cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The relative importance of kinetic mechanisms and variable enzyme abundances for the regulation of hepatic glucose metabolism – insights from mathematical modeling
Creators: name: Bulik, Sascha
name: Holzhuetter, Hermann-Georg
name: Berndt, Nikolaus
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Diabetes
subject: Enzyme abundance
subject: Glucose metabolism
subject: Hormonal enzyme regulation
subject: Kinetic enzyme regulation
subject: Liver
subject: Reversible phosphorylation
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Adaptation of the cellular metabolism to varying external conditions is brought about by regulated changes in the activity of enzymes and transporters. Hormone-dependent reversible enzyme phosphorylation and concentration changes of reactants and allosteric effectors are the major types of rapid kinetic enzyme regulation, whereas on longer time scales changes in protein abundance may also become operative. Here, we used a comprehensive mathematical model of the hepatic glucose metabolism of rat hepatocytes to decipher the relative importance of different regulatory modes and their mutual interdependencies in the hepatic control of plasma glucose homeostasis. Results Model simulations reveal significant differences in the capability of liver metabolism to counteract variations of plasma glucose in different physiological settings (starvation, ad libitum nutrient supply, diabetes). Changes in enzyme abundances adjust the metabolic output to the anticipated physiological demand but may turn into a regulatory disadvantage if sudden unexpected changes of the external conditions occur. Allosteric and hormonal control of enzyme activities allow the liver to assume a broad range of metabolic states and may even fully reverse flux changes resulting from changes of enzyme abundances alone. Metabolic control analysis reveals that control of the hepatic glucose metabolism is mainly exerted by enzymes alone, which are differently controlled by alterations in enzyme abundance, reversible phosphorylation, and allosteric effects. Conclusion In hepatic glucose metabolism, regulation of enzyme activities by changes of reactants, allosteric effects, and reversible phosphorylation is equally important as changes in protein abundance of key regulatory enzymes.
Insightful Learning Systems: Supporting STEM Education with Accessible Cyberlearning
Creators: name: Kime, Kristian A
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Assessment
Courseware
Learning Analytics
insightful learning systems
CalcTutor
Calculus
Education

description: In this dissertation, we propose a computer-supported method, called insightful learning systems, for tracking student progress that yields human actionable insights. We cover our theories, experiments and applications that aim to pave the way for more effective understanding of student progress, in key skills for a course, by looking at students answers to questions. Our goal was to find a sweet spot balancing the complexity of a learning model needed for the analytic techniques to obtain accurate results, with the desire to keep everything simple enough, so a human could understand what’s happening and ensure the manual work needed to create the system is minimal. To demonstrate this, we chose the domain of Introductory Calculus. We worked with an expert to build a skill-based model for that domain. We developed several methods for using Analytic frameworks to predict student outcomes and mastery from that model. We implemented a system, the CalcTutor, to allow real-world testing of our theories. We then collected data, both within the CalcTutor and from regular Calculus classes, that were used to show our analytics were accurate and provided predictive insights. This dissertation provides evidence that Insightful Learning Systems could fundamentally transform STEM education over the coming decade.
Spectroscopy and electronic structure of biomolecular isomers
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Subhojyoti
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The functionalities, reactions, biochemical interactions and diversities of life are best understood by the structural properties of biomolecular building blacks and their isomers. The biomolecular isomers such as drugs contain crucial information of the structure-property-functionality relationship responsible for the diversity of the molecules. Properties conformers and chiral enantiomers present challenges to many experimental measurements and hence computational studies have played an essential role to investigate such isomers. This has triggered insight in comprehending, rationalizing and studying state of the art in functional materials development at molecular level, hereby opening new doors for understanding, designing and control property/function targeted new materials.
Spread spectrum watermarking for images and video.
Creators: name: George, Mercy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis describes a digital watermarking method using the principle of spread spectrum communication. This method could be used for owner authentication or for fingerprinting. Though this work concentrates on image and video watermarking, the same method could be used for audio and text (represented as an image) as well. The major challenge in watermarking is that the watermarks should withstand all types of intentional and unintentional attacks, at the same time being imperceptible. Previously proposed digital watermarking techniques were not very robust, and the watermark was easy to remove. Using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, it is possible to embed invisible watermarks, which are highly robust to attacks and unintentional transformations. The robustness of this scheme to different signal manipulations and transformations is studied. This thesis also covers the different aspects of watermarking and includes an information theoretic analysis of the spread spectrum watermarking for fingerprinting. Even though spread spectrum signals are very resistant to non-linear amplitude distortion and additive noise, they are not resistant to timing errors. Using a sliding correlator for instance, it is possible to detect and compensate for the loss in synchronization. Our simulation results demonstrate the robustness of the spread spectrum watermark to lossy compression, filtering, cropping, rotation, scaling, printing and scanning, multiple watermarking attacks, collusion attacks, etc.
