cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The archaeological laboratory as an interdisciplinary meeting point: the experience of the Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali
Il laboratorio archeologico come punto di incontro interdisciplinare: l’esperienza della facoltà di conservazione dei beni culturali
Creators: name: Acquaro, Enrico
name: Fariselli, Anna Chiara
name: Savio, Gigliola
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2002

description: The opening of archaeological laboratory in the “Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali“ means an important stage in the way of Phoenician and Punic studies. The integration of excavation activities with diagnostic and conservative interventions on archaological finds is well connected with an interdisciplinary target. This proceeding agrees with the direction of researches carried out in the Tharros tofet since 1970 and is of primary importance regarding the didactic offer.
Expresión lingüística e identidad en los latinos de los Estados Unidos
Creators: name: Torres, Antonio
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: This article analyses the historical and demographical circumstances of the population of Hispanic origin in the United States, this population’s use of Spanish, English, and also hybrid linguistic forms, as well as the literary reflection of mixed identities. We assert that, in this unstable situation, the conjunction of Spanish and English, resulting in infinite manifestations, is the channel for the emergence of aspects of identity and of means of expression which are applauded by some and combated by most, but which, irrespective of those reactions, are the unavoidable consequence of this linguistic and cultural contact

Se analizan las circunstancias históricas y demográficas que se relacionan con la población de origen hispanohablante de los Estados Unidos, su uso del español, del inglés y de formas lingüísticas híbridas, así como el reflejo literario de identidades mixtas. Se argumenta que, en esta situación inestable, la conjunción del español y del inglés, con infinitas manifestaciones, canaliza la emergencia de facetas de identidad y de cauces de expresión aplaudidos por unos y combatidos por los más que, no obstante, son producto ineluctable del contacto de lenguas y de culturas.
Research report: First funding period (2011-2014)
Creators: name: Korth, Martin
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Research Ulm
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Universities and colleges; Germany
subject: Theoretical chemistry; Research
subject: Universität Ulm
subject: Theoretische Chemie
subject: Forschung

description: Forschungsbericht der Barbara-Mez-Starck-Stiftungsprofessur; Zusammenfassung für die erste Förderperiode (2011-2014)
Transtibial Amputee and Able-bodied Walking Strategies for Maintaining Stable Gait in a Multi-terrain Virtual Environment
Creators: name: Sinitski, Emily H
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Virtual reality
Biomechanics
Gait
Walking stability
Amputee
6DOF motion platform
Treadmill
Self-paced
Slope
Uneven terrain

description: The CAREN-Extended system is a fully immersive virtual environment (VE) that can provide stability-challenging scenarios in a safe, controlled manner. Understanding gait biomechanics when stability is challenged is required when developing quantifiable metrics for rehabilitation assessment. The first objective of this thesis was to examine the VE’s technical aspects to ensure data validity and to design a stability-challenging VE scenario. The second and third objectives examined walking speed changes and kinematic strategies when stability was challenged for able-bodied and unilateral transtibial amputees. The results from this thesis demonstrated: 1) understanding VE operating characteristics are important to ensure data validity and to effectively design virtual scenarios; 2) self-paced treadmill mode for VEs with multiple movement scenarios may elicit more natural gait; 3) gait variability and trunk motion measures are useful when quantitatively assessing stability performance for people with transtibial amputations.
Supplementary document for Confocal super-resolution microscopy based on a spatial mode sorter - 5136255.pdf
Creators: name: Bearne, Katherine
name: Zhou, Yiyu
name: bbraverm, boris
name: Yang, Jing
name: Wadood, Sultan Abdul
name: Jordan, Andrew
name: Vamivakas, Nickolas
name: Shi, Zhimin
name: Boyd, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This Supplemental Document presents the derivations of equations in the primary manuscript, the effect of iteration numbers, and the performance characterization for additional objects.
The NANOGrav 11-year data set: pulse profile variability
Creators: name: Brook, P. R.
name: Karastergiou, A.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Lam, M. T.
name: Arzoumanian, Z.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Crowter, K.
name: DeCesar, M.
name: Demorest, P. B.
name: Dolch, T.
name: Ellis, J. A.
name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Ferrara, E.
name: Fonseca, E.
name: Gentile, P. A.
name: Jones, G.
name: Jones, M. L.
name: Lazio, T. J. W.
name: Levin, L.
name: Lorimer, D. R.
name: Lynch, R. S.
name: Ng, C.
name: Nice, D. J.
name: Pennucci, T. T.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Ray, P. S.
name: Spiewak, R.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stinebring, D. R.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J. K.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Access to 50 years of data has led to the discovery of pulsar emission and rotation variability on timescales of months and years. Most of this long-term variability has been seen in long-period pulsars, with relatively little focus on recycled millisecond pulsars. We have analyzed a 38-pulsar subset of the 45 millisecond pulsars in the NANOGrav 11-year data set, in order to review their pulse profile stability. The most variability, on any timescale, is seen in PSRs J1713+0747, B1937+21, and J2145-0750. The strongest evidence for long-timescale pulse profile changes is seen in PSRs B1937+21 and J1643-1224. We have focused our analyses on these four pulsars in an attempt to elucidate the causes of their profile variability. Effects of scintillation seem to be responsible for the profile modifications of PSR J2145-0750. We see evidence that imperfect polarization calibration contributes to the profile variability of PSRs J1713+0747 and B1937+21, along with radio frequency interference around 2 GHz, but find that propagation effects also have an influence. The changes seen in PSR J1643-1224 have been reported previously, yet elude explanation beyond their astrophysical nature. Regardless of cause, unmodeled pulse profile changes are detrimental to the accuracy of pulsar timing and must be incorporated into the timing models where possible.
The Association between Peak Resultant Linear Acceleration and Brain Tissue Deformation in American Football-related Helmeted Head Impacts
Creators: name: Zanetti, Katrina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014

