cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Un’analisi strutturale: Il corvo bianco di P. Bigongiari
Creators: name: Vitacolonna, Luciano
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Presentiamo qui un'analisi strutturale della lirica Il corvo bianco di Piero Bigongiari. Vengono così messi in luce sia gli strati del testo, sia le relazioni intra- e intertestuali. Attraverso lo scandaglio degli aspetti compositivi della poesia ne proponiamo infine una complessiva lettura simbolica.

description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 5 (2011)
A token ring protocol for integrated services.
Creators: name: Song, Jian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In this thesis we present a new token-ring protocol, called the rotation counter protocol (RCP), for integrated services. The main feature of this protocol is that the token contains a special field called the rotation counter. This counter can be examined by every station and is used to count down the number of packets transmitted in one cycle. In each cycle, voice packets are collected first, and data packets could be transmitted only if the counter value is non-zero. In this way, voice packets are given a higher priority to access the network so that their real-time requirement can be satisfied. Two variations of the protocol, RCP-I and RCP-II, are presented. They have different delay performances. In RCP-I, the mean voice packet access delay is dependent on the offered data load, while in RCP-II, such delay can be made almost independent with a small delay jitters. The almost constant mean delay and small delay jitters can thus better serve synchronous traffic. Algorithms for the two protocols are given. They are easy to implement. The RCP performances are evaluated under various network conditions to demonstrate their desirable features. The comparison among the RCP-I, RCP-II, and FDDI is executed. The procedures on fault recovery and how to choose parameters are discussed as well.
Le déterminisme et les fondements de la responsabilité morale : perspectives ouvertes par Peter F. Strawson.
Creators: name: Monast, Brian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Le mecanisme qu'implique le determinisme suggere que nos decisions ne nous appartiennent pas. Strawson repond que nous sentons qu'elles sont les notres parce qu'elles sont ce que nous sommes, comme nos attitudes reactives expriment ce que nous sommes. Cet argument suffisant ne suscite pourtant pas une adhesion generale, et ce, en raison de prejuges quant au dualisme esprit-matiere. Or, le "physique" n'est que l'image mediatisee et externe, necessairement superficielle, de l'etre que nous sommes, alors que l'experience interne est cet etre dans sa plenitude immediate et intrinseque. En distinguant l'etre vecu de l'etre vu, nous pourrons identifier une dualite de valeurs epistemiques desquelles nous pourrons degager le statut et le role respectifs des perspectives objective et subjective et les criteres normatifs qui pourront justifier le maintien des attitudes subjectives, dites morales.
Probing the 2-D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies out to 3 effective radii
Creators: name: Proctor, Robert N.
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Brodie, Jean
name: Strader, Jay
name: Spolaor, Max
name: Mendel, J. Trevor
name: Spitler, Lee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We detail an innovative new technique for measuring the 2-D velocity moments (rotation velocity, velocity dispersion and Gauss-Hermite coefficients h3 and h4 ) using spectra from Keck DEIMOS multi-object spectroscopic observations. The data are used to reconstruct 2-D rotation velocity maps. Here we present data for two nearby early-type galaxies to ~3 effective radii. From these data 2D kinematic maps are constructed. Three other galaxies have been similarly analysed (see 2009, MNRAS, 398, 91). We provide significant insights into the global kinematic structure of these galaxies, and, in some cases, challenge the accepted morphological classification. We show that between 1-3 effective radii the velocity dispersion declines very slowly, if at all, in all five galaxies. For the two galaxies with velocity dispersion profiles available from planetary nebulae data we find very good agreement with our stellar profiles. We find a variety of rotation profiles beyond 1 effective radius, i.e remain constant, decrease and increase with radius. These results are of particular importance to studies which attempt to classify galaxies by their kinematic structure within one effective radius, such as the recent definition of fast- and slow- rotator classes by the SAURON project. Our data suggests that the rotator class may change when larger galacto-centric radii are probed. This has important implications for dynamical modelling of early-type galaxies. The data from this study are available on-line.
The design of an object-oriented data server for a co-operative CAD engineering environment.
Creators: name: Fiszman, Sergio A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: A significant problem that users encounter when they must work co-operatively in a CAD engineering environment is the lack of support for data management and data control. In data management the main problems are the mismatch between data models used by users and the CAD engineering environment, the absence of mechanisms for tracking data evolution, and the lack of support for integrating data produced by multiple designers. In data control the main problems are the lack of suitable co-operative development activities, the absence of suitable data-ownership mechanisms, and the lack of control of changes-notification mechanisms. These deficiencies in existing CAD engineering environments motivated the author to provide a solution by designing and prototyping a data server. The data server is an object-oriented datastore which is equipped with a services-layer. This services-layer supports both the data management and data control aspects in a co-operative CAD engineering environment. To implement these two functions and to narrow the data model semantics gap, the object-oriented model has been extended with a construct which captures not only the structural and behavioral parts of data, but also semantic relationships among data. The four services provided by the services-layer are the versioning service which addresses the tracking of data evolution, the configuration management service designed to support co-operative work, the data-ownership service which controls and safeguards the release of data during multi-stream development, and the changes-notification service that enhances the dynamic data control capability of the CAD engineering environment.
