the cultural biases of the Fowler model in defining Stages 3 and 4. Qualitative findings indicated general validity of the Fowler instrument when applied to the Indian sample, but specific problems with the construction of Stage 3 descriptors. The presence of discrepant data indicating reliance on the role of unconscious and intuitive factors in values and decision-making was also a problem. Lastly, questions related to the application of this model in the Baha'i community were addressed to discover factors inhibiting and supporting growth of faith as measured by Fowler's model in this relatively youthful, but little studied, worldwide religious community.
Klima-Szenarioanalysen im Kreditgeschäft der Banken
Creators: name: Wilkens, Marco
name: Leister, Johannes
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kreditinstitut
subject: Sustainable Finance
subject: Handlungsfeld Finanzwirtschaft
subject: Bankensektor
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: ⁠Klima⁠-Szenarioanalysen zur Abschätzung der Risiken im Kreditgeschäft der Banken werden immer populärer. Damit verbunden ergibt sich die Frage, welche Möglichkeiten und Grenzen mit solchen Szenarioanalysen einhergehen und wofür sie daher eingesetzt werden können und sollten. Die vorliegende Kurzbroschüre zeigt, dass die denkbaren und aktuell diskutierten Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Klima-Szenarioanalysen vielfältig sind. Die Autoren diskutieren in der Studie die Unterschiede zwischen Klima-Szenarioanalysen und traditionellen Szenarioanalysen in Banken. Darüber hinaus analysiert die Studie, welche Funktionen Klima-Szenarioanalysen erfüllen können und wie sie dabei unterstützen, die Realwirtschaft in Richtung Green Economy zu transformieren.
Correction: Sartorius et al. “Postprandial Effects of a Proprietary Milk Protein Hydrolysate Containing Bioactive Peptides in Prediabetic Subjects” Nutrients 2019, 11, 1700
Creators: name: Sartorius, Tina
name: Weidner, Andrea
name: Dharsono, Tanita
name: Boulier, Audrey
name: Wilhelm, Manfred
name: Schön, Christiane
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: alpha-glucosidase inhibitor
subject: biopeptides
subject: blood glucose
subject: glycemic control
subject: hyperglycemia
subject: milk peptides
subject: postprandial
subject: prediabetes
subject: pre-meal
subject: type 2 diabetes
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences

description: Milk proteins have been hypothesized to protect against type 2 diabetes (T2DM) by beneficially modulating glycemic response, predominantly in the postprandial status. This potential is, amongst others, attributed to the high content of whey proteins, which are commonly a product of cheese production. However, native whey has received substantial attention due to its higher leucine content, and its postprandial glycemic effect has not been assessed thus far in prediabetes. In the present study, the impact of a milk protein hydrolysate of native whey origin with alpha-glucosidase inhibiting properties was determined in prediabetics in a randomized, cross-over trial. Subjects received a single dose of placebo or low- or high-dosed milk protein hydrolysate prior to a challenge meal high in carbohydrates. Concentration–time curves of glucose and insulin were assessed. Incremental areas under the curve (iAUC) of glucose as the primary outcome were significantly reduced by low-dosed milk peptides compared to placebo (p = 0.0472), and a minor insulinotropic effect was seen. A longer intervention period with the low-dosed product did not strengthen glucose response but significantly reduced HbA1c values (p = 0.0244). In conclusion, the current milk protein hydrolysate of native whey origin has the potential to modulate postprandial hyperglycemia and hence may contribute in reducing the future risk of developing T2DM.
Behaviour of Accessory Monazite and Age Significance During Metamorphism and Partial Melting During Grenville Orogeny: An Example from Otter Lake Area, Central Metasedimentary Belt, QC
Creators: name: Séjourné, Brianna L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quebec
subject: U-Th-Pb EMPA geochronology
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Garnet
subject: Monazite
subject: Neosomes
subject: Partial melting
subject: Metasomatism
subject: Anatexis
subject: Migmatite
subject: Marble Domain
subject: Central Metasedimentary Belt
subject: Grenville Province
subject: Mesoproterozoic