description: The objective of this study was to determine the degree of association of peak resultant linear acceleration with maximum principal strain, von Mises stress, and strain rate in the cerebrum. Three prevalent head impact mechanisms in the sport of football were represented by impacting an accelerometer-outfitted Hybrid III headform. Head to head impacts were characterized using a linear impactor, falls to the ground using a monorail drop, and elbow or forearm strikes to the head by a pendulum system. Representative inbound impact velocities were selected according to epidemiological research. Impacts were performed at nine prescribed centric and non-centric sites on the head. Finite element modeling using the University College Brain Trauma Model was employed to obtain peak values of maximum principal strain, von Mises stress, and strain rate in the cerebrum. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients (r) were calculated between peak resultant linear acceleration of the head and peak MPS, VMS, and strain rate in order to determine the degree of correlation between the variables. This was determined for each impact mechanism and location as well as for all mechanisms together. Significant correlations (p<0.05) between peak linear acceleration and the three metrics of tissue deformation were found for particular mechanisms of impact. For each of MPS, VMS, and strain rate, impacts conducted on the pendulum system, meant to replicate arm to head impacts, did not have a significant correlation with linear acceleration. In contrast, the head to head mechanism of impact resulted in significant correlation coefficients between linear acceleration and all metrics of tissue deformation. The strength of the correlation was not significantly different when centric versus non-centric impact sites were compared. Overall, characteristics of a head impact such as the inbound energy, whether the vector of impact was centric or non-centric, and the degree of energy transfer that occurs through the head upon impact, likely play a role in the resulting degree of correlation between linear acceleration and brain tissue deformation.
Leptohyphes mollipes Needham & Murphy 1924
Creators: name: Dias, Lucimar G.
name: Molineri, Carlos
name: Ferreira, Paulo S. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Leptohyphidae
Leptohyphes
Leptohyphes mollipes

description: Leptohyphes mollipes Needham & Murphy
 Leptohyphes mollipes Needham & Murphy, 1924:32; Lestage, 1931:60; Traver, 1958 a:500; Hubbard, 1982:274; Molineri, 2003:63.
 Comentários: A espécie L. mollipes foi descrita baseada em adultos de ambos os sexos. Baseando-se nos desenhos originais (Needham & Murphy 1924), esta espécie poderia ser caracterizada por: 1) ausência de veia ICu 2 nas asas anteriores, 2) veia CuP da asa anterior longa demais (alcançando a base da asa) e 3) a asa posterior sem nervuras.
* Novos Registros
 Distribuição: Segundo a descrição original o material está registrado para “Cordisboro” no Brasil (essa localidade/município não está na lista de topônimos do Brasil, provavelmente trata-se de um erro no nome do município, pode ser Cordisburgo localidade de Minas Gerais ou alguma outra localidade não reconhecida oficialmente).
description: Published as part of Dias, Lucimar G., Molineri, Carlos & Ferreira, Paulo S. F., 2007, Ephemerelloidea (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) do Brasil, pp. 213-244 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 47 (19) on pages 215-216, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492007001900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13236289
The long-term effects of dietary carbohydrates on glucose metabolism in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Creators: name: Harman, Gavin J. S
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.
subject: Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture.