L’immaginazione al lavoro. Che cosa e come conosciamo dal romanzo
Creators: name: Consoli, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo delinea i fondamenti di un’epistemologia del romanzo, rispondendo alle domande di base: che cosa e come possiamo conoscere attraverso il romanzo. A partire dalla definizione del romanzo come racconto di finzione, viene sviluppata  una posizione di cognitivismo radicale, per la quale il romanzo (a) produce conoscenza modale; (b) giustifica questa conoscenza in base al principio della verosimiglianza; (c) favorisce l’apprendimento per esperienza in virtù dell’esemplificazione immaginativa. Le tesi proposte vengono corroborate in riferimento ai recenti dati sperimentali ottenuti dalle scienze cognitive, in particolare dalla psicologia cognitiva, sull’immaginazione, la finzione, la simulazione.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 5 (2011)
Mechanical Properties of Functionally Graded Materials: Carbon Gradient inside Interstitial Free Steel
Creators: name: Cantergiani, Elisa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Interstitial Free Steel
diffusion of carbon
iron-carbon films
Lüders plateau
fracture in graded materials

description: In the last decade aluminium started to be considered as an alternative to steel to produce car body panels, especially considering the strict demands to decrease fuel consumption which require vehicle weight reduction. In order to keep their leading role, steel companies have to produce stronger materials to reduce the thickness of steel sheets used in cars and are now considering non-conventional steel making processes. The purpose of this PhD research was to investigate the possibility of strengthening thin sheets of interstitial free steel (IF steel) by using carbon rich films deposited on the steel surface using Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD). These films then act as a carbon reservoir which upon heat treatment release carbon in the IF steel and strengthen it. Coated tensile coupons 200 μm thick were annealed at different temperatures under high vacuum. Tensile tests show that a 100 MPa increase in yield stress can be obtained after annealing at 430 ˚C for 1h in high vacuum. The effects of annealing environment, film thickness and prestrain on carbon diffusion were also investigated. It was shown that carbon diffusion from the film to the IF steel substrate is limited by the film transformation into cementite at temperatures equal or higher than 530 ˚C. All tensile curves showed a plastic instability known as Lüders plateau, which is undesirable as it results in surface markings on the deformed part. FEM analyses were performed to find ways to suppress the Lüders plateau, proving that increasing strain-hardening or having a graded instead of uniform carbon content through thickness can suppress or limit Lüdering. The possibility of creating a through thickness gradient of microstructure was investigated as it could suppress Lüdering and result in higher strength. For these tests, FeC coated coupons were induction heated to 820 ˚C followed by water quenching. After only 2 minutes of heat treatment the yield stress was increased by 250 MPa and the ultimate tensile strength reached 400 MPa. With an annealing of 4 minutes, the Lüders plateau was fully suppressed and the microstructure consisted in ferrite grains and TiC nanocarbides. This work demonstrates that FeC films can be effectively used to diffuse carbon into steel and that a significant increase in mechanical properties can be obtained after a heat treatment of only a few minutes.
«La vita è sogno» o «La vita è un sogno»? Storia e ragioni della traduzione di un titolo classico
Creators: name: Antonucci, Fausta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Nell’articolo si esamina la storia della traduzione in italiano del titolo del capolavoro di Pedro Calderón de la Barca, «La vida es sueño». Dopo tre secoli in cui, alla stregua di altre lingue (inglese, francese, tedesco), il titolo veniva reso con «La vita è un sogno», si è passati a una fase novecentesca in cui è prevalsa l’intitolazione «La vita è sogno», sempre più uniformemente adottata a partire dalla traduzione ad opera di Gherardo Marone (pubblicata nel 1920). L’autrice, che ha adottato per la sua recente traduzione (2009) il titolo «La vita è un sogno», riflette sulle modalità di resa in italiano di sintagmi analoghi (parti nominali di un predicato) e analizza le scelte traduttive che, nel corpo del testo, hanno adottato per lo stesso sintagma Orioli, Cancelliere e Puccini, autori di tre importanti traduzioni dell’opera calderoniana pubblicate rispettivamente nel 1967, 1985 e 1990.