description: The accretionary Mesoproterozoic Grenville Orogeny (ca. 1300 – 980 Ma) involving the Central Metasedimentary Belt is a key building block of the eastern Laurentian margin. A petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical and geochronological study of the migmatite complex in Otter Lake (QC) within the Marble Domain is used to resolve regional metamorphic and magmatic events primarily recorded in the leucosome accessory minerals (i.e. monazite). The relationship between the different stages of monazite and garnet growth and dissolution during the tectonic evolution of the orogenic history for the interpreted metasomatic (injected) and anatectic (in situ) monazite-bearing neosomes from this study supports published thermochronological work in the area and challenges the claim that the Central Metasedimentary Belt was not heated above 500 °C during the Ottawan phase. Instead, the region shows Grenville magmatic and anatectic events were overprinted by high-temperature, fluid-rich Ottawan-phase metamorphism recorded within both injected (monazite-bearing) and in situ (monazite- and garnet-bearing) neosomes.
Group B streptococcal colonization,molecular characteristics, and epidemiology
Creators: name: Shabayek, Sarah
name: Spellerberg, Barbara
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Colonization
subject: Molecular characteristics
subject: Epidemiology, serotype
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Streptococcus agalactiae
subject: Streptococcal infections
subject: Streptokokkeninfektion

description: Streptococcus agalactiae or group B streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of serious neonatal infections. GBS is an opportunistic commensal constituting a part of the intestinal and vaginal physiologic flora and maternal colonization is the principal route of GBS transmission. GBS is a pathobiont that converts from the asymptomatic mucosal carriage state to a major bacterial pathogen causing severe invasive infections. At present, as many as 10 serotypes (Ia, Ib, and II–IX) are recognized. The aim of the current review is to shed new light on the latest epidemiological data and clonal distribution of GBS in addition to discussing the most important colonization determinants at a molecular level. The distribution and predominance of certain serotypes is susceptible to variations and can change over time. With the availability of multilocus sequence typing scheme (MLST) data, it became clear that GBS strains of certain clonal complexes possess a higher potential to cause invasive disease, while other harbor mainly colonizing strains. Colonization and persistence in different host niches is dependent on the adherence capacity of GBS to host cells and tissues. Bacterial biofilms represent well-known virulence factors with a vital role in persistence and chronic infections. In addition, GBS colonization, persistence, translocation, and invasion of host barriers are largely dependent on their adherence abilities to host cells and extracellular matrix proteins (ECM). Major adhesins mediating GBS interaction with host cells include the fibrinogen-binding proteins (Fbs), the laminin-binding protein (Lmb), the group B streptococcal C5a peptidase (ScpB), the streptococcal fibronectin binding protein A (SfbA), the GBS immunogenic bacterial adhesin (BibA), and the hypervirulent adhesin (HvgA). These adhesins facilitate persistent and intimate contacts between the bacterial cell and the host, while global virulence regulators play a major role in the transition to invasive infections. This review combines for first time epidemiological data with data on adherence and colonization for GBS. Investigating the epidemiology along with understanding the determinants of mucosal colonization and the development of invasive disease at a molecular level is therefore important for the development of strategies to prevent invasive GBS disease worldwide.
Open science in Horizon Europe
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Horizon Europe, Open Science