Evaluation of a self-regulating skill for rapid attention recovery (rART)
Creators: name: Rosenweg, Peter N.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Positive self-regulation skills can improve attention and mental-effort with the potential of reducing life threatening human errors and omissions in safety-critical industries. An operant, non-chemical method was investigated to instantly change mental-state to recover attention and capacity for mental-effort in late night tasks while subject to accumulated diurnal fatigue. The rapid Attention Recovery Technique (rART) was investigated in delivering the training via online instruction to student pilots and others. Baseline neuro-cognitive test results were not predictive with respect to task completion, however non-compliance with study protocols was characteristic of non-completers. Subjective reports of the efficacy of the method attested to improved attention recovery obtained by the rART.
CONCEPT MAPPING AND REFLECTION PROMPTS ON CHEMISTRY LEARNING OUTCOMES
Creators: name: Oni, Oluwasola Samuel
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2025
Subjects: Cognitive load
Collaborative Concept Map
Concept Maps
Individual Concept Map
Metacognitive strategies
Reflection Prompt

description: There is growing support for combining concept mapping activities with metacognitive strategies such as reflection prompt to improve student outcomes in difficult science concepts. Although concept maps and reflection prompts have been widely shown to be effective for learning, little is known about the effect of various concept map types combined with reflection prompts on student outcomes. We conducted two experiments to examine the comparative effectiveness of different types of concept map activities and reflection prompts. In experiment 1, we compared the effectiveness of two concept map types combined with reflection prompts (yes or no): (i) collaborative concept map, and (ii) individual concept map. Undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory general chemistry course were randomly assigned to the four conditions. Each concept map group entirely constructed the relationship between concept on the topic of gas. Results showed a main effect for concept map types, with individual concept map groups outperforming the collaborative concept map group. In addition, participants in collaborative concept map group and no reflection prompt group report lower cognitive load compared to other conditions. In experiment 2, we compared the effectiveness of three collaborative concept map formats (correction concept map, fill-in the blank concept map and self-generated concept map) combined with reflection prompts (yes vs no) on undergraduate students’ learning outcomes. Students (N = 480) were randomly assigned to one of the six conditions on the topic of quantum numbers. The dependent measures were tests of posttest and cognitive load score. The study found no interaction effect between the collaborative concept map formats and reflection prompts. There was no significant difference between the three collaborative concept map formats. However, collaborative correction map mean outperformed the means of collaborative scaffolded and self-generated maps. The reflection prompts provided no additional benefit over no reflection prompts because participants in both conditions were able to engage at interactive level of collaboration.
Diagnostic accuracy for major depression in multiple sclerosis using self- report questionnaires
Creators: name: Fischer, Anja
name: Fischer, Marcus
name: Nicholls, Robert A.
name: Lau, Stephanie
name: Poettgen, Jana
name: Patas, Kostas
name: Heesen, Christoph
name: Gold, Stefan M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Major depressive disorder
subject: multiple sclerosis
subject: self report
subject: sensitivity and specificity
subject: validation studies
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Objective Multiple sclerosis and major depressive disorder frequently co-occur but depression often remains undiagnosed in this population. Self-rated depression questionnaires are a good option where clinician-based standardized diagnostics are not feasible. However, there is a paucity of data on diagnostic accuracy of self-report measures for depression in multiple sclerosis (MS). Moreover, head-to-head comparisons of common questionnaires are largely lacking. This could be particularly relevant for high-risk patients with depressive symptoms. Here, we compare the diagnostic accuracy of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and 30-item version of the Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology Self-Rated (IDS-SR30) for major depressive disorder (MSS) against diagnosis by a structured clinical interview. Methods Patients reporting depressive symptoms completed the BDI, the IDS-SR30 and underwent diagnostic assessment (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, M.I.N.I.). Receiver-Operating Characteristic analyses were performed, providing error estimates and false-positive/negative rates of suggested thresholds. Results Data from n = 31 MS patients were available. BDI and IDS- SR30 total score were significantly correlated (r = 0.82). The IDS-SR30total score, cognitive subscore, and BDI showed excellent to good accuracy (area under the curve (AUC) 0.86, 0.91, and 0.85, respectively). Conclusion Both the IDS-SR30 and the BDI are useful to quantify depressive symptoms showing good sensitivity and specificity. The IDS-SR30 cognitive subscale may be useful as a screening tool and to quantify affective/cognitive depressive symptomatology.