This essay examines italian translation’s story of the title ‘La vida es sueño’, Calderón de la Barca’s masterpiece. After three centuries in which, as other languages (english, french, german) currently do, the title was translated as ‘La vita è un sogno’, in the XXth century predominates the title ‘La vita è sogno’, starting from Gherardo Marone’s translation (1920). Fausta Antonucci, who adopted for her recent translation (2009) the title 'La vita è un sogno', examines how similar noun phrases are expressed in italian, and analyzes how the same noun phrase (“la vida es sueño”) is translated, inside the text, by Orioli, Cancelliere and Puccini, authors of three important translations from the calderonian masterpiece, published in 1967, 1985 and 1990.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
La dura belleza. En torno a la obra de Mercè Rodoreda
Creators: name: Janés, Clara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Recorrido bio-bibliográfico sobre la obra de la autora catalana Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983).

Bio-bibliographical survey on the works of the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983).
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
A Visual CV to Empower Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Entering The Canadian Workforce
Creators: name: Deroo, Cristina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Communication
Photovoice Narrative
Disability
(dis)ability
Employment
Canada

description: Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have faced continual barriers to achieving social inclusion within their communities and are often excluded from many avenues of community life. While segregated institutionalized living—and the social exclusion associated with it—has declined, individuals with IDD continue to face barriers to achieving social inclusion linked to restrictions placed upon them that inhibit opportunities to obtain meaningful paid employment. One of the first steps necessary to pursue employment opportunities is a coherent, effective and professional curriculum vitae (CV). For individuals with IDD, preparing and using a traditional text-based CV may be unrealistic. Therefore, the goal of this thesis was to equip a sample of young adults with IDD with a visual photograph-based CV and to help them practice using it in an interview. This thesis used photovoice narrative in order to visually document the strengths and skills that a person with IDD could offer to a potential employer through the communication tool of a visual CV. By engaging participants in producing and using a visual CV, this research project explored options for increasing channels of communication between prospective employees and employers in hopes of encouraging inclusion of people with IDD in Canadian labour markets.
«Los olvidados» e «La aventura del Muni». Due viaggiatori spagnoli in Guinea Equatoriale
Creators: name: Calabrese, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Analisi comparata di due recenti libri di viaggio in Guinea Equatoriale scritti da Eduardo Soto-Trillo e Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano.

Comparative analysis of two travel books recently written by Eduardo Soto-Trillo and Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Kommunale Anpassungsstrategien gegenüber Hitzestress
Creators: name: Mücke, Hans-Guido
name: Kemen, Juliane
name: Schäffer-Gemein, Silvia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Global warming, with increasing weather extremes such as heat events, is enhancing public health impacts. In recent years, unusual heat extremes occurring in Germany at higher frequency, with longer duration and with new temperature records, are increasing the risks of heat-related morbidity and mortality. As an element of the German Adaptation Strategy on Climate Change (DAS), a framework for heat health action plans (HAP) has been elaborated to better protect public health at the national, regional, and local level. First results of a project on HAP for elderly people in Cologne are presented. © 2022 Westermann Schulbuchverlag GmbH. All rights reserved.
«Romancero. Canti narrativi della Spagna medievale», introd. e note di Giuseppe Di Stefano, trad. di Enrico Di Pastena, con testo a fronte. Venezia, Marsilio, 2011, 443 pp.
Creators: name: Cassol, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Violence faite aux femmes et aux filles en milieu urbain : théories et stratégies. Une étude de cas de Jagori à Delhi
Creators: name: Bérubé, Marie-Hélène
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Femmes
violence
ONG
Delhi
Inde
Urbanisation

description: La présente recherche démontre une reconnaissance progressive des impacts du phénomène de mondialisation et d’urbanisation rapide sur les femmes et les filles dans les villes du Sud. La violence envers les femmes et les filles en milieu urbain est de plus en plus reconnue comme un enjeu de développement par les organisations internationales. Afin d’explorer et d’analyser cet enjeu, quatre théorisations visant une réduction de la violence envers les femmes et les filles à faible revenu en milieu urbain sont exposées en insistant sur la dimension de genre. L’étude de cas de Jagori, une organisation indienne, permet de cerner les liens entre ces théorisations (droits humains, sécurité humaine, accès direct aux services et droit à la ville) et les interventions sur le terrain. La documentation et les entretiens avec des personnes-clés ont permis de démontrer que l’utilisation plurielle de ces théorisations se fait graduellement et de façon stratégique. La structure d’opportunité politique et la structure de mobilisation exposent les différents facteurs qui viennent influencer le lien théorisation-intervention. Dans le cas de Jagori, ces structures complexifient la pratique et amènent des changements importants dans leurs interventions tout en lui conférant une plus grande visibilité auprès des acteurs influents. L’accès aux ressources matérielles et symboliques accordé par l’État et les organisations internationales est indispensable et fait en sorte que Jagori doit arrimer ses interventions avec les discours et les priorités établies par ces acteurs.
Juan de Robles, «Tardes del Alcázar. Doctrina para el perfecto vasallo», a cura di Antonio Castro Díaz, Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, 2011, 328 pp.