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5044841
description: Corso per APRE 30 giugno 2021. Basato sulle versioni iniziali del Grant Agreement (v1 Feb 2021), della Proposal Template (v2 April 2021) e della Guida al Programma (v1, June17 2021). Perché serve Open Science Il contesto, legislazione europea e EOSC Basi legali e deifinizioni Pratiche Open obbligatorie: testi e dati Pratiche Open raccomandate (ma la proposta viene valutata su questo!)
Improved packet loss concealment for PCM voice transmission over Internet Protocol network
Creators: name: Li, Qi
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In recent years, packet voice over the Internet Protocol (IP) network has become an attractive alternative to conventional public telephony. However, the Internet is a best-effort network, with no guarantee on its quality of service. A fundamental issue in real-time interactive voice transmissions over an unreliable Internet Protocol (IP) network is the loss, or late arrival of packets. Concealment algorithms, either transmitter or receiver based, are used to replace these lost packets. The packet loss concealment (PLC) techniques described in the standards ANSI TI.521 (Annex B) and ITU-T Rec. G.711 Appendix I produce a good performance for PCM coded speech. However, these algorithms do not use subsequent packets from the fitter buffer for reconstruction, which could further increase the PLC performance. The goal of this work is to develop an improved PLC algorithm for PCM coded speech, using the subsequent packet information when available. A method combining pitch prediction and Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) is used to estimate the missing voice packets.
Photometric monitoring of the doubly imaged quasar UM 673: possible evidence for chromatic microlensing
Creators: name: Nakos, T.
name: Courbin, F.
name: Poels, J.
name: Libbrecht, C.
name: Magain, P.
name: Surdej, J.
name: Manfroid, J.
name: Burud, I.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Germany, L.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Meylan, G.
name: Pompei, E.
name: Pritchard, J.
name: Saviane, I.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the results of two-band CCD photometric monitoring of the gravitationally lensed quasar Q 0142-100 (UM 673). The data, obtained at ESO-La Silla with the 1.54 m Danish telescope in the Gunn i-band (October 1998-September 1999) and in the Johnson V-band (October 1998 to December 2001), were analyzed using three different photometric methods. The light-curves obtained with all methods show variations, with a peak-to-peak amplitude of 0.14 mag in V. Although it was not possible to measure the time delay between the two lensed QSO images, the brighter component displays possible evidence for microlensing: it becomes bluer as it gets brighter, as expected under the assumption of differential magnification of a quasar accretion disk.
Open Science in Horizon Europe: how and (mostly) why
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Horizon Europe, Open Science, FAIR data, Data Management Plans

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7298033
description: Webinar held on Nov. 7 for the CIVICA consortium (Social sciences universities) - What's wrong with the current scholarly communication system (or, why do we need Open Science?) - Open Science definition and tools - Focus on research evaluation, Open Access, FAIR data, Open Science in Horizon Europe
Factorization of numbers with Gauss sums: II. Suggestions for implementation with chirped laser pulses
Creators: name: Merkel, Wolfgang
name: Wölk, Sabine
name: Schleich, Wolfgang P.
name: Averbukh, I. Sh.
name: Girard, B.
name: Paulus, G. G.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Gaussian sums
subject: Gauß-Summe

description: We propose three implementations of the Gauss sum factorization schemes discussed in part I of this series (Wölk et al 2011 New J. Phys. 13 103007): (i) a two-photon transition in a multi-level ladder system induced by a chirped laser pulse, (ii) a chirped one-photon transition in a two-level atom with a periodically modulated excited state and (iii) a linearly chirped one-photon transition driven by a sequence of ultrashort pulses. For each of these quantum systems, we show that the excitation probability amplitude is given by an appropriate Gauss sum. We provide rules on how to encode the number N to be factored in our system and how to identify the factors of N in the fluorescence signal of the excited state.
How to use open elements -Train the trainer FOSTER Open Science Bootcamp
Creators: name: Imming, Melanie
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2019