Climate Change, Emotions, and Storytelling: Young Climate Activists and the Emotional Culture of Cultivated Hope
Creators: name: Ward, Ann Gavin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023

description: In this dissertation, I conducted an 18-month ethnography of climate activism, focusing on Sunrise Movement activists in a Northeastern city in the United States. In doing so, I unpack how young climate activists who mobilize in a Northeastern part of the United States experience climate change. This means centering how they express that climate change feels to them. I argue that emotional culture – in this case, an emotional culture of cultivated hope – structures these young climate activists’ emotional responses to climate change. In the case of the emotional culture of cultivated hope, these young climate activists can express a whole spectrum of emotions, including fear, despair, anxiety, joy, hope, and excitement with their fellow activists, and those feelings are validated. Nevertheless, sharing these emotions is the start of emotional processing. To fully embrace and fit into the culture of cultivated hope, activists take fear, anger, and sadness, channel them into action, and reframe them using hope. These expectations mean that while anger, fear, and sadness are permissible, these young climate activists must manage them in the culture of cultivated hope. I take this a step further by exploring the ways storytelling as a process of social transaction shapes and is shaped by the emotional culture of cultivated hope. I argue that social interactions that happen in collective action spaces are part of what shapes emotional culture and are simultaneously shaped by the culture itself. I detail how these activists learn to tell and rehearse emotional stories about their climate activism. I also explore the ways they reframe these stories to better reflect emotional norms. These practices reinforce cultivated hope and highlight the connections between storytelling, emotions, and culture. I conclude this dissertation with programmatic and curricular suggestions for supporting the development of resilient climate leaders and recommendations for how we engage with emotions in climate spaces, particularly in Higher Education.
Représentations du rôle, des pratiques et du programme de formation initiale à l'enseignement par les formatrices et formateurs oeuvrant au niveau du transversal : analyse de trois contextes culturels.
Creators: name: Lebel, Christine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education, Elementary.

description: Nombreuses parutions traitant de la formation à l'enseignement de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, ont permis de repérer quatre paramètres permettant de structurer les cursus de formation initiale à l'enseignement primaire dans une visée professionnelle. Par une analyse des représentations de formatrices et de formateurs oeuvrant au niveau de l'approche transversale dans trois institutions situées dans des contextes culturels différents, soit la France, l'Ontario et la Suisse, le présent projet s'attache à comprendre d'une part, comment ces derniers vivent les nouvelles tendances et restructurations qui s'opèrent en formation à l'enseignement en ce qui a trait à leur rôle, leur programme et leurs pratiques et comment ils donnent sens à leurs actes de formation. D'autre part, ce projet vise à découvrir dans quelle mesure les spécificités éducatives qui sont liées à l'histoire et à la culture propres à chaque pays et province, peuvent induire des façons autres de se représenter les programmes, dispositifs et démarches de formation. Dans cette optique, une série d'entretiens a été menée dans chaque site auprès des formatrices et formateurs. Les résultats obtenus montrent que les invariants émergeant de cette recherche sont relativement rares tant au plan des unités de sens émises qu'au niveau des personnes impliquées. Certes on constate qu'une majorité de participantes et participants issus des trois cultures, se représente les démarches comme étant plutôt socioconstructivistes et décrit l'attitude de la clientèle étudiante d'une manière relativement similaire, à savoir que celle-ci adopte une posture passive de consommateurs et demandeurs de recettes. Cependant, au regard de l'ensemble des catégories et sous-catégories étudiées, ces invariants semblent tout de même passablement limités. Ces constatations semblent dès lors soulever comme hypothèse qu'en dépit des nombreuses publications parues en faveur d'une restructuration de la formation initiale aux fins d'un accroissement de la professionnalisation, les spécificités éducatives qui sont fortement tributaires de l'histoire et de la culture de chacun des lieux impliqués, influent à degrés divers sur les façons de se représenter les rôles, les démarches et les programmes de formation. Ceci permet donc de questionner les possibilités réelles d'éclatement des frontières territoriales et de transcendance des diversités culturelles qui s'offrent depuis l'avènement des TIC.