Creators: name: Calabrese, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
Dario Puccini e Rafael Alberti, «Corrispondenza inedita (1951-1969)», a cura di Gabriele Morelli, con una testimonianza di Stefania Piccinato Puccini, Milano, Viennepierre, 2009, 163 pp.
Creators: name: Manera, Danilo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
The Role of SOX7 in the Activation of Satellite Cells and Regulation of Skeletal Myogenesis
Creators: name: Rajgara, Rashida
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: SOX7
Muscular Dystrophy
Embryonic Stem Cells
Satellite Cells
Stem Cell Therapy
Skeletal Myogenesis

description: One of the major drawbacks of using stem cell therapy to treat muscular dystrophies is the challenge of isolating sufficient numbers of suitable precursor cells for transplantation. As such, a deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved during muscle development, which would increase the proportion of embryonic stem cells that can differentiate into skeletal myocytes, is essential. In conditional SOX7-/- mice, we observed that the loss of SOX7 in satellite cells resulted in poor differentiation and fusion. In vivo, we observed fewer Pax7+ satellite cells in the mice lacking SOX7 as well as smaller muscle fibers. RT-qPCR data also revealed that Pax7, MRF and MHC3 transcript levels were down-regulated in SOX7 knockdown mice. Surprisingly, when SOX7 was over-expressed in embryonic stem cells, we found that there was a defect in making muscle precursor cells, specifically a failure to activate Pax7 expression. Taken together, these results suggest that SOX7 expression is required for the proper regulation of skeletal myogenesis.
Supplementary document for Broadband Second Harmonic Generation from Artificial Optical Nonlinearity - 5190824.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
name: Wen, Yongzheng
name: Sun, Jingbo
name: Zhou, Ji
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Mathematical details, simulation settings, schematics of the control samples, linear spectra, extraction of second harmonics, reflection spectrum of SHG, intensity and polarization dependences of SHG, fields decomposition, and dark mode resonance.
Exon-4 Mutations in KRAS Affect MEK/ERK and PI3K/AKT Signaling in Human Multiple Myeloma Cell Lines
Creators: name: Weißbach, Susann
name: Heredia-Guerrero, Sofia Catalina
name: Barnsteiner, Stefanie
name: Großhans, Lukas
name: Bodem, Jochen
name: Starz, Hanna
name: Langer, Christian
name: Appenzeller, Silke
name: Knop, Stefan
name: Steinbrunn, Torsten
name: Rost, Simone
name: Einsele, Hermann
name: Bargou, Ralf Christian
name: Rosenwald, Andreas
name: Stühmer, Thorsten
name: Leich, Ellen
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: KRAS
subject: MEK/ERK-signaling
subject: AKT-signaling
subject: amplicon sequencing
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Multiple myeloma
subject: Antineoplastic agents; Therapeutic use
subject: Induction chemotherapy
subject: Plasmozytom
subject: Hochdosischemotherapie
subject: Induktionstherapie
subject: Bortezomib

description: Approximately 20% of multiple myeloma (MM) cases harbor a point mutation in KRAS. However, there is still no final consent on whether KRAS-mutations are associated with disease outcome. Specifically, no data exist on whether KRAS-mutations have an impact on survival of MM patients at diagnosis in the era of novel agents. Direct blockade of KRAS for therapeutic purposes is mostly impossible, but recently a mutation-specific covalent inhibitor targeting KRASp.G12C entered into clinical trials. However, other KRAS hotspot-mutations exist in MM patients, including the less common exon-4 mutations. For the current study, the coding regions of KRAS were deep-sequenced in 80 newly diagnosed MM patients, uniformely treated with three cycles of bortezomib plus dexamethasone and cyclophosphamide (VCD)-induction, followed by high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation. Moreover, the functional impact of KRASp.G12A and the exon-4 mutations p.A146T and p.A146V on different survival pathways was investigated. Specifically, KRASWT, KRASp.G12A, KRASp.A146T, and KRASp.A146V were overexpressed in HEK293 cells and the KRASWT MM cell lines JJN3 and OPM2 using lentiviral transduction and the Sleeping Beauty vector system. Even though KRAS-mutations were not correlated with survival, all KRAS-mutants were found capable of potentially activating MEK/ERK- and sustaining PI3K/AKT-signaling in MM cells.
"I seemed to understand": Mothers' Experiences of the Schooling of Their Children with Multiple Disabilities
Creators: name: Brown, Martha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: mothers
disability
education and special education

description: Mothers of children with multiple disabilities have unique and important things to tell us about their children's schooling. In this work, the overarching question asks: How do the mothers of children with multiple disabilities narrate their experiences with their children's schooling, and what insights can their stories provide? Within a feminist framework that acknowledges participating mothers as “expert witnesses” (Traustadottir, 1991, p. 216) with important insights, this study employs a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to develop the themes that, taken together, can be said to describe these participants' experiences. Four mothers of children with multiple disabilities were interviewed in an open-ended qualitative manner, and their experiences are thematized in this thesis. It is my hope that the stories so generously offered by the participants, and the themes which arise from them, can play a part in guiding those involved in the education of students with multiple disabilities, in changing our practice and policies in order to truly include children with disabilities and their caregivers in our schools.