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4741942
description: A practical guide to use open elements in your open science training, from the FOSTER open science Train the Trainer Bootcamps.
On the surface geometry of ordered sets.
Creators: name: Hashemi, S. Medhi T.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: This dissertation has two aims. The first is to study upward drawings of ordered sets on two-dimensional surfaces and secondly to study the geometry of the surfaces on which ordered sets can be drawn without crossing edges. Critical points, in particular, saddle points of ordered sets will play a decisive role. The Discrete Index Theorem, too, is fundamental. We present a characterization, in terms of critical points, of spherical ordered sets--ordered sets which have upward drawings without crossing edges on the sphere. A class of ordered sets, each member of which is called a spiral, plays an important role in the complexity of upward drawings without crossing edges on a specific surface. For a subclass of spirals we characterize those surfaces on which members of this subclass have upward drawings, and we apply spirals, as "gadgets", in the reduction to prove that this decision-making problem, whether an ordered set is spherical, is NP-complete. In the process, we derive a new and simpler proof for NP-completeness of upward planarity testing. From a different point of view, we explore the interrelationship between the upward drawing of ordered sets and the geometry of surfaces. For each smooth, two-dimensional surface S embedded in R$\sp3$, we shall construct an ordered set P to fit S, that is, (i) P has an upward drawing, without crossing edges on S, (ii) P contains the ordered set critical(S) of critical points of S and (iii) if $S\sp\prime$ is any two-dimensional surface of genus g on which P has an upward drawing, without crossing edges, then critical(S) $\subseteq$ critical($S\sp\prime$). A leading unsolved problem is whether an ordered set has a realizable upward drawing on a surface of genus of its covering graph. We consider what seems to be a likely candidate for a counterexample--the upward drawing of the lattice of subspaces of the projective plane of order two.
Supplementary document for Photon-phonon spin-orbit interaction in optical fibers - 5094863.pdf
Creators: name: Yavorsky, Maxim
name: Vikulin, Dmitriy
name: Alexeyev, C.
name: Belotelov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Resonance perturbation theory
The Student Initiative for Open Science (SIOS)
Creators: name: Schumacher, Lea
name: Veenman, Myrthe
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3928109
description: One of the presentations from the First Online Session leading up to the Dutch National Open Science Festival in 2021: 'The Open Science Use Case Awards' on July 2nd 2020. The publication ‘A Collection of Open Science Use Cases can be found here:  https://zenodo.org/record/3903257
Estación, ida y vuelta : el viaje de Rosa Chacel hacia la "nueva novela" de Ortega.
Creators: name: Risbud, Sheila Marie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Literature, Romance.

description: La presente these etudie le cas de Rosa Chacel, ecrivaine espagnole meconnue et souvent exclue du cercle litteraire du philosophe Jose Ortega y Gasset. S'inspirant d'un essai du philosophie intitule Ideas sobre la novela, Chacel decida d'ecrire le nouveau roman proclame par Ortega, suivant les conseils exposes dans son ouvrage. Ortega publia un extrait du roman de Chacel, Estacion. Ida y vuelta, dans la revue qu'il dirigeait. Cependant, pour des raisons inconnues, le philosophe ne publia jamais l'oeuvre au complet dans sa collection dediee au roman de l'Avant-garde, Nova Novorum. Cette these a donc pour but d'expliquer et d'approfondir les raisons de l'exclusion de Chacel du Nova Novorum. A cet effet, la premiere section de la these se concentre donc sur l'etude de l'Avant-garde espagnole et de ses divers mouvements dans le presenter l'epoque des annees vingt. Cette mise en contexte a comme but la presentation de la crise dans laquelle se trouve le roman a cette epoque et l'illustration des divers essais pour renouveler le genre. La deuxieme section de la these se concentre ainsi sur les ecrits d'un observateur diligent de l'art nouveau et de la crise du roman: Ortega y Gasset. Une etude de deux de ses essais permet de mieux comprendre son influence sur Rosa Chacel. La troisieme section presente l'ecrivaine d'une facon plutot biographique pour ensuite mener, dans la quatrieme section, a une etude detaillee de son premier roman. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Skript zum Praktikum Analytische Chemie (2002)
Creators: name: Reuter, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analytische Güteziffern
subject: Bestimmungsverfahren
subject: Ergebnisauswertung
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Chemistry, analytic
subject: Abweichung
subject: Analytische Methode
subject: Fehler
subject: Gravimetrie
subject: Kolorimetrie
subject: Komplexometrie
subject: Photometrie