Analysis of the Appropriate Bilingual Learning Model Applied to Elementary School Students
Creators: name: Fenita Mei Wulandari1, Jihan Zahra Tsania2, Fitra Hesti Hapsari3, Devita Ummul Musyarofah4, Karina Damayanti5, Yuni Nur Cahyani6, Arif Widagdo7
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

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Syntax-based Hierarchical Rule Extraction
Creators: name: Guo, Shiman
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Synchronous Context Free Grammar
Machine Translation
Syntax

description: Tree-based machine translation has attracted people’s attraction for its outstanding ability of handling long distance reordering and discontinuous expressions. Inferring synchronous context free grammar (SCFG) from syntactic trees also becomes popular since it extracts cleaner linguistic phrases and has the potential of improving the SCFG quality. However, the incompatibility between word alignment and subtree alignment as well as the ambiguity of multiple subtree aligning points hamper the extraction of high quality rules.\r \r In this thesis, we present a new rule extraction approach for Hiero-like models using syntax trees as constraints. We directly take advantage of a hierarchically aligned Chinese- English parallel treebank (HACEPT) as a training resource to infer a minimal but effective SCFG. We first explore how to obtain a cleaner word alignment that prevents the correct subtree pair from being filtered out. Then, we propose an efficient and effective approach to obtain a minimal subtree alignment that yields high quality hierarchical rules. We also analyze the impact of our rule extraction approach on Machine Translation quality using a large scale parallel data set.\r \r Our experiments show that our approach could reduce the size of Hiero’s rule table by almost 90%, with only a slight loss of translation quality as measured by BLEU score.
Quadratic discriminant analysis in distributed frameworks
Creators: name: Du, Bin
name: Zheng, Shengbin
name: Zhao, Junlong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a useful tool for binary classification problems. We focus on QDA in distributed frameworks where n observations are distributed on k local sites and cannot be merged. Supposing that the predictors are of dimension p, to compute the centralized QDA, p by p local summary matrices need to be transmitted, which is undesirable when transmission costs or privacy protection is concerned. To solve the problem, the divide-and-conquer (DC) approach can be applied by aggregating the local QDA on each site. Although DC estimator is efficient in communication costs, theoretical results reveal that the DC estimator requires strong conditions on p or k that fail when p or k is large. To fix this problem, we propose an alternative distributed QDA that requires the similar communication costs as DC estimator and achieves the same misclassification rate as the centralized QDA asymptotically under weaker conditions.
Literature as a tool of social control: The poetry of the French-Canadian intellectual elite, 1838-1859.
Creators: name: Williams, Erin L.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.

description: An analysis of literature from an historical perspective brings to light the cultural change experienced by French-Canadian society during the first two decades of the Union period. French-Canadian poetry from 1838 to 1859 reflected the onset of conservative nationalism that would shape Quebec society until the Quiet Revolution. The French-Canadian intellectual elite made increasing use of poetry published in a growing number of newspapers to influence public opinion. By identifying the themes and techniques evident in the poetry compiled in four volumes of Les Textes Poetiques du Canada Francais, it is possible to recognize why this elite attempted to control the values and behaviour of the rural population. The significant migration of young farmers from Canada East to the United States was the dominant motivation for the intellectual elite to employ social control through literature by the 1850s. The fight against social change provided common ground for the convergence of the interests of the intellectual and clerical elites in their effort to guarantee national survival through the preservation of the traditional rural lifestyle of the habitant. French-Canadian poetry in this period both reflected the mindset of the community and contributed to popular social control by discouraging emigration and promoting colonization. Ultimately, this analysis of the fundamental conceptual change in how the writers viewed the aim of poetry in this period, will permit a better understanding of how the elite manipulated popular culture to reinforce traditional values and to ensure the survivance of the French-Canadian nation.