Vicente Luis Mora, «La luz nueva. Singularidades en la narrativa española actual», Córdoba, Berenice, 2007, 255 pp.
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Simone
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Vol 1 (2011)
title: Entwicklung der spezifischen Kohlendioxid-Emissionen des deutschen Strommix in den Jahren 1990 bis 2014
title: Entwicklung der spezifischen Kohlendioxid-Emissionen des deutschen Strommix in den Jahren 1990 bis 2014
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Icha, Petra
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Elektrizitätserzeugung
subject: Strommix
subject: Spezifische Kohlendioxid-Emissionen
subject: Stromerzeugung
subject: CO2-Emissionen
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht jährlich seine Berechnungsergebnisse zur Entwicklung des Kohlendioxid-Emissionsfaktors des deutschen Strommix in der Zeitreihe ab 1990, der als Indikator für die Klimaverträglichkeit der Stromerzeugung angesehen werden kann. Er darf jedoch nicht losgelöst von der Entwicklung des Stromverbrauchs insgesamt und den gesamten aus der Stromerzeugung entstehenden Kohlendioxidemissionen betrachtet werden. Dargestellt werden daher die Kohlendioxidemissionen der Stromerzeugung, der jeweilige Stromverbrauch mit und ohne Berücksichtigung des Stromhandelssaldos und der CO2-Emissionsfaktor für den Strommix für den Stromverbrauch und den Strominlandsverbrauch. Die Kohlendioxidemissionen der Stromerzeugung unter Berücksichtigung des Stromhandelssaldos werden zusätzlich ausgewiesen. Entsprechend der internationalen Pflichten zur Emissionsberichterstattung erfolgte die Aktualisierung der Emissionsfaktoren unter Berücksichtigung neuer Erkenntnisse. Um den Einfluss des Stromhandelssaldos zu verdeutlichen wird die Berechnung des Emissionsfaktors für den Strommix seit 2012 um eine zusätzliche Ausweisung des Emissionsfaktors für den Strominlandsverbrauch ergänzt. Gleichzeitig wird deutlich, welche Emissionsmengen dem Stromhandelssaldo zugerechnet werden können. Alle Berechnungen erfolgen in der Zeitreihe ab 1990. Dabei werden im Veröffentlichungsjahr x für das Jahr "x-1" hochgerechnete Datensätze und für das Jahr "x-2" vorläufige Basisdatensätze zur Berechnung herangezogen. Änderungen durch Neuberechnungen der Quellen (Energiebilanzen, Bruttostromerzeugung, Emissionsfaktoren) werden - soweit sie zum Zeitpunkt der Aktualisierung veröffentlicht waren - berücksichtigt. Quelle: E-Book
description: Das Umweltbundesamt veröffentlicht jährlich seine Berechnungsergebnisse zur Entwicklung des Kohlendioxid-Emissionsfaktors des deutschen Strommix in der Zeitreihe ab 1990, der als ⁠Indikator⁠ für die Klimaverträglichkeit der Stromerzeugung angesehen werden kann. Bei der Erzeugung einer Kilowattstunde Strom für den Endverbrauch ohne Berücksichtigung des Stromhandelssaldos wurden in Deutschland im Jahr 2012 durchschnittlich 584g Kohlendioxid als direkte Emissionen aus der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger emittiert. Das sind ca. 177 g/kWh oder ca. 23 Prozent weniger als im Jahr 1990. Für das Jahr 2013 auf der Basis vorläufiger Daten sind dies ebenfalls 584 g/kWh. Hochgerechnete Werte für das Jahr 2014 ergeben 569 g/kWh und somit 192 g oder ca.25% weniger als 1990.
An endoscopic nonlinear optical imaging probe based on 2-D micromirror
Creators: name: Wu, Lei
name: Fu, L.
name: Jain, A.
name: Nishida, T.
name: Gu, Min
name: Xie, H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports a MEMS-based forward scanning endoscopic microprobe. The microprobe has a 2-D electrothermal micromirror embedded. The diameter of the probe is 5mm. Two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) imaging with 5mum resolution has been obtained.