description: Das Skript verbindet die Inhalte der Vorlesungen Analytische Chemie I und II mit der Praktikumsbearbeitung. Es stellt die klassischen und verbreiteten Bestimmungs- und Trennverfahren vor. Im Vordergrund stehen jene Aspekte, deren Bedeutung sich aus der Durchführung einschließlich der Auswertung und Darstellung ergeben. Das Skript enthält die Aufgabenanleitungen. Ausgehend von konkreten Fragestellungen unterstützt es das Praktikumsziel, durch die Behandlung ausgewählter Analyte zur problemorientierten Anwendung erlernter Arbeitstechniken sowie zur Auswahl und zum Einsatz geeigneter Methoden und Verfahren für die gesamte Stoffvielfalt zu gelangen. Das Skript begleitet das Grundlagenpraktikum und ersetzt weder die Nachbereitung der Vorlesungen noch die dort genannten Lehrbücher. Das Skript verweist auf die im Hauptstudium - im Rahmen des 4. Fachs Analytische Chemie - zu bearbeitenden apparativ aufwendigeren Verfahren. Der Skriptaufbau entspricht der Praktikumsstruktur. Im Abschnitt A werden die Gravimetrie, die Komplexometrie, die Säure-Base-Titrationen, die Colorimetrie und die Photometrie vorgestellt. Der Abschnitt B behandelt Redoxtitrationen und elektrochemische Bestimmungen. Im Abschnitt C werden die chromatographischen Trennverfahren präsentiert.
cBiT: The Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics
Creators: name: Hebels, Dennie
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3928105
description: One of the presentations from the First Online Session leading up to the Dutch National Open Science Festival in 2021: 'The Open Science Use Case Awards' on July 2nd 2020. The publication ‘A Collection of Open Science Use Cases can be found here:  https://zenodo.org/record/3903257
Time domain equalizer design based on multi-rate technique.
Creators: name: Yu, Yong.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Discrete Multitone is adopted in Digital Subscriber Line to offer high-speed data communication on the UTP channel. To combat the channel distortion, DMT system employed Time Domain Equalizer and Cyclic Prefix. In this thesis, we analyze different existing time domain equalizer design methods and their performances are compared based on our simulation results. Modification of the current method is proposed and significant performance improvement is obtained. Multi-rate equalization is studied theoretically, which enables us to achieve zero ISI channels that can be used not only in DMT system but also in all other communication systems. Our simulation results show that the new design method is superior and practical.
Synthesis and characterization of Ca(1−x)SmxF(2+x) (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15) solid electrolytes for fluoride‐ion batteries
Creators: name: Molaiyan, Palanivel
name: Witter, Raiker
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluoride‐ion battery
subject: ionic conductivity
subject: solid‐state electrolytes
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Electrolytes
subject: Ion
subject: Elektrolyt

description: Abstract Calcium fluoride solid electrolytes have been identified as a candidate for solid‐state fluoride‐ion batteries (FIBs). Here, we investigate the doping of CaF2 with samarium — Ca1−xSmxF2+x (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15) — obtained by solid synthesis via high‐energy ball milling. Structural, morphological, and ionic conductivity studies of the as‐prepared materials were examined. It reveals that the fluorite‐type structure is dominating with a crystallite size of 12–14 nm. The highest ionic conductivity at room temperature had been obtained for Ca0.95Sm0.05F2.95 with a value of 2.8 × 10−6 S·cm−1. It proves that a small content of Sm doping can considerably improve the ionic conductivity of CaF2.
Diagnostic and therapeutic odyssey of two patients with compound heterozygous leptin receptor deficiency
Creators: name: Zorn, Stefanie
name: Schnurbein, Julia Von
name: Kohlsdorf, Katja
name: Denzer, Christian
name: Wabitsch, Martin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Leptin receptor
subject: Monogenetic obesity
subject: Early-onset obesity
subject: Hyperphagia
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Obesity; Genetics
subject: Fettsucht
subject: Genetik