description: Much remains unknown about the physiological effects of prolonged dietary carbohydrates on carnivorous fish such as rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. In this thesis, the long-term effects of carbohydrates on trout glucose regulation are investigated by characterizing the metabolite profiles of fish fed with or without carbohydrates. Two groups of fish were maintained on either carbohydrate-rich (HC, 32.9% of diet by weight) or deficient (LC, 1% of diet by weight) diets for a six-month period. Plasma, liver and muscle tissue samples were assayed for various metabolites. Intravenous glucose tolerance tests were performed in each group and showed no significant differences in glucose tolerance. Continuous tracer infusion was used to measure glucose turnover in each group to determine whether changes in glucose concentration in response to a glucose load were due to changes in rates of glucose appearance (Ra), disappearance (Rd) or both. This research has demonstrated that rainbow trout can acclimate to high carbohydrate diets and modify several physiological parameters and biochemical pathways to both utilize and store newly available energy provided in the form of dietary glucose. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
A note from the restoration world: the Raffaello completed?
Nota dal mondo del restauro: il Raffaello completato?
Creators: name: Livi, Pietro
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2002

description: History of a restoration work that had opened the way to a new, fascinating attribution hypothesis for a drawing that was considered a Giulio Romano’s work and today it is considered a Raffaello’s work, with a subsequently partial intervention of his pupil. This is the history of another missing opportunity to support the historian of the arts during the attribution moment with data, analisys, diagnosis and scientific tests. All these instruments are probaby more useful to exclude and not to confirm the paternity of an artwork, but they are extremely helpful.
title: Geht es auch ohne Chemie?
title: Geht es auch ohne Chemie?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heß, Michael
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Die chemische Saatgutbeize ist das einfachste und sicherste Verfahren. Wenn sie aber nicht mehr wirkt und weiterhin Mittel verloren gehen? Michael Hess diskutiert physikalische und biologische Alternativen. Quelle: https://www.dlg-mitteilungen.de
An experimental study and numerical simulation of sand-steel interface behaviour.
Creators: name: Li, Baocheng.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: In a soil-structure interface test, the soil sample consists of two parts: the soil mass and the interface layer. In the previous experimental investigations of the soil-structure interface problems, the soil deformation in the interface layer was not measured separately from the soil deformation in the soil mass. Consequently, most of the previous numerical interface models were based on the combined deformation of the interface layer and soil mass. The main objective of this research was to determine the stress-deformation behaviour of soil in the interface layer. The existing interface apparatus, C3DSSI, was set up to measure separately the tangential displacement due to the deformation of the sand sample, which included the soil mass and the interface layer, and the displacement due to sliding at the contact surface. Digital photography was used effectively to determine the deformations of sand in the interface layer separate from the sand mass. Experiments showed that strain localization takes place in the interface layer and the thickness of the interface layer increases gradually as the shear stress increases during a test. A Fortran program for Lade's model was written to simulate numerically the sand-steel interface behaviour. The simulation consisted of two sections: the simulation of the behaviour of the sand mass, and the simulation of the sand behaviour in the interface zone. Comparisons were made between the results of the numerical modelling and the experimental results. These comparisons showed that Lade's work hardening model can be used with moderate success for the simulation of interface behaviour.
Understanding competing discourses as a basis for promoting equity in primary health care
Creators: name: Blanchet Garneau, Amélie
name: Browne, Annette J.
name: Varcoe, Colleen, 1952-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Globally, health inequities persist with effects on whole populations and the most profound effects on populations marginalized by poverty, discrimination and other forms of disadvantage. In the current neoliberal political-economic context, health inequities are produced and sustained by the inequitable distribution of social determinants of health and structural inequities such as discrimination and institutional racism. Even in the context of healthcare organizations with an explicit commitment to health equity, multiple intersecting discourses, such as ongoing efficiency discourses, and culturalist and racialized discourses, are in constant interaction with healthcare practices at the point of care and the organizational level, limiting providers’ and organizations’ capacities to address structural inequities. Attention to discourses that sustain inequities in health care is required to mitigate health inequities and related power differentials. In this paper, we present findings from a critical analysis of the relations among multiple discourses and healthcare practices within four Canadian primary health care clinics that have an explicit commitment to health equity. Methods: Informed by critical theoretical perspectives and critical discourse analysis principles, we conducted an analysis of 31 in-depth interviews with clinic staff members. The analysis focused on the relations among discourses and healthcare practices, the ways in which competing discourses influence, reinforce, and challenge current practices, and how understanding these dynamics can be enlisted to promote health equity. Results: We articulate the findings through three interrelated themes: equity-mandated organizations are positioned as the “other” in the health care system; discourses align with structures and policies to position equity at the margins of health care; staff and organizations navigate competing discourses through hybrid approaches to care. Conclusions: This study points to the ways in which multiple discourses interact with healthcare organizations’ and providers’ practices and highlights the importance of structural changes at the systemic level to foster health equity at the point of care.
Aperture coupled stacked patch thin film antenna for automotive radar at 77 GHz
Creators: name: Khan, Osama
name: Meyer, Johannes
name: Baur, Klaus
name: Arafat, Saeed
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Millimeter-wave antennas
subject: aperture-coupled antenna
subject: bi-phase power divider
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Millimeter waves
subject: Thin films
subject: Voltage dividers
subject: Thin films, Multilayered
subject: Antenna arrays
subject: Automotive sensors
subject: Millimeterwelle
subject: Antenne
subject: Spannungsteiler
subject: Dünne Schichten
subject: Bordradar