Remo Ceserani, Convergenze. Gli strumenti letterari e le altre discipline
Creators: name: Pennacchio, Filippo
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Recensione di Remo Ceserani, Convergenze. Gli strumenti letterari e le altre discipline, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
How to do theory di Wolfgang Iser
Creators: name: Rossi, Laura Lucia
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Si recensisce How to do theory di Wolfgang Iser, un volume nato nel 2006 come una sorta di guida alle teorie letterarie principali del XX secolo ma nel quale lo studioso tedesco non manca di rilanciare la propria idea e il proprio invito a muoversi sempre di più in direzione di una antropologia della letteratura.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Reasonableness, racism and the articulation of bias.
Creators: name: Wright, Nicola Yvette.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: One of the ways in which our legal system maintains legitimacy is through its claim to objectivity. Every element in the decision-making process is alleged to be neutral and free of bias. Judges are seen to dispense justice based on the facts and reason, without influence by extraneous factors. The process itself, if it can be seen to operate independently of the people who administer justice, also lays claim to impartiality and neutrality. One of the mechanisms used in the common law to sustain the perception of neutrality is the objective standard as embodied by the fictional Reasonable Man. In this paper I attempt a critique of the Reasonable Man and the concept of reasonableness as it is used in criminal law to show how such standards, when they remain unarticulated can allow bias to infiltrate the decision-making process unnoticed by those making the decisions. I have used police shootings of black men as a context in which to show that racist stereotypes about black men can creep into decisions that on the surface appear race-neutral. I have proposed a possible solution in which triers of fact would acknowledge racist elements so that they can be addressed directly rather than being left to hover overhead and influence the decision-making process unrecognized. In this way, I feel that decisions, by being race-conscious, will be fairer than those that officially ignore bias, but actually let it slip in through the back door.
The effects of if-then plans on weight loss: results of the 24-month follow-up of the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Knäuper, Bärbel
name: Shireen, Huma
name: Carrière, Kimberly
name: Frayn, Mallory
name: Ivanova, Elena
name: Xu, Zhen
name: Lowensteyn, Ilka
name: Sadikaj, Gentiana
name: Luszczynska, Aleksandra
name: Grover, Steven
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2020

description: Background: Current evidence suggests that some of the most effective weight loss approaches are changes in dietary and physical activity behaviors through lifestyle modification programs. The Group Lifestyle Balance (GLB) program is a group-based behavior modification program aimed at changing diet and physical activity for weight loss. It was developed to be more cost-effective and easier to disseminate than its individually administered parent program, the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). However, the average weight loss following participation in the GLB is only approximately 3.5%, with low long-term weight loss maintenance. Purpose: We aimed to optimize the weight loss outcomes of the GLB to increase the efficacy already afforded by its cost-effectiveness and ease of dissemination. We did this by integrating the habit formation tool of if-then plans into the program. This program is called the enriched GLB or the McGill Comprehensive Health Improvement (CHIP) Healthy Weight Program. Results at 3 and 12 months of participation have already been published elsewhere. They showed no between-group differences between the standard and enriched GLB but higher weight loss in both groups compared to the DPP. This paper reports the long-term weight loss maintenance data following participation in the program. Methods: Of the 172 participants enrolled at the beginning of the study, data from 110 participants were available and analyzed at 24 months, i.e., 12 months after the end of the 12-month intervention. Results: No between-group difference in weight loss maintenance was observed. Pooled results showed a significant weight regain from 12 to 24 months, i.e., an average of 7.85 lbs. of the 20.36 lbs. lost. However, participants from both groups were still 12.51lbs or 6.13% lighter at 24 months than at baseline. Conclusion: If-then plans did not result in a higher percentage of weight loss at 24-month follow-up compared to the standard GLB. However, at 24 months, both groups did show a maintenance of a significant portion of the weight lost at the end of intervention. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02008435, registered 6 December 2013.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Non per profitto. Perché le democrazie hanno bisogno degli studi umanistici
Creators: name: Sotgiu, Antonio
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Recensiamo Martha. C. Nussbaum, Non per profitto. Perché le democrazie hanno bisogno della cultura umanistica. Edizione Originale: Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2010.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
Evaluation of a family of Runge-Kutta oriented parallel methods for the solution of ODE's.
Creators: name: Cheng, Ping.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Mathematics.

description: The numerical solution of ordinary differential equations (ODE's) can be a computationally intensive task. It is becoming widely believed that the only feasible means for solving such computationally intensive problems in science and engineering is to use parallel computers efficiently. As a result, there is an increasing interest in the development of parallel methods for the numerical solution of ODE's. This research is, for the most part, still in its preliminary stages. Our goal in this thesis is to contribute to the evolving knowledge about parallel methods for the solution of ODE's. In this context, we examine in detail one particular class of methods. This class is Runge-Kutta oriented in the sense that the underlying computational process is based on Runge-Kutta formulas. However, from a broader perspective, the methods in this family also have an essential predictor-corrector feature. Our study examines stability and performance aspects of this class of methods as originally proposed. In addition, a modification to the approach is suggested and similarly evaluated. Performance is examined in the context of a suite of test problems and results are compared to previously obtained results with two families of parallel Predictor-Corrector oriented methods.