description: Background: Rare genetic variations in the leptin-melanocortin signalling pathway can severely impair appetite regulation and cause extreme obesity in early childhood. Case presentation: Our case reports describe the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in a girl as well as in a non-related boy of non-consanguineous, German parents with severe early-onset obesity, pronounced hyperphagia, and permanent food-seeking behaviour. Excessive weight gain within the first year of life initiated extensive diagnostics without finding a causal diagnosis. Furthermore, a wide range of intensive, interdisciplinary, and behavioural therapies for weight control were unsuccessful. Prior to bariatric surgery, the 18-year-old girl and the 14-year-old boy reached a BMI of 67.7 kg/m2 and 55.2 kg/m2, respectively. However, even surgical outcomes were unsatisfactory. A subsequently initiated genetic analysis including sequencing of the leptin receptor gene revealed compound heterozygous variants as a cause of the severe early-onset obesity in both patients (c.2598-3_ 2607delTAGAATGAAAAAG and c.2227 T>C; c.1874G>A and c.2051A>C). Both patients were enrolled in the clinical study RM-493-015 and treated with melanocortin receptor agonist setmelanotide. Currently, they are still on setmelanotide treatment in the extension trial RM-493-022. Conclusion: Our case report illustrates the urgent necessity of early genetic diagnostics in children with severe early-onset obesity to avoid frustrating and potentially damaging therapies. Thus, genetic examination should precede bariatric surgery. In the future, several pharmacological therapies will be available for some forms of monogenetic obesity.
Open science and open data for human factors research
Creators: name: Bazilinskyy, Pavlo
name: Winter, Joost de
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3928103
description: One of the presentations from the First Online Session leading up to the Dutch National Open Science Festival in 2021: 'The Open Science Use Case Awards' on July 2nd 2020. The publication ‘A Collection of Open Science Use Cases can be found here:  https://zenodo.org/record/3903257
The impossibility of filming 'Jane Austen', or at least six degrees of separation
Creators: name: McFarlane, Brian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The inverted commas in the title of this article are crucial to the sort of line I want to pursue when considering film adaptations of Jane Austen novels. I'm interested in what can and can't be filmed. Whatever a filmmaker tackling Pride and Prejudice, for instance, comes up with, it won't be 'Jane Austen', and the attempts that interest me most are those that seem to have accepted this notion and show a filmmaker with a point of view about certain elements in the novel that bears Austen's name. I even begin to question the use of the term 'adaptation'.
The Experience of Driving Cessation in Dementia: Examples from Ontario and Alberta
Creators: name: Séguin, Dale
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Dementia
Alzheimer's disease
Driving Cessation
Transportation
Physicians
Driver's License