Improved precision matrix estimation for mean-variance portfolio selection
Creators: name: Mattera, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper deals with the problem of reducing the estimation error of the precision matrix in mean-variance portfolio selection. A new shrinkage estimator for the precision matrix is proposed and the optimal shrinkage intensity is obtained by maximizing the investor's utility function. An oracle estimator is proposed and many feasible estimators are derived in the paper. Feasible estimators are easy to implement in practice. The performance of the proposed shrinkage estimator is evaluated with both simulations and empirical experiments.
Groupwise scaled partial envelope model with advantageous scale invariant
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Wu, Yu
name: Huang, Zhensheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Motivated by the fact that the groupwise partial envelope model is not invariant or equivariant under scale transformations of the responses, which tends to limit its scope to regressions in which the responses are measured in the same or similar units, we propose the groupwise scaled partial envelope model that is invariable to scale changes and is permissible for distinct regression coefficients and the heteroscedastic error structure across groups. The central idea is to retain the potential of the scaled partial envelope methods to keep the scale invariant and to allow for both different regression coefficients and different error structures for diverse groups. Further, we demonstrate the maximum likelihood estimators and its theoretical properties including parameter identifiability, asymptotic distribution and consistency of the groupwise scaled partial envelope estimator. Lastly, simulation studies and a real-data example demonstrate the advantages of the groupwise scaled partial envelope estimators, including a comparison with the standard model estimators, groupwise partial envelope estimators, and separate scaled partial envelope estimators.
Small clauses in modern Bulgarian.
Creators: name: Alexandrova, Galina M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: The present thesis entitled Small Clauses in Modern Bulgarian discusses representatives of the "small clause" (SC) construction in a Slavic language that has not been sufficiently studied by current linguistic theory. The thesis is organized as follows: Chapter 1. SCs according to Existing Analyses. Chapter 2. Modern Bulgarian Small Clauses: the Data. Chapter 3. Modern Bulgarian with AP, NP, and PP Predicates. Chapter 4. Modern Bulgarian Adjunct Participial SCs. Chapter 5. Summary and Conclusions. Chapter 1 is a review of the relevant literature on SCs. It summarizes analyses arguing against the existence of SCs, concentrating mainly on Williams (1983 & elsewhere); analyses in favor of the constituency and XP status of SCs, namely Stowell (1983 & 1991), as well as proposals supporting or stemming from Stowell's initial analysis made by Safir (1983) and Contreras (1987); analyses of Romance absolute participials by Belletti (1990) and de Miguel (1992), where SCs are treated as sentential categories. Chapter 2 reviews the typology of Modern Bulgarian (MB) SCs, taking into consideration the members of the SC predicate and the SC subject paradigm, as well as the distribution of SCs in the sentence. Chapter 3 analyses in greater detail SCs with adjectival, nominal, and prepositional predicates. Chapter 4 concentrates on participial SCs in adjunct positions. Evidence is provided for the existence of functional projections above VP: ASPP, AGRP, $\Sigma$P, CP, but not TP or ModalP. Chapter 5 recapitulates the main points of the preceding discussion, making suggestions for further research. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A study of slow and fast radio transients
Creators: name: Bhandari, Shivani
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis focusses on the studies of an enigmatic class of millisecond radio transients, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) and reports the discoveries of new and farthest FRBs (more than 10 billion light years away). A massive collaborated campaign was conducted for the first time to search for galaxies that host these bursts at different wavelengths. Although, the source of FRBs is still unknown, the discoveries in the thesis have contributed to the diversity of the FRB population and their properties. The thesis also reports the discovery of variable sources in a pilot survey, demonstrating the future capabilities of the next generation radio telescope.
Systementwurf eines elektromechanischen Fahrwerks für Megacitymobilität
Creators: name: Schirle, Thomas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2020
Subjects: Megacity
Fahrwerk
Mehrwegefähigkeit
Elektroantrieb
Simulation
megacity
chassis
dual mode
electric drive
simulation

description: Der integrierter Systementwurf eines elektromechanischen Fahrwerks nutzt Mechanik, Aktorik und Regelung gleichrangig bereits für Grundfunktionen und schafft so Raum für erweiterte Funktionen für Komfort, Manövrierbarkeit und modulare Antriebe zukünftiger Megacity-Mobilität. Ein integriertes Schienenfahrwerk erschließt den Transportleistungsvorteil von Mehrwegeverkehrssystemen. Der Konzeptnachweis erfolgt mittels eines Simulationsmodells anhand relevanter Fahrmanöver auf Straße und Schiene.