description: A hybrid thin film multilayer antenna for automotive radar is presented in this work. A 2×8 aperture coupled stacked patch antenna array is realized on a single layer printed circuit board (PCB) using a novel thin film based approach. Using a compact 180 ◦ phase difference power divider, inter-element spacing in a 2×2 sub-array is reduced. Measurement results show a 19% (67.9–82.5 GHz) impedance bandwidth and a wideband broadside radiation pattern, with a maximum gain of 15.4 dBi realized gain at 72 GHz. The presented antenna compares favorably with other multilayer PCB antennas in terms of performance, with the advantage of simpler manufacturing and robust design. The antenna can be employed in mid-range automotive radar applications.
Spanglish en los Estados Unidos: Apuntes sobre lengua, cultura e identidad
Creators: name: Betti, Silvia
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: This study presents some thoughts on the usage of so called "Spanglish" language in the United States. Its aim is that of looking at the potential facilitative effect the usage of Spanglish has in helping Hispanic and Anglo- Saxon speakers, who do not share either English or Spanish, to achieve communicative goals in particular communicative contexts. The literature has acknowledged that Spanglish relies on code-switching and code-mixing, switches and mixtures which can also be described as characteristics of the hybrid identity of many Latinos in the United States. In this paper we do not get into the details of the peculiarities of national identities (i.e. Cubans, Dominican Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the like), we rather propose to look at the phenomenon of Spanglish in its hybrid aspect, which is what, in our view, makes it complex and fascinating from the perspective of mixed identities in intercultural contexts.

El presente estudio muestra el estado del spanglish en los Estados Unidos, a través de algunas reflexiones sobre este fenómeno. Hemos intentado observar la utilidad que esta forma comunicacional puede tener en determinados contextos para facilitar la comunicación entre hispanos y anglosajones que conviven en los Estados Unidos, que no comparten el mismo idioma, y en donde la comunicación es la meta final. El cambio de códigos (code-switching) y la mezcla de códigos (code-mixing) entre el inglés y el español - manifestaciones que diversos investigadores consideran típicas del spanglish-, representan el modelo de la identidad mestiza de muchos latinos en los Estados Unidos. Con este ensayo tratamos de reflexionar sobre algunos puntos para intentar profundizar y comprender este fenómeno tan complejo, y actualmente tan discutido.
The CPS dictionary: A prescriptive terminological work?
Creators: name: Chang, Leslie-Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Language, Modern.

description: The Canadian Parks Service (CPS) dictionary is a specialized work which was conceived to provide standardized preferred terms for and definitions of the artifacts found in the CPS collections, in order to (i) help CPS collections managers to identify, classify, and catalogue artifacts, (ii) allow them to exchange information in a clear and unambiguous fashion, and (iii) facilitate the automation and centralization of information from the various CPS sites. Because of its goal of standardization, the CPS dictionary calls for a prescriptive approach rather than a descriptive one. Whereas in descriptive terminology standards are set by usage, in prescriptive terminology, standards are artificially imposed in an attempt to eliminate ambiguity and to ensure transparency of communication. In order to achieve this ideal of clear and unambiguous communication, prescriptive terminology attempts to (i) delimit concepts with precision, (ii) establish coherent conceptual networks, and (iii) eliminate ambiguous term-concept relations. In order to achieve these prescriptive goals, terminologists must adhere to fundamental principles and prescribed methods. Analysis of the CPS methodology as well as its records reveal that, despite its goal of standardization, the CPS dictionary does not fully comply with the tenets of prescriptive terminology, and consequently, does not fully achieve the ideal of clear and transparent communication. Deviations from these tenets can be attributed to both the nebulous nature of the field of artifacts and certain practices imposed by client needs on terminologists involved in the dictionary.
Assessing success through party label durability: A comparative study of the Democratic Party of Albania and the Homeland Union of Lithuania
Creators: name: Kalemaj, Ilir
name: Lleshi, Sokol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440803
subject: Comparative government and politics
classificationCode: 441004
subject: Social change
classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods

description: This study provided a theoretical framework explaining center-right opposition parties’ evolution in former Eastern Europe. It answered why post-communist center-right parties lacked consistent success and either became marginalized, altered their ideologies, or ceased to exist in the long run. By taking the Democratic Party of Albania as one of the exceptions to the rule and comparing it to the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, we showed the discrepancy with much of the other center-right parties. We followed a most different systems design, where the dominant center-right party of Albania and the dominant one in Lithuania were compared. Although much different in history, political culture, and institutions, they had similar successful trajectories as dominant center-right parties. We argued that the success of these parties depends upon the durability of party labels as a critical determinant of a party’s success historically, which takes priority over party strategy, mobilization power, social base, and the behavior of the center-right party toward political institutions. Overall, we emphasized party labels as cues of party identification and success.
Integrating social formations into the world economy: The cases of Indonesia and Nigeria.
Creators: name: Regoli, François.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: History, African.

description: The present study provides a framework which accounts for diverging patterns of development among economies of the "periphery". Economic development is viewed as the conversion of surplus into productive investment. The integration of developing social formations is based on the presence of a world competitive sector that generates surplus through export earnings. The state apparatus is responsible for creating favorable conditions for national economic development by establishing domestic distributive channels that permit surplus to be utilized productively. Differences in patterns of economic development between social formations are related to the extent to which conditions fostering the productive utilization of surplus have been established. The study compares and contrasts the political and economic experiences of Indonesia and Nigeria. These two cases possess notable similarities in regards to their productive structures and the composition of their societies. Both of their economies, subjected to the effects of a booming petroleum industry in the seventies, undergo profound socio-economic transformations. This analysis concentrates on the period between the two oil shocks, which extends roughly from 1973 to 1982. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Social networks use disorder and associations with depression and anxiety symptoms: a systematic review of recent research in China
Creators: name: Hussain, Zaheer
name: Wegmann, Elisa
name: Yang, Haibo
name: Montag, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: WeChat®
subject: Weibo®
subject: Social Networking Sites
subject: Addiction
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Internet addiction; China
subject: Social media; China
subject: Social media; Psychological aspects
subject: Social media
subject: Behavior, Addictive
subject: Depression
subject: Anxiety
subject: Online-Sucht
subject: Soziales Netzwerk

description: Background: An increasing number of studies have investigated Social Networks Use Disorder (SNUD) among Western samples. In this context, the investigation of SNUD in Asia and especially in China has been much neglected. This poses a gap in the literature; it has been estimated that more than one billion Chinese people are using Chinese social networking sites (SNSs). Of note, many of these Chinese SNSs are rather unknown to researchers in Western countries. Aims: The primary objective of the present systematic review was to identify and evaluate studies that investigated Chinese SNS use and associations between SNUD and depression and anxiety symptoms. Method: A comprehensive search strategy identified relevant studies in PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, MEDLINE, ProQuest, Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar, and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure database (CNKI). Results: The search strategy identified 35 potential studies, 13 studies were identified after shortlisting and full-text reviews of the studies, and finally 10 studies were included in the full review. Associations between SNUD, depression, and anxiety were reported in 10 studies. In eight (of the 10) studies, symptom severity of SNUD was associated with depression. Four studies reported associations between SNUD and anxiety. Most studies had utilized cross-sectional survey designs. Conclusions: Most associations were found between SNUD and depression symptoms, but effect sizes were higher between SNUD and anxiety symptoms. The results have the potential to inform prevention and interventions on SNUD in Eastern cultures, although we explicitly state that our work focuses on China, the transfer of the present observations to other Asian countries (and their cultures) still needs to be established.
Quantitative assessment of IP service quality in 802.11b and DOCSIS networks
Creators: name: Armitage, Grenville
name: Nguyen, Thuy T. T.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper experimentally identifies usage scenarios that trigger IP performance limitations in two common Internet access technologies: DOCSIS cable networks and 802.11b wireless local area networks. We use commercial, standards-compliant implementations of each link technology and demonstrate that data transfers from a remote server to a wireless- or cable-attached client can create substantial latency spikes (upwards of 100ms) on the shared wireless or cable link segment, despite each technology’s generous downstream link bandwidth. These spikes have a significant impact on delay-sensitive applications (such as voice over IP, online games or interactive streaming video) sharing the link. We also observe the negative impact of 802.11bs CSMA/CA on end-to-end TCP performance in the presence of low bandwidth, non-reactive traffic, and DOCSIS request/grant cycle on maximum DOCSIS upstream and downstream bandwidths. We illustrate the former point by calculating the performance degradation of an 802.11b link shared by online game players. Our results should motivate future work on optimized media access algorithms for 802.11b and DOCSIS.
title: Does Social Support Moderate the Association Between Income and Food Security Status Among Seniors Living in Southern Nevada?
Creators: name: Siweya, Adugna
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2020