description: Background: The rise in the total number of seniors will lead to a considerable increase in the prevalence of persons with dementia (PWD), the number of senior drivers and the amount of drivers with dementia. Understanding how this life event is experienced by PWD and their caregivers is paramount to policy development and planning. Methods: Descriptive qualitative study using secondary data. There were 25 participants over the age of 65, whose monthly phone call conversations were analyzed using analytic induction, to find links and create a theoretically based hypothesis regarding the experience of driving cessation. A standardized questionnaire was used to guide the telephone data collection. Results: PWD may experience emotions of anger when they don’t understand why they are no longer allowed to drive. When PWD understand why they are no longer allowed to drive, they seem to accept and self-regulate their driving cessation. Cognitive tests and physicians instructing PWD they have to cease driving, are not perceived to be helpful in this understanding. Public transportation and alternate means of personal transportation are potentially associated with the acceptance of driving cessation. Conclusions: PWD might not understand the link between cognitive assessments, their memory, and their driving performance. A systems level approach to improved access to transportation and on-road driving tests might make it easier for PWD to understand and accept the lifestyle changes that come with driving cessation.
Triage, treatment and transfer of patients with stroke in emergency department trial (the T3 Trial): a cluster randomised trial protocol
Creators: name: Middleton, Sandy
name: Levi, Chris
name: Dale, Simeon
name: Cheung, N. Wah
name: McInnes, Elizabeth
name: Considine, Julie
name: D'Este, Catherine
name: Cadilhac, Dominique A.
name: Grimshaw, Jenny
name: Gerraty, Richard
name: Craig, Louise
name: Schadewaldt, Verena
name: McElduff, Patrick
name: Fitzgerald, Mark
name: Quinn, Clare
name: Cadigan, Greg
name: Denisenko, Sonia
name: Longworth, Mark
name: Ward, Jeanette
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Internationally recognised evidence-based guidelines recommend appropriate triage of patients with stroke in emergency departments (EDs), administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), and proactive management of fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing before prompt transfer to a stroke unit to maximise outcomes. We aim to evaluate the effectiveness in EDs of a theory-informed, nurse-initiated, intervention to improve multidisciplinary triage, treatment and transfer (T3) of patients with acute stroke to improve 90-day death and dependency. Organisational and contextual factors associated with intervention uptake also will be evaluated. Methods: This prospective, multicentre, parallel group, cluster randomised trial with blinded outcome assessment will be conducted in EDs of hospitals with stroke units in three Australian states and one territory. EDs will be randomised 1:1 within strata defined by state and tPA volume to receive either the T3 intervention or no additional support (control EDs). Our T3 intervention comprises an evidence-based care bundle targeting: (1) triage: routine assignment of patients with suspected stroke to Australian Triage Scale category 1 or 2; (2) treatment: screening for tPA eligibility and administration of tPA where applicable; instigation of protocols for management of fever, hyperglycaemia and swallowing; and (3) transfer: prompt admission to the stroke unit. We will use implementation science behaviour change methods informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework [1, 2] consisting of (i) workshops to determine barriers and local solutions; (ii) mixed interactive and didactic education; (iii) local clinical opinion leaders; and (iv) reminders in the form of email, telephone and site visits. Our primary outcome measure is 90days post-admission death or dependency (modified Rankin Scale >2). Secondary outcomes are health status (SF-36), functional dependency (Barthel Index), quality of life (EQ-5D); and quality of care outcomes, namely, monitoring and management practices for thrombolysis, fever, hyperglycaemia, swallowing and prompt transfer. Outcomes will be assessed at the patient level. A separate process evaluation will examine contextual factors to successful intervention uptake. At the time of publication, EDs have been randomised and the intervention is being implemented. Discussion: This theoretically informed intervention is aimed at addressing important gaps in care to maximise 90-day health outcomes for patients with stroke.
Open Science - What is it all about?
Creators: name: Karoune, Emma
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science
Open data
FAIR
Open source
Open access

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5848731
description: This presentation was given on Friday 14th January 2022 as part of the EU funded project entitled 'Opening Doors' ( https://openingdoors4phd.eu ). This is the first lecture about Open Science and covers what is an open science approach, what are the different practices that make up open science and then it goes on to give examples of these practices.  The slides build on the resources created in the Open Science Skills Workshop - these resources can be found here:  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5717154
Supplementary document for High-Order Nonlinear Dipole Response Characterized by Extreme-Ultraviolet Ellipsometry - 5095091.pdf
Creators: name: Chang, Kuang-Yu
name: Huang, Long-Cheng
name: Asaga, Koji
name: Tsai, Ming-Shian
name: Cabezas, Laura Rego
name: Huang, Pei-Chi
name: Mashiko, Hiroki
name: Oguri, Katsuya
name: Hernandez-Garcia, Carlos
name: Chen, Ming-Chang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

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