title: The real-life costs of emotion regulation in anorexia nervosa
title: a combined ecological momentary assessment and fMRI study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Seidel, Maria
name: King, Joseph A.
name: Ritschel, Franziska
name: Boehm, Ilka
name: Geisler, Daniel
name: Bernardoni, Fabio
name: Holzapfel, Larissa
name: Diestel, Stefan
name: Diers, Kersten
name: Strobel, Alexander
name: Goschke, Thomas
name: Walter, Henrik
name: Roessner, Veit
name: Ehrlich, Stefan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Regulation of emotions is necessary for successful attainment of short-term and long-term goals. However, over-regulation may also have its costs. In anorexia nervosa (AN), forgoing food intake despite emaciation and endocrine signals that promote eating is an example of “too much” self-control. Here we investigated whether voluntary emotion regulation in AN patients comes with associated disorder-relevant costs. Thirty-five patients with acute AN and thirty-five age-matched healthy controls (HCs) performed an established emotion regulation paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging after an overnight fast. The task required reducing emotions induced by positively valenced pictures via distancing. We calculated a neural regulation score from responses recorded in a reward-related brain region of interest (ventral striatum; VS) by subtracting activation measured on “positive distance” trials from that elicited under the “positive watch” (baseline) condition. Complementing the imaging data, we used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to probe disorder-related rumination and affect six times/day for 2 weeks following the scanning session. The neural regulation score indicating reduced VS activation during emotion regulation was used as a predictor in hierarchical linear models with EMA measures as outcomes. No group differences in neural activity were found for the main contrasts of the task. However, regulation of VS activity was associated with increased body-related rumination and increased negative affect in AN, but not in HC. In line with this finding, correlational analysis with longitudinal BMI measurements revealed a link between greater VS regulation and poorer treatment outcome after 60 and 90 days. Together, these results identify a neural correlate of altered emotion regulation in AN, which seems to be detrimental to psychological well-being and may interfere with recovery.
Gathering Place/Q'wu?gwes: Public Pamphlet
Creators: name: Squaxin Island Tribe
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Hundreds of these public pamphlets were distributed to individuals visiting our 11 years of summer field schools at the Qwu?gwes archaeological site. We produced them with our project partners, the Squaxin Island Tribe, and the public knew they were invited to visit the project located on Long-time WA Secretary of State Ralph Munro and family's property on Eld Inlet, Olympia, WA. Every summer Ralph would announce in the Olympian Newspaper an Open House for visitors and we would tour well over a hundred people each time. The Squaxin Island Tribe was building a beautiful museum at the time we conducted the archaeological project (1999-2009) and all our Qwu?gwes artifacts are house there--well worth a visit to this tribal museum to see the artifacts and their wonderful Squaxin heritage exhibits. The pamphlet shows the address in Kamilche, Washington. Google Squaxin Museum for directions.
Potentiel de la télédétection hyperspectrale pour la cartographie des résidus de cultures
Creators: name: Chevrier, Martin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geography.
subject: Physical Geography.
subject: Remote Sensing.

description: Crop residues left on agricultural field after harvest is an effective alternative, among others, to minimize the harmful effects of wind and water erosion, to increase the quantity of nutriments in the soils and to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. During this master's degree, two methods used in remote sensing were applied to the Probe-1 hyperspectral image of an agricultural field situated in the Southeast Saskatchewan, crop residue index and neural networks. The purpose was to determine which of the two methods was the most effective to accurately map and estimate crop residues. It is worth while mentioning that this the first time hyperspectral data were used to mapping ends of crop residue, which constitutes an advancement in the domain. To complete the dataset, several spectral reflectance measures were taken from different types of crop residues (corn, wheat, herb, soya and sunflower) and different types of bare soils, obtained by the spectroradiometer GER3700. Nine crop residue indices were used (BI, CAI, NDI-1, NDI-2, SACRI-1, SACRI-2, MSACRI-1, MSACRI-2 and CRIM). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
title: Disentangling the autism−anxiety overlap
title: fMRI of reward processing in a community-based longitudinal study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mikita, N.
name: Simonoff, E.
name: Pine, D. S.
name: Goodman, R.
name: Artiges, E.
name: Banaschewski, T.
name: Bokde, A. L.
name: Bromberg, U.
name: Buechel, C.