description: Background: Income is the strongest predictor of food insecurity among seniors, and social support also an essential factor to help mitigate the effects of food insecurity. However, little is known about the potential role that social support may play as a moderator of the association between income and food insecurity. Thus, we aim to examine social support as a moderator for the relationship between income and food insecurity among seniors. Methods: Logistic regression models were used to analyze data collected in 2019 from seniors residing in Southern Nevada. Predictors of food insecurity, sociodemographic factors, social support variables, and income and social support interaction were included in the analysis. Results: The prevalence rate of food insecurity was about 29%. Seniors with annual household incomes less than $20,000 were more likely to report food insecurity. (OR = 7.67; 95% CI: 5.00-11.77). Seniors who were "not content with friendship" more likely to report food insecurity (OR = 2.27; 95% CI: 1.43-3.60). The social support variable "not satisfied with my relationships" moderated the relationship of income and food insecurity among seniors in the age group of 65-79 years with incomes less than $20,000 (OR = 4.09, 95% CI: 1.03-16.33). Also, seniors who were "content with friendships" showed a conditional effect on the relationship of income and food insecurity among those with a disability in the lower-income category. Conclusion: This study identified groups at higher risk of food insecurity. Findings can be used to develop targeted interventions and outreach efforts in Southern Nevada.
Supplementary document for Infrared all-dielectric Kerker metasurfaces - 5136638.pdf
Creators: name: Fan, Kebin
name: Shadrivov, Ilya
name: Miroshnichenko, Andrey
name: Padilla, Willie
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supplemental Document
A high-voltage compliance, 32-channel digitally interfaced neuromodulation system-on-chip
Creators: name: Reich, Stefan
name: Sporer, Markus
name: Haas, Michael
name: Becker, Joachim
name: Schüttler, Martin
name: Ortmanns, Maurits
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: ASIC
subject: Brain-Machine-Interfaces
subject: BMI
subject: Neurostimulation
subject: Neuromodulation
subject: Biomedical Implant
subject: Brain Implant
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: DDC 600 / Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: Brain-computer interfaces
subject: Kundenspezifische Schaltung
subject: Nervenstimulation

description: This paper presents the integration of a 32-channel neuromodulation system on chip (SoC) which is developed for chronic implantation in humans. The ASIC offers low noise recording, a state-of-the-art (SotA) neurostimulator capable of both current and voltage controlled stimulation with highvoltage compliance, on-chip 16-bit data digitization as well as safety features like electrode impedance estimation and charge balancing. The chip communicates through two distinct SPI interfaces for independent command and data transfer. Thus, the developed system constitutes a fully digital, bidirectional 32- channel interface to the brain.
Exercise in type 2 diabetes mellitus: A meta-analysis of the effects of exercise on glycemic control, body composition and physical fitness.
Creators: name: Boulé, Normand G.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: The purpose of the study was to systematically review and quantify the effect of exercise interventions on HbAlc and body mass in type 2 diabetes. A literature search was conducted to find all controlled clinical trials in type 2 diabetic adults comparing an exercise intervention (≥8 weeks) to a non-exercise control. Weighted mean differences (WMD) and standardised mean differences (SMD) were used to calculate the size of the effect of exercise. Eleven aerobic training studies (average: 3.5 times/week for 18.6 weeks) and 2 resistance training studies (average: 10 exercises, 2.5 sets, 13 repetitions, 2.5 times/week for 15 weeks) met the inclusion criteria. In the first set of analyses, the effects of exercise on HbAlc and body mass were studied. Aerobic training interventions produced a significant decrease in HbAIc compared to control (WMD = -0.74, p = 0.00003). Improvements in HbAlc with resistance training were similar in size (WMD = -0.64, p = 0.05). Although the exercise groups lost a mean of 2.5 kilograms, their post-intervention body mass was not statistically different from the control groups' (SMD = 0.10 standard deviations (SD), p = 0.76). In the second set of analyses, aerobic training produced a 11% increase in VO 2 max compared to control (SMD = 0.49 SD, p = 0.003). When only intense aerobic interventions are considered (≥75% VO2 max) the post-intervention VO2 max was 30% higher than in the control group. Improvements in strength produced by resistance training were also significant (SMD = 1.00, p = 0.0001). In summary, exercise training resulted in statistically and clinically significant improvements in HbAIc without change in body mass compared to control. On the other hand, there is little information available from controlled clinical trials on the effect of exercise on other elements of body composition and physical fitness in type 2 diabetes.
DARC – The direction of contemporaneity
DARC – La direzione della contemporaneità
Creators: name: Baldi, Pio
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (Di.S.Me.C.)
Year: 2002