Phase-matched emission of few high-harmonic orders from a helium gas cell
Creators: name: Teichmann, Sven
name: Hannaford, Peter
name: Dao, Lap
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report on femtosecond-laser-based generation of a few phase-matched high-order harmonics in a helium semi-infinite gas cell. The harmonic beam consists of effectively four to six intense orders with wavelengths around 9.5 nm. By varying the effective interaction length, we observe the effects of coherence length related to plasma formation and the Gouy phase shift on the output. The atomic scattering factors for photoabsorption, the effective propagation lengths (leff,He ≈1 mm, leff,Ar ≈7.2 mm), and the energy conversion efficiencies (εHe ≈ 10-7, εAr ≈5× 10-7) are deduced for harmonic generation in helium (77th to 95th orders) and also argon (21st to 27th orders) for comparison.
Alan Palmer, Social Minds in the Novel
Creators: name: Sotgiu, Antonio
Publisher: name: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Recensiamo Alan Palmer, Social Minds in the Novel, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 2010.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N° 4 (2011)
title: Pronouncements of Expert Treaty Bodies
title: From ‘Black Boxes’ to ‘Key Catalysts’ in International Law?
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Barkholdt, Janina
name: Reiners, Nina
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: While some pronouncements of expert treaty bodies have been considered ‘key catalysts’ for the development of international human rights law, others are only selectively referred to in legal practice. This article argues that the varying normative impact is due to the informal character of pronouncements. In the absence of treaty provisions specifying their legal effect, practitioners tend to rely on different factors and arguments when either drawing on or rejecting certain pronouncements. Scholars in turn face difficulties when trying to identify explanatory patterns within this diverging practice as the informal character confronts both international lawyers and international relations scholars with their respective methodological ‘blind spots’. In light of these intradisciplinary challenges, this article explores the extent as to which an interdisciplinary approach helps to assess the reasons for the varying impact of pronouncements. After analysing the factors determining their legal significance on the basis of State practice and the academic debate, this article identifies the drafting process as a factor which promises to be particularly insightful when explored from an interdisciplinary perspective and sketches out a framework for future research.
description: KFG Working Paper Series, 40
Government as good guy: lessons for broadband investment
Creators: name: Barr, Trevor
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The overall brief for this conference paper was to identify a substantial problem in contemporary Australian public policy and search through history to find insights and lessons that might constructively be applied to policy today. The policy area chosen here is Australian telecommunications; the contemporary focus within that major field is broadband policy; and the current critical problem identified is the paucity of action in relation to the proposed major investments for the introduction of much needed national high speed broadband infrastructure. The hypothesis here is that, looking back, the creation of, and capitalisation for the initial construction of the major new communications platforms throughout the past one hundred and fifty years, emerged from the unheralded long term value provided within the public sector and its associated remarkable individuals.
title: Judicial Independence at International Courts and Tribunals
title: Lessons Drawn From the Experiences of the International Court of Justice and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gulati, Rishi
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: The guarantee of judicial independence is undoubtedly one of the most important institutional design features of international courts and tribunals. An independence deficit can adversely impact a court’s authority, create a crisis of legitimacy, and undermine the very effectiveness of an international court or tribunal. It can hardly be denied that for an international court to be considered legitimate, a basic degree of independence is a must. An independent judiciary is a precondition to the fair and just resolution of legal disputes. In the context of interstate dispute settlement where the jurisdiction of courts is based on the principle of consent, in the absence of a basic degree of judicial independence, states may not be willing to submit to the jurisdiction of international courts. Comparing and contrasting the International Court of Justice and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, I assess whether those international judicial mechanisms possess the basic degree of independence required for a court to be able to maintain its credibility so that it can continue to perform its core function of adjudicating interstate disputes. With both those interstate adjudicative bodies constituting the two leading international courts in terms of participation and the sheer number of cases decided, much may be learned from comparing them. I argue there is a case for bolstering the independence of the ICJ; and without immediate reforms to the Appellate Body’s institutional design, its recent demise may become permanent. I conclude that if a basic degree of judicial independence cannot be guaranteed, it is preferable to let a court vanish for a while than to maintain a significantly deficient one.
description: KFG Working Paper Series, 41
title: The WTO’s Crisis
title: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bäumler, Jelena
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: The perception of the WTO is currently one of an organisation in crisis. Yet, appraisal varies regarding its extent and seriousness: Is it merely a rough time or are we standing on the edge of destruction? The article will trace developments inside as well as outside the WTO in order to assess the magnitude of the crisis. It will be argued that while certain developments inside the organisation, when seen in accumulation would already warrant serious attention, only together with developments taking place outside of the WTO, the two strands of developments unfold their full potential for the crisis. The overall situation renders the WTO in a difficult position, as it is currently unable to adapt to these challenges, while keeping calm and carrying on might similarly further the crisis. While States might improve and further develop their trade relations in bi- and plurilateral agreements, it is only the WTO that reflects and stands for the multilateral post (cold) war order.
description: KFG Working Paper Series, 42
High temperature properties and heat transfer phenomena for steam at temperatures up to 5000K.