name: Walter, H.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Up to 40% of youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) also suffer from anxiety, and this comorbidity is linked with significant functional impairment. However, the mechanisms of this overlap are poorly understood. We investigated the interplay between ASD traits and anxiety during reward processing, known to be affected in ASD, in a community sample of 1472 adolescents (mean age=14.4 years) who performed a modified monetary incentive delay task as part of the Imagen project. Blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) responses to reward anticipation and feedback were compared using a 2x2 analysis of variance test (ASD traits: low/high; anxiety symptoms: low/high), controlling for plausible covariates. In addition, we used a longitudinal design to assess whether neural responses during reward processing predicted anxiety at 2-year follow-up. High ASD traits were associated with reduced BOLD responses in dorsal prefrontal regions during reward anticipation and negative feedback. Participants with high anxiety symptoms showed increased lateral prefrontal responses during anticipation, but decreased responses following feedback. Interaction effects revealed that youth with combined ASD traits and anxiety, relative to other youth, showed high right insula activation when anticipating reward, and low right-sided caudate, putamen, medial and lateral prefrontal activations during negative feedback (all clusters PFWE<0.05). BOLD activation patterns in the right dorsal cingulate and right medial frontal gyrus predicted new-onset anxiety in participants with high but not low ASD traits. Our results reveal both quantitatively enhanced and qualitatively distinct neural correlates underlying the comorbidity between ASD traits and anxiety. Specific neural responses during reward processing may represent a risk factor for developing anxiety in ASD youth.
Cue utilization by expert pediatric critical care nurses in making clinical judgments related to endotracheal suctioning.
Creators: name: Thomas, S. Margot.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Nursing.

description: The nature of nursing judgment in clinical practice situations remains incompletely explored. It is known that nurses perform endotracheal suctioning as part of the nursing care of critically ill children. However, the ways in which nurses judge the need for suctioning and the method used to suction are not well understood. This research study was conducted to describe the cues that expert pediatric critical care nurses use in making the judgment to suction and to describe how those cues are used in determining the timing of endotracheal suctioning. A qualitative naturalistic study was conducted in a quaternary pediatric critical care unit in Central Canada. A purposive sample of seven expert pediatric critical care nurses participated in the study. Data were collected using three methods---participant observations (field notes), think aloud (concurrent verbalizations) and semi-structured interviews (retrospective verbalizations)---as participants cared for ventilated, critically ill children. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Case Studies of EU and Member States' Engagement with Global Strategic Partner Countries
Creators: name: Müller, Gustavo
name: Martins, Maria
name: Brackeniers, Karel
name: Tyushka, Andriy
name: Martill, Benjamin
name: Mesarovich, Alexander
name: Müftüler-Bac, Meltem
name: Aydin-Düzgit, Senem
name: Uzun, Ezgi
name: Lenker Andrade, Elisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This working paper delivers a comprehensive examination of the European Union's (EU’s) strategic partnerships with Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, Turkey and China. For each case study, it explores the historical origins and current state of these partnerships, the different forms they can take, and the objectives and challenges they seek to address. By zooming in on critical policy areas of each relationship and the role of EU Member States therein, the paper sheds light on the horizontal and vertical coherence of the EU’s external action. 

The case studies show the importance of recognising each strategic partnership's unique regional and global context, which is indissociable from the EU’s bilateral relationship with the third country. The successes, failures or stagnations of these relationships cannot be attributed solely to the EU’s policies or lack thereof, as external factors and the partners' own actions and policies can significantly influence the outcomes. It is argued that strategic partnerships have the potential to establish lasting frameworks for joint action, create momentum for further cooperation, and sustain important relationships amidst potential crises and unforeseen events. However, the partnerships must demonstrate adaptability to geopolitical and geoeconomic changes while maintaining their alignment with the EU’s external action objectives.
Bayesian inferences for an accelerated degradation model based on tweedie exponential dispersion process
Creators: name: He, Daojiang
name: Chen, Shiyu
name: He, Lei
name: Cao, Mingxiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Tweedie exponential dispersion (TED) process is a large class of generalized stochastic process, which includes the commonly used Wiener process, Gamma process and inverse Gausssian process as special cases. In this paper, we propose an accelerated degradation model based on the TED process, and then apply the objective Bayesian method to make inferences on the model. The Jeffreys prior and reference priors under different group orderings are derived, and the posterior property based on each prior is then validated. A simulation study is carried out to assess the performance of the proposed Bayesian method in comparison with the maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE), and finally the method is applied to analyse a real degradation dataset.