description: The DARC – General Direction for the Contemporary Art and Architecture – was born in May 2001 from the basic consideration that Italy, site of very refined civilisations and perhaps because it gave life in the past centuries to many of the figurative expressions of the western culture, is now neglecting the creative expressions of the present . Some years ago, we matured the conviction that it was necessary not only to safeguard but also to promote the today’s expressions of the contemporary art and architecture for which high interest and widespread attention were unimaginable. The aim of DARC is to constitute an edge, to give support and promotion to the whole system in order to favour its knowledge and diffusion in Italy and abroad. Today, one of the most important objectives of DARC is the realisation of the National Museum of Arts of the 21st century – the MAXXI.
Supplementary document for Infrared all-dielectric Kerker metasurfaces - 5136638.pdf
Creators: name: Fan, Kebin
name: Shadrivov, Ilya
name: Miroshnichenko, Andrey
name: Padilla, Willie
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supplemental Document
A philosophical framework within the science-theology dialogue: A critical reflection on the work of Ernan McMullin .
Creators: name: Allen, Paul.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Theology.

description: By engaging key questions, such as the existence of God, and the relationship between God and the world in the context of a dialogue with science, theologians need to attend to the character of theological knowledge claims. What is the unity and what are the differences in scientific and theological inquiry? The work of philosopher Ernan McMullin best accounts for scientific rationality as broadly consistent with and even supportive of theological knowledge claims about God and the world. The argument will be laid out in six steps. In the first chapter, the theological work of three recent Gifford lecturers, Ian Barbour, Arthur Peacocke and John Polkinghorne, is examined. Chapter two begins by identifying a philosopher, Ernan McMullin, whose fifty years of writing tenders an extensive account of scientific rationality. More recently, his writing includes a thread of analysis through the science-theology dialogue, thus providing a unique conjunction of perspectives that, according to this study, indicates a synthetic approach. A theory of scientific rationality is developed on the basis of the philosophical analyses by Ernan McMullin. His theory of scientific rationality is known as retroduction. Retroduction is a pattern of inference, which accounts for the hypothetical causes of unobservable entities as verifiable, meaningful objects of a scientific inquiry. In chapter three, the theory of retroduction is verified as a historically secure theory of scientific progress. Retroduction is a theory that can thus be transposed from a theory of scientific explanation to the basis for an integrated critical realist theory of knowledge in the natural sciences. Retroduction meets the objections of anti-realist. Equally important, in light of the popularity of Imre Lakatos' historically inspired methodology, McMullin lays out a challenge to idealist constructs of science. In chapter four, the contemporary discipline of cosmology is treated as unique in illustrating the power of McMullin's theory of retroduction. Cosmology is an explanatory and a limit discipline in the natural sciences. An integrated notion of critical realism is tested against the cosmology, where retroduction meets particular success in both extrapolating to the existence of theoretical structures and then, opening up the theological question of God from the vantage point of ongoing verifications of universal intelligibility. In chapter five, as a result of the way in which critical realism is understood to operate in the sciences, McMullin's distinction between faith and rationality is presented with regard to the notions of creation, the anthropic principle and evolution. Chapter six brings forward McMullin's contribution of the term 'consonance' as a view of integration among the disciplines that respects the view of a transcendent creator God. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Discovery of s-process enhanced stars in the LAMOST survey
Creators: name: Norfolk, Brodie J.
name: Casey, Andrew R.
name: Karakas, Amanda I.
name: Miles, Matthew T.
name: Kemp, Alex J.
name: Schlaufman, Kevin C.
name: Ness, Melissa
name: Ho, Anna Y. Q.
name: Lattanzio, John C.
name: Ji, Alexander P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Here we present the discovery of 895 s-process-rich candidates from 454 180 giant stars observed by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) using a data-driven approach. This sample constitutes the largest number of s-process enhanced stars ever discovered. Our sample includes 187 s-process-rich candidates that are enhanced in both barium and strontium, 49 stars with significant barium enhancement only and 659 stars that show only a strontium enhancement. Most of the stars in our sample are in the range of effective temperature and log g typical of red giant branch (RGB) populations, which is consistent with our observational selection bias towards finding RGB stars. We estimate that only a small fraction (similar to 0.5 per cent) of binary configurations are favourable for s-process enriched stars. The majority of our s-process-rich candidates (95 per cent) show strong carbon enhancements, whereas only five candidates ( <3 per cent) show evidence of sodium enhancement. Our kinematic analysis reveals that 97 per cent of our sample are disc stars, with the other 3 per cent showing velocities consistent with the Galactic halo, The scaleheight of the disc is estimated to be z(h), = 0.634 +/- 0.063 kpc, comparable with values in the literature, A comparison with yields from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) models suggests that the main neutron source responsible for the Ba and Sr enhancements is the C-13(alpha,n)O-16 reaction, We conclude that s-process-rich candidates may have received their overabundances via mass transfer from a previous AGB companion with an initial mass in the range 1-3 M-circle dot.
Cantar la identidad: el emigrante/dekasegi en la música de los jóvenes latinos en Japón
Creators: name: Rossi, Erika
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: At the end of the nineties, as a consequence of the international popularity of reggaeton, in Japan too some young Latinos formed urban music bands. In this paper I will analyze the music practices of these youngsters in relation with japoñol, a mix of Japanese and Spanish languages, which is also the symbol of Latino migrants in Japan. My objective is to observe the construction and the redefinition of the dekasegi / migrant identity through music in japoñol, within the socio-historical framework of Latino migration to Japan