Creators: name: Vasic, Aleksander Z.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: Thermodynamic and transport properties and heat phenomena for steam in a high temperature region were examined. First, a set of computer subroutines was developed -the Fraction code, for generating molar fractions of a dissociating steam and gas mixture for a given pressure and temperature. Second, a set of computer subroutines was developed for the computation of all possible combinations of binary diffusion coefficients and of the diffusion coefficient for the component through a gas mixture. Third, steam properties may be evaluated for an ideal gas mixture which includes no effect of chemical reactions-frozed state, or for a non-ideal solution at equilibrium state which includes maximal effects of chemical reactions-effective properties at equilibrium state. A set of computer subroutines was developed-the Frozen Properties code, for evaluating dissociated steam frozen properties for a given pressure and temperature. A computer code, UODH2O (University of Ottawa Dissociation H$\sb2$O code), was developed using a look-up table and interpolation technique to generate effective properties at pressure from 0.01 to 100.00MPa and temperature from 1000 to 5726.85$\sp\circ$C. Based on the semi-empirical model by Nesterenko et al. (1967 a) for dissociated nitrogen tetroxide (N$\sb2$O$\sb4$#2NO$\sb2$ a two-component gas mixture), a method was developed to determine the Nusselt number of a chemically reacting (dissociated) fluid flow. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
The Roles of Social Status, Maternal Stress, and Parental Investment in Modulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Interrenal Axis Function in Teleost Fish
Creators: name: Jeffrey, Jennifer D
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: fish
stress
social status
maternal stress
parental care
physiology

description: In teleost fish, the main glucocorticoid stress hormone, cortisol, is released via the hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal (HPI) axis. This thesis examined the premise that social status, maternal experience, and reproductive status affect HPI axis function in fish. Social stress in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) chronically elevates circulating cortisol levels. In this thesis, social subordinance as well as exogenous cortisol treatment resulted in decreased plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels, consistent with a negative feedback role of cortisol in modulating HPI axis activity. At the target tissue level, liver glucocorticoid receptor 2 (GR2) mRNA and total GR protein levels were lower in subordinate fish. Although subordinate fish exhibited elevated resting cortisol levels, cortisol and glucose responses to an acute stressor were attenuated. Using an in vitro head kidney preparation, this attenuated cortisol response was attributed to lower ACTH-stimulated production of cortisol. By contrast, dominant status regulated genes associated with cortisol biosynthesis. The consequences of maternal social status on offspring HPI axis function were investigated in zebrafish (Danio rerio). At 48 hours post-fertilization (hpf), when de novo cortisol synthesis becomes possible, larvae of dominant females exhibited lower baseline cortisol levels accompanied by lower mRNA levels of corticotropin-releasing factor and cytochrome P450 side chain cleavage enzyme. Offspring of subordinate females exhibited attenuated stress-induced levels of cortisol at 144 hpf, perhaps as an adaptive response to maternal stress experience. Finally, modulation of HPI axis function was explored as a mechanism underlying attenuation of the stress response during early paternal care in smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu). In response to a stressor, males guarding free-swimming fry but not eggs elevated plasma ACTH and cortisol as well as mRNA levels of key HPI axis genes. These results point to a hypoactive HPI axis in males during early parental care as a mechanism for resistance to stress in these fish. Collectively, the results of this thesis emphasize the adaptive plasticity of the HPI axis. Activity of the HPI axis in teleost fish can be modulated by the individual’s experience (e.g., social status) or circumstances (e.g., parental care), as well as by maternal stress.
The International Criminal Court and the Darfur Crisis: The Prospects of Prosecuting the Sudanese President
Creators: name: Mohamed, Gariballa A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: International law
International Criminal Law

description: To date, the arrest warrants issued by the ICC against the Sudanese President, as a suspect of heinous international crimes committed in Darfur, have not been enforced. This thesis questions and analyzes the reasons behind this failure. The thesis also considers the question whether the official status of Omar Al Bashir, as the incumbent head of state, shields him from prosecution before the ICC. To answer this question, the thesis examines the various international law theories related to the heads of state immunity and explains their relevance and applicability to the case of Al Bashir. Finally, the thesis evaluates the likelihood of the arrest of the Sudanese President and explores the legal foundation of each possible action. The thesis concludes that the Genocide Convention remains the most instrumental and effective authority for the apprehension of Al Bashir, and it further illustrates its binding effect beyond the ICC states parties.