Borderlands of Discourse: Polish Writing on Rescue Activities Related to Jews during WWII, 1945-2011
Creators: name: Frydel, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2011
Subjects: testimonies
historiography
collaboration
Polish-Jewish relations
Polish countryside
Mielec County
Radomyśl Wielki
individual help
denunciation
Jedwabne
Jan Ziobroń
blackmail
German occupation of Poland
Jews
peasants
rescue activities
World War II
Poland

description: This thesis examines the dominant approaches taken by historians to the subject of Polish rescue activities related to Jews during the Second World War. I ask how the “negative” spectrum of behavior toward Jews during the war (blackmail, denunciation, and murder) was displaced by the “positive” spectrum of successful rescue activities driven by noble intentions. This study is an in-depth examination of various themes, motifs, stylizations, and omissions of the Polish historiography from 1945-2011. I examine popular historical writing and contrast it with contradictory information found in personal documents of the wartime period (testimonies, memoirs, studies). As part of the continuum of these patterns, I also discuss artistic representations found in feature films. I conclude that these approaches functioned to deflect negative phenomena in order to sustain a narrative of Polish behavior that reflected positively on Polish-Jewish relations during and after the war. Thus, the historiography was part of a larger pattern to rehabilitate “the good name of Poland” in relation to the Holocaust.
The Grand Schnyder Family. Combinatorial Structures and Graph Drawing Applications
Creators: name: Liang, Shizhe
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Graph drawing
Plane maps
Schnyder structures

description: Graphs, the mathematical structures used to model pairwise relationships between objects, are pervasive across all scientific and technological fields. Graph drawing, the art of representing a graph in a visually intuitive way, stands out as one of the most captivating algorithmic challenges within graph theory. One of the most famous graph drawing algorithms is due to Walter Schnyder. At the heart of Schnyder’s algorithm lies a combinatorial construction called Schnyder wood, based on which the coordinates of the vertices are defined in a global manner.
description: The present work originates from an effort to generalize several previously known graph drawing algorithms with a similar flavor to Schnyder’s algorithm, which are due to He, Barri ́ere and Huemer, Bernardi and Fusy, and Fusy. We first extend the concept of Schnyder wood to a construction called “grand-Schnyder” structure and study its various combinatorial properties. We show that the grand-Schnyder framework unifies not only the classical Schnyder woods, but also several other constructions due to He, Bernardi and Fusy, and Felsner. We then present a graph drawing framework based on grand-Schnyder structures, which includes a straight-line drawing algorithm for plane maps with faces of degree 3 and 4 with no separating 3-cycles, and an orthogonal drawing algorithm for the dual of such plane maps. When specializing our algorithms to particular classes of plane maps we recover the aforementioned algorithms. We also present a barycentric graph drawing algorithm for 5-connected triangulations based on a further extension of grand-Schnyder structures.
The AdaptSgenoLasso, an extended version of the SgenoLasso, for gene mapping and for genomic prediction using the extremes
Creators: name: Rabier, Charles-Elie
name: Delmas, Céline
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: We introduce here the AdaptSgenoLasso, a new penalized likelihood method for gene mapping and for genomic prediction, which is an extended version of the SgenoLasso. The AdaptSgenoLasso relies on the original concept of a selective genotyping that varies along the genome. The ‘classical’ selective genotyping on which the SgenoLasso is built on, consists in genotyping only extreme individuals, in order to increase the signal from genes. However, since the same amount of selection is applied at all genome locations, the signal is increased of the same proportional factor everywhere. With the AdaptSgenoLasso, we allow geneticists to impose more weights on some loci (i.e., locations) of interest, known to be responsible for the variation of the quantitative trait. The resulting signal is now dedicated to each locus. We propose here a deep theoretical study of the AdaptSgenoLasso, and we show on simulated data the superiority of this new approach over the SgenoLasso.
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Data forecasting using piecewise linear regression
Creators: name: ÐÐµÐ»ÑÐµÐ², ÐÐ½Ð´ÑÐµÐ¹
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
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interval analysis
intervals
forecasting
time series
linear regression
piecewise linear regression

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description: This work was devoted to the study of methods for restoring interval data, such as time series, using piecewise linear regression.