A finales de los noventa y a raíz de la difusión internacional del reggaeton, en Japón nacen algunos grupos de música urbana compuestos por jóvenes latinos. En este ensayo analizaré las prácticas musicales de estos jóvenes en relación con el japoñol, una mezcla de japonés y español que es además el idioma-símbolo de los inmigrantes latinos en este país. Mi objetivo es, dentro del marco histórico-social determinado por la inmigración latinoamericana, observar la construcción y la redefinición de la identidad dekasegi / inmigrante a través de la música cantada en japoñol.
PFAS - Gift für die Ewigkeit
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023

description: Es geht um unsere Gesundheit - und den zukünftigen Einsatz einer stark umstrittenen chemischen Stoffgruppe, den PFAS. Sollen sie verboten werden, weil sie sich in der Umwelt anreichern und gefährlich werden können? Sollen sie weiterverwendet werden dürfen, weil sie so praktisch und in vielen Produkten fast unersetzbar sind?PFAS, die Ewigkeitschemikalien: Das sind künstliche Stoffe, mit denen wir uns umgeben haben, weil sie so langlebig und vielseitig sind. Sie machen uns das Leben leichter, etwa als Antihaftbeschichtungen für Kochgeschirr oder in Pipelines, bei der Halbleiterproduktion, zum Feuerlöschen, in Funktions-Textilien oder in Kältemitteln für Klimaanlagen. Quelle: https://www.ardmediathek.de/
Effect of noise on model selection criteria in visual applications
Creators: name: Gheissari, Niloofar
name: Bab-Hadiashar, Alireza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, the effect of noise level on the performance of a large number of existing model selection criteria for two important computer vision applications (motion and range segmentation) has been investigated. The results of our experiments show that although the performance of all model selection criteria deteriorates by increasing the level of noise, the Surface Selection Criterion (SSC) remains the criterion of choice for different noise levels.
Representações, língua e voz no percurso identitário da canção no Brasil
Creators: name: Barbeitas, Flavio
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Università di Bologna
Year: 2009

description: The cultural process around the song is an extremely important fact for the understanding of the subject of national Brazilian identity. This paper’s goal is to point out the discursive representations, and the uses of the language and of the voice, at some key moments in the trajectory of the song to characterize the space of music in the Brazilian culture as a dynamic of multiple and successive appropriations.

O processo cultural em torno da canção é um dado extremamente importante para a compreensão das questões relativas à identidade nacional brasileira. O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar as representações discursivas e os usos da língua e da voz em alguns momentos-chave da trajetória da canção para caracterizar o espaço da música na cultura brasileira como um jogo de múltiplas e sucessivas apropriações.
Information and participation of the public - experiences in the course of action planning in Germany
Creators: name: Hintzsche, Matthias
name: Bonacker, Margit
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014

description: Many different experiences with the European Environmental Noise Directive (END - Directive 2002/49EC) have been made since the implementation of the Directive. In Germany, the municipalities are responsible in the majority of cases for noise maps and action plans as well as for information and involvement of the public (Article 8 and 9 Directive). There are no detailed regulations in the Directive or the national German law how to accomplish the involvement of the public in respect to information and participation. For this reason, a broad variety of approaches have been used in the past by the municipalities. To optimize the action planning process and the involvement of the public, the German Federal Environment Agency has commissioned a study which aims at the evaluation of the experiences made so far. One central part of this study is a survey of more than 600 German municipalities on their activities, policies and experiences concerning information and participation of the public. Also, several workshops with stakeholders and experts have been conducted. As one result, recommendations were developed to improve information and participation of the public in the course of noise action planning.

Quelle: Hintzsche, Matthias [Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt]; Bonacker, Margit: Information and participation of the public - experiences in the course of action planning in Germany / Matthias Hintzsche ; Margit Bonacker. - 5 S. In: Proceedings of 7th Forum acusticum 2014 : Krakow 7-12.09.2014. - Krakow. - (2014), S